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Zurich Herald, 1932-05-26, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Quid Pro Quo Has it .struck Canadians yet that, though Britainhas. a 20 per cent, tariff against the rest of the world, her mar- kets to Canada, Australia and the re- mainder of the Dominions and Colon- ies' of the British Empire are free? . Canada maintains a high tariff against the Motherland. Britain gives free trade markets to us,—Lethbridge Her- ald (Lib,) Canadian Tobacco • A. I, Phillips,chairman of one of the leading tobacco firms in Great Britain, said during the course of his address at the annual meeting of his company: "Canadian tobacco in the opinion of myself and my associates is equal to the finest raw leaf tobacco in the ;¢world. It has all the pleasing char- acteristics of United States Virginia ;tobacco." This new channel of Cana - alien export is clearly marked for great future development,—The Brantford Expositor. Farmers" Co-operation Co-operative farm movements are the salvation of the soil producer. Farmers must never forget that or- ganization will beat disorganization every time. Iinorganized, the farmer,. whether he is farming fruit or wheat or poultry or animal husbandry, is a prey for every middle man, for every financial and political group that can get a toe -hold on his work and pro- ducts.—Vancouver Sun. King George Twenty-two years ago May 16th King George asceuded the throne of Eng- land. Tis reign has wituessed the most terrible of all wars, the worst of all depressions, a complete upheaval of organized forces, and more national crises than the previous hundred years together held. Throughout these twenty-two years of grave responsi- bility he has won. for himself a place in. the hearts of his own people and in the high esteem of the civilized world second to none. He has set a splendid example of a constitutional monarch labouring unceasingly for the welfare of his people, discharging his onerous :duties with tact and skill, and exercis- ing his influence ever on the side of peace, progress, prosperity and inter- national goodwill. That he may be spared for many years yet to continue bis invaluable services to Britain and the Empire was the sincere prayer of all his loyalsnlijecis.—Motiteeal :Star:: French Canada The American tourist, who travels through our villages, hardly finds any -difference between the country which he has Left and the one which he had hoped find was new and picturesque and had something of France about it. More than this, the people who offer you a "chicken dinner" are doing all they can to adopt the universal and banal forms of international catering. It is quite conceivable that the tourist who Iras been attracted by the pub- licity given out about "French Quebec" may feel he has been deceived by a hotel like every other oue he has seen on the roads of New York and of New England.—La Pattie, Montreal. purchases, they would have been nine more careful in malting expenditures, —Kitchener Record. THE EMPIRE The Future of the Empire The Empire bas recently emerged from a great war, shaken, but intact, Profound changes have been brought about in our social and industrial fab- ric, and some faint hearts fear the fu- ture. Yet the Empire possesses wide spaces which may support many mil- lions of our people, while our agricul- tural and mineral resources are un- matched. n.matched. Given a bold plan of con- structive onstructive organization of Empire re- sources, the future has dazzling possi- bilities.—Wolverhampton Express. Every Man His Own Garden Allotment growers in this country are producing at least • $10,000,000 worth of vegetables every year. This is the estimate given by the National Allotments Society. Their figures show that every ten -rod plot grows on the • average between £7 and £10 worth of vegetables, which works out at between £112 and £150 per acre. Much of this is produced on land which formerly lay fallow or derelict. In England and Wales there are to -day over a million allotments, and allow- ing for large numbers in. Scotand and Ireland, the £10,000,000 estimate is believed to be on the conservative side.—London Evening Standard. Optimism in Britain Most favorable feature of the year's revenue figures is the increased yield from customs, partly clue to the new tariff duties, though most of them have been in force for only a month. A new budget year opens in an atmosphere of confidence and restrained optimism. It will not be an easy year; but the back of our financial problem has been broken. Those who, in many cases at great sacrifice, have paid their taxes promptly, and those who have cheer- fully submitted to "cuts," may justly claim an. important share of the credit due to a splendid achievement.