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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-08-25, Page 6• ..- + * 4 0 4 .-..-. -0-«+r «.:-r Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Log Schoolhouses in Ontario Par more attention is being paid to the estheie phase of education in rural schools now than in years past. Evi- dence of this is seen in the modern design of rural school buildings and in the school gardens surrounding them. It seems a far cry, indeed, from the rural schools of the present day to the little log schoolhouse of our fathers' or our grandfathers' youth. And yet the annual report of the De- partment of Education for 1931 re - weals the fact that the time-honored log structure has not actually disap- peared. In fact, some counties in Ontario added log schoolhouses to their quota "In 1930 and 1931. York County, for 0.ustance, is shown to have added one log school during the year, while Sim - cos reported two in 1931. Neither of these counties had any in 1930. The total decrease in this type of construc- tion of 14 for the province, however, 3s unchanged from the previous year. pi all there were 87 log schools in On- tario, chiefly in Northern Ontario, but a decrease there of five from the pre- yious year. An aggregate of 6,503 public schools In the province is reported, or a de - 'crease of 63. Classified as to con struction, 3,517 are built of brick, 409 of stone, 176 of concrete, 2,214 frame ,and 87 log. Every category shows a slight decrease in comparison with 1930. York County has 187 public schools, of which 160 are brick, 1 }stone; 2 concrete and 11 frame, while Halton has 59 schools, 35 being brick, ,13 stone, 4 concrete and 7 frame.— ;Toronto rame—Toronto Mail and Empire. Free Medical Service, According to a statement at the con- yention of the Canadian Medical As - etiolation, Canadian doctors gave $10,- 000,000 worth of free attention in 1930, :This year the amount is expected to be trebbled or quadrupled, This is a financial sacrifice which is not appreci- ated as it should be.—Calgary Herald. Young Ontario Craftsmen If genius is correctly defined as an Infinite capacity for taking pains, there are at least forty-seven Ontario 'boys who have demonstrated their right to a place within that classifica- tion. This number of youths, of ages ranging from twelve to nineteen years, shave spent many spare hours in pro- ducing replicas of a Napoleonic state coach. The exhibition of these tiny ;working models which stave been on Griew for several days, reveals the high level of craftsmanship of the boys of this province. These young workmen have follow- ed with remarkable fidelity tie design and measurements furnished to them. They are competitors in. a contest un- der the auspices of The Telegram Chapter Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, the winners in which go on to an international competition, the high- er awards in which are university Scholarships. In wood -work, metal -work, painting, upholstery and glazing the competit- ors have emulated the minute atten- tion to detail of the craftsmen of the Mediaeval guilds. They have put in- to their work the loving interest that pharacterizes good workmanship of all time. The exhibition is a credit to the persevering industry and the con- etructive ingenuity of the Ontario boy. —Toronto Telegram. Piano Returning An exchange asserts that the last few months, particularly, have seen a great change in the attitude of the people of Canada toward the piano. In the United States the turn of the tide set in earlier—about a year ago. Some Observers of the situation there have attributed some of the piano's revived popularity to the interest stimulated by the extensive series of piano talks and piano lessons that have been given over the American broadcasting chains and to the widespread system of piano class teaching in the public schools—a movement that is now well 9stablished in Canada. — Brockville Recorder and Times. Industrial Progress During the year just closed 78 new industries have been established in Manitoba. In addition to the new in- dustries, existing industries added 47 aiew products to their lines, which is another phase of the same movement. 