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CHEN yr SR 2 "THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929" age of Interesting News and Pictures of the British Isles THE RIPPER RECALLED BY NEWEST BOOK Sol tion for Notorious British Murder Mystery Offered in aon for Notrio Published by English Author--Made Death-Bed Confession. London.--Who was Jack the Rip- per? ° Via became of him? Why did he kill six women in Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the space of three months in the year 1898? Answers to these questions are suggested by Leonard Matters in a new book published recently, "The Mystery of Jack the Ripper." The answers are these: 1--Jack the Ripper was--pcrhaps-- a brilliant surgeon living in Port- man square west. He is called "Dr. Stanley," but this name is admitted to be fictitious. He went to Buenos Ayres, where he made a confession just be- fofe dying of cancer. 3--He killed the sixth woman out of revenge, and he killed the other five 'to prevent them from telling anyone that he had asked them if they knew.the whereabouts of the one he was hunting. He at last found and killed this one, and, having had his revenge he gave up his work as Jack the Ripper. Why did he seek revenge? It was, according to the Buenos Ayres con- fession, because the woman--his sixth victim--had been the cause of his only son's death. This Jack the Ripper had been heartbroken by the death of his young wife. He had built all his hopes on his son, Then his son, on the threshold of a carcer that promised to be" famous, met Marie Jeanette Kelly, a young woman with a flat near Piccadilly. Within a year or so he was dead. : Swears Vengeance Standing by his son's .dcad body the father swore that he would find the; woman and kill her. He knew her name, and after a time 'he found that she had sunk swiftly down to Whitechapel, : So this surgeon. who, as the story goes, was so clever with the knife that he looked on Lister as a "bungler" and scoffed at "young Treyes," bought some old clothes ard prowled about Whitechapel at night RECRUIT CLERGY FROM ARTISANS Bishop of Durham speaks before church assembly London, Eng.--"We have reached a stage when the ordained clergy will have to be recruited largely from the ranks of artisans." The assertion came from the Bishop of Durham when the Church Assembly was dis- cussing the training of candidates for the ministry. The Bishop spoke regretfully of the remarks made some time carliecr by another of the Episcopal Bench, who had allowed himself to speak con- temptuously about many of the can- didates. "Picture to yourselves, " said the Bishop of Durham, "the situation of a clergyman, himself belonging to the artisan class, himself having reached his position as an ordained clergyman by the assistance of funds such as many of us have enjoyed at the universities, imagine his position when he is held up to invidious re- gard by bishop of his own Church. I do not think it is fair, generous, ur defensible in any way." If the motive of these humbly-boin men. were often mixed, their sacri- fices were often great, and their diffi- culties were always serious. SHOOTING TALKIES HAS DIFFICULTIES Producer Must Have Re- markable Gift of Im- looking for the young woman whose name he knew but whom he had | never scen, He knew that if he went about! Whitechapel 'asking people if they | knew Marie Jeanctte Kelly he would | ; run the risk of being identified by | somebody after he killed Marie Jean ette. He made up his mind that he would ask only women of the same class, and that when he had cross- questioned them about the women they knew, in the hope of hearing something about Marie Jeanette, he would kill them there and then, and 50 prevent them from telling anyone fhat a man had asked them about her. : a | Street Murder He killed one woman on the com- mon stairs .of a "buildings," and an- other in a street. He killed a third in. a backyard, within' @lmdst arni's length of sleeping people, He killed two others within three-quarters of an hour on one night--one of them in a square where there was a:ware- house. watchman inside an open door. e killed Marie Jeanette in the room she. lived in, One of the features of the murders 'that appalled the world was their swiftness and silence. Five of the women were killed at a stroke, witli- out a sound. Maric Jeanette gave one 'cry of * 'Murder!" but no one heeded it. CELEBRATE BIRTH "LONDON OMNIBUS Replicas Of Old Time Vehi- cles Recall the "Horse Ag eo' London.