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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-07-25, Page 6Lossielkx'IiO'ltli before .see foot on the island, But $ f they all claimed it •a$ their hglneland, A, they were all .enthusiastic, and Mr, Proud Of F'rem11elr iiacaulay aetually believes that be Iwill be able to eenvert the peat bogs o'f Scene of Meeting With Dawes ,.the' IAwis into geed Earle land; so ' that snore natives may not have to emigrate, Ile is evidently a man of great faith, NEW SUGGESTION So is His Greco the Duke of Mont rose. He has been leaking two inn portantuggeetions since the Labor Government' oxine inter o#flee. The first wee that .as taxes especially death duties, were such a heavy burden on landowners, the Govertnnent should arrange to take land instead of money, He himself ,would have been 'glad, When he succeeded to his title and estates, to have trade a bargain of this kind, instead of having to pay big sums. Ile thought Mr. Ramsay. Mee - Donald might think of this idea when he was sunning himself at Lossie- mouth. Mr: MacDonald may think oft it, but it is not at all likely that any government, least of all a Labor Gov- ernment, will lighten the burdens of landlordism in this particular way or in any way, It would be a beauti- ful arrangement for the landlords, but would leave the government with the land on their hands, The Duke's other auggestion wee that some people might buy the islands.inLoch 'Lomond, which happen to be, in a legal sort of way, his property. It is doubtful if Social- ists will admit tht,t they are his pro- perty at all, At any rate, the Gov- ermnent won't rise to this bait, Some people thought the Corporation of Glasgow would, and they raised '•the question at a Town Council meeting. But the Council turned it down at once, without discussion. They have quite enough of unprofit- able Highland estates, given to them. fornothing, and costing more than they are worth; and they are not hav- ing any more. Least of all the Duke of Montrose, whose forebears took great big sums from Glasgow as com- pensation. When the level of Loch Katrina was raised for the city water- works, and at every subsequent time when more land was required up that way for the same purpose. If the Duke had given the Corporation all the islands in Loch Lomond as a free gift it would not have been much. But even then the Corporation might not have taken any off his hands. QUIET RETREAT. But if any private person wishes a quiet retreat, where he and his family would not be disturbed by the screech- ing of railway trains, the hooting of motor' cars, the jostling of crowds, letters two or three times a day and papers every other hour, he might do worse than take over one of the Loch Lomond islands. With a good house, a big garden, and an island large enough for strolling in and keeping a reasonable number of beasts and fowls, and with a motorboat for going to Balloch, or. Less, or Balmaha when he felt so disposed, it would be an ideal life for one who liked that kind of life; always assuming of course, that the presons concerned did not require to work for a living. Buteome- one should suggest that another island —St. Kilda, to wit—should be taken into consideration. There is a pro- posal that all the 38 inhabitants of that most lovely of Scottish islands— away out in the West Atlantic—should be taken off and settled down as a little township somewhere on the main- land and otherwise, there will soon be none of then left, they are decreasing so rapidly. Not long ago there were about 100. Now of the 38, only 13 are grown men, and of these only four or five are strong enough for hard work. But it will not be easy to convince them that they should settle down on the mainland. They are islanders first, last and all the time, and would probably pine away still faster if the sea was not all around them. The best plan would be to raise a fund for buy- ing the islands of Loch Lomond and settle them on these. They would have all the solitude of islands—if tripers in motor boats could be kept away—and they would also be in touch with civilization all the year round. Some one should speak to the Duke of Montrose about it. Figures in Shakespeare Play Glasgow,—Na tnatter what other politicians may say about the dangers of a Socialist Government, there is ane thing they can't say,, ; They can't }liege that the Label: Prince Minister as slow in getting 5 move on mete e got into his job. Last Sunday (the ether the day the better the deed, as we say in Scotland) before he was.. in office a week ,had the new American Ambassador away up at,l orres and was talking with him about how Bri- tain and the. United States might set About keeping the world in peace and quietness. That was hustle enough to satisfy the most 1 ustling of Ameri- ' cans, and Mr. hoover, who is also new to his job, should be pleased. What With "all the new brooms on both sides of the Atlantic there should be some sweeping up done, and in the. process Scotland should have a big share. For the Prime Minister is Scottish, he is a Ramsay and a MaeDonald (both good old Scottish names) his home is inthe little fishing village of Lossie- mouth, away up on the Moray Firth; some of the• best