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The Seaforth News, 1934-03-01, Page 7THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934. THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN 17a�nu�a■�ru�an ao.�wx�an ..a■�ad�aa---�u0 licate thly I St )d5 ten•et..,{� nts 1 1 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 Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index: , I The Seaforth News i Phone 84 a, t pn�nu�ua—inn .�uu��a a—oau� un—+n b—*un+u xameon A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with Slier a six weeks' trial subsdription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR , Pabllshed by TRE OHa1STIeN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY Boston, Massachusetts, II. 0. A. In It 50,0 will 0,0,111,0 daily Rood news of the world from its 800 special writers, as well u 'departments devoted to women's.: and children'sinterests, sports, mush:, tendon an adv: ate n08 peace and prohibitioMad la A to don't mmiss into your 000 DOme S end the Sundial and: the other feature:. THE SHAMAN SCIENC0 MONITOR, Back Bay station, Boston, Mass. Please send me a sl, weeks' trlal subscription. I enclose one dollar ($1), e (Nome,please print) (Address) (Town) (State) .Here and There Twenty-nine men and seven women who pioneered Alberta -17.--1/4 � trails died in the present 'year. All of them saw the West when it was young, the west that exist- ed before 1895. The current year marks the half century since the Canadian Pacific came to Calgary. ' Sailing for New Yorir Decehn- ber 14, the 42,500 -ton white -hulled Empress of Britain left on a Christmas and New Year's holi- day cruise for the West Indies, December 22, returning to New 'York January 3 and -sailing again January 4 for a 4% -month cruise around the world. Among the "Believe It or Not” .acts wellknown to the generality of newspaper readers, may be added the statement of S. G. Hib- hen, of the Westinghouse Light Company, made recently -in -an address at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto that "today there are some 10,000 different kinds of ar- tificial light sources." Approximately 78,000 people own the Canadian Pacific Rail- way through theirownership of the company's common . stock. Of these, 36,000 live in Canada, Of the balance, 21,000 live hi other darts of the British Empire, most- ly in, England, with 16,000 in the Ignited States and 5,400 in other countries, mostly continental Eur- ope. For the first time in western Canada, an impressive ceremony, the age-old investiture of the Knights of St. John was hold re- cently at the Hotel Vancouver, 'Vancouver when six British Co- lumbians were admitted by King George, sovereign head of the order, to high honors. Odd world costumes and strange rites added 50 the dignity and color of the proceedings. Railways and their important Sunctions in the economic exis- , tence of tho State were stressed by G. G. Ommanney, development commissioner of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the annual banquet of the Traffic Club of Hamilton recently. They had, he said, contributed materially to de- velopment of natural resources. building up of indu:;tries and in promoting land settlement and agriculture. Railway and motor truck trans- portation are both essential to the economic wellbeing of Canada and neither should be antagonis- tic to the other, stated Hon, R. J, Manion, minister of railways and canals, at a ,national conference en transportation held at Ottawa Recently. But, he added, while railways are subject to strict reg- elation and control, motor truck service has not ass yet been brought under any comparable Control or regulation. In spite of the fact that Govern- ment loans for farm underdrainage have been available for a number of years, it is still news for many (arm. ors who have not sufficient capital to tile their farms. Too much cannotbe said in support of this aid to increas' ed production and enhancing the value of property. No other farm Improvement will give equal returns and become a permanent improve. meat. Ihltproveld ruachinery,although very desirable, depreciates year by year, and in time is discarded and replaced by other and new ectuipmeut, Fertilizers are available for a yeas or two and have to be renewed, whereas tile drains become more ef. Relent year after year. The soil becomes better aerated, more triable, and in a better physical condition when maximum crops will be pro- duced with the minimum amount of work. Matching Cost and Benefit. Suppose for instance it takes :40 to tile drain an acre of land sys• tc:matically, but by so doing several hollows which never produced more than half' a crop before now yield more than any place else in the liela. Supposing another wet area which el - ways drowned out does likewise, and in all we have twenty-five bushele. of tvlab_3t instead of twenty, or wehave sixty bushels of oats instead