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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-10-15, Page 6.% Editorial. Comment Press Opinions, Here and There CANADA When Youth Goes Wrong ,For the year 1930 there were 6,453 convictions (to reformatory or pri- son) of those known to be between the ages of 16 and 21, and 920 who wore supposed to be within that age limit, making a total of 7,373. Of that number 5,732 were Canadi- an born. Dividing them by residence it was found that 23 percent. came from urban centres and 17 percent. from rural districts, and that in itself is a rather strong argument in favor of the strength and substance of home life in our farming centres. Going a little deeper into statis- tics it was found that 90 percent. of the major offences are stealing and receiving stolen property. From 1930 to December 31, 1935, the major in- creases in juvenile delinquencies were found to be in automobile cases.— Pterborough Examiner. Our Forests Y'We need," says The Ottawa Jour- nal," "a deeper sense of .trusteeship in our natural resources," Ontario, if it is to preseerve its heritage, must in the future take greater care than in the past to protect its forests.—Sault Star. Her 1-lero She was truly pretty and ambitious and had studied the matrimonial problem to a nicety. "Yes, pappose I shall wed eventu- ally," she said, "but the only kind of masculine nuisance that will suit me must be tail and dark with classical features. He must be brave and gen- tle, He must be strong—a lion among men, but a knight among women." That evening a bow-legged, lath - framed, chinless youth, wearing flan- nel bags and smoking a cigarette that smelt worse than a burning boot, rat- tled on the back door end the girl knocked four tumblers and a cut -glass dish off the sideboard in her haste to let him in! —Ottawa Journal • • •. ed to save the foreign exchange. Lloyd George is right. Germany is not pre- pared for war. -Stratford Beacon• Herald, The Church of England is said to be the wealthiest institution in the. British Empire. It's chief riches consist in land, of which it holds a quarter of a million acres, Some of the tend is over coalfields, which yield huge mining royalties. Other church land is in London and in the large provincial centres, This, of course, is worth many thousands of pounds an acre. The capital value of the Church's property is about £32,000,000. This property and other investments yield au annual return in rent, royal- ties, and dividends of about £8,000,- 000. 8,000;000. Contributions of the British churchgoers to the various funds of the Church amount to about 19,000,- 000 a year, making a total annual in- come of about £17,000.000. In spite of this, the English clergy are not well paid. The average vicar or rector gets eight pounds a week and the average curate less than half of that. —The Now Outlook. Needs Explaining —There is one paragraph in the story of the landing of Dick Merrill and Harry Richman in Wales which has not been explained to the satisfac- tion of the Scots. Mrs. Evans, the first person who reached the trans- Atlantic flyers, is reported as saying;. ''As soon as they landed T ran across the field, and the first question they asked me was: 'Is this Scotland?' I told. them they were •ci Wales and they seemed relieved." — 1lioncton Transcrip t. Taking His Biuinps Ilon, Mr. McQuesten, Highways Minister, is traveiling through North- ern Ontario, on a tour of road inspec- tion. That he is not travelling by special railway car, but is taking his bumps over the highways, is indica- tive that his knowledge of road con- ditions are likely to register—Hunts- ville Forester. "Canada Calling" The snappy slogan "Canada Call- ing" has been adopted for the cam- paign to be launched in the United Kingdom this Fall for the purpose of advertising Canada. .Experts say it will be the most concentrated and sci- entifically directed campaign ever un- dertaken by a Dominion. The need for such a campaign can hardly be doubt- ed, particularly after hearing what Hon. Vincent Massey, High Commis-. sioner to London, had tc, say in To- ronto. Over there, he stated, we are still 'thought of very frequently as a land of wide open spaces given chiefly to agricultural pursuits.—Wind ser Star. Forming Without Earth • Farmers who have watched their farms blown away by the winds in the mid -west of Canada and the United States must have more than a casual interest in the new terming methods reported from the University of Cali- fornia. Prof. Gericke raises potatoes on the campus tbere at the rate of seventy-five tons to the acre. His fields are wooden tanks, ten feet long; two and one-half feet wide and ten inches deep. His "good earth" is water, diffused with a mixture of eleven chemicals, which combine to produce the hundred difrent kinds 01 crops with which he has experiment- ed, Five California farmers installed tanks last spring and are raising po- tatoes and tomatoes for the market equal to any that are grown on the land. A single ten -foot tank turned out nearly twenty-six bushels of po- tatoes, or about two thousand six hun- dred bushels to the acre! But there is little danger of Mother Earth being thrown out of work in the near future by the chemical farmers of Califor- nia --The New Outlook. Our Difficult English —If new Canadians grow impati- ent over the difficulties of our lan- guage let us not be too hasty in con- demning them. The next time you final yourself laughing at the clumsi- nes;e of the new immigrant just think Of the following composition which Was once written by a iiiischevious. Schoolboy on the term "sleeper." A sleeper is one who sleeps, A Sleeper is the car in which the sleeper sleeps. The track on which the sleep- er runs wh.le the sleeper sleeps is also sometimes called a sleeper. Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper which car- ries the sleeper jumps the sleeper and Wakes the sleeper in the sleeper and there is no longer any sleeper sleep- ing in the sleeper on the sleeper.— Kitchener Record. All Contributions Old tooth paste and shaving cream tubes are being collected by the Ger- inan Government. Teeth cleaners and :shavers aro told that the tubes are inade of metal that is urgently need - 1) -4 Our Emigrants The complete record of Canadian emigration to the United States, as disclosed by the Statistical Abstract of the United States makes interest- ing, it not very enjoyable, reading: 1831 to 187e inc. 268,534 1871 to 1880 inc. 383,640 1881 to 1890 inc. 393,304 1891 tt 1900 inc. 3,311 1901 to 1910 inc. 179,220 1911 to 1920 inc. 742,185 1921 to 1930 inc. 924,515 (4 years) 1931 to 1934 inc. 44,318 Total 2,139.033 With these three million people and their multiple today we would be in the lap of luxury industrially and pros- perity' individually, — Charlottetown Guardian. May Instruct 'Chinese Army Fliers to These three lyioutreal Chinese are qualified air pilots and re- ceived their licenses recently. They may leave for China shortly to teach young Chinese the art of flying with a view to strengthening the army flying corps. LEFT to riight they are George Woo (Woo Yook Nam), George Lee (Lee Gee Quee), Stanley Quon (fang Bak Quon) . Women in the Cloth No doubt there is a great deal of excellent work which women can do. There aro many situations with which they aro admirably fitted to Ileal with Problems, of women and girls in the congregation, but whether they would be able to stand the work of a full pastorate is something to which a deal of doubt appears to be attached. The fact that the sngge. tion has been hanging fire for a good many years is proof that this doubt exists in the inner councils of the church.—Peter- borough Examiner. The EMPIRE Which Is On Trial? It was fashionable a few years ago to speak of ,democracy as being "on trial." In many countries it is no longer on trial, but has been condemn- ed and executed. In this country it is not, and never was (at any rate for the past couple of hundred years) .on. trial; it is part and parcel of our na- tional life, and something which is be• heves as to regard as no less perman- eut than Herr Hitler's "thousand -year regime." If anything is on trial it is rather dictatorship; for we have still to see what happens to it when the day comes to find the successors of the men whose personality had Laid its stamp upon their creations. No country can depend on a perpetual supply of Hitters and Mussolinis. in their default, will anybody care to Say that dictatorship, relying as it :toes upon a very flexible principle of personal leadership, is likely to prove any more stable than democracy?— London Morning Post. emu 0 s ea the Farm A Canadian official urging support for the development of telcvjeion. argues that this invention will keep young nen on the farms. We ven- ture the opinion that it will net. Ob- serves the Detroit News. The telephone, the phonograph, electric lighting, radio, and a 'dozen other inventions calculated to en- hance rural life have been eagerly hailed by sociologists as magic forces which would securely bind farm boys to the soil. All have betrayed ex- pectations. During the last , four decades, when such facilities have multiplied 'most rapidly, country youths have beenabandoning the home acres and flocking to the' cities. as never before in history. Where the rest have failed it is hardly likely that television will succeed. The reason is not far to seek. A young man of ability— to his credit be it said—refuses to be confined to. a given locality merely by the prom- ise of ease and pleasure. . Even at the risk of forfeiting those good things he will depart to fields where he can find exercise for his powers and an outlet for his ambitions. In respect of these opportunities, since 1900 at least, the cities have far sur passed the country, and obedience to their lure is as admirable as it is inevitable. Moreover, as a matter of hare fact, too many of the inventions which.