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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-11-05, Page 7M't E ditoria Comment . Pres Opinioltas, Here and There 1 CANADA 1 On Bare Feet "Give acne time to get on nay feet and I w141 pay that ai;l," said a young Almonte pian the other clay. During the fair we saw him throwing away quarters ou games at the midway and the other night we hear he lost $00 in a poker game. If the your man is left alone he'll soon be back on his feet—his bare feet.—Almonte Gazette. Ontario's Fish and Game The province cannot be too particu- lar about the enforcement of it's game and Sidling laws. "Both fish and game are of enormous importance, and every effort ought to be made to con- serve them. Nothing in ,he nature of slaughter should be allowed, such as has been the case with partridge in recent years. Ontario, with its large areas of national parks, should be a paradise for game and fish, and the • government will find that public op- inion will support it In every effort it makes towards their conservation. —Brantford Expositor. Stupid Young fellows keep on stealing Motor cc's, and they keep Mn e, .ting caught, and they keep on getting pun- ished. There is something wron :- in the head of the young man o'. the cider one who thinkc that it is an easy matter to steal a car and get iiway-With it. There is a number on, the car and it is easily seen. It can- not be removed without ar rasing sus- picion at once. There are traffic of- ficers in cities and on the highways and they are constantly in touch with all reports of stolen cars.—Peterboro Examiner. T,he Best Two stories of Baron 'Munchausen, the world's best liar, are included in the new Grade VI. reader. Well, if children are to study lying, they may as well learn from an ack'owiedged master.—London Advertiser. Solid Improvement The Dominion Bureau of Statistics economic index advanced last week to 117.1, a gain of isy per cent• when cotnpared with r orresponding week of a year ago. This is evidence of solid improvement to the country's business.—Ottawa Journal. A Costly Colony • The people' of Italy area b ginning to realize that it will be a very long time before any benefit can be ob- tained from the natural resources of Ethiopia. The war cost over $1,000,- 000,000, adding enormously to the debt of the treasury, and how the, in- terest 's to be mot has not been 'dis- closed. Only live divisions of troops have been brought home, and it is estimated it it expenditures in Ethi- opia during the ensuing year will amount to about $300,000,000. Last year $200,000,000 of new taxes wore imposed and the budget or this year is already that amount in the reel, although the present fiscal year is • only two months old.—St. Thomas Times -Journal. Healthy Turn - What other game can conte up to golf for healthy , not -to -strenuous ex- ercise? A comfortable stroll for three or four mile:; over springy turf, under beneficial rays of a warm sun, at least oightee healthy swings at a ball from the tees, irons L.n the feir- ways—goodness know how many sometimes, but exercise just the same—say five or llx or seven strokes to the hole including the tap- ering off putt; on the green, 90 to 100 or more separate pieces of club work in a game. And, of course, the Walking, is not all on the flat. A little climbing to greens remotely lo- cated, Sporadic forays into the wood- ed sections.,to look, so hopelessly sometimes, for - a ball misdirected. And the fresh air one breathes on D-4 the course for three hours, purified kW the scent of the trees and wild Stowers.--Qttawa Journal, New Wealth The mineral resources of Canada have produced in the past half con tur.y six billion dollars of new wealth, an enormous sum, and ono which is not ooznuronly realizedby the ordin- ary citizen. The steady flow of wealth that comes from below ground has done more to help this country than is ordinarily appreciated. Dur- ing the past half dozen years in par- ticular, it has played a tremendous part in helping to keep things mov- ing. Without her mineral wealth to bolster up revenues in other fields that had fallen close to the vanish- ing point, Canada would have been in a very sorry plight.—Canadian Geographical Journal. The Next Depression. Norman Thomas, Socialist canal - 'date 'or President of the. United States, says: ''The next d..pression will scarcely find men so docile as the last." It is. hoped it we 't find them so poor either. But why have a next?