of. fifty. These estintates are much too low. out conservative estimates are sat.. .Let us see what Interest -we' make00 our money. Taking the present price of 'wheat as -$1.40 per bushel, we have made $7 on an outlay of $40, which is 17 i/z per cent. me our in. restment. With oats at 450 we have 11% per cent. o11 our investment, And ff these are not good retinal l• don't know where to find them.. Government Loatns at Low Rates. For the use o! this money, on .which you make largo interest, the Government waits you only 5 per cent. l'ou have twenty years to return it, long before which you have been re. timid several times: Under the present net auyone wishing to toe can borrow 75 per cent. .91! the ''.rut al hta worst up to 42,000 per Imeneed awres, The Moan is obtained throoigh the township council, which is responsible for pass- ing assing the necessary by-laws and the issuing of the debentures for sale to the Provincial Treasurer. No town- ship council alive to the necessity of underdrainage ,would refuse to se- ' some interested in obtaining such a toan for . any of their ratepayers, Further Government assistance by way of surveys, plans and specifics. Mous for drainage work may be ob. tafned by applying to the Drainage Department, 0. A. C., Guelph. They wile also be glad to assist individuals ,>f eou:ncils In discussing with them the Tile Drainage Act, or in mailiab them copies iu which they ;an get the details. --F. L. Ferguson. 0, A. college, Guelph,' OHA'RACTE'RIETICIS OF KEYS 'Clrattleteristi'c's' is .perhaps a +better term .Chale 'coilot•' or `mood'; the 'for- mer has the drawbacks of ,being (prim- 'arily assdcialted 'with another 'art, and the la't'ter is Wo 'clo'sely ,concerned with emotion. Thelo'gic'al position is that whereas emotion may be a key ,characteristic, not all key ieharacteris- +tics are emotional, erg„ such obvious 'qua'lities as sonority, vigor and bril- liance are not�u aril5 nn ecess y emotional. hat every key has a character of its own has long ;been universally admit- ted, \'V'hen we come to details, 'how- ever we are met w'it'h' the odd fact that there is fair'unanimity as to. certain key's and lwide difference +concerning ethers. Views as to major and minor follow the enacted line, major being held to he indicative of joy and manor of sorrow, despite such examples to the contrary as the 'Saul' Dead March (C Major) and 'hosts of hun'tin'g and drinking songs in minor keys, Sp far ars 11 can discover only three writers have committed 'themselves to a detailed list orf key Characteristics, 'Lavignac, a lFrenclh ;professor (184d 49.116), in his ?Music and 'Musici'ans, is one; William Gardiner, a Leicester stocking maker and enthusia's'tic am- ateur Q1F4'O-111853) is another; and :Ber- lioz in his `book on orchestration spreads Ihi asel'f on the 'subject with special .reference to 'the violin. (This brings in another factor—the part played by instrumental timbre, IA moment's 'thought will sho'w that keys involving a liberal use of open strings will be 'specially brilliant; hence 'the further result that There 'must be more or less obvious differ- ences in orchestral music in accords an.ce with the prop'orticn Of String tone. 'For exa'tnpie, the brilliance of A ma'jor,. due to the open A, TE, sill ID strings of the violin, 'would be appre- ciably less in passages during which those instruments 'were silent.) I have not space to give the 'L'a•vignac-Gardi- I:er-'Berlioz list 'cotn'pl ate; it must suf- fice to ,cite e 'fe'w keys only, 1 begin with the points of agreemen't, Lavig- nac says that IA major is 'frank and sonorous; 'Gardiner describes it as golden and sunny'; and IBe'rlioz, 'bril- liant, elegant and joyous'. They agree also concerning 'G major: 'gentle and calm, rurail, merry' '(Lavignac); 'gay, sprightly' (IGardiner); 'rather gay, and slightly ,commonplace. I(IBeriioz). D major is 'gay, 'brilliant, alert' [(ILav- ignae); 'grand and noble' Gardiner); `gay, noisy and rather com'mon'place' (Berlioz), Concerning ;B minor they agree also, It is 'savage or sombre, but 'vigorous' (Lavignac); 'bewailing' (Gardiner) , 'very sonorous, wild, on - i o ns; rough, vloleuE''(Bet•lioz) G 'nor is is 'melanch'oly, shy' '(ILavignac); 'replete with melancholy' ,(tGardiuer); 'melancholy, 'tolerably onorous, soft' (Berlioz). All the minor keys, by the way, are ,d,escribcd as expressing var- ious shades of melancholy and gloom; the statements concerning the major keys are less unanimous. Thus, to La- vignac ID flat major is ''charming, suave, and placid'; +Gardiner ,finds it 'awfully dank'; and Berlioz labels it 'nhajestic'.'8 flat is 'described by Lay - !gime as 'noble, and elegant, 'graceful'; Gardiner considers it to be 'cleficient in !lire', and .Berlioz 'finds it noble but without distinction'. 