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Zurich Herald, 1932-07-28, Page 6'Votoce of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA The Kolapore Cup Again Canadian marksmen. at Bisley have once again carried off the senior trophy for team shooting. The Kola - pore Cup has been won so often by this country that we are beginning to regard it almost as a Canadian posses- sion, forgetting perhaps that it Is won only after increasingly severe tests and against the pick of the marksmen of the Empire. This year the Cana- dian win was decisive and prospects for further victories are bright. Lieut. Desmond Burks is, as usual, "going great gnus" and his total ot 146 out of a possible 150, including a perfect score at the opening distance in the Kolapore Cup event, was a great achievement.—Montreal Daily Star. We Have the Goods The five-year plan of national adver- tising which is shortly to be launched by 40,000 Cauadian growers, in eo operation, with jobbers and shippers throughout the Dominion, will give, we think, a very real impetus to the fruit and vegetable industry. Canada, whose products of the soil aro unex- celled, for too long has been hiding her light under a bushel. There have been many striking illustrations of the. power of publicity, expertly applied. The California growers, for instance, have made this continent citrus -fruit conscious. Much of the success of their publicity campaign has been due to the fact that new uses for oranges, lemons and grapefruit have been de- veloped, Oranges, for a long time, were just a luxury to be put in Willie's etocking at Christmas time, or take in to a sick friend at the hospital. To- day oranges are an important item of the daily diet.—Hamilton Spectator. Return to Horse and Buggy It is an i11 wind that blows nobody good. Hence, the County of Middle- sex congratulates itself that road maintenance costs will be cut nearly 30 per cent. this year because of the decrease in traffic on. the county roads. Mr, Charles Talbot, county engineer, explains that many farmers are going back to the horse and buggy, particu- larly articilarly for short trips, and, therefore, there is not the same wear and tear on the roads. "It isn't costing half as much to keep the Hamilton road in .shape this year as two years ago. This is one of the busiest county roads, but there .simply isn't the traffic this year," he said. Conditions in Middle- sex will, no doubt, be duplicated in many other counties." Mail and Ern-'. ire, Tpeonto, Bright Prospects Alberta is congratulating herself that never before, since the province became a grain producer, have the prospects for a heavy crop been more' promising than they are to -day. Sas- katchewan conditions are very Simi lar. If all goes well, as it is doing now, the wheat growers of this pro- vince have the same prospects before them to to make them content and happy. Almost every district has been revelling in unaccustomed rains and the outlook is for more yet to come. -- The Regina Star. Noiseless Milk Wagons Those ninety-five per cent. of Van- couver citizens who prize above all treasures those last two or three hours of precious ssleep between five and sevea or eight o'clock in the morn- ing will rise up and bless that inspired dairy company which has installed small pneumatic tires on its milk wagons. For nothing murders sleep so bloodily as the steel -rimmed wheels of milk wagons grinding and squeak- ing queaking to and fro in the early hours of the day. These rubber -tired milk wagons are new things. They are things to be imitated. Tires are dirt oheap now. And the noiseless milk- man would be the popular milkman in residential districts. Cannot some of the other dairies do something about it? --Vancouver Sun. Whining Unpopular Many men and women are a prey to their moods. They don't handle life but are handled by it. As a cense- quence they are often badly treated just because they have let life get a Strangle hold on them rather than keeping the upper hand themselves. one of the most devastating moods that one eau indulge in is the mood 'self-pity. Nobody loves a whiner. complaints are often made that a man toses his friends when he falls into misfortunes. That is a sad and often true commentary on the constancy of uman affections. But the mon who are most loud in. this complaint fail to recognize that often they have not loot their friends, but that they have driven them away by their own cont- ilaining.