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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-03-03, Page 6NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. By EI-IZABETN EEDY IT IS WRITTEN: He means 'what tte says, does Herr Adolf Hitler. The Fuehrey told the world several years ago, when he wrote "Mein Kampf" Vilify Struggle), the story of his life and hie ambitions for Germany, just what he planned to do with Europe Once he got going. His February coup b Austria, to all intents and purposes annexing that state, needn't liave btartled us—it was all written in the hook. And if we want to know what Eitler'p next move will be, the book tells us that too. Filo tremendous February 20th epeech in Berlin, outlining the Nazi foreign policy, checks with everything that he has previously said. Hitler is nicely on his way. Noth- ing can now stop his proposed drive against Czechoslovakia, the Balkans And the Ukraine, except strong press- ure exerted from outside by the dem- *heratic countries acting in concert. A gloomy outlook indeed, because the last thing in the world that can be said of the democracies is that they are united in purpose. - THE SHOW GOES ON: During the i}'ranco-Prussian war the people of Saris continued to flock to the thea- tres of that great metropolis for amusement. The entertainment busi- hess boomed as men and women did $heir utmost to forget, in their leis - tire hours, the battle front and the horrors of conflict. All down through history it has been the same. The show has gone on though the enemy be hammering t the gates. Today in Madrid, theatres are pack- ed every night. Citizens of Spain's Capital, living where death may come down from the clouds at any moment, find solace in the movies. RESEARCH BODY: Dr. Frederick Banting, discoverer of the insulin treatment of diabetes and chief of the Banting Instil- ite at Toronto, has been named to head a committee which will undertake the job of correlating all medical research in Canada and of snaking it available to those con- cerned. The committee, acting under auspices of the National Research ouncii of Canada, will see to it that ?.e cures" for cancer and other dread diseases undergo thorough investiga- tton. LENTEN SPIRIT: Doing without cigarette's for Lent? Candy? Gum? The Windsor Daily Star went the rounds of the clergymen, both Cath- •Olic and Protestant in that city, found •All to be agreed that denying oneself pleasures during Lent means only a partial observance of the Lenten spirit. Toronto ministers expressed very similar views. Said one: "There is a definite place for the Lenten season in which we should seek a deeper con- secration of o. lives." Again: "Self- denial is worthless unless practised 'as a disciplinary measure " INDIA WARNS: As well as a dom- esticcrisis at home, Great Britain is ;facing trouble in the Mediterranean, Egypt, Palestine, the Far East, And now a civil disobedience campaign `t!hreateus in Indian. Subhas Chandra Bose, radical Na- tionalist, opened the 51st session of the Indian Congress Party last week, took over from Gandhi the fight for Indian independence. "Our goal," de- clared Mr. Bose, "is an independent India and, in my view, the goal can be attained only through a federal re- public wherein the provinces and .states will be willing partners." Attacking the Indian federation he continued: "We have to fight the fed- eration 'by all legitimate, peaceful means,'but in the last resort, we may ;have to turn to mass civil disobed- ience." B—D THE "CLIVEDEN" SET: Did you know that in the past couple of years, or even months, there has grown up in England a set of pro -German aris- tocrats who exert a tremendous in- fluence on. British policies? Headed by Lady Nancy Astor, the clique, which includes important government officials, has been meeting for week- end conferences at the gorgeous As- tor estate, "Cliveden," on the banks of the river Thames above Windsor. Plans are formulated at these week- end parties, so far-reaching in their consequences that the set has come to be known as "Britain's Second Foreign Office." The London "Times," owned by the Astors, and several oth- er powerful newspapers in Great Britain, are mouthpieces of the "Clive - den" set. Lord Halifax, who immediately on Capt. Anthony Eden's resignation from the Foreign Secretaryship was mentioned as his successor, is one of the set's leading lights. He admires Hitler, wants friendship with Ger- many, and favors extending financial credits to the Reich. News In Brief Cali For british Election LONDON.—British labor united this week and threw the full force of its most powerful bodies behind a de- mand for an immediate general elec- tion on the issue of British collabora- tion with Italy and Germany. While Premier Neville Chamberlain was assuring the House of Commons that Britain was re -opening negotia- tions with Fascist Italy purely in the interests of general European peace and not under force of threats or coer- cion, the heads of the three most pow- erful bodies met at Transport House in London and issued a manifesto. The manifesto reaffirmed uncom- promising opposition to any agreement with Germany and Italy on the basis indicated by Mr. Chamberlain, and challenged the Government to submit the issues to an immediate general election. Louis Remains Champion NEW YORK (Madison Square Gar- dens) — Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, fighting with the ferocity of a maddened lion, knocked out wild - swinging Nathan Mann in the third round of their scheduled 15 -round title fight before more than 19,000 thunder- ing fans. It was the first time in the cham- pion's career that he ever cut loose with such a murderous barrage of blasting. The amazing fury of his fists battered into virtual unconsciousness the bull -shouldered, dark-haired Ital- ian who had dared to match punches with him. Japanese Menace In B.C. OTTAWA.