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Port Perry Star, 19 May 1927, p. 3

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"Cooes! ~Cooee!" Australia calls to it ] 5 the heroes | We call the ghosts from lands and pioneers of lone outposts, to From Cook to Forrest, a w she £55 By : 'We claim The Southland GLO RIA! GLORIA! Press Comment the World Over through all Our Land, Our Commonwealth. GOD SAVE AUSTRALIA| mete ol Valhalla's thundreding walls, to rouse in their halls to join our open A! may view , who nurse t disgrace pride of British race; meets her Northern peer; GOD SAVE 'ian agreement. Certain others claim is our fertile ground; the " Su Sommonyealth; Bie E colors of ed scale with exquisite of leat and bloom.--From "The Trail Makers of the Middle Bor nds " by Hamlin Garland. call explorers in their hosts, the EE --, n Parliament; ANTI-STRIKE BILL GREATLY AMENDED Government Makes it Clear Ordinary Sympathetic Strikes Will Be Legal. London.--The government has made a big change in the trade union bill. They have made lockouts illegal in the sime circumsaances that strikes become illegal. Furthermore, they have deleted words. in the original draft of the bill which made strikes illegal if they were "calculated to in- timidate thé community or any sub- stantial portion of the community." The first-named amendment was fore- cast some days ago. The new draft declares strikes ille- I A : to justify their Parliament; wandered on a love-lit quest, to build Our Lan lament; Par! : If who died, and fields of France rifament: ustralia open Parliament. AUSTRALIA! Haly and the Little Entente. Rome Giornale d'lltalia: Certain newspapers in Bucharest have de- clared that the Italo-Hungarian Treaty has nullified the Italo-Ruman- that the treaty aims at undermining the Little Entente. It is to be noted y te facilities for his seven months, le Meanwhile tember for Africa Tom Longboat, no Fred come gack to ter ravages up, Thorpe was the greatest of them all, There are still some Indian la- On ney crosse teams in this country, perhaps He throws-back his long neck and, the best being that of the Caughna-! With his head at on the back, opens waga Reservation near Montreal. No his long bill and closes it sharply, "Big Chief" has come forward to take. Producing a noise as if two sticks of the place of Sockalexis, Tewanima, Wood were forcefully clapped to- Mount Pleasant, Calac, Guyon, and gether. He keeps that up until he the rest. Ben Tincup pitched in To- £¢t8 an answer from his mate. The ronto against the Leafs for Louis. Wonderful thing about it all is that ville in the Junior World Series. Chief cach bird can distinguish his own Meyers, formerly of the Giants, has mate. $ retired. The red rian shone for al Then they inspect and talk the mat- time a decade or two ago, but expec- ter over while circling over the select- tations of new Indian athletic heroes od spot. If satisfied, they come to seem to have faded with the going of bulla their nest. ¥ ; the once-greats; but an Indian man, After the eggs are laid, whils Joseph Akiwenzle, an Ojibway, from hatching them, they sit alternately Cape Croker, Ont., has been entered on them, never leaving them exposed in the C.N.E. 21-mile marathon swim, | to fhe cold, and, as a rule, obtain re- August 81. F. D. Talimodge of De-'8ults. Before long one can see from troit, who makes the entry, says "this' two to four--five are exceptional-- Indian boy is under my management Young birds sticking their bare heads and is in active training at Detroit out, asking for food. ° and has béen for some time." So they live all summer with no- . . . . ody disturbing them. A severe pun- NEW CHANCE FOR AMERICA'S ishment for hunting these birds or CUP. thelr Beate usted out by the gov- = L ernment," Very likely this custom is to Po ericgns Tuva Deon he ust etill derived from olden supefstitious times. But also because the birds that the Rumanian Government have 'gal if they are calculated "to coerce NéW international rule, and upon this 4. really beloved. Alsace cannot To Have and to Hold. the government either directly or by repudiated these suggestions. ..... Burlington Free Press: A promin-| Disagreements may exist between Ru- ent sociologist says that men ought' mania and Hungary, but' that is not inflicting hardship on the community." It is to be remembered that no sportsmanlike enterprise they are to be