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The Blyth Standard, 1930-05-08, Page 3Difficult Tasks England -Canada Faced by Britain T D b A' tondon Now Free to Cope With Problems of Empire INDIA AND EGYPT London.—The end of thg naval con- ference leaves British diplomacy free to cope with perennial problems of the 'idefiung British Empire. They are ?nary and pressing, The Government was faced with Eonflictiug dentands from India, Egypt and Palestine, end the Laborites' re- putation for skill in foreign affairs, which the nasal conference augment- ed, might he lost or further enhanced by. the conduct of these three problems alone, It was hoped in British circles that the Indian question -or that part of it dealing with the native desire for self-rule—might ultimately be met on the basis of the report of the Simon Commission which recently investi- gated the Indians' capacity for self- g.,vernment, The report will be pub- lished next month, ' Anglo-Egyptian negotiations, . in- tended to result in a new treaty, were deadlocked because of insistence by the Egyptian delegation here that Egypt must have a larger share in the government of the Soudan, with the into that country. The negotiati. no between the For - tight to send its surplus population sign Office and a delegation of Pales- tine Arabs were believed in the same a9tage, because of the Arab demand Dist Britain repudiate the Balfour Declaration establishing a Jewish homeland in the Holy Land.. Strong sentiment has developed here for a policy of British firmness on all three questions, first, because a vel -,t operations. The civil branch was yet glove policy has failed to halt the • extensively used, more so that the wo ays y it Route for Such a Service to be Surveyed this Year OVER NORTHLANDS Ottawa—Possibilities of a two days air -route between Great Britain and Central Canada aro being canvassed by a group of mea interested in aviation and in Empire traneparta• Ron, Col, the Hon. J. L. Ralston, Minister of National Defense, told the Aviation League of Canada at the an- nual banquet of that organization here recently. In order to ascertain if such a route to feasible, ono of their number is this year proceeding to Greenland to spend 12 months in that northern re- gion, surveying the ice -cap for land - tug fields and studying meteorological conditions, The rote would bo via Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Hudson Bay to Win- nipeg. Major-General 3. H. IvIacltrieu, pre- sident of the League waa in the chair. Other speakers were J. A, Wilson, controller of Civil Aviation; Wing. Commander Breathier and Professor J. H. Parkin, of the National Research Council of Canada. Valuable for Canada Aviation had more of a chance to show its usefulness in Canada than In any other country in the world, said Colonel Balaton. It was a conn. try of great distances as contrasted with Great Britain where the dis- tances were relatively short, The minister outlined the work of the de- partment and the distribution et the air services, under civil and military independent movement nn India; sec- ond, because Britain cannot afford to imperil the $500,000,000 she has in- vested in the Soudan; r.nd third, be- bause the Balfour Declaration is a Moral obligation England cannot eas- ily drop. The three prodlems interlock, since Egypt and Palestine are strategical approaches to the Suez Canal, which is the British path to India. A further connection was driven keine when the All -India Conference On Palestine affairs, meeting at Bom- bay, declared that Palestine was a trust of the whole Moslem world and toot for the Moslems of Palestine alone. .are,_ In this connection, it is known that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, wino is a member of the Arab delegation now to London, wields great influence with ithe Moslems of India and Egypt. This fact causes the more timid Britons to aise the spectre of a "holy alliance" of oslems if the Egyptian and Pales- tine delegations return home disap- pointed. Will Visit Canada On R-100 Flight British Secretary for Air is ' t Planning to Become a Passenger London•—It is learned Lord Thom - eon, Secretary of State for Air, will he a passenger on the R-100, when the dirigible makes her flight to Canada late in May, provided it is found the secretary's duti:s will, at that time, tnermit of his absence, The minor mishap suffered by the great airship the other day when•she was being taken from her shed will root interfere with plans for the trip. One of the port engines has proved unsatisfactory, so will have to be re- placed, but this will soon be attended to. One of the minor troubles agitating the official mind is the problem of uni- forms, Most of the officers of the crew are air officers or aircraftamen of the Royal Air Force and are en- titled to wear the uniforms of the ser- vice, Some of those aboard, however, will be civilians, with an expert knowl- edge of the handling of lighter -than - air craft. Hence the question of uni- form has cropped up. Special precautions will be taken to See there are no adventurous stow- aways on board when the ship takes her westbound departure. Work on Graving Dock At Singapore Under Way Montreal.