HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-05-26, Page 2THE SECOND PRIZE ESSAY
Bglisie'E. Griffin, of Fenelon Falls, Wins Second Place With
Well • Written Essay.
Dear Editor:
Complying with yoalr request that I
write you a letter, it was with, much,,
pleasure I received the infor'rnatias
that I had won second prize in Canada'
lfasay Contest, I fully realize and ap
preciate;the honor you have bestowed
upon me, and I hope that the essay
may be of benefit to other young Can-
adians in making them realize what a
really glorious ,country it is. our privi
lege, to own.
As regards myself, I have not much
to tell. I was been in.Verulam Town-
ship, on the farm, for which I am very
glad, for in the country one is in
touch with nature. Later I attended
Reds Rook PublicSchool, where I re-
ceived
e-
itio
c i ,e m� four +.ttLon in oom• os n,
evt, Y dp
1 am .now :sixteen and attend the Fene-
loe Falls Continuation School•. Com-
posing stories lies ever been my pet
subject. My favorite pastime is read-
ing, especially the works of Charles
Drokens; else some of the modern
authors. I belong to the 'United
Church.
That is all. As for wantiag a career,
perhaps I9 do and perhaps, not. Lives
there a young Candiwhere there
a a
ie such a wide .raug& of openings, who
has not ambitions for the future, in
deed for a career?
With three cheers forthe suceess of
OUT beautiful country, I am,
Very sdn•oerely,
BESSIE E. GRIFFIN.
"CANADA"
Canada, our home and native land.
Let us pause for a moment to let those
old 'well-worn words sink down into
our minds. A great thrill of pride
passes through our beings as we real-
ize their full meaning. Canada, this.
'beautiful, bountiful land, stretching
from ocean to cceau and ranking high
in the great .nations of the world, is
ours. We are Canadians. We were
born in. Canada and are proud of at.
for what after al lis better than to be
a Canadian, free and unpamperad as
the waves of the ocean, liviug amid all
the grandeur and beauty which our
country provides for its people.
And indeed we are not vainly, un-
duly proud of our Dominion. She is
naturally both rich and beautiful.
Many and varied are the lYFIcs penned
in her praise by admiring Canadians
who have been fired with enthusiasm
by her magnificent scenery. Her
thriving cities speak more than words
can tell of her prosperity. A brief
sketch gives an idea of her vast na-
tural resources. To the north Is her
great timber area. Thes splendid for-
ests standing so silent and powerful
against the sky contain millions of dol-
lars worth of lumber. The broad
sweeping rivers in their rush to the
oceau provide waterpower unequalled
anywhere else In the world. Her roll-
ing plains are lovely and productive.
Her fertile prairies with their fields of
waving wheat,the silent growth of the
food of millions contains a stirring
romance as well as a great dividend In
dollars and cents. The Rcickies, the
faire of whose grandeur has spread
all over the world, hidden embedded
within their layers of ageless wealth
untold. Such is our Dominion. Why
should we not be proud of her?
Viewing the Past.
But it is only when we look back in-
to the peat that we fully realize how
Canada has advanced. A few hundred
years ago our now peaceful and highly
civilized country was almost a jungle
in whose depths wild animals prowled,
and uninhabited by humane save by
the different trlbee of savage Redmen
who painted their bodies with red
ochre and warred on one another,
hunted, fished, and did a little prime;
i tive farming. Then came the paleface
'explorers and their advent marked a
anew day in the history of Canada and
! the Indian. Gone forever was their
' i free, unquestioned sovereignty and is
its place they found their right usurp-
ed by the white men, who laid their
hands on everything, claiming It for
I themselves and their country, It was
inevitable the Iridian must go, but not
without a struggle. Desperately they
MISS BESSIE E. GRIFFIN.
fought for their old time supremacy.
Horrible massacres ,ensued, chilling
thee hearts of the surviving settlers,
but at last the degrading firewater of
the fur -traders •and the oppression of
the white men had their effect. They
wandered further afield and the.eet-
tlere came in and took their places.
