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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1930.
NOT SUITED TO BRITAIN
There need be little fear that the British Labour Party will fall in with the idea of a Popular
Meteorologists who fore- told a wretched summer for 1936 are being inundated with inquiries as to the rea- son for their amply justified prediction, and also as to the original cause of the bad weather.
Secretary of the Royal Meteorological
Society
A picture showing what rain did to the
courtyard of a Leatherhead, hotel,
And now let us examine the
records, for from them we can obtain the consolation, if such it be, that in 1936 we are, after all, only experiencing the weB- ther we might have expected.
Our memories so far as sun- shine is concerned are short, but
WILS
Although that month wet, thundery, and by no means lavish with sunshine, except in the east and north of Scotland, its average temperature was the highest at Greenwich for any June since 1917.
Remember the
heat-wave
20th and 21st, when Londoners
which reached its climax on the
The first question is answered from statistics we can find out by the motcorological records, which showed that by the law that in Britain from 1938 to of averages we might expect. 1985 they had three consecutive ture of 86 to 89deg? first-quality summers.
after three fine years, w sum- mer bearing some resemblance to that of 1860-the wottest and most dismal of the Victorian era.
It is one thing, however, to be able to talk of the probabilities assessed from our study of past records, but it is another to give chapter and verse of the actual which
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...Casani Club Orchestra, the Trades Union Congress now Robins and Roses-Fox Trot A Melody from the Sky-Fox Trot Casani Club Orchestra.meeting at Plymouth. The atti-underlying influences
tude taken up by the chairman of I nearly let Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot. the Congress-that if Liberals and Communists cannot accept a Got to dance my way to Heaven-Fox Trot.
the Jay Wilbur's Orchestra, constitution contrary to their
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The Scene Changes-Fox Trot... Jay Wilbur's Orchestra.is one which must commend it-of solar radiation are now held
self to all who wish to see the Carlous political parties develop along their own lines. It is true, at the Congress, that the Labourites, the Liberals and the Communists are all anti- Fascist, but that is about all that they have in common. There is no cause for their amalgamation, and, if we judge the temper of the British people correctly, likelihood of such a union:--In
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Chater Road. all along resisted any movement
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bring about the changes in our Ultimately, the blame rests weather.
with the sun. Minor variations in the output year-to-year and accountable · for
4.8 major vicissitudes of weather temperature, just changes in the same factor were almost certainly responsible for the alternating Ice Ages and warm eras of prehistoric times.
of
We know, too, that when the general frequency of sun- spots is rapidly Increasing towards its maximum, as at present, Britain is particularly liable to get a wet summer. There were previous
this in 1927, 1903, 18stances
granting affiliation to the Com- 1882. munist Party. That is so be-
cause the two parties have totally Still A Mystery different conceptions of policy.
To take only one or two points, WE have, however, barely be gun to understand the ex- which were mentioned, recently by Mr. Herbert Morrison, the tremely complex mechanism of Labourite, the Communists wish the atmospheric "heat-engine." to attain their ends by violent which causes widespread rain to revolution and to govern by dic-fall so persistently in one part tatorship, they would be subject of the world at such periods, to control from the Inter- and on other corners of the nationale, and they would be world at different phases of the largely financed from abroad. On sunspot cycle. the other hand, the British
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by peaceful, constitutiona! method; and, above all else, its has set its face sternly against dictation from Russia. The best answer to the Communists is that given by Mr. Morrison when he suggests that they should get on with their job in their own way, leaving the Labour Party to its own conceptions of the right course to pursue. It has, more- over, been shown again and again that the British people have no sympathy whatever with Com- munist ideals, a circumstance which was strikingly demons- trated at the last General Elec- tion, when only one Communist was returned, all the other candi- dates of this extreme form of political thought having to for- feit their deposits by reason of the smallness of their poll. There' is a suggestion that a Popular Front might be created in Eng- land because only by some such union would the Socialiste be Jikely to return again to office. But even if that deduction were correct, which is to be disputed, we cannot conceive the moderato Labourites, departing from their principles merely for the sake of That is not regaining power. the British way. The efforts of noisy extremists notwithstanding, there is no ground for fear that British politicians will plunge the nation into revolution when there are ample constitutional means of achieving their objec- tives.
It was too much to hope that the sequence might be main- tained this year.
