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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-10-19, Page 61. -144".+++14, -***10.9".."1"4"14-0,11r+.• -ra, wo+►•o^o•+� s 0 c a yA44-0,+-+.-01,0)--o-o•a-!w-! .4 • Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large +►-.rl••.-.-s-a-o-•w-a-e•�+_..e•J-.n•-b-m-'W-?^ -s •y' '---w-m,.o-... c.•a,q-A y,-s� •a-a-p•c.e.+.a-.>4 '•+S-� w4-04 CANADA The Worst Insect The Blairinore, Alberta, Enterprise, seriously describes the visit of *a young man and his lady friend to a restaurant one evening•. The youug lady was an- noyed by a large but lonely house fly that buzzed round her face and her food. "Waiter," called the young lady in a hoity-toity tone of voice, "will you please remove tbis insect?" Before anyone really realized who/ was hap- pening the waiter had thrown the young man on his head out of the res- taurant, --Porcupine Advance. A psychologist declares that we eat we become. Let's try rich food. -Ottawa Journal, what some Dead Town Comes to Life After 25 years the post office branch !n Wawa is to be reopened. The scene of the first gold rush in Ontario in the late '90's, Wawa was for a few years a busy community, but the gold rush to the Klondike, along with the later discoveries in other sections, served for quite a period to divert attention from it and it became almost a'"ghost town," Now it is coming into its own again, with active work going on at several mining properties in the Michi- picoten district, including two present producers and other prospective ones. It is once more busy and once more it has its post office. Yes, they do come back.—Sault Ste. Marie Star, Pioneers Escaped Something We have often heard people saying that the pioneers never got any assist- ance when they came to this country. •Probably this is true. They got in here and had to make it stick. They had no way of getting out. But there are other things to consider. The pioneers were not raying for paved roads. They were not paying for an expensive school system. They were not paying to keep an army of inspectors busy. They were not buying things on the installment plan. They did not have to invest hundreds of dollars in harvest- ing machinery, nor did they have to keep it in repair. They did not have to pay for interest on government bonds. All honor to the pioneers, but let us re- member that they bad not bumped in- to the load of taxation which the farm- er armer of to -day has to carry.—Cornwall ' Standard. When a Barn is Not a Barn About once a week for some time bast, there has been noticed car after car speeding eastward on. Gore Street, filled r-ith boys and girls, young men and ladies, and the wonder for a time was where they were heading for. It was later ascertained that a barn dance was the attraction. An immense barn has been erected on the farm of Mr. Alex Mahon, near Portland, in which old-time barn dances were week- ly occasions, and so popular have the assemblies become that hundreds of young folk have been attracted there. The barn is completely floored, and it is rumored that it is not for storing the season's crops, not at present any- how; but will be used entirely for the dances, and that the whole undertak- ing ndertaking is conducted by a company.—Perth Expositor. Canada's Airports Canada has ninety-six licensed air- ports. It is a fair beginning, but over. an area as wide as this Dominion an aviator is liable to be a long way from a lauding field when it is most needed. The United States has 2,136 airports and landing fields. Many are lighted for night use. Canada will need to push on with this necessary ground- work to keep abreast of Le times in aviation as it is coming within the next few years.—Ottawa Citizen. yeld this year is estimated at 204,000,- 000 bushels, as compared with savor 400,00Q,000 bushels last year, and other field crops show a corresponding de- cline.—Calgary Herald, Buy Canadian A useful campaign, which has been in force for some years, is now being pursued all over Canada—the cam- paign to buy Canadian. goods. It is not necessary to push chauvinism to the point of boycotting- all merchandise of foreign origin; this is neither possible nor practical, Nevertheless it is rea- sonable, each time we get the oppor- tunity, to show our preference for what is manufactured in our own country by our own fellow-citizens.—La Tri- bune, Sherbrooke. THE EMPIRE • Fat Years and Lean Very good reasons will have to be produced before the Australian farm- ers will consent to a restriction of their output. A limited sowing of wheat may be followed by a bad sea- son, and the farmer may lose every- thing. It may be followed by .a bad season in other countries, , and the farmer in the country in which the season has been good will miss the gain that would have been his had he sown a full crop. The wheat grower has to take risks of weather and of market. Even now, while the subject is being discussed, news comes fore- shadowing a partial failure of the United States' crop. It may be that nature will redress the balance and im- pose all the restriction necessary. Melbourne Australasian. Many Young Dukes The Duke of Roxburghe, who will be twenty on Thursday, is joining the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues) from Sandhurst, thus following the example of his father, who died last September as the result of wounds received in the' Great War, and of his uncle, Lord Ala- stair Innes -Ker. The latter com- manded the regiment for four years before receiving his present appoint- ment as Equerry to the King. During his two years a. Sandhurst the young Duke has shown himself a promising polo player. It is, by the way, remarkable that a -number of dukes at the present time are young and unmarried. Premier Duke and Hereditary Mar- shal of England, the. Duke of Norfolk was twenty-five in May. The Duke of Northumberland; richest of tbe four, is just of age, and the Duke of Grafton, a year younger than the Duke of Rox- burghe, was nineteen last month. The bachelor royal Duke, the Duke of Glou- cester, is thirty-three. As Disraeli wrote, "Oh to be a duke and young!"