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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-10-04, Page 3Will donor Premier Work of, Canada's Political Leader to be Appreciated in His Return from Europe Pt, Hon, W. L. MacKenzie King, Prime Minister. of Canada, will be the guest of honor of the Ottawa Branch of the League of Nations Society in Canada on his return from Europe; Commentlug editorially Interesting Indian Relies : Found Near Midland Farmer Unearths Reminders Indian and French Occup ation of Our Province Which Cover a Wide Range of Occupa- tions upon the Premier's' acceptance of the levitation, the Ottawa Citizen Implements of Peace and War commends the initiative of the see- Valmtble and interesting relics of lety, and continues: "There is little Indian tribes have been. unearthed re- doubt that it will be a very success- oontly by .Archibald Edwards, while ful public welcome since the League ploughing on his farm on the Pane - of ,Nations Society Is -entirely non- tang Post Road, five miles south of the Partisan, including Members of al- town of Midland, moist every shade of political opinion. Mr, Edwards was born on the. farm The dinner will doubtless be endorsed immediately behind and discoveries he by Conservatives and independents, made here as a boy show that it was as well ae by Liberals. also the site of an Indian village and "The prime minister took the view of one of their potteries. One sandy the spokesman of the people of Can- Yellen, as it was burnt by the fires in himself that he went to Geneva as field always been of no use for matt- ' ada This is to be seen in a letter which, the Indians baked their earth- which he wrote to Colonel C P. Mede- enware vessels. Many steel toma- ditb, general secretary of the League hawks bearing the mark of the ger- of Nations Scl.tety in Canada, from ernment of France wore found. They reneva at the beginning of this had bean traded for furs and other month valuables. Old coins bearing various "The executive committee of the dates of bygone centuries and one of society unanimously passed a resolu- 1213 A.D, were found in or around tion, moved by Sir Robert Borden the Edwards house, which in early and seconded by Mr. Tom Moore, ex day's was a tavern. Pressing approval of the primo minis- Fine Stone Hatchet 's decision to •re resent Canada at T to r c fit find inclndas the head of ter p i iecent the ninth assembly of the League of an Indian tomahawk carved from a Nations and to attend the meeting in kind of ironstone, rounded at one end Paris far the purpose of signing the and flattened at the other. In the treaty for the renunciation of war as centre at each side is a small groove. an instrument of government policy. The handle was formed by splitting The resolution spoke of 'the unanim- a sturdy `stick for a short distance •ous desire of the Canadian people to and binding the stone head between seek by all possible means the es- the forks with thongs. tablishinent of an ordered and peace- Another article was a perfect specs- ful world society, and the substitution ment of an Inidian bone sewing needle for war of arbitration, conciliation and portions of two other needle of and conference.' more substantial make. The needle is "After attending the opening meet- about eight inches long and tapers ing of the assembly at Geneva, from the point which is exceedingly Premier Mackenzie King said in the sharp to about half an inch at the communication to Colonel Meredith: top. This was used for sawing cloth - "'In giving expression to Canadian ing and wigwams made of strips of opinions I have been pleased indeed skin sewn with leather 'thongs. The Paris,—Maurice Rostand's new play b a Ai:iantic Air Travel Will Not Be Long NOW WORLD'S LARGEST AIRSHIPS NOW UND1ER CONSTRUCTION IN MOTHERLAND The British government'is building ttyvo dirigibles, one for a weekly service to Australia and the other to ply ready in the diplomatic mail pouch o£ etween London and New York, The picture shows a view of the outer side of the passenger saloon of one of the the Preach Embassy, and should be 'ratans and pact of the stain promenade deck, looking forward from the port side, received here shortly, The details of the means by which achnation shall join in the pact have Pact Against War Lists 51 Nations Three Nations Adhere and 33 Announce intention— Mexico is Latest Washington,—A total of 51 nations. have now adhered to the Pact of Paris renouncing war or"else have signified their intention to adhere, Prank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State, has an- nouneed, following the receipt of a note from Mexico expressing its In- tention to sign the treaty, Since the membership of the League of Nations totals only 54 members, this means that most of the important nations of the world have now an- nounced themselves in favor of the anti -war treaty, In addition three im- portant nations not members of the League—Russia, Turkey, and the Un- ited States—have adhered or signified' their intention to adhere. The most important nations which have not fallen into line behind the treaty i:e-renounce war are Argentina, Brazil and Chile. In addition, Colom- bia, Ecuador, Aflghanistan, Persia, Norway and Paraguay have failed to communicate, either for or against the treaty. Mr. Kellogg understands that a copy of the Russian adherence is al - ed painting to the highest degree of the Indian world, These tribes were mostly those of the Algonquin and Athabascan nations and for the most part their art was confined to paint- ing