Zurich Herald, 1926-09-09, Page 7Bransll COLUMBIA APID CANADIAN UNITY
"Every Younq Canadian Should Be Steeped in Things Cana.
clian. That . is Not Being Done,"
Before .an appreciative audience a
the annual meeting of the Vancouve
Board of Trade, Mr. B. C, Nola
editor of the Victoria Tittles, deligere
azi address on "13ritish Cdlumbia azi
Canadian Unity.". Couched n eloquen
language, enlivened with touches o
humor, and given by one wbo ents
tains the highest ideals for his oountr
and at the dame time the friendliee
feeling for his country's powerfu
neighbor to the south, the adtires
etruck a sympathetic note throughou
the gathering and was received wit
enthusiasm,
Mr. Nichols emphasized the nee
of Canadian unity on account of th
danger of Canadians succumbing t
the friendly republic with which th
Domini= had so much in oommon,
relining unity as a common interes
in 13 national characteristics. Unit
was essential on account q our pe
culler geographical situation, as n
two countries were so situated as Can
ada and the United States and thee
was need of sotnething that would re
.Ist the influences which, whil
friendly, would have a tendency to
t ism and no -cheek on their resources
r and that, more than anything else,
s, • bunt up the Unitea States. The human
d factor had to find its own niche and
d under the spur of necessity it de -
t veloped."
f . The Vicoria editor then. emphasized!
the necessity of British Columbia make
Y ing sufficient effort to impress on the
t Mast the great eetural resources
1 this piovinee, and the ueeeseity of ob- I
a It:!istorn,titina3i,,ns to share in
t thisdevelop:neut. in (1118 expansion,
h however, he would avote statutory law
that interfered with the initiative of
d private eeeltal.
e "We miisc not s tandarclize the
• human equation," he said amid ap-
9
I Confident of Vancouver's Destiny.
y I
The speaker puttered a glowing peo-
ture of tile relation':of this province to
:the Commerce of the Pacific, which, as
Captain 'Robert Dollar said, "'would be
-;
the battlefield of. maritime commerce."
e i The East had not yet visualized the
I p•ossibillties of that trade.
Apelying his argument. locally, Mr.
Nicholas stressed the ueoessity of
-draw the nations apart.
Need Oanadianism in Schools.
He discussed the promotion of Cana-
dianism under the sentimental or
moral aspect and the material or
economic aspect, based on the know
• ledge of history and the resources and
possibilities of the tountry.
Mr. Nicholas received the approha-
. tion of his audience when he declared
that the promotion of Canadian senti-
ments should begin hi the schools
"Every young Canadian should be
steeped in things Canadian," he de-
clared. "They should be taugh Cana-
dian hiatory in a way that no other his.
tory is taught. That is not being done.
In the Victoria High School Canadian
history is not taught. When I went to
school Canadian history was. taught
• as an appendix, a history where you
learn to • know the spacious, romantic
thrilling record of Canada,"
Briefly he outlined some of the high
lights of that great record from the
a earliest days down through to the time
when one realized the tremendous in-
fluence Canada had in the development
of the United States, when Canadian
voyageurs named Louisiana, New Or -
lean and opened up ethenparts of that
great territory to the south. Down
through the years he mentioned the
changes that had talten place to the
time when responsible government
was given to the country and Canada
became a self-governing couutry with-
in the British Empire, thus laying the
foundation for the government of Aus-
tralia and New Zealand; '
"The young Caanalian should be
taught the significance of these
things," the speaker Continued. "There
is no reason why he should read of
Pitt and Burke and not learn of Mac-
donald, Howe, Tapper and Brown,
fathers of Confederation. Why, should
he know more •of the independence of
the United States than of the founding
of CCM federation?
"Then there are bold enterprises
such lie the building of the greatest ;
transcontinental railway hi the world !
of which he should learn, and which
bespeak of the virility, courage and I
vision of Canadians,"
From things historical, the speaker
took his audience to the achieve-
ments of Canadians in the field of com-
merce, ;teetering that Canadians were
• as efficient a people as those in any
other tart of the world.
