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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-03-22, Page 6.}Mil::;h: Large Voice of thePress Canada, The �,mpi><e and �' e W g i I� World at CANADA After -Dark Accidents Most traffic accidents, outside of the centres of population, occur after bark. There are two reasons why this Is so, One is that there is a school of drivers which insists on driving as test after dark, when visibility is poor, as hi the daytime when the highway and the objects upon it are clearly etched. The heads of drivers of this type, when bumped together (and this Is a dandy game to play), do not ring, but, Instead, give forth a fiat, cracked note. The other factor contributing to tragedy is glaring, blinding head- lights, the problems of which motor car manufacturers apparently are un- able to solve.—Hamilton Spectator, Elgar's Great Music With the public at large he will best be remembered for his charming, but 310W over=worked "Salut d'Amour," and his magnificent "Pomp and Cir- cumstance" march in D, which he composed for the coronation of King Edward VII. This is one of the most stirring and majestic classic marches ever written, but it is only one of four or five marches of the same name which he wrote. One section of this march was given words to turn it into. a patriotic song, and as such is known throughout the British Empire as "Land of Hope and Glory."—St. Thom- as Times -Journal. Road Slaughter in Britain Point was added to a debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday night on road accidents by figures given at question time about the casualties on the roads in Great Bri- tain in the eight years 1926 to 1933. The figures, which were given by Sir John Gilmour, the Home Secretary, were received with expressions of in- dignation. A member asked: "What war was that?" and Mr. Kirkwood ex- claimed: "A great shame, a scandal." The figures were: Killed, 50,837; in- jured, 1,421,083.—London Express. Growing There are 73,000,000 more people in the world to -day than there were four years ago, according to Sir Charles Close, president of the International Population Union, who apparently keeps close tab on births and deaths. —Kingston Whig -Standard.) Together with the herd which was recently put out ou the Chaplea•u. Pre- serve they will make a good start in adding the elk to the game animals of this district. --Sault Ste, Marie Star, Activity at Oldest Port For over 300 years ships have been entering and leaving the port of Que- bec, on the River St. Lawrence, but 1933 was one of the busiest years in the history of the port. The number of vessels docked totaled 1,064 with a net registered tonnage of 5,562,717 tons, compared with 800 vessels in 1932 of 5,193,758 tons, an average in 1933 of 263 vessels and 368,959 tons over the previous year.—Caaiada Week by Week. Superiority Complex It is a very fine thing to have pride in one's country and the citizenship of one's country, but it is not a fine or desirable thing to suppose that people living in one land are superior to peo- ple living in all other lands: This "superiority complex" has lad to a great many disasters in .is world and has brought untold suffering and misery. --Halifax Herald. Heart Disease With so many prominent men dying of heart disease in ,recent months, par- ticular interest is being shown in ex- periments which have been conducted in Vienna by Dr. Hammerschlag, By taking a new preparation made from the hormone of the subsidiary thyroid gland, it has been found that good re- sults have been obtained in the treat- ment of those suffering from heart ail- ments. The doctor explains the hor- mone relieves the cramped conditions of the blood vessels and allows a free passage of the blood through the or- dinary channels. It is claimed the treatment can do no harm, and as it has been proven to do some good, it has drawn much interest from medi- cal practitioners.—Border Cities Star. Canada's Recovery Canada has regained its position as fifth among the great trading nations of the world. In January our foreign trade ., as 40 per cent. greate: than in January, 1933. Furthermore, the bal- ance of trade is favourable—$135,924,- 000 more exports than imports in the elapsed ten months of the fiscal year up to the end of January. This favor- able trade balance is the greatest single factor in stabilizing the Canadian dol- lar and supporting the national credit. —Winnipeg Tribune. "The Woman Pays" Judging by an analysis that has been made of incomes in the United States, she's darn well able to pay. The analysis shows that women re- ceived 38 per cent. of the total of $9,- 000,000,000 of income reported to Washington in 1933. Seventy-seven thousand women had an annual in- come of more than $5,000, the average being $19,129. Of the 18,000,000 stock- h.Jlders in the country, 7,740,000 were -women. And women were beneficiar- ies of 89 per cent. of all the life insur- anceoutstanding—a matter of billions. Nor is that all. Somebody else has discovered that women do 80 per cent. of all the shopping on this continent —80 per cent of the spending.