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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-10-18, Page 3Girls "Boss", Boys in British Schools, .Says Veteran Master Lo»don,--That girls owe their hider pendent ,outlook entirely to the Exch- dom of their clothes is the conviction Sot one of Loudon'& headmasters, Ern- Sost G. Holland. Interviewed on his retirement, after fifty -ono years of soiiool work, this educator sways that one of the most astonisli'alg changes that has occurred in his experience is that girls now "boss the boys." "Fifty years ago," Mr. Holland .says,, "and ever since, until recently, it has always been the boys whb have domi- nated school life. Now everything Its the other way, and the girls are !aggressive and dominating." Mr. Hollaud is convinced that femi- nine fashions have a great deal, to do with this change in outlook. "In the old slays," he says, "girls were pans leered by their clothes, They • wore disproportionately long skirt's, had long, ridiculous hair in :heavy plaits. and had to affect an exaggerated shy- ness • and modesty, Look at them now!" .. Fl a thinks that if men want to be, as independent as women they will have to follow their lead in dress. "Men's clothes," he says, "are as absurd as women's were thirty years ago." Canada Charts Arctic Air Lines as World. Links International Trade Routes Expected To Be Opened Dominion ' Northland Airplanes more: 'than anything else are rolling back" the map of Canada. 'The last year, ahs seen more develop- ment in the far until than in prac- tically all previous History. Airplanes have been responsible. From the air hundreds of prospec- tors have landed in the so-called bar- ren lands to stake claims; through the .air supplies have been rushed to make ;possible rapid construction of the Hud- Trooper went in with 3,500 tons of =son Bay Railway, which in. another general cargo. The steamship Brocke- year will give to Canada another prac- bank left Vancouver on July 31 with a tical ocean port. Aviators have 'this' cargo of fir for piling. She is now .year snapped and photographed hun- reported in Hudson Strait, having •dreds of square miles of land -prowe gone through the Panama Canal and iously unexplored and have created northward. She will reach Churchill .a new world record for this branch soon. There also is the steam- of exploration, ° The first Arctic air er Odile, which left Montreal on Sep Pee are, each of us, determining 'patrol has just completed a year's tember 3 and now is at Port Burwell, observations of weather ,conditions in 'en route to Churchill. every day the yoke we shall wear. Hudson straits and has shown that More remarkable still are the Toy- Shall it be thee of false gods and sel- ibody of water, long dreaded by navi- ages of two convoys, each with a huge fish burdens, which weigh down pain - .gators, to be much more accessible and valuable dredge. One convoy fully and retard unnecessarily; or .than had been supposed. Fort Churchill Rapidly Growing Hudson Bay Terminus Can Be Reached by Sea, Land and Airplane Services Montreal — Government engineers have started the foundations of Can- ada's most northerly city, Fort Churchill. • A.tented town already has risen and teinporary buildings have been erected where the Churchill River runs into Hudson Bay. Fort Churchill can be reached by laud, sea and air. Recently the gov- ernment steamship .Canadian Voyager steamed into Churchill with 3,750 tons of coal. On August 15 the Canadian Good Old Days Vividly Recalled. OLD Coaching from ford to inaugurate the 65 miles drive. BERKELEY COACH, LEAVING LONDON, STARTING JOURNEY TO OXFORD London to Oxford was revived when the, picturesque old Berkeley coach left London for Ox - a service which continue throughout September. Seven teams of sborese were used for sport or revived old must improve the light horse interests. This new one The machines follow a triangular route. They fly southeast to Jackfish Island, in the Nelson River; north on the second leg to Fort Churchill and back on the third to Deer Lake, where they are tested and refueled for the next trip. It was the use of airplanes to transport equipment and men which advanced the work a year. The Easy Yoke International Routes Seen But air work in Canada's north has ,just been preliminary to the develop Ment which geography .and .air dis- .eoveries make certain. Canada's po- •sitioh. is such that in future ivterna- tional air .trade routes the shortest and safest air lanes will