-1-1-ei demonstrated that they were the
equal of those who lived in the United
States by quoting statistics to show
that Canadian manufactured products
were equal in volume to those of the it
United States when that country had,
a Population of forty million. Canada
was the largest exporter of wheat in
the world, and produced wheat equal
to that of the United States when the
population of that country was seventy
million Canada produced almost as
much paper as the United States.
"I would plant the mentality of
confscieusness•in our young people in
our record, so that that inferiority
complex, of which we hear so much,
would readily disappear," said Mr.
Nicholas. You give them sorhething
that cannot be easily indicated when
you give. them something of the his-
tory of their country."
It was difficult to unite a disconteht-:
eel people and the country would have
to be put on a sound economic basis,
he addeth Moreover, to solve Canada's
economic difficulties.; a vigorous and,
successful immigration polidy was!
leoessary. There must be More human '
inks between the Atlantic and several
Ulnaemore than • nine million was
neeessary. . . •
"We hear •a ,great deal about seiec-
tiVe immigration," he continued. "I I
• would only adopt a policy of selective
itneeigrafiba in a limited settee, We
will 'altvaye be more or less a recruit-
ing ground for the United States until
that country has reached the point of
saturation.
awakening the consciousness of the
East to the development of Vancouver.
Cities of the size of Vancouver never
I stopped growing for it was easier for a
'city of 200,0.00 to double in population
t than for one ot 20,000, and when Van-
couver commanded the same interest
mantled it, than they would have two
in the same seese as Montreal com-
great anchor stones, one east and one
west, for one great structure and a
!measure of economicemity.
"Wet want our Eastern friends to
come out here and help the develop-
ment, not because we wish td exploit
!them, but so that, as Canadians, they
will have a share in them. We wish
teem to partake of the high destiny
which will be ours," he concluded.
She—"Yoti'll not dictate to any flap-
per stenographer."
He—"Zat so? I'll take no dictation
from my wife as to whom I'll dictate."
Chaucer.
His statism was not very tall,
Deane he was, his legs were small,
Hosed within a stock of red
A buttoned bonnet on his head,
From under which did hang, I weene,
Silver hairs both bright and sheene,
His beard was white, trimmed round,
His countkance blithe and merry
found,
A Sleevelesse Iacket large and
With many pleights and skirts Side,
Of water Chamlet did he weare,
A whittell by his belt he beare,
His shooes were corned broad before,
His Inkhorne et his side he wore,
And in his hand he bore a booke,
Thus did this auntient Poet looks.
—Robert Greene.
gee—
A Mining Problem.
A youth began work in a mine, and
his first job consisted of driving one
of the pony wagons used for carrying
coal to the shaft.
He got along fiery well until one day
he came to a place where the roof of
the gallery was too low to allow the
pony to pass. Consequently, he took
a pick and ,began to hack away part of
the, roof.
Immediately a foreman came on the
scene and asked what he was doing.
The lad explained that he was making
a way for the pony to pass.
"Now, that's a dangeeous thing to I
clo," held the foreman "You might,
bring the whole roof down. What you I
ought to do is to cut away the fitter."
"D'ye think I'nl a fool?" retorted the
lad. "It's the pony's head that won't
go through—not his feet." .
Haunted House.
It is a lone and tumbled house
Whore shadoWs lie in tangled heaps
And where a tiny Intngry mouse,
n fancied bravery, creeps
Across the dusty floor but derts't
nto its hole at every sound; e.
Then, bold again, it peeps and stAks
Once more its futile round.
Lott Part of increase.
"We have lost a great part of our
natural increase in population to the
United States and we can not afford a
oclicy of driblets.
would Welcome every law-abiding
citizen here. True, there will be some
Misfits, but you must expect a certain
amMber of growing pains. If the
united States has hot-honeed its imi.
grants when they first came it would I/
not have grown to the extent it has.
