HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-05-28, Page 3THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931
THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
PAGE THREE
The Census of • Canada
1931
In the' opening weeks of June every family and
every home in Canada will be visited by a repre-
sentative of the Government for the great national
purpose of taking the seventh census of Canada.
The census is really a stocktaking. That is, it
provides the information to enable the Govern-
ment and others interested in the development
of the country to formulate progressive policies
for the happiness, comfort and prosperity of ,our
people.
All the information supplied is strictly confidential, and the officers
of the Government are subject to severe penalty if they disclose any of
the information which is given to them by residents in the country, to
any other than the Government.
Furthermore, it has nothing whatever to do with taxation, or military
service, or compulsory school attendance, or immigration, or any such
matter'; and the Government itself cannot use it except for statistical
totals.
The Government representative will put the same questions to all,
and it is your duty as a resident of this country to answer promptly and
truthfully. The Government is very anxious to avoid forcing anyone to
,answer these questions, but it. is empowered to do so in the few cases
where individuals may refuse. ,
Issued by
HON. II. H. STEVENS, Minister
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND COMMERCE —OTTAWA
MDSFEA'SANCE CHARGED
Solicitor for Liquidator Says Much
Paid in and Little Left.
Misfeasance was charged against
directors of the Manufacturers' Fi-
nance Corporation in their dealings
with inoney paid into the company
any payments of dividends, by James
E. Day, ICiC., appearing for Liquida-
tor G. T. Clarkson, in the preliminary
examination of the directors before
Irwin Hilliarti; Master at Osgoode
Hall. /
J. A. C. Cameron, K. C., was the
only director ordered to appear as a
majority of the directors are Sena-
tors or Members of Parliament and
cannot be ordered to' appear until
after the session. Mr. Cameron was
granted an adjournment and ordered
to produce all documents, papers and
books relative to the affairs of the
company. A. J. Slaghlt appeared, to,
represent N. L. Martin, auditor of the
company.
"We are charging misfeasance
against the directors," Mr. Day de-
clared. "There was a great amount
of .money paid in, and there is very
little le'Nt. If we can establish that
this monejn was indlpeoperly dealt
with, we shalt ask for an order that
the diredtors repay what was paid oat
in dividends, and the money paid out
for co.minis'sion's on stock."
Turning to Mr. Cameron, Mr. Day
said, "We want to know everything
you know about this company. For
instance, it is claimed the company
was lending money to the Amherst
Piano Com'p•any in which Senator
McDonald was interested. We want
to know why it is that the majority
of the loans went to two or three
concerns. Why this capital was lent
out, practically alt of ib to 'certain
quarters?"
Mr. Cameron "I haven't any
papers."
Mr, Day—"Letters were sent to
you. You mush have some. files." '
1'Ir. Cameron—"I don't think so,
However, I will do all I can to ex-
pedite the examination."
N. L. Martin, auditor at the time>
of the liquidation, was sworn, Mr. A.
Slaght, K.C., his counsel asked for
the protection of the court for the
witness as to anythiti'g that night be
used against hien in civil proceedings.
"If there sh'oul'd be civil proceedings,"
said Mr. Day, "I might want to refer
to Mr. Martin's examination. I'.m not
consenting to anything, but no sug-
gestion has been made that there may
be criminal proceedings.",Mr. Martin
said he had first been connected as.
auditor of Credit Alliance Financial
Ltd., which was taken over by the
Manufacturers Finance.
"Sometime in 1926 the first case of
the company discounting their renew-
al note had come to his attention, he
.said, and as a consequence devised a
system of taking the serial numbers
of pianos sold... He had spoken of
this system, he said, to Mr. W. L.
'McDonald but the system he recom-
mended was only followed a short
rose and them dropped, when Mr.
blcDona'ld objected to the expense of
seeping it up.
He explained that the business of
the company had been discounting
notes for dealers on the purchase of
pianos. He d'id not know how many
notes would be discounted 'in a day
or how much amoney would he ad-
vanced in a year on discounts.
Mr. Day: "The company had al-
ready discounted a renewal note.
They were defrauding somebody."
Mr. Martin: "Or somebody was de-
fraudin,g them."
Mr, Day: "You have said that the
auditors examined the notes discount-
ed in the ordinary way. They should,
I suppose, make sure there was . a
note."
"You did not mention this instance
to anybody but Mr. McDonald."
"No," replied Mr. Martin.
"Wasn't it part of your work to let
the directors know," •
"As far as the accounting was con-
cerned this was not a question of ac-
counting but an additional ' unusual
thing which I devised for what then
appeared to be an isolated case."
