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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1939-06-01, Page 3NEW S P IS I g RAL PEOPLE: We Canadians have for so loug beau accustomed to thinking of the Royal Family as figureheads, or pawns in the game of the Empire, that it comes with a shook of surprise to many of us to realize that the King and. Queen are real live people — human and warm; to know at first hand that the King is a fine man, the Queen a beautiful woman. Since the mom- ent they stepped off the ship at Quebec we have been feeling that here is the genuine article. Instead of a stereotyped tour run off on a dry schedule, their Majesties' visit in the Dominion is being marked by unexpected 'contacts with ordin- ary folk, handshakes, exchanges of friendly words between these two human beings (who happen to be royalty) and their fellows. FOOTHOLD IN SPAIN: The sus- picion is growing that, although they didn't make as much noise about it as the Italians, the Nazis' participation in a war on Spanish soil has netted them a nice haul. Spanish Morocco and the•Basque country with their iron ore, have become spheres of German com- mercial interest, exploited by the German businessmen who quickly followed German soldiers into Spain. Gestapo agents, builders and contractors from the Reich have long been on the scene. Furthermore, in a future war, the Germans may be able to use the guns they have placed on the Spanish territory near the British - held Gibraltar; the five submarine bases they have helped to build; the modern airports reputedly con- structed near the French border. PROPHET OF DOOM: We nomin- ate Webb Miller, the noted foreign correspondent, who is accompany- ing the King and Queen on their tour across Canada, as this week's No. 1 prophet -of -doom. Says Miller (who has covered the World War, the Ethiopian War, the Spanish War, Munich, etc.) : "A major war is coming in Europe, barring a mir- acle. When or where it will come I or no one else knows. When it does come they will slip into it in apite of themselves. The nations seem ,to be in the position of a per- son on a high place, afflicted with vertigo, who throws himself over In spite of himself, although desir- ing to live." (In London, England, they're stockiiig up on black win- dow blinds for use. in air raids, oil lanterns and tinned foods). Yes, Mr. Miller, but a miracle might happen, If Britaine.;• :France and Russia could really get togeth er, oh what a day., for''peace that would be! THE WEEK' QUESTION: How successfully is the Dominion -Pro- vincial youth -training program now working out in the matter of estab- lishing unemployed Canadian youth in jobs? Answer: Federal Labour Minister Rogers has announced that 40r,� per cent, of the youths completing the government train- ing courses designed to lead to em- ployment have been able to secure jobs. p S .s lesrnen, Less Talking Please! As A Rule You're Much Too Wordy — Six Important Rules To Follow As a rule, salesmen talk too much, John Wesley Coates, lectur- er on business psychology and per- sonality development, declared last week et Windsor Vocational School, opening a course on the science of selling. Personality is the greatest single factor in successful salesmanship,, the speaker said, defining persolt- ality as "the ability to interest and influence other people." The speaker listed as six things every salesman, salesmauager, ex- ecutive, and, in fact, everyone, should know, as follows: (1) Don't try to do all the talkiug; (2) Never interrupt; (3) Never contradict; (4) buriug the first part of your interview, ask questions; (5) mind out the prospect's chief objection; And (0) Sell him exclusively on that point. The four steps In completing a sale were listed by !dr, Coates as follows: (1) Attracting favorable attention; (2) Creating interest; (3) Arousing desire; and. (4) 'Cio.s- lag the sale, or "action," the name on the dolled nue. Vegetable Fuel • A car that 'produces its own fuel by "grazing on vegetables and digesting chips of wood" has been developed by a 25 -year-old Japanese inventor, now in Shang- hai. hanghai. Television of plays on. Sunday in England has been protested on the grounds it is un%air to thea- tres, which cannot give stage per- t`ormanees on that dale. 59 Men Were Trapped Aboalyd,`Thlls Submarine 240 Feet Below Surface of the Atlantic Here is an above -water view of one of the United States Navy's newest and largest submarines, U.S.S. Squalus, which sank last week off Portsmouth, N.H., and rested 240 feet below the surface of the Atlantic with 59 men aboard. Wait Until Other People Have Gone To Correct Your Child's Man- ners—Children Resent Being Spoken To Sharply In the Presence of Strangers Jane's mother corrected her one day before some relatives: An- other time she told Jane not to interrupt when Mrs. Evans, a call- er, was speaking. Mrs. Jones gave Jane a good