HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-08-06, Page 3THURSDAY, ,AUGUST 6, 1931.
TTIE ST AFORTH NEWS.
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Ifs our child -
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bond,: most of .us„
learn to greatly
t]'ns]i•]ae the wo'rd's
"don''t do that",
,'but of course
when we grow up
we learn that
most "don'ts"
have a lot of sea -
soli behind thein.
However, some of as Wever do learn,'
iFor example, there's the man wh'o-
halb'itua'lly eaeeeds the . speed, limit.
11 followed otue of these chaps for,
about 3 miles yesterday on the Lake
Shore Road. He didn't hit less than
fifty at any time. Lau:cl lily traffic:
'was • light. He was indignant when
4 waved 'him to. stop,
"Burne, I 'know :I was driving fast,"•
he said, "hut the road was clear and
It'm in a hurry."
fi had to explain to 'hini that . no
man 'Can drive' a car - at excessive
speed and get away with it
:always.
You see, in the city a drive; runs
at a much slower speed and his mind
and motions are keyed to that speed.
lint an emergency he knows what to.
do, and does• it instinctively.
'Occasion'ally on the highways he
"steps on it" and at the first emer-
gency hers in trot -dole almost 'before
he knows it.
3,7o :two ways ahout it. I 'know.
0''ve seen it happen o@ten enough.
The fast driver always gets' his ..
eventually, sometimes even 'through so
simple a thing as a b4owou't.
Betterslow down, 'before you get
yours, brother,
Well, I''ll be seeing you.
AN EQUINE DE'TECTIV'E.
Have horses detective ability? A
Mr. Joseph Scheeh has an ancient
.sorrel mare, known as "Old B'aIdy,"
that he declares to be a "born detec-
tive" :More by accident than by in-
tention, there Is reason to believe, this
animal has two unu'su'al achievements
to her credit„
Thirteen years ago, Whine still
young and active, she:'kiciked a 'burg-
•dar into unconsciousness and thus led
directly to his .calptur.e and .punish-
ment. The fellow,' was 'a tramp who
had ,rahbed the Scheer farmhouse of
silverware and other valuables and
hid fled with his plunder in a sack
when the family were aroused.
Thinking to expedite his escape, he
entered .the roadside pasture and tried
to m'oun't Old Baldy, ordinarily: the
gentlest of creatures, when she kixl ad
him in ` the side, breaking two rib's.
He was found a few moments later
and taken first to a surgeon and then
to a jail.
Last stunvnver Old Baldy, now hon-
orably retired from all but the nomin-
al duties, was turned with three
young colts ttpon: a portion of the
farm which projects into a bay, to en-
joy the warm months a.t her leisure.
The paint contains about fifteen
acres and is fenced only aoross the
landward - end, as it was thought, ex-
tremely unlikely that the horses
would or, cou'l'd escape by s'w'imming,
One Monday afternoon in August
Mrs. Scheer received a telephone mes-
sage from across the bay stating 'that
a horse apparently coming from the
Scheer place was in serious difficult-
ies well out in the water and would
drawn if not rescued, ,She wa's en-
tirely alone at the time, but at once
hurried to the summit of the hill on.
t'he point, from which vantage point
she could see, Old Baldy, half sub-,
merged, standing on wlhat is known
as "the reef," 'along and narrb'w ledge
a dozen rods from shore, locally fam-
ous as a fishing' ground for rock bass.
The water there is only about three
feet in depth, though over five times
as deep on either side.
The good woman w'histicr,, where-
upon Old Baldy,neiglied and tried to
shins to her, brit in a moment went
uncler, floundered desperately and at
last turned and struggled' back to the
Is reef. Not understanding the situation
at all, except that t'hc horse unques-
tionably needed lce'lp, Mrs, Scheer an
to the barn, secured a rope, hurried:
thence, to the boathouse and was soon'
rowing out to the mo coon ed au:stn al. .
Fastenieing the rope about Olid
•llaldy's n'ec'k and tying the other end'
securely to a thlwart, she tried to to'w
the horse tas'hor,e, but nearly ',succeed
ed in drowning her and upsetting the
boat at the ,slime time. 'When the
struggle was over and tie panting
animal, was back on the ledge, Mrs.
