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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-01-10, Page 7'Thursday, January foth, 1929.. I ain Thine 0 Lord; :l have heard Thy voice, And it told Thy love to me; But •i long torise in the arms of faith, And be closer drawn to Thee. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, bless ed Lord, To the cress where Thou liast died Draw .menearer, nearer, nearer,bless- ed Lord, , To Thy precious, bleeding side. Consecrate nle now to Thy service, Lord, By the power of grace divine; Let my soul look up with a stead hope, And my will be lost in Thine, I commune as friend with friend. There are depths of love that I can- . not know Till I cross the narrow sea; There are heights of joy that I may not reach, Till, I rest in peace with Thee. ; As those of our readers who have ]sassed the meridian of life may re- member,; some fifty or sixty years ago there developed 'a regular rage for singing sacred or semi -sacred songs. ` This originated in the Uni- ted States and was a feature in re- vivalistic. evivalistic: services, conducted by ear- ast nest men• generally outside ofthe're- gularly ordained ministry, whose aim it was to reawaken the tranquilizing influences of religion, amongst the people who had lately emerged from the horrors and prejudices of the Civil War. :Prior 'organs had be- come rather common and no. doubt 0 the .pure delight of a single hour That before Thy. throne I spend, "When I' kneel in prayer, and with Thee, my God, The Bell Telephone Cmpany and its Bill in Parliament HE Bell Telephone Company is bringing before parliament this session a Bili regarding its authority to seek new capital. No grant or subsidy from parliament is involved. It is entirely a matter of authority to offer new shares for purchase by investors, from time to time in the future as new capital is required for the growth of the system. There are three reasons why the telephone con eau is asking parliament for this authority. Eat 1 of these reasons is important. the first reason The telephone system cannot extend td meet the growth of the 'country unless there is a steady supply of new capital year after year. N a progressive country like Canada the telephone system never stands still. Each year there are thousands of new telephones in new homes and offices. I"+•or the next five years the definite needs which the system is under public obligation to meet mean spending over $120,000,000 in new plant. Year after year, in good times and bad, new money is needed for more telephones if the system is to keep pace with the country. And of this money a great part can be supplied only through the pur- chase of new shares by investors, the second reason Nece isary plans casinot be made unless there is assurance that money may be obtained in the future to complete them. N' the telephone business is sthat essentiall tat pIaxis be made for years ahead. There must be cables and conduits and central ex- changes before new telephones can go in. To wait until people are clamoring for service is too late. Such -projects in the past have been undertaken be- cause the company has been con:i.dent or securing money from investors to put the new equipment into full service. But if the company is not able even to approach in- vestors, its assurance vanishes: aid to prepare for the future becomes impossible. l • ;i The telephone system does not decd, and will not seek, all t:ie seventy-five million of new capital pro- vided for in its ameii,:silout now, nor next year, nor the year after. .It may not need it all for a good many years. But it does need now the assurance that it will be able in the future to.go•into tI1e nlariao forw ne 1 lr oirey when it is required. the third reasoid The company's present authority to seek new capital is almost exhausted. • HEN the telephone company began in 1880 it had authority to cell shares; to investors up to half a million dollars, but with the growth of the • 'system this authority has been extended by parlia- ment. 