• would make life livable on a farm are beyond reach of a young man as long as he remains there. Only when he moves to the city, to gratify his craving for industrial and professional advancement, can he earn money enough to obtain them. From this -point of view, it seems that television, with its expensive ape paratus, like so. many other modern conveniences, will tend to draw the ambitious away from the farm rather than hold them on it. Assuming the desirability of rural residence for the better elements of our population, the device which will fix them in that status is yet to be discovered. When it is discovered it will be something besides a means of enjoyment—besides a means of enjoyment,. at any rate, which the average rtiral resident can ill afford. • from these figures. The Ottawa agreement will not be renewed in its present foam. Canada might be for it but Great Britain isnot, British opinion is that the Dominion gov- ernment drove a very hard bargain in 1082 and then, in giving practical effect to the .terms, txractieally can- celled its small eoncessions to Brit- ish industry. An Ottawa despatch in the Financial r'ost says that the British government was persuaded wbou 'tr. Dunning i isited Itnglaiid this summer, not to exercise its right to denounce the agreement next February, But in May, 1087, when British and Dominion leadeis will meet in London at the King's cor- onation, a tlhOWdoiwit will 'ba in er- der. At Ottawa in 1939 there were two main proposals -for the forth of the tariff bargains. The agreed pur- pose was to increase Empire trade but there was dispute about the method. Mr. Baldwin, for Great Britain, suggested a 'reduction on duties levied on Empire goods, Mr Bennett, for Canada, countered, with a different proposition. First, said M. Bennett, let every govern- ment in the Empire impose a gen- eral tariff "adequate" 1c. protect its home market and then, after that was done, let additional and special -duties be put on soreign goods. Mr. Bennett was pertinacious and the British delegates, rather than go hoine empty-handed, accept- ed his terms. The first change that will have to be made when the British -Canadian agreement comes up for revision is the acceptance of the Baldwin idea as the basis of negotiation. Tlint is to say, the effect of any future tar- iff bargains between the British na- tions should be, in fact must be, to reduce duties and not to increase them. Agreements on the Bennett basis—apart from the fact that they provoke foreign countries to put on retaliatory duties and encourage na- tionalism all over the world — am worthless to. Great Britain. All that Great Britain got from Canada by the 1932 bargain, in exchange for giving a free market to Canadian primary products, was the right to sell in Canada over a sky-high tariff with the consolation of knowing that foreigners had to surmount an even higher barrier. How much that privilege has been worth to Great Britain is clear from the trade fig- ures quoted. etis ��a t V�_� �., �s.✓ �/b�✓���� and u`.:✓ rrhe tariff bargain struck by Col- ada and Great Britain in August, 1982—one of the bargains known as the Ottawa agreement --- was to run for not less than five years from that date. It may run longer, its lifetime depending on the two governments. After February, 1937, when the agreement will be four and a half years old, either party may terminate it on six months' no- tice. Next year, then, the agree- ment is bound to be renewed, dis- carded or revised. 1t is time to sur- vey the results and consider what Canadian policy should he when the question comes up. Statistics are the best index to the effect of the agreement, if any, on trade between the two countries. Thy show that since 1932 the gains, measured in exports, have been: mainly to the Dominion.. These are the figures: Canadian Canadian Exports to imports from Gt. Britain Gt, Britain 1932 __-- $179,094,627 $93,508,143 1933 . • 211,314,610 97,878,252 1934 • , 71,389,655 113,415,964 1935 304,318,864 116,670,227 1936 (seven • months) 193,849,542 07,439,080 This two-way trade, the table shows, is markedly "unbalanced" in favor of Canada and the disparity has grown in the lifetime of the Ottawa agreement. If figures for all 1936 correspond to those for the first seven months, Canadian sales in Great Britain this year will be three times Britain sales in Canada. Canada will show a gain of 85 per cent. since 1982 in exports to Great Britain, as against a British gain of 23 per cent. in exports to this country. One certain cone'lusion ' springs 01933 ur 0aa noiimer nnA Tac Hell iyn,lkata inn FU M NC U "'Smith," I said after a silence, "We are malting no headway in 'this business. With all The forces arrayed. against him, Fu Manchu still eludes us,, still pursues his inscrutablea ,Smith nodded. "And we don't',,, " ` know all," he added. "I tell you, 1 u Manchu is omnipresent. His ten- tacles embrace everything S IR,ohmer • about 100 per cent. Fie asked that the duty entering Canada from the United States be raised from '7 1-2 to 25 per cent, The board reserved its decision, Odds and Ends For Decorating No ^"s Eghts Given To F Lreign F irms- ;edgewick Says Canada Does Not Have To Open Markets. Ottawa.