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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-04-26, Page 6• a e. 'of the. .._....reas Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Murder Ratios, --Murder is safer in the United States than in any .other country on the globe 'which. makes any pretence of civilization. The nnirder rate of 1932 in England and Wales was 0,5 per 100,000 of population! But in 108 representative American cities the murder rate last year was 10.5 per 100,000 persons. Chicago bumped off her citizens et the rate of 12,8 p0r 100,000. Detroit did almost as well, or badly, with 9.6 per 100,000. New York furnished the morgue 8.0 in every 100,000.—Brandon Sun. * * * Sidewalk Episode. —It happened on King street east at the noon hour. A lanky boy of about 13 years, trundling a bicycle through the maze of sidewalk traffic and very red in the face shouted; "Hey, lady; hey, the to a woman a few paces ahead and with whom he apparently had been for some time intent on catching up. In that wondrous, weighty work by Emily Post, the chapter) Sidewalk Salutations, makes no mention of "Hey lady; hey, there," as an ap- proved form of greeting, when a young gentleman has occasion to address a strange woman, but even that stickler for niceties would put the seal of ap- proval, we think, on the subsequent conversation. "Gee whiz, lady," said the boy, "You should be more careful about your dough. You're dropping money all over the place. You dropped a halt - a -buck back there about a block away, And here's some more I picked up, too." The clasp of the handbag of "Hey, lady" had come unfastened, it seems, and an observant boy with a pair of widely -spaced eyes had noticed the occurrence and appointed himself guardian; pro tem., and chief pick- up-after.—Hamilton Spectator. Laws of Chance. —Card players who are continually bewailing their ill -luck of always re. ceiving the same poor cards, will, perhaps, be reassured by knowing that the fifty-two cards, with thirteen to each of the our players, can be distri- buted in 53,644,737,756,488,792,839, 337,440,000 different ways, so that there would still be a good stock of combinations to draw from, even if a man from Adam's time had devoted himself to no other occupation than that of playing at cards.— Prairie Farmer. * Or a Kind Providence. —An actuary finds that singers as a whole do not live as long as other persons. We can only attribute it to the generally keen sense of justice— Kingston Whig -Standard. * * Decline in Manners. —The decline of manners has be- come clearly marked during the past few years and is by no means confined to the one sex. Ordinary politeness and civility have departed from the masses and their exercise is, appar- ently, something to be forgotten rather than promoted. It is now re- iFgarded in many quarters as the smart thing to be impolite and rude, and the influence of the home and the school, which has fallen down in so many Aber things, is equally negligible in his regard—Brockville Recorder. * —A writer submits that people should not applaud in the Middle of a speech. Certainly not; it just en- courages the speaker to continue— Regina Leader -Post. Wages of Crime. —It was an unhappy phrase which described a couple of gun -men as hav- ing "ten successful gas -station hold- ups to their credit" Still less de- fensible was the statement of the counsel for one of them that "with the exhaustion of his savings he was forced to crime for a livelihood." Men are not forced to crime .for a livelihood under present conditions in Ontario. Many do take to crime be- cause they consider it an easy way to a soft existence. But the way is not easy, and the wages are hard.—To- ronto Teegram. * * Good for the Apples, —The unusually severe winter wea- ther that is just passing and that will long be remembered as one of the outstanding features of 1934, 1 as been of singular benefit to Canada in at least one respect: It has wiped out the threat of a moth plague in the apple orchards of Ontario. This pla- gue it was feared would ruin the crop this year, In 1932 some of the more dangerous moths that infest applle orchards had developed to menacing proportions. The coddling. moth a- lone took about hall; .the normal yield. The intense cold of the past winter is said to have killed this pest and thus relieved the orchards of a men- ace for a period of years, perhaps four or five,—Toronto Mail and Empire. Learning to Fly.. ----After only three hours instruction an English youth gave such evidence of mastery of an airplane that he was permitted to make his first solo flight. At another fling school a girl of 15 is• leisurely taking lessons be• cense she is too young to be granted * a certificate as a pilot, but when she qualifies she means to run "her owzt 