The Blyth Standard, 1930-03-13, Page 6War Has Cost More Since 1919
Than it Cost During War Period
And as New Claimants for Pensions Appear, Annual Cost'
to Country is Mounting Yearly
Ottawa. --Tho agitation for more total 71,000, Oa averase, about u
ge100r01.18 treatment of war cripples, (100011 sten a day 110001110 Pau loners
Which will be thoroughly aired in par - under the p0e.011 Pulsion Act, (ut if
Ilamelt during the present session 1s ho 1.et 1s widened (Ito rate of
of national interest. The demand 1'o else will be greatly accelerated.
more pensions Is supported by both The present agitation has nothing
political parties, the veterans'- assocsa-_ to do mita the :rale of pensions new
thins and by many distinguished mem to force, No considerable scallop of
Undoubtedly, parliament will be favor - )the public hold that, the. amount of
ably disposed and the pension bill will the present pe1131on0 is itmdequat3.
bo increased as a result of the amend-, The conlplunl is that the Act is no1
menta to the Act which will be made, i broad enough to inehal0 all mho arc
But while the pension buten may casual to state aid,
be said to be seined before it reacher 4 The pension system is 10.011 13 out
pmlinm0nt, it is of
vital Interest to !on :n ma0Innm 100 per cont heats.
the business community. Few people 1100111(1 1111(1 down what is a a bit=
101111ze lite amount of our annual pen a pension, the Act leaves at to Ow molt -
sinus laid; the degree to whicih the its -1 cal mon to decide w11nt percentage of
Ye Ken John Peel
The Lost Herd
How an Old Story of the Buf-
falo-l-lunters Has Come
True—and May Afford
a New Sport for
Millionaires
The old buffuto-hunters, when they
found the bison were vanishing, in-
vented the legend that somewhere, in
some remote fastness of the North
American Continent, was a "lost
herd:' One day, they said, this lost
herd would reappear.
Of course, what had really happened
was that constant slaughter had
killed off the bison. But it now seems
that there 0100, in reality, at least ono
lost herd. humors of it were current
among the trappers of the Far North
years ago, but it was a long time be-
fore any authentic information could
11'ler0ih great Ilan(snuua lire.,
he gained. Then it wa8 discovered
that there were something like 6,000
bison roasting a great area of some
L1 iia non ante of 1110110001 0ar1001 10,500 square miles of ideal buffalo
Smith seemed happy enough for a country between Ihe Peace River and
tun•,'um h0 was aol 81111000/1 101111 rho Great slave Lake.
what lie had gained flem0mbertug Once the existence of the herd was
cal 101110y of the federal government this twaxiunue a 10.,11 Is entitled to 10- - — —
is restricted by the bltl(1eu of 01011011- ('0100, '1'111)8, 0110 nuul as glvea a til
(In ui'es arising' out of the war. When per cent. po11sio11, ;mother a 40 pet•
demands for reduction in taxation are cent. and so 00.
made, or whets charges 01 000r spend- There are, indeed, two maxima.
1, advanced there 18 frequently For disabilities, not constituting 11006.1
hb are ,
a lack of appreciation of the degree to cal helplessness, the maximum pen.
which the war expenditures are a con- cion is $900 per year for a single man.
trolling factor, 1'001110 regard the if married a further 5300 per annum
war as being over and remit to think is added and there aro separate al.
that war expenditures 011110(1 with 00- pensioner may receive a separate al-
tivo ]hostilities in November, 1!118. lowaneea for children: if sulphas, the
Facts of War Cost tewance lip to a maintain of $700 per
This attitude is nndersimulhnble yea r.
Widows receive 1a M11 0 1111 11 0 1 pen-
sion
since the Great War was (laui2da'ssioll of $720 a scar with additional
Brat experience of war of a largefor
ho was 011:1'0 that Johnson know of
his tumni0l poshie1l he added that he
had lust sold a port too of his land for
4:500,
"1 ciao 1401 hon what luta want. with-
in three day, said iho dealer. Can
you muni me in the 1001'11ct 111a0e a1
Oalil1am on Friday? 1 have to collect
from several customers Mere, and it
10131)111 be a n011801110000 if you could
Settle with me then.'
