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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-07-06, Page 6r «.s 4 *-• s-. Voice of the Pr.ess Canada, The Empire and The Wand at Large CANADA. Label for Careless Driver. How would it .do to compel a. driver fined for careless driving to attach a red tag to the door of his car for 30 days, with a stiff fine, or =col- lation of permit for its removal?--. Sault Star. Double Reform. It has been found by actual experi- ence that moving a slur. population Into a reconstruction area does not change the slum dweller's habits. In Holland experiments have been made, which Eritain will probably follow. There, certain areas were destroyed and the slum dwellers were kept seg- regated and not simply allowed to go elsewhere to form other slums. In - Wad they were put through a period of training so that when they were placed in the reconstruction areas they were prepared for the changed environment.—Halifax Chronicle. The Steam Whistle. Another railway centenary is at- tained this year the whistle on the engine. When the steam engine first ran on tracks in England the engineer sounded a warning by means of a born. But the sound did not pene- trate very far, and the railway people went to the man who invented the steam engine, George Stephenson— and asked him to produce something more effective. So about six years after the invention of the engine, Ste- phenson invented the whistle that *would blow by steam from the boiler. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. Hasty Marriages. The Presbyterian Church in United States has made a new church law whereby couples intending to get mar- ried must notify their minister at least three days before the ceremony. It is a good sensible rule that will pre- vent any hasty marriages. The main trouble with marriage today is that It is too easy.—Lindsay Post. The King's Shirts. The Prince of Wales warmly ap- peals to the people of the Empire to buy British. His royal father is eveia a stronger advocate of home produce. The King will grow his own Shirts on his home farm. A. field of flax planted two years ago at San- dringham by King George is now capable of yielding the thread. The abre that is the fruit of this plant is how being shipped to the north of Ireland to be spun into linen cloth which, after being cut, basted, sewn and provided with buttonholes and buttons, will be sent back to the mon- arch for use as the royal shirt, pro- .duced within the Empire in its en- -, ,lirety, It's a fashion worth following. '-Brandon Sun. Odd Accidents. The Galt Reporter tells of a peculiar tccident. A motor car focussed by its Windshield the rays of the sun on the tire of another motor parked near, end set it on fire. The Montreal Star reports the death of a man who grew roses and loved them but was pricked by a thorn. He took the usual pre- cautions, being aware of danger in suck cases, " but the poison affected him, and he died complaining of vio- lent pains in his heart. What the un- expected can do is always a subject tor argument. Also, for vigilance, Hamilton Herald. Newsprint Upturn. Newsprint makers are hoping that if general business improvement con- tinues it will be reflected in larger Sales for them and the growth of out- put in the last couple of months ap- pears to point that way. An upturn in production was noted fn April and in May there is under- ftood to have been a further increase, kith prospects that June's. production Well show still a further advance. The industry, is, of course, over- expanded and it will be a long while ret before the demand approaches the mill capacity; ,but as the business pick-up in Canada and the United States is reflected in more advertiing the demand for newsprint paper will Increase, with a corresponding bene- fit to the industry and to those dis- tricts dependent on its success.— Sault Ste. Marie Star, Want N'o Revolution. Sherwood Anderson, novelist, has put in most of this year wandering around America; talking to city people, country people, men in breadlines, bitch -hikers and everybody else he could get Bold of, trying to find out if there is any sign of a revolution in the United. States. He reports now, la the American Spectator, that there is not. Out of his various observations Mr. Anderson has evolved a rather profound truth about the American" people, They are not thinking politi- cally in the way that the peoples of Europe are thinking politioally be- cause they are still imbued with the "log cabin to White House" idea. Thiey. 011 like to think of the United States' es the land of unlimited opportunity, and herefore they are fnwill ti I g to countenance restriction of that oppot• tunny.