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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-05-15, Page 2Difficult Tasks Faced by Britain London Now Free to Cope With Problems of Empire INDIA. AND EGYPT London. -The end of the naval con-• f'erence leaves )3ritieh'-diplornaey tree to cope with perennial problems of the wideilung British Empire. They are. saltily and pressing. The Government was faced with conflicting demands from India, Egypt and Palestine, and the Laborites' re- putation for skill in foreign affairs,. which the neva] conference augment - cd, slight be lost or further enhanced by the conduct of these three problems alone. It was hoped in British circles that the Indian question—or that part of it dealing with the native desire for self-rule—might ultimately be net on the basis of the report of the Simon Commission which recently investi. gated the Indi.nas' Capacity fee self - g. veenmeet. The report will be pub- lished next month. Anglo-Egyptln negotiatiors, in- tended to result in a new treaty,.were deadlocked because of insistence by the Egyptian delegation here that Egypt must have a larger share in the government of the Soudan, with the into that country. The'negotiati ins between the Fort .right to send its surplus population sign O'ffieeand a delegation of Pales- tine Arabs were believed in the same stage, beeause of the Arab demand flat Britain repudiate the Balfour Declaration establishing a Jewish homeland in the Helly Land. Strong sentiment has developed here for a policy of British firmness on all three questions, first, beeause a vel. vet glove policy has failed to halt the independent movement in India,, sec - 'end. because Britain cannot afford to imperil the $500,000,000 she has in- ✓ ested in the Soudan; and third, be- cause the Balfour Declaration is a moral obligation England rennet eat - drop. The three proaietns interlock, since Egypt and Palestine are strategical approaches to the Suez Canal. which is the British path to India. A further eaneection was driven home when the All-Iudia Conference en Palestine affairs, meeting at Born - bay, declared that Palestine was a trust of the whole Moslem world and not for the „Moslems of Palestine atone. In this conncvtion. it is known that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who is a member of the Arab delegation now in Lender, wieids great influence with the „Moslems of India and Egypt. This Sad causes the more timid Britons to raise the spectre of a "holy alliance" ef osiems if the Egyptian and Pales- tine delegations return home disap- pointed. Will Visit Canada On R-100 Flight British Secretary for Air is Planning to Become a Passen ger Ta>ndn7n Ir is learned Leri Thorn - eon Swnretanry of Siete for Air, will be a pneeeuger on the R-100, when the dirigible makes her flight to Canada late in May, provided it is found the secretary's duti s will, at that time, permit ef his absolve, The minor mishap s 1Tered by the great airship ile ether day when she was being taken from her • stied wi:l not interfere with pians for the trip. One of the port engines has. proved enemitfaeterte se will bave to be re- pla,•eoi, but t1.is will soon be attended to. One of tke inner troubles agitating tLe official amid te the problem of ur,i- feems. Moet Of the officers of the crew are air officers c r aircraftsman of the Rata .Air Farce and are en- titled to wear the uniforms of the ser- vice. Some o, those aboard, however, will be cit ,lions, with an expert know'. edge of the handling of lighter -than - stir craft. Ilene the question of uni- form has cropped up. tipeetal precautions will: be taken to see there are stn adventurous stow- aways on horned when the ship fakes ler yeetbound departure. Work on Graving Dock At Singapore Under Way mon treal.---Construction work on. the new graving dock at the Britisb naval base at Singapore is proceeding -without iiaterreptinn, according to Sir ✓ incent Baddeley, li.C.B., first pried - pal assistant secretary in the Brit- ish Admiralty, who is the gnest of Sir 11'illiem Clark, British High Com- nai•.siener to Canada. 'commenting on tate Singapore base, arp'aml w-hieh considerable controverss bas revolved, Sir Velment recalled the British government awarded a 04,000,- 000 contract for the graving dock there 'A year ago. "There was a suggestion an the House of Commons that: the eontratt should he hold up. at }east *luring the period of the iine power s at'al eonei•ence," he remarked, "but it was theaetit undesirable to triter - fere with the eontiact aid aceording- ly work is pre ove:elem., .A writer says in( the routine Of chinch �ec k a sewing' meetia stands O 7t liken weleomo light on a dark eight. Its e aeriuness depends on its s,",. 