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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1936-01-30, Page 6”‘AEJF ZEALAND AVI AT RIX ARRIVES IN. ENGLAND" CANADA the ip Jean Eatten, 25-ycar-old Now Zealand aviatrix, who recently flew tho South Atlantic from Africa South America, l'a poured as she wr 3 greeted by the Mayor ©f Southampton, England, upon her arnv there, aboard the steamer, Asturias,' fvdWBjenny IjAkes.. „.'/ THE WORLD " AT LARGE WORLD SCOUTS The next world. jamboree for Scouts will be held in Holland 1937, says The London Times. It will ' be the fifth-gathering of its kind, the idea of bringing1 together the ’ boys "Of the world having. originated just after the Great War, when it was . put forward as*a gesture of thanks-? giving for peace. Tie first, meeting .took place at ( Olympia in 1920, and it was^then de* cided to hold a similar gathering ev- ■ ery four years. The second' jamboree , was held in Copenhagen in' 19:2.4, the third at Arrowe. Park, Birkenhead in 1929, to. celebrate the twenty-first birthday of the -movement, and “the fourth at GodoIIo, in Hungary, in. 1933. ’ An official of the Boy Scouts As- aocintion at the Imperial Headquar- Xtes in London said- that the exact location of the Holland jamboree had hot yet been indicated, . .but a tele­ gram had been received from Admir­ al J. J. Rambonnet, the Chief Scout of Holland,. saying he was now as­ sured 'of the support of the Dutch government and other’ authorities/—- Windsor Star. KEEP AN EYE ON THE GOLDEYE Approaching' Winnipeg, - there- is no more popular item on the dining car menu - than smoked goldeye. An order of goldeye for breakfast is one mark, of the experienced traveller. They cani sometimes be bought, of course in fish shops are far away as Ottawa, but Manitoba is the gold- eye’s. native province. It is the trea- sure-tro.ve of Manitoba lakes even more than salmon is of Saint John harbor or -cod of Gaspe, It is conse­ quently gather disturbing to hear from, Professor F. Neave Wat the commercial supplies of goldeye are being severely depleted. Nature could cope with the modest demands: of, Indian fishermen who first disr covered the art of smoking this fish of the prairie lakes, but it may be necessary to come to the aid • of na­ ture to maintain the supply of gbld- eye up to the growing commercial, demand. AUTO PERFORMANCE With the new. model automobiles now on display in Winnipeg, the re­ sults, of the recent tests in Philadel- . phia are timely. Six cars, from the low priced field were drive contin­ uously for 100,0.00 miles at an av­ erage rate of speed of -40 miles per ... _.They -were-^onlyi stopped^for .greas-^ scribed intervals, and for gas re­ fills. Nonrepairs br adjustments were made nor were valves ground or the carbon removed during the tests. Tires, however, had to be. changed. . ; At the end of the 100,000 ■ miles the cars were still as shiny and as new looking, as when they had left their factories. They had stood up under the gruelling, roadwork" with- <nit noticeable deterioration; ot, at least, deterioration that could only be ^discovered from laboratory exam­ ination. . /This constitutes an undoubted tri-' uinph for modern motor engineer­ ing and mechanical construction J Four times around tho earth, or there­ abouts; that is what, the 100,000' tniles stands for! In the casting of nietals, in their fabribatiob/’intb'ma­ chines, man has become the wizard and magician in actual .fact. And the wonders of modern metallurgical science far. outshine the feats of the genii- of Arabian Nights’ Entertain- ^ment, — Winnipeg Free Pres?. DOG LICENSES . It is difficult to See much justifi­ cation for the-' system being suggest, ed'in some places and actually,in op­ eration,’of basing the amount Of dog license oh" the weight of the dog. Size is not the most important thing about a.dog. Some small canines'are " notoriously irritable and will snap and bite on slight provocation, while the larger animals, such as the col­ lies, spaniels, Newfoundlknds^ex- Cept police dogs—arewdll known for their amiability and ’popularity as pets for children. There is no sense (>r reason in this dog by the pound idea. — Niagara Falls Review. THES'eSvARRIORS tfHED IN BED A London newspaper has just made B list of important -personages who figured in the last war/who still ^urvive,"aTTd' 'ohe" of“throst-whro- dm not. There are few-Britishers left. They- ard, according ' to this newspaper, Lord (ih'war days Rear Admiral Sir David) Beatty,- who- is 64 years of age;'General Sir- Ian Hamilton, 82 Lord .Allenby, 75. -In France there is the comparatively,1 ..young Marshal ‘Petain, aged 