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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-12-12, Page 3Reduction of Land Forces League of Nations Writer Contenas that "A 2 Percent of Population” is All Army 'Necessary •'A 'writer ie. en • English' .teeiew Wold beethe arMea allotment for it handlee the deestioe. a tee yednetion ,touutreas ' eoreigi. eteseeseiotai awe o'f lana faeces lu au orighicil manner•' WouldFrance lie altogether plea -field which even it it,;is not: immediately with 'ea arrangement wbich would practical expresSee, ideel which es glee 1i1t�UeUly •eeen 40,090 Mere WOW. striving or. treoPS tban she posseese4? This stinieetteke$ •the tand that Whilist these awl other oesteciee the existence of liege eWidleg armies would have to beec teed the writer ie one et the chief eauses of wee arid deals in a forcefel way' With whet that until those. orioles are materially must eventually be 'the:heels. of thce eedaced there 1$ littlehope of,Perntan. Actuation eriao.forcee. The idea et ent peace, IIe arguethat all nations aggression awl the 'idea of eetente •need a tienal standing army and en agaiust invasion must'both be )*P8] • efficient but limited Militia, Riots, ed in inteeriationel pelityelf Dorman - •general strikes, organieed crepe and ent Peace is to be ecurd. Aggeee. rebellion are still,Tealities which Must sion s becoming less and less a Pee - be faced and it would be pure insanity sibillty as the ieterdeptinaenee •o• f to depend ori moral persuesion to statesinoreeses bet the begey- a de t1�1 with snob. eventualities. Bet. it feuce against invasion till looms certaitay doesn't steed 'an• artily of 2,- large. .600,000 men out of a poetilatioie of 40,- It might be contended that there 0o000 to Maintain internal peace." 'could be no defence ueceeseryetehefe. • lie then goes ye tb contend that .an was no aggression but the present army based on two per coat, eta coen. point of vieerot some welting appeare tria$ population would be ample for to be that -while they Semite net (team all internal proteetion, •Eiterything of making war on other states they above Such a figure be claims is ab. must maintaia. trig Mentes tcy protect solutele unnecessary and is an ineeu- thernselves trove seine.nialignarit.bue tive to militaee competition. If this „unstated enemy. • ligurieg was literally applied It would In the meantime is *ratifying to give Freace an army of 80,090,, Great note , that leading journals Dee tack - Britain one of the •same figure, Gee- ling the great problems of 'peace and eilany' 120,900, the :United States 240,- war with-lnere directness and mare and So on according to -Impute,- eincerity than et any time' in history. tion. Seth Publicity is of iniramae value to Zile proposition sounds at east teir- the. League of Nations and all other sly feasible but op examination many agencies which are helping to wage' difficulties arise. What for instance, the'greatswar against war. 10.140.1L Child Wives India's Curse Will Be No More An Indian View of the New and We Trust, Enforceable Legislation Makes cheer- ful Reading NO MORE "SLAVES" The horrible era of India's "Slaves of the Gods," as Katherine Mayo has Called child wives, is broughtto an end with. the passage of a bill penaliz. ing marriage for girls under fourteen and boys under sixteen. if the law is ;vigorously enforced, say It support- ers, it will "make for a -healthier hap- pier India." An audacious step has been taken, according to some Indiafl • writers, but it means the beginning ot a new age in social reeorm. Thee ut,eJr We Can Take Exception to the. Tem "SPort" A PICTURESQUE TRAGE DY OF THE NORTHLAND Photograph here eowe bag of deer taken in the Upper Ottawa River Valley; near Pembroke, Out, All good teleows, no dOithe but many disagree with their viewpo %Pi i4.144444,444444 4.4.44.4.44.44.41.410 Poet Laureate thee," 'steadfast' is ‘steclfaste This itew spelling irritates and jars like too Finishes Strong' ranch pepper in a plate of soup. Dr. Bridges, however, has achieved •. a great .work. There are lines -which Page Poem on • will go into any diction Writes 190dictionary of quota- • thda' (ions. "Sang his -throbbing passion to 85th Biry abolieh. &Del marriage is bound to 1 senglaed may be enjoyiug . the. last • "Teat where thei' is any savagery ef her Poets Laureate: Rumor leas it. thee wit be wor' istraerely pen -picking that Mr. etacDonald wilt appoint 11.0' .at a. Platittele, . successor (0 Robert bridges,, should' "Has Dr. Bridges written a master. piece