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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-05-29, Page 2Plan Your Town in one room with four other families. Each rot the other families ,occupied -a corner of the room. That left oily the Save Your Money centre of it for the little boy's family. So what he had told her was quite true—there weren't any 'walls on which he could hang his clothes. In large cities where proper pre- parations for growth and development are not made, such deplorable living conditions are bound to exist. It is here that the intelligent laying out of streete plays a part. The creating of proper parks is usually. an economic problem and the cost attaches to it must of course be considered. Some- times in fact es a' rule these small parks, because ot the fencing and other upkeep charges, are more expen sive than one large one. Yet three Darks, if they are feasible, are as a rule the better plan, because they can be scatterecl through the crowded areas and are accessible to more -peo- ple, It must be borne in mind at ail times that many people who will bene- fit enefit moat from the addition of parks to a city, 'will not take advantage of them.unlees they are made as easy as possible to reach. That le why you notice in most well-planned cities that the parks are arranged so as to be on two sides of a road so that just as many people as possible can take ad - .vantage of their beauties. If streets are planned so that the outside edges of the city are not too bard to reach the result in a great many citieshas been artistic suburban sections where .'rents are cbeap and working people can liVe in happiness and health. In this case, traffic con- ditions permit them to cover more dis- tance in a shorter space of time in getting back and forth to their work, than would be possible if the condi- tions had not been studied in advance instead of letting -them take their own natural course. The habits of the citizens, the na- ture of the soil, the levels of the land and a bemired matters come into the schemeof things in town -planning, but they are mostly problems for the engineer and the technical man. Nevertheless, they are of extreme im- portance and difficult to handle if there is not complete harmony In making the arrangements between the owners of the land and the people who are doing the .planning. Some cities have found themselves in a position where they could insist modate its traffic, Toronto is even that every house must have a plot of new considering plans to ee-model its land of decent size around it. Here is downtown area. In other words, to an enviable state of things and one do town -planning which will cost mil- that every municipality should seek, lions of dollars that might have been saved bad the civic fathers of years ago been able to foresee something of the city's growth and the complexity of twentieth-century civilization, But from the standpoint of health, ningout. one of the most important considers- tions of the town -planner is play-, It is rather difficult to "thin out" a ground space—parks as a rule. -'In city, so we must do all our thinking in Canada the growth of a city is usual -S town -planning in advance. ly in fact one might say always, ee M It is, however, only in recent years industrial growth. The growth of the!that that town -planning has become a very Ontario city of Oshawa is an example: ♦`active feature of one- municipal life A number of industries, for reasons' Many cities and towns are oppointing' of convenience or costs suddenly de -i commissions tol�guisde the odestiy niesk of elle to take up their position at one'their p n. Point, The area thus favored is apt! the principle that the tree will grow to grow with great rabidity and unless pretty much as the twig is bent. The the public men are statesmen who future development of 'these far-see- thlnk in decades. or even in genera 1ng cities and towns will not be by tions instead of just terms of office, accident; it will be the result of thoughful arraugernent with the com- fort and heath of the majority con- stantly in view. Avoid Slums 'Little Boy "Had No Walls" in His House This is one of a series of health elrticles sponsored by the Canadian. ocial Hygiene Council. The other day the writer heard a conversation between two men on the street, One said: ."What's all this I bear nowadays about 'town -planning?' What le town -planning? Another fad to waste people's money?" "No," said the other man. "It's just another plan to save people's lives and bealth and money besides." I -Ie was right. Town -planning, done properly and early enough in the life of a growing town or city, does all those things. Perhaps the earliest il- lustration we have in history of town - planning is, however, a little unfor- tunate, When the great city of Rome was expanding in the centuries follow- ing the formation of the Roman Em- pire, the highly civilized Romans were so anxious to replace the old'bulldings and crooked, narrow streets that they put on a sort of private agitation witch the result that, inthetime of Nero, the older parts of the city were fired, and home burned. Whether or not that be true, no one to -day advocated such drastic meth- ods for paving the way for town -plan- ning. It is to -day based upon co- operation between land -owners and municipal authorities, for the general