--It was a happy idca the other day to celebrate the centenary of the coming of the omnibus to London by putting three re- plicas: of these old- time horsed ve- hicles on the streets again for a few days, the drivers and conductors at- tired - in appropriately reminiscent costumes. For a shilling the public could travel & mile or more of vari- ous 'lengths in' London, and the shill- ings. went to the hospgals. There was replica of Shillibeer's Omnibus of 1829, another of the "knifeboard" omnibus of 1850, and a third of the "garden-scat" conveyances of 30 years later. The* "enterprising Mr. Shillibeer, when 'he ran on a July morning in 1829 his first omnibus, from the "Yorkshire Stingo," in Marylebone, to the Bank of England was not, it is true, altogether original, H¢ took over his idea (and his name) from our French neighbors. The '"voi- ture- omnibus" began plying in Paris the year before, and in Parjs the o nibus system had already been in Sterice for 'more than a century, at first as an aristocratic prerogative #pour la plus grande commodite et liberte des personnes de merite." But it soon acquired a more democratic nature. . Mr. Shillibeer's first omni- bus, carried 22 passengers, and was drawn by, three horses abreast, and though various modifications in size and shape--such as adding of _the first outside seat in 1849--were Soon made, the 'bus system grew up with railways. Now, hundred years after its inception, the system has become a serious. rival to every other. form of locomotion. In no city is the _omni- Juotor omnibuiof a | so aginative Organization London.--A film can be made up of { photographs of just as many scenes as there are pictures on the film strip. There may be ten thousand separate picturcs on the film strip, the producer could conceivably have had to photograph ten thou- sand scenes to obtain his basic serics of pictuses on the strip, writes a scientific correspondent in the Man- chester Guardian, In practice he does not subdivide his scenes as finely as this, He takes a few hundred suc- cessive photographs with. a kinema camera of {wo or three 'gestures last- ing perhaps one minute, He kas these few gestures performed over and over again before the camera un- til he is satisfied with them. From half a ih sets of photographs of these gestures he can choose the hest set. The next day he commences with the rehearsals of the next short scne preparatory to the photogr aphy having rehearsed the actors satisfac- torily he has another half dozen sets of -photographs taken, and chooses the best set. This will provide nh with another minute of his final reel, By the end of a month or two he has collected together enough sets of pictures to be pieced together to form the complete reel. Needs Imagination It is cvident that the producer must have a remarkable gift of ima- ginafive organization if he is to make anything of this process. He has to assemble harmoniously sections tak- en at intervals of days and weeks. Through all that period he should hold in his imagination a clear pic- ture of the story and make his scene sections fit it, This discussion of just onc point in film production emphasises film technique. In "talkic" film produc- tion there is sound. as well as sight to be organized. There is the divi- sion of the story into a few gestures and sentences. These have to be "shot" or photographed repeatedly. sWhile watching the production of a "talkie" in the studio of the British Talking Pictures Company at Wemb- ley this sort' of thing went on. The son of a farmer staggers into the kitchen, drunk. The father is scated in a chair by the fire, with his wife standing beside him, The mother says something like this: "What's the mat- ter with the boy." The young man staggers against the kitchen table, and his father rises from the chair and steps with his mother towards him. "He's drunk," says the father; "that's what's' the matter with him." The son shouts: "Who sez I'm drunk? If you weren't my father I'd=" "Young man," the father in- terrupts, "keep a civil tongue in your head." Mother rushes between them and tells her husband to leave the boy alone, and coaxes her son to rest against the table. Two Minute Scene The scene would last, minutes. movements several times until they are organized satisfactorily, Then he has to listen to the speech and sounds. As tlie son staggers into the room he slouches his feet along the stone flodr. The loud-speaker regis- ters a screeching slither. The actor is asked to slouch witohut slithering. The scche is "shot" again. This time the actor is so careful not to slither that, in his distraction, he forgets the correct route for the stagger. "The scerie has to be shot again. Then an- other difficulty is caused by some- thing 'analogous to Spoonerisms. The sound- reproduction apparatus is liable Ho-eause--certain sounds to suffer-a say, such an integral part of life as in don. tm ns ph a et te sea change. Consequently, words be- ginning with these sounds are some- { the approved movements. two | The producer rehearses the | SIR H. SEGRAVE PAYS COMPLIMENT TO GERMANS . . Traffic Control Wins Praise LT From British Speed \ . King London.