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The Seaforth News, 1930-02-06, Page 6Wake 1Up England' mechanical snip -snap of party cries 1 and countereries. - BY J. L. GARVIN. Let us get out of it now. Let the For ten years disappointment has two Oppositions as well as the sane - dogged our efforts. Our teY•rific:taxa- meaning bulk of Labor face the in - tion has seriously reduced the annual' disputable realities. On present lines Irate ed 'nveetlnent which formerly so our relative competitive efficiency lfargely 3ontributed to the expansion of employment and trade. This is one xeason why our export business never recovered its pre -wax buoyancy: On present political lines it never vaill. Tariffs everywhere stint out all the hest skilled work of our people and directly binder their lives; while our open door promotes foreign employ- ment in every branch. In that regard, we do not exert our- selves in any way to get fair play and equality for our people. We do not lift an effective finger to advance free exchange. But quite apart from tariffs, the nation's work, vital to the common cause, is in heavy ;arrears.' Coal is our foundation. Without assured settlement'. for a long period in that industry, neither it nor any other economic and social interest in the land can fully thrive. Yet though eleven years have passed einee the Armistice, we have not got. a coal settlement yet. * * * * * How can any' nation expect to pros- per and advance in face of foreign continuity and cohesion while our relative economic disorganization re- mains what it is and while our politic- al disagreements remain what they. are? It cannot be done. The situation is chaos by compari- son with the steady organized progress of the United States, Germany, and France. Across the Atlantic the Wall Street slump will soon show itself to have been not so much a bruise as a stimulus. Those do not know the Un- ited States who think otherwise. * * * s * We mention only three facts am- ongst many eye-openers. The United States, already many times richer than we are, is reducing taxation. Within the Protectionist system to which France is indissolubly wedded -- let there be no mistake about that— her output of motor ears this years is ten per cert. larger than our own. And this year, for the first time, Ger- many is exporting more machinery than we are, and steadily overhauling ss in other ways. It is absolutely seta Jain that if our political quarrels on must decrease; the stimulus of employ- ment by enterprise and investment must decline. On these lines working youth in this country, ten years hence, would be crushed by an unparalleled proportion of elderly pensioners and other receivers. The dull weight of doles would deaden the springs of pro- ductive activity and competitive power. The Kilmarnock ley -election showed that the Government are at least as stung, as over in the constituencies. Extreme Left -Wingers are already urging Ministers to dissolve next spring in order to get more power to redeem the promises, Is that what the Oppositions want—either of then? Of course not. There is nothing they want less. A premature dissolution isthe last thing to be desired by fin- ance and business or 'by any sane politician. Wisdom requires rather that we shall all try to make the very best of political conditions as they are for at least, a twelve-month to come. * * * * * No matter to what party you be- long, nor how you look at it, this con- elusion holds—that what the economic forces of the country require are co- operation and encouragement, confi- dence and impulsion, and a steady out- look for a term ahead. We are still' increasing our liabilities faster than our assets. There can be no economic health in us until unmistakably we re- verse that process. * • * * * * The Prime Minister more than any man will hold this clear and decisive issue in his hands. He raised the Anglo-American negotiations above party. Will he not do the same for the main economic issues equally vital to us all and to the whole industrial, conmiercial, social future of the coun- try? Will he not enter into conference eeith Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Lloyd George and endeavor to seeure at last a =lintel economic policy tc be stead- ily pursued for live years at least. :rre;.pective of party changes? Let him stick to the sure prescience with whish he began. eel make this Parliament in fact a -Council of State." If he does this he will be faithful these matters go on as now the last to bis real intellectual temper. He 'vestiges of our old commercial sup- will surpass his achievement in the remacy ail pass away. international sphere, and earn the time historic name amongst constructive statesmet.—Montreal Standard. * * * * * Before' things go too far in that direction there will be, we repeat, a tremendous national awakening which will change the whole present face of politics. But why should not the Prince Minister do the right thing now, lift - Ing the issue above party, and estab- lishing at last a continuous national policy for range of selected economic questions? We cannot expect front this Government any positive depart- ure from free -importing prineip:es, though we devoutly hope and prey with a little dry rottenetone on a that the Motor Duties and Prefeteace .chamois and a f1:al polish given with may be continued. a piece of velvet. 