HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-09-30, Page 7THE VALUE OF A FARMER
By Charles
There Is no subjeet w9aieh ehould in-
terest the smaller towns all over Can-
°' edea morethan' the, development of
their rural trading areas to the great -
'est possible extent. A study of tike
Value to Canadtta of a farmer is il-
luminating. It is shown that over 163
million dollars have been brought to
this eountry in cash and effects by
immigrants. This new wealth has
played its pelt in the development of
the country. Prof. Irving tastierme
culates that the productive value of
the average individual to the state is
$3,000. The average .new-born child
has .a money value of $95—the value
increasing to $4,000 by twenty years
and dropping to $2,900 at fifty years of
age, according to accepted calcula-
tions.
W. Pebereau.
total grain Wattage for the year be-
tweeai 1st -of September, 1915, and., the
3ls•t A•ugust,_1916. Tottii for the three
prairie provinces alone i'or the four
classes of revenue above eeferr i i to
wee $163,516,318. In 1916 there were
219,105 farmers in those provinces and
the •clivisiou Of one total by the other
,lylaoes the settler's value at $740.33.
i>„ssuming, therefore, that all traffic
should be credited to the eettler, that
sutra is the average amount each farm-
er put into tle reverie of the railroad.
$746.33 capitalized at 51 tier cent., be-
ing interest Government -is paying on
its Victory Bonds, gives a return of
$13,569.63 --the value of each average
farmer to Canada.
Canada's Vita! Asset.
If we capitalize that portion of the
national income which is ascribable
to human effort it is found to be from.
six to eight times all property values,.
The total amount of life lasuranee in
force is only a fraction of this capital-
ized value. We may, therefore, readily
come to the conclusion that Canada's
"vital" asset is easily our greatest. If
so, it seems to follow that reasonable
public expenditure devoted to the task
of adding to thiteasset by Intelligent-
ly promoting immigration to this coun-
try, must be regarded as an excellent
national business investment, The
immediate benefioiary is the entail
town.
The Traffle Value,
Canadian • railways are vitally in-
terested, in ascertaining the traffic
value of a settler. Some years ao
able statisticians obtained, ae a barbs•,
the percentage of their whole freight
traiflc derived from agriculture
(horses, cattle, steel), pigs, wheat,
oats, barley, :flax) coal, and in and• out-
going passenger revenue, and divided
the number of settlers into the figures
given, Employing statistics' of the
Dominion Railway Commission, the
exact percentages of each of the rail-
ways were worked out, based on the
The Higher Quest.
On the last day that Jesus was in
the temple in Jerusalem, one of his
disciples who had a Greek came, Phi-
lip, was approached by . some Greek
visitors, wile said, "Sir, we would. see
Jesus, It was evidently more than
Idle curiosity that prompted them.
Their request evoked from Jesus an
exclamation of surprising interest:
"The hour is .come, that the Son of
man should be glorified." It was not
this incident alone that was to glorify
Him, and much that was to occur im-
mediately seemed for his humiliation
and not leis glory; but the coming of
these men ca foreign birth was the ac-
casion ot that remarkable utteranoe.
These men had quite possibly seen
the. Parthenon; whether they lived in.
Atens `or not, they were men wo tra-
veled. In whatever part of Greece
they resided they knew the religious
system for which the Parthenon stood.
They may have climbed the Acropolis
and stood within the miracle of Pen -
Care for the Boys.
What can a boy do, and where can a
boy stay,
If he is always told to get out of the
way?
He cannot sit here and he must not
stand there;
The cushions that over that line rock-
ing chair
Were put there, of course, to be seen
and admired;
A boy has no business to ever be tired.
The beautiful roses and flowers that
bloom
tan the floor of the darkened and deli-
cate room
Are not made to walk, on, at least, not
for boys;
The home is no place, anyway, for
their noise.
