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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-02-02, Page 6Voic. • of. the P r, •, Canada., The Empire and The World at Large CANADA is Damn Profanity?. Is damn a swear word? If not, we have only to confess that we have misused it for many years, Not long ago, Governor Murray of Oklahama 'announced that the word damn is not profanity, and that to call a man a damn liar means no mare than that he is a consummate liar. The Raleigh (N.C.) news, owned by the eminent Hon. Josephus Daniels, recalls a decision by the Maryland supreme court to the effect that damn is not a swear word. The Petersburg (Va.) Index also cites a famous case. It seems that a certain Captain Carmichael, then a member of congress, sent a postcard through the mails in which he had pre- fixed a reference to the eminent Gen. William Malone with the word damn. Gen. Mahone took action, and the case was heard by a federal judge who held that damn was not profanity.•—McAree in Mail and Empire, • Toronto Taxi Fares For a city of its size Toronto is years behind others in taxicab trans- portation. Did you ever find a cruis- ing taxicab in Toronto when you real- ly wanted it? Maybe they're there, but you'd never recognize them, be- cause distinctiveness prevalent in every other city is lacking. Short trips, especially, are too, costly for these depressed times. A ride that costs half a dollar in Toronto can be had in Detroit or Cleveland for fifteen or twenty cents.—St. Thomas Times - Journal, Wanted Signs Will Gb Up This depression isn't going to last forever; we have seen the lowest levels, it appears, and to -day there is a pin -point of light at the end of the tunnel. One of these days the "Help Wanted" signs will be dusted off, a new and eager crop of youngsters will have their names on the pay -rolls of the nation, and the had years will be charged up to experience.—Ottawa Journal. A Fine Record Nineteen- of twenty-one murders committed within te-e precincts of Greater London were solved by the metropolitan police last year. This is a record the authorities of the great British metropolis may well be proud. Politics and slack court procedure are things that do not enter into the ques- tion of justice in the Old Country. Hence this notable achievement.— Guelph Mercury. Canada Keeps Ahead Every country saw the figures of its export trade diminish in quantities and values last year. But there are a few, and Canada is one of them, which have succeeded in difficult times In reestablishing their commerce on a sane basis, that is to say, in selling more than they bought, and importing less than they exported. And we shall see, in a year's time that the agreements we made •.vith Britain and other countries will have improved the situation even more. — L'I'. easement, Quebec. New Braille System The important announement has been made that, owing to negotiations persistently carried on by Canadian representatives, a new and improved universal system of Braille has been arranged which will be of neat advant- age to blind students. In the past it appears that the sys- tems used in Britain and the United States have differed sufficiently to pre- vent the publication of a universal lib- rary In the Braille type. By the agree- ment that has been reached the best features in both systems will be adopt- ed, and 150,000 blind people of the United States and British countries will be able to enjoy an increased number of books in their own langu- age. Moreover, the new system will be more economical In the printing of boolce.---Brantford Expositor. Most Beautiful Words Our suggestion for the ten most beautiful words in the English lang- uage is: "Your application for pose tien. accepted. Report for work at once."—Toronto Saturday Night. An Unpardonable Omission A Spanish newspaper devoted two columns to the report of a fashionable wedding and next day apologized•far leaving out the names of the bride and groom. The man In the case ex- pects to be overlooked but when it domes to the bride --well, if this isn't her day of days then human nature •)quart have changed a whole lot.