Zurich Herald, 1936-12-10, Page 3Editorial Comment ..
Pres Opiniona, Here and There
CANADA
Wolx't Settle Anything
According to League of Nations
figures, there are three million more
inert under arms in the permanent
forces of tjle world today than at the
outbreak of the Great War—which
was to have ended war, The number
Of men in armies and navies today Is
Set at 8;200,000 an ! does not include
the semi-official forces in so ,e lands.
Many of our troubles may be traced
directly to the Great War, which set -
tied nothing
et•tiednothing and seems to be leading
to a new war which will settle noth•
ing again 'except perhaps the fate of
civilization.—Niagara Falls Review.
During that periodg"the early dusk in-
creases the risk of a'ecidents as thou-
sands of workers crowd the centre
line, out in and out, and speed just
to get home a minute or two earlier.
If oath driver will reflect that bis
family would sooner have him come
home a few minutes late each day
than risk his own neck, or that of
another, perhaps the danger period.
m"ntitared would lose some of its
deadly signitieanoo Vancouver Sun.
Apricots in War
During the Great War it was said
peas', stones provided the basis of
some form of protection from poison
gas. Now word from Australia says
apricots are being grown there prin-
cipally, for their stones, which have
And No Motor Cars teen found to contain a material use -
"A man who cau iump six feet on ,1 tul in the manufacture of powerful
the earth could jump 36 feet on the I explosives. Canned, dried and other•
moon, because the force of gravity on wise preserved apricots have been
the moon is only one•si. ,h of the i the basis of an .extensive and profit•
pull on this planet." Pedestrians must able industry which had nothing to
envy the mar, in the moon.—Pitchen• !do with war, but now science comes
er Record. 'along and points a way of using this
Well ito Remerr.ler
Britain was our best customer in
October, bought $41,000,000 worth of
our goods. It is something to i•elnem'
ben,—Ottawa Journal.
Only Needs Doing
Business prophets usually talk as
though good and bad times come and
go with the inevitability of the tide.
This doctrine of economic predestine•
tion must not be allowed to obsess
us into a state of submission to fate„
The universe may be mechanical, but
the affairs of mankind are subject to
the will of man. Neither depressions
nor booms are inevitable if we make
up our minds to avert or control them
Booms and depressions are made by
snort and anything that is mau-made
can be unmade or made differently
by man,—Stratford Beacon -Herald.
Our Tobacco Crop
Twenty -live years ago Canada bad
a record tobacco crop o1 12,000,000
lbs. This year it was not a record,
but it stood at 43,000,000 pounds. It
is progress in terms of production.—
St. Catharines Standard.
And So It Goes
Mary Pickford is to marry Buddy
Rogers. This will '>e her third hus-
band, the previous two having been
Owen Moore and Douglas Fairbanks.
Douglas Fairb' "+ks has also mar-
ried three times: Anna B. Sully, Mary
Pickford and Lady Ashley:
Owen Moore, Mary Pickford's first
husband, later married Kathryn
Perry.
And so it goes hrougltout movie•
don. What a meeting of "ex',." there
must be at large litdlywood gather.
ings. And that one case where "ex"
is not the unknown qur"tity,--To'
ronto Star.
One Makes Average
The average mother, according to
a Salt Lake City churchman, should
have three children. At the same
time, just one child ,;an makr some
mothers feel pretty darned average.—
Windsor Star.
innocent fruit to blow human beings
into eternity. Already the Austral-
ians, according to the dispatch, are
disposedto look upon dried apricots
and apricot jam as mere i>y-products
c" a new war industry. Apricot stones
are what count,—Brandon Sun.
A Reversal
The roan who tossed a gold watch at
President Roosevelt now wants it re-
turned. Time marches hack!—Wind-
sor Star.
Harry ender on Tour
Sir harry Lauder, the famous com•
edian, has started on a world pleas-
ure trip without seeking to secure
any bawbees by entertainments en
routt:. He manifestly still retains
the habit of doing the u. expected,
but his myriad admirers will hope
that he may have a brow time on
the tour. --Brantford Expositor.
Danger Hours
During certain hours of the day, for
the next three mouths, wise automo•
bile drivers will be exceptionally cau•
tions in picking their way through
traffic. For, according to statistics,
death lurks closer, to the pedestrian
between 5 and 8 o'clock p,m„during
October, November and December
than at any other ,.foie of the year.
