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The Seaforth News, 1930-07-10, Page 6King's Portrait on New Two -Cent Stamp Does Not Flatter Color Anaemic Ottawa.—The Ottawa Journal ` re- cantly said on its new page; "Severe criticisms are being 1eve1 fed at the new two -cent postage stamp which has just been .it into, circula- tion by the post oflloe•department! ,The stamp is of different design from. the former issue and in some respects im more distinctive, Instead of scroll- work, such as headed the former is - Sue, two small maple, leaf 'designs baye been introduced which -give the stamp a distinctly Canadian signific- 'oanoe. But the chief criticism is being di- rented against the representation of King George, which is the main Pea= ture of the design. • "The picture of King. George would. more easily pass for one of "Foxy Ferdy, 1 the deposed King of Bulgaria, who lost his throne as a.result of that country's.' participation in the grat war on' the side' of the Central. Powers, That Is the chief criticism which has been made of the design, "Other complaints against the new stamp are the rather anaemie green 'color of it. "It islearned that a change was.. made in the firm of contractors for the issue of the new stamp, "The issue of stamps of other de- nominations will not be circulated for a time, according to ono post office omolah" Blood Transfusion Does Farming Pay? Donors Sought Just Ask Denmark Science Discovers Many Use For Blood .ransfusion The increase in the use of bio transfusion has been so great of la that the Royal Victoria Hospit Montreal, is in need of a correspon ing increase in its permanent don list of people who are willing to. com- bine a service of the greatest humani- tarian value with personal remunera- tion. es Co-operation Keeps Men EIn ployed—Highest Wages I od Paid to Copenhagen. -While the numbers of• al' unemployed are on the Increase in 6 several countries, their numbers are The reason for this donor list is that human beings fall into four groups for purposes of blood trans- fusion, and it is dangerous to give any person blood except from an in- dividual of his own group. The tests for the proper grouping of individuals take time and the people on the donor list whose groups are known can be called upon in moments of ex- treme emergency. Many students have paid their way through college by selling their blood, but students are transients and it is the aim . of the Royal Victoria Hospital to have its upon o p donor list a group of men and women who are permanent resi- dents and who could be counted upon stedily decreasing in Denmark, des- pite the fact that this country pays the highest wages in Europe. The. number of unemployed men is now in Full That Cord! Lonely Dwellers on St. Kilda Island , uels Are Healthy To Be Placed' on Scottish Mainland Declare Surgeons • Lolodn. — The British 'Government has decided to accede to the unani- mous potitien from the fishorfolk''of the'•lone Island of St. Kilda, off, the northern Scottish coast, to, move them from that desolate epot, T. Johnston, Undersecretary of State for Scotland, replying to a question in the House of Copmens'on June'17, said that he had visited St. Kilda . and that mea- sures for carrying out the evacuation and placing the' inhabitants, who num- bered umbered about; 65, on the mainlean,"were now receiving attention. 'There was'no_scheme 'for the re- settlement of the islanders, but every endeavor would be made to .'sell the sheep on the island and the proceeds would be applied to the cost of the evacuation. The sheep referred to are • stores was by spinning wool plucked from their Shoop, which feed on the scanty grass of tho towering rocks, By combing, ,shinning and weaving the wool into cloth ,they could make about $25 each annually. In stormy weather the relief of lone -1 ly :islands off the coast of Scotland was not only an 'expensive but a pre-� carious undertaking. The unfortunate experience of the inhabitants of Mon- sa, in the Shetland blends, was citedl as an example of this. The steainer,I which' carlries the Shetland mails was wrecked and of the •130 nail bags on board only four reached' the shore.I Three of these were reduced to pulp by the Imitating of the heavy seas,! The contents of the fourth bag—sur- pr'isingly well preserved—were deliv- a peculiar goat -like breed, black, °red to their addresses only to be re -I hardy•and almost wilcl, ceived with the utmost disgust. With - The only means the people of St. out exception they wero all demand Kilda had .of raising looney to buy notesfrom tho income-tax collector. Detroit Judge .Uses ' 1 �'ra,nce Pays Honor T l J Has the prisoner any disease or Ino re ,New Technique ff How old is he mentally? Paris—At Cilantillyb where he had I. Has he a Job,. or any financial re his