'plane as a sort of taxi service. Flying a 'plane after three hours instruction! How manY motorists ventured out in a ear alone after only three lessons of one hour each? Some people take weeks to learn and some renounce the attempt altogether. And during the first attempst there aro' bent fenders and damaged garages. We speak from experience! —St. Thomas Times -Journal, * * The Sun Wlll Shine Again. —The winter soon to be buried with flowers and sunshine has the name of being the longest, the hardest, the steadiest, the coldest, the .meanest winter in the history of the North. There are actually people in this country who began to despair of it ever passing away. Yet it is now on its way. The sun will soon be shin- ing; the fish (in the waters) will soon' be biting; the birds will be singing; the flowers will be blooming; and life will be felt to be worth living even for the downcast.—Timmins Advance. THE EMPIRE On the Spot, —The police of Prussia have had their powers enlarged. They have now the right to fine traffic offenders on the spot. The pedestrian who crosses a traffic thoroughfare diagon- ally will receive from the police offi- cer who detects hint brief instruction, and will have to pay a fine of 50 pfennigs. The cyclist who infringes the regulations will have to part with a mark. The motor car driver who makes excessive use of his horn, who parks his car where he should not, whose number -plate is illegible, whose lamps are not lit, or whose ex- haust emits too much smoke, will be similarly instructed in traffic law and must pay for the information. Habit- ual offenders will have their vehicles taken from them and vii11 have to make their further way afoot, their vehicles being reclaimable after a lapse of time and against payment of a large fine.—Glasgow Herald, Needed by a Parson. —On a card in a church in the City of London is to be found the follow- ing list of qualifications said to be needed by a parson:— The strength of an ex. The tenacity of a bulldog. The daring of a lion. The patience of a donkey. The industry of a beaver. The versatility of a chameleon. The vision of an eagle. The meekness of a lamb. The hide of a rhinoceros. The disposition of an angel. The resignation of au incurable. The loyalty of an apostle. The heroism of a martyr. The faithfulness of a prophet. The tenderness of a shepherd. The fervency of an evangelist. The devotion of a mother. —Belfast Weekly -Telegraph. * * * t Oil in Britain. —Recent borings have apparently raised hope of ultimately profitable workings in British oil fields, and the Government has quite properly de- cided to take control of the whole busi- ness if and when serious discoveries are made, This is a wise move. The history of the American oil fields is a sufficient warning to protect such an important source of national wealth from the tender meries of private en- terprise, and the Government is to be congratulated in this matter on. its vision and courage.—London Referee. Farming In Britain. —Now is the time to make the effort to improve the quality of our produc- tion, for farmers are in a progressive mood, and the agricultural planning already achieved has caught the imagination of the public. We are re- building agriculture on the threefold. base of better production, better pro- cessing and better marketing, and while the new structure rises we are sheltering it from the blasts of in- sensate dumping with the shield of tariffs and quotas. But it is upon better production that the safety of the whole structure ultimately de- pends. Unless we can give the con- sumer the service of quality and cheapness that is due to him, all our marketing schemes will come to naught, the best intentions of the processers will be frustrated, and• neither tariff nor quota will give.'the home producer the benefits he has not earned.—L. F. Easterbrook in The Nineteenth Century (London). * * *., New Zealand Trade with Canada. —Under the treaty the New Zeal- and .dairy :trade has no promise. It is fairly definite -that New Zealand -,has no prospect of securing a butter mar. ket of any consequence in Canada for some considerable time. The treaty, however, bas been of great aid to the Wool • industry. -Formerly free all round, wool entering Canada is now free only. to Empire countries, As a result there has been a great ini- prove.ment in the direct trade. from New Zealand, and without such a ben- efit, skins and hides have also gained a better nue Pet.. In the el I cgtnsiauces New Zeend may emigre tulate itself, —Auckland Weekly News, • Executed With Will In Hand This amazing photograph, taken in secret, shows Koloman Wallisch, Styrian defence leader, executed for his activities during the Austrian civil war. With his will in his hand he is seen in the jail courtyard at Loeben, Austria. Women