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Zurich Herald, 1934-04-12, Page 6'Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire andT World at Large Sunday Law Bans Music For some time the Winnipeg Sym- phony Orchestra—a very good one to boot—has been giving Sunday con- certs, which have no doubt been much appreciated by those who love good music. But the Attorney -General of Manitoba has prohibited any more on the ground that it is a violation of the Lord's Day Act to charge for ad- mission, Obviously the concerts could not be given for nothing. So that puts the lid on that --From the Stratford Beacon -Herald. Canada Spring -- in Vancouver It seems to us that a very appro- Iiriate subject for editorial comment pen such a morning as this morn- ing is our current and local weather. Spring is here, a month or more a• iead of its normal season. The weep- ng willow has broken into leaf, the lovely blossom of the Japanese plum is out, the dew is on the new grass in our Vancouver gardens. Spring is here, beautiful as ever and more wel- come that she is an early comer, and days are mild and benignant, len- gthening out to opalescent sunsets that seem to renew the ancient coven- ant with beauty of earth and sky and esea.—Vancouver Province, Newspaper Ethics Communications made to and ac- cepted by a newspaper in confidence evil) always be respected; proverbial !'wild horses" being insufficient to drag the names. of those making 'them from newspapermen. Natural- ly, the paper is legally answerable for what it prints and is always will- ing to accept responsibility but we doubt whether any Court or any Le- gislature will ever succeed in induc- ing a newspaper man to betray the code of ethics of his professton.— Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph, ,. Back to the Farm .. .... »r. Regulating Police Dogs Blyth has joined other places in putting a heavier tax on police dogs, the fee there now being $10. In other places we have noticed it has been put as high as $25. The idea is to discourage people from keeping or breeding these dogs,—Stratford Bea- con -Herald. Man's Deadly Enemy Most diseases modern medical selene has conquered, ,Smallpox on- ce swept over the nations, Today it is a rare disease. A few decades ago tuberculosis was cailed the white man's plague. The death rate in re- cent years has been rapidly declining. Typhoid and diphtheria are no long- er the dread diseases of formerly. But the death -rate from cancer keeps steadily increasing. Today next to heart disease in Ontario it stands highest in mortality. It is estimated It is good to note that in highly that at least one in every ten persona 'industrialized Ontario the cites are in Ontario dies from cancer,—Lon- .iosng some of their population— a don Free Press, gradual drift back to the land, This Is an excellent movement which it Keeping It Dark would pay Governments to foster in Someone has said that doing busi- the most practical manner, --Victoria mess without advertising is like win - Times, king at a girl in the dark. You know you are dong it, but no one @lse does. —Winnipeg Tribune. Conversational Stars A man may be a dub in business, in finance or industry, but it is very rarely that he cannot participate in a discussion as to whether his part- ner bid his hand properly or whether he should or should not have taken a certain finesse. In fact, we can think of nothing so productive of var- ied and animated conversation as a game of bridge.—Toronto Telegram, A Tribute • Because of what it has been, what it is, and what it promises to be, The Globe's ninetieth anniversary is an event in Canadian jouralism. Through these ninety years, it has been steadfast for the faith of its ,great founder, loyal to the best tra- ditions of a fearless, untrammelled (cress, vigorous for causes that have advanced Canada. For these reasons because The Globe's traditions and aims are things precious to afree people and a free press, the Journal, a comparatively youthful contempor- ary of forty-nine years, is proud to }salute it. May it long continue to flourish with the years bringing it new and even \greater opportunities for achieve- anents.