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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-04-27, Page 2Vv.we f the ''ress Canada, The Empire and The World at Large lets and mining men refer to as the pre -Cambrian shield. This underlying stratum of rock is the oldest forma- tion which geologists know, elating back to the dim past when our earth's crust first began to solidify. ---London Advertiser. CANADA. Benefit of Laughter. There is, apparently a standing al- ternative between annoyance and amusement over Ilse s ironical accid. ants, and he who lives best is he who hart&hs best for relief from the tears end tension of his own trials. It is a child's privilege to laugh because lie is tickled, but the adult must learn to laugh in the face of misfortune, handicap and even pain or he becomes the unhappy slave of his own circum- etances. Such laughter, it seems, has s. definite therapeutic value, It has long been said that one may laugh and grow fat, but it is more important to the modern man that he learn to laugh his way out of nervous prostra- tion, Miss Mary F. Ferguson, super- visor of social service at John Hopkins University, advocates laughter as an antidote for all sorts of neuroses and even. for social clisorders.—Fredericton Gleaner. Show Confidence. Three mien who escaped with their lies from the Akron are now looking for positions on the Macon, a dirigible noes ready for its tests. They have more confidence in such craft than the average individual, and it may be be- cause they know more about then. — Stn* tford Beacon -Herald. Safety in the Air. The enquiry into the Akron disaster revives memories of that which was made in the case of the City of Liver- pool, the Imperial Airways liner, which Crashed a short time ago, though of ,Course there is no comparison between the two. The point raised is that of comparative safety of travels in the air, either in airplanes or in dirigibles. lar. Eckener has steered his Zeppe- lin thousands of miles across both forth and south Atlantic and over Europe, without a single accident to any passenger. The Imperial Airways was established in 1924, and since then there have been only six accid- ents to their liners in which injury to passengers was involved, and though during that period they have flown over ten million miles and have carried a quarter of a million paeseu- gers Flying on the regular air routes in Europe, in fact, is regarded as assur- ing an even greater safety than travel by road, This is proved by the fact that the insurance companies ask higher premiums for the latter than they do for the former. It is such a disaster as that which happened to the gity of Liverpool which proves the general rule. The case of the Akron Comes within a different category. but the public often fails to differentiate and is apt to lump all aerial disasters together.—Montreal Daily Star. Power of the Press. "We are a generation which lives on newspapers just as caterpillars feed on green leaves."—Winston Churchill. Sensitive World. The fact of the matter is, the means 01 communication throughout the world have become so rapid and im- proved that what happens—and this may seem paradoxical—in China to- morrow is actually reported in your evening paper today. There is no doubt that things of a very similar import happened a cen- tury and a half ago, Had they been known everywhere at the time, no doubt the effect would have been the Same on people's nerves and imagina- tion. Today we are living in a mighty Sensitive world, and it may be the world's salvation in the long run. Likewise in things economic is the world sensitive. In the last three years there has been no such' thing as a lo- calized depression.—St. Catharines Standard. Bread and Butter Farmers in the Balkans, we read, Are feeding bread to their cows. The tows, of course, furnish their own but- ler.----Border ut- ter:--Border Cities Star. Lucky Exeter. Exeter, Ontario, bas accumulated a surplus; reduced its debt and cut its tax rate ten mills. A lucky place is Exeter, But other towns are vexed at her; Her feat they cannot emulate, Reduce the debt and cut the rate, .As folks have done in Exeter. —Strathroy Age -Dispatch. Advertising Did It. Total sales by I2. 