traverse the Dominion: The recent flight of the Greater !Rockford was only the first attempt to ablaze the Arctic • air Tones which soon will provide the long -sought short cut to Cathay. ' The future map 'of Can--` •oda, Vilhajalmur Stefansson, the Arctic explorer asserts, claims, will be ,striped 'with air routes between'. tele' great. cities 4fNorth Aniei;ica. ,and those of Europe and Asia. '' Line to Orient Foreicast As by a sort of trick in geography Fort Churchill, Canada's new Arctic Sport, is nearer Liverpool than New York, so the northern air lines . cut hundreds of miles off present trade routes. From -New York to Peking. by air across Canada is 3,000 miles shorter than by steamship. It can be aide in toeeries of flights—Cochrane, 'Clrtu teller, ' Port Rae, . Novae, , and on aver'Okotsk, Siberia, to either Peking .or Tokio. The entire course can be Haid out so that there will never be more than 500 miles between outfit- ting utfitMing stations to which' gasoline sup- plies •can;now be .'shipped by rail and steanisliip. Stefansson asserts. From Cochrane to Okotsk an airplane prob- ably would never be more than live Miles away from a goadlanding place ,on a lake for flying boats in summer or for land planes with skids in win- ter. From Seattle to Moscow, the Arctic provides an easy way; Chicago: is on a straight line ' to Berlin via Cochrane, Ontario's most northerly town. From Detroit to any point in Europe the shortest and safest why leads across northern Ontario and Quebec. The Arctic air lanes are bound to come, Canadian ofcials believe, and they ;are busy ;gathering, 'information on° flying conditions in the North. Air- men will co-operate with1t"he Weather. Bureau in obtaining definite data so long lacking in the North, and this will afford more accurate clay -to -day forecasts for 'all this 'continent—N.Y. Herald -Tribune. CHANGED AFFECTION She: What kind of pets do you prefer? He: It used to be blondes till 1 mot you dear, but now It's 'brunettes. Titles count for nothing nowadays. ,-fir Oswald Mosleya The Courteous Filipino The Filipino shows so many good traits nixed with a number of very bad ones, that it is difficult for a elute visitor to make a fair estimate of them. These Malay people are care- free and happy, in fact, in the normal state are always laughing and chat- tering together. They are most kind to children, and in spite of the fact that they have large families, the chil- dren are always well cared for within the limitations of their understanding, both father and mother, apparently, taking pride in all offspring and spend- ing hours dandling and playing with has reached Fort Churchill and the shall we assume the yoke of love and them. It is most unusual to see child - other was reported well into Hudson Filipinos, Strait; having reached Port Burwell. good will and peace to mankind, and, Iren harshly treated by p os, re - These dredges are not built for long like the Master, seek only to serve, gardless of whether they belong to sea voyages, but are making the jour- knowing that therein lies the heaven -i themselves or to others. They are ney safely. On August 6 the power- iy way? Experience has proved the quite kind and hospitable to strangers, ful sea -going tug Ocean. Eagle sailed latter course to be fraught with rich ,not only of their own race but Cauca reward, and happy are many who Par- i sians as well, and one may travel any - from Montreal with Churchill Dredge where in the islands, on mountain, 1 in tow and put in. Gaspe for coal, sue it. plains or coast, and be certain of being being joined there by the Voyageur.' To -day there are many who have bur- cordially received and kindly treated. The convoy then started north, pass- more or less heavy which are self- made, and which hinder a full expres-1 In this, Manila is the one exception ing through the Straits of Belle Isle, 1 as it, in common with most' large and arrived at Kig-la-Pact, on the I sion of happiness and peace. Some' cities throughout the world, has a Labrador coast, on August 20. I may bear the burden of anxiety for larger percentage of parasites, Oh August 23 the tug Dainty left loved ones, some the burden of re-' toughs end neer-of human than have Montreal with Dredge 2 and the hop -1 morse or resentment because of a past ; any of thenprovinces. e'er -do- per -barge Chesterfield. The Dainty vidingexperience. Even for others the theiravilege dailly of pro- needs I I have been a ked time and again, belongs to the Irish Free