Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Manitoba free press Winnipeg saturday april 18, 1925 contributions and comment the great fuel safety too cosmopolitan educational Centre Canada s fuel problem you gather from a bulletin Deal ing with the Coal resources of issued by Queen s Ulver that if the fuel problem of this country is to solved it must be viewed from in los different from that Boon commonly i Lopton. Canada should have itself i Contrail of his Art first and an artist May mean anything from a trick drummer to an apostle of Raphael. Tho artist can draw inspiration from a Loi of women but when to is chained to one his Art is also fettered least that is the Way Art explains its inf delites. Against this apologetic testimony May be placed the experience of thousands of real in music Oil and have found treasure and inspiration in a single love and cherished it to the end. B a fuel a ? ice a Civ is Jav i a Jar. M. Lie naturals Errico at Oil comprehensible re capt reserves. They . We a inc Coal in the fews i Viii c n i arc to Essl y in be world or than one and All a half As the countries ii Europe the cheerful philosopher safety third i always did disc Leo that saying safety and leaving safety Bast so Harold Lloyd i think that when we inquire Tho Placo of safety n our scheme of life to shall find safety third about right. Tho. Slogan serves a useful Pur pose. Old folks and children need to be protected. Avo cannot make our City streets too Safe. Nor is its combined. Our Coal reserves Are j warning misapplied to those who Rry to beat Iho train at Tho crossing or pass the speeding roadster on the Corner. Still a Man May wisely Lake some risks for himself. The habit of facing danger makes a i Alert Quick resourceful self reliant. Safety dulls Tho wits. The Slothful Man Saith there is a lion in Tho safety first never brought Tho pioneers to this country to Brave the dangers of Prairie fires and Indian raids never led them to Cross Rivers climb mountains or journey far on the Whito trails of Winter. Danger comes before safety. Safety first is one of civilization s after thoughts. He who avoids Tho perils of the streets by staying in tile House who insists on living in a Bungalow be second Only to those of the United states. And yet we Are vexed with i very perplexing fuel problem. It is obvious that where the to sources Are so vast the fuel problem must revolve around their distribution. In other words while our Coal Fields Are in the Eastern and frn extremities of the country the density of population is centrally to ated. Thus the distances Between the sources of Supply and Tho areas of consumption Are too great to be economically solved by the method International House within four seas let Brothers All men 3e made upon our fuel problem. Or. Patton suggests solutions. Though some of them May to More problematical than practical As he writes it is a singular circumstance that the Burden of discussion on Canada s fuel problem Lias been the desirability of bringing the country s Large natural resources a Coal from the West and from the to the thickly populated Cen trial area. Little or no attention has cause it has no stairs to break apparently been Given to the reverse process namely the bringing of population to the Coal areas. And yet. Why not economic history leaches us that Large Coal resources especially when other minerals Are near by have always acted As a Magnet for population. The Coal areas of Nova Scotia Alberta and British Columbia with valuable metallic Mineral areas adjacent Are favored with a healthful climate whilst conditions exceedingly suit Able to agricultural pursuits prevail in the surrounding territory. When such a movement of population will begin is of course Idle to Prophesy but to deny that it will take place some Day would be to ignore Tho experiences of the past. When can Ada s Coal areas Are industrialized she will have begun to realize on he tremendous National asset she possesses in her one sixth share of i he Coal resources of the that however is a Remote state of Industrial perfection which has Little bearing on the facts which pre sent the fuel problem of today. This in economically involved in the fact that it is cheaper and More convenient to import Coal from other countries than to the Long haul from our own Coal and again. In the final analysis that problem becomes not one of Supply but of distribution revolving around the obstacles of Long hauls and High freight rates. And As or. Patton rays it s still a debatable question whether Canada can Supply the Coal less provinces of Ontario and Quebec with fuel from her own mines. In deed it is not altogether a foregone conclusion that such a consummation is economically desirable. The problem is not so difficult As regards fuel for Industrial purposes As it la in the Case fuel for Domestic heating. Nevertheless the bituminous consumption of Central Canada Cor the five year period ending 1923 averaged tons a year out of an annual average of tons of this class of Coal imported into the whole country. One Factor is that area is abundantly supplied with water Powers which Are being rapidly developed to replace fuel for Industrial purposes. For Domestic heating however Central Canada., especially Ontario is markedly de pendent on the United states. Its Anthracite imports in the period above mentioned average tons a year As compared with Aji average of tons annually for a.11 Canada but constantly recurring interruptions in the anthrax cite Supply due to labor troubles and transportation tie ups together with the increasing Price and the deteriorating Quality of this fuel Are having their effect and a serious Effort is now being made to enc our the use of substitutes and to develop a measure at least of National self sufficiency in or. Patton mentions the Experiment of transporting Alberta Coal into the acute fuel area of Ontario by reducing the freight rate from to 59 a ton for train Load lots shipped in the summer months but he concludes when All is said it must be recognized that distance is a very serious Handicap to Alberta Coal competing for the Ontario the great anomaly persists How