Teachers and Marriage. —The University of Capetown , has done the .right thing in removing its ban on women who want to lecture though married. There is no reason why a woman who has been appointed to a particular university post because of her eminent suitability for it should be dismissed merely because she' has taken a husband unto herself—or vice - versa. It may happen in special cases that she gradually becomes less eminently fitted. University teaching is a 24 -hour -a -day job. The mere lec- turing is nothing compared -with the perpetual reading and research which is necessary for a giver of education to keep abreast with ever -widening knowledge. If a woman on marriage neglects her university work then she must expect to be superseded on the ground of inefficiency. But that is not likely to happen with the vast ma- jority of women who wish to pursue an academic career and who work more for love of their subject than for the gain.—The Cape Argus (Capetown), Diet Affects School Marks May Explain High or Low Standing of Pupil Chicago—A child's diet may explain the reason for the high or low marks he receives in school, according to the deductions of Drs. Seigfred Maurer, nutritionist, and Eva Ruth Balkan, psychologist, both of the University of Chicago. Low grades may result from a de- ficiency in the diet and if given foods rich in Vitamin B -Complex the child will learn more quickly. The statement is based on the re- sults of tests made by' the experi-' menters with 46 pupils of primary grades. The children tested were un- der -nourished and selected from poor homes where the parents were lin- able to supply proper food. The doc- tors gave the children vitamin B-eom plex tablets with their lunch, the chief meal. The children were tested mentally before the tablets were administered. and then every thirty days. All show- ed a marked improvement in intellig ence after the treatment. Vitamin B -complex is protection against pellagra and beriberi, diseas- es affecting the nervous sstem. The vitamin is contained in milk, lean meat, east, eggs, green leafy vege- tables and whole wheat. Farm Population Reaches New Peak But Exodus Grows Washington—The number of indi- viduals living on farms reached a re- cord peak of 32,509,000 on Jan. 1,. 1933. The Bureau of Agriculture Eco- nomics, in a new study of farm popu- lation, attributes the increase prin- cipally to an excess of births over deaths, since more people left farms for cities, in 1933 in a continuation of the farm exodus of the past de- cade than went from cities to farms. The number of persons who moved to farms last year who 951,000, while 1,178,000 moved away. The #term- bound movement involved 1,544,006 persons in 1932 while those moving away numbered 1,011,000. Comment by fawners stressed > re- employment in urban industries and temporary employment in work -relief projects as major reasons for thti.in- crease(1 movement from farms ee cities, New Traffic Laws In Old Country Britain Seeks to Reduce High- way Fatalities London, Eng.—Along with figures showing that 7,000 persons were kill- ed in highway accidents in Britain last year the government published its new road traffic bill, designed to meet the increasing problem of road safety. The fatalities increased from 6,667 in 1932 while the number of injured rose from 206,450 to 216,328 and ac- cidents from 184,00.5 to 191,782. The increases were all in England and Wales, Scotland's figures remaining stationery. One feature of the new bill is the re -introduction of a fixed speed limit of 30 miles an hour in urban areas, these being designated as areas where a system of street lighting is main- tained. Lower limits apply to motor trucks and they are required to carry a special colored disk for identifica- tion. Nein applicants for driving licenses must pass a stiff test of competence but on the other hand pedestrians failing to comply with regulations are liable to a fine. Authority is given to prescribe street crossing places for thein. If the bill does not succeed in re- ducing the toll of accidents, then more stringent measures will be used, it is intimated. Haileybury Heroine Dies in Ontario Josephine Kennedy, Inspector Of Mother's Allowances Performed Many Deeds Of Courage Sudbury.