The Blyth Standard, 1930-03-06, Page 3The King's World -Wide Broadcast
The B.B.C. nahlounW0 that an analy-
bis of reports received from abroad
wakes it clear that the world broad-
cast whieh was proposed and pltu 1103
by the iattsh Broadcasting Corpora-
tion, proved a triumph,
Iu Great Britain roe.eptioe was tint•
formly good. le Prance eleven Gov-
ernmental stations, including the
Eiffel Tower, were hi uettou, fel by
the speech -line, London -Parts; Radio.
Paris also rebroadcast. Belgium and
Holland both satisfactorily relayed the
ceremony which tht'y received by line
or by wireless piclt•up from Daventry
5XX according to cireumstau0es, in
Germany,. Cologne and Berlin were
the main foci of lines for the Conlin.
nut. Cologne •supplied I-famburg in
the nue direction and Frankfurt, Stutt-
garl, Munich, Switzerland and Italy
8111ie other, From Bantu, South.
Eastern Europe, Poland and Scandin-
avia were supplied. 10 Germany it-
self nearly all the regional groups of
atatiols rebroadcast tho procoedlugs.
lnfo•m0tio0 from Switzerland, Italy,
Austria, Czeoh001000kla, Hungary, Yu-
geslavla, Poland, Latvia,'b'Inhnd, Den-
mark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland
shows that iu many of these countries
the quality of reception waa excellent.
In Canada, the Canadian National
Railways' citrin 0) twenty-four sta-
tions rebroadcast with excellent re -
stilts from coast to const. Similar
0110000s was obtained in the United
States, where the two great chains of
the National Broadcasting Company
and the Columbia broadcasting system
distributed the relay, the former with
fifty-five stations anis the latter .with
thirty-eight, Results lin Soui.h Africa
anti Australia were net so gond, int
New Zealand reports excellent racer'
tion and rehroadcasliug, while in jap-
an, contrary to the first report, 1l now
animals that the rebroadcast was ewe
cessfully married out by 1110 Japanese
Broadcasting Corporation. In India
there was n rebroadcast from Calcutta
as well as a good deal of direct lister
ing to the 11.13.0. lit 011, it Is esti-
mated that between 270 and 280 Sta-
tions were in action,
The organization and execution of
Ibis relay of the King's speech to all
parts of the world were sigulticaut of
the groat potential value of broadcast-
ing 00 an old to ci0ilizntiou 1n its
struggle against both war and ignor-
ance,
Chinese Famine
Toll May Reach
4 Million in '30
2,000,000 Natives of Shensi
Province Died Last Year;
No Harvest Since 1927
Tallyuau, Shensi.-1'ha matin, cen-
tral section of Simnel. I'ro'ittec-the
Wei River Valley, centering around
Sithe -is in the midst of the nerd ap-
pallingly, disastrous famine whirl. has
Louis Coatelen
With Kaye Don
Famous Frencll"Born Engi-
neer and Expert Builder
of Racing Cars
affected any Part of China since. 11)0
catastrophe of 1871.77. Estimates
made fronn the best poslblo sources
indicate that those dead front starve.
lion daring 1929 number at least 2,-
000,000 --with another 2,800,000 prac-
ticmlly certain to die from the same
cause before the next harvest. The
total population of this region before ,
the famine was about 6,000,000,
13uat completed a tel of Mac:aiga-
tion through a part of the Shensi area
anti what 1 saw made the week or eo
in Shensi a continuous ghastly night,
mare of past, Present and prospective
h0m0n misery. Practically every one
man, woman and child -on the streets
and on the roads looked as though lie
was jest about ready to drop from
starvation, They were 1101 cowed so
much as dazed to the point of utter
apathy by long continued lack of food.
Record of Harvests
What Inas caused this condition?
For one thing, this is the record of
harvests:
Spring, 1027 -Excellent,
Autumn, 1927 -Practically nothing,
S1rlug, 1925 -Practically nothing,
Autumn, 1928 -Practically nothing.
Spring, 1929 -Practically nothing,
Autumn, 1929-A millet crop about
SEGRAVE'S TEACHER
Louis 0oatel0u, one of the outstand•
lug automotive engineers of the world
and designer of the ear in which Kaye
Dot will seek to establish a new
world's speed record at Daytona
Beach, Fla., will accompany tho Brl•
brit race driver to the rafted States,
it is announced by the American
Automobile Association,
The governing body of racing, which
will supervise and toe tho attac10 on
1110 existing record, says that Mr.
Coatelen, with Kaye Don mud mem
hers of their party, will sail for Ame'i`i-
ca on • the steamship 13eeugaria,
February 20th, arriving lin-New York
on March 4th,
Interest of the engineer ht, Mr.
