HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1937-12-16, Page 3THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937 THE SEAFORTH NEWS
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"Die Walkure" from Metropolitan
Wagner's "Die Wall ere" with Kir-
st:cn IF•lagstadl and T auritr (Melchior in
the leading roles, will be broadcast
from th'e stage or the Metropolitan
Opera House ou Saturday, Decennber
''1e, beginning at 11!410 p,nt.. EST, over
.the CBC national network, Mss Pl1ag-
stad will sing the role .of Sieglittde
and Melchior will have the part of
Siegmund. 'Altar, B•odanr.8cy will con-
duct. Supporting the two world-fam-
ous Wagnerian stars will he :Marjorie
Lawrence, as Bruennhilde; (Friedrich
Schorr, Wotan; teeclwig Hofmann;
'H•unding; Keratin '.rhorboeg, 'Fricke;
Dorothee btan'slci, iHe'lntw'ige; ' Tltel-
ma'Votipl.a, 'Gerhi11e; Irene 'J'essner,
Ortliiede; deucielle Br'ownin'g, 'Rass-
wisse, and Ilrra 1Petinat, 'Grim•gerde.
'Die 'WaiIeure', the second of Wag-
ner's famous Ring 'Cycle. 'concerns the
tragedies that 'fol'low upon the 'the'ft
of the 'Rhine 'gold. and the forging .of
a ring which confers complete lgower
over men and gods.
New 50,000 Watt Transmitter' Opened
A new era in radio broadcasting in
Canada was cot led upon December
e11 a't'8.IOfk p.m. E., ',1', when the ,Canad-
ian Broadcasting ';Corporation threw
the switches that unleased the power
of CBIF, its new 50,000f •tv>att transinit-'
Ling station located at the little
Frenc'h.Canadian village of Vereher-
es, 315 miles last of M'ontrea'l This
marked the official opening of the
station which Lias been under con-
struction •du'ring the .pa's't year and
wlhieh is now serving `Frenc'h.Canada
with broadcasts in the :French lang-
uage. '1`lte station enpplies •clypvnclahle
eecep'tion day and night over a large
area.
CBIF, which 'is identical to another
transmitter bearing the call letters
CBL and which is now nearing com-
pletion at Hornby, Ontario, provides
'Quebec with a broadcast :service sec-
ond to rive in •C'anada. "\\''tile its
rive
purpose is to supply French
Canadian l•istcners with ,programmes
'in the !French laregua:ge, it also serves
as an outlet for other broadcasts of
importance. ll:nglish listeners in :Que-
.bec are •being nerved by station 'C13.M.
The construction of thetih COP and
0137. narks part realization of the
C'orporation's plan ea meet :at strat-
egic points throughout Canada other
high power stations,
'Stinging Christmas to the Frontier"
Many; a 'Christmas in a lonely :Arc-
tic outpost w•as made .more cheerful
lase year 'when the 'Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation arranged to have
r'ela'tives and close friends of those in
isolated places 'broadcast personal
messages from variou's cities across
the Dominion.
The experiment was so successful
thitt 11 is 'beingd
on Christmas
repeated
Eve again this year, Canadians wish-,
hog to 'take .pant are invited to write
to "Northern \ 4'es.enger", Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, Ottawa,
and ;'tate ;he point in the Angie
which they wish their message to
reach, Already more than sixty appli-
cations have been 'recei'ved, but as
many more as possible will be accept-
ed. Two ]borers will' .be devoted to the
broadcast of necessary,
'Any stnccetsefu1 applicant (and the
only condition is that their friends or
relatives .must he living in places
where there are no means of ,cont-
mu'nicatlon) will be invited to be;pres-
en•t on Christmas Eve. in the nearest
radio station associated with the 'CBC
network, Nearly every city in 'Canada
will 'be represented, and the broad-
casts will prove from east 'to west.
'First, a feta people in Sydney will
be heard Their voices will be carried
to every radio s'ta'tion on the network,
perhaps fifty in number, and then ou't
into 'the ether, and so on into the iso-
lated territories in northern• Canada,
then Halifax will give way to .Char-
d= i:Zalifax will give way to 'C'har.
ktttetown, S't, John, 'b'roberioton, and
so on mnti.l Oanadiatte • from coast to
coast have sent their Christina,
greetings.
