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Zurich Herald, 1931-06-11, Page 6e 4 ANITH-THE-1::;- toN-FSCQUT c 1rtY.� "id; News this week comes from West- ern Ontario, where Lone Scout Boost- ers have been at work in Lucan and Drumbo, with the result that several new members have joined our ranks in those places, and appearances seem to indicate the speedy formation of Lone Patrols in those -two centres. All Lorries in this province will wish tlieni "Good Scouting," Things continue to boom at Penedo)]. Falls, where the Lonies have been un- der the keen leadership of Patrol Leader Doug. Warren, Now we hear that in order to accommodate more members, the Beaver Patrol has split into two sections, making a new Patrol to be called the "Foxes," under Ken Menzies, who will be the Patrol Lead- er of that section. Last week quite a lot was said in this column about Camp, which is al- ways of interest to Scouts. This week I want to pass on a lit- tle information on this subject which all Lonies should know and which should be carefully followed when a camping expedition is being planned. First of all comes the task of pre- paring the necessary equipment and deciding what to take and what to leave behind. As this depends largely upon the duration of the Camp and the method of transport I do not pro- pose to discuss this matter in this article, but will save it for a future oc- casion. This week I will confine my remarks to generalities which would apply to any camp, irrespective of its length, or type - Choosing the Sits,—This is an im- portant matter, as a camp can be made or marred by its location. There are several things to take into considera- tion. Chief amougst them is what soldiers call "The Lay of the Land." It is always advisable to keep on high ground and avoid hollows. Hollows bold moisture, from rain, dew, mists, etc., and in the event of a rain storm the camper stands the risk of being quieltly flooded out. Therefore, keep tq the higher ground, preferably a gentle slope, but not so high as to be exposed to all the elements in the event of a ,storm. Camp in the open, and not under trees, if you can avoid doing so. Place your tent where lots of sunshine and air can get at it, Be careful, however, to be near to some shelter from wind, and shade from sun. Always consider the question of water before you locate. It is always a nuisance to have to carry water from a great distance, so have this vow necessary commodity in. mind when picking your site. 1Vater.—Be careful that your water is not contaminated and that it is fit to drink, Slow, stagnant streams are usually harborers of disease germs. Avoid them. A clear spring with a clean source, or a quickly running stream with a good gravelly bottom is very much more safe. When in doubt, do not drink any. water which has not been boiled. Cooking Places.—These should be located where the prevailing wind will blow the smoke away from your camp, and not into it. Keep your fires away from the tents. Small fires are better to cook on than large ones, and be careful not to start a forest fire. Make sure _that your fire is quite out before leaving, and find out if permissibn has to be obtained before you ever light one. Cleanliness.—Keep your camp clean. Never throw rubbish about, but dig a hole and put all refuse into it, and see that it is neatly covered in before you go away. Scouts always make a spe- cial point of leaving their camp site cleaner than when they arrived on it. In that way the owner of the property is glad to permit Scouts to camp ou his land, and will welcome you. back. Swimming.—Take care that your swimming place is safe. Don't swim in strong currents, or where there are weeds. And don't stay in louger than fifteen minutes at a time:'—"Lone E." Russian. Factories Behind Schedule • Moscow.—Leaders of Soviet Russia huge factories and drafting elaborate are beginning to realize that building plans for production do not mean the solution of their industrial problems. Reports of several lapses in the indus- trial program reached. Moscow recent- - - ly. .r, i""e published a disclosure of "unsatisfac- iiory" conditions in the farm ma- chinery factory at Rostov, one of the largest, and asserted that •the poor work done in assembling machines amounted to a "catastrophe." The paper said the superintendent of the assembling department had been discharged because he gave out false production figures. He claimed 433 machines were ready for shipment ;whereas investigation showed there :were only 20. On May 25, for example, investiga- tors at the Rostov plant found that not a single mowing machine or binder had been turned out although the pro- gram called for 100 mowers and 110 binders. Some of the trouble is attributed to sabotage, but it is generally admitted that unskilled workers are to blame. The World Depression Auckland Weekly