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Zurich Herald, 1932-07-21, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Fair Deals For Tourists Whether the tourist traffic turns out to be good or poor, the fact remains that now is the time above all others to avoid any attempts at profiteering. The fair return is enough.—Saint John Telegraph -Journal, British Money Comes to Canada Alberta is the latest province to leave the United States loan market alone and to turn to Great Britain. It has recently negotiated an issue in London for the amount of one million pounds sterling, which was obtained 'without any difficulty, and at a lower cost than would have beeu incurred in obtaining United States money, It is gratifying to know that more British -capital is coming into the Dominion. We have been too long dependent on ,Fall Street for loans, and as there is plenty of money available in the Old Country for legitimate investments, +there is no reasou why the British market should be neglected any long- er.—Regina Star. Pedestrians Organize • Increasing frequency of motor acci- dents in which there is Ioss of life or serious injury has been responsible for the formation of an organization known as the Pedestrians' Rights As- sociation. Headquartersoffices have been opened at Ottawa and branches are to be formed in cities and towns throughout the provins3. A similar organization has been in existence in !Quebec for several mouths. The objects of the association are laudable and its activities should have a beneficial effect in promoting care and caution on the part of motorists and pedestrians alike. The primary purpose, of course, is the protection of pedestrians from traffic dangers on streets and highways, especially tee danger, arising from motor vehicles, and from infractions of the law on the part of drivers. Improvement in the methods of prosecution and in the laws for the punishment of offenders wilt also be sought.—Toronto Star. Strange Situation An Alberta man who has lived in Canada 19 years applied for citizen- ship papers but could not speak nor understand English. It is surprising, not that the application was refused, but that there are communities in Al- berta where a man could live that long without picking up enough Eng- lish. ngIish. to make himself understood. -- Edmonton Journal. A Paradox Lord Cecil is quoted as having said that the Disarmament Conference' any ever held: before in the, history of the world in aim and uni- yersality. It embraces sixty nations whose representatives assemble for the purpose of abolishing war. On the face of it, this would seem hopeful. Yet Europe alone, according to the Year Book of the League of Nations, is spending £900,000,000 a year for war. Mr. Lloyd George has called at- tention to the fact that there are to- day, in the world, 30,000,000 men un- der nder arms, or some 10,000,000 more than before the World War. Military +nen know only too well the tragedy that confronts the world in another war, Thus Field Marshal Lord Allen- by has said, "The next war will mean the complete end of civilization as we know it. Everything and every one will be commandeered." We are confronted, then, by the paradox of greater preparations for peace and greater preparations for war than human history has ever yet known. What does it mean? Are the peace plans insincere? There is no good reason for supposing that they are, but every reason to believethat the rank and file of men, and rulers, and Parliaments long for peace as never before. The unprecedented pre- parations for war are in themselves a challenge and acall to peace,—Tor- onto Mail and Empire. THE EMPIRE Imperial Unity Organization is needed for the more thorough exploitation of Empire re- sources --to mobilize capital, to direct migration, to create means for recip- rocal commerce. The Empire has not yet realized itself. This is doubtless a lack due to the haphazard way in ;which its scattered lands have been peopled. Economic unity, compara- tively easy of attainment in. a con- tinental country such as the United States, has been difficult to achieve by the British realm. But every year the ,the to inter -communication di- minish, --Auckland Weekly News. Rash Promises Most of Britain's troubles in India during the last fifteen years have sprung from making promises or of- fers which in; cold blood. it is impose• Ible to earry out without reducing In Ala to Chaos worse than China, and undoing all the good and devoted ;work of :50 years, --Calcutta English- man, Buy Imperially Out of a total of imports worth Some $450,000,000 which were brought :ate 14Falaya last year, more than $320,- 00,000 were goods manufactured in foreign. countries. There are few 4ingi which Malaya needs which eau. not be procured from Empire sources and there is room for a very consider. able adjustment between the quanti- ties of Empire and foreign imports in this country.—Singapore Free Press. Immigration and the Dote As the Homeland alone has, during the past decade, expended in there lief of able-bodied men and women over one thousand milllon pounds for which there has been no material gain, but much moral and spiritual loss, is it too much to ask that we might contemplate, during the corn- ing decade, the expenditure of a like sumo on some constructive and Pro- ductive Adventures in developing and strengthening our Mighty Heritage?