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The Seaforth News, 1934-02-01, Page 7THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE 'SEVEN oqeOM■■ece.eeoueern....au.......IJII Us s ueeun,.....mu I� i1 1 e 1 1 1 I The Seaforth News I Duplicate Monthly Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality IvMetalHinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index, m Phone 84 m a�je�■n�•ra�■n�un�e■��u�pa�ne�■n�aa�■ p A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with $1 for a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published 1 »Brous Massa uoapto SPUBLISHING 800000T Ib it you will find the daily good news of the world from Its 800 special wrltera, finance, sedaeattone devotedradiY u will ,be gladhtto welcomoe Into sports, so and the sura at ane the eaceotheand prohibition.- .And don't miss Snubs. Our Doe, Tie aa00000N 8OIENC0 00r0NIT00, Book 055 ittatiOn, Boston, M000. Please send mea six weeks' trial subscription. I enclose ora dollar ($1), 0 (Nemo, pleas. print) (Address) (Town) (State) ▪ fl1ere and There ilkTaken as a whole the British West Indies as a market for Can- adian products ranked tenth last July with $550,000, with New- foundland coming next. Increasing. prospe- rity in Can- ada and the United States is seen in the early arrival in the Do- minion of United States Christmas 'tree buyers. They are particularly busy in the Maritimes where the demand is especially heavy. Edward C. Carter, of New York, traveller and publicist, has been .chosen to fill the newly -created post of secretary-general of the Institute of Pacific Relations which has just completed its fifth (biennial conference at the Banff `Springs Hotel. Eleven happy boys took the .eleventh annual "On to Alaska" tour this year under the leader- ship of George E. Buchanan, of Detroit. Their trip included a :stop at the Banff Springs Hotel where the boys stayed until they entrained, for Lake Louise. n Traffic earnings of the Can- adian railways for July show an aggregate gala of nearly a million dollars as compared with .July, 1932, the best showing to many m▪ onths on similar comparisons. 'Gross earnings of the Canadian Pacific account for 9.73,000 of this gain during the month, "He' got you that time." said Mrs. Montagu Norman to the gov- •ernor of the Bank of Enginad, when they landed recently at Que'. bee from Canadian Pacific liner, Duchess of Atholl, on their way -to Bar Harbor, Maine. ' The pur- pose of the visit is a mystery, not .even a holiday being admitted by the distinguished' visitor. ' John Nelson, president_ of Ro- 'tary International, sailed recently 'by Empress of Britain on his way to Lausanne where the second European regional conference of the worla-wide organization was held this mouth. Ile stated that Rotary had 150,000 members in :300 clubs. "Id from the conferences, :speeches and exhibitions at the "World's Gra in Exhibition at -Re- gina we can derive oven one sue gestion of importance to agricui• turists, the show will bo voted ,t success," said 01. 9. ticRory, man- ager, United Grain (lrow'rs office in Calgarw. in a recent address sit the Palliser Motel in that ctiy. w A Power of its Own. --Dr. Thomas' Fac ec'tric Oil has a subtle power of its own. IAII who have used it know 'th'is an'd keep it by thein as the most valuable liniimen't available, ]?ts uses are innumerable and for many years. it has been prized as the lead'iog 'lini- ment for man and beast. "While we at home are intent on industrial `expansion and a place in the sun, Europe in its war -weakened condition is fighting for its very existence," said Donald W. Brown, director of the department of organi- zation in the League of Red Cross Societies of the World, which has its headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland. Re visited Toronto to learn the peace program of the Canadian Red Cross Society and to establish closer contact between it and the league. Millions of War Orphans. Having just arrived from Europe, Mr. Brown was able to give the Cana- dian Red Cross some first hand in- formation concerning the people of Europe. He called attention particu- larly to the condition of the children, so many of whom are now orphans. While the exact number who have lost one or both parents during the war cannot be determined, the most conservative estimate places the num- ber at over ten millions. This num- ber seems quite consistent with the hdavy warcasualties among so many nations. Dependent Upon Charity. The condition of these children is In most cases very pitiable. Many of them have no homes and they are dependent upon whoever may be charitable and kind enough to help them. But there are few who are able to give such help for the mass of the people of Russia, Poland, parts of Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia and other countries are so poor that they have not necessaries for themselves. Consequently in the great area