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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-07-21, Page 3ARSON'S ADVENTURES—By O. Jacob-**- 1 t3 S') He s All Out of Shape Nov/ -i Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, as . they also could avail tliemselvos of the bay route to send their products l^ompletion of Line Gives Western Canada an Ocean Port, Realizing the Hopes of Many Years Winnipeg, Man.—Western Canada's lory of ^the United States, including Jong dream of an ocean port on the Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Hudson Bay, 1000 miles Inland, is to day much nearer realization than for many years past, by virtue of the fact to the oversea markets, that completion of the Hudson Bay I railroad is now in sight, In the past few months, the work of completing the line to the terminal at Port Nel son has been vigorously carried on, and there remains only about 75 miles of new r.teel to be laid. It is hopsd than a train service will be in opera tion from Winnipeg to Nelson, 907 miles, before tho end of this year. A vast new empire would be opened electrical experts up by the railway, for settlement and , industrial exploitation, it is declared by proponents of the project. It has been estimated, furthermore, that the road will serve an area containing a population of 10,090,000 persons, com prised in the three Canadian Prairie Provinces and seven __ Union. There is an estimated wealth of $70,000,000 in this great territory, ■which is mainly agricultural, and cap able of producing an immense freight tonnage for the road. Shortening of the distance from the grain fields of western Canada to the markets of Europe, with consequent reductions in transportation costs, are only two of the. many advantages which the road is expected to bring. The route, It lifts been stated, will open up new world markets for the, mineral resources, surplus food products of western Can- the northern part of the Province, on ada, and1 Will enable the prairies to which millions have already been overseas with spent, has boejf hampered by lack of _____ _ competing transportation faclities, and the Hud- countries. This same advantage would , son Bay railway would largely supply •accrue to the great agricultural terri-' this need. The Nelson Rivor, which is tra versed by the railroad for 420 mile> is a vast storehouse of power, capable of producing nearly 7,000,000 horse- pov.of electrical energy, it has been thown by government surveys. A natural m-quonco of tho completion of tb.-e railroad wo-uld be to electrify its operation, power to be secured from ’ stations constructed along the way, have stated. There are 0*000,000 acres of land capable of cultivation in the Nelson Rivi.r basin, and all of this virgin land would bo opened for settlement when the railroad is finished. Government experimental forms along the lino _____ „____ lmvo proven the fertility of tho soil, states of the ' At Mile 185, wheat was grown, avor- bushels to the acre, oats and barley 66 bushols. three prairie provinces, perhaps, would be the aging 40.5 73 bushels, Of the Manitoba, greatest gainer when the road is fin ished. Agriculturally, It would open up tho entire northern territory for settlement and cultivation, and indus trially, it would facilitate the exploi tation of the immense reserves of wealth known to exist in .the district, including water power, forest and Mining work in i .ship their products •x? greater economy than ..... Racial Harmony in South Africa Aids Development of Rich Area Mussdmi’s Bluff Crlkd j AN ICELANDIC EVENT My landlady waa* sslttlng1 by tflio win dow as I pafr.31 through tho dagBtofa on my way to 'the etoeot. She replied to my greeting l*n Icelandic, and the most important; word\ did not under- S'tand^ “Ycrn will 'have to traneCMfy usua-1," j *&ald, a Ilttlo ruefully, “I'm, afraid’ I Imvan’t m*ad<e much progress this weak, but I’m on my way now to* E-ae Mr. Tho-r&tehtoson.” ‘T am glad,” i&he replied gravely. “It I'dlme you wore beginntag, and you really ekould make a »erloua ef fort to team what you can of our speedo. gln-ce you ano to be here alii winter. What I just mid was, Tt fa very calm thfa morning/ " “ ‘Dunalcgn1’—that jwaan calm?” “Something mono than calm. How J shall I say It?