men in his Cabinet aro Scots, and it was in Scotland --in that friend's house near Ferree—that he met the American Ambassador, and began "conversations" which may mean an enormous lot to the,:future of the world. It was not the first time that, an important, informal meeting of na- tional importance has been held at some little place in the north. There was one in Inverness, and there was one in the Far West of Rossshire, both when Mr. Lloyd George was Prime Minister, but they had to do only with affairs peculiar to the Un- ited Kingdom. Last Sunday America and Great Britain met in a country house near Ferree, very near the "blasted heath" where Shakespeare's Macbeth met the witches; and where, in the same play, King Duncan was murdered. SABBATH PROTEST. And all on a Sabbath afternoon too, after the Prime Minister had been to a forenoon service in his own little church at Lossiemouth, No wonder there were some protests against the breaking of the Sabbath Day and the wonder is that there were not a great many more. That there were very few, and these feeble and apologetic, show's that even the people of the Highlands are moving towards broad- er views of things, are becoming more tolerant, and are realizing that if work is good the doing of it on the Sunday does not make that day any less the Sabbath. The •really secular parts of the Prime Minister's week's • soourn at his old home, in the inter- val between his.- acceptance of office and the full beginning of his work in London, were carried out on week days, when the people of Lossiemouth welcomed him to the place in crowds, with processions and pipers and huge &enfires, when the women of the vil- - lase in their working garb, hauled his motor car from the railway station to his house, when :the children held high holiday; and when everyone, without distinction of politics, united with everyone else to make days greater than any that Lossie and its loons had ever known in the past. It was a great change from the • time when he was an imhnown labor leader, fighting obscurely for a seat in Parliament, and called, by many who did know hint, a dangerous revolution- ary. It was also a great change from the time, during the war, when he was expelled from the membership of Moray Goll Club because he was not an enthusiast for the war. That ex- pulsion still holds good, although those who engineered it would gladly have wiped it out and welcomed him back. The story is that he wouldn't come back even if they asked him, and even if they apologized, and that is likely why they don't ask him, EXILES FROM LEWIS. The exiles from Lewis are borne, and are spreading themselves all over their native islands, The Canadian Pacific liner Minnedosa brought over a hundred of their from Montreal to Stornway last week -end, among them being, as the chief personage, Mr. T. B. Macaulay, president of the Sun Life Assurance do. of Canada, who has given about 150,000 for Lewis schemes within the past two years, including £12,000 for a library in Stornoway, 117,000 for a hospital, £5,000 to help in building a town hall to take the place of one which was destroyed by fire, and other sums for other purposes. It was arranged that the new town hall, municipal offices and library should all be opened when Mr. Macaulay and the other exiles were in the place, and so Stornoway and the Lewis have had a remarkable ' week The Provost and magistrates went out in a tender to meet the Minnedosa and give those on board an official • welcome, there was a big bonfire on an island in the bay, the streets of the towel were decorated, the liner was surrounded by all kinds of small craft, rockets were fired from the shore and the liner, shrieked in reply—in fact, Stornowee, could not have done snore if it bad been like Lossiemouth-wel- aoming'a native as Prime Minister, And, ' all the time, many of the 100 A "'Colorful" Scene in Old ' London TROOPING fHE COLORS ON KING'S BIRTHDAY, Duke of Connaught, Prince of Wales, Duke of York arad Lord Lascellee inspecting troops at coloraroopiug. Man to Make Australia Wet To Get Rain Makers Propose Moisture by Driving Long Canal in .Australia Adelaide, S. Aus.-The "rain mak- ers," who hope to irrigate a vast area in South Australia from the sky, have just joined forces here and ended the prospect of duplication of their field expeditions. At the name time it be- came known that the scope of the re- search is to be widely extended. Two expeditions have been expected - to penetrate into the region of Lake Byre, the great stretch of salt ,water in central Australia which, .though dis- covered 90 years ago, is "still sur- rounded with mud and mystery. Into this region where the mirage sets up a "wall of glass" through which it is impossible to see, engineers would drfee a long canal, to connect the lake with the sea. This project, they declare, would give an annual rainfall of about one inch to an arid region which for successive years has little or no precipitation. TWO EXPEDITIONS JOIN. One expedition has been organized by Samuel Upton, a fellow of the Royal Empire Society. The other ex- pedition was to be sponsored by the, South Australian branch of the coun- cil of the Royal Geographic Society. On the eve of the departure