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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-06-05, Page 6What Are We nature of the childrsn born of, any particular Marriage. Coming To? "Suppose' that it is established be- d yond' doubt that .the union of A with B. must, inevitably producechildren Sixteen -Hours Working Week of a type C congenitally criminal •and -.and Family Planes For All mentally repulsive, then, no matter what outcry is raised by the `'adher- ents of various religious denomina- Have you ever tried to visualize tions, • ,the State will certainly legis - what the world will be like in A,D, late either'.to prohibit o: compulsorily 2030? Lord Birkenhead has been do-, 'to sterilize s Conversely, tate iage. eueenist can e thirand some ofuture els forecasts of d predict that a marriage of D with E the world -. of the fature are described ( must inevitably pr.: duce offspring of below. • Imagine a world in which it is -pos- robust physique,. endowed with first eible by tapping the atomic energy class intelligence, _ that State will et 50,000 tons of water—the amount perish• which does not actively encour- displaeed by a large liner—to main- age such "uniens'among its citizens." tain the Polar regions at the tempera Week -ends in Africa tune of the Sahara for a thousand "Such proposals," says Lord Birken years! . head; "sound repugnan but in essence A world in which television will en- they are reasonable and even roman- -able political leaders to addressevery; tic. At present, by segregating them elector on any vital issue and then in prisonsduring the major portions Lor the whole .electorate (instead of; of their adult life, we put an effective its representatives) to vote for or brake upon the fecundity of our incur - against the Government, and for those able criminals. Our descendants will millions of<.vote:, to be automatically adopt the' more effective precaution counted by mechanisminstalled in our .of preventing the birth of those who telephone exchanges so that the result must inevitably grow up with aud- io announced twenty minutes after, social proclivities. Prevention if bet the last speaker has addressed the' ter than Broadmoor:" Factories in the Fields nation. I Dirt and smoke will disappear, but horse -racing will be as popular as Or take a look at the future of In- ever in 2030. Week -ends in North- duatry. Picture a world in which ern Africa for the workers carried agriculture and coal -mining are ex- thither with their families in family tinet; our population fed on synthetic planes travelling at 400 miles an hour. • foods made of cellulose grown in the An inspiring and thought-provoking tropics and warmed by electricity picture of what our world may be derived from man's mastery over the like in a hundred years hence. And energy stored in every drop of water. with men—and women—living in a In this world we are contemplating world which changes from year to there will be neither industrial cities year before our eyes, it is not improb- nor farms. The factories will no ,able that when the man of A.D. 2030 longer need to crowd near coal or rail -I reads this book, he may wonder af. the I knowledge revealed by Lord Birken- ways—they will be'dotted over the Striking photograph of Prince of 1;, ales,`. taane country and 'served by electric trains' head in 1930. But somehow, I can - ng g to London from big game hunt on the dark con transplanting their gods at Tow cost.' not help thinking that the future is • Prince Charming Returned by Air The worker in these factories will going ^to be even more greatly chang- have mas'ered the machines which ed than any mind can visualize to -da will work a sixteen -hour week. The Br:f=liter Stamps for Britain M R rest of his days will be leisur. for use A new idea in stamps has recently 1VlePeat ��®8S Back as he will—in art, education, travel, been put forward for the Postmaster - the pursuit of health. General's consideration. It is that a Whole Industries to Disappear 1 new series of postage stamps should ' It all sounds like a world which has be preparedfbringing, speciallyhome forto the pnr- the pose ous now threaten to enslave hint, He Glasgow Gets by African sun, boarding Orient. Thornton Expects Recovery h.ryrtly C.N.R.' Head Says Good Crop This Year Will Retrieve Most of Losses PROGRESS IS NOTED - in, „id 'etao etao T etaoi etaoi etaoin ,Ottawa—Sir Henry Thorton said re- cently the outstanding facts of the year's operation were eo Well known as not to require'much further explan - What People Are & t,yang. India's Salt Tax "The salt tax