State, being chattered by the Canadian govern -1 may become a burdenxf accompanied after a trip through the mountains oand jungles, whether I was not afraid ment for the voyage to Fort Churchill. I by fear of self-pity. These are all bonds, chains forged by the wearer, to be alone with the natives. On the On her return she will sail from ich happily 11e may learn , contrary, the further one goes from Churchill directly to Ireland, so prob- ably will be the first vessel to make the direct trip after the establishment of Fort Churchill as he Hudson Bay terminus. ut from wh the capital city, the more courteous to free himself. .One may begin at and kindly the treatment received. As once, if he chooses, to throw off the , an exemplification of this trait, allow old yoke and assume the new one; me to recite an incident which occur - and he may learn from the life that hat the Master reel within the past year. I was re Going into Fort Churchill on the Jesus lived just w j turning from Baguio to Manila with land side, the route' for many years meant when he said, "My yoke is easy, , my family, and had left the mountain lay by rail to Mile 214, which was as and my burden is light." Jesus went ; city midnight, in order to avoid .far as the railway went. The train about constantly doing good for oth- I cit hot, about mi drive acrossthe plains. d ors • but his was no anxious thought , awn sometimes off i . on the track Unfortunately, at about three o'clock and sometimes off it. To -clay the for those for whom he did so much, in the morning guy machine broke: road has gone to Mile 356, where it No unworthy ambition, no desire to clown while I was stop some sixty branches off from the old grade to bind or fetter others, no terrors of , mis from Manila. we y Port Nelson and swings due north to, the future or vain regrets for the ; debating as to what Whileto do, two were Churchill. The steel has reached past, were his. Instead, his calm, I ino boys came by in an old Ford car. Fill - Mile 405 and is expected tb reach Mile complete reliance on the Father in 1 Seeing our plight,' they stopped and 440 this winter. Fort Churchill is heaven and his watchful trust in IiisI attempted to aid in, repairing our car, Mile 505, or 505 miles from The Pas, guidance made his days wonderfully ' but, finding that this was impossiblr, beautiful and useful. His yoke could ; offered to tow us into Manila. As no Manitoba, the starting point. never be other than a joy.—(From , The air base for Fort Churchill attow rope was available, it was neces- present is at Deed Lake, at Mile 440. "The Christian Science Monitor.") sary to manufacture one, which they did. The trip entailed a very consider- able amount of work on their part, as the tow line broke at frequent inter- vals and our progress was slow. Even- tually, ventually, they delivered us, together with our disabled car, in front of our home, and were quite indignant when we offered to reimburse them for their time and trouble, declaring that they "would have done as much for any one."—Robert W. hart, in "The Phil- ippines To -day." AND THEY'RE NOT DEAD "Girl's don't like to be calla angels these days." "Why not?" "It so strongly suggests that they're dead." To Make Make Saha Bloom Like _ ose The French Have Scheme Which Will Change Africa's Future An engineering scheme wraith, for boldness of conception, rivals Ferdin- and 'de Lesseps's achievement la malt- ing the Suez Canal, is now under the consideration of the French Govern=, Mont, Mr, Albert Tardieu, Minister of Public .Works, Mr. Painleve, Minis- ter of War, Mr. Briand, Foreign Minis- ter, and Mr. Jules Cambon, are all said to have express themselves fav- orably on the subject; while Mussolini has referred to the project as "a Ro- man idea," and has asked to be kept informed of its progress. The origin- ator of the scheme is an American, Mr. Dwight Braman, of. Boston, who was responsible for groat irrigation works in California at the end of the last 'century. I -Ie proposes to redeem for cultivation an area of some 10,000 square miles in the Sahara Desert by letting in the waters of the Mediter- ranean Sea through long canals, and by damming the rivers that now flow south from the Atlas Mouutians. The new inland sea, stretching from Biskra to. the eastern coast of Tunis, would, ft is expected, promote rainfalls and serve as a ready means of transport for the fertile lands to he opened up on its borders; and the building of dikes in the hills would enable trees to be planted where no vegetation has grown for 2,000 years. In short, as the London "Morning Post" ex- presses xpresses it, the anticipation is that "a barren and uninhabitable region would be converted into a land flowing with d + Round Trip toHell Is 'Sold in Norway) French any more than of the British Copenhagen.