111 is not quite clear how nobility can be combined with lack of distinction,. but this is not the only instance in which Berlioz is ,lightly contradictory, Even ILavignac is in two minds about C major, which he,describ,e's as 'simple, naive, frank; or, flat and con monplace'. Probably such widely diverse opinions were •due to his having heard two very different compositions in C. ,Similarly, ,the fact that 'Gardiner describes C major as 'bold, vigorous 'and commanding', and Berlioz as 'grave and dull and vague,' indicates .that they 'were influenced by the purely nhusical effect of some worlss in that key. Roughly, however. there is rather more agreement than difference. But -it has to he remember- ed that 'tile opinions quoted are the result of close and .continued observe- cion by men well .gnali'6ed i•n diflernl ways. Lavignac brought to the task skill and learning; Gardiner :was an enthusiastic amateur; and 'Berlioz had vn uncanny sense of one color and character. It remains a matter of spec- ulation as' to how far listeners are con- scious of 'the characteristics so ob- iously experienced by composers and performers. As for composer's; Beethoven more, than once spoke of having chosen a 'suitalble key' for e ,partictilar position; and S have already mentioned his ob- '•lans preference' for C Ilhinor in con- nection. with, centaiii Moods. (By the way, he described B minor as 'a black key:') Of the iclinsyncrasies of composers In regard to' keys many columns might he writte'n„I cih.00se an example: Cesar 'Franck, !Readers of Vincen' d'Tnrly's boolc' on the coni'n'•oser have probably been 'strider- by, the freemen' ref'srences to Fra'vclt's choice of key. and to his fondness !for'•tliose with many sharps. It was, in fact almost Ian obsession, the evert said, speaking ^f his 'Redenhhlption', 'In this score J have used only 'sharp ' keys, in order `o render the luminous idea of re- demption.' ;And cc -ening on this re- nark, d'Indy says, "How admirably logical is ,the succession of sh'anp keys in this work. Starting with a neu'tra'l and colorless key, A minor, Che Biuret part is illuminated by de grecs; as by a ladder we seem to rise to the greatest light by mean's of +13, the dominant, A major, and iF sharp major', (!But would the listenet who did not see the Score he aware of 'this?) 'Franck's .fondness for F sharp major led 'hint into difficulties on one occasion, At a rehearsal for the first perform'an'ce of the 'Redemp- tion' the orchestra was so annoyed by being asked to play i)1 such an awk- ward key (for strings) that it de - dared the work to be innpossible; and although They did play it 'the perfornran•ce (says dlltlidy) !suffered deplorably from the ill -wi'l'l o1 the players', Nor is this the only in- stance of Franck's 'sharp' ,fetish standing in his light. There are pas- sages in his organ works so forbid- dingly noted as to choke off many a player, Thus, in his `Grand (Piece S ^n ph } ii onique' .he 'writes a long pas- sage in the absurd key of A sharp major. Of course it bristles with double sharp; written in !B flat it would have been quite easy to ;play. IBart (here's the rubs) • would Franck have conceived the pasage in the same ivay heel he started in IB fiat? In, other words, to what ex -tent was his intagina'tion kinldled by thinking and writing in six sharps instead of in two flats? 'Perhaps something approaching an answer is to be 'found in a curious fact; No, 3 of the `Fortyeight' is printed in C sharp major in some ed- ition's, and in D flat in others, The hearer is, of course, unaware as to which version is being used; but there are few, if any, players who do not feel that the music is somehow not quite the same, I have just .ques- tioned a pianist as to the men'ta'l ef- fect produced by the notation of this piece, He replies that if he uses the flat edition he gives a more sauve, tranquil reading of the music than he does when playing in sharps. No doubt most of us would do She seine, We are subconsciously influenced by the customary associations of the words 'sharp' and 'flat'; the word 'sharp' suggests brightness, 'aspira tion, something rising, and so forth; 'flat' does the reverse, •Is it fanciful to see some connection in uI+ranck's .lik- ing for sharp keys, and the program that is at the back of almost all his works, a struggle from darkness to light—from evil to redemption? How are we to account for the fact that the keys seem to have re- tained - tained their characteristics during various changes of pitch during the past century? Thus, C of Beetho- ven's day may be the 13 o'f ours, and the difference between the general pitch of B,ech's clay is probably even more marked, 'Evidently the pihysco- logical effect is far greater than we have supposed it to be, 'It would be interesting to test this ,by playing some specially written music to List- eners placed behind a 'creep. To what extent would there be agreement a- mong those who heard but did not see the music, and the Performers with the score in view? until we have sohnethlug definite, the