good of the public, so bhat the city or town may babuilt to facilitate .proper sanitation convenience and healthy and pleasant living arrangements. Consider the important question of sanitation If a city grows haphazard, as most cities have done in the past, without its leaders giving a jealous eye to the future, that city's' cleaning bills may be unnecessarily high. Ex- pensive properties may have to be ex- propriated in order to lay sewers and water mains, or to put in pumping stations or Alters. Town planning looks ahead and prevents such un- necessary expense. Those of us who live in Toronto see every day a traffic situation which might have been averted by town - planning. Yonge Street, Toronto's main street. is too narrow to accent - When one starts to grow a garden, we carefully lay it out so that all the plants will have 'breathing space no matter how thick the growth may be- come. if the plants become too thick in one place, we do what we call thin - the growth of the new industrial centre from a village to a town or a eity is apt to be haphazard. Thus a city choices itself by its own • growth and by the very life that , mattes it great its desirability as a Canada i s Turning ing place in which to live and its value as l 1 a commercial centre 15 lessened. To New Markets Proper planning of parks is a tre- mendous factor in the solution of this BtY erS Purchase Oranges problem. For ween a growing city Buyers g takes trouble to lay out a system of parks, it will, chances are, give heed to the streets in proximity to those Forced by high prices, Canada is Parks. And insofar as the health of turning from the United States orange the city is concerned, parks are vitally important. People who never have a chance to visit the country, people whose lives confine them to the poorer and less desirable districts, become "city sick," as social workers say. To such people parks are a great boon, but these re- creational - grounds must be -close to their homes, it they are to be of any use to those who need them most. There le no question here of pamper- ing unfortunate people, no idea what- ever of spending public money for show. On tbe contrary, as 1 bare said, town planning actually saves money as onecan readily realize by consider- ing Toronto's traffic problem which I have also mentioned. from Mediterranean Ports Rather than U.S. Of Interest to Fur Farmers But few of us who live in comfort- able homes can possibly realize the tremendous handicap, not merely to comfort but to health, in which U us - ands of our less fortunate fellow citi- zens exist. It is to ',hem that parks are of inestimable value. ,Parks are important because they give people opportunity to get out into the fresh air, As well as that, they make the city more beautiful and beauty is an element constantly to be striven for by tbe planners. You and'I know, and social workers who constantly visit the poor know it even better, that there are hundreds of people in your eity'and mine who have never had an l portunity to visit the country. A social worker tells a story of hew elle told a Tittle boy that he should bang his clothes up at night so that they wouldn't look any worse than necessary during the day time. "Why;' replied the little boy, "We haven't' any market and is looking towards Medi- terranean ports for this commodity, Arthur B. Jones, well-known fruit buyer ot Liverpool, said in an inter- view on board the Laurentic, leaving Montreal recently, He is returning home after a successful business trip in Canada. "This season bas been unusual In the quantity of Valencia oranges pur- chased from Spain by Canadian buy- ers," Mr• Jones said, "Heavy buying has been cutting heavily into the sale of 'the California fruit, which finds little favor owing to its high price. The price has been largely determined by the short crops." Mr• Jones explained that the Val- encia orange is a medium class orange retailing at a much lower figure than its American contemporary. "Canada's purchases from Spain have been heavy this year," he sold, "evidence of which is seen in the cargoes of the. steamers Val Perga an, Val Prado,. which are at present en route to Montreal with more than 50,000 pack- ages of oranges, The ships are com- ing from Palermo, Sorrento and Mer- riora." New Apple Market He name to Canada touy apples for the English market. ""This is my 50t1i trip across, chasing the elusive apple," he said. The buyer feltthat the apple trade is shifting from On- tario to Nova Scotia, which exported a record quantity, more than 1,000,000 barrels, last year. is Joseph Golemann of Berlin, Germany, Zoo, with his • train Sugar as a Food : First "Untouchable" hdow to Keep For Children Electedto Bengal ;Handsome Husband Legislature handsome husbands like beautiful wives, are sometimes 'embarrassing •"1 Have No Friends," Said the ornaments to have about the douse. New Member for Midira- Tltey excite cupidity in the breasts of. the susceptible. pore, "But I Will Do. My It is possible, if you have' a valuable Beet" --1s lot a jewel, to insure it; But no insurance 3Wara 1St office -will grant a polity to provide @ j against the theft of a husband or a Calcutta.