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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-05-19, Page 6pommentary on the By El�abet�ldy Highlights of the Week's News a MOMENTOUS DAYS: So much AN ELECTION IN 1938?, Ot- s happening in the world today, tawa insists that there is no valid frvents .are moving so quickly on all reason for an appeal to the country onts, that situations of momentous in 1938, no excuse for a Dominion importance in this quarter or that election this fall, It is talking plaus- -o practically unnoticed. Our atten- ibly, because a trip to . the polls is on can sbe focussed only on so many not really due for another two years.' ii points,at once. Watching what Hitler Just the same the opinion is pre - ie doing in Central Europe, what valent b some quarters that Parlia- 3Y7ussolini is planning in the Mediter- ment will be dissolved next year— 'anean, it is physically impossible the fourth year since the election— also to keep our eyes on what is but not this fall, or anywhere near ]Happening in Indiain Palestine, in it.. Should, however, ructions occur Morocco, in Syria, in in South between the provinces and the Fed- A.meriea and Mexico (for World- oral Government that can't be Stirring events are brewing in each patched up in the usual way, or One of these corners of the earth), should a national "emergency" We do well if we are able to watch arise, the government might decide the progress of the war in China and to call an election this year. in Spain. And in our own dear Canada, there's plenty going on. Whether we Bad the newspapers or not, to find cut. :i: * * * TEN -POWER PACT: Urged by Winston Churchill last week in Lon- don is a wide European alliance of ten powers calculated to encircle the German Reich and block further aggression on the part of the Nazis. If such a front were formed of the Smaller nations of Europe and Rus- sia behind France and Great Britain, Using League of Nations machinery, Mr. Churchill declared, the United States would undoubtedly "signal her encouragement and sympathy." Said Mr. Churchill: "If we can rally even ten well -armed States in Europe, all banded together to attack an aggressor, we would be so strong that immediate danger might be warded off and a breathing space would be gained for building latex still a broader structure of peace." * * * * MIXED BLESSING: With the soil of the Prairies moistened by the best rainfall in 17 years, and crop pros- pects the most favorable since 1933, Western farmers of the drought - stricken areas are nevertheless rot half as happy as we imagine them to be. For two reasons: a good crop means a much lower price will be offered for wheat; a good crop means also that the mortgage companies, who for so long have neglected to foreclose on farms that were seem- ingly worth nothing, now are likely to clamp down on the debt -ridden farmers. 'Twilit the devil and the deep, our Western neighbors are. * * * * CHINESE CHANCES: A special cable to the Toronto Telegram from John Gunther, internationally known journalist, now in Hankow, outlines the main advantages weighing on the Chinese side in favor of their ulti- niate victory over the Japanese in- vaders:. First, the country is united politically as never before, drawn together by a genuine will to resist Japan and to fight to the finish; sec- ond, the facility of the Japanese in guerrilla warfare; third, help front German technical advisers and Rus- sian pilots; fourth, the stupendously difficult job the Japanese have set themselves; fifth, the fact that Ja- pan's standard of living is bound to fall as the war goes on. Mr. Gunther points to the reverse side of the canvas, citing China's disadvantages: first, the Japanese have virtual command of the air; second, the Chinese army is woeful- ly" deficient in artillery; third, the Japanese are better provisioned, bet- ter armed; fourth, provincial feeling is still strong among the Chinese, and unification of the armies is yet far from perfect. :k * * * EARLIER VEGETABLES: The spring season in Ontario, advancing apace, is now two weeks ahead of previous years. Vegetables are com- ing on the market away ahead of schedule, and one dealer predicts that we'll "have strawberries by the first of June." All very lovely, unless frosts come along and nip our Ontario fruits in the bud. News In Re.view Approve Irish Agreement LONDON.—The House of Commons last week approved Prime Minister Chamberlain's "peace with Eire" agreement on third. and final reading without a vote. It now goes to the House of Lords. Conqueror Welcomed Home BERLIN. Chancellor Adolf Hitler was received in his capital this week, on his return from Italy, with a turbu- lence of almost hysterical enthusiasm and a splendour surpassing his recep- tion after his bloodless conquest of Austria. Fierce Bombardment HONG KONG.