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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-10-06, Page 6'iT Spend liore • To Train Youth Ottawa To Increase. Vote For 1939 =- S0,000 Canadians Benefitted Last Year. With parti'cl1ar emphasis on placement features, the Dem nian- Provincial youth training program for :the present fiscal year is mak- ing excellent progress, the Fed- eral Labor Department said this week. "While it is naturally too early to determine with accuracy; the number of young Canadians who will benefit by the plan this year, it is probable that last year's fig- ures will be equalled if not ex- ceeded," the department's state- ment said. Provinces Contribute "Approximately 50,000 Cana- dians between the ages laid down in agreements with the provinces have profited by the program. The exact figures are: Men, 32,301; women, 23,156; or a total of 55,- 457. Last year the amount voted by Parliament was $1,000,000. This year the Dominion contribut- ed in the neighborhood of $1,500,- 000. Provinces contribute on a 50-50 basis. Blackleg Kills Lambton Cattle Many Are Dying Off As Result Of Infection Lambton County cattle are threatened by a spread of "black- leg", a virulent disease not un- common at this time of the year. It is estimated that twenty-five cattle have died in the county in recent weeks as a result of the disease, but veterinarians and. others do not believe the situa- tion is yet one for alarm. Caused By Bacillus Prevalent among cattle in that area for the past forty years, the disease has chiefly affected herds along the sixth and eighth con- cessions of Enniskillen township. Cattle between the ages of six months and two years are most susceptible to the disease, which occasionally attacks sheep and goats also. The disease is not peculiar to any particular climate, soil or al- titude. It is caused by a bacillus which forms a sore within itself and lodges in the soil. A sore is usually the means by which an ani- mal contracts the disease. Duce Was Once A urIy Waiter Former Fruit Salesman Remem- bers Mussolini Working In A Soho Restaurant LONDON, Eng.—A gray-haired old fruit -seller in Soho, who once told Mussolini to be quiet, laughs when he thinks "where old Ben is now" and a showman who once told the Italian waiter his play "Napoleon" was lousy still thinks he was right. Old Jack Smith, fruit salesman and radio star, is 80 but he can still remember the night he sat in a cafe and told a friend one Eng- lishman was worth ten Italians. A young Italian, 22, powerfully -built and stumpy, dashed to his table. with clenched fists, shouting in broken English for a retraction. Tub -Thumper Jack recalls lie slapped Musso- lini on the back said: "Oh, chuck it, Ben, you and your politic, make me sick." "In those days," lie says, Musso- lini "was just a cocky little Italian Waiter who was always throwing out his chest and tub -thumping — like the street -corner politicians do in Hyde Park." Mussolini, says Jack, "worked at nights in a big restaurant where king Edward VII used to go some- times." Brantford Woman Shows Livestock Mrs. Clara- Kendall Also Looks After Exhibits Mrs. Clara Kendall, R. R. No. 5, tirantford, was probably the only 'tvoman at the Western Fair, Lon- don, showing live stock—not just owning live stock but taking care 4'f it, and grooming it for the show- ing. Mrs. Kendall, a widow, had to tep actively into the running of farm when her husband died It reg years ago. "I help -my sons all I can," she staid, A new-born Jersey calf from the Kendall herd was the only addition 3b the Jersey herds during the Pair. Au hour or two after it was born the calf had a motor ride. , Inocu- lated against disease, it was placed It a waren corner of a truck, and rou ht the to William Kendall gW m bn s stock farm nearB rantford, VOICE OF THE PRESS CANADA TRULY DEMOCRATIC With the C. N. E. over, rich and poor won't rub shoulders again until the 'Christmas shopping stampede.—Toronto Telegram, WHITHER "SOCIABLES"? Tho Brookville Recorder and . Times thinks church socials are going out of fashion. Fact is, they've never been the same since they ceased to be know as soeia- bles.