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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-02-09, Page 6rt-1•N•1►•i•0-• . -.., •-•+•w-►yo-••w-*11-+►-r•a-`-•.a-a-r• World at Large Canada,p Voice of the Press nada The Ern ire and The CANADA Newspapers Lead The president of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company announced the other day that his company intends to increase its 'advertising appropriation during ,1983,. particularly in the daily newspapers. Many striking demonstrations have been offered, or the fact that there are plenty of buyers in the country if those, with something to sell at atelee rigli price and of'' the sight qutality,. will give the public their message in th proper form. It has also been demonstrated that no forfxt of publicity' pays"as great a dividend as newspaper advertising. Certain sections of the public niay read a magazine announcement or many hear an advertising program over the air, but a newspaper message goes to all the people. —Border Cities Star. Siam's Economy The more the Western World learns about Siam the more firmly it is per- suaded that the Siamese are a re- markable people. Not long ago they changed their system of government without making much of a fuss about it. On that enlightened kingdom a re- volution takes place with the utmost of restraint and amiability on all sides. Yet that is not the most wonderful thing about Siam. It has learned to cut budget;a and discharge useless pub- lic servants in a way that is astonish- ing to Western minds. — Fredericton Gleaner. Danger in Turning Corners It would naturally be imagined that one of the first things every motorist learns is how to turn corners correct- ly;; that bit of driving technicality surely belongs in the ABC's of the art lel handling an automobile. However, 'econt figures show that during the ;fret six months of 1932 there were in Ontario 123 accidents in making right- hand turns with two persons killed and 80 injured, while in the same period 444 accidents occurred in ne- gotiating lefthand turns :with five kill- ed and 265 injured. — Peterborough Examiner. Male Adornment • The depressed Canadian dollar is a Blessing to Canada's Atlantic ports, :he railways which serve them, and Eke tihipping companies and sailors who convey goods to and from them liy sea. Thanks to our depressed dol- lar it is now cheaper to ship wheat pvereea by way of Halifax or -St. John than by way of the. United States ports of the Atlantic coast. Canadian freight rates . are paid in Canadian money. U.S. rates have to be paid in United States money. The 12 to 14 per cent. exchange makes the U.S. routes too costly to be competitive. Such Canadian grain as is moving' eastward is going to the Canadian torts. Edmonton Bulletin, Paper 1,000 Years Old A Chinese newspaper has published Continuously for 1,000 years. Fancy Wring 'Indignant Subscriber" write in "This is not the position you assumed laa 1541."—Ottawa Journal. Germany Recovering Through all the gloom that sur- rounds international finance and the budgets of the nations one gleam of light has pierced that is calculated to eve encouragement where it is sorely teeded. Germany is on the up -grade. Definite proof of this was given the budgetary Committee of the Reichstag the other day by the German Minister if Economics, Professor Herrmann Warmold. The Minister presented three factors Indicating both improvement in indus- trial conditions and increase in public ce afidence. In the first place, he told the committee that industrial produc- tion in Germany had risen to 65, tak lig the 1929 level of production as a unit of 100, after a decline to 52 in 0932. At the same time the increase 1p, seasonal unemployment to -day is only one-third of what it was a year ago. And in the third place, stock and bond averages have advanced, respec- tively, from 39 to 51. and from 46 to 1. He regards these as.accurate and ' gniiicant indicators of business an- yit ' vetieh should give Germany find groxind for optimsn7,—Montreal fly Star. THE EMPIRE Brighter Year in may British industries 1933 wrens witii signs of better times. Int- >Q,l'ovevaent has not yet proceeded fat, bdt the tone of business in general Is is ipreciably more olxeerful than at the e,ginning of 1932. At any rate, the 4 titude is i•ow widegread that it is Iuse 'wafting for things to rightersselves, The strenuous efforts. bow ell ug .made to increase the eftieteney established industries and to set up �w ones can hardly failto have their Award,—Industrial Britain, Lost .English Viiieges i During 'the centuries miles 9f 13rt- tin have disappeared into the sea, , eriP half a mile wi hes ,been taken pet the must, of furs in the last 150 years, and at least thirty villages have been submerged. Lower down the coast, at Dunwieh, a -whole medieval city has disappear- ed, and yearly services are still held at •the sea's edge in memory of the cathedral and eight ,churches which are now below the ,waves. Not far away, at Paketlelcl, it is pos- .eible at low tide to swim over and touch streets of ruined and submerged houses,—London Daily Pictorial, • • t Physical Culture We made a mistake in entrusting physical culture to people of iuferior edueatien. They ought to be people of high education—as they are" in