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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-05-31, Page 6Voice of the Press Ca nada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA TIMES ARE GOOD It is high time for the last of the crepe bangers to quit. Business is goo& The depression is a thing e the past. By this we do not mean that there is any boom. Not by any means. And that in itself is a good thing for a boom is about the worst thing that could confront an inelivid- nal, community or a natter!. Times are better. There are facts, and facts that must ohalleege busi- ness people to make the most out of present opportunities. Today is a day of opportunity for the go-getters. —Victoria Inverness. ORILLIA GETS INTO LINE Orillia is the latest municipality to join the ranks of towns and cities having compulsory pasteurization of milk. Orillia deserves commendation for its decision and we hope that in the near future Simcoe wilt folloiv its example. Evidence. shows that from 15 to 25 per cent. of tubercul- asis in children is of bovine origin, and that scientific pasteurization ab- solutely prevent tuberculosis of this nature and in addition prevents all milk -borne epidemics. Contrary to a somewhat popular belief, par,teuriza- don does not alter the nutritional value of milk. Scientific experiments in many parts of the world have prov- ed this fact beyond doubt. Even if pasteurization did make a slight dif- ference, it is far outweighed. by the protection afforded to the younger generation. It saves many lives, nu- merous cripples and much money for the taxpayer each year. It is only a matter of few years until every urban municipality will have 100. per cent. pasteurization. Therefore, why delay, when the health of young boys and girls is at stake? —Simcoe Reformer. REPEATING A GOOD THING It has been decided by the Council el Service Clubs for the county that another survey of the whole, county will be held again this year to obtain a complete record of all the crippled children in order that another clinic may be held again this year, this time at Almoute.—Carleton Place Cana- dian. opt all these things as a common- place. They simply are an ordinary part of their world. Will they, in turn, be able to exclaim over as many marvels and miracles in the next 40 or 50 years?—Edmonton journal. ANNOUNCERS "It will be remembered," writes Mr. A. G. Gardiner in the London Star, "that not long ago the RB.C. made the experiment of employing a woman announcer, this appointment being given to Mrs. Giles Borrett. The experiment had a very brief run. Af- ter a few weeks Mrs. Brn'rett vanish- ed from the microphone, for what reason was not explained. but cer- tainly not because she was inefficient "Now Miss Sprott lets the cat out of the bag. The only persons who were to blame for the termination of Mrs, 13orrett's engagement, she says, were the women of this country. `Tbey wrote to us in such large numbers saying that they did not want a woman announcer till at last we had to remove her.' It was not a personal objection founded on the tone of Mrs. Borrett's voice, or her accent, or her competence. It was a sex objection. They did not want a woman announ- cer at all. They preferred men."— Toronto Mail and Empire DARK THOUGHTS If clergymen only knew what some of their parishioners think and say of them when they give voice to long sermons, long prayers and long fun- eral panegyrics, they might forego the temptation to indulge in them --Brock- ville Recorder. BEAUTIFY THE ROADSIDE In Maine a roadside beautification program is in progress. Its purpose is to clean up the approaches to towns and cities, plant flowers and shrubs and make the whole scene more attractive. One important effect will be a greater love of the beaatiful for its own sake. Garden clubs will be formed, service clubs will aid, and boy and girl Scouts will assist. The movement is one that de- serves universal support. it is not expensive, and will make the road- sides of the state a joy to the visitor. The result will be more impressive because this is an organized effort.— Saint John Telegraph -Journal, POLICE PRAISED The Times -Journal has no hesita- tion whatever in congratulatineg the police—local, county and proviucial, mounted police and railway police— on the very efficient way in which they handled the search instituted to capture the man who is alleged to have slain Police Constable Colin Mc- Gregor here last week The case was very promptly taken up by Police Chief Ketchabaw, co-operating with Crown and civic authorities, and assistance from the provincial officers and other officers located in or re- siding in the county came just as Promptly and as rea,dily.