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The Seaforth News, 1929-08-29, Page 31147 --Why is This 1, Outrage Permitted The Necessity For "A Positive Insistence on the Elimina- tion of the Submarine From the Armoury of War What a great thing it would be it I ;we could persuade the nations of the world to abandon the submarine as a weapon of warfare." The Right Mon, A. V, Alexander, First Lord of theAdmiralty. The slaking of the submarine IL, 47 With its appalling loco of life is re-) ,sponsible for a. paeslonate plea by Mr. A, 11. Gardiner in. the "Star.': I;ei writes:— Aeroplanes are a weapon of war,, .but they have, also added enormously to the useful old harmless equipmene .'of society, But the submarine is un- mitigated devilry, Apart front its • uses se a weapon of war it is entirely worthless, and if it were outlawed to -I Marrow there is not a single healthy; lemma Interest which would suffer loss, "The tact that it is a sneak thati .'strikes in the dark, a criminal that hits below the belt, and nowhere else, • would rob war of its last rag of de- cency and honour, if such a rag re - method to it, Int title vile furtive mon ster, that slays indifferently • both friend and enemy the savagery of war touches its basest note, and its exis- tence to an offense against the most elementary oonditious of a civilised peaiety, "Wiry 1s this outrage permitted to destroy the innocent and affront ;the conscience of the world? All the, nations have solemnly outlawed war. j9Vhy cannot they give evidence of their good faith by outlawing this most infamous weapon of war? It Is said that it is the only weapon of • defence available to the small nation) themselves. 'It is not the small na- tions like Sweden and Norway that are building submarines, and it is ;common knowledge that it the mat -I ter rested with these Powers the sub -1 marine would be banned to -morrow, "The responsibility is not with the small Powers, but with the great! rowers, the Big Five of the Sea. And' of these, two at least, and three al- I mase certainly, desire • its elimination. 'This country made a proposal to that' effect at the Versailles Conference. It made it still, more formally and• ur- ,'gently' at the Washington Conference! In 1921 when it was supported by the ;United States. Since then America' 'has independently, through its. Pre -1 'sident, repeated the proposal. I think X am right in saying that Japan is to Mull accord. "With this powerful backing by the =two greatest sea Powers in the world' -why is the infamy not abolished? The .answer is that France blocks that fought the proposal at Versailles, and fought it still more obstinately at . ;Washington, on which occasion Lori Balfouraddressed to M. Briand one of the most impressive warnings ever •directed against a nation in public .by a responsible stateman. "It was uttered in vain, and to -day, . bight years after, the competition in submarines is proceeding as though no League of Nations existed and no Kellogg Pact hod been signed, 'and France is in thid respect as predomiu- . ant in Europe as she is in the air and . On laud. ' "It is time that this sinister fact was faced and challenged. The case .. of the submarne is the acid 'test of the armaments problem and it must be' applied with candour and direct. nese. It can be so applied with the utmost propriety and force. Both this country and the United States .have repeatedly signified their wish • ;to ban the submarine, and they have , given abundant notice on the subject. Hitherto they have failed to act out of consideration to the opposition of , France. "That opposition should now be met 'with a positive insistence on the elim- ination of the submarine from the armoury of war. Such as insistence would be endorsed by the whole moral sense of the world and by the over•- whehning vote of the non -naval na- tions. If resisted, the issue should be carried to the League of Nations. Nothing but good would result, "France and Italy would either have to yield to the public opinion of the world or they would be gibbeted as the protagonists of a weapon that .. every consideration of humanity and of peaceful intention is concerned Co . outlaw and abolish: IO Mr. Mac- Donald and President *over is their mome:Ite s meeting decide to make the elimination of the submarine an article of their common policy the victory will be won." Just at the moment when the public heel been following with painful an- xiety the efforts—eventually abandon- ed -to salve Submarine 14,47, there has