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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-12-31, Page 7Glass Tubing Removed From Saurian Three yeas ab„ a _young crucodlle used in nature st u.dies classes at the University of Toronto snapped a section of glass tubing from the hands of a student a ncl swallowed it. After three years the crocodi e developed quite a tummy -ache and specialists were c ailed in. The saurian was taken to Dr. Alan, Seeord's veterinary hospital, where he and Alex, Anderson of the General Electric X-ray department located the tubing with the aid of a fluoroscope. Dr. Secord rem oved it with long forceps and the crocodile is 'as well as ever. Danger hi Rummage Sales (Letter in New York Times) The alarming increase in the num- ber of shops selling second-hand ma- terials for personal and home use deserves comment. The insufferable competition such places offer legiti- mate traders become; secondary in contemplating the possibility of dis- ease -spreading garments or toys do - stated by well-meaning persons. There is no evidence that anything contributed has been sterilized. The recent :proposal to Ii. ense specialand closing out sales may he extended to cover second-hand shops posing as rummage shops and under the cloak ,of •charity. HERMAN GOODMAN. New York. The Clothes They Wear Ottawa Journal writes:—A Toron- to collegiate principal has stated — and a doctor on his board agrees with him — that the prevalence of colds among his girl students may be attributed to their scanty clothing. We used to be told that men were silly to wear so much clothing; that the fair sex on the other hand show- ed great good sense in reducing their covering to a minimum. It was supposed that thereby they in- creased their powers of resistance, toughened their systems, were bet- ter able to withstand changes in temperature and chill winds in A (treat hook "How to 13e - come a Hockey Star" by T. P. ""Tocnnny" Gorman, manager and coach of the Montreal "Maroons", profusely illus- trated and containing many valuable tips on how to play the game. raiso AUTOGRAPHED PICTURES of GREAT PLAYERS (mourned for framing) Group Montreal "Maroons', Group "Lee Canadians" or tndividuai pictures of: Baldy Northcott Paul Haynes Dave Trottier Marty Barry Russ nliuco Pete Kelly Earl Robinson Dave Ron Bob Gracia Roy Meters Gus Marker ' Aco" Bailey Itowie Morena Art Lesieur Johnny Gagnon Prank Boucher wilf, Code Marty Burke George Menthe Alex Lovinsky to Your choice of the above e For a label from a tin of "CROWN BRAND" or "LILY WHITE" Corn Syrup. --Write on the back your name and address— plaint --and the words "Hockey Book" or the name of the picture you want (one book or picture for each label). Mall the label to the address below. EDWARDSOURS CROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP THE FAMOUS ENERGY FOOD A product of The CANADA STAlItCliCOMPANY Limited TOHONTG Ts pampered males who went about muffled from toe to chin. Perhaps we shall have a second thought in this matter, a reaction to the belief that the men aren't so foolish after all. At any rate men, so we are told, show not the least inclination to wear nothing from 'the knees dawn but a bit of thin silk. They realize very well that their manly limbs thus would be displayed to great advantage, but men are old- fashioned in many ways and pre- fer their own selfish comfort to con- ferring joy on the populace. Faster Mail Service Announcement that the post of- fice authorities have made arange- ments whereby eastbound letter mail will be considerably speeded up will be warmly welcomed here. Under the new arrangement, letters for the east pcsted here in the afternoon will reach their destination 24 hours earlier than they did formerly. Let- ter mail from Edmonton will travel as speedily as has similar mail from Calgary for many years past. A long agitation preceded re- arrangement of postal railway con - of westbound mail. Now the east- bound Iervice shoulr? be as speedy The new service will be greatly ap- preciated locally, especially by the business community and the post of- fice department is to be congratu- lated on putting through the neces- sary arrangements. — Edmonton Journal. "Gone With the Wiind" Writes the New York Sun:—The word is that Miss Margaret Mitchell will have earned close to $500,000 by Christmas, from "Gone With the Wind." No bank would have loaned her a dime on the big suitcase she dragged into