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2 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1927 CANADA'S OPPORTUNITY Close Affiliation of Provinces Gives Opportunity to Work Out Uniform Traffic Regulations LEARN FROM NEIGHBORS The annual meeting of the Good through unavoidable ignorance. Then, Roads Conference just closed brings ] too, there is no uniformity as to brake to the attention of newspaper readers , requirements, and there is the gi ' traffic ■ ■client generally the control and the prevention < accidents. Opportune Editorial. Peculiarly enough a most < editorial on this subject appeared in the Saturday Evening Post simultaneously with the report of the Convention proceedings, and strangely enough the government at Ottawa issued their road map at the same time. The editorial in part is as follows: Much attention has been given to safety education, especially in the public schools. Automobile associations keep insisting that if only drivers would show common courtesy there would be fewer accidents. The demand for more stringent examination of those seeking drivers' licenses grows apace. No remark these days is nioro often heard than that immense numbers of people should not bo allowed to drive cars at all. The whole question is puzzling in the extreme. The streets and highways cf the country cannot be rebuilt in a day into foolproof, intersection- of lire helpfuhu people 1 r the highway in be made ove ) helpful steps niformity W :.!i,c , to the inexpen-ient of adopting uniform 5 and regulations through-the country. At the present time man slicks his hand out of a car drivers behind him do not know t he means if they happen to e from other states. As Presi-; Henry, of the American Automo- ■y difficult reacli a national accord simple, though vital, mat signals of intention tun: But fusion prevails. The states prescribes merely that a timely warning be given, but custom has brought an infinite variety of hand and arm signals, resulting in confusion and increased hazard." Many states require the examination of drivers, but there are many which do not. Indeed, astonishing ist possible diversity among itates as to lighting requirements. Nor is there uniformity among the itates regarding these matters: iVhich vehicle thai have the right of way at intersections and under other given circumstances; what highways shall be through highways, how they shall be designated and to what extent a boultvard system with lighting signals o fa certain character is applicable to all cities; the passing of street cars; what to do on approach police department yehic •ithin a single state we ifferent standards of law ; from place to place. Every nd standard of courtesy, is and firmness in enforce-found. Some communities pay no attention to dense traffic and others regulate light traffic rigidly. If states and municipalities must be led by the hand of gentle but specific Federal encouragement, we suppose that Mr. Hoover, although already overworked in other directions, is the best person to lead them. But what a terrible indictment of the ability of states, cities and towns to themselves! Governor Rit-and others view with much alarm the encroachment of Federal authority upon the prerogatives of the states. But if the legislatures of the different states haven't enough instinct of human self-preservation to agree upon a uni-r quickly but form KiSnal for a man wno sticks his which can be lland out of an automobile window, ■ost and with- ' tnen we can exPect Federal activities in the future to make those, of the present look like thirty cents. No automobile driver can possibly know or understand all the varying laws and regulations govering his actions, as they change from town to town and from state to state. There is no reason whatever for the failure of states to adopt uniform traffic laws and regulations except sheer incompetence of government. It is worse than futile to talk about any substantial reduction or prevention of accidents until uniformity of traffic regulation has been attained. i When that is done drivers can be ex-I pected to understand and abide by j the rules. As it is now, the situation i is so chaotic and public opinion as warn-1 nQ). gtand tor tne severo punishment h P °J!o£ drivers. Everyone knows that Scientists Visit North Land nervous and physical | fjjf; ±™&r/* iding hearing, eyesight human not adopted people will Ler incapacity of a prefer- an for order. jperter, which for grandvai an 4 Sunday School Lesson ANALYSIS. I. the flight to horeb, 1-8. II. the divine voice, 9-18. III. the call of elisha, 19-21. depth of conception could hardly b« surpassed in literature. The Lord passes by arrayed in the terrors of storm, earthquake and fire; but non» of these bring home to the prophet the immediate sense of God. It is only in the auditle stillness which succeeds the fire that he feels the mysterious attraction of the divine, and, wrapping his face in his mantle, comes forth to the entrance of the COT RSF, OF I .8. BEOTHIC'S THRILLING VOYAGE Dr. Banting and A. Y. Jackson, the: artist, were among the notables that accompanied the S.S. Beothic on its trip to the Artie. The most northerly point touched was R.N.W. Police Post at Bache, Ellesmere Island. More Farm Tasks Urged Electrified i it may s . tlic-r ording