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Port Perry Star (1907-), 20 Dec 1934, p. 6

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$l LE a ee Voice of 20 Bs CB ad Ad .-e halk CANADA face. He met it with considerable * 3 fortitude, A Victoria Times oF MUSSOLINI'S JOBS "One of the latest photographs of . 'Mussolini shows him pushing a wheel- "a pe rei fo Lh oo 23 I a A TT SE Are VAN WIT ty ARS 4 WS hay »~ hn Me SB a, ~ bai Rana a ENE Sn La - val SAE -- a my Ye barrow load of sand at the start of work on an orphan asylum. We have Tost «-unt of the number of jobs he does. --Kingston Whig-Standard THE SUPERIOR SEX "Women students have defeated men students in a debate at tne University of Western Ontario, but women usually get the better of an argument with the other' sex. % London Free Press STUDENTS AND WAR -- A questionaire was recently distributed to students of Toronto University asking them such ques- tions as. "Would you support war under any circumstances?" "When is war justified?" "Would you sup- port the League of Nations?" +A stand of absolute pacifism was taken by 99 of the 200 students who responded to the questionaire sent put by Varsity, the undergraduate newspaper, in collaboration with the {nternational Students' Service at Geneva. There were '13 militant undergraduates who declared they would go to any war that the Gov- ernnient declared, Seven of these were in the faculty of applied science. There were 88 supporters of a majority defined the latter as one in which Canada was invaded. As a means to avert war the students sup- ported thé League of Nations and the World Court of Justice. Of course the number who re sponded to the questionaire 'ig vorily a very small percentage of the total students registered at Toronto Uni- versity. Brantford Yxpositor LONDON'S TRAFFIC At present the number of motor vehicles in the greater city reaches nearly 1,000,000 cars, vans and lorries, more than 5,000 buses and 10,000 taxicabs. Besides there are 259 miles of street car lines to com- , plicate surface traffic problems. The motorization of the metropolis and its environs is now progressing at such a pace that not many years will elapse before the total number of motor vehicles is expected to ex- ceed 2,5000,000 ' Ys tedericton Gleaner STREAMLINED LOCOMOTIVES -- Lowered cost of operation and greater speed are two of the reasons for the introduction of stream-lined trains. That these objectives have been attained in some degrees at least is acknowledged. Apparently, however, the New York Central Lines officials are not convinced that the new fangled trains with Deisel-engine develop- ment. are going to completely revolutionize rail travel. They still have faith that the steam locomo- tive is an cconomic and efficient power unit Therefore they have about ready for service the first streamlined high - powered steam locomotive which with its head' resistance re- duced 35 to 36 percent, as compared with the present steam locomntive, will more nearly meet modern re- quirements. St. Thomas Times-Journal The immediate antaconiism be- tween Jugoslavia and Hungary pro- bably merits all the attention it 1s receiving. However, it is also worth remembering that the Slavs, who predominate Jugoslavia, have been fighting with the Mazvars, who pre dominate in Hungary, for so lone that the origin of their ho-tility is lost in the midst of history". flamilton Herald AN IMPROVEMENT It is satisfactory to know that there were 1,600 fewer families in relief in Winnipeg on November 10 than at the same time last year . . Tle number of families on relief has deelined continuously since last winter nntil the present time. On June 2 trove were 7,140 families receivine relinf: on September | 1 there were 5.995. and on November 10 there were 5.979, y Winnipex Free Press A FATHER'S PROBLEM A St. Paul yuoth, aged 18, went out on a holdup one night re- cently, got involved in a fight with polize, atid shot and killed a patrol- - man. He got away. and dragged him- gelf home, seriously wounded. When he got home, his father quickly. learned what had happened. What should a father do in such a case--nuree his son back to health, keep his niouth shut, and pray that the whole affair. could be hushed up or step forward with Spartan cour- age and let the law take its course? ' This St.. Paul father took the latter alternative, He 'called a doctor, then he called the parish priest--and then he called the police, and saw his gon taken away to jail to be indicte! for second degree murder. "This man had about. as hard a d° dlsfon to make as any father covl! " as >> SSR dn hn nd AND NOW OCTUPLETS | '--Mr. Art Weber, the popular auctioneer of Stephen Tp. his a goose that evidently believes we and on Thursday of last week brought out eight little goslings. 