News; No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that the world depression was pro- duced by mechanical forces too mys- terious to be explained. A combina- tion of many causes, active over a long period, culminated in the depression, but they are all indentifiable as human errors, in which Governments and peo- ples have persisted in spite of warn- ings of inevitable consequences. Re- iiovery will not be achieved by resting In the security of dogmatic theories, but by repairing the mistakes in pub- lic and private conduct by which the world has again been plunged into mis- fortunes exactly similar to the bitter experiences of successive generations In th.e past. Exports of Canadian Butter Montreal Presse: Canadian butter is again entering the British market. We still have a long way to go be - are we recover the ground we have est in the matter of exports to xreat Britain, In 1905 sales of Canadian butter in England amount- ed to 573,449 boxes, or 32,113,144 ounds, whilst In 1930 no more than 63 boxes were dispatched. The fact 19, that we have practically lost nr foothold in the British market eince the War, New..Zealand and [Denmark having captured our posi- tion. Reduction in World's Wheat Acreage Forecast Washington.—A reduction in world wheat acreage outside Russia . and Chitin; for the 1031-32 season was said by the Department of Agriculture to be definitely in ,prospect, the .decrease being approximately 2 per cent. and 'Oe total producing area aggregating 131,865,000 acres, as against 185,278,. b00 acres last year. The Willingdons in India Bombay Times of India In taking up the task that Lord Irwin has laid down, Lord Willingdon has great qual- ities that will serve him well. If we could only all join together, said Lord Irwin, "in a single united effort we should already be more than half -way to success." That surely is work for the leadership of which Lord Willing- in Bombay during the war a rare and distinctive genius for getting' men to make that "single united effort"; and it is, too, work to which we hope Lady Willingdon, who is as welcome to India as the new Viceroy, may devote her great ability. Japanese Sit at Table To Eat, Amercian Style During the last ten years Japan has turned to foreign. -style restaurants with such keen interest that it is now possible to sit at tables and eat with knives, forks and spoons in more than 3,000 such eating places in Tokyo; there are more than 21,000 throughout the country. Ten years ago ouly foreigners ate at such restaurants, to escape the dif- ficulties of sitting on a restaurant floor and eating with chopsticks. Now Japanese are the patrons of shops which sell doughnuts, coffee, ice cream pan -cakes with syrup, and ham and eggs, American style. Australian Telephone Gain Australia is steadily improving its position in the list of countries show- ing the most rapid advance in the use of the telephone, and government sta- tistics show that it now occupies sixth place, with 793 telephones per 1,000 of population. Officials regard this as highly satisfactory in view of the country's great area and distribution of population, and the average length of wire required to provide a sub- scriber's service. ,Tho average length of wire to a telephone in Australia Is 4,5 miles, compared to 3.4 in the United States, 3.4 in New Zealand and 2.9 in Canada. Car Loadings in Canada Ottawa,—The downward movement in the volume of car loadings on Cana- dian railroads was halted in the week ended May 16. • With a total of 50,E 468 cars, loadings were 738 cars above the previous week, although 12,109 can below the corresponding week in 1930. The large gain in the week was in coal, which advanced 1,067 care, while grain moved up 384 cars. Losses were recorded by the Dominion Bureau o Statistics in other kinds of freight, the largest being in merchandise, down 449 cars. Buys. Registered Sheep Abbotsford, British Columbia, ---John McKee, a farmer of the Abbotsford district, has just bought tweuI j.bne head of registered Oxford sheep rem the 'University of British Columbia farm. He believes there are excellent prospects in this way. Pitcher Kings of Baseball "Dazzy" Vance of Brooklyn., Robins (right) and Bill Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals, the "Speed Ball Kings of Baseball", disduss their pitching pig or to game at Ebbets Field. When opposing bats- men step up to the plate. while these boys are pitching, it's just too bad if they don't keep their eyes on the ball, India's Living Standard Based on Livestock New Delhi, India—Standards of liv- ing on the North American Continent are more or less judged by the owner- ship of a ear and a radio, but in India livestock takes the place of .the auto- mobile. California may have a car for every five persons, but in India aui- mals average two to every three per- sons. The livestock population in British India at the last census totalled 216,- 819,000, oxen and buffaloes alone num- bering 151,146,000. Sheep and goats accounted for 61,897,000 of the grand total; while horses, ponies, mules, don- keys and camels numbered 3,776,000. Bulk of Butter Imports In April From Australia Ottawa.