—Canadian fishermen can- not ply the waters of the mouth of the Fraser River without risking their lives at the hands of hostile Japan- ese, Thomas Reid (Liberal, New West- minster) charged in the House of Commons this week. In a new and sensational expose of the Japanese problem in British Col- umbia, the West Coast Liberal charg- ed that Canadians had been assaulted by Japanese, that their motor boats had been wrecked, and their fishing nets cut. Chinese Begin Air Raids TOKIO. — Chinese airplanes last week -end bombed Taihoku, capital of Japanese Formosa, and caused "sev- eral" casualties, a Domei News Agen- cy dispatch said. Formosan army headquarters, in a communique which was indefinite as regards total casualties, said that sev- eral women and children were killed. In a daring raid on the great Jap- anese island and troop base 175 miles off the Southeast China coast, the Lakes Stocked By Aeroplane Government Fist Expert Address- es Anglers' Association Experiments of dropping fish 7.00 to 1,000 feet from an airplane to re- stock likes in the .Laurentian moun- tains, have been made by Gustave Prevost, director of fish culture in the Laurentides area, Quebec, He told 600 members of the Ang- lers' Association of Quebec all about it last week at a meeting in Montreal. From Height of 400 Feet Mr. Prevost said experiments were first carried out on Lake Ouimet when fine cotton nets were submerged on a wooden frame 100 feet long, and the fingerlings were dropped from a hydro- plane travelling at a speed of 140 feet a second, from a height of 400 feet. Skilful piloting enabled "direct hits" to be scored after one or two attempts and the fish were then taken from the nets by observers, and 95 per cent, of them were alive and uninjured:' Sub- sequently, 4 -inch, fish from the Pro- vincial Government fish culture sta- tion at Morrison, in St. Waustin par- ish, were taken to Lae Ouimet and flown to a virgin lake, a fin of each fish having been cut to identify it. The following year many of the fish were caught and were 9 to 10 inches long. Further experiments showed that fish up to three pounds in weight could be dropped from a height of 1,000 feet and remain uninjured. first Chinese attack on Japanese soil, the planes dropped bombs on Taihoku, chief city and capital of Formosa. To Control Germans Abroad BERLIN.—Adolf Hitler is pressing ahead with a world-wide propaganda campaign to build "little homelands" among the 25,000,000 Germans or per- sons of German descent living in North America, South America, Af- rica and Asia. He seeks to bind them to Germany by cultural and economic ties. The Fuehrer's eyes may be on Aus- tria and Czechoslovakia for the, mo- ment, but Nazi officialdom never for a moment forgets the "long view" and never abates its efforts to create sym- pathy on other continents for the Swastika. A special department in the Foreign Office began this work and now, with Hitler's announcement of a "protec- torate" over Germans living in other European nations, the campaign has been intensified. It seeks to control the lives and thoughts of Germans abroad. Mussolini's Demands LONDON.—It was generally under- stood last week that neutralization of Gibraltar and a share in the control of the Suez Canal would be among Premier Mussolini's depends when the projected British -Italian negotia- tions for an. understanding got under way. The Italian dictator was said to be seeking some cdnerete guarantee along these lines, that his fleet would never be bottled in the Mediterranean. Naval parity with Britain in the in- land sea was also said to hold a lead- ing place on I1 Duce's list of condi- tions for lasting amity. Japanese Army Shake-up SHANGHAI. — Japan's widely ex- tended expeditionary forces, stalled on nearly all fronts by hard -fighting Chinese, were prodded forward this week after a drastic shake-up of high commanding officers. In the air as well as on the ground the Japanese encountered desperate resistance which threatened to pro- long their costly invasion .of China in- definitely. General Shunroku Hata took com- mand of forces in the Shanghai -Nan- king area, replacing General Iwane Matsui. General Hata was inspector of military education in Japan, ilal — "A friend of mine named' his child Carol because she was born on Christmas." Jim—" 'She?' I thought a carol Was a hymn." 10,000 Fingerlings at a Time With the improved methods now obtained 10,000 to 15,000 fingerlings could be transported ,in one trip of the plane and in -one day 100,000 fish, could be transferred to different lakes and dropped in—a task that would take about a month by truck and would cost much more. There are 10,000 lakes within a rad- ius of 200 miles of the fish culture station at St. Faustin, Quebec, and last autumn 300 of them had been stocked with 400,000 speckled trout fingerlings 3 to 5 inches long. LISTENon74*.... 'CANADA -I938" IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S INSPIRING PROGRAM EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT On a National Coast to Coast Network etis EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. TIDE EMPIRE CANADA Impertinent Question A California lady who shot her hus- band is unable to give a reason for her act. It never occurred to her that somebody might ask.