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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-01-21, Page 3Y k i x°i C o , e ,t Mbb' Twa`"F.+"C^I^.eQ^iSk°.F'."nl':C.AC.:7M :113 ww".3t9"?y raiQ'e Bice there '•'n'mz•ar.�aai,re�.,asaz.aa,v4, them argl an /enlarged program was announced at Ottawa the other day. The departmc pt will devote particular attention to improving their skill .as trappers and to helping thein to take batter care of furs before these are o u'rketed. There are many other ways in which they. can be given assistance that will enable them to reach a higher eoonce mic plane. The working out of the plant will be followed with keen 'iii- terest, as the uational responsibility for the welfare of the Indian impute - Lion is widely recognized.—Edmonton minute o•inut . CANADA Need Great Mein There never was a time to the World's history, probably, when there wits a graver need fo; groat men, than 'there is today Important events pre• transpiring today whirb will elha.pet.he destinies of every nation on earth. ' New thought in the matter of govern nrent t+conemie control, religion and znost other departments of human tia. tivit.y. are appearing on the horizon, demanding the judgment of the best minds that the ' world can produce The masses look tr their leaders for competent guidance. and this is the test of great men. Which recails the words of Matt- hew Arnold. who in deflating the great men of impure stated they are "those who have a passion for diffusing. for making prevail, for carrying from one end 01' society to the other, the best knowledge. the best ideas of their time; who have labored to divest' knowledge or all that was harsh, en eolith. difficult. abstract. professional. exclusive: •o huniantze it, to make it effivient orrtsicle the clique of the cul- tivated and learned, yet still remain. ing the best knowledge and thought of the time "--(Tnthnm News. Cost of Carelessness In the first eleven months of this year, etatistics•show, the use of motor vehicles in tbis province increased 7.0 per cent.. the number of .traff c ac- cidents in.;reased 10 per cent., the. number of persons injured in acct.. dens increased 27.5 per cent. and the property damage was up 33.3 per cent. Eighty-four persons were killed in these eleven m inns, against eigbty- two in the same period in 1935, and the record of death has been at least maintained in December. Accident. ineery damage are up far out of pro- portion to the increase in motor` tree- Pc,—Vancouver Province, Mrs. Simpson .No matter what turn events may take. Mrs. Wallis Simpson remains a public figure for life. Down the years `slue is bound to crop up in the news and is almost certain to find a place in history Future historians may ap- praise this place, future novelists and playwrights me clothe her as a ro- mantic fisalre ranking with the glen). Orme women of the ages for whom men laid down their worldly posses.' sloe- if not their souls. Most of us in Canada know little about Mrs. Simp- son eecept what we have found out from reading. Reports from across the Atiantie suggest an intense hatred for ber on the part of certain people there wino feel that she has been a siren 'who has lured a • king from his duty, and carried a throne .close. to the„tocirs. But one hears'..'•ittfe of that in 'Western Canada. After all, ivlrat • woman might not hare her head turn; ed by attention that appears to run to' adoration from one who ems the most•` popular king and one of the most popular and sought-after men in the world ?—Regina Leader -Post. "What Is Needed” The truth is that the authori- ties. sometimes with the connivance of the courts, are themselves to blame In large part for the added dangers to highway travel•in Ontario. They are today reaping the harvest of light sentences and reduced charges and unless they change their ways, there is little possibility of the situation be-, ing improved. What is needed more than anything else in dealing with the minority that persists in conducting itself without regard to the safety of others on the road is not further education, because that has been tried and found want - in but fearless enforcement of the laws that are already embodied in the highway code and en and of all the evasions that have been practised by the Crown authorities -and the courts. —Btockville Recorder and Times. Our Indians Tha Federal efforts to better the, position of the Indians have had good results in the ominion as well as in the Wilted States. But it is telt that Much more could be accomplished for f When Lid e Off of . f 'reskdent's Views Jingle In The Pocket The year end brought with it more angible evidences of progress in "lova Scotia than for many dreary ye'i,rs. There have been the additiore el oar order at Trenton and the pros• pect of more to follow; the order for etoei rails at Sydney and the prospect more yet to come • and all time re - ••"rd shipment of coal up the St. Law- rence and the anticipated continuing demand; the even and a half percent, cla increase in steel and subsidiary plants; the doubled Christmas bonus h the pay envelope at Westville; and 'tow another may be added to these eeth the extra week's wages found in pay snvek pe of the employees of the Oxford Foundry and Machine Com- pany, • Laurier once said, folk did not need to b • told ,vben prosperity existed, they knew it by the jingle in their penkets. It would be far from the truth to say .oat everybody is pros- per ,us, but this at least is true, that many have fel. more of a jingle in their pockets "can they have known for a long while.—Halifax Chronicle. The Good They Do Cost of maintaining legations abroad is negligible compared to the benefits which can be achieved, They are well worth the expenditures, if only to pro- mote more friendly relations; but. there are also the concrete benefits in the way of ine;ea.,ed trade to be considered. For some time there has been talk of a trade agreement be- tween Canada and Belgium, and set- ting up a legation at Ottawa should help to pave the way.—Winclsor Star. Ignorant Females ----1 have been warned by three different feminine friends that if 1 tape any more cracks at them about not knowing what drafts on a stove are there for, the said friendships will come to a sudden end. In a hum ble and apolegetie tone of voice I soul% remark (couldn't l now?) if the nap fits, we. ^ it! Tow about trying to catch them young by teaching it in the schools. Tl ' y could have toy stoves and . the t 7n da'rli•ngs• could learnr at an early ago shut the drafts. No more fool - :till than tots of the rubbish taught to the sons arrd daughters of the hard - Working ,ed hard -up) parents at the pt•esent time,—Kamloops Sentinel. Candid Admission "These Is nothing connected with the Press that has ever got me into such great trouble as the accuracy. of the reports of what 1 have said." con- fides Lord Derby. And such admirable ,nest and candor is worthy of a place in the .e^ords.—St. Catharines Standard. THE EMPIRE When War Comes As long as Hitler and Mussolini con- tinue to get their way without war, Europe is in no immediate danger of r inflict. But this is merely another ^'ay of saying that when war comes 1' will la at the time and under 'the conditions most favorable to the Fes• OW cause. Peace on these terms can offer no security.—The Nation, Lon- don. " Mickle Maks Muckle" The Moderate investments of our thrifty clasees have piled up Britain's print:inn] assets. Wel; over £1,000,000,- 000 1,000,000,000 Is invested in the Post Office Say. lets Banks, and National Savings Cer- ates and there are masa' hundred 3 s '4! rix 5 While the nation" waited hats -of his son and secretaries, al eur, Monte Snyder. President Roosevelt's message, his hat and overcoat, with the waited outside the Capitol under tiie Watchful eyes of his chauf- Mae West's Pay Enve $480,833 and Top Dietrich Earned $368,000 in. 1936 Crooner Crosby Took $318,90 G. M. Head Drew $325,869; WASHINGTON—A peek into the pay envelopes of some of the . big men and women hi the United States afforded by a treasury departmerl report to Congress showed last week that top salaries went to movie stat and captains of industry. The voluminous -document, made'' public by the House of Represents tives Ways and Means Corntnitte answered at least some of the ques.. tions concerning what "the other fellow" made in 1935. Salaries " of more than $15,000 were listed. Wm. Randolph Hearst, the pub- lisher, maintained his position as the country's leading wage earner with pay cheques of $50Q,000. Mae West, the throaty - voiced siren of the screen, ran him a close second with earnings of •$480,833. She topped all film stars. Charlie Chaplin's salary was list- ed at $260,000. The late Will Rog- ers earned $258,000. Fred Astaire received $127,875; , Ginger Rogers, frequently co-starred with him, got $74,483; Katharine. Hepburn, $121,- 572; Bing .Crosby, $318,907; Marlene Dietrich, $368,000, and Joe E. Brown received $1'73,438. Laurel -Hardy Split tenerent e The lugubrious film humor of Stan'• Laurel netted hint. $156,266,. while the income -of his co-star, 0Olver, Hardy, was only $85,316, • Nickles and dimes poured into the cash registers of the F. W, Wool- worth Company gave its president, D. 13, Miller, an annual compensation of $309,980, Soups put $118,000into the pay envelope of Arthur C. Dor- ranee, president of the Campbell Soup Company. General Motors Corporation paid President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., $374,- 505 and William S. Knudsen, director and executive vice-president, $325,- 869. 