HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-01-17, Page 7Thursday, January 17th, 1929
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,How vain the cruel Herod's fear,
When told that Christ the Fling is
near!
He takes not earthly realms away,
Who gives the realms that ne'er .de-'
Gay,
' The Eastern sages saw from far
And followed on His guiding star;
- Byliyht their way to Light they trod,
And by their gifts confess'd their God.
17Vithin.the Jordae's'sacred flood
The heavenly Lamb inmeekness
stood,
That He, to Whom no sin was known,
Might cleanse His people 'from their
own.
And oh, what miracle Divine,
When water reddened into wine!
He spike the word, and ' forth it
£tow'd
In streams that nature ne'er bestowed.
All glory, jesu, be 'to Thee
For this Thy glad Epiphany:
Witoiii with the Father we adore
And Holy Ghost for evermore. Amen.
'.. Coelius Sedelius, the writer of this.
hymn,was born probably at Rome,
about 430 A.D. He received a good
education and seems to have travell-
ed a good ',deal in his younger days,
Part of his life he spent in Spain,
and -is sometimes Written of as Sede-
lies of Seville. He was born in hea-
thenism and for many years flourish-
ed as a poet and writer upon heathen
subjects. .
Sedelius was well on towards mid-
dle age when he was led to embrace
Christianity. Prudentius often spoke
of as the last of the old Roman poets,
first of the Latin poets of Christen-
dom, had died only a few years pre-
viously. Jerome of Bethlehem hacl
just before given the Roman Empire
The Bell Telephone Company
and the Northern Electric
,HE relationship between the Bell Telephone
TCompany and the Northern Electric Company is
direct and definite. It consists of
.1, ownership—the telephone company controls the
:Northern Electric by owning 51 per cent of
Northern Electric shares.
2. contract -the 'telephone company has a contract
with the Northern Electric by which the latter
sells equipment to the telephone company at
favorable prices.
The telephone company thus has direct control of its
source of supplies. Without control there would be
constant risk of being forced to pay high prices for
apparatus or of being unable to secure consistent
• standard of equipment.
If either of these conditions prevailed the result
-would be higherrates or poor service for telephone
users.
Apart from this protection there are two definite
results secured. These are: first, dividends; second,
low prices.
1. dividends from Northern Electric
THE Northern Electric has 'developed from a small
beginning to an outstanding Canadian success.
In 1928 its total business was more than $25,000,000
which is four times its business in 1914.
48 per cent of this total was with, the Bell Telephone
Company. 11 per cent was with other telephone
companies and 41 per cent was in general electrical
business in Canada and abroad.
In all this total of success the Bell Telephone Com-
pany participates as majority shareholder. 51 per
cent of all dividends paid by the Northern, Electric
have come back to the telephone company's revenues,
In the fifteen years since the Northern Electric was
incorporated the telephone company has received
from it in dividends over two -and -a -half million dol-
lars.
These have contributed to operate the system in
place of equal sums subscribers would otherwise be
called on to pay.
The dividends paid by Northern Electric represent an
average annual -return of only 5.7 per cent on the
capital stock, surplus earnings having been devoted
consistently to extend • plant and equipment.
2. low prices from Northern. Electric
THE contract between these two companies stip-
ulates that the prices which the Bell Telephone
Company pay for equipment :shall be as low as, or
lower than, ,the lowest prices paid to Northern Elec-
tric by its other customers.
• The other. customers of Northern Electric include
every telephone system of importance in Canada and
business ,from them has been secured in open com-
petition with British and Amexfcan manufacturers.
urea's.
It is thus the lowest price level of this competitive
business -which governs the prices paid by the Bell
Telephone Company. '
The Board of Railway. Commissioners- in 1926 made
a detailed inquiey 'into these prices and their Judge-
mteht Was that "—the agreement and supplementary
agreement which govern theirrelations are distinct-
ly advantageous to the Bell Telephone Company."