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Prelude, to Peac.:
The world speaks of peace as
were to be achieved only by the cos•
sation of the hostile attitude of civil•
izcd nations towards each other. We
must not forget, however, that an es•
sontial preliminary to that blessed
state of afi'airs is economic peace. if
that can be brought about, the menu•
facture of arms and munitions may
yet be converted to the manufacture
of the needs of man, each in that
country best suited economically to
its production,—Johannesburg Times.
if it
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New Zealand De€ence
At a time when all the talk is of
national security and defence it may
be permissible to say a word or two
about the most defenceless country
in the world—New Zealand, Like
other Modern nations, this Dominion
relies for protection upon an army, a
navy and an air force. The army
consists of it permanent force, a ter-
ritorial force, and several corps of
school cadets. On May 30th, 1935, the
strength of the permanent force stood
at 09 officers, 11 staff cadets. and 421
other ranks. Et is divided elaborate-
ly into regiments and corps, the per-
fect skeleton, as it 'las heel called,
of an army. But, naturally, you can
tramp up and down the length and
breadth of New Zealand and not meet
a man in khaki. --Donald Cowie in
The Fortnightly (London).
Natural F
es
Natural . White Cloaks Incandescent W.a ►
A view of Broadway, New Xork City, after tae first snowfall of the season temporarily outshone
the bright lights. Rise in• temperature turned white blanket into slush.
vited to step right in. It seldom
turns down such invitation.
It is oobvious, of course, that ty-
phus is a plague which can appear
only when human civilization has
temporarily broken down. It 'does
not go sweeping across peaceful na-
tions of Europe, for the simple rea-
son that the people in those lands
livs in a way that makes a typus
epidemic impossible.
The normal procedure of ordinary
social life is their protection.
But when war or revolution or other
upheaval breaks into that routine,
typus can and does appear. And its
appearance ought to be warning
enough that mankind occupies this
planet only on sufferance, after all,
All humanity's intelligence and
energy are needed for the simple job
of making the earth a safe place to
live. The day when the Black Death
killed two-thirds of the people of
Europe is not so far behind us that
we can afford to forget about it.
And it is in that conn,:etici. that
the threat of a new world war takes •
on its most frightening aspect. The
killing and destruction would in
themselves be bad enough, heaven
mows; yet the chief danger would
be the fact that the Fabric of modern
civilization itself ---the intricate we.'
that staves off such age-old threats
as famine and pestilence—would be
torn apart.
Typhus fever has seen its oppor-
tunity once more. It is now appear-
ing in Spain, taking advantage of the
opening always created by war, hun-
ger, and dirt, observes the Kitchener
Record. Unless the Spaniards are
very fortunate, a considerable num-
ber of men, women and children who
got through the war unharmed will
lay down their fives to the plague.
Typhus is a strange and terrible
disease. It almost seems, sometimes,
as if it had been devised as a scourge
to. punish man's own folly.
It is- caused by a virus which is
transmitted by the bite of the body
louse or the rat flea. Whenever men
create one of those confused and dis-
ordered situations in which thousands
of people are made subject to the
bites of these ting creatures, the
door is opened wide and typhus is in-
The Farmer —
He h No Fool
descernible today, but the ploughman,
what a change has come over him.
Intelligent keen and tip to the minute
on his ploughing, why cannot he get
going in the other direction of mar-
keting the results of tbat wonderful
ploughing. There is no need to be
downhearted. Farming is the most
conservative of industries. Co-opera-
tive marketing will come.
I said the farmer is no foo1. Let me
illustrate by an anecdote told of Lord
Kainles. a great Scottish landholder,
who did much to put Scotland in the
forefront as an agricultural country,
" My good friend," he said one day to
a tenant farmer, "such are the won•
derful discoveries of science that I
should not be surprised if, at some
future time one might be able to car.
ry the manure of an acre of land to
the field in our coat pocket." "Very
ppssiblo,",,replied the fume., "but in
that case I suspect yo't would be able
::to bring back the crc,: in you waist-
coat pocket."
The farmer is no man's fool, though
he often has to pay dearly for his
e.:perience, writes Irish Ccbbler in
Port Arthur News -Chronicle. The best
way fo combat the many difdct:lties
we are up against is by co-operating,
Many heads are better than one, and
in the multitude of counsel there is
wisdom. Adam Smith, writing in
180.4, said: "Not only the art of the
farmer, the general direction of the
operations of husbandry, but maul'
inferior branches of labor- require
much more skill and experience than
the greater part of mecba.nic trades.
