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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-04-12, Page 3tj Canada to Join Celebration. In Durant Centennial, May 8 Fifty -Eight Nations Will Celebrate Hundredth Birthday , a Founder of Red Cross, This Year Henri Dunant, Winner of Nobel Peace Prize, Also Known as "Good Samaritan of Castligione,' Born May 8, 1828, Died October 31, 1910 Oen May 4, 1928, fifty-eight national organieatione, banded together under the Rod Crass flag, will celebrate the hundredth birthday of Henri Dunant, founder of Red Cross and.jcdnt win- ner of the Nobel Peace prize. In Toronto, the Ontario Division of the Canadian Red Cross Society will signally honor the occasion, by giving a banquet on April 25th to weioome the delegates attending the Annual Meeting of Central Council A limit- ed number of tickets are being sold outside of the membership, and it is expected that nationally known speakers, including the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, will attend and give the celebration speeches~ Sinmilar functions will also be held in every Canadian province. It le fitting indeed that such a cen- tenary should not go by unnoticed, for Durrant did much to promote the idea that suffering in war, the agony of the battlefield, could be largely mitigated. It was while this great benefactor of humanity was traveling in Lom- bardy in 1859 that he #raw 40;000 dead, dying, wounded and sick men lying on the battlefield of Soifezi.no, without anyone offering as much as a drink of water in kindly service. The sight of this so wrung his heart that he did not rest until an impromptu hospital was prepared in the nrearby, town of Ca.stiligione, with a volute., taryambulance and nursing service in attendance. Thus he became known gione," The sight of so much agony never left his mind and he vrrote a brochure as the "Good Samaritan of Oastli- ± that was fraught withmuch signifi- cance to the world thereafter. Dunant for several years travelled about Europe lecturing and giving Me opinions regarding the treatment of soldiers,in battle, pressing home the. need for a reorganization ofthe resell - cal siervicesv, for the rearrangement of plans for repatriating prisoners of war and caring for Disabled men who had been harken in fighting for their. country's cause. Out of Dunant'e first CABIN FOR A 100 -PASSENGER BIPLANE fdea grew the Conference at Geneva, The plane is under construction at Trenton, N.J„ It will have a wing -spread of 200 feet and Which resulted in Red Cross being: furnish competition for railroads when finished. Air Travel Assuming Real Proportions made law for the . world. The first Treaty of Geneva was signed by New Emphasis Upon . Printed Silks is expected to twelve out of sixteen attending na- tional 'delegates, the first Red Cross Society For Spring and Summer 'being formed in the German principality of Wurtemberg• From that time the symbol of the Red Cross, whioh was originally adopted in honor of Switzerland, where the first treaty took place, be- came .the chief organization to - serve the soldier in war, and eventually to follow him and his family into civil- ized • life, caring for the click and pro- moting health in general. Great Britain ,adiopted the Treaty of Geneva on February 18, 1885; Prus- sia joined June 22, 1865; Russia was linked up on July 5, 1865, and the United States on March 16, 1882. The Canadian Red Cross Society at first was an offshoot of the British organ- ization, but is now entirely autano- moue within the boundaries of the Dominion of Canada. Turkey also subscribes to the same ideals• but uses the symbol of the red crescent in place of the Red Cross, Turkey being purely a Mohammedan nation. INDIAN ART IN BRITISH -COLUMBIA The Heide Indian type of canoe at Bella Coale, London Seeking Suitable Motto London, the heart or the British Empuire, is one of the few big cities of the world that has no motto. For many years now the Loudon County Council has been diligently striving to find one. A sub -committee' • of :the General 'Purposes Cornzuittee, which had had•the Matterin hand for nearly fifteea years, has -given it up as a bad Job. Thousands of suggestions have hen recelv;ed and eva ulned. by the Comic!; and, according'to the report recently made public: "They are of all types— hortatory, declaratarys,,pUigioue•,aait( humorous, and it is `ev'ident that the' "Pub" Where Dick Turpin Got His Rum Is Closed Hatfield, Eng. -''The Eight Bells," famous old "Pub" in which Dick Turpin guzzled his runs be- tween "jobs",on the highway, has been forced Out of business. Red-. dents voted they had too many •saloons. Bill Sikes, -the tough old. thief-. master of Dicken's "Oliver Twist" also was a patron of "The Eight Belts," whose .. ancient doors will never again:open to the notorious or the celebrated who .pass along the North Road. Scriptures. and the' poets have been dfligeritly• aearched''and that thk nak ors of tags in dog I'�ati f have not beeii idle. Without- comjng^; down on the e• side of thelnotto'phil for mdttoblinbe i t; we can safely assure the committee that hi our considered judgment no suitable motto`; eithet•in 57r#gl;#sli 'o,r Lathe, has einergetl • Trent i,ttie •°1dult tilde .pf suggestions made. "Ties belug sq, , w,e think It, useless. to set out to find, much less to' frame, a..m itto, It may' he 'that, the motto,,,, ..