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The Seaforth News, 1930-01-16, Page 3Tells Story of Victoria Cross 'Bronze for Original Decora- tion '`For Valor" Melted from Captured Gun The dinner recently elven in Lon- don by the Prince of Wales to holders ,of the Victoria Cross from all parts of the Empire bas revived interest. In the past history of the unassuming little bronse .cross. Readers of Mac Lean's Magazine will recollect the eeries of articles on the Canadian holders of the decoration and the 'deeds for which it was awarded; but there are comparatively few people ,who areaware tinder what clrcam- etan'ces the order was originally In Stunted. In a recent issue of the London Daily Men, Colonel William pepper, C.V.O., writes a brief foot - dote to history. "The original subject of a medal or badge of distination for gallant ser. vices on the part of members of the. • ,„,._Navy and Army_ was firet considered when the third Duke of Newcastle was Secretary of State for War in' 1594.55. "Queen Victoria took a very lively Interest in it, but nothing was done until Lord Panmure, later eleventh Earl of Dalhousie, became Secretary of State. Then her Majesty at Buck- ingham Palace on July 29, 1856, sign- ed the Royal Warrant instituting the decoration, with the title `the Victoria Cress,' "As time went on it was apparent that to confine this decoration to mem- bers of the Navy and Army constltut- ed hardship to others who mightbe temporarily acting with the Forces' of the Crown. 'Accordingly, in 1847, the decora- tion was extended to members of the forces of. the Honorable East India Company. "Next year a warrant admitted acts under circumstances of extreme dan- ger by members of the. Navy and the 'Army not in the presence of the enemy. Under this head, in 1867, the cross was granted to Pte. Timothy p'Hea, lot Bn. Rifle Brigade, who, at is railway station be tween Quebec and Montreal, extinguished a fire in d railway car containing atumuni- tion. "In 1848, also, it w'ts decided to ex- tend the decoration to non-military persons acting- as volunteers against the mutineers at Lucknow and else- where. ' Another extension came ht 1881= the admission of members of the In- dian Ecclesiastical Establishments, The Rev. J. A. Adams won the cross at Nebul. Native officers and men of the Indian Arm?'were included in 1911. "The original cross struck for sub- anission to and approved of by Queen Victoria on its institution in 1836 is now in the museum of the Royal Uui !ted Service Institution Whitehall. "The bronze for the cross came 'originally from a Russian gun and on that source being exhausted, was taken from a Chinese gun, prob- ably owing to the nature of the metal. "Only two bars or clasps have been won, the recipients being A. Martin- Lealee, Lieut., R.A.M.C., who as Sur- geon -Captain in the Indian Volunteers Won the cross when serving with the South African Constabulary and N.• G. Chavasse Captain, R.A.M.C., attached !to 1/10 Liverpool Regiment, who won the cross at Guillemont on August 9, 1916, and a bar at Wieltje on July 81 -August 2, 1917, where he was kill- ed. "The cross has been conferred three times upon father and son, including Lord Roberts and his son; and upon two pairs of brothers. The Victoria 'Crosses granted before the Great War numbered 631 and two bars; and those granted since the Great War number four." "Wake Up, England" J. 1;,, Garvin in the London Obser- ver (Ind.): Our export business never has recovered its pre-war buoyancy. On present political lines it never will. Tariffs everywhere shut out all the best skilled work of our people and directly hinder their lives; while ;our open door promotes foreign em- ployment in every branch. In that regard, we do not exert ourselves in any way to get fair and equality for our people. We do :not lift an a6• 1ectit'e finger to advance free ex- change. Foot and M9uth Disease London Daily Express (Ind. Cons.): "(Foot and mouth disease in Britain has boon definitely traced to the mar- row in the bones of chilled Argentine (beef.) Since January, 1927, a'com- plete embargo has existed against any live cattle or beef from the Argen- tin entering the •United States. The reason is the deteminatlon of America to protect her herds from the dread foot and mouth' disease. Those who are contemplating a newtrade agree- anent between Britain and the .Argen- tine at the expense of Empire develop went .should ponder these Sects and count the. cost. FREEDOM Our freedom 'consists in the civil rights and advancements• of every Deno. according to his merit; the enjoyment of those never more cer- tain and the access to 'these never more open, than in a 'res common- wealth.—Milton. 