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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-10-27, Page 3MVO, 0-4-••.0-0-4, 0, o- ..."IP.t�•awo,w n-�Y..--«-�i-a•,9 vice f the ress Canada, The Empire and The World at Large R I betel s, and to distribute and oonsume what wee grow. Half the currency dif- flculties of the world seem due to those terrible Victorian theorists who taught us all that it was humoral to Pay people in kind, "Truck," they call It, and now because of . those theorists the world is loaded up with "truck" fn the shape of food and clothes which it cannot consume be- cause it has no "money." In India we ask nothing better than food and clothes and houses; others can have the "money" if they like.—Arthur Moore in The Fortnightly (London). WiI1 Germany Re -arm? CANADA Blinding Lights The death of two cyclists, struck by, automobiles, were found by inquiring juries to *have beca contributed to by glaring headlights ot approaching vehicles. On ono verdict a rider was attached, directing the attention of the highways department to the need of legislation which will put an end to the menace of blinding lights, and it will be intereeleng to see what results, if any, w'Ti follow--Ifamiton Spec- tator. Help For the Farmers The authorities are acting wisely in gtviug assistance to those who never should have left the agricultural life to return to it once more, but they should not forget the true farmers who have not been fascinated by the town, and who, at the cost of numerous sacri- fices, have stood four-square against all the blasts of the depression. It is more important to keep people like this on the land than to send back others who die* not know enough to ,stay there.—La Liberte, Winnipeg. Army One Up A tank has been invented that will travel under water. The army ap- pears to be one up on the navy until the latter invents a submarine to travel over land. — Winnipeg Free Press. Question of Homework The views of The News were ex- possible extent. The new British pressed a few days ago. While admit- policy win give a valuable impetus to tons, but this was achieved in five ting that there is a danger of loading the movement, and much is to be ex months T ith another two months to up young pupils with too much home- i petted from the results attained at go before the close of navigation on If Germany is seeking to re -arm, then it is quite certain that France will not consent to reduce her own armaments; and we shall see the opening of a fresh race, in armaments, with all its menace of unrest and dis- aster. Such a situation would be tragic indeed. Is it too much to hope that the German people may realize, before it is too late, what the attitude of their Government means? --London Daily Mail. Crown Colonies and he Empire The position of tate Colonies, which are engaged in the production of food- stuffs and raw materials, is wholly dif- ferent from that of either Britain or the Dominions. The co-operation of all three is necessary for the adequate development of the Empire's re- sources, and up to the present this has not been carried out to the furthest Using Desperate Measures Caught in the act! Bales 'of Princeton tried a little diving act but was nailed in mid-air. Princeton tried hard, but lost, 20 to 7. during the game with Columbia, Ar mid the World President of Spain Held Up by Zealous Traffic Officer Madrid.—Spain boasts the world e most zealous motorcycle cop. He works in San Sebastian. During tine de Rivera dictatorship he arrested thO son of the mighty Primo for speeding. Not long ago he nabbed Deputy Clara Campeomar of the Cortes for parking overtime. Recently the automobile bearing President Alcala Zamora and Minister of State Zulueta was being driven rapidly in the wrong direction on a one-way street in San Sebastian when it was stopped by the same police- man. "What's your name, officer?" asked Minister Bulaeta. "Juan Corder° (John Lamb)," re- plied the policeman. "You're not a lamb. You're a tiger," snapped the minister, Perfect Piece of R'oman Road Found Imports of British Coal Break All Previous Records Montreal, — British anthracite im- ports through the port of Montreal this season have surpassed those of any previous year, it was announced last week. Not only has the prevous full year's peak been exceeded by nearly 90,000 work, this journal cannot see the merit of abolishing it altogether, as a certain amount of review work at home undoubtedly is of great benefit. We believe it would be unwise to set .a hard and fast rule, preferring rather to leave it to the teacher to regulate in the spirit of moderation which should prevail in ail things.—Chatham News. Back To Windjammers One of the results of the depression has been for communities to return to barter as a means of exchange. Yet perhaps the most amazing revival in connection with bad tines is that of sailing in the British navy. It is not entirely a product of the depression, inasmuch as it is caused by the fact that as warships become faster and more powerful they go to sea less, due to the increased expense of operation. , As o. eosttrt the i(tnga navy is going back to sail. Not for ever purposes;"`OI course, but for the training of officers and mien. Naval officers have been voicing their alarm for a decade, and bluejackets have started to complain of inactivity. But now everything will be changed.