• which will appeal to all Londoners ; hwl� ,spoiler or later emerge spontan-? eousiy out of sonic striking event in, the Council's history Flails et:ent cap$ipqt be; depetuie uj, on to ha e a vitl}lA; any i <de alilje length of•.time. Otther great cities of the world haveiuvatiagiy, lopked to past ratherthan,tp ftlittire'hietaay for their mottoes, { V' A certain amount • Of '61ilculty has been created by the committee's de- ctslon to us no language' but iE»g15sh. Excluding this restriction tie Shat; suggestiarh made th Ju1v 119i4,'was by far. they best and'°considered ei ,fir ly appropriat0,;' The citizen's of the ottl' Boman Londinium are represented by Tacitus as refttsing to ;dee lie.•fore tits, advance of Boadicea because, they said, "Loci duicedo nos attinet" (',`The charnt of alt's plane, holds us").; sew-. ever, -1,n these days when all who can go out of town for the week -ends and a vast number of those who work tai London dwell in the ,suburbs, this motto„ 'would,, perhaps, seen a trifle cynical, .I A New York bandit was mired of criminality by . three operations;,, two more than Were performed by the di& tine V'agittea, "Even a dumb waiter may have a clever head on his.shoiilder. Arid :now #101, Sovaetl, 1114011 IS Selling bands• irzt Amer! be, fn"donipetitic n with our struggling Wall paper industry,. Great 'a runher as Lloyd Hahn is. he has yeti to attain the speedo! the i nglfsii boy'told' ab'oht it In Tit-Bitd: Said , a friend to the young felow's, mother; "Your boy must be an ex. ciptionally fast runner, I see the morning paper states, that he "faintly burned' up the; track under his redo>rd- breaking .speed. I st(ppose you"be him do it, "4No, I didn't see him do it,"s replied ..the 'mother, "but the report must be correct, ect, for I saw the track tills monitfg aid there was nothing but cinder% t ero."' That the budgeting of the sprit' wardrobe is greatly facilitated by th present style trend of combinin printed silks with woolens for the ear liest , ensemble modes is confirmed wherever there are shop windows t study. The unwritten law of forret seasons, that prints more properly be long to June openings, finds itsel demoded, and this decree serves t make the accustomed early plain sil elimination prove to be important 1 the budget sense of the word Keenness of competition compels the producer of moderately priced fab- rics to supply the best designs for at least one branch of his trade. Thi stattement is submitted as a fact in modern merchandising methods which budgeteers may cheerfully adopt. If however, little time is at one's dis posal and a leisurely examination o the shops is, therefore, impossible, a study of the leading spring magazine devoted to women's domestic inter estts reveals both outstanding fabric reproductions and the newer types o dresses and coats in direct relation thereto. , Three Classifications in Design. Good things thus proving them- selves to be available at modest prices an examination of the leading design trends reveals a styling easily. classifi- able under the following subheads: (1) Tailored prints; means, of course, small, neat patterns that relate well to the wavers designs of th ensemble woolens, (2) Landscapes, Americana, and tribal Indian lore -floral motifs- and otifs and geometric forms of marked pat- tern and color interest, intended for less practical afternoon wear. (3) De- signs and colors alloted specifically to evening dress, whicli consist of large scattered single flowers or sprays, exotic branches and leafage, or multi- color all-over designs. • Any consideration of practical silks begins with the printed tweed pat- terns on crepe -de -chine, canton or morocain, crepe faille, radium, or shantung, as an accepted styling, here and abroad. Last _season's closely covered spacings of small oblongs, squares, dots, spots or circles, reap- pear in appealing colorings, practical and becoming to both youthful and nature, large and small women. With- in these ranges the collegiats de - mends, business and professional need's, the suburbanite's requirements, train, steamer and,.motor service, re- sort; and town wear, are met, Such types of design conform in color to the widespread tweed vogue, in soft