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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-01-14, Page 6,4. £SCQUTS Is Spring Here? 1 A January Suggestion For Lone This week we have had evidence in ; Patrols plenty that Spring must be either I Parties are the usual fashionable "Just Around the Corner" or else that functioue at this time of the year, and it has been "Just fooling us," I in past years several Lone Patrols A Lone Scout of the "Hound" Patrol . have organized very successful Patrol at Milford, Prince Edward County, has Banquets, which have proved great sent In to Lone Scout Headquarters a fun, and which have been greatly en= "pussyy.illow" in full bloom, which joyed. What about having a banquet he picked the other day. I in your Patrol, and each member in - Those of you who attended the Lone vite another chap who is not yet a Spout Camp at Ebor Park in 1930 will l Scout? Don't forget to send an invite- remember Mr. Luck, the popular own- tion. to "Lone E," too! er of the park. Ile tells us that at the I International Brotherhood of December it was much greener there than at the end of July, and he ; A Boy Scout is a friend to all and a sent us a dandelion which he picked brother to every every other Scout, in the park on December 2Sth. lacerating to the 4th Scout Law. We also heard of a gentleman who , Thus we note that the members of saw a pair of starlings teaching a the 4th Melton (Leicestershire, Eng - young one to fly in Toronto a few daYsland) Troop have sent a gift of Scout ago! . Colors to the members of the 8th What About the Birds? l Jerusalem Troop, Palestine, thus fos- Ali Lone Scouts are friends to the tering this brotherly spirit. birds, and in spite of all the signs of l Lone Scouts can do a great deal to Spring, we know that there is still help in this way by corresponding with more cold weather to come. How, other Lonies in this country or with about arranging to feed your feathered Scouts in foreign countries. Every friends? I heard of one Scout who' member of the Ontario Lone Scout De - made use of his discarded Christmas `partment should have at least one tree for thio purpose, setting it up out Scout Pen -Friend. Have you one? If of doors and tying all sorts of titbits I not, write to your Scoutmaster and ask on to it which the birds thoroughly en- , him to get you one, but don't forget joy, :to state if you went? to write to an - And incidentally, now is the time to , other Canadian Lonie or to a Foreign prepare new bird houses for next;Scout. year's tenants. Don't forget that Good The Scout Census Turn, Lentos! A TROUP OUTING 1 Lonies of this provinc3 will be in - The newly formed Unionville Troop,'terested to know that according to a who were recently members of the I recent census of the Boy Scout Mem- Lone Scout Dpartmnt, paid a visit to,bership of Ontario there are 21,793 Toronto on. December 29th, for theirScouts in this province, including, of Christmas Outing. They visited the' course, Rovers and Wolf Cubs. Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, I Of this number 313 are Lone Scouts, which is the tallest building in Toren -and the above figures shows a very of to, and inspected it from cellar to real substantial increase over the figures garden. In. the afternoon they all went I returned a year ago. We are growing, to a "Show," and were afterwards en _ Lonies! Let us see to it that, we grow tertained to supper, followed by games 1 in efficiency as well as in num%ers dur- and entertai'nme'nt by the 3rd Toronto' ing 1932! Troop. Particulars of the Lone Smuts of Here's a Good Motto For 1932 1 Ontario may be obtained from the Always keep your tail wagging, even Lone Scout Department, The Boy if you can only get the tip of it to! Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, work! _ _.. (Toronto 2. -'LONE E." Experts Waging Parasite War On Corn Borer Kept in Cold Storage in Win- ter for Massed Attack in Summer Washington. -Au initial shipment of parasites, part of an army that may number 500,000 before recruiting stops, will soon reach the United States as the spearhead of the 1932 offlensive of the Federal Government against the corn borer, one of the most de- structive foes with which American agriculture has to deal. Gathered by specialists of the Bureau of Eutomol ogy assigned to the laboratory at Hyeres, on the Mediterranean coast, this army of parasites will be released nest August to meet the corn borer in the principal regions of infestation. During the winter this shipment, with the others that are to follow, will be kept in cold storage. Extended surveys of native Parasites showed that they killed less than 1 per cent. of the borers beyond the egg state. So the Bureau of Entonfology looked abroad for parasities that would attack the corn borer effective- ly. Studies began in 1919, not long after the corn borer was found in the United States. About twenty species have so far been discovered; these fall into two general classes -the wasp Ani Second French Plane To Fly Stratosphere Paris. -A second French project to send an airplane into the stratosphere was disclosed recently. Pierre Guerchais, aeronautical engi- neer, is secretly preparing a plane for a night some ten miles or more above the earth, where Professor Aug- uste Piccard last summer made the first experiment by balloon. The Guerchais plane will be of 700 horsepower, capable of some 200 miles an hour. It will have a sealed duralu- min cabin. The plane will be larger and more powerful than the Farman craft, which has been prepared for a similar Right, as disclosed last week. The Far- man plane will make the attempt as soon as weather conditions are favor- able, but the Guerchais attempt will he delayed until spring. "Cloud [Movie"" I The latest invention from Germany le the "cloud movie." Here we see Dr. H. Mannheimer of . Berlin demonstrating his machine which projects short films on clouds to a distance of 2,000 meters. Gold Findings In B.C. Grand Forks, B.C.