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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-09-09, Page 2BRITISH COLUMBIA AID CANADIAN UNITY "Every Young Canadian Should Be Steeped in Things Cana- dian: 'That is Not Being Done." Before an anpreehitive audience .at ism and -nocheck on their resources the annual meeting of the Vancouver and that, more- than anything else, Board of Trade, Mr. L. C. Nicholas, ,built up the United States. The human editor of the Victoria ';'lutes, delivered. factor had to find its own niche and' an address on "British Columbia and under the spur of necessity it de- Canadian: Unity.." Couched in eloquent velopod.' Magneto, enlivened with touches of The Vicarla editor then emphasized humor, and given by one who enter-- the neceasity oL British Cotumbla mak- talus 'the highest Ideals for his couutry ing sufficient` effort to impress on the l and at the same tittle the friendliest, East the great natural resources of ' Peeling for his country's powerful t:,is province, and, the necessity of ob- neighbor to the south, the address raining Eastern Canadians to share In struck a sympathetic hots throughout this development, in this expansion,' the gathering and was received with however, he would avoid statutory law I enthusiasm. that interfered with the initiative of j' Mr. Nichols emPdmsdzed the need private, vate, capital. e of Canadian unity on account of the "We ' must not - standardize the danger of +.,anadians eneeemee.e to human equation," he said amid ap- the friendly republic with which the plause. Dominion had so mato in common, Confident of Vancouver's Deetliny. relining unity as a common interest The speaker painted a glowing pie-. in all 'IVO ttonal characteristics. ,Unity ture of the relation ofthis province to wag essential on account of ourr »' . the commerce of the Pacific, which„as culler geographical situation, Captain Robert Dollar said, "would be two countries' were so situated as Can- the,battlefleld of maritlm9eomlmerce."- ads and the United States and there The East had not yet visualized the was need of something that would re- possibilities of that trade. slat the influences which, - while I Applying his argument locally, Mr. friendly, would have .a tendency -to Nicholas stressed the necessity of draw the nations apart, awakening the consciousness of the Need Oanadlanlsm In Schools, East to the development of Vancouver. He discussed the promotion of .Cana- Cities of the size ,of Vancouver never dtanism under the sentimental or stopped growing for it was easier for a moral aspect and the material' . or city of 200,000 to double in population economic aspect, based' on .the know - lodge of history and the resources and possibilities of the country. Mg. Nicholas received the approba- tion of his audience when he declared that the promotion of Canadian senti- ments should begin in the schools "Every young Canadian should be steeped in things Canadian," he de- clared. They should be laugh Cana- dian history in a way that no other his- tory is taught. That is not being done. In the Victoria High School Canadian than for one of 20,900, and when Van- couver commanded the same: interest in the same sense as *entree' com- manded it, then they would have two great anchor stones one east and one west, for one great structure and a measure of economic unity. "We want our Eastern friends•to come out here and help the develop. went, not because we wish to exploit them, but so that, as Canadians, they will have a share in them. We wish them to partake of the high destiny history is not taught. When I went to which will be ours,” he concluded. school Canadian history was taught as an appendix, a history where you learn Eo know the spacious, romantic thrilling record of Canada." Briefly he outlined some of the high lights of that great record from the earliest days down through to the time when one realized the tremendous in- fluence Canada had in the development of the United States, when Canadian voyageurs limited Louisiana, New Or - loan and opened up other parts of that great territory to the south. Down through the years he mentioned the changes that had taken place to the time when responsible government was given to the country and Canada became a self-governing country with- in the British Empire, thus laying the foundation for the government of Aus- Interprovincial boundary line monument In Jasper National Park, where a-- ranger from British Columbia (right) says; "How do you doodle do?" to a cowboy from Alberta. PAPER COMA HET1YEEN THEM • WALL was 'crying; . I pressed her with affec- tionate ffect tionate questions. "Wicked person!" she exclaimed at last. "This paper still stands between us. And. how you have made me suf- . By.Iienri Falk far!" Translated by William