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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-11-08, Page 7Surveyors Back From Hudson Bay Member of Party Describes Eskimos as "Jolly But Dirty" Halifax, Id,S,---Fliglit. Oilleer Brian Carr•Harr of one a the six Picked Can Ottawa, Cann/Ilan pilots who have been making a hydrographic survey of the Hudson Straits for the past 15 months, returned to Halifax recently on the steamer Canadiau Voyageur, six days out from Port Burwell. The remain- der of the party are en route home aboard the steamers. Larch and Mont. •calm, the former due at Halifax some time We week, . and the' latter pro- ceeding to Montreal. Two mechanics also returned on the Voyageur and two of the six Fokker 'planes used by the party, were landed here,.' The expedition sailed from Halifax inthe summer of 1927 to make a com- plete hydrographic survey,of the movemeuts of ice in the straits, to •chart the coast line and to determine the feasibility of a sea route whereby western grain might be ,shipped to world markets via Hudson Bay. The findings of the expedition are eRpect- ed to havea large bearing in deciding Me old apgtiment as to whether or not the Hudson Straits area skafe summer route Ter steamships. Disease is rampant in the north- land, it was said, 19 natives having .died in:Port Burwell alone while the expedition was there. White- men's habits were decimating the Eskimos, the airmen stated. Eskimos delighted in airplane rid- ing, the aviators said, and would work almost a week for a Phalle° of taking A flight. "What are they like as a people?" a member of the expedition was asked,. "'Jolly, but dirty," was the reply, British Immigrants • Ottawa Journals When Mr, Macken- zee King told the. Canada Club in Lon- don that "no bigger untruth was ever offered in, respect to a natldn and a country than to say that Canada does not wish to have immigrants from the British taloa," leo spoke what every fair-minded Canadian knows to be the' truth, The Journal would not want to go bail' for the immigration record o1 Mr. King's Government;' we think of Mr. King's Government; it has never included antagonism to British immigration. How that no- tion—the notion that there was a conspiracy somewhere in Canada hos- tile to British immigrants—camp into being we cannot for the life' of us un- derstand. How An Idea Is Born We get many an idea for a work of art, which gradually sinks into our unconsciousness, reaching .a• condition' which we think and speak of as for- getfulness. But it continues to figure in our experiences, mysteriously draw- ing sustenance from them and devel- oping independently of our efforts or knowledge, And one dayit may hap- pen to emerge again out of the depths of the mind. It is remarkably altered, and seems to admonish us: Now at last I am ripe for the purpose. which I was meant to serve from the be- ginning; now for the .first time we are worthy of each other. Let us both fulfill our destiny; create your work, -Arthur Sohnitzler in Vanity Fair. An Idea of Zep Construction .i<l: t:... 1141;; J1 -"" ti ..; GANG AT WORK MENDING DAMAGED FIN Repairing the damaged fin of the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst to enable the giant dirigible to make its return journey. Discovery of Gold Opens Canada Rush World Spreads of Find in the Patricia District Between Cat and St. Joseph -Lakes Interest in Manitoba Tin Toronto—Another gold rush le on. For several days word. has been spreading of a gold find in the district of Patricia, situated between Cat Lake and Lake St. Joseph. It was at first believed this had reference to the gold discoverid"e in the Kawinagans River, Pickle Lake rand Crow River. But this is not the case. The new discovery had _been kept a close secret.'. Montreal and Toronto 'mining men .are showing great interest in the dis •covery of tin ore in the Province ot :Manitoba, including interests con- nected with the Lindsleys. Noah Tim- mins has been considering participa- tion through purchase of a large block ,of stock. Gold in Canada The chief sources of CAliet4's gold production continue to, be '"the gold .quartz .ores o;f Porcupine and Kirk- land irkland Lake, Ontario; the copper -gold, ;sulphide ores, and the Quetta veins of .lerltisii Columbia; and the placer de- • posits of Yukon. small amount of •placer gold is obtained also, In Brit- 'iah Columbia. Lotle• gold is recover - ,ed from quartz _veins in Nova Scotia ;and Manitoba, and as by product of the treatinent of copper ores In Quc- boe. The effects of tea are generally 'beneficent,.conducive to content-' meat, `loan tlr,Snking • and .sobriety.