—St. Thomas Times -journal., CONTRAST Discussing crime and law enforce. ment, a -United States editor makes this observation: "Scotian d Yard would function no better than the Chi- cago police if Scotland Yard were sub- jected to the same kind of political pulling and hauling that confronts the Chicago force." And that is just about the best tribute that could be paid to law enforcement in the 'United Kingdom.—Halifax Herald. GOOD TURNS DONE DAILY A laudable move has been inaugur- ated in Perth within the past few days whereby several local Boy Scouts under the kindly direction of Chief Constable Ches. Donovau, daily sta- tic= themselves at tbe corner of Gore and Foster Streets and Herriot and Drummond Strees to protect school children from the danger of busy street traffic at the noon hour, The Scouts are thus adding to their good turns done daily.—Perth Courier, GOOD SIGN Two years ago everybody was dis- cussing wage -cuts. Now nearly every- body seems to be discussing wave - increases. That, in itself, is a pretty good sign.—Ottawa. Journal. A TIME OF SUSPENSE Harvest is three and a half months away, but what a lot of drama and tragedy those one hundred and five days may include! This is the most important time of the year for the • prairie provinces. *Upon what is pro- duced from the soil between now and the first week in August depends to a great extent what the welfare of the people will be for the succeeding year. After harvest, of etourse, comes the worry of prices and markets, but the main thing now is the production. —Calgary Herald. MARVELS OF TELEVISION Only 24 years ago the Halifax mu- nicipal council made it legal for auto- mobiles to run two days a week on the county roads; contract this with the situation today where the motor car goes on its wa.y summer and win- ter. What has happened in this field be expected in television within even a shorter period.—Halifax Chronicle, WOMEN PREFER MALE TWO CHEAPER THAN ONE A very good friend of ours who recently had occasion to breakfast on a railway train found that the one - dollar breakfast consisted of fruit or cereal, ham and two eggs, toast and coffee. Being, like ourselVes, a man of most abstemious habits iti the ear- ly morning, he ordered this breakfast, but with the qualification that the main dish should contain nnly one egg. He obtained his desire, but the bill was one dollar and twenty-five cent. 'Upon requesting an explana- tion he was informed that while ham and two eggs was part or the dollar • breakfast, ham and one egg rould only • be mated a la carte, and his Wen - tion was drawn to the rule on the items named th the table trboLe the mom earl: "No variation ?rpm menus is perm 1 tted," • Torrent 0 aette Nine Night WHAT OF' THE NEXT 40? The present generationas Esport enced more thrills than ;ivy before, probably. Movies and lellnee, the telephone, electric Meta.: and etre, vie cal equiptueut of all sort, airplanes and the radio, an have ome our The ehildren of today tic CHANCES 1N REAL ESTATE So with real estate. We have a won- derful buyers' market today. Prices are still very low, low out of all pro- portion to real values, just as some of the pre -depression figures were out of all proportion, in the opposite di- rection, to real values. People who have money to invest—and there are still plenty of them in Canada — are picking up pieces of real estate here and there. They know front past ex- perience that the prosperity period following every depression always. brings in its train, a worth -while and perfectly reasonable recovery ot. real estate values, too. — Boraor Cities Star. Goodlooking Young Clan re VAN2.61........ Loretta Young started her screen career because of her resemblance to her older sister, Polly Ann Young, and now little Georgiane Young - makes her debut alongside Loretta. stated in simple language; how can they adapt what they have to the changing demands of our time? That the companies will find the answer to this question I have no doubt W'hat- ever.—Ashley Brown in The Nine- teenth Century (London),. INDIAN ARMY COSTS We are faced with the fact that the strength of the army in India is great er than is necessary for defence pur- poses because the army is required for the maintenance of internal peace: It is not an army's propel. function to do police work; its task is the defence of frontiers against foreign aggres- sion, But whether the army is kept above purely defence strength fore - lice purposes or whether the extra money which it costs is spent on ad- ditional armed police to be placed Ma- der the civil authority, the net result to the taxpayer is the same. The mor- al is, therefore, that one of the most important ways of saving money on the army—and not preteucleng to save it by spending more on the police— is to get rid of all those incitements to disorder