HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-03-03, Page 3THURSDAY, MARCH 3,''1932.
THE'SEAFORTH NEWS.
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AT TORONTO
,Denouncing M. F. Hepburn, iProv-
incial Libel al 'Leader, as 'being un-
worthy of credence, 'Premier 'George
S. .Ileulry in the the Ontario .Le'gisla-
ture in the-de!b'ate on the 'Speech 'from,
the Throne, charged the Liberal lead-
er with anti -public ownership affilia-
tions, and denianded fthat'the'Liherals
sitting in the 'House should recall Mr.
Hepburn and dlrive 'him . from the
party.
Premier Henry Produced evidence
to show that Mr. Hepburn in his
many attacks on the 'Ontario Hydro
Power 'Comnvission ,and its adminis-
th'ationhad !founded' his argument up-
on an anti -public ownership 'sheet
published ein 'Chicago,. terming the
Publication; "Chicago's contribution
to IMr. ,Hepburn's camipaign fund."
Premier Henry also likened :MMLr. Kep-
i i burn to a preacher •in the pulpit of a
church "proclaiming octal �n '�e
mr a reed from a
P g
M ' textbook on 'aEheism,"•
lin making this .startling d'is'closure,
Premier Henry read 'from 'newspaper
accounts ole'the fHenburn'atta'cks ulpon
Hydro. The IH'epburn language co-
incided .directly with the material eon-
tained in the Chicago publica't'ion
whish it termed "for .the use of dis-
interested. •citizens, taxpayeks and oth
ens op,posed to .public ownership
"in case of •a thorou'ghgoin'g anti -mun-
icipal ownership advertising campaign
you will 'find this 'information indis
pensible,"
'Comparingthe pamphlet with the
Hepburn attacks, Premier Henry 'fur-
ther pointed out that in connection
With the •Chuppewa 'de'velop'ment, the
pamphlet had said it had 'cost $150,-
000,000, but the actual '.cost 'aceorilin g
to the •government figures was $76,,
000,000. Mr. Hepburn had 'used' the
pamphlet's figure of - 4150,000,000.
Other phases of power development
were also 'discussed showing the pam-
p'hlet 'wrong in detail and `'fact - and
which had been used by - Mr.Hep-
'burn. 'Premier Henryenry challenged the
fir
Opposition members with fo'llowin'g
a man, not a member of the House,
who follows this Chicago 'pu'blicati'on
for his arguments against Public
Ownership.
t'If the 'Liberal party has any sense
of responsvility they should recall
him and drive him out asa heretic,"
said Premier ]Henry. "'He is unworthy
to be associtaed with such great lead-
ers as Blake, Mowatt, Hardy, Ross,
MdKay, Rowell and others. in'clud'ing
my honourable friend now leading the
party.in the House. The 'Opposition.
are all flirting aroui'd with him and
sitting on the same platform while he
issues' this document. Are they be-
hind' Hydro or behind this sheet pub-
lished in .Chicago—with lying, 'foul,
Agr4,disre'intable statements in all its
pages?"
Liberal 'members were- each asked
by 'Premier Henry as 'to haw they
stand on the 'Hepbu•rn .Leadership,
but each in turn dod'ged .the issue
without saying whether they support-
ed lope (Liberal provincial' leader or not,
satisfied to be non -committal.
The Legislature, 'by an amendment
movedPremier'.. 'clg
ec by Henry, .pledges it
self anew to Hydro and to the priii-
ciple of service at cost, also 'pledging
su'pport to the efficient ser'diee rend-
ered by the commission. •
The debate on the iSpeeeh contin-
ued with ten speakers adld'ing, to the.
discussion on Hydro, Wilfred Heigh
ington, 'St. David's4Toronto, one of
the..yotmgest'm'em:belrs sof the Conser-
vative benches; .made 'a s'lash'ing attack
upon:th'ose who criticize 'Hydro, and
urging •the,government to maintain alts
stand upon declining to enquire into
the $125,000 Aird-ISlweezey payment'
en the Beauharnois contract, Others
who spoke were: Austin 'S'mith, 'Es-
sex; W. W. Staples, South Victoria;
Fred J. 1McAnthur, Northumberl'an'd';
J. F. Strickland, 'Peterb.o'ro City, and
for, the 'Liberals, Dr. L. J. 'S'smps'osJ,
Sinicoe Centre; J. F. Sangster, ;Glen-
garry; T. A. 'Murray, IRenlfrew North
and R. A. Baxter, South ,OxBord. '
The mortgage re'lie'f measure, intro-
duced by Hon. W. H. !Price, Attorney
Oenelral, advanced to the ' committee
stage .of the ,Hawse, with slight amend-
ments to . be 'made, 'I't is planned to
change the foam of applications that
are 'to be made in the County of
York, where they can be made to the
Master -in -Chambers, instead of before
a county judge. It is hoped the act
will be in force within the next two
weeks, atad will probably date back to
Feb. 2.