'Proof of this is seen in comparing costs of building
the telephone .system and rates paid by subscribers
'with 'those of other systems.
-The average cost of building other systems in Can-
ada, 'England, Brazil and the United.States has beet
$227 per telephone, The east in Ontario and Quebec
,has been $189 ,pee ."telephone, or 17 per cent less(
than the average.
And the, rates which.belephoone users pay in. Ontario,
and''Quebee are the riowest in the world for eompalr-
•able ser'iee.
A large 'fader in obtaining these'
loW cats and 'love rates has been
the arrangement and retetionehip
between the Bell Telephone Coni-
pany anti .the Sera—tern .'1l leetric
Company.
wz
the fatcalas translaUucsrr of th 1'tlirfe
et COCOA,
known as the Vulgat°e;, becatase it was '-
writteia in the vulgar ar common tau ereeeeee ,1 Johannes van Hontete b -
gee, Christianity which' had been
Greek in its language, Qriehtal in its
conception, l'ad become (Latin and
W estern,
It; was the tithe Wherg Attila the
1-iun was spreading his huge straggl-
ing dominion from far beyond the
eastern limits of the Well -disciplined
Roman .empire, and was - disputing
with :Theodosius, the Emperor, the
sovereignty of the European and
North African worlds.
Attila strong in 'well -horsed . bat-
talions accustomed to ii,e eardships
Of war, everywhere victories- by
weight of numbers, had little regard
for the 'war gods of the nation he
speedily vanquished. The wretched
populaces, defeated, imprisoned, en-
slaved, mutilated, by his ravagers,
were driven to conclusions far from
reverential or respectful to their gods.
Only the Christians with their cer-
tainty of another and More satisfying
life after death, found anything to
hope for in the confusion of horrid,
bloody war, which was evidently
drawing near to Constantinople and
to Roane, one the capital, the other
the chief city of the Roman Empire,
with a certainty of overwhelming
them sooner or later.
Sedelius, with the flaming zeal of
a new convert, set himself to the task
of making the marvellous, life-giving
gereeeed Process In 1815.
A little ()ever a, hundred yea's) age
a royal par.e0 was granted btl the
:wag, of the eietherlands to a young
ehoeolate :9sant fact,nre,:, Cenraad
eolieeees van fteseten, for an elven-
tion:`which adlusttet't the proportion
of cocoa -butter in the cocoa -bean and
by ether means perferled a process
for .the manufacture of cocoa -powder
as we know it to -day. 'This product,
the quality of which bee remained
Unchanged, laid the .foundation of the
liourishing,house of C. 3'. van Houten
and Zoon.
The business' was actually estab-
lished at Amsterdam in 1815, but its
greatest development has been since
1.860, when still under the auspices
of the inventor a factory was estab-
lished at the nearby and picturesque
town of Weesp, where it°has since
been eont!nuoiesly developed. It was
here that the centenary of the inven-
tion was celebrated, inetmhers of the
cocoa and ehoeolate industry from
all parts of the world attending to
pay homage to the memory of the
great inventor. The festivities last-
ed a week and were honored by the
attendance of the Dutch Minister of
Labor and other high officials.
WORLD'S GREATEST.
Geyser In 'Yellowstone l'a1'k .le In a
• ' State of Activity.
Furious and explosive activity ha,
been manifest recently by the world's,
greatest geyser. It is iu Yellowstunt.