— ,Sir James Crichton-Browno, Canada's Premier in Paris CANADA'S REPRESENTATIVES HONOR THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER Hon. Phllippo Roy, new Canadian minister to Paris, Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King, prime minister of Canada, and Gen. Gouraud, military governor of Paris, observing two -minute silence when the Canadians visited tomb of the unknown soldier. • Earth Speeds Up • Baffling Science Shrinkage in Crust Believed to be Responsible for Phenomenon ` Cambridge, Mass. — Calculations showing that the earth Is continuing to rotate faster than its regular speed of 24 hours per day were presented to the American Association. of. Variable' -Star., Observers' in annual :convention here last. night. The Interest to many people in the calculations dies in their possible ap- plication to the study of earthquakes, raher than to any appreciable change of the faster speed is suspected to be for many years" together. Some of the changes have occurred very abruptly, They amount to about one - thirty millionth of the day, or one Against Common Error three hundredth -.of a second. Stop coddling children, warns Dr. "The cause of the variations is un- Leonard Hill, foremost British' child known. The only theory that seems specialist, writing in the .November to -fit the 'facts is that the earth 'swells issue of, "The Forum".' or contracts'from.. time to time. How "Let mothers and teachers see to it does so, and why, we do not know. it," he writes, "that by adequate ex- The amount of swelling, if it exiats, is posure to open air and sunshine, by very small at most, only a few inches, well-chosen food, by inculcating term perhaps 1 or 12, and this would be perance in all things and strengthen- unobservable, trengthenunobservable, because everything, sea ring character, they raise up a fine and. land, would. move in the same race of then. wa.y," "A charter for the"freedom of chil- dren ought to be drawn ap. To dress The .Miner -Harvesters them up like dolls and limit their . Toronto Mail and Empire; In this activit}' for fear of spoiling their successful experiment there is a los clothes is criin:'aal.' They should bo sou that should be turned to account allowed to tumble about scantily clad in the open air and join in healthy games with their fellows: Above all,. they should be kept in their mental training from sentimentality and in- trospection. Let us scrap the peram- bulator and stop coddling them." Dr. Hill, in his "Forum" article, ad- vocates exposure to cold. "Children when ill with feverish complaints are confined to stagnant, heated air with clothes piled on them, when they need the very opposite --open-air treat- ment." Stop Coddling British - Doctor Warns the contracting of the earth's crust. by our Imnniigration Department. Why Explanation was made of periods in i not adopt as a permanent practice the which the rotation of the earthly crust' plan of bringing thousands of selected and of the possible relation of both !British people here every year for a 'contraction and swelling to earth- season's probation. The miners, With quakes. relatively few exceptions, proved Thee alculations were presented by themselves lit to make an honest. Ernest Brown, Sterling professor of living here, and proved themselves mathematics at Yale University, acceptable to the • country. If every They were based on 30 observations Year a like opportunity were held out in 1927 taken all over the world, of to British workers to make a test of occultations of the mo'o'n;, that is, of their adaptability, to this country and the obscuring of stars when' the moon its needs, there is scarcely a doubt passed in front of them. The vari- that the result would be extremely two-thirds of these observations. beneficial to Canada and conducive Empire Preference "The earth's rotation," said Prof, to the welfare of the British workers Rockhampton Capricornian (Queens - Brown, "is our clock for determinging thustried out. land): Empire preference, to be any- time. We might also, if vice wished,. — y' thing more than a mere sounding - use the .moon or any other body in Oat Shale and Tar Sands board for windy orators, -has to effec- the solar system as the clock, but Canada has vast resources of oil tively protect the markets of the Do - comparison of the earth with the shale and bituminous sands, the form- minions in Britain for raw products other bodies showed that one of the er occurring in the Maritime Prov- and foodstuffs, as well as the markets clocks was wrong, and observations Moos and the latter In Alberta. These in the Dominions for British manufac- have fixed upon the earth's rotation deposits have long been considered tured goods. Nothing short °of that as the time instrument which varies. as potential sources of products gen- will count. "02 course we know about the erally obtained' from crude petroleum. slowing down of the earth's rotation As a result of recent modifications due to the friction of the tides. That in refining methods, these raw mate - is an old story. But the periodic rials may now be seriously consid-1 variations, in which the rotation is ered as sources, to be drawn' upon! Ida has led to the establishment of sometimes too fast, and sometimes too ( when needed, to help in supplying flying schools by commercial firms, t 'slow are something different.. The the rapidly increasing demand for o fill the growing demand for pilots and air 'engineers. The, Department of National Defence, to encourage Activity in Aeronaultics Increased activity in flying in Can - first indication of these variations was motor fuel. The tyranny of the multitude can given by Simon Newcombe, the Am- erican'astronomet, about 50 years ago, the popular use and knowledge of be just as deadly in its way as the but only in late years have we been I am afraid the clergyman's God is aeronautics, is assisting .in' the es - tyranny of the few.