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Zurich Herald, 1932-08-04, Page 6ii :+ler a lr - e i -c•+ + Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA attempted, without a revival of the More Confidence in the West . it old pioneering enthusiasm.—(London Descriptions of conditions iii the Morning Post.) West a year ago were so gloomy that we greet with joy the return of that part of the country to less pessimistic sentiments. On his way to Sault Ste. Marie, Mr. J. T. M. Anderson, the Prime Minister of .Saskatchewan, said: "The crop is magnificent; our population is getting on its feet once more; they are doing more with their own efforts than with the aid of the Government; the West will be the first to recover. This depression, in my opinion, has been a real blessing." We very much prefer this language to the depressing despatches we used to re- ceive last year on Western conditions. "The .West will be the first to re- cover." What courageous optimism! Three cheers for the Prairies !—Le Doit Ottawa.) Britain's Loan Conversion Great Britain's master stroke to bring about national financial read- justment by a monster loan conversion scheme has been greeted with acclaim !throughout the world. The Old Coun- try has thus staged a remarkable de- monstration of her financial genius and of the character and faith of a people who will not be downed. In this matter as in war reparations, Fritain has given the world leadeship and inspiration at a time when they are most greatly needed.—(Calgary Herald.) Pedestrians Get a Break It would really seem that a better day is dawning for the pedestrian. First an Ontario magistrate rules that a person on foot is entitled to as much room on the highway as a motor ca '; then the Pedestrian Rights' As- sociation springs- into being and now along comes a Vancouver judge with a decision that pedestrians do not have to scurry out of the way at the sound of an automobile horn to avoid responsibility for being run down. This last judgment may be sound law, and the judge gave it point by award- ing $1,200 damages, but it aright be a:. well, The Examiner believes, to p ay safe and -.patch your step when motor horns are sounding.—(Peter- borough Examiner.) Benefit of Spending What puzzles everyone about this depression is the timidity of shoppers in the midst of irresistible bargains. It is contrary to normal psychological processes and can be explained only on the ground of that.sheeplike attri- iof i roan' naturrlii - ell, for toed or ill, mass conduct is governed by common impulses. A year or two ago, when prices were much higher than they are today, the tenden^.y was to indulge in a buying orgy. Today though prices have never been so at - ti active, the purse -strings are tightly drawn, with resulting injury to com- merce and industry. It is felt that the solution of our economic difficulties lies largely in the action of citizens themselves --that is to say, those of them who have money to spend, but who will not spend it.—(Hamilton Spectator.) The Lancashire Cotton Trade Like the Bourbons, the cotton mag- nates learn nothing and forget no- thing. Yet for years science and com- mon sense have been knocking at their closed doors. Without exception, everyone who has investigated the cotton trade has reported that whole- sale reorganization and centralization is its only salvation. How much long- er is Lancashire going to be content to allow its very machinery of exist- ence to be destroyed by the stubborn obstruction of men living in the past? - (London Daily Herald.) The Colonial Empire The Colonial Empire, in the past Las been overshadowed by the Domin- ions. The dawn is now bright before us and the day is ours to make of it what we will. We are an Empire and slices of an Empire. We have each our own history, our own peoples and rat ny of us our own languages. We are divided up into fifty-two separate administrations. We have 54,000,000 people and a trade worth together £400,000,000. Our importance almost takes the breath away. We have only to find a means of welding ourselves together in spirit as well as on paper. —(Trinidad Guardia:-.) The Currency Problem The world's monetary policy prn- ie.ces tremendous irregularities in price levels. But this does not neces- sarily call for the abandonment of the gild standard; and the opposition to anything of that sort would be so enormous as to make it practically impossible. What is possible is that the value of gold may be fixed by in- ternational nternational agreement the value being determined by a general price level of commodities. This might mean that price levels would be lifted say 40 per cent. by the simple process of valuing gold at 40 pee cent. less than the present fixed price. The level at which the change should be effected would be one of the toughest problems tc, solve. Here vested interests would speak very loudly.