Don't attempt to shatter the record of
231 miles per hour made last year by
Sir II. 0.D, Sograve will bo intensified
by reason- of (ho fact that he also de-
signed the "Mystery S;' in which Slr
Henry established the first 100010's re-
cord in excess of 200 miles per hour,
Britisher Since 1901
Coatelen is a Frenchman, 51 years
of age, though the has spent half of
1110 life in England. IIe obtained 818
first automotive experience I0 the
drafting roo0t8 of the DeDiou•I3outon
works in France, going from there to
Clement and the Panhard. Ile nil -
grated to England in 1901, because of
the greater opportunities there for
young area. His first employment was
with the Humber Company, ;In 11107
he entered into partueralip with IIfll-
1 per cent, of normal Hurn in the productibn of the Hillman -
And the prospects? Spring, 193D-- Coatelen car, In 1908 he accepted the
nutter the best possible conditions, invitation of the Sunbeam Motor Car
not more than 10 per cent. Drought
last autumn made it possible to plant
only about 20 per cent, of tho normal
amount of wheat. Of that otniy about
half germinated, There have been
good snowy, and the prospects are es-) been the loading figures in eenpetl-
cellent for what wheat did get a start
before the cold weather, 13111 only 10
per cent. of a normal crop got a start.
Human causes unquestionably con-
11188ted to an important degree to
making the famine as serious as 1t is
But natural causes were the primae
cause of the famine, as is demon -
grated by the fact that ranine also,
came in southwestern Chensi, whore
the drought 0113010ns were substan-
tially the same and where the human
elements all contributed to relieve
rather than intensify the effects of the
successive crop failures.
In any case, the appalling famine
conditions are there.
RUSSIAN BEAUTY
,Of the 13,000 Mennonites who tried to leave Mesta, 0110 thousand only
macceed03 and will eventually reach Conteh. Here is shown younger mem-
ber of the religious sect.
Company, latd„ of Wolverhampton, to
join it, and the first products of his
designing figured lin competition on
the race courses in 1909, IIIc con•
cerng - Sunbeam-Talbot-Duraaq,
have
Ontario Drink Bill
Set at $56.486,514
A Tribute to Currie
Canadians of every chess will read
with keen satisfatctionn the reivalt-
able iributo paid to Sir Arthur Carrie
by 'Major-General J, E. B. Seely, Com-
mander of the Canadian Cavalry
Brigade during the Wm, in ills auto-
biography just issued from the Prose.
No man was 1n a better position than
the Olajor-General to know what was
going on at headquarters, 110 was 10
Sir Artlhur's confblenece, and he
)Peaks with the tru11)0111y of a man
whose word must carry weight VG)
all Impartial people.
Major-General Seely testifies That
Sir Arthur had almost a fanatical
hatred of unnecessary casualties, and
his farther statement that again and
again the General nearly brought his
military career to an end by "bluntly
refusing to 00 things he was c01 -011n
would result in great loss of life with-
out compensating advantages" will
room as a welcome corroboration' to
those who know Sir Arthur best. 9Ch0y
will realize that this 1s quite lin keep-
ing with the character of the man.
His nhea'a lives were to him a sacred
trust, nod he would not wantonly fling
then away. 11 Is a good thing, and
a Pleasant thing, to find a brother -
officer who knows what lie is talking
lion eve' since,
Aided Royal Air Force
Long before the war he became In -
!evoked in aviation, and bought a
Farman airplane. Ile then stalled
aircraft so assiduously that when the
wan' !motto out the Suubean Coatelen
engines were said to bo the only ones
of British manufacture, in big prodnc-
'tion, Which had sufficient power ,,1
fly British seaplanes. Sunbeam- Ooat-
eien aircraft engines were in the
planes that gave the news of the en•
envy's disposition in the latae or Jut-
land; that dropped food in Iiut when
General 'l'OWn%lend'% f0ree was be-
sieged, and played a consistently im-
portant part in aviation throughout
the War,
Tlio two lunge motors used in Don'%
record challeuger are the preclude of
Co0teletee engineering geutus, They
are designed, it is understood, for
work of super -airplanes, which ac-
counts for their great power.
Increase of $8,534,39'6 is
Shown Over Figures
for 1928
Toronto. --Ontario's total (Wok hill
for 1929 was sot at $50;481,514,81, by
Hon. W. H. Price, attorney -general, in
answering a question in the Legisla-
ture. This represented an increase of
98,534,190 over 1928 figures, In (14-
ditclu, wine valued at $1,188,258 was
produced in Ontario and sold to rest -
dents of other provinces, and 969,721
world t0 purchasers outside of Can-
ada.
