The Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-02-28, Page 2CANADA
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CANADA
/ fHE EMPIRE
THE WORLD
AT LARGE
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NO OTHER WAY
. 7 • At a.girls’ 'school recently the
‘ ior .'scholars were, asked to ' write a
short'essay on ^the* subject:- “What
1 ' Iwould like to. I grjwpp,”
and to give theirVreasons. One *up-
y - tb-date young,. Woman attacked Rhe
* , matter right • away“ with:. “I want
very much to become a film star1, but-
,as I/ain no£ considered rieautiful-an,d?
2ZL.7.aih’-4dcking in^sex"app'eai;"'r?tiiink I
had'better become a teacher.”—Lon
don Advertiser; ; . : *
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• MEANEST TfflBF. ‘ .
'Young man in Lopdon, , Ontario,
'/broke into a news, and tobacco stand
operated by a blind woman and ..stole
$35 worth of grinds. He whs called
the meanest thief and remanded for.
sentence. Fine, but what about, put-
’ting him to work so the ?35 worth:
of -goods can be replaced?—Stratford
Beacoh-Herald. '
. ' " ' ; TROUBLES.; .....'
?. ■"People' who ’.read .trie!" newspapers
daily arid observe the wide variety
of pleasant and unpleasant things
which happen to. great numbers of
, o persons should not be inclined^to.
- • magnify /iMriuiy’- th^r- 'own' troubles
and worries.—Kingstoh Whig-Stand-1
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NOT ALL GLOOM \
/ Perhaps one of -our main trouble^
today is that we talk^oo much about
our losses. We hav^made it a fa
shion this lengthy recital0 of woes..
... And it stirs /the listeners to tell an
other story of suffering. Almost all
conversations - consist or Tales of
■ woe. We are. inclined by. this - gen^.
-r—eral psalm o'f “ misery “ to ^magnify
’ /': /w.hat we have lost—that is ’ in coin-
J > parison with thief boom days of. some-
“ five years ago. It does not aid pur
.....-v recoyery nor brfrig back a normal
" mental attitude which, might help'us!
work toward helping ourselves. It!
’ seems to rieed someone to whom yja
will/iisteh to tell us to consider wllat.
' - ’ ■ v^.e.. have left. No man withJ-health7
Trived vdnep,^ mental. faculties and ojn
: pprtunities is without-—considerable
// health-and blessings.—Brandon. Suri.
• 1 ABOLISH ORNAMENTS?
The. whole question then resolves
_ .itself^ to-thisr~The office ariri the .
Government House are to be consid-
_„._^ifid_as._6rnaments—which'cosrsdirie-'7
^-jMriipg^aa—.al^jornaments^-do^—shouhF1
/they be altogether-abolished because i
of^that? -
___/There-are-many-omamentATri'-'this'
province whi6h could be dispensed
- with. Every home is full of them. B16
Every., picture, ever^r fancy/^cushipn,. outside.
... i^very-7r&-fil'O/ /pyery: ■ -every -nnF-
-“Aical instrument, every piece of^brio;
..
/^^^rrimintTb^pess 'is' ornament.. Every
white collar, ever#!' necktie is an
/. ornament. Many homes;. .themselves:
-are nraaihental?’ -
There are useless ornaments on
•very motor cat, in every shop; in:
•♦very store and .in.’ every public
•'building. There are lots of them/ in
• the Parliament Buildings at Toronto;
Borne of them are,/in the premier’ll
/ Every, visit , a person makes
to amotion picture show is useless;
Every cigaret apd every2 cigar that
is smoked is useless, every drink '"6f
pop, coca-. cola^0n--®le,fih®3$8f.;’b^priTuge^
^ 'useltss/ The spending of a half
dollar to see a hockey game
ball game or any otta " :__1.
.test is useless;. /
If all/the ornamental and useless
/things we£e absolutely 'dispensed
With people .would live in huts, wear
skins for clothing and produce noth
ing much, more Than the food neces
sary to sustain life.