Those wishing to take part in this
.broadcast should signify their inten-
tions Jlt,l as soon as possible,
,Corporation Features Day by Day,
Times E.Lit'
fru Standard)
Thursday, December 1116;
7.00 p.m. \fusi'eel Miniatures",
.trine• Troup in popular music. CB4:-
?fRS intirntitinnal ex change program,
From 'Vttnctnrver,
0,00 p.ut. '"Streamline", orchestra
direction Percy Faith with soloist.
?From Toronto,
Friday, December 117:
'7.00 p.nt, 'i1<ishntnnl Castle", Celtic
folklore and song front fnverness,
Cape Breton. *'Produced 'hy .K.enneth
Leslie IF•rnnt Inverness,
.Saturday, December 18:
1112 Nroon, "Me Boy and 'rhe Girl
Friend" from Vancouver.
11.40 p.m. 'Metropolitan 0sera "Die
Wtalkttre", from :N'B'C. New York.
49,00 .p.m, "Moccasins and ?Furs",
ta1'k'of''Canadian night life of a cen-
tury ago by Douglas.'\f'aoIcty, front
innipeg.
Sunday, December In:
19.00 p.m, "]And ft 'Came to Bites
biblical drama produced by Raped
Luras. From Win nMeg.
0,30 pm, "Friendly Music", arch-
. stra direction treoll'ry Waddington
with Frances Janes, eopreso anrd
\\'m, Morton, tenor. From 'l'nromt1 ,.
Monday. 'December 20:
17.(10 ,p.ni: Soltoliom from 'Hunte) s
Oratorio"The Messiah", with 1enhel
Baillie, soprano; Cstherine S te wart,
contralto: Parry :hues. tenor; Har-
old 'Williams, baritone; a sertinn of
the BBC Chorus and the 11131' •Fm-
pire orchestra. Rebroadcast of the
B'itC Empire Transmission. From Ot-
awa.
8,30 p,m. "Picture in 'Music", musi.
cal sketches with soloists; Allan 'Reid,
n enist, and the Acadian Concert
)rehestra directed by Marjorie
Payne. From Halifax.
Tuesday, December 21:
.8.00 p.m. -This 'Ing'.ish", talk on
rorreet speech by Campbell 'McIn-
nes. From Toronto,
1110.00 .p.m. "By the Sea"; I>'oreen.
Wilson, soprano; 'The Blue Jackets
ensemble directed by Sydney'Kelland;
orchestra directed by Percy 'Harvey,
From Vancouver.
Wednesday, December 212:
S:00 p.m.v " Laughing with Canada
talk by B, K. Sandwell, C'B.C-MBN
international euchange prograni.,Fro•nt
Toronto.
19,30 p,nl. "Relational Sing Song",
community singing under .leadership
of 'George Young. ,From Kirkland]
Jalge.
QUAINT NEW YEA'R'S
'CEREMONY OFF THE INDIANS
'rhe new year of tine Lroquois In-
dians commences meanly a month lat-
er than our own, ']'he first sun of the
moon, Nlis 9co-wulc-ni, rises 'on the
2151t'11 day of J'anu•,u-y, and to the 'In-
dians 'this symbolizes 'the 'dawn of an-
outer year of the Iroquois confeder-
acy and that a week of festivity is at
hand.
\Viili the ristit.; ni the sun a 'cn111-
5011y of "buffalo brads" break np '1110
four pairs and march to their assign-
ed district to notify ceremoniously the
people that the old year is gone and
the new is crime With heavy striped
corn :menders they .smite the done -
poste and sing bhe 'buffalo song: Vey -
bey, yey hey. Ga -a -a won -ley, (Glyn-
n- 'woit-ilev( 'Hail, nephews! Hail!"
With their as'!t paddies they sprinkle
the corners of the house as they enter
it itt 'token of its purification front
mist evil; and 'then ligett the fire of.
the new year.
The lee for the bnlraln is a' handful
of IIn'ddan 'tob'acco, the host explain-
ing 10 'hc gives it, "It clears .the mind
and sobers the thoughts."
The 'nex't day the. ?chole 'Ration en-
ters into the ;;aIle of peach stone dice.
Each .brotherhood •id ,leas gettable,:
against the other, gambles religiously
and furiously. Their particular derelict
of batting, however, isin contortuity
to religious custom, and the result of
Ow .game determines elan precedence
and snprentacy for the year.
