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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-09-30, Page 6Editorial Comment Press Opinions, Here and There CANADA .New Breed of Sheep The successful crossing of a limit - fd stoat of Russian caramel sheep,. rom which fashionable furs are ob- tained, with other more common breeds is reported by United States Agriculture Department experts, As et result, they said, farmers soon may produce considerable broadtail, Per- sian lamb and caracul fur. Impor- tations of the three mounted to about $3,000,000 in the last five years.—Montreal Star, aim Those Headlights! If only one out of three motorists are courteous enough to dim their Headlights when approaching an- other car, it is high time the other two-thirds were made to realize the error of their ways. An Edmonton motorist. struck by the number of night traffic accidents blamed on glaring headlights, made four 80 - mile trips at night over highways around this city. He found on one drive that one-third of the drivers he met dimmed their lights volun- tarily or in response to a "wig -wag" signal. On Ow other three drives, the proportion of courteous drivers was even less.—Edmonton Journal. Colonies Are Expensive Judging from the demands of cer- tain countries for colonies, the im- pression is given that such terri- tories are sources of wealth, but that has not been the experience of the great holders of colonies. In- deed, according to figures compiled to the Carnegie Endowment for In- ternational Peace. Germany and Italy have spent far more than their total colonial trade on their colonies, instead of showing a profit. Japan also has spent far more on her col- onies than she received, Britain and Franca also spend more on colonies than they collect. The fact is that more often than not, colonies pro- duce deficit rather than surpluses.— Niagara Falls Review. Handy Stuff •. Have Canada has rounded the corner, and, having set the course, has but to continue. Trade is growing; earnings of the people are increas- ing and the rich mineral heritage is being revealed as vaster than the. niost optimistic imagined. 'ft is not gold albne. Total mineral produc- tion will exceed that of last year, when it was valued at $312,000,000. But gold pays bills anywhere, pro- vides currency backing, whether we. believe it or not, and is a handy cam- snodity to have in the public vaults for future stability. Other nations are increasing their resources. Can- ada manifestly is reaching a position where it will be possible to do the game.—Toronto Globe and Mail. Canada's Gold Hon. T. A. Crerar, minister of alines and natural resources, expects that within five years Canada's gold production will reach at least $200,- 000,000 annually and perhaps $225,- 000;000. Apparently good progress is being made in discovering that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.— Kitchener Record. It's a Moot Question Chang has kidnapped Chiang in a China, and it is feared Chang niay hang Chiang if Chiang does not choose to join Chang and bang the laps in China. The question Is:— will Chang hang Chiang or will Chiang chip in with Chang and drive the Japs out of China ?— Stratford Beacon -Herald. Sitting on the Lid Lethbridge has sat on the lid of its strong box for six long years of the. depression. The result is that we have accumulated sufficient funds D-4 to pay more than 65 cents on the dollar of all our bonded indebtedness. Our financial standing is the best of any city of its size In Western Can- ada.—Lethbridge Herald. A New Idea Czecho-Slovakian authorities have an idea of their own about promot- ing traffic safety. "Directions for finding the nearest doctor are being added to all permanent traffic signs near dangerous curves and traffic in- tersections" in that country, reports an American commercial attache from Prague,—Brandon Sun. Hu"e! The Union of Soviet Republics, or shorter, Russia, is a country of im- mense size and potentialities. It stretches from Poland to Behring Strait. It occupies a seventh of the land surface of the earth. A speaker in Halifax in order to make his audi- ence appreciate its great extent, once said: "We sitting here in this room today are nearer Moscow than a Soviet citizen at the other end of Russia, say Vladivostok." Which statement is exactly true as anyone may ascertain by consulting the dis- tances in a map.—Halifax Chronicle. It Hits the Spot Russell T. Kelly, who is one of the most astute advertising and mer- chandising men in Ontario, in a re- cent address before the Midland Chamber of Commerce, urged that local business men should cultivate the surrounding trading areas. He declared: "Every advertisement, whether of a local or outside firm, is an invitation to these people to buy there. While a large number of outside newspapers come into a town each day, it is the local newspaper which governs purchasing locally."— Simeoe Reformer. Youth Youth is prone to protest against restraint, but without restraint it is certain that society cannot long en- dure.