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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1936-04-09, Page 6• • •••• Jl«« -R,A.F.O£ficersStopTripmManita CANADA Aof Kihg George, tl^ese airmen stopped annjtf'factur- tp? —Ed- EDITORIAL .COMMENT FROM HERE,* THERE AND EVERYWHERE. • " I . T A Masher At publicity ' If Tex Rickard were still in the. • . land of the Hvipg there ; woiild be a strong suspicion. that he had been ^appointed propaganda master for Ber- lin’s/Qlympic...games. *- Woodstock Sentinel-Review. Sea Salaries________ The- salaries paid members of the crew of the “Baroff’ a vessel engag­ ed in patrol work for thg preventive services of Canada, are listed by Hon. “Dark Horse”/ Colours; Revival Beige, Also Among of Don’t Tax Improvements A fixed loy? ^assessment for a short; period of time,'say for two or three years, might prove a decided stimUl- ,. ant to home building in Edmonton, It is, perhaps, not too late' for council to consider-the suggestion and if It approves to secure the necessary o charter/amendment from the present legislature. Last year council was gi­ ven the right to grant fixed low as­ sessments on,, improvements “which may be erected by any person during the year 1935 or 1936 upon any land purpose of establishing, maintaingi.ng and operating thereon a m, Ing or industrial'tin,dertqkif monton Journal. Ernest Lapointe as: Position . .Chief Skipper ...... Skipp’er ...•. ■Wafrant engineer . Chief engine room artificer, - . second-class ...... .......... Engine i7oom artificer, 1st class EnginOman- .. Cook steward Ship’s cook Petty officer Leading telegraphist . Two able seamen ..... Two ordinary seamen .. —Windspr Star. Per day ........ $$.00 PARIS-—It is a rich banquet that the Parisian dressmakers have spread for the ...spring fiesta. — rich and “tasty,” to use the. old Ne\y England expression. While' there is .no funda­ mental ^change in th.e* mode, skirt lengths, remaining as -..they werefi waistlines neither appreciably higher or lower and the .slimness of the sil­ houette holding its own, there are- all sorts of npw ideas in the sleeve, the neck, the cut of the skirt and ip fhe wealth of fine handwork, embroidery, knitting, crocheting, fagoting and ap­ plique, <s well as in the use of the fipw materials whi ’ “ ufacturers ^season, ail the spring A “dark Job of Press The job of the press’ is mainly» to give people‘the news.' if the news is not Always the cheeriest, whose fault is it? Possibly the blame should go,in part to persons whose special job in life is seeking to maxe the world bet­ ter. Perhaps their technique or • ap­ proach’to problems is defective. The Leader-Post believes it is largely • st Superficial view that the newspapers ar© responsible for the state of the world. The state of the world may be r.e?P9u.?.ib’e..fpr the newspapers, good, bad or indifferent. There is quite a tendency on the part of human beings to push the blame off on the other fel­ low. As a matter of fact, there has been no difficulty at all about writing the above paragraphs. —.Regina Lea- der-Post. Season of the Splasher Always do we pass through a season of the year when the “splaping" dri­ ver has his full innings. In. the ruts along the road there is water, and it is dirty and the driver knows ft, but does not seem to convey much mean­ ing - ta-hisl. head_____ _ If he has occasion to ner -and come close to walk and many do—he ity to demonstrate how* tf turn the cor- the folk who has opportun- ________________ well-and how thoroughly he can. splash dirty water. He does not come back and suggest that the person who has"been splashed Should send suit or dress or coat to the cleanerj and present him with the bill, and perhaps it has never occur­ red to him that the law is such that he can be made, to pay for the damage he does.____________________’ * __ In the meantirne the splasher:'' is' having a fairly good- time, according to the dim light which has been meas­ ured but to him. — Peterboro Exam­ iner. ' : . ’•..