- lerantfeird Expositor. THE EMPIRE Srltain Weathering the Storm With drops of 37.3, 3$.7, and 31.1 per wait. In the exports of Prance, Amen- acrid flermany respeotfively as coin- fared with 6,9 In our own ease, • it fu tbvious that we are weathering the • steem better than any of our rivals. Mach industries as are active are those festered by the recently, iznpoeeed "•tfieelfte; and, •bad as things are, we e strong grounds to be thankful that a National Government has saved ns froze a situation that night have been infinitely worse, -• Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman. Ceylon and Empire Preference The most potent argument for Cey- lon's 'acceptance of Imperial Prefer- ence is provided by the Secretary of State's analysis of Ooylon's trade posi- tion in relation to Empire countries. and foreign countries. On the 1931 figures two-thirds of Ceylon's export trade goes to Empire territories, the figures being Rs. 144 million to the. Empire and Rs. 71 million to foreign countries, out of a total of Rs. 215 Mil- lion. The import trade is proportioned in almost exactly the sayttye ratio, Rs. 71 million out of a total of Rs. 213 million coming from foreign countries. Economically, it follows that Ceylon must stand with the Empire or face al- most inevtable disaster.— •Colonebo Tunes of Ceylon. Standards of Life in Australia The Australian worker has ho in- alienable right to any particular stand- ard of living, or to a better standard than the worker of any other country. The present standard is 'meagre" only in comparison with the standard en- joyed a few years ago. • That standard was sustained by borrowed money, by abnormally high prices for Australia's primary exports, and by mortgaging the future by means of the time -pay- ment system. It is a quaint idea that the Australian worker has an inde- feasible right — whence obtained no one knows—to a regimen which in- cludes the best of food and clothing as well as such luxuries as moving pic- tures, liquor, bettin- gramophones, player -pianos, and wireless sets, and that he is being cheated of his due when his reduced wages can no longer support such a standard,—Melbourne Argus. THE UNITED STATES Persian Oil Dispute In accepting for consideration and set- tlement the ` controversy between Great Britain and Persia over Persia's cancellation of the Anglo -Persian Oil Company's concession, the Council of the League of Nations has seized an opportunity to redeem somewhat its failure in handling the China -Japanese. controversy. The two conflicts are in no way analogous; they cannot be compared in their effect upon world politics. At the sante time, if the League can bring this controversy to a peaceful conclusion, 'it will prove that its usefulness as az. international arbiter has by no means been irre- trievably impaired and its prestige will be greatly enhanced. It is the first time in which a country so well able to defend its interest as Great Britain has put them entirely into the hands of the League when the issue is of suck importance as the protection of its naval oil supplies. — New York Evening Post. Horse Sense A horse in Cleveland, Ohio, it is re- ported, went through town without a driver, keeping to its own side of the street, stopping for red lights and pro- ceeding when they Sashed green, and did not break a single traffic ordin- ance. A similar display of horse sense on the part of many motorists would make the streets and highways much safer.—Christian Science Monitor, Wise Spider When Mark Twain edited a news- paper inalissouri one of his subscribers wrote him that he had found a spider in his paper and wished to know whether' it meant good luck or bad. Twain replied: "Finding a spider in your paper is neither good lac' nor bad. The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant was not advertising, so that he could go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of undisturbed peace ever afterward. "-Waiter' Win- chell. Television Principle Not New to Science Montreal.—Many of the principles embodied in television today are from 15 to 40 years old insofar as science is concerned, H. d. Vennes, engineer c , the Northern Electric Company told the Progress Club recent y. In the course of an illustrated lec- ture on television, Mr, 'Vermes de- scribed how a picture is transmitted from one point to another. lie said. that radio television is being carried on by some half dozen stations,,izt, the United States at the presents tri e ' "While we have not rea'ehe tle+ stage where we are commanding the same public attention as radio," he declared, "progress is in the main." Mr. Venues envisaged a day when. television on a large scale would be common to every householder. Purchases Bride on Installment Han Ate ;island, New Zealand. --These are boom days in the br' "'o market among Solomon Island cannibals, The n .tfvee are agog over new that Sati- ta-dna, of Sinerango, has paid a rec- ord price of 12 "monies" (about $1,.. 