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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-11-07, Page 74.4 English Homes No Longer Stately `13y General Crozier • Since the days when the great Eng- lish poets and 'painters first made it famous, the quint beautyof the Eng- lish countryside bar; been proverbial, It is a beauty which has a quality of its own; a beauty felt and toyed alike by Wordsworth and Rupert Brooke, But is is a beauty which is 1n dan- ger of boing Spoiled by the erection of areless, incongruous, and ugly dwell- ings, During the summer months of this year thousands of holidaymakers kava sought to refresh their souls and bodies by a eight 01 the countryside which Constable and others made fa- mous. And although large tracts of upspolled hilts ane fields and valleys remain much as they were years ago travellers in many parts of this coun- try have been appalled by arcaltec- tura] crimes which are being perpe- trated apparently without a though for the beauty which is being marred. The bungaloid,peril Is real. The de= sire to combat it is no desire fostered' by cranks anxious to mind other peo- ple's business, but it crusade to pre- serve from • destrution something which is essentially English and pre- cious to English men and women. Speaking recently at Maidstone, the :Archbishop of Canterbury said; "Com- ing back from Loudon this afternoon, at every eminence where I had expect- ed to see a piece of the beautiful gar- den of • England, what has Struck my eye was a petrol' pump, a tea kiosk, or one of those bungalows for which I'find it impossible to and a suitable adjective." A similar thought must have been in the minds of thousands of his fel- low countrymen who have the preser- vation of the rural beauty of this country at heart. If the present orgy of indiscrimin- ate ndisc iminate building is allowed to go on un- checked and 'without plan there is a danger that the English countryside will become one huge, ugly suburb, without the amenities of either town or country. There is a beauty of the country, and there is the beauty of a town which is well and nobly planned. ' What is wanted is a campaign of sound and sane building, and this can only be assured' by the mobilization of public opinion in its favor. Not so very long ago, Mr. Baldwin ],leaded for an education of public opinion which would "save the coun- tryside from the atrocities which are now too often committees." Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is apparent- ly of the same mind, judging by the following utterance :"Every day that goes past, some offensive bungalow, or some abomination of a building scheme . , destroys not only the im- mediate spot where it is placed, but the whole sweep of the countryside. Public Apathy Do you take pleasure In Housework "1 NOW go about my daily work with pleasure," says Mre. Scott of Guelph.. In spite of tiring domestic taeOs and family cores, that is the way every woman should feel. But how many do? Thousands of women all over the world have regained strength and nervous energy by taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and write to toll us so, Mre, Scott le one of these. "X was very much run-down, nervous, tired. I took Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and am as well as ever again. Now I go about my work with pleas, ure; in fact, feel 10 years younger." Buy a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at all druggists and 'dealers in medicine or, poat- paid, by mail at 30 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ontario. 0.02 PCR 000 Rrie INtx 1111115 •'A HOUSEHOLD NAME 114 84 COUNTRIES" ,.vr-r,•- ,.-- AAAA AAAA -,., .,,, V a pulley et direct administration as the exldting native authority sur- -dying from ether days was both inof- O lent and corrupt, It took throe de- cades to put the, finances, the legis- lation ,and' the administration ut the island on a sound Desist but, as soon as to pleasure of stability and order bad been attained, a change was made in the term of government to adapt it, stage by stage, toward the popular fundamental of the Dual Mandate, As ant step a' Protectorate Council was formed, presided over by tbe Sul- tan, but it was purely advisory and consultative and in 1026 it was re- placed by what is known as the Ex- ecutive and the Legislative Councils— the former presided over by the Sul- tan himself; the latter by the British Rosideut who is assisted by three of- ficial and six