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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-10-20, Page 7THURSDAY, : OCTOSIER '20, 1932, IIIORONOMOOMOOMMOOMOMMOONERMSTIONOZOMOSOLI THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN, ..vie.■ THE GOLDEN��'vv � TREASV RY October 23. 1Vi'1i ye speak :wickedly :forGod and ,talk deeeited'•ly for him? ;Ppb xiii. 7. Thy word is truth, John xvii, .17, (When Moses saw, an Egylptian and an Israelite s'triving'together, he .killed the 'Egyptian, and saved the Israelilte. IExod. ii. ^12, !Batt, when he saw two Israelites ;striving together, he lab- oured to reconc'ile theta, saying, "'Ye are 'brethren; why do ye strive?" So, When we tweet; in the volumes of hea- thenism, ar of anti-Ichr:istian ,super- lsk'i'tson, 'with seatin>lents hoslti'le to '(those of the Bible, let u's (to b'orraw. the language just cited) the. Rig- ylp'-tian, but save the !Israelite."'B'iiit, ;when we notice a seeming 'contrad'ic- tion in .the BIible,'let us avail ourselves as "muchas possible, of those aids by which we may the able to trace a ;real agreement, 'It is said, e.g.' "5G!od tempted ' Abraham; •'(lGen, rein. yet .it is also said, "God temp•teth no man." James :i, 13. II -fere, add in many pother places, we mush be •eecon'clnlens, and distinguish 'between a temptation of trial, and a temptation o'f seduice- anent; •thus, these two apparently dif- ferring Ifr;iend's will appear 'to be bre- thren, and agree' well. Thy word, 0 God, with• hea'ven'ly bread, Thy :chfiddnen doth supply; And those 'who by thy word are fed', Their souls shall never die. A'MERICAiN PARITIES ENTER CLiOSING WEEKS OF TEST With only three weeks to :go be- fore the presidential election in No- vember, there is great activity by both par bites in the United S'ta'tes. Presid- ent Hoover, the Republican candidate, last week carried the story of his eco- nom'ic reconstruction program into the heart of the mid.western tier of states, where the result of the forth- coming election may be decided. The chief executive spoke in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 115, on a trip intended 'to .still: further deepen the impression given by his 'Des :Woines speech a week prvious. With the President's announcement word came to • Wash- ington that 'Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt, of New York state, the . Demo- •cratic candidate, would start on an D. H. McInnes Chiropractor Of Wingham, will be at the Commercial Hotel, Seaforth Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Diseases of all kinds success- fully treated. Electricity used. elitlhlt,d'ay torn• of, the ''iouth and West, 1)egiun'img 0etr 18.' Maio ugh fhe IZr,osevel:i trip Is a southern ;tour, ,the itinet'sry reveals that less than half will be below the Mason -;Dixon line, 55(1 t4) at the Dengocintic canvd•iti'ate will invade the same central area of ;the laidiwes't into which Mr. •TLoover is penetrating. Governor 'Roosevelt Will make a -speech at Spridngifield, Illi., (Oct, 23, and at Inddan'a'po1is •'the same day. The belief that the Republican's li5110(1d to hammer hoarse their 'econo- mic ideas in frequent speeches from now a titi1 election .day gains strength from the speaking ,proigralm so :far oult- lined, Mr, Calvin Coolidge delivered a'speec!h in Madlison-Square' 'Garden, IN,ew York, last week, which is re- gardkld as one of the important ut- terances of the cahnpalgn, ;Gov. Roosevelt is expected to fol- low his swing 'through the Soulth' and middle West with a w'hinlerind. campaign in the rock-ri'b'bed Repub- Sc'an'sectiones of Pennsylvania and western New Yonk. A's tentatively slated the Governor will be back to his home State on Oct. 25 for stops at Buffalo a:nld Rochester that d4. GRAN CSACO. Despite the appeals of neighboring republics and the efforts of arbitra- tors of five neutral nations, war is again threatened between Paraguay and IBollivia. An open clash is report- ed. And in. La Paz and Asuncion it is being claimed that the time for diplomacy has passed and that wear alone can settle the :boundary dis- pute. !It was an the war of the Paci- fic 'in 1'S79 that ;Bo'l'ivia lost her out- lets to the sea, and in the tP'araguay an war of 18165 that Paraguay lost most of her man power and' gained several ibound'ary disputes that were settled at great cost. The discovery, or alleged dis'cavery, of oil in the area has enhanced the future value of a vast 'region of jun- gle and ,plains 'accura'tel'y denominat- ed by J'u'lian Duguid as '`green hell." The Gran Chaco is alm'ost •un'inhabit- ed and unknown. It 'would seem that the sen'din'g