'I'he goose had stolen away and made her nest in a strawstack and last week proudly brought forth with a brand new family prepared to take their chance with the elements. Seven: of the brood are lively little chaps and now it will be up to Arc as the family physician to this latest addition to his farm to see that they get the proper care and attention to make the necessary daily gains in weight at this off season of the year. Exeter Times-Advocate THE EMPIRE MECHANICAL PLANTER Here's good news for tired gar- deners with aching backs, A me- chanical planter which sets and wat- ers plants at the rate of 12,000 an hour, is being used as Sprowston, near Norwich, for planting cabbages, celery and strawberries. Inthe Fens it has planted cclery at the rate of seven plants a sccond (25,000 an hour). An experienced hand plant- er could set no more than 700 plants an hour.--London Sunday Graphic. WOMEN SHOULD ORGANIZE Women must learn to organise. Their influence on public opinion should be greater than it is. Their hearts will always be in their homes and with their children, but they must accept the broader citizenship that comes with emancipation. The "Sunday Referee" believes not only that women have it in their power to end the strife of nations but that they should: begin now to organise towards that purpose.--London Sun: day Referee. THE ROYAL VISIT The Duke of Gloucester desires to sce as much as he can of Australia and of Australian conditions, and he should be given every opportunity to gratify that wish; for in the role of Imperial ambassador, which is im- plicit in his mission as the King's envoy, it is important that the Duke of Gloucester should gain first- hand knowledge of problems pecu- lian to Australia, The King's sons all have shown a marked capacity for important overseas missions -- a capacity which increases in propor- tion as their knowledge of the prob- lems of the different parts of the Empire increases, And because or the new relationship between the Throne and the Dominions it is highly important that the King's sons should gain first-hand know- ledge of affairs in even the most remote corners of the British Empire. In these matters and in his wish to avoid unnecessary strain the Duke of Gloucester may expect the cor- dial co-o-peration of his official hosts, and of the public.--The Australas- ian, NOT SO "ELEMENTARY, WATSON" Scotland Yard is to have its own science laboratory for crime at rong last. And to make up for the delay the laboratory is going 6 jump au one bound into the front rank of in- stitutions of that sort in 'he world. [Fighting crime is a job which the public wants done as well as it pos- sibly can be done. The resources of science in this field are immense, and will grow. The new laboratory will earn its keep a hundredfold in the convictions it will make possible and the time and trouble it will save. --London Daily Herald. AND FIFTY-ONE. YEARS HENCE, | We do not believe that either Germany or France wants war or that their natural antagonism, even if it must persist, cannot be steril- ised for another fifty years if the right people get together and the right things are said.--London Sun- day Dispatch. YOUNG EGYPT / An interesting complaint being made these days by Egyptian fath- ers is that modern enlightenment is having a bad effect on the rising generation, Fathers pray for a re- turn of the good old days when fathers used first to demonstrate to erring offspring by demolishing a mud wall with tke blow of a fist. Today, the better educated women- folk in the household combine forces A gracious young hostess, little Helga Goebbels welcomes Chancellor Adolf Hitler on his visit to the home of her father, Propaganda Minister, who is holding her in his arms. and with the authorities, whose duty it was to restrict drivers' misdoings. It is true that motor transport has provided the gravest anxieties, but the growing accident statistics will be reduced in the most satisfactory manner only if equal care is exer- cised by every class of road user, The need of better traffic condi- tions on the roads of the Colony is urgent. Kven at the risk of reducing the already small leisure time of the Constabulary "The Trinidad Guara- ian' recommends that a series of lectures by senior officers-ghould be --Trinidad Guardian, Port of Spain, 'New York Police Urged to Beat Up Known Criminals Bring 'em in "Mussed Up, Commissioner Says, 'and I'll Back You Up' New York.--Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine has declared him- telf for a policy of "marking and mussing up" all known criminals who are arrested, He told 200 detectives at the .po- lice lineup to spread thg word among the force that he wanted criminals so beaten they would leave the city rather than face arrost. "I don't want these men coming in herp looking as if they had just left a barber chair," the Commissioner declared. IHis remarks were prompted by the appearance in the lineup of a man arrested on a charge of murder. The vuspect was neatly groomed. The Commissioner pointed to the man and indicated what changes should have been made, "The district attorneys will protect you", he wdvised the detectives. "Bring these known criminals in mus- sed up." He counseled the officers to "draw quick and shoot accurately." "The racketeers, tho thugs and the gun- men who prey on honest people id this city must get out," hg cantin- ued. "I want you to drive them out. "I want you to understand you'll be supported, no matter what you do, provided you are justified, Make it 80 disagreeable for men like this that they'll leave the city- becouse they fear arrest. Don't treat them light- ly." Commenting upon his orders later, the commissioner said: "It is about time that our men re- ceived some assurance that they will be tupported. The vooner we are rid of the thug, the racketeer and the killer the better, "We want to be careful however, not to harm innocent people, and we don't want to use police brutality on anyone because of different political faiths, but on thugd and gorillas and assassins the sky is the limit--and 1 wanted the men to know where wo stand. "Decent hard-working people should be protected. We don't want police brutality, but that's the only way to stop thede criminals, It is about time that-we took action to protect the people we are paid to protect." : , Volcanoes Spout and throw out with the young men who mizbzhave. In the old days, the father was king ' of his castle, It is argued that his! lost grip of the youth of the coun- try does not augur well for the fut- ure of the land. The older men aver that one of the worst things that ever came out of the West was the emancipation and consequent dissi- pation o. the young.--The Sphinx, Cairo. i IN TRINIDAD L!KEWISE An argument of'en used in past "cr: was that motdr vehicles had wartdad the problem of the roads, «d that the solution lay with them hot stones and dust and give us an idea that the inside of the earth must be a very hot place. The old volcano of Stromboli stands out in the Mediterranean Sea just above. Sicily and throws out a flame which lights the sea for hund- reds of miles, Vesuvius. and Etna do the same thing, but not so frequently as the Stromboluzzo as these Italians eall This would indicate that the flame comes from the earth and that the earth must be a huge ball 6f fire with a thin, cool crust, | Five-Year Trek of Reindeer Herd Across Arctic Now Nearing End 3,000 Animals Will be Released Near Aklavik After 3,000- Mile March from Alaska -- Victory for Laplander : Moose River, N.W.T. -- The drum of hoofs across the rim of Canada's Arctic circle wrote a march of vie tory for Andrew Bahr. It sounded the end of a five year struggle across a 3,000 mile stretch of ice to re-estab- lish a lot reindeer herd for 25,000 Mskimos in scattered settlements from Kittigazuit to Coronation Gulf, Led by Bahr diminutive Lapland herder and his nine wind-tanned as- sistants 3,000 sturdy reindeer set out from Kutebue Alaska, Christmas Day 1929, Now it is moving slowly across the Mackenzie delta to Kittigazuit, east of Aklavik, where it will be re- lensed. The animals spent the Sum- mer 'at this Arctic coast point,- 150 miles northwest of Aklavik. To Aid Eskimos Behind the venture was the decis- Nice People Mary Pickford Says If We . Would Get Acquainted With The Charming Person Who Dwells Down' Deep In Each One Of Us, We'd Be Surprised. New York.