'ct:t pow, r. England -Canada Two Days by Air Route for Such a Service to be Surveyed this Year OVER NORTHLANDS, Ottawa -Possibilities of a two day air -route between Great Britain ami Central 'Canada are being canvassed by a group of men interested in aviat'i'on and in Empire transporta- tion, Col, the Tion, J. L Ralston, Minister of National Defense, told the Aviation League of Canada at the an- nual banquet of that organizat}oe here ee0taatly. In Dreier to ascertain if such a route is feasible, Due of their number Is this year proceeding to Greenland to spend 13 months in that northern re- gion, surveying the ice -cap for land- ing fields and studying meteorological eondittons, The route would be via Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland tout Hudson Bay to Win- nipeg. Major-General .T. H. 1LacBrien, pre- sident of the League was In the chair. Other speakers were J, A. Wilson, controller of. Civil Aviation; Wing Comnlander Breadner and Professor J. H. Parkin, of the National Research Conseil of Canada. Valuable for Canada Aviation had more of a chance to show its usefulness in Canada than in any other ,country in the world, said Colonel Ralston. It was a coun- try of great distances as contrasted with Great Britain where the dis- tances were relatively short, The minister outlined the work Of the de- partment and the distribution of the air services, tinder civil and military operations. The civil branch was extensively used, more so tban the military side. In forestry patrolling the civil wiug had covered over SO,. 000,000 acres of timber land, Last Year over 1,000 tires had been detest- ed and dealt with and more than 400,- 000 square utiles of territory had been surveyed by aerial photography. The Minister pointed to the air mall service as illustrative of the strides Canadashatl made in this department of activity. The Government, how- ever, was not In ate air -mail trans- portation business. Like all other phases of post office work, the carry - tug of these mails was let out by con- tract, the eov-erument merely conduct- ing an initial survey, of the best routes and furnishing the safeguards against natural eying hazards. Referring to his recent trap to Eng- land, the minister said that the Brit- ish Government had been almost lavish on its expenditures On aviatiou. He had visited eight aircraft factories and found them all busy. The execu- tives of those works were anxious to get Canadian business, but the minis- ter informed then? fMet Canada itself' had an aircraft construction industry of which the country was proud, fie advised thein that they would have a much better chance of securing orders in tbis country it they established breech houses here. Aiready several bad done so with marked success.. Ready For the R•100 Colonel Ralston had visited the 11-100 at Cardington and bad been much impressed with the care with which this dirigible was being groom- ed for its trans-Atlautie voyage. He had assured those in authority that Canada was ready to receive the giant airship at .St. Hubert. The Aviation League, General Mac - Brien said, was a patriotic society with its objective the stimulation of interest in flying throughout Canada. In addition to those act'vely engaged In aviation, the League sought to en- list those who had not any practical Paying tribute to the League as an educationat agency, fir. Wilson laud- ed its efforts to eucotuage air-mind- edness ir-mindedness among the people at large. Mr. Willson traced the history of civil avia- tion in Canada and cited the achieve- ments of the past few years as indicat- ing the rapidity of its development. No part of Canada was now more than two days distant from any other part. -Within a few years this country would have a regnier Trans -Canada air ser- vice. Prince Returns To Fine New Home London --An open-air swimming pool in the garden is one of the many features of the Prince of Wales' new country residence, Fort Belvedre, at Sunningdale, Berkshire, wbieh was put in readiness for His Royai Highness. Work out other alterations,. which the Prince approved before hie departure, is being rapidly completed, i In the centre of the }louse is an old t'•-"-"'Y-t guard -room built by the Duke of Cam- herland in 1740. This bas been con- verted into a comfortable lounge hall, Other rooms, Mel -acting the Prince's bedroom, open direetly upon his lith, On one side is the dining roost, which alio leads out to the garden, and on the other a drawing room which has been converted