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The Seaforth News, 1928-03-08, Page 7Red Goes to Russia Comes • Back ° Cured Once "Firebrand of Java," Renounced' Com- muotisln mind and All Its Works The oonservattp'e'•ylroes of Holland le rejoicing 1it the repudiation of eom- amunism by the Dliteh engineer Boars, known, at • the time o! htH, expulsion from the Dutch East Indies last Sep- tember as, "thefirebrand of Java," 'where he had been. the head of the .oubverstve Soviet movement, • Atterlhle expeielon ho•.wont to Itue- ,sia In order to.•iearn at Bret hand the political and Social, principles bo had 'been advocating. This visit, judged from the point or view of a long :ar- •tiele he has .written for the Nieuwe IRotterdamsche Courant of Rotterdam, has resulted In bus entire loss of faith In communism, He says he considers it his cluty on this return to, Holland to advise the ,population of 'the Dutch East Indios,. 'whom he himself had directed along the .path, of commun ism, to retrace heir steps. His survey of the con- ditions o •ditions in Russia has brought, him to the 'following conclusions: • "Wages,are very low. In 1027 they never went higher for the proleta- ,rians than 0210 for the year. Al- though the.,ruble 1s rated at 60 cents •I.t should be borne In mind that its purchasing power is only 44 per cont. of that, o1' of what 1� was.beforo the war. As higher employees and • skilled workmen- earn • much more titan 8310 .a year the wage of the unskilled is: 'constantly shrinking, -as the amount of money in circulation is carefully limited, in order to .give a factious value to the ruble abroad:' He found .that the Soviet Govern- ment was, able to do little for educa- •tion'and the care of the sick, despite all thefine elegem'. As in capitalistic •eountyles•.,all availablemoney is Bret •of all spent on the army, and further. en the enormous bureaucratic appar- atus. "In 1927," he sage, "the expenditure for the Department of Education, Na- tioaai Hygiene and other cultural re- quirements In the whole of the Soviet Union, amounted to 254,000,000 rubles, _ that for,,the other administrative pur- poses about 700,0000.00 and for mili- tary purposes 640,000,000; that as 40 per cent. •for, 'milltarism'..and'16 per cent. for the cultural needs of the population, All .this Is, of course, the result of low production. • The ex- chequer is empty, so that it Is impos- sible to indulge in greater expendi- ture. ' 'The incomes of farmers are ,very small. Nine -tenths of ileal have in- comes of 25 rubies per month. Only one-tenth earn more than theta "Even the casual visitor must no- tice that the great masses of•tho large cities are miserably poor. The shabby clothing, tlie old repaired 1ur- eltura, the accumulations of dirt can- not possibly be, kept concealed. Their status In regard to comfort, even of health, is much lower than It was'in 1913. Anybody can see that.' "In 1927 there were 2,000,000 unem- ployed in Russia out of a total in- dustrial population of nearly 13,000,- 000. 3,000,000. e Boars, Briton Pictures Next War's Horrors General Swinton, Inventor of Tank, Prophesies Scrap- ping of All Peace TreatiesY Oxford—Despitethe Washington conference, poisonous gases will be used in the, next great., war,• accord: ing to the prediction of General 21 D. Swinton, inventor of the. tank; made in a recent addrese. The whole Pic- ture of future ware, drawn by the man who invented the new horror of the last one, was such as to make his audience shudder, "When the next great struggle comes," he said, "the" belligerent na- tions will stions-will not have any scruples re; girding treaties. They will consid- er them mere scraps of paper and enter the warwithout even a formai declaration of hostilities. In so far as the last -war wase to end war, It was -a failure; and. the attitude of the world to -day is not In fever of world peace.'; In such. circumstances General, Swinton did` not .feel that England should acquiesce in any further dis- armament. The war ofthe future would -:be between people and people, not army and army, and it would ac- tually he safer for the fighting men, than civilians, he said. There would be no mercy to women and children, but this would help to shorten the period of conflict, From this view - 'point he considered the protests against the sinking of the Lusitania which brought the 'United States into the war and he bombing of London from the air were illogical. The next war would mean the -em- ployment of disease germs, airplances without aviators sowing pestilence, and chemicals to destroy crops, Field warfare would be carried on in ma- chines imhorvious to gas and Ma- chine -on bullets, Housewife --"Don't. bring mo any more ,0f that horrid milk, It's posi- lively blue!" 