Yet boys must walk somewhere; and
what if their feet,
Sent out of our homes, sent into the
This E•ski.mo couple on the :,ibs fan coast of the Behring Straits show how they light their igloo by means
of a,n lee window. The bltack of snow standing out from it catches the ra.ys •cf th•e sun and reflects th•em,to the in-
terior, thus giving a degree of natural heat to the .dwelling.
A Test of Courage.
It takes courgae of a none too com-
mon kind to be ridiouloi s for the sake
o fo.eers. I.n her recent. 'at/ferneries called by the discovery at Caerleon
of Ninety Years" the aged English every three p•ers•ons of the population. amphitheater of the inscribed stone
artist, Mrs. E. M. Ward, tells how her The commercial apple crop of Canada, which was part of a road surface in
sett Leslie, then a youth at the sensl- is placed at 3,000,000 barrels. The the middle of the entrance to the
tive age, once rose to a trying occa- Dominion's population is 9,000,000 in "
i arena recently opened up, says The
Enough Apples for Everyone.
In relation to pope etioa Canada and
the United States will each.produ•ce this
year, one barrel of apples far about
Roman Autograph Found on
Ancient Paving Stone.
The survival of an old custom is re -
son. She was abient, and he and his round figures. London Daily Mail," It bears the name
two beautiful sisters, Enid and Eva, t In the United States the apple crap of an officer, Q. (or Quintus) I3',entul-
had been invited by• Lady Otho Fitz- is estimated 'at 40,000,000 barrels. In rum. Presumably, when his men had
scroll to a dance, a very brilliant af- Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New finished 'constructing tbis road—for in
fair, which, in those •Victorian days, Brunswick, the principal fruit grow- a military station like Caerleon all the
the girls could not attend without ing districts of Eastern Canada, the work was done by soldiers—the officer
their brot'her's escort. But his dress apple crop this year is slightly lower `in charge "signed" it by the simple
clothes were being repaired, and when than last year, but is 30 per cent. more i process of carving his name on one of
at the very last moment the boy c tme In 13 a 1s•h Columba th
from the tailor's, it contained the The peoduction in 1926 in British Co- This custom still obtains in the
wrong suit ,and one le,rge enough to lnmbia•will total over 1,200,000 barrels. "Latin countries, where architects, as
hold two of the elfin young iron who A eorasiclerable part of the Canadian any visitor to Paris may observe, sign
gazed upon it in dismay. Naturally, ' apple crop is exported to other coma the buildings they construct, their
he declared be could not .go to the tries where it finds a ready market. names being carved somewhere close
ball, butethe pleas and tears of his die., The fruit is sold principally througih to the door lintel.
m
aPpoted sisters were too much for i co-operative organizations- of fruit: A Roman "road repair" of a very
pini. He surrendered, and went. farmers. •; modern type, too. has just been lis -
a - an a year ago. ' the prominent stones in the road.
• "I had to swallow my pride and en- i
ter the bell -room awkwardly enough," "Cow" Gives Any Flavor ; Caerleon amphitheater. This is a
he used to relate, "as I had buckled of Milk or Ice Cream series of four steps, which some one
i back it •�
street, • ;but with the coat there was nothing to i
telic marble which even. as a battered Should step round life corner and be done but take a lapel under each mel milk, malted milk, stream, fruit -
covered in the small entrance of the
A cow that gives new milkskim-
,c r my waistcoat coat as far as I could,
seems to have thought would improve
� t ,
things Placed back to bacto the
k
APPLES BOLD LARGE
PUCE I14ROD STORY
FABLES? FOLK TALES
AND RECIPES THE'
WORLD .OVER.
Mark the Importance of This`
Fruit to Mankind in
Every Age.
By Helen Buckler,
"Sweet apples, authosmdal, divine
. . "—Thomas Holley Chivers.
A libel suit should have been_ err
tered long ago against the person
who first connected the innocent apple
with mans downfall in Eden. When.
the earliest written records, make no . more eps•cific mention thea of a "fruit'
of the forbidden tree" it scarcely' be-
hooved any later reporter who was
never even near the scene to try to•
add new data. Anyhow, he has never
been able to prove it, and the apple's
continued standing in the affections .
of widespread populations is thewbest
proof of that tasty anaemia's innate'
'worth.