—In the sudden death at Thessalon of Miss Josephine Ken- nedy, inspector of mothers' allowances Northern. Ontario has lost a heroine of the Haileybury fire of October, 1922. Amid the terror and confusion that prevailed during the holocaust, Miss Kennedy delivered a baby In an emp- ty house which the flames threatened to devour. She had spent a whole night in Lake Temiskaming when through the smoke she heard a voice crying from the shore, "My God, will no one ` do something for my wife?" Miss Ken- nedy, a nurse with a war record, went to the•woman's side. As the flames crackled fiercely, she gave all the as- sistance possible. Miss Kennedy glanced through a window•and hope'replaced the despair in hor heart, for the flames of a leurning telegraph pole just outside were blowing away from the house. The wind: had changed and the new born baby, its mother and the heroic nurse were safe. So grateful was the mother that she called. her baby boy Kennedy Edwardson. The courage v''ith which Miss IKen- nedy carried on in her difficult posi- tion with the mother's allowance board for the Sudbury, Thunder Bay and Sturgeon Falls district, and the hardships which she encountered, were perhaps 'less well-known since the nurse was prone to minimize the arduous features of her work. Her friends related hew, all alone, she would drive a clog team through the lonely bush to visit an isolated family or walk along unfrequented paths to makep possible speedier relief for a family In need, Essex Wheat Acreage Set at 100,000 Toronto—The Ontario department of agriculture in its weekly crop re- port indicated mixed prospects for wheat in the province but reported good sales of horses in some quarters, Damage to orchards was reported from some districts, The department reported -in south- ern Ontario Essex County has 100,- 000 acres of fall wheat, almost twice as much as usual and that it appears all will survive the winter. In Brant, it said, many farmers reported dam- age to last year's seeding and that some damage had been done to or- chards and raspberries. In Lambton County, it said, there has been good demand for horses and Michigan institutions have taken numerous ' two-year-old fillies and breeding mares at good prices. In Lincoln, it reported, slight bud growth made it difficult to obtain an estimate of winter damage to or- chards. . In the central part of the province Hastings County reported prices for horses at $125 to $150 a head with good demand. The report said 25 per cent. of cattle herds in Frontenac County were in poor condition and that some losses were expected. It mentioned heavy losses among pigs. Feed sup- plies for cattle were reported low in Carleton County. Throughout the northern parts of the province snow continued to cover the ground, affording good protection for grain in most instances. Lady Aberdeen Will Carry on Pub'c Work Former Governor General of Canada Remained a Lib- eral to the End Declaring she would carry on her public work as before the death of her husband, the Marquess of Aberdeen, one time Governor-General of Canada, Lady Aberdeen revealed in her ber- eavement the affection and loyalty which was the foundation of the life partnership of "We Twa." " I won't be long after him," said Lady Aberdeen to a representative of The London News Chronicle. Her husband -die; as he wished to die— working to the last, she said. Lord Aberdeen was buried in the family interment ground at Haddo House "among his ain folk he al- ways wanted it that way." The cof- fin was made at Haddo House from the beech trees on the estate and it was lined with the Gordon tartan. Change Your Face if You Don't Like It You Can Get a New One Through Plastic Surgery —If You're a Woman New Orleans.—Why not be pretty' if you aren't and want to be? If you don't like the face you have today you can get a new one through plastic sur- gery, says Dr. J. Howard Crum, • a New York surgeon. The process bears its reward, Dr. Crum told the annual convention of the American Cosmeticians Associa- tion here. Once, he said, he was rewarded with a forced hug around the neck and a dainty kiss from a former New Orleans girl whose homely counten- ance he had transformed into beauty in a public demonstration of his art. Then a similar facial operation made a Tampa, Fla., woman more beautiful than the blonde woman she told the surgeon had "vamped her husband" and his affections were won back. Again a woman who had been a pen- itentiary inmate for 20 years sought his aid to remove her "hardened face" that she might not be recognized in the operation of a beauty parlor. It worked and his patient "went straight." ' But this surgeon said he now con- fines his practice to women. Once he changed the face of a man after he had been assured that the pollee had nothing against the patient, but the man within three months was picked up with a set of burglar tools. Jewelled Manicure Of Precious Stones To Match the Gown New Orleans.