or started a crusade? le Is .for hint to explain," heve: " . "The Sarde, 'hillewill obliterate the worst of the Miss "elayo evils'in India., It' ;eel immetteely °thence- India's his Government outlive the poet. Mr. prestige bathe eyes of all 'civilized usel Bridges 'has, found no Inspiration in tens. it ,will, beyond doubt, tidd'ea 1 the births, marriages and deaths of good deal to •the national efficiency of 'eoyallyethe recognition of which was Indians. In its train Will 'come 'a re- the designed function of the offtee, , and was scrupulously observed at least by Alfred Teenyson. Dr. Bridge's omissions may, however, be toutted a minor offense in view of his latest activity. "There will be both savagery and war in the world of poetry," says • the Lonaote Daily Fee press, "and the strike will be encour- aged by none other than Dee Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, the singer with the Trappist leluse." For, with- out 'benefit of committee to support him, he has reopened the'qabetion of ing held alt over the country. These . reformed English spelling,, and given vearriage is enjoined by their religiore. "That where thereie 'and savagery, orthoeox .leiudtut ,maintain that child The Daily Express its cue in 'welder, So they regarel.the new lew as,"111.- thee wil be war.": fringing the -elementary eights and . "Dr. Bridges published recently, on his eighty-fifth birthday, 'The Tes- tament of Beauty' (Oxfordleniversity 1 Press) a poem of. 100 pages , deal- ) the Indian Legislative Asserably were eated to the Ielegea mopeineentaleweee passed. at a meeting at Tinnevelly in in -which are passages of great pow6i. southern Indite Which are recorded inland sheer beauty. The book is a the Madras Hindu: I Poetic revplutione the.foirudation of, a "Thie public meeting holds that !new • spelling which . eapetteehelleye marriage is a religious samskara (ob- may revolutionize literature. , • ligation. Or institution) for the Dwijas 1 ' "The Le,ureate, silent so. long, has (the twice-bome or the tines higher • exploded a bomb under English litera- 1 easta 'the Brahmans, Iishatriyas, and ture. Vaisheas); that it should, therefore, • The poeni le startling, At time$ it continue to be performed according to rivals Wordsworth ie. sugary ., eine the epirituaI tekts; ,that no temporal legislative bodyeof ;the State is coin- •petent to make innovations in the saki Samskara; that the Sarda marriage bill is a direct .vielittion of the retie - immortal sleepels perfect, vision •of other aspects of marriage legislation and all remnants of sex clonauance wil have to be replaced by comradeship, of the two sexes. •The girls rescued trona too early _ro.arriage' will not be merely wasting time. They will equip themselves for a fuller life, and their lufluence is bound to be felt in .soeial political and cultural fiehls." How iudiguantly the orthodox Hin- dus regard the new legislation , maY be gathered • front the report that . . meetings of .protest ageing it are be - law will soon take effect, we are told, privileges of a large section of his Int - and meanwhile it. is. lieing perial IVIajeity'e subjects." • metized by. oldlashioned people who Resolutions condemning the actiot of regard it as 'an unwarranted interfer- ' elite with religion and custom. While • some British and Indians in the coun. try congratulate the •Goeernment India for throwiug its weight on the right side of the argument, other In. diens deplore the Government's ac- tions in giving their whole -hearted support to "so wanton an outrage on Hindu as well as Moslem feelin.g." These discordaut views echo- and re- echo in both Iadian-editod and beitish edited journals. The entleasiasee of the reforraers is reflected in ThCleece ple (Lahore), whose observatiopstaret here presented in a slightly condeeeed form: "The social reformer has reaseueto rejoice over the work of. the Indian, LegislatiVe Assembly just: conceded at Simla, The Sarda bill' to ilibelish child marriage is perhaps ot greater importance thn aall preelous-• sodial- plicity sometimes it is as abstreee and tortured as Brevetting at hiswoyst, again there are passages of such sweet erullathat the reader draws his breath, ens -ante the epititual, conception of "But alt through the poem, as if ,his the marriage (Marini (eeligion) of the Pen were a' lancet, Dr. Bridges has -Dwijas; and that It should,therefore, -plaeed the language on ,the operating be opposed by ',all, legitimate •and table and cut and. carved at the spell. peaceful, means." - ' ' ing. . • . . The orthodox amoug the Moslems "The. idiom is pseudo -phonetic. M- elee regard the measure as an uuwar- ent letters go byethe liortl.. 