'These facts indicate vitality and adaptability which, to borrow a phrase from the biologists, are prime factors in survival. .Actually the foundations of a great industrial development in Manitoba are being laid under present lconditions. Industries which can gain a foothold and makeprogress now are bound to forge ahead rapidly with re- turning prosperity. -- Winnipeg Tri- bune. Self Help Necessary There are thousands of cases where, employment being Tacking, it 13 neves Bary to subsist by the charity of ,the Community; but how many people re- fuse to try and help themselves, and, instead of persisting . in looking for ;work or in organizing their lives so as to emerge from their misery, resign ;themselvesto complete inaction and are ready to lite like parasites on their follow -citizens, abandoning all- ri a and dignity'. People of this �. .heir td g Y p p racter are surely holding slack the ' ,hto g art tu..,o. Aurid, Eq Vr-pnA& Activity - and are helping to prolong the crisis, —La Presse, Montreal. Symbol of a Nation's Power and Culture The August number of the National Geographic Magazine, official organ of the National Geographic Society, Washington, has as its leading article "Ontario, Next Door." This article of 53 pages, accompanied by a map and 55 beautiful illustrations, was written by Frederick Simpich of the Geogra- phic's editorial staff, after an exten- sive survey and study of present-day Ontario, during which he traveled by airplane, train and boat from Windsor to Hudson Bay and from Ottawa to Lake of the Woods. Mr. Simpich must be an accurate and intelligent observer, for this is how he describes Toronto: "The symbol of a new nation's power and culture. You cannot gauge it by more figures. You May set down that greater Toronto has 850,000 peo- ple; 2,350 factories ,producing each year more than 654 million dollars' worth of goods; or that it has ten. miles of waterfront, welcomes hun- dreds undreds of conventions a year, besides two million paid visitors to its Cana- dian National Exhibition ;the fireatest hotel, the highest building and the largest department stores. But Tor- onto is more than that. It is, to a singular degree, the focal point of much of all fresh thinking and indus- trial planning that goes on in the Do- minion."—Toronto Mail and Empire. Needed Instead of a New Year's resolution. why not a week -end pledge to drive carefully and help prevent accidents generally? — St. Thomas Times -Jour- nal, Back to the Land The back -to -the -land movement may not be as extensive as some of us have hoped. But even reduced to less ample proportions, it will have accomplished a useful work. There has been too much readiness to believe that the towns are paradises, and that money can be picked up there in abundance. The sad discovery has now been made that they are far from being Klon- dykes. Though there may be some- thing alluring in the thought of re- ceiving every week a salary which the farmer would take a month or more to make, the needs of a town life multi- ply so rapidly that wealth often dis- appears as fast as it is earned. THE EMPIRE Britain's Foreign Loans If Ottawa does nothing else, it will have been worth while if it ensures that a check is put to the headlong rush of British investors to put their money into foreign loans. In ten years £203,000,000 of British maney has been thus subscribed—seventy per cent. of the interest now being in de- fault. Before the crisis—the sum is much larger now—Britain was owed by foreign countries the stupendous sum of £3,000,000,000; and an uncom- fortably large amount of this must be regarded as a bad debt. But loans within the Empire are not bad debts; not to the extent of a single farthing has any colony or dominion defaulted, —National Graphic (London). Mutual Concessions What the Conference will have to seek is agreement on some general principle which can be applied. equally to the agricultural industries of Great Britain and to the manufacturing in- dustries of the Dominions. Whatever compromise is adopted must apply to all. There is no need to measure too exactly concessions against conces- sions, but any glaring inequality would defeat its own ends. Public opinion in none of the Dominions would long tolerate an arrangement under which, Montreal's Beauty Queen Arrives in Paris eNeYe "Miss Montreal," selected to represent Quebec's metropolis in the international beauty pageant at Paris, is shown here aboard a liner as it docks in France. pany that disposed of the hog sent Mr. Magnan notice of the sale, with a cheque and statement c; the transac- tion. The animal was sold for $1.61. From the tremendous sum the com- pany deducted expenses, state taxes and its own commission, and sent Mr. Magnan the balance -5 cents. Such an incredible thing was almost too much for Mr. W. H. C. Carriere, of this city, who dropped a line toMr. Maguai). Here is the answer: "What. you saw in Collier's was straight goods. It was a small enough rice, so I had it put in the paper. I am saving the cheque, which I ani going to put in a cheap frame as an evidence of the hard times we had in Minnesota in '•32 —and I think the hard times are not over yet."—Ottawa Citizen. Swedish Family Has Owned Homestead .14 Ge>erations Falun, Sweden.