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Zurich Herald, 1929-07-18, Page 2• ► Lossiemouth. Is 'before set foot on the island, 'Bat i they all claimed itea their homeland, Froze ?dl � o remler Lamalay actually believes, that he • thear were all enthusiastic and Kr, will be able to convert the 'peat bogs of Scene of Meeting With Dawes the 1-A10.3 into good faros land,, so Fig s 1care eteigtate, I e is evidently a man ay Pleky great faith, •Shk that more natives may not have, to. xn aI , Glasgow.—Ne matter what other NEW SUGGESTION. lt,tieians may say about the dangers So is His Grace the Duke of lVfont- f; a Socialist Government, there is rose. He has been making two itn- ne thing they can't say, They can't portant suggestions since the Leber liege that the Labor Prime: Minister Government came into 'office, The, 'ryas slow in patting a move on once first was that as taxes especially death ;e got into his job Last Sunday (the duties, were such a heavy burden on fetter the day the better the deed, as :landowners, the Government should ;we ray is Scotland) before he was in arrange to take lend instead of money. Office a week: had the new American He himself • would have been glad, Ambassador •away up at Torres and when he succeeded to his title and ;was talking with him about how 13ri- estates, to have made a bargain of this kaiu and the United •$tater might set kind, instead of having to pay big rtbout keeping the world in peace and sums. He thought Mr. Ramsay Mae quietness, That was hustle enough to Donald might think of this idea when Satisfy the most i ustling of Aneri- he was sunning himself at Lossie leans, and Mr. Hoover, who is also new tooth, M:r. MacDonald may think oft' to his job, ehould be pleased. What it, but it is not at all likely that any ;b.'ith all the new brooms on both sides government, least 4 all a Labor Gov- ief. the Atlantie there should be some ernrnent, will lighten the burdens of aweeping up done, and in the process landlordism in this particular way-- Scotland ay—,Scotland should have a big share. For or in any way. It would bea beauti- the Prime Minister is Scottish, he is ful arrangement for the landlords, but a Ramsay and a MacDonald (Both would leave the government with the good old Scottish names) his home is' landeen their hands. The Duke's other in the little fishing village of Lossie- suggestion was that some people might Mouth, away up on the Moray Firth; buy the islands in Loch Lomond, which some of the best then in his Cabinet happen to be, in a legal sort of way, are Scots, and it was in Scotland ---in his property. It is doubtful if Social- that friend's house near Forres—that fists will admit that they are his pro - he met the ' American Ambassador, perty at all. At any rate, the Gov - and began "conversations" which may eminent won't rise to this bait, Some mean an enormous lot to the future of people thought the, Corporation of the W orad, Glasgow would, and they raised the It was not the first time that an question at a Town Council meeting. important, informal meeting of na- But the Council turned it down at tional importance has been held at once, without discussion. some little place in the north. There .They have quite enough of unprofit was one in Inverness, and there was able Highland estates, given to thein qne in the Far West of Rossshire, for nothing, and costing more than both when Mr, Lloyd George was they are worth; and they are not hav= Prime Minister, but they had to do ing any more. Least of all the Duke billy with affairs peculiar to the Un- of Montrose, whose forebears took iterl Kingdom. Last Sunday America great big sums from Glasgow as cont- end Great Britain met in a country peesation. When the level of Loch house near Forces, very near the Ratrine was raised for the city water "blasted heath" where Shakespeare's works, and at every subsequert time Macbeth met the witches; and where, when more land was required up that in the sante piny, King Duncan was .way for the same purpose. If the murdered.Duke had given the Corporation all SABBATH PROTEST. the islands in Loch Lomond as a free gift it would not have been much. But And all on a Sabbath afternoon too, even then the Corporation alight not after the Prime Minister had been to have taken any off his hands. a forenoon service inhis own little QUIET RETREA'.% eeureh at Lossiemtputh. No wonder But if any private person wishes a thea were some ptlotests against the quiet retreat, where he his family breaking of the Sabbath Day and the would not be disturbed by the sereeeh- wonder is that there were not a great ing of railway trains, the hooting of many, more. That there were very few, and these feeble and apologetic, shows that even the people of the Highlands are .moving towards broad- er views of things, are becoming more tolerant, and are realizing that if work is good the doing of it on the Sunday does not make that day any, Tess the Sabbath. The really secular parts of the Prime Minister's week's soourn at his old home, in the inter- val between his aceeptaaee of office and the full beginning of his work in London, were carried out on week days, when the people of Lossiemouth welcomed him to the place in crowds, with processions and pipers and huge bonfires, 'when the women of the vil- lage in their working garb, hauled his. motor car from the railway station to ' his house, when the children held high holiday; and when everyone, without distinction of politics, united with everyone else to make days greater than any that Lossie and its loons had ever known in the past. It was a great change from the time when he was an unknown labor leader, fighting obscurely for a seat in Parliament, and called, by many who him a dangerous revolution- ary. did know g It was also a great change from the time, during the war, when he i. 