—Otta- wa Journal. Rush Hour Crowds If it were possible to abolish rush hour periods and avoid the necessity of transporting the population of a good-sized city from the outskirts to the down -town section within an hour and a half in the morning and home again in the same period in the even- ing, the solution would be easy. It might then be possible to realize the ideal both for the passengers and for the T.T.C. of a seat for every passen- ger and every seat comfortably filled. But as long as the sky -scrapers, office buildings, factories and great stores pour out their thousands ou to the streets, all within little more than an hour and all demanding instant trans- portation to their destinations, there is bound to be overcrowding. This is true not only of Toronto, but of every large city where there is a similar movement of population. — Toronto Telegram. The Driver is Unsafe The number of cars in use is only slightly higher than it was six years ago. The cars themselves are far safer; they are solider, their brakes are better, they stick to the road bet- ter, they are easier to keep under con- trol. It is the human element, and it alone, which has failed, — Quebec Chronicle Telegraph. THE EMPIRE The Drought in Britain The danger of a shortage of water this summer is now a serious if not yet an acute one. If there is normal rain in March, the danger will disap- pear; if March follows January and February in their unprecedented dry- ness, thenathe situation will be really bad, and it will be too late to do much to meet it.—Manchester Guardian. Free -Will General Store We have just been reading about a unique general store which is conduct- ed in Walser, Texas, by a certaih Al- bert D. Purvis—possibly of Leeds county ancestry—who has carried on a successful business for 19 years in spite of the fact that he is dependent entirely upon the free-will offerings of his customers. Mr. Purvis' establishment, in ap- pearance not unlike many others which stand in rural communities throughout Ontario, ' known as "God's Mercy Store," and the method underlying the business conducted in it is explained upon a blackboard which reads: "All goods in this store aro sold to you at cost nothing has been added as personal gain or profit. The store 'is kept by is e -will offer- ings. Anything you add to your pur- chase will be received with thanks." The cost of the merchandise is marked upon the blackboard and the purchaser selects the article that he requires, consults the price list and add to it whatever he feels is a fair profit. Texas is popularly considered to be rather a hard-boiled part of the world, and yet 'We have Mr. Purvis' word that, notwithstanding the way in which he does business, he averages ten per tient. profit during the year.. Brockville Recorder. Some Icy Anecdotes John Dodd, shown at thewheel of the fishing esmack New Bedford, as it docked in New York harbor, February 26, after a two -weeks trip to the fishing banks for mackerel, had some vivid experiences to relate, - harder we play, the better we London Sunday Chronicle. Elk for Algoma The decision of the Game and Fish- eries Department to liberate 25 head of elk in the Ranger Lake Game Pre- serve is one that will be generally ap- proved in the district. These animals should do just as • Well in ,this area as have those Which were set out in former years at Pete- vvawa and at Burwasli and should in time prove a valuable addition to the dame -resources of Algoma: work, The Dole in New Zealand The decision of the Unemployment Board to grant sustenance without work to elderly men and men of any age unable through physical disability to perform the class of work offering is an evidently sincere effort to, meet a need. As such it is worth trying, in the two centres most representative of the need. The increasing difficulty •of providing work for men capable of light tasks only, especially men in ad- vancing years, has necessitated a re- view of the position. Circumstances arising from the widespread economic stress have hampered seriously the efforts of these men to find work for themselves and have equally hindered the endeavours of the Unemployment Board to find work on their behalf. An ihevitable effect has been the embar- rassment of the general scheme of re- lief, and the position should become appreciably defined by removing thus, as -far as possible, a number of appli- cants for relief work that is difficult to provide.