— Com. David Lamb in The Empire Re- view (London). Government by the People The last twenty years have caused men to realize, however dimly, that the last half -century or so has pro- duced a new kind of world never be- fore known a world into which the political machinery of eighteenth -cen- tury `village democracy," which we persist in applying to it, simply does not lit. In this new and commercial world, problems of governmeut in- clude, whether we will or not, techni- cal problems such as those of mone- tary policy, of the intricate and diffi- cult adjustment of an enormous po- tential productive capacity to means of exchange, to consumers' habits, to long established handicrafts and occu- pations ccupations and to capital stability. Does anyone believe, honestly, that the average voter, the harassed and wor- ried commercial traveller, farmer, tradesman, artisan, tea shop waitress, music hall actress, can in spare time decide questions of this kind? It is, in fact, as outraging to common sense as the long ballot in America.—Sir Norman Angell iu The Spectator (London). OTHER OPINIONS Influenza Music Complaints that modern jazz is irri- tating enough to induce a nervous headache or an attack of St. 'Vitus' dance are not uncommon. But to re- verse the situation and find a disease honored with a musical interpretation is a rareity. With influenza as his; theme. a Canadian doctor has written' a piece of music in symphonic form called "Influenza --a Tone Poem." The manuscript is exhibited in Toronto as part of a "hobby display" in connee- tion with a meeting of the Canadian Medicare Association. If the popular success of "Influenza" depends on the. nuneber of people who have guifered from attacks of it, the tone poem should be an instant hit.. Were it possible to play tate music in a real -I istic enough way to insure a period of immunity for the audience, the doctor's fortune would be made.— (From the New York Times). Five -Day Week Cure for Unemployment Spreading its oil on the troubled waters of unemployment by spreading its work out among more men work- ing less time, the Standard Oil Com- pany makes economic history. A five- day week of 40 hours replaces a five - and -a -half-day week, working out in one-seventh leas pay for everyone get- ting over $100 a month. Those get- ting under this are unaffected. Many men will be called back to work and a big group of five-day workers will be added to all communities. With two days a week for recreation, the thousands of Standard Oil workers will probably get right into their auto- mobiles and use up a lot more Stand- ard oil and gas, illustrating a nice economic setup. The employer, giv- ing more work to more men, finds more of the pay he gives coming di- rectly back to him in company sales. With more business he can hire more men, and so the circle expands. -The Christian Science Monitor. Italy Turns Waste Land Into Productive Areas The Italian Government is now engaged in a great project for the betterment of Italy's economic. life. It contemplates the reclamation, for agricultural purposes, during a per- iod of fourteen years, of about 5,000,- 000 ,000;000 acres of waste land. The area le to he remade into entirely new com- munities, with villages, farm houses, and all necessary facilities, About ;420,000,000 of tate funds needed will be supplied by the government, the rest by the provinces and land own- ers. An Finds Turtle Dated 1901 An unusual find was made by Rol - Ile P. Holladay, of Birmingham, when he picked no a. box turtle near Can- ada Creek, south of Ouaway, while trout fishing. These turtles are not numerous in Michigan, This partiea- lar specimen. had lead the initials "Id, A.," and date "1901" carved on Qts shell, indicating that it was at least thirty-one years old, It was only nine inches long, representing a rather stunted growth over that period. Detroit News, Ah, surely nothing dies but some. thing Mourns.—Lord Byron, Snoke-Deflector on English'Trains The photograph illustrates a novel type of smoke deflector now' in use by the L.M.S. line in England. A torpedo-like nose added to the (rout of the smoke box drives air into a duct which carries away smoke and steam from driver's cab. Japan Runs Air Service Among Manchurian Cities Manchurian air service from lifuk- den to Harbin is operated by the Japan Air Transport Company, Ltd., on a daily, except Sunday, round-trip schedule. Space for passengers not used by the government is available for civilians. No general arrange- ments have been made for the car- riage of mail. A fifteen-zniuute sttop is made at Changchun. The one-way far for the 330 -mile trip is $17 at par, almost the sante as the rail fare including berth. Three Junkers. single -engined, six -place planes are operated. Military landing fields which have been graded and slightly improved are used. Occasional Sights are inade to Tsitsihar and other points off the line, but are not open to ordinary travelers, the Department of Com- merce ommerce reports. Tests flights have been made from Mukden to Antung and Heijo in Korea. Tat Heijo connec- tions can be made with the Tokyo - Dairen. service so that air service can be made available between Barbin and Tokyo and between Harbin and Dairen. There is no service between Mukden and Dairen. Test flights have been made also between Mukden and Ohinchow, south of Mukden, near the Great Wall. During August Drain and fill in the wet places an your farm, as such places breed para- sites. Burn and bury the carcasses of all dead birds and animals, to prevent the transmission of dangerous para- sites. Change