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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-06-15, Page 6Voiceof the Press 1 canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA The "Hike" Gram Popular There Is more than passing interest in the news that, on the recent holl- day, 150 members of Lake Shore Youpg People's Societies hilted to a meeting place at Port Credit. A generation or so dgo the roads and pathwaYs about Toronto—and all other urban centres—were well trodden by pedestrians. 'What better method of locomotion Is there for the mail who is not In a hurry? Can it be that young people along the lake shore are catching this spirit of their forefathers, who walked all over this new country? In England the week -end "hike" is perhaps more popular than it ever was; and young Canadians cannot do better than fol- low this example — putting the best foot forward.a--Toronto Globe. Edison and Nickel The Edisons have patented a claim in the Sudbury district which confirms what Edison himself told the present writer in 1906. He was at that time working on a storage battery which required large quatttities of nickel. He Said he had gone up and prospected itt that country himself,. endahe drew an oval on a sheet orpagera This, he said, was the crater of an ancient vol- &inc. In the southwest tract of the Oval, he said, the Copper Cliff mines Were situated. Then he indicated a pom the northeast portion of the ' • tn. oval and said: "There is where I found *hat I want."—Hamilton Herald. An Austrian Warning Perhaps Austria is where the term .?:taxoline" came from. At any rate, taxes on gasoline amounting to 24c a gallon plus other fees, have resulted In 16,500 Austrian. automobile owners turning in their license plate in three months, says the Associated Press. This is a. clear case of how the gov- ernment can kill the goose that coughs hp the sheckels, which should not be Overlooked in. this country.—St. Thom- as Times -journal. scoldings. for the trausgressious of their offspring whiola it is the fashion, jest now, to give the parent class. Parental discipline may be more lex than in some earlier generations, but, if modern youth can transfer respon- sibility for their faults and failings to their parents, why call net the modern parents plead that they are just as their parents taught them to be, or let them be, and so start a buck-pais- ing sequence eeteuding to the upbring- ing of Adam and Eve? Possibly the loudly proclaimed grievances are to a coesiderable ex- tent imaginary. Every now and then there sounds above the chorus of "something must be done about it" a voice or two that suggests the possi- bility that youth and the ways ot youth are not particularly new phen- omena—that modern youth is essen- tially the same as were the complain- ing elders of their own youth.—Kings- ton Whig -Standard. • THE EMPIlaM Progress in Britain There is substantial reason for sat- isfactioa in the continued improve- ment of the figures of unemployment. In February there was a fall of 46,000, in March of 80,000, and we now haat the returas for April, which show further decline of 78,000. The total has thus been brought below 2,700,000. A reduction of more than 200,000 in three months -cif such international un- easiness is far greater than we could have expected. We found employment last month for 9,534,000 people, 91,000 more than a year ago.—London Daily Telegraph. Gigantic Project The very frugal Dutcb are now lift- ing up the bottom of the sea for agra cultural extension. The dairy indus- try of Holland is a national asset. Six thousand men are at work on their great reelamation work of reclaiming Aubmer g ed lands, which also have iierved to solve the Dutch unemploy- ment problem this winter, However, another quarter of a century will have to pass and another $375,000,000 be 'spent before the work of the reclaim- ing the submerged land of the Zuider Zee can be conapleted.—Brandon Sun, *ON ;are. New Detectives What we badly need is a new type of detective and a new techuique of crime detection to give a fillip to our jaded appetite for crime stories. Quite obviously the one person. who can fun- nish it is Lord Trenchard. He is pro- posing to modernize the Force in sev- eral drastic ways, and among .other things adumbintes a sort of Police -Sandhurst. To the Institute of Scien- tific Crime Research, where the C.I.D. will take its post -graduate course, we shall look, if it ever materializes, for the new men and the new methods. "The criminal," says Lord Trenchard, "has become more skilful, more mo- bile and more scientific." In a word, he comes daily nearer to the fiction reader's beau -ideal of what a criminal ought to be.