—Calgary Albertan, THE EMPIRE.. N'o Escape From News, ,Itis one of the penalties of civil!- zation that it becomes increasingly difficult to escape from news, There was a time when during an ocean voyage one could escape froze the wheel of things, forget ' that people were doing lots and lots of things which were of " no real interest, in fact take a complete holiday from the newspapers. Now alas! the passenger in a liner finds a newspaper on his breakfast table and the world is al- ways with him. We had always im- agined that one of the compensations of prison life was its detachment from outside events. It seems that we were mistaken. At present the prisoners are called together and the news is read to them by the governor or the chaplain. Now a further ex- periment is to be tried. Each week prisoners are, in certain prisons, to be .supplied with a typewritten sum- mary of world news which they can read in their cells. -London Saturday Night. Rhodes Scholars. If the Oxford Rhodes Scholars bring to this and other countries a certain atmosphere, a certain tone, a certain outlook upon life, a certain mature reflectiveness and strength of charac- ter, they will go far to satisfy the Rhodes ideal, and they will give a lead, whether they know it or not. Is it not a little significant that one of them, who had had an excellent record both at school and college be- fore going over, said after a year at Oxford that he had learned for the first time in his life to think for him- self? Nothing is more needed today in every sphere of life. It is prob- ably desirable that former Rhodes Scholars should- come more out into the open and bring their cultural ad- vantages more evidently to bear on the thought and life of the community. —Cape Argus, South Africa. Have Animals Souls? In regard to the discussion under this head, one writer says of the birds, "Their little hearts are full of emotion and passion. Their soul -stir- ring notes express intense feeling," while Shakespeare summed up the mat- ter shortly, when he said, "The lark at heaven's gate sings." The ingenuity of birds in nest: building makes it impossible to deny them a measure of reason, and many have given their lives for their young when they could have escaped. Birds often befriend little orphaned nest- lings. It is amazing to read of the agony of grief of an animal that has lost its mate. It is said of the night- ingale that if its mate is captured it cannot live, but dies of grief. A tame jackdaw greatly enjoyed being dragged along the floor sitting in a cap.—Scottish Newspaper. Road and Railway. It is to our inind of the first im- portance that the establishment of control and co-ordination should pre- cede the formulation of a general road policy; how is it possible to lay down a scientific road program until the transportation requirements have been determined? Owing to circumstances which could not be foreseen, our road system is unbalanced. The great trunk roads were first built. When the railways followed, they inevitably largely imitated the alignment of the roads. In the result nearly one-half of the total mileage of railways in British India has a metalled 'road parallel and within ten miles of it. At the same time, large producing centres and ten of thousands of con- siderable villages have no road con- nections in the true sense at all. The aini of any road policy, therefore, must be to concentrate on roads which will meet existing deficiencies, permitting the linking up with rail- ways by means of through bills of lading and other measures.—Times of India. THE UNITED STATES. Long Life of Colleges.' One reason for not taking too gloomy a view of what hard tines will do to our colleges is that institu- tions of higher learning are very hard to kill. Colleges and universities are among our oldest surviving social in- stitutions. A university will, often outlive a nation or a dynasty or an economic system. Oxford University is older than English Parliamentary Government. The University of Paris is older than the modern French na• tion and half a dozen times as old as the French Revolution. The Urti- versity of Heidelberg is nearly ten times as old as the united Germany created by Bismarck. The University of Salamanca is 300 times as old as the Spanlsh Republic. At home we ,have nearly a dozen colleges older than the United States that was born in 1789: Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Washington. and Lee, Columbia, Rutgers, Salem, Transyl- vania.