The third morning of die new year
is devoted to the binning of the white
dog. 'Phte white thug of the 111di:me i,
extinct, but ,the t'erenutny' cntrtinne:,
for, as Chief C'roly .says: "'Our relig-
ion is 'greater than any of it, intidt•nt-
al:e or ceremony. They are not es.en-
tials the thankful heart i,," In the
present ceremony tobacco is offered
to the .(creat Spirit a- a than], offering
and is throtvtt in ,the sacred tire by
handfuls during elle white dog chant
The white dog ceremony i. 0 recita' m
of man'e obligations en the Maker of u
all (hinge for the thing; 'of hie erea- w
tion. Thanks are given for every force Q.
to nature and every ii:mt and twilit:t'
n;eful to mankind. tl
On '1'htn•sday morning, the fourth
day of the ceremony, the ha ,last +ta h
gy, or high ,priest, hegins a three slat e
sermon that rues mit into the one 'huu
dred and tlrirty'tltl3' before it close,.
There rn4irr mornings are tn'tsnmted to
by the sermon, tthlch, +Iltllou:4h it has
been preached for over '1111) years,, has h
never varied even a word. he
The ceremonies of 'Friday and Sat- ttt
mrday close rhe feast of the new year. hi
For several days the feastntakers
have been ,pounding corn for 'the
great feast days. The milling process
is primitive and is done with a wood-
en mortar and pestle,the 'head feast
woman striking a few blows with the
pestle to dedicate the meal. The
cors ,
t t'
taken from the braided strings
and .prepared in various says for the
mill. Some i soaked in a tv�eak wood
ash lye to remove the hulls, some is
parched, and some is merely soaked
a little. Whatever method is eased
eventually yields 'a tempting dish that
even palefaces enjoy,
TEN MINUTES
When Bert Kelley seated himself
at breakfast he looked at his watch.
It had run dawn. He wound it and
set it 'by guess at a quarter past six,
Half an (tour later while hurrying
past the courthouse on his way to
work he glanced at the big clock and
found that he had set his' watch ten
minutes slow.
"Ob, I.'ll dust allow ten minutes
when I look at it and set it right
when I have more .time," he said to 1
himself and slipped the watch back
into his pocket.
Young Kelley was employed as 1
extra fireman and .general helper in i
?the engine room of the big smelter I
where copper ore was ,hushed and 1
the Imetal extracted and feast into bars, 5
He arrived just as the whistle blew 2
and was busy until the noon ]tour. 1
He had not so Hutch as loo'iced at his
watch all the morning, and when he.
vent out to luncheon at a neighbor- e
iug restaurant the feel that it was s
Gott• had passed completely from itis
mind. o
'On the way bark to the mill after
dinner 1<ellcy on looking at his w'atoh i
found that he had almost twenty min- t'
tries to spare before the wortc whistle ''
would 'blew. It was, his duty every
day while the nttchilrtry' was 51
+o nil the crank by the side of the e
massive flywheel. lir deterinineii tin tl
set about .0 at otter. n
The engine •that i.nrui,hed pnwrr
for the cui'niping lnachint•, was 0 an w
old type with a flywheel sixteen feet 't
in diameter; a •rim of leseer diameter
bolted to the big wht el earned rhe e
driving belt, A sentent-lined pit ac- 1
ronmtodated the lower port of the fly- it
wheel; :the upper part went through 11
an opening' cart in the floor .over the 't
engine room and nese two feet above s
t. 'i'itr toggling ttas three feet wide
and approximately seventeen feet
tune; The driving belt ran •up through
t to the pulley- oil the ,hafting that t
'au alone bhe ceiling, a
The plant, %%Melt was 'buil!' on a b
steep hillside, had not hertz built for tl
its present uses; becansc of that :ntd 1
tiwas the central 'wall of the mill foun-
dation. One end of the pit w'a; board-
ed lip, the connecting rod from the
engine carte throng]) re small passage
at the other end. 'When standing up
Kelley could touch the floor above.
Before rite unscrewed the cap from
the nil cup he looked al his watc'11,
again 11 was a quarter to one, 10 a
few minutes he would have his task
(done, He busied himself polishing the
brass clip with an handful o'f, waste
and wiping off surplus tail front the
'bearings. As be 'worked' he heard
footsteps on the floor above hist head
and 'wondered why any of the em-
ployees should 'be entering that part
of'the'�uilding so long •before the ma-
chinery started,
'I -Ie filled the Foil Cup from the can
and picked up the (brass cap to screw
it 'b'ack into place; As the threads
caught the was startled 'by the shriek
of the whistle. He could not believe
that it was already one o'clock. He
gave a final turn to the cap and stood I
up with Itis feet on the squared sur-
face of the connecting rod just be-
tind the crank bearing.
