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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-10-22, Page 6Chinese To Have Shakespeare Translated Into Own 'Tongue Peiping.—Some of the .most compe tent scholars in China are at work here translating Western clasics into the Chinese language, so that all Chin- ese who read may have access to the best in Occidental literature, history and science, Unlike translators of a generation ago, they are using the popular language in China, which all literate persons can read, instead of the difficult classibal language, which even scholars have trouble in master- ing. The work is directed by. Dr. Hu Shih, philosopher, who has settled here per- manently, and mousy is being provid- ed b3- the China Foundation, which distributes the remitted portion of the American Boxer indemnity. This Foundation has a hand in most suc- cessful cultural projects in China to- day. Three translators have been literature. working for almost a . year on the complete Noris of Shakespeare, which I have never been translated into Chin- ese. They are first turning Shake- speare's 1inglish into Chinese prose, but may later use a sort of Chinese blank verso to suggest Shakespeare's Medium. Another scholar, sixty-five years old, has beeu working almost a year on Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Re - man Empire. This scholar, Wu Kwang-cliien, is the author of several textbooks in English now used in Chin- ese schools. The China Foundation established a translation committee in 1930, putting Dr, Hu Shih in charge, and providing for fiftee nother members to direct the work. The task was divided into three sections: Science, history and New British Income Tax Favors Bachelors Flies and Cold, Wet Weather Spoil Grapes Loudon.—Many letters are being re -1 PARIS.—Bad weather and cochylis ceived daily ey British newspapers flies have made it certain that there from married men, protesting that the will be no overproduction of chani- ®new income tax proposals favor the' pagne this year. Indeed, they have single man. I done such a complete job that there Married men with children appear to seems likely to be no 1931 champagne be worse hit than bachelors from the at all. standpoint of increased taxes. The When the Summer began it was so-called injustices to family men be- thought there would be a splendid com. more apparent :1 salaries over crop. Then the rain :cane and the the $3,000 mark. sun did not come and the cochylis The following table of the increase flies came and more rain came, and in tax payablr under the new rates now the decision has come not to try shows a comparison between married to make any champagne. The one men with wo chi:'ren and bachelors: comfort is that there is still plenty Married Men with of wine left from former years in the Single Man 2 chidren cellars of Rheims to supply the world (increase (increase without fear of a serious shortage. Salary of tax) of tax) Like champagne, the burgundy dis- $3,000 $111.25 $108.12 trict also suffered badly from the cold 3,500 116.85 166.12 wet summer. The only really good 4,000 145.85 173,25 wines this year will be Bordeaux and 4,500 130.00 180.00 Beaujolais, and even they will not 5,000 136.50 174.25 have the quality of suck years as 1928 —..____ and 1929. AU one can say about The Tiger Tribute themm eisar that they will be better than A keeper at the Belle Vue Zoologi- y - cal Gardens, Manchester, had a nar- row escape recently when he was at- FarmsFOr Women tacked by a tigress. Fortunately, another keeper witness- ed the attack and came to the rescue. But all those who have to do with the premises may be established near tigers aren't so fortunate. this city by, -the national congress of For instance, there was a keeper at_l women workers and peasants. The one provincial zoo who was killed, organization adopted a resolution ap- some years ago, by an elderly tiger proving the project. who suddenly got tired of seeing him The land will be donated by the about, There have been similar Government and a managing board tragedies before, bat this one is like- will be appointed by the congress. ly to be remembered for a long time, I The Department of Public Education because of the tribute the dead man's will assign feminine experts in poultry colleagues sent to the funeral. and other classes of - farming to in - It was a life-sized figure of a tiger struct the workers. The farm is planned as a model for similar institutions which state governments will be called upon to sponsor. Proceeds will be invested in the establishment of more farms and it is hoped that within a few years many of them will be in operation. Planned In Mexico Mexico City. — A collective farm where women would be barred from in arum -lilies and chrysanthemums!— Answers. Secret Winter Resort For Ocean Fish Sought Washington. -A secret winter resort of Atlantic coast fish is sought by the United States Bureau of Fisheries. Large schools of mackerel, sea bass, bluefish, croaker, weakfish, scup and fluke disappear every winter from Australian Grub Is Threatened by Fungus BRISBANE.