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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-10-12, Page 7THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933. TH SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN i5uvm1—euro.nuo.nn•nn�unnnm�nn�nnnn�np i I 1 1 Duplicate Monthly Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index. 1 The Seaforth News Phone 84 �1{�111I��Ue�nlli pqgmeiYlleeeellneggspllinti ellg.elie D. H. McInnes chiropractor Electro Therapist— Massage Office Commercial Hotel Hours -Mon. and Thurs. after- noons . and . by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 227. Founded in 1900 A Canadian Review. of Reviews This weekly magazine offers a re- marka'bl'e selectionof articles and oar- - toms gathered from the•latest issues of tire leading British and American journals and reviews. 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There can never be any doubt that when the crisis fell like a thunderbolt upon Europe in 111914, Grey did all that lay within his capacity to avert wear, He was as much taken by surprise in that calamity as any of his co'lleagues.! This is not the moment to discuss whether he could have inspired any action immediately before the event which would have prevented war, or' whether as Foreign Minister in his' earlier diplomacy he could lsave fleeted the the course of events which made war ultimately in:evitalble. It is Lprobab'le that these events were be- yond the control of any individual Canadian Rockies Poineer Passes Tom Wilson is dead. Path- Mount Assinihoine; in 1890 he cut finder, trail -blazer, hunter, out and cleared the. old Indian trapper, prospector, Indian tri- trail from Field to Emerald Lake der, wise adviser and dependable and blazed afoot trail to Wapta; friend, oldest and most celebrated in 1897 he took a party to the of Canadian Rookies guides, the Yoho Glacier and the following last of the pioneers, Tom Wilson ,Year was guide to a party 01 14 has gone to members of the Philadelphia Pilo- -the Happy tographic Society to the Yoho Hunting Palls; in 1900 he blazed the first Grounds and trail into Moraine Lake. His if there are no work was recognized in 1825 by mountains, no a monument erected to him in the deep b 1 u e Yoho Pass, lakes hidden- Born at Bond Head, 40 miles by curtains of north of Toronto, August 21, 1859, trees, no diffi- Tom Wilson was in his 76th year cult passes to when death came to him. At the find and tri- age of 15 his pioneer spirit sent vel, no new him in quest of adventure and peaks to con- landed him at Sioux City, Ia., a quer, it will then westerly post of civilization. scarcely be Paradise to him. He Later he joined the North-West has gone; we shall not Tool[ upon Mounted Police and was sent to iris like again. Fort Walsh in what is now the His life work started as far southwest corner of Sasitatohe- 'back as 1881 when he went out wan. To him there camp rumors with the Canadian Pacific explor- of the formation of the. Canadian ing and surveying parties through Pacific syndicate and of that the Rockies. In 1.882' he set the body's intention . to construct a foundations of his later fame with railway- through the unknown his discovery of Lake Louise and Canadian Rockies. Adventure Emerald Lake, following it .up beckoned, so he got his discharge with the blazing of the foot trail from the force; trekked across the up the Yoho Valley in 1884. prairies to Fort Benton in Mone In his own person he was his-, tana and there met and joined the tory, the history of the western first survey party en route . to mountains. It was fitting that he Bow Gap, entrance to tine Rockies.. should be present at the driving That was in 1881 and so began the of the last spike on that fatefulseries of adventures that were to day of November 1885 that saw link his name in's`eparably with the completion of the Canadian the mountains. Pacific trans -continental main His was a full, a happy and a line across the Dominion from the useful life. He had no enemies. Atlantic to the Pacific. Nor was His disposition was kindly; he he the least of the great men who was without any trace of self there assembled. awareness. Known and honored VIn 1884 he made his discovery everywhere in the west, he had of Lake Louise accessible by also a host of friends all over the blazing a trail to that beauty North American Continent and spot; in 1893 lie took his first indeed all over the civilized world. party to camp' at the base of et great Canadian aifc1 a fine man. large between the lines of so ' many documents. 