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The Seaforth News, 1930-12-04, Page 15Prince of Wales Acknowledged Leading Royal Pilot of World London,—The Prince of Wales was hailed as the leading royal air pilot Of the world recently atter he had flown iaore than 200 miles and handled the controls of two machines within three and one-half hours. In addition to piloting the German flying boat DO -X for 10 minutes over 3alshot on November 12th, the Prince flew au amphibian plane from Hendon airdrome to'Calshot and return, There were eight passengers aboard. The size of the DO -X, largest hetvv lerhhan•air machine in the world, .ob- viously impressed the prince. When he returned to the amphibian 'after fly- ing lying in the giant German raachine, the Prince looked at the ordinary sized plane and exclaimed: "Good heavens! She's shrunk!" Norway Recognizes Arctic as Canada's Friendly Note Removes Only. Ground for Dispute Over Archipelago Ottawa -The Goverment of Norway has formally recognized the Canadian title to the Arctic islands commonly known as the Sverdrup group, com- prising Axel Melberg, Ellef . Ringnes, Around Ringnes ancl Xing Christian. This friendly action on the, part of the Norwegian Government removes the only possible ground of dispute as to :Canadian sovereignty in the whole Arctic sector north of the Canadian mainland.. ' Announcement that Norway has given formal recognition to the Can- adian title of these Northern islands was made recently by Sir George Per- ley, enley, Acting Prime Minister. The islands in.question were discov- ered and explored in the years 1898- 1902 by Commander Otto Sverdrup, / leader of the Norwegian polar expedi- tion, in the Pram. 850MilesBeyond "Circle" Axel Heiberg, the largest of the four islands, is situated approximate- Ty 850 miles north of the Arctic circle, and is one of the furthest northern island in the Canadian archipelago. It is about 250 miles long and 100 miles trade. The other islandsare smaller in size. The statement given says: "In the s' ring of 1900 Commander Sverdrup took possession of the islands •in the name: of his Sovereign, but no further act of occupation took place. The Dominion of Canada has long claimed sovereignty over the entire area north of . the mainland. ' On July 31, 1920, the rights acquired by Great Britain in this area were transferred to Can - oda by Order -In -Council providing that all British territories and possessions in North America and islands adjacent to such territorios and possessions which are not already included in the Dominion of Canada, shall, with the exception of Newfoundland and its de- pendencies, be annexed to and form part of the said Dominion: The title thus based on the geographical contiguity and Drttsh discovery and exploration was completed by effec- tive occupation and administration. All LandClaimed "The Canadian Arctic sector has been indicated on official maps and 'defined in official statements, notably lby the Minister of the Interior in the House of Commons in June, 1925. The ®raps and public statements indicated that Canada claims all the territory. north of the Canadian mainland in the sector lying between meridians $0 and 141. "In view of the conflicting claims in the Sverdrup Islands area, the mat- ter was made the subject of discus- cion between the 'Norwegian and Can- adian Governments. A definite set- tlement of the issue has been form- ally expressed an exchange of notes !which teas effected in London and Asks." The administrative activities of the Canadian Government in its Arctic territories are extensive and continu- ous. The territories, the total area. Sof which represents 1,309,652 square stiles, are administered under the Minister of the Interior, Hot.'Thomas G. laurphy, Grant to Sverdrup Canada liquidated,' an obligation. when, according to an announcement by .Hon. Gideon Robertson, Acting Minister of the Interior, the sum of $87,000 ws paid to Commander O. T. Sverdrup, famous Not-wogian explor, 'er, in return for the services rende ed by him. in his explorations anddis- coveries" In the Arctic islands- By this sum the. Dominion also has pur- chased Sverclrnp's original maps, notes, diaries and. other documents relative to his expeditions. In his 'statement accompanying the announcement of the grant, Senator Robertson says; "The achievements of Commander Sverdrup in the furtherance,of Arctic exploration, from the time he accom paned Dr. Nansen in his voyage across 'Greenland, to his relief ex- pedition in the Arctic within recent years, and more particularly • his ex- ploration in the Axel Heiberg area, are familiar to Canadians. His great personality makes him one of the most highly regarded heroic adven- turers whom Norway has sent .forth." Huge Eagle Shot Near Milton, Ont. Milton, Ont.