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ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1931THE LETHBRIDGE HERALDPAGE THREEOld C.P.11. Bout is Now a Ferry Boat—Driving the “Cat”—A Wonderful Estate Near Nelson,THE OPEN ROADBy... \Jean Stevinson\The Naked and Nasty Douks — A Kisli Story From tiie Sloean—A Miner Doesn't Like the Trail Smelter.(Continued from La^t, Week.) Suddenly tiic glory of Uic Kootenay late lay before us, a study in bluos nd green/,, Milky clouds sire I died Ike white veils along the hazy blue lountains across the flats, and. a black rain slid by. Eire idling out and out vere the shallow Patera leading to the ootenay Lake, while we followed ilgh, twisted and nartow road going phiJl and down. The timber was ostly small, but grand 6ld patriarchs, ,pared from forest fires, lifted Ihelr leads to the sky here uiU there, 'ouses perched on the banks rising roni the road seemed uti a bod cto ucks, and one wondered how Uio le made Ihelr Jiving. A clo'cr lock lOtvcvcr, showed chicken houses and gardens, mostly slrawhcrrics on the iOUthcrn slope. The buH pines grew bicker, and nl Sirdar we saw* hat:aift loaded with bull pine lags.Theoari for a long stretch here was very 1 arrow, wlllt rock dlfl vails, and wc bought that if the B.C. government culd undertake the widening of this onto it would give -work lo all the incmploycd jn the province. Jus*- bore little Jawii on the read jumped Into lie woods. Piles of Iors In small hearings flashed by, and v.c crossed eautfful Boulder creek, true to Its mme, tumbling down through the hick cedars, Wc were travelling along eside the rumpled lake, and soon fork-d off on the new road branching from uskaiiook Landing A splendid road it too, a bit rougli at hrst, but, moothlng out ssi.de and hard, amall imber turned to tall, thin growth, uddle-s were here and there, and reautiful JiUle harbors lay below us. hrough rock cuU and around well-loped turns sve went, always the blue ake, the dusky mountains and the dlk-white clouds travelling along be-jde us. New telephone pales. were up II along tiie road, and where couven-ent bull pines had been sawn off and Lsed as tliey stood; Branches were ticking out of some of the trunks.All at once, in a niche in llic wall, b «aw a Jltttc olive-greca car. The achersl” we exclaimed. They were landing on the road In Ihelr long silk yjama outfits, and I waved the milk ttle at them. They began lo laugh. •'It's not ours/’ they said, it be-lo the' camp at Crest on.* But handed It over and my conscience « dear. We were within a znlic of a lerry at Boswell, but they had i© as far as tlmlr map said they ould. and they thought 1hey were fc. We started on, but inside of half mil© wen* held up by a rockslide used by dynamite. Men were dearth© road, and soon we went on, t were stopped asaln by a big con-little quarter. The loose sand under our outside wheels began lo crumble and we barely backed to safely, though according to mountain law the ir.au coming downhill must back, also the driver on the Inside walls.A Doukhobor.woman silting. In a field with a child beside her made me think of a pelican. But these people certainly know how* to farm. It Is said that they have all the best land up the valley, but I wonder if uur people gave the same care to the land if It would not bo as roc A. If 11 )e Dcuks have the best land it Is tlie fault of those who sell it to Ultra. They certainly have uncultured faces, We met a lot of them, and did not see any? bins Vicious in their faces, only a lack of something. There is something that not there, though one woman we met walking along the read with a child had the eyes of an nagle. a he was knitting as she walked along, but her eyes never dropped to her work. She took us all in and I had 1 ho-feeling UmVMic was knltlitig lus Into her slocking, for the needle.'; worked ft way alt the limo her eyes were on us. Further on we met a young woman with a fat baby In her nrms, a two*xe?.r-old hanging to her skirls and a cow on the end of a rope. She had. quite a.as there was no houseIK/,-,,1 MUkUWU VU',**| I[oung fellow we knew. What' aro you doingwe __ _ here?;ed.