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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-11-19, Page 3• .v. Editorial Comment ••• 1PreSS Opinions, Here and There .„ ,,,,,Liaiii..kiimiiiiiiiiisr7- —..evosiomari-oulosimaismsousuKW- ' -4imi' Igl- mei. -7.ass!s.v71 . . CANADA "Is This Sport?" Here Is a calm description of a certain method of hunting moose: One of the shyeit of orest ani- mals, they lost much of their timid- ity in late Autumn, when the bulls aro often decoyed by hunters who irn. itate the animal's call on trumpets of birch -bark. TO all who still regard the shooting of animals as "sport," let it be said quite plainly—that is not sport, what- ever klse it may be. And the author - Ries would be doing the right thing if 'hey put a stop to it entirele IlaUfax Herald, The "cattle on a thoesentt rejoice in a new sustenance which e benevolent Fall supplies, and all Na, tare is fortified in the thought that when Winter comes it will not be a long one, and we brace ourselves to meet it with thi: thought.—Letle bridge Be 10 • Boy Scouts Behave Survey of ntvenile court records by a menthe, of the university of Michigan :,taft leads him to the assen tion that liloy Scouts are only one. third as likely to become delinquents as are non Scouts. People who know and appreciate the value of Scout training will readily beliove in the truth of that statement.—Kingston Whig -Standard. Sound to the Core Here is an item from Ottawa that certainly is worth the attention of the Canadian people today: Ottawa civic employees are buying $20,000 of Prince Edward Island 1947 bonds for their superannuation Lund. Decision to purchase the boads, which yield 3.95 per cent. interest, was made at a meeting of the Civic Employees' Superannuation Board. That is a perfectly lair proposition —and an excellent investment. But what would those investors think about it if Prince Edward Is- land at some time in the future acted through legislation to cut in two or wipe out entirely the return from this fair and legitimate investment? Of course, Prince Edward Island has no intention of doing any such thing. 11 we know that province ati'd it people as we think we do, they will go' or: scrupulously honoring their obligations in the terms of their eon tra cts.—Ilali fax EIerald. Big City's Schools With the opening of the Lawrence Park Collegiate, Toronto now has 10 collegiates, tour technical schools, four high schools of commerce, 100 public schools (including all types). three spec,..1 cools an, .40 separate schools. The total value of all, in- cluding sites and equipment, is plac- ed at over $40,000,000. --Toronto Star. When Youth Goes Wrong For the year 1.930 there were 6,453 convictions (to sefc•rnatory or prison) of those known to be between the agos of 16 and SI, and 920 who were supposed to be within that age tinsit. making a total of 7,373; Of that number 5,732 were Cana dian born. Dividing them by rule mice it was round that S3 per cent came from urban eentres and 17 per cent. from rural distris' , 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 statistics it was found that 30 per cent. of the major offer are stealing and re colving stolen property. From 193' to December 31, 1935 the majc in- creases in juvenile delinquencies were round tie in utannobile eases. —Peterborough Examiner. Truth in Spain The truth is the ordleary liberty - loving individual of moderate political views in Spain is caught between the upper and the nether millstones, and there is tittle he can do about it. He can choose between a military dicta torship and dictatorship of tho pro letariat and thet is the only choice he eau make. The extremists on ,both sides o. ve, as usual it such cin cumstances, risen to the top and re in full command Tho Government is dominated by t e Com.nunists and anarchists. The rebell an d011ill'ated by the militury juuta. The mo".erates on both sides can only stare] and vie'in helpless dismay tho forcee of destruction let loose upon r. stricken eountry.—Wientoeg Tribune. Challenge There is not now the same need of rough pioneering bat if the fon ward looking energy tnat is rot eoTh tent with things as they are. The resources of science are available, there is field for co-operation, anu the natural riches of tLe sell, the forest aid the fisheries await fuller development. There is also the great and growieg tour:sie traffic to be en couraged, since the Maritimes are fit ted cas be in a natural playground fo: vast numbers of a mmee visitors. While, thareso: e, the area of the Maritime Provinces is .limited in coin parison with the ether peovincee there is room foi the expansion 0- agricult industry and trade an a greater exploitation of scenic charms and Summerclimates Empire Wood in a letter to ti e Times, the Chief, Royal Engineer notes that as the waytayel goes up ,.b ealator Moorgate Static:, h :ces on a trip through the Enapil torests. The -whole or the balustrat, is composed of bor titul p; els of wood from every part of the Empire Canada, Newfoundland, Attica, Incite and Britain .itself are etch la Limbs, yearn. But 'vhy he yeas, restrict thin excellent ider. to alooreate 'Sta. tion?