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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-01-23, Page 6VOICE of the THE WORLD AT LARGE Speedy Kid CANADA, THE EMPIRE • 4 CANADA to stay in Canada during the winter or if, for economic reasons, one stays, A GOOD EXAMPLE is it reasonable and natural to attempt Magistrate J. B. Hopkins gave a to carry on ordinary commercial and social activities. • good example to his fellow -magas. Fish, mud -turtles, boars, bees, sentenced s throught the province when he squirrels, snakes, Ries, muskrats, sentenced a man, of aning guilty to hedgehogs and most of the other of `leaving the scene accident" to forms of life, which have no rapid a fine of $75 and costs, six days in means of transportation and are Saila suspension of driving license for thereby compelled to stay in the 30 days and an additional 24 days if northern half of the continent dur- the fine remains unpaid. ing the winter, do not attempt to Magistrate Hopkins pointed out carry on their ordinary activities; something which is not generally they go to sleep. Is that the proper enough known when he showed that thing to do Are these intelligent the maximum fine for this class of of.. people wrong? fence is a fine of a hundred dollars Look at the people who stay in the or 3 days in jail. Tdiat penalty should north and attempt to carry on their be increased at the coming session regular activities: Wolves, bankers, of the legislature as an amendment to moose, coal merchants, poolroom pro. the Highway Traffic Act so that mag- prietors, politicians, preachers, muse- istrates could use more discretion and clans, domestic fowl, plumbers, news- impose more severe penalties when paper reporters, billiard players, on.. the facts warrant such action. — Ni- 'vention orators, house cats, bridge stgaraFalls Review. players and college professors. Are NO JAY -WALKING the -members of this group wiser than In Kaslo, B.C., they impound the bees and bugs and senators? chickens runing at large and charge Wouldn't the country get along more 25 cents to get them out. The place scientifically and naturally if they all needs the money and it determined went into hibernation? to get it by fair means or fowl. -- Having thus proposed the subject t nelph Mercury. for the debate, we dispense with the RUBBER INDUSTRY argument and announce the decision, Canada ranks among the leading Making • all due allowance for the countries of the world as a mann- inevitable exceptions, it would ap- facturer of rubber goods. Production pear that obedience to natural law in 1934 was valued at $55,230,351, the should induce all the people in Cana - highest since 1930, when the output da to either go south or go to bed was worth $73,752,673. The products during the months of December, Janus ofthis industry find their way to the ary and February. — Western Pro.. remotestparts of the world. Norway, duces. IT Uruguay, Dutch East Indies, Belgian SHOULDN'T LIKEIt is nearly a year since Hauptman Hauptman Congo and China are but a few of the far-flung countries into whioh Can_ was condemned to death (Feb. 13, adian exports find their way. During 1935) after along trial; and he is still the year Canadian exports were valu- unhung. ed at $11,990,151. In 1930, Canada was That no one should be punished the fifth largest importer of raw unjustly is a noble idea; and of rubber in the world, ranking after course that idea is at the roots of the the United States, the United King_ laxity of American courts. But also dom, France and Germany. in 1934, the idea is noble that.arutltitudes of however, with an import of raw rub- decent people should not be consider- ber worth $7,654,544 Japan and Rus- ed easy prey by criminals who rob sia also headed Canada, — Bureau of and kidnap and murder; it is probably Statistics. more humane and better that one per - U. S. IS GRIEVED son in a thousand accused may bo The I.indberghs had suffered years punished unjustly by process of law than that crime should seam to be of danger, humiliation and exaspera- a tolerable safe avenue of exploita- tion in their own country. They tion by a comparatively few vicious had lost a son through the vilest sort people among millions of decent ones. of crime, and there were 'constant There is a further moral which threats affecting the life and safety some of our own people might take Of their other son, Jon. They were ,to heart. Imprisonment is punish., bombarded with letters from cranks, ment. A penitentiary is not a place Criminals, crack -pots, their privacy where convicts should find feather was invaded, their liberty ircum- beds and be encouraged to play ball scribed. games. It is a place where there The New York Times relates one