'Captive reform legislation. The. passage of vented "iatrusion upon the customary is 'captive 'will' 15. 'wil,' • 'there' is thebill by sixty.seveneiotes- against leie" applicable to thein. Authorities - - lourteen inaugurates a new epoch us on the Sheriet, (Islamie law) cried • , ..„ social, reform in ,this country. "It is said by crtties the till was Passed with. the aid of official and Sir Abdul Qayum, a eeloslent member European 'votes. The fact is it would ,of the Indian Legislative Assembly, have been passed mach earlier if • declared ,. that •elvarions discordant European and official votes had,,, not 'obstructed eta passage, On the Pre - scut oocasion the bill would certainly • have been accepted by the eAssembly even it officials had kept aside., - themselves hoaree, but without ef. feet, Fettling oppositioe et no availe narties"..in , the Legisiatpre had col- laborated. to secure its passage. teb.at • remark is taken as a text by the. Brie Usti:owned and British -edited Madras an editorial pointieg out the "The threat had been held out tbat.„ 'gall- for' rilartger 'stth eel oeics. a quote if the assembly passed. tee eillethe t Must be conceded that in differ.' Moslem members wont& walk but itekn t eat conditions the collaboration which 'profeest, sTbe threat was made good, - has ituttle bus pessage of- the 'Seeds but resulted merely in a feeble de- possible may be employed to monstration by no more than halt a bill wrecetteike measures, or to arnpose dozen Assembly Ikeussulmanse• The rules tied.,..methocls of life and couched lumber of Moslems Who voted tor else . roPiteltent to the religion of important bill was much greater than that:6feet) connaunities. leoetunately the voting evalkersaut, though -not greater than on the Sarda bill revealed no class or those voting against it. , eognerunal bias. Members of each "N'ow there can be little clonbt that • comunity Were' to be found In each e the passage. a the bill does hurt thoj:' m religious susceptibilities of some pieo-itliVisimr. 1(ibbY various ' °minimal" were .eepresented, amougeehe "ayes' pee, Rightly or .evrengly they uUder- and theenoese stand some raiment texts to en"D joiti • emocea,cy , is nctoriouely fickle, child marriage or to anterdict legisinee democeaby neecle,often to be Saved from itself by the application of the brake of caution. Sir Abdul Qaetim appeociated. the danger of 'Iola majorities. If he be able to tion against it. But a text can he found against every good thing, against -eteachirig the• Darwiniaa theory. There must lie a limit be, yawl which the snost ancient texts cmumunicate his tear to those en - can not be respected , ie 'trusted with tee framing ot India's "'Lives of woieeu and children are 'fitthre constittaion, we may be elhired mere saeree thau ebsurd ithanctions the woret dangers of such niajorities, • contained in texts., Nobody objects to and assured that every attack on cue- soniepeople clinging to, the most pre- tom end social habit shalt bats fully posterotis ot tents and tenets if the considered, ed as elaborately discuss - effects are couened to these people ed as the raising of the age of mar- , themselves. But the nation can eot riago has been,. We may, too, see a,' be exposed to dysgenic haluences and lime more mealy consideration shown to all 'sorts ,of physical maladies out to those detenders ot orthodoxy who at regard for the noteone of then Deo- areas sineere in their .•beliefs as the ple. The greatest triumph of the Sar Most Ardent of reformers." da bill is to establish once for. all that ,. marriage hews are not a sect . boVe der in tete ere n ce," . . The People's editorial writer thus Reges the effect that the leeislation to . .