HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-03-10, Page 3Of Interest to Xotorists
MOTORING IS BENEFICIAL To
CHILD HEALTH.
The automobile is one of the best
friends of children, This statement
applies to boys and girls in all parts
of the country, but especially tothose
being brought up in urban common-
hies. Parents are corning increasing-
ly to recognize the: automobile es as
medium which makes for health and
education of children, Even small
babies are finding better chances to
grow up, due to the motor age.
Take, for instance, the child lei the
city who does not get es much oppor-
tunity es his rural cousins to romp
over open fields and play in the woods.
It is becoming an ordinary occurrence
for parents of such city children to
drive out into the country spaces dur-
ing the week end period where the
children can enjoy these privileges
which are always available to the
country young folk. It is probable
that city children get even more real
recreation out of such an experience
because they are enjoying a complete
change, which is a valuable feature
on an outing. They appreciate their
opportunities and make the most of
-them, whereas the country children
always having available these open
spaces, fail to get the thrill of enjoy-
ing them which would obtain if they
were less convenient.
How to bring up children in the city •
and at the same time keep them
strong and healthy has always been a
problem difficult for parents to solve.
The automobile has presented a solu-
I tion which is found satisfactory in
'thousands of instancee, And while
the patents have been engaged in
driving their children into the coun-
try, the adult members of the family
have also been acquiring 'added vital-
• ity whu'ch, but for their interest in
their children's welfare, would not
have been obtained. The healthy color
which characterizes- the countenances.
:of many city children is definitely duo
in part to their motoring experiences..
Furthermore, the automobile* is is
'markable educational medium for
children. As they are driven through
the open country, they come to know
and appreciate country life and thus
by coming close to nature learn many
interesting things of value. They ex-
amine new plants, flowers, trees and
stones; they study different kinds of
birds and animals, they learn geologi-
cal facts; many places which they
visit have historical value and provide
the basis of more instruction.
Another result of the general use of
the automobile lies in the fact that it
tends to keep theentire family to-
gether while enjoying their recrea-
tion. It is the usual thing for the
parents and all of the children to take
the automobile and go out for a ride
together. This tendency to unity in
family activity should be of benefit to
the children, since it keeps them to a
greater extent under the direct super-
vision of their parents instead of find-
ing their recreation by themselves.
BRITISH TRADE
WITH CHINA
The following flguree, showing the
vast British interests in China, have
been specially supplied to the Sunday
Express from an authoritative source:
"Export and import trade with Great
Britain, £23,600,000 in 1925.
"Export and import trade with the
British Empire, £34,000,000 in 1925.
"British Empire's China trade, 20
per cent. of China's trade.
"In Shanghai alone 4163,260,000 of
British capital invested.
"Britieh holdings in Chinese .loans
not less than £20,000,000.
"British money in Chinese railways
at least :£20,000,000.
"British money altogether. in China
at least £260,0.00,000, and probably
800,000,000.
Pilesywillo'ws.
Is it a limiest of spring, or frost upon
the winter branches? From a distance
up the lane it seems to be fluttering
of gray snow when the wind whistles.
But no, the tapering. brairches bend
greoefully beneath amethystine clus-
tere, and play notes as sweet as violin
music with the cargo of willow blos-
soms.
They are the first pussywillows—a
soft gray bloom spread over streets
and iiekie of Seattle's Beacon Hill. Lit -
Lie darrk pods have burst from the re-
surgent patches of soft down, like the
fur of Angora idttens, which give to
landscape and road a mottled glanoe
of spring.
Pussy^willows are the first lamps
lighted in Seattle, ere the erooue
flames, and torches and tapers are lit
on tree and hillside, in street, wood-
lands and gardens. Through rain -
washed days they peep as rents in the
opalescent background, they are tiny'
clearings in the mist, these little packs
of eottonwooi that float over the brush
In glen and coppice with a filigree of
stark but shapely branches.
How quickly spring cosines to Seat-
tle, It its a prank young January pinys•,
to cion these gifts of springtime so ear-
ly in the new year, and strew the
walks and lanes with harbingers of
March and April elsewhere. The lad
January is lavish with the willow bias
-
sores where winter means but gentle
rain and very little snow; often none
at all.
They seem to announce, as the fur -
clad branches salaam, the first coy
step of Spring, her reconuaissence.
Of course, there may be many hasty
retreats, a venturing -in, a sortie, and
an exit anew, ere . spring comes to
stay; to bring a bevy of her hand-
maidens, her trousseau of _spring
frocks to htiing inion the trees, her
Millinery, and her rnauy mirrors which
reflect the annual glory of her beauty,
Priceless Liberty.