“Driving Um cet, be anwsered. •The what?The eatexplffax tractor/’ he laughed. The twenty-mile trip up t-too Koot-lay Lake on the familiar old Nar.ookin ided all too soon. Instead of the rnter ferry from KAifikanook to Nel-Ebn, wilh car fare one way five dollars ~ td • each adult, Including driver two lollara and a half, huff fare for chll-Iren anil tb© added ex pens© of a state-on the return trip, ouv car cost a lollar and half one way, Including le driver, each adult paid twenty-five tta and children, went free. The re-rn terry for the twenty anile3 cost lour dollars where the return ferry lor the former fifty-five mUes from luakanook to Nelson cost us about yy, Twenty cars were on board on [iio up trip and the twenty miles look m hour and a half. A ton of cnai an iour la burnt, but only two decks of the steamer were In use, the main leek, where the cars were parked, and the promenade deck. No meals are srved, and the upper decks, with fifty ; ell-equipped state-rooms, is closed by “No admittance sign across the italrs. Our old C.P.R. captain mount-the forbidden fit airs, however, and *ent to the pilot house. He explained ms that, at hough the si earner was a •overnmcnt ferry tiic govern me ill. hires :ha C.P.R. at so much a day and the .P.R, hires the crew. We met. courtesy every side.A Wonderful Estate -At Gray Creek wc emerged to terra mat a again nnd followed Ut© Kcotenay river toward Nelson, a run of nineteen dies. Five miles east of Nelson wc lassed a wonderful estate, I believe the llaylock properly. The place was en-llosed by a gray stone fence and in-ilde was a wide white lie His built like portico on a CJicck tern pic, tha load curved round the zlzitz fence lircled and the while trellis curved each pillar toeing1 covered with [limbing pink roses all In bloom. We mst have seen them at Ihelr very [cst. Further along were lulipo, dah-laa and other brill lent blooms and two tardencrs were working among them, lehtnd this tvbs a regular park of tall, fender evergreens, but the house was lot visible to us ns we went by. A free ?rry took us across to Nelson, perhaps |alf n mile, and now, although we had limed our watches back one hour on he Nasookin, In Kelson wc had to turn pem on again os the city is on “day-[ht saving- Mountain lime to Paci-time, then to daylight saving, and soon as we gt out at Kelson on our {ay up the Sloean valley we had to irn the watches back. The C.P.R. ?5 on standard time, pay inn no ?t-Intion to city time, and the thkk-jaded tourist gets . hopelcr-sly mud-led.(The trip tip the valley, however, was [miliar, whether we were on Nelson Ine or “God’s time, as the hayseed itd. The toads even here were perii-for the careless driver. The Douk-bors causo a lot of annoyance, too. re witnesses had told us of the nude :ade at Nelson a week ur so prcvtous-landsald It was the iilthJest spectacle •y had seen, Bystanders had been fen lcn^tliA of rubber hose to beat sni with, but the Douks paid no at-ition to it whatever. Five of the ten caught a policeman and had i\ almost etripped when thd fire |e, with powerful pressure of water, turned squarely on them. They to knocked sprawling and were glad llspersc. Up the valley they con-t hem selves with burning schools, blockintf tho narrow reads with loads of hay, A Crescent Valley went Into n. store lo get ice cream lounrl nn old E an don friend in ;gc. Tb.c store had been blown up loukhobois and was then under rc-Gomc Douks were sit tins on the of (he platform quarrelling and [cumilng. At Wlnlaw we met the rvccun Jug toad of liny, and though frro on the outside and t:iliijg up-Un a bcav' load the driver gavedistance to go near, and her eyes were black with fatigue. Poor chat Left I thought.The Tate of a DogBut mi we went, over bridges and up hill and down and left the Aouks fce-IilnrL Other dangers were ahead.SAs we passed a while house set back from the road a huge gray dog .sprang from the long grass hi the- diLcli straight for the open window and my boy's face. ' The clog's.nose hit the handle I of the door, splashing blood on the j glass nnd all down the door. Then hU ■ body swung violently around and banged Into the side of the ear, making a big dent and bendln? the llceiise plete and tail light back. Terrible crying followed, but wc had. gone some way beior© we realized what happened. At Lemon Creek we cot out to investigate and saw a tangle of long white-gray lialrs around the door handle and (he splash of binod over the car. The greyhound bus came olong and the driver jumped out.