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".S'ARNIA" TUNNEL REJECTED
'The stormy passage which the bill
seeking to incorporate the Sarnia and
Port Huron Vehicular Tonne; Com-
pany has had through the House of
Common Committee on .Railways
and Canals terminated when on a re-
corded vote, the committee rejected
the preamble by 12 to 8. This had the
effect of killing the proposed measure,
for the current session at all events.
The abject of 'the bill was to build
a tunnel under the .St. Clair .River be-
tween Sarnia and Port Huron, the es-
timated cost 'being $5,000,000. Two
telegrams approving the proposed
structure were read to the committee
by J, T. Harris of Toronto, chairman.
These were 'from W. D. Ferguson,
secretary of the Sarnia Chamber of
Commerce, on'behelf of that organiz-
ation, and from 'M.le, Stewart, city
clerk of Sarnia, giving the endorse-
ment of the mmnicipetity. Appearing
late in the proceedings on behalf of
Marne, Hanes 'and Go., 'investment
brokers. Col. A. T. Thompson, K. 'C.,
protested -the granting.d incorpora-
tion to the new company. Parliament
in 1938 had approved -the construc-
tion of a bridge •almost'fn -the sante
locality as the proposed :tunnel, and
surveys hail been matte, engineering
work had been carried out and real
.estate both ett Sarnia 'and Port 'Huron
'had been purchased. 'In all the 1928
.company had spent in the neighbor-
'hood of $100,000 on the project. Wolk
'had not been proceeded with due to
the fact :that since the 'fall of 1929'
stoney had been difficult to secure,
Col. Thompson said.
i}Iowever concurrent .legislation had
already been passed by the United
States Congress and federal aid to the
extent of $1;500,00 had been promised.
If a second project was authorized, it
wotfld militate against the prospects'
of the .first, Colone'''l Thompson argued.
The 1928 company had not surrend-
ered its charter, the terns of which
allowed it three years from 1929 in
which. to .commence work, with an
ad'ditional period of three years where-
in to finish it.
F. W. Martin, promoter of the tun-
sed company, who also promoted the
tunnel ,between Windsor aiad Detroit,
presented a suggested amendment to
the bill. There had been some dis-
satisfaction with regard to 'the finan-
cial arrangements and subsequent dis-
posal of the bridge, and Mr. Martin's
amendment neat designed to take care
of these .objections. .I1 proposed that
two years after the completion of the
tunnel a board of arbitration he ap-
pointed to determine the value of the
lands, etc., the representatives of that
board being 'three hi number. : One
would be deputed by Sarnia, one by
Port Huron and the third by the
tunnel' company,
On the following terms the tunnel
would be .conveyed -to the Dominion
Government, or such. designated ag-
ents. After the expiry of 20 years,
On payment of a price set by an arbi-
tration board; after 30 years, at 80 per
cent, of such valuation; .after 40 years,
a't60 per cent.; 50 years, 40 per cent.
and 60 years, at $1.00, Replying to
questions, Mr. Martin said the Wind-
sor tunnel had cost $17,000,000,: The
difference between that figure and the
cost of the Sarnia tunnel' was date to
the expensive real estate in both De-
troit and Windsor with other: lower
costs in labor and material. The Sar-
nia project would have been 600 'feet
shorter, and would have had a 20 -foot
roadway instead of 22 feet, as at
\Vindeor., the promote/- said.
DEAFENED 'BY LI&H'TNING.
Mrs, Alex. elolea'lls of .Lucan was
temporarily made deaf and her house
filled wish stroke when a lightning
bolt crashed through the hoose last
week,' completely wrecicing a radio
cabinet in the dining -room, Though
in an adjoining room, Mrs, A,IcF"alts'
was rendered totally deaf for some
time 'following the blast, The radio' is
electrically operated and it is believed
that lack of a lightning arrester in the
set was the cause of the damage. The
effect of 'the bol't was a terrific ex-
plosiou and clouds of smoke. No per-
son was injured, nor was the house
damaged. The sudden storm appear-
ed in the same district which was the
scene of heavy raid's previously, the
abutments on the bridge of No. 4
highway being washed out,
MYSTERY FLOW OF GASO-
LINE IN CELLAR.