—Chatham News. The 'ilent Toast A few days ago a well-known pub- lic man in Ontario, chief guest at a luncheon of directors of an agricul- tural organization, responded to the toast to the King. This was an eg- regious blunder, quite inexcusable :.i a man who is accustomed t public banquets and ceremonials. It is quite often done, ane of the big -wigs be- ing called upon to reply, particularly if he holds some kind of public of- fice or is a militia officer. There is only one man in the Do- minion who can reply to the toast ts the King, and that is the Governor- General, who is the King's eersonal representative. But the fact is, the toast to the King is never replied to anywhere. Strictly speaking, only IIis Majesty can do so. The correct thing is • to rise and say "The King, God Bless Him," or to sing the Na- tional Anthem and then thin:. .And it is all the same whether the beverage is water or champagne. But to make a speech in reply — Never. --Stratford Beacon -Herald. An Ontario "Punkin" In the garden of Walter Stroh at Couestogo there grew a pumpkin large enough to give every resident of the village, and then some, a' taste of October's favorite pie. The pumpkin weighed 105 pounds, and took one man hustling to handle it.— Elmira Signet. Sirs In a Million Icla Nicholson, 17, who hopes to become a concert singer, ha.s been selected as "the prettiest farm girl iu Western Ontario" at a contest in Windsor. She rises at six in the morning, helps with the work, de- votes some time to music and retires at nine. She can bake well and knows how to milk a cow. Likewise she has rosy cheeks and large grey eyes. She lives on the Fourth Con- cession of Anderton Township, and some of the boys in the office are already looking up the road maps.— Peterborough Examiner. No Money For Hockey The whole problem of professional hockey for Windsor this Winter boils down to a question of money. Whether or not the fans realize it, cash is required to operate a team in the league. If there were some chance t;f coming close to breaking ever, the promoters would go for it again. But, from their experiences in the past, they don't see how they can run a team again this year with- out r'anding ready to per a lot of money into the pot. Even before they got started this year, there would be leftover debts from last season to e cleared.—Windsor Star. Ex.S.panish Queen in Washington Former Queen Victoria Eugenia, of Spain (left), and Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, wife of the British Ambassador, pictured in Washington, D.C., shortly after Queen Victoria Eugenia's arrival for an overnight stay at the British Embassy. The Empire Based Upor. a Lie The inevitability, of war rests upon a lie. Man born of dust would be discordant, warring, hateful, self-de- structive. This lie needs its falsity exposed by active Christianity. Its spell upon men is the deep sleep of material thinking and' this spell' must and can be broken. It is this belief in the dust -theory of man's origin which denies the brotherhood of man. It is the reality of man's spir- itual origin which demonstrates the brotherhood of man here and now. The responsibility for Europe's crisis rests upon no one statesman and no one people. The greatest force for war comprises :io single country d no single race. The greatest force for war is the world's bling 'accept- ance of the theory that nan is ma- terial and mortal, from which stem false gods and false conflicts grow.— Hong row—Ilong Kong Press. In Ireland, Too. There will be no safety on the roads for motorists or pedestrians un- til public opinion asserts 'itself and insists that the present perils are lessened, or until those whose duty it ,is to help in removing them are made to understand that they are unfit for their responsibilities—Ir ish:.Indepen- dent, Dublin. Warns Dominion Of War Danger WINNIPEG — revival of the question of collective security may come sooner than many persons now anticipate, in the opinion of J olin W. Dafoe, editor-in-chief of the Winnipeg Free Press. "We are taking a long chance if we assume that Canada, one of the most potentially desirable countries, need fear nothing from other coun- tries," Mr. Dafoe declared in ad dressing the closing session of the convention of the Association of Officers of the Medical Services of Canada. If the League of Nations goes, the conceptions bound up in it must go, Mr, Dafoe said. Break-up of the league would mean the old concep- tion of war would remain. "That is, war is all right, if it is just." If this theory was correct, the Italians had. justification for the conquest of Abyssinia, and every- thing Japan night do in the future would be validated. Mr. Dafoe de- clared Japan had a number of rea- sons for expansion. "We must find means to organize: our activities so that each • person can use his abilities in' the kind of work for which he is best suited." —R. G. Tugweil, Take Life Easily - Longevity Recipe Abraham White, 94, Has Had A Varied Career TORONTO.