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The Seaforth News, 1934-11-08, Page 7•THU,RSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 �" THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN: Duplicate Monthly Statements We can save you money on Charge Forms, standard ledgers, white or colors Bill and sizes to fit It will pay you to see our samples. Also bent quality 'Metal (Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index. Phone 84 A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with Si for a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published byl octan Mas a Massachusetts, EU 001Ar0N0 SOCIETY In it you will find the dally good news of the world from its 000 special writers. as well as departments devoted to women's and ohlldron's Interests, sports, music. finance, education, radio, eta You will be glad to welcome into your 001E0 so fearless an advocate of peace and prohibition. And don't miss snubs, Our Dog. and the Sundial and the other features, _ T100. Os01,000N Screrlcs 100,010da, Bock ria' Station, Boston, Mass, Please send me a oOE weeks' trlal subsorlptlon. 100001000 one dollar (01). e (Name, Mean print) (Address). (Town) (State) But 'just at this time Adolf Hitler was becoming a sign and a portent Germany; and here, just in time to revive the 'prince's.career, was a new 'bogeyman for the IHe.im'we'hr. -litter longed for"ansdh'luss,' ar or- ganic union of Austria with !Germany. (Prince (Prince 'Starhemberg 'op'posed it bit- terly, and went about raining the country against the menace of Hit- leri THE ISLE OF MAY The eminence of the Isle of May is SOW principally associated with its light. Situated at the mouth of the (Firth of. 'Forth. the (brightly flashing •beacon bids the mariner steer clear o' nights of its rocky and precipitous shores. During fog a powerful horn boonis out its sonorous 'voice across an ever -varying 'stretch of waters. Wireless, latest` of intentions, radiates a direction-flling message once each half-hour, The island did not always com- mand such a prominent position in the Maritime world. Its earliest rec- ords take us back to the ninth cen- tury, whence, •from amongst the -tur- moils of a Pictish kingdom, St. Ad- rian came to seek a slaver of seclu- sion and prayer,a not uncommon o'c- cnrrence in the 'lives of the early Christians, !With his monks he settled 'on the Isle of May, expelling many Clemons and monsters—so the quaint phraseology Of the times tell s us— 'before he found the rest his soul craved far. This good man fulfilled his devotions till about A. D. &73, when a cruel death at the hands of marauding, Danes 'brought his earthly career to a close. And upon 'Holy Thursday (Saint 1Adriane thai slewe in May, With ninny of lays cumpauy;• lin to that holy Ile thai ly. 'But the seed of religion once planter, grew and flourished. En- riched by the martyrdom of its pat- ron saint, the May island was for the next 0I11 years the centre of -ec- clesiastical activity. David I., that "sure saint to the Crown," by one of his many devotional acts, founded the first mu ;artery on the island early in the twelfth century, Strangely enough it was granted to the Abbot of Reading, in Berk- shire, on condition that a priesthood of nine was maintained on the island "to celebrate divine service for the soul of the donor, the souls of his predecessors and successors." The monastery remained in possession of 'it: 11n,lish superiors till 111273, when, STARHEBERG I cording to legend, tool: part in the together with a that subsidiary cs- )utsch that w•as t0 have resulted, blit: sold to the •Bishop of St, .Andrew+, es - 1 bargain was not without receipt - didn't, in a triumphant march on 1ations, ultimately leading to ltti a- L'erlill. I tion between the two countries, li Whatever the truth of these stories, 'Prince IStarhember>; returned to Aus- `tate of affairs which was somewhat Twenty years after the beginning famous (and disastrous) beet hal tathlishlncttt at IPittenween1, it was of the war that was to have made the • world forever safe for democracy, the llit.rinythinic thud of mailed feet re - sound's anew in the street, of gay Vienna—and brings to the top of the heap a man who by 'birth, trainiing aria something like a decade ago and abruptly ternaulatcd by rthc S'cnitis victory at Bannockburn. and mental outlook is a direct throw- retired to his own estate. The "gilt" of the monastery of hack to the days when people really The rise of the "private army" wMay t1 the Abbey of Reading may believed in the divine right of kings. in progress then. Political parties I seem somewhat puzzling, in view of This man is the Prince Ernst P.ue li - were donning 011111orms and drilling•; the great distance which separated • er von Stanhenrberg, vice chancellor Different provinces which feared that' the two h'otrses. I,t did not, separated under 'D'olliuss, head of the Fascist neighboring states might descend on1 represent the normal bnnndarics ni IIeimwehr .and representative of one theft were orgalois.i11g independent )this Far-off and powerful Ehglisi acre: guard units. And Prince Stat- hemberg got the idea perfectly. I tablishncent, but was more an ar- 1V'ithin a short time he was drilling rangement of personal convenience the hundreds ai :servants, tenants and between King David and his brother - so on upon his own estate, in-law King David and his brother - The Hcimtvehr had already' conte in-lassoHenry l'lleauclere, the founder into existence—originally a horse -de- of the Berkshire'Abbey. fence unit created in the Tyrol to Yet, in vivid contrast to this pic- guard against Italian aggression. ,iiy lure of its high moral prestige, we this time the fear of such aggression 'find a somewhat rapid fall in fm - to seal their letters with red wax—a had diminished, and the He'imwehr privilege traditionally reserved for was left without much reason for ex- istence. 