The Seaforth News, 1930-03-06, Page 3Great Northern I Canada's Radio
May Extend to May e Operated
M:r
Devil's la, ke By Goven ii ens
;win Give Outlet to Hudson
Bay; Trawler Bought to
Locate Fish Re.,
sources
' The Great Northern Railroad is eon-
isidering en extension of its line from
Devil's Lake, N.D„ to Breeden, Man.,
which will bring the railroad, to Hud- ed to be taken in the near futrue with.
son Bay, according to a statement re- the introduction in the Canadian Par-
Gently made by J. W. Breaker In the 'lament of legislation for the purpose
Manitoba Legislature, Mi Breakey ; of regulating broadcastingin the Do-
le the head of the Liberal party in the minion.
Manitoba House. • Introduction of the etiolation re -
it is known that • the Great Northern' sults from a lengthy investigation of
has been closely watching develop- broadeasti,rg by a• royal commission,
ments in western Canada for some which came to the conclusion that
time; as there is considerable hada operation of broadcasting stations by
hood• of mid -Western freight ship- :private interests, 'as followed in the
ments moving through to Hudson Bay. United. States, has not.. been success-
' The extent to whioii• American grain fu1 in Canada; where both population
shipments might find a profitable exit distribution and economic conditions
through Port Churchill has already re- are different. There are a 'consider-
ceived much study from the raih'oed able numberof stations in the Domini -
Interests concerned. .As final condi- on; but the reports indicated that they
tinning will be made .on the Hudson cannot support themselves by adver-
Bay Railroad this spring, it is expect- tiling programs, as in the United
ed that regular' service wil be avail- Staters, :In the majority of instances,
able to the' port,by August. and fear was expressed that the.
In -view of this, four elevators with heavy expense incident to the opera-
a capacity of 2,000,000 bushels eabh tion of the stations would eventually
are being Manned for Churchill har. result in the closing down of many of
bor. Woke= the first of these will them, leaving the Canadian audience
'commence early In the spring. At the with little radio entertainment other
same time the dredging of the harbor than that i:'eceived from the United
evil' lie resumed, The dock already States.
built there has an approach of twenty- The commission' recommended that
five feet of water. It is intended that broadcasting .be. placed en a basis of
this shall be deepened to thirty-five public service, thata provincial diree-
feet Work on extending the docks 'tor should be appointed for each pro-
-will a
ro-will. also, be 'pushed. it is expected" vince, to have full control of pro -
that approximately 3,000,00'0 yards of grame broadcast in :his tottery, and
gravel will be required for the filling- thathe be aided' by a provincial advis-
in operation in the water -front area. ory council on radio and broadcasting.
-Big gravel deposits in the neighbor- Establishment of a chain of seven
hood, however, will facilitate this high-powered stations running across
work. Canada was •recommended for initial
The Sturgis ettt-o# will be in opera- service, to be the nucleus of the more
tion • this summer, bringing the net- ambitious system eventually to be
work of raiiwaYs in the central region created. These stations would have a
of Saskatchewan into more direct con power of as high as 50,000 watts with
tact with the Hudson Bay Railway. supplementary stations of lower powe
This will greatly facilitate grain ship-. erected in areas not effectively cov-
-ments from this territory. ered by the .main stations. Existing
Althougli the Hudson Bay Railroad stations would be used until the pro-
le already being used for large ship- posed chain and auxiliary stations
ments of fish from theinland lakes, 'were built.
some explorative work is going on to The coat of the chain and its auxin:
ascertain what the bay itself may be aries was estimated at $3,250,000, and
expected supply in the way at fish. the operating expense ivas placed at
According to H. S. Johnson, Western $2,600,000 a year. Existing broadcast-"
manager of Booth. Fisheries, the corn- ing stations, all of which would be
pany will put a trawler in the bay this put out of operation or converted into
year. It is believed, that a number of auxiliary stations under the pian,
independent fishery companies will al- would be taken over by the govern -
so be in the field during the`lyear. One ment and their owners compensated.