'The historian will not have to dig or delve or put two and two togethe to discover what British policy was r these years: My a peculiar irony he came to b regarded by Germans during the wa es the Machiavelli of :British politics the arch -conspirator who, with KinEdward, 'was planning the "'encircle meat" of their cannery. 'Nothing'coeld ''have been Mess i keeping with his essentially simpl character or the sample maxims 'whit] he applied to British policy. I1Hatving inherited the 'Anglo-Frentc entente ,from this prede'cess'or, he re garded it 'as his• duty. to standby •th new friend .when 'that 'friend was ex posed to attack from 'Germany for the offence .of having made friends with us. The development of the Entente 'froan innocent settlement of out standing Colonial questions into an instrument of European policy was foreseen by its authors and ,scarcely realised either 'by iLord Grey or hisi colleagues at the time. It was a slow, if logical, develop- ment -under the :hammer -strokes of else 'Germans and. their persistence in .building a 'fleet which could only be interpreted as a ch.ai'ienge to Great ]Britain. (Grey during these years made constant efforts to build a' bridge to Gm -many, hut he was thwarted either by the appearance rof a new 'German iNaval cin or by the insist- eece 'of the !Germans that their friend- ship was only to he won by the sacri- fee of 'British friendship with- France and that be would Bever yield, !Grey's 'conclusion was that to stand. by the !Entente was ttat only loyal ithety but essential 'British policy. To stand aside and 'remain a spectator t while !Germany destroyed France'and t !Russia w'a's, as he saw the matter. • Ito leave Britain without a friend in I the world and at the mercy of the conqueror, who might 'easily have at his disposal Dot merely his own fleet but 'a coalition of !fleets. For 'Wte (Haws of the ,English people. and for many of his colleague, the question was decided: by' the call of ,13,elgiunt, (Grey, too, was sensitive to that, ,but he never pretended that Bel - duns was for him the sole or the de- ciding issue. IHe believed that, even if Great 'Britain did not intervene at this julienne, she would be compelled be do so latter. !Grey htas 'told in his book, "Ttven- ty five Years, how, after the event, .he lent 'backwards flied forwards over the ,giround and debated •w^ith himself whether anything 'he 'could' have' done .or the 'British 'Government have clone could •liave prevented ehe fearful cal- amity of the war. All manner of. suggestions have been made --sone of teem far from convincing --brit the answer may well he that vire tremendous volume of events which came tto its cliintax in 'the year 119114 Was as much !beyond thecontrol of any single statbesman gar Government as the econo!iuic con,di- liorns'after the .War. In his writings and speeches after the War Grey kept insisting that the .nations must "learn or peritsh"-learn to :organise' !their af- falrs diffenentlg or go`'tihe same way to t+he same or a worse calamity, This, when all is ,said, is the ,best moral which 'the 'present generation can draw .fr:om 'this period, Of Grey's r n e g e h e statesman. 'rite chief criticism levelled 'again'st Grey by contemporary democracy is that he was the English embodiment of that secret diplomacy which in his slay foreign ministers practised as if it were an occult art, remote fromthe common understanding, ..and to be guarded jealously from the prying scrutiny of ignorant outsiders. But the criticism is less than, just if it does not recognise that Grey could not live out of his time. If he had tried to do so hewould never have been .Fore'igu Minister, \'Vhen Ise retired from his office on the formation of the 1Var Coalition ie 19116, Grey ceased to talcs any contra nous part in political life. He tenierg ed spasmodically from his retirees en to make an oracular pronouncement on some urgent issue of the moment This role of the elder statesmanan paternal adviser he filled with dignity and provoking skill The tragic losses in his family life he bone with a quiet 'heroism that re- vealed nobility of spirit and enriched public sympathy. Its