-Recent uncov- ering ncov ering of ore running $75 to the ton on the Gold Drop Mines in the Jewel Camp is said to be the most sensa- tional find in boundary district mining in. recent years. Picked samples' are said to have ru nmuch higher. Several samples brought to Grand Forks have large spots of free gold and assays have been running around $30. The ore was found in a high grade shoot containing telluride and free gold and is a parallel vein from which some 17 tons of ore running $30 to the ton was recently shipped. The new find has been inspected are similar to those found in more by P. B. Freeland, Government min- temperate zones. These conditions ing engineer, who states that ore of are clearly reflected in the character similar type has been found before in of sea life found north of the Arctic the district. Circle. The herds of the sea mammals - -~ see "' have not only supported the local in - Death in the Garage habitants for many generations but The Montreal Daily Star. - The have also entered the world markets. death toll from the inhalation of car- The fisheries, while as yet undevel- bon monoxide gas in automobile gar- oped, have long been an. important ages is steadily mounting. A chauffeur factor in the domestic economy of is the latest victim in Montreal. The the country. The supply of molluscs evidence showed that the windows support bile tlany oe f the smaller r sea varieties ma - of the automobile were tightly closed, f as were the windows of the garage sea life maintain the fish and some itself, while the door of the latter was of the small mammals. The marine almost closed. It does seen astonish- vegetation is plentiful and is drawn ing that so many people who are 1 upon by all forms of 'animal life as connected with the operation of an aid to their subsistence, automobiles fail to observe the most inances of Province of Ontario' Are in Most Sound Condition Though Provincial Treasurer's Report Shows Deficit For This Year, Government Are Making Every Endeavor to Have Balanced Budget Next Year Despite the deficit as announced by Hon. A. E. Dunlop, Provincial Treasurer, the financies. of the Prov- inces are in sound condition, and a readjustment of expenditures, and retrenchment all along the line will give the Government the opportun- ity of balancing it's budget 'next year. Pie the facts, they will tell then at once that part of Ontario's debt, amounting to $186,000,000,. has beeu advanced to the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario for the purpose,of carrying out their undertaking, and that the Province has back of that a utility owned by This is one of the statements made ' the public through its municipalities. recently by the Province's Attorney- "They will also tell the'public General, Col. W. H. Price, when he I that we have invested over $40,000, - addressed 1500 Toronto businessmen, 000 in the Temiskaming & Northern Nigh lights in Col. Price's speech i Ontario Railway and that that is are •as follows: I part of our Capital Debt, but that "The Province will carry out its we own that. road. They might Debt Retirement Policy and will pay also say that Quebec owns no Hydro up to date and will, during the year , Electric service .and owns no Rail - 1932, pay up last year's instalment,' road and has not issued bonds for and whatever deficits have accrued. I the 'purpose of construction of sun The Province is ,determined to do' assets. this and balance its 'budgelt next I "They might go forth and say that year. There will be no more de- we have spent $125,000,000°11.1. Prov- flcits, In order to maks sure that incial roads and that Quebec's roads this would be accomplished, not only , cannot be compared with Ontario have we decided to cut our Ordinary , roads. They are not as wide as Expenditure, but the Province has • Ontario roads they are not as firm - placed a slightly higher license fee ly ,constructed and in most places for motor cars and trucks so that they are not iu any way as good. this service itself will be self•sus-' "The financial structure in Canada Climate and Life taining, is sound. Our Banks are evolving In Canadian North "The finances of the Province are and performing their functions. Tlie climate of the Canadian North in sound condition. The taxation 1 True, they must assist in financing does not adversely affect sea life, in Ontario is less than almost any ; Canada and the Provinces. They according to the records of the other Province in Canada. The must help to finance our railways Northwest Territories and Yukon social services as well as the mate-' and our big pubile undertakings. Branch of the Department of the In- rial benefits are so outstanding as , They must stand behind our munici- terior at Ottawa. During the winter to place Ontario in a class by her- palities • although there • has been muck of the surface of the water is self. The public must pay for 1over-expenditure. This function of covered by approximately five feet them. It is no time, howeve`;, to , our chartered Banks in Canada is of ice, which forms a clearly defined consider the expansion of any of l being carried out in a very helpful line of demarcation between the Arc- these, there must be a marking of way. I think probably