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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-01-16, Page 3Canada's Air Mail i Quebec Christmas Services Expand ,postal Fliers Play Leading Role in Developing Northland TWELVE ROUTES Montreal to Vancouver in 36 Hours is Immediate Goal Ottawa.—Canada is rolling her asap northward, The cry to go west is gtviog way to the ct)ii of the North and Its pushing back the froutier— with untold nttllions in rlclios of the Canadian Northland as the magnet— the Dominion's air snail service Is playing a leading role. More than 1,000,000 mhos have beet' traversed In the year 1929 by Can- ada's air mail planes. Nearly an- other million utiles in air mall ser- vice will be added for 1930 by the opening on Fob. 1 of the Winnipeg - Regina -Calgary alr mail route with offshoots to Saskatoon, North Battle. ford and Edmonton, To points three hundred miles within the Arctic Circle, Canadian mall planes travel. 011, gold, silver, copper, nickel and fur -trapping con- tres fn Ontario, Quebec and Western Canada -taday are being serried by these aortal mail carriers, malting more habitable tine baclnvoo(1 dis- tricts with little or no road comment; cation!. Regular Services Lt 0111a1lo'11 Northland, the heti Lake and Narrow Lake mining cen- tres have their regular deliveries of mail by air. Far north 00 Quebec City, the Chibougatuau alining dis- trict, ]las a periodical servico from 'Oskelanes. Even to Fot't Resolution, Ilay River, Fort Providence, Pori Simpson and ether points In the area of Great Siave Lance, along whose shores gold has lately been found, air snail planes of the Dominion wing their way, '.lb Fort Norman, too, steno of recent oll discoveries and one of the great fur -trapping centres, the air mail service extends. Dog leant and ice -breakers are giv- ing way to the advance of the air- plane. The three weel(s'trlp by dog team to Seven Islands from Quebec is replaced by a weekly air mail de- livery taking three hours' 1/111111 to accomplish. Anticosti and the Mag- dalen Islands have their air mail ser- vices and aro no longer dependent on the comparatively slow ice -breaker, Twelve Air Routes T0 -day, 12 air mail routes are in ,operatlot, Montreal -Detroit; Mont - treat -Albany; Toronto•I',uffalo; Mont- real • Ottawa; Montreal - Rimoneki; ,Quebee•Seven Islands; Quebec -Anti - coati; Moncton - Magdalen Islands; Leamington - Peleo Island; Narrow Lalce•Sioux Lookout; Lac du Bonnet - Bisset; Fort McMurray - Aldavik; Montreal -St. Jc1111, and Oskelaueo- Chibougamau, Two great connecting links which would complete a trans -Canada ah' snail service are mooted for the near future—one from Montreal to Winni- peg; the other from Calgary, Loth - .bridge or Edmonton to Vancouver. Early in the new year Canadian alr oficiais contemplate narking a survey to determine the best route from Albetta to tlto Pacific coast, This fact lends color to the p1'obahllily that Parliament may be asked at the nest session to slake the necessary apropriatioa for these new routes. A 36•itour air mail service front Mont- real to Vancouver is the goal. Indian Times of India (Bombay): lits Ma- jesty's Government, through Ills Ex- cellency( the Viceroy, has by a franlc and scribal expression of its inten- tions ntade a generous gesture for lie dlan co-operation. In responding to that posture India should not hest - tate unreservedly to support Lord Ir- win, The Viceroy deserves well of the country. Whatever the prolimiu- a'y mistakes with regard to the Si- mon. Commission may have been, Lord Irwin has given the Niles', mac- tic,il proof of his deep eympathy with Indian aspirations and of his (110111101 desire to further them by 11(91 -order- ed methods. The Base at Singapore Auckland Weekly News: Those who regard cessation of the develop- ment of the base, beyond the private- ly -owned docks in the south of the ls- land of Stogapore, as au impressive gesture of peace, are In error. Tile considered judgment of the Washing- ton Conference of 1921-22, li.e favor- ing declaration of Plolland at a de- cision snaking secure from molesia- tion Iter valuable possessions in the East Indies, all emphasize the peace- ful intent represented in the plan de- veloping the base, With such foreign agreement about that intent, it is straining facts beyond reason to speak of cessation of work at Singa- pore as a gesture of peace. Not Now Detroit Free Press: "The average woman spends more time than money when she goes ahopping,"—Chicago News, Not at this time of the year, brother. A lot more people have discovered' that Wall Street doesn't connect with • )!Iasy Street. bbls picture was taken. Tragedy Averted Virginia -Baked Poisoned Cake is Traced in Time CONTAINED ARSENIC Flour Inadvertently Mixed With Insecticide—Baker is 111 Wa.shingtol.