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The Seaforth News, 1927-10-13, Page 34 IS NEW WAR NEAR? French Papers Claim' Russian Loan is to Finance Struggle BRIAND, London -The Daily Telegraph's,cor- respondent at Riga, reported that Military and Naval Commisary Voro•- siloff speaking at Odessa, said that the Soviet forces are preparing for a struggle that will decide the destinies of mankind. Vorosiloi'f salt the enemies of the 'Soviet Union underestimate the im- portance of the present manoeuvres in Soviet territory, which include barn battles, in which Communist 'organizations participate. Moscow, Russia—Despitethe mai- l -Soviet campaign being carried on' in some French newspapers and the ac- cusation made. .by Figaro, the French, doily,` tittat the $120,009,000 credits !Soviet Russia is seeking from France • Aare wanted to Anr.sce a world revolu- tion, optimism still remains in official circle's Here regarding . the ultimate, outcome of the Ittsssc-French` debt negtiations. "Tho eleventh hour," complications In the debt situation which are stated to have caused no stu'prise in Mos- cow, are attributed here to several dis- tlnet.causes, the chie, being pressure 'by reactionary Anglo-French intereste 'bent on destroying Soviet Russia by force, if necessary,` and the desire •among the more practical French poli- ticians to take the fullest advantage of the Anglo -Russian break in order to juggle figures in favor of Franco ;against Russia. This latter desire, it is declared here, was shown in the latest su'gges- ON JOB tion .to give Russia $50,000,000 instead of $120,000,000 credits as well..as to present the remainder of private claims against ltessia. Briand Active Paris—Foreign Minister Deland be- gan digging iulo the Franco -American' tariff question, still the Soviet loan scheme, having hastened his return from Geneva for that purpose. . Until he has, taken, the matter up with the Cabinet the notes exchange:I between the two -countries on the tar- iff question will, be withheld 'because it is de:sirecl'to avoid giving them out in such a way as to create' the Impres- sion on the public that they were made public simply to show why the two countries are at acids on the question. France's reply to the Soviet debt payment offer will bo delivered to Moscow next week, the Petit Paeleien 8nderstancls, after Forelgn Minister Briand has submitted, it for the ap- proval of the Cabinet. It will, in all probability, according to this authority, state that any agree- ment an the basis of the proposal is impossible, but will envisage definite suspension of the debt negotiations which have long been going on. Neither is it likely thatexamina- tion of the proposals will necessitate a pierery meeting of the Franco-Russian debt commissioner's, the paper says, as discussion of the figures could not servo any useful purpose. Cosgrave4��„ of the war, we were struggling for 1n ii t1 p dependence. ]risk President, With Slender Majority in Dail, Says 'Tin Not Worrying CORDIAL .PERSONALITY The. Irish Free State Government buildings in Dublin are a magnificent pile of white stone set in spacious grounds with flower beds and teen - Mine and with sentry boxes stationed along broad paths. Out of the sentry box a smart looking ,soldier with a businc .> isle rifle pops and inquires who the approaching visitor is and what appointments, if any, Justify his presence there. But on reaching the executive of- fice one finds President Cosgrave dis- arming and cordial. A pleasant, shaven, Randy haired man of medium height, with a slight stoop, greenish -gray eyes that look li' throe h thick 1 g 6ht, L tli c ashes, and a rich engaging brogue, the Irish President has a likable personality and gives esu impression 01' sineerity and cle- tcrniftiation. Ile does not look Isis 46 years. "You've got a job here, Mr. Presi- dent," his interviewer ventured, "but the people seen tot -believe teat it any- body can do it you can." "Not all the people," he smiled, 'Oh, n0, not all tits people. Some of theta; perhaps. You see, its this kind of Job„ No matter what I do I'm told that I ought to have done tho op- posite, There isn't a thing you can do right. I'm criticized every minute for what I do and for what I don't clo. But I'm not worrying. You can't Please all the people ani the tante. And tome of t'hern aro better' off by being ruled with a strong hand. "Take a 'big Job of bridge building such as we have on our