—New 'York Times. Plan :s. sashed --pilot Only cratckcd Charles RochevIlle of Huntington Beach, Calif., was testing a Tern amphibian ie whim he intended to photograph the upper Mackenzie river district. Suddenly the aeroplane went into a long slide, crashed to earth. Charles crawled out of the wreckage, only slightly injured. .. Western Farmers Battle For Crops, Fields of Growing Grain Vanish as 'Hoppers At- tack—Birds, Poison Defence Winnipeg, June 24.—Barely escap- ing being burnt in Iast week's bak- ing heat before welcome rains ar- rived, ranging from light showers in other districts to heavy down- pours in others, Western Canada's growing crops were menaced by an- other foe. • Farmers, encouraged temporarily by refreshing moisture, watched their fields being almost visibly destroyed as a plague of grasshoppers, said to be the worst in. years, swept over two of the prairie provinces, wreaking havoc among the six-inch shoots. An intensive fight against the hop- pers was being waged in Southern Saskatcbewan, with the supply of ,munitions completely , exhausted, while Manitoba, aided by birds, was meeting success in its battle. Al- berta as yet has not been greatly af- fected. A hurry call for additional sup- plies of poison bait was sent • out from Regina, where H. S. Vigor, crops commissioner, stated all avail- able supplies are exhausted, More than 3,000 tons of bran, 515 tons of oats and 43 carloads of sawdust, with other ingredients, have been sent out from there to meet the situa- tion, Manitoba farmers were much more hopeful as they continued their battle. The situation in this pro - vitae was said to be considerably improved, though still serious in southwestern districts. beloraine, in the westera part of the province, reported a large number of seagulls were proving the most effective check against the ravages of the hoppers. Prospects of further general pre- cipitation, however, promised to les• sen the menace. Calgary received a heavy downpour, while Swan River, in Northwest Manitoba, was benefit, ed by a miniature cloudburst. Near. ly two inches of rain fell at .Kam - sack, Eask. Famous Racing Motorist Sir Henry Birkin, Dies London. — Despite a desperate bat- tle by doctors, Captain Sir Henry Bir- kin, a famous racing motorist, died in a London nursing home .from the effects of blood poisoning resulting from burns received at the Tripoli. Grand Prix in May. Sir Henry had been critically ill for three weeks, and three blood trans- fusions were tried. He had been one of Great Britain's leading riveds since 1927. He was 36 years old. Sir Henry Birkin was born July 26, 1896. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1931, It was created in 1905. He served in the war from 1914 to 1918. Fewer Operations, Are Seen in the Future Chicago—Prediction that the sur- geon of the future would "operate" with mathettiatieal equations instead oi knives was made by Dr. George Crile, of the Cleveland clinic bearing his ' name, in an address before the American Association for the advance anent of Science. Looking forward, we arm glimpse century of fewer operations," he A Louden man woke up to find a a aid. 'Biochemistry and bio It -sic P y s poisonous South American tarantula s on his bare art.. He killed it before it stung him. The spider had arrived d in some imported fruit, will supplant the scalpel, andp resent ay medical theories will give way to thetthetnatical equations,' Another Champion 'Honored' (The Toronto Globe.) 1>e•°'Toro h ' °'become the resting - place foornother championship. This time it is a foot runner that has brought fame to Canada. Dave Ko- monen, a. citizen or Toronto, journeyed to Washington, entered the race from Mount Vernon to the Capital, and the best runners on the continent fell back one after another before his de- termined contention. Dave Komonen started for Wash- Lgton in much the same fashion as George Young when he set out for the famous Catalina swim. There was no public enthusiasm when they departed; no bands played; no cheer- ing crowds saw them off and washed them well. Both w travelled light. George Young returned as victor in a gruelling swim through strange waters that lasted far into the night. Dave ltomonen brings home the laurel wreath of triumph achieved in the grimmest athletic endurance test to which body and mind can be sub- jected. The City Council has honored Dave Koulonen, and that is well. In this Theme of champions one more always is weli;ome. Dave is a: small man. It was not powerful physique that car- ried him.to victory. Just dogged de- termination and, of course, •fleetness c foot. In such a grind mind must assume command over the bod;,T; a:ud evidently Dave Komonen's brain and his feet were functioning in perfect co-ordination. Such a contest takes a lot out of a roan, but admirers of this plucky runner will hope that he has enough stamina left to carry him to further victories. His fellow -citi- zens are proud of him and his mar- vellous achievement. Lindbergh Estate to be Used For Children's Work Hopewell, N.J.