Zurich Herald, 1936-03-12, Page 6THE WORLD
AT LARGE
CANADA,
THE EMPIRE
RISS
CANADA
Knew How
Despatches told of t Toronto mag-
istrate letting a man off because the
prisoner always read the magtstrete's
articles on trees and wild flowers.
Another Toronto magistrate, the late
Col. George T. Dennison, could al-
ways be moved by any old soldier
who, excusing too exuberant a cele-
bration, pleaded a battle anniversary
or a reunion of old comrades.—Ed-
mold-on Journal.
The Editorial Page
For a time, in some quarters, there
rose a feeling that what the people
desired most in their newspapers was
news, and' the editorial page was a
thing of minor importance. George
Fort Newton, distinguished historian
and editor, told the American Poli-
tical Science Association recently,
that this philosophy was passing
and the editorial page was coming.
back into its own. "Today's edi-
torials," he said, "explain, rather
coerce. The editor undertakes tt re-
late an item to its general frame of
reference. He introduces an explan-
ation and background so that the
reamer, having informed himself, can
make up his own mind as to what it
is all about."—Halifax Chronicle.
did well on the diet, so until we
have something stronger in the way
of argument than we now posses we
must conclude that it is possible to
keep body and soul hitched together
at a very modest outlay -9.85 cents
per day,— Peterborough Examiner.
Exemplary Act
A Port Colborne man has paid
back tt his municipaLty all ha receiv-
ed in relief, Having "got on his
feet" again, he shows his apprecia-
tion in this way, It is such cases
which makes it easier to pay taxes
for relief purposes.—Chatham Neiws.
Sensible!
There is good sense in the ruling
of ,a Prince Edward Island county
judge that a minor of nineteen is
bound by a contract he signed to buy
a fox—ii, contract he attempted to
evade by pleading his legal infancy.
"I ani asked," said Jude,, Duffy, "to
assist the defendant on the techn'cal
plea of infancy. If I did so I would
consider that I was heiri>ng him to
steal the Etat front the plaintiff. This
I refuse to do." This is sensible. On
the precedent set by Judge Duffy
Motoring in Australia
The cost of motoring in Australia
is very much higher than in many
'other parts of the world. A car cost-
ing approximately £170 in Canada,
would be sold in Australia at about
• $400, The difference in cost is ac-
counted for by customs duty, prim-
age, freight, exchange, and other
charges. In .addition, the price of
petrol is much higher, being is ld
per imperial gallon. In 1914 the duty
was one halfpenny per gallon for
British and three-quarters of a pen-
ny for foreign. Gradually this has
been increased until now the duty is
73 c1 per gallon.—Brandon Sun.
Pullman Porters
How the railroads begun to em-
ploy colored gentlemen as porters
Seems "wrapt in mystery" There is
no foundation for the belief that
President Lincoln suggested it to
George Pullman, mention of whose
izame may be the reason why port-
ers are called "George." At any rate
Colored porters were first employed
in the late seventies or early eight-
ies. Six or seven years ago when
The railroads were really prosperous
;the Pullman Company gave employ-
ment to 11,000 porters, chefs and
waters, but at the present time
there are only about 7,000. The pay
varies according to the job on the
trains, but the average is $90 a
month.—St. Thomas Times Journal.
perhaps the custom will be establish-
Canadian Olympic Members. Pass in Review
Members of the Canadian Winter Olympic team return a Nazi salute as they pass the reviewing
stand in the parade opening the 1936 Winter Olympic Games at Garmisch Partenkirschen,•
ed of deciding every such case cn its One can only learn that purple has
always been a "Royal" color.
King Edward VII, it is stated,
pointed out to the authorities that
merits,—Ottawa Journal.
Save The Surface
"Save the surface and you save tall' draping should be carried out in
all," they tell us, So when we read purple rather than black . at Queen
that the co-eds of the University of Victoria's funeral.