which lead Provincial Gov- ernments to protest against the re- moval of troops. The ideal before the people is to concentrate .upon nestkang, India a -milted nation, free from the virus of extreme communalism. — Times of India. THE EMPIRE A POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE Apart altogether from the quesl.ion of war, which is remote, Britain. has an Empire to police and obligations greater than those ot any other na- tion. By refusing to join in an arma- ments race she has made it plain, by example, what her desires are; it may be necessary now for her to declare herself more pointedly. If the Pcwers cannot be argued into agreement, they may be frightened into agreement. Britain still bee a trump card con- cealed. There is a possibility tbat Britain may illustrate the futility and expensiveness of an armaments race by threatening to participate to the limit of her resources. That would be a dangerous expedient, but it might be a sound corrective. Britain does not willingly seek this laet catiree; but it may be forded upon bele if it is, the other powers inust accept the reepon- sibility.-The Australasiere THE BRITISH RAILWAYS There are still many neer& who, forgetting the histery or the past Ow years, pin their hopes to the ability or i said that close to 00 per cent. of the the companies to carry paengers11033 acreage had been represented in upon the rode or in the. ale. itbOI tt- the agreements, tedly both forms of transport Ore of "What we want this year is a yield vital interest to the comptinife as ad -1 of .good tobacco somewhere near the jun cts lo transport by rall.--but more: size oi last year's erops We would than Ibis they ,,eannot be. The capi-I, not have had difficulty in disposing tai et the railways -say na:inn eno,d00of last year's tobacco if it had been - --ecnsisis cf pui ini,n(sni MV. II,. la- of good quality." lie added that the lions. of eignals, or lomeee iVe' end' 1983 yield was of about 23 Millions trains. 11. is thie in \ -..tenn! that' pounds, of which approximately eight must be turned to aceount ir the 11111.! millions is still being held for sale ways are to pay (ilv)(1011+'. The Prob.! pending the outcome of the Ottawa tem before the cornea :::-. eon be tonference. Sheffield Steel Production High LONDON—The Lord Mayor of Sheffield declared in a speech deliv- ered last week that if the present rate of production of steel is m,ain- tained the year 1934 will be a record one for the city. Monthly returns so far have shown that if the rate is maintained 1,000,000 more tons will be produced this year than have been in any previous year of the city's history. Eye Cancer Growth Cured with Radium Sparrows Chased Off Busy Streets • LONDON—Surgeons of Cardiff Royal Infirmary, Wales, announce that they have cured a 13 -year-old girl of cancer in the eye by the application of radium. The life and the sight of the girl, both of which were endang- ered by the disease, were saved after 17 days of treatment, in 'which ra- dium needles were used, combined with a rubber -backed application to the eye -ball. Cold Killed fietlf of IWill Build a Bees at Stratfort. Stratford. — Approximately fifty per cent. of the bees in Stratford and district have been lost dee to the severity of the winter, according to local apairists. Some of the keepers suffered .even greater losses, one de- claring that of his six hives only one contains bees which survived the win- ter. It was the apairist who had made preparations for a severe winter by • properly packing his bees who is able to start the season successfully. Cincinnatti, 0.—After six months of "war" by the city, Cincinnatti's downtown area is practically spar- rowless, but leaders of the ouster movement cannot boast of victory. Anthony Sauer, Workhouse super- ntendent, who headed the attack, ad- mitted the birds retreated merely be- cause the weather had become mild enough for them to "move out" to the parks and suburban homes. Sauer said, "We were just devising some new equipment which would have :wiped all trace of them from the earth, but we'll be ready if they come ‘I.,,,...;,vern again in the fall." Tobacco Growers Cut Acreage 90 Per Cent. Sign in Norfelk District, Says Prof. Leitch Sicoe—A "deadline" will be set bY members of the tobacco reduction committee, alter which growers will be unable tee eign agreements restrict- ing their crops by 25 per cent, it was announced recently. The com- mittee plans an all day meeting to hear special stases to be affected by the reduction and to prepare a list of those growers who refused to co- operate in the matter of 'reducing their acreage. Prof. A. A Leitch, outstanding to- bacco authority, before leaving for Ottawa, declared that the campaign had been an unqualified success and "Toronto and The Flag" By R. H. Judd (All rights reserved.) For one hundred years Toronto, Our great Empire's flag has flown. That stately flag The Union Jack. Is the flag; she is proud to own. Its three crosses stand for union: The red for pure British blood. The blue stands out for all that's true, While the white foam rides the flood. Better Days Ahead For Children's Library Montreal.