—(Sydney Bulle- tin.) World Economic Co-operation World conditions have outgrown the stage when the normal friction of markets could with fair rapidity bring prices to a serviceable level after any sudden rise or fall. Under such con- ditions, there was justification for "a_407kr.ing.'41fItikr9cem•. of adjustment to take its own" d airse. ' Conditions are now vastly different. There has ar- rived an era of general artificial inter- ference with economic tendencies, and the logical step is to come to a world- wide agreement to transform that interference into guidance for univer- sal benefit. Every economic or finan- cial question for any nation tends now to be a concern to every other nation. —(Auckland Weekly News.) Unreadable Signatures To overcome any difficulty in read lug • signature s, it is the :ustom of many offices to have the name type- written directly below so that the reader will have no difficulty in know- ing what is meant. This permits of the writer indulging his fancy .hat he is fooling the forger by writing his signature in a way that is very diifienit to read, while it enables the reader to see at a glance what the Dame is. If this practice were follow- ed more generally, it would remove a great source of trouble in business both to the ,party who is answering the letter from a stranger unplainly signed, and to the writer of the let- ter himself who frequently is quite annoyed if the an.wer to his letter hoes not bear his name 'correctly spelled.— (Monetary Times.) The King Inspects the Navy King George, attended by officers, as he reviewed the marines on the flagship of the British fleet, .H.M.S. Nelson. The review took piac& at Weymouth, England, recently. present situatio,i, the fundamental good sense of the British people may be counted on in the long run. They may be apathetic, stolid and phlegm- atic:, they may glory in being thought stupid; but in this baffling and prob- ably forever insoluble problem of the organization of human society they are not unlikely to assume the leader- ship in the future as they have in the past, deriving from experience and from the experime:its of others the mefl.ods best adal,tcd to their own particular charact:r and tempera - n ent.—Lord Ponsonby in Current His- tory (New York) . Early St. Lawrence Projects The chronological canal constructionon rence River follows: Lachine—First canal built in the year 1700 at Riviera St. Pierre. Depth 1% feet. Enlargement by side channels, 1780 to 1804, and deepen- ed to two to three feet. First Lachine Canal built between 1821 and 1824. Enlarged between 1843 and 1548, with 9 -foot depth, Second and last enlargement, 1873 and 1884, with 14 -foot depth. Length, 18 miles; lift, 46 feet.. Soulauges section—First construe; tion of four -side channels, 6. feet wide and 23 'feet deep, 1779 to 17 `x; In 1817, locks doubled and canals deepened by one more foot. First Beauharnoie Canal in that area built 1842 to 1845, depth of 9 feet, Displaced by present Soul auges Canal in 1899, with 14 -fact depth, length of 14,67 miles and 83} foot lift. Cornwall Canal built 1834 to 1842 with 9 -foot depth. Enlarged to 14 foot depth between 1876 and 1904. Eleven miles long wih a 48 -foot lift. Farran's Point Canal built 1811- 1847 with 9 -foot depth, enlarged to 14 feet between 1897 and 1901. One and a quarter miles long with 4% - foot lift. , Rapids Plat Canal, Morrisburg, built with 9 -foot depth between 1844 and 1847. Enlarged 1884 to 1904, with 14 -foot depth, Length, 3.89 miles; lift, 11.6 feet. Galops Canal built in two sections (Galops and Iroquois) between 1844 and 1846, Sections jolued by Junc- tion Canal, 1851-1856. Original 9 - foot depth enlarged to 14, feet be- tween 1888 4nd 1904. e,Length, 716 miles; lift, 15% feet. W hy.. sequence of the St. Law - Empire Tea Preference For our own part, we think that, apart from restrictions of output, which is immediately necessary, the salvation of the British tea industry may be found at Ottawa. If, as is hoped, arrangements can be made whereby British -grown teas will re- ceive preferential treatment through- out the British Empire, thereby enabl-, ing Ceylon to recapture the Austra- lian market, our worries should be at an end. The situation is frankly de- pressing, but it will not be improved by becoming downhearted to the point of being panic-stricken. — (Colombo Times of Ceylon.) Highway Danger Those huge freight trucks that come zooming through the heavy traffic of the highways and through the main streets of provincial highway towns look strangely out of place. They. are like wandering warehouses or like straying freight trains. They are a menace to pedestrian:. in the crowded streets, and their, booming noise is an offence to the ears. These mammoth juggernauts should be made to pay dearly for the use of the highways or else be banished from the traffic.. -- ,(St. Mary's Journal -Argus.) OTHER OPINIONS New Leaders for the U.S.A. The American people are looking for new leaders, for men who are truth- ful and resolute and eloquent in the conviction that the American destiny is to be free and magnanimous, rather than complacent and acquisitive; they are looking for leaders who will talk to the people not about two -car gar- ages and a bonus, but about their duty, and about the sacrifices they must make, and about the discipline they must impose upon themselves, and about their responsibility to the world and to posterity, but all those things which make a people self- respecting, serene and confident. May they not look in vain.—Walter Lipp - mann in Time and Tide (London). THE EMPIRE Empire Settlement Sir Robert Horne is not alone in thinking that British industries might how begin to establish 'branches of their organizations in the Dominions and transfer not merely plant but per- oonnel to their new sphere of action. The Dominions can be persuaded that the influx of an organized community ;will not tend to increase but help ra- ther to solve their local difficulties, mince it Will snake a new centre of trade --of constimption as well as pro Auction. Such ti i .tions, however, Cannot sUteeed,'can hardy! even be. Two friends were having nation meeting of their own. Suffered domestic strife and were comparing notes. "Aren't women the limit?" growled the first. "We husbands don't know anything at all and our wives know everything." "Well," said his companion in mis- ery, reluctantly, "there's one thing my wife admits she doesn't know," "What on earth is that?" "Why she married me." an indig- Both had now they Mutual Complaint Sir William Bragg, distinguished British scientist, spoke at a recent meeting of the English Association in London of the great importance of a thorough knowledge of English in re- lation to scientific discoveries. Teach- ers of English, he added, had so di- vorced themselves from science'that it was hard to get any help from them. Rising to rebut, a teacher of English might have said that scientists had so divorced themselves from clear and simple English that it was hard to get any understanding of science from them.