'when brass is tarnished oxalic acid in solation or vinegar or salt, espeel- ally if warmed, will quickly dissolve this. Apply with a flannel cloth, common-sense. tion wash off every particle of the It means national salvation as the ,. e ening agent, as acids have a ten- alternative to slow national. sut..ide, drncy to increase tarnish; dry ft, Mrs. Snowden, one of the ai es. we- then rub with dry whiting to take up Wren in the country though she is .i all moisture and give the brass a bril- :n Parliament, has .seed it. 1+ +t flnir=h. Mr. Wiliam Gr,.ha1, , ...c F:r .ae:rt 'When grandma -3ermed her braes c4 the Beard c T -.c i'.:, she put• it tato a strong solution of of it before ke V,7 sc.da ::nd hot water ..led bi•uthed It 15. Islcses y C.:d..d,.• .r' wel etith. soap, then ;ae lifter] it out and as reap, z.. e n '1-1e dishpan and. paused boiling - mos: t fhts Neblt. is • We... ... pal r ... ynur� that .. .. F ..... To Clean Bra" It is not difficult to keep brass look- ing bright if it receives regular care. Wipe daily with a soft cloth and oc- casionally mix finely sifted rotten - stone to a paste with some sweet oil and apply in usual way. Brass will stay clean longer if after polishing it Is washed In hot water to remove every trace of polish, then polished * ;F * * * All parties would have to make on - sessions; but we say again shere is no other way out It is Olin, Led -reek ever it. She left it In the water r three minutes, then dried it in very bad ,mndf• tier+ .:•e b,..ecl .he brass articles in - - •zee redia ..1.d rate:: and erilni]ma's sa.0 An Economy Hint do s sue on:ar: SlakES cd zse cf the the i u^ _ -ear sr Iter ,,c-rn btabilt.es by N.,:,,fitttng them in - Ile 1 i e .e o."k7 tennertelees. Site buys cretonne ?end a :f ..- +e _. -- -m •,iters read, made, but with a sewing the L.., .. Mr. J H. now that he rt.sr ;n . r;.er.. .ser.: iron t'0 ane r ::e nt lir: zest mere party -poise; Why should he, with all his shrewdness and humor, !et himself ate reduced by present circumstances to "piffle about pin -money"? Mr. Snowden must discharge, in his next Budget, some serious commitments partly offset by economies; but he knows that every further net incease of taxation is an additional competi- tive handicap on this country. And 'the Chancellor knows as well that ;when the uneasiness and the creeping, 'aiiisquiet are patent dangers, it is dead - Sy fudge for Mr. Tom Shaw to call erdinary investors renders and to :threaten then with punishment if they remain so stupid as to keep their money in British Funds or in any way within the power of a Labor Govern meat. * * * 0 * We are all in a nightmare of folly by comparison with what the vigorous. settled, 'consecutive policy of a great Industrial .and commercial nation' ought to be. What is happening to the soul and. fibre of a nation? Where is our old repute as a prac- tical and determined people? For ourselves, we confess in plain' English that aften ten blighting years of it we are sick of .the 'whole mass Relations Renewed Left to Right—Sir Esmond Grey,' first ambassador to Russia since 1927, and Comrades Rotstein, Kalinin and_Litvinoff, in Kremlin palace, where Sir, Esmond presented eerdentia'.s. The Vital Romance A Youth in Russia Conrad Hubert was bora in Minsk,, Of Conrad Hubert Russia; in 1860. He was the son et a wine merchant named Horwitz the name Hubert was one which he The Manufacturer of Flash- adopted when he came to this eoun- lights Whose Bequests try, Little Is known of his early -edu- Were Recently Distributed by a Committee. Frequently Sought Expert Aid -in Meet- ing His Problems. Dation, except that he could not have received much instruction in the schools, since he left his home at the age of 13 to serve a business appren- ticeship in Germany. At 19 he re- turned to Russia to join Iris father in The name of Conrad Hubert ap- the wine business and remained there peered prominently in the headlines thirteen years, It is said that he de - recently when a committee of "three tided to comp to America because prominent citizens" — ex -President the moneyas wdistillers hich he and his faher' p was lost as the Coolidge, ex -Governor Smith and had nada Julius Rosenwald — announced the names of the thirty-five American in- stitutions which they had decided were most worthy of sharing the $6,- 000,000 Mr. Hubert had willed to charity. Mr. Hubert was not the kind of person who would have par- ticularly enjoyed seeing his name in the retail cigar trade, etre operation print. On the contrary 1 e was, it is of a restaurant, the keeping of a said, a reticent, quiet, self-effacing boarding house, farming, selling milk at retail, and finally the watch busi- ness. During all this time, in his spare hours, 'he planned and develop- ed inventions of various kinds, and in 1898 perfected and patented the pocket flashlight. The first flashlight was a crude affair, awkward -looking and not very reliable. It was first taken up by the public as little more