Bought, Body and Soul
Smith agreed, but. i01 did not go near
01111ham on the friday. The cattle
the day before,
that been delivered t
and he oared John -on ueady £100;
1.11.largo profits made by :10hu00n as established the Government appointed
a 8101k -dealer, he evolved an asrbiti- rangers to protect it and keep down
o1) scheme for selling direct to Smith- wolves, and declared 1110 whale of the
field-tarkei find so saving the ex area ebuff8lo sanctuary, It is to -day
pens of au agent. Canaries' largest national park,
TIM lois pians went -wrong. Nothing Some y )m19 before this, however,
he did 10119 right. 000enever ho bought the Federal Government had pus -
Brost 0011 the market was at its high- 00as0d a herd of 700 buffalo,
ts1, mud whenever he had to sell It which had been preserved in the
was at its lowest. United States, and installed them in
A Death•Bed Confession a reserve, 106 square miles in extent,
1 { seals he gets cu if a widow rental, 11) a desperate effort to retrieve his at Wainwright, Alberta, This was
scale. And in settlug out t. 10 present ries, sac, „els oncl tear's grataity nail,
cost of war, it must not be believed but he remained indoors, Hu kniew fon tuns, ho began to speculate wildly, over twenty years ago, and by 10 16 the
that any attempt is being made to i pagnunts far chi(11)11 ;a'e (0)1(1111)0 that Johnson would conte to the house and at Smithfield Market he became he'd had increased to 2,000, In 1923_
to collect the money on bridal' night, howl) as 0 crazy feat who was will• it was 10,000.
Bison on Tour
This increase was at rather too fast
oppose the demands of ex-soidtcrs for
more generous treatment: or to re-
gard the war expcndllures as a burden
0111011 could have been avoided i1) any
way. The purpose is to give the facts.
Between 191.4.19 this Dominion
spent 01,492,166,548 for war purposes.
Since 1019 we have spent 02,035,651,-
600,
2,035,651;61(0, Today the annual expenditures
10101) 0' out of the war are $163,000,000
and this total will increase in 1110 fu -
Post -War Disablement
As a whole, the war veterans do 1100
c0r111011in of tie scale of pensions. 9'110
problem which now mast bo dealt
with has regard to pensions for tis•
ablenlent appearing after the war.
Obviously it is very difli0mlt often, to
determine the extent to 10111011 this
disablement is the 1-0)31113 of service,
What parliament will 110, is doubtful,
but in all meltability the door Hail be
tare, not diminish. opened this session to all ev 0eldi0rs
These figures show that the actual who now 1111(1 themselves unable, ow -
cost of the fighting is only the be- ing to sickness, to earn a livings -re -
g1011010. The real money is spent garclless of whether or 111(1 'heir con.
after the war is over. The annual ditlor is date to the war.
bill for the war is made up as 101- A, ('000 in point has received wide
lows: publicity I1) Toronto. An ex-soidier
I11. o1) wat'debt $$112,000,000 who received a gunshot wound in tine
hip died recently of tuberculosis of the
bowel. It, is chained that the tuber -
C1110018 WIN caused by the wound and
that a pension should he paid to his
family on this stasis. The medical
authorities of the pension department
declare that there was absolutely no
connection between the wound and
the disease and that the (lain) is no
a just one. Many more examples
could be cited hut the sone prin01010
undeylies all of them.
All things considered, 10 is expecte(
that (01r pension bill will Increas
rapidly in the next 20 years and wil
reach. Its maximum about 1965, 1
would not be surprising if the 009011
dltures under this (read doubled, Tiles
facts, however, are not without: sigu1
finance to industry and 0011111100c((
which ply the litre—1'Inan0url Post
000110/000
Civ, re•eotab,
Laud settlement
The payments on account of war
debt aro gradually' falling 11s the debt
is redeemed, bat the cost of pensions
Is rising rapidly. The pension bill in
1919 was $17,000,000; 11) 1921, 1(36,000;
000; in 1924, $38,000,000; in 1229, 1(40;
000,000, This year it will approxi-
mate $42,000,000, and when parliament
finishes with the Pension Act it may
go as High as $15,000,000.
