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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-07-16, Page 6!CE of the -_... THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA Better Manners Needed on The Highways The Ontario Department of High- ways, irom knowledge born of its elaborate records, declares that any reduction in the number of "motor - vehicles -pedestrian accidents" rests upon observance of the rules of ordin- ary col rtesy." The Department could have made its conclusion mare gen- eral. A very large proportion of traffie accidents of all sorts might be avoided by observance of the rules of ordinary courtesy. Plain boorish- ness explains vast number of acci- dents. t leave Far ass dents. too many motor thea good manners behind them when they climb under the wheel of a motor vehicle. They are quite re- gardless not only of pedestrians but of other cars. They ignore rules of the right of way, leave the curb with- out signal, make turns without any to warning to following traffic, show their fellow drivers a rudeness, a lack of that ordinary courtesy, which rep - presents almost a psychological con- dition. drtio:�. Gammon politeness does not permit of races with trains to level. crossings, of cutting perilously ahead of other cars in traffic, of crowding lights and signs, of speeding on town streets. If, in a word, we would take to the highways our drawing -room manners we should have many lives, and much suffering.—Brampton Con- servator. Story With A Moral CANADA THE EMPIRE PRESS over the highways on Sunday and Monday know the reason -- there wasn't a car left in the city.—Fergus News -Record. That Witching Hour English courts have ruled that the expression 12 p.m. is meaningless. A motorist was charged with disobey- ing a sign erected by local authori- ties. This forbade parking in a cer- tain spot "between 10 a.m. and 12, p.m." The defence argued that 12 pan. is no time at all, means noth- ing and is nowhere mentioned in an act of parliament; that being so, the local authorities had committed an offence in putting up the notice. The accused was discharged. There cannot be many people who use the term 12 p.m, and still fewer who use 12 a.m.; 12 midnight and 12 noon, or simply midnight and noon are generally and correctly employed. To use 12 a.m. for 12 noon is obvi- ously incorrect; it being the exact maridian the time cannot be either before or after the meridian. • With respect to 12 midnight it is not so clear; that 12 o'clock is the same distance between one meridian and the next. In that sense one person might call midnight 12 a.m. and an- other call it 12 p.m. with equal justi- fication, but with a good chance of confusion. Truly it is the witching hour. Except that we are all so used to our twelve-hour division of time, it makes one long for the days when midnight was called 00.00 hours and 12.25 a.m. was 00.25 hours, and when one dined—on bully beef again—at 19.30 hours or thereabouts. At any rate, there was then no argument about a m. and pan.—St. John Tele- graph -Journal. The Chance Came Here's a little golfing story about the Open championship at Baltusrol Playing the 390 -yard fourth hole to- gether, both Denny Shute and Willie Klein were on in two, missed putts for birdie three, took fours. Then each tried his putt over again and sank it. Moral: The time to do any job right is when it counts in the score.—Wind- sor Star. Brief Comment Toronto papers note that there wasn't a single fatality in the city during the day. Those who drove Public Health Authorities Gather Here are delegates at the Ottawa conference of provincial healthauthorities called HoHon. C. G. Power, Federal Minister of Pension and National 'Health. Front (leftright) Manitoba; Hon. Mark R. McGuigan, P.E.1.; Hon. Dr. F. R. Davis, Nova Scotia; Hon. W. 1''. Roberts, New Bruns,.'ick, Hon. C, G, Power, Federal Minister of Health; Hon. James A. Faulkner, Ont.; Hon. J. M. Uhrich, Sask. Second Row (left to right) Dr. R. E. W ehou e, Deputy e u y M1iinister, Pen- sions and National Health; Dr. W. W. Warwick, Deputy Provincial Officer of Health, British Columbia Dr.AlbJ. A. LeduH. c, Provincial ovn i l Boarder of Health, (Wel- ue- ,. bee; Dr. M. R. Bow, Deputy Minister of Health, fare, British Columbia; Dr. B. T. Mc(xhie,� Deputy Minister of t to right) Health, nttarioo, Dree n . Dain Deputy Minister of Health, Saskatchewan..Third Row Depart- ment of Health, P.E.I.; pr. P. B. Campbell, Chief ealtth1 Officer, r Nov Health,ScScotia; Dr. F. W Jacksr. on,. Deputy Minister of Health, Manitoba; 17r. John Phair, hn Heagerty, Chief executive assistant, Federal Department of Health. Elon A. Stowater is a Kentucky man, 74 years of age. Recently the apartment in which he lived caught fire and he slid down a rope from the fourth floor. As he was walking away a reporter stopped him and ask where he found the rope. -9 didn't find it," replied Stowater. "I had it. I've kept a rope under my bed for 30 years because I have always been afraid of being trapped in a fire."