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Zurich Herald, 1926-11-11, Page 7PLEASING THE PALATE Important Part Played by the Eye. It Is a curioue fact that yellow but- out of a tumbler, But it is diiileuit ter, dellemore readily than white but- to understand exactly 'why this should ter, he eo. The tea and the beer and the Yet most people know quite well wine are the same, surely, however that pure butter, as the dairyman first they may he drunk, obtains it, is not usually very yellow; I rather thinrk that the truth is that Often it is. white. The yellow color Is pleasure, in any of its forms, is a frequently an addition made, in some much more complicated business than harmleas way, to please the public eye most of us suppose, Vlore is a men - writes a doctor in the Edinburgh Even- tel side to pleasure as well as a physl- bag despatch, cal side. 1 say most people know all this, and, Even the food we eat must, if we aro knowing it, still go on craving for to enjoy it, tempt ourminds as well what is, in a sense, a faked article, as our palates. We must 'see it is The- idea of yellow buttercups grow- something attractive and 'delightful ing in lush mesidews Is too much for before we eat it, Then, and only, then, us. At any coat, even at the cost of can we, in the common phrase, "bring self-deception, _ we must . have these our minds to it." buttercups on our tables. It is the mental vision of the butter - Exactly the same thing applies to, cups which make's the yellow butter whiskey, which, as is generally real- so appetizing; it .is the yellow barley, ized, is a "white" spirit. Someone, I ripo under the autumn sun, which believe, once put a white whiskey on gives the whiskey so alluring an ap- the market—that is to say, pure whis- pearance. In the same, way a pretty key. It was a hopeless failure. tea or dinner table makes the tea or The Value of Charm. dinner served on it "taste twice as The yellow fields or ripe barley seem good." to be in the Mind's eye of every- whis- I think, sometimes, that we would key drinker. And so all whiskey is do'well to remember this oftener than. artificially colored yellow. we do. Trouble spent on the appear - One feels inclined,, when reflecting 'ince •of food, on the way it is served on these facts, to laugh at human na- and the way it is "put on," is not Mee. But I am not so sure that such trouble wasted. On the contrary, not laughter is justified. There may be to take trouble is to waste Toad by more sense in this craving for color making it appetizing. It is, I am than is generally realized, convinced, the meal we enjoy which For example, it is a fact that, in the nourishes us most, . -dark, port wine- and sh•erf'' taste ex- Every meal, indeed, should charm aetly alike, so that even people ex- by its setting and by its serving, just perienced in wine -tasting cannot tell as much as it charms by its taste. Only which is which. Yet, in the light, port so can the full powers of cligestion be tastes entirely different frames -berry. called into play. Is it the color which makes the dif- In saying this I am not defending feren•ce? And, if that is so, are we en- the use of coloring matters in food. I tithed to say that the sense'of taste is dislike all coloring matters and wish not confined entirely to the mouth, but they could be avoided. What I am try - is spread, also, over all the other ; ing to ,make clear is. that the demand senses? I for these colorings shows how eager Again, it' -is true enough that few i we all are to eat with our minds and people like to Bring beer out of a tea- our instincts as well as with our cup or tea out of a beer -mug, ar "ivine mouths. �Y NEW ZEALANDERS control *of industry, to whichalt has been accustomed, that it should be gg''aa��gv pipg aaa111�ry,TTs���+,•ia suitably rewarded ata fixed rate for TRY PROFITS A 1NG use and risk, and that after payment 11 ill ltl�1 of wager, salaries, materials, hire of capital, and all other costs of produce tion, the surplus profits, if any, after providing for the usual reserves, should be divided between the con- tributers of •serelce, from the unaue•g- ing director to the office boy, in pro- L,a bor to Receive Part of Re., portion .to the value- of the service rendered. It is contended that under the scheme embodied in the Empowering gestin experiment to act the great latent reservoir of po- A highly interesting tential production, that of personal in - taking place in New Zealand, a coun- Ceritive, will be successfully tapped try 'which has in the past been the through the absolute identity of the in - horse of so much advanced• social, and terests of the, employee and the cow industrial legislatign. As a result of pany, that the human instincts far jus the traditional differences .between tree will be satisfied, and that the the two partners in industry, capital worker will gain an insight into the and labor, and the wasteful effect on• control and. problems of industry, the A HIGHLY INTERESTING SCHEME EXPLAINED. venues of Industry Under New Experiment. the community of recurring stakes, unde'rs'tanding of which is one` of the the :government has placed on the sta- • main factors in the deve_oof of tion of the Department of Scientific tute book