—-so calm that the pluck* ed dewn of .the •eider duok would* not stir in the air.” | I ©hall* alWayigi be grat-eful for that chanoo remark. There was magic in ; it, and I ea.w . . . how ®tlM' it was-, and • how beautiful the Iittfe town could be • on such a day. Had I readily been i thinking, a moment before, that it j looked like a mining eetttament or a mondescript pion-ear town? The street.' I was empty and the shops* ctoeod as' i always on Monday morning mail! Shop® and houoccj ’ small and bright with; fresh paint, like those In a toy-shop window waiting for same child1 to set * the Inhabitants about -their pictures-i quo agate. Far down the Fjord* a’ flsheirman loaned over the side of his 1 dory, being in mid-air, or so it seem-1 ed, for not a ripple disturbed the sur-! Ca-ce of the water, and a luminous gold' haze concealed, ths mountains1. Two ravens, looking blacker -Khan their wont, were flying westward like I*as*t lost remnants of the night which the i sun had shattered and dispersed. I' i watched them until they too had melt ed* Into P'ure sunlight, and dunaloga’ Eoundad in the air Hike the music of a bell which had just ‘oease-d to ring. I walked showily on, 'thinking of tho beauty of this and other Icelandic words, and when I n-sxt thought of their grammatical1 constructions and conjugationo I was far beyond the town-. It se*am.£d foolish to go back then—all but -criminal: to wa&te such weather .indoors, so I decided to forgo tho language lesson. I w-ent on till I came to a sheltered hcl-Iow high among the hills, ovenl-ooking the va’Zey and the ’ ’ ' ■ ‘There I spent the remain do: brief day, geese bheastin., the upper air, silence of the land- flowing -cut in a great tide c*a, lbs sun having no more than rise”, usapp-eaned behind the mountain^ nd the sky gathered itself fold attar j fold- of filmy cloud that soem-ed to ocono from nowhere. q<;s fii^,*; shone Dimly threugh. But L-iforo I was halfway back -to town snow begm ! to IvY—th-a fl:*-'’; snow of the autumn c-n .the Jowland-j—s-mall damp fl-alw®, and ei’AI ixt a breath of air to bow them £i’antw:*S3. Tboy came .faster i nd faster, whitening E*> £*.-aund, co-ver- i’bg it to t>h.& dop'/i <f ?-n inch or so; then tho last di.a.pbari'm.s v-cl’- -of snowy dc-w flcdtnl par.-.',y down *&v ■ tattered et the edg*as. It wa-s- a glorious sight t-o s-ee -tho peaks- of mc-un*ta'n.s •e*m<*-'ge through the ronta of R, still faintly flushed by tho after glow and c’-ear’.y c-'ath.nt*d against the epi.-le-green sky. I dececnded the me mt-ini*. 3 to f o read leading to Akureyri from tho north. D-u.sk hr,! deepened info night before I reached the crest of the bill above tho town. From there I look ed down on a. sr/ondid. transformat.on. Every k-o-uso in the village wa-s al.-laza with lif.lht; not a wlnd-cw s-quare, up- o'.uirs or -clown, but -patterned itself { on the shio-w. I rom&mbc*re*d then that ! this was the- evening, tor the opening o»f the electrical station. There lmd boon talk o-f it tor w-oeks. My land lady, the barber, the bookseller, the postmaster—everyone in tl.*3 course of j every conversation was s-ure to say, i “But when we have the ikw lights”— seems and I had1 mot r-ea-lrized what this would Is he moan to -dwellers so close to the Arctic don’t CircT.-o. Henetofcro the town had been He ahvays keeps all his trou- very d*a*nk at night, tor oil lamps are ■costly and must be frugally used. Now it was plain evefryone was to share in a uwivewal alms of light, ths gracious gift of a £.*tPG*am of water flowing down from tho mountains. I was- called in at 'th-e . . . shop, which -was flooded- with light. Thd old woman who i*uns it was -afmiost garrulous' in her excite ment. “To thluik/' she said, “that we hav® lived so darkly all thes-e y-e&ra of wirn- ter nights! You see," she added, “one has only to turn on this button”—-and she showed m-e how *lt worked.—From “On the Stream of Travel,” by James Ncirman Hall. Mwreiini luvs r why of reftiatoling' seated at his work tubio when some' cm, is introi’.need with whom he has little fy-anuthy, it Is a mark, of an- nd to Italians this attitude bodes od. wrek one of Ills own i’jr;en called the Dwce's bluff, to tpeak, and made him realize t of “theatre” Is not always Angelo Mwo, famous .Slot- was to be admitted to an me with the Dttce-i When Mus- camo in Mussolini did not move cast one of his glowering looks he direction of the actor. Musco s equal to the situation. “Flease l’t be afraid, Excellencyho said The Duco almost smiled, but lately took on an even moro aspect. Tho interview started, but Mussolini did not offer his visitor a chair. “Slay I ask you a question, Exellency?” “Of course, yes," said furoolini to Musco, who leaned on he Duce’s desk with both hands. Well, I would like to know. Exqol- lenoy, It I happen to have strayed in to a barroom here" At that Mussolini burst out laughing and, jumping brought the comedian a chair. ----------------------- Nemesis London Morning Post (Cons.)' Though we must deplore and repro- i bate assassination, whatever the justl-, ^ariiy midday, flcation alleged for it, we cannot i>0 ' toolsad very s: altogether