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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1939-01-12, Page 6ews Para e I3y Elizabeth Eedy THE LAST SESSION: Eyes fo s on Ottawa this week as the 193.. session of Parliament opens. It m y be the last session before the ilext general election — and impoitint things are happening. in • Canada. There are sure to be fire- works in the House when the Do- minion's attitude toward the Em- pire during the Czecho-slovak cris- is comes up for discussion; and when C.C.F. members start asking questions of the government. Hon. Dr. R. J. Manion will appear for the first time as Conservative leader. The session may have to adjourn, if work is not completed in time, to make way for the Royal visit in May. __0— SOCIETY NOTE: Froin a Cana- dian Press dispatch we learn that an Ottawa debutante can be launched for a top cost of about $1,500 compared with the $50,000 spent on some New York debbies' coming-out parties. And you can't tell us that the New York girls have $48,500 worth more fun! On the contrary. This year Canadian debs may even be presented to royalty, a privilege that their American cousins can't buy. _0_ EUROPE, 1939: One British official in London this week look- ing forward to another critical year in international politics said: "If we can get through 1939 with- out war, I think the danger will be over for several years." Right you are, sir. The whole thing in a nutshell. But how to get through 1939, that is the ques- tion, without a major war break- ing out in Europe. There are two ways to stop a war (brewed by Hitler, Musso- lini). One way is to give them all they ask for and let them go ahead (that's been the method followed to date). The other is for the "have" countries (Great Britain, France, the U.S., etc.) who hold the money -bags to refuse financial aid to Germany, Italy. We know the regimes of Hitler and Musso- lini are perennially near collapse. A little less support from the democracies would cause them to topple over. —0— THE YEAR JUST PAST: In- terest taken by Canadians in Can- adian politics rose to its peak in 1938 with the international .crisisr fell with the approach of Christ- mas and the New Year festive sea- son. Now we're looking about us again to see what is 'happening in the Dominion. It's worthwhile, however, to check up what has gone before. During the year just past, the chief interest on the Canadian political front was furnished by activity in the Conservative Party (ietirement of Rt. Hon. R. B. Ben- nett, choice of his successor, selec- tion of a new Conservative leader in Ontario); the controversy be- tween Prime Minister King and Ontario's Mitchell F. Hepburn came to a head at year's end; the visit of -President Roosevelt to Canada during the summer was a milestone in the history of Cana- dian - American relations ("the United States will not stand idly by") ; during 1938 Canada decid- ed to go in for defense (army, navy, air) in a bigger way; the Royal Commission on Dominion - !Provincial relations completed its 'investigations, early in the spring to make its report. • In the foregoing events of the , past year are contained the seeds of political happenings, trends in Canada during 1939. :: Ontario's "Main Street" Looked Like This ITO.OTmO, O.O +A 4 4 4 0. 0 0 Sores of Ontario towns were completely isolated following the worst blizzard to hit the province in recent years. Hundreds of citizens began digging themselves out from under the blanket of snow which, driven by heavy gales formed drifts similar to these in themiain street of Orangeville. In isolated sections of the province highways were im- passable and train service disrupted. More Canadians Use Electricity It Plays An Important Part in Our Home Life — Towns and Cities Enjoy Most Bene- fit Low-cost electricity, developed principally from abundant water- power, plays an important part in Canadian home life. Apart from bringing relief and convenience to the housewife, this widespread and substantial use of electricity • has created a large and compara- tively stable market for electrical power and appliances which is of marked benefit to producer and consumer alike. The domestic ser- vice consumption or the electricity used in residences in Canada has increased steadily, even during the worst years of the depression. Our Water -Power Resources This general use of electricity is not confined to urban areas, as electric 'transmission lines now range far and wide