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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-01-27, Page 6ICE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANA V AA of the What Elie Is There? Collections of speeches by Earl Baldwin, former British Prime Min- ister, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, have been banned in Germany as "nnclesir. able literature:." What DO the Nazis '. read anyway? — Stratford Beacon - Herald. Snow as Tourist Lure Tourist organizations in all parts of the country use the snow as a lure, write eloquently of our unparalleled facilities for outdoor sports, of our outdoor Switzerlands at home. We have sent around the world the game of hockey, and the ski almost has earned a place among our national emblems.—Ottawa Journal. Farmers' Profits In all the discussion that is ensuing in regard to higher milk prices, it seems to be overlooked that the dairy farmer, as much as anyone else, is entitled to a reasonable profit upon his operation, and that, moreover, it is the urban manufacturer and mer- chant who benefit to a good extent from the existence of such a profit.— Brockville Recorder and Times. Forget It! In the past, stock prices have re- flected pretty accurately business con- ditions. Today they do not. In these Changing days it is foolish to make any predictions as to the future, tut the outlook, for Canada, at least, is so - bright that our own advice is to for- get the stock market.—London Free Press. Arrest the Car The impounding of a car for three months is not a calamity when com- pared with the results of the improp- er operation of the vehicle. There can be no valid argument against im- pounding the car of the drunken owner -driver. Nor is there much room for sympathy for the owner who has carelessly allowed his car to get into improper hands if he is denied per- mission to use it himself for three months.—Toronto Telegram. What the West Has Done Nobody would say, of course, that wheat -growing in the west of the lakes was the only reason for present-day Toronto or Montreal. 'There were oth- er causes for their rise, notably the flourishing mining industry. But that the western expansion was one cause, and a major one, cannot be denied by any candid person. Mr, Duplessis, who says the East cannot be saddled with the burden of the West, may reflect if he chooses, that Montreal would not be half the city it is if no wheat had been grown on these plains since 1900. —Winnipeg Free Press. CANADA THE EMPIRE S E EMPIRE Copy the Judges Why are judges permitted to live and work till well over SO while ordin-,. ary mortals are -officially and very often altogether finished at 55? The reason seems to be almost entirely psychological. The judge in England is generally appointed after '50, and can, like Tennyson's brook, go on for- ever. He naturally feels boyish ands; buoyant, being on the threshold of a ' new career. He has still the Court of ' Appeal and the House of Lords to look forward to. On the serene heights of judicial dignity, with the compla- cent consciousness of wisdom and in- fallibility which he enjoys (at least in non -appealable cases) a judge well may feel fresh and immortal. So- ciety should take a leaf from the judge's book. There is a needless hur- rying on with life in modern civiliza- tion.—Times of India. Women In the War The womenfolk in China are taking their full share of responsibility in the present Sino-Japanese conflict. Discarding lipsticks and eyebrow .pen- cils, they have now taken active parts in the front lines, and have been en- gaged in militia duties in the roar. It is even said that some of them have actually seen service in some of the grimmest and bloodiest battles in Shanghai. Throughout the country, girls are petitioning the Government for enrolment into the women's fight- ing forces, but so far only those with previous military training have been drafted. But those who have been re- jected are trying to make themselves useful in other ways, such as bring- ing comforts and entertainment to the troops and doing Red Cross work in base hospitals behind the fighting lines. The former Red Army, subse- quently renamed the 8th Route Army, possesses a contingent of veteran women troops. — Hong -Kong News. Win Over Diphtheria Amoug fourteen cities of Canada with population over 50,000, four had no deaths from diphtheria in 1936, four only one death, one had two, two had three and one had four. The re- maining two had 18 and 25 deaths, or together nearly three times as many as the other twelve combined. Again among the smaller cities three have had no deaths from the disease in ten years, two each have had none in nine, eight and seven years, three none in six years and two none in five. There are many other smaller cities and towns with no fatalities for lesser per- iods. If the toxoid campaign be stead- ily continued and if it were extended generally to villages and rural areas, diphtheria would soon become un- known in Canada. Kingston Whig - Standard. Pressures Up To 1,500,000 Pounds 26 Mile Ct.unter At British Fair Canada Will Be Well Represented This Spring By Exhibitors and Buyers at the British Industries Fair. ife Span Has Increased Twelve Years Since 1900 New-fl'orn Child In U.S. May Ex- pect a Longer Existence Than Its Parents Could— "Longevity Data Studied. Today a new-born childin the Unit ed States 'may .expect ,to live twleve years longer than its parents could have expected to 'live at their birth. The parents had a mean expectation of life at birth of 49.24 years in 1900, whereas the expectation of today's baby is 61.26 years. 