The man who works upon, brass or
iron works with instruments and up•
on materials of which the temper is
always the same, or very nearly the
same. But the man who ploughs the
ground with a team of horses or oxen
works with instruments of which the
health, strength and temper are very
different upon different occasions, The
common ploughman, though general-
ly regarded as the pattern of stupid•
ity and ignorance, is seldom defective
in his judgment and discretion."
1 had been reading this when I pick•
ed up my farm magazine to read the
results of the International ploughing
match at Cornwall. Stupidity and ig-
norance 1 thought du not draw a
crowd of ninety thousand people of all
classes. What a change has come
over the "common ploughman" in the
past century and a quarter. That
judgment and discretion are just es
flow To Grow Old
Do So Gracefully
it. First 1 brush for five minutes.
then I rub a good hair tonic into my
scalp and—brush again, Afterward, 1
part my hair in sections, then wipe
each strand with a clean silk cloth.
This sounds pretty homely, but it's
effective and works much the same
way as polishing furniture —the long-
er you rub, the brighter the surface
gets."
Farm G:it:.7.s "Douse
ST. PATJL, Minn. — Develop a
hobby and beat old age, Dr. Irving. S.
Cutler, of Northwestern University,
advises,
He listed the companionship of
young persons and a lively interest
in everyday affairs as added re-
te irements for health and happiness
in; the winter years of life.
'Life's crowning glory is to grow
'Qid ?;r'aoefnlly," "said Dr. Cutter,
Professor of Medicine in the univer-
sity inedical school, at the Interna-
tional Medical Assembly of the Inter -
State Postgraduate Medical Associa-
tion of America.
"Old age need not be regarded as
a disagreeable period of life. We
need -;"the fire of youth, the same
thinking of the matui e mind and the
wisdom that conies with ripening
age and. the later years of a well -
ordered life and mind."
Every one should develop a hobby,
Dr. Cutter said; but it should not
be one to overtax the strength
while engaging the mind. In old
age, he said, "the m.de of life must
be changed, strength must be con-
served, and some sort of activity
provided.
"To avoid melancholy loneliness
and self-pity, every one should culti-
vate the friendship and association
of persons of younger years. Old
age is as natural as growth and de-
velopment and doctors should give
it as much attention as they do the
ti'hy babe."
Hair Polishing
a
r ged cm efforts
Stage and Screen
Having been on the sick list'
George ,Arilss has been advised to
spend the winter out of England,
Production of his next picture there- •
fore postponed until April, He may
visit Hollywood but not to act,
Nancy Carroll, the movie actress,
has no marriage plans, despite the
announcement of Tommy Manville, ,
the asbestos heir, thatshe would be
his next wife. Miss Carroll ane, her
ten -year-old daughter, Patricia, ar-
'rived in New York on the Queen
Mary. "Somebody told me about
that," Miss Carroll said, ") really
think Tommy might haus asked me
about it first, There's nothing to it,
of course." Miss Carroll is to spend
six weeks With her family in New
York. She will return to England
in January to make a picture. Her
former husband, father of Patricia,
is Jack Kirkland.
The Ambassador Hotel in Holly-
wood went British Armistice night
for the greatest array of uniforms
from every corner of the Empire
ever seen on the Coast. Among film
personalities present were Madel-
eine Carroll, Holliwell Hobbes, 0,
Aubrey Smith, Major Sam. Harris,
Henry Stephenson.
Britain should raise more of her
own winter vegetables node glass,
contends Dr. W F. Bewley, director
of the Experimental Station at Ches.
bunt, England. Dr. Bewley's views
are set forth at some length in the
British science weekly, Nature, and
summarized by Science Service.
Britain's cloudy, rainy winter, and
the long nights resultant from the
country's high latitude, pose special
problems. The average Briton needs
more fresh vegetables in winter, yet
the climate makes it hard to raise
then: at home at the right seasons.
Britain has no Gulf Coast, no South-
ern California, to draw on, and at
present much of her winter supply of
"greens" must be imported from other
countries like France, that control the
European and Nortb African equival-
ents of Southern United States truck.
raising regions.
Dr. Bewley thinks that modern
greenhouses can provide Britons a
good deal of opportunity to "buy
British" in their lettuce -and -tomato
shopping. Construction is cheaper,
heating more efficient, and artificial
lighting can offset the gloom of win-
ter skies to a very considerable ef-
fect. Plant disease and insect pests
that used to cause no end of trouble
and losses in glass -houses have been
successfully combatted by methods
worked out at Cheshunt, Dr. Bewley
said. The methods used ranged all
the way from the culture of useful
insect parasites that kill off the larg-
er parasites, to steam -sterilization of
soil to rid it of fungi and undesirable
forms of small animal life.
