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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-05-25, Page 7aye THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1933, THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN. 0 Il—eu—ttir—an ons uu�nit.�ettolut�-lu TSUl to l�Ce'1 Monthly Statements s We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fib ledgers, white or. colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also beset quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post ,Birders and Index. ' _ o i forth Diens The Sea O .. Phone 84 pwesiessora D. • H, McInnes Chiropractor' Electro Therapist — Massage 'Office `Commercial 'Hotel Hours—Mon. and 'Thurs. after- noons and by appointmentc FO.O'T Qo'RRECTtO I by .mani.puiation-Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 227. 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HE 'F,OUND' LITTLE , CHILDREN 'WE'RE SLAVES ""He found in 'Lancashire thousands' o'f children between, the ages of six and eight years working amid the din. and noise ;far, fourteen and ,fifteen hours a day six days 'in the week. , . He went dawn the 'coal pits, where the saw 'boys and girls of tender years . . they spent fourteen .and fifteen hours a day opening and shutting doors to let trolleys pass . . sometimes •the mites fell asleep and 'would he crush- ed to death or maimed .. ' There's a :picture to stagger you-- 'for ou—'for it was a .commonplace in ',Britain little more than seventy years ago. One man changed it all—the seventh (Earl ,of Shaftesbury, :son of a vigorous ,Sixty upholder •of the old order. ,Siy y ears of his life .were' given, to the task. Hu- manity will be for 'ever in his debt. Anthony Ashley Cooper, seventa. Earl of • S,haftestbury, made good reso- lutione—and kept them. iI't was well for the poor and work4ng-classes of 'Great ,Britain that he did so. One of the great resolutions he made as a young roan was„that. he would cense-' lcrate his life to the uplift of the down- trodden; who at that time, in Chrislt- ian England, lived in a state of vir- tual silevery, due in large measure to, the dawn of the<:era' of industrialisa- tion which set in a century and more agog 'Lord !Shaftesbury, or Lord Ashley, as he was until he succeeded to the earldom in 11851, lived at ,a period when the great anti -slavery campaign was at its height, which • was to free from .bondage thousands of negroes. He was more intimately concerned with rescuing from slavery his fellow Britons in Great Britain itself. There were slaves not only to the great industrialmachine which was then being Ibulit up,: but there were also slaves to vice of all sorts; due in the main 'bo the anti-'Ohristian ,and generally vile conditions under which people lived, iI•t is ;hard, to realize that three- quarters of a ceen'tury ago 'little chi,l- dren, hardly. more than; .blabies, 'were ,working in ;th'ousand's down the A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with $1 for a sit weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published byl Tu on,MaTThN Sammy nt�sxalu Soot= ra It you, will dad' the dally gond .newsof the world from Its e00_ special, writers, as well as departments devoted to women's and children's interests, sports, music, finance, eecaatlon, radio. ere 'You will be glad to welcome into your home eo tearless an advocate of peace and prohibition. And don't miss Snubs. Our Dog. and the Sundial and the other teatures. Tffa-0asrsyraw Ba1swoa MONryoa, Back Bay station, Boston, Mass. Please send me a six weeks' trial subscription. S enclose one dollar (¢i). (Nome. olssoe print), ' (Addreee), (Town) (State) mines, in the cotton factories, and on ,ferns all over the .!country, shep- herde'd' and illatreated' by task -mase tens often quite 's cruel as those in Egypt of old. Lord. tAs'hley, when a young M. P. for W,o'odstock,,wenit into the mills of 'L'ancash'ire, and down the pits of the IBlaede Country, and among the waifs and outcasts of London's appalling elurne. He 'found in 'Lancashire thous- ands n, between. of c Idr e t etween the ages of six and eight- working amid ,the din and noise of :machinery ,for 'fourlteen and fifteen hours a day, six days in the week, receiving mere pittances in wages, which, alone formed a hardly 'perceivable barrier 'from: abject slav- ery. • 'These •children had been recruited from workhouses and towns far from ILa•ncas!hire, They had come from homesh re w e heartle ss parents did not want : them,' or where :ignorant ;Par- ents were d'elude'd into the