Wisconsin use enough lipstick each, All shades of purple are being
year to paint four barns, all eve can widely worn at the moment, and will
say is that perhaps it is the more continue to be much seen. Amethyst,
important surface that is receiving plum, and egg plant are three tones
attention. : i suggested by the British Color Conn,
Barns may be important to house oil.—Edinburgh Scotsman.
horses and cattle and machinery and
potatoes. But just think of ell the World's Best Seller
romance there is wrapped up in a I predict that Kipling's fortune
pair of girl's lips. will prove the greatest ever left by
And without that romance there an author.
probably wouldn't be any use for the More than any mei he had what
cattle and the potatoes before long. Arnold Bennett called an estate in
Perhaps even the farmers will agree , his books. They sold steadily all. over
to that. ' the world for 45 years, and he never
By all means save both surfaces! ' allowed his work to appear in cheap
—Sault Ste. Marie Star. editions.
In 1929 his fortune was esthnated
Delayed News by those who should be in a posi-
The speed of communications be- •tion to know at about £750,000. His
tween all parts of the world is one "Jungle Book" alone brought him in
of the proud boasts of the present over £10,000 a year. '
era. But there are some regions I Nothing can be more erroneous
without direct contact with the rest than the idea that his poetry is no
of the world. For instance, the news longer read. In the United States
of the earthquake in China rtported alone the sale of his various volumes
to have brought death to thousands of verse has averaged from 100,000
hi Szechuan province, did not reach
the world until a week after it oc-
curred.—Kingston Whig -Standard.
Germany Arms
It has been openly stated in France
that the German military strength
is now three times that of France
herself. That proportion is rapidly
increasing in favor of Germany. She
possesses an air army not only the
finest of its kind technically, but an
Air force under control of men more
thoroughly air-m'nded than any in
the world. Like her opposite number
in the Far East, Japan, Germany has
expansionist aspirations; she has the
means to fulfil them, and she has
the will to apply those means.—Lon-
don Sunday Dispatch.
Tradition of Service
King nclward is certainly not a
slave to tradition, but he adheres, to
the tradition of service that his fore-
bears have handed down. The world
wishes -nim wis11,—Sault Star,
•
Canada's Smoke
With women taking to the weed
in more recent years, cigarette coni-
sumption has gone up materially.
Last year nearly four and one-half
billion cigarettes were smoked in
Canada. This works out to an aver-
age of 1,250 for every pian and wo-
man of smoking age. Since thele are
still many of either sex •who cannot
bear the taste of tobacco or haven't
formed the habit of puffing away at
a "fag," some cigarette smokers must
have greatly exceeded the 1,250 av-
erage.—Kitchener Record.
Chronic Disease
Injured Michigan couple wants to
sue reckless driver whose mind, his
lawyer claims, has been a blank since
the accident. Only since the acci-
dent?—Guelph Mercury.
A Job for Leacock
9.85 Cents Per Day
Major Trethewy who governs the
jail of Perth County reports that
during the last quarter of. 1935 it
cost 9.85 cents per day to feed apris-
oner. That would be about 69 cents
a week. So if you have a family of
five you see the weekly bill for food
should be about $3.44, The report
from Perth says the inmates of the
jail did well on the diet; in fact we
believe it was stated they thrived on
it.
Ilreacl appears to be one of the
large items, and 260 poui{d's C meat
was purchased.; Other articles used
were wheat products, beans, barley,
rice, sugar, potatoes, onions, rice,
sugar, potatoes, onions, raisins and
jann.
A dietitian would say this was
not a balanced diet; it leans toward
starches and its,. carbohydrates corm
tent would be high. A person work-
ing at something, where physical ex-
ertion Was needed could probably
burn up all •the' fuel: providptle•but
one staying in '50i1 would be apt :Le'
put on a coattii of soft ; fate %One•
With n tendertle toward diabetes
wouldg
- o dawnt;pickiy under :web
fabd,
'•'But against a' strch argument is
'the fact that than prisoners lived and
If Stephen Leacock is•serious (and
we scarcely think he is)—about de-
voting his remaining years to the
presidency of the Anti -Mosquito As-
sociation 'of East Simcoe, now that
he has been, chucked. out of his job
at McGill by its octogenarian gover-
nors because he has reached the age
of 65, we think that, in the national
interest, he might do much worse
than become the head of a Domin-
ion -wide anti -mosquito ' organization
or, speaking more locally, the head
of an Upper St. Lawrence Valley
Anti -Shad Fly Association.