—I=lalifax Chronicle EMPIRE Spending a Virtue "Increased Saving" front lessened incomes involves a drastic cutting down of ordinary expenditure, which Is the reverse of beneficial for the general community, We are not, of Course, speaking of luxury spending or miscellaneous outgoings, but of spending on the general maintenance of one's proper standard of life. To restrict that—if ones income is rea- sonably secure --is most unhelpful to the general recovery, Thrift is so ert- ceileut a virtue that one is reluctant Ca believe that it can ever assume an anti -social shape. Yet there is little doubt that the deliberate curtailmeut of normal, judicious, private expendi- ture is at this juncture as bad for the country as it is obviously bad for trade.—Loudon Daily Telegraph, A Land of Cheerful Givers Though we, maybe a little envious- ly, have Showa in earlier years a su- periority over the land of dollar chas- ing, we must look to what was done with it. There is no nation, not even our own, where the rich men Are so anxious to benefit not only the com- munity but humanity. Great Americans reap distinction, not in conferred', honours, but in conferring blessings, libraries, museums, public galleries, paying for scientific expeditions, giv- ing millions to Britain as well as to their own people for research in high- ly -equipped laboratories so disease may be banished. To endow a hos- pital provides a liner memory than to have a bronze monument. And the light of well -doing still shines. No; America has not lost its soul.—Sir J. Foster Fraser in the Sunday Graphic (Loudon). Britain's Lead As a matter of fact, Great Britain ever since the Armistice has been dis- arming on the most extensive scale. Other Powers have not so far follow- ed her example. Figures given by the Italian representative, Signor Grandi, at Geneva, showed that between 1925 and 1930 the world's total expenditure on armaments rose by £126,000,000, while British expenditure fell by £3,- 000,000. Can we go further in one- sided disarmament without risk of dis- aster --London Daily Mail. Women in Public Life Women who have learned the busi- ness of managing the family life have a very great deal to teach to men. The trouble is that these women are gen- erally enerally too busy and too happy is the home to want to muter public life. Tho majority of those who do, it appears, bring little that is new in practice to public affairs. For originality in itself is not the strong suit of women. They are changeable only in the sense that the multitude is changeable—in the mass. Fashion proves that. A man designs a hat or dress for one woman, Ind ten million wear it. Next week he may design another model. If it looks right the ten million. will wear that one.—London. Da >r Rae, ;.s aaaneg London's Population A. continuing decline of population in the administrative County of Lon- don, coupled with a large net increase in the whole of Greater London, is re- vealed in the tables for the county which have been compiled from the 1931 census figures. The • persons counted in the city and the 28 metro- politan boroughs numbered 4,397,003. The decrease in the 10 years since the census of 1921 was 87,520, a figure commensurate with the population of a good-sized town like Ipswich, New- port (Mon), or Wigan. In the Greater Loudon area—comprising the city and the Metropolitan Police districts,, and included roughly in a circle of 15 miles radius round Charing Cross - 8,203,942 persons were enumerated. The increase here since 1921 was 723,- 741, a number comparable with the population of Liverpool or Manches- ter. Expressed as a percentage of the 1921 population, the increase he Great- er London, amounted to 9.7 per cent. This is three times as great an in- crease as occurred in the previous 10 years, and nearly twice as great as the current increase for the country as a whole.—London Times. OTHER OPINIONS Something To Remember The United States Department of Agriculture reports that last winter, just as in previous winters, numerous colonies of bees were lost from star- vation because in the autumn their keepers did not leave enough bonen with the bees to furinsh food for them until spring. The greedy bee- keepers overreached themselves, though it is unlikely that any of them had not heard ot the man who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. There are law -makers who should con sider what befell the man who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs and the losses that cane on apiarists too grasping to feed their bees. Even a taxpayer may collapse under in- creasing pressure of bureaucratic at- tention.