The Seaforth News, 1930-11-20, Page 7Airship Building .,abandoned
In England, Factory is Closed
A ,
London,—W.hatetc1, the outcome .of November. Sir Dounistoun Burney,
bead of the company, explained the
station was closing because the coin-
pany had no orders for buildi,eg anti
he. had gm idea when, if ever, it would
be reopened:
The R-100 is at present laid up and
proposed alterations and enlarge-
ments have been indefinitely post -
August, is closing down at: the mita of polled,
'the inquiry into, the disaster to the.
giant airship 12.101, Britain will trot
build any mere airships. for a long
time to come.
The Howden airship station where
the Alrships Gaarautee Company:
built the R-109, -a visitor to Cenada'in
Plot and
Counter -Plot
He Wanted to Help Her—aid'This
Was the Only Way,
By Margaret Munro
Derek Peterson tote up the fourth
• sheet of paper and stared moodily ou
of the wisidow. To -day the idea tot
which be was groping would not comm
and all be had to show for two'bours
•of coneeutrated thought was tate torn
fragments in bis wastepaper -basket,
It was exasperating. The editor of
the "Majestic Magazine" had asket
hini for a sentimental story. The price
'would be good. Aud bore he was,
looking out front, his third floor back
room across a vista of Chelsea chim-
ney -pots, trying in vainto get inspira-
tion from the smoke.
What made it worse was that he
was feeling romantic. And the ro-
mance had begun at that very Window.
For exactly opposite -las than Sfteen.
yards" away—was another window.
Attd behind that window there lived a
girl. Ile had first .noticed her two
months before—a slim, golden -haired
child, frying sausages over a gas ring.
At twelve o'clock on a weekday morn-
ing. There can be only one explana-
tion when a business girt living in one
back room does such a thing at such.
an hour -she must be unemployed.
That fact had aroused his interest.
It seemed so unfair that a slip of agirl
like that should have to elbow and
Push her Way through the crowds of
other luckless ones In search of a job.
" He had watebed. The following
week he sew her again. blit the meal
was bread and cheese that time, A
fortnight later she Still pottered round
her room when she might have }Seen
'Working if Fortune had been 'Milder.
One morning Peterson sat near to
her iu the little restaurant :round the
corner that sold a three -course lunch
for 36c. He saw that her eyes were
bine as the skies, ho wrote about in
his stories. And he hoped that even
that modest meal meant •that the Ude
of ill -luck had changed. But apparent-
ly not. She still seemed to live half•
that day in. the little room opposite
his window—reading the' newspapers,
or, more likely, looking through. the
Advertisement columns in search of a.
job.
IIe Would have spoken to her, but
there was a proud tilt -to her chin that
warned him against such a course. If
times were hard, that chin seemed 10
be saying, the world shall never know,'
Perhaps bepause he was a weaver
of stories, With a vivid imagination,
Derek Peterson Pound the.occupant of
the third floor back at No. 17, Nevens
Crescent: lie had checked the number
of the house'.by Counting the •backs'
from the beginning' of the road --oc-
cupying more of his thoughts than ha
had ever given to a girl before.
When he first noticed this he tried
to forget her, but those two blob eyes
and the .slim figure in,tbe neat cos-'
tuiue (probably' her only one) as he
had first seen her at close quarters hi
the restaurant kept coning between
him and the paper on which he, wrote.
He gazed across the backyards
again. Perhaps there was a pita in
that fact. If he could invent a really
convincing excuse for calling, on her,
he could weave a story round it and
solve the burning problem of his life
at and the same tithe,
He began to write, hopleg that the
plot would unfold. But before many
lines had been Set down on paper he
tad stopped and was staring out of
the window again, For something
was happening in the third floor back'
of No, 17,,Nevens.Crescent. .
