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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-11-21, Page 3'" Building p pally as ever to Canis, 13assett's Railway Ue He lps in , �� Big $usxr ie :; t usiiless•builditig svliontes. Co ca ; or i '"W a ors While .firs 0.Millet'e lid a record trade, other d.eveloprneete 'Were talc Mg pine. Tile new housing estate 1iad been begeh, Rate 'et shops were .springing' up, but° not as Well situated 'as Millet's, with its Center positionat the four cross-roads, . One Tuan whom Sally had noticed in the ]:sigh 'Street on two or three British .GRvornxuoitt; 'Which is support• oebasions, calne into the shop when ing it iiGelrer liy, lies ue i given the Ely ALISIAIR CLARE George was out, ancl, after malting a rro it of the Canadian been give Rain,he rthe fact .purchase; engaged her' in converse j ' De iartment of Colanixatiox a?isl f b d d ih Trmonths earlier ways 1 engages' a flew ,tion. The telt canis round to shops, the white Star Lithe Canadian Ser- for larger 'families, consisting' of •a •ole Mrs. ming had b g si tt slim London svouldl .save and he ren>aiited filet Mrs. M.11et s vice to solve, to some extent, the living room end three bedrooms. assistant f been "'neti's" in 7''11!ington. .But oil, Stares lead a good. pasition;in - good stow . <_ this shop?" lie problem of agco�timodation for BriGo? each including a provided e ington hacl awakened teeth its steep, I suppose you ossn p families wOtkriig on the farms of i. had so near that, there � asked casnaily. q ars in ganada.. The scheme pro A nominal rent of throe dollars a -were,rl d creptnly, •. all manner Of ,,,,.:• ,rSx ,,..:,.L.n„+„tv Tin.'' said Sally; -ad- .,.._...�.�.�.. (hips' Resole Most of Freighter's Crew Ce :....Oa a Number of. l.i;�Waves, But the est Was the Best Canadian National'and White tar Line Co-operate with .British Government Montreal, Nov, 8. --Poli approval of half to one awre, .and will be close to the Overseas .Settlenedt Beard of. the 'a good road and within easy aeras of tixe local market village, and as near es possible .to the rural school. The cottages, modest but substantial, will be o two e rooms, an the o'er, -developments. ”-^- — - " So the fact filet, George Bassett; "Good tiring you dont own it," said cycling- through Toilington• on a -•day's• the roan, "I hear their are ,going to .outing lietweeu'leaving:one job and -widen this street,. and that would looking for ,the next, had seen Sally mean cutting ten feet offyour shop. Millet, Mrs, Millet's, 'daughter, strug- it will be'•too' small then .for anY, • g1!ng,;with the sunbl.ind outside the thing?' '• • slain' and stopped to' help her, passed Sally had, not meant to.merition'tlie unnoticed, .Sq.did the alacrity with man to Bessett, but 6bnleho7 •it'Caine witch hemapplied for the post of as- out. Ile nodded. sistautenanager; of M'i•s,e 1\2illet's fust "'.Che este" story," be ;said e dwindling ;business when he heard The followings WednesdaY ••after- . that the good lady was confined to noon he closed tiie'sho•p Changed into• - her tied' with rheumatics. • his best , clothes, mounted his bicycle, "I've- had Epur•.years' :experience in and went off.:.- •#x London shop," he told Mrs.'MIillet, The next week 1Tiilet wwoke ertip when .lie had induced, Sally to arrange to find that2 . as es the interviety; "and I'd like a spell ing. Posters Were on every ,hoarding g of the country. Besides, there's too in the town, anngtlncing, a•, g' ''much -v eek+ 1iere.---"'f -bis Will Pardon tenth sale. me .saying so—for a girl to do prop- "2s. In The £ .Discount -On 1l.`verY- •erly, and 1 an see opportunities—big thing. Buy Your. Stocks For The opportunities. I've got ideas." Winter .Now!," - Mrs. Millet couldn't see aoytlting That brought Mrs. •Milint down- . 'but bankruptcy fast al,proaehing, but stairs for the first time for weeks. she liked the -look of this eager young The old 1ac1y esvae quite fair. George ;man, and its was true"`that, with the, had greatly improved the business, hest will in. the world, Sally made with WS ideas,; but this was going too an •awful mess of shopkeeping, So far, He .woulderuin them,, . George started at $10 a week. Sally ,thought•.so, too. George was It wasn't 'much ore job for a young persuasive. 1 -,Ie, cOnyincecl Mrs. Mil - ..man -who tad a three years' -refer- len that it all meant' trade. 