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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-09-10, Page 6The Rapers � ---1_ EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM Say HERD, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. CANADA FAULTY BRAKES The man or woman who takes out a driver's license performs a volun- tary act which involves an implied contract with his fellow citizens. Sure- ly one of the terms of that contract is a declaration on the driver's part that he possesses and will exercise that speck of sense which tells him that brakes are life-savers. It is no life -and -death matter if the engine won't turn over, but a car that can't be stopped within a reasonable dis tan•) is the equivalent of a mad ele- phant,—Winnipeg Tribune. * * * GREATEST SPORT The most popular sport in North America is neither baseball nor foot- ball, golf or tennis. It is, on the con- trary, the age-old sport of swimming. This finding is reached by statisti- eians of the United States National Recreation Association, who report that in 1935 no fewer than 46,500,000 people went to the public beaches, and 18,000,000 to the outdoor swimming pools in the continent. This compares with a seasonal participation in base- ball of 10,250,000 and in golf of slightly more than 6,000,000 Swimming is the most informal of all sports, and the cheapest, and is also the most enjoyable.—Vancouver Sun. * * * DRIVING DANGERS A Toronto business man announced to his luncheon companions the other day that he had got too "jittery" to drive downtown to work. He referred in particular to the day's local auto- mobile fatalities, which ran high on the heels of drunken driving, hit-and- run speeders, and otherwise incap- able chauffeuring. And whether you live in Toronto or Clayville, you can readily sympathize with this fellow who refuses to risk his life driving a car any longer. The moment you hit the open road to -day you're automati- cally exposed to inebriated, uncon- scionable fools arra morons—all oper- ating under the ineffective control of the license tag.—Guelph Mercury. * * * AN UNUSUAL CASE Donald Learmouth, a community garden plot worker in Hamilton, was killed by a bolt of lightning, and the circumstances are so unusual that we doubt if another case sinmilar would be reported in a year. While he was at work a thunder- storm came up quickly and with sev- eral other workers he started to run for shelter. He was going along a cinder path when he was struck. He was struck on the temple and the lightning on its way to the ground ripped off his clothing. He was carrying nothing which would attract lightning and was not near any object which might serve that •purpose. He was merely struck down out in the open, and that hap- pens so seldom that the case can be regarded as extremely unusual. — Peterboro Examiner. * * * THE USUAL EXPERIENCE A Stratford man who grows huge vegetables tells of obtaining direc- tions from a woman who appeared to him in a vision as he slept. Most of us who do any backyard gardening have been driven to it by a woman Veho appeared in broad daylight. — Woodstock Sentinel -Review. * * * PETITION SIGNING If (Anything is worth petitioning for, sign it, but don't get the habit of signing every petition submitted to you. Remember your name is, or ought to be, worth something to you. --Chatham News. * * * RIGHT OF WAY .Pedestrians generally may find comfort in the ruling of a Chicago judge that in the middle of the street they "must be held" to have the right of way, Many of them, in Montreal at all events, have more than once been painfully reminded that their only right seemed to be to get out of the way.—Montreal Gazette. * * * TOO FAST Kaye Don, who once drove an auto- mobile at close to 200 miles an hour, believes that fifty miles an hour is. too fast for cars on highways, but his reason is one that will strike the ave- rage person as a bit unusual. He con- tends that when a car is travelling at fifty miles an hour it hasn't the extra speed available that may be needed to cope with an emergency,— Sault Star. * * * RESTORE THE TREES Undoubtedly, if people wish to see water supplies restored, they must not only cease the unscientific cutting Of trees that is now practised, but {rust. return to something approach- ing its natural state a very consider- able acreage in every county of older ntario, which was never fit for agri Oulture and which should never have been divested of its forest growth. In addition, they must consent to the restoration of swamps or else to the establishment of similar storage basins by means of darns. -Brockville Recorder and Times. * * * THEN AND NOW The bathing girl used to dress like Mother Hubbard, says an exchange, but now she dresses like her cupboard. —Halifax Herald. * * * MARRIED LIVE LONGER Statistics have taken the point out of the old joke that "married people do not really live longer than single ones; it only seems longer," says the Los Angeles Times, • Findings of lite insurance companies assure us that married men and women actually reg- ister better in the mortality tables than do bachelors and spinsters and that, from all important causes, their death rates are ]ower.—Brandon Sun. * * * SHARING THE WEALTH J. P. Morgan was quoted as having said that if the U.S. Government con- tinued to spend twice as much as it earned big American fortunes would be dissipated within thirty years. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., asked to comment on the statement, said he thought Mr. Morgan •='gave the for- tunes a good long time," Many will say it is a good thing that wealth should be distributed more evenly, that every great fortune represents injustice to the masses. But when we put wealth on the stand in its own defense we find there is much to be said. With few exceptions, if any, the great fortunes are used for the public advantage. The wealth of a Morgan or a Rockefeller reaches the point where it is utterly senseless to think of piling millions on scores of mil- lions, and its owner looks about for ways of spending a shar. for the gen- eral good. Thus the people have been given great universities splendidly en- dowed, hospitals, public libraries, parks. Life has been lengthened by medical research financed by these fortunes. Is it certain that as much would have been done for the people if the United States, in the past half century, had possessed a law saying no individual might have an income of more, say, than $5,000 a year? One-half the incomes of the larger fortunes is taken by government as a tax. Wealth is being shared. -Ottawa Journal. * * * CANADIAN RECOVERY This business revival in Canada has been contemporary with a general re- vival in the Bhitish Commonwealth of Nations, which began some years ago with the remarkable improvement in the economic condition of the Mother Country, and which has been extended to all parts of the Empire. This is a revival which has been a little better with the peoples of the Empire than with any other great nation, and especially it has been bet- ter than recovery made by the United States In other words—for the bene- fit of the croakers—it has been bet- ter to be part of the Empire during these latter years than to belong to any other nation of the world.—Van- couver Province. * * * INSANE? It is probable that not more than five per cent of the human race desire to engage in war. Yet even today, when the world is supposed to be at peace, there is bitter fighting taking place in China, Central Asia, various parts of Africa and Arabia, in Pales- tine, and in Spain,while force is be- ing used by more or less tyrannical governments to suppress the suffering and discontented populace in Japan, BLESSING IN DISGUISE Was the auto accident in which Nancy Lowe, 3, paralysis victim, of Washington, D.C., was hurt recently. She has partly recovered from paralysis since accident. She's seen recuperating at home. Shidil PIog... hp OId eadows The Proper Time To Under- take This Necessary Farm Operation Two years, on the average farm, is quite long enough to leave • the meadows down, for best results and greatest profits. They should then be broken up and cultivated for other crops. The present is an excellent time to commence this ois ration. Before grain harvest, there are many days after showers when the teams can be profitably put at plowing the old meadow. Deep plowing is not necessary nor need the furrows be set up with a narrow plow. Rapid work at this time of the year is essential. A two - furrow plow, with three liorses, wits turn over a large piece of land, in a day. At the close of each day the area plowed that day should e rolled. This breaks the lumps, presses eawis the furrows, re-establishes connection between the surface soil and the subsoil, bringing up the moisture from the latter to aid in rotting the sod. After rolling, discing and harrow- ing should not be delayed. With such cultivation one retains a surface mulch, opens, aerates and fines the soil and destroys many bad types of noxious weeds, and with the co-oper- ation of the Summer §un this work is most effective. With the present scarcity of labor, this is the cheapest and most practicable method of weed destruction and soil preparationfor grain or even for hoed crops. After the sod is decayed, a rigid or spring -tooth cultivator with wide points should be kept going at inter- vals until Autumn. Then the land should be horoughly plowed as deep as the humus or plant food in the soil will allow. Results obtained in comparing the Summer cultivation of sod land with Fall plowing the same indicate very clearly the benefit de- rived from Summer cultivation, as China, Siam, the U.S.S.R., parts ott India, Persia, Syria, Bulgaria, Hun- gary, Germany, Poland, Italy, Portu- gal, and a dozen States of Latin Am erica. And nine qualified observers out of ten predict a new world war within five years. Is the world in- sane?—Ottawa n-sane?Ottawa Citizen, 11-7r% " ;: AND OF OZ — • outlined above. In addition to the greater yield obtained, it should be remembered that the land is there- by put into much cleaner condition for subsequent crops. PreveIg Waste Of Soil Moisture Land Plowed in Late Spring Loses Moisture Rapidly Few farmers realize how much moisture passes through the crops that grow on their farms, that is, that is taken up by the plant roots and transpired out through the leaves. Experimenters have de- termined that it requires from 300 to 500 tons of water to produce one pound of dry matter. For instance to produce a pound of dry corn fod- der 350 tons of water have to go through the plant, A pound of clover hay requires 400 tons. So it is ' N � i•'•nt tt'ere in . ' cloud of invisible moisture rising from every field of growing crops, And this moisture comes fmoni that stored up in the soil during the period of rain- fall. One of the reasons it pays to plow land in the Fall is because more moisture is stored up for use during the following season.