1Prince ;Stancemberg ilntned- But 'Prince ,Ernst 'Ruediger was lately began efforts to get the organi- born just three or four years too stiffen under his wing. ,But he still late. The ,greatest of all wars cane— had to have an "enemy" for this pri- and he was 'too young to go out and vote army. He found it ,in the 'Soe- win new military laurels. Not until ialists of Vienna, the war was Nearly ended did he get INothin.g could be more natural into uniform; and then his detach -than roc Prince Starhem'berg to lis- meat was assigned to duty in the in- like the (Socialists. at used to be said terior somewhere, so that he missed the 'fighting line almost entirely. The end of the war 'left the. great Starhelniberg family up in the air. Now the young prince had a car- Life on the ,Starhenlberg estates had tees to make, and the atmosphere in always 'been more or less feudal No which urea Of his family were • ac- mann in Europe carte from a family •custo'm'ed to make careers had chang- . ed profoundly. The emperor no long- er existed: and holy caln you will glory on the Ifield of arms when your nation is so pitifully weak that it .cannot dream of fighting anybody ? (Just what happened to Prince after 'he had spent all his owns money IStarhein11erg ,during the next few on the corps, be ,received supplies anis years is a trifle obscure. subsidies ;from the (Italian clictalor- Ilse had, then as now ;a fiery and also an ardent 'foe of the Socialists, tm'gaenehable ann'bition, 'If the reor- ganized Aus'trian army offered 'hint nothing, the would go where there- were military laurels to he won un- der 011101- flagis. 1 -le is said, in fact, to.. have drifted. into upper Silesia, sullen bands of .German irregulars were trying to snatch 'back from the Pules land 'which had been taken from IGe'rrn'any by. the peace treaties. Alis service' is said to have lasted firing a shot, to the !better disciplined fortwo years or more, 'I'hen he troops of the ,regular army. Prince wandered to ,Munidh-=wlh'ere, by a iS'tarhenrberg became something of a singular chance, he became a foo- laughing -stock •tar th,e cafes and boatle- iower of 'Adolf Hitler told even, ac -yard's of Vienna. of the most alt0ient and aristocratic families in 'Europe. The IStarbeniberg traditions are military and royal. ,The family .claims direct descent from the famous old Emperor Friedrich Barbaros;a; it was a iStarhenl.berg' who thrust the Turk back from Vienna two and one- half centuries .ago; since the mem- bers .of the family have had the right that the 'Starhemberg family, in the pre-war days, ''used to talk of prog- ress as an insult to God and of 'So- cialisnt as an insult to themselves," and a class more diametrically op- posed to (Socialism than this prince. ISo 11e raised the bogey -man of Vi- ennese 'Socialism i-ennese'Socialism to inspire his Iieim- w•ehr. He reae!hed an uuderstandivi with Mussolini, In 119137, it is 'said an 11927 the !Vienna law -courts were fired by a 111'ob) as a protest against reactionary influences in the govern- n1'ent. IStarllemberg use(! the occa- sion to travel about the country preaching against the red menace. In 11191311, he attempted an actual putsch, or seizure of !ower. 'The revolt, started in.Styria and fizzled badly, ,the IlIeimnwehr surrendering' without 'portaflce. The island, in '10,949, was feued Ito the first lay proprietor, one Patrick Learmonth. 'Giving his reas- ons for taking such A. course, the Prior of Pittenweem (the seat of au- thority having been transferred to the mainland) describes the natter thus—"a sterile and useless posses- sion of the Monastery of Pittenweem, waste and spoiled by rabbits, subject tc attack by the enemy, In 11577, it was condemned as "as a place of pir- ates.' 13,ta 1G. Learmonth found little pleasure in his new possession, dis- pnsiitg of it alter two years. Others following bought and againsold their seagirt home, till in 116316 James Cun- nillghiaM, a shall apparently' of some business ability, perhaps having a knowledge of lighthouse activities in England, took over the island. hinder the authority. of King !Char- les I. he was instrumental in setting up the (first 'beacon on the May, which incigentally took precedence as the earliest lighthouse station in Scot- land. The building itself ryas simply a square-shaped tower, forty feet high, having at the top an 'fro11 "chau- ffeur." Wenlyas coal, considered the bent for ,the purpose, was consumed. to the extent of SO tons annually. Many years later the chauffeur was enlarged when the,consumption in- creased to 4100 tons. Tor the maintenance of the ,tight,, toll was exacted from passing ,ves sels, 'a difference being mads 'between' local "'ship.pes" and strangers. 