—At a ',Meeting of Dalecarlian homesteaders, . called by the Provincial Government, it was found that 700 families had possessed their homesteads for more than a huff- dred years; and several of these he, 'owned theirs for many centuries« .,', Special attention was attracted •Uy'. the family of Anderson, of the Erk homestead, who produced documents it evidence of their claim of having owned their farm for more than four- teen generations covering a period of 500 years or since 1435. The present Governor of Dalecarlia, Herman Kvarnzelium, distribr.ted several dip lemas to the homesteaders in recogni- tion of their lo -.e for their native soil, Prince of Wales Has Become Own Physician London.—The Prince of Wales has become his own doctor—to a certain.. extent — according to his own testi- mony before the British Medical As- sociation. "I have had so much advice," he told the learned physicians, "aud have also learned, like many others, how to keep myself fit—that I have to some extent become my own doctor. The doctor," he added gravely, "is certainly our first friend in life and Iast." for instance, British textiles were ad- mitted freely into its market while its meat, or flour, or fruit was only ad- mitted into the British market on con- ditions which prevented any competi- tion with the British product. And the converse is equally true. Any agreement to be lasting must be re- ciprocal in its advantages, and the lower the scale of protection on which. that reciprocity can beeffected the better will the general "interests be served.—London Times, United Europe, Dealing with the aspect of Lausanne, psychologically the fact is of coving value to a disillusioned world.. It means that its self-respectand its be- lief in its leaders have been re-estab- lished, It means that realism has at last won the day, and that the orazyi system elaborated at Versailles and Precariously maintained by every prop and artifice since has been decisively discredited. Materially, it means as' much or more. Bprope has done wbat the doubters said she would never do i —she has achieved unity on the cen-1 trap condition of economic recovery. She has forgotten the past in deter- mining to make a salter future, aiid in so doing she has presented America with, a situation which, Presidential, or no Presidential elections, America will find herself unable to ignore.— London Sunday. Times: Reward of 'Industry in tho U.S. A recent issue of Collier's mention- ed that a gentleman named Magnan, of tort Ripley, Minn.,shipped toMar-, ket a 215 -pound hog that cost him ten doliao to raIee. The commission cont • Canada -Argentina Sales Show Steady Increase Montreal—Cauada's sales to Argen- tina are on the increase as reflect- ed in shipping here. Last season shipments from this port were negii gible. This year a regular service is being maintained with 8000 -ton motorships of a speed of 15 knots. On each sailing, additional cargo space has been booked. Newsprint is being shipped in largo quantities, and manufactured goods, rubber goods, electrical appliances, shoes, tires and miscellaneous articles. The carriers pointed out that they were not making a profit, but are confident that if the present rate at improvement is continued they will gradually be able to produce sub- stantial profit. Within the next two years the trend toward a betterment of world conditions will have accel- erated and it is then hoped to under- take a fortnightly service. Condi- tions ale beginning to mend in the South American republics, it was stated.` !'trans=Atlantic Survey To Map Air -Mail Route Truro, N.S.—R. E. Parkes, of New 'York, representing the Pan-American Airways, annour.ced here that Halifax might become a regular base for a trans-Atlantic air mail route. A sur- vey flight will begin at Minneapolis this month, the Northern route itiner- ary including Holy Roof, Newfound- land, Labrador, Greenland and Nor- way. The flight will take about a month. Data will be assembled on this trip and a regular service will be started within the next year, Mr. Parkes said. The craft to be used i; an amphibian. Milady Taking to Monocle New York.