“You’re one of those hit and run drivers, are,you? hn snid severely to my boy, and I suppose we looked puzzled. “You hit a dog- back there, he said, “and wont on. You riioulc. have stopped. Don't you know a dog Is a soul the same as a person? The owners of the dog had likely stopped him and got him to follow us. as ft woman alt;nA o. t?irJ in the vard were watclilnj?. They must have told a tall story, didn’t know,” said J. that one to Stop for a dbg. L kr.cw ycu must for a person. Was the dog'badly hurt?”“A dog's got a soul the same a© ft person ” he said again. “It wasn't killed, but it’s hurl so badly It's got to beshot. , ,We told him how It was. and snowed him the evidence on the doo-r and side of the car. Fortunately w© had left hairs and blood as they wer*.“Well, said ho, “It wasn't your fault in any way. You’re nob to blame at all, and you're lucky it wasn't in front, or it would '-have wrecked you. The dog Is an awful dug. But to bs sate you had better report lo the police In order to save trouble. The owners might try k make trouble for you:*“We’re going up to New Denver, ws said, “and we'll go right lo the police office.”“The New Denver police is off chasing Doukhobora, he said, “but someone will probably be thereWe thanked him mid he went on, and as soon as wc- could wc went to the police office and reported. - No more was heard of it. Had It been weU5-“Ihadwould have bad a number of nes-ies to whom we showed (lie evidence that tlie dog had hit us, we had not Jil+ the dog.The two wtirks that followed* in the heart or the great B. c. forest, with ft clear, cold mountain spring running beside our back door, was and b a dream. Every morning wc woke with a circle of tall firs, cedar and whits poplar around us, and fo; breakfast had oodles ot freshly-caught brook trout; raspberry, cherry or huckleberry pie for dinner and often canned venison with you«? garden stuff nt night. Eggs? Perish the thought! Not o:lcc was hen-fruit on our menu.Old friends were all o(cr the district and we hadn't time to see liair ofthem, but their warm welcome rteneri our hearts for the rest of the year, nnd we realized the Ivulh of the ntd song. If new friend.-; arc silver. Old friends are sold.A Fish StoryWe heard enough stork*, too, tokeep us laughing until next summer. “Old Pard ” a friend of many year.?, who Initiated us into the joys of fishing and hunting when wc wore young and foolish and unencumbered with family cares, was as rich in Jore a* ever, and hLs latest fish story was a wovr. The story has nothing to do with tha o^opo^o. lamed in Okanagan waters, and Old Pard Is a total abstainer. Up b* Cape Horn, on the Arrow Lake, lie has a cabin, and when he Is off duty on the C. P. rt. line he goes fishing. Tills day he had a minnow on his lioak and was fishing for trout from l:Ls rowboat, which is equipped with an on bboard motor. Suddenly he gob a bite, and saw that he had a four-pound trout. Seeing It was not getting it, however. The line went out steadily, and then It slackened. He reeled in furiously, then the trout darted off again. Ho let the line go and then It acted queer. He began to reel in steadily anrt felt a foggy pull, no play whatever. He reeled in end in, then saw ?.t the boatside, so near that he put his hand on its gllle, the biggest fish he had ever seen in those waters. Out of its mouth stuck the tall of his four pound tttru!* and the big fish’s tall stuck out beyond the end -of the bo»t. Before he lmd re covered from Ills a m Me men t the fish had started cut and lb kept on going, snapping the line as though it were thread. When he told about it ho said the h*g fish was Six feet long slid his listeners laughed. Hlt;? showed on his boat where his hand had been, on the fish's gills, and they measured that It was over nine feet, and they howled. The 3tory grew. The ml WWW was swallowed by a four-pound trout. These two In turn .were swallowed by a fish nJpe feet long. Then a whale cam© and swallowed th© thre© layers of flsh—but here Old Pard cnil a halt. The telegraph operators all Ground know the story, and while we. were there Old Pa:d was sitting in his cabin when the telegraph Instrument began to tick. It meant nothing to his visitor*, but he began to laugh. As he listened he laughed harder, and could scarcely hear his wife asking, Well, wh*t am you laughing at? Nnkusp was on the Unrc asking “How's fishing up there?” Then Nelson chipped in. than Rcvelstoke, and Half a dc-zcn were lagging him About his “elastic” fish, stretching It bigger and bigger, bub his Wife was so “mad” that when he could .speak 5he would nob listen io him.