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Zurich Herald, 1928-11-22, Page 3The Big Problem of British. Emigrant England's Former Premier, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Finds That There is a Need in the Dominion of Canada for Men Who Have the Pioneer Spirit MUST HOLD TRADITIONS By J•: RAMSAY MacDONALD Ex -Prime Minister of England The shipment of 8,500 unemployed , What else den we expect? We British miners for hervesting work in aave left the supremely important Canada has advertised once again the question of the development of the question of emigratiori from the land of Canada to private enterprise mother country to the Dominions, and the emigration agent Who lives ,And yet, by considering emigration upon commissions. If we dip a net hi as a cure for unemployment, a great any peasant community in Europe -- disservice is done to the movement Slav, Latin or anything else—we draw for supplying the Dominions with an it up full of potential settlers, but that adequate population, not only to use is not true of our own people. Pri- their natural wealth but to root them vete enterprise always takes the line as nations in British civic traditions. of immediate' gains and damns the The latter aim is as important as consequence. Yet, with a little trouble the former, for if the waste spaces In on the part of the Canadian Govern - the Dominions are filled by people ment and our own, much could be who as citizens know nothing of our dofie to open up the land to British democratic traditions, and feel no link settlers!, who (and this camera be with us, the future of the British Com- emphaed too much) need not be monwealth of Nations will not be very peasants to begin with. I have just returned from Canada, A Private Enterprise clear. where I have had opportunities both Only a week or two ago in the Prov - by convereation and observation of ince of Manitoba, I walked over two - coming to close grips with the prob- quarter -block farms (160 acres) With- • lem as it is experienced in that prom- in about a mile of each other. One ising land. One oft -repeated misun- derstanding ought to be put to rest at once. It is not true that British • settlers are not welcomed in Canada. Some British settlers, however, are awkward customers to deal with. A foreigner goes in a docile frame of mind. He is notat home and he knows it, and, therefore, he troubles about nothing but to make a living. If he is a peasant and goes upon the ;1924. That morning I also saw farms land he thinks of nothing but culti-1being successfully cultivated by men who had been steel -smelters up to three years ago./ All that is required' is the will and the ability to work and the capacity to adapt oneself to Cana- dian conditions. The rule as regards English em - grants, however, Is that they try to Those sunny settlements which I saw all along the thousands of miles with them and are not so ready to of -Canadian railways, MW: Grabbing on ,The Fiy • Millions of Worlds to Be Added to Known List by New Telescope Giant Reflector for California Mountain Top WW Quadruple. Power of World's Greatest Instrument—Will Permit Vi*eW of "Titanic Experiments" Pasadena, Celia—The largest tele- Miclielsop. stellar Interferottleter slope In the world, planned to pro -1 watch nieessures the diameter ot via, four timea• the power of the stars' , great Hooker teleecope on Mt. Wild By ulaalls of this 4uxidar7 145 hoped to measure the binary stars, son, is to be erected on a California ' which are two suns revolving about mountain top not yet designated. leach other. If this information The California Institute of Teal- obtainable, astronomers said, men nology has announced that funds may be in a fair way to discover have been made available for its con' how such worlds are formed. struction and that work on the 200 - inch reflector with which it will be equipped will begin within a few moTnhtehstelescope and a laboratory are a gift to the institute trom the Inter- national Education Board, with head- • .quarters at New York, the arnount of PLANES CAN PICK UP THE MAIL WHILE FLYING A cable from the plane trails into this new device on the ground that money Involved was not disclosed, esembles a shoe with the to removed, and catches the mail bag, which is but it would of necessity be larger wound up as the airman keeps on his way. depleted of the skill and virility which • it requires for the tramigrating come! Customs Seizure try satisfactory human material and it would also reduce failures to the smallest proportion. It is a grave ye- a Kent farm, the other by a Scottish flection upon our Governments t hnt was worked by a family drawn from they are beginning to get to close miner. An agricultural expert was grips with this question of such great clearly making good; neither would importance to individuals and to im- with me. Both families were quite think of moving back gone in more for stock than the other, ful cultivator. Both had gone out un- Canadian Horse but the miner was the more resource- perial development. again.One had der the family emigration scheme of Make Good Sh Teton, He is up with the sun and goes to bed -when he- can labor no more that day. If he is in industry, he gives no trouble, that is the rule. take their home ways am f3 a it was quite only by the most •adapt themselves to Canadian condi- Plain, were made Even These Can Crash OW Continue to Annex Ribbons at Exhibition in New York New York, N.Y.