to a recent compilation--which require neither examination nor license to drive. The privileges granted to non-resident operators vary from fifteen days to six months. As it is now, a tourist or business man traveling in states ether than the one in which he has an operator's license may be put yone else is driving semi-ignorance. Once the situation is simplified and standardized, the driver can be held for failure to signal and for other infractions of regulations as directly as a railroad engineers is disciplined for going past a warning to stop. Canada's Opportunity. We in Canada can and do endorse many of these sentiments. We have our provinces working together and Federal aid is available to help on the good work. While our recent Good Roads Convention, in closing, left the matter over for another year, we will look for a year pregnant with performance, and next year's meeting should see some constructive legisla- rrested j tion suggested. Cancer Cure Ends in Tragedy Walsall, Eng.--How a woman suffering from advanced cancer was nearly cured by eight doses of a new treatment, only to be killed by an infinitesimal overdose at the ninth injection, was revealed at an inquest at Chasetown, near here. The woman--Marriet Eleanor Kate Woolley, the wife of a colliery fireman--was treated in the Birmingham General Hospital, and her wonderful recovery had attracted attention in the medicial world. Dr. Arthur P. Thomson stated that Mrs. Woolley had attended the hospital since February. It was impossible, he said, io remove the cancer by operation, and it was accordingly decided to give her a lead-glycine treatment which had been adepted exclusively by the Cancer Research Committee'! chemist at the hospital, and with which experiments had been made animals to determine the poisonous Almost Normal Eight Injections had the effect of reducing the cancer from the size of a man's fist to that of a hazel nut, and Mrs. Woolley returned almost to normal health. After the ninth injection, however, Bhe developed toxic symp-coms and died a few days later. A Uost-mortem revealed the presence of a small quantity of lead. Less than cne-tenth of a gramma was found, jm$ probably ten per cent, of that represented the overdose. "It shows," said Dr. Thomson, "how little turned the balance against us." ^.J)r, Franclg William Lamb, pa,t,hoIo-giTl to the Qanoej: BveSafQu CoSnS)f(; tee, agreed that the woman would not have died If she had not had the last Injection. Irt' Tho corner, returning a verdict of "Dtath from fatty degeneration of the liver, probably due to lead poison," Bald that treatment had been proper1}- r-.dmlnistered. Amateur gardener's cheery hail: increased Duty on Milk Sought Producers in U.S. Want Protective Tariff Wall Strengthened Washington.--Increase in the duty on milk and cream has been urged on tho United States Tariff Commission which announces that it will shortly hold public hearings to gather evidence for and against higher taxation of these foods. Canada is practically the only country affected and the commission has just concluded vey of the dairy industry in t: minion to determine if the c production there is less than in the United States. The New England States and New York State are chiefly affected on this side. While the dairy interests of that section demand higher protection against Canadian competition, importers oppose the increased levy. During the last few years there has been a steady increase in the importation of Canadian milk and cream into the eastern states. Cheese and butter-making plants have sprung up along the border and importers in some sections have come to depend on milk and cream from the Canadian side to keep these plants going.. Ice cream factories in New York and Boston also are using a lot of Canadian cream. Importers probably will urge on the commission that they cannot get along without the Canadian product to augment the supply of fresh milk and cream available within easy shipping -distance of large centres of population in the London.--That the work of cleaning, feeding, not to mention milking :ows, could be done by three men instead of the usual 15, was the contention of R. Borlase Matthews, who read a paper on the subject of electricity on the farm before the engineering section of the British Association meeting at Leeds. . Mr. Matthews believed that the path of improvement in farming as an industry lay in the introduction of electrical transport. At present, he said, hay in England is often carried "in single trusses on the shoulders of laborers." This should cease. Moreover, threshing machines ought to be supplied with electrical chain-conveyors, while fertilizers should be liquified so that they could be pumped and distributed electrically onto the fields. On a farm of 420 acres, Mr. Matthews calculated that over 8000 tons of material had to be transported annually, and this could be done most economically by electrical apparatus. y," said A, "you don't have to over that ten dollars you owe "Why?" said B. "Because," said A, "it's no use both of us worry- Says Nungesser Fell During Gale Irish Report Intimates White Bird Lost Three Miles from Coast London.