•/ earing mourning bands on their arms in - • „ Manila on. route to Hong Kong and Japan. . The trip was ended, there owing to the Tokja• Uprising. Left to right, front row: Squadron Leader G. C. • Bindon, Squadron. Leader-K. ,B. Lloyd, Air Commo-' dore" Sydney W. Smith, and Wing Commander C. L. . Scott.a. In the- back- row are Flying Officer M. D.- Thjinder (left) and Flying Lieutenant C.; S. Ricca rd.' . Coming ! Whether state health insurance ar­ rives six months hence or some years hence, it is on the way. Public opin­ ion has been flowing strongly in that direction, and sooner or later health the agency of the Dominion Govern- . ment ©r./ttie provincial; Governments or a combination of both. — Vancou­ ver Province. The Rural' Teacher Addressing the Gatineau Teachers’ Association Dean baimon of Ottawa spoke in warm tbrms of the “fidelity and effectiveness” of rural teachers. .- It was a deserved tribute to a class of . professional, men anef women who have little in materia! reward to re­ concile them to laborious and" pains- • taking e|l.ort It is plain Jiat the rural teacher .is a larger factor .in the early years of . rural boys .and "girls', than is the city teacher in his or her sphere, Because •there are'fewer distracting influences in the schoolhouse „ at the country - crossroads to interfere with the *m-. pression that is made on young Jives by the teacher s character and skill. The. country-ted ch er^ in Canada has dpne a magnificent job, and those who have,charge of the rural school's to­ day inherit, a tradition of service that ha3 many fine chapters in Canadian history. A community, with a teacher and a parson possess a centre, of cul­ ture from which radiate influences" of incalculable -value .{•■» nation. Ottawa Jo-..r;'-'\ THE EMPIRE The Shame of the Slums . The Ring goes down to the Clyde­ bank slums; but have you been? He sees how the second r'Ly of Britain keeps its poor in hovels and rags, but have you seen? The King expresses cause he knows, but do you kno$r? If you live in Glasgow, go. and see and know. If you, live in London, Manches­ ter, Liverpool,- Leedi, rTmingham, read ’s tafe of Glasgow’s slums. “No Mean City” that will make blood run fast if there’s and pity and anger and shame left in folk. — London. Daily Express. Haggis In Tins Ah, these irreverent timCs; It is no wonder therS aru wars and rumour of peaer-I ,N0 wonder tlier'e'are Palama-, ties niid revolutions and unhappluess throughout th© world! The sad truth is out! They -,re trying to.“can • the h'Aggis. Parliament has heard a letter read from a man .who admitted to-im­ port "ug canned haggis. For1 years the re has been canned fish, canned ' beef, canned radio, canned music,'and canned' thought! - But canned- haggis? It Is. tro m-rr!;’ —. Timmins Advance.- One Thing and. Another A ffw years ago a iaftij wafj waik- |ng over one of 4the-brffiges In Rose­ dale, Toronto,- when, ''accosted t»y a passerby’a ho asked him If that, wa3 a good bridge ,to jump. off. The dan, thinking that the stranger <vag joking., suggc.'ted another? bridge ar being- a be'lmr one fm*'jumping off/ .The sain* t-yer.ir g -an_ appeared-1 In the newspaper*- a’/'-’ut- a' man wbO’ jumped off the .oth-.r bridge'. Which reminds us 4,t story of a • tramp who, thinking (o-arouse the sympathy of a lirus^tolder got down. On his hands'and knpss on the front 'Jawn and began to ev. the gras?. The *-househcl^Ai appealing a-t- the dn-b-r, 'Bsked who'- was the idoa? “I'm hungry,” ('■•pl’e-l »hc fr ai'ohnd '4 ,^Lack. the led tiro heath ’ T.L* ’ Fresh Air for Slum Children Fresh air and sunlight are: natural commodities whose importance to health have but lately been discover­ ed. They are the birth-right of all, and those who have means’ to enjoy them , owe it to their less iortunate neigh­ bours that they, too,, should share the benefits of Nature. And this is espec­ ially true where- the young are con-' cernbd. The money' spent on sending., a city'child to the country for a fort­ night is money well spent for it costs less to keep people healthy than to cure, them once they fall L.. And a, ■ fortnight out of Glasgow can make all ’ the difference between health and I sickness during the rest' of the year. J The sum of twenty-five shillings is not j a great deal to pay to give a child a ' fortnight's, pleasure and a year’s good ; health. That is all it costs. — Glasgow .HeraM,. . 