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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-05-07, Page 6'WITH THE .� ONE - This week I want to talk to you about a subject which' every Lone Scout probably knows a great deal • about—Trees, In the district .-t which you live there may bea great number of trees of various sorts to make the land- scape beautiful and to delight the eye of all who puss by. Unfortunately, however, in years gone by, when men.had greater hard- ships to face than we have today, the trees were frequently sacrificed by the old a ioneers with a total dis- regard to the dam,..ge that they were doing to their property and to the scenic beauty of the countryside. All that they cared about was the fact that they required lumber to build their houses and barns, that the Laud must be cleared for cultivation and that fences must be erected. The consequence is that now, as we journey through our province, we frequently come across places which are practically devoid of trees, and which consequently are most de- pressing to look upon For, after all, 're not trees one of man's best friends? They provide lumber, which we trees themselves are large enough to turn into lumber, and so prove a profitable investment on land that otherwise would be a dead loss. Have you many trees around your home. If not, do you know ,that the Ontario Government will give you trees for nothing or for a very little cost, so that you can easily s;,art your own plantation? Write to Headquarters for details of this, Do you know_ that every year at the week end of the 24th 11iay a camp is held at the Government Forestry. Station at Angus, Ontario, where about 200 Boy Scouts are the guests of the Government, . and are shown all about the research work in For- estry which the Government is do- ing? These boys help to plant a few trees, and are given some to take home with them and they learn a great deal about this subject. The camp costs them nothing at might have wisdom to see What etp.1 1,eare to us to be their errolrs. It is our duty to let otia'selvss be slain, but not ourselves to slay," The idealist frequently tails be- cause he does not see clearly in what manner and degree his ideals can be applied to at>nte icutuediate situation. Gandhi has, M times, found himself confreated by a grim and dreadful Frankenstein of his own' creation, whose olreruitlous he had no power to eontroi an front whose outrages itis whole beteg rose up in Protest. But ideas once ttttot•ed are not defeated even by their mistaken devotees. The work of a goad man'. accomplishes itself iu ninny ways., The Soul -Power liberated win its greatest victories beyond legisla- tures, battle -fields and law -courts. In this fateful year o.t India's' his tory it is well to recall that Gandhi has so profound a respect for the British character. "The English-' Mian," he writes, "never respects you unless you stand up to him, He is afraid of nothing except his own conscience. •He does not like to be rebuked for wrongdoing, at first, but he will think over it and it will get hold of him and hurt him till he does something to put it right." One wonders whether Gandhi has yet discovered that the principle of all, excepting the : cost of ,ctheli non-violence is too idealistic for the transportation to and from Angus, and you too can be one of that num- emasses of India. In his very Pres- her if you wish. If you would like elide his own devoted followers have write to your risen em up to massacre and dtroy. ' to attend this camp, Following the horrors at Chauri Scoutmaster and obtain fuller Parti- Chaura Gandhi issued a proclamation eulars ciders. acknowledging that this was the Last year a number of Lone third warning he had received from God that the time had not yet come for his ideals to be put into practice. ' In penance he imposed upon himself a five-day fast. ' The Government of India has also , learned many lessons. We cannot impose our will upon a reluctant peo- ple. cannot do without, and if the mat- Scouts, members of the Buffalo Pa- ter is taken seriously they are a trol. at Vandorf, attended this camp very profitable investment, they and reported a wonderful time. provide shade for man and bear. on At Ebor Park, near Brantford, On-' a hot day. They protect from the tario, is one of the finest collections cold winds in winter, and they de- of trees, growing naturally, in 0n- Iight the eye with their ieauty. tario. This is where the Lone Scouts Also trees can turn otherwise bar- have held their Summer Camp for ren land into beautiful and profit- two years, and it is a very beauti- able country. fug place. There is one Black Wal - In quite a few psrts of this coun- try, the soil is very sandy and quite useless for ordinary cultivation. This sand, too has a bad habit of drift- ing over other good land and mak- ing that too worthless. A small plantation of trees will stop this drift of sand, will prevent the ruination of good property, and will put to good use this sandy soil