—London 'Evening News. Commercial Education . The time has come when, more than lever, commerce should no longer be i.onsidered a simple game of chance. is essential that commercial opera- tions should be subjected to piecise imes, so that results may be predict- ed with the least possible risk of er- ior. In other words, commercial en- terprise should be organized on the tees of a true science. Canada can ;With advantage systemize' her corn- *ercial activities, seeking out the sYs- ten which best suits her requireraents. The co-operation of manufacturers and traders in. the Dominion should be ob- ., tained M teaching in Canadian schools the commercial and industrial system 4hich has been decided. on. When other countries are organizing their iommerce it is not for us to sit back With folded arms. Success is the re- ward offered for serious e:orts to build iip an army of specialists in com- merce.—La Presse. Value of Laughter • Toronto Favors Bicycle Fad' ..tiaIF L.; A. Oaki ata I bit eaSehae.... ,110tegeti, 1;04 *Ke oinien ..neein4 Here we see a Toronto miss who has taken up the cycling craze with enthusiasm. One of the favorite bicyele routes is High Park Blvd. where this picture was taken, U,S. President to $pend Holidays in Canada The Dominion of Canada, for ,the second time in its history, is to be host to a President of the United States. Warren G. Harding, While! President, and shortly before his Froposals .of WOrklaWid0 rn- deth, grossed the international br-• te Columbia. This year we expect to have rest to Be Made By lirato der to deliver an address in British , Women of World To Hold Meeting At Stockholm Search City's Sewers for Radium Capsule Albany, N.Y.—A capsule containing $10,000 worth of radium was sought last week in Albany's sewer system. The radium, property of Albany Hos- pital, was lest early this morning. A patient who was being treatd for can- cer accidentally allowed it to be wash- ed down a drain. Men equipped with electroscopes promptly began a search of the city sewer traps. The instru- ments readily detect the presence of radium. Tramways Banned In Italy the Minister of Transport has sentenced the tramcar to death. He has done it in the approved man- ner of Fascist Governraents—by de- priving it of full rights of citizenship. Henceforth no tramcar may enter a. scheduled zone iu the lieart of the chief Italian cities. It will languish for lack of support, and disappear as quickly as it chooses on the outskrts. Nobody here cares very much for the tramcar either. It is cumbersome to other traffic and. costly in itself. It would have died long ago if it had not been constantly revived with fresh in- jections of .pablic money from muni- cipal rates. That money can no more be recovered. now than money epent long ago iu aoctors' bilis to save a hopeless patient—London Daily Ex- press. It is not recorded who first said "A little nonsense now and then is re - listed by the best of men." But who- ever it was, he might with equal ac- curaoy have observed that a great deal of nonsense is relished at any time • by most men. In business or pleasure, a laugh is as hungrily sought as any- thing else that may be on the pro- gram. The business of living is in volved in so many hardships and. wor- ries that the most trivial nonsense helps to make life brighter and 'bet- ter. It has been said that a sense of humor is a saving graee; but no two people seem to have the same sense of humor. Perhaps the best is that which enables one to see enough of the funny side of the experiences of life; tragic as some of them are, to laugh his way through difficulties and to perceive the laughable side of the thing when fate drives him through the briar patches. — Moncton Tran- , stript. League Announces Ban of Manchoukuo Players Geneva.—The Manchoukuo Commit- tee of the League of Nations decided that Manchoukuo tennis players should be barred from Davie Cup play if they tried to enter the competition, because Davis Cup drawings possessed official character. Manchoukuo, now trying unsuccess- fully to gain recognition as an inde- pendent state, formerly was Man- ehuria, a part of China. However, the committee decided that it would be unable to prevent Manchoukuo athletes from entering the Olympic games in 1936 because the Olympics are privately organized. ° Asylum in Britain The likelihood that a certain num- ber of men of distillation unable to live safely in Germany may seek a home in this country, as so many re- fugees from political persecution have done ill the past, makes it necessary to scrutinize the Government's policy regarding the admission of aliens rath- er closely. Technically, it would be an abandonment of all the best tra- ditions of this country if our doors were to be closed to the men of emin- ence whom Germany is expelling from her borders. Our gain in admitting them would be manifest and it would not be merely a Moral gain—London Spectator. Future of Hockey Hockey has built million dollar arenas in nearly cities, opened a new career for scores of anibitious young Canadians, and provided thrills for thousands of patrons on both sides of the international border. There is no reason to feel that this growth is merely of the mushroom variety; on the contrary', the • game is firmly lm planted In the affections of the public and will continue to prosper—Peter- borough Examiner. Parents and Youth Little is accomplished by the 'fierce ••••••••+.