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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-12-01, Page 7r +-.- ra.r«. Kp4rr -•-tr +-may «s.•s 0.0-e-* . I -0••-+.-•-•-o-*-*-. Voice of the Press Canada, The Ernpire and The World at Large CANADA British Films Going Strong Most. Canadians aro pleased to know that British -made films improve in quality, and that the British, industry prospers abundantly. We baso this statement upon reports brought back from England by returning Canadians and myon frank admissions published in United States trade journals. Mr. Walter Winger, vice-president of the Columbia Pictures Corporation, inter- viewed by the Film Daily, an influen- tial United States trade organ, is quoted as saying: "It might be well to note that al- though the American industry has made little progress through this period of world depression, enormous profits have been made in England by producers, distributors and exhibitors. Should this situation make us think? Those in control of production do not Seem to realize that there is an entire- ly new world point of view which has to be met in picture product. This changed viewpoint radically affects the type of entertainment that must be furnished, as well as the attitude of the' audience. Artistically, the buss- . ness must improve." The duality of restraint and whole- someness, observable in many Old Country films, is one that,recommends them to Canadian patrons.—Toronto Mail and Empire. of earth raised is a .sort of deposit in thebank which cannot fail, and .on which one OM draw cheques in kind, for the maintenance of 'life fora con- siderable period. Naturally, one has to work lutrd, but the earth is an ex:- ployer which does not stint bread to its workers, ---La Liberte, Winnipeg. Plowman Something Lacking Here The end of the limit seems to have been reached when a man in Montreal was sent to jail for 15 days because he begged a cigarette from a more for- tunate individual. Somehow that rubs heavily against the grain of a normal person. This man certainly was more sinned against than sinning and the citizen who "turned him in" apparently had completely forgotten the Biblical quo- tation, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" while., his_ accoster appar- ently went on the Biblical assumption of "Ask and it shall be given unto you." - If this thing is carried too far we know a great number of office "friends" who will shortly be on the inside looking out!—Kitchener Daily Etecord. The The plowman is the symbol of the countless Hien and women who. have goise before us Wrestling from the soil the means of sustained life and higher aspiration. He is the embodiment of all that is noble in human labor. Some, how; the hands that ha)e guided a plow through the fres]-smelling earth are better for having done so,—Ottawa Citizen. Supported by the Law The British policeman is backed up by the law far mare effectively than officers in some countries: When he makes an arrest there are not a thous- and loopholes in the criminal law by which an unscrupulous lawyer can free his man. There arc not a lot of criminals who go untouched because they' have influence. The British po- liceman very truly represents "the ma- jesty of the law: He does not, as a usual thing, need to carry a weapon with him.—Victoria Times. The Bacon Quota The Ottawa agreements provide for free entry into Britain of 280,000,000 pounds of Canadian bacon "of good quality." "Good quality" means the grade known in Canada has "select." ;=gist. year Canada only produced ore iifth -of the number of hogs required to supply thisquota of "good quality" THE EMPIRE Idle Money If millions of pounds of money stat t to drift out of circulation—as they have been drifting out—and begin to pile up in the banks, clearly the con- sequences, are going to be serious. Fewer goods will be bought becauss the money to buy them. is less by the amount lying unused on deposit, and unemployment must rise. There is no other way of stimulating output and employment at the present time than by getting this money back into circu- lation—London Daily Herald, Dangerous Policy The Japanese see China rapidly dis- integrating before their eyes, and they ask themselves whether their best course is not to strive to save some- thing from the ruins, and to mark out and secure at least one area which they can immunize from the surround- ing contagion? It is a desperate policy, but it is intelligible to anybody who will admit that Japan's interests in China are more vital to her than the interests which the Shanghai defence force was established to protect so short a time ago -Were to England. It is a dangerous policy. Dangerous to Japan, because it tends to revive the bacon). These figures may give those I prestige of the military caste, to not acquainted with the industry some strengthen the waning feudal ideology. Idea of the huge task facing depart- ments of agriculture, packers, breed- ers and farmers if Canada is to take full advantage of this important con- cession. Already an intensive cam- paign towards hog improvement has been undertaken by the departments here :and in Toronto. A revolution within the industry will be required. Breeders are faced -with low prices for bacon in Britain, the exchange and other major considerations but leaders 'In the industry claim the bacon quota can be worked out to the advantage of the Canadian farmer if only sufficient co-operation and good will are shown by all concerned. ---Ottawa Journal. Radio Licenses A total of 544,120 radio receiving licenses 'have been issued by the Cana- dian Government Radio Branch from April 1 to September 30, 1932,. or ap- proximately one to every eighteen per- sons of the population of the Do- minion.