HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-02-22, Page 7The Removal of the Cattle embargo
The 'Crated • Kingdom embargo
eg'aairet Canadian nettle !U*ni at' length
beers' definitely removed, the Bill to
etfe•et tale baying passed both IM-
perial Houses attd received roya'1 as-
sent, TIIie is brought to an end thirty
years of effort and appeal which, car-
ried on for a long time in a more or
less desultory manner, became a elates
opus anti.' iasisteat demand when the
United States irnpc,seCt barriers
against the product of Dominion breed-
ers. Whilst the embargo which has
existed since 1892, ostensibly for the
+lyotectioa of British bet'as from dies
mac', Was equally in effect against .eat -
tie gripped Froin all •countries te, Deg -
lama the only countries against which
it could actually operate were Canada
and the United States, as it had proven
impracticable to ship live animals
from Australia and South ,America ow-
ing to the long voyages and the ex -
tame heat in crossing tae torrid zone.
As the Cleated States' consumes alOE the
beef it produces, Canada wasthe only
Country to experience the effects of
the embargo to any extent.
The new regulations' permit the en-
try
ntry into the British Isles of store cat-
tle, subject only to three days quaran-
' tine previous to leaving Canada, to be
• pastured and fattened there, as against
the previous necessity of s1•augliteeing
the animals at the part of entry, with-
in ten days of arrival. This 'brief
quarantine is satisfaotory to Canada
as the pericd of observation will be
ni;ore than taken up by transit from in-
land shipping paints to omen ports.
The unrestricted entry of Canadian
cattle into Great Britain for slaughter-
ing and breeding purposes is to be conn
s•idered encouraging from several
Canadian viewpoints. For one thing,
it definitely and unequivocally removes,
tee etignl t which, .o i aecaunt af• tho
in►poeitfoas of the embergo, Ilea ior•so
ion attached to Catadian cattle and
whiels was rankly "unjust, ear Canadian
Cattle lavas in the pastbeen as free or
freer from dieea's'e than those of any.
oeuntry and, the foot-and-mouth die-
ease, which wee the particular form
Leaned, hes been prat:.ticaIly unknown.
among Canadian herds.
Upon the Canadian breeder and pro-
ducer the embargo removal has the
effect of, giving Bina ase alternate mar•
set to which to tisend 'his products. In
the past, wltnt the exception of cattle
fon immediate siaugihter, all the Cana-
dian surplus stock was raider the nam -
pulsion of going to the'Ilnited State's
markets,. Tee surplus. over Dominion
dotnestic consumption now has the
entry of the twos markets., and with
animals of the right type, age and
finish, raised in the country, the' re-
moved of the embargo is calculated to
Pat breeders -and shippers Ina position
to eget better prices for these types of
cattle.
Whilst there may be a tendency at
times to, overestimate .the benefits
which will accrue from the removal of
the embargo, it is undoubtedly o2 di-
rect advantage to Dominion breeders
for the aforementioned reanone and
with those limitations. Granted the
right type of animal -is available, the
markets of the United Kingdom can
absorb all Canadian surplus produc-
tion for some time to come. Dr. Gris
dale, .the Deputy' Minister of Agricul-
ture, elm recently -returned from Eng
land, stated that Canadian beef was
the superior on the British market,
and in anticipating the removal of the
cattle embargo, thought •that a keen
demand for Canadian cattle was to be
expected. •
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10 STATIONS ON
THE POLAR FRONTIER
TO HELP WEATHERMAN
IN HIS FORECASTS.
Idea in View is to Encircle the.
North Pole Region With
Observing Stations.
You never heard.: of the paler iron
tier, did you? It is a frontier marked
by the line 'of. cold. •
In other words, it is the meeting
place of polais and equatorial air.
