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FUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927 OUR CHANGING CLIMATE If the predictions of Sir Robert Ball, As. tronomer-royal of Ireland, are correct, Cana- dians may expect a gradual lessening of the * severities of winter for many years to come, In his opinion, we are at the peak of a very moderate anti-glacial period, one of the re .- sults of which is that in the Northern Hemis- phere, the summer is seven days longer than the winter, This, of course, is the astrono- mical season, measured from one equinox to another, In the Southern Hemisphere, the situation is reversed, the winter being the longer, Ihe advantage, therefore, is with us here in the north, The real, and very impor tant meaning to us in Canada is that the polar ice is not increasing, but is probably diminishing, This is having a slow, but per ceptible effect in Ontario, where we find that in the southern portion the snow does not accumulate, a heavy snow-storm is commonly followed by thawing weather, and even below freezing point there is considerable evapora. tion, Under present conditions, even the Aretie Circle thaws out, to the extent that the win. ter's accumulations ave balanced by the sum- mer melting, and there is probably a little melting to the good, In the course of pro- gressive glaciation of thousands of years ago the ice-cap became so thick and heavy that it began to shift and spread of its own im- mense weight, This is the movement which we recall under the name of the Glacial Epoch, when the huge sheet of ice from the north plowed slowly southward, cutting down hills, filling valleys, and destroying every- thing in its path, It seems that we ave now at the end of that period, and are approaching a new epoch of gradually increasing temperature, which may continue for some thousands of years, This will mean a continuous pushing of agri- culture and civilization towards the north, The progress will be slow, but we have many reasons for believing that it will be sure, There is, however, one climatic peculiarity that may delay this welcome change, and that is the "lag" of the seasons, We know that the seasons "lag" behind the sun, The coldest weather is not at Christmas, but in January and February, while March has a very disreputable character as a month of storms, The peak of the summer is not in June, but in July and August. Then again, consider the eqguinoxes, At the spring equin- ox, in March, the weather is often wintry, with little signs of growth, while at the Sep- tember equinox, when the sun is in the same place, the weather is hot, and growth is ae- tive. Yet if we went by the sun, the weather at the equinoxes should be the same, The shsorption of heat by the ground is largely responsible for this, The net result of these changes, slow though they may be, will be that the line of profitable farming will tend to creep northwards, More than ever, the future be- longs to Canada, MORE ACTON AND LESS TALK Nhe Globe on Friday published a story of I< propaganda in Northern Ontario under 'the warlike he:Zing: "Children sre Target as R-d Propagan'ist: Bombhard New Ontar- i0." This storv appears with the apparent t----ecven nspiration--of the Ministry of Fo cation. It is a good story and The (iabe has another scoop to its credit. ut for al! that, there sre some state- jei ts in that story that should be looked in- to when the Legislative Assembly meets. Cpe 5 that Montreal snd Toronto distribu- ton cgencies are paying marked sttention to pupils of the Government's railway tra- vo'l'ng schools. The othe: is that "The At- ('ener=)'s department is said to have to the zround and to be considering what 2ction, if any, it will take in nt of t'.c Eduction Department's com- cor 2'gn failing to meet the situs. AF Hed A part of that situation, incidentally, is su sed to exist in slleged Red propagand- ists furnishing pupils with 8 list of ques- .fions to ask their teachers on November 7, The real point at issue, however, is the al. leged undignified position in which the At- torney-General's department ear is placed, The Globe says that it is already clese to the ground listening either to the rumble of distant drumbs or the future collapse of the correspondence courses, It is suggested that this collective De- partmental Ear be raised and, in view of the statement that part of the propaganda em. anates from Toronto, the authors and deal ers be brought into court under--if any other measures fail--the Children's Protec. tion Act, People are getting nauseated at every-so- often scare stories of Bolshevik effort, If the situation is serious deal with it. The vast majority of citizens in Ontario want the filthy crew kicked out of Canada. But "ears to the ground" and "corres pondence courses" are not going to cure the situation, What seems imperative is more action and less talk, SILLY PROPAGANDA Consternation is said to reign in Englanu over recent "revelations" by Sir Alfred Ewing, head of the University of Edinburgh, of the secrets of "Room 40" in, it is pre- sumed, the Admiralty, The New York Times' correspondent de claves that the Navy Department wantea "Room 40's" existence kept a secret with a view to renewed activity in thc next