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The Seaforth News, 1933-03-16, Page 7'THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN. 1 3 I Duplicate Monthly y Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit e s r. , ledg white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. (Also best gtua'lity Metall (Ridged Sec- tional (Pos't lBinelens and 'Index, The Seaforth News Phone 84 I 1 S p u......annu,444,44m,ln.n�unualnimumlna•••••mtun......1p D. Hs Cannes fihiropi'actor Electro Therapist — :Massage 'O216ce — Commercial Hotel Hours—Mon. and ''Thurs. after- noons and by appointment FOOT CORREC'TIO'N by .manipulation-iSun-ray treat- ment !Phone 027. Founded in 1900 A Canadian Review of Reviews This weekly magazine offers a re- atarkable selection of articles and car- toons gathered from the latest issues of the leading British and American journals and reviews. 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'No one can understand the story of the 'Dominion without this handy reference baodcl:et—a story that is a .promising one, notwithstanding. any lowering ,df 'trade and industrial` curves•. "I sever ,rea4'tzed II knew iso little ab'or't my country un'tii IT react it, said a ,prdm'inent (leader. ICblpies may he had 4 om leading 'dealers•; or for 35 cents° a copy, '.o'r ith'ree copies: for a •dollar,'fro•m the 1Ceniedian.'F'acts: ,1111,030 tons, • e, ua c of 30,6n.) .! tons over ;J. A cod with n silver spoon en - raved "C. P. R." in its stomach t es caught recently e.t the f'.'h float, Port Alberni, D.C. The .,,-,nun probably fell overboard runt one of the company's coastal A trip that formerly tools two drys over rough trails is now done in 30 minutes by airplanes when fish from Northern Muni - tuba lakes are transported to rail head for distributlon all over Canada and the United State.:, One of the largest sailings of the cruise season wets recorded recently when the Entps'esi; of Australia sailed from New: York Ona Mediterranean cruise with a list of 400 passengers. Many so- cially prontin.ent Canadians were on. board. The National Sea Flea Hockey Club's tour of Europe overcame all hitches and sailed recently from Halifax by Canadian Paci- fic liner Montcalm. They are the Allan Cup holders and will play in London, Paris, Berlin and Prague. ' Twenty-six year old veteran of the northern British Columbia and Alaska route, the old Prin- cess Royal, once the pride of the Canadian Pacific's B.C. Coast Steamships fleet, has been sold out of the service to the Island Tug and Barge, Company. Edmonton's recapture or the Carnival Throne, the Edmonton Hustlers' triple victory in the ladies' hockey series, and spec- •taoular ski jumping by youngsters of 12 to 15 were the 'outstanding features of the Banff Winter Car- nival recently concluded. Miss Violet Davis, of Edmonton, was crowned the 1934 Queen. Canada's fifth annual midwin- ter golf tourney, over the spring- like fairways pring-like'fairways of the Oak Bay Vic- toria Colf links for the E. W. Beatty Trophy, started February 21 with an entry list of 75 men and 65 women. They came from England, Scotland, United States. British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces, Fish eaught in the sea fisher- ies of Canada in 1932 'totalled 711,917,800 pound's valued at Over $11,000,000. CT the total catch British Columbia aeconnled for 327,631,900 pounds; Nova Scotia, 194,708,800 pounds; New Bruns wick, 98,.594,800 pounds; Quo i e. 67,164,300 pounds and Prince e„! ward Island, .23,738,000 pound.+, The Place Viger Hotel, ;;font - real, centre for thirty -odd, years of the French-Canadian pmiltical, legal and social life of the Pro- vince of Quebec, bas been given a further lease of life under Can- adian Pacific direction until Co- tober 1. It was to have closed its doors permanently January 31, but many and powerful repre- sentations brought about thn respite. A record-breaking tide to^Or'•^;t the Rockies en their three -an special clipped tote' hours fr-ri the regular trot's c n'I lr.. r u, train scbodulc i i .v o Pacific Rail way ” tf,t.,,1., bt 1•'•v:' to be the fastest run over le• for the 505 mile; from i i "tvo., to Field recently. 'iThe tun, m,.'