HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-10-23, Page 2Britain Plans Law to Preserve Old Houses;
Would Check Removal by Americans
London— Fer the arst time an at-
tempt will be made by the government
to restrict by law the removal from
Britain of buildingof historic and
national intereet. A measure for this
purpose is now In the hands of Par
raentary draftsmen and is expected to
be introduced In the corning session.
The bill a designed to be an (Wee
-
Ova eheck upon the growing tendency
on the pert of wealthy foreigners,
especially Americans, since the World
War, to buy historic, houses and other
buildings and remove them piece by
piece' for reerection abroad.
Not long ago a piece,or a fourteenth
century England Cotswold cottage at
Gliedworth was taken down and packed
into boxes. The dismembered. cottage,
weighing 475 tons, was placed aboard
4 train of sixty-seven oars and then
shipped to America. The Earl or Pow-
is's old hall -timbered house at Lymore
near Montgomery, bunt about 1675,
without any alterations was sched-
uled as an ancient monument by the
Office of Werke, but the Earl's offer
to the nation. had to be refused be-
cause or lack of funds for adequate
raaintainance, The house was alp-
tioned and was purchased by an an-
tique dealer, who said much of the
valuable oak paneling and the fine
staircase would go to America.
Meanwhile, despite the proposed
legislation, an 'Englishwoman, Mrs.
Amy Adams, has announced she is
going to America for the sole pur-
pose of selling old English cottages
to Americans, She said she already
had bought a Hertfordshire cottage
for shipment to America next year,
"Sine the desire for old cottages
has grown in America," She added,
"I am going to buy and sell them."
Whoa a building of historical or
national interest conies under the
provisions of the proposed bill, it will
be illegal for the structure to be re-
moved, not only out of England, but
from its existing site. It is also ex-
pected that a check will be placed on
stripping such buildings of their fit-
tings.
Meat and Drink mentsor, a land surveror. Thomson
Once Sold by Yard
looked to the Italian grimmacia, and
if this be reliable, then it may come
from the Spanish gimio, monkey, in
Latin simia, but it should not be for-
gotten that grimaciers were formerly
a company of artists whose duty was
to cam's the fantastic)heads used in
architecture, such as are frequently
to be seen in our gargoyles, and
Randle Cotgrave draws attention to
this fact. But, in Old Saxon we
have grime, a war mask, including the
vizor of a helmet that concealed the
warrior's face. Both the comic and
tragic masks of the ancients were so
distorted and ludicrous as to repro-
duce a facial expression.
"Our phiz comes from the French
Vis, the face, from the Latin visus,
from viso, the visage or countenance.
The chain from the ph to the v is
confirmed by the word visomy used
by Spenser for physiognomy in days
when scholars did pretty much as
they pleased with the language that
they used, From the Old English vis
we have vis-a-vis face to face.
Brewing Created the Stoker
"One etymologist says that the
word stoker is from the Irish stoca,
a servant boy; a helper, adding that
the final a of other languages often
becomes er in English, as in Spanish
dage. English dagger. But the
original stoker came from the
Dutch, is which language it was
a term used in brewing, and it ap-
pears in dictionaries of Bailey and
Phillips—one looks alter a fire, and
some other concerns in a brewhouse.
It is allied to the Middle Dutch stock,
propably front the use by the stoker
or a stock, or thick stick in stirring
a fire aud arranging the logs, and this
is the same word as the Old French
estoquer. Middle English stoken, to
stab. A stock rapier was a stabbing
rapier and so we see that from stab-
bing to stoking is but a step.
"The story of pier is also an in-
teresting one, and Skea.t traces it
from he Angio -French pare, a stone.
It is defined as a mass of stone -work,
forming a pier or pile of a bridge.
Objections have been offered to this
etymology of Dr. Skeet's on the ground
that in the first place, the piers of
bridges were very generally made of
wood and not or stone, it would not
have to be called simply a pier.
The piers of a bridge are one thing
and stones are another. The phrase
a bridge with wooden piers is quite
c01110100.