belief that in the cotton factories, better pros- pects weve opened to their [children, Ashley went down 'the coal pits where he saw bdys'and .girls of very (bender years at work in damp, dark and rat -infested passages and gal- leries. They spent 'fourteen and fifteen hours a day opening and shutting doors to let trolleys pass. Sometimes t'he mites fell asleep, and would ibe- crushed to death by these vehicles; at other times they would fall victims to pois- on fumes and the other perils peculiar to the mines.. Boys and ,girls little older, on their hands and knees, and with ropes. round their waists, had to drag trol- ley's, heavily laden with coal, ' along passages, and up steep inclines. Often a trolley would break • the rape and csas'h clown an incline to kill, or maim, some of 'the 'child . slaves in the vicin- ity. 'Lord Ashley had inquiries made,, and in other coal fields he found'can- ditions sometimes worse. In Easit Scotland 'he saw a young girl carrying a hundred -weight of coal, and making fourteen journeys a day, each time climbing to a height equal to 'that of a church spine. 'Then there were ,child sweeps, usu- ally tiny boys, but sometimes girl's. 'Few of 'these unfortunates li,ved''to be men and women. Most Of them were cruelly treated and under -fed, and their Tittle bodies' bruised and deform- ed, while the sooty and 'generally dirty n'atune of 'their calling rendered them prone to 'skin .d'iseases. They 'had' to climb up chimneys to clean them, and'were often sent up' to quell sm'a'll fires. 010 wonder most Of them 'died before they reached their twenties 1 Despite the revelations which (Lord ,As'hley and his 'friends made, and the 'fact that they were supported by the evidence of oflficial enquiries, it tool a ''quarter of a century and more of hard fighting in Parliament and out before the evils were even tackled and a .longer' time elapsed before they were effectually stamped out. Alt this time Lord Ashley was working unceasingly for good ,causes' too numerous to describe Benevol— ent societies o'f all sorts asked .his aid, uuanY.nt as well as moral. He was asked to become president of this society patron of that, No sootier had 'he acconepis'hed one goad 'deed than something fresh. claimed ,his attentions Frequently his health was' on the verge of breakd;awn and ; he had to be 'd'ragged away to a fc eign cottn•-ry, so that he would be prevented 'from taking part in any of (the work which so magnetised him. In all his workshe was ably sec- onded 'by 'his wife. tInd'eed, 'wit'hout her financial 'help he could not have carried on his work, because he was a ,comparativel'y poor man. His cir- cumstances were straitened becau•es his father oibjeelted to 'leis son's ;cam- paigns. The sixth !Lord Shaftesbury was a landowner who kept his .work- ers "down,” 'When 'Lord Ashley' succeeded 'to the . earldom and the estate at 1St. Giles, Dorset, Inc 'found that he had to settle debts, yet, alt 'the same time, the, ,housing ,candittions ,of the people. On, the estate. were as bad as they. could be. Their 'co'ttage's were .overcrowded, danip and insanitary. The :farmers paid the men badly, and charged them exorbitant prices for food, which had .to be 'taken instead'. of Wages. • • His first tasks were to free the es- tate of tigabt aid build neer and bet- ter hail*. To those farmers who re- fused 'to improve the; working condi- tions roof their ,employees ,he gave not- ice to quit. To raise money for his •good causes the earl sold his valuable collec'tion of •cur^a, int even co ae rum : elf an 'the brink Of ruin, 'because of the toetleryi of ;the steward who had Tree of ills estate, This man. to whom the earl had placed implicit 'trust',in the 'management off his prier - see business affairs, idefraud'ed him o'f thousands ,of ,pound's. 'B'ut Lord 'Shaftesbury, on finding out the freed, merely sent the s'•teward. a letter asking him to resign. It was a great Ohristia!nr act which few peo- ple would ,have found it ill their 'hearts to emulate, Since his entry into Ipublee life in his ,twenties, he had gradually gained the respect of lea'd'ing statesmen, though he had 'consistently declined 'Cabinet rank,, and had refused 'blind. loyalty to 'the ,Tory 'Party,' under whose banner'he 'had entered Parlia herb, He wished 10 be 'ftae to carry on his work for ethe poor and down- trodden, ,Boit he was constantly taken into the confidence of 'Ministers, and Queen Victoria and the 'Prince Con- sort frequently discussed social .prob- lems with him, His views were sought