'htintman--"It ain't our lsuit, lady.It's these hong dull even; ugs at makes the cowl', depreeeed," The Patriot BS'"Jabu roil ort1q ''The other, day I wail told a .true story, •whloh I rent'ember vaguely hearing, or 'reading' about during the war, but Ul.fieh is Werth re -tolling for those who inleeed it, tor; it tea certain yaluablee inipllcatiens• and ;a sort 91 grhndeuy, It concerns ane of these beings w180, yvhen ti13ey sp',•ap* on us, are Ienown•: by, that word of three letters,as offensive as any In the language; and 'lien they spy for up are dignified by the e'a'piession "Secret Service" and looked on, as heroes of et least, secoud.'water, You will recollect that when the war brolreemit, the liftedn hundred. persons engaged in supplying, Gore many with information, mainly tri- vial and mostly erroneous, concern- ing our .condition and arrangements, were all known by the authorities, and were put out of action at a single. swoop, Frere that moment there was, not one discovered ease of espionage by spies already resident in this coun- try. oun-try• when, war was declared. There were, however, a few and, I: am told, unimportant discovered 'eases of es- pionage by persons who developed the practice; or came' into this. coun- try for the purpose during the ,war. This story concerns one of the latter. In August, 1914, there, was living it America a business man of German birth ancl American citizenship, called —let us say, for it was not his name- Lichtfelder, who hall'' once been an of[loer in the German Army, a man of about fifty, of square and still tary appearance, with ,rather short stiff hair, a straight back to his head; and a patriotic conscience .too strong for his Anlerioan `citizenship. "It+wad, not long then before an ` American colied Liohtfellder at the German headquarters of his, old regiment, of- fering his services. "No,' they said to him, "yon are no longer a young and active man, and you are an American citizen, We aro very, disappointed with our Secret Service in England; something seems to have. gonowrong. You can be of much greater service to the Father- land if, having learned our codes, you will go to England as an American citizen, and send us all the informa- tion you can acquire." Lichtfeld's• soul was with his old regiment; but, being, a patriot, he con- sented. During the next two months he made himself acquainted with all the tricks of his new trade, took ship again at Genoa, and reappeared as Iightfleld'. in the United States. Soon, after this lie sailed for Liverpool, well stocked with business addresses and samples, and supplied with his legiti- mate American passport in his own American name. He spent the first day of hie "Sec ret Service" wandering about the doolcs of a town which, ie his view if not in that of other people --was a naval station of importance; he also noted carefully the half? militarized 1appearance of the khaki figures In the streets; and in the evening he penned -a business letter to a gentle- man in Rotterdam, between the lines of which, devoted to the more enlight- ened forms of—shall wesay? plumb, ink, he wrote down in invisible ink all he had seen—such and such ships arrived or about to sail; such and such "khaki" drilling or wandering about the streets; all of which had importance in his view, if not in fact. He ended with the words: 'Morgans Dublin Llchtfolder," and posted the letter. Now, unfortunately for this poor but simple patriot, there was a young lady In the General Post Office who was spending her days in opening all letters with suspected foreign ad- dresses, and submitting them to the test- of invisible ink: To her joy for she was weary at the dearth of that useful commodity—between the lines of this commercial screed, which purported to be, concerned with the refinements of pluthbing, out .sprang. the, guilty ink: To a certain -Depart- ment i were, telephoned the incautious "Morgens Dublin Llchtfelclor." Now, no alien in those days was suffered to leave for' Ireland, save through a bot- tle -neck at Holyhead. To the bottle- neck then went the message: ,"Dad man called 'Lichtfelder-travel yester- day to Dublin?" The answer came quickly: "American called Iightfield went Dublin yesterday, returned last nightt, is now on: train for Euston." At Euston our patriot, after precisely three days of secret -service, was ar- rested, and lodged wherever