"The real origin of pier is said to
be altogether different from this, It
meant originally a landing place on
the eashore or the banks of a river
and as seamen often. landed from their
ships at night. It was necessary to
keep a light burning to guide them
to the landing spot, This light was
the pyr or pyre or beacon, a pier or
lanteru by the shoreside. From the
pier or light at the end of a jetty,
the sense was extended to include the
landing place, and ultimately was ap-
plied to all structures built over water
or raised from it, which were called
piers,
English Forebears Referred to
Prussia as Sprucia as
Late as 1614
"Meat and drink were sold by the
Yard once upoa a time In Merrie Eng-
land," remarked that delver into an-
clout euetoms, Dr. Frank Vizetelly.:
"In those days, yard meant something,
prepared, and it was as common to
speak of a yard of beef -as it was to
ask for a yard of cloth. Wine, ale and
beer were served by the yard in a
glass that stood thirty-eight inches
high mai contained two pints. The
annual feast or the Corporation
01 Hanley in Staffordshire the luna-
tion of each member consisted of his
swearing realty to the organization
and drinicieg a yard of wine—that is
a pan of port or sherry—out of a
ests, me yart in length.
aai war' that has a vary interest -
lea Staatee sprat's with its double
m. i it...manly or Aura:: dress -
ea and ,a, the dr tree' known as
sa dr. On its face, this word
daa, e hair any resemblance to
Prnset. sae .in sp aeal occasions it
,?3.'r1 among our forbears
-el: net in the dress
ef :ea.
,-alert'., Mae who adopted
t'a„a,sa,sea tr of Prussia were
a which the epi -
111 • p • as. inatlit have been applied
fee' asopriety. They were
alaali roar 110 -area or Prussia,
wae aquintouly known and
1 .0 tease days. Spruce. The
r•• , • e. ehould have been
ea se. :::stead of Pruce is to
1.- al • "he English Cond-
it. -s ,a, whieh may have
be ei ,0 1i, ,.a ronu the
Pt' hissen.
Where Puss Came From
ara p that competes
reas, 'N. I .41:14..ter5 is cOul-
n). kn).34 be popular name
c .) 4. It 'ala' tit•Prprecie'
it 1, 'peso alea.heu spelled
. tea >sieta= was used for
b rid a hare. Wergwood,
!aeoriZer In etymology,
;11C the name was given
y 40 imeallon of the sound
)„,' c..t? hi Another
0.t ” tointed Out that
Vas a s tan spalten of by those
:a, was railed feints.
;he name carelessly
Inc sae in in French. and later
spat:, a ,tamh!., .);: languages, of which
Lalli formed no .mail part, intro-
dueed *he e-rin -saleli became a faul-
tier sn'! alt 03,1 not long before
tea met ..saa late of the noun le was
expoinal .1, ea. French definite ar,
ea. 1., sea aecame le puss.
las . aearet teal. student or
identify the gooseberry
with a,.Jails herrY, yet according
to lax Talb,st in Germany, plants
of :ea genus are known as Johannis-
be,r,ii. tin/ is Jolin's berries, because
.11'.'• ripe about the time of he
fee a1 st. John. midsummer. In
Lex G,)r:u.ta and in Rolland the fruit
him is -Tans-beeren, and
th- Iti lias hon carelessly, andig.
normia,le ...ermined Into Gans-beeren,
of a e am"- English gooseberry is
a translation. Gans In Ger-
man -lei-lilies a geese.
Curious History of Dupe
'Th' word dupe 'has a curious 1310'
tory. It originally meant a dove or
pigeon, the most Mange and guile-
less of creatures. Webster and Littre
both claim that the word came from
the old French name for the hoopoe,
probably an the ground that Beadle
lotgrave described dubs as a hooper,
a bird that bath on her head a great
Crest or telt of feathers, and nestles
fs. ordure.
