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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-03-23, Page 6eeep es • eieeleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee re* *9-4eseee*leeeleeeeeeeeeepeep. ay Voice. of the Press Canada, The. Empire and The World at Large CANADA Jig -Saw Puzzles Just why jig -saw puzzles ;should bo 8o popular at present is hard to say. They have been iu: existence for years in the .Anglo-Saxon world, and, have been used by the Chinese for thous- • ands of years. But they were consider- ed chiefly a pastime for children and invalids until the last few mouths. Ap- parently they were revived just at the psychological moment, supplying an actual need. The majority of people nowadays have consderable time on their hands. .It seems likely that the conditions which made the jig -saw nourish will continue for some con- siderable time. So while the craze may not maintain its present intensity for more than a few months, there will be a continuing demand. for new puzzles which will reduce unemploy- ment and add to the happiness of thousancls.—London Free Press. Radio and the News Many people appear to think that the radio has news of its own. It hasn't. All the news that radio broad- casts has been gathered by news- papers, is in newspaper offices or newspapers before the radio broad- casts it. In most cases it is news given to the radio by the newspapers. Ottawa Journal. Bit Hard on Pedestrians if you're verging on a nervous break- down—go out and buy a car—an old car will do—and you'll be cured! We ran into a friend downtown the other day who looked so radiantly well we immediately demanded, "Have you just got back from. a Mediterranean cruise or something?" "My dear," she replied, "I haven't been farther than Port Credit, but I've never felt better in my life. "Two months ago," she continued, "I was just about a nervous wreck— •couldn't sleep and all that sort of thing—n faet, I felt just about like one of those ads far patent medicines. So Fred hauled me to a doctor,. and the doctor's advice to Fred was to buy me a car and let me learn to drive. He said something about con- centration oncentration taking one's mind off one's self or something of that sort. So Fred ought me a second-hand car and here I am." All of which may be excellent advice for the nervous, but it does :sound a little hard on pedestrians.—Toronto Telegram. Coming to Uncle Sam's Rescue Great Britain is said to be ready to pay ten cents on the dollar hi settle- ment of the war debt 'to the United States. She has evidently heailcened seriously to the current American folk tong: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime ?"—Toronto Saturday Night. The Housewife's Thrill . It must be a dandy thrill. for a wo- man, elbow deep in the family wash tub, to answer the postman's knock And receive a Valentine from her hus- iand and then discover that while she bias been out of the kitchen Junior has ellen out of his high chair and the '(beaus have burned, --Hamilton Spec- tator. Judge Bingham Mr. Roosevelt has selected Judge Robert W. Bingham, publisher and editor of the Louisville Couirer-Jour- nal, to be 'the new Ambassador to Bri- iain. The world used to speak of Uncle Sam's "shirt -sleeves diplomacy." That will scarcely be the sort of diplomacy practised by this cultured 0outherner, who is a lawyer, an edit- or, a. publisher ,and a business man, v'vho has a long list of academic titles 'iter his name, has travelled widely, &nd belongs to some of London's most exelnsive clubs.—Ottawa Journal. Those Who Servs It was interesting to read the other ay that the Great Western Railwdy of England lost a crack express train in a blizzard—lost It when the train got stuck in snowdrifts on its way to Lon - 'on in one of the wo'rat winter storms England has known for years. t :elven more interesting, though, was the news ot *fiat the passengers on e train dd when it finally got to ondon. The neva dispatches relate at "paese 'gore rushed forward to the loeometive and congratulated the ngineer for getting them through. no woman hiss'Ad ftim." This, to be 'sure, was no more than fair. But it` Is the sort of thing that el';rnit happens to railroad in.gineers, n,rto uny other of those skilled toelz- Nat em 011 whose devotion, endurance aaarr u1,i1Ity the lives et travellers ae- veue. It ought to ha'ppert afters, bit it alitc•,:a1't. 1 Probably there is not a rekiriet of IIhis 'newspaper wb;o hair net at liable Nie mado a trip hq train, by steamer, y bus or by airplane at it time when the elements were actively hostile, 'But k there one reader who went out or his way, atter it was over, to shake the hand.of the engineer ---or the cap - tale, the driver it the pilot— ill tts thaw( him for gettfag lzz. through stat'a,l'Y?•-Kit.chener'Bill y .eeort, THE EMPIRE Britain's Stand Ma choice for this country at the World Conference is not between High Protection and . Free Trade. There is a broad intermediate ground, and on that we stand now and mean to go on standing..