Scheer investigated with a boat hook
and brought to th'esurface a tangled
gill net in the middle af. which 0113
B'al'dy's:forelegs were f'i'rmly enmesh
ed, while the outward end was fast
to a deeply planted stake post beyond
the.. ledge,'
It was itnpessible to get under
water to free the horse's legs, butt
hIrs. Scheer pried tep'tlse stake with.
an oar, and then lite'.rality dragged
Old B
ally to land with the net trail-
ing behind 'her,. Then• in five aninute
the indignant woman had the net,
piled ed on a brush heap, ready to go up
in smoke at the touch of a match.
ITh.ere was 110 doubt that it belong-
ed to -a neighboring fish pirate who
had been robbing the waters of the
bay fofr yearns, despite the hest efforts
of the game wardenn to capture him,
The horse, in attempting to leave the
point, had swung crosswise of the net
and beedme 'hopelessly entangled.
But why had Old B'a']dy. tried to
swian3 That adso is :easily explainecl.
Mr. Scheer had been in the habit of
salting the anim'a's regularly every
Sunday afternoon, but the preceding'
dayhad been leept from so doing by a
party of relatives 'Whom 'he was even.
then taking back to their'honme in his.
car. Nevertheless, he still whimsic-
ally ,insists that 'Old Reidy is a "born
detecitive;"
THE CHINA ;FAMINE
In the summer of 1929, when the
present - 'err ible' famine - of North
China was already under way, the
writer travelled- 500 miles n'orth!west
of Peiping with international ',relie'f
wodkers. 'This is the .picture of fa-
mine along the boarder of, Chdn'a and
[Inner Mongolia as 'he found it. It
:had not nahred.for three years in the
mud-tvalled city of Sarasti. Interna-
tional famine relief was engaged in
'an irrigation project which has since
resulted chiefly in .a bumper crop of
opium. The Salvation Army had 10,-
000 persons in pens like stockyards.
They were urged to lie down, to save
energy. They were fed four ounce's
of millet •a' day. But many tens of
thousands were moot fed at all.
'Here lay .a 'body in a mass of rags.
He had raised 'his hand feebly three
'hour's before, huskily 'asking help.
INow four living skeletons were bend-
ing over 'his 'body seeking scraps of
twine, a bent nail—the victim's en-
tire worldly possessions. Ten other
bodies lay along this street alone.
Passersby took no notice. A baby
sat, prattling in -the dust a fe'w feet
away. A 'crowd clustered- about a
checked game. 'Vendors hawked
their unappetizing imported food-
stuffs -'for the fortunate who still had
money, while almost underfoot the
starving 'ceased to t'witc'h—and died,
No Ch -mese aided the dying. They
knew it svgs futile.
It is a relentless ..cycle, this: fam-
ine. 'It has been 'known in China
since historical times dawned. More.
than 1,800 famines have 'been record-
ed : since 108 B.C. The 'famine of
18717-.7,8 clammed '9,506,0001 uresti,nat
ed millions .clied, in 1887, 1'889, 19111,
1916. In the famine of 1920, 8,000;000
peril+hed. In the present famine •the
Chin's Famine Relief reports 5,000,-
000 .dead up to early 1930, with 2,000,-
000 more estimated dead up to the
end of 1930
The Chinese thems'elnues do ;not
help famine '' sufferers. They pass by
unconcerned as their n:eigh'bo.rs "lie'
grovelling in the last stages .ol.'&tarv-
ation. They are, of course, calloused
by the bitter.centuries. ' 'Besides, if
a Chinese should aid a starving ,per-
son, he would be socially responsible
for the burial expenses, or for man
taining that person' -as long as he
survived. "Heaven wills it," when.
,famine comes; ' and 't'he. Chinese be-
lieve lieve that Man cannot interfere w-ith,
'the will of ,Heaven. There is drought;;
food dwindles; roots are eaten. then
muci balls and chopped straw. Every-'
thing is sold, even the tin,hers from
the mud huts. Wood is valuable in
this nearly treeless country. .- The:
desperate wandering begins. 'Victims
try to reach: the next town and the
next, Many die by the way. Those
who reach the next town die there.
