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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-10-01, Page 6M1 Editorial Comment Press Opinic^_�, Here and There CANADA sed in regard to these in the address- es that he. has •delivered both at Unfair home and abroad and in his news- paper and magazine articles have counted for a great deal, The roeog- nition that he has received from the Institute which has just concluded its biennial sessions at, Yosemite California, is thoroughly deserved. — Edmonton Journal. A. life insurance authority saYs that a woman may now, expect to live four years longer than a duan, the average expectancy standing at. sixty-three in her case as compared with fifty-nine for the lord of crea- tion. This hardly semis fair in view of the amount of time wasted by masculines in waiting for members of the fair sex.— Brantford Exposi- tor. Aix Force Expansion Recruiting in the ranks of the Ter- ritorials in Great Britain may not be as satisfactory as the Government desires, but there is no lack of men presenting themselves for enrolment in the Royal Air Force. In the Rouse of Commons on May 22, 1935, Prem- ier Baldwin announced that the Gov- ernment intended to increase the R. A.F. personnel by 22,500, including 2,500 more pilots, before March, 1937. The response was immediate and now it is announced that in the interim the force has been increased by 15,000 youths and men, and even boys, all desirous of service either in the air or as groundsmen. Viscount. Swinton, Aix Minister, in the House of Lords the other day stated that the reeruiting was eminently satis- factory. — Montreal Gazette. Still Going Up It is very gratifying to know that, s far as Hamilton is concerned, the :reet accident record for the first alf of the present year is so much ,;atter than the corresponding period lf 1935, an improvement attributed argely to Chief Goodman's safe driving campaign. But conditions generally are still far from satis- factory. In ree;owing the situation for the whole province, the depart- ment of highways says the "colli- sion with railway train" type of acci- dent showed the greatest increase. Uu to the end of June there had been 60 such accidents in Ontario, as com- pared with 47 in the first half of last year. In the same period motor accidents from all causes increased by 7.3 per cent., the number of per- sons injured being 5.4 per cent. high- er and the property damage 7.8 per cent. higher than in the correspond- ing months of 1935, There were more cars on the road, it is true, but this does not account for the higher accident rate, As an indica- tion that speed and carelessness were largely responsible, there was an in- crease of 28.6 ler cent. in the num- ber of fatal accidents involving col- lissions between motor vehicles. — Hamilton Spectator. Life On The Motor Highway Ottawa man riding as a passenger in a neighbor's ear was killed. The driver has been convicted in Pem- broke of "crim_nal negligence." A -- other instance of the trust people so often misplace when nonchalantly they step into an automobile. The man responsible for the fatal acci- dent was fined $200 and his driving permit cancelled for six months. A life on the highway does not seem to carry a high value in the estimate of some courts. — Ottawa Journal. Canadian Art Abroad Canadian art was not mentioned in the Ottawa agreements but works of art do constitute an item of com- merce between Britain and Canada. More pictures come from Britain to Canada than move in the other dir- ection. But there are some Canadian artists whose work is known in the Old Land and valued by discerning art lovers there. Last week Arthur Herring, of Toronto, received a cable from one of the old -established Lon- don art dealers asking that three canvasses be sent at once as there was a likely chance of disposing of them. This is indeed a red letter event. It is prabably many years since any Canadian artist received a cabled enquiry for his work from a London dealer. It is a tribute to the lure of Hemitg's north .country pictorialism. — Financial Post. Cats Rout Rats Any assertion that science is un- able to devise an effective substitute for nature's rat catcher, the cat, pro- bably would be challenged and might be refuted. Nevertheless, a New York Times news story lays the bas- is for such a claim. An air condi- tioning plant in New Jersey was overrr.n by rats this summer. Its engineers and other scientific experts tried their scientific best to rout the rodent invasion, and failed. Then a practical building superintendent went to the city pound and borrowed its day's catch of stray cats. As guests of the factory, the cats are comfortably housed by day anu at night they are given free range of the factory. Every morning the jan- itors sweep up the slain rats and conduct the .hunting cats back to their daytime