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THE GBHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY, 17, 1929 iy sn, Beginning To Pinch' ought Of Home Disturbing AR. Kennedy, Editor of The Strat- "* ford Beacan-Herald) 'Berlin, June 23.--This business of "travelling according to schedule has its drawbacks. Imagine being a at' 6 on a Sabbath morning. That's what happened. Saturday t is a long affair in Prague and the 'streets come strange noises far into hE. night. : 3 aving there this morning we / many great industrial plants in the outskirts, for Prague is a great manufacturing centre; Out in the country one saw fewer people! at work in the fields. We are head- ing almost due north. Shortly after entering the train a lady from Aus- tralia and her daughter came into the compartment, attracted by the maple leaf badge worn by members of the party. She was delighted to get a party speaking English and from another part of the empire. 'Always are there two questions being asked. First, "When do' we eat?" 'Second, "What do we use for money in this country?" During the week just passed, I have been count- ing in fracs, centimes, shillings, gro- i. Hh kronens, marks and pfennings. The paper money of one country is accepted in the next, but not so with the metal coins and as a result I am going to have to secure a caret bag to carry the loose change. In one pocket there is as much as a person could hold in a hand and yet I do not believe I could turn the things into two.good Canadian dollars. Coming to the border of Germany the train stops for the business oi examining passports and inspecting baggage. Through the courtesy of the German office arrangements had been made before to put all baggage through with no examination, and passports were not even stamped. My station of observation once more becomes the train window, es- pecially as we enter what is called the Saxon'. Alps. Wonderful, indeed, is the scenery through here. Great mountains that are under cultivation almost to the top testify to the in- tensive nature of production carried on here. Out there is a great rock jutting high above the river, and years ago it must have attracted the attention of someone, who desired to erect a castle where foes could not bother nor creditors molest. Once inside that old fortress I imagine the owner could go to his couch in peace and sleep the clock around. Smoke came from the chimney today, and if the man who lives there should come home under the influence of many drinks I imagine he would be out of luck were he to take a few too many steps from the dotted line which leads to the front door. Apparently the peasants along here and the people in, Ontario have onc foe in common. In one small patch of potatoes this morning I noticed two children very patiently knocking the potato bugs into a tin can, just as we used to do on lot ten, conces- sion four. bd Farming Similar to Ours In this district farming seems to resemble our own. Fields under one crop are much larger than I have seen before, and there are evidences of much more machine cultivation. It is interesting to note also the in- creasing number of industrial plants, and the farther we enter Germany the more numerous do they become. This is a small item, perhaps, un- important, but in the dining car to- day we had bread for the first time. Not since we landed have we had anything but rolls, some of them so hard at times that one felt like get- ting down on the floor and fighting it out with them. Quite late this afternoon we reach- ed Berlin and as usual there was the reception committee waiting and with all plans made. The thing runs very smoothly. A pafty of fifty with all manner of e are placed in their rooms in the hotels within ten minutes, I don't think I have spoken much about hotels' before. We are at the Hotel Adlon on the Unter den Lin- des, and it surpasses anything I have yet seen on this trip. e room we occupy is large enough to start housekeppihg on a fair scale. Early training in matters of abstinence is robably responsible for the fact that am able to run this little typewriter and tell the story. Entering the room the table in the centre contains a great bouquet of sweet peas. with the compliments of some organization; for the lady there is a great box of chocolates, while for myself, with the sincere compliments of the manager of the hotel, there is a very excellent and generous bottle of brandy. Al- most am I tempted to wish that some sort of a pain might descend upon my. framework. We go to dinner at seven. May I describe the place? The color scheme is so dull a red that it comes almost into a mulberry, Carpets seem so heavy and soft that one might be leaving tracks in them, The ceiling is of dull glass and the color scheme there dull gold. The lights on the tables have red shades, and are so built that each contains in the base a bouquet of sweet peas. The whole place is very quiet. Looking out from the windows on one side one sees a court, planted with all manner of flowering shrubs and borders, and in the centre a great fountain plays un- der slightly colored lights. In one opening there is the orchestra, first and second violin, cello and harp. They play with the intention of be- ing secondary to the meal, Their sel- ections include such old themes as The Rosary, Blue Danube, and a se- lection of quaint and plaintive folk music. It is superb, the work of these musicians. Nothing in the whole surrounding scenes to be out of place. It seems so far removed from any- thing suggesting haste that one is tempted to stay long. Perhaps the waiter noticed that our little party felt as though they were occupying this territory too long; he comes ov- er to ask if there is any particular selection the orchestra should play. Ah, yes, it is going to be a bit tough getting down to work early in the morning, and occasionally eating a meal off the kitchen table. MASSACHUSETTS BUILDING FIGURES Boston, Mass, July 17.