Zurich Herald, 1936-09-03, Page 3The Papers
I Say EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM
MARE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
CANADA
Those Millions
First we have the drought and we
are told it is going to cost the coun-
try millions of dollars.
Then we have a shower and it is
described as worth a million dollars
—a shower is never worth two mil-
Tions nor even half a million, it is al-
ways an even million.
Then we have a rain,
Worth a million, too.
Then there is another dry spell
that is to cost millions, which are
partially wiped out by another mil-
lion -dollar rain.
What we want to know is: What
becomes of all these millions, and
who keeps tabs on them?—Windsor
Star.
and it is
"Easy Go"
The estate of the late Arthur W.
Outten, former Guelph boy, who died
in Chicago, is estimated at $350,000.
Considering the fact that at one time,
When the late Mr. Cutten was a suc-
cessful operator in the stoc kmarket.
be was reputed to be worth a hun-
dred million, the old adage "Come
easy—go easy," seems still to express
a great truth.—Chatham News.
A Strange Case
A strange quirk in the law of Can-
ada is revealed in a speeding case
dismissed by an Ottawa magistrate.
A soldier of the Permanent Force was
arrested for driving a truck at an ex-
cessive speed. Whe nbrought before
the court, the magistrate found that
the soldier had been driving too fast
and in a manner dangerous to the
public. Yet, because the driver was a
soldier and because the vehicle was a
government truck, the magistrate
found that he had no jurisdiction.
The case was disinissed. That may
be sound law, but it is not sound
common sense. Supposing a soldier
in a government truck killed some-
one, it would be of little consolation
to go to the bereaved and tell them
it was all right, the victim was killed
by an army man in an army car. The
mourners would get no consolation
from that.
Just because a man is in the Per-
manent Force, he should not enjoy
unbridled license to go careening
over the highways to the peril of ev-
eryone else.—Windsor Star.
Insulation of Houses
The Sault Star argues that use of
insulation in al ]houses in northern
districts should be made compulsory.
That might be going a bit too far. But
anyone who can possibly carry the
extra initial expense would be foolish
not to have a new home insulated, for
the saving in fuel would pay for it
within a comparatively few years.
The saving is marked even if it is an
old house that is insulated.—Ed-•
monton Journal.
trade. Their new shipping container
embodie's in a packing case the prin-
ciples of the wardrobe trunk, tho ar-
ticles being hung inside instead of
packed, as is usual, thus eliminating
creasing and damage, and.landing the
goods ready for the show room or
window. --Canada's Weekly.
Too Much Speech -Making
Telling of the visit of the motor
party of English tourists to Ganon-
oque and the Thousand Islands, our
Ganonoque correspondent writes that
some of the guests "stated that they
thought future parties from England
could re -arrange their visit so that
there would be less speech -making
and more time to view the scenery of
this beautiful country." — Kingston
Whig -Standard.
Our Language
We do not bother to hold conver-
sations any longer, but we do make
certain animal sounds in our throats
which, we can interpret and which
can communicate simple ideas, while
we reserve our better notions for pol-
itical speeches, letters to the editor
or for sale, By this- means, we have
reduced communication of thought to
a remarkably brief and compact pro-
cess.
Where a man like Dr. Johnson
would require several hours and prob-
ably twenty pints of tea and several
loaves of bread and a couple of
cheese to convey a thought to his
companions of the coffee shop, a mod-
ern young person can do the whole
job in a word or two. iii 111
"Zat you, baby?" "Yeah." "H,ow-
ya?" "Okay." "Howz ever'thing?"
"Swell." "Ugh." "Hunh?" 'Whatcha
`doin' t'night?" "Nothing! "How 'bout
a show?" "Okay, About 8." "Uh huh."
"Okay." "okay."
This is what we call a conversa-
tion.—B.H. in Victoria Timies.
McGill's Comeback
Heartening news comes from Mc-
Gill University.
For the first time in over a decade,
during the past financial year McGill
met its budget without dipping into
capital funds. The. annual deficit was
cut from $303,000 to $181,000, and this
remaining deficit was met by the'gov-
ernors out of their own private funds..
That shows both generosity by the
governors and real co-operation be-
tveen the university staff and the
board. For note that the deficit was
cut by $122,000, involving the strict-
est economies, in which the staff loy-
ally co-operated.—Montreal Star.
Smart Exporting
The Canadian Wait Company, Ltd.,
of Montreal, one of Canada's oldest
exporters of ladies' dresses of all
kinds, has introduced a new idea in-
to the packing of goods for export
Honey Bees on Strike
The peculiar type of weather that
has been characteristic in Ontario
this summer has produced quite a
few abnormalities, including water
shortage, bad crops,, forest .fires and
ruined pasturage. From Lindsay
conies a report of a strike among the
honey bees famed for devotion to
industry and habits of thrift exem-
plary for human beings.
