Zurich Herald, 1930-03-06, Page 3The King's WoridWide Broadcast
The 13,13.0. announces that 'au arialy-
kde at reports received from abroad
makes it clearthat the world 'broad-
cast athlete was -proposed and planned
by the Br1tiele Dl'oadeasting• 0orpora
tion, proved a triumph,
Tn Great Britain reception was uni-
formly good. In Prance eleven Gov-
ernmental stations, includding the
E1ftel Tower, were in action, fed by
the speech -line, London -Paris;` Ratite -
Paris also rebroadcast. Belgium and
Holland both satisfactorily relayed the
Ceremony which they received by line
or by wireless pick-up from Daventry
s< according dng to circumstances In
the quality of reception was excellent.
• In' Canada, Ole Canadian National
hallways' ehatn ot twenty-four sta-
tions rebroadcast with excellent re-
sults troth coat to coast. Similar'.
success was obtained in the United
States, where the two great chains of
the National.73roadcesting Compeny
aria the Coluniltia broadcasting system.
distributed the relay, the former with
fifty-five stations and the latterwith
thirty-eight. Results in South Africa
and Australia were not so good, but
New 'Zealand reports excellent recep-
tion and 1•ebroedcastiug, .while in. jap-
an, contrary to the first report, it now
,,
C•eru any, Cologne and Berlin we=re appears that the rebroadcast fasa
Japanese
the rr►ainfoci of lines for the Conten-{ cessfully carried out y I Indie
•
eat, Cologne supplied Hamburg to
the one direction and Frankfurt, Stutt-
gart, Munich, Switzerland, and Italy
31i the other. I! £•ons Berlin, South -
Eastern Europe, Poland and Scandiu-
avia Were supplied. In Germany it-
self nearly all the regional• groups of
stations rebroadcast the proceedings.
Information from Switzerland,; Italy*,
11.nstria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
gosiavia, Poland, Latvia, Fiuland, Den-
mark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland
shows that in chatty of these countries•
I;roadcesting :Corporation, n
there was a rebroadcast from Calcutta
as well as a good deal of direct listen-
ing to the B.B.C. In, all, it is esti-
mated that between 270 and 280 sta-
tions were inaction,
The organization and execution of
this retay of the. sting's speech to all
parts of the world were significant of
the great potential value.of broadcast-
ing as an aid to civilization in its
struggle against both war and iguor-
ante:
Chinese Famine Louis Coatelen
Toll May Reach With Kaye Don
4 Million in '30
FamOtis French -Born Engi-
neer and Expert Builder
2,000,004 Natives of Shensi of Racing Cars
Province Died Last Year;
No Harvest Since 1927 SEGRAVE'S TEACHER
Tailyuan, Shensi.—The plain, cen-. Louis Coatelen, one of the outstancl-
tral section of Shensi Province --the
'Wei River Valley, centering around
Sian—is -in the Midst of the most ap-
pallingly
ieh
h
h
i w
m no
• t famine disastrous s
llin
cls
pa g1y
.affected any part of China since the
catastrophe of 1876.77, Estimates
made from the best posihle sources
indicate that those dead front starva-
tion during 1929 number at least- 2,-.
4)00,000—with another 2,000,000 prac-
tically
rac-
t' ii y certain to die from the same
lug automotive engineers of the world
and designer of the car in whit,IZa3Te
Don ' will seek to establish a new
world s: Daytona
at S
speed record.
Beach, 'la., will accompany the Bri-
tish race driver to the 'United States,
it is announced• by the American
Automobile Association. -
The governing body of racing, which
will supervise. and time the attack on
the existing record, says that Mr.
Coatelen, with Kaye Don and mem-
RUSSIAN St+AUTY
•
,Of the 13,000 Mennonites who tried to leave Russia, ne thousanY uugerdonly
succeeded and will eventually reach Canada• r
mem-
ber is Shown of the religious sect. -r
Canadian Girls
In Visitor's Eyes
Attitude Towards Meir Criti-
cised by English Woman
Who Stayed Two
Months
Loudon. --•As a result of a 'visit 10
Canada 'which lasted two monthe,.
Mary Locke discusses co-education of
boys and girls in this contribution to
the Daily Mail:
left y
cause before the next harvest. ,'Ther bens of their party, evil sell for
total population of this region before, ca on the steamshili Berengaria,
New 26th, arriving in 1 'Orli
On March 4th.
Interest ot the engineer in blr.
Don't attempt to shatter the record of
231 miles per hour made last year by
Sir H. 0. D. Segrave will be intensified
by reason of the fact that he also de-
signed the "Mystery S," in. which Sir
tienry established the first world's re-
cord in excess of 200 miles per hour.