Park, and, with the exception of the
now extinct 'Excelsior geyser, it it,
the biggest over known,
It is a Titan of its kind, huttine
story of the Gospels to his people, by water in all directions and reanhin_
writing them in poetry, and setting
an average wheight of 60 to 70 feet,
while occasional spurts reach 10e
forth the great doctrines of the cher- feet. Its crater is a huge ellipse, 100
ch, in language captivating to the by 120 feet in its two diaiuetere, ana
learned, and :easily memorized by the afeet deep.
ordinary people. - .. The volume of hot water it ejects
is tremendous, and the run off pouts
Five long manuscripts he produced through a four -foot gap to a depth of
laboriously, and had them published eight inches at a rate of 120 feet per
minute. The spurts continue at fif-
teen hand copyists as the fashion was, teen or twenty-second intervals for
and no doubt they had their effect three or more hours, and it stages
for good in the extraordinary condi- two of these long eruptive periods
tions then prevalent. History has every twenty-four hours.
When au eruption r crises the .ey-
been too greatly concerned with the ser crater is dry, with the exception
records of wars and the tremendous of a small fissure and several Unruh:;
Political changes of those perilous mucl springs .lout; the north edge
times, to enable us to derive a clear L omeee
-
estimate of the part Sedelius played
in bringing his nation to a better
knowledge of and a more perfect
trust in • the Redeemer of souls.
One of these five literary produc-
tions was the hymn "A solio ortus
cardine'". (From east to west,` from
shore to shore") in twenty-three
four line verses, bearing the title "A
'Criumpttal Song concerning Christ,
arranged according to the Letters of
the Alphabet." It is a finely conden-
sed life of Our Saviour, every. verse
beginning, acrostic wise, with a suc-
ceeding alphabetical letter. No doubt
the form 'was adopted to attract at-
tention by its novelty.
The hymn printed above is a trans-
lation of the verses beginning in the
Latin with h, i, 1, n, s, and give a
fair idea of the original.
Tlie Church has always made use
of the fine old hyriin of Sedelius ei-
ther in whole or in part, and it ap-
pears to have been greatly favored
by our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, in
the days before Wiliam the Conquer-
or carne, with the blessing of foreign
bishops, to overthrow Saxon rule.
The old prayer books of those times
almost always included it among the
hymns used. In singing the words
printed above we are' in the swine
praises that went up from the ancient
churches in Great Britain at this same
Ephiphanytide, over a thousaud years
ago!
Our translation is that of the learn-
ed and, talented Rev. Dr. J. Mason
Neale, who also gave us "Jerusalem
the Golden," 'Art Thou Weary,' "Hail
Gladdening Light," numbers of other
valued hymns, as well as many his-
tories and other notable works, and
died at East Grinstead in 1866. The
doxology was added by the compilers
of the hymnal known as "Hymns An-
cieet and Modern."
The tune Ely has the distinction
Bishop
ni osel`p
of having been composed' c by
.Turton, who died in his eighty-fifth
year in 1864, and who was a distin-
guished member of a family 'whose
members have done, and are still do-
ing greatly useful work for God's
church.
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Kaye proved to Be the Life I3lootl e
11tH itlual)ir+3,
From the earliest ' beginnings o1:
itritain's marine supremacy up until
the laat great war, the merchant ser-
vice, has wolfed the life blood of the
lemlrlre, Admiral E. P. Bruen told an
assentf)lages of Canada's most distin-
guished soldiers at a dinner held in
Toronto recently.
"The story of the meeltant sail-
or's part io tine war is a heroic one,"
he reminded 'Isis audience. "He teen -
teed the traaspo-:ts which carried "sup-
pfies and troops. Others did splendid.
work on. the trawlers, the mine layers
and the mysterious "Q" snips, those
terrors to the submarine. Their deeds
largely remain unsung, yet they were
on a plane with the exploits of the
British mariners of old."
Speakiug of the•kinship of the mer-
chant and fighting marine, Admiral
Bruen said: "Only- in the last cen-
tury have these two branches or sea-
manship become distinctly separated
in identity. The merchant and war
ships were little different in construe -
tion and the duties of the sailors
manningthese ships -were much
alike. Running engagements and
hand-to-hand combats were then as
familiar to _ merchantsailors as to
man-o'-warsmen. Pirates and priva-
teersmen made a life on the ocean
wave a hazardous occupation in those
days.,.