/
or a
her athletic con-
many of pur customs which we call
“institutions'1 are either ancient ori
deep-rooted or venerated. A general
atiori ’ago" the military barid concert
was a sanctified custom r-r- an enter
tainment for all the family, as the
radio and radio orchestras are. to
day,0 1 .. v ........
A mustachioed soloist on the cor
net took''the bowd^now-reserved for
the-crooner.'. ■
Many* people with a fair taste in
music still like military, bamfe. Bttt:
the majority, tune in on the , dance
band, and ' the crooner. ‘
A generation/ hence' the crooner
will be a sentimental relic of
times. His audiences will nod a little
and think of . their youth. Another
form of entertainment will have
caught the popular fancy, ; .
And so it/goes. Time executes a
neat revenge on popular in.tyri'
, vators.—-Montreal Herald. .. ,
Thrire are a' great many things
which ,the people and the, state coufil
get along without and, with respect
to some, perhaps, be better off. The
Lieutenant-Governorship may or j
may not be one of them.' --•
Considering what, the Office costs,
the people in relation to wha't |he
pedufeant distributes to maintain:- it*
and the tnumber; of .people -employ*.
ed/andf pie upd,oubted fact that trie
Chief justice . could,—asr-the -prem.i;eri
^saystza.ttend^toTi'ali-t^i^riece^ary “du"
ties, it is scarcely worth bothering
about; not worth air the fuss that/is
being .made over it. For each per-,
sori in Ontario It doesn’t amount to]
( What it would cost to -buy a postcard i
,and send in a protest.—Port Arthur
’News Chronicle; • ' 0
f BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF
' NATIONS
“There is no such thing as the!
British Commonwealth of Nations?’’'
/ SO' says, the 1935 “catechism’’; of
the Native, Sons’-of Canada.’
Further, says the “catechism,”
“The British Commonwealth of Na
tions is imperialistic (sic) propagan
da.” ’ . - ■ j-
There, is always somebody dissatis
fied with, something, .and the N; S,
of C. are^frejsTarMck About anything^
they , do not like, just s like the rest
of us. ' . . •:
Still it is well to know that it- was
the Imperial Conference of 1926
with . official • representatives of” all
the autonomous, British' nations in7
1 attendance—-which coined the- phrase
“British Commonwealth of Nations.”
JThe_xesolution--- then " defined "Grriat
Britain and self-governing Dominions,
as: ■
“Autonomous communities wjthiii
the British Empire;-equal-in-status;,
in no way subordinate one to an
other in any aspect of their domestic,
or foreign affairs, though united .by
a common- allegiance to the “crown?
and; freely associated as members of
the British Commonwealth of Na
tions.’’ ;'.V ■/
Tjhere .isn’t a British constitution
or a Santa; Claus either, nor, in fact
many - other conceptions vthat. move
men mightily. these were en-
-shrined^'in? Taw books they Wouldn’t
lose a fractiosuot their hold on man-
kind. < ”,
The British Commonwealth of Na
tions is recognized as a world factor
no matter what the Native Sons may
think.—Sault Dally; __1—
^e^URTS^N^D^Bf^Tl^NE7^
I In New York Rudy Vallee took a cannot put oe a valuable
^S^L^^aUflSeL^PRea^“fofTLondon^undaFbispat/ch.
Tns wife, and the judge in charge of -
the Webb-Vallep case invited ope of’
the other lawyers to “meet him
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jH-rfSomewhei'e, at some time? Affieri-
/and-the-appallirigresui ts=?ofTHaFpfo-7'
cess are now apparent. '
STATES REQUIRE SAFETY GLASS
Beginning January 1, 1935, the.
ajety- York State law9 providing for
safety, glass for all new cars sold.]
in the State became effective, bring
ing the total of States having such J
requirements To ten. The Legislat
ures of at least twenty additional
States ar6 scheduled to take some
action in this direction for the in
creased protection of the motoring
public and It is. not impKobabls.Tbatr
be' Com; -
pulsory in all ef the 48 States,. ~
Financial World. ,•
THE NEW DAY IN MUSIC
[ An English seaside resort has
dropped its -military band in favor
of a dance orchestra—ancl crooners.