—Canada's Weekle (London). Mistaken Identity Dem, it is 3portad, hale tints seen is Oxford Coanty Funny how anyone could mistake a Edelstein for a deer?- SI. Catharines Standard. 3 Strikes On Cupid With their wedding day set for, November 4th, Joe Vosmik, star outfielder of the Cleveland Indians and his fiancee, Miss Sally Joanne Okla, 24, raise their hands to'swear to their application for marriage license in Cleveland. — - Fall On the Prairie 1110,1 ng poets 11, numbm and veil- ety crop up in the Spring, or in theso-c• ',0t1 Spring in Sontbern Al- berta. aut w lave yet to have a Fall pool vho can sine, of the glories of the Southern Alberta Pall. El nr she an stavemuch 111;i0111.0011 Our Fall is at the nnture of r reser. rection. The burnt-out grass of Sittoel mtenee beat comes bate ,to life and color. The dowers that were killed by the scorching sun 00 1,01 to life, and tio pre ;es, rendered arid with the jam NI rays of a nitisummer sue put on new ver- dure and new cuter with he revivi- fied grase and 010 Wild fit, wers thet peep forth ag(,ir, etter State of People ra tits Seek to t --- TORONTO — Describine as "far ahead of our system." the method in which London takes care of delin- quent girls, Miss Mary !v. Jenison related her impressions of the Inter- national Conference on Social Work in London before a Central Council,' Neighborhood Workers' Association tneeting. A.t the Women's Boestal at Ayles- bury, she found an exterior -looking' much like a prison. Inside tne girls had many privileges. Girls from 14 to 21,, guilty of such criminal offem ces as petty thieving, vagrancy and other chargee are kept in the bor- stals, Miss Jenniston explained. They are trained in domestic work. cook- ing and sewing during imprisonment. and when ready for discharge, are found employment and kept under' supervision for a yeal. Academie subjects are also taught to those de- siring them. aloglish social wort:ers, 111• er described as "much more concern- ed with . bettering the conditions of people than with destroying. the cause of such: conditions." They are more outspoken about the spiritual life of sicial work, and much less self-conscious about it, she said. The most surprising thing about English social work, she thought is the recog- nition by the state o: its ineteased.. responsibility for the care of peonW tnade dependent through economic forces and the close co-operatior be- tween the state enterprises and vol- untary groups. Recreational develop- ments are only thought worthwhile in England's social agencies. if they come from the people themselves. This Is perhaps an ca story, but linked with it is the 1.; progress of the Maritimes. They :millet go north, bui they can make more use of what they have within their lim ited boundaries. It ite a ehanengees pecially to youth, to go on to greater things.—St, John a elograph-Journal. THE EMPIRE Skilled Men Scarce Persons skilled in trades that re- quire considerable training and give promise of afgording employment stand the best chance of becoming. absorbed in industrY,. This employment phase is stressed by Major-General W, P. M. King who has just returned to Canada from Great Britain, "Just recently" says General King, "1 visited a large airplane factory where I was invited to see the new trans-Atlantic flying boats that are being made for the Imperial Airways England to Canada service, 1 was told there that they are employing 8.500 men on military contracts and could employ 8,000 more if skilled mechanics wore avail- able." A similar situation may confront us in Canada before long. Young men have not been able to learn trades due to the scarcity of jobs in the last six years. Something should be done to give youth the opportun- ity to become experienced in those lines of industrial activity that re- quire workmen." are numbered Progress has over- taken the old ,mers Nostalgic memories arise in the Heart of all who have spent time on a farm whenever they think of the sural mail man. In he summer be could be ,4eeen coming uplthe road a long way Oft. Ele was announced by a cloud of Oust, seised by his faithful horse, Speed was not his motto, but that wae just as well. Els slowness furnished a. excuse for Marring against the old fence down by the road until he an rived, He was an acceptable alibi tot chores. Wben he pulled up in :rent of the drive he did more than deliver the daily paper from the county seat, the•catalogues and letters from aunts and cousins in nearby counties; be had a whole budget of gassip from the village and the farms along the line to Ee helped keep the country togethei. Dressing by Airplane For a bride in Smith Africa, thous- ands of miles away, to order, by air mail, her wedding dress, after having eelected a design and a pattern for it, submitted to her from London try air mail, is unusual. Surely there must be an extre special thrill in opening a box which has come all the way from England with the wed. ding dress in -it, after the bride has only seen that wedding gown, in her mind's eye, as a sketch and a scree of satin. It is eguatry unusaai for a London dress designer to send daigns and patterns by air mail overseas to cus. touters who select from his sketcl