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Zurich Herald, 1932-01-28, Page 6. •WJTH JHE Thrift in March Means camp in July about our friends, the birds, and of our Have you thought of that, rendes? I duty, as Scouts towards them. Have This year we intend to make a big; i you ever stopped to think how valu- effort to have another Lone Scout able an ally man has in the birds? Camp, suck as we held in 1929 and ! Birds help feed us. Birds help save 1930. Do you remember all the good our money, Birds kelp make life more times we had together? The hikes beautiful Birds furnish us with sPleu and games, the swimmingpool and the did examples of faith, charity and for - camp fire, the treasure hunts and Birds our frgive iends ds an us`thougpleasure. ports, work and play? e Of course you will want to join in slay them yet do they treat us." this fun all again! In our wild scramble to ' become Then remember that NOW is the civilized and less like real men we time to commence to save those have too often ruined the world into nickels to pay your camp fee and to which we were born, We have poi - make it possible for you to be with us. lutecl the fragrant air, thus robbing our Start a camp fund right away! lungs. 'We have hacked down our for- No better illustration of the value ests, slain our wild animals. Vanished of the Scout Movement is needed than are many of our friends through our the incident which took place recently selfishness or greed or ignorance. in a small Ontario town, While this has proceeded, slowly and An accident occurred when an auto- steadily our enemies have crept upon mobile collided with a railway train us in constantly on sare yagluey tedpenutsmbers. and a man was seriously hurt On be- These nn hich ing summoned to the scene of the acct• man is ill adapted to fight. Insects are dent the doctor decided that the man the pests which we have unwittingly must be conveyed by ambulance, at aided and which now destroy our very once, to the hospital. On enquiring livelihood. The city dweller little ap- from the onlookers where he might preciates the ravages of these destroy find the dearest 'phone, a little chap ers, but if he could realize the loss of spoke up: "I know, sir, .I'll go. What fruits, grain, lumber, and the necessary message?" He received instructions increase in prices and decrease in from the doctor and was off. Shortly quality there are few who would not he was back, out of breath. "The am- hasp secure some means of destroying bulance will be right over" he said. l insects. The doctor turned to reward him for; Spraying and all the artificial means prompt execution of the errand. "Oh' of controlling these destroyers are as no sir," said the lad, "I'm a Boy Scout expensive as inadequate. Nature's bale and I,7nustn't take anything!" "But ance has been upset and man must I must pay for the 'phone call, at , help restore that balance. Birds are least," said the doctor. "Well, I guess the natural enemies of insects. They that will be alright," said the little i arrmthe l insects. weight i emusagait nst 1p thie fellow. In that incideut is illustrated the Boy crease bird life by conserving their Scout Spirit. I homes feeding them educating the pub - It is far from the truth for anyone 110 and studying their habits to help to state that this movement encour- i supply what we have taken away. ages militarism, for Boy Scouts are 1 One of the best ways of protecting taught to perform at least one good i the birds is by building bird houses, turn every day and are trained to be for man has taken many of the natural amendable to discipline, to fear God, • homes of the birds away. Build them, to honor the King and to love their put them up and wait. finlike human native laud. beings, the birds like seasoned homes, They are taught the useful art of they dislike bright paint, etc., so per - woodcraft, are given instruction in swimming and, in short, receive a training that fits them to be good men and citizens. Surely such a movement deserves the unqualified support of every per- son who realizes that the boys of to- day are the men of to -morrow and that training such as Boy Scouts receive "White Christmas" In London This little Londoner got a bob -sleigh from Santa at Christmas and, unlike her Canadian sisters, got the proper atmosphere to go with it. Here she is being pulled along by her brother at Finchley Arctic Wastes Enjoy Record Weather'. Edmonton, Alta.