day ‘Visceunt_lshii, head of the Japanese
delegation’atthe peace
conferenge,
said.*
it was
the‘poignant regret of the
Japa-
nese
Governmept-and
people,
that
the
f.“*‘"&(s*?f‘.
the icovenant
_were \Unable-to
1
acedpt
the Japapese
proposal
that equati-
'+
ty before the law should be assured
to all
men, irrespective
of
their
natiomality,
race or religion.
The Japanese
delegates
- g
declared
they would
continue
their insis-
tence for the adoption
of their just-de-
:mapd by ‘the league.
« In view,
however,
Jf Present circumstances,
Japanisstrong-
ly.pérsuaded
that.the-
League
is as yet in
‘a.stage when the consolidation
of its
or-
gapization
should
be accorded
greater
attention
than
questions
that might
in-
vofgea revision of the covenant.
=
.
-
.Ottawa,
Nov.
30th.—Action-
by~ the
Government
to
restrict
immigration
of-
--certain
classes,
in order
to alleviate
the
-
~condition of .unemployment
now:, prevail-
‘ing invarious parts of the dominion,
was
taken by the passage
of anorder in coun-
eil-today raising
the
money
test of
im-
|
‘migration ofthe
mechanice,
artisan
or ia-
|
"podrer classes
from SSO
to $250.
The new
order. provides
for the suspension
of
pa-
zagraphs
1 to3
of the former
order
in
|
eouneil applicable
to these
classes
of im-
|
migrants
and the substitution
of 4 other
‘paragraphs.
The first provides that
“‘no
immigrant of the’' mechanic,
artisan,
or
|
labourer
classes,
whether
skilled
or
un-
-
skil.ed, shall be alloxed
to land in Cana
|
da
unless he
possess,
-in
his
own right
i
money
to the amouut
of$2560 and in
ad-
dition transportation
to his destination,
in
Canada.’’
The second paragraph
provides
that ifan immigrant belonging to the class: ™
es named and is accompanied
by hisfamily
he must possess
1n addition
to transporta-
-
tion.
for the
members
of the family.to |
their. destination
a further sum ‘equiva-
lent
to $125
for every member aged
18
;
years and upward
and SSO
for each child
*
|
of b years @and under 18years.
- The new
|
regilations
come into: effect
along
the
international
boundary
onthe
16th
De-
cember
next
-and
at ocean
points
on
January
Ist.
They do not'apply
toother
.
|
élasses
of immigrants
than those -peci-.
firgllyset forth, nor
tourists, travellers.
of/ ‘returning-Canadians.
The. order |
stgtes
in opening ‘that -a considerable
amount
of
unemployment
prevails
in
parts of Oanada
and that the prospects -
for employment
are not likely to improve
during the next few mongns.
T
§L
e
S
1800 RED CRQSS
MEMBERS IN SAN
@o
g
i
10 CRRTANN
£
Aii
sy
Campaign
for Membership and’
1
Funds
Continuing Lhrough-
£
S
out the Island-
‘
1
Upwards
of- I‘,lo@‘.:—'msmbershigjs‘
bad
been ‘registered
in San
Juan at'the
Red
=
Cross
' headguartérs
up to yesterday
as-a
result ‘of the
drive,
:which
started-
throughout
the i'laad this week.
P
ROGEL
A VIS
{..
Jp te yesterday
there
had
been Do.
| frétyrns from the garious ‘towns. of“the
~
“isla’ d, where
intepsive efforts dre being
made
to -enroll as
“nany people
as possi-
‘,‘;g‘,e\as
members.
for “the coming
Red
=¥
Cross
year,. for which
'ambitious
plans
.
for charitable
and ge<ial work are being
;
‘San Juan
has béen considerably
bright--
‘ened
throughout
che?veek
by,the
pres-
.
ence of a numberof young
ladies,
dress-
ed
in Red Cross
unifornf;Bnd who have
combed
the town
forsubscriptions
-and
.nembers hips.
'
-
;
At
the
entrance
tc
the
Post
Office
~ building
there
was
established
a receiv--
|
ing table, presided
over by various
ladies
|
-
from San Juan, and
scarcely
a
man
ob-
-taned his ‘mail this week
without being
{
~reminded ofhis'obligation
to renew
his
{
<membership
in~the Red
Cross —and
no
man:became
exempt from this
teminder’
7. unti¥fe could—and
'did~wear
the
little
bottons which released
him from further:
impertanjties;
:
:
,
The
office and
stores
throughout
the
city
were
- gimilarly
invaded
by
the
bright eyed workers
tor
the
Red
Cross
|
and it
is expected
that
by
the
time
|
the drive is through .and
all
the returns
. made
to
Headquarters
that
San
Juan
~
'will haveat least filled ' its
quota.
‘
_ Similar drives
have
been
prcceeding
|
throughout
the
island
and
it
is
safe
|
to say that thousands
of
new
member-
|
ships have been
recorded
in
every-
dis-
;,
“trict.
