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T I THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1927 PLACING THE BLAME Solutions Being Sought For Safer Highways--Henry Voices Ssntiments Trank Roads and International Highways SKETCH MAP SAFETY FIRST The Good Roads Assoeiaiton has little. We have erected guard rail-completed its sessions at Niagara ings, we have placed thousands of Falls, Ont. The highway ministers road signs, we have cut out the sharp of the Dominion were on hand to dis- curves and the corners, we have spent cuss "ways and means" of not only millions, but in spite of all we could improving but making our highways do, there has been no falling off in safe. j accidents. It is ail due to the man The President, Hon. Geo. s. Henry,: behind the wheel. I think if I give Minister of Highways for Ontario, you a definition of a man, it will ex-said in opening: j pjain much. a man is a creature who A MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEM jean see a pretty ankle three blocks "I think we are all agreed that the distam- bu* wh° cannot see a locomo-greatest and most difficult problem j *lve ^ slfe of a schoc>1 hose- rein" which we have to face to-day is to see.forced wlth a flock of freight cars that the awful toll of needlessly wast- j even when ll ls almost on top of him." ed life is reduced to a minimum. No j WAIT ANOTHER YEAR greater or more necessary work can j Numerous suggestions for eliminat-be undertaken that that of forcing ing or redUcing to a minimum the the users of the highways to realize j terrible toll of deaths from automobile the need of a careful and cautious: accidents were pr6gented and whne consideration of the rights and lives j there was naturally a d;verganC3 of of others. So I hope that 'Safety j opinion on many pointSj aI1 ware First' will be the keynote of this con-1 agreed that the appalling loss of life vention.' i was preventable, even under the pres- Hon. Mr. Perron, Minister of Roads ent congested conditk>n of highways for Quebec, added his approval. "We: and city streets have been building roads for the peo-1 Th,e who,e matter of gafet Firg(; pie for many years, he pointed out, j was finally referred to the next Inter. •we have erected safety signs; we provincial Conference for considera-have done what we could to make tkm and action_ those highways safe, but it appears I that we have been unable, in any of j TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY the provinces, to make the people j Federal aid is sought to assist in understand that life must be protect- j bridging the gap from the Soo to ed and that a license to operate an | Nipigon in the trans-Canada High-automobile is not a license to kill other j way scheme. The highway when corn-people. I feel the situation very: pleted would be a national asset: strongly. It has become a national. therefore the Fedaral Government duty for us to stop the needless waste should assist. Further, an impetus of life which has bean going on for j to provincial roadway construction the past three years, and which, for, would follow the marking out of the the most part, has been due to reck- j Lake Supe' « r link. If the whole of lessness on the part of drivers and to; the Trans-Canada Highway were their bad behavior on the roads." clearly designated, the various pro-O. S. Hess, from Michigan, said: \ vinces would be able to build their "In our state, we have done every- i connecting links with the assura thing we could think of to reduce the that they were property placed casualties, but we have accomplished feeders. AUTOMOBILE ROADS between CANADA and UNITED STATES (great lakes sheet) Stork Calling at Belgium Palace Royal Artillery Stand by For 1 21 Gun Salute Brussels, Belgium.--King Albert will be the godfather of a grandson ; who will assume the title of Count of | Ilainaut should the stork which is i hovering lower and lower over the royal palace at Laeken, where Crown Princess Astrid is residing, bring a boy to the royal family. Justice I the CANADA'S LINKS WITH OUR SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR The Department of Natural Resources and Intelligence Service, Ottawa, deserves great credit for the publishing of the above map. This map, according to Director Lynch "Is probably the most comprehensive map of its kind available and was published primarily for distribution in the United States, for the assistance of travellers who might be planning trips to this country. A limited number could be supplied