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The Seaforth News, 1928-10-18, Page 7Roger I3abson Says Young People Have Ample R. «:m for Invention Statistician Tells Business. Conference That There Are More Opportunities'in the World To -day Than Ever Before Wellesley hills, Mass.—Far'. ft•oin wider, *nay create .a problem of unem- supposing that "everything has al- pioymeat. Machinery will save labor, ready been invented," Roger W. Rab- but what, will save the laborers? on, business statistician azul founder There will be at least two solutions of the Babson Institute, believes there Proposed, one the doyelopment of are more "opportunities for Young poo- great new induetriee,. and another the Pie" in the world novo; than ever be- undertaking of great public works. fere, lie said at the closing session of You can be prepared fol• endless (us - ,the National Businees Conference held at the institute. With these oPpertunittesarises also a, tremendous responsibility upon youth for "a proportionate develop- ment, of intelligence, integrity and Character," he wanted, "The chief peril against which we must guard is a let -down on the moral er spiritual side," he said. "We must not only maintain unimpaired the mission of this question," Turning to changes in the business. world which will offer opportunities in flung people of. oecutive capaoity, he said: "You will see many moreinergers, in the future. The automobile mann- factures is finding that he cannot sucpessfuliy compete with his fellow- motor makers and at the same time compete with clothing makers, radio forces of righteousness, ,but we must manufacturers and all the other in, increase them in order to keep pace family which are bidding for the am with material developments. Twenty fily budget. "There will be also persistent years from to -day people will be deal- strtigglee to speed up stores so they iug.with powers 'far in excess of any- can distribute the immense volume of thing we know to -day. There is hewer- production, One of the things which will almost certainly be developed is some form of automobile vending," Among probable changes in condi- wound up," Mr, Babson said both types tions of everyday living, Mr. Babson are necessary to business, just as forecasts that airplanes, capable of riewatch has to have both springs and psed and landing numbers,vrsthatcally will be ao- cogwheels, but that the boys and girls bile In large made torthat wise to biles will be run sidewise to power to balance the growing physi- cal power of the years ahead." Grouping young workers as "self - .starters" and "those who have to be who become leaders are the self-start- ers." These are the boys and girls who, to -day, are interested in 'radio, air - edemas and'various new inventions and developments," he continued, "Their field of endeavor is greater than ever. We are developing machine production get into parking places, th;it street oars will develop into or be replaced by ."horizontal elevators" operated automatically without motormen, and that electric cooking and gas heating will- be greatly improved, • together with more effective heat -insulation of houses. Radio congestion will lead to an extent and In a sense which may to develcpcneut of private systems of ere long literally transform: civilize- „wired broadcasting" along electric tion itself. Already there is subtle light or telephone wires, he expects. .evidence of the coming changes, What Will Save Laborers! Among "70 opportunities to become a millionaire" lie mentioned volcanic "Notice that labor-saving machinery power stations, watches run by radio, is revolutionizing not only the heavy self -finding golf -balls, pre -cast tunnels, manual labor but also all kinds of 'use of gunpowder to put out fires, mental labor. In statistical and en- changing birch into mahogany, return ,gineering work, for example, we•hare to use of windmills for power, and turning more completely to mechaui- cooling houses in summer as well as cal computation. I foresee some re- heating them In winter. With, these markable development along this line. he iueluded "return to Sunday pbserv- "Of course;• this vast labor-saving ante," "bringing about international program which is already in full swing peace" and "utilizing tho power of and which is swinging even faster aiid prayer." Former Kaiser Wins 1 a a Farms in Africa Court Decision Gives Back Real Estate in Face of the Versailles Treaty A judgment given by Judge Grind- ley rindley Ferris, of the court of Windhoek, ,South Africa, restores to Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the former Getman Em- peror, a couple of farms situated in . former' German Southwest Africa, which had been confiscated in accord- ance with Article 257 of the Treaty of Versailles. The judgment, which is contrary to all legal precedent, is expected to inspire other mediatized and non -reigning royalties of Ger- many, Austria, and Hungary to make similar claims for the recovery of 'their real estate, confiscated by the peace treaties. Heretofore, it