The amount or sp11)1000011iquor sold
by the Liquor Control Commission
during 1929 was 932,368,503.91, wine
83,237,8.19:.50 , and beet' 92,12040,80.
Wine sold by wineries direct to On-
tario consumers was $1,128,9.45. Seer
sold from Commission warehouses
was set at $14,157,365.45 old sold di-
rect front the breweries, 93,575,934,15.
The above information was sought
by T P. Slack, Progi, Warta, in re•
ply to a question put by W, G. Medd,
Prng, South Huron, the Attorney -Gem
oral said that 1,140 persons, including
three members of the board, were eel•
Ploved by the Liquor Control Commis-
sion. The total payroll was 91,721,-
822.19,
1,721;822.19,
Canada's Pools
World's Greatest
Canadian Girls Soviet Trade
In Visitor's Eyes With Great Britain
Western Farmers Have Or-
ganized the Biggest Thing
of its Kind Ever
Attempted
0tawa---There are four Wheal
Pools le Western Canada, the al ant,
iatbe Saskatehcwan and Alberta
"Canadian 'Wheat Pool„
Tho threw pools of Manitoba, Sag•
Weinman cud Alberta aro now oper-
ating on their second five -your con -
11 -act period.
Tho,,e have a total membership of
approximately 140,000 fanners in the
world's greatest nom-prollt prodacers'
00 -operative marketing association.
In less than six years the Cnnadiau
Wheat Pool has become the loading
marketing agency for Canadian wheat,
handling More that half of all the
wheat sold by Canadian farmers,
The Canadian \Vlleat Pool 00000 ra-
tion Is an evolution rather than a re-
vclutlo)i in the grain marketing sys-
tem eL Canada. The pioneer farm-
ers of our Canad10n West, eller they
had found out by 0 long settee of ex-
po'hmeuts or their farms and at the
about pay this %ponlaneeus and nn -I Dominion experimental farms, the vino
sought tribute to the humanity of the rotes of wheat which would give a
man who gnided the Canadian Arany satiefacto y yield of high quality
to 0)0100y and upon whose shoulders wheat, were faced with the nems -
telt the brunt of a burden few could oily of improving marketing methods
have borne unaided as he did. -Mont- if the grate glower was to have any
real Star, ronrgi1) above the baro cost of 110)10 -
tion for his crop,
The "Ern ire Crusade" For more than thirty years the
p wheat farmers of )110 }Vest were eh -
Nation and Athenaeum (Loudon): gaged in a continuous struggle for
The "Empire Crusaders" have not yet some mea00re of control over the mar -
thought out 111011' Polley, and they are holing of their grain, 10 the report
putting Protection before the country of bio Royal Grain inquiry, 1025, 11 is
Attitude Towards Men Criti'
cised by English Wm
oan
'Who Stayed 1'wo
Mouths
London, --As a result of a visit to
Canada which lasted two months,
Nary Locke discusses co-education of
boys and girls in this contribution to
the .Daily Nail:
"Once 1' believed that co-education
must produce a saner attitude Lowar110
050 than our present, system of segre-
gation. The two or three of my young
acquaintances who have been so edu-
cated have a frank and friendly Man.
nor towards members of tho 0101)08110
sex that seems to me quite delightful,
and when 1 vislted Canada, where
most of the boys and girls go to school
together, I expected to find the stone
thing.
'Not at a11, The Canadian girls
whom I mot, either b) their own
homes 01' is hotels, seemed to are to
haven the sale attitude towards men
as the nragazios heroines of tlre'nlne-
ttes,
"'they talked about they 'buena,
and were not Duly most:rr100001y anxi-
ous to get married but apparently
regarded marriage as the only oats-
faelory career. They lapped up the
most incredibly sentimental films and
songs with frank delight and exchuna-
lious 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 hint without somehow Intro -
dining a sort of 'tele a-Lete,l' atmos.
1(1)00)',
May Outdo Pupils
The Golden Arrow, present record
holder, was designed by Captain Irv-
ing, in c.oajnnctioh with Sir hoary Se -
grave, who drove the car to its 18'
mailable record of 231 miles per hour
on March 13, 1929,
Incidentally, both Segrave and Irv.
Ing at one time, whon the "Mystery
S" wee built, were attaches 'of the
Sunbeam Company.
1V11 the great Coatelen bo :able to
outdo his former pupils? This is the
question to the forefront in the racing
fraternity throughout the weld,
Fog at Westminster
Truth (Menden): Two facto emerge
from the fog. One, that their is no
such thing as a Free Trade Party now.