—A total of 497,562 pounds of butter was imported into Canada lash month, according to a reply given in. the House of Commons by Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce. Of that total, 499,944 pounds cane from. Australia, 7,100 pounds , from New ,• Zealende , •acid .518 rrunr o't$er--countries.' The average retail price of creamery butter per pound in'Canada during April was 323' cents. The lowest ue- tail price per pound at which creamery butter sold in. Canada during the pre- sent month was 24 cents. Record Test Calgary, Alberta.—What is believed to be a record butter -fat test for a cow of any age or breed is claimed by Norman S. Clarke, of Diclsbury, Alberta, for the three-year-old Jersey . cow "Waikiki Xenia's Fancy," which, days recorded a return of 9.8 per in official R.O.P. test for the past sizty cent. The butter -fat content is certi- fied by K. Ring of the Dominion Gov- ernment cow -testing staff, and at this rate, the cow, in her average flow of two gallons of milk per day produces the equivalent of two and a half pounds of butter. Rome's Population Gains Rome—This city has gained more than 250,000 in population in the past 10 years and 57,000 since last year. A. census just completed gives 'a total population of 971,645. Education By Mail Regina, Saskatchewan. — Approxi- mately 6,000 students are now en- rolled' in the correspondence courses instituted last year by the Saskatche- wau Department of Education. Five thousand of the enrolments are from rural districts. These correspondence courses are arranged to supplement the work being done in the elementary and secondary schools of Saskatche- wan for boys and girls who, for vari- ous reasons, have been unable to at- tend school as much as they would have desired. B.C. Poultry Highly Favored Vancouver, B.C.—World-wide inter- est continues to be shown in British Columbia poultry for breeding pur- poses. Orders were received the other day for White Leghorn Cockerels for Southern Rhodesia, South Africa. Al- so, one of the large breeders at Sao Paulo, Brazil, ordered three White Leghorn cockerels and one Rhode Is- land Red of leading British Columbia strains. Those orders were placed through'fiie; Rt0.P. organization, Van- . an- , i e to • When.'`, You Get the Five Cents?' Cub Reporter (to editor who is re- tiring) c "What is your recipe for suc- cess?" Editor: "I attribute my ability to retire with $100,000 after 30 years in the printing field to close application to duty, pursuing a policy of strict honesty, taking good tunes with the bad, always practicing rigorous econ- omy and to the recent bequest of $99,- 999.95 left me by. an uncle." Roumania Faces •,c • $59,000,000 Deficit Bucharest, Roumania—Constantine Argetoianu, Finance Minister, said in a recent address at Carjova that the1 1931 state budget will total $177,000,- 000, and that the nation faced a deficit of $59,000,000. This figure does not include the de - fleas of railway and government en- terprises. To. a rational being it is the same thing to act •according to nature and according to reason. --Marcus Aure- i us. iiti Governments to Study Tidal Power Scheme Washington. — Canada and the United States have agreed to appoint commissioners -to study a project de- signed to develop hydroelectric power from the flow of tides in the Bay of Fundy. The works would be on the Passa- maquoddy Bay, an arni of the Bay of Fundy, along both the coast of Maine and•of New Brunswick. Commissioners to make a scientific study of the project will be announced shortly by the State Department. Permission for the construction of the works has already been granted by the Power Commission, War De- partment and Bureau of Fisheries. As a result of a question raised by the Canadian Bureau of Fisheries over the possible effect of such works .on the herring fisheries industry in the Bay of Fundy, Canada and the United States agreed to appoint another joint commission to study this phase of the enterprise. `This commission will not concern itself with the practicability of the project. So far no study has been made by the United .States Government of the economic practicability of the pro- posed project, which will be carried out by Dexter P. Cooper, Inc., of East- port, Maine, if the commissioners' re- port on t'-1 fishing phase is favorable. • youse one uv don f?;'.ers wot don't ..believe in doing tiro things ter ming?"' "Two things? Why, I'ni one uv dem .chaps wet don't berlieve in doin' one thing ter wunst." White and brown or white and black are correct combinations for either real