—N. Y, Sun. Prince of Wales' Favorite Pilot's Prince's plane. The most interesting entry for the King's cup air race to be flown from. Brooklands this month is the Comper Swift Gipsy plane especially designed for the Prince of Wales. E. R. Fieiden will pilot it. Canada's Entrants In the Olympiad What Are the Dominion's Chances Among 2,000 Entrants? Can Canada hope to see the Maple Leaf held high among the emblems of fifty nations, when two thousand ath- letes meet in combat in Los Angeles for the games of the Tenth Olympiad? asks Fred Beck in The Western Home Monthly --and answers in the follow- ing article: The answer is unquestionably and undeniably "YES!" Canada's repre- sentation at Los Angeles, July 30 to August 14, will be worthy of carrying the banner of the Dominion. Of the competition in one hridred and thirty-five fields of sport Canada is represented in. every major activity, sending teams of reasonable promise. in both field and aquatic sports. One of the high spots of the sixteen days and nights of competition, an event which perhaps holds as much world interest as any other incident of the crowded program, is a laero,se tournament in which Canada, Great Britain and the United States eomn- pete. Interest is the keener because of a controversy which has been waged since 1928. The world's championship title is at stake. Teams front the same three countries fought to what was adjudged a tie at Amsterdam. A. dispute, as fr:cndly as it was spirited, arose over the question of the title— each team claiming it. With the con- troversy still at white-hot pitch the United States proposed a play-off on the spot. Canada enthusiastically'ac r t? ba_ . lin wad rep cep 'e aTTeii a".and all` �•g' teams sailed homeward without 'an agreement having been reached. Such. is one of the outstanding memories of the last Olympiad. Canada, with a team considered at least the equal of our 1928 lineup, has an excellent chance to win this important event. Because Canadian Olympic Try -outs will not be completed until what is virtually the eve of. the impressive opening ceremonies it is impossible to go into, with utter accuracy, the ques- tion of the personalities that will comprise the Canadian representation. No retention of Canada's Olympic prospects can be made without bring- ing to mind the name of Percy Wil- liams of Vancouver. Williams stepped from the ranks of the unnkown to beat the world's best sprinters at Amsterdam. He won the hundred meters in 10.6 and the 200 meters in 21,3. He has since set a world mark of 10:3 for the 100 meters, His after - Olympic appearances on United States tracks netted him a collection of start- ling wins and at a Vancouver track meet he beat Frank Wykoff• and the great Eddie Tolan. And then these gentlemen both turned round to hand the Vancouver boy later defeats. Williams carries much Canadian hope with him. to Los Angeles, and yet, he is now suffering a strained leg muscle. He meets not only world- famous performers like Wykoff and Tolan, but a bespectacled young Cali- fornian, Ben Eastman. That perhaps is a new name for most of us. Ben Eastman. In train- ing this Stanford University student has been breaking world marks with carefree ease. He runs the quarter- No Weakening If time work now being done in fur- thering economy in public expenditure Is to be of Iasting value it must be a continuing work. For the temptations to extravagance are constant. niter nal vigilance Is needed if they are to be successfully resisted. -- Boston Transcript. Toronto, Ont.—Time Toronto Indus- trial Commission announces that the Erie Resistor of Canada, Limited, manufacturers of high resistance products used in the radio industry; and one of the new firms of ousttde origin commencing business here, • mile in 47.1. He is to be heard from at the Tenth Olympiad. And aside from Percy Williams? Well, Canada can point with pride to Johnny Fitzpatrick, Leigh Miller and Bert Pearson, all first string sprinters and certain starters at Los Angeles where they will meet the world's fast- est humans. As to the 200 meters, there's Ralph Adams and Fitzpatrick again. Jimmy Ball, Winipeg's ace 400 -meter man who finished second at Amsterdam is improving fast and the Los Angeles track is due to prove more to his lik- ing than that of 1928. The Manitoba winter somewhat handicapped Ball; having delayed his outdoor training too long. But Dean Cromwell, Olym- pic coach at Los Angeles, points to Ball as competition to be reckoned with. Wilson should also figure in the 800 - meter line-up where his Canadian running mates should include Phil Edwards, 9'red Shaver and very likely Brant Little. So much for the middle distances where Canada meets opposition that has turned in some startling times in training. At the longer distances things seem to. be pretty much of a toss-up with Canada standing as good a chance as any in the 1500 meters with a team on which we can count on finding Eddie King, Jack Walker, Earl Moor and Earl McMahon—all notable gallopers at this distance. Their main competition will be from the United States althoegh recent Helsingfors timings indicate strength on the Fin- nish team and rumor has it that Japan is apt to