'b was expelled' front the menibership e .sh p of Moray Golf Club because he was not an enthnisiast for the war. That e e- • pulsion still holds good, although those who engineered it would gladly have wiped it out and welcomed him back. The story is that he wouldn't come back even if they asked him, and even if they apologized, and that is likely why they don't ask him. A "Colorful" Scene in Old London TROOPING rHE COLORS ON KING'S BIRTHDAY Duke of Connaught, Prince or Wales, Duke of York and Lord Lascelles inspecting troops at color -trooping. 1an to Make ,. ustr .iia Wet Rain Makers Propose To Get Moisture by Driving Long Canal in Australia Adelaide, S. Aus. The "rain mals- ers," who hope to irrigate a vast are*; in South Australia from the sky, have just joined forces here and ended the prospect of duplication of their field expeditions. At the same time it be- came known that the scope of the re- search is to be widely extended. Two expeditions. havebeen expected to penetrate into the region of Lake Eyre, the great stretch of salt water in central Australia which, though dis- curb and at ,;a. sharp word of cow - covered 90 years ago, it "still ,sur- mand from the office commanding rounded with mud and mystery." Into this region -where the mirage concentrating the fresh -water floods i sets up a "wall of glass" . through. of the Diamertine, Cooper and more +which it is impossible to see, engineers easterly creeks into one of the lakes 'would drive a long canal, to connect which is above sea -level as a means of conserving hood waters now uncon- trolled. WILL STUEY •11IINERALS. little or no precipitation, Extensive .ntudy of the mineral TWO EXPEDITIONS .JOIN, wealth of the region will also be under- taken, The natural or artificial use of One expedition has been organic ' • the drained areas of some of the lakes Upton, a fellow ' of the • i a such eii s as rice and by Samuel for growing s c c p Royal Empire Society. - The other ex- millet will be investigated. pedition was to be sponsored by the The possibility of utilizing this sec South Australian branch of the conn- tion of South and Central Australia cil of the Royal Geographic Society. brings up the problem of transporta- On the eve of the departure of the Up- tion and Mr. Upto.''s expedition will ton expedition, it was announced that consider the use of the canal for this the geographic society would defer. its purpose, affording an outlet from the plan and lend its official support to lakes to Spencer's Gulf. Mr. Upton's efforts. Mr. Upton points out that Lake One reason for the action of the Eyre is unique among the lakes of geographic society was that the leader the world, for than has not yet sue - of its proposed exped.tion was Cecil ceeded in reaching the main body of Madigan, acting professor of geology its waters, or in sounding its depths. at Adelaide Univeesity, Professor The waters of the Great Artesian Baa sin are believed to flow naturally into the lake, and from time to time, enor- mous floods reach it, yet rarely are its waters seen from the shore. , Full Rehearsal of King's Drive Through London Carried Out. London.:—With clockwork precision { the cavalry the mets saluted with a full rehearsal of matters connected • down swords. The door of the car drive through L do I was opened and then shut, and the car drove away. Close behind the car ' came the Royal lanclap and the motion was carried out by troops and per- of opening the door and the standing sonnel of the Royal stables. The state in of the King and Queen, following took life in a leisurely way and was a landau with full equippeage travelled which. the drive to 'Buckingham pal. philosopher lreisurely than a roan oa from the llnyal stables in Kensington ace was started. The change from oneaction. He became a Minister of the Crown when he was 37; next year he was in the Cabinet, and the following year he was Chief Secretary for Ire- land. After that no one said any more that he was not a man of action,. In that most difficult of offices he won his spurs. He won in Ireland the hearts of many who were his sternest opponents, and he came back to the • Menace to fisher • h Conservative Leader in the House ot COmmens, • Profit'When he was 54 he became Prime Turned � Minister and found the leadership of his party the most difficult of all his life's tasks, involving' more than usual ingratitude. The vier brought hint back into office (after an interregnum of eleven years) as First Lord of the Admiralty and later of Foreign Min- ister in succession to Sir Edward Grey,. MISSIONS TO U:S,A- Und e Conservative Governments. more recently he has held the dignified . position of Lord President of the Council., Among the most successful of his tasks have been two -Missions to the United States, one during the war and one since, marked by the most enthusiastic appreciation of his personal and intellectual qualities. These political services, continued for 55 years, have been abundantly, supplemented