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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-05-24, Page 6slAitA t..Voice o1 the Press Canada, The Empire and Tile World at Large CANADA COST OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN Much is heard about the high cost of education, but figures repared by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics go to show that it costs only about $755 to keep the average child at school for eight years, but it costs more than that for clothing, twice as much for food and three times as much for housing. Altogether, it is said to cost $5750 to bring up a child to the age when it is self-sup- porting. Next to good health, a good education is the greatest asset a youngster can have.—Fergus News - Record. YOU SEE IT EVERY DAY What chances men take of being severely burned, and even losing their life, is seen at almost every service station where gasoline is fed to the tank of a car. The owner of the car will stand over the tank and watch the infiammabe fluid be- ing poured in with a lighted cigar or cigarette between his lips and we have even seen them strike a match to light their pipe. In the open air the danger is not so great, but it is nevertheless, a great danger and once the fumes of the gasoline be- come ignited, the explosion follows, and the man standing nearby is liable to be the most severely burned. We have frequently noticed young men, while the gas tank was being filled, strike a match and light a cigarette. Accidents do occur, and often lives are lost by such careless- ness, but those who do escape do not seem to heed the many warnings. Recently we read of a man -who was removing gas from a car with a lighted pipe in his mouth. In a few hours he was being cared for in an hospital, and is probably dis- figured for life. Fire and gasoline don't mix any more than alcohol and gasoline will mix.—Winchester Press. WEED DESTRUCTION Farmers can do much toward the elimination of weeds from their pro- perties and their district if they will give more attention to the destruc- tion of this menace to good crops. it was pointed out at a meeting of agricultural men at Essex recently. iWhile some fanners realize the ne- cessity of destroying the weeds on their farms, others are lax in this, and render ineffective all the work that has been done. The sow this- tle and dodder are the enemies on ;which the farmer should wage war land the war will not be won unless all farmers do their utmost to pre- vent the weeds from gaining a foot- hold on their farms. It is to their own advantage to do so, for it means less work and better crops in the end. Testing their seed before sowing is one way of preventing the spread of weeds. Destroying the weeds as 7many tines a year as it is necessary 'is another method. It is up to ev- ery farmer to , co-operate with the weed inspectors as far as possible and help make their land cleaner.— Amherstburg Echo. AERIAL FREIGHT TRAINS ' Who knows, but that, as now pow- erful engines pull the freight cars, acme day a powerful plane will pull !half a dozen gliders at its heels — the freight train of the air.—Halifax Chronicle. LIFE AND KISSES A would-be crepe -hanger has in - 'formed an indifferent and unrespon- )ive world that every kiss indulged in )hortens one's life three minutes. If his chap has the correct dope he has ertainly suggested a delightful me- thod of leaving this vale of tears. If 'the pleasures of kissing must be iven up in order tc reach a ripe old ge, a referendum on the subject iwoulcl undoubtedly be unanimous in ravor of an early but blissful demise. •--Kingston Whig -Standard. dustrial production rose to 86,8 in January of this year. From a low in January, 1933, of 91.8 total mineral production rose to 120.6 in January 1934. Manufacturing, as a whole, has made steady progress from Feb- ruary, 1933, when it stood at 58.7, up to 80.7, in January, 1934. Con- struction showed a gain of 17.8 ptss. this January over January, 1933. January, 1934, automobile produc- tion in the total of trucks and pas- senger cars was over double that of January, 1933. Both .the railways have shown substantial gains in op- erating revenue. During the second half of 1933 there were 20 per cent less commercial failures than in the first half.