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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-05-25, Page 6VoiCCanada, The Empire and The World Large CANADA. were adjusted the sane day and the "OX." sticker secured. Neighborliness Revived, Lights were found at fault more often than any other feature cf the ears—in 747 cases out of the 1,380 inspections. Brakes accounted for 596 rejections. There were discover- ed also 203 faulty wheel alignments, 79 :steering wheels which required adjustment, 109 windshield wipers demanding attention, eighteen rear- view mirrors and ten home which did not operate properly or at all, The significant thing is that in the vast majority of cases these me- chanical faults could. be remedied by a simple and inexpensive adjust- ment: The moral is that an automobile representing a substantial invest- ment demands, and is worthy of, the cheap occasional checking which usually is sufficient to assure its safety as a unit in traffic.—Ottawa Journal. of the 'ress The season of depression, while brining its hardships and difllcul' Ms, has at least oue thing to com- mend it—it is drawing people closer together in a spirit of helpfulness tinct• sYnrpathy and is assisting to re- store the old atmosphere of com- munity interest, which in the days o'f greater prosperity seems. to be lost in the mad rush. for power and afiiuenee which crushes all before it. :Chatham News, Educational Economies. in 35 States of the U,S.A. the teaching staffs have been reduced to the point where classes are too large to be taught properly. Econo- r` les are essential these days, but those thus cited are radical to the hint of unsoundness, The have created by this generation to be carried by the boys and girls of today when they attain years of responsibility. It would be wrong to deprive them of the training es- sential to the tasks thus imposed upon. them.—Toronto Mail and Em- pire, History Repeats. Following the Napoleonic Wars there came a period of great demo- cratic progress and then an era of reaction. Apparently history is re- peating itself, with half o Europe n un- der dictatorship. ree Press. THE EMPIRE The Dominions and Ottawa The Association of British Cham- bers of Commerce met for its 73rd annual meeting at the Hotel Victoria, Loudon. A message was sent to .the King which stated: "The delegates rejoice that following the Imperial Conference held at Ottawa there are signs of improvement in Empire trade and they are hopeful that as a result of the new trade agreements which ars about to be entered into with foreign •countries our trade with the world will revive and your Majesty's subjects will be restored to employment to the common ad- vantage of Great Britain and of all the nations which trade with her." —London Times, Slum Clearance For England and Wales the Minis- ter of Health has launched a cam- paign to wipe out the slums in five years. In Scotland the Department of Health is at present working on a three-year program which is oper- ating with great success. Scotland has outstripped England and Wales in slum clearance work, and if the effort is continued with the vigour of the present Administration it may not be necessary, when the three- year program comes up for review in the autumn, to copy the methods of the new English campaign.—Glas- gow Herald. Gardens For the Unemployed. It is reported that the city has al- ready placed two thousand lots at the disposal of families who have ,asked for them, As a start, this is a great success, and there is good ground for belief that the number will be doubled, if not trebled, in the course of the ensuing fortnight, if the gardeners are given all the hem oilities they need. Many of have no garden implements with which to work, nor the seeds to sow. The director of the campaign will no doubt come to their assistance, and we may hope that the seedsmen will likewise be ready to help.—La Presse, Montreal. Women Workers increasing. Some striking facts are revealed Miss in the report recently issued. by Mary Andeson, director of the Wo- men's Bureau of the Department of Labor at Washington, regarding wo- men and their work outside the home. The total number of women workers in the United States to -day is in excess of eleven millions, which shows an increase of twenty-six per cent. in. ten years. Miss Anderson explains this as due mainly to the transplanting of industries from the home to the factory, the rising eosts trod standards of living, the neces- sity that has arisen for women to augment the family income, and the development of labor-saving devices for the home. This wholesale invasion of fields of activity formerly held sacrosanct to mere man presents a picture of feminine evolution that would cer- tainly have been deemed incredible twenty years ago. The very obvious fact that in most fields of human la- bor woman can hold her own easily with man has been demonstrated be- eed any possibility of challenge to- day.—Montreal Daily Star, Gives Dempsey a Lift Max Schmeling is giving America's most popular promoter, Jack Dempsey, a lift at his training quarters at Lake Swannanoa, N.J., so that both could test the "squared circle". grow large quantifies of vegetables, fruits and flowers throughout its long, cold winters.