800) for a Witl~t'e bought the dusky maxi on the instalment pia and wili be the rest o4 his life paying for her, Heavy Gale Destroys Shipping When the wind blows in California this is the result. A recent "Saute Ana" or dust -laden gale wrecked shipping in Los Angeles har- bor, drowned one man and piled oil derricks into a twisted mass of scrap.. Functions of Modern Hospital Described Montreal.—Organization of a 'mod- ern hospital, the inter -relation of the various units, and the frnctit.ns of the different departments and their offi- cers, were explained in an address' at a meeting here by Dr, H. R. Dunstan Gray. Dr. Gray made reference to the naw hospital now being built, in s hick would be provided important departments not possible in the pres- ent premises. There would be an out- door department, also provision for social service, which: had been found suc_, a useful adjunct of the modern hospital. Dr. Gray ,included in his lecture interesting items in regard to the ca e of the sick in ancient times. Ancient Greco had its institutions built on the mon .tains, with southern exposture, and having verandahs on the style of modern sanatoria. Hydro- therapy _ was organized in connection with hot springs. Rome followed the example of Greece in providing care for the sick, although the ordinary slave was not given treatment. !fir Egyptian papyrus described one of the first cases on record, that of a wo- man :.uffering from "the unswallow able ball," a hysterical. ,:.affection;, Rare Shell Able To. Turn Two Ways .Adelaide, S. Aust.—A fres whiter shell, which, unlike other shells, dean turn both to, the rght and to ;the left, has been found in South Austra- lian waters by Mr. Ernest H. Ising, presilent of the field naturalists' sec- ticn of the Royal Society. It has been named after him—Planorbis Isingi. The shell is about a quarter of an inch in diameter and the new species is fairly common along the River Mur- ray. Natural scientists state that all shells turn either to the left or to the right. Britishers Shown as Great Tea -Drinkers London. -0 ears of tea, rivers of coffee, trickling brooks of cocoa— that's . comparative picture of old England's taste. ' "Statistics :,how," said Douglas Woodruff, official of the Empire Mar- keti- g Board, "that we in England drink five cups of tea per head per- day, erday, one cup of coffee a day and one cup of cocoa a week." 40 French Plan to Reduce High Cost 'of Living Paris.—Forty million Frerchmen ate preoccupied this winter with one big problem—how to reduce the cost of tieing. The people of France, almost alone in escaping the economic depression, have discovered they still ere paying predepression prices for . )most every- thing. Prices in France are higher than in ary other European country except Sv itzerland. Research by government experts has revealed widespread profiteering in the retail food trade, especially among butchers. Veal roast in Paris 'ste 45 to 55 cents a pound, beef roast 65 cents, runzpsteak (" bifteck"). 50 cents, fresh roast pork 35 cents. An entire lamb can be bought for $2 on a 'arm, but a leg of lamb weighing a little over four pounds costs $2.15 here. Brea: costs abort 4• cents a pound, butter over 50 (gists, eggs 64 cents a dozen, milk cents a quart, and beer to 20 cents • a quart.' Ordinary table wine is sold. ior.12 to 25 cents a quart. Apples and pears, of the domestic variety cost 13 cents a pound, cranges- Dents. Spinach is 5 cents pound, carrots 5 cents, tomatoes 10 cents, beans 14 cents., Flour sells for 6 cents a pound, sugar '7 cents, salt 3 cents, 'coffee 55 cents. ents'41ere have come down consid- erably. A three-room furnished apart- ment can be had for $65 to $90'a month. The same apartment, unfur- 1 ished, would: -rent for $500 to $600. Piccard • Says Trips • To Planets Possible Washington.