from our stocks while they last, without charge, upon application to this office. We are also always open to suggestions for the improvement of these sheets." Boosting motor tourist business to Canada assumes more and more importance and the Federal Government certainly appears to be alive to the situation. Tornado Wrecks Western States St. Louis is Heaviest Losser With Property Damage of 75 Million NINETY MILE GALE St. Louis--Six square miles of fair St. Louis has been desolated by a Tariff Boosted By Australia of moderately wealthy St. Louisans, lay covered with a blanket of uprooted trees, torn timber and bricks, out of which crept injured men, women and children, black and grimy as though emerging from a coal mine. TURN TO RELIEF WORK Every city department turned toward relief work, while army kitchens from Jefferson Barracks were sent to two general relief headquarters established in the district. The Red Cross sprang into action, and 100 automo- i ^ "j- ~i .....*'" * i J-""*° "tc" ""i/iai^>i u,y biles were patrolling the streets to j Cardinal Vanrcey, successor to the, wicked tornado. ick gtray suffere*3. The organiza. late Cardinal Mercier at Mahnes will. It „ estimated that 2,500 homes j ^ established a first aid station I Perform the religious ceremony at the were either wrecked or damag?(^Tjj|^eTBBr seriously injured wore christening at St. James' Chapel, ad- while the streets and boulevards were : ^ ^ s-nousIy lnjur-a w6re jacent to the royal palace. Burgo-i dogged with fallen telephone poles and The lists of' dead and ; -ured j master Adolphe Max and Minister of hundreds of the city's most beautiful < as po!ice) firemQrl> physiciaJns> nurses, „^,„e Paul Hymans will attend to trees. Trolley wides torn from their, welfare workers and volunteers began •ivil ceremony inscribing the| supports spat blue flame a* they met j restoring order. Th.e storm uire of the heir to the throne on the j the car tracks, and the shouts of cords at Brussels City Hall. | policemen kept terrified people Should a princess be born to Prin- j inury or death from the live wi jcess Astrid and Crown Prince Leo-, SERVICES DEMORALIZED -vossi-bihty only whis-1 with tslephone service demoraiized> j SHOOT ALL LOOTERS it took the city several minutes to learn1 Ewry available policeman what had happened. The news of the broughi to the area, and Police Chief i startling tornado was flashed over the city by Gsrk immediateiy ;3SUea an 0rder to' Order of 20,000 Women Now Qll Traces Led Kyle Includes Two Men ... . to Wreckage Old Glory's Win?? Found Near Spot Where SOS Sent St. Johns, Nfld.--Traces of oil on the surface of the ocean were the sign3 • that led Captain Ben Tavouor of the steamer Kyle, to discover and salvage the remnants of the ill-fated monoplane Old Glory which he landed e heard--either Queen Eliza-I beth, Princess Marie Jose or Princess Clementine Napoleon Bonaparte will act as godmother. v a T i j * The entire kingdom is expecting an Canadian Auto Industry Will heir and not an heiress to be born to Be Affected J to Crown Princess, who recently re- turned to Laeken after a holiday Auto trade from Canada to Aus- spent in the country. All the artillery tralia has averaged seven and a half proparations have been made for the millions for the past two years. The flring of a saiute of 121 guns. The new tariff has increased a duty of. D;rtn 0f a princess only calls for a 7% per cent, to 12% per cent. on'2l-gun salute, while a male heir is unassembled chassis, and from 12% J entitled to 100 more, to 20% per cent, on assembled chassis. | . U. S. RATE HIGHER, j ^ ^ uj Willingdon Similarly the U.S. rate on un-f p y- j. . Calffarv assembled chassis is raised from 12% V181t 10 ^alSary to 17% per cent, and the assembled Calgary, Alta.--Lord Willingdon, now pays 25 per cent. English-made, Governor-General of Canada, -- ssembled chassis pay nothing and of the in the city, that of May 27, hich killed a total of 140 per- Detroit, Mich.