—Toronto Star. THOSE GLARING HEADLIGHTS A Sunday drive is the enjoy- ment of thousands of motorists until it is time to go home. As darkness approaches and head- ' lights on ears are turned on then it is a nightmare for the driver. Of all the vast improvements made in cars in recent years, glar- ing headlights still exist and re- lief is not in sight. Elmira Sig- net. OFF THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE Apart from sentimental and strategic reasons, there is another factor why both Great Britain and the United States are interested in Canada. There is $6,800,000,000 of out- side capital invested in the Domin- ion. Of this amount, Great Britain has supplied 40 per cent. and the United States has put up 58 per cent., leaving only two per cent. supplied by other countries. — Windsor Daily Star. WHAT IT TAKES A good editor is one who ]las never made a mistake; who is al- ways night; who can ride two horses at the same time he is straddling a fence with both ears to the ground; who always says the right thing at the right time; who always picks the right horse as well as the right politician to win; who never has to apologize, who has no enemies, and who has worlds of prestige with all classes, creeds and races. That is all an editor has to do to be rated a good editor. There has never been a good editor.—North Hastings Re- view. The EMPIRE CANADA AND WHEAT PRICES Under the 1932 treaty Canada and Australia are bound to sell wheat to the Motherland at the world price, which is the price. on the Liverpool Exchange. This price is fixed by competition be- tween the buyers of the world, not the buyers of the United Kingdom alone. The British mar- ket is not large enough to absorb all the Canadian export surplus of wheat. The balance of this sur- plus is sold in competition with the exports from the United States, Argentina, Russia, the Dan- ubian countries, and every other wheat -exporting country. It is this competition with foreign wheat which fixes the Liverpool price and therefore the price which British importers pay for Canadian wheat. For this reason the prefernce is not thought to be of much value. If the preference is repealed, Canada may sell less wheat to Britain, but, in that event, other countries will sell more and there will be less com- petition in selling to foreign coun- tries. It is, in the Canadian view, a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other.—Manchester Guardian. Amateur safe-crackers who broke into the office of Grimsby Stove and Furnace Limited last week used the company's own ace- tylene torch and electric drill to cut a two -and -a -half -foot hole in the door of the office safe. Then they used a company chisel to cut off some rivets and gain access to the cash compart- Ment. He Flew Chamberlain Commander Erie Glynne Robin- son, pilot of the airplane which flew Prime Minister Chamberlain to Germany for his second confer- ence with Chancellor :Hitler, is shown ABOVE. He received his first flying instructions at Hamil- ton, Ont. T Yiews P*aat e By Elizabeth Eedy' WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: In the Great War. of 1914-18, it was the uniformed men in the front line trenches who bore the brunt of enemy punish; ment. Today, things are different, as we know from watching dress rehearsals (for another war) in Abyssinia, in Spain and China. It is the civilian population, the women and children, who are the first victims of war, meeting swift death from the air, or a horrible mangling; or slow starvation. They call it "totalitarian war". * * * * -.WHAT PRICE DISTRACTION? They tell us that whenever war appears on the world's horizon, women's fashions automatically become more elaborate, more or- nery than ever --as a distraction, don't you know, from the grim- ness of reality, This present season, judging from the specimens one has glimpsed on the streets of Ontario towns and .cities, women's hats and hair -dos are providing a, No. 1 diversion. European embroglios are forgotten when the latest "doll hat" sails by atop a nest of high -piled • curls. Women become interested only in going their fel- lowwornan's hats one better; men are interested in watching the women. LINE-UP: Britain plus Fiance plus Russia have a combined strength of 15,400 planes, Com- pare that with Germany plus Italy, 11,500. Britain plus France plus Russia have a combined