—Hamilton Spectator. Old Order Chaaiges in the old days, the Fergus voters' lists used to be full of "Spinsters." They have nearly all disappeared, having turned 'into Stenogs, Stu- dents, Clerks, Teachers, Nurses, Maids, Musicians, Tel, Ops.: Fergus News -Record, Submarine Safeguards Italy and France have joined Brit- ain, United States and Japan in humanizing submarine warfare by undertaking that before an enemy merchant ship is sunk, its crew, pas- sengers and papers must be put in a place of safety, and open boats are not to be so regarded unless near a shore or a rescue ship. Unfortunate- ly these arrangements do not seem to stand up under actual test.— The Moncton Transcript. Danish Settlers The Danes apparently seek wide- open spaces where their industrious people may find opportunities not now apparent in their small territory at home. At least the consul general for Denmark was in Western Australia during the first two weeks of Octo- ber examining the possibility of group settlement areas being taken over by Danish immigrants, In Den- mark, he said, a special government department concerned with emigra- tion had asked Danish diplomatic and consular representatives to study the immigration position in the countries in which they lived. The farms on the group settlements, he said, were good if worked properly, and would be satisfactory if the con- ditions offered by the government were such that they could be profit. ably taken over for dairying by the Danes.—Brandon Sun. e. Newsboy Goes TO Sea To Deliver His Papers ^s. Simpson is Now In Wax At Tersweed's eter Bonino, 18-year-o.d eat, irate tete ue.+s)uy, cieli.cuing papers to two fishermen with the sardine fleet, 30 miles off San Francisco. Bonino makes the 60 -mile round trip daily to keep the fishermen supplied with newspapers. THE EMPIRE. Empire Migration It is more than 20 years ago since the steady and uninterrupted flow of migration from Great Britain to the Dominions and Colonies ceased to be a regular feature of the Empire's corporate life. It is true that vari- ous specialized efforts have been made in the meantime—in South Africa, for example, by the 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association — with varying degrees of success, to establish British emigrants in the Commonwealth overseas. But unless what we have termed "the steady un- interrupted flow of migration" from Great Britain can be resumed and maintained on the old pre -War level, nothing is more certain than that some of the outstanding qualities of the British race will be lost for ever, both in Britain itself and in the Do- minions, Colonies and dependencies. —Johannesburg Times. T gstory of King Names Set Forth Latest Kine Albert Died In 860 A.D.---Origin i "George" _, If the Duke of York had not pre- ferred to inherit his father's -prestige as George '"VI., instead of becoming Albert _I.; he would have been—the New York Herald -Tribune points out —"the first Ring Albert to reign England since 860 A.D. SOME WILL OBJECT To this statement some persons who are familiar with the line of England's early kings are not unlike- ly to object that there has never been au English Ring Albert at any time in the past. But they will be overlooking the fact that Albert, like Elbert, is simply short for Ethelbert, (which appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Aethelbriht, Aethelberht and Aethelbryht), and that Alfred the Great had an elder brother who ruled England for five years and died 1,076 years ago. "The fuller form of the name Eth- elbert is commonly but not too satis factorily translated 'noble -bright: In the early Anglo-Saxon days (and the name is a very old one) the title 'aetheling' was given to none but •scions of the several royal or heroic nos that as traced in the old gene. elegies to Wuotan (Odin), and even to his divine forebears. 'Atheling,' therefore, seems to have meant 'of divine stock' rather than simply noble. So in an age when the bestowal of a name upon a child was an invoca- tion of good fortune upon him, to call him Ethelbert would be much like saying: 'May he shine like the gods. This is not a mean ambition for a prospective Rin;, and the name is certainly more appropriate to the oTit, than George, which is derived fro' the Greek for 'peasant.' TEUTONIC NAMES "It may be interesting to note in this connection that, apart from Georges, the Jameses, Stephen and John, am Ring of England from Al. fred's time to the present has had any but' an ancient Teutonic name, redolent of heathen aspirations. Al- fred means the wisdom or counsel of the elves, the spirit of light. Ethel- red is noble -Wisdom, or more likely divine wisdom. Edward means guard- ian of wealth, or as it seems to have implied in rougher times, guardian of the spoils, meaning the leader of a raiding party who distributed the lo t. Ilarold is Norse, the Anglo• Saxon equivalent being Hereweald, meaning the power of the