trawler, however, Mr. Johnson has de- The costs of establishing and main -
Oared, will be of no commercial use taining the government service would
except to determin something of the be covered by license tees, rental of
fish resources of the bay. stations for indirect advertising and
If Hudson Bay is the lucrative fish a subsidyfrom the government.
ing area that it is expected to be the It is proposed to increase license
movement of fish will be a consider- fees for receiving sets from $1 to $3
able item in the freight haul of the a year, which would provide an esti-
railroad. An excellent market awaits mated revenue of $900,000,
the catch in the cities of the mid-
Western states. - "Mounties" Train for
Steps to be Taken Soon to In-
troduce Legislation for
Regulating Broad-
casting
Toronto. — Concrete steps toward
inaugurating a government • owned
radio monopoly in Canada are expect -
Fakir -Gambler at ondon Shaw
Regina, Sask.-While bitterly told
Fairs Denounced winter 'weather grips; the Prairies, 20
members of the 'Royal Canadian
Mounted Police,' are training 1n Re
More Attractions of Educe- Bina for the international Horse Show
tional Value Are Urged which will be held in London next
summer.
Toronto.—Vlore 'attractions of en Tide will be the first time in two de -
educational value should be used codes that the "Mounted Police" have
county fairs and exhibitions instead taken part in any such overseas tune -
the customary sideshows and horse tion.
races, some 250 farmers attending the Major Dann, Vancouver, is in
annual convention of the Ontario As-
sociation of "Fairs and Exhibitions
;were told.
Sports, community organizations,
championship contests for farm boys
and girlsand free admission of school
children were among suggestions of-
fered by W. L. Graham, Britannia
Bay, to replace the sideshows and mid-
ways at provincial fairs.
J. L. Wilson, Toronto, secretary,
said the "hard-earned money of farm
boys and girls should be protected
against the fakir, and the gambler,
who are allowed the use of the fair
grounds by defiance of the law."
"It is said without these tvheels of
fortune, dice games, pools and eo-
called amusements a fair cannot be
financed," said Mr. Wilson. "If that is
so, then it is betterif the Fair went
out of business or else have the Legis-
lature wipe out the law."
Duncan Marshall, former Minister
of Agriculture for Alberta, said a -,well-
known oil company is prepared to
',spend $50,000 toward an educational
ampaign to aid Ontario fanners in
hd oi'iidiet#tipn ief weeds] a problem
which he termed "one
ea � e nasals-
now
C rials
now confronting Canadian. Agricul-
ture."
"You must follow modern scientific
rules. or you are not going to getany-
where," he continued- Urging farmers
to keep livestock on their farms, Mr.
a/larshall said "in the next few years
Ontario will have the best high clase
market for livestock in Canada." Twelity-five of these animals were
-• --�--released •at Adra nee years ago and
While digging the foitpdation of a their numbers have inereased to 90.
new house, workmen recently lie They bave divided into herds, one of
60, and the other 80 animals.
Game wardens have recommended
•thta the elks be corralled and shipped
(London),
to some point away from the or'cliard
districts.
hera seems to be so introit differ -
All Flail the New Senator!
CANADA'S WOMANitOOD 1tONOREO
The photograph here shows Mrs. Norman F, Wilson of Ottawa, whose,
appointment to a seat in the Canadian Senate has fast been announced by'
Premier Mackenzie King, Mrs. W l'son, who is' the mother of eight children,
Is not only the first woman to be appointed to the Canadian Senate, but ebe
is the first woman to enter the Upper House on the North •American contin-
ent and the British Empire. Photograph by John Powis, Ottawa.
Canada to Expend
$329,000,000
On Power
The quickening of production in
practically all lines of industry is cen-
sidered by economists to be largely
due to an increased supply of power
and a widening of its uses. Special
significance therefore attaches to the
fact that -with undertakings brought
into operation last year and with those
wsniffled
are either under active con-
struction or are being sed for ear-
ly development, a steadily increasing
flow of low-cost hydra -electric power
is assured for Canadian industrial en-
terprises'tor some years.
