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BEAVERBRODK BOOK AROUSES GRITIISH Destroys Public Confidence in Politicians, Says One Critic London, May 21.--~Somewhat af- ler the fashion of the mam who, Mter being Involved in a sircet ac- sident, is supposed to ait up and ip- guire blankly, "What hit me?" the British public, snce 1918, has been avidly devouring books of "war memoirs in order to find out, if pos- sible, how it all happened. As might have been expected, it was the men of comparatively small calibre who first decided the time had come to speak out. Thig period provided several disconcerting studies in emotion, such as C. E. Montague's "Disenchantment," or Sir Philip Gibbs' "Now It Can Be Told," but Winston Churchill's "World Crisis," was the first narra- tive by one really sharing the inner circle of British policy. Mr. Churchill naturally wrote as a participant in the events he de- geribed. This week there was pub- lished a book by one of the few men who were close enough to the centre of affairs to enable him to speak with undoubted--but detach- er--authority and who, without oc- .cupying Cabinet rank, nevartheless took a very prominent part is the game of war and politics. He is Lord Beaverbrook, a Canadian by birth, and, during the war, better known as Sir Max Aitken, His book, "Politicians and the War," published this week, gives the first veal opportunity to ap- praise the political leadership of Britain from 1914 to 1916, While extracts thereof are being published serially in the author's own newspapers, an English busi- ness Man remarked to the writer of this dispatch that he such things should Asked why not, he replied: cause they destroy public confid- ence in our politicians and leave nothing to replace it." Right Hon. Philip Snowden acid- ly comments: "The author states that the pu pose of writing this book is as much a business of politicians as of soldiers. There may be a popular delusion that this is mot the case. But such delusion won't survive the reading of this volume." SAW LARGE WATER SPOUT London, May 21.--While piloting the Supermarine Napler flying boat on the Imperial Airways South- ampton to Channel Islands service recently Captain Bailey saw a large water spout between the islands of Guernsey and Alderney. "It ap- peared to be suspended from the flat base of a huge black cloud." said Captain Balley, "and like an inverted come with 'its point vest- ing on the sea. The whole mass was revolving with incredible ra- pidity." HAIRDRESSERS® CLASSES ®» nchester, England, May 21.-- Ms#%; women hairdressers in Man- cues or, having asked the City's Ed- ucation Committee to give munici- pal instruction in the profession, are to attend classes which, it is proposed, will inciude the study of English, modern languages, chemistry and hair treatment. Practical halr-dressing demon- strations will be given by experts. Be Prepared! ** for Victoria Day Get Your Candies Kodak Films at KARN'S DRUG STORE Next to P.O, -- Phone 378 -- We Deliver ANNOUNCE. "MENT During the months of June, July and August we are closing on Sat- | urdays at ONE p.m., | in order to give our staff a much needed half-holiday, WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS AND - ASK YOUR CO-OPERATION NO ODOR! Our scientific process is odorless and is harmless to the most delicate fabrics or colors. PARKER' DYE WORKS H. E. SMITH, Manager THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY, 22, 1928 EARLY SEEDING IN PRAIRIE PROVINCES Report Says 90 Per Cent of Crop in Before May 18 Winnipeg, May 21.--With an op- timistic survey of the general crop condition in the Western Provinces, the Manitoba Free Press this morn- ing publishes its first general re- port for the season of 1928. "The Manitoba Free Press," states the report, 'is able to state with confidence 'that the Prairie Provinces have the largest area seeded to wheat by May 10 that has been the case since 1921. Fur- ther, while only 90 per cent. of all the wheat was seeded by May 238 last year, over 90 per cent of the entire wheat crop is in the ground this year by May 18." Continuing the report says: "All wheat has gone in on one of the best seed beds the West has seen in the last 14 years and the percentage of summer fallow and new breaking is also the largest for a number of years. "There is an increase in wheat acreage in all the provinces that will run from nine ta 12 per ceat., and a larger percentage of register- ed wheat has beén seeded than ever before. gub-surface moisture condi- tions ara excellent, and while Al- berta and Saskatchewan need rain, or more properly speaking would be ylad of rain, there is no loss from drifting and no damage to crops so fer." Wonderful Invention of Swedish Fugineers Stockholm, Sweden, May 21, A new pick-up or adapter for elee- tric reproduction of gramaphone discs has been designed by Oskar Kring, a Swedish engineer of Stock- holm. This new inexpensive con- trivance has been carefully tested and conmrpared with similar appara- tuses previously brought out in oth- er countries and has proved to be far superior to those earlier in- ventions as to sensitiveness and load-capacity without distortion, as well as capacity of reproducing all audible frequencies, from the low- est ones up to the highest ones, without altering their mutual re- lation, The generation capacity of the adapter, when substituted for the sound-box of a usual grama- phone and connected with a head receiver, is so high that music or speech is heard with good strength, distinctly, melodiously and without any grating sound from the needle, At this no radio amplification is used. Such consonants as s, f, v, p, are clearly reproduced, and, there- fore, this adapter will probably be of great value for the teaching'ol languagds by use of gramaphone, especially as mo radio amplifica- tion is required and thus only a combination of head receivers and the new adapter is necessary, re- quiring only a minimum of ex- pense, Leading school authorities in Sweden have paid great aiten- tion to this mew method, which will be used {in practical teaching mem | in several schools within the near future, Any common gramaphone having good spring works may be used. By means of a multi-valve radio re- ceiving set for loud-speaker the electrical impulses from the adapi- or may be transmitted to the loud-speaker. The two wires ur the adapter are then connected with the amplifier valves in the same way as a detector is connacted with the amplifier, If the low frequency amplifier 1s not sufficiently strong o give a sound volume of the nee- ssary. strength for a loud-speaker + higher amplification may he ob- 'ained by removing the grid-leak of the detector tube and connecting one wire of the adapter with the grid of the detector tubo and the other wire with one side of the filament. Colonel Fitzmaurice Irish Air Official ' London, May 21.