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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-01-04, Page 6=•, .*-a- -. *+-S-*-r+s.a1P-.w+•.• Voke of the Press •Canada•, The Empire and The World at Large Wr►M-IR..-.-u-1*..,.0 .G-..4 .1. • 0.1., *-.*** * .-0---0- 0-.f i• 4** . r - CANADA. Hockey, 1933 Style. National Hockey League directors might well take a leaf from the book of Nero and, at the start of e"cry game, have the players line up and say: "We who are about to die salute you.—Hamilton Spectator, The Editor Came Clean. —Scott M. Thomas is editor of the Richmond County Journal, published at Rockingham, N,C. In this week's edition under a two -column heading on the front page he published the news that he had been drunk, was arrested and paid a fine. He gives the details as follows: Scott Thomas, editor of the Jour- nal, mixed South Carolina, corn .liquor and Pennsylvania beer, drauk too much and landed in jail. He re- mained incarcerated two hours, being bailed out by a friend at 2 a.m., Sun- day. In Mayor's court yesterday he was taxed with the costs, $5.85." Of equal interest is the editor's par- ting statement affixed to the bottom of the story: "An editor who won't put his own misfortune in print has no right to publish another's." No fault to find with the attitude of Mr. Thomas, not the least. Nor can the readers of his paper urge that he used his position to save his own hide. When he sobered up he struck off on the right trail.—Strat- Cord 'Beacon -Herald, Prosperous British Industry.. In days before the war no British child could pick up a toy, game or it doIl without invariably finding that It was "Made in Germany." Today, that is all chauged. During the last few years the British toys industry has tirade enormous strides, and many thousands of men and women are aow engaged in it. Tu one London factor alone there are more than 1,000 people working night and day to make games and toys, which are being exported to more than 30 foreign countries, be- sides being distributed for home sales. Even to the United States, where there is a 70 per cent. duty on such Imports, daily shipments are being dispatched for the Christmas trade. — 4t. Thomas Timeseleurnp], Justice At Its Speediest. Canadians pride themselves, not without reason, upon the promptness with which justice is meted out in : riminal cases. Nevertheless, it would be hard for our courts to bet- ter the record to which a recent getter to the London Times draws at- tention. Probably the speed in this • particular case may be exceptional, but, even so, it is an object lesson et its kind. The object of the correspondent in writ mg to the Times was to commend the London police and courts flor their promptness in disposing of a case of burglary in which he was interested. And he might well do so .n the light of his testimony, which was as follows: "The goods were stolen on Satur- lay morning, The burglar was caught and the goods recovered on Satur- day afternoon, On Monday the bur- dar was committed by a magistrate to stand his trial. at the Old Bailey. On Tuesday he was duly tried, con- victed and sentenced." With police and courts capable of working so fast as this, it is no won- der that England does not have much trouble with "crime waves," such as law-abiding citizens suffer from in the United States.—Quebec Chronicle Telgraph. Perfect Police. Sixty members of the Metropolitan Police, London, have been ordered to provide tlielnseD. es with dinar jack- ets, boiled shirts and all the other formal trimmings. And, we suppose, they will bow from the waist before using their billies.—Hamilton Spec- tator. Peace in the Balkans. Ons of the curious features of pre- sent-day politics in Europe is the ex- ample which is being set by the Bal- kan States in the peaceful settlement of difficulties. A few years ago the stock phrase was that there. was trouble in the Balkans, and these countries were regarded as the dan- ger spot of Europe. Today the Bal- kan States, including even Turkey, have agreed upon conventions' that will maintain peaceful relations be- tween them, while the major powers, who used to regard the Balkans as the frame of, -fire -brands, are feuding It dif?icelt to arrive at any 'under- standing that will assure peace. --'Fort William Times -Journal. 