sports or spectator sports shoes. The heel should mark the distinction between the two. Speed Enthusiasts' Joy —ow type nrotoreyelo, built' especially for an as ,'snit on world's motorcycle spsed record, r:•': 1' maize its appearance in Lonrlo i l m land: tictiv • s tream-hire machine is fitted with supe icr ea" A. W. Si;ncock, who will ride it'ist • Wr; 1.1%.r roe.rxti attempt at Budapest, Tropes to exceed present mark of over.159 miles all hour by Own 50. mics. German Baron I Happy in Canada Ancestral Home Replaced by Hut on Saskatchewan Farm Montreal—From the ancestral castle which for the past 750 years has stood in a huge forest 'domain i:n Hanover, Germany, to a shack in the' busk eouu- try in Northern Saskatchewan, that is the change made in the past two years by Baron Diede'rieh Vincke. From a crack cavalry regiment where an officer's sabre swung against his thighs for 17 years, to handling the broad steel of a ploughshare. "It is different, yes. It is not the same life," Baron Vincke said when interviewed here by a correspondent of the Montreal Daily Star. "I am a different man—and yet I am happy in what I now do. I am glad that I have Dome to Canada." It is no rich man's plaything, this farm in the Tu: `leford district of Sas- katchewan. Baron Vincke, smilingly admits that he cannot 'afford such toys. And he is very serious. when he talks of what he hopes to do with his precious 360 acres of rich black soil. For the love of land is deeply implanted in him and his family. It has already been said that the house of Vincke had been established for 750 years on one estate in Hanover. Much to Learn "I have tried to learn how to farm here in Canada," he said. "I knew that I had much to learn when I came here two years ago. For eight months I then worked on different farms as a farm hand. I learned how to plow. I learned how to seed. I learned how. to clear land, and I learned how to harvest. "And now I have my farm. The laud is mine, and it feels good to have cleared out most of the bush. I have chopped clown. poplar and pulled up willow. I have had one good crop already. "Of course—" he spread his hands and smiled, "When I had my crop the price of wheat fell. That is very bad. But I shall stay on with the land. One always can live there. And some time the price of wheat will once more go up." Served in War Baron Vincke served with his. cave airy regiment throughout the war. He was with the mounted troops that first leaped the boundary lines into France: Later he was in the trenches with the dismounted cavalrymen. "Near me live many who were sol- diers oldiers in the Canadian and American armies," ire said, "Yes, we talk about the war. But we'men who have fought each otherno longer hold bit- terness. -War is a terrible thing and we try to forget it, and. we hope that never' again will there be suck a thing." Italy's Backbone Shivers .Daily From Earthquakes Rome.—Earthquakes shiver up and down the Apennine razor backbone of Italy at the rate of more than one a day, or an average of 433 a year. Professor Palazzo, weather bureau •chief for man years, who receives and classifies the quake reports, has come to the conclusion that earth -shocks prefer some months of the year and some hours of the day. July is the favorite month; then come August, September and January. Quakes choose to wreak their havoc at night rather than in the day., The favorite 'hours are between midnight and 4 o'clock in the morning. It will be remembered that Iast July's ter- rible quake came at 1 o'clock in the morning. Kitchens To Go Way Of Horse and Buggy Buffalo, N.Y.—Eventually all food will be prepared in central factories, independent grocers, members of co- operative "Red and White" organiza- tion, were told in convention here by Gordon C. Corbaley, president of the American Institute of Food bistribu- tors. • Because housewives to -day are bet- ter etter informed by newspapers, maga- zines, cooking schools and the radio, food dealers must keep up.to-date if they hope to succeed, Miss Katherine A. Fisher, of the Good Housekeeping Institute, declared, ,. 2 New Destroyers Due About July 3 Ottawa—The two Canadian destroy- ers, Saguenay and Skeena, will reach this country on or about July 3, It was announced recently by officials of the Department of 'National Do - fence here, The new warships will travel together across the Atlantic, taking the northern route. Front Halifax, H.M,C.S,, Skeena, under Commander V. G. Brodeur, will pro- ceed to her home station at Esqul- ruault, B.C., travelling via the Panama, Canal. Editor: "Do youkr otv IoW •to 'rima a newspaper?" Applicant; "N'o, sir." Editor; "•WelI, I n tri' you, I guess you've hadexperience."---Path. l linde % 1 A shrill voice allied to a tendency to telk too winch in a wife might I we." became grounds for adivorce, ste• a French Government expert on r ., csss. •