--Sir Henry Scgrave, who recently returned to London after his latest motor-boating triumph in Germany, investigated during his visit to Berlin the traffic conditions in that city on behalf of the Lon- don Daily Mail. In view of the fact that automatic traffic is shortly to be introduced in London his article, publishing below, is interesting and instructive, While London traffic authorities are talking of starting automatic traffic control in Oxford St. as a solution to traffic blocks, the system is mow in full operation throughout Berlin. Not only is traffic automatically regulated at hundreds of points but a semi-automatic system of signal- ling, by which drivers of vehicles can show their intentions, is also compulsory and standardized. Drivers of motor vehicles also. have to undergo a driving test before they are given a license, This is severe, and includes a test of the knowledge in the mechanism of the vehicles. When I last visited Berlin these innovations were in their experimen- tal stage. They are now in full working. order, and on my return to the city I was greatly intercsted in studying results; Excellent Driving 'My impression is that the traffic in Berlin, both from the point of view of drivers and walkers, is man- aged better than in any other city in the world. The standard of driving is also excellent, The = system of automatic traffic control struck me as being of special help to walkers. The traffic control lights are sus- pended on standards in the middle of the street, Red means stop, green road clear, and ycllow. prepare to stop or proceed: They 'are used crossing and the the various warning arc regulated to suit individual crossings, Walkers wait for the appearance of the red light. They know that traffic cannot move while this is shown and that they can cross in absolute safety. Another advantage is the reduc- tion in the number of police required. Except at véry busy crossings the lights are alone considered sufficient. Traffic in fact does stop and proceed smoothly without the aid of a points- man, : Warning Signals On Cars The standardization of driving sig- nals is another important feature of Berlin traffic. In London and other citics automatic signalling is spasmo- dically uscd, In some cases the sig- nals are given at the back of the car, in others at the side. In Berlin the warning signals ap- pear only in one place, so that every driver knows where to look for them, and, what is more," docs look for them. To ignore the signals means heavy punishment They consist of metal hands, one cach side of the windscreen, They are operated from the dashboard. By means of a simple control the driver can raise cither of these hands to indicate if he is making a right or left hand turn, There arc no other signals. They have the merit of sim- plicity, and they are infinitely more helpful than the meaningless hand- wagging by which so many drivers in England confuse each other. The signals I observed were invari- ably given, and in plenty of time, and acted on invariably. The question of driving examina- tions before a license is granted is a very eontroversal matter. This im- position in Germany has certainly re- sulted in a high standard of driving. The test is thorough, The candidate has to pass a stiff examination in traffic regulations and the rule of the road. The car is provided by the gov- ernment department concerned. High-Speed Tests One part of the fest is high-speed driving. An official sits by the candi- date and insists on a burst of high speed, and watches to see if the driv- er can judge his distance when pull- ing up. An cle mentary knowledge of the mechanism is also required. The offi- cial puts the car wrong and asks the driver to put it right, The result is that every beginner starts on the road with a reasonable knowledge of how to drive, road courtesy and traffic rules, One interesting point I noted in connection with motoring offences. The police pay little regard to speed and drivers are rarely troubled unless they meet with an accident. at ncarly every intervals at which lights appear conditions at times transformed into other richer and stronger words not used in drawing-rooms. Words exhibiting this transformatory characteristic are struck from the scenario, The scene is shot again with the unstable words expunged. Attention to the new construction of the sen- tences again distracts the actors from The scene shot once more, This time the actors get the movements right, but owing to concentration on these one of them clean forgets the words. The scene 1s shot yet once more. No won- der soft music is played in the inter- vals to soothe everyone's nerves! The addition of speech to movenjent has greatly increased the organiza- tional complexity of production, It is quite conceivable that the producer will photograph and record "talkies" word by word. Then his imagination will be required. to hold the auditory as-well-as the visual story of the filin for a period of months, so that he gan compare the tone of the one word in cach "shoot" with that ideal he ought to. have in Kis mind. Talent will find plenty of worthy problems in talking-film froduction. 