--blow Canadian and American officials in Washington and Quebec 0117 traced a cake heavily charged with arsenic and probably. saved the lives of a Canadian family averting a Christmas tragedy was re- vealed by G. P, Donlon, asalstaut chief of the food and shrug administration here. A neat bit of detective work by Inspects', G. 1'. Larriclb of the United States Department of Agricul- ture, atelephone call from the office of Merchant Mahoney at the Canadian Legation to authorities in Quebec City and the deadly Cake containing flour inadvertently mixed with au In- secticide was 011 110 way back 10 Washington in an unopened pack- age bearing a Christmas seal and the Warning stamp of the Canadian Gov. ernment---poison, The cake was one of trine !Irene - balled in Virginia for lite Christmas trade, The woman who made the take lo said to be in a serious condi- tion as a result of eating some of her baking, She sold most of the cakes a week or so before Christmas and one of them 7;00 sampled with serious censequencee. A dealist is snid to have brought a pisco of cake to tho Department of Agriculture wltere, au analysis disclosed the arsenic con- tent. On Dec, 19 the cape was put Into the hands of Inspector Lafrick and within a short time all but. one of the cakes had been rounded up, Traced by Cheque The ninth cake the batter said was sold to a young woman oho did not know. Fortunately she remembered the cape had been paid or by cheque. The bank where the cheque was cashed traced it, Over Sunday, Dec. 23, the signer i,f'the cheque was found and a long distance call was int- metliately put through to Quebec to 1110 family to whom the cake had been sent. About noon the legation here called the Quebec authorities and two hours later a call came back an. nouneiug the dangerous Christmas present had been put in the mail for Washington. OOlcials settled back to enjoy a merry Christmas satisfied t1;at what might have beets a very disastrous day was largely saved. Number of Auto Fatalities Higher Statistics Show Toll Of ` 1.13 Lives Around Toronto During Year 1929 Toronto,-9loto' vehicles took a toll of 113 lines in and about 'l'orea(i''t during 1929, an Increase' of 25 over 1928, according to statistics released by Edward Armour, secretary of the cldef coroner's department. Sudden and violent deaths for the year total 1,099 as compared with 634 last year. During the year there three murders and 61 suicides. 'Fire losses for the year, according to incomplete figures amounted to ap- proximately $2,276,97;1. Mr. Thomas' Relief Schemes The Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman (Cons.): Mr, Thomas's schemes are absolutely barren of new ideas to give a permanent uplift to industry. They are relief s,cllemes--nothing store—and the most ilistu'bhtg fea- ture is that they can do nothing bo- yond meeting the increase of 11nem- ploymeut that has occnvre(t duce the Government took oitice. A Brief Breather frcm Our Cold Blasts THEIR EXCELLENCIES TOUR THE WEST INDIES The Governor-General and Lady Willingdon and their party in the R.M.S. Lady Hawkins during their West Indies holiday cruise. With them is little Margaret Goldsmith of Newmarket, Ontario. France Has Found Year 1929 Costly But Thrift Effort I -las Pro- duced Impressive Pros- perity Spectacle Parts.