A rosy future for Canada was pre-
dicted by the veteran British naval
officer. "The twentieth century be-
longs to Canada," he foretold. "Be-
fore the end of the century I expect
Canada will have surpassed the point:
at which the United States now finds,
itself.
"But such prosperity will not come
without trade by sea. An efficient
merchant marine Canada must and
will have, if she is to attain her des-
tined position among the nations of
the world, Sailors are necessary to
commerce as is blood to a body. The
British Empire would die should
trade cease."
Herbert E. Barker, general secre-
tary of the British Sailors' Society,
under whose auspices Admiral Bruen
toured Canada, presented the Mili-
tary Institute with a small metal bust
of Lord Nelson, made of an alloy
which contains copper uemoved grow.
the great admiral's flagship, the Vic-
tory. The gift-, which bears such,.
a sentimental 'value, wee, totally µate
expec reit.'
Cooks
s
2l/z to 5 mitaautes
EMIGRATION THE ONLY have to suffer as they• . are suffering
CHANCE FOR THESE YOUNG nowadays. The children in these dis-
MEN' OF LANCASHIRE?' tricts are suffering very much from.
underfeeding. You couldn't call it
The followingappeared in the news starvation exactly, but they'll never.
column of .a recent issue of the 131v- have the physique they ought to have.
erpool Weekly Post: "T really dent see any future al.
In. Wigan, which with Pemberton, all for the mining industry,"conclud•-
Aspull, and Upholland is officially ed Mrs_ Hogg,.sadly.
classed as a distressed area, the Perhaps not, I thought, but this
scenes of poverty and distress were, country, concerned though it is with
if anything, slightly worse than those the future of the British tit ing in -
arethe North Wales coalfields. There ct>,tstry, must show more raining
are almost 8,000: unemployed miners
in the area controlled by Wigan La-
bor Exchange„ men antic& youths, of
which number more than half are
totally unemployed, the residue lucky
concern for the welfare of thousands
of miners and their dependants who
are now at the end of their tenter,
starved for comforts and broken in
spirit by the economic forces which
if they can get three or four days have made the 'pits idle and brought.
work a week. them and their families to want.
Ali over Lancashire, in fact, there
are bad patches, 23.5 per cent. of in -
shred men at Farnworth are unem-
ployed, 20.8 per cent. of those at St,
Helene, 21.5 per cent. at Leigh, 23.3
per, cent. at Hindley, and 272,6 per!
LANES
•
Misses Myrtle Johnston, Mettle and
Winnie Lane, and Elsie Vint, all of -
cent. at Wigan, ' L. H. S., spent the week -end at the• ir
"The only possible chance for the' homes here.
men in this district," a Wigan La-1Mr Will Alton is spending a fevr
suddenly
end as
the c•t t�inlutl c
suddenly athe Deg iening, and i,h. - bor Exchange official told me, "is to
days with his father, Mr. David Al -
lust of th:z violent sk'aui txpinsiont. IPO Nd�ft'ITdS SLNu, SPIRITS? emigrate, and that applies mainly to
ton, of Lucknow.
500111 to ..s. c7 .,, !Wil
..,• v„Wn, '.,. !Wile
Ilia-' younger men. For the older me”
-. �*• -' Insttrikes of When'sway At* '.lhoug u.• there cloesnit seem to be any atitlgok Miss Tillie ail.ett of .ucicnow
IMIOVIE STABS. to Have Seen Them. sp411t si Ciaj recently with \Ir. and
-JLE,
.. . . ..rl
at all."
Many people are satisfied that ani- Mrs. Cas•w dji 11aCi elf bF here.