Still their presence lett its mark. Many
of the large cities of to -day hia•ve in-
dian names and it was from the Indian
nano Kannata, ineaning a co'll'ection
of huts, that the beautiful name Can-
ada was derived.
Under British Rule.
But the real change did not come
until 1763, with the capture of Quebec,
when Canada changed from French
to British rule, and to these brave sol-
diers and their leader, Waite, we owe
a great deal. It it had not been for
them perhaps we would never have
had a Dominion of Canada. .They
opened the door for those who were to
follow.
With the war in the United States
came the United Flmpiro Loyalists,
brave, loyal British subjects who en-
dured untold hardships that they
might remain true to the British flag.
How heroically they battled the perils
of a new Country- We who live in this.
day of comfort know very little. Were
they not worthy ancestors of the great
warriors, statesmen and philosophers
who were to follow and guideour coun-
try safely through the troubled waters.
of racial bitterness, inevitable in the
history of any prosperous nation.
A Period of Progress.
We will this year be celebrating Che
sixtieth anniversary of our Dominion;
sixty years since one of the greatest
feats in history in the minds of Cana
diens was accomplished by the Fathers
of Confederation, far sighted men, who
caught vdslons• of that which we have
lived to realize, a great, throbbing,
united nation, and staked their all to
attain it. But while e -e rejoloe, let us
not forget the struggles, and disap-
pointments, the worry, toil and dis-
1ouragements involved and be proud
and thankful that we can boast of such
noble meat, who through their wisdom
and devotion brought about that which
will remain, in Canadian history, 'im-
mortal throughout ala the ages. „
Glorious Our Future.
And now that we have reviewed the
past, let us look into the future. What
is to be the crowning destiny of Can-
ada. hall the noble efforts of our pre-
decessors be in vain. She has tre-
mendous possibilities, and in our hands
lies the making of her future. Shall
it be undying, worthy to be cherished
by the generation& -to come. Canada
has hatl'a great east, is having a great
present, and will. have what promises
to he a greater future. She is young
and has accomplished much, and how
much more she will accampiish is not
for us, who. can neither tonne or tor -
tell the future, to say. We must leave
it to the guidance of the Great .Father,
who so far hos been with as, and who,
we humbly pray, will continue to be
through the ensuing years.
EW STATION
dependent drive circuits will be incor-
porated to maintain constancy of
freriuenoy'and wavelength. Energy for
V 11 CROYDON the transmitters is to be supplied by a
tib CROYDON
common motor alternator group, the
power front which may be switched on
to any of the transmitters.
.The new wireless direction finding
receiver for Croydon, specially de-
signed for this• work by the research
department of the Marconi Company,
has remarkably selective character-
ieiice and incorporates the latest filter-
ing and amplifying devices. it 1s ar-
ranged so that, if required, two or' more
circuits ran be operated on different
wavelengths for the reception of tele-
phony and telegraphy on the same
aerials.
In order to keep the n:ighboncood
of the airdrome as free as possible
from obatriirtion the wire`ioss masts
and transmitters. will be erected two
or Ouse miles from the airport and
operated by the "remote control" sys-
tem.
EXtan.:ive Radio Development
Pk sa cd for Big British
Airport.
I c n c,i---'among the develeprnerrts
now in hand for the reorganization of
tee Lona.un Air Port at Croydon is the
provision of a nese wireless station,
which is to be erected for the Air
elinisitry by Marconi's Wireless Tele-
graph Company to replace the one that
has bone duty there for the last seven
Yeats. When this station is complete
Croydon will possess vastly improved
airdrome wiroteee equipment, which
will 'oonsuderabiy extend its, range of
oommirrr'icetibn with other terminal
airdromes •and with airplanes in flight.
The new station will consist of a
group of four . 3 -kilowatt wireless
transanitter% operated in conjunetinn
�with a wireless d'ie otiout.finding re=
eeivsr, .'The trans'mutters will becap-
able of telephonic and continuous wave
and interrupted.00ntinuous wave tele..