In furthering the future road pro-
gram for the province, Premier Henry
and Hon, Leopold Macaulay, Minister
of Highways, conferred with county
road representatives from all parts of
the province. Out of the trials off the
present day, Pre'm'ier Henry informed
the county officials, will come a saner
policy in regard to road canstrinction,
but he was pleased to know that mu-
nicipalities are not cutting clown their
road exp'endi'tures to an unreasonable
degree, for if this were done it would
only' add to unemployment, Tye go
vermmenk ,plans a reduced program for
the year, Hon. Mr. Macaulay inforen-
ed the delegates. Dr. E. R. Wode
house, warden of 'Carleton county,
proposed a provincial commission toy
govern all •rotads and. highways to take
over all' existing county debentures
and ,be 'given power to tax traffic.
The ball amending the Apprentice-
ship Act, sponsored by Hon. J. D.
Monteith, Minister of Public Works
and Labour, was advanced to Com-
mittee stage, where further represen-
tatioris'from the trades who are op-
posing it are 'heard.
Arthur Ellis, Conservative, South
Ottawa, introduced an amendment to
the Raillway and Municipal Act, .which
would vest in the Ontario Railway
and Municipal 23'oard all powers to
control and direct motor inans'po'rta-
r Cham ion Boy Musher and His Do
a
ROY dog drivers stole the spotlight
from their older competitors with
the running of the second annual
junior' dog derby at Ottawa recently.
More than seventy boys from Ottawa
and Ottawa Valley points competed
for the Chateau Laurier cup and twenty-
five other prizes. All dogs were owned
and driven by boys or girls under
sixteen years of age. Dog fights and
excitement, runaways and blanket
finishes were plentiful as 'the dogs
swept along over the half -mile track
to the cheers of old and young specta-
tors in the grand stand within sight of
which every foot of the races were run.
To nine-year-old' Teddy Turgeon, of
Ottawa and his almost -police dog Don,
went premier honors, the final being
decided in a neck and neck finish
between Don and Lloyd Jenkins' black
Collie. The dogs swept down the
stretch' nose to nose, but the police dog
had the longer nose and got the judges'
call and the championship of the
annual half-pint derby .,•.. Canadian
National Railways photograph:
tion systems in the province, The'
measure does not interfere with' ntun-•
idipal authority within their ,Boun—
daries.
SOLVING CRIME.
'The Scientific Crime Detection La-
bolratory'was established in the spring
of 1929. The personnel of this organ-
ization consists of two groups: first;
the full-time' staff, members of' which
are engaged in the activities of carry-
ing on the actual operation of the la-
boratory at Chicago; and Second, the
consulting staff, consisting at present
of fifteen •members, who by reason df
their individual training in various
fields are able to render great assi'st-
ance to the permanent group in moat
'ters for which the latter have not the
requisite specialize'd' training. It is
necessary that themembers of both
are recognized authorities in their
certain activities, 'and all appointments
must be approved and confirmed by
the authorities.
In homicide cases wherein firearms
have beenemployed the bullets and
shells, together with weapons sus-
pected in the ease, are submitted to
fhe department of: firearm identifica-
tion. Here, by means of certain
n'arkings imparted to the bullet from
the riffling in the gun barrel or others
on the she14 head made by the firing
pin, it is .usually- possible to deter-
mine whether or not a given 'bullet
or yhell was fired by the arm or arm's
in evidence. In cases in which no
sluspec'ted weapon i5. submitted' the
department can ordinarily: name the
type and calibre of the bulletinvolv-
ed and the make of weapon to look
for.
Another means or 'dent?fication ' is
by powder burns, which, when a gun.
is fired at close ,range, may occur in
the flesh off the victim; further, a few
unburned grains are frequently pres-
ent within the bore of the weapon
after firing and serve to • identify the
type of powder employed in the fire-
arm,
In connection with this method of
Iden'ti'fication the laboratory . main-
tains a reference collection of bullets
of all calibres, makes and types fired
Brom arms of nearly every known.
variety; a collection, .of sample bullets,
primed shells and goaded .cartridges
in every pistol size. by every Anneri-
can 'manufacturer, plus a number of
foreign samples; a 'mass of revolvers,
single shot pistols,' repeating and
automatic pistols of a myriad m'a'kes,
calibres and patterns from every pant
of the world, and samples of all types
of .powders : of American pistol am-
munition.