Dozen a Day John List
So far, 0375,000,000 has heel paid on
pensions, and 0 further $203,000,000 on
civil re-establishment. One out of
every ten men '0110 came back from
overseas Is o1) the pension list. In
1921, there were 03,000 and to -day the
42,000,000
8,000,000
1,500,000
aleanw'hte he had settled all the
details of the Murder with his house-
keeper, Martha Levison, Br paonlis•
lug her a 1411(31100 -share of whatever,
ing 111 111110 an risk. But he could not
afford to go cm losing for long. 1118
Share 00 the blood money had been
considerable, but. it was not sufficient
they found on the corpse, 110 had to lulhstaud dace imsstve had sea -
00110111 her, body anis soul. sons. So, four years at or the murder,
John on v aited for Smits at 0,,k-0,,k-Smtih was worse off financially than
he bad 110.011110.011f
1 re .ore.
in those straits, be turned to the
housekeeper and succeeded in terrify
lag her into parting with her share of
their victim's money. Itut it, soon fol•
Plenty of Poteen
In Ireland
icit Whisky Making Serious
Problem for Free
Staters
111
Ireland has a drink problem all its
01011.
Although there is no such thing as
Prohibition in that country, the 1116
vate still is said to flourish in the
Emerald Isle as a green bay -tree.
'rho still's product Is called po1een,
and ;clue donne It as being 111 rho
Ramo class with Canadian 81000801/10
liquor. Botts Irish governments,
writes an Irish correspondent of tthe
London New Statesman, are finding it
increasingly difficult to curb rho ac.
Battles of t?ie poteelauakers.
Some time ago, it is related, the
Free State authorities were ceutideot
that they had stamped out the
once in in Galway and Mayo, but --
"Now It has been discovered that
the Industry was merely transforreci'
from the mainland to the Islands
along the coast, where the process of.
manufacture, in addition to being loss
risk' for the lawbreakers, could be
carried out on a more extrusive scale
than was possible when dills were
1110(1011 in the bogs.
"On two uni11babite0 islands re-
gular distilleries built of concrete had
been erected, which the Civic Guards
demolished with explosives. If tine
e11ergis that went to erecting this
plant, smuggling In malt, and smug-
gling out liquor had been devoted to
legitimate Industrial enterprises, the
economic problem of the Galltasht,
which absorbs so 11111010 of the time
of the Dail, would long since have
been solved,"
The Irish -speaking districts have al'
a rate, and finally it was decided that hays made illicit whisky, and to all
the Wainwright had should be kept appearances 11111 continue to make it:
down by sending the yearly surplus
north, In the hope that they might mix
with the wild bison there, Since the
1taut until he (1001(104 that the farmer first shipment went north in 1026
wasn'tgoing to keep his appoin111)0111 some 6,500 bison have been moved 111
and 111111 he must look hint ftp. But this way, part of the journey being by
he did not mention this to anyone at rail, and part In flat-bottomed boats
the market. on the Athabasca and Slave Rivers.
This silence was (f vital importance lowed the rest and it was only by the There is taut 110w of the Federal
to Smith and his female partner—iia- 00100111ance of his creditors that he Government possibly declaring an
deed, It may be said to have puma was allowed to keep the farm for a Opsit season for buffalo, and allowing
teed the complete 01)eeess of their time. wealthy sportsmen to do a little
c01101'. Eventually , however, Smith w118 shooting at some of 1110 surplus
Johus(u, who had £1,180 in Ilia evicted, anal he then became a laborer 1 bison. But ther0 will 00 very strict
pockets, chiefly 111 banknotes, made of an adjoining farm. But he was regulations and safeguards if this sag -
both useless and incompetent, and at p00110n is adopted; there will be no
last he was compelled to seek the repetition of the wholesale slaughter
shelter of the workhouse, where, a that swept the- buffalo from the
year later, he died and was burled in a prairies some sixty years ago,
paupers grave. These last buffalo hunts marled the
Eleven year's after the yellow -faced, end of -oma era and the beginning of
dark -eyed housekeeper, who looked another. Even while the hunters
111(0 a 000100110d -up witch, and who were still tacking about the lost herd
had 110011 the only 11(0110001' at her the cowmen were invading their coon -
masters funeral, 100110od that she try, and cattle were grazing' where
wa0 000)' 1110 grave herself, and asked only the bison had been before—
a Baptist minister to visit her. When where, indeed, the skeletons of the
he canto, she told him of what had last of them still dotted the prairie.
happened to Johnson, and the mystery But soon even the skeletons disap-
peared—after the hunters crone the
bole-plekers, who for a time shade a
living collecting and selling bnt1falo
bones.