'T'he Industrial Development of Canada. Canada, le today the socond tri;; inz- ;,ortartce, from the point.of,, view of ndustry, of all the dburitries of the 3ritish .,Empire, and her exports to ,ether British .co'untries consist prim finally of manufactured products. Her exports to the 'United States ;of mama ;actured or semi-rnanufaictueed prod- acts exceed het -imports' of raw nue- ',Fiats. The continuation and prog• ' ,s of ,this trend depend largely set :he future development of the conn :ry's natural rsources iii. all its maul - :old aspects.—Le Nouvelliste, Three givers. New Name for League. And now Italy ie i;alkieg of leaving between 300 and 400'divorecs;' ' ' the League. Pretty soon people will be calling it the League of Resigna- tions.—Edmonton Journal. Better Pictures. +^ It was not the least achievement of the talking picture that it lessened this marmite adoration of "stars" who couldn't bold a part in a second-rate stock company. One by one they disappeared, with Hollywood gradual- ly introduced to actors and actresses who could act, and millions of "fans" made aware that histrionic ability consists of more than some female rolling her eyes and tearing out her hair, the while showing three-fourths of her legs—Ottawa Journal, Curfew In Montreal. In their establishment of a 2 a,ni. curfew- law for cabarets, night clubs and such establishments, the Montreal police are actuated by special consid- eration .for boys and girls of'teen egos. In the last few years the' pres- ence of such children—for that is wht they are—has been a striking feature of life in the night haunts. As their parents, apparently, will not or cannot make the young people keep reasonable hours the duty de• volves upon the police. It will be well If their efforts meet with success,— Montreal Gazette. Forgiveness. It is, says G. K. Chesterton, "a fine thing to be swift to forgive our en- emies, but it is a finer thing not to be too swift to forgive ourselves." "G. K. t:." might have amplified the thought. Some people have difficulty iu forgiving their enemies, and equal difficulty in refraining from forgiving themselves; but there is another class who, with the greatest of ease and facility, forgive other people's enem- ies—and this class crtainly deserves.a place in the Chestertonian epigram.— The Halifax Herald. Some Other Winter. When last seen short, mild winter were stamping their feet, rubbing their ears and pre- tending they meant some other win- ter—Border Cities Star. the prophets of a THE EMPIRE. Ninety Years of Empire. This Empire of free peoples is not yet .a hundred years old. It has grown up slowly, it has been retarded by discords and jealousies, and it will not pursue its course by its own momen- tum; it demands eternal vigilance and prudence. It has 'enemies all over the world know knows it to be the main barrier against Communism and cruel tyrannies. Their agents are everywhere tricked out in fair dis- guise, masked as pacifists, cosmopoli- tans and the like. We must look back upon our history and see that we have triumphed over racial antipath- ies, official apathy, and countless forms of human stupidity. Courage and sympathy, as Lord. Curzon said, have brought us through our troubles and these qualities will guide through future centuries the Empire of liberty and order,—W, A. Hirst, in The Em- pire Review (London). Indo -British Trade. Great improvements • have been made in recent years in the market- ing of British goods in India and of Indian goods abroad, but there is still much that requires to be donein the way of developing Efficient widespread publicity, sales and service systems. We believe the Trade Commissioner is justified in the view that the Ot- tawa agreement has prepared the way for a great advance in Indo -British trading relations, but he does well to remind individual Indian and British exporteas that it rests with them to take -the fullest advantage of the opportunities offered for the mutual benefit of the two countries.