"Even. at tbe present day, trustful
rind s1nipt persons are frequently
:called pigeons. The French have
orrupted pigeon, used la the Sense
f dupe, Into bejaune, rt, novice{ a
(simple, ignorant, unexperienced ass;
rude, nufashioned, homebred, hoy-
den; a sot; Mule; dolt; noddis; one
that's blanket and hath nought to say
when he hatli most need to speak; so
Cotgrave wrote it into the record.
'Grimace Is another word with
whieli oar eitufe, rooters have loved
to r r ;r1-1
; • : terra
gt'
Warlus Once Horse -Whale
"The horse -whale of old is the wal-
rus of to -day, It is sometimes spoken
of as the seahorse. In Iceland it is
rendered kross-hvair, The name is
said to have been. given to it from the
noise that the small animal makes,
arhicbis said to resemble the neigh-
ing of a horse.
"The term asparagus is one of
doubtful origin. /1 has been. traced
to the Latin from the Greek aspara-
fros, In Medieval Latin it occurred
as sparagus, and was found in Eng-
lish in the form sparagi as early as
the year 1000. One scholar traces It
to asparagous, the windpipe, Cot -
grave explains the Preach esperge,
as "the herb sparage or spargus,"
which Skeet pronounced mere cor-
ruptions of the Leek'. word, T110
French aspereges is a holy water
sprinkler, a term derived from the
Latin aspergere, to sprinkle, yet
the asparagus of modern times scarce-
ly seems suited' for the purpose of
sprinkling, much less se when tie& up
in bunches.
"The etymology of the word pansy
is traced by Skeet to the French pen-
see, a word from which we get the
beautiful idea of `the flower of thOught
or remembrance,' yet our friends, the
etymological scholars, will not allow
•"1,1 pansy is to be tram' to panacea,
Lindbergh's Light
*mosoltimlatiossaws,
Lindbergh Beacon, most powerful searchlight in world, receatly placed
upon top of Palmolive building in. Chicago, from where its light shaft carries
for many miles.
for the pauacea or the Greeks was
the most celebrated herb—panakela,
signifying 'all -heal;' hence, a remedy
for all diseases, and the author of
this bright thought advises us to out-
sider the other name of the plant in.
support of his point or view—heart's-
ease, that Is, a euro for all woes.
28 Nations Sign
New Peace Pact
Project .Assures Financial Aid
to Invaded Nation ,
Geneva—Action taken during the
present meeting or the Leaps of Na-
tions indicated as the session near-
ed a close on October and that the
League was firmly convinced that
war -like penalties constitute the best
guarantee of security and peace,
Two developments pointed to this
conclusion. The first was the adop-
tion and signature of the convention
for financial assistance to invaded na-
tions in time of war and the second
was the rejection by the assembly of
a project to media), the League coven-
ant and harmonize it with the Kellogg
Pact outlawing war.
Twenty-eight nations signed the
convention offering financial assts.
tauce to invaded countries. Of these
22 were European eoantries. There
were itve abstemious — Germany,
Italy, Hungary, Switzerland and Lux-
emburg.
Under the convention the League
will be able to utilize immediately the
weapon of economic isolation agaiirt
any invading nation. The League
can strengthen an invaded nation
with loans and renewed economic as-
sistance.
Mauy experts expressed the convic-
tion that this would be sufficient to
stifle war.
Friend—"What's the matter with
your thumb?" Victim—'T hit the
wrong nail."
Fascist. Italy Bans the House. Fly What Can Radio Do
And Orders New Rules Enforced For Education?
The house, fiy, which le,' along
with the mosquito, one of the dile;
pests in, France and Italy where win-
dows are unweaned, will no longer
find toleration in Fascist. Italy, Mus-
solini's government began its cam-
paign against the sty 5, year ago,
directing attention toward the breed -
Mg plaoes and stating that oxterming-
tion indoors was by no meane an ef-
fective method of Prevention.