1110 journey from Omkl1aul to the farm
alone. On ids arrival Smith rushed
out io gleet 111111 and to apologize foi-
1 not having kept the appointment. Ile
explained that he had 110011 detained
1(3" 01101' business, and expresed 1110
hope that Jolinsol would be his guest
l for the right.
"Coma in and have a 11011110 and w'e'll
settle," he said. And he 100101ed 011
Johnson taking the most comfortable
1 armchair in 1110 living -00011, while the
0 housekeeper prepared Ids favorite
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The Perfect Crime
Murder Seldom Goes Unaven-
ed—But in the Case of the
Murder of Samuel John-
son, Cattle -dealer, no
One Even Suspected
a Crime Had Been
Committed
By Charles Kingston
Many a man who has prided lnlmself
on having achieved the perfect man
d0r has subsequently found himself In
the dock at the Old Bailey, listening to
sentence of death.
Now and then, 1101000er, chance re-
veals the details of a crime whose
authors have never been brought to
hook, and whose very existence may
never have been suspected, It wits so
in the case of Fred Snaith and 1110
11o11800eeper, Martha Levison, who
murdered a cattle -dealer of 1110 name
of Samuel ,Johnson.
Pressed by His Creditors
Smith, a farmer in a small way at
Ockham, England, was oto of those
shiftless, Incompetent, and stupidly
cunning men who blame everyone for
their failure except themselves. For
years he load been buying cattle from
Johnson, with whom he often went to
Smithfield .1118111et, Loudon, and lie en-
vied the dealer who, by hard work and
business ability, was rapidly acquiring
a fortune.
11 was Smith's decided 0111111011 that,
If only he bad the necessary capital,
he 100111(1 become the 111001 prosperous
farmer in Rutl:uulshire, and whenever
lie said this to himself, or to his house-
keeper, his thoughts reverted to 30011•
son, who frequently carried as 1101011
as £2,000 on this person.
The Snaith farm was going to rack
and Ruin for want of money to re-
stock It and keep it up to date; his
creditors were pressing for payment,
and even Otto housekeeper's meagre
salary was overdue, Night after night
Snaith and Martha Levison discussed the back of the farmhouse. There had
the situation, amt as often as not the never been one there before, but it
name of Samuel Johnson cropped 11)11
in their discussions.
Balting the Trap
The catlle•llealer had very few re-
latives and fewer friends, and if lie
disappeared it would be months he -
drink.
11) a few moments Johnson was ta11c• of the cattle dealer's disappearance
tug boastfully of 1110 business he had was solved at last.
done that day. and of the money he — —
had collected. 1t was 0 favorite topic Leads in Baby Care
of 1110, but Smith listened eagerly, for
he felt sure that this money would
1,eott be his. Johnson, indeed, sealed
his own death -warrant when he men-
tioned the amount in his possession.
W1tlfout pressing his guest unduly,
Smith cunningly plied him with drink
until he wa0 almost nn0onscious,
Then, while the housekeeper held the
victim down in the chair, the farmer
0111011 hint with 0 coal ]hammer,
They buried the body NE the back
of the farmhouse, and they 'worked so
thoroughly that when Smith's 00111(ry
assistant came early in the morning
to begin 100 day's. work, there was no
indication that 011Y11ting unusual had
happened.
Schemes That Went Wrong
The man spent most at the clay as-
sisting Smith to erect a haystack at
was as good a site as tory, and for
years afterwards it was always 1110
imsions to build the first haystack
there,
Smithwas now in possession of Uac
capital he required to maim his for.
lore any 01100 ries would be made tune. Ilia neighbors were surprised
about him. 'Ills business look him all at his sudden prosperity, but lie
over the country', and it was nothing
unusual for hint to be absent. from his
lodgings for six Months and even a
year at a time.
bought extra land, engaged half a
dozen 11100, and launched out geu0ral-
ly without anyone suspectng that 11111
now -found wealth represented 11no
New 'Zealand not only leads the
world in saving the lives of its infants,
Ina it has beat Its own record the
past few years. In 1026 ft lost 40
babies in each 1,000; in 1927, only 39;
and 1928 slightly over 31;.