an not entitled the .tom- spirit of responsibility, enlightened and Industrial Research. Should they the pauses empowering act; 1924, which , interest and true co-operation. be, fruitful, it is possible that many of enables•any'limited company, on tit ' • these lighthouses will spring up No Par Value to Shares. around Britain's coasts in the near .ing me ora neceof as authority in us Mr.Vaider's ideas are, of course, the future, memorandum of associations, to issue what are khown as "labor" shares to all employees Koyo-Maru, Japanese oil,,tanker, caught fire, following an explosion at the Yokohama dockyard, were killedand many injured seriously. Lightless Lighthouses. Experiments are now being carried out by the British Government to test the efficiency of a new wireless "light- house" which, if it meets with the suc- ces.e anticipated, w 11 not only super- sede the foam of lighthouse at present in use, but will materially add to the safety of seafaring men during fogs and storms. It consists of a revolving wireless wheu two ARCTIC ISLANDS POLICE PAT1OL Labor of Autho$hip. David Liv;bngatolie said': "Those *'ISO have nevem carried a beeit tlhrOnigii the prsrt";i, matt form Do idetr of'tlie amount of toll it inevives. The process' alas Ln- creasvd my respect for authors a thcu- sandfold, 1 think 1 woad rather cross. the African continent again than u -L- deet ete to write another book, "^"For the s•batiottcs of the negro population of South, Ain'erlea; alone," £lays Robert Dale Owen, "1 esseanh ped more than a atimerea acid fifty vol - U news," Another author tells us that be wrote .paragra,ples and whole pages of hits book as many as fitey tremae. It is 'said of one of Lomgfe;1o'ci poems that it was written in four weeks, but that he spent six months ft. eora^ecting a.nd cutting it down„ But» veer declared that he had rewriters• soave of his briefer produotions as many as eight or nine times' before thole publication, One of T. uyson:s precool was re- written fifty tiines. John Owen wasp twenty years on his "Commentary ou the Epistle to the Ifebrews"; Gibbon, on his "Decline• and Pall,' twenty years; and Adam Clark ;oar hie "Codri- men. any," twenty-six years, Carlyle spent fifteen years on kris "Frederick tee Great," A great deal of time is consumed in reading before some books are pre - eared.. George Eliot read 1000 books before She wrote "Daniel Deronda." Alison read 2000 books before he ca>mple•ted his .history. It is said of another that he read 20,000 and wrote only two books. Thousands of Miles Covered by Royal Canadian Mounted Police During Winter of 1.925-26. Reports received by Commissioner to traverse regions unknown to his Cortlandt Starnes from the posts of Eskimo companions. the Royal Canadian. Mounted Police on In addition, numerous other patrols were undertaken. Jones sound was Baffin, Devon, ' and Ellesmere islands crossed repeatedly, the. detachments beam which can be picked •lip within in the northeastern Arctic, show that at Craig Harbour on Ellesfere island fifty miles radius by any vessel carry- ing a receiving set. By its aid, after the winter of 1925-26 was one of great and Dundee Harbor on Devon island visiting each other. The Mounted a simple •calculation, any navigating activity, thousands of mikes having Police now have patrolled the whole of officer will be able to find out his been traversed in the various patrols the seacoast of the southern half of ship's •exact bearing. Ellesmere island the whole of the Signals of varied lengths and of dif- south coast, the east coast to Kane terent tones are sent out as the loop basin, and the west coast to Gretha- aerial revolves. on. its mast, and from seer Bay fiord. They also have pa - these those within range can judge trolled part of the coast of Axel Hee whether it is pointing in a northerly, berg; the northern and southern coasts of Devon island; and the whole made. Twa of these journeys were of spe- cial note. One was a patrol made by Staff Sergeant A. H. Joy from Craig Harbor around the southern and west- ern shores of Ellesmere Island to Gres southerly, westerly, or •easterly direr- tlrasoer Bay fiord and across Eureka tion. The receiving set gets the full sound to Axel Ileiberg, the large is - strength of the signal when the aerial land lying to the west of Ellesmere; is pointing straight towards it and the it occupied 40 days and the distance minimum when the frame is sideways to it. Tho advantages of these, wireless "lighthouses" over the typo with berland gulf across the interior of Baf- which we are familiar are obvious. fin island to Lake Harbor on the south - Foremost among them is the matter of ern coast of the island, accounting for distance. No light, however powerful, 1,2S6 miles of travel between Febraury could pcesibly be seen for a distance 15 and May 2, 1926. of ilfty miles at sea, even under fair The first of these was a notable conditions, whereas the wireless piece of travel, Axel Heiberg hitherto "beam" will not only cover this. long having been one of the most inaccess- distance, but wild be just as effective ibis of •the Arctic islands; Staff Ser - whatever the weather conditions may geant Joy travelled acme, save for an happen to be. Eskimo dog -driver and