--Contracts for new building and engineering work in Massachuseets during the month of May were reported to total $24,325,000. That figure is 19 per cent ahead of the April, 1929 total, but it is 29 per cent less than the total for May, 1928. The May contract total brought the amount of new construction work started in this state since the first of this year up to $92,451,300, being a drop of 21 per cent from the amount started during the corresponding period of last year, the great héight of the structure. The Duchess of York, 20,000-ton Canadian Pacific trans-Atlantic steamer, is not going to crash the new biidge which, a few days after this picture was taken, was completed across the St. Lawrence in the harbor of Montreal, although the odd result of the photographer's work makes a smash-up seem almost inevitable. fact the bridge is actually 26 feet above the tip of the liner's fore- mast which itself is 30 feet higher than the funnel. figures of the steel workers on the bridge give another indication of at As a matter of The midget A ---- SPAIN'S FATALISM AIDS DICTATORSHIP De Rivera Made Astute Use of Inheritance From Orient Madrid, July 17.--There's a bit of the fatalism of the Orient in Span- ish political life, which perhaps ex- plains the easy grace and nonchal- ance with Which the population as a whole tolerates the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera. Being blessed with an unusual amount of hard common sense, as well as poli- tical astuteness, the man who holds King Alfonso's fate in his hands has taken advantage of this fatalism at every turn, which also perhaps ex- plains why he has been in the sad- dle for more than five years without a serious threat to his leadership. Undoubtedly the key to Primo's success lies in the fact that he does not irritate the populace. In Italy it means a reprimand at the very least not to stand and cheer at the top of one's voice when Mussolini appears on the scene. A semblance of enthu- siasm must appear even though none really exists. In Spain it is just the opposite. Even the urchins on the street may sing ribald ballads about Primo if they do not do so too vociferously. And as for starting an ovation ev- erytime the Dictator draws in sight, it just isn't being done. Those who want to cheer, cheer, But they are always in the minority, Taken for Granted Primo is "taken for granted" by the Spanish masses, As a general thing he has neither improved nor made more difficult their lot. On the other hand the "landed gentry" and "aristocrats" = are considerably dis- gruntled because for the first time in their lives they have found their pockets tapped by the tax collectors. The system of "fines" which Primo 'When You Step Off The Train You're There The magnificent new ROYAL YORK at Toronto, the Empire's greatest hos- telry, connects directly with the Union Station. Rooms with tub THE ROYAL TORO and shower bath in this modern, fireproof hotel may \ YORK Growing Old Gracefully There are windows and mount, there lend itself as house. themselves to color as Paint is used not only as a preservative but to open the way for varied effects of color, both inside and out. high spots are usually in doorways, most needed. While deterioration is seen in dry- rot and decay from dampness, it is entirely possible--with proper and precaution and periodical paint- ing--to allow all wooden grow old gracefully. Taken all in all, if cost be substituted for wood, which would ~ (Oshawa Lumber COMPANY, LIMITED 25 Ritson Road North TELEPHONE 2821.2820 few materiale which lend does wood. The places where accents are care houses to is para- is no material which can effectively for the small has imposed upon counter-revolution- aries also has pleased the masses since the plotting thus far has all been done by the Conservatives of the old regime rather than by the radicals. And so long as opposition is confined mainly to the upper classes Primo mdy continue to feel reasonably secure. The '"'masses," even in Spain, are not going to get excited over alleged injustices in- flicted upon the 'upper classes." A large part of the opposition to Primo's regime also comes from the "outs"--old political factions who ruled the country before Alfonso climbed upon Primo's shoulders out of pure self-defense. The average Spaniard dismisses charges of cor- ruption and looting of the public's money with a shrug and comment that it is much better to have one gang profiteering than to have a half-dozen with their hands in the treasury. No one alleges that Primo is profiteering financially through the Dictatorship. But many charge, and some claim to have the proofs, that his "crowd" are lining their pockets for a rainy day. Spain's Blessings Again, however, Spain has never aspired to a good government. The story of creation--popular among the crowd--best illustrates the psychol- ogy of the average Spaniard. It goes: "When the Creator fashioned Spain, he asked the people who were to inhabit the country what they wanted, "Give us a wonderful cli- mate," they said, $o he took the balmy breezes of the Mediterranean and the warmth of Africa and gave Spain one of the most delightful cli- mates in the world. Then the peo- ple asked for high mountains in which to take refuge from the sum- mer heat. The Pyrennees resulted with some of the highest ranges of Europe and eternal snows. The people then asked for gardens, fruit and flowers, and Andalusia was cre- ated. And so on through the list of things desirable physically and geo- graphically. Then the Almighty of- fered just one more blessing and asked what the people most craved. 'Give us a good government,' they said, and the Creator replied: 'There, you are asking too much.'" Unless Primo oversteps himself-- adopts Mussolini tactics to carry through more ambitious programs than he has thus far aspired to do, the majority of the body politic is not ljkely to start any serious oppo- sition to his regime and the transi- tion to constitutionalism will be ef- fected without any abrupt up- heaval. 