'been; •ence'from a itig Loddon company, but The greet ale a lad guly n oto cao for Bassett took occasional -sidelong two days or- a red - by le • by yon . at Sally's, blue ey'f ltriquittee aced tan,d tip side the oozing wealth, stepped out by s fieri with lashes,nn and'felt q and burst' into. the:Crowded shop. . satisfied with the change..Then On the first early -closing day after'- "Mr. Bassett?'.' he inquired,' Then. George a closely. his arrival Sally went up tq Loudon b ticli I .amen .to do some shopping, and he stayed in the shop' iii order to clean out the chaos of old "dummies" which :was old Mrs. Millet's idea of window -dress- Mg. Next; morning Sally, stood outside the .shop a11d gasped. The entire :window was filled with a pile of tin- ned fruits, and surmounting the pile was °a ;home-made !placard reading: Ttuv ofi Frugt, +'r ee If You Purchase Goodes to the Value of 7s. 6d." '"Tou:'serill ruin us!" she exclaimed. George Bassett shook his head, not- e,. ot- . {, ,. _ing how attractive -she looked when `" , excited. ;,.: „ 'remain -eel --"It's' a, payiee inea, he complacently, • "a : business -builder. The. fotlt about here have got into tire, vent- �i ` • • �1abst 'of usiixt thtl':shop as a Con. once and ',going ip to the Junction ,with ;their big -order every • Saturday.. We have got, to tempt them to buy eyerything from us.".nconviuced; .yet Sally- remained u shg ;caught the'- thrill of his enthusi- asm, so that when Mrs; Millet heard about it Sally took his hart_ and. get her, mother to agree tom the experi- ment. • .That week _tete takings .were doubl- ed and the following Monday Mrs, Millet's, window: contained a new of- fer that Set Tollington talking.,. A large cheese occupied the centre of the window, and everyone spending 3s. was entitled' to guess its weight. The customer who, got nearest to e co'rreet answer receof ived 10s.,worth. goods• free. • e. • When in the following weeks Bas-' sett Deduced still further ideas, Sally Millet began to feel troubled. The business; .un,del the guidance of the rssoi r cefuil George, was doing better t1iau it hacl dote far• years. Relied sueceeded'so well that the townspeo- ple were _making for Mrs. Millet's on Mondays : "to, see what new, idea• that, young niab is '.up to." But, iri'eneerienced as she way, Sally realized that there was somet4:ing wrong. Live wires like George Bas sett are not rsontent to work in coon-' ing you lame." ti y, shops''fbr• a.:wage of $10 a week.. Mr. Parker made one last effort. She tried to find. a solution which •"I'l1 admit you are a cute •one,". he would fit into the puzzle. Was said, with an 'ing atiating smile. George Bassett a Criminal using .her pay £1,000 for the business, and give mother's..shnp as a hiding -place from goal £14000 "dot inro flee: at post ill your he looked at e g , i- the 'auspices of the National System from tile' Peckham ra — `er �ouri•'he went on; but George cor- and 'the White Star, These cottages b e are being built Carefully, located in rected him. "1 was at the •Peckham, Brandi;' the three prairie provinces Where the he remarked :politely. "I am now' as- resident farmers . are predominately Canadian National Railways' farm placement, service will assist in pro- sistant�hianager here•,"' + ' •• •' 'Anglo-Saxon. • "I see—I see," 'said 'the .stranger Each bttage will stand in a fenced eating employmeut for the newly ar- patronizingly. "Well, that. makes,n13' ,plot of ground averaging from one- rived families. job easier. • Dukes, the solipitor, at Tidburn .Junction,• tells nae. that. you have bough~ .this, property. Well, I won't beat'about the bush. l want it, and I'm prepared.• to hand you back your depesit:,and £2.00 profit. Are you agreeable?" -' "Not by any means; :1111,: Painter," replied George Bass:ett Calmly; .,,'•"I am acting for Mrs: Millet. ' We: sus- pected you might want nt t his shop o when yolragant called here and tip us a cock-and-bull story about street -widening So' we .Wade sure by buy- ing it ourselves. • It•'is• not For sale. Good-daY! -f yI Pariter, 1-.,,i ,i as thous1i ire was Mr. W' '.. l Moscow -New 'York Flight Completed by "Land of the Soviet Curtiss b�leici, 7,,I, he Eussian ails the minion ' broke off and tossed "Land of the among Citgo, metas Monoplane,Col., Chalice' A, , I;,iodt argil arrived Soviets,' -with its Grew of four Russian at tli'e field'. anlidat the exeitelneiht, aviators, sanded here early in Novem- The Colonel alighted quickly from his her successfully eompleting .a 12,500 airplane and jumped on. to an QiI trunk + u e. from Moscow, whicix to avoid, the crowd. Ile was hurried mile air jot n y to the hangar, climbed to the roof and was as spectacular and coler:tul as any greeted the Russian 'fliers long-distance flight yet