was Rs, 2-8-0, per mauncl from 1883 to 1903, Indeed, it was a very heavy one for the. )i poor man," write4 Professor K, 'C.. — Viraraghavan, M ., in the Indian Re- view. "That great servant of India,. the friend of the poor, the late Gopala Krishna Golthale, fought for the ';re- duction of this tax •during the Budget. discussions of those Years, aad got .it. ation., The first six months' business at Rs, 2 in 1903 and at-Re,.1-8 in 1905 was splendid. •and at Re. 1 in 1907. It is said that Then came'a crop shortage and 'the the consumption of salt during these - failure 'of the crop to be ,moved, This periods increased by 25 per oent.But the World War imposed Heavy re- sponsibilities on 'India, ,and the salt tax was raised to Re. 1-4 in 1916 and Rs. 2-8 in 1023, anti again dowered to,' ment that failed to materialize, The Re? 1.4 in 1924." • -company, however, had taken steps -- to see that no hardship was inflicted A ,POet on PDetlfy on the employees by reason of the les- "The value' of poetry .is that it is a. sened traffic.. means of increasing the real values. Much May Be Retrieved of life itself," writes Mr. Alfred Noyes,. The crop was commencing to move' the poet, in the, Sunday Express, and it would be expedited, With al "Most people at the present day ars good crop this year Sir Henry ex-, sleep•walkers. They are alive, but. 'peoted to "retrieve a good part ofthey are not, really awake, and; they what bas been lost." • do not reallie their own miraculous. The committee 'afterwards took up' possessions, or really •perceive the. the financial statement, The decrease'world around them. They•are hypnot-• in revenue from grain shipments alone ized by their own routine, even when was $15,000,000. ; it is a scientific routine involving ob- The stock market crash also had servation of a certain order of facts, been an adverse ,influence, Various aild they spin round like humming- , other details Were given of items tops, fast asleep. which figure in the lessened passenger) "We know how amazingly this is and freight revenues .of the past Year sometimes discovered when anything and which already have been pub- happens to disturb that routine. We • have only to think of what would resulted in very material reduction in, the revenues- of • the company. A very considerable expense had been incurred in preparing for a move - "A fair amount of the decline in happen to our minds if .(through some plane at Marseilles, France, ,return- passenger traOlg is due .to highway climatic change) the trees were to' competition;' said SIr Henry, adding break 'into leaf only once in a .gen `"the tourist coming in by motor prub- eration, and flowers to appearonthe' Israelites. They would remember how the aged prophet Eli met his end while administering justice in ' the gate;' a messenger brought evil news After 300 Yaps of disasters, both national and do= mestic, and the old man fell back- wards from his sea`. "I was pleased and .interested to Th Centre of Justice hear of your project for the re -erection never existed. And it hasn't—yet.beauties of the countryside, of the Mereat Cross of Glasgow. "And they could recollect how -when But that Is what w are comingto, 12 These stamps, it is suggested, "These old crosses serve not only the match -making Naomi had safely we are to bleieve Lord Birkenhead'sshould bear pictures of flowers and as reminders of the past, but also as landed a rich suitor for the hand of brilliant new book, "The World in ani main and landscape. emblems of the continuity of our civic Ruth, it was to the gate that Boaz 2030". d It is true that we haven't made tile and national life. We shall. always, went to arrange that strange bargain And If we remember wireless or for Naomi's parcel of land which legal - same use of our opportunities in the 2 hope, be a forward-looking people, those first aeroplanes of pre -War, matter 'of postage stamps as some) ready to face in an adventurous spirit ized his further declaration:—`More- days; the excitement when the Chan- other nations, The new series would; every new task that confronts us; but over, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of net was flown by Bleriot; and remem-, certainly make for brighter British' we must never allow to wither those Mahlon, have I purchased to be my her the mighty air -mail liners of the sections in our stamp albums, mead wife„ to raise up the name of the dead $hies to -clay, who can doubt that even' • ! tweets, embedded re our past, from rall if new issues, with fresh sub upon his inheritance filch we derive strength and stabrHty. And you've always played the game "We have a great histo- and the "What the 'gate was to ancient R In a kingly way; more we treasure its memories, the Israel the Market Cross was to our Who esti-ever say. that you forefathers. Justice, bargaining and strongere willabeer our determination Failed to keep' life's compass true? that the chapter in it for which we legal evidence of bargains — these ourselves are responsible shall be a three things constituted a large part of the life of an early mercantile corn- When war's storm broke o'er your worthy one."