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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-03-05, Page 2F ir# # "Be Just to 'Great Britain Says American Journal (From Chrif1,ian Science Mon;ko .) Accord.:.ng to a statement issued by the British Government, a debt pay- ment was made early this week on the part of that nation to the United States Trertsurr of $94,339,000. Of this amount $28,000,000 is for repay- ment ea: principal, while the balance represents interest. Since the fund- ing l f the pritish war debt, that na- tion has paid to Us, United States $1,285,150,000, of which .$202,000,000 represents repayment of principal. Roughly speaking, therefore, Great Britain has paid the United States es interest something over $1,000,000,000. If one is interested, enough to look up the Treasury figures regarding these payments it will be found that Great Britain lays in interest en - proximately 3,306 per cent. The rates vary during different portions of the sixty -two-year period in which. the in- debtedness is to be discharged. It will be learned at the same time that France pays approximately 1.640 p.c., although France is now recognized as the most prosperous nation of Eur- ope, if not indeed the most prosperous nation in the world. Belgium pays 1,790 per cent. and Italy, the last of the whilom chief allies, 0.405 per cent. It is needless now to go into the justice of these different rates of in- terest charged against the former as- sociates of the United States in the World War. They were fixed at the time of the various refunding agree• ments in accordance with what was believed by the representatives of the United States to be the capacity of the debtor countries to pay. The British agreement alone was not affected by any such conditions. That nation, first of all, approached the United States with the proposition to fund its debt, and assumed honor- ably the staggering burden of inter- est payments thereon. It made no plea of incapacity to pay. It urged no can SW01'0tions of war -time fellowship in a common undertaking. Animated by that sense of commercial honor which may fairly be ascribed to the British public as e whole, the British Govern• ment cheerfully accepted ite obliga- tions and entered into an agreement Zsi.th the United States for thin dis- aharge. As a result, the spectacle ie pre- sented of Great Britain paying on its obligations to the United' States a rate of interest more' than double that paid by Belgium or France, and some- thing like eight tines as much as that exacted of Italy: The reward if com- mercial honor does net seem to have been quite adequate. Today innumerable plans are being proposed for the utilization of the sums paid to the United States as in- terest on the war debts for varione purposes 'advantageous to the coun- tries malting the payments. America is asked to repeat to a degree its bene- volent gesture toward China when the whole amount of the Boxer in- demnity was remitted, the revenues to be employed in the education of Chi- l.ese students. Doubtless a certain un- rest on the part of the American con- science is responsible for the sugges- tion of like action with reference to war indebtedness, and probably in time out of that will proceed some Measure for the revision and perhaps lessening of the nation's claims. But pending that general action, 'it would appear to be a proper recogni- tion of the honorable 'action of a worthy ally should the United States now reduce the rate of interest charg•• d on the British debt to that, let us say, paid by France. There seems to be no just objection to this proposition, while innumerable considerations jus- tify such action. Meat -Eating Dlants prey. "Now, v,ill you walk. into my garden?" asks the pitcher of the fly. La Traps For Pre Tall, sender, lily -like, yellow Rave from florida ore seen et the greed - house of the itotalreel Garden, as ere unning little man cm parrot pitchers --also from that etate—springme in rosettes. They grow about two to three `inches long. Then, too, there are purpurea, so called from their red- dish purple shape—medium-sized perhaps a foot in length, and native to New York, but also met from La- brador to the Gulf. the Ne -r York Botanical Garden which Our North American pitchers show are cloaked in beauty and innocence, a curious seasonal behavior, going whose fragrance and honeys are a lure through the same routine as hibernat inygyanimaJs, reniaryilt,ing claimant in the Many Varieties Lure insects by Fragrance, Catch Them in Snare and Devour Them (By Marion Fairfield Nickell, in The New York Times.) There is a group of plants