The girl had come in, perhaps to
000lt her lunch. She had her hat and
coat on. With her was 'a man who
seemed to tower over her fragile pret-
tiness like some ogre, ,
And the mau was threatening her,
He was walking up and down the room
—two steps in each direction. And
every time he' turned he would stop
and rave at her, Peterson could not
'hear anything that was said,: of course,
• but he could see his gestures, He saw,
too, the proud, quiet restraint of the
girl in the face of this attack.
' She stood her guard—she answered
bask, Finally, she opened the 'door•,.
sent the, man off; and immediately dis-
appeared from Peterson's view, with
the exception of one white hand that
hung limply just in his line of vision.
From which he judged she had flung
• herself on the bed and was crying, or.
'past caring,
For one wild momenthe thought of
lasing round to comfort her—to tell
her that he loved her. It was all so
clear. She had come to the end of ht'
resources and had got into debt, The
big man who bullied her was'a debt'
collector, It mattered nothing to hilt
that the girl hadn't a friend in the
world,
Peterson citeclted the impulse iu
time, lie know without beingtold
that she was too Proud to accept the
help of a strange titan, ,lie nest de•
-
vise some 'indirect means of helping
If only— And at that moment the'
plot came, :The first two chapters
showed a girls'' unequal struggle in an
ovorerowded' city. Tete .dlst)p:perance
penny by penny—of fill pathetically:
small savings, as she trudged the
streets, looking for, work. . Tlntif the
black day when her landlord said
"Get out!" Then. came the scene he
had just witnessed: The b:lilying
plan—the proud courage of the girl
in the fact of this new blow, Her be-
lief, even be that black hour, that her
luck would change.
At that point the plot entered the
realm of fiction. Across the road,
overlooking her window, lived tem-
porarily a film producer wito was look-
ing for life." Tired of studio pup-
pets, he had."disappeared" into Lon-
don's millions to discover heart-
throbs. •
The beauty of the girl—her courage
la the face of despair—made him
crazy with delight. Here was the pee'
Star for which he was looking—the
new Greta Garbo. Superb, dignified
beauty. The sort that would walk to
the guillotine with head held high.
Ile raced round, interviewed' the -girl,
and site signed a contract there and
then which meant an eud to pinching
and scrapiug.
The plot was- a winner. Peterson
knew instructively' that, with the feol-
lug he would put auto it, it would be
one of the stories of his life. Then he
came to earth.. How did that help the
girl? For something must be done,
and quickly. It wouldn't be fair to
maize money out of her misfortune
arid leave tier to starve. It wouldn't
do: -to lose thelespiration of that se-
date little .golden -haired figure. In
fact, if he lost her' he telt he would.
never write a• story again.
Why not send hes-, anonymously, the
money that, he would receive for the
story? The' idea appealed to him. He
had .drawn' some. money from'the bank
that morning. He put a sheet of;
paper .in his typewriter int: wrote
"To' repay you." That was all. It
might have come trout anyone. She
would have ,no duaims about keeping
the money if she felt that someone
whom she or even her family had
benefited had -chosen that method of•
repaying generosity.
He ,placed $59 aud the slip of Paper
In an envelope, aud took it round to
No. ] 7 in the next street.
The landlady, who opened the door,
seemed a motherly soul—hardly the
sort to throw a. lonely girl out. But
you never can tell,.:
"Will you please :give this to the.
young'iady in your third floor baek?
It's a message front' a friend of here,"
he said. .
1 t *as dark when he return d to his
room. To -morrow he would write the
story, 'aud to -eight site. ;could sleep•
free from immediate worries, It had
all fitted in verywell.
Iia glanced out of the winders. Her
room was in aerkliess. , Probably she
was out—celebrating her good• for-
tune. He wondered when and how he
would get to know her.
At. ninelitiity neat: morning his
landlady .informed him that Mies < Pa
trleia Snell wi'siied to see ]tint.
"Saud her up,;' he said, thinking it.
was someone with proofs. A minute
later elle carne into the room'with a
deflant air and •uptilted chin,
IIe. had ghosted she was 'tile sort
of girl who alwayswent straight to
the poiut, ' She was.