apartments. At latest report, the Times' story concludes, the factory's. rat population was nearing "extinction. — St. Thomas Times -Journal. Swift And Certain Within eighteen hours of the time they held up a•nd robbed a business establishment in Hamilton, Ontario, two young men were sentenced to ten years in Kingston Penitentiary. It is a fair sample of the swift and certain quality of Canadian justice. Armed robbery is one of the worst of crimes — and these young amen have received sentences adequate to the requirements of the peace and security of the country. And while ono has no desire to draw comparisons, one is bound to recognize that if in the great neigh- boring republic justice were as sure and as swift as this, crime in the United States would be far less prev- alent. — Halifax Herald. The Growing Caravan Several touring automobile teen - ors have been seen in this city in the past week. It is esi,imated that there are 300,600 Americans now living in these travelling homes — largely people who have retiree and unsettled down. --Calgary Herald. Peace River Wheat The Peace River District has cut the first wheat and it a-'eragps 35 bushel to th, acre, This has been. a common yield in Kent county this• year, showing that we are keeping abreast of the beet wheat growing land:! in Canada. --Chatham News. J. W. Dafoe Honored The Institute of Pacific Relations has done John W. Defoe, editor of the -Winnipeg Free Press, a high lienor in choosing him as its new chairing!". No Canadian has made a Mere intensive study of international affairs, The opinions he has iexpre a - Matter Of Spelling It's all a question of spelling: Cal- lander — the place. Calendar — a date -record. Calender — a machine for smoothing and glossing cloth or paper. Calendar — a dervish, CyI- inde:: — pan' , of a motor. Colander (or cuIlender) — a straier. — Te- rmite Star. Tied Ura Somehow No man remain. single. If he has no wife, he is married to a factory, job, a casting rod or something like that. — Victoria Times. THE EMPIRE Mining's The Thing Only in mining are "plums" going begging. These, naturally, are not to be picked up by young newcomers. The way to the top, a's in any other calling, is long and arduous. The point is that there is plenty of room there, Probably never before in the history of the mining industry has the demand for good men been great- er or less easy to fill. The training facilities are available—none better. Scholarships are on offer. The chance for the right type of youth Is splendid. — Johannesburg Sunday Times. Spilt AC& Any fool can break the eggs, but it takes a cook to make the desired Service Champion* The U. S. Army infantry teals which deSea ted all other service teams at the National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, O., pictured with its trophy. Left to right (kneeling) Sgt. R. L. Spears, Capt. R. E. Brady, Sgt. 0. L. Gellman and Sgt. E. Backell, (S eated) Sgt. D. Hamsher, Pvt. C. Hensley and Capt. Lloyd. omelette out of therm. Our frying pan is full of broken eggs, we are in fact confronted with a first-class mess, the raw material for a feast of omelettes. The world does not stop, and however badly we Lave played our parts, there is always the. poss`bility of a fresh beginning. If ou' of corruption can come forth sweetness, then out df the failure .of sanctions may come the dawn of sense. The better part for all of us would be to cease recrimination, and to decide for ourselves what is the future we would like to build, ..and h.w we can each and _all of us con- tribute to its building, -- Ca'•;utta. Statesman, So They Were Married St. Marys Journal _Argus ,writes —Getting married is a job that sends a lot of folks into a flutter but a local young couple who entered. the bonds of matrimony had real ex- citement on their wedding day. 'Pse young man is an actuary who ra- cently gave up his position in `Tor- onto to accept a bettee one in ttit same city. He expected to take up his new duties, following the hoitey- moon, but a sudden emergency_re- quired his services for his new on_ ployers on his wedding day, He was due in this district for the seeeace at 4 p.m.. but he could not get off work and the ceremony had to oe postponed until 8 p.m. The hush ncl- to-be had to step on the. gas to get here after office hours and he tramped on the accelerator so hnra that he burned out a rod and came to a standstill in Stratford. Rola_ tives were hastily summonsed by 'phone and came racing to the .res.; cue. But again it was a case of "the more haste, the less speed., for the second car also went on the blink. Finally a third car picke'l up the hurrying boy friend and rushed him toward the bride's home. It was now a race against time to tet the groom into Lis glad clothes be_ fore 10 p.m., as it is illegal to per- form a wedding ceremony after that hour of the day. Fortunately they made it. ign t dvertise ur D minion Is To ' e hiaugurated I t ritain Hon. Vincent Massey Announces Most Concentrat€d anal Scientifically Managed Scheme of Regional Publicity Attempted by Any Dominion. TORONTO.