—Colliers. Explaining Prosperity's Return Every day that passes it becomes more evident that one of the great debates of history lies ahead of us. It will be the question of what is Chiefly responsible for bringing .back prosperity. There will be those who insist that the turning point was beer. It bucked up industry and gave the signal for a break with the past. There will be those who think the short wheat crop turned the trick. Then there is the bank holiday and the excision of a hasty minor from the national body. There is inflation. There is mortgage relief for farm and home. .••• There 's the prospect of complete repeal, Only let prosperity do its share and hurry back as soon as it can. We shall have no trouble explaining its arrival.—New York Times. British Shipbuilding The conditions of British shipyards now contrast favorably with. those of the other shipbuilding countries. Depression in foreign shipbuilding has lagged behind British, but at the end of last month the tonnage under construction abroad had shrunk to a point at which it was smaller than it has been for nearly a quarter of a century, and during last quarter more work was started in British yards than in those of all the rest of the world taken together. In the; United States of America the stagna- tion was almost complete; not a single ton of new work was put in hand, and a small engineless vessel was the sole launch.—London Times. Farming in New Zealand Hanging On., A Gravenhurst harnessmaker, now In his ninetieth year, made the first' straps so familiar to passengers in Toronto street cars. It is good news that the old gentleman is hanging - on so well.—Toronto Globe. Radio's Limitations. hlr. J, A. Tremblay, waterworks engineer had a warning broadcast from a local station at 8 p.m., warn- ing householders that the water would be cut off in an hour's time and that they should lay in an emer- gency provision immediately, , En- quiry made at random this morning from a dozen different households disclosed the fact that the first notice eight of them had received was the sudden failure of the water supply in their homes. One family has no ra- dio set and the others either did not have their sets turned on at eight o'clock or did not Happen to be tun- ed in on the "local station at that hour. Of the four families who got the radio warning, one dict not do so di- rectly but by telephone from some- one else who had; while a second family happened to pick up the last few words or the announcement ac eidentally, We repeat that, while having an obvious usefulness, the radio also has very sharply -defined limitations as a means of Communication, — Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph, . Great Britain Bans An American Magazine Statistics recently presented to Parliament should silence much of the extravagantly pessimistic talk about the decline of the sheep in- dustry. The plain fact of the mat- ter is that the sheep farmers, like every other section of the producers, are going on with their job notwith- standing the shrinkage of their pro- fits and the uncertainties of their market. The cities seem to know more about the "plight of the farm- ers" than the farmers themselves, and it is refreshing to hear the term being made the subject of mirth in remote rural commodities, where numbers of pastoralists are still pay- iny their way,—Auckland Weekly News. Canadian Control Radio Commis lou Of Wheat Foreseen' Issues Regulations Will Have Virtual Command, Advertising Limited to 5 Per Cent. — Canadian Pro - grains Given Pre - Terence Ottawa. 'Tho Canadian Radio of Market, Says Stevens, in Cornwall Address Cornwall,—Re-opening of worldmar- kets to Canadian wheat this year was predicted by Hon H, H. Stevens, Minis Broadcasting Commission have now ter of "Trade and Commerce, in an ad issued regulations to govern radia dress before the Cornwall Board of i broadcasting in Canada, which have Trade at their annual banquet, been approved by the • Cabinet. Mr. Stevens gave his listeners a Not all the regulations are effec com wheat situation, review of the world tive immediately, but those which d:a wheat situation, and showed that field in not go into effect at once will do, so oda will command the export field inl as the facilities of thecommission per. mit. "Negotiations have been going 02 for some time between the Canadian Press and Radi. Commission toward* supply of . radio news bulletin service with the Canadian Press authority hallmark of speed and accuracy. This will replace the present broadcasting of news, much of which is frankly stolen from Canadian Press member papers, while other news picked . u� on the street by broadcasting stations proved misleading to the Commission and to the public. Newts broadcasting is dealt with hi section two of part five of the rev. lations pertaining to programs as follows: - Canadian radio broadcasting sta- tions shall not transmit any news or infers Nation of any kind published in anynewspaper or obtained, collected Collated, or co-ordinated by any news• paper, association of newspapers a5 any news agency or ,service, except the following: Such news bulletins as are released regularly from the various bureaus ,of Canadian Press for the express use of broadcasting stations in Canada. Local news under arrangements to be tirade by each station individually with its local newspaper or news'pa.