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Buy Dr, Williams' Pink Pills now at your druggist's or any dealer in medicine or by mail, 50 cents, postpaid, from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, &s0 PER 000 PINK lad� A HOUO6HOLD 11996 1N c 9OUNTH168 Ribbons of Iron Booze and the Plane • The Careless, Drunken, or Untrained Pilot Will be a Major Problem of the Future This gasoline age has already pro- smiles an hour, which cannot be landed duced, one would imagine, a suffi. at a speed less than forty of fifty miles ciencyof terrors in the way of ruck- an •liour,is a still greater curse.And less, unskilled, and even drunken driv- since human nature shows little sign ers of automobiles, But present prob- of improving overnight, we may as lems, things Charles J. V. Murphy, well expect him. Flight-, therefore, writing in the "Outlook/' are of small will have a-fear£ul responsibility. import, compared with what we may - "On the West Coast I heard from expect from the joy -pilot of the air- several sources a ghastly story, I was plane of the future. For instances of unable to check it up, but the sources the type of accident already being were trustworthy. It seems that sev- brought about by these gentry, Mr. eral . young .lads'; who• owned an air - Murphy paints an alarming picture plane among them, arrived at their of what is likely to' happen,. hangar not long after dawn, after a "Hainan beings, a conscienceless fairly enthusiastic all-night party, and and erratic lot, have now a vehicle insisted upon taking the plane for a which can hedge -hop meridians as hop, easily as an automobile,used to lope "The night watchman: tried to rea- past the suburbs. They cmmand a ma- son with them. They overruled hien, Shine which gives them a new and climbed into the ship and flew away, dangerous mastery over nature. Their Presently they appeared over 'a field egos will expand still further. where laborers ware working. A rare "The airplane, even now, gives indi- sport occurred to thein. They dived cation of what the future -holds. On headlong upon -.the workers, and as any Monday -your newspaper will pro- they scattered, the young men in the vide you with a recapitulationof plane could be heard cheering. The week -end `accidents in aviation.. Six I dives grew longer—the plane came•out, die in air crashes, ... Pilot flies into of them nearer and nearer the earth. mountain, narrowly escaping crowded It was not long before the inevitable. bus. . Unlicensed pilot kills four... occurred. This time they rode right Boypilot killed when plane spins... '. in. And that was the end of all of and so on. Such' reports have become thein, as regular a factor in the day's news, "Then again there is the .story of of the weather forecast, or. the Sun- Lieutenant Sweely, who grimly stuck day motor death list, it out to the bitter end rather than for - "Indeed, we Lave already begun to sake a stupid passenger; and he must make our sdcrices for aviation's ex- have considered himself lucky to be cellent contributions, and life in this alive crowded age is still more trying. "The noise of the airplane is be- coming a disturbing note in this na- tion of raucous noises. Mail planes, flying low, are nightly awakening fret- ful children. On the shore, where I spend my weekends, seaplanes and circling land planes have driven out all the peace and quiet the place used to have. Occasionally an interstate passenger plane throbs noisily over- head, but its deeper note is no more than a phrase in the greater, pene- trating dissonance of pleasure craft "Laws forbidding flying' below a given altitude over certain areas have already been written into the law books of the more forward-looking cities, but pilots are prone to oveilcolc them. With irritating abandon, they sett and dive over passing sailboats, and over country estates and over parks. Not yet are the airways polic- ed like the highways and, besides, the pilot is yet something of a demi-god, to be pleasantly chided, rather than punished, for his recklessness. It is a dangerous and useless business. ' "In Garden City, home of the Roose- velt and Curtiss flying fields, this busi- ness of flight has brought new nuis- ances. Members of the golf course are are up arts) like the embattled farm- ers whose apple trees are plundered by wayfaring motorists. It seems that pilots prankishly glide, with throttled motors, across the putting greens and then zoom up with ear-splitting sud- denness. The golfers' games have gone to pot, their blood pressures have reached new highs, and they have sworn to build fences 100 feet high if the aviators do not put an end to their It is at all times interesting to watch the construction of great works, the carrying out of important enter- prises. From