— St. Thomas Times -Journal. By KEN EDWARDS Olympic Gaines The first Olympic games were held at Olympia, Athens, Greece, 776 B.C. Romans did not enter the games until after their con- quest of Greece. Tiberius, several years before he became emperor, was the first celebrated Roman to win a victory —a chariot race. Lacrosse Lacrosse originated with the American Indians, the game be- ing played purely for amusement and its exercise value. The Indians had as many as a thousand players on each side, each carrying two sticks. The uni- form consisted of a Loin cloth and dyed horse's tail. Squaws took part by switching their husbands on with sticks, urg- ing then on to victory. Auto Racing The first auto race in America was on Thanksgiving Day, 1895. The entrants were called mote - cycles, not automobiles. The win- ner, J. F. Duryea, travelled 53k miles in 10 hours, 23 minutes. Henry Ford was very much in- terested in that first American race; he wanted to be Present but could not borrow the ear fare ! The world's record of 143 miles per hour was held by Bob Bur- man for years. That veteran speeder of the road, Ralph De Palma, won more than 200 races. Swimming When Julius Caesar was over 80 years old he was shipwrecked, Jumping overboard. he held Itis sword between his teeth, valuable documents in his left hand; using his right hand he swam to shore. America sent the first women's swimming team to the Olympics in 1920. When she was only 16 years old Helene Madison of Seattle set six new world records. QUESTION 130X cumulative strength.—Kingston Whig - Standard. hr -Standard. Sound Path 1• service cavi ice s v ofNations' The League should be kept intact, even though, beyond this practical service, the limi- tations are obvious. Canadadoes well to continue along the sound path of international conciliation as it has been demonstrated . for many years between this country and the United States by the International Joint Commission.—. -Ottawa Citizen.; They Are Everywhere "There are too many people walk- ing around," notes The Ottawa Journal, "who are not content with wasting their own tune." So the Ottawa Editor suffers, too! -- St. Catherines Standard. If you have any question re- garding sport personalities or any particular angle, to a game, write to gen Edwards, Rooin 421, 73 Adelaide West, Toren. to. If a personal rely is desir- ed, enclose a stamped (3c) self- addressed envelope. THE EMPIRE Pithy Anecdotes Of the Fat cess There was a time when William Butler Yeats, like most poets was pretty hard up. But that was Scarbor- ough (in "England Muddles Through) Then he gave some classic definitions such as "A gentleman is a mar who never bilks his tailor," "A man who dresses for dinner," and "One who Prefers caviar to kippers." Officially' Unknown Haile Selassie, exiled Emperor of Abyssinia, comes to London. Mr. Baldwin keeps his lips sealed, and the British Government look the other way and pretend not to notice any- thing. But the cockney crowd roll up, and how they cheer! in Rome the people hail Marshall Badoglio, victor of Abyssinia. Mussolini canhardly pretend that he does not know about soldier Badoglio, who cleaned up his war for him after Blackshirt de' Bono had got it well stuck in the mud. But: Mussolini orders "No flags 'for Ba= doglio!" Whether you, 'win or 'lose Abyssinia, it seems to be officially unpopular. London Daily Express. A Fitting Memorial The King was a lover of youth, youth out of doors above all. , His faith in the future of the Empire was founded on his belief in the rising. generation, whom he addressed, it will be remembered, in trusting terms' in the last of his broadcast messages.. It would not be rash to say that King" George himself would have given swift approval to the nation-wide; network of playing -fields, where in time to come British youth will find remembrance of his fame. It would be difficult to imagine any form of memorial which, recalling the past with thankfulness, borrowed 'so )Much from the future as well. Those who pass through "King George's Gates" will at once pay tribute to a great and good man and find a charter for their own health" and happiness.— Glasgow Herald. Last Survivor The Iast survivor of "the gallant six hundred" who charged at Bala- klava in 1854 died nine years ago, according to the London Times. It is usually very sure of the correctness ' of its statements. So claims from time to time that some who were in the light brigade are still living may be safely disregarded. The Times also gives the information that the last survivor of Trafalgar died in 1884, and of Waterloo in 1894„—Ed- mouton 894: Ed - mouton Journal. Only Five Above Us This is something for our pride as Canadians: that in total international trade this Dominion last year held: sixth place in all the world. The value of our trade, it is computed by the Bureau of Statistics, was exceeded by but five nations—the United King- dom, United States, Germany, France and Japan." The trade of these eleven million Canadians was greater than the trade of Belgium, the Nether- lands, British India, Italy, and all other countries. In exports we were fifth, being ex- ceeded only by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Prance. We were ninth in imports, the first eight being United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Ja- pan, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium. Back in 1920 Canada stood fourth place for total trade. For the follow- ing decade we were fifth or sixth, With the depression we slumped to seventh in '31 and '32, to ninth in '33. Then the improvement comme iced— we were eight in '34 and, as we have said, sixth in '35. — Ottawa Farm Journal. Things Are Better The financial pages of the news- paper these clays contain a, rising number of notices of dividends to be. paid by companies. Suntmaries of dividend payments show substantial Ictal increases by representative com- panies. If 'one turns back the files to pages of two and three years ago the contrast is distinctly marked. Betterment has ;;'one along eluietlY and steadily from almost impercept- ible beginnings and is gaining eviden' But the one that tickled my fancy most, because of its Cockney humor, was this: - 'E's a gentleman; 'e don't blow on 'is tej&, 'e fans it with. 