theli•"wigwams. The designs were Intricate to a degree and the rhythm and coloring were of au exceptional character. Play Causes Fuss Rostand's New Play Napo- leon IV Causes Offence to England Critics to do so in the words of the resolu- .keavy needles, were for sewing "Napoleon IV has raised such a tion of the League of Nations Society heavier material. storm of international criticism that In Canada quoted in- your letter'. Two interesting pipe bowls were the author has begun to modify lines "However sharply Canadian opirr- found, one a very clever carving of blaming England and Queen Victoria ion may be divided over political a fox's head, from a very hard stone. for the death of the only son of Na- • questions, including the relative This piece represents the era In which, poleon III. merits of rival party leaders, 11 the American aborigines had attained French papers were so bitterly crit' -I should be possible to joie in cor- the height of their artistic achieve- cal of the play that English authori- dially welcoming Mr. Mackenzie King meats. One pipe, smaller, was made ties are reported to be satisfied that as prime minister of Canada when he at a sandy material, baked in a fire. protests from them are not needed. returns from Geneva, wild of hear- It is extremely crude in shape and do- Rostand's version that the Prince ing an interesting account of the great work for peace in which Can- ada is participating." • NEW KING OF ALBANIA Zogu, photographed on the steps of tie royal palace, in Tirana, on the day of his coronation, -which was a Militant affair, sign and perhaps was the work of a boy making his first pipe. LargeTooth One other object that excited much interest was a tooth about three inches in, o length. The root is tee) and one- half inches long. This has been iden- tified at the Royal Ontario Museum as the•lower incisor tooth of a bear, pos- sibly of a species now extinct. Other .objects found by Mr. Ed- wards were two fragments of pottery decorated in conventional Indian style with dots, scratches and circles. These discoveries call to mind fan- tastic• and other theories on Indian origin, art and habits which engaged Europe and North 'America near the end of the last century and the open- ing of the present century. Oldest and most widely known theory is that the American aborigines Were descendants r the Lost Tribes of Israel. It was originated by the late Lord Kingsborough, one of the foremost students of mankind, after a prolonged study. He based his claim upon the similarity he found in many customs and words of the Redman with those of the Israelites. One of the most, outstanding arguments he brought orward was that Indian priests. wore breast plates of beads and circles of swan's feathers around their necks and had used these articles of dress for centuries before the white man discovered them, Lard Kingebor- ough claimed that these were the sur- vivals of the breast plg,tes and mitresworn by the priesos of the Israelites. Ole also found that at harvest time the Indians he a great religious feast, including a dance around a fire and the shouting of the two words Ilaleumaleu-Haleimai and Yo-He-Wah. These were interpreted to mean Halle- MUMand Jehovah, Tho latter boar- ing a close relationship to the original Hebrew word, Ye yah, which meant Jehovah, "Combines" in the West Manitoba Free Prose: After two or three years of cautious experi- ment, what seems like a first -close revolution In western harvesting Methods appears to be taking place this year, This is in the greatly in- creased use of "combines in the grain fields of the prairie provinces. In Saskatchewan alone, it is esti- mated that 5,000 of these machines will be used this season, ,compared with less than six hundred in the 1927 crop year Everywhere imple- ment dealers report that their trou- ble is not in making sales but in sup- plying orders already received. Experiments in the use of the com- bine in Western Canada began in 1922, which means that the advant- ages claimed for ureal cannot yet be considered as fully proved. Enough data, however, appears to have been collectedsto suggeet that, under cer- tain conditions, which ' are not ex- tremely ilititcult to Obtain, very great, commodes in :harvesting costs can bo • achieved, A doctor of divinity has been sum - meted for playing the violin to the annoyance of his neighbors. A clear ease of "(hide, D. V.'' was killed in a Zulu ambush when British officers purposely ran away be- cause of a plot which is blamed on Queen Victoria herself, is ridiculed by critics. They consider it an insult to England. Rostand, However, maintains that a dramatist has a right to .utilize his- tory, even legendary accounts, 'as they were known at the tine of the play's action. No diplomatic action is foreseen, particularly as Rostand is changing several lines and is considering cen- soring a passage referring to Queen Victoria as responsible for having plotted the death of the Prince in or- der to wipe out tate last of Napoleon's line. One alteration was the change of a phrase referring to the death plot from "that is the English manner" to "that is the common way," Montreal is now credited with being the world's largest grain port. .Dur- ing the last crop year ended July 31, 1928, 196,2447,014 bushels of grain were shipped from Montreal. The nearest rival as a grain port to Mont- real is New York, which shipped 109, 551,000 bushels in the crop year 1027- 28. Indian Welshmen A second theory supported by many was advanced in.1634 by Sir Thomas Herbert in his book, "Travois." It