The total capacity of new water-
power installations brought into opera-
tion' daring 1929 amounts to 878,400
horsepower, bringing the total instal-
lation for Canada to 5,727,600 horse-
power. There . are several important
undertakings under construction which
will add more than 1,600,000 horse-
power to this total during the next
three years.
The total amount of capital involved
in the development, transmission and
distribution of the new power develop-
ed In 1929 amounted to more than
$75,000,000 while not less than' $320,-
000,000 will be required to complete
the undertakings planned for the nest
throe years.
During 1929 Quebec took the lead in
works completed and the same is true
of the works at present under con-
struceion, but important programs are
also under way in practically all the
other provinces. In Ontario theh Hy-
dro -electric Power Commission come
charge of the detachment, Dieted a 2200 horsepower development
Youthful members of the force, be- on fire South Muskoka River; one of
tween 23 and 20 years of age, have 1800 horsepower. on the South River,
been chosen for general smartness and one of 5000 horsepower on the
and riding ability. All are 'expert English River. Work was also ad -
eiders. They are now in the course of _
long weeks of training in Regina.
Sometimes the weather sinks 30 de-
grees or more below zero. At any
tinre.they ride in the teeth of bitterly
gales. Their horses, save tour, were
bred in the East, and are all young,
being from five to six years 015, The
training, at present, confined to daily
morning drives on long reins, followed
later by driving under riders, will
gradually become more intensive and
varied so that when the detachment
makes its appearance at the show
from June 18 to 28, inclusive, it will
present a program of horsemanship,
including Roman riding, musical rides,
vaulting and drills. It will be the fleet
time since 1911, that Royal Canadian
Mounted Police have taken part in
an overseas function.
On that last occasion more than 80
riders were a part of the ceremonies
atteudent upon the coronation of King
reatia'ir alas Major l p3AOM i $iding-
master in charge of tem., .. °mina
vanced on the 54,000 horsepower de-
velopment on the Niagara River, and
on the 54,000 horsepower development
an the Nipigon River; on the installa-
tion of a tenth unit of 58,000 horse-
power in the Queenston station on
the Niagara River, and on the dupli-
cation of the 220.000 -volt transmission
line bringing Gatineau River power to
Toronto. The commission also tools
horsepower • nder coniraet from vara
008 companie".
In Northern Ontario the Interna-
tional Nickel Company of Canada comm
.pleted its 28,200 horsepower develop-
ment on the Spanish River and the
Algoma Power Company brought into
operation sinew plant on the Miclripi-
coteu River with an initial installa-
tion of 11,000 horsepower.
Elks Damaging B.0 ; Orchards
Penticton, B.C. — British Columbia
fruit farmers are complaining regard-
ing damage being done to young fruit
trees by about 90 elks,
earthed a skeleton with every bone
Broken. Tb ere was no sign of the
referea'a. whistle, however'.—The Hu-
morist (L
bike of opinion about the Nobel
Peace Prize this year that it may not The price of silver has fallen to Inc
Ore awarded, at al]; Why not let the lowest point in history. This would)
two' leading candidates fight for lt?— be a good time, to have your clouds
New York Evening Post. /relined. The New Yorker.
Rom -Runner Is
Eluding Police
Believed Silver Plane Carries
Liquor from Winnipeg
to North Dakota
Winnipeg, -= Deports have reached
here from Pembina, North Dakota,
that another aerial rum -runner, has, en-
gaged in the traffic in liquor between
Manitoba and the United States.
The silver plane which was report-
ed to have made use of Winnipeg fly-
ing fields in October last has, reports
say, been seen again, but this time it
has not ventured to the city,
The Pembina story is to the effect
that the plane landed there on Tues-
day about three miles outeide the
town. It came from Canada, Before
town officials could get to it the ma-
chine took to the air and; flew south-
erly.
At the same time an automobile was
seen to leave the planes side and con-
tinue on the road in the direction of
St. Paul. Examination of the field
where the plane landed showed that
boxes about the size of whiskey eases
had rested on the snow probably while
being transferred from the plane in
which, officers are inclined to think,
limier was brought from Canada, to
the automobile, which, if their theory
le correct took the cargo further to-
ward its destination.