--We are all very nice people away down deep, says Mary Pickford. Each one is nice, and "50 few of us have even seen that fel low," she says, : } Miss Pickford, Toronto's peculiarly brilliant star in the film firmament, is an author also and has written a hook called, "Why Not Try God?" "It's very short," she said, "you can read it very quickly." " "You are a Christian Scientist, are you not, Miss Pickford?" "A large order I am a stu- dent," : She likes being an author, She dictates her stuff and writes in long- hand and is not quite ture whether she would like to use a typewriter. She doesn't think .people possess their possessions. She thinks the possessions potgess them, "just as I 'have been possessed by my career." "But what would you like to do now?" : Miss Pickford's main idea everyone €hould find himself, she thinks one can get a per- spective, "If you can't see fit mentally it doesn't exist," she says, and sits very firm eand charming on' 'a collapsible chair, : "How about a bright and line for a conclusion?" "Anything that helps us to find our- velves is bright and snappy, isn't. it? All of us are really nice people--away down deep--so few of us have ever seen that fellow." is that Then snappy New Notes Bank of Canada Bills To Be Printed This Month Ottawa.--Bills of the Bank of Can- ada in the various denominations will be printed this month in readiness for circulation when the bank begins to function probably in February, The engraving has been completed by the two bank note companies in Ottawa. The notes are to be, bilingual--in English and French, It will be re- called that the language question was discussed with some vigor in the last session. Finally, the Government inserted in the bill a provision that the notes may be issued in either language which enables them to be bilingual, or teparate, The bilingual notes are more especially designed for Quebec circulation, but, of course, currency, once 'In circulation, ig not limited to any particular bounds. wl .proaching their primitive foods, But fon of the Dominion Government to, replenish depleted reindeer herds. Since 1929 starvation has gtalked Es- kimo camps throughout the barren lands. Invasion of the white man drove out the caribou and for five years natives have subsisted almost entirely on the white man's diet of canned beef and tea, The five-year-trek told an Arctic saga destined to llve forever in the lore of the north country, Long jour- neys over frozen trails in 50 below weather; daring drives through per- ilous mountain pastes when a slip of the foot meant sudden death and bat- tlea at night with packs of hungry wolves that continuously stampeded the herd, Despite the addition of 1000 spring fawns to the original herd, Bahr ex- pected to deliver only 2300 head, Their arrival however will inaugurate an Arctic new deal with a full din- ner pail and eventually two reindeer sleds in every Hskimo garage. Bahr and his assistants will remain with the herd long enough to instruct the natives in the fundamentals of rein- deer breeding, Despite the long struggle, Bahr be- lieves the real battle is now just be- ginning, The establishing of the herd will give the Eskimo something ap- the animals must be protected from tthe ravages of extermination by the wolves until the herd is buiit up. The hand-picked cavalcade left El-! ephant Point, Alaika in late Decem-! ber 1929. In preparation for the long march, Bahr sercured 63 specially | made sleds drawn by trained teams of domesticated reindeer to trans- port equipment and supplies, The great herd was able to move only in! the Winter months. This allowed for! the fawning season and eliminated | the dangers of Arctic travel in the Summer months. ) The route lay through the Noazak| river valley in a north-easterly dir- ection to the Arctic watershed, and thence across the Continental Divide through the little used pass to the | head of Colville Basin, southeast of Point Barrow, Here the herd rested in the Spring of 1930. 300 ADDED TO HERD With 300 fawns added to the herd Bahr pushed on with freeze-up in the' IFall and reached a point southeast of! Point Barrow the : After a Summer's rest the expedition' arrived at Flaximan Island southeast, biggest jump of any of them) for just, ran of Harrison Bay on the Arctic coast. | line. Blue River 300 miles east of our eyes so wide open to what the ion Flaxman was the next stopping point. | The original schedule called for, the crossing of the Mackenzie river. basin in the Spring of 1931-32 but timber wolves, lean and hungry from | long years of privation swooped down on the strange procession and took | their toll' Bahr and his men escaped death by keen vigilance and sharp! aim with the rifle but their antlered charges were less fortunate, : For many months the location of the herd was not known to the out- side world, Last October, within stri- king distance of their goal the party! Job, and concede that for ail started on the last lap of a drive that know, he is handling it in good shape. will take them across the Mackenzie 'the World War, it was looked upon Germany Loses. Famous | Der Tag Prewar Neutral Forum Joins long List of Extinct : Free Journals