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Zurich Herald, 1932-11-17, Page 3„.�._.�-•_--:, . „�.,.._,.+-.-.-..mow,-.,.+-r w�•+�a�rrr•��r Voice o + Canada, The Empire and The World at Large ... build shacks by and for the unemploy- ed, The paper signs he now uses must be small or they will be taken to heli; start the kitchen lire,—Canadian Inde- pendent, CANADA Aid For Tobacco Growers Tobacco growers in south-west On- tario will be pleased to learn that the disaster which threatened them will be averted, largely if not entirely, through the. assistance of the previn- cia Department of Agriculture, e Minister, Col. Kennedy, has devised a plain for co-operation in the marketing of the flue -cured product. It will be graded, processed and packed in Bogs - heads for sale when demand restores pr'ces to a profitable level. In carry- ing out the plan the co-operation of to- bacco warehouses throughout the pro- vince will be sought. The Growers' Association will be strengthened so that it mai be a more powerful factor in the marketing of the crop. If neece- ary a siiecial representative may be sent to England to look after the dis- posal of the crop there. The plan does not involve assistance from the Gov- ernment, but its success depends upon the co-operation of all concerned.-- Toronto oncerned:- Toronto Mail and Empire. THE EMPIRE. ,The London Hunger- Marchers, Where do the orders for this cam- paign come from? And whence conies the money ,by which it is so amply financed? Not from"Organized labor be the' country; that is certain. At the Trade Union Headquarters there is no • sympathy with the attempt to exploit difficulty and distress, especial- ly by the way of "hunger marches,”— London Morning Post (Cons.). Brighter Outlook King Cotton is resting a little more easily now .with Europe back in the cotton market in something like her • old form, _ which means that the European textile industry anticipates a greater demand and higher prices for cotton, due to improved business conditions. The cotton states are elat- ed. U.S. cotton shipments the last two month were approximately 60 per cent. greater than the exports .for the cor- responding two months of 1931, and Europe made up for a loss of more than 150,000 bales in the Far East demand.—Fredericton Gleaner. The Currency Problem. To raise world prices is an urgent need; to put wholesale prices in sterl- in,-,' on a remunerative level is a cruel al part of that need. While the former task was beyond the power of the Conference, the latter could be attemp- ted by it, and its decisions have taken this task a long way toward accom- plishment, What remains to be done within the compass of Empire effort can now be readily achieved.—Auck- land Weekly News. Age and Youth. The Value 'of Mixed Farming. Th.:- great lesson of the crisis is the utter condemnation of one -crop culti- vation. If the objection is made that • 'beasts, poultry and dairy products are not fetching a better price than wheat, they do at least contribute in great pleasure to balance the farm budget by reducing theexpe: se account. Our farming population must learn to be self -sufficing. The immense progress achieved in this direction will be very profitable and may avert other crisis et the kind through which we are now passing. --La Liberte, Winnipeg (Ind.). Unnecessary Deaths. Dr, William 3. Mayo believes that mankind is ioniing appreciably nearer 'day ;w en there. will be no "un-. of:a- • s na'li d ill, so unbelievably hard to bear; the., death of a young man who has just begun to show promise of great achievement; the death of one who has just ;reached the, height of his powers and who hasea fine work to do; the death of a loved person with whom. one:has just started to explore the inexpressible richness' of human devotion—these are the tragedies that darken life the most. If we could once know that death could be made to wait until its season had conte, its fin- ' al arrival would not look so appalling. And it is this fair prospect which Dr. Mayor has held • out to do.