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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-04-19, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANppA, I THE EMPIRE Up in Perth County When a man takes his table knife and whittles a match down to a point dor a tooth pick it takes away that Brigid formality which kills off a good many dinners. Ina general way we do not approve of too many rules. We like to see folk having a good time.— Stratford Beacon -Herald. Easy When Said Rapidly The easiest way to write headings is to decide what should be said in them and then select words to express the idea in the amount of space avail- able.—Lindsay Post. Life in the Zoo Many people condemn zoological gar- dens for their cruelty in locking up in confined spaces animals which natur- ally roam the woods, find their own tfood and sleep under starry skies. But it isn't such a bad life being a zoo ani- mal after all. Naturalists says that most animals only live for food and sleep, and that it is the necessity of finding food that makes them roam. The big carnivorae <prey on the smaller mammals. Captive animals, they say, are quite happy so long as they get food and can sleep in Peace. They do not pine for exercise. Indeed, anyone who has watched ani- mals in a zood will have noticed that they do not run around their enclos- ures very much. They are content to lie and sleep with their full stomachs. If they were in their natural habi- tats they would have to hunt for their food, oftengo hungry, and in Winter go without food for long periods, either meat, leaves or lichen.—St. Thomas Times-Jouranal. Nothing's as irritating in a factory town as a smoke nuisance, unless it's not having a smoke nuisance.—King- ston. Whig -Standard. The Country Doctor The provincial Minister of Health touched upon a question that is of growing importance in all provinces when he said mote medical men are needed in the country districts. It is easy to understand why a physician should 'prefer the cities or towns to the long drives and other difficulties in country districts, some of them sparsely settled, but the need of medi- cal care is obvious, and I' is good news that the health department is trying to do what it can to meet the situa- tion,—Saint itua- tion;Saint John Telegraph -Journal. He Has To Be Modern man,, says a scientist, is much more active than his prehistoric ancestors. It is, of course, much more difficult to dodge a motor can than a brontosaurus, Ottawa Journal. Earth Adopting Daylight Saving Prof. Harlan Shapley, 0! Harvard Observatory, makes the announcement that owing to changes in. the moon, the earth is gradually revolving more slowly and the length of our day is be- ing increased one -thousandth of a se- cond per century. Just thiuk—in a little more than 720,00.0,000 years we'll have an extra ]lour o!. daylight with- out resorting to Daylight Saving!— Border Cities Star. Prophecy A Smithsonian scientist says he can predict weather twenty-three years ahead. And it's a safe bet that he is still out in the rain without his rub- bers and umbrella.-13ranttord Ex- .uositor. �'�arr..,v..s• e..,.,se for Women It is announced that Huron conoae,• an Anglican institution situated in • London, Ont., and affiliated with the University of Western Ontario, pur- poses admitting women as divinity students and next October will enable them to register for a six-year course, presumably with Al appropriate te de- gree to be conferred at its close.— Brockville Recorder. Heavy increase During the period September 1 to March ',1, 1932-33, a total of 937,891 gross true of coal was shipped from the Cape Breton mines of the Donal -n- em reel and Coal Corporation. During the same period. in 1933-34 a total of 1,677,56t> gross tons was Shipped from the same mines, Or an increase, this season as against last, ot 739,675 tons. The figures speak for thefnselves.— Halifax Herald: Without Street Accidents So unusual is it to have a no -accid- ent year on streets of large centres. that Belleville's record "` without a fatality in 1933 raised i;oubts and broughta request for a check-up to Chief Kidd for veriflcatioi: of the re- port .Fortunately it was true. The chief constable was able to notify the re- gistrar of the motor vehicles in Ont• ario that there were no motor fatale ties in this city during 1933,---Belle- yille Intelligeucer. Worst of the Lot An orator says we must get 'r•icl of capitalism, ,radica:isin; socialiser. bal. sirevier , catnmunisin and ar areliirni, Why not throw in rheumatism? -Re- gina Leader -Post, s. An nia ustomten. Oid The King's interest in typewriting is hereditary, as Queen Victoria, in 1890, was the first ruler to admit the mach- ines to,a royal household when she in- troduced one at Windsor castle.—" London Daily Telegraph. Biggest Book The world's biggest book is in the British Museum. It is a gazeteer and atlas of the world, printed in Amster dam in 1556, and is six feet high, four feet wide and six inches thick. It has a wall space to itself and students have to consult it as it stands In that position. The British Museum also has some of the world's smallest books. Some are slightly smaller in size than a postage stamp. There was a great vogue for these tiny books a century back, and they were carried in the waistcoat pocket.