—Acton Free Press, Dangerous to civilization, because it creates on more septic focus in. a dis- ordered world.—Round Table, London, Comeback For the Horse The horse will reappear in great force as the motive power for urban and suburban street and road trans- portation, if a certain British organi- zation has its way. That organization, founded to further the interest of the breeder and user of tho horse and Any, 'is known as the National Horse b�issociation of Great Britain At the crequest of various bodies commercial- y interested in the maintenance of arse traffic, it le condueting an active 1. ropaganda for the encouragement of 'ithe use of horses for transport pur- i ' oses, and is meeting with support and o -operation from firms with large de- i versos to make.--Welland-Port Col - berms Tribune. Helpful Reading A fondness for good books doesn't dust happen. It must bo eultivated In labs child, as well as in the adult who 'died not acquire it in its youth or lost it in the •transition from youth to ma - !Wray. Horses with good libraries ;well-read by adult members of. the 'family seldom are the scene of juve- nilo revolt against helpful reading.— Sarnia eading.--Sarnia Canadian -Observer. The World's Banker 'Oven improvident people are com- pelled to be thrifty on the land. They !Oannot in actual fact get in the e -.d . rf their resources, for a hand -Io -mouth ife Is impossible for them, The pro. Os of farming makes the fennel' lace hie invesimcnts in tho sail, 'very improvement to liis .bind 'every igr'ain of seed, every- furrow: even. ed Russian Jewels Part of Legacy cep The principal part of the $1,032,348 in personal property left by Edith Rockefeller McCormick Consists of jewelry, Over 1,700 dia- monds, many pearls and emeralds are shown in. these two pieces. Development of the Ontario Is Letter-Writirtg News despatches. recently told of ut '.of ' ate? the visit of Itis Excellency the Gov. error -General to Guelph to dedicate Publication in England of a new and open formally the magnificent and complete edition of Sir Walter new administration and .: residence Scott's letters, which reveal hint as building of the Ontario Agricultural one of the most prolific missive writ - College. These reports were exceed- ers in the annals of literature, leads ingly interesting, It may be goes- a commentator in The London Morn - tined however, if the public are ing Post to reflect upon the "positive - Agricultural College - Plant Surveys Proposed In Fight on Hay Fever Manhattan, Kan.—Plant surveys of communities as an ail to hay -fever control are urged by Miss Elsa Horn, Kansas State College botanist, who has completed such a project in Man- hattan, a city of 12,000 population. "Only ten of these vitally ,needed. surveys have been made in the Uni- ted States," Miss Hort_ said, "but botanists must take up this work if hay -fever sufferers are ever to get much relief." Three varieties of ragweed; hemp and pigweed were identified in Miss Horn's research as Manhattan's worst offenders among the 250 pos- sible varieties of trees, grasses and weeds which may cause liay fever. She found that 571.8 acres, or 22 per cent of the city, was in weeds. A single acre of ragweed, which grows in profusion in Manhattan, had been found to give off sixty pounds of pollen, the botanist said. In arguing the importance of weed surveys, Miss Horn pointed out that 60 per cent of all asthma is hay fever in its advanced stages. Peace With Honour The time for rapprochement be- tween the Government and the Con- gress will come only when civil dis- obedience is definitely called off, and when there are guarantes which fully satisfy- the Government that there will be no attempt to revive it in any shape or form. Even then, past ex- perience cannot but make the Govern- ment cautious in accepting any over- tures for peace that may come from the other side. India cannot afford to risk a repetition of the disastrous ex- perience that followed the Irwin -Gan- dhi Pact.—Calcutta Englishman. OTHER OPINIONS Home Town Advertising Mr. Merchant, the newspapers from the larger cities near your community are coming into the homes of your own oustomers these days with adver- tising columns bursting with an- nouncements of real values. If you will go to your home town newspaper advertising man he will help you with your advertising prob- lems and make your advertising just as appealing to your customers as the "big city' advertising is. You, Mr. Merchant, have to keep that lead. Local advertising has the jump on advertising that comes in . from the outside, by properly utilizing the home town newspaper columns con- sistently and with careful attention to the preparing of copy.