Said to grit the Champion l,etterz- For young miners between the ages
mads dream and many believe that of nineteen and thirty-five the Wi- Mrs. J. Glenn of i�ti'tt`iprt.ilii�ti Speri'!:"
gen Labor Exchange officials are do_ ,a, few clays recently with lief r*itghe
leg their best by inducing them to ter, Mrs. Caswell Hackett.
sign
sign for training in farm work under 1-[r. Melvin Hackett of Luckno-w',,
the Ministry of 1,abor scheme, with spent the week -end at his home, here.
a view to subsequent emigration. Mr. and Mrs, Caswell Hackett spent
"It is pitiful," I was told, "to see lc,, day recently with the .former`s
some of these young men presenting another, Mrs. David Hackett, Luck--
Jtteeef4eief .of the World.
Cinema stars are said to be the
champion let;ter.reeeiver5 o1' the
world. Acoi cling - to reports front
Hollywood, the 'lad! mail" shows no
they gee spirits. Here are some re-
corded instances: A horse was to be
put in a stable at an hotel, while the
owner had his lunch. The horse
would not enter the hotel yard, so
signs of decreastug. the owner asked what was the cause.
It has been recleaned that over The reply was: "I expect he knows
32,250,000 letters -al* scent each year 1 e have a [lead man here, taken
to screen favorites from their admit, from the rive this morning."
ers. The postage on these letters ex-
ceeds 8645,000.00, and tlm' replies,
with the photographs that are :team}
always requested, coat $1,935,000.
A large percentage of the letters
come- from children, according to
the secretaries whom each artiste is
obliged to employ to (1 al with this
porrespondence. Few are helpful --
and this is what the stare and most
regrettable. However trig their mail
A terrier was seen begging (as he
always begs .for sugar), then he bark-
ed and went upstairs, then begged
again. A person who was a clair-
voyant, noticed this, and said the dog
was begging to the spirit of the lady
who, when she was on earth, taught
hirci to beg for sugar.
A cat was seen running all over a
bedroom, got under the bed, etc. The
cat was trying to follow a spirit form
bags may be, they will always be that was moving about the bedroom.
glad to receive sound suggestions or At a lecture given at the Crystal
honest criticism welch will assist Palace, London, a live rat was put in
them in their work, a glass tube, and the tube was sealed
up at each end. The room was in
CRUELTY TO F1t4H? darkness and an electric light was
put on to the tube. When the rat
German Judge Decrees That Nish died, a . form, the same shape as a
"Have __ Feeling. rat, came from the tube and went up
in the air.
Do fish suffer when caught on a
hook? A German judge has decreed
that fish have no feelings and cannot
setter pain.
Another authority declares that
fish undoubtedly have a sense of
toneli and, therefore, a sense of feel-
ing, although anglers are of the opin-
ion that they do not suffer pain. Fish
are cold-blooded, which is probably
the reason why their feelings are
different.
Proof is impossible, but: it is known
that they have a hig;]i1, - organized
sensory system. The fact that they
dance about after being caught seems
to suggest pain.
The .R.S,P.C.A. have obtained sev-
eral convictions in 11 Old Country -
against persons for cruelty to fish.
Concert In a (tavern.
A
concert was given recently in the
famous subterranean eaves of Poe -
tuella, fifty miles from Trieste, in
which a choral sooiety and a band
drawn from fifty towns and villages
took part. The caverns of Postumia
meander under :theearth for ten or
twenty miles, and among many pecu-
liarities contain a subterranean river.
In the centre of the tybterrenealt
gailer%s there Is a Vast hall called
the Mythological Hall or the Elysian
Fields, nearly a quarter of a mile in
elrcuniferenase, and which can hold
probably from 10,000 to 20,000 per-
sons. The dome of the hall rises more
than 300 feet, and .is decorated with
crystals of huge. size. Itantastieally-
shaped stalactites like veils and curs
tains hang over the var'iens passages
of approach.
Possibly" True,
A oomtnerclai traveller calling ire`
on a new customer produced by, nue'
take a snapshot of his fiancee instead
ole, his business card,,
"That's the firm 1 represent," be.
said.