—London Express. Even Dogs Going to the Dogs City life, pampering and fancy breed- ing are ruining dogs, destroying their essential dogginess, and reducing them to mere shadows of their noble ancesters. Look at the wirehaired terrier. Once he had the heart of a lion and the gameness of a bulldog; today, combed, talcumed, and scented, he is a boudoir c nament. So with many other breeds. Dog -breeders now blame women, who, they say, put looks before the true doggy virtues. A sad thing has happened to the world if man has lost the best in his best friend.—London Sunday Chronicle. -- Lord Aberdeen A Scot of the Scots, the gentler qualities of his race were dominant in his character. It is notoriously easy to underestimate the force of such a man. Quiet rather than assertive confldeuce, human kindness, and unfailing humour they do not commonly appear as dyne - command esteem and effection, but mic qualities. Yet they may move mountains, and in a long, happy, and devoted life the Marquis of Aberdeen was the constant servant of good causes; and when bis work is meas- ured a noble record will stand against his name.—Glasgow Herald. The Dominions and the British Market This country is not in a position to control Damian' imports before next June. The whole agricultural position is already under review with the Do- miniun Governments. There is thus a prospect of a ' comprehensive, settle- ment by mutual consent. The situation at the moment. however, is thorough- ly unsatisfactory. At a season when prices are expected to rise they have have tended to fall, and farmers are losing as much as 5 pounds a beast. The retrictions on Canadian and Irish imports bave proved insufficient. chil- led ,and frozen meat from the Austral- asian Dominions arrived in record quantities last month . . . It will be lamentable if, under the pressure of the emergency, this country makes drastic use of tae freedom of action which she will enjoy next June. Im- ports can then be cut off;- prices can then ba forced up; but it was to avoid such developments as this that the Ot- tawa Confe$ence was held. Since then events have moved taster than discus- sions, ani it may be that conditions require some swifter machinery of ac- tion than that provided by consulta- tions between Governments. But iu, the end it is by the system of correlei tion, which orderly marketing implies, and can establish, that the reedire ments ofboth consumer and producer can be met.—London Daily Telegraph. The Problem of Sete Time Given the conversira of unemploY- ment into leisure, how is leisure to be used? Surely the ssence of it is that the spare times/Which science and technic •'mpseeements provide should be uses or, he things a man wishes, himself, to O. And the tragedy of is that ma,l lfas not yet learned what e really w Id like to do with his sp. time,-- otdon Daily Herald' , Wings Over the Atlantic Vile American and British later - esti are together amicably considering the North Atlantic crossing by air, it is a different story down around the Equator. Just now the South Atlantic is the scene of intense rivalry between Germany and France to establish the first trans-Atlantic airmail, linking Europe and South America by way of Africa: Both countries have already made successful experimental flights, with their newest type flying boats, and both are expecting. to launch re- gular services in the near future; it is a race to see which will be the first to do so, --Thurston Macauley . In the Fortnightly Review (London). re Popular Calgary—Tan thesia.m for the drama- tic festival in the provinces and the Dominion alike by the public and the dramatic clubs le spreading rapidly accor•rline to ll.ulrert. Harvey, adjudica- tor at rs a rri .r..tiri.x.s thtouglroirti one neighborhood in Britain. The the e,' c tri r c t,m ns Proves i :BFO 000,000, It is estimated, would theee trta.,.te:e t-'tivals are infinitely pro'ritle for 40,000 settlers who, with mu. c• ,• ;111 .1r ,hie year than 'ever,", their: families, would constitute 160:,- Mr. tluieey said, "while competing 006 people. This, it 15 claimed, We 'dramatic, clubs display an even greater be a not impossible proposition for ]ceeness.'' f Britain, taking into account the, cost PRINCES DANCER Princess Maddevi Eukanthor of Cambodia starred recently . at Theatre de Paris. She is eight years old. Britain's Plan For Idle Hands Chains of Villages Founded By Company on Govern- ment Guarantee London.