• Britisher Since 1901
Coatelen is a Frenchman, 51 years
of age, though he has spent half of
his life in England. He obtained hie
A Tribute to Currie
Canadians of every class will read
with keen satisfaction the remark-
able tribute paid to Sir Arthur Currie
by Major-General J. E. B. .Seely, Com-
mander of the Canadian OavarrY
Brigade during the War, in his auto -
,biography just issued from the press,
No man was in a better position Than
the Maj'or•-General to know what was
going on at headquarters. Be was in
Sir Arthur's confidencce, and he
m
speaks -with the authority of a an
Whose word must carry, weight with
all impartial people.
Major-General Seely testifies that
Sir Arthur had almost a fanatical
hatred of unnecessary casualties, and
his further statement that again and
again the General Nearly brought his.
military career to au end 'by "bluntly
refusing to do things he was certain -
would result IA great loss of life with-
out compensating advantages" will
conte as a welcome corroboration to
those who know Sir Arthur best. They
will realize that this is quite in keep=
ing with the character of the man.
His men's lives were to him a sacred
-heist, and he would not wantonly Meg
them away. It is a good thing, and
a pleasant tiring, to find a brother-
ofllcee who knows what he is talking
about pay' this spontaneous and un-
sought tribute to the humanity of the
man Who guided the Canadian ArinY
to victory and .upon 'whose shoulders
fell the brunt of a burden few could
have borne unaided as he crier.—Mout-
real Star. '
-the famine was about 6,000,000.
I
Net completed a' trip of investiga-
tion through a part of the Shensi area
and what I saw made the week or so
in Shensi a coutinuous ghastly night-
mare of past, present and prospective
human misery. Practically every one
man, woman and child -ort the streets
and on the roads looked as though be
was just about ready to drop from
starvation: They -were not cowed so
much as dazed to the point of utter
apathy by long continued lack ot food.
Record of Harvests
"Once I believed that coeducation
must produce.a saner attitude towards
sex than our present syntem of segre-
gation. gation. The two or three of my young
acquaintances who have been so edu-
cated pave a frank end friendly man-
ner towards member's of the opposite
Box that seems to me quite delightful,
and when I visited Canada, whore
most of the boys and girls go to school
together, I expected to find the same
thing
Soviet Trade
With Great Britain
Canada's Pools
World's Greatest
"It is a good inauguration of the .re-
newal of the diplomatic relations be-
tween Great Britain and the Soviet
Union that Soviet purchases in this
country have shown a considerable he
crease durbrig•tbe fist three mouths of
the financial year 1928-29," says the
Baulk tor Russian Trade Review, "Or-
ders placed by the Soviet trading or-
ganizations during October -December',
1929, amounted to :54,770,228, as come
pared with L1,693,962 in October -1)e;
cember, 1928,
The following table shows.the
amount of Soviet orders each mouth
in .pounds sterling: 1928 1929
October657,864 2,994,022
November 537,470 1,693,591
December 498,628 1,082,615
"Not at all, The Canadian girls
whom I met, either iii their own
homes or in hotels, seemed to me to
have the same attitude towards men
as the magazine heroines of the 'nine-
,
ties.
nine-+ties.
"They talked about their 'beaux,'
and were not only most artlessly anxi-
ous to get married but apparently
regarded marriage as the only satis-
factory career. They lapped up the
most incredibly sentimental films and
songs with frank delight and exclama-
tions of `Isn't it darling?'
"If by any chance they were con-
versing intelligently (as they were
very well able to do to one of their
own sex) and a man entered the room
they instantly became arch and allur-
ing, and seemed quite incapable of
talking to hila without somehow intro-
ducing a sort ot 'tete-a-tetel' atmos-
phere.
"This sort of thing, I gather, starts
quite early in life. I am told they
have 'petting' (otherwise `necking')
parties long before they leave school
and continue them with unabated
fevour throughout their college life.
One exceptionally austere young
science student whom my, brother and
I invited to a picnic flatly refused to
conte until we pledged, him our word
that it was not gioug to' be a necking
party.
"I do not say this is not all quite
natural in the young. Perhaps it is
eve
n as well to get the sentimental
stage over early. Neither do I imag-
ine that I can judge of the effect of
co-education iu a two -months' visit."