But the public has not responded
to the Fascist order with the whole
hearted enthusiasm expected of it. A
new order has now been issued to
the prefects of the kingdoisi remind-
ing them that the campaign of pre -
volition is to be strictly enforced
along thelines outlined previously by
Professor Antonio Berlese, head of
the Eutoinological Institute of Flor-
ence,
Professor Berieses's directions de-
mand attention to the fact that flies
deposit their eggs on decaying matter
and, if their larvae are to hatch out,
this matter must remain undisturbed
for a period of two weeks, All re -
time that cannot be destroyed should
be attacked in the Spring, being
sprayed with a solation of motorises,
arsenic and water. The flies are
readily attracted by the mixture and
,feeding eagerly upon it. die within an
hoer. It Is essential however; that
the spraying should be kept hp re-
gularly . throughout the Summer,
which is the' breeding season.
The 3erlese method has been sue-
cessfullY used at the Summer resort
of Moatecantlui, by the hotel:, on the
Lido, and a large tuberculosis sena
tarivan near Milan, as, well as the
Royal Palace of San Bossore, near
Pisa. Professor Berlese has gaps-
anteed to keep a town as large as
Florence completely free ' from files
within a three -miles radius if his
method of 'treatment is rigorously
applied. 'Under the new Fascist order
to the prefects of Italy the Berlese
method is to be put into force. ' Alt
heaps . of refuse, all town, village or
city dump, all manure heaps on
farms, as well as butcher shops,
slaughter houses and other places
which flies are likely to infest are to
be protected against fly incubation.
Ontario Centre
Of Flour Industry
The chief centre of the flour milling,
industry in the Dominion is Ontario.
This province with a production value
of 9106,486,000 in 1928, accounts for,
more than one-half of the total pro-
duction of the Dominion. Quebec, Al-
berta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
are responsible f or almost the entire
balance. Among the four, QUebec
comes first, with a production of 929,-
338,000; .Alberta second, with 921,-
005,000; Manitoba third, with 918,-
788,000; and Saskatchewan fourth,
with 915,781,000. The other two pro-
vinces, in which the milling industry
figures among the leading industries,
are British Columbia and Prince Ed-
ward Island, in mash of which the pro-
duction value is under 92,000,000.
The expansioai of Canada's milling
industry during the war was due to
tEe export trade, and Canada has
since then held her own among the
flour exporting countries of the world.
To -day, Canada is exceeded as an ex-
porter of flour only by the United
States. Since the opening of the cen-
tury, export of flour by the Dominion
has multiplied more than tenfold. In
the fiscal year 1900, exports of wheat
flour from Canada amounted to only
768,000 barrels, Ten years later they
totalled 3,064,000 barrels. In 1920,
they amounted to 8,863,000 barrels,
while for the fiscal year 1929 they
were 11,406,000 barrels. In the fiscal
year which closed in March last there
was a decline, owing to the general
slackness of the grain trade, to 7,893,-
000 barrels. It is clear, however,
from comparative figures, that over
P. period of years Canada has been ad-
vancing as a flour exporting country,
while the United States has scarcely
held her own. As ,evidence of this, It
may be stated that, while in 1928 the
flour exports of the United States
were 480,000 barrels less than 111_1913,
these exports from Canada were 5,-
843,000 barrels greater than in the
year before the war.
Wash the Soap First
When. washing in public places, do
you ever think of examining the soap
before using 11? 11 11 is not a fresh
tablet, have you wondered whether
the person using it before you was in
a good state of health or whether that
person was suffering front some skin
disease? Be on. the safe side, there-
fore, by washing the soap first, and
guard the health of others by wash-
ing the soap after you have used it.
Kind Old Gentleman—"How did you
lose your eye, my poor man?" Tramp
—"Looklit' ler work„sir."
Teacher—"Now, Peebles, tell me
which month has twenty-eight days."
Peebles—"They all haver teacher."