—Canadian entries continued to show well as the second dispersed whatever one thinks of e day of the National Horse Show pao- I temperance question. We don't want gressed at Madison Square Gardens,, them in Canada and the sooner they James Franceschini, of Toronto, who I are put out of business the better. took a third in the pony class, Port Hope.—The lIncus, said to be gaining his first blue ribbon in i the speediest rinu-runner in operation the novice single harness horses with on the Great Lakes, has been seized his bay gelding, "Sensation." "Red by customs officials and is lying in iStar," a chestnut gelding, shown by harbor here. The Tancus, which has the 'Uplands Farm, Roche Point, Ont., been running out of Port Hope harbor ' took eeconcl place in the ladies' Emil- I for the last six mouths, cleared for fied hunters' side-saddle class. Ber- the 'United States over the week -end nerd F. Gimbeas "Welcome" took the and returned to Port Hope Sunday. blue ribbon after both "Welcome" and , The crew failed to report the return "Red Star" had sailed over the hurdles to the local customs authorities, as with a grace aucl ease that won the they are required to do under cus- plaudits of the spectaters. I toms regulations. Ja 0. Leblanc, spe- Mr. Franceschini's "First Edition" , alai enforcement officer at Cobourg, was second in single ponies .iu' har- made the seizure and seals have been nese," which was won by George J., placed upon the boat prohibiting its Peak's "The Minister." I use. Spectators were treated to a double . Officer Leblanc said to -night that Clean in 'the i first event of the the seizure had been repotted to the day, in walcha more horses aartica Customs Department, but -no action pated than in any single event be- has been taken to date. The name of fore. One rider was badly thrown and the owner of the Uncus is not kno-wfl the victor of the feature was the to the officials, although several mem- United States Army Horse Show team bers of the crew reside here. The entry, Buckaroo, the outstanding win- Uncus is a 50 -foot converted subma- ner of this year's show thus far. rine chaser and is capable of 45 miles Canada Came Second per hour. Constructed of quarter-incb. The United States and Canada were steel plate, the boat is fully protected first and. second respectively in the against machine-gun and rifle fire, Westchester Challenge Cup interne- even to the employment of bullet-proof tional event. The horses of the North glass in the cabin windows. It was American contingent far outdistanced built in. Reple and used during the the crack European jumpers over the Great War in the Baltic by the Rus - difficult Olympic course A. The win- sian navy. Runarunners who have ning teams were: operated a fleet of boats, including United States Army—Miss America, two racing launches, out of Port Hope Lieut. E. Y. Argo; Dick Waring, Major harbor during the summer, claim that Chamberlain; Joe Aleshire, Capt. W. they will continue operations through - B. Bradford. out the winter months despite adverse .Canada—Lucifer, Major R. S. Tim- weather conditions. Larger boats of mis; Uplands, Captain. Stewart Bate; Montreal, CaptainL.7_. L. Hammond. BASEBALL LINGO Shows Conditions Rum Runner Taken at Port Hope Indicate Lawless - nese of the Bootleg Fraternity WILL GOVERNMENT ACT With Minister Euler meeting Ad- telescope. ministrator Drayton to discuss liquor The 200 -inch reflector will double exports, the following news article in • the size and quadruple the power of II d Empire comes at vital , the Hooker telescope. Another in - than that required tq build the Hooker telescope, which cost $600,- 000.. Millions of Light Years It ex ec ted that the new instru- ment will penetrate millions of light To Show "Titanic Experimente" The announcement declares the new telescope "should solve many problems of physics or clemistry that depend upon the enormous masses or temperatures, or upon the immense density or extreme tenuity exhibited by celestial bodies in which experiments exceeding the capacity of any terrestrial laboratory are 0031- stantly in progress." The reflector will be of fused quartz, a