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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-06-23, Page 6s,; 91 Q• -Ir -a4-®'4-4- . p..-a-ta+Ira•."0-=-P Voice e s Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Two Notable Careers Two great snipping magnates have idled within a week of each other— +ftobert Dollar, picturesque Canadian, ,t 88, and the equally picturesque ord Inohape at the age of 80. Their !careers bad many points of similarity. poth were born in Scotland of poor Parents. Both had in abundance in- iiustry, integrity, vision and that gen- us for organization which lead men into high places. Both made huge joran pe u personal wealth. One h more n O e was pile the tle up iggest factor in multiplying the com- Pierce of the United States from its pacific ports; the other the most po- tent influence in trebling the trade of ritain with India and the Orient.— ondon Free Press. Efficiency and Humanity struck by the fact that malty of them. had been thrown in the basket as soon as they wre removed from the envel- ope, the recipient never even taking the trouble to give them a second glance. But did you also notice that you didn't see anyone throwing the news-, papers and especially the home town newspapers in the waste basket or on the floor? Did you notice that news- papers are always carried away in- stead of tossed away? Well, right there is a mighty good argument in favor of advertising in the local news- paper. The circular letter—a costly form of advertising—goes into the waste basket. The -home -town paper goes into the home. Remember this and spend your advertising money ac- cordingly.—Tara Leader. Lutheran Synod in New 'York ob- jects to the policy of firing middle- ged men on the plea that they are too old to work. Humanity has been kaken out -of industry when it seeks to Pitract the maximum effort from the r•est productive years and then pre - ares to scratch the uame off the pay roil.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. Wheat Prospects The Canadian prairies have had the ;most drenching May rain in years, chile the winter wheat States across !the line are parched and crops are threatened with almost complete des- truction. It is morally wrong to re- joice in the afflictions of others, but 'the economic result is a rise in prices jor all wheat in the United States and ;Canada. The rain and higher prices gsombined will put new hope into West- Canada.—London Advertiser. a Canada's Pension Bill What do governments do with all the money? To people who constant - y ask this question we suggest an ex- amination of a .return tabled in Par- iament. What it shows is that for ,j'iensions alone Canada last year paid but $65,636,263. And on top of that there are old age pension, pensions for etired civil servants, pensions for re- tired judges, pensions for others, All rot us asked for, these pensions, sup- ported them. No one, certainly, be- udges the pensions that go to war veterans. But it is well that occasion- ally ccasionTally we be reminded of what we are going, of the money that is involved.— "Ottawa Journal. A Brilliant Notion Mr. Samuel Vauclain, the great American locomotive magnate, has ound the solution of the unemploy- ment problem. "All our troubles will tiome to a end," he said, "when every ne makes up his mind to work in- itead of soliciting help from the Gov- ernment'." The cure for unemploy- n.ent is work. All we have to do is to give orders to eight million unemploy- d Americans to start working, and to pe quick about it. Nothing like a business man for brilliant notional— be Canada, Montreal EMPIRE. The Cost of Higher Education, South Africa is more than liberally endowed with institutions which fur- nish instruction more or less of the university type. It may soon be in a position to boast that it is turning out more B.A's to the morgen than any other nation on earth, except possibly the United States of America. The question is, can the country continue to face the expenditure even on the present slightly reduced scale? Unless commodity prices recover—and unfor- tunately they are still falling in terms 'of gold—it will surely be necessary to effect large economies in higher edu- cation, and in that event the right of existence of the smaller university colleges is certain to be challenged.— Cape Argus. Trade "Advisers" for Ottawa. The Prime Minister has made a good choice of delegates to attend the Commonwealth representatives at the Ottawa Imperial Economic Confer- ence. Once it was determined to fol- low the British Government's lead in sending "advisers" with Ministers, it became important that they should be representative of the interests likely to be affected by the Ottawa decisions. range.—W. G. Fitzgerald in Nine- teenth Century (London). 1 Seven 'T'irnes a Winner -'%•"i�,i• .....,...'