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Zurich Herald, 1934-04-05, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large Canada rribute Toronto —The people of the Province of Ontario will rejoice with unfeigned satisfaction at the observance of the hundredth annivers y of the incor- poration of Toronto as a city. The tremendous growth of Toronto in one hundred years is a tribute to the en- ergy ,onterprize and enthusiasm of those who have conducted he affairs of the city in years gone by. Caned - diens are proud of the Queen City ar • its achievements. It has been a lead- er in every good work for the ad. vancement of the country—The Brantford Expositor. A Good Reason Too —In Great Britain every other home has a radio set. And the folks do not have to listen to anno'incers asking, as in our fair land: "Are your corns bothering you tonight?" That's one reason why Britain has so many lis- teners.—Winnipeg Tribune. Engine Without Steam —There is only one recipe for cur- ing the depression — more employ- ment and higher wages. Those who have not learned that in the last four years can learn nothing. It is not in our modern world simply "his own affair" if a man cannot find work or has to work at starvation pay. This is also the "affair" of every one who produces things to sell or offers things for sale. The business system without public buying power is like a locomo- tive without steam. The machine is all right; but it won't move. Buy- ing power, in the hands of people who need or want to buy things, is the prime mover of production and trade. --Edmonton Journal. Anglo -Canadian Treaty The whole Canadian press should mobilize its forces in support of the Anglo -Canadian trade treaty. The pre• Terence given to Canada in the British market constitutes the finest oppor- tunity ever presented to Canadian ex- porters over there. It remains for our producers and exporters to profit by this opportunity on an ever-grow- ing scale. It is surely up to every newspaper in the Dominion to preach this gospel continuously. - Toronto Mail end Empire. Alberta's Solution The Province has atnout reached the end of its borrowing possibilities for the present. The one promising solution of the probiem is that some thing may be done in the way of re- ducing -interest charges•on the public debt, but if alleviation is to be se- cured only at the erpense of those who have invested in Alberta bonds, public sentiment will demand that the Government in turn should grapple more effectively and sincerely with the problem of reducing general gov- ernmental costs. Sacrifice should not be entirely laid on the shoulders of Investors.—Calgary Herald. Newspaper Style Many of the editorial articles In • The Ottawa Journal, the Globe; the Mail and Empire, the Montreal Gaze ette, just to name a few of the dail- ies at random, have a notable literary style and need no apologies on this score. There are weekly newspapers that despite the pressure of time and circumstances are still of distinctive literary flavor. There seems to bea tradition, howeverthat newspape'irs, ehbuld not preterc. to any literary style or carefulness, though If this were actually the .ase Canadian news- papers would not be as good as they are today.—Timmins Advance. Sounds Better In Feet —Somehow the news that Glacier, B.C., has had 369 inches of snow this season leaves us very cold.—Vancou- seer Province. Man the Real Danger if I ever come out again, I will have another story for you," recited a radio talker last night, dilating on. the alleged dangers of the great Can- adian woods._. What is it makes men pose as brave souls, who blitnely defy cold, snow, wolves and -wild animals in their talks? The truth is that a man is safer from harm .in: our forests than on the streets of a village. He won't be rob- bed or attacked there. He can find free food and shelter and warmth in the forest. The records of a big city store show that its delivery men were bitten by dogs over 300 times in one • year. Hardly a week goes by in the Summar that doesn't record the at- tack of a bad tempered rural bull, of- ten with fatal results to man, woman or child, Of .course the real danger every- where is man himself. Compared to bind the beasts of the field and for- est are as cooing doves,. If you want to lead a perfectly safe existence, get away from your fellow elan. --Sault Ste. Marie Star. Gull or Camera? There can be no donbt that thls steady annual slaughter of moose can- not continue indefinitely without in. the end leading to, serious depletion of the herds. •e or our own part, we gaud Minch rather see the camera taking the place of the rifle to a much greater extent in Nova Scotia.--Hal1- fax Mail. An Illustration Those who have experienced this so -caked good old-fashioned winter in Canada will have r clearer understand ing of what is meant by a mean tem- perature.