—Auckland Weekly News. Scots and English The Englishman loves to tell humor ous stories about the Scot, the point of which is usually his (suppositious) lack of humour, And the .Scot has a large store of tales about English:i•t -based perhaps on~a wilful misunder standing of their character, but which disprove his lack of humour, and are not devoid of a piercing wit. There is now no real reason why Scots and English should not understand •and appreciate each other. We Scots have much for the English to admire in us, if only they will admire the right thing! And many, if not moat of us, have an enormous admiration for our Southern neighbors — their great achievements, their bulldog tenacity, their literature. Do we not admire most of all this—that so many Eng- lishmen try to prove that theyy have some Scottish blood in their veins, or even affect that they are Scots! -3. A. MacCulloch, an The Spectator (Lon- don). It Does Not Pay By August of 1934 twenty years will have elapsed since the outbreak of the World War. A good deal has passed under the bridge since then and many lessons have been taught to those who cared to learn. The supreme lesson which we should have learnt is that war does not pay. The mechanism of the world has grown so delicate and complex that a dislocation in one part seriously affects every section. Victor Needs Greater Air Force So it is everywhere. The world is exchanging feet for wings. Britain alone, like a tat goose, waddles along in the olcl way.—London Daily Mail. Cockney Pioneers "The best type of setter in the Do- minions comes from the Old Kent Road." This is not idle praise. Cock- ney quickness, adaptability, and obsti- nate, humorous courage supply the stuff of which the finest pioneers are made, and the Cockney is endowed with a resillience, a superb indiffer- ence to misfortune, which makes him able to face difficulties and problems which would utterly defeat the ap-: parently sturdier rustic. — Loudon Evening News. Boy Scouts and Chivalry The Scout promise, based on an old- er order of chivalry, is the only true rule of conduct. The Scout Law incul- cates nobility.—London Daily Mail. is hardly better off than vanquished and certainly not as well off as in the Is One Regulation Pre-war period. In spite of this truth,, which most of as have realized, it is deplorable that Governments still pre- fer to sacrifice sums of Money on armaments and general preparations for conflict which are out of all pro- portion to the power of the people to defray by taxation. if only a minor part of these wasteful disbursements were diverted into channels of rap- prochement, if only an iota of the energy consumed were spent in the propagation of friendly relationship between nations, a lasting peace might have been secured for mankind.— Hong Kong Press, Playing Fields for Eton He Would Consider Chatham, Ont.—In force for, several. decades, rules of the Chathaiii"` police force have been revised and will be brought up-to-date by the Police Com- mission. "There is one regulation that sSould`be considered, and that 1.don't altogether agree with," remarked Magistrate 5. 13. Arnold, "I states that a constable must trim his whisk-: ers and not let them zover his police badge on his breast. Newspaper s `sag � pap�'�" .�dvertlt .�. Increases in U.S. Chicago. ---Newspapers in 80 Pities What Does Your Handwriting Show? By GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Grapho-Analyst,) All rights reserved. (Editor's Note: The response to the author's invitation to readers to send in a specimen of their handwriting for a pers'onai reading has been enorm- ous. Readers are referred to the an- nouncement at the foot of this article). "How can Grapho-Analysis help me?"—that is the question that read- ers invariably ask when they read my article on the subject of character analysis from handwriting. And it is a natural question. For in these days, perhaps more than any others, the struggle for existence, for progress, is individualistic. I will en- deavour to answer the question by first asking others. Are you happy? — or are you con- tinually frowning at life, with a con- stant chip on your shoulders? Are you progressing in your work? —Or are you dissatisfied; a square. peg in a round hole; unable to make any real progress,: yet not knowing what to do to change the possibilities of your future? If you are married, are you content- ed? — Or is disquiet creeping in, with perpetual bickering between yourself and your life partner? Do you make friends, and keep them? Or are you living the life of an involuntary recluse, unable to en- joy the society and companionship of real friends? The answers to all these questions can be summed up in a phrase—Know yourself ,and others. Or, one word may suffice—Understanding. If you go through life without knowing and understanding yourself—your faults and your virtues; your merits and your weaknesses—you will be