surprised at the violent j " death of the Soviet Envoy, Peter Laz- j arevitch Voikoff. He was one of those ’ comrades of Lenin who worked; againsht Russia in the early part of j the war, and were sont by the Germans in that famous sealed coach ’ “like the virus of some terrible dis- j ease,” to work the destruction of Rus-1 sia. As President of the Provincial Soviet of Ekaterinburg, ho superin-1 tended the massacre of the Tsar and his family, and among those who re vered their Tsar it is possible to un derstand the feelings of the un- distano© with uns>eeing eyes and in a quenchable hatred against his mur- . Tn the circumstances, the life of Voikoff was certain to be In danger wherever exiled Russians could ap proach. up, I I j circles that South "Africa is still in a scmi-clvilized state, that the bulk of the people is uncultured and that wild animals still roam the plains of Kar roo or slopes cf Table Mountain. He has met with many educated persons in America, Mr. Louw said, who were dosirable—so much so that already a considerable measure of opposition to his bill comes from Europeans who are loath to see the natives taking possession of these Mr. Louw said general agreement policy is a sincere at a satisfactory solution and that it' is in -every respect as modern and up- is the first really definite and con- to-date as the United States of Ameri- structivc policy that has been put for-1 ca and. has great cities with monu- ward. It is also admitted, he con-;mental buildings, imposing^ depart- tinued, that these proposals are, ment stores, r characteized by a deep sense of jus-; chostras, art galleries, four universi tice towad the natives and by an ap- i~'~~ A’“~ ....... poci-atton of th-nr point of view. The natives there, thrice tho white population, are becoming educated, and this spread of education means that every year an increasing number The Crystal Gazer The Crystal Gazer looked into- the lands.” there seems to be that the Hertzogattempt to arrive-‘ astonished to hear that South Africa ' low, melancholy voice she prophesied Jererq. ! to a young girl: “You shall have many - - ■» troubles in your Hi-fc., but if you.-, are ‘ wise and. careful you may avert -them. I s*e-e for you a dark place in the mid dle of your life where you musit be caneful of all you do and say. Two ■great loves are yours-—one is past and' one is yet to come. But with this love comes an unhapplJeso* which can be avoided—if you are wise. You have dreams of great tilings; forget | them and play the game of life—there are stakes to be won. Everything de pends on yourself.” “How do you know ail this?’ young girl asked. “Because,” said the prophetess, smiling, "your life shall be like every other ) life,”—Hilda Gootlieb. turist i i each other’s and to more reported by Eric H. Louw, Eva Gauthier ■World-famous singer, Canadian born, who was one of the artists in Can ada’s Diamond Jubilee broadcast at .^Ottawa on Dominion Day. on the part of both soc- that there can be no real- co-operation unless there respect for each other’s We Sympathize. Thepoint is, now is the right time to use all kinds of exterminators: Moth, Roach, Bod Bug, Rat, Lice and I said ern niethods of assisting the agricul- “J/ OLD STYLE HAND PRESS you leave No now.1 won't the com- Father—“See that party at a reasonable hour, ing home with the milkman, Daughter—“Of course not. Ho be there.” Chicago. — Relations between tho two races of South Africa have boon chan; ■erf the very best during tho past two or three years; 'there lias been cor dial co-oporation and growth of a feel ing of friendship—an influence which is being maintained and fostered by recognition lions there ly genuine be mutual history. This was trade commissioner for the Union of •South Africa to tho United States and Canada, in an address at the fourth Institute of Politics conducted at the University of .Chicago by the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation. Recalling the time when insistance •on the part of the Afrikaans for full language equality was regarded as ut terly unreasonable, Mr. Louw said that now tho average English-speak ing South African insists- that his ■children receive” a thorough training in Afrikaan and he observed that this id attitude is undoubtedly mak ing for mutual respect and co-opera tion. National Tho country bilingual; the taught his first language and after a the second language is troducod, the commissioner related. By the time a girl or boy passes out of liifth school she cr he is thoroughly bilingual, Mr. Louw said, adding that a thorough understanding of each other’s language cannot but lead to a better understanding of feelings and sentiments cordial relations. Another