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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-07-02, Page 6Recently a very interesting „article in which they handle same, so that it appeared in the Oshawa Times, writ- can never be recorded that a Lone ten by a Scout Leader in that city who Scout was responsible for the Injury to stated that one evening recently, another person through the careless whilst he was standing in his own gar- den, he was startled to hear the whine of a ,22 bullet as it passed over his Shead, followed almost simultaneously by the crack of the rifle. Apparently some boys, and we are glad to record that they were not Scouts, had just shot a robin, and they were seen to pick it up shortly after- wards and throw it into a nearby field, little realizing that their bullet had passed right through their victim and gone speeding on for nearly another block, past numerous people who might haev been seriously injured. Now apart from the well known fact that "A Scout is a friend to animals" and therefore should not us animals or birds as targets for their rifle prac- tice, there arises the question of who should be permitted to use firearms and who should not. In my estimation no one should, be allowed to carry firearms until he is absolutely conversant with the ordin- ary rules of safety covering their use. As far as the Scouts are concerned, although this organization is non-mili- tary, the use of firearms is not abso- lutely forbidden, and boys are encour- aged to learn to shoot accurately and a badge is awarded for marksmanship. It is, however, very definitely laid down that all instruction for this badge must be carried out under the supervision of a competent instructor, and the target practice rules are very stringent. No doubht quite a number of Lone Scouts are in possession of .22 rifles, and we urge very strongly that they take particular care as to the manner handling of fire -arms. A few simple rules strictly adhered to will help a great dual along these lines and we suggest the following: When carrying the rifle keep the muzzle pointedto the ground, or up in the air if on rocky ground. Never point the weapon at any other person, oven if you know it is unload- ed. Take care that if your bullet misses its mark that it will not be like- ly to injure anything else, Always un- load your rifle or gun before entering` a houss. Do not leave a loaded gun leaning up against a fence, wall, etc., where it is liable to be knocked over and dis- 1 charged. Always clean your gun immediately; after using. If Lonies follow these rules, acci- dents will not happen. We are glad to hear of an interest- ing Church Parade attended by the l Elk Patrol of Mapde recently, at which Scoutmaster Don Hutchinson was pre- sent, and at which the Lonies joined with the Trail Rangers, Girl Guides, etc. We hear that there is likely to be a Troop at Maple before long, and the Lonies in this district are planning another Church Parade at Richmond Hill and have invited the Patrols at Unionville, Markham, Stouffville, etc., to join with them. Some of the members of the Lion and Bear Patrols of the 3rd Troop, who are located at Lakefield, are plan- ning lanning to ' hold a summer camp some- where near Toronto, which can be visited daily by Scoutmaster Vic Shep- pard. We hope they have lots of fun. —"Lone E." Good News For the Farmer Confidence in the restoration of the Canadian -British live cattle trade ap- pears to be returning rapidly and with- in a comparatively short time we may again see a revival—though perhaps in another form—of the very profitable business which existed twenty years or so ago, says The Montreal Daily Star in this editorial. Hundreds of line Western cattle have already gone this year. From Brandon comes the. news of a gathering of more than one hundred stockmen who are unanimous- ly in favor of the organization of a Canada -wide plan for export marketing of livestock and livestock products. They look to the establishment of an export business of between 400 and 500 cattle a week. The objective of the Western. stock- men is a connection with the great Co-operative Wholesale Society of England, one of the biggest buyers of foodstuffs in the world. Already such an agreement exists in a small way, affecting 75 head a week, and the Co- operative is reported to be very favor- ably disposed toward the idea of sup- plying its 5,000 retail butcher shops with Canadian beef If both the quality and the quantity are kept up. To go into the business on this scale means, of course, the erection of plants both in the East and the West, the finan- cing of which will, it appears, be un- dertaken. through the English society, if the bigscale plan now contemplated is carried out, Fresh. -killed Canadian beef should have a decidedly better 'market in Britain than the chilled meat from the Argentine