Enquiries made in Winnipeg as to
whether the plane had been seen here
brought no information of value. No
person could be found who saw. From
the Manitoba Liquor Commission it
was learned that no large purchases
of liquor were made on that day, but
there were many transactions, all to
permit -holders, where single cases
were involved.
Most of the purchases have been
checked and still have their liquor
so it is doubtful if the plane's liquor
cargo, if that was its nature, was se-
cured berg.
"My dear, I want to speak to you
seriously "
"I probably deserve it, papa. I know
I have been neglecting the children
lately,"
"It isn't that, but aren't you neglect-
ing.your game of bridge?"
Statesmen in London ought to be
cautious, no doubt, but the discourage -
rout 0f some suggests they are deter-
mined to burn their bridges in Vont
of them.
Toronto to be Host to Huge Convention
PROGRAM COVER; READY FOR IUNE MEETING
Clemenceau's Book.
Dramatic, Violent
Late "Tiger of France" At-
tacks Foch, Pershing,Poin-
care and Lloyd George;
Germs of New War
Developing
Paris:—The first information obtain-
ed here on the contents of the late
Georges Clemenceau's book, "The
Grandeur and Disillusionment : of a'
Victory," which will be published
slontly by the "Tiger°e" family,
In this work; welch was written
during the last summer of his Life, the
former Premier relates in detail the
entry of American troops into the
World War, the last episodes of the
stru, thnthAs
and .the gglenegoesigfiatlonsing forof thee rmi
Versatice-
il
les treaty.
The book is said to be dramatic and
violent. With the ferocity which was
habitual with him, the "Tiger of
France" attacks Marshal Focb, Gen-
eral Pershing, Rene Viviani, Raymond
Poincare and David Lloyd George, and
gives vivid and sometimes ironical
portraits of President Wilson, Balfour,
Colonel House, Baron Sonnino and Ig-
nace Paderewski,
In Chapter IV., which is considered
the best of the whole volume, he tells
of the critical situatign of the Allied
armies at the moment' when the
American troops began to arrive in
France, Clemenceau implored Gen.
Pershing to send his troops to the
front as soon as possible to ell up the
gaps in the French and British armies
left by the last German attacks. But
Pershing, who considered that the
American soldiers were not yet ready
to go into battle, asked the French
Premier to give him time to train and
organize them. The slow arrival at
the front of the American troops, says
Clemenceau, cost many French lives,
and the Allies were near losing the
war in the Amiens -Ypres sector,
/�
Bad Strategist
Ancien t Trowel. The 'Tiger" declares in his book
Found in London etratetiet, although be Concedes that
that the late 'Marshal Foeb was a bad
Used by Roman Workman
Nearly 1,900 Years Ago
London—The great City of Lon-
diniain, which the Romans buil tai
strongly beside the Thames nearly
nineteen hundred years ago. has gone,
leaving scarcely a vestige of itself be-
hind,
The mighty wall, three miles Icing
and eight feet thick, with whieb they
surrounded it has faded away; so that
it seemed very strange one day last
week to pick up one of the very
trowels used by the Roman builders.
I1 is of good thick iron. The neck
curves back somewhat over the blade,
and rusted on to it is the ferrule
which prevented the handle from split-
ting when the three -inch -long tang
was driven into it.
Altogether it is remarkably Iike the
tool used for the same purpose to -day.
The, triangular blade is rather broader
in proportion to its length. That is
all the difference.
Tet there can be no doubt that it is
of Roman date. 'Workmen, making an
excavation on Fish Street -hill, near
London Bridge, had dug through a
layer of soil containing innumerable
fragments. of Roman pottery of the
second century A.D., and below this
they came upon the footings of a Ro-
man wall—just an ordinary house wall
about two feet thick. And among the
rubble beside it they found this brick-
layer's trowel,
Along with it were more pieces of
the Romans' favorite bright red crock-
ery, but of rather an earlier date than
that wbich was in the layer above.