provide upsets in any or all of the distance events. Canadians can look back with pride. regret to the Amsterdam mare- "t1te • . . . tiff Bricker; 'This Canadian sur e down the gruelling course leading an imposing field at twenty-one miles. Twenty-one searing miles, and then his feet gave out. Bricker was in excel- lent condition save for those fatal "dogs." He could have gone on to win—and at Los Angeles he will go on —and to win, we hope. And then there's Hank Cieman— a fighter who is as likely as any to bring Canada a first place in the 50.., 000 meter walk. Hank set a world record of 4.47, and one of his strong- est competitors will be John Mahan, another Canuck. AAs to the pole va:mlt, we look to the Clympic favorites and find such names as Korejs of Czecho-Slovakia with 13 ft. 2 in. to his credit; Castro of Bra- zil with 13 ft. 6 in.; Bill Graber and Ted Lee, Americans; Nakazawa of Japan and his teammate the sensa- tional Nishida who has soared 13 ft. 71/4 in. There's Remadier of France, Biro of Roumania, Cull of Spain, An- derson of Sweden, Tamman the. Es thonian and Andreopoulus the Greek. Ir a form sheet list of names in this event—names purporting to represent the forty best pole vaulters, we find one Canadian: Victor Pickard who took fourth place for Canada in 1928. In the high jump we have Malcolm McNaughton whose training results at the University of British Columbia give real promise. • The hub of Olympic activities will bo the Olympic Stadium, an amphi- theatre erected at a cost of $1,700,000 and seating 125,000 people. This will In the scene of track and field ath- letics, gymnastics, finals of the eques- trian sports and the field hockey finals. Swimming, diving and water -polo competition will be staged in the new longcourse swimming stadium. With seats mounting high into the Califor- nia sky, this unique structure is ad- jacent to the Olympic Stadium in what -has been renamed Olympic Park,. A beautiful fencing pavilion is a feature of the Olympic group, while not far distant is the Olympic Audi- torium where thousands will witness boxing and wrestling and weight lifting. Rowing races are being held at the Long Beach Marine Stadium, and at Los Angeles harbor will be held the yachting events. The famous Pasadena Rose Bowl will be the scene of the track cycling events, while preliminary equestrian contests will be held amid the color- ful surroundings of the Riviera Coun- try Club, near Santa Monica, one of the beach cities close '. , Los Angeles. 30 -1 -Ir, Week Proposed By Corporation Head New York. — Adoption throughout the United States of a 30 -hour work- ing week with. 30 hours' pay and a simultaneous increase of 10 per cent. in pay rolls would end the unemploy- ment problem and put the economic situation again ou the upgrade, ac- cording to Mr. J. Cheever Cowdin, treasurer of the American Legion Na- tional Employment Commission and vice-president of the Baucamerica- Blair Corporation. If the 30 -hour week were inaugur- ated by only 50 per cent. of all em- ployers of labor, 5,500,000 uuemployed persons would be again on pay rolls, Mr. Cowan declared in a radio • ad- dress sponsoied;by he,, m.erican Le- t • ''r. a 4 0 3.,500,000 Who will receive employ meat through construction of self - total projects, would mean a total of 7,000,000 men and women back on pay rolls, he said. Soviet Spring Sowing Decreased by Million Acres Moscow.—Soviet Russia has wound up the Spring sowing canmpaiga with nearly 1,000,000 acres less than last year under cultivation. The total is" nearly 15,000,000 acres below the pro- gram. Official figures place this total area sown on July 1 at 241,690,500 acres, as compared with 242,580,500 last year and 255;875,000 planned. Failure to come up to expectations was attricu- ted largely to the poor showing of the Ukraine, where a bad drought last year caused great loss of crops and seed. Gold Held At Ottawa Exceeds Requirements Ottawa.—Gold held by the Minister of Finance against notes issued was $64,273,520 at June 30, according to a recent statement released by the department. This was $575,920 more than is required under the Dominion Notes Act. Gold held by the Minister against savings bank deposits was. $2,359,922, which was 10 per cent. of total de- posits of $23,599,223, as required by the Savings Bank Act. The postman expects everyone on his rounds to take things as they come. New Zealand Leather -Pushers w• Reading from left to right—fl, Thomas, lightw eight; R. Purtlie, featherweight, and A. Lowe, m mfd- dleweight, three new l'Falammd pugilistic prodigies, arrive in Los Angeles for time Olympic gamin. Canadian Notes Charlottetown, P.E.I.