`"*.E':v_ ,• f k�a.?c..x:i.. .':iwe, .._- 'Sant Ferris of the Royal Air Force is undoubtedly a winner of the first order. He has just finished a record of 7 runs, winning all. The last—Windsor to London -26 miles. Two pals "chair" him. Washington, Adams, Franklin, Madi- son and Monroe—deplored this fact and sought to remedy it. The first President thought the political en- lightenment of his people a matter of "primary importance"; Lincoln called it the most pressing of all civic duties. But just as America entered the World War quite helpless as a belligerent, so is she unable to ad- just herself to today's universal crisis in the economic sphere. "Public op- inion" is many and various; tenets of policy common to all are very hard to establish in a land of continental The selection of the personnel of such a delegation was necessarily a matter of great difficulty, and doubt- less there is not one of the five who might not have been replaced by suffers from having grown rich much somebody else with equally good too quickly. It sometimes flashes its claims. But it needs to be said again diamonds and boasts of its powers that this delegation can in. the nature and deals too freely in empty slogans of things be no more than an axis- and dubiously elaborate statistics. ory and information -conveying body. The .real .,.work at Ottawa will be done by Ministers, and must be followed by Parliamentary action to be effec- tive.—Melbourne Australasian. Publicity. There is no doubt that publicity Imagination and brain -work are need- ed in its service, and these qualities the English, more than any other wooer of the new art, are likely to bring to it. England is publicity's last, most fastidious lover, and will Russia and Japan. prove the truest in the end. -=Truth World-wide apprehension is being (London). roused by the snarling between Tokio — and Moscow. The Russians pretend Phone Message Dialed to see from all quarters imperialistic designs agoinst the Soviet Republic, and in reply Japan declares that Rus- sia is massing huge numbers of troops near the Manchurian border. It is difficult to see why Russia should seek a quarrel with Japan at the present time. Russia's bluster has much mare the appearance of a clumsy attempt to stir up trade union and "proletariat" trouble throughout the world by an appeal to "the work- ers" to resist their governments— He can spell out his message on hip work - nominally to prevent help going to sending dial and it appears at the Jappan. The industrial quiescence ether end on a sort of ticker tape. throughout Europe and America ow - Bad Habits If we build a wall of bad habits, the difficulty we shall have to face will he how to climb out. The imperial Conference We do not want to be pessimistic, !ant we should look the facts in the ace. South Africa wants reciprocity ;with Britain and the other countries Of the Empire on condition that her national industries are adequately protected. Australia wants to sell her meat and dairy products. India is always ready to sell her pig -iron land half -finished steel to Britain. The Irish Free State, which is becoming tore and more free, wants more ex- ensive markets for her dairy prod - nets. Canada wants to sell her grain, tnd her pulp and paper. "We ought o consider in the first place the in t.erests of our own people, then the in- terests of the Empire," Mr. Ramsay ;MacDonald and Mr. J. H, Thomas have declared. We have never doubt - 4d this for a moment, and it is for is reason that we do not expect his from the Imperial Conference.--- e Droit, Ottawa. If Call is Unanswered Milan, Italy.—If no one answers his call, the Milan telephone subscriber may now dial out a written note which is reproduced at the other end. A compact sending and receiving in- strument for this service has been offered to the public at small cost. It can be attached to the ordinary phone. When a person goes out he sets the receiving device and the party calling hears a buzz indicating it is working. Women More Bad-tempered Than Men, Professor Says According to ani American professor women get angry six tithes to a. man's four. In arriving at this conclusion he had 'nen and women students keep: "anger diaries"—that is, whenever:`; they lost their tempers they recotdndj: the fact for the benefit of science, A writer in London "Answers," however,' allows leniency to creep in and gives the ladies several reasons for this high percentage. Ile writes: "On the face of it, you can't get be- hind these diaries. There, in black - and -white, are the facts. They prove conclusively—. But what if the pro- fessor is too trusting What if the diaries only prove that women are 1 more honest than men It is just pos- sible that they have duly jotted down all their tantrums, while the men have failed to mark up half theirs. Of course, the diaries may be accu- rate enough. Even then it doesn't mean that women are naturally bad- tempered. A British investigator of the problem of temper, D'. G. F. Still, of King's College Hospital, London, has noticed that when a child, which has become thin from any cause, be- gins egins to put on flesh, its temper im- proves. "Children brought to the hos- pital for excessive fatness are almost invariably good-tempered," lie says. So perhaps women are more bad- tempered than men—at the moment— simply because they have been "slim- ming." If that is so, the man who buys boxes of chocolates for his wife or his flaneee has a sound instinct of self-preservation. And the best way to tackle his own bad temper would be to eat more food. Again, however, those little doubts creep in. The experts don't all agree. Here is what Dr. Josiah Oldfield says: "The wife of an i11 -tempered husband should not blame him, but should diet him. If he is not too far gone, a week's fast and a month on a diet of herbs and milk will make a new man of him." An earlier investigation into tem- per, emper, made by Sir