—Canadian Business. LEARN TO PLAY Last spring a 72 -year-old federal judge in Seattle informed President Roosevelt that he wished to be put on the retirement list, but asked that he be given the privilege of continu- ing to preside over admiralty Lases — a field in which he has made a considerable reputation. He ex- plained why he wanted to keep on working. "I never have learned to play," he said. "If I should quit work now, my friends would have to hire somebody within 90 days to watch nie." The period that begins with retirement should be one of the happiest and most fruitful in a man's whole life. It is tragic to find men who look upon it with dread — be- cause they never learned how to play! — Chatham News. MORE JOBS When circumstances eliminate a blacksmith shop it is replaced by a garage or a service station employ- ing more men; the tradition of the cross-roads carriage shop is continued in the automobile factory, and so on down the roll of industry. Among them the engineer, the inventor, the scientist, it appears abundantly proved, have made far more jobs than they have added enormously to the comforts and luxuries available to the masses of the people. —Otta- wa Journal. ON THE HIGHWAYS There are just as many discourte- ous drivers in Canada as anywhere lelse. We have the road hogs. We Lave the reckless drivers. We have the people who never stop at a Bred light, but expect everyone else to. We have the "fender scrapers” land the obnoxious horn-blewers and the unreasonable cutters -in and all the rest who make driving more or less of a nightmare for decent chi - kens with some sense of their obli- gation to society. Motoring cour- tesy --. what a change its general adoption would mean to the whole business of driving—Border Cities Etar. FAMOUS PAIR PASSES Passage from the contemporary licene of some of Old .England's most lencient traditions and customs. An fexannple is the pending abolition of he fatuous Stourbridge Fair at Cam- ',r'idge. The fair dates back to the year 1211. In 'the Middle Ages it , was one of the most famous fairs in 'Ile world, bringing merchants and travellers front all over Europe. , pe rt 1lv&ilton mentions it in "Paradise Lost" King Henry VIII, levied on the fair's profits in n 1 39 5 to relieve ev e hisown llnancial stringency.—Guei � Mer - 1 diary. p i 1 POISON' POR PESSIMISTS e Prom s kw point of 60.0 in Feb- Ct`uriry, 1938, the general index of in - WAY FOR THE WALKER Walking• is becoming almost obso- lete on this continent, with serious consequences to health and loss of a delightful form of exercise. There are so few places where the practice may be indulged in with comfort and without risk. Paths along the high- ways are the solution — and the cost would be negligible if undertaken in connection with ditch -filling opera- fairly successful restrictions have tions. been imposed on the import of chilled meat, but despite certain voluntary agreements the imports of frozen meat have increased. The Com- mission advises that when the Ot- tawa arrangements come to an end in.June the Dominions shall be asked to accept voluntary quotas. If not, compulsion . may have to be applied — a threat to which they are al- ready resigned. Taking: No Chances It isn't bothering the young fellow in the centre one bit. The keepers are just playing safe while they transfer the ugly -tempered vulture from his winter to summer quarters at the Philadelphia zoo. pig iron and a saving hi coal of not less than £1,340,000 in the produc- tion of finished steel. — The States- man, Calcutta. FLOODS UPON DROUGHT Nature seems to lose no oppor- tunity for an -ironical comment on our present distress. In the midst of widespread flooding we are in drought. At the moment when Parliament is conferring drastic em- ergency powers to deal with water shortage, Nature is uncomfortably profuse in her assurances of water in abundance. Yet the fear of shortage is real and justified, and the proposed emergency powers lose none of their point.—Glasgow Herald THE BRITISH MEAT- MARKET The Bingley Reorganization Com- mission, whose report is published today, although nominally concerned with fat stock, has in fact included the whole of the meat supplies of England — beef, mutton, pork, veal — in its survey and has drawn up a far-reaching scheme for their con- trol. The recommendations are that a Livestock Marketing Board shall be established to prescribe the methods and conditions of all sales of meat This country now pro- duces less than half its supplies of beef • and mutton. Chilled meat comes from South America, and frozen meat from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Since Ottawa THE EMPIRE TIT FOR TAT An amusing "Sunday observance" deadlock has occurred in the little Berkshire town of Farringdon be- tween the butchers of Farringdon and the local council. For years the butchers of the town have been in the habit of killing animals on Sun- day, but the District Council are con- sidering taking action to stop the practice. They quote as their au- thority an Act of Charles I, which imposes a penalty of 6s 8d, but the butchers have threatened to retaliate through the medium of the same act, which imposes penalties on those who do not attend a place of worship. The butchers say that if they are prosecuted they will keep a watch on members of the council, and will turn informer against those who do not attend church.