a scenic etandp'ehtt, save the Bailkal, nothing could be more monotonous than this Siberian Railway to the ordinary traveller, to the thousands for whom these wild steppes and. forests are dumb,' yet so many, great is the interest in the rail- way, in the daily contemplation of the long ribbons of iron as they stretch away behind the train, or reach out before it in the expectation of what is to come, and of the fit -al moment when the waters of the Pacific Ocean will. wash the easternend of the line—all this is of intnse interest. All the equip- ment is to be inspected, and a satis- faction derived when it is found that much for the eastern half comes from our own land... While my father was building the Kansas Pacific Railway it was his cus- tom to send his sons from the East in his -private car, which on arrival at the end of the track was attached to the construction train, and there we passed many happy vacation months in summer, an experience never to be forgotten, and never in this world re- peated by men. How it all comes back to met Day after day the vastp laine rising to the horizon like a bowl ... in its centre the crawling construction train, leaving its streaks of iron be- hind it, and ever reaching out mile by mile in front a moving town, noisy and humming with the work of construction, guarded by both cavalry and infantry from the hordes of sav- ages whose signals were often seen ascending straight upward in a thin spiral of make no matter how windy the day. Michael Myers Shoemaker,, in "The Great Siberian Railway." The Government of Brltisb Colum- bia plans -to place fifty British boys In farmwork in that province next suutnter. BALANCES The balances of God never lose their adjustment. With them a pound is a pound, and rigts1 a right, and wrong is wrong, a soul, and eternity is eternity.—Tal- madge. "Sweely flew a passenger across the heavily forested section of California. Motor trouble developed, no landing place was available, and the pilot, after vainly struggling to keep the motor going, motioned to his passenger —who wore a parachute—that they would have to go over the side. The passenger had been instructed in how to use it before. "But no. The man cowered in the cockpit and refused to move. Sweely first coaxed, then threatened the mean. At last, exasperated, he straddled the cockpit and actually tried to push him out. The passenger just secured a death -hold on the cowling, and held on. "The ship then began to edge into a spin. Cursing, Sweely gave up and returned to the controls. He must have dono some serious thinking. A crash was certain, perhaps it would cost them both their lives. It would be a simple matter for him to quit the plane in safety and let the stupid ass pay -for his unreasonable cowardice. But Lieutenant Sweely -seems not to have been that kind of a man. He stuck with his ship. - "With rare skill and courage, he Pancaked the ship into` the cushioned top of a group of closely meshed pines, which greatly broke the force of im- pact. Sweely was terribly hurt, but lived. The passenger was no more than scratched. Life is like that. "These, however, are individual cases. Nothing is settled yet. The status of the parachute in aviation has long been puzzling. Here is a safety device that has had a remarkable rec- ord, that has already saved more than 200 lives with a remarkably: small per - indulgence in this silly fun. tentage of failures. It is not ineon- "That lowest form of murderer-- venient to wear, and is not uncomfort- the hit-and-run driver has already able to use. had his prototype in aviation. In "And yet, for years, commercial op- the lower bay of New York, not long erators shunned it, because, first, it ago, a seaplane sliced through a motor cost several hundred dollars, and, sec - boat, killing a man aboard, and flew ondly, because they reasoned that to away into the fog. On the strength compel every passenger to wear one of the fact that the pontoon of his boat would be an open avowal that even a was dented, possibly in a collision, a routine flight has the element of dan- pilot has been arrested, charged with ger. homicide, and is now awaiting trial, "Fortunately, this ostrich -like atti- But he has insisted that he was not tude is passing. Practically every the offender. nail line now provides their pilots "And just the day before, another with parachutes, Schools are compel - seaplane, sweeping out of fog with dry ling their students to wear theta, fuel tanks, shot into the crowded surf What other imprints the Age of at Coney Island, killing two persons Flight will leave upon the nation, it is and injuring half a dozen more. This too early to predict. If the automobile pilot, too, was arrested. But of