an Atlanta hotel a few months ago. It contained the man- uscript of Miss Mitchell's 1,300 -page novl. H. S. Latham, vice-president of the Macmillan. Company, had gone to At- lanta, scouting writers, Re had met the shy and withdrawing Miss Mit- chell, but she had said nothing about her book. It was her sudden bold re- solve, an hour before his departing train time, which led her to tumble her book into a taxicab and rush it to his hotel. She lost seventeen pounds writing the book, a loss which she has since regained, bringing her to her normal 100 pounds. Her mother died when she was a student at Smith College. She began newspaper work on the Sunday stat' of the Atlanta Journal, and did it well. Perhaps the ephemeral quality of newspaper writing gave her her take- off' for her book. At any rate, she walked out, humped over a type- writer for seven years and gleaned from the vagrant wind more than anybody ever did before — barring possibly those who sell windmills. Before the 'Spaniards landed in America there were no horses there. Fur industry y R€acts To Coming Coronation TORONTO. — The coming coron- ation of king George V1 and Queen Elizabeth is !M'a'in;;• a l=oon to On tario fur farmers, officials of the annual Ontario fur farmers' pelt show here 'eporled. Col. G. Cousens, Georgetown show manager, said both mink and fox skin prices already had reflected the coming coronation while demands for pelts had also increased. "Off- hand I would say that the silver fox cape, now being favored for the coronation is doing most to bring prdosperity back to our fur farmers," Col. Cousens said. The pelt show terminated today with presentation of awards. More than $30,000 worth of skins are on display. May Replace Von Papen Josef Buerckel, 100 per cent. Nazi, who succeeded Franz von Papen as commissar for preparation of the Saar plebiscite, who is being boom- ed by inilueutial Nazis in Germany to replace Von Papen, German ambassador to Austria, who re- cently admitted that "Austro -Ger- man reconciliation negotiations are not progressing satisfactorily." Profit in Sugar Beets Observes the London Spectator— If anyone wants to know why the beet- sugar subsidy system is sometimes known as the beet -sugar ramp a story j::st told me may be enlightening. A friend of mine brought a thousand $5 shares in a beet -sugar company at par in the early days of the subsidy. It paid a steady 10 percent. and then out of its affluence presented bonus shares in the proportion of three for every five already held. My friend thus got an extra 600. These a little later (the dividend hav- ing been In the Meantime raised to 15 percent). he sold at a figure which recouped him for all his original out- lay, and Last weak he parted with his original thousand shares for $10,000. As taxpayer he grumbled, as investor Ila manages 0 keep. cheerftil, 1 ard Yeas' MAY YOU FIND PLEASURE AND PROFIT IN THE YEAR * * ,' Mrs. Gabley—This morning Mrs. Ciabbe told me the very gossip 1 asked yeti not to repeat to anyone be- cause 1 promised Mrs. Bone I wouldn't tell. Mrs. Jabber—Why the mean thing! She proi,,ised me she wouldn't tell a soul. I'll certainly tell her a thing or two. Mrs, Gabley—Oh, no, Don't do that. I told her 1 wouldn't tell you she had told me you told her. * * 1' You've heard the axiom: "If you want to get something done, get the busy man to do IL" The 1937 amend- ment: "But be sure he knows how to do it right." * * * JAL Visitor—isn't prison life pretty hard? Convict—Naw, It ain't so bad. The warden never drags me out to bridge patties or to the movies in the even- ing. $ * * A HAPPY NEW YEAR Yea, and a prosperous one, to boot. 13ut let's lay the greater stress on Happiness. •Prosperity is so often misconstrued - as mere money -making. But real prosperity comes to the one who is full of enthusiasm for the matter at hand; who puts zest into daily life— and gets joy out of it; who relishes the accomplishments of work—yet se- cures plenty of fun from the hours of play. ',This is the sort of happy prosper- ity we wish for you during the com- ing year. * * * GOOD WISHES 1. We wish for thee Happy Days. 2. We wish for thee Peaceful Nights. 3 We wish for thee a Low Golf Score. 4. t�'e wisl for. thea Luck in the Races. i. We wish for thee Freedom from 1Vorry, 0. We wish for thee Success in Thy Business. 7, We wish for thee Freedom from Tire Trouble. 8. We wish for thee a Smoothly .Running Motor. 9. We wish for thee a Happy Vaca- tion this Summer. 