should be strict discipline, stiff rest:. instance of this sort of thing. Young lations, plain food and hard work. Jon Lindbergh was being taken by The convicts will be dissatisfied. automobile from his school to his They should be. That is what they home. are there for. And the common sense • " A large car containing sever- of the Canadian people should be dis- al men came close alongside and posed to the side of the law and of crowded the car containing the lad the officers of the law when there are to the curb, forcing it to stop. i outcries in or about the penitenti- "Men jumped down. A teacher ac- companying the little lad clutched him tightly. Suddenly cameras were thrust into the child's face and click- ed. Then the visitors jumped into their machine and sped away, leaving a badly frightened teacher and little boy. "Since then Jon has not been to school" So Col. Lindbergh and his wife and child set out quietly for Eng- land, perhaps to make their home in that country, and his fellow -country- men, shaken out of their com- placence by an event comparable to abandonment of Britain by the Prince of Wales, are searching their con- sciences to learn whether they are not at fault. — Ottawa Journal. SPEAKING OF WEATHER Sir: --Believe it or not, The Globe was right again when it said in the Dec. 30 issue that Ontario was colder than the other provinces. I live in Ontario, only a short dis- tance from. the Ontario -Quebec pro- vincial boundary.. Our post office is in ,4uebec, and as I go for the mail every morning I cross the boundary line from Ontario into Quebec, and from Quebc back into Ontario on my re- turn trip, As I travel on foot I have an ex- cellent opportunity to note the tem- perature. So on the morning of Dee. 31 I decided to take special notice, and I discovered that as I drew near the Quebec boundary it became mild- er and milder, and by the time I reached the post office, which is about One hundred yards within Quebec, I ;leas obliged to take off my heavy Coat, which 1 carried on my arm until I got back into Ontario, when I put it On again. — Paul Bunyon, Point For- tune, Que., in a letter to The Globe, GOiNG SOUTH? The rich go south in the winter. The hoboes without any money do it. Professional golfers do it. Geese do it. Race -horses do it. Cattle used to do it and would yet if they had a Chance, Tile point arises as to whether or not it Is t)ie proper tiling to do. la It a reasonable or natural thing cries, — Ottawa Journal. THRILL OF DOING The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, one of Britain's most distinguished public men, is credited with the fol- lowing: "To those who say, 'Think of the difficulties!' I answer, 'Think of the reward!' " There's something to remember —think of the reward. Mr. Churchill, we take it, did not have monetary considerations in mind when he gave this advice. What he had in mind was the glory of achievement, the deep satisfaction that comes with a realization that one has striven hard and long and finally reached a goal, the path to which was beset with many difficulties. Think of the di culties, yes, but think of the reward! — Windsor Star. SOAK RICH -- ONCE Great Britain is reported to be getting alarmed over the prospect of reduced inheritance taxes. Un- der recent levies the yield has been enormous, but it cannot keep up• For instance, the fact is cited that when Lord Cowdray died in 1927, leaving $20,000,000 the treasury took $7,500,- 000, and when his son and heir passed out in 1933 there was another huge helping, so that now only two and a half millions remain of the original twenty. John Bull cannot eat his cake and still have it any more than anyone else. — Brantford ]expositor, THE EMPIRE WORLD OPPOSITION Take with a pinch of salt the oPin- ion of those who say that the eco- nomic line-up of fifty nations against Italy will crack the Mussolini re- gime. When you Hammer a nation you sometimes break it, you some- times make it. Britain, and a dozen allied nations, tried to hammer re- volutionary Russia in 1919. The Bus- slans of all creeds enlisted in sixteen Red Armies, though a year earlier the entire force were in mutiny. Thirty thousand old Czarist officers fought 21 Rod Lorrain who turned profes- sional with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League. for the Bolsheviks, repulsed all. at- tacks. If the Czarist -sympathizing foreigners had kept their hands. off Russia in 1919, possibly a Czar would be back there now. — London Ex- press. Grasshopper And Dandelion Backed Regina.