—A Japanese landing party of probably at least 1,000 men occupied the eastern part of Amoy Island, in Fukien Province, in South- eastern China over the week -end, af- ter clay -long fighting resulting in nu- merous casualties, particularly among the Chinese defenders. Reports from witnesses in the treaty port tell of a concentrated attack, commencing at daylight, by twelve Japanese warships and twenty planes, raining shells and bombs that started fires which are still raging tonight. —0- 79 Killed In Mine Exxplosion DUCKMANTON, Derbyshire, i+3ng- land.—An official death list of seventy- nine was counted last week after two explosions rocked the Markham Col- liery here. More than fifty miners were injured. Grief-stricken villagers said almost every home lost at least one worker, Desperate day -long efforts of rescu- ers to reach forty-five miners trapped nearly half a mile below the surface failed, —o— More Air Crashes LONDON.—Four airplane crashes, in which eight filers died this week, raised the total of deaths in the Royal Air Force's preparedness program to 76 in' 45 accidents since last Jan. 1, Two R.A.F. accidents involved fliers at Wyton Field, Huntingdonshire, where three were killed in one acci- dent and two in another, --0— Income Tax Act Invalid CALGARY,—The Alberta Income Tax Act, passed by the Provincial Legislature in 1932, was declared ul- tra vires, in part, in a judgment of Mr. Justice A. 11'. Ewing this week. He held that income derived from Pu.tsirle Alberta when not need in the rovince is not taxable, Ontario Has Most Accredited Herds Leads In Cattle Free of T.B., says Agricultural Minister Gardiner Empire Flying In Two' Years OTTAWA.—Within eighteen months or two years Empire flying boats will span the world in regular passenger and mail flights, using Trans -Canada Airlines as the .ain link between Europe and Asia, according to infor- mation released here. Negotiation for the transatlantic flights have been completed, and the huge flying boats are now under con- struction, four in Great Britain and four in the United States. Test flights will start in July or August this year about the time the Trans -Canada Air- lines will link Halifax with Vancouver in regular service. ---o— Spanish War Deadlocked HENDAYE, France.—Spanish insur- gents and Gov,rnment armies battled to a deadlock this week ou the vital central fronts. Along the coast road to Alcala de C'eiver` where insurgents have been attem aing to widen their wedge to- wards Valenc.a and Castellon de la 'lana, a'avernment troops blocked the adv- nc a from hilltop entrenchments. The fighting centred on that ap- proach to the sea where insurgents attempted to widen their seaboard strip by foldin' the Government right flank back to the ;est. Milk May Make New Car Finish Agriculture Miulster Gradinor last week informed the House of Commons 939 herds of pure-bred beef cattle its Canada are accredited for tuberculosis —f ited and found free of the •disease —and 112 bards are i process of ac creditation. The information was sought by Harry Leader (Lib., Portage la Prairie). Seven rrovinces have tuberculosis - free areas --Prince Edward Island, New Brunswic]-, Quebec, Ontario, Ma- nitoba, Saskatchewan ani British Co- lumbia. Totalling 518 Ontario, with 518, p s th.t most ac- credited herds. Manitoba has 183, Saskatchewan 96, Quebec 82, Albe}'ta 48, Prince eldward Island and Nova Scotia, 4 each; New Brunswick 3 and British Columbia 1. There were 8,840,500 cattle in Can- ada in 1937 and 9,610 were exported to Great Britain. Irish exports to Great Britain last year totalled 850,- 032. 50;032. Bulk of the beef cattle exported to the United Kingdom -recently has been feeders or stores. Strong Biceps For Drivers ISTANBUL.—Applicants for driv- ers' licenses in Turkey's capital must have more than mere skill. The mu- nicipality has tightened its require- ments for candidates, who must have "strong biceps, physical endurance, good height and weight." Gigantic Loss Through Weeds $1$0,000,000 Every Year in Can. ada, Inspectors Are Tod PETR•OLIA, Ont. "The annual loss in the Province of Ontario due to the infestation of weeds amount- ed to between $15,200,000 and $22,- 500,000, and the loss. throughout the Dominion is approximately $150, 000,000," stated J. D, McLeod of the Department of Agriculture, To- ronto, when addressing the annual meeting of the Lambton County week inspectors here last week. "The, cause of the present weed problem is clue to the neglect in sowing seeds in the past," he con- tinued. He said this year consider- able effort will be made to clean up cemeteries. The speaker also advocated clean- ing of threshing machines and all equipment before moving as provided for in the Weed Control Act and stated this will assist greatly in controlling the spread of weed seeds onto the roadsides and on the neigh- boring farms, It was pointed out threshers should be