We understand that the mosquito
control' efforts undertaken in the vi-
cinity of Oiillia, a con flitnity im-
ind`rtalized by Leacock, have been
uniformly successful. Ile would con-
fer benefit upon .many another Sum-
mer resort region, not excluding the
Rideau lakes, if 1xe• would undertake
a nation-wide tour in the interest of
mosquito contr4l.—Brockvill Record-
er.
to 150,000 copies annually d r n
the last quarter of a century.—Lon-
don Evening Standard.
Pictures Life
Bit Fantastic
Woman's Speaker in Winni-
peg Asks for Modern
Gilbert
WINNIPEG—A modern life as
fantastic as a comic opera and nearly
as hilarious was pictured by Mrs.
Valance Patriarche its an address
1 ere.
Speaking on "This Gilbert and
Sullivan World of Ours," she stated,
"We sadly need a reincarnation of
Gilbert and Sullivan—a genius who
would make this somewhat criminal
world a source of innocent merri
menti"
Aftei dealing with the fact that
Gilbert and Sullivan opera was
modelled on the pure Greek comedy
written five centuries ago, and was
equally pungent and democratic, she
outlined some phases of modern life.
Extraordiniary changes have taken
place in domestic life—companionate
marriage, alimony fon men, children
taken on visits to see what their
mothers and fathers are like; three-
quarters of the people being support-
ed, submitting, and thinking - the 25
per cent. should be ashamed to have
enough money to do the supporting.
"We make it easy for young con-
pies to marry and have a
fa
m Y,
on relief,but veryhard for the
young people on sonata salaries; we
build large sewers and large hospi-
tals, but have no money to build
homes; we live in a world where
everyone sings, that, too, making it
more operatic," said the speaker.
She suggested scenes and lyrics
for an opera dealing with tendencies
of today, and, finished by explaining
,that,a.,eariter .of pure nonsense and
same comedy,. Would have a more
difficult, ,task liow than in the time
of Gilbert aitt Sullivan, Those writ-
ers made sober realities appear •Ian -
Farm
Conducted by
with the co-operation
Ontario
roblems
Professor Henry G. Bell
of the various departments of
Agricultural College.
The business of farming is yearly
becoming more and more dependent
upon facts that have been gathered
regarding livestock and livestock
management, crop production, soil
management, d'sease and insect con-
trol and business organization of the
farming industry. Individual prob-
lems involving one or more of these,
and many other phases of agricul-
ture, engage the attention of Ontario
farmers from day to day. During the
winter months there is a little more
time for study of the most acute
problems.
Through this column farmers may
secure the latest information pertain-
ing to their difficulties. To intro-
duce this service Professor Bell has
prepared the. following typical prob-
lems to , indicate the information
which should be given in order that
a satisfactory answer can be letter made.
If answer is des:red by en-
close stamped and addressed envelope
for reply. Address all inquiries to
Professor Henry G. Bell, Room. 421,
73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ontario.
J. H., Chatham,
(1) Question:—We hear a good Ileal
about Fertil'zer containing ext- a
plant food materials such as mag-
nesia, lime, sulphur, etc., besides
the usual nitrogen, phosphorus,
and potash and I would like to
know just how importanit these
other plant food elements are in a
Commercial Fertilizer.
Answer:—On certain soils, the extra
or rarer plant nutrients may he
of very great service, e.g., where
sand -brown or premature yellow-
ing of tobacco occurs, magnesium
salts have been• found to effect a
cure. Magnesium is supplied in cal-
cium -magnesium limestone (dolo-
mite or in the form of sulphate
of magnesium. Sand -brown occurs
on very sandy. soils. Sulphur has
been found to be of great sere ee
in addition to suitable fertilizers,
on onions grown on muck soils. It
has also enabled celery crops td
withstand disease and make good
growth. Borax on turnips—in ad-
dit'on to manure or fertilizees has
produced crops free of water core
under certain conditions, while its
ilk has not been effective in all
cases.