There is even a national -defense
angle to glass -house vegetable grow.
ing, Dr. Bewley points out. A gen-
eral continental war, even were Brit-
ain not involved, would probably cut
off most of the present Mediterranean
sources of fresh vegetables. Modern
dietary science bus shown conclusive-
ly that man must not live by bread
alone; he gets nerve troubles, eye
difficulties, bone diseases, and all
manner of other unpleasantness if he
is deprived of an adequate supply of
the "accessory" foods, So it is int•
portant to think of the possibility of
self-sufficiency, if emergency arises,
Polishing the hair between sham-
poos is a well-known actress' secret
for keeping her hair always sleek.
A `soap and water cleansing once
a week, she finds, isn't adequate for
her needs.
"Especially in New >•ork," she says,
"my hair looks a bit dull the third
day after the shampoo, so I • polish
Mrs. Eric More, Heather Angel, Elsa
Buchanan, Charles Chaplin and the
Bears of Warwick.
Eileen Wenzel, former showgirl
has accepted $40,000 from Louis J.
Ehret, Jr., and closed the case. Ap-
peals court recently cut verdiit from
$90,000 for facial injuries in an au-
tomobile smash,
Cornelia Otis Skinner will go to
England in April for rec`tals.
Francis Lederer is asking Frank
Capra to give him Greta Garbo for
the George Sand role in "Chopin",
with Lederer playing the part of the
composer.
Buried in the movie trade journals
is the news that Moscow has booted
out propaganda films, dram;., music,
opera and art, and that all entertain-
i.,,.nt hereafter must be devised on
its possible entertainment value.
Girls' Aircraft Group
REGINA. --Organization work by
the Model Aircraft League here will
be extended among Regina girls this
year, Flying meets will be held
every Saturday.
Santa's Pack To Be
Heaviest Since 1929
New York. — Santa Claus this
Christmas will carry his biggest pact
since 1929, according to the :'03 In-
stitute here, The retail toy volume
is' expected to reach $215,000,000, a
15 per cent increase over last year,.
Santa's gifts will introduce mote
than 1,000 new science, building, tran-
sportation and housekeeping toys as
well as a record crop of handicraft
acts. The predominance of toys re-
producing peaceful arts and industries
and home equipment as contrasted
with European emphasis on uniform-
ed dolls was demonstrated at the an•
nual preview of Christmas toys held
by toy manufacturers here.
Cowboys, policemen and historical
military events are the only battle
trategies featured and represent less
than one per cent. of the total vol-
ume.
• Movie, radio stars and newspaper
comic characters sponsor a double
quota of educational play sets, bal-
loons games, costumes, wheel toys
and even children's furniture. There
i:• a record number of dolls, dolls
with hair and complete doll ward-
robes. Popular new children's books
use games and art to make learning
t.o read interesting.
""'he dominant interests of the
adults are inevitably reflected by toy
land," said James L. Fri, managing
director of the Toy Association,
'Yuletide, 1036, marks 20 years of
development in the toy industry
w' ich has closely followed the ad-
vancement in science, art, industry
and general living standards reflect-
ed in our life. Since the caveman's
days, toys have Leen designeds to
1 like grown-up models; but mod-
ern toys also aim to be pur:oseful,
safe, durable and educational in the
fullest sense."
FU MANCHU
Ely Sax Rohner
"Stroma came here for a
felonious purpose --to open
the sarcophagus and steal
ihe•jewels he thought might
be in it," stated Smith.
r "See, here are the tools; he got
the lid loosened-- then he
died...."
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"When Miss Ed-
monds, Sir Lionel's typist, looked
in the study window she mistook
Stroma for her employer because
Stroma was wearing Sir Lionel's
dressing gown,” Inspector Wey-
mouth told us.
i� 111y 1�II
"He wore that dressing gown so that anybody
seeing him would mistake him for his master,
snapped Smith. "You know Sir Lionnel planned to
open the mummy case tonight. Evidently he
changed his mind, fortunately for him. But Strom ..
"Then what hes be-
come of the mum-
my?" I asked in per-
plexity.
Wayland Smi+h
laughed dryly.
"it has vanished in the form of a -green vapor, appar-
ently," he said. "Look at Strozza's face."