Thus another aheient institution
bowsTn defeat before a modern one.
Which leads us. to wonder how
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.. eApLANTTNG- INTlNDi
^^W'e?;;=s^pose~iF'“fflwnot impossible
to spread some understanding :of
1 what is due to forests,> and why-it
is- due. The. Simplest 'Villager can be
J made to grasp the necessity', when,
he cuts down a tree, of planting not
one but many as recompense to a
robbed earth, or of sowing seed of
those trees that do not take kindly
to transplanting." There is nothing
formidable in the simplest elements
of silviculture. That would' be a
-useful first -step, to persuade village
ers that in their forests/and jun.-. ■
glesThey have valueable assets which
.must be used with ajthought of the
future.- They--are - not likeljrTto" tiri^u
derstand ' that I what " they do natur- .
ally and habitually on a mountain
side may afflict dwdl.lerS in”the plains
hundreds of miles away,: nor would-
their .hearts- be tro^bled:?-jf—they did" ~
know it. But they can grasp-—the
simple truth that when the forests
and jungles are used up there is
no more wood and fodder.—Calcutta
Statesman. ’ ~
■ FpR A HEALTHY NATION
The Briton has nd specjaF cause to
. /worry—about—-being—a““Briton~'ah'd-Ts-
.little inclined in. consequence, to in-'
dulge in invidious . national compari
sons; '«When he does so he finds the
comparison in nearlyall—respects
flattering' to himself. . There is, "how
ever,/one large black -fly in this oint
ment of. racial content Every time
he considers . the- -matter- he haw to
admit" that in the matter of physi
cal fitness this country ' is steadily ]
falling behind its more progressive
neighbors./ All visitors returning
from Germany comment -on the.magi
nifiCent physique of the Labor Bat
talions there. We never;, hear _nowr.
as once we’did, of the foreigner be-
irig. impressed by* the English phys-
ique. .Now-•,the Council of the Brit
ish Medical‘Association is to coriSid-
er, we are told, the appointment—of-
‘a committee to dis'euss means of en
couraging the physical - and., mental
’development. of. the nation.. ...We^sin^
-eerely^dp^^itnffie”committee will
come into being and- produce What
cannot but be? a valuable—renortr——
e>
iifc J33
■A MISTAKEN ATTITUDE, ‘ 1 * I ’<9- ' ■ »_! ._ .. .j/—I—A.—.
« A^A7,^suii!-Tff""'Tifi'tKer 'discussions
between :■ the New Zealand? Minister
for 'EinAnce , pndy.-Federal./ ’’MaadsterA;
^hereTnay^yepbe a pew trade /agree
ment between Australia and New
Zealand.1 Such is the latent prog-
| ress report' received from the, Min-
, ister for Commerce/ The whole bush
ness savors of negotiations between I two countries which have been /at
AacH /other’s throats for years, and
which in seeking a rapprochement
must be very careful not to give
away to the enemy more than Is j
extorted in return. Yet to the plain
man Australia ana New Zealand are
sister Dominions/of the British Em
pire,. exploring in. the: moot friendly
‘frishibn the possibilities of increas
ing the trade between themselves, to;
their mutual benefit, . Statesmen ap
parently have a Ireerier . perception ■
of ,the perils whirih attend the At
tempts, of neighboring countries,
bound by the strongest ties of kin
ship and edmmon interest, to enter
into/ closer rioinmei’cial relations
with' each other.—Melbourne■'Argus?