2 is Britain' s Best for 1929 of We see the combined track age aboard the Cunard liner Ascania. Ont, where began a strenuous the United States, with Yale, other voyage back to England for to South Africa to compete there, and field team of athletes from Oxford and Cambridge gaily assembled just before they ended a wonderful voy- itinerary which included competition in Harvard, Cornell and Princeton, and an- They bound for Hamilton, were "clean linen" before hastening off SWIMMERS CONGEST CHANNEL TRAFFIC COPS MAY BE NEEDED RE ---- Dover, Eng -- Traffic policemen in bathing suits, and nounted on water wings may be needed in the English channel soon. From Deal to Dover "and Calais to Cape Gris-Nez, the icy waters of the straits are being churned daily by dozens of men, women and children training to swim the channel. Five men who have conquered the channel from France to England the back, hoping to prove they can paddle from England to France. Mrs. Myr- tle Huddleston, an America. woman who 'was born in England, hopes to swim the course in both directions before the season ends. She has en- durance record of 61 and one-half hours in the water, Eleven-year-old Joan Brunton and the American twins, Bernice and Phil lis Zittenfeld, who are 15, are being trained by R., W. Kellignley, Joan is determined to subdue the channel on her twelfth birthday, in August. Many attempts will be made this year to swim from England to France a more difficult task than swimming from France to England because of the contrary currents. A gold cup is offered the first one to accomplish this feat. E. H. Temme and Norman Derham of England, Helmy the Egy- tian, Norman Tothy of the United States and Georges Michel of France have their eves on the cup. All have splashed their way from France to England "x SILK STOCKING CRAZE IN ENGLAND British . Women Buy, Wear And Discard $1,000 Worth Yearly London. --What (ireat Bri- tain's silk stocking bill each year? Experts estimate that the women of England, Scotland and Wales buy, wear, and discard about a thousand million pairs of stockings each year. The prices of the stock- ings, real or artificial silk, vary from 1s. to £2, according to tex- ture and workmanship. Each year fashion demands that the stocking bill of the individual woman shall grow larger; each month she is called on to spend an increasing percentage of her dress allowance on finer gauged hose that has less durability and prospect of a long life in its make, The silk stocking craze has nut yet reached its apex--women will wear finer and slinkier hose, stock- ings that look too much like cob- webs to have been made by human hands. In a fashionable stocking shop a Daily Express representative saw the greatest triumph that has beeu achieved in women's hosiery--the 10-guage stocking so fine that it had been worked by one hundred needles. "The woman who dresses really well," said the assistant, 'wears more than fifty pairs of stockings a year. A certain number of them are of extremely fine guage and cost about 35s. the pair. Others are fifty and fifty-five gauge, which are about 25s. the pair. "It is impossible for these fine stockings to be durable, Some wo- men wear them only once or twice." Women who have to be more careful students of economy con- fessed that they wear about two dozen pairs of stockings a year, or an average of one new pair a fortnight. "I have three or four good pairs at about 10s. 6d. each, which 1 keep for special occasions," volun- teered a city stenographer, "and the rest of the dozen 1 buy for about 7s. 11d a pair, and keep them for second best. My other dozen are made of hard-wearing, durable ortificial silk, which I wear to work in all winds and weathers, and buy for about 11d. or 4s. 11d. a pair." All women were certain of the same' thing--their stocking bills, whether they walk along the hard paths of life or ride in motor cars all day--are growing longer and longer. is " us, GIBE 2 op WOMAN. . wo PYRE AWS COMMENT London--The + Duke of Connaught who was accompanied by the Earl of Derby and recently presided at Wellington Col- lege Speech Day. The headmaster, Mr. Malim, said a woman, whose son had been unsuc- cessful at the common entrahce ex- amination, had made the allegation that Wellington Collegeggo longer took the sons of officers of the Army and Navy, but only the sons of pawn- brokers and pork butchers. He had made an analysis on the bovs of the school, and found that 379 were the sons of Agmy, officers, the Duke of Wellington [others Americans To Visit St. Patrick's Shrine FATHER PATTERSON Large Group of Pilgrims To Sail In Scythia from all parts of the world will participate in the annual pilgrimage this year to Croagh Patrick, on the West Coast of Ireland, the mountaintop shrine of the Irish national apostle. It was from this peak that St, Pat- rick drove the snakes from Ireland) and each year greater numbers of pilgrims are making the trip for this manifestation of faith. For nearly 1,500 years, Croagh Patrick has been a shrine for re- ligious pilgrims, and this summer more Americans are making the journey than ever before. A large group is going from the States, and the 8. 