'Phe pagans used to treat the apple
with the proper respect. Whei*ver
they had any gold they wanted soma
god or other to bestow upon someone
they almost invariably had it made in-
to an apple for the lsresentation cere-
mony. `Venus, Juno and Minerva. had
quite a row once, you remember, ever
a golden apple, and there are those
who go so far as to say a pertain fa-'
mous arty finally fell because of that
apple and not at all because Haien
was fair to look upon. Golden apples
were then quite the rage for wedding
gifts.
Nordic Myths.
As for the Nordics, even back as far
as when great Wad,en held forth In
Valhalla they knew all about this ap-
ple a day keeping the doctor away.
Idlhunn, Bragi's wife. had in her pos-
session. the Apples of Perpetual Youth,
and if she had not given the gods a
nibble ever so often they would soon
have been ontolassad by any self -re
specting Viking. Then there was that
apple that Prince Ahmed bought in
far Samaroand. It was a sure cure for
any disorder you could name, from
warts to •deuble pneumonia.
Right down through history, the ap-
ple has done its part. How would New-
ton have ever got famous if that ap-
ruin is one of - the wonders of the } arm and do my best to conceal the ill- flavored milk and ice cream to order is longer flight of steps, which has al- ple had net obligingly fallen off the
pause at the door the remarkable anima for whrah car -
world. They may have seen the image Wheraother boys' feet have oft paused fitting garment—which I c'oulcl haveone else apparently thought the steps; the doughty William Tell would not
of Diana that was said to have fallen before; t folded twice around my body—by hold- . Denten are building a special shed on would be of no use. Anyhow, they have had the press notices he did•, ex
ling it out of sight, board the African steamer•Nigerian in
from heaven, and that rias. -tbe pride Should pass through the gateway' of + were covered over without being used, ceps for an apple. When some Ger-
of Ephesus. In a hundred temples the Herculaneum dock at Liverpool,
D glittering light I After lurking long in _the loci,- and fir time the roadway was con- I man men and women wished to found
This cow never kicks or flicks its tail
they may have seen far more of beauty To hes" jokes that are merry and ground, he summoned courage to ask a in the milker's eye never is seasick, strutted above them a free Masonic society back in 1780
• 1 ready been exposed. And then some tree at Woolesthorpe that day? And
tbau anyone could ebbe- them in Jerus-
alem.
They had seen imperial Rome. If,
songs that are bright,
Bring out a warm welcome with flatter-
ing voice,
they had net visited the Eternal City And temptingly say, "Heave's a place
itself, they bad at least seen abundant for the boys."
Manifestation ot bei authority. In her
. various subcapitais and colonies the 0, what if they should? What if your
Roman spirit displayed its power and boy or mine
majesty. If mereerespect for order, Should cross o'er the threshold that
if reverence for governmental organa- marks out the line
zation., could have satisfied, these men 'Twixt virtue and vice, 'twist pureness
laid not been where they were or seek- and sin,
ing what they sought. And leave all his innocent boyhood
They had seen nature. They bad within?
traveled by bind and sea and had O. what if •they should, because you
looked upon ocean and volcano along- and I
the Mediterranean coast. While the days and the months of the
And they had seen the temple in years hurry by
Jerusalem. They were not Mere Gen- Are too busy with cares and with life's
tiles. They were probably what are fleeting joys
known as "proselytes of the gate." To make round our hearthstone a place
They had turned their backs an poly- for the boyst
theism and had learned the beauty of .
the moral la'iv. There's a place for the boys. They'll
But they were not satisfied, And find it somewhere;
Jesus felt that their desire to see Him And if •our own homes are too daintily
was prophetic of the dawning faith of fair
other mon of like spirit. Far the touch of their fingers, the
The map of to -day has seen" what - tread of their feet,
men never saw before. He has seeu They'11 find it, and find it alas, in the
nature subdued and brought under the street,
• hand of man as none of his forbears 'Mid the gildings of sin and the glitter
'has beheld it. He has seen the span of vice,
of ilfe lengthened, and the whole And with heartaches and longings we
course, of history changed. He has pay a dear price .
seen space explored and mysteries re- For the getting of gain that our. life-
vealed. Ile has witnessed the spread time employs,
of intelligence and the growth of be If we fail to provide a good home for
vontian. But his heart is not satisfied..