war, However, there is nothing to prevent the Admiralty moving its research department into Reom 80, for instance, and carrying on with any amount of secrecy and mysticism; and it is quite probable that the alleged alarm in Naval circles of Great Britain is due to the discovery that plum puddings are not what they used to be or something of that sort, For Bir Alfred's "revelations" were antici- pated several years ago in "The World's Work," a well-known and highly reputable magazine published in New York, The dis- closures were incident to the publication of some posthumous papers of Walter Hines Page, United States ambassador to Great Britain during the war, all of which were made available later in book form and are highly treasured by those that own them, In those papers a full account of the Zim- merman incident is given, and the part played by the British Admiralty is extolled by the man who knew the wonderful part played by the British naval intelligence ser- vice in checkmating Germany's audacious scheme to buy Japan from the Grand Alli- ance by giving her Mexico as a reward for the proposed treachery, EDITORIAL NOTES Live retailers know their town's problems because such problems affect not only citi- zens but customers. There is a direct rela tion between mail order competition and lack of restaurant regulation, A woman's shopping tour begins with "See" and ends with "Tea." Not worrying about the latter sends numbers of cash customers to To- ronto, | Bit of Verse The Festive Season once again is past. The Yule Logs are dead embers in the grate, Guests have departed until now at last Alone we sit, although the hour be late, And think then o'er, these recent happy days The friends we've met, some old and some just new, Afar we find remembrance then strays To valleys sparking with sweet memory's dew, In hallowed silence there we gently sigh As visions painted by Time's tutored hand Create a teary mist before the eye Which only those who've lost may under- stand, We brave the tears and chase them with 8 smile, In gratitude we breathe a prayer sincere For friendships true, which made this life worth while, And Festive Seasons with their love and cheer, Bess Barrie. L Remains of Florence Cos tello Discovered By Three Little Girls Playing in "o District -- ls Believed to Have Had Fit and Fallen Into Water -- No Signs of Foul Play Toronto, Dee. 27.--Florence Cos- tello, the 13-year-old North To- vonto girl, who had been missing for twelve days, was found at 11.30 o'clock yyesterday moraing--dead. Three little girls out playing noticed the body as it lay em- bedded in the ice of a small, shal- low creek, mot five minutes' walk from the Costello home at 31 Bird- sall Avenue, The father, John Costello, look- ed on as police officer chopped the body out of the ice, When the features became as nearly cleared of ice and snow as it was possible then to get them, he declared it to be the body of his daughter. He took a glove from one of the hands and went home to show it to the mother, who lay sick from the fear and anxiety in which she has lived since the girl falleq to return from school on Dec, 14. Mrs Costello, whose condition is low, was shown the glove by Dr, J. A. M. Campbell, her physician. She looked at it and sobbing cried tnat it was Florence's, Found in Creek The creek in which the body was found meanders south from Hogg Hollow, west of Yonge street Tre hody lay curled about a boulder just where the rivulet passes bhe- side the home of Mr. and Mrs J E. Drinkwater at No. 126 Cast'e field Avenue. Tt was just a few yards north of Castlefield Avenue and ahout tHe same distance west of Rosswell Avenue, which ends at the base of a knoll a few yards "arther on, No sug-estion of foul play m connection with the child's sudden death was made yesterday by any of the authorities, A variety of opinions wsa expressed as to how the child got Into the creek at tie point at which the body was found but all seemed to agree that death Child's Frozen Bod By Three Gir In Creek came as an indirect result of one of the epileptic fits to w was sald to he subject. Formal Identification of the body will not be porsi le until it hours, The parents, however ai" certain enough to have gone ahead and arrarged to have the funeral at 8.30 o'clock tomorrow mornin: from St. Monica's R C. Church to Mount Hope Cemetery, The boiv is still at the Morgue where the police conveyed it. Chief Coroner M. M. Crawford discovery was reported, He mad» a thorough examination of the sur rounding ground, but as yet there has been no announcement of an inquest, although It is considered likely that one will be held, Three three little girls who made the discovery are Betty and Marion File, aged ten and 13 years, respectively, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lorne File, of 168 Alexandra Boulevard, and Helen Murch, 10- year-old dau~hter of Mr. and Mis Norman L. Murch, of 178 Alex- andra Boulevard, Stumbled on Body "We were going through the tunnels," they toy, when they were asked how they had come 0 stumble on the body. By "tunnels they meant the eulverts throuxh which the creek passes under St Clement's and Briar Hill Avenue It was Helen Murch, the small est of the three, who first poticed