factor that Pride Grows. is rapidly becoming child at school is lessons in his home certain grade gradually in is bringing these races closer together has been 'a growing feeling of national pride ("and* South Africanism, which has' ‘peen fostered in many ways, the •speaker reported. A third element which has contributed to better feel ing, Mr. Louw said, is the remarkable enthusiasm for amateur sports. “There is nothing more likely to promote friendship and harmony be tween two sections or races, than mutual participation in some form of sport,” he asserted. “And In the same ■way there are few agencies whereby intense national deling could be moro easily roused than by the pride engen dered through tho success of a repre sentative team of footballers pitted against the nationals of some other country. And when such teams are. composed of representatives of both races, it is easy to see that general p-crticir-aticn in sport is bound to have vrholecome and beneficial effects upon relations between such races.” Mr. Louw took occasion to correct 1 statements ho said ho had seen sev eral times, “in the American press,” that the present plan cf the Prime Minister “contemplates relegating the native to unfertile and desert parts.” “Let me hasten to assure you that these statements are entirely devoid , of any truth," he said. “Already there 1 are in existence large native areas in different parts of the Union—and I from personal observation I can testi- I fy that these include some of the most I fertile parts of South Africa. The i further areas proposed to be allotted ' to the natives under the Hertzog pro- I posals are likewise fertile and highly theatres, symphony or-I trail Aid ns fniir miiirm-ai. • ties granting many degrees and hav-' j ing a standard of knowledge required J equivalent to American or European i universities. ® | A changing trend was observed in _______, , .. his report that agriculture is replac- are able to conform to the simple edu-! ing mining as the foremost basic in cational qualifications required in the I dustry, for agricultural and pastoral Gape Province for enrollment on the ; production is considerably greater list of parliamentary voters, he re-’ than mining production. The Govern- ported, and tho situation will be con- J meat has aided the farmers achieve siderably changed in the future, t this distinction and a staff of experts There has also been a considerable (advises, he related. Legislative en- _ , bank and agricultural credits have aided, too, 1 as has co-operative marketing, gov- ____ ernmental* inspection and other mod-; Fiea. Wo have them!—Ad. in a West Vir- ! ginia paper. ----- — -----• - ~ J-- ------>---------------------‘ interest in higher educational facili- actment regarding land, ties for natives. Modern Cities Are There. Mr. Louw asked permission to cor rect an impression which he \oems to prevail eve in well-educated Toronto’s Diamond Medal Above is shown the diamond* studded gold modal which was awarded to the winner of Toronto’s Confederation Jubilee marathon, July 1. It is set with ten diamonds, five on each side and proved a prize worthy of the oc casion. It is backed by a blue ribbon, and was contested for by 30 of the greatest runners of Canada and the United States. Cliff Bricker of Galt won easily, establishing a 15-mile world’s record oLl hour, 19 min., 10 2/5 seconds. Royalty Attends the Ascot Races This interesting picturo shows Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary, with His Royal Highness Prlnco of Walos/being driven past the grandstand on their* arrival at the Ascot race meeting. HISTORICAL SKETCHES BY JEFFERYS (CUT OUT AND SAVE) whole T&ngth of Eyjafjer-d-ur. - - - ------------*r of this watching flc-clcs* <,f wild ' ig the clear r-unlight of - and l:®t*yiiing to the to meet the silience of tho Mrs. Hopkins—"Your friend a very attractive young man. married?” Mr. Hopkins—“I know, bias to himself.” . . ■■ ...i.-.r-. Kitty—“Jack says he can read me like a book.” Phyllis—“You mustn’t take Jack too literally, dear. He prob ably means you are a very plain typo.” And Just School From a letter written by a young glr-1 student: “I am sura having a bu-sy time. I aim going ito Sunday school, d-an-cim-g s-ah-cirA, writing school, and BClliCO1!.’’ In Remand. The party who picked up black, white and tan male hound puppy on Cedar Point Road, about 15-milo post, Saturday afternoon, kindly get in touch with Jackson’s Meat Market.— Ad in the Mobile Register, , Arkansas Gazette: Uu&lness’ fi-onsi® Is not the highest typo. Sir Isaao Newton ■evolved tho wltolo law of gravity from circumstances a tradesman, would* have moro than a drop in apples. which, to been ho