tanonioial members—two representing the Arab, two the Indian, one the Parsee and one the European communities, The formation of the. Executive Council under the direct pre- sidency of the Sultan has passed on to native shoulders the bulk of domestic responsibility, The police is native; there are native village courts of jus- tice who settle their own affairs ex - cording to tradition with the right 01 ultimate appeal to the Sultan and the British Resident. Zanzibar, in spite of its polyglot ingredients, is slowly developing a native individuality and responsibility according to the motive of the policy of. the Dual Mandate. way with its Miniature bllslllie .car- riages, its miniature belching e00ne0, for 60 years reared and bumped its WR through printouts' jungle. E st and • West ' eet and s'° est In Zanzibar Polyglot Peoples Learn Self - Rule Under Sultan and British Resident Mombasa, Kenya—There are - cer- tain places in the world with names which appeal instinctively to that spirit of romance which is in all of us. Tahiti, Iilondyke, Timbuktu, Zan- zibar— it is the ambition of every traveler to know at least one in his time, and when this hope is on the "Something really must be done to stop it and nothing can be done until public opinion is shocked by the atrocities and roused to action." Well, public opinion has certainly been shocked, and continues to suffer fresh shocks every day. But little in- terest is being shown in the steps taken to prevent or remedy the evil. It is not a question of expense. Peo- ple can build at once well and cheaply. The only real necessity is competent supervision. Proposed building schemes should be supervised and ap- proved by local county committees composed of people with a keen ap- preciation of the beauty of the coun- tryside. ouptryside. What has been done in Ox- fordshire and the Thames Valley should be copied elsewhere. It is a question of taking the larger view; whether a new building on a certain site, of a certain style, and of a certain material w111 be in keeping with its surroundings or not; or whether It could not be altered with- out detracting froth its usefulness and at the, same time add to tbe beauty of its surroundings instead of marring it. Let us buy our experience from the erection of the hideous early Colonial shacks and stores, whose ugliness could not be helped. The whole point is that the present orgy of ugliness can be helped. It is unneceesarly. We can build with harmony and beauty . 1f we only wi111—Mont- real Standard. Picturesque Landscape Zanzibar is very small; its sister island Peniba is smaller still; in all, the Sultan rules over little more than 1100 square miles. But the smallness of the islands is 1n the eyes of the visitor disguised by the luxuriance of its sub -tropical scenery. I enjoyed great hospitality during my stay; and in a full week drove the length and breadth of the island along fine maca- damized roads cut through a band - nape which was sheer delight. There was something in this tropical vege- tation which defeated the traveler's armory of adjectives. The colors— greens and blues, pinks and browns —were incredibly vivid; the shadows were deeper and. less harsh than on the African mainland. We drove through dark avenues of enormous mango trees, and on through palm groves which looped like bunches of knittiug needles reared up, this way andthat, against a pale blue sky. We skirted the coast—one bay succeeding another; shores of dazzling white sand washed by brilliant blue sea and flecked by the criss-cross shadows of overhanging palms. Nature surprised me and excelled'herself. And then we came to the clove sheathes (estates). All of us have tasted the spice, but few of us know how it grows or how. it reaches the stage in which our cooks buy it for the flavoring of the apple pie. The trees aretall and bushy; their foliage resembles the bay leaf; the clove it- self is the yearly blossom which grows in clusters, and at harvest time has to be picked from ladders 40 to 60 feet high. When the clusters have NO MEDICINE UKE BABY'S OWN TABLETS Once a Mother Ibis: Used Them She Will Use T ling Else, To onee use Baby's Awn Tablets is to use thein continually—that is as long' as there aro young children in the Lome, That is the testimony given no by mothers from all parts of Canada. Tbey all say that they knew of nothing to equal the Tablets, that they find than safe and effi- cient and at the same time pleasant to take. fa- . John