be- tween tate Baltic, the Black and the Adriatic Seas, there are millions of children Who face the next tow years, and particularly the coming winter, without hope of proper care unless outside assistance is given them. In addition to the unhappy con. clition of the children the adult popu- lations opelations are in the direst of misery on account of disease. Suffering has been accentuated by lack of food and clothing, nursing and medical atten- tion, and tuberculosis, smallpox, typhus and dysentery are continuing unchecked. Typhus which has so often proved n scourge and menace to the human race is again prevalent, and unless ehecked will most likely extend its ravages to an alarming degree. British Empire Appeal. For these urgent reasons, Mr. Brown said, the League of Red Cross Societies has made an earnest appeal to the people of the British Empire and he was glad to hear that the cause of the suffering children was being taken up in Canada. He had learned that an appeal on behalf of the British Empire Fund would be made' in Canada by the Canadian Red Cross during Armistice week and wished for it every success. Disease Prevalent. SCENE 'OF FUTURE STRIFE? Vladivostock is nal particularly no- ,tabie as a city. 'It sprawl's, in Asiatic fasih'ioni, across the hills 'that skirt the $13ey of Amur. Down at the waterfront where eastern Siberia runs into . the Pacific, there are signs of progress. There is a modern breakwater and drydo'c'ks 'the 'hlandiwno'rk of the '.Sov- iets. During Atte summer months one cart fiord there a nondescript fleet of freighters unldading nondescript car- goes of oil and tea and load'in'g up with soya beans, timber and fish. Fee most of the year, however, most of fli city% 'B0,000 inh!abitanlbs go their way as indifferently as the population of a •them:and other cities of the im- perterb'able' Eals't. Yet many observers believe that Vladivostock is just around the cor- ner from a place 'in the sun, And this fame, if and when it comes, will be a result of the fact that this city s'tan'ds as a mark of the fulfillineNt of the am- bition of one world power and as an ab•stacle to the fulfil'lmen't of the am- bition of another, Vladivostok is to Russia the symbol of three centuries of succeslsfu'l ex- pansion and stands today as the pont for the vast Soviet hdoterland of east- ern Siberia. To Japan, it is a syutbol of 'the, fact that there is a po'in't be- yond which Japanese expansion on the Asiatic coast cannot go. Ru's'sia does not propose to give up her terri tory. Japan shows no sign of giving up her dream. But until one .or the Other surrenders, the horizon of the far (East is likely to continue to be shadowed by clouds of war. Those clouds for a year have ap- peared to be of substantial stuff. The puppet kingdom of Manchouk-uo has 'been abristie with Jlap'enese troops. They have guarded the railroads, marched and cotutter-marched in the towns, undertaken frequent for- ays against the pesterin'g'bandits and are kept in readiness for an emerg- ency. The Japanese with an eye for strategy as well as trade, have 'turned to, with pick and shovel, to improve old roads and build new ones. One new railroad is just ibeing completed and another is on the way, The first rues from the M'anohoukuo town of Tsftsihar toward the Siberian frontier and the 'Trans-Siberian railway. The second runs from the coast of Korea to the Manchottkuo capi'tat• of 'H'sinkfng (Chan'gohun). No one den- ies—least of all the Japanese—that 'this latter road will greatly increase the ease with which Japan can move troops into Mianch'oukuo, just as the former will greatly increase the speed with which they can be concentrated against Siberia. ]Across the frontier there is just as much stirring. Two years ago, elle So- viets ,suddenly developed an interest in the colonization of eastern Siberia. Ever since, a steady stream of set- tlers ha poured from. western Russia into this undeveloped empire, They have been carefully chosen settlers, recent graduates most of them, of the Red Army, At strategic points along the Trans-Siberian, huge warehouses have gone up and huge supplies of war Materials and foodstuffs have gone into them. There .has been a slow but substantial increase in the Siberian air force of the Soviets, ale increase that can be multiplied over .night Moscow boasts one airplane factory that can turn out ten fighting ships a week. For eighteen months that factory has null full blast. The ships it has turned out are at the dis- posal of the forces in the East. Lt is this busy 'preparation on both sides of it that makes the Manchou- kuo - Siberian frontier one of the world's most dangerous .boundaries. 