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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-10-27, Page 7"THURSDAY, OCTOBIER 27, 1932.. THE SEAFORTH NEWS., PAGE SEVEN, HE 'GOLDEN TREASURY 'Ocdbober Neither .yield yeyour members as instruments of unrightcousness unto i s'in;. but yie,lct yourselves unto IGoid, as -r those !that are -alive from 'the dead; and your members -as' instruments' .of right- eousness unto God. Rom. vi, 113. ilif God ,has any 'members as weapons and instruments is his hands, .I shall certainly be a'b'le sot only to,work, but also to conquer, since he understands full 'well how to manage them. May the_!I,ord only give me grace not 'to wiled myself out sof his hands. For, how can a pen write alone, without being in, the 'hand' of a 'writer? It is true indeed, that it •is very hard,' nay, i'm'possi'ble, to be really good, and to • d'o all that is ;good, 'if''we underta'ke it alone; but Gind 'h'ianself living and worleing din us, and we truly delight- ing in him, it .Is very easy and pleas- ant. Therefore care is only to be taken, that our h'earts nniay be always the 'working -place, and our members the instruments, of 'God, in which and 'through which he can perform every thing himself, 1Now'God I serve, to 'hint alone My thau,kfuil homage pay; MY only )faster, Christ, II 'own, And him 'will II obey, To him my members rI present, Which he will not refuse; ' The me'an'e''st, basest ins'tru'ment His glony deigns to use. "Servant of sin too -long I was, But 'Christ has set me free; "Glory to 'his victorious grace, Which. freely ransom'd me. D. H. McInnes Chiropractor Of Wingham, will be at the Commercial Hotel, Seaforth Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons 1')+ceaees of all lcinds success- fully treated. Electricity used., WHY MAYOR WALKER HAS RESIGNED The resign'a'tion cd. the Mayor of New Yorlc,City closes another chapter -,-the most sensational -since the days when the Fweed Ring was broke'it—in the history olf 'Tgb-llmany's municipal government dvere. It ,follows a series of revelations so wild and fantastic as to be difficult of belief by people unac'q'udaitnted with the ins -and -outs of ipo'li'tioal affairs, in New. York, where condiitioms permit impunities un'kno'wn iv European city government. Some two years ago the Republican .majority of the New York State Sean - ate, answering ,mare to the pressure M. public opinion than to the hope of ,political advantage though that, too, was dou'btles's a factor, ap'p'ointed a - Committee •'to conduct hearings an various charges against the Democra- tic city government. A D'emocea•t, Judge Sa'mtiet Se'ahury;' was named and empowered to examine witnesses and collect evidence. Hundreds of w'it- ,nesse's were 'he'ard i0 private as well as in pulbl'ic, under oath; down-te•nis and' bank records were subpoenaed; public Linen and officials were held to account for transactions involving 'enormous sums of money, illegal commissions en city contracts, the ex- change of stoicks and bonds, alleged bribes, and various .peculatioirs. Front the outset the examining counsel encountered every conceivable obstruction that Quibbling legality, lo's's of vital reports, and the defective memory of rlelcalcitran•t and perjuring' witnesses could connive. Moreover, throughout bhe examination, the Dem- ocratic minority members of the !com- mittee itself obscured and deflected the evidence with a continuous stream of interruption and objection. When Mayor Walker ,took the stand it was before a 'T'amm'any-!packed audi!einlce, which added cheers, hisses and laugh- ter to the obstructive tactics of the witness himself, A lesser, man than Mr, lSeabu•ry 'could scarcely have ,with- stood 'the long attrition to which he was sulbjected without same justifiable dis!piay of exasperation, But first to last his patience and determ'in'ation held, ,and he clung to his course and his cause with a cool and courteous pertinacity, the apotheosis of con- tempt, which has been rewarded by the respect and admiration of every impartial observer. The proceedings were too complex and protracted to be sketched even in outline here, 'Same of the incredible 'highlights, however, may serve to il- lustrate their character, ,O'n'e minor official after another was totally un- able to exlpllai'nhuge bank deposits, mainly 'it) cas!h.. Mien withioffilcial sa't- ariesof a mere $3,500 yearly, ,had banked as much' as $60,000 in a year One of' thorn offered the explanation 'that he had been in the ;habit olf '!end- ing a few thousand dollars to friend's for a' few d,ays alt a time. When the Ibarrolwer repaid the loan 'he •would de so in cash, and thus the 's'ame five thousand, twelve times restored to the, bank account, explained the