For some of the scraps had the names
of their makers stamped upon Mem,
and they were those of potters who
are known to have been selling their
wares in the period A.D. 0 to A.D. 100.
Britain Faithful
In Promise to Jews
The Balfour declaration will stands
and the Jews may have' Palestine as to
home without waving a red flag.
These heartening words were
brought to the Zionist Organization of
America by Gen. Jan Christian ,smuts'
former Premier of South Africa, onel
of the surviving members of the Bri-
tish War Cabinet which issued the
famine declaration.
But General Smuts cautioned his
hearere that the policy was not con-
ceived in hostility to the Arabs, and;
reminded them that the document was
a limited declaration in that the Bri-
tish Government did not bind itself
to colectalt the Jews in the world and,
settle them 1n Palestine, but only to
provide °a national Some for those
Jews who desire to settle in the an-
cient home of their race.
The announcement of the South Af-
rican statesman was made at a lunch •
-
eon tendered him in New York by the
Zionist Organzation of America just
before his departure for England. TO
settle all doubts as to the continuation
of the policy set forth in the Declara-
tion, he said, as he is quoted in The
New Palestine` (Brooklyn): "As far as
I am concerned, as one of the original
projectors of this Declaration, and in
view of my knowledge of all that has
happened since, this document, this
promise, this pledge -the Balfour DO-
ciaration—will stand, and will be car -
Med out both in the letter and in the
spirit. But, he reminded his hearers:
"It was a limited declaration. ' The
words were very carefully chosen.
"We never promised that we would
undertake, or that the British Govern -
meet would undertake, to collect all
the Jewish people of the world and
place them in Palestine. We never ha
tended such an undertaking.
"All that was promised was that a
national home would be established
and would be secured in Palestine for
such of the Jewish people who want
to go there,"
No declaration was made against
the Arabs, said General Smuts. And
denying that Great Britain has broken
the eventual victory was in a large !ter pledge to the Scabs, Se pointed
part die to Foti'e ere:•_y HF :er•at,s out brat a new Arab 1 fugdani was
that nilly his per_onai inte_vu:1ol, treated at Damascus, and whet, that
saved "tire poor m ial" from le='rg "res cl a faiIare the Britislr Govern -
his command, 00t Pstablished another Arab king
President \Viison i, called "+,y ".is Com. It went further, he said. In
mera'.ea, In the tleeelath Chapter of Trarrsjordania it established what in
the book, a •„1-r,rsae y whose high '=deet amounted to an Aiab kingdom,
idea:I ni e' -Mal with European real- i in which Emir Ahdula reigns to•rlay.
isms and was reduced to nothing by General Smuts bnlfevee it possible to
the American statesman's lack ei harmonize the tnter'exts of both Jews
Political experience (and Crabs, twd I e intoi'med the Zion-
Clemenceau reveals that during the
last months of the war and during the
Aerated° period he was in constant
disagreement with Poincare, then
President of France, whom he accuses
of having ruined the victory, He por-
trays Lloyd George with much humor
and declares that after the Armistice
the Welsh Prime Minister became
France's enemy.
The last chapter's of "Grandeur and
Disillusionment' 'r re tinged with bit-
terness. Cie/nen eau admits at the
end that he wee ,'received in his hopes
that an ere r: peace would be the re-
sult of an World War. Ile dies, he
says, .,.th the fear that "to the accom-
paniment of the Geneva guitar" the
germs of new violence and new war
are being developedinthe world.
Canadians Need
•
Appl>ed Research
fists:
"We have undertaken to solve the
problems of other nations and ive are
going to tackle the problem of Jew
and Arab.
We are going to do it in a spirit of
goodwill under the mandate system,
under the supervision of the League
of Nations, which is goin gto be the
guiding authority in these matters."