'The' '!English were, until 11531, classed as stra1igei-s, per+haps indicative of the peculiar feeling existing 'between the two countries, 'J3he tfirst light'hous'e was, 110fart- ttnately, the scene of a most untow- ard' 'tragedy, The cinders, through many years of 'accumulation, had been allowed to pile up till they al- most 'reached tihe level of the keep- er's sleeping channbers. One night, fanned 'by the 'breeze, the smoulder- ing embers awoke. Their sufTocatil1 fumes permeated throughout the tower, and in the morning, the keep- er, his wife and four children lay lifeless, (Only an infant remained alive. The coal -light continued to burn for '11!'10 years, during thiol time its ddficicncics became more and more apparent. The flame ta-as fitful—it was apt to be mistaken for limekiln furnaces and outer open fires on the mainland—two of his Majesty's ;loops of tear were wrecked on the rocks near 'Dunbar. Tlie latter disas- ter was attributed to the misleading character of the May light, Thus it carte about that the North- ern Lights Commission, through the intervention of the ,-Admiralty, ultim- ately acqugired the island in 118111, at a price of £''60,400. Two years later the second 'lighthouse, standing ad- jacent to the first, shone its •o"elcome beams out to sea, this time with a light from oil, through reflectors. A level of the train light, was subse- quently erected to give direction bet- ween the May and the dangerous Carr rock:. Yet the march of progress was ,not satisfied. In 1146 thepresent light- house, the third, cause into existence. It was built as the result of a demand for even better service—"there was no more important station on the Seotti:1i shores." The optical appli- anees were of the latest, electric light the illuminant, ilunlau inigennity seemed to have reached its highest pinnacle of per'ec- tion when, difficult of understanding as it may appear to the lay mind, 'he light was changed back to oil in 1,11,(4. The latter MN Min w -as cheap, how- ever, and was proved to have better penetrating power in fog. The burner of the bunscptype, lights, a large mantle, goring an intensity of 1y million candlepower, The mechanism for revolving the rellectcits is operated by means of 'a heavy descending weight, wound on by hand, The period of light is once every twenty seconds. Life on the May is not so monot- onous as some of the more isolated lighthouse stations. The island is of moderate size, being about one mile long by a quarter broad. On the west face the cliffs rise steeply to a height of '1150 test. They provide sanctuary for countless numbers of sea birds, the guillemot, razor bill, gull, puffin, and eider -dock, to mune only a few, To the urthinologist the May is a fa- vorite haunt. Water, that necessary vintage of life and a si1urce of anxiety with so many places today, presets an acute problem on this island, Early ac- counts state there were five wells and abundant springs of fresh water.' to- day they are all brackish or dried up and now supplies are ,brought in by the relief ship, Consequently ration- ing is always in force. The pasture of the island was at one time famous -it "ameliorated the weal of the sheep and produced a ultttton of superior flavor." Fishing round its shores has for long ages been and still is goad. 'Sir Walter 'Scott during a visit to t11 May in 113114, made the following interesting, if rather remote sugges- tion: - "T'Ite island might make a etas:ght- fut residence for 'bathers," had agreed upon. S raised my arm, and in a few seconds the tidings had flashed to Dover: "Bleriot has startedl" 1St would be impossible to exagger rite the cool courage which Louis Bleriot displayed that day, A torpedo- destroyer had ,been given the task of following him. But those on board that vessel, including the airman's wife, soon lost sight of the mono- plane. Bleriot had an air -bag in the fuse- lage of his machine which it 10as supposed would keep him afloat for a short 'time should he conte down uta the sea, but .none of us had any il- lusions about that, and I am sure Bleriot had not. The sea was done too smooth that morning, and had the airman come down in mid -Channel 'I alts certain his Monoplane would have broken up in a few minutes, and that the mach- ine and Bleriot would have vanished before any vessel could have reached the spot. • The airman was taking his life in his hands, and he 'knew it, But he had done so many tinges before, and was now' prepared to take the risk again, Those who cross the Channel by air to -day, seated comfortably in the saloons of big mulct engined air- liners, can hardly imagine the perils of that pioneer flight 25 years ago. Take, for example, Bleiot's little aircooled engine, upon which the airman's life depended. It was a fine piece of Work—quite a mechanical triumph at that time. Mut it was completely experimental; and on all previous flights it had begun to dose power, through over -heating. after it had been run at high speed for about twenty minutes. The grins significance of this may be realised when it is remembered that to cross the Channel it was reck- oned that Bleriot would have to stay in the air for something like 40 111111- rhes, He was asking that little