It seems that bees in that district
have not done any honey -gathering
for more than a month. They quit
their activities during that spell of
terrific heat a month ago and the
owners will have to provide sugar to
keep them from starving.
The reason seems to be that there
is virtually a failure of flowers from
which the bees gather honey. In-
tense heat and shortage of moisture
has practically obliterated wild and
cultivated blooms and consequently
the bees are without the raw mater-
ial for their work. The net result will
be that there will be a considerable
shortage of honey during the coming
winter for it requires a percentage of
the crop to feed the bees.—Sarnia
Canadian Observer.
as well as shipping and sgriclsiture.
If the slogan is taken up seriously
beneficial results should be obtained,
as there is nothing like getting all
classes aroused with the need of pro-
gress.—St. Thomas Times -Journal.
"Wake Up, Scotland!"
In Scotland, the land of the hea-
ther and thistle a new slogan is be-
ing heard on every side. It is "Wake
Up, Scotland!" Such a slogan could
be advantageously adopted by many
other places besides Scotland.
Scotland, however., has been suf-
fering economically as a whole and
the Highlands. and Western Isles are
described by one authority as a "tru-
ly distressed area." The population is
statutory at approximately 4,900,000
persons being threatened at the same
time with decline.
The new campaign is intended to
create a desire to develop the coun-
try's great resources in coal and iron
THE EMPIRE
Return of Canadians
The sight of these men in their
crowds in the London streets re-
called vividly the war London, with
its darkness and rumors. They are
middle-aged now and had little of
the soldier about them except the
medals they all wore -1 saw sev-
eral with six—and the look of men
who had come through a lot.
One remembered that it wash se
Canadians who withstood the
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gas attack in the war and how their
heroism thriled England the
time,
Many of them had a puzzled
in their eyes as they went about the
new monumental London that had
replaced so much of the homely Lon-
don that was in their memories.
Some of them were taking their:
sons to hotels and restaurants that
have long since disappeared, such
as the Tavistock Hotel in Covent
Garden and the Golden Cross at
Charing Cross. They were relieved
when they could show their sons St.
Paul's and the Cheshire Cheese.
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Eleanor Guenther riding one of the new paddleboards, equipped with glass bottoms, on which one can
take a peek • at King Neptune's domain and view the wonders of the submarine gardens at Santa Catalina
Island, Cal., while skimming over the waters.
Now the Canadians have vanish-
ed, too, back to the land whence
they had come so manfully and
hopefully in 1914. The thing that
many of them took back in their
minds was that the men here still
take off their hats as they pass the
Cenotaph.—Manchester Guardian.
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"Marriage By Capture" Symbolized in Presence of Many
Attendants—Misty Veils Chosen
NEW YORK. — The bridesmaids,
marriage rings and showers of rice
which mark the modern bride's wed-
ding day originate in customs dating
all the way from cave men to knights
of the middle ages.
Centuries ago marriage by capture
was the rule. Primtive elan stole his
bride from a neighboring tribe and
carried her off to his cave, regarding
her as a trophy that atthsted to his
courage and prowess.
The suave best man and colorful
bridesmaids who will take part in
weddings are believed to be survivals
of the days when the would-be bride-
groom's friends helped him make his
"getaway" with his prize and the.
bride's relatives tried to prevent the
thef 1.
Ring Old Custom, too
The wedding ring tradtion is also
credited to prehistoric clays. Though
its real origin is unknown, many au-
thorities believe it dates from the an-
cient custom of primitive man to weave
a cord and bind it aroun , the vvaist
of the woman he wanted, fff the belief
that her spirit entered his body when
the rite was performed.
When the hilarious friends of a de-
parting bride and groom dash after
them with rice, they copy a custom of
primitive peoples to whom the grain
was a token of productiveness and
who showered it on a newly married
it on a newly married pair as symbols
of fruitfulness for the union.
The reason for throwing old shoes
after the bride and her new husband
is more obscure; many think it signi-
fies a change of authority.
It is generally conceded that the
misty tulles and filmy laces used to-
day for the bridal veil hark back to
the custom of various ancient peoples
to keep the bride hidden from the
bridegroom's sight until the wedding
day.
Orange Blossoms Good Luck
The orange blossoms twined in so
many veils are considered a portent
of good luck and happiness.
Medieval custom is believed to be
responsible for the inclusion of the
flower girls and their baskets of fra-
grant blossoms in the modern wedding
pageant. In the middle ages it was
customary for two little girls to walk
in front of the bridal procession strew-
ing in its path the grains which sym-
bolized the wish that the union would
prove fruitful, and the flower girl at-
tendance has gradually evolved from
it.
