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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-07-20, Page 64aaeraeareateereekemeeeeeeareeeeaterea,,,,,,,e'eae.eaeeeeeee ,a-e.e.eeee.e.e,..— ..— r. Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Ready For Anything —"Married Man Found. Guilty of Burglary." Well, °nee a fellow com- mits matrimony, there's no .telling what he'll do.—Border Cities Star, Praise From B.C. Ontario has complete control over its own highways. It has proved this by action that is most commendable, in keeping its scenery sacred, to the tourist. We read they are clean and well kept and the right of the people to the enjoyment of the road is recog- nized as including also the right to. freedom from the indiscrirahutte and obnoxious use of advertising signs and billboards. In. three year's 10,000 ob- jectionable and unauthorized advertis- ing signs have been removed from the highways, says The Ottawa Journal. We in British Columbia boast about our scenery. We have a right to, but what a much better right we would have if we only did what they do be Ontario. We could, too, only, it would Aeram, despite repeated promisesof it, our ministers are too afraid of hurting feelings.—Vancouver Province. Why Prices Climb The early promise of a bounteous Fain crop en the prairies has been Somewhat blighted by widespread drouth and a •serious visitation of grasshoppers in certain areas. It now 'seems apparent that the west this )rear will not harvest a very large crop. n fact, unless more propitious weath- er comes very soon, it -appears likely that under an average crop will be pro- duced.—Calgary Herald. Britain Has Led World in Disarming While the Disarmament Conference at Geneva hangs fire Canadians should p.ot forget the length to which Great ;Britain has gone in reducing her weep - ens of defence. The Mother Country keeps no big standing army, and her ., Jr force is maintained at a much low- 'er numerical strength than the French iiir force across the Channel. But it ip when we come to consider what the nited Kingdom has done in reducing s navy that we realize the length to Pilch the Admiralty has gone in giv- ia a pacific lead to the other nations .Great Britain has cut her naval de- fence to the bone despite the fact that t"11.e is the heart of a world-wide Ern - ire and that her food supplies and ery life depend upon open sea lanes to the ends of the earth. — Toronto ail & Empire. • Depression's Back Broken That the economic tide has turned, is now running steadily toward gen- i'al improvement, has become abund- ltly clear. Since April 1 cash wheat irices have increased 25 cents a bush - 1, this in itself being .a tremendous ing not merely for farmers, grain ro. - pa/ninnies and the Government, but for the whole country. But it is not Only wheat that shows improvement. r, Stevens, Minister of Trade and ommerce, speaks of "important ex - pension in industrial activity," is able Ito show "the greatest increase in em- Ploymeat reported in any month since Mine, 1930." During May the payrolls bt 8,105 firms showed increases, the 1. ,gain being larger thau the usual sea - Musa advance recorded- in the last Itwelve years. Such facts can't be ig- nored. When they are accompanied 'Sy greater bank clearings, increased 'ear -loadings, better railway earnings, heavier retail sales and a rise in cone- tinodity prices, their story is clear. It is that the back of the depression has een broken: that confidence has re- turned; that Canada and the whole of this Continent are well on the road leading back to reasonable prosperity. —Ottawa Journal. Learn to Swim Swimming is the most universal ac- complishment in sport. Moreover, it ds an art that, once learned, is never forgotten. Those who 'learn thereby lay up a long store of future pleasures and ideal exercise and at the same time provide against one hazard at least that lies in the way of human life. Yet many have never attempted a stroke. Particularly the youngsters should become water -wise and able to take care of themselves when be - pond their depth, Parents cannot have )?ea co of mind while their children are ;within reach of deep water, unless they bave been taught to swim. Since lid- Manity will go near the water in spite ))f the dangers, the first way to lower Me drowning rate is by making amphi- bians out of morNhuman beings. — kiiigston Whig -Standard. Dominron Day Thought Canada is still a young country, Her Institutions are yet in the malting. MI her systems of life are not what they might be. Her economic system may be far front perfect. 'We would do well to hold it and correct its weak. 4ess, until we are certain we have Pinething ready to work out which will function far better, We shall do well Ito maintain the ancient landmarks of constituted law and order, developing lit the same thne a deeper sense of duetice, for if we are to have revereuce or law, the laws must be just, and jus- tice must be even-handed, justice is a funclatnehtal necessity to a sound and eable political state. When jut. tive i' porverted a nation decays. If our laws or institutions are unjust, there must be orderly and construc- tive ways of changing them. On the whole we have reason for gratitude in Canada as we think ,of oiir social and political institutions and the respect our citizens possess for law and order. —London Free Press. THE EMPIRE Case For the 40 -Hour Week The general reduction of industrial woaitihg hours to 40 per week is au eminently sensible proposal, based on hard 'et:anemic facts, It is surely fool- ish to have two men working long hours and one man idle, instead of three men working shorter hours and enjoying more leisure. And, thanks to the technical improvements, this better clistributiou of work and leisure can be secured without any lowering of the standard of living.