—Kenton, Ohio, News Republican. UNLOVED .. One sorrow only in God's world has birth— are racking their brains to choose To live unloving and unloved on family names for themselves while the earth; Minister of Interior prepares a law to enforce this latest western. reform. Any names may be chosen as long as they are consistent with Turkish customs. Heretofore family names have been non-existent in Turkey, thousands of women being simply "Patimas' ani thousands of men "Mustaphas" or "Husseins." Sometimes men have added names indicating they are the sons of a six -fingered man or a fish- mogner—just for distinction. Names must be chosen within six months after promulgation of the new law. thoroughly conversant with the splen- did work for agriculture being done at that institution, now presided over by Dr. G. L Christie. The year 1813 saw its incep;:ien and on May 1, 1874, the Ontario School of Agric'.lturo was declared open, thirty-one students be- ing admitted. Under but four presi- dents the College has developed, until in all 35,855 students have unrolled, there being an enrollment of 568 stu- dents in the agricultural courses for the season of 1931-32. Since the in- ception of the O,A;C., degree courses have been established and the study of home economics and short courses have been added. The Macdonald Institute, the gift of Sir William Macdonald, was opened in 1903, as a part of the Coll•e.ge for training in. home economics. The Col- ege has also been of inestimable aid to farmers in the selection of test seeds, in fact, a new variety of barley named "nobarb" originated there. The O.A.C. looks also after the registra- tion of beekeepers in ;the province, about 660 apiaries, with, approximate- ly 162;000 colonies, being registered. Much help was giver. by the College in the corn -borer battle, while in the Canadian School of Baking the Trent Institute conducts commercial baking courses and does research and demon - Motors Replace Horses tration wont. Poultry research, soil Of Royal Mounted Police survey, animal husbandry, fruit grow- Winnipeg.—For forty years famed ing, cold storage, grading of milk, killing of weeds and other features throughout the English-speaking world as the Scarlet Coated Riders of the work of the school show the importance of J.A.C. to agriculture of the plains, the Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police at last have in this country. To the Guelph Mer- discarded their horses and taken to cury, which published an attractive the motor car. special edition to nark Iiis Excel - Before there were dirt roads across lency's visit, we are indebted for many the prairies, before the era of the facts concerning this admirable insti- railways, the old Northwest Mounted tution.—Toronto Nlail Empire. carried law enforcement, the Crown's ly appalling number of old letters which have been preserved' in print. "I have heard a famous historian, after his third glass of mellow old port in a college common -room, utter a fervent wish that the celebrities of the past had made it a point of honor to burn all one another's letters," he says. "Seeing that his domain was modern history, even a literary critic could excuse the outburst. Dr. John- ' son wrote 300 letters to Mrs. Thrale, and Disraeli 800 to Lady Bradford, while there are in existence more than 1,000 of Edward Fitzgerald's. "A prodigious mass of correspon- dence has to be examined by experts on this or that phase of eighteenth - century history one of whom has as- sured me that he had read more than a, ton of handwriting, much of which -was crabbed and crossed and very difficult to decipher. And a whole morning's work, he added, spent in thus spoiling his eyesight sometimes failed to provide him with a signifi- cant sentence." However, the author of the article has his doubts as to whether the young swains of today are keeping up the old, gracious custom of writing love letters. "They seem to prefer the tele- phone," he observes, "because, as one young and adequately ardent devotee tells me, 'I'd sooner hear her voice than have to chaff her about mistakes in spelling.' There is something in that, and when television is perfectedt and the lover can hee him beloved as well as hear her,the walls of space and time.will be down between the two neighbors. "Anther swain. insists that the writing of `the old-fashioned love let-' ter' is really a. dangerous practice. `Two people don't see one another for a long time,' he explained, and write scores of letters cracking one another up in the most absurd way. And when they meet again neither comes up to the other's specifications, and the en- gagement is called off.'" justice, into every nook and cranny of Low -Cost Rations for Cows the Western prairies. They did so Economical cow rations that New with the aid of horses and their prow- Jersey dairymen can feed as one step ess as horsemen. Their ability to toward making readjustments to meet travel weeks and months living off the reductions in milk prices are listed in country, cut off completely from a recent statement by E. J. Perry, supply depots, earned for them the extension -service dairynnaxa at the reputation of the greatest mounted New Jersey Agricultural Experiment police force in the world. New meth- Station. Since the cost of roughage ods of crime, new problems of law ar.d grain constitutes from 50 to GO enforcement have changed all this. per cent. of the entire annual expense The photographs and paintings of the of keeping dairy cows, feed is the old scarlet -coated riders, astride their major expense which the owner can horses, is now only a relic of a North- probably reduce with the least difii- west which is gone. cults, Mr. Perry points out. For the dairy farmer who has such home. New Regime in Turkey grown grains as corn, oats, barley or wheat, and plenty of choice alfalfa, Introduces Family Names soybean or clover hay, Mr. Perry re - Istanbul, Turkey.