his closing years he seemed a lonely figure, and the dread of blindness' fell upon him. Yet he had the solace of warm' human friendships. And he had his beloved birds. We can thin: of no titan of his type in public life today_ IHc was in public as he was in priv- ate life, an entirely simple and,shrarght forward man, capable of strong emo- tions, but,wholly o 'eb,out lnaIicc or long mcsentments, ?Ie never acquired the conventional tricks and accom- plishes on ccom-plishesot is sof Che pu'bl'ic performer. He spoke as he 'felt, without rhetoric or: adornment, but.' with'A.rare simplic- ity and ,d'ign.ity which had tremendous effect at nm.ononiits of crisis, as in Isis great speech on Aug, 3, 11914. 'His dispatches and memorandaon foreign affairs have the same quality., It has been my •portion in, 'recent yea's to read a vast number of p're'war' dis- patches, Gatemen, Austrian, French, IBritieih, Russian, and a'l'ways I have returned to Grey's with 'a„sense of;re- reshhment. They are crystal clear and ransparemtly honest and straightfo:r- I+n a world o'f diplomatic deceit one ees the British spo'kesm'an• saying wliat he means and meaning what' he ays„never indulging in the chicane pa•evarication which. are written so ewe pert it may. truly be said drat "he nothing .common .diel or mean on a scene on which many mean and com- mon things were clone. 1Vhatever the final jutdgment may be, Englishmen may justly take pride in having had as their spokesman .during one 'of the most critical periods of their history a roan of :high integrity of character and purpose. But at the end of it all one thinks most at this moment of the warm friend, the lover of binds'aud animals, whom it teas a delight to visit in his country hone and to sit with at his fireside, There have been many more glittering. performers ' on the public stage, .but ''there is node whose going could 'leave a greater '.gap among men of our generation, 'SH'AVES OR BEARDS ? Why does man shave? The ques- tion is propounded in a little treatise on the hunnan beard which has just come out of Cambridge, a University always devoted to the fundamental problems of human life. A lady biol- ogist, it appears, who was lecturing in Cambridge, was facetious about the time men waste in shaving, and threatened that by natural selection a race of .beardless men could be evol- ved. Cambridge has 'been aroused to discuss the advantages of such reform. ,But 'I cannot, think the lady speaks for her sex, writes 1-I. C. Bailey in the article which appeared in the Loudon Deily 'Telegraph, In any project for our improvement by evolution the operation of women must be secured. "Lord, I could not endure husband with a beard on, his face," says Beatrice in the play, but very -logically and naturally goes on to declare the strongest objections to him that has none. Where is any sign of tite preference of the fair for a face that needs no shaving? !An olcI tradition declared that Adam was created withottt beard, but after the fall he was condemned to grow hair upon his face that he .should be snare like the beasts and bear the mark of their equal and companion. Why, then,. should, "Eve.. have been allowed to keep her chin smooth? The answer of tradition is that even in the fall Eye was adjudged to "re- tain much o,f her original modesty," so site was spared the punishment of a beard. Another flagrant injustice to man. The legends of the beard are strongly in favor of shaving. 'Good angels, it is . insisted, never wear beards, but the fallen' angels soon grew- them, and the whole regiment' of fiends is bearded. The devil himself however, :I have heard, has in his heard but one 'lonely and very long hair. And yet the theologians and the moralists are very confused about beards. This .Cambridge treatise me - calls that 'Tetullinn condemned shav- ing as "an impiotts..attempt to improve the works o:f'the Creator." But Luth- er held that the beard was 'like sly' ingrained in man, incl against both we must zealously aitd continuously. struggle. When shaving began and where and why are all mysteries. Certainly men is 'Egypt' and Mes000tamia were here chins five, thousand years ago. But it is equally certain that very •long ago a heard seas necessary to dignity. The Assyrian conquerors were magnifi- cently branded, I1 was a ,horrid insult to cut off a„ m'an's beard in ancient P;aieseine, and, indeed, the Jew h. been commanded "Neither shalt th mar the earners oi. thy- beard.” 