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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1939-07-13, Page 7NES PAR • '"HIS FATE IS SEALED" One of the wisest women of our time, Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, French newspaperwoman, declares that lilfltler's hour has struck. His day of destiny arrived, she says, the day his soldiers entered Prague, "On that day democracy woke up•' ;1n Britain and France. It was like a bugle ealL n was Hitler's great- est triumph — and it spelled his doom." MORE UNEMPLOYED: Canada is among the countries of the world reporting an increase of unemploy- ment during the second quarter of 1999. Royal visit or no royal visit, there are now fewer Canadians who are working in steady jobs than at tkis time last year. (Bust nese, generally, during this period upped. 3 per cent., nevertheless). Nobody knows exactly how many jobless there are in the Dominion. Employment figures the Govern- ment uses come from several thous- and representative firms across Ca- nada who carry a fair number of xnen on their payroll. Nobody knows :pow many jobless young people are living at home with their parents, how many transients there. are, or how large is the num- ber of unemployed wbo have not applied for relief. MISSING BOTTLES: York County milk from the producer to the con - Council Is urging a Provincial in- vestigation into the price spread of sumer. Farmers of Southern and Western Ontario are paid on the average of 3 1/3 cents per quart for their milk while city people are charged 12 cents per quart. The producers complain that the trem- endous wastage in milk bottles is responsible to some extent for the a2 cent price, but why charge these against the consumer? If we had to pay a cash deposit on each one, fewer bottles would be used as flower vases, jam containers, or thrown in the garbage can, and in- cidentally, there would be much :less excuse for charging the pres- ent price for milk. RUMOR DEPARTMENT: It is re- ported by grapevine telegraph that the National Association of Manu- facturers in the United States is out to "get" President Roosevelt; that they have sunk $750,000 in • a campaign to see that he isn't re- turned for a third. term. THE WEEK'S QUESTION: And while we are on the subject of Am- erican politics (which, like it or not, are tremendously important to Canadians), what regrettable effect Is the House of Representatives' re- fusal to change the Neutrality Act likely to have on aggressor nations in Europe? Answer: The House's refusal to make it possible to sell arms to non -aggressor nations (France or England, for instance), may be construed throughout Eur- ope as evidence that a majority of Americans are not behind the Pre- sident's efforts to deter further warlike action by Hitler and Mus- eolini. Benjamin Britten Famous young English musical composer who is seeking fresh musical inspiration in Canada, rees a great future for young Ca- nadian .composers, especially those in small communities where the chief facility for instruction is radio broadcasts of symphonic music. Canary As Back After Year A' ay The old adage, "leave 'cm alone And they'll come home," holds good ever in the ease of missing canaries, according to Mrs. Charles Lanee, of Marion, Ill. Her canary escaped in June, 1938, when a cat, springing against the cage, knocked open the small door. The bird disappeared, After an absence of 11 months, the canary returned and perched on the fence to front of the Lance home. ars. Lance said she had no trouble at all in coarsing it back into i:e cage. Farmer's Son Makes NOW Fast Craft for S;luNI/ and Water Transportation James K. Lawrence, farmer's son of Myrtle, Ont., built this novel craft in his spare time. He claims that it is capable of travelling on snow and water and would be ideal for travel in ',the north country. It is driven by a propeller and has air conditioning, a radio and is equipped with electricity. The department of transport ,has inspected and approved the craft. N TARIO UTDOORS By VIC BAKER immkommaymonsmor CARE OF WORMS Despite the extensive campaign carried on during the past few years by the advocates of artifi- cial baits to have every angler use flies, spinners, plugs and similar artificial lures, we will always have with us the old dyed-in-the- wool fisherman who prefers worms first, last and always. To these fishermen we direct the following advice. To have the pleasure of good worm fishing in August and Sep- tember, the experienced angler prepares his bait during this month. The trouble is, however, that the majority of fishermen find it difficult to keep worms tough and in a fighting spirit throughout the summer months. There is one sure way of main- taining a large