The Toronto city solicitor and the
commissioner of works will be asked
to re -pont to the hoard of control on
the question of what further . relief
can be greeted' to Harry Skingle into
the cellar of whose house at 256 Mac -
donna avenue gasoline 'seeped from
an unknown source. Skingle .appeared
before the board of control to` explain
that a drain •hall been constructed to
carry the ,gasoline out of the cellar,
hut that the fluid was slily flowing
through the 'drain. `"We can't find
where it comes from," he declared,
and added that it made renting or
sale df the premises difficult "Are
there'fumes'10 the house now?" asked
Controller 'Simpson. "Not now," re-
plied'\0r. Skingle. "'Before, everything
to eat in the' house tasted of gasoline,
and you could collect as much as sev-
eral gallons of gasoline a week in the
cellar"'The 'board ,decided to refer
the case to the city solicitor and the
works coni'ntissioner with the object
of learning if anything more than had
been dome could be drone for Mr.
Skingle.
A BTG LOAN FOR DETROIT
'Clearing the way for re-+frttancing of
$59,500;000 in short terns notes due be-
fore Sept.'.15, the Detroit city council
has adoptted as the city's financial
policy, Bine poi•ttts for restoration of
the city's 'finances on a sound financial
basis. The'nine points were suggest-
ed by the citizen's /finance committee
and approvett •by 'Deitroit and New
York hankers Who have been ap-
proached on the new $60,000,000 loan.
Paramount among the points are a
five year moratorium on public im-
provements .and limitation on public
welfare expenditures during Atigusit
and ,Septe'mbe'r -to S400,000. The coun-
cil hopes fleet conditions will improve
to nlalce ptilelic works possibly .before
the five years e'lap'se. Is also raised .the
suggested $300;000,'limitation on wel-
fare expenditures to -$400;000. The city
paidout an average of $1;500.000 a
month in doles during the past year.
RIDING IN 'I` CLO
Up, out and away from the cares
and limitations of modern life;
toriug the joys of long days in the
saddle in flowar-studded Alplands
and stately passes with a goodly
company of kindred spirits; happy
evenings round the campfires and
restful, healthgivingnights in the
wine-like'attnosphere of theetnoun-
tains; such is the life of the Trail
Riders, of the Canadian Rockies,
on their annual expeditions from.
Banff and Lake Louise, which have
long since become famous items
in the summer' programs of the
two great Canadian Pacific Rail-
The pictures show: a
typical trail- ride,
camp scene,fording a
river, and the sterling
typo of cowboy, who
is guide, friend and
counsellor to the dis.
ogles of the saddle.
way hotels at these renowned
holiday places. Carefully planned
rides, of varying durations to suit
all; corners; experienced guides,
cooks and horse -wranglers; apaek
train always ahead to welcome the
riders at the evening meal, with
the night's camp all ready for
occupation;horsee that are as
sure-footed as goats all
contribute to making
thisform of holiday one
of the most original
and enjoyable on
the American continent. Cana-
dian Pacific lines carry enthu-
siasts and new recruits from the
four corners of the earth to Banff
and Lake Louise, each summer.
This year the official four-day ride
wil be held from July 80 to August
2, covering 52 miles through Banff
National Park, in territory with
special appeal to thephotographer
and f sherman, and will be followed
by a 10 -day ride of greater mileage.
PROPOSES FIVE DAY WEEK
Ilii an impassioned speech on nrt-
enipioynteot President 'William Green
of the American Federation of Labor
called upon President Hoover to stun
-
.mon an industrial conference to ,main-
tain wages. He declared drastic
measures intra bit taken to save the
country from a rising tide of.'discon-
tent anion' the working -classes.
"Here we stand on this isaue, tike the
Greeks at 'Tberntopylee. We are n'i't
going to budge. The American Fed-
eration of Labor will not stand a re-
duction in wages. We are going to
oppose it w•itb all ,our slight," 'De-
claring that the remedy line in a live -
day week, Green said he would
"rather have 100,000,000 sten worlc
five days a week than have 60,000,000
work six days a week and have 40,-
000,000
0;000,000 idle."
