The Wingham Advance Times, 1929-01-24, Page 7'l"itursc'E'ay, January 24th, 1929. ;
1!7INGRAM A:D VAN'CE..TIMES
Oh, worship the l: ii)g,
.M1 glorious above;
0 gratefully sing
His power and His love
Our Shield and Defender,
The Ancient of days,
Pavilioned in splendor,
And girded with praise,
'O tell of 1 -lis might,
0 sing of His grace,
\Whose robe is the light,
Whose canopy space;
His chariots of wrath
3)eep thunder-clouds'reran
And dark is His path
On the wings of the storm.
The earth, with its store
Of wonders untold,
.Almighty, Thy power
Hath founded of old,
Hath stablish'd it fast
By a changeless decree,
.And round it hath cast;;
Like a mantle, the sea.
Thy bountiful care
What tongue can recite?,
It breathes in the air,
It shines in the, light;
It streams from the hills,
:[t descends to the plain,
And sweetly distills
In the dew and the rain.
Frail children of dust,
And feeble as frail,
In Theedo we trust,
Nor find Thee to fail;
Thy mercies how tender!
How firm to the end!
Our Maker, Defender,
Redeemer, and friend!
O measureless Might!
Ineffable Love!
While angels delight
• To hymn Tliee above,
The humbler creation,
The . enn Telephone Company
and the American Company
HE relationship between the Bell Telephone
Company of Canada and the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company consists of: -
1. stock—the American company owns thirty-one
per cent of Bell Telephone Company shares.
2. contract—the Bell. Telephone Company owns a
contract by which the American company sup-
plies research products and other services on
a sliding scale of payment.
The stock relationship has existed since the Canadian
company began in 1880. One-third of 'the $400,000
needed toform the company was not available until
the American company agreed to provide it.
The contract was made in. 1023 to put dealings be-
tween the two companies on a definite business
basis, It may be terminated , at the end of 1932
if the Canadian company so desires.
effect of stock relationship
THE telephone system. in Ontario and Quebec today
is owned by 15,300 shareholders, Of these, 95 per
cent live in Canada and own 62 per cent of the
total shares.
The largest individual holding is 1510 shares which •
is one. quarter of one per cent of the total. The
average individual holding is 27 shares, which yield
an income of $216 a year.
The Bell Telephone Co ..-•any is thus a great enter-
prise which has become thoroughly democratized and
to this the American relationship has contributed
two definite advantages:
First, it has been a source of new money for devel-
opment. The American company, as a shareholder
has never failed to respond, in good times or bad,
when money was needed to extend the system to
meet public demands upon it.
Secondly, it has been a safeguard against exploita-
tion. Attempts on the part of promoters to secure
control of the telephone system have failed because
the American holding of the company's shares has
been in the hands of men who are interested in the
telephone business for the progress of the industry
and not for its financial exploitation.
effect of the contract
rrHE Ball Telephone Company has secured three
chief advantages by the contract of 1923:—
First, it obtains all products of the Bell laboratories,
which are the largest industrial research laboratories
in the world, with a staff of five thousand. No single
company could hope to support such an organization.
It is possible only by co-operation of many associated
companies.
One example of research work is the "loading coil"
which has eliminated the need for heavy wires in-
creasing in size with distance. This has saved mil-
lions of dollars. Sin'tilar discoveries have saved other"
i e him a
user and'given telephone millions for the pg
better telephone. The research clause of the contract
alone more than balances the contract fee.
Secondly, the Canad;an company has rights to the
use of all inventions. The American company now
owns more than 5,000 patents essential in every
phase of ;telephone operation. The contract gives
the Canadian company use of these patents and places
the American company under obligation to take out
Canadian patents on any new inventions the Cana
•dian company wishes.
Thirdly, the contract gives the ianadian company a
.steady supply of reports and statistics regarding
new operating methods under trial by the associates)
•companies of the American system.
Dangerous an experimenth are thus avoided. When' the
I) g
'Canadian company makes a change in method it is
'to a well tested method'anid the• services of Specialists
from the American company are available, by Con-
tract, to assist in nialeing it. An example of this le
the change from manual to dial system.
Both in . the stock holding and in
the •contract provisions Canadian
telephone users are protected and
assisted by the relationship with
the knot -lean company.