than a toy, but to -day, Iargely as the result of the patient improvements developed by Hubert, it is estimated /hat about 9,000,000 flashlights are sold my American companies annual- ly. It is said that only the faulty wording of his patent papers prevent- ed his obtaining a complete monop- oly of the basic patents for the flash- light. From the invention of the flashlight to his death the story of Conrad Hu- bert's life is the story of the growth of the flashlight industry, to which he devoted himself so completely that he seldom took time for other things. From the drat he had to overcome many difficulties. He had to "sell" the idea in order to put the youthful busi- ness on its feet; he had to persuade an electric lamp manufacturing com- pany that his flashlight was practical and that it would be profitable for them to manufacture miniature in candescent lamps; be had to persist, in spite of disappointments and dis- couragements. Before administering a dose of cas- tor or mineral oil to a person, rinse the spoon first in cold water. Then none of the dose will be wasted by the oil sticking to the spoon. "Dramatic criticism is, has been and eternally will be as bad as It Dos - time came for him to arange his will. sibly can."—George Bernard Shaw. result of religious persecution. What- ever the reason, Hubert decided at 32 to come to this continent to make a 'new start. When he landed he was practically penniless. For the next eight years be took any business opportunity that came, to hand. He engaged successively in man, who found his chief pleasure in directing the activities of the flash- light factory which he had founded and through which his great fortune was chiefly made. It is said that he seldom mentioned the fact that he had developed, per- fected and promoted the first flash- light and that he seemed to prefer to let his invention stand on its own merits. He had come to this country not as a very young man, but at the age of 32, and had been compelled to adapt himself to strange, new con- ditions and to work up from the bot- tom to financial success. let of his years of struggle and hope, proverb- ially the favorite subject in the re- miniscences of successful men, even his friends know little. Never, so far as is known, did he sit for a photo- graph. Mr. Hubert's chief interest was his work. He could list few friends—the few included Edward Bok and August Heckscher—and few avocations. That he was a lover of good music is shown by the fact that he installed in his Florida home a large and expen- sive organ, and, since he could not play, engaged an organist to play it for him, Beyond that he seems to have devoted himself entirely to his flashlight factory while in the North and his citrus -fruit business while in Florida, where he lived alone. He is said by his employees to have been the type of man who accomplished things in business by working care• fumy and intensely, and not by devis- ing sudden, brilliant plans. In con- ducting his business he was accus- tomed, it 1s said, to ask the advice of those who he felt were better able to meet the problem than he was. He followed the same practice when the L aehine the corer • .;:; be speedily made. SI1e puts patc -. ever the titin pomieus ofthe blau.,_t, siren „tittles tate edges of the crctrroe and those of the blanket together. ehe planes it en her bed and ties the comfortable! In tate 'usual way. The advantage of such a comfort -1 able is that it may be washed often and does not mat as the cotton -filed ones usually do. By using a flowered cretonne or thintz and making a wide border of plain sateen stitched in parallel lines, or a design, you will have a Band some comfortable out of the worn-out blanket. Ancient House .. Plan Found In Mississippi Prehistoric Indian Dwelling Is First Ever 'Discovered in the Southeast Washington.—Discovery of what is described as the first .house floor plan ever found of the prehistoric Aniei-lean Indian in the Southeast was announced by IL B. Collins Jr., assistant• curator of the division of ethnology of the Smithsonian Institu- tion. It reveala that the prehistoric: Americans knew many of the com- forts of good living. 'The floor plan. was dug up recent- ly in Yazoo County by 111r. Collins,' working with Moreau B. Chamber and James Ford of the Mississippi .De Partment of .Archives end History. Mr. Collins sees in this find, which contained pottery of a kind hereto- fore unknown, and other valuable ra lits, • a possible key to knowledge of the habits of the warrior who roamed the Southeast ,before 1Colunibus. This "apartment house's" ground floor showed three perfect concentrat- ed circies,' all 'of which had post holes at comparatively close intervals in their circumferences. In the out er circle, with its diameter of sixty feet, was a trench, ' apparently the communal garbage can, In' this trench clam and turtle shells anti ani- mal bones were thrown. The smallest circle held a perfect square, whose hole -shot aides en- closed a large central depression for the main post. Just to the rear of the square was a fire pit. On the floor was beautiful ,red and white pottery of a kind never before found. Mr. Collins