—London Daily Tele- graph. The Scientific Use of Coal In few things is this country more wasteful than in its use of coal. Much industry, research, and ingenuity have been devoted to the quest of economi- cal processes for the scientific utiliza- tion of coal. A variety has been dis- covered, and some of them have been applied on a limited scale. But there have been snags and difficulties In- numerable. It is one thing to conduct a successful experiment in a labora- tory: another to float a process as an industrial and commercial success. It is Tor the Government to put the mat- ter to the test, and to act swiftly. One thing must be secured above all. It is that coal treatment shall be regard- ed not as a separate industry but as part of mining, and its benefits shared with the miners wlio have borne ad- versity so long and so patiently—Lon- don Daily Herald. Gold Prices and Sterling South Africa's departure from the gold standard seems likely to have far wider consequences than the mere im- mediate benefits to this country, and may yet be the deciding factor in the battle for the command of world prices that has been going on since Septem- ber, 1931, between the sterling bloc and the countries remaining on the old gold basis. It means that the Wit- watersrand, the producer of the bulk of the wo'rld's raw gold, is now de- manding a higher price for its product —q price more in keeping with the world commodity values. In other words, our gold producers, when re- leased by the Union's departure from the gold standard from their obliga- tion to sell their product to the South African Reserve Bank at a fixed price, showed the world that they considered that their gold had, been selling too cheaply, and they immediately left a group paying about 84s. an ounce and joined a group paying about 122s. an ounce. The Transvaal Chamber of Mines appears to consider a victory for the sterling bloc a foregone con- clusion, and to be banking on the old price of 84s. •an ounce for gold never returning. — Johannesburg Sunday Times. Road vs. Rail Railway transport, in Malaya as well as at home and in other countries of the Empire, has cried "Wolf" rather more loudly than other transport sys- tems. There has, in consequence, grown up a feeling as between railway and road transport that each is out to cut the other's throat in catering for transport requirements. Tho railways take the view that the road services are unpleasant competitors who, if they cannot be displaced, must at all events be handicapped, while the road trans- port operator would probably like to select the cream of the traffic without restrictions and responsibility. It is for the Government to hold the bal- ance equitably between the two.— Singapore wo—Singapore Press Press. THE UNITED STATES Doing Their Bit Two persons intentionally paid the State of New York greater sums in income taxes last year than the law ,required; one, a retired professor, waived his personal exemption from taxes on a part of his income, and the other, au executive in a transportation company, forebore to write off $25;000 of losses sustained in sales of securi- ties, Neither is named, but both are cited as fine examples of public spirit. These men ',deserve public gratitude, They acted as a gnerous regard for the welfare of their fellows dictated. Their saciifice is acceptable at a time when sacrifice Is difficult and when the State finds it more difficult than in living memory. to obtain the re• venue that It requires. Their example may be recommended to others who can make similar sacrifice without passing it on to their otivn dependents: —Brooklyn, Eagle. • Mr, Roosevelt's Task Only clue other President in the his - ton. of the Republic has taken office arta time when it was evident that the eourse of his administration was to he beget from the very start with such +dangers and such crucial problems as face Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Thal other President was, of course, Abrar ham Lincoln; To -day there are fears ex1,reseed in conservative circles, aa there were in the early sixties, thet the new leadership will bring the na- tion into untried and dangerous paths,. but that complaint bas+£env terrors fe ft people which finds itself "bogad deem In a morass of difficulties deeper, as It believes, than any ht all its past experience. Tt is as clear to tr Americans of to -day as it was to those of Lincoln's time, either that the old waysled to disaster or that their lead- ers leave sotue'where missed the road and they demand a guide under whose diree.iion they clan cut a now road mucic to safety and security. ---Detroit Nein is 1 In Training In order to limber up leg muscles for the approaching season Kimsey and Barry of the Chicago White Sox hot foot it around the diamond at their Pasadena training quarters. Stream Flow in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Ottawa. — The Dominion Water Power and Hydrometric Bureau of the Dept. of the Interior reports that run-off in western and southern Man- itoba continued substantially beilow normal during January, the flow of the Assiniboine at Hcadingley being about one-half the January mean whilst the flow of the Red river in the south of the erevince was only 10 per cent. of the mean Ind a new minimum was recorded. In north- western Ontario ran-cff was about 17 per cent. above