—A little gray-haired roan, wife, however valuable. Even if It neatly clad in a 'cheddar' dhoti, (lien were possible, the losers might find it cloth) who slipped unobtrusively into hard to assess their loss in terms of a back seat in the Chamber just be- shillings and pence. For, like the ar- forethe, president entered, ,was the :titles upon which we set most store, centre of interest at the, opening meet- husbands and wives have a certain Ing of the Bengal Legislative Council's "sentimental value." budget session. That being so, the question of how ' Until quite recently he was a sweep- to safeguard a handsome husband is always of intenseluterest to wives. One woman told sn recently that she found lite extremely wearing on ac- count of tier 'too good-looking husband. From all mounts, she seemed to keep watch on him day and night. The Ended Wife "Every woman looks at him, and. the cbair, Hossein' Raut, the mantas envies nae,"" she said. "They shame- from Midnapore among them. IIe letsly ring him up and ask him to found his way to the table eleventh in parties; to luncheons, a tete,' and al - the, list and apparently explained to tinegh I answer their telephone mess - an official that ess•an,official-that he could neither read ag, i they haven't the wit to include believes that sugar should be cautious- English nor write his name. me in their •invitations. He'•is'still 1y used c res•,as d i feeding hill i tts- i di But his reception in the Council had faithful, however—I see to 'that." IT IS POSSIBLE TO GAIN mR. FOXES' CONFIDENCE One of the most difficult things in animal world is to train a fox. where he wee eeiren, foe eine thing, I done en. "I want some .candy!" This cry of the eland indicates a "natural craving," say some advisers, and baby should, therefore, have the candy, Flours later, when mother is walk- ing the floor with a case of infant stomachache, the adviser is elsewhere enjoying peaceful slumber. ' This vital home topic is touched up- on in a report of the Committee -on Nutritional Problems oe the American Public Health. Association, recently. presented to the Association's section on Foods,; Drugs, apd Nutrition, which we find in The American Journal of Peelle Health (New York), The com- mittee thinks that recent efforts to emphasize tbe undoubted value of fir in the European Club at Midna- sugar as a food may teeter the mis- pore; to -day he is the honorable mem- taken idea that it may be used to re- ber for the Midnapore North. Non - place other foods that ere equally in- .Mulhammadan constituency in the dispensable, Bengal Legislature and very proud of Childeen, normally, are active, and being the first "untouchable" ever spend more calories in ,proportion to 'elected to that distinguished assembly. their weight than most adults; but the Oaths" -commanded the president, children, the committee reminds us, and' 15 new members advanced toward are' growing at the same time, and ought to get liberal supplies of pro- teins,vitamins, and mineral elements along with theler. calories. From the nutritional standpoint, therefore, it place too much of the -foods which can been as carefully prepared for as his "But how?" I asked, interested. Ilene aU ,V1184 r4 4811 not. We LCBU LLLrl11C1 ,---`•-- --' -- -- __-_, fox. "We sometimes hear of the 'natural met 'and garlanded by .the leader of courage attractive girls to come about ed craving' of children for •sweets- but the jute workers' and sweepers' ".the house. Several women I" know MOUNTAINS Before the mountains of his little earth man bows in acknowledgment of their might, their grandeur and their age. Sixty, 'seventy, eighty years and be is cut down but through what interminable procession of years have those lofty peaksheld lip their proud heads and from their crags and canyons sent forth a glory of chang- ing colors, lights and shadows? What unknown cataclysms and terrific' up- heavals, the birth pains of a planet, brought them into bring?—Gregg, TRUE LOVE Salesgirl—"Here's a lovely senti- ment! 'To my Valentine—the only girl I every Loved"' Customer—"Fine—I'll take five—no, six of those, please." "Interest added to capital runs into a neat figure." REJOICE ALWAYS Murmur at nothing; if our ills are reparable ,it Is ungrateful; if reme- diless, It is vain. But a Christian builds bis fortitude on a better foun- dation than stoicism. .He 10 pleased with everything that happes, because he knows it could not happen unless it bad first pleased God.—Colton. COURAGE There is nothing in tbe world so. Demand .for English Sweeps Through Paris Few people -realize the extraerdin- ary strides boat the English language IB making in Paris, writes a•-eorrese Pendent of the "London Dairy Tele- graph." It is commonplace knowledge that many cinemas are .now present- ing English as well as French sub- titles and the increasing use of Anglo- Saxon words and phrases is evident in many phases of public life to even the most superficial observer. A witty Parisianwho was found re- cently stationed on the boulevards in- tensely ntensely gazing skyward explalnedeto a friend that he was pursuing his Eng- lish studies from the illuminated ad- vertisements. What is not generally known is the fact that thousands of young Parisians are now attending English classes. This is a matter quite apart from a general desire to be conversant with the language; it is one of commercial necessity. The bead 01, one. of the most im- portant institutes tells me that any young man or girl seeking a situation in many departments of business in Paris is