59; and Marshal -Fran- chet-d'E’prej- 79; General Gouraud, CANADA, THE EMPIRE 68; and General Castelnau, 84. The oldest survivor is a German, General von Mackensen, 86; while von: Lu- dendbrff is nearly 80. Ip Britain among the dead are Earl Haig, Mr. Bon.hr Law, Lord Oxford, Lord Haldane, Lord Curzon, Lord Carsori, Admiral Fikher, Lord Jelli- coe? ’ Lord Birkenhead. Iii Germany, yon Tirpitz and. Hindenbui’gta.re pro­ minent casualties;--"France has lost Cleruenceau,' Poincare/ Joffre, Foche Lyautdy, Nivelle and Manzin. These are the leaders, many of them generals,, and they died, we be­ lieve without exception,'in bed. But one of things which, is often forgot­ ten is that a good" general .’should make a point, if possible, of dying in bed, for he happens to fulfill a more important-"function than that of the ordinary soldier and, if he started to dodge shrapnel in the 4 front of his lines, probably Jiis courage would re­ sult" in thousands of unnecessary deaths 'throdgh. his inefficiency. ■ — Hamilton Herald. EXAMINATION NEEDED For-some time past, The Mercury . has emphasized, and re-emphasized the necessity for some greater form of restriction of drivers’ licenses for motor vehicles. Under the present t system,, almost anyone who" can sliift gears and turn a wheel can receive" a permit.. The examination for li­ censes is hot stiff enough, and there- is nothing, in the nature of a physical test to determine the fitness , of an applicant for a license. —. Guelph Mercury. >■ • ■* PATHETIC SEQUEL ' A statement of the' Ontario Motor Vehicles Department. the other day revealed 41,983 persons, had been in­ jured in automobile accidents in On­ tario Tn the last five years and 2,495 dead. These^tatisfics/cold and mat­ ter, of fact, carry their, own moral. But there is. mote'. What about the irreparable grief brought to - bereav­ ed families, sometimes .left without support. At Pakenham (three were killed when-a car crashed a train.' They were survived by eight child­ ren. I.n Ottawa death came to Oscar Juneau, a prominent craftsman of the Royal Mint, when two cars’crash-, ed. Mr. Juneau is survived by his Wi­ dow and ten Children. The moral is the old moral which cannot be repeated too often in its application to modern traffic—that eternal vigilance is the price of safe­ ty.It is never _safe,lD^take_j;h.a.mc.e.3... to rely on the right of /way, . to as- *sume “that/’The" other’ Yellow both i lniowsr4h'e-^^l^»and^;5jrilh*©b’ey Thein. Journals——- - WHY CRIME GROWS Crime is increasing at such a fast rate in New York that the immediate appointment is recommended of 2,- 400 more policemen. The main trouble across the line consists of the fact th . atso many legal delays are possible after conviction and that the vast majority of those who do finally land in rjail. are speedily paroled. | Of convicted murderers only a very small . percentage ever reach the extreme penalty and the entire administration of justice has become a ghastly farce with open- perjury, securing . dismissal after “dismissal. The, Lindberghs are wise in their de-^ termination to. reside in England, where the law'is the law and there is no coddling of criminals. — The Brantford Expositor . ' / * .r ‘X •. **: ■ ■/;/■? ■ -x- if - ' f ; ■ ® Spinsters' Club Gives No Welcome ToA Leap Year SAN FRANCISCO. — The spin­ sters’: club 'gave leap year the razz last week — not the glad hand. " “Let the men do the proposing, if any,” was the consensus of’the club, an informal social organization, limited to. 100 members. “I don’t believe in leap year pro-, .posals,” said <^ne , emphatic young woman, “and F don’t intend to take ‘advantage’, of Women-s-/preo.gative- inl936.”„ Most of the members could not be reached at home shy telephone, the usual reply being,/jsh.e is 'at the'lof- fi.ee,- working.” They do 'marry, however, despite any antipathy toward making the; advanced. Last year 23 hew. mem­ bers were ■ admitted to take the places qf those who had marched altarward. " .' Very, few of the girls who founded the club in 1929. remain members. 'They preferred to write “Mrs.” in front of new names. The club of which Miss Evelyn- Salisb.uryrt is- president, doesn’t at­ tempt to get along wihout men. It sponsors a couple ’ of bachelors as escorts. Milwaukee. Aiderman ‘Has Found More Than * '230 Models" THE EMPIRE DRIVING TESTS Some variation ip the relative difficulty of. the,, driving tests in dif­ ferent areas was to be expected. The examinations . are conducted by a great many . different , individuals. ’ Each will have his own ideas of driv- ’ ing- efficiency. Each will “pass” or "fail,” his examinees in the .light of them.. But it ought to be the steady aim of the Ministry of Transport to* secure unifortfiity as rapidly as po3-; 3ibl« by examining its examiners? What the driving and the' non-driv-. ing public would like is some ,treas-1 surance by' the' Ministry that contin- uo'us efforts are being made to se-aquamarine or Milwaukee.