hands now. This completed bridge would mean progrese and benefit to Dublin. We chilled in experts from cverywltero, architects and engineers, and some of them happened to be English. Lo and behold, the 'other side' was up in arms at once, declaring that the job meet be done by Irishmen or not at all. When we explain that we do ont happen to have Irishmen that are ex- perts in this particular line'01 work, the !other side' says: Let the Job wait until Irishmen can be educated tip to it,' Peace and Prosperity Now. "They say that 1 am bending the knee to England. They continue to criticize Article 17 of the Constitu- tion of tete Isiah Free State. Road this article." The President eagerly passed across a copy of the Constttu- `tion and pointed to the much-discuss- ed oath of office to be taken by mem- bers of the Oireachtas: "I, do solemnly swear true faith and allegfanco to the Con- stitution of the Irish Free State as hy law established, and. that I will be faithful to H. M. Icing George V., his heirs and successors by law in virtue of the Common citizenship or Ireland with Great Britain and her acilterence to and Membership of the group of nations forming the British Common• wealth of Nations." "Does that bend the knee to '.ing- hand or to anybody else?" he demand- ed. "Is it necessary to antagonize England in order to display a nation- al spirit.:' I don't think so. England Is our best customer., Many people here are trying to stand in their own 'We have now 1tac1 about four Years' experionce of our Parliamen- tary institutions, and actions .speak laucier than words. Five years ago no man's life or property was safe in Ireland. In the Black -and -Tan terror' my mother's home here in Dublin was raided seventy times. They tried tit find mo or some inorimluating era deuce. p'or three years, when all the other countries of IOurope were rocon- structing themselves from the effects "Then the anti -treaty party began (with their reign of terror. Then we had a house divided against itself. There was a -.period of starvation, Plunder, crime; honest citizens were held up by armed bullies; trains were. stopped; banks were robbed; unem- ployment was everywhere; and the very weapons which the people had used to achiove their independence were turned on the people them- sch'ee. Since 1222, since we have been in office, we have thoroughly roorgan ized and !'..constructed ourselves. Now, thank Cocl, there is peace and prosperity in Ireland after all our suf- ferings." The President had spoken very rapidly and with great enthusiasm. ];Ie had quoted statistics as 'i1 lie were reading them out of a book. "Take the matter of our agricul- ture," he said, "We aro striving our utmost to improve our dairies and our farms. We are beginning to manufac- ture, ture, too—clothes, shoes, carpets. That's why we have put a duty on goods coming from the North,. We want our people to patronize home industries. Look at that carpet"— pointing with pride to the thick green- ish -blue pile on the floor into .which one's feet sink luxuriously, and which is an attractive feature ot his com- fortably appointed office. "This rug was mode hero. It is as well made and handsome a rttg as eau bo bought anywhere. An Agricultural Country. "But chiefly we are an agricultural country and our prosperity lies in our lands. 'We are helping the farm. or. There again we have opposition. Many tel them don't want tobe help- ed; don't want to 11e shown how to I grow Ave bushels of potatoes where Ione bushel grave, or how to improve. i and grade the eggs and hills and but- ; ter. Butwe're forcing them by legal i measures to a certain standard of sanitation and perfection. Already a general well-being is being main- tained among the cattle and live stock, and constant effort is made to Iimprove the breeds. And the horses! INone in the world are finer." t The interviewer naked the Prosi dont if he had examined the superior mothods of tho Danes in their daily !Production, their organized dairying and their efficient syndication of all their dairy products. which contribute so largely to the prosperity of that. highly organized little country. "We are eludying ant copying some of their admirable methods:" said the President. "We are taking care of our -people in every way. We ars building more schools. We are cat- ing for the unemployed, and their number is constantly diminishing. And a large part of our r•evenuo'goes for old -ago pensions.". • Niger'iun