HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-02-16, Page 6,•r
.,.-G....•.-..« ...-. S-4- -.-•,.,
Voice of the Press
"Car,*da, The Empire and The World at Large
fel NADA
Soon Learns
Psychologist says most small women
have strong wills. A chap who mar-
ries a wisp of a girl soon learns to
beware of the wall of the wisp.—Otta-
Mit Journal.
Hundred Per Cent. Chauffeurs
In presenting ninety-two chauffeurs
with bronze medallions in recognition
the fact that they drove for twelve
Menthe without a single accident, the
Province of Quebec Safety League is
doing something that may well prove
a valuable incentive to others. The
driver who can go through a whole
pear without any kind of accident cer-
tainly proves that he is careful, that
he observes the traffic laws, and that
he is considerate of pedestrians. It is
just as well t� remind ourselves that
if the chauffeur has a duty towards
the pedestrian, the latter has an equal
responsibility towards the chauffeur.
It is only by both maintaining a strict
observance of the traffic iaws and
keeping in mind constantly their
mutual responsibilities that we shall
ever reduce our uupleasautly high
traffic accident record. — Montreal
Daily Star.
Few Films For Children
3'. C. Boylen, the chairman of the
Board of Censors of Motion Pictures
for Ontario, touches upon an import-
ant point in his annual report when
he expresses regret that so few film
subjects are suitable for young pee-
pie.
"While `adult themes' have their
Place on the screen," he remarks, "the
Motion picture is the vehicle of enter-
tainment for the masses. The screen's
great preoccupation, just now, with
subjects unsuitable for family enter-
tainment threatens not only to de-
crease the patronage of the young
people but of their parents also. In
this connection the Board would re-
peat what has been so often pointed
out by others, that parents and guard-
ians have as much a duty supervising
their children's selection of screen en-
tertaining as they have in regard to
plays and books."—Brockville Record-
er and Times.
Lots of Time
The St. Lawrence waterway is a pro-
foundly important matter, but it is not
one about which there need be any
life -or -death rush, on behalf of either
the United States or Canadiaii public.
Willingdon has not only identified him-
self personally with India's nationalist
ideals, but has personally contributed
to the reality of their early fulfilment,
the Legislatures have responded splen-
didly alike to that faith and to the ur-
gent needs of a great hour in the court-
try's
ouptry's history. They have assumed re-
sponsibility for preoisely the typos of
legislation that would have been con-
demned a year or two ago as inspired
by British imperialism alone or by hos-
tility to Indian nationalism, but are
now recognized as assets or necessi-
ties "demonstrably in the interest of
India." --Calcutta Statesman.
The Prudent Man
It remains true that the citizen of
most value to this country is the man
who uses his money wisely to secure
the hest life for himself and his de-
pendants, trusting as much as pos-
sible on prudence and forethought and
as little as possible to chance, and that
any who incite him to an opposite
course are enemies to the country's
welfare. --The Spectator (London).
Switzerland
The principles that have guided this
little country with its few millions of
inhabitants may well be studied by the
rest of the world, and principally by
the Great Powers. in spite of many
attractions inviting large-scale produc-
tion, Switzerland has remained essen-
tially what she always was; a coun-
try catering to the meds of the world
as, they are, not as she might eboose
to see them; making a living as best
she can; refraining from wild specu-
lations; adhering to old and seicred
principles of conservatism. Savings
are still going up in Switzerland.
Swiss cheese, with all its world-wide
popularity, is still produced in some
3,000 dairies, most of them rather
small. Graft and corruption are un-
known quantities in Switzerland. It
may seem a bit old-fashoiued, a bit
behind tbe times. Yet events have
borne out her wisdom. This little na-
tion, by a remarkable display of politi-
cal character through centuries, has
laid a foundation upon which many of
our hopes rest.' Yet we know Swit-
zerland mainly from Alpine railroads
and the lure of St. Moritz. There is
a lesson in all this, and our discovery
of it may mean much for our own fu-
ture.—George Gerhard in The North
American Review.