blendings of the beiges, tans, grays, gray -blues or gray -greens, nut -browns, the .faint gray -violets and thistle -pur- ples. Again; . they may introduce the mixttures, or mottled, speckled and streaked effects, such as the jerseys offer. Closely Spaced or. Gay Motifs. g and will be worn throughout the sea- s son, If, on the other hand, one can g ,individualize the finished dress or - coat, one may use dots with prolong- ed satisfaction—until September, in t fact, er A break in the silk designs occurs - where graceful floral patterns begin f to appear. They also adopt small, o closely spaced arrangementts, but k with a change of expression which n presents them as more decorative and less uttilitarian in theme. All the rosete flowers, the climber rose, prim- rose, daisy, wild rose, pear, peach and plum blossoms, carnation, .marigold, s ,geranium and small chrysanthemum, are introduced as motifs upon both dark and light grounds and upon lus- trous crepes and silks, as well as the dull sheer materials. One of the most f attractive in color handling is that which makes use of beige or gray mo- s tifs on white grounds, or the reverse treatment, and these combinations are used in ensemble relation to beige f gray or white woolens, or the heavier silk crepes and shantung, with great chart and simplicity of effect. On the other hand, clear, bright colors and dramatic motifs have been Highly perfected for those who like them, and, in almost endless profu sion, subtly contrived designs arrive from both foreign and domestic sources. The boldly composed color schemes frequently choose dark grounds, of black, navy, cinnamon, shadowy -green or purple. , Poetry in Evening Frocks, For au afternoon dress of the newer draped silhouette, which can be pro- perly worn over into the evening hours, considerable fullness is this season introduced, for which a four - yard length is a good average, Hip swathings, with many loopings of sash lengths, side draperies or full -gather- ed sections, give to the varied color- ings the charm of the blurrings of na- ture's hues in a garden. In quantity, the material required for the more elaborate type of gown measures from four to five yards. One of the season's print innova- tions is the ensemble wrap composed of a large square of matchedfabric, designed to replace the Spanish shawl. These self -fabric shawls are finished with hemstitched borders, with plain borders of the predominant tone in the prined design, or with hand -knot- ted frings, , The transparent velvet square, thus handled, also accom- panies the more exotic printed chiffon evening Triode, elaborate wardrobes as- sembling a number of pastel=tone squares. All in all, the season's vogue of printed fabrics establishes, to • an ex- traordinary degree, possibilities of artistically successful wardrobes at exceedingly moderate cost, when ,pro- duced by competent workers in the home. •And this Is due, in large de- gree, to the adoption of French orig- Wills as the inspiration of "those Amerioan pattern companies which appeal to women of taste. It is well to recall that the repro- duction of the polka dot in cheap silks. and both heavy and sheer cot- tons .will follow•, as the season pro- gresses. A good rule with the first moves under current conditions would be to avoid too great an outlay for dotted silks; but to adopt a Middle course of enjoying the sprightliness of • the design with a modest expendi- ture, although "dots and spotts" can Although this is a leap year, a writer thinks that women will not make proposals of marriage. They will somply continue to insist on rem calving thein. • Germany Reduces Prices To Drew Tourist Throngs Berlin.—With the approach of the "tourist season," which, according to ail indications, wil bring an unpre- cedented number of Americans to Eur- ope, the question of the cost of living arises. For a great many of those visitors, probably, such a trip means long saving and many sacrifices, and on the prices which they must pay while here depends the length of their stay. It can be said truthfully that In Germany priceshave been cut down to bedrock and It is possible to live and travel very cheaply. In the greater part of Germany 10 per cent. is added to the bills for tips, and it Is not necessary to give more than this. German taxicab chauffeurs, while grateful for any gratuities, no longer expect them, and the passenger wil hear a polite "thank you" if he pays only the amount registered on the taximeter. (Editorial Note: — Ontario should take note). Prince of '>i lea irnprowes As & Speaker ire'Publia Sidon—The Prince of Wales la belie'v'ed to have ham. under the Mining of exports* do /nubile speak' tar, as 'raw" of bit suanxaerisene have disappeared, and ha reeaent speeakuea, he has shown far greeter repose, Sae ruow sneaks at dinners with. sae band fn We pocket and the Ober do repose on the table, Formerly be used; to pull at his goat in a mannerWhich 'became so noticeable that picture records of ,his public appearauxcea where erten laughable. Hands, with the Fritnoe, as with .