—(New York Sum) Britain Leads Whatever tentative conclusion may be reached in an examination of the I , ;ry,l:.i: The Socialist State By Lord Snowden, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a House of Lords Speech. Some of my Socialist friends have never realized the tremendous re- cuperative power of capitalism. We shall see ourselves through the crisis, though I do not ignore important changes in our plan for national reor- ganization and reconstruction. I shall never live to see the estab- lishment of a Socialist State. I believe the economic revolution is working in that direction, but may God save Eng- land from such a socialism as they have in Russia to -day. Russia is under a system of indus- trial conscription, has confiscated capital, repudiated public debt and started without capital liabilities. And ever since Russia has been coming to the capitalist countries of the world, cap in !rand, begging them for export credits and loans. Emotion Slows Up Workers Under the above heading, the Science News -Letter ealled atten- tion to the work which has been done at the Western Elecric Com- pany by G. A. Pennock, in an effort to find .out the effects of various conditions on the eifioiency of work- ers; It was discovered 'that the emotional state of the employee was much more important than fatigue. A harsh foreman who frightens the workers under liim will decrease the output of his department by such tactics. The man who precedes his working day with a quarrel at the breakfast table with his wife is a most unsatisfactory • worker, both from the standpoint of accident and health hazards and from the view- point of working efficiency. Fountain Flow Started 6 Trade Volumes Used At Conference Canadian Note Hamilton, Ont. --e An important de- velopment in the recovery or suagihur dioxide from gases of low eonoentra- tion has been made by chemists of Canadian Industries Limited, which will open a possible new source from which Canadian consumers may se- cure the sulphur dioxide required in manufacturing processes, In order to study the recovery of sulphur dioxide, an, experimental plant was erected at Hamilton to duplicate conditions found at plants producing sulphur dioxide goses of low concentration as a waste product. Sulphur was burned and the fumes diluted to varying per- centages of concentration, to stimu- late the waste gases of industry. Thus developed a new method wbereby sul- phur dioxide may be separated from the waste gases and liquefied°• It proved so successful that it is now supplying a portion of Canada's re- quirements for liquid sulphur dioxide. T.he process can be adapted to a much larger output, and as many tunes the total annual consumption of sulphur in Canada goes to waste each year in, the form of gases of low con- centration, the development promises to be of substantial value to the Do- minion. Canadian Industries Limited is considering the erection of a planl for the manufacture of liquir sulphui dioxide on a large scale. Winnipeg, Man.—Two'.new products from. Manitoba's northland may find a market in Canada if plans of the na- tural resources committee of the 'In- dustrial Development Board of Mani- toba are carried out successfully. Samples of birch oil, used for water- proofing leather, and syrup from the Manitoba maple, are now being stud- ied by the committee. Regina, Saskatchewan. — Tlie value of Manitoba's dairy products last year was $13,715,000, while that of Sas- katchewan was $18,893,000 and Alber- ta $15,914,000, making a total of $48,- 522,000. Regina, Saskatchewan.—Taking the figures for the first four months of 1932 as an indicator there will be a record production of lignite coal in the Province of Saskatchewan this year. The output from January 1 to April 30, 1932, was 329,209 tons, com- pared with 228,060 tons for the cor- responding period of 1931, an increase this year in the period under review • of 101,149 tons. Last year the total production of lignite coal was 658,902 tons, the highest on record for the province. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.