--To anyone ac- quainted with the officer commrand- ing the Irish Army Air Force, Col. James Fitzmaurice, nothing could be more typical of him than his enthusiasm for accompanying Cap- tain Herman Koebl and Baron Von Huenefeld on the Bremen in their Atlantic flight as sc-ond pilot, says a writer in the Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Lorn in Dub- lin, be is now only 29, yet when war broke out he immediately en- listed in the Cadet Corps of the 7th Leinsters, Retribution came when he was sent home as being under age, but he let only three months pass before making a second at- tempt and early in 1915 he was in France with the 17th Lancers. i | Wounded in May, 1916, and trans- ferred to the infantry a few months later, he was wounded again af- ter securing his commission, and, in the beginning of 1917, was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Joining the Free State Army Air Corps in 1922, he was promoted last year, Col. Fitzmaurice's attempted At- lantic flight with Captain McIntosh last September brought him more into the public eye, but hiz most valuable services to aviation have been performed pearer home, While in the Army of Occupation be accomplished the first night mail flight from Folkestone to Cologne, and, only 2 month ago, he flew a bombing aeroplane frome London to Dublin in two and a half hours. AS IT SHOULD BE German opera has been sung in Paris by German artists for the first time since 1914. This is certain- Spit. A ly the manifestation of a forgiving} WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE IDEAL FOR CROP Winnipeg, May 20.1deal weath- er conditions exist over the whold of Western Canada, says the third weekly crop report of the Camadi- an National Rallways, and pros- pects for an eycellent crop are brighter fo rthe period of the seaso nthan for several years. Wheat seeding generally is almost finished, and what little remains to be done will be completed this week. The sowing of coarse grains is proceeding rapidly, and at least 75 per cent. of oats and barley should be in the ground by the end of this week. Early sown wheat is thriving splendidly, and is well above the ground in all of the three Provinces. Manitoba is the farthest ad- vanced of the three Provinces. Eycept in ome or two isolated cases, all the wheat is in and the sowing of coarse grains is 660 per cent. completed. The Province benefitted from general rains dur- ing the week. Soil drifting, which was caus ing som anxiety in Saskatchewan, has been stopped generally by beneficial showers. Seventy-five per cent. of the wheat is in, and the sowing of ocarse grains is from 25 to 60 per cent. finished. Alberta conditions are highly fa- vorable. There is plenty of molis- ture in the ground and soil drift- ing has been prevented by showers during the past week. Wheat is 80 pet cent. sown and the seeding of coarse grains well under way. All Provinces report an {increase in the acreage sown to wheat. In the vicinity of Neepawa, Manitoba, a considerable amount of flax is being sown i nan effort to combat rust conditions, More wheat than usual is being sown in this area also. SCIENTISTS ARE IN SESSION IN WINNIPEG Winnipeg, May 21. -- Leading scientists and litterateurs of Can- adian universities were arriving here today for the meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, which opens tomorrow morning. Among those who reached Win- nipeg today fro mthe East were the members from McGill Univer- sity, including Dr. A. 8. Eve, direc- tor o fthe Physics Department, and Dr. David A. Keyes and Dr. A, Norman Shaw, also of the Physics Department. The Chem- istry Department {is represented by Dr, F. M.. G. Johnston while Dr. F. Ei Lloyd and Prof. C. Scarth represent the Department of Botany. The Ottawa delegation also ar- rived today. This delegation is composed of Dr. G, A. Young, W. H. Boyd, W _.A. Johnston and Francis J. Audet. Prof, Marie-Victoria of the De- partment of Botany of the Uni. versity of Montreal; Bliss Car- man, Charles G. D .Roberts and Dr. F. R. Miller, University of Montreal, were also among the arrivals, FIRE SWEEPS TOWN IN SASKATCHEWAN Prince Albert, Sask. May 21.-- Twelve frame structures housing the principal husiness establish- ments of Star City, Sask., east of here, were destroyed by fire this morning. No estimate has been made of the loss, bit it will be heavy. The blaze originated in a pool- room and was discovered at 3 am, Efforts of the volunteer fire brigade proved inadequate to cope with the situation, due to a shortage of water, and fire-fight- ing equipment from Tisdale, Sask., 15 miles distant, arrived too late to be of assistance, The buildings destroyed were: Scholz's poolroom L. T. R. Smith's hardware store and {implement sheds, Stead"s meat market, Fur- man's general store, Paul's drug store Clemenko"s general store Griffin's harness shop, Balcaen's tailor shops, the National Cafe, Vosper's poolroom, H. G. Bird's % dressed. ing, Dress Up for the Holiday" You will need new Footwear soon any way. See to that especially sat isfying holiday feeling through know ing that you are well and smartly And even though the birds are sing- ing and it is the finest day ever, you will not enjoy it unless your feet are comfortable, : Be sure of that. Let us sell you com. fort and style combined. 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