from an old banquet hall. IIn one respect Pert Belvedere will be the most up-to-date house in Eng- land, fon' from the front door a private !road) h being built to the private ,Royal aerodrome at Smith's Lawn, Windsor Great Park. The gardens ironnmaud a magnificent view over the This interesting illustration le reproduced from the book "Our Royal Town of "York' and is from a painting ' Great Park, by Owen Staples, 0.S.4,, in the gay hall, Toronto, showlegng Toronto's waterfront In 1550 How's this for a lot of dome) one piece? The little cyclist is staking friends wwith Mrs. Dickens' mastiff at the Kensington -Dog-Show at Crystal Palace, London. A Workless World In every big industrial country of the world the tragic' tide of unemploy- ment is said to' be rising -rapidly; A. few years ago, we are told, it was. .estimated that the total of unemploy- ed was 20,000,000. The figure now is believed to he nearly 50,000,000. So declares the London Daily Herald, a Labor organ and the 'odcial' news- paper of the Labor party. Recent reports from America and Germany, it adds, 'coupled with the serious situation in Britain, have em- phasized the fact that the mists ex- tends over the globe, japan Is no exception, for business depression is wide -spread there. Pao-, tortes are shutting down, end this newspaper continues: '='1 short trona ago the late Govern. meat estimated the total- workless at 300,000. To -day the figure exceeds 800,000, and it is forecast that the mil lion mark will quickly be passed. "Labor organizations in Japan are drafting remedial measures, and the ' Government Ispreparing a scheme of unemployment instnance. "As in Japan, so elsewhere. The Intra -Empire Trade to Be Investigated Toronto. — Recommendations were made by tate Empire Trade Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce Jo the Federated Chamber of Commerce of the Fmpire, which will be iu sessiuus during May at London, that the congress- recommend to the imperial economic conference, that the governmeuts appoint a commis- sion frons the business interests inthe different empire waits. The dates of this commission wil be to inquire .In- to empire resources, markets, and other factors entering into the promo- tion of empire trade, This commis- sion will also include eeonemies ex- perts from among the carious govern- ments. It was agreed that this -commission after having made its reports to the rations governments of the British Empire should be maintained as a permanent advisory economic council of empire which would have executive offices throughout the Empire units. Other important factors in the fur- therance of inter -Empire trade sug- geeted were: Au interchange of text- books between the Empire units for latest estimates of the unemployed to 1 correction' and the addition of up -to - the United States vary, but some putt date information regarding the sari the total at the enormous figure of ous parts of the Empire; the appoint 0,000,000. iment of Canadian business men t0 die - "Mr, William Green. President of cuss bilaterally with business sten the American Federation of Labor, 1 from other parts of the Empire cer says the 'danger point' has been' fain products which relight be more reached. He declares that 22 per; advantageously interchanged between rent, of organized labor is idle, and'Enmpire units. that 43 per cent, of the building work -i It was deeded to recommend to the era are out of work," Canadian Chamber that that organi- If we turn to Europe, The Daily : zation invite on behalf of Canada the Herold goes oe to say, we end a similar .Federated Chamber of Commerce of condition. At. the end Of December,%the Empire to hold Its 1933 meeting In it informs us, Germany had 4,583,000 Canada. idle organized workers. tt During a week in February, it is •t pointed out, no fewer the 30,000 were Prince George added to the Germans receiving uaa -1 J; ;4. it s' f) employment benefit, We read then: "Italy, whose industrial activity is Loudon.— Prince r 1 ce Geo e youngest tell] AraflF iC1 Est . e small has nearly if George, S g p sh a a million workers recorded as unem- son of the King and Queen, visited Ployed, two "pubs" and a tenement house re- "Frallce is the only known exceptionGently but declined all offers to "have among countries which have large- a pint." scale industry, though there the pe -1 He first visited the "model public euliar circumstances make compass• house" cf the Rev. Basil Jellicoe, who son difficult. 1 believes beer and wine in moderation ".\o recent figures are available for :ran play a part in bettering the lot of Russia. The latest were for October,1 the poor. Queen Mary recently made. 1928, when nearly two millions of the " a similar inspection. 