325;869. Ten other officials drew more than $200,000, EdseI Ford got 8100,376 as presi- dent of the E'ord Motor Cpmpany. Walter P. Chrysler, Chrysler' Cor- poration chairman, received $185,- 543, of millions more in life assurance policies and in the keeping or build- ing societies Analysis has shown that the average holdings of stocks erd shares in the railway companies. the big banks, and many of our great indueiries do rot exceed a few hum dred pounds. Like the army of work- men whicb reared the pyramids, the hosts of' the "small men" have reared tla great edifice or British wealth.— London Daily Mail, 3e Contained All Movie Stars d Chaplin Only $260,000 — earst's Salary $500,000; el Ford Only $100,376 of the highest paid women dives listed was Blanche Green, dentof the Spencer Corset Co., o2 New Haven, Conn., who re - e f $57,629. With Many acres Idle in U.S.! y significant quotation comes "Chemical Industries." ith an eye to the large and the ing market in the United States eriila oil, a drying agent now be- tised extensively by manufactur or paint products, the Manchur- government plans to extend its la seed crop to approximately 6,, a'•►; 099 toils per annum during the ne; t' five years, according to cable orts reaching C. C. Concannon, Chief of the Commerce Depart- nt's . Chemical Division." drilla seed can he grown in the ited States, particularly in the til, fa the Orient the seed yields ty to thirty bushels an acre. The is 40e. to 700 pounds, worth 8 cents a pound. The cake is va- glrby in Japan as a nitrogen ierce` worth probably $20 e •ail is an indispensable s len int to our soybean industry. Mixed With soy. oil, it ants the dry- ing tine down to as low as twenty fiye poi cent, Tfie Manchurian government es- t'eer 's our perilla oil market so high- ly, at to ts,ke steps expanded plant- ing. Our government takes the trouble to get a cabled report about that. Why shouldn't our government also take . eve ry practicable step to- ward, hastening o•ward.hastening perilla produ.tion by American farmers? So far as we know, it has done nothing whatever Mere statesmanlike than public of- rieittis, the paint and varnish indus try,interested in having an American sflp,%ly,- ha conducted tests that ehbw the crop will grow here. -- The Country Home Magazine. An E.pensive Strike Writes the St. Catherines Stand- ai't'; In the Hocking 'Valley of Ohio there has been a coal mine fire lag- ing:,und spreading for 52 years until it :new covers seven square miles. it was started by miners on strike in 1584 and has caused a oss of 850,- 000,002 which was an expensive strike to say the least. The WPA of the United States now is attempting to confine the underground devas- tation. l? -4 New Clipper To Have 2 Floors, Stairway SPOKANE, Wash., — A 40 pas- senger Clipper ship with two floors and a circular stairway is the latest idea in gigantic airplane designing. C. N. Monteith, of Seattle, exe- cutive vice-president of I oeing Air- craft Company, told the Chamber of Commerce his firm is building the air giant for Pan-American Airways. Monteith said the Clipper would have a top speed of 200 miles an hour from four 1,500 -horsepower motors, a wingspread of 152 feet, an over -a]] length of 109 feet. The 82,- 000 2;000 pound plane will be designed to leave the water in 50 seconds, fully loaded. Houses Soon May Be Built Of Steel SARNIA. — Moues of the future, selected from numbered designs and. pictures and delivered by truck in sections, were visualized by Charles Grace, Sarnia contractor, in an ad- dress on "Advancements in Home Construction" to a service club. Ex- teriors of homes might even be of steel, such as that from which auto- mobiles are manufactured, Mr. Grace said, Square houses with flat roofs and no verandahs and with windows on the corners were the most mod- ern trend, he said. oy Like Girls Not T"'o• o Smart Don't Be >Book. of .Knowledge, le Advice To Coeds if you want to be the most dated co-ed on the campus don's be a book of knowledge. It has a rightful place under a man's arra during the day, but after class he likes to get away from the librarian type, So if you were voted the class poet or the senior most likely to succeed, don't let your best bean find it out, ad- vises Alice Ward Hughes in the New York • Sun, The boys do like ` them smart, but in a subtle way. In talking to the girls they find: "Yes, T know," hard - 137 an adequate response. "Oh, real. ly?" goes over much bigger. The