Sweden, for example. They ought to know that -the human body is not merely a machine for digesting food and circulating blood and developing muscle, but a marvellous creative in- strument, a thing that hungers for skillful activity in every nerve and fibre of it, so that even its physical health is not attainable,:until you have satisfied its hunger for skill by one means or another. Your drill -sergeant, your muscle trainer, your professional gymnast, your football coach may be good fellows enough for thtir busi- ness; but as exponents of physical education, may the Lord deliver us from. all such:—Dr. L. P. Jacks in Lancet, London. England on the Air Who can make a list of the things that are England? The Monarchy, Parliament, the Navy, the Derby, and the Boat Race, Henley Regatta the Trooping of the Colour, Plcadilly, Big Ben, the London buses, hunting, foot- ball—these are the ,sort of raw ma- terial of which England's esteem and affection in the world are composed. Justice, disinterestedness in interna- tional affairs, coolness, fair dealing, a reputation for quality in manufacture —these are among the virtues of her character. Let the Empire Broadcas.t- fug Station reflect these events and these qualities and it will earu the gratitude of all members of the family; it will render also an out- standing service to tbe world.—Cape Argus, Modern Pioneering It has to be recognized that under present-day conditions land settlement cannot: necessarily be promoted simply by finding the land and inen who are prepared to try their fortunes ou it. It is not much use quoting examples of pioneer settlers who, taking up land,'facing the future with little equip- ment beyond two strong arms and boundless courage and optimism won their way eventually to success. Con- ditions are different 'how, farming technique has been much elaborated, the occupation has been divided into specialized branches, and overhead costs accumulate far more rapidly.— Auckland Weekly News, UNITED STATES Mild Class War The' London bus strike is over. It simply is not in the British nature to let ordinary strikes pass into crisis and general strikes into revolution. The present stoppage, an outlaw move in an case, was brought to an end when near -zero weather descended up- on England and the head of the oper- ating company appealed to the strikers not to subject the public to serious in- convenience. What was there the London strikers could do? After all, they are of the same blood as the Pirates of Penzance who, with all their faults, loved their Queen. If the social revolution ever does come in Britain, it will' be only when its leaders have showntheir fol- lowers how to overturn the existing system without ceasing to be good fel- lows,—New York Times. Tribute to Canada Canada looks back upon 1932 with pride. The nation retained world leadership in the export of wheat, printing paper, asbestos; was second in gold, platinum, cobalt; was third in wheat flour; fourth in autotnobiles and wood pulp; fifth in rubber tires. Canada winds up the year with a fay. orable trade balance of $50,000,000, contrasted with an unfavorable bal- ance of $10,000,000 in 1931. There have been troubles, but they are being surmounted. Canada is a huge coun- try, with only about 10,000,000 popu- lation—but the Canadians are an ex- ceedingly hardy handful. — Christian Science Monitor. "Five -and -Ten" Stores Banned by Berlin Decree Berlin ---Establishment of new "one- price store" in Germany has recent-: ly been forbidden by government de-. ores, This extends the decree issu- ed in March, 1932, which forbade the opening of ons -price stores in cities of less than, 100,000 inhabitants, The purpose of the move is to pro• teat the small merchants during a period of economic stress from com- petition with larger mercantile organt- zationa equipped to undersell tliene. The decree prevents the opening of firoQ Woolworth, "live -and -telt -gent t ;~e 6iia ;p'rotieratloas at• riff ii. !htti! "11,440Citiltdo. }Jollywood Favors :Swimmers r Another aquatic Tartan is to the fore in Hollywood. This time • it's Buster Crabbe, Olympic Adonis, who plays opposite this lion in a new jungle picture. Men Dyeing Hair To Look Young Thus Secure Jobs, According to Specialist Who Predicts New Method Toronto—Men are having their hair eyed. More men in Chicago have had their hair dyed in the last year than during the previous decade, Emil Rohde, famous hair specialist of Chi- cago, told a group of hairdressers at the Toronto Ladies' Hairdressers' As- scciation convention here. "It's the depression," explained Mr. Rohde. "Men find jobs are scarce for the ratan with graying hair. So they come to us to be evade young. In; the. old day's; nidnths would pass without' a man coming in. Now we dye eight or ten a week. "Aad that isn't all,' said the spe- cialist. "The day is coining when we will never have to dye hair extern- ally. We'll dye hair with a hypo- dermic syringe in the client's arm." A skin specialist in Chicago had stumbled upon a secret, Mr. Rohde said, development of which is being watched with great interest by Chi- cago hairdresseds. A Swede, suffer- ing from a skin disease, had gone to the specialist for treatment. Injec- tions of a fluid in the patient's arm had been accompanied by the blonde hair of the patient turnii.g a rich, auburn hue. "W:.en the injections wen.. stopped the man's hair again turned pale blonde," Mr. Rohde said. "This, we believe, is the beginning of a new theory of hair dyeing, and hair .spe- cialists are new working on it." It may be, continued Mr. Rohde, tl.at even food may be found to have effect upon the color of hair. In England canaries were being fed cer• - tain foods to turn their feathers orange, red, blue and lavender, colors which remained until. they moulted. The principle offered a great field for research in hair dyeing, he said, • Shaw Manuscripts' and Books Auctioned New York.