the body. "All that was showing through the ice was the tip of one shoe and part of one hand," she said. "At first we thought jit was a man but we lookde at the glove and we 'aw flowers worked onto the cuff and then we knew it was a girl, We thought then that it was Florence Cosello," The children ran along Castle- ton Avenue to Yonge Street to teli a policeman of their discovery, leaving behind Florence Wright, aged 17, of 297 Roselawn Avenue, snd Lillian Lawrence, aged 12, also of Roselawn Avenue, who hap- pened to be passing at the time, On Yonge Street they saw P. C, Wil- son (251). He took them down to No, 12 Station, 8 few blocks down at Montgomery Avenue, Just as Wilson snd the children were running into the station, Mr. Costello, the father of the girl was coming out. He had been in, as he had been every day since the child disappeared, to see if the polic had apy mew clues to his daughter's disappearance, He heard the constable tel: Sergt. Lipsett that the three child- ren had found what they believed od lig the body of Wiorence Cos- Wilson and Sergeant Scott, ae- companied by Mr. Costello, left at once with the children. Mean- while Sergeant Lipsett telephoned to the Metropolitan radial station and caught Inspector Little and Acting Detective Richardson, who bad just stopped there on their way in from a morning's work, leading a search party through Armour Heights district. In a few minutes, the four officers and Mr. Costello were on the spot. Away Ice Constable Wilson secured & batchet from William Whitehouse an employe of the City Street Cleaning Department, whose house stands at the termination of Rose- well Avenue, about 20 or 30 yards from where the body lay. With this hatchet Little and Detective Richardson began chop ping the body out. Speaking afterwards, Detective Richardson confirmed the | little girl's statement that the toe of ope i he : hich si ! couldn't see anything." has thawed ont, a matter of some | 15 | was on the scene soon after the - THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927 Found shoe and part of one hand was all that had beem visible. "There was harcly half an inch of the shoe show ng above the snow," he said, "And as to the hand, you could see the bare flesh of the back of it, the cuff of the glove, and about an inch or wto of the tan sleeve of the coat. "The girl was lying on her back and a little on the right side. He: right arm was crooked, the hand being up level with the face, and the left arm was at her side, with a bit of the hand showing through the ice. Both legs were bent, the right one being brought up close to the body, "The feet were pointing up- stream and the hair was matted and frozen, so that it stood out almost straight from the head. Her coat and dress were washed up over her face." The right leg was frozen stiff and had to be left caked in ice. The right arm, too, was left en: crusted in ice. Michael Costello, brother of Florence, did not know that the body had been found until an hour after its discovery, About 150 men of all ages were recruited througn the churches and the North Yonge Street Business Men's Association for an intensive search for the girl yesterdayy., They received instrue- tions from Inspector Little and then set out in groups of 10 or 12 Some went west, others north, others east, Young Costello was with a party which went out in the district about North Bathurst itreet, and since there was no way of communicaing with him, he was not apprised of the discovery of tae body until he entered No. 12 Sta- tion to report at the conclusion of his party's work, Other members of the family were told, of course, when Mr. Costello went home with the glove. y Overlooked Body The spot at which the hody wus found was traversed more than once by diferent members of toe various posses which have been on the hunt since the girl's disap pearance, The girl's brother,, Michael, sala that he had been about this part of th creek on the night of the girl's disappearance, "It was after dark," he said, "but I had a flash light and I passed the light aver thb uzhes and the creek but 1 Sergeant Scott of also at this spot, his vi it bens on the following ni ht, rLe.emoer He pasced toere at dusk with others as they were concluding some hours' search, but in the athe.ing darkness he was unable wd dizcern whclher or not the girl was there, Membe.3 of a paityy of hoya which was out searcaing stated last night that they had been up this creek last Sunday, They de- clzred positively that the body was not there then, The surmise cof police officers, however, does not agree with this statement, It is recalled that the day on whiep the girl disappeared was clear aud fine, The next two days, Thursday and Friday, were stormy, the weather turning cold on the Fri- day night, The creek was hizh during the rainy days and froze on the Friday nizht. Police argue that the body must have been where it was found belore freezing set in, If it was, then it lay there unnoticed for ten days, : A search of the vic.nity yester- day under Dr, Crawford resulted in the finding of a purple-bordervd girl's handkerchief and a piece ol rough brown paper on which was written in pencil, "Miss Hunt, B31." These were found by two small