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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-12-16, Page 6CANADA Worthwhile Hobby Mrs. Albert Matthews, new 'first lady" of Ontario, admits her most im- portant mportant hobby is her husband. Hus- bands in general will appreciate such leadership,—Niagara Falls Review. Sensible Decision Able-bodied single men who refuse to work in Northern Ontario timber and pulpwood camps are refused re- lief by the Government. It is a sens- ible decision,—Ottawa Journal. Canada's Farmers Lead Canada has retained the world wheat championship at the Chicago International. Exhibition. In addition the crowns for barley and oats have come to this country. Canadian far- mers are still second to none.—Lon- don Free Press. A Super -Toothache The international situation is like an ulcerated jaw. And it starts up re- flex actions in three teeth, Italy, Ger- many and Japan, either singly of all together, so that one doesn't know ex- actly where to lay the finger on the cause. It is a super toothache.—Ham- ilton Spectator. Nor -Owners Wanted Not quite hall of the householders of Stratford now own their homes. Moreover, the trend is downward. Which is not a healthful situation. A community of home -owners is the ideal toward which civic administra- tion should direct its efforts.—Strat- ford Beacon -Herald. Sports and Morals A sporting city is generally a good moral city. The promotion of sports is both a civic and social duty. You promote civic patriotism by keeping the boys interested in home sports. Be a good sport and support the games. A good bunch of rooters helps to create a wiening spirit. — Guelph Mercury. LGover emnetet;Ad Absurdum That -file number o1'' Canadian go o erning bodies-22,000-0ould be cut by two-thirds or at least by half must be apparent to every serious citizen taking the time took over the situa- tion. Indeed, the more one thinks of it the greater the puzzle becomes. Why have we been so cool and indif- ferent toward the building up of such a vast number of organizations to han- dle public money? No matter how good the intention, you must have serious overlapping and extravagance under such a system.—Windsor Star, Till the Next Depression But it is all very discouraging to the man on the street. While the de- pression was at its height—or should it be depth?—we used to hear poli- ticians oliticians and money magnates declare that a new system would have to be devised so that such, a disaster could never, never occur again. Cheerful- ly, as the curve of business swung upward, they began to present us each with his own plan for assuring future immunity from the unhappier conse- quences of the economie cycle. And now when we believe we have emerged from the woods what do we find?,The reformers are putting their plans back into pigeon holes and the financiers are in a huddle talking of how to soft- en the blow when the next depression comes.—Calgary Albertan. THE EMPIRE Anglo -U.S. Deal Britain will make a trade pact with the United States. There are many reasons for welcoming it. Friendship follows trade, and Britain and Amer- ica need to be friends. The talks on which the terms of this New Deal will be based have been communicated to the . Dominion Governments. At all stages they have been informed and, so far, no objections. British trade policy now rests (since the Ottawa Trade Treaties 1932) on three bases. First comes the British producer; next the Empire producer; third the for- eign producer. If the new pact gives preference to the Americans above all other non -British traders, the Daily Express will welcome it. There are ways in which American industry and agriculture are complementary to our own. But let's be plain. Ottawa stands.—London Daily Express. "Lifer" Is Given Six Moire Months "Additional" Half Year Added to Life Term When Prisoner Assaults Guard ICINGSTON.-Already serving a life sentence for attempted murder, Pas- queila Ferretti, 36 -year-old Italian, was sentenced to serve "six additional months" for getting drunk and assault- ing a prison steward. 'He did not knock me down, but my head rnng for a week,,, Assistant Steward Prank Ellis told Magistrate Ambrose„Shea. Ellis, who is in charge of the veg- etable•cellar at the big prison, said he had found a pail of brew -mash hid- den among tTie potatoes and carrots. Ferretti, considerably intoxicated, came along just as the discovery was made and swung at Ellis with a pow- erful right fist. Ferretti 'told the court he had ob- tained the "home brew from someone else,” but that he had drunk "plenty." Sonic of the most delicious of the seventy or so different varieties of de's; cannot be packed for export. The;; can only be eaten where they grow. "It le the nntan who does not expect too Hauch who is always happy." --/An Sees Two Menaces An amusing commentary of these claims to champion mankind against the Soviet menace is forthcoming in resolutions passed by a body eailing itself the India Independence League of Japan, with headquarters at Tokio. This body, whose president is Mr. Rash Bihari Bose—a character whose patriotism is shown by the fact that he has become a naturalized Japan- ese citizen has resolved as follows. "Whereas true happiness and content- ment cannot reign among the peoples of ,Asia till British Imperialistic and Russian Communistic influence and domination are completely put an end to . . , this League hereby earnestly requests China to cease hostilities im- mediately, make up with Japan, and present a united front against British Imperialism and Russian Communism, both of which are a great menace to humanity."