—The Archibald Hender- son collection of letters manuscripts and books from the pungent pen of George Bernard Shaw brought a total of $7,887 at a recent auction sale here. The highest price paid for a single item was $2,400 for a 54 -page letter in the Irish playwright's own prim Band, Gabriel Wells, professional rare book collector, was the successful bid- der. ' Tills letter,written to Prof. Hender- son in 1905, is virtuallea an autobiog- raphy and forms the basis of Render- son's first book about Shaw's life and works. Since then the North Carolina mathematics 'professor has published seven volumes on the subject. Bidding for the 12,500 -word letter, which required Shaw 14 days to write, started at $300 and mounted rapidly to $1,100, where it hung for a moment. Then, •at slight nods of the bidders' heads it mounted quickly to $2400. Only once during the two hours of the sale was the monotonous regular- ity of the bidding for Shaw's wit broken by a ripple of laughter. That was when the auctioneer was heard to intone "damn Bernard Shaw and his tedious doing and sayings," and a few non-professionals in the audi- ence failed to realize he was quoting from one of Shaw's own letters. Other items in the collection, which totalled 204 entries and was des- cribed by the American Art Associa- tion Anderson Galleries, where the sale was conducted, as the largest in America, brought from three dollars to $950, the second highest price. Electric House - r This Week's P Shown in England' `• f Science Notes an ,Sunlight and the Sea.- d Birmingham Circle Erects a Eguips Building to Demon- strate Possibilities of . Electricity The completion of the Nation Grid Scheme for distributing ei•ectri it3' over England and the reduction charges for current, will result in i Creased demand, and a desire f greater knowledge, and after consi erable discussing, the. Birmingha Circle of the Association decided"th the time was opportune to make special effort to show the residents i and around Birminghamwhat w possible and likely to. obtain on th domestic side. To this end it wa decided to purchase a piece of fan and to erect thereon a modern elec trically equipped residence, and to ex hibit it until such time as interest w no longer shown. The result is that today, people lh ing in or. near Birmingham can see British home, at once pleashig, corn Portable, and fitted with convenience calculated to reduce labor and cost to a reasonable minimum. ALMOST DUSTLESS. There are no replaces to clean, n ashes to reprove, and consequently th house is almost dustless. All room are automatically maintained at th correct temperature, resultingin th prevalence • of cheerful warmt •throughout. Hot water is availabl day and night, a feature that is •ac complished and maintained automat ically, without fumes 01' 'attention All perishable foods can be stored under perfect conditions. The main entrance opens on to.a hall with a barrel vault ceiling, in 'wlhich electric tubular heating is in- stalled. On the left 'is the lounge, with loggia facing the garden, while on the right are the dining room, kit- chen, servery, cloakroom and so on. The heating system in the lounge, dining ronin and first bedroom is from the ceiling by means of the Dulrae method. This is a fine, flexible material, which is applied to the ceiling in a manner similar to heavy wallpaper, and which employs the principle of the distribution, under thermostatic control, of radiant warmth from ex- tended areas of the ceiling at temper- atures at, or only slightily above, body warmth. In these rooms it !s arrang- ed to maintain the temperature any- where between 50 and 65 degrees, ac- cording to the setting of the thermo- tat, even when it is freezing outside. On the first floor are five bedrooms, bathroom, box nem, linen room, la ,n - tory and a spacious landing. In these bedrooms•, as in the kitchen, the heat- ing is effected by means of tubular heaters fitted with thermostatic con- trol. he Importance of Toads "The whole problem of food, perltapt al of life itself, is summed up in the sass gle word nitrogen. Not the ge that constitutes about 80 per cent. of 11x11 air we breathe is meant, but nitrogen that is "fixed" or chemicaily combined to form a compound which can be used, by plants and animals in building till^ sues. .There -are bacteria in the soil that have the property of thus "fixing" nitrogen For the most part they clua- c- of n- or d- m at a as s ter ou the roots of what are known e leguminius or pod -bearing plants, sue s as the beans and vetches. These ba teria convert the nitrogen of the into organic life. Does a similar process go on in t