11,000,000 organized workers were„ The Prince went behind the bar idle, land shook hands with several Inhabit- "Claims nhabit"C1aIms have been made that Indus- . ants ot the district Children who try in Russia will absorb 5,000,000 new i had gathered to greet him sang "He's workers in the nest two years, but a Jolly Good Fellow:' that is not fact, but prophecy," 1 He then went to the Tavistock Economists ]cave suggested that the Arms, where a woman challenged him unemployment was temporary, and to a game of darts, that when the world had settled down I "I don't play darts," said the Prince. "You're blushing," ie to post-war conditions, production and) cried another won trade would right themselves. That lint', and he was. All the women at view is now discredited, and the out- the bar laughed loudly and then gave look is regarded with apprehension. him three cheers. Prince George later visited the CONSCIENCE , model flats of Garden City, the section C NCE in which both the "pubs" are located. The voice of conscience is so dell- ' cats that It is easy to state it, but it 1 If the child has a temper it cannot is elsetoclear teat it is impossible to; control, 1t means that it has parents it mistake it.—Feltham, eau. 113ig Liner Stops To Rescue Hound London: The humanity of Captain A. W. Turtou, commander of .the 6,000 -ton Clan liner Clan MacNab, in turning his ship round in mid -ocean -to save the life of a foxhound bitch which had fallen overboard, was re- ported by a friend of the eaptein. The liner t as carrying a number of 'valuable foxhounds from Liverpool td Bombay. "When' the vessel was crossing the Bay of Biscay," stated Captain Ter - ton's friend, "this particular hound was exercised as usual round the deck and then tied up on the after -deck. "About 8 a.m. she was missed. ".A search was made, but the hound could not be found, and it was con- cluded that she must have slipped her collar and been lost overboard. "When the loss was reported to the captain half an hour Iater heturned his ship round and steamed back the estimated distance travelled' since the mishap, plus an extra mile. "The hound was not sighted and the vessel resumed her course. The hound was then sighted a short distance away right ahead: A boat was low- ered and she was hauled aboard, ex- hausted. She recovered after a few Imre' attention, however, A New Healer Sulphur Compound as Healer of Abrasions in. Two- thirds Ordinary Time New Discovery Philadelphia, Pa. = Boy„ and girls— from seven to seventy—who out fin• gel's and skin knees soon may be healed more quickly by a -discovery reported to the American Philosophi- cal Society recently. Two-thirds the ordinary healing time is enough. In two serious hu- man cases tested the rate was even faster, and some forms of rat cancer hare been slowed down by its use. The discovery is not medicine, but a principle of nature, whereby new Beth is either made rapidly by divi- sion of cells, or such formation is re tailed. It was reported by Dr. Fred- erick S. Hammett, director of the Re- search Institute of Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia. 1 The control, he sails, is sulphur, al- p ways in compound, Kept away- from too much contact with oxygen it pro- duces cell division rapidly, but be- comes a retarder after absorbing sut- Scient oxygen. Dr. Hammett said that at Lankenau Hospital Dr. Stanley P. Reimann used one of these sulphur compounds, thiogncose, on a elan of 78 with an ulcer that bad not healed in 18 rears. In two weeks the ulcer bealetl, lnternatio hall A -Big Job Done The Welland Ship Canal is omelet- Affairs in Canada' ed. Ten freighters entered the canal, part at Port Weller, part at Port Col- Agencies which erileavor to develop. borne. 'They passed somewhere in an informed public opinion on inter, the middle of the great ditch and pro- national affairs in Canada, partecular, leaded "on' their lawful occasions;" ly at this time when that subject Another big Job has been, done, such en engrossing' study and when How big ft is comparatively few Canada almost.over night has discov- Canadians have any idea,, Statistics eyed herself on the stage of world' mean little enough to most ',of us. events, should be given the attention. Millions of .cubic yards of material' re-` of every thoughtful man :and woman.. moved, locks so many hundreds of Noteworthy among these is .he League feet in length, with such -and -such of Nations Society which axis month. depth of water "on the sill;" lock gates is making its appeal for