Another department that has done
muchval'ua'ble work in the field of
crime d•eteotian is that of, forensic
Psychology. This is concerned' with
investiga'ti'an's of ail entirely different
and relatively new type; namely, in
the detectionof deception: These are
conducted by means' of the lie detec-
tor, an instrument that records the
changes in blood pressure, respiration
and skin conductivity accompanying
emotion, by w'hich it is possible to de-
termine whether or eat 'persons un-
dergoing interrogation are replying
truthfully. This machine is proving
so successful and becoming so widely
kiuown that •many :large business or-
ganizations are now making use of it
by having applicants for positions of
trust tested by it and approved by this
department before receiving appoint-
ments.
A second' means of detecting decep-
tion employed by our psychologists
involves the use of scopolamin', or
• the newspapers have called' it "truth
serum," Miliute doses of this drug
are administered, inducing in the pet: -
son tested a somewhat beclouded
mental s'ta'te in which it becomes im-
possible for him to call into action
those mental processes necessary for
the fabrica't'ion of a fafsehood: 'Past
experiences are readily called to mind,
however, which he is, for some reason
not as yet fully uaders'taord, unable
to repress; and as a result responds
truthfully, 'Th'is method is still in
more or less of an experimental stage,
but in general is proving quite suc-
cessful and in many cases has been of
great" assistance in crime solution.
The laboratory maintains its' own
photographic equipment, 'which proves
a valuable aid, to each of its several
departments in that it: is often es-
sential toprepaire photographs of ob-
jects in evidence in .furthering: a
t'horo'ugh study of them; it is allso.
employed in' the making up of .ex-
hibits for court presentation. In ad-
dition, our films constitute permanent
recolyds that may be referred to in
the future, this being especially' im-
portant when the identification of
various objects in fheir condition prior
tobeing subjected to'.` ce'rt'ain tests
becomes a polfit at ;sae.
'Two important divisions of the la-
boratory not thus far mentioned 'are"
the 'museum and library. In the
museum are exhibits` demonstrating
the application of various methods of
studying crime traces such as moul-
age specimens, fingerprints, : han'd-
Written and typewritten documents,
fired 'bullets and shells, firearms and
ntateulals ,sho'wiing ,stains of block' and
other substances, A41 wa. these ex-
hibits are from actual cases. The li-
brary comprises many hundred vol-
umes of a criminal -technical type in
various farergn langualges as well as
in English. This reference collection
is constantly ibe'ing' added to, so that
the ,nxter3a3 therein' contained will be
up to date,
!Early in the history of the Tabora -
tory, the dire'c'tors of that corporation
realized the need of some organ by
which to conve'y information to law -
enforcing agencies all over the United
States as to advanced methods of
crime detection ch'a't are being devel-
oped and applied throughout • the
world and of newly devised apparatus
to be employed in analyzing the traces
of a crime.
Want and. ,For Sale Ads, 3 time 50e,
Mrs.' ..(' entering hubby's • den )
"Here's my new dress, dear. I bought
it for a _song."
Mr, "All right, send in the collector
and I'll sing to him:"
THE CHINESE SI1TUA'TI'OIN'
Ordinary citizens, of a lanae part of
the world have felt a surge of ,en—
thusiasm and synipathy for the Chin-
e•se in their . gallant defense on " the
Chapei-lKiangwan Weosung battle
line, apart from the careful neutrality
of their governments. This senti-
ment may not take much account of
the origins of the Sin'oaJapanese dis-
pute, but it takes satisfaction in see-
ing aggression stopped—anal what be-
gan as 1ratervention in M'an'churia
and at Shanghai has 'come to be
judged in a large ,section of popular
opinion outside the'Orient as military
aggression.
Even more important than its im-
mediate military result may be the
ultimate effect of the. resistance at
Shanghai in fos'ter'ing some unifica-
tion of China. A year and a half ago
it was remarked that outside pressure
if it did not crush, might solidity
China. The pressure then was from
Communist forces. Now it appears
that Japanese opposition may afford
a more effective tallying point than
yet has been offered for Ohinese na-
tionalism. 'Though factionalism per-
sists between Nanking and Canton,
the propaganda of mass civic educa-
tion has a new test for preaching
Chinese un'i'ty, sb that Kian.gwan .may
yet become famous.