on 'Churc'h and religious matters, and his friend and relative, Palmerston, in- variably consulted him about, the ap- pointment of a new bishop. !Shaftes- bury became known ,as "The bis oo maker," His work in London will be chiefly remembered by the fact that he took a leading part in the inauguration of Ragged Schools, He was not the founder of this movement, but, oncel he had identified ''h:imself with !the cause, 'he became the lea'din'g spirit. He visited !the worst of the sljuens, uu' accompanied, always taking his life .in .his hands when .he trod the dark' alleys and the haunts' of some of the world's worst criminals, But he was never molested, much les's rob'b'ed, Like ,most reformers, he had very original ideas, and :one of 'these Was toconvene th'e strangest .public meet- ing which ''cain, ever have. been held. iI't was a Ynieeting 'of 'thieves, and no- body but a recognised thief ,could gain admittance, except the convener of the meeting, 'Lord 1Asthley,. He had not then become an ;earl. tAlhley preached to them 'a passion- ate sermon', It was the sort of address they might halve -heard in most of the churches of the day, except that ,it was ,delivered with more "fervour and directness and simple appeal. "That''s all right," said one man, "but we've got to be fed. Player won't do it." ' Ashley knew what was et, the back of the man's Mind, and this reply was a plea that tthey 'shoul'd 'leave their wrongdoing and seek work,. 'He got many of them to go straight if theya had a chance. Some of them emigrat- ed to the 'Colonies,„ where they .found emp'loyme'nt and became respectable citizens. To this day their. children bless' the name 'of the ;Earl, of Shaftes- bury for giving their .parents a new start in life. ,Ashley in his wanderings round the slums of London had seen young ch71- drew sleeping out in all sorts of weath- er, in doorways; under archways and boardings; in. 'fact, anywhere that of- fered shelter. In ,this way he himself collected hundreds of orphans and unwan'te'd children for his Ragged S'ch'ools, and by other means found them shelter. D'irecti'.and indirectly Inc was respon- sible for saving thousands from rat- ting in the slum's, and giving •theen work to do by which they became self -'supporting members of 'society. 'Some of 'S'haltesbury's best work in London was among the rosters, or "pearlies," He taught these rough. men thrift, set many o'f them up in business, started donkey shows, and gave prizes for the best donkeys. iHe. was one of •themselves, jolly, always ready with a sally, and by this means he won his way into their hearts, and brought Christianity into their lives and homes. It .was a fitting tribute they paid Tirol, when, inviting him to ,attend a large meeting, they led a donkey to the platform, and offered it as a pees• ent ea him. 'Shaftesbury, by this time an oleo man, told the rosters to write to hint, of their troubles, But one of the men said lee did not think a letter from a caster would reach the earl, whereup- on 'Slhafte'stbury, ever ready with ,. a bright idea, told 'them to put after his name °'IK.tG, and 'Coster." He was a Knight of the !Getter, He 'bought a barrow, • and called himself a casters flihis barrow was 'te'n't 'free of charge- to any 'man who was itemporarily bard up. ISIleaftcsbury, among his .other deeds, inaugurated a loan ,fund, for flower girls and !helped in the formation of .,,e In his last years he visited a large town .where in his ea'tili,er days 'he Quad found the workpeople slaves..Iln ',thoge days, before the •Flactory Acts, he had called together.alt the people who had been .crippled and deformed fn the .actories. There were dozens. lOn his second visit he ,nailed for a ,..malar .gathering. Not one could be found, (Surely a wonderful tribute to. his c'ampa'igns, wlh•Olclu had reduced v, orkmg, hours to tell a day, affecting 100,000 wore, and young persons and raised the 'working age of children to founteen. Why, it may be asked, came this scion of a noble house to interest him- self in the wearies of a strata of soc- iety'w'hic'h his own class, for the most part, 5des'pised? a'hartesbury was a conscientious and reel ''Ohris!tian„and 'it was• :the fact that he took his religion se much to heart that led him into the backwaters of a country which threatened to be- came inhuman'ised by the new andus- itrialisation and the continued greed of the upper and en -splaying classes of the day. He did not learn his religion from his father, •a hardhea,ded man of busi- ness, or .his mother, who . was 'ave'r- fond of the distractions of high so•- m ricer old''h usekee er ciety, but from. ) o P , Marta Mills. She was the 'greatest 'friend of his boyhood days, and it was ito her 'bha'p he awed the sincerity of his sturdy 'Christianity Which led him into so many campaigns for the ben- efit of his, fellow countrymen.,, 1H;ls .days at the first school he at- tend'ed read like a story of Dotheboys Hall, so picturesquely ' described in "Nicholas 'Nickleby,” IS!hefltesbury, w'ho died) in''Oeto'ber, 1555, • at the ripe age of eighty four, left behind a legacy of good deeds so numerous, 'that, as a record they re- main 'unequalled. He was) indeed, apt- ly lamed "the good earl," RARE MONEY A rare set :af Indian trading tokens reached Q'ueen's !Park during the past !few days. To obtain them a trip of 743 miles 'was 'made 'into Quebec and up the east coast of 'Hudson Bay, all Inc way by dog'telam. In the year '1'557 the 'Hudson's Blay Company decided to educate the In- dian's df the Far North to the use of motley. Brass tokens were s'trutk in England, 'but the .orrd'inary denomina- tions of .peace, half -pence, and souse width were oonvm'on in the po;pula'ted pants of Canada, were n'o't used to des- ignate these ,newcomers to the realms of commerce in that long ago. The officials df 'the company decid- ed to issue their tokens in d•enomina- dions of "beavers skins" and, fractions df "beaver skins. 'Tokens 'were s'truak for one, a 'half, a quarter and an eigth!th of a beaver skin. The tokens were in use for but a short time; the Indians did rat take 'kindly to the idea. 'About three years ago one of the officials of the Royal Canadian •Mount- ed ',Police, whose duties take 'h'im far into the Hudson Bay territory, prom- ised to try to secure for Dr. •Lyntan B. 'J'ackes, Ontario 'Government phot- ographer, a set of 'these 'token's, for his collection of Canadian coins. They, were delivered least week. The police official was required to make a sled journey of over seven 'hundred miles during the past winter. In the course of this 'trip he stopped 'one night at a lonely ,fur-ttrad'ing pbs't, and 'there :he secured this much -coveted set of coins, in almost mint condition. 'PERFECT CONTROL IS CLAIMED FOR NEW 'GI'RO London. -Antics indulged in by a new type of autogiro at a demonstra- tion at Hanworth airdrome near here Included :hovering in th'e air to collect ,parcels ,on a piece of string from ground o:b'servers. Senor de la Cierva, bhe Spanish inventor, .put them'achine', through its pace's carrying one pass- enger. IA normal runner Can exceed the windmill plane's slowest speed. Roars of laughter greeted a grasshopper stunt, when the machine traveled ac- cross the airdrome gently touching the ground at interval's. Anther trick was to take off fram 'between two tapes stretched six feet above the ground and 50 yards apart and alight again between 'them. •- The take -off for a flight was made with a run of less than 10 yards and the machine landed as softly as 0 ,piece of fluff ,with na forward run at alt. Type C)30, as this model is called, does away with ailerons, elevators and rudder, control 'bein:g effected by tilting the harizent'al revolving blades of the rotor. The only ether stabiliz- ing surfaces are a .fixed vertical fin at the tel and a fined tail plane with up- turned ends. The only function of else' rudder=bar is to steer the tail wheel when on the ground. On bh.e !pillar, on which the revolv- ing blades operate, is a lever with which the pilolt tilts the Tabors. Pelt- ed 'backwards or forwards the nose of the ,plane rises ar falls, pulled right or left the ;plane turns accord'ingl'y.. Unlike bhe ordinary airplane, control and flying speed are independent so bhat ,the autogiro is as easy to control when flying dead slow as at its 'top speed of 100 miles an hour. It is understood that the British Air Ministry has decided to ander a large autogiro to carry four or five passen- gers, of this newest type. IHe had• 'been icallidg- every night in s'p•ite of she 'warnings from his lady dove abbot ' leer irale' father, This partic'ular .evening they had ibeen planning ,their elolpe'ment. Only the 'hail clock, ann'oun'cing that the ,witching "hour 'had been reached, 'broke Inc•silence. Then, without warning, ng, a t+h'utivp end a •click were 'heard, and the room: was flooded with fight. There soloed papa, glowering and puffing at elle terrified young caller. "Who are you?" Inc ,bellowed, Tine ,boy gulped and tunned pale. 