Prisoners Engage tri Inghistries London—Nigerian prisons to -day, after a quartet' of a century of British occupation are quito up to the stand- ard of the rest of the civilized world, according to the annual report Just received from Lagos. The following industries aro now carried on in tate Prisons; ti amithing,• blacatneliltiug, carpentry, furniture making, mat -mak - tag, tailoring, boot r'opalriilg, 'basket-, making, cloth weaving, and brickmala lug. The workmanship is improving steadily and the demand for the arti- cles made, particularly furniture and chairs, far exceeds the supply. Print- ing is a fur't'her industry wi toh Is' be- ing steadily developed. The Inquiring Mind. When visiting the zoological gar-. clegs little Marion.saw snakes for the firs}, tine. "Mother," eli,e ingyirQtl curipeedy,were Fe al(( a anima that those tails belong to?' 1�- "ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES!'—By O. Jacobson. Now You See It! Now You Don't. Hambletonian King of Harness Horses Left Many Gets to Carry on His Record One day in Anus, back in 1849, , a poor fanner, William M. Rysdylc, was silting on the top rail of a fence near the barn of Jonas Seeley, a breeder, at Sugar Loaf, Orange County. Seeley had offered to sell Ityedylc a snare and her foal, five week's old, for $125. Now 5125 repre- sented nearly the entire savings of the pr'ospec'tive purchaser and he hesitated long before he decided to risk all oil the future of the mare and her bay colt. If ever a lucky purchase in horse- flesh was matte it was consummated when 11.ysdyk handed 0501' 111s hard- earned mono and led ed the ulnad Y animals away to Chester. It was in the stud and not on the race track that Rysclyk's Hamble- tonian, as the colt was named, achieved his reputation. Ile served in all for twenty -ono years in the stud and 1,287 of hie sons and daughters were foaled, many of whom blazed their way to glory on the race trade and well so successful in breeding that this period was called the age of Hambletonians. The fame of R.ysilyk's Hamble- tonian spread, as :Success on the turf grew. Particularly remarkable was a horse named Dexter, which scored a long series of victories against the best horses in the country, with hard- ly a defeat. His name became a household' word and a loippodroming tour was arranged to satisfy the de- sire of the country to see him. in ac- tion. As the sensational career of Dexter progressed it reflected glory on his stud sire. llysdyk's .Ilambletonian soon became the most popular stal- lion in the country. It was only after considerable persuasion by his friends, however, that Rysdyk de- cided to advance the price for the stud services of Ilambletoniau to $100 in 1803. This step, once taken, how- ever, fired the ambition of the farmer so that thenext year lie to o t ye a den noted $300 and a year later 5500. At that sum the fee r'omafued until the retire- ment of Hambletoniau'from the stud in 1.863, Itis total earnings being 5187,- 716. Sooner or alter the Orient may be expected to become oriented to mo- dern ways of attaining prosperity and stability, Maltzan Pearls Complete Flightof Turn Yellow Over 7,000 Miles Baron'sl Family Open Casket Lone Aviator Succeeds in Making London -Cape -Luck Omen Town Trip to Test Lege=nd' of Ill- Militsch, Silesia—The casket hold- ing the famous Maitean pearls, which legend says Came to the family by supernatural means and are said to chstnge color whenever a death In .the 10101ly' 0001550, was opened today by the general'deslr° of'relaliyes as an outcome of the death of Baron Ago van Maltzan: AIR NEWS •i Cape own, South Africa,—Lieut• R. it ,Bentley, instructor for the South African Air Force, who left Rendall on Sept. 1, in a light Moth airpianei for Cape Town, completodhis long solo It was foundthatall the pearls had 'fli'g'ht of mora than 7,000 miles at turned a sickly yellowish tinge instead' 2.20 o'clock, Wednesday afternoons of only one pearl beooming 51000105- Sept.' 28. ed, as hitherto has been reported to Lieut, Bentley, who made the trip have happened whenever a member of in long hops to prove lite feasibilitythe family died, in London-Cape Town air communi- The last occasion that this definitely cation, and to demonstrate the cap- s estabIish, according to family abilities of a light. plane on long records, was'luod1892, �vhon the Baron's tance flights, created what was said; grandfather died, here to be a world's record for a long The family now has decided to keep distance solo flight, the famous heirloom locked up per- The aviator, who had hoped to make manently in Militsclt Castle. for the the trip in . eighteen, --days, found weal or woe of the future fate of the twenty-eight necessary for the long family and not to inspect thens here- trip, some of it over hazardous and alter for any change of color in case deserted country., of death. WHILE IN CANADA The legend of the Maltzan' pearls, Ottawa.