of the Up- ton expedition, it was announced that the geographic society would defer its plan and lend its official support to Mr. Upton's efforts. One reason for the 'action of the geographic society was that the leader of its proposed exped.tion was Cecil Madigan, acting professor of geology at Adelaide University. Professor Madigan may now accompany Sir Douglas Mawson upon his projected expedition to the Antarctic this year, although definite plans await Sir Douglas' return to Adelaide where he holds the chair of geology at the uni- versity. The Upton expedition will seek to end the "thousand miles of ignorance of the Lake Eyre region, which in- cludes Torrens Lake, From Lake and Lake Gairdner. These lakes have a combined surface nearly double the area of Wales. The expedition, it now is learned, will study the feasibility of Burma Suffers Serious Floods Full Rehears l of King's Drive Through LondCarried Out London,—With clockwork precision a full rehearsal of matters connected with'the Ring's drive through London on his return from Windsor Cattle wa's carried out by troops and per- sounol of the Royal stables. The state landau with full equippeage travelled from the Royal stables in Kensington where they: were met by a squadron of life guards. At the point selected for .the Xing and Queen to change from the motor car to the carriage the troops formed aline. Then -e motor car stopped at the curb and. at a sharp word of com- mand from the office commanding the cavalry the men saluted with down swords. The door of the or was opened and then but, and the car drove away. Close behind tate car came the Royal landap and the motion of opening; the door and thehanding in of the Ring and Queen, following which the drive to Buolringham Pal. ace was started. The change from one vehicle to the other took lose than three minutes. Then the cavalry di vided into escort and cavalcade and centered, to Hyde Park, through Queen's :gate and the procedure was gone through: again and again until every.movement was carried out with exactitude, concentrating the fresh -water -floods of the Diamentine, Cooper and more easterly creeks into one of the lakes which is. above sea -level as a means of conserving hood waters now uucore trolled. WILL STUrY MINERALS. Extensive study of the mineral wealth of the region will alsohe under- taken. The natural or artificial use of the drained areas of some of the lakes for growing such emirs as rice and millet will be investigated. • The possibility of utilizing this -sec- tion of South acid Central Australia brings up the problem of transporta- tion and Mr. Upton's expedition will consider the use of theleanal for this purpose, affording an outlet from the lakes to Spencer's Gulf. Mr. Upton points out that Lake Eyre is unique among the lakes of the world, for than has not yet suc- ceeded, in ,reaching the 'main body of its waters; or fn sounding its depths. The waters of the Great Artesian Ba- sin are believed to flow naturally into the lake, and from time to time, enor- mous floods reach it, yet rarely are its waters seen front the shore Winnipeg,Man.—The search for oil in the western provinces is extending into Manitoba, and announcement is made of the formation of a syndicate of eastern capitalists to drill in the Ochre River field. The new organiza- tion, which is called the Carter Oil Syndicate, has taken over the holdings of 1,300 acres south of Ochre River: Damage Estimated at $ 1,000,- 000 Whole Villages Washed Away . Akyah, Burma, India—Total dama- ge estimated at nearly $1,000,00 has been done by floods resulting from summary yesterday said there had, been disasterous effects in the town- ship of Kyaulctem and Myobauug, one of the most thickly populated and prosperous areas in this district, and in the Arairan hill district. The flooded area covers ' 10,000 acres and between 10,000 and 15,000 families have lost everything, iuclud ing all food and seed grain, The. flood reached Paletwa iu Northern Arakan and' only a few government buildings in the highest part escaped. In the village of Mahammi,north- east leyauktare, only four of 120 houses were left standing. Loss of. human he was fortunately small. The whole Raladan Valley from Paratwa to Myclssung was affected only a width of 60 miies, The government is taking relief measures, lucre net really natives, Some of them I The chances seem good for Lloyd were descendants to the third, and George's. holding the balance of pow, even fourth, generation of people who er in the new House of Commons, hind gene frau the Lewis to Canada. And )tow that matt car balancel— Even Mr, Macttulay himself had never New 'Moyle Times. Lord Balfour Toy Planes Make . Retires to His Amazing Flights a„ — m �ScottWSh Horne strange Adventures of Model Withdrawing From Active Craft Like Real Machines Life Which He Beget' 55 000 of the nest' accnhAgo ever befell a mstraodelgairplaneideoccurtstredat Years over afield on the dutslcirts of Chi- n is a dramatis thing when a nine cage, Members of the Illinois Model leaves the house ho has lived in near Aero Club were tuning up feather- lgyre6a0teyeares,eAn nd wahennaittioisn aInte -of pthawlitehigohtmdacuhrianteiosn wplhainreesd. iTntowo thofe taller thetie, too. side by side. They mounted in great The dews that the Earl. af, Balfour circles, lifted by .updrafts under low,• now in his eighty-first year, is selling hanging clouds, When they disappear - his London house and retiring to his ed in rho glouds, they were never seen Scottish home, and thus withdrawing again) from the active life' Which he began The vicinity was repeatedly search. 