—Scientists are rally - their summer residence off the shores ing to the rescue of the Cactoblastis south of New England and do not re- grub, which, originally imported into turn until warm weather. Australia to destroy prickly pear, is Fishermen disagree on their des- in turn being attacked by a kind of tination. Some believe the fish mi- grate igrate off shore to deeper, warmer waters, • while others believe they go south in search of warmth, following the human migration to tropical cli- mates. The Bureau of Fisheries is seeking to solve the problem, and R. A. Nesbit, from the. parisitic growth which a,- aquatic biologist of the bureau, has ready has done so much damage to been cruising along the coast catching that t l insect nsecrick! fish in nets, tagging them and return- the useprickly pear is ing them to the sea. starting to gain ground again in ter- - _ tain districts. Saskatoon Expert fungus. The Queensland Goernment is al- ready preparing to throw open tor re -settlement 11.,000,000 acres of :end which the Cactoblastis has cleared from prickly pear. Meanwhile scientists are trying to evolve a method to protect the grub Assumes Federal Post Montreal.—Professor L. E. Kirk has arrived in Ottawa to take up his duties as federal agrostologist. Mr. Kirk, who is an authority on grasses, and has recently developed a drought -re- sisting grass for western Canada, was appointed to the post near the end of the last session on the recommenda- tion of Robert Weir, Minister of Agri- culture, Mr. Kirk's duty will be to advise the Ministry of Agriculture on the suitability of various grasses for cer- tain soils throughout the Dominion. He Will also advise the Ministry on methods by which grasses at present growing, but not flourishing, i ncertain areas may be developed or adapted so as to grow well in their environment, Gets Six Trees - From One Apple WAYNESBORO, Ga. -George W. Mobley, a business man of Waynes- boro, now believes that "great oaks from little acorns grow," or words to that effect. A few years ago he was enjoying a particularly fine apple. Ite threw the seeds in his back yard and in due course was rewarded by having six apple trees .spring up. He nursed them along to maturity, and now all of them are bearing fruit. German Aviation Grows Safer Berlin,... German aviation is spy preaching a minimum in accidents per 'mile flown. In 1026 cases hi which pilots or passengers"'were injured aver- aged one for each 255,600 miles, This year the rate is only ons for dash 1,050,000 relies. pari:rnent, I- on. e Colic jases• Injuring Two Two workmen were buried beneath debris and seriously injured when. this apartment house collapsed during repair work recently. Robot Pilot Installed `Arctic Patrol' Ordered In Passenger Plane For Aircraft Carrier Baltimore Md.—Installation ,of a I Washington.—The aircraft carrier bot pilot on a passenger airplane is 1 Langley, with its squadrons of planes, now nearing completion at the plant will winter in northern waters on an of the B -J Aircraft Corporation here, "arctic patrol." Operations of men and will 'soon be placed :into service and equipment will be put to test between New York, Baltimore ant under extreme temperatures for the Washington. first time. This is the first installation to be I The Navy expects to learn valuable made in a commercial Passey er an = !.lessons on the effect of ice and snow plane, it was announsed. Tine device l on the planes, the flight glegk, and the has been tested by the ing*''utor and arresting gear that liolds landing by the United Mates A, . ' on ex- ,planes to their floating airport. perimental flights. or .` Human hand will be us' only in Pumpkiris at `�` .�tekles the takeoff and landing o e,neiv '.'J 18 -passenger airplane. Whet In the41)711'..,1÷....`bllege" TuitIori air the position and speed mill hc� KANSAS CLTY, Mo.—Barter non- regulated -by small gyroscopes and times to be eared' in the voce - controlled by a 'set 6I"eieetric ,button bulaW of the coling „student... A switch places thetrgbot in charge I At DrusAy 2k,e,,z,.,Springfield, Dr. and relieves it of duty.—The aChc s-' R'llliam - e, Nadal, the president tian Science 5h,4fnr. is accep rg, pumpkins, cabbages or home canned pickles; and preserves in lieu of coin- of ,the .realm for tuition money. -, • 4 cafe in Lawrence, seat of Kan - Educational Films Dr. C. W. Kimmins in the Empire Review (London) : The cinema is de- stined to occupy an ever-increasing position of importance in the educa- tion of the child, and the present type of textbook will eventually give place to one more closely associated with cinematographic requirements. Pro- vided always that great care be taken to sec ..re that pure diction be em- ployed in the making of educational films, it should have a beneficial effect in raising the stan.:ard .f good speech among our children. Motorcars Cross Africa Regularly NAIROBI, E. Africa.