substance that expands and contracts less than glass in changes of temperature, and which therefore preserves a more perfect su . years into space, bringing under ola! servatiqn hundreds of millions of w unseen stars and nebulae and' opening a vast unexplored field of astronomical knowledge, besides bringing much nearer objects now; visible with telescopes. Approxi-; mately 1,500,000,000 stellar objects are within the range of the Hooker the Mali and 'face In polishing, a 200 -inch glass could be ground but 10 minutes a day because of beating, while the fused quartz can be ground cant nuous Y. The General Electric Company has undertaken to build the great reflec- tor under the direction of Dr. Elihu Thomson, one of the company's founders, and A. L. Ellis, research en ineer Among those co-operating are Dr. Robert A. Milliken, Prof. A. A. Michelson and. Ambrose Swasey, who have promised assistance in n ineering and instrumental design time. Canada has reason to be proud . portant feature contemplated • for e g of her law enforcement and our lake immense instrument is a 40 -foot and construction. Britain Holds Air Leadership ports should be cleared of the unde- sirable riff-raff that are known as ruml runners. Such characters are better BLIMP CAME DOWN A BIT "TOO HARD AND BUMPED The U.S. navy blimp, J-3, returning to Lakehurst after it had been in train- ing flight, came down in this fashion, tearing the fabric of the envelope and breaking the framework No one was injured. tions. So long as there is no sysle- made attempt to study the problem of migration, this crude scramble of the' survival of the most adaptable will continue and British migration will not come well out of it. Until we ,have done everything in our power to develop -and organize our only sources, especially our land, we can have no real surplus popula- tion which it would be a benefit to the nation to send across the seas. In special trades, we may have such sur- pluses, as we have in coal mining at present, but in other trades we are under rather than over stocked, and every man or woman with vital energy and skill who leaves us is a loss to us. Unregulated emigration tends to lower the efficiency and the power of a nation Eke ours,• which ought to severe labor, and the heaviest burden lies on the backs of.the women. Their time at first is one of constant drudgery and heartbreaking hardship. In winter the cold and the loneliness try the firmest nerves; iu summer the household and formwork is ter- ribly heavy. So a large proportion of the failures is due to ethe fact that the women have found the life too hard. That need not deter any wife of the stout heart and physical strength from going out. Some of the cheeriest women I have met for a long time had gone through the hard first year or two of the settlers' life and were reaping the 'reward of their endur- ance. One portly body who wrung my hand with pain -giving heartiness told me she came from Barking three offer almost unlimited openings for years ago, and, after a racking time men who have brains and are not afraid to use them. The only Cure for unemployment is the deaelcipmett of efficiency conducted trade. Therefore it is that, though, for the Moment; it would be convenient if our unemployed registers were halved in halt by our finding work in the Do- iniaions for 200,900 mineas, we ought never to forget that the true, far-see- ing purpose of emigration is to strengthen the Dominions themselves. I found that doctrine universally ac- cepted in Canada. Canada is Only too anxious to help us to overcome our immediate diffifficulties—but upon con- ditions. It is not, for instance, to agree to repeat the crude experiment of miners as harvesters, thoUgh in the end what has been done will benefit the greater • part of the man who have gone out, for' Canada _ be able to a,ssiMilate them' . What Canada primarily wants is tamales who will pettle on the land, I emphasize families because I also emphasize settlement, The land is not all good, and little of it as a garden. Some has been let down, wine is under forest, scene sodden With alkali. Labor, however, can SO - due and sweeten it, though the. labor will make the bones ache and, brow and back sweat, )3ecause that is what Canada needs its doors are open to • the peasantry of the North and Centre of Europe, he emigrant part ot the • ship in Which I crossed over was full , of them, and so far' as I eatiMttact 00 theta was not a 0011' am rant • among them. of home -sickness and discouragement, had found her feet and now "would not go back foe anything." A Scottish artisart's wife who had also been out for three years beamed like a sunny noonday in her kitchen. She also had had "the horrors," but now she said "this is a grand place. It's so good for the bairns; 'there's