—Victoria Times. .. Rider awl Mount Injured Taking the air. With front and tear sadly out of line Girofies, ridden by Bliss rlaccus of New York, sails High over the barrier to crash at the far side. Flames was injured, too. Speed of Air Transport Brings Strange Cargoes to London Airport irport Royal Christmas Cards• Each year there is keen interest throughout the Empire in the Christ - Royal family. • This year the Ring's card shows Sir. Francis Drake explaining to Queen Elizabeth one of his navigation pro- jects. Her Majesty and the Princess:. Royal chose beautiful garden scenes. On the Prince of Wales' card is a re- presentation of London Bridge in 1860; Among the many problems which are perplexing tho thinking world to- day is the great misunderstanding which exists between Age and Youth. Age and Youth have never understood each other, but, now, in the year 1932, they seem to be more at daggers •drawn than ever. It is very sad, but I think the cause is not very difficult to discover. Age wants to thrust its exp..rience unconditionally upon Youth, and Youth will not accept :t. We live in an age of many doubts and misgivings, and we cannot bring ourselves to accept what "Our Elders" have- experienced for year; without first proving that experience to be true by experiment of our own—human na- ture is made that way.—Mrs. Hew Waldrop in Chamber's Journal (Edin- burgh) . Unemployment. Each improvement in the tech- nique of production, each miracle in new machinery, whether on the land or in industry, means a smaller de- mand tor labor. Because we have no rational means of distribution, because we regulate production, not according to real demand, but according to the individual capitalist's chance ot mak- ing a profit, we release this labour without supplying its needs. We call these released workmen "unemployed" because they have leisure without the means of enjoying it. The unemploy- ed who have the means and the edu- cation to find occupations which do not add to the material wealth of the world, we call the leisured class.—New Statesman and Nation (Lonclon).. Hindenburg. Thanks, Thanks for all things good and True for me and good for you, Recreations of the mind, Which in noble books we find, Sympathetic, kindly frienc Never seeking selfish ends. Thanks for precious leisure We may use in works sublime, m Minutes snatched from rest and play true, time with old St. Paul's in the distance; Helping cripples on their way, while the Duke and Duchess of York 1 Giving from loves store a feast will send to their friends a stirring c:a i To the humblest and the least. picture cf the old days when full-rig- ged sailing vessels plied the ocean routes. These cards are beautifully executed, and reveal the good taste of the Royal family in selecting suitable media for conveying to personal friends tiie good wishes of the Yule- tide season.—Toronto Globe. - Canadian Icebreaker Ends Blue Eyes Vanishing Better Rail Outlook. There is a considerable signific- ance attached to an official inspec- tion of the Pere Marquette lines in Canada this week. A year ago the annual visti of the officials was can- celled for financial reasons. As the officials look over the division with the idea of making improvements there was little use in coming last year, when funds were low and the outlook dim for revenue increases— St, Thomas Times -Journal. Oil paintings, valued at thousands ofI the aotual ail transport times for up, pounds, going out by air to exhibl- gent parcels, compared with thaw of tions;. radio tubes consigned to the the fastest surface routes, are given iu Royal Palace at Bucharest; pump -fit- such typical cases as Cairo, Bagdad, bags for a plant at the Suez Canal; Karachi and Nairobi: Cairo, by air, 3 speolal gas masks being rushed out to day, by surface 8 to 15 days; Bagdad, light an obstinate lire in mines in In- by air 4 days, by surface 37 days; div; spare parts for a motor car part -y Karachi, by air 6. days, by surface 19 to stranded in Africa; consignments of 25 days; Nairobi, by air 7 days, by sur - cut lowers being rushed to the Lon- face 26 days, don markets; day-old chicles and hatch- "In comparing air charges for par- ing�eggs for Germany, Russia, Ru- Gels or urgent packages with those by mania and other destinations abroad. surface transport one must of course Such air -freight consignments, picked remember; an official of Imperial Air - trate the variety of the loads `which speed has to be paid for, and that time now pass through the London airport. is money. Bearing this in mind, the At present from sixty to eighty tons air fees now charged, in comparison of urgent merchandise, inward or out- with surface rs, Pffer elear u ward bound, are handled at Croydon for money in viateew of the time savedvale. every week. The air charge for a two -pound parcel In addition to th growth of air from Loudon to Cairo is, for example, freight on Continental routes the de- 4/3d. For a similar parcel by the f st- velopment of Empire air links has led est surface route, via France, the to a rapidly increasing volume of postal charge Is 2/6d. The air journey goods traffic from London to Egypt, saves five clear