—Construction work on the new graving dock at the British naval base at Singapore 1s proceeding without interruption, according to Sir Vincent Baddeley, K.C.B., first Millet - pet assistant sect'otary in the Brit- ishAdmiralty, who is the 'guest of Sir William Clark, British HighCom- miesioner to Canada, Cssomennting on the Singapore baso, ® anima which cetaiderablo controversy i_. How's this for a lot of dog is one piece? The little cyclist is making friends with Mrs. Dicke"' mastiff at the Kensington Dog Show at Crystal Palace, London. military side. In forestry patrolling the clad wing had covered over 80, 000,000 acres of timber land. Last year over 1,000 fires had been detect- ed and dealt with and more than 400,- 000 00;000 square antics of territory had been surveyed by aerial photography. The Minister pointed to the air mall service as illustrative of the strides Canada had made hn this department of activity. The Government, how- ever, was not in the air -mall trans- portation business. Like all other Phases of post ofllce work, the carry- ing of these mails was let out by con- tract, the government merely conduct. hug alt initial survey of the best routes and furnishing the eafegmards against natural flying hazards. Referring to his recent trip to Eng- land, the minister said that the Brit- ish Government had been almost lavish on its expenditures on aviation, He had visited eight aircraft factories and found them all busy, The execu- tives of those works were anxious to get Canadian business, but the minis- ter informed them that Canada itself had an aircraft construction industry of which the country was proud. He advised them that they would have a much better chance of securing orders in this country if they established branch houses here. Already several had done so with marked success, Ready For the R-100 Colonel Ralston had vlslted the R-100 at Cardington and had been much impressed with the care with which this dirigible was being groom- ed for its trans-Atlantic voyage, He had assured those In authority that Canada was ready to receive the giant airship at St. Hubert. The Aviation League, General Mac - Brien said, was a patriotic society with its objective tine stimulation of interest in flying throughout Canada. In addition to those actively engaged in aviation, the League eought to en- list those who had not any practical connection with It, Payinig tribute to the League as an educational agency, IMir. Wilson laud- ed its efforts to encourage air -mind- edness among the people at large, Mr, Wilson traced the hiatory of civil avia- tion in Canada and cited the achieve- ments of the past few years as indicat- ing the rapidity of its development. No part of Canada was now more than two days distant from any other part. Within a few years this country would have a regular Trans -Canada aim' ser- vice, A Workless World In every big industrial country of the world the tragic tide of unemploy- ment is said to be rising rapidly. A few years ago, we are told, it was estimated that the total of unemploy- ed was 20,000,000. The figure now Is believed to be nearly 30,000,000. So declares the London Daily Herald, a Labor organ and the otticial news- paper of the Labor party, Recent reports from America and Germany, it adds, coupled with tine serious situation' in Britain, have em- phasized the fact that the crisis ex- tends over the globe. Japan is no exception, for business depression is wide -spread there, fac- tories are shutting down, and this newspaper continues: "A short time ago the late Govern- ment estimated the total workless at 300,000, To -day the figure exceeds; 800,000, and it is forecast that the nnil- lion mark will quickly he Passed, "Labor organizations in Japan are drafting remedial measures, and the Government is preparing a scheme of unemployment insurance. "As in Japan, so elsewhere. The latest estimates of the unemployed in tine United States vary, but some put the total at the enormous figure of 6,000,000, "Mr. \Villiann Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, gays the 'danger point' has been reached, He declares that 22 per cent, of organized labor is idle, aad that 43 percent, of the building work- ers are out of work." If we turn to Europe, The Dally Herald goes on to say, we find a similar condition. At the end of December, it informs us, Germany had 4,633,000 idle organized workers. During a week in February, it is pointed out, no fewer tha 30,000 were added to the Germans receiving un- employment benefit. We read tier, "Italy, whose Industrial activlty is comparatively small, has nearly half a million workers recorded as unem- ployed. "France is the only known exception among countries which have large- scale industry, though there the pe- culiar circumstances make compd. son difticuit. "No recent figures are available for Russia. The latest were for October, 1928, when nearly two millions of the 11,000,000 organized workers were idle. "Claims have been made that indus- try in Russia wilt absorb 6,000,000 new workers in the next two years, but that is not fact, but prophecy." Economists have suggested that the unemployment was temporary, and that when the world had settled down to poet -war conditions, production and trade would right themselves. That view is now discredited, and the out- look Is regarded with apPreheuslon. CONSCIENCE The voice of conscience is so dell- Intra•Empire Trade to Be Investigated Toronto. — Recommendations were made by the Empire Trade Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce to the Federated Chamber of Commerce of the Empire, which will be in sessions derlug May at Loudon, that the congress recommend to the imperial economic conference, that the governments appoint a commis - elm from the business interests in the different empire units, The duties of this commission wil be to inquire in- to empire resources, markets, and other factors entering into the promo- tion of empire trade. This commis- sion will also include economic ex- perte from among the various govern- ments. It was agreed that this commission after having made its reporte to the various governments of the British Empire should be matntattted aa a permanent advisory economic council of empire which would have executive olileos throughout the Empire units. Other important factors in tate fur- therance of inter -Empire trade sug- gested were: An interchange of text- books between the Empire units for correction and the addition of up-to- date information regarding the vari- ous parts of the Empire; the appoint- ment of Canadian business men to dis- cuss bilaterally with business men from other parts of the Empire cer- tain products which Wright bo more advantageously interchanged between Empire units. 