* Choice of Goods The purchaser has lost the habit of, and desire for, choice. say that this mental and epiritual disease is more , salute. important than the merely mechani- I France and Mexico have disputed cal fact of cheap production. Such a i ownership of Clipperton Island for statement will Round fantastic In the many years. The Xing of Italy, ant- in.g as arbitrator, finally awarded the island to France. Last December, the Mexieari Senate approved a resolution to purchase the island from France. The lonely Pacific rock has been "rediscovered" by a half dozen na- tions over a period of several cen- Chose Poor Place • To Hide Diamonds Milavaukee.—Mrs, William Samuel- sc asked her husband, a grocer, to hide her $700 worth of diamonds some place where burglars would never find them. Samuelson decided that the safest place • he knew to put the diamonds was in an empty egg crate in his store. Now the police axe hunting for the j ewels. A commission company earted away all the empty egg -crates at Samuel - son's store, incladiing the one with the diamonds in it. Company officials be- lieved the crate had been turned over s. farmer. French Flag Raised Over Pacific Island Paris.—The Government has been advised that the French naval school ship Jeanne d'Arc has hoisted the French flag over Clipperton Islarni, in the Pacific Ocean, and fired a 21 -gun Roosevelt, wile, Conference e, it is said, will come tel Council at next month to epend at least part a his vacation at hiSummer home — Wornen's Summer as our guest Prwident Franklin D. Campobello Island, Although the world economic wide s on in PassarnaquoddY Bay, New Brunswick. The U.S. Presi- has prevented a number of wonien'e nternationa dent is thus establishing a precedent. Il conferences from being held this year, a few outstanding For the 1lrst time the chief executive republic will of the' neighboring, be events are nevertheless being cerried spending his summer holidays beyond through.• 1of the Executive Vieetings and Standing Committees of the In - Roosevelt will be adding another to mr. ternational Council of Women, which has Lady Aberdeen as presiaent, are the confines of his own country. the list of his history -making acts to be held in Stockholm from June 26 - that have so far characterised his ad- July 6, and will also include a Rural ministration. When he crosses the Women's Conference, to which Coun- border he will be the third occupant trywomen's Associations from all over of the White House, during his presi- the world are sending delegates. dency, to leave the United States. Beauty Competitions President Wilson, who, it will be re- At the meetings of the I.O.W. Exe membered, attended the peace Confer- cutive many interestng resolutions ence at the conclusion of the World will be discussed. Dutch women in War, and President Harding were the tend, to protest against the evil ot others unique in this respect. Both 'beauty competitions for women and before and after he became President, children. They will also propose an the late Mr. W. H. Taft spent most all-round investigation regarding are of his summers at Murray Bay, on the men's and children's prisons, houses St. Lawrence.--Toranto Mail & Erie- of detention, police stations and the pire. way in which women and children who Planes Carry News •are treated in the various countries. To Isolated Propectors of Polish women will uge the holding conferences on the life and ewe San Diego, Calif.—The interesting toms of other countries in order te story, of how two prospectors living promote a better understanding be- • in the mountains east of here 50 tween peoples. Norwegian, 'Dania miles from the nearest railroad re- and Swedish women will protest ceive their paper daiil, was told against the limitations of women's this week by pilots f the American Airways, woyk, whether married or unmarried. The adoption of an International Aux - o Each afternoon, Pilots Bart Cox iliary Language will be proposed by and Co -Pilot M. L. Blackmore of the Danish women. ' Honor to Lady Aberdeen American Airways, are given an extra paper by one of theafternoon dailies here when they load the news- French women will propose the in papers destined tor distribution in sertion of the name of the 1Vlarchion the Imperial Valley. ess of Aberdeen and Temair upon the Roll of Honor of Famous Women "We don't know who the men are, but every day at about 6 o'elock we which was adopted at the last trim - see thim standing iontside thleir nial conference at Vienna. cabin waiting for the paper," Mr. In addition to the business meetings there will Cox said. "I'bring the plane down be a ceremonial welcome within. a few hundred_ feet of the meeting at the Grand Hotel, Stock - ground. and Mr. Blackmore tosses holm, which will be graced by the presence of H.R.H. the Crown Princess the paper out to them. • Then they scramble for it, and wave their thanks as we go an." ___-.