days. Iraq, India and Africa, and the time- "The value of air transport lies not savings of these long-distance airlines anly in its speed. A great advantage may be judged from the fact that from is the lessened risk of damage in tran- five to twelve days are saved to Egypt, sit, or of pilferage when a consign - as compared with surface transport, went is air -borne; and for this reasan and as much as a month to Bagdad, insurance rates are cheaper by air while to India the saving is a fort- than by other forms of transport. night and to Africa approximately Many valuable pictures and works of three weeks.' In the table herewith art are now consigned by airway." starting with the left thumb, and issue the eonnmand: "You must be complete- ly relaxed and languid by the tithe 1 have counted up to three." Then count in a determined, slow tempo: "One . two ... three." Next, back to the index finger, and so on, to the tenth. If necessary, start again from the beginning. One must invent for each linger a different phrase for re- laxation so as to finally fall asleep of weariness. Fatiguing mental activity will crowd out all brooding thoughts. The eyelids become heavy simultan- enously and the body completely re- laxes. Sleep has come. A. French physician comes forward with the theory that people suffering from insomnia will sleep better and be in a much better condition the next day, if they sleep with the head to the north and the feet to the south. Mag- netic agnetic currents, he maintains, flow from the north to the south, and will thus pass easily and freely through the bode and produce quiet and rest. It they pass across the body he believes they will ..ause nervousness and irri- • tation, prevent sleep, and produce a feeling of restlessness and lassitude' the following day. A United. Press dispatch from Paris • says that as a result of this doctors statement, `llP,sexa.hot ls g ' h q"T�°e sic 'ed' with requests position of their hotel beds to run a north -south direction, and gliests'- have expressed themselves as having been greatly benefitted in their sleep through the new position." Activities of Russian Emigres Theme of New Moscow Films iiIoscow.—Anti-Soviet activities of Russian emigres in Paris, Prague and other foreign centers provide the theme for two new films here, one already under production and the other in. preparation. Under the title "Gorguloff Affairs" —the late Paul Gorguloff, assassin of the French President Doumer be- ing used as a type of white Russian emigre—one film company will re- lease a sensational picture of the plots, intrigues and crimes of the Soviet Union's Russian enemies abroad. The other picture, not yet titled, will be made from a scenario being written by Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian novelist, recently returned here after years of foreign residence. Thanks for the unceasing shower Of experience hour by hour, For maturity of soul, Self-effacement, self-control," For the least desire to be Filled with patient charity. -A. B. C., in Tit -Bits. Patrol of Hudson Straits Quebec, Que.—The government ice- breaker N. B. McLean, which "has been carrying on patrol service and doing convoy duty in Hudson Straits during the summer arriVed here last week. The vessel had on board a number of passengers, including seine members of the Geological Survey staff who have been working in the Hudson's Bay region, and several wireless operators who have been in the north for the last two yea e,e: The McLean rescued the crew of the grain -laden steamer 'Bright Fan, which sank in Hudson Straits. Tlie most precious life in the battle- ground of European politics today is the life of Field Marshal President von Hindenburg. He stands like a rock in the no man's land of German politics. National sentiment, pride and prestige centre round the aged president, who was eighty-five on Sunday. He holds back the chaos, anarchy and revolu- tion which would fall upon the afflic- ted Fatherland. He is Carlyle's con- ception of a man. Hindenburg .is a monarchist who is holding up a totter- ing republic. He is a great military chief who is keeping the peace. He is a statesman amidst an army of politicians. He has won by sheer in- tegrity of character the respect of mil- lions of his one-time enemies. If Hin- denburg drove up Piccadilly he would have a thundering reception.