serious- ly handicapped. Life's prizes go to those who, know- ing their potentialities, capitalize them and strengthen them; who, real- izing " their faults, strive to overcome them.. Grapho-Analysis helps you to know yourself, and thus enables you to M. Andre Siegfried, the celebrated of the United States 'gained approxi- French critic, says that out• natlnnal mately 10,000,000 lines of advertising fondness for running about. hitting, in January over the sanie month a bowling, and kicking hulls, and punch- year ago, Advertising Age, trade pub- Ing one another's ribs, is 0 dreacl;ttl licationy says. The newspapers car - waste of time. ate wonders how we ried 120,682 000 lines last month and get any work done. For answer we 110,821,00(i in January, 1:)3.3, Autow can point to •the work itself. Tlie metnsse advertising led the list,- make the most of your capabilities, whilst at the same time, by pointing out your weaknesses, gives you an opportunity to eradicate them. Handwriting is not merely a matter of putting pen to paper. You have to use your brain in order to write. And the brain is the captain of your body. Everything you do emanates first of all from your brain. Handwriting is only the physical expression of your brain's instructions. And everything you are anti can be is summed up in your handwriting, as diagnosed by an expert grapho-ana- lyst. - I have space for only a few very brief extracts from character readings made recently. Civil Service May Have to Recruit Men For Senior Posts Toronto.—Dle-11ard opponents nF ""Aetticoa,tgovernment," beware. On itlie authority of „one of the most eminent civil servants, Canada will soon have to go outside the . civil sen vice for men to fill, big jobs or else the women will take them. "The time is coming," said Watson Seller, comptroller of the Dominion Treasury in an address to the Board of Trade :Club, "when women will hold enough of the key positions on the ladder, to the executive positions that eitlier the practice will be adopt- ed of going outside of the civil service to recruit nien for the senior admniiiis- trative posts, or else we sink the prejudice now existing against women being placed in charge of major ac- tivities, stivities, As you pay the bills, I leave the decision to you" He added the percentage of female employes in the Ottawa headquarters staff was 22 per cent in the group of 45 years and over; 38 per cent in the 30-45 years of age group, and said the ignored the younger ag?es because in that period staff turnover is rapid "and nowadays the girls always out - slumber the bora." Contagious Diseases Scarce in Toronto A surprising •statement made at the annual meeting of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, was that there was not enough whooping caugh, measles or diphtheria to go around in Toronto. But it turned out to mean that with the drop in these diseases, It was be• coming increasingly difficult 201 nurses -in -training to obtain adequate experience in communicable disease's' care. It was Miss Elvin, Manning, chairman of the Public Health Seo tion, who painted this out in het presentation of the findings of het committee from answers to a quer tlionnaire sent to public health nurses all over the district—abut she did say, "There are not enough of them to gc round either in Toronto or Hamilton." She also stated that the answers to the queries had noted insufficient training in pediatrics for the student nurse who is to do public health wort after graduation. Needy Families Find Fortune on Beach San Francisco.—A half-dozen needy families may divide as much as 3100,- 000 as a reedit of an analysis which the Examiner says proves that a sub- stance picked up on the beach a1 Bolinas Bay, north of here, is amber- gris. Residents of the area have gather. ed between 200 and 300 pounds of the substance, worth approximately $29 an ounce at present market prices,, School was closed one day so that children could join their parents is combing the beach for the material, Expelled from the stomachs of siert whales, ambergris; when purified, is used in the manufacture of rare per- fumes, and because of its rarity is extremely valuable. C.P.R. Jan. Net Gains 174 p.c. R. M.—You are likely to be impul- sive. You do not consider very long before moving. There is a slight strain of procrastination shown—do not let it grow. Your writing shows a distinct cultural- trait; you have a de- sire to know things, and to investigate and find out for yourself. Miss M.