—Times of India. Canada. Lacking In Self -chane Not Thrown Enough on Own Re- sources, Says Regina Editor WINNIPEG, — Canada has come through a series of great physical achievements "but one of our troubles is that we have not been thrown enough on our own mental resources," D. B. MacRae, of Regina, declared, who addressed the Winnipeg St. An- drew's Society's 66th annual celebra- tion of St. Andrew's Day at which the Hon. Norman Armour, United States Minister to Canada, spoke of Scottish history and related anecdotes of Scot- land to the audience of nearly 600. "What is it about that little country of Scotland that inspires such devo- tion what quality in its air, what colour in its hills or sound in its streams that keeps it so fragrant in the memory of its sons and daugh- ters?" asked Mr. Armour. "It is e. sentiment all of its own." Mr. Armour said that lowering the trade barriers was the first step to- wards eliminating discord among the nations, Democracies Must Unite "It is naturally foolish to erect bar- riers between nations and expect co- operation and understanding to fol- low," he said on his arrival here to address the St. Andrew's dinner. He stressed the urgency of Great Britain, the United States, France and Canada coming as close together as possible. "I believe that never before in history has it been eo essential for the democracies of the world to be as clearly united as possible," he said. A fossilized crab, probably more than 50,000,000 years old, has been unearthed during excavation work on the Highgate Tube extension, Lon- don, England. • Number One Trotter of the Current Year Greyhound, owned by E. J. Baker, is the fastest trotter now alive. He tied the world trotting mark for the mile, 1:56, recently. Sci fist fr Lift' sF'! Dr. Alexis Carrel Says That "In- ner Time" Regulates Our Length of Existence. Dr. Alexis Carrel, Rockefeller In- stiturte scientist, who made small col- onies of cells virtually immortal, last. week forecast a new step in longer human life, by regulating "inner time," the human clock, whose hours are set by the blood and tissues. Dr. Carrel spoke to the annual convention of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. He proposed a new kind of scientific institute to study the process of ageing. Body Must Have More Resistance "The problem of longevity," he said, "is. entering a new periocleof. its history. So far increase in dura- tion of life has resulted from hy- giene and medicine. But these have nearly completed their work." A few more discoveries, like pre- venting heart disease and cancer, he said, will bring further longevity, possibly to average into the 70's. "Thereafter," he continued, "fur- ther lengthening of human existence will demand a new method. True prolongation will require improve- ment of the quality of tissues and blood; that is, more resistance to the body wearing out." 40 As Old As 60 This will be done by discovering how to regulate what Dr. Carrel named "inner time", also -called the "physiological clock," by which some persons of 40 are really as old as others of 60. The hands of this clock are the blood, its works are the tissues, ita mainspring perhaps the mind. Its 'hours are age, and these have dif- ferent lengths in different persons. This accounts, Dr. Carrel said, for the feet that the days of childhood seen very long, those of maturity and senescence disconcertingly rapid, "Time Within Ourselves" "Our time," he declared, ''is not an outside event. It flows within our- selves." That one of these hours can last indefinitely, perhaps forever, has been demonstrated at the Rockefeller Institute. But in a complex human being, for reasons not yet known, the hours do not last, even though, the well-known differences point to the possibility. As an example of the hour that riga never ends, Dr. Carrel said a colony of tissue cells that is, a bit of liv- ing flesh separated from the body— will live in a drop of serum.. Left alone, the cells soon show signs of growing old. But if the waste pro- ducts of the cells are not allowed to accumulate, "senescence and death are indefinitely postponed." A bit of ehiaken embryo, taken from a heart in 1912, washed every few days ever since, is still grow- ing as actively as twenty-five years :ago at the institute. News In Review Urged to Forget Russia BUCHAREST, Rumania — King Carol II and Premier George Tata- rescu were reported to have warned French Foreign. Minister Yvon Del- bos last week that France must choose between close collaboration with Soviet Russia and faithful mili- tary support from Rumania. Commentary .on the Highlights of the Week's News . •• s by Peter Randal. 