what? accomplished the decentralization of Was it his carelessness or was it an cities, and trade us n nation of gyp - act of God? It must have been diff{ sirs, then it seems reasonable to ex - cult to determine; at any rate, he was pect that the airplane will carry out exonerated by the const. this movement to its logical conclusion. "Regardless of where the respottsi As airplanes become cheaper, easier to bility rests, the fact remains that the fly, as another decade www endrdNl? Gasoline Era has introduced a new fly, as another decade or two should and, at times, terrifying unexpected establish, more and more people will risk into the normal routine of life. \ use them" "There is the factor of drinking, dhfi n-- JRGPdga Wn(1=B TreHd again. Heaven knows, the drunken driver is a sufficient curse uutl civil- ization; but a drunken pilot, in a vehicle capable of travelling over 100 PHILLIPS .05c rIAG; due ttootAcid INDIGESTION "ACID STMAGIc H�RN uCNIi. GASES •EIAUSEA• - St Excess acid is the common cause of indigestion, It results in pain and sourness about two hours after eating. The "quick corrective is an alkali which neutralizes acid. The best cor- rective Is Phillips' Milk o8 Magnesia. It has remained standard with physi- cians in the, 50 years since its iuven tion. One spoonful of Philips' Milk 01 Magnesia neutralizes instantly many t m times its volume iii acid. It is harm - loss' and tasteless and iss action .15 quick. 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The Government's hope that before the £8,500,000 set apart to meet this vam- pire bleeding has been exhausted un- employment will be diminished, is . hardly likely to materialize unless Mr. Thomas can do something more than talk of big schemes on the hori- zon or of cutting off the pin -money of frugal women so that alien may get their jobs. A City Tree When I behold an aged tree Fettered secure in streets of stone, I think that Thames must surely be For her a stream of Babylon, And that in dreams, tearless and vain She scents far pastures in the sun, And forest stillness, and pure rain Never Seen by Ordinary Means CLOSE-UP OF MIGHTY MYSTERIES OF BIG DIPPER Striking photograph, taken at Mount Wilson Observatory, Washington, D.C., showing spiral nebula in Big Dipper at what is believed about 2,000,000 light years away. THOUSANDS OF MOTHERS USE NO O'[l[n Canadian mothers are noted for the care they give their little ours— the health of the baby is most jeal- ously guarded end the mother is al- ways on the lookout for a remedy which is efficient and at the same time absolutely safe. Thousands of mothers have found such a remedy in Baby's Own Tablets and many of them use nothing else for the ail- meats of their little ones. Among them is Mrs. Howard King, or Truro, N.S., who says:—"I can strongly .re- commend Baby's Own Tablets to mothers of young children as I know of nothing to equal them for little ones." Baby'e Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. "Wily you make any New Tear's resolutions, Mr. Swift?" "01, yes, I'm going to be more per- sistent in proposing to yott this year than last year." COMPANIONS A companion that Is cheerful, and free from swearing and scurrilous discourse, is worth gold. I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon another next morning; nor men that cannot well bear it, to - repent the money they spend when they • .111 -be warmed with drink, Awl take this for a rule: you may pick out such times aacl such companions, that you may make your- selves merrier for a little than a groat deal of money; for "'tis the company and not the charge that makes the feast:'—Izaak Walton. WRATH Let not the eau in Capricorn go down upon they wrath, but write thy wrongs in water; draw the onrtaia of night on injuries; shut them up in the tower of oblivion, and let them be as though they had never been. Forgive thine enemies totally, and without any .reserve of hope that, however, God will revenge thee,—Sir Thomas Browne. Falling Hair—Just try Minard's. Ishbel MacDonald Greatly Honored Peak in Rockies Named After Daughter of Brit- ish Premier Ottawa. — Ishbel MacDonald, the daughter of the British Prime Minis- ter, is going to have her name per- petuated for alt time in a Cauadiau Rocky Mountain pbak. It will com- memorate onmemorate her visit to Canada last fall. "Mount Ishbel," as the peak Is to be called, is Iocated in the Rockies, 12 miles west of Banff, It is visible from Massive on the Canadian Pacific and also from the roadway between Bang and Lake Louise. The inountaia peak has a height of 10,000 feet and stands out boldly among the others, The announce` meat was made at tate Interior De- partment and the news has been duly cabled by the Prime Minister