headquarters during the Battle of Striking view as Manley J. Merrell jumped from plane over Parks Air sources? port, East. St. Louis, Mo. Parachute bas just started to unravel as ripcord is heithe stole e, Marshal Jofue witnessed. s willing to co-operate in his the dedication of a statue of himself, is pulled. town rehabilitation? These are some of the questions on which Judge Frank Murphy of•the Re-. corder's Courtin Detroit informs him. self when a ;man .charged with a felony is brought. before him. j One week is allowed for the tests and examinations and the securing of information by the Probation Depart - 1 nient on the .mental, physical, social, he vicinity of 30,000— several thous- and lower than at the same time last year and 30 per cent. !'ower than two years ago at the same period. Denmark 18 chiefly an agricultural country, with a large export trade in dairy,products and meats, Although its industries and manufactories are still relatively unimportant they man- age to supply a large share of the do- mestic needs of the country, even though practically all raw materials must be imported. The thriving condition of agricul- ture—indicated by the fact that Den- mark exports dairy products. oven so. far away as the United States—is due to the land policy of the Government m times of emergency, and the high degree of co-operation There is no greater life-saving mea-' among farmers. Between 1900 and sure known to medical science to -day 1026 12,559 new farms were establish - than the use of blood transfusion, it is ed with the financial assistance of the said. When first introduced it was state. About 95 per cent. of all farms looked upon as a measure to be em. are owned by the farmers themselves. p'cyed only in replacing blood in a The many small farmers participate patient near death from hemorrhage. in the advantages of large-scale farm- lt is still empinyed for that purpose, ing through co-operative associations, but it is also used to -day for patients' which assist not only in the produc- striving to combat a severe infection' tion, distribution, and profitable sale or suffering from n blood disease of farm products, but provide for the which they are unable to overcome common purchase of foodstuffs for live on account of the impoverished stato stock and of fertilizers. The dairy co - of their' blood. ees Captured In Cnty of London operatives include 90 per cent. of the total, daisy farms of the country. The co-operatives also control for- eign trade closely, wblle the Govern - London University "World Renowned I London University which, before the war, thought Itself large with just under 5000 students, now re- ports that the number of those follow- ing its courses has grown to 10,200, being more than double the former • total. Lord Beauchamp, presiding as chancellor at its recent "Presenta- tion" Day celebrations here, said many of the post -graduate students came from overseas, and a project for housing them was under discussion. We become me year byyear," Lord Beauchamp added, "not only the University for London, but just as London is the capital of the Empire so London University is becoming more and more an imperial univer- sity." Segrave's Mark is Recognized London—The International Motor Union officially confirmed the speed recently attained by the late Major Sir Henry Segrava at Lake WInder- mere, just before a fatal accident cost his life, as the world's unlimited water record. The speed conerined was 85.7 nauti- cal miles an hour, or 98.7 miles an hour. "It le better not to waste time fret- ting about things which cannot be changed."—Philip Snowden. Largest Plane In World? Paris — Germany's largest ,land plane, the G-38, perhaps the monster aeroplane of the world,.landed here recently and became the centre of at- traction for admiring Freucthmen, Eighteen passengers were on the aero- plane, which .carry forty-five, It is made ,entirely of metal, bas 2,400 horsepower, a wing -spread of 150 feet, weighs 24 tons at --full load, and can cruise 2,000 miles, or the dis- tance between London and Cairo. St. Lawrence Waterway Protected by Senate Washington, D.C. — Tlie Senate amended the Rivers and Harbors bill recently to provide that federal opera- tion of the Erie and Oswego canals 1n New York State shall not interfere with development of the St. Lawrence waterway. British to Survey`Greenland For'Possible Landing Fields Loudon—Tho Royal Geographical Society will send a scientific expedi- tion to East . Greenland ,this summer under Dr. H, G. Watkins, on board Shackleton's steamer Quest. The panty will survey possible landing sta- tions for British air routes. which Is the first to be unveiled In' France to the hero who checked the German advance. , Like Marshal Foch, who went through a similar ceremony at Cas- sel, where