55 years, ago, when he entered' Pat- ed but no traceef them came to light. seerecd to Iiament, has been received by every T Thee' the Paco of the avetltdisappeared well-informed British citizen with -r Because theaflight asof a model air deep regret, for Britain has no finer plane is always an adventure united eta lar Science Monthly, the. fascinating testnan so rich in experience hqr Edwin W. Teals in the August,Pope- TRUST AND ADMIRATION. Many 'years have passed ,since sport is tieing taken up in all parte Arthur Balfour lived amid the petty of the country. It has close to 200,000 bitterness of keen Party strife, and enthusiasts who each year stage na- when ho did they left him unscathed; tioual and local contests. He has long had the trust and admire- perhaps the most spectacular flight tion of men of all shades of politics. ever made by a model was that of a In whatever groat office he has repre- little rubber -band -propelled seaplane sented his country all his countrymen owned by Tudor Morris of Peru, Ind„ have known that they would be served that started out to- fly the Atlantic, ,by him with a dignity, and ability, a Equipped" with floats, it took off from personal charm. and an intellectual a starting pool at, Atlantic City, '.J., power that would add lustre to our and soaring high in the air, headed statesmanship, over buildings ;forthe ocean. Mena - He has at command vast experience, bars of -the Coast Guard in fast mo breadth of judgment, the gift of fine tor boats were called upon to follow speech, and he is a great gentleman it during its record-breaking ,twelve-- His withdrawal from thepolitical and-one-half,minute flight. They found arena, even at the age of eighty, is a it, nearly a mile from shore, proudly national loss only modified by th fact erect on its tiny floats,; riding the that he may 11111 serve History With waves. " his pen, There are tines when diminutive Lord' Balfour was born into states- aircraft perform evolutions in the air manship his motherwasa Cecil. The just as'though Lilliputian airmen were only thing said against him as a holding the stick in tiny cockpits. For young man in. parliament was that he instance, when Frank Lauder wound took life in a leisurely way and was a up his R. O. G. (Rise off the ground) philosopher rather than a map of monoplane an$ placed it on the ground action. He became a Minister of the near his home in South Norwalk, Crown when he was 37; next year he Conn., it trade a regular "test flight." was in the Cabinet, and the following Taking off, after a short run, it bank year he was Chief -Secretary for Ire.,ed in a wide circle to ,the right, came land. After that no one said any; clown in<a,perfect three-point landing, more that he was nota lean of action. ran along the ground and climbed In that most difficult of offices he won again for a straight flight of more his spurs. He won in Ireland the thana500 feet—all with one winding. hearts of many who were his sternest While wound -up strands of rubber opponents, and he came back to the. remain. the standard motor equipment �a°�$��g. �$ Conservative •Leader in the House of for model planes, other sources biIVI' etaCe sO y Commons. , power are constantly being tested, The When Prime most spectacular of these' are the rocket planes. At the national meet at Atlantic City, 'last year, the rocket plane event was won by an ingenious little machine in which the "power plant" was a powder magazine stored in an ice cream soda straw! Air escaping•from a balloon propels another freak machine, designed by William Reitze, of Baltimore,. Md. ,Just before the start of each flight, Reitze blows up a long balloon to which wings have been attached. " Holding the combination aircraft aloft, he re- leases the mouth of the balloon. The air, escaping violently in one direc- tion, pushes the plane in the other! Canadian Farmers Quit U.S. For West 100 Take Up Homesteads in Peace River District . Montreal, P. Q.— One hundred French-Canadians. originally farmers in the Province of Quebec, but more recently employed in the New Eng- land states, are doing their own pion- eering work in the Peace River trict, J. 1;. Legault, colonization agent of the, Canadian Pacific Railway, stat- ed on his return from. the eWet re- cently. These .ten all married and heads of :families, emigrated' to the West from the United States some time ago. Fiftyofthem' have already taken up homesteads, preferring them to settled farms. -Of the hundred reppatriated, only five were accompanied/by their faro; flies, Turned to Profit Jaseph Lizotte' of Riviere (Melte caught 190 porpoise from May 21' to 25. leis process is to skin the fat off and then to skin the hide and cook the fat in vats, It is then re -cooked and the oil is put' into barrels and the balance wiiiei; is dry ineat is used as feed for farm animals. The oil is