—Ottawa Journal. Dress Up Old Dobbin Five years ago the biggest whole - Sale harness dealers in Saskatoon sold just $500 worth of harness in a whole year, Last spring the same ,company sold $30,000 worth of har- ness, This is one of the roads back to prosperity. Dress up old Dobbin and !put a blanket over some of those ancy power• machines. '- Heredity, Among human beings the proverb Inas it that fools will not learn in any ether school than that of experience. ut in School and Society, published recently, it is contended that child - e'en benefit by the training which rtheir parents and grandparents had through the third and fourth geera- -ons. There is a brief report of the •jresults of the examination of 1,000 ,representative gifted children, with )the summarizing statement by the psychologist, Professor Terman, that )children of so many superiorities could not have acquired them all through environment influence alone. Not only are these children themsel- ves superior, but their heredity is al- so "demonstrably superior.'— (From )he Galt Reporter). Decision A man can't spend all his time mak- ing eaking up his mind what to do. Life is isbort and the time a man takes to Snake up his mind what to do is sub - )ratted from the time he has to do it re It is no sign of great intelligence to be forever hesitating and swing- ing from one foot to the other with - put taking a step forward. Sometime, land the sooner the better, a man eeds to start for one goal, needs to ave one purpose big enough to make easyto letthe rest. --From all to g hhe Halifax Chronicle. The Empire London Goes "Pink" Revolution in London. Probably you did not notice it—but is was no- thing else. After twenty-seven years the Conservatives lose control of the L. C, C. The capital is in the hands of the Socialists. London takes it quite calmly, No barbed wire is up in the streets. There are no machine guns in the basements of Karl Marx Houses. In Spain similar municipal elections drove out the monarchy. In America bombs burst in the polling booths. in London we say "That's that." --,Loudon Sunday Express. It Can Be Done Reduction in the accident moll can be effected if the motorists, realiz• Sang their responsibility, exercise ev eery possible precaution to safeguard their lives and the lives of their fel- tow-travellers on the highways. This hey can do by strict) observing the egulations enacted for their safety, y refraining from speeding and by r ivrng thought and care to their dei - g ming generally.— From the Guelph fercure, But They'll Try , With streamlined engines as well lies coaches on tlhe railroads, trucks, 'testi. automobiles will have a harder line than ever trying to stop trains ;at crossings.—Prom the St, Thomas ;:Gimes-JOui sal. Leopold III Long live Leopold III of Belbium. May he be as manly a king and as kindly a man as his father was. He ascends the throne at a critical mo- ment in Europe's history, with neigh- boring republics in turmoil and re- maining kingdoms torn by strife. His country, like ours, stands firm a peace ful island in an angry flood. Loyalty to the throne in Belgium, as in Bri- tain, is a personal thing. Albert held his people's affection because he de- served and won it. His qualities and his example, more needed now than ever, are Leopold's inheritance.—Lon- don Sunday Chronicle. A Good Start A photograph of the start of the 151 cubic inch hydroplane (unlimited) race at Palm Beach, Fla., Ma el. 13, when Dleutcher Brown of Houston, Texas, won this heat, ed on the twenty-third. The prices of food and fuel are still controlled by the Governor -in -Council.— Commere- ial Review. Arms Smuggling in India A newspaper in Bengal which faith- fully records facts and preserves a, careful library of cuttings will now- adays discover that one of the fat- test flies in its library concerns the seizure by police in this Province of hidden stores of arms, ammunition, and explosives; the smuggling of arms and ammunition; trials in con= nection with these offences, and, 4n general, the ceaseless warfare -of the police, aided by the Customs, against the forces of the underworld. In this fact is the justification and explana- tion of.the new Bengal Smuggling of Arms Bill, which the Government of Bengal are introducing in the•Legis- lative Council at its next session.— The Caloutita Statesman. Shorts for Sports May Bring Back Brief Skirt Style Playing Fields To wage war is not natural any more than playing football. But foot- ball is a reasonable means of employ- ing ones fighting instincts, and kill- ing one's fellow men is not.