—Celebrating his 94th birthday recently, Abraham White is receiving congratulations from his many friends. Sonie 22 years ago he came to live at his present home in North Tor onto where, he told of his life in Ireland and Canada, discussing at length the conditions under which the tenant - farmers of Ireland lived in his boy - hoed days. Liberal in politics, Mr. White was an earnest follower of Gladstone, whose legislation on behalf of the Irish tenants he recalled clearly. It was the greater individual freedom to be found in Canada which decided him to settle in this country. "How do you keep so young?" Mr. White was asked: to which he re- plied with a smile, "Just take life as it comes. I do all the gardening, corse and see." Attractive flower beds bor- dered a well -kept lawn which stretch- ed away back, and the front lawn and beds were equally well oared for. "How deep is the lot?" "Aobut 190 feet," "And do you do all the work?" "Yes, mow the lawn, clip the edges," was the nonchalant reply of this 94 - year -young gentleman, who had made a first-rate job of that back -breaking clipping. Of Irish farmer stock, Mr. White first came to Canada when about 18 years old. He worked in the oil fields near Petrolia and afterwards at the copper mines on Lake Superior, re- turning to Ireland about three years later. In 1880 he returned with his wife and children to Canada and set up a grocery business on College street, where he remained for many years. After retiring from business, he again took up active work when near- ly 75 years old as traveler for a pro- duce firm in the west end of the city, and held. this position for about 13 years. Horse Trade Is Back Again, Experts Say KANSAS CITY, — The old gray snare ain't what she used to be. She is even better. - Now she's a rich man's bride, eq- uine experts at the American Royal Live Stock and Horse Show declared recently. Here for the southwest's annual Parade of blue-blooded stock, veter- an horsemen asserted the current market for draft, riding and driving horses is at the highest t eak,in fif- teen years. A convincing indication that the present trend is from horse cents to horse dollars is the total value of the entries for the show. 0, J. Mercier, superintendent, estimated their total value, on the hoof at $2,225,000 — and there are only 075 horses enter- ed, Lester "Swede" McGinnis, whose background embraces 25 years of tra- vel from coastto coast exhibiting at major horse shows, summarizes the market: "Six years ago the horse business dragged bottom. But today it's com- ing back stronger than ever. "Horses are bringing double the money they brought then. Western mustangs, unbroken, that you could not have sold for $30 a few years ago are selling for $1.25 a head right now in Chicago." Prices are up for the fancier also for the farmer as well. "Just an average sound farm horse today costs $150. You used to be able to buy a good one for $55," he said. Associations Carry On Grenfell Work New England Group Gives Annual Benefit In Its Support Boston. — Sir Wilfred Grenfell, knighted by King George in 1927 for his work-in Labrador, now lives al- most entirely at his Vermont home. Associations in Britain, Canada and the 'United States carry oil his work. The. New England Grenfell Associa- tion, supported by volunteer contribu- tions, is accustomed to have a benefit annually to support the Grenfell work. This year the association announces that tickets for the world premiere of "The Show's On," featuring Beatrice Lillie, who as Lady Peel, is a fello' r countryman of Sir Wilfred's, and Bert Lahr, on Monday evening, November 2, will benefit the Grenfell Associa- tion. ' Thirty years ago the young English doctor, short, tanned, with, even then, the wrinkles about his bright blue eyes bespeakin,; long hours in the open, came to Boston to talk about the fine people he had been living with and helping on the coast of La- brador. They were many miles from the markets and institutions of the world and needed help to health and educa- tion. Dr. Grenfell's story greatly impress- ed Boston. Solid and influential peo- ple joined with the doctor's British compratriots in initiating support to his work. Some New Things About P s ul try In San Francisco they are advertis- ing "Electrocuted Poultry," and it means just that. In the killing room of a large poultry plant the birds are attached by the feet to a conveyor and as they move along the line their heads are clamped to another 'convey- or. onveyor. Then a man pulls a lever send- ing 1,000 to 1,500 volts through the birds. As the fowl pass on, their throats are slit by the revolving knife then into a liot bath they go and fin- ally on to the pluckers. Apparently chick sexing is not the latest and final word in sex determin- ation. Science may make chick