which otherwise is worthless. If the right trees are planted in a wise manner, in a very few years the nut tree which requires three Lone Scouts to stretch their arms around it's trunk, in order to touch Bands all round. Applications to join the Lone Scouts of Ontario, should be made to The Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2, Ontario. Only boys who cannot join a re- gular Troop are eligible to join the Lone Scouts. "LONE E." Mahatma Gandhi lowers of Gandhi must not harbor an uncharitable thought, even towards • one considered an enemy, India s Leader (c) The vow of Self -Control. Ap- Toronto Weekly Gives Interesting Outline of India's Prophet "Mahatma Gandhi is the most in- fluential person in India today." writes Trevor H. Davies, D.D., in this article in the New Outlook, To- ronto. To millions of its people he is the greatest man in the world. And it is the man himself who counts. There are few among his contemporaries in whom the power of spirit has come to such single- ness of expression. He is poor, having renounced all material pos- (e) The vow of Fearlessness. ,Fear sessions. His uniqueness has made prevents us from following truth, us anxious to present him to our and is opposed to faith in God, petites and passions are to, be'.held 171 icy restraint. The exaggera tion of this �rineiple in the teaching of Gandhi has left .him open to the criticism that so greatly does he dread the sex -instinct, racial suicide would be desirable to hint. ' (d) The vow of Sivadeshi. All should buy in the 'nearest market. This application of his ideals led to, the boycotting of foreign goods, which might have occurred had there been no political unrest. It would certainly make a general commercial intercourse impossible. readers. I (f) The vow regarding Untouch- itiohandas Karamchand Gandhi, to able) There are sixty million i pee - give him his full name (Mahatma is ple iu India whose touch means pol- y title bestowed upon his meaning lotion, whose shadow is a defilement. "Great Soul"), was born in 1869 in Against this hideous result of the Ant{�; Salesmen Att:-'nd. School0 b 1ian nsr�wp Extensive Course in Selling and Car Mechanics on Curriculum . London.—A school, with an exten- sive curriculum, covering all phases in this year's race for high speed of automobile mechanics and the art u „ along the third leg of the triangle point, such as Haparanda or Len - of selling is attracting crowds who.Deadest Village which runs parallel to the mainland ingrad, we hope to have ample op - aspire to the life of the men who ' '� I for fourteen and a half miles. portunity for scientific observations' sell motor cars. Do1't.tlry I�uowlden, as .Indian :queen at impressive annual ;pageant, one of most beautiful `ceremonies of its kind ever held ht,Ogden, Utah, 00,10,00, Twice Weekly Trans .Atlantic Dirigible Service Foretold Detroit.. A trans-Atlantic dirigible line giving twiee-a-week service trona the Chesapeake Bay district to the vicinity of Frankfort, Gevmauy, was forecast by J, C, Ilunsaker, vice-pre- sident of the Goodyear -Zeppelin Cor• potation, in an address before • the society of automotive engineers, aero- nautic division here, gion around Baltimore, Washington . Such aline could carry a bulk of the and Richmond, in Germany, the Erank regular first class trans-Atlantic mail, port district in the Rhine valley. Hunsaker said, and could cater to the The four ships could maintain. re • 25,000 liassengers a year who are now gulag twice -a -week schedules. paying high fares for extreme speed in trans -ocean travel, The pan outlined by Dr. Hunsaker calls for construction of two Americas dirigibles and two by the German Zep- pelin interests. Each side then would build a terminal in the most favorable natural air harbor --,in America the re• Schneider Race Zeppelin May Fly. Course Changed � to Arctic Regions 'Channel Left Open to Ship- ping—Planes Will Be Visible For 15 Miles Southampton, Eng.—The famous air race for the Schneider trophy will be flown this year over a new course. Instead of four-sided as it was for the race in 1929, the new course. will be triangular and a little to the east of the old route, in order to leave the Solent channel open to Southampton shipping. The distance flown will be the same as before. The machines will start and finish at Ryde Pier and a turn will be made near Wittering to the east of Chichester harbor. At this point the course turns sharply to the west and then stretches straight past Hayling Island. Souheas, Giikicker Point and Stokes Bay, and so to the next turn off the Is1e of Wight at a point to the north-east of East Cowes. The first leg of the triangle is seven and three-quartert miles, the second leg eight and quarter miles, itnd the third, fourteen and a half miles. The turns will be fewer but sharp- er this year. Cornering will be difficult and of great importance while the control of the .seaplanes in the air will have a still greater signi- ficance than in past races. A. splen- did and better opportunity