—Canadian Air Board offi- i which are 4n the possession of the clads expect that et least four or five Silesian branch of the family, says _light airplane flying clubs will be that the pearls were presented by a formed in the larger centres of the goblin in 1588 to Baroness Eva Regan minion, during the coming winter Maltzan in the ancestral castle at under the Government's scheme to Militsch. The pearls were;supposed encourage flying, to have been presented to her because Enquiries are being daily received. of a kindness shown by the Baroness by the Board from many clubs now to the goblin, Nino days• later, the legend goes, in the process of formation- While' no the grateful goblin reappeared and offiefal statement was made, the like made her a present of .a string of lihood is .that applications from the pearls which he said would, bring luck largo! centres will be given pre - pearls g cadence. to the family as long as their color Actual I t' Plane Safely ®ellaers Lieer by was unchanged and they remained to • c ua operation of the clubs under the possession of the MsLtzan family. the scheme will not likely begin until Parachute Beer Alpine Peak Munich. — Beer delivered by alr- plane and parachute to high moun- tain peaks fe the latest attraction for tourists visiting the Bavarian Alps. Guests at the Brandenburg House in the Oolz Valley, two miles above sea level, recently watched a plane of the South German Lufthansa which sailed over the glacier and dropped a large object attached to a parachute, When the parcel reached the ground it was found to be a case containing 100 bottles of beer, not one of which was broken.. Several huts and inns situated .in the highest altitudes regularly re- ceive provisions and newspapers by plaue. During the Summer nearly ninety tons of supplies were delivered in this manner to points not easily reached by other transport methods. '"That's the System!" An old skinflint, who owned a Targe cotton gin, was informed that his gin had caught Aro. He rushed into the insurance office where he had bought his policy and exclaimed, wizen he had found the clerk ho wanted: "Blake! Blake! How much insur- ance half I got? My gin iss burning clown; I may need some morel" The , World's Tennis Championship Tho Famous Davis Cup—Recently won by Franco 'Should the pearls change color, how- ever," he warned, "1t means that the head of some branch of the family. wilt die." ►. "Hares" re Cause f Legal Action British Anti -Gambling League Starts Proceedings. Against Book- maker the latter part of March or early in April. Approximately twenty-six planes are being ordered, butthese will not be available, it is understood, until next_ spring. Under the scheme announced, two airplanes will be given to a club in each city undertaking to maintain the aircraft. BOUGHT PLANES. Ottawa. --To meet the increased activity in aviation, the Royal Can- adian Air Force will be equipped with 26 new planes. These will include three Fairchild monoplanes, 12 Avro land planes, two De Haviland planes, and some other types. The order is London—The legality Is to be tested, said to amount to over .$40R,i?00. in the law courts hero of betting upon LINK WITH YUKON greyhouud racing which, has sprung Vancouver, 13.C,—The monoplane Into mm u oto i e serominouce throughout n "Queen of the Yukon," on"psi. star of Col. Great Britain with the introduction of Charles Lindbergh's famous 'plane,. olectrtcally-propelled "hares.", So arrived in Vancouver recently widespread has .become this form of after a flight from Los Angles, v,'tsich sport that it is charged with greatly included numerous stops on route. stimnlng gambngTile gover:t The machine, piloted by A. D. merit reaficeipts Yrontlithe. taxation ne Cruickshanks, former Royal Air Force greyhound racing, for example, is esti- lieutenant and former nuCn:bm' of the urates at £10,00x. Royal Canadian Meunt,d Police, car - The monad issue this' involved has ries four passengers, including