Ever Tanada tilth her vast Coal resources still imports three fifths of the Coal she consumes. She does this because her supplies Are so Dis Tant from her consuming centres. This geographic fact lies at the Root of what canadians have come to Call their fuel problem it is cheaper and More convenient to import Coal from other countries than to pay for the Long haul from their own Coal Fields. Canada s fuel prob Lem in the final analysis is there fore not one of Supply but of Distri to solve this therefore May incur a attack that is not so frontally directed on the actual transportation of raw Coal As obliquely to involve the use of substitutes. Art and marriage from Tho los Angeles times neither an artist nor a. Musician qualify As a competent husband for an affectionate woman. This is the assertion of Heifetz who Parks his soul within the Embr asure of his violin. The Brilliant musician is Young and has never married and therefore feels himself to be an authority on the subject. Anyhow he figures that marriage not Only Ham pers the artist in the development of Liis career but it makes one More unhappy woman. He feels that no wife willingly becomes the second interest in a Man s life and yet no Man can express his soul in music when that soul is anchored to a. Mate. These arguments have been offered before by and on behalf of artists musicians actors and other tempera mental Folk. They have served to explain numerous blighted romances is argued that an artist must place neck who barricades his and windows for fear of burglars who lets the stove go out at night lest it should Start a Man will logically end his Days in the scientific safety of a padded room. Safety first life ought to be Why do we Honor the hero the real question is not whether we should run risks but what risks we to run. The Soldier seeking the Bubble reputation even in the can non s Soldier hero for one has had his Day. To have grown out of our childish love of War. We cannot idolize the Man who proves his courage by slaughtering his enemies in the old style and modern methods Are mechanical. War May produce the Odd hero but it spoils too much Good life in the process. We feel it Wise to turn our boys away from that particular form of heroism. Rifles or uniforms for the cadets no glorifying of military heroes in our history books i fear we shall never quite succeed i taking the glory out of War. We May give Nelson a Black Eye and put the Iron Duke s nose out of joint but How shall we Correct the impression Given by All our classic Hera ure from Homer and the Bible Down a thousand tales of War like Enterprise the movies too Are full f red blooded he men fighting to he last gasp and even Little a Iris will raise a cheer when steel meets Teel and bullets find appropriate the influence of a child s history Book is Small compared with that it the stories Given in the old Tes Ament. It was from these that Cromwell s Ironsides Drew their martial spirit. What shall we do with a Bra Ham Joshua Gideon Sam son Jonathan How shall we put the right complexion on i he Conquest f Canaan even Young Pavlu the Story of Victory Over Goliath our mothers joyfully related in tha Nursery forgetting not to Tell us How he giant s head was hewed from his body with his own David must go and his three mighty men must go too. And what wiil he fundamentalists say about All this but that is by the Way. Safety first is no motto for the Church. At a baptismal service easter sunday i was struck with the ritual s reference to Noah s Ark As a Type of the Protection offered to the child. The allegory has Points of Good to Overlook. What Faith and courage launched out upon the deep in that weird Craft How Small to Crew How All embracing its hospitality Noah s voyage was surely adventurous enough to suit widest spirit. If the Church militant May no longer Send out its crusaders to engage in actual War Are the Church iia vegans must not allow its complement to feel that hey Are anchored in a quiet Harbor the storms of life rage in the world outside. This Union Ximiness building of a bigger it be Worth much unless it Means to make a bigger cruise. To value will be seen in Unity of Effort in More extended missionary it will fail of its Pur pose. A Good risk much to be lined Ana Little to be lost. At least he venture promises a certain live Liness. Big ships Are not so Safe As those of moderate size. The strength of heir fabric cannot be increased to Oqual the increasing strains and stresses. There will be strains and stresses hard to Bear until the new finds she ought to in All right after that. Our think without sex been men who took treat risks. Drake Nada his first voyage of adventure to Spanish in a 50-ton bark engaged Battle with a Spanish Fleet and was Lucky Ever to see Devon again he was 22 years old four years Ater he was off onco More in a ship of 70 tons accompanied by his Tung brother As Captain of a Craft of 25. With these they captured real galleons they went ashore and Cut the famous Gold Road of the Anama and they returned Home arten with treasure. In the Pelican 20 tons Drake voyage around the world. But these were fighting men How Many boys have heard of wat ton the first great British Natur Ilist to explore the by e. C. A sunday evening. March 2d, we in Tor Tho gallery of the great As Sembly Hall of International on the Campus of Columbia univer sity and Gazo on a Sceno which probably has not its counterpart in the world for this is Tho weekly gathering of the intercollegiate cosmopolitan club of now York and 600 of its members reside in Iho building Tho main floor of Tho great auditorium is covered with Flower decked Candle lit tables each sur rounded by a. Group of students who have just finished supping to other. The gallery is packed to capacity the railing of the Gaj cry covered with flags Tho ensigns of 33 nations. With Tho exception of old All Tho flags appear to be of one size. The Stago at Iho end of Tho auditorium has a drop of dark Rich Blue and in front of this is a table Aad on the table a picture Frame care fully veiled in by Tho chinese Flag at either end of Tho table stands a chinese Maiden. A Little group of Occidental