—Man- chester Guardian, ,,, An Affectation It gives some sort of morbid pride to confess that the English are not musical and cannot paint pic,ures, as though ens of that nature were all very well for the charming but rath- er childish Continental but must be forgone by grown-up busy men such as themselves, It is an innocent af- fection. The English have painted better sporting pictures than anyone else, and hold their own very ade- quately indeed in painting country scenes. About music, there may be doubt as to the quality of it, but no one sings with more zest than the Englishman. The village hall may dis- play a notice, "Singing and Dancing not Allowed," but singing, at least, there will be. There is never a dinner or a party without a song,—The Spec- tator, All Successful Styles Are In- ter -Related and Eyes Will ' Look for Abbreviated Silhouette New York.—Tho growing if not Hi- ly grown vogue for shorts may have a far-reaching effect on women's styles. Mrs. Alice Perkins, Paris fashion edi- tor of Women's Wear Daily, who is here on a visit, told 300 members of the fashion group at a luncheon meet- ing here. Expressing the belief that all successful fashions are inter -re- lated, Mrs. Perins said that if women are going to wear shorts all morning long on the beach, their eyes will be- come accustomed to a shorter silhou- ette, and they will want fairly short skirts for the afternoon when they play golf. Mrs. Perins also pointed out that inasmuch as the very high waistline and the fitted bodies did not look well with shorts, their "popularity may have a good deal of influence on sports clothes generally, and this in turn may reflect itself in evening gowns. If women are going back to looking like children on the beach. I do not know if they will continue to wish to look like stately and romantic ladies in the evening — in which case there way be a big fleld for youthful evening suits like the navy taffeta ones that Lucille Paray showed." 3erious Flood Losses Twenty-eight inches or rainfall have been recorded for the month of January at the gange in the Botanic Gardens, and of this, 18.07 inches fell from Jaeuary 1 to 7 a.m, on January 7, when 7.16 inches fell between 8.10 p.m, and 7.15 a.m. The disastrous ef- fects of this extraordinary rainfall has altered the immediate outlook for our chief agricultural .industries, and it is unlikely that later in the year the g'u'ial husiueis and trade, of tho e'olony will escape the reper- cussions: The esportation of rice was suspended between January 13 and 27, the ban being first partially lift - knees changing a stone into a statue. A minister passing by watched the worker for a while. "I wish," said the minister, "that I could deal such tell- ing blows upon stouy hearts!" "Maybe you could," replied the stone cutter, "if you worked more on your knees." EYES AND VOICE The news pages are the eyes of a paper. They chronicle what it sees the world over. The editorial page is the paper's voice. It tells what the paper thinks of what it sees. It may be fairly said that the news columns serve particularly, our knowledge and the editorial page our intelligence. — Christian Science Monitor. It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.—Fielding, No Government, any more than an individual, will long be respected with= ,out being truly respectable.—Madison. RICHES *IAhat is the worth of all these things; a day Spent in a little town—a night of rain, A score of footprints stamped in Sus- sex clay, A word — a gesture — burnt into the brain; CHILD SMOTHERED IN MASH Murna, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Heeney, West Ox- ford, xford, Ont., and their only child, met a tragic death last Monday evening when she fell head foremost into a barrel of beet mash in her father's stable. The child had accompanied the parents to the barn and unobserv- ed, had climbed tip on a bag on the, side of the barrel containing the mash. Losing her balance, she toppled over into the mash head foremost and was suffocated. The child had only been missed a few minutes when the ter- rified parents found her in the barrel. STRAW AS AN ABSORBENT Straw when used as bedding for live stock will absorb from two to three times its weight of liquid, and if finely cut will soak up about three as much liquid as when uncut. Further the absorptive capacity of dry sawdust and fine shavings is from two to four times that of ordinary straw. M a NEE A BOO E A \Viten a bit of sunshine hits ye, After passing of a cloud; When a fit of laughter gi is ye And your spine is feeling proud; { Don't forget to up and fling it At a soul that's feeling blue, For the minute that you sling i1, ' It's a boomerang to you. A stettetOle XNs /ZEIT A marble cutter was working on his Gr youth up -leaping to a golden mood Which crushes many lives in one mad hour; Some joy