L.''1MIcPherson. i "Isn't it a little •pronounced?" I Yen- Touched to the quick in my good We decided to marry, Janine and S, tured. Iaith, I'could not help answering sharp- beforewe` obtained the consent of our "Pronounced, my dear?" she answer. ly. A quarrel arose. During the morn- a families. Two"young people in love � ed in a piqued tone. ''Evidently it is. ing, whale I was - at my. office, Janine have a right to their share of romance But we are_not notaries, to. surround took refuge with her parents. in life. Without doubt, our parents, ourselves with green paper. I am mad ,Returning home I found a Tetter of once informed, would hasten to ap- prove our project. But all that:there was in me of vanity, of fantasy and of sentimentality had received satisfac- tion. What more could be wished•? I suggested, with a sort of oowardioe: kisses:' That evening a11-Dinard, dancing at "Liston! Le ua call in an arbiter— , no, my dear; we shall not re - the Casino, learned the good news and .an arbiter of` sound judgment" turn to -night to a room where I have congratulated us. The impetuous ap- "Good! What Is your opinion?" she spent unhappy. hours.' Walt a few Peal of a mutual love urged us to re- asked the salesman, with a Ciroelike days. Take me into the country." ` duce the time of our engagement to a smile. We lived for a week in a delightful minimum. We returned to Paris very The two pieces were the same in rustic hotel, and what was my sur quickly to hunt for a nuptial apart- ,Price. The salesman could show kite- prise, on regaining our apartment- to meat, self gallant 'without scruple. find that the yellow paper had been re - One of my uncles Is director of a "My opinion agrees with yours,. placed by the green paper. s madame," Ile said. "A pretty yellow Pott! You!" -Tetrad, delighted. "Yon real estate res cru, lie offered us a has no equal." ja wedding present and it was for us ; hays done this for me, dearest!" I i bl f all—the 1 f' "There, you seal" Janina said exult- She answered simply: about my yellow, Colne, say that you farewell on the radiator, I ran to re - love it, too." join her, 'he threw herself into my As infatuated as I was with Janine, Loin her. She threw herself into my I could not resolve to love her paper. rashness. Then, after many fervent the most des ra e o a — to ease o ; a anti charming first -floor, We setyou." about y' I "It is because I love I understood that further' opposition I was the victor: The exquisite furnishing it, With a very tender feel- 4 would annoy my .beloved. I tried to creature had the delicacy not to allude' ! Ing we tst es ha , niy fiancee and I, i look cheerful and declared: 1 • that our tastes harmonized !n the mat-; further to the sacrifice which bad been She --"You'll not dictate to any flap• i ter of furniture. In short, on the eve ! "So be it Let us take the pretty imposed upon her. But my sensitive- trails and. New Zealand. ter stenographer" of our marriage it remained only to yellow." I nese, put on guard, discovered in Je- "The young Canadian should be 1 He -"7 at so? I'll take no dictation ; nine's silence clear confessions of suf. taught the slguiflcance of these select a wall paper for• our bed sham Shall I Confess it? Entering the from my wife as to whom I'll dictate." ter, tering, A sentimental executioner, I things," the speaks oontintied. "There , conjugal chamber as into the depthsof began to detest my victory. Remorse is no reason why he should read of j A delicate, a delicious task. For a_cubic system of superposed sums; I weighed on me. ' an hour the wall paper salesman un- j didn't feel altogether at ease. I am "Janine," I said the next day, in a rolled before us a aeries et patterns so - a rather nervous person, In spite of burst od adoration, "neither a green diverse that our dazzled oyes blinked I Myself I thought; I paper nor a yellow paper. We are go - in a haze of colors. Anxious to recover "Every evening of my life—every ing to go back to the paper shop and my visual balance I glued my fingers I evening of my life I shall go to bed and ; choose, this time, a paper over.which against my lids and serried ahu a . every morning I shall get UP in this at-' we will both be enthusiastic." dred. Then, opening my eyes, I had =sphere of a Parmentier omelette." I "Ah! Pierre, how good. -you are!" she sensation of triumph. A'dolorous idea, which affected some- l said, embracing me. "And how happy "There is what we need. I cried, l what my tender denonstat!ona. Ja- -e are goingto be!" pointing to a sea -green paper, set off; nine's clear blue eyes were fixed on I we an hour the salesman unrolled with triangles of jade. "The green is me, his stock. Nevertheless, my beloved agreeable to look at, The triangle is "yes.,!' she sighed, "you hold it up sought in my eyes her own