"Anyone who winds herself 01 111
Ito sheets 0100110 1111a a hop"
Gradually the idea winch S011111 had profits of a cold-blooded murder. As — --.:
hardly dared to admit even to himself for Johnson, it was assumed that 110. A hatter at a West -mid restaurant
grew stronger. And one day he asked was away on one of his periodical was onc0 a cowboy. From the wide•
the man lie had now resolved to nun'- journeys, to distant parts of the coca- (pelt spaces to the wide-open faces,—
der to buy some livestock for him. As ir'y. Pullen•
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Stammer on the prairies
Where tie sun's breath 1110100
not on dusty grasses
And the long cora rows.
Murmurs 111 the wheat fields:
Gasp of harsh, dry throats;
Rasping of the yellow stalks
00 wind -bleached oats.
to the end 01 1110 chapter, this Irish
informant goes or to say. But poteen;
manufacture, except i11 a few -1001111',
talions areas, was comparatively rare
in the Six Counties, 11e adds, unt11 a
few years ago. The 101011 ,Ooriliern-
er's may have been late in the field,
but they are making up for lost op•
portunities, acording to this corres•
pendent, wile adds.
"They have discovered the trick of
adapting•p01rol tins to serve as stills,
and in a Portadown prosecution the
other day one of the offenders who
ams brollglit to honk 00a0 (100101 l as
a prominent church worker,
"In the course of the evidence 111
his caro it was stated that a police:
raid 1n County Down had unearthed`
a still under a gospel ball, with the
profits of which ane o: the p0eaehen'9
had beon accustomed to elm out the'
rewards of his evangelical labors.
"As with Prohibition in America,
the core of 1110 problem is that popu-
lar 011101011 111 the peteen areas in
both Iris11 States will not range its
self against the lawbreakers, and tm-
111 this obstacle is 0051(011 down neith-
er government can make much head-
way in the crusade against illicit
whisky."
Oh, my eyes are wiring
For the shadows long and black
Creeping up the mountains
Where the cool streams tack;
And oll, my ears are straining
For a faint, far sound;
The tinkle of the sheep bells
As the flocks wind round,
—Jessica Royer.
A Discovery
"1 used to be a great ]nand to deal
out compiimeits,' said an honest man,
"until I found out that the women who
Irked Alum compliments did not in-
terest Inc"
11eveuge is a Kind of wild justice;
which, the more a 111an'0 nature runs
to, the more ought law to weed it
oat,—Francis Bacon.
What is that 10111011 ties two persons,
yet touches only 01100—A wedding
ring,
The Loyalist Trek in S. Africa
Vero Strut in 111e National Review',,
(London): Throughout the whole of
the five years that the Nationalist,
Party have been 111 power English.
speaking South Africans—both native.
and home-born—have streamed ae088,
the border 11) Rhodesia, Kenya an Tan=
gallyika, , , , While the South Afri-
can Party lost supporters in this 11'03',
the Nationalist Goverment called in
battalions — figures differ, some en•
thusiasts placing the number at 150;'
000—of derelict 11'111tes from the back -i
veld, found them easy li'c'k on the
railways, and added their names to
the voting lists of the towns.
The electoral advantage which the,
Nationalists have now gained they
will hold and strengthen. Immigra
tion will be discouraged if not forbid-,
den, and emigration—of the English
speaking-1o0k011 upon as a comma -
matron devoutly to be wished for.
Enhanced Value
The storage egg now makes a hit.
The purchaser so I0eelk
Mast pay a fancy price for It,
13ecans0 it's an antique,
"Anyone will do the best work ‘011e1'
he works along Ole line of his greata
est interest.—Join 1). Rockefeller, Jr.
Can any man or woman choose da-'
ties? No more than they can choose
thea' birthplace or their father and
mother.—George Eliot.
By C. M. PAYNE
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