The Seaforth News, 1929-01-24, Page 6Ski.in Is Popular in Canada
Great Outdoor "Winter Pastime Has Thousands of Devotee!:.
,Both Young and Old
Skiing is undoubtedly Canada's for their tuts and good tolloweitip,
Most popular outdoor winter pastime
and year by year the number of its
dsvotees eteadlly grows, Young time
old throughout the Dominion now look
forward with eagernees to. the arrival.
of the first Sall et snow and with only
alight covering of a few inches, the
elders are out on the pine -clad elopes,
making the stili air ring with their
merry laughter and good-natured jest
and tee warning cries of "track".
The great outdoor sport of skiing
has the immense advantage that it
can be enjoyed in as leisurely or as
strenuous a fashion aa the participant
desires and on that a000uut aittiost as
many past the; age of forty years as.
under are numbered among Its de-
votees. Although all may not become
proficient in the art of ski jumping,
and consequently quite a uumber turn
out towatch, these displays of skin
and daring, there are no spectators at
a ski hikeorcross country run, when
the novice and the expert each derive.
a maximum of enjoyment front the
outing. However the craft of ekf-Ing
does not end with the ability to travel
quickly over the enow, fascinating as
that le, but just aa the expert skater
goes on to greater development of his
skill so the earnest student of ski-ing
has before him the technical side eel
the pastime and satires of difficult,
feats which give him a glorious senser
of mastery over the wonderful in-
atruntents of his art.
21 -Ing is rapidly taking hold In al-
most every part of the Dominion butt
In Eastern Canada and in the Rocky;
Mountains It is most firmly establish.;
ed and counts its enthusiasts In thous-
ands. Around historic Quebec there,
is good akeing and in the rough, roll•
Ing Laurentian country just north of
Montreal. Ottawa, the gateway of
the glorious Gatineau hills, is another
name to conjure alders with- Out in,
the Rockies and flelldrk. Banff and
Revelstoke are famous winter sports
resorts and the annual carnicais held
at these points are world renowned
ldtvon in the neighborhood of sale,
breeze Vancouver, ski-ing may be ea•
ioypd on the elopoll; of thenal Moun-
tain.
There are today numerous ski clubs
scattered somas the Dominion, On
Carlo, Quebec, Alberta and Brttteh
Columbia are all represented in the
Canadian Ski Association, theparent
body or the sport in Canada. In Ot-
tawa, the capital city, there are two
flourishing clubs, one of Which, the
Ottawa Ski Club, with a membership
of 2,200, le, the largest in, the Domia•
ion and also the largest in the world.
It is estimated that -there are well
over 10,000 active skiers in the Cana.
dila Capital, alone and one of the in-
teresting sights is the weekend migra-
tions to the Gatineau hills, wirers well
marked trails lead to comfortable
camps in Which hot meals may be pre-
pared or purchased. These camps
are operated by the clubs for the bene -
ea of their members and their guests.
'Railway trains, buses, electric cars
and motor cars tate the throngs of
skiers to points of vantage from which
the hike to the camp is begun.
One interesting and gratifying out-
come of the enthusiastic way in which
Canadians and their guests have tak-
I en to ski-ing is the rapid growth of
the ski manufacturing industry in
Canada. The output of ski factories
in the Dominion has e'en tremendous-
ly in the last four years and Canadian
skis and ski equipment are competing
successfully with foreign products.
As never before thousands in Can-
ada and abroad are heeding the call
of the out of doors, and ski-ing has ai-
ded a wealth of enjoyment to play in
the open in winter. No other sport
can quite so magically sweep aside
dull care and bring peace to the over-
wrought nerves. Canadians have
found the key to the fall enjoyment of
their winter season and cordially ex-
tend an invitation to those of less fav-
ored climes to come to the Dominion
and know the benefit and joy of a so-
journ cue of doors on skis,
Byrd Radios From Ice Barrier
That Bars Gates to South Pole
2400 Miles Beyond Last Outpost of Man, He and Party Spend
Christmas—Prepares to Get Established and to
Make Flights.
New York.—Commander Richard
Lvelyn Byrd has sent the following
wireless message to Secretary of the
Navy Curtis D. Wilbur through The
New York Times, the St, Louis Post
Dispatch and associated newspapers.