—Montreal Gazette. A Pioneer London Township has lost a faith- ful servant in the death of Miss Mary Grant, clerk of the township for near- ly 35 years, It was in 1900, in the days before women had entered busi- ness life to -day, that Miss Grant be- came clerk of the township, the first woman in the Dominion to hold such a position, succeeding her father, the late James Grant, clerk from 1873 un- til 1900. She became an authority on rural municipal questions and her ad- vice was widely sought. Miss Grant was one of the pioneers in the move- ment to introduce Hydro in rural dis- tricts of Ontario.—London Free Press. It's In the Air There is something in the atinos- phere that makes people think things are improving. The Empire A Liberal Education To induce the sense of being a shareholder in the treasure house of civilization is the essence of a liberal education. —George E. G. Catlin, in the Fortnightly Review (London). Roosevelt's Trial Roosevelt keeps in reserve his un- equalled power of persuasion over the air, having wisely come to the conclu- sion that a President, while feeling free to talk on ceremonial occasions, should be careful in his use of the radio for statements of policy and appeals for public support. Franklin Roosevelt has yet to be tried in the fire, and tried beyond all question he will be. At present we can hall him as by far the most attractive man oc- cupying high office in any part of the world. On January 30th, 1934 the American people accorded him an an- niversary celebration which, in spon- taneity and universality, must be de- scribed as unparalleled. This was his 52nd birthday. If it should be given to him, in 1935, to enjoy his 53rd amid circumstances in any way comparable, Franklin Roosevelt will indeed be a world's wonder.— S. K. Ratcliffe, in The Contemporary Re- view (London). Pioneers It is too much . forgotten that our forefathers in similar times of crises, as, for example, in the early years of the Seventeenth and of the Nineteenth Centuries, organized great settlements in the New World. They did not, as some imagine, leave the populating of those newly discovered lands to a vagabond chance; but sent out well- equipped communities, and supported them in their early weakness with capital and necessities from home, It was thus that New England and Vir- ginia and New Brunswick and New Zealand were planted, to mention few notable examples, and there are still empty and ample spaces for'similar development if our nation today would show the same enterprise, But in this matter enthusiasm and expert knowl- edge must go -together, and they must be backed by the energetic support of the Government.—London Morning! Post. . , • -'Dominion's ,and' Immigration The colonization scheme proposed by the Finns Devo'i-An* ;and Set- tlement Research Committee seems to us worthy, of. very serious considera- tion. The proposed Chartered Com- pany, supported financially by the Bri- tish Government,' would go 'some way to meet'the• difficulties in the -way of the emigrant, that have revealed them- seivea�ini recent years:' But the ase sent and cooperation of the Ddniinion Governments would, of course, ;be is,,,e sential. - And the difficulty here. i that the change in world econom3#,_ which s throwing out of business the great 'food='froducing proiiuces.•of the I}omiitideeee is bringing -the Dominion, Govern:M ets thee to face with the ne- cessit no .. oviding•for the future of: great sections of their, own people. 'Until they see their way to settling that problem they are hardly likely to add a new one to it. But there seems no reason whythe new settlers should' not -be self-supporting, and 'surely for such there must be ample room in the still very ligleey populated Do- minions.—London News Chronicle. News Cheers Eritain There is always good news to make you forget bad news, British imports have risen. Canada's exports now rank her fifth among all nations. Aus- tralia will have a large export surplus. In Britain all railways carry more traffic, showing internaltrade im- provement The chairman of the Westminster Bank comes outadvocat- ing slum clearance as a national in- vestment, The banker suggests it should be done on the lines of public utility. Rejoice! The light, is spread- ing, --London Daily Express. Protecting Scottish Oats The Government has at last made a definite move in the interests of the LATEST PHOTOGRAPH The Duke of York accompanies the Duchess of York, in performing their parts in the opening .cerem onies for a bridge across the Tees, at Middlesbrough.. Scottish farmer in placing a genuine restriction on the import of oats and oat products. The new duty, which represents about 70 per cent on the value of imported supplies,- is prac- tically prohibitive, and should give the' farmer every encouragement to main- tain the acreage under this crop with- out leading to any evidence of scarcity to the consumer. Britain at present can meet all her requirements Edin burgh Scotsman. Australia's Problems Australia suddenly finds herself caught up in the complicated design, of Pacific events. That she must co- operate wholeheartedly in the plan of Imperial defence is too obvious to be disputed. But there is another .res- ponsibility. The peoples who dwell on the margin of the wide Pacific are uniquely different from one another in racial cliaracteristics, in ways of living, in ambitions, and in colour. Yet the advance of science has nar- rowed the span of the ocean, and the problems of one people _become more and more international, Amon nations which share a cbmiuon tau° guage and common customs it is of- ten difficult to promote amity; it is infinitely harder to do so whore there. is no such common ground .for meet- ing. In the Pacific, Asia anid Europe meet.