8. Scythia of the Cunard Line has been designated as the of- ficial ship to carry the American pilgrims over. This liner will sail from New York on July 11, and Father Cunnane, chaplain of the Mayo Men's Association of New York, will be aboard the Cunarder as spiritual director on the pil- grimage. Father Patterson, whose parish Is in Westport, the starting point of the ascent of Croagh Patrick, will greet the Scythia party upon their arrival in Ireland. Father Patterson originated the idea of an annual pilgrimage by Americans to' Croagh Patrick. Particularly in| terested in the movement of this party are the Mayo Men's Associa- lions of New York and Cleveland. Croagh Patrick is the site where, | mn 441, the patron saint of Ireland, m imitation of the Saviour's so- lourn in the desert, spent the forty, lays of Lent in penance and pray-; i'r on top of the wild mountain' that since has borne his name. | It is to commemorate these weeks of sacrifice that yearly thousands of pilgrims climb the steep sides of! Croagh Patrick on a set date, nam- *d by the Bishop, usually the last! Sunday in July. Individual visits wre made at any time. Vist TORS 19 the sons of naval officers, 3 the sons of Air Force officers. There were thus 401 out of just over 600 boys who were sons .of officers of the three great Services. Of the 24 were the sons of lawyers, 19 the sons of doctors, and 22 the sons of members of the Imperial Ser- vices. He could not find one of these two great callings, pawnbrokers or pork butchers. The Duke of Connaught said he re- gretted to find that there was a dis- inclination among parents to send their. boys. into the Army as a pro fession. . He said he quite understood this, owing to the heavy taxation and BIG ELECTRICAL SCHEME PLANNED | IN GREAT BRITAIN Will Use "Grid" System to Carry Light and Power % ir (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Eng--The Old Land planning ta do it electrically. £ Canadians who, in these tourist days, visit the ancient borough of Bedford, will see an unusual yet, to years ago Bedford slept in its tradie tions. It was in Bedford that John Bunyan heard the heavenly voice of menace that forbade him to dance on the Nillage green. In the country fail of Bedford he wrote of Christian's Pilgrimage to the Celestial City, From Bedford today a line of steel transmission towers runs out for miles, looking curiously familiar in the English scene yet to the Canadian reminiscent of the great hydro de- velopment schemes at home, And they arc the first line, this line of towers from Bedford, in the south cast England section of the great "grid" system of national electrical transmission on lines which eventual. ly will traverse England from Corn- wall to the coast of Kent, will cover in their network the great industrial districts of the midlands and the north, will cross into the mining dis- tricts of South Wales, will pass by Berwick to Edinburgh, by Dumfri¢s to Glasgow and will end in a hydro station in the heart of the Scottish Grampians. It is a scheme which will probably take six years to bring fully nto effect. The central Electricity Board, cre- ated by Parliament as the executive body, has been authorized to borrow up to $167,500,000 for construction and other warks. The chairman of the Central Electricity Board is Sir An- drew Duncan, who was chairman of the Canadian commission which re- ported on maritime rights, The first step harks back to 1919 when, under the electricity supply act, the minister of transport was authorized to ap- point an electricity. commission of five members. Their duties were to promote, regulate and supervise the supply of electricity in Great Bri- tain. The main object of this act was to secure a reorganization of the generation of electricity on a volun- tary basis under schemes for large Jistrists, They had a difficult prob- em. At the beginning of 1920 there were 532 separate electricity under- tions. The number was growing raps idly. It now stands at 643 undertak- ings of which 380 are publicly own- ed. Notwithstanding restrictions on the industrial demand for power sup- plics and the retarding effect on the rate of growth of output caused by the fluctuating conditions of trade and industry, production of electricity since 1920-21 has more than double}: But there was another and possibly more difficult problem. The commis- sioners found that standardization was missing. There were no fewer than 16 diftercut frequencies of supe ply and a very large number of volt- ages of supply. Electrical equipment adapted for use in one area might be useless in another. The devoted husband who said it with an electric washer was appreciated till the household moved on another voltage. Then his troubles began. The washer wouldn't wash. Another act passed in 1926 brought into being the Central Electricity had been made in the six years be- Board and a new regime. Progress fore. Many regional schemes for con- centrating generation under joint el- cctricity "authorities had "been inves tigated but the old electricity coms mission had no compulsory powers. Cohesion necessary to give executive force to the schemes was lacking. Technical development moreover en- couraged the view that the best plan was to envisage the whole country as one arca for the purpose of gen- eration. And, under the act of 1920, the plan is to standardize and inter- connect. Unnecessary generating sta- tions are to be eliminated. Those re- tained are to be linked in a system of national transmission lines known as the "grid," operating under unified control through the agency of the Central Electricity Board. The Board thus becomes responsible for the mass production and transmission of elec- tricity and for its supply in bulk. It is, in short, the wholesaler of elect. ricity. Electricity undertakings supe plied are left responsible for distri- bution to consumers and for develop= ment of their respective areas. GOLD COINS FOUND DURING AUCTION Sheffield, Eng.