—London Daily Mirror. New Zealand Sheep (Sheep flocks in New Zealand have shrunk 3,064,000 since the peark year, 1930.) The siege'the sheep farmer has endured has been a desperate one. He was the first to feel the depression in all its force, and he has suffered in loss of income more than any other prim- ary producer. His flocks were built up to record heights in 1930 under the in- fluence of very favourable market con- ditions in several years preceding. Their subsequent retreat from that level is far from being disastrous. If, as common justice would suggest, and as the prices for sheepskins, fat stock and crossbred wool seems to promise, he is to be among the first to enjoy an instalment of recovery, to restore the flocks to their former aggregate should be neither a difficult nor a very lengthy process. That they have not decreased more is indicative of the tenacity with which the sheep farmer waits for better times. — Auckland Weekly News. Lake Louise The death at the age of 74 of Tom Wilson, the man who discovered Lake Louise and Emerald Lake, brings to us with full impact realization of the fact that we are following very closely in- deed in the tracks of the pioneers. Fifty years ago Lake Louise, to -day a holiday resort known in every city of yhe'land, in every Eut opean capital, wag looked upon by white men for the first time.—Calgary Albertan, Better Health But 200,000 Die - Often there is grim humor in statin tical reports. Thus we have a United States writer building up columns of figures to prove that "the health of the American people is improving," and then going on to show that there have been 200,000 automobile - accident deaths on United States' highways "since the boys came home in the sluing of 1919,"—Ottawa Journal. Nature Leads The part that Mother Nature has played in the United States' campaign to reduce natural products is seen by the final crop figures just issued, Here. are the results: Wheat—Smallest crop In 37 years. Oats-Lowe.t production in 39 years, . Rye—Never so small a crop in 46 years, Flaxseed --Smallest in 14 years and only slightly over 1919 low record. Ilariey7,Lower than re cent years and about equal to average foi-;:900.1933. Coria .. _Larger than 1901. and, 1930, but Irma To'wer than aver age,. In Western Canada the same de velppuient has occurred. The wheat Toronto' llllan Bags Eagle Nira," bald-headed eagle, with 7 -foot wing spread, shot at Kes- wick, Lake Sintcoe Ontario, by Marvin Clark, 38 Saulter St., Toronto. Clark is shown here with the ,eagle, said to be •very rare in Ontario, Germany -France In Baby Contest Offer Subsidies for Each Child In Effort to Increase Population Germany and France are engaged in a race for population which might ,be amusing if it were not in deadly earn- est. In Germany the Large Family League, a State organization to help parents with many children,has been called into being to carry out Hitler's campaign to lighten•the burden of the family man and increase that of .the bachelor. Lower railway and tramcar fares, it is stated, will be granted to mothers and fathers travelling with• four or more children. Under recent decrees marriages are subsidized by a. State grant ranging up to £50. "^The grant is nominally a loan, but if child- ren are born the debt is cancelled at the rate of £ 12 10s. for each child. In France a measure of great social and industrial importance has been' quietly set going by decree. This is the family subsidy, which went into effect throughout the country on Oc- tober 1, wheff the workmen's depend- ent children became a charge: on the payroll of the employers. In each of the ninety departments of Eastern France, offices and -funds are nowbeing established. Employers : will make compulsory contributions to the local funds. These funds will be distributed to the workmen according to the num- ber of their dependent children up to the age of sixteen. At first the Frenchlaw will apply to certain key industries only, notably mining, metal working, textiles, chemi- cals and colors, electrical equipment and building. It will be extended dur- ing the Winter to all trades. The scale of subsidies is fixed by decree. Though it varies in detail by locality, it begins at 7s. 6e1. a month for the first The Great Gold Rush (Gold is moving to England at the rate of $20;000,000 weekly). London is the great gold market of the world. dere the hoarders come to buy their precious metal. The fear that the paper currency they hold may depreci- ate in value. They would do better to invest their money in productive en- terprise and keep trade moving. If their terrors were well founded. and trade come to a standstill, their gold would not• buy theni broad,—London Daily Express. THE UNITED STATES. Memorable Incident John McCormack sang at his daugh- ter's wedding in a London church re- cently. This is the sort of incident which can make tbe whole world kin. It was his only daughter, and the great