1 “Old Bill’ I Celebrates • One of the “Old Bill” omnibuses • which did war-time duty iii France and Flanders is being sent to Van- 1 couver on loan to take part in the Gol-1 den Jubilee celebrations of that city .this Summer. Mr. W. A. McAdam, the ; acting'agent for British Columbia, and Mr. W. H. Malkin a former mayor of Vancouver, were at the docks • last, week to' see it off. . ‘ I •This veteran^ omnibus . is being ta-' ken. to» Vancouver at thp expense of '■MdsppS Furtiess Withy, wid the Port ■ of London Authority has- waived dock dues in its favour.' In the Vancouver celebrations • it will represent the London pf the'plain mai|; with its be­ wildering streets and its roaring traf­ fic, in fact,i|air the common everyday By KEN EDWARDS 1DMS cannot .present unless Un- Birth Rate and Immigration A I j Wildering streets and its roaring traf- • fie, in fact,i|all'the common everyday ' things in the City of London dear . to ' the memory of Britons overseas? j It is to be driven Li the Jubilee ] processions by a former employee o-f« the .L.G.O.C, and by the thousands ; ,frho,wili line the straight.- m’o'dotn - thoroughfares of A’ancouver it will be ' weleom'ed h? a link with home, —$ Lon­ don Times- . London Morning Post: Obviously a • vast country like Australia expect to preserve her national status unchallenged she' fills up her empty spaces, happily her birth rate has fallen so low that there is. no prospect oF her . .filling., those...spaces..„b.y. the. ..natural. - - i ncrease_of _.heE_existing__po.p.ulation^ Worse still, even her insignificent natural-increase has., been depleted during the years of depression by a net annual outflow of migration, and in View of the heavy burden of un­ employment* the Federal and State Governments intelligibly, refused to listen to any scheme for new settle­ ment. Returning prosperity, how­ ever,, has begun t< induce a welcome change of pttitydi: various respon­ sible statements in recent months have indicated that Australia’ may. shortly be ready to foster the re­ Grows Cosily / ■ ■ * (Kitchener Record.) ' i ’he French man- have created for the new of which give interest to collections. . horse”'quite unexpectedly made its appearance among the spring colors, for while the manufacturers were' predicting a great revival", of navy blue for the street costume, steel gray, which, in America, used to be called “battleship gray,” has walked quietly. in'and carried off the honors.. In nearly every one of the leading houses ’one sees the tailored frock,- suit-and .topcoat, in tweed, men’s sitting, jersey and in the soft woolens and triejts.. - It is an extremely practical color and one which makes an excellent background for all sorts pf gay. ac­ cessories, such-°s scarves, belts, but­ tons and bags. Navy blue is also prominent, in fact more in evidence than, it has been for sev .-al years. Black is always a leader in the color brigade, especially for French women, and this year it. is being worn more than usual in England. .________ '■ - -The--divine^ T’?ght'*of^‘the_ Eurpp^a'n races to rule anybody they can knock dowr. seems to be standing -in a bather shaky position these, days.. , , Riots sweep acros-s Syria’, where French troops strive to keep order in the land that was mandated to France after the World War.