renewal and so many scores of feet long or high; increase of inenfberseip. In the aid' weighing, each one of them, so many that it able to give to the schoola hundreds of tons—all these thinge and colleges for the teaching. of Lea - have small concrete' significance for gue affairs and the new world organ-. the great majority of people. Certain ization that the League 'represents; facts aboutthe great work must, how- its encouragement of model assemblies. ever, capture the attention. When in the universities and even in schools; we are 'told that lock No.'3 is the its efforts' to provide informative largest canal :lock in the world,' that speakers to groups throughout Can the famous Gotten. ,lochs on the ada and perhaps above all, the publi- Panama Canal, of wisie11 WO .'have cations and literature that it dis- beardso very much, have little more tributes to its memoe"ship and .others than halfthe lift of locks 5 and 6 of interested, it is performing an inn- the Welland Canal, and, finally, that portant service. It is gratifying to one 'concrete wall connected with one hear that increased pablic support is of these two locks is almost the eetght`now indicated. In its appeal this year of the Horseshoe Fall at Niagara, we to individual responsibility rather will begin to realize the >.agnitude `.than committee responsibility for the of the Job that Canada set herself securing of new members it is trust- some twenty yearn ago and on which ing to an awakened public conscious - 6120,000,000 of public funds have been nese The retirns to the members are spent. Ime i'ibutson the mem- Whatever may he the outcome of baranyn needtimes make.thlou the controversy over the development! Ona of the difficulties that organize ot the St. Lawrence waterways, tions suchas the Association of Can whatever may be-thepolicy ultimate'adian Clubs, the Canadian Institut» ly adopted by Canada and the United'•of International Affairs or the Can States, nothing can alter the fact that adian Problems Society is to arrange the Welland Ship Canal is entirely suitable organisation in the small anal exclusively Canadian, built by centres of the Dominion. A feature Canadian brains, with Canadian tof the last anneal report' prepared by money, through Canadian territony, , Lt. -Col. C. P. Mered th who directs subject only to Canadian jurisdiction. the Society from his office at 381 Wil - If the waterways development comes, bred Street, Ottawa, is that develop - the Welland Canal is the central link'ments of 1929 indicated an increased in the whole system, without which it membership in the smaller ?laces. would be folly tomove one ton off When discussing before the Com - earth in the larger project. 11, on mittee of Industrial and International. the ' other hand, the larger Relations of the House of Commons scheme is held over for a day when the agencies that are under considera- Canada can afford to pay her share . tion nere Dr, 0. D. Skelton, Under - of the colossal expense involved, the Secretary of State for External Af- Welland Canal is now and' will re -,fairs in the Government of Canada, main an integral part of a steadily de- said: "Perhaps above all, so far as its veloping Canadian canal system, !widespread influence in this particu- Quito aside from any consideration lar field goes, we have the League of of donmestie politics or international I ations Society. It is a very efficient relations, Canadians have every rightlene far-reaching organization which ta• be proud of the huge undertaking does its best both to reach the chii- that is brought virtually to a coticlu �drentensien the schools and the adto alt citi- sion: en a long timnit , ndeaonly inform has costIt ahas greattakdea•1 of moiieeya,d but them but to voring mussnot their interest in there is enough confidence Inthe tie League affairs." tura of Canada to justify the belief, When the annual nneeting of the that the time and money will not. Society was held recently in Ottawa, have been spent In vain,. Moaetreal the guest of hong' at the .annual Stan Hostile Comment luncheon was His Excellency, Vis- count Wallin„ den, Governor-General. His Excellency spoke very feelingly of the work the Society is Going and Greets 5 jar Book Linde a profound impressio n. He said: "There are two great matters of ini- London Press Calls For End to Portance to keep vigilantly before the Writing of Vivid .Cam- eeople. Memories are short and one, too often, forgets. But—and this is paign Stories my first point—you must never allow London. --Brigadier Crozier's war people to forget the horrors, tragedies, book is the subject of hostile comment