—A movement is afoot in Britain to repeat in the empty spaces of the, British Empire such mass set- tlement ventures as those whereby in the past New.England, Virginia, New Brunswick and New Zealand received some of the forbears of their present inhabitants. A non-political association calling itself the British Empire Develop- ment and Settlement Research Com- mittee has been formed, with Sir Henry Page Croft as chairs h. eto, promote this object. Nearly half of the 615 members of the British House of Commons have agreed to support its anus. Parliament has passed a unanimous resolition declaring that the time has come for the British Government to "eat in touch with the Govern- ments ee the Dominions with a view to putting fora eee a scheme for the voluntary redistribution ...4,,lte white peoples of the Empire and the" scones.. lation of sbipping and trade nutter the flag." The difficulties to be overcome, it is recognized, are great. The world slump has reversed the tide of emi- gration. This tide—so long as times were good—flowed continuously out ward,:from overcrowded Britain into the ' fess completely peopled' world at targe. Now, so hard has become the cart of the producers of primary com- modities everywhere tbiat for two years past more people have returned to Britain than have gone out from 'its shores. Canada Needs Farmers. Nevertheless the same urge re- mains to wed idle 'hands to empty lands. Canada has need of farmers to : develop the mighty resources of tis;`' great Northwest. Few would dis- viiute that the Peace River Country -it it were fully peopled — would afford a market for Canadian. and United States goods comparable with Ontario or New York State itself. In Northern Australia are fertile areas as big as France and Germany combined that are still almost empty of people. A British Government report on the question is shortly to appear. Meanwhile a statement by Sir Henry Page Croft's committee discloses the main lines on which his organization proposes to act. The intention is to promote chains ot villages of say 50 settlers each in areas that would not otherwise be develolied. For this purpose a com- pany would be formed to raise £60,- 000,000 on a British Government guar- antee. This company would take `up blocks of suitable land for which it would provide communication by. road and rail, so as to connect up proposed settlements with existing civilization. Form Farming Groups. Farming groups would be then tor- med, each one with centrally placed village provided with stores, school, meeting hall, cinema and market, Farm , land wafuld :radiate outlea1iri from this centre. The settlers would be selected families. Each village would be filled with people from some now incurred by the United Kingdom; taxpayer .in keeping such persons in idleness at home. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Under- Secretary of State for Dominion Af- fairs, expressed the greatest sympathy with the objects in, view, On the other hand he said that in his per- sonal opinion, infiltration in the fu- ture, just as much as in the past, would be likely to do more than community settlement to promote those large-scale movement of popu- lation that are so much to be desired. Oshawa Reports Brisk Business Industries are Recalling For- mer Employes and Some Are Already Working Overtime Oshawa, Ont.—Employment in Osh- awa is rapidly improving with some business establishments working overtime and recalling former employ- ees. Conditions are described as bet- ter than in the last two years. A large number of -employees laid off for some tune have been recalled at the General Motors of Canada plant. Some divisions of the factory are working 12 hours a day, "and in virtually all production departments employees are working three nights overtime a week. Overtime also is being worked at the Coulter Manufacturing Company, a plating and assembly unit. This firm has the largest staff working since its inception here three years ago. Sunday work has been found. necessary in some cases to keep up with orders. It is expected the number of fam- ilies on relief will be greatly reduced by the end of this month if improved conditions continue. Diet Theory May Mean Longer Life Scientist Would Develop Re- gimens to Conform With Different Sizes of Viscera St. Paul—A new way of stoking the human boiler may keep the body's ma- chinery clicking for five years beyond the preseut normal life span, was told recently. The new method envisioned by Prof C. H. McCloy, is 'based on the size of the "boiler" or viscera -man's digest- ive system. By developing diets to fit various sizes of viscera, he forsees a possibility of increased health ,and. longevity. McCloy, on the faculty of the Uni- "'versity of Iowa, is a professor of sci- ence of anthropomethy (man measure- ments.) For purposes of comparison, he divided man into two broad classi- fications, "long lean" and "short stock- y" types. Obesity Theory "Tlie long lean man can eat more than- the short stocky one without getting fat," he said, "because he has a small boiler" and•does not absorb so much of his food intake. =, the the other hand, the short man with thew>b a„nnlc hws larger viscera and absorbs a great aeal more . e what he eats. This absorption contributes to fat in middle age. "In older years, the long lean group tend toward diseases of the digestive and pulmonary 'systems Wee the short stock group finds its troubles in the kidneys heart and circulatory sys- tem." Native of Quebec May Inherit Many Millions of Dollars Mrs. Jane Peever, Now Living in Vancouver is Grand- daughter of Late lames Hudson Vancouver—An 82 -year-old Vancou- ver woman is not the least bit •excited about her prospects of inheriting many millions of dollars. She is Mrs. Jane Peever, grandaughter of the late Jas. Hudson, fur -trader, whose vast for- tune is understood to be in chancery in England, Mrs. Peever, and her brother, Moses Frost, 92, of Port Arthur, are the lead- ing claimants to the fortune. "I have known of the estate for years and every once in a while there has been some talk of its being dis- bursed" Mrs. Peever said today. "It 1 inherit the money that will be fine. It •not, it won't worry me. There is no doubt, however, that Mr. Frost and myself are the only direct descendants "Forty-seven years ago the estate was said to be worth $30,000,000," she added. "Goodness only knows what it would be valued at now. Mrs. Peever was born in Fort Cou- longe, Quebec, and was married there to John Peever, who died 36 years ago. After his death she came west and now lives with her son here. Record Fruit Crop Irentville, N.S.