It |s the little things ihat. count ]
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facturers are wealthy by dispi
Putter Limbering. Up* .... '' ■ ■■"■ \ ................'"i -..................................... ■<
Admiring Gallery Of Two Watches Master
c\''? '5"ti
? - Paul Runyan,. King'of American professional golfers, practiced his putting touch on the greens of
the Miami Biltmore Country Club at Miami, Fla., w hile his wife, 'Mrs. Joah Runyan (left), and Miss
. . Maureen. Orcutt'watch1? . • .. .. _____./
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j than you can possibly be. For in-
I stance, we have found that the man
who spend a great' ' 1';° *’*™“
criticizing the mril _
Others, -is 'alriiost sure tcuneglect his
own to some extrint: At ®est that is
the' only explanation w®: have been
able'to find for the well known fact ' •
that/’most strenuous and persistent
/fault . finders usually have as many
■ and' as serious faults—as—ordinary-------
. „abo.u.t. .concluded that to fipd fault.- /
= withe other"2 people - helpf ftlly,-- hnd....—
without neglecting ourselves or get-
--.ting—^ipto—the—habit— of~“A~faulVfijhd--"——
ef, is one of the hardest things fo:
- -any—man- to -do. —'——J...—-------- -
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Seventy-two f*er Cent.
Oinjunior League ““ ~
Members Married
r.?2L?NT:ew-^_Ybrk.^0.n—th.e—;bns'is-.'--Qf-
<auestionna'ire answ.ered by about six/
per cent, of the 27,6a0 membe'fs, ap-
prOxirnately 72 per cent, of trie Jun- /,
ior League women are married and
have an average of slightly • more
thari two. children apiece/ The sta-
tisticS/were presented by Mrs. Char ;
LleS-.A^Lindley, editor of the group’s ..
:..magazine,_ to.—trie__execntbrAT.n.0Ar^;«^^
ndw’imsession.--•» -—? , ' '*
?Mi^s’ 'Elizabeth ;P./Taylor of Little
Rock,'’ Ark.,' president of—the board, / ’ ——
reportd that 137 junior leagues had
continued their welfare projects dur |
ing- the^past—year—despite^economic--;—— —4
.conditions, , . z■ •/ . ’ I
con-
trie
the
to over
pictures
his, eye alert for picture, might
in his line, as, in fact, Twaclitman
and others have dope.
However, it is . just possible that'
we .plain persons may be able to
find- in such a Winter night some
thing more than A.1 sturdy in , tem
perature. We, can, at least,.. ■ push
which is the reason why gum manu-! °"ur heads far enough .out of dur
facturers are wealthy by disposing , fur. collars to look about us, .arid
'o/f their products at one cent per may- even be able .to share the
stick/ and it is also the reason, why pleasures of both poet and artist,
penny bank deposits in Ontario to- j though we cannot compose a sonnet
tailed over $1,200,000 this ' year.—St..;.nor Paint a picture.' - ,
• There .is wonder in the Winter Someone has said that.the penCjil
• woods, “■ /.'■ ]
A: Buhtle, all-elusive; .mystery
“r-ThaFTSaririls eaclf placid grove/.
Where silent broods . .
""And woos ’ eadh whited r glen ' ’
• with witchery. ■/ '
' " . ' R. R. Greenwood5
Fred K. Byshe in the Ottawa Journal
I I suppose that - ever, since the
! moon' began to rule the .night and.
.bathe_the-earth~in—its-pal e--spl endor
and the treesTof the -field, began to• yield their <fflruit, there have been.
Winter - nights . when the full moon,
riding/;high /.and free . in, the deep
- blue- heavens—~has”amuseri“-7herself~
by .throwing fantastic tree shadows
upon a sheet of'Virgin snow all over
/thje./slumber.o.us./landscape.-; And yet-
when, but a Tew yriars Ago, I awoke
-to the briauty and fascination of
these silenet silhouettes stretched
sbftly on their silver screen, the
revelation: was to me as- stimulating
as- if I had been the first of all men
To enter the enchanted .land of that
"e'XpAfljencet”..... ■ • ‘■
. I. had made a Surprise discoveryf
j As DaVid Grayson spys^ “It had been
I. there before, for lo.ng, but I had never
seen nor - felt it." ' . • , ' ’ ■* ?
T' ' 7' • ».? ■ '
j How could I so long have been__
blind "to ”such.. beauty?- __How/ was...