boys, Douglas Tait, of 160 Briar Hill Avenue, and KenneLh Barrick, of 166 Briar Hill Avenue Found Handkerchief The handkerchief was found on the embankment which slopes down from St, Clement's Avenue to the pavine through which tae creek runs, The girl may have coe along this street on her way home from school, and some belleye she became ill and fell down the em- bankment into the creek, being carried from there to where she was found, some yards farther down. The bandkerchief had not yet been identified by the family last night. The father of the girl does mot think she was carried down the stream, It was because she had been ill at school, having taken one of the fits to which she was subject, that she was sent home by the teacher. "I think that in the condition she must have been in, she lost her way and fell into the creek at the spot where she was found," said Mr. Costello, His son, Michael however, dis- agrees with this theory, The young man told that he thought that the girl was taken ill and fell down the embankment into the creek at Glencairn Avenue, which is the second street above St. Clement's, end almost three blocks above the spot where the body was found. Michael bases his contention on the statement made to the police by a woman whose name was with- beld that she bad seen the girl walking west on Glencairn Avenue at about three o'clock on the af- ternoon of her disappearance. This woman stated that she and her little boy had been going east on Glencairn when they met a girl who answered the description of Flolrence. The child said "Hello!" to her, but the girl just turned and stared, then broke imtoo a run. If it was Florence Costello, than this was the last time she was seen alive. Certain it Was Florence The woman seemed fairly certalu that it was Florence Costello whom she saw but police officers ex- pressed doubt that the body could be carried so far in this shallow ereek. The ice was all broken yes- No, 12 wa terday and several stones, large enough to stop a floating were seen. Then, while the creek is four or five feet wide, the eui- yerts through which it passes us der intersecting streets are nar rower, Willlam Whitehouse, whose hat- chet the police used ta chop out the body, sald yesterday that after a heavy rain the creek was deep enough and strong enough, 2e thought, to carry a body. J. E. Drinkwater, whose house Is right beside the spot at which the body was found, expressed the same opinion. "In the Spring, for instance, the water rises to the top of that bank," he said, pointing to a four-foot embankment through which the creek passes, Neither of these men, nor any members of their families had mno- ticed anything unfamiliar about the creek during the past two weeks, The finding of the body was their first knowledge of its presence, they sald. STILL ANOTHER INSTITUTION IN QUEBEC BURNED Officials Further Disturbed as Seminary Summer Re- treat is Destroyed 2 NARROWLY ESCAPE Caretaker and Family Run Gauntlet of Flames--Land- Quebec, Dee, 26--The nerves of religious officials in charge of in- stitutions in Quebec City, already haken by two disastrous fires, were further disturbed early today when fire destroyed the summer retreat of the Maizerets Seminary, located in a Quebec suburb, Joseph Pageau, who had charge f the building, was almost over- come by smoke and was under doc- tors' care today, He and his wife, four children and aged father were aroused by the crackling of the flames and forced to make a sur- ried retreat in cold weather in their night clothes, A staff of 10 ser- vants saved themselves in a similar manner, Landmark Disappears With. the destruction of the Lullding, another historical land- mark of Old Quebec disappeared The original building on the site was destroyed in 1775 by the troops of Montgomery and the pres- ent structure was erected in 1776. During the 150 years of its exis. tence, the seminary housed many aenerations of scholars, many of whom entered the priesthood, The seminary was a large strue- ture and three stories high. Joseph Pageau and his family resided in the second floor in the centre of the building, his father on the third and the servants occupied quarters on the ground floor. ine eastern section of the seminary was nnoeceupied, having been closed for the winter months. Ran Gauntlet if Fire The flames were discovered ahout 4 o'clock this morning. The servants made their escape by a door that gave access to a yard, but the members of the Pagean family experienced greater difficul- ty owing to the dense smoke, which prevented them frome leaving by the main stairway, They were forced to run the gauntlet of fire and smoke to reach a stairease that led from the side of the building. When the firemen arrived the agile BEAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Money to Loan on First Mortgages Phone 871 or 087W Regent Theatre Block p---- |tiames Bad gained comsiderable headway, The fire-fighters' efforts to extinguish the fire were bandi- capped owing to the fact that the building was isolated and some dis- tance from a fire hydrant, Firemen were forced to lay 25 lengths of hose before reaching the burning building. . No estimate of the damage could be obtained tomight, but it is be- Heved that it will be of large pro- a Another alarm in a religious in. stitution was given Saturday nizht when six revolver cartridges were found on the radiators in the Hotel Dieu Hospital here. No explana- tion has been given as to how they came to be placed there. 