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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-12-17, Page 3Editorial Comm.ent Prers Opinions, Here .and There aro doing this work extensively, while in Ontario all that is now doing is little more than a mere pretence. In New Zealand an intensive re- forestation has been carried on for more than a decade. Millions of larches, oaks, spruces, Douglas firs and ecualyptus have already been planted, and vast numbers of seed- lings are coming in all .the time. The reason for replacing the native trees with species from this contin- ent, Europe and Australia, is that the native trees of New Zealand are too slow of growth, although some of them produce excellent timber. Fortunately for the country, the im- ported trees thrive well everywhere. When will the Ontario Government show any symptom of being more alive than their predecessors were to the importance of starting reforesta- tion on an extensive scale? Every now and then we hear of new con- cession of pulpwood areas being made, apparently without any condi- tion of reforestation. If the present system of granting such concessions needs to be alter- ed, then by al] means change it, but get a beginning of reforestation made as soon as possible; and what is true of spruce is equally true of white pine.—Guelph Mercury. CANAL A Reason For Optimism Canada has marched far back on the road to recovery, to a point which is per -haps safer and more wholesome than 1929, in the opinion of The Ottawa .Journal .. . Anyone who thinks that this is idle optimism need only loots at the vari- ous indices of the economic condition of the country— in addition to the trade.ifigures — the increase in the physical volume of business, in the total of bank debits, in the retail sales throughout the country, and in the figures showing the general economic index as reported by the Demin.ion Bureau of Statistics. The evidence all points in the same direc- tion. Canada is on the up grade and making good progress. Everyone knows why this is felt more. in the East and in British Columbia than in the prairie country. Thereeis some improvement here, but with the normal production that can be reasonably expected next year, these provinces should go forward to a mei greater extent. There is plenty of ground for hope and confi- dence.—Winnipeg Free Press. Education For Life The tion. Dr. Simpson, Ontario's Ministev of Education, has the right Idea in his decision to overhaul the curriculum in the primary schools of the :province so that emphasis will be placed on the "education of pupils for life rather than for the universi- ties," When this is accomplished we" may expect to see fewer misfits in life and fewer failures in the higher seats of learning. — Brockville Re- corder and Times. Watch for Apoplexy Viewed from the stratosphere, ac- cording to fliers, this terrestrial sphere .s a deep purple. You can scarcely blame Mother Larth these days if she develops symptoms of ttpoplea:y.—Windsor Star. ilDoes Noise Prolong Life? Along comes a Nipponese scientist In an attempt to knock ,the props from underneath anti -noise organiza- tions by furnishing a proof that noise, prolongs life. A series of experiments on rats >;ubjected one group to normal sounds and another equal litter to the roareof trains under an electric road. A'nd strange to relate, the latter lived 53 days longer than those kept in peace and quiet. Another group was housed in the pressroorn of a daily newspaper and one of .she salve size in a sound -proof room. She results were the same as In the first experiment. So, ceording to this scientist's findings, the neighLor s radio actu- ally lengthens your days when it is going full blast.—Kitchener Record, Character That Counts Nobody ever takes ser'ously the old saying to the effect you can never trust a woman with a secret. Neither sex has a monopoly on wagging tongues. it is the character and the individual that counts, not the sex.— Windsor Star. • Apple Pie First Apple pie ranks first in desserts, it is revealed by a tabulation made of meats served on the dining cars of railr. ads and announced by the Association of American Railroads. Here, are othei facts on the food likes of the travelling public. Science Service reports: The dining car steward knows that out of very 100 diners, 85 will order coffee and 15 tea; that 35 will ask for roast beef and the rest will order chicken, fish, chops and steak, in the order named. Time To Get Busy There is no greater need in New Zealan' than there is in Ontario for reforestation, probably there is not so much; but in New Zealand they D-4 America's • railway dining cars serve 25,000,000 meals each year, which are prepared in a kitchen less than seven feet wide and 13 feet long. One man alone sometimes trust wash 1,000 dishes at each meal in 'a sink less than two feet square. Dining'. car stewards, waiters and chefs go through a training school before going on the road. One large eastern railroad had three such schools where there are reproduc- tions of the space equipment limita- tions encountered in actual service. —Toronto Telegram. An Experiment An experiment in the housing of the populations of big .cities in a new way is to be carried out by the Liverpool municipality on its housing estate at Speke, w fere the corpora. tion is planning to erect 5,000 houses at a cost of 2,100,0Q0. The scheme aline at providing not merely a dormi- tory for the lower -paid worlcers; with the resultant anti-soeial segregation of one class, but a complete self- contained unit accommodating all classes. A new idea for the safeguarding of pedestrians is incorporated in that through traffic and buses will not be allowed within the estate. Planned in the form of an oval, the estate will be completely encircled by a ring road, which will carry all through traffic and buses, but the layout is such that no resident will have more than a quarter of a mile to walk to Our Apples in Glasgow • Apropos this subject it is interest- ing to note from a report in the Glasgow Herald that the demand for Canadian apples is such that whole- sale prices are from 30 to '75 cents per case higher than a year ago, and that at the particular week -end at which the paper was published, not a single Canadian apple was left in the wholesalers' hands, and the whole of a cargo due there on the Monday was sold in advance. Advertising DOES pay. — Strat- ford, Beacon -Herald. Balanced Budget Possibly for the first time in its history, North Bay will this year en- joy a balanced budget. `i itis pleasing situation is clue to city council's close adherence to the program outlined at the commence- ment of the term, and to supervision by the Department of Municipal Af- fairs.