"We have reached today the great
mysterious ice barrier. It presents to
la an ice cliff higher than the mast
of the ship. On this Christmas Day
we are thankful and proud to report
that we have been able to carry the
American flag several hundred miles
farther south than it has ever been,
and it seems fitting that an airplane,
that instrument of good will, should
reach Its farthest south on Christmas
Day.
"We are 2,400 statute miles from
the nearest human dwelling in the
only area la the world where a ship
canget so far from civilization. That
we are here safely is due to Provi•
donee and my loyal and stout-hearted
shipmates who have worked together
un'selfishty an a unit. It will prob.
ably be some days before ws get
Wide on account tf tee that will be
in Boy of Whales
":Byrd:
Commander Richard E. Byrd, head
of an mealtime to the "bottom of
the world," is at the. threshold of ono
of the greatest adventures of this ad-
venturesome century,
Before him lies the .last geographi-
cal challenge to science—frigid, for-
midable Antarctica, a continent of
6,000,000 square mhos, which is so
little known that even a, large part of
its glacier -fringed coastline must be
mapped by gnees-
Byrd commando a mlaton-doIIar ex-
eeditlan, equipped as few, if any, prev-
inue polar parttee have been fitted out,
and is prepared to spend. two yars,le
noes Cary, in wresting from the vast
Land of silence secrets that seemed
has Ionic wanted to know.
The party finds itself at the Bay of
Whales—ono of the gateways of the
Continent -virtually at midsummer,
wham conditions are most favorable
for tits flying which Byrd plans to do.
Whether ho will attonipt an imme-
and hence flails himself with a good
bit of south polar flying experience.
The Ross Sea barrier and its Bay
of Whales used by Amundsen as the
base for his successful dash, offers
small comfort, even in the summer
season, to the explorers of the Byrd
party. It is a vast cliff of ice, hun-
dreds of miles long, the termination
of the continental glacier that blan-
kets probably the entire continent.
On its chilly, slippery surface the
expedition will set up the base camp
from which the exploring parties will
set out on their trips into that almost
mythical section of the continent
known as King Edward VII Land.
which borders the sea.
When supplies have been swung
ashore from the expedition's boats—
no small problem itself in view of the
height of the ice wall—the adventur-
ers will erect the portable houses that
are to be their homes during many
months. When the encampment is
complete it will be a tiny town, with
dwellings, a recreation room, library,
kitchen, workshop, storehouses for the
tons of food and the gasoline, and
shelters for the four airplanes,
Lay Plana for Polar Dash
Taking advantage of the slight mod.
eration in temperature and storm
which the brief Antarctic summer will
afford, the expedition plans to make
a start at Iaying supply bases along
the 800 -mile route which Byrd's big
tri -motored airplane is to take some
day to the Pole. These depots, ao-
cording to the plan, are to be put
down at intervals of 100 miles, with
smaller stations between, and will be
transported by dog teams.
The scientists of the party are ex-
pected at least to get their bearings
in this—to them—inviting Iand, and
perhaps they will be able to make a
start at their investigations into gla-
ciology, geology, meteorology, and
several other "oloogies'"in the mysteri-
ous continent.
Life on the ice barrier will not have
11 the comforts of home, but it will
ffer many of them. The expedition
arried with it hundreds of books,
tens of candy, scores of phonograph
ecords, electric washing machines, a
Igantic cook stove that will burn coal
eft by the City of New York, and
many other luxuries such as previous
polar explorers have left behind. In
the larder are vast quantities of meats,
tinned vegetables, and fruits, jellies—
sufficient in both variety and amount
to set such meale as probably never
were seen south of the Antactio
Circle.