-Several years ago a £ burgeon war.caught near there on a small Hue from a boat, and the fisherman, knowing that he cotzld not land it, and that a sturgeon did not play the tone, but could be lod steadily like a horse it nothin? got It excited, drew it along gentlv to shallow water where he shot It In tlie head. According lo the description Old Pard gave of his fishwit-1kind-hearted fishermen say lb was asturgeon.Old Paru was toiling us of the delights of his cabin, ten miles from a human habitation.len't It lonesome?’* wo asked him. “Not a bit of It/* he answered. “J wish it A’ere twenty miles away from a house*. I Lome in and set up iuy (clcgruifii Instrument, there’s the tele-pliono on the wall, there's my bed and;uy stover, a tattoo, a chair and dishes, and every tiling's lovely. Awhile ago a female cougar was trapped near by and tliB I rapper brought her Into my cabin lo skin. Her mat© tracked her and that nigh I when I cam© In the male consnr was standing on the mountain-sidn a hundred feet behind (ha cabin cryln/ Ho kept It up steadily a ml I wont out. Tim moon was j 1 shin In' aliovo the Jake, the pine* rcach-ed up all around me and a spring, rippled down beside the door—and il was like heaven, And there was that old cousrar cry In’ for ilia mate. I Icoked toward him and I said. 'Keep It up. old fellow—keep it tip. This la the life—this U Hi© JlfcY Then I \vet»i in and wenL to bed and his screamin' p.il mo off fo sleep.”Then tliore's th© fishin',” be eaW as his eyes gleamed.Fishing—yes. Even little brook trout give us moments. Pushing through brush, devils club and bracken, IkingSng to saplings, crossing over logs tumbling down over atones and naii Mile mosquitoes — shuck si What iloo3 5t matter when you go homo with your bag full of toothsome brook Iron I?Kootenay and Prairie PricesAn interest in? feature to m© was lie comparison of Kootenay prices wiih prairie prices. At Siocau City unt onco had eggs dropped beioyv tlilrly cents at the atores. The raucU-ur:i recelveil 25 cents from the mer chants anil the latter retailed for 30. finl. frleurU who kept chickens stated that they had to pay two dollars a sack for wheat, and owls wore carrying off all th© young fowls. So the ogg I'roposlliDn 1bcre is very dlfreren' from the prairie cowl Mod, where the upkeep of hon3 Is very small. The Saskatchewan school-teachers we me-L la Creslon said they bad been using esrgs all spring at five cents per dozen and at that the farmers lost no money. Dairy butter at New . Denver; was 45 cents a pound, and bread ft straight tea cants a loaf. Flour was quoted prnnnU $-I. HO par hit nd rod, and at XcIpou. th© last week of July, old potatoes were sold in one of the stores for SI.55 a sack. Living throughout. Is much higher than on the prairie—with the exception of fruit. Raspberries were bought fresh from the canes for len cents per pound, and Lambert cherries came nine pounds for a dollar.The trip up th© new road to Silver-Ion and New Denver was as thrilling as anr stretch along the highway, and nne tanked nver t.his sama IiIub lake as of yore, only the lake Is quiet and lone same now without tho whitt breasted Rteamers plying back and !orth. Across on the west sin© the same old mountains looked solemnly if own, a ud nearing Sllvcrton we spied ihe bam and haystack in the Valhalla range. Across from New Denver the glacier still lay in Its saddlo-bnck era ill©, a ud over the town reared Goat Rtifl Silver mountains a ml Old Baldy, watching over tho little people in Uie l roLty I own at their base. Sinco wo left r.Ix years ago the grim reaper has been htisy liorc. nnd many dearly, renicniiiorerf faces we missed from the gathering In Knox church Sunday night.A Mmer’© ComplaintDuring the week I had a talk with mining ni3n. . .