attempted. Looking• down, itt the crowd' ane of lastleg- of •-the flight, from De- troit t� New. York, was completed exactly 12 weeks and two days after the liie1s.,took off from 2vloscow air- port,, , Semyon Shesf'altoff, chief pilot, bringing his big monoplane into the field from the west, swung it twice across the airport in salute before swooping to a graceful landing. ,Al- though 11e had chosen to bring, the huge airplane down in the corner of the field furthest from the crown, its wheels had barely touched ground Upper: Standard type of foui:.rootn farm cottage built by Caned an National_ Railways and White Star Lice for British Farni Families. Lower: One of the. Western Farms en which a Canadian National Railways -White Star'Line farm 'Worker's cottage is•`being built. videsesfor the erection of suitable farm cottages in prosperous farming dis- tricts, in Western Canada to house selected British families placed- under mouth will be charged the .tenants. Lt is understood that families will oc- cupy the cottages only while they are securing preliminary experience in Canadian farming, presumably for a year's time, after which it is antici- pated that they will be •in a position to make their own arrangements. The the;R ueelans remarked, "But this is for you, Colonel Bindberglh, The re- mark was translated to the Colonel, who replied instantly "Oh, no. This is - your • reception." Greetings in the Air. The Land 'of' the Soviets was es. corted to the field by two tri -motored Ford airplanes belonging • to the Cur• :tis -Wright Flying Service and the \ \right Aeronautical Corporation, .five Curtiss fledglings, flying' in'for-' matron, took off to greet the Russians and circled over the field in nanoete' when several thousand persons _who, vres, n Aug. had gathered to welcome the aki.0 suns „The Russiaifs left. Moscow ,9n 7, arrived at Khabarovsk, Siberia, on Sept. 3, where- the wheels of their air- plane were replaced with pontoons. On Sept. 12 they continued their flight, arriving at Petropavlovsk, Kamp chatka, on Sept., 18„ Then, after a difficult flight over the`` Bering 'Sea, .broke through the police lines and ran toward it, Faced with conditions different from any lie had encountered in flying. over Siberian wastes and 'across the - bleak lands • of, Unalaska and Alaska,. the pilot .instantly grasped the situa- tion and wheeled- his airplane away they. -alighted at Attu, most western from the running, shouting crowd. of the Aleutian Islands, on Sept. 21 Foiled for 'a moment, the spectators On Sept. 24 they'reached. Dutch Har dropped back, and motorcycle -police bor, Unalaska, .and three days later with horns and sirens shrieking, made their first stop on the mainland seized the opportunity to, ride-through'gat Seward. Oct. 3"theywe'resi'oteed• e, the milling thousands and 'make al down by motor trouble at 'Waterfalls, path•for the airplane. The chief pilot` Alaska. After baying a -new meter - the plane Close behind them; l installed they flew to Seattle on Oct.' guided while his comparisons, Philip 'BolotofP, ! 13; thence down the coast to O,aklaucl, Boris Sterlingoff and Dm -r•i Fufayeff, Calif., where: they arrived on Oct. 20. stood up in the open top cif the fuse-! Their next stop was Salt Lake. City. lage and waved toward the crowd. 1 They reached Chicago oti Oct, : 24, When the airplane and aviators i stayed there four days, and flew. to were safely in the hangar, the police- Detroit; on Oct: 28, men closed the doors. Shortly after, The "Land of the Soviets" is a low the fliers appeared on the roof of the wing monoplane somewhat of the hangar and the crowd. broke into "flying wing" type. It was designed cheers. The aviators were presented in Russia' and built entirely of ma::- • with bouquets and someone started to terials made sir Russia,- only the mo - make a speech which was drowned by for being of outside make, It was cheers from the field. Each flier was built under the direction of its design - obliged to step forward for an individ- er, A. N. Tupoleff, at the Central Aerc nal cheer while the crowd scrambled Hydro -dynamic Institute. at Moscow, to catch petals of the flowers which —Christian. Science Monitor: . r, about to explode;, then he calmed down. : "My mane Wade did make some in- quiries. I` want- this. shop. , Look here; I'll advance my offer to £o0. That's more than this•tin-Pot bttsiuess Will- earn in the net your years. ', -Do you accept?"we've made• our money together "- George Bassett looked. grieved but' ought to invest it together—in an - firm. other business that will