. for the Colbourne-:lanes Cont' playing "Too True to he '(ell I started four hours after the to'. lar train had left Vancouver r caught up with it at hell 'P'u'blis,hin'g 'Co„ 1588 'Huhn iStree , Toronto'. RADIO (CITY the past two years and who a!L;l,event- shrewdly observant of European le - A (malign Yate: seemsto lie in wart t natty ran for the nearest exit, Mr, havior, should see .that prestige lay 'for those who attempt to lend ,a haed!Rockefeller .will being to his lcanbrol largely with military success. The war of the industry as keen a demand for against China in (180(4 was .really a social •responsilbitity as .for iiud'ustrial triumph for the 'Wes'tern'izing ele- conrpetence. (He will try, we are sure, ments in Japan, ;Alft•er that, the last to discharge this new .power as a protests of mediaeval .feudalism died public trustee. within her •frontiers, (What 'will Mr, Rockefeller do with The war with 'Russia in 10034 did. the movies ? (Prop'h'ecy would ,be more than that: it taught Japan that i• she mi h beet foolish. That the will employ the best g t eat .the laVeet atits own `brains •to Ibe had can be taken 'for :game. Iht taught the powers that granted. That he will lay down e few Japan had to Ibe reckoned with, It high standard's of public relation- led to the naval treaties by which ship we (believe 'certain in the light the Japanese were drawn within the of his character. IB'ut as 'to the details tineas dF 'V✓'estern d ploma'cy, 'and u1- of 'his future program, we have no timately it led 'to the part played by desire to venture a guess. IO.ne thing, tJ'apan in the 'W'onid ,War "when as a however, we think will be ',true. Mr. great Power she had •the privilege Of IRoc'ke'feeler will have mo illusions as joining the immense 'catastrophe of to the condition .of 'this industry 'self-mutilation on sinal terms. with which he has, willy-nilly, inherited. the civilized estates ' of tEurope'' Qt is on the rocks. [It must, in the Nor has the •lesson ended"' there,. expressive language 'oaf 'I the financial Though today 'Europe may ;unite in pages, be "put through the wringer," grave disap'prebation o'f breaches of When it goes through the wringer international law 'com'mitted by Ja- an the''Manchuria Mr. ;Rockelfe'Ller will 'know that it P an affair was not •needis, if prosperity is to be restored, born yesterday, During •month after to 'have .wrung out ,of it far more than month .the Japanese, 'b4'ting (piece - certain' mistaken financial ,practices, meal at Jebel, and swearing fidelity, to the puppet state oaf .Manchukuo, to tale eatterp'ris•e•s .of the American moving' picture industry, An article in the current number or the'Forum tells of the way iia which 'the (big 'banking interests off New York, !having been tempted to ,fn.an'ce 'Hollywood during the boom days .o,119L8 w f tfnnd deep themselves in so d e that no t there 'is no 'Wray of getting out, although the, (hi tare shows no (Prospect exIceptt that of throwing more good .money after, bad, , It will be a along 'time before the churches will 'forget w'haat !ha'ppen'ed to the ;Federal 'council 'officers who were persuaded ,of .the i�ndestry's de- sire for their'"co,operation," And new Mr, John D, IRoackefeller, Jr„ having been induced to participate ' 'in •what looked' 'like nothing .more than a local build'i'ng enterprise, (is walking up to the realization„tlha't he has had a kink - rept industry dumped into his; d'apl it ,mu's't be a .dhsltre'sein'g extperi'ence for .Me. Roc'kdfelier, 'butt it :may turn out •to be a 'godsend for the public, ITlhe 'full story of Mr. 'Reckefe'14er's misadventures with 'Radio .City (has not yet,' been disclo'sed, and ,proba'b'ly never will be. The press is filled with rumors, and even .more sensational gossip is to .be heard in. financ'i'al 'cir- cles. JIt. is even whispered that (the huge ,bundling enterprise in New York has endangered the 'Rockefeller for- tune. We give ;no :credence to such rumors. (Elven should 'Radio City tun out Ito be a'batal and irretrievable loss the iRockeifelier fortune, .while reduc- ed in some degree, would .continue to be a total and 'irretrievable .loss the (Rockefeller fortune, while reduced in some degree, would ,continue to be one of 'the wonld's greatest. It is ,plain, however, that Mr, 'Rockefeller has 'b'e- come involved in a vetrture Se poorly ^conceived 'that, 'within a 'week after its public opening, the program in the theatres had to be abandoned while simultaneously 'Mr, Rockefeller, as lan'dlo'rd, found ,his rentals being paid in shares :of :e moving picture com- pany 'that has now gone into receiver- ship. Frani the viewpoint of the auditors of the 1Rookefeller estate, this must seem the worst time imaginable in which to get mixed up with the mov- ies. ('Unless, that is, the auditors are not .adverse to discovering items that can be written off against income tax charges). ,The whole motion picture industry seems ,to be intent on going broke as quickly and :unanimously as possible. 