the mean for January. Throughout the area under consid- eration precipitation was above the average but occurred as snow which, awing to continuous frost, did not appear as run -orf. Tlie mean regulated outflow from the Lake of the Woods during Janu- ary was slightly greater than in De- cember but the level of the lake rose about two inches during the month. The mean regulated outflow from Lae Soul was the same as during Decem- ber and the level of the lake dropped about eighteen inches during the month. The mean flow of the Winnie peg river in Manitoba in the vicinity of the hydro -electric plants, was slightly higher than in December and Provided ample water for power pro- duction. SLEEP There is no death tut sleep. Where the fear? This is but sleep and rest. Art thou not tired? Look up into my stars, my eyes. There is no death! „ i• e And the strong sun cried, "Awake, for I am come . again. Life never dies, and after every night there is a dawn." —Fielding Hall. Sealing Skipper 77, Carries On Sixty Years in Arctic Trade, Capt. A. Kean to Com- mand Sealer St, John's, N.F.—The name of Cap- tain Abram Kean stands out boldly on a record of the sealing industry cover- ing a period of sixty years. The veter- an skipper- former Minister of Fish- eries of Newfoundland, is preparing for his forty-third trip into the danger- ous northern icefieids, despite his seventy-seven years. He will com- mand the veteran sealer Terra Nova. According to the 'record, he has brought in 947,719 seals during his long and active career. There is not another skipper in the fleet with. figures worthy of comparison, but seal- ing skippers come from sealing fami- lies and some of the family records are interesting. For instance, eight Captains .Kean have brought in 1,914,072 seals in sixty years; eight Captains Barbour, 1,463,847; ten Captains Bartlett, 892,- 902; seven Captains Dawe, 878,S93; four Captains Jackman, 716,714; four Captains Blandford, 803,050; four Cap- tains Winsor, 947,495; three Captains Knee, 620,589. • Rooster Dies of Grief A Japanese rooster that died re- cently in Hayward, Calif., is reported to have grieved himself to death be- cause a malady had caused him to lose his remarkable vocal Bowers. The rooster, Tokyo by name, had.•previous- ly been able to maintain a single crowing note over thirty seconds,— Detroit News. • Old inner tubes of automobile tires are being made into waterproof covers for horses and mules in Guatemala. ) British . Welcome The Dominion Tomato Juice Habit Canadian Product.,Selling Well After Industries Fair Records Eclipsed., Ottawa. -- "Summarizing Canadic:n Participation in the Brit' ih Industries Fair this year, the Canadiae trade commissioners consider all previous records eclipsed from a viewpoint of volume of -business transacted and prospective business in sight." This was the gist of a' cable 'received by the !;Ion, H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce, setting forth ip cletail the important results accruing to Canadian industry as a result of the part taken by the Dominion in the great exhibition just closed. The British Industries Fair was held simultaneously at, London and Bir- mingham, and covered a two-week period. "The Canadian section of the fair at London,' reads the cable, "was generally considered to be one of the fair's most attractive features." The most noteworthy result of this year's fair was the volume of continental European business done by Canadian firms, together with a satisfactory in- crease in United Kingdom business. ."At the London section Canadian canning firms were entirely cleared out of all English stocks with a heavy influx of orders. Many new accounts have -been opened by these firms. Con- siderable trade interest was aroused by Canadian canned peaches and as- paragus in competition with Califor- nian article. "Canadian tomato juice, which is still comparatively little known in Great Britain, was sold in cansider- abie quhntities, while 'good orders were received for this commodity from France." Nova Scotia's New Game Preserve Ottawa.=-•Tobeakit park, including portions of Digby, Yarmouth, Shel- burne and Queens counties, in Nova Scotia, has been set apart by the provincial government as a perman- ent game sanctuary where all hunt- ing, shooting, and trapping are strict- ly forbidden, _This is one of the haunts of the moose and it is confi- dently expected that the protection so afforded these lordly denizens of the forest will result in greatly increased numbers, not only within the park, but in the whole interior of the west- ern peninsula of the province. This area is justly famed as one of the finest sportsman's countries in North America, Some of the finest trout fishing in the woricT 'is found in this locality, and permits for fishing within the park may be obtained from the Forest Ranger, provided the ap- plicants are accompanied! by licensed guides. This park is shown on the provisional edition of the Ross+ignel map sheet just published by the Topo- graphical Survey, Dept. of the In- terior, Ottawa. Progress of Canada's Farming Indians Ottawa.