—Millions of Turks commends the following ration as one tl-at is economical and capable of stimulating high production: 1,000 pounds of a 20 per cent. ready -mixed feed and 1,000 pounds of corn meal, corn and cob meal, ground barley, ground wheat or a combination of some •or all of these. This mixture contains 14 to 16 per cent. total pro- tein, amid, fed with good legumes, is a balanced ration. One joy alone makes life a part of heaven— The joy of happy love received and given, Give me the heart that spreads its wings, Like the freed bird, that soars and sings, And sees the bright side of all things, From Behring's Straits to Dover. It is It is It is All a bank that never breaks, a store thief never takes, a rock that never shakes, the wide world over. No Change The many Americans who are con- stant readers and admirers. of Punch had naturally a moment of dismay -- when it was announced the other day that Sir Owen Seaman; who has been the editor for the last 26 years, was about to retire ' But the fears that a new editor might give us a new, twen- tieth-century, wise -cracking Punch, a Punch of studied irreverence and vlll- garity—in the spirit of some of its contemporaries, notably in Germany and the 'United Statese-are happily set at rest, Sir Owen's successor Is likely to be E. G. V. :Knox, the "lavoe" that has long been signed to memo of Punch's most delightful bite of satire and parody in prose and verse.--08- ton Transcript. Never increase discontent by Care - mesa .ee • German Warship at Philadelphia cad Wor tho time prior the world war, a German warship visit - Philadelphia, Seaman Herbort Batslaff of the Cruiser Karlsruhe evidently onjoys the change of Beene. first to Matches 100 Years Old Lighted at Centenary Dogliani, Italy.—Matches 100 years old were used to light candles and cig- arettes at a celebration here in honor of Domenico Ghigliano, their manu- facturer. Dogliani credits Ghigliano, a native evil, with being the inventor .of the sulphur match. Similar claims have been made by others, but Dogliani is so convinced that it has erected a monument to its townsman. The mayor produced the ancient box at a ceremony marking the hun- dredth anniversary of the invention. The first match broke into flame at the second stroke. Other honor guests were allowed to strike the remaining ones, all of which were good. Ghigliano was a poor chemist when he produced his first match. There- after he manufactured them in boxes. South Favors Soy Beans Raleigh, N.C.—North Carolina's greatest agricultural accomplishment in the last 25 years has been to in- crease the acreage planted to soy beans, in the opinion of Mr. C. R. Hudson, who has just rounded out his twenty-fifth, year in farm demonstra- tion work in this State. Mr. Hudson believes that the introduction of the soy bean into eastern North Carolina and its use over the entire State has been of tremendous importance to agricultural development. When Mr. Hudson carne to North Carolina in 1907 his first work was launched in a few counties around Statesville, in the piedmont. From that limited beginning, the county agent system has grown to the point where there are now S0 counties hav- ing farm agents. • Leads in Farm Tree Planting Harrisburg, Pa.—Pennsylvania led the nation in 1931 in farm forest planting, according to the State De- partment of Forests. Of the 25,500,- 000 trees planted on farm forests during 1931 in the United States, Pennsylvania planted 6;000,000 trees. New York was second with 4,800,000, Ohio third with 1,743,000. Fine Imposed For Posters London.—Fines were imposed in two eases recently in courts in Ox- fordshire and Montgomeryshire against individuals who had disfigur- ed the country side by the use of posters along the highways. In both cases court action was taken in this field of lawbreaking for the first time», -- Mexican National Railways Ban Foreign Employees Mexico City.—Indications that the National Lines of Mexico strictly will hold to the letter of the law requiring that only Mexican nationals be em- ployed except in technical and direc- tive posts, were seen in the 'decision on the appeal of a foreign worker. William Barkow, who was employed in the Jalapa, Vera Cruz, shops, ap- pealed his discharge after an accident and asked for indemnity. The Fed- eral Council of Arbitration and Con- ciliation ruled against him, citing in the decision the argument that undo the labor law his post should have been given to a :Mexican citizen. May Sell Cigarettes Singly Rome.—Slot machines to sell single cigarettes to persons who do not wish to or cannot buy a whole package an Leiitg considered by the government tobacco monopoly. "I hear your wife insists on going to Monte Carlo? "Yes, she's read on it. But I put my foot down absolute- ly." "So she's not going alter all?" "Wel not with xxiv con ttit lr Airplane Device Is Teste=l Milan, Italy. — Sucee:ssful test flights have been made heta as all an airplane embodying prig: inks like those of the wind tunnel. Air is forced by a tractor prc.p..il: r through a hollow compartment in t:.es a u •c'..ego narrowing toward the centre and wid- ening again at the rear. TIT itZt.o. is to add to the driving force of the propeller. Population of China Peiping.—The Ministry of tale i.h- terior has announced China's total population as 474,787,380, of when 25,000,000 are under Japauese control in Manchuria, Kiangsu, with 34,- 120,000, is the most densely popuhited province; Ninghsia, with 1,.110,O10, is the smallest. "What Is meant by n squaw,' gambler?" One who never tries to cheat to police Quit of thein rate -at."'