—Mr. Ramsay MacDon-com- munity, and in days when the art of head all- writing was a rare accomplishment Courage never slept; Not for centuries have the citizens When the empire mourned its dead, of Glasgow witnessed a scene of more human memory was helped by the;cir- With the sad yoitwept, historical and romantic import than oumstance that such things were done that which was presented under the Fver hoping for that time shadow of the old Tolbooth Steeple, which has stood the test of time as • places, through the beneficence of,Dr, ably leaves more behind him than if. earth only once in a quarter of'a Blackie, that pulled ,down nearly 300 he domes by'train, It all amounts; century. $300,000,000 a year. I "The beauty of that appearance, years ago, Policy to. FIII Trains - would be almost overwhelming. . We walk in wonder and awe The object' of the railway is to 011 should .wa TwentyYears a King, 'its trains and, the better the service,. through our fields and woods, and an (ILM. the King celebrated the the better the patronage," was Sir apple -bough in blossom would seem to twentieth anniversary. of his accession Henry's reply to a query by R, B: us, then, tate miracle that it really is. to the Throne). Hanson, as to why trains were being "It is in this quickening of the King of hearts as well as lands, Not upon a throne, But an you this Empire stands, You, its corner -stone, speeded.; up when the passenger traf- senses, not to shy nothings (Stralc flc is falling. speare gave that phrase to a repre- "Improved' facilities," he said, "un -i sentative of statecraft, not to a citi doubtodly increased.business. Some! zea of the heavenly city), that poetry services, unprofitable at first, were has its great part to play in our mod, Twenty' years have proved yourworthnow very profitable; for .example, ern life. It quickens. us to miraeul To the .farthest bounds of earth. those from' Canada to New York,i ons realities, To enter into the Helpfulness has been your aim Each and every day, more amazing discoveries may—nay,'jeots, were made from time to tilos. must—come? t From the publicity viewpoint, too, Nothing is sure but change. And the idea is a good one. Stamps, the changes Lord Birkenhead foto- bearing pictures of some of our love - whole industries within the next sen- erful aid to the "Come to Britain" allay' movement. In addition to agriculture, the rub- _� rF ber and cotton industries will go. ( EVERY DAY HEROISM "It is already possible to synthesise' We should all be heroic if our trials were on a grand stale! Should we? Heroism in the least is the only pledge or heroism in the greatest. Un - rubber from isoprene In any ordin- arily equipped chemical laboratory," writes Lord Birkenhead. "The pro- cess is as yet uneconomic, for syn- lass we take the smallest trials as syn- thetic rubber costs anything up 80 real trials of us and trifling tests as fifty times the price M. the natural, product. It le certain, however, that real tests of us, we give promise of go - this will not long continue, and that Ing down under great ones. Dignify "The Mercat Cross, the token of the within a very few years synthetic rub- little troubles by the thought of the city's commerce, which has developed ber will be produce] on an industrial divine purpose in them and great trou- from humble beginnings, was being re - scale which -will soot drive the na. bles will have dignified treatment. Let stored on almost exactly the same site tura! rubber off the market" each small annoyance or disappoint- as its predecessor, which, in the phraseology of the period, was 'made equall with the grand' in 1659." Professor R. S. Reit, speaking on the occasion, said: "They might ask him to tell them what meant we, what meant they, by that Cross to which our remote an- cestors attached great importance and at a fixed and recognized place. When the bells of Peace should chime. "So the Cross became tilt., scene of almost everything that affected the the symbol of the community's torpor= secular life of the community. Goods