Along that line: two streams; of air
tweet---acold current flowing south-
ward from the Arctic regione, and a
warns current flawing northward from
the equatorial belt -and conflict be-
tween' them ie chiefly accountable far
weather ciiangea in our temperate lati-
tudes. •
Thus may be ,understood the practi-
cal irepartan3e—espeeially for weath-,
er foreeasting—o.f;a scheme now being.
hatched for .establishing a series • of
meteorological observing stations
around the Arctic circle. One such
station was set up three menthe ago
on the reeky and barren island called
Jan Mayen, 400 miles northeast of Ice
Ian, after preliminary work had been
done there by_an American engineer
Hagbard Ekerbaki, heading a party
from Bergen, Norway.
That station is now broadcasting
weather news by wireless, six times
every twenty-four !hours. It is pro
posed to establish another on the west
coast of Greenland (which belongs to
Denmark), and yet 'another in : Baffin
Land, which is Canadian territory.
The United States Government . will
probably set up a station at Point Bar-
row, the northernmost point. of Alaska,
and it is likely that before very long
there will be at least testi or' three
others along the Arctic coast of the
British possessione in America.
The idea in view is to . encircle the
North Polar region with observing sta-
tions, so far as may be practicable. A.
high-power radio station in Spitzber-
pen las been sending oat weather re-
ports for several years past; and in
hcelaltd there i,s 'a station which, hay-
ing the use of a telegraph cable, dis-
tributes weather news' by that' mains,
Established a Trade Route.
Every year for'thes last ten years
two or; alma vessels from England and
Norway have made voyages in summer
by an Arctic route through Kara Strait
and the Kara Sea to the mouth of the
Yenisei River, which empties into the
Polar Ocean. Carrying cargoes of
barter geode, they have brought back
furs end ether valuable merchandise,
and have established a trade route of
siich prospective importance that wire-
less stations are now being operated
at the entrances . of the Kara' Sea
(there are two), to give information
about • the ice. Sometimes • the elf -
reneges are blocked, even in the warm
great air -swirls in the temperate zone,
moving around the earth from west to
east. These air -swirls, seem to travel
in "families o1 two to six, and are
ou
acoattable for the "highs" and "lows"
which are shown on the daily weather
maps'.
It will thus be realized that aoquaint-
nnce with what is going on along the.
polar frontteu is of great importance,
in forecasting. It is desired to find
the tracks• followed by the Arctic air-
streams., moving' southward, and the
centres of conflicts, with the warm cur-
rents from the equatorial belt.
Provide 'Against Surprise.
The forecasters of our Weather Bur-
eau are often surprised by the sudden
arrival of `unforeseen. changes origin-
ating in Northern Canada, where there
are no observing stations: For"' thin
reason., Hunch weather that starts
that territory is unobserved until it is
upon us, and cold waves often arrive
without warning.
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The most remarkable change ot eli-
matg'in modern times overtook Green-
land in the fourteenth century, and title
cause of it Is. a mystery. In -earlier
days' -back fa the time of Leif Erica
son (who discovered America, 1001 A.
D.).; and atter—that great island was
in parts :ha-bitableand even hospitable
to mane Along its southern shores
were woods, and green meadow' cheer-
ful to the eye, Hence it was that the
_.i Norsemen called the country Green-
- land.
Voyaging from Iceland, they cue-
, tomarily followed a route along the
east coast of Greenland, through a
strait north of .Cape Farewell (its
southern tip), and around the weet
coast,' where many settlements of their
..people were located.
In •tole fourteenth. century, however,
there came a great cold, and the above-
m•entiozied strait north of Cape Fare-
well was blocked by tie see even in
the summer time, becoming impass-
able, as it is to -day. Snows accumu-
lated and ice spread over the land.
Many old Norse ruins now lie in places
inaccessible because of the advance
of tate ice. Th:e..Eskinaos say that
weelevillages have been actually
burned beneath glaciers,
t
Season.
The poICr atmospheric frontier is
not fixed; quite otherwise', indeed. Ac-
cording to a new theory, now pretty
generally aeeepted, the weather of the
Northern Hemisphere .is the result of
advanees and retreats of that nue.