vitally interested in weed control as their business and revenue is governed by the condition of the crop. W. P. MacDonald, agricultural representative for Lambton County, said that because of the untiring en- ergy of the 30 county weed inspec- tors, Lambton is not considered a "weedy" county. Twenty years ago somebody in- vented a make of car in a story. It had a dashboard device which flash- ed a white light at 15 m.p.h., a green light at 25 m.p.h., a red light at 40 m.p.h., and played "Nearer, My God, to Thee," at 60 miles an hour. Dairymen Hear of New Byproduct Which Can Give Auto Bodies A Glossy Surface Possibility of converting surplus milk into a finishing material for automobile bodies was envisioned by dairymen meeting at Utica, N.Y., last Week, as the result of a process patented by William S. Murray, re- search chemist and Republican State chairman. Henry H. Rathbun, of New Hart- ford, local director of the Dairy- men's League Co-operative Associa- tion, said Murray had obtained a patent for a method of converting milk solids into a plastic and had assigned rights of use to the Co-op- erative. Mixture o1' Milk Solids The process, Rathbun said, would permit the use of milk solids as a finish on automobiles and for other purposes for which a hard, glossy surface is desired. The process, he said, involves the mixture of milk solids, including casein and lactose, with a weak acid, a tanning agent and an alkaline ma- terial. The mixture is treated with water at a temperature of 100 to devil," he says, "the principal piece 120 degrees centigrade, and then is of machinery was a hand press on dried. which the four gages were printed Our Small To u- Ink 1 Writes R. C. Reade In Toronto Star Weekly—Canadian News- paperman Is Often. Editor, Re- porter, Pressman, Typesetter, Delivery Boy Rolled Into One. Editors eir ¥iJ.od a The thrill and the skill of news- paper work are no monopoly of the large centres. A survey of Canada's small weeklies from coast to coast shows that they do not need roto- gravure to give them color. They have it in the editorial chair. "What A Man !" Looking them over from coast to coast, from James Edward Patrick Butler, editor of the Newcastle Un- ion. Advocate in New Brunswick, who was not afraid to tell his town that it was "a sink -hole of vice, drunkenness and poverty," to Hugh Savage, who calls himself "govern- ing director" of the Cowichan Leader in Duncan, a small town 40 miles north of Victoria on Vancouver Is- land, and has lived a score of lives as soldier and sailor, farmer, gold miner, storekeeper, Shakespearean researcher, flour miller and M.P.P. as well as editor, I am forced to ex- claim again and again, "What a manl" Veterans of the Game The real veterans of the weekly game are in Ontario. The dean of them all is W. H. Thurston, editor of the Flesherton Advance, now in his 79th year but still reporting the news of the Flesherton district in which he was born. He is one of the many who are printers as well as editors. He began newspaper life 60 years ago as a compositor. His brother edits the Bobcaygeon Inde- pendent. Arthur H. Wright, editor of the Mount Forest Confederate, is older in years though younger in weekly service. He is 83, but did not enter journalism until 1901, when he re- tired from the teaching profession. He was for 15 years English master in Galt collegiate. His paper, he is confident, is the only one in the world that is called "Confederate". Its first issue appeared one week af- ter the British North America Act established the Dominion of Canada, Helped Mould Politics Another colorful old-timer is Jas. A. Evoy, editor o. the Carp Review, Carp, Ont., one of those universal men for whom weekly journalism is famous. He is linotype operator, pressman and reporter as well as editor and publisher. And he still finds time to catch more large bass than any other fisherman inthe dis- trict. It is half a century since he got his first job with a weekly newspa- per and, unlike the majority of his confreres in the weekly field, he has never tried his hand at anything else. He has played an important part in the political history of the province. He established the Kempf, - vine Telegram to launch G. Howard Ferguson into public life. He sold the paper to Mr. Ferguson but con- tinued to manage it until, a few years ago, he founded the Carp Re- view. "Whet, I began ue .a printer's' after the paper had been dampened and left weighted down for several hours. The type was all set by hand. We used to adjust it in the forms with a piece of paper here and there or a whittled -down match." That Printer's Error Ed. Stacey, editor of the weekly Teeswater News, gives as his ,most .amusing case of printer's "pi", a •combii,ation of sport and society news. He wrote about a former Kin- x-dine.hockey player who was going to England. Startled subscribers i o kept ringing the phone for daysin order to tell him that the joke was on him. His article read "Murray Munro is starting on the forward line in a black coat with Persian lamb trimmings and black hat with matching accessories." Say Greenland Was Linked With N t may Polar Expedition Suspects Land Exists In Arctic That Once Linked the Two Continents COPENHAGEN.—Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish explorer, departed by sea- plane last week for the Spitzbergen group of Norwegian Arctic islands, to start a polar expedition to ascer- tain whether firm land exists be- tween Spitzbergen and North Green- land. Dr. Koch, who has observed the area from the air, contends that, from a 'geographical viewpoint, there probably is land there, because .the northern and eastern Alp -chains would intersect between Spitzbergen and North Greenland. Saw It Once Far Off Dr. Koch's ancle, -Captain 3. P. Koch, reported in 1907 he had sighted land. Members of another expedition in 1912 said they had seen it but only at a distance. Last winter, Soviet explorers drifting down front the North Pole on an ice floe thought they sighted land- through the Arctic darkness. The Danish government has placed the vessel Gustav Holm at Dr, Dock's disposal to make sure. The vessel will serve as a base of operations which Dr. Koch flies front Spitzber- gen to Peary Land and back, passing over the area where the existence of land is suspected. Photographic Survey If Dr. Koch sights no land from the air a complete photographic sur- vey will be undertaken front Peary Land. The Spitzbergen group lies about 400 miles off the extreme northern coast of Norway and about the same distance west of Peary Land, which is the northernmost tip of North Greenland, 450 miles frori the North Pole. CANADA Not To Be Sneezed At Ontario is planning a drive against hay fever and that is a movement that is not to be sneezed at.—Peter- borough Examiner. •strengths of various nations, The re- sult is interesting, Soviet Russia, it appears, has the most submarines, with something like 150 of then'. Italy comes second, with 84 ships built and 14 building. France has 92, Britain 70, Germany 61 and Japan 60, Altogether there aro more under -sea craft in the world today Or Go To Grandma's Funeral than during the height of submarine The provincial comptroller of fin- warfare in 1917.—Ottawa Journal. ance reveals that every citizen of On- tario works 54 days a year to support the government. if we knew which days of the year they were, we might be tempted to stay home ou some of them.—E. J. P., in Stratford Beacon- Herald. —0— The Good Old Days Someone suggests that when we be- gin pining for the "good old days" we should run the automobile into the lake, throw the radio into the garbage can, tear the telephone off the wall and throw the electric light switch out of the window. Yes, and take the airplane dovvn, out of the sky while we hitch up the ox team.—Lethbridge Herald. — o— "Take care of the pence," goes the old saying. Ono young American undergraduate has just taken a European holiday on the savings of 12 years—all in coppers and nickles. "I saved for a sunny day --hot a rainy ane," was her comment. Canadians Ate Less Meat The Canadian people consumed more,pork in 1937 than beef and veal. This was the experience in 1936, but in 1935 and 1934 they consumed more beef than pork. in 1937 the consump- tion of pork was 62.35 pounds per cap- ita as against 58.89 pounds of beef and veal, The consumption of pork in 1936 was 67.08 pounds'per capita and of beef and veal 60.48 pounds. On the whole, therefore, the Canadian people ate less meat last year than they did in the previous year.—St. Catharines Standard. — 0— The Hitch -Hiking Nuisance As Spring opens up and motoring for pleasure or business becomes more intensive, the hitch -hiking nuisance increases. Few people object to giv- ing a "lift" to some needy person, but the galling part (with emphasis on the gall) is that most of the would-be riders aro people who can well afford to pay their way. They use simply this means of transportation that they may be spared the purchase of a ticket on recognized carriers.—St. Thomas Times -Journal —0_.. Arris and the Nations In Washington, where there is more talk than usual about armaments, they have been compiling data on the naval —0— Pull for the Prairies Faith in the prairies is not eoiriined to those who dwell on these once fer- tile grain lands, for Senator Iva C. Fallis, who knows the prairies from former residence until 1920 in the West, voices the opinion that, given rain in June and July, the prairies can raise the finest wheat in the world. In that opinion she is simply ex- pressing the general view held by far- mers in the West, They know that, given reasonable weather conditions during the growing season, the land will yield an abundant crop, but they also are aware, from bitter experi- ence, that under drought conditions little or nothing can be expected from the land.