'This has happened, on an average, every eight years since 1830. The last amendthent by parliament was in 1920, Another amendment is ;.necessary now be- cause, ;of the seventy-five niiJliou of shares set in 1920, less than ten million now remain for the cone - party' to offer to investors. With over 1Z0„000,000 to be spent during the next five years --a. substantial part of which must be pro- vided bysaleof new shares--- ' t is marginof 1 h &i ass than ten million represents neither, the steady suppty of new capital nor the assurance of the future which the company must have to serve the, public With efficiency. eight' years from now Tv there had not been an amendment in 1920 with I- the right to raise new capital, Ontario and Quebec today would be struggling with a telephone ;Osten) to hopelessly behind public requirements that all branches of business would duffer„ The telephone company, does net want that state of affaita to prevail eight years front now, The :Bill is to prevent it. WXNG1i'tAM ADVA CE.TI this wave of sieging` tended to help to a wider distribution of them. It became, quite a common, and'an ex- cellentcustonh, to spend the evenings in singing and the „hymns'' of the re- vivalists were whistled in the streets, sung a't all .Sorts of parties', teed fam- iliar to e'eryone. Singing schools, which taught sight sing in a month 'or two, Sprang up everywhere, and helped on the move-' rnent,. 'Canada and Great firitaui :;hared in it, and the appetite for what were often termed Gospel Hymns grew to perfectly enormous propor- tions. it might have been well had some such movement followed the Great War! In. 1875, the Boston, U.S,, publish- ers, Messrs. L'iglow and Main, suc- cessors to W. 1I. Bradbury, in issu- ing a new voluble of such hymns, en- titled "Brightest and hest,” announ- ced that of three similar books is sued previously: "More than one 'mil- lion, seven hundred thousand copies," had been sold. Considering the poli- ulations of those days, that must be reckoned as a prodigious circulation! The price at which these books were issued greatly assisted their sale "Brightest and Best," for instance, contained a hundred and fifty hymns or sacred songs with full music score, all of them, apparently, original eith- er in words or music, was strongly betted, and ,sold for thirty cents each n lots of a hundred, or thirty-five cents per single copy! The publishers, continuing Mr. Bradbury's arrangement witli the blind hymn -writer'., Fanny . Crosby (Mrs, Van Alstyne), paid that pope lar writer for so many hymns to b delivered per month, and many o those subsequently very well know appeared in this volume, which wa compiled by Rev. Robert Lowry an'd W. Howard Doane, who wrote th music with which they are always as sociated. It was lir. .Bradbury, well-known tea. musician, piano maker, and pub licher, who first induced the writes of the popular songs; "The Haze Dell," "Rosalie the Prairie Flower,' "Music in the Air," to turn to the writing of hymns. Mr. Lowry was her constant friend and biographer Dr. Doane set to music her most popular hymn, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." The sante confusion regarding the use of her name which has worried o many of the writers upon modern ymnody -is exhibited in the ascrip- ions of the liynins Fanny Crosby ontributed to "Brightest and Best." Although she expressed the wish that he be referred to in the matter of ynlns . as Fanny Crosby, many of er compositions are in it ascribed o Mrs, Van Aistyne, many more to C., some to Fanny J, Crosby, some i plain Fanny Crosby. Perhaps tern was a reason for this in the niter's umintl for she was naturally f an orderly somewhat systematic attire. She may have intended to gnify her own idea of tate value of hat site wrote in that spanner. But 1i 11 sd t. if so we have not been given the key to her system, Her well know hymn, "All the way my Saviour leads sue,'.' for which the music was written by R. Lowr • aa' peered. in "Brightest and .Best," whi lh took :its name fruit; Bishop F1eber's fine Epiphany hymn, beginning with the carne words, the first in this col- lection. Our hymn "I am Thine, () 1.ortl," was No. 22 in this book. • It was entitled " 1)raev me Nearer," and the text given as its motto; or st+ srce t e :+f inspiration is: "1,'t 11A draw ,near ;vita a true heart," Hebrews x.22 'The anisic, which has a decidedly secular ring, by 1)r, W.