—Banffshire Jour- nal. AN INDUSTRIAL BAROMETER Facts and figures show beyond dispute that Great Britain's progress over an area which is constantly widening. Two of the surest indi- cators of trade are the output of steei and the production of coal. The output of British steel last month reached the highest figures that it has attained since October 1929, be- fore the slump abroad became acute. The production of coal for the first quarter of the year, though not yet published in detail, is known to have been markedly in advance of that for 1933 or 1932: — London Daily Mail. HOW RESEARCH PAYS To those who are still sceptical as to the practical value of scientific research "in the development of in- dustry and the niggardly nature of the provision that is made for such work by most industries sug- gests that they are many — we com- mend perusal of the Report' of the Department of Scientific and Indus- trial Research. In it there is told the arresting tale of how the grant of £1,000,000 made by the British Government in 1917 for the encour- agement of industrial research, which is now exhausted, was not only well but most profitably spent It is admitted in the report that it is impossible as a rule to assess in terms of money the importance of the part played by research in indus- trial progress, but several striking conbrete examples are quoted. As a result of experiments by the Elec- trical Research Association costing £80,000, annual savings amounting to £1,000,000 have accrued, while the Iron and Stool Research Council's investigations aro expected to result in saving bout 1390,000 worth of coke per 8n115„w4 r V.1 n 1Y1 Af171 nFn n Princess Plays In Tennis Meet King Gustaf Sees Ingrid and Partner Defeat. Op- ponents Empire Press Conference To Be Held In '35 Toronto.—Canada will be invited to send eight delegates to the fifth Imperial press conference, it was an- nounced at the annual meeting of the Canadian section, Empire Press Un- ion, here. The conference will be held in South Africa from May. 6 to June 21, 1935. Details of the trip were explained at the meeting, held under the chair- manship of J. H. Woods, editor of The Calgary Herald. There will be a tour of South Africa and Rhodesia, the delegates to be the guests of the South African section. Preliminary arrangements for selection of dele- gates were left in the hands of the executive. The following officers were elect- ed: Honorary chairman, Rt. Hon. Lord Atholstan, Montreal Star; chair- man, J. H. Woods, Calgary Herald; honorary secretary -treasurer, W. A. Craick, Industrial Canada, Toronto; executive committee, representing daily newspapers, J. W. Defoe, Win- nipeg Free Press; Henri Gagnon, Quebec Le Soliel; P. D. Ross, Ottawa Journal; representing weekly news- papers, E. Roy Sayles, Renfrew Mer- cury; representing trade and class publications, H. T. Hunter, Maclean Publishing Company, Limited, Toron- to; auditor, T. F. Drummie, Saint John Telegraph -Journal. Mr. W. Rupert Davies is a member of the London (Eng.) Council. Blind Woman To Get Ph.D. Stockholm, — Princess Ingrid of Sweden took part in an open tennis tournament at Cannes recently for the first time. She was visiting her; grandfather, King Gustaf. The prin- cess appeared under the name of Mlle. San, an abbreviation of the Swedish `Sessan," which is the prin- cess' pet name among her intimates in Stockholm. Her partner was a Count Sbapary, and their opponents were Miss Albert and Hornsby Wright. Princess Ingrid and the Count last the first set, but in the second their luck changed and they won the match King Gustaf who watched the game rewarded his grandchild with a kiss She appeared on the court in skirts, whereas Miss Albert wore shorts, a garment that King Gustaf rece-ty frowned upon as unsuitable attire for tennis. Princess Ingrid's name again has. been linked with that of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, but SO for no official announcement of an en- gagement has been forthcoming. A Smile Two small boys were travelling from town to school by train. TheY hoped to secure an empty compart- ment wherein they might smoke. To their disgust a woman entered. The boys immediately entered : into tacit conspiracy to freeze her out. One said, audibly: "I think i'nnt sickening for smallpox or something." "Yes," said the other, playing up gallantly, "and I'm perfectly sure I've got scarlet fever coming on." The woman 'extracted a cigarette case from her hand -bag, and, looking at the boys, said: "Have either of you young lepers got a inatcin?" Brothers Meet After 47 Years Sightless Since Birth; Thesis Entitled "Milton's Blindness" New