tenor must, notwithstanding his happi- ness, have felt some of that intensity of emotion which a swan is said to ; feel in his song of death as he saw his daughter going from him. This scene was of the same fabric as opera which McCormack knew in his younger days, It was high drama as touching as the Irish folk songs which have made Mc- Cormack known and loved. Such inci- dents tend to elevate tbe hearts of all; people at least for a moment. What- ever•his other great achievements be- tiveen birth and death this incident will possibly be one of tate few which most characterize this man and make him memorable, ---New Voris World- TelGerona 1 child and increases for each additional child, without maximum limitation. The father of four children would re- ceive between 37s. 6d. and 50s. a month. Rates for additional children range from 5s. to 30s. in special cases. • Despondent Scholar Takes -His Own Life Simcoe. — Despondent because he was obliged to attend school with children younger and smaller than himself, Clifford Herron, 15, com- mitted suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a :22 calibre rifle. The boy's body was found by his father, Charles Herron in a small p:..ykouse situated in a barn back of the family's .home on Col- borne Street. He had been dead for several hours. The boy had often expressed dis- satisfaction at attending public scliool, and had planned to leave next month whenhe would have been 16 years of age. He failed to attend school one day . last week, and did not return home for bis meals. Thinking that he had spent the night in the barn, his father early in the morning commenced a search- The door was bolted from the inside, 'and on forcing it open he found the body of his son, On a table was a note explaining the reason for his- action: Coroner Dr. J S. Boyd stated there Will; be no inquest. Surviving are three brothers Alger, Harvey arid Glen, and two sisters Lillian and " Peggy, Sweden To Break From Tariff Truce Stockholm, Sweden.—Sweden in- tends to denounce the tariff truce agreed upon at London as a prelimin- ary to the World Economic Confer= ence, it was repo:•.ted authoritatively here: No Fatalities! A Passenger coach cut some strange capers Mice a Grand 'fru • Passenger :train collided with three switch • engines, running' tande n near rentor Mich., recently, but no one was killed and the only serious injuries were to the engineer and fireman of tha, passenger locomotive, who jumped Tenants - Landlord Ccs -operate Novel:Plan Proves Satisfactory Unemployed Paint Houses on Street—Reduce Rent Arrears --Produces Cash Toronto, Oct, 0, -- Co-operation be- tweed unemployed tenants on a Tor- onto street and their landlord, a big corporation, has resulted in improve- ment to every house on the street, bet- terment of the landlord's property, and has lowered rents arrears and pro- vided some cash for the families, it was revealed last night by J.: F. Hen- drie, teal estate agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway. ' Possibility of the scheme being adopted by other owners or holders of large blocks of properties led to the explanation by Mr. Hendrie of the sys- tem evolved by his company and his tenants on Marlborough Avenue. Ten- ants, he stated, are pleased with it, and the company was more than satis- fied with the results it produced. • "The C.P.R. is owner of 86 dwellings on Marlborough, parallelling the tracks near North Toronto station," he stated. "Many of the men, handy men or un- skilled laborers, have been hard hit by the times and had fallen in arrears on their rents despite every effort en theii part to make ends meet and pay tbe rent. The majority, too, were tenants of long standing. • "We had a mutual get-together, therefore, to seek some solution fol their problem. We decided that the. unemployed tenants would paint all 86 houses unded the supervision of one 01 their own number as foreman. The company siupplied all the material, la cured the men under the Workmeu'e Compensation Aot and the work was started, "The results have been most grati fying for all parties," continued Mr. Hendrie. " "The unemployed tenants have seen their arrears of rent grad- ually erased from the ledger, and the property has been made spick and span at a reasonable cost. In fact, the scheme went along so smoothly that it was decided that all the labor would not simply be credited on the rent ledger, but that each man would draw a percentage in cash to help keep his family and himself going." Canada–U.S. To Observe Typists Advised To Marry Boss Marie Dressler's Birthday New York. — Marie Dressler, the grand old trouper who came out of Cobourg, Ont,, to entertain audiences with her slow, catching smile and ability to turn pathos into mirth, is to have an international birthday celebration. The idea was hit upon by a group of New York admirers of the veteran actress, who has eptertained for close to half a century in vaudeville on the. stage and screen, after launch- ing on a circus career. They thought movie clubs in the various cities would join in with informal birthday parties. Miss Dressler was in New York on vacation and -they approached her with the plans. The reaction was Happy tears, then— "Pshaw. I'm not that Important. I've been having birthdays for years," But the plans went ahead and pro- gress is reported. The Syracuse, N.Y., Herald Movie Club, qu ekly joined the movement with plans for a gala party, towering birthday cake and all, even thonglr Miss Dressier woa't be able to attend personally. An invitation