total. But she could not offer any documentary evidence, nor could he recall to w'h'om hie had lent the money. Theis, and. much similar testimony, was delivered in sudc'h patent confusion and with so theclh self-con•tr•ad'ictioe as to leave no doubt of guilt; 'Public interest was focused chiefly on Mayor Walker, whose popularity With the uneducated masses of citizens is e'ol1npatialble ftr many Ways with that Of Mr. IDo'raltio Bottou'nd'ey in the East End olf London, dB,efore the committee called him, the 'jaunty Mayor promis- ed to confound his accusers. He was able, Inc said, to explain everything, could produce his records, and lay every card on the table—promises in the outcome not fulfilled. The worst feature of his 'case was the disappear- ance of his !financial agent, the $3,000 a year accountant Russell Sherwood, who fled from the States when,,he was subpoenaed as a witness, failing to return even when his estate was se- questrated and the Courts 'fined him $'50,000 for contempt. The Mayor, on the one hand, insisted that Sherwood 'oauld clear ,him, but on the other made no attempt whatever to bring him hack to the country. IS'henwood shared a safe-deposit box jointly with the Mayor, handled all des finande's, kept all record's, and made even such payments as allow- ances to the Mayor's family depend- ants, as well as cheques to the myster- ious "unnamed" lady whose identity was an open secret even before the tabloid Press published her name and portrait. Duri'n'g the Mayor's term's of office {Sherwood had deposited a million dollars• three-quarters of it in cash , in various bank accounts. Where this money went is still an ev- en greater mystery than whence it carne. IShenwood, in ,Mexico; empow- ered a third party to extract docu- ments from the Sherwood-lWal'ker safe depository in the New York bank and this man, after visiting Sherwood abroad, immediately called on the Ma- yor. Asked to explain the purpose of this call at such a damning time, he answered that he had been passing Pile Sufferers Your itching, bleeding, or protrud ing 'piles will go and not opine bac'; when you actually remot'e the cense— bad 'bladod circulation in the !ower !bowel—and not one ' minute before Salves or sup'positaries can't do this— an •internal remedy must be used. H'E0f lRIO11lD, prescription! olf Dr. J. S. Leonlhard't, succeeds because it stim- ulates the circulation, driven out the thick impure blood, heals and restores the almost dead parts. IIIEIM-IPJOIID has such a wonderful record of suc- cess in even the most stubborn cases that Chas. Aber•hart and druggists ev- erywhere urge every sufferer to get a bottle of 1-IEIM-IROIIID Tablets. today. They must end your pile agony or money back. the City 'Hall an!cl noticing a crowd outside, had gone into ask the Mayor what it was doing t•herel One strange featureofthe hearings was that all the evidence against,Ma- yor Walker waswrung by cross-exa- mination from his closest friends and partisans, in spite af' their constant failure to remember vital facts and events, and 111 no instance from an en- emy. 'Most of their explanations were es unli'kel'y as those already. instanced. A certain newspaper proprietor, Paul IBloch, opened a stock trading account in the joint names of the Mayor and h•inise!lf. 0-nt of the profits he paid the Mayor $236,000, exactly !half of the total, although Mr. Walker had put no money up whatever. Bloch ex- plained his generosity 'on grounds of old fri'ends'hip. His young son, he said, hail once asked him dno!w the Mayor contrived to exist on his offi- cial salary of $215,000' a year, ( but since raised by the Mayor himself to $40,000), and Black, tatt•ched by the boy's thought, and sorry for Walker, determined to make some money for him. In evidlenlce it transpired that 1'Ir. Bloch was sinnul'taneously financing the invention of a patent .tide 'which was submitted to the City Engineers for prospective use in subway ?con- struction. The ;Mayor had even ac- companied Bloch to the inventor's lab- oratory on one occasion. !Another witness, State Senator Hastings, also one Of Mr. Walker's closest friends, praising the inventor, testified under oath that he had seen hint change some common mineral into gold. 'Phis same witness had been salaried very generously by ;a syndicate that was competing for a concession to operate certain bus ser- vices in the city. The Mayor was s'h'own to have sponsored and forced through the necessary franchise, al- though the syndicates estimates were Frel, A ARGAIN F syr a limited time The Seaforth News can offer an attractive elubbing Rate on new or renewal subsciptions, as follows The Seaforth News SAND London Free Press FOR $4.50 The Seaforth News AND London Advertiser APR ..