—The Australasian. New Zealand's Air Force In ordering eight new reconnaisance airplanes for the New Zealand Air Force, the Government is carrying out its avowed intention of increasing the effective strength of the Dominion's air defence. It is ultimately proposed to station four flights of four air* planes each at vantage aerodromes in 'both islands,'•tlitiisl-establishing useful home defence unite Aa able of operate ing over large areaiec-ebuntry. The significance of the Government's Lip- ton will be fully appreciated by those who realize the practical value of avi• atlbn as applied to the protection of closely populated districts as well as to the patrolling of stretches of viii- irerable coast -lime. :at has also been ilecided that torpedoes . will not be parried at present, on account of the Cost- involved.—Auckland News. Erects re es n B sis u s Gain Magazine Forecasts Big 1934 Improvement in the Dominion Iontreal: "Canadian business ac- treaty started on the up -grade exactly a year ago, and during the next twelve, months the rate of progress should be accelerated," says Canadian Business. -the magazine of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, in a survey of business conditions. The survery continues: "This is not a casual observation. It is based on authentic reviews• of the, present situation, backed by precedence, and confirmed by the security markets. "The advance in common stock prices has represented substantially. more than a return of speculative fer- vor. While the recent uprush hi quo- tations may be traced in part to the scramble to secure equities in time to share in the prospective business bet- terment, all the buying did not reflect unreasoning speculation. "The increasing confidence and .the concrete improvement in underlying conditions, have revealed themselves .in the trend of the bond market. More than a handful of issues, which could be bought for less than 15 cents on the dollar, are now commanding prices which are Materially closer to par. Nigher grade industrialists have risen as much as 50 per cent. in value, while goy enen ents and municipals have been experiencing a keens demand with sell- ers at a clistiinct advantage. "The financial situation ,however, is by- ne means healthy. Federal, pro- vincial and municipal deficits have as- sumed precarious proportions, although Hon. Hugh Guthrie (Minister of Jus- tice) recently forecast a balanced bud- get for Canada. Critical as our fiscal problems are, the ultimate effect of ris- ing prices and the quickening of the business pulse must create counter forces which will ameliorate the bur- dens which we are bearing." Dusty Act of 1713 Is Dug Up Columbia, S.C.—Yellowed with age, a provincial Act of 1713 under which the "true and absolute lords' and pro- prietors of this province" created a "night watch" at Charleston, was dis- covered here recently during a general clean-up of the basement of the State Capitol. • The historical document, entitled: "An Act" for the maintenance of a snatch to keep good order in Charles Town," provided a picked force of three officers and nineteen men to pro- tect the young town from Indians, prowling pirates and evil doers in gen- eral. An amendment. to a previous Act was revoked in the following language: "For the better preservation of the said town and the keeping Of good order and a Careful and strict watch thereon, be it enacted by the mast noble prince, Henry, Duke of Beaufort, palataniate, and the rest of the true and 'absolute lords and proprietors of this province; with the Conseet of the honorable as- sembly, now met in Charles Town, that the Watch of Charles Town shall con- sist of ?•three • officers and 19 math - men." The Personnel of • thee: watch were to be between 16 and 50 years of .age, and were to be properly armed and carry at least 20 "cartridges," a provision of the Act stipulated. Million -Dollar Apples,. Country Life in. B.C. 