—North Bay Nugget. Proved _ 11 there is any lingering doubt concerning the advisability or value of toxoid treatments, Brockville's record of not one case of diphtheria, during the year ought to dispel] it beyond qusetion.—Brockville Recor- der and Times. y — THE EMPIRE Look to the Empire The Americans carry a million passengers a year ethrough the air. We carry a quarter of a million, The American airplanes have a longer haul than ours. For, though they carry only four times as many pas- sengers, they fly nine times as many utiles. And, of course, the advan- tages of the air as a medium of transport are displayed in the long flight. Does that mean that the Am- ericans enjoy an advantage over us which we cannot overcome,? Not a bit. We have greater opportunities for long-distance than any country on. earth. In the Empirel In the development of air routes over its vast expanses.—London Sunday Ex- press. a burse) stop, No buses will front on to the ring traffic road, but only to the sub- sidiary roads of the estate, :and be tween these and the maim road will he a green belt 150 feet wide en- circling the whole area, In one direction the oval will be dissected, by a central boulevard, running from end to 'end, but not open: tp'through traffic or bus traf- fic. On this will he situated shops, library, clinics, doctors' and dentists' surger- ies, a cinema and all the necessary social amenities. Sites have been reserved for seven schools, several churches, children's playgrounds, rest gardens and a large recreation (;round. .Work will be provided for 2,000 building operatives for two and a hall years and for about 350 men for three years on read and sewer construction.—Industrial Britain, Duke of York Becomes The Empire's Sovereign Following Announcement of King Edward VIII's Abdication Duchess of York Becomes Queen. HIS MAJESTY THE KING LONDON. — King Edward V111 active public life, is more of a home - abdicates and the Duke of York as- body than Edward VIII, tends the throne. This was the of eee-during.. his . father's lifetime, the feet of formal announcements mace. tc the assembled houses of Lords and Commons, The Duchess of York Queen. heconies The announcement to this rn,st r.,omentous meeting of parliament in al] the history of British royalty, came in the form of a direct message from Edward as King, which was lead to the Commons by the Speek- ee, being repeated simultaneously in the House of Lords. The King is saying farewell to the England he loves, to go to the woman he loves more. • He has signed away his great throne and his heritage as King -em- peror and the Duke of York will be rowned in his stead as George VI. Necessary Legal Steps The following legal steps are no cessary in the event of abdication: 1. The King signs and presents to his ministers a notice of his desire to abdicate. 2. The eauinet through the prime minister, communicates the King's notice to parliament. 3. Parliament approves the abdi- cation and passes an ant establish- ing the line of uccession, or, actual- ly names the new monarch. 4. The privy council meets and waits on the new sovereign to notify him of his ascent to the throne. 5. Parliament's action is connune- eated to the dominion parliaments, which ratify or reject it. King George VI The new King, while he has led an Duke had already established, in his Lender "palace without a name", 145 Piccadilly, and his country home, White Lodge, Windsor, a reputation as a "homebody. The. quiet and simplicity of his do• mestie life then was overshadowed oily by the family life which formed so -much of King George's appeal to his subject:. Proud of Wife -0f his wife, whom King Edward often chaflingiy called "Queen Eliza- beth", he has said simply: "I am a very lucky man to have a Scottish woman to share my life." And he has counted those times happiest when they could turn from the press of official life—particu- larly to the country. "It is to my country house in Windsor Great Park," he once said, '"than i gladly turn when I want to find a little peace after the bustle and labors of public life." Not by any means the globe trot- ter that Edward VIII has been, the Duke nevertheless has seen a fair share of the world. When he was 18, in the midst of his naval career, he visited the West Indies, Canada and Newfoundland on his training cruise. . He went on his first official mis- sion to a foreign court in the sum- mer of 1922 when he acted as "loom", or sponsor, at the wedding of King Alexander of Serbia to the second daughter of the King of Rou- mania. KEEPING ISP 6T 1 THE NEW CAPS LnU s UC P�NTIAC 224 � __ . STRESSES SAFETY FEATURES Ai -WAYS HAS POWER IN RESERVE `"1E 193TPorr-riAc six 1937 1936 i(NEE ACTION TAKES CARE OP ,ROUGH ROADS MORE VISIBILITY SAFETY THE New FISHER BODIES of UNISTEEL CONSTRUCTt0N ARE AS SAFE AS MODERN SCIENCE, ENSINEER1Ne AND SKILLED CRAFTSMEN CAN MAKE THEM - DOOR' HANDLES ARE NOW TURNEDIN 50 AS "ro AVOID CATCHING Later that year he represented his parents at the coronation of the King and Queen of Roumania and was so popular that many a Rou- manian child