been published a bood which en- . abies the layman to realise the Bang- ers and . difficulties to be overcome and the heroism deeded for such an undertaking, That book Is on the bottom, by elotrunander Edward Ells- , berg, of the .Vnited States Navy (Constable, 105,). It tells of the salving of the Amer!. • can submarine 5.51, which watt ramm- ed by the SM. City of Ronne in Sept.. ember, 1925, and which' sank in 136 feet of water in ono of the stormiest sections of the North American const, •It' wok determined that no effort should be spared to give back to the bereaved relatives the bodies of their n dead, but the task of raising the sub - amine under such oondleous, was FM difficult that no private salvage company MIRE undertake It. EvOn- ually Cosnmattder ldllsborg conceived a plan, but the Navy Aopartmout was sceptioal, tinct it was :only after fight - ug hard for it 'throughout a confer. en0o lasting a whole night that ho was allowed to Barry It out, The wreck -toaster of a salvage com- party could undertake it. Eventual y Conunauder Eltsberg coo dived a plan, but. the Navy Department was sceptical, and itwas only after tight- ng hard for 'it througitoht a confeeen ce lasting a whole night that Ire was allowed to carry it out. The wreek-ntaster of a Mirage companY, when leaving the confer- ence, declared: "I don't know' who is going to 'do tltla job, put whoever he is, he'll wish befode he gets through that he had been born a girl -baby," The story of the terrific struggle with the elements which followed is told in a vivid narrative which le a great epic of the sea. The reader will follow with breathless Interest the details of the operations which make it easy to visualise every opera- tion and to underistand its purpose, Above all, it 1s a plea against the In- iquity of the submarine. Paper Suit Fav(.' red To 'Liberate' Men Chicago—How ''men can obtain a more comfortable form of summer at- tire, a question that has brought forth advocates of everything from pajam- as,to barrels, has another answer, It comes from Waldemar Kaempfert, director of the Rosenwald Industrial Museum, Men's enslavement to fash- ion, says Mr, Kaempfert, will be brok- en by paper suits, costing about $2 a piece and thrown away after about two week's wear. "The fibers," Mr. Kaempfert says, "will be made ot paper, and will be spun like cotton or wool, then woven into attractive patterns. Instead of being sewn' together, . the woven paper will be glued, A man will step into a clothes shop, where an expert tailor.;lvill in a few minutes. drape strips of paper about his form and then fasten them with fish glue, "Such a suit—unlike a paper tissue towel—will be unaffe°ted. by rain and hold its shape for at least two weeks, atter which' it can be thrown away, "There is no question that present clothes are maddening. But we are slaves of convention. Although a thousand . men marching down to work in pajamas would liberate us from the present style tyranny, it is impossible to find a thoueand such Hien. The paper stilt is our only hope." t Examined Wild Lake Ar;,1unad James ay • Dominion Botanist and Bio- logist Will Report at Ottawa Ottawa,—A. K. Porsitd, botanist and biological investigator, and Ie. H. Ketto, D,L.S., Of the department of the interior, who have been investi- gating wild life matters in the James Bay region returned recently, • The areas. dealt with were Akimiski island on the west coast of .the bay and Charlton island on the east coast. These surveys are in connection with wild life propagation and other mat- ters. The investigators went north early in Jane to the end of steel on the Temiskaming and Northern On- -tario railway andthence by canoe down the Abitibi river to Moose Fac tory, The voyaging about the bay was done' with a small sailing vessel with auxiliary gasoline engine, The return journey was 'over the same route. They will. immediately pre- pare their reports for presentation to Hon. Charles Stewart, minister of the interior, New Power Plant Is Joust Project 80,000 Horsepower Is to Be Developed on Ottawa River . From Montreal conte news de- spatches that 88,000 horsepower is to be developed jointly at Chats Falls, on the Ottawa, by the Ontario Hydro - Electric Power Commission, operat- ing on ties Ontario side of the river, and by I. W. Milani of Montreal on the Quebec side. The despatch also stated that Mr. Killam's surplus power would be pur- chased by the Hydro, for distribution in Eastern Ontario,, provided a suit- , able price—laid down 'in Ontario— , could be secured, and provided tate Quebec Government's approval to the scheme is forthcoming.