"You sent me $50 yesterday after-
noon, Mr: er—"
"Peterson,' he said, wishing a. trap,
door could open and remove "him
bodily from the gaze of those eyes.
"Mr, Peterson, may Rask why T was
chosen as the object of your charity?
I teas not aware that you owed me 'any
money."
Ile capitulated without an effort,
It 'was hopeless to do otherwise.
"No, Miss Snell,' 'he aliswered, "But
—well, from this room I can see your
room. And after yesterday ytorniug
you know What I mean—I badly want-
ed
aneed to help you. We are neighbors, You
know. It seemed suck hard luck after
all your efforts. And I couldn't think
of .any ether way of helping you.
That's all. I didn't mean any •lrarnt—
really I didn't," "
"I suppose not," said Miss sues.
Hei' voice was different softer, And
was. it imagination that the eyes were
looking at him more kindly? "But
what do you mean by 'all my efforts'?"
"To get work," Peterson. said, uu
hapitily conscious of eavesdroppitg.
"You see, during weak dans thera are
only the, two of us in the' two roads. 'I
write. You don't seem to do anything
at home -forgive, me, but I cannot
help noticing that 700 are often In
your room over there—so it was obvi-
ous that you were unemployed,. And
you 'matte earned that money, because
Boeing you about Inspired me to write
a story. So do please keep it, I pro-
mise not to worry you again,
Seoiug that you are a writai'," sloe'
said, "it 15 strange it ;hover occurred
to you that 0 might be an actress"
Ford in .ii•o,gland.
During his recent t-isit to .England, FIenry Ford visited Premier Ramsay MacDonald at 10 Downing St. IIe
is seen with Alastair MacDonald, .prime minister's son, after hie interview- in London.
i;eter'son felt himself growing red;
he began to realizethat he was an
Outsize in fools. Yet it had all seemed
so clear. But she did notspare thin,
"It was father you saw in my room.
He's a real• dear, but terribly old-
fashioned. He objects to my, going o21
the stage. Ito objects to my living
alone in London—even thbtigll Mrs.
Prosser, my landlady, is an old cook
of ours. And when Mrs. Prosser'
Wrote; telling Win. that I was cooking.
my own lunches, he came up in a
towering rage, 1 had to promise to'go
'home for the week -End to get rid of
him:"
Peterson laughed grimly. IIO' ltad
made a '.pretty fool or himself, ° and
with the one girl who utattered. Talk
about imagination!
"111y plot seems to bare .been a bit
.out all round," he said at last,not dar-
ing to look up.
"On the :contrary, 'I think your Plot
was rather sweet and, very sym-
.pathetic,' she answered„ placing $50-
on the table. "Aad, as usually hap-
pens, the plot that counts is the one
taken from real life."
A soft, white hand stole across his
for an.iustaut and was gone again.
"0 wanted to find ottt'why you did
it," she said, and 'her voice now was
musical and soft, "Now I know I
think it was -Perfectly wonderful of
you. So woudeeful that rd lilts my
father to thank you -if only to let him
see how nicely I'm looked after when
I'm alone in Loudon. Then he won't
insist on my leaving the stage ay
more.."
Her father didn't, But Derek did—
just six months later, And, strange
to relate, Patricia did not tilt her
proud little chin and refuse. on, the
contrary, she said "It you wish" very
Sweetly, and kissed him again,
Which was . was all in the plot,
Answers:
An Gid Canadian Industry
:Canada's eel fishery is an old 'Indus. -
try, B)rgrly explorers'mad_e reference
to the importance of the eel fishery
carried on bY the Indians.
Coste is Decorated
In Legion of Honor
Paris—Dfendonne Costa and Maur-
ice.Beilbnte, home froth their trans-
Atlantic flying adventure, came in
triumph to Paris November 1st where,
in spite of bursts of rain,- wind and
occasidhal thunderclaps, thousands
lined . the streets to shout themselves
hoarse in welcome.