I admit the immigration was too pro. T
tulecuouS, but there was no paternal.
Ty heart's a lone and haunted house
With dream!, like shadows, sleeping;
ind Memory is a Mouse that comas
n doubtful bravery creeping,
—Whitelaw Saunders.
0
0 Sweet Content.
hen he that patiently want's burdenbears, bears,
o burden bears, but is a king, a Icing!
sweet content! 0 sweet, 0 sweet
content!
York apace, apace, apaee, 11,pace;
honest labor bears a lovely face;
hon hey nanny, hey nanny, nonnyl
—Thomas Dekker,
Interprovincial boundary line monument in Jasper National Park, where a ranger
(right) ss: "How do you doodle do?" to a cowboy from Alberta.
A PAPER COMES BETWEEN THEM
• By Henri Faik
Translated by William L. McPherson. 1 "Isn't it a little pronounced?" I von
We decided to marry, Janine and I, tured.
before we obtained. the consent of our "Pronounced, my clear?" she answer
families. Two young people inlove , ed hi a piqued tone. "Evidently it is
have a right to their share Of romance , But we are not notaries, to surround
in life, Without doubt, our parents, 'ourselves with green paper. I ani mad
once informed, would hasten to ap- about my yellow. Come, say that you
prove our project. But all that there ' love it, too."
As infatuated as I was with Janine
was in me of vanity, of fantasy and of
sentimentality had received Batista°. I could not resolve to love her paper.
tion. What more could be wished? I suggested, with a sort of cowardice:
That evening all Dinard, dancing at "Listen! Le us call in an arbiter—
the Casino, learned the good news and.] an arbiter of sound judgment."
congratulated us. The impetuous ap- ! "Good! What is your opinion?" She
peal of a mutual love urged us to re- asked the salesman, with a Circelike
duce the time of our engagement to a .801110.
minimum. We returned to Paris very The two pieces were the same in
quickly to hunt for a nuptial apart- • price. The salesman could show him-
ment. I self gallant without scruple.
One of my uncles is director of a ! "My opinion agrees with yew's,
'madame," ho said. "A pretty yellow
real estate concern. He offered us as
a wechliug present—and it was for us .has no equal."
"There, you sea!" Janine said exult -
the most desirable of all—the lease of
a charming first -floor. We set about antly.
I
furnishing it. With a very tender feel.understood that further opposition'
would annoy- my beloved, I tried to
ing, we discovered, my fiancee and I,
that our tastes harmonized in the mat-; look cheerful and demared:
e e
ter of furniture. In ehort, on the eve ! "So be it. Let us takthpretty
yellow."
of our marriage it remained only to.:
select a wall paper for our bed chain-
We were married.
ber,
• Shall I confess it? ,Entering the
A. delicate, a delicioue task. . For conjugal chamber as into the depths of
acubic system of superposed sume, 1
an hour the wall paper salesman un-: didn't feel altogether at ease. I am
rolled before us a series of patterns so a rather nervous person. In spite of
diverse that our dazzled eyes blinked in
myself I thought:
in a haze of colors. Anio
xus to recover
"Every evening of my Iife—every
my visual balance I glued my fingers !evening of my life I shall go to bed aud
against my lids and counted a bun evI get i
from
'British
Columbia
Anrising Degree*,
• The brand-new degree of Doctor"'of
Longitude end Latitude has been con-
ferred on Lieutenant-Clemmander Byrd,
the ifrat man to fly over the North..
Pole.• it is 'almost ;superfluous to add
that this distinction origiaates in the
United States, the home of new and
astonishing degrees.'
•
It Ids a mitigative circumstance that
in this instance the diplotna has been.
conferred by an emluently serious
itt-
stitution., the. American Geographical
Society. The educational institution
of the United States, however, give
themselves a wide range of latitude
(as well as longitude) in, the bestowal
of degrees.