-" Work of. erecting the joint dam and Power plant would start, the de- epatolies stated, early We fall. Commenting on the report Premier G. Howard Ferguson said: "The whole question of developing power at Chats Falls is a matter of negotiation, We have 115ete discussing It for some time and hope to reach a satisfac- tory conclusion before long." The Highest t Art The lover of natdra has the highest .art In hie soul,—R. Jefferies, Canada Once Again in the Lime Light THE KING'S PRIZE WINNER BEING ACCLAIMED Lieut. R, M. Blair, Canada, being chaired after winning the King's Prize at Bisley, Engind, Health Units and - Tax P: ,. yrnents The Reasons Why Taxes Should Be Spent For Main- taining Efficient Public Health Departments By ,DR.-GORDON (BATES (General Secretary, Canadian Social Hygiene Council) "Why should my taxes be spent in maintaining an expensive. department of health?" One occasionally hears that com- plaint oven nowadays. There are still a few people who point out that a department of health does not pro- duce anything and therefore, they suggest, deed not justify iia existence. But does anybody claim that we could get along without a police force —despite .the fact that it doesn't pro- duce anything either? And the life- guard at a summer resort. He isn't a producer yet if he saves half a dozen lives during a summer, we deem. him well worthy of hie hire. During the year 1928, 1933 lives were saved by the Medical Health Department of the City of Toronto. I quote Toronto' figures because they are readily available. Hamilton, Ontario, furnishes quite as good an. example.' Nearly two thousand peo- ple, at least. People in all walks of life, Enough to populate a whole village. Here is how that figure is arrived at. in 1910, when Toronto began to spend a good deal of money to .pro - teat its health, there were 16.1 deaths every year, tor eeoh thousand people. In 1928, only 11.8 died, out of every thousand. Working that out in terms of Toronto's many thousand population, a distinct saving of 1933 lives is shown. And even. that fig- ure mark you, is not fair to the de- partment, which le actually saving many more lives than that every year. That figure is based upon the im- provement in the department since 1910—not upon the.difference between the death -rate of 1928 and the death - rate as it would have been if Toronto had had no department at all. And what is responsible for this? How does the department operate to save all these lives? First of all, the water supply is safeguarded against all water -borne diaeaees; , typh•old, dysentery, diar- rhoea, etc,. To -day Toronto's' death - rate from typhoid is .9, white that of rural Ontario is 6,43. . Then mills. A veritable lake of milk is poured into Toronto every day, and alt of it excepting Less than one-half of one -percent.' is pasteurized. The result is that bovine tuberculosis —tuberculosis of bone and gland -is virtually eliminated from Toronto, and septic sore throat and alt other communicable diseases are reduced. Everyone is, familiar with the ordin- ary routine of a- health department —the chocking -up of communicable diseases, quarantining, etc. But there ie another branch of this work, end possibly the racist import- ant of alt, that is not so generally ap- preeiated. And that is the saving of infnts and mama ,ehildren, This begins with the expeotant mother. She is being taught the importance of pre -natal care. Site is being urg- ed to Nee her doctor frequently be- fore the birth of her child, or to re- gularly attend clinics maintained for her healthand safety. Public health nurses call upon her, and tactfully stress. the importance ot doing so, Two weeks atter the bird, of the child, the nurse again calls, the moth er is directed to "well -baby" centres, where her child is examined, weigh- ed, any defects noted and the mother referred to her ddotor to have these remedied, The newest • devetapntent iii tills science of •dll,ild-saving 10 the "pro- eehool•oge" • clinic, for the physical examination of children before they start to school. ENDURANCE CRASH And all during' the school life of the eliild regular •519810al examhtaflons Capt. P. J. Crichton was killed and Owen Haughtand fatally injured When are provided for it, health oducatlonai entturance plane, Minutesota, crashed at Miuueapolis, Minn, material is sent to parents, teeth are carefully examined, and hyglene edu- cation thoroughly and