—The year 1929 goes Into history, for the French, its ono of In- terltatioual liquidation. Stabilization cost them 80 per cent. of the value of the franc,—conse- quently 80 per cent. of the face value of the Government bonds they held. Liquidation cost them 70 per cent. of the 011101101 they expected Germany to pay In reparations, 11 cost then. also about 20 million marks a year additional to satisfy th eoliths-Isof the British. Tot, as the old year goes out, Paris is gay and France generally is reaas- sured and confident. One reason for the fortitude with which those sacrifices have been sup• ported is that the t'r'ench have work- ed so ]card to pay their taxes that their extra effort has given Franco alt 11ninope(1 for prosperity. The deficits with which successive governments strugled a few years ago have become surpluses and now conies tax retitle, Don, with continued amortization of the public debt. This remarkable financial recovery prodo:ed the accommodating state of mind without which there eopdd have been no Young plan, no evacuation of the Rhineland, and no effective recon- ciliation with Geriliany, "Up,the'Guards!" London Dail.spreas (it'd. Protests are still rising against the decision of. tiro'' Brigade of Guards that an9'officer nulst 1'esign who be- comes engaged to ui actress," Wo feel, dtowevm','alnat `tile splendid ste- ptdity of this ;edict 10 not properly understood; and that the wind of dis- approval slioitld bo tempered to the shorn moustache, VVitli full ]tuow- ledge of rho chivalry of 1 gallant corps it 1s quite obvious that, tine rule Is Untended to safeguard the erlsto, erotic 100111011 who crowd the profes- sion of the stage from marrying into regiments that of late years have kept so resolutely, In slop with the march of democracy. . Radio Reaches Byrd While Phone Waits Captain Railey Holds Wire as Messages With Antarctic Are Exchanged in 20 Minutes Describing the radio service be- tween Now York and the Antarctic as 'nothing short of black magic" Captain II. PI. Bailey, Admiral 13yr0'a manager, gave an example of One ser• vice recently. "Bernd •ing an immediate reply from Admiral Byrd on natters that had developed after the closing of my ofReo in Now York," !to said, "I sat at the telephone ht illy study, telephoned the operators in the radio room of the Now York Times and dictated the messages 1 wished to transmit to Lit- tle America, emphasizing the urgency at exactly 9.10, "'Wold the phone,' was the laconic rejoinder or tine operator, I overheard him say "Rhiley wants to get these messages (he had copied them) to Byrd. Put '510 through and get an answer. Ile's holdin' the wire.' "While I held that wire, those Ines. sages went through and in loss than Ove minutes the operator reported: 'Lefever (Admiral )lyrd's secretary) says hold o1 a minute or two. Byrd is replying.' "At 9.50 1 hung up—with Admiral By rd s,answer in my hands. "Believe it or not!" Captaih Railcy's enthusiastic char- acterization of the service as "black lnagie," however, wee thought too much by those who operate the radio. They explained that the service was particularly good at this thee; that conditions were most favorable and that all that cuubl ho done to facili- tate and speed up messages was be. tug done. . Haw! Haw! 1l'aslnington. Post: Dr. Otto Jasper - son has invented a new language which lie says somata "better than a Dane's English or as Englishman's Danish," but mutes it sounds !totter than - an Euglislimau's English it won't be worth much. The Sun Spots Are Sure Making Some Spots Cold There is un (100111 ahem the IT'S CHILLY WHERE COLD IS COLD seasons in the Porcupine gold camp area. It was otily 69 degrees below zero when British Farmers i Prince of Wales Deplore Condition Off For Africa _1 George Hambleton, Canadian 1Zesutne I hunting '{'rip Press Writer, Gives Re- view of Situation as He Finds it Loudon.—Gloom Is deepening over the broad tierce of British farunlauds. '1'lte farmers of Plast Anglia, where the depression in agriculture is most severe, are organizing a monster peti- tion calling the attention of the gov- ernment to the "deplorable condi- tion" of British agriculture, They complain that with current prices, they cannot melte bath ends meet, The tendency of farmers to turn arable lands to grass le resnitlug in (ilminished employment for farm workers. Fara1 workers at the sante time are resisting and attempts to re- duce their pay, and they want the beaeits of lite dale. At present the "uuemptoyuteut iuserauce scheme" does not apply to agricultural worlt- The, unrest in the agricultural areae follows, paradoxically, on the heels of a bumper crop, Britain produced