—Harry Hilson, •er.,. of Milton Heights, shot a copper head- ed eagle while hunting near the Mountain : at Speyside, in Esquesing township. The eagle's wings meas- ured seven feet from tip to tip, and its legs were fully as large as a man's wrist, and its claws as long and as thick as a man's fingers. It was capable of carrying a small child or a lamb between its feet. Three bul- lets from a 22 calibre ride were re- quired to kill the- eagle, which has been sent to Toronto to be mounted. It is the largest eagle ever seen in this district. ii "Dramatic action has swept many a man off his feet." Bird -Banding Records The Canadian official records of bird -banding returns, through which the migration of birds are traced and recorded, are kept in the National Parks of Canada Branch, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, STEPPING UP CANADA'S WATER POWER DEVELOPMENT stomata/lei a,000,aoo STILL FORGING AHEAD! In taking stook of Canada's position during the present period of world- wide economic difficulty, one of the most inspiring features is the fact that (ihhe Dominion's Water -power resources furnish a seemingly irrepressible &mpetus to national progress. In the face' of all the buffets of busine8S armies, water -power development continues to forge rapidly ahead. Since 1910 Canada's water -power Installation has risen from, less than One million to nearly six million horse-nowei The record ,of growth has been a mar'el of persistency. During the past twenty years, water=power development has maintained a sureness of advance, through all obstacles-- through bstacles—;through the prewar slump, through the disruption of the war itself, and through the drastic ups and downs of the last decade. And to -day, in the widst of world-wide: depression, there is being carried forward the. greatest Program of hydro -electric installation in the history of the Dominion. This ability of water -power development to hold its forward course in the face of recession in almost every other maim field is one of the most fortunate and, favorable factors affecting Canada's economic Position and progress, New "Speed Demon" New air -rail speed car which was tried out at Hanover, Germany, re- cently, attaining speed of 100 miles per hour. Airplane Beacon Used to Drive �Vaid l� owl Trots Fields of Rice 'Little Rock, Ark.—To safeguard the been lent by the General Electric rice crops of Grand Prairie from fu- Company for the experiments, is.eaid ture damage by the thousands of wild to be used successfully in the West fowl that arrive each fall while the by farmers for protection against harvest is under way, the Arkansas eoyotes. There the animals appear Power and Light Company will con- to fear the reel light more than ;be duct experiments with anairplane white. beacon on the farm of C. C. Cox, south Wild ducks and geese do the great - of Stuttgart, it became known recent- est damage to the rice crop. Poorly ly drained fields with large puddles of It is believed that the beacon will water near the harvested rice :neem afford protectiou from the wild fowl to be particularly alluring. The fowls from a distance of four to five miles attack the shocks viciously, pull the in each direction, enabling groups of •cap of the sheaves to pieces and then farmers to band together anti install strip the grain from the long heads and operate such tights at minimum of the bundles beneath. Thousands cost. Both white and red rays will of dollars worth of grain are destroy - be tested. The beacon, which has el in this manner annually, Japanese Leading Dual Existence Housewives Prefer Western Comfort—Grandmothers CIings to Old Tradi- tions Having chilblains is no fun, And the fact that you were wearing plc• turesque and romantic clothes when you caught the indisposition deer no- thing to relieve your diecomfort. And, finally, if the picturesque and roman- tic clothes are the cause of the trou- ble, you are likely to adopt less color - fur but warmer garb. It's reasoning such as the forego- ing oregoing that is responsible for the west- ernization of Japan, we judge as we read Albania Beard's new volume on "Realism in Romantic Japan" (Mac- millan). "Why do you do it?" hiss Beard used to ask her Nipponese friends sadly as she saw them discarding kimonos and sashes and houses of painted screens in favor of Occidental tweeds, serges, and thick, solid wails., And they would always reply that al- though the old-time Japanese gar- ments and houses are pretty to look at, they were not the most eonvenient things to live in. The ,arguments .would go on in this manner, with Orientals upholding Western ways, and an Occidental up- holding Eastern ways. Miss Beard would say; "Why do you want to give up your Japanese houses? They 'must be so easy to take care of and so informal to live in. Why -.do YOU wish to change the kimono? Nothing looks more comfortable. And then I would find myself con- fronted by a ,wholesale indictment of native domesticity, to which each wo- man contributed her favorite argu• anent. From. my window I