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Tho' feeble' their lays,
vVith true adoration •
Shall lisp to Thy praise,
Wecpwe the measure into which
is cast this 'version of the hundred
and fourth Psalm printed herewith'.
to the same hand lahiali gave us the
well known version of Psahn.100, be-
ginnings. "All people that on earth
do dwell." It was that of the Rev-
erend 'Williatn Kethe, rector of the
English parish of Childs" Okeford,.
said to have been of Scottish paren-
tage, During the persecution under'
Queen Mary and her 'husband, Philip
of Spain, Mr. •Kethe lived in exile on
the continent 'of Europe, as did many
other 'English people, in 1555 he
was in Frankfurt, in 155,7 at Geneva,
and in 1563 with the Earl of War-
wick and t'he British troops at Havre,
during, the unlucky campaign which
Calais' lost to England, add our forc-
es actually defeated.
•Kethe died about 1593 and had
made translations of many of the
Psalms, some of which found their
way into the Scotch Psalter. Several
of theiii appeared in the Anglo -Gen-
evan Psalter prepared for the use of
the English refugees in their religious"
services. Among these last was
Kethe's version of Psahn 104, the
first verse of which ran:
"My soul praise the• Lord,
Speak good of his name.
Oh Lord our great God
How dost thou appear!
So passing in glory
That great is Thy fame,
Honor and majestie
In Thee shine ni,ost clear."
Roughly quaint as were these lines,
they expressed something of the vig-
or and power of the original, and
there was a decided swing in trete
metre. It.. attracted the :attention of
a successful'iiritish statesman in the
first half of the last century, nearly
two centuries and three-quarters after
Kethe wrote them,
This was Sir Robert Grant, born
in 1785, who died in 1838, at 1)apoor-
ie in Western India while Governor
of L'otnbay, Sir_Robert was the son
of a member of Parliament for Iver-
ness, who was a wealthy merchant,
and a director of the powerful East
India Company.
Educated at Cambridge the young
Bran became a successful lawyer, en-
tered Parliament representing his fa-
ther's old constituency, was made a
I'rivy Councillor, and for his services
to the State and because of his great
abilities was appointed .Governor of
Bombay in 1888. He wrote some
valuable books on the Governmental
problems of India and being a deeply
religious, scholarly man as well as .a
keen, clever statesman also composed
some first class hymns, which were
printed anonymously, and quickly
mine itito rise. After his death, his
brother, Lord Glenelg collected twel-
ve of these hymns and published
them in book :Form. "Saviour when
in dust to Thee," "The Starry firina-
'ment on high," and "When gathering
clouds around I' view," were amongst
them, and so was this version of
Psalm 104. This it will be noticed
follows Kethe's metre; sufd to a cer-
tain extent his thoughts also—or" ra-
ther it might better be said that Kethe
suggested to Sir Robert Grant a
poetical meaning for some of the ver -
see, upon which that accomplished
scholar improved in the splendid hy-
mn, ere polished and perfected it left
his hands.
In the year 1696, ander the authori-
ty of • King William of Orange, in
Council, there was Published an of-
ficial hymnbook for English-speaking
Christians, the first and only one to
be in any way authorized by the state,
It was the work of two clever versi-
fiers, both Irishmen, the Rev, N.ahutn
Tate, Poet Laureate of England, and
Rev, Nicholas Brady, Archdeacon of
Cork, and incumbent of Stratford -on
-Avon: - It was called "The New Ver-
sion, being trade up of fresh trans-
lations, rations. of the Psalms of David, set
to music, It was although often de-
rided by moderns a sneritous work
on „its numbers still in use: "Thou
Lord by strictest search hast known,"
"Through all the changing scenes of.
life," "As pants the heart For cool-
ing, streams," "Have mercy Lord on
me," etc, At any rate it tivas by far
the best hymn book then in use and
was for many years commonly bound
up with the "Book of Common Pray -
In 1708, the year. after :Ding. Will-
iam's death, "A Supplement to the
New Version" was issued, appearent-.
ly without any' special authority, con-
taining in additioft to the Psalms, six-
teen ,hytnxtee—"The Creed, Lord's Pray-
er, and Easter Anthem incladed in
thorn—all with tunes,_ in the edition
of this published in 1708 seventy-five
more trines were given, some of them
for the peculiar metres in which the
versions of. a feW Psaltis had been
,east, Of these twenty-eight • were
marled new,' perhaps because they
were then firet published In this book,
or possibly because they ,were made
specially for it,
GIRLS "ENJOY FREEDOM
Turkey Abolishes Polygamy and the
Aebitraa'y Repudiation
01 Wl'ves,
The very name of Turkey to an
Occidental mind conjures up pictures
of veiled and sequestered women in
harems, writes Ervine Adyle Hanum:
teacher et the American school in
Constantinople, to Le Journal, Paris.