1I. Macy & Com- pany last year amounted to $80,0J0, - D00. By reaching this amount the New York store justified its claim to being tate world's largest store. Marshall Feld & Company of Chicago, which used to claim the title. dropped to $7S,000,000 last year. In order to roll up the sales total of $80,000,000 Macy's used clever and extensive advertising. And 90 per cent. of the Maey advertising was done in the newspapers, the medium tlu' world's largest store has found the best to attract customers ----St. Thomas Times -Journal. A London musician is said. to have invented an instrument that is a com- bination clarinet and saxophone, which is one step in the direction of con- verting the saxophone into a musical instrument. --Toronto Mail & Empire. Safe From 'Quakes. e'he reason for our freedom from teeth shocks is apparent from an ex- amination of the geological formation undeilying this central portion of Can - ease A. large part of both Ontario and aiue)ec has its geological fonndatlon 1ft tjte Laurentian rocks, which scient- A Wealthy Editor. There was a banquet in Orangeville one night, and many of the citizens were telling of the opportunities the town offered, and how well they had done there. The editor of one of the earliest papers got up to give his tes- timony, "When I came here," he said, "I was not worth one cent, and now I am worth $75,000." Seeing the in- credulous looks en the faces of some of his fellow -citizens, he continued: "An authority has estimated that each child is worth at least $5,000. I have 15 children."—Fergus News Record. THE EMPIRE. Survived the Crisis The United States have come to the climax of their malady, while they are stili strong enough to cope with it. They will build up from the base a stronger, more stable industry and commerce than the fantastic structure which has toppled from the height of the skyscrapers to the dust.—London Daily Express. European.Quarrels. Akron Victim's Impressive Funeral Vast the grave, of the unknown soldier at Arling ton cemetery, an army of Lieut: Com, Harold MacLellan, wito crashed with the airship. British Military Aircraft For the Far East Nine of the fastest and most effi- cient shipboard military aircraft in the world will be included in the complement of the British aircraft earrier Eagle, when she steams out of Pithead towards the end of next month on her way to the China sta- tion. There she will relieve H.M.S. Hermes, the carrier which has been on duty in Chinese waters for many months, and is now due to come home for a long re -fit. The Eagle is the largest British aircraft carrier, displacing 22,600 tons, and with accommodation for up to 40 airplanes. Her complement during her stay with the China squadron will be 21 airplanes, com- prising 15 which will be flown on board from Gosport before she ]eaves this country, and six to be taken over from the Hermes. The retraining flight in the Hermes is to be transferred to the Fifth Cruiser There is no doubt that the predom- Squadron, The airplanes will be inent feeling in the minds of millions launched from catapults mounted on in this country today is that at all the decks of the warship. Brit - costs Britain must refuse to be drag- ged rag A. bulletin of the Society of Brit ged into the quarrels of Europe. By the Locarno Treaty we are pledged to ish Aircraft Constructors states that navigation of a naval airplane, in take sides against the aggressor, if volving long flights from a moving trouble breaks out between France and base, is the most difficult kind of Germany. But if this were to happen aerial course -landing, beside which now, the man in the street who does a long ocean flight on a single, cone not pretend to understand the niceties pass bearing is a simple matter. of diplomacy, would find it very hard Apart from the intricate problems to say who was most to blame, and met in plotting a pre -determined there would be a strong demand that course with constant reference to we should stand aside.—Sir -welter the movements of rife carrier or Layton in The Landon News -Chronicle other conveying warship, the haze t Lib , which not infrequently rises quite suddenly over the seaintroduce, The Polluted Air. the tactor of bad visibility. That a fleet air arm machine is seldom. if The latest report. published today. ever, to=t is sufficient evidence of by the Department of Scientific and the skill of the nav'igttors, tate trist- Induseriai Research on the investiga- w orthines of their engines, and the tion of atmospheric pollution hardly accuracy of the ela cerate naviga- justifies any optimistic inference that t! the evil is abating. One should not,4, tionai instruments which every perhaps, be depressed by the report. British naval plane must carry.