systematically carried on by the teacher. All of these things contribute to the saving of many more than 1933 lives in Toronto last year, as well as to the preventing of untold staaness, misery, and economic waste—and all elf these things point clearly to one Inescap- able fact. that the effectiveness of any public health department, and the number of lives and the sickness and the economic wastage that it will save any community depend entirety upon. the amount 11 money spent upon it, and carefully expended by it, un- der the direction of competent public health oidcials, ` A certaiu injustice is indicated here. In big Canadian cities death rates are being steadily reduced through the efforts of public health departments. But rural Canada is not sharing in this march. towards social health ,to nearly the same de- gree. The reason is, that rural Canada has not the money to spend in safe- guarding its health, that urban Can- ada has. In place of the splendid health organization serving Toronto, the work of which I have just rough- ly outlined, the average rural com- munity has to get along with one of- ficial, and a part-time official at that —a medical officer of health who is miserably unpaid, even for his part- time work, and who cannot conceiva- bly do the work that should be done. Provincial departments of health are doing a great and important work to stem the tide of rural disease and premature death, but until rural com- munities are surveyed by small -full- time counterparts of the ,health depart- tnents that are succeeding so well in cities ,anything like complete success is impossible. Experitnets with Stich rural health departments, or "country health units" as they are usually termed, have succeeded far beyond expecta- tion in Quebec, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, and to -day 0ne of the largest tasks facing the public health worker In this democrtic country is to educate public opinion to the end that governments ,federal, provincial and municipal may be justified in spending public money on the estab- lishment of adequately financed and staffed health county units, over the entire' Dominion. Comfort Comfort the poor, protect and shel- ter the weak, and with all thy night right that . which is wrong. Thett shall the Lord love thee, and G•od himself shall be thy great reward,— Alfred the Great. Self After all; the kind world 1110 car- ries about its oneself is the important thing and the world outside takes all Its grace, color, and value from that —J. R. Lowell. Unemployment Stirs the West Influx of Immigrants Adds to Problem in Western Towns Edmonton, Alta,—As a result of. a conference between members of the Alberta Cabinet and Robert Forke, Federal Minister Of Immigration, a suuvey of the unemployment situa- tion in this Province will be .made. This will be undertaken in view of the serious condition likely to occur this winter with the increasing num- ber et unemployed men in the prov- ince. The survey will ascertain their number, their former home, how long they have been In Canada, ]tow and - by whom they were brought out, and what are their occupations. Both rural and urban districts will be cov- ered in the investigation.. For several years there has been an tuflux of harvesters into Alberta, and when the crop Is garnered, these transients decide to remain for the winter, and conte to the cities and towns in large numbers where no work is available. This has become a serious problem to the province and municipalities, as the men must be provided' for by the taxpayers, who feel their taxes should be used for the relief of their own citizens who are in need and not of cutslders. The situation is intensified by the number of immigrants coming West, • osten- sibly as farm laborers, and these add greatly to the unemployment prob- lem, as they do not remain on farms, but drift cityward to look ferwork where the iutroductiou of machinery is rapidly eliminating the need 01 manual laborers. affndnt and His tach, Located Stnithers, B.C.