army, or, at en earlier time, of the raiding part: "Walter (Wealdhere) is the same name with the same meaning, turn- ed end for end. William, or Wilhelm, which some translate pompously, the helm of resolution,' is in reference to ancient myths of a magic 'wishing helmet,' the 'wishing cap' of later fairy stories. ONE OF OLDEST "Henry is one of the oldest of all being one of the appellations of Tiu (Zeus), most ancient and obscure of the Indo-Germanic gods, meaning probably ruler of the clan or patri- arch (if the German Heinrich should be Heimreich). It invokes upon a child the care of the old heathen god. Richard appears to mean simply firm ruler. Least pretentious of all is Charles, o" Carl, since carol in Anglo- Saxon meant man, or man-at-arms, then servant„ a i'1 finally churl." eauty at Zero Sita-ing and Skating Play Havoc With Your Skin The girl who goes to the moun tains to ski and skate needs suntan cream and a variety of oily lotions just as much as one who heads south for a holiday on the beach. Snow - burn is as painful as sunburn and is equally harmful to the •complexion. Cold winds and icy weather play even more havoc with hands and wrists than beach sands or sailboat ropes. Be sure to smooth good cream on face, neck and hands before you start for a snow-capped mountain to practice a Christiana or to a lake to do a hit of skating. This prevents snow -burn and chapping as well. If you wear makeup during the day, use cream as a foundation for powder and rouge. Use a .'lipstick, which is a bit more "greasy" than -your usual one to keep cold breezes from making your lips dry and chapped. You won't want to stand around near the .ski jumps powdering your nose, but it it a good idea to have cosmetics` with you and freshen up your face now and then during the day. Anyway, 'makeup helps to pro- tect your ,skin, Use hand lotion lavishly before you go out m the morning, and just as soon as, you get in at night, wash the hands and arias with cold water and apply another coat. When your hands and face lire • very cold, it is better to wash with cold water. than with hot. LONDON. •-- Mrs. Wallis Simpson has now entered the "hall of fame" at Madame Tussaud's famous wax- works and immediately turned a cyn- ical smile upon the Archbishop of Canterbury. Gowned in scarlet and heavily laden with jewels, the figure of the woman for whom Ring Edward gave up his throne fixed her gaze full up- on the venerable Archbishop 100•feet away. Ring Edward — he's still Mon- arch at the waxworks — was around a corner, out of Mrs. impson's sight, but he also stared at the Archbishop op who has publicly berated Edward for his "unchristian" determination to marry the American woman. OPINIONS DIFFER A clubby little woman standing before Mrs. Simpson's wax figure said: "Isn't nhe lovely?" A gentleman with a bristling mili- tary moustache grumbled: "She ought to be in the chamber of hor- rors." An attendant of Madame Tus- saud's was shocked at the sugges- tion that Mrs. Simpson and Edward ought to be posed together. "Oh, no," he said, "not until they are married." Unveiling of Mrs. Simpson's fig- ure a week after work was started on her wax likeness established a Tussaud record. The waxworks ex- perts, using measurements obtained from Worth, the Paris dressmaker of Mrs. Simpson, and hundreds of pho- tographs, had four modellers work seven nine -hour days. The head was modelled by Ber- nard Tussaud ,great-grandson of the founder of the museum, and the man responsible for its restoration after a million dollar fire in 1925. Mrs. Simpson's figure is clothed in. an evening gown of scarlet satin, made especially by her Paris dress - house. The gown is high -necked, sleeveless and backless. The figure of Edward will be strip- ped of its uniform in a few days and dressed in street clothes. Officials of the waxworks, recall- ing that the day after Adolf Hitler's figure was put on view, some fanatic doused it with red ink, stationed an attendant near the likeness of the American woman. By KEN. EDWARDS Mr. Sportsman! Do you thrill to the tug of a fighting fish on the line? A small warrior the size -of a bass or something as large as a cow? If so, let us talk it over a bit. Down in Nova Scotia the big -game fish is the Tuna. There, every year they harpoon thein weighing as high as three-quarters of a ton. No other sea .fish possesses more spunk and fighting spirit than this living thun- derbolt of stream -lined fighting fish. The capture of a 792 -pound Tuna in 62 hours of continuous struggle in 1934 was the longest battle known. The files tell us that Michael Lei- ner, of New York, holds the record for quick kills in Nova Scotia waters. He caught 21 tuna fish for eight days in 1935, the largest, a 450 -pounder, was boated in 46 minutes and the smallest, 9F lbs. in 34 minutes. You all know of the famous novel ist, Zane Grey, maybe so, but, did you know too, that in 1924 he caugh' a 758 pound Tuna, that remained a world record for rod and line angl- ing until 