o'ertaken overlong pursued A kiss, a close embrace, a tear, a flower? Grave judges heavy -fingered, these light things Of air, how shall you weigh them? In your scales Heap your sad wealth against a little dust Fallen upon a rose from a moth's wings, And watch your vaunted wisdom how it falls Before delight which thrives upon a crust! — Lady Margaret Sackville. ,percent. of motorists had defective vision in one eye, and 25 percent, in the other. Locomotive drivers were required to have tlheir eyes tested every two years. Children's ees should be watched particularly as remedy of early de- fects might mean much to them in after years. Harvested Canada's First Wheat crop of 193 Season is Threshed ' Ottawa—Canada has harvested her first wheat of the 1934 season. Per- fectly ripe with long straight straws, the national grain of the Dominion was cut and threshed in the cereal division building at the Central Ex- perimental Farm. But it was no ordinary grai.u. Sown on Oct. 15 in the cereal greenhouse sample plots, the wheat was treated with care. Bathed during the day in sunlight which filtered through the glass windows and walls, it was the target at night for artificial rays. Bat- teries of high-powered electric lamps were switched on every day at sunset and blazed ever the slender green stalks until -midnight, while outside temperatures ranged down to 40 de- grees o-grees below zero. Ey esig'ht Causes ..v Most Accidents Survey Reveals Fifty Percent. Due to Defective Vision Ottawa --A survey has shown that 50 percent. of road accidents were due to defective eyes, as compared With. 25 percent, due to speed and reckless driving, and only eight per- cent. to road conditions. Driving an auto with defective eyesight was like having a wind, eltield With the wiper out of order. A recent test had shown that ten Toll of 2 Deaths Over Week -End Toronto Man is Killed — Young Woman Injured Near Welland ONE BOY DROWNED Welland, April 1st—One man was killed and a young woman was injured when an automobile crashed into the ditch near here today. Ar- thur Henry Downs, 26, of 780 Logan Avenue, Toronto, was killed instantly and Miss Isobel Kingston of Port Colborne, suffered serious injuries. The accident occurred on the Wel- land -Port Colborne highway. The car, driven by .Downs, apparently skidded on the highway, crashing in- to the ditch and striking a culvert. Passing motorists discovered the wrecked car. The man had been kill- ed instantly and the girl was semi- conscious when found. She was rush- ed to hospital at Welland. Downs' neck was broken in the crash. An inquest has been orderd. Miss Kingston is a nurse in the of- fice of Dr. W. W. Moffat at Port Col- borne. Downs had been secretary of the Socialist party of Toronto for the past year, and was active in the labor section of the C.C.F. One Killed, One Injured Colbourg, April 1st—James Mac- Donald, ao-Donald, Colborne, was killed Sat- urday when the car which he was (hiving left the road a short distance north of the highway at Salem and crashed down a steep bank into a creek. His companion, Patrick Cleary, was badly injured and is in a serious condition at his home in Colborne. Dr. A. McCIennon opened an inquest and adjourned it pending Cleary's recovery. According to F. Morrow, who saw the car leave the road, it had sud- denly swerved to the west while ap- proaching a bridge. Marks indicated that .the car toppled down a 12 -foot embankment, rolling to the bank of a creek, swollen by recent floods, where it was carried out in the stream until a bend in its course swept the car up against a tree, front wheels in the air. Rescuers extracted the two Wien, crouched in the front seat, jammed against the broken body • of the car. MacDonald was half under water, with his neck broken. Cleary was half drowned and unconscious. They were brought to the bank of the stream and rushed to Dr. Pember, who found MacDonald was dead. Cleary, suffering from lacerations of the skull, was taken to his home where he is in a serious condition. MacDonald, 'who will be buried on Tuesday, is survived by two, brothers, Dr. William MacDonald and Alex MacDonald, Detroit, and by his par- ents in .Colborne. Boy Hit Crossing Street Strathroy, April 1—Vincent Gun nese, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gunness of Struth;oy• suffered painful injuries this alter noon when he was struck by a cat driven by Alden Craven, R.R. 1 Strathroy, at the intersection of Head Street and Number 22 high- way: The boy was"returning from at. tending Sunday school at St. John's Anglican Church and in crossing the street, he ran in the path of the car, At the Strathroy Hospital, examin ation showed that Gunness is suffer. ing from a fractured right leg facial injuries and shock. Firm Announces 6 -Hour Day, Raises Battle Creek, Mich.