(2) Question: -Some fertilizer sales-
men tell us they have a line filler
in their fertil'zer instead of a
sand filler and for this reason
their fertilizer is worth more mon-
ey. Please let me know what you
think about this.
Answer: ---Dolomite l'mestone used as
a filler in fertilizer- will correct
acidity of soil if used in sufficient
quantity and if the sells are not
acid. Sand will not correct acidity.
(3) Question:—Does fertilizer kept
over fromone year to another lose
any of its strength?
Answer—If fertilizers are stored in
'a dry place, they should not suf-
fer any loss of plantfood if stored
for a year.. There may be some
tendency for the fertilizers to get
• hard or .set. Before attcmptmg to
sow. fertilizers that have been
stored over winter, they should
thoroutghly sifted before they are
taken to the field, so that they
may drill evenly.
(4) 'Question: --Which do you think.
Would pay best on oats and bar-,
.ley mixed, one bag—per acreof
fertilizer er two bags per mere,`?
Answer:—Rates of fertilizers (2-12-
6) were tried on three farnis in
a,. T E 'EMPIRE
Women Mit Lazy
Preparing Food
Miss,: Agnes Macpllail 'T'ake
-E >ception to Relllarks of
Dry, Currelly
1ti1'ss Agnes 111•nrpha'l, the woman
member of I',ur'liaunent from Grey -
Bruce, is date at the statement of
Dr, C. T. Currelly that "woincn are
growing so lazy they won't make the
effort to •cook the family meal,"
The statement or the distinguish-
ed Toronto arahacoloi :st was sweep.'
'ng. "There here is a tendency to neglect
the cooking of vegetables becatise of
sheer laziness, Dr. Currelly said, add-
ing women go to the corner stere to
buy prepared food and that the eat-
ing of the "lazy" forms of foods in-,
creased the danger of universal
dyspepsia.
"Dr Currelly soi.nds as if he was
suffering from a bad attack of in-
digestion himself," Mise Mac•pha:i
responded. "Out our way most Women
cook two, three and even four vari-
eties of vegetables for the midday
meal in the summertime. A large
salad is almost regulation menu for
supper. In the winte' vegetables are
not so numerous and come from the
vegetable pit. As for women being
laza* cooks! Well, I think perhaps what
we had better do is • to invite Or.
Currelly—who, I believe, is an archa-
eologist — out to our part of the
country for a meal."
(Dr. Currelly made his accusation
of laziness at -a meeting last week of
the Ontario Vegetable Growers' As-
sociation in Toronto, However, he
corrected the statement by saying
women worked just as hand now as
they did in bygone days because they
had less help in modern Vines).
1935 by the Ontario Agricultural
College with the following results:
Treatment Yield per acre
No fertilizer 32.1 bus.
125 lbs. pen acre 39.4 bus.
250 lbs. per acre 55.6 bus.
Henry GBt'-',
Dept. of Chemistry, O.A.C.
Mennonites Wish 'to
Come Bach to Canada
WINNIPEG — Western Canad'ans
.sought a 'clue last week as to where
7,000 Mennonites from Mexico would
seek new homes if they return to the
Canadian west they abandoned in
1922.
So far as could be learned, no con-
tact has been made with Mennonite
colonies in Manitoba and Sask-
atchewan although spine communic-
ation may have been made with the
Canadian Mennonite colonizatiot
board at Rosthern, Sask.
Disputes over education and mili-
tary service led to 5,000 Mennonites
selling their Canadian holdings in
Manitoba and Saskatchewan and go-
ing to the Durango Valley in Mexico
and- another 1,500 going to Paraguay
in South America.
They quit Canada to escape the
obstacles to their religion. Reports
from El Paso, Tex., said they now
want to leave Mexico and return to
the Dominion because they were op-
posed to the socialistic educational
program of the Mexican government.