One rides through the country on a
Mongol pony and finds deserted vil-
lages, Not a dog prowls the ruins.
There are not even bandits, for there
isnorthing to prey, on,
One of the ghastly things is, the
silence: The victims stand or sit • or
lie like bewildered beasts at a dried-
up water hole. There is not 'even
appeal in their dying faces. Why
struggle? Prayers have been said,,
IPaper stoney has been biurared. Still
it does not rain. So those who have
food eat, and those who, have not,
die—es1celit when the "foreign devils"
send food. The Chinese aid to inter -
natio -Wel famine relief is passive at
best. Occasionally free freight is
granted or grain is not seized by an
army. That is ,about all.
Experimental Plot Work
'Field inspection tours of demon-
stration experimentai plots in East-
ern Ontario by, 0. A. C. officials
have, been in progress during the
month of July. Crops in general in
this section are particularly good and
response of crops to 'fertility treat-
ment is (Mite marked. Especially is
this true of potatoes and wheat. In a
fertility test 'con'ducte'd by the 0. A.
C. Department of Chemistry in Bruce
County, new potatoes have been run-
ning 110 bags per were,
O'O1CIETY STILL GOSSIPS
]:n London. ,t ngl'and the presence of
three very pretty girls—Princess 1n -
grid of Sweden, Lady Mary
Can-
hrid,ge and .Lady Anne Wellesley—at
various parties and social functions at
which another guest has been the
Princes of ,Wales, has once more set
the society gossips of London buzz -
ng about a possible future queers of,
England. But, somehow•, 'tion leaves;
the average triton stone cold', If you
asked him, he woujdtdiet three, to one.
that there. .is 'nothing in it. 'He is blase
on the subject.. He has seen the
Prince of Wales "engaged" by gossip
to some dozen. pretty girls. And in;
each and every ,case the young woman
has married somebody .else. So the
conviction) is ',gradually .growing in .the,
British mind that the dearest wish of
'Queen Mary's heart is not to be grant-
ed, viz., that the prince shall marry
and settle down and 'found` a family
'of is. awn. The .Briti's'h p'u'blic l>e-,
lieves that the prince has .definiitely .de
tided to remain a ba'chslor• (After all,
despite his youthful looks, energy and:
chasm, he is .no longer a yotungster..
Last Jure he celebrated without any
ostentation his 3711s birthday, He has,
therefore, already passed the half -way
'milestone in the allotted 'Biblical three-
score and ten. He is in the summer
of his fife, but he is 'facing the slope.
that leads to autumn.
There is no indication its St. James'
Palace that the prince is thinking, of
giving up bachelorhood. He still re-,
tains his comparatively small wing of
the palace. He still sleeps . in _'hit
severe, almost monis-like, bedroom,
He still shows uo inclination to occupy
the bigger Marlborough House which'
was for so long the residence of the
late 'Dowager Queen Alexandra.' his
grandmother. 'If' he has .given up 'the
dangerous sport of riding to hounds,
he still goes in for his•flying, his golf,
his tennis, and he still holds himself
ready: at a minute's notice to go any-
where in the world to do a job of
"selling" t'he empire to foreign na-
tions. The rumor that he would soon
announce his engagement to Lady
Mary Cambridge was promptly de-
nied.
enied. lady Mary is his own first cou-
sin, her 'father, the 'Earl of Akhlone,
being Queen Mary's brother. The pre-
sent royal family has shown' a disposi-
tion to breakaway from otd ways and
not marry in o royalty, because, blood
ties are so close. .'Tice Duke Of York
and Isis sister, 'Princess '.Mary, both
married outside royalty, and the wed-
dings proved en:ormous hits with the
(British public. The average Briton
was tickled to see fresh blood in the
royal family, especially if it was good'
British blood,
At one time all the gossips had the,
prince engaged to Lady Anne Wel-;
lese.ly, the ecceedintgly beautiful
granddaughter of the Duke. of Wel-'
lington. ,She was seen at all Fig par -1
ties. Then suddenly she was stricken,
down witlt•a severe illness and it was'
whispered .the engagement would be'
announced When she was fully recov-
ered. But Lady Anne is now once'
more at every big dance and no an
11ouncernent of an engagement has
''been forthcoming. From the stand-
point of the would-be matchmakers,
such an engagement would have been
'ideal, for Lady Anne is a direct de-ll'i
Scen"dan•t of the great Duke of
linlgton, who. heat Napoleon, and!