was revived at the opening of the 19th century and was one of the most popular. This ancient sailor thought the 'American aborigines were do- scacendants of a colony of Welshmen planted on American sail in 1110, by Windomson of a Welsh prince, Owen' Gwyneth. Sir Thomas pointed out that many Indian words were exactly the same in pronunciationand meaning as many Welsh words, Modern Theory It is now claimed that at one time a' great Miocene bridge connected the North American continedt with Asia. Across this came various nosh from the old world,. Subsequently, this bridge disappeared, The whole theory seems to, be supported by the disobv- ery of Father GroliBn, a Jesuit mis- stonary, of a Huron wornan of Tartary, Her 'story was that site had been traded from tribe 16 tribe north until she Crossed . the bridge Into. Asia, Tho ''People of the Plains" develop - Clerenceau usy On War History Marshals Foch and Joffre also Writing Accounts of Struggle AUTHORS "WRONG" Published Stories of Marne Battle Nothing But Fiction Paris—The histories of the Great War and the unprinted degends of the conflict are "all wrong" and the Principal French actors in the four years' drama of the western front are writing their versions of events for posterity. One outstanding characteristic in the struggle is living in a little fish- erman's hut in Vendee. Ile prefers not to be molested and spends most of his time walking in the garden or locked in his study scratching away with his pen. Only his valet lives in the hut, Surrounded by his books and his memories, "The Fath- er of Victory" is touching ii his ac- count of the war and Georges Clom- enceau probably will leave the great- est record for future generations. i In another retreat—this time in Brittany—Marshal Foch is poring lover scraps of writing paper, his war maps and notes. In time, he will start writing and from the rugged coast near Morlaix will come the im- pressions and the revelations of the Allied commander, Marshal Joffre has just concluded his life story which was written at his pretty country home above the Seine at Louveciennes. Embittered by ten years of criticism and anger- ed by the efforts of many war, authors to shift the responsibility for the war, to his shoulders, Joffre may publish parts of his memoirs. Errors Printed "So many errors have been printed in histories of the war," he said, "The published stories of the first Battle of the Marne are nothing first than fiction, and many other phases of the war have been erroneously re- corded by historians, "I wrote the story of my part in the war as carefully as I could, des- troying untruths with truths and us- ing facts to replace fiction. I have documents to .prove everything I as- serted I hesitate toy publish my memoirs bei ause there is no use in starting a controversy, But I may be obliged to publish chapters, now and again, just to put historians right." Gailieni, hero of the Cum, who sent the Paris taxicab fleet out to stem the enemy tide on the heights of Meaux, died before his memoirs were well started. He could have told much about the feat of turning a retreating army in its tracks to whip an overconfident foe. e now been completed. An adhering nation can either send a- plenipoten- tiary to the State Department to sign a note of adhesion or it may send such a note direct. These notes are to be filed with the treaty in the archives of the State Department. At the same time, certified copies of the original treaty, with all its signatures, will be sent to all of the adhering countries. The most recent countries signify- ing their intention to join in the treaty are Spain, China and Mexico. Only three countries besides the orig- inal 15 signatories have actually ad- hered, namely Peru, Liberia and Ru- mania. Australia Sends Another Worrian to Geneva Assembly From Adelaide on Ardent Advocate of Higher Education London—Australia, so far, is the only one of the 13ritisli overseas do- minions to include a woman it ite delegation to the assembly each year, Since 1922, sixwarren have been ap- pointed from Sydney and Melbourne, so that this year's choice of a wom- an representative from Adelaide hasbeen mtluls appreciated by the women of South Australia, Mrs. J. Cantle McDonnell is of Eng- lish birth, though she and His hus- band, a member of the staff of St, Peter's College, Adelaide, have made their home in Australia for the last 18 years. She was educated at the House of Education, Ambleside, un - dor the direction of Mies Charlatte Mason, the educationist, who awarded her a teacher's diploma. Site then spent two years at school in Geneva, where she gained that proficiency in French which is so essential for a delegate to the assembly, - Later she ' went to London, where she trained for the nursing profession at the Lon- don hospital, gaining a prize in th•e, final examination. Marriage and family ties succeed. ed this work, and aftor the birth of her first child, Mr. and 1i, a. McDon- nell went to South Australia. Settl- ing in Adelaide, she threw herself with (characteristic energy into the social and public affairs of the city of her adoption. Mrs, McDonnell was closely concerned with the es- tablishment of Girton Parents' Prop- rietary School, and was a member of the committee which started it. She is a firm believer in free secondary schools, and in the right of all ohdl- dren, without distinction of class, to opportunities of wider Inhere, not merely the training necessary to earn a livelihood. "I have always been an ardent sup- porter of the League of Nations," said