—Lon- don Sunday Dispatch. Much -Quoted Papers With Justifiable pride, the Stratford Beacon -Herald points out that it stood eighth in alist of 104 Canadian news- papers "Most frequently quoted" dur- ing the three months ending with March last. It is a tribute to the daily papers in smaller centres not only, that the Beacon -Herald was right on the heels of a large city paper and only One removed from• the fourth Toronto paper, but that such journals as the 13rantford Expositor, Woodstock Sen- tinel -Review, St. Thomas Times- Jour- nal, Brockville Recorder and Times, Kitchener Record, St. Catharines Standard, Kingston. Whig -Standard, Sault Ste, Marie Star, Chatham News, Guelph Mercury, ,Petaboro Examiner, Sudbury Star, Owed Sound Times, Qshawa Daily Times and North Bay Nugget were in. the first halt of the list. It is charged frequently that the larger the newspaper the more point- less its editorials. While this cannot be said to apply as a rule to Canadian papers this rule always carrying its exception—it is a fact that 'those in: secondary cities, and especially in this Province, have become notable for constructive contribution to drought en public affair. The compilations of the Dominion Press Clipping Agency show how valuable this thought is con - sidereal. by contemporaries which add to their service by passing it along.-- Toronto long.—Toronto Globe: Distinguished Visitors in Canada Lady Gweneth Cavendish, sister of Lord Bessborough, arrives at Montreal on the Montcalm. The party from left to right: Hon, Margaret Thesiger, daughter of the. Earl of Chelmsford, R. S. Baring, nephew of the governor-general, and his mother, Lady Cavendish. the shack and the log cabin still in their blood.—New York Herald -TL's'- bune. The Powers and the Par East It is always a mistake to think that there is any clash between. altruism and "practical affairs." The Powers have not intervened in the Far East to uphold this or that petty theory of some dreamer's brain. Peace in the Far East is a business necessity which concerns everyone.—Hong Kong Press. Electrical Ear Warns Ships at Sea of Fog Peril Tests made recently in New York harbor indicate the possibility of re- placing human ears with electrical ones in listening :or distant fog sig-• nals. By means of a microphone and a noise meter, set up on a light- house tender, engineers took read- Controlling ex - Controlling Sunlight Natural sunlight all da; long in any room of a house, even in rooms that open only on dark wells or airshafts, 'is promised by a new device reported from the Institute of Optics of Paris, France, writes Dr. E. E. Free in this week's Science. This device uses one of the new photo -electric cells nick- named the "electric eye." Mirrors are provided to catch the sunlight on the roof of the house and to direct some of it vertically downward outside each set of windows. Other mirrors thea reflect parts of these vertical beams through the windows into the individ- ual rooms. Extra large roof mirrors may be used to catch a great deal of the sunlight and divide this into small- er individual beams. Any dimming of the sunlight due to reflection from the Canada's Example d mirrors can be counteracted by using ings at distances ranging from a lenses or curved mirrors to concen The representatives of the Free few hundred yards to several miles :trate some excess sunlight in the be- State cannot but gain in knowledge from fog signals on Governors Island' ;ginning, "Guiding" iiding'� Comes of Age Hove Birds View The Girl Guide movement' in Eng- birtlzdaY this month. Really, it is xucre than twenty-one The airplane, as might be expected, Guidess before bectbo othvee were Girl is viewed with suspicion by the birds, Guides the movement started" oiiicially. Liverpool had a contingent writes T, J. C. Martyn in The New of them in 1909,' and Manchester in York Times. Occasionally they have 1910. it was the spontaneous spring- aided their feathered friends, as when ing up of these little companies of they swiftly moved stranded swallows "Girl Scouts," as they had called tbenn- south from Austria and Switzerland, thus assisting in a winter migration, selves, ,filet led to the launching of the , national movement. But moire usually the larger ones At first there was a good deal of pre- judice against the Guides — people thought the training would turn out laird is celebrating its twenty^first Man's Invasion birthday from contact with