congratulated," says The London | Field editorially. "Mr. Tod, a mem- imagine itself without its storks! About four weeks before they were to fly south, I heard, very early in the morning, a peculiar noise, and my ; ber of the New York Yacht Club, is strike is illegal if it is confined to Ati B ) : furthering a trade dispute within the "°W building a 75-footer of- mu- husband, who was born in Strasburg, that. the growing of whiskers by a. result in ber taking sides with one trade or industry in which the strik- dian rig, and she will race in America Liq to 'me: "Quick, get up and lef | matried man would only give his wife or the other. On the contrary, her|ers are engaged, even if such strike In the coming summer and visit Eng- go out." He knew what was com to whiskers: to reassert their to say that the friendship of Italy for guthority, It is our personal opinion the. two countries must necessarily another hold on him. task would see to be that of settling is calculated to coerce the government !And in 1928. Here, then, is a most ; their - differences. It-is absurd to by inflicting hardship upon the com- understand from M. Mussolini's munity. The government has now speech that he intends to associate made it clear that it does not seek to | with Hungéry against Rumania, prohibit ordinary sympathetic strikes te freee and the trades. unions bill has thus lost its chief feature which caused it Taxation and Trade. to be opposed by impartial opinion. London Daily Mail (Ind. Cons.): All taxation levied has sooner or later | to be borne by thé industries of the Rail jcountry;: and the heavier. it is the auway. more business there will be which| Victoria Colonist (Cons): In the cannot afford to pay it and which will | face of all expert advice and without have to close down. Thus as taxa-| waiting for the report of the eminent tion rises employment decreases, as English engineer engaged by itself , may be clearly seen by comparing; to report on the feasibility of the Hud- ea Steve Brodie Did * "Boston Transcript: Canada contem- plates spending: $25,000 to complete the Hudson Bay Railroad and pro- vide terminal facilities. Sounds fool- ish. But time was when Alaska was called Seward's Folly. And twenty years: earlier a Congressman was de- feated because he had voted to grant Government aid to the first telegraph line, ; The Chicago Steal. 'Milwaukee Journal: According to ------ Mv + rt Why the Hudson Bay favorable and attractive opportunity | © for a British sportsman Ty or fing THE "BIG PARADE." ward and order a similar vessel to| When we came to the swamps, we race against Mr. Tod next year. At found a strange but very interesting the present moment there is no exist- | sight. The storks were coming from ing British vesel which can be regard- all directions, alighting on one mea- ed as suisable for such a contest. To dow. It took some time, during which meet the Americans on level terms the biggest birds would call continu- a new yacht of 75 feet must be built ously in the same manner mentioned under the international rule. By next before. . teason our newest existing yacht, Sir| When all were together -- and, Thomas Lipton's Shamrock, will be queerly enough, they seemed to know twenty years old; it seems incredible, ' their number--the big old stork be. but so quickly does the time fly. The gan to range them in lines, absolutely initial cost of a new 76-footer would like soldiers in a review. The big be heavy, owing to the advanced price ' birds--there were four of them---were of building materials and the rate of marching up and down in front of the ® neers, tions those son Bay route for wheat shipments, army engi , 10,000 cubic feet of British condi with in the wages, but the running cost of & sew. others, picking here and thage. 