Storm Wrecks Fury on Trees
Street la CermeSo.wn. Pa., after treat had
intense velocity,
been uprooted by an electrical
stem that 'lashed ttte city
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Mennonite Exodus
• Stopped by Soviet
Soviet Demands Return of
30,000 Memmonites Who
Await Chance to Emi-
grate to Canada
Paris,—Soviet Russia is writing an-
other tragic chapter la the pitiable
story of the Mennonite exodus.
Some months ago 30,000 Mennonites
were colleted in a forest on the out-
skirts of Moskow, awaiting permission
to leave the territory. of the Soviet
republic. Their laud had been expro-
priated. Their rights granted by
Peter the Great and Catherine had
been repudiated, and their goods had
been dispersed. In spite of difficulties
aid a charge imposed on migrants of
9150 for a passport, about 6,000 Men-
nonites reacred the German rrontler,
mostly on foot. They found shelter
in an abandoued military camp. The
Red Cross kept them from starvation.
Stubbornly the set aside other pro-
jects, determined to reach Canada,
where the advance guard of their
movement had landed in 1925 and
1928. Separated, they felt they would
be lost. They had settled in Russia
in 1701.
Their numbers had grown to 3,000'
000, chiefly on the Ukraine, and they
had helped to make it one or the rich.
est wheat belts in Russia. The tragic
sequence of events in their expel+
ence during the past year la lost if it
is forgotten that their determination
to Canada, a country which has al-
ways proved hospitable to their people
In tbo meantime the centralized
economic system of the Soviets spread
inexorably front the cities to the coun-
try. Soviet commissionere issued
these decrees:
(1) Enrolment or the Mennonite
youths to the Red army.
(2) Inventory and seizure of the
summer's crop and stocks of cereals.
(3). Order to speak Russian and
teach in the schools.
(4) Prohibition of old agricultural
methods and obligation to follow So-
viet organization of agriculture.
Tragic Experience
The Mennonites resolved to quit
the inhospitable country en masse.
The Soviet government began Its mea-
sures of repression.
All authorizatioti to leave the coun-
try has now been definitely refused.
The Soviet is demanding that the Ger-
man Government deport the escaped
Mennonites who are encamped at
Konig, There, Under the most heart-
rending conditions, these unfortunate
people have- for months been waiting
for a chalice to get to Canada.
But the Soviets are inexorable. They
consider the Mennonites fugitives as
Russian citizens who must answer for
insubordination. For the Mennonites
return to Ramia means the abandon-
ment or all hope.
Peacock Feathers Arrives
Tacoma, Wash.—.A large shipMent
of peacoek feathers from China ar-
rived here recently on the Hiro Maru.
These gaily colored plumes are used
in making of fans, drapery and other
decorations. 71 15 considered unlucky
for Chinese to handle Peacocks or
the feathers, so Manchu laborers are
employed on the pea fowl ranches.
The feathers were consigned to New
York.
Golfer—"Terrible links, caddy, ter"
Hine!" Caddy—"Sorry, sir, these
ain't links—you got all them an hour
ago."
"Father," said Clementine, "do you
enjoy hearing me sing?" "Well," was
the answer, "I don't know, but it's
rather soothing in a way. It makes
me forget my other troubles!"
In au English examination paper a
clan of small girls was asked for the
opposite or certain words. In one
Paper the opposite to "permanent"
was given as "Marcella" This is only
the counterpart or a notice seen, in a
hairdresser's recently, which. de"
clared;—"I, the undersigned, do here-
by guarantee that any permanent
ware executed by ns will last for at
las at t( to 1:Nn ;13,11L118."
Judge Says Radio Has Great
Educational Possibilities
in the Schoolroom
Judge Ira LI, Robinson, member of
the U.S, Federal Radio Commission, '
Whose career Immix by teaching
school, was recently flaked "What
can radio do for eutication?" • The
judge replied:
"The worth of radio. In educatioe
goes without saying.' It ie. -only the
human voice; it may be the voice of
the teacher, teaching the pupils In
more thin one schoolroom, While I
first thought radio could never take •
the place Of the teacher face to tame'
with her pupils, 1 have olnierved iu
some schoolrooms as unusual litter.'S.--
est manifested in the instruction be-
ing given by a tar -away teacher.
think we all must admit that shies
the voice is used for. educational pars'
poses .in schoolrooms, andradio is
only human -voice at long range,
therefore,, it has an educational wortie
Although I have no objection to the
proper commercial use, of the. radio,.