—There are better days ahead for the Montreal Children's Li- brary, Miss Violet M. MacEwan, lib- rarian, believes. She has been at its head for four years. Serious lack of funds and of books had handicapped the work lately, and closing down was hinted at. This news caused much consternation a- mong the boys and girls, many of whom came with their gifts of books and money saved the day, she said. Tourist Number • Shown by Garbage . Miami, Fla.—If you want to check up on Florida's tourist season, ask the head man out 'at the city incinerators. He has the figures to prove that thie year Miami had 20 per cent. more cleaning up to do than ever before. Statistics compiled by committee of Florida publishers who sponsored the statewide celebration honoring Col. Henry L. Doherty for his work in bringing prosperity to Florida via the tourist route, show that altogeth- er 21,860 tons of refuse went up in smoke during January, February and March, 1934-3,566 tons more than for the same period last year, and more than in any other season since the incinerators were installed. Men, let's nail it to the masthead, That flag of a thousand years: The flag that stands for freedom, And never a foerdan fears. It stands for our King and country, It stands for our home fireside; It stands to fight against evil. It stands that the right may abide. Then men of Toronto shield it, No foeman shall trample it down. .SyMbol of British freedom, • It stands for the British crown. It stands for our sons and daughters, And their children yet to come. •It guards our rights on every land, That may lie beneath yon sun. Then run it high on the standard, Let no foeman bring it down, ' • For the sons of famed Toronto, Are loyal to the British crown. Estate of Gaiety Idol Is $1,500 Real Cow Shown • To City Children Brghton, Eng.—Connie Ediss, for- mer Gaiety idol, known in the thea- trical profession as "the woman with a heart of gold,' because of her gen- erosity, died leaving only $1,500, al- though at the height of her fame she had received $1,700 a week. New Highway Brantford Hamilton Radial •Right of Way Will Be Bought BRANTFORD—The Brantford Ham- ilton Radial Railway right of way be- tween the city limits and where the railway reaches Highway No. 2 will be purchased by the Ontario Departs1 ment of Highways. It will be made into a highway to join Brantford with Highway No. 2. Brantford requested such a step be taken some time ago, and recentlyi Hon. W. G. Martin, member in the Legislature for Brantford and minis.: ter of public welfare, announced the, purchage of the right of way. He stated the government would handle the building of its seeteest of the highway. C'eveland.—Many of the city child's myths and illusions concern- ing the origin of milk and what a cow look like, were dispelled here when a real "bossy, with a calf, made a "personal appearance" before school children here. A preliminary survey by the Cleve- land District Dairy council had shown that seven out of ten pupils in one school never had seen a cow at close range. Their descriptions of one had left the dairymen still more horrified. Hence the exhibition. Four "bovines" - were on display, while the children acted as hosts. . The calves' roles were simply deco- rative. While their mothers were milked in the latest approved scien- tific manners, they lolled contentedly by. Trips from school to school were by truck. Rare Malady Claims Life in Trenton British Shorts One of three hens produce as ex Whits in a court case at LeicesteS1 laid an egg while the magistrates were cousidering their verdict. Air p.ost stamps fast grow in value. A 3 -cent brown Newfoundland stamp of the first trans-Atlantic post by Hawker in 1919 fetched 2210. aetea. Urania Boswell, of Farbon ough, the gypsy "queen," who as "Gypsy Lee' has told thousands • of people's fortunes, left over £5,000. From a livestock • emporium iu Manchester, thieves stole 150 goldo fish, five rabbits, five doves, and the watch -dog guarding the premises. Belleville.