—After guarding all ,highway exits from this district for nearly two weeks, since a bandit held up the Royal.Bank staff here and es- caped with twenty thousand dollars, police, directing a posse ,surprised him asleep in a wild country near Walcott. He gave his name as Sames Wesley Bart, from Ontario. Indian trackers located eleven thousand dollars and a revolver bid- den in brush near where' he was cap- tured. In pollee court he pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery with violence and now awaits trial at the Assises. A Gift Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of going out of oneself and seeing and appreciat- ing whatever is noble and loving in anther. PLANE League of Nati„•us Does Big Business 396 Treaties Have This Year Been Registered Making a Total of Over 2,000 Geneva—Open covenants, or lane national treaties, oltaraclerieed oe ephemeral when Woodrow Wilsons first demanded them et Alto creation of tate league, have becomeste,rtliug- Iy close to reality. The 900ret cem. pacts of pre-war dors may indeed 81111 exist, but they have. no, biisdistg value on the peoples of fete- 'govern - menta which made them. Furthermore, no treaties made be- tween any of the motnbeus of the league are valid until they have been. racially registered. Once they are transmitted to the treaty section of the league they are public property. During the past calendar year, ac- cording to the report which the secre- tary-general, Sir Eric Drummond, will submit to the assembly in September, there have been 382 treaties register- ed by members of the league and the United States has voluntarily sent to the seoretariato for pubIlcation 14 treaties negotiated by Washington during the year. To date, according to the report, the treaty section has compiled and printed, in their original languages and in French and English, 1,850 treaties -80 volumes of about 450 pages each. The total of treaties thus far deposited at the league sur- passes considerably. the 2,000 nark. Radium Coated Hooks L+ire Fish New York Naturalist Makes Experiment at Bermuda New York.—Seienee gave fishermen something new to play with when word arrived from Bermuda of suc- cessful use there recently of radium as a tare for deep sea fishing. Tho radium was used by William Beebe, New York naturalist, as a lum- inous coating on hooks attached to sounding wires about a mile long, in depths where no daylight exists. The first catch was a squid, a member of the octopus family. It was large en- ough to fill a. fair -steed fruit basket. Before leaving here on his expedi- tion Beebe said that as far as he knows radium -luminous fish hooks never before have been used, 'He outfitted with glow -hooks nearly a foot long, hoping to land some of the powertul creatures front lightless depths that In past expeditions have broken out of the nets that brought up smaller- eceutiflc specimens, He said that occasional presence of huge scales in the nets indicated the pos- sibility of great fish. iritain Greatest Trader In World London Newspaperman Says Inter -Empire Trade is Essential In an address to the Advertising Club at the Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal, recently Charles E. Luke of the London Times, stressed the fact that a greater attempt must be trade on the part of both Canada and the British Empire to develop an Inter•Empire Trade, "Britain,” he said, "has come back to the industrial Position she held before the war in spite of the terrible odds she has had to contend with. At the end of the war, and In the early days of 1921, Britain's debts and the condition of her industries were in such a terrible state that nations throughout the en- tire world thought her attempts to recover her status would be in vain." "Great Britain pays out per annum one hundred and fifty million dollars on tate sinking fund of her war debt and another three billion two hundred thousand on the annual budget of the navy, Still, she has pulled right ahead and to -day can bo classed as one of the greatest if not the. great- est trading nation in the world." 14e ended his address by stating that if on his arrival back in his own country he tutted that he was able to at least familiarize British manufac- turers with greatness et Canadian in- dustries and to accentuate the im- portance of establishing their trade in Canada, he would feel that his ef- forts had not been iu vain. le "The United States of Europe" Truth (Lenon). Briand has not eh.osen Itis moment very well in re- producing his scheme for the "Uni- ted States of Europe". I say repro- ducing, for the idea is one which has been moving in the back of anis mind for' many yearn past. Indeed, some tour years ago lie first voiced it In the lobbies of the League of Na' tions at Genova, The fact that at the present moment he should have thought lit to come out luso the open with his plan is perhaps an Indica- Um drat he at Tenet to aware 0f the Incresittg Isolation of his country, Contentment Contentment is not to be Caught by long and foreign chases; ire is like- liest t0 find who ells at home and a In daily contemplates these os blessings which God has placed within hie "'You bet. More titan one man has teach. run into a citurch (going It Skirl of Pipe Isle of Skye Nene, late of Skye, Scot. --Tho anrnuat Mod, P1' Gaelic uuts10a1 ,footle vol; which has terminated at Portree, has 0n00 more revealedtiro mustoat talent Or rho "orrery isle." 