„14. T)erane, is easily ' sung and no doubt accounts! for much. of its popularity, Of the circumstances under which it is wr•i- ttcn we know nothing definitely, its iaithor Was fifty-five years old at the tinre, and probably it wasoneof. those 1.1rit•ten under her 'contract with ler i"ublishers, ,bar k_. J! d H llis5 Iona Stothet';;, teacher at Kirkland Lake, left on Saturday to rcume her duties at the above place. Owing• to the • severe storm, the fdincr Ll of the late idirs. Jean Scott which vas to be held on Mandy was pcistponed, The week of prayer has •b`een Can- 'cellcd and will start January 14th in St. Andreae='s United Ch.urc11, t\rt interesting election for the of- fice of Councillorswas held Monday, notwithstanding the cold, stormy day a Rall vote was polled, Six candidat- es were in tte- field, the first four mentioned Were elected. John I-1ef- fron, Wm, Mills, Charles Bell, Win. Yoh etston , liven, H•errittgtotl, George White, Reeve Dr° Milne was elected by acclamation, A. W. Webster, a well-known citi- zen rtailor and former es tai or of Wingham was stricken with a paralytic stroke in Clifford last week, and is now in Che local hospital, Now -savor 3111C7slc, New Device X Adaptable to the Ordi- nary Glvntnophone, Gramophones that can play 'a whole opera without stopping to change needles are a possibility of the near future, thanks to a British invention by w'hielt a cull of specially prepared thread replaces the ordinary disc records, says Zit -Bits, One coil of 'thread, weighing a few ounces, it Is claimed, 'will hold as much music as ten disc records. The new device is easily adaptable to the ordinary gramophone by means of a special attachment costing a few shillings, It is claimed that it will, be possible to carry twelve 11o111:s' music in thread records in a pi)rtabl,• gramophone. A thread coil may be dropped and knocked about without being spoiled. If the thread is broken it .can be mended without making any notice- able effect on the record, Years of-fesearch work have been devoted to the new system, and the first patent was taken out five year:. ago, when a telephone conversatiot. was successfully recorded on thread. Other interesting possibilities exist from the invention. A business man could dictate his office correspon- dence at home and carry it to Iri, Office typist in his jacket pocket. Thr entire day's correspondence of tin busiest man could, it is claimed, in recorded on two or three thread coils weighing hall a pound. A person in. the Old Country could send coil's to relatives abroad, w10 could reproduce on their gramo- phones a message in the actual of the seeder, at a cost only slightly more than the letter postage. The thread is of fine silvery tex- ture. The indentations made by tle voice: waves are only visible under a powerful microscope. It resembles a very fine violin string, or grey hair. CANADA'S LARGEST STEAMER. Will 1'ly Between Southampton and Quebec. A steamer, which has been ordered by the Canadian Pacific Railway, is being. built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, for service between Southampton and Quebec, will be 730 feet in length, 97 foot beam, about 40,000 tons gross register and with a sea speed of 24 knots, enabling the trip between Southampton and Quebec, via Cherbourg, to he made in Ave days. The vessel will be nam- ed Empress of Britain, and is ex- pected to take her place in service in the spring of 1931. While the new ship will not be of the mammoth type now being constructed in Great Britain and Germany for service be- tween British and Continental ports and New York, she will mark a dis- tinct advance both, in size and speed over any ship heretofore put in ser- vice between Canadian and British ports. Her accommodation will be luxurious, and she will be capable of carrying over 1,100 passengers in in first, second and third classes. In the opinion of the company's officers and designers, she will be an out- standing addition to the Canadian North Atlantic se atpe, The new Empress will be 50 feet longer and 20 feet wider than the Empress- of Scotland, which is now the largest vessel in the St. Lawrence service, and her tonnage w: 40.000 gross rates 15,000 tons more than that ship. Compared with ilo• Duch- ess class of the Canadian Putfic•, the tonnage of the new Empress is exam, ly double. I,IPII'ON ltl; t l'. t3131::IS, Proud of the Mother Who Was ;i'1'oud of Her T3:ey. Not long ago in the doerlt iv of V. HWY. sharp in fila, ,ctiv, laarleg tilt' name 't.'.pton'., :,i rkei," ale Tit nuts 1 ii:'rnn. the niiliion •.r. e tr s-merrhnnt- yachtsmen, ster'd !od i1'' ',u rd numertaae peekeeee ,:1 dice Li; as mai bd,eeir.s 10 the, Trot... children of the humble Iu t, i hnl'hnori, Fifty- year:4 ao' his first ()Mee was there, and 011 its wails hang the por- tratts of hie fet.her and mother. In the Iitlle shop rotted the rummer from the Lipton office leo used to eleep un- der the hounter. He is pr'onrl of it, and proud of the mother who was Proud of her boy and urged him on. Now, at seventy-eight, he goes :.back again and stands near the little shop. It is another version of a scene 150 years ago when Dr. Sam- uel Johnson went back to stand bare- headed In the market -place of