1300ST FOR CANADA: "A fort- night's holiday on the east coast of Canada would give better value for the money spent, than a month in many overcrowded Continental re- sorts". Thus spoke the Duke of Glou- cester to a Canada Club dinner last week in London, adding the .-hope that he and the Duchess might be able to come here in the near future. If the. Duke had no real intention of sojourning in Canada, and made the To Qualify As President DUBLIN, Ireland—A Czechoslo- vakian Count, whose ancestors left Ireland more than 200 years ago, prepared last week to become an Irish citizen so that he might bei qualified to succeed Eamon de Val- era as President of the Free State. Count Edward Taafe, who recent- ly sold his vast estates near Prague, is one of a half dozen men proposed for the Free State's first President under the new Constitution which will become effective December 29. Amalgamation Wanted WINNIPEG — Premier Bracken asked the Dominion -Provincial Rela- tions Commission at its last sitting in Winnipeg the week to make a thorough study of the proposal to unite the three Prairie Governments. into one. He related the history of the abortive attempt of his Govern- ment in 1932 to get action on such a plan in order to have one Legis- lative meeting per year, instead of. three; one university, instead of three; and one civil service staff, in- stead of three, to head the west. May Join Fascist Axis ROME—Fascist circles hinted this week that Premier Milan Stoyadino- vich of Jugoslavia may recommend, after conferences with Premier Mus- solini, that Jugoslavia withdraw from the Little Entente and join the Rome - Berlin axis. Foreign diplomats said that the report, which would be a severe blow to the French security system in Central and Southeastern Europe if true, probably was mere "wishful thinking" on Italy's part, They ad- mitted, however, that Stoyadino- vich's week-long visit in Italy indi- cated closer collaboration among Rome, Berlin and Belgrade. Urges Conservatives Reorganize TORONTO—Hon. Dr. R. J. Man- ion, Conservative former Federal Railways Minister, addressing Con- servative businessmen here this week declared "nobody knows what is the policy of the Federal Conservative party." The party must be re- organized, he said. Loyalist Victory MADRID— Loyalist anti-tank gun. crews were reported by the War Of- fice to have blown to bits a squadron of "whippet" tanks which led a sur- prise rebel attack on positions in the Sierra Nevada Mountains southeast of Granada, last week -end. The tank attack against the Gov- ernment lines around Portugos and Pitres, 22 miles below Granada along the Trevelez River', was launched after rebel infantry suffered heavy losses in two attempts to storm the well -fortified loyalist positions. More Violence in Palestine • JERUSALEM— New acts of vio- lence, including an attempt to bomb a freight train were reported in Palestine last week. A bomb was discovered on the railway line between Jerusalem and Lydda shortly before a freight train passed over the spot. During its journey from Jerusalem to Lydda, the train was subjected to terrorist rifle fire. There were no casualties, however. Terrorists again cut the Iraq pipe- line, this time in the Jordan Valley. The agitators set fire to the oil which flowed from the breach. Disagree With Agreement CALGARY—Protest to the Fed- eral Government against the propos- ed new Dominion -Provincial relief agreement has been made by the Al- berta Government, it is learned here. remark ,merely to seem pleasant and agreeable, he will now be put rather on the spot, poor chap. At any rata his statement is a good advertise- ment for Canada, as a holiday re- sort. w * 4. SHOWMANSHIP: A writer in the Toronto Financial Post leads a time- ly discussion of: Canada's sad lack of "showmanship". • The fifth largest trading nation of the world has fall- en down, badly, he says, in national advertisement. The expositionis sug- gested as a good medium. At the Paris show this year, our exhibits lacked the punch and glamor of mod- ern showmanship — they "missed the boat", seemed dull and old-fashioned among more clever contemporaries. They overplayed the Indian, the trap- per and the things of yesteryear when they should have told of our present development and the promise of the future. Canada will have oth- er chances, however, at the Glasgow Exhibition in 1938 and the New York - World's Fair the following year. Ex- hibits at these, the Post says, should be designed to represent present-day life in Canada, should assist export- ers in the sale of goods, induce tour- ists to visit our country. May the Goverment lend an attentive ear to these constructive suggestions! * * * New French Minister Here OTTAWA—Count Robert de Dain- pierre, new French Minister to Can- ada, arrived last week to take up his post, and paid a formai call on Jus- tice Minister Lapointe, acting head of the Government in the absence of Prime Minister Mackenzie