of military exped'itions into it .might have more value as ex- ploration than as warfare. The im- portance of the Chaco is potential ra- ther than actual. The ,problem of de- termining the boundaries between the two •nations is an exceedingly , diffi- cult one. The difficulties inhere in his- torical and geographic factors. Spain l and iPortugal never succeeded inde- limiting definitely their colonial: em- pires. Nor did ;Spain ever establish carefully the 'boundaries of the 'vari- ous; divisions of her American colony. Asthma Brings Misery, but Dr. J. D. Kelloggs Asthma Renaed:y will re- place the ,misery with welcome relief. Inhaled as smoke or vapor it roaches the very innermost recesses of the bronchial' passages and soothes them Restriction passes and easy breathing returns. If you knew as well how this remedy would help you as do tho:uaan'ds of grateful users, there would he a package in your .home to- night. (Try .it, A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon andmail it with$1for a six weeks' tried sxbsdription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Publlahed by Tatou, a eu= Sara= J nasS. A ora Somme In it You Wm and the daily good news of the world from its 500 special wrliete, OS well as departlneote devoted to women's and children's interests, `ports, music. finance, education, radio, etc You will be glad to welcome into your home so (eeriest, an advocate of peace and prohibition. And don't miss Snubs, Our Dos. and the Sundial and the other features, Tutt aaa1srtas acrxxcx Moxnoa, Back BayY station, Boston, Masa. elesae send mea six Weeks' 0,551•subscrlptioh, I enclose one dollar (51).. (Noma peon print) (Address) • (Telma (State) TI -2E EVIL OF EXAM'PNATLONS It is the season of examinations. Many thousands of boys and .girls have just been passed through the in quini'tion and now await the results which may perman entiy vitiabe their future careers, In good time conies another pro- test of authority against the whole system, Misa Gray, who, as,. the late High Mistress of ,St. Paul's, should know something about its,, reliability, instructs fathers and mothers not to measure • their children's abilities by, examinations. She calls for .a crusade against the rule which great firms are laying down that 'boys and girls who want to come into their employment should•have .passed same public exam- ination, She does not stand alone. Head- mistresses have long been •objecting to whet same of them publicly call; "the curse of matriculation." Head- masters, loge it not_much (better. I't was planned as an examination for entry to the universities and the profess'i'ons. It is used as a test for every 'boy and girl who stays at school to '1i6 or 117, say 70,000 a year, who will go inbobusinesa or trade. The Headmaster elf (farrow has pro- nounced, and he 'has not a 'few sup- porters, that for many boys and a great many girls :the test and the coarse which le'a'ds to it are unsuit- able. The particular argument against this universal sdhoolalea'ving examina- tion is that it demands competence in five or six separate subjects'and that there are lots of boys and girls o'f very useful practical albility who can- not reach the standard in alt these by fair :means. Is it not recorded that 'Lord Ran- dolph 'Churchill, when he took office as Chan'cell'or' of theeExcnequer and was confronted wih'h some Treasury 'figures, asked a horrified official sv3sat was the meaning of "those damned d'ots," the decimal points The disa- bilities of English statesmen and sol- diers with the French tongtue and of their opposite numbers with ours make many an anecdote in the me- moirs: of the W1ar. IB'ut the objections to examinations go deeper, to the validity of all exam- ination results, even whenthe sub- jec'ts are those for w'h'ich the candi- date's mind is fitted. Sir Michael Sad- ler has declared that "the examina- tion system is oa'oalble of doing' more subtle and permanent harm to Eng- lisih wits than drink," • 11 -lis reason, I take it, is that exam- inations in general do not test, and so, tend to dis.courage individuality of Mind, originality, and thus theyset in high places peo'p'le who toed. to think on 'a pattern, and to do what somebody else will think best.. Let us judge this Opinion by sante of the recorded results. We have the examining officer's repent on. Napol- eon at the military school of BrienneI The lad was distinguished in mathe- matics, though he only knew "history and geography passably," The . a'dd deduction 'was made that "he will be an excellent seaman." Nevertheless, he was pronounced worthy to enter the higher