sea? Dr. C. E. ZoBell of the Scrip Institution of Oceanography describe' in Science some interesting exper ments that he conducted to answer th question. He tried to breed nitrifyin bacteria in sea water, under the mo favorable conditions. only to find th they died. This does not preclude th possibility of .there being such bao teria, Dr. ZoBell warns. We must first look0 . for varieties different from th e soil forms before any conclusion. cat be drawn. • There is undoubtedly something is sea water, which does change nitrogeel in the form of ammonia into nitrate and this something seems to be es pecially active when it is irradiated by ultra -violet light either in the sue or a mercury arc. Even when the sea water is passed through the finest por celain filter it still retains this mya terious nitrifying factor. Heated um' der high presure, it loses its power, Synthetic sea water—that is distilled water in which the right salts here been dissolved in the right amount— does mount does not have it. Evidently a new field for exploration has been opened to the biochemist. Medical Importance of toads The toad, which used to play an imp portant part in the practice of medi eine, may be restored to pharmaceuti• cal honor if the discovery of twit Chinese and au American, K. K. CheChenA. L. Chen and H. Jensen, fulfills the promise that it holds out.. The solei• tists in question have found that wart like excrescences on the heads of five different species of toads secrete the hormone ephinephrine, like the sup rarnal glands. It takes hundreds of suprarenal glands of cattle to provide enough ephinephrine for human beings who need it. We have, therefore, a vision of toad -farms supplying warts to phar- maceutical laboratories. The pros- pect is all the more certain when it is considered that the same scientists have found that toad glands produce cholesterol,and ergosterol, which are potent cures of rickets because thee contain vitamin D. Add to this a group of bufagins—which are found is 'toad venom and which have an effect on the heart similar to that of digi talis—and the economic case for the toad is complete. Another Radioactive Element? The announcement is spade by Pro fessor G. von Hevesy of the University of Freiburg that samarium, which is No. 62 in the table of elements, is radioactive. If this discovery is vervelafled, atomic physics may be ready for another upheaval. After radioactivity was discovered there was a feverish hunt for ole ments that send forth rays spontan eously. Ali the heavy elements be yond No. S2 (lead) proved to be radio active. Thereupon it was concluded that everything lighter than lead must be inactive. When it was discovered that potassium, which is No. 19 in the list, and rubidium (No. 37) are slightly' radioactive — both emit electrons physicists were puzzled. What distinguishes samarium; is the fact that it shoots alpha particles, meaning that it is unstable. It fol- lows that instability is not confined to the heavy elements, such as uranium and radium. Samarium is what is kno}vu as a rare earth. Next to it in the table, occupying the 'sixty-first place, is "11- lininnx." Possibly the rare earths are rare because they have been shooting off alpha particles, and thus reducing themselves to something else. It may be that we shall have to revive a view that was current at the opening of the century—that all the elements are radioactive and that they are the end products of activity that began eons ago when exploding atoms, like those of uranium, were commoner than 'they are now.--Waldelnar Kaempffert in The N.Y. Times, as a ha 11 0 st al 4 s e e h e• s Bananas Cover English Beach Winchelsea, England, awoke recent- ly to find the foreshore for a distance of five to six miles. strewn with thou- sands of green bananas, all torn from the large centre sterns and .lying ing along the beach at the high water xr.ark. There were no signs of wood- work crates. "It was soon after daybreak," said one of the residents of the town, "that .we noticed the bananas lying on the foreshore. Some of the inhabitants took quantities home, but the major- ity were left on the shore untouched. "The bananas must have been the deck cargo of a vessel washed over- board during a severe gale." —a , OUR WILL We help ourselves when others. we help Advertising Plus! Somehow Portland, Oregon, With it's narrow streets; hardly seeiits the pace for the above w`hic3t slmaks more of HollHowever, ywood. the- enterprising proprietor believed lit his trade, It is sixtoela feet wide, 52 feat ions and 25 feet high.' Mickey Mouse 'undoubtedly wo td 'be ,pleased With this acuity tecttul, LOST OPPORTUNITIES There is much time spent—nay, rather, wasted—thinking and worry ing about lost opportunities. tide, that have been missed, dreams that: have never ,shown any iucifnai•on- to come true, sohemes which have frit• sled out. A. much better plan is to work away cheerfully at the job 10 hand, do it well, try to put liearl and entliusiassn into it, to do it in 'az( original way,, to look at its most cheerful side, to find out the romance which lies hidden in most things' it'' we will only look for it. Then, some day; hi trying to like' • • the thing we have to do, we rtiiay dud that We Have been• led into doi• the tying we like best of a"i