had been supposed in the legal circles of the former allies that Article 257 admitted of no !equivocation as;, -to spirit and letter, for it reads: "All 'property and possessions be- longing to the German Empire or to the German States situated in such territories shall be transferred with the territories to the mandatory power in its capacity as such, and no payment shall be made nor any credit given to. those Governments in consideration of this transfer. For the purposes of this article the orop- •erty and possessions of the German 'ilmpire and of the German States shall be deemed to include all the ;property of the Crown, the Empire, or the States, and the private prop- erty of the former German' Emperor and other royal personages.' In giving judgment Judge Ferris held that the foregoing article by vir- tue of which the Government of the 'Union of Southwest Africa, had con- fiscated the farms in 1920, did not .apply to property, belonging to none ruling members of German royal fami- lies or held in trust for a royal family by "ficlei commissura," but only re- ferred to actual ruling sovereigns. Legal comment on the judgment is that it is probably based on the omis- sion of the word "former" in the last sentence of the Copy of the judge's Article 257, which formed the baste of his decision. -KNIGHT-AT DAY LABOR "How Is that English knight ern- plo id?" 'At• clay leho el Even pit Millionaires Suffer Losses COL. J. S. DENNIS, C.M.G. Chief Commissioner, Department of Colonization and Development, Canadian :Pacific Railway, who,'for over fifty years, has been motive fn Canadian land settlement. An out- standing authority on Canadian im- migration mmi ation and colonization problems he has recently concluded important plans with the British Government for the movement of British settlers to Canada., BLAZE AT AN OIL WELL LOOKED LIKE VOLCANO Immense columns of smoke and flame pouted from a well. in Getty Field at Banta Fe Springs, Calif. • The Scotch and Irish Scots' Migration From. Ireland Now Put in Prehis- toric Times Recommendation to railway com ponies that they should be the ones to own and operate air transportation lines is made iu an article in The Railway Age by C. W. Belsey, written after a long study of aviation as to its probable effects on railroads. Mr. Kelsey's plan is for all the companies in a particular territory to operate the air service jointly. In this way, he says, the service would have suf- ficient financial strong 1 o efficiently run, the confidence placed I by the public in railway management would carry over into the air service, there could be complete co-operation between the railways and the new service, and there would be no finan- cial losses to the railways from having their passengers use the air lines. Mr. Kelsey believes that aviation has already reached the point where passenger air lines can be operated profitably. Planes large enough to carry forty passengers, he says, are practicable now and could be built and put in use as soon as the demand for them is created. He urges rail- road officials to realize also that the same rapid advance in aviation en- gineering will take place in the next thirty years as the last thirty or less have seen in automobile engineering. It would be possible, he estimates, to' establish a regular air line be- tween New York and Los Angeles which would carry passengers at a trip, he believes, could be made on a charge of $197.60, plus meals. The thirty -two-hour schedule. The rail- roads under his plan, he points out, would not only share in the profits of the air service but also would bene- fit by having' their lines serve as feeders to the air lines. Swiss Air Lines Gain Passenger traffic on the Swiss air transport lines (including foreign lines with terminal in Switzerland) has been about 50 per cent. greater thus far this season than last year, reports the Berner Tagwacht, but the lines are still far from making ends meet finan- cially. A good sign for the future is seen in the advance in freight traffic, which increased 176 per cent., and in a gain of 90 per cent. in the amount of mail carried by air. The number of passengers carried from the open- ing of the air navigation season on freight and 60,000 kilograms of mail matter. Brazilian Planes Interest in aviation •is growing fast in Brazil, its latest manifestation be- ing the introduction of a bill in the Chamber of Deputies providing for the establishment in the near future of a factory for the construction of planes for the Brazilian Army and Navy. The bill has aroused much favorable com- ment and it seems to have a good chance of becoming law. The plan includes the extension of the construc- tion facilities so as to make possible the building of commercial as well as military' planes. The bill also calls tor the opening of a big airport at the City of Natal, the first stopping place in South America for suture teens. oceanic air transportation lines. A Socialist Proposal Leeds Mercury (Cons.): Mr. Tur- ner's suggestion is that our miners should work