going-over, eventually, about tell- ing some family affair that was confidential. Jane was worried the minute the word had passed her lips and she was at the point when any reference to it doubled her shame. She was trying to do things right, but the constant correcting she was getting at the wrong mo- ments was making her very un- happy. She said to her mother, "Mum- my, you'd get better results if you waited till we were alone to cor- rect me." "Why, darling, maybe you are right. I never thought about it," We cannot always wait until the next day, that is sure, when chil- dreu need instant correcting and even punishment. But it is true, also, that a postponed suggestion, made when the child is less nerv- ous, often gets better results. Doctor Wipes Out Account Halifax Physician Cancels All Bills Owing Him (Total $21,000) As He Retires In Poor Health Patients sof Dr. K. B. Mahabir had their bills wiped off the Halifax (N.. S.) physician's books last week. • Dr. Mababir announced that, co- incident with his withdrawal from practice because of ill -health, he had cancelled the accounts of 342 patients totalling $21,000. These were collectable accounts: pre- viously,he had written off those he regarded as "bad" debts, Dr, Mababir said. "I felt it was something of a strain on many people who were really trying to pay," the physician declared. Dr. Mababir said he did not care to comment ou reports published here a mouth ago to the effect that he had been left a 1;50,000 legacy in the will of a man whom be was said to have saved from drown- ing in Cairo, Egypt, 20 years ago. "1 should like it if that rumor died a natural death," he observed. Says Canada Impregnable Igor I. Sikorsky, famed Russian aeronautical engineer, who addres- • ' sed Affiliated Engineering and Al- lied Societies in Ontario recently, informed bis audience, composed chiefly of engineers drawn from almost every branch of the pro- •fession and from all parts of On- tario, that Canada is practically impregnable to attacks by air. NTARIO UTDOORS By VIC BAKER 1, FISH AIRS The external oxygen supply de- termines the ability of fish to live in certain waters, which accounts for the reason why each species of fresh water fish tends to occupy. only a particular region of the lakes and rivers and why their haunts vary with the season. "We find that the ability of the fish to utilize oxygen in the water is influenced by the amount of car- bon dioxide in the water," three scientists from the Edward Martin Biological Laboratory of Swarth- more, Pennsylvania, told a recent meeting in Toronto of the Federa- tion of American Societies for Ex- ' perimental Biology. The three biologists, Laurence Irving, Edgar C. Black and V. Saf- ford, afford, reported that "each species of fish has its own characteristic tol- erance and the species may be ar- ranged in regular order beginning with the trout as the most sensi- tive, following with the sucker,' perch, sunfish, chain pickerel, bass, shiner, carp, eel and catfish. This suggests that the external oxygen supply determines the ability of the fish to live in certain water." Canada Trains R. A. F. Pilots Mackenzie Tells House 15 Are Given Courses Each Year Fifteen pilots are partially train- ed each year in Canada for the Royal Air Force,; Defense Minister Mackenzie said in a statement last week at Ottawa amplifying liis recent anouncement of an ag reement with the UnitedKing- dom Government for. the full training in Canada of 50 pilots a year. Are Taking On Britishers The first course under the par- tial training plan was held ,from January to October, 1938. The graduating officers received their pilot's flying badge and ,proceed- ed to England to continue advanc- ed training and to take their place in flying squadrons. The second course began last d'anuary and will end this autumn. In addition, many Canadians were medically examined and se- lected by the Royal Canadian Air Force for short service commis- sions in the Royal Air Force in 1937 and 1938, the latter year seeing 118 go overseas. The 50 British pilots to be train- ed yearly will receive the inter- mediate stage of their training at Camp Borden, Ont., and the ad- vancecl stage at Trenton, Ont. 68 Minute Pipe By malting his pipe last for 1 hour 8 minutes 35 seconds, M. Leon Bastyn won this year's smoking competition at Menin, a village on the frontier between Belgium and France. Each com- petitor received about seven -hun- dredths of an ounce of tobacco and a match. Osimiridium, produced solely from the refining of gold, brought $170,000 to mining companies of the Transvaal of South Africa last year. Peru has adopted the principle of obligatory social insurance, Rumania's Oil Welis Valuable VOICE Produce About 7,000,000 Tons Per Year—Mixed People In- habit Country Including Gyp- sies, Slays, Germans, Ru- manians A great deal is being heard just now about the Rumanian oil wells. It is interesting to