!graphic transmission, the wave range
,being from 800 to 2 Goo meters,. In-'
In 1920 the area sown to alfalfa in
Canada was 258;000 acres. Six years
later it was 858,000 acres. At the be-
ginning of this period Canada import-
ed 15,000 bushels of alfalfa seed per
year but by 1926 this trade movement
was Changed into an expert of 50,000
bushels. •
7.
GREAT PRESSURE
BURSTING DYKES
FOR FIFTY MILES
_ r
Centre of Evangeline Country
` is Being Devastated by'
Flood Torrent.
DEEDS OF HEROISM.
Rescuers Emulate the Cana-
dian Voyageurs in Efforts
to Save the Imperiled_
Families:
New Orleans, La.—Rolling relent-
lessly down the fertile west side of
the Atchafalfa basin, flood water
from
't nmajorcrevasses es in the
ec s
Bayou Des Glaises levees to -day drew
closer to St. Mary and St. Martin par-
ishes, 'spreading devastation on its
way to the Gulf of Mexico. The
threatened- section is in the centre
of "Evangeline country," trade fa-
mous' by Longfellow.
The Bayou Des 'Glaises crevasses
are. approximately 150 "miles north-
west of New Orleans, on the west side
of the Atchafalfa river.
Avoyelles and St. Landry parishes,
with their green crops of corn' and
sugar cane, have been' submerged by
the torrents tearing through the
Bayou Des, Glaises levees and thou-
sands of persons have been driven
from their homes. Other thousands
are seeking safety.
For thirty days crews have been
strengthening embankments. Scores
who had volunteered to aid in the
work left for their homes to prepare
to flee before :the advancing tide.
Army engineers estimated that the
water flowing from Bayou Des Glais-
es has covered 600 square miles. En-
gineers said that the entire stretch
of fifty miles of levees along Bayou
Des Glaises probably would be car-
ried away.
Rivaling the skill of Canadian voy-
ageurs in the Handling of their surf-
boats amid the treacherous skhirlpools
and roaring rapids of the crevasses,
3300 muscular end fearless members
of the coastgurird rescued 1,30,9 nien,
women and chileleen from cramblin'g:
levees and floatinglttouse tops of the
west Atchafalfa basin,.
Performing feats in 30 feet surf-
boats which many veteran boatmen of
the Mississippi would not glare, the
coastguard crews repeatedly shot
their small craft through the cre-
vasses to take families to safety.
Soaked with spray time and again,
the surfboat crews careened dizzily
through the narrow gaps. Every life
was saved, the coast guardsmen hav-
ing met the severest rescue test of the;
flood,
The Powers and China.
Yorkshire Weekly Post (Cons.):.
There is cumulative evidence which
suggests that those experts upon
Chinese affair's were right who fore-
told that the outherner'a would revise
their views of the value of Russian
Cominunist advice and assistance so
soon as they had used their propagan-
dist/Methods
ropagandist rethods suiiiciently to snake them
makers of Shanghai and its revenues.
But, warned by experience of the rapid-
ity with which situations are apt to
change in China, for reasons that can
at best only be conjectured, and are
often altogether obscure, the foreign
Governments concerned are not likely
to slacken their precautions, nor to
suspend the machinery which formu-
lates their collective policy,
World's Poultry Congress. 'CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES
Ottawa- — There was considerable
elation at headquarters of World's CEMENT CENTURY OF FRIENDSHIP
Poultry Congress when notification
was :received that •Roumania had
named an official delegate to Congress
and would he represented by Honor-
able George A. Simard, Consul General
for Canada. The entry of Rorunania
trings the, number of counties taking
part in the Congress ` to two score.
When Canada invited the World's
Poultry Congress to hold its 4927
meeting in the capital of the Doininion
there was some skeptiaisrn expressed
that forty nations, the "objective., et,
would be achieyed. Honorable W. R.