When the warm air extends farther
teeth than usual, there is a tendency
to an •accumulation of cold air north
of the line, • Whets pressure from this
accnnru!anon becomes sufldciently
great, the cold stir brealte through and
flows southward: causing a change in
weather,
ebove stated, the potar frontier is
the Iheeting place of polar and aqua
•toriel air. Conila t of cold currents
and witi1, currents . to tiro eause ot,
Labor In Diamond Mining. •-
It takes much digging to unearth,
diamonds. The •earth taken o t i
Year by one or the largest diamond
u. n. a,
mining companies would form a cube
more than 430 feet in each dimension',
This would fill a large city block to a
height of inure than thirty stories. The
diamonds, found in this vast amount of
earth would 1111 a cubical box lens thstn
three feet each way. Eat these few
pecks of stones tom Which a mountain
was moved were worth perhaps in ex-
cess. of ;25,000,000.. '
cuckoo
"Do you rent out melee, Aunt Liz-
zie?"
"Why, no, Wiblie, Wvtiat tiir"rltes
age=;?
'Pa
a sa.,d you had rooms to rent in
y the upper stery,,'
you
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Canada
JAPANESE TRADE LEADERS VISIT CANADA
The Japanese Mission, which recgntly arrived at Vancouver on board the Canadian Pacific steamer"Beninese
of Australia,," and crossed Canada via ;the C.P.R. on their way to New York, where they axe to ettend an interna-
tional silk conference. Reading irons left to right they aro: S. Hoahino President of the Japanese Raw Silk Com-
pany;' Kino Nishitani, President of the 'I'oftori Associated Raw Silk Company; K. Katsuki, Secretary; M. Miyas-
aki, Japanese secretary and manager, iltterpreter Yoshio Saseeda, M:P., head of the Tokyo Produce Exohan e
and of the Silk Mission y g
Spealting to a reporter, Mr, Miyasaki said: "Japan 4s:siawly ang ging, rhe.is assumin new habits and new
ways of living as• she Changes (her way of produetian. Tndustrialiszn has taken• hold of us, And as a result, you
understated, we are going through thesame difficulties which;Great Britain did duan the beginning of the last
$ beginning #iS
century, Industrialism la multiplying ' our papulation." '
He stated that. Japan, if the panes* steps were taken, would be agood customer for Canadian, n gra▪ in,and
speaking of general trade conditions; is his own country said, t'hst when complete liquidation had cleared the
financial atmosphere, trade would once. more take great strides forward. He added, "We are now buying a lot et
lumber from you, and it :is certain we will want more, mull, more.' Your lumber has such a beautiful grand
you know, we don't petit our houses in the interior."" •
1. Present Duration of 11.
Life
For the eighth year in snccesslon a
correspondent has, gathered from the
obituary lists on our• /rout pages all
the records of persons who have reach-
ed. the age at 90 years or more. Tho
annual average far the period hes been
803, the women being rather more
than twice as many as the men: There
haye been thirty-six' centenarians,
siys the London -Times.
Tb e,..ex•actiy . recorded ages of men
and• animals are usually much shorter
than the maximum duration of lifeas-•'
signed in popular belief.. No valid evi-
dence supports the authenticity of •
claimssuch as that made for Thomas.
Parr, the Shropshire peasant, of hav
ing reached his 153•rd year, and any
cases • of exceeding the century by
more -than two,' or three years are dubi-
ous,.
A century must be taken as the ut-
most span of Lite which any huiiian bed
ing can- hope : at present to achieve.
But that is twenty years More than
the "four -score" of the beautiful
psalm in the burial service, and will-.
denee basad on wider statistics shows
that increasing numbers- of the mord-;
ern population attain it.