and patterns in the same way. But this is how Mr. Tracquir, who works in his Grosvenor Street salon, caters for wealthy en:On:ens in South Africa whom he has only seen once when they were over here. Ile has their ,measurements and he makes dreases for thern—a ' mottle; and two daughters—a dezen at a time,—Overseas Daily Mail. Romance In Rural Mails A11.13ritish Atlantic Air Line in 1938' Million People In the Trailers To Link England With The Pacific Coast of Domin- ion Mail, Passengers lVfolltreal,—An .a11-13rItish air maili and passenger service between Eng-, land end the PaOine coast of Canada by 1938, a trane-Canada air servica. to be established as soon as possible,' establishment of a transportation commission in place ot the preeent, board of railway commissioner's, and .early consideration of the capital structure of the Canadian National Railways, were envisioned recently by Transport Minister C. D. Howe. Speaking t.t a luncheon gathering of the Canadian Club, his appear- ance coinciding with the announce -1 ment at Ottawa of formal inaugurai tion of the new department of trans- port, Mr. Howe told something of the vast, public interest involved in the merger of the railway, canals, marine, civil aviation, radio and meteorologi- cal services of government. "In the field of civil viation, the minister said, "steps are now being taken to set up a transcontinental service for passengers and mail. Thi is a development that Is overdue. While Canada has an enviable record for transportation of mail, passengers and freight by air in districts not serve.e by other forms of transport, it is behind most countries in provid- ing air service along the main arter- ies of travel. "Great Britain has made definite plans for transporting mail and pas- sengers across the North Atlantic, and it is expect cl that an air route: from England via Ireland and New- foundland, to Montreal will be in operation by 1938. 'Canada has contracted with these countries to furnish an air service from Montreal to the Pacific Ocean as a connecting link in this all -Brit- ish air route. Aside from this, there is an insistent demand from the tra- velling public for modern air trans- portation in Canaaa. "Operation of air lines today is ap- proaching the efficiency of our rail- ways in the matter of safety, comfort, and reliability of schedules. The ex- perimental stage is passed and Can- ada cannot be witl•out the service much longer. 'It is hoped that the proposed air service can b • developed through co- operation between the railways and the government. The post office de- partment eetimates that suffteient business is available almost from the start to make the route commercially feasible. (By L. H. Roboins in the New York Times Magazines.) The coach trailer, innocently trim diing along the road or resting by the wayside, becomes suddenly ae object of popular interest and nation al concern. Five years ago it was just a convenience for motor tourists an overnight shelter, usually home. made, a mobile bedroom dragged along behind the car. Today it is a fairly complete home, factory -built, and it is the only home of thousands of Americans who have gone gypsy, cutting loose from house foundations. cutting addresses and other convent dual moorings. At the opening of the year there were perhaps ..00,000 of these migras tory bungalows. Since then their number has, by all accounts, trebled. A million people, in the estimate of the American Automobile Association are living in them for part or all of the year. Most of the year-round crowd follow the birds south in Aut- umn, north itt Spring, but many stay planted on vacant lots and ramble not at all. Omaha, for one city, re- ports 300 families living there in trailers throughout the year. The swift increase of the trailer. ites raises new problems for states and municipalities; for motor -vehicle authorities, tax collectors, school boards, public health °Ricers, land- lords, real-estate dealers, the bouse. building trades, the railroads, the ho, tels. The thing has the economists and the sociologists guessing. What will American life become, they ask, if the trailer tad goes on accelerating at the present rate? What sort of citizens will trailer chil- dren make? One startled observer predicts that half the people of the United States will turn nomadic 'with- in a generation. Another looks at the hordes of houseboat dwellers on the rivers of China and wonders whether America is in for a "float' ing" population of a like sort. All the while signs of the dawn of a trailer age are multiplying. Ey 111E1. 