Training For Leisure
It deserves full debate and extended What are we educating boys and
consideration, and if it has to be post- girls for, if not for life? Can we then
poued to the next session in order to be right to concentrate exclusively up-
- let these, little harm will be stone. t, on the eiiieieney of those we educate
'Phe one thing that is not wanted is a to do their Work while we allow their
Ihasty decision preceded by insufficient tastes and interests, by which they
discussion. Woodstock Sentinel Re- will be guided in hours of leisure, to
-view. develop haphazard? If so, then it
will not be long before the evil effect
is'seen elsewhere than in their pas-
times. For just as leisure often re-
veals a man as he really is, so the use
'or abuse of it strengtheus or weakens,
raises or debases him, Those pur-
suits which, whether at school or af-
ter, we are apt to consider unrelated
to the business of life are ]ittle by
little shaping or hindering the power
not only to carry through life's busi-
ness, but to fill the whole of life with
meaning and with beauty.—Hugh Lyon
in The Spectator (London).
UNITED STATES
War Debts
Mr. Roosevelt went to the heart of
-the problem in his speech of February
2, 1932, when he called for an early
accord regarding future payments. Un-
certainty is one of the factors delaying
the return of normal economic condi-
tions. While the debt question hangs
fire, for example, England cannot get
a slew par for sterling and return to
the gold standard. Like many other
related matters, this is of much im-
portance to American trade, and so
to the Budget of the United States
Government, — Colonel 'Huse in For-
eign Affairs (New York).
Canadian Channels
It is very gratifying to hear voices
from the West speaking in support of
the movement of grain and other traf-
fic through Maritime ports. That very
Outspoken man, Mayor Webb, of '4Vin-
aipeg, has expressed 'his views with
his customary vigor, and he is all for
Channels
trade through Canadian
dh.annels to the fullest extent that is
possible without definite injury to
business. Halifax and Saint John have
been showing that they can handle
grain without the slightest injury to
any Canadian interest, and that is the
most convincing kind of testimony.
The rest of Canada can confer a great
boon on. the Maritimes by recognizing
their ports and building up their trans-
portation services. It does not in -
solve sacrifice, and whatever makes the
better times here ensures a larger
market for what other provinces have
to sell. ---Maritime Merchant.
Speed Not First
Iu the flood of motor car advertis-
ing accompanying introduction of the
new models for 1933, partciuiarly note -
Worthy is the lack of emphasis on
speed. In this respect this year's ad-
vertising contrasts strongly with other
years. The change is particularly im-
pressive when one looks over the ad-
vertising pages of the last few years.
Throughout thein one finds speed and
power as the generally dorninani• note.
--- enekville Recorder.
Better Newspapers
There: are fewer papers in Ontario,
fewer in New York, fewer in London.
Surlt names as. Timeselaurnal, Beacon -
Herald, Se.utinel-Review hereabouts,
tell their own tale. In' New York
there is the Herald Tribune, the
World -Telegram. London some time
before the war bad ten morning papers
and e rsn. evening. Now there are six
mors' -sur and throe evening.
These merges and shut -downs have
inti•* leea inevitable hardship for a
while on employees, but, they 'save re -
stilted in better newspapers -•-more
competently staffed, better equipped
tnec henivally, able to provide s, wider
urns mare np-to-the-minute service of.
nee : • ssi. Thomas Thhes-Jou rnal•
THE EMPIRE
Lord Wllingdon's Hope
On The War Debt Question
eeeeasaeaa
. Before sailing for England January 31, Sir Ronaid.Lindsay caught -
/—a. southbound aeroplane for Warm Springs, Georgia, where he inter-
viewed Mr. Roosevelt about the forthcoming big 'war."debt conference.
300 Occupations in U.S.
Claimed as Professions
Toronto.—There are in round figures
soma 20,000 professions or occupa-
tions, according to a review„ made by
a bureau- in Washington, Herbert L.