'tEv in a world of clean-saven faces still' feed something. of this revere's „ hair f upon of l o the chin. The patriarc ancient kings, real or fabulous, .mu have their beards, Abraham and Ag usemem Arthur and 'Charlemagne. !And yet it seems to have been of of the greatest of kings, Alexande who taught Europe to shave. 'Ile 1 sued odder that his soldiers Hurst n wear beards, for, the reason that beard was a good handle by which hold of a man in battle, Whether t1 .ban on beards •in our army is ural tained on the same ground I cairn tell. But from Alexander's time ti (Greek and the Roman were shave except for certain intellectuals, tuft the Emperor 'Hadrian thought h looked well in a beard, and for th eighteen centuries since his da beards have been going in and out 'ilk other fashions. The theory of Cambridge, no doub based on ample experience, is the chins and cheeks are shaved to plea the otther sex, +Yet I have not hear that sailors, to whom even nowaday beards are permitted, are peculiarl unfortunate in their efforts, to please Though the short beard be now' th general preferenlce of the fair, it.WA not ever thus. Sixty years ago youn men were anxiously cultivating whis cers and beards. The magazine hero the Adonis of the illustrators, wa bearded like the pard or 0 patriarch. !Taking one period with another there is just as good reason to believ that women prefer a beard, The Nor- mans came to England shaven—their back hair as well as their chins, Their sons let hair grow in both •regions, end before `long a bishop was thun- dering that they:°bad put on beards 'for fear that if they shaved the short bristles might prickle the faces of their ladies," Consider the sad case of Louis VII.To please the clergy- he cropped his hair and shaved off his beard. \Vhen she ,saw his face naked his wife found it so ridiculous that she ran. away from him and married our Henry II. Then there was the painter Liotard, who went travelling in the East and grew a heard. far ,which ladies lost their heads and hearts. 'He married one of then, and shaved, Directly his wife saw him, the charm of that ideal which every- true woman :forms of her lover was broken; for instead of a dignified, manly countenance, her eyes fell upon a'sniall pinched face. And such a little perking chin, To kiss it seemed almost a sin.' The nineteenth century heard is commonly said to arise aut of the Crimea, where the troops could not shave, and so after the war a beand, f not exactly a proof of heroin n, was "manly, sir, manly." Nowadays you hear young people giggling over the photographs of hirsute Victorian ath- letes, and wondering how ever they played anything in those beards. But after all, !Hercules always h,ad a heard and who can think of thein otherwise? The Victorian jester -like the Greek —made his milksop clean shaven. lFor my part ,I distrust the theory of the ,Crinnean origin of the beard. It more seems to me much ore likely that the goad Victorians grew their beards first to be different 'frdns the foolish past, and secondly .to show that they were living naturally and sensibly. Fot these motives are permanent with the human race, and produce naturally results which are in the long run more or lest equal and opposite. ad o0L1011 we ce h, st a- le r, s- ot a to le n - • at to d, rl e y ce se d s 3' • g s. e JOHN A. MACHRAY DEAD Winnipeg, --(Death Friday put an end to the prison term of John A, Machray, once a leading fig -are in tin 'uncial, educational, legal and church 'affairs: n11 from an incurable disease and dethroned from leis high position in the community by financial defal- catioes relining up to $2,000,000, Ma- chray entered Stony Mountain Peni- tentiary a year and two weeks ago to begin serving a seven-year tern for th eft. !At that time it was freely predicted he would not come out alive, and he- aled after spending moat of his time L•chind the bars ea a cot in the; pris- on infirmary. Machray was 68 years old, and cancer, from which he suf- fered for several years, caused his death. Machray's defalcations almost de- pleted the endowment funds of the Church of •England, but the Church officials :declined to press charges a- t gainst him. Se pleaded guilty to theft of $500- 000 from the University of Manitoba and $60,0O0 from a former law partner at a brief trial before ''Magistrate Noble. 