bringing cur- rent to the farms of rural districts -where water pumps, feed chop- pers, cream separators, and other suchmachinery is electrically op- erated. Electric power is cheaper in some parts of Canada than else- where in North America, as the Dominion is richly endowed with water -power resources which sup- ply about 98 per cent. of the elec- trical energy produced. —o— THE WEEK'S QUESTION: Why is Poland important at the present moment? Answer: Ger- man ambitions to •penetrate the Ukraine—repeated of late in Nazi newspapers—would have a grave . effect on Poland, which includes 3,000,000 Ukrainians in the re- gion adjoining the Soviet Ukraine. Poland is beginning to believe that co -Operation with Russia is the best safeguard of her interests, and is turning a cold shoulder on Germany (who needs Poland's aid if further expansion eastward is to be made). Last week Poland and Russia signed a trade treaty which is expected to multiply thirty -fold the trade between the two nations. Bottled. History Workmen engaged in excava- tions for a new building in South Melbourne came across a bottle of • Dublin stout, believed to be eighty years old. How it got there is a Mystery. The River Yarra once flowed over the area. Its histori- cal value is greater if left unop- , en ed. The British territorial army Will Dake itS anthaircraft Units 90,000 litreng 'Within a year. Because no wolves are known tO exist in South Afriea, the game •uothorities are investigating re- , SS that the animals have ap- 064.in the Narobi Desert: • „eve-. „, Less Music eing Played on Radio Canadian Broadcasting Corpor- ation Test Shows 45.12 Per Cent. of Programs Are of Other Types Time devoted to broadcasting music is diminshing, and "popular" music is also giving way before the classical productions, Brooke Clax- ton, Montreal lawyer and counsel for the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration, told the Copyright Appeal Board at Ottawa last week. .A test undertaken during the first week of November by the eight stations of the CGC showed that of the total broadcasting time 55.88 per cent. was devoted to mus- ic. This represented 7,425 hours out of a 13.7 hour broadcasting day. Holland's partial mobilization in the recent war crisis cost $55,000,- 000. A London expert estimates that there are more than 32,000 differ- ent coins in the world. Start Northern Highways Soon Construction Projects To Be ' Carried Out With Aid of Do- minion and Provincial' Gov- • ernments A tenth of the $2,000,00 recently appropriated by the Dominion and Ontario Governments for highway construction in Northern Ontario will be spent in the Sudbury area, James M. Cooper, Liberal raember of the Ontario Legislature for Sud- bury, says Cooper paid a visit last month'to Toronto, where a tentative list of the projects was discussed by offi- cials of the Ontario Department.ot Highways. He said most of the money would be spent on the sec- tion of the Trans -Canada higbway between Sudbury and Hagar, about 20 miles east of Sudbury. Conserving The Trumpeter Swan Canada Maintains A Specs Winter Garden Service for: the Protection of North' Am- erica's Largest Waterfowl OTTAWA. Canada maintains a special winter garden 'service for the protection of the trumpet- er swan, the largest waterfowl in North America. Sometimes, when the wintering grounds are frozen over, the duties of these officers include the feeding of the swans. To prevent the starvation of the birds in severe weather, it is-" necessary to supply them with barley or other grain, and at one, wintering ground in British Col- umbia a supply of grain is taken in by pack -horse from tne nearest settlement, a distance of seventy- five miles. Mostly In B.C. At one time this magnificent bird was common from the Pacific Coast to the Middle West, but it now has disappeared from all ex - cep; the most westerly part of its former range in Canada. At pres- ent most of the trumpeter swans in existence in Canada are found in British Columbia., and the num- ber which assemble on the more important wintering grounds is es- timated to be about five hundred: Provided Swansdown In the early days the trumpet- er swan was hunted for its plum- age, which helped provide the valuable swansdown of commerce, but now both the trumpeter and the whistling, swan are protected at all times by the 'Aligratory \Birds Treaty. VOICE OF THE PRESS ONCE IN A LIFETIME Something's wrong! Hogs went up 00 cents just when taxes were due. * Varmerle