proved himself one of the greatest mil -i
'Nary' commanders of all time.,Su'ch and
engagement as that between the'
prince and Lady Anne would have
'fired the imagination of the British'
public. But that story died down and:
faded away and their Princess Ingrid
of Sweden, another [beauty, was tout-
ed as the„girl w'ho had won the dif-
ficult heart
ifficult'heart of the prince. She and the
prince are blood kin, but not close as
to natter, '.Her grandfather, the Duke
of Connaught, was a brother of the
late .King Edward Vfl'.S. and, there fore
uncle of the present king, For the past
several year; she has come to London
regularly on visits to her grandfather.
She was in London this summer, And
hence all eyes are on her. hence also
she went about very quietly. Slie and
the royal family know that if she at-
tends too many social' affairs Where
the .prince is also, the ,gossips will at
once take two and two and make five
out of i1. 111. the meantime, when any
paper. publish 'rumors of an engage-
lent. of the prince, an announcement
promptly comes from Buckingham,
Palace denying :the assertion and de-
precating such statement as "only
cans,eg annoyance wird embarrass-
ment.” And British opinion is gradual-
ly ac'custoining itself to the poseiblity
of a bachelor king.
An engineer has been able to --as-
certain the extent of the subsidence
of part of the ,North Pier in the east
basin of Btrc'kie Harbour. The sea
had sapped' through the foundation;
when the basin was empty, and sub
sequently two openings appeared in
the haws ofconcrete ' blocks of which
the pier is oonetriroted. at a distance
of 320 feet'' from the west end. (S'tep's
are being taken for immediate repair.
Bring Your Gold ,B,rick.-Exper
ienced young nsan .wanted to manage
dry goods department, trim wiind'ows'
and salesin'an,
330 ,;:)N FRAIL ,CANOES.
A group of Moro chiefta•is front
Zamboanga Jolo, and the , small is-
landof theput into Mahn-
s Sulu Sean o 1
Pc harbor, having sailed 600 mile's
over stormy and treacherous seas to
sec the greatcity of the Ane lca s
.
They made the journey in outrigger
canoes fitted w'itli home -spurn hemp
sails. These are the descendants of the
sea -going robbers of the Malayan
Archipelago. They are brown -skin-
ned ped Vkiatgs whose saga has never
been sung. They were scornful when
they were held in Manila Harbor by
a typhoon°, signal. They were timor-
oud when they threaded traffic
through Manila's maze. of hetero-
geneous vehicles. They were reassur-
ed when they balanced themselves in
a dugout and head'd ' out into the
China Sea.
There were three things that they
wanted in Manila. They wished to
see the Governor and the com:ma• nd-
ing general, and desired to rude in
'automobiles. These wishes were grat-
ified and the hardy adventurers were'
overjoyed. Wandering about the
streets; however, was not to their lik-
ing, and after each furtivesortie they
would return to the security of the
river bank or the halfdec'ks of their
bancas. .After a few days they be-
came restless, and waited 'eagerly for
the harborm'as'ter to allow them to
put out to sea.
They were asked about their return
to their native waters. "Not yet,'
they replied. "We, have come this far
to see our own country. We shall
continue to the north, for a distance.
We hear there is a great 'bay with ex-
cellent fishing, and we wish to see it."
And so they went on to Lingayan
'Guff, 200 miles north of• Manila, to
explore the fi's'hing beds.'
Their dug -outs are apparents mord
seaworthy than they look. They are
constructed in a fashion familiar to
our Indians by hollowing out the
trunk of a large tree. Fire is used
occasionally in this work, but the
practice is discouraged by the better
Moro shipbuilders, who believe that
it makes t'he shell less seaworthy.
Most of the work is done with a
sharp adze, and the entire hull is
shaped in one operation. Adornment
is important in the Moro scheme of
things, and on the hull is superim-
posed a 'highly carved prow .o,f con-
trasting wood. Paint is seldom used,
and the degree of beauty deperd's
usually upon the choice of artistic
grains and the excellence of the carv-
ing.