Western Farmers Have Or-
ganized the Biggest Thing
of its Kind Ever -
Attempted
Ottawa ----There are four Wheat
Poole ie. Western Canada, the Mani-
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
"Canadian Wheat Pool."
as-
,�a S
threeMaaitoba, The rigors of , I ,
katchowan and Alberta are now epee-
ating on their second live -year con-
tract Period.
These have a total membership of
approximately 140,000 farmers in the
world's greatest non-profit producers'
co-operative marketing association.
• In less than six years the Canadian
Wheat Pool has become the leading
marketing ageucy for Canadian wheat,
11
liauclliu„ more than half of a the
wheat sold by Canadian, farmers.
The Canaditut Wheat fool organiza-
tion N alt evolution rather than a re-
volution in the grain marketing sys-
tem of Canada. The pioneer farm-
ers of our Canadian West, after they
had found out by a long series of ex-
periments on their farms and at the
Dominion experimental farms, the var-
ieties of wheat which would give a
satisfactory yield of high quality
wheat, were faced with the neces-
sity of improving marketing methods
if the grain grower vas to have any
,margin above the bare cost of produc-
tion for his crop.
For more than thirty years the
-wheat farmers of the West were en-
gaged in a continuous struggle for
'sone measure ot control over the mar-
keting of their grain. In the report
of the Royal Grain Inquiry, 1925, it, is
stated that "-Between the year 1897
and the outbreak of the Great War
in+,1914, thirteen investigations into
vaitous departments of the grain
trade were held by Royal commie -
in some eases appointed by,
Federal, and other cases, by Prov-'
in•Cial authority.
All of these investigations were
proniptled by Mr 'slats emanating
from the producer: of grain and they
all resulted in the bringing about ot
ata least sonic beneficial changes in
•the 'conditions about which there were
Complaints." .
What has -caused this condition? { first 'a,utdiuotive experience in t.
For one thing,, this is the record. of I drattiug rooms' of; the DeDion•Bouton
harvests' E corks in France, going from. there to
Spring,'1927—Fxcelient. , t and the Pa
.Autumn, 1927—Practically nothing.
Spring, 1928.17 -Practically . nothing..
Aututhi, 1928 --Practically nothing.
Spring, 1929—Practically nothing.
Autumn, 1929—A millet crop
out
p. per cent. of normal, • .I
4nc1 the prospects? Spring, -1930 Coatelen cal. In 1908 he accepted the
under the best possible conditions,
not more than 10 per cont. Drought
last autumn made it possible -to plant.
only about 20 per cent. of the normal
.amount of wheat. 01 that only about
half germinated. There have been
good snows, and the prospects are ex -
repent for what wheat clic' get a start
before the cold weather. 'But only 10
per cent. of a normal crop got a start.
Human causes unquestionably con-
tributed to 'an important .degree to
malting the famine as serious as it is.
But natural causes were the primary
cause `of the famine, as Is demon-
strated. by the fact that famine also
came in southwestern Chensi, where
the drought conditions were substan-
tially the same and where the"human
elements all contributed to relieve
rather than butensiIY the effects of the
crop failures• i famine
In any case, the appalling
conditions are there. •
Ciotnen nhard, He mi-
grated to England in 1901; 'because .of -
the greater opportunities there for
young mer. His first employment was
with the Humber Company. Iii 1907
he entered into partnership with klill-
sian in the production of the Hillman -
invitation of. the Sunbeam Motor Car
Company, Ltd., of Wolverhampton, to
join it, and the first products of his
designing figured In competition on,
the race courses in 1909. His con-
cerns-- Senbeani Talbot-Duracq, have
been. the leading figures in competi-
tion. ever siace. . ..
Aided Royal Air Force
Ontario Drip. Bill
Set at $5.6.486,514
Increase of $8,534,396 is
Shown Over,' Figures
for 1928 •
Toronto. --.Ontario's .total drink bill
for 1929 Was set at $56,486,514,81, by
Kion, W. II. Price, attorney -general,
answering a question in the Legisla-
ture. This .represented an increase of
$5,534,396 over 1,928 figures. Jn ad-
dition, wine valued at $1,168,258 Was
produced in Outarie and sold to resi-
dents of other provinces, and $69,721.
worth, to purchasers outside' -of Can-
ada. •
Tile. amount at spirituous liquor sold
by the Liquor, Control Commission
during 1029 was $32,368,503.91, wine
13,235,814..50, and beer $2,120,420,80,'
Wine 8o1a. by .lviueries direct to On-
tario consuiners was $1,126,945. Beer
sold from Commission warehouses
was set at $14,157,865,45 and sold di-
rect' from the breweries, $8,575,93'1'
The above information llSo Sought
', by T P, Slack, Prog., ,G.in re-
ply to a question put by' W.