Motlrertvell, klinister of Agriculture,
who is Honorary Chairman of Con-
gress, expressed the, keenest .gratifica-
tion. that.the mark had been reached.
He said that although he had planned
a trip to Great Britain and th'e con-
tinent this year in connection with lm -
portant business connected with his
department and the 'marketing prab-
1ent, he had -decided to forego this and
"see the Congress through." It ,is the
intention of the Minister "td accompany
those foreign delegates who will tour
Canada from coast to coast in a special
"See Canada" train..
Mme. Jane Sion Arrives
for Swim Events.
Quebec—After ]raving on_ no less
than three ocnas'ions failed to confuter
the Euglish Channel Mme. Jane Sion,
Brussels, European lady swimming
champions, is now turning her eyes to-
wards the marathon swimming race
that is to be held off Toronto Bay next
Labor Day, Mme, Sion reached Can-
ada Friday, so, as to properly tune up
for .eeveral long distance 'races in
Canadian and American waters.
Mme. Sion, who, in •addition to en
Gering the Toronto swim, is also sched-
uled'to participate in the Lake George
event fluxing the •summer, was one of
the first women to try the feat of swim.
I ming the c'Iranuel, and en her initial
attempt get to within two utiles of
Dover when she had to give up. This
was in 1923 when she swam 37 miles
in 14 hours. The next year she strug-
gled to within four miles of the Dover
cliffs when forced out of the -water,
while in 1925 she got to within a mile
and a half of cher objective.
She itas won several marathons, and
mast year captured td% European wom-
en's swimming clrampionehi;p by cov-
ering 1,609 metres in one l'o'ur.
April Fool.
"Dropped your pocketbook, mister."
"April Fool! 1 did not. I always
put nip pocketbook in the safe when
I'm out with this darner' ,
"We didn't understand some of the
things you ,sail in that speech of
yours," remarked, a constituent to .the
Member of the Legislature, "Then,"
replied the member gently, "you
should not find fault with me. What
you do not thoroughly understand• you
cannot intelligently disapprove of!"
Canada's Minister of immigration, Hon. Rohl.. Parke and Mrs. Forks,
whosailed this week foe• England to study, first hand, the Immigrant iDng!and
has to offer and his p•roblemsoat home.
BIG• BOOM BURST
ON BERLIN KET
Prominent Men of Both' Countries Join in the Formation of Shares Generally, Fall
the North American Relations: Foundation.
Ottawa—As tangible evidence of the amts of friction and ill -feeling in ne•
deep appreciation and gratitude felt
by Canada and the United -'States for
over a century of unbrolren friendship
and as an earnest of even closer fel-
1 lowship to, follow, •,here has' just been
former by the foremost men of both.
countries what Is known as the North.
American Relations .Foundation.
Tlie objects are described ,as fol
Mows;
(a) To pronstite,'firaintain and safe-
guard international amity and friend-
ly +elatione'between thee rya othe
United States and Canada, and other
portions of fire British Commonwealth
of Nations, and of fostering co-opera-
tion in all matters affecting the moral,
social, and economic developnient or
the peoples of ,these countries,
('b) To prepare, publish,,and distri-
bute, under ,the direction of an oriole
ory and editorial oouncjl, firstly, as a
Presentation volume to shareholders,
and afterward to sell subsequent whi-
tens' of the same, as a revenw•e'earn-
ing activity, a Centenary Volume of
North America --tire said -volume to
be, in the nature of a'tier'aary memorial
to the hundred. and more years of
peace between Canada and the
United States of America; and asnaolr
other publications of a like nature as
may be determined from time to time.
To Disseminate Information
(c) To colieot,fornnulate, edit, pub-
lish, and otherwise dissernInwatte time.
ly information, and relevant and in-'
formative literature, relating to pertin-
ent questions or situations of an in-
ternational nature, which may from
time to time arise;' and to orgenzie
and direct the influence and activities 1
of public-spirited citizens of the afore -1
sad countries in regard thereto, with a
view to the improvement of inter-tre-
tional understanding, and tire avoid
spect to 'such matters, k.