Sailor King indeed you are, for sale were exposed at at near thhe Cheerful, hopeful, strong, ate l existence," says the Glasgow Her- Cross. Royal proclamations were read Iliad in peace and calm in war, from it and legal notices were posted Bating strife and wrong, on it. Clinging close to hoino and wife, "Perhaps nothing showed more Pattern of domestic life. clearly the part played by the Market Never since the world began Cross in the burghal life than the fact that the Town Council which had Has there ever been made it 'equal with. the ground' con- Sweeter woman, kinder man, tinued to speak and act as if it were Than our Ring and Queen, 'still there, And, if this seem simple praise, "There were many references to it Let who can name nobler traits. in the printed records, and no reader —A, B. Cooper in Answers. would guess that it had ceased to Happiness comes far more from exist, Everybody knew where it had been, the name was retained in coin- within than from without,—J. F. mon use, and the egg and butter mar- Clarke, ket, for example, continued to be held at the Cross just- as in the days when The world is full of, hope for the an actual Cross stood there;" man who has hopes for,himself.—J. Brierley. The outlook for the cotton industry, already depressed, is equally black. The Doom of Cotton "Artificial silk is already an impor- sake and the making of heroism Is tante menace to the existence of cot- here, went be one degree of heat in the fur- nace for the steel's sake, one gritty grain in the grindstone for the knife's ton spinning and weaving. It seems FLATTERY to fulfil every function of cotton and to htlill it as satisfa tori' Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed rials manufactured from this sub- Which oft offends the very idol—vice, our nearer ancestors seemed to have stance are more p.eashtg to the eye Wbose shrine it would perfume. attached no importance at alta The and torch, more desired by women, —Fenton. Cross in an ancient burgh, in Scotland — and yet as durable as cotton goods. or ' elsewhere, served the purpose ArtiflefaI silk, which can be produced In the moral arena there is no nen- which was served by the gate many es cheaply as cotton, will certainly trallty.—Harold Begbie. centuries earlier, in the cities of the Glasgow's new Mercat Cross re - destroy the cotton industry.- ___ -.— 'Intensive scientific research has already been flinanced, both in Lan- cashire and the United States, with the object of discovering a means whereby Cotton Ian successfully with- stand the challenge of artificial silk," adds Lord Birkenhead, "There is much discussion and promise of all kinds of 'recesses for mercerizing cot- ton thread. But I foresee all this activity, will have been in vain, Arti- ficial silk'has already shown itsrlf the ultimate victor, CottotP is obsoles- cent." bsoles- cent" Motor -cars as Toys Yet another industry doomed to eventual extinction ie the manufac- ture of motor -cars, Lorcl Birkenhead expects the coming of the cheap, fast, convenient family airplane to first check and t' -en destroy the prosperity of motor -car manufacturers. "By 2030 motor -cars will probably have passed their zenith of popular - Sty. A century later they will only be used for shopping, picnics, and the amusement of youth. They will, in fact, sink to the level now oc- cupied by the bicycle," With all these changes in prospect, it is natural that some attempt should be made to improve the human race itself. This will ' be achieved by eugenics—scientific breeding. "During the next century," prop• hesies Lord Birkenhead, "biology promises definite and sweeping ad- vances. The secrets of human here- dity will certainly receive elucidation; the vague nonsense which now Mas- querades as 'eugenics' will be replac- ed by an exact science- Its experts will elatm, for example to predict Capt, with acutort iy the physical and mental retort, New English Track Rec ord Set at Brookland ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS CONTINUE TO EXPERIMENT WITH SPEED CARS. Birkin, English speed driver, at wheel of Hon Dorothy regent's. car, when he set up new traok record of 138,98 m1100 an hour, and beat Kaye Don's • Washington and the south," Montreal Port Growing' The St. Lawrence route, Sir Henry stated, is becoming more and more popular and Montreal a very growing port. Fine train services undoubted- ly bring to Canadian ports much Euro- pean traffic orginating in the United States. Because $10,000,000 was lost on passenger services, it did not mean that it wasall lost. All the large rail- as conscience