$4:50 No matter when your subscription expires,. you will save by renewing now. This offer is good for a few weeks only. t t.. yea Isit4 3 far' from the best offerled to the city, Only a later breakclo'wn of financial guarantees {chan'ge'd the arrangements. But, earlier, oat the eve of his Europ- ean tour; the Mayor- secretly accepted a letter of credit for $10,000 on n Nelw York bank at ,the 'hands of an 'adntLt- ted agent of the interests be'hitrd the synd'icate. When, in Paris, this money was ex'hau'sted, the !Mayor cabled the issuing bank for a further 73,000, and, although he had no ac- count there, the money was forth- c'om'ing, !Later it ,was recovered by the bank from the same ,man who had arranged ,for the original letter of credit, Judge 'Seabury further adduced a similar entanglement with certain taxi- cab interests involving the Mayor's acceptance of $26,500 worth of 'bonds as well as 'S!herwood's receipt from allied interests of a. $2.12,000 payment fn' ex'cess of the ,market val'ue'a:f per- tain stook. I0t was also shown that the Mayor's brother, Dr. Walker, had habitually split fees .with a number of doctors who were designated by the city, official to treat woaanee's compensations cases. Such were the charges Which Mr, Walker was called upon to explain, first before bhe Hofstad•ter Committee and later before the State Go've'rnor. It is passible that, in the very last an- alysis, some of these allega'ti'ons coulld not be legally pro've.d. But the in- telligent press not excluding the lead- ing newspapers of New York itself, have not minced a word as to their opinion of the M'ayor's guilt. His 'be- haviour both during and after the .hlearings 'before Governor Roosevelt, his awn party's Presidential candidate, 'were characterized, like those before .the Ibofetadter ;Com'mi'ttee, by every kind of o'b',sltructionist - policy. He oven appeared against the constitu- tional right to reprove him, and at the very Ib'eginning took refuge in a ,plea that even though the charges were found true, they referred to con - ,duct during an earlier term 'of office, and, therefore, could not now be pun- ished, But he did not actually resign until it was quite clear that the 'Gov- ernor intended bo remove him. Tammany is obviously ready to cut its losses. Even the Hearst Press has rebuked May'o'r Walker for his insult- ing imputations on the ,motives of Mr. Roosevelt. Lt seems most likely that they will permit him quietly to be forgotten. In this, at least, he will be a martyr, though :only to his own caucus. Meanwhile -Judge Seabu•ry, now a figure of national importance, will complete his work 'by offering recommendations far the future gov- ernment of the city, and the new Dep- uty Mayor is attempting to 'reduce a $700,000,000 municipal budget. PRISONERS RIOT AT PORTS- MOUTH PENITENTIARY. Two, riots occurred in' 'Portsmouth penitentiary near the city of King- ston last week. After the second out- break last Thursday, the big institu- tion resembled an armed camp. One convict was wounded. More than 1'50 troops stood sentry along the walls and reports persisted, despite denial, that 40 guards were held as hostages by 010 defiant prisoners who had threatened them with death if soldiers were !brought within the psisoat building. Smouldering embers of the previous Monday's insurrection flared' anew when D10 "corridor" prisoners seized temporary control of the section of the penitentiary in which they were quartered, overpowering their guards and releasing 100. additional .pnrs'o•ners who were locked in cells. ;Bedlam broke loose in the 'block where the remaining 700 convicts were housed, Wilri'le ramipaging in- surrectionists ran amuck wrecking their quarters , their pals confined nearby howled approval. At the height of the turbirlence'a muffled detonation Shook 'the neigh- borhood. Fts origin was not explained. An mumediate call was sent for a detachnient of Royal Canadian 1I•orse Artillery as ,fear prevailed among prison authorities that the convicts had in some manner obtained access to .explosives. Almost immediately troops began to arrive inlumbering arm 'lorries. They wore steel helmets and carried complete field kit, including blankets, The sound of prisoners, rattling their cell doors was heard as the sol- diers mounted the wall and prepared to stand guard. Their appearance was greeted by hoots and leers of de- rision, Rifle fire broke out almost at once and was followed by cries from within 'the walls. The mob of angered convicts 'rais- ed' ti'n incr'eas'ing din and as far se could be learned front outside the walls appeared momentarily to he gaining the upper hand. A ;call Ear "militar•y ''reinforcements brought three truck -loads of addition- al men who this time came armed with