General Smuts' announcement that
the vow made by the framers of the
Balfour Declaration will be kept, com-
ments The New Palestine, "may be
taken as a reassurance of its vitality
in the hearts and consciences of the
idealists who were its sponsors in the
early days." Similarly pleased, The
Jewish Tribune (New York) agrees
that "no more heartening words Goold
have come to the multitudes who hope
for the reestablishment of a Jewish
homeland in Palestine,' while The
American Hebrew (New York) coo -
eels peace with this:
"The sooner the calm and mistime -
five leadership of both peoples is ape
Dr.
Livingin Comfort pried m the solution of this human
problem, the speedier will the Pales -
at North Pole rine experiment, in which Arab and
St. Catharines, Ont.—''filen will be Jew must now participate, make sat -
able to lire in perfect comfort and "ftt,-".0i3' Peace."
health anywhere in Canada up to the
North Pole if research work now un- King Amanuiiah's
American Uneasiness
Ottawa.—The uneasiness which has
arisen in American business circles
following the Empire Free Trade cam-
paign is indicated by the fact that
business men are flooding Canada with
questionnaires on the subject. 'Fol-
lowing are typical examples.
What attitude do Canadian menu-
facturers' jobbers take in regard to
such a movement?
What is the attitude of Canadians
generally towards British -made goods?
Other things being equal would they
prefer to buy British goods rather
than American gods?
Why have not more British goods
been sold in, Canada up to the present
time?
How much weight does the senti-
mental factor carry?
Apart from speed of deliveryend
the existing influence of advertising
what factors favor United States
merchandise?
.What specife constructive antic
lams can you make of existing British
methods of trying to get business lit
Canada?
The problem of British v. American
goods on the Canadian market is in
faet being investigated from every
possible angle.
You may dependupon it that he ie,
a good man whose intimate friends
are all good, and whale elm:hies are
characters decidedly bad.--Levate
A home is a little -used hunch:€
that usually sends on the sante lot
3 Tanen
der way is successful, and there .s
every reason to believe it will be," Dr,
L. V. Redman, a graduate 'of Toronto
University, and now director of re-
search for the Bakelite industries of
America, told an audience in St. Cath.
arines recently. He stressed the fact
that what Canada needed most was
applied research.
"Canada needs fresh fruits toward
the end of the winter and in the early
spring. Recent discoveries in the
freezing of fish can be applied to 'fruit
and the fruit will be delivered here
and ,can be kept from one to six
months with the same freshness that
it had when it was originally picked,"
Mr. Holman said.
"Canada has problems .n agricul-
ture. There is no reason to think
that we cannot produce plants hardy
enough to produce as much np at the
75th parallel as is now grown at the
40th,"
Return Predicted
Deposed Ruler's Reform
Work Still Seen in
Afghanistan
"Seer YorkThe predictiou that the
western reforms that cost King Ama-
nullah his crown would return to Ar-
ghanistan to stay, was mado by Sirdar
Muhammad Yams Khan, recently re-
signed Charge d'Affaires of the Af-
ghan legation in Loudon.
Moreover, he said in an interview
with the Associated Press, "I feel sure
that 100 years hence a monument will
be erected at Kabul, the capital, to
Ring Amanullalr to commemorate his
patriotism and great reforms, fon;
which my countrymen were, perhaps,
at the time of their introduction, not
quite prepared.
"But Ming Amannllah's great work
in Afghanistan can stili be seen there,
and no Government in Afghanistan
can afford to ignore altogether some,
of those reforms."
He blamed the "priestly classes,'"P
-alio, he said, were "extremely ignor'
ant" of their own religion, for the
failure of Anranullah's work.
Rocket planes which can go 3,(500.
utiles an hour are talked about; 'we
.:re making up a list of friends whom
we should like to see travel that 0 yi
C'ncinnati Tim es•Star.
The Old pian So vare titO pi
;,1 son and are nine hone eh?'' l Forty volumes of missing ',ewe
-ul(p0se your either ..ill kill the fat- have been Sound' in Siam:; It seetee
ltd calf," that the 'Orient has more than its
The i (ur ; A r Y ht vac .et-- > I Flume of national (lila° ters.-Fiereeci?
with the gttrrge. .r:r-:(:
Union. Link r ve baric .,.e rale i teas.)--a:•ald,