Months o? Hard Work Ahead
For the first two months it will be
all work and little play for Byrd and
his men, but as spring 001000 to North
America they will be preparing for
the long, vicious winter of blizzards
and disappearing thermometers, Other
a
.0
c
Mate aerial trip to the South Pole is r
regarded as doubtful., It is believed, g
rather, that he writ postpone this I
spectacular part at his program until
the expedition has its second wind on
the storm -swept tongue of ice that ex-
tends for an Indefinite distance into
the coutineatat indentation known as
Resp Sea. '
rearm for Pole Disavowed
On the South American side of Aa-
' tarctica fa Sir George 0tubert Wilkins,
himself en aviator of note, who is also
known to be, plannib;ga polar flight,
The two airmen have disavowed any
Intention of rasing to this pole, preve
ausly visited by Amundson and Scott
after sledge jotrrnoys overland, but it
is known that each would like to be
the first man to reacbif by air, Wil'
bins has already. r gdo at least one
long Antarctic fligl,¢"xrom tale base on
POMPOM/. Island, 1,06t. the Wedol Sea,
explorer's (.rave said that nowhere to GIANT TO CRUISE THE CARIt3EAN SEAS
the world did the wind blow harden +
than on Antarctic, and storms more The Liberty, largest amphibian Diane even built In Auterira, acquired by Capt. Patterson, publisher, who with
severs, The galla aWeell dawn to rho four companions, will cruise the Caribean sea, The Lib arty is not as largo es the' fatuous Whale of Sir Alan
coast from the high plateaus • and Cobhams �, • -• -. l
t
i1UNDRED PASSENGERS SAVED AFTER COLLISION
The ;steamship Adelglde in drydock with a hole 15 -feet sq ware ie her
starboarii following a eoIllsion with the Hanipitolin i❑ English' Bay, near
Vancouver, )3 C. •
The Power of Western Growth
Contrasted with ' its spectacular
speed in pre-war days the course of
prairie settlement in recent years has
seemed slow and subdued. But as a
matter of cold faot, despite the ab-
sence of sensational features, the ex-
pansion of agriculture on the prairies
has been plowing ahead With trenien-
t •
ei
1 X1928
annually, Within that eight-year
period they have brought into produc-
tion an Added area of roundly
7,700,000 acres.
Obviously, western agricultural ad-
vance is fully holding its own' in the
varied field of Canadian natural re-
sources development. Leas in the
1920
INCREASE IN FI£i_O CROP- ACREAGE
OF THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES -1900-1928
dons power. The rate of advance, al
indicated by Dominion Buerau of Sta-
tistics reports, is little short of amaz-
ing. Between 1920 and 1928 Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta have in-
creased their field crop acreage, ot
the average, by nearly a million acren
limelight and naturally reduced in
pace as compared with earlier years
of the century, it still ranks and
promises long to continue as an un-
surpassed factor in the Dominion's
growth.—Courtesy Natural Resources,
Canada, January, 1929.
mountain ranges of the interior, even
from the South Pole itself, which is
perched at au elevation of about
10,000 feet,,,
To attempt to fly airplanes in the
winter months would be disastrous;
some soientists have said that it will
be hard enough to fly them even when
conditions are most favorable. And
that, according to American standards
isn't saying much, for Antarctica is
always cold, always blustery, always
treacherous, always inhospitable.
Byrd's men who venture into the
interior will find themselves strictly
dependent on the supplies they carry
with them. Beyond the coasts, where
seals, sea elephants and penguins
abound, there is no game in this dead
land of ice. Vegetation, even among
the rocks that outcrop here and there
through the glacier, is limited to rudi-
mentary mosses., The largest living
thing reported is a minute spider.
Montreal, Que: A new record for
transmission of the voice by radio -
11,090 miles—was claimed with the
receipt, Dec. 26, of a wireless message
from Commander Richard E. Byrd,
now in the Antarctic, by George A.
Wendt of the Canadian Westinghouse
Company, Commander Byrd's mes-
sage announced receipt through loud-
speakers on board hie flagship, the
City of New York, in the Antarctic, of
a Christmas Day program radiocast
for the benefit of the explorer and hie
crew by the Pittsburgh station of the
Westinghouse Company. — Christian
Science Monitor.
She: You'll give me furs for my
birthday or I'll know the reason why.
He: I can tell you the reason why
now.
Some folks want their newspaper
to have convictions so they can get
mad and stop 4t.