Europeans and Americans usually
believe that the,Turk%sh womenare
anxious little creatures whose only
desire is to have the first place In the
heart and house of herhusband; who
reigns over three or four wives. This
idea of the . Turkish woman ds quite
wrong. •
As everywhere, there are several
classes of women 'in Turkey. There
is first of all the peasant woman who
never has been shut ap in a harem
and who always bas shared the life,
and work of her husband. "This wo-
man enlisted as a soldier during the
War. There was a women's regirnent
with a woman colonel in the Turkish
army. The peasant women also trans-
ported ammunition to the front.
The high society women live now
exactly like the foremost *omen. in
the Occident. They go to teas, bills,
lectures and baths at mixed beaches.
As in Europe, the women of the mid -
die class • work and are industrious.
We have also intellectual women,
teachers, woman physicians, woman
lawyers, who' -never accept any smail-
ar remuneration than a man would.
The most complete rehabilitation
of the Turkish women has now been
decided ,upon by our :President, Mus-
tapha Kemal Pasha, who decided last
year to abolish polygamy and the
arbitrary repudiation of wives.
This event had a great echo in the
late of -the -women at home, who then
felt that they were masters of their
awn fate. They were no longer toys
in the hands of the men. The young
Turkish girl nowadays marries with
th' full consciousness that she helps
found a.home and a family, and that
the will of her' husband cannot break
either. Of course, the law provides
i'or divorce;, but divorce depends upon
the verdict of a 'court, and is rather
difficult to obtain.
Altogether the old Idea which the
westerners used to have of the Turk-
ish woman is no longer right. Poly-
gamy had become rare even during
the last two or' -:tree generations,
though. it still existed ea some cases.
Public opinion spoke against it,
:bough. I myself knew only two then
amongst all my acquaintances who
had two wives' each. Repudiation
was rather rare, too, since the,Turk-
lsh women, owing' to their intelli-
gence, knew how to keep their hus-
bands faithful to them.
It is no less true that in all classes
of society women joyfully welcomed
the new law which emancipated them
completely. The modd'rn Turkish girl
now goes out as she likes. She goes
to dances and to th.'atre perfornr-
:ewes without having to bide behind
a ser'een and iron bars as in the past
There is only one point in which she
does not reseanble ler we=.tern sister:
she does not flirt. If she did so, she
would seriously hampe=r her chances
to marry.
HUMAN ALCOHOL FACTOice.
hotly of Strictest Teetotaller Contain,
Alcohol.
The human body is an aloohnt fac
tory to a very minute degree—about
three -thousandths of one per cent. a
its total weight being normally pre:
ent in the strictest teetotaller.
Moro than one-hundredth of our.
per cent. indicates a recent intake.
Four to five -tenths per cent. indicate;
drunkenness, and eight -tenths to outs
per cent. will cause death.
Alcohol taken into the body is ab-
sorbed before reaching the large in-
testine, and scientists do not know
what becomes of most of it.
AS alcohol is ordinarily produced
by living organisms, notably yeast
cells, the question is .often asked whe-
ther the compound may not arise in
the human organism and thus occur
independently of intake, A positive
answer need not be assumed to
make the "natural" production of
alcohol in the body serve as an argu-
ment for its indispensability to hu-
man well-being.
There is growing evidence that
alcohol does occur in minute traces
in the body. it can be identified In
the blood and in •all the tissues
examined.
GREAT MIEN'S FANCIES,
Carved Meat In Kitchens of Britain's
House of Parliament •
The likes and dislikes . of prom-
incur statesmen at meal :times have
been revealed by a Londoner named
Cox who was for nearly fifty- nine
years carver in the kitchens of Bri
tain's famous House of Parliament.
Incidentally, .Mr. Cox thinks that
financiers have bigger appetites than
'politicians.
"Disraeli," he states, "was fond. of
cold roast beef cut from the joint,
and insisted on it being cut very thin
and served on a small plate.
"King Edward was present at sev-
eral of the ,public banquets I carved
for," he added. "He was avery small
eater, and -had just what was put be-
fore him,"
Mr. Cox says of Mr. Gladstone:
"He was very fond of ham, but was
always eatisfed with what was seri-
ed, When there was an exciting time
In the House he very seldom dined,
but hada glee's of sherry brought to
him in the corridor. After drinking
that, he used to dash back again."
Always Makes Compensations.
"Nature," said the philoeopl1et',
"always makes compensations. If one
eye loses sight the other becomes
stronger. If one loses the hearing of
one ear the other . becomes mote
acute,"
"I believe y'out're right,"' said au
Irishman, "I've ai ays noticed that
when a malt has one leg short the
other is longer,"'
30111 IS RUM l'i•IU
Oldest P aneonia, 'l`nwn Celebraneel
De 1,0 00th ,4atttiversarv.