'But the color re- turned to e-turned'to his dace suddenly, and, risiu'g",to yds 'feet, he said in 0 clear, loud voice, "I'm her 'brother," The lunch -sought-after bachelor was seated ,between the two +dear ,n'iel ladies at the wedding breakfast. "Do you know," he said, niakintg the conversation. ""I think 'single men are much worse off than. married men," His ,neighbors turned on him eagerly. "Deo you really •think so ?" one of 'them asked. "I most •certainly do," replied Inc• ,bachelor, "You see, the married mean is in awe of only ,one •woman, 'while` the single ratan is 'fn •alwe 'o fthem alll." Attacked by Asthma. The first fear- ful sensation is of suffocation, which hour by hour becomes more desper- ate and 'hopeless. To such a case the relief afforded' by Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy seems nothing less than miraculous. 'Its help is quickly apparent and soon the dreadful at- tack is mastered. The asthmatic who has found ou't the: dependability . of this sterling remedy will never be. without it. Pt is sold everywhere. It Will Relieve a Cold.—Collets are the commonest ailments of mankind and if neglected may leadto seriousl conditions Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil will relieve the bronehiatl passages. off inflammation speedily and thor- oughly and will strengthen then a- gainst subsequent attack. And as it eases the inflammation it will usually. stop the cough because it allays the irritation in the throat. Try it and prove it. Want and For :Sale Ads, 3 times 50e, k Send us the names of your visitors. HereThere ere anc.i I What is probr.'oly the world's. farthest north golf course is lo- cated at Chesterfield Inlet 011 the northern shores of Hudson Bay. in latitude 67. There are only four members and Inctfee welch, entitles the player to life member- ship, is ten polar bear teeth. An increase of over half a mil- lion headin the number of. cattle on farms is recorded in a report on livestock in Canada for 1932, just issued by the Canadian Gov- ernment Bureau of Statistics, with 8,511,100 head,compared with 7,991,000 In 1931. The eye operation on His Ma- jesty King Prajadbipok, of Siam, in the summer of 1931 in the United States, has been so suc- cessful that there will be no need of a further operation, according to Dr. Vddhivaji, public health director of Bangkok, who came to Vancouver recently aboard Cana- dian Pacific liner Empress • of Japan. A duck hunt ?vibe once pri- vate lake of the Chinese Emper- ors in the .Forbidden City of Peking with a Chinese general as host and armed soldiers as guides was the experience described by the Earl of Ossory on his arrival at Vancouver recently in the Em- press of Japan from a seven- month tour of China. Paradise 'Valley, east of Lake Louise, in the Canadian Rockies, is the site selected for this year's summer camp of the Alpine Club of Canada from July 18 to 31. Some ofthe most spectacular scenery in this region will be covered by the club—including the uncllmbed peak of Mount Eiffel, in the shadow of which their camp will be pitched. Close on 250',000 people viewed the crack London, Midland and Scottish flyer the "Royal Scot" on its way to the Chicago World Fair, as it passed through Mont- real, Ottawa, Toronto and Hamil- ton over Canadian Pacific lines. Re -assembled at the C. P. R. Angus Shops after landing from the fast freighter Beaverdale,the. Royal Scot passed through east- ern Canada In a veritable tri - Inaugurating what Canadian railway officials believe will be one of the greatest rail travel movements in the history of the country, C. P. Riddell,' chairman, Canadian Passenger Association, announces that commencing this month and extending into June, Canadian railways will establish a rate of one, cent a mile for coach travel between points in eastern and western Canada and return. This constitutes an all- time low in Canadian passenger fares, and sales commence from western Canada May 26 tip to and including June 8, and from east- ern Canada May 31 up to and in- cluding June 15. Three out of Live' Strathcona Memorial Fellowships in trans- portation given annually, by the graduate school of Yale Univer- sity have been awarded to Cana- dian Pacifier Railway employees or sons,of. employees, There was a ,total of 80 applicants • for these fellowships. The, three C. P. R. awards were to S. M. Gossage, stenographer in the office of the general manager, eastern lines; P. E. Savage, son of J K, Savage, general superintendent, Quebec district; and Robert A. Emerson, son of B. H. Emerson, agent at Morden, Manitoba.