Perla Forces
People to Adopt
Western Ways
Shah Exiles Opponents of RA.
forms Wielded on Plan of
Turlcish-'Gavaznment
Jorusaleui-DaY by day It le be.
coming olea1et' that Persia pas decid-
ed to adopt the program of enlighten.
l0out . and Europeanlzetton which
'Kemal Pasha has intro/Mood into Tut -
key. The Shah seems determined to
employ vigorous meatus, if; necessary,
to 1100011 the resistance to the . new
order by tate conservatively ininded
droleg end religious authorities.
According to the latest press re-
ports he has adopted the drastic
measure of sending into exile 800
Deems 0e:bolero of the Islamic faith)
who oppose his reforms. Some of
.these exiles have 'gone to the shores
of the Caspian Sea, while others were
permitted to emigrate to Iraq,
Many Schools Opened
'phe government Is doing its 'utmost
to -provide educationai eaoilities for
larger nentiona of the population, Nu,
mem .achoois have already been
opened, and still more are to follow.
For the time being there are not
enough P9raian teachers to staff the
schools, so that recourse is being tak-
en to the employment oe foreigners.
Sixty French teachers are at'pres-
ent in Persia, French being one of
the compulsory school subjects. About
600 students are sent for training to
European universities each year, with
a view to their gradually replacing
the foreign teachers.
.All the foreign schools are compel-
led to adopt th ecurriculum of the
Persian schools and must have Per-
sian History, literature and geography
taught by Persian teachers. With a
view to encouraging parents to send
their children to school, the Shah has
issued a decree releasing from mili-
tary servile all young people of mili-
tary age who atend an educational
institution,.
Bus Service Started
Modern methods are also being in-
troduced into everyday Brea Tlius the
Persian Motor Omnibus Company has
installed,a bus service in Teheran. So
far twenty-five vehicles have been put
into use, a number to be consider-
ably augmented in the near future.
They are gradually to replace the old-
fashioned horse buses, which have
been the sole and somewhat tortuous
means of conveyance for the mass of
the population. The new buses are
well turned outand have a seating
capacity of about forty,
Sortie Reasonable
Dont's
•
Don't put a frosty bit in your horse's
mouth.
Don't leave your horse standing in
a draft. -
Don't leave your horse standing
without a heavy blanket; ant; then
not too long.
Don't work your horse on icy roads
if the calks are not sharp.
Don't clip your horse in 'cold
weather.
Don't spare the straw when bedding
him.
Don't forget to' dry his legs at nigbt.
Don't work.a came horse.
Don't overlook giving him a good
warm mash on Saturday nights.
Don't forget the fact that he is earn-
ing you money, and is entitled to three
squares, a good' bed and a warm
stable.
Forget the whip and harsh language
as kindness will accomplish more. '
Mrs. Higgins had just paid the last
instalment on a perambulator, Shop
Assistant: "Thank you, madam. How
Is the baby getting on now?". Mrs.
Higgins: "Oh,'e's all right, 'E's gettin'
married next week!"
Huge Seaplane For Sea L`ruising
eta m®r*--a
Third Record Year
For Canada's Mines
$271,000,000, New High
Value of Mineral'Output,
Shows Gain of $23,
644,000 Over 1927
Gold and Copper Increase
Toronto.—ln 1828, for the third
year in succession, Canada's mineral
erodaotien reached a BOW high record,
the value of output being $271,900,009,
meriting an increase of 020,044,000, dr
almost 10 per pont over that of the
preceding year. This is the ofllcial
estimate of S. I, Cook, chief of the'',
Mining Metallurgical and Chemical
Branch Qf the Dolnifion :Bureau
Statistics at Ottawa, in his prelimin-
cry report,
In Pew previous years has Canada's
mining industry ehown such phenom-
enal growth. Advances were general
In all fields, metals, non-metals and
structural materials. Reflecting the.
aggregate gain, fifteen products reach-
ed new output records as follows;
Cadmium, cement, coal, copper, gold,
gypsum, lead, lime, natural gas and
petroleum, sand and gravel, salt, talc,
stone, soapstone and zinc. •
The' instate group gained nearly
$15,000100,
Copper, at 191,944,000 pounds, or
nearly 96,000 tons, showed a gain of
more than one-third over 1827. One-.
half of the output was produced by
Brash Columbia, about one-third by
Ontario and one-eighth by Quebec.
