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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-11-09, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The. World at. Large 1 Great Britain Electrified CANADA .Dootor Bill .A single germ without dependents can live Indefinitely on a dollar bill, according to science. Theta one ad- vantage tire germ has over the rest of us.—North Bay Nugget. Appropriate Penalty Several dental offices in Ontario have been visited by robbers search- ing for gold. IE they are caught, the penalty might be a few hours in the dentist's chair,—Goderich Signal, Optimism in the West Western canada, with its large yield of farm products, and its possibilities e vastly greater production, should not be discouraged about its future. The world managed to consume the production of vast areas of new lands during the past sixty years without, any apparent indigestion until the pre - lent depression came along. A re- storation of good times would im- sriediately see improved demand for farm products. And there are no great new lands similar to Western Canada, Argentine and Australia, still to be opened tor agricultural development.— Calgary Herald. Then and Now There is a suggestion to build 500 homes in Hamilton at a cost of $1,500 each. Do you remember when plenty of folk were ready to pay that much for a garage?—Stratford Beacon -Her- ald. Youth Has Faith in Future Despite all the University graduates who are looking for jobs—the universi- ties continue to be filled with students. The youth still have faith in the fu- ture.—London Free Press. Hard to Realize Traffic through the Sault Ste Marie Canal in September was the heaviest in any month since 1930, totalled 8,- 453,000 toss. Wonder how many of us realize there is more' traffic through the Sault Canal than through the Suez Canal,—Ottawa Journal Greatest Gifts We are at one with Editor Young, of the Port Arthur News -Chronicle in his eulogy of punkin pie. It is Heav- en's greatest gift to man, it and a good set of dependable galluses.—Sault Ste. Marie Star. Why Editors Go Mad They are being made by someone every day. Recently, a regrettable but rather humorous error crept into this column when it said that the an- nual banquet of the Baseball Club was "hell" at Caesaea. Needless to say, this was a typographical slip and the word should have been "held."—Port Hope Guide. Air Traffic Figures presented at the meeting of the International Air Traffic Associa- tion in London show that the world's air lines cover to -day more than 200,- 000 miles as compared with 9,000 miles in 1928. Air transportation has thus made immense strides in the last five years and may be expected to advance en an even greater scale in the next five.—Kingston 'Whig -Standard. The Tourist Traffic The tourist trade has become a real source of wealth to Canada. Every year thousands of foreigners come from all points of the American Con- tinent to visit us and leave millions of dollars in the province.—La Tri- bune, Sherbrooke. With characteristic British thor- oughness the problemof providing England, Scotland and Wales with. electricity has been carried to com- pletion, Eight years ago a royal com- mission reported upon a national elec- tricity supply. Parliament passed the necessary legislation and last mouth saw the completion of the entire scheme. Four thousand miles of trans- mission line have been built. They rest on 26,265 steel towers. This is the so-called electrical grid, or pool, which now covers practically all parts of Great Britain. It is an immense achievement. When the Weir Com- mission reported the per capita con- sumption of electricity in Great Britain was 110 kilowatt hours. To -day it is 273 k.w.h. The scheme has cost $135,- 000,000, exclusive of $507000,000 spent on the standardizing of frequency, or in other words, on the scrapping of equipment which could not be harmon- ized with the national network,—Win- nipeg Tribune. THE EMPIRE Strongest Horses Liverpool claims the strongest horses in the world, and that they are the Toronto.—Employment in Ontario desceudants of those that the Britons has improved by approximately 25 per used in their battle against the Ro cent. this Fall over the corresponding mans about the beginning of the Chris- period last year, according to Hon. Dr. tian era. Two of these horses actual- J D. Monteith, Ontario Minister of ly pulled eighteen and a half tons on Labor. a slippery road, and two others pulled Many men, it is reported, have. called at employment offices during the past few weeks to have their names crossed off the list of appli- The Campaign Against Noise cants. This is believed to indicate jobs are less scarce Leagues that are formed with an Twenty-five lumberjacks lave been "anti-" something programme usually called to Sudbury to work in the bush aim at serving the crochets of minori- there. These are the first to be sent ties who think that what they want I north since the start of the depression. everybody else should be made to Reports that employment had showed want. No such qualification attaches definite improvement were verified by to the Anti -Noise League. Noise has the Ontario government employment become one of the major curses of offices, where, it is stated, conditions civilization—if