'is 'at." ThesL' lines appear on the last page of Ja1M Masefielcl's new book of poems, "A Letter from Pontus and Other Verse:" Print not my life them by; When I am dead let die. Blest be those who in heed 'This heartfelt prayer of cm's Seed: Blessed be they, but may a sue ali'who reject this living prayer, and rda. Which recalls Dean Inge's parody ;from Longfellow: "Livek", o fgreat men oft' remind us As n d a'er their pages turn, That we, too, may leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn. nor letters; put memory their of me mercy mine to Ad - Really an Englishman We have read the whole of Plandit Jawaharlial Nehru's presidential ad- dress to the Indian National Con- gress, and the overwlielming.impres- sion left upon us is that this is not an Indian speaking. In no sense whatever are these the words *of an Indian. That the Plandit i5 an Indian by birth is of course unquestioned. That he is a British product is equally certain. Ho might have been one of several kinds of Englishmen, a polo playing sportsman, a country gentle- man interested in agricultural de- velopment, a Conservative, an educa- tionist, a philosophic Radical Fate has made hire a modern Englishman of tho Left, a "revolutionary" Social- ist, a theoretical Communist. But the English Tory, the English Radi- cal, and the English Socialist, all have something in common, which theyde- rive from an English environment and which they cannot rid them- selves of, This, too, is the possession of the present President of the Indian National Congress.—Calcutta States- British tates- Br tish Spinsters Demand Pensions curse pur- witty OpIllhIns Nothing can so poignantly . evoke the flavor of the receding past as some remembered tune, somemelody that has caught up and woven into its own unconscious fabric the very color and fragrance of a day gone by. —Alexander Woolcott, While Rome Burns. it is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage • does is to show thein up. —Henry Emerson Fosaielc, My father used to say: "Never suspe,et people, It's better to be de- ceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspici- ous, which is common." —Stark Young, Feliciana. In the United States, "First" and "Second" class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, be- ing Americans, are equal and it would be "un-American." But paint "Pull-' man" on a car, and everybody is satisfied. ' The law of work does seem utter- ly unfair—but there it is, and noth- ing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in money also. —Mark Twain, Con -I necticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. R. F. Dibble in his biography of John L, Sullivan — records thatonce a dainty little miss asked the famous pugilist to write her a few autographs so that she could sell them, at a fair held by the church. "Oh what're you giving pie?" said John L. in a graciously tragic way. "I ain't no good at writing, but I'll have my manager write as many of my -- what d'you call 'em, as you want." The damsel told' him that this would hardly do. So pens, inlc and paper were ordered, and after many labor- ious efforts, in which he spoiled more than a dozen pens aucl ruined a quan- tity of stationery, Sullivan . finally succeeded in scratching clown about 20 badly blotched but fairly legible signatures. "I always like to do what I can for religion," he assured her as, grasp- ing her hand and most of her fore- arm, between his ink -stained fingers, he bade her a courteous good -by. What is all wisdom save a collect -i ion of platitudes? of ours Take 50 current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we cant hardly bring our lips to utter them. Nonetheless, they em bod Y the con-, centrated experience of the race,• and the man who orders his life accord-', ing to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! But has anyone ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained inner har- mony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world be- gan. He must pass through the fire. --Norman Douglas, South Wind. One of Pett Ridge's favorite stories concerhed a young couple with one child, who decided to move from a house to an apartment. The husband, as a labor-saving device, went off for golf while the work was being done. At the first dinner given in the new apartment lie spoke to the 'guests with complacency of the ease with which the transfer had been effected. "No anxiety," he declared, "and absolutely no worry of any descript- ion. Isn't that true, my dear?" "Quite true," she agreed. "No more than there was when our little GladYs arrived!" The passing of Mary Johnston — author of that fine novel, "To have and To Hold" — recalls a story she used to tell about the days when she was working for woman