bar- relled and sold in the United States and Montreal and fetches from 45 to 55 cents a gallon. He expects to ob- tain an income or at least a profit on this season's work of approximately $0,000. He employs about 20 men in this operation during the season which lasts some six weeks with intermittent intervals. . The porpoise come in shoals, the process of catching them is in a large weir built into a bay comprising '72 acres, When the tide comes in and any porpoise come into the weir they cannot get out and on the tide reced- ing the porpoise is left stranded on the shore. The skins are cured with salt and sell for 14 cent;, a pound for leather in Montreal and Quebec, The average weight of the tv'.1itt whales runs about 1,500 pounds: Lady (instructing new maid) : "When a visitor comes, you' must an- nounce him to ane first." Maid (the same evening) : "Please, ma'am, my sweetheart has come." • he was 54 he became rune. Minister and found the leadership of his party the most difficult of all his life's tasks, involving more than usual ingratitude. • The war brought hint back into office (after an interregnum of eleven years) as First Lord of the Admiralty and later of Foreign Min- ister in :succession tm Sir.. Edward Grey. A MISSIONS TO 'U.S. Under Conservative Governments more recently he has held the dignified position of Lord President of the Council. Among the most successful of his tasks have been two Missions to the United States, one during the war and one since, marked by the most enthusiastic appreciation of his personal and intellectual qualities. 'These political services, continued for 55 years, have been abundantly supplemented by high distinction as a philosophical writer, and lecturer, and a varied essayist. The Order of Merit, .the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the Chancellorships of Cam- bridge and Edinburgh Universities, and honorary degrees cofferred by sixteen British, American, and for- eign universities show how this great statesman is regarded by the world at large. Too often men who serve their gen- eration in the highest positions die before the world's appreciation has been adequately expressed. In the retirement of the Earl of Balfour from th public work in which .he has virtually spent al his life till now, and whil yet he can make us his debt- ors through his still active pen, it is a fitting opportunity to recall how faithful and how vast have been the labors of this servant of his country, a man whom all admire for the lofti- ness of his characted, the sincerity of his aims, the wealth of his mental powers, and the grace of his person- ality. >a a a.a....s,:.. Green Flash Crashes On Attempted Take -Off ' 1 117,-:leee""se" weeeeele"-c,�m1=4.aim r• a iia a7 -.._.,-�•:e�yanprri�a,mx.•,.c.�n,.�,....�,w,.n4�;�s„n,.c.se.�.xx s„aacrmammsna.�n+a+raxwa.n.�c,.n.�w.wew�s-..,�-�= AMERICAN TRANSATLANTIC PLANES CRACKS UP Greets Flash; transatlantic aeroplane of Capt. Yancey and Roger 1Nllliams, being,d eraahed taking off from Old Orchard, Mee recently. Neither pilots were hurt. geed ashore after Roods in India . rst in History Thirty Thousand Homeless— Hundreds Believed to Have Perished London.—The floods in India were the worst in the country's history, ac- cording to an exchge telegraph dis- patch from Calculi a quoting officials in the affected territories. The commissioner of Assam Valley estimated that 30,000 persons wore driven from their homes in his district alone, while the flood in the Surma Valley inundated a region of 1,900 square miles. The entire town of Salcher was; under water. No, accurate death figures were re- ported, but it was believed hundreds had perished, and starvation and suf- Tering were widespread. TNM supply of rice was said to be low, and relief operations were hampered. Seaside LoLhario--"What' is there I.can do to prove1 love you?" Hero It Worshipper—"Row about swimming the Atlantic?" Public Health La Presse (Ind.): It is in the public interest that sanitary units should bo properly constituted- and should have permanent :medical officers directing thein, who are paid respectable sae - vales. Without this condition it is hopeless to expect au improvement in the public health and a decrease in the prevalence of disease. It. is cer- tainly better to group together several little sanitary units which are lusuf flcieutly organized, through lack of funds, and thus to turn them into or- ganizations of the first class. This is the policy followed iu Britain and the United States. Ottawa.—Tourists to Canada in 1928 spent about $250,000,000, accord- ing to estimates of the Bureau of Sta- tistics, this being an increase of about $40,000,000.over• the previous year. The same statisticians figure that the anmount;spent by Canadians touring abroad is less than half of the above figure, o; roughly, $103,000,000. Regina, Sask—Mechanical labor• saving' devices areincreasing through. out the West according-to'the dovern. inept Labor Bureau. 'The' use of coma bities is becoming a leading &actoe in the mechanization of the Tarin. Last year there were 2,679 combieesltsed .in the Province of Saskatchewan, while Alberta used 1,007 and Maaiteba 171. This year over 4,000 will likely be in use ,in aSsicatchewan alone.