you can call civilized . are definitely on the mend, improving an era in which regard for all the old , "definitely and persistently." Travelling Comfort Probably the most comfortable train in the world will start its daily runs between Forth Worth and Texarkana. soon. It is gasoline propelled, runs on rubber tires, carries 76 passengers and has a speed of 75 miles per hour. Employment Is Better in Ontario Improvement is 25 Per Cent. Over Corresponding Per- iod Last Year twenty-nine and a half toes on a dyna- mometer built to register only twenty- nine tons. decencies of life has largely gone by f the board—and I prophesy widespread lean S¢Ord-Smith's Record public support for the League. Its pur- pose is definite and practical—to en- ( Lowered by 11 Hours list such a force of public opinion as , Derby, West Australia.—Charles T. will induce the authorities to regulate, P. Lum and three companions arrived by law certain forms of noise which here at 4.15 p.m., Greenwich meridian are manifestly injurious to the com- 1 -time (11.15 a.m., E:S.T.), Oct, 19. es= fort, health, and repose of the com- I tablishing a new record for a flight munity at large, as well as being dam- from England. aging to efficiency and the amenities The fliers beat the record of Air of numerous urban localities. "Bid Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford - every noise be still; peace yet again." —Truth (London). The Post -War World Smith by 11 hours. The latter's time was seven days, four hours and 44 minutes for the flight by stages. In a final burst of speed after Rhea "I ani twenty-five. I was seven when seemed the chances were gone, the the War broke out. My memories of quartt completed the journey from the pre-war world are perfectly clear, although, of course, they are the mem- ories of a child. An undergraduate of nineteen was born in 1914. He can have little recollection of the War at all. His earliest memories are of the first War years. A young pian of seventeen just about to go to the Uni- versity has the same recollection of the General Strike as I have of the Armistice. Change after shattering change has come upon us and the varying effect of these impacts upon our childish minds has created a gen- eration without homogeneity—a gen- eration all at sea. The mental chaos of our parents has created great ver- tical divisions between- us of class, of opinion, of manner of life. The hamse- - mer-blows of history have made hori- Discovery Yessir, education is a marvelous thing. Student group at Northwestern :University, after exhaustive investiga- tion, has come to the startling conclu- sion that girls like to be petted!— Border Cities Star. A Motorists' "0, M." Over in Great Britain they have an organization among motorists called the British Order of the Road. It is a very hard Order to get into and an easy one to be put out of. It consists only of those drivers who operate their cars with the strictest observ- Once not merely of rules and regula- tions, but of courtesy and the etiquette Of the highways which is so often con- a/picuous by its absence. It is a clemo- Cratic order, albeit exclusive in the 4xtreme. Members of the royal family belong; so do certain truck drivers. .mut so closely are performancs watch- ed, so rigidly are would-be members scrutinized for the one qualification rthet counts—driving as nearly perfect as possible—that there are only 2,250 members of the order in the United Kingdom, and the insignia is the most dearly -prized gadget the motorist can display on his car, a sort of motorists' Qrde'r of Merit, attainable only be- cause it has been earned, and display- *, only so long as its standards are Maintained. There is room for an Or- der of the Read right here in Canada. Why does not somebody or some or- ganization start one, make it hard to got into and hard to stay in, and let the membership thereof give the mut- A1«tndinrnis °outsiders" something to 'noire for?—The Montreal Daily Star. England in six days, 17 hours and 45 minutes. Snow Plows Make Their Winter 'Debut Lethbridge. — Snow plows went to work in Southern Alberta sugar and beet fields Oct, 23rd as an aid to dig- ging operations. With 14 inches of snow on the ground and 20,000 acres of beets still to be dug, growers are making every effort to save the balance of the crop. Owing to the heavy snow some ranchers have been forced to start winter feeding of their flocks' and herds. Child Plays in Court zontal divisions. We have no common Nearly Hits Official conclusions, no common background of memory. Our highest common fac- Calgary. What's a courtroom in the tor is the common experience of re- life of Mr. and Mrs. Dach's two year- volutionary change, our one point of old boy? Just a place to play. Dur - agreement the necessity for further ing the hearing of his mother's divorce changes in the future: Quiton Hogg, action against his father, the Dach boy in The Cornhill Magazine (London). climbed beside his mother in the wit- ness box, munched candy for awhile, Wise Marketing 'and then threw a heavy inkwell, nar The woolgrower has also prepared lowly missing the court reporter's I head. He was taken outside. the way to gain by the turn in the tide. He has faced the conditions, met the market and cleared his stocks. There is no heavy accumulation, no carry-over of any dimensions to clog the wheels of progress. This point alas often' been mentioned before, but it deserves all the emphasis it can be given, It is the dominant factor.