'Russia has defied !Japan to Groes it. Japan is uncertain whether—or when —to risk a crossing. Each appears to he sure that it will be ,crossed. Back of all the feints and passes between. these powers lies a tang history of. rivalry and suspicion. On the Japanese side the story be- gins with the lSuno-IJapanese war. That was in 113914. The Japanese won, to the surprise of everybody, including themselves, As a reward tor winning they followed the hest western prec- edent and took over a few, bits. of Chinese territory, including the Liao- ning Pen'insul'a, the choicest quarter of Maudhuria. To the west, and Parti cutarly to Russia, this sudden ingafh- ering on the part of the Japanese had an ungleaslanit look, Consequently the powers, with Russia 'faking .the .lead, ."strongly advised" Japan to hand back the territory. Japan, enraged, but prudent, 'handed it hack. Where- upon, having allowed a scant 316 months to el•a'pse, the .Russians mov- ed into the saline territory and ap,gro priated it for .th.emselves. The, Russo- J'apanese war in 119014.1'11905 settled Ghat. acc'oun't: That war ousted Russia from the .Liaotung -Peninsula. But it' did more than that. Lt put an encI to IRussiia's Asiatic expansion and gave' a start to the Asiatic expansion of: Japan; The Russians began their 'Eastern, trek across Siberia in the sixteenth century. By the time ,tog„ ,firat •Almeri can colonists were espahti htergatlietilt selves in Massachusetts, they were al- ready setting tie trading pobti.,010.'she eastward push continued until it reached the Pacific with 1'Russian pio- neers sending furs aback from their ;frozen wilderness along the 6000hivile road to 11,11°50 0w, llat the end, Russia worked herself into the good graces, of China and by devious methods secured a wide var- iety of special privileges in. M'a'nchur- ia, There elle built two railroads; the south 'Manchurian, which connected (Port Arthur at the tip of the Liao- ning Peninsula with the Trans-Siber- ian and the Chinese Eastern, which provided the .Traits -Siberian with a short-cut ,across nlorthern Manchuria to V'ladivostock. By moans of the Sou'th 'Manchurian, Pont Arthur and Dairen were to be the year-round ice- free ports for Siberian commerce; by means of the Chinese Eastern, Vlad-' ivostock was to be made more acces- sible as a military and naval base. japan, as has been stated, brought that dream to .an, end with the war f 1905. But these issues involved in the relations between the two powers were not settled, In fact, those rela- tions have .soenewhat worsened since the 'Soviets came to power. For one thing, Communism and the Commun- ists hlave given the Japanese a good many uneasy moments during the past ten years. Public opinion in Jaa pan has been convinced, to its own satisfaction, that a good many of its "red" teotfbles have been fomented with the direct aid of Moscow, Moreover, the Japanese have not relished the Soviet policy toward China, Once the revolution was over 'n Russ'i'a the Soviets turned up, forthwith, as intercessors for an op- pressed people. Japan, by the prop- agandists, was ,given the role of chief op'pres'sor. Before 'long it looked as though Russia would win, by good will, the plate in China which Japan had failed to win by force. Russo - Chinese relations, •h'o'wever,, carne upon .bad days in 1926 and 11927. The Communist advisers to ,uhe National regime in China were bund- led up and 'returned to (Moscow. Dip- lovatic relations were broken off They were resumed again last year, And the ill -concealed 'bitterness o•f the 'Japanese et their --resumption in- dicates that Japan still, regards Rus- sia es her chief rival 10 the race for control of China. IBut 'Chis bitterness 'had ,been fed by at least one other major deve'lopmen't. In 19214, the Soviets carte to an agree- ment with Chang 'Tso-lin, the Chin- ese dietator o'f Manchuria, on the Chinese Eastern (Railway, ;B'y this agreement the management o'f rhis rood—the cut-off for the TranseSiber- ien—teas vested in the :hands jointly of the Chinese and the Russians. And Russia, thereby, moved back again toward a dominant position in north- ern (Manchuria. Obviously, Japan was not pleased, The opportunity .to -vent :her dis- pieas:ure did not come, however, until autumn of 19311: when Japan under- took the conquest of -Mant.c'huria, Such a conquest—to be a success—involved control of the Chinese Eastern. The Japanese now control it — although the property is ;'till (Russian. The pre- sent effort to bring about its sale by Russia to 1Japan appears to be in a stalemate, with •tteit'her .party satisfied with things as they are or able to find mutually acceptable terms on which to 'c'hange ahem, •Means 'hile the (Russians have con- siderably changed their far -eastern tune, A year ago when the subject carne up the spokesmen for the Sov- iets pittkered their "brows and, one gathers shook a bit tit their -heavy Russian boots. When they had to say anything on the question they said it with a decidedly un'comm on istic clo'ci'Iity. Japan sent her air- planes across the ;Si'be'rian frontier, moved •her troops constantly closer to the !border, interfered with Rus- sia's fishing ,fleet off Vladivostok. And