111 this column eaca week we try tb give you some kind of information regarding sport or athletes, some- thing you don't read everyday in the newspapers—so, here it is. "The man with the smile that nev- er comes off" is the sensational bike rider, Charlie Winter, who along with sTorchsPeden is one of the biggest Men ir the bike game to -day. He weighs 210 pounds. Piet Van Kempen is the last word when it comes to pedal pushing. He is the one and only world's cham- pion. Piet has bden on the winning team in 29 of the even 100 bike -races in -Which he has taken part. Looking up the files we found some interesting data for you wrestling fans. Following are names, weight height and nationality of a few, Chafoor Khan, 255 lbs, 5 ft. 11 in., Afghanistan; Man Mountain Dean, 817 ibs, 6 ft., Amer^a.n; George Cal. ea, 255 lbs., 0 ft. 2 in., Italian; Ed. Strangler Lewis, 250 tbs. 6 ft., German; Howard Cantonwine 237 Ib., (i ft. 1 in.. American, And so we leave the big "beef" men for a time. Watch for next week's column—something new and d:fferent. Cleveland Plain Dealer writes:— An echo from the past comes with the resignation of J. E-1, Taylor. for 30 years a rural mail carrier at Bucyrus. Taylor Is one of that vanishing, race that took the man into the farm dis tricts by aorse and buggy Then, as in these days of airplanes, tee mail had to go th rung h. Taylor a Ways. got it to its destination over every description of road and in all kinds of, weather. In his 30 years he covered 269,274 miles and wore out twelve horses before the motor car came. The automobile and good toads have eliminated the romance from the arrival or the mail on the fai 1n. it osed to be an event, the high spot of the day for thousands of families, but no wit is an accepted, routine affair. In a tow ?laces, in the hill country to southern Ohio and Pentsylvania: the tourist seeking (be quiet country road away from the caravan laden highway, will occasionally come upon the old-style carrier, plodding along in his horse-drawn wagon. But his days FU MANCHU #1 .4 ..ns -4-1r4 Remembrance Day Not wasted lives, but glorious in their death; Ttue men, who Duty's call; They counted not not of self, 'Ithey nobly gave, in time of ueed,— their all. marched away at the cost, thought Their honor was ered, Our wistful, splendia, tragic sons of fate, IntrepidlY, with display, they died. Today it measures gain—our loss so great. —Dorothy Sproule. a banner never low Sf7ys War Awaits A New Ge't''a So long as the "war generation" lives, Dr. Hans Lilje,- of Berlin told the American Lutheran Church con- vention at San Antonio. Texas, there will not be another' world war. Speaking in German, the Berlin churchman termed the current "saber rattling" in Europe mostly "international bluff." "1 fought in the trenches, and 1 haven't forgotten it. As long as we exist there will not be another world war." "A look at the present situation will show you that they cannot af- ford a war now," he added. sity Medical School and the Nuffield Institute of Medical Research. The intention is to provide a great post. graduate school with senior posts for men and women who will not be subject to the distractions of private medical practice. There is every reason to hope that such an institu- tion will give powerful aid in the nation's fight against disease. Newspaper Changes The Loudon Advertiser is the latest important. Canadian daily newspaper to prove a casualty. Which .is a pity, comments the Ottawa Journal. For the Advertiser, in its best days, was a good newspaper, and under th: editorship of the late 'Melville Ros- sie, it spoke for old-fashioned West- ern Ontario Liberalism with know- ledge and distinction. More than these things, alas, are required in these days to keep a newspaper alive. The claim, so often heard, that people will support newspapers to the ex- tent only that they publish what is of serious consequence to democ- racy, neglecting other tastes and de- mands, is one of our greatest myths. Perhaps as compensation for the loss .of the London Advertiser is the announcement that Mr. John I3assett, vice-president of the Montreal Gaz- ette, has bought control of and will in future be responsible for the Sherbrooke Record. The Sherbrooke Record is one of the few surviving English newspapers in the Province of Quebec, but it is published in a district which, contrary to general belief, has recently shown a gain in its English-speaking population, and under the guidance of Mr Bassett, a journalist of wide knowledge and experience, its future should be as prosperous as it undoubtedly will be beneficial to its readers Corporation taxes have been in- creased in Get many, Ge1111Cill experts hare developed new varnieli of unusuul lustre and clearness. By San Rohmer "Crested held out till I arrived, and told his story. Then he fainted. He said that something in the conservatory seemed to get him by the throat." We crossed the hall where the members of the house- hold were gathered. I missed the Chinaman, Kwee, of whom Smith had spoken, and the Italian se.cretary, Strozza. Wo entered the study where i lay the body of Sir Lionel ' Isni. Ily kkaz all;.: Ttom, 5;.:1 %yrks,d;;, , . a'Aeasti.", „ asettsieste„.. "On the steps behind the curtain Crosted 'found a dead Chin a• m a n," Inspec.tor Wer mouth said. "1* • dector seen the bodies?" "'I,. .1 local man," the Inspector replied. "But ho could not e:os what killed the two mon." 111\ )1\14111 'lq1111 Smith rose from his knees beside the body with a mut- tered exclamation, and his face, as he turned to Inspector Weymouth. reflected the most drernatic astonishment. He said in a low, tense yoke: "You do not know Sir Lionel Barton by sight, do you?" "What about C7oxted?" Smith inquired, "He was taken UI, and had to be sone home in a cab."