There is, for instauce, a Professor-
ship of Plumbing at the Carnegie In-
stitute at Pittsburg. Cornell 'University
has a special course in the manage-
ment of hotels, and grants to profici-
onts a "D.II," or Diploma of Hospi-
tality. The California Board of Edu-
cation has conferred on Miss Blanche
Adella Hawkins a Diploma In the Art
and Proeess of Whistling, which en-
titles her to use the initials "B.A,Wh."
The University of California has a
degree which is indicated by the id-
lers "SelV.D,Cal.," showing that the
recipient has received. a degree for
film scenario writing. Even dignified
Harvard has a "D.D.w.," which signi-
fies a Diploma in Dramatic•Writing.
New York Uni-versity confers, among
other distinctions, those of "M.B.A.,"
or Master of Bueiaess Administretion,
and "I3.D.S.," Bachelor of Donaestio
Science, a twin degree to. the "B.H.i.
was crying. I pressed her with affec-.401, Toronto University—Baelielor of
q
tionate uestious.
'Household Scieuce. Toronto also con -
"Wicked person!" she exclaimed at
fers a '13.1'.," or Bachelor of Pedagogy,
t lest. "This paper still stands between a height to which Harvard has not
s.et
uAnd how you have made Incme set- aspire.d, although it gives a "D.I.M.,"
a.
Ifer!" or Diplomin Industrial Medicine.
- 1 Toadied to the quick in my good Other quaint American degrees in -
faith, I could not help answering sharp- elude Bachelor of Humanies, Bachelor
- 1 ly. A naarrel arose. During the morn- of Physican Education, and Baehelor
4 . ing, while I was at my office, Janine of Accounts, abbreviatedd to "B.Accs,"
took retuge with her parents. In England they are much more con.
•
R • h 1 f d
ery morning !shall upn this at-
1 • • f
deed. Then, opening my eyes, I had a I mosphere of a Parmentier .omelette."
sensation of triumph,
I A dolorous idea, which affected some -
"There is what we need!" 1 cried,i what my• tender demonstations. Ja-;
Pointing to a sea -green paper, set off. - nine's clear blue 'eyes were fixed on
with triangles of jade.. "The green is:me,
servative but the :Manchester College
•
farewell' -on the radiator. 1 ran to re-
• join her, he threw herself into my
join her. She threw herself into my
; rashness. Then, after many fervent
kisses:
"No, no, my dear; we shall not re-
turn to -eight to a room where I have
spent aahappy hours. Wait a few
• days. Take me into the country."
We reed for a week in a delightful
meek' Sate], and what was arty sur -
on regaining our apartment. to
find that the yellow pz,per had been re-
elmeed by the green paper.
. Y00! You!" 1 cried, deliein'd. "You!
have done thii for ran, dearest:"
.
She miswertd siInpiy
"It is bese cauI love you."
I was tiro victor. The exquisite
creature Imo. the dn
oeacv not to allude
farther to the =orifice v:hich. been
imposed upon her. But It sensitive-
1leei, put on guard, soo
tlived in .3a-,
•Itin's silence clear confottsions of eat-
reing, A 8.3ntimental oteemloner,
litgan CO detest my vico;ry. lictm:tese
of Technology confers a "I3.0.0.," or
Bachelor of Color Chemistry, and St.
Andrews beatows on women students
the "L.L.A.;" or Leely Literate of Arts.
Birmingham has degree in brewing,
and even Cambridge has so far unbent
as to arrange for a "D.P.H.," or Dip -
101110 in Public Health, and a "D.M.R.;
and E.," or Diploma in Medical Radio].
logy ;eel electricity.
'Thvezd3 Among the
Alrout twsn't y4ive years ago, 'Hart
leatee Danes, the composer of this
ehrase and eong, was found dead in a
Philadelphie boerdingehouse, kneeling
beside his bed. On au old and worn
, .
ilk, tamed:, song he
V.:11, "it is herd to grow old alone."