Gold, at 1,809,548 fine ounces, ahow-
ed a slight gain over 1927, Ontario
mines coutr'ibuted 1,572,000. line
ounces 1n 1928, British Columbia 188,-
00,
88;00, Quebec 59,000, the Yukon 32,000
and Manitoba nearly 17,000, The re-
mainder was from Nova Scotia,
Lead production was' 336,391,000
pounds, valued at $15,434,00. British
Columbia mined 95 per cent of the
total.
Zinc, produced at Trail in British
Columbia, and at the-Tetreault Mines
at Notre Danre des Agnes in Quebec,
amounted to 183,823,520 pounds,
valued at $10,089,000.
Fuels, comprising coal, natural gas
and crude petroleum, rose about d
02,000,000 In value to $70,420,000.
Other .non-metals were valued at
$171927.,450,000, or shoat the same as in
-
Coal tonnage was greater than in
anyprevious year, 17,735,000 tons be-
ing produced, with a value of $83,-
000,000. While little change was
note din the Nova Scotia, Now Bruns-
wick and Saskatchewan tonnage, Al-
berta and British Columbia showed a
considerable increase. e
Cement mills produced a record of
10,906,000 barrels, valued at $16;803,-
000. Gypsum production was valued
at $3,350,000 and lime at $4,170,000, a
new high record.
Commenting upon the country's
mineral development, the report told
of the 220 -mile journey Iaat summer
of a party under 0. B. Stockwell of
the Geological Survey, studying and
mapping mineral deposits of the Rein-
deer Lake region on the boundary line
between Northern' Saskatchewan and
Manitoba.
Dome .production for December
amounted to $350,294, against $418,540
in November,. this decline being laid
to the semi-annual clean-up, and $440,-
527 in December, 1927. Production
for the year 1928 was $3,914,473,
against $4,031,838 in 1927.
With . the introduction of modern
labor-saving machinery in the mines
of Northern Ontario . the scope of work
ha,s increased, resulting in expansion
of payrolls. During 1928 about $18;
000,000 was paid in wages by the'
metal' mines of the Province to about
12,000 employes, an average of about
$1,500 to each. This payroll ivas con-
centrated chiefly at Sudbury, Tim-
mins, Kirkland Lake and Cobalt.
The mining companies also spent
about $15,000,000 in other ways, main-
ly for. materials and'supplfes, which,
in turn, benefited factories and rail-'
ways throughout the country. In ad-
dition, the mining industry of North-
ern Ontario, will realize for the year
profits of about $30,000,000: for distrib-
ution in dividends or for accumulation
of surplus and paid-up development.-
oe
America lay Not
.Sign Kellogg Treaty
Some Reasons Which, Evens if
They Do Nnt Surprise rile
American People, Will Cer-
tainly Amaze the Rest of
the World,
It is taken alines! for granted 11
this country that the American *mete
will ratify the Kellogg 'ib'eaty It
may be approved, lint the following
extract front. au artlole by eer, 1-lbury
Cabot Lodge, in "Iiarper's Magazine,"
gives 6orue Idea of tite form the eppo-
altion will take., Mr, Lodge writes:--
"It is certain that if at tete monied01 (Maher European oriels we refused
to act we sienna be exposed to pee- ' --
dimly the 'sante storm of criticism
and .reprobation welch attended one
rejection of the peace treaties. Europe
has given us clear and unmistakable
proof that, she regards the Kellogg
Treaty as obliging Ws to interfere, and
that her Interpretation of it is totally
different frons ours.
"And interpretations, where so
vague a pact- is concerned, aro of
prints importance, ,Formally to agree
to'such a pact, when opinions on both
Bides of the water are so wholly 1111
ferent, la' really not to agree at all, but
to sow the seeds of more trouble and
mtsunderstandiitg.
"It Is difttcult to dee how the Senate
can disregard snob clear 'warning. i!
it ratifies the.treaty it lustthes' ineytt
able criticlsm from Europe`later on
oritoism wheh will be far more severe
than any which would attend its re -
fusel to ratify. It has been 'argued
that. Europe would' be very much die -
tressed if the Senate should refuse to
ratify, and would loudly criticize us
for refusing to back up 'our' own
treaty.' This cry would undoubtedly
be raised if the Senate refused..