—Every- man, London, Mother Earth. Agriculture has made our province what it is; it is to agriculture that she owes her greatness; it is in our country districts that we find the fin- est specimens of manhood, and it is here also that the traditions of our race are the best preserved. Many townspeople today seem to forgot that it was in the country that their an- . cestors lived and as soon as they as- sume the superficial polish of the towns, they do not wish to remember that if they go back one or two gen- erations they will find themselves des- cended from peasants, the brothers of those whose needs they now seem entirely to ignore. --:-"La Tere de Chez Nous," St. Jerome. All Set For, Thrift Week An insurance man walked into a lunch -room and,. taking his place on one of the vacant stools, ordered bread and milk. The fellow sitting on the next stool asked: "On a diet?" "NO. Commission." — Christian Register. Short Story. . We always clid admire brevity such as this: "A California man had a quarrel with hie wife. The bullet lod- ged inx his neck..'—Stretford Beacon - Herald. Ithaca, N.Y. — Dark -eyed people "drive out" blue eyed people when the two types mix, it was shown in experiments described. by Dr. G. P. Fretz, of Rotterdam, Holland, at the recent Genetic Conference. True blue eyes are comparatively rare, he said, for most "blue" eyes contain more or less brownish -black or yel- low pigment. Brownish eye color dominates over blue or yellow when the two are mingled, and, yellow dominates over blue. Thus in.. countries like Can:: adv and the United States where dark and blue-eyed populations are mingling there would be a tendency for the blue eyes to disappear, ac- cording cording• to Dr. Fretz's rule. Somebody Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend In need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, "'Tis sweet to live"; Somebody said, "I'm pleased to give"; Somebody fought a `valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that "somebody" you? Insomnia Routed By German Doctor Noises, Immoderate Eating, Worry, Anger, Etc., All Enemies of Sleep Germany is especially a land of un- rest nrest in these days, and a German physician, Dr. Marloth, gives his fel- low countrymen some advice in Re - clam's Universum (Leipzig), on how to go to sleep. Dr. Marloth is not attempting here to treat the abnormal, prolonged in- ability to sleep which, in most cases, he says, is the result of either, a physi- cal or mental ailment, and requires medical treatment, but he confines himself to cases of occasional sleep- lessness. His points may be listed as follows: Makes 130,000 Error London. ;They are laughing at a story of a mistake by the Bank of Eng- land. It seems a woman wrote to the Bank wondering how she had sud- denly become credited with some £30- 000, her investments have been a tiny fraction of that sum. Investigation showed that a clerk had copied into her account the serial number at the top of a folio AMERICAN. Co=operation Needed. New York banks have refused to lend the city any more money. The tragedy of New York's case is that it could have been prevented. One ad- mires heroic.and drastic remedial ac- tion once a crisis of this nature is reached. But one could admire infin- itely more the type of government and the kind of management that never condones practices which produce such crises. It did not require a world. depression to reveal New York's short -comings. They have been mani- fest there, as similar conditions have been manifest elsewhere, to those citi- zens who took time to examine the facto and make suitable protest. But it requires co-operation by the whole body of taxpayers if remedial action is to be achieved, That the depression is actually forcing thee taxpaying pub- lic to take an intelligent, even though tardy, interest in this whole problem of public finance is one ot its few Compensations.—Providence Journal. l q l Good Business. • By running cheap excursions to Mon- treal and Boston the railways are cer- tainly putting one over on the auto- mobile these days and are finding it good Business. The excursion froth Saint Jelin to Boston Last week was a decided success. Upwards of one thou. ,,sand people made' the trip.—P"rederic- ton Mail. Sign Worries. A. Montreal realtor says he cahoot . use wooden signs as they are taken to Burn. Tin signs aro taken to help Also Shirt and Tx'ousers. What Gandhi needs is a thick steak. Lt some mashed potatoes and gravy, of t biscuits, some baked beans with o - Mato sauce, and a large wedge of apple pie a' la Mode.---Indianap lis News. • Never say the world is grow ng wicked without asking, "De 1 help or or hinder?" - Harold Lloyd's Father Weds Again 1. Insomnia may be caused by vari- ous noises which assail our ears while we are trying to fall asleep. If the noises -ean not be overcome, removal to a quitter location is indicated as the remedy. 