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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-08-18, Page 6r.►�.,.,.�,,,.� 4141 ,�.S.*4.*U 1-41-•-44- ;S . „.-. ,• Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Targe CANADA Two Notable Careers Two great shipping magnates have 'died within a week of each other j<tobert Dollar, picturesque Canadian, It 88, and the equally picturesque ord Inchape at the age of 80. Their VFareers had an points of similarity. lIoth were born in Scotland of poor parents. Both had in abundance in- ustry, integrity, vision and that gen- ius for organization which lead men Into hig•li places, Both made huge fortunes, but they did much more than laIle up personal' wealth. One was the iggest factor in multiplying the com- erce of the United States from its Pacific ports; the other the most po- jtent influence in trebling the trade of Britain with India and the Orient.— $,ondon Free Press. Efficiency and Humanity Lutheran Synod in New York ob- jeets to the policy of firing middle - 'aged men on the plea that they are Pao old to work. Humanity has been taken out of industry when it seeks. to xtract the maximum effort from the most productive years and then pre - ares to scratch the name off the pay- oil.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. Wheat Prospects The Canadian prairies have had the Ibiost drenching May rain in years, (While the winter wheat States across the line are parched and crops are hreatened with almost complete des- uction. It is morally wrong to re- oice in the afflictions of others, but he economic result is a rise in prices for all wheat in the United States and anada. The rain and higher prices combined will put new hope into West- L>rn Canada.—London Advertiser. 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- liament. What it shows is that for pensions alone Canada last year paid lout $65,626,263. And on top of that ithere are old age pension, pensions for .etired civil servants, pensions for re- lired judges, pensions for others. All 'la us asked for these pensions, sup- ported 'them. No one, certainly, be - trudges the pensions that go to war ;veterans. But it is well that occasion ally we be reminded of what we are oiig, of the money that is involved.— ;Ottawa Journal. Brilliant Notion n the great Samu�er 'Vauclai , American locomotive magnate, has ifound the solution of the unemploy- itnent problem. "All our troubles will home to a end," he said, "when every dine makes up his mind to work in- ritead of soliciting help from the Gov- ernment!" The cure for unemploy- ane:ht is work. All we have to do is to igive orders to eight million unemploy- ed Americans to start working, and to be quick about it. Nothing like a business man for brilliant notions!— Le Canada, Montreal struck by the fact that many of them had been thrown in the basket as soon as they wre removed twin 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 hometown paper goes into the home. Remember this and spend your advertising money ac- cordingly.—Tara Leader.. The Imperial Conference We do not want to be pessimistic, but we should look the facts in the face. South Africa wants reciprocity with Britain and the other countries pf the Empire on condition that her national industries are adequately protected. Australia wants to sell her meat and dairy products. India 3s always ready to sell her pig -iron nd half -finished steel to. Britain. The risk Free State, which is becoming ore and more free, wants more ex- tensive markets for her dairy prod- icts. Canada wants to sell her grain, tlid her pulp and paper. "We ought o consider in the first place the in- erests of our own people, then the in- erests of the Empire," Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. J. H. Thomas ,lave declared. We have never doubt - ;lel this for a moment, and it is for his reason that we do not expect uch from the Imperial Conference.— e Droit, Ottawa. 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 'co boast that it is turning out more }",.A.'s to the morgen than any other nation.gn 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 Woo Seven. Times a Winner Sam 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. cation, and in that event the right of Washington, Adams, Franklin, Medi - existence of the smaller university son and Monroe—deplored this fact colleges is certain to be challenged.— and sought to remedy it. The first Cape Argus. President thought the political en 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. The selection of the personnel of such a delegation was necessarily a matter of great difficulty, and doubt- Publicity. less there is not one of the five who There is no doubt that publicity 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 and dubiously elaborate statistics. Imagination and brain -work are need- ed in its service, and these qual_ties the English, more than any other wooerof the itew art, are likely to bring' to it 'Eigiatid s `publicity's last, most fastidious lover, and will Russia and Japan. prove the truest in the end.—Truth World-wide apprehension is being (London). 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 range.—W. G. Fitzgerald in Nine- teenth Century (London). of things be no more than an advis- 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.—Melbaurne Anstralasla,n, roused by the snarling between Tokio and Moscow. The Russians pretend 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 more the appearance of a clumsy attempt to stir up trade union and "proletariat" trouble throughout the world by an appeal to "the work- ers" orkers" to resist their governments— Phone Message Dialed 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. He can spell out his message on his nominally to prevent help going to sending dial and it appears at the Japan. The industrial quiescence other end on a sort of ticker tape. throughout Europe and America ow- ing to the economic depression must' be gall and wormwood to the inde- fatigable intriguers of the Third In- ternationale. nternationale. Not war with Japan, but another drive for "world revolu- tion" is the most likely objeot of Moscow's queer manoeuvres.