"But it would have only the scan -
teat foundation in fact and so could
not be persistent. The proposal was
first made to us by 1',!. Belated, foreign
minister for France. 'Assuming that
the idea did originate with an Anted -
can, 'Professor Shotwell, that Amery
cart has disclaimed the iltrished Pro.
trot and had no . brief to speak for
he United- States : in the Mat place.
n a diseussiort of this sort, only :0119
cial sources should be' considered'.
"Moreover, if it is recalled that M.
Errand was -the flrst pieced to make
the proposal, does it . not seem theft
the. phrase 'Kellogg `Treaty,' which
originated in Bgr`pe, is a misnomer?
Was not Secretary Kellogg quite right
when, soon after the signing cere
monies In Paris, he modestly diselahu-
d being the sole anther of the pact?
"If the Senate refuses to ratify, 1/
Is indeed hard to see how -Europe
with any justice can charge us with
not rNicking up 'our own treaty.' The
American Secretary of State has not
and was never intended to have the
same amount of power as the foretga
minister of a parliamentary state, matt
it would do no harm to have Euro-
peen opinion realize this.
"if the question of ratification be
considered solely from the standpoint
of incurring European anger, must it
not be -set down that it would be bet-
ter to refuse to ratify it now rather
than wait till later? And front the
standpoint oe historic American for-
eign policy, does not rejection seem
the one intelligent course to follow.
The treaty may be a good enough
thing for Europe; but it cannot be
repeated too often that the position
of the United States in world affairs
is wholly different from that of the
individual European state.
"This statement does not seek to
deny the assertion that we have an'la-
terest in what happens in 'Europe.
But our interest is bound.to be pecu
liar and our actions arecertain to be
different. We are so happily situated
by geography that what .happens'in
Asia or Oceania or South America Is
of nearly • equal Interest to us with
what happens in Europe. Being•so
far away and 90 remote from strife,
we can apply ourselves to improving
our civilization and, perhaps, setting
a real example to mankind. '
"In any case, our influence In the
affairs of others should not be fettered
and pre -determined. On the contrary,
should we not adhere strictly to the
simple rule that the United States
should never agree in advance to sup-
port or oppose any Power or group:
routers?
"I think it can already be shown
at title Kellogg Treaty would fetter
The treaty negotiations, thank+
Secretary Kellogg's inaction, were
used as a pretext by the pacifist lobby
In Washington last winter to prevent
congressional action on the cruiser
bill,
1Vlo.reover, a forecast of what
$lamps may Mel be -sayfu to g+_
whe tithe treaty is ratified, seems o
be, contained in the following` state-
ment, issued last suminer -by a mem-
ber of the British cabinet, S1r William
eoynson-Htoks:
"'We are signing this compact at
yottr request, a compact to ertd war,
and yet we understand that you aro
ereae ng your navy, the k we i 2
!title �b 'say Co America that deeds
ealc louder than words. _„•
"Now, our navy may be too big and
may be too small, but ,do we want
give other nations a right to say
hat size our navy ought to bei
chid we listen cheerfully to the
gummit that because of the hailogg
Baty wo must mako o'„p>u;vis
vally impotent? Yet that fry ehlat
mem sobnis
In New York Times.
' • Old Cities '
I like a city that is worn and old,
Where stones lire hollowrd by the, 9F
press of leet,
Where gables sag and open doorways th
hold us
A store of legends, where a narrow to
street
Will twist and turn before 'me leis-
urely,
And windows stare at me like tired
eyes. ,
I know these cities. and I love them
well
Because they seem to me
Like men who grow more feeble yet
more wise,
With nothing much to do but mush
to tell.
-Gertrude Ryder Bennett in
The Century,
�-- n
Sensible men show their sense by
saying much in few words. It noble
actions are the substance of life, good
sayings are its ornament and guide.—
Charles
uide.-Charles: Simmons, .
A willful falsehood told fa a cripple,
en
op
it
to
W
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not able to stand by itself without ar
another toeuiriport It. It is easy to. Tr
tellIle bet d to toll cul
one 110,eta
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—Thomas.
El