70 ARRESTS fl Mm fheo) Buenos Aires, Dec. 26--Actively continuing their investigations 1n- to the bombing of the Buenos Aires branch of the National City Bank of New York Saturday, the police have made about seventy arrests. An investigation also has been car- ried out at various workers' clubs and houses, but thus far the insti- gators of the plot have not been discovered. The doors of National City Bank, branch were opened at the regular hour today and operations, the of- ficidls declared, were "as normal as ever." Great crowds kept pouring in steadily, wishing to see the ex- tent of the damage, and there was universal indignation at the out- rage. Only one death has occurred so far, Manuel Taboada having sue. eumbed to his injuries. On other man is .in a grave condition, but the: remainder of the injured are reported progressing satisfactorily. SANTA CLAUS AND BIG RUSI. Who is the world's biggest busi ness man? You may have three guesses, and then you will be wrong! Perhaps a personal de- scription may help some, Imagine a jolly old man, with a lone white beard, and a red coat trim- med with white fur; he Is fat, and when he laughs, he shakes all | over like a big red jelly! Doesn't sound much like a hard headed business man, does he? He won" ride in an automobile, he never uses the telephone, and has not much use for electric lights, He is so old fashioned that he never drives anything but a big sled drawn by reindeer; he loves to get letters--he gets more letters than anybody else in the whole world, and he answers them ali personally; the only kind of light he cares for is the light of hund- reds of little colored candles, and he prefers to have them hanging on the branches of a fir or pine tree, He travels only once a year, and that at night time, and then he gives away more than anybody in the whole world gives away in the course of the entire year. Santa Claus begins preparine for next Christmas on the "26th. of December and all year he keeps on gathering together a vast sup- ply of gifts for the next Christnras. Factory wheels are humming nigh and' day. Whole armies of men toil long hours. Huge trains tra- vel swiftly from end to end of this great country, carrying ma- terials for the factories, iron, steel, lumber, leather, and millions of things that are needed for the manufacture of all those wonder ful gifts that Santa Claus distri- butes so lavishly at Christmas. Christmas started out as a spe- cial time of frolic for children-- it is still the children's season, but the older folks have joined in, and now the whole family is just as much interested in the delighttul adventure of Yuletide as the kid- dies themselves, Santa Claus finds Christmas nowadays is far more expensive than it used to be, It was easy enough in the old days, when chil- dren were satisfied with a few wooden toys and crackers, but now the grown up children must have their toys too--automrobiles, ra- dios, beautiful furniture, pianos, furs, perfumes, and all those de- 'lightsome things that help to make life more livable, Hundreds of nillions of dollars are spent on supplying all these various needs of the human race. Months in advance, commercial travellers start out on the road selling sup- plies for Christmas time. Factories are speeded up to take care of the requirements of the jolly old man in the red coat--indeed the machinery of the whole world is speeded up to take care of the huge volume of business created by this sentimental old gentleman id does it all for love and good- Old Santa Claus is the greatest evmmereipl factor in the world to y. MRS, LINDBEBGH BETURNS Mexico City, Dec. 26~--Col. Lind- bergh snd his mother, Mrs. Lind- bergh, will fly away from Mexico City Wednesday morning. The son goes In the direction of Guatemala City, which is a flight of probably nine hours; his mother starts back to Detroit, The Spirit of St. Louis will carry the youthful flying man; the tri- motored Ford which brought Mrs. Lindbergh to Mexico will take her back to ber homeland. THE CHICAGO WATER STEEAL (Detroit Free Press) Unless Washi: does something to Canadian interests it must expect to hear from Ottawa in no uncertain tones, and in the unlikely event that pleas fall on deaf ears, this country cannot reasonably com plain in case there are reprisals. i remember that the completion of the St. Lawrence wat upon the good disposi , and also that Canada is in a position to develop an alter nate route from the upper lakes to the ocean by cutting a canal from Georgian Bay. It will not pay to use the Dominion unfairly. Perhaps the mations could end war by erecting a few bronzes of tax- payers shelling out--San Francisco Chronicle. A uwew GSroom Bungalow, centrally located, all modern conveniences. Must be sold at once. Only $3,850, with $300 cash. Ask us about it; this is a bargain, W. J. SULLEY Auctioneer 9 Celina St, Phones: 2580. Res. 716) : Do Your at the Dominion Clothing Co 68 King St, W. 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