'A couple of weeks ago two of ;the largest 'companies, 'Paramount and' RICO—the orphan'left on Mr. Rockefeller's doo•rs'tep—went into re- ceiverships, while several of their sub- sidiaries were thrown into 'b nkrupt- cy, Other receiverships were immin- ent, Feverish negotiations, .seeking the .consolidation of several of the producing companies, are reported to be under way. But the market evi- detetly expects The entire industry to ,follow- the :Paramount and •RIK0 ex- ample, The public statements 'which 'aoe co.mpanied the two 'receiverships al- ready established 'blamed the collapse largely on the 'c'hain-theatre system. IParamoun't-Fublix has .had 'about 1500 local theatres on its string; 1RIK'O about 300, The movie magnates built up these 'chains on the theory 'that they could thus control every ,phase DI the industry, from the making of the picture to its showing to the pub- lic and on terms whioh would pre - etude any local "in'teeference” with the plans of Hollywood. (Between owning the !largest theatres (them- selves and en'fo'rcing bllockebooking. on all the Test, the 'Hollywood ma'g- netes -figured 'that 'they ,had worked out an impregnable system under which the public would take what they gave (it or else, . The arri- val of the depression, •however, proved sufficient to ,precip'itete growing pout- 'tic disgust into choice of 'the "or .else" from the .movies 'in droves, T:heJheav- ily .overbuilt ch'a'in systems became a ,.iightmare liab'ili'ty in t'he offices of the prinici(pal companies. Significantly in the cases of both Paramount and R'I{O the theatre,ope•ra'ting aubsidiar OIiiLENITAIL ODD,ITIIES Japanese folk do many .things in 'contrary" ways, For instance. during the clay the :Japanese !housewife opens wide the sliding 'walls of .wood and paper which (form her Ilvou'se, But at night they are .enclosed by solid board sihutter,s, and Ipeoaplle sleep vir- tually without ventilation. At 'the door of a theatre., or a res- taurant the Japanese ,hand the .attend- ant 't'heir shoes (instead of their hats, At a dinner the sweets, :if they corns at all, are served ,early in bh.e'meal an - stead Of 'to'war'd the end, Acting in the theatre is anodelled not on dlife, but on ,the movenvenits of dolls in .ma- rionette s'ho'w s, and in the classic, "N'o'' drama ithe possibility of show- ing emotion by facial expression is eliminated by the use of carved wood- en masks. And, where the :peope:lhave not been "civilized" out of their natural cour- tesy, a 'chauffeur 'will- refuse to pass another on the load — .from motives of politeness. To as the Japanese me- th'o'd of :beckon'ing. would signify .50 go away. 'Boats , are 'beached stern foremast; horses are backed into their stalls, sawing (and planing are done with a (pulling motion; keys are ,turn- ed in their :locks in a reverse direction atom that which is customary with tis. The list of things 'that the ,Japanese do ""bacicw'ards" might be continued indefinitely, but is conveniently ended with the singular way in which they reckon the ages of their !chil- dren. 'In 'Canada a child (born on •the 31st of !December is one day old the text morning. en .Japan ;he would Ibe two years oldl For they reckon That a •child is one year 'old o'n the day he is (born, and two years old on The 'fol- lowin'g IN'ew Ye'ar's Day. JAPAN AND CIVILIZ'ATI.ON. The issue at .Geneva is no longer between China and !J'ap'an. et is be- tweet/ Japan and the League, It is between the old theory of the Great. Power armed and impregnable, s'up- aarted by allies 'linked to it by old -ies of loyalty and interest, and by the proud strength of national mor- ale; and ahs new theory of a civilized ,vonld united under a system of law for self-defence against marauders. • (Japanese public opin'io'n at the mo- ment does not see it like that. Though' 'sere we 'must net ,generalize' too, .freely. At the moment when the de- fiant reply of the Government was being handed to Sir Eric 'Drummond at the 'Palais des Nations, the club of ,Iapanese students in ,Landon was entertaining at a Ja'pane'se.. restaurant Lord Lytton, chief author and 'b'eget- tor el the Report which must seem the .fountain of much, if not ail, evil to Tokio, TThatt was a civilized and charming gesture ,from a people ca- pable of c'h'ivalry and rich in charm. But unfortunately that is not the ies have not ,gone into equity -receiver- spirit at present inifluencing the I:m- penal Government. Japan is a 'Great Power, ,S,he be- came so by showing a 'capacity, hith- erto unique in the Far tEast, for mili- tary and navel organization, indust- rial development, and strocegly-estab fished' central government. For gen- erations her 'Samurai had resisted, Western influence; her island' re - virgin . territory, consecrated to a 'highly diistiplined form of 'feud- alism. neer art, het culture, found few- occidental admirers. But .during the .nineteenth century site lean'ied what qualities European ,sis u',,izapion had taught itself to re - space acid with patience, courage and shill' she devoted herself to their