Iltto- xeter, where his lather's bookstall had been. But that was an act of penance; Sir Thomas Lipton's' net Is just a tribute to his parents and to his own kindly heart. TEE BLONDIN SPIIi1'P., Daredevilry Still Lives In famous Acrobat's Descendants. Daredevilry equal to that of Ilion - 'din, who walked across the Niagara Falls on a tight -repo, still lives in the famous acrobat's descendants. Not long ago one of Blondin's grandsons walked across a chain stretched between two high rocks in Cornwall, England, • while one of his brothers recently stretched a rope be- tween the tops of the mast's of a shipwalked and theu 1 z 1v al ked the rope, e al- though the sea was none too calm. A great-grandson of the Niagara hero is revealing the family talent at his home in Vancouver, Although only seven years old, he ;is perform- ing all sorts of amazing tricks on his own account, and the day may corm when lie also will walk across Nia- gara with a man on his back. and. make the return journey on stilts. J 'The Meet Accurate',Cloeks, ' Probably the most aoet)rate eloeks be the world are two at. C rednwrieh Observatory, Idaeh is checked every 80 seconds by a pendulum, ittade of an alloy of steel and Woke); railed dnvar, swimifig in a vttetia n, A change of tetttpei'atttre or ono degree• Fahrenheit causes these peudlidutmir to vary, but not mare than e, throb - thousandth of a second in twentr. four hours, it ANTE SROW?T IN 1111EAJ)ill+l,Aui, Civil Servants In Irak Are to Wee; Official BatS, Oivil servants in Irak are to weal official hate, reverting to a eustonl itt Vague in Turkey a century ago when It was possible to know a man's int, fession 1z'axn what be Were on his head, writes the Jerusalem miss spotdeat of the Christian Sezeec,.c, Monitor. As before theauodernizing reform:: of Sultan Mahmoud II., so now Turk.. put much .stress on what is worn on the head. But tittles have chang;'a Once a Turk was identified by the. fez, which later became obligatory 'nn all the Sultan's subjrcls.'• Now a Turk may wear almost anything bti,'t a fes. The shape • and color of the heat' gear of the different ranks of thr Sultan Mahmoud's housaihoidand a . the civil service were carefully regu- lated, front the towering white head- gear bearing the yellow diagnn;:. stripe of the Grand Vizier or the i,or. High Admiral, to the tall aro;,:. dunce's cap of the official inessong,,i': on, duty in Government othces. The fez came to be the mark 01 r subject of the Sultan, and even th' late King Ferdinand of ' Bulgaria bed to wear one when he came to see hi. Imperial overlord in 1892, tor ho the holder of the Sultan's r•ummi,s:'.r, as Vali of eastern Rousnelia and, a. such, technically in the Sultan's ::.. vice. During the Balkan war igen, Christians in Turkey threw awai their fezzes in open recognition et the fact that they were no longer sub- ject to the Turks, and refugee.: hav- ing Turkey after the armi:rtier' ai 1918 discarded the truncated at=gid erin and black silk tassel avid went bare- headed rather than continue to vasa, the badge of their former subj citm: As the fez had become the Mark 0, a subject of, the Sultan, the National- ists, 'who afterward overthrew both the Sultan and the Caliph, t., wearing the "kalpak" as a rl :ii- guishing mark, This is a high, fair- ly soft cap made of black, white ci gray, as'trakk.an wool, or o1 brown or black fur, It is supposed to have been the tribal headdress 01' the orig- inal Turks who swept down from Central Asia, conquering so much of the Moslem world and of Christen- dom. The kalpak thus came to be the symbol of the free Turkey. CASINO FOR CRY'SOE'S ISLE. Turning It Into a Playground for >9ifllionai res, Robinson Orusoe's island is to -day the scene of a romance scarcely less curious than that of Alexander Sel- kirk himself, the prototype of Defoe's hero, Nearly forty years ago a French- man named Charpentier was ship- wrecked at the very spot where Sel- kirk spent four lonely years a oen- tury before. Charpentier was the only survivor of the wreck, the crew o2 the vessel having got drunk and mutinied during a storm. He was not alone on the island of Mas -a - Tierra, however, for a' small village existed there,,. Charpentier discovered that the surrounding waters were alive with "langoustes," or giant Cray -fish, many of them 21r; feet long, and the con - wive(' the idea of establishing a fish- ing Industry. 