all these irritants the 'Soviets let pass without a single man-sized protest. Today, olewever, docility has gone into ,the discard. It is the Soviets, now, ,who are omp'boying w'h'at the diplomats call "firm 'language." The reasons 'for this ,change are several, [For one thing, as already has been Pointed oat, the !Soviet war bases in the Far iEast .have 'been.significantly strengehen-ed. For : -another 'thing, a good. harvest has helped to solve the. question of food supply, iAnd, most of all, .the So-diets—in .the last 42 months -ihavc made 'warm !friends with their western neighbors. A year ago, the small states, along the 'European borders of Russia were anything that p'to-IS'oviet. They were suspicious of Moscow and 'beanie to- ward What they believed to be Mos- cow's policies. and Mo•acow—'being sensible -did net ,re'l'ish the idea of taking on an enemy in tele East while there were so .many at least potential enemies in the (West, Consequently Mr. 'Maxim,Li•tvinoff, the 'Societ .For- eign .Minister, `was given the job of making friends. For a year 'he has livedan a suitcase. 'His bland has been open to all comers. And the results ;have ;astou!iohed the world. P'a'cts -of tngnaggresseo!iir•?have-.,been stirred with •most of Russia's western ueigh'bors. A ,contradeship that is positively bro- therly of the Yenesei River, This' therly has developed with iFranlce. Today with the possible exception of IGertnany, !Soviet, 'Russia is oil better terms witlh -the nations of Europe than at any time since the revolution. This position ,has 'been'immeasur- ably strengthened 'by the recegnitio•u of (Russia by the United States, Al- though the crisis in the 'East Was pro - 'l'ol'ly notthe ahfef factor in that 'move, there is no question that .the establishment :of friendly relations between the Two powers which—!next to 'Japan—have the largest tsake in this area, is likely to have a decidedly salutary influence in the military councils of Japan. an consequence, the Russian .'Gov- ernment -.Beds that, for the first time, it can afford to speak .its real mind at the Far East. This outspeaking :has Thad a decided) bellicose sound. But Y d it may, in the end, turn out to be the one thing necessary to keep the peace. The Russians now have served no- tice an Japan that, if a war is due, (Russia is ready for it. This does not 'tn•een that Russia would relish it, Such a conflict wotfid 'destroy the fruits of the first and je'opard'ize the program of the second' TiveaYear 'Pfau, A war would require the tem- porary abandonment Of economic plans and ,the ,suffering and tosses and disorganization that would follow would pttt the a'chievetnents of the present Russian regime in scsi 'peril. 'Meanwhile, the Japanese militarists recognize that they 'have lost their great oppo'r'tunity to move into east- ern Siiberria. The time for such a move was last spring, before Russia 'had •had time to increase her Far Eastern defenses and while a lack of food (fur- ther handicapped the !Soviet Govern- ment at home, .What might 'have been accomplished with relative ease abuse mo.ntths ago could only be accomp- lished now by a long - protracted struggle—a struggle which the ex- perts figure would require that :japan put a million fighting men in the (Geld. IIsi the meantime, there are some few signs that the 'bold of the ultra - militarists on the 'Government of Japan is slipping, At the end of Octo- ber, Gen. Sadao Araki, Japanese War Minister ,..proposed, informally, a peace conference among the powers with 'a stake in the Far East, includ- ing the United States and Russia: 'Such a 'proposal from such a source was significant. It may and probably does indicate that the militarists, aware that their schemes have been thwarted, are now ready to talk a more conciliatory language: Nevertheless, this crisis is by no means resolved. For the time being, winter, :gripping all eastern. Siberia, will keep the peace, The issues in- volved and the threat of war to settle them may reappear, again, with 'the spring thaw. ,They will reappear un- less, in the interim, diplomats make some major strides toward the dis- covery .of a compromise settlement that will remove the Chinese Eastern Railway from the realm of contro- versy and guarantee the integrity of Russia's eastern Siberian domains. There are people travelling through Northern Ontario or who have come in for a short stay, who carry tales that the district is not suitable for farming and that it freezes every month of the year, Since the provin- cial government has been advertising the district, for colonization, the pros- pective settler would be interested' to know if this title is justified. 