—Hong Kong Press. Imperialistic Germany. Germany has apparently fallen 1aok into the hands of the world-de- yiug militarist class Which was re- ponsible for her present plight. A • Germany governed by Hohenzol- erns and their ilk is a potential anger to her neighbors and to world .:eace. A democratic. Germany re - (Meted. froni wat debt payments might ONO aided in world recovery. An erialisti4 Germany relieved of obt payments may utilize the advan- r• ge gained to strengthen herself for pother attempt at world domination. ews of the recent political develop - elite in Berlin is tb.e most disturb - ng that has come out of that coati- sines pre-war days. Toronto legram. Ever Notice This? Did you ever pause in a post (Ace long enough. to take a squint at the waste paper basket shortly after a lumber of people had received their Os II? If you have you were probably btruok by the cumber of circulars and koriu letters and Band bills that litter - The Need for Economy. The need for greater economy in public expenditure has been insuffici- ently emphasized at this conference, (conference of Australian Premiers). When the Premiers' plan was laun- ched aunched last year it was recognized that it was hut 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 reoonstruc- tion of the whole public service.- Melbourne Argus. Bad Habitsrr If we build a wall of bad habits, the difficulty we shall have to face will be how to climb out. 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 balanced, when taxes are no longer ate 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 United "States cannot be con- sidered a "nation" at all as the word is commonly employed; it is alto- gether too yast in area, its papula tion too mixed in race and colour, its huge commonwealths and legisla tures too diverse in interests, cli- mates and "sovereign" rights, Poli- tical sagacity itas always been; want- ed, it up, in fact gout doubtless were ing here; and even the early fiet11Bro-ei Women More Bad-tempered Than Men, Professor Says According to an American professor womenget angry six times to a man's four. In arriving at this conclusion lie had men and women students keep "anger diaries"—that is, whenever, they lost their tempers they recorded 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, IIe 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 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 to put on flesh, •its temper im- proves. "Children brought to the hos- pital for excessive fatness are almost invariably good-tempered," he 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 fiancee 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 ill-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." Ani earlier investigation into tem- per, 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 thirty per cent. of the children were good-tempered also, and ten per cent. bad-tempered. The others were "neutral." Where both parents were. bad-tempered only four per cent. of the children were good-tempered and fifty- 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 mtdin,craeitmd.oa'p,eli sro...at'rseite t hd at r on He' t �cessima aht'e d 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 man was kept alive by artificially pumping air into his lungs.—San Francisco Chronicle. 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 the largest repres- entation of any participant except &eat Britain, The Indian „govern -- Men( will send Sir. Atul" " 'Chandra'' Chatterjee, R. K. Shanmukham Chet ty,, Sir Padamji Pestonji Cinwala, Sir George Rainy, Haji Abdullah Haroon Sahibzada and Abdus Seined Khan. Southern Rhodesia will send H. S. Hoffat, Premier; P. D. L. Flynn, Treasurer, and J. W. Downey, 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 Australian Jobless Open Shop in Adelaide Adelaide, S. Aust. — Showing both enterprise and determination, the un- 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. easonable. All Ontario farm folks are urged to visit and renew old acquaintances. Japan at the Olympics Ws a long 'journey from Japan to .California and Captain of the team "getting his land lege" again at we see the Santa Monica. 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 couu try the expense of supportng them. The Governor, Sir Alexander Hore- 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. The 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 dreamfulnes of the night. It blends into one's .sense of rest and becomes an element of enjoyment after one has fallen again into slum- ber. Frogs are night's buffoons, "Croak, croak, croak," you hear one mut- tering, and with your eyes, yet un- 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 grimily, to your - self, turn over in your hamhock, and. all is forgotten. Then the screech -owl begins whine in its treinulons-querulous falsetto. . . . The big -horned 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 Tientsin, China. — Chinese me- chanics, 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 venders and mov- able restaurants, have formed a union "to protect their interests." Helium Find Reported Ruthven, has paid an unofficial visit Port of Spain, Tr1nidad—Helium, to the shop and made purchases and is reported to have been discovered he says he intends to go again. in Trinidad, rewarding a search which began after oil drillers tapped a source of the gas last September. The quantities available have not been ascertained, but the reports said there was a possibility that Trinidad might become an important source of supply. Soviet Builds Apartments For 12,000 Foreigners Moscow.—Twelve thousand foreign- prs 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. _ Chinese Boy Invents Cheap Cotton Loom Nanking.—A hand -controlled cotton - Weaving machine, recently invented by a young Chinese boy in WerHsien, is the latest domestic handicraft ma- chine added to the hundreds of an - dent and crude home instruments. This is a small machine, most parts being made of wood and costs about $20 Mexiean. It can weave one pound ;of cotton cloth daily, The Ministry of Industry is attempt - ng to patent the ntachine and intro- duce it into every home in the cotton - growing sections of the country, Life to Come 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. 4.0 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 a round of golf. Darkness was fail. ing, and one of the players bad to send his caddie ahead to shout the direction of the greens. Out oP the blackness til front tame a voice: "Do you see the moon?" It is impossible to make any sense "Fine," came back the 'reply, out of this life without an assurance "Vireel, that's the direction, but no' of some life to come. --Dr. Orchard. sae faun"