Prog, South 1 -Huron, the AttorLOY-Gen-
oral said that 1,146 persons, including
three members of the board, were em-
ployed by the Limier Control Commie -
Mon, The total payroll ovas $1,721,-
822,19.
'Tota1
1,693,962 4,770,228
"The orders reached the highest
level in October, but declined some-
what during November and December,
which is due mainly to seasonal fluc-
tuations.
"The work et the tractor service
stations is of great importance in view
of the attempt that is being made in
the Soviet Union to improve agricul-
ture. These stations were organized
in connection with the existing collec-
tive farms in order to utilize the avail-
able traotors and agricultural ma-
°chinery for the cultivation of private
peasant farms in exchangeThe first sta-
tionportion of the crop.
tion was established near Odessa, in
the 'Ukraine, less than two years ago,
and by the end of September last
there were more than a . hundred,
while the estimates of the current fin-
ancial year provide for the establish-
ment of another hundred stations clur
ing the period.
'In addition to supplying tractor's
and agricultural machinery and teach-
ing the peasants to work them, the
tractor stations give the peasants se-
lected seeds in exchange for their
own. For all the services rendered
the station receives from 25 to 30 per.
cent. of the crops.
"The number of tractor service sta-..
tions is to be increased by October 1,
1933, to 575. 'The estimated grain pro-
duction of the farms worked by the
stations in 1933 is 22 million tous,
half of which quantity is to be market-
able grain."
The "Empire Crusade"
Nation and Athenaeum (Loudon) :
The "Empire Crusaders" have not yet
thought out their policy, and they are
putting Protection before the country
in. a cruder form than any which bas
been produced since the day's of Adam
Smith. There is, therefore, no danger
of its adoption, in its 'present forth.
The danger is that the Tories, who
never cease from hankering after Pro-
tection, will seek to take advantake
of the touch of real enthusiasm in
Lord Beaverbroolt's propaganda to
foist an ordinary protective tariff upon
the electorate Froin a party point of
view we could wish for nothing bet-
ter; but there are bigger issues at
stake. . -
Long before the rear he became in-
terested in aviation, and bought a
Farman aireilane. He tiles st:tidiot11
aircraft so 'assideously that when the
war broke out";tlie, Sunbelt. Coatelen
engines were Bald to be the olilj ones
of British a tiatiufacture,:iu big prodtfc-
tion, which bad - sufficient power„to
•sty British seaplanes;.Sitnbea>u `Coat-
elen -•aircraft ,engines were in the
places: that gave' the news of the' en-
eriiy's disposition in the battle of Jut-
land; that dropped food in Kut when
General Townshend'' force was; be-
sieged, and played a, censistetltly im-
portant part in aviation throughout'
the war. „ -
The two -huge. motors used i.n Dbtics
record Challenger' are the products of
Coatelen'' engineering,•geniusu' They,
are designed, it is, understood, for
work 011 super -airplanes, which ac-
counts for their great power.
May Outdo' Pup•'`Is `
The eteldlen Arro'r,. present record
,holder, was designed by Captain Irv-
ing, in conjunction with Sir Henry Se -
grave, Who drove the car to' its re-
markable record ot 281 miles per• hour
onMarch 11, 1929.
Incidentally, both `Segrave and Irv-
ing at one time; whet' the "Mysttiet
S" was built, -were attaches of the
Sunbeam Company, • , - • .
Wil the great Coatelen be able to
outdo his former Pupils? This is trio
question to the forefront in the racing
fraternity througltotit tate world.
Least. Said, Soonest Mended
Winnipeg 'Tel -brine (lnc1. Con l,l : By”
a typographical error in lirintug the
7� iilg's opening speech • at the naval
parley, an Irish newspaper leas
•Majesty eating' Tor '"early Tef
of arguments throughout the world."
I 'tiit could be accomplished, itrvob d
net merely reduce armaritei ,
would firing the rilleuitun.
Anyway, thatroyal wedding has
seevedeeo remind the world that Italy
still has e loyal family. •
•
Prison Sentence
For Abusing Boy Reports of Ore Dis-
coveries
Beamsville.—All the farmers in the
Niagara peninsula will be dropping.
their pruning knives for miners' picks
and replacing their pitchforks with
diamond drills if the inoreasingly op-
timistic reports coming out of Lincoln
County persist.
Already prospects of unearthing
lead, zine and silver in paying quanti-
ties in Clinton Township, between
Smithville and Beamsville, have
proved rosy enough to interest the
Treadwell -5: ukou Mining Company.