—Women of the United States arc taking up the monocle as a fashion feature for the fall season. The "monocle" to be worn is merely a heavily -circled bole over the left eye in a very fine ve.i.l adjusted over a turban. _-_..A- Difficult Turn A picture that calls forth the envy of all who have not yeti 'swimming this season, Alfred Phillips, Toronto, of the 'Canadian• swimming team is giving the olymple pool a try -out, Girls of Ancient Greece ' Lime e Aids Alfalfa Yield Were Barred from Olympics The girls of ancient Greece were; keenly interested in sports both as contestants and as spectators, but they were prohibited from attending or competing in the groat games held every four years at Olympia in ancient .Greece, according to Science Service, The regular Olympics of those days, unlike those to -day, were exclusively masculine affairs, the only woman pre- sent being the priestess of the old earth cult of Demeter Chamyne, who sat at an altar in the stadium. Although the male athletes com- peted completely nude, without even the loin cloth of earlier times, mod- esty was not the reason for the exclu- sion of women from the games. Some early religious taboo probably prevent- ed the women from joining the regu- lar Olympics, in the opinion of Dr. Walter W. Hyde of the University of Pennsylvania. The Greek girls did not forego com- petitive athletics simply because they could not participate in the masculine Olympiads. They had their own ath- letic festival at Olympia, This was in honor of Hera, the queen of the gods in Greek mythology. It was held every four years like the Olympic games for the Hien. The winner re- ceived an olive crown and a share of the cow sacrificed to Hera. Just as the male victors were allowed to erect statues to commemorate their prow- ess, the feminine winners were allow- ed to set up painted pictures of them- selves in the temple of Hera. The separation of the sexes in ath- letics was not customary throughout the Grecian world. Ionian women could witness games and Spartan girls took part in athletic contests with boys. Chicago Industrial Area Swept By Six Million Fire Chicago.—Fire swept through more than two blocks of buildings on the near southwest side of Chicago's in- dustrial area last week, causing dani- age estimated at more than $6,000,000, Two firemen and a spectator were injured while more than half the city's fire fighting equipment battled to keep the flames from getting out of control, The plant of the Omaha Packing Company was virtually destroyed at au estimated loss of approximately $5,000,000. Fire officials said the conflagration was started by a dust explosion in the ten -storey elevator of the Quincy Ele- vator Company. Damage to the elevator and its con- tents was placed at $S00,000. The flames also spread to the lum- ber yard of the W. D. Crane Company and the coal yards of the Consumers Company. At the packing plant, 3,000 hogs, 800 cattle and 700 sheep were burned alive in the Iivestock pens. Only a few minor buildings belonging to the slaughter house were saved. Heavy Fruit Crops In New York State Poughkeepsie, N.Y. — Heavy fruit crops are expected in New York State this year with the single exception of the Baldwin apple, according to Mr. Walter R. Clarke, president of the New York State Horticultural Society. Returning here from a tour of the Principal fruit -growing sections of the State, Mr. Clarke said uniformly fa- vorable weather conditions had con- tributed to the preparation of bounti- ful crops of fine quality. ' It the Hud- son Valley, apples, peaches, pears and grapes are doing unusually well, The New York State pear crop is expected to be 116 per cent. greater than last year, although iu other states it will take a drop. Former Kaiser Owns Czech Church Prague.—The seventy-fifth jubilee of the German Evangelical Church in Marienbad, North Bohemia, revealed that the former German Emperor is the owner of the building of this congregation. Twenty-five years ago the Kaiser when still ruling Ger- many presented the church with twd valuable windows. On the present occasion, in a letter from Doom,' William offered his congratulations and bestowed on the preacher of the church the Order of Hohenzollern, Students' Cars Must Pass Safety Test in Iowa Ames, Iowa. Safety tests and the requirement of liability insurance point to the abolition of "campus flivvers" at Iowa State College here. A new ruling of the school adminise trative board requires that students driving automobiles invest in liability insurance up to $5,000 and that they submit their cars to light and brake tests. Five and a Half Months' Fast Eroded Near Warsaw, Indiana, July 15, 1931, a 500 -pound hog was accidentally cov- ered with straw while threshing. After five and a half months the stack was taken down, and as it was beiug re- moved out walked the hog, alive and well. As a result of its fast its weight had been reduced by one-half. Suitor: "Sir, when I'm away from Nancy I plumb the uttermost depths of despairs." rather (fed lip with the youth). "Well, I don't want my daughter to marry a plumber, so you'd better give up the idea," Attempts to Grow it in Acid Soils Are Wasted Fertilizer, seed and labor aro large- ly wasted if an attempt is made to grow alfalfa on acid soils, according to Professor A. W. Blair, soil chemist at