—Calgary Albertan. Repeaters Of the 40,000 persons who' pass through prison in the course of a year, nearly three-fourths have been there before. More than 3,000 have half a dozen previous convictions, and over 2,000 have more than twenty. There Seems no reason in social policy why the latter group shouted be released just to give an overworked police the trouble of catching thein again.—Lon- don Observer. Ottawa. It is only to be regretted that action of the right kind has been so long delayed.—Belfast Telegraph. were 830,609 toes, 141,776 tons greater English Education than total imports of 1931 and 89,806 tons higher than 1930, the- previous Sixty years ago in this field we lab record year. ged far behind the other Western na- It is expected the season's imports will amount to 1,000,000 toes before the St. Lawrence River. The total imports to the end of Sep- tember, 1932, the last date available, tions. Not till thirty years ago had we an all round national systems such as they possessed. Now we are every- where in the van, and at not a few points lead the others. To attain this year with a total to the end of Sep- changed position our rate of expansion tember of 113,293 tons. There was in many branches and at many periods also an advance of 11,308 tons in the has been almost breathless. At pre- amount of British coke landed here, sent our education services are far the total being 11,453. This was a Noisy Streets Perhaps, greater importation of Bri- tish motorcycles will inspire also the importation of British laws which pro- hibit the infernal noise made by these machines on our residential streets. -- Toronto Mail and Empire. Winter seals the river. British bituminous imports showed an increase of 93,415 tons over last and away the most costly in Europe. Ought they to be? Up to a point, no doubt, it is inevitable, for all services cost more in England. But that point, we believe, has been very much ex- ceeded; sceeded; and even if it had not, there would be a case for scrutiny. For the "eletY4tteelitat,44StgliA!!... .. themselves as much richer than foreigners and in a position to do everything far more lavishly have passed away.—Leeds Yorkshire Post. new development, most of imported coke previously coming from the United States. American bituminous coal brought here showed a decrease of 22,112 tons this season, receipts of 20,219 compete a_-... 'tea -la R.BL tana;.30.43 FL: a21 r+ 1 e arrd compared with •2,321 tons last year. Vast Field Covered By Latest Chilean Map OTHER OPINIONS Santiago, Chile—The first s.atis- Fewer Children tical map of Chile has been conplet- The world's ever-increasing interest ed by the Department of Rural Bean - in child welfare reflects the growing amy of the 11liuistry of Agriculture. scarcity value of the child, There are Data has been collected in each pro - fewer children in the world today, re- vince, and the map shows at a glance latively, than there were ten years the area, population, road, rail and air communications, temperature and rainfall and everything of interest to the farmer, ago; a great many fewer than fifty years ago. In Grover Ceveland's first Administration, if you tools a sample group of 1,000 Americans, the infants under b years would stave numbered Weeds Are Expensive Just how serious is the loss occas- sioned to Canada agriculture by the weed nuisance is showa by the report of the Associate Committee on Weed Control of the Canadian Research Council, This body which has been investigating the most important ques- tion with particular attention to the western provinc s, The report declares that 18 per cent. is a very conserva- tive estimate of the crop loss due to weeds and taking the average wheat yield on the prairies to be three hun- dred million bushels the oats yield at two hundred million bushels• and the 'barley yield at one hundred minion bushels the committee considers that at current prices weeds mean a loss of 840,000,000 to the farmers of the three 'prairie provinces alone. Rural Canada is up in arms about taxation, but a leak that represents a loss of $40,000,- 000 a year to agriculture in three pro - Nimes apparently causes little con- eern; Peterborouiih Examiner. THE EMPIRE Fathers' Age Affects Mental Talents at Birth? New York.