suffrage. She was to speak in a little town in Vir- ginia where her grandfather had been born. Invariably, in other places, she had been introduced as "Mary John- ston, the novelist," and had become as reconciled as possible. This night she was all prepared for the ordeal when. the .chairman rose and said, quite simply: "Folks,'' John Alexander's grand' daughter is going to say a few words to us." In the folding shadow. of absolute anonymity she gratefully made the best suffrage speech of her career. Recalling the first time she lunch- ed at the home in London, of Alice (Mrs. Wilfred) Meynoll, the poet and. essayist, Edith Wharton says (in "A Backward Glance") that she was also "struck by the solemnity with which this tall thin, sweet -voiced woman, with melancholy eyes and rather ca- '' falque-like garb, was treated by her husband and children. Mr. Meynell, small and brisk, bustled in ahead ot her, as though preceding a sovereign; and all through the luncheon, Mrs. Meynell's utterances, murmured with soft deliberation, were received In an attentive silence punctuated by: 'MY Wife was saying the other day,' 'My wife always thinks' as though each .syllable from those lips was final. LONDON—Five thousand spinsters from every part of the country will. journey to London for a monster dem- onstration in Hyde Park demanding pensions. Specifically, they seek pen- sions for spinsters at the age of 55 under the National Insurance scheine, Spinster's' Associations were start- ed last .year by Florence White, well- known Bradford business woman. '.Chair membership now totals 85,000,' ShowStatistics Whoever produces anything by weary labor, does not need a revla- tion from heaven to teach him that he has a right to the thing produced. —Ingersoll. In 1935 automobile accidents ac- counted for 1,224 deaths in Canada, an increase of 109 over 1934. Let those who think the Safety cam- paigns are being overworked ponder this Bureau of Statistics statement. The vital statistics of 1935 are in many ways encouraging. But des- pite widespread education and the progress of Medicine and Science it is clear we have not made such start- ling progress in our, defence against the ravages of disease and the toll of negligence. The following statistics are for the whole of 1935, with those of 1934 in brackets: Live births 221,036 (221,303); birth rate 20.2 (20.5); illegitimate births 8,313 (8,070; per cent. of total live births 3.8 (3.6); deaths 105,451 (101,- 582) ; death rate 9.6 (9.4); marriages 76,869 (73,092); marriage rate 7.0 (6.8); maternal deaths 1,093 (1,167); rate per 1,000 live births 4.9 (5.3). The deaths from •certain causes: Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 272 (293 ; smallpox 6 (3); measles 489 (188); scarlet fever 242 (226); diph- theria 262 (232); influenza 3,387 (2,004); infantile paralysis 63 (84); tuberculosis 6,584 (6,431); cancer 11,- 140 (10,581); suicide 902 (927); homi- cide 153 (142); automobile accidents 1,224 (1,115); other violence 4,606 (4,285). fish -Balis -- strangest of all the fish stories told by Vic Hurley (in "Men in Sun Helmet&') is one about a fish 'little Filipino boys use for a tennis ball," "They bounce the fish against the walls of the buildings in the equiva- lent of a, game of handball," he de- clares. "The first time I saw such a thing, I did not believe it to be true. 1 saw a Filipino boy, fishing, from the sea -walk capture a small fish. lie 'laid the fish on the liot cement and 'in a moment it swelled as roi.nicl and symmetrical as a ball. The little boy went gay:y down the sta•c'et, bounc- ing, the hall that the cel had provided Now it's your tarn! Sotto Voce Writes the New Yorker—There was a -full-blown, formal, rehearsed -to -the - last -lily -of -the -valley church wedding last week, at 'which one of the ushers took to cutting tip.: As he escorted the guests clown the aisle he followed convention, asking the guests whether they were friends of the bride or the groom and seating them • accord- ingly• Ile varied from ritual only slightly, in fact. To the bride's friends, as he bowed them to their seats, he whis- pered, "Isn't it awf;il about the groom ?" and to the gr'oom's friends. "Isn't it terrible about the bride?" There WAS the devil to pay. Tailored Model f Here's a useful dress for sum- mer in town or in the county. The buttoned shoulder accents the flattering neckline. A tailored feeling is noted in the stitt.ned back pleat 'from neck to ,gem. it will give you a lovely tall appear- ance. Two hip poekets and a single breast pocket add to its sporting -air. It is made of soft cotton in shantung weave in aqua -blue. re- sides being enticingly cool, it . tubs like a handkerchief. The trim is navy. Again, you'll like it in white tub silk or natural linen with fla- mingo -red buttons belt and pock- et "hanky." - The sleeves cut in one with tho bodice, 'Making it exeeptibnaliy , simple to sew. Style iclo. 2823 is designed for , sizes,12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 years. Sizes 16 requires 31,4 yards of 39 -inch material with two yards of ribbon for belt. HOW T0 ORDER PATTERN S Write your,. name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted.Bnclose 1.5e in stamps of coin (coin prefer" red; wrap it carefully) and ad= dress your order to Wilson Pat. ,. tern ~Service, '13 West Adelaide 'Street, Toronto, 21