hopelessly" handicapped un- less he has a practical knowledge of English. He knows of innumerable cases in which the applicants for a position as salesman or saleswoman in•dr'essmaking and allied fashionable industries, or for clerkships, have been told that no one ignorant of Eng- lish can be accepted. These state- menta were verified by further in- ward sweets for children is not justi- quiry. fled except in so far c the use. of sugar and other sweets may be prac- tically helpful in preserving the pro- tective foods or facilitating their at- tractive preparation. "A liberal amount of ice-cream may be good—they may like it because of its sweetness, and they will almost certainly be benefitted by the extra milk and cream which they thus. get.' "Without multiplying illustrations, it may be said that, in general, the proper place of sugar in the food sup- plies and eating habits of children is not in concentrated .forms, nor in the indiscriminate sweetening of all kinds of foods, but rather as a preservative. and flavor to facilitate the introduc- tion into the child's dietary of larger. amounts of fruit and milk." A boy's team at college has often cured parents of bragging about -their wonderful son. "I do not regard bachelors with con- tempt, I look upon them with awsl"— Dorothy Dix. what sweets, do we find in nature? unions. have badhus,bands stolen from under Never do we find in nature such con- The 'oath, usually taken in English, their. very eyes by' inch ,best: girl centrated and isolated forms of sugar was read to him 'line by line in Ben- frinds. So.I don't take any chances." as are found in the grocery and con- gall and he repeated each line hes'- But what a foolish woman, 1 thought fectionere' shops. Sugar is, essential tatingly by distinctly. Then the sec pityingly. For it is impossible in this rotary handed bin a pea. He' looked modern world, where women work and play and travel cheek by jowl with men, to remove all temptation .from a husbhnd's path. If a woman marries an attractive and handsome man she must be prepared to combat the wiles of other women, for undoubtedly the net will bespread for his unwary feet. ly, a bait; or in Bunge's words, 'not only an aliment hut'also a condiment, puzzled for a moment, smiled, and on and easily lends itself,- as all such Whispered. instructions boldly -marked things do, to abuse-' - a large blue cross in the place'for. his "Too much 'sugar may p spoil the a signature on the members' role , petite 'for other foods of much more Everything accomplished; Hossein' pronounced value in nutrition, and it. Rant, Member of the Legislative Coen - may displace these more important ail, advanced to" the president's, chair foods in meeting the: calory needs of and was given a hearty .handshake the body, with the result that there and a smile of welcome by the Raja may be a shortage - of some essential of Santosh. He found his way back mineral element or vitamin. to his lonely seat in a deserted row „ behind the Muhammadans amid cheers It is argued that sugar is food for active children, because it is a 'quick from the 'Liberals: And there he re- fuel,' and' theender use of sugar by athletes mained, interested but bewildered, un - during endurance contests is cited in til the Council adjourned. . support of this idea. The idea .has Later Mr. Raut assured an inter - some basis, but itis. greatly over_ viewer that he was no Swarajist. He worked, if not actually perverted. Who does not even know what the label would seriously claim that the toucan- means: The report that he has 10- tration of sugar which can be borne signedmeans from an honest if lowly calling by the stomach of an athlete would as a congress jolce is untrue. He Was vee equally well suited to the still •de- very angry about this, child? stomach of the growing In made a very emphatic proclama- In the end the member for Midna- d? "In our judgment; the practical les- tion of his political faith, so far as he sou to be teal nod from the newer has thought it out. He has no belief' knowlednutrition rin any .political party, because lie importancege oP to health (at is allthe agesgandeat knows nothing about them, but he has especially in childhood) of giving' a a suspicion that no party will help him more prominent place to what McCol- very much. ' lum bas called 'the protective foods,' "I am an untouchable;' he con - milk, fruit, and some of tee vegetables clutied. 'I' have been sent to Calcutta and that .. 'more tolerant' attitude to- to' be the member for the unto"uch- abies, . I have no friends, but I will do my best." • IDEALS Show me the man you honor, and I will know what Idud of man you are, for It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.—Carlyle. d 'Dealer; "It's' a genuine antique, sir." Customer: "But you are asking a fearful price for it." Dealer: "Well, sir, look how wages acus the cost of materials have gone up!" A sense of dutypursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. • If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or misery. If we say the darkness shall cover its, in the dark- ness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.—Daniel Webster. waifs where -I live." The social muob, adriened 00 a man who knows worker investigated and found that it how to bear "unhappiness with tour- eht was true. The little boy's, family lived age.