is offered Doctor Eckener Eager to Test Dirigible in Exploration Berlin—Negotiations which have been carried oh here recently be• . tweeu Dr. Hugo Eckener and vara. , sus interested persons on a possible ' Zeppelin North Pole flight make the flight seem more likely than at any time heretofore, the Graf's veteran commander intimated. "Our great and : only difficult, throughout," he said, "has been the question of financing the polar flight, but I an. quite hopeful that this dif- ficulty ig ficulty will be overcome. One rea- son why I am very eager to fly this year 1s because I would like to meet my friend Wilkins somewhere in the Arctic wastes. "There is a deep scientific purpose behind niy desire to discover Wilkins and his submarine Nautilus. The Zeppelin, as an instrument of Arctic exploration, will prove most effec- tive if it can carry an expedition to whatever Arctic region it is desired to explore, deposit the members of the expedition there, and later call for them again. Looking for and discovering Wilkins's expedition will serve as a practical test of the effie acy of the Graf Zeppelin in the polar regions. So far as the Zeppelin's scientific personnel is concerned, we do not in- tend to land anybody, but, by re- maining in the air six days after leaving a Northernmost mooring • esi ent� Complain and extensive photography of the 'Perhaps the idea may appeal to Tha region over which we fly." ` - The idea behind the auto college lire iesldents of plorsmoudeu, a beau - is that a good salesman is one ,rho ,,yp :nage in the Kentish Weald, Father's Golden Harvest possess a wide and thorough knowl 1 r �s from London claimed to be in the 1929 race could only be view- + deadest,' village in )✓ngland ed, for the most par*., through field The school inspector was testing edge about automobiles. Accoidtnttilittle Tommy's ,general knowledge ly, the program of studies includes `rheic is no cinema or dance hall, i glasses unless people were fortunate lectures on all makes and models of and there is not even a doctor. The' enough to obtain a point of vantage poweos ears, used cars, motor car 1egula- sole amusement is a visiting cinema I fn one of the warships or yachts in "Now, then, my lad;' he said, "tell tions and insurance, publicity and mice a week at the village hall, seat- the harbor. me which is the harvest season?" "From November to March," Tom- my promptly replied: "Come, come," said the inspector, "I'm surprised that you should naive such barren months. Who told you they were the harvest season?" "My dad," said the. boy. "He's a plumber." More Haste, Less Speed The young man rushed excitedly into the office of the managing direc- tor of the huge motor works. • "Look here, sir," he exclaimed breathlessly, "is it true that your firm has built a car in seven min- utes thirty-five seconds?" The manager threw out his chest triumphantly. "Yes, young man," he replied, "that is correct, and I can tell you we're very proud of it." "Well, I'm not,.".the young man re- eorted bitterly. "I've got that ear." A- New Mount "Give me the mune of an animal," said the schoolmistress. • + "An average," volunteered little I3ertie. "An average!" echoed, the teacher, "That's not .an animal," "Well, teacher," said the boy, "my sister says that her young man lived ten miles away, and he rode over to see hei twice a week on an average," newcourse,from. a spectat- ors' point of view, is better than the old. The progress of the machines advertising, sales procedure, sales- ing, 150, and the only public music room practise, showroom displays is. •provided by the organist at the vil- and technical features of automo- .lage church. The one link with the biles. outside world is an omnibus to Tun- is thought that part of the new Elaborate equipment has been in- bridge Wells, eight miles away, course will be dangerous in the event stalled, including a motion picture Which has no late service. Only of a. forced lauding, since the ma- ' nz time This year there will be a clear view visible from the mainland for about fifteen miles of the course. It projector and screen and an epidi- far a few weeks—at lop -p scope, which enables the class to see eels there any life in this "back - clearly images of opaque objects, ;,Vater" with a population of 1,500. such as portions of the car that text book illustrations cannot repre- sent adequately. 