2. Immoderate eating, or drinking before going to bed frequently causes indigestion and inability to sleep; and should be avoided. 3. Some rouse themselves artificial- 1y g without being aware of it by 'read- ing exciting stories in the evening, or even in bed. 4. Some indulge in various amuse- ments which excite the imagination. This is particularly true of people with delicate nerves. • Any such excitement tends to drive sleep away. . 5. Much harder to remedy perhaps impossible, are the innumerable men- tal causs of wakefuluess, such as wor- ry, grief, anger, or other troubles, which frequently overcome the ner- vous and turn occasional sleeplessness into a chronic condition. 6. The best general sleeplessness conditions some mode of living. 7. Other aids are cold rubbing, light exercises, or a warm or cold bath, ac- cording to the habits of each indi- vidual. 8. One may read in bed until he is so tired that his eyes close, if, the book is not of an exciting nature. 9. Others may exercise themselves by gymnastics in the evening until they are tired enough to go easily and na- turally to sleep. 10. In any case, it is absolutely- in- expedient to take narcotics in a hap- hazard manner to cairn the nerves. 11. The well-known devices of count- ing sheep jumping over a fence, or thinking of a waving corn -field with the wind blowing over it, usually have little effect because they are too monotonous to crowd out of the mind the various thoughts that prevent sleep. 12. A much better method is to lull oneself to sleep by means of so-called "auto -suggestion.' In order to obtain the desired effect by this means, the person must place his body in a posi- tion of relaxation, by a slight bending of the back, arms, and legs- the so- called middle position between bend- ing and stretching. This is the typical . position we assume in going to sleep normally The more conscious we are of assuming this position of repose, the quicker shall we fall asleep. In addition to It, however, we need some will -power. For instance, although 1 counting up to ono hundred and more offers more diversion than the sheep or the corn -field, the act of counting is too mechanical to produce an effect in wornout trails of thought. More volition is needed, as in solving pie- zies, which at the same time diverts and tires. According to the psycholo— gical law of sleep, it is only by means of diversion, determination to toil men- tally, and fatigue, that one may teach the goal. 13. One of the most effective meth- ods of producing fatigue IS as follows First, assume the previously described position of relaxation. Then relax the .. mn3cles of each finger separately. Be- gin a' conversation with the Angara, I Intimacy One of the charms of an intimacY between two persons•of different sexes is that the man loves the woman fir qualities he does not envy, and the wo- man appreciates the man for qualities she does not pretend to possess. .ras�'� ���L��.��yw Y'• remedy for is a whole - New Haven Commuters To Get Breakfast Car Westport, Conn.—A New York rail-; way has added a breakfast car on to; its morning train to New York. The1 car was designed by a commuter, who was forced to go without his breakfast one morning and became, hungrier and hungrier on the ride to New 'York. The car will have the appearance: of a swanky cafeteria and will carry, a variety of breakfast foods to satisfy, the desires of even the most finicky commuter. Each rider will serve him self from the counters and there will be no tipping. In the evening, the car will be put on •a train to New; Haven and will supply coffee and, sandwiches. A latter of introduction started it—and now ]Harold Lloyd, screen ';i;rn, has a new stepmother, Miss 'HelMarshall, h ars yViiinia so. tY scomcui and stage actress, arrived in Hod yw go -. made a lite with J. 'ii. Lloyd, Harold's father. 3 Lessons For 2 Cents Vienna.—Educational courses for, the unemployed are being arranged; during the coming winter by the lead ing adult educational institutions, the "Volksheim" and the "Wiener Volks bildungsverein," at prices within the' reach of the poorest. The charge per lesson works out at five groschen, or about seven -tenths; - of a cent. The curriculum includes' grammar, English, Freneh, Russian,` and other -subjects. Special arrange•; ments have been made with the auth aides whereby these courses can be; given in the morning, which not only; means that the students will be taught' at the time when they are most alert, but also that they will be assured of a warm room during the Gold wetul't4e ,