—Data'conip•iled for the re- cently issued annual report of the Dept. of Indian Affairs shows that in the year 1931-32 progress was main- tained in husbandry •:on the differenzt reserves throughout the Prairie Pro. vinoes of Canada. During that fiscal year there were 2,425 farming In- dians who had under cultivation 114,- 235 acres of Band. Of this 73,421 acres were under crop; the growing of roots and tubers and the cultiva- tion of gardens accounted for 1,447 acres; summer -fallowing aggregated 36,213 acres, and new land broken totalled 3,154 acres. ,. Anything For Business lihi6On'Itte4 aa en the Exact A tnitat O; any tickets feet gaiel :. Theatres in New York, to fight the lack of loose change, are accepting patrons' signatures for .the necessary amount, Here we see some matinee -goers taking • advantage of the credit system, Coast-to.0 &cif Halifax, N,S.—Wei the Prov.incial. Dairymen's Association was organiz- ed in 1913, there were 13 creameries in the Province of Nova Scotia, sad cheese factories. and ene making both butter and cheese. ,The total output of creamery buttes, was 709,019 pounds. Cream was s+upplio3 by 1,587 farmers, and the total value of the besiness was $214, 588. In 1932 tilers Were 30 creameries in operation, pro. during 5,968,600 peends of butte with more than 18,000 farmers sup, plying the cream. The total value of this business was approximately $2,750,000. Fredericton, N.B.--The Province of New Brunswick- may ehortly enter. competitions, as a grower of pirize wheat. At the recent annual meeting of the New Brunswick Farmers' ami Dairymen's Association in Frederic- ton, Mr. E. M. Taylor, Dept. of Agri- culture, stated he had wheat grown in the province that weighed 65 cit pounds to the bushel. The best sample at the Chicago International weighed only two pounds more, he explained, while that which took second prize was only a fraction better than his wheat, Montreal, Que.—According to as announcement by the Montreal Tour. ist and Convention Bureau, lea+din+g business men of Montreal are consider- ing the establishment of permanent exhibition grounds in or near the city, on the lines of the Toronto Exhibition; to foactn a "shop window of Eastern Canada." Art, industry, manufac. ture, agriculture and natural ref sources are expected to come into the development program, which is prim• arily for the purpose of continuing the growth of the tourist business and the bringing of more and larger eon - ventions to 1Vlontreal, Toronto, Ont. — New industrial plants opened or announced in Can- ada during 1932 totalled 206, accord- ing to The Financial Post Business Year Book, .which also reports 19 important plant extensions and 29 new industrial connections made dur- ing the year by existing corporations in Canada. Analyzed by oountry of origin, of the 206 new pllearts 106 came from the United States, five - from Great Britain and five from other countries, the remainder being of Canadian origin. Brandon, Man.—Fifty years of com- munity service were celebrated at the recent annual meeting of the Brandon Board of Trade, when a repres+enta tive gathering listened to addressee on past progress and future pros- pects. It was pointed out that during the past two years the Brandon .Board. of Trade had widened its scope be taking in four organizations—the Brandon, Tourist and Convention As. satiation, the Brandon Branch of the Industrial Development Board of Manitoba, the Western. Manitoba Boards of Trade and Gommunitiee and the Retail Merchants' Associatioir of the. area. Edmonton, Alta.—The distincbior of operating the Iargesat of the 25 fly. ing clubs in Canada goes to Edmore ton, Alberta. At the recent annual meeting it was shown that in 1932 a total of 24 private pilots' licenses and five commercial licences were won le members, which was one -twelfth of all the licences issued in the Domino ion to similar clubs during the yearn A. total of 800 flying hours was made during the year by pupils at the Ed% mouton club. Usefulness of Wasp • Explained by Speaker Montreal—Citizerias, should shed their prejudices against the wasp ore account of his sting and think of tam good he does, according to Philip J, Croft, who: addressed the Electrical Club of Montreal here recently. He depleted a little yellow insect as a great friend of horticulturists, estroyin+g millions of insects in the aurae of a Summer. When the cold weather comes the working wasp dies but the queen survives thimugh the winter and proceedis to have a pro+i gent' of approximately 25,000, consist ng mainly of workers. Insects preying on insects are the est aid to the -gardener in ridding is land of pests, Mr. Croft centinuedt my an absurdly small number ars estroyed by means of spraying and while the birds help to keep then] own their work is nothing compared o +the control exercised by the insects capon each other. The struggle foe existence among the nations of dill rent species, Mr, Croft declared, deed difficult for the human mini grasp. The green fly which inial roduce 600 egg -laying females fattj victim to the lady bug and the IOWturnhas liner' enTie1. "A hntglar got into my bouse about three o'clock this morning— just before I came home 'frons the club." - • "Did' he get anything?" 'Jon bot! He's in the bospitat, My wife thougtat it wens 4,"