—The Lindbergh es- tate in the lonely Southland Moun- tains, with its gabled white farm house from which Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was stolen by kidnap- pers, is to become a centre for child- ren's welfare work. Whether Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh are donating the property, an act which would suggest the projected centre, is 'to be a memorial to their murdered son, or whether a purchase price is to be paid could not be db'arned r ..• Such details as were made known, however, indicate the Linclberghs have an interest 131' the plan, to the extent, at least, of becoming trustees in the corporation which will direct the af- fairs of the property, henceforth to be known as "High Field." In papers of incorporation, filed in Jersey City with Gustav Bach, Clerk of Hudson county, it was stated the purpose of the corporation is "to pro- vide for the welfare of children, in- cluding their education, training, hos- pitalization, or other allied purposes, without discrimination in regard to race or Creed." Besides Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, and Colonel Breckinridge, Abraham Flexner, the' educationist, and Owen ;,...Lo'rrejoy are named trustees. Will Observe Fortune By Punching Noses Pittsburg. -- Awaiting an inheri- tance of about $500,000 after being jobless three years, George C. ,!ones says he's going to "punch everybody Z don't like on the nose" after he gets the money. Jones has been notified that his. grandfather died in Wales, leaving !lull $375,000, a royalty of $10,000 yearly on coal lands and "other se i ice,"' e ha been receiving aid et.t.ilie_, � s f, from the welfare fund fot notelet a by the International Radium Institute S5. Up to Iasi: year sae cooked her sear, 1 at Thema own awals. Railways Parley Planned at Ottawa Intervention Made in Pro- posed Additional Reduc- tion—Date Not Stated Ottawa, June 26.—Hon. W. A, Gor- don, Minister of Labor, has arranged for a conference this week between representatives of railway labor and the Canadian railway managements on proposed wage reductions. This was stated briefly Friday night fol- lowing a conference between the Min- ister and the chiefs of the running trades. In arranging for the confer- ence Mr. Gordon was able to meet the request of union chiefs. No indi- cation was given as to the exact date of the conference. MEN OPPOSE REDUC,TI01'{. Montreal.—Some •100,000 members, comprising the combined railroad un- ions, will ask the Dominion Govern- ment to interver`.e in the present wage disputes, it was learned Friday, • With the final notices served on the :eaiutenanee of way .nen, whose membership includes all types of sec- tion workers to the number of about 35,000, every type of rail worker is included under the new proposed cut of 10 per cent. The new 10 per cent. salary reduction is the second within a year and a half, .and will bring the total reduction to 20 per cent. when it goes into effect the middle of July. With running trades union chiefs reported in conference with the Min- ister of Labor at Ottawa, union lead- ers in -Montreal said that they would not allow the cut to be effected, but will seek Government intervention along the same lines as those in force in the United States. 3 Trailers Hauled By One Plane Airmen's Dream of Aerial Train Takes Step To- ward Realization Los Angeles.—Three motorless air- planes were hauled about the sky here by a fourth. plane, acting as "locomotive:" , This is uuderstood here to be first instance in aerial history in the Uni- ted States in which as ` many - as three trailers have been towed simul- taneously by one motored craft, The .demonstration was regarded as a step toward realization of the dreams of airmen -that' of operating aerial express trains with only the leading 'ship powered and : the rest towed so they can be cut loose from the train at any landing field along a transport route. Chemists Standardize Canadian Rdium Supply Ottawa.