1VIOHAWK INS'TITUTE'S
100th ANNIVERSARY.
Residential School. Near Brantford
Celebrates Centennial This Year—
Progress of Work
One of the features of Indian edu-
cational activity in Canada is the close
co-operation of the Department of
Indian Affairs with church organi-
zations. This joint effort of churches
and state in the care and training of
young Indians has been productive of
much of the success which has mark-
ed the attempt to make our Indians
self-respecting and se'l'f-supporting
members of their respective commun-
ities.
If was early recognized that to en-
able the Indian to become useful
members of the community a broad
educational- policy was necessary, and
this was responsible for the wide
day school plan now being carried
out.
:An important unit in this system is
the Mohawk Institute near the city of
Bratftford, Ontario, which this year
is celebrating the one hundredth an-
niversary of its founding. The his-
tory of this institute is a most inter-
esting one. In 1:649 a missionary
eociety called the New England
Company was established in England
for the evangelizing of the natives of
the British Colonies in America, and
soon after began work in the New
World. !,After 1776 its main activities
were transferred from what had then
become the United States, to British
territory,—first in New Brunswick,
and later to the present site of the
institttte,
In 1828 the New England Company
established a day school which, in
1831 was enlargethand became a resi-
dential vocational school under the
direction of the Church of England.
The increasing number of pupils ne-
cessitated several enlargements of the
buildings, and in 1659 the frame
buildings were abandoned for a new
three storey brick edifice housing
90 pupils.
Sn 1903 the train buildings as well
as several outbuildings were totally
destroyed by fire and these were re-
placed by the present structures- The,
main building which is of brick has
two classrooms, four dormitories, a
study room, recreation room, sewing'
room, manual training robin, hospital,
ward, and a laundry fully equipped
with the most modern appliances.
The school has accommodation for 78
girls, and 64 boys, together with a
staff of 12.
This school following the usual
practice adopts the public school cur-
riculum as prescribed by the Provin-
cial Department of Education. Alter
passing the high school entrance
examination the pupils go to the
Brantford Collegiate, although still
residing at the \Iohatvk Institute.
Agriculture fortes one of the import-
ant subjects taught at the school, and
a farm of some 270 acres with
modern tip -to -date farm buildings 'to-
gether with a variety of live stock .is
maintained by the Department for
instructional .purposes. In addition
there is alto a large greenhouse where
the pupils are given a course in
horticulture. The girls, as well as
taking the astral academic course, are
also trained in domestic science and
htygiecte,
The Mohawk Institute has trained
a number of teachers who have given,
and are giving splendid service among
their owm people, and the advance in
agriculture and the improvement in
hone conelitions on the Six Nations
Reserve is to an appreciable extent
due to the work of this institution.
One of the conspicuous though
comparatively trivial reforms in Tur-
key is the substitution of the hat for
the familiar red fez which ita•s for so
Many centuries .been thepeculiar
headgear of the Ttirk. The president
of Turkey not only wears a soft felt
hat, but he has otdered all govern-
ment officials to do the same.
On what he termed the "million to
one" chance that something may be
learned of fate of six victims of
the ,dirigible Italia disaster in 1928,
Gen. Utniberto Nubile has begun pre-
•pwra'tions to revisit' polar, regions this
summer ;an the 'Soviet icebreaker
Vfa4yght..
ENEMY TO CANADA THISTLES, VALUABLE MINERAL DEPOSIT
Having cut a patclt. of Canada'
thisties twice on my farniduring the
summer, I went out about October
first to cut them again. I found only
a few and they were just starting, I.
found litany ,arge plants dead and,
fallen over. Some had been dead only
a .short time, This puzzled me until
1 saw gro1111 -tole burrows running
tinder the dead thistle plants. Then J.
understood. The moles were eating
the roots of the plant and killing it,
Now that quarter -acre patch of this-
tles has nearly disappeared, and the
stoles saved Inc a lot of work.
'I had heard many ;farmers epeak of
having a patch of Canada thistles die
out without any apparent cause, and
now it 15 explained. Moles haat killed
them out by eating the roots and fol-
lowing .them down into the earth so
that the thistles 'could not sive,
, The gruurtd-male's food consists of:
worms, bugs and roots, and since the
roots are usually those of noxious
weeds the mole should be protected
and never trapped,—,Willis Mehanna.