know something about the country and the product. Rumania, which was formed as an independent country from two Turkish provinces in 1861, became a kingdom 20 years later. Its people are very mixed, including Gipsies, Slays and Germans, but the Major- ity are Rumanians. The oil wells, which are exceed- ingly valuable, produce about 7,- 000,000 ;000,000 toes of oil a year. Ancient seas it is thought, ebbed and flowed across the lands where oil is found, leaving at each move- ment deposits of animal and vege- table matter, with a great deal of mud. This organic matter, being sealed up for ages, decomposed slowly, till at last it became the petroleum oil which is now so much sought after, and from which gasoline and other valuable products are obtain- ed. Men Folk Serve 'Tea At Church Just possibly it was a woman's idea—but it was the men who put it over, When McDougall United Church, Edmonton, decided to hold a tea, it turned into something to write about.. Only the preparation of the food fell to •the women, The pouring, serving and receiving was conducted by the men. Their =Wives sat around and gwinned'and grinned and grinned. Responding to the call for "pourers" for the tea -first of its kind ever held in the Alberta ca- pital and staged by the church's Men's Association—were Mayor John Fry, 250 -pound Chief of Po- lice A. G. Shute, three Alberta cabinet ministers, the city com- missioner and several aldermen and a flock of business men, cler- gymen and other professional men. Working in 30 -minute "shifts" at the serving table, they disposed of 500 gallons of tea, 3,000 sand- wiches and 2,000 pieces of cake in four hours. "They did a lovely job" corn - church. Britain's income from shipping services last year was $575,000,000. WATCH H ,,..,vim,. You can depend on the special sales the merch- ants of our town announce in the columns of this paper. They mean mon- ey saving to our readers. Tt always pays to patron- ize the merchants who ad- vertise. They are not afraid of their merchan- dise or their prices. The Specials of tie PRESS ONE WAY AXIS Mussolini axis Hitler but Ittitler tells Mussolini, — Brandon Sun. HMMMM I More people could sing "0 Can- ada," it is claimed, if the pitch were lowered to the range• of the human voice. Yes, and if they also knew the words. — Windsor Star. X MARKS THE SPOT In the Canadian pavilion at the world's fair is a huge map of Can- ada made of burnished copper. One can just see one of those visitors pointing with his cane and saying: "And just about here is where I hooked that big muskellunge." — Toronto Star. BOYS ON TRAFFIC DUTY Although there have been soma 90 traffic acidents of one kind or another in the Sault since the first of the year, there has not so far been one at the schools and the police are inclined to give a large share of the credit for this to the School boy patrols which have been organized at three of the public schools where there is heavy traf- fic. — Sault Ste. Marie Star. WAIT TILL FLY TIME Girl from Toronto, now on a farm near Kincardine, writes home to say that she is learning to milk a cow, and reports "the cow I'm learning on is trying to be patient and helpful" It's to be hoped that the young lady gets on to the hang of the thing before fly time arrives or she may have to revise her opin- ion of the cow's attitude. — Peter- borough Examiner, CAN'T TAKE IT In a Northern Ontario town rie Gently, a teacher was haled before the trustees on a charge of making marks on a boy's legs with a point" er. Things are changing in the lick in' business at school. A few decades ago when the tear cher crooked his finger to the oI< g�i;Lling = 9lIn st;y, '',s44' :-"-v; t tt march double quick to the front to face the wallop. And how the school teachers of former days could hit! — Guelph Mercury. After travelling 1,600,000 niece in its 53 years of service, the first cable street car of Melbourne, As. stralia, is to be placed in Mels bourne Museum. A first edition of Oliver Gold- smith's "Vicar of Wakefield" was sold at auction for $1,700 in Lon- don, Click :: , and it's open! Click and it's closed, Bee Hive Offers Drip -Cul SYRUP JUG At Big Saving A smooth aluminum band snaps over th opening and cuts og the syrup—there is net drip. It is a grand jua to serve syrup from. To get yours at a be saving send 50c and four 5 -ib. Bee Hive Syrup labels (or the equivalent in lbs. as 50c) for the 12 -oz. s''m that retails at over 1, Por the 40.oz. sires send ten 5-1b. Bee Hive Syruplabels'and t (e the equivalent in lbs, and $1). The size sells retail at $3., Mail requests to thee manufacturer—thee addresses on everylabet, LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "Ma wants to borrow a cup of sugar and I'd like to borrow a nickel:" POP—H Instling to Get Nowhere DRIVE US POUND THE PACZI4 A PG\X/ TIMES; 1 By J. MILLAR WATT AND STEP ON IT! WeP5 IN A (Copyright, 19Dp,by Thrt Reil Sytulatatc, In(:.) d 14.