I do believe that we ought to speed.
ily demand that more educational use
be made out 01 11 than is being made
today and that we. ought to press this
demand before the commercial use ot
it becomes stronger by investment
and influence. a Frankly speaking, if
You educators do not hold radio for
Yourselves, it is going to be so forti-
fied by commercial interests that YOU
will never get it.
"Just how it is to be applied in the
schoolroom, that is for professional
educators themselves to decide. Would
we allow Harvard or Yale to be In
the hands of commercial interests?"
asked Judge Robinson. "Are the
voices spoken in those schools differ-
ent in nature and U30 than those
spoken over the radio? We have
wanted them, in the hands of trainee
educators, independent of selfish in-
terest. Teaching- is a Profession
People must know what they are do-
ing when they are teaching the young
idea how to shoot. These men and
women must be the right kind, must
know the art of inspiration. If WS
radio is to be used for education, it
must be claimed for that now. Com.
merclalism is daily seeking it, for it
is worth much money. I do not know
what the result will be. I think,
however, that soon the American pub.
lic will begin to claim It largely for
State purposes—educational purposes.
"I think some teaching by radio
every day in tile school would create
great interest, I would not have it
supplant the teacher; I want it under
her direction; I want her to bo wise
enough to know what is fitted for'
her grade. Assuming it has beets
formulated by educators it would he
But 0 put a radio
set in a school now and take what
conies would be dangerous," said
judge Robinson. "I would want a
teacher alert to turn the -switch. A
wise teacher would know whether It
lilted the minds of her pupils."
Perilous Voyages "
A. daring voyage has just been
ac-
eoifljitlandd by an American professor,
his wife, and their ten -year-old daugh-
ter. They have crossed the Atlantic
from New York to Gibraltar in a ten -
ton yawl, completing the journey In
lifty-ilve days.
Their boat was even smaller than
Alain Gerbault's Firecrestr in which
lie crossed the Atlantic from east to
west in 1923. He took 102 days for
the trip.
Voyages of this kind in tiny craft
are real adventures. When Mr. W.
13. Sinclair and Mr. It M. Jackson set
out to cross the Atlantic in/ the
twenty-two foot yawl Joan a huge,
wave carried away the boat's main-
mast and smashed part of the deck
when they were almost at their Jour.
neY's end.
They then drifted helpless before
the wind for some days until they
sighted a steamer. Even thou the
vessel nearly passed them without •
noticing their signals of distress, but
finally they were rescued.
Chinese Beggars Learn
Trades in Free School
Shanghai — The Unemployment
Benevolent Institution, a echool
is-
te1itIt1, to give Chinese beggars Olt
education that will fit them for the
trades, has turned out its first gradu-
ates.
Thirty-six mendicants out of the
500 enrolled were pronounced capable
of earning their living end approxi-
mately 00 of those who tailed in their
examinations have decided to remain
in school another year.
The.,Distitution was fou.nded a year
ago by Chinese eepitalists. It oper-
ates both day and night -classes,
furnishing books and tuition free.
When making cushion or pillow
covers, rub the wrong side of the
material with paraffine or beeswax,
to prevent feathers or pipe needles
'1 10111 working through.
A young matron in whom the shoe'
ping instinct was strong, asked a Ger-
Man butcher the price of hamburger
steak, "Twenty-five cents a pound,"
he replied.. "But," said she, "the
Price at the corner store, is only
twelve cents," "Vela" asked Otto.
"Vy you don't buy it down there?"
"They haven't any," she. replied. "Ya,
Ya," said the butcher, "Ven I don't
have it I sell it for ten cSio: culy."
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