--R'av. D. Harty, of Glasgow, brings the rumor from Meenoga-hane, Ireland, to the effect that Nun-gesser's White Bird plane was seen to drop into the sea three miles from that village during a terrific gale the morning after Nungesser's start from Le Bourget. Petrol and oil covered frater came in with the tide but when fishermen were able to go to the scene no trace o fthe plane was found. Villagers claim that the water is Ltrthe spot and that it ought possible to salvage the wreck-The French Ambassador has been notified of Harty's discovery. After the fir© a still small voice. Thus God speak3 by the voice of his' Introduction--Elijah, the prophet, spirit in the hearts of men. The Lordj champion of Jehovah, Israsl'-3 God in passed by, and a great and strong, the conflict with Baal, very soon found wind, etc. The Lord is the author ofi that the victory won at Carmel was wind and earthquakes and fire, but he not complete. The marvelous display I himself is not in them. - ; of fire from heaven had not changed I It is true that in certain parts of, the hearts of the people. There had i the Old Testament God is represented! been an immediate declaration by the as using such agencies and revealing people for Jehovah and against Baal, i himself through them (Eodus 19:16-' but their sincerity and constancy had119; 24:17; Deut. 4:11-12; Judges1 yet to be proved. The slaughter of i 6:5), but there is here the further, the prophets of Baal at the river I lesson, which Elijah at this time foj Kishon (18:40) had aroused the fur- much needed to lean., "that not fifti ious wrath of the queen Jezebel, and and storm but the still small voice Sj the king, upon whom Eliah depended the fit emblem of the patient ari'r be possil) The Intolerant Atheist ■ There is a lot said about the biogc-try and intolerance of the church people. But I have never encountered more wholesale bigotry and intolerance than that voiced by many of my "open-minded" brethern. Some of t*em can't look at a church spire without seeing red. Some loudly denounce all God's processes on earth. --M. R. McCallum in Plain Talk. to uphold the decision of the people, proved weak and vacillating as before, and unwilling or unable to protect him. And so the strong man who had run tirelessly and exultantly before the chariot of Ahab the eighteen miles from Carmel to Jezreel, had speedily to flee for his life into the southern wilderness. I. the flight to horeb, 1-8. Ahab told Jezebel. The queen's anger may be imagined. It is quite possible that her anger was mingled with fear of the possible consequences to herself if the people should rise up in support of thsir propl.et. Instead, therefore, of ordering the death of Elijah, she sent him warning, hoping to drive hdm out of the country, as indeed she succeeded in doing. No permanent good could be accomplished by such deeds o: blood as the killing of the prophets of Baal at Carmel, or the massacre ordered by Jehu at Samaria and Jezreel twenty or more years later (2 Kings 10:1-28). In the following century the prophet Hosea declared that the Lord would "avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu (Hosea 1:4). But this was - lesson Elijah had yet to learn. In verse 2 the ancient Greek translation of the Septuagint makes Jezebel's message begin with the words. "As sure as you are Elijah and I am Jezebel." It also has at the beginning of v. 3, "And Elijah was afraid." Beer-sheba, to which the prophet first came, was in the extreme south of Palestine, and was a famous tuary to which pilgrims came from all parts of the two kingdoms. It was in the territory of Judah and so outside the dominions of Ahab. Continuing southward a day's journey he sought the solitude of the wilderness, where he gave himself ever to despair believing that his great effort to win back Israel to the pure worship of Jehovah had been an entire failure. The juniper tree is more properly called a "broom bush," a shrub that grows to the height of seven or eight feet and is plentiful in that region. For an angel, the Septuagint says, "Some one touched him." In v. 7 It is the angel of the Lord. The prophet finds that he is not friendless and alone. God's watchful care is about him in the wilderness of his despair, and his angels are ministering to him. Impelled by some deep, unspoken de-sre he goes upon the long journey to Horeb, where Moses had his vision of God (Exodus 3:1-2). II. the divine voice, 9-18. The word of the Lord came to him. Of the experience here described Skinner (in Century Bible) writes, "Elijah is made to realize the presence of God in a spectacle and gentle and silent operation of the spiritual forces by which the kingdom of God is built up." Read the chapter on "Elijah's Flight" in Davidson's "The Called of God." !