s:dhool at Paris, and there and when he was a subaltern reports on him were exrcellent. ' (Wellington, I suppose, 'never passed an. examination in his life. Everybody, even his ma'ther,,,found him a dull lad with tea particular interest in anything but music, though his elder brother was one of the many Viceroys of I'n die, from Warren Hastings to Lord Curzaie who shone in the tests, for school. Many nineteenth-century states- men 'began with a• great, shave ,in exa- minations. Peel and 'Gladstone were 'both double firsts, talein,g.classics and matthem'attics, Macaulay, ashom 'every, one thinks of asthe typical prize boy, was golfed 215 miethem'a'tics at Cam- bridge, Ibult ambridge,'bult his classics were ,:good enough far a first and a fellow's'hip. Asquith s examination prowess was of the moat 'br•11'iian't, an d modern Ca- binets still show Ghat first-class hon - ars at the University are not necess- arily an error elf somebody's judg- ment: IBu2 politics, it may be said, are not the department for originality " of mind. Imagination is not, except in its humbler forms, a quality which ex- omin'a'tions are adapted to test, 'Poets and men alt letters: have had their difficul'ties' at the universities, though, as with 'Shelley and Swin- burite ,generally in Other matters than examination's, and some of them came away with prizes and first :classes. ITh,e weight ofevidence seers to be that in general a lad who does well in examinations is rather likely than otherwise to be a lad of more than average ability. There can be no cer- tainty. No one is always .in form. No one's mind deveh.,os at a regular. pace. Lord Iilirken,head, we have :been told, failed For a scholarship at Har- row arid went on to shine in a bril- liant period et Oxifo}d.' We are now told that pschology can offer intelligence tests producing Ear nvone acem•ate results than any ex- am•laliabion. paper or viva vo,ee on the it If WES ONLY *3-5 One Wad $6.50 ROUND TRIP between BUFFALO and CLEVELAND Autos, army size,carriedfor only83.75 ($4.75 July alt to Sept. 1455. inclusive) Why drive when you can put your car aboard for less than the cost of oil and gas? More restful... cheaper... and saves a day. Steamers each way, every night, leaving at 9:00 P.M., May 15th to November tit. t Cleveland—Pt. Stanley, Canada, Division July 1st to, Sept. 5th incl. on Friday, Satur- day and Sunday only 613.00 apse auay6` $5.00 Rd. Trip. Any ear only (53.75. ' Ask your Loral Tourist arTicket Agent for nue &B Line Folder, indsedieg Eee, Auto " • ' Map and details on our All Expense Trips. THE CLEVELAND AND BUFFALO TICANSIT COMPANY Port Stanley, Canada •. Buffalo. N. Y. old pattern. ask a buy " what was the. color of Queen Elizabeth's wedditag dress?," (1 have kt cwn this done) and his answer will show you anore of his mined than if he wrote out his op'i'n- ion of her Majesty;,, This simple faith I am ;not able to share. I (lo not believe that any exa- nninaition will give certain results. For examiners are as fallible as examin- ers. When it cones to framing ques- tions whhichare more than demands for facts and es'timatinng the answers' there is no such thing as . ab'sdl'ulte, fairness and; one. examiner's .judgment differs from another's. How often, have we heard in private, "So-and- so was hardly tre,ated," "So-and-so was the ;better man;" when the pub- lished results were otherwise, But on,e Of the merits of the examination sys- tem is that it trains sensible people not to expect fairness in this world. Its practical defence is that you mu's't have some general measure of knowle'dlge and of capacityto ap'p'ly it. The best quality of exarnina'bionis is that which is often condemned as the worse, their reward for a cool head and a ready mind. iMAERIAL CONFERENCE TREATIES M'1 DE PUBLIC • New significance and new' under- standing of the .character and ex'ten't of the benefits Canada :may expect as a result of the work of the Imperial ;Economic nCom'feren'oe was given Can- adians fast week, when Premier Ben- nett analyzed the 'work of the con- ference for the House of `•Commons, Itlfast startling ;was his disclosure' of a paramount fact that was entirely lost sight of in the en'thusia'sm engen- dered' by •caneessiions 'given to natural products. It is that the (Conf'erence's work adds forty million people 'of the 'Un'i'ted Kingdom and ,more millions in the colonies to 'the preferred mar- kets of efficient Canadian industries. iBy'rnargin,s of from 1:0'to S0 per cent, they 'ha've a Tdirect preference over al: foreign competition in these markets, the margins being sufficient, it •is de- clared, to more !than