men who have help- and Robbins' Reef. ed to build up the Dominion countries.; The measurements were designed If we were to select examples for con- primarily to .establish a new method' sideration, the principles on which of Making the government's re ..,f Canada solved her racial problems are inspection of the operation 0 worthy of investigation. Some per- signals. In addition, say sons fn this country who know noth- Mechanics Magazine, .electric' ing about Canada may look on it as eliminating', sound:frequencies abov an overgrown "English" colony.. It is 500' cycles Were tried, since the fogy' nothing of the sort. Before England signals have a much lower frequency acquired Canada. by the fortunes of a The results indicated that the filter i lige. The new Parisian device works very complicated -tear. it was a French system can be so sharpened as to by placing a small and inexpensive colony. The French still form the cut out the sounds of ships' whistles photo-elctric cell in the first beam of largest individual racial section of the and other harbor noises and admit reflected sunlight. As the sun moves population—and they are the most to the sensitive noise ureter only the in the sky so that the beam of reflect - loyal to the Crown. There is an Irish fog signal itself. This would not'-, ed sunlight tends to move away from section, or rather two Irish sections— fy a skipper at once that Ile was this photoelectric cell, the cell oiler• Northern and Southern, There are within range of a signal. ates a small electric motor and turns Scottish and English sections, there the first mirror just enough to bring are Teutons and Scandinavians. One Modern Women Modest the reflected beam back into the pro - and all, they are Canadians. Canada is Declares Beach Inspector Per line. their country, and they have gone a �__- - long way to develop it, and they pro- Savannah, Ga.—Dennis Lysaught, pose to go a longer way still. When the veteran chief of police or Savan- When A Broken Leg we have done as much, proportionate- nah Beach has just been elected to Straightened Matters Where the electric eye enters is to :keep the first mirror always pointed directly at the sun as that body moves ough the heavens. In previous Mir- " t 'kiting sunlight frreye en "of the first mir- e :x 0'follow 'tiiL"etuall ,s been done by clocks like those used by tifitronomers to move their telescopes, a.niethod Which is too expensive for practical have cocked a hostile eye on the air- plane. lie proceelsi "There are several authenticated "tomboys:' That fear has now van cases of condors attacking airplanes ished, and the corning -of -age will be in the Andes. Eagles, too, resent air - celebrated by services in many im- planes. They usually prefer the front - portant churches of various denomina- al attack, but a German eagle, wile thought he knew better, decided on a flank attack from a frontal angle, This was a grave error, Ho was picked up sometime later with a broken neck. "In these days wheu pigs, dogs, lob- sters, and even a camel have been transported by air, queer things will out. A lien took to the air once with great and evident pleasure. To show her gratitude she laid au egg. "Often :he mere presence of an air-, plane is enough to cow the smaller birds. It seems that they take them for large eagles. Thus, in a war on some marauding crows, the presence, of an airplane flying low overhead was euough to keep the chattering black birds in the trees, while the farmers massacred them with shotguns. "Airplanes were used for hunting lions in Africa, until a government de- cree halted them. Hers of horses out wars that these articles come to West have at times been much alarmed light only during excavations. by the passage of airplanes. But there One of the most valuable of these excavated articles is the Emperor Otto cup, which is to be seen in the Dom Museum in Riga. This cup was found scores of years ago in the north of Livland (now Estonia) in a geld in the neighborhood of Fellin Castle, which was built by medieval knights. ' "One of the most curious of queer The cup, which has a diameter of happenings in the air occurred in the tions, The twenty-first year of the Guides will also be narked, in the autumn, by a week of tree -planting along public roads. There are to -day over 1,000,000 Girl Guides throughout the world. A fea- ture of the movement is the work that the Guides have done to lighten the lot of the blind, deaf, and crippled.—Ans. were. ly, to develop the resources of the Free State, we shall have done something of which to be justly proud.