they went tic conditions maintaining above its time, no matter how good a project I too far, when times were good, in surface and those in the water be- .there must be no more expenditure advancing money, but they are today heath, the result being that the gen- until we retrench and catch up.1 standing behind all public bodies in eral conditions in the Arctic waters The citizen himself must be given' an attempt to work '.out a solution a chance without fear of any more of our problems. It is idle, there - taxation or disability to go • ahead fore, to say that, because there are and make progress. Ontario is be- such tremendous deposits in Can - hind her citizens in this, I ada, the Banks can do every thing. "A habit has grown up in certain There is always a limit to what quarters of comparing the finances credit can be given. The less the of Ontario with Quebec. People are. Banks have to do 10 raising money told that Quebec's debt is much for Governments and Municipalities smaller and that they generally have i and other bodies the more will they a surplus. If those who want to have for the use of business and the discuss the subjeot desire to be help of our people in getting out honest about it and give the peo-business structure back to normal:' elementary precautions when hand. New Treatment Used ling cars in garages. Had the chauffeur. l In Lettuce Seed Germination in this particular instance taken care to open the garage window and door New York. -Germination of lettuce and the windows of the machine, he seed although ground temperatures would probably be alive and well to- may be high by a new plan of seed day. treatment has been worked out by Professor H. A. Borthwick of the bot- any division of the branch of the College of Agriculture of the Univer- sity of California. Professor Borth- wick has recently returned from Im- perial Valley, Cal., where he demon- strated the results of his methods to the growers of that district, Lettuce seed, it is explained, require for germination an adequate supply 1 of moisture, good aeration and a low temperature. High percentages of germination are secured over a wide range of temperature from freezing to about 75 degrees Fahrenheit; between. 75 and 85 degrees most varieties fall off rapidily in germination; at 85 de- grees permination is almost entirely halter stopped in most varieties. The Cosy Season The N.Y. Herald -Tribune. -One gift brought only by a Northern winter is the sense and mood of coziness. Where snow never falls, where wind never huffs and puffs against the frosted pane, they don't know, what coziness is. It goes with the 'delicious greet- ing reet ing of warmth and with mellow lamp- light on book and apples. You feel it intensely when, coming home chilled and wet, you climb the last icy steps to be met by that first breath of the comfortable indoors. Something good is roasting in the •oven -something type and the fly tdete exam na• substantial and savory. Already dent - tion was made to determine whether ed by the stretching cat, the Porte'. These parasites were harmful to plants worn chair is waiting with open . arms and whether they could attack one The faithful furnace glows reassur- another. The tests skewed that they ingly, Dumplings! To get home on such a night is worth a winter. -__ were not harmful to plans. Hyeres was chosen as being a cen- tral point for the collections. The staffof the laboratory includes two Americans and several Europeans; are Great Britain's Task employed on a part-time basis. Cape -Argus. -Great Britain is still . a creditor country with overseas in American experts at Hyeres quickly vestments valued at, £3,500,000,000, pass upon the advisability of the 1and she is quite capable of restoring parasites gathered in the field by the', her adverse trade balance and thus collectors, aand when a sufficient num- stabilizing the pound at a reasonable ber aro ready they are packed uP I level. Moreover, she is now the lead - and placed in cold storage on a stea-ler in an endeavour to secure that co• mer. They are then sent to Ailing- l operation from the gold -hoarding ton., Masse 'where the bureau main j countries which 3s essential to the sal- tains a receiving station. From there , nation of Europe and of European they ,re distributed throughout the civilization. If she succeeds there' oorn linfested areas. . will be a recovery of world prices. When liberated the parasites are The whole world, including South planted in colonies, to assure kerma- l erica, will benefit and the Bald stand nonce' in tbeir warfare against the I and will soon function again as it did porn Borer. About 750,004 parasite before the war. If she fails there will be a succession of crises, each more severe than its predecessor, un- til finally civilization as we know it breaks asunder. German School Boys Stage "G.B.S." Play Hamburg. -German school children, especially boys, who have attained an age at which literature can be appre- ciated, are proverbially fond' of the German classics, according to a cor- respondent of ,The Christian Science Monitor. They are well read in Eng- lish classic and dramatic literature al- so. It is no uncommon thing for them to act the whole or a large part of a Shakespearian play at breaking up or on a similar fete day and do it admir- ably. A new departure was recently undertaken by the sixth -form boys-: primaner, as they are termed here- of the Hamburg Herder School. They ventured on a performance of G. Ber- nard Shaw's "St. Joan." in the trans- lation by Siegfried Terbitsch. The boys in their enthusiasm made no cuts and presented a play lasting over four hours. No one in the audience, which filled the large hall of the school to overflowing, appeared bored, however, but on the contrary. The services of a talented young actress, Barbara Schuchard, had been obtained for the name part, but otherwise all roles were given, and even admirably, by the boys. Scenery and effects and'ie- atdeutal music by the school orchestra were highly comeudable. It was a performance that might have delight- ed "G. B. S. himself. She -"There's a time for sym- pathy." He -"Yes, but when a fellow's just missed a two -foot putt is not the time for it. Like the Widow's Cruse "A book is like the widow's' cruse of oil; you dip into it again and again, and the contents remain exactly what �.