—Mrs. Melvin Mountney, of Trenton, died here recently in hos- pital front a rare disease that attacks the throat. Dr. G. S. Stobie said the malady, Ludwig Angina, was not con- tagious. The woman was in an ad- vanced gangrenous condition caused by strangulation from the strange disease. First appearance of the malady, which is caused by a germ is in the glands of the throat, said Dr. Stobie. This is followed by coloring, of the tongue. The patient suffers horribly until death, Mrs. Mountneys tongue was a dark purple, and swollen so big she could not swallow or speak. Roses Few A Mansfield J.P., • Maltby, a lay preacher, claims to have delivered 4,000 sermons in 60 years, Ridgetown. — Roses, shrubs and peonies are being distributed to mem- bers of the Ridgetown Horticultural Society. Owing to the shortage of rose bushes this spring, the number for each member is being limited to two, according to Claire Geddis, sec- retary and treasurer. Premiums may also be made up of shrubs, peonies and annual plant S from the Ridge - town sgreenhouse, he said. Wind Golfer Plays Better Now That He Cannot See the Bunkers • London —Captain Gerald Lowry, the first British officer to lose his sight in the war has taken up golf. He has been playing only a few months, but already is as good as the average golfer. His latest feat is a round in seventy-seven. Every morning he goes for half an hour's practice to the Kensington Country Club. One of the profession- als there, Mr. Russell Kelly, has ta- ken him in hand, and goes with him wherever he plays. BLINDFOLDED. All Mr. Kelly does is to place the club behind the ball. Captain Lowry does the rest, and does it astonish- ingly well. Ho drove a ball recently to within three yards of the hole in one shot. To learn how to teeth a blind man to play, Mr, Kelly blindfolded him- self. He found just how each club needed to be placed, London's rateable value increased by over £500,000 last year, and now totals well above 2600,000. Fourteen pedigree cows, worth £450, were electrocuted in a Dur. ham byre. Five others were unharm, ed. After the heart of a 66 -year -old -man had stopped for five minutes, it was set going again by massage and he lived for 25 hours. Every person sentenced to a term . of imprisonment in the United King- dom costs more than $350 a year to maintain. Every night in the rhubarb season, a train bearing sixty tons travels froml Yorkshire to London. Britisla insurance companies have„ at present, no fewer than 85,000,000 industrial assurance policies in force There are now 30,200 more persons'. employed in the making, of men* clothing than there were ten years ago. Mud that Costs Millions In a quarter of a century more thani 12,000,000 lbs. sterling bas been spent in dredging the navigable. reaches of the River Thames. The driver for instance, is placed about 'three inches inside the ban. , For a tee shot he puts Captain Lowry in the right position and tells him the distance from the hole. "Pm playing better gelf now than I played before I was ' " said Captain Lowry. "In some ways I have the advarit age of the seeing golfer. I am not frightened by bunkers and obstacles • because 1 don't know they're there. . "It takes me no longer to go round a course than it does any one else. "I enjoy myself tremendeusly. In fact, golf has opened up a new life for me. "I box, and run and hut you get too old for those things, "Golf is a social game. It brings a man into touch with lots of freinds which is so necessary for 3 blind man.° National Savings Certificates to the total value of 2480,000,000 or over £10 per head of the population, have) been issued. Among the items in the annual bill for the London Zoo are sixeand half tons of monkey -nuts, 184,000 ban . anas, and -19,800 eggs. Only two districts in London, Step. ney and Bethnal Green, show a drop itt rateable value, In every other ease the value shows an increase. The Port of Loudon Authority con. trols a special police force 800 strong,' whose work lies entirely ashore. Tim river itself is policed by a division oe the Metropolitan Police. All the meat produced in Great Britain and Ireland and available for London is only sufficient to supply the metropolis' 8,000,000 people with. 3.2 ozs. of beef, 2.9 ozs. of mutton and lamb, and 2.6 oze. of pork a week. Ring Lardner Estate Valued at $192,927 East Hampton, N.Y.—Ring Lard- ner, author and humorist, who died September 25th last, left a net es- tate of $192,927 a transfer tax ap- praisal filed recently showed. The, gross estate was appraised at. $247,083. The bulk of the estate wai left to the widow, Mrs. Ellis A. Lard,: ner, who also received insurance a, mounting to $169,159. Flowers Fresh Longer In Copper Containero New York—If you want to keeu cut flowers. for a long time, try keep ing them in copper containers. John Ratsek, floriculturist, . on the stall of the New York State College of Am riculture, placed snapdragons, stocks, roses, prirnro,ses and other .dowers in such containers and by so deing ht found that their- life span was increa, Bed by One to three days, He explain ed that the copper kill$ bactaria than would decay the flowers.