now at to all kinds ot.tiny insects. Bttt their, a snare alai, a delusion, for the are: carnivorous, and the bit of animal life which yields to their spell i;, caught in a trap from which them is no escape. These meat -eating plants have been gathered from all parts of the world. Here are bright green Venus fly- traps, thumb -nail size, with cruel, sharp spikes along the rims of their two lobed leaves which are always th.e othr hand, are activeall the tithe, ever oiitlie alert for prey. Like all plants, also, the pitchers have a day and night behavior, the breathing"ap- paratus or stomata that open in the day to take in carbon dioxide and to give out oxygen—just the opposite of man—close at night and give out car- bon dioxide. A PLANT OF THE JUNGLE. South American pitcher plants, al- ready to snap together, to crush and though separated from their cousins to devour unwary flies. As soon a> by salt water and with no near rela- edible prey comes in contact with the tives within 1,500 miles, are probably - of the three filaments placed in the related to the northern varieties, bot - form of a triangle on each leaf, the artists say. Most are found in steatn- dinner bell is rung Like super-, ing• jungles and in the hot lowlands intelligent burglar alarms, they get , on one isolated mountain. Mountain instant action. The spikes interlock, ' Roraima, near the borderland of rat -trap wise. There is no escape. ' Brazil, Venezuela and British Guiana, These treacherous Dionaeas come m says Dr. H. A. Gleason, curator at the only from Eastern North Carolina and ' Botanical. Garden, who has made a are strictly American in design. Their 1 special study of this variety. youngest leaves are the hungriest,1 Here, high up, above a 4,000 -foot covered as they ane with minute level of fares(, the heliaanlnhoi'a, mean - glands of a red or purplish color which • ing "pitcher of the swamp." was first have the power of digestive absorp.1 discovered in 1840. The only place tion. Active only in warm weather,1 it has been cultivated for long outside Venus fly -traps have certain food pre- ferences, beetles coming before caviar. Tall darlingtonias also, with leaves curled in mottled, maroon heads—our largest native pitcher-plants—are here, Fabulous tales formerly were told of darlingtonia when first discov- ered in the mountains of California —that this pitcher catches the large, animals, not confining itself to insects; that rodents, even young rabbits and baby (leer, sometimes are its victims. SNAKE -LIKE DARLINGTONIAS But botanists say the plant has been falsely charged. The greenhouse clusters at the New York Botanical Garden are much too slight for such voracious feats. Even the tenderest and the youngest darlingtonias, though, have a menacing aspect with their curling, transparent green heads, forked green flaps resembling fangs— the whole looking Iike the heads of poisonous serpents. The largest darl- ingtonias are but two and a half to three feet long. American pitcher -plants, or spar- racenias, sometimes known as hunt- man's cup, are characterized by ver- tical pitchers, usually with a flap pro- jecting over the top. The stalk, grow- ing directly from the Soil, is short. Most of 'these pitchers, which jump the dry desert regions of the West, ,are found east of the Mississippi from New England to Florida. They like the bogs aid .swamps, growing beet apparently, under evergreens, The trapping apparatus on all the pitcher -plants is essentially the same. First, there is a long, hollow, folded leaf -stalk, whose lower portions, form- ing the actual stomach, have the di- gestive glands :and juices. Above e etnooth, shtmy surface, very steep, vary' skipper t. Further above are mine sets hai'rts pointing down. And around the pi be 'is bt'ini are honey gland, be atbti a tattd bo itaboechsete their its native habitat is the Botanical Garden of Edinburgh, where it never feels a temperature higher than 60 degrees, and whre it has grown con tentedly for half a century. Specimens of this South American pitcher -plait are to‘be seen in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Museum. Again, two of the more modest varieties of nepenthes, the brillian'•, showy Asiatic pitcher -plant often used by florists are also found in a conservatory of the Manhattan insti•- tutian. Awake and ready, these pit- chers, green with maroon trimming's, stving vertically on tendrils from firm, glossy leaves, their tiny trap -doors in- vitingly open. Crimson, pale green, and richer, darker reds—these Oriental plants grow well in their transplanted stage. Y h. Miss Ev t London, Engle conferred