< The command of v. 11 is not obeyed! until the voice is heard. Then Elijah! went out and stood in the entering irti of the tave. The repeated question^ What dcest thou here? contains some;! thing of a challenge. Why has ho left his task? Why so far from his divinely appointed mission? The answer is characteristic of tho man, "Ii have been very jealous for the Lord! of. hosts. He was possessed by a' burning zeal for his Lord and an intense hatred of everything which was opposed' to his supremacy in the worship of his people. He thinks tbat Ira has failed, that he only cf the Lord's' prophets is left, and now that his1 enemies are seeking his life there is1 nothing left for him but to die. Ho had come there to die. j But the Lord has still more work for his servant to do. His answer toj Elijah's complaint is "Go, return."; Two commissions are given him. Tha first is to anoint Hazael as successor to Ben-hadad II., king of Syria, at Damascus, and Jehu whose task it will! be to overthrow the royal houso ofi Ahab and reign in his stead. The second commission is to choose and; prepare Elisha to succeed himself in1 the prophetic office and to carry oni his work. Eliah is assured that there are still many in srael who are faithful to Jehovah. It is evidently assumed in the story, that Hazael, Jehu, and Elisha, each in his own way, will con-, tribute to the overthrow of Baal worship. See 2 Kings, chaos. 8, 9, 10 and 13. III. the call of elisha, 19-21. The home of Elisha is saic been in the Jordan valley, s tance south of Bath-shan. Elijah's mantle is the symbol of tha prophetic gift and office to which he calls Elisha' to be a disciple. Old Time Driver Again at Throttle Husband and wife we sitting one each side of the fire-place, and for some time silence had reigned supreme. At last the wife said, "You seem very .thoughtful tonight; I'll give you a penny for them." '*Sh," replied husband. "I was just thinking what epitaph I shall put on your tomb-e, Mary." "Don't worry about that, darling," she said sweetly. "Just put 'wife of the above.' " Classify Cause of Infantile 111! Germ of Paralysis Isolated,' According to Report fro mBoston is realTprgress ;i Task of Science in Overcoming Disease Greatly Simplified New York.--A special dispatch to the Morning World from Boston says: "The germ of infantile paralysis has been definitely classified, thereby simplifying the task of science in its attempts to overcome" the disease, Dr. W. L. Aycock, head of the Harvard I Infantile Paralysis Commission said. | "The main problem now is to find a suitable animal to yield an anti- "The only animal which takes the disease appears to be the monkey," I said Dr. Ayccck, "and tha lattsr's j mortality is so high that it is an un-j satisfactory subject. When we discover the proper animal for serum purposes, infantile paralysis will ba controlled. "Dr. Aycock pointed out that a somewhat similar problem confronted science when the diphtheria germ was | first isolated and finally it was found diphtheria serum cculd be made from the blood of the horse. "Tho infantile paralysis germ is too small to be detected even by the mcst powerful microscope, Dr. Aycock said, but its evidence was proved by evidence of growth. He denied that an infantile paralysis epidemic existed. He pointed out that in Massachusetts there has been one-fourth the number of cases reported this year as compared to 1916. " 'Parents need not worry," he said. "Fatalities from automobile accidents are far greater than the number caused by this disacse. Many children are naturally immune. Also, children who have once had the disease will not have it again." When "The Confederation," the rails for its trip to the big pageant vice have a capacity of 40 tons, largest locomotive, not only in Can- j which is intended to depict the evolu- j Mr. Mclntyre was born in Kilrnar-ada, but in the British Empire, left ! tion of rail transportation. } nock, Ayrshire, Scotland, in^l8B2. The the Canadian National Railways | "The first locomotives I fired family, like many other Scottish fa-terminai in Toronto, to take part in ; weighed 22% tons," Mr. Mclntyre re- miiies, was attracted to Canada to Pageant of the Iron Horse," at I marked, as he looked over the old share in the railway building of that Baltimore, Maryland, John Ryburn timer and compared it with the mod- period, and in December, 1863, at the Mclntyre, a pensioned engineer, who ern Canadian product, "and when I age of 13 years, Mr. Mclntyre began commenced his railway career 62 | retitred yeajs ago, emerged from his retire-t to take the throttle -of "The Trevithick," the oldest wood burner in the Dominion, which was also brought from honorable retirement for the event. Together the two 'pensioners" escorted "The Confederation" out of the yards to take the pension the Grand Trunk system was putting in service locomotives weighing 227% tons." By comparison, "The Confederation" type weighs 329 tons. Again, Mr. Mclntyre noted that when ho commenced his railroad career somo of tho freight cars had a capacity of eight tons. To-day many of the cars in ser- servlce with the Grand Trunk cleaner at Sarnia, continuing, except for a short interval, until he retired at tho age of 63 years. Mr. Mclntyre became fireman and then dri saw Eome service with the during tho second Fenian Canadian National Railways Photo- Lignite to Eliminate Costly Hydro Plants Winnipeg, Man. -- Use of lignite coal, which exists in large quantities ern Canada, to generate electric power instead of the hydro plants forecast by Maj. Gen. W. Bethuno Lindsay, chief engineer with tho Canadian forces during the war. Such development will mean -a termend-is industrial expansion for tho prairie provinces. Not only will It make electrical power much cheaper, by the elimination of the present cost ly hydro plants, but it will mean also, lltia the establishment of by-producti its and tho provision of electrtcitr very town and lnimlet th.ov hou country.