The Bavarian town of Dlnkcisbuhl,
which claims to be the olden; town
in Franconia, recently celebrated its.
1,000t.h anniversary,'
It was first fortified in 928, a few
year's after Conrad of Franconia hada
been chosen German king as the re -
Presentative of the foremost of the
German races, • Since then it hart
known tire, (amino and plague, civil
war and siege, prosperity and hard
times, drat as a fortified town for
nearly 500 years,' as a free imperial
city, and since 1802 'as part of the
Bavarian state,
It is one of the most picturesque
or' South German towns, and its sur-
rounding walls and towers have
stood for ` many hundred years.
Among its many ancient buildings
the Deutsehes Haus is the most re-
nowned, a wood -framed building of
the German renaissance which is the
ancestral . home of the Counts 4!
Drechsel=Deuffstetten, During the '•e
cent celebrations the chequered story
of its 1,000 years of existence was
retold in pageant; ox -wagons, peas-
ants, soldiers, courtiers, and court
ladies, princes and ` generals, moving
slowly in procession along the cob-
bled streets between the garlanded
houses, unwound a Alm In which the
Main events were ]reproduced .against
their proper background.
One accident which Is commemor-
ated every year at Dinkelsbuhl, but
this year with especial ceremony, is
that of the siege of the town in 1632
by a Swedish general, who made the
city elders tremble with his harsh de-
mands. His heart was softened—so
the story goes—by hearing a peti-
tion for mercy sung by the children
of Dinkelsbuhl, for he himself had
lost a son; and the town was thus
delivered from the threat of fire and
sword. Then there was a pilgrimage.
to the monument of Christoph von
Schmid, a much loved writer of'chil-
dren's stories, who was born at
Dinkelsbuhl' in 1769. The passing of
the city into the Bavarian state was
the subject of a play performed in
front of the Rathaus, and the cele-
brations ended with folk -dances in
the old market square.
RINGS WEIGH THIRTY POUNDS.
Dayanzi Women Wear Wedding
And the hilltop gardens
yield this fragra:',',,t teat
Many people have special
savings accounts for spe-
cial purposes. Why not
start a vacation account?
When holidays come a-
round, the money saved
will make your vacation a
pleasant, carefree relaxa-
tion.
THE
DOME\ I
A. M. Bishop, Branch Mgr.,
Wingham
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Rings Around Necks.
The fashion of wearing the we& TURNBERRY COUNCIL
ding ring around the neck is a cus-
tom which makes life a burden to
the married woman of the Dayanzi
tribe, dwelling along the Upper Con-
go. Great brass rings are welded
round the necks of the wives. bIany
of these rings worn by the women
whose husbands are well-to-do weigh
as much as thirty pounds.
Frequently one sees a poor woman
whose neck is galled by the heavy
weight, and in places the stain is rub-
bed off by the ring. This is a sure
sign that the ring has been recently
welded round the neck. After a short
time the skin becomes calloused, and
then the strange ornament produces
no abrasion.
The weight is a perpetual tax up-
on the energies. In every crowd of
women may be seen a number who
are supporting, the ring with their
hands, andthus for a time relieving
their weary shoulders of the burden.
A ring is never put round a wo-
man's neck until she is believed to
have attained her full physical de-
velopment. Once on, it is no easy
matter to get it off.
Women who increase largely in
flesh after the rings have been fas-
tened to their necks are in danger of
strangling to death, and instances of
this sort have occurred.
COLD WEATHER CLOTHES.
Natare Has Ordained Wool as Cloth-
ing for Animals.
Those people who swear by wool
for winter wear have just received
confirmation for their views from the
British Research Association. TbiS
body has been carrying out a series
of experiments, as a result of which
it seems that undyed wool gives a
higher transmission of ultra -violet
rays than either artificial silk or
cotton.
Dr. Thomas Dutton, who was one
of the pioneers of ultra -violet rays
for certain diseases, usually advised
patients undergoing treatment to
wear a woollen garment, and be bas
recently expressed his agreement
with "the common-sense view that
nature has, ordained wool as a cloth-
ing for animals."
Even wearers of heavy woollen
fabrics of the flannel variety receive
radiation from the sun, so that sci-
ence seems to be of the same mind
as these old-fashioned folk who have
always told us that there is "noth-
ing like flannels."
Apparently it's'nnwise to laugh at
"old wives' tales"—modern discovery
has a knack of suddenly finding out
the things the "old wives" have been
saying all the time.