—The residents of Aklavik on the Arctic coast may well "pat then.selves on the back" as for onee in many a long year they had the distinction recently of recording the second highest er warmest tem perature in the Dominion of Canadit. After having been known as Akla- vik in the frozen Arctic wastes for so long, it was with no small degree of pride that the inhabitants could point to a temperature of 42 degrees above zero the last week in November. Only one other point in Canada re- corded a warmer temperature on that date, while from the Rockies to the Atlantic, freezing temperatures pre - haps you'll have to wait some time. Give the bird a chance. While there are Scouts the birds should not want for homes. There should always be some houses for rent. If you would like to be a Lone Scout, write to The Lone Scout Departmeut, 330 Bay Street, 'Toronto 2., for par- ticulars. This branch of the Boy Scouts will make for a finer and higher Association is open to boys between standard of citizenship. 12 and 13 years of age who are unable Birds to join. a regular Scout Troop. iufor- In recent articles we have talked matiou will be gladly sent.—Lone E. Canada's Gigantic Water Power Would Permit a Total Tur- bine Installation of 43,000,000 H.P. Canada is one of the leading coun- tries of the world in the production veiled- South African Economic Warfare In Progress Today Decisive Steps of Internar tonal Character Are Britain's Industrial Fair Attracting World Buyers • London—Prospects for the 1932 Bri- l tish Industries Fair would seen to Point to even better business than in I 1931. There have been twice as many in- quiries from overseas prospective buy- ers as at the corresponding date last year, and 634 overseas buyers have announced their iutention of attending the fair, as compared with 354 at this stage in 1930. Out of 300,000 square feet of space at Olympia, 264,000 have already been let. in the textiles section at the "White City" only 12 stands out of 226 are left, and in Birmingham nearly 90 per cent. of the space has been booked. t1 list f Bot Fly Menace Kill Grubs Now By L. Stevenson Provincial Zoologist The Bot Fly pest of last summer is being carried over, to assert itself again during the coming July and Aug- ust. The carry-over condition is in the form of grubs or larvae l located in the stomach of nearly every farm horse. This annoying pest could be gotten rid of entirely, if every horse in the Pro - i vine was dosed once each year, with •carbon -disulphide, January is a good Holland, as usual, heads to is o month to go after bots, as the greatest Prospective buyers, and other coon-number'are found at that time in. the Capital tries to be represented include Prance, l stomach of the horse. This treatment, Wins City Charter Denmark, Spain, Germany, Switzer- I repeated once a year for three Needed in 1932 Toronto. -Under the title 1932-? Wood, Gundy and Company suint- marise in their . current Review and Bond List, some important factors affecting the financial out•• look for 1932. "Nineteen Thirty- two enters under auspices which offer hope for the solution of many of the difficulties which clouded 1931 and which have caused the current busi- ness depression to run to undue lengths," The world outlook is still complicat- ed but, regardless of results, the rapidity with which steps have been taken during recent months to face and surmount these difficulties• has been gratifying. Such measures as the Moratorium of last June—the British elections in October— the Hoover Banking Consortium of the same month—the Basle Conference in December—and Premier Ramsay Mc- Donald's promptitude in endeavcoring •.o arrange a further world conference at Lausanne for January 18th—indi- cate a desire, less apparent in pre- vious months, to' deal promptly with problems which must, of necessity, be determined at a comparatively early date." "One factor not generally realized is this—that the world today (al- though involuntarily) is economically at war to as great an extent as in the period from 1914 to 1918, with the further disadvantage that the align- ment of allies and associates is not sa clearly defined as in those four years." "The principal creditor nation (Un- ited States), through tariffs, has effec- tively declined to accept payment in the form of commodities, even though debtor countries continued to settle ad- verse balances in gold until over 40 .per cent of the world's monetary sup- ply had fallen into