Mrs. McDonnell. "I am a founda- tion member of the League of Na- tions' Union In Adelaide, and during, its early stages acted as honorary secretary. I am particulaely inter- ested in the work of the tb4rd com- mittee of the League, which deals with disarmament" Balkans' Advance A Strange Looking Engine House HUGE POWER CAR ON BRITISH DIRIGIBLE R-101 Great care has been taken to give the engineer free access to all parts of the engine. Prosperity Predicted Quebec Soleil (Lib.): When farm- ing prospers, it is like the motor which starts and keeps revolving all the wheels of the country's ecouomic ma- chine. It is for this reason that the predictions of prosperity which are now being made appear to have the greatest chani;es of realization, be- cause the forecasts are based on a solid foundation, namely the return o/ better conditions for the agricul- tnral community. This Is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of of5ers.— Seneca. New Kingdon' Holds Ceremony KING IS CROWNED Ceremonies at coronation of Zogu of Albania, at i : '7a, the capital o the little Balkan 'country, cad Britain to Raise Emigration Issue Presence of Canadian Premier' in London to Be Utilized to Discuss Plans 'Landon.—W. L. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, who has been attending the League Council meeting at Geneva, is expected here about Oct, 3 on a fortnight's visit, and is to be entertained by the Canada Club on Oct. 10. The opportunity of Mr. King's pres- ence is likely to bo taken by the British Government to discuss plans Lor unemployment workers desirous of prooeeding to Canada, but nothing is known in informed circles regarding, the stories in circulation to the effect that definite proposals will be placed before him for mass emigration to the overseas dominion through the agency of a nonparty commission under Lord (Levet which was authorized to raise Medieval Ox -Drawn Plows in Bulgaria to Give Place to Up -to -Date Imple- ments Sofia—Far more than half of the 900,000 plows used in Bulgaria are nothing but steel tipped wooden hooks on the end of poles pulled by oxen. The poor work produced by this instrument results in insufficient crops and has caused tremendous material losses to Bulagria yearly. Tho Minister of Agriculture is now dlstributinga large number al mod- ern farm tools to the peasants every year through the Agricultural Co- operative Societies and the Agricul- tural State Bank. Last year the department sold 13,- 000 iron plows, harrows, drills and l'ultivators, 20 per cent cheaper than the market price. This year it will, distribute 32,000 such imple- ments on the same liberal terms, giv- ing the villagers three years in which to pay for them. It is interesting to nate that this work of the Government has so popularized better tools that in spite of the low prices given by the state institutions Private dealers in farm implements have sold more thea ever before. Prohibition Nation and Athenaeum (London) The future of prohibition in America has an interest for the outside world, such as domestic issues rarely have. Never before in modern history on aay comparable scale, has so flagrant a challenge been thrown down to the £ 00,000,000 to finance such a move- principle of liberty In matters of per- ment, sonal conduct as that embodied in the Speaking at ,Merthyr, George Lane- Eighteenth Amendment.... The clan- bury, ono of the Left Wing Labor lead- gess• associated with drinking are suf- ors, advocated another proposal, un- Relent to justify the special reguiation der which the British Government, in- of the drink trade, and opinions will stead of endeavoring to place the British unemployed overseas, should raise £ 100,000 to provide for then' at home upon the land. French and English Winnipeg Liberte (Ind.): (Bilingual schools have been instituted in New Brunswick.) During the last ton years a Canadian mentality has been born and is being developed among our English -Canadian compatriots. Dur- ing the last three years we have seen in all the English provinces, where French-Canadians are resident in any numbers, sincere and honest attempts to bring about a rapprochement be- tween the two races, and in every province, except one, serious efforts to settle the bilingual proem, b1 It ls differ as to how far tate State may go, consistently with respect for personal liberty, insuch directions as early closing hours and the deterrent taxa- tion of alcohol. But if the principle of personal liberty is not flouted out- rageously by the attempt, at ono blow,' by legal prohibition, to make drinking altogether impossible, wo do not know what meaning can be attached to it. Patriotism and Peace Sir Herbert Samuel in the Contem- porary Review (London) : Nationalism and internationalism, the fatherland', and the world, patriotism and peace those are not antagonistic; they are tot opposites; they are complemen-' tary to one another. The true word was said long ago by Seneca, "Every a lessor and a cousa for hope. We re -man is born into two consmbnittae— joice in the progress which is being the Cosmopolis and his native city." ruacio by the real bonne outage, Wo To harmonize the claims of the two is, hope that some day, In Manitoba, we our daily task.shall see the same manifestations of __ l good will as our brothers the Medians Maud Muller an an August day have so recently experienced, Went out to help them harvest' hay, z• "This heat," quoth Mand, cis not so The chief 'fieult of man is that he rico, lies so many small Duos. I .ichtor, rd ratlror hole Meth :harlot ice,"