—Proposal of the Natural History Society that a plant and an animal emblematic of Saskatchewan be adopted for the province brought a suggestion from an informant' that the choice fell on the grasshopper and the dandelion. Describing himself as "an anony- mous horticulturist," he said he was convinced no other plant than the dandelion and no other creature than the grasshopper had greater claims on Saskatchewan's coat of arms. U. S. Government Comes to The Atd of The Housewife • New York. — The United States Government is going to aid the housewife plagued by the maid who burns the meat, drops the dishes, sweeps the dirt under the davenport. Mrs. Sarah S. Dennen, head of the women's division of the New York Works Progress Administration, an- nounced recently a grant of $500.000 to school 7,600 domestic servants throughout the country in the prop- er way to wash clothes, make beds, cook and to do other Household tasks. Headaches For Pilots In Airplane Shopping ANCHORAGE, Alasna.—An avia- tor learned there are more than one size of diapers, afterbuying the wrong size and flying hundreds of miles to deliver them. Another was somewhat baffled by a telegraphed order from a man in the interior, "bring wife shoes, she's kind of big on foot," Star Air Service officials pointed out some of the difficulties they meet doing "shopping by air- plane" for Alaskans living in the far interior. One order for "long, women's un- derwear, size 36," could not be fill- ed. No store had such a garment. Old Hand Press First on Coast Victoria. — Just an ordinary hand press, a little ancient of lineage, can be seen in the museum of a convent here. It stands as a imminent to the enterprise and industry of British Columbia pioneers in journalism. The first news sheet in the coast province was printed on this French press with French type, but in the English language, in 1858. It 'was edited by an exiled French count, Paul de Garro. The machine was im- ported by the first bishop of Van- couver Island, Bishop Demers, Professional printing worked its way north from California and made its debut here with establishment the Victorian Gazette. On December 11, 1858, appeared the first number of the first newspaper in the prov- ince now surviving—the Victoria Co- lonist—then called the British Colon- ist. Work of Indian Teacher Praised Gives Credit For Success To His English Wife, A War Bride Lennox Island, P.E.I.—John Sark renounced his hereditary rights as Chief of the Micmac Indian reserve here when he answered the call of the Empire and went overseas with the 24th Battery as a non-commis- sioned- officer. But today, as teacher of the Micmac school, he is still chieftain to Indian youth. Returning to Summerside after an official visit to the little island. col- ony off the north coast of Prince, Edward Island, Miss Hilda W. Gillis, Inspector of Schools, reported: "The teacher is an outstanding athlete and musician. The pupils showed apti- tude in the mechanics of reading, writing and other school subjects. Singing is especially well taught in both Micmac and English." "The teacher takes advantage of Carnegie Library facilities and is well versed in the principles of teaching. The Indian pupils are ap- parently slow to grasp the ideas when presented in English, but it is remarkable how well they remember what they receive and how thorough- ly their work is done." "Mr. Sark" the school inspector said, "has indeed a great experimen- tal field in education. His work is satisfactory and commendable." Happy is John Sark living at the Reserve of his forefathers with his family and English wife, a war bride. He met the former Elsie Houghton at Dover Castle in England during the war. She was a volunteer nurse, he a Canadian artilleryman. War se- parated them for a time. They were_ married in December, 1916. Once more Sark went to the front and the ward bride continued her duties ministering to the sick maimed. In the Spring of 1917 a gun car- riage fell on Sark's chest. He was ordered home to convalesce. In the Dalton Sanitorium, Wiltshire, P.E.I., he lay for weeks while his wife, still behind the front line, carried on her work. The Red Man bad lost everything. Splashed in health, the future was bitter. The strength that took him "with the velocity of a hurricane" through the lines of opposing teams when his 210 pounds fought with St. Dunstan University's mighty football squad, was sapped. Finally a letter came from the English girl saying she was coming to join hien. "Without help she found her way to Dalton and walked into my pre- sence unannounced. When I saw her standing there, I knew that her heart was the perfect heart— 'Where you are, I should be,' she said, 'and I have come to make you (well."' The doctors had told the Indian he would be an invalid for the rest of his life. "But," declared Sark, re- suming the story in his own words, "within six months she brought back my strength and