:^7^at”r~h"Ad''^^C"e'v^"'rea^^
When, later, I came . to browse
among the poets to....see—what- thev^
thought of shadows, I found many!
of t/hem more concerned with the*
dark, cavernous depths of the Sum-
-mer-ToresL'-with-The’TnysteTy/'sinls2-
ter j.oj. romantic, that .lurks in /the/
* n-nlightod ..jeu-with.
Triii'adeSfrdm? th or 'tin sun/
And, while the poets seemed to find
pleasure in the shadows sweeping
majestically across the, mountain
side?, or pestling comfortably -in, the
valleys and soometimes watched-the
“tender-pencilled , shadows play” iin.
the wind, f could not see that piuch
enthusiasm had been manifested for
these tender-pencilled drawings” on
a snowy, canvas. • .
. /of "course, I should have
suited the artists as .well a?s __
poets. A poet might reasonably be
so. absorbed in the glamor of __
glorious, winter night., as
look these inpohderable
athwart his path; while the artist,
his. eye alert for picture, might
be expected to seize upon these
studies in drawing as being right.
■ is the master of ail art. Here, then,
is. drawing—by■ a master -hand. We.
■ Iiave^- cahgrit'~-na^We“-i®'^^h,ep!^ toiAst
'studio with peneR in- hand;-- tracing
marvellous patterns on an evanris-
cerit .canvas. Fortunately •—the-a-lr-is-
cryStal clear, trie moon is full- and
almost/directly. .overhead. /With—A-
low-liung moon the; shadow's range
out at lopg distances.' from, their
.source,_brit-.as-_the_-nLOon._-ap.p.r.o.a.ch.es..
the meridian the trees seein to gather
their' shadowb ■ close about ’ them as ..
a hen' her/brood’ at twilight: Thus
'compressed,; the..shadows^are- darker
-in—color^aird-sh’arilefTILoTitli-ne, and
can bri viewed aiid atii'died- with great-'*
er enjoyment-. // . :.
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Of course the -shadows are flat;
there is no perspective, nothing to
make them stand/ opt < upon .their
snowy canvaS;. they' appear simply
as silhouettes, yet they are veritable ,
studies in detail which, reveal every’
branch , and twig interpo§e.fchet.ween?
Tfiri white forest floor and ..the
benign eye' of the man dri the ; moon
This wealth of detail is dug riot alone
to the./ brilliant moonlight, but also
to the level she,ert of unbroken white
that Nature , has i provided. These
shadows would be lost .on the<. bare .
uneveiT ground ,o.f_JLutu.mn—Y-hu^wilk:
'■ :dat'cii~ffie“iclea*"if you should imagine,
a drawing on .crumpled brown papfer
. jcqmp.ared—w-i th—th e-s ame'/draxvi ng-"dn/
fine, white -bristol ‘board. •
• Another, feaure which the. /level
snow canvas helps to reveal., is the,
-fine -gradation in tone of the shadow
-from the base of—the trunk-Io hhrii
nttorimost Jtwrig.//The ■ ■--sh^dew-'-iiaa^^
^je^ris’t^Tlensity'"*krifl/Tstlailirist'' defi
nition close to the trunk, arid-the
stoutef- trig trunk, the blacker the
shadow, because thfe wider the
shadow the less it is diluted with
reflected light; and from the trunk,
and the gnarled l.o.wer branrihes,. up
wards the 'shadow loses both in
density of color and sharpness of
line on a diminishing jscale: whose
gradations no human hand cojild'
hope to. duplicate, until, when- the
crown is reached,* the shadows have
resolved into something vaguely
mysterious, and are sketched in the
softest pencilling of ' transparent,
grey. . . / . ■
You would ri.dmi.re such a drawing
if it were confined, within a frame .
apd hung in an a.t gallery, even'
though the picture, lacked the 11-
ilunilnatlon of the ra'diarit moonlight
that here in nature’s studio touches
every detail t,0 poetry;, but. rinch pic
tures' cannot be ..imprisoned. Human
art'craves perpetuity, so the. sculp
tor. chisels his eternal, marble rind
painter records his itripressfims- In
imperishable colors. • ‘ «
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I
deal of his time
Is or *manners of
Thomas Times-Journal.