+ they were. Investment in books is a Every man is occasionally what capital investment, the capital of he ought to be perpetually.-Zitn- which never undergoes wastage or de - merman. terioration."-J. Ramsay MacDonald. enemies of the cern borer have been liberated during the past year. Since the importations began, over a decade ago, more than 2,500,000 parasites have been liberated, and at least twelve of the twenty or so species in- troduced are known to have become firmly established. Wind us Portable Theatres To Tour Spain IVIadrid.-Spanish students are pre- paring a nation-wide tour for 1932 to Yn Dangerous I exhibit classic plays in Creels, Latin To Skyscraper and Spanish with the hope of improv Tests on wind pressures reveal that ing the country's culture under the a suction action On the leeward side republic. They will travel .ill motor of a slcysrralrer may produce seriotts buses and trucks, carrying portable. effects fit x high wind, 'tlinatres, Iger "Flying High" Shango has just experienced Ills drat from Ostend to London. Evidently it iiir.�t 11111. 1r•"n a bumpy lel t:'' r'cl i all th.. Interesting Facts On Bird Life. Humming birds, swifts, swallows and martins cannot walk or hop on • a horizontal surface. Of these the humming birds are the most help- less on the ground. Swifts, swallows - and martins have small, weak feet, which are adapted only to perching -•' and to clinging to perpendicular surfaces. These birds spend much of their time on the wing and it has been suggested that some of the swifts may spend the entire night on the wing at great heights. They seldom if ever alight ou the ground and they capture insects for food, scoop water from ponds and lakes for drink, and pluck twigs from trees and gather other material .tor their nests,, all while on the wing. When some species of swifts are placed on the ground they can arise only by means of clumsy efforts, What is even more remarkable, ac- cording to the U.S. Biological Sur. vey, "both the chimney swift and the white -throated swift pair while in flight,' although some naturalists doubt that any species of bird actual- ly mates in mid-air. 0 5 * * o The song of an English nightingale was broadcast to the world when Beatrice Harrison, English, musician, lured one of the feathered song- sters to a microphone. concealed in a 'thicket on her estate in. Surrey. The bird was stimulated to enter the thicket and sing when' the musi- cian played a cello and sang softly. Many unsuccessful efforts had been made previously and when the bird began to sing in front of the micro- phone it was switched on the air Modern Toys Traced To Persia Detroit. -Tito first mechanical toys were invented by the Persians 700 years ago, Sir E. Denison Ross, pro- fessor of Persian art and literature at the University of London, stated in a recent lecture here. Ross .said the Persians devised intricate toys early in the thirteenth century. Elaborate and all other programs interrupted.. drawings of their devices are includ- The nightingale's song was picked od in books illustrated by Persian art- up distinctly In the United States ists, lie said. and Australia. -"Animal Life." Indo -Chino Theatres Prefer French Talkies The first talking picture theatre was ;pelted in Saigon, French Indo?China, this year was large, according to a at the fall of 1930 and showed Ameri- correspondent of the Christian Science can films. This venture was at first a i Monitor. Cheap loans for the trans- :;uecess, but although large crowds i port and purchase of fruit have been came to see the novelty, they could not granted. The shores on the German understand the words and shortly lost • side of Lake Constance are an es• Interest. The theatre is now showing . pecially rich fruit region: In some .nly French talkies: -U. S. Commerce parts of this land au interesting old :sports: ' custom still prevails. Until October -, -- -- - 3, fruit may remain on the trees, but Rules For Citizens -to -Be not longer, no matter how brightly the Buenos Aires. -Foreigners may be- .uu may shine. The fruit must be .me naturalized citizens .of Argentina gathered before `'Cerins Day," or any i.er two years' residence provided body may take it. A proverb says: vy ]earn the Spanish language and 'When Gallus Day is past, whatever e no "ideas" or doctrines opposed fruit remains hanging is mine:' t the Argentine form of government, 1 " . ..-� icier a decree issued recently by the A pian was complaining of the 'avernment,- .lack of warmth in the boarding• house in which 110 was staying. "1n So safe that it will not ignite , the daytime it is bad enough," he ,sit when a lighted match is applied seid, "but at night I frequently waits o it, a'•new fuel for airplanes has up and hear illy teeth ehattcritig on been introduced, the dressing ; table," Bountiful Fruit Harvest In Southern Germany, The fruit harvest in south Germany