Mr. Day: "You knew that they had
an enormous number of renewal notes.
and the renewal notes were discount-
ed. The comipany was having a great
deal of trouble getting money,. They
were pressing dealers to get notes or
renewal notes. Did you make any in-
quiries as to renewals or as to what
Would happen to the 'reenwals. The
company had a renewal note. The
renewals were dis'coun'ted.
From Far Corners of The Earth
eifilMitin•
i
The first ocean vessel' has cone and gone. Each dock in the big harbor of the Metropolis shelters
its quota of ships from the far corners of the world.
Now that the way to the, sea is open the inland shipping has steam up as the picture. shows and.
awaits only the opening of the canals to be 6n its way to up -river and lake points.
Almost the first tie-up when the ships dock is the telephone cable winch links the vessels through
the local Bell 17zchange to the whole world by wire and wireless telephone. g
Doubtless it will be only a short time now until both lake and ocean vessels enroute will have
continuous telephone service with the land system just as the larger Iiners are using ship -to -shore telephones
with such convenienceto travellers.
Mr. Martin—"The old notes were
taken up."
-14r, Day ,rade the statement that a
short time after the company had
been borrowing from the banks and
the trust company,` 50 per cent, of
the original notes were under- dis-
counts. Examination was adjourned
to be continued on an agreed date.
Helping Vacationists
Holidays were coming and Doreen
lead made no plans. Everything was
up in the air. One day she decided
to make enquiries for herself and
girl friend, so she telephoned a
.number of report places, Thanks to
Long Distance, it was easy for the
girls to find a desirable placer
AN OLD CUSTOM
Census -Taking Has Been' Known for
Thousands of Years..
Census -taking dates from the dawn
of civilization. Moses numbered the
Children of Israel in the fifteenth'
century B.C. QExodus XX312-15;
Numbers 1, 2-4 and 47-49; II.I, 14-16;
IV, 34-49)- But statistical investiga-
tions were known many Centuries
earlier, in Babylonia (4,000 B!C,), in
China (3,000 'B.iC.), in Egypt (2,500
B;C.) A census taken by Xing David
in 1017 B:C, achieved evil notoriety in
history from the Divine wrath which
it provoked (101 Samuel XXIV, 1-25;
I . Chronicles XXI, 1-27) and which.
was cited for many generations
against the spirit of inquiry. The
Census was one of the institutions
founded by the great lawgiver Solon
at Athens, in the sixth century B. C.
The Romans were assiduous census -
takers, both under the Republic and
the Empire Julius Caesar reformed
the census among other things. The
Breviary of Charlemange '(A.D. 80$)
and the Domesday Boolc of William
the Conqueror .QA.tD. 1086) are cele-
brated mediaeval censuses. Later,
the census disappeared from Europe.
It may not be generally known -that
the credit of taking the first census
of modern times belongs to Canada.
The year of 1666; the census :was one
of the Colony of New France, There
had been earlier records of settle-
ment at Port .Royal (1605) and Que-
bec (1160.8), but the census of 1666
was a systematic "nominal" enumer-
ation -- of the people, (i.e. a record of
each individual by name), taken for a
fixed date, showing the age, sex, place
of residence, occupation and con-
jugal condition of each person. The
results are to be seen in a document
of 154 pages in the Archives of
Paris, of which a transcript ie, in Ot-
tawa. Altogether this Census record-
ed 3,215 souls, When it is recalled
that in Europe the first modern Cen-
sus dated only from the eighteenth
century ,(those of France and Eng-
land dating from the first year of the
nineteenth), whilst in the United
States no ,Census was taken before
1.790, the achievement of the primi-
tive St. Lawrence Colony in institut-
ing what is today one of the .principal
instruments of government in every
civilized community may call for
more than passing appreciation.
This initial Canadian Census was
repeate'd' several times during the
French regime, after which a series
of less elaborate investigations by
successive 'Colonial Governors took
its place. The first legislation on the
subject was an Act of the United
Provinces, dated 1847. Under it a
census of Upper 'and Lower Canada.
was taken in 1851 and again in 1861.
Censuses of Nova 'Scotia and New
Brunswick were taken in the sane
years.
The Census of June 1, 1931, is the
seventh comprehensive decennial cen-
sus to be taken since Confederation,
FORECASTS.
Claiming 5o have forecast the wea-
ther for the past 14 month's including
the extreme dry spell now prevailing
on this continent, with almost per-
fect accuracy, J. B. Bowes, widely
known as the "Chatsworth Sage,"
has announced his prognostications.
for 1931. He has based his conclus-
ions on purely scientific principles,_A
check-up of his forecast for the last
14 months reveals that he prophesied
the present dry conditions through-
out North America.
