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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-06-14, Page 6Canada, rhe Empire and l'he World at Large CANADA ADA HIGH COST OF JUNK. A suggestive footnote to tite auto- mobile age wa sfurnielied the other day when a man bought a used car for $5 in a New England town, drove it out en the highway and a few hours later got into a traffic accident —typical of its kind --that did $100 worth of damage. This incident emphasizes the need of strict regulation to cover the use of aged and decrepit machines. One can imagine the kind of car that is bought for $5, nor is meth thought needed to convince one that suck a car must be inherently unsafe to its driver and to others. Why should not all such wrecks be ruled off the road? Surely the high- ways are dangerous enough even when cars are well-equipped and in perfect condition? To permit $5 cars from the junk -yard to operate in public traffic seems to be sheer folly. —Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph, MOTIVE POWER. Kansas City man has invented a lawn mower with 24 blades. Now, all he needs is a good, husky wife to push it around. ---Border Cities Star, FRESH AIR. Spring's •other annoya.ucts and ais- coniforts could be put up with grace- fully were it not for those common ailments of grip and colds which are most prevalent in spring. People who get plenty of fresh air, who ventilate their homes thoroughly, who avoid drafts and wet feet, and who are careful to take a good amount of ex- ercise are the ones least afflicted Fresh air is a wonderful medicine. -- Welland Tribune. CAUSE FOR THANKS. Only five men have ever driven automobile faster than 200 miles an hour—for which the world is duly thankful. --Winnipeg Tribune. EMPIRE TRADE, Nearly three times as much ham and bacon was exported to the United Kingdom in March as a year ago in the same month. Empire trade is cer- tainly growing in leaps and bounds.— Kingston Whig -Standard. WHEN A MAN GOES FiSHiNG. Above all he is looking for solitude. He wants quietness for his nerves, • he wants a bit of climbing for his heart and legs, he wants fresh air for his lungs, he requires no gapers or magazines to try his eyes. He wants to go somewhere where he can daub himself with fly dope and no one will have any remark to make about the smell of it or to make fun of his appearance. He wants to go somewhere where he can throw him self on his cot without having to- take off his boots; where nobody has easy - thing to say about whether his shoes have been wiped or not --Trenton Courier -Advocate. WAR PROPHET. H. G. Wells, the prolific English author and self-appointed prophet, says that a general war in 1940 is a certainty. In reality Wells knows as Much about it -as a .en months' old infante- Brantford Expositor PERTINENT QUESTION. it was reported the other day that cats have hearing many times more acute than man, and that a cat can hear a mouse walking a city block away, If that is true, why do cats talk so loud to one another at night when people want to sleep?—]30110- MARKET GROWS. Another item of interest to the newsprint industry in Canada is the statement that newspaper circulation in the United States averages ten per cent. greater than it was a year ago. —Port Arthur News -Chronicle. WHAT A LUCKY MAN! A Frenchman had a lottery ticket and died. They buried the ticket with hint. This appears to be a successful method of treating a lottery ticket. Anyway. it won a million francs. Five others had shares in the ticket, and they persuaded the widow to exhume the lucky man and found the ticket in the pocket of his dress suit, What may strike the philosophic mind about this is the various kinds of luck that a man may have.—Hamilton Herald. an HANDWRITING. Many educated persons seem to take curious pride in the difficulty of their handwriting. They ascribe to personality the twists and twirls which are a fatal barrier to the stranger who seeks to re ad.—ChaT- lottetown Guardian. ANOTHER CLAIMANT. The man who writes to a daily pa- per, saying that Orillia is Ontario's most beautiful town, is asked to come up and see us some time,—Fergus News -Record. WE'D SAY "TUE WINNING LEAP" If you think this trick is difficult, the young lady does it before warming up to something demanding real technique. Anyhow;: that's what she says and her instructor, lying on the ground, verifies her statement. means the best answer to the prob- lem. During the serious water short- age of 1930, the cry emanated from dwellers of