offset the mass production factor which has operated in favor of United 'S'tattes indius'tries 'fn former competition for these markets. As the significance of Mr. Bennett's outline of 'this situ'a'tionbecame ap- preciated a wave of enthusiasm spread through the House and: galleries, Ar- guments that 'the Canadian inanufac- turer had, bleen sacrificed to Canadian agriculture were vitiated and the 'be- lief 'became 'general that the confer- ence had pro'ba'bly achieved as nurch for the manufacturer as for any other interest, ;The 'range of preferences covers pra'ctical'ly every important 'Canadian manufacture 'arid its maintenance is regarded as certain to stimulate in- dus'trial employment and to 'extend the establishment of branch factor- ies ie the (Domi'nion. Canada, M'r. IBenneft declared, is the only part of the British Empire with factories equipped' to manufacture for export to the United Kdn'gd.otn naany of the articles Theretofore sup- plied to that market by foreign ,coun- tnie's, The possi'bil'ities of increased activi- ties'in 'Canad'ian factories and . trans- portation routes, .with corresponding decrease in unemployment, as a result of these •preferences, are unlimited. ITIhhe advantages given to Canadian natural prod'u'cts were emphasized with cameo clarity Iby Mr. 'Bennett. The quota regulation on bacon and hangs assuring Canada a minimum market •for 280,000,000 pounds annual- ly is to be met with a'definri'te produc- tion program that in five years will provide an export volume of 300,000,- 000 and by '1942, a volume of 500,- 00'0,000 pounds per year. Live Cattle . Exports.' 'Wiping out of restriction upon the entry of dive cattle fro'1n Canada. to Britain is 'expected to develop ,5,0 ex- port market of at least 200,000 'head per year, Which is approximately one- third United Kingdom imports. In! dairy products, tobacco, trui't5, canned vegetable's, eggs; rye, 'barley and oasts, the margin of preference is regarded by the Prime'M'inis'ter as, certain to improve Canadian trade, On the subject of wheat Mr. Ben- nett 'declared he neverrepresented to the wheat growers that the effect of 'a preferenlce .would be to stet up in bh,e n favor a price d:ifferen'tial in world markets, unci a4 the expense of the •British consumer. It was, 'h'ow ever, vital to Canada to find s seem eel ura;rket.in the United Kingdom,, which is now and is likely to conititnie to he, the greatest wheat importing market of the :world, With this mar- ket secured, the problem of finding other markets,for the balance of ex- portable samples is materially lessen- ed, while a preferential position in the British market will be of immense ad- vantage to 'Canada in maintaining its wheat - growl n:g• areas while world sources of supply are being compelled to adjust their acreage to market re- quirements. Effective operation of agreements with respect to timber and mineral oradu:ots is fereoast by Mir, ;Bennett, He has no misgivings'ras to the ef- ficacy of the arrangement rear.hcct with 'respect to' control: of unfair l,or- eign competition. " 1V:tthou't definite protection .again- st unfair competition from abroad," he said, "tihe advantages ' under the ag- reement t would be seriously impaired. 11 'remains 'with the United „King- dom to provide the means by which provision will be madle operative, and 1, for one, am 'content, that, when in honor, ,the United Kingdom is bound to ensure its effectiveness, 'that ef- effectiveness will follow upon their undertaking, as the night follows upon the day." What Canada Gives. 'Widened British preferential rates on 203 items in the Canad'i'an list are granted in the tariff changes, the re- sult of th'e imperial, economic confer- ence agreements. IIran and steel in raw state, restrict- ed for use for forgings, iron and steel parts and ma'ch'ine 'for use in 'Canad- ian factories 'o'nly, all forms of 'wire, tramway tracks, ,mining machinery are g'i'ven preferences, ' eithef• do the form of reduced rates or a continua- tion of the ;free entry with increased intermediate and general rates. Alcoholic beverages, including li- quors, wines amid' ales, ane favored up to as l jgh' as $2 a gallon as'compared with the former rates, while Cigarettes and tobacco share largely in the re d'uationts. iCotto.n, 'woollen, linen and jute fab - tics in. a' wide variety o'f 'classifications mill 'have' in'crease'd preferences rang - ng from free to ode -third of the for- mer rates. 