For so recent a period as the month
of April, he forecast strong winds.
and rains for "about the 30th-" The
official weather report for April states
that the heaviest rainfall of the month
was on April 26.
His forecast for the next nine
months is as follows:
May—First week has the greater
pilrt of the April form of wind, rain,
:snow and frost, then warmer and
dry for abqut a week,. Later portion
cool and very dry,
June—Very calm„ cool and very
dry for three weeks, last week strong
winds and rains.
July—About 10 days real warns.
About 13t1i to 25th, 'very strong per-
sistent and cool winds, very heavy
rains that will cause floods in many
places, ., and in northern localities
frost. This, .storms of wind, like the
one in January, will cause tremens
Impressions of the Orient
Mrs. (Dr,) B, D, Niles, who was
formerly Miss Nellie Sherrit, daugh-
ter of John Sherrit, of Granton and
Granit Bend, former M. P. for North
:Middlesex, is at present on a trip
around the •vorki and has sent the, fol-
lowing letter to friends here. She
lived in Hensall and Stanley.
.',On the Pacific --near Yo'kolioma
S. S. Resolute, 25 Apr, 1931,
A letter from Japan I :`that is easy
because of the wonderful joy it was
to be. there. What glorious time eve
had ! tWe first met the 'Japanese in
1 armosa--cne of their colonies. One
couldn't help but feel that they had
command of the situation. They have
built schools, roads and 'belie even
reformed the head-hunters.
We visited a hospital of the Con
tinning Presbyterian Mission and
there found Dr, Taylor and Dr. !Gra-
ham, who practises! in Exeter 'for
fourteen years, working in the leprosy
colony, They took us to the room
where there were 32 lepers and
watched while they treated then with
the chaulnioogra ail, (oil from the
chatelinoogra nut grown in the Malay
Straits). They have there a splendid
leprosy'colony— second only to the
one in Manila in the whole Orient.
Our next stop was in Nagasaki and
what a reception 1 .1 The school chil-
dren were "lined up" on the dock
waving Japanese, British and Atneri-
can flags and singing songs of wel-
come. A committee of women pres-
ented each lady passenger with a par-
asol and each man with a Japanese
flag. Then as we drove through the
streets every man, woman and .child
seemed to be out calling "Ohayo"
(Ohio) which means ;good morning.`
The ladies are beautiful in their
kimono's. Both Hien andwomen wear
kimonos and wooden` sandals and
they are a picturesque race.
Words ,cannot describe the beauty.
of the cherry blossoms. They are
magnificent and when ,placed in
among the artistically arranged flower
gardens, one has a picture long to be
remembered. At noon the Mayor of
N agaski entertained us to tiffiu
(lunch) in the Suwa Park among the
cherry blossoms. Japanese girls sat
among us to act as 'hostesses.
The stop in Korea at the capital,
Soeul, •made us realize more than
ever how very capable the Japanese
people are, In the 32 years they have
had Korea more has been done than
in all the years that preceded. Now
they have 1,700 public schools, many
schools of higher learning and a
splendid University wihere formerly
there were none. The Japanese are
capable organizers' and splendid
colonizers.
When we returned to Kobe we had
eleven of the most wonderful days
one could imagine. Cherry bdo.ssoms
at their height: all Japan ready and
anxious for visitors and we happy to
be guests in such a picturesque place.
Dr. and I went with tire party to
Nara and Kyoto, then went by train
to Shiznolca (250 miles from Kyoto)
to visit Miss Lehmann ,who had
taught in ,Mt. Pleasant and lived in
Mrs. Rowe's theme. We didn't realize
until our arrival that she was in the
Can. Methodist (now United Church)
Mission. Our first station in japan— l
among the tea and orange groves at
the very foot of -lit Fuji. We had
two nights and almost two days with
her.1 It was a satisfaction to visit 'the
church that is so well established
that it is entirely self supporting and
has one of the (finest, most progres-
sive Sunday
rogres-sive'Sunday schools I have ever seen;
The pastor visited America and cu-
rled hack ideas t'hal could be used
in Japan. We visited the kinder
gardens, .Miss Lehmann's' worse, eatd
the school, Miss Lindsay's work. I
cannot tell you of the fine work ex-
cept yotu would be mighty proud of
both ,japanesn faculty and students.
We had the great joy of being en-
tertained in a Japanese home: Tlie
hostess, a banker's wife, niet us at
the door. . Vtre took off our shoes sad
were received on a beautifully polish-
ed floor. As we stepped on the mat
ted floor it -e got on our knees and
bowed, and bowed a number of times.