Metchni1kov indeed • believed ,that
better conditions; more prudent: habits
and the conquest of diseases by
science might came to keep the .human
body and mind strong and healthy to
an age still greater, and that then . a
natural instinct would acquiee•ce in
the_ coming of death as readily as
youth .pow accepts thecoming oaf mar'
turity. • Such optimism, • howev er,
still tor the 'future; for the few who
attain it great. age is more oft•en but
labor and sorrow. '
What'is of more concern to most
of us isthat the average longevity, the
broad based expectatioen of life of in-
surance •statistics, is continuoiialy ex-
panding. The average and not tate
unusual governs the life of men and
beasts•, and iu :particular that part of it
relating to marriage and the family
cares. • Weismann bald the, theory that
the daration of life' was adjusted by
natural selection to the rate of repro -
dilation so • that while creatures like
the elephant,' which bred slowly, Wad,.
long to secure the maintenance of the
species; trrose.like rats, which bred
rapidly, required only short lives, 1
A more recent leterprctation, how-'
ever, hold's that the rate of reproduc
tion is the more vari•abie factor and is
tuned to the average expectation of •
lite. But -on the one theory or the
other there may ibe a close coannaction
between the greater expectation of
human life under modern conditions
and the peetponeznent of the average
age of nm:rriage and reduction in the
average number of children. The:aug-
vettea may be ,comanended to vise
ciente, of vital statistic's,
13uif moat of us• are to have more
of ltnaei,4 n d n few much more of it. is
the gift worth, Navin,;? The days and
the years of modern life' are more
crowded than in ally other, age, and
yet, possibly even because of the in-
crease of expuricnee, they seem short-
er. The period of the war was fuller
tor all who liven t rou•li it than any
other time of their. lives, nett yet the
beginning and tire end have closed like
the pages of a book, Lite, indeed,
seems aborter tie More intensely it is
lived,
Stories About Well -Known People
The King's Organist.
For forty years the King's organist
has been Sir Walter Parrett, who has
dust completed this long term of con-
tinuous service: For tblIrty years he
has been Master of the King's Musie.
Sir Walter is nearing . his eighty-
second birthday, and hehas been an
organist since he was eleven. Even
before then he showed signs that he
Was destined to be a musician of un-
usual ability, for at the age of ten he
was able to play, from memory the
whole of Bach's forty-eight preludes.
and fugues.
Sir Walter'loves to tell a story of a
old gentleman who went up
beggar 1n the•street. ''Are
ou are blind?" he asked.
't the demeanor. of a blind
susp
to
"fir
man..i
„Noy
!" was the reply. "I used to
have, but I was so hard up I had tO
sell it!+'
Curzon's Resurrection.
Lord Curzon's suddenresurrection
to power and popularity has few.
:parallels. Wh u he resigned . from In -
did t>e• seemed as. forever,:fallen as:
Lucifer.. Personal popularity !h,as.
never been one of his assets. His seat
in the' coalition at the foreign office
was uneasy. Now he is making a bid
to go down to history an one of the
great Tory foreign secretaries.
Lord Rosebery's Tact.
Lord Rosebery. who is possessed of.
irable tact, was once dining with
so pi
o his tenants, ,
"Sitting next to him was an old man
who accepted a large helping of iee-
cream. He tasted it and quickly put
his hand to his mouth, •
"Why," lie exclaimed, "they've gone
and froze the puddin'1"
Lord Rosebery did not even senile,
He took a portion himself, tasted it,
and remarked with an air of utter as'-
tonishanent, "Goodness! So they
have!"
The Falcon on the Faro.
Some time ago Mr. Douglas Fair-
banks 'bought
air•banks'bought a peregrine falcon from
the English Falconry Club, for use in
his "Robin. Hood" film, which includes
some astonishing •pictures of a mid-air
duel between a carrier -pigeon and a
falcon. •
Many technical points on the care
.and . training of the falcon were ex -
planed to Mr. Fairbanks, who event-
uwlly broke the silence by cabling:
".-Ascertain lure -in training one falcon
and liow induced to return. after Sight.