1t was decided to recommend to the Canadian Chamber that that organi- zation invite on behalf of Canada the Federated Chamber of Commerce of the Empire to hold its 1933 meeting in Canada, Prince Returns is also ao clear that it is impossible to To Fine New Home mistake it—Feltham. London—An open-air swimming pool in the garden is one of the many features of the Prince of Wales' new country residence, Fort Belvedre, at Sunningdale, Berkshire, which was put in readiness for His Royal Highness. Work on other alterations which the Princo approved before hit departure, is being rapidly completed. In the centre of the house is an old guard -room built by the Duke of Cum - has revolved, Sir Vincent recalled the berland in 1745. This has been con- verted into a comfortable lounge hall. Other rooms, inhaling the Prince's bedroom, open directly upon 'his hall. On one side is the dining room, which also leads out to the garden, and on the other a drawing room which has been converted from an old banquet hall. In ono respect Fort Belvedere will be the,ost up-to-dnto house in Eng- land, for from the front door a private road is being built to the private Royal aerodrome at Smith',; Lawn, Windsor Great Park. The gardens! Park. !, Pd a magnificent view over Biel Great by Owen Staples, O,S,A., la the city hall, Toronto, shovingng Toronto's waterfront to 1850. British government awarded a £4,000,- 000 contract for the craving clock there a year ago. "There was a suggestion In the House of Commons that the contract should be held up, at least during tate period of the five -power naval conference," he remarked, "but It was thought undesirable to inter- fere with the contract and according - 1y work Is proceeding," A writer gays in( the routine of chnu'clt work a sewing meetite stands out like a welcome light on a dark night. Its cheerfuuess depends on its scandal power. , tate that it 1s easy to stifle it, but it Prince George Visits "Pubs" Big Liner Stops To Rescue Hound London.—The humanity of Captain A. W. Tartu, commander of the 6,000 -ton Clan liner Clan MacNab, in turning his ship round in mid -ocean to save the life of a foxhound bitch which had fallen overboard, was re- ported by a friend of the captain. The liner was carrying a number of valuable foxhounds frau Liverpool to Bombay, "When the vessel was crossing the Bay of Biscay," stated Captain Tur- ton's friend, "this particular hound was exercised as usual round the deck and then tied up on the after -deck, "About 8 a.nm, she was missed, "A search was made, but the hound could not be found, and it was con- cluded that she must have slipped her collar and been lost overboard. "When the loss was reported to the captain half an hour later he turned his ship round and steamed back the estimated distance travelled since the mishap, plus an extra mile. "The hound was not sighted and the vessel resumed her course. The hound was then sighted a short distance away right ahead, A boat was low- ered and she was hauled aboard, ex- hausted. She recovered after a few hours' attention, however. London, — Prince George, youngest sou of the Ittng and Queen, visited two "pubs" and a tenement house re- cently but declined all offers to "have a pint." He first visited the "model public house" of the Bev. Basil Jellicoe, who believes beer and wine in moderation can play a part in bettering the lot of the poor. Queen Mary recently made a similar Inspection. The Prince went -behind the bar and shook hands with several inhabit- ants of the district. Children who had gathered to greet him sang "He's a Jolly Good Fellow." He then went to the Tavistock Arms, where a woman challenged him to a game of "I don't play charts," said the Prince, "You're blushing," cried another wo- man, and he woe. All the women at the bar laughed loudly and then gave him three cheers, Prince George later visited the model fiats of Garden City, the section in which both the "pubs" are located. 