BERLIN---Der Tag is now added to the list of German newspapers which have disappeared since: Na- tional Socialism came to power less than two years ago. Der Tag was formerly the organ of the German Nationalist People's Party. It has now been incorporated in the Ber liner Lokalanzeiger, another news- paper of the same company, the Scher! Verlag. : Der Tag oceupied a place of fits own in German journalism. Before as a more or less neutral forum, in which current questions could be discussed, particularly by its readers. Today, it cannot perform this function, since few Germans now venture to express their opinions on some of the most outstanding ques- tions in their own press. The Deutsche Zeitung, formerly the organ of the Pan-American movement and since Jan. 80, 1933, the journal of the Reich Food De- partment, also announces that it will discontinue its afternoon edition. In addition to the scores of So- cialist, Communist and other "lib- eral" newsapapers and periodicals which have ceased, or been compell- ed to cease publication in the last 22 months, there have also, disappeared such once-prominent Berlin dailies as the Vossische Zeitung, Berliner Bor-|: sen-Courier, Tagliche Rundschau and Deutsche Tageszeitung. From the view point of the Ger- man public, it shows increased apathy toward newspaper reading (since these losses are not made up in more subscribers to the National 'Socialist papers)). The German journalistic profession, finds it to mean greater hardship and unemployment. Natural Rubber Held Still More Profitable Than Synthetic Type London, -- 'Hundreds of articles il. lustrating the utilization of rubber are on display at the rubber exhibition which was recently opened at the Science Museum in South Kensing- ton by Sir Phillip Cunliffe-Licter, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The exhibition is devoted almost entirely to natural rubber and its uses Synthetic rubber, while developed to an important stage, is regarded as being too costly for production with! rubber at its present comparatively low price. Spongy rubber used in upholstery has survivad three-year teuts on the buses without impairment the ex-! hibit shows, Above all, the multifar-' fous uses of rubber in the manufact- ure and equipment of an automobile are displayed. The automobile indus- try alone is said to absorb more than 70 per cent of the world's output of raw rubber. Despite the variety of exhibits, no- where could be found an example of one of the lateyt and most interest- ing rubber novellie.~--clothing made of rubber and wool, designed to keep its shape without pressing. Such clothing is already on the market, So! is practically every other object that is shown at the exhibition, which is scheduled until April next year, The Other F ellow's Job A Minnesota editor moralizes thus ly:-- "If we could all switch busin. | essess all the way around for just one week we'd be a lot more sympath-: etic of the other fellow's problems' and know 'a lot more than we do at! present about the caute of his short.' comings and of his apparent failures, | Let the banker well prunes, the gro-' cer pull teeth the dentist run a gar- following Spring. age, the garage man edit the paper, | ra the editor run the bank (that's the six little work days and we'd all have others 'are up against that we would! never have the courage to criticize, | nor would we be unsympathetic again and then if the whole caboodle of us' were on various farms and operate them for another six -days each, we would all be so wise and understand- ing that the peace and harmony pre: | vailing would make this little old community just about the best place' in the world to live in. It can't be thought to ourselves. that we don't! know anything about the other man's we | done, of course, but we could take the delta to Kittigazuit east of Aklayik, | "A man's true wealth is the good where they will be released, - Speaking of the wolf menace Bahr In his fitst account of the trek sald: "They would come in the bleak hofirs he does in this world". %;hammed. "Riches are not an end of life, but and the an instrument of life,"--Henry Ward Beecher, | £2, before dawn, Timber. walves. in. 