had perhaps seen these women approaching -'down the Tatty street, and -thought with pleasure ,how like the prints were their slim, swaying figurer in the dls- Mance. As they 'hurried along, drag-- ging rag=ging their wooden sandals, their soak- ed skirts clung and flapped, and their long sieves liuscrolled in the wind. They clutched at the scarfs .about their necks, and tried -to shelter their bare heads behind big paper nnt- brellas. To au outlander, the pic- ture was gratifying. ' With plaints, however, they entered our' quarters, Their wet feet were cold. The wind hall sought all the loose edges; of sleeves and chilled then. The drenched skirts of theta robes would be hours adrying. And, before I could reassure then that, anyway, they had looked like the dream .of an artist,; they declared em- ghathicall y and un poetically that, above all things, they detested, having chilblains. At home, too, apparently, theywere. always ahiveringly conscious of win- ter cold. To keep warm, they knelt close to the brazier, huddling above a glow that scarcely heated finger-tips and gave out, besides, a noxious gas All vitality, they insisted, went into the effort of fighting chili; and the daylong shrinking toward the fire was not 'without a cramping effect upon the .mind. When I suggested a furnace, know- ing that these particular friends could well afford it, they objected that Jap- anese houses had no cellars; when I mentioned stoves, they answered: "Heat warps delicate wood and lac- quer. I•t has been tried again and again, always disastrously. Furni- ture unglues, cups chip, beams split, paper rolls ° up, family treasures wrinkle and crack." Winter, I murmured, would soon be over, and what could be jollier than a light Japanese dwelling in warm weather? "Ah," they sighed; "when .the waIis are open, flying insects dash in, beat - Mg against the paper -screens and lanterns. Reading at night is al- most linpossihle, and even sitting up is no pleasure." My enthusiasm for the picnic- character of the Home was not wholly dampened—"surely, they had the Nickname for New Princess, Ga>Id Production Margaret Rose, is Puzzle In Canada For' 1929 London.—The choice et an affection- ate nickname, or abbreviation of her own name, for the latest addition to .the royal family, Princess Margaret Rose, is puzzling the British public. When Princess Elizabeth, elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, was christened, she'immediate- ly became Princess Betty to the pub- lic, but the trouble in the case of her baby sister is that there are so many forms of "Margaret" to choose from;. Though Margaret is a Scottish name, it netonly has many abbrevia- tions in Scotland and England, but is also to be found all over Europe in one guise or another. Here are some of them: Margaret, Maggie, Marjory, -Mar- jorie, Margery, Marguerite; Margarita, Marguerite, Meg, Meg, Madge, Maisie, Margaretta:, Margeritta, Margherita, Marghditta, ;Peg, Peggie, and Mar, garetoben, from which, it is believed, is derived. Gretchen, Maggie is the favorite Scottish ab- breviation, and Madge or Peggie moat used -in England. It is expected that the baby Princess tivill he known as Princess Madge, There is historical, or literary, war- rant for all the above alternatives: The name is also well represented on the map, for there are Margaret Days, or lakes, or mountains as far apart as Canada and Australia and Abys- sinia and Antarctica, The outstanding cases in England are Margaret Bod- ing and Maragaretting, both in Essex; the first is derived .from St, Margaret and the second signifies "Margaret's Meadow." lightest housekeeping of any women in the civilized world?" "It takes the whole day," they pro- tested. "Our furniture is so low, we must forever be bending and stoop- ing. The woodwork which you like because it sem so plain acquires that satin sheen only through years of daily rubbing with slightly oily bath - water. "The 'paper walls you admire must be dusted with patters; our houses must be 'patted' clean every day, for we can not wash them, as you do win- dows; at long intervals. The mat- tings to be spotless for stockinged feet must be incessantly scrubbed; 'before parties we shine every bit of it three times. "And those bed-quilts—what anat-- dump labor to be forever rolling them away and hauling them out! Those sliding•doors. They can not be push- ed open, like yours. One must kneel, and with three fingers, just so, press them noiselessly along the grooves. "And the decorations in the domicil! They are never finished, as in West- ern houses; but must be attended to regularly, put up in boxes correctly labeled and "tied with brocade cords; thescrolls must be carefully rolled; and not even a great master of flower arrangement can achieve a correct design in a moment. We have no time for social life." • "But you all have servants," Miss Beard exclaimed, bewildered; "three or four at least, instead