--The Daughters of Scotia, which has just closed its twenty-ninth annual convention here, reported a membership of 20,000 women of Scottitsh nativity or descent. Ten persons started the society in New Haven, Conn., in 1898, pledging its members "to keep in ever loving remembrance our native land, to assist the Clans, and to bring our members, mothers, sisters and daughters of Scotch descent together for auld lang syne." * .. . Two men have membership in the Daughters of Scotia. One is George Drummond Bone of New Haven, who with his wife helped form the organization. The other is Col. Walter -Scott of New York, Past Royal Chief evived J G£ the Order of Scottish clai search when tl sioned by the Randolph Heart Kyle assembled chassis now pay 5 per cent. The Minister of Customs, Hon. H. E. Pratten, in introducing the new! tariff in the House of Representatives at.Canberra, said that during the last, financial year the value of imported | motor-car chassis was $61,250,000, of which United States' share was $37,-500,000; United Kingdom, $15,000,-000, and Canada $5,000,000. INTRA-EMPIRE TRADE. It is not expected that these figures will be reached during the coming year. The Minister said he hoped the new tariff might cause a good deal of the trade in motor cars to shift from-the United States to Britain and cause a stimulus in intra-Empire economic development. The new schedules were effective to-day. The increased revenue from it, it is expected, will be $2,500,000 which will go toward the roads development scheme. Girls Paddle Canoe from New York City Two girls, Lillian Reiten and En-vie Lester, of New York City,.arrived in Montreal recently in a frail canvas-covered canoe named "Will o' the Wisp" on their way to Quebec. The girls, accompanied by a collie dog and camping paraphernalia left their home about two weeks ago and paddled from the Hudson River through Champlain Canal to the Richelieu River, arriving in Montreal in excellent condition having enjoyed the experiences. He (proudly)--"That is the best ] painting I have ever done." She-- "Weil, don't let that discourage you." Lady Willingdon paid Calgary official visit on Thursday and Friday last week. dio and others in parts of the city unvisited by the storm. The twister was accompanied by terrific rain, which added to the desolation. Houses and factories were crumpled in many places like toys. The first flashes that reached Fire and Police Headquarters set up a general mobilization of every available policeman and fireman. The storm area was quickly blocked against the curious by a hastily formed cordon. Behind the cordon were hastily organized units of relief, and men began digging into heaps of stone and brick to look for persons they believed were buried. DEATH TOLL HEAVY It is probable that the death list will run well over 60, while the estimate of the injured ran 1,000 r, The West Side, a Startling Incident in Austra- i Iian House i" Canberra, Australia, Sept. 28.--A ident, of a tragic nature. , the House of Repr< 'shoot all looters," ending with the | tives to-day. While ministers of th grim admonition to "make Coroner' cases of them." As the agencies of rescue and succor were getting into motion, the city was again enveloped by a weird, greenish light which sent terror to the hearts of the storm sufferers. This shortly turned to a pinkish hue, and torrents of rain ushered in the darkness, which was unrelieved by the thousands of street lamps broken and useless. Illinois, Arkansas, and Oklahoma were also in the storm area and death and havoc is reported from all these States. A man in Chicago has not spoken his wife in three years. This would , __sm to shatter the idea that men are ection of houses becoming feminized. Government fully of the death of Walter Gale, clerk in the House, his successor MacGregor, suddenly collapsed and died shortly afterwards. Elk for British Columbia The Department of the Interior at Ottawa has granted the application of the Province of British Columbia for elk to be used in restocking areas between the Okanagan and Kettle valleys. Twenty-five animals from the herd in Buffalo National^ Park at Wainwright, Alberta, were'shipped to Cookson, B.C., and released. The Wainright herd numbers approximately 400 animals. Distress Signals from Jap Vessel 'Seattle. Wash. -- Distress signala from a vessel believed to be tha Vo.shichi Maru Number 1, were picked up recently by the Seattle harbor radio station. The nature of the trouble The ship's position was given as latitude 48.16 north, longitude 141.42 west, and no report has since been received. What a Train Wreck Looks Like i the station platform had to r EIGHT MEN NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH When a heavily laden freight crashed into a fruit train at Vlneland station recently eight men standing c o coach and two express cars of a fruit train. The photos above show, RIGHT, the engine of the wrecked freight. LEFT, the wrecked fruit platfo, of the freight buried in the d?bri«_ ^ ------ ' -- The freight telescoped » house with the engine