THE HERON.
Once Common Sight In I"rance Are
Ditninlshing Iu Number,
There are six heron colonies In alt
France, there used to be many
more. The gradual disappearance of
these migrants from Fretiob shores
has led to a public clamor for their
protection. Not everyone ,protesting
has the sane motives. To some they
are not more than a.rare table deli-
cacy, but; -nevertheless, out of this
campaign there should result a berg
er" number of these graceful birds
than France has known for many
years,
Phe moat important heron colony
la itear. Saint Onxete, in the forest of
Ciairtnarais. On eight -two trees cling
109 nests, from which those with
knowledge of, thee birds deduce that
there must be more than COQ inthe
colony. Di the whole of 'prance it is
eatintated that there are not more
than 450 iteetet, as compared, for ex-'
ample with more thrix 7,000 in
Turnberry Council meeting was
held at Bluevale on Monday, January
14th, 1929. Each member signed
declaration of office. Members pre-
sent were 1. J. Wright, Reeve, Jas,
E. }laird, Jas. McTavish, Peter S. Mc-
Ewen, Richard Wilton, councillors.
Minutes of last meeting and nom-
ination meeting were read and adopt-
ed. Letters were received Form "Sick
Children's Hospital at Toronto; Good
Roads Association, Toronto; Ontario
Municipal Association; F, VV, flax -
ton, Toronto re British Canadian l'n-
surance Co,; Globe Indemnity Co.,
Toronto, re Insurance policy; Depart-
ment of Highways, Toronto.
A representative of the Globe In.
demnity Company was present with.
regards to renewing policy with them
re insurance en our roads. Nothing
was done until some definite reason
is given fur the claim of McCutcheon
Bros., re the loss of a horse in 1926.
Moved by R. Wilton and McEwen
that by-laws be passed appointing the
following officers:—
W. R. Cruikshank, clerk, salary
$225.00; 13. Cruikshank, treasurer,
salary $100.00; Board of Health, Dr.
Redmond, M.O.H., $50,00, members—
I, J. Wright, J. L. McEwen, W. R.
Cruikshank, secretary; Councillors
B. Road Commission; .Auditors, H. '3.
Thompson, Graham Wray; Assessor,
Thomas Gilmour, salary $90.00; Sani-
tary Inspector, Wm, Wilton, Robert
Musgrove, P. McDougal, Thos. W.
Weir,—Carried,
Moved by R. Wilton and McEwen
that by-law No. 9; be passed, author-
izing Reeve and Treasurer to borrow
from the Canadian Bank of Commerce
Winglta;m, sura of $8,000, for current
expenses, to be repaid from taxes of
1929. Carried
Moved by McEwen and Wilton
that we extend time for collectors re-
turn roll until lith of February, 192a.
Carri ed.
Moved by McTavish and IBaird that r
we leave the appointment of Road
Superintendent until next meeting_
Carried.
Moved by .:Baird and McTavish that
we instruct Clerk to forward petition
signed by the ratepayers of llluevale;.
to Hydre Commission •for estimate
on one or ten street lights in Blue
vale. Carried.
The following accounts were paid:
Gordon ''fray, Election $10.00; Jas.
Gannett, Election, $6,00; Robt. Dey
ell, Election $10.00; D. H. Wallace,.
Election, $10.00; R. Aitchison, rent
of Forester's Hall, $2.00; W. R.
Cruikshank, $34.90, (11. D. &
$24.00, election $10:00, express 90c);
Municipal World, acct:, $5;67;'R. Van -
stone, account, $5.00; J. _I-1. Wylie,
$20.00, patrolman; Alex, Por'aie, $2.
59, patrolman; Thos. W. Weir, $15,
supt.; Dr. Colborne, $20.00 re opera-
tion on. Wm. McCoy (Jr.); Roy Mc-
Kersie, $2.00, dog tax. refund; Wm.
Merlcicy, $2.00, dog tax refund.
Moved by McTavish and Baird that
Council now adjourn to meet at Plue-
vale on Monday llth of February,
1929. Carried.
T, J. WRVrighrt_, W. R. Cruikshank,
Reer Clerk.
BEATTIE'S HORSE AND
MOTOR LIVERY
Gives special rates to cominercial
travellers. Stable in rear of Com-
mercial Hotel. Phone 2, Residence
phone 133,
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POTATOES
FOR SALE
Have just received another shipment of first-class
Potatoes. We will deliver to any
of the town.
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HIGHESTMARKET PRICES.
Wellington
ProduceCo
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