York—Miss Eleanor Gertrude Brown, of Dayton, Ohio, .blind since childhood and burdened with illness and. poverty in her' early years, will receive the degree of Doctor of Phil- osophy from Columbia University at the commencement next month, pro- bably the first woman to earn such a high scholastic honor while blind. She is 46. Publication of the thesis for her doctorate, entitled "Milton's Blind- n'ess," has' already, been announced by the . Columbia • University Press. In 'it, from.the point of. view of "one who knows what blindness is," she oppos- es the conventions of generations of scholars that the blind poet lamented his affliction. "No •one;•'•' she' wrote, "would deny that blindness has' it •deprivations. That' it has its ctfnnpensations in rec- ognized' by every sightless person. It is, I believe, the thought ' of these benefits that Milton would leave with the reader. "It is not ,miserable, to be blind. • It is inconvenient. The blind need to exert undue patience with reference to their affliction, since -on 'account of their dependency their lives are closely knit with their helpers. The blind make the adjustment to their handicap perhaps as happily as' any group of afflicted people." To clinch her argument, she• quoted Booth • Tarkington, who once was blind for six months and has had sev- eral operations on his eyes: "It is hard for any one who has not been blind to ,realize what a thrill it is not to have to see everything." While Miss Brown worked for her doctorate, a printer at the New York Institute for the Blind copied her notes for ber in Braille. "Let the current of your being set towards God, than your life will be filled and calmed by one Master -pas- sion which unites and stills the semi," .._h lavender itrAoT,'r•Ar Do Not Know Each Other Un- til Introduced — Separated After Yukon Gold Rush NORTH SYDNEY, N.S.—A story of how two brothers had met in Nelson, B.C., without knowing each other un- til they were introduced iw told in a letter received here from Duncan Johnstone, aformer Cape Bretoner, who recently visited his home. The brothers, Duncan and Daniel Johnstone, left Barrachois, C.B., and went west together. They helped clear the land where the Vancouver post office now stands, and then oper- ated a logging camp in British Colum- bia until the Yukon gold rush, when they separated, Duncan following the trail of the sourdough prospectpr in- to the gold fields, and Daniel going to the interior. They did not meet again for 47 years. Since then Duncan has resided at Whitehorse, Alaska, and before com- ing to his old home in Cape Breton he went to Nelson, B.C., where his brother lives, and they met, neither recognizing the other. After being "introduced''they swapped stories of their experiences: Toronto A Railway Without A Station Declares Airman In Defense Of Sport Contributes to Good Citizen, ship Says Amherstburg Echo Few spectators at • a game of any organized branch of amateur sport realize the time and effort that has been expended to bring clubs up to a competitive standing. The. majority of amateur organizations are composed of men who are en- thusiasts in a particular sport and are willing to do all they can to stimulate the interest of the .gen- eral public. When there is not an opportunity to raise the money necessary to defray the expenses of the team they solicit help from the citizens of the town To some people this is an imposition Sports organizations are always .crying for money," they say 'They get all the fun out of it and they ask us to pay the bills. Why can't those birds run their game without begging money? What do wa get for all the money we give to them?" To the last question the answer is 'good citizens" We do not mean to imply that every man or boy who plays a game is a good citizen. But the majority of people who indulge in sport have a clean healthy body and mind. If they have properly absorbed the sporting in- stinct they are willing to play the game at all times, not only in sport but in the activities of life. Sport attracts children from she time they can shake a rattle of toss one of their mother's best china dishes on the •floor . Whether the child's attitude in sport is of e former harmless amusement nr later destructive pastime depends on how it is brought up. If the sport- ing instincts are cultivated by an organized body they will develop into an asiset not only to the person concerned but to all with whom he comes in contact . If left to follow his own inclinations there might Ise a tendency to indulge in the lower forms of amusement. A sport organization is operated solely on the enthusiasm of its mem- bers. They wish to see their favorite sport prosper and to see followers added to it. They like to see boys developing into strong and healthy