“The steady price for lead In NewYork now,” he *aid, “is $4.40 pw hundred pounds. i3ut don’t think for a rnlnutc that I ho miner gets Hint. For owo J) nnd red pounds the smeller at Trail charges i'\0 cents a pound; Cor re-scto In;:, per ton. Freightfrom Nuw Denver. SamJim and Slucau, any place within ;l radius of 45 miles, la $3.r.U )u r lyii Treatinent is per ion. If the ore carries too much sulphur 11K! .lt;iiichor vbarges $1.0u for roasting. Then the JVi’il smoker pa vs for only 9U per lt;cut. r f lead, clnimiu? leu per cent. Is v.asted hi smoke. Wc i\:\n fic-ud lo Swansea, Wales, or Mail-cheater, JOiijskiud, fuc tho same cotlt;\ C trail s- par La lion ft.ud smelt i tig, and they give l ho miner lt;• very thing thathi Ln th© ore, poyirg as well for th© by-product*, v.1 Iikdi ’J rail dons not-rciglit to Va.’K'ouvi-r, long lt;lk taiico irfi,;. i* iuo .-t-.fiic to Trail, and ships leaving Uio ro.-iU lor Ejigland and N'nlni the ore lt»r ballasl. so il goes 1 lie re frc*1, hut you have to wail a tang time fur your ref urns. Zinc:'G 1!S •».o1 ■. -. Jbut Hie £ii!-.'i for zinc. Y«*-The gvHC'in]JrUl.'lJT'I. 'i’ll,, i J.JS lo go dow.s ten iei’,1 r, for cvcj ore Jmj thh'S troui liiiLu!L'cCu nf tonsiug j.u- prices to 11:L o to pay $kUUa nd Zinclead are ui is only $.1.:xcd In this district, ft per hundred pounds! i or:. u;iii .'■ i:i i n.:. 1*101'I I * I Oil:.n© c d’uo i a n; 1. down, ai : Th^hen AllPi:r.ouly 03 per ne'M, 3ii')ii i-y by £hi(pii)fS-i:; tl?!1 Ci!llln ft cans tli-.t lli--.- miner i !ii“ own pocV.cL for ■•.unJru-J poll ids of.i■ :©. LciCrds haveoi '.--.o p:led up wait-i i: . . bs/tuo leaf.ci’K a lo.. l' t haii’.ia^ oro iraiii. : icur. ^ iiose ug way Ii::;# Lie uio'jn* pay JliLCo. Tn© Mam-iv inllhj and '.runswa bymay cako yrzrs. but 111 Ul-oto ria©.” a year, 5C if it ift loo back (fitfMcr u frloI !'0 j 1«, iave 1 o uito nc ’ ;i qua.-‘i in1 .1 aa form :■] l.i-au lt;iu d*.*' olup'I'll-.! lull I lt;? i-j»l'ilive:*!on, nevvv :o nr© | rlt;h;i!tov live mi ui* in mil'.:; ar.d iram • i-i Fkv.iii —inujic-y'a dralx me na milk iu bciui-. turned ft wheel 'ito. a tLun .f.ej of i nonl, ihcti idoactl1 ;e. the uc“‘ uilUi turn r. wheel. | IItan dollar.* ways right alt tied upT:ii; j.rouji i».pai-.y. and wr.s du©nmtniso11 sold his ^liare 1n nr.no to an Aiinraa:i rom-:ii* last pay:u©ur of $in,Dtift lion 1!ia bn lie ill fell out cftlifl Jiidiktl“ We’re vra he told me. “Ii may tako (weriy lo-iig, of course properly/'No wonder tlitags ar© quleL that fto j ii ills aro i,inn nip. I ;ia t steamer# avo iftVen off Hi© lake.When will prices ri.«:e? There is no .Hiswor.A thin haze of 5 me Is e began, to sift into th© iiioiin:£iL.fi Fires wer© re* purled in EiULn.’. liicn In Mir.derm©re, ;lion in the LroWa and we beganlu grow apprclK’Lisjv?. The fires grevr wnrsc. The sniuko grew worse. Won hi wo ho able to j:ot tbrougti? WKU re-gic-t wo left our Jlno Li 111© spring and our good friends aod s-Urtsd ihe trek j’.ito Nekui*. where wc Intended ulay-jin: at. 1 he ramp for a few dayn pond' In?: lt;!»'Velc!|i:iieii|5,AC Si Mill i Wiula^r th© Doukhobrr nutsarKe h^gau agniu, but instead o* leads of h?.y wc net emp'y i taku, wlrto and la1*Jlun, on ibn road.(To Be Cc:iH?idrci Next Week German Expert's View OfRussian Five Year Plan(By Fhirop©£n Correspoudent ofTho Glasgow Herald)I hopo I will bo forgiven if, In this arliclc, I uso for lt;dcg Berlin, and not Moscow, ae my principal source of information. But. Professor Auhagon, who del ice red a two-hour lecture on th© Five-Year Plan before th© Soclelj’ of World Economics” in Berlin the other day, is perhaps the greatest German authority on Soviet Russia; and even if his views are not necessarily quit© conclusive, they are, none (bo less, highly valuable* and suggestive.Professor Aihagen knew Russia both before aolt;l jdnce th© Revolution, and was for several years the Economic Counsellor of th© German Embassy in. Soviet Moscow. When the Five-Year Plan was first started two ond a half years ago, he was on© of the firoc. to dec taro that the plan should not be underestimated, and he was even accused of being unduly optimistic. If worked properly, he he-1 loved, clie plan might bo very effective; hut now, without wishing to be unduly pesstmjp.tlc, hn lias com© to the conclusion I hat the plan Ib not being properly worked, nnd that tho Immense energy which Russia has been spending on it is, to a very large extent, being simply wasted.Low Standard of LivingThera was, Professor Auhagen aa'd, a very substantial increase In Russia Industrial production during tlia’past two years. Sfveraj very large works nod factories had been built and equipped with the most up-to-date ma-chin cry. But what was tho good if qIE this Industry was of no ben*'fit to I ho Russian people themselves, if H had no economic purpose, but only a poll Ileal purpose, and if I ho Russians cl hi not know how lo rim ft? That the people were deriving no benefits from this industry could be seen from theirpitifully low standard of living—more than ever trc.ro tho people lacking tho barest Jiccess-illes of housing, food and clnlhing. Many of those new industries- wcro quit©pointless and umieces-rary. Herr Anhagcu quoted, among other th ing a, th© case of th© Mag ui-ior.