your live stock from orte pasture to another and change the kind of live stock on. the same pas- ture as far as possible. Horses and swine should follow sheep and cattle, If your animals are unthrifty its August, lose no time in finding out why, as the grazing season is draw- .ing to a close and winter is getting nearer. Do not try to winter un- thrifty animals. Animals unfit for tale, can be used at home es a source of protein feed for poultry or pigs. Trade With Russia Soviet purchases of industrial equipment in America are being held to the smallest possible minimum be- cause of the present lack 01 official relationship between the two coun- tries. Millions of donors in Soviet orders probably would go to American busi- ness firms and iudustries if this situ- ation were overcome, The absence of normal relationship between the two great countries cannot but act as a deterrent to world recovery from the depression. Here is a chance for both the United States and Russia to help the world, and in so doing they cannot but help themselves. The people at home who seem least to _appreciate this are the American workingmen. That is too bad, be cause they are the ones who would be most benefitted.—By Col. Freder- ick Pope Industrialist, in an Interview at Moscow, CLEAN PASTURES AND NO WORMS Prepare a few acres of land, near the farm yard, during August or early September, and sow to rye and vetch or wheat and vetch. This will give early green feed to the milking ewes and their lambs or to the brood sows and their pigs, next spring. The ground having been plowed will be free on its surface or worm eggs or young worms, and therefore quite safe for the young animals. This early pasture will hedp out the usual feed shortage and also make it pos- sible to give the bluegrass pastures a chance to get ahead. If the young animals have a worm free pasture, there will not be any worm problem. A Defective Farce The following correction appeared in a paper recently: "Our paper carried the notice last week that Mr. John Doe is a defec- tive in the police force, This was a printer's error. Mr. Doe is really a detective in the police farce!" Most of our riches lie in the ability to check foolish desires Schools on Wheels Tour Northern (District The Ontario Provlucittl Department of Education is providing a unique school for the remote areas iu the province. The Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific co-operating,. The school has been in operation since 1926, in tveo railroad cars that have been fitted up as scltoolzrooms, each having a library as well as liv- ing' quarters for the teachers. The cars travel into the sparsely popu- lated districts, and stop from three to six days at a station, that move on to another, to make a stop of the same length and so on to the end of the area served, The ear then re- traces its way, stopping as before. The pupils are given home work to do between intervals of the school car's return. The school is attend- ed by both children and adults iu day and night sessions. The library is eagerly patronized and the school car becomes a social centre in its brief visits in the wild- erness. German Fleet Parades In North and Baltic Seas Berlin. — Germany's "vest-pocket" flleet is being paraded in the North and Baltic Seas this summer for the edification of bathers. The massing of her sea strength there may serve also as a reminder to neighboring countries that, even though small, the fleet must be reckoned with; The parade is not an unusual af- fair, but extreme ntationalists on both sides of the Polish -German and Lith- uanian -German borders have been delivering broadsides into the other camps and the fleet's presence niay quiet this exchange. Accompanying the flagship Schles- wig Holstein, are two ships of the line, four cruisers, four torpedo boat flotillas and a squadron of mine sweepe rs. Construction Under Way of Huge Telescope Toronto.—The . .clearing of Dunlap Park, near Richmond Hill, in readi- ness for the erection of the David Dunlap Memorial .Observatory, is now under way. The Observatory will be the home of the world's second largest telescope. The monster tele- scope, according to Prof. C. A. Chant, head of the department of astronomy of the University of Toronto, is being made at Newcastle -on -Tyne. It will be ready in about a year. Next month, it is expected, work on the administration building in Dunlap Park will be commenced. This building will be of stone, while the observatory building will be of metal. Chinese Establish Bureaus To Test Public Opinion Nanking,—The executive •yuan of the Nationalist Government has de• - cided to establish so-called "Peoles' Opinion Bureaus" in cities with more than 200,000 population. Each bureau will have 15 members. A census is being conducted in all cities at present, and after they have been completed the bureaus will be officially established. The members will study the criticisms submitted by the people concerning local and na- tional problems and will transfer them to the central authorities far further consideration and action. Groceries Bought On "Building" Plan Joliet, I11. — This business reces- sion isn't worrying Anton and John Grohar, brothers, who sell groceries for a living. And neither are the delinquent bills of their customers. They're using them to build a new store. The lease on the building is soon to expire, and Anton proposed that they build a store of their own. "But," said John, "how can we do it? We have been