—The London Daily Herald. Air -Minded India The new service outlined in the Goer- ernment of India's recent explanatory comminque promises to furnish India with a bold start towards the develop- ment of one of the best organized and most convenient air services in the world. a.It is calculated to give this country a network of internal air ser- vices and to provide speedy communi- cation with other civilized nations east and west. This will be achieved main- ly by the use of Indian capital; it will be worked as far as possible, and more and more as time goes on, by Indian personner—The Times of India. An "Unofficial Conference" The conference of the delegates of the nations, comprising the British Commonwealth, which Mr. N. W. Ro- well of Canada has convened for next September in Toronto, is an extension of the Commonwealth idea, which is novel and interesting. A "purely un- official conference," the delegates will not be men hampered by their position as members . of the Government of :their oountry. They will be free to ex- press their views, There are, it is no- torious, wide differences of opinion as to the future of the British Common- wealth. Even in the Dominions there are considerable sections of opinion which feel that their membership of the Empire coustitutes a drag on their progress. If the Commonwealth is to cohere, grow stronger and prosper, those who hold this view should be steadily persuaded otherwise, — The Madras Hindu, Slow -Moving China China is changing slowly, and In her own way. There will be no magical new birth, no sudden awakening of a sense of unity and a public spirit of personal self-saorifice, in place of the old clan and -family spirit. But China is going forward in her own manner, incomprehensible to the West. She cannot, be hurried, and the way is long, But in the end this great nation will win through to freedom and good or- der, to a prosperity as astonishing to her neighbors as she was in the days of Marco Polo to the few stray visit- ors from the disturbed and unhappy lands of the West.—Hong Kong Week- ly Press, The Hindu As Student A splendid record of academic and other successes by Indian students at English Universities and Colleges is covered by the report on the work of the Education Department of the High Commissioner's Office in London for last year, which has just been pub- lished. Somewhat surprisingly the economic stress of the times has re- sulted in no decline in the total num- ber of Indian students seeking ad- vanced courses of study in Englan.d, and the number of admissions to edu- cational institutions was slightly greater than in the previous year. The number of women students, too, con - Unties the small but steady increase of the past few years, most Of them seeking qualifications 111 Medicin.e and Education. The great measure of suc- cess won by students working in the superior faculties for senior degrees is indicated by the fact that 12 Indiane qualified for tire high professional medical distinctions of F.R.O.S. or M.R.C.P., England, four obtained the Doctorate of Science, and no less than 51 were awarded the degree of Ph.D. in various brandies of learning and re- search.—The Calcutta Statesman. 34-Le;:t.er Name Offered For Rail Station in India Madras.—The name of a new sta- tion on a branch railway in South In- dia .will be Adikalapurammun- Veera- patidiyanpatham if the suggestion of the authorities concerned is adopted. Two villages, Adikalaporam and Veerapandiyanpatnam, are equi-dis- taut from this station, so each claimed that its name should be used. One was taken and the station has been rigor- ously boycotted by the disappointed villager's ever since. As a eoMprornise a suggestion has i been made that the names of both' villages be given to the station, "Tf a man wants to know what his real religion is, he thoulcl ask himself, 'What are the things whits I would clic rather than do'?"—Dean Inge. 1,1•1•••••••ri,... Sweeps Through Illinois '•'1V;1•Mif4,„ Roofs were blown in and windows blown out when a big wind visited Chicago and nearby towns. The damage runs into millions, Here's what happened to a gas station at Dundee, Ill. British Nationality Greenhorns are Warned To Leave Canoes A And Status of Aliens Comraents the Toronto Mail and one Empire—"The arrival of Leo Lalonde, To Provide That Woman Upon Marriage Shall Ac- quire Husband's Nation- ality and Avoid Be- coming "Woman Without a Country" London.