—Nova Scotia's fam— ous fruit belt, the Annapolis Valley, has come through 'with a record out- put for the 1933-34 season. Theapprox- imate apple crop totals 2,'750,000 bar rely, according to figures released by Elgin distillery, restored its sight witlr a Clew to eliminating from the • the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which after twelve Wears of blindness. A reticle Ilea 0 who Provo themselves closed its "apple shipping books" on specialist affirms that the lime buret .r, , ' el fit be itt charge ,of amotor March 31st,, away an unsuspe ted filfu'. i a;rle, q. Smoking Allowed On New Zeppelin World's Largest Air Monster Nearing Completion in Germany—Hot, Cold Water Friedrichshafeu—Passengers on the new Zeppelin, L.Z, 129, now nearing completion in a hangar not far from the shores of Lake Costance, will have many comforts that have never been provided hitherto on any Zeppelin. The L.Z. 129, is a bigger and better sister ship of the Graf Zeppelin, the dirigible that has worked services a- cross the South Atlantic to South Am- erica with clockwork regularity. The middle section of the new air- ship consisting of eight main and 24 auxiliary ribs, with a total length of 363 feet, was finished as far back as last July. At present only the stern skeleton with its complicated steering appara- tus, remains to be set in 'position. Without the stern section, the ship measures 867 feet but the completed length will be 744 feet—some 40 feet longer than the Graf Zeppelin. Despite the only slighter greater length, however the L.Z. 129, Will have almost doubiethe gas capacity of the Graf Zeppelin. Its circumference will be 41.20 met- res (134 feet) and the new airship will carry 200,000 cubic metres of gas com- pared with the Graf's 105,000 cubic metres. The new airship will be the largest in the world. Nearly Finished Meanwhile the interior construction is progressing rapidly The passenger cabins are nearly finished. They will contain hot and cold water pipes, which are now being laid. The waste water will not be discharged, but run into a special tank to serve as ballast. Other innovations to be installed in the airship will be an electric lift to facilitate loading and unloading car- go and huge heels fixed to the pilot gondola and the lower fin, to assist landing operations. These wheels can be turned in any direction. The airship will be the first Ger- man airship on which smoking will 1: permitted. This has been made pos- sible owing to the use in the airship of helium gas, hitherto used only in American airships. The Zeppeline works have specifically barred silk or wool as covering mater- ial. Long experience has shown that silk or artificial silk is not sufficient- ly waterproof, while wool is lacking in elasticity. - Engineers of the Zeppelin works claim that in varnishing the L.Z. 129, they have greatly improved on the mixture used for the Graf Zeppelin. Movies Safe for For Children Motion Picture Research Council Seek to Provide Satisfactory Films New York—Of the current motion picture productions in the United States about 25 per cent. are a menace to America's youth and a boot on Ana. i.nn character in'the eyes of the people of other countries, Mrs. August Belmont stated at a luncheon of the Motion Picture Research Council here. The occasion was the public launch- ing of the council program for better- ment of films, with special relation to entertainment for children. The councilnow starts a nation- wide movement in which all friends of an improvement of social values in films are asked to join. Among those present Was _Mrs. James Roosevelt and an honorary vice-president of the council. Mrs. Belmont stated that the move- ment was not undertaking anything in the way of censorship. The intent- ion was to seek the co-operation of the film industry in carrying out these three objectives of the council. 1. To decrease the amount of object- ionable material in films. 2. To further the. production of films that shall be entertaining to children and where possible educa- tional in value. 