But even as •h., raised himself .from
a sitting posturseshe caught a sound
Imre sinistrri''than the w'his'tle; it was
t hiss o: -team entering the idle cyl-
nderl Ht' feet the machinery tremble
lir an instant with the force. of.. the
eat tip stcaui; then the crank jerked
rerward slov:ly and imparted a bare-
r perceptible motion to the big fly -
'heel. '
Kelley. suddenly' te.11ized that the
ngine had started;` in the' same an-
tant he remembered that• his watch
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ten minutes sloe•.• 1t, tuts one
Singe. the belt wheel was already in
notion, he could not .step upon it and
limb itp the tvtty he had come; nor
mild he crawl Ipaek over the engine.
le gave a frightened .hent, but
is; of the eecaping steam smothers
l
his voice. In the nairow space
tete w'as no place to ;tend except
u the moving connecting rod.
The maximu'nt speed at which the
'heel ran never exceeded fottr revol-
tfons a second, but that was fast en -
ugh to ;;)take a man off the polished
nt 'ire of the tntineetor. In three or
,nt rcvolutiais ?lie shaft would he
tot in g at fn11 speed, and Kelley saw
ints+tf thrown . off anti crushed rig -
lost the wall or caught. in the flying
po'ke's of the big wheel.
lfe looked up despairingly. , He
:rill not clinch back past the flying
pokes. 1\'hen the crank pissed aeri-.
re and swung downward ;Kelley felt
s 0 the earth were dropping from
enettth Itis. feet.' 'He ;gasped and
new out his hand to steady himself.
he next instant he felt himself being
Ned as the crank ravine upward to
'',nnpt to its liret revo'l'ution.
Fearful that he ?night be tluotr11
uff when it again descended, he inti,•],-
If he maid hold on fur only a 'few
secontls, the engineer might hear his
calls and .shut off the .steam befort'
the engine reacher] full speed, •
Again and again he shouted, hot'
the noise of escaping steam, lntg-
utented now by the rumble of the
slowly mowing maobinery, complete-
ly drowned his voice. The wheels
terra ratherine speed!
second seems line in a titan face
r;re wilt what appears to he cer-
tain destruction. Kelley tried to de-
vise some tray oast of his awful preti-
..uttsiu:, lint all that be could th'in'k
1f =.las tht. big .poke, of the flytt)teel
as they raced upward scarcely 'a 'foot
'oft of nr farce.:\t first he ,ctrl,]
omen theist, brit soon they cane' tori
.t.t for that. He felt the cnrrenl of
air 'hal the gide riot st'.t in motion.
Everything round him seemed m he
dropping. Indeed the wheel was the
-ntly thing that mover] upward. the
yay he. wanted to go. \City' .,huuld'he
1 it.. position against the hill -tide,
ciny of the arrangements 'wort• not
hal they should hate been. The en.
inr ',ase. 1,w exanntle. was art high -
r than the holler roue', because
torr. ,t 11, 110 either wmy to set it,
s'ince the crank to be oiled had to
e reached from the wheel pit, Kell-
y. getting; an oil can and it handful
f waste, atm up stair+ to the Iloor
love. Grasping the ritn of the wheel,
• wrung (10,5 11 10 the drive wheel
and then stepped ispnn the crank
raring. The aarrwy epic) in which
was compelled to work .t0' .1r-
e.l.iy a covered pit. On one sine of
m was'the flywheel; on the other
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,
•,:,1 nt nm wi't'h it e
l'he crani: was again on the utiturn;
the wheel had almost completed hs
second revolution. -
The spokes were chasing one an-
other upward faster and faster; in an-
other second they would be only a
•blur.
Kelley did not lose time in thinking
over the plot that had popped into
his heat]. It would be 'certain destruc-
tion to remain Where he was; at
waist be could only 'hasten the end by
.rving to get otut now before it was
too fate,
Ile ,waun'g his arms round in front
f hint and leaved forward. He caught
the moving lint of the big wheel, and
teas pulled off his feet. He (alt as if
hi arms were being torn from their
sockets, hit 'he managed to keep his
hold on the wheel.
A wheel sixteen feet ,121 diameter
moves rapidly at the rineeven when
going at so ;low a rate a's:'orte revolts -
"ion re second; Kelley felt himself be-
iug hinted tipwward at °unbelievable
speed t
Almost instantly he was at the top
of the big wheel; he had joust a 'fleet-
ing glimpse of the floor `its he rose
above it.