The events along the Whang:poo
have shal'vn that the world at large
no less than Japan, has underestim-
ated the stamina o!f Chinese soldiery
and the willingness of the Chinese
people to defend their country. Civil
strife has been a schobl of fire suth
that warfare hi China no .longer is an
opera bouffe affair. In view of the
tenacity already shown by Chinese
troops and of the tremendous disad-
vantages of terrain faced by an 'inva-
der, it becomes apparent that a cam-
paign by :;Japan to subdue any con-
siderabie portion of China, or even
of the Yangtse Valley, could be un-
dertaken only at the most serious
costs=costs which the Japanese
people surely would not long ap-
prove,
And such a campaign not only
would be destined to futility in a mil-
itary sense, but also to worse than
futility in other directions. Already
Japanese military action, instead of
sa'lvin'g the diplomatic difficulties of
the Far East, has affronted' the peace-
ful sentiments of a large part of t'he
peoples of the world, if not of their
governments. Moreover, instead: of
rectifying grievances between Chin-
ese and Japanese nationals, it has add-
e,d immeasurably greater ones to the
score.
.Certain Japanese probably had just
claims against the Chinese for lack
of protection in Shanghai and else-
where, But it is "a rule off corninon
law that a person attacked is justified
in using only such force as is neces-
sary to repel the ,attack: Japan, in
the popular opinion, has gone far be-
yond this, In so doing, she not only
has alienated f'ri'ends, but has given
occasion for counterclaims of 'indem-
nities which would offset several.
times the cle ins she set out 'to col-
lect and Leave her in debt to China,.
'The unconscionable suffering caused
to: refugees from hotnb and shell fire
in Chapel. has now been followed by
responsible accounts of the slaying
of peasants and" burning of their
builldings behind the'Kian!gwan front.
When these questions come to the
conlferende table, as eventually they
:roust, it is not impossible that Japan
and the world may he dealing with a
tn'ore unified' China. If the crystalli-
zation of a China is to occur, it
isin the interests of Japan and of
Western nations that the ,,Chinese
shall' neither be pressed ,nor encour-
aged to the point where. they, will seek
refuge in a .national militarism which
might un,dertake to push such inter-
ationai settlements as that of Shang
ai, off into; the sea, But should.
eine degree of unity ' be • achieved
consistent with thea best
pacific tra-1 ... .,.,, .
ditioas of China; then the conference
table almost surely ,will feel the in
fluence of the sentiment of the res
Of the world, a sentiment which a
least will back the governments i
refusing to recognize a chang
wrought by force of arms,
a;*
'litany hours before the traveller
rea'c'hes Shanghai he finds that the
ocean Waters la'ppin'g his steamer
have developed a muddy yellow cote
or, He is in the presence of the silt -
laden Yangste, a dragon of a river,
which :reaches far out to sea, and not
only euddws the'Yellow' Sea with its
naane, but,,is engaged in pushing it
back a few miles • every year.
IN-oltli!i:ng can stem, the tumultuous
Yangtse, not even the Yellow 'Sega in
a typhoon: The Yangtse .goes on
eating into the zone occupied by :the.
Yellow Sea and building new land on
fists bed.' The ,process is a kind of
land transfusion, Silt is carried along
a 3500 -rile path titan an area as far
inland as Tibet. There, on the roof
of the world, the river ,begins its com-
petition ,with the Mekong, the _Brah-
maptntre, the Ganges, and the Ye'llow
River, for Asia's drainage. It races
down the Ti'be'tan highlands until it
reaches China proper. Then, tuanb-
ling over rapids, it 'collects the run-
off off almost a million square mile's,
entering the Yellow Sea heavy laden
with b em, which it pours forth at
thre rate of 6,000,000,000 cubic feet a
year. The Chinese call it the "Great
River." They might much better call
it "the Great Engineer."