one led the National Anti -Gambling Lea- woman and an infant. gue to instruct its solicitors to insti- The machine will be shipped north Lute proceeding's agates a selected to be used in air mail and passenger boolrmnaker with the view of ascertain- service to link up White Horse, Mayo, Ing how the taw stands. These pre. Dawson and other Yukon points d•ar- eeedings are oxpeoted to be initiated ing the winter. within the next few days. The machine will be fitted with ekiis. In the meanwhile the eba.irman of committee of bookmakers at White City, the chief greyhound racing cen- ter, in a statement to the Daily Mx - press says: "The law in question that the anti -gambling people are relying upon la the Street Batting Act, 1900, which differentiates in favor of horse - At the present time it takes 12 to 14 days to carry mail between White Horse and Dawson during he winter, and with the use of the 'plane' this will he cut to five hours. racing but whish forbids' betting in Fisheries Gain Fast in Canada any street or public place. White City, however, docs not coma tinder According to reports made by. the this act because it is privately owned." Department of Commerce the present Ott the other hand it is recalled that nahing industry of Canada is in the In a case in Sydney, Aust.. the local main the growth of the last half am- In recently held that betting at greyhound racing is illegal, because Mechanical hare'ooursing is not "coursing within the meaning of the act." This decision, however, has still to be upheld upon an appeal which may bo carried to the Privy Council. d Obedience. Like all virtues, obedience must be in spirit, not in letter only; else it ceases to be a virtue. Parson Brown's young hopeful had recently developed an interest in toads and frogs. One day he appear- ed in the house with a box which he placed on the table with evident pride of possession. His father, inquiring' as to tho contents of the box, was promptly shown a large toad. "Talcs that toad out of the house immediately!" commanded the father, Somewhat crestfallen, the boy dis- appeared, and the father wont about his business. The next day a neighbor called at the parsonage; again the young hope- ful appeared with his box, and proud - 11 exhibited—a toad( "Didn't i tell you to take that toad out of the house?" asked the parson, "Why, papa, I did," answered the son. "slut this is another toad." 8 A New Word. Miss Craves's fourth-grade class had been discussing the word "hem.' After, they had gotten the full signifis- itnee of the word, Miss Graven asked, "And what is a girl called who pet' - forms an horoia sol?" lePe Willie 'She's called a `ohero ." la~ Cross -Country Runner (tato arrival) "pis you take ray time?" Time- t -••"I didn't have t0. You took yourself,,, tury. In 1844 the estimated value ot the total eaten was only $125,000. In the '90s it exceeded 520,000,000, and in 1911 amounted to $34,000,000. The highest total for all Canada was reached in 1913 when the value of the catch was more than $60,000,000. Thin compares with 540,000,000 for the American Territory of Alaska. Compared with other provinces of Canada in the value of its fisheries production, British Columbia now leads, Nova Scotia having dropped to second place. New Brunswick is con- ceded third place. The yearly value of its fish and fish products amounts to from $5,000,000 to 50,000,000 for sea fisheries and about 515,000 for inland fisheries, or nearly what bordering American States taste from the Great Lakes. Due to the fact that the At- lantic hanks are inconveniently eitu- ated for New Brunswick, the deep-sea fishing of this province is chiefly ht- hhore. Tho value of the Prince Edward is- land flatteries has gradually do - creased during the last ten years. The highest figure was 51,786,,310 in 101.7, while in 1026 it had dropped to 51,- 427,072. The lobster industry is by far the most important branch of the island fisheries, the average yearly value of lobsters caught and market- ed being about $1,000,000, Giant magnets seven feet long are to be hung under State highway trucks in South Dakota to pick up bits of metal that might pltncture automobile tires, In a -test run of twenty Miles ono of these magnets' plcked np over three hundred pounds OS, also and iron scraps. The :collog- tien included a stove leg, 24 railroad l3p'ikes, an old skate, a monkey wrench, pieces of barbed wire, and a thousa3ld or so nails and tacks.