they were then lodged. "I am," he said, "an American cite zen called Lightfield," "That,' said the British Cabinet, not without disagreement, "makes a dif= ference. You shall be, tried by or- dinary process of Late, and defended by Counsel chosen by the American Embassy, at our expense, instead of by Court-martial," Speedily—for in those days the Law's delays were short—the Amerl-• can. citizen called Lightfield, alias Lichtfelder, . was put on his trial, for supplying information to the enemy; andfor three days at the Govern- ment's expense, a certain eminent Counsel gave the utmost of his wits to preparing his defense, But a .cor- tain, great Advocate, whose business' it was to prosecute, had given the ut- most of .his: Wits to , considering with what glee:Alen he should open his cross-examination, , Nance it ' is wo1l. Rumen liow important ie the and question;' and there had come to him an Inspal>atiblt ' "Mr, Lichtfelder,'1 he said, fixedly regarding that upright figure in the, dock, "tell 100; Have you Hitt been an officer in the German Army,?" Old Power For New Ship A STEAM DRIVEN DIRIGIi3LE, Capt. Thomas l3, Slate, designer and builder, with model of "Olt'^of Glen- dale." Note' peculiar,propoller which -sucks air in and thus overcomes air resistance in travel„ , The n� hAude : o. 1th American. citizen went to his sides, and his figure stif- fened. For flours: lie had been telling the Court how 00111'01' Concerned he was with business, giving' his refer- ences, showing his samples, explain- ing: that -as for the Bales in invisible ink in that letter, which lie admitted sending—well; it was simply that he lied met a Dutch journalist on board the ship coming' out, who had said to him; "You know, we can get no news, at all, We neutrals—do send us something—not, of course,,harmful to England, but something we can say" And he had sent it, Was it harmful? It was 'nothing but trifles he had sent. •And now, at that first question, he was standing suddenly a little more erect, and—silent, And the great Ad- vocate said: 1 won't press you mew, 3,60. Licht - folder; wo will go on to other mat- ters. liut I should' like you to think that question 0707, because it is not. only the first question that I ask you —1t will also be the last." And the Court adjourned, the cross- examination not yet over, with that question not yet asked. again. In the early morning of the follow ing clay, when -the: warder went, to the cell of Llchtfolder, there, by his muf- fler dangled his body from the grat- ing. Beneath the dead feet the cell Bible had been Melted away; but since,' with the stretching of the muf- fler, those feet had still been able to rest on the ground, the patriot had drawn them up, until he was choked to death, Ile had, waited until the dawn, for on Ehecell slate was writ- ten this "I am a soldier with rank I do not desire to .mention.. , , I have had a fair trial of the United Iiingaom. I am notdying`as a spy, but as a sol- dier My fate I stood as a man, but I can't be a her and perjure myself. - What I have clone I have done for my country I shall express my thanks, and may the Lord blase you all," And from the ten lawyers—eight English and two American—who, with me, heard the story told, there came, as it were, one murmur: "Jolly fine i " And so it was; Mr. Galsworthy has announced that his compensation for this article will be contributed to the Save the Child- ren Fund in London.—N.Y. Herald Tribune, Dear Old Soul' (visiting her very sick brother)—"I've had a very nice letter from. Emily She says she's so sorry aihe ain't able to come and see you, but elm hopes to be able to come to the funeril." Defends Britain's Submarine Policy' J Rt, Hon. W. C. Bridgeman Discusses Naval Program of England b 1IAS CUT ARMAMENTS Asserts Britain Has Done Her Share Toward Dis- armament London. -Right Iron. W. C. Bridge- man, First Lord of the., Admiralty, speaking before the Constituttional Club, .declared that Great Britain's submarine policy is exactly the same as that stated at Washington in 1921. "Wo should be very glad," he said, "if eubmarines could be abolished al-. together, but the weak and smaller countries regard submarines as their only weapon, and wo have to take. them into consideration as well," The First Lord attacked his poiiti- cal opponents for what he termed "the large mass of misrepresentation about British naval and disarmament policies which is being propagatfed about the country to make party capi- tal and discredit the Government." He asserted that Great Britain had done her share toward disarmament, and