'An audit of the books of the Mach rayy firm showed systematic defalca- tions dating .hack' many years. Even as his great investment business was graving he was withdrawing capital from trust funds to pay interest on money lost through faulty invest- ments, which he always kept secret. IAs Chancellor of the 'Diocese of ,Rupert's 'Land he h:acl., charge o'f the creat endowments of the Church of England' in Western Canada. Follow- ing his downfall the Church had to Services We Can Render In the tin'le of need PROTECTION is your best 'friend. Life Insurance -To protect your LOVED ONES. Auto Insurance— To protect you against LIABIIL'TII to PUBLIC and their' PROPERTY. 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First shipment of asparagus From Port Nelson, Ontario, to Eng- land, aboard the Duchess of Rich- mond recently, has been acknow- ledged by letters from the Old Country, stating that the "grass" arrived in excellent condition and was of exceptional quality and flavor. Among the recent visitors to Grand Pre Memorial Park, in the Evangeline country of Nova Sco- tia was Mrs, A. J. Lafrance, of Laconia, N,H„ whose husband is a lineal descendare of Francois Lafranee, an Acafran officer ban- ished at the time of the expulsion of the Acadians- Tom Wilson, trail -blazer, trap- per, hunter, Indian guide and vet- eran explorer, world -known for his discovery of Lake Louise and Emerald Lake in the Rockies, and last of the Canadian Pacifi'e RaIl- way's pioneer builders, passed over the Great Divide recently. He was in his 75th year. A generous supply o'f BrItish capital awaits Investment in Can- ada, Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the Liberal parliamentary party in the British House of Commons, told a large luncheon meeting of the Canadian Club at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, recently. The world's largest map of Can- ada, 30 feet high and 100 feet long, painted by Montreal artists on linen, hangs in the Hall of Na- tions, Chicago World Fair, as a e joint display of the Dominion Gov- ernment, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National Railways. Guarded by three red -coated mem- bers of the Royal Canadian Mount- ed Pollee, it is one of the most popular exhibits of the great fair. Sir William Shenton, Carlton Club, Pall Mall, London, who was a delegate to the meeting of the Institute of Pacific Relations held at the Banff Springs Hotel, in Au- gust, recently concluded a salmon fishing trip to the upper waters of the St. John River near Perth. Havine fished in Ireland and Nor- way. Sir William stated that the St. John River salmon could not be beaten for fighting qualities and average size. launch 0 national campaign to raise. money to meet its obligations. Then as Bursar and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of Manitoba he had in his keeping other large endowment funds, which also suffered heavily, R, O. P. Poultry Breeding The .international fame of Canadian !Record of Performaece and Rigieter- ed poultry can be justly attributed to the establishment of high -producing lines of healthy vigorous birds under the 'supervision of the Dominion and 'Provincial Departments of A.gricul- tnie. Consequently, the 1933-34 rules and regulations for ,R;O,P, poultry which have just been issued by the Live Stock ':Commissioner assume en import of more than ordinary signi- ficance. Although no changes have been made fromthe previous year the opportunity is once more given to .the individual ,to learn more about poultry breeding, to build cup has own flock, and to benefit through the sale of breeding stock and hatching eggs. Attention is called to the fact that ap- plication for ,ROP. certi!fi'oates, which should be addressed to the Poultry Division 'Live 'Stock Brunch, Ottawa, trust be received one tionlis in ad- vance o'f the date on which it is in- tended bo catnmence the records, and that no entries will be accepted after November 30. R.O.P. certificates may be granted for all birds, not otherwise disqualified, which lay 200 eggs in 365 ,consecutive days, provided that at least halfthe number of eggs laid during official inspection weigh two ouncesor over, starting ane tnocith after each 'bird's record ,continences: and in no csse later than January li