clause would lead, to in - ways had the same experience. Pas- quiries being made into teachers' be- senger services could not be dispensed Refs, and that under its operation with and, "if they are not good, we tbey would be worse off than now. should not have them." The most "I 'once had on my staff," she re - Profitable services really were the lated, "a man teacher, who told me suburban. It cost no more to have a one day that he could not conscienti- full train than an empty one." ously give the flied lesson on. the Col. Cantley wanted to know when prophet Jonah. I said to him, 'All right, I'11_ take Jonah myself.' "The next pay he asked me: 'Are you going to take the scripture les- son again?' I replied: 'Not this morning.' Whereupon he said: 'Well I'd litre, after hearing you on' Jonah, to listen to you again.' I •turned on him, and retorted. 'No doubt you would, but I've something else to ;do, so get on with it, my lad.' " kingdom of great .poetry is to enter into the real world, the intelligible world, a world that is far more solid and sure than that whih surrounds most people," Teacher and Jonah Miss E. R. Conway, a former presi- dent of the N.U.T. expressed the opinion, at the recent conference, that • ,the company would be needing more freight cars and Sir Henry said the system had inherited 8,000 old wood- en Cars, -which were being got rid of as quickly as possible. "Do you .ever anticipate coming to the end of your betterment program?" asked Malcolm McLean, 14 I.P. "No, no railway or no individual, ever does," Sir Henry answered Man Sought For 18 Years Arrested When He Begs Chicago.—"Big Charley," wanted for 18 years in connection with a ,$272,-000 safe -cracking in Canada, was hell at the Detective Bureau recently for the authorities at New Westminster, B.C. "Charley," alias John W.-I-Iarris, alias 2. P. Montague, alias William St. Clair, hold-up man, burglar and yegg, is alleged to have been a member of the bandit gangwhich raided the Bank of Montreal branch at New Westmin- ster in the slimmer of 1912. Despite a convincing • police record, Charley denied emphatically that he was a versatile criminal. He said; "Tho charges are ridiculous. Why, son, I'm old enough to be your grand- father. Do 1 look like a 'Pete Man? They don't want hie in Canada, either. That cop arrested me just because we had an argument. Do I look tough? Of course not, and you have to be tough to do all the things they say 3 did." As Sergeant Thomas Connelly was leaving his home, a shabby man asked him for a dime to buy coffee, Connol- ly took him to the Detective Bureau, 'where he gave his name as Joseph •Burgess, but was identified as Charley." Montreal.—The Bank of Montreal' has no information, nor bave city de- tectives, on "Big Charley," Many Motorists- -Don't give a hoot for pedestrians. -Are content to take 111e as it Comes. —Know all about the crawl of the open road. *Seem to enjoy running down their fellow -men. —Like speed -hogging, but are keen on saving.their own -bacon. —Go crazy over a new oar and finish Who Said "Hard Times?" "Is the business outlook bad? Advertise. Think the stoney market mad? 'Advertise. Grumbling never pays the rent, Worry does not yield a cent, If on profits yon are bent, Advertise. "'Good times' is a state of mind, Advertise.. - Faith pays dividends, you'll find, Advertise. Rise above depression's mist, Delete dull days from your list, Advertise, "If you have something to sell, Advertise. Say it often, say it well, Advertise: Advertise your wares today, Advertise the modern way, Advertise—make it pay— Advertise," Grenville Kleiser, in Naw York P Times. Prince Gives First Aid . London,—The Prince of Wales an• - peered in the role of a Good, Samara- tan recently by giving first aid to an. injured motorcyclist En route to Hendon Aerodrome to fly to Sandwich for the golf tournament, the Prince saw two men bending over the uncon- scious figure of John Penniall, who had fallen from his machine. , The Prince alighted from his car and asked • 'Can I do anything?" Then ho placed a cushion from his auto -under the . mat's head and used his :handkerchief to check the sufferer's nosebleeding. Assured that everything possible bad been done, the Prince continuedto the aerodrome, but sent back his car in case the ambulance had not arrived. Up by doing the same thing under it. Gibraltar, a military expert says, —Discover that in addition to the now serves no useful purpose. Well, cost of the car, there is the upkeep isn't it still the thing that the insur- and very often the turnover. once Company is as strong ne?