Other objects -enumerated are: `The
pa•omotien of ',ex•dhange of assooie,tions
among educational institutions of the
United States., and ,the Britigh Com-
monwealth, by eetablishin;g, interne-
tbonal scholarships and ' 55eetureships-
and interc'hangin'g teachers`and stud -
onto; the, e000urbgement of, interna-
tional Competitions in amateur •athle
tins and %ortis and awarding.: of
trophies; the erecting of msmorlais
along : the international border and'
elsewhere, "commemorating ,empha-
sizing and perpetuating the sentiment
of friendship"; and. generally "to un-
dertake a'ul practical, and effective
means; to ,promote, Improve and sus-
tain at their highest levels those stand
ards and ideals of dnternatriomal rela-
tionship which are the common heri-
tage of the peoples of these neighbor-,
the countries, and ,,to pmes,erve the
same intact and unbroken for all time
to tonne." f.
The. aapitai artoolt of the fowndatlon
win be .31,250,000, and three Glasses<of
shares will be Bald at 31,250, $1,000,
and $50, mepsectively, to be paid Into
a trust ,company, and any ,profitswiris
Mng tram die business still be applied
solely in furthera,noe of the aims of the
foundation, Tho head, office of the
directors will be in Toronto. -
The 'petition for incorporation was
signed{ by Livingston Farrand of Cor-
nell University, William, R. Riddell of
Toronto, S. P. Capen of Buffalo Uni-
versity, ,Sir Henry M. Pellaa of To-
ronto, James A. Russell and E. L.
Brooks .of ,Akron, 0; G, 11'I. yy..rong, H.
P. Millen, Joseph Montgomery •an'cl
E. L. McCormick of Toronto. It is'
undarsto.od that President Coolidge.,
the American Premier, W. L. Mac-
leenzie:King and other leading men in
the UnitedStatesand Canada aro swp-
porting the movement.
A FORTUNE
DOWNC. OINE•?
SERVICE THE SECRET OF
MODERN BUSINESS
SUCCESS.
What Men Have,,Done They
Can Do Again —'And the
Lad of To -day, With Only
Sixpense in His Pocket, May
' be a Captain of Industry,
-Controlling Vast Business
Interests, To -morrow. These
-True Stories Show How
Giant Concerns Can Grow
From Small Beginnirngs.
There is a story behiee many of the
greatest modern businesses, Take
Lever Brothers, founded by the late
Lord Leverhulme, who died two years
ago. This- great business man started
lite in his 'father's grocer's shop ha
Bolton. While still in the early twen-
ties, he embarked 'on a venture of his
own—also In the grocery; line—at
Winan. After bhilding up this es-
tabiislrment into a very flourishing
concern, he sold out.
Just before this he had bought a
small soap factory at Warrington. He
now threw himself into this, and spent
a great pant of the ;noney he had got
for his ;grocery business on experi-
ments in soap. The result was a
household soap which would last and
not turn rancid.
Hem ie pert, at least, of the secret
of the Lever success --courage to
strike out in a new line and to spend
lavishly to secure an end. The name
hie gave the soap—"Sunlight'=was
another hint of -the young man's
quality. There is money in nam&
like that,
An Eye for Position
And Lever, did all that he could to
bring it to public notice. No man knew
better than he the value of advertising.
Indeed, it is told of him that, 'inlater
years, when be controlled a great chain
of businesses •stretching alt over the
world he visited, South Africa, and
was gently impressed by the majestic
aspect 'of Table Mountain, which do-
minates Cape Town and the surround
-
leg country,: iu a day or two the
South African Government was offered
a jarge's•uto Lo allow tlbe words "Sen.
light Soap to be rsi'nted in huge let.
ten•sadong the mountaintop.
It was a good publicity idea, but
far•tnnat ly, from tfie aesth•otic stand-
point., the authorities did not see their
wayclear to, 1,aip in the making Sf
advestsing hi tory. The offer was
turned down.. ,
The story, however, serves to show
Lord Leves'hulme's flair for good pub-
licity. And It is probably safe to, say
that, wherever success depends upon
obtaining ,public supp'orLL no large -scute
bneincies can be built up 'withouts••ad-'
vert'Lsing., ..