keep your "You are under a misapprehensions mother skid—ns?" Our profits+have increased four bun' ''The-cand—er'in-the shop rang the tred, percent, in -the last four ifa, bell three.times before anyone heard and are still going up. • MY price Ear her. For once Geoge was attending this •property ,is £1,000, and My d to something nigra important than all posit back; 'and another £2;0000 pard the big bnsival in the, world. to Mrs.res.Millet for goodwill, stock, and —.. ftxtres. " "You are olid,'" shouted Mr: Par- -- The Modern Girl ker-"madl'''S i1Y, your whole,stocki Slie:will not wash the; dishes; for • is wOrt11:-•"".' , it' inapes her hands so red; "About £250,„ said Bassett; 'that She will not sweep b parlor floor, oo., • Ieaves £1,750 far goodwill, A very It makes her hands so red. • cheap business,'Mr. Parker: At all . • chairs, events, we to. not want to sell, so I She will not even dust the cha, do not press you in any way. I will Nor wash the small only remark that next week the price Nor help here small :ill be £3,000 Tollington is grow- It mattes -her Band and I do know their* little ways. So when you told me 'that story about the stranger chappie and his questions I guessed what the game was,' and "aicl £'Io n'd p t es. a Dt -ov ' to 1,., Fl]11DP_fl•. .er . deposit on this place.Then I knew sy:e were safe.” • Sally's eyes were- shining as she placed her 1lancls obi, his'shoulclers and, very: softly, •kissed. leis hand: •'• ' `•'L think you've been, absolutely won- .derfui, George," she said. "The in the census of 1931, Mr. Coats has :beastly' thing is- that now we shallbe' widest spread con - losing you. I knew you were tdo g settled one of t fur Tollingtion " troversies ever found in an Anglo -,of naturalization or was a tohadobeen certificate d, t George 'looked into hereyes. Saxon- country. "Don't you think," he said, `"tbat as Canadian, or is he and s British ship whether in fore g Mr, Coats' pronouncement is as fol ` lows: • "it is proper to use `Canadian' as descriptive of every person whose home is in the country and who has of this act, shall be cteemeu io awn acquired rights' of citizenship in it. A poen born within Elis -Majesty's al - person who was born in the United States, or France, or Germany, or legiance if born ltion grant,euwherege, sby other foreign country, but- whose hone treaty, capitulation, is in Canada and who is a naturalized feranee or other lawful means, His citizen, should be entered as `Cana- Majesty exerises jurisdiction over dian,' so also should a person born British subjects. ' en: the United Isingdom or any of the (2) - "The Wife of a British subject colonies. whose residence in Canada shall be deemed to be a British sub - is not merely temporary. An alien jean 3) <,rl women who having been a person will be classed by nationality thing slid w.ears; o1' citizenship, according to the conn- alien, has by or in consequence of pickling pears; tt3e of Birth or the conntry to which her .marriage -become a British sub s so red. • `"Tl t€t advertising scheme we are Canadians Are running now was the last idea in the book. After that I was finished. You Canadians Now sle, ' I've never had an original idea of' my own. :: "But I have 'worked at Parker's, " Kittens Born in Oven Are Now Biscuits," Ottawa Make's Ruling Covering "A married woman is to be reported as. of the same citizenship as her hus- band, "A foreign -horn child. under 21 years of age is to be reported as of the same citizenship as the parents." The fact that foreign -born persons who have been in Canada less than five years, the length of residence re- quired to obtain naturalization, are reported as "Canadian' citizens" is ,in virtue of the operation of the naturali- zation aturali- zation'act of 1914 which provlcles'that ..:..:.... r•�-icl�.-Dellatea, _ .-.'bt..e...:c...e_-,y-xr.....�,•,d...rliail.lir�. r1,ct�,=Ati.. Question to be British subjects: " person born within His a An e d R. H. Coats, at 9 y issued bp sl Insnoion' ctMajesty's Dominions and allegiance, Dominion Statistician, just Made' pub- 1ie3 order enumerators to use the word mull "Canadian in reference to those of Canadian nationality or .birth. By his instructions, intended for use of a rson born out of His y Majesty's Dominions, whose father � was a British subject at the time of that person's birth and either was born within His Maj'esty's allegiance death of her liusband or the dissolu- tion of her marriage, 'cease to be a British subjeetn'e The approximate number of Cana- dian nationals in 1921, on the assume• tion , that all ,Canadian -born persons resident in Canada, are Canadian na• tionais, were 8,412,383, says the re. port, . including 6,832,747.Canadian born, 1,065,454- resident British -born and 514,182 naturalized foreign -born, of whom 237,994 had been ]ioru in the United States, Doubtless there were .na�.tnilact.in a l.x.",<t,a..at.,#heudate.