—Senaea. Canada's National Game in England Sce'lend player falls during a tussle in front of meal, during t ngland met Scotland at Richmond Athletic mends,. recent women's international .lacrosse match,, Thomas Reviews British Problems Encouragement of Exports is Fundamental Need, Minister Says Glasgow, Scotland.—"No substitute for efficiency has yet been found," de- clared Right Hon. J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Employ- ment, addressing the Glasgow Cham- ber of Commerce and frankly discuss- ing unemployment problems. "If the country is to pull through, it Is no good playing with the facts," he added, "Reorganization and ra- tionalization are bound to increase the unemployment figures, but when they are completed we will be more effici- ent and the position will improve in the future." As an instance of the difficulties to be faced, Mr. Thomas said six and a half million motor cars were produced in, the world last year. Americans pro- duced five and a half million. Britain produced only 21,000,` but there were mole British motor car companies operating than there wore In the United States. The Dominion colonies, not including Canada, imported three times the number of cars built in Bri- tain'. He refused, to believe Britain was unable to hold her own. He was going to demonstrate this was untrue. "Every nation is facing unemploy- ment, but every nation doesn't adver- tise her difficulties," he wont on, "We are still suffering from false war economies. Business men are suffer- ing because • they made money too' easily. Workers are suffoo'ing because they believed money was unlimited. It is no use spending money merely do find temporary work and create ead capital, "Eight hundred' million pounds ($4,- 000,000,000) has to be found to pay, for imports which can only ea paid for in cash or in kind," Mr, Thomas concluded. "We Lave not got the gold; therefore the fundamental job is to develop and encourage exports." Jealousy a Mistake It is always a mistake when .a WO, man concentrates on jealousy and sus- picion instead of remedying the de- fects in her -own make-up. I noticed that this particular wo- man, so eagle-eyed in one direction, • was, curiously blind in another. Her clothes were nondescript and put on anyhow. Her hair was dull ' and straight, her hands ill -kept.' And not through poverty or overwork: Sometimes I think the calloused ]rands of the mother of children, 'worn in unselfish service, are infinitely more beautiful than the lily-white hands of the woman of leisure. But there was 00 excuse tos' this woman, for she had maids and money in abundance. The self-satisfaction of the lately married woman is sometimes an aw- ful thing to see. It is as though, hav- ing married' her man, there was no longer any need to attarct'him- • It maybe humiliating to have to set • up a counter -attraction to a husband snatcher, but there is no use blinking at facts. In these days of man short- age hort age many women .suffering from sex starvation become victims of their own love hunger; and almost before, they know it slips into a dangerous friendship with a married man. Others, out for -blood, think nothing of stealing a man. from under his wife's very nose. Divorce being easier than formerly, there is always the ex- citing possibility that eventually the wife will contemptuously "free" her husband. But many an _incipient love affair has been laughed out of danger. The clever woman will tease her husband about his women admirers. When he comes home from the office at night' she will ask, "which attractive woman has 'phoned you to -day, darling?" or "Did you take around any adoring mappers at lunch time?". She gets in- to nto a habit of making a family joke of his 'devastating" attraction to the en- tire female sex. How muck better is such a course than to, become a prey to jealousy and feari The wife of one extremely hand- some and fascinating man is never - happy unless her „husband is receiving homage from young and old, Sire ac- cepts husband -worship like a toric( If. You admire her husband she says, "Yes, isn'the a darling? You'd never believe the number of girls who are in love with him. Do come and stay with us for a weekend. Pd be so happy to.bave you." This admiration of her husband she takes as a compliment to her. own charms -in getting hint for:herself, She has thrashed out the whole question with herself. Since this man was a small boy lie has been accustomed to feminine adulation, When he goes on the golf course women follow him to watch the swing of his magnificent • body. But that he would ever grow seriously interested in one of them las never crossed his wife's mind. She Understands Happiness, at least 10 not solitary: it joys to communicate; it Ibves oth- ers, for, it depends on them for Its: existence , .. the yeryname and aur pearaflbe, of a happy man breathe of good nature, and help the rest of us, to live. -11 L. Stevenson. She knows she'siipplies' something, in his life and in his heart that all the vain,: empty admiration of the crowd never can, She can give trim ° courage and strength, gaiety and com- fort, inspiration and empathy, And, . above all, understanding, And she knows, like all the other Wise wives I have.lciiotvn, that to see the temph'ess in every .woman is to shatter all the trust and security that aro at the foundaiou of happy home life.