■ If you feel like sneezing, sneeze—
and don’t let considerations of po
liteness or the conventions or any-
thing of thhat kind interfere; That is
the advice of an English ’‘medical
woman,” Dr. Octavi “Lweln, who, in
an address to a group of nurses, .of
fered, the following' comments? /Never”
backfire a sneeze and don’t turn
your nose into a ■ popgun when ydu'
blow it .if you" would be healthy. Even ,WJJVll6U tue irees, ninng the night
Aristotle, had a good word for it,-she ( with its mellow glow, shines the
said, for the old Greek philosopher /moonlight, serene and mystic. ;
wrote: “Shiute-trie sneeze and honor j All about us - on the new fallen
the brain, Sault Star. ■ i snow are laid the still shadows of
At a recent boot and shoe exhibi- |he trees. Our little world is etched
Lion in England, Sandals made of fine; Jn black and .white. Yesterday morn-
iy spun glass were shown for even- w^h the sun glOyving in an uu-
' ihg use, arid it was related that “a clouded sky, the shadows wei'o dls-'1
really smart .woman would wear a tirictly blue, warmed* occasionally by
colored ring on the small toe of a t°uch Of mauve/ but to,night they
her left foot to match the hue of ' are, practically blhck, and the draw-
the. nail varnish on her fingers.'; The jrig' is arresting J^a.^hAtluiess-^nd-
ext'ent to_jAj4>h.--ci-v4M-zatiOn“riri,^gutnrg~^aritTa^t.^ . . . .
' afield ;by» leaps- and bounds is -almost
. breath-taking.—Brantford Expositor.
’♦ •
Come with; me, then, to a little
natural 1 teriiple,
where6 the tall, • symmetrical trunks
become cathedral.pillars between
which the alabaster aisles of
chequered light recede toward un
seen altars until , they “fade into
dimness.^.. The.mighty elms and
oaks give ’s roof to our temple
they,' lift their latticed crowns into
-the f infinite blue; arid, sifting
through the trees, filling the night
wood I know, a
alabaster aisles of
seen altars until , they
Don’t Be A Fault-Finder
. y-------‘ .
Because you are 'able-lo point, out
real faults and shortcofirings jij-the
life of your, friend of neighbor, that,
is no proof that you are profitably,
or helpfully engaged when you- are'
doing so. I,t' may be; for instance,
that he .knows as mush about, thfirir
as you do and is even more, concern1-
ed for elimination or imprt/veriient
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asr
R. N. Parker, of the New York
, Shipl/uildhig Corp., pictured ■ at
JiearTii'g bet’ord Senate 'Munitions
Committee, lie is reported to ..
hade said that,“wine and liquors
were often as necessary as steel”
during the trial funs^oiriwarships.
Ngw Communications Office Will
H / Be Headed by Dr. R. J. Manion
Ottawa—Hon. II. J.,Manion, Min
ister of Railways, will head the De
partment, of Gonimnnicaliohs How
that it is definitely^known that the
"Department of "RniKvays will be in
cluded ian<L in fact lie the main one,
A new’portfolio will not. Iw crealtuL
.The work of the ; Depart inent. of
Railways has been modified greatly
Since the Ppcrhtibii of the Canadian,
—N-tvl-iow vl-~wmrT fiVofco7LTroiri i?,
railway finances which
Government, come, mainly' through
the Department of I'finance. The new
The
('bnei-rii •■' Die
branch lo which- pbyver to' add will
be taken from Parliament will have
■to .do With/,'Government radio^ tele
graph, telephone, cables, though one
wireless branch, dealing wiVh -ship-
/ping wi.ll remain in the Department
of Marine. The Department of Com
munications will have nothing to do
^1*1 the-
Railway (loinmissibh. 1/he copsolid-
aliori will place the Radio Gommis-
Ai,<m under a different minister But
it is not designed to abolish it.