'The agricultural possibilities of a country are usually determined by the .quality of the land to be farmed, the average temperature prevailing during the gnawing season, the frost -free pe- riod .was 103 days in 11932, 1125 days in 119!31: and 109 days in 1930, compared to an average of 73 days ever a period of 1'5 years. Many tines, however, the temperature registered as the killing frost was only 312 degrees and sic da- mage was done except to the most tender plants sudh as corn or tomat- oes. Itt is found also that as the .clear- ed land is extended and more soil is cultivated, with better drainoa'ge and air circulation, the danger from late spring and early autumn frosts is rapidly disappearing. int is generally conceded that the Omeunt of growth is measured up by the rainfall' and that .the maturity of ,the grain is in direct relation with the ,'mount of sunshine. Over a per- iod of 115 years the average monthly precipitation during the five growing months was 2.84 inches and, from 11919 .to 1933 inclusive, an average of 1206 hours of sunshine was recorded monthly during the same five grow- ing months. Beth, the rainfall and the -hlours of sunshine are considered sufficient for a good growth and per- fect maturity of grain. The Dominion Experimental Sta- tion would be pleased to supply any additional inforniatitrn concerning the (weather record's, the growing of orops, etc., of Northern Ontario.' The Terror of Asthma comes like a thief' in the night with its dreadfu' throttling, robbing its ` victim o' 'breath. It seems beyond the powe' of human aid to relieve until one tria' is made of that remarkable prepare Services We Can Render in the time of need PROTECTION is your 'best (friend. Life Insurance —To ,protect your LOVED ONES.' Auto Insurance To protect you against LIABHJITY' to P'Ud3LJC and their PROPERTY.. 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But there are several rea- sons, the most important of which. are to conserve moisture and to de- stroy the competing weeds that the corn may have the best possible chance to develop, Intertillage Beneficial. Intertillage also assists the freeing of plant food and an open or loose surface soil will, in ease of heavy rain, take up and hold mole moisture than a hard or uncultivated surface. ,his fast as moisture evaporates from the surface more water moves up bora below. This ie. as nature in- tended it should be, and was quite the right thing when the soil surface is oovered with decaying leaves and growing vegetation. But under our crop growing systems of to -day where we reduce the soil to an abso- lutely bare condition, and then plant corn with the object of growing corn and nothing else on the land, we must save the moisture, prevent its escape from the soil until the corn plant develops a root system extensive enough that no moisture may pass from the soil surface, We know that moisture is lost from the fallow field if there is no cultivation during the warm dry weather, and we know that tillage practiced on the bare fallow field will retain the soil in a mellow condition, How Moisture Evaporates. If we set a pan of water on the unprotected surface soil it will loose one-half Inch of water daily during the dry weather, A similar pan of water set in the corn field or wheat field where it is protected by the growing crop will not lose as much In a week. From the foregoing it will be noted that the most import- ant tillage to save the moisture for the corn plant is done previous to the time that the plant has attained a height of 12 or 15 inches, When the corn is that high it has developed a root system large enough to prevent loss of soil moisture. Tillage done after the corn is 15 inches higb has Its main benefit in remelting the weeds that oompete with the corn for moisture and nourishment. All taken by weeds directly robs the corn crop. In experiments that were conducted to determine the influence of weeds - on corn yield it was found that shal- low cultivation gave an increase of 63 bushels of corn -per acre over where weeds were allowed to grow. Deep Cultivation Not Necessary. There is no real necessity of cute' tivating deep, unless it is to cover large weeds. If the work is done in proper time the weeds will not get large and shallow tillage will take care of them, and at the same time the corn roots will not be insured by the cultivator teeth, Broad cut - Ing cultivator teeth that do not loosen the soil more than two Melee* deep give conditions most favorable to the full development of the corn plant. The type of cultivating usual- ly spoken of as "Rip her up deep," "Let her down deep," increases the labor and reduces the, yield, Frequent Cultivations a Benefit. Up to the time that the corn shades the ground cultivate frequently, and. not over twoinches deep; after that, continue to cultivate shallow princt• pally with the object of destroytng weeds. -Department of ExtensIo8, O. A. College, Guelph. tion, Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Re- medy, Then relef collies with a .rush. Life becomes wortli living, and, if the remedy be used persistently, the di- sease is put permanently to rout. Take no substitute.