— Auckland Weekly News. Libraries and the Unemployed For those who know how to make use of enforced leisure, even unem- ployment has its compensation, That a very large number of workless men and women have resorted to the solace of reading is shown in some remark- able figures quoted at the annual con- ference of the Library Association. It" appears that in the six largest indus- trial cities of Britain the annual num- ber of books issued increased from 18,500,000 in 1926-27 to 27,500,000 in the last completed year, The country' librael.: show an even greater in- crease—from 11,891,000 to 34,831,000. Most of this extraordinary development is officially attributed to the more gen • eral use of libraries by persons unem- ployed --Spectator (London). TWE UNITED STATES Financial Finesse Man is the only truly intelligent in- habitant of the earth—tile 'only crea- ture that has learned lrow to live in luxury by running his descendants in- to debt. (From the Portland Ore- gonian). The advertisements bring you news of better things to have and easier ways to live. King Helps Old Actor London.—From Buckingham Palace the King has sent a private gift of 23 to a workless old actor who wrote asking Hiss Majesty to aid him in getting a pension, The actor, A. T. Minton, played with Wilson Barrett, Sir Ben Greet, and H. B.' Irving under the name of `PA, E. Mayne," and, at one time, ran his own company. His first engagement was at Sad- ler's Wells. in 1888 where he played in melodrama as the "ruthless vil- ain" and invariably repented on his deathbed in the last act—for 25 shil- lings a week. Now, at 61, he has Hawked fish, sold Christmas •cards, and read newspapers to men more elderly than himself for six shillings a week. .Harry Tate used to say Minton's impersonation of Wilson Barrett was more like Wilson Barrett than Bar- rett himself, but the London stage of 1933 has 'no use for "old -type en- tertainment." The £3 came from the King's pri- vate pocket, The words "Privy Purse" were crossed out on the receipt and "Received as a donation from His Majesty" was written over it. Japan Leads World 1'>li Trade Expansion London.—Japan led the world in percentage of foreign trade expan- sion during the first six months of 1933, a Board of Trade survey shows. Japan's foreign trade during the period was 55.3 per cent more than in the corresponding period of 1932. The United States showed a de- cline of 19.9 per cent Germany 40.4, 'Czechoslovakia 28.8, France 10.9, and Great Britain 6.3. Australia, British Malaya, Den- mark, India and Sweden showed in- creases, all under 5 per cent, Britons were particularly interest- ed in the Government survey because of the British -Japanese trade war, centering in the Far East where Japan is underselling Britain, India is the chief point of •complaint. Schools for Adults Started in Georgia Atlanta, Ga.—Classes in adult educ- ation something long needed in Georgia, have begun at the Flat Rock School in Clayton County with the approval of the Georgia Relief Com- mission. Sixteen adults are enrolled there. Suche'schools are free of charge for anyone above the age of 14 who is not otherwise enrolled in a public school. Control Machine Gun Washington.—The United States Government has taken over control of the sale of machine guns in its war on rs.cketeering, through the NRA ' code for small arms. Senator Cope - 1. aa, New York Democrat, chairman of the Senate racketeering committee, announced the decision after confer - en es with President Roosevelt and Attorney General Cummings. Sale Ontario Favors Pork More Than Mutton Cattle and Sheep Smaller To- day Than Years Ago — Public Demand Variety Because the public has become more partciular about its food dur- ing the past 10 or 15 years, beef cat- tle and sheep are small -r' in size to- day than they were a decade ago. And another reason is that families are smaller now than they used to be and more of them live in apart- ments. This was one of the things re- vealed in an interview with J. C. Steckley, professor of animal hus- bandry at Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, Guelph, For 11 years he has been professor of animal husbandry at O.A.C., and ;.n•evious in York Odunty, In the old days beef cattle were bulky animals. Those were the times when a cut or a roast would be serv- ed ereed up in the average families for several days. But..now, Prof, Steck- ley explained the housewife and her family want 'meat that is more ten- der and they want more variety in their meat dishes, They don't want a roast to last two or three or more days. They want a different kind of cut every day, or as often as they have meat served. "In sheep, the same situation has ,come to pass," Professor Steckley said. "The lamb now in demand weighs 80 pounds. Years ago they were bigger and heavier. Less lamb and mutton is consumed in Ontario than in England, allowing for the difference in population, but more pork •is eaten here than in the Old Country. Very few farmers special- ize in sheep raising." . In the hog -raising industry the weight of the animals has become stabilized at about 200 ,pounds. This has been the standard weight for years. But 15 years ago farmers fattened their hogs to weigh _far be- yond this figure. Just Signed Contract Then Breaks Has 'Elbow Toronto.