'That Million -Dollar Apple may else developed from onecof the 1,600 seed; lings that are snow being.nursed along, in this;,piotis hope, at the Dominion Ex- periniental Station ; at •Summerlan:d, 13,C. :One, of theseseedliegs,may coni- bine the outstanding virtues of the Mc- Intosh: Red and the Winesap. • If it. does, .it will be cheap at a million or even two million' Government IOU's: But this quest for the golden apple need ont be confined to an 'experimen- tal station nor to technical pomological experts. Any apple grower, ambitious to get his cent a pound or better, may, if he uses his -eyes, spot a Sport in his orchard that will make him a fortune and add to the revenues of thousands of his fellow -growers. " Fairy Story—not a bit of it. Sim- ply+ another 'of the lessons learned by trained experimenters. Tiine was when it was taken as a matter of course that certain things could not happen and could'not be done. Nowadays nothing is taken for 'granted. Everything is subject to test and trial. And ed it has been found. that' bud sports on apple trees niay quite easily produce types that will have higher commercial values than the parent stock, • Sets Milk . Record St. Thoanas. •=- bowdie Delnol, Dor-' liska, a six year old Holstein caw, bred and owned by Duncan lY1c.Baaae, disrtict farmer, has just finished set-! ting a record of more than a ton of milk a month. in her 335 day laeta- boys' Needs Are Outlined Character, Courage and Abil- it7 Given as FundaMentals Windsor.—Character, courage and ability were outlined as the three quali- ties to be stressed in the moulding of the boys of to -day by Louis M. Me Night, associate director of education of the Detroit Institute of Technology in an address at a recent father and son banquet in Lincoln Road United. Church. ADVICE TO FATHERS. Mr. McNight's address niay well have been labeled "Advice to a Father," for it was given almost entirely over to them, but his ability to illustrate points with humorous stories made his talk equally interesting to the boys in his audience. "We look forward to the day when our boys will grow up and be ready to take their places as good citizens in the country," he said, "but too often we look too far ahead and forget about the little journeys they must make and expect thein to snake them by them- selves. Modern engineers are not only improving the motor car so that long aides may be made fast and in comfort, but are also concentrating on the short- er runs. They realize that it is the shorter journeys, from stop light to stop light, that are important. AGE OF SPEED. "We sometimes worry about the out- come of the_ younger generation be- cause of the changes in living condi- tions in the world. Time doesn't mean anything and distance isn't here any more. In the old days of the stage coach if we Missed one and had to wait two or three days for the next one it was O.K., but now we get sore if we miss one section of a revolving door. . "It is true that to -day things are moving faster, but we must still take the long beaten highways in the build- ing up of our boys," said Mr. McNight. "One's life to his neighbor used to be an open book, but now it is too easy to evade the responsibilities of good living. If one fails to snake good in a community it is easy enough to move to another one." Mr. McNight stated that in the United States they are doing great things by rearranging the alphalet with the AAA, CWA, and RFC, but by far the most important is the CCA. CCA, he went 'on to explain, stands for character, courage and ability. MUST COME FIRST. "You can strip young manhood of every other vestige and leave with or give him CCA and he will rehabilitate himself and go on living. Character, courage and ability by all means must come first for without it a young man cannot be successful. They are the, old landmarks we can't desert, for in, trials and and tribulations we can't do without thein." The home, school and church were given by. Mr. McNight as the three centres around which the life of any boy must be built. "Although many domestic duties," he said, "are now done in a shop and '-ve travel miles to work, leaving the youngsters on a narrow lot to make. 'their journeys alone, the..hone is still 'the place for association, but it must have something else to support the work, such as the schools and churches. - i CHURCHES ENDURE. "When one visits the, British. Isles and is .pointed out ruins of many Ronan buildings he gets to wonder- ing just ;where is Imperial Ronne. True it has lft its imprint on our laws and customs but where is it? Some 1,900 years ago a Man was walking around .teaching character, but Rome appear- ;ed to overtlirow,him. To -day we look down on the ruini•bf: Ronne 'bat.' the church bells still ring," The speaker toldeoestorynel how one of three friends on a train together fell asleep and his companions decided o hide his ticket as a joke. Rather 'than face the conductor the victim, although positive that he had pur- chased a ticket, hid' `Hilder the seat while his friends covered 'hint with their rains ,coats. When the conductor came td collect their tickets the two friends' handed hki -the three, and when he asked. .vhcre• the other man was they teld hii,i he Was. under the seat, but, .p"referred tsegide that way. "\Welt the time comes ;for"' our boys to take journeys we, lutist train them to stand tip and face' the .conductor rather than 'get- tinder the seat," he said. • , • Use of • Sodiunti ,illumination x to Do Away With Glare. of Lamps,' Says Engineer Toronto. — Illuminated highways that are sufficiently well lighted by the use of soditun light to permit of the driving of automobiles , without head - Pens Was seen as a possibility of ;the future by , Mr. W. P. Dobson, chief, testing engineer of the Ontario Hydro.