choice. And a simple and beautiful embellishment against me. Oh! Pierre, Pierre, I see 11 sought mine in hers, Finally we i We were married. Pitt and Burke and not learn of Mac- donald, Howe, Tupper and Brown, fathers of Confederation. Why should he know more of the independence of the United States than of the founding of Confederation? From under which did hang, I weene, "Theo there are bold enterprises Silver hairs both bright and sheene, such no the building of the greatest world His beard was white, trimmed round, transcontinental railway in the world Idis count'nance blithe • and merry of which he should learn, and which i found, bespeak of the virility, courage and A Sleevelesse Iachet large and wide, vision of Canadians." , ? With many pleights and skirts Side, From things historical, the speaker; Of water-Chamlet did he weare, tack his audience to the achieve - A whittell by his belt lie beare, marts of Canadians Iu the field of corn - His shooes were corned broad before, coerce, declaring that Canadians were His Inkhorue at his side he wore, as efficient a people as those in any *And in his hand he bore a books, other part of the world.Thus did this auntient Poet looke. He demonstrated that they were the —Robert Greene, equal of those who lived in the United States by quoting statistics to show Chaucer. His stature was not very tall, Leave he was, his legs were sinall, Hosed within a stock of red A buttoned bonnet on his head, that Canadian manufactured products were equal in volume to those of the A youth began work in a mine, and United States when that country had me first job consisted of driving pne a population of forty million. Canada of the pony wagons used for carrying was the largest exporter of wheat in coal to the shaft. the world, and produced wheat equal Be got along very well until one day to that of the United States when the he came to a place where the roof of population of that country was seventy. the gallery was too low to allow the million. Canada. produced almost as pony to pass. Consequently, he took much paper as the United States. "a pick and began to hack away part of "I would plant the mentality of the°root, consciousness in our young people in Immediately a foreman came on the our record, so that that inferiority scene and asked what he was doing. complex, of which we hear so' torch, The lad explained that he was making would readily disappear," said Mr. a way for the pony to bass, Nicholas. You give them something "Now, that's a dangerous thing to that cannot be easily indicated when do,' ha.id the foreman. "You might you give them momething of the his. bring the whole root down. What you tory of their country." ought to do is to cut away the floor," It was difficult to unite a discontent- "D'ye think I'm a fool?" retorted the od people and the country would have lard, "It's the pony's head that won't to be put on a sound economic basis, go through—not his feet." he added. Moreover, to solve Canada's hotels au es, a Vigorous and A Mining Problem., eco eucceasful . immigration policy was necessary. There trust be more human links between the Atlantic and several times more than nine rnilllen was necessary, "Wo hear a great deal about selec- tive immigration," he continued. "1 would cnly adopt a polity of selective immigration in a limited sense. We will always be more or less a recreat- ing ground for the United States until that country has reached the point of saturstion, Lost Part of Increase. "We have lost a great part of our natural increase in population to the United States and we can not afford a policy of driblets. "I would welcome every law-abiding citizen Here. True, there will be 'some misfits, but you must teapot a certain number of growing pai,•e. If the United' States has bot -housed its !mi- grants when they first came it would not have grown to the extent it has. I admit thv !mmigratior: woe too pro- miscuous bet thorn was no paternal - Amusing Degrees. The brand -neat degree of.Dootor oP CAMBRiD� •, jl CONTRASTS Longitnldo and,Lat:itude has bean con C ;'erred on Lieutenant -Commander Byrd, the diet man to 'fly ,over the North ,Pole, , )t Is. almost euperflubus.'to add . -"tore !s a. strange tfiing, as when a , that this distinction originates` in' the United States, the home of new and butterfly, tumbling ;acress a sunset sky, astonishing•,degrees. • 1 eciiPses,momentarily'the panorama of '-It is a mitigative circumstance that color.. , in this instance the diploma has; been,. Great and wonderful are tha,Colleges conferred by an eminently serious in- of` Cambridge, great with the fufhress etitutfou, the Anierioan Geographical of rothattce nett history' and th-e exter- Soelety. The educational institutions nalized vision of mon of long ago. Here of the United' States, however, give