3,964 Centenarians We live longer than we ever did, but how much longer, we may expect to live in the future cannot be deduc- ed from the tables that statisticians have compiled. Such is the general conclusion reached by Harold V. Dorn statistician of the United 'States Pub- Plie Health Service. The census of 1930 showed that `there are in the country 3,964 persons who are 100 or more years old. .Dr. Dorn ,thinks this is an over -statement. It is incredible that 2,647 of these centenarians should be Negroes, who comprise only ten per cent of the total popula- tion. Though the assumptions of a mod- ern life table are unreal, Dr. Dorn warns, it is possible to picture the A shop counter of British goods, 26 miles long, will be displayed at the • London and Birmingham sections of the forthcoming British Industries Fair, February 21 to March 4. The total area occupied by the exhibits will be 845,000 square feet, which is well in excess of the 1937 record, the London total already being 10,- 000 0,000 square feet greater. Eight and three-quarter tons of catalogues of the fair in nine lan- guages are now on their way to 65 countries. Show Cards in 17 Languages A new idea in London this year will be cards on many stands an- nouncing the various languages spok- en by exhibitors. The Department of Overseas Trade has already been asked for cards in 17 foreign langu- ages, including Russian, Czech, Bul- garian, Turkish and Greek. One ex- hibitor has been given a card in Es- peranto. Two firms have assistants who among them speak eight langu- ages. Canada will be well represented at the fair by exhibitors and buyers. In fact, the Dominion holds first place among Empire buyers' representa- tions. A Canadian official and com- mercial exhibit will be organized by the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission in' the Empire section of the fair, located on the ground floor of the Earl's Court Building. A new tool for scientific research which gives pressures up to 1,500,000 pounds a square inch has been devel- oped at the new research foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, The maximum far exceeds any pressure previously attained. The device makes available wide fields of investigation into pressure phew:memo. varying from studies of the structure of the earth 200 miles below the surface to the behaviour of untapped energy in the interior of the atom. It ;has boon found that atoms bend under pressure and that ordinary glass can be bent to a spherical eair- vature having a radius of four inches. "Too Much For Implements" OTTAWA.— Canada's $50,000,000 -a - year farm implement outlay will be given early Consideration in the House of Commons, with the report of a Parliamentary committee forming the basis for 6, disenmssion lett oven from last year. Air' present state of the nation's health with their aid. But It Is hard to corn - pare our longevity with that of our ancestors. There is reason to believe that a Roman in Nero's time had an expectation of life at birth, of no more than 20 to 25 years, and possibly twice that in Northern Africa. F'The first life table computed from deaths and the population of Specific ages exposed to death was published by Milne in 1815," says Dr. Dorn. And from this table, based on records in two parishes in Carlisle, England, be- tween 1779 and 1787 it seems that the average boy or girl baby born about 1800 in England could expect to live. 38.7 years. Importance of Disease Control What of the future? It depends on the control of such old -age diseases as cancer, diabetes, heart afflictions, kidney disorders, strokes that cripple the brain. Dr. Dorn quotes Drs. Louis I. Dublin and Alfred J. Lotka of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to the effect that the expectation of life at birth in this country may even- tually be increased to about 70. In New Zealand the average girl at birth may even now expect to attain the age of 67.9 years, the average boy 65 years. Is Sporting Comment Cy KEN EDWARDS It seems that the champion feather- weight, Henry Arm-. strong of Los Ange- les is hard after Lou Ambers' lightweight title. The boy must do some hard slug- ging and take it on the lamb from more tough boys yet, how- ever, Armstrong has knocked out 27 of his 28 opponents in 1937, which isn't bad, either. Even with all this snow and cold weather the baseball moguls are 'be- ginning to peep about major base- ' ball for 1938. They say April 18 will open the season with Athletics at Washington and Yankees at Bos- ton, closing about Oct. 2. Did you know that Pedro Candioti holds the world's record for non- stop swim? Pedro swam 258 anild in 3 days 151/2 hours. He swam down the Parana River in South Ain - erica. To keep up his spirits a band was placed at his disposal in an ac- companying boat. They played until ` exhausted, 'but still old Pedro forged on alone to complete his 258th mile and snatch the world's record. So long. Early Dominion Election? ST. CATHARINES—Prime Minis- ter Mackenzie King plans to call a Dominion election next spring or aut- umn because. of the split 4n Liberal unity between Ontario and Quebec and the Federal Government, Malcolm Ross, Secretary of the League for Peace and Democracy, said here at a meeting this week. Mr. King would seek a vote of confidence in his Ad- ministration and seek to unify the Provinces, he said. LISTEN... tANADA 1938; /IMPERIAL, TOBACCO'S INSPIRING PROGRAM EVERY Y FRIDAY NIDI -IT On a National Coast to Coast Network -. *.1.