PAGE THREE.
WHEN "THEIR BOAT SANK
UNDER THEM.
Five Florida fishermen, beset by
sharks as they .stood on the deck of
their sunken 'boat, went through
a terrible experience not long ago.
,Late in Septenttber one year, Joe Clay,
of Punta Gorda, Florida, who owned
a gasoline laundh that he used prin-
cipally for transporting fish from the
fishing waters round Ten Thousand
Islands to the 'fish warehouses at
:Punta Gorda, was carrying a catch,
of about eight thousand pounds. His
crew consi's'ted of Wilbur Snow, Fred
Harper and Harry and Ben Page:
They had been fate in leaving the
fishing grounds and consequently
were late in crossing.rtc'bar at Cap- finally brought to the ice house he,
tiva Pass. it was perhaps four o' -'found that two of the crew had been
clock in the afternoonwhen they rescued, and two lost.
sighted the ice house, a mile or so The men' 'The men worked with For treatment of caked bags in cows
out from the beach, several milesroe all night before he was fully re- or garget, use Douglas' Egyptian Lin -
away. Soon after sighting it they suscitated. But Wilbur Snow and invent:t—the quick, sure remedy. Saves
l time andx ns'
discovered that their launch had Fred Harper were never found, al- a pe e. Prevent.cbinmished
.
Fortcieately, /they had gained the
shallow water'hn Charlotte Harbor,
and when the' boat sank the water
was only ab'at eight lett deep, and
theAh'
deck of 'boat was only about
four feet niter. The crew stood on
the hatche up to their shoulders and
an afore b ,mach
e It
e signals g ,ul_ of dis-
tress in Ones of being seen from the
iceh se
ou But
apparently
no one
saw then?; nor was there a sail in
sight. Tn add to the peril of the
wrecke� crew, sharks, attracted by
the sin dil of the :fi;
, fish in the Ford of
the launch, -carne round, cutting the
waters with their ugly fins.'
Alit• an hour Harry Page pro-
pose to swim out to the ice house.
He,;wa> a god swimmer;` and he
struck out badly despite the circling
slsarks. 'Som, he was lost to, sight
in`' the rapidly increasing; darkness.
Joe's three remaining ecintpaniona
said that it was useless for them to
stay and he drowned. or deo'aured.b
Y
;sharks ,'and 'they proposed to follow
Harry. Joe, -iso could not swim,
protested against being left alone.
Nevertheless, his companions fol-
lowed Harry. They tried to keep: to-
gether, but the wind and the tide
and the darkness were against them.
At the last moment' Wilbur Snow
said to the others, "Boys, I` can't hold
out to reach the ice house. I'll just
have to turn back and stay with
Joe, The others protested, hut Wil-
bur turned hack and was never seen
again,
When Harry Page, quite exhausted,
reached the ice house he found the
keeper all alone with n'o boat; the
boats with all hands hand gone out
for a late catch, Harry ` heroically
undertook, to swim out to the fisher-
men, who were about a mile from the
ice house. Some minutes later he
was dragged on board a 'boat, utterly.
exhausted,
Meanwhile Joe was making desper-
ate .'efforts to beat away the sharks
and keep .his head above water. He
jumped up and down on the "hatch -
'ways, hoping to loosen them, and
finally a hatch floated to the surface.
If was a sort of doorhalf the
length of an ordinary house door,
and it was thick and heavy. Taking
a rope, he tied himself to the hatch
and cast off. He kicked his best to
steer towards the ice house, but the
wind and title swept hip, out toward
Captive Pass.
Before the boat began to sink a
gasoline tank. had sprung a leak, and
the gasoline, coming up under the
legs of his trousers, had burned hits
badly—a circumstance that now re-
tarded his movements. Still he con-
tinued to kick in the darkness and
make desperate efforts to guide his
fail craft. But he drifted right out
to Captiva Uass, beyond which was
the open gulf.sjust when he thought
he was 'last the wind changed, and
he was encouraged to make another
try for life. He succeeded in check-
ing his outward drift and by and by
began to make slight headway against
the tide.