believes that possibly the house, -welch he eetimated to have provided shelter for fifty . per- sons, was a Sumsier home, the evi- dence 01 verandas leading to this conclusion. ' He is not able to say what tribe the inhabitants were, but the land, which is on the plantation of Claude, Pepper, lies between sections once occupied by the Choctaws and the small Yazoo River tribes. There' was no evidence of an Indian village In the vicinity, although the party found mounds. The time of the occupancy, in the opinion . of Mr. Collins, eves somewhere between 500 end 1,000 years ago. - — "Waren a sheik threatens to leave the napper usually tens him to go as far as he likes." GREAT 'MEN Great men are like meteors, which shine and consume themselves to en- lighten nlighten the earth. Napoleon L This civilization is not going to de- pend upon what we do when we week 'eo much as what we do in our time off.—Herbert Hoover. Lobster Canape up lobster meat, juice of 1 lem- on, salt, hard -cooked egg, Worcester- shire sauce, 6 large olives, 24 tbin slices lemon. Mince coked or canned lobsters meat. Seastm with lemon juice, salt,. and a fedi drips of Worcestershire sauce, Syread oaci rounds of buttered bread or toast with the mixture and decorate by placing In the centre. of each canape a slice of hard -cooked' egg. A narrow border of minced olives may be placed around the edge of the canape: Garnish with Iemon, s ks- ride • env coil THE GLACIER'S EDGE MAKES AN IMPOSING SPECTACLE OF GRANDEUR . Three ap x n , y i The hull force of nature's forces is expressed in the 'glaciers which move forward irresistibly, This scene avarice—have been kindled in al] of platform platitudes and of all the hearts,—Dante. Where Mother Nature Shows One of Her Many Phases photographed at Clseter Cake in Jasper National Park. "THAT LCVIG-FELT WANT Dr. Hal T. Beans, Columbia *Culver- sity, demonstrates his -tew phonograph record of "durium," which shows re- markable flexibility. Prince May Return By Way of Egypt British Heir Expected to: Sail From Cairo in March After South African Hunting Trip Why Politicial s Never Retire By A: G. GARDINER "Nature cries aloud for repose,,e said Gladstone of himself. and forth- with euteres:upon atiother twenty, years ,of,volcauic activity in which he waged battles that made all that had. gone before look lilte mere alcirmishes. Rosebery said he had rn!red from Public life and went on delivering pub. lie speeches on the smallest provoca- tion. Mr, Lloyd George used to sigh heavily in public over the intolerable weight of his responsibilities and hint that if these were only another man who could take the job off his hands he, too, would fiy away and be et rest. And Mr. MacDonald had hardly been in office a month before he' was pant- ing anting for deliverance and murmuring words which sounded like "low long, C Lord; bow long?" ' And this Is not mere make-believe. It is, at the moment at all events, often quite sincere, and. it is certain- ly quite intelligible. Even those of us who live much less strenuous anct contentious lives and never catch the fierce light that beats upon the public stage have moments of weariness. with ourselves and our task when the wings of a dove or "a lodge in some vast wilderness, a boundless coati,. gutty of•shade," would be a most de- sirable means .of escape. How much more irksome Is the life of the public man, with its ceaseless Publicity, its .shiftings and changess it"s cross -currents and compromises:• the, extremists galling you at the rear; the reactionaries tugging your sleeves on the flank the enemy bom- barding you infront; behind' tee scene the infinite intrigues, the petty Personal ambitions, the disgruntled followers the disappointed placemen, and outside, the megaphones of the Press raging and the'eublic through its myraid voices, clamoring for this aubperb gesture and denouncing that craven surrender. The marvel is not that public men emit yearnings for peace and for a. shepherd's crook upon the hillside; but that they do not give effect to their yearnings. They never do, or they do it so rarely that the excep- tions only emphasise the general fact. it is the case of Mr. Reginald Mc- Kenna. It is true that Lork Birken- head appears to have done the sante thing, but it is clear that his heart still hankers after _battle with his peers far on the ringing 'plains of windy Westminster, and that at aay moment required (having been assur- ed) the falconer's voice may summon him back to the torments of public life. The fact, of course is that, with all its acerbities, irritations and disap- pointments the life of the public man is too thrilling and absorbing to ba dscarded. It has the fascination of the stage and the intensity of gambl- ing, and once caught in it there is no escape. It is often fatal in its attrac- tion and cruel to its consequences. He is a wise man who, like IIar- court, leaves the game alone until he has acquired a competent that gives him independence. I have seen at. close quarters -many a bitter tragedy ' of tbe public life, such as those of William Pringle and Charles Master - man.. They were caught in the flame and perished in the flame. But even