—Cori: Ex- aminer. Crown Colonies and the Empire Whatever the political ambitions of a future federated West Indies, the economic advantages of being welded within the British economic union would be too great to lose. We may aim to increase our stature as Crown Colonists, but Dominion status would serve his twenty-second continuous year as a member of the force, Savannah Beach is the tidewater bathing centre for all this section of Georgia and a part of South Carolina. During the long time he leas been connected with the department, Chief Lysaught has seen the feminine bathing costume develop from a thing of skirts and trousers to the present incidental garb. The Chiet approves of the change. It has come gradually, he says,' but with each season's abbreviation he has not not pay island colonies, which adver found a corresponding shrinkage of tise themselves as the tropical or- modesty. "It's all a matter Jf ens - chards and sun -parlours of Great Brietom", is the Chief's conclusion. tain, It may seem a far cry from the preseut increase of preference to Bri- tish Colonial Empire Free Trade, or to an. economic future such as we have indicated but 'we must not lose sight of the fact that the Chamberlain theories of pre-war days are now un- dergoing transition into technique and that the best economists in the Empire are engaged on hammering out that technique.—Trinidad Guardian. OTHER OPINIONS Log Cabin Survives Pay As You Go :The argument is always made that as posterity will get the benefit of im- provements, ovements, posterity should iselp to pay for them. This is done by issuing long-term 'debentures. Would •it not have been the part of wisdom to pay cash for everything in the city as it whs built? Posterity have their own things to buy for the benefit of the community. .k father would never go and deliberately leave his son a legacy of debt, Why should a eitY do any dif- ferenit! And, as a parting thought, if past counclIS had paid emit for their Excavation in Balkans Reveal Metal Pieces Most European countries have valu- able metal articles in their churches and monasteries, a heritage from the Middle Ages. The Baltic states, however, writes th , Riga correspon- dent of "The Christian Science Moni- tor," have suffered so severely from . It may sound too optimistic to des- cribe a fractured leg as a lucky break. Yet the victim in this particular in stauce, it is 'toped, will eventually think so. Years ago, he fractured his right leg so badly that when the bones healed, the limb was an inch or more shorter than the other. Recently, to left leg was broken in an automobile accident. In setting this fracture, a Toronto sur- geon adjusted the fragments in such a way that when repairs are completed both legs will be the same length, and the patient a wee bit shorter than he used to be. Our national architecture was a few felled lengths of forest crudely built up with the hide and hair still on it. Tlie log cabin was mythically, if not actually as in' Lincoln's case, the in- cubator of our great men. And we are still likely to think of it as peculiarly an American feature, although it ap- pease, human geographers say, where - ever the same woodland circumstances prevail, or prevailed fairly recently, as to -day in. parts of Russia, Siveden, Fin- land, and even in Switzerland and in Northern Italy. The Germans have just perfected a portable copper house that can be erected by six Men 111,24 hours. You can. take it to the sea- shore or to the mountains with you al - Most as :handily as if it were a tett, It boasts au unequalled "rationalization" in Housing. But who could recuperate from the machine age in such a contrap- tion? Not the run of Americans, ter- tainly, who came, out of the woods only day before yesterday 'and have have been times when the animals have scored. Once a horse found an airplane in a field. He approached it stealthily, gave one lick at the fabric, and found it rather tasty. In a few minutes lie had demolished the entire tail, eschewing the wood and chewing only the doped fabric. thirteen inches and is made of dark bronze, more than 900 years ago was used as a patena chrismalis, a vessel in which the consecrated oil was kept during church services. It Is an ex- ceedingly valuable relic, as the only other specimen known was found in pians were landing a spy in a captured the neighborhood of Madgeliurg. machine. A truck was manned and a Germany. half dozen stalwarts, armed with revel The cup derives its name from the vers, made off in the direction in which the airplane disappeared. In a few minutes the machine was discover- ed, standing still in a large field, its war. One day, about noon, a British 20 was sighted gliding down toward its airport. But instead of circling to land it kept steadily on and passed over the field. Instant suspicion crept into every man's mind that the Ger- portrait of Otto the Great (936-973), which is to be seen on five medal- lions at the extremities and in the center of a flat cross covering the prop' turning over slowly. From am - bottom. pie cover some one called out. There was no answer, though two men could Court Makes Patient be seen sitting in their cockpits. "Filially, some intrepid soul stealth - Live Up to Gratitude ily approached, only to find that both Toulon, France.