— but one may be astonished that after Toronto Mail and Empire. a century of industrial civilization one of its worst evils shows such Iittle signs of abatement. Since men must live in centres of dense population, it is essential that they should be happy in doing so; yet it seenis impossible they should be content when not only houses and Streets but the air itself is hardly fit to live in,—Manchester Guardian. Export of Arms. It is of paramount importance, if any form of arms regulation is ever to be established by this or a subse- quent Disarmament Conference, that every Government shall be able abso- lutely and rinequivecally to maintain supervision and control of the export of arms by their national firms. --Lon- don Times. THE UNITED STATES. Wealth In Stumps. Many hundreds of old tree Stumps, which have stood desolate in the for- ests northeast of Melbourne since the millers' felling gangs passed through with their saws and axes years ago, are now proving to have a very high value. The stumps are of mountain ash, a wood which is increasing in demand as a furniture timber in Aus- tralia and overseas. Discovery that the mountain ash stunps were suit- able t- able for furnittre converted what was formerly regarded as forest waste into a valuable asset. in favorable circum- stances ircumstances mountain ash trees grow to 300 feet lu height, but their growtb is such that for some distance from the ground—from eight to twenty feet —the trunk is irregularly shaped and heavily buttressed. Net ',r.ng ago an examination of some of the old stumps disclosed that when properly crit the grain of the timber was unusually beautiful. --Christian Science Monitor. War On Pests. Many a I sited States city is plag- ued by the noise and dirt of starlings in winter, of sparrows the year round. To the relief of pestered inhabitants occasionally come hawks. Iu. Hartford, Conn., last winter three hawks enter- tained and gratified townspeople by their daily raids on the city's swarm of starlings. Last week two `sparrow" hawks were putting on the same kind of helpfnl show in Springfield, ill. — Magaziue Time. • Since the war nearly 50,000 per- sons in tine United Kingdom, more ways at a speed greater than ten miles than half of them bang women, have nn hone roust be equipped with ln en - been grunted divorces. made tires, gun carriagebears the Woman Light Keeper Dies Paitnpol, Brittany. — Mine. Per- rino Durand, believed to be the world's only "Professor of Light. house Keeping," died recently in the Paon Lighthouse on the Ile de Bre- hat, several miles from the Breton coast. She was the first Frenchsere to be named keeper of a light- house, serving in this capacity for fifty-one years, She was 89 years old at the time of her death, and remain- ed in active service almost to the end. Lighthouse kcepirg has been the principal trash; tc r decades of the Terrine and Durand families. When her husband died, Mme. Durand as- sumed his duties as kepeer of the Triagoz Lighthouse, and so expert did she become, so conversant with all the aspects of this perilous trade, that she was named "Professor of Lighthouse Keeping" by the French Merchant Marine Ministry. Every year four or five apprentices were assigned to her lighthouse. In this fashion she trained half a hundred lighthouse keepers, two of then her own daughters, Mnie. Pierre Taldu, its charge of the Portle-Chaine (Pleu- bian) lighthouse, and Mlle. Aline Du- rand, who succeeds her mother at the Peon lighthouse. Research Findings May Eliminate "Heating" of Grain Winnipeg. — Discoveries which promise to elerninate "heating" of grain in storage and transit were re- ported by Dr. R. IC. Larmour, of the University of Saskatchewan, to the Associate CGommittoe on Grain. Re- search meeting here. Dr. Larmour has discovered that ce. taiw micro- organisms on the wheat appear to cantril.sute a large proportion of the wheat's respiratory activity. In normal tines, the loss on a car- load of grain that has heated ap- proaches $1,500. Heating can now be prevented. What is not yet known and what Dr. Larmour now wants to investigate, is the effect of the pro- posed method of prevention on the gtality of the grain. Soviet Converting Coal Into Gas in Mine Veins Moscow.—An experiment in con- verting coal directly into gas in the veins in the mine has been started by the Soviets in the Moscow basin. The' coal thus used is in layers too t'.in to be mined profitably. Electric heaters prepare the coal in 'vest thin veins and with the 'aid of compressed air and vapor water, gas is produced asd piped to to surface to be used for industrial purposes. Th:: method of converting coal di- rectly into gas was promulgated in 1914 by Sir William Ramsay, but the Soviet scientists believe they are the first to try out the possibilities on a large commercial scale. Duce Always Right Says Militia Creed Rome, ---The Fascist militia, which has completed its tenth year of exist- enee, accepts as a fact that Premier renito Mussolini can do no wrong. Point eight in the militiaman's decd- logue is, "Mussolini is always right." The 'tenth commandment is that the duce's life vaunt be held evar above all things. The decalogue begins with a. seam- ing that the militiaman must net be- lieve in perpetual peace, Illinois Protects Highways Sprinfield, 131. --•-.An amendment to the Illinois statutes provides teat mo- tor trucks oppera,ting on improved high - French Stage Now Forbidden To Children Under 13 Years Paris.