- p•ers, or such news as it may collect through its own employeea_or through such collection agencygor eencies. al station, may be employed by the said Newspapers broadoasting• false or misleading news shall be prohibited from further broadcasting unless ex- tenuating circumstances can be shown. The broadcasting of editorial opin- ions pinions of a controversial nature is pro, hibited. The regulations in respect to pro- grams prohibit any reference to prices in advertising. Except where special permission is given, the amount of ad' vertising matter is limited to five per cent. The commission reserves the right to prohibit the broadcasting of any matter "until the contlrnuiy of recrd or transcription, or both have been submitted to -the commission for examination and have been approved by them." Broadcasting of abusive or defaim atory statements with regard to indi' viduals or institutions, or of state, rents• contrary to the purpose of existing legislation, is forbidden. It is also provided that programs shall be filed weekly with the commis, sion. Under the jurisdiction of the commission, sustaining programs or' iginating outside Canada must give way to programs originating in Can/ n;? .ado. They must also, upon request the commission, give right-of-way to .such programs as are, in the opinion of the commission, of national interest, The regulations set forth that no station shall broadcast advertising spot announcements between 7.30 and 11 at night. No such announce'itients may exceed 100 words in length nor total more than three minutes in any hour. Electrical . transcriptions or records designed for broadcast adver- tising must not be broadcast more than once from any station. Meehan'', cal reproductions must be announced as such just before the;- are broadcast, Dominion Reviews Argentine Trade Relations 1933. The minister declared that in the United States, one-third of the crop has been destroyed or abandoned and the remainng two-thirds will be a ,short crop. For this reason it is doubt- ful if the United States would enter the export field this autumn. �. The Argentine, which has had an abnormal carry-over in the past few years, had a fair crop during the past Winter, but only one-third was good wheat. The carry-over in the Argen- tine will be normal but the quality. inferior. Australia has opened up new mar- kets for her wheat in the Orient, he said, and in the past two years at least two-thirds of her export surplus had been sold in the East. Mr, Stevens 'felt it was doubtful if Russia would enter the world wheat market this year. "Summing up the situation in the exporting countries, we find that con- ditions are practically back to nor- mal," Mr. Stevens declared. "The bulk of the, wheat surplus 3s in Can- ada, and we will have virtual com- mand of the wheat market this year. There is certainly a -brightening on the horizon for this country." The speaker deplored the fact that so many Canadian businessmen still felt that they should do their import- ing and exporting business through New York. He pointed out that, by dealing through Canadian houses, they might increase employment and, in- directly, a demand for their own goods. Canadian Universities' Report . Attendance Gains Ottawa.—Enrollment of students in Canadian universities reached the highest figure on record at the end of the year 1932, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. As an explana- tion the report quotes the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching as saying "persons above high school age are just the group which unemployment throws back into schools in the largest number." The universities had 43,143 -students at the end of the year, in June, 1932. This compared with 40,569 in 1931 was an exceptional increase and the 1931 figure compared with,the 1930 enrollment of 31,368 is still more re- markable. In 30 years. from 1901 when enrollment was only 9,620 the increase was 320 per cent. Some of the factors producing this large increase are that the population of university age has grown by about 80 per cent., and the proportion of women to men in regular university courses has greatly increased. Had it remained the same as 30 years ago, the increase of 320 per cent. would not have been more than about 250 per cent. Normal Business Seen By Bennett London.—The June issue of an Am- erican magazine was withdrawn from sale in Britain Friday because it "con- tains an article adversely affecting British interests." The understand- ing here was that the article refers to the Royal Family. The issue contains an article "Be- hind Castle Walls" by Hilda Grenier, described as "formerly Royal dres,er to Queen Mary of England." were let go with a warning. No Fatalities Rise in Commodity Prices in Britain Cited by Premier Ottawa.