—Eddie Burke, in training with' the New York Americans of the National Hockey League, is suf- fering from a broken elbow, receiv- ed when he lost his balance and -fell while practising, Burke, a Toronto boy, had just signed a contract be- fore going on the ice. Pushing Stalled Car Cost Women Lives Brewer, Me. — Two women were killed instantly as their husbands at- tempted to push their stalled auto- mobile from the path of a Maine Central Railroad passenger train. Tho dead are Mrs. Isaac Milton, 55, and Mrs. Hartland Bernard, 27, both of Melrose Mass. Wort' - '•fcienit Warship The new aeroplane carried, 11.M.C. Courageous, ,described as tho'most efficient warship in thee; ?xlel leaving Portsmouth bound for fleet manoeuvres 'oft the east coast 01 Scotland. "" Woman --deader Of Scots' Army Scottish Defence Force Will Fight Only for Peace— "First Peace Army in World Scots are "arming"—at least to the extent of multiplying nationalistic bodies, with militaristic descriptions and polticai aims. Fascists have been growing in strength' in Scotland for some time past. They are; of course, unaxnied, but they are by no meats inactive, In addition, Scotland has now al least two other military or semi -mill- taiy organizations — the "Scots' Guard," which has originated in the West, and the "Scottish Defence Force," which has sprung up in the East. THEY DISOWN IT. The "Scots Guard," which swears loyalty to the King and is organized in companies, with company drill and physical training, claims to be formed of members of the National and the Scottish Party, though the National- ist officials deny all association with it. The "Scottish Defence Force" is an off -shoot of the Democratic Scottish Self Government Association, the chairman of which is Miss Wendy _Wood. Claiming it as "the first peace army in the world," the founders ,of the S.D.F. explain that it has been formed to resist conscription in the event of Britain declaring war and involving Scotland in it, and to insist on Scot- tish neutrality. KILTED UNIFORMS. Uniforms, including the kilt, are to be worn by the members of the De- fence Force. With the formation of the "Scots' Guard" and the "Defence Force," Scots are now wondering what will be the next politico -military organiza- tion in their midst. Englishwoman is Sexton of East Barnet One of the few remaining women sextons in England is Mrs. Caroline Stutters, of East Barnet. She has just completed her 30th year of office, and when she retires in the near fu- ture, owing to recent church legisla- tion, the post will never again be held b? a woman. • Mrs. Stutters succeeded her hus- band, now a Justice of the Peace, it 1903, and between them they have been parish clerk and sexton for more than half -a -century. Although in the past there have been a few instances of women hold- ing the office, since the appointments passed from the incumbents of par ishes to the Parochial Church Coun. ails they have not recurred. This is partly owing to the fact that, while under the older appoint ments the sexton could legally appoint a deputy to discharge the duties of the office, under the present system this is not allowed. And a womar: sexton cannot dig graves. Although she does not actually rig, Mrs. Stutters supervises everything and East Barnet agrees that there is not a more efficient parish clerk ir. England. • Fell in Apple Butter Vat Child Dies of Scald, Stratford, Ont. — Terribly scaldec when she stepped int, a vat of all. pie butter, Betty Carse, seven, it dead. The little girl, with her parents was visiting an aunt, Mrs. Leslie Ratz, in Mitchell. The apple butter had teen left on the back poli ch to cool until it was ready to be taken to the Carse car. Betty stepped out the back door directly into the vat, She jumped, but lost her balance and fell down the steps to the ground the hot fluid splashing all over her body She was rushed to the hospital but efforts to save her life were un availing. Besides her parents, she leaves younger brother, Robert. Husbands Take Court Way to Check Gambling Wive! Philadelphia.—That proverbial shoe was on the other foot here -six bus bands, complaining that their pa3 envelopes were drained while wives stayed out late frights, had the wo. men brought into court, to break up a card game. Captain John Connor,who led s detail of police in a raid on the home of Mrs. Becky Schaeffer, explained tc the court that he acted on the regUesl of the :husbands. "I'll let you off as first offenders," Magistrate Oswald toll Mrs, Shaef far and the six wives. . "Don't ap- pear here again or I'll give you five days in jail. Eat More Bread Guelph, Ont. ---.If - every person is Canada ate one more slice of bread a day, it would mean more than $12,. 000,000 to millers, bakers, allied i trades and' farmers, said Miss Mar- garet E. Bateman, addressing students of the Trent Institute and MacDonald ,Hall. People are eating a great deal less ',bread today than previously, Miss - Bateman said, and were they y to in- '''"'," M n-,...rase consRtt rah t wottla help. jsv decrease Canada's wheat Surplus,