'But the nearest ma r- ket—a alparaiso, Chile —• was 500 utiles away, and means of transport- ation were lacking. Some Yeats later a swiss adven- turer, Count de Rodt, happy r ed that way and and saw the possibilities in fit argentic i s scheme. • He likewise isi• settled th re, but they both lacked etpr el to envelop the plan. AhinL Ii' Pce "„tali ---• this time with money—eeme -urng subsequent- ly, a M. Ii u;., it( eart, tine with his aid a fionrislitag company was float - d which ships thot sands of live e. tl tdet'atala to Vi 1patar; 0 (", 1`y weeds.. Proru. tines- they are seat ute:rland iu Utak cars to Buenos Ayres, fetching as mech. as $ i.75 a Pound in 1h • eager A� ,• virtu.! til z" lie's, De Dost bas d.s'xt, bib; Charpentier 1]21,VO. ia r r 'liCh causal r 1 years ago, when rem to find a whale teas. , ' n p.'.rkinp, people d! r qn•• liC; iilOit,nte of de lir alt aria.' C,iarpen1li r, bona o i; s , -1 baa married uud had large xis. an English „t, ameeip company y has lately et.alied a tourist e•rv1Ce to Rob- inson Cirusoo's ir'1;•, dad there 41 (t.tlt of building a casino there and turn- ing it into a niilli.ouairt''s iaiuygr, and. The island has a tc ruperete climate, ma a great natural beauty, "DUCKS AND DRAKES." Game Known, Among the Ancients as " Epostmelei nue, ' ' The expression making "Ducks and Drakes" of money arises from the old amusement of holiday-makers in •fnaking smooth, flat stones skim over the surface of the waves. Wealthy spendthrifts have been known to use coins instead of stones, History does not tell us the name of the inventor, but the game was known among the ancients as "epos- traCisimus," There are records show - tug' (hat it was played by one Scipio Africanus and his companion, Lao- Iius, tnore than' throe thousand years ago, Perhaps the most famous patron of the gave in our own time wad. Alfred de Mnsset, the I+'rench uoreli'st aste, playwtig]1t, who spent whole days on the beach, picking up •pebbles and making .them skitu over the water, Aeeording to an Elizabethan writer, the game was known in, bis time as A du'c'k and it drake, and it ha'penny Cnke," His Jitettaog,• .rrpitsy tell rue, (riles,"• said the minister, itprn,achfully io noc of .bis parishioners, a. shepherd "that Yon not attend Mr,, ,lours' ehurch, 1 don't think you would be pleased if any of your sheep were to feed in someone elas's field." "t clott't thiel; I should m.ded it the grtsa were het ter," s'oixliod Clilet.W `Tit -lilts, And its flavour is the finest in the world. T E A 'Fired fro',.. ' thanarden ' �i Gig FINANCE The business of farming under present day conditions requires considerable knowledge of finan- cial matters. Consult the manager of the near- est branch of The Dominion Bank, who is always willing to discuss your problems with you. THE INFSN BA A. M. Bishop, Branch Mgr., Wirglaam 225 ASHFIELD Nuw that the holidays are aver, and visitors all returned to their. homes and the beginning of a New Year, the teachers and pupils return - cd to their schools, we wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, lirs, Wm. Tore of lfarnock, spent the holidays with her sister, Mrs. W. P,aldlvin, who, we are pleased to say, is improving. Messrs. Charlie and Earl Sherwood returned to Detroit last week and Mrs. Jim Barbour and daughters, Ver- na and Freda, to Goderich, after spending the h',lidays with their par -1 eats, Mr. and firs, Sant Sherwood. r Mr. and Mr.-, Allen Alton and fact -1 ihy motored last Saturday to Toronto! atter spending two weeks with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs, John; 31udliu. i Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Taylor ands sons, Herbic, Harrison and Albert, � :pent Nen' Years Day with the for-, nler',i sister, Mr, and :qrs. Gilbert; \'Int, Miss 'Mimic Cunnita sham of "l.'or- ,nto, spent last weed, with lii:r sister., airs. Roy Alton and ,lira. George Lane. ' llis: Mary I']siliil,s, „f Toronto, is the west of her sister, Airs, 'Phomas Fergueon. Mfrs, \Vrn, Ttvautl,'y and daughter. \ i,,il•t, have been Biel, with th, flu. Mr. and Mrs. Adam 1+,1111$1,,11 hull r.11i'il}' spent hist Friday t.1,•irini;' 1S'it it lfr. and Mfrs. Jinn Sherwood. •near Crewe. Mr. and Mrs. Heiman Phillips and f.,tnily, n,•;ir 3lafckiug, 3It'. and Mrs.; Ceorge Phillips and family, near For, and all% and ':tars. Jacob Hun- I ter and family,. spent New Year's Day at the horse of lir, and Mrs, John Campbell. airs. Henry Campbell, of Dungan- non, is spending a few weeks with her son, Mr. Ccril Campbell. Mrs. Robert Hamilton spent a few days with her brother., Mr. James Cook, Mies Norma Dinsley of Detroit is. a guest this week at the horne of.Mr. and Mrs. J.- A. 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