—A child begotten by a father aged more than 70 has 50 tines better chances of inheriting rich men - tel talents than one whose father was under 45, writes Howard W. Blakes- lee, A. P. Science editor, To prove this a study of 1,000 per- sons of outstanding capability in the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is publishr' by A. F. Dut- ton of Hertfordshire, England, in the B-•ite:h offieiai •cieutific journal Na- ture. The same tables slhowecl children begotten by fathers of more than 45 have twice the chanes of inherited capability. The chances are Lin fold with paternal age more than 60. These studies tend to revive a wan- ing scientific faith in a method for human beings to improve themselves from generation to generation. The method is the fatuous Lamarck hypo- thesis, a corrollary of evolution, which holds that in the process of natural selection acquired capabilities can be transmitted to offspring. In other words a person who works herd enough to become a better man can somehow transmit some of this acquired character to his children. Not so has been the recent prepond- erance reponderance of scientific experiments aimed exteatoree right. • Thus in laboratories scientists have cut off a certain leg of a low order of animal generation rafter generation, but never it is raid has the lack of a leg resulted in young that inherited the "acquired" leglessness of their elders. Mr. Dutton says his attention was attracted to the possibilities ',hat in- heritance of acquired valent might be- come evident in children of aged fa- thers by the "noteworthy" numbers of eminent men begotten "by fathers of ripe age." The father of Frar-cis Bacon, he says, was 52; of John Herschel, 54; of Robert Boyle, 61; of William Pitt, 51; of Samuel Johnson, 53; of John Hun- ter, 65, and of James Parsons, 54.� 133 In President Taft's time they Pepper Imports Lead would have been 122, Two years ago lnlndia Spice Trade they were down to 93. If you take all London—Poets may sing of exotic spices which scent the Orient with delicious perfumes, but it is left to household pepper to buttress India's trade in spicy commodities. During 1931 more than 16,000 children under 15 years, then to a sample group of 1,000 Americans there would have been half a• century ago 381 children, twenty years ago 331 children and two years ago 293 child- ren. Compared with fifty years ago, hundredweights of pepper were ba- the average group of 1,000 Americans ported from India by Great Britain, would have nearly 90 fewer children in as compared with 10,000 hundred- it.—New York Times. weights in 1930. Ginger took second Depends On Manchurians Japan has three problems to meet, The attitude of China, the attitude 0! $lie' other powers and the attitude of the Manchurians themselves. The last will be the deciding factor, If the Man- l;htirians want to see their country be- itcme a second Korea, then nothing !that either Ohina or the powers are likely to do will prevent such a de- velopmmit;--hong Kong Press. The. British in India It should be possible for its to get together and make things grow, grow tie and wi;ere they have never growth Accident Rating Statistical genius has discovered that a clisportionately large number of those who figure in automobile acci- dents scidents is made up of persons who are listed as bad credit risks. There is Perhaps the kernel of a great truth here, although superficially the state- ment would seem oto indicate merely the ease with which bad credit risks somehow manage to get into motor cars. Perhaps that instability of char- acter which causes a man to get into the bad books of the rating agencies also operates to prevent frim from exercising due care in the operation of an automobile,—New York Sun. r, Fine Photography Big Aid to Astronomy Montreal—That there is a possibil- ity that more planets will be dis- covered as photography improves is the opinion of Prof. A. J. Kelly, Mc- Gill University astronomer. For some years the avorage layman believed that all the planets had been discov- ered, and that Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune composed the whole planet- ary system. Then when Plutto was found there was great excitement. "It was a long time after Neptune was found before Plutto was located, It may take an equally long time be- fore another and still distant planet can be picked up, but there is always the exlieetatlon that mere of them lie just beyond the range of vlsibilitY as it Is understood in 1932," r onclud- ed Professor Kelly. plass. Locust Swarms Delay Freight Trains in Argentine Buenos Aires.—Freight trains have had to be shortened and locomotives supplied with 1,50 pounds of sand in- stead of the usual 150 pounds because oil the large number of locusts that get onto the rails and make them slippery. The Central Argentine Rail- road has fitted some of its freight engines with rubber brushes to push the locusts off the rails. This season's visitation is the worst in Sussex Cornfield Lewes, England.—A perfect piece of Roman road has been discovered in the middle of a cornfield at Barcombs Mills, near Lewes. It is 21 feet wide and heavily metaled wth flint more than a foot in thickness. The dia• covery was made by a member of the Sussex Archaeological Society, which promotes the finding and preservation and antiquities ot the country. The surface of the field showed no apparent traces of the road and the discovery was due to the ;finding of iron slag along tb.e line which the road follows, Roman pottery was found upon the edges of the metaling. The road has been traced at other points in the country and has proved to be a part of a main thoroughfare from London to Lewes, through Eden- bridge denbridge and Maresfield. Hold Girl As Security Madrid.