—Stage appearances by chil- dren under 13 years of age, except in specially authorized cases, have been forbidden in an order issued by the French Ministry of National Ed- ucation. Up to the present time child actors even in everting performances have not been uncommon on the French stage. The new regulation exacts that any child appearing in theatrical en- tertainment shall produce proof that he is receiving regular schooling and forbids his appearances except at matinees. At the National Opera, however, is was said that the young girl dan- cers who are seen from time to time in the ballets would not be affected, since the opera is a school of dancing and the pupils are licensed to give occasional exhibitions. Lindberghs May Reside in Wales London.—The Daily Herald last week printed a report from Cardiff, ?'Tales, • saying preparatio..- were under way for Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindburgh to reaide near Cathedral City, in Lland'aff. The dispatch pointed out that Mrs. E. M. Morgan, a sister of Mrs. Lind - burgh, resides there with her husband. It was understood that Mrs. Morgan ,suggested that the flier and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, move to South Wales, and that Colonel Lind- bergh favors the idea. World's Fastest Human Warrant Officer Francisco Agell r, It )tan aee, who on April 10 ftety 426 m.p.h, to better Britain's re cord by 35 kilometres per hour. body ian Breaks Seaplane - SRC 7 s,V Agello Flies Over Lake Garda at Speed of 426.5 Miles an Hour Gt, Britain Enters Electric..; 1 Age Now Third Greatest Electric- ity Producing Country in World London.—Great Britain has now be- come the third greatest electricity pro= ducing country in the world—at a cost of $135,000,000. Despite industrial depression, the output of electric power increased last year by more than 7 per cent. com- pared with 1931. There was scarcely any drop in de- mand in the severely depressed areas, and in the midlands and south con- sumption increased considerably. These facts are revealed in the an- nual report of the Central Electricity Board for 1932. The board has now completed 3,000 miles of 132,000 volt transmission lines and 1,000 miles of secondary lines worked at 66,000 volts. It had to negotiate with 21,000 owners and occupiers of land to secure way - leaves for the erection of transmission lines. Only a small percentage of the work on the national "grid" remains to be done. London has the frit gas-filled high tension underground cable in commer- cial use in the world. It runs between Hackney and Walthamstow. The cable carries a voltage of 66,000, and is drawn into steel tubes surrounded by compressed nitrogen gas. No fewer than 150,000 tons of the finest British steel, 12,000 tons of aluminum, 500,000 tons of ce'ment, and 200,000 insulators have been used. The production of all this material consumed 800,000 tons of British coal, and about 120,000 men have been em- ployed on the work. "The fact that the `grid' itself is :operating with almost complete relia- bility over the 2,000 miles already in commission," states the board, "shows that as technical achievement the na- tional power scheme is one'of the out- standing efforts of Great Britain in this century." Motor Car Exports Up Nearly a Quarter Dosenzano, Italy.—The speed `plant "Red Bullet,"" a powerful little ship painted entirely red, broke the world) s(Apia nr:. speed record on April 10 with Francesco Agello at the controls. Fel five laps over Lake Garda AgeUo ntadt an average of 426,5 miles an hour. The previous record, set by Lien tenant George H. Stainforth, of Eng land, in 1931, was 408.8. Agello reached a maximum speed of 432.83 in his fourth lap, and leis mini mum was 421.66 in the third lap. At officers said a new engine would bi installed in an attempt to reach speed of 700 kilometres, or 437.5 miles Agello was a member of the Italian Schneider Cup team n 1929. His sue cessful attempt climaxed a series of such efforts at the high speed ,airport Here in which several craft were lost Last year Lieut. Neri made an unci; ficial 422 miles an hour and a fevi weeks later he was killed. The "Red Bullet" has twin enginei in tandem' developing a maximum of 2,800 horsepower. The two propellors turned its opposite directions on a sleeved shaft in front. The machine was intended for the last Schneider Cup race, but was not completed in time. Agello, who is 31, was born iii Lodi. Shaw Confesses He Is Really Victoria While en route to New York George Bernard Shaw made a franli confession that he believed he wad living beyond his own ora. "I really