was given the name of York. In 1924 he and his wife went to East Africa and in 1927 they 1,sited Australia and New Zealand and re- turned to England by way of the West Indies. Other official missions took him to Norway, Italy, France and Belgium. But in their "vacation" times he and his family have preferred to remain in the British Isles. It was not the Duke's position as possible King, but the birth of Prin- cess Elizabeth that captured public interest in his .family — and again the Duke retrained in the back- ground. The lively, golden -haired princess, in whom the nation saw the possi- bility of another reigning "Queen Bess", so took the spotlight that even the Duke said his cwn chief claim to fame seemed to he that he was her father. One of the most prominent phases of the Duke's public life is his desire to promote a closer relationship among various classes of England, and no other member of the royal family, it has often been said, can lay claim to a more strikingly suc- cessful achievement than his in this aim. College red Burglars Millions of people are familiar with the exploits of jimmy Valen- tine or Raffles either through the books, stage or films, relating the adventures of these gentlemen yegg- uien, and occasionally a Jimmy Va - entine or a Raffles is discovered in real life. New York has just captured two, brothers, and graduates of an electrical engineering, college, who have been applying their technical knowledge and skill to safe -cracking and manipulation of the name, and figures on securities. Both had pre- viously served terms of imprisonment for burglary. The electrical trace has not been among the depressed industries these past seven or eight years and it is particularly busy now, so these skill- ed engineers had no excuse for tak- ing to crime. Many people have criminal streaks, but there is a limited number of men who take to high-class robbery for thrills, just as others take to hunting or mountain - climbing. It was for the thrill of the thing that Jimmy Valentine and Raffles burgled in their spare time, enjoying the excitement of achiev- ing and of matching their wits against the best detective brains. It may have been in that spirit that these college graduates went aburg- ling, and having once been "blood- ed" as it were, they found It .profit- able when they tackled big jobs and so became burglars first and electri- cians second. There is no doubt that for those who want thrills the art of burgling offers as much as any oth- er adventure, with the added result that if they can elude capture it may yield such incomes as make the practice of an honest profession be• neatb consideration. Whatever was in the minds ,:.,' these then at first they ultimately only aimed at big game and obtained loot of immense value, but there are few cases on record of professional burglars escaping every time and retribution has overtaken them and has probably a long term in store for them. Whether fox adventure or simply in order to get rich quick the fact remains that crime doesn't pay. — St. Thomas Times -Journal. Muffling A Nuisance Writes the New York World-Tel- egram:—A short-wave radio enthusi- ast has called our attention to the new requirement for being a good neighbor. It consists in not permit- ting one's household electrical gad- gets to creat static interferences. Since short-wave sets are hypersen- sitive and since there are about ttalff a million of them in the city, un- necessary interference is an annoy- ance of large proportions. Faulty ignition in an auta,rtiobile, which may not make any great dif- ference in the car's perforri,ance, is said to be one of the greatest causes of static. And then comp elec. tric refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, sun lamps, dial telephones and ele- vators. And no less a nuisarr, are the electric drills and X-ray ma- chines of a physician's or dentist's office, electric signs and subway or elevated cars. In the case of the household ap- pliances a dime or less is said to be enough to provide a small condenser or filter to muffle the disturbance. A few dollars is enough for the larger items. Letting a prevenreble nuisance of this sort continue to break up a neighbor's program is no more neighborly than singing "Sweet Adeline" in the corridor at 4 o'clock in the morning. He's An Authority Writes the Oshawa Times: -3. K. Sandwell, editor of Saturday Night, who recently spoke before the Osh- awa branch of the university alumni, etated during the courae of a Hart fh t se debate that newspaper edit - 01;1 were "usually" intelligent; fash- ion. society and cooking page wr,tets cel e "moderately" intelligent; re - posters . were "always" intelligent, Those who continually criticize newspapers might read, mark, learn and inwardly digest these statements of Mr. Sandwell who should be an authority on the matter, li The contorted features of Strozza filled me with horror. He had died a dreadful death—but what had killed him? Kwee, the Chinaman, had perished similarly, judging from his appearance. There were no marks on either Strozza or Kwee... FU MANCHU By Sax Roemer "The detective found the door locked on the inside," +he Inspector said, "bearing out your idea, Smith, that Strozza, knowing Sir Lionel to be absent, planned to loot the mummy case. He didn't know the Chinaman was hid- den in the conservatory .. . IVB "For once Fu Manchu employed an ally which he could not entirely control.... Something that disappeared from a locked room killed Strozza. The same something killed Kwee, without opening the door be- hind which he hid..." .r; r t! 1iir A,ML y, kph "AndKWee 3 dare show himself, because ho was there for soma mylteriaus purpose of his own," teturned Smith ' Kwde l's surely ono of Fir Manchu's g1`Qup. Perhaps he intended to murder Sir Lionel, bsr+'lie,es'atit ermid ', anti Prone ipoilid the ra$i'�me ;,y %i, hr1 aux iton , " ' a ai ' e. Me.