The customer examined the some-
what determined -looked features of
the young woman, and returned the
photo rapli. with the reinatk: "Phu
afraid you'll never be manager of
that Aral"
.A1stc1n 'Laing Piste
!hese flab have the power o8 liiltxi '.
. theft air -bladders ,and bitty/ng timer -
Settees In mud, time eeealrfftg the 1-
deet at »ratoit$edt' talfesittlete,
YOUTHFUL OLD FOLKS.
People Who Seen to Never Grow
Old.
For forty years, ]hiss Clay, of
Flintshire, Wales, has acted as aux-
iliary postman in her district and
during that time it Is estimated that
she has walked 200,000 miles. She
has just retired under the age limit,
but declares she could still under-
take the long daily tramp with the
letters.
Some of the "ofd 'uns," indeed,
can give the youngsters points. When
Lord Balfour was presented by .old
Parliamentary friends—and enemies
—with a' motor -car on the occasion
of his eightieth birthday, he was one
of the most youthful -looking men
present.
But perhaps the most remarkable
recent instance et continued youthful
sprightfulness comes from the United
States. ,A eitiren of Indiana cele-
brated his fifty-seventh birthday by
climbing to the top of a sixty -foot
pole and standing on his head there
for five minutes.
9301 KANGAROO.
Those Animals Are Believed to Give
Warning of Danger
The Australian aborigines of cer-
tain tribes hold a number of super-
at(tions 'delineated with the Kangaroo.
These strange animals are believed
to give ivarnlug danger,
If a black -fellow of affect tribes
going along saw an old -man kangaroo
hopping toward him It meant that an
enemy Was near and it was time to
have lila spear in readiness to strike.
're dream that a number of 'roos
were sitting around the camp was alt
omen of serious warning that danger
beset the camp. In at least one tribe
daring . their initiation period boys
were not allowed to drink out of a
waterhode unless th rrough a hollowed
roo bone,
Finuokelecs if-tiet
raxper.tnients lei the population ori
sshoknless fuel frons Kent coal 'haws,
haad satisfactory results; and the first
unit of ;a 400 tons. per day plant 1*
to be installed. Production is eZ-
peeted to begin early in that pox,
themselves at this office, clothed only
in a shabby chit, in many instances
the flesh showing through the rents
in their trousers.'
Relief measures may have kept
them from actual starvation, but the
price of even the shoddiest second-
hand .suit is far beyond their powers
of purchasing. The \-Vigan Labor
Exchange, like other centres up and
down the country, is appealing for ;
cast off clothing:, and the officers 1
there are going far beyond their of-
ficial duty as Government servants
by clothing the neediest wherever
possible.
A most serious phase of an already
terrible problem was explained to me
in an interview at Wigan with Coun-
cilor Mrs, Hogg, who as a certified
midwife, and who is also vice -Chair -
Man of the Maternity and Welfare
Committee of Wigan Town Council.
Where Mothers Suffer.
"In my professional work as a mid-
wife I am constantly coming across
miner' wives giving birth premature-
ly, all due to lack of nourishment,"
said Mrs. Hogg "I feel that if the
conditions of the homes were good
and there was enough money coming
in, there would be lots of lives saved
and many young mothers would not
now.
Flashing Eyes
Laughing Fres
Downeast Eyes
dyes tel
Your Character
Brown eyes for strength—Blue
for generosity—Gray eyes for
jealousy ---Sparkling ,eyes in-
dicate beauty, yes; and good
health, too ! Do your eyes
sparlde? Are the whites clear
or are they 'tinged with yellow
—indicating an out -of -sorts
condition -- due to constipa-
tion? If so, you. need 9
Try a regular daily® P �"
course for a shorty
period. .Youreyeswill :4 Vegetabk
tell the story. product ®ad'.
Read. about Cliaraefar /rotas ilea Eyes ;n
future Beeclsaot Advertisements.
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