--A remarkable con- diton of sale was made when some furniture was sold in a house in Ken- wood Park Road, Sheffield. The articles sold consisted of or- dinary household furniture, but they may contain' hoards of gold coins, and for this reason the auctioneers stipu- lated that if any purchasers find their lots contain anything of value other than that specified they must return it to the auctioneers. The condition was a sequel to a re- markable discovery of hoards of gold coins in cupboards and recesses all over the house. The coins were all Victorian. The owner of the house left because of illness, and the contents were bes ing sold when a tin was found to «contain a. number of gold coins, A full and systematic search was immes diately made, and in various parts of the house numerous other receptacles containing gold coins were found. The total amount discovered was more than $2,000. Interviewed later, A. H. Hastings, of the firm of auctioneers, said that the condition of sale regarding the return of any more money found was in the nature of a warning to pur- chasers that if money was found and the high cost of living, _ kept they would ilty of stealing by, find ding. odd il nn them, an oddly familiar scene, A few |, takings owning 475 generating sta. | SOUTH 0 _ With Noise Produced by WILL REVIVE PLAY SIGN OF THE CROSS Contract Stipulates Cast "Must Be Changed Every 3 Months London. --Arrangements have been concluded to revive the late Wilson Barrett's play "The Sign of the Cross" in the West End, and there is a stipulation in the contract that the cast must be changed every three months. Miss Wilson Barrett, daugh- ter of the author, who made this stipulation in the contract with Philip Ridgeway, the producer of the play, believes" that no actor or actress can do justice to a part after he or she has appeared in 1t for three months, "I rather agree with her," Mr, Ridgeway said in an interview. "1 once played 400 times in one part, and I know how difficult it wa. to do justice to the role. I think it would = a good idea if every person who played an important part for three months were given a week's holiday." it is also Miss Barrett's wish that no member of the audience should bé admitted to the theatre wearing even- ing dress. Her reason for this is that business people after their day's work do not feel like changing into even. ing dress. This, she says, they are now obliged to do if they desire to sit in the stalls or dress circle. SLUMP IN WHISKY HITS SCOTLAND Liquor trade laments re- drop in con- sumption Glasgow,~--There is a slump in whiskey--a serious slump. Whether that is a serious mattés depends mainly on. whether the person expressing an opinion has or distilleries. Anyhow, those in- terested in the trade are complain- ing; one old-established firm in Glasgow and another in Leith have gone out of business, thus follow- ing in the footsteps of a good many others within the past few yvars. Home consumption, they say, ao particularly poor, and is now less than a third of what is was betuio the war. It fell off by 407,000 proof gallons during the past twelve months, All this is the re- sult--so they say--of the high spirit duties, and the fierce compu- tition and cutting of prices. Besides, the export market, which was for years the mainstay of the trade, is going to the dogs, and shipments have fallen off since the beginning of the year by no less than 789,000 proof gallons. All of which is very sad and proves that it is very wrong of people not to drink as much whiskey as they can carry comfortably. That, at least, is the' only moral (that seems to be the right word to use) which can be drawn from the wail ofl the trade. 'Of course there are people-- short-sighted visionaries--~who im- agine that the country and those abroad are who drinking less are to be congratulated on their good sense, and on the fact that they are coming gradually to see the foolishness of supporting the distil- leries. But these people don't count. They are almost as far wrong as the local vetoists, and are first cousins to the prohibitionists. They have no sympathy with the distressed publicans and dealers in firewater. Canada in Scotland seems to be competing with Scotland in Canada as a subject of public interest; with methods of taking people from the one country to the oth- er coming in a good third, The other day the Anchor-Donaldson Line were telling abroad the fine arrangements they had made for carrying passengers from the Clyde to the St. Lawrence by their steamers Athenia and Letitia, and that for specially low fares. ! They took a large party of guests across from Glasgow to Bel- fast by the Letitia, then by motor cars to Londonderry, and out by special tender to the incoming An- chor liner California from New York, making an enjoyable three- days' trip of it. As a good many newspaper men were in the party the public were told all about it, and especially about the passenger quarters on the vessels sailing to Montreal. But the bulk of the news has béen about Canadian-Scots ia Scotland. So many parties of them have been coming, and are