motor to do something more than it had ever done before, which there was strong reason for fearing it might not he able to do. But fortune fav- oured courage that day. just when he was about half -way across the Channel, with not a sur- face craft in view•, the airman's mo- tor berm to ..exhibit the symptoms which had been feared. It began to get hot and to lose power, and the result was that the monoplane lost height. IP,leriot found himself sinking tow- ards the water, All seemed lost when, providentially, the airman encount- ered a rain -squall. The effect was to cool his engine, which picked up again and enabled 111011 to fly on, lBleriot had no airman's compass to help him, and it was wonderful that he managed to steer as accurately as he did, reaching the English coast after having been just 01'017 half an hour in the air. Even then his perils were not at an end. As he approached the cliffs, not far from Dove-, he encountered' wind - gusts which threw his little machine about violently. More than once he almost lost control, but continued to struggle on with undiminished cour- age, and after two or three attempts managed to creep inland near Dover Castle Igen mare powerful guests now assailed him, and he made a undercarriage .of his machine. That, rinugh landing, which, damaged the however, mattered little at such a mo- ment. EARLY FLYING IIs was at dawn on a sun mer's morning. 26 years ago that I stood 10010111 through my field glasses irom the clic of France, and sate Bd'e•iot tale the air in one of the greatest epics of aviation. 'Louis Bleriot was crippled when he ascend- ed upon that epoch -slaking flight of his from Calais to Dover. Ile had burned his foot with petrol, and was obliged to use a crutch. As he went hobbling across to his monoplane he said: "]Even if I can't wane. DI show then! I can fly." 'Then, pale but com- posed, he tool: his seat in the cockpit of his tiny craft, .'here was another dramatic .momentjust before he start- ed, t)Sanding tip in his little machine, a lonely figure,, he peered out across the Channel with a puzzled express Sion. "Where is Dover?" Ile asked one of the ,party standing beside the ma- chine. Eager (lands pointed in the tigtll direction; lBleriot gave another !lingering! glance seaward, then waved a brief' farewell settled himself in his cock- pit, and the next instant leas away. !Standing- above on the cliffs, I saw the monoplane (1111-1 across the ground, climb a little inland, and then turn and speed out above the sand - dunes, heading rapidly for n1id- Channel. A wireless operator was watching Inc, awaiting a sigvia( we D. H. 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When truckers sell direct to the abattoirs the effectiveness of the stock ,yards, in improving the 'farmers' 'bargaining power, is destroyed, IBy ' securing a large part Of their supply direct from the trucks, packing houses are able to cam on to some extent independent of the public ntar'ket, 'This, in turn, results in lessening of demand on the live stock exchanges and a consequ- ent beating ,clown of prices. In order to establish uniformity of marketing methods 2'11 eh will assure the farmer better bargaining power• and fair prices the directors of the United 'Faoimers' Co-operative Comp- any, Ltd:, have resolved to request OUT governments, 'federal and provinc- ial, to take such action as •will require all commercial hive stock, except that THIS Happy Combination IS Yours Subscribe to it and not only assure yourself of 52 weeks of fine interesting helpful reading, but save money too! 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In suggesting that regulationsgov- erning live stock truckers be enforc- ed, the directors point out that the stock yard,, the conmaission firms and the rail roads are required to conform to established regulations in the hand- ling of live stock and ask 'Why should not the truck drivers comply with similar regulations? "'Live stock 10111 1125510S houses. they explain, are bonded, and are under the supervis- ion of government officials both as 1.3 their financial standing and as to their qualifications and ability as salesmen, whereas truck drivers, selling direct to the plants, have done so without any license and without being requir- ed to provide any financial security t1 the producer. Ito their resolution the Directors request strict enforcement of the Act compelling all drivers of live stock transports and truckers to carry- a 'Bill of 'Lading signed by the producer or owner of live stock show- ing to whom consigned and stipulat- ing that when all expenses are paid, the net proceeds shall he sent direct to the producer or owner. to third recommendation they make is to encourage a 'foto- clay- market. There has been a tendency-, they point out, to oversupply all 'live stock mar- kets on Monday with a large per- centage of stack remaining unsold at closing hour. tinder cutch conditions there is a tendency on the part of buyers to mark time rather than to transact 11101ch business daring the early- stages of the day's trading. At the sante time, in the case of the To- ronto market, reports, are flashed by wire 10 others markets in Canada thereby- depressing prices on those markets. 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