added; "We are prepared to go further, if the other countries will do the same. I do not, however, think that a weak British navy would con- tribute to the peace of the world." "I want to explode the suggestion,", said Mr. Bridgeman, "thbt we 'started the new competition in building large cruisers. The accusation is false. It was ,other countries who started to build large battleships: "Sir ..Herbert Samuel (formerly Home Secretary) has been telling the country that the Conservative party mishandled the Geneva conference. Any fool can say that." Canada's Stand of Douglas Fir A recent survey of the rarest re- sources of British Columbia showed • a total stand of approximately 78,000,- 000,000 feet board measure of Douglas fir. While all of this as not at pres- ent pommercially aocess1ble,: a large proportion is within reasonable dis- tance of water and rail- transporta- tion. . About 80 per cent, of it is situated on ancouver island and the adjacent mainiyand. Leaguete;Cov Pant , Only Path to Peace Lord Cecil Warns Day for Action Dawns as the World Tires of Talk, He De - Glares; Sees War Pacts ail Defense Alliances Loniltizt- A blunt warning that the world is getting impatient and that the lime has 108 ' oannot words Was iss00ued info�,,7(,1101:d T(loliedo Observder" recently by Vlscouut Cecil ef. Chill -1 wood, in an, article soberly estimating the possibleresults of Monday's meet - tag at Geriova of the Committee on Arbitration and Security of the, Lea-, gue of Nations Preparatory 'tonimts-, Sion for a disarmament conference,' Admitting that nothing like a general agreement for security beyond that, contained in the Covenant of the League is very practicable. Viscount! Cecil, who formerly was among the moat prominent among the 8ritislr delegates in the League':e disarmament' work, now limitshis hopes to "clarify. ing the terms of the Covenant," "Already a kind of eatalogue has been drawn up, ho writes, "of the measures for the prevention of war suggested under 'Article SCI, ranging from the withdrawal of diplomatic re- presentatives illy all the 'members of the League from the capital of a pow- er threatening a: breach of the peace to a' League of Nations naval and aerial , demonstration against the same power," • Viscount Cecil thinks that there is prospect of an agreement.out the financial asadatance -to be offered by League members to a country threat- ened. with. ,aggression. 'He warns, however, that, while mutual non- aggression treaties on the Locarno model strengthen .and forty the cov- enant, •other treaties providing for mutual defense In ease of attack by a third party are apt to drift into mu• teal treaties of alliance yon •the old model. The chief hope, however, Lord Cecil now aee'ms.to find in, the compnairy establishment of arbitration agree- ments—somewhat reminiscent in basic theory.. at least of the Bnyan treaties,. He insists- that, if all Ws- Mites putes 'between nations were submit- ted to arbitration security against war would be reasonably complete, Yukon.s ealthful Climate The _climate et the Yukon Territory, Canada, 1e' characterized by extremes In temperature and a very moderate precipitation. There is no more de- lightful Climate than that which pre- vails from May 1 to October 1, The continuous light for litre whole twenty- four hours, during the period from the middle of May to the firstweek tat August, although anticipated, is a source of delight and wonder to the visitor. While the winters are long and cold, on account of the absence of high winds and thedryness of the atmosphere, the low temperatures are borne with less discomfort than In other parts not so favored. Canadian Rockies The Canadian Rocky mountains consist geologically of the' netturned edges of the strata underlying the Central Plain of North; America. "Nurse: "He seems to be wander- ing in his minfl'" Patient's Wife: "Oh, well, he can't stray fart" 'What do the threeballs in front of a pawn. shop mean?" "Two to one you won't get it back." "ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES"—By O. Jacobson. Removing An Obstacle. Dept. o Health • Issues Tiniely B.Oblt Co-operating With Crx"nadian. Social Hygiene Council to Stamp Ot,It„Serious Merlaee NEW DEFARtyikE Ottawa, Ont, --Between two and three years' study iso, represented in a new publication dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of venereal diseases, which Is being issued by the Federal Department of Health and will be sent to every doctor in the Deminlon, Compiled by the Canadian Social Hygiene Council under the . super-' vision of its national medical com-i mittee, it le a Compendium oil the t most recent s•:le:nine `information .on the subject'and, since It Is generally considered as the”" most Up-to-date treatise available dealing with tale type of disease, is expected to attract almost 'world-wide attention .among members of the medical 'profession. The 'policy of the Federal Deparc- meat in supplying It to every prac- tising physician throughout' tho Be. minion also marks a new departure in health methods, It not only means that every doctor will be put in possession of ice most modern and accurate infol'niatioh regarding the means of coping with this scourge but the announcement is also made that further ineormatlon on mrethoda of treatment may be expected from time to time, as these are brought to light, These . diseases, as:.a class, are by far the most deadly with which science has to battle. Directly and indirectly, they are the 00010 of mare death and suffering than tuberculosis or any :single type of disease, To some extent, this has been due, in the past, to a general tendency to avoid, mention of them and, from a peculiar sense of false, modesty,to lot them Tun their course without drawing public attention to their' highly fatal results, and the terrific injury they Clave been doing to the race as a whole, Asa result, for instance, they have been allowed to continue from genera tion to generation causing blindness, deafness and feeble-mindedness un- til they had imposed a huge-econe optic burden- on the world. It -was. discovered, for example, that 80 per (Gent. of blindness among infante could be traced directly to the pres- ence of these hitherto [hidden dis- eaaes. Of recent years, (however, Canada has been 'setting an example to the rest of the world in its methods o1 striking at -this-worst-et all disease - killers. When the Federal Government, for the flsrt time, co-operated with the provinces in public health efforts, 1t_ was in a campaign to control venereal diseases. Since that time, clinics have been established from coast to coast and Canadian public health au- thorities have made enormous strides.. There has been a very noticeable and very natable reduction in the ravages of this disease throughout the Do- mtnion, . Coupled with the clinical methods of combatting 1t, there has been an Intensive campaign, carried on by the Canadian Social Hygiene Council, Now this further effort, by which medical men throughout Canada are being supplied with the moat selefftl- ile data known is a further example of the ,progressive methotls by width Canada has been endeavoring to_ sup- press the venereal disease menace. The Electric Rat Electrical rat racing- for terrier. dogs is London't newest sport, and it. is to be started at the Stadium Club, High Holborn, shbrtly. The following letter, sent to mem- bers by Mr• Fred Howard, managing director of the club, explains how the sport is to be carzied. on: ' "This is a. preliminary notice of a new and very interesting feature of the club's activities which will be in- troduced to members in February. "Having_ regard to the widespread interest evinced in greyhound racing the management have perfected ar- rangementa for providing terrier &g- racing in the club itself. "The dogs will race after an elec- trically controlled rat on a track which will be removable and will, therefore, not interfere in any way with the normal business of the Pleb. "There will bo three days' racing each week, and elix races on each even- ing, with first and second prizes for the owners of the dogs placed in that order. "A British electrical Pari -Mutual will be used in conjunction with the races, this being the first machine of its kind to be seen in Ilurope," The master of the house was hun- gry at breakfast, and swallowed a good part of hie bacon before he had fasted it, Then he took time to pro- test violently to his wife against the flavor of the food. His wife offered 110 apology, teat rang for the maid. When the Iatter appeared, the nets - tress asked a questio7 that was little calculated to seethe her husband. "1vlaggia,' she inquired, serenely, 'what did you do with the bacon we poisoned for, the rats?" 