shorter hours, and in effect be given more money for doing it. In other words, his remedy for our dear coal is to make it dearer still This 15 like proposing blood- letting as a cure for anaemia. It will aggravate the dihease, Then Mr. Tur- ner proposes. a great land colony sys- tem, which obviously would cost the country many millions of pounds for a start. And what would bo the re- sult? When our own farmers, who know their work from A to 5, can hardly make both ends meet, and when, even in rich Holderness, agri- culture is so depressed that there you can have farm tenancies .for nothing, 1s it likely that our unemployed, go- ing front the mines and cotton and woollen mills, will make any bettor success of the job? Prayer Grantme, '0 Lord, When the days come that I am grey and tired, Neer to grow bitter of heart, neer to fdrget I, too, have loved and longed and been desired, Lest, one sad hour Should come, my son, of that past lova begotten, Seeking for understanding, and should say, "She is too old, too old, Silo has forgotten," —Teresa. Hopler. in tho London) Observer, It's easy to got eynnpathY--if you April 23 to Aag 1 was 10,000. The He: You say Ted has sex sp. peal? She: 1'll say se, hie dad's sr( millionaire. In an Ancient Belfry "Liberty -Bell" Foundry Oldest London Business London.—The ancient bell foundry, Where America's "Liberty Bell" was one a Negro, and an efficient nursing cast, is reputed to be the oldest buss- stag. cess in London. The hospital is open to all patients "Phe property of Messrs. Mears and regardless of race. Stainbank, it was originally establish- ce ed in 1570 at Essex Street, White- Joan of Arc Holiday Draws chapel, whence it was removed to its Opposition of Free Thinkers present site in the Whitechapel Road during 1738. A bell cast at the foundry in 1694 for the English village of Staplehurst was sent back to the firm for. repairs 300 years later. "Big Ben," the huge bell that tolls the hours iu the clock granting o famnesty to all political the turbulent natives received from tower surmounting the British houses prisoners and the discontinuance of the steady stream of reinforcements of Parliament, came from this foundry, all honorary decorations like the as did also York Minster's "Great Legion of Honor and the Croix de Peter" and Lincoln Cathedral's "Great Guerre, They also demanded strict- er separation of Church and state. Tho long, winding 'staircaso scents to have no end, Twoo hundred' steps. are already below us. The higher we go, the more broken and rugged are the stairs. Suddenly It grows von' darts, and, clutching the rope more firmly, we struggle upward. Light dawns again through a narrow Gothic slit in tete tower; lot us pause and Institutes in October laoratireo Australian Just below lno on the hillside is lti forty -acre field that slopes geuttly, Settlers "'Outback" Might down to the valley, Vast year it was Ploughed by a motor -tractor; Ibis year Have Little to Read, but I rejoice to say it is being ploughed for Their Work in the old way, as it has been plough. Adelaide, S, Aust.- Settlors in the ed for a thousand years, I sukaposo outlying districts of Australia depend we tor'ltt'te ble grateful fcr the motor^ treater and the skean -digger titan in leak out for a moment, The glare is much for their education and general blinding, but from the deep, cool re- culture upon what is known as the cess a wondrous spectacle unfolds. "institutes." Those societies, ebntrol- itself. We are almost on a level with led for the most part by local com- mtttees, supply books and other read- ing matter and generally assume the role otpopuler centers of learning. Steps are now being taken to hold a oonferenoe of "institute" aatherf- ties in the various states with the object of forming a Commonwealth executive. The main purposeof such a conference would be to provide bet- ter means of educating in their diffi- Cult duties all those who have to manage libraries, andconduct activi- ties associated with librariea, and al- so to secure as far as possible co- ordination in the purchase of books and magazines. At the projected conference all the public librarians throughout Australia would attend to expound the technical side of the cub - Jots to be discussed; and prominent members of governing bodies of all the institutions affected will partici- pate, Sir William Sowden, president of the Institutes Association of South Australia, declares that this state is sill the only one which has a special Institutes Act. In the other states there Is no such convenient concen ration of effort, and to bring them into union in such circumstances was practically impossible. This hind- rance is being, overcome by the -forma- tion in the various states of repre- sentative bodies resembling the In- stitutes' Association of South Aus- tralia. There are nearly 300 institutes in the State, while officers of the ad- ministrative staff in Adelaide make frequent tours to keep in touch with the 3000 members who form the local committees. The central council re- presents 