The Socialist Party Is so honeycomb-
ed with Protectionist dissenters that
even the sten and sardonic Mr. Snow-
den shows sine of recognizing and
condoning the backsliders of the hack
benches. That the trade unionist%
toast conte sooner or later to peotee-
tion of their labor is obvious, and it
looks as if it would be sooner rather
than later.
In a cruder form than any" which has stated that, 'Between the year 1897
been Produced since the day's of Adam and the outbreak of the Great War
Snaith. There is, therefore, no danger in 1914, thirteen investigations into
of Re adoption, in its present form. various departments of the grain
Tito danger is that the Tories, who trade wore ]held by Royal commis -
never cease from hankering after Pro- 01ehs, in some cases appointed by
toetlon, will seek to take advahtak0 Federal, and other cases, by Prov -
of the touch of real enthusiasm in ht0101 anthorlly,
Lord BeaVerhrook's propaganda to All of these investigations were
foist an ordinary protective tariff upon Prompted by cons 'Ohms emanating
the eleetorat0 From a party potent of from the prohucev of grain and they
view we could wish for nothing bet- all resulted in the bringing about, al
ter; but there are bigger issues at, at least some le 1000.1al changes in
stake. 1 the conditions about which there were
complaints."
Least 'Said, Soonest Mended
Winnipeg Tribune (Ind, Cons.): By Who Eats the Butter
a typographical error in printing the Ilnlifax Chronicle (Lila): Two ree-
Iiing's opening speech at the naval sell within a short tinne have be
pa110y, an Irish now%nape• has IIis tweet 1110111 landed 15,000,000 pounds
Majesty calling for "early reduction of New Zealand butter at 1101)1311. It,
of argument% throughout the world." of course, does not May here, but
If that could be accomplished, it would comes to Halifax. for distribution all
not merely 10(1008 armaments, but over Canada. This 00 a very large
would bring the millentum, amount, of butter, but side by side
"It 1a a gond inaangoeariimn (Al the re -
newel of the diplomatic relations he-
twoeu Great Britain and the Soviet.
Union that Soviet purchases in this
country have spawn a considerable 1u -
crease during the fist three menthe e1't.
the financial year .1028-29," say0 the
Bank for Russian Trade Revlevi, "Or-
ders placed by the Soviet trading or.
gaolzatlots during October -December,
1029, amounted to .04,770,228, as emu.
Pared with ..81,1193,012 111 October -The
comber, 1928.
The following table shows the
amount of Soviet orders each mouth
In pen 1100 sterling:
1928 1929
October 657,864 2,994,022
November .,,,..,,,, 037,470 1,693,591
December 498,128 1,082,515
Total 1,893,1112 4,770,228
"The orders reached the highest
level In October, but declined some-
what during November and December,
Willett 00 duo mainl' to seasoa0l 11'-
1)1)111054,
"The work of the tractor service
attton8 is of grout importance In clew
of the attempt that is being made in
the Soviet Union to improve wield.
turn, Those elutions were organized
In connection with the existing collec-
tive farms in order to utilize the avail,
able tractors and agricultural me -
081001y for the cultivation of private
peasant farms in exchange for a cer-
tain ,portion of the crop. The first slal-
11011 was eatabllshod near Odessa, in
the Ukraine, loss that two years ago,
and by the end of September last
there were more than a hundred,
while the estimates of the current 11u-
eeci0l year Provide for the establish-
ment of 1(0othe' hundred stations dor.
Mg the period.
'''1'h(s sort of thing, l gather, starts ''In addition to supplying Duelers
quina curly in lite. I am told they and agricultural machinery and tc0ch•
have 'petting' (otherwise 'necking') ing the Peasants to work them- tho
with it place this fact, that into Can -
Anyway, that royal woddlug has ado came last year.15,000,100 People
served to remind the world that Italy
still has a royal family,
parties long before they leave 8011001
and continue them with unabated
fovour throughout their college life,
One exceptionally austere young
science student whom. my brother and
I invited to a Phonic flatly refused to
come until wo pledged hint our word
that It was not giong to be a necking
party.
"1 do not say this is Ihot all quite
natural in the young. Perhaps it is
even as well to get ilio seutiuloulal
stage over early. Neither do I imag-
ine that 1 can judge of the effect of
co•educntton la a two -months visit:,"
Prison Sentence
For Abusing Boy
Immigrant Youth Receives
Terrible Injuries When
Thrown Against Revol-
ving Wood -saw
Regina, Sade --A prison term has
just been meted out to a Saskatch-
ewan farmer who was found guilty
of crippling a young immigrant lad.