=k iron foundries in th© Urn I Mountains, which, • accordiug to Hi© plan, were to produce four million tons of lion a year. A whole cily had been built round tbes© foundries—yot theircoal supply r away, in Lli© nel* Basin of Aukagcu raid,ns nearly 2000 mile© nc*v]y dev© to peri Kiu-Slher'a. It was Herr as If you had built a factory Iji 1 full over, and had hi brlns I ho coal fiuni Const an lino pie. To run such works oil an economic basla was 1m possible.L?ck of Qualified Labor Yet wllh al! this rationalisation and ntandardfcaltaa of th© means of production. too productivity of the labor itself was uat increasing, and the quality of th© goods was ovhemelypooT. This was duo to two fadore. First* practically nobody was personally Interested in tho iuccees of 111© work. Th© engineers were terror-Jzeil, ar.«! qnito imaltoo lo Impos© any kind of disclpliti© oh the workers. Secondly, the generation of pre-war ojiRtr.ccra was rnphlly disappearing, and ille Etanriaril of tho Soviet-trained engineers was decidedly lower. The numlic-r of foreign enEtnoers whom tho Savior, government bad Imported was quit© Inadequate. To be carried outeffectively, the plau would need not 10,■Ot'O hut perhaps 100,000 foreign engineers, .to or was I lie supply of highly qua lifted workmen by any rnrana 6'.ifficEent—a tact whtati was quite inevitable 1n an Industry which was nnf evolving noraRlly, but was being bulll up artificially, at a mo-men's notice.Wasting Expensive Machinery 11 ia, indeed, a xvell-hiiowi: tant— and Frofcssor Auhageu Is not '.he only one lo icier lo it—tfial tho very complicated modern innehiuory which the Soviet Govormneut has iDstalleil In lie FIve-Ycar-l’lnn facta rles Is suffer log serious- damage at th© lianrtn of Inez-porieunoil workors, A striking ©x-ampl© of I libs is the famous Tractor-stroy at Htulingrar?, vrlikli lias provod on? of th© iiitterc-sL dlsnppoliitincnls of the Morlct Ciovermnent. Much or Lho mod©i n mncUlncry tlieio has been sjvatlori by carelosR h nodi lug, and th© on: put of Die Trod or.-troy—which wan ex noolerl 1a rcvolulioni/i© Russlftu ngi'i (-ui; nrc— hns lie? only he cm ridiculously law, line, about half the Irac-lora turned out aro practically use* less. Tho Hovlot papers are taming with rag© ovux ii—lr.it It docs not scent in ma fin any difference.Reccnrly 1 also saw ft typical report on an artificial tilk. factory which hadVision of Tea Cup Seeress Results Big Gold FindWoman of North Ontario.Has Amazing Powers of Delving Into Future—'’On a Big Island(SuwJai to Herald. Copyright, 1931)NORTH BAY.—How Hurt Martin, discoverer of lho gold strike on McKenzie Island in Red Lake, must ha’e been thrilled two year?, ago as be listened to Hie ihcn fa.utar.tta prophecy of MVS. Wm. Ayres, fortune-tellerHintto meko a very rich find! mind ota tlio prospectorseed as nhe calmly told of Hi a I be waa so on toho was Eoon How til© must have t uufomid rSchcfluncover—Gold!Mrs. Ayroa, ‘TnrUifio IgIIct” sat peering into a lea cup In Her humble- dv.cU-Ing about five miles from th© CaRnu-dcr-Powiissnn lispliway. Across the tabic from her- HarL Martin, prospector tensely listened \o lie-r every word as slowly out or I bo few damp leaves clinging to tho aides of tho cup, she told of success ftud furtuuo.Hart Marlin lived lo realize lto* dreams. IT© nuid© his find on the Me-Konzlo Island In Red Lake. Hut he did not live to kuow th© spcclaculsiT result a thnt f-ot the raining market agog a few weeks ngo.Samples. Assay High The two syndicates, tho McNeoJy, Red Lake holdinga atid the Martin McNooly, that optioned th© McKenzie Island claim Inked by Tlarl Marl In two years ago, have ft contained capitalization of 23.GCO.OOO. The original capitalization was $10iA'00*Samples n stayed at Lho Con arum Mine* assay office In Tim ml in by John