30,000 institute subscribers. The executive atends to the ex- changing and indenting of books and other publications, and supervises traveling libraries. The secretary edits the Institutes Journal, a bi-mou- tltly literary magazine, which has a large circulation and is one of the most interesting publications of its kind in the world. The interior settlements depend much upon the institutes, which, of course, are entirely unconnected with political or class distinctions. the roof of an old cathedral, „ ... Among the petals of yonder mighty rose a couple of pigeons are busy building their nes':; seeds of grasses and wild flowers have been blown up, and here and there a tiuy garden has been laid out by the capricious winds on certain wide stone hemlock leaves^, the fringe of yonder cornice is a waste of lilies. As we try to realize detail after detail, the heart is almost pained by the excessive beauty of all this petrified bloom stretching away over flying buttresses and breaking out upon column and architrave, and the. eye at lest turns away weary with wonder.,,. At this moment a noise like a pow- erful engine in motion recalls our at- tention to the tower. The great clock is about to strike and begins to pre- pare by winding itself up live minutes before the hour. Groping among the wilderness of cross -beams and tim- bers, we reach another staircase, which leads to a cast, square but lofty fabric. The dust of ages lies everywhere around us, and the place which now receives the print of our feet has, perhaps , not been touched for five hundred years. And yet these ancient towers and the inner heights and recesses of thees old roofs and belfries soon acquire a strong hold over the few that care to explore them: Overhead hang the huge bells, sev- eral of which are devoted to the clock; others are rung by hand from below, while somewhere near, besides the clock machinery, there will be a room fitted up, like a vast musical box, containing a barrel, which acts upon thirty or forty bells up in the tower, and plays tunes every hour of the clay and eight. You cannot pass many minutes in such a place without the clicking of machine!". r'l the chiming of some bell -even the quarters are divided by two or three notes or half -quarter bells.' Double the number are rung for the quarter, four times as many for the half-hour, while at the hour a storm of music breaks from such towers as Mechlin and Antwerp, and continues for three or four minutes to float for miles over the surround-, ing country... . The great clock strikes; it is the only music, except the thunder, that can fl11 the air.. Indeed, there is some- thing almost elemental in the sound of these colossal awl many-centuried bells.—The Rev. H. R. Hawes, in "Music and Morals: Modern Hospital Opens In Liberian Capital Monrovia, Iiberia.—The new govern- ment hospital recently opened here with impressive ceremonies by Presi- dent King and Bishop Gardiner in the presence of high officials of the Li- berian Government, the foreign diplo- matic and consular corps and repre- sentatives from all parts of the re- public, is one of the finest and most enduring works of the president dur- ing his ten years of administration. The medical staff consists of three physicians, trained and educated in Europe, two of whom are white and Rheims—The annual meeting of the French Free Thinkers League passed resolutions calling for abolition of the holiday honoring Joan of Arc. Other resolutions favored the World Aviation Railways Are Urged to Co- operate in Maintaining Passenger Air Lines cheapening' prednctioo elteapen our food, but I am glad that the farmer below me' has returned to the ancient way. When the machine comes in, the poetry goes out, and though poetry has no place in the farmer's ledger if pleasant to find that,he has sound reason: for reverting to the primitive plough, All the operations of the fields are "beautiful to see, They are beautiful in themselves and beautiful in their suggestions of De perma- nonce of things in the midst of which we come and go like the guests of a day. Who can see the gleaners in the field, or the haymakers piling the flay on the hay -wain, or the mower bend- ing over lite scythe without the stir- ring of feelings which the mere beauty of the scene or of the motion do not explain? Indeed, the sense,,,of beauty itself is probably only the emanation of the thoughts subtly awakened by the action. , Andso it is with the scene before nue. As I watch the ploughman draw- ing that straight, undulating line in. the yellow stubble of the field, . he seems to be not so much a mortal as a part of the landscana, that comes and goes as the seam -tee enme and go, or as the sun comes and goes. His father, it may be, ploughed this field before him, and his father before him, and so on back through the centuries, And over the new -ploughed soil the rooks, who have as ancient an ancestry as himself, descend in clouds to forage as they have descended in these late October days for athousaud years. And after the rooks, the