by' high distinction as a philosophical writer,' and lecturer, and a varied essayist. The Order o4 Merit, the Fellowship of the' Royal Society, the Chancellorships of Cam- bridge and Edinburgh Universities, and honorary degrees conferred by sixteen , British, American, and for- eign universities show -how this great statesman is regarded by the world at large. g Too often men who serve their gen- eration in the highest positions die as before the worlds appreciation h been adequately expressed. In the retirement of the Earl of Balfour of Ochre River., from th public work in which he has virtually spent al his life till now; with the King's c r ve roug t on n on his return from rWindsor Castle Lord Balfour Retires to His Scottish Home Withdrawing From Active, Life Which He Began 55 Years Ago It is a dramatic thing when a man leaves the louse he has lived in near- ly 60 years, and when it is one of the greatest men in a nation it is pa -1 thotic, too. The news that the Earl of Balfour now in his eighty-first year, is selling his London house and retiring to his Scottish home, and thus withdrawing from the active life which he began 55 years ago, when he entered Par lieu -lent has been received by every well-informed British citizen with deep regret, for. Britain has no finer statesman so rich in experience as he,, TRUST AND ADMIRATION. Many years have passed since Arthur Balfour lived amid the petty bitterness of keen party strife, and when he did they left hien unscathed. He has long had the trust and admira- tion of men of all shades of politics, In whatever great office he has repre- sented his country all his countrymen have known that they would be served by him with a dignity, and ability, a personal charm and an intellectual power that would add lustre to our statesmanship. • He has at command vast experience, breadth of judgment, the gift of fine speech, and he is a great gentleman. His withdrawal from the political arena, even at the age of eighty, is a national loss only modified by th fact that he maystill serve History with his pen. Lord Balfour was born into states- manship—his mother was a Cecil. The only thing said against him as a young man in parliament was that he where they were met by a squadron vehicle to the other took less than of life guards. At the point selected three .minutes. Titen the cavalry 'li- fer the King and Queen to change vided into escort and cavalcade and from the motor car to the carriage centered to Hyde Park, through the troops formed aline. Queen's gate and the procedure was Then a motor car stopped at the gone through again and again until every movement was carried otit with exactitude. motor care, the jostling of crowds, the lake with the sea. This project, letters two or three times a day and they declare, would give an annual papers every other hoar, he ought do rainfall of about one inch to an arid worse than take over one of the Loch I region which for sic eessive years has i Lomond islands. With a good house, a big garden, and an island large enough for strolling in 'and keeping a reasonable number of beasts and fowls, and with a motorboat for going to Balloch, or Luss, or Balmaha when he felt so disposed, it would be an ideal life for ane who liked that kind of life; always assuming of course, that the presons concerned did not require to work for a living. But some- one should suggest that another eland —St. Kilda, to wit -should be taken into co}tsider ation. There is 'pro- posal that all the 38 inhabitants of that most lovely of Scottish islands— away out in the West Atlantic --should be taken off and settled down as a Tittle township somewhere on the main- Madil;an niay now accompany Sir land and otherwise, there will soon be Douglas Mawson upon his projected EXILES FROM LEWIS,, The exiles from Lewis are home, And are spreading themselves all over their native islands. The Canadian Pacific liner Minnedosa brought over hundred of them front Montreal to 6tornway last week -end, among them being, as the chief personage, Mr. T. B. Macaulay, president of the Sun Life Assurance Co. o4 Canada, who has given about £50,000 for Lewis schemes- within the past two years, including £12,000 for a library in Stornoway £17,000 for a hospital, 55,000 to help in building a town hail summary yesterday said there had to take the place of one which was been elfsasternus effects in the town - destroyed by fire, enol other sutras for ship of Kvaulktem and nlyoliaung, one other purposes. It was arranged that of the most .thickly populated and the new town hall, municipal offices prosperous areas in this district, and. and library should allbe opened when in the rlrakan hill district. Mr. Macaulay and the other exiles The flooded area covers 10,000 were in the place, and so Stornoway acres and between 10,000 and 15,000 and the Lewis have had a remarkable families have lost everything, nclnrd- rveele: ing all food and seed grain.. The The. Provost and magistrates went flood` reached Paletiva in Northern out in a tender to meet the Minnedosa Aralean and only a few government and give those "on' board apt official buildings in the highest part escaped. welcome, there was a big bonfire on an In the village of 1Vlaltamml; north- isiattd in the bay, the streets of the east Isyanktam, only four of 120 town were decorated, the tinny was hooses were left standing. Loss n4 surrounded by all kinds of ,small craft, human fife was fortunately small, The rackets were fired from the shore and whole Kaladan Valley front 1?arstwo, the litter shrieked in reply -in fact, to lvlycltsnttg was affected' only a Stornoway could not have done morn wfcltl. ot 60 miles. 