or Australia. While the livestock export business in its widest scope is and will prob- ably always remain largely a Western interest, there seems no good reason why the Eastern farmer can not add. materially to his income by handling a few head of export cattle each year. It was a ready and safe source of in - conte in the East a comparatively few years ago, when steers were stall -fed and shipped from this port from all over Ontario and Qpuebec ready for the abattoir, With the market se- curity and stability which would be assured through connection with the Co-operative Wholesale Society a re- vival of the cattle trade seems about to be assured. Certainly it will be most Heartily welcome, not only on the wide ranges of the West, but on the email dairy farms of the East as well, British Women Value Uses of Electricity London — The members of the Electrical Association for Women believe that electric development on the domestic side would progress with greater rapidity over the whole country if a large number of train- ed women were employed in connec- tion with home service departments and they passed a resolution to this effect at their recent meeting in London. Lady Moir, the new chairman, said that the slow development in the use of electricity in the home was largely attributable to ignorance of its possibilities and potentialities. Mrs. Wintringham, who spoke at the luncheon on the same occasion, said that the provision of electrical appliances and power would relieve or even abolish much of the drudgery connected with the daily round of the country woman.—The Christian Science Monitor. Health Inspection Here is a giant hippo who seem t iuctant to open his mouth for physical inspection, but with aid.-Qf:, ,the feed and the strong arms of a keeper it seems as easy as reedit ••a baby. The hippo probably has his keeper worried because 'he i f only consuming two bales of hay per clay. Business is Improving Winnipeg.—Travelling salesmen at- tending attending the Grand. Council Conven- h tion of the United Commercial Travel- f Ii iers, which opened recently in Winvni- n peg, are proud to agree with the t Prince of Wales that the world still' v, needs good salesmen. a Depression may come and go but these ambassadors of trade and shock troops of business revealed the fact that members of their fra- it ternity are working harder than;?ever tds.of security have been overturned. to make sales. Those who , a1"e on I* lesson of the Deutschland and the the job are getting results. e ,,, lesson of the Customs Union plan are It was announced as the sH ltimeut Aitimately the same. It is a vain hope of representatives from all r s of to keep a great country suppressed by Canada and the United Stales .that means of rules and regulations. Soon - t; business is improving and that ard er or later it will throw them off, and work is reviving prospects genal- j'ie.all the more dangerous through re- enfineitt at their imposition. The only l ` 10' policy for European States id'to d 11 France and Germany lasgow Herald (Cons.) : France yet to realize the absurdity of hor of keeping ex -enemy states, Ger- tty,above all, in permanent subjae- A concrete proof of its futility given recently, when the new. ikman warship was launched at Kiel. Iinitations imposed on German naval c$ istruction have only resulted in that ntry producing a warship so effi- nt: for her size that French stand - and mutual ander.- King's King's Yacht Wins 4 . hr7ate goad will m , Royal Thames Rice ,aanding. Ryde, England—King George's '38- year-old yacht Britannia Ivo?i' tiltA'I_Year Locust Invasion Bull Likes Good Music But Jazz Offends Him Geneva, Ind.—Tosca, a Black An- gus bull with a penchant for good music and a bovine way of applaud- ing its rendition, has been discover- ed on the farm of 0. 0. Ryan, near here. Tosca's love for operatic scores and his aversiou for ragtime has been indulged by Mrs. Ryan, an accom- plished pianist, who has the bull for an audience every afternoon, Snatches from "Rigoletto," "Thais," and other operas never fail to lure Tosca from the barnyard to Mrs. Evans window, where he stands in rapt atentiou with his head cocked to one side dur- ing her playing, and upon the con- clusion of each piece bellows and paws the ground to show his appreci- ation. A jazz or a "blue" number, Mrs. Ryan says, invariably causes the animal to butt the side of the house in annoyance. Tourist Trade Ranks Third In Canadian Industries Ottawa.---- The tourist trade main- tains its position as Canada's third most important - industry. AI - though tourists were more economic- al in their expenditures during 1920, their number increased 3,000,000 over the previous yeas'. An estimate Made by the I omia- ion Bureau of Statistics places at 3279,238,000 the amount left int Can- ada by tourists last year. - This Is below the estimate of $309,379,000 for 1929, but $4,000,000 - ,above 1928 llgures. The 1930 total le divided as foilovrsi Froin the United States by automobile .