Francs Galton, the pioneer of eugenics, in 1887, suggests yet another line of approach. Galton found that in families where both parents were good-tempered Dominions Pick Envoys To British Trade Parley London—The Dominion Office has announced that all delegations to the Ottawa Imperial Economic Confer- ence in July have been selected with the exception of those of the Irish Free State and New Zealand. Great Britain has named six dele- gates: Stanley Baldwin, Lord Presi- dent of the Council; J. H. Thomas, Dominion Secretary; Neville Cham- berlain, Chancellor of the Exche- quer; Lord Hailsham, Secretary of State for War; Walter Runciman, president of the Board. of Trade, and Sir Philip Cunliffe -Lister, Secretary for Colonies. Australia will send Stanley Bruce, Assistant Treasurer, and H. S. Gullet, Minister of Trade and Customs. South Africa chose N. C. Havenga, Minister of Finance; P. G. W. Gro - bier, Minister of Lands, and A. P. J. Fourie, Minister of Mines and In- dustries. India named. n the largest repres- entatioof any participant except Great Britain. The Indian govern- ment will send Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee, R, K. Shanmukham Chet- ty, Sir Padamji Pestonji Cinwala, Sir George Rainy, Haji Abdullah Hereon Sahibzada and Abdus Samad Khan. Southern Rhodesia will send. H. S. Hoffat, Premier; P. D. L. Flynn, Treasurer, and J. W. DowIley, High Commissioner in Great Britain. Farm and Home Week June 20 to 24 at Guelph Guelph, Ont.—Farmers visiting the Ontario Agricultural College here will find a complete and new arrangement of the week's programme this year. They will be at liberty to choose what interests them most in this pro- gramme and will have ample time for visiting departments and friends. An interesting item is that much of the instruction will be given out-of-doors and made as practical as possible. Rates for rooms and meals are reason- able. All Ontario farm folks are urged to visit and renew old. acquaintances. ing to the economic depression must be gall and wormwood to the inde- fatigable intriguers of the Third In- ternationale. Not war with Japan, but another drive for "world revolu- tion" is the most likely object of Moscow's queer manoeuvres.—Hong Kong Press. The Need for Economy. The need for greater economy in public expenditure has been insuffici- ently emphasized at this conference (conference of Australiau Premiers). When the Premiers' plan was laun- ched aunched last year it was recognized that it was but the beginning of economy. An aggregated deficit which was then regarded as the largest allowable with safety will be exceeded this financial year by several millions of pounds. It is evident that further drastic econ- omies conomies are required—not the piece- meal departmental savings now being made, but a fundamental reconstruc- tion of the whole public service.— Melbourne Argus. Imperialistic Germany. Germany has apparently fallen ack into the hands of the world-de- ing militarist class swhich was re- ponsible for her present plight. A Germany governed by Hohenzol- rns and their ilk is a potential 'll anger to her neighbors and to world oace. A democratic Germany re - eased from war debtpayments might ave aided in world recovery, An .erialistio Germany relieved of Debt payments may utilize the advan- itge gained te, strengthen herself for pother attempt at world domination. ews of the recent political develop - eats In Berlin is the most disturb ngthat has come out of that coma- ". onn-" . since pre-war days. - Toronto elegram. Ever Notice Thls? Did you ever pause in a post ofliee ,Ipng enough to take a squint at the Kvaste paper basket shortly after a 4umber of people had received their peseta? If you have you were probably struck by the nttniber of circulars end Lorin letters and hand bills that litter- ed it tip, In fact you doubtless were OTHER OPINIONS Signs of Recovery. There are many indications that with the conclusion of the session of Congress, when It is known that the budget is balaueed, when taxes are no longer an uncertain quantity, and business is assured that there will be neither inflation of the currency nor demoralizing bond issues, business will respond.—Washington Post, The American "Nation" The Milted States cannot be eon• sidered a "nation" at all as the word is commonly employed; it is alto- gether ltagether too vast in area, its popular tion too mixed in race and colour, its Huge commonwealths and legislar tures too diverse its interests, Glia mates and "sovereign" rights, Boli- ticai sagacity lies always been, waist- ing here; and even the earl} t titers • Unique Case Strange is the case of John Mellish of Geneva, Illinois, jailed for indiscretion. He's an expert grinder of telescope lenses so astronomers get him out to work each day. Night Sounds in Camp The leaping of bass, plash, plash, at unequal intervals of time and distance. breaking through the su- preme quiet of midnight, comes to one's ears witha liquid, bubbling ac- companiment, not at all like any- thing else in the world. Tho mock- ing -bird often starts from sleep in the scented foliage of the sweet - gum to sing a tender .melody to the rising moon. At such times his voice reflects all the richness and shad- owy dreamfuines of the night. It blends into one's sense of rest and thirty per cent. of the children were becomes anelement oymet good-tempered also, and