men. That's why they give their time and effort to promoting it. Every citizen of a community should be interested in developing the mind and body of the young mar within its environs. It is a duty. And it is a service that everyone can help to perform by allying themselves with come organization or by assis- ting in a monetary way. The returns from money and efforts thus expended are great, glorious and self -satisfying. TORONTO—"Iu view of the fact that airplanes form the only real con- tact with our northern mining cen- tres, it is important that Toronto's airplane landing facilities should be improved," J. R. Caldwell, member of the Toronto Flying Club, told the Gyro Club here recently. "Toronto," he said, "is like a rail- way without a station. What we need is an adequate field which will be accessible all the year round, in- stead of being unusable for two months during the winter. Also it should be surfaced and lighter, with a ground staff to look • after it." Mr. Caldwell also asked if Canada was going. to drop out of aviation. He pointed out the rapid strides the U.S. had made .and how this will ef- fect Canadian commerce. At present mail can be -transported from Halifax to California, viaNew York, in 16 hours, whereas it takes four days for it to be transported across Canada by rail. Training Girls as Wives Beriiti,-Importance of training girls as wives was stressed by Nazi authorities last week. The Federal Employment Bureau. appealed to housewives to take grad- uates from public schools into their homes for one year, training them bi cooking, house -keeping and care of children, Most of the 600,000 girls being gra- duated this Spring would be eligible for fitrrh training', To Be Evening Paper TORONTO—With the consent of J H. Woods on behalf of the Calgary Herald, the board. of directors of the Canadian Press .have authorized transfer of the 'Calgary Morning Al- bertan to the. evening paper field. The Morning' Albertan. ceased publi- cation on the morning of May 15 and the evening paper was issued the following day. Never Refused Call, Dr. Leaves $160,000 TAYLORVILLE, 111. Service pays. Dr, Campbell A. Stokes, 7*, of ,Ed- inburg, who had the reputation of never refusing a call from the sick, left an. estate valued at $160,000. When he died a month ago the physician was at the bedside of a five-year-old. boy, whose arm had been broken. Wills Bulk of Fortune to Family Pants on Men, Skirts For Women, Decree HA.DDONFIE+.LD, N„T.--- Pants is pants and skirts 1' skirts in Haddon township, where the conittnnnity fa- thers have passed an ordinance to emphasize the distinction. A jail sent- ence et 90 clays or a $50 fine is pro- vided for the male who wears a slim t tl e female who donne trousers, New York—Two of America's larg- est fortunes figured in the news re- cently. The will of the late dowager of the Vanderbilts, Mrs. Cornelius Van- derbilt. sr., filed for probate, passed on her share of the family fortune to other members of the family. The amounts willed to charities, social services, and family servants were relatively small. The tax appraisal of the estate of the Wall Street banker, George F. Baker, showed it to be worth $77,- 520,652. At the time of his death in 1931, his estate was estimated at sev- eral hundred million. Mrs. Vanderbilt's will righted an old "injustice.” Her son, Brigadier - General Cornelius Vanderbilt married against his father's wishes and when the elder Vanderbilt died ju 1899, he was cut off with $1,000,000, the bulk of the $80,000,000 estate going to the second son, Alfred' Gwynne Van- derbilt. Mrs. Vanderbilt willed Gen- eral Vanderbilt in trust the residuary., of her estate. The value was not set but it was estimated to be $10,000: 000. The Vanderbilt mansion valued at $6,000,000 went to her daughter, the Countess Szechhenyi, who also re- ceived the famous Newport country home. "The Breakers." Mrs. Ger- trude Vanderbilt Whitney, widow of Harry Payne Whitney, received $7,- 000,000. All of the grandchildren were men; tioned for specific legacies except Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., former newspaper reporter and publisher and lately author of books and artieh' "exposing" the rich.. Seeks Arts Degree At 72 Years of •Age Hamilton, Ont.—Henry Edwards, Dundas, never expects to make use of the additional education that he • is acquiring at 72, but in a back room of the Board, of Education offices here he is writing his British and Canadian history examination in the hope of obtaining the B.A. degree. Mr. Edwai ds is studying under the eyes of the local examiner for the University of Toronto and has sue- cessl'uliy written on .a number of the degree? subjects. It will take at least nneti er year for him to complete the mune- "l,i'kc Plato, I find pleasure