$202,409,000; from the same country by railroad and steam- er 83t33 � i . via 2 ,000, from all countries q xncoati ports $12,996,000. p1 Ails good conversation, manners and codon., collar front a spontaneity wwltielt forgets usages and snakes the moment great.—ltalp'h Waldo Einer' Half -Finished War Canoes Tell of Ancient Ambush Auckland, N.Z. — Three ancient Maori war canoes, all well preserved, have been found in a forest of Totara timber near New Plymouth, North Island of New Zealand. Woodmen, searching for timber, came on a wide glade itt which all the trees were younger ..than those sur- rounding. Hidden by undergrowth were found the three huge canoes, este completed and the other two near- ly completed. It was an ancient native shipbuild- ing yard and scattered tools and a few skulls suggested that the ship- wrights had been ambushed at their tasks. Royal Thames Yacht Club race ov Harmless Farmers Told a 40 mile triangular course in •a• r � cent race. It was the Britafnia s • Colutlnbus, Ohio.— No alarm need first victory since being eV:1PPed 150 felt. over the advent of the seven - with a Bermudian rig. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. was second, Astra third, and Can- dida fourth. Canada's Largest, Airplane: The largest airplane ever mane - and •and an almost harmless rela- factured in Canada was eeceiltti completed by the Canadian 'rS\tEt''3, tine to'''the harvest fly, although ap- Ltd., of Montreal. The new Mane l pering formidable because of the will be used by the governnieYi for noise made by it and the largo num- forest-fire protection work part, .is bars in which the breed appear. Re - equipped with collapsible canine ;cod eords available in Ohio show that the special wheel beaching gear. It seventeen-year teen-Yin ea'9, 1846st15inva ed the and 1 300 horsepower, twin =this ind teen -year "locust" breed of 1931, v'hich-is now making its appearance n ohlo and a portion of Pennsyl- rauia and Nest Virginia, according �o experts at Ohio State University. The ,experts explained that the seventeen-year locust was really a el - accommodation for six pessen eva - Ambassador Stimulates World Fair Plans Chicago. — Brig. -Gen. Charles G. Dawes, United States Ambassador to Great Britain, banker and a promoter of the Century of Progress Exposition, returned from "Washington, D.C., and Immediately began to stimulate pre parations for the World's Fair here iu 1932. He will be ver busy, he said, as lie weeks, thin n two wee 'un a is returning. to I'' g He said England Is going to send over its finest train for showing at the ea.'', position. lie said the transportation, Building, :sort alrauost Completed, and. its exhibits will bas Modern wander, Interested in Canada On his return to Ottawa from the British 7duipire Trade Fair at Buenos Aires, E. Nash, Poultry Inspector of , the Dominion Department of Agricul--. ture, states that while Canadians ere. espentiaily a new quantity in that part of South America the Canadian Exhibit proved the big attraction of the show. Interest in' Canada has , been stirred as never before and the contacts made may be expected to bring much of benefit to Canada. He sees an -interesting future in the de- velopment of exports of poultry! breeding stock, and at times of low prices in Canada of egg exports for the poultry industry in Canada. Egg. grading in Canada gives Dominion exporters a real advantage In respect to dependable quality in a market where quality as yet is, to put it mild- ly, largely a matter of indifference. New Airport Work To Cost $2,209,674 New York -= The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Inc., announced recently that it had received reports from nearly 100 cities showing that $2,209,674 is be- ing spent for airport construction work this spring. The chamber's statement. said that the airport operators were taking advantage of the decline in building material prices to improve their pro- perties. Munipical governments, the report said, were doing the most in this respect. New World Record FIying continuously for more than three days and nights, a Packard- DieseI-powered Bellanea recently( set a new non -refuelling world's endurance record of .84 hours and 33 minutes. At 6.47 a.m. May 25 the 2254horsepower plane took off from the beach at Jacksonville, Fla,. with a gross load of 6,715 pounds, in- cluding 481 gallons of fuel oil. When the wheels again touched the sands at 7.20 p.m. May 28 the record estab- lished by the Frenchmen Bossoutrot and Rossi, iu a specially constructed plane powered by a 600 -horsepower motor, had been exceeded by 9 hours and 10 minutes. Boy Scouts Prove To Be Good Hands at Foresting Washington, D.C. — Boy Scout troopa have been active co-operators with the Forest