--0-40-0.÷44-41-11.411141 ,IlIttt{{{ News In Review Rumanian Parliament Dissolved BUCHAREST. — King Carol dis- solved Parliament last week and or- dered new elections to enable Ru- mania to express approval or disap- proval of the anti-Semitic, semi -Fasc- ist policies of Premier Octavian Gaga. The Premier, who controls but 9 por cent of the votes in the present ,Parliament, thus will have a chance to strengthen his position at the elec- tions set for March 3. Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News .. by Peter Randal DUMMY LEADS: Things have come to a pretty pass when a ventrilo- quist's quist's dummy moves, up to first place on the list of current radio fa- vorites. Jack Benny who has held the No. 1 position for the past three years may well ask, "What has he got'that I haven't got?" Why, Jack, Charlie's real! New French Government PARIS. — Camille Chautemps last week formed a new French Govern- ment composed, with two exceptions, of members of his own Radical -Social- ist Party—the most moderate group of the nineteen -months -old coalition of Left parties known as the Popular Front. Whether his success in ending the • five-day political crisis precipitated by resignation of his previous Govern- ment meant the doom of the Popular Front itself was not immediately clear. It was certain, however, that support of . the Communists—one of the three main groups in the coalition —had been discarded. AT THE FAIR: Canada has reserved 40,000 square feet of space for the 1939 World's Fair, to be held in New York. That should give plenty of room and scope for a worthwhile build-up on Canadian life, its aims and achievements. The more modern . the show, the better. Let us hope there will be a minimum of mocasin- ed, befeathered Indians shown trap- ping wild creatures, and a maximum of present-day features depicted, for example, radium -mining in the North- west Territories; tobacco farming in Southern Ontario; fishing in the Maritimes; airplane transportation development everywhere; summer tourist activities. For after all, it's our own fault that people of the United States and other countries continue to think of Canada as Our Lady of the Snows, a land given over to Eskimos, snow- shoes, bears, wolves and half -savage customs. FRENCH JIG -SAW PUZZLE: Every- body but Fiance seemed to be wor- ried last week by the parliamentary crisis in the course of which a Cab- inet resigned and several high men of the land tried in vain to form a Government. Reason other people were worried was that they feared the outcome in a wobbly Europe of a shake-up in France. Reason France was not too horribly concerned over the whole af- fair: the French government system is built that way on purpose so that the least change in public political opinion is reflected in the parliament- ary setup. At any particular moment the government knows pretty exactly just how the country feels. Which makes for greater eventual stability than our forms of government can ever hope to again. Urges Closer Ties With U.S. ST. TI ,OMAS.—Describing the sit- uation in a world supposed to be civ- ilized as having developed into a state of international piracy rather than of international diplomacy, Premier Hep- burn told members of the St. Thomas branch of the International Associa- tion of Machinists that it probably was time for Canadians to tie up a little more closely with the United States, forgetting imaginary bounder- - les so far as mutual protection was concerned. He would put the two na- tions in such a position that it would be advisable for any other mations, bent on invasion and conquest, to leave Canada and the United States alone. Narrowly Escape Bombing ' MADRID. — Insurgent bombing planes, extremely, active along ;Spain's east coast these -days, narrowly missed harming a party of six Labor, mem- bers of the -British Parliament at Val- encia this week. An exploding bomb damaged one of the party's automobiles during a raid on the city, but occupants escaped in- jury. Prison Riot WINNIPEG.—Tear-gas bombs were, used to drive unruly prisoners from Headingly Jail dining -room last week. Headingly is the Provincial }ail sit - A NATIONAL THEATRE: Establish- ment of a National Theatre in Canada was urged recently by Malcolm Mor- ley, English actor, playwright, pro- ducer and critic who arrived in this country to adjudicate the Dominion Drama Festival, finals of which will be held in Winnipeg. "It would be a very big thing for the Canadian The- atre and I believe it is coming," he said. "Russia did it and their sys- tem can be duplicated without inter- fering with or belonging to politics." The Drama Festival each year is a big step toward the development of a national theatre in Canada, but there is,long road ahead yet. 