Then we were ,given _cushions, again
we had to bow with our hands on
the floor and almost .touching the
mat with our beads, We were served
tea on a table 'eight inches high. We,
ate with chopsticks and found the
raw fish and sea weed very delicious,_
surprisingly, good,
A Japanese room has only one
place .for pictures. The picture and
the brass or other ornamental decor-
ation are changed for each occasion.
They are very artistic people. Not a
chair in the house. We sat ou our
feet looking out toward, a beautiful
rock garden, small but .most artistic
with a small fountain in the centre;•
two small trees (cherry in blossom
and magnolia in blossom). The whole
effect was most pleasing.
In Tokyo we visited our Canadian
girls' school in order to visit Misses
Strothard and .Staples, two ladies
with whom I went to school in To-
ronto and who went to Japan at the
same time I went to China, so it was
a treat to see them and realize what
they have accomplished in these
years. Later we called on Kagawa,
the great religious leader of Japan,
but he was in the north and we were
able to see his secretary. Kagawa
comes to America on a speaking tour
this summer and we may have the op-
portunity of hearing him here.
Japan is very beautiful. We went
to the theatre to see the Cherry Blos-
som Dance. The theatre was crowd-
ed and we Americans were the only
ones who had chairs. The geisha
girls, dressed in most unusual ki-
monas, danced among the cherry
blossoms. Later we visited the regu-
lar theatre and that was a rare treat.
They have the revolving Boor on the
stage and the changing of scenes is
merely pressing an electric button,
a feature that was tried once in Am-
erica but with very little success.
Japanese art reaches its height in
their religion and as a result we spent
the greater part of our time „tn the
temples. Buddhism and' S'hintoisni
are so mixed that it is difficult to
know one from the other. After hav-
ing been there one has great respect
for both religions. In a brief letter .1
couldn't attempt to give you the
philosophy underlying these, There
is a marked similarity between Bud-
dhism and Christianity and there are
a great many .Buddhists in the
Orient (150,000,000).
There are many more details I
'night tell but must leave some until
I go to .see you..
'Monday, Apr. 27—,we have twice:
that means when we cross the 180th
meridian we are going to have two
Mondays. Then in 'Honolu'lu the
30th. Los Angegles with B.iD.'s
brother, May 10. Dr, Henry and his
wife live in Hollywood anti ,it will be
fun to spend that whole day with
thein, Then on for the Panama, New
York and hone. It will be' good to
get back but we love every .day here.
Love to all. , I ydia
does seas that will be very destruct-
ive to life and property,
August -First half very decidedly
warm, sultry, with nearly thunder
storms. Latter hall very calm, warm,
and dry.
September—About the 6th very
strong winds, very heavy rains and
frosts. Last two-thirds of month
very waren, calm and dry.
October—About first 10 days mild
and dry, about the filth wind and
frost, then mild, about the 1St1i
strong cold winds, rains, snow and
frost, balance mild and calm-
November—Cahn and coal and pro-
bably dry.
December — Very calm and very
dry to about the 18th, then very
strong winds, heavy rains and snow-
storm,
January, .1932 Quite mild and
calm for the first two-thirds of the
t:, on th,
Miller's \Alarnn Powders never fail.
They immediately attack the worms
and expel 'them from the system.
They are complete in th'emselees, not
only as a worm destroyer, but as a
,highly beneficial medicine for children
correcting weals • digestion and restor-
ing the debilitated system to health-
fulness, without which the growth of
the child will be retarded and its' con-
stitution weakened.
BOARDER' CUTS " THROATS
OF THREE CHILDREN
A triple murder in a suburban Win-
nipeg hone took the lives of three .
children in one family and sent police
in active quest for a motive. A fourth
person is near death in hospital, pre-
sumably holding the only explanation
of the brutal killings.
Children of Mrs. Lillian Walters,
the dead are; George Walters, 18;
Doris, 12; and Irene, 9. The .,giris
were found dead in their bedroom,
their throats cut, when their mother
retitrired home from work in a de-
partment store. The boy'.s body was
located 1 another bedroom, with a
gunshot wound through the head.
His throat cut with a razor, Jahn
Steib lay uu:eonscioes in still an
other room and' was rushed to hospi-
tal where his condition is grave.
Steib had been a roomer for some
time with the Walters -family. Mrs.
Walters had been estranged from her
husband for several years.
Champion Bread Winner.
b1odest 'Suitor—"1 have only $5,000
a year, Sir, but I think I can support
your daughter on that:"
Father (enthusiastically) — "Sup-
port her, my clear boy, Why. you can
support, her entire family on it.
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