Troyer, secretary of the Canadian,
Educational Guidance Movement,
stated in an address here. Pointing
out that the problem of vocational
choice was a complex one, now that
the plumber of yesterday was the
sanitary engineer of Today, and that
there were • 300 occupations iii the
United States claiming profet'sional
level, Mr. Troyer said that the boy
of today was faced with au enermous
problem and considered that tMiere
ought to be a. central bureau iz ,Can-
ada
ada to which' problems could be re-
ferred,
Chicago's Population
increased 49,00 in 1932
Chicago.—Chicago's population in-
creased 49,000 in 1932, bringing the
total number of residents in the na-
tion's• second hugest city to 3,524,-
000, it was disclosed by .1. E. Vesley,
research director of the Association
of Commerce.
The increase was under the aver-
age annual growth of 67,500 of the
last decade, Mr. Vesley pointed out,
but added that it was comparatively
greater than that of other metropoli-
tan centers. Mr. Vesley estimated
Chicago's unemployed at 656,000 ap-
proximately 38 per cent of the, city's
total workers.
France to Curb Export •
Of Arms and Munitions
Paris.—The French government has
decided to establish a committee to
study means of regulating the manu
facture andsale of war materials,
following President Hoover's initia-
tive in recommending stricter con-
trol of the arms traffic. '
The committee will draft a plan
for international control of coruinerce
in arms, powder and munitions, to be
presented to the World Disarmament
Conference. It will also ett dy means
of controlling the' activities of French
armament industries, which have sup-
plied "arms and munitions to nations
at war in the Far East and South
America:
The committee will be' supervised
by the General War Council, and sev-
eral generals 'will be included in its
membership.
Rubber Plates Check
Dish Washing Hazard
Akron, Ohio.—Pale plastic crepe
rubber, said to be odorless and taste-
less, is being used to make plates.
and tumblers here. The new "un -
breakables" are being made in bril-
liant and artistic colors, and they
are expected to displace the old blue
porcelain, the decorated china and
the glass and paper utensils for gen-
eral use.
Research laboratories of one of the
great Akron rubber factories de-
veloped the new material for food
containers. The rubber eau beecol-
ored with any desired pigment:,
Good' Canadian Practice
Ottawa newspapers believe in, play-
ing .down crime. Last week, for alibi
first time in 64 years, a murderer was •
executed there, and the Journal and.'
Citizen published 200 werd atories.
They bad not mentioned the case from
the 'tune the man was convicted until
he was hanged:--Fiditor and Publisher,
New York,
Early Newspaper
Osita;—Prof. Calga, during Pts q
excavations here at the mouth et
the Tiber, has brought to light one
ot the world's earliest newspapers.
Tt is a fragment of tlx Fast! Au-
miles, wlti•clt, in Roman Times, case
stituted a sort of oilicial gazette,
written o31 marble tablets and placed
in the fortim,
The fragment just found relater to
public works perfortne,d in Roane by'
the Emperor Trojan and refers to
the great feasts and games he lam
between the years 108 and 11.2 A,.l
1 eta W'iliin;;rlon is the first Vieeroy
u rs• ae both the enurage and the op- The Jtope el immortality analog
pernhaty to speak the hope tlie.t with- heroes ot cowards.---Tltnatas Guthrie.
In bi , !caul of (Jitter he may, beware "Has not :misfortune always • boat
ill" ,<ecit,ttioltul clovornor-General of
0 r •;:eve,rning Italia. :gow that Lard a Tetter traitier than fori.uue`t
„t'=W
Vicki Battiat,
Wisconsin Whizz
Will skate atl Oconomowoc'meet. Rose Marie Brady, :Detroii.
adroit of the flashing blades, holder of the state 440 -yard indoor re
nerd, will It, up front during the Wisconsin championshilD touiaftmelxt.
1
Recent British Achievements
Told By Sirs William Clark
(Toronto Mail and Knuth -0
A few weeks ago, while in England
en a holiday, Sir William Clark, High
Commissioner for the United Kingdom
in this country, gave a British audi-
ence a faithful account of Canadian
conditions Recently returned to his
Ottawa post, he, presented a highly in-
teresting report en the existing situa-
tion in the,Motherland. He quoted an
eminent American. financier as saying
shortly after the war that if facts and
figures proved anything, England was
too badly crippled by the four-year
conflict, ever to recover; but that, ow-
ing to the character of her people, his-
tory would repeat itself and she would
again achieve her former wealth and
prestige. She is still Hampered by
heavy unemployment, by closed world
markets, and by the universal depres-
sion, but Sir WilIiatn enumerated a suf-
ficient number of inspiring facts to
warrant us in believing that the United
States financier was right.