'Leathers are .given wider prefer- ences bath by reduced preferential rates .and ,increased interme'd'iate and. general rates. (Hides and skins, whether dry, salted or pickled, and raw pelts, will .bb free .from a l countries. These were previ- ously free from British sources but had intermediate and general rates of 10 and t115 ,Per cent, (Anthracite will have an increased preference of 10 cents a ton. iDiairy machinery, including cream separators,; will have increased inter- mediate and general ,tariffs and reduc- ed 'preferential rates. All kinds of autamebiies and motor- cycles will have free entry, where the preferential rate for fanmerly lar/z to 1:5 .per sent. In the case of 'motor- cycles the genera'!' and intermediate rates are increased a•I'so. 'Motor buses remain unchanged, as do motor parts. Increased intermediate and general tariffs have been applied to scores of c'henlical compounds whish enter free. Radios and parts, including bat- teries, get a preference of 1,5 per cent. What Canada Gets. .Free entry in the Kitbgdann market for Canadian manufactured products excepting in respect of a very 'limited list of ,goods. 'Preferences in the United Kingdom market on Canad'i'an goods ranging from 10 per cent to 33 1.3' per cent. Canadian manufactured g o.o d s wihieh enter the United Kingdom free under the a'greemen't number over 190 commodities. The list includes certain kinds of paper, alunttin'um, stoves, typewriters, and a long list of 'hardware; leather, furs, rubber and textiles, chemicals and miscellaneous goods. Preferences in the various British colonies: Preferences in Ttthe United Kingdom market far practically the entire range of `Canadian naturai products. 'Free entry into the United King- dorm market for 'certain timber pro- duces. ICanadi'an fish products, includ'i'ng canned vain -tort, •codfish, oysters, cod- liver oil, etc„ enter the United King- dom free. (Free entry into the Bri'tis'h market with preferences extending !from 10 to 155 poi• cent a,'d valorem on mineral products including capper, asbestos, zinc, lead, nicikel, gypsum,, feldspar, etc, Regulated Bacon Market. Regulation of the British •bacon. market and an arrangement whereby free entry of :Canadian !hills and ba- con of good quality up to 2,500,000 cwt, per annum Will be concluded. Modiftcatihns of conditions at pres- ent governing importation into the United Kingdom 'C'anadian live cattle, .lFree entry (except for sugar duty) to the "United King -clam market for three years ;certain en Canadian sweet- ened, condensed milk,_. 'F'ree entry into the United Kingdom market en: creamery butter for three years certain as against 1115 shillings per cwt. (11112 lbs.) general, 'tariff and a preference 'margin of 15 shillings per cwt. during the life at the agree- ment. iFree entry for Oainadian cheese into the British market for three years, with preference margin 'of '115 per cent to be maintained' during the culrreney` of the agreement. (Preferences in the British market :on Canadian tobacco. !Free entry into the 'United King- dom-anarket on freslh apples as again- st a duty an foreign apples of fuer shillings and six pence per cwt. (Canada also receives a preference in the British market on fresh and canned ,pears, fresh plums, canned to- matoes and tomato 'ketchup. . A preference of 10 per cent on Can- adian potatoes. Alt present there is an embargo in force. Free Entry for Eggs. 'Free entry to the United Kingdom. •market for three years certain, to ICatpadliian eggs in shell as a'gain'st cer- tain specific duties against foreign eggs. A preference of seven shillings per cwt. on Canadian honey in the Br'itis'h market. A preference of 10 per cent in the United Kingdom market on Canadian b'ariey. Free entry for following Canadian, grain and grain products, with a 10 per cent ad valorem preference: Wheat flour, rye, oats, peas, :clavier seed, hay, 'brans, shorts and mid- dlings, oatmeal and rolled oats, !Free entry for Canadian wheat as against a general' tariff of three pence per bushel. 'Free ,entry of canned tomatoes in the United' Klitngelam market a's again- st a general tariff of '10 per cent. ;Canoed vegetables enter British market free. Tariff against foreign canned vegetables 20 per cent ad v'a•1- orem. Unsweetened 'condensed milk enter (British market free. Tariff against'far- eign co'mmo:dity slix shillings per cwt. 1Prelferenibial rates on 'Canadian con- fectionery onfectionery in United Kingdom market. !Free entry ole unsweetened milk .powders as against a general tariff of six shillings' per cwt. !Polite Host: "Would you like to sit on my right hand during dinner." !Equally Polite Guest: "But can you eat all right with .your left?" "Can you beat it ?" "What now?" 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