hunter. It is Experiments with the new apparatus expected that the new Mounted Police are taking place at Gosport, near post at Bache peninsula will prove Portsmotth, and are cinder the direc- useful as a base from which patrols traversed was 975 miles. The other was made. by Sergeant J. E. F. Wight from Pangni j tung detachment in Cum - basis of most of the proflt-sharrng th'e'mes in this country, with this The Haughty Sweep. leave no nominal great ,difference, that the New Zealand•The chimney sweep and his helper These labor shares plan provides for the creation of labor value, and do not form part of the hares of no par value, thus avoiding were cleaning •out a flue of a fashion - capital of the company. They entitle able residence when the former was any addition to capital, and flat the moved to observe just a bit loftily: the holder to attend and vote at meet- ings of shareholders and to share in. the profits of the company, or in its assets in the event of its being wound up, to such an extent and in such man - mer as may • be determined by the neemoranduni or articles of associa- tion, says a New Zealand banker in "The Westminster Gazette:" No scheme for the issue of labor shares, and no, alteration in any scheme, is valiuntil the Court of Arbitration appointed under the Con- ciliation •and Arbitration Aot takes the necessary steps to ascertain the views of the company and its em- ployees, and certifies that the propos ars are favorable to the general body of workers.Botl t the company and holders of labor shares, which are acquired not for cash payments but through the contribution of service, have a voice in the control and direc- tion of the enterprise that employs thein. No figures have yet been published as to how many companies have ap- plied the • act, but if the scheme is widely adopted, and the rates for the use and risk •of capital are sufficiently generous to attract and hold adequate supplies of money, New Zealand will have made a most important contribu- tion to the solution of our most baf- fling and ever-present problem, that of industrial peace. 4 ---•– its employees can appeal to the 'same, Prayer of a Homely Woman. court if the scheme has veep violated "Lord, it matters not at all er unfairly administered, or through ; That my poor home is ill -arranged and changing ci:rcumstan•ces works inequit- I email; ably, and the court may revoke its t r, not the house, am straitened: Lard, certificate, in which case all labor 'tis I] shares are deerhed to have been sur- Enlarge my foolish heart, that by and rendered. and the Company is obliged I by to pay at its option in cash or in caps- I may look up with such a radiant face ,tat shares the value of the labor Thou shalt have glory even in this sharescomputed in accordance with pace. its regulations, • And whoa I trip, or stumble unawares Sigirlficantyy enough, the strongest in carrying water up these awkward opposition to the measure arose from stairs, the extreme Socialists and 1110 Censer- Then keep me sweet, and teach me vative capitalists. ,The .f'orm'er saw day by clay. In eeseible happy. rapproelfennent lie- To .tread' with patience Thy appointed teen capital arse labor the cessation way. 'et the class varfar2 ou which cube • As fees the house.. . Lord, let' it be exist, and the, disappearance of ..their my part raison d'etre, while the latter viewed To walk within it with a perfect • ,the sharing of the emnployees in their I hewer." traditional privileges with gloouny t —Fay Inchfawn, in, nee—Me Bcok of a foreboding. The act is a moniinnent to the inde- fatigable zeal of H. Valdese partner in a New Zealand timber company, and Author (waiting to accompany his joint author with F, Harty, of a wife)—"Will y'ou be very much long- er, dear?" "She—"No, darling, I've only got to powder my nose and put my het on." Author -"Oh, all right,. I'll just write another chapter." Long, Long Ago. Lady Customer—"But are You sure through atlhereriee to moral sanctions this sugar'bowl is a gen7iinre antique?" its ell our business relationships. Salestnann—"Certainly, madam. Why, He ojaime, therefero, that capital is it Slates Weis to the time when sugar Slot ono --rally entitled to tile exclusive wastwopence a, pound!" "These 'ere swells, now, what d'they know about how it feels to 'ave a good wash-up ?" Color of Gold. The real color of pure gold, lurgists say, is a deep orange, yellow. Ground into a fine gold becomes ruby red. Homely Woman."' Plenty of Time. pamphlet entitled "'Britain's, Industrial Problem," Mr. 