Some Call 'Em Practical
Jokers But "It Ain't
Necessarily So!"
For years it's been • apparent that
sometime we'd have to hunt up Hugh
Troy, whose exploits include secreting
10 -cent -store pearls in the oysters of
fellow -dinner guests, and digging up
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
(Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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RED P1 RLE/3 WHO LA5f YEAR- CALLED THE POUCE To It1VES11GATE
LIGHTS IN ERNIE PLUMER'S SUPPOSEDLY EMMY NOUSE HOT
KNOWING THAT ERNIE HAD UNEXPECTEDLY REtifRNEP, DOESN'T'
RELIEVE Its MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE . So LA5T WEEK
WHEN l-IGHTS WERE SEEN DURING THE PLUMERS' ABSENCE, HE -
PERSUADED THE NEIGHBORS NOT To DO / WTlii% ABOUT 11- t Hi
TOE THIEVES MADE A PRE'* GOOD HAUL) AND EftNIE)S r�i�Y s
BOILING MAD ABOOT IT wli.l.IIArtS
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�1 But we were too late. A
•a '`*1 narrow ladder of thin bamboo
' rungs and silken cord hung by.
• two hooks from the for of the
�✓ twelve -foot barbed wire fence.
it was the end of the ladder'
trailing through the grass which
Miss Ei'rham saw the other
night, and thought
• if something alive,"
Smith said,
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7 tham shot out of
the house again, after learning
frbm what part of the grounds
the alarm came.
N' "Above the moat," h
shouted, and we set off ata run.
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54th street without a permit, com-
ments the New Yorker. Not to put
too fine a point on it, Mr. Troy is a'
practical joker. "People ought to be,
mystified more than they are" is an
expression of Mr. Troy's philosophy.'
"Life goes along too regularly."
He played a lot of practical jokes
in college (he's 'Cornell, '27), ofi
which we'll set down only one. There)
was a professor noted principally for
his habit of constantly wearing rub-
bers. One rainy day, while the pro-
fessor was in the classroom, Mr. Troy,
got ahold of these, painted them to
resemble feet, and then covered them
with lampblack. It was still raining
when the professor left the building3
and the rain washed the lampblack.
off in no time, leaving the educator,
to his pained bewilderment and ,the
students' general amusement, walk -1
ing along apparently in his bare and.
very large feet.
Once Mr. Troy and two friends
sneaked into Central Park with a
bench they had purchased. They car-
ried it about until they met a cop. He
arrested them, of course, for stealing
park property, and took them to the
Arsenal police station, where they
produced the bill of sale for the bench
and were released. They kept showing'
up in the Arsenal station all day,
each time with a different cop, until
the sergeant got mad and had them
escorted out of the park. -
Mr. Troy is a bad roan to have as
an enemy. He used to go to Loew's`
Sheridan theatre a lot and sit in the
balcony; being six feet five inches
tall, he would get in the way of the
light beam from the projection booth,
when he stood up, and people would1
boo at him. He got madder and mad-
der at this, and finally, on the opening
night of Garbo's first "talkie, turned
up with a can of moths, which he re-
leased about nine o'clock. They flew'
right up into the light beam, where
they stayed all evening, raising Cain
with the picture.
The Best Workers
It matters not that there are better
workers in the world, provided we
have done the best we could. The size
of our completed work is all in pro- i
portion to the concentration we have
put into. We do not do better things
because we do not concentrate enough.'
Perhaps it isn't in our nature to con- ,
centrate only just so far. Beyond that
distance the effort is unnatural and
the work strained. That is why it!
pays to be ourselves and not copy)
somebody else. People unaffected and
simple in their manner attract by their
natural magnetism more than any pre-
tense could do. There is something
sincerely and deeply fine about such
people. We trust them.
ATTENTION!
Send in your favorite recipe for
pie, cake, main -course dish or pre-
serves. We are offering $1.00 for
each recipe printed.
How to Enter Contest
Plainly write or print out the in-'
gredients and method and send it
together with name and address to
Household Hints, Room 421. 73 West
Adclaide St., Toronto.
Table tennis is booming. There are'
now more than 2,500 clubs, with 30,000
registered players, attached to the
English Table Tennis Association.
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Eltham, crying, "He's outside!" outran us all to the gate,
where he tore at the bolts and bars, and like a fury sprang
into The road. Straight and white it ran in the moonlight
—not a figure to be seen upon if, :.. We returned dis-
consolately*baffled by Fu Manchu .: ,
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But in the morning the
shrubbery yielded up its
sinister secret. r .
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