—Miss 1934 will wear jewels on her fingernails, multiple curls in her windswept coiffure and at the same time using' harmless tints to change from blonde to brunette, or vice versa, according to her mood. So say the members of the Amer- ican Cosmeticians Association attend- ing their annual convention here. Revealing beauty secrets, the visit- ing beauticians announced that the supreme sensation among the year's innovatia ns is the new jewelled man - cure with precious stones. Harmon- izing with the gown, in the centre of each fingernail. For the coed, it will be to sport her college pennant on her thumbs at the more important athletic events, and in the evening she will match her gold or silver eyeshadow with nail polish of the same color. There are hair tints to match every gown, front Chinese rust, to starlight blue and the doloring, wee trling to the beauticians, will wash out with the morning tub. Women Throughout Ages Have Achieved Important Reforms' Calgary Women's Club Told; to Study and Organize for Peace There is no value in study of peace without conviction that peace is the one goal to be desired in the opinion, of Bishop L. Ralph Sherman, of Cal- gary. The question cannot be settled in study groups alone, he told the Wo-, men's Canadian Club at a meeting called for organization of groups for. a program as outlined by the League of Nations Society in Canada. If another war came would you be' brave enough to withstand its hysterr ia, its so-called `romance' and stand firmly against the tide of feeling if it were age inst you? His lordship asked his audience. Following the bishop's challenge, Mrs. E. J. Thorlakson said women throughout the ages had achieved great reforms. In the difficult times of 1934 Canadian women could learn to think ,for themselves and not merely accept a traditional attitude on such questions as world peace. They could study and organize for, peace. They could make it a living cause, for which to work unceasingly. They could join hands with the wow• en of the United States to make the women of North America a vital force for peace in the world. Higher Education For Non -College Youths Planned Ontario Teachers Seek Broad- ening of Course For Older Pupils Toronto. — Teachers,. of primary,1 secondary and special schools and of colleges, with trustees and ratepayers' to the number of nearly 3,000, gathered here recently to secure assistance in! their work, and to try to further the task of resolving the educational use; tem of Ontario into a process of prao tical value to the youth of the country.' One forward-looking suggestion aris- ing from the provincial council of the Ontario Second School Teachers' Fed- eration is that for modification of the high school curriculum to enable the giving of greater attention to the needs of pupils who do not intend to enter university and who will probably leave school at the end of two years. The matriculation is regarded as the sten- lord for obtaining a position in busi- ness and industry, but the suggestion is that a campaign of propaganda be undertaken to induce parents to permit children to enter the proposed course. If the department of education of the province is willing to establish this course, it is proposed that it ap-' point ,one person for a year previously to popularize the course. He would do this by means of inspiring articles and by addressing various interested public bodies, to the end that the em-, ployer will not expect an applicant for a position to have matriculation standing. The proposed course is for two years, but third and fourth year train- ing for pupils able and willing to go, on is provided. Phobias. Due To Former Experience Horror of Blood, Revulsion" From Cat's Fur, Dislike Of Some Foods Montreal. — If you dislike certain foods, recoil from the feeling of the fur of a kitten, shudder at the sight of blood, or have other reactions not based on the intrinsic merits of the thing reacted to, the reason cangen- erally be traced to some previous ex- perience connected with the situation of the moment, according to Miss Mary Sandell, psychologist of New York, who addressed the Montreal Women's Club. Uncomfortable reactions such as these might be resolved if one could discover the connection between the emotion and the experience that gave rise to it. For example, Miss San- dell explained, a woman who disliked bananas, and continually refused to -taste them, was probably influenced by what is known as a "conditioned reflex" built up through having been made illeby eating an unripe banana when she was a child. If she could recognize the reason for her reaction. and eat a good banana she would. break her dislike to that fruit, the speaker said. Describing the way in which at- tractions . begin, she said, a baby has not an innate love for his own mo- ther, and would learn to love a nurse oran aunt just as much if in her 1care. ' The baby's body is a mass of nerve ends, and patting or stroking conse- quently elicits a coo -or laugh from the infant. This is the material out of which all love is made, she said. The child cuddled and petted too much may havo difficulty in later life a: he tree not receive the same sort of affection,