is Trinity ,the ston'ew'ork od the en- themselves a wide range of latitude trance comparable• to. the rocks of a (as well as longitude)" in. the bestowal siorm=swept Headland; fretted away:by of degrees: - _ .1 iiia weather into deep,holee, worn and There is, ,for instance, a Professor- pocked; . a surface .almost : fierce in ship of Plumbing et the Carnegie In- stitute at Pittsburg. Cornell University Above the archway, turning In from has a special course in the manage- the -.narrow street, is carved the date meat of hotels, and grants to proftci- "1837." You rooked at it and wonder.' ents a "D,H," or Diploma of 17ospi-, ad; and then, suddenly,• the sun went' tel ly, The California Board of Edo- out and you were In the shadow of the' cation has conferred on Miss, Blanche entrance and the shadow of the pact; Adelia Hawkins a Diploma in the Art. almost as 1f In a mornent.you had stop and Process of Whistling, which en- ped' literally into a yesterday of. very. titles,her to use the initials "B,A,Wh." long ago. Thie-University of California 'has • a I It was quiet and solemn in the aroli- degree which 'is indicated by tile let- way. Your trod carefully as iE to pre tern "S,W.D,Cal," showing that the serve the hollowed stones, recipient has- received a degree for .,Something moved . as you turned, film scenario. wilting.; Even dignified something. awitt above .your head, all Harvard has a ' D.D.W-," which sign!- out. of character with the ponder+bus flee. a Diploma in.Dramatic Writing: -I atmosldiere of the. place. Something Now York University eoniers, among flashed from the stone carving out into other dietlnetiona, those of "MB A.," the' sunshine and back again., You' or Master of• Business Administration' I sought your companion's arm."Look," and "B.D.S.," Bachelor of Domestic you whispered, "swallows!" Science a twig degree to. the "II.H.S.I, Up in the corners of the deep Stone - 02, Tarbnto`' ITnlversity—Bachelor oY .work. of the roof were dotted little mud Household Science. Toronto also con - the with baby heads poking out of terra a "B.P.,' or Bachelor of Pedagogy, the tiny entrance holes. The babies a height to which Harvard has not yet were hungry and the' parents _sero aspired, although it gives a "D,I.M.," busy, and much activity was being or Diploma in Industrial Medicine.. manifest.. , Other quaint American degrees in Fascinated by the Birds. elude Bachelor of Humanics, Bachelor of Physican Education, and Bachelor of Accounts,, abbreviatedd to "B.Acce." , In England they are much more con- servative, but,the •Manchester College oe Technology *enters a "B.C.C.," or Bachelor of Color Chemistry,' and St. Andrews bestows on women students the'"L.L,A.," or Lady Literate of Arta. Biriningdtam has a degree in brewing, and even Cambridge hes se far unbent as to arrange for a "D.P.H.," or Dip- loma in Public Health, and a "D.M.R. and E„” or Diploma in Medical Radial logy and Electricity. I had hardly finished my sentence when the salesman unrolled a pale yel- low paper, spangled with disks of gold, what is passing in your mind, You I showed—or `feigned to—a simultane- don't love me as you would love' me ous ecethsy.over a paper neutral in tint without this yellow paper." and vague in design. It now decorates "At last," Janine exclaimed, "at Last' "Yes, I do. Yea, I do," I protested. our chamber. But in the depths of my heaven is with us. There is what vyae "The paper is on the wall. Don't let us heart I am disturbed. Something tells were looking for, You will see how talk any more about paper. Let ua me, inspired of everything, , that in well that will match the bedroom for. think only of our love." I place of pleasing at least one of ua it Mailings." In the morning 1 saw that Janine will please neither: Haunted House. 11 is a lone and tumbled house Where shadc`vs Ile in tangled heaps And where a tiny hungry mouse, *n fancied bravery, creeps A rcrs the dusty floor but darts into .s ho!* at every muni; Than, boll again, it ;reeks and starts Once more its futile round, 117y hccrt's a lone and haunted house With drew,•,,, 111:..0 shadows, sleeping; And rumor:- is a ;nems that comes In dnubtft:l bravery creeping. —Whitelaw Saunders, 0 Sweet Content. Then he that patiently want's 'burden bears, : No burden hears, but 1s a king, a king! 0 sweet content!' 