Alex. South 1500 sentenced by Mr,
Justice Bigelow in the King's Bench
court at 'Prince Albert for a one-year
term, H, A, South, his father, was
tined by 1110 Court.
William Pealling, a British immi-
grant boy, received terrible injuries
when he was thrown against a re-
volving wood -saw allegedly by South
and his sol.
Pealling had a deep gash half way
around ids head, Other injuries per-
manently disabled hls right hand. Ho
wan in the hospital for mouths and lie
Was lucky to live,
Nealy a year ago, the lad was em-
ployed 00 the South farm, Another
immigrant boy and the Smiths were
sawing wood.
According, to George Rakie, who
was brought book from the State of
ilain0 to testify, in the cas0, South
and his son hit Pealling and knock,
ed line against the saw after they
had grown angry at the way the
youth was Mutating saw -logs,
Phe nausea I'pair denied that there
had been a light or an assaolt. They
as tourists. That huge tunounl Wonldj said that Polling had stumbled over
matte a pound each for the tourists, a log an diad fallen against tine nat10,
Snow Shoers Still Hold Huge 'Meets"
AN ANCIENT CUSTOM WITH FOLLOWERS OF THE TRAIL
This snowshoe club initiates new members w11h a "blanketing" ceremony. here is shown
high", during lite rites attendant upon his joining the 111101ntity,
tractor stations give the pe (stuns sc-
lected seeds in exchange for their
owl). For all the services rendered
the station receives from 25 10 30 per,
cent, of the crops,
"The number of tractor service stag
dons is to be increased by October 1,
1933, to 575. The estimated grain Pro.
11001100 of the farms worked by the
statlous In 1933 is 22 11011100 tons,
half of which quantity is 10 be mariket-
able grain."
c
Zinc the Leader
In Peach District
Niagara Peninsula Agog Ovet
Reports of Ore Dis- -
coveries
ileamsville.--All the farm'es to the
Niagara peninsula will bo dropping
their pruning knives for minors' picks
and replacing their pitchforks with
diamond drills if the Increasingly Op•
110115 ie reports coming out of Lincoln.
County persist,
Already prospects of unearthing
haat, Z1)10 and 0111-01' in paying (unman•
lies in Clinton `township, between
Snhitln•ille and Beamsville, have
proved rosy enough to interest the
'l'readwelt-Yukon Mining Company.
Engineers of this and other concerns
have looked over the Property amt
surface assays and advised comnnleuc0-
ment of diamond. Qrilling,
Two drilis will be brought down
from '1S'eadwell's property in Sudbury
within tufo weeks, according to pre•
soot plans, Those connected with the
investigation aro visualizing a rush of
prospectors, Promoters and develop,
meat operators into the district, Al-
ready they can see property values
soaring and eager feet trampling down
the sturdy peach trees and lissome
vines 108101) cover the property at Pre-
sent being tested.
A, J. Bytes, of 'Toronto, a prospector
who ilrst unearthed traces of lead,
now controls 3,000 acres in the section
which he acquired at prices ranging
from 910 to 9100 tot 0cre.
E0,inecra are confident they can de-
relop i9)o property by scooping rap ore
in a steam shovel,---11uil and I9uphe,
State Purchases of Wheat
Spectator (1.01)4001: (The bulk par•
chase of raw conmm0ities by the State,
las been proposed in the British
house of Commons). The (dangers ia•
hereat in Stale trading ought not to
bo overlooked, Every time there was,
a rise in the pr'ic'e or, bread a tornado
of abuse would break over the head of
the Government of the day. And it a
deal were put through by tho Con1ro
111111d with, for example, tine Argon'
tine, for an exchange of wheat and
manufactured articles, it would cert,
fainly be represented as a serious
blow to Canadlau 1220me's, and could
not fail to jeopardize the cause of Imo'
portal evono tic cooperation, end, in-
deed, of impala) unity la every
51(10.10. Th0r0 18, however, a grow,
ing disposition o0 ilte part of mem-
bers of the ,present House of Commons_,
to consider Mr. Wlse's schemes on its
morins', as a business rather than a,
10 )ileal propoition,
A. suspect when searched was 1o100'
to 11ave than following articles attach,
ed to Ibis hnnil"--clothing: fleithooks,
seissors, rlrorm, Ice•}'S 0(185;
0a0n h von 1 I ,rot t (10:,1)1', inlr-
011111l, oe3 1 , ..tr.h)'o. ilfla y 1010
a member "0119'- ter 0)21(1 , 6.11 : h just lik0 that
this rani, or