—Crof. Auguste Pic - card said last week that study of the cosmic rays, foi which he made his two balloon flights into the strato- sphere may help unlock tremendous energy in atoms which might over- come the difficulties of sending rocket k:anes on "round trips" to other planets. -. There is no limit ex the heights which rocket planes may reach above the earth, Professor Piccard said, but predicted balloons and airplanes will not rise much further than the 10 -mile height he reached last sums ee, owing ta practical difficulties of construction. Employment in France, is increas- ing, Geo. Bernard Shaw ` The Domnak o i "Greatest Man" Says His Printe Associate's Opinion of,Noted Playwright Who Takes Unusual Interest Manu- facturing, Books London, idng,—No man is Hero t Itis valet, nut if a writer Is hero to his Printer he must, despite, the ruling be among the world's chosen few Which bit of reasoning puts George Bernard Shaw, Irish wit and world renowned playwright, very high up on the=ladder of fame. "George Bernard Shaw Is the great est man on earth," says William Max well, who has some authority in the matter, since as fine printer of Edin burgh he prints all Shaw's books, has a considerable collection of Slz'aviana and in addition has carofully consid- ered the claims of Mussolini, Ramsay MacDonald, Hitler and Gabriele I'An- nunio to the title of "greatest." Among all the galaxy of writers whose books he prints—Rudyard Kipling, the late Thomas Hardy, Hugh Walpole and Mazo' de la .Roche, to name only the more important—Mr. Maxwell pre- fers Shaw. Great in Mathematics "There is a greater man in mathe- matics," Mr. Maxwell cdmits, "there is one in physics. But taken by and large there is no greater thap Shaw,' The Irish author takes as mucli in- terest in the manufacture of books as in their writing. 'Shaw likes the game of manufacturing books," Mr. Maxwell continued. "He employs us to print them. Then they go down to his pub- lisher -who has only the work of sell- ing them and keeping accounts. Shaw's Wit Shaw does all his writing in short- hand. He then passes it on to his secretary who types the material in triple spacing. Ile then works over these sheets making corrctions and these form the actual manuscript from which we set the bcoks. The writing is the clearest imaginable,' Mr. Maxwell has a valuable collec- tion of first editions and examples of fine printing. Among .ether things he he a complete set of prompt copies of Shaw's plays, and these are in- scribed in the following terms: "This may be added to William Maxwell's collection of shop-soiled literary curi- osities." Coy t -4o C ° • Halifax, N.S.—Accord'ztg to the Canadian Tra. e Cozru'sissiozie in the North of eEnglus.d, oysters from the Maritime Provinces .,re regale. ti aS• of excellent quali'y. Describing the requirements of the British market, the Commissioner says that oysters . ost in demand are those which ;pill o pack from 1,400 to 1,500 to a barrel... These, be believes, should find at ready rearlcet. The size of the barrel re- , ferred to is that used for apples ox fiour- Fredericton, N.B,—The tenth an- nual short course in agriculture con- ducted at the Dominion Experimental Station in Fredericto has recently been concluded with 30 young glen graduating. These bring the total - graduates for the 10 gears up to 200. The present year's graduates are al- most equally divided as to origin, there being 16 Eu,glish-speaking and 14 French-speaking students. ' Mu.ztreal, Que.—Aecordit • to pee- lithinary figures for 1930 issued by the Dominion Statistician, on the Island of . Montreal and Jesus Island there were 13,630 retail stores and 4,296 service establishments, with business turnovers of $422,093,400 and $46,- 906,000 respectively. In Montreal proper retail stores transact'e'd busi- ness aggregating $387,807,700 and the service establishments $44,382 200. Ottawa. — Export,. of Canadian poultry to the British Isles from April 1 to Sertember 30, 1932, totalled 224,- 822 pounds, or more than four timea- the export of 48,322 pounds in the cor- responding period 1531. Regina, Sask.—According t'. an an- nouncement by officials of the Ur.iver• sity of Saskatchewan, after 1.3 year: of -work, invoking 120,000 miles of 'ravel, Saskatchewan's soil survey now completed. In 1920 memb -rs al a better farming conferen e held el Swift Current propos-d a survey of the soil_ of the provi:ice in order t¢ classify and map them so as to assist the development of soil types by syr• terns of farming to which they- were best adapted. A soil map of tee west• e. part of ..he province has beer completed showing • the many sol; types, and field work of the present season brings almost to colnpetion i,iss reconnaissance soil survey of the razor: settled part of Saski,tche n. Letntridge, Alta.