supply of worms so that they will snap back at the trou and this is it! Ali In A,yBax Construct a. box :about six by four -by three feet -deep of -one inch lumber. Cover the inside with "several layers, of gunny sack or paint with pitch. Sink all but. about four inches of the box in the ground in some shady . spot, then fill to within eight inches of the top with leaf mould and good rich soil. About once a week sprinkle some coffee grounds, powdered milk or cornmeal lightly over the surface of your worm cache. During very warm weatrzei sprinkle with a little water, being careful not to use too much or will sink to the bottom and sour the soil and the worms will die within 48 hours. During the real hot days, place a couple of sacks over the top of the box to keep out some of the. heat. This box should take care of at least a thonsand worse; ,end will keep most of them throb the entire summer. Stairs Are Vital In Horne Layout Old homes may be greatly im- proved in appearance with mod- ern stairways. Several treatments to beautify the home and remove a menace to safety, are: 1. Replacing worn-out treads on stairs. 2. Giving attention to creaking stairs. 3. Giving additional support to rickety cellar steps. 4.• Installing railing on cellar stairs to prevent accidents. 5. Transforming closed stair- ways into open stairways by re- moving one or more walls. 6. Replacing old posts and rail- ings with modern types. 7. Installing disappearing stairs • to attic. Charriberlain, Roosevelt Kin Eighth Cousins, G.exaealogist Says; Queen Related to Washington, Lee A high. British authority on ge- nealogies has announced his con- clusldn that Queen Elizabeth is related to George Washington and Robert E, Lee and, that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Chamberlain are eighth eousins three times removed, with King Edward I of England as a com- mon ancestor. King Edward. I Their Ancestor Those are findings of Anthony Wagner, holder of the 500 -year- old title of Portcullis Pursuivant at the College of Arms, home of British heraldry. Wagner has just completed a genealogical table showing that Roosevelt and Chamberlain de- scendedfroni a daughter and a son of William' Coytmore, an Eng - Tishman who lived in the 16th cen- tury. Queen Elizabeth's relationship to Washington was discovered ac cidenta••ily when Wagner was work-.:.. ing on Washington's family tree for the British pavilion at the New York World's fair. Nicotine Sulphate Controls Aphids Catch These Plant .Lice At the Beginning of an' Outbreak Aphids or plant lice are soft bodied insects which are frequent- ly found feeding in clusters on a wide variety of plants. They vary in colour; white, green, blue, red and black forms being the most common. Aphids can be controll- ed much more easily at the begin - ring of an outbreak than later in the season when their numbers have increased and the leaves on which they are feeding hAlre. curl- ed up in such a way as to protect them from sprays and dusts. Spraying the plants with nico- tine sulphate 40 per cent. and wa- ter, to which has been added a small amount of laundry soap, is the easiest and best method, sof control. Nicotine should be used: at the rate of three-eighths' of a pint to 40 gallons of water with 2/3 pound of soap added. In small amounts of the spray, use 2 spoonsful of nicotine in a gal- lon of soapy water. Apply the ma- terial on a hot, calm day and drench both the a upper and lower surfaees of the leaves so :is'to ac- tuallya'lait all' the insects. Gypsum production in Canada. during the' -first quarten of:1939 totalled 36,781 tons compared with 18,579 tons during the car - responding period of 1988. DICE or eh. PRESS EDUCATIONAL TOUR Since the Royal- tour t.as been on the people in Canada have had opportunity to learn the names of the premiers of our own carious provinces. —Peterborough Exam- iner. WE WASTE THE RAIN .As a rule, we get enough pre- cipitation in Ontario, but we don't hang on to it. Because of denud- ed land, bare hillsides and drain- ed swamps we run it all off to the sea.—Farmer's Advocate. ONCE WAS ENOUGH Ontario's motor license plates are being printed—black on can- ary yellow. Apparently the High- ways ighways Department's one experience with fancy color schemes was enough.