Redding ton In 1H23 sbowed gold a3 ItofcSi us $ I.Tflfl CO Co tlm ton..Anil that was fh© find prodictetl by Mrs. Ayres. On lho day Unit Hart Martin visited Uio home of Mrs. Ayres h© was ftccoruiumioil by James Mo* Cluskey of North Bay, one of the promote™ in lho McNeely, Red Lake holdings,Mr, Marita was working cm group No. 2 of tho Me Needy linId lugs across from the McKenzie Island at lb© timo. hlr. MeChisky related. II© had cotno Into North Hay Cor a few clays, On© afternoon u© call or) me on ib© tc)©-plion© and nskccl if 1 could drive him down th© Callander Road. He rayq up reason far th* requoBl, but I sotTHE TEA-CUP SEERESS AND HE ft HOME«Into my car and went down io get him, When wo get to Callander, ho loltl tub lo keep on going. Ho never onco montioood whore ho wiuitorl ta go, but every four minutes ha would 'lt;m farther.” At last wc cam©aytoIn.a rid© road and h© told m© to turnMy curiosity by thin lima was bI-ii\rsl our of hounds, ro at last 1 askerl. “Wlicro tiic done© do von want to go? liven then lie would ml vane© 11a Information as (o where ho wanted to go. At last wo came lo this ptaco an th© road and be told m© lo stop. Then ho In Id mo that lie had com© to got Ills for I lino told.” sUttered Startling Words “You nrc n prospector, Mir-. Arcs told Mr. Mar l In A “You are working on some claims.” Kho pun.-cut for ft few hi inand then t-lm uH'.Ti'd iiniiizins WCTds.BtYou arc ike, butgoing tonot whoremake ft you arerichWOXJt-tag—It'fi on a Mg Island. Right across from where you aro working. There's a big troo near water. You will make your Find, near there.Mr. Mar I In went to McKcuzl© I?.-bind. On© month later following lie* instructions he had made his find.Predict© Finding of CodyMrs, Ayres, a small, thin, Knglish woman of 40 years has foretold many amazing Ihingu. She hftfi been diiect-]y responsible for tlm recovery of three drowned bodies.On© body was recover erf In French Rlvar nnd two others in southern On-tnrlo on lier Inatruclions, Th© repcrl-•or was riinwn a letter from the father of tllt;o buy whose body was found iu southern Ontario. H© wan drowned near a dam. Tiic dam had been closed ftTid for eight days 500 men had work-id try big U) local© him. Tho father fin ally went lo her. She told lhat an tlm sovomli day from Uicii Uio hry would bo i©covered In t .marsh, Bhosaid that he had been drowned with a.shovel lu hi4 hands, that one log would be haro— that olio leg of hh I rouse ra bail boon tnru off at. tlm knee;1 b.aI ho wn*. wearing a raincoat and 1 hat he would bo found covered wilh mini. Tho boy was found exactly as film predicted.She cout.]j/t remember Mr. Martin over having been there. That ho had miulo A sens^MoPal discovery ou her inrlLiictions did not exclto her in the least. ■- Nolghbon Keep Her Busy “Oh, 1 tell s lot ©t pooplo that they will in© lucky, hut that Ib all lho good it ifoeft mo. fh© stated. “Sometime*; I hay plvn mo fifty cents or a quarter. Sninetlmca it's clothing or food. Any-Ibiog Is acceptable.”“Dili zoii ever liavo your fortune lold? kIjh was Aftkcd. “JorT once, In Iffigland, bnforc f cam© out here. I paid her }'i. a till ?h© told mo that J waft gxiing; lo bo married throe timee.but 1 hnvu't round the other two yet. How old are you, Mrs. Ayres?” Forty, but I don’t look it, eh?” Three years ago, Mi's. M-'res started tailing fortunes amongst tho few neigh-hors a ml frlomls near her home. They worn ro nstoutalieil that tha Rtory of her ability roon ?-preotl throughout the country,Her iihilliy had become fta widely known that now slm Is often kept busy from oatly in tho mauling till 1ftte al nifflil. To hikv© 1G cais ftround rim 3*aril at one© £s kd jiovcJIy, Often they are tamed away. J can’t get (ho washing or anything e3e-i done, ab© f^id.on I riilo of hor fortune is Uko ail women, it de-sli© w is asked to poseAyr©'MrslefJijg puvsccHv©lops,7, when for ft pholn.“Oh, f inn’l lik© llils. I llha vo niy p lo lure (a ken hav© to chnngo mylircs?. 1Dcvor take gcod picturebeeo built Al groat expense In th.