—No concern, particularly not a foreign concern, is entitled to any specified share of the Canadian market for its product, George H. Sedgewick, Chairman of the Tariff Board, said today at a board hearing on steel wool. Thamesville Metal Products Limit- ed of Thamesville, Ont., applied for a- increase in the duties on steel wool, used for .soaring pots and pans and for industrial polishing. The com- pany was the only Canadian manu- facturer and claimed that if it had 90 per cent. of the Canadian market it could operate successfully and sell as cheaply as American manufactur- ers did. . Opposition came from American manufacturers, the American Steel Wool Manufacturing Co., the Brillo Manufacturing Co., and the Williams Company, represented by P. J. Jack- son. Mr. Jackson said that the aim of the Thamesville company appeared to he to eliminate the importer and set up a monopoly. Tliis was unfair. "We are entitled to some share of the market," he said. "No, you are not entitled to any share of the market," retorted Mr. Sedgewick. "You get what you can get. What share of their market does the United States allow to any outsider whether in Great Britain, France, Canada or any other coun- try?" E. 1-1. Miller, Secretary -Treasurer of the Thamesville company, said that the duty on steel wool entering the United States from Canada was Modern Lainps, Cigaret Boxes Of Zebra Skin Are Smart. NEW YORK — The woman who wants the very latest ornaments and aceessor;es for her household has at her disposal a new collection of decorative and useful odds tnd ends designed by an interior decorator. There are lamps and cigarette box- es, modern in design, covered with zebra skin, for the room that needs an accent in black and white, Paint- ed to simulate zebra skin is a funny fiat wooden fish, to be set on a book- case or an end table. Plaster in pale sof tints is made into lamp bases, paper baskets and vases, in modern or period styles. The baskets, which look like draped fabric, asv unbreak- able. One dead -white plaster lamp is strictly modern in design, with disks graduated in size, larger at the bottom than the top, and a deep live green metal shade that has a curious luminous quality. There are also lamps designed for. use on nar- row console tables. These are of glass and metal, with shallow, an- gulae shades, so that they may be stood flush ageinst a wall. Canadian Net Debt Is Up $159,989,559, Year's Revenue, $372,542,. 039; Expenses Are $532,531,598 OTTAWA — The total revenue of Canada for the fiscal year ended; March 31 was $372,542,039, accord ing to finance department figures published in the current issue of the Canada Gazette. The grand total expenditure in the same period was $532,531,598. At the same date the public debt totaled $3,492,893,427. During the year net debt increased by $159,989,- 559. 159,989;559. With regard to revenue taxation accounted for $115,898,984; with ex- cise nixes figuring at $112,733,048. Income collections were the next highese item of revenue, at $82,709,- 802. Customs collections amounted to $74,004,559, and excise duty to $44,409,797. The post office contributed $32,- 507,888 32;507,888 to the nation's treasury. Other items were interest in invest- ments, $10,614,124; radio licenses, $1,574,431; the Canada Grain Act, $1,213,086; miedellaneous revenues, $10,413,690, and miscellaneous taxes, $2,041,776. Special reecipts totaled $319,833... Outside the interest on the: pub - lie debt, which was $134,5411,16i), the largest item of outlay was special expenditure amounting to $102,047,-' 284.1 This item included unemploy- ment relief disbursements, public works construction acts, less on the 1m0 wheat pool stabilim tion oper- ations (payments to Cana lii.3. 'S; li _'at Board of net liability assumed os at Dec, 2, 1935), and the 1930 v tient crop equalization payments. Disbrlrsements for Government- owned enterprizes accounted for $50,904,401. These included $41,705,- 757 41,705;757 to the Canadian National Rail- , ways, $5,025,707 to the C.N.R. east- ern lines; $1,12o,055 to the Harbor Commissions and $203,969 to the Canadian National Steamships. Other items in Uovernment-owned enterprises included loans and advan- ces to the C. N. Steamships and Har- bor Commissions. - eensions and national health was the largest spending department, with $54,843,802. The post- office came next with $31.,437,718; the fin- ance department, including old age pensions payments, accountce for $27,63 3,739. Canada spent $17,122,23( 01_ na- tional defence; $13,7C8,093 on subsi- dies to provinces; $1.2,945,277 on pub- lic works, and lesser sums among 1.0- inaining .administrative department,;. Smith read the telegram at a glance. His jaw was squared and his eyes shone like steel, and he reached for his hat which lay upon the table. r� Illitl.'''li "Heaven help us, Pet- rie!" he said. "I-lerrjl" f11 "I stopped et Scotland Yard and sent o min o:i to watch Sir Lionel's house," lagan d t.:.' iiicceclit& c', an air of deep cliscoure a rieo1. "l r ei gee Vest tizi Manchu will make en attempt upon ii i il: , fed who: can .1 do?" Ho shrugged his s'.•loulders helplessly. �u' "We surf such and such a man as alive to the Yellow Peril, Petria, and wa:n him if we have lime. Perhaps he ossa p cs. C"crl:c, s nit. But what do we know of Those oihers who die every wool: by his murderous agency?" A maid knocked and camo iii with a telegram.. ,. .