—Owen Sound Sun Times. HISTORY: AND THE 'MOVIES - History in the movies is all right, but future youngsters may say Don Ameche discovered the telephone, Clark Gable the Missis- sippi and Raymond Massey invent- ed Lincoln. They saw them do it. --Brandon Sun. REAPING THE WILD VOTES Letter from John M. Robb, Con- servative organizer, is asking the party organizations in all consti- tuencies to welcome back return- ing reconstructionists. They will just be regarded as prodigals who have conte back after sowing their wild votes. -Toronto Star. THEATRICALS FOR ALL There is no substitute for the theatre, in its true sense. It gives a scope to the average individual,. with latent or developed artistic sense, that no other median), can supply. Its popularity only stres- ses its effectiveness. And in a day when synthetic forms of entertain- ment heed such a large part of the spotlight, there is an increasing need for more activity in the field of amateur theatricals.—Hamilton -Spectator. Training For Health Urged Dr. A. S. Lanib, heart of the de- ,partment of physical culture at Mc- Gill University and president of the Canadian Physical Education As- Isociation, recently told the associa- tion its "duty was to .protect and promote Health rather :than to carry on the "mistaken notion of exercise ..spedd,- strength and sweat'.' Dr. Lamb epapbeadaed that phis, seal pleasures were necessary to offset the "tremendous gait At which we travel" and the "high tension" which he said was bound to have later effeets, He said governments and other groups had made efforts to check 111 health "but many governments fail to realize the body of the child must go to :school with the child's mind, Teachers ),must recognize this," Dr, Lamb added that both social and economic planning were neces- sary to put over physical education, which must have government sup- port In Canada. The Pieced Quilt And, Patchwork Quilt -Making Is An Old Art On This Continent •— Collecting Specimens An Interesting Hobby It is not so much the objects col- lected ollected as the interests they bring with them that provide the thrills for the collector. Quilts collected by Mrs. Fulton Lewis, of Washington, D.C., are witnesses to the hardy spirit of the pioneer women who followed their, husbands to carve out homes in the wilderness. For more than 20 years she has gathered fine specimens of the art of women of early days. Designs with such names as "Kansas Troubles," "Log Cabin" and "Whig Rose" tell of days when men and women were making -a nation. "Quilt -making can be divided Into two classes," says Mrs. Lewis, "the first the pieced quilt and then the patchwork one. The pieced quilts were the ones used every" day, so they are now rarer than the patch- work or appliqued ones, which wens put away for best." Potato Diggers Digging potatoes in a long flat field Is part of summer, the midsummer sun A corn -silk color, forks nudge out the yield, Hilling from one row to a farther one. Watching the hent brown backs, the flashing curve Of tines above the damply tousled head, Modernity is lost between the swerve Of muscles spilling out the earth's sweet bread. Here in the tide of summer, un- derthesky e -Of 'summers the potato diggers - stand Leaning on forks; the mammoth golden eye Of sun adds bronze to back and arm and hand; Resting, they gaze across i waving sea Of light above the nuggets they will free. Books And You BY E.LiZABETH lEEDY AAA i i Ale pli�e+y�6-tin ry. p. .A.µ RICIA" By Grace Lied—lepton Hill Curl up in a hammock with this' one: The well -loved Mrs. Rill, au- thor of "The Seventh ]-four," "Lot Michael," Etc., has written a de- lightful and intensely human story of Patricia's struggle for and at- tainment of, in spite of her social - climbing mother, a way of life that brings happiness, satisfaction and inspiration, May the Fifth of the year Patricia Prentiss was twenty- four had become a day of dread beeause she must give Thorny Bel- lingham ellingham his final answer to bis many proposals of marriage, in- stead of the gala day of years be- fore when she had seen the Worth family, united and warmly happy. Each year Patricia had kept May the Fifth sacred and the memory green, aided by the lovely bed of lilies -of -the -valley young John Worth had planted at her gate on that memorable day. John return- ed on this crucial anniversary to Pat, through the fragrance of the few lilies he had picked on his way to the house, of all her childhood and young womanhood. The de- voted followers of Grace Living- ston Hill's charming novels will take John Worth and Patricia to their hearts. "Patricia."—by Grace Livingston Hill ... Toronto: J. B. Lippincott, 215 Victoria Street . . . $2.25. el,s44 /4 BEE HIVE LIFE'S LIKE THAT trArIVACie.r.e,07.Air 4'5°. By Fred Neher ,O.3r - Mopyrl a93A, LS 4,A NM, "Now you can sce how it will look on you, raacicara." REG't,A.R FELLERS — The Legal Mind BUMP HUDSON SAYS r SWIPED TWEMNY MARBLES t9FFN Hff`9- CAN x isle HIM P e "► b I NATCHERLY, MISTER DUFFY; IF YOU WAS MY CLrIENT t COULD PROVE YOU ABS TIVELY INNERCENT„ BUT YOU CANT QI_ MY CLIENT, UNTIL YOU PAs( ME A NICKEL lNADVANCE Ni rt A 0/2 CANT PA`( YOU A NICKEL! 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