—Dr. F. W. Nor- able to test the matter. The rotation too often the head of the clerical tablishiug of flying clubs in the wood. I -will sometimes hold the same pace profession.—Dean Inge. principal cities of the Dominion. into second place among our exports in point of total value," he pointed out. While the figures for the year 1928 are not yet available, railway book- ings show a tremendous increase over those of the previous year. Holiday resorts in all parts of the Dominion have been filled to capa-• city with Canadians, Americans, and people from the European countries during the season, and the fine weath- er of this autumn has resulted in an extension of the holiday season into September and October this year. As a result many of the operators of holiday resorts have found that their bookings extended well into Cc-' tuber for the first time in their his- tory. In addition there is an increas-I ing number of conventions being held' in Canadian cities each season, Sir Austen Goes Home With Health Improved San .Francisco Cal.—Sir J. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of the British Foreign Office, left last night by train for Seattle and Vancouver on his way to sail for London from Quebec: "Before leaving California I wish to express to the representatives of the press my grateful thanks for the courtesy and consideration which they have shown. me," sair Sir A.ug- ten. "'They have respected my wish to keep my visitpurely private, • with the result that I have enjoyed a perfect holiday in glorious sunshine, amid lovely scenery and with the kindest and Most Hospitable of friends. "I thus start on my homeward journey with Health completely re- stored, and ready to resume the heavy work anis great responsibilities which await meon my 'return to London," ; Homeward Bound Graf Zeppelin Dance More: Ventures Across the Atlantic Takes Northern Route Lalcehurst, N.Jr T1>o Graf Ze ' pelin took of for Germany at I.54 te-day (11Monday). Dragged tail first from the hangar at 1.36, the greatest of all airships lifted oasily into a moonlight night and was soon but a vanishing smudge against the stars, On the trip started this morning It was expected to follow the northern great circle course and, with the :aid of favoring winds, to complete the flight in about °fifty hours,; At 1 o'clock the passengers were bundled on board and the ground crow surrounded the ship. Ofilcers said that the wind was only seven milds an hour and down han- gar, permitting the ship to be safely: taken out the east doors. There were many, however, .who clung to the. conviction that there would be no takeoff this morning. At 1.15 sailors grasped the cables dropped from the great bag and pre- pared to walk the Zeppelin from the wide-open eastern doors into the moonlight night. Germany Prospers Berlin to Build "Palace of Youth" As $1,000,000 Welfare Center Berlin—Plans for the construction of Berlin's "Palace of Youth" have been approved calling for expendi- tures totalling $1,090,000. It is designed to serve as a social welfare center where organfations connected with the German Youth Movement will have their headquar- ters. The former kaiser's Bellevue Palace was considered at once- time, but proved too small. Great building projects are- afoot In other parIs of the capital., .These i%ic1ude a new Department of Justice building costing $2,500,000 and, the largest covered swimming pool in the world. A glass donee 500 feet in dia- meter will s, in a water sotu'se.sixty- five feet wide. A sandy shore with artificial sunshine and seaside mural paintings will create the impression of outdoor bathing. It will be heated inwinter and cooled in summer and vrill provide ac- commodations for 82,000 bathers daily. There will be medical baths of all kinds and physical exercise halls equipped with modern appara- tus. - The cost Is estimated at $3,- 000.000 and a small entrance fee will enable the promoters to operate' the establishment at a profit. Our New Industry Value of Tourist Industry to Canada Placed at $300,000,000 "The tourist industry in Canada is growingby leaps and bounds, and the season just closing is regarded as a 'record in the number of tourists it has brought from other ` countries Into Canada, and in the volume of travel engaged in by Canadians them- selves," said C. W. Johnston, assist- ant general- passenger . traffic man- ager of the Canadian Nationl Rail- wys. "The value of the tourist industry to the Dominion of Canada has now reached a total in excess of $800,000,- 000 annually. This brings the ex- port of memories of Canada's scenery When the Graf Zeppelin Flew Over New York r ice• - --ancfc gas ,.._ � '. _ - A STRIKING VIEW OF GERMANY'S QUEEN OF THE AIR considered h weather was cloudy and dull. A fair idea is given of the great Thisview':oP the G;raf'Zeppe]in is most interesting when it is cons that the American city • - Canadian Draws Pension Paid Since Charles 11 .British Columbia Professor's Ancestors Saved King by Hiding 1-lim in a Tree Sought by Roundheads $46 Received Semi-Annuallyr Used to Buy Old Books Montreal,—A pension Nearly 240 years old, which roaches back to the gratitude of Charles 10, of England, fora rescue from the Roundheads hat# been revived after a brief lapse and is now being paid to Dr, )1�Dsie `IA. Walker, associate professor o4 Eng fish, at the 'University of British Co- lumbia, Dr, Wacker receives $46 semi'annw ally from the British government. He spends most of. it In purchasing old books. An influential cousin at court secured revival of the pension after it had been stopped for a short time. It is from an ancestor who hid Charles in an oak tree on a dark night •in 1651 that Dr. Walker inherits his pension. She was Mrs. Elizabeth Pendrell Yates, who before her mar- riage, lived with her five brothers on the Pendrell property, `Boscovel," near Midlands. Saved From Roundheads Charles was fleeing from *a Round- heads, trying to make Ms way to Prance and safety. Some years before his father had been beheaded. He himself had been carrying on an in- termittent warfare against Cromwell and had Just been defeated at the Battle of Worcester. While the Roundheads scoured the country for him, Charles crept to the Pendrell house. He saw Elizabeth and told her he must be hidden. She had never seen the King before. But hero he was before her, appealing for help. She did not believe her eyes. She called her five brothers, and they conferred. At first' they thought Charles n4ghit be hidden ha some dark nook in' the old house But,theRound- heads would be 'certain to 'look there first. In their garden .flourished an old oak tree, with a; heavy trunk tee thick branches: Charles must climb the tree and sit among the foliage. He would be safe there. The Round- heads would never think of such a hiding place. King Crouched in Tree For a whole day Charles sat cramp- ed on a branch of the tree while the Roundheads passed and repassed be- neath him. When it was dark he climbed down and slipped away, his escape assured. He did not forget Elizabeth and her brothers, for when he ascended the throne in 1660 he awarded annul - ties to all of them in. perpetuity. Elizabeth's share was £50. Elizabeth lived out her time, and her pension passed to her oldest son, A. Yates. Down through the Yates family the pension ran for many years, and then through the succeed- ing family, the Dysons. The pension- er's name changed to Walker, and, almost inexplicably, so thick is the shroud of time, the inheritance was split into four parts. Dr. Walkeris a descendant of one of the four divi- sions. ivisions. Dr. Walker has just returned from England. He visited his ancestors' home and was offered two green oaken shoots taken from Charles's tree, which is supposed fib have . lived through the intervening years. N. Y. Herald -Tribune. "Please be Nice". Corsican Police Ask Bandits To Be Polite Toward Tourists London.—An appeal ;o the better nature of the bandits. who infest- the hills has been made by the police of Corsica, according to dispatches from that island. Corsican •bandits, it may be ex-• plained, are not usually gunmen is the Chicago sense. They are men who have sworn the vendetta and thea taken to the maquis to avoid troubl- ing the police with their highly hon- orable feuds. They hate ever been known to molest anybody .but their sworn foes and in some instances have not only aided travelers but protected diem from their less scrup- ulous compatriots, Recently, however, a sightseeing bus, carrying English, French and Dutch tourists, was held up on the southern slope of the Col' de Verde. The passengers were robbed and roughly treated. According to all descriptions the highwaymen were members of the forocious but hither- to punctilious' Romanetti banditti. The authorities were alarmed, Merchants protested. The incident threatened the prosperous and rapid- ly growing tourist traffic in Ceram. An appeal, phrased in firm but courte- ous terms, was broadcast to all bandits.. It spoke of the fine old tradition of Corsican banditry, re- minded the outlaws of their proud heritage, called upon them to keep unsullied their good name, and end- ed with a threat of action by the police if tiny; further complaints were received, Adult with bath, 0.$ ; Adult with- out . bath, $4,50.:;-,Htn,sl folder la North Carolina,