ten per cent. after one has teal eneagainof intoenjslumn- badtempered. The others were ber. "neutral." Where both parents were Frogs are night's buffoons, "Croak, bad-tempered only four per cent. of the croak, croak," you hear one mut- children were good-tempered and fifty- tering, and with your eyes, yet un - two per cent. were bad-tempered. Gal- ton found also that girls were slightly —though only very slightly—better tempered than boys. Heart Moved From Body During Successful Operation The successful performance of a delicate operation that necessitated the removal of the heart from the hu- man body is reported from Grat in southern Austria. Dr. Julius Stocker of the clinic of Gratz performed the operation. The case was that of a lunatic who escaped from the asylum at Feldhor and shot himself in the heart, where Dr. Stocker found that the bullet had lodged. Dr. Stocker succeeded in lift- ing it out of the body, removed the bullet and replaced the heart. Dur- ing the operation the than was kept alive by artificially pumping air into Tientsin, China. —Chinese me- chanics, lungs.—San Francisco Chronicle. waiters, sailors and other workers, following after the labor organizations ofthe western nations, have been organizing labor unions during the last 10 years. This union fad has even gone into practically every type of work. The latest development is the organiza- tion of "shouting peddlers." More than 100 street peddlers in this city, sweet fruit sellers, walk- ing barbers, soup hay ersfornded mov- able a restaurants, union "to protect their interests." Japan at the Olympics It's a longjourney from Japan •to California and here we see the J Captain of the team "getting his land legs" again at Santa Monica. opened and the silence and stillness of sleep scarcely gone from you, you wonder where he is sitting. On what green tussock, with his big eyes jut- ting out and his angular legs akimbo. does he squat? Suddenly, "Chug!" You know how he leaped up, spread out his limbs, turned down his head and struck into the water like a shot. You chuckle grimly to your- self, turn over in your hammock, and alI is forgotten. Then the screech -owl begins to whine in its tremulous -querulous falsetto. . The bighorned owl laughs and hoots far away in bloomy glens. The leaves rustle, the river pours on, and the wind sinks and swells like the breath of a mighty sleeper.—Maurice Thompson, in "By - Ways and Bird Ootes." '• • — China Favors Unions Australian Jobless Open Shop in Adelaide Adelaide, S. Aust. — Showing both enterprise and determination, the un- employed in Adelaide have opened a sales depot on Rundle Street, the chief shopping centre. There is keen public interest in the undertaking, which is a test to see how far the public will support the ef- forts of those prepared to try to help themselves, and thus save the coun- try ouptry the expense of supportng them. The Governor, Sir Alexander ore - a x Helium Find Reported Ruthven, has paid an unofficial visit Port of Spain, Trinidad—Hamra i to the shop and made purchases and he says he intends to go again. Soviet Builds Apartments For 12,000 Foreigners Moscow. Twelve thousand foreign- ers will be accommodated in a single modern apartment house being erect- ed here especially for American, Ger- man and other foreign specialists. It will have numerous collectivist features such as a common dining room and laundry' for those wishing to use them. The government appro- priated 4,200,000 rubles for construc- tion and the building is expected to be completed by the end of this year. in Trinidad, rewarding a setaeu which began after oil drillers tapped a source of the gas last September. The quantities available leave not been ascertained, but the reports said there was a possibility that Trinidad might become an important source of supply. Chinese Boy Invents • Cheap Cotton Loom Nanking: A hand -controlled cotton- weaving machine, recently invented by a young Chinese boy in Wel Hsien, is the latest domestic handicraft ma- chine added to the hundreds of an- cient and crude home instruments. This Is a small machine, most parts being made of wood and costs about $20 Mexican, It can weave one pound of cotton cloth daily. Bird Migrations Ages Old History from earliest times records many instances of the migrations of birds, and it is likely, according 'to eminent authorities, that the regular seasonal movements of flying crea- tures over the earth have been observ- ed by mankind since the remotest times, --Gas Logic. Airplane Tows Gliders Halle, Ger.—The German airplane pilot, Herr Boenig, succeeded recently in towing four gliders together to a height of 1000 feet with a sports plane of 120 horsepower. It was believed here to be the first time that such a feat had been accomplished. THE SIGNPOST. Several enthusiasts were enjoying The Ministry of Industry is attempt- a round of golf. Darkness was fall. ng to patent the machine and intro- ing, and one of the players had t, duce. it into every home in the cotton- send his caddie ahead to shout the growing sections of the country, Life to Comb It is impossible to make any sense out of this life without stn assurance "Weal, that`s the direction, but no' of some life to come. ---lir, orchard, sae feta'!" direction of the greens, Out of the blackness its front came a voice: "Po you see the moon?" "1l'Ine," came back the roplY.