—Brandon Sun. Lenders Are Losers A Montreal man will have to pay ten thousand dollars because of an accident caused by another man who had borrowed his car. This lending business, whether of books, garden tools, advice or autos, has never been a paying game.—Brantford Expositor. Divided, We Fall There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by the Detroit Free Press than "after a short 20 years, the allied powers that defeated Ger- many find themselves on the defensive because they did not stand together in peace as they did in war."—Strat- ford Beacon -Herald. Foot -Note According to a Cleveland shoe deal- er, women's feet during the past ten years have increased by two and a half sizes. It remains to be seen if the ladies are growing larger pedal ex- tremities or if their new demand for freedom includes insistence on more room for the feet.—Toronto Telegram. Prison System Needs Reform Sir Samuel Hoare, Britain's Home Secretary, has a Bill in preparation which he hopes and expects will revo- lutionize prison life in that country. Its main objectives are said to be: To help to keep the young out of prison; to protect the persistent offender from himself; to develop reformative influ- ences in prison life. It will be inter- esting, not only in Britain but in Can- ada as well, to see just 'hat Sir Sam- uel has in mind and to watch the pro- gress of his Bill. For the penal system of Canada, all will agree, is sorely in need of reform. At present the system here seems to be making new crimin- als instead of reforming the old. — Cornwall Standard -Freeholder. A Flood Control Policy The problem of flood control is not simply an engineering problem; it can be solved only by co-operation and • concerted action by two factors—en- gineering and forestation. For years the people of Ontario seem to have been doing their best to turn the face of the land into something of the na- ture of a concrete pavement. They have been cutting away the forests— what 'was left of them—and draining swamps; the sole object seems to have been to get rid of the water. And now, at long last—:they have had warning forty years ago—they are slowly awakening to realization that some- thing must be done. ' Engineering work will be needed, as forestation is a long-distance pol- icy o1icy and exceptional weathercondi- tions are liable to cause floods at any time; but the ultimate solution of the problem lies in holding the water in the land—which can be done only by providing the cover given by forest and swamp. It is to bo hoped the Ontario gov- ernment will soon "see the light" and embark on an aggressive policy of re- forestratian.—Owen Sound Sun -Times. We're "Irrational And Supine" All the peaceful forces of the world have acted as if they were utterly im- potent to stop one nation, not a very strong one at that. Our own case is typical. We instruct the British mili- tary commander at Tientsin, with 700 men behind him, to reject the Jap- anese demand to enter the British Connession there. We accept the cer- tain risk that it "means war" if Japan tries. We make it plain that we will defend Hong Kong, a position we do not refuse to adopt although that equally may "mean war". Yet we will not co-operate with a number of oth- er powerful countries in imposing economic sanctions against Japan, though -we know Japan would have to call the war off if they were imposed. We will not exchange guarantees of mutual military assistance with other nations, though the risk of Japan de- ciding to attack half the world is manifestly less than the risk that she will attack a single nation. Other na- tions are equally irrational and sup- ine.—London Daily Herald. Go. se Dwn Makes Air Flow Visible Goose down is helping make air- plane engines safer and more efficient. Scientists of the U. S. National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics are using the goose down to make visible the flow of air and other gases inside the cylinder of a fast -running airplane engine. High-speed motion picture ca- meras record these currents of gases in split thousandths of a second. One camera, believed to be the fast- est ever made, takes 40,000 photo- graphs a second. The other, which makes ten pictures at once at the rate of 2,000 sets a second, exposes each for only one -millionth of a second. Look Through Engine Windows Slower speeds — 2,500 "frames" a second — are used to photograph the gas distribution as shown by the down of the goose. The higher speeds are used to photograph the lightning -fast explosions of gas inside the cylinder as they drive the engine. All the pic- tures are made through special steel - hard glass windows fitted into the sides and tops of the cylinders. When developed and studied by re- search engineers, these motion pic- tures show changes which can be also made in the fuel and in cylinder de- sign. Dr. George W. Lewis, director of re- search for the committee, said: "The result of this research will, we believe make trans -Pacific and trans-Atlantic flying much more practical because it 'will bring about greater range for air- craft on the same gasoline." Airmail Contracts Let OTTAWA.