-.A ..the census certain Cauadian-born. ;peoble who had at some time or other given up their •originab,Canadiall citizenship and had not resumed it either because of personal preference or because they had not been resident in this country the necessary period of five years required for repatriation. Again, certain of our British -born 'people domiciled in Canada, were not Cana- dian citizens either because they had been naturalized in some foreign coun- try or because they had not been re- sident in Canada for the one year re- quired to vote at elections or the five- year period required by the Immigra- tion Act. On th.e other hand, many Canadian citizens are resident of other coun- tries, the largest number being in the United,Statos, where the census taken on January 1, 1920, showed that out of 1,117,778 white persons of Canadian birth reported as residents of the United States at the date of census. 607,303 were naturalized citizens, 72: ,14 had taken out their fust papers' and 3445,!157 were, from the point of n i view of the United States, aliens, and 1 therefore, from our point of view, pre-' - 1sumably Canadian citizens, while the citizenship of 92,30.4 was not ascer- Is a Canadian, a ane I (c) "Any person born on board a omething else? i u terri- torial waters or not. Pravlded (1) "that the child of a British subject, whether that child was born before or after the passing 11 he or she professes to owe allegiange. jest, shall not, by reason only of the My Strange. Sights Are Seen inn,Olnl Quekiec e, tlho. pollee? ,;• . That idea site dismissed at !once '1 flint, Mr. Parker," replied George Bas - Dia a Did he n alit to find out the pos- sett. "I :Have -.already ': named. my sibilities` of, the business, before buy- terms." Mg' them' out? • If so, he was going - lir. Parkes irbsitateci, went Ted, and • she' marched to the door. r , a sat huge 'way .about it—trebling ""Bring ing . sty cheque • book!"` ire' • •r profits tin• two months. • The third solution which °min\ed shouted. IXC „turned, to George, "f le , hes was the most likely ---George suppose 'I've 3,pt to pay -you." .0 asseISnnieit be- a business scout— When the'big" car liad;•rolled away I one of tilos"eiiien sent out by big Loin George turned:'to find Sally watching don stores •i.o SPY, out possible sites lino, her :eyes.filled with tears... for. nevi branches. The shop ' was ' "Do you really e t i• that mother the best site''ih Tollington and her gets i;2,00Q?"' fo'eakid:clleapr mother's lease had only four"years to too, 0!course oh1e, ?o'business•'like r a p.' Twtce,:wben she had ,return1ed to this," the Fa11o.r. after •$axing "Coocl-Wigs t • ' , "'lint why d11 ado refuse 'a mast= she hard cairglit• flim reading' a large ager's post at £5•a week?' • With your book, which he hurriedly slipped be- Ideas!" l:slid a cushion es she entered, • T1115 Geo getledtlier uand,fopaherfiret sfreni;•tlteee1 her. conviction that this time, . 'Beeeett young man was playing a hied the shop. • ' deep ,galne• The thought infuriated "I want to be quite fair to you," lt.er. It seemed Mean,and she hated Sally. pay The brain-wave tion these made nrettriue'se : ; 4 of is But business ne gy t 'imported some aodeshe get, 1! '1 had. taken that jobras1Par his business t, wi , realized shat, whatever happened, .tar's manager I shnitld not have >�ast- they had the shop for four years, and ed a Week." ' with trade improving at its preeeflt "t Bute all the cushionyout ", bee a10. rate thee world at'1 act have eeoua hirn buy 'a small 'businoss somewhere and pulled out d a Cooker. Without a read et1 word he ha oliio, Rn she leer ,i 'sd net to notice ani• the title: efTwenty flys Motier-ma t- thing, ail st;" agreed is enthusittsti- ing Ideas Por Shopkeepers." oUR FRENCH PROVINCE OFFERS MANY ODD ATTRACTIONS Dog • in derby and miniature spinning wheel attracts tourists at Quebec City -St. Anne de Beaupre t"l tained. Thus a very considerable nuluber of Canadian citizens were domiciled outside of Canada in 1920 and 1921. "A girl orator doesn't chatter with cold, because she's all wrapped up Jr her subject," It would semi that a professional lobbyist is merely a public-spirited citizen who manages to get privet road -side house paid for it.