—A campaign of adver- tising Canada termed by experts "the most concentrated an' scientifically di= rected regional campaign yet launched by a Dominion, will be opened this Fall in Great Britain, the Canadian Club was told recently by Ron. Vin- cent Massey, Canada's High Commis- sioner in London. The program will start in October M the Glasgow area and will continue there four months, to be followed by a similar effort in each of the great centres of population in the British Isles. "Under the slogan 'Canada Calling,' an appeal will be made to the British wholesaler, retailer, and consumer to buy Canadian food -stuffs of all kinds," the High Commissioner said. "Infor- mation will be given shortly to the Canadian exporter regarding this campaign and his co-operation invit- ed!' "The Canadian visitor is conscious of the dearth of Canadian news in the metropolitan and provincial press of Great Britain," said Mr. Massey. "This problem alone calls for very careful study. Through the press, through films, through the spoken word, exhibitions, through a dozen different media, it should be possib:e to make Canada better known in Eng- land." . Mr. Massey reported what he term- ed a "time-lag" in Great Britain in the popular idea of Canada. "Over there we are still thought of very fre- quently as a land of wide open spaces given chiefly to agricultural pursuits." Too little was known of the industrial development which had placed the Do- minion among the first industrial nations of the world, although. agricul- ture remained the "foundation of our economic life." Out I- A Joh ? Writes the New York Times. —Inn March 1923, when Adolf Hitler needed money to finance bis fight for power he received a loan from Dr. Ernst .t'. Sedkwick Ilanfstaengy, a wealthy one of his friends, members of a family prominent in Munich art circles and a graduate of Harvard in 1909. When the Nazi leader fled from Munich on November 9th, 1923, after his unsuc- cessful attempt to overthuow the Bar - avian authorities, he found refuge in the H,anfstaengi villa on Citing am Staffelsee. Until recently the two men nave been close friends. 1)r. Hanfstaengl was put in charge of the Nazi party's foreign press bureau. One of Hitler's favorite' forms of relaxation was ;to The High Commissioner regretted the popular idea of diplomatic mission was frequently represented "by a de- corative color -scheme of pink teas and White spats." The ceremonial side of diplomacy represents a very small ex- penditure of time, he said. "Our of - flees overseas within the Empire or outside it are practical institutions existing to achieve practical pur- poses, just as practical as those per- formed by a post office or customs house." "I have been immensely struck by the spirit with which life in the Brit- ish Isles today in all its aspects seems to be infused by the vitality and confidence and energy which mark it," Mr. Massey said in turning to a gen- eral review of affairs. Today Britain could lay claim to a remarkable and increasing standard of practical eiHci- eney. - "Britain presents today in a striking degree certain attributes as- sociated more with youth and age, the quality of enterprise, of imagination and energy." Happily, however, ,''that vivid sense of the past, which is a peculiar Eng- lish quality, leads to the preservation of the old traditions, which give color and romance to lite." Mr. Massey said that besides recip- rocal trade there `•was another reel- prOCity, the "commerce of ideas." A few weeks in the uneasy and restless atmosphere of the Continent would make clear the importance of things "not found in blue books or trade sta- tistics," the spiritual kinship of Brit- ish people based on .democracy, "a form of government which has been solemnly, deliberately repudiated over a large area of the earth's surface, but nowhere more jealously guarded than in those countries over whihe the British flag flies." hear Dr. Hanfstaengl s renditions on the piano, of Wagner and Beethoven. Now it appears their relations have cooled. Last week. at the Nuremberg meeting of the Nazi party, it was oe• lieved that Dr. Hanfstaeugl had lost his job as head of the foreign press bureau. i`Putzy" as his Harvard class- mates call him, was on hand for the meeting but merely as a spectator. He was subdued rather than buoyant as of old. Personal Estates Of Britishers1 Sir Frederick Charles Bowrlug, D4.. of Sefton Park. Liverpool..ehairman of 0. T, Bowring and Go., shipowners and merchants, aged 79, ,left estate of the gross value of $3,241,000 The Right Hon. Robert Hudson. and 13aron Borwick of t3awkshead, of Ber- keley Square. W., and of