the; D. Edwards, teacher at school of oriental stn les, first woman upon wham an English university has e of doctor of literature in' oriental languages. Rad% t ;: ins the 10.10 a.m. eeds, or by the "-eta London, are ,he hour's of the eo broadcast pre- cge is fitted with i.kires to a receiv- s:van, On pay - air of telephones *train attendant. Those who tr`: train from Lon 5.30 pan. from able to while a ;_-a journey by liste grams. Every sockets connecte ing set in the g ment of a quart can be hired frog All the pa sengerahen has to do is to plug in and lista• '... The receiving*tltravels in a pad- ded wooden cask'•ti:.protect it from jolts and jars. . The aerial is a wire 30 feet in lentil„ stspended over the roof of the van- Dieing the first ex- perimental run-exceil?nt reception was obtained. One point noticed . is that the strength of signals dies' down consid- erably when the train is passing IT t t 1931 May See Many Japanese Revere New Speed Records English Seaman World is Gripped by a Craze The people of Gillingham, Kent,. are endeavoring to raise funds for a for Speed memorial to a famous son of theire. The e orlcl is speed mad. Britain county, who was the first Britieh sub.`"'•• cannot hope to retain the world's ect to settle in Japan. Not only that. but the Japanese have made him a speed records without challenge, for gee! He is a recognized Japanese skilled engineers all over the world divinity, and a "fast day" has.beele aro determined to wrest thein fromdedicated to Tim. A street in •Yeclde':. us this year, is called after. hien, Capt. Malcolm Campbell made an i ! • Pilot .Major William Adam* was attempt to beat Sir Henry Segrave's one, of the lags( rnrilantie seaineil ad record of 231.362 miles per hour, auci venturers of, his day, though 'his -lramiY au Australian motorist has announced is unknown to the average nglish- this intention to try to win the honor man Indeed,' it is a source of be "' for the Dominion, The world's water record, 98.7 mites,, an hour, set up by Sir Henry Segrave; is to be challenged by Kaye Don With Miss England II, the boat in which Se- grave lost his life. In aviation, many countries hope to best the 357 miles per hour achieved by Squadron -Leader Orlebar; an at- tempt will be made to fly higher than the 41,704 feet attained by W. Neven- hofen, the German; and three English- men are likely to make an effort to fly round the world in record time. United States airmen hold the record at the' moment. They flew 27,000 miles in 336 flying hours. Several swimmers will .try to beat the record English Channel time of 11 hours 5 minutes, held by G. Michel. Both universities have ambitions of improving on the Oxford record of 18 minutes 29 seconds for the Varsity boat rose.—From "Pearson's 'Weekly." Miners Offer To Sell. Diamonds For a Quarter Georgetown, British Guiana.—Tales of rough diamonds selling for $3 a carat and the sellers being unable to find a willing purchaser, even at that price, are being brought here by dia- mond3niners returning from the rich. Mazaruni and Cuyuini districts. The steamer Basra arrived here from Bartica with 264 starving min- ers aboard, all of whom had been evacuated from the affected region by the government. The miners reported that storekeepers in the mine fields refusd to pay for the din Inds even in food, or if payment was made in food the diamond miners were unable to earn more than $2 or $3 a week. Prices quoted by shopkeepers in the diamond fields are reported by miners reaching here to range from 25 to 50 cents for a quarter carat hrough a taunt i oaa deep cutting, for stone on up to 37 for two -carat stones. he earth acts +;ass screen from the Formerly a tarter carat stone sold ;:xe�naP-yc zgra.4.t,"anda;carat s tone. brought' t' a . -earmsrdamabla: As..i: esilt hon- dreds of miners are seix--reported be deserting the mining region for the coast, and the government has arrang- ed for free transportation from Bar- tica to Georgetown. Autos an Mak-Believe Some old •t+iier :skates, an empty wooden bob neetriele of tin cans and perhaps some paint or Crayon .are enough to make ,,the speedy foot - riven automobiles that are popular with New York's street urchins. The 600 miles of Bread skates ere the wbeels; the box is the body; the cans are used for head- Eaten By Londoners makes lights. Color the car. More London—IL the total bread loaves gorgeous in appearan'ee—if not in the known as half-quartern, were placed most approved taste—and sometimes a real hand -worked horn, or tiny siren, is employed to clear the way. With such contraptions, - boys tear nearly 1,500,000 tons of wheat and through the streets regardless of, the 218,000 tons of flour in addition. to competition of teeicabs. home supplies. • Merger of Canadian Chemists Ottawa.