The Falcon Club drew up what was
practically a text -book to deal with
this emergency, and cabled to Mr. Fair-
banke: "Instructions. rather fon"
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shall 1 cable or write?'
The reply from Douglas wasbrief,
but eloquent: "All I want to know is,
how do we get the confounded' bird to
come down?"
"The Kid."
Jackie Coogan, the child film actor,
has had a wonderful series of teachers•,
13aderewski has given him piano les-
sons; .•Pavlova, dancing lessons; Sou-
sa, orchestral lessons; and Carpentier,
boxing lessons.
,World's Worst Prison.
• What must be the worst prison in
the • orld• le described by an explorer.
Naha' returned recently from Mongolia.
Inside a double wall of wood is, a
space abort 10 ft. square, upon which
,aper .a number of tiny rooms into
which light never penetrates. In these
dungeon• are piled wooden boxes, 4 It
long' by. 2ate, ft. high. These coffins, are
the -prisoners' celIts! ,
Tht2 wretched •captives have heavy
chain about their necks, and their
bands; are manacled. They can neither
slt'.erect nor lie at full length, Their
food;°':whsenever the jailer trlppens to
, remember ]t, is pushed through a 11 in,
grating in the side of the coffins, In
these awful _surroundings prisoners,
are kept sometimes for life.
Nat only do they suffer torments
through being unable to use their
lianbs, but aleo they are quite unpro-
tected from the cold, which often is
intense. Only a Mongol could survive
for a clay.
Not s ornpulsery,
A haughty custerner, onteririg a res-
tattrant, was eecosteel bya Waiter with,
the %glary, "Soup, sir? Soup, sit?"
The customer" took n0• notice and
calmly . reinovod friss overcoat, on
Which the waiter repeated tales -
tion.
13eeoniin angry, 'anal, ""
'� the man ls
dt eantpulsory?"
nNe " Was the rel'. • ". t'
, 1 y I s Oxtail,
Ma"
' mite wk:nserlion ''Mille . Society 0,4-
tribtted 4,855,464 to iles;in.:e921.
No Need for Hurry, • -
The steamer was only a few fest
from the quay when there was a sud-
den oominotion, anti a man cams run-
ning madly from the dock gates, shout-
ing to tee officials• to wait a moment.
Without pausing in his stride hie
flung hie bag on to the beat, took a
desperate leap, and landed on the deck
with a crash.
"Good!" hse• gashed, as he n'as as-
sisted.to his feet. "Just did it. A few
seconds later and I shield have missed
it." •
"Mies•ed it!" exclaimed one of the
passengers. "Do you realize that this
boat is just coming in?"
Married Foreign Titles.
It is said that the daughters of 600
of Anaericals .richest men have man.
ried titled foreigners, and, that the ag-
gregate dowry falls little shirt-• of.
three-quarters of a billion doilar,s.
Silk or 4
w nts were first reared. bee a.
Chinese eanprese 4,500 years ago.
ST, THOMAS, "THE FLOWER CITY'.'
Progressive, modern, and "ap anticonning" city, w fief a population of
2I,00Q, six lines of railway and a lake port seveli miles away, Si. Thomee
uses np-to•thej-mixnute business, methods to attreet husitteee. ' Sixty-; eveit per
cent. of its wahkase; men own their own 11•o111e3 and its retail trtidc provides •
bona 'populatieu .of 50,000 people in the vicinity of the alta. The Mayor, Mr.
f Merles E. Payee, was born and educated iIn the ci y send is n retell t. , 1 .ttttf erGlttnt
'there now. He reached the enl.ef eimcutivo most a ,year age nttd war re-
cesttiy° re-olcctod by acclamation to nerve another term. 'l �;
5 i n The ieiCtttre shows.
the city ball, and the Mayor.
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and
ALAIOST A KING, NOW
AIR FORCE PRIVATE
COL.. T. E. LAWRENCE,
PRINCE OF MECCA.