machine guns which they mounted at strategic paints. (Huge throisgs whichhad gathered outside the walls attr'actedi by the sound of, shouting, and firing and'the hurried movements of the miibtary ,were soicin 'pushed 'back by sentries who Appeared on the scene, 'The crowd 'nedinain'ed, 'however, de- spite e- s ib a cold rain,' whipped by a .stiff wind ,firom Lake Ontario. Barricades were placed across ever approach to the prison to divert automobile traffic which threatened to addto the con- fusion. Rifle Are was 'first heard at about six o'clock in the evening and four hours later prison officials announced the situation was under' control and the escap'e:d convicts had been herded sa'fely'back to their cells. Notwithstanding this assurance a crop of rumors Persisted, chief among, which was that the corridor guards had been seized' by the convicts and were being held as ,hosltages under threat of death of prevent repressive measures by armed •force. "No one is held hostage by pris- oners here," Acting Warden 'Smith was quoted as s'ay'ing. It was recalled that .Smith him- self adud several guards 'had' been held as hostages in the previous riot. They were only released after troops ,hiad been withdrawn- follo'wing threats by the convicts to set fire to a building in which they had barricaded' them- selves. The acting warden denied that pri- soners had wrecked ,the lighting sys- tem of the penitentiary, "The prison lights are quite all right and a1Q is quiet," he said soon after the report •originated. Earlier arrival of a- truck at the main gate of the prison, loaded with fo'od and canned' coffee, gave rise to the belief that the rebels had seized' the pnison kitchen. This, however, could not be confirmed and it was' con'cl'uded the food was intended for the troops who were standing guard and could mot be fed' within • the in- stitution, Dere anti Tb ire A total of 12" sailin'-s to :in from I-Ialifax wit; ee ,:,., the coming so --,n to ;;:e 01 Country, the mai y ni wl::'' will be by C»r..,...tau Pa,,, , • steamships. A rise in v, c „1-1 'es ?'n Canada during ,,:;.;.',bt.i ,.; con- sidered to be one of t..a out- standing f':rorinhle r...nts is t'', Canadian .economic vi'uatiom v.: - cording to a stateinr:-tt recently issued by the Department of Trade and Commerce. Popularity of Canadian tobacco in the United Kingdom is increas- ing. For the eight months to August last, 8,950,568 lbs, of Can- adian tobacco valued at 02,545,380 was exported to Great Britain as compared with 4,917,123 lbs. val- ued at 01,429,892 exported fn the same period of 1931. The Canadian silver production in 1031 was approximately 201, million ounces, or 10.5 per cent. of the world's computed Produc- tion of 196 million ounces. Can- ada has for many years ranked third amongst the silver -produc- ing countires of the world, being exceeded by Mexico and the Unit- ed States. New Brunswick is to stage the North American Cover Dog In- ternational Trials as an annual sporting event. Success of two days' trial concluded at Peters- ville recently, has brought about formation of a permanent dog fanciers and owners association which has fixed dates for 1933. Photographs of Bangkok's shrines, temples, statues, and other places of interest in Siam taken during world cruises by Canadian Pacific liners, are be- ing taken to Bangkok for King Prajadhipok by the Siamese Con- sul -General in Canada, who sail- ed for the Far East on the Em- press of Asia recently. Hon. Herbert M. Marier, Can- adian Minister to Japan, left for Tokio recently aboard the Em- press of Asia after a two-month vacation fn Canada, strong in the belief that the Dominion is on the threshold of great trade developments' in the East. With 500 million people in Japan and China, the possibilities, said the Minister, are incalculable. • China is on the eve of an era of tremendous development in railway expansion, engineering works and general trade, in the opinion of Major W. S. Nathan, chairman of the Pekin syndicate, who recently sailed on the Em- press of Japan from Shanghai to Victoria en route for England, Rationalization and expansion of China's railways would be the first step in this expansion, he. stated. Three months in the unexplor- ed regions of the Fairweather Range in Alaska, with mountatu elimbinig, airplane cxidorations, and slti in:', was tho unusual summer boliday of a party or IIar+ard undrr^i•diluctes, hc^drd by IT. Bradford Wr lshrrn. Jr., president of the Harvard Moun- taineering Club, who retesrniu an Canadian Pacific "Imperial"tr'itn to his Alma Mater recently. "Wo had bad luck with weather and snow,"said Mr - Vashburn but otherwise the Pw ty is bringing back some very interesting mov- ing pictures of thein experi- ences. (873)