—Calcut= to Statesman. • The Turn of the Economic Tide. There is a quite definite, if still slight, turn of the economic. tide. The tremendous slump of world prices that followed world deflation has appar- ently been completed. Prices have been brought down to the level de- manded by a crazy currency policy, have even `begun to recover a little. There is now a possibility of a long, slow improvement in trade, and in employment,=-'Yondon Daily Herald. Public Health Precautions. According to the Director of Medical Services in India, the sickness rate for the Indian troops is at the pres- ent time actually lower than that for British • troops. Compared with the figures of 35 years ago, the pres- ent-day statistics are so remarkable that those who take figures as final are apt to,eonclude that Indifa is' now a health resort. •.Major-General Nfolc- erson warns these light-hearted optinze ists that nothing could be fiu•tlter from the truth. Disease still stal9ais• abroad in Inclia, but rigid precauti©ns • ' ar'd much 'et' it' off: from camp and can- tonment. Relax the precaution and the old conditions 'would reassert themselves, The price of ooratinued inn unity is continued vigiia.nee. eeee Cat Jutta Statesman. • Judge Marries 7,0001 Poplar Bluff, Mo. ---. Judge D. B. Deem hes , married 7;000 couples dura.. , in� ' his h granted g h u5 years rti'ofliere and �wiiafttell Anxiety Felt For John D. The venerable oil king and dime donor, John D. Rockefeller, is • recovering from a severe cold. Due to his advanced age grave ,concern is felt for him. Girl Wins Scholarship In School of Medicine New Haven, Conn.—Miss Lena B ai- pern, of New York City, is the win- ner of the Perkins scholarship in 'the Yale School or: Medicine for the best record in medical and biological sciences, Sheled the third -year class and had the highest average grade in a group of 593 students, mostly 'men, who took part in one of the national board examinations. Miss Halpern was for a time an instructor in bio -chemistry at Post Graduate Hospital, New York City,. Judge Sympathizes With Mother Accused - Of Stealing Child Chicago. — A municipal judge lent aid and comfort to a weeping young mother accused of stealing her she - year -old son from her divorced hue- band and castigated instead the com- plaining father. "Do you think I am going to wrest a child from a mother's breast?" de- manded. Judge Alfred C. Erickson of an assi:dant stage's attorney who presented a fugitive warrant for 26 - year -old Mrs. Ifo Blumenthal. The young woman is wanted at South Bend, Ind., for child stealing. • The court called for more facts. So far, he said, there was no evidence that Mrs. Bluementhal was an unfit mother. Gets 30 Days for 30 Eggs Boise, Idaho,—An egg , a day sent James Wailer to jail for 30 days. 110 allegedly stole 30 eggs front a farmer, taking one at a time. More Marriages During November Ottawa. — Births registered in 70 cities and towns of more than 10,000 population last month numbered 6,- 097, a decrease of almost eight per cent., as against 6,615 in the same month last year, says a report issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Deaths numbered 3,774, as compared with 3,765 in November, 1932, and 2,641 marriages, a 4 1-2 per cent. in- crease over the corresponding month of last year. During the 11 months, January -No- vember, of this year, births registered in the same cities and towns totalled 73,896, deaths 42,171 and marriages 27,210, as against 79,298 births,; 43,- -376 3;-376 deaths and 27,131 marriages dur- ing the corresponding period last year. This comparison shows de- crea .es of seven per cent. in births, three per „cent. in deaths and one- half per cent. in marriages. Ontario Team Wanes MigratonsIGre at Chicago �+t Guebph, Ont, — The Ontario Agri Cut 32 Per Cent. culbirral College at Guelph carried off , _ highest honors in the eight hannual z 05 People le Enter Canada intercollegiate meat -judging tori- , , P ati�re college event at the 1933 1n First 10 Months of 1933 tost,fe Internatiozial Live Stocic E'cpositien Otta a, --•Immigration into Canada held at Chicago, It was the first much aswelIed into a mighty Hood a time that Ontario had ever won, few years ago, dwindled to a mere As champions of 1933 the Caeadian I trickle' in the first ten tnonth.a of team was awarded the National Live 1983. Stock and Meat Board trophy which According . to figures released by it twill keep for the next yonr. The the Department of Imanigration, 12; trophy inns( be (von three times to 505 men., women and children, repro - held the permanezat property o'i', an senting 41 races, entered Canada be institution, tweet January and October. This was Ontario "stored 2,353 petiole Quit •ef a •decvease of 32 per cent. from. 1932 a penetZble 2,`700 to w�•�in that pl;z•� , l ,totals., Euinnigration into Canada They were closely preceded by test : e:aohed a peak of 402,432 in 1913. team from Iewa S1nts G;oueg'e which In the 10 -month period, 7,549 Ain was only six paints behind. t exieans entered Canada, 2,024 British Alfred D. Hales of the Onterio',teanr subjects and 571 Northern Eurt:peans, won the highest individual score at 1 the contest with 821 out, o a pos- Ban on Warlike Toys stole 900" Hales' home is in Guelph, Urged ' in All Nation Ontario's strong points were in the judging of beef and lamb, finishing New York. — Mrs. Franklin 17 first in both of -these .meats. 