„ 4 Mr, :Borley—"1 passed by your place yesterdity." Mr, Busimen--"I'm glad you, did." Stanley Bruce Melbourne Argus: Mr. Bruce stands Woes Anseralia a -beaten man, leader of a beaten party—beaten by com- pound , Of seleopiniouated folly and self-interest. "Who breaks, pays," has never been truer than it will be of those -who have sacrificed the plain vision of obvious facts to the chimera of hopeless expectations. Fallen from his greet position, cast out of Parlia- ment itself, Mr. Betide, shines more brightly in his determined and self- • less following of the path of duty and the nation's true development than any Of those who are now celebrating, the victors,. Ile leaves behind hire a to continue and enlarge the scope of magnificent record of service and of their efforts. The couneil was organ- achievepient, bat nothing in his car- ized less than two years ago far the eer has More become him than his Purpose of keeping Canadian, -univer- cheerful and unfaltering courage in sities graduates in Canada ,and. to Many Graduates Work in Canada Technical Service Council Reports -Success at AnnuaMeeting • Toronto—Three hundred and forty Canadians, most of them graduates of Canadian .universities, were placed 'during ,the year with Canadian menu, - teaming concerns and other busi- ness establishments ter the,Technical Service Council, according to reports submitted by Balmer Neely, vice. obairnian of the Executive Commit- tee, at the animal . meeting at the Council here receutly. Included. among these graduates were 40 who after leaving Canadian universities went to live in other countries. They were brought back to Canada and placed in positions :here. Forte young engineers from the British Isles were also placed in Canadian 'positions, Encouraged by the success attains ed to date members ot the Teohnical Service Commit unanimously decided South Africa Has Few Advantages' Missionar,, Doctor • Finds ..10 to Compare , 111 Canada Sauti-CAfriOCIs xiot -a country a Cans adieu .wo4like, Mooed/rig to Dr. Alan B.Taylet, attached to a mission - wry bospitaLat Durban, South Afrieet Who is home on a year's furlough, The people seemed to he affected by tho climate, he'pointed out, and some went native, They tried to bring out • British soldiers after the war and set- tle them, but the climate got them and the practice was discontinued. Now a 1118.11 18 told he angst have $10,000 if he °ernes to South Africa. If he has that, D. Taylor pointed out, he could do just as well with it in the Other dominions, Th4 drought is a terrible thing., and four or five years of it in a row 'will clean a man out. Li he has the eneb and stamina. to hold out, he will recoup the losses, Dr. Taylor said, but many get discouraged and move away. • LACK 0,111 TRANSPORTATION. • Transportation as far as roads are concerned is far behind Canada. Farmers seem unwilling to -give their landfor a right of way, and the Gov- ernment cannot afford to buy the road- way, and so no through motor high- ways exist in the more sparsely settled ,districts. There are no concession roads there, for the people pay ne, land tax and got the land originally for nothing, hence their ability to hang on to huge areas, And the farmer as yet can see /ID reason:why a road through his property would do him any geed. Dr. Taylor refutes the statements tphek;tioz. the' African railways were su- "Ne have about five good trains out there for American tourists and the South Africans never see the inside of them," he said. "The rest of theta cannot compare with yours. I have heard people say that they do not like yonr open sleepers; 'they are used to compartments'm but that is a atter of taste. In South Africa, husbands and wives lutes to separate at -night, all the ladies going in a compartment for ladies, -where four or 'five sleep to- gether, and all the men do likewise. There is no privacy in that, and in my opinion the Canadian system is much bette7. faciag facts and:presenting' them to bring the universities into closer oars however unwillthg. "Hail and ferewell," is, all that can now be eaid to hluu. I:le is down, but he is right; :and, being eight, .he awl his cause shall Ilse again. Square Deals at Round tables Hong _!Kong -lereeltly Press:'• (Sir Robert Ho Tung has appealed Jo 'Chiang Kae•Shek, Yen Is Shant Emig ,Ye. Hsiang, and Chang Hsueh .14teng 'to discuss thehedifferences at a round - Wile Conference). We. fear there is little foundation for Sir Robert Ho Tung's optimism concerning a round- table settlement of the differences be- tween. the Big Four Men, who appear. to have nothing in conimon but mutual dislike and • jealousy. Theaelternatiee le not necessarily war—at least not on a 'really. wags of patching-up,diff cremes, and China, may—we earnestly hope will—be spared, another disruptive outbreak of civil war. True, such a Settlement will leave the real cause ot the trouble Pi-eelsely where.it twat be - tare. I/nele the armies are brought coiupletely under civil control, the un- happy people of China appear doomed to be helpless pawns lir the hands of struck with the, almost compjete ab- • . Avid War Lords. But how those with- settee of 'elettukeiniess „in the sereets, out Power