—Recently the House, of Lords gave second reading to a bill which provides that a woman on marrying shall acquire her husband's nationality, if her own national laws deprive her of her own nationality as a result, The bill, the "British nationality and status of aliens' bill," also pro- vides that naturalization of the hus- band during marriage shall not ine Volvo any change of nationality of the wife without her consent. Lord Sankey, the Lord Chancellor, told the peers the main object of the bill was to safeguard women marry- ing citizens of the Unqed States fromlosing their . own nationality without acquiring that of the United_ States, and thus becoming a woman without a country. The bill, he added, included pro- viedeas .on which it was alone pos- sible to aecure agreement at the pre- sent time among many parts of the empire. The House of Commons already has before it a bill, defeated six times previously, which would re- store to British women a right they lost many years ago—that of retsis- leg their own nationality, if they so decided, on marriage to a foreigner. Former Heavyweight Champion Marries Czech Actress Berlin, — Max Schmeling, former heavyweight boxing ,drampion of the world, and Miss AnnOndra, screen and musical- comedy actress, were married in a civil ceremony at the Charlottenburg City Hall here, Their honeymoon was spent at Heiligandamm, A Yeligious celebra- tion of the marriage was conducted later at Saarow, where Schmeilng re- sides. Max, at tine wheel of his own car, was cheered by a large crowd at the City Hall, He wore a blue .saok suit, His bride was clad in a rose colored dress. The bridegroom's trainer, , Max Meehan, was the best man. Schmeling returned to' Germany June 14, -after losing a light to Maa BAer. a Northern Ontario trapper and fish- erman, at Port Colborne in a birch bark canoe, shows how serviceable this craft is when properly handled. Setting out from Deux Rivieres, he travelled down the Ottawa River, through the Rideau Canal, up Lake Ontario to the Niagara River. A portage took him around the Falls, and he proceeded by Lake Erie to Port Colborne, He intends to fol- low the Canadian shores of the Great Lakes to Duluth. But Lalonde hes been accustomed to a canoe all his life. Let no greenhorn try to emulate him "Mr. H. B, Dawson, of Port Arthur, writes to the News -Chronicle in de- fence of the canoe, 'To my notion,' he says, 'the canoe is the safest of all small craft when properly hand- led. You give sage advice when Italy -France To Sign Pact Daladier to Visit Mussolini and Adjust Differences Paris.—Prender Edouard Daladier will go to Ronie to sign the four - power paet July 24 and to have a private talk with Premier Mussolini in order to lay the lanais for a settle- ment of differences which have 'mar- red relations between France and Italy since the Gieat War, As a result of the Italian Premier's pact in which Great Britain, Ger- many, France, and Italy will join for peaoe, France is reader to form a tveo- power club with Mussolini to show the Balkans how to keep out of war. Allied with France are the Little Entente nations, Czechoslovak's, Yugoslavia and Roumania and Po- land. Italy. has strong influence in Ansa you tell the novice to kneel on the tria, Hungary and Bulgaria, and has bottom of the ,canoe. If this is al- established good relations with Ger- ways done. there is little or no dan- many. ger of upsetting, but to sit on the Governmental officials say the prob- thwart or seat or even the deck, is able course will be to set up a close surely inviting- danger.' Mr. Daw- economic system to unite commercial - son's authority for writing thus may ly the three French friends of the be gathered from his own. experiences. Little Entente and Italy's so-called 'Personally, I have sailed a canoe proteges, Austria and Hungary. over thunder Bay and have paddled it when launches found difficulty in C anada's Part in War navigating and have never felt that T was in danger, nor have I at anY Is Now Being Written eanie . shipped any great quantity of Ottawa. --With the end, of the war water, The canoe is safe, just as noiv nearly 15 , years in the back - an automobile is safe, if it is handled ground, the part played in that con - with care." tlict bv Canada is now being officially "The qualification. 'when properly written. Col. A:. Fortescue Duguid, handled' in defence of a canoe applies D.S.O., director of the historicalsee- equally to many other things. No tion Department of National Defence, one would think of driving an auto- is engaged in the work- of compiling mobile on a crowded street without the first volume of the war -history. practice on a vacant lot or elsewhere. While an advance copy of this No one would enter a steeplechase be- initial book has been issued, It is fore learning to ride a horse. Nor understood to be devoted to - mobili- would anyone give a skating exhibi- nation and operations in 1914 and' tion betore learning to skate. The 1915' - canoe is condemned because so many The duty of writing Canada's o0, - greenhorns imagine that all they cial war history was given to the have to do is to step into it, For historical section 12 years ago, The their benefit we repeat the advice gigantic task of assembling and co - given. by Mr. Blomfield: 'Don't look ordinating many tons of documents like a greenhorn paddling a canoe, and the drawing of hundreds of by sitting on a thwart or seat.' ' hundreds of maps has occupied the : attention of the personnel of that de- partment for some years past. Most from a week's holiday, found a live owl A Rayleigh householder, returning of this perched on his dining -room mantel- , work is tondpleted. piece. The bird apparently entered bY It is expected that the first volume the chimney. will be published within the next e , eight months, _._._..._e....