King. The province, according to word received by Mayor Andrew Davison froth Hon. W. W. Cioss, Minister of Health, has endorsed the recommen- dations of Alberta cities holding the agreement would be inequitable in comparison with the assistance given to other provinces. Japanese Apology LONDON—Japanese naval author- ities this week -end apologized for the bombing of two British ships, the Tuckwo and the Tatung, at Wuhu, last week. One of the ships was so damaged it had to be beached. The British Government it considering an indemnity claim. Junior Fanners Visit International Harvester Plants at Hamilton ■ 62• their - Farm , 1 e opinion of Canada journeyed to Hamilton from the Royal Winter Fair, tobigness of tt e me atio aive I ai st r C ,., luou�..c,, . Dominion were own how farm implements and binder twine are to be guests of the 'International harvester C'of;:pany of Canada Limited, Here they shown r e plants. At a in the Company manufactured. This picture was taken immediately following their tour through the two lag. ts. spokeluncheon the work ofh the Chihli, cafeteria, A. 1�. MacLaurin, General Secretary of the. Canadian Council on Boys and teacli better work, ko one 8e,000 young farmers made possible by a fund to which the Harvcstcr� Company contributed generously, t who now belong to the Farm Clubs, Accompanyin those 62 winners were J. C. Magnan, -cunei! on of the and organisation, Clttiod other was officials. F. M. Morton, Vice -President of the. Cornpany and Ionorary President of the Canadian Cy official host and invited the winners In future years to visit Ilamilton again. The picture includes representatives from it nuiiiber of Ontario Llubd. FIASCO: Nobody really expected anything to come of the Brussels Nine -Power Conference convoked to settle the Sino-Japanese question. How complete a fizzle it turned out to be, however, is realized only when one learns that its sole accomplish- ment was the production of "A Re- port" -- not a report on anything, just "A Report". It's the old fable once again of the mountain giving birth to a mouse. Even "A Report" was the result of heated wrangling. the American Ambassador fighting vainly to have it entitled, "A Report to the Governments Here Repre- sented." Not addressed to anyone, "A Re- port" covers twelve typewritten pag- es with an histor'cal summary in which Japan and China are pictured as entangled hi difficulties "such. that solution can be aeh'eved only by the co-operation of all countries interested in the Far East". "A Re- port" has indeed told us something, there. QUESTION: MARK: *Claiming that the whole future "is a gigantic ques- tion mark", Lammat du Pont, Pres- ident of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., one of the wealthiest concerns in the United States, has pro?iosed to his fellow manufacturers ;n all. fields that a huge $25,000,000,000 program be instituted to create 3,- 000,000 ;000,000 new jobs, lend new expansion to industry. Before such a scheme can be launched, he said, the Govern- ment will have to d'spel the fog en- shrouding business and guarantee a reasonable amount of certainty upon which it can count in planning cur- rent and future operations. Further, "New jobs, new wealth and agricul- tural prosperity could be produced only through planned research, plan- ned development and planned expan- sion of plant, sales and administra- tion facilities.' That meant; he said, "planned expenditure of capital months and years in advance of any penny of return." Mr. du Pont is now offering of his own free will to endorse that which President Roosevelt has all along been trying to induce big indus- try to do. The outcome may be that if. Mr. Roosevelt turns down his offer, Mr. du Pont will be able to blame the New Deal for any further recession in business. * * GIVE HIM SIX YEARS: In spite of his continual talking and cam- paigning for colonies, Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler last week admitted that he didn't expect to have German de- mands answered for another six years at least:, Hitler is right in this, that for the present Britain and France are not ready (intimidated though they be) to rush . forward and offer to make a gift of certain sections of their territories to Germany. Say - Britain and France: "Germany's col- onial demands require 'much more extended study'." * * * }I,OW MUCI3 TO EAT: A nation- wide nutriton� survey is soon to be made with the purpose of d'scover:ng what the food requ`remeets are of the various stages of human levolee- inent; what the Canadian wer,".:in-- man's requirements aro and what re- sources are available to supply them, The data will be gathered b' the 23 (approximately) membore of the new National Council on Nutrition who will pick out 60 typical families across the Dominion and make an intensive study of their di& down to the last detail. Something very im- portant will have been achieved when it is found out oxactiy hew . much each person needs as food. Then it ' will be our business as Canadians to see that every individual receives the proper amount.