1f rho child has a temper it cannot control, it means that it has parents 1 can. A New Healer A Big Job Done The Welland Ship Canal is complet- ed. Ten freighters entered the canal, part at Pert Weiler, part at l'o't Col- borne. They passed somewhere in the middle of the great ditch and pro- coeded "on their taw fel occasions." Another big job has Seen done. IIow big it Is anmparatitely few Canadians have any idea. Stutlettea mean little enough to most of es. Millions of cubic yards of material re- moved, locks eo many hundreds of feet in length, with sects -and -such depth of water "on the sill;' loch gates so many scores of feet long or high, weighing, each one of them, so many hundreds of tons all these things have small concrete significance for the great majority of people. Certain facts about the great work must, how- ever, capture the attention. AWhen we are told that loch No, 8 is tine largest tenni lock in the world, that the famous Gratin locks on the Panama Canal, of which we halm heard so very much, have utile more than half the lift of locks 6 and 6 of the Welland Canal, and, ihnaily, that one concrete wall coutected with one of these two Locke is almoat the lheigllt of the Ilorseshoe Fall at Niagara, we will begin to realize the magnitude of the job that Canada sot herself some twenty years ago and on which $120,000,000 of public funis have been spent. Whatever may be the outcome al the controversy over the development of the St, Lawrence waterways, whatever may bo the policy ultimate• ly adopted by Canada and the United States, nothing can alter the fact that the Welland Ship Canal le entirely and exclusively Canadian, built by Canadian brains, with Canadian money, through' Canadian territory, subject only to Canadian jurisdiction, If the waterways development comes, the Welland Canal is the central unit in the whole system, without which It would be folly to move one ton of earth in the larger project. If, on the other hand, the larger scheme io held over for a clay when Canada can afford to pay her share of the colossal expense involved, the Welland Canal is now and will re- main an Integral part of a steadily de- veloping Canadian canal system. Quite aside from any consideration of domestic politics or international relations, Canadians have every right to be proud of the large undertaking that is brought virtually to a"conclu- eion, It has taken a long time and it has cost a great deal of money, but there Is enough confidence in the fu- ture of Canada to justify the belief that the time and money will not have been spent in vain.—Montreal Stsr. Sulphur Compound as Healer of Abrasions in Two- thirds Ordinary Time New Discovery Philadelphia, Pa.—Boys and girls— from seven to seventy—who cut fin- gers and elan knees soon may be healed more quickly by a discovery reported to the American Plnllogophl- cal Society recently. Two-thirds the ordinary healing time is enough. In two serious lite man cases tested the rate was evert faster, and some forms of rat cancer have been slowed down by its use. The discovery is not a medicine, but a principle of nature, whereby new flesh is either made rapidly by divi- sion of cells, or such formation Is re. ta'ded. It was repotted by Dr. Fred- erick S. Hammett, director of tate Re- search Institute of Lankeuat I-Iospital, Philadelphia. The control, he said, Is sulphur, al- ways in. compound, Kept away from too much contact with oxygen it pro- duces cell division rapidly, but be- comes a retarder after absorbing sub flcient oxygen, Dr. Iianmmett said that at Lankenau Hospital Dr. Stanley 1'. Beimann used one of these sulphur compounds, thiogucose, on a ntaa of 78 with an ulcer that had not healed in 18 years, In two weeks the ulcer healed. Jujutsu, or Japanese wrestling, to one of the very few sports in which women can compete on a footing of equality with amen. It is a question of skill and not strength, 'Phis interesting illustration td reproduced from the book "our Royal Porn of fork" and 15 front Hostile Comment Greets War Book London Press Calls For End to Writing of Vivid Cam- paign Stories London.—Brigadier Crozier's war book is the subject of hostile comment in the Daily Mail which carries n headline declaring that it should never have been written, and adds:— "It ought never to have been writ- ten seeing that it specializes in the discreditable and leaves the impres- sion that the British soldier was a drunken and debauched creature and emphasizes unduly the side of life which nobler and truer authors leave in obscurity. Those who served in the war know of instances of coward• ice and misbehavior such aa are al- ways to be found in large assemblies of men who are not plaster saints. Taken by and large the officers and men who fought in the Great War are worthy of the nation'a love and ever- lasting respect and honor. This cam- paign against their memory is a cruel wrong to the immortal dealt." "CEASE TIIESE BOOKS" The Daily Chronicle, under the cap- tion "Cease thes • war boolcs," says: "We have received for review a copy of "A Brass Ilat in No Man's Land" by General Crozier published by Jon athan Cape. After a study of the contents of the book we have decided to give no space to quotations :from its --tire Daily Chronicle is second to none in its hatred of war and in the de- termination to do all we can to make' future war inpossile, but we do not believe that these ends can be achieved by slandering the men of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland who fought for their country between 19141 and 1918, Such volumes as "A Brass IIat in No Mat's Land" are a slander on tha men who were sent to France. They' may be true in detail but the general effect is to lay the whole British Army. under the imputation of brutality and immorality. In the (pinion of the, Daily Chronicle the time Inas come to: put an end to the spate of sensational and disgusting books about the. British Army." No Doubt About It When blind Barlinnees had his sight restored the skeptics told hint he was deceived and mistaken, but he knew better. His reply is et -mavens given by James Russell Lowell: "I know not what this man may he, Sinner or Saint --but no for ate, One thing I haat--that I ant he \Vito once was blind and now I "C'nstens is reason fast asleep; itt takes the place of thought in all tinct s pahnthtgl popular habits of life."—W, Shat„ Sparrow.