•all persons who sneak or ring in 'public, were a serious ,problem. But he bee learn- ed how to keep them out of his way. A Tribute To Thomas Hardy "There ins something 'singularly. harmonious and satiafaetory to the: ming! in Thomas Hardy's career--ao few ,external ' events of the usual b:io.. grapltjlcal banality, such deep, un- thwarted, unfrustrated reticenc=e,"I writes John Cowper Powye, well- known English novelist, in Marok Current History. "As with Shakes- peare, his life ie• in his work.... Ixi.s novels form a kind of classic viaduct from the pondrrou.s forums of the. Victorian 'ago to the hurry-buxiy aft the modern market place. But the final overtone of Hardy's attitude to life hovers above all these changing fashions. The soil to which he re- mained faithful all his days, and in which his heart has now been laid, rewardred him for hila stubborn fidel- ity. By a passionate love of the Par, ticular, he attained the Universal. 13y an intense scrutiny of the hedgehog on his lawn he approached the secrets of the Zodiac." Submarine slogan: Join the Navy and see the next world. "NEVER MIND, OLD DEAR" 0, Berlin Landlord Seeks Real Conservation Rent for Sky Planes' Ilse Perches Placed on Lighthouses Berlin.—Rent for the air through which the Lufthansa airplanes fly on their regular service route was a new To Save Tired Birds schemer devised by Samuel Schwarz, • • From Sea the owner of a house in Zehrlen, near Berlin.London.—The Royal Society for Pro. tection of Birds has become a sort of tourist agency for the bird world, As the time for spring migration approaches, the society has taken steps to aid the little travelers and make their airjourneys as comfort-, able as possible. With this end in view large perches or bird rests have perty." On the strength of this Herr been erected around the tops of vari- Schwarz wrote the Lufthansa demand. ous lighthouses which are an te birds' favorite flying route around the The daily flight of th pjlanes above means of turning the latest traffic in - his house inspired Schwarz to seek novation into profit, He unearthed a moldy paragraph of the German real estate law reading: "The rights of a property owner extend to the space above and the graund beneath his pro- ing settlement of the current and past rentals. In a courteous letter the Lufthansa called the claimant's attention to para- graph 1 of the air traffic law entitling airplanes and airships to a free pass- age through the air in' so far as they conformed with the existing air traf- British Isles. The bright beans 01 the lighthouses were held to be responsible for the death of tens of thousands of . birds annually. Often being tired by their long flights to the north and south the birds, flying .at • night, are attracted• flc regulations, and also to paragraph like moths to a candle by the brilliant 905, rebutting the one he had quoted:`Plight. Finding no, refuge -tae flocks, "A real estate owner is not entitled to.lin numerous instances, became con-. prohibit the approach to his property fused and flew round and round until from above or below at a height or exhausted • and finally. fell 'to their, depth not confic_ting with his inter- death in the spa. • gists ' The same'beanis now point the way to a haven of rest: The perches ars ` �1 of wood Vis Bunt Cecil says another greatea wan would break u 1vili I ranged in rows around the dome and or iron supports, being a the base of the lamp, Feed boxes are . aai p provided. The willow -warblers, thrushes, the black -caps, larks, and uightingalea, §q carding to reports ase'elhblerl '117 the soolet's`, 3lirferoa "tie heaviest los on their yearly adventurous travels ad these birds fly at low altitudes, the older members of the flock, leading the wad'' and the babies bringing up in the rear, An Ancient Custom in Old Greece (Valid It of IOW .CELE8i#ATING EASTER IN THE NEAR EAST he /told Orphanage att Spa, Greece, planting an taster Cross en a Wield° near their soltall, Tho prime optimist of the ysar it the statistician who says one Cana, dian In each five knows how to drive a oar, -4 !1'11'ed Thomas;•'"1 believe this is the dorg you lost, ma'am," Ohl Lady; "The poor little darling! Where d14 you find him?" Tired Thomas: 'gave $20 to some scoundrel for "Ira,, ma'am," "When two people ilk@, the safic thing their married life Is bound to be llappy," sighed the romantio "Well, you and George otlbht to be eiap»y," :xitmarked her friend, 'whq xited' George and did'nt got Turn, know you love him, and X notice he's, tory fond of hitnaeit,"