—An aiderman with a desire to commemorate Milwaukee as the birthplace of The typewriter has gathered what he said today is the largest"col‘lectibn."'’o‘f7hlcl^Typewriters. COAST TO COAST. ■ His collecting hobby has taken. Carl P. Dietz from coast to coast, wi'thin a year and a half. He has ob-' ’ tained more than 230. different mod­ el sft of typewriter's,-most of them in -working'order. . * Aside from an "exhibit' at " the Nat-’ ional Museum on' Washington. D.G., and two small ones - in. , Germany, Dietz; said the Milwauke" public mu­ seum'collection.,, to which he contrib­ utes is the only one of importance. . Since C. Lathain Sholes and Carlos Glidden “invented the typewriter here in 1873, some 640 different kinds of machines, have been marketed. Dietz sais his ambitio'n is to- obtain as many of them as possible. “I guess I’ve. arranged for a life's work,” he. mused. ‘ Dietz feels that, most of his finds were “lucky.” Some were obtained on 'tips, others by- canvassing second hand stores-a‘nd typewriter concerns. In San Diego, Ca'lif., he spotted a TMuinbia’Thar "lock typewriter fh'~a" -sto-ue—windaw-. Lt-brought back mem­ ories of one-.just .like it he “tried out”, for his boss when .he .workedJn.. a law office "at 17/ A rare oTcT PuII^ man commercial he found in a store near the Tucson, Ariz,., railroad Sta­ tion.' MACHINE FOR BEER “When I passed' a typewriter shop or second hand ’ store thereafter, I always asked-to see their old! type­ writers,” Dietz said. In' a' Pittsburgh store, basement/ below a heap of discarded machines, the aiderman found a' Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first model manufactured by E. Remington .and Sons at Ilion, N.Y., in 1873. In Tex­ as he obtained a Bennett, the small­ est - niade for commercial use. in ex­ change for a barrel of Milwaukee beef. . 1U An Odell, in which the type bar and platen run sideways, was uncov; ered in Denver. From Grants, Pass, Ore., “he brought a Yetman transmn ting typewriter, a combination tele.- graph and typewriting machine used on the Great Northern Railway un­ til 1910; ,. ' In Knoxville; he found an original Corona,,the first folding typewriter. • Under a stairway of a basement shop in Philadelphia,, he, came upon ' the Peoples typewriter, -an early in-' dicator model machine in which the platen pressed against' the letters. Here's the darling of th“e -"-with casual comfortable waist’ .lines. It’s so universally women of/all types. Beige crepe,, so new and, Bmart, made the original. In black, grey, red, it’s also de­ cure that the local tests • approximate llghtful. Or make It of light-weight to a national standard; — London ivoolen In dark or gray bright Daily -Herald. mode . shirt, Film Biographies Planned fbr 1936 * U a DU UUIVCI DCUIJ practical, and so very becoming to' |j standard; — London woolen In dark ‘ or gray bright I. shade. I / Style N.o. 2990 is designed for | sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and I- 40-inches'busts. Size 16 requires 4 1 yards of 39-inCh material. H OW TO ORDER PATTERN S , Write your name and address plainly, giving nuiriber and <size of pattern wanted.. Enclose 15c in stamps0 or coin (coin prefer­ red; - wrap it carefully) dress your, order to ‘-Wilson Pat- ■ tern Service, , 7‘3 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. _ HONOUR FOR WOMEN "The New Year’s honour a ' list more.tjhan usually interesting cause Of, it* wide recognition of the. Work of women in varied spheres cf activity. In -this respect it marks a precedent. Conspicuous among those •honored are M.iss Christabel1 Park­ hurst, for public and”‘social work, and Mis3 Myra Hess, the pianist, - for her services to Mail. 'S be- and ad- -' . - - ' r---------------------Imusk. — London-Daily'—i— pi • ■ . r . HOLLYWOOD.. — A .year of “big games’*' for movie “goert was pro­ mised for 193'6. As 1935 closed, the lives of great men—and women—were reminding producers of potential profits in screening "them. At least 21 movie­ biographies will be placed -in produc­ tion this year. At Warner Brothers studies, Kay Francis - will create Nurse Florence -Nigh-t-ingal-e-;-' and Miss Frarrcis/ Jean Muir, and Josephine sHutchinson w-ill star in a film based on the lives of Emily, Jane and Charlotte Bronte. Paul Muni will portray Goethals or Gorgas in “Panama- Canal.” A Ji.fe of Madame Curie is set for Jo-, sepliine Hutchinson. Lafitte the pirate awaits a swashbuckling actor, possibly Errol Flynn. • | Buffalo Bill, Victor,Herbert, Hou- a comparison of recent case statistic*. In 1929 there were 1,02?.cases result, ing iiV64 deaths in Toronto. Last year there ' were but-.