The filers went to Elysee Palace,
where President Doamergae, Premier
Tardieu and other members of the
-Go' verunlent tendered official greet-
ings. The President decorated titers.
With their recently granted pronto -
tions ill the Legion of honor. Vast
crowds milled about Elysee Palace.
Paris—Tile. Preach Gstveritttteut an-
nounced that desiring to associate
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, for hie
epochal trans-Atlantic flight, with the
triumphal return of Diettdoniie Coste
and Maurice Bellonte, it has promul-
gated a decree ,promoting Lindbergh
to the grade of Commander iu the
Legion of Honor.
Rural Buyers Want
Canadian Goods
Imported Products Being. Re-
placed, Department Of-
ficial Says
Canadian goods are replacing im-
ported products in the average town
and village store in Ontario as a result
of rural residents demanding home
grown and manafaetured produots,
G. A. Putnam, of, elle Ontario depart-
ment
epartment of agrieuitare, and advisor and
euuncelior to the Women's Institutes,
stated reoeutiy in an interview.
"Stocks in country and town stores
have taken ou a new aspect," said
Mr. Pulham, "The Canadian article
is replacing the imported, particular-
ly in those sections where there are
branches of two Women's Institute.
Country wonteu have a downright way
of doing things when they pass resolu-
tions and they support them with ac-
tion. Women's Institutes have passed
resolntions commending Canadian pro-
ducts to the community and mer-
chants anti clerks are learning a lot
of things about Canada and her pro-
ducts.
"MIereltants are studying geography
and bawds," continued Mi'. Putnam.
"They are finding out that their cus-
tomers who tell theta they prefer
Canadian products are not only senti-
mentally patriotic but shrewdly wise.
Behind the label is quality and value."
Nelson Column Grown
Over 14 Feet in 90 Years
London—The Nelson column in Tra-
falgar Square has "grown" 14 feet 4
• inches in the 90 years it has been
erected.
This discovery was made by a
steeplejack named La.rklu who cont -
pared its height with the official rec•
ords in tite offices of works.
No official explanation has been
'forthcoming, Meanwhile the Govern-
»teut etas ordered scientific measuro-
utents'to be taken to find out what 18
wrong with the fatuous London land-
mark,
Bush Blooms Three Times
Canon City, Cato,—A suowball bush,
blooming for the third time this year,
was discovered on the grounds of the
Southern Colorado Power Company
Plaut here. Even a second bloom-
ing of a snowball 'bush is considered
unusual by horticulturists.
Hen Beats World Record
Vancouver—Hen No. 6, a British
Columbia White Leghorn, the prop-
erty of William 'Whiting of Port Belie,
passed tete world's record recently for
production when it laid its 353rd egg
In as many days. This hen comes
front the famous University of British
Columbia stock, and teas bred by
Whiting.
Many a trhe word 1s spoken when
wo women quarrel.
Russia's . B g Guns
Long range guns on.
.Bait c; which is aaick to
France Holds Gold
In Veritable Fort
Paris Has Largest Stock of
Yellow • Metal ios
Europe
Parise -Entrenched is casements
stronger than the Verdun forts, looked
up in "a frame of steel, water and rook,
lies buried deep in the middle of Paris
the gold bullion of France. It is the
largest stock of yellow metal 0n
Europe. In the latest weekly report
France's total gold was figured at
$1,030,00,000. But almost every day
brings to the vaults of the Bank of
Femme new barrels loaded with gold,
and this total dotlitless exceeds $2,-
000,000,000,
It 'would be no exaggeration to say
that the Bank or France keeps its.
golds in a fortress. Bombs thrown on
Paris from au airplane would never
Pass through the armour which pro-
tects the cellars, aud in case of a
revolution 1,000 men, soldiers aud,
bank a if ?loyes would be in a position
to stand au underground Beige of at.
least a mouth. Livery dauger ' which
might threaten the stock of gold has
been foreseen and avoided by the en-
gineers who some years ago built the
raults, They are buried under to long trsus0l'a, especially twist of
ninety -sax feet of compact rock, flannel, on the fairways.