—For the first time in history the 1932 crop el sugar beets in southern Alberta aver- aged ov.r 10 tons to the acre. In- creased efficiency of the growers and a more liberal use of commercial fee tilizer are given, as the two main rea- sons for this exceptional result. The sugar content was about 17 per cent. and the beets came from the silo ix excellent condition. Calgary; Alta.—Front 80 to 70 mar have been employed in preparing the old coke ovens of the Internati•ona; Coal :and Ceke Company at. Coletnan Alberta, to fill a contract during 193E for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Coe -limey at Trail, Britian Columbia. Fine weather during the early part of the winter helped rapil construction work, New Westminster, B.C.—aic1Ce,• cher's, Limited, is a comelete tobacco manufacturing plant located at New Westminster, British Columbia. This factory has just commenced manufac- turing and packing "Totem" brand pipe and cigarette tobaccos from the British Columbia grown plant, Titled English Woman Opens a Fish Shop Over a fishmonger's shop in the train street of Letchworth, Eng., is painted the name "E. A, Reid." Thies is prosaic enough in iteelf. The house wife buying her cod and haddock never suspects that its smiling, tactful owner is one of two titled women in England to go into the fishmc ngcrs' business. She is Lady Reid, wido-w o., Sir G. Archibald O'Brien Reid, who, before his death in 1029, was an eminent doctor, and an authority on alcoholism and the effects of heredity. Her companion in originality and enterprise is Lady Rachel Isyeg, who has a similar shop at Ascot. Looking at life from the other side of the counter has developed in Lady Reid' a sympathy and understanding which makes her the most enthusi- astic of tradeswoznen. When it was suggested that she should open a gown shop like so many hundreds have done before, she re- plied: "Yes, and have creat account? running for months and months! Then an acquaintance who had been n the fish business before tee war uggested that shye night do well if he tried this business. This appealed to her adventurouii pirit, although she knew nothing about either business or Billingsgate the famous old fish market of Lon don), September saw her with at nmaculate refrigerator, . a' "spotless counter, and strin„c af. bloaters• creeping her windows. Every horning finds het 'at '7.30 ppropriately dressed in a wliite,over, 11 and a Breton fisherman's berets apeeing fish—all sorts ,and sizes, cleaning, beheading and exthniniii3 heir anatomy. Lady Reid has one ,assistant, and er t son has become the chief accounnt. To switch from a luxuricts home; urrounded by a garden of , lowers, to.. h . distinctive smells of .g� °Fish shot as not disturbed her, She 4js,too; in• rived by the commerce f;,:Mee, , , .s;. Sir Malcolm Campbell To Have Wider Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla.—Nature has provided the fastest beach course ever far Sir Malcolm Campbell' proposed attempt to speed five miles a minute in his giant car Blue Bird IL The highest tide in modern Florida history tore great chunks out of the s oreline sand dunes last fall.The dunes were washed down upon the beach and the constant pounding of breakers between now and February 10 -20 -the period set for the attempt —is expected to offer a wider speed- way than has ever before been util- ized. With the hazard of a narrow course eliminated, Sir Malcolm may achieve his ambition of reaching 300 miles an hour. He holds the present record of 253 M.P.H., established last year on the beach. Balkans Now `Invaded" By Technocracy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, — Techno- cracy-Sznally has reached th _ Balkans, The Politica, Yugoslavia's biggest newspaper, recently carried an article attempting to explain it to the na- tion's agrarian population. This is rather difficult, for whereas a century ago it took the Serbian peasant 1,000 hours to do a certain piece of farm work, it now takes him 999 hours, his tools being practically unchanged. Tlz paper does not indulg, is an e ':torial appraisal. Training in Chicago And while Alex. Burd was mopping tip "at Newburgh, Lola Brooks Potter and Laura lioNaughton, both of Toronto, trained at Chicago for next 1rb iifhtta witted carnival. Lela has cluilleuged Helen I1tna of Chicago to redo for the indoor championship, Violet Wellfounder, carnival queen, sits on the fenoe, - i s s • s a a a h s t h t