"He'. may send and take by force," said
they,
This paltiy sum of gold:
But the goodly gift of liberty
Can not be bought and sold.
—Spa.ntsh Ballad. Trans. by Long-
fellow,
When It Didn't Work.
"It's funny how flat a very polite re-
mark falls when I snake it," said the
recruit,
"How's that?" asked the sergeant.
"Well, at the ball last night the oap-
tain got intothe general's wife's good
grates by asking her if she were her
daughteror herself."
"Well, it didn't Work at all when 1
tried it out on her daughter:Y"
The tallest known ferns a tilt in the
Hawaiian Islands, where they grow
to a: height of 80 feet ar 40 feet,
I Go Back Twenty Fears.
I'm just , an old fool, twenty years
we've been wed,
And the craziest notion came .into my
head,
I remembered the way I'd made love
to her then,
And I thought to myself 1'11 just try
it`agaain.
I'll court her once more in my old
foolish way,
Just to see how she'll act and to hear
What she'll say.
So I bought her some roses, a few in
a box,
Just by way of commencing my series
of shacks,
And all through the supper I looked at
her so,
With that sea;, pensive look which all
young ]overs know,
And I patted her hand and kept calling
her "dear"
And she saki to the children: "You're
father is queer!"
I kissed her and rumpled her silver -
tinged hair,
Rubbed my beard on her cheek, and
she seemed not to care.
I said: "You are lovely! this wide
world around
I am sure that your equal could never
be found,"
I praised the long lash on her eye's
lovely Ikl,
Thinking she wouldn't like ail that
much—but she did,!
—Edgar A. Guest.
First Atlantic Wireless.
Twenty-five years ago Senatore Mar-
coni succeeded in sending the first
wireless signal across the Atlantic
from Poldhu to Newfoundland.
Alter spending some time on the
Poldhu station, built for him by J. A.
Fleming, Marconi determined to try
a wireless message over the Atlantic,
and on December 6th, 1l01, he arrived
in Newfoundland with two assistants
and started operations in the old hos-
pital building on Signal Hill.
As there was no time to erect masts
to carry the aerial, the experiment was
tried en an aerial suspended from a
balloon. The balloons were subse-
quently blown away, but on December
12th a kite suocessfuliy parried 400
feet of wire and the first: signals from
far distant Peleliu were received. The
"message" consisted of the letter "s"
ins Morse code—three dots—constantly
repeated.
Tho following month the same ap-
paratus was Installed on board the
S.S. Philadelphia, which, during a voy-
age . to New York, successfully re-
ceived signals from Poldlm up to die -
lances exceeding 2,000 miles.
Maeconi's first experiments began in
1896 on Iris gather's farm at 13ologna,
when he succeeded iii sending mess-
ages across the garden. In 1896 the
distance increased to two miles, and
then, realizing tbe euormons possibili-
ties of his invention, he lost no time
in going to England and protecting his
work by patents.
More Wealth.
'Winnipeg Ts'ibune (ind. Coos.): The.
Peace River country is destined to be
one of Canada's eldef glories, a Wast
and wealth agricultural area eontri
buting greatly to the nation's etrength.
The urgent -need is to enable settle-
ment to proceed as rapidly as may be.
To that end branch railway lines are
ljie first consideration. These are
immediately necessary.
Wait.
Irishman going to America was
very tea -sick, Hie corapaufon came
do'w.i to his main and invited him to
ware lip on deck to see a ship patais, .
"Don't 'bother Me again," said the Vico
tin of mai de me, "until you ere a
tree pass.". - r
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17.
HEADS LOPPED OFF
IN
SHANGHAI
The Chinese authorities in Shanghai, who are opposed to the advancing
Cantonese army, have started head chopping in an effort to end the general
strike that is paralyzing the international •city, The number of agitators
decapitated is variously estimated a's from 28 to 90. The photo shows a re-
gular Chinese executioner bearing a sword that is said to hold, a record for
lopping off heads.
WORK
- Thank God every morning
that you have something to do
that day which must be done
whether you like it or not. Be-
ing forced to work and do your
best will breed in ybu a hun-
dred virtues which the idle
never know.—Charles Kings-
ley.
Lost Girls in London.
Two thousand London giris are re-
ported as "missing" every year, but
only one in 500. remains untraced,' and
fewer than 10 per cent. remain un-
found for more than a fortnight. Spe-
cial officials. are ar'waye engaged on
the task of tracing these missing giris,
and it is said that fifty per cent, should
never have been reported' as missing.