achievement, Determined to 'break down tthe accidental .habit of discrint- ina'tion against Asiatic peoples, it is not surprising that her (nation, brave inlflexii'ble in standards 'of honor, ,and ships, but into (full ;ban•kruptcy. ;The same usually 'well infontned source of 'infonsstation declares that Mr, Rockefeller means to discharge "very seriously" the •respofl sibility wh'ic'h this unexpected acquisition .of a deflated industry has brought :to 'hien, In confirmation, it points out that (Johs D. Rockefeller 1I1111 ha's been put in immediate charge .ef the estate's amusement interests. This is exactly what we would expect of 'Mr. Rooke-, feller. Having got into this th'in'g, however unwillingly, Mr. IRockefelier is the sort of man who will ,see it through. leer will he see it through solely in the hope oaf extracting a money ,prclfit which was the ;lure that enticed such oven es lIr, Harley Clarke, the ,public utilities .magn'a'te, Mi. !Wrigley of chewing gum fame and •Mr. Hertz, .the taxi tycoon, who all took a whirl et the .movies within 'have acted es though the etiquette of 1894 still held good', and have been encouraged in their illusion by Euro- pean powers. At least' today, when they outrage international obligation and defy civilized .epin'ion( the Japanese are treated as 'formidable, 'Their repre- sentatives in L'on'don may still 'entjey. such:demonstrations of the indigni- ties they have escaped, as the superb unintentiana( 'insult conveyed to their (rivals, the ;Chinese, on February '14th, by The Times, when, after announc- ing an earthquake. resulting in the death of 280 natives of Kansu, the editorial note observed that the news had, been delayed (because "IKanse is very remote .from 'human intercourse.' The Jiapanese at least may feel that they have established their ivuman- ity. 'What they have not quite suc- ceeded in doing is the yet more dif- ficult task .of catching up with the uneven and restless progress of civil- ized opinion, Nor is this particularly surprising and discreditable; for which of the Great 'Powers could lay its hand upon its heart and swear that at all times, in all ways, its gov- ernment acted upon civilized stan- dards? 'Germany in the throes of Na- tionalist ,Reaction? Italy, tanning a blind eye upon arms smuggled into Hungary? France? England, with the scrap -iron of broken pledges in Kenya heavy on our ,hands? So the Japanese clave mistaken their cue. The insistence upon 'sup- porting" Manchukuo, the massing of troop's against J•ehol, and the defiance of the League are the treasure oe Western failure to make adequately clear that 'after 11'410 the civilized world adopted a new !principle, The former ideal of the self-sufficient na- tion state preserving itself within a condition of world anarchy, was then outmoded. The Covenant, strengthen- ed by the Kellogg pact, established a new regime, only half accepted even inEurope, and still rejected, in letter rather than in spirit, by the United Sbabes, ,sail! impishly repudiated by the U. S. IS. RR., shill evaded by the Turks. iBu't Japan's ddiance elf Geneva and her repudiation of the League system is not due to those abstentions. It is the result of 'two things: the difficulty of any nation, however agile, in going through, 'within 'fifty-seven years, processes wh'ic'h have 'taken the cen- tralized European nations about five centuries to begin .to assimilate; and the exceedingly half-hearted manner in which those European nations have themselves suggested' that they meant to keep the promises of' the Covenant. During the hostilities • in the !Far East, the (Western armatnents firms have not hesitated to tout for orders among cotnlbatants on both sides, and their .government's have not checked then.. The 'Sta'tistical Year Doak of the Trade in Arms and Am- munition, pu'bt:ished last year by the League of:Nations, shows Great 'B•rit- atin-shiptping to Japan in February alone: en aircraft guar' mountings; 119 machine guns; 3,7125,000 cartridges; and '10,000 rounds of ammunition. Other 'Stat'es, and ,this State in oth- er months, show similar contribu- tions. The political and preventative func- tions of the League hang 'together: Its comoilibtary powers depend large- ly upon the success of its (Disarma- ment campaign. In di vide al nations judge its p,o ver for protection or punishment by the sincerity with ,which d'ts members fulfill their obli- gations. Alt the moraine two South (American wars are being ro:bu'stly waged with •European weapons; Po. land is scared of the French Dis 'a'rmament proposals, (while Hitler ,across her uneasy frodtiers, and the IHungariaus are said' to the preparing an attack on Jugo,Slavia (though that is nothing new; young Hunger Piles Go Quick [Itching/ 'bleeding