—It is possible to get or the American genius, to shrink a return ticket 'frown Hell in Norway.. rom great engineering enterprises. An American tourist visiting Cogen- But what would be the effect, not only hagen provides the proof in the shape a en . North Africa, but on Southern of a ticket. I Europe? Neither the engineers, not There actually exists in Norway e � the physiographers, nor the coon• railway station of this name. The ; mists can answer that question con - American thought 'it worth while to mists y." take an extra return ticket from Hell to Drontheim to show his cronies when returning home. milk and honey, sheep and oxen, an inhabited by a prosperous popula- tion." The Morning Post continues: "The prospect of supplying Europe with a new granary is certainly an attractive one; and it is not surprising to hear that such a scheme put for- ward by so serious and desponsible an undertaker should be under the con- sideration of the French Government. Algeria, Tunis, and Morocco would all be affected immediately. and ap- parently to their great economic bene- fit; but those who accepted respon- sibility for such an experiment would be bound to Satisfy themselves that all the eche:e:l :r•' "es la;t;t been meas- ured. Sa s.n:'a^'Jus en. interference with ph•sngrir'ty might well raise misgivings in timid minds. Does not the Prophet Amos declare that who 'calleth for the waters of the sera, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is His name?' And it is impossible not to reflect that it might be easier to do this thing than to undo it. On the other hand, some of man's greatest triumphs have been in the direction of deet'. fying his en- vironment to his nee's and of reclaim- ing waste spaces to his use. "Nor is it in the tradition of the Fol. :the first six months of 1923' the value of the mineral production of Canada •totalled $105,632,571, an in- crease of $6,594,757 over the corre- sponding period last year. Gold pro- duction shows an increase of about one million dollars. .w. Over the Thaines river in foreground is tete 'Westminster bridge; in background, the HIttugerford bridge, and back of that, Waterloo cotilitry hall 15 across the river, on the right. The extraordinary clearness of a summer day makes the buildings brilliant with light. Grim Old London in Happy Humor LONDON IN SIR GLORY bridge. The Old Order Goes Afizhan Precedent ,Thrown to Winds as Queen Souriya Discards thePurdah Calcutta—The news that Queen 6ouriya and members of the Afghan royal family have finally discarded the purdah and have dined unveiled in Kabul in the presence of persons other than members of their family, has come as a welcome surprise, says the Statesman. There was some doubt as to wheth- er, as in Persia, the Queen would on her return to Afghanistan disappear once more into the obscurity' prescrib- ed by the law of the mullahs. This event, therefore, is of great signi- ficance to the Moslem world, It is another tribute to the courage of King Amanullah, who has deliberately and at great personal risk thrown off the age-old yoke of the mullahs, who, though they may lament this affront to Islam, dare not openly belittle the King's command. A deputation of mullahs waited on, the King some time back and bewail- ed his act in allowing the members of his family to go unveiled in public, The King asked them if there was any purdah in their own villages. "No, Your Majesty" they said "fox the villagers are poor folk and their women must needs go out unveiled tc earn their livelihood." "Since you know charity begins at home," replied the Ding, "whets yeti have made your villagers appreciate isle u1G ,,, �f r'._ r,.•».., "note back to me and I will obey you." So the mullahs departed unsucces3- fur. Not only have Queen Souriya, the princesses and members of the royal family appeared in public with thebt faces unveiled, but they wore Euro, pean customers of the latest European fashion and mixed -freely with the guests at the banquets. A. new hotel known as the Marquis, named after the famous variety of wheat of that name, has been opened at Lethbridge, Alberta. It was built as a community enterprise at a cost ' of $275,000,..