the hands of tbat country." "Obviously, further substantial gold payments are impossible unless Unit- ed States and France, which now hold more than two thirds of the world's • monetary gold, are willing to distri- bute it so that it may again perform its important function of settling in- ternational balances. Logically, re- distribution should take place through purchasing in other countries to an extent that would permit a substan- tial excess of imports over exports, but, through high tariffs, increased foreign purchases have been rendered virtually impossible." "While there have been many -con- tributory causes of the existing credit situation, one outstanding factor, ir- our opinion, is that upon the conclu- sion of a devastating war, when econ- omy and hardships might reasonably have prevailed, expenditure; through borrowing, took place to an abnormal extent. This was made possible by the , elaborate machinery for credit expansion set up during the war per- iod." "Notwithstanding the troubled con- dition of the world at large, Canada's position is fortunate, in that she is.a producer of raw materials which are tui world demand and which can be produced in Canada at low costs. Pro- vided finances are capably administer- ed, Canada should be able to meet alI of her obligations, at home and abroad. In our opinion, the Canadian problem is largely an internal one, namely, of bringing about strict eoon- omy in expenditures, both public and private. We believe that public opin- ion has become so focussed upon and is so sympathetic with the necessity for economy on the part of govern- ments, municipalities and private cor- porations that substantial economies are already being effected voluntar- ily" 'land and Canada. Inquiries cover years, would result in a clean up of Pretoria, South Africa.—Hitherto every conceivable product from rail-, Pretoria has always been regarded way lines to pins and pianos and !annoyance this pest to horses, that causes tonsil as a city, yet its official recognition gramophones to codfish. The fair rein its fiy stage. The bot as such dates only from Oct. 14, when opens in February at Olympia, the grubs are responsible for unthrift, di- gestive disturbances, colic and some - a formal charter was granted and a White City, and in Birmingham. proclamation was issued declaring its city status. In commemoration of the event a Trans Canada Road city hall is to be built, costing 2250- 000. Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Andries Pretorius, a leader of the Great Trek, and named after hien, officially July 1, 1932, it has been de -'against any round worms that may be later becoming the administrative Bided. By that time the work will present. Every bot grub that gets capital of the Union of South Africa. have been completed on the road con- i away in the manure, will, if conditions It is now a well -laid -out and beauti- netting Manitoba and Ontario, more! are favorable, convert into a bot fly, fol city of 70.000 persons. particularly Winnipeg and Kenora, l to pester horses next summer. Kill -! l Ont., thus bridging the only gap ru I the grubs now when they are all lo- Homestead Grant Now the Trans -Canada highway in the cep -i cated in the stomach•of the horse; No Extended to Women tral part of Canada. ! living grubs there can be no flies. Edmonton,Alta.—Alberta women It is anticipated that the road will are steadiltaking advantage of the be in condition to allow traffic to travel over it several weeks prior So new provincial ruling that women nnay,; the official opening date. now file on homesteads. • A report issued by the Lands De - ti death of the horse. Horses that nes do not stand up under spring work are Trans - Canada heavily infested with bots. Nearing Completion Carbon disulphide should be adminis- Winnipeg, Man.—The Trans -Cali- veterinary. it is 100 per cent, efficient ads motor highway will be opened against bots and is also effective tered in a strong capsule, by a skilled power ordinarily available centinu- ousiy for six months of the year. "The estimated total resources of the Dominion under ordinary mini- mum flow is about 20,000,000 horse power and the six months' figure is placed at nearly 34,000,000 horse- power. An analysis of the existing power developments shows that- in actual practice the turbine installa- tion is in excess of the six months' figure, in fact the ratio found for the development which has already occer- cording to a recent bulletin issued by red, applied to the whole resources, partment recently showed that in OC-' Bulgarian King tober ot.t of a total of 368 homesteads Gives Trees to US. filed upon in Alberta, 174 applications Sofia, Bulgaria—in honor of the or these free lands were made by we- forthcoming celebration of the two men. —_ hundredth anniversary of George Washington's birthday, Bing Boris of Outlook Improves Bulgaria has presented to President . In Clyde Shipyards Iloover, through the American Minis- Glasgow.