Yet in that very state, he had writ-
ttn of the wife Ile adored, aLove can
r tot,re grew old. She survived
IN many years, but for soars time 1)0-
ro death they lived apart. it was
'nu1ur teat. parted them, So enor-
nons 1,e4 its success that they ex -
hewn -el their cottage for a mansion,
that. dwelt, In the cottage
tr have flown out O1 the mate
10)1 iuil eantually 11 k(1 to setter:l-
e-et,
elthougb the history of the phrase,
Silver threads among the geld," is a
ea one, the idea Imo caught the !meg-
netien 111 our hounalet Mg race, and
usos truc lovo surviving the ad -
11(1 age era by no means rare,
weighed on me.
"Janine," I said the next day, in a
burst of .adoration, "ueither It green 1
raper nor a yellow paper. We er.1 g j
Ing to go back to the ,p,:oer shop and
choose, this time, a paper ';..,r whieh
. we will both be enthasiaid i " 1 S
"Ah! Nene. eow good 311 are:" slier
said, embracing me. "And how happy
we are going to he!"
For an hove the `radio uerollea
his stock, Nevertheress, ley belay -ad; 1
sought 111 my oyes her (two ' (7.
I sought mine in hers. finally we
showed --or feigned to—a sdmultane-
ous ecstasy over a paper neutral in tint
and vague in dr8fgn. It now decorates
our chamber, But in the depths of my
heart I am disturacd. L.:ha:lolling tells
me, inspired fit' everything, that in
place of pleasing at lea4t one of us it
will please neither.
•
agreeable to look at, The triangle is j "yes," she sighed, "you hold it tile
a simple and beautiful embellishment." against me. Oh! Pierre, Pierre, I see
I had hardly finished my s•entence I what is passing in your mind, You
when the salesman unrolled a pale yel- » don't love me as you would love me
low paper, spangled with disks of gold. !without this yellow paper."
"At last," Janine exclaimed, "at last! "Yes, I do. Yes, I do," I protested.
heaven is with us, There is what we "The paper is on the wall, Don't let us
were lcokiug for. You will see how talk any more about paper. Let us
✓ ell that will match the bedroom for- ,think only of our love."
nishings." In the morning I saw that Janine
poOtarerarmarona......
ADA.MSON'S ADVENTURES
WELL: I'LL
HANG -my HAT
UP HERE AND
LIGHT IT
AGA] N
•
(Oopy(Ight, 104, by The /341 Syndkntn, Inc.)
• Obstructing the View.
Outside, Looking In.
!.hricks, Biel, fly -screen time is
hero again!"
A Gift of R03.1..'3.
Just as many golden roses
As 011 01108 cnuld hold,
Lovely 31t fitim lovely neigliaor
Ere the ntorn was cid;
Pouting bud and li,,If-blown b!cssom,
flowered le their green,
Pull blovor resos richly blowliv,
newdrrrs en their 8110011.
Just a lift of yellow roses,
That, and something more.
Hint of :masers glowing glory,
• Gleam rf Autumn's store:
Tbat, oa smtething richer, deeper,
Makes the gladness start,
Friendship's fairer, sweeter blossoms
Blooming In the heart.
• —May Howe Dakin.,
The Best SlisineSs.
Thera, is nci better business, no
nobler nor more helpful to Mankind,
than housework.. And it is one of the
curious quirks of the times that while
we rank "home" alongside of "heaven,"
call it the sacredest word in the lang-
uage and all that, we set housework
or home -keeping down as cite of the
least desirable of occupations.—Dr.
Frank Crane.
eaft,
The Young Man—"Woulg eon have
any objection if your mother Wore to
become my mothordn-lawr
The Young Lady-e."None at all -12 1
bad a Sister,"
et.!...;