Engineers of this and other concerns
have looked over the property and
surface assays and advised commence-
ment of diamond drilling,
Two drills will be brought down
from Treadwell'' property in Sudbury
within two weeks,. according to pre-
sent plans. Those connected -with the
investigation are visualizing a rush of
prospectors, promoters and develop-
ment operators into the district. Al-
ready they can see property values
soaring and eager feet trampling down
the sturdy peach trees and lissome
vines which cover the .property at pre-
sent being tested.
A. J. Bytes, of Torouto, a prospector.
who first unearthed traces of lead,
now controls 3,000 acres in the section
which he acquired at prices ranging'
from $40 to .$100 an acre.
Engineers are confident they can de-
velop the property by scooping up ore'
in a steam shovel,—Mail and Empire.
s.
•
Zinc the Leader
In Peach District
1 Niagara Peninsula Agog Ovet
Immigrant Youth Receives
Terrible Injuries When
Thrown Against Revol-
ving Wood -saw
,Fog At Westminster
Vieth (London): Two facts emerge
from the tog. One, that their is no
such thing as a Free Trade Party now,
The Socialist Party is so honeycomb-
ed with Protectionist dissenters that
oven the stern and sardonic Mr. Suow-
cletr shores signs . of recognizing and
oandouing tite backsliders ot the back
benches. That the trade unionists
must. come sooner or later to protec-
tion of their_ labor is oltvious, and it
looks as if It wotild be sooner rather
than later.,
.Who Eats the Butter
!Halifax Chronicle (Lib.) : Two ves-
sels 'within a short time have be-
tween them lauded 15,000,000 pounds
oVete Zealaud. butter at Halifax. It,
'of bourse, does not stay here, but
comas, to Halifax for distribution all
goer. Canada. This is a very large
amount of ,'butter, but side by side
with it place this fact, that into Can-
ada came last year 15,000,100 people
as 'tourists. That huge amount would
make a pound each for the tourists. a log an cibad fallen against the saw,
; State Purchases of Wheat
Sp,ov' . Sheers Still Hold Huge "Meets"
Regina, Sask.—A prison term has
3ust been meted out to a Saskatch-
ewan farmer who was found guilty
of crippling a young imrnigrant lad.
Alex. South was sentenced by Mr.
Justice Bigelow in the,ICiug's Bench
court at Prince Albert for a one-year
term. H. A. South, his father, was
fined by the Court.
William Pearling, a British immi-
grant boy, received terrible injuries
when he was 'thrown against a re-
volving wood -saw allegedly by South
and his son.
Pearling bad a sleep gash half way
around his head. Other injuries per-
manently disabled his right hand. He
was in the hospital for months and he
was lucky to live.
Nearly a year ago, the lad was em-
ploYed on the South farm. Another
immigrant bey, and the Souths were
sawing wood.
According to George Bakie, who
was brought back from the State of
Maine to testify in the case, South
and, his sou bit Pearling and knock-
ed hint against the saw after they
had grown angry at the. way the
youth was handling saw -logs.
The accused pair denied that there
had been tl fight or an assault. They
said that Pearling had stumbled over
1 Spectator (London) : (The bulk our -
'
chase of raw commodities by the State,
has been proposed In the British...
House ot (Iommons). The dangers iu
heient in State -trading ought not to
be overioeked. Every time there erns
a rise in the price, of'bread •a tornado
of abuse would break over the head `oil
the Government of the day. And if
deal were put through by the Centro
Board with, for example, the Argene
tine, tor an exchange of wheat and;
manufactured articles, it would Cera
tainly be represented as a serious
blow to Canadian humors, and could
not fail to 5eopardize the cause of Im ,
periai econctnic co-operation, and, in-
deed, of Imperial unity in every.
sphere. There is, however, a grow-
ing disposition on the part of mom?
hers of the present House of Commons:
to consider Mr. Wise's schemes on its;
merits, as a business rather than as
Political propoitipn. ..
A suspect when searched was found
to have the following articles attach
ed to his t ndcrclothirri; iislt-hooks,
scissors, knife)_ nibe. Spoon, ke •, :thee;
hen, razor -Mattes. eoat•.ltillt ,?r, ink-
stand, told p irn .lighter•. i,, tvy wee
ter untlerofutli.fi, feels just like that
this time of y- '
AN ANCIENT CUSTOM WiTH FOLLOWERS OF THE TRAlk..
snowshoe club initiates new menthol's with a "b lankei:in; ceremony.
high", during the rites attendant moil Isis joining the fraternity,
a member
"ky-