or pro'trud'ing piles go quickly and don't come back, .if you really remove the cause, Bad 'blood ,circul'ati'on in 'the lower bowel and hemorrhoidal veins 'causes piles tby making .the affected parts weak, 'flabby, ,al'm'ost dead. (Salves and sup- p'ositories fail • incense ,only an °in- ternal medicine Ghat stimulates 'the circulation and drives out the impure blood can actually .correct the cause of piles De. J. S, Leona -verde discovered a real internal (Pile remedy. After prescribing it for 1,000 patients with success in over 900 cases, he named it 1HIEM-IRIOIIID, Ohts. Albedhant and 'dru'ggists everylwlhene seal !HEM - ROLE 'Tablets 'with guarantee they will end your dile misery or 'money back. lams 'have 'been drilling strenuously since 1939); the ID1sarm'a'menttl 'Con- iference has (been turned ' . down by' Teence, Japan, watching, Europe, ,no't' un- naturally believes (that the old .system stillail r p ev s there. The only way to undeceive her is to show that, even at the eleventh' hour, we keep our word • pledged in the Covenant, (How the War in Asia Will Ultimately Be Settled 'Britain h'as iso intention o$ getting 'nixed up in the Chino -gap war. 'But she won't sell either side war mater- iai. ,Some day a Japanese Napoleon wall march into China for •the very .good reason that he will be compelled to. Four hundred million •people can't be flouted forever, their racial feelings roused, their national pride trampled on and their land occupied. History will •repeat itself. The lot of the invader of a populous country is almost always the same int'he end, —from Genghis Khan to Hindenburg. China is not now a powerful military nation, but neither was :Russia when :Charles of .Sweden or 'Napoleon Bona- parte invaded it. Neither was Ger- many in Julius Caesar's time, or Spain during the Peninsular War. The ebb and flow of nar-^tal v:ar and the aptness of maniere to learn the art of war, rude :urr ; l correct the situatiaa eventt:a:ly, And in the end the Japanese ad- venture is likely to e i t ac 510•-•0 cost- ly and futile :linen^ e end.—in a new system o .,rernmcat ie japan. DANGER OF 'CAMPBELL'S RIDE It was almost a superhuman per forman'ce that Sir Malcolm Campbell gave when: he made his world's record of 272.108 miles an hour. Fame or death was the reward of two rusts of about thirteen seconds each. In the white mist that hung over the sands he could see 'but two seconds ahead, (Brakes were almost comical acces- sories at this fearful pace, useless at speeds of over 190 miles an hour. 'Ont trial runs 'his hands were blis- tered because of the gyroscopic effect of wheels which had momentarily left the bumpy beach. Yet an injury made it necessary for 'him to rely on one arm during the greater part of his 'record-breaking dash. Sir Malcolm can have but few peers in skull, cour- age and coolness. A remarkable mechanism, is 'this !Blue Bird that skims over the sands —a mechanism utterly useless for or- dinary locomotion and ye't highly practical for the specific purpose of attaining high speed in a ma:gnilfi- cenit burst. For all her four and.a 'half tons and 2,350 horsepower she is a tender thing. Half an hour at top speed anal she would be a wreck. She cannot carry waiter enough to cool her engines, for example. I.n that flash over t'he sands twenty-eight gal- lons were bailed away. (Nor is it pos- sible to carry fuel enough' for a lengthy run, 'Greedy cyli,nd:ers suck in a gallon of gasoline every quarter of a mile, or every three and a hell seconds. A pressure off three tons to the inch of width makes it int- pos'si'ble to run the rear axle gears for more than a minute and a half at (full speed without overheating. And them the tires I Three minutes is their run- ning life at record-breaking speed. It takes about four -tenths of a se- cond for the trained brained oe so skil- led' a driver'as Sir ,Mlalcokn to tell his ntus'cles what to do. In that time the Blue Bird can cover 393 feet. Marking flags 100 yards a'p'art (flicker past like pickets in a fence. Instinct rather than sight guides 'the h'an'd. 'Campbeli expresses disappointment at not hav- ing atta'in'ed 205 miles es hour be- cause of the poor condition 0f the beach. Others have'hinted at 400, The Blue B'ird's steady improvement since 1924, alttcr :four rebuildin'gs,s.hows that the engineering limit to speed is not yet in sight, But 'what of the human linti't ? One_ Gannet help worn derimlg whether Sir Malcolm has eot eintos't reached' it, and whether a cat. (faster and more p.awer'ful that the Blue Bird can. be controlled, All mothers can put away anxiety regarding their suffering children, 'w'hen they have Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator to give relief, Rs effects are sure and lasting. •