The fact is that during the years
prior to the world depression the 73ri-
tish people matte at least some of the
necessary adjustments which were,
later faced by other nations. This
partly explains why de -shock of the
1,929 slump has fallen on her with a
less severe impact than upon some of
her industrial rivals. The number of
unemployed in Britian has not grown
as it has in other countries. Indeed,
the absolute volume of unemployment
in Germany and the United States is
undoubtedly much greater thati in the
British Isles, and et hears a much
higher proportion to the total indus-
trial population than in Great Britain.
The United Kingdom has also been
helped by the adoption of a protective
tariff" and by the Ottawa trade agree--
ments, although the benefit of these
agreements has not yet, for want of
time, begun_to be fully felt.
During 1932 Great Britain largely
maintained the volume of her export
trade at a time when the foreign trade
of the United States, Germany and
France was, collapsing. The exports
of the United Kingdom fell by less
than seven per cent. as compared with
1931, while those of the United States
declined 33 per cent; those of Ger-
many 41 . per cent,, and those of
France 37 per cent. What is more,
the indices of liidustriai production
slsaw that the situation is relatively
worse in.France, Corniany and the
United States than in the United King•
dens. That la to say, the index has
fallen much more rapidly and much
more severelye in all three copntriet
than in the British. Isles• British ex.
ports of cotton last year increased
by 50 per cent, In the case of yarns,
and 28 per cent. in the case of piaci
goods. The British products* of art'
ficial silk grew from 37,000,000 pounds
in the first nine months of 1931 to 54,,
000,000 pounds in the same period 4t
1932, although in other countries, such
as the United States, Italy, Germane
and Holland a heavy reduction was re
ported.
Thanks especially to -Canadian pur
chases, Britains exports of anthraeits
Increased last year by 15 per cent. Is
spite of the bad times the number of
motor cars exported from the Unite!
Kingdom was 60 per cent. greater
in 1932 than in 1931. Other trades
which are showing similar progress
are hosiery, heavy chemical's ,and tit
plates. The tariff has brought a num
tier of industrial undertakings to the
Old Country. These are progressing
rapidly and increasing the number of
their employees. The steel industry
is still hampered, but a new enterprise
far the production of domestic Besse
mer steel in Northamptonshire is be
ing financed by the Bankers, Industria
Development Company under the aus
paces of the Bank of England. Tha
Lancashire Steel industry is being ra
tionalized and even the railways ars
looking up. The Southern Railway i*
electrifying' sonic of its main Iines.
Sir William attributes these moder
ate constructive developments in the
Mother Country to tbe fact that the
British people never permit them
selves to be optimists. Their habit 11
to face the facts with -the determine.
tion of struggling througb to Bette'
tines. The achievements thus re
corded in the face of adverse world
conditions are, in large measure, trace-
able to the sterling qualities of a race,
which has never yet permitted itself
to be wholly boaters, and which over
and over again in the pages of bistor'y
has emerged triumphant oyer;.seem-
ingly insuperable obstacles.
Plan to Recover Treasures
From Sunken French Vessels
Paris.—Under the direction of the
Minister of National Education an
attempt is ;being organized to recover
from the bed of the River Rhone a
large quantity of art objects and
antiquities' from the City of .Arles
lost ht two shipwrecks in past ages.
One ship which sank in 1564 con-
tained eight porphyry columns from
the choir of the Church of Notre
Dame la Major, 'numerous tombs and
marble bas-reliefs which had been
ordered transported to 'Paris by
Catherine de Medici. The other ship
contained Romah••statuary and relics
collected. in Arles by Napoleon and,
ordered brought to enrich the mus-
eun ie of Paris.
Fewer Marriages and Births,
More Divorces, Reported
Paris.—Decreases in marriages and
births and an increase in elle slum-
ber of divorces shown in statistics
for France in 1931 are attributed by
French writers to the effects' of the
economic depression.