—W. K. Kellog president of the Kellog Company manufacturing cereals, announced re cently permanent adoption of the six hour working day after three years of operation, together with what he des cribed as the highest wage scale evei paid to the company's employees. The minimum hourly rate of 51 cents is being increased to 67 cents he said, along with a proportionate increase in other basic rates. Bon uses, he said, will make it possible fol workers to increase thie rate to 8! cents hourly. Boy Drowned in Creek Maxville, Ont., April 1—Arthur Chenier,14was drowned in a small creek ere early tonight. The lad, with a companion was playing on the ice when it gave way, the current carrying him through a culvert and under the ice for some distance When his clothing caught in a fence, span. ning the creek. Searchers who had been called by Chenier's companion, cut through the ice and recovered the body. Pupils' Intelligence - Higher Than Teachers' Windsor—Inspector John E. Bensot of the Walkerville, Windsor ant Sandwich schools, who believes "then are hundreds of children in our Bordet Cities schools who posses a higher intelligence quotient than teachers, urges teachers to avoid over-emphasli on vocational education. Mr. Benson, in an address before the Men Teachers' Federation of the Border Cities, said he preferred malt to female teachers because he believes that, generally speaking, men have a broader outlook on life and are keen er observers of a wider variety of sub jects than women. Six Persons Die In Brutal Murder Bloodstained Suit Sent tc Cleaners May Afford Clue —Desperate Fight Bremerton, Wash., April 1.—A card dealer accused-. of taking a blood• stained suit to a tailor for cleaning was questioned today by police seek• ing the slayer of six persons in the ransacked Frank Flieder home. The dealer, described by authorities as "Murphy," was taken into custod3 after Isadore Leachbin, Bremerton tailor, read of the killings. Laschtor said Murphy brought the suit to hill last Friday—the day after the slaugh ter apparently occurred—with the ex planation he had suffered a hereon, hage. Flieder, 45 -year-old retired Bremer ton grocer, was gagged, shot -through the base of the skull and beaten al most beyond recognition, together with his wife, 50; Eugene Chenevert, 38; his wife, Mrs. Peggy Chenevert, 30; Magnus Jordon, retired navy man; and Fred Baisom, a bar tender. Sheriff D. Blankenship said the killer apparently bound and gagged the six persons and then set about ran sacking the house in the belief the Flieders had valuables concealed. Chenevert evidently worked loose, freed himself and started to battle the murderer. "After killing him the slayer went mad and slaughtered all in the house," the sheriff said. One of Chenevert's blood-stained hands clasped the leg of an upturned stool as if he made one last con• vulsive effort to get to his feet. A hammer and a blackjack, used in the beatings, were near the bodies. A butcher knife and carving knife also used in the murders were iu the bedroom. Drawers had been pulled out In all bureaux and the contents scattered on the floor. The house showed evidence of a terrific struggle. In the kitchen dishes were overturned, bottles broken and food scattered on the floor. His Income Tax Is $1,593,633.96 CIIICAGO—An unnamed Chicagoan is scheduled to pay an income tax this year of $1,593,633.96, indicating he made from $4,000000 to $5,000,000 inti 1933. This man fyled an income tax return off $398,408.49 for the first quarter. His was the largest individ• ual return to come to the local office' of the collector of internal revenue. Social Evenings Killed by Bridge NEW YORK—AI1 the pleasant social life of small towns and cities of the United States has been snuffed out i a craze for contract bridge, Octavus Roy Cohen, the author, declared re, cently. Cohen said he spoke as one Who plays laYs a pretty good ood . game of con- tract and likes it very much, "But 1 resent having ,to play it," he added, "The craze for contract," he asserted, "has done away with the art of con- versation. I know very few couples who can enjoy any more what we used to call 'a pleasant social evening.' You can't have any social contact in a small city unless you are a pretty IPA bridge player,"