are to Wrest authority from whicli used to bi a faMillar Satinelay those eeho have force at their com- mand is a problem as pet unsolved. Lon' "So your engagement to Eva is off. And. I thought she doted on you." e "Yes,' she', did. But her father proyecheo be an enticlote." . touch with Canadian. industrial, fine- cial and transportation. seonditions Among organizatioiss co-operating with tee council are those represent ing manufacturing ;banking, trans 'portation, mining, departmental stores, engineering concerns, trust companies and other institutions. The council reported that many Canadian industries • :employed men with specialized traineee fol. the first time dieing the -year, and that a very small percentage cf this year's gra- duating classes in science from Can- 'aclian universities have been obliged to leave Canada te find positions.. . • , •Sobriety and Prohibition Calcutta -Englishman: Scarcely less significant than the recent growth of illicit drinking in. the 'United States is the chinge that has cense over the social habits , of einghteed in the last fifteen years, during wialeite, period there has been a decline alp per cent. in the national egneumpeion of beer and spirits. 7: . The change is particularly noticeable to tli Eng- lishman who, afeer,years abroad, re- turns home on leave; he is at once WONDERFUL HOTELS. "Your hotels are wonderful compart ed to ours. Very few have baths at- tached to the rooms. "Mrs. Taylor, who came from Cob. den, Ont,, originally, said that she ad- mired the Canadian lighting fixtures. You have such pretty lamps here. If we hay. One in the house we think it is a luxury, and. that is all we can afford. We pay more than $10 a month for • the eleetric lights in our house. "Screens, too, which everybody has here, are not known out whine we are. We just have to put.up with insects, because we have no .screens to keep them out." Dr. Taylor admits he does not like the country much but so wrapped up in his work is he, that he proposal to return for another eight years and oon- cedes that he may possibly end his days out there. Speaking of the political situation, he believes that Herzog has cut into the Dutch supporters of Smuts for he seems to have many behind him who in the old days were back of the Botha - Smuts party. Of Herzog he said: "They used to say there were two premiers in South Africa -e -Herzog and the last man he talked to." night feature of industrial towns-- he thet:el days. gone by. Recently pulila ed statistics are illuminating 1n this .respect; whereas in 1913 the mealier of convictions for drunkenness: 111 England and Wa,lee. was 172,1e0, the ligure had fallen 'to .56,4e1in 1928. Australian Work in the Antarctic Cape Argus: The task of the Dis- covery in. gathering knowledge which may prevent the extermination of the wbale is of evorld-wide importance. Norwegian whalermen, who have of- ten steamed into new seas during their hunts, declare that the vast waters of the Autaectio contain so many whales -that there is uo fear of the industry dying. They liken their floating factories to little sheatiug. boxes in an enormous forest teeming , with game. Sir Douglas Mawson and other scientists do not share this view. The ways of the whale are so little known,- in any case, that definite information may. -be worth millions ot • pounds. (Since this was written the Dis- covery was destroyed by a gasoline explosion and her captain burned to death. Sir Douglas Manson escaped injury but lost the complete meat of the expeditien.—id.) Signing the Optional Clause Bombay Times of India: Scenes of great jubilation followed the signing of the Optional Clause Britain and associated members of the Empire. There wore "talkie" caneras—ene of the disadvantages of postponing the event so long. Moreover, guns were fire& This, ot course, is the Geneva idea of converting swords into plow- shares. The practice is well known in India, and so long as everyone has ample warning few (Meet. The firing et guns in pence time is no worse than submitting to a flash -light photo- graph before the hoesel'oevre. Hrs. Flatbush—"Where have you been till this late hour?" Mr. Flat- bush—"To the lecture as I told you. - before I went." Mrs. lelatbuslet-"But you couldn't be at a lecture as late as this." Mr. Flatbusb.—"Oh, yes, X could. Yott see, the lecturer stutter- Soeletyee Championettip Sitow, ed." ONE LADY EXHISITOR ARRIVES FOR DOG SHOW Mise Taller arrives at Crystal Palace, London, with 'her sheep dogs for Metropolitan and Eseee Canine.