was sent President and Mrs. Roosevelt to Bead the Dressler Birthday Club of Washington, German Journalists Face Strict Rules Berlin. ---A new law making jour- nalists public officials and regulating their rights and duties is interpreted as ending finally fre ideal of the press, , as understood in the 'United States. In their new status German jour- nalists must bow to the so-called "leadership principle," meaning that they must take orders from the top, which permits no appeal. Chancellor Adolf Hitler recently signed the measure. It put down iron rules for German journalism, by which Aryanism and National So- cialist patriotism were made primary professional qualifications. Any infringement may remove the offender from further opportunity to pursue his profession. A system of 'registered lists was introduced af- fording the Propaganda Ministry a means of keeping a vigilant eye on writers War -Time Service Is Repaid at Last Monessen, Pa.—Wounded soon after he went to the front in France 15 Years ago William Fields of Browns- ville, pleaded with a nurse: "Please don't let them cut off my arm," She patted his shoulder reassur- ingly—and Fields came back home with his arm intact. He never saw her again in France. That nurse --Eleanor Schoolhart of .Monessen=was handed a parking tc- ket in Brownsville and told to see the Burgess, As she placed the tag on the Sar- gon' desk, that official, the same W11_ Liam Fields she befriended overseas, looked up and recognized her. She paid no line. Has Earned Title Of "Meanest Thief St, Thomas. --Another- claimant to :the title of "meanest thief" is re- ported here. This meanest thief entered the home of a deaf and dumb woman in Oliver St,, St. Thomas Ont., and took away her supply of charity fuel, He was evidently aware of, the woman's physical .defeats, as he carted awry the wood under "cover of darkness without fear of detection. • Machine Tells Dust Effect Buffalo, -- Ono month's accumula- tion of dust on an electric bulb . re- duces by about 40 per cent the amount of light which, it diffuses. This important lhformation for economical housewives is establish- ed by a measuring machine exhibit ed here at the convention of the Na- tional Association of Power Engi- neers: • Learned Chicago Judge Gives Stenography Lecture Chicago.—Judge Edward B. Casey believes that although a stenographel be ever so adept with pencil and key board, she is not 100 per cent. efficient unless she also understands and prat• tices the artistic use of paint, powder and silk stockings. Casey so informed 1,500 students of stenography in a lecture here. Moreover, Judge Casey told his youthful listeners that a stenographer interested in promotion and cliaractei development should plan early to mar- ry ber boss. "If you are successful," he said, "you probably will find you have developed your finest characteristics." Canada and U.S. Parley By Commerce Chambea Montreal.—Economic questions of interest to Canada and the United. States will be discussed at an inform- al meeting of representatives of the Canadian and the United States Cham , ber of Commerce, it announced here. The conference will take place at the Signory Club, Que., during the coming week -end. Actress Killed Hollywood. A young woman struck down and killed by an automobile driven_ .by John Huston, 26 -year-old son of Walter Huston, the 'Toronto - born actor, is identified as Mrs. Raoul Roulein, wife of the noted Brazilian -actor who has been appearing in the Spanish-speaking films. in Hollywood, Orders Killing Of 2,000 Buffalo The Government has authorized the slaughter of 2,000 buffalo in Buffalo National Park, Wainwright, Alberta, for the 'purpose of keeping the herd down to specified proportions. Tenders are now being invited for the purchase of the skins from the animals to be slain, comprising 500 males, two years • of age; 150 males, three_ years of age; 200 females, three years of age; 400 males, four to 15 years of age; 650 females, four years of age and over, and 100 aged animals. The animals are to be slaughtered during Novem- ber and December. Football Players Act As Nurses and Housemaids Butte, Mont.—When they aren't toting a pigskin, several football play, ers at Montana School of Mines are nursemaids, housmaids and firemen. But six members of the squad haus added a new• occupation to the list They offered themselves as profession- al blood -donors to raise school ex- penses. - Foresees A Surplus In British ;Budget London.—In a financial statement is. sued recently, Neville' Chamberlain chancellor of the exchequer,. stated that unless a s;etbacit occurs, prospects exist of a budget surplus next Asiril. The chancellor reported revenue re turns for the firstsix months of 2275,- 736,000, 275,736,000, an increase of more than £7, 000,000 over receipts for the corres ponding period ast year, and expendi• tures of £324,326,000, a decrease o1 £ 42,000,000. Reductioe in the tax on beer was held responsible for a decline of £8,- 000,000 in excise reveztue, bu"t:treasury. experts had eapected the loss would be heavier, ., . Income tax receipts•were down £3; 000,000, but the: greater7part4pf thesis • is paid,during the last half of the year; the statement read. ' New Highway to •Connect : - Canada and, United States Montreal,—A View international touts ist highway connecting Canada -.ailed• the 'United States is now practically .: completed andwill be known as the Sunshine Highway,' This highway is': the only international project of its;', . . size east o fuze .Rocky Mountains,