carrying 60 per cent. of the customers and we're short of cash." "It's easy," replied Anton, "we'll let the customers do it." Fifty- lien sprang into action. When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property. --Thomas Jefferson. A Spectacular Air Shot This navy fighting squadron was photographed in perfect formation, Hundreds of feet above the San 'Diego base. They are to talcs part in a massed, flight of 457 planes in a big field -day display to be held shortly, Canada Is Praised By± Y4 Bureau Sees Huge Potentialities in Dominion Wealth and Economic Sound - nese If there is any Canadian who has lost faith in his own country and ita future he should read a bulletin issaed. by the Canadian Economic Research Bureau.. This bureau has its office in New York City, and it conducts a) complete economic survey covering 9111 branches of Canadian business for the advantage of Americans who take an interest in developments on this side of the international border, The but- letin sets out with the legend, "Just as the nineteenth century belonged to the United States, so shall the twen- tieth century belong to Canada"—a sentiment credited to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, but not original with him. • a: * * As compared with the United otates, this country certainly is mak- 11.4 akix g a good showing- in many ways, According to the bureau's index, the. volume of Canadian trade has de- c'ined only 10,6 per cent. the past year, as compared with a correspond- ing decline of 21.5 per cent. in the United States. Whole -ale prices have declined eight per cent., as compared with 16.6 per cent in the American republic. These figures were for the month of March. From August 1st, 1931, to April 29th, 1932, North Am- erica exported 242,169,000 bushels of wheat. Of this, Canada contributes[ 189,854,784 bushels, or 78.4 per cent. Judging from the promise of this year's crop, Canada will continue to supply the bulk of the wheat exports from this continent. * * * * This American bureau comments upon Canada's sound banking system and, upon the healthy condition of our, national finances. It notes that, with an estimated wealth of $32,000,000,000 the Dominion's total funded debt is $2,559,355,000. Strange as it may seem, the deficit for the last eleven months of the present fiscal year its the United States was $2,707,000,000, or greater than Canada's entire na- tional debt. On top of this the House of Representatives, ha just voted a soldiers' bonus amounting to $2,400,000,000, though it has been vetoed in the Senate. The e success of the Canadian Government in balancing its budget and in over- coming an adverse trade balance is commended, as is, also, the readiness with which Canadian income tax pay- ers ayers have contributed $43,000,000 to the Federal treasury in lessthan two and a half months of the new fiscal year. Of individual tax payers, 89 per cent. have remitted in full, waiving the privilege of instalment payments. * * * * Turning to the Canadian agricul- tural situation, the bulletin from which we have quoted states: "There is good realm Ito believe that the agricultural situation in the Dominion is very promising for the new season -- this being due not only to the prob- able benefit from the Empire Confer- ence, but also to favorable crop condi- tions throughout the country, while , competing countries show indications of smaller yields than a year ago" The bad condition of the United States wheat crop and the poor outlook for grain production in Russia are spoken of as favorable to this country. Our surplus volume of wheat is down con- siderably, and there is every reason to feel that, with a considerably lower carry-over this season than last, our marketable grain will be sold at com- paratively favorable prices. The pre- diction is made that Western Canada will progress rapidly in the next few years, both in population and in farm production. * * * 4, The American authority which we have been quotinn is optimistic over Canada's mining prospects. It points out that the Dominion is in a fortun- ate ortunate position because of its constantly, increasing gold production. "It is thel one major country in the world that can produce sufficient gold each year to cover its entire bank reserve re- quirements." In ten years its gold, production is multiplied three times, and there is every reason to think that it will be doubled within the next five' years. The output for 1932 will eo about $60,000,000. * * * * The writers of the bulletin. say: "When we consider the sound position in which Canada stands today we can- not help feeling that the added bene- fits of the Empire Conference are cer- tain to result in the Dominion being one of the first countries in the world to lead the way out of this depression. .. All the factors that contribute toward prosperity are at work in var. ions Canadian industries. The pepu- ration is increasing; the finances of the, people were never sounder; the year's crop promises to be one of the largest at a time when the crops of other countries are reduced; mineral development continues on a lege scale; and, most important of all, the people are working hard to salve their prob. lents. They are backing their various governments With their cash and with a line patriotic spirit" It is encourages ing to read this estimate of our own country and its affairs tnade by an economic research bureau which issues its bulletins for American consuittpti tion.—Toronto Mail & Empire.