The Yangtse's gilt to mankind so
far is a region as big as the State of
New York. 'Th'is is the ground on
which the Chinese a'nd the Japanese
'are now fighting. All of it is Yangtse
made, and the pr'oo'f is the pr'esen'ce
of innumerable streams which criss-
cross the country bewilderingly and
make many df the towers littie . Ven -
ices: The Ysangtse, like a •true pat-
riot, builddd better than it knew, for
there is nothing like a water-logged
country for checking the movements
moof anment,emy dependent Upon big ar-
ne
From this reclaimed soil most of
Europe's fiest impressions of China
were drawn, Marco Polo was the
reporter, He .arrived in China in
1275, when Kub'lai Khan happened to
be sitting on the Chinese throne, To
such au extent did he please the great
Emperor that he was , appointed a
Lind of travelling commissioner
throughout Chiba. Marco was then
made governor of Yangchow. Yang -
chow is situated on this "Yangtse-
Made land. In the famous Venetian's
time; it was one of a duster of great
cities, dotting an exuberant plain,
where a patient husbandry labored in
tea gardens and mulberry groves,
The Combination made up a highly
ingenious civilization. The peasanits
brought their own contribution of
skill and labor to add to the wealth
and elegance whic'h- flowered on the
arts and crafts of urban li'fe. Nobody
believed Marco ,Polio when he brought
hone the stories of these refined "Ve-
nices in the land of Cathay. • There
was every reason for European in-
credulousness. A good part of Eur-
ope at that time was barbarous in
comparison with the Flowery King-
dom,
',Shanghai, situate,d along one bf the
streams flowing into the estuary of
the Yangtse, was of no account in
Marco's :time, being 'just • a fishht'g,
village. A century ago, however,
something happened to the place that
gave an impetus to its career: ,Brit
ash warships carie cruiasng along the
estuary, knocking down' Chinese for-
tifications in an effort to persuade
the Chinese mandarins to trade on an
equal basis. Eventually this undig-
nified mode of warfare matte a dent
on mandarin consciousness. China
set aside a few trading pasts,
gthettos,' or "settlements," in the ute to it as an engineer as well as to
treaty of 11042, Shanghai was ,selected. carrier.
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Howthe mandarin negotiators musk
have laughed up their umbrella.' sleev-
es! That fishing village! But they
kept straight faces as they Proceeded
to mark off the west part of. Shaug-
hal for the settlement, namely, the
river front, which oozed hind through
a dense growth of reeds,
]Here the foreigners built. a port
that is now third or fourth in the
world. 'The river front is called the
Bund, a Hindu world for .embark-
ment, and it is now lined with stone
and marble -fronted buildings majest-
ic enough to grace any metropolis -
Though they all stand on steel piles
driven into this marshy soil, they are
nevertheless just as substantial as the
s'kyscra'pers of New York which rear
their proud heads on a firm founda-
tion of rock. • AAlnd,like them, they
leak out on a river alive with steam-
ers . flying the flags of a dozenna-
lions.
iNo port is blessed wlith a better
location. Shanghai Pies athwart
the great sea lanes and is a mid-1poi'nt
betlween western Europe and eastern
United States, the world's greatest
industrial areas. Then Ibale at its:
hinterland( . Those ' early trader,s
knew a thing or two that' the Ohin-
ese mandanins with all their learning
didn't. .I'mag'ine the Mississippi fin-
ding its outlet at New York and you
have a fair picture of the Yangtse
and Shanghai. Along with its mud,.
the Yangtse brings down the surplus
products of 250,000,000 of the most
hardworkingpeople in the world,
and takes back the foreign wants off'
the sante. number. Shanghai cat'che's
the wealth going up and coming add
levies toll upon it. At least coequal'
with the Yangtse itself, it may be
described as the Yangt•se's sentinel_,
East and West, in defiance off Kip-
ling, meet at tlt'is extraordinary mart;
over a bargainiin.g counter that is
never still. Should we give all the
human credit to foreign. organization?
Hardly. ,The 25,000 foreigners in the
Settlement,' and the 15,000 or so who
live in the 'surroundi'ng jurisdictions;,,
deserve a great deal. But this crea-
tion is the restilt of team work, for -
reign organization plus Chinese, en-
terprise and labor, than which, given:
half a chance, there is noire better:,
Altogether there are about a million,.
Chinese on This needle point of land,.
eight and two-thirds ' miles. • square,.
with several other millions crowded'
in the areas around it. They have all
helped.
With such a location, with such a
team, Shanghai looks forward to a
future when it will outstrip New
York and London. Enthusa'istic'
Shanghailander•s sometimes give you
the date—the last decade of the pre-
sent century. The argument is that
unlike Shanghai, New York and Lon"
den are cramped in their growth. A
decline in natural increase is in pro-
gress in the western world, which, it
is contended, will slow down the rate.
of increase in their port traffic.
'11 Shanghai's dream is realized,.
the Yangtse will certainly have te;•
share the laurels, for it will be a trite
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