his statue was erected, the venerable Marshal Was much moved by the.recollections- inspired in re - .visiting the scenes of the most stir- ring events of his life . and by the add economic status of the "patient:'' words of President-Doumergue, Ga - i When all this is done, the sentenc- brie! Hanotaux of the French Acad ing board meets with the' prisoner for -emy, Francois Sicard, president of this 'conference. . After the conference institute, and others, extolling his vir the prisoner is excused, and the three tues ill war and In peace. Marshal members of the board decide on the Joffre but lately recovered from a sentence. ' long illness which prevented his at - The sentencing board consls`s or tendance at the Foch funeral, al- the.Judge, the head of the Probation j g, though he had himself carriedthe Department and the chief of the gup 'steps to pay his respects at the bier psychiatric staff. of his colleague and generalissimo. 1 This, J. A. Fellows tells us in The The statue stands in a park on the Nation is the new technique Judge main avenue of the town and portrays Murphy employs in handling all felony Marshal Jo1fre standing in the cos - eases. -tame which he wore as comrnander- in-chief and in a simple attitude with military papers 1 his hand such as Set Afire n a. hand, a Forests the inhabitants often saw him at his To Kill Insects headquarters. ' 1 When foresters in northern Utah In his address ea. Flanetaex re- discovered that bark beetles and other called the confidence. ener.y, bravey destructive insects were destroying and calm which. :ii.: 'hal .30)0re in- fi thousands of fine trees in the na- spired in Praucs's denten hour, and' tional forest they combated the pests gave him equal praise lir the dignity, P with fire the only thing that would fidelity and disclplina In his attitude g completely eradicate them. I since his retirement. Ho recalled) Examination showed, that more than partoularly the service he rendered I • 50,000 trees were infested with the when ho went to the United States destructive bark beetle. .Fire crews,' to convince the Americans of tire b London—"A swarm of bees in June chequer plan recently authorized. equipped with specially constructed righteousness of the Allied cause. P a or a s ver spoon an old saw reel w th oil to a height of twenty says, but Ernest Melrcee, who took Vandals Wantonly fi t Boxing, Football and Riding Axe More Dangerous German stpdeiit duels are not in the r•, leastdangerons, IL is contended, and( what ie more, they ,are 'really conda c]ve to moral and physical rohuetn'ess. This is the claim of the German Sur. sisal Association. It is made, we learn from Berlin dispatches, 'in aformal Protest against a piopoeal to increase the pualisliments of University stu- dents who engage in duels. In the manifesto of the Carman SurSur- gical Association is found a whole- hearted and powerful defense of the student duel, writes the Berlin corres- pondent of the' London Daily Tele- graph. Yet it leaves proud if unsightly scars on the fame of many lhriversity men In Germany, he reminds us, and that, is why projected legislation against eta -dent duelinge won .sytp-. pethy in some 'quarters. But in the view of the German Surgical Assocla- tion, inensur, am the practice is called, is the least, dangerous of sports, and this correspondent giies on: "It -should be understood that the combatants.in the mensur are protect- ed in all'. their vial and essential parts by goggles, gauntlets of plain mall, broad leather pads, and mattress -like iiuiited wrappings. ' 1They faceone another in fixed positions, from which they are not permitted to budge, and, as a rule, the arms must bo kept extended, and only the wrists may be used in the manipu- lation of the sabers "The cheeks and chin'are practical. ly the only portions of the body which are both unproteoted and within reach of the adversary's weapon. They suf_ fer accordingly. "In a case -in which the monsur had fatal results,,'thlie Supreme Court treated it as dueling, and consequent= ly as punishable. "This decision ion does not seem to have affected its vogue, and efforts are now being made to have it speci- fically penalized by the New Criminal Code befoi•o.the Reichstag commit- tee." ommittee." But the manifesto of the surgeons declares, as we are further advised by this correspondent, that the sabers with which these contests are fought scribed precautions are taken. More- over, the surgeons assert that the ma eusur is to he regarded not , a. 'duel" but as "a fighting game" or "a giants; sport." As reported by this Berlin c sine- otdent, the declaration of the mir- acles claims also that— mentt alsod gives financial aid to ex- lnl'n e-iniul'ies ete0 by 01111 S.uvr, t is said, are much lees (lair rams than those resulting from the flet in oxing, 'as is clearly shown by a 10m - orison of the numbers of fatalities nd • permanent injuries in the two ghting games.' 