star- lings. They have gathered in hosts after the pleasant domestic intimacies of summer for their winter campaign- ing, and stream across the sky in those miraculous mass manoeuvres that affect one like winged and noise- less music, ... They, too, have their part in tate external economy of the fields. They are notes in that rhythm of things which touches our transitori- ness with the hint of immemorial ancestry. The ploughman has reached the far end of his furrow and rests his horses while,he takes his Iunch by the hedge- row. edgerow. That is aflame once more with the returning splendors of these Octo- ber days. The green of summer has turned to a passion of gold and scarlet and yellow and purple ... the elms that have stood so long garbed in sober green curls of bright yellow at the top... It is as though they have suddenly become vocal and hi- larious and are breaking into song.` A few days hence they will be a glory of bright yellow. But that last note of triumph does not belong to October. It is in the first days of November that the elm is at its crowning hour. But the beech is at its best now, and the woodlands that spread up the hill- side glow, underfoot and overhead, with the fires of fairyland. In the bright warm sunshine there is a faint echo of the songs of spring. There are chirrups and chatterings from voices that have been silent for long, There is the "spink, spank" of the chaffinch, and from the meadow- land at the back there comes at in- tervals the song of a lark, not the full song of summer, but no mean imitation of it. It is the robin, how- ever, owever, who is now chorister -in -chief..... I can see the ploughman nearing the top end of the field, and can hear the jingle of the harness and his com- ments omments to the horses and almost the soft fall of the soil as the furrow is turned over. I think I will bid him adieu, for these October days provide tasks for me as ' well as for the ploughman. There are still some apples to pick, there is an amazing bed of carrots to be got up, there are laurels to be cut down, there are—oh, joyt—bonfires to be lighted, and there . are young fir -trees to be transplanted. I think I will start with the bonfires. —From "Many Furrows," by Alpha of the Plough. Scottish anthropologists have been investigating how Scotland became Scotland, and at the recent session of the British Association for Science the head of the anthropological sec- tion, ection, Sir George Macdonald, in the Presidential address, gave an account of the work done so far. He reported that because of the obstacle of the Caledonian Forest to the south "the early immigrants arrived by sea via the western islands from Ireland, and it is In Ireland that the roots of pre- historic Scottish civilization must be studied." Thus he set the date of settlement much further back than the period when the Romans referred to Ireland as Scotia. "It was significant that as late as the dawn of the historic period the current of migration was flowing strongly towards the north and east," ho continued. "The Scots themselves, of course, were incomers from Ire- land, and I have more than a suspicion that the troubles which the Romans. experienced and which compelled them to abandon the Forth and Clyde wall were due to the encouragement air lines handled 150,00 kilograms of Tom." Who Wouldn't Like One of These Boys?' Sheep penned during tell your troubles to the right people, at their work. DOG'S JOB WELL DONE ito sheepdog trials at Skipton, Illagland; where tho across the narrows of Stranraer. "The facts of early Scottish his- tory," he added, "and the inferences as to the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age were in complete accord in bear- ing out that the trend of migration • was from the direction of Ireland through the isles of the west coast to the north of Scotland. We might rea- sonably assume that an exhaustive examination of the chambered cairns would give a similar result for the Neolithic period. These migrations, I believe, give the real secret of the abundance of Scotland's prehistoric remains," BUT I8 NOT BURNING I`T "That pretty widow has money to burn," canines proved just Trow good they aro "Yes! but la carefully keeping 11 111_0 fireproof vault." ctober Dances Crack your first nut and light your first fire, Roast your first chestnut crisp on. the bar; Make the logs sparkle, stir the blaze higher; Logs are as cheery as sun or as star, Logs we cau find wherever we are., Spring ono soft day will open the loaves, Spring one bright clay will lure bank the flowers; Nevor fancy my whistling wind grieves, Never fancy I've tears in my, , . showers; Dance, nights and daysi And dance on, my hoursl —Christina 0, Rossetti, You novo: oast ;fell tlla atnilor frit the Christian, They drink the same Wake and stuolce the same cigars, -"i Aimee Semple McPherson, ,Tl y J A hypocrite is oto'tvho pretends tit bodeee a person who lull knows iY wing. Otiv standard of life is no longer our acreage, but stir brain eai.'city and our solonco,-41t' Arthur 1' uitii,