of just one or two as you might in the West." And in reply: "Slow and inefficient!" they wailed, as housewives all over the world have a habit of doing. "They never get through the daily tasks. And besides, so much of our housekeeping must, according to all tradition, be done by us. We are taught to look on it as a ritual, each act with a flawless form- ula; we' alone can tend the tokonoma, take care of the finest pottery. Children can make more noise and mischief in a Japanese house, un- ggestionably, than in any other. They can punch holes in paper walls, reach and upset anything left .on the low tables and shelves, and whenever they shriek it can be heard through thin partitions by the neighborhood. Watching them is an engrossing oc- cupation; women have acquired the habit of wearing the babies on their backs. even indoors.' to hush them. Contemporary men and women re- quire more quiet'' and privacy than their ancestors. Tile official, the writer, or the business man, who brings home his papers for evening work, is distracted by countless noises. and interruptions. Through flimsy walls is transmitted every cough, every flap of the duster. closing of a shutter cry of a tradesman, or patter of wooden shoes on stepping -stones. The babies bounce in, and find it very easy to clamber over a crouching father, and spill the ink on the foot - high desk. Of such incidents are modern Japanese stage comedies made.. Among the less affluent members of Japanese society there are difficul- ties in the way of adopting the more convenient Western ideas. But among the rich, of course, there Is no such trouble. If the rich "wish to entertain more, or be more com- fortable, they simply hide au archi- tect and build a complete foreign man- sion, send their' children abroad to learn the appropriate behavior, or hire tutors to teach them how to ac- quire it on 'the spot." Reading on: Impeccable were such of these homes as I saw; and their owners appeared wholly at ease in the new -environment, One nobleman had built .a great English country place, faithfully reproduced- from the ivy that.ciantbered overstonewalls to the velvety lawn, from the baronial hall with its oil -paintings to the Japanese servants who not only wore the livery of English butlers, but had somehow absorbed the exact, suavely bland ex- pression of their British prototypes. Another estate held a French chat- eau, where in a boudoir of rose, gilt, and crystal, on brocaded sofas, sat jeunes Biles, some in kimono and oth- ers in Paris frocks, dlscussing the poems of Paul Claudel. Yet another home was German from cellar to pointed roof and, of course,. provided with a mucid -room; while a fourth was a purely American domicil, with low bookcases and wide fireplace, roomy couches, and a sun -parlor look- ing out on a court where vigorous girls were laughing and playing ten-, It is in more modest circles, na-1 turally, that the hot debate over the) new home occurs. Thousands of business and professional men who spend the day in "down town" offices at night return to kimono and cush- ion; tens of thousands of university gild high-school boys and girls who were foreign dress to classes, sit oni benches or chairs, and- practise athle- tics, and kneeling on the floor at home positively painful; multitudes of mothers who want a more modern hygienic bringing-up for their chil- dren can not without sacrifice and struggle pay for much improvement. Some solve their difficulty by mov- ing to the new suburban "garden cities" and renting a concrete "for- eign -style" house, .A few semi - Japanese apartments have been re- cently erected in Tokyo with provi- sion for community laundry and cook- ing. Many persons add various arti- cles to their residences, regardless of esthetic principles; they hide a tele- phone behind a screen, put a lantern around the electric bulbs, conceal a phonograph near the tokonoma, spread rang over the chilly matting, or bold- ly install a wicker chair or two and a desk, in spite of the fact that they do look like mastodons iu the low- ceilinged room. "The foreign -style parlor," a room attached to the Japanese abode like a trailer to a motor -car, is the solu- tion preferred by ninny. Business men may entertain customers here; daugh- ter may practise on the piano and learn foreign etiquette in the right. surroundings; son may sit at a desk. for his studies. Sometimes the whole family prefers nils witg, while only grandmother remains faithful to the former apartments, Thus a very strange dual life is led. Before long, I decided that to live with one culture alone was distinctly monotonous. The jack of all trades is the dollar. Soccer on Horseback New form of soccer was introduced for the first time at the recent Berlin, Germany, horse show. It is called saddle -soccer and the feet of the riders are used to propel the ball along to the goal. Ontario Continues . to Lead( Provinces As Gold Producer ' Canada's gold production again ear tablishecl.a new high record in 1929, while in the first half of the present year - new high figure was also res corded. The gold production of 1929, according to finaliy revised official statistics, was 1,923,303 fine ounces, valued at 339,861,663. This compared, with an'output of 1,890,592 flue ounces in 1923, valued at $39,032,005. &'oa the first half of 1930. the output, ac- cording to preliminary figures, was 076,235 fine ounces, .with a value of 320,180,568, The Dominion is now giv- ing the United States a close run foal second position among the gold pro- ducing countries of the world, the in- eteasing Canadian output of recent years having steadily, narrowed the margin between these two countries. Ontario was the largest producer of gold among the provinces of Canada, last year, as it has been for a number of years, The production in this pro- vince in 1929 wasr1,622,267 fine ounces valued at 333,635,234. British Colum bia came second with 154,204 ounces worth $3,187,680, with Quebec third at 90,798 fine ounces, worth $1,876,961, Smaller quantities of gold were pro- duced in Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Al- berta and the Yukon, Ontario's Output In the first six months of the pre- sent year, Ontario produced nearly 86 • percent, of the total gold production of the Dominion. This province's out- put was 837,047 fine ounces, of wbich 420,421 ounces came from the Porcu- pine camp, 403,109 ounces from the Kirkland Lake camp, 5,382 ounces from other Ontario gold mines and 3,135 ounces from nickel -copper and silver+lead-zine mines. The Dome mine, in the Porcupine area, was not in production during the half year, but reported a small amount of gold recovered from the mill that was des troyed by fire on October IS, 1929. A new mill Is being built. On dune 19, 1930, announcement was macre that work would start at once on the con- struction of a new mill of 2,000 tons daily capacity at the McIntyre mine, Completion is expected by April, 1931; The method of ore treatment to be em- ployed is an adaptation of the flotation process worked out by the company's metallurgist- The Howey mine !n tits Red Lake district, of north-west Ontario came into production in April 00 ibis year.. Canada has been a gold producing country for over 70 years. The chief field in the early days was in British Columbia, when alluvial gold was lis - covered along the Thompson in the late 50's of last century. The famous Fraser gold rusk took place in 1858, The outstanding Canadian gold field at the close of the last century was the Yukon, where one of the greatest gold rushes in history took place. The large sole development of the indus- try in northern Ontario dates from 1912, when the first permanent camp was established in the Porcupine area. The first gold discovery in the Bark- land irkland Lake field was in 1911 on a claim now forming part of the Wright-Har- greaves rightHangreaves mine. Over half the world's gold now being produced comes from the t'nion of South Africa. The United States ranks second with 10.9 per cent. of the total output, while Canada is third with 9.6 per cent. The latest figures of world output are for 1928, when the production of the union of South Af- rica was 10,354,264 fine ounces, that of the United States 2.144,720 cameo and Canada 1,890,5592 ounces. In the eight years preceding the date just mentioned, there had been a decline of over 300,000 ounce in the production of the United States, while the r:•i,i :-- tion of Canada had increased 1•;* titan 1,000,000 ounces. Illinois Rock Yields \ Fornt Fossils of Silurian Age Fossils of worms, whim lived in tile Chicago area 390,000,000 tears ago in the Silurian age, have been .'orect- ed for the Field Masons of Natural History by Bryan Patterson, of the institution's department of geology. They are found in rock in a limited area along the Sag Canal about a nrile southwest of Blue Island, Illinois. "Worms, being soft -belied creatures, are comparatively rare as fo.esiis, and 1lenalIy the onlytraces of then] are their burrows and tracks," Mr. Patter- son saki. "To find them in abund- ance, pressed flat between layers of a sllaly reek and preserved as a thin sheet of carbonaceous matter, as was the case in this near -by Mimeo Ioral ity, is a rare thing." In addition to the worms, which were by far the most common fossils in the locality, a few associated fos- sils of annuals known as braehipods and graptelites were found. Dish Towels Three-quarteryard dish toweling Is enough for one towel. Hem ends, then . applique on small eups, plates, pitchers, or teapot, in contrasting plain colors. Holders to match are Pretty, and snake a good combing. tion for a gift to the housewife or hopeehester. 02 course, as many 'of eachmay he given in accordance' with you;' pocketbook. The trouble wail business is ilia it has too many prophets and nil. enough profits.