last word will be with Lavignac, who says that there 15 a 'mysterious law Which assigns to each -key a peculiar aspect. a special color; but each per- son will regard this aspect according to his own personal temperament.' • THE LAND OF THE INVERNESS MONSTER The view from the crest of Inver- ness Castle surpasses them all, It is a revelation, The soul of the High- lands seems to give up the secrets, It was noon when I climbed the nar- row turnpike staircase, stumbied over slated roof -taps, and crossed e wood- en gangway to the small turreted circle that crows the red -walled fortress. A bleak wind swept from the surrounding hills, a friendly sun struggled to penetrate a barrier of lark cloud;, and from the grey town far below rose the clatter of trundling cants and the moan of omnibuses, 'Inverness is a perfect blend of the past acid present. I't is trilling to play a Part in tuodern commercial life and accept sl'I the advantages of science; but 110 inda'cem•ent would force it to abandon the romance of the past. I't. is this mixture of the tweabict11 ren tu,ry tend 'tbaMid'dle 'Ages that nvakes the town so fascinating. You cannot escape from 1t. Before ma now is' a modern town; •be'hinel are bile thioutl- taro fastnesses that 'have Bever been subdued; and a fele yards 'away Ft'nra efadDon•alld raises her hand to shade her eyes as she looses along the glen towards 'Skye. The lhistory of 'rnverness is writ- ten in shone in its streets, Centuries have changed its setting little, Even toeday the 'high-pitchedcastle cocks a suspicious; eye in the clirecton pF Ben Wyvis, as if watching for red coats or kilted 0a,terans. iI Spoke to the keeper of the castle. .It seemed ironical- that his name should he Morbeele "You .are 'toe re- lated to the Maclbeth who btui;lt a castle near here?" II prompted. "No—at 'lea'st, I've never inquired into the matter," he replied seriously Inverness has created the most bcailiful cemotery in, the world. Sev- enty years ago it was a thickly wood- ed hill, shaped like an upturned boat, with such a vile repu'ta'tion that no one would pass it after dark, .Strange dales were told of the midnight frol- ics of the fairies, and the d'an'ces that. lasted fo rcenturies, To -day Tonna- hurich is a Tir-nansQg. It is visited by .tourists from all parts of the globe. The thick jungle has been pierced by paths that lead to the stamina, and along the avenues rise yew trees es stlsight and slender as mannequins. "Inverness has succeeded in snaking death a privilege," said the young man who offered to show me round the death -hill. On the way he told rhe a few of the legends connected with it, I was haunted, 'Ghosts hail often been seen. The fairies were away now but they would return. It was said that the hill got its name from an upturned boat which St. Columba had loft there' while he was crossing from Iona to the main land. The hill had formed over the boat, That is why it is sometimes known as the "31191 of the Boat," +C'oinneach Odhar, the 'Brahan seer, made a marvellous prophesy in the seventeenth century concerning Tonh- mihurich, '''Strange as it may seem to you this day," he said, 'the time will come when full-rigged igged ships will lee soon; sailing eastward and westward by the back of Touuan'httric'h," A century -and -a -half later the Caledon- ian Canal was constructed. He also prophesied that the—day would come when Tonunehursclh would be "under lock and key, and the fairies secured with," This -prophecy was fulfilled two centuries later, I left Tomna:hurich and walked along the bank of the Ness to the Is- lands which Inverness has converted i)hto a beautiful public park, end link- ed to the river bank by neat little bridges. In Inverness Highland cul- ture reaches its highest point, I have spoken to more than twenty people, and most of them were composing songs, writing playa, dabbling in poetry, or training for a dramatic festival, This love of art in the High- lands has come down through the ages. When the clan chiefs returned from their foraging and slaying ex- peditions they amused themselves listening to their pipers and their bards, Love of music is strongly im- planted in the heart of the Gael. He is a man of snoods, and his emotions are expressed ' p In son and i g n musie. The Highlander is passionately loyal, and his love for him house is sincere. To him there is music in the laughter of the mountain stream, the sough of the wind, and the eternal dirge of the sea. Even in the 'humbl- est homes in the isolated ,glens this love of art is to be ,found, On the shores of Loch Ness I spoke to an old crofter. The conversation, turned to the raising of the Jacobite standard at .Glenifinnan, He made me promise that I would visit the memorial there. 