At last he heard the far -away cry
of the fishermen, who were searching.
He 'responded as best he could, and
in half an hour he was dragged half
dead into the fishing boat that had
come to his rescue. When he was
Here and There
could w
"What
e farmers hope to
accomplish` without our railways?"
asked a Kentucky agriculturist
recently. He added that no ,wc'ncy
'L .a
had contributed t LU re to1
prosperity of the farmer than the
railways,
I hneveret found any
y UUn
place where the salmon fishing
could compare with New Brun-
swick," said Arthur Train, well
known novelist, speaking at a camp
dinner given in his honor recently
b the: New Brunswick Tourist
Travel Bureau.
Encouragement came to western
Canada's farmers and agricul-
turists with the return to normal
temperatures and varying rainfall
of mid-July. In the drought areas
of Manitoba and Saskatehewan
and to a less extent in Alberta very
great benefit has been felt.
Authentic rainbow trout weigh -
Mg 734 lbs. were taken recently
in the French River six miles
below the bungalow camp, the
first evercaught there according
to the oldest guide. It was caught
by E. A. Farintosh, of New York,
a yearly guest at the camp.
Sinee the split up of Canadian
Pacific Railway common stock into
four for one, this issue has taken on
great popularity with the general
run of investors. Between Septem-
ber and. June 1931, the number of
these increased from 21,186 to
34,872, an increase' of 13,686.
Over 250 members from Rameses
Temple, Toronto, went to Cleve-
land recently by Canadian Pacific
special to attend the annual con-
clave and imperial council of the
Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine.: This conclave.
was held last year in Toronto.
A great influx of tourists is
coming into the Maritime Prov-
inces this year, the chain of the
Canadian Pacific hotels at Yar-
mouth, Digby and Kentvilleprov-
ing strong influences in promoting.
the traffic. The ten-day all-
expense Canadian Pacific tour to
the Toronto Exhibition next month
is also drawing much attention in
the Maritimes.
Grain exports from the port of
Vancouver this year will probably
exceed 75 million bushels. Up to
June 4th wheat shipments amount-
ed to 65,331,501 bushels. Accom-
modation for deep sea vessels has
increased from 12 piers in 1920 to
24 piers at the present time and
elevator capacity has increased
from 1,240,000 bushels to 16,205,-
000 bushels.
An Indian Schoolboy's band of
which the leader was also a school-
boy and in which the instruments
were mouth organs, gazoos and
other noise -makers was one of the
feattrres of Indian Park at Banff
which opened July 21. This was
counterbalanced by a septua-
genarian Chief's Choir of 18 chiefs
and ex-chiefa who rendered airs
taught by the first western mis-
sionaries back in the 1860's long
before the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way penetrated the mountains.
Six First Aid championshipsand
five second places fell to Canadian
Pacific Railway teams across Can-
ada according to the recent annual
report of the St. John Ambulance
Association. Of these, three firsts.
and one second n'ere captured by
the Railway's Montreal Police'
Team. The second was in the
coveted Montizambert Trophy,
representing the championship of
Canada for all comers in which
they were only five points behind
the winners, Royal Canadian Army
Medical Corps of Kingston, Ont.
(761)
Grapefruit is coming into favor as
a breakfast delicacy in England.
sprung a 'leak and was gradually though the fishermen spent the fol -
sinking. lowing day in a search 'for the bodies, 'Want and For Sale Ads, 1 time 25c.
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.DR, BELL HONORED
Left -The Russell portrait of Dr. Bell,
Above -E. McIntyre, Dr. Bell and
Thomas Brooks, builders of the first.
telephone line .in Canada.
Sir Hugo Hirst paid a real tribute to a distinguished Canadian when he presented recently to the British In-
stitution of Electrical Engineers a life-size painting of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell by the famous artist Walter
Westley Russell,.
Canadians have the honor of being the wood's largest users of the telephone. This is as it should be, for
was it not a'Scottish-Canadian, Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at Brantford in 1874?
Bell's crude telephone which he used to make the first long distance call from Brantford to Paris, August
10, 1876, has grown until there are now over one million four hundred thousand telephones in Canada -14.18
instruments per hundred inhabitants