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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 02, 1936
Page
7
A Toronto editor urges a return to the old system of morality to save democracy. He warns that democracy’s core freedoms fade if public virtue wanes and argues thrift, reverence for authority, and self-control strengthened by Victorian ethics would bolster a fragile nation.
Parliament will be asked at the coming session to endorse a wide national reconstruction policy. The proposal, sponsored by Thomas L. Church, aims to build homes, clear slums, settle land, and reforest with low interest loans and a youth employment focus. It also seeks lower loan rates and protections for industrial workers.
Settlers around Diver station north of North Bay grow jittery as temblors from the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railway continue. F E Saims, spokesman for Diver area, calls for federal investigation after shocks since May including a November 1 quake near Diver, with 15 to 20 tremors in a day and cabins seeming to rise with the quakes.
Sir Robert Falconer, president of the League of Nations Society in Canada, told the Border Cities branch in Windsor Ontario that Canada must support the British Commonwealth and the League of Nations for its own future advantage.
Greenland is cited as the sole global source for the mineral crucial to aluminum production. The claim emphasizes its unique abundance, highlighting its strategic importance to the industry and potential economic impact.
Premier Angus L. Macdonald forms a nine member economic council with Dr A S MacKenzie as chairman. Members include Dr A B Balcom representing education, F W Gray for mining, G Hawkins for lumber, Neil McAulay for labor, Dr Donald F Macdonald for fishing, O F MacKenzie for fishing, Frank Stanfield for manufacturing, and F Waldo Walsh for agriculture. The group will meet early next year and appoint a permanent secretary.
Canada’s Junkers JU-52 freighter, imported by Canadian Airways in 1932, will return to service after a Rolls Royce 900 horsepower motor replacement. The vast cabin will enable walking. initial flights were limited in northern Manitoba and the craft faced licensing issues. Plans call for prairie tent demonstrations before heavy freighting resumes.
Brig Gen E de Panet, president of the Montreal unemployed relief commission, urged Canadians adopt identification cards. He told the City Improvement League such a system would help register the unemployed, prevent impersonation at polling booths, and act as a nationwide prospecting tool.
A newlywed couple faced a shocking moment when a caterpillar caused a panic as the husband rushed to the kitchen after a scream. The wife expressed relief that he was there and imagined what might have happened if she had been alone. A brief aside notes car design trends.
Trajko Smiljkovitch, aged 131, died at Mala Krsna near Belgrade in Jugoslavia. He married 80 years and remained healthy. described as an excellent storyteller and keeper of memories. His widow survives, marked by strength. Nearby peasants mourn the loss and note his unfulfilled wish to ride in a motorcar. The Durban death of 108 year old Kranmschuad, an Indian market gardener who emigrated to Natal in 1874, is also reported.
Sir Philip Sassoon announced a new RAF research method to prevent ice on aeroplane wings. The discovery, being developed for safer flying in various weather, follows the Tatsfield Belgium airliner tragedy on December 10 in Kent where 11 people died, widely linked to wing ice buildup.
A fragmentary quip about earnings and a demand for quiet from an organ grinder is presented in a rough dialogue. The text contrasts money for grinding with a request to “shut up and go away” and closes with a general admonition not to fear anyone. The passage ends with a note that he had to sleep occasionally.
Ottawa board reviews National Construction Council of Canada report urging at least 2 096 new dwellings to house low wage earners and relief tenants. It notes 576 existing units may be demolished, 1 369 houses should be rehabilitated, and 5 625 families occupy 3 529 dwellings amid severe overcrowding.
The Toronto Star notes that out of over 100000 immunized since 1929, eight diphtheria victims last year included only one who had received a simple preventive toxoid. It asks if any other deadly disease is so curable by a basic preventive in fifty cases and hints at explainable circumstances for this fatal case.
About eighty percent of all adults are immune to infantile paralysis, according to estimates. The report notes broad immunity levels among adults based on prior exposure or vaccination, reflecting public health progress.
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