—The Postoffice Depart- ment has awarded contracts to Cana- dian Airways and to Wings Limited to fly air mail on a series of routes in Northern Ontario and Manitoba. Can- adian Airways obtained contracts on six runs and Wings on four. Previ- ously the routes had all been flown by Canadian Airways under tempor- ary contracts. THE WONDERLAND 9F OZ Once outside the passage it was just a short time before our friends readi- ed the place where they had left On ma's golden chariot. The Lion and the Tiger were quickly harnessed to it and soon the party was on its way — the Queen of 1i1v riding with Ozma, the rest of the Royal family marching be kind. "I would be quite content," said Scarecrow to Tiktok, as they trudged along, "If only the Tin Woodman were with us." "He was a fine fel-low," re piled Tiktok, "although his mat -ter -]-a, was not ve-ry du-ra-ble." "No," agree the Scarecrow, "13111 if anything wrong he was easily soldered." You may be sure that the Royal fa- mily of Ev were delighted at seein,a !heir beloved country again, and when the towers of the ]'alae; came into Agin, ihr y Mould not help cheering. little i' : Ing. t id;ri;r, l-a;th Dorothy, was : o +'::rated Linn 1 , toot a ci pion' +lei w i..,)1 aeon his pecitct and hien silr111 bast. "What's that?"' aoketn Uiiina, flut- l:n; Ing her wings In fright;. "That's my whistle,"• said 111e prince, holding it out in his hand. 1t was in. the shape of a little tinpig painted ,green. 'l'he whistle was in the tail o.? ,the 'Where did you get it?" asked the Why, 1 picked it up in tho..'pat' ace of the Gnome Kin;," was the am were Empire's Largest Illuminated Map Covering 600 Square Feet, It Will Tell the Story of Canada at Glasgow Exhibition The largest illuminated map in the Empire is to be a feature in the Can- adian Pavilion at the Empire Exhibi' tion in Glasgow. Covering 000 sq, ft., it wj11 dominate the interior of the building, On plates of burnished copper from Canadian mines, the map will tell the story of Canada. By the pressure of buttons, visitors will be able to light up such features of Canadian life and development as mines, Mounties' out. posts, aerodromes, cities. Thirty-five Panel Picture The rest of the Canadian Pavilion will form a worthy setting for this display. In diorama and in picture, every aspect of Canadian life and ac- tivity will be illustrated. Thirty-five panels, each of them 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, executed in bold black and white and forming a balcony round the interior of the building, will illus- trate Canadian buildings of public and historic interest, while a dozen dior= auras will tell the story of Canadian industry, sport and education. Special displays by the railway companies, and exhibits by manufac- turers throughout the Dominion will make Canada's contribution to the Empire Exhibition a memorable one. A Striking Pavilion The Canadian Pavilion itself will be of striking construction. Flanking the entrance will stand two 8 ft. figures representing Canadian youth. The building, which has been designed by officials of the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission in London, is 208 ft. long and 144 ft. wide, and is surmounted by a tower 100 ft. high bearing the Canadian symbol. The floor area of the Pavilion will be 24,000 sq. ft. and most of the wood will be of Canadian yellow birch, while the main timber work will be of Douglas fir. Ninety per cent. of the area will be taken up by individual firms, representative of the industries of the Dominion. The building itself will be made of all -Canadian materials, except the steel in the tower, which is British. Suggests Empire Drama Festival Malcolm Morley, London Critic, Commends Drama Festival SASKATOON.—Regina Little Thea- tre's presentation of ° the 'three -act play, `aunty Pulls the Strings," was "a great pleasure to the eye and to. the ear," Adjudicator Malcolm Mor- ley remarked of the only perfc.ra?ance in the Saskatchewan regional drama festival'ssecond night. Amateur Actors to Play In his comments after the perform- ance the London critic suggested a British Empire drama festival at which plays from amateur groups in all parts of the Empire would com- pete "is something to look forward to and something to work for." Organization of amateur dramatics in Canada with regional and national competitions was unique. He had talked with people from other Domin- ions where theatre problems • were similar to those in Canada but where the theatre movement was not organ- ized on a national scale. Many persons in these other Domin- ions felt an Empire -wide competition would be another link in the chain binding the Empire together. Urging Closed Rabbit Se son Hunters Would Prohibit Sale In Butcher 8hops The Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries was asked to place hares and rabbits in the classification of game 'in a resolution passed in To- ronto at the annual meeting of the „ Ontario Hunters' Association. Representing game protective asso- ciations in all parts of the Province, the organization asked that a closed season be placed on rabbits and hares in the southern part of Ontario. Only 'Game Animals Here "They are the only game animal we of Southern Ontario have," said Emerion Robertson, Secretary - Treasurer, "and some people are making a business of hunting them, because they are not protected in any way." The resolution demanded that sale of hares and rabbits in butcher stores be prohibited, and that a closed sea- son be declared from March 1 until the opening of the pheasant settee*. !van The Terrible Deaths Revealed Age -mellowed lists of victims be- headed by Ivan the Terrible's execu- tioners in xecu-tionersin the 16th century have been found in Soviet Russia. Professor Veselovsky, reporting on research into the lists, said they would prove valuable in showing the troubles of the period The names of the victims were preserved by mona- steries where masses were said for them on Tvan's orders.