I was able to take over the Micmac school at the Lennox Island reserve," In the eyes of his people his wife was a stranger and for a time un- welcome. "But the beauty of her na- ture, the unselfishness of her life and the affection she showered upon me won their everlasting affection." The English woman has adapted herself to local customs and has be- come a leading spirit in the com- munity. They have five attractive children, three of whom are attend- ing the little school. They speak both Micmac and English; their Mother has never learned the Mic- mac tongue. "I hate war and the consequences of it" continued the keen -eyed Indian teacher, "but I have to thank God for the world upheaval that brought me the English girl and the children that now surround us." U. S. Yuletide Mall Increased 10 P.C. Washington --- Postmaster -General Janes A. Farley announced last week that reports front the 65 largest Bost offices in the U.S. indicated that Christmas mail this year was ap- proximately"10.21 per cent 'greater in Volume than last year.. Winter Water Supply Dairy cattle in milk should be supplied with water not colder than 50 degrees F. Water at a low tem- perature must be raised to approxi- mately tlsody temperature before it can be assimilated by the tissues. Heat must be absorbed from the body to accomplish this, Inasmuch as part of the feed which an aminal eats goes for athe production of heat and energy, the consumption of large amounts of cold water tends to in- crease the food supply used for this purpose. The Great Pyrar,nid I weather the steadfastness Of winds that blow Constantly and forever; I am the testament of the world in stone, Untouched by tremor. 1 do not'prophesy. ] an the base for all that is And all that ever will be. I ani the changeless and Divine Plan Of a Zealous Master Working toclnrds a great purpose. —O, D. S. None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is'•satistied and floweth over. -,-Tupper, t: 'Room At Top' For Ambitious Youth Is $maller $ays Pitkin There's still "room at the top" for ambitious youth — but, declares. Walter 1.3, Pitkin, fumed author of "Life Regina at Forty," it Is a Small- er room than it used to be. And in- stead of being in a city skyscraper,. it may be on the main street of the old home town. Able young man and women today, Dr. Pitkin notes in the current Ro- tarian Magazine, should take a real- istic view of the change, and recog- nize the feet that it may be neces- sary for them to work longer than did able youth of another generation at jobs requiring less than their full abilities. Progress up what lie de- scribes as "the battered old ladder of success," is apt to be slower than formerly, and wise youth will culti- vate local acquaintances and a know- ledge of local affairs. A 10 -point list of qualifications ne- cessary for high-grade young men and women who would reach the room -at. the -top is offered by Dr. Pitkin: 1. — Health , 2. — High energy 3. -- Persistence 4. — Thoroughness 5. — High technical training 6. — Social sense — the ability to get along well a*itli, people 7. — Serf-lthowledge, and self - understanding. 8. — Willingness to work for a long time at jobs requiring less than one's abilities. 10. — A knowledge of local affairs and wide acquaintanceship with local people. , All of which, be adds, is based on the patent fact, "Today there is no room, anywhere for millions who are able and willing to work. It's impor- tant, even though not pleasant to know that, in terms of mere numbers alone, every young worker who has arrived at working age since 1920 would be superfluous in our existing economic system if everybody were to use the latest and hest inventions and improvements. "We have heard much of the youth problem and it is a big problem, one that reaches around the world. Gratifying, however, is the intelligent interest business and professional men are taking not only in counsell- ing youth but in actively helping them make adjustments." Men with great conversational pow- ers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.—Mac- aulay, For Many Occasions Quite suitable for youthful or heavier figures, is this dress. It combines a very pleasing and rich effect in fabrics in pebbly and plain beige crepe silk. Just the thing to wear under a fur ccoat. It lends it- self to a wide variety of occasions. Then, too, wear it right through spring, Or snake this simple to sew uress of new looking crepe silk print with color on color. Style No. 32.15 is designed for siz- es 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40- inches bust. Size 16 i'e,quires 21/2 yards of 39 -inch material with 11/2 yards of 39 -inch cpntrasting. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted, Enolose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred:; wrap it .Carefully) and adds esq your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 We Adelaide Street, Toronto. Author Sues, Movie Producers Francis Hacket Says "Henry VIII" Filen Piracy Of His Work New 'Rork,—The English talking picture version of "The Private Life of Henry VIII," which made a singu- lar sueeess here and abroad and es- tablished British . motion pictures as a distinct threat to American procluc tions, was attacked as an "unwar- ranted and blatant piracy" in a suit filed in United States District Court last week by Fanny E. Holtzman, in- ternational lawyer, for Francis Hack- ett, American author of "Henry VIII." The suit, which promises to be the biggest plagarism suit in recent years, is expected to involve more than $1,000,000. Alexander Korda, the producer; London Film Productions, Ltd., and the United Artists' Corporation, are named defendants. Mr. Hackett de- mands a restraining order, directing the defendants to desist from exhib- iting the picture,. and also the sur- render of all prints made of the film; an accounting for all profits in the United States, and payment of the costs of bringing the suit. • CHARGES LISTED The complaint alleges that parts of Mr. Hackett's biography, copy- righted in 1929 by Horace Liverright, Inc., publishers, 'were pirated with "the conscious intention. and purpose to excite, by representation and mis- representation . . . the same emo- tions as complainant had invented and created in his book. 'Henry VIII"'., Questioned about the suit, Mr. Hackett said that he discovered the, likeness between his book and the film when he chanced into a Dublin theatre. "To my astonishment," he said. "I, saw paraded across the screen the living interpretations I had gleaned' by laborious years of detailed re- search." Mr. Hackett said he spent many years in England, France and Italy gathering material for the book. "After my book became a best sell- er," he said, "my agent went to Hol- lywood, where he discussed its pos- sibilities for screen purposes. Nego- tiations were started but were not yet completed when I chanced to see the Korda production in Dublin." Asked whether he would institute suit in England on the basis of the English copyright on his book, Mr. Hackett said that any further action depended on Miss Holtzmann. The motion picture, in which Charles Laughton played the part of Henry VIII, portraying the monarch,, as an ordinary, kindly human being rather than a Bluebeard, as the pop- ular conception of the King, was selected by many critics as the out- standing motion picture of 1933. The Prince of Wales Sponsors New Fashion A new fashion in men's wear has been started by the Prince of Wales. Changes in men's fashions take place slowly and are often so slight as to pass unnoticed except to the most dis- cerning. The change which the Prince has now sponsored is a matter of cut. The coat of the suit instead of being shaped at the side is cut with a straighter line. The trousers hang perfectly straight, t..o, avoiding a broken line at the bottom by being a trifle shorter than usual and thu.s doing away with the crease at the ankle produced in heel -length trous- ers. Savile Row, London, is said to be preparing to follow the lead set by the Prince. There's No Argument; Women Are Better Air Travellers Than Men Chicago;—Women apparently snake better air travellers than do men. This information showed up in a study of the needs and attitudes of air passengers made by a large air- line in establishing a "ground school" where its 75 stewardesses are taught applied psychology, some home eco- nomics and aviation rudiments. Soule of the things the company learned about its clients, said New- ton Wilson, instructor, and Steward- esses Grace Hall of Milwaukee, Wis., who has :flown nearly 500,000 miles, and Ruth Phelan of Iowa City, Ia,, with 400,000 miles in the aiit, were Women flying the first tine relax more quickly than men first (light- ers; women take bad weather more calmly than do nen; women general- ly obey instructions better; women are more careful where they put their cigarette ashes; men demand more service and attention than wo- men; men ask more questions; men get more restless than women, and male epicures are more fussy about the menu than women on a diet. Women, if air -sick (company's lat- est records showed only 50 passen- gers out of 21,000 got airsick), take it less seriously than nen—and they take something to settle their tum - 1 pies, even if it does "taste awful," with less squirming than inen. "If scientific research is allowed to go on for eight or ten centuries; all diseases may be suppressed." — Dr. Alexis Carrel.