Advocate. OUR FAVORITE ROBBER • A snooty bandit refused to take $100 from his intended vietini, de- claring that it wasn't enough to bother with. If this thing keeps up, Most of us will be quite safe. — Chatham News, LET THE MOTHS HAVE IT James BrOWn, a weather prophet i5f Port Stanley, says we will have 'nothing more than ten below this winter, zo it's hardly worth dusting off the heavy underwear. — Peter- borough Examiner. SHEPHERDS AND THEIR CROOKS Quoth the Woodstock Sentinel - Review: "It had nothing to do with the festive season that political shepherds in Ontario are watching their flocks by night." But keeping one eye on the falling stars. — Stratford Beacon -Herald. WONDERLAND OF OZ "so little," Dorothy said. "Why that sneeso was as had as a Kansas cyclone," And then she helped Miss Cuttenclip rescue the paper folk end stand them on their feet itgain. Two of the cardboard houses had Also had their porches damaged and the little queen said she would have to repair them and paste them to- gether befor they could be lived in again, And now fearing they might do More damage to the filmsz Deo. pie, they, decided to go MVO!. WHY NOT BAN THEM? Has it occurred to the Dominion Government that some good might be done by prohibiting the impor- tation or manufacture of pistols and revolvers except by special permit and for certain specified purposes? There would, admittedly, be some smuggling and some "boot- legging" done; but close watch at border customs offices and strict inspection of manufacturing plants would keep breaches of the law to a minimum. — Owen Sound Sun - Times. SPORT — AND SPORT Is sport sport any more? This is a question that not a few Sooites who have interested themselves in the promotion of sport are beginning to ask them- selves. What is the use of providing playing fields and rinks, they ask, if in order to get teams to use them it is necessary for a business con- cern or a few private individuals to put up the money to outfit them? There is growing feeling that the youthful players in a variety of sports, not only in the Sault, but elsewhere, are being spoiled by the attention that is being lavished on them and that all to often sport for sport's sake is being lost in sport for advertising's sake. There are even stories of a Toronto ama- teur .football .team whose members would not turn out for practise un- less a motor car was sent around to to pick them up. — Sault Ste. Marie Star. •-•• Says Five Basic Elements Make Up Personality Physique, Intelligence, Emotion and Instinct, Also Habit -- First Four Inherited, De- clares British Columbia Psy- chiatrist In these days when so many people place responsibility for character on other things than the home, it is interesting to read the opinion of a British Columbia psy- chiatrist on "Person:1AI'; Dov460- ment of the Pre -School Child." Writing in the December issue of the Canadian Nurse, Dr. Arthur' M. Gee of the Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale, says that per- sonality is derived from five basic elements — physiqueintelligence, emotion, instinct and habit. The first four are inherited', the fifth acquired. As to habit, he says: "We are born without habits and we spend the greater part of our lives acquiring habits, good or bad. The baby spends his first years learn- ing habits of nursing, habits of hygiene, walking and talking. Slowly the personality begins to unfold as the child begins to feel his security and realizes he is an individual within the family con- stellation. With increasing emo- tional maturity, he is gradually weaned away from his complete physcal and emotional dependence upon his mother. The day comes when he must step out from his home and its security to enter a new world at school, where he is thrown more or less on his own resources. Here he learns new habit patterns. The foundation that he has received during his pre-school life will to a great ex- tent form the pattern to which his later life will conform. Give Opportunity For Learning "The problem of personality formation and character building is not a matter of specific teach- ing but of offering children at each level of their development Indians May Make King Their Chief Six Nations Indians Plan to Confer Chieftainship on King George V During His Visit Here King George VI may be initi- ated into a lineage of rulers older even than the monarchy of Eng- land when he_ visits Canada next summer. Plans to confer a chief- tainship in Canada's