—.. blrtzeg Luk, a peasant of Klutch, City is 62 P.C. Illiterate, Bosnia, was knocked unconscious by Libson.—An official survey of Settl- e brick, thrown in a brawl. When he bal, center of Portugal's sardine trade, recovered he walked Aft miles to the showsthat 123,103 of the city's 197,996 -nearest hospital, where the doctors inhabitants can neither read nor Write, found that his skull was severely frac- showing au illiteracy of more than 62 tured. per cent. WM7'•7,1, ,t111 #014t.i1C: VSg Hundreds of people wait daily tor treatment at Dr. Locke' e allele at Williamsburg, the mecca, of thousands who ciahn miraeuldee ceree and straightened limbo tinder the powerful, nimble hands of the doctor. Here is a typical scene any day of the w eek, Arrow shoWe Where Dr. Locke is itt work, Air Tour Planned Through Maritime Goodwill Tour Set For Early itt August --Toronto Fly- ers to Take Part Toronto.—Toronto will be well rep resented in the first annual 1Vlaritirns Goodwill Air Tour over a 3,000 -mils route, during which the principal ren' tres in Nova Scotia, New Rrunswicli and Prince Edward Island will be visited during the latter part of Aug The formation flight of the Torontc Flying Club, which gained an enviabh reputation during the last Trans Canada Aid Pageant, will participate in the tour. It is con.prised of thret planes to be flaivn by Arthur Flack the leader; Charles Le Fevre an Curtis C. Bogart. Ontario participants in the tour which is for the purpose of ineulcat ing the ease and safety of ,air travel tn the minds of Maritiine citizens will take off at the. Toronto Myhre Club airport on Sunday, Aug. 13. The tour will start from Montreal on the following day and from there will proceed to Quebec,Woodstock, Mom.' ton, St. John, Amierst, Charlottetown New Glasgow, Truro, Sydney, Hali• fa and Annapolis Royal. Anew air- port will be officially opened on az- rival of the tour fleet at Annapolis Royal. The return flight will be via the same points. At each point visited an invitatior nvill be delivered to the mayor and citizens on behalf of Mayor Stewart to attend Toroato's centennial celebra- tion net year. A number of Toronto fliers and others throughout the pro- vince will participate in the tour as a holiday trip. Among those who be flying on the tour are: Ernest C. French, To- ronto Flying Club director, and Mrs, French; Sydney Cleverley, a director of the Toronto Flying Club; Sure Foley of Hamilton Flying Club, and George Ross of Ottawa, secretary of the Canadian Plying Clubs' Associa- tion, Keith Russell, past president of the Toronto Flying Club and president of the Canadian Flying Clubs' Aseo. dation, and Mrs. Russell have also cLartered a machine for the tour George Bennett, noted parachute juuper, will also likely acconmarq the tour. Refuses Undergo Agony Full Dress in Summel London. — Lendon',s, clubs buzze recently over the exploit of the 62, year-old Duke of Maelborougn, whc appeared at a Grand Druids' banquet last evening clad in white liner trousers, a soft collar and shirt. In the course of a speech the Duke ninth holder of the historic title congratulated hinaself on his eos turae. He pointed out kindly that he noticed others present properly attired in evening dress were mop ping themselves and undergoing the agony—in this, heat wave—of hard and brutal collars, British Air Lines Double the Number of Passenger' London.—Passenger traffic on Brit ash air lines increased more than 100 per cent. above that of 1931, publica. tion of the 1932 report of the direct torate of civil aviation in the Air Ministry showed. The report noted an increase al almost 100 per cent. in passenger traffic on British cross-channel ser vices, an increase considerably great er than that of foreign services ily ing the same route, Fifty-nine per cent. of all cross channel passengers were flown or British aircraft in 1932, compare( with 48 per cent, in 1931. Debutantes at 1933 Ascot Pleased Conservative Eyt London.• ---The curious thing about Ascot this year was that not 01113 the debutantes wore dresses renin ascent of the Edwardian era, but also their mothers and the old wornex chose full-length dresses of chiffox and georgette made on long graceful lines with softly feminine trimmings, Gays a woman society editor. Al as result, they appeared move graci' oils and charrning than they have for many a year.. It would be hard to disapprove of this season's debutantes, she thinks They are very different from iamb Predecessors of last year or tin year before, Winning Beauty Prizes Becoming a Habit of Studeni Beauty prizes are getting to be s habit With Mies Mildred Cobb, Mon roe student et Louisiana State Una versity at Baton Rouge. She's won so many of them, they are "old stiff" by now hi the Monroe high school, site was 'Queen of I3eauty." At a South Carolina junior eollege she was elect ed "Most Beautiful" two years in succession. Sho was recently nane ed the "Ideal Girl" of the state Una. Vereity, and Will represent the achool in a national moving pie -hire ,contest to be conducted by a magazine. Miss Cobb is five feet !oar inches tall, weighs 110 pounds, has blue gray eyes and dark, curly bair. Health is bettor than wealth, but the latter is always an intageestiug la Valid, •••