am a Victorian," said th4 gray -bearded playwright. "I ani writing a new play, but the younged writers are coming to the fore." , Shaw, in a chatty mood, discussed at length the Victorians of his owl era. "The relationship between men and women has changed tremendous)., he said, reminiscently. "That is, 11 some respects. "The modern woman's clothes an4 language are sometimes shocking --+ but they are rnbre decent." Shaw, with a burst of modesty, puf himself about twentieth among th( moderns who have done most for QV world. Statistics released by the Automo- bile ivisien, United States Department of Commerce, indicate that the com- bined exports of passenger cars and trucks during February exceeded those during the corresponding month of last year by 23 per cent. Belgium was again the leading foreign export market for passenger cars. It♦ is noted, however, that a certain percen- tage of motor vehicles exported to Bel- gium and re-exported. The Union of South Africa, Japan, Argentina and Australia followed in the sequence in- dicated. In volume of American-made motor cars imported, Brazil, which had been in fifteenth place in Janu- ary, advanced to sixth place. Japan retained its leading position as an export market for commercial vehi- cles, followed by Brazil, Belgium, Bri- tish India and Spain, all of which, with the exception of British India, increased its demands over January requirements. Brazil advanced from fifth to second place. New Drug Cure for Carbon -Monoxide London, --Victims of carbon -monox- ide gas poisoning are turned deep blue and then (lank red by a new treat- ment just discovered,tons flew over Mount Everest and New Zealand May Bar Imports From Russih Wellington, New Zealand,—If thi British Government puts an embargo on Russian imports the New Zealand Government "will doubtless take shell lar action" This announcement was made bj w Prime Minister G. W. Forbes he asked what the Government proposed to do in connection with the threat, ened cessation of trade between th( United Kingdom and the Soviet anis.' ing out of the arrests in Moscow of six British electrical engineers ori charges of espionage, sabotage and bribery. The Prime Minister declared the Government was watching the poli' tion most closely and was prepared to follow Great Britain's lead. 11( expressed the opinion it would nol be necessary to pass new legislatioii as the Government was already eta; powered to restrict imports. London Bank Adds More Girls to Staff London.—More young girls are ba' ing engaged by Lloyds Bank. . They are not placed on the perms, nent staff, no -'do they get bonus 01 pension. An official said to a correspondent yesterday: "More and more of our branches are becox3ling mechanized. Apart frots the fact that girls are better typists we also find that they are quicker it handling the new calculating and ledger posting machines. "Men will be carefully trained and selected as beads of departments." Indians Worship Planes Which Soared Over Everest Dinajpur, In•:.ia.—Hiilmen of ..th4 Himalayas, Who believed that th( mountain gods would punish English aviators for invading their domain Lose are kneeling and worshipping be fore the airplanes in which the Brit It eliminates"the after-effects suf- Mount Kanchanjanga, From tine immemorial, the Himalayan peaks have been the seat of the godly. fered by those who have been revived from this form of poisoning by arti- ficial respiration, which has been the forme of treatment hitherto. Consciousness is speedily restored and the patient falls into a gentle sleep which lasts about twenty-four hours. The patient then feels little the worse for the experience. Educator Won Spelling Bee With Minister A minister, a lawyer and two edu- cators engaged in a spelling bee in l,ittcolrr, Neb, A fifth friend submitted n list of tee words. The educators fell -down on six words each, the minister eight „ and the lawyer eight. year, ata estiinatecl 1,0 7,iC9 acres ' The words they were asked to s tell ing ciestroyed at a loss of i1,077,f390i were, supersede, tardy; picltnicicet, accordins;' to information given in the l,irntono, liquefy, battalion, tranquility, legislative A"; ennbly by t`‘c bliuistel eacrilogious, naphtha and paraffin, of Lands and Forest''7' Chile Aids Idle Taxi Drivers Santiago, Chile.—Righty bus driven and conductors, unable to make a 111r, ing because -of high gasoline prices and low fares, will depart soon with tiled families to settio on government -own ed farms at E1 Cnlenar, iii Longul Department. A farm at San Fernand( ' has been set aside by the Government for unemployed taxi drivers of Santis agoand other cities. Forest Fire Loss $3,077,830 Iii Quebeli Quebec. --There were 1,426 fors fires hi the Province of Quebec last • tl q: xl a r'