boys have their high pressure jobs and stiff classes (maybe both) during the day, and so when evening comes they look for rela /cation in the company of some girl. They do not want to be kept on the alert, Perhaps boys are fundamentally more forthright, honest. However, they deplore an over -supply of those same fine qualities in a woman. They like a good joke, but not if it is on them. They are always the most unwilling target of a joke that reverts to them; it is quite all right to laugh with them, but not at them ever. Otte day two seniors were discus- sing books and authors. The young m a n mentioned "Good-bye, Mr, Chips," and "Lost Horizon," but said he could not remember the name of the author. "I know who you mean,but I can't think of his name either," she procrastinated. Out of class, she simply did not want to "beat him to it." So if you want to be the all-Ameri- can sweetheart be a diplomat, be- cause we think he knew what he was talking about—the poet who said: 'Be good, sweet maid, let those who will be clever." Cows Demonstrate Music A per"°ciatio -t GREENFIELD, Ind.—Almon Wick- ard installed a radio in his cowshed a week ago so he could listen to his favorite programs while milking. It didn't occur to him, he said, that the cows would pay any attention to the contraption, but it had some sur- prising results. Before the installa- tion 'a three -gallon bucket would bold al] the milk his two cows gave, Wick- ard said, but now them• lacteal output shows a daily increase of two gallons. And the farmer finds that wbile turning away from the feed box the cows eat only about half as much as the- used to. Dont Blainethe T'e . It's the Department at "Fault ("One of Them" in Toronto Saturday Night) It is high time that someone came to the defence of Canada's teachers of English, who are being blamed for something they alone cannot remedy. At the Canadian Book Fair, Wilson l,IacDonald used bis poetic license to attack the teaching of literature in the. Province of Ontario: and recent- ly the editor of Saturday Night criti• cized—more guardedly, it is true — the English teachers who had hardly recovered from the crippling attack of 'Mr, MacDonald. There i'.n be no doubt that Eng- lish literature is aught badly in On• tario. There can be equally little doubt that the blame should rest not with ,se teachers, but with the De - pertinent of Education. Although the aim in teaching liters- ture' (to use the terminology of the pedagogues) should be Appreciation. .i r teachers are requires: to prepare the pupils for departmental examine - done which demand detailed knowl- edge. Fiance they must spend their Mesa time ruthlessly dissecting poems and plays, and putting them, line by tine and word by word, ander a mic- roscope. Because of the length of the courses, they leave no time to do anything else, tinder the circumstances, not only does tbe pupil acquire a distate for good literature. but the teacher, driv en day by day to the horrible mutila- tion of poems he loves, eventually loses his own passion for good liter- ature; or at least he loses any urge he nary once have had to inspire a similar passion in his pupils. He just stuffs their heads full of facts, as he would if be were teach- ing history or geography; and after spending a day in the literature -dis- secting laboratory, be returns home not to his Ruskin or his Browning, but to a detective story which will demand nothing more from him than a guess concerning Who Did It. The root of the trouble is tbe de• partmental examination, with its de - mend for facts and for detailed knowl- edge of the content of the course. Only when these examinations in Eng - ash are either abolished or modified will the teacher he free to devote his tine to leading boys and girls to s love of letters. Fortunately. a trend in tbis direc- tion is now apparent in the depart- mene, and the day may come whert the school children of Ontario will be permitted to enjoy what they now detest, "How Iona had your mummy csse lain on the doeks2" Neyland Smith asked Sir Lionel. "For two days, 1 belieye.`.' FU MANCHU 13y Sax Rohmer "I can find it in my heart to thank heaven i I did not see what came out of fkef.saroo- ^`1 tpi,r Ile ,us," said Sir !lone! 41) nt ary 8a; riahmer and 'Mu tee syndlenio, rue. aiea 271' } ,, --1G�.n.hryrY�� r 1• Smith stared"Sir Lionel hard in ,the face, "I em glad 'iSu did not," he stated gravely, "for whatever Mekara, the encltan* Egyptian magician, had fo do with the matter, Fe alaecliu—. y means of this mummy case -•-has made his first attempt on your life , .. "Pt, u lvlanchu has failed. But even now ho is surely plotting anew to kill you. He will not tail twicel"