—Moose Jaw Times -Journal. THE EMPIRE - -- Australia's Warning In every democracy the public must now address itself to the realities of the menace thus disclosed. Whether another great war may yet be averted is problematical; but this much may be proclaimed as certain, that unless the opponents—wherever they may be found—of brigs'•"age in internati r °l danger, the chances of averting ulti- mate war must be counted negligible. We must face the vital fact that Ger- many, Italy, and Japan are today mo- bilized for war. In the Mediterranean (Spain), in China, in Austria, without declaration of hostilities, defying trea- ties and careless in excuses, they are simply ravaging defenceless neighbors for their own gain. In each of these ventures no limit is set to the objec- tives; and no spectator can propound a formula for diplomatic bargaining, in che'k to this process, which will not leave the marauder ,,lth at least a part of his loot. This we regard as the gravest aspect of the world situ- ation in its challenge—now unmistak- able—to every people that possesses anything worth coveting. The moral to us here in Australia is inescapable. —Sydney Herald. Selling Our Wheat b Many Countries Canada Is Again Worrying About the Problem of World i'ri'skets With prospects for the best Cana- dian wheat crop in many years, eyes of the growers turn again to the prob- lem of world markets. So quickly does the picture shift that nations once re- garded as formidable competitors in export may be forced by a bad season to look for imports. And some of the competitors which the Dominion fear- ed most not long ago, notably Itussia, have been forced by internal conditi- ons to slacken pressure in selling -broad. --'s the Hamilton Spectator United Y ngclorn Best Customer In this connection the figures issued ty the Canadian Board of Grain Com- missioners covering exports for 'the crop year 1936-37 are revealing. It is shown that the United rringdom is still our best wheat customer, a fact which is frequently overlooked. The "self-sufficiency" drive which has led France and Germany to grow—even at ,great cost—the wheat they need, has cut down these once substantial customers of the Dominion's grain to relatively small buyers. For our total exports of 145,886,172 b..iihels chief destinations were as fol- lows: United Kingdom Belgium Holland France 1•nly Irish Free State Denmark Norway Germany Switzerland Greece Morocco Japan Finland Canada shipped her wheat direct to "untries in Alt, a csinmentary on the extent anti variety gin" our*for- commerce. 81,901,064 • 15,094,766 6,900,035 6,"55,301 4,887,132 4,507,684 4,491,399 3,800,611 3,764.610 2,355,092 2,137,226 1,813,870 1,762,400 1,117,132 Sued For ; ithtg Dog A man who bit his neighbor's dog has been used by the owner for 090 damages against probably loss of the animal, at Gargh, India, 'Defendant I declared that the dog attacked hini, so he seized it by the scruff of the neck and bit it, to teach it a lessen. The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY e asaoes s+oa oI ess-ew-o.---o-s-oO "LITTLE LAMB" By Dahris Martin In large and winsome pictures and with one of those chiming little stories that repeat, the plight of a small lamb whose woolly coat came off in patches• is unfolded here for very small people. Baba did not like the idea at all; he had been all white, all over. He was now begin- ning to show pink spots where the skin had no wool at all. It did not look right to hint, and he did not think it looked right to anybody. So he went to the merchant for a new coat, and this worthy sent him to the tailor, and he to the weaver, entil at last the shepherd, melted by the tears of Baba—and anything more moving than this picture` of Baba in tears it would be hard for a oaby to find --sent him to Black Sheep, That wise animal laughed and laugh- ed. Baba's new coat was coming in; this was why the old one was coming out its spots, and the story ends with a skipping lamb singing about his brand-new coat white as milk, soft as silk and warm as a quilt. Although the story is for very lit- tle listeners; the pictures will be ap- pealing to almost any child up to aid including the age when first teeth begin to work loose. "Little Lamb," by Dahris Martin. Pictures in. color by Lilly Sonrppi. 36 pp. Toronto: Musson Book Co. $1.75. Spanish Silver Paves Old Mexican Streets Streets of several Mexican min- ing ining towns literally are paved with silver, the National Geographic So- ciety reports. "Early Spanish processes of, sep- arating silver from the ore were crude and left much silver in the tailings," the society said, "The tailings often were used for road sine facing, When the silver content is particularly 'high, the tailings are dug up and re -worked."