Mme. Stavisky, or Mine. Simone,
as she prefers to be called, is a Cin-
derella in reverse. At one time the
most envied woman in Paris she
turns today to the chorus—appear-
ing in the Frenc/ C:ifno's revue in
New York. Mme. Stavisky speaks
English haltingly despite the fact
that her early years were spent in an
English school.
..,,,,,;..;,,Reason for'Royal'Purple Nj tastic and absurd; a modern satirist
have been asking! must make ,.:fantastic and absurd
Illany people i , ealities a ears: serious and 'chatter of
themselves rclueingpurplethese recent Haketact in order' , to show what they
'w'hen so Deitch has been min- i 1
led with, tate black, why' pur.acrple,;a ):yate worth.
color: iti�•itself so bright is a mourn-
ing color. One; ltas flailed to find the “When a neat. wants to numacr a
origin of a custom so wide -Sproat, tiger he calls:it sport; when the fig -
i er wants to mtirdor,hira the •gallS •it
i43 :ferocity '----George le.tnatd Shaw.
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Easy To Make!
ray
Could
Welcomes Return
Of Snelling Bei
Commenting on the revival oft the
Old Posh lolled Spelling Bee,''Stephen
Leacock, Professor oe Economies at
McGill University in a letter to The
Montreal Star: "I am glad that we are
to have the Old Spelling Bee back
with us. It used to play a great part
in the lives of the plain people of
Canada and the United States, Be-
fore radio was and before proving
pictures were, in the days of the
'Little Old Schoolhouse,' the Spelling
Bee had its honored place. It repre-
sented that combination of amuse-
ment and intellectuality dean to a
progressive •people. The people on
this continent could always read and
were proud of it! They carried their
tattered Spelling, Books to the Fron-
tier cabins. The book moved west
firstt, and the teacher afterwards.
`True progress', as my epigramatic
friend, Sir Andrew Macphail, would
say, 'is best achieved by putting the
cart before the horse.'
"All our great -nen on this con-
tinent, our Abraham Lincolns and
our John A. Macdonalds, achieved
their first triumphs in a spelling
Bee. As a matter of fact, I was
pretty good at it myself, any supreme
feat of spelling "harass,", "arras"
and ',embarrass" at School (Section
No. 3, Township of Georgia, A.D.
1878) put a laurel wreath on my
• head which
I
anstill prepared to
you possibly choose a defend. I congratulate The Star on
smarter or a prettier blouse?, reviving this good old institution."
Slip it over your head in a jiffy. j
Its soft -collarless draped neck so ?ca.
®o s Ickie M.ozlisie
Mous-' Are, ,You".
Injures 1 iitants
CFIICAGO- Baby talk carne in for
some band wands recently.
linen, etc.,• are suitablei, smart Parents eu'ha indulge in it, when •
mediums. talking to baby, drew e. frown from
Style No, 2552 is designed for Dr, Frederick W. Brown of Floral
sizes 14, 17, 18 years, Stn, 38 an Paik, N.Y., Who told the American
40 -inches bust;. Size .1G requi
,-!1,..42 yards of 35 -inch material.
completely comfortable un der;
your suit, lends itself to inspira-
tions with handkerchief scarfs or
Modern clips.
Easy to make! Inexpensive!
Ono glance at illustrated diagram
reveals the secret,
Silk or ' satin crepe, cottons,
that this means . trouble, •
1TOW TO ORI)F.lt 1'A'F'1"EltNS "Poor comprehension in children of
Write your name and address the seventh and eighth grades' has
plainly, giving number and size boon traced to the fact that ��they
of pattern wanted. Enclose 15c in were baby talkers in infancy, he
s{annps or coin (coin preferred); said,
wrap it carefrdly and address your. "To encoura'e it, or indulge chit-
, order .to Wilson Pattern ,Service. ch'en in it, will retards and may int-
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nt73 West A.delarde Street; Torontoa pair his general learning,. n,,>,,