Three Fine Years
ONLY once before since wea- ther records were begun, had England enjoyed such a run of luck. That was in 1857-59.
The 'summers of those three years were, on the whole, even hotter than the magnificent series from 1933-35, but they were less notable for drought, and were probably not so sunny. Then in 1860-the year which serves as a pointer for our wea- ther this senson-came the in- evitable swing of the pendulum. During that summer deluge followed deluge, and all through June, July, and August London's temperature never rose above 75deg. The warmest day of the year, May 23, gave a maximum of only 761der.
Having this in mind, meteoro- logists feared the worst for 1936. Weather history, like--
sweltered in broiling tempera-
It was July which brought us really in line with that dismal 1860.
The Canadian
-you
PACIFIC
IS TERRIFIC
FIFTY years ago the departure
from Montreal of the first through transcontinental train over the Canadian Pacific Rail- way was described by Montreal and other Canadian papers of the time as a truly national event. One editorial writer (in the Montreal Gazette of June 28, 1886) suid "It marks the cementing of that union of the British Dominions of this Contin- ent which was inaugurated on the 1st of July, 1867, and is second in importance only to the Confedora- tion of the four provinces that that day joined their interests and inte In bond not to be dissolved while Great Britain maintains her aupremacy over the northern por tion of the New World. The Pacific railway is truly called National work. The people of Canada gave freely of their wealth to secure its construction; they watched its progress through all the vicissitudes that befell it. under the care of three Govern- ments, and lastly in the hands of the company whose courage and energy have earried it to comple- tion. They have just right to be proud of their achievement."
Was
a
Throughout the Dominion, the day of departure of this first transcontinental trala
TU- cognized as a red-lettor day 12 Canada. The citizens of Montreal turned out in force to tender their hearty good wishes. The train started on its journey, according
to escaperi
many
London Although comparatively lightly, parts of England suffered by far the wettest July ever known,
No less than 8.7. of rain
(nearly 5 months' ordinary supply) was registered near Royston, Hertfordshire, while at Sandy Lodge, on the Middle sex-Hertfordshire border, all Bri- tish records for a half-hour's rain were broken by a fall of 3.09in. between 4 and 4.30 p., on the Wh-a deluge that might have made Noah himself quail.
The Chances are.........,
contemporary newspapers, amidst the cheers of the thousands assembled at the old Dalhousie Square Station and the booming of the guns of a field battery. The members of the City Counell assembled in the City Hall and proceeded in a body to witness the depurture of the train. The Victoria Rides paraded at the depot, and this association with fine regiment, is being renewed Afty years later by tho presence of the band of the Victoria Rifles at the send-off of the Anniversary train from Montreal,
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THE progress of the original first train across Canada Was accompanied by similar demon- THE western and northern
parts of the Continent, too,strations of enthusiastic Interest have this year shared Britain's fate. Excessive rainfall, scanty. sunshine, and lack of warmth have been the burden of their weather reports, as of ours,
You may wonder what is the reason for this long recital of temperatures and rainfall read-
all along the line. At Ottawa we read that large numbers of citizens greeted its arrival in spite of the lateness of the hour, and that fireworks and rockels were sel off. At Chalk River, North Bay, Sudbury, and many other points, delegations of prominent local
other kinds, has a habit of reings. It is this: I want to end-citizena met the train. At Port
peating itself, and though we can never be sure when it is
going to do so there seemed to be an odds-on chance of the present summer's bearing a family resemblance to that of Thus, without being unduly 1860.
tipped Our pessimistic, friends at Home to prepare for rain-ruined holidays.
we
Do not let us forget, though, that we did have some warm weather in June.
He Should Have Been
this article on a cheerful note.
Meteorologists are commonly suspected of being confirmed pessimists.
Arthur we read that the Mayor,- Council and citizens assembled at the station to wish Godspeed.
Winnipeg gave the first trans-
continental train a magnificent re- Let ine refute that and tellception with military bands and a you that statistics show that affer as wet a July and August as we have had this year there is a 9 to 7 chance of a September with either subnormal or normal rainfall. And there is only one chance in four of the remainder of the "soaker!". month developing into a real
BOOK of
the DAY
PREMIER of FRANCE
YES AND ALBERT THOMAS,
A
By E. G. Phelan.
(The Creesci Press, 10. Gd.)