4,000 French-Canadians Repatriated Last Year Western India, His father bequeath• caste system this high -caste Brah- Montreal—The movement of ne- ed his family little save a passion man has struggled for years. Gandhi tive French-Canadians back to the himself lives from time to time Province of Quebec has brought 4,000 for truth; his mother has been call- ed a Hindu Monica. At the age of with these depressed people and en - nineteen he sailed for dabEngland to tertains their representatives in his study law and was declared a arris- home. He has not declared himself ter in June, 1891, against the caste system but he has It was after his return to India inspired his followers to oppose this that the call came to defend some of social crime of the Untouchables his fellow countrymen domiciled in with all their power. South Africa. Gandhi remained in (g) The vow of I�hadclar. Every that country for twenty years. Too one should work with his own hands. much stress cannot be laid in tragi ing his development to the years Gandhi would have the old spinning - spent in South Africa. He found wheel introduced to the homes of himself and the ruling principles of India, He is afraid' of the modern his work there. When he return- machine, and of factories with their ed to India it was only to apply and develop the laws of life which be- came luminous to him during the • years he spent as the champion of outcast classes in that southern land. It was Gandhi who organized op- position to despotism among his fel- low countrymen in South Africa, and at the same time prevented violence and bloodshed in their determina- tion to be free. Three principles he proclaimed which were afterwards destined, in the larger life of India, to make him the storm centre of that laud. hien simuld take no part in the life of a society which denied then. freedom, that is "non -co -opera• rtion " They should do no violence upon their oppressors: it suffering tante to them it must be borne, butt injury to those who cause that suf- /ering should not be even •eonteui- plated: it is the principle of "non - ;violence.' They ought further to serve their oppressors, belpiug them In any need: that is "Soul -Force." When Gandhi returned to India he was already a national hero, and thousands flocked to his leadership. He established what is called "Ash - rant," some three ltttndred miles north of Bombay; it was a social and re,. ligious group upon which he impos- e(' certain rules of lite. The work of Gandhi may be understood by a careful study of these basic laws of life and doctarine, (a) ' The vole of Truth Men must follow Truth at all costs, (b) The doctrine of Ahlhisa. Thiel is more than ii 1 ti1o'i0iidi4. The bet, back to settle in Quebec during the past year, and additional inquiries, for particulars fo the repatriation scheme are overwhelming his. staff. ; 7 � Hon. Hector Laferte, provincial Minister of Colonization and Fish- Honest labor bears a lovely face. eries, stated here recently. =Thomas Dekker. • The Magic Word Briggs went to the garage to 'see if they had succeeded in getting his car :to work. "Look here," he said to a garage' hand, "this is my car. I want it, and What I say. goes—see?" • Just then a dirty -faced mechanic crawled out from under the vehicle and said: "Say `engine,' mister." high-powered looms. He would stem the economic tide which . is slowly flooding and enriching India. This vow of Khaddar is the utter- ance of an impractical mystic and has not merely brought him into un- necessary conflict with the govern- ment of India, but threatens also to retard the progress of his own peo- ple towards economic and industrial freedom. It should .be.,added that as a tem- porary palliative it is good to have the spinning -wheel in. the home dun-, ing the days of poverty which be - shadow the families of India. (h) Lastly, he taught the religious use of politics. Men should first realize their communion with God through prayer and then allow the sanctuary -light to be thrown upon every interest of human life, from which, of course, politics cannot be excluded. Considering these principles of life one sees at once the vulnerable points in his system of thought, but surely we inay also see how noble are the ideals Gandhi cherishes and how deeply he has been influenced by New Testament teaching. From this Ashram a revolution has been precipitated, which however inept and mistaken in some of its applica- tions, Itis had as its gliding motive the spirit of gentleness and goodness. "Through love," writes Gandhi, "we. seek to conquer. We trust love the administrators of the Government and 'their supporters. We iat>at ickve them find pray .to God that *1t10I' Broken Iia 1-1.n/f! chines will fly over. eight or ten miles of unsheltered water. In any event, the 'race which will be flown, on September 12 offers more thrills this year than ever before. "Dont be a fool." "Then how could I associate with you?" • Two halves 01 10,000.on steamer Nee at neon, 1 a,l•gest single docker iu world, weevil rail teeeettiel In tog otf Dungeness, recently, and brehe in half, about. to. be .joined together again and sent barge toe the Tyite. Ship gives appPn••;ru e of 'having h cert. out as break Is so clean. Footing the Bill The lawyer's client stormed angri. ly into his office. "Sir," he said, "the charge you make is outrageous." "Sir," said the lawyer calmly; "but so was the charge against which i defended yon." - , d,,• er tit:,i1 r,.:.';l;.ii pt tit... t•,,1: ii'$ 1)110- LIlino .� t'CiLllllilE`.' "1 drm't believe it. If it were so bow do you 'account for the root that onehalf of the world doesn't know how the other halt ,hues?"