—Canadian customs offi- cials, certain that commodity prices would rise in Great Britain when the gold standard was abandoned there in 1932, guessed wrong for prices con- tinued to fall, it was admitted on May 10 in the• House of Commons by Pre- mier Bennett, Mr. Bennett, speaking to a bill rati- fying the arbitrary valuation of cur- rencies for duty purposes which has been in practice some time, stated that the customs experts expected a 10 per cent. rise in British commodity prices when j3ritain went off gold. Accordingly the duty value of the pound has been set at 10 per cent. under par, or $4.40. Connnodity prices did not rise, however. Instead they had continued to fall so that the whole basis -of the arbitrary valiiation of the pound was shown to be wrong, Mr. Bennett said. Within the past few weeks com- modity prices had definitely risen, the Premier. observed. This, to his mind, was an indication that normal busi- ness forces were again at work and that normal times were on the way. Hon. Edmund B. Ryckrnan, Minister of National Revenue, refused to state that the Government had acted illeg- ally in setting a . valuation on the pound. but admitted that the bill was put forward to put the administra- tion's right beyond question. In some quarters were "rumblings" of doubt as to the legality of the Government's course, he said. There had even been hints that the currency ditties night be challenged in the courts. The pres- ent bill., he said, was retroactive and ratified past Government actions, thi;ts excluding legal actions. . British Post Office Prepares For New Business London.—The British Post Office is preparing for trade revival. • According, to a statement made at Glasgow by Sir Kingsley Wood, Post- master -General, the Post Office al- ready has a margin of spare plant in hand sufficient to provide for '700,000 additional telephones. It is spending £8;000,000 annually upon supplies, of which not more than 34 per cent is from non -British sources.. Its stores include a strange miscellany of art- icles, including 200,000 pairs of trou- sers and 900 tons of string, Shoplifters' Rendezvous in Montreal Cathedral Montreal.—Detectives, who finally got on the trail of three women shop- lifters, discovered they made a prac- ticd of sorting out the "loot" in the quietness of Christ Church Cathedral. As the goods taken were trivial, they Dollar and Pound Hitherto the immobile dollar and the fluctuant pound have been an i11 pair to yoke. Now that both have abandoned gold they are free to move in unison if their respective Govern- nnts agree to it, and, after a reason -i able experimental period, to settle' down on a gold basis at a eomfort-' ably low level. If the devaluation of the dollar means anything inter- nationally, it means the abandon- ment of any attempt to force Great Britain back on to the old gold parity from which we descended in 1931. Manchester Guardian. THE UNITED STATES Weather Changes In the last quarter century North America Inas enjoyed the longest warm spell since 1776. The winter of 1931-32 was the warmest in more than 100 years in that part of the country east of the Roeky 1vIountains. The winter just ended was not quite so warm. That may indicate that we are turning back toward colder weather, or it may just represent a temporary lapse that will not affect the warm spell's long-time course, --- New York Times, Lessons of Safety Lane ti'ery interesting figures are con leg this week out of "Safety Lane." Out of 1,380 cars eubmitted for test by Ottawa drivers in three days, 320, or less than 25 per cent., were classed as "perfect" on first lnspeC- tion. Four hundred of those reject-' ed had faults so slight that they Defeating Winter Using water from its thousands of hot springs, Nigel .4 nays ie ai o u Maryland hunt Cup rare, at Worthington Valley, Mrs. Durant's Fugitive throws bis rider. Despite the fall. they finished fourths. Jumping Jack broke his neck at fhb same .fence earlier in the race, Ottawa. — The trade agreement reached between the United Kingdom and Argentina directs attention to the situation between Canada and the South American republic. Argentina enjoys the most -favored -nation treat- ment reatment from Canada. In fact, the .agree, ment with Argentina is the basis for extending most -favored -nation treat- ment the to some 23 other nations bye Dominion. Negotiations of a preliminary nature We going on between the two conn tries with the hope of even improving the trade relations. Canada buy* heavily of hides, chiefly the heavy type used for sole leather and belting. Ar' patina buys Canadian farming impla• ments and considerable :other manus factured goods. The question of exchange rata. haat not. been brought in, The currency of Argentina is much more depreciated than Canada's and the Governineni here from time to tune declares the value of the peso. This. corrects to ii' certain extent any advantages due til the depreciation of that money. Only 195 Native Canadians Entered U.S. Last Month Washington.—Only 195 native born Canadians received immigration visas for .adnrissnon to the :United States during March, a decrease 'of 94 per 1 cent. from the 3,155 for the same I Minitli •a year before, { The state department, making pub. 116 the figures, credited it to the cause common to each similar report recent- .ly, enforcement of the "likely to be- come a public Charge"- clause of the bution of ten -cent pieces to persons csi' Immigration ACt. the sidel,Va1k, Rockefeller Largesse Fails for First Titn Lakeliurst, N.J.—John D. Rockets" ler apparently ran out of dimes' Sti day. The aged multi -millionaire appear at the First Baptist Church for dell vlces, and walked from his car tot entrance without the Customary distal itt