Underneath and around them flows The Necktie Situation
the tamed stream of the subterran_ With the :'gild approach of Christ -
can river of the Grande Batelleee, mas, the necktie situatio
whIell the engineers found on that glance. Manufacturers ci cravats are
spot when they began to dig. They
decided to use it as a meant of de-
fense against possible undermining
of the cellars. The water has been
drained in a intricate system of
canals that surrounds the waterproof
walls.
The access to the vaults reminds of
the defense organization of a fort.
The doors or steel and cement weigh
eight tons each, and a mere twist of
a handle is sufficient to block them
with au additional weight of 'twelve
tons. Titere is a turret A and a tur-
ret B, a well with a winding staircase near the r' "It hand pocket.
aud lifts and long corridors built on. The "Broadway ty n"»" of tnan, will
the, principle which had been adopted wear sults of pale green anti bottle
during the war for the digging of gt'eP" Both this Winter atilt next
trendies. Even if a shell conid pent•, S2rin4. —�
trate through the roof of rock, it
would be stopped from exploding 011
a large surface by the thick street Prosperity Needed
walls Hutt form the angles of theOr World Peace
passages.
Officials of the bailie who show the
vaults, give to urre s and doors
Bur -
Hues or defense" International Labor Bur-
if a riot should occur in Paris to- eau Contributes
morrow, the Iluuk of Frame would be Intelligence and a reasonable stand -
state
ta posisieg to go existimmanyely on a and of living were the soundest fours•
of
ath ofr siege and several
s. In dations of world peace, Harald B. Bat
Ie site an as far several. weeks. e ler, deputy director of the Interim
less than a half-houb all the n the tional Labor Office at Geneva, told
and managerswhewould be down is the members of the Women's Canadian
vaults, where desks and uipess stone Club at a recent meeting in Toronto.
ready for [hent. Sixty dispersed
whose Peace tuns brought about by civilize.
outer ends areh di t would
sled hidden tion, and civilization by inteitigence
so carefully that it would be unlikely aud higher standards of living, Mr.
for the besiegers to discover them, Butler contended. When the ald to
would supply fresh air, Electrical cictlization, prosperity, crumbled,
hearing =chilies, Metalled in the peace was shattered.
cellar's and entirely independent of There is no phare without social
the heating apparatus of the upper justice," Air. Butler said as he review -
buildings, would keep the temperature ed the reforms brought about by the
ata pleasant degree, In a lxtlf-ninute international Labor Bureau at Geneva.
the dynamos of the vaults would pro- Similarly there is no social justice
duce enough energy to supply light, without peace, because you cannot im-
prove standards of living and provide
for the education of children, giving
thein the physical and mental develop -
Men's Fashions Now
Undergoing Change
Waistline of Trousers to Rest
at Floating Ribs, is, Ex-
perts' Dictum
New York—Many interesting things
are brewing in the high-flown world
of men's wear, including what appears
to be a return to candy -stripe shirts,
which were worn promiscuously to
that era when necktie . knots. looked'
like frankfurters.
A. survey of the leading men's cloth-
ing houses in this city has else re-
vealed that the fashion experts have
practically made up their minds about
trousers. The wafetltae of a stylish
pair of pants is to rest defluitely at
the floating ribs rather than et the
hips. Genuses, it seems, are here to
stay.
Thesuit people, in exploiting their
new lumbers, have hit epona steam-
ing descriptive line for the jacket,
"The jacket," they say, "has those
wide, puffed Tluies Square shoulders
and a waist that hugs tate lAdyr• With a.
Vile"
Various style arbiters see the de•
clime and fall of knickers on the gtlf
course. Golfers are rapidly taking'
not going in for expensive stuff tale
year. Top price for neckties will be
around $u, it is prelicted, with e p:e
ponderantce of $1 and 75 cent ties.