'Here there Is found true Gaelic Waging in an Wand where 'the Gaelic tongue still prevails. On both days the Mott was well attended, 8olti0 Of the °oua- ter fells coming from towns 50 miles away, and evidently "mach appreciat•' mg the music, Tito first day of the Mod was cltli- dren's clay, One of the tests was au may ort the wandering of Peince Charles in Skye; another the transla- tion of a Gaelic prose passage. NO fewer than 200 children enter- ed far these competitions, add etre standard was high. The senior eco, petttors were tested on the second d0Y of the Mod In singing, piping and violin playing. Tho excellence of the piping competitions was a notable feature of the taste, being due largely to the edited tnstruetioa of William MacDonald during the winter menthe. Of last year's °lase, four are now pipers In the Scots Guards, one is Camerons, oda in the Glasgow Police Force. None of the vocal competitors was acoompanied on the piano. The scale of Gaelic music is not adapted to the modern piano, The harp is the In- strument moat . suited to the accom- panying of Gaelic songs. The classical "Cha tit MaeCrtmatp" or "MaoCrimmon's Lament" seas heard in unison staging by choirs from Ulg, Strath, Dunvegan, and Por- tree. Sparrows Play Joke nia Geese Desirous of Reaching News foundland from Cape Bre, ton, and Being Underpow' ered, Are Said to Avail Themselves of Geese Backe As Means of Transport. Ottawa.—Albert Schreiber, who stowed away on the French mono- plane "Yellow Bird," has nothing on nature's aerial straphangers, if tine story told to Fred Woollven of Are more, Penh„ and repeated to Clyde L. Patch oe the National museum is true. Mr. Woollven says in -a letter that maritime friends have told hint how sparrows on Cape Breton island, wish. ing to get to Newfoundland, and un., derpowered for the trip themselves, perch on the backs of migrating geese and make the crossing over Cabot. Strait as blind baggage. One of his friends claims to have seen as many as ten sparrows alight from such a stolen trip. - There arises the question of the geese's erection to the prospect oe be- coming a free transport to the lowly sparrows, The chances are that thle goose would not care for it. Like Assolant, Lotti and Lefebvre, he might find himself forced down short of his destination owing to the added weight which has had not figured on Prior to his final meal taken prepara- tory to a hop -off en the long over - water trip. San Blas Chief Gets Rank Of 'Brigadier General' Loyalty Recognized by Government of Panama Panama,—Chief Iaapaquina, consid- ered the most powerful as well as the most colorful of the San Blas Indian chieftains, now rules over his domain as 'a "brigadier general" by appoint- ment of the Department of Govern- ment and Justice. Chief Inapaquina recently visited the capital of pay his respects to President Arosemena. It was during thie visit that he received. Itis appointment. =f4 The appointment was In recognition of the chieftain's loyalty to the Pan- ama govermmeut, During the San Blas uprising under the American Richard O. Marsh a few years ago, Inapaquina refused to join the move., went and was instrumental in restor- ing peaceful relations between the Indians and the government. Chief Inapaquine is a chief lu the modern manner. His clothes are of the latest English cut. Wherever he travels, a secretary and an interpre- ter accompany him, Habits The habit of halt doing things, ot doing things in a sloppy, slovenly way; the habit of aimless, pttrposelese working, has ruined more careers than almost anything else. System, order and concentration, coupled with industry, will snake a success of a one• talent man, whle the habit et Walt doing things will ruin the biggest brained man In the world, Efficiency is the only pant to success. Pride It has been well said that the thing most likely to snake the angels weeder is to see a proud man, but pride of birth is the most ridiculous of all. vanities; it is like the boasting of the, root of a tree instead of the fruit it bears. Site (Coyly)—"Is it dangerous to delve with one hand?" He (grindy )—