- These ‘.s,. in turn, stem from the unrest .n Egypt, -where the English have been a good deal of difficulty per­ suading the natives that ' British supervision is all for their best in­ terests. . '.' ■ • sumption of immigration. Rookie Porter By latest reports received from Florida, Bobby Porter, of Toron- . to, seems to be one Leaf who is • graduating with honours. This. J boy does a good job in the field; as well as behind thb old hickory stick. Boone likes Porter — So do we. | Here are' just a few. notes frori) my old scrap-book, fans. Al Simmons, the Detroit Tigers’ : big $75,000' powerhouse, is using a 33-ounce bat this season, In the United States last year 50,000,000. people saw baseball—- 9,000,000 of them saw bfg league games. ■ , ' They tell me Alfred S. Howe, of Brown University, js the cham­ pion doughnut eater of the U.S. He eats 20 ih minutes 50 sec­ onds, then cries for more. Last year Ar-ky Vaughan skip . ped in 19 home runs, establishing a new all-time record for pirate batsmen. , . . Don’t laugh, just -sneeze it off, my friends—anyway, Mrs. James J. Braddock says she wants James to- retire as undefeated heavy­ weight of the world after he smashes Joe Louis, to .so - much pulp, next June. Louis is under cided where .to let his opponent’s'1, body- rest. ; , Put on your old straw hat and we’ll go down and look over the Kentucky,, Derby hOof-throwers. . You folks who asked me my can; did opinion on this face-----vyell. my favouriteJs Mont Bfapc. His sire, Coponadi, won more money than any other horse in England in this Century. You all have your ■ favourite, Moht Blanc is mine. > . _ N*ext week we’ll give yoii more I Kentucky Derby news — I’ll be knockin’’ at yotir doof so long folks. ' . NOTE—To-day’s column is de­ dicated to my. old pal Jim Sayage, ’ 86 Jameson Ave., Toronto. . Address yoto spbff letters to Ken Edwards,. c/o National Press. 57 Bloor St. AV., Toronto. ITS TAIL STANDS t’P . An airplanp with a vertical ....... assembly instead of a? horizontal one * . - - . has been designed by a Parisian whb ■ calls while on the road. It uses ■made it a'ftet watching the ins'ect' hn<!liow?v'es-signals are picked “eletrope” fly."It is driven by a 25’^at a central • point, '■horse-power engine and weighs only 440 pounds,; and is said to remain in a horizontal .position. in. all kind,? of t T) •« '■‘’M'* tail i A radiotelephone is' being used in Rome, Italy, enabling motorist to , where the caller is’ connected with the number he wants. ’ ' ' . . ft ,v,f ... J.. . ■ A ’ Consider the -links .Hauptmann when arrested had Tn his possession $14,560 of undisputed ransom money. ** Fourteen ransom letters were iden­ tified by eight experts as in the hand­ writing of wllauptmann, not only be­ cause of -.' letter formation, but 'also beca-use of spelling. '■ . Hauptmann was identified by a cab driver as the man wh’o gave him a. ransom note to deliver to Dr. . (“Jafsie*’) Condon. ’ . Hauptmann's voice and accent were identified by Jafsie and,by Colonel Lindbergh as those- of the man to whom the ransom money had been pa-id in a graveyard'. -i '. A board was. found ih a-closet in. Hauptmann’s home on which the street address and telephone number of Dr., Condon were printed in pen-, ci). ■' The - Lindbergh -infant’s shirt was offered by-the man in the graveyard —later identified as Hauptmanny-to Dr. Condon, as proof that the Than had possession, of the baby, It was sent to Jafsie in a package addressed in writing which experts identified as Hauptmann’s. , . .... ■ , . The Wood .in the- kidnapper’s brok­ en ladder was identified by a .govern­ ment specialist in wbods as coming from a lumber yard near Haupt­ man’s home. A rung of the la'daer was shown to match the sawed edgq. of a severed board in the Hauptmann .attic. Plane marks on .the ladder were shown to correspond with the nicks in a plane found among Haupt­ mann’s tools. t . . Nothing that has developed since the trial of Hauptmann has £as.t so much as a shadow of doubt on the colei logic of this chain. The points raised by 'Governor ^Hoffman and .others who have come to the kidnap­ per’s aid are immaterial. Even should it be .shown that Millard tVhite'd and the aged -AmanJus Hochmuth, ‘who swote. thew saw Hauptmann dn the neighborhood of the Lindbergh' resi­ dence, were merely notoriety seekers indttlg.inr in perjury, it would not ef­ fect any one of the convincing cir- cunrsTantial links. - Something may be'- said, for th6 possibility that Hauptma.m Was not' alone but any And.