—Chemists at the National Research Laboratories have standard- ized Canadian produced radium. In a few days it will be sold .to doctors, clinics and hospitals throughout the country, bringing renewed health to cancer victims. The radium: came from the extrac- tion plant at Port Hope, Ont„ step- ping place on its Fong trip from the rigged shores of Great Bear Lake in the Far North to lead -walled hospital vaults. The radium needles were COM - Will Grasshoppers Become Plagues In the Dominion Canadian Climatic Conditions Differ from Far East --Hop-. pers Need Two Genera- tions to Develop Migratory Wings Manitoba has figured in the news 01 the day recently when vast hordes of. grasshoppers invaded the countryside and lakes. Consequently the import." ant question; of the possibility of Cana,' dian grasshoppers imitating these 01 the Old World and evolving !into the migratory species, is raised. evolving! The late• Norman Criddle, writing in the "Canadian Entomologist" ke views this point very thoroughly and. it is his contention, that "Although many, Canadian grasshoppers bave been observed in the swarming phase, growing longer wings and developing slender, race -horse bodies capable oi long flight, It would appear that the migratory species of the Old World re . quires at least two generations to de velep ander certain climatic condi. tions, which apparently are absent le Canada and that in Canada the trans position from the solitary to the mil gratory phase ;seems to stop at the transition stage." At the same time, Mr. Griddle re cords "Thus, in 1932 the two-stripei grasshopper, for the first time in out experience (30 years), assumed all till aspects of the migratory locust and S! flew long distances and in such num, hers that the -larger lakes were pol luted with 'drowned insects. Indeed the shores of Lake Winnipeg presentel a mass of decaying grasshoppers soy eral inches deep, Nevertheless, Mr. Criddle state( that "it is difficult to compare the grasshopper outbreaks in Manitou! with those 3n the Old World as it h obvious that the conditions are entire ly different, and that the Dominiol will not have to combat conditions of the Far East, where the present -dal locust hordes desolate the countryside Canadian Navy to Patrol Pelagic Sealing Ground 'Ottawa. -Canada's navy has return ed to its dual base. The destroyer) Skenna and Vancouver have barbore4 at Esquimalt, B.C.,' and the Saguenay and Champlain at Halifax. H.M.C.S. Vancouver is being .groom ed for the Pelagic seal patrol up the. coast of Vancouver Island, through Hecate Straits, by Queen Charlotte Is. lands, and so to sub -Arctic seas. The Pelagic seal patrol is Canada'tt fulfilment of her treaty obligation with the United States for the protection of the famous fur seals of the Pribiloff Is lands. In June and July the seals go north to the breeding grounds of the islands,. but to prevent the depredations of licit sealers, American and Canadian naval vessels protect them on the jour. ney. The Pribiloff Isles used to, be the scene of wanton slaughter of the ani- mals, but two benevolent governments have stepped in. The' islands are United States territory and as the kill- ing of the seals has been made a gov ernment monopoly, and strictly regu lated. For her part in protecting the seals in Canadian waters and off the Canadian coast, Canada gets 15 pet cent. of the pelts. The other destroyers of the Cana dian navy will spend the summer or manoeuvres and training in Canadiatl waters. British Party to Measure Polar Ice Dept" London.—An Arctic expedition or ganized by Oxford and Cambridge Universities, is scheduled to depar( shortly to deterniine the depths of polar ice, it was announced here. Changes in the world's climate greatly depend on the polar ice, the scientists said. The expedition will precede only be, a few days the departure of the Lite coln Ellsworth expedition- to the An- tarctic. Oliver Hardy, Film Star, Files Suit .for Divorce Los Angeles. — Suit for divorce from Mrs. Myrtle Lee Hardy was filed in superior court today by Olivet Hardy, member of the film team of Laurel and Hardy, who charged hit wife with mental cruelty. In asking' the divorce Hardy charg. ed that litany times Mrs. Hardy woul4 leave home for a long period of time and when he found her "she was ix an exhausted and bedraggled condi, tion due to intoxicating )!*)tiers." French Producers Ask Ban on Foreign Fit= ,�•.`. Paris, A ban on all foreign me biotin pi'etures for one year, beginning July 5, was demanded in a resolution drafted by • french fill. 'prod'ucers, it was learned here. The demand is to be presented to the Ministry of commerce immediate ly, The French rodncers oppose ford sign competition which they fear may force them out of business. pared hero to a standard of known': Mrs, Caroline Merriott, London'.♦ intensity and their individual strength I oldest woman, agtd107, is down with catal.l.ogued. The Canadian ;standard bronchitis. She :was born at Tooting of 114.24 milligrams has been approved and worked In a laundryuntil she was'