10, We wish for thee Lucie When Thou Ooest Fishing. AL We wig; all manner of Good Things for thy Family, if thou hast on.. 12. Last, but not least, we wish thee, With All Our Heart A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! * * a. May 1937 bring y'o,: a full measure of success and the joy that comes from the knowledge of service given to others. * * * GRATITUDE. An old year passed away yesterday. A chapter in my life Was flnished—Ah! those months were filled with sorrows—joys — and strife. In trudging up life's rugged hills huge obstacles appeared. I'm thankful for the courage that ovrrcame each barrier feared. And though, at times, my grief was deep and very hard to bear, I'm grateful for consoling thoughts which lessened my despair. 1 know the joys which came to me, though in themselves immense, Were by the sorrows, in between, made much, much more intense. —Lyla Myers. * * * Some women never know what to expect next from their husbands, and some husbands try hard not to dis- appoint then. * * * Jenkins—Smith's wife thinks the world of her husband. Perkins—Does she? Jenkins—Yes, she even believes the parrot taught him to swear. Racing Boom ?,acing is booming in New Zealand, if totalizator figures can be taken as a criterion. Over what is known as the Labor Day week -end, Oetober 24 and 26, more than $1,600,000 went through the machines, the only egalized form or betting in the Do- minion. This was an increase of about $.650,000 on the previous year. About two-thirds of the total was invested at galloping meetings, the balance coming from trotting fix- tures. Trotting has a strong hold on the New Zealander's fancy, and the above ?roportions roughly illustrate the ratio of galloping clubs to trot- ting blobs.—The New Zealand Press Bureau, Thousands of swallows taken into Italy over the Alps by airplane to amid told weather died when they were fed by members of the Society for the Prevention. of Cruelty to Animals with canary seeds which were poison to them. Speedy! 1 1- ighland Depopulation Mr. Eustace Fulton, the new Chairman of the London Sessions, appears to be the fastest speaking judge within living memory, says the London. Daily Express. During a summing-up recently it waa.,found that he spoke at the rate of 260 words a minute. The average person speaks at the rate of 155-200 words a minute. The famous orators at one time rarely spoke more than 150-175 words a minute; nowadays political speakers often talk at the rate of 200 words a minute. 1 Q.: How long would it take Mr. Eustaoe Fulton to read the entire Bible aloud? 1A.: Forty-nine hours, 39 minutes (4' and 2-5 seconds. That is reckoning the number of words in the Bible at 774,746—and that Mr. Eustace Fulton is tireless. Cyclists in France, where one man i in every sh; uses a bicycle, pay 121 :ernes a year in tax. Reported HI King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, who is reported to be ill with in- fluenza. His condition is not re- garded as serious. War Horses Comments the New York Times:— German cities have lately paraded their old war horses and have pre- sented each of them with a little sack of oats and an enamel label with the word Kriegskamrad on it, so that anybody who meets one of these horses on the road will know it is a survivor of the Great War. The British have begun to buy up the two hundred of their old army horses and mules which were sold in Belgium after the war and are still alive and working. As they are over. 20 and have been worked hard, few are now fit for further ser- vice. Some are in such bad shape that they are painlessly destroyed as soon as bought. Others are retired. These horses may be the last -to play a part in the actual fighting in any major war. With mechanization steadily increasing. the ordeal of strapping gas masks on a maddened gun team becomes a nightmare of the past. Catching Up On Girls It begins to look as if the boys are going to catch up on the girls in England and Wales, observes the Calgary Herald. For years there have been more women than men, but that may be changing. The estimated population is put at 40,645,000, con- sisting of 19,500,000 males and 21,- 145,000 females. In 1931 the total was 39,947,931 — 19,138,844 males and 20,809,086 females. This means that while there is an increase of 335,913 in the number of females, males have increased by 361,156. Still there is a long hard pull ahead of the boys. Smallpox Epidemics