—A herd of 11 Ayrshire dairy cows at the Do- minion Experimental Station at In- dian Head, Saskatchewan, showed an average profit per head for a twelve month period of $27.60 over the cost of feed. The best individual perform- ance was a profit over cost of feed of $42.80for the lactation period of 174 days line an good°perfor` Statistics on World Trade Facilitate Proceedings Ottawa, — Six companion volumes dealing with world and Empire trade are placed at the disposal of the Im- perial Economic Conference. These were arranged for by Hon. H. H. Ste- vens, Minister of Trade and Com- merce, and compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. These volumes constitute a most comprehensive ready -reference guide to the trade of the British Empire with its own and foreign countries. They were designed to eliminate much of the labor that has fallen to the lot of committees of previous conferences and to facilitate discussion upon is- sues of trade and commerce as they arise. The risk of confusion in the minds of the delegates to the conference.. when comparisons between the trade of the various countries is sought, is disposed of by converting all values into Canadian currency, at the par rate of excheege in each country, for the more important tables in the gen- eral abstract of Ennire ;trade,. By, Bending of Drinker Schenectady, N.Y. — A drinking fountain that operates the instant a person bends over it, is one of the latest contrivances embodying the "electric eye" perfected by• the Gen- eral Electric Company. Such a foun- tain stands in the main office of the General Electric Building. A tiny beam of infra -red light, almost In- visible to the eye, issues from an "electric eye", or photo -electric tube attached to the fountain. When- ever the bead of a drinker intercepts the beam a stream of water is turn- ed on automatically. - Her car had broken down on the road opposite a field where a farm- er was plowing with a four -horse team, The farmer came over and offered to pull the car to the nearest garage with his team. "I appreciate your kind offer more than 1 •can tell you," the lady in distress told the farmer, "but, unfortunately, you would need twelve more horses. You see, my ear has a sixteen -horsepower motor."—Capper's. The work avl ich entailed a'i im° :was a mense amount" of •detail;• has been in period oft' days progress since before the beginning ;Moose Jaw, -Saskatchewan.-Ntoose of the year and the printing of the Jaw's most recent industry, the Stec- documents was completed just before ling Oil Refineries Limited, is work the opening of the conference. ing at high capacity, turning out 800 The first volume gives the statists- barrels, or 25,000 gallons of refined • cal abstract of the Empire and foreign gasoline and oil per day. These pro- trade of all British countries. There ducts are sold in practically all parts are 36 British countries or groups of of the province, countries whose trade is recorded, as Edmonton, Alberta.—Boys' and girls well as the trade of 64 foreign coon clubs in conn ction with agricultural tries. development work in Alberta now The second volume deals in detail number 125, it is reported by the De with the trade of Canada, with British Partment of Agriculture. Of these 70 Empire countries red. the United are grain and fodder clubs and the States. balance is made up of cattle, swine The third sets out the trade of Can- and sheep clubs. Tlie combined mem- ada with Australia, the Fiji Islands bership is about 2,000. • Last year and New Zealand, and the trade of there were 94 clubs. these countries of Oceania. New Westminster, British Columbia. The fourth comprises the trade of —During the 11 years ended Septem- Canada with British East, West and ber 30, 1930, the Forestry Commis- , South Africa, also the trade of British sinners of Great Britain planted a 'set aeoe East and West Africa, Northern and Southern Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa. The fifth gives details of the trade of Canada with British India, Ceylon and the Straits Settlements, as well as the trade of British India, Ceylon and British Malaya. The last volume comprises the trade of Canada with the British West India Islands and Newfoundland, and also the trade of these countries. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested Letno guilty man escape, if it can be avoided.,No personal con- siderations shoulstand in the way of performing a public duty.— Ulysses S. Grant. New Swimming Light Tutee perfect diving Doses of I(atherine Rawls, 15 -year-old . Miami marvel, who ,astounded officials l g by defeating Georgia Coleman for national diving honors at Long Island. The petite miss will, repres- ent America in the olyinpics, total of 32,3330,000 Douglas fir trees on various sites in England, Wales and Scotland. All these trees were raised from seed furnished by the Canadian Government Forest Service, through its seed extraction plant at New Westminster, British Columbia. A considerable quantity of seed of other Western species was furnished to the British Commissioners from the same source. The New Zealand Government iias also taken a large quantity of tree seed from Canada in recent years. Vancouver, British Columbia. --The immediate construction of a million dollar refinery and distribution plant on an 80 -acre tract of land by the Shell Oil Company of British Colum- bia, Ltd., is announced by Mr. Charles Anslie, manager. The plant, which will have approximately 1,800 free of frontage on the south shore of Bur- ned Inlet, is to be supplied with a 400 foot dock forty feet wide, Mr. Anslie states. It will refine from 2,500 to 3,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Eventually, it will be able to handle 10,000 barrels daily. Victoria, British Columbia.—A well known packing company proposes to erect a large dehydrating plant in Vic-, toric to handle loganberries. Wonilen on the Stage Women were first permitted to act on the English, stage, as early as 1565. Flaminia set the fashion for women actresses . in Italy, but Eng- land's attitude was conservative. It was not until 1656 that Mrs. Cole- man took the part of Iaatt,e In "The Siege of Rhodes" at Rutland( douse, thus paving the way for others, lit 1662 a Royal patent deereed "all women's parts to be acted by wo• tnen"; after that the stage was flood. od with actresses.