Service of the United States Dept. of Agriculture in plant- ing young trees on - vacant lands. In 1929, the former ranger of Ump- qua National Forest:, Ore., took twenty-eight Cottage Grove Boy Scouts to an old cut -over area where natural reproduction was sparse. There they planted 3,000 Douglas fir Increasing Yields The application of a definite scheme of crop rotation is being found an important factor in reducing feed costs. The chief advantages of such a practice are: (1) Maintaining and improving soil fertility, thus increas- ing yields; (2) Assisting in weed con- trol; (3) Assisting in the control of insect and crop diseases by having various crops on fresh soil each year; and it makes a more, even distribu- tion istribution of labor throughout the year pos- sible. Increasing the yield per acre is olio of the best ways of reducing cost of production, and sin, this re- spect crop rotation plays a real part. —Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. Four -of -a -Kind tta,taMss• jait 48, 84. • 4w' w.3 t \'•Y.�,?'j 1t 1,1•4eee. aKr....d,...a'R�.�x.,, l �`'�3•. N icier of a kind has always proved a hard hand to beat and four pictured, above are equally as hard to hr "i'.n'are a drn 1 t and as alike as the proverbial peas in the pod, They - are the Doyle c .t'CNi, alley q a p e s +setons at tos Angeles, Patsy, Adelaide, Catherine and iSXlrtli. They were born on August 10, 1912. A Spectator Earl of Airlie watching Tommy ' Armour win British open golf championship at Carnoustie. Spoil -Sports You will find them wherever you go. There is no escaping them. They rejoice in „their unpleasantness. They cannot enjoy what is going on, and they won't let anyone else have any enjoyment if they can help It. What is one to do with such im- possible people? Sending them to Coventry is a very good way, but these unpleasant individuals have a knack of being impervious to snubs and cold shoul- ders. Turn your back upon them, and round they come on the other side. I am inclined to think that the best method is to ignore them. If you keep it up long enough, and pre- vent these spoil -sports getting their way, they give in eventualy. In the long run, they cannot stand it. And they turn elsewhere to work oft their little nuisances. It is a pity these people cannot see how objectionable they are.--G.H.G. Number of Airplanes Trebles in Five Years Washington..—The number 'of active licensed airplanes in the United States has more than trebled. since 1926. when the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce assumed the duty of regulat'ng aircraft. At the end of 1930, there were 7,354 licensed airplanes, a department bulletin states, compared with 1,908 in 1927. Unlicensed aircraft increased from 832 to 2,464 in the sante period. Statistics on the development of the Federal airways show that at the end of 1930 there were 1,782 airports, 15,- 258 5;258 miles of lighted airways and ex- tensive' xtensive' government communications system's. What Liverpool Likes The Dominion Fruit Branch has just received a copy of the Empire Marketing Board report of its survey of the apple market in Liverpool, Eng- land. It finds that the Liverpool mar- ket prefers the variety Virginia York Imperial best; then in sequence the more familiar Jonathan, Newton - Pippin and Winesap. In boxed apples preference is for Spitzbergen, Deli- cious and McIntosh Red. Barrelled apples in general demand are: Band- wins, Kings, Greenings, Blenheims, Cranberry Pippins; while in addition Stark and Failawater are generally stocked by the retailers. Over 200 re- tailers were interviewed during the survey, and the Liverpool market com- prises a population of about 1,300,000. l --Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. Archaeologists Enter Land of Afghanistan Washington -- The National Geo- graphic Society learned recently that the Trans -Asia expedition led by Georges Marie-Haarclt, and operat- ing with the society's co-operation, has entered Asia and is encamped out- side the old walls of Herat. Through radiomessages received from -the expedition's mobile station by amateur operator Eppa Darne here, the society - was informed that the party had crossed the borders of Afghanistan. ' In seven large tray tor, cars, the expedition le /Raking Its way across Asia over a route made famous by Marco Polo. ` 'Herat Is about 2,200 years old. Alexander the Great Is credited with building the walls there during his conquest of the Bast. Genghis 'Ishan razed It with a horde of Mon- gols and left only half a hundred of its citizens alive. Oxford .to Curb Student Maori Oxford, Eng. -- Regulations cote cernlug the use of autorno;iles by :undergraduates will he. put into feet this tall at Oxford University. Beginning ;with the 1Vti1hae1nia4 - term In October, students will beVett nritted to drive machines only, tween 1' pan. and 9 plus..