—.A. more hopeful situa- tion is developing on the Clydeside at present. A number of orders have been received by the various ship- building concerns, the laters being one the other on the campus ,of the for a cargo steamer of 6,000 tons fur American College near Sofia.—The Last London Watch of low -cast hydroelectric energy, ac- p Kaye, Son & Co., Ltd. tian Science 7lnear. . House to Be Razed The order has been placed with theDept. of the Interior Ottawa She indicates that these would permit a) Messrs. Lithgow, Port -Glasgow. Roller Skating Limited ter here, two young pine trees of an especially beautiful and hardy varie- ty. One of them was planted in the yard of the American Legation and "It is always customary to ask a • guest to call agcin, isn't it?" 'Of course, it • c:�pecially if he is a bill collectce. ' e total turbine installation of about 43,- 000,000 3, holds this enviable position mainly be- 000,040 horsepower." Some fools put on more airs than a cause of the fact that she is bounti- -,--. — 1 wise man could grind out of a hand- er skates as Christmas gifts , has • "body snatching," will be pulled down fully supply by water powers which Four Men Tend Huge Plant organ. ( caused the banning of skating in the I sometime this month.oo s...___ business district and the limiting o! It is in Waterloo Road and over- population. widely and conveniently placed in Berlin.—In When a fireman works the hose it, it to sidewalks in the residential dis- looks the cemeteryo of the Church of relation to the centres of industry ically y and is only in n1ay, irfet. St. John the ,Evangelist, one of the population. In fact practically every- i four London churches erected in 1826 where in the Dominion ample Bice- in commemoration of the Battle of trieal power produced from water architecturally h Waterloo. For the last ten years the :.' ,� acv 4 . fl•.• n building, retaining the sign of "The power is available at a cost whirl ea mode h' i �6 � �' � � �`�� '� . �.� �� '�;�; zi �� � .�•�� er it widelyapplicable. The �.� Watch Hauge," has been used as an renders p ' < crr f eating house, but now its walls are the Dominion 't c:� aa� t; value of this ower to:; 1,:'r, . < a shored up and the premises vacant. P � 1 1' watch--ho:ise was actually is enhanced by the fact. that her fuel tw = Kq. �.y �� �. �, :��.` �.� f The old wa y 3�.. r great,are not y,=fi�P�3 a i� a police station. It served the whole resources though very } r•., .J....... ::. :... neighborhood as well as overlooking the cemetery, and prisoners were taken there before being sent to the debtors' prison and the house of cor- rection. 1 Britain and War .Debts 1 London Times (Ind.) t So far as this country is concerned there is cer- tainly a widespread belief that a get- eral cancellation of, reparations and war debts would facilitate economic recovery . and, therefore, be. generally beneficial; but the British taxpayer would not lightly entertain the idea of cancelling reparations while retain- ing the burden unposed by war debts. Soviet Oil Output Gains Moscow U.S,S,R.—The production London.—The last of London's Waycross, Ga.—The • influx of roll- watch -houses overlooking church cem- eteries built to stop the practice of - erlin.—In Henni sdorf, on the outskirts of Berlin, the Maerkische Elektrizitaetswerk has erected what is claimed to be the largest Diesel plant in Europe and technically as well as a hitherto unapproae - l. It shows the machine al - moat entirely emancipated from hu- man administration, for, thoughits two motors develop22,000 horsepower, theyare tended by only four mechan- ics. y as widely y Revolutions can be speeded up to inconveniently located to serve the 1 215 a minute, as against ninety-four vast central area where the major portion of population and industry is located. The collection of data in Canada on the available water power resource of the Dominion is the responsibility of the Dept. of Interior, which through its Dominion Water Power and Hydrometric Bureau co-operates with several provincial authorities in the measurement and retarding of stream flow in all the important rivers of Canada," says the bulletin, "This work, initiated over twenty years ago, has provided records for many rivers, and these, together with information as to fall and other relevant particu- lars, compiled front every available 1 id 1 distributed and are revolutions maximum attained by the giant Diesel in Hamburg. The con- struction costa are said to have been $56 per kilowatt.