1 A two-year-old Jersey heifer owned by Dr. Olsen, Duncan, B.C, has just completed a world's recard for her age in a 305-day test] his young cow roduced in the 10 months a total of . of milk and 729 Ibs. } eat" of starved himself to death by eating "STARVATION" GULT ATTRACTS MANY Three "Starves" Yearly of 40 Days Each Made by Russian Montreal, July 17. -- The recent case of an artist in Britain, who nothing for four weeks in a tragic effort to keep himself alive called forth a commendable comment from the Coroner on the dangers of the new "starvation" craze which is the latest freak treatment of medical cranks; but it also instances in a re- markable way the wonderful endur- ance of the human frame and the ex- traordinary periods which man can live without eating. According to scientists, "a hard- working man such as a laborer or blacksmith, or an athlete constantly playing football, tennis or golf, re- quires no less than three to four thousand "calories" of food value ev- ery twenty-four hours to keep him- self fit, strong, and in working trim; or, in plain words, he must eat, by way of meat, bread, vegetables and fruit, the equivalent of no less than between three and four pounds of fat roast beef every day. Yet such is human adaptability that enormous feats of energy strenuously sustained over many days have been accom- plished without food at all, writes a contributor in this article in the Sheffield (Eng.) Weekly Telegraph. Not long back a millionaire pub- lisher and physical culture expert, offered a large money prize fo any one who would walk the 1,200 miles from Chicago to New York without eating a mouthful on the way. A man named Johnson attempted this seemingly impossible test and actually walked for twenty days and covered 607 miles before he aband- oned his unequal fight with starva- tion. He subsisted on water throughout the trip, and arrived at the summit of Bald Mountain, the highest peak of the Alleghanies, before he gave in: he lost 37 lbs. in weight during his walk. A Russian journalist, Suworin, is another apostle of starvation, who starving himself for perip rst. of a day, then for a week, th asmonth until now he makes three" "starves" a year of forty days each and has gathered a cult, numbering some scores of hard-working business men and women, who are allowed to drink tea and sweetened lemon-juice, but who starve themselves for alternate periods of. ten days at a time. The real "starvers" of the world are, however, to be found in India, where fakirs imbued with religious fervor, not only perform feats of en- durance which would rapidly kill any ordinary strony and healthy person, but starve themselves for inordinate lengths. Sadhu or "starvation pen- ance" is a craze amongst all devout Hindus, who often go without all food for several days; but only fak- irs who have practised achieve re- markable periods of living without food at all. One man, a frail old Tamil of 65, who has only recently starved for 41 days, his only nour- ishment being water, which he drinks after pouring some of it as a libation over the images in the temples he visits. Even more remarkable is the case of another fakir who having fasted for 30 days and thus proved that he could live without eating, decided that he could be buried without dy- ing. Singing religious songs he was buried alive by a ritual known as samaj and his followers then start- ed on a "starve" of a month to cele- brate the event. . But while such cases of voluntary starvation instance man's conquest over his body they pale to insignifi- cance 'beside the astounding periods of starvation which the body can en- dure under the stress of peculiar ail ments. There is today in a nursing home at Saragossa, in Spain, a wo- man named Amalia Baranda Ruiz, who has eaten nothing for the past six years! Taken ill in 1920, she lived on milk until February, 1921, where the nature of her illness forced her to abandon all food and ¢ drink, and since then she has not eaten, drank, nor slept. Recently, experts have aided her in her invol- untary starve by injecting tonics; her hair and nails continue to grow, but one result of her long starvation is that she has shrunk from 12st. 31b. to 6st. 21b. Christian Michelot. was a French girl who also starved for four years, eating no food and drink- ing only water, having lost her appe- tite after a bout of fever; but medi- cal experts were able to restore her Alexander strenuous started the home--at work or at play--neat- ness counts! And, by the way, did you "Nugget" your shoes this "NUGGET" Shoo Polish THE *NUGGET" TIN OPENS WITH A TWIST! Abolition of Old Apple Trees Recommended Durham, N.H., July 17.--A stick of dynamite may be the best treatment for old apple trees, says H. G. Wood- worth, agricultural economist of the University of New Hampshire ex- periment station. Old trees in poor condition, he says, require several years of skilful work to bring into bearing. Even then they are still old, soon will decline in production and be of doubtful com- mercial value. He believes it may be better to remove old trees and replace them with new and vigorous growth. In time, he observes, it may be found that old trees will have to be dis- DECLINING STATUS OF NEW ENGLAND Adverse Trade Balance Given as Reason Augusta, Me., 'July 17.--The im- portance of New England in the industries of the United States in 1927 was only one-third as great as it was in 1849, W. Gerald Holmes of buy at the Agnew-Surpass Shoe Store if you Want to save money on yowr shog bills now is the time to buy quality shoes at reduced prices this city, industrial engineer of the New England Public Service Corpor- ation declares. According to Holmes, in 1849 the six New England states accounted for 28 per cent of all the goods manu- factured in this country. By 1904 this had fallen to 14 per cent, while the 1927 census showed that the figure had fallen to 9% per cent. "This is due to many factors," says Ladies' Dongola Kid or Patent leather straps or ties. Cuban, rubber heel, Special Steel Arched shank for extra comfort. Vide wuts 4995 Holmes. 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