The better instincts of human life still
seek for something beyond material
progress. Men need now as they never English "Windjammers"
needed tilen peace, joy and righteous-
ness. In their hearts they seek Jesus.
the boys.
—raw ---
"Safety First" Lighting Schemes.
Fast Disappearing
The old sailors' chanty, "Blow, Bug-
les, Blow," was heard for the last tinge
aboard one of England's few remain-
ing windjammers this week when, af-
Certain standards of lighting 1n 'fee- ter an abseeoe of three and a half
tories and offices are enforced by law years, the drilling ship Monkbarn
In several American States; it is docked• in the Thanies after a ninety-
.0/aimed that this bas lied to a decrease nine -day voyage from Rio,
in the cumber of aocideuts to work- With the sale of this old windjane
ere. icer to a Norwegian whaling company
ingland has lett only four fully rigged
saeliiig sillies. One of these is expect-
ed In the -Thames this month ' after
piaughing the seven seas for eighteen
months, and another is lying in an
American port, The passing of the
Monkbarn from the red ensign is
mourned chat only, by the shellbacks,
but by marry officers of great liners
'who graduated aboard her before "talc-
ing steam,"
Sandwich Meal.
'1cnrist---"Orr steamer stopped at
t Idonolulu for only a f$w hours, but 1
went ashore .and had lunch."
1Prienti--• "What did you have?"
Tallest --- "a4 • san41110h meal, of
cores."
.&t
Jasper 'Thrives,
The town of Jasper, in Jasper ItTae
tional park, Alberta, is rapidly, grow-
ing. Tha Canadian National Railways
have built fifteen new bungalows of
an attractive character; .local reef-
dents are :oleo erecting good ,houses,;
and on the business street several new
stores hag's been put ftp whieh are of
a pleasing appearaaice,
pretty be for a dance, and she, to her': never dry, and can be milked bya r _._ __ _♦ I they thought the best name they could
credit be it said, after her - first in -I marine engineer in mid-Atlantic gia'•e it would be the "Order of the
voluntary glance of astonishment had British Cam fl Ankl 1 Green Apple Probably they were
eyes of the ballroom as his partner. 1 farm. All the Nigerians cow needs t Traveling hnvesti a ors o aim the
knew there is nothing better.
is a diet of milk powder; fresh butters English women have notoriously fat
�Thts was consoling, and for a few'England has cu.tiv�ated the apple
moments he was able to forget bis aw- and a ']rink of water. The milk is • ankles, even the young woman losing
i claimed to be as rich and fresh as that ell beauty lines on that portion of her i ever since the Romans got out of the
fol clothes b t l i 1 i`
11 well as by a milkmaid on a Cheshire ; Camouflage
es.
evoked ' an explanation, braved the I • i used to eating them with salt and •
u h s qua ms retu ned a from any dairy cow, although she
hundred -fold when his hostess sudden- oaks like an electric machine.
ly summoned him to be presented to
the Prince Imperial. He never knew
what he said, but he guessed all too
well how he looked as, swathed in
those gigantic trousers and with a coat
lapel tucked under each arm, he evade
his bow to royalty!
While lumber and pulpwood are the
chief forest products of Canada there
are numerous minor products of large
value. Fire wood, ' fence posts and
rads, railway ties, cooperage. stock,
telephone and telegraa poles, mining
timber, tanning materials and other.
miscellaneous products form an Im-
portant item, .largely for bame oon-
sumption.
vvEla. TAKE I BEAR
YOU'RE IN THE
AVlAtIbel toRPSI
AREN`T You
1 AFRAID of
FALLtN
It Is Dangerous-
-To leave a child to choose his re-
ligion without some guidance.