'r,tg al att:tlle Ba011094 1zluliy'.W05 alt. thiel,.,d011/it ttphfea;t1ait; the,1eh o'ang. ,Pap+Bascoin'teilra'tod will' a groan fi4'114 dpi up, .diet things were. aiwayq happoniag, to delay their meals, 'Pate family warted S1nlA he came back, with a large .bundle. The children wanted him to open It. immediately, but Mamma Bascom said no, than they would finish their breakfast first, because if they didn't they might pot get back to their meal. After the dishes were hurriedly washed the package was opened with great oersmony, It turned out to be a set of pink silk lace eurtaius, "Well," exclaimed Mamma Bestow, clasping her hands in ecstasy, "aren't they just too boautitful for words* We'll put them ui1 in the living room,!' she went on, after a pause, "and we can put' the calico curtains that are there new in Father's room." This plan was duly carried out that afternoon, with only one, mishap, Papa. Bascom hit his thumb with the hammier, and during the following dance of agony he kicked one of the tottery legs off the table and broke the plaster off the wall when he threw the hammer. Ile Was . very pleased with his labors, however, .whoa he stood off and viewed the gorgeous curtains. . But ImmedlatolY Mamma Bascom saw a flaw. "I never realized_ the couch.was 60 dingy and worn," she complained, "we *must get a; IIew one before the Ladies' Ald meets' here next week." P: Basoofrt groaned, agree eota"d went to look /or his check bocik. Two days later a new sofa shone pink and. resplendept againstthe dingy yellow of the wallpaper. The table had been - inended,„but Mrs. Bascom -had hoe eye on a beautiful picktea-table at the R. M. SmitheCorporation, Biakevalle'a only, furniture store. Tile she per- suaded Papa Bascom to buy, along with a rug that had some pinkinit, Things went along sinoothly for a week or so, anis then Mama caused a great .sigh from Papa by calling hie attention to the gent in the plaster, where his hammer : had• hit, In due time the woodwork was painted and the walls mended and repapered, and Papa sighed. again as he felt of his deflated pocketbook. Now 'the living room was -something for ales, =Bascom tobe proud of. Zile invited a11- her friends and had tea , on the • pinlc tea- table in the pink livingroom. A few mouths later, Mrs. Bascom and the children left:for New, York on a visit to Aunt E11ea. Papa said to thank Aunt.B1isa for the beautiful curtains, and this Mamma enthusias tically did, telling her how 'they .had had the room dote oyer. This nearly choked Aunt Elisa, and Manama Bas - corn didn't know 'why she was chok- ing. During her visit there was a sale'lin one of New York's biggest department stores, and Mamma Bascom was there 'with Sonnyand the baby, strolling around looking for bargain. One counter was crowded with people, so that she could not see what was for, sale. She gradually worked her way through the crowd to the counter, and then she stood there frozen with hor- ror! The counter was,piled high with pink silk, lace curtains exactly the•, same as hers, and over them was a sign: "Fibre Silk- Curtains, 93c.” Poorly Paid Cecile Sorel Averages -$51.70 Weekly at Comedie - Francaise Paris—Cecile Sorel, world famous star of the; -Comedic Francaise, gets $61.70 a week. True, she played only thirty times last. Year, so she drew 580.60.a. performance, From chose figures: the salaries of actors and actresses, nationally known, ecale down to 513 a week for women who play important parts and $15 for Andre Lugaot, the ,most poor- ly paid for the mon who have big roles. Such is the pay for sixty-six titular members of the noted company of this government subsidized theatre founded by Molaere, which is sup- posed to maintain the nigh- classio etandard4 and traditions of the French play. The higher the pay the less often' the plaiyers act, and an their , idle time they are allowed to appear in the provinces and at private-perlor- manes to round out their pocket- books, ocketbooks, Sorel, in particular, Ons made a fortune by playing abroad and brought back a round swum from her American tour. Members average twoperformances a week, the hard-working ones ap' peering every, night ,while a, number play only once a. week, forehand five others get about The same salary, reached after' almost 8 lifetime of successful work. The five othero average. $49 a performance. Myra; "What did you do when Tony kissed you?" Myrtle: "Well, when I wanted to scream, I couldn't, and when I could I didn't want tol" • Here Is a new dog story; --A trades- man trades man owns a dog which he has trained to carry his letters from the door to the bedroom,' The other morning the dog arrived with throe lettere, one of which had been chewed to a pulp. The . man nervously opened rho two, and, found they contained cheques: What had the other coitalnedt-, The poor ratan had a great fright until he found Mae - corner of the destreeent letter in. tact. On it were the Wiefin eenincome Tax, Private,"