- I!.lectsic •Power •Con,niission,1who,4is, missed, new ,i0vcntipus,•'eted dieeoveriYee 'in the electric lighting field at the con- vention on vention . of Municipal .Electrical •LTtilt• ties Association here recently. Illtnuinaf ion•til • air. intensity . of 8 - foot candles could be produced by so- dium light with en expenditure of two kilowatts a mile. The replacement of incandescent lamps with facilities to, tion period, the cow gave 82,109 give cold light was foreseen, as veil as pounds of milk containing 858,76 'great strides i t the electro-cheinirrtl pounds of butter fat. field. Short Week At Ottawa Debates Ahead — Com- rnittees Sit. Ottawa, March 25, -- A short week looms ahead for parliament, which is scheduled to adjourn Wednesday or Thursday for the Easter holidays. In the meantime it will discuss unem- ploynient relief and a national mar- keting board aud concentrate on con- mittee work. The bill to create a Dominion mar- keting board Is scheduled to be brought down to -marrow. With the exception of the budget itself, this will be the most important legisla- tion still` to be brought before par. liament. It is credited with contain- ing provisions which may place the marketing of a considerable number of farm products under the direct control of machinery built up by the Dominion and provincial govern- ments. The Stevens committee will swing back into action Tuesday when rep. resentatives of the Quebec Retail Merchants'. Association will be wit- nesses. The banking oommitte e also will sit Tuesday,, continuing its in- quire into Canadian banks and batik - ere. The most important legislation of the session, the budgets ; will be pre- sented after Easter by Finance Minis- ter E. N. Rhodes, but the date has not been set, Officials of the finance and national revenue departments have been working on the budget far weeks but it was not expected to bo presented to the House for a week or 10 days after the Easter adjourn- ment The length of the budget de... bate will be determined largely by the Finance Minister's disclosures but it is not expected to be shorter than a month. Yesterday council was in session throughout the morning and after. noon, but no official information was disclosed. Some indication of the na. tore of the Minister's deliberations is expected to be given at to -morrow's session of the House. It is anticipated that Hon. E. N, Rhodes, Minister of Finance, will an. nounce the government decision with respect to the 10 per cent, de. duction from the salaries of civil servants. The general belief is that for the year commencing April 1 the lower paid civil servants will have their salaries restored to the level existing at the time the .cut was put into effect two years ago. Just where the dividing line will be is not known, but it is believed those getting salaries in excess d $1,500 or -possibly $2000 will .continue to suffer the 10 per cent, deduction for another year. Jackson Dodds, general manager of the -Bank of Montreal, who appeared before the Stevens Committee with Mr. Bennett and Mr. Beatty, will be questioned again Tuesday, with S H Logan, general manager of the Can. action Bank of Commerce, with fur. ther reference to the government's guarantees to the banks for wheal Operations. Canada to Buy Six War Planes Ottawa.=•Six new airplanes are to be purchased by the Department of National Defence at an estimated cost of $80,000. As the House of Cone mons in Committee of Supply approv- ed Hon. Donald Sutherland's estimate of $1,805,000 for the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Minister told of plans to purchase the new planes from England ;The grant of $1,805,000 represented an increase of •$400,000 over Iasi year's. Col. Sutherland declares that since it was agreed the Dominion should have an air force, it was considered• it should be given as much assistance as possible. The force had suffered severe retrenchment in the last few years. Two years ago many nien had 'been let out so as to maintaian the force within the reduced grant. Last year the vote had been further reduc- ed, but now it was decided the force could not be fittingly maintained ono the low figure •and 'consequently* an in- c'r'ease was being sought from Parlia- ment. The Minister could not give details of the class of -machine to be purchased fibnr England, but declared they would be of the most modern construction and capable of filling the many needs of the force in carrying on advanced training. Sprint of Fat Officer is Costly MILWAUKEE.—Rushing up to s portly policeman, Edward A. Wie- land, 27, pointed and breathlessly panted: - "See that truck two blocks dawn the street?' there's a murder being committed in it." • '1, Gun in hand, the officer rail toll, speed to the truck, kicked open the dols acid found nothing but a load of merchandise `; i a , "Why," asked„ ,the policman, "did ;you tell me' "theit•d was: se, eneurder" `there?„ • Wie1gnd replied: "I just wanted tri see a 'fat cop Re paid $5 for the privilege in dis- tract court. , . PRICES DECLINE Wholesale commodity . prices in Telly have been steadily declining since 1028.