>.—..--- of Sweden; a cinema evening, when choice Swedish films will be shown and a meeting on employment in rela: LadyVVilkins to Cook tion to youth, when speakers from are charged with an offeace or a crime Clear Policy Contract In Insurance Urged New York.—The need for better - trained salesmen and buyers of in- surance and the writing of contract forms so that they clearly and compre- hensively cover each specific need are the fundamentals for satisfactory settlements of claims without con- troversy, according to Mr. M. B. Dal- ton, vice-president of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, in his address at the annual insurance con- ference of the American Management Association, here. Declaring that now, as ever, "it is necessary that there be a spirit of mutual confidence between buyer and seller and that this confidence be based on the utmost good faith op. both sides," Mr. Dalton held that "far too many insurance sellers have been interested too much in pre- mium volume and far too many buyers have been interested too much in driving a sharp trade in a loss set- tlement." "There appears to be too general a lack of appreciation on the part of buyers that, in the last analysis, the buyers as a group stand whatever losses are paid and that rates which are high can only be reduced by the prevention of loss." ears of those who are accustomed, as all modern men are, to implied ma- terialism. Yet here, as in every other department, it is the mind that gov- erns and not the material conditions. It is notorious that in certain districts, in certain trades covering great num- bers of people, choice is still exer- turies. At one time the American cised, and has a great effect. For in flag was flown there. Stance, I would quote the demand fori Cheshire cheese amen the Lanta- ehire operatives, They know what they want and they insist upon it; they will not accept, as will men in ens, the aovelist, and Miss Dorothy the south, a substitute or an interior article.—Iiilaire Belloc In The Eng. North of Brompton Oratory were mar- led at Brompton Oratory last week in lish Review, • the presence of 20 members of the . 'THE UNITED STATES Dickens family. The bride arid "groom first met at a Esthetio Crime dance in Fulham town hall when she Judging from the many thefts of was In dotnestie service. She con - valuable paintings reported rec,ently,' Wilted to work until :ar le days before the cratt of burglary must be develop- the wedding. Rowe Rerber, Queen Charlotte A. ref' hours later, she Modell: ing artistic taste. — Chicago Daily *United States 736,446, and Irma Aus, News. Dickens' works. Iescilatts, where they will remain until heart attack,. brought on by meat.• ' traria 262,132. Among the aresente svae a set of • the autumn. Dicken's Descendant Weds London, Eng.—Robin Dickens Bour- chier, greaagrandson of Charles Dick - French Budget Shows Deficit of Billions Paris.—The Chamber of Deputies has passed the revised 1933 budget, showing a deficit of 4,344,000,000 francs. The budget now goes back to the Senate. • There is a deadlock between the Houses on two major aspects. The Senate voted a 5 per cent cut on gov- ernment appropriations. The Cham- ber refused to accede to this, The Senate rejected a provision for a governmental oil monopoly, and the Chamber then voted the provision back into the bill Your countries will deal with a subject ]For Expeditionary Crew. that touches upon one of the most Lady Wilkins, wife of Sir \Hubert serious and urgent problems of our Wilkins, the explorer, is looking for- l'e• ward to a job as cook in her bus- Open D'oor international band's pl'oposed submarine expedition From July 24-28, at the Senate to the North Pole next year. She House, Prague, the Open Door Inter - has already been "signed on." national will plead for the economic Lady Wilkins, on her arrival at emancipation of the woman worker in Southampton with her husband re- all civilized countries. The growing cently, said, "I am looking forward attack on the right of the woman, par- . eagerly to the experience, for I am ticularly the married woman, to earn sure I shall love it. All my women her living as freely as others, will pro. friends think I am crazy, but with vide much interesting discussion at a crew of about ten men on board ths forthcoming Conference, in which to feed I shall have enough to do." Miss Chrystal Macmillan, the well - Before her marriagrain 1929, Lady known Scottish feminist lawyer, is ex Wilkins was Suzanne Bennett, an pected to play a leading part. Australian actress. ,In its "Call" to the conference, the gates of the various measures railitat- Regina Citizens Battle ing against women's right to work Willow Leaf ,Beetles which have been recently passed in Regina.