while perishing they found in it the. only life that was thinkable to them. And if that is the case with those who fail, hoiv much more is it so In the case of those who have had the luck of the cards! Think of that marvellous ,forty years during which the new Father of the House, Mr. Lloyd George, has had all the fun of the fair. Retire! Fly away and be at rest. Spend his declining years with,a crook. an the flanks of Snowdon! Forgive me, my dear sir, if I pause to smile. And that other weary Titan, the De- puty Father, Sir Austen Chamberlain, who, in his rather maseive, ponder- able way, has had a great, if some- what solemn, innings, Can we con- ceive hint taking off his flannels and quitting the pavilion for ever? And think of the astonishing adven- ture which the public life has been to' Mr, Churchill, Mr. Snowden, Mr. Mac- Donald. They may declare against its: burdens and afilletilins, but in their hearts they know there is no life like it, and they could no more voluntarily leave the public stage than the moth can cease to flutter round the caudle. We sometimes wish they 'would.- Montreal- Standard... 5----- Lloyd George's Future Conference Occupy Palace London—The Prince of Wales may return to England by way of Egypt at the end of his .Afrier big game hunting tour•. Officials at St. James's Palace said it was quite likely that, after hunting in East Africa the . Prince would de- cide to go up the River Nile and thence home from Cairo. This would be hie most direct route. The Prince will start his return Journey probably in March. 9:t ,present he is 'abroad the Liner Kenilworth Castle, bound for South Africa, and the disarmament confer• ence is preparing to move into his honie, St. James's Palace. He folded up his golf practice net at the palace and sailed to Africa to shoot lions, tigers and elephants, while American, French, %Italian, Jap- anese and Britigh delegates to the London. naval arms parley, as well as several hundred newspaper comes-. pondents, are using the State apart- ments as a workshop. The golf net into which the Prince banged balls for • early morning ex- ercise was in place in the color court of St. James's until early this 'tenth. Til Prince hasn't exactly been rout- ed out of house and home in London, for Itis modest apartments in York House of the palace are in a separ- ate wing of the rambling old build bags. His household was organized at St, James's ten years ago, but he never stays there very long at a time. A more sumptuous residence has been made ready for him in Marl- borough House, across the way, but the Prince, for reasons never made public, has stuck to his few rooms In St. James's, which axe far from being the palatial dwelling one would expect a future Iiing of England to occupy. ' St, James's shelters the Prince wben`he is not hunting, golfing, fly- ing or making one of his long empire tours. His present expedition has been planned for many months. When he sailed early this month=Por Cape- town, he was merely completing the trip interrupted last year by -kis sen- sational dash for home from Dar -Es - Salaam, on the east coast of Africa, when King George seemed near death in London.. Equipped with everything from air- planes to elephant guns, the Prince will react the big game country of Kenya and Uganda late. in February or early in March. He will ,stay there until the Iast delegate, journ- alist and photographer has quit tithe preclnets of his London home. Girl Travelling Barbers Unable to obtain work as hairdress- ers in London and other cities many girls in England are visiting villages and small towns as travelling barbers, They make their rounds with white uniforms, scissors, curling irons and beauty lotions packed in a box strap- ped to the front of a.motorcycle of bicycle. One girl of 18 has saved enough in six nionths to buy a used car to replace her bicycle, She not only cuts the hair of women and children but also gives hair•cute and shaves to men. Another mics covers a radius of ten miles from her home, and has a large clientele among the country women who are as particular about the "emartnese of their shingle as any oily sister. Some girls clear $25 a week. was Salad Over the chilled tufts of endive pour a plain French dressing made piquant by dile addition of one-eighth tea - 3. L. Garvin in the London Obser- ver (Ind.): it ie certain that Mr: Lloyd George is going to be one of the biggest national forces of the fu- ture. We are ourselves of the decid- ed opinion..,. that the national situa- tion ituation cannot now be saved without him, and that his will , come right to tbe top. We do not s�o-++ next year, though even that_might'be. But we do say. that Mr. Lloyd George at sixty- six is quite as young and quits as vital as was Mr: Gladstone before entering on his strongest years 01 ac- tion; and that his mislothian cam- paign has yet to come. SORROW AND 'JOY' Ah! If we only knew it, we Shouldt surely upderetand That thebalance of sorrow and doe is held with an even hand;• That the scale of success or loss shall never overflow, . soon of dry geraste,rd, Ona teaspoon And that comperisationia twined with- Worcestershire zesee. I the lot of high and low.