1Zoosevelt urges toy manufacturers tt farm - Members of the wdnning team freta •?n'ake "armies of foresters and farzrr- Canada were: Charlie N. Heath, ofers, and mills with modern workmen; Campbell, Ontario; Alfred D. Hales, and abandon tin soldiers, cannon, tof Guelph, Ontario; and C. M. Brodie, battleships and alley warlike of Gormley, Ontario; with E. fl. toys, Which have a tendency to teach Saunders, of Chralotbetown, Prince children to be little soldiers, she Edward Island ,asalternate. E. C. avers. Stillwell, of the animal Husbandry Her appeal, made public in Iter department, Ontario Agricultural monthly department in the Woman's College, was their coach. Home Companion, says in part: "Very In this contest the teams are re- often we sow the seeds in youth foe quired to judge both carcasses and an interest which will later engross wholesale cuts of beef, pork and the man or woman. I believe that lamb, place them according to grade, we not only can encourage ingenuity and • give written reasons for their and .build up imagination in children placings. by the types of toys, games and boolos that we provide them with, but .''~-- I believe that we can, also give thein Successful Year tastes and interests which will be For Wheat Pool helpful to them later on. I shnuld Regina, Saskatchewan.—A satisfae- like to see the nations of the world tory year's operations of the country gradually do away with weapons ol and terminal grain elevator systemwar. I know this must 'be done simul• taneousiy, and therefore I should like during the crop year 1932-33, which ended July 31, 1933, is reported by the to begin with the children of to -day S�as'lcatohewan Wheat Pool, a farmers' and teach titan to do without toys co operative organization. Saskat which tend to make them think of wax chew�an Pool Elevators Limited hand- a• s a gestic. led through its country houses a total "Why shard we not suggest to toy - of 87,382,000 bushels of all grains, or makers the world over that they have 43.02 per cent. of all handlings in a responsibility to future civilization) the province. In addition; pisiform and that they plight just as well, *Pool Pool terminal f• ake armies of young foresters and shipments consigned elevators during the . year under -re- farmers, and model minas, and mine view anvounted to 3,988;000 bushels of with model workmen, and model all grains, or 58 per cent. of the class houses and model machinery? Such of business transacted in S•askatche_ miniatures of real life would surely wan. find equal favor in children's eyes. Net earnings off the system .amount " us not forget that everything ed to $1,434,000 after allowing $1,- ihieh we do for the children nava 363;000 for depxeciatian and interest may make an impression .and count on mortgages. Net earnings of the an influence years later in thein Pool since it came into existence in lives; and let us try to give them a 1925, to the end of July, 1933, stand chance to develop the qualities which at $13,507,000. ' will make it easy for them to live As a result of the. successful riper without greed and therefore witlroul aliens in 1932-33 the Saskatchewan wee, and to appreciate the joy ol Wheat Pool organization was able to given's." meet conmritn ients aggregating $3,- 324,000. Two Writers Die ECOnOIll Record • Two writers, foremost in what Economy might be called the socond class of Home Built for $25 novelists in the United States, died Hutchinson, Inas.