Nice, former- ly head ormer-Iyhead of George Borwick and Sons, Limited. baking powder manufaetur•1 ers, aged 91, left estate of the gross value of $1,885,000. George Augustin Macmillan, of South Kensington. S.W., a director of Macmillans, publishers, aged $0, left estate of the gross value of $1,530,000. Walter Hargreaves Brown, of the Founders Court, T.otbbury, D. C., and' 'Phillimore Gardens, W., partner in the firm of Brown, Shipley and Go.,' wrigha, of Hoylal;e, shipowner, aged 70, left an estate of the gross value of $1,730,000. Reginald Oliver Ridley, J.Y., of In goldisthorpe, Norfolk, aged 71, left es, tate of the gross value of $1,237,UU0. Mrs. Ellen Manning, of Forest Hitt, S.E., widow of J. R. Manning, aged s8, left estate of the gross value of. 365,000. John Murphy of Kingston Hill, late partner in R. and J. Rea, shipowners, aged 77, left $772,000. George Nicholson of Liverpool, who, died on March 17, aged 93, lett estate l of the value of $961,000. George Isaac Nathan, of Bpantsa Place, Manchester Sq..are, W„ a dir- ector of I Salaman and Co., Limited, ostrich feather merchants, aged 79, left $585,000. James Greig, of Edinburgh charter-' ed accountant, left personal estate va-1 lied at $522,000. James Gibson of Dorking, for 35 yrs. a director of the Bukit Mertajam Kut,' ber Company, aged 79, left $822,500. Sidney Mortimer of Beare Green, or Surrey, and of Lloyd's underwriter,' aged 53 left estate of the gross value of $307,500. Sydney Cole Ambrose, of Tunbridge. Wells, chairman of Batu Caves Rub•`, ber Company, left estate of the gross' value of $725,000. Miss Isabella Jane Sanders, of the Stoke douse, Exeter, left estate of the' gross value of *708,500. Arthur Montague Rhodes of Uiten- hage, Cape Province, South Africa,' last surviving brother of Cecil Rhodes died, aged 76, leaving unsettled estate' of the gross value of $567,000. Mrs. Caroline Cugden Garnett, M. B, E. of Pendleton, aged 82, widow ofl Stewart Garnett, left property of the value of $539,000. George Strachey Pawle, D.L. J.Y., 01 Widford, Herts, as chairman et Mel- bourne City Properties Trust, and a director of Plasmon, :Limited, who' farmed about 300 acres at Wilford, aged 80, left estate of the gross value of $545,500. William Ernest Bagshaw, of Was - bury, Brecon, one of the founders or the firm of Charlton" and Bagshaw, corn merchants, Liverpool, left estate of the gross value of $450,400. Miss Agnes Euphemia Keep, of Gait- croft, akcroft, Hartfield, Sussex, left estate or the :.clue of $405,000. TORONTO — The 15 -cent hair- cut immortalized in song and story will soon be a thing of the past fn Toronto, replaced by a 40_cent hair, cut was ushered in here recently when the Ontario Government an- ounced the sanctioning of a barber's code for the Toronto area: The pact sets wages for all barbers, and these wages are fixed on a standard charge of 40 cents for a haircut, Old age pensioners in Union of South Africa now number 53,200. HE WONDERLAND OF OZ — Based on the stories by L. Fran) Baum While ?rincess Ozena was having her party for the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow, and all the other good friends Who had helped her gain the throne of , the .Dfnerald City, a great storm was taking place tar out on the Pacific Ocean. The ship rolled up and down and sideways so ranch that even the sailors had to hold Last to the railing to keep from being blown over - the board. The wind blew the atouda and the day beams as Wok es night. iupyrightud 1055. ri4llly & Lee Co.. Among the passengers on the ship was a little Hafsas girl named Dor- othy Gale, Who was going with :'her Uncle Henry to Australia to ` visit some relatives they had never well before. Uncle Henry was'not well be. cause he had been working so hard on his Kansas farm, Dorothy WAS a brave little .girl, so when the wind began• to howl, she said; "We'll just stay in our cabin until the atom Is eysti) Thea, lulled.by the motion of the Snip, elle dv'opped COO. She had slept for some time when she awoke with a start to find that Uncle Henry was missing. She could nit imagine where he had gone, and as he was not very strong ale began to worry about him, fearing that he might have gone out on deck. So she decided to go out and see it she could find him, As soon as she got there the wind struck ber so fiercely that it nearly tore her 'dress away, yet she enjoyed the storm whieh grew gouger each moment. "Unelc Henry!" she called.. Then Peering through the gloom, she thought she saw a man.' Dorothy de - Aided she most. go to him, so she dashed forward during a lull in Etc storm to where' a big chicken coop had `been, lashed to, the deck. She reached this place safely, butthe wind, en, raged that alttie girl could resist ite power, suddenly redoubled its tier. With a scream It tore the child away and over the telling she went, into the lthery sea. •