—Aamed with sprayers and many countries—Australian legislation arsenate, Regina citizens "mopped up" depriving 600 women teachers of their on hordes of Western Willow Leaf work; a German law which permits! beetles which invaded the city. Mil- the State to dismiss its women em - the city and took possession of bushes measures by which women are being lions of the little pests swarmed into ployees on marriage; recent British by magic until householders opened Ployment, and are having their em - their barrage. and trees. Foliage disappeared as if turned out of local Government em- ployment and sickness insurance rates cut down; American legislation New Bivalve Mousetrap which forbids night work to women; a. nd attempts in a number of European Catches Mice in Pairs countries to deprive married women Tacoma, Wash.—An oyster sprung of employment. This wide -spreading the trap on. two mice looking for a retrogression will be animatedly dis- meal. Chris Rose, superintendent cussed at the Prague Conference. at an oyster company plant here, Open Door International reminds dere- The situation lied to • fears that passage of the budget might be de- layed until . next /month. • Switzerland May Depart • From 'Gold Standard Geneva. — Switzerland may be forced to abandon the gold ntandard, competent advisers .id Sunday. The turn was indicated following .1a, heated popular referendum during evihicb. the nation 'voted against a pnojected law redacing 'salaries, of 60.000 federal employes 7% per cent. The measure was intended to over- come a heavy national deficit. Austria's One Ship Arrives in London London.—The S.S. • VVein ,of 4000 • tons claims the distinction of being ate only ship afloat belonging to Alia- Uric. It sails between Alexandria and London, carrying cotton 'seed1. oil cake, • and *nth= The Austrian Legation. here states that it knOws of no other vessel owned by Auitria, now in commission, found the dead mice dangling from the clamped "lips" of a large Pacific Vessel Sets Record oyster. The opened shell clamped For Cruise tit Coast (Iowa on the heads of the mice, appar- ently as they took their first nibble Ottawa. — Establishing something at the bivalve. like a record iu voyages of the pre. ventive service of the Royal Cana English University dian Mounted Police, • the customs* cruiser Adversus clipped 16 days on Honors Blind Composer iter trip from Halifax to Vancouver Leeds,—The Court of Leeds Uni- according to headquarters of that versify has deeitled to confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters ter corps here, Capt. J. W, Bonnar, was. of the Adversns, reported to his on Frederick Delhi% the blind tom- chief last week. poser, a 'native of Bradford, Eugland, The cruiser left Halifax on April now living in retirement near Paris. 6, and arrived at Vancouver on May Mr. Defiles, owing to ill -health, will 12. Her schedule called for arrival be tillable to travel to this country, at the Pacific Coast station on May and the degree will be conferred in 8. *his absence • .The ship _ touched at laitigsten, - ---d•------ • Jamaica, passed through the Pan Father of 16 Children • ama Canal, and called at San Diego . • Plows ths $7,061 Coins and San Francisco. - Budda, In. ---John W. Staggs, farm - et, Lwas ploughing for corn but what he ploughed, up was $1,061 in 01d sit- Canada Capturing . . yer dimes, quarters, dollars and half- -• U.K. Apple Market doliats, some dating back se.s far as Ottawa.—Canada in the first four 1918, He's the father of 16 children months of 1933 has more than doubled and the Cash will come in handy.• .,ller supply at apples to the United . ' 6:4 • Kingdom market and has taken first place from the Tailited States, accord. New Hat Kills Her soattie,--mrs. Una Fueil, 85, in in. ing to a. report issued by the Dominion mate an old ladies' home, had a. Four Whaling Ships r m oria hat. t • visitor who brought her a gift—allow Her eyes were bright with tears, Victotia.—Vor the first time since 1930 four whaling vessels steamed out and she was hardly able to speak her V' t harbor last week and head -1 Bureau of Statistics, In the same period of 1932 Great Britain imported 1,354,769 hundredweigbt from the United States, 225,563 from Canada and 189,365 from Australia, whereas this year the simply from Canada has been 850,005 handredWeight, from the