MONG political men of our time Albert Thomas stands,
the very front rank.
To the eye,
at first glance, no heroic, or even casive, Oguro: Just a stout, bearded, spectacled Frenchman, with kindly eyes and a friendly smiic.
But the man behind was tremen dous.
भे *
Ifore was an overflowing, unremit Ling energy, disciplined by clear pur pose, by an unbending will, by an ordered mind: a sweeping breadth of knowledge and an astonishing power of swift thought and swift decision: a lucidity and wealth of oratory rare even in France: a capacity for devar Irresistible tnting anger, ahd, for charm: a keen sense of humour: a pas- sionate love of life.
Of such stuff great national leaders, or dictators, are made.
Thomas might easily have become Prime Minister of France. It was his ambition. It was the post for which
he seemed marked put. And had be succeeded Clemenceau, the history of France and of Europs would have been changed.
But when the moment came which
was the parting of the ways, Thomas the Socialist overruled Thomas tho ambitious Minister of Munitions,
France lost a great leader. And, in due course, all that passionate energy came to be given unsparingly to the service of the International Labour Office.
It is not the life of Albert Thomas, It is not the history of the ILO.. it is the story of a man and his job that Mr. Phelan has told brilliantly in this book.
No man is better qualified to have done this than the author, who worked closely with the Director from the be ginning until the sudden end. And it could not have been better done.
The greatness the man, the titanic qualities of bim, are there; yet there is no blind hero-worship: the faults, the foibles, the weaknesses are there too. And the result is a vivid portrait not of A public figure but of. a tremendously human man.
*A man whose interests were almost all-embracing, a man who reacled.
Не lavishly to every experience.... was a man who could not be bored; he would Just simply have been interested in the bora.
*
There is abundance of good stories, too. The Story of the First Rage! the Story of the Bilk Hat: the Story of the First English Bpcechs the Story of Henry Ford: for which and more you must go to Mie book itself.
Final fudgment of Thomas' work
cannot be yet. But his personality stands.
He died, as he would perhaps have chosen, in Paris, among his own people. Fighting against illness, against over- work, he had at last yielded to his doctor, agreed to rest. Ho went for a quiet stroll before returning to Genova. That night a bearded man, very ill. walked lato a working-class café, called for brandy, collapsed arid died. In his pocket pifly clue to his identity-wan A membership card of the French So cinlist Party. The name on the card.
W.N.E. was Albert Thomas.
salute from the Field Battery. Calgary welcomed the train with a bonfire and reworks. When oventually the transcontinentul arrived at Port Moody, the then terminus, it was welcomed not only by the local citizens but by the Premier of British Columbin and about fifteen hundred excursionists who had come from other parts of the Province.
In spite of the delays occasion- ed by all these receptions, it is Interesting to record that on this first transcontinental run of near- ly 3,000 miles, the train was only fifteen minutes late.
The interest in this new service was, of course, not confined only to Canada.
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THE Canadian Pacific Railway
was conceived and construct- ed as an Imperial Highway, pro- viding rall communication through British North America which not only linked the various Provinces of the Dominion, but also offered facilitica for a fast service con- necting Great Britain with her possessions and interests in the Australia Orient, and also with
Zealand. Thero wore and New British passengers on this first transcontinental train, and it is interesting to note that a party of twelve outstanding British news-
GARDEN NOTE paper representatives are travell-
cropa
rille ideal of every vege
table grower is to have continuously following cach other, and no vacant land.
Plant oul greens such as Brussels, the Savoys, and Broccol! among potatoes, to that tohen they are lifted the greens will quickly take their place.
Some can be put into the ground left vacant by the lifting of the first potatoes, and if this has been roll inanured, the greens will grow apace.
Salads between the Idie: maturing crops, such as celery and jalo peas, are another way to make the mort of a small plot.
Sow them whenever you cali, for you can never have too many small salads," and the younger you eat them tha better!
Ing on this Anniversary train of to-day, to take part in the Van- Celobra- couver Golden Jubilee tions, ono fenture of which is to be the re-enactment of the arrival of the original train at Port Moody For this occasion fifty years ago. the original wood-burning locomo tive has been reconditioned, and will be driven into Port Moody by the still-urviving engineer who stood at the throttle.
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WITHIN this half century the progress of the Dominion of Canada has been, in every respect, phenomenal. The Canadian
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