'V°alder believes that the whole of our Industrial ills are clue to the long -existing confusion in real value anti the nla+terial fralere al mind which sltbordinate5 human service to' property, and he argues that a perman- eiit solution can only be reached metaal- and not powder can be made of the northern portion of Elie•smere island, of Axel Heiberg and the islands farther west. Staff Sergeant Joy discovered that the west- ern part of Ellesmere island abounds ingame. years ago. During his stay on south Sergeant Wight's long patrol took coast of Baffin island he visited a num- him through a country so little known tier of small bands. of Eskimo, finding that the latest reaps proved to be in- r a good deal of destitution among some accurate, as to the situation of several of these bands, and relieving their dis- large lakes which it contains. He had tress. of the north and east coasts of Baffin island, as well as parts of the south and west coast. The distancetra- veli•ed by the two detaohments on Baf- fin island was over 6,000 miles, while the Craig Harbor detachment on Elles- mere island had a mileage of 3,300— these figures being exclusive of the ground traversed in hunting trips. Many dangers were faced by the men in their journeys over ground that in many cases' was unknown. Thus Staff Sergeant Joy in descending a glacier to reach the southern coast of Devon island ran into a net -work of deep crevasses masked by light snow, discovering their existence by having his• dog teams break through; one trace broke and the dog was not heard of again. When on Axel Heiberg both he and his companion suffered from snow -blindness. Sergeant W' ltt's long petrol was for thee purpose of investigatiug the alleged murder of an Eskimo several The Tough. The teacher had been commenting on Jimmie's essay work. "If you would put in more of a personal touch I am sure you could do better," she said. Jimmie's next essay ended as fol- lows: "And by the way, teacher, could you spare me two bits?" Meander is Name of River. Radio Has Big Influence on World Communication. "Radio has come to have a profound influence upon the world! s 'system of eommunicatton," declared a leading radio authority rocently, "Radio," he continued, "has swept away the physical barriers • of Com- munications, No nation now need be dependent solely upon thin strands of cable. No country need fear the, straugling of the national voice through the cutting of a cable in time of war or -destruction in time of peace. Radio, throughthe institution of broadcasting, is the first universal syss tem of. one-way mass communicationdeveloped by man. No other agency can speak with a single voice, and at the same instant, to millions of peo- ple separated by hundreds of thous- ands of mites. Tests already have proved the complete practicability of telephonic oommu•nication by radio across the ocean. Musical programs broadcast by powerful transmitting stations from Europe and the United States have been heard. in the Anti- podes." ntipodes." ,The same authority predicts that the time is not far distant when the listener in Nosth America will be able to hear cleara.y and regularly pro- grams broadcast from Europe and pro- grams tanemitt•ed by North American stations willin turn be easily audiblethroughout the continent of Europe. The Countryside. There is no country -side like the English country -side for those who have learnt to love it. . . . Picardy is pink and white and pleasant in the blossom time, Burgundy goes on with its, sunshine and wide hillsides and cramped vineyardun s, a beautiful time repeated and repeated; Italy gives salitas and wayside chapels and chest- nuts and olive orchards, the Ardennes has its woods and gorges—Touraine and the Rhineland, the wide Campag- na with its distant Apennines, and th:e neat: prosperities and mountain back- grounds of South Germany, all clamor their especial merits at one's memory. Aird there are the hills and fields of Virginia, like an England grown very big and slovenly, and the woods and big river sweeps of Penu.sylvania, the •trim New England landscape, a little bleak and rather fine . . . and the wide rough country roads and hills and woodlands of New York State. But none et these change scene and char- acter in three miles of wolking, nor have re, mellow a sunlight nor so di- versified iversified a cloudiand, nor 'confess the perpetual refroshmeut of the strong soft winds that blow from off the sea as our Mother England does.—H. G. Wells, in "The History of Mr. Polly." In Honor of Brave Men. South Africans in all parts of theworld have subscribed to the Delville Wood memorial to the Men .of the South African Expeditionary Force who died in the (creat War. This. memorial was unveiled recently by, General Herten,It consists of an archway, flanked' by walls that connect it with two pa- vilions, One of the latter will house a Beak of Remembrance containing •the pante of the fallen, • • A 'double avenue of nal: l roes.. lead • - ing from the Len gueval Ginthy rout .• to tileareliwauv^,, is a featureof the, memorial. •At pre's'ent the trees are two feet high. They have been grown front attune gathered from the oaks aroundCecil Rhodes' famous lsouse at Gracie Schuur. And these trees sprang from acorns' which were token to South Africa from Hollandlland a teas turf' ate a half ago. I The word meander originates from the River Meander in Asia Minor, which has a slow and tortuous course, Perfume of Orchids Varies. Some orchids • give off different scents by day and nights ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES --By O. Jacobsson. .e€L>'t, a.otanw2-4511— �a m. ilvaA,a. vt eil•'.p .2 (Capydrht, ista, t,y The reel( 8y!r-theta, 1 -le Gets a Souv'er'air From Florida. Too Large, 1 "That staprauco had a large reper- 110ire." w - r "Yee, but I (lona thtuk else wore It ;well." Try lie "Flow do you get dawn off a horsey"r "Can't: You have to get it Oft is chicle,"