—Signifirant of present-day manufacturing trends and a matter of direct concern lo all Canadian process industries, numbering more that 35, is the step taken by Canadian chem- ists and chemical Industrialists who, meeting in Ottawa, merged existing Canadian chemnteal societies to form for the first time a nation-wide federa- tion, the Canadian Chemical Associa- tion. This association will ,be con- cerned with develop/tient in all the chemical industries, with scintilla and technical education and seientifia research, and its membership em- braces such. varying manufacturing methods as ceralnios, foodstuffs, dyes and textiles. .1. R. Donald, of Mont- real, chemical engineer, is ' president, and J, Houston Wilson, of Toronto, secretary. enol to end the 25,000,000 eaten. in London wraekly, would stretch 600 miles. London imported, in a year, Flu Epidemic In Britain Sweeping Over Country London. --The ;, wave of influenza which has been :weeping England and Wales, became snore widespread last week, accordinir to official figures made public on jFeb. 19th. Deaths fron influenza increased during the wee by 125 as compared with the previous week, totalling 45(i in London and'tbe great towns. The number If deaths since the first of January was 1,585, against 434 for the same periori last year in the same towr:s. • 'I here were 116 deaths from influ- enza in London alone last week. Glien : "Yes --never mind that. It'es d probably myhusband's inst wild. know all about bel`." Russia Organizes Work On Island of Sakhalin The Soviet Union, through its newly organized Company for the Develop- ment of Sakhalin, is proceeding with the exploitation of that island off the east coast of Siberia, The company is now colonizing 10,000 new settlers, mainly builders, miners and fisher- men, recruited from various parts of the Union. These colonists have raised the population of the island to about 32,500. Special attention is being paid to agriculture, lumber and the fishing in- dustry. Four large State farms are being organized to produce Potatoes and other vegetables as well as neat and dairy products. Until now these articles were mainly imported from Vladivostok- In the lumber industry, the company has begun the construc- tion of two large mills, a veneer fac- tory, a barrel and box factory, and a tie mill. In the fishing industry the 1928-29 output was more than quad- rupled in 1929-30. Preliminary operatious for the ex- ploration. of coal and oil. deposits an the island: are now being 'undertaken, ...ante Some mine, are .being prepared mire 'a z lot .ti Bate r develolrments include the construction' of nbaut'900 miles of dirt roads, '1'o augment breakfast supplies over 140,000 tons of bacon and hams 'and 73,000 tons ofeggs came into towns and 160 tons of butter were added 10 what was received from Home farms. Australia, New Zealand and South America provided 66'0,000 tons of chilled and frozen meat as well as 111,000 tons of dried fruit, currants and raisins. In response to the "Eat more 'frust" campaign London took from over- seas 621,000 tons •of green fruit and vegetables and canned goods. These purchases, amounting in all to nearly 5,000,000 tons, take no ac- counts of such foodstuffs as cocoa, rice, sago, honey, jam and marina - lade. Old -World Charm Qu slide city can rival any European ni,al ,vol city to nag's o ,v and gtlai, eater eat Witness this glimpse 01 the fortressed town. wildern,ent to: .he Japanese that the people of, our country ;have not made 'some'' signal recognition of him long before this. He was beloved by the Japanese during his life, among them, and be- came a friend of the reigning emperor. When he died, a tombstone on a beau- tiful hill near Henli, a suburb of the thriving seaport. of Yokosuka, was erected in commemoration.— From Pearson's Weekly. Visiting Crusoe's Island London. — Twenty-two fortunate • British schoolbc ys are shortly to set foot on the most famous of all the small islands dotted about the oceans of the world. This is Robinson Crusoe's island, which is one of the ports of call in the sixth Public schools ;Empire tour. The tour is to the . West Indies and British Guiana, and another of the memorable sights which the twenty- two will see is the famous Iaietetlr Waterfall. As a result of these Empire tours numbers of young men have a much snore vivid ideaof the meaning of Em- pire—and can help to make others realize it as well. A somewhat similar scheme, design- ed to promote Anglo-American friend- ship, is now being started. Fifty Bri- tish schools—boys', girls', and mixed— have been paired with similar schools in the United States and are exchang- ing letters, photographs, school maga- zines. It is hoped that eventually ex- changes of teachers and pupils will also he possible.