-46- -©IkW death's. These figures, show­ ed "a slight gain QVpr 1934 when only 22 cases with no deaths were record­ ed. The increase was in large degree Responsible for the committees de­ cision to begin the survey, la other large centres where the Social. Hygiene Council and its com­ mittees have been active similar de­ clines are shown. In Montreal for example, • the 1.251 cases^ and -115 :ths recorded .in 1929 have bed ■educed ’to 187 cases and 23 death* 111/1935. In Hamilton, where tho diph-" theria toxoid, hns been ii^ed ’as ex­ tensively as any place in Canada, there has not. b^en a jsdn£le diphtheria death since 1930. - fyir, shpw- Canada Holds Upward Swing 8 Per Cent: Gain Does .Better Than Most Other Nations dini th& Magician (George Raft), Sir. Henry Morgan, and General Sam Houston (Gary Cooper) are on Para­ mount’s-film biography list. ' ■ Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, who innocently treated Lincoln’s assassin and was imprisoned for it, . is the hero- of Twentieth CenturyrFox’s “Prisoner of Shark Island,” with ■ Warner Baxter. Spanish-American GaJci1;’’003 appea^ “■ in the • Norma Shearer as Marie Antoin­ ette will be produced by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer.. The “Great Zieg- -f-i el d-^-^-^ W-illia-m—-Powel-l-j^i-s—nearly- completed. —Ka-t-h a-ri-n-e- -H-e-p bu-rn^s—uex t"--hero ine is Mary; Queen of Scots." ^OTTAWA, -r- The mercury crept higher in Canada’s business baro­ meters through 1935. The industrial weather didn’t achieve the sparkling clarity hoped for last New Year; but the profit sun was brighter. ' Reducing the trend to figures, th* accepted records show a gain for 1935 of about eight per cent, in gen­ eral conditions. This compares with a 1934 improvement of 18 per. cent, oveh 1933. Comparing his affair* with7 those of other /countries, Jack Canuck observes he. did better than most of them; that in fact, only seven nations reported larger pick­ up in industrial production than Canada and in these" preparation* for war comprised the chief stimu- ....... ■ ■" “ ■ - ■ -- K Dominion - Wide Health League V / —'—. '■ ’ Plans for the .formation of . a Health League of -Canada, the- inaugural luncheon to be held in, Montreal, . on January 31st, .were . announce)!., by.. Dr. Gordon Bates,. General Director of the Canadian Social Hygiene Coun­ cil, in Toronto this . week. The new Health -League, to be Dominion-wide in its -activities, is .being sponsored by .'the Canadian Social Hygiene Council. . One of the first actions, of the new1 organization witll be the absorption of the Toronto Diphtheria Committee, which has already passed a resolution, favoring this transfer of its activities Trom—the. -Toro n t o - -So c i a 1 • ' ILygiene- ? Council. Under the new arrangement 'the' Diplftlieria ‘CommTt’fee"wiTl"’'be~able’’ •to gr.eatly^.ie.x.pand'-its activities.' ■ " - ino-ve-~wi-H'~ri-otTh-te'iT&re”W~ith~:th-e'i - Committee’s present plans- for a city- wide surye'y to . rocate #11 the pre­ school children not immunized to diphtheria. It lia;g 'been estimated that there are Some 40,000 to 50,0.00 such, children [in Toronto and every effort will' be made to hav.e them protected against- the disease. ‘ Some idea ,of the work already-ac­ complished by the Committee in eli­ minating diphtheria. Is to be had from ■wages. Canada’s domestic and foreign- trade has been • making satisfactory progress, haying expanded in both exports and imports and brought in . about <$150,000,000 more than ’was • paid Q.utr i h the 1 1months for which figures are -available.. Field crops, were not so valuable, ana wheat sales -abroad in the first seven months of the' current fiscal-, ydar were down about $2,500,000 -and -about" 46 per •cent.- comparing the’ last two crop years,. But Canada, .produced and sold more lumber/ newsprint,- motor cars, base and fine metals,, fish .and .live stock' than in 1934. In satisfying the' de­ mand the clothing, shoe, tex/!/ffiand furniture factories J and steel Allied- plants -were busier than in the prev- ious year/. ' ' ' ’. - .' “Jack I wish you would put that Fifth Nocturne on the machine."* “Eight In the; morning is a trifle early for music, my. dear." "I ’know, but the length.-of time' It takes .to play it is Just right for boiling an egg." <. f A $ Wk t o K Long Island qiHsne, 36-34. for ball.