- the Egyptian trouble, in its turn, grows ,out of the things the Italians are "doing.. or trying to do •> the Ethiopians. . Fifty years ago, no one would aye .worried much about such things; •i the Italians had wanted Ethiopia, everyone would have sat .back to enjoy the show" with a clear consci­ ence? . If the British police in Cairo had had to whack a few dozen de­ monstrators on the head with yard­ clubs, we would h..v€ spoken soul- fully about the need for a firm hand in .repressing disorders. ’1 ■ ,-And French, shooting' of Moslem riote s in< Damascus would have drawn from us only the reflection -that Arabs are a - troublesome breed, anyway. ? ; .. ... .“ We don’t take things so comfort­ ably, nowadays. We have began ’to suspect that the nation which takes possession of some " other nation’s territory has .some remarkable points of -resemblance to the- big city gang which goes musling. in on some other gang's territory, and if, original own­ ers of the land make trouble about it, they are apt- to get our sympathies. , • And it is beginning to look as if in., the long run the stupt of ruling some land by forces may cost a great deal more' than it' is worth. Indeed, it may eventually prove to be an ut­ terly impossible propositiom ■ —There has been a decided revival of beige, especially the light, neutral tint known >as “odtmeal.” Brown and • green and jade are used for spbrt.and street frocks, but lacquer red; which has been a prime favorite for so long is relegated to the “also ran” class, although it is-still used by Mme. Lanvin and one or two other design­ ers for the evening gown and every­ where Mjere. are belts - and buttons and.scarves in this bright color:used’ to brighten the gray or <12^ cos" fume. Purple and.violet are .favorite “cdOTsr'TtaF^^ costume foT" the afternoQ^. and. evening and. bright French blue/’ which the French call “Royal,” is featured for the evening cdstume bv several of the houses. / < ‘ ' 2'1 rr the execution of .the crime; thf-re has yet ‘to W discovered support'other than his own. dis-, credited testin.pn; that h'o is ;r, •iO-c; fr,r. t})0 theory ' ' -i Smokers Warned by Swedish Physician HELSINGFORS, Finland..— Fol­ lowing investigations into the effect Of smoking on the constitution, Dr. C. A. Walligreen, a Swedish doctor, declares that it is. impossible to de­ cide which, is preferable—cigarette, cigar, or pipe smoking. ’ 4 He has ,drawn up a smokers’ code for all types,’his suggestions in/dud- Very Feminine Diagonal stripes in print silk - lead the way to chic in ‘this easy . ; , - casual day dress. Tie ribbons fas- Srnoke thin and small cigarettes ten “the .bodice hind fhe cuffs of. or cigars;, and do not smoke moist the short sleeves. ' ' tobacco. ■ ’ ‘ .. . IT., uu mv I Use. pipes- with-long mouthpieces waistcutsinonewiththesleev.es. and long cigarette-holders. . - ‘ ’* Do not' smoke the l.art third of, Ifc on,y yhrd-^. of 139-inch tobacco as nicotine coll<-rfs at the bottom of a pipe and in the stubs/ .of cigarettes and cigars. Do not relight' a cd^ar which has become extinguished,. , Keep pipes and holders wed) clean*, ed and .dry, ■ , Do not inhale tobaerh smoke. .Six, members* of the. .S inderland, Football Club arted a-- bearers at the funeral at Jarrow* Durham, of James Thorpe, , the .S inderland goalkeeper,; who? died oi hospital- af­ ter being,- injured ' In the <"h«-koa ir uf <*h,. . ' * :■ *?:. -4 It’s, so simple to sew.' The,.. It will repay you Tot your effort.- It only takes 3% vairdS of!39-inch material for the -1'6 year size. Striped, checked or plaided «cot-, ■ ton would be _ v.qry' effective- for summer. Of cotirse, in plain ma­ terials., it's also fascinating. Style No. 2639 is designed for izc^ 14, 16, years, 36, ffXawtl : .40"inches bust,. ■ ' HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address- plainly, E>vinj* number and size of pattern wanted Enclasp 15c in •tamps or coin (coi»«.pVefetired); ■ wrap it carefully hrtd address your' ^dcr to Wilson Pattern Service. ■ < 31 We s f Ade ’a rd o S t reel, Toron tn.