3. To promote new types of edu- cational films with the co-operation of the industry and the public school Dutch Lines Plan 0000.Mile Flight As Regular Trip Plane Carrying 10 Fares Un-, der Construction for East Indies Service Amsterdam, — The' double record ;dight of the Dutch mail plane Pelican from Amsterdam to Batavia and back some time ago has focused attention here on a new machine which expected to go far toward turning the record dash into a scheduled passenger ser- vice. Prospects have been opened up of a daily service in the near future linking western Europe and the East Indies with British and French exten- tions to China and Australia. The Pelican, or Fokker F. 18, cut by more than 50 per cent the normal flying time for the 18,000 -mile trip from here to the Dutch East Indies and back: The actual times were, 4 days, 4 hours, 40 minutes for - the outward journey and 10 minutes less' on the homeward half. A notable aspect of this flight is that it was achieved by a three-year-{ old typo of plane which was not in tended for the record-breaking at-) tempt, It had 'originally been plan ned that a new Fokker three -engined machine, F. XX, should make the dash4 to Batavia with Christmas mails. A disabled motor blocked this plan, but the Pelican carried on. And now enters the F XXXVI, the largest aircraft ever built in the Netherlands. It is a very advanced type, having, it is claimed, the most favorable aerodynamic 'shape, namely' that of a drop of water. This machine: has four Wright Cyclone engines of. 700 horsepower each, a total weight of 16.2 tons, a maximum speed of 170 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 130 mules an hour. The machine will have a crew of four, namely two pilots, one mechanic - steward and one wireleas operator( while being able to carry 32 passen- gers in Europe. On the India lines It will carry 16 passengers, oath hav- ing a sleeping berth. As long dis- tance aviation is more and more de- veloping in the non-stop direction, fly- ing night and day, there are also two sleeping berths for the crew. The machine is of the cantilever monoplane type. The wings is placed on the fuselage. The plywood cover-` ing on the under surface of the wing has been removed from the center section, and the hollow space thus exposed forms the upper part of the cabin. The wing has a width of 110 feet. The cabin is divided into four compartments each for eight pas- sengers. In constructing this huge elane, which carries every possible con- venience for long distance flights and the latest automatic piloting devices, the designers had in view the ex- pected rapid development of long-dis- tance flying, reducing the Amsterdam - Batavia flying time gradually from eight to four or 3',i days, after w'lrieb two departures each week from each side are contemplated, in' which Mite. Ish Imperial Airways and the Fleeter Air Orient are expected to ir`i° British Walkers Seek Footpaths London, Eng. — Provision of toot - paths alongside all main British high- ways was demanded by the British Pedestrians' Association in a memo- randum sent to the Ministry of Trans- port. The high speed of motor traffic was cited as the most prolific cause of accidents. For the checking of ex- cessive speeds by vehicles subject to statutory limits, it was 'suggested that all should be compelled to carry a device visible to any passer-by, which either records the actual speed at any moment or gives audible or visible notice when the limit is be- ing exceeded. A second suggestion was that the Highway Code be revised and made more widely known. Safety rules which are observed by careful drivel's should be enforceable with a penalty for their infringement, it was stated. Representatives of the pedestrians. declared it hal been shown the ma- ' ' jority of fatal accidents took place in built-up areas, and the association submitted as a first step in a national. policy of speed control. that there s, stem, should be a speed limit applicable to Sonie 38,000,000 minors attend the towns and villages. Y motion picture theaters every week In the course of its ca - e for a re- in the United States, said Mrs. Bel- vision of the Highway Code and the moat. An element of entertainment enforcement of "certain simple rules that is harmful in its mental and emotional effect should be stopped be- eause of its degrading effects. Dr. Frederick Peterson, former pre- sident of the New York Neurological Society, declared that the sensational, criminal and vulgar suggestion of too many questionable niotion pictures tends to produce "nervous disorders and moral disintegration." Mr. Her- bert •Houston, foriner' publisher of World's Work; Mr. William H. Short, director of the council, and Dr. John 11.' Finley, of the New York Times, spoke. which make Potsafety and which are observed by careful drivers," the as- et, sociation states that the offence of "careless driving" should be abolished. It had the effect of rendering nuga- tory the. severe penalties 'which can be imposed' for "dangerous driving." In order to enable pedestrians to cross streets in safety there was need in built-up areas, the memorandum stated, for many more refuges, and the provision at suitable places, of well -marked ..crossings where the safe• ty of pedestrians would be assured. Finally, the association recorded its strong opinion that touch might be done towards increasing the safety of the roads by a stricter admiral - splash of lime -water accidentally stretion at the existing law, patter - hitting the blind 'right eye of James ularly by a widf'r exercise of the Morren, a 30..year-old employ.; of an power at ciis,rfuaii `iea.tion of drivers,