- The plant will gen- erate supplementary current and help carry peak loads on the company's power lines. • Indian Gold Pours Into Great Britain Plymouth, Eng.—An additional 4,- 000,000 pounds sterling of gold arriv- ed recently from India, continuing the movement by which India, as it did in the Great War, has been coming to the rescue of Britain. The gold hoard of India, accumu- lated through the centuries, is esti- source, having made it possible tol mated at more than 1700,000,000 melte a fair estimate of the total pounds (approiimately $2,500,000,000 water power resources of the Domin- at par) . Between late September and ion' Christmas, more than 25,000,000 "The water power available at any pounds sterling of gold had arrived, site is proportional to the product of to be refined and sold to countries stili the flow of water and the fall, or on the gold standard. head, obtainable. < The latter, whether due to a natural drop or whether se- cured partly or tirely by dams, is re- latively constant, but the flow melee natural condition is variable. This variability • renders it necessary to adopt certa'izf nrniform bases in caleu- Iating the total power resources. For Canada two bases have been adopted. The first of these gives the po wex tinder conditions of ordinary mini- mum l h • theamount which India went oil' the gold standard with Britain, leaving the rupee peg- ged ;to sterling. A premium of ap- proximately 30 per cent. for gold in London was automatically established by their suspensions. Consequently I gold articles of every description hasel been pouring into India banks for shipment and sale' in London. Salutes Cost U`.S. $315,000 wiflow" beordinarily continuously avail- Artillery salutes cast the ignited will or r ;nates 8315,000 annually. able, and the second indicates the "A Family Aff .iv" :Sons and daughters of R. A. I=',, men in the east photographed after car embarking from stoamsiilp Otranto at Tilbury, recently. They had formed a jolty Ship' company, for there were 180 ohildren, All under nine, bra board. British Imports 'Up, Trade Report Shows •London.—Effects of Great Britain's anti-dumping duties for tIre first four months of operations were shown iu figures issued by the Board of Trade recently, In December imports totaled 277,- 027,303, 77,027,303, a reduction of 26,204,140 from the previous mouth and 212,630,215 from December, 1930. In the same month exports were £32,077,425, an increase of £ 213,976 over November. but a decrease of 26,381;071 from De- cember, 1930, For the fiscal year 1931 imports totaled 2862,174,709, an in- crease of £181,800,552 over 1930: Enc• ports decreased by £131,591,599 to a total of £389,163,817. New Rye -Wheat Seed To Be Tested in Northwest Spokane, Wash. --Dr. E. F. Gaines of of oil in the Soviet Republic its 1931 Washington. State College, who attend - amounted to 22,300,000 tons, 16 per ed the International Soil Science Co* cent. s0iortof the -program for the gross in Moscow, brought back a new .roar, hbut almlost 4,000000 tons in rye -wheat hybrid seed developed by excess of 1930 figures. Belgium to Protect Forests from Axes Gaines says, "It makes better bread $riassels, Belgium. -- Belgium's , than rye and is more hardy and more woods and forests are in future td drought resistant than either wheat or bo protected ted against excessive tree ' re" felling by a law recently voted by, the Belgian Senate. � Has Tomb With Phonograph No,g' 'OEM kill self-respect; A Washington broker has had a the Russians which he is now endeav- oring to blend with northwest wheat. "The new seed contains all the food characteristics of wheat and rye," Dr. everYthhtg wounds Segur, tomb constructed for himself with an automatie phonograph in"the tower Time be the oldest and Most in- which plays at the visitor's 'wlah. This 'helot' % ot1 sil arttias.--n. Pewee. family "pyramid" coot $365,000,