—Lon Briles, farm- recently, observes the Ottawa Sour- er living near Hooker, claims a record nal, Louis Joseph Vance was burn - for economy in house building, ed to death in his chair, apparently Using the plentiful gypsum of his having fallen asleep with a lighted vicinit, Briles manuactured his own cigarette in his hands, and Robert W. brick and constructed ..a farm home Chambers succumbed to a long ill - complete in all details including door n and window frames and roofing for $25. - Further Aerial Surveys • Planned for Next Year New Yorle — The New York Times says it is considered probable that next .year when the northern fly- ing season is good Col. Charles A. Lindbergh nieiy make another trip into the arctic for further aerial sur- veys. 4.41 I . ' Gangsters, Go Modern ' " ' Chicago gangsters used a eed they they. spetrt'. three lroirib: ,srirash'rrg” bank. Here's tiro result, t', Vance saw the color of far places, wrote of mystery and crime, publish- ed many novels and short stories, made a place for himself. Cham- bers' prolific pen touched historical romance, society, adventure, roamed' as far afield as plays and children's .stories. d3otjir Were competent in their spheres, and while neither will have a place in the American Val- halla of literature, it can be said of them that they gave pleasure and' some measure of happiness to mil- lions of people, something which. after all,- is a tremendous thing. To laymen, and perhaps to many - writers, there is one thing worth noting about the success of Vance and Chambers in their profession. It was that Tiley became proficient, be- came competent craftsmen, by sus- tained toil and practice. Vance wrote scores of stories before he had one accepted. Later on he spent years as a hack writer for the magazines,: getting ;not more than. $25 a ',tory. Yet he had patience and industry, and by dint of hard work, by sub- jecting himself, as int were; to an app prenticeship, he finally reached the point where he couldturn out a 200.• 000 -word book in two months, see it become a best seller. He died come partitively wealthy, The moral is that •competent writ- ers are not born, but made. , Oc 1 England's Wheat Crop Shows Big Increase London, Eng. — A big increase it• wheat acreage and production in Eng land and Wales during 1933 is shows in the preliminary statement of agri cultural iretus'ns just issued. Wheat acreage its shown at 1,660, 000, an increase of 29 per cent., coin pared with 1932. Wheat productiot was estimated at 31,476,000 hundred weight, an increase of 9,385,000 hint dredweight or 42 per cent. On ter other hand, barley acreage decrease( by 209,000 acres, and the estimate( production of 12,624,000 is 2,718;00( hundredweights below 1932. - Woman Driver Not Always to Blame Waukesha, Wis.—The woman drivt er is not always to blame when in volved in an automobile accident, it the opinion of Circuit Judge Charlet M. Davison. Katherine Fitzpatrick of Madison Wis., was sued for $2,000 damages b, a Chicago railway after a car she 'w,u driving crashed into a locomotive al a crossing.. After hearing the plaintiff's allega+ tions that she was driving rocklesale and did'n't have control of the car; Judge Davison granted a motion foe non -,suit. Market Available For 50,0+00 Airplanell Washington. — A. possible potential market .fer about 50,000 airplanes to sell at about $700 each has been found by the teronautics brunch of the United *States Department of Com merge. •1 . Twelve thousand pilots and 'mech.. easiona 1 th-o world may throw up oanswering a ent questionnaire sent antes/ Y, y t �y the department several week a genius, somebody whose sensitive- ago, definitely said that they would toss to the music of words and buy such a plane. They collectively bvhode •insight into things are so knew of 38,01)0 other ,Persons who great that be can write without an-; would be in the market:. prerticeship, and write great`y. Such '` . ' cases, however, are terribly ram, and I e. in 999 cases. out of a thousaaci gree; Pilork.ic se Saved ' fic.i•ency in writing, as proficieztcy in ; c•'• s' Lindbergh's Cable most ether 'things, is the prdditet of Washington. --- Col. Charles A. hard work. Geniws, said great Lindgergh came within a cable length• ,sage, "Genius is simply t.aking-paine," of losing his Department. COI* •'• 1 rnerce transport pilot's license while l Air Company Reports .Gains. he was aerialtouring, abroad,_• 1'1"'' `° 1! hr tliih.•=-1 +'br the''`'first halt of the , Oiiieials•.,here clieclosed that jus current, financial year Impel sal Air- before' his *ens*: expri�ctl ire cable. w�ays•have registered receipts' 'of note from The Vague fat an eictensrone ____... , ettnr460,000 more that for the satme time. Active licenses must be renew I th r to 3ntcrcept lrhlic9 al z {s}; �v fi' i T t)od last year. The distance flown ed every srx months. „a ,t„,-.: 1 . ..gam• lK11 nn.1,5* temb'tt showed an increase of = y ' """`" . ego i ..., ti,itety ticPo3rt btr�es in a Ctric €, 24,107, rift ncftlt't'�zt-rurlo an.z'u- y:)rz)ribi �t+iaaifcts.: can trsua3„llc :carts . si 'r� crehse o51everything but oseiper•,