Hollinworth, Maidstone, Ont., orites:—"I have three Children, the eldest fourteen and the youngest nine montbs old, I have always used Baby's Own Tablets for them and have found no other medicine to equal the Tablets as a relief for the many ailments of childhoods' Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative whicb regulate the bowels and sweeten the stomach, They drive out constipation and indi- gestion, break up colds and simple fevers and make the cutting of teeth easy. They are ;old by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The 1)r. Williams' Medicine Co, Brockville, Ont. Mental Deficiency y eve of realization, be he ever so been gathered they are separated petal by petal, and these petals are strewn on spaciousterraces ollbeaten earth to dry out in the sum. They are then tbe cloves which our grocers re- tail. Excellent Roads It was curious to be driving on ex- cellent roads through the exuberant scenery of an Indian Ocean Island; still more curious was it to learn that only ten years ago Zanzibar had no roads to speak of, that transport and movement had been by jungle tracks and that there had been villages 'with- in 15 miles of Zanzibar whose inhabit- ants had never seen the inside of the city, To -day the automobile trade flourishes in the island; tbere are lor- ry services collecting from all the larger clove estates; and there are even motorbus services -15 miles for half a repee. This motor transit marks the latest stage of the develop- ment of Zanzibar; but it has also rung the knell of what, 30 years ago, was regarded as the marvel of the island. Zanzibar boasts perhaps the oddest railway with certainly the oddest name in the world. The BuBuDu Rail phyegmatic, he will feel the suppress- ed excitment of new experience, But my arrival at Zanzibar was frankly disappointing. The tiny Per- sian trading boat with its inevitable Scotch captain, which had brought me from Mombasa, anchored a mile from the shore, and I •awakened to look across a dazzling sheet of water toward Zanzibar, on the not far dis- tant horizon, but looking far from the gem I had anticipated. I saw a sea front ranged with dull white houses, square and high; there was a flatness of outline which reminded me of seaside resorts in England, and I hunted in vain for the tapering minarets and domed cupolas witb, which the first sight of Jeddah and Suakim rewards the newcomer. Al- though the population is about 60 per Dent. Moslem, Zanzibar has only one minaret For Moslem Zanzibar be- longs to the Ismailia sect of Islam which tolerates no form of idolatry and bas Ailed out as heretical the building of minarets over mosques and of domes , over tombs First Glimpse Misleads Once ashore, however, my ricksha bowled quickly past the modern banali- ties of the front, to plunge into a real Arab atmosphere. Byways and alleys, Mah•Walled, and drooping with overhanging balconies, crossed and recrossed ono another. We never progressed more than 30 yards in any direction; we seemed always to be charging blank walls. .And the hotel, when I reached it, removed the last tinge of my first disappointment. It was an old Arab house, set in a street 12 feet wide; I passed through a door of African teak, studded with enormous brass bosses and of a brown which age and polish had mellowed into bronze; within was the gloom of a true Arab dwelling, a dim vista of thick: walls, of unexpected reces500, and of archways leading goodness knows whore. This impression of Zanzibar was pusely Arab. But it VAS Later 111 the dal, as I walkedthrough multitudes of players. No, it is the the maze of narrow streets, I found fact than an ancient instinct, and a a babel of English, French, Portiaidentify him sound ono, impels the average man tn or Walter Ha- o gusse, Persian, Hindustani, Astable soli with Babe Ruth, Jack and even Chinese and Japanese and, i7 TildeI The "Fans" Who Only Watch Dr. A. A. Brill in North American Review: For the great, majority, uh able to surpass and shine, to become champions and heroes, prefer the vicarious triumphs of a cbosen idol to the dull level of mediocrity. It is not laziness that makes 90 fans to one player; it is not even the difficulty of inventing and providing games for Disarrillat17,ent An J. T. Shotwell in Current Bis - tory (New 'York): Tbiore is no arith- metical ratio possible in armaments as a whole, for the armaments of the modern world are not merely battle- ships, cruisers, tants and guns—the armament. of