ap- proximately 100,000 more hundred- weights of wheat in 1929 than in 1928, and tills of 65,000 fewer twee. The estimated wheat yield of 1929 was 19.1 hundredweights per acre, against 18.1 1n 1928 and an average for the past 10 years of 17.3, The hundredweight contains 112 pounds, But the farmer contends his "heavy crop" is largely a delusion. Under the pressure of Argentine and Ger elan wheat, prices have been forced down to a level too low for profitable wlteatgrowittg. The farm worker re- plies that what the farmer tweeds are better marketing methods, citing the instance of the Canadian wheat pools. Says Hullabioo Groundless "Tho land worker,". the otllcial or- gan of the National Union of Agricul- tural Workers, refers somewhat un- kindly to the East Anglican Farmers' campaign as "the Norfolk farmers' Pantomime." It adds: 'late Norfolk farmers have not had the host year in their experience, and they are therefore tolling the world they had the worst. But, if facts ace felted for to bn,ek, sup this 'hullabaloo, a strange,silence ,falls." Titeittlas figures of wheal. -prises conipHed ,by the ministry of agricul- ture has risen four points within a mouth, 1t still stood in December, however, at 28 as against 51 in 1928 and 34 in 1927. The number of agricultural work- ers who would come under the unem- ployment insurance scheme is esti- mated at 809,000, including Scotland. The unemployed among these are es- timated to average 66,000 a year. The laud workers also want a lower scale of contributions to unemployment in- surance, on the ground they aro un- able to meet tine scale levied upon the city worker. Tine situation has great political significance. It is 111 the rural areas that the Conservatives ilnd their chief strength. The Labor Daily herald editorially observes that with- out e. greater measure of agricultural Rupert, 1lie government can hardly hope to secure a parliamentary ma. Patty essomtial to its elweient work- ing in the future. "la these circumstances," the Her - aid adds, "Rt. Ikon, Noel Buxton, min- ister of agriculture, aright not 1111000. Reliably recommend. to the farmers that they should reconsider their past political allegiance," Firewood Detroit News: T'ho fruited States to still dependent in a largo measure upon firewood for fuel. Few persons realize that more trees are cut for this purpose thrall anyi.Ining sloe, Or- dinarily one would think that lumber exacted tbo greatest. drain upon our timber resources, hot this runs sec- ond to firewood. It is estimated that 9,500,000 cubic feet of wood finds its way into home fire boxes annually. Lumber is second with 8,290,000 cubic feet and then • there is a big drop clown to fencing listed at 1,800,000 cubic. font. Railroad ties come fourth with pulpw'oorl and mine limbers lifth, Civil Re-establishment in China New York 'gimes: What to do with the millions of soldiers who overrun 0111011 is still an unsolved puzzle. Dis- banded, they become bandits. To maintain them costs millions. The money to pay them and to 111001 the other govermnental expenditures 1s I the crux of the whole mattes. Funds are no Iango' so easy to get 08 they were. A long succession of bandit war lords have drained the country. A system of "veluntary obligations" has leen successfully used to extract 1110011y from. Chinese men of wealth, The tax collections have been ex- tended 00 11111011 as the country woeld tolerate, .But 0lways the need Is for more cases. SUCCESS Whoever starts off In life with the idea. "I shall succeed," always does succeed because he does what is neces- sary to bring about this result. If only one opportunity presents itself to him, and If this opportunity has as It were only one hair on its head, he seizes it by that one hair. Fur- ther, he often brings about, uncon- aelonsly or not, propitious circum- ^tauces,--Em(ls Gout. Interrupted by Royal Father's Illness TO RETURN IN APRIL , Heir to Throne Will Visit Dis- affected Districts With Earl of Athlone Loudon, ---'Without: any ceremonial fuss, which he abhors, the Prince of Wales left last Friday on -a four- month "goits-you-please" hunting trip in Africa, Once ho clapped aboard the steamship Kenilworth Castle 11 South, 11010o11 docks there is to bo no set program. He jo:/10 