—Through Africa by motorcar, once an achieve- ment of note is now becoming quite commonplace. Within two days two motorcars, one from Alexandria and the other from Durban, have arrived at Nairobi. The former carried Dr. Jizi Baum, professor of Prague University and Natural History Museum, accom- panied by Herr Solt, a noted Czecho- slovakian sculptor. Dr- Baum who 1: studying natural history in East Africa, has discovered a rare species of "water mouse," which he describes as a huge spider that has adopted aquatic life. Nautilus To Be Sunk SOUTHAMPTON, England.—Sir Hubert Wilkins sailed recently for New York. He said the submarine Nautilus in which he cruised under the polar ice would be towed to sea out of the port of Bergen and sunk after the scientific apparatus used by the expedition is removed. World's Tiniest Baby sasU'niversity, is accepting wheat at Pretoria has what is believed tc b' 45 cants a bushel for board of the tiniest baby in the world.. She"stud•ents, was so small at birth that they did not weigh her in case the act of weighing might injure: her. At four- teen days she weighed 3 11A. She is BOL GNA.—The leaning tower of kept wrapped up in cotton -wool and Asinelli has been reopened to the pub - gets her nourishment through the in- lic following construction of new stairs jection of a saline and through the to the top. The twelfth century struc- absorption of olive oil, applie ,to the'ture i4320 feet high and four feet skin. • *'I out ofsAierpendicular. Leaning Tower Is Repaired In Water 95 H urs '45 Minutes vow Norris Kellam, "human co y' of Memphis, Tenn., being bel r . ,'rang the water after a 2271mI' now -stop swim from Cairo, Ill., to Memphis. Ills time was 95 h rs and 45 minutes. He took meals while floating on his back. ZC N SCQUTS Lone Scouting continues to grow apace in Ontario, and during the past month some thirty new members were registered at Lone Scout Headquar- ters, It is gratifying also to note that this month two new Troops have been add- ed to the growing list of Regular Scout Troops which have been formed as a direct result of Lone Scout ac- tivity. These are at Maple and at. Unionville.' The others are located at Paris, Kilialoe, Cobalt, Sault Ste. Marie; and Beamsvill . On October 2nd, the Lone Scout Commissioner, with Commissioner Ir- win and Scoutnleeter Don Hutchison, of the lst Ont Lone Scout Troop,. journeyed to Maple to attend the spe- cial meeting and present the Charter to the new Maple Troop. There was a splendid turnout of Scouts, and the Lonies from King also attended to add their good wishes, and after a number of interesting Scout activities, the Charter was presented in the presence of a nice' gathering of interested citizens of Maple. We wish the new Maple Troop, and their Scoutmaster, Mr. Bryan, the very best of Good Scouting, Ontario Lone Scout.; will be inter- ested to learn that a new Shoulder Tape Badge has now been issued. This reads as follow : "Ontario Lone Scouts," and is to be worn on the right shoulder by all Lone Scouts In this province, These can be obtained from Lone Scout Headquarters for 5c each. Fire Prevention Week Lone Scouts are urged to put aside one week .during October for special work under this heading. All over Canada this Fire Prevention Weelc is being observed by Scouts, and the idea is to clean up and destroy all rubbish and inflammable matcrl 1 around your houses, barns and in the vicinity oi, your premises, and in the case of Pa- ere's,* in the Villages in which they 'are located.. Thus before the winter sets in, everything will be cleaned up and snug, and there will be no danger of fires starting as a result of rubbish left around, or of untc-ided rubbish adding to the seriousness of any fire which might occur.' Bear this in mind, Lonies! You can do lots of "Good Turns" in this way. Lone Scout Question Box Is 'there a Special Badge for Lone Scouts?—(M.L.J,, Moscow), I No special badge has yet been is- sued to Lone Scouts in Canada, aI- though imperial Headquarters in Lon. don, England, have approved of a spe tial badge for overseas Lone Scouts, which consists of a scroll bearing the • words "Lone Scout" superimposed on the Fleur de Lys. Arrangements are being made to obtain a supply of these for the use of the Lone Scouts of On- tario. Ontario Lone -Scouts may be dis- tinguished, however, by their Mauve Neckerchief and by the special should- er tape which is mentioned in this column. Lonies are invited to address clues - tions on Scouting subjects to "Lone E" at Lone Scout Headquarters, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2. Africa -Brazil New Plane Route French Air Mail Plans To Start New Service in '32 PARIS.