--For the lir,# time in history a shipment of qua. hogs from the Enenore River, Prince Edward Island, has boon sent out of Charlottetown to Torone for CaO.' Hing, This species of clam provides a lucrative industry for the fisher' men of the western side of the is- land. Halifax, N.S.--The busiuess inter. este of the Dominion, as represented by over 200 Boards of Trede and Chambers of Commerce, will assem- ble in Halifax on September 13, 14 and 15 at the seventh annual Con- vention of She Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The official booklet gives, among other iuformation, parti- culars of a pre -convention cruise in the Gulf of St, Lawrence to New- foundland and the Maritimes, with calls at Charlottetown, Sydney, St, Pierre and Miquelon and St. Jdbn's,' Newfoundland, reaching Halifax in time for the •convention. The reel turn journey includes a trip through the Annapolis Valley and a boat trip to Saint John and Fredericton. Saint John, N.B.—At the recent an- nual meeting of the New Brunswick Turkey Breeders' Association, it was reported that many enquiries had been received, for breeding stock from Maritime buyers during the winter. Quebec, Que,—A report of the Que- bec Department of Agriculture shows that there are 1,050 dairy plants in operation at present. During May butter manufactured amounted to 6,584,000 pounds compared with 7,.. 697,000 in May, 1931, Production of cheese is placed at 2,355,000 pounds against 1,642,000 pounds in May .a year ago. This year's production of cheese, therefore, shows an increase of 43 per eent, over May, 1931. Quebec, Que. — During the four months ended April 30th, the mines of the Province of Quebec produced $2,840,000 of gold. The highest, re- cord so far established for any ono month was in April with an output of $744,000—or a rate of around $8„- 900,000 yearly. After adding the premium of an average of 12 per cent. on exchange, the income from the production of gold In Quebec io April was at a rate of almost $10,-• 000,000 annually. Montreal, Que.—The Potash. Cone pony of Canada Limited has been formed to carry on in the Dominion (east of the Rockies) all phases of the potash business heretofore con- ducted from New York City by the N. V. Potash Export My., Inc., of Amsterdam, Holland. Mr., H. Hol lensen is president and managing director; Mr. H, E. Lefevre, tress. urer and general manager, In ad- dition to its . ,commercial activities . {rmpy *4 Canada, Lthi wY ;Continuana the agricultural and educational work undertaken -by the N. V. Potash Export Mee, Inc., during the past four years. Montreal, Que. — The largest inn' portation of Clydesdale horses into Canada since 1927 has just been made by Robert and Albert Ness of the firm of R. S. Ness and Sons, Howick, Quebec. The importation consists of 20 pure bred Clydesdales, 17 of which, including 3 mares, 4 three-year-old fillies, 7 two-year !Mita and 3 yearling fillies, are for one el the horse breeding schemes of the Provincial Government of Quebec; 2 stallions purchased by Messrs. Ness on their own account and a mare for MacDonald College, Quebec. In keeping with She policy of the Que. bee Government in giving practical assistance to horse breeding, these fillies will be purchased by the mem- bers of three clubs at imhe cost price of the animals, Montreal, Que. — A plan to culte vate celery in Canada between Juno and October, transplant it in Bea mads and harvest it for export to Canada in February, is announced by M. W. R. Evans, marketing adviser to the Bermuda Department of Agri- culture. It "is understood that an expert will arrive in Montreal short- ly to plant the first seeds. The scheme would advance time opening of celery shipments from Bermuda to Canada by two or three months.arhie year 25,000 crates will reach Canada from Bermuda, Ottawa,' Ont—An extensive pro gram for mapping and exploration of mining areas in Canada is being ear ried out this summer by the Depart - pertinent of Mines. Some of the most promising mineral areas in Yukon territory, the Northwest Ter- ritory, British Columbia, Northern. Saskatchewan and Manitoba, mad in the Rouyn mineral belt of Quebec, are to be et explored axed mapped, while intensive investigation in seep erai ot the older areas will also be carried out. Thirty-five parties of geologists will take this work in hand, with assistants from the uni- versities. Ottawa, Ont. --A report issued by the Department of National; Defence shows that 495 aeroplanes operated In Canada last year, coverig 7,046,- 276 miles and carrying 214,208 per- sons, while, in addition, 11,119,823 one.tnile trips were made. 3tpress matter by aeroplane made up a total of 2,372,467 pounds, white air mall carried totalled 470,441 pounds, Seven firms .manufactured aircraft in Canada,, There are no points of the compass on time chart of true patriotism,-itob,. ort Charles Winthrop.