Of the total of missdng persons In the
whole of England, fewer than two in
every thousand are never heard of
again.
Artists in Metal.
Blacksmith artists in China make
landscapes and flowers out of the sante
metal that goes into wagon tires and
horseshoes.
The Golfer's Rhapsody.
I'm starting to mutter, to fondle ley
putter,
To roll -'em around on the mat;
I'm getting the feeling, I'm smashing
the ceiling,
I've golf -fever under my hat!
T'm using a bigger and whippler jigger,
I'm dropping 'em dead in the sink.
With sweet-sounding swishes I'm
breaking the dishes,
I'm putting the lights on the blink!
I'm swinging my brassy, like Vardon
or Massey,
I'm shooting 'em low with my cleek,
I'm curing my twister! I'm raising a
blister!
I'm beaning my wife on the beak!
I'm taking no chance's on grips and on
stances,
I'm gaining my ultimate goal.
I'm sure and I'm steady, I'ni getting all
ready e
To score about nine to a hole.
--London Opinion.
Your Duty,
Smuggling through the customs is
an unpatriotic action, says a writer. i
People who do it forget their duty to
their country.
WATER AS GREATEST NATURAL RESOURCE
Of Oaths paturel resources of Can five million doliare each year #ipd
eda theme are none so vast, so =aver- ; there are'still innumerable' w& atom,-
sally distributed end possibly so come ed lakes which have never beep, eolm,
rnerelaliy irnportent ea heir fresh waterroercialdy exploited, The value of lb.
Supplies. No .other 'et/entry, according , sport ff slain.g is, et course, beyond sap'
to "Natural Resources," eau even app , praisal, nor is that of those food flshps��o�`f
vivant). the Dominion. with respect to upon which nat�iver life In rerriote 4ds'I)
the immensity o1 her fresh water ! tricts is 00 largely dependent,
areae, In fact C:a•naaa'a area' of in- I Direct Industrial Consumption,
land waters aro 'Said AO be greater
than those of iii other'eountriec of the
'world combined,
According to the same authority,
this water supply has a definite com-
mercial application of huge Propor-
tions, its contributions to the public
00ramereial welfare falling under four
heads, (1) navigable highways; (2)
power and irrigation, (3) fisheries, and
(4) direct absorption :in industrial pro
e'esses to which, of course, must be
added its indispensible application in
the home,
Transportation:.
The first transportation routes of
Canada were the water routes and the
first . organized commercial develop-
ment in this country—the fur trade—
was entirely dependent on the coun-
try's• river and lake systems. To -day
the amount of water borne commerce
is greater than ever before; the mile-
age of connecting canals is about 1600,
the cost of which has been 170 mil-
lions of dollars.. There is even seriouri
tliscuesion of making the entire Great
Lakes system accessible to ocean car-
riers. Tho use of Canadian rivers in
floating softwood logs front the forests
to the frills has also been and con-
tinues to be an appreciable factor in
maintaining the efficiency and ]ow cost
of Canada's leading lumbering and
pulpwood industries.
•
Power and Irrigation.
The natural power available from
Canadian streams at known sites is
upwards of 40 million horsepower; of
which approximately only one tenth is
yet in use. Already great industries
have been built up to utilize some of
the more strategic of these sites. To
develop and• connect up this vast
total would.probably require a sum
in excess of ten billions of d'oll'ars, and
the industrial investment dependent
on associated enterprises probably as
much or mere again.
While the amount of band requiring
water for irrigation le in Canada re-
latively small compared with the size
of the country, and is restricted to cer-
tain sections of the western provinces;
tbe fact that water is available for di-
version to a considerable part of it is
very gratifying. The principal irri-
gation projects are in Alberta. In this.
area, alone works have been construct-
ed, capable of irrigating 1,200,000 acres,
while completed snfrveys• show the
feasibility of economically applying
water to an additional area of approxi-
mately 500,000 acres. The number of
miles of irrigating ditches is between
five and six thousand.
Fisheries.
The inland fisheries under proper
regulation offer remarkable poesibili-
ties for the basis of a permanent in-
dustry of great dimensions.., The value
of these fisheries to Canada is about
Rums of YPRES CORN EXCHANG5.
Which have neer left exsetly as they were in the days following the world war,
tton oft the, Cathedral of St. Martin is going on.