* uolghborhood of Leuingitad, but vblcii had to b© closed down Bt itoe pnd cC oigbt or nlna months as the machinery because coniplelely ruined-Under cucb management thrr p;r* centage of defective gocda lumod out by the Soviet faclories Is extremely blgh. Th© effects of the *am k!n«l oT inismaiiagemcnl aro n1so being felt, on th© raliwayB, where, accord lug ta official statistics, 14,000 ncclderils and lircakdowna wero registered in tb© Iftet six months of 1930.Lazy Agriculture No more sail s-f a clary, cccordlng to Herr Auhagen. Is lh© state ^/affairs on lho “afirrlcullurflj Although the Eovleta referred to Jst year’s harvest fia a “record burvest,’* the home consumption nnd the exports of Rurian era hi before the war wore1 considerably higher than now. Even on a famous grab) fac lory like £h© Glgaiit/' where the most up-to-datn methods ar© used and which Is n I ways being demon fir .led lu foreign vini-tors, Herr Auiiagen found that th© yield per acre wan tare© or four tlmea smaller than cm elmllar agricultural undertakiiififi !n Prussia. Financially, theroforc, (lies© Slnlc grata factories are a complata fiasco.Th© chief cause of It all, Herr Aubageu contended, wb tho com plot© lack of peronal talerest and personal enterprise amoug :?ie workers, Moreover, tho peasantry, which had heeu forced Into the collective farms, wer© boiling with discorlnt. Bad tbis found expression not only ia thBir completn carelessness about Ihelr work but also ta Ibelr tendency lo wreck ami sabotage the official plans. Tho deliberate wreckiug of nmciifncry Is not only a widely observed phenomenon etnong the ludUBlrial porkera but al?o among Hi© peasante. Under th© proseuL dictatorial Djftem secret Bahotage la th© only moans of prolosMng ftgatast Ih© policy of Ihn Soviet Government, and ita frequency h all illn more significant of lho frarriQf^flf mind In which tho Russians ?*ro working ta-dny.This doep auto unlveraal dtacLGtent of (he Russian people is tho keynote of Herr Aubasc-n’i report. The Stalin TegiL.c, he concludes. Is of no benefit to Russia, and Lite Russian people will merely con I in u© to TOgotat© 1n a Btfll© of complete inertia. For ftV though th© ovorwb©luiltig majority of the people ar© discontented, the military organIzalinn of lho regime Is too strong to make any change possible. Th© clifinees of the Communist Parly changing Its policy ar© vory taint, and tho general Ofitalcn in Russia ia that war alone cs.a bring about a rad lost chang.-. This conclusion, curiously enough, coincides exactly with what w© said Ihe oflior day about the extraordinary pppiiforily of the Red Array In Russia.Excopt that Professor Aphagen seems ta over In ole tho very strong Sb-f1 iit* %e of Soviet, propcg2,r.da—vth*ehoftan nmminlfi fo grass [tattery—on th© minds of 111© young generation of workmen, hly genera! conclusion about tlio “discontont of lho overwhelm tag majority of the Rnsstau people—and by this be means, !n the first piace. tli© peasantry—is undoubtedly accurate.Sidelight on Forced Labcr” While tafktagr of ilia peasantry, I cannot help referring to a very remarkable plan elaborated In the Moscow Economic Review” by Larin, one of the (earl tag Communist agrarian p. After explaining Ihat tho coliectlv© forms are only a- Iraimltfaaal form of agriculture, and that they will evonlu* ally be supplanted by reRl Socialist farms, completely free of “private* ownership . Lendonebo proceeds to show bow tbls rnlracW can bo achiovcd. ft H largely, he say a, a psychological problem, and the solution lies la the “ararllcfttlon of the kulak psychology”—Rm desire for private enterprise—and in th© ■'reeducation of (lie unreliable peasants.The kulaks and “ftub-kulaks,” according lo liis plnn, must be informed and re-educated, and ho proposes to do this, first, by confiscating all Ihelr property, and then by BUbJectlng them to what ho calls a “period of probation.” Thla will consist in sending them to the limber camps Id th© North, where by long and Alrenuoua work thoy will do ill lowed to earn forgiveness.“ After that they will b© allowed to sotilo—without any property of their own—la tho ideal Socialist communes. lie places the number of kulaks to ho ”relt;iducntcd on these linos at fi.OOO.OOD—and to these must presumably he added an equal or larger number of sub-kulaka.''The scheme ^eeras fantastic ©Dough ut first slfibl, bu: In reality it corresponds more closely to the present state of nftalrR than Is officially admitted, Larlu's plan is, after all, lit tin mors than, a theoretical exposition Of what Is practically Uktag pi see toordinary llf©.(Continued on F*8e Four.),
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