Six Nations Indian tribe upon the King are being considered by the Toronto Indian Council. Dr. J. J. Sussmuth, assistant sachem of the council, said the honor will be conferred upon King George if the royal itinerary per- mits. If possible, the ceremony will be held on the Six Nations Reserve at Ohsweken, near Brant- ford. If not, the Indians will come to Toronto and go through the an- cient ritual. • The ceremony will be identical with that by which the Indians honored their rulers long before white man ever set foot in Can- ada. The procedure was almost universal among them, and varied but little among the diff event tribes, Dr. Sussrmith said. CoPITighted On RrillY A 1,,,O• Thu- first they thanked Miss Cut. tonellp for her courtesy. "Any friend of Princess Getta Is welcome here unless he sneetes„" said the, queen ee with a severe look at Uncle Itenry. '1 like to have visitors admire my village told- T hone You will (in 118 again.' Miss Cuttenelip led them to,the door in the walland as they passed along the street the ImPer dolls peened at them half fee -11'01Y trent the doors and wind - coals, Perhaps they will never forget *Uncle lieened eeWerful sneettt. 771 Marmora Factory 100 Per Cent. No. 1 A provincial record is believed to have been established by 000it'S cheese factory, Marnaora, Ontar10, this season as records reveal that every cheese made by the factory during the past year received a No. 1 grade, Hugh Moloney is president' and Roy Colby is cheesemaker. Average Price 13,9c A Pound The amount of milk received and the number of cheeses produced this year is lower than many of the r;t11-ei fact:a-kis of Hastings oonuty4 but rnords of the granTik Ofiiee it Belleville show that grading per- centage is believed unequalled by any other county 'factory. Average price for cheese last season was 13.9 cents; 114 pounds of milk were required to make 0110 pound of cheese. Ignorance Still Rampant Today There is a boy in Great Britain. why thinks Queen Victoria is still ',top the Throne; boys who cannot tellthe time, name more than two Or three months in the year, or .even give the year in which they live. The Governer of Feltharn Borstal Institution says: "The aby- smal depth of ignorance from which 7 or 8 years of State edu- cation has failed to rescue many of the lads received here—or to which they have reverted after two or three years of complete mental vacuity—would be incon- ceivable and probably incredible to anyone .not in touch with this problem." appropriate opportunity for lemm- ing, through direct participation and' experience. Parents cannot hope to live one way and instruct their children in another. Chil- dren, in their personalitj forma- tion, will reflect their home and their parents in spite of every effort to teach them better." • r. a..Z• 0.7! ••• • 4ge,,,,41,111P,OW".: • ' Brew Lipton's as weak as you please, you'll never find it insipid. Fax Lipton's is a small leaf blend of the finest teas grown ... its flavour and richness linger in every exhila- rating cupful. Buy Lipton's today. Three distinctive grades: Redlabel, Orange label, Yellow label (Lipton's Finest). UPTON'S, the world's largest selling tercels blended especially for Canadian huhu. FREESave the coupons from • Lipton's 11b. and 3d packages. They are exchangeable for Wm. Rogers & Son Silverplate.Write for premium book to Thos. J. Lipton Limited. Lipton Bldg., Toronto. sA By L. Frank Baum on Inleing tee orowisywees. Gen- erni Gupli hnd to reeross +be Iti pole Land, and he did not find it ti pi 0;1:4 mit thing to do. Perhaps having his -whiskers pulled out one hy one And 1m,ing used as a nin cushion for the ineneent amusetrieht of a good-nnt- urd Jailer had not improved the colleetion of the wrongs he had ,grtome raved and raged at the re- et:tier:them of the wrongs he had suffered and vowed to take yen - ennee up on the eireWleYWOge attllr he had Used them or his num) sr toxin Oz lied 'been coneuoroth -4- Tie went aa li. way Will; 111. Wn, half aoro8 Ili pole 1,0nd, when ho became seasick and the rent of the way this naughty gaallie was ni- ThOSt as miserable as he deserved to benut when he reached the Pining agate And I he ground was firm en- der his feet, he reit better and In- stead of goieg home he turned dir- netly to the west. A squirrel perch- ed In a trot saw him Wee this rend and oalled to him "Look out!" but he PAM no attention. A bird paused in its mot to look at him wondering TY and say, "Look out!" but on he Ireetth. 9 4