-To leave politics to those who
want to make money out of It.
---To give a man leisure if he does
not know how to use it.
—To give a boy money faster than
he learns how to spend it.
—To train a child in the table man-
ners and leave him in ignorance of
how to earn bread.
—To allow any man to think the
community owes him something he
has not earned.
—To aliow free speech to those whs.
have nothing to say.
ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES
HA-HAlavate AN AIRPLANE
tS 3115T AS SAFE AS A
BAT IT OVER SIX MON
MONTHS
AND HAVEN'T GOT A
SCRATCH
anatomy early in life 1!, indeed, she I canntr 3. Was it Sir I •enelm Digby,
ever had that treasure in her posses- or same other good seventeenth cen-
sion. So en inventive• designer over ! tury gourmet, who used beamingly to •
announce midway the dinner party,
there has brought out camouflaged ,. There's pippins and cheese to
hese, the clever feature of the. World I
War being used to help the English s` come•!"? There's. host a respectable
woman make her ankles appear to be ?English garden to -day that • does not
less huge and unwieldy than they real -
crucified
its espalier or its fancy dwarf
Iy are, and the wise inventor claims, crucified on the sunniest side of the
wall.
with confidence in his advertising, his
new hose will make the fattest ankle
Universally Popular.
appear trim, sylphlike and graceful. When has the apple not been intl.
The art of camouflage is wrought by mate in the life of man? .Charred re -
hand painted shadows on either side mains of the fruit have been found in
of the ankle, making longitude appear the mud• of the lakes inhabited by the
pronounced while breadth of beam is lake dwellers in prehistoric times. In
made to appear less than it really is. • digenous to Anatolia and to northern
-- �. Russia, where has the hardy globule
Searchlights on Lifeboats, < not put forth to -day- Perhaps there
Searchlights that can be attached aro none in .Iceland or oentral Africa,
to lifeboats are now on the market. i but Siberia has a good crop, and so
ea ...- has Trandhjem, Norway, and 'Tes-
mania.. The small wild crab, pyrus
inalus, has been cultivated and cross.-
` " ed and grafted and budded Into ne less
DEeloGS fel A Lt)cKY
GuY ANYHOW. 1 CcuLDN'T
FALL IF I TRIED --
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(Cotrytight, 1614 by rho 0,11 :3y,ulu i,, tut)
than 2,000 varieties.
It is the favorite fruit of the tem-
perate zone. A durable product that
lasts the year around and loses none
of its goodness, the apple is as diverse
in its uses es its role was versatile in
fable and history. It is, perbaps.,
never better than wben eaten raw
• from the hand. But it submits gra-
{ ciously to stewing, baking, awing and
preserving. (Fortunately, in these
clays of refrigerated freight, it is set-
done longer dried). Cider is the unique
drink an Normandy farms, and the re-
sidue fees the cattle. The apple is
even used in medicine, one authority
telling of its employment in laxative
syrups and for maturative poultices.
Calming infusions have been made of
ft, and it bas been praised• for "high •
fevers, for biliousness and even for la
melanebolte.
Freedom of the Press (1644).
1 carnet praise a fugitive and clots -
lend virtaeunexercised end 'um
breathed, that never sallies out and
1 :teas her adversary, but slinks out of
the race, where that immortal garland
Is to be run for, not without dust and
heat. , . Give me the liberty to
know, to utter, and to argue freely
according to conscience, above all
liberties.. . And though all the
winds of doctrine were let loose to
pay upon the earth, so truth be in that
field, we do injuriously by licensing
and prohibiting to miedoubt her
strength. Lt her and falsehood amp -
pie; who ever knew truth pat to the
worse, in a free and open encounter?
Her confuting is the best and sures'
suppressing,—Milton (Aoropagitica):