GENEALOGY
'It is well known and obvious that
youth takes little interest in• gen-
ealogy. Why should it, when it has
the vast future before it, with untried
hopes and splendid fruitful struggles.
quite enough to fill any life without
unprofitable reflections on a past that
can never be changed •
Early maturity begins to look back
a little. Perhaps after all the future
is best read and understood in the
past, and a little more patient study
of ancestral mistakes might have
helped in avoiding at least the grosser
repetition of similar blunders. Yet
even so, the full tide of health and
strength has too little time for lei-
surely consideration of clays and do-
ings that are gone.
But as we get older and begin to
reflect upon life as well as to live it
we see more and more the importance
of causes as well as of results, of an-
tecedents as well as of consequen'ts.
What the older generation called
"good stock" gets to seem more sig-
nificant. To Have been born of hon-
orable and industrious and self-res-
pecting parents appears to be, a help
in the world,at any rate a comfort
in meeting the various ups and downs
of shifting fortune. A man grows
more and more curious who his great
grandfather was, what sort of man
he was and what sort of man his fa-
ther 'was before him. And there are
the great grandmothers also, the gay,
the charming, the loving, the wise,
the thrifty, and those who were per-
haps the opposite. A man would like
to know about thetit and trace some-
thing, of then, all in himself.
A BONNIE FLEET.
Never were the West Highland of
Scotland provided with a finer fleet of
passenger steamers than that which'
will ply to their various ports this
year. Between the two companies,
the holiday maker will have a large
timber of trips to select from. They
can be undertalten by day or week in
comfortable and sea -worthy Vessels.
Staffa and Ionaattract many strang-
ers, the Stornoway has its due quota
of devotees and one hears that St.
Kilda is repeatedly visited despite its
recent desertion by the natives, Then
they are Islay, Mull and Skye, all the
Uists, .Barra and Harris, not to speak
of such mainland hubs as Oban, In-
verness, and Plookton. Ali these are
served by steamers. At Ardrishaig,
Fort William and elsewhere, motor
buses run in connection with these
vessels, and add considerably to the
resilience of the touring programmes
which are so carefully and skilfully
prepared.
'Motor boats for hire are to be
found almost everywhere and forret an
efficient link in the lengthy chain
that eatables the visitor to explore
every loch and creek in which he can
have any ititerevt.
Lined to a .lonely woods near Win-
nipeg, Alfred Levinson, fur buyer,
was shot and killed and j'. L. Cope-
land, a taxi driver, wounded, by an
unidentified: .pian: Nntfhed of the
shooting by Copeland, city and pro-
vincial police rushed to the scene and
found the body of 'Levinson, who was
fur buyer for the Dominion Fur Co.
of Winnipeg. ,A police posse search-
ed the surrounding woodlands far the
gunman, According to. the story told
the police by Copeland, he was hired
to drive Levinson and the unidenti-
fied man ottt the Dawson road, The
man told Levinson he had a quantity
of furs earthed in the bush. After go -
in g
o-ing a few 'utiles, Oapetand was order-
ed to stop the car and the two men
got out. The taxi driver a short time
later heard three shots, and then the
mai chiseled from the woods and fire.d,.
striking Copeland in the arm. For-
tunately tate engine of .the car was
running anti the driver lost no time in
making his getaway. Tw,o more shots
followed him, but neither bit the
mark, Copeland, bleeding severely and
suffering otttc'h pain, raced' to St.
Boniface police station where he re-
ported ' the shiooting... He , was then
given medical attention.'
Discoverer of a treasure island in
Great Bear Lake, Lax) miles north of
Edmonton, T. ,G, ,Donovan, a ]Detroit.
geophysicist and prospector, was in
Winnipeg in route to 'Ottawa: where
he will submit sample of ore .o 1:le
federal department of mines. In the
1,u northern district, by the use of
the most modern scientific ininnie:itte,
some of :utiticlt utilize radio transnt15-
lien and are `designed for the discov-
ery of radio -active deposits. Donovan
located the treasure i,iaiftd which a -
bowies in valuable minerals, .1 book'
written by a Jesuit priest, it mission-
ary in the northwest territories 50
years ago, gave Donovan the clue '
which led him to the discovery.