—Happy over his re- airmen were dead. The machine had covery froze an illness, M. Bespalov, a Russian resident, wrote a grateful let- ter etter to his physician in which he said: "If ever, doctor, misfortune should actually.: ftiew i then:, home and landed then safely, Without any damage to its structure. "There is the story of a pilot 'who strike you, I will give you 100,000 went looking for trouble. Up in front francs ($4,000) and this not as a gift, of him loomed a giant thunderhead, but because you ha'e well earned it." He thought to himself, 1 I should like Recently the accts. had to undergo to see what is inside.' As soon as the the amputation of both legs and, find- pilot got into the cloud he felt ilii ing himself in need, suggested that his heart sinking into his shoes, as if .lee were being shot upward in an elevator. former patient make good his promise. 73espalov could not see it that way and He was elevated at the alarming rate the doctor went to court, of 1,400 feet a minute. He pushed the The uod ym, lioid- control stick forward as far as it ing thattribthenal written rdereprompaise was for- would go. It made no difference: he mal and binding. Stream.Flow in the Maritimes Eventually his experience came to an Stream -flow in. the Maritime Pro- end; for he suddenly shot out of the vinces during March, as reported by cloud in a dive, yet several thousand. the Dominion Water Power and Hydro- feet higher than when he had entered metric Bureau of the Department of it." the Interior, was considerably below .e normal. In southern New Brunswick' •Highway Menace the mean run-off was only 17 per cent., It would be interesting to know how in northern'New Brunswick and west- many motorists, reading the warning ern Nova Scotia it was less than 60 given by I -Ion. Leopold Macaulay, Min - per cent and in eastern Nova Scotia aster of Highways, about the import - about 73 per cent. of the March aver- ance of headlights, have bothered to age. The reason for this subnormal check up on this particular equipment flow was the coutiuuause of the cold of their own cars. Every driver, out GENERAL — =- — — — TRAVISS on the highway after nightfall, knows eery weather in the Maritime Presences that the headlights of the majority of which had persisted throughout Febr- approaching cars are a menace to his safety . but in. all probability he hasn't taken the trouble to ascer- tain whether or not itis own beams of was still being carried upward and— to make matters worse—sideways at a speed of some seventy -miles an hour. Mary. �a%'Ff' i T„be_ .e..Fex?S.f?f,.Yy a,bululi, Sir. er hitting Henrytau famous British racing driver;. Is Seeft shooting tlti'outglt ;lb e , Biul , air with wheels all the grouted, during a practice for the British tiepin titopliy at Brooklands, England. illumination are as annoying to others. There were 250 accidents in Ontario last year directly attributable to faulty headlights, the Minister of Highways declares. Twelve of these had fatal termination. --Hamilton Spectator. Traveling in 'Good Old Days' Traveling in the olden days was a dangerous and sometimes arousing experience, according to P. J. Pybus, Minister of Transport, who quoted histgry during an address in London recently. He said that , Edward I took the coach by degrees, and "tried it on the clog," for when he went to Scotland he himself was carried in a horse ,litter, while the ladies of the court travelea in coaches. • In the reign ,of George 113, Sidney Smith roeorth ci that itt his man journey from Taunton to Bath he received from 10,000 to 12,000 conte- sious. "This," said Pybus, "work- IIed out at one for every eight yards, ` Possibly on that painful journey Sid- ney Smith allowed his mind to dwelt longingly on the comfortable swing 'tug of the horse litter in the good old bays." +' HAPPINESS, Our happiness does not depend 04 ei'rcutnstance or place or time; it 14 something that lies within us, here and now.