—"Answers," New British War Plane Attains 194 Miles Per Hour Loudon—Official announcement was made ou Feb. 22n.c1 that secret tests had been completed of a new type' of fighting airplane which may re- volutionize air combat. Although the machine is only a single seater biplane, it carries six machine guns, controlled In unison and firing a cone of lead converging a few hundred yards ahead of the ship. Two guns fire through the Propeller, the others are set on the wings. Ulants at certain insect pests: A sofa, Fur. 20 -pounce bombs also are caree € sllirush or cloth may ale used on plantli: lied by the fighLing craft, which liegeswith strong leaves. Plants too tender:: a surface ceiling of 26,000 feet and a sustained speed of 194 miles an hour. Predicts Tele' ision Will. Be General In 1933 Toronto.—Radio television will probably become the general thing iu 1933, D. E. Replogle, Acting Director of the Jenkins Television Laborator- ies, Washington, told the Toronto In. stitute of Radio Engineers in the Uni- versity of Toronto iMiining. Building recently. "This fall will see enough televisi n broadcasting•_on the air to interest set manufacturers, and inside o year there sittg be television e?eeei sees in every dealer's .stare Already ' two :Chicago stations ar broadcasting television concerts, an two New York stations are' having,? television broadcasting equipment in. stalled- I'Iis lecture, which discussed the technical aspects of television, wa;r:: also delivered to the Toronto Motiaa Picture Projectors' Association. Soap -and -Water Baths Now Urged for , Plant Plants, like young children, should' be washed with soap and water, a, cording to the Colorado Agricultural: College, which recently has found tltia treatment effective in ridding house New -Feed Product Fort William, Ont.—What is report- ed to be a new and valuable feed pro- duct commonly known as oat groats. is being manufactured at Fort Wil- liam at the rate of, about 100 tons per day. Through. the use of new ma- chines the oat groats are made by hulIiug mixed feed oats. These hulled oats are said to contain about 15 per ceut of protein—almost equal to mid- dlings—and to carry higher percent ages of fat and lower percentage of -bre than do middlings. The Census Ottawa, — Preparations are under way for the taking of the 1931 census Of Canada in which some 15,000 field workers will visit every Canadian home and take note of the number, sex, religion, nationality and other details of the occupants. The Do- minion Bureau of Statistics, which has the work in hand, will also require tate services of some 700 clerks to sift out and compile the information gath- ered: Examinations are being set to test time capacity of applicants for such clerical work. Better Grain Toronto. -As an aid ..towards the. production of better grain at a cheap- er cost, the Ontario Government, iu conjunction with the Dominion, Gov- eminent, are offering farmers of the province assistance inn the installation and equipment of power seed -cleaning plants. Hon. T. L. K.enuedy, Minister of Agriculture, anuounees that assist' once will be given in the form of grants amounting to 50 Per cent. of the invoice Cost of cleaning xnachiues,' plus . freight to the local station, the grant not to exceed $500. for this treatment may be inverted_ and nveitei;and the stems and leaves thoroughly:, doused in a pail of soapy water. Cows Brought to School For Children's Observation, Los Angeles.—The Board of Ediue i tion has discovered that 25 per mite of Los Angeles school children hx :: never. seen a cow, and 50 per cent; have not glimpsed a calf. But tilli board is attending to it. Each day a big truck snorts anti from adjacent Meadowlaud, bear*f 0110 cow and two calves bound for pe lie :schools. Wide-eyed pupils she. at the strange liorned creatures, ani learn all about milk aid steaks an things. Silver Hours" Come, lovely Morning, rich in froi On iron, wood 'and glass; Show all your pains to silver -elle Bach little blade of grass. Come, rich and lovely 'Winter's Fina That seldom handles gold; And spread your silver sunsete 00.1.11 In glittering fold an fold, '' Comme, after suuset; conte, Olt cona', Your clear and frosry Nigitt: Dig -np your Ileitis of diamonds, 'tile cla The Heavens all nco iu light! , ", H. 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