to Miss MacDonald. REASONABLY PRICED The eveniee service was being con- ducted for the women of the parish. The parson being a iittle deaf had asked the clerk to give out the no- tices, adding that he was to recom- mend certain new hymn books which had just been published. The clerk began by announcing the sours when babies could be baptised. Then the parson, thinking that the clerk had spoken about the hymn books, stood up fa the pulpit and said: "I would like to add for the benefit of those who have one that they may be had any evening between 4 and 5 o'clock at the vestry. The ordinary little ones at ls. each, and the little ones with red backs at is. 40, SECOND LIFE Love Is not to he re.tsoa'd down, or lost In high Ambition, or a. thirst for Greatness: 'Tis second life, 11 grows lute the soul, Warms every veht, and beats in avers pulse: I feel it here: my Resolution melts. —Addison. Recent events in Wail Street have' made many bulls bare. L a t tis i .q• FOR THE HAIR Ask Your Barber—Re knows Classified Advertisements SITUATIONS- VACANT 1i9 ORB MEN WANTED QU1C05, .saw XII pay, easy work. Barn while learn- ing barber trade under : fatuous /dolor barberaaschool system world's Write reliable call immediately for free catalogue. Molar Barber College, 121 Queen West. Toronto, The Country of Paris I have always felt Paris to be a country more than town; the country of Paris is distinct from the country of France. Its aspect is ... made up of so many divers landscapes. It Le not one place bat litany. Never, as iii London, a monotonous plain of ma- sonry, where the points of the Coot- pass oinpass are the only guides, and the ly wandered 'nigh find himself bushed in a labyrinth of brick or stucco. Then again I think of Paris as a huge library to explore. The streets are golden becks that keep their sage counsel till we open them—booksof varying size and splendor. The folios are the great avenues that lead one on for ever, made for the marching feet of the victorious armies of France; the small streets are the insignificant due-decimos,.tucked away on the top shelf. Then there are the noble vol- umes enriched with plates, books of history. The Place des Vosges, the Ile St. ,Louis, the Quais are the manu- scripts, inedimval; illuminated. There are streets in Paris which are not streets at all, but little bits of the province that have strayed into the heart of the town, and are scared and bewildered at nding themselves here, They have silly little shops where you can buy nothing you want village shops, drapers who keep a few kid gloves, all one size, a lace collar, and a woollen fiche or two. Yet this country cousin of a street may be rubbing shoulders with the. sophisticated Boulevards. In these small streets one is, however, most conscious of . . Paris. Some quest may have brought us here—the search, for a framer, an antique shop, a small lingere or furrier to one of these dark court yards where one passes the concierge churning a little water and mud together with a broom out- side his lodge. Inside it, in a penum- bra redolent of ragout, canaries flut- ter aimlessly in a cage and peck at ea branch of millet. Ill-favored building on three sides of the court form the exterior of a hire of industry. There is no buzzing iutsire it, but inside each storey is a separate cell in the vast honeycomb. For the bees that have visited the anthers of the flowers are busy distilling their nectar,—Barbara Wilson in "The House of Memories." FRIENDSHIP Frtendahip is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what can be got out of it. When two people appreci- ate each other because each has found the other convenient to have near, they are not friends, they are simply acquaintances with a busi- ness understanding. To seek friend- ship for its utility is as futile as to seek the end of a rainbow for its: bag of gold. A true friend is always use- ful in the highest sense; but we should beware of thinking of our friends as brother members of a mut- ual benefit association with its peri- odical demands and threats of sue - pension for non-payment of dues, VIRTUES AND VICE Men have theirvirtues, their vices, their Heroism, their perverseness; they possess and exercise all that is good and all that is bad in the world. —Napoleou I. We Pay the Highest Prices for DRESSED POULTRY Write for quotations The Harris Abattoir Co. Ltd, St. Lawrence Market, Toronto 2 After Skating Rub joints and muscles with Minard's. '10 avoid stiffness or ache. HoekeY... player's rem), mend it. INEQUALITY A man who Is willing to work and is unable Ip find o lc la perhaps the saddest sight which fortune's in- equality exhibits under the sou -Car- lyle. 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