the Union Castle liner 00 an 00)1111(10' first-class pas- , senor with every forutauty taboo, tatting his meals with the other 900 tourists absurd, wailed on is the ordi- nary way and free he roam all over the ship. When he arrives at Captown, how- ever, it is hinted, be will get a new thrill, fel' when he 11001111150 his hunt- ing- unt- ing trip interrupted just over a year ago los his father's serious illness, he ill reach his base at Hedonics in the Lake Tanganyika territory by 'plane, TO USE PLANE Ile had intended to go there' by automobile hat owing to the unusually prolonged "short rainy season" the roads are not practicable. Capt. Denys Finch -Hatton, who its arranging the details for the Prinee'e hunting -trip, regularly uses this farm of transport through the big game country, and thus, unless the loads dry out much more rapidly than is now probable, the Prince will fly from place to place searching for the big fellows lie watts to complete the "bag" which was only half full when he left Dodonul in a hurry a year ago, - Much of the Prince's baggage, in- cluding new gums and revolters for DSO in the jungle is aboard the liner, but some of his hunting kit and favorite rifles aro at Dodonta where he left thein, The Prince's cabin aboard the, Kenil- worth Castle opens right 011 to the promenade deck. Two cabins have been merged into one, forming a sit. ting roots suite, the only change made being the substitution of a bed• for a bunk in the adoining sleeping com- partment. Once at sea the Prince's holiday starts. It is his habit while on the 00000 to take a great deal of exercise every day, medicine -ball being one of his favorite mediums, Wearing a sports' "ruffneck" sweater probably far from new, he will join the other passengers in throwing the ball, RETURNS IN APRIL, After spending about a week in Capetown as a guest of his uncle, the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of South Africa, ho will visit with the Earl and Countess the disaffected na- tive districts from which troubles were reported recently, and counts upon being able to obtain first-hand knowl- edge of the situation. Further north, however, that is to say in Nothern Rhodesia, Tanganyika and parts of Kenya and :Uganda, he will be in the places which he will hunt for the prim- ary purpose of his trip, which is big. game luunting. Itis known that he luta long been especiall; keen to bag a big rhinoceros. The hunting will be good until the long rains begin, which is usually about the last of March. It is expected that he will be back in England at the end of April or early in May. Church and State in Italy Manchester Guardian (Lib,): The; Fascist State is the strangest and most uncomfortable bed -follow for the Catholic Church. An agreement with the old Liberal regime to restore territorial sovereignty to the Popo might sot have been possible, but it could and x -omit have safeguarded the Church's freedom within the body politic, Rat by itis agreement trltlt Mussolini the Pope seems In danger of having secriib-sO the substance to the shadow; he has gained absolute liberty witl.ln the very limited area of the Vatican City, but oily condi- tional freedom for the Chorch out. side 10 Labor and Empire Natal Advertiser: 11 is indeed a weleome sign or improvement to find a Labor man like Mr, Ben Tillett, the former secretary of the Dockers• Union, publirly exhorting housewives of the Old Country t.o "bay British" when doing brei' Christmas shop- ping, In the past Labor has dallied so closely with an anaemic interna• tiomtlism as to be generally suspect of preferring the claims of any other nation to those of icer own, bet post- war problems have brought the theorists up against the sharp logic of facts and the consequent revival of working-class interest in the possibili- ties of Britain and her Empire is one or the brightest aspects of 0 some- what gloomy periost. SAFETY 011, the comfort, the tltexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person —having neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but pouring them all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together; as certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of comfort blow the rest away.—Dinah Mulock Craik.