People who buy Christmas neckties
do so simply as a gesture, :one student
of styles said, attd would just as soon
pay 51 as $3 or $5—would rather. pay
a lesser sum, in fact, this year.
The trend in Pajamae is tower;: the
Chinese an' Russian metals. Au•
ether new wri,lkte .10 the monogram,
done in silk, for the trousers. 'rbe
monogram usually goes on the side,
1 i tl t t a i tits
military name of "first and second Geneva Leader Shows How
heat and air.
Provisions Received Daily
The feeding of the defenders of the
vaults, itt Case of emergency has been i]leltt t1L$y ;squire ag human beings
fully provided for. The kitchens are unless the World is in a prosilerolls
ready to cook at any nlatuoht enough eanditron,
food for at Ieast 1,000 persons and „Tire world is not made prosperous
stocks of provisions are renewed by war. The last wag almost smashed
ovate day, There are down in the civilization. and the text certainly
cellars cupboards filled with plates,
dishes, forks, knives and spoons,
Huge saucepans aud caldrons worked
by etectricat power await the soup aud
stew, Not the tiniest detail has been
omitted.
Hunting Ducks
It was the duty of every citizen to
give his or her support to the League
of Nations, bir. Butler contended, and
he urged that a keen interest be .given
by every country to the part played
by its delegates in the international
conferences.
Give me a gun and souls old marelt, Not "Red" Work
And the rvhistle of wild ducks' The International Labor Bureau had
wings, nothing whatever to do with Mos-
1Vhen the mar of my shotgun wakes con•,' Mr. Butler explained w"ith a
tete morn smile. it was really the labor section
And a hundred flying things.
of the League of Nations and its pur-
pose was to improve social conditions
throughout the countries it represent-
ed. 11 was supported by 55 Govern-
ments, Canada's contribution of $55,-
000 averaging about halt a centfor'
every citizen.
11 represented Governments, employ-
ers and workers, each country send-
ing two Government representatives,
one representative for ebel8$'ers and
one for Workers to the conferences,
Among outstanding achievements ed
the bureau had been the abolition of
child labor and women night workers.
It had also brought about stylet ob-
servance of a seventh day of rest 3a
countries where amide), was not rd=
cognized,
In id countries employment of child-
ren under 14 years of age 'was pro- .
hibited, and in India the minimum
age of workers was placed at 12 since,
it was believed, 12 years iu the short-
er life of Indlaus was equal to 14 la
.western countries.
The mull hens patter across the pond,
Aud the teal come whizzing in,
And the greenhead jumps from the
grass beyond,.
And the hunters all begin.
With a pop. pop here, and a bang,
bang there,
The opening season's sign,
And the next duck cornea front we
know,notwhere,
Across the gray sky-lla0
Aud we judge the speed and the pro-
per lead,
As only a hunter can.
There's honor, too, and a comradeship
Among the limiter clan.
There's a swapping yarns and a friend-
ly tilt
And h meeting of man to man.
So give me a gun and some old marsh,
And the whistle of wild ducks'
Wings,
When the roar of niy shotgun wakes
the inor•n
And a hundred flying things.
—S. W. Dixon.
Canadian Newsprint Output
Nearly Twice That of U.S, • had just two holidays a month for. its
Canadian production of news.print working people, he said.
in 1929 totalled 2,729,000 tons, 0r near-
lY twice the amount produced by the
one of Red Russia's sea dogs 00 war, seem dieing reeeut mauoeuvrea, presumably is tits: -Dominions Dearest competitor, the
be causing feeling of uneasiness throughout Europe. i United States.
For the benefit of lion -Christian
countries where each seventh day was
not observed as a day of rest, the
bureau had ineistocl upon its-becoura
ing a holiday for worker's, he pointed
out. Before this legislation Japan
A: 'What does a wife want
home?"
Bs "Only her own was."
un