'until f the people v thank-| poreenble in Canada, ordinarily would ! be unenforcéable here, and the aban- | donment of such laws in Canada indi- Sites the Proper course 201 the United 1 States, : et ie. water a second is not needed for a barge canal; and if we are to have the St. Lawrence opened, as eventu- ally we shall, the lake states cannot afford to have their harbors ruined by Chicago's constant and tremendous sucking of water from the Great Lakes, i The Trade Unions Bill. London Truth (Ind. Lib.) : The mis- chief of this kind of legislation is that it seeks to take away rights or privi- ate amie ater lon of , and so ten Yo obs mistrust of Par methods in the field of industrial de- y.. "So much for your consti- ted Com- principle of con- in this country ' nts do ring this valuable pro- welcomed by | census the total value of United States, In America expendi- the Government is again proceeding ture in the last three years has been with a venture in which $20,000,000 enormously reduced and taxation has have already been sunk. It is proceed- ! been remitted; here expenditure has' ing with it at a moment when the ! risen almost £40,000,000 in the same Canadian National Railways are show- | period, and 'we are wondering why ing excellent signs of recovery. It is | British trade is distressed. common knowledge that the Hudson ei mi Bay scheme, to complete, will cost in .| all some $76,000,000 at the least, and * Farms and Cities. | judging from overexpenditures which Indianapolis News: A nation with regulanly occur in the building of Gov- i the resources for agriculture that the ernment railways, the probabilities are | United States has must concern itself that the ultimate cost will exceed with keeping the farm inviting and $100,000,000, The railway Is being | profitable as well as with making in- bullt simply as a political sop to the dustry attractive. Any other course, Prairie politicians. If it were regard. | means both economic and social ed as purely an economic venture, maladjustment of serious import to, them the Goverment could well af- national life. rrr Farm Woodlots. The Canadian farm woodiot plays a conspicuous part in the growth of for- est products. According to the last pro- « Largest Undersea Boat. vided by farm woodlots was $72,000,-| The largest submarine in the, world 000, which was over-32 per cent. of the | has just been completed for the Bri- value of all forage crops. About one-| t!sh navy. The vessel cost more than third of the pulpwood used in Cana. | $5,000,000 and is the only undersea dian pulpmille comes from farmers' Craft in the world fitted with a can- gineer it has engaged to make a full investigation. The Government is un- deterred by warnings and is Wholly in- tent on making votes for its cause. > i teen, They Put Some of Their Gold Dust in Circulation. THERE'S A POUND OR So Too MUCH we'lL TAka (T OUT (NM GAS! . SOME BOAT, MUTT! 7 Bod 7:3 ih ford to await the report of the en: | yacht in 1928 would not be nearly so excessive as is commonly supposed. Although sailors' wages are double what they were in pre-war days--an advance in the rate of pay which | yachtsmen recognize as perfectly. just and reasonable--many economies have been effected." . . Over in England the boxing pro- moters are trying to encourage the women to attend the bouts in larger numbers. And success is being achiev- 'ed. The promoters have discovered 'that the fair sex like the boxers in . » ! the lighter divisions for ahey provide' speed, and besides, as a rule, there | is less gore spilled. As a result the lighter fellows are being 'given the preference on the boxing cards. teen Twenty boxes of dressed poultry have been received in Ottawa, con- signed fo 'Secretary Ernest Rhoades, from the Department of Agriculture of Manitoba, and will form part of the Provincial exhibit at the Congress. The consignment, ~ which has been placed in cold storage, is one of the first to arrive for the exhibition. they had their lines in full satisfaction. Now, after a sharp screech of the | four in front, all the birds threw | their breasts out as far as they could. "order to their | A very strange scene began, especial- | ly for one who saw it for the first time, like myself. The big birds actually held a re- , view, but, after passing along the line once, while coniing back, they struck every bird as hard as they could in the breast, and they repeated this three times. The fourth time they passed slowly and, once in a while, pushed one out of the line, backwards. A signal! By clapping. their bills and after what seemed a great talk amongst themselves, those that had been pushed back were excluded. They arose and, with a great noise, flew AWRY. The four big birds held counsel; the remaining birds looked very sol- enn. T had not tried to follow the others, they knew they had to stay where called and gathered, bus they were put in line again by thelr superiors, f DEATH SENTENCE, And now come the crucial moment! '

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