'Tis'4a pity that the Canadian peo- ple do not display as' much interest Iii the drama as they do in musical development ••in the Dominion. Last year in Toronto the Promenade Sym- phony drew more than 4,000 people to the Varsity Arena every Thursday night during the summer season. Fancy the same number turning out each week to a series of drama pre- sentations! THEIR IRISH UP: Mr. Eamon de Va- lera, Irish -Spanish head of the gov- ernment of Eire (formerly called the Irish Free State) goes to ?London last week and asks Mr. Neville Chamber- lain, head of the British government to step in and end partition in Ire- land, the division between the north and the south. Mr. Chamberlain is adamant in his position that the con- sent of Northern Ireland (Ulster to you) must first be obtained before any move is made toward reunion of the two Irish states. Deadlock results, as there is no likelihood of Lord Craigavon's Nor- thern Ireland Government consenting to link up with Eire. Meantime Lord Craigavon dissolves the Northern Ire- land parliament, hurries on an elec- tion. It must have been getting too quiet and peaceful over there in the Em- erald Isle. Somebody had to start something. ALCOHOL TEST: The considerable prominence given in the ,press of On- tario to the war on runken (or drinking) drivers has led to an inves- tigation of methods of testing such drivers for alcoholism. L. Joslyn Rogers, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto and Pro- vincial Analyst, declares that final and conclusive evidence of the degree of alcoholic intoxication or the ab- sence of it can be determined by a single blood test. Such a test may be made by distilling blood and then titrating the distillate with a di- chromate solution. But first of all, you'll have to catch your driver. STRATEGIC LOSS: The important point about the capture of Teruel by the Spanish Government army is not that the "hunger tactics," starvation methods of General Franco, insurg- ent commander, have been beaten out, but that the General has "lost face." The psychological defeat he suffered is tremendous.' The loss of prestige may be a large contributory factor to his ultimate downfall, if such it is to be. Deserters from Franco's army re- port that already there is uneasiness and widespread dissension in insurg- ent territory, that a rift in the ranks is imminent. uated thirteen miles west of Winni- peg. Official investigation into the dis- turbance, worst in the institution's history, started when ringleaders of the rioters were confined to punish- ment cells. They were placed on ra- tions of bread and water. Egyptian Royal Wedding CAIRO.. — Egypt's youthful King ' Farouk I, who was married Thursday to the 16 -year-old commoner, Safinza Zulficar, before the ceremony ,receiv- ed a foreign delegation bearing wed- ding gifts. The British ambassador, Sir Miles W. Lampson, brought two •sporting guns and a .sporting outfit sent by King George VI. Proposed 12,000 Mile Flight LONDON.—Three• Royal Air Force planes will leave London in the near future on an attempted 12,00Q -mile flight to. Sydney, Australia, with a single stop at Singapore, the Air Min- istry announced this week. Cambb k�.ge Varsity drew Opens Season's Training • y3 �c+z. .,.•...t i 1, n P < �.- �, ,,�i���M-• i or, • b' sg; ..� wa Say Lumberjack Confessed Murder Walks Into Newspaper Office and Reveals He Killed Friend 12 Years Ago Timmins police last week commu- nicated with authorities of Sacramen- to, Calif., to check the story of 42 - year -old Andrew Moroz, a lumber- jack, that he killed a man more than twelve .years ago in Sacramento. Moroz made what he called a "con- fession" in the office of the Timmins Daily Press after saying: "I've gone to the ends of the earth since that time, but the memory of the thing has haunted me until I had to come and make a confession." According to the story, taken down by a Daily Press reporter and Police Chief Leo. H. Gagnon, Moroz killed a friend named Miller, Aug. 30, 1965, during an argument. He said both had been drinking. Miller was shot and died the next day. Travelled 30,000 Miles "My friend and I had been drink- ing," Moroz related. "We came out of a blind pig on Second street when we 'began an argument." Moroz said -he took a gun from his pocket and when Miller grabbed for it the gun discharged. "The bullet got hint right in the stomach." "I guess I've travelled about 30,- 000 rnile$ since that time," Moroz said. "i3ut that thing has been both- ering me ail the time. I want to go back and faceathe music. Wire the Hall of Justice in Sacramento and you'll get all the details." Cows From Canada WASHINGTON, — The United States Customs Commissioner has an- nounced tliat 6,752 head of dairy cows were :imported from Canada -in 1937. This was 26.2 per Cent. of the quota under the trade agreement -with the Dominion. Imports of .e.reain were 137,860 gal- lons, or 0.2 per cent. of the quota. In December; 2,610,730 pounces of White or Irish seed potatoes, amount- Int to 5,8 per cent. of the quota, were. imported.