at the right of Tho Stanje a single Oriental at Tho left. The Oriental is Tho chinese ambassador from Washington and he is speak ing in most Correct English and Tell ing the assembled multitude what intercollegiate cosmopolitan club Means to the strangers from Many lauds who come to the great univer sity of Columbia to learn. He touches on his own College Days at Columbia now some 20 years in the past and you feel a catch in your Throat As he dwells on the bit ter loneliness those Days when a few of them were strangers in a strange Lami. He passes on to a glowing Eulogy of International House and what it May mean not Only in happiness to Tho individual student but in forwarding the world s peace and concludes by asking t in Dean of International House to accept from the chinese students a Token of Good will to be placed upon Mark their Joy at a permanent and Beau the Wall to club having Tifful Home. The Maidens raise Tho Flag and reveal a stretch of cloth of Gold with four chinese characters in Black occupying Tho Centre. There Are oct Raul site embroideries in colors and smaller characters in Black Down the sides close to Tho Frame but the four characters stand out and Tho ambassador explains that they Are a saying of the great confucius and translated within the four seas let All men be of b truly an appropriate sentiment for International following the acceptance of Tho offering came a Short talk on the recent opium con Ference Tho Dean announced various gatherings for Tho evening and this particular Assembly dispersed. In company with a resident student we toured the House for a Brief time to joined the sing song in the Home room a beautifully proportioned drawing room with a grand piano Here hymns were Sung any one who wished calling for a favor Ite. Students of All nations stood or sat on chairs or rugs As the Sparil moved them but All Sang. The hymns were followed by a group or songs rendered by one of new York s noted baritones and in response to repeated encores he Sang old Black insisting on everyone joining a common mooting ground then Tho formation of the intercollegiate cosmopolitan club and next Tho feeling that that club should have a de finite Homo. This is the Mere Skol Eton. The House was finally Tho do nation of j. D. Rockefeller jr., and it was furnished by his wife. In is the very last word in fireproof Sani tary construction Beautiful in pro portion and standing on one of the finest Sites on Riverside drive Over looking the historic Hudson. Tho rooms for women Aro on the left As you enter and those for men on the right. Kadi has its loud go Reading and writing room. Every by Droom has hot. And cold running water and there is a bathroom be tween every two rooms. The women must not go into the men s Section Tho men must not. Enter theirs but the. Two Groat Public lounge rooms occupy the space be tween the two wings and Back from Thorn is Tho great auditorium. Open fireplaces add an Especial Home touch. Those Centra lounges Are common to both men and women and there is a Vays an official of Tho House staff scaled at a desk in Hosso lounges ready to answer questions to receive guests and incidentally to act As an official Chaperon n addition there is a special room where women May receive their men friends apart from the lounge. This room is on Tho ground floor quite spacious so that a number of groups tray visit without interfering the one with the other. There is a Small but Well equipped emergency Hospital and in the base rent a very Largo and finely equip pc it cafeteria. The food is Chc Aii and Good and late As 10.30 p m Light refreshments with hot Tea Coffee otc., May to obtained. It seems As if every possible need of a fraternity House had been provided for. The House and furnish Ings were a straight gift Tho opera and Upkeep must come from Tho payments for Board and lodging o tin students it is not Likely inure will to any vacancies but Oery Caro is Takin that whatever nationality wishes to Cumo in shall find a place and a stated 2-s nationalities arc already represented. It is a tremendously interesting Experiment and is being watched closely by Many other universities. To people from other lands not Tho interesting feature is the fact that hitherto the people of Tho United states have hardly comprehended what International really Means. Possibly that was their Best preparation for trying this Experiment Thoy had the courage of ignorance of International complications which might have daunted others but did not occur to the Experiment May not accomplish All that is hoped for it by who gave the building and those who die working out the scheme but no Ono can deny that it is a very Noble gos lure towards world peace. Post try the Best commentary on its effect so far is a Story which a student from Southern states tells on himself to wit to was Shaw Ono morning in the bathroom Between his room and that of his neighbor whom to had not yet seen when a very Black negro rap Ped and walked in. In a Momont uii1. Southerner turned to leave the loom in High dudgeon when flashed through Lih mind International and to greeted the newcomer pleasantly. Better is he that Ruleth his own spirit than lie who Tabeth a so that in the conquering of that old prejudice to helped within on the time when not Only the four seas but four winds men will Brothers be. Tornadoes in the chorus. A translation of a wonderful russian hymn closed the entertainment in that particular room for the evening it had last Sci perhaps half an. Hour. In another Section the build ing we found a group of British students entertaining a group of germans in another some Czecho Slovakia us comparing the relative merits of their native musical instruments with those of the Philip Pines. Everywhere there were mixed groups from different countries having the happiest times together. On the first and second floors Are the great common lounging rooms where men and women students mingle freely and these were per haps the most interesting rooms in the House for Here it was possible to study Tho apparently natural and unconscious dividing into congenial groups and nearly always of mixed nationalities ;