Debit)
` Wattir supply Must o!'eourse always'
be considered in iloratiug aryy planet
and in some industries, like the Manu-
facture of paper or t•*xtlles•, it is likely'
to be the mast 1ml.ortant considera-
tion. A factory for the manufacture
of clothing or of cigars may require
little more water than that used for
the individual needs of the workers
and for cleaning workrooms'; but r
textile mill in which dyeing les done',
may pee several in Ilion gelatins o
water each day.
The requirements. as to quality of
water also vary widely; Water
Dor ooul4ng at steel plants or In some
types of condensers at a power plant/
may be of almost any quality 1f it is
not acid; hut feed water for steams?
boilers should be Either moderately!
free from suspended and dissolved
mineral matter or est :iy made so. Ai
paper mill that makes brown wrapping
paper can use water of muck leo
quality 'than is needed for a m111 tha
makes fine white paper; but a plant
that makes chemicals or drug prodeots
is forced to use distilled water almost,
exclusively in Its nmr..ufacturing pro-'
cesses. Again, in ;certain activities
the sanitary oharaeter of the water' is
the controlling factor. Thus the pre-(
paration of food products, represented,
by the industries of slaughtering and'
meat packing, canning and .preserving,,
and the making of bread and other
bakery products, must be carried on
where the raw materials can be ob-
tained most easily, where the .producta
can most quickly reach the consumer)
or where the combined .transportation
is a minimum; but here the sanitary,
character o1 the water• used Le of the
greatest importance, and its chemical)
constituents may be a secondary coni
sideration.
Other Factors.
There are many other factors wheat
make Canadian waterways of vital
economic. concern to the country.
Their scenic values in connection with
tourist attractions is uudoubted'ly of
vast importance. The value of water -1
falls in the National Parks is abready,
a subject of considerable diseussion.1
Water supply is also a matter of great
imp,ortanoe in mining, particularrly in!
hydraulic operations. The lakes and
rivers are a contributing factor in
both summer anti winter recreation.
Canoeing, sailing, ice boating, cket'ing,
etc., appre2ciabIy contribute to the
health of Canada's, young people. Na-
tural ice gave us our national game.
The great sloughs and marshes give us
some of our finest winged: shooting and
much of the fur wealth for which the
Dominion has become so famous.
Everything considered, it may be
safely claimed that Canada'•s• streams
and fresh water areas are an asset be•
yonci appraisal and that their value to
---- the nation will increase rather than
diminish.
Happy Bermuda.
After three centuries this little Br1e
tieh colony* still retains: its Old World
atmosphere, and one of its most pot
-i
charms, is the simple genuine, old -1
time hospitality of its inhabitants.
How pleasant to be courteously haandh
ed in and out of the rowboat ferry,;
and to be greeted with "Good morn
Ing, A Happy New Year to you," bye
one end all. "Hope you are enjoying`
your visit here," says the perfect,
stranger. Of course you are, you al-'
ready feel one of them, and love them
and their beautiful islands,
Each snow-white coral house peep -i
ing through the cedars extends to you
its "welcoming arcus" --., wide pink
steps leading up to the porch. Stiehl
beautiful settings for the homes, Green,
lawns with palms anti scarlet, poinset
tias abloom, hedges of pink, orange,:
and red hibiscus and avenues of white
and pink oleanders leading down 10
white boats o31 a turquoise sea.
Are yon surprised that no one hur-
ries in Bermuda.? Why hurry? There.'
are no trains or trains to catch, no,.
automobiles to dodge, or factory whist-,
les to call to work. Only the noiseless,!•
bicycle or hubber-fired carriage with;
polite riders ;nil drivers who move out
or your way on the smooth white
roads. There are the bluebirds and;
the redbirds and the chick-of-the-vile
i loge to listen to and admire a^, they)
alit in and out of the Match-me-it-you.a
cap ci•oton. sedges, Then there Is the,
musical click.cls•ck of horse-:, hoofs as'
the riders pass. and the boys who are
always whistling; yes. and the frogs'
who tura up the orchestra at nightfall; •
and whistle. too.
]Happy Bermuda., with its genial c1l.e
mate, its .highways and byways' which
no pen ere describe, its pink beaches.;
angel fish, crystal caves, sea. gardens;
anti seventeenth -century charm .—
veritable• Wee of rest and peace.
Convincing the Customer,
Onst 030 01' (doubtful of guarantee)' -"i
"But will you really refund my moneys
if those stockings are not found hrle�.
1,1'001?"
Assistant (convincingly)--" kiadam)
we ore refunding money everyday." •
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Huge spiders that devour sten
)birds ati:er catching them in tr.�a tlo
p
the work of a•cconstr'ic- pitfalls havo been discovered iii filo
Amazon valley.