the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- ment Station, In the East, where the rainfall is heavy, the soil is generally very deficient in available lime, he says, Alfalfa grows most luxuriantly , whore the soil is well supplied with lime, and since there is a great abund- ance of limstono and shell material in this suction of the country the lime necessary for the improvement of acid soils is easily obtained. i "For a number of years the Now Jersey Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion has conducted experiments for the purpose of determining the value of lime in connection with the grow- ing of alfalfa," says Professor Blair. "The work has shown that if sassafras loam soil or soils having similar char. acteristics are allowed to go for a period of years without lime the soil becomes so acid that alfalfa will not grow and weeds and crab grass take possession of the land. Even with moderate application of lime the yield of hay is often much below what it. should be. "In 1931 three cuttings of hay on the experimental plot 'without lime yield- ed at the rate of 1,713 pounds an acre. The crop, which was largely weeds and not alfalfa hay, was low in nutri- ment value and contained less than half the protein found in clean alfalfa hay, Where lime in the form of ground oyster shells was used at the rate of 1000 pounds an acre the yield was two tons of hay of a fair quality to the acre. The yield was nearly four tons of excellent hay to the acre when 2,000 pounds of the ground oyster shells wore used. With 4,000 pounds of the ground oyster shells the yield was four and a half tons of hay to the acre, the crop having a protein valUe of almost two and one-half times that of the hay from the and without the lime. "In the majority of cases, a ton of ground limestone or ground oyster shells, or about a half ton of burned lime to the acre, applied once in five years, will be sufficient to keep the soil in good condition for growing al- falfa. The cost of this application should not exceed $1.50 an acre per year. There are, however, exceptional cases where more lime will be re- quired." Dairyman's Expenses The cow that produces less than 250 pounds of fat cannot make a profit for the dairyman, believes E... J. Perry,extension dairyman at the New Jersey Agricultural .Exper%rce Station, who bases this content' on present milk prices and the of running a dairy farm. It is dif- ficult at present for a herd averag- ing even 30b pounds of fat to yield a return over all expenses, he says and there is - need of a weeding out of all inferior animals from the rank and file of the New Jersey herds. Milk and fat records, regularly kept, are indispensable in eliminat ing the unnecessary expenditures caused by low -producing animals, low testers and speculative feeding, Mr. Perry advocates the establishing of monthly records of milk flow, with regular fat tests on each cow. Re. ports show that cows producing 90 500 pounds of milk for the past year in the Salem County Herd Improve- ment Association ate only 25 per cent more feed while making 88 per cent more in returns over -feed costs than animals that produced 4,500 pounds of milk, he states. During the year 467 different cows were entered in the association, and. of the 326 for which full year 'records of milk, fat aud feed costs were kept 12 per cent produced less than 250 pounds of fat. Eighty per cent of the herds in the Salem Association exceeded an aver- age of 300 pounds of fat. The aver- age yearly production of each asso- ciation cow was 7,300 pounds of milk, 327 pounds of fat, while the average production of all New Jersey cows, according to the last census, was ap- proximately 6,200 pounds of milk and 240 pounds of fat. The mating of the profitable cows with well-bred bulls of proved an- cestry 12 largely responsible for the high average of the cows in the Salem County herds, Mr. Perry de clares. Culling and careful feeding are other important factors, Charting Sea i i ighways Begun by British Navy London—A fleet of British naval sloops has begun the annual task of rechartiug the ocean highways. This undertaking requires several months and costs more than $500,000. The vessels engaged on the under- taking, equipped with Many delicate instruments, will take tens of thou- sands of soundings and oaleulations, and the reports from theta will keep the hydrographic department of the Admiralty busy for months. An Admiralty official says that ever year several hundred new rocks are discovered by the survey. It Is not unusual for 100,000 alterations to be made on the existing charts. In addition to charting new rocks and changes in the level of the seabed alterations in coast lines and the posi, tion of buoys and lighthouses have to be noted.