naval strength of 21/4 million tons. Com- pare that with Germany plus Italy, 1 million tons. Measured in men, Britain plus France plus Russia have a total army strength of 26,000,000. Compare that with Germany plus Italy, 10,600,000. Consider then, that the United States is morally behind Britain, France and Russia. Aren't Germany and Italy brave to stand up against such au align- ment? * * * We complained loudly in this column at Easter -time when the first spring millinery atrocities ap- peared. But since then, as the European situation has grown worse, things have been getting more and more impossible in the hat world. And now, words fail us. We cannot bring ourselves to describe the latest creations in feather and felt. Those terrible chin -strap models we howled about in the spring were infinitely pre- ferable, don't you think? * * * THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: How many hours distant by air- plane is Moscow from Berlin? An- swer: 431, hours. When buying brooms, soak them well before using. Never let the bristles stand on the floor. A new floor -mop for wet use lasts longer if tightly tied round with cord as near the swivel part as possible. All brooms and brushes need recular washing in warrn suds. Hang in the air to dry. THIS CURIOUS WORLD Fye gulsonl WEAKFISHES AIDE ANYTHING' i3UT' WEAK/ 7 '7`l-1Ey CAN GIVE ANY ANG LER. A 12ATrt_E. HMALAYAN ANGE LOWERS THE SURFACE OP THE 44/L //0/1"/A /V OCLISIAr GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF THE MOUNT:Al NIS ,c'/GES 4-/A7 E WA -TER. NEAR. 7A1.E" COPR. 1938 BV NEA SERVICE, INC. BLOW -PI -WS WILL. DP5-)R THEIR. BOMB -LIKE. E. EG'".,,.S 7.4 !ROUGH 7-7-/* A/2, ONTO FCOL7 THAT THEY CANNOT REACH THE name "weakfish" comes from no lack of gameness or .stamina, but because the bony processes of the mouth are soft and tender, thereby causing them to tear out when a fisherman's hook is jerked too suddenly. NEXT: How do heat waves and cold waves differ in the was 'they approach and depart? The satisfied acclaim of over a hundred thousand Canadian home- owners is your positive guarantee of the greatest heating value money can buy. Give your home the thrilling comfort and de- pendability of "the world's finest anthracite". The colour guarantees the quality. . Order from your nearest `blue coal' dealer today. ,,Ask him also about the 'blue coal' Heat Regulator which provides automatic heat with your present equipment. Tune in "The Shadow" every Sat., 7 p.m., CBL, Toronto, or 6.30 p.m., CBO, Ottawa. Tourist Total Remains High Extensive Revenue—Slight De- cline Seen From 1937 For Canada Tourist traffic will bring between $265,000,000 . and $275,000,000 to Canada this year, Leo Dolan, chief of the Canadian Travel Bureau, De- partment of Transport, estimates. Last year's estimated tourist traf- fic revenue was $205,000,000. "The tourist industry has shown less 'decline than any other normal business activity in Canada this year," said Mr. Dolan. Millions of Visitors Canada up to July 31 received 0,- 012,177 visitors, a drop of 6.8 per cent. frflm the 9,676,734 who came in the seven months ending July 31, 1937, but a general upswing was reported in August with improved business conditions in the United States, the great source of Can- ada's tourist trade. The tourist business drop has been most pronounced in Ontario and Quebec because they are con- tiguous to the United States indus- trial areas that felt most keenly the recession. But in these two provinces there was an improve- ment in August over July. B.C. Does Better British Columbia has done well with her tourist trade this year; Vancouver Island reports a record number of visitors. Through the customs at Victoria in the eight months ending August 31 there were cleared 26,000 United States motor cars, bringing 72,000 people to the island, a record high. New Brunswick reports tourist trade as good as ever. Nova Sco- tia reported a slight decrease with Prince Edward Island about un- changed, The Prairie Provinces report a better tourist trade than in 1936 but slightly below that of 1937. - Value Of Contests For Ea yarn Chit& ren Ontario's Minister ' of Agricul- ture Favors Special Grants To Agricultural Societies Featuring Such Competitions Hon. P. M. Dewan is so convinc- ed of ,the