Porto
Rico
Progress,
Nov.
19th.
I 8 USE.
OF. ELECTRICITY IN DYE-
Bn
ING CLOTH.
‘
Among
the tasks
imposed
‘upon
that
!
" busy servant
of man, electricity,
is
the
|
aeting
as an assistanf-in
the operation of
|
dyeing.
When.
cloth
soaked
in -aniline
| “sujphaté
is placed
between
two
metal
' “’plates connected
with the
opposite
ends.
'
of
a
dynamo
and an electric
current.
is
.
-passed
through it
the
sulphate .1s
con-
. .verted
into
aniline black.
By altering
| *the
strength
of the solution and the
cur
f'
rent
shades
varying from
green
to
pure
| black can
be obtained.
. In the
case
of in-
"
digo the cloth is impregnated
with paste
f
.of indigo
blue
and
caustic
alkali.
The
1
electric
current
converts
the
. insoluble
.
'
indigo blue, by reduction of-oxygen, into
1'
indigo white, which is soluble, and ogf
be~
|
ingexposel
to
the “air becomes
oxi ized
f
onee
more
and
turns
blue,
thus
thor-
i~ “oughly dyeing
the cloth
with that
color,
.
—lbid.
X
b
!
‘RADIO CONTROLS WAR ENGINES
|
~-C.
8.
Price,
a
British
engineer,
has
|
produced
an
aeriai
torpe © which
it s
| - claimed,
canbe
controlled
and
maneu-
|
- vered thousands
of
miles away by wire-
|
less Impulses.
it
was intended primari-
ly ior
war
purposes
and
was hused
1o
'
some
extent
for bombing
the
Germans
in the late
war,
being
known
to them
as
the
‘‘devil’s airship.””
The
torpedo
can
travei
from
175 to 200
miles
per
hour.
It
is.also capable of taking aerial
photo-
graphs.
when desired
in time of war.
A
recent
improvement,
the
inventor
de-
clares,
will instantly
record
the
effects
of
the
bombs
dropped
even
when
the
machine
is
thousandsof miles
distant
from the operating
base.
=
The
torpedo,
it is said,. can
be
put to
a
number
of
peace-time
uses,
includ.ng
carrying
mail,
exploration,
observation
ete.
No
crew
is
carried
‘and
none
is
needed
as
the
craft can
be guided and
controlled
for
thousanas
of
miles
from
any properly equipped
wireless
station.
The U.
S.
navy
a short
time ago
com
pleced
experiments
which
showed
that
big battleships
can be successfully
oper-
ated by
wireless
from land stations
four
or
five
miles
distant.
The
apparatus
used
is
so
desigred
that
the
radio
im-
pulses
act directly
on the ship’s steering
gear.
Naval
authorities
prediet;
that
the
invention
will
.revolutionize
sea
fighting.
The recent
tests,
they declare,
prove
that
crewless
ships,
loaded
with.
high
explosives
or
burning materials,
can
be directed unerringly against
enemy
fleets.
(Gl
Working
along
similar
lines the
Ger-
man
navy developed
apparatus
for
the
control
of fire shirs
and ships
carrying
explosives.
In ‘the world war they-
suc-
ceeded
on one occasion'in. steering
a
crewless
300-tor ship
loaded with
dynra-
mite
against
a
British
squadron
off
Zeebrugge.
The radio contral apparatus’
developed
by the
American
navy,
how-?*
ever,
is considerably
more effective -than
theirs.
—The Pathfinder,
Nov. 20th.
-
SILICATES TO DE: OPULATE
:
EARTH?
'
A- scientist
has
flgured
that
all
or-
ganic life wili disappear
from the
earth
some
200,000
years
‘hence.
The
prin-’
cipal cause
of
this
catastrophe,
bhe
ex-
plains,
will
be
inhe
absorption
of
car-
bonic acid
gas
from
the
atmosphere
by
°
the
silicates,.
(ther
scientists
pooh-
pooh ' the
idea; let
us
hope -they
are
right.
Anyway,
200,000
years
is a long,
°
long time.—lbid.
THE TOMATO
-OR
‘' LOVE APPLE.’]
For
a
long.times
after Shi&gmmu
was
introduced.
to Ahé “werldby explorers
from
Peru it
was
regaraed
as
poison-
ous.
it
was
cultivated
in- gardens
on
ly
for
ornamental
purposes
and
was
-
known
as the
“‘love apple’’ or
‘‘Jerusa-
lem apple.””
A
réddder
of the Pathfinder
at
Griswoid,
iowa,
writes
that
his
father
used
tomaives
as
food
as
early
as
1856.
In
a
few
instances
‘the fruit
was eaten
prior
to
that
date
but
it did
not '‘eome
Into
general
use until
about
1870. —lhd.
;