1983 when Michell Henry captured one 857 pounds? It vas Thomas Howell, of Chicago, who captured the largest Tuna ever taken on rod and line. The giant fish tip- ped the scales at 956 pounds. The heart of the Tuna is consider- ed a very great delicacy, and is said to be nearly as big as a basket -ball, Look us up next week, Mr. Sports- man, we're going swordfishing ... . happy angling! "The church may be behind the age—yes, behind the sine of the age. She is always behind in that woy," —Cardinal Hayes. n• The Steel Trap Should 13 anneti St. Thornas Trmes.Journal Com Mends Campaign Now Linde Way. A campaign is under way in Can ada to make the trapping of will animals less cruel thae it now with the diabolical steel trap. Legis lation to abolish this trap is beim sought by the Canadian Associatioi for the Protection of Fur bearers This movement should have tht hearty support of the public. Ther are, of course, some hard-heartec people to whom the unnecessary suf fering of animals means nothing but the majority hate to think o: any animal being required to under go torture in order that its fur mal provide comfort or adornment fol humans. . The trouble, however, is that thea don't think. They probably have heard of the tortures of the steer trap. but they have not been impres- sed as they should have been and soon -forget, while the torturing goes on. It is saiu that 6,000,000 fur - bearing animals are trapped every year in Canada and many of these die a lingering, agonizing death from the excruciating pain caused by the trap, and from starvation. T h e late Commanded Edward Brock, who founded the United States Anti -Steel Trap League, de- fined the steel trap as follows. "It is an instrument of torture, which does not kill as oece, but ^.aures long-drawn-out agony. It is the most awful horror in the history of the world." Commander Brock spoke from personal knowledge. since he was once a trapper but was so nau- seated by the horrors of the steel trap that he became a great ad»o- rate of its abolition. Further em- phasis on the inhumanity of the present methods of trapping is given by Prof. Arthur Stevenson, of To- ronto, who describes the steel pole trap as possibly the most inhumane ever conceived. By this method of catching an animal, a steel trap is attached to the branch of the tree, and the branch fastened to the ground. When the animal walks into the trap, releasing it, the victim is left suspended by the paws in mid- air, sometimes for days at a time. It is proposed that the inhumane steel trap shall be replaced by ane that kills instantly or by the box trap. I?rof. Stevenson said the box trap was considered humane when visited frequently so that the trap- ped animal did not starve. The steel trap should have no place in this age of boasted humanity, Public opinion should heartily support the move to have it abolished. Churches, which should be rigidly opposed to cruelty of any kind, and all other or- ganizations that enter into the life of a community shoulc get behind the Canadian Association for the Protection of Fur Bearers in its ef- forts to relegate the steel trap to the limbo of the thumb screw and the rack. At New Peak 88,000,000 Total—Amherstburg Has Record Navigation Season AMHEIi3TBURG. — Eighty -e ght million tons of freight, with a value of nearly $1,300,000.000, a new high, passed the port of Amherst. burg during the 1936 navigation. season The number of vessels to pass Am- herstburg this year exclusive of pas- senger steamers and pleasure raft was 21,747 Of these 10,922 were up - bound no 1.C,825 down bound. The vessel passages in 1935 were 18.179. The principal cargoes carried were coal ore, automobiles and grain. Prior to the opening of the new ingstor,z channel early in Septem- ber. both u, and down hound vessels used the new channel after its com- pletion During the last week of nav- igation, many unbound vessels used the naw channel because the lights along the Amherstburk waterway had been Stored in wintee quarter:' and ice floes were forming in the east- ern channel "Professor Rembold, whom I met poinfinent at his club tonight" said nel, "begged me not to open the phagus of the priest _Mehra which he knew:I had brought un - 'touched to England from the tomb in Egypt, .. ," by ap- Sir Lick. ✓- sareo• 3-,-r• ' i i la FU MANCHU "Mekara was an ancient priest and magician," Sir ' Lionel continued, "I was puzzled and rather amused— then—at Professor Rembold's odd request. But he told I I me some particulars about the strange I death of M. Page lelioi, the French Egyptol- ogist, who discovered the tomb of Ament•i, another of this brother, hood of magicians... , cc 9 T •�e ala lIi\ tb•Asn ,rneNMk tat. y Sax Rohmer "M. leper's Arab helpers deserted him end fled 'from the tom], in intror when they !bathed that he insisted en opening fila mumm}i, car. of Amend fti end there..,, "M. deRoi was found dead across the sarcopll'aa gus from. some mystorious cause—like 'Strozzal" bar¢• whispered Sir hone]. \ re a