value of competitions for farm boys and girls that he favors a system of special grants from the Department of Agriculture to those agricultural societies which feature such programs. Commending Wilmot Agricultural Society upon its activities along this line, the minister in opening the society's fall fair at New Ham- burg said: "I am rather of the opinion that we ought to go so far in the department—though we have not yet considered it definitely—as to give probably a special grant to those fairswhich feature junior programs." Train For Future "After all," said Mr. Dewan, ;I do not know of any place where the boys and girls can get an education which can be a greater inspiration to them for their future work on the farm than by learning to ex- hibit their products at the fall fairs. If there is one thing which it is our duty to do more than another at the present time, it is to train the young men and women who are go- ing to be the future farm men and women of the province. "They are going to have the priv- ilege and advantage of living in ru- ral communities, with the privileg- es increasing as the years pass, and it will not be very long until rural life will be probably superior, even in respect of general conveni- ence, to tbat of town or city life." Insects., in green vegetables will make an immediate exit if you add salt to their washing wat- er. The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY "MY SISTER EILEEN" By Ruth McKenney It's a natural! It's a howl! this story of the adventures of a rogu- ish Irish lass and her sister Eileen, now 25 and 24 years old respec- tively. It will have you rolling in the aisles, because you have ex- perienced things just like that, yourself, perhaps..:;.. . The book starts off in the days of peanuts and the silent movies, debating teams and bird hunts, girls' camps and Easter eggs. 13y easy stages it progresses through first lessons in being a waitress, the care and feeding of a Georgian Prince, the blushful experiences of a girl reporter (Ruth McKen- ney writes for the "New Yorker") interviewing Randolph. Churchill. Later Ruth and her sister Eileen migrate to New York, where they hire an apartment from Mr. Spit- zer, a sad fellow who couldn't tell a fungus from an elm tree. The final staggering climax is reached the night Eileen and Ruth enter-• tain the Brazilian Navy. "My Sister Eileen," by Ruth McKenney .... Toronto, George J. McLeod, Limited, 266 King St. West .... $2.25. ti. "We want your help in this con- quest," said Guph, "for we need the aid of the Growieywogs In order to make sure that we shall not be de- feated. You hate good creatures as much as we gnome do. r tom uro It will be a real pleasure to you to tear down the Emerald City, and in return for your assistance we will allow you to bring back to our country ten thousand peoplof Oz to be yur slaves," THE WONDERLAND OF OZ kJ , Af' k ✓r V Ii, r ` v l1yt" ` ^ f � `hAt7 t, i)M,. ` '%` t it: O ' carp°•, f . s# riyt . G' "awenty thousand!" growled the Grand Gallipoot. "All right, twenty thousand slaves It shall bei", agreed • the 'General, who by this time was very frightened, The Grand Galli-. poet made a signal and at once his attendants picked up General Guttli and carried him away to a deep, dark prison, where the Jailer nmu4'- ed hlmaelf by sticking pins in the round, fat body of the 014 Ienoti'e to sec him jump and hear him. �•f•ii, .And wh le this was going on the Grand Galiipoot was ` talking' with his counselors, who were the most important officials of the Growley- wogs. When he had told thorn of the proposition of the Gnome Xing, he said: ' ivly advice is t help them, then when we have conquered the Land of Oz w will take not only our twenty thousand prisoners, hut. ev- erything else wo want." "Let us take the magic belt, too;' suggested one counselor. "And rob the Gnome King and snake him our slave." "That's a good idea," declared the Grand Gallipoot. ".i'd like Xing Ruggedo for my own slave. He could black my hoots and bring me my porridge every morn- ing while 1 ant in hod." "There is a famous carcerow• In Ut, 1'11 take • hint fort � sl a� r tit Slave," sold n rr. r r V +il Ylin, f1 "I'll inks , : 0 o Tilc Cr 1t, •1 o mat h.tte mrtn," said another. '411vr me the Tin Woodman," sal da thrd.