• In fourteen determinations made at experiment stations, Fall plowed land showed a larger water content in every case, the range being from 72 to 26 tons per acre above like soils plowed dur- ing the latter part of May. The soil being open and porous the water from rains and melting snows is ab- sorbed instead of running off the surface into the streams as is the case with unplowed land. Land plowed in the late Spring loses moisture very rapidly. 'There is usually a wind blowing in the Spring and this aids evaporation and the consequent loss of moisture. A field left as turned by the plow will lose hundreds of tons of valuable moisture that will be badly needed later in the season by he growing crops. For this reason late tipring plowing should be followed immed- iately by the harrow and other till- age tools to level the surface Cult: vation very effectively checks the loss of soil moisture. In one investi- gation, where two plots were com- pared, one was cultivated three ins. deep and the other left uncultivated. A saving of over 250 tons of water per acre was secured on the culti- vated plot. Sometimes land contains . too much moisture in the Spring and it is desired to get rid of it, but usually the danger is that moisture will be lost that should be conserved. When there is a surplus of free water in the soil, drainage is the remedy, but every effort should be made to hold the capillary water, the kind used by plants. Every ton needlessly lost means just that much less for crop growth. Mrs. Laudon Is Calm Housekeeper TOPEKA, Kan. - In the midst of the activities of a presidential cam- paign in which her husband is rho central figure, Mrs. Alf. M. Landon continuos her calm, efficient .mnan- agement of the Landon household and care of the children. Declining to share the political spotlight, Mrs, Landon tells her friends, "My first duty Is at home and with the children, In this way Y. can be of most help to my husband." At the executive mansion in To - Peke and at the Landon home in In- dependence, Kam, Mrs. Landon's capable housekeeping maintains an air of comfort and peace. Although both she and the Governor are modest and unassuming, they have a great number of friends who speak with pleasure of the hospitality o! the Landons. Smilingly, Mrs. Landon refuses to be drawn into "the campaign vortex, although she feels deeply about the vital issue at stake. "My husband will do the talking," she always says. Although Mrs. Landon was present at the notification Ceremonies at the capital and will attend one or two important state functions which re- quire her as wife of the Kansas Governor, she probably will not ac- company him on any of the cam- paign trips and has quietly with- drawn from party activities. She spends much time with. Nancy Josephine and John Cobb Landon, the youngest children, and with Peg- gy Landon. "Jack's mother used to call •him her pet Iamb." "Now his old man says he's the black sheep." THE FAMILY ALBUM—FAMILY DEBTS GLU Y A:S WILLIAMS GuJYAS Al1U1p , iRJES t READ ?ARM WHILE VVILFRE' AWES Wr(H MILDREP FCRTIE 50 CEO SHE OWES HIM SD PE CM G0-10 MOVIES MILDRED CLAIMS SHE CAW( PA's UNTIL M011ER PAYS HER 114E DOLLAR SHE ,OWES HER MOTHER, BEING APPEALED 'fo, DOSNtT KNOW kW' Trt111G• AOotY( OWING AWBODY A DOLLAR C•:Ei6 i11'f0 DISCUS5iON REMINDING HER Ti1ATSHE D►D ti'T NAVE ENOLI611 TOR 'RE LAUNDRY AMD MIL- DRED 6AVE HER A•)OULAR 11-1I5 REMINDS MOVER "1 -FIAT SHE PAID FOR THE GAS FCR 7HE CAR WNEt1 HE LEFT HIS MONEY HOME 50 K CAN 01151 PAY MIL- DRED "THE Ii°LLAR. AT -US PoIHI RE- MEMBERS HE HAS Al - READY ADVANCED HER 2 DOLLARS ON HER N; , (AW 0WANC WILFRED 5W1%HES 1' E 15511E BY RECALLI'KC)THA'' HE DOES Nti (HiNlt HE EVER GOT PAID 1"0R C1-EPtNIt1G 001 THl_ CELLAR DECIDES 14E 0ta1Y WAY HE'l- EVER GE'( PAPER READ IS GIVE WIL- FRED 50 CElJ16 AND SEND HIM ib MOVIES (Ccpyr'ght, 1954, by The Beal syndicate, Inc.) seous That very afternoon the coronation of the Princess Oxma took place. Glinda herself, in the presence of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Jack Pumpkinhead, and all the rest of our friends-, witnessed the ceremony. Oz- ma's first act was to disband the Arany of revolt and send the girls home. On promise of good behaviour, Jinjur was likewise released, Before the Army of Revolt left, they were obliged to return all the emeralds and other gems which had been torn from the public streets and buildings. So great was the number of precious stones picked from their settings by the rebels that the royal jewellers worked steadily for more than a month to polish them and re- place them in their setting'. Copyrighted vat, liollly & Leo Co." Ozma was by far the loveliest ruler that the Emerald City had ever known, and, although she was young and inexperienced, she ruled her peo- ple with wisdom and justice, Glinda remained for some time to help Ozrna with her duties. And' the Woggle - Bug, to whom she gave the portfolio of Public Educator, was quite helpful when her Royal duties grew perplex- ing; Ozi,ln in hc,'r tur' i' 4," `i .%r1. for its services, oficrcd t L' any reward it might name. "Then," replied the Gump, "please take me to pieces. For I did not ask to be brought to life and I amu ashamed of my con- glomerate personality." So Ozena ord- ered the Gump to be taken apart and the antlered head was replaced over the mantlepieee it the hall. B-4