"He had no: Mantled ]tow- he shoal's
get off the wheel cvhen he reached the
'circ, -inrt he ntitst get off someltne; if.
he held on, .heshould either strike
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the edge of the floor or 'be crushed at..
the bottom of the pit.
Lying with his chest across the
wide rim, Kelley let go and spread
out his a'rm's.
Tdrrown like a tangent, he sailed
through the air like a flying squirrel
and ,fell in heap on the floor 'ten feet
away.
Bruised and dewed, he sat up and
got slowly to his feet, He 'could hear
some one running toward ]rim from
the far end of the building. He stag-
gered against a post and stood for a
moment until his brain cleared, Then
he drew his watch from his pocket
of his overalls and set the hands for-
ward tett minutes.
It was exactly one minute .past onel
LATE JOHN-J'OYINIT A
CREDIT R 'In
TO HURON
CWoods'coc'k Sentinel -Review)
John Joynt, former .M.L,A, for
North Huron, w^lt'o died at Luckn'aw,
aged 51, was a "se'lfanade" man who
overcame early .handicaps and won
success. :As a farmer, ' apple grower
and merchant, he t'chieved high,
standing in ,his community and his in-
tegrity. not less than dais .b'trsittess
acumen, .doubtless itefthenactl the peo-
ple 01 North mon in electing him
to the •1.cgislature in .401!9. It was the
year of tate +1)100, sweep, and there
was a'L'.It,' O. candidate in the riding,
but �1'r, Joynt as Oov'se'rvative candi-
date ?von in a three -cornered fight by
3011 the was returned in '101213' •and'.
served until the next general election.
On May 4, 11905, while visiting ,the
Parliament Buildings, he announced
that he would not' again the a'candid-
ate 'Redis.tribu'tion had left 'Hainan
with two members instead of ehree,
and Mr, J'oynt made way for :others.
The afetyspaper boys, expressed sin-
cere regret, for he had annually des-
patched a .big box .of Htbron apples to
the Press Gailiery.
IHe Was one of'eight ;proposed as
candidate for lite House of Commons
at the North Huron Conservative
convention on !July 20, 10216, but dirt
tot contest the nomination.
The late t);Ir. Joynt was a devoted
member of the former Methodist
church, and a lay preacher, if we re:-'
call correctly. L n a'c'tive prohibition-
ist, he expressed his mind in the Leg
i•
dafune, fend opposed file 'trend-tovv-'
ard relaxation of the liquor 'laws.
Upon certain agricultural 'stibtjects he
spoke with authority, and his contri-
bu'tio'ns to the debates were never
lacking in interest. A roan of friendly
ways, he Possessed tie esteem of
members in all parties.
It was not often that John Joynt
was moved to wrath. The late W. E.
Raney, at the session of 1`9(•76, ,passed
a remark about campaign funds
which in a Toronto evening paper
carte to attention of the member for
North Hurons On March 2, Mr.
Joynt rose itt the House on a question
of privilege, and saki:
"Knowing the member for hast
'Wellington no 1 ilo, i1 cannot eon-
eeive what he ha•cl in his mind.:I
ran two elections in North Huros,
and paid my own expenses. I never
rete •;ell, dmectly ti indirectly, one
farthing in money, or lit- anything
g 1,,' that I lrnuty of, tn\vartls my ex-
penses. ;Phis 'House knows that I.
have been modest regarding my
wealth, (applause) but I want to
tell the member for- East Welling-
ton I have .been a we'll -to-do man
for years, and 'because .of the -splen-
did ,policy and program on which
the Conservative party appealed to
the electors of Ontario in '119110 and
1903 I a'ccep'ted the 'nomination and
paid my o'wti expenses ,.cheerfiully
and willingly. (Applause). And yet
my .hon, friend wants nue to answer
the question: Do I kn'o'w how touch
money was paid 'in .election' ex-
penses of the nicniber for North
Huron, coining from the En'glis'h
distillers, the •Scotch distillers, t'he
Irish distillers, the Canadian. dis-
tillers? '(Last;g'hter and appla'use).
I icnatw less about it than the. ment-
her for !Ea's't \Vellhngton, I•u 'art fair-
ness, ask him to apologize to me
and to this1Hlouse for"makdng such
an insinuation. There is nothing in
the allegation
"\ort sometimes find 'a pearl in an
oyster stew, remarked the waiter,
pleasantly,
}int the cnstomcr early grunted:
"1'm looking far oytlers."
"How do I open this tin?"
"You will find the instructions in-
side. -madam."