'Moreover, the fatalities of the men- ur are almost invariably indirect eon- equences, caused by blood -poisoning r secondary hemorrhage, whereas Baths in. the boxing -ring are caused irectly by fractures of the skull or por s nn er the terms of a new ex - 150 -Mile Speed Attained On Trestle-Trackin Scotland on lire. pumps, umPs, sprayed the diseased -. Ss w th it t i forty feet and then set them ! Yard Announces New Finger Print System e n swarm from an electric light stand- Destroy Monarch This treatment *completely destroy- :''i,ondon—A' conference of chiefs of s and on one of Lon inn's busiest thorn- Los Angeles—A charred stump is hf x 01 Street, recently, all that remains to -day of a manila. thinks 10 ought to be worth much cent Joshua tree, believed to have more aftemail trouble he had getting been the largest, of the strange desert it. species in existence. Fire, presum- Mr, Melrose was on the omnibus ably set by vandals, destroyed the 80 - when he saw a swarm which so many foot -high monarch, whose age bad people were watching that traffic was been estimated at 1,000 years. held up. Being an expert beekeeper, The tree stood in the National he asked a policeman's permission to Roosevelt Monument Park near Lan - take the swarm, but the policeman caster, Cal„ which embraces several 'warned hint that he might be sum of these rare trees, nroned for obstructing traffic, while I if he tifmbed the lamp post he might Polish Farmer Discovers I also be summoned for damaging it. So Mr. Melrose went to the inspoc- Prehistoric Burial Ground tor at the police station who telephon- ( Torun, Poland --A peasant farmer 1 ed the electric company which bent tilling his soil near Torun recently a special platform on which 0Ir. Mel-' found an ancient urn which led to the rose mounted. He then swept bees discovery of a prehistoric burial into a cardboard box. I ground dating 2,000 to 1,000 B.C. The Daily Herald, which reports the story, says that when 1'Ir. Melrose came down again he found hundreds of bees inside his coat and trousers and sip bis sleeves. Swarming bees, however, seldom sting, and only one of then) stung him. The captured swarm has now been sent to a bee farm In the conntly after being offer- ed to the Zoological Garden which, however, declined the gift on the ground of lack ot suitable accernmo- dations. French Woman Wins Honor Paris.—Js woman for the firet time bas been given one of the most covet- ed titles in French medicine, "Doctor of Paris Hospitals." The woman is Madame Therese Ber- trand Fontaine, 33, mother of two children, who was appointed to that title recently by a jury of eminent doctors after a long competitive ev Amination. She must wait several years, however, for a vacancy a.e the chief of house physicians of one of the large city hospitals. Prince Tries Gliding London—The Prince of Walee, an excellent pilot who is never permit- ted to fly alone, took hie first glider 3eeeon recently at Fir]e, near Lewes, in Sussex. Robert Kronfeld, German, reported to be- theworld's most skillful glider Idiot, instructed the Prince, but it was understood the British heir has not yet taken the craft into the air. Visitor—"And bow old is your baby brother, dear?" Small Sister—"He Isn't old at all, He's this year's model." London.—Safe rail speeds of 150 miles an hour were claimed recently for a new form of passenger transport in which cars holding 25 passengers are suspended from steel trestles and driven by airplane propellers. A section of trestle -track is almost completed at lviiingavie, Scotland, near Glasgow, and full-scale tests are to be carried out at the end of July. Known as the rail -plane system of transport, in its general idea, and par- ticularly in. its mode of propulsion, the new system differs from all other forms of rail or road transport. Ac- cording to its inventor, George Bennie, a Scottish engineer, he will demon- strate in July that a speed of 150 miles an hour can be reached with perfect safety. The rail -plane car is cigar -shaped with a propeller at each end. This car is driven by air -screws driven by electric motors, in which case* the power is drawn from the overhead rail or by gasoline motors, Mr. Bennie claims that the steel trestle -work from which the cars are hung can be erected at about half the cost of ordinary street -car tracking, or one-third the cost of a normal dou- ble -track railway. He also claims that the trestle -work can be erected over Toads, railways of canals without in- terfering with existing ground traffic. It is understood that Great Britain's railroad experts aro much interested in Mr. Bennie's claims and a large de- legation of theta will travel north