'rhe government if it had been like i.ossietnoiithw-tivel- is taking' relief measures, corning a native as Prince Minister, none of them left, they are decreasing so rapidly. Not long ago there were about 100. Now of the 38, only 13 are grown igen, and of these only four or five are strong enough for hard work. But it will not be easy to convince e should settle'down on them that they 1 the mainland. They are islanders fust, last and all the tinge, and would probably pined away still faster if the: sea was not all around them. The best plan would be to raise a fund for buy- ing the islands of Loch Lomond and settle them on these. They would have all the solitude of islands—if tripers in motor boats could be kept away—and they would also be in touch -with civilization all the year round. Some one should speak to t:he' Duke of Montrose about it. expedition to the Antarctic this year, although definite plans await Sir Douglas' return to Adelaide where he holds the chair of geology at the uni- versity. seek to will Upton expedition T he U o p end the "thousand miles of ignorance" of the Lake Eyre region, which in- cludes n- a. Lalco r come Lakeand 1u es Tor rens c d e Lake Gairdner. These lakes have a combined surface nearly double the area of Wales. The expedition, it -now is learned, will study the feasibility of Burin. Suffers Serious Floods Damage Estimated at $1,000,- 000 1,000,-000 — Whole Villages Washed Away Akyab, Burma, India—Total dama- ge estimated at nearly $1,000,00 has been clone' by floods resulting. from Joseph • Lizotte of Riviere Ouele caught 190 porpoise from May 21 to 25, His process is to skin the fat off and then. to .skin the hide. and cook the fat in vats. It is then re -cooked and the oil is put into barrels and the balance which is dry meat is used as feed for farm animals. The oil is bar- relled and sold in the -United States and Montreal and fetches from 45 to 55 cents a gallon. He expects to ob- tain an income or at least a profit on this season's work of approximately $6,000. He employs about 20 men in this operation during the season which lasts some six weeks with iniermittant intervals. ' The porpoise conte in shoals, the process of catching them is in a large weir built into a bay comprising 72 acres, When the tide corn to in and any porpoise come into the weir they cannot getout and an the tide :reced- ing the porpoise is left stranded on the shore. The skins are cured with salt and sell for 14 cent., a pound for leather in Montreal and Quebec. The average weight of the white whales' runs about 0 pounds. 15 0 Winnipeg,Man:—The search for .oil in the western provinces is extending is into 1N,:antolta, and announcement made En the formation of a syndicate of eastern capitalists to drill in the r aniza- Ochre River field. The new organiza- tion g tion, which is called the Carter Oil Syndicate, has taken over the holdings of 1,300 acres south` And, all the time, many of the 100 were net really natives. Some of then. The eb.ances seem good for Lloyd were rlescendanta to the third, and George's holding the balance of pow- eeent fourth., gettenl tion. of people who est in • the new House of Commas. .d how that man eau balntirel- klven Ur, Macaulay himself had never Now hard gone from the I.,ewis to Cana rkAi a Vol Tit it t nstructit .g ) new maid): Lady (i "When avisitorcomes, you must an- nounce hint to me first" Maid (the swine evening): "Please, ma'am, my sweetheart has come." Green Flash Crashes 0 Attempted Take -Off IRJeeISA.Neeta!4;MIk3tixl7MYette�17:I•r MFSi�tL 'kRX1g16M.te*tr C'1�:Y'Itee,. :FY'FY7kA ✓� 4 "�'•�•+��dCIY+;YAd11kG.'d%'.�•a'r �+5k`9arnMt41°G.i..MY. q wMk••i �'Yf.,"•'.1'•.'C"N.Ppii:44^MS�.Y•1/3MsdtT1.M'FA� '�:�•�•�:19i1JI Ai/l!✓RMAN TRANSATLANTIC PLANES 'CRACK% UP Green li'lasti, transatlantic aeroplane of Capt. V'aneey and Uoger Willlarns, trashed takhig ofr from old Orchard, Mo., recently. Haulier pilots were hurt. • and whil yet he can make us his debt• ors through his still active pen, it is a fitting opportunity to recall how faithful and how vast have been the labors of this servant of his country, a man whom all admire for the lofti- ness of his characted, the sincerity of his aims,the wealth of his mental powers, and the grace of his person- ality. N •3 Floods in India Worst in History Thirty Thousand Homeless--- • Hundreds Believed to Have Perished London.—The floode in India were) the worst in the country's history, ace cording toan exchange telegraph dis-� patch from . Calcultta quoting officials, in the afected'territories. Tho commissioner of .Assam Valley estimated that 30,000 persons were driven from their hones in his district alone, while ,,the flood in the, Surma Valley inundated a region of 1,900 square miles. The entire town of Salcher was under water. No accurate death figures were re- ported, but it was believed hundreds had perished, and starvation and suf- fering were widespread, The supply o4: rice was said'to be low, and relief, operations 'werehampered, o Seaside L thano•-- "What is there 1 can do to prove I love you?" lIera hetng dragged ashore attar ft Worshipper—"How about swimming' • the Atlantic?"