—Just what is good collater- al for a loan is a problem that is trou in many years, spreading over eight bring bankers these clays. Two Porta- of orta of the fourteen provinces and two et guess who loaned some money to Luis the ten territories. Many of the sarms are reported to cover fifteen square miles and one which recently flew over part of he Province of Entre Rios was twelve miles long and nearly three miles wide. This is the first time in about ter. years that the locusts have been seen in the City of Buenos Aires, Plane Service Ends Father—"How do I know you are not marrying my daughter for my money?" Suitor --"Well, we're both taking a risk. How do I know you won't fail in a year or so?' "Before a man marries he should have a little money in the bank." "I have as little as any one that ever took the plunge." Paino of Salamanca think they have found out. When Paine refused to pay the note they proceeded to collect the money in the person of Pairto's niece, Andrea' Sanchez 'Vaquero. They "foreclosed" her when Paino was away from home and carried her off to Portugal, leav- ing behind the information that she would he returned wheu Paino pays his debt. Hebrides Isolation Boy's Heart Stitched Up Edinburgh.—The isolation of the Vienna. — A remarkable operation Hebrides from the rest of the world has been successfully performed in a is fast being overcome. During the Vienna hospital on a boy called Rud*, past month Stornoway readers, and Dattelmayer, who is now runninii' around the wards quite cheerfully with ingothers their the Isle of Lewis, were read-,nthree stitches in his heart, The child te Scotsman b vera. midday, in- was shot three weeks ago. More than stead of half part seven in the even- a dozen op erations had to be perform- naus oral in addition to the stitched ....`•i� '^1. X 1'tiA 0"'l3iVri rl Iona, had carried the newspapers over from Fort William, whither they had been rushed by the early morning ex- press train from Edinburgh. Scottish Clans Organization Receive Money Donation London.—The Highland Society of London has received F. gift of money to aid a scheme that seeks to establish Scottish clans in districts of Scotland specially identified with their history. A conference of various clan organ- izations is being held here to give the scheme consideration, in the heart, wounds in the spleen and bladder were stitched up. Peasants Take Wine Baths Budapest.—Ill the little village of Lentihegy the peasants are enjoying a luxury attributed to the aristocrats of Imperial Rome of bathing in wine. The only well in the village has dried. up and every one from children to graybeards is drinking and washing in the only fluid procurable in the vil- lage for any purpose --the cheap and abundant wine, Returns to Old Plaoe as Mayor, Though Street Job Paid More -- Lanett, Go.—By an overwhelming Hitching Posts Reappear vote the Lanett electorate has ordered' Charlie Rutledge. to lay aside the Orangeburg. S,C.—The once obsolete shovel and tate hoe of the Street Over - hitching post is coining back in this seer and resume his seat in the, section. The great increase of Mayor's chair. horses and mules bringing people A year ago Mayor Rutledge signed to from the outlying sections into the don overalls as director of the city's country seat recently compelled the street force, The salary was higher Chamber of Commerce to And some than tite Mot'or's, way to accommodate the beasts. It There was a storm of protest and racks 4 when the time drew near his friends was decided to erect hitching on a piece of vacant property oppos- insisted that he run for Mayor again. ite the Municipal Building and to Mr. Rutledge said he preferred the construct a water trough. pay as Street Overseer, but that he was "the servant of the people and ruse - Tho first time a fire destroyed the stands, no ono was upset but now l a rathe nldirectors irec torsstaos Kompand oa I:tar rate, course (England) are wondering. For the third time this year +tenet lutviy gone up in smoke. would do what they wanted him to." £400,000 Reservoir Planned To Supply 400,000 Persons Newport, Eng. ----One of the biggest municipal development projects ever, launched by Newpor was initiate& recently with the cutting of the first! sod of the corporatiot.'s new reservoir; site at Talybont. The reservoir will cost more than 8400,000. The basin is 36 miles from Newport, in the Glynn Collwyn valley, and the water will come from the River Caer- fanell, which flows over the pictures esque *recon Beacons and enters the Usk at Talybont. The total capacity; of the reservoir will be 10,000,000 gal-' loos a day, Cause* out with the aid of a Gov- ernment grant, the scheme is estintat-' cd to necessitate the employment of an average of 300 meat for five years.: The length of the reservoir will be; nearly two miles, and its greatest width 500 yards. Land acquired cove, ers an area of 3,200 acres, The dant -oil' be 460 yards long. Water capacity will be 2,500,000,000 gallons and talc- ing the average consumption at 25 gal-, lona per head per day, the reservoir will supply the need.. of 500,000 per- sons. "What sort at a dinner did you get at the Newrlchas?" "Oh, the dinner itself was worthy of their oXtiulence, but the coffee trade one think they hadn't a bean."