Marriages declined by 5 . per cent,
only 326,353 being recorded aa com-
pared with 342,69S in 1980. Divorces
on the other Band increased from 20,-
409 in 1930 to 21,212 in .1931. •
Deaths increased from 649,125 to
680,710, but births still maintained a
margin of 49,539 for the - year 1931.
The number of births that year was
18;000 less than the previous -year,
the figures showing 748,911 in 1930
and 730,249 in 1931.
France `Seeking to End
Peril of Level Crossing:
Special attention has been paid of
late by officials at the Ministry el•
Public Works to ways and means of
reducing the numberof dangerous
level crossings in France. The res.
ponsible Minister, M. Dalaslier, hap
issued an interesting communique os
the subject, writes the Paris corres-
pondent of The. London Daily. Tele.
graph.
He states that the nnulber of motor
vehicles in Franee has Yii eased :front
100,000 in 1914 to 1,700,400 in 1932,
It has therefore become a matter el
urgency to remove such obstruction*
as level crossings from the' national
highways. In spite of all the efforba
made, only thirty were removed dur-
ing the period 1918-'81,
Yet there are more than 40,000 o9
these obstacles in France. Some 2'0;
000 aro on rnain lines, 16,200 on local
lines and 3,800 on purely goods lines,
A HA of 200 on which work might
',be ` started immediately has bees
drawn up, but it is calculated that till
undertaking would cost the state near.
ly $16,000,000. There is small hope,
it is confessed, of finding that sum.
Caution Vital in Removing
Cap from Boiling Radiator
One of the first signs of :a frozen
radiator is escaping steam. Ice has
clogged the circulating system and
when the cooling fluid: is stationary
it rapidly comes to a boil. When
this happens, get the radiator cap
off es cpiicicly 'as possible to relieve
the pressure, but hi doing so cover
the cap with a large cloth or several
thicknesses of newspaper to avoid
being sprayed by the boiling water.
Under 'no' circumstances remove the,
radiator ` cap without taking the ut-
most precautions. If no .protection
is available wait iu til the water
stops boiling.
Toronto Registers
18 New Inalustries
Toronto During 1932, the estab-
lishment of 13 new industries .iu this
eity has been announced by the To-
ronto Industrial Qommissiois, and pro-
ducts of 10 new outside firms are
being manufactured by local ,indust -
tries.
Of the 18 firms, two aro .British
items and the remainder are United
States companies. A,bout $643,000
hall been invested in plants and
equipment, Direct employanent has
bean given to about 390 persons, •and
the firms ooeupy about 200,060 scftare
feet of floor space.
Ta snare pleasures Pleasant, Shorten
alien,,—M Uct0f-
•
King of Italy Refuse
Increase 'in Allowance
Not only bias the King .of Italy re•
fused to accept an increase in lsis an,
nual allowance, necessitated by •1ii
losses in the stock market—he even
proposes to make drastic cuts in his
expenses.
Personal• possessions hitherto 'con-
sidered indispensable to the mon•
each are to be done away with.
While he is not discharging any of
the, royal employees, lie has ordered
salary reductions for all earning
more ;than 500 • lire (about $28) a
month.
The royal stables have been re-
duced to a mere dozen horses, for
use only when the royal carriage
innst be drawn ou some diplomatic
occasion. The remainder et 'wile!
was once a magnificent stable has
been given away.
The king has also ordered 1114
aides to redace their expenditure:IR
future the royal railway . carriage
will be dispensed with, and King
Victor will travel by motor 'car.
When Signor Mussolini was In-
formed of the. Icing's financial plight
he offered to increase the present
royal salary of about $45,000 a year
but the• King declined, and declared
that be preferred to trim his per-
sonal expenses as an example of
economy to his subjects,
Ireland Reports Decline
In Imports and Exports
Dublin, Irish Free ,State, --.-Tr
statistics for 1932, inane public by'
Irish Free State government, eh
a drop in imparts and. exports.
Total imports by the Free Sia
dropped from £50,457,000 in 198t
£42,572,000 in 1932, 'while e .port% ii •
from £86,216,000 to £25,798,000.
pound curen,t13r it' *milt $8.8t))a