—In competition with the Zeppelin air mail which German back- ers announce will operate weekly be- tween Europe and South America next year the French air -mail line, Aeropostale, has announced that a plan for completely air -carried mail will be ready by the end of 1931 and that early in 1932 planes will replace the French navy dispatch boats he- tween Dakar, on the west coast of Africa, and .Natal, Brazil. At present Aeropostale takes seven days to carry air mail from Toulouse airport in France to Rio de Janeiro, but Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, but when planes replace the dispatch, boat on the long step across the Atlantic it will be possible to deliver mail in those capitals three or four days after it is posted here. Two seaplanes capable of carrying the quantity of air mail that is now being transported have been com- pleted. One belongs to Aeropostale and is being put through its final tests by the chief pilot, Mermoz, while the other is the property of the French Air Ministry. These ships are monoplanes, Ber- nard seaplanes fitted with pontoons, powered by a 650 -horsepower Hispano motor. They have a wingspread of twenty-four meters, with the tremen- dous wing surface of seventy-four square meters. Te.: plane weighs three tons, but can carry six -and one-half tons of mail. Before the end of the year Mermoz will make the round trip by air be- tween Dakar and Natal, and shortly thereafter the ships will be withdrawn in favor of the seaplanes. Their speed Problem of Water in Gasoline Solved by Master Sergeant DAYTON, Phi() —A knotty _lir Corps problem, cyiased by water in airplane gasoline, has Leen solved by an enlisted man. He is Master Ser- geant David Samiran, a native of the Island of Cyprus, whose device to sem- vide pure fuel has been adopted asp standar°. equipment by the Air Corps. His invention, known as an isolator or segregator, makes use of the dif- ferent specific gravities of water and gasoline. Glass Walls Installed In German School A school with outer walls of glass and with glass cabinets for books taking the place of inner walls, in separating classrooms from corridors, has just been built for the school children of Lubeck, Germanee-accord- ing to Cappel's Magazine. The ground floor has a breakfast and milk room, each classroom a bath- room, each desk in the physics de- partment has gas, water and electri- cal connections, and the geography room has a projection machine by which the movements of the stars and planets are shown on the ceiling. Then there. is a greenhouse in which the pupils raise plants throughout the year. Beavers Conserve Lakes By Damming Streams Quesnel, B,C: Beaver from the Bow- ron Lake game sanctuary, near Bar- kerville, are being used by the Pro- vincial Land Department to help re- store lakes and streams in Lower Cari- boo. The first shipment of eleven beaver passed through here recently by motor truck en route to Williams Lake, where they will be released"at selected spots. of 200 kilometers an hour contrasts Beaver in earlier days before they favorably with the maximum 110 kit were trapped out conserved the water ineter cruising speed of the dirigibles. supply. The zeppelins, nowever, will be able to make the flights pay a profit by carrying passengers and freight. The French planes will carry only mail. The teacher had been explaining the different meaning of the words "to," "too," and "two,' and, finally, to find Napoleon's Grapevine Saved out if the children had grasped the Paris►—Napoleon's grapevine en idea, she decided togive a test.. the Bastin Highway in Corsica has "Now, children, as quickly as you just been listed by the French Gov- can, I want you to give me a sentence ernment as a historical object. In his containing all three spellings." memoir., the Emperor mentioned this' She had scarcely finished speaking grapevine, which was then owned by when up went a hand. his family, and said that his rise in' "Well, Isaac?" said the teacher, and the world would not have been pos- the boy, the only Jewish child in the sible without it. It was from the pre- class, answered, glibly: "Two shit• ducts of this vine that his family lings is too• much to spend." drew the resources that enabled them! - to send the young Bonaparte to study Too Late in Paris. • Three • Twos The young suitor had called on his The grapevine, which is called the "sposata," has been embellished with loved erre for her reply. "No, Oswald," she said, "I'm afraid a marble tablet, placed on it by the present proprietor, Antoine Lainbris- that I cannot marry you." chini, on which the above facts are Oswald shrugged his shoulders. recounted. I "Oh, very well, then," he"returnel savagely, "there are others just as good," "Better," she retorted. "I accepted 'i..eXRCo to Aid one of,,ahem yesterday." Farm Education Mexico City. -Intensification of Agri- Modern Youth ;ultural education in Mexico has been; Mother—"You know, Geoffrey, Non promised napBancalari, inn is nearly 17 years old, so to -day .1 lliyder SecretarbyIgy of cio EducatioLoez n, Marc had a frank discussion with her about agricultural schools are to be estab- the facts of life." ilshed in various sections of the re- Father eeill laid you learn any Public and Fhose now functioning are . thing?" Lo recoil" added facilities, The Min- istry of Agriculture has deckled to es- " Min- istry g Love, like !noir, does not com, tabli.1" ti school of tropical agriculture, through necessity or planning."-- eithe In Vera Cruz of Oaxaca. Peggy Joyce.