0 sweet, 0 sweet content! Work apace, apses,'apace, apace; Honest labor bears :a lovely face; Then hey nonny, hey nonny, nonny! —Thomas Dekker. ADAMSON'S ` ADVENTURES wCLLI HANGMY HAT UP HERE AND LIGHT IT AGAIN Obstructing the View. -• "Silver Threads Among the Gold,', About twenty-five years ago, Hart Pease Danks, the composer of this phrase and song,'was foitntl dead in a Pkiiladelphia :boarding-house, kneeling beside his bed. On an ell. and. worn copy of his famous song he had writ- ten, ''It Is hard to grow old alotfg.", Yet In that very song he had writ= ten of the wife he adored, "Love can never more grow old. She survived him many years, but for some time be- fore his death they lived apart. It was the song that parted them. So enor- mous was its success that they ex- changed their cottage for a mansion, and the love that dwelt in the cottage seems to have: flown out of the man- sion, until eventually it led"to separa tion. ` Although tiro history of the phrase, "Silver threads among the gold," is a cad one, the idea imse caught 1110 ;mag•. ;nation of our home -loving race, and sunshine ' on the lawns, the flowers in cases of truelove surviving the ad- the whidow=boxes, and the swallows. vance of old ago are by no means rare. And this, one would say„ is a strange thing. We forgot the College; we forgot all the host of things we had been told to look for -things the guide books talk about: stained glass windows, wood carvings, somebody's statue, the kit- chens, the dining, halls; we forgot all the other Colleges still to beseen; and Instead we stood with our heads bent back fascinated by the birds, fascin- ated by the poignant comparison -the tender and the strong; the young and the old; the massive solidarity and the, lightning movement. The man with the straw hat who i. lives in an office in the wall leaned throughthe aperture. "They come back every year—the same birds to the same nests on the very same day," he said. "And don't they .fight for the nests" You should hear then;. The ones that were young last year think they've all got a right to the nest they were brought up !n— and there you are!" He laughed. "They've got other troubles, too," he went on; "the sparrows tape posses- sion 1f they're not careful, although they've any number of nests of their own in thestone crowns` round the porches." Flash came a gleam of white feath- ers up into the somber shadows, straight to its .own mud cabin. Such a very small doorway and goodness only knows how many little people In- side, but in be went. Looking back at the Colleges, at all. the rich wonder of those ancient and most beautiful buildings, three pic- tures remain, and not one of them is in the least degree remarkable—the.- - Outside, Looking In. "Oh, shucks, Billl, fly -screen time is here again!" A Gift of Roses. Just as many golden roses As my arms could hold, Lovely gift from lovely neighbor Ere the morn was old; , Pouting bud and halt -blown blossom, Bowered` in their green, Full blown roses richly blowing, Dewdrops on -their sheen. Just a lift of yellow roses, That, and something more, Hint of_sunset's glowing glory, Gleam of Autumn's store: That, and something- richer, deeper, Makes the gladness start, never made out of good will. Friendship's fairer, sweeter blossoms —About marriage, we have, never Blooming in. the heart, found a satisfactory substitute for a —May Howe Dakin, Christian borne. -About the church, nothing else is • The Call to Voyage." I know not where the white road runt, nor what the blue hills are:' But a man can have the sun for frienl, and for his guide a star; And there's no end of voyaging=when once the 'voice is heard, For the•rlver calls and. the road calls,. arid oh! the call of bird! Yonder the long horizon Hee and there by night and day The old ships drawto home again, the young ships sail away: And come I may, but go I must, and if men ask me why, You may put the blame on the stars andthesun and the .white road and the sky! —Gerald Gou'd. Whatever You Believe. —About Cod,' never' allow yours li to doubt his friendlitl,ess. —About buadness, don't decade that it has to be dishonest to' be success About politics, don't think that any political party can run Ilia govern- ment. —About ivai•, remember that It is The Best Busineee. doing Its work,. Thele is .so better' business, no —About other people, you dare nut nobler nor store helpful to mankind, lose faith in yourself.,• than housework. And it is one of the, _ c •--- ourloue auirka of the times that while g�esceratantt5 of l la rain Luther we rank "home" alongside of "heaven," 1- call it the sacredest word in the lang- Family Reunion }age and all that, we set housework' There areh608old' living fleece:ndailts of aft' home -keeping down es one of the Martin Luther. At the annual reunion tat desirable of occupations.—Dr, I and memorial services of tithe Luther ank.Crine.• family at Eisenach five hundred of the descendants gathered. Although Luther had six. children, The Yopng M,ai1-' "Would'you have and four eurvlved his death in 1816, bjectiotk if your mother, were to only two had offspring. The ancestry . i e my rk� 1•I'i •ie.w?" of 537 is traced to De, Paul'},tither, and 11e n d ".'None at all—if I of the remaining t1 bit Nns,ga',lpt s,G4 r ":' Luther.