Writes the Brockville Recorder and Times:—Ontario's Minister of Health has been issuing warnings that unless greater attention is paid to the question of vaccination, com- munities in this province may rue the day when this preventive meas- ure was forgotten. He has expressed the opinion that any outbreak of small -pox at the present time, when the great mass of the people are un- protected against it, might have serious results. Dansville, N.Y., was probably equally unprotected, yet today there are, according to the authorities, at least 50 diagnosed cases of smalI- pox in that community. The super- intendent of schools there has sent over 80 of the pupils home because they reported symptoms of illness or there was illness in their families, and he has also stated that there was strong possibility that amongst these pupils, there were more cases of the disease. An epidemic such as that which has broker, out in Dansville could not occur in a community which had taken advantage of vaccination as a preventive measure, Yet nearly all of the urban centres of Ontario are in exactly the same position. General vaccination is no longer fractised and as a result communities are ripe for epidemics, possib'jv with disastrous consequences. The Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman writes: Sir Donald Cameron 01 Loehiel was the principal guest on Novemoer 27 at the Caledonian din- ner of the members of the Scottish group of the Forum Club, Grosvenor Place, London. Miss Jean Duncan was in the chair. Sir Donald said It was :appalling to think that the highlands were gradually being depopulated. The whole trouble was, how were they going to provide a livingfor the people? They must have some sub- sidiary source of existence. He be- lieved that with co-operation and more capital they could make a good deal more of the lobster fishing on the West Coast, but the difficulty had always been the lack of co-op- eration, He did not see also why the poultry industry was not more de- veloped than it was today. One pro- ject that was on hand just now, and one which he had very much at heart, was the ''Caledonian Power Scheme. Once the works were com- pleted they would provide employ- ment for young men in the High- lands who were now going away. Rust -Resistant Whea Available 8,000 Bushels of Two Strains Ready For 1937 SASKATOON — Eight thousand bushels of two strains of rust -resist- ant wheats will be made available to farmers for 1937 spring sowing, Dr. L. H. Newman, Dominion Cerealiat, said before the opening sitting of the Turgeon Royal Grain Commission here recently. - The two strains, said Dr. Newman, were Apex developed at the Unn er- sity of Saskatchewan, and Renown, developed at the Dominion Rush Re- search Laboratory at Winnipeg. Two thousand bushels of Apex and 6,000 bushels of Renown would be distri- buted, he said. With many applica- tions, it was impossible at present to say how much would be given indi- vidual farmers. ager Form Is est For Cities Commissioner Type "Worst Kind' Jersey Senator Says NEW YORK. — "City manager form of government is unquestion- ably the best, but care should be taken to elect capable council mem- 'tiers who will, in turn, select the highest calibre of man to serve as city manager,— state Senator Win - ant Van Winkle told members of the Real Estate Board of Teaneck and Bogota. If the town is large enough, Sen- ator Van Winkle said, the plan can not be beaten. The worst kind of government is the commission form. A situation where five out of forty candidates are selected will inevitab- ly result in the election of the most popualr, rather than the most cap- able, he said. Discussing the subject of taxes on real estate, the speaker said he fa- vored replacement taxes if they were to be used for reduction of real es- tate tax. A sales tax in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the form of a co-operative measure would be most effective he said. Senator Van Winkle said the state government needs business men in. executive positions. This is neces- sary, he said, if there is ever to be accomplished any reduction in muni- cipal debt. There must be a cut in principal as well as interest to that end. New roads are too expensive for New Jersey at present, Senator Van Winkle declared, and money being spent in that way should go for the promotion of safety and maintenance of present roads. 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