sorrows and sacrifices of the last war in the Daily Mali which carries a or fail to remind them that if war headline declaring that it should never breaks out once more the development have been written, and adds:— of science has been no great that war "It ought never to have been writ - as be beyond human control such ten seeing that it. specializes in the as td constitute irreparable disaster, discreditable and leaves the impres- not only to eivilations, but to victor sion that the.British soldier was a tad vanquished alike, And secondly, drunken and debauched creature and you must impress on the youth of the emphasizes unduly the side of life Dominion the necessity for patriotism which nobler ,and truer authors leave and love of country—not the patriot in obscurity. Those who served in ism of the old days, for if I am to put the war Intoe' of instances of coward- it to you figuratively the greatest pa - ice and misbehavior such as are al- itnot in the old days, was the man who, ways to be found in large assemblies otfher a as strong enough, knocked the of men wbo are not plaster saints.et man down and took away most Taken by and large the officers anti lnna7is lathes, but thepatriotismof men who fought in the Great War are the man who wishes to see the admin- istration of the nation's love and ever- istration of his country conducted on asting respect and honor. This cam_ the highest ideals of freedom, of jus- aign against their memory is a cruel tire, and to live on friendly terns with wrong to the immortal dead." his neighbors all round him. "CEASE TIIESE BOOKS" The Daily Chronicle, under the cap- tion "Cease thes war books," says: "We have received for review a copy of "A Brass Hat in No Man's Land" by General Crozier published by Jon athan Cape. After a study of the contents_ of the book we have decided to give no space to quotations front it —the Daily Chronicle is second to none in its h.:tred of war and in the de- termination to do all we can to make future war impossile, but we do not believe that these ends can be achieved by slandering the men of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland who fought for their country between 1914 and 1918. Such volumes as "A. Brass fiat in No Man's Land" are a slander on the men who were sent to France. They may be true in detail but the general affect is to lay the whole British Army under the imputation of brutality anti immorality. In the opinion of the Daily Chronicle the time has loose to put an end to the spate of sensational and disgusting books about the British Army,': Jujutsu, or Japanese wrestling, is one of the very few sports in which -women can compete on a footing of equality with' men, Itis a question of s1t111 and not strength. "Thus, I say to you, go on with the good work you are doing, because. Canada is bound to become increas- ingly influential in the pursuit of peace as the years pass. Work and strive and strain for peace so that the young people growing up may never sae the horrors of war and that those gallant tons • who paid the supreme sacrifice for us a11, may know, what- ever they are, that their sacrifice has not been in vain." Don't forget that April 27th is League of Nations Day. If you are interested in joining the League of Nations Society in Canada send in your membership to Lt. -Col• C.: P. Meredith, 381 Wilbod St., Ottawa, and you will receive all the Society's publications and you will assist in the great work. Britain's Burden Sir Hairy Austin in the •Spectator (London): The whole world is suffer- ing from the -rant of a proper adjust- ment of efforts and supplies—look at the present nnwioldly surpluses of wheat, wool, robber, asci sugar, This casual and disorganized supply of No Doubt About It commodities is causing serious unem- When blind Bartimetts had his sight lnloyment and want everywhere, and reecored the skeptics told him he was the important fact is that we are ear' deceived and mistaken, but he knew 571115 more than aur proper share. We better. His reply is poetically given aro much too loud of malting martyrs by James Russia Lowell: of ourselves and frying to support "I know not what this man may be, other people's burdens. France, on Sinner or Saint --but as for me, aha e.band, has schemed to better One thing I komw—that' I ant he purposeoth.r Who onee was blind and now I see," NOBLENESS "Custom is reason fast asleep; it ile noble!' and the nobleness that lies talte•q the place of thought 'h7 all the In other men, sleeping, and never dead popular habits of life." ---\y, Shaw Will rise in majesty to meet thine Sparrow. own.—JamesRussell Lowell,