something to look forward to here." It is those first years of. crusting trial that are the testing and sifting time, and no woman should go to bee and told df them Canada who as not and who is not prepared to brave them. So the conclusions one comes to are simple and straightforward. The man of pioneering spirit who is at- tracted by a new and vigorous country can be left pretty much to himself, though he should be protected `against the false aluurements too often put before him by interested emigration. agents. But in the planned work of nation -building Governments must play the leading -parts because it has to he done by settlement upon the land. Emigration for settlement should be ba- family and as =eh as possible by •conaimunity, although not le the Wholesale way of the original M- atsu Settlement on the Red River. The land should be selected and the forMS equipped. For the first years the Settlers should, be , advised and looked after; should bo guarded ae-aweaa. a Polley, if under the responsible eon- LIFE' ,„–, a 0 against all fornati of swindling. Satoh trot GoVernments, would protect The L:fe Caw d .3 (in frons laving t. the elnigrating einintry from being Castle to Regents Park Barracks, BRITISH ACE BEAT LONDON -BERLIN AIR RECORD Capt.Stack, photographed on his arrival at Templehofer Field, after 'flying from London to Berlin, over 650 miles, in 4 hours and 52 minutes— over 130 miles an hour. No Curtains or Rugs Decorate the Residence of Marshal Feng Wife of China's Minister of War Tells How Simple Living Is the Rule in Household That Has Only Hard Chairs and Severe Tables Peiping (PeMng)—Questions con- that she helps Marshal Feng most Mar- by looking after his household. As cerning the work and ideals of shal Feng Yugisiang, Minister of War Is generally known, she shares h. his desire for simple living. She disdains the fleet, to be used in the winter in the Nationalist Government, which the silk and jewels which adorn. the traffic, are being overhauled and re- paired for the work. have been the subject of much dis- cussion in China recently, were answered fully by the Marshal's wife . wives of other Chiniese militarists, wearing only cheap cotton herself, old and tbe drawing room of the Peiping during ter recent visit to her GOOD REASONS Father was sent by Mother to get "Why does a stork stand oh one home here, in an interview. i home is bare of rugs, curtains, and Billy home from his baseball playing. leg?" "I represent the women of North 1 ornaments. The only furnishing. are One hour later they came in together. "If he'd lift thbe other one, he'd China—the country women," said, straight, hard chairs and a few se - "Was he safe?" Mother cried. fall."—Mugwump. • "Safe a mile, but the umpire called him out!" TWO TESTS "Why didn't you bring him home?" "Most men are known for their "I tried to, but the shortstop made deeds." a great catch!" "Others by their mortgages," Mrs. Feng, her black eyes moving ve e taotes. vivaciously behind. her horn -rimmed "We live plainly," she explained.. spectacles. ' "How could we live other than fru" Mrs. Feng considers her most im- gaily when there are now so many portant work to be her duties as wife very poor people in China? Marshal. and mother. She says she considers Feng and I are acustomed to simple living from childhood and it is not Crack British Cavalry Units Change Jobs .;:eieee3sa"' •••••..aaaa 4 '4, 'V'W4SiPret, . . C. ANGE QUARTERS Groat \Vest Read while they change true that such abonomy is affect& tion on our part, although it is true that we think our example in this re- spect is effective." It is characteristic of Marshal Feng and las wife t plan for an idealistic future and to work mean- while according to the needs of the hour. The model villages 'whin they have created in Honan Prove ince during the past year are ma amples of this. Notwithstanding their own advanced ideas, since theif recent visit to Russia, the plans foa the villages lhave taken into amount existing collations. Individual, not community,, homes have been built,' and the agricultural and other train- ing provided are appropriate to tha demand. • Comptilsory education is enforoed in these villages for both young and old. Illiterate persons under ail years of age are expected to lepez, a certain number aa aaaamee char: • a:ae"a Within a specified peeled and while older parsons aro given more time, they too must study, Nina Veng's chief outside interest is In education, she says, and she pease*, ally has estabilahed three schools in different poets of China, where chit, area are taught reading, arithmetio; and manual trades, The schools are supported partly by tuition fees fro* those who can afford them, partly bY the work of the pupils themselves, and the bilanee by donation from Mrs, Feng, conn Windsor