sex- ing unnecessary. Considerable inter- est was aroused a few months ago by the scientific announcement that use of hormones extracted from the sex glands of slaughtered cattle and sheep made it possible to reverse the normal sex development in male chicks so that all eggs into which minute quantities of the substance theolin had been injected would hatch female birds. Now Dr. Benjamin H. Wiliier of the University of Rochester reveals that successful attempts to alter the sex of female embryo chicks within the egg so that all chicks in a given hatch will be male has been effected with the use of synthetic hormones. If these experiments can be suc- cessfully reduced to practical incu- bator operation then chick sexing will be out of date and a buyer will simp- ly order so many pullets and so many cockerels. It is all very interesting, says the Farmers' Advocate, but sometimes these announcements of soh'ntitic' ills' covery are prematurely made Labora- tory results are not always eo and"s:• ing' when translated into actual farm) practice. Scirtch ( fifer Barter zn ' Would Offer Manufactured Articles for Alberta Products EDMONTON -- A picture of Al- berta wheat and cattle crossing the Atlantic in exchange for jute, fur- niture, cloth, woollen blenkets, shoes and shirts, was drawn recently for Provincial Treasurer Cockroft by two directors of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, Robert Murray and R. W. Leckie. The exchange of goods would be accomplished through a barter ar- rangement, so many bushels of wheat for so many yards of cloth. There would be no exchange of money, the idea of the Aberhart Social Credit Government being to import goods so they could he ex- changed internally for Social Credit dividends. Directors of the Scottish Co- operative old the provincial treasurer that had factories already turning out many products not manufactured in Alberta. The organization buys $1,000,000 worth of Canadian wheat every year and is agreeable to a bar- ter agreement, the director said. Alberta has no factories turning out furniture, cloth, jute, shoes or shirts in large quantities, depending largely on Eastern Canada for its supply. If a barter organization went into operation extensively, it would be Eastern Canada that would lose the business. Farming is Dangerous Writes the Kansas City Times: 3'. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture, told members of the. Kansas Safety Council, meeting here, that statistics had show-- far- ming to be the most hazardous indus- try in the state. Of the 223 deaths resulting last year from industrial ac- cidents, he said, 112 occurred on farms. One hundred and twenty- seven wentyseven persons sustained permanent injuries. A compilation by Dr Earle G. Brown, secretary of the state board of health, Mohler told the delegates, listed 3,255 accieents in Kansas farms last year—one tc every fifty farms — with an averag, of 4.7 persons injur- ed for every 1,000 farm inhabitants. A total of 132,934 days were lost from work. Only one county, Morton, was free from farm accidents. Other reports varied from one In Haskell to 94 in Marshall., Mohler said the board was contemplating a study of the possible relation of types of farming accidents to provide r ecessary information for . preventive work. Perishable Tk!ngs All that is some day bound to perish Secretly in my heart I cherish — The tender seeds at the apple's cert The coloured shells on the wind- blown shore. All that is born to bloom a little While I delight in — the frail, the brittle; The plant whose growth is touched with decay, The cricket that lives for a summer day. Not for me any heavenly portal; All that I prize is simple, mortal; The love that for a moment lights Bewildering roads on stormy nights. The happiness that dreaming When the brain is tired of scheming The foolish hope, that, in the hour When all seems loft, bursts into flower. —Helene Mullins, Hollywood, Cal- ifornia. comes through "The Scotland Yard man couldn't get any sense out of Sir Lionel's servants, They were too dazed, and Miss Edmonds was only half-conscious," continued Inspector Weymouth to Nayland Smith. "So he began to investi- gate for himself. F1) MANCHU "From the Tight in the window he had located the study from the outside, and now he tried the study door. He was astonished to find it locked on the inside. 13y Sax Rohrer V'N'lV ' 1r.171M, dRi11.111 ,... "A:r:c-r' 1 r.:ii isi on the floor : was lying on ifs side Face down- ward, with his arms Meows} across it, lay Sir Lionel // I "Then Croxted wont outdoors and look- ed into the study window, os apparently Miss Edmonds had done before him. What he saw counted for the girl's hysterics . ac - 11 01531 0 sax tiol,mrr and Trio 11,; '1't,dlcatr, rC(4 i