now wandering here and there over the landscape of their old country, that some of us have lost count of them, The latest to arrive were members of the Association of , Canadian Clubs. They have had a civic reception in Glasgow and another in Edin burgh, and they have been told by each of the Lord Provosts what fing fellows and ladies they are. In return they, through Colonel C. R. McCulloch, of on, Ont. .London Times Gives Warning. i or has not shares in public houses' BAN IS PLACED ON BAGPIPES BY TOWN IN F SCOTLAND Ayedhire Town Council Finds Native Music Clashes Badly Motor Traffic on Beach -- (4 Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland. ~Bag. pipes and motor exhausts, clashed here and offended the aesthetic audi tory sensibilities of the town coun. cil, So the aldermen banned--the bagpipes. Silver and brass bands may still play on the beach, the new ordi. nance provides--and may collect what silver and brass they can extract from the pockets of tourists for their cfforts, but the bagpipe--~the native woodnote wild of the Scotsman--is to be heard no more. The reason given is more hu- miliating, Scotsmen here say, than prohibition itself. The bag- pipe, it is explained, does not combine well with the noise of motor traffic. Bagpipes, the aldermen averred during dcbate, by themselves dis- course most cxcellent music; r tor traffic, on the other hand, of- fends only a .sensitive few by its noise, but the two . together, it is claimed, produce a raucous caco« phony, more than sufficient to drive all the summer tourists far from Largs. Times' Opinion Commenting upon the situation called to its attention by indignant Scots in London, the Times says: "It is a sad day for niusical in« struments when their welcome de< pends upon the way they mingle with the noises made by motor cars. Mo- tors are the standard noise and by them other sound- making instruments will be judged. It imposes a com- plication upon the Wagners of the future which they may be tempted to solve by using nothing but motors in their orchestration, ringing the changes on two-seaters and saloons, and relying on omnibuses and chara- bancs for their major effects. "If the popularity of jazz continued engines are almost certain to oust wind instruments, and this Ayrshire town council can claim that the spirit of the times is with them, Every- where the country is yielding to the town, animal life makes way for me- chanical efficiency and the bagpipe, whose noise was avowedly of the hillside, must yield to the product of the factory. Pigs Relive in Song "We must' mourn, says Words« worth ,at the passing of what once was great, and the bagpipes were in their day a triumph of Scots fru- gality and ingenuity, making their pigs to live again in song, their son- ority triumphing over their mor« tality. "Outdoor music is in peril of {fail- ing to make itself heard, and what has happened to the bagpipes is a warning to all who live by making musical instruments that the time has come for grander cellos, longer trombones and larger and louder drums." SEASON OF STRAW BG DRAWING GARD International interest in plays arranged for festival London--"Msis Edith Evans wik take the part of the King's Favorite in Mr. Shaw's play, 'The Apple Cart, thee first English performance of which will open Malvern Festival on Monday, August 19," says the Sun- day Observer in connection with the special season of George: Bernard Shaw's plays to be produced by Sir Barry Jackson, founder and director of the Bormingham Repertory The- atré. "She will also appear in 'Back to Methuselah and, Heartbreak House," the Observer continues. As already stated in The Observer, Magnus of England, Caesar mn Cedric Hardwicke will play King "Caesar and Cleopatra," and take his original part in "Back to Methus- elah" and "Heartbreak House." Charles Carson has the important role of the Prime Minister in the new play, Miss Barbara-Everest will be seen as the Queen, and Matthew Boulton as Balbus, the somewhat heavey-handed Labor leader. 'Other members of the special festival com- pany are Miss Dorthy Holmes-Gore, whose chief opportunity will be Cleo- patra, Miss Eileen Beldon, Scott Sunderland, Clifford Norquand, Ju lian d'Albie, Frank Moore, Aubrey Mallalieu, Miss Eve Turner, and Wallace Evennett "Sir Barry Jackson says that in- terest in the special Shaw season has been received from America, Poland, Germany, Italy, and many other countries. In Great Britain people are coming from places as far apart as Kilmarnock and Brighton, and the extraordinary thing is that towns like Rochdale are better represented in the applications than Oxford and Cambridge. Altogether eighty towns are represented up to now, and it is interesting to note that "Reinhardt people {from Britain are coming over." T. Aynsley Cook, who was man- ager of the Empire Palace theatre Edinburgh, during several periods from 1907-1921 died in an Edin- burgh nursing home recently. and Mrs. Atherton Smith, of Saint John, N.B.,, have explained what a tine country Scotland is; they have seen the show places and the ro- mantic areas,' and having come and seen, and been satisfied, they have gone over the border and awa' __