'proks' of from four to 12. They would hover in the shadows terrify the herd and A. B. Porsild, kept the: party supplied then leap in for the kill, Oftentimes, | With provisions while the herd tray. | perience no longer means 'anything days were upent in quieting. and persuading them ties ward again in orderly fashion, Then hen the Taye was made the wolf enace would assert itself agaf in a period of 24 hours." bi i R, T. Porsild, Dominion Govern. ment reindeer expert and his brother rove their dog teams more, than 2,000 - miles during the Winter; back. and forth between Herschel Tand and Aklavik, { 11 10 | make the hecesary computations for 'now the shaft of lig Do You Know? Hanging was Te good for pwearers during the Middle Ages. : True, they hanged the offender, but as soon as they were sure he was dead they always cut out his tonuge, The last time this happened was ih the year 1748 at Orléans France. In most New England States laws still stand providing a punishment of five years' imprisonment for a man caught cussing. Fines © It that law were put Into actual" force the jails would be all. over crowded in twenty-four hours, i That quarrels are plentiful now but they are nothing to the quarrels of 'the fifteenth century. er Every soldier carried a number of quaivels around with him because a quarrel is an arrow, and they used arrows to shoot each other, Those old archers could shoot very well, : In Chester, England one bowman shot from his bow a quarrel that went through a volid brass plate two inches in thickness, b Lots of warriors could shoot a quarrel clean through the body of a man, These are given as facts in history, That burglar is a word that has practically come down from the ages. 1t is a anixture of German and Latin "Larron" means thief, "Burg" means home, so a burglar" is a man who steals from a home, "He iu a blackguaird is an expies- sion to denote a fellow who does mean things and is no good in gen- eral. Blackguard is a word from England and from the good old days. Wien travelling was not an easy matter a family going on a long trip had to be ready to camp out at al most any time. Horses would run away, wheels would _drop off and lots of things might happen, So a family that was going vome distance - always had a load of kit chen things, pots pans and charcoal. These followed the ladies and the gentlemen never going in front of them because the sight would offend tham. So the kitchen things were placed : on a wagon and as thieves were then . plenty, a guard had to ride with the sooty things, That fellow was the "blackguard" the fellow who guarded the black and sooty utensils, : The name began about six 'hundred years ago and has lasted ever since, but with a different meaning, When the Turks in wandering ar- , ound the world came to these brown- ith persons, they asked them if they believed in Mohammed, They did not believe in Mohammed probably because 'they had never even heard of that great religious leader, So the Turks announced that the brown people were infidels, Anybody why does not believe in your faith is an infidel. Therefore the Turks sald the brown men were "Kaffirs" which is the Turkish wond for infidel, - So the name has stuck to these peo plo for nearly twelve hundred years Australians Take A Chance Can- it be that the architects who built the great AustraMan war mem- orial at Melbourne have never heard of modern phyuics and what it has done to the law of cause and effect? They seem to be unaware 'that we now live in a universe ruled by ca- price, They are apparently out of touch with Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty which vitates that about atoms or cosmoses you never can tell, The Melbourne architects at any te had no quaims ahout the future, designing the Shrine of Rememb- ce which houses the tomb of the Unknown Soldier they made provis- for a small round hole in the root of the chamber. The orifice is to si In { tuated and the entire etructure is so oriented that every year at the elev- | enth hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month a ray of tunligl penetrate the chamber HR the centre of the tomb, The Melbourne architects and en. gineers employed aztromoners to them, It is said that 2,300 yars from ht will be two morning of Nov- 2,000 years fur- minutes late on the Slbes 11th, but that er on the ray will again be : 'the chamber at ES Sabi It is 'an extraordinary ditplay of confidence on the 'part of the stron. omens' living in an. uncertain universe HR y Shagse to overlook the fact olibhag dws of determinism are ab. olished. The props have been knocked from under a stable onder, Everythin 13 as likely ag 'everything else, Rr. lla, Through biting bilazards they oo 5° 8¢t8 and consequences have no rea Lo yes 1 inner connecticn.--Ney York "On a State, pecuniary iD J ; Y. gain is ng to be considered to be prosperity, but and fall upon 3 its prosperity will be found in 1. eousness,"--Confucius, vend tn righty

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