—You have a great pride and personal dignity, a retentive mem- ory and are very careful about details. You have a considerable regard for your own importance, and are prone to pride yourself on your originality and individuality. But I am afraid that this is perhaps more pretension than actual, and is not entirely sin- cere, I suggest you try to be more your natural self; your friends will like you all the more. Do you want a personal reading of your own writing? The author of this series of articles, a well-known Grapho- Analyst,. will.. send. you,. a .personal analysis, if you will send a letter in your normal handwriting, in ink, and enclose 10 cent coin and a stamped (3c) addressed envelope. .You will be surprised at the revelations, and may find the door of opportunity opened for you. Address your letter to: Geof. frey St. Clair, Grapho-Analyst, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. Fair, and leading United States shows including the International Live Stock Show at Chicago. President Deacon lids been a tire- less worker in behalf of junior f arm- er and farmerette movements and in all live stock and agricultural de- partments of the Exhibitioh. This; together with his wide financial and industrial experience make him a most valuable head of the- highly diversified "Show Wiudow •of the Nations," ' •3 British Fair Shows Progress London.—The great British Indus - tiles' Fair, open4..l recently, again bent its own record in the space taken for exhibition. A` the Olympia and the White City, Londdn, and in the heavy trades seciih n at Birmingham the total indoor frontage alone am- ounted to 32 utiles, with nearly 3,000 'exhibitors. Canada has taken a fair amount of space, some 40 firms being represented in addition to govern- mental and railways exhibits. Considerable Variation Shown on Weather 111outrcal,—The difference between the Australian, New Zealand, Cana- dian and British point of view in re- gard to the weather ,of therespec- tive countries was summe0 'up in the following way by the Rev, Philip Carr ington, des 0 of 13 shopa College, Lennaxville, when addressing the American Women's here. "You "You say to au Australian that it. ]a het and he replies, 'a nice dry day.' 'Yon tell a Canadian it is cold 1n 0au ;lit and he answers, 'not so cold as' all thin! You mciitio'li :earthquakes to a New Zealander and lit replies, `rust rst a 110 ll.:eartlrnral:c:3." Tl ttt• ask an Englishman what sort of e'lintate :he has in England, and he answer. `rotten.' " Col, F. H. Deacon The election of Colonel Frederick Herbert Deacon to the presidency 6f the Canadian National Exhibition brings to the chair a gentleman who has contributed a very great deal to this great inst1111lon and who is eminently fitted to discharge the duties, of the very responsible posi- tion for 'which he has been chosen, Colonel Deacou is head of the firm of F H, :Deacon and Co., investment bankers, of Toronto and is identified in various official capacities witb in. Mistrial and financial institutors o high repute. The agricultural inter- ests of Canada have a warn: ann ac- tive friend In the new president, ITIS pride Is Glenburn .Farms, his nragni. 'ficent .country place near Unionville, Ontario, Colonel Deacon has been` ohairinan of the cat tie committee of the Exhibition since 1925 and has es tl a rli:,l1ed a reputation as one orf the leading shorthorn breeders of the United States and Canada, Ile has won premier honors at the Canadian National Exhibition, Royal Winter Net earnings of the Canadian Pa. cific Railway for the month of Janu. ary totalled $888,989 as compared with $323,372 in the same month of last year, an increase of $565,616, oz 174 per cent. Gross earnings for the month to- tailed otailed $8,970,335 as compared with $7,675,660 in January of last year, a gain of $1,294,674. Operating ex- penses increased $729,057 to $8,081,- 346. Included in January expenses were pensions amounting to $149,548. Figures for January, this year, as compared with January, 1933, com- pare ompare as follows: Gross earn. 1934 $8,970,335 Opel.. exp. x$8,081,346 1933 Increase $7,675,660 $1,294,679 $7,352,288 $ 729,059 Net earn $888,989 $ 23,372 $ 565,616 Note: (x) Includes pensions 01- $149,548. Baden-Powell's Visit Postponed Ottawa,—The visit of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell to Canada this fall has been postponed till April, 1935, it was announced recently by John A. Stiles, chief executive com- missioner of 'the Boy Scouts Associa- tion for Canada. The announcement stated that they would attend a Scout jamboree in Australia in December in connection with the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of .Mel- bourne, and will cone home by way of Vancouver. They will visit various centres throughout Canada on their way back to ngland. Prize Black -Eye Story of Them All Nein York. --Jacob Bernsweig, 31, tolls the prize black -eye story of them all. Hc was picking up firewood along tho beach tet Il,ockaWay, he reported, when he noticed a seagull overhead in .kind of difficulty. Suddenly the l.ird droppc d a large clam with which is had b.211 struggling,'and the cies bit him right in the eye.