Won Mesopotamia for Briton*
an the Recent War, :Leasing
Victorious Arabs Against
Turks.
Once uncrowned King of Arabia,
now just a buck private in His British
Majesty's air force, that iss the latest
adventure in the life of that amazing
soldier, Colonel T. E. Lawrence, The
man who did most to win Meeopotainia
with its rich oil wells•, for the British
and thereby won all sorts of honors
and decorations from his government,
s'pent Christmas Day doing duty in the
barracks at Farnborough and the next
day was scrubbing tables as an ordin-
ary IC. P. In the officers' mese.
Colonel Lawrence went to Arabia
after his graduation from All Souls
College, Oxford. He donned the garb
of the natives, learned to speak theft
lahguage fluently and won the friend-
ship and ooniidence of King p''eisal .of
the Hedjas. When the World' Wee.
occurred Colonel Lawrence persuaded
the ruler of the Arabias to intervene
on the side of tb:e Allies, and the young
Englishman himself commanded an
army of natives' that repeatedly de
feasted the Turks.
To -day England is wondering why
such a young Iran—for Colonel Law
reams was only in ihds 'twenties wheu
he perforated hiss brilliant military ex•
ploits--is serving as• -an air craftsmen
Some think that he wants .more leis
sure for. writing books than he could
get as- an officer. Others opine that
he intends to svelte a book on the air
foree and wants to get his facts at
first hand.
Obedient Private In Air Ranks.
Colonel Lawrence himself is silent
on why he is in the ranks. "I cannot
smy what the reason is, for I do not
know myself. I cannot make any
statements to the newspapers as a sol-
dier, or I st'ould be punished,"
He has been in the air force far
some months now-. Bat when "A. C. I.
Ross"= -as he is': now known joined
the service at Uxbridge only one of
two officers suspected his identity.
Even when be was moved to the Farn-
borough barracks few even in the
officers' mess, had any idea that so
distinguished a war hero was- under
their command, The privates did not
know anything 'about it until three•
weeks ago when it first began to leak
out in the newspapers. -
Colonel Lawrence steps in a reee •Y
withaeleven other men, makes: ills own
Teadragnel z'atfguagua'rds and the
regular barrack routine just as any '
other British Tommy. Qa Christmas
Day he volunteered to do guard ,duty
for a oonlrade.
There is nothing of the snob about
the man who bears the title of Prince
of Meeca, He goes for walks with his'
fellow privates., joins in their songs
and frequents the teas -baps so impulse
with the Tummies:
Sometimes Celon.'el Lawrence will
tell hie "buddies" thrilling and glans•
orous stories. of the Near East. That
in his new life is the only thing that
links Mina with the man who won Meso•
potamia for England.
RUSSELL•
VAN Hook
New One to Her
Picture Agent—"Lady, this is the
latest thing in enlargements,"
Housewife — "Lan' sakes! Who'd
ever thought -they'd get to making 'ens
upside down!"
Holstein or Jersey? Ohe Dollar
Please.
Two cattle breeders at San Antonio
were discussing the merits, of Jersey
and Holstein cows. Bach man was
positive that he was right about the
matter; each was dogmatic; each was
intolerant.
"Put a dollar in a bucket!" - ,
one, "Milk the basket full; then if you
still see the dollar, the cow is gels
stein."
"Put the satue dollar la your buck.
et," retorted the .other. . "Milk your
cow, and if there ain't ea:•eugh milk to
cover tete dollar'tIxere's no •dhcuist she's
a Jersey!"
Ought to Know.
The •young B"ngidee teacher was try
in to make •a class of very small
Children, understand a sum in sill-
traction, '
"Now moisten," Mia said. "Tf 1 had
ten shining& In my raise. and went
into a shop and bought a hat for flue
Shillings .anti a pair sof glosses for three -
and -six, how nineli should '1 have left?"
Nobody answered but Tittle. Idray,
who bemired in a disgusted tone: "Vy
didn't. yen count yer •ehasiese "°