'When darkness conies Inverness ,becomes a town of memories. Lt is haunted by ghosts in the sante way as the Royal Mile of Edinburgh, 1-lere linger memories of Prince Charlie, Cromwell, Queen Mary, Montrose, and those overbearing chiefs who once held courts, kept their clans in fight- ing trim, and held the power of life end death — the Campbells, ' Macic- intaslhes, Mackenzies. Frasers, Ilac- pherscns and Macd'onalds. At eight anal ten o'clock every night two cur- fews ring as they have rung for near- ly three centuries. 'In the Cross that stands in front of the Town Hall is the famous "Clauclinacudain," or stone of the tubs, which was original- ly used by the women on the bank of the Ness for placing their buckets and tuba, WI -IAT IS HOLLYWOOD ? .Well, 'frien,ds. we hate to disillusion you, but 'what is Hollywood ? There i5 ?ni such place—it is a state of. mind. Culver :City and Burbank and :Malibu Beach are all "Hollywood" acid yet none .of the'ir is Ilollywood. There is a sedtion'of Los Angeles which is called Hollywood '(,just as there are sections of 'Toronto called \Vestan and Suannysicle) and in the 'beginning the motion -picture studios weft in it, Thera beaait•iful country was ,all around them, the countains on one side, the sea on the -other, and the companies had to go onlya few' yards, ib lo'c'ks or elites to finch the scenes 'they needed for most of their pictures. !But the scenery g:ht settled up so rapidly and land became to clear, and 'ide Otudios,grew 51, that the later arrivals had .to start up in the suburbs. -'The .Pox ,studio, for example. sprawls over 'lll11 acres, The 'W'aru.er 'Brothers . studio over seventy-eight. acres, the Metro - Go'Idlevyn slayer studio over lacres, and so on. Any major studio "lot"' ootrl'd snake 'a ,presby good-sized farm and most lot 'them ar'e .pi'e'fty solidly built up. Alt M. -IG -H., ifac.example, there 'are ,twenty -Give "stages," each :larger •than the average theatre, so that Malny different sows can be mond- 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 LIABILITY to-PUd3LI C and their PROPiER'TY. Fire Insurance— To' protect your HOME and its CON"TENTS, Sickness and Accident n I surance= To protect your INCOME Any of the above lines we can give you in strong and reliable colnpanies, re interested, call or write, E. C. CHAMBERLAIN INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 33'4 Seaforth, Ont. D FIs McInnes chiropractor Electro Therapist — Massage Office — Commercial 'Hotel Hours --Mon. and ,Thurs. after - 'ratans and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 227. factured at once. At 'every studio, too, there are office buildings for many kinds of employees and bungalows or dressing -rooms for any army of actors. Many' of the dressing -rooms are suites of two or three rooms in which stars' meals are served. Pianos, personal maids or valets and luxur- ious furnis'hi'ngs are there. There must also be restaurants, police, +fi'remen, barbers; hairdressers and so on. IParanount still occupies 'twenty- six acres in the 'heart of Hollywood, close to where the •industry. began; 'R,JK,.O. and Columbia are near by and United 'Artists end Universal only a few miles away. The 'Central Casting :Bureau and the motion pict- ure producers' 'association offices are in Hollywood, and so are many small- er studios. .But often you may find more Hollywood atmosphere at Palm 'Springs •or Lake 'A•rrawhead, mere than 100 miles array, than you find on Hollywood 'Boulevard. In ;fa'ct, ii you .want Hollywood atmosphere in its most bizarre and gorgeous effects you'd best go to 'anomie Cruse's house in Altadena some Saturday night—and 'Jimmie lives about one - 'half hour by motor car from w'h'at properly can be called 1I3allywrood, geographically, You also get a good deal a of1,. Hal y good at .Laguna Beach, close to forty miles 1roan Hollywood. on the other side, The six square idles or so which can properly be galled !Hollywood is largely a place of pretty hones and well -kept lawns, The spires of many churches rise from it and all seem to be well supported. One 'Hollywood priest, slather Dodd, has appeared in many motion pictures, and a good many of those churches receive sub- stantial support Iron, 'motion -picture people, Hollytvood is a place of streets shaded by.palms and pepper trees, of homes full of children, of sweet-faced old ladies wsho Never tried to be in pictures, or business sten who like to go to homes .which are quiet and secluded after a day in the oFfi'ce, (Hamlin Garland, the author, lives more quietly in Hollywood than he could live nearly .anywhere else, and so do many other famous people. Mr. Garland once wrote an article about Hollywood, "from the •poili4 of view of the man who waters his own. lawn.", .Jack Dempsey used to live only a few nttndred yards from the Garlands, but neither every knew the other was there, There are, of course, a .good many old homes which •have 'been, turned into lodging -houses in which one ,fincis all sorts of people trying to get into the movies. 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