to witness the initial tests in July. e e ee es and t o tees were only po a ro a pars o e 1 s slightly damaged. Commonwealth of Nations was held d here June 16, and simultaneously d particulars have appeared of a new s Irish Casino Will system for classifying finger prints which claims to revolutionize this Im- t Rival Monte Carlo? portant method of criminal identifi-. et Dublin—Ireland is to have a gamb- cation. ling casino which will rival Monte This system has been evolved in g Carlo, it is said, Scotland Yarci, and le desenfbed in a Backed by a. group of English<finan- volume about to be published. It en- ciers, it is to be located at Bray, the ables identity to be established with seaside resort about 12 miles from such speed and certainty Prom single here. It is to be pretentious, will finger prints found at scenes of crime have a !'paradise" garden, and amuse- that it has rendered possible the pre- t merits which are not found at the is- paration of reliable maps showing u land resort. the itinerary of individual house- t Present plans call for the expends, breakers plotted out with no other a turn of more than site. $300,000 in prepare- material than the marks left by them t tion, grading and surveying of the at different localities. hock. "Indeed, the surgeons go further han this and maintain that mountain- ering, swimming, riding, and football are undoubtedly all much more dan- erous than the mensur." Lengthening Sheets In many homes there aro shoots stored away and seldom used because hey are not quite long enough to luck oder well as lower sheets or he be urned back over the upper blankets, a upper sheets. - A little study on he part of one housewife who assess - d a drawer fall of ueh linen resnit- d in a very satisfactory solution of ow to make it available for use. Since solid color, she thought, or ust a hem in color, is attractive and n good style, wiry not sew a pastel- inted strip at the top end of each heet, thus providing the desired ength and at the satrro time intro- ucing a new gayety. Eachwide top hens was opened and new wide hem in color added. In Paris Objects to "01d Spanish Custom" A bull fight staged near Parte projected a -near riot when local residents objected to the sport. Here is' seen`inoUuted police attempting to stem disturbances when crowds tried to burn palisade, t Gigantic Plant ' Opened By U.S.S.R. e e 1r J Rostov -on -Don, U.S.S.R. — Another 1 step toward Soviet Russia's achieve- t went of her industrial five-year plan s was taken recently when the "Selma- 1 shstroi," a great manufacturing plant, d was 'officially opened, It is claimed the factory is the a largest plant In tate world devoted to the manufacture of farm implements. The plant was completed Under the supervision of American engineers and along entirely American techni- s cal lines. There are 35 buildings with an esti- g mated output of 115,000,000 rublese f (about $57,500,000) worth of imple- p meats a Year. the case of some very short sheets, it was necessary to adet ea band 15 incite wide, that 9s, 15 inches after the hem had been turmed over and owed. Colors wore chosen with due n- erd to thefact that some of the aslrionable shades for sheets are each, light green, orchid, orange, maize, and of course pink and blue, although the latter two aro mostly for children's' rooms. " Colored hens were added also to some pillow cases 80 that they might match the sheets. Some of these sheets and pillow oases had their colored hems or wide bands set off with hemstitching, but others; intended for everyday use, had the new material put on plain, the lovely colors themselves being suffi- ciently decorative. King Carol has found it necessary o go away for a rest after ten days' work, Being a King must bo an. meting experience for one who has ot heretofore acknowledged any re- ponsibility. Chicago citizens threaten to clean p the city from the top clown--start- ng with Mayor "Big Bill" Thonpaon, William is regarded as the top of the Windy City., then It does used cleaning -up. Women to Receive Business Training Long Island University 'will add en September, a course designed especial- ly to assist the young woman of col- lege education in getting her first: job. "Too little emphasis is placed on vo- cational training of women," declares Miss Mildred M. Johnson, head of the pecretarial department, who is in charge of the new course, "Too many' college women are finding themsolvee, upon graduation, unable to compete with persons of less education but of more technical shill." Cares Whiten Premier's Hair Melbourne, Australia—Cares of of - floe have turned the hair. of, Prime Minister Scullin snow white. When u be took office six months ago he had. i, coal black hair; His most harassinf If problem, he said, has been that of un- employment, p