D t 't get the idea that it is like
picking up a million dollars on . the-
street," he said, -Before 1 went out
there I spent six months in prepara-
tion, What started me was is book 1
had heard about, written in French by
a Jesuit priest 50 year; ago. I -le had
been up there as a missionary, and
wrote a book on the geology of that
country. T had it translated into Eng-
lish. Later I obtained Dominion guv-
ernmeut reports, so that 1 knew
where I was going ling before I
started. The priest ea.. deed tight
in what he said about the north coun-
try. At the moment I cannot re-
member his name. I firmly believe
that the district around Great Bear
Lake is the most highly mineralized
in the world." His sample of ore have
assayed at $1,000 a ton c;Jver content,
copper, a by-product, to the value of
$40 per ton. and gold to the additional
value of $4.86 per ton. "These filgures,
rich as they are, are insignificant be-
side the astounding discovery that of-
ficial assays shows the ore attains
more than 58 per cent uranium," stat-
ed lir. Donovan, The present value of
uranium is estimated at approximate-
ly $10.000 per ton. A notable discov-
ery of uranium in Belgian Congo con-
tains but 15 per cent of this mineral,
the world's greatest source of rad-
ium. A valuable by-product of uran-
ium is helium, a non -inflammable gas
used in dirigible airships. Mr. Dono-
van states however that considerably
more prospecting is necessary to dis-
cover the real extent of the ori body
before any accurate estimate can be
made of the value of the find. I3e be-
lieves the far northern arca will de-
velop deposits far beyond the fabul-
ous wealth of the famed King Solo -
motes urines. The Detroit geophysi-
cist discovered tate uranium deposits
first on the shores of Great Bear Lake.
Three-quarters of a .mile out on the
lake they come .to the surface again in;
an island --:Treasure Island, he calls
it—three-quarters of a mile long by
one-half a utile wide. Crossing this
island, they dip tinder the surface
again, hit Mr. Donovan is confident
they reappear on the mainland five
utiles farther on. He has staked out
six claims, covering the whole island.
After conferring with the geologieall
experts of the federal government, he
will go to his home in Detroit, and
plans to return to the far north by
airplane, where lie .will spend the win-
ter snaking further explorations.
WORLD MARKETS UNSETTLED
World financial markets were acute-
ly unsettled, and foreign exchange
trading partially disrupted, as tier-
many took drastic measures last week
to deal with her banking ri''e.
Wall Street markets recovered sub-
stantially after a sharp decline in the
earlier hours of trading, and banking
circles were inclined to take a hopeful
view of the efforts of the Reichsbateth
to meet mid -month payroll disburse-
ments at the hank. Far reaching re-
percussions of the German crisis
caused considerable nervousness in
Wall Street, however, particularly a
sharp decline in the British pound
sterling to the lowest level since the
return to the gold standar,' six years
ago. The foreign exchange market
became so demoralized that leading
banks abandoned quoting the Central
and Southeast European currencies.
Despite substantial declines in both
New York and L„radon stocks, there
was a notable absence of large-scale
or frightened liquidation in both mar-
kets. The Pari, bourse experienced
a precipitous decline, The New York
stock market ha it es lost roughly
three-quarters of the extt'ente advance
initiated by the White House en-
nntttteeltteni on jttne. 1(1 1iittlt' means oI
lightening the burdens ,,f Germany
were being considered.
FLYING TUITION FRAUD.
Charged with frautdatleti .k obtain-
ing $400 from an Oshawa youth who
sought to become an accompiished
aviator, b\'i;l'iatn .Anderson, aged 34,
of Toronto, was arrested and taken
to Oshawa. Anderson, to the police
say, was the head of an organization
known as the Ititperial Aircraft Ser-
vice, with headquarters ie Toronto.
Meeting the Oshawa youth he is said
to have guaranteed to make trim an
accomplished aviator if he WO
place himself harder has tuition. Ander-
son is said to have received $400 but
the Oshawa youth has never had an
opportunity of leaving the grouted,