a modern industrialact- tion is the entire mobilized strength, the malor part of which is not in armies or nav'as at all, but in the fac- tories of peace -time production. There is no ratio of 0.0.3 in chemical war- fare, for the nitrogen of high explo- sive is In all the air around us, and the factories that produce fertilizers foods and break up the constituents of nature far chugs and dyea are, with the slightest change in their machin- ery, the arsenal of high explosive and of poison gas. Commercial airplanes are thelong-fliatance, caution of to- Communion to intrepret Catholiism day, so that 11 disarmament were real- to Protestants and Protestantism to ly getting rid of potential weapons, we Catholics, both within its own fellow - should have to limit science in Rs ad- ship and outside, Whatever may be "Taming Control over nature. The problem of disarmament, therefore, even when viewed from the stand- point of armaments, reaches into tithe The Red Rose Tea guarantee means what it says., If not satisfixed returns the unused part in the package and the grocer will refund your money. e>;, is goo _ tee:. RED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE Is extra good thought of the Anglican synthesis— and it has never claimed to be anal or immune from criticism—it is at any rate making a serious attempt to very heart of the peace -time organize- do a very difficult thing. tion of nations, and every step of pro - gross in the conquest over nature Glasgow will have a night bank, adds to the power of a nation in des- trutive power over others. Dr. 17, O. Lewis in the Realist (Lon- don): The danger of excess of popula- tion about which we hear so much these days is a remote contingency as compared with the danger of a dysgenic population, that is a popula- tion with an unduly large proportion of persons of poor hysique and low mental status. 11 we could examine the fall of nations and the passing of ancient civilizations in the light of our present biological knowledge, we should probably find that the deciding factor was the quality and not the quantity of the men and women. The rapidly increasing tendency in modern times to breed from poor stock, to- gether with the humanitarian attitude of civilization towards the physically and mentally subnormal, which to a large extent nullifies Nature's method' of eliminating the unfit, must inevit- ably nevitably result in a serious deterioration of the human material in the nations of the Western world. Stop Colds with Minard's Liniment I do net know any principle of our Lord's that bas been so brutally nog, lected as the right as well as the duty of the individual to use the talents which he has got—Maude Royden. dominating all, Swahili, of whim,, the Dempsey, B l )'bar e, 10 gun, rather than to play himself, with- inland wast e ere, a z East out distinction. To play the gam the polyglot o "win or lose would cleave our physioalscoal :Tio• a. steed; but only triumph, the downing Natives Taught to Govern of an opponent, the chrism of au- The Government of Zanzibar is di- blaugo,can preserve our psychic rooted by the Sultan with the advice health, That is wby 'I, for instance, , of the British Resident iqtha Pro' gave up playing golf. The exercise, tootorate which was deo ,ot;laa �0 tbo wanting and t1r; :.1yinuno" fntitlg`years (ie. Till ttarll� efforts of the ai''t}.8 nand 8 good for nl& body.I .:••- perforce, inspired new' regime were, p tin a card bp., Mi ��— low 100 was bad for mg ego. a •, par but my inability, to urn + dos Llnlment for Nouritie. L� FCS THE HAIR Ask Your Barber—He ,mows INVESTORS OPPORTUNITY ONTARIO FUR &. AUCTION LTD. (PRE -LISTING) Activities: 1. Fur Farming in all its branches. 2, Fur Magazine, 3, Marketing service for rabbit breeders. 4. Fur Auction. 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HELM DURi 'LE AGES Woman Praises Lydia Ea) Pinkharrl's Vegetable Compound Sarnia, Ont.—"I am willing tp, answer letters from other women, to tell them the wo. derful good LLyy,d E.Pinitham'sVegO, table compound - aid me. T cannot be thankful enough for, the benefits Y re- ceived during the Change of Life. 1i do housework and my troubles made. me unilt to work, A . friend advised me to try the V eg- ptabla Compound felt great relief at Once, began to regain my appetite, and my nerves got better. It will recom- mend your reediebne to all with trouo leslike 1 bad." --MRs. JOHN BnNsorr;, 162 X, Christina St., Sarnia; Ontatio.4 ISSUE No. 45—'29