"Don't Do. It Again!"
' There are, et course, fortunes which.
li•avi
e been mads n the development 011
new countries, and by tlr•e• dis cov ery-•of
such things as gold, diamond's, and
oil, 'These come in a somewhat different
category, but, in the nttiin, the ren
wire make their pile by such means
have_much the same gnal'ities ss Lhase
wive win success in other fields.
A good story is told of Cecil Rhodes,
the maker at modern South Africa.
When he and his brother, Colonel
'Frank Rhodes, were young, they -did
net Have too much money or too ex-
tensive wardrobes.
So one day, when Cecil wanted to
attend an evening function -in London,
he had to ask Frank to lend him a
ghimt,
Frank refused—he wanted the shirt
himself that 'evening. And knowing
Cecil, he watched h'Inr. He saw him
oft en the train, and tools particular
note of the fact that he was not wear-
ing the shirt and had no luggage with
,hint.
This seemed good enough, but when
Frank went to grit the thirst it had
disappeared. When Cecil came back
his brother asked him how he -had
manager to get away with the garment.
"I put it on under the old one," was
the reply.
Telling the story to a friend, Colonel
Rhodes added:
"That's Cecil!"
It does illustrate the' resource, the
"never -stip -die" spirit that helped to
build Cecil Rhodes' fortune, as they
have helped to build so many ethane.
There is, however, the element of
Male How far does it count in the
making of great wealth?
Andrew Carnegie has related how,
w'h'eat a railway employee, he was rite-.
ing on a locomotive, and 'dropped a
Large sumof money—the wages of a
great many railwaymen—beside , a
stream. If it had fallen into the
stream, he added., it would have taken
him many years to wipe out his care-
lessness.
"I .could• go straight to the spot to-
day," •said corn'egita, many years later,
"and often as I passed, over that lute
afterwards I never failed to see the
light brown papkage lying an the bank.
It seemed to be calling: 'All right, my
boy! The good gods are with you, but
cl'ou't do it again!'"
Creating New Wealth
A case in wiricll luok was the bo-
ginu!ng of a huge fortune was that of
Senor Simon Patina, supposed to be
the r•Iohest South American. A quarter
of 'a century ago he was a salesman
employed by a Bolivian company.
They tent him to collect a 00 debt.
Finding the cloister unable to pay,
Senor - Patina accepted a :deed giving
the title to a piece of land.
This tical seemel-wcrtiiiess to the
company, and Patina was dischaa'ged.
So be kept the deed: Tin.was found
on the land, and Senor Patino'is now
supposed to be warth some £303;000,-
000
Canes like this are, of co•uree, very
exceptional. Mostly courage, ceergy,
resourcefulness, initiative count far
more than luck las fortune -building.
There is artather thing that counts
service: If you. want to help your-
self to' a fortune, you've, fust got to
help the world to something else --
something that 1t either hasn't got at
all, es' that you can give it in a new
way, and better than other people.
That is why Mr. John D. Rockefeller
ones said that the ambitious should
strike oat on new lines rather than
travel the "worn paths of accepted
mists::."
Perhaps that is the real secret of
the big fortunes, The teen who have
made them have either given thio world
something neW, or they have done
some old thing in a' different and bet
ter way. In either cars, they have.,
probably created far more wealth than
they have gained: for themselves
irty,.
Forty or Fifty Points, and in.
Isolated Cases They Aval-
anche 'Eighty to One Hun-
' died and Forty. •
Berlin—The etook market boom
which has, swept on from laet Summer•
to more' German securities to unheard
of-hedgh'ts, bursa on the Boursehere,,
last week litre an overblown balloore
Shame generally •tell ;thirty, forty os .�
fifty points, anti in isolatedcas11s they
avalanched •edgliity sad 140 resents,
The crash wilt go down do German
financial history as •Mut nation's
"Black Frlday"-and the ,thirteenth art
that. " It was the 'istoolcesdr day in the°
h dssancia!i d'raatri of
memo'
o'e t e et. N
i � , r k of the Balkan-
even the oufrb ea B R r
nor of the World War 'produced such
an indescribable Janie as reigned on ,
Friday.
Or. Hjatiner Schacht, president of
the Relohsbank, its getting the blame.
Friday night he was beyond doubt the
meet unpopular -person in Bolan, as.
fad as tate speculating public and some
banks• are concerned. While the blame
for the panic is not ailplaced at his
desk, he is getting mast of it.
Thursday be caped in the heads of
the big Berlin banks, and insisted that.
they drastically restrict credit which. SE'
they had been extending for specula,
hive purposels, failing which, he '
threatened tegisdnutive measures would
be taken against them. He further In-
dicated that the credit of recalls trant
banks would be, restricted by the,
Reichsbank. Dr. Schacht had the Gov-
etmment's backing.
It 4s known .that Dr. Schacht and
the Govertrment have been abseiled for
some ,tease at thes,bocit market boom..
First they considered It had an uad&sir-
aible effect abroad. It appeared ' to'
them that the foreign public was get-
ting a false idea of Germany's pros,-
verity
rosperity on account of thsltlgah erica of
stoops: and the :li rge amou.nte' of money
spent in speculation.
Second it ie said that Dr, S•clraoht
found the Reichsbank faced with .000
groat -a 'drain on, urs• reseurosa when
demands cadre from other banks for
currency to be mod in their customers'
simulations. These demands' imposed
on the drains ofthe foreign currency
reserve on account of the tram
Davies reparations payments, undoubt-
edly were heavy.
Business men and insustrirrtists hese
have bean depseoating rho market
boom for two reasons. First, they •be-
dieved it was 'not based on real finau-.
clad resources of thecountry, but was
largely the result of foreign loans
poured into Germany d'urin'g the last'
year. AThird, they believed• extensive spac-
elaation on the market kept invest-
marts away from German industrial.
and business enterprises.•
Suzann•
e's Tour Takes
"Flop."
Nice, France (A.P.)—Suzanne Len -
glen's professional tennis tour of Eur-
ope has blown up, and the big salary AL
bubbles that fascinated amateur ten-
nia players likewise have burst.
Mlle'Lenglen hi a statement, said: '
"My tour is announced has been
abandoned, although I .expect to, fill
my English engagement as arranged,",
She was unwilling to say, however,
wiry the tour had been called off, and
while she asserted that nothing de-
finite had yet been decided as to her
future piens, there is much talk' of her
opening a tennis school at Cannes next
year.
It was the dreamy idea of amateurs
regarding the size of salaries, it was
said in tennis circles, that caused.
Baldwin to abandon the European
tour,
Tennis •tireless deolared that press re-
ports of Mlle. Lenglen's earnings in
the United States caused. European
amateur - players- -' t0 consider them-
selves as potential millionaires.
Moving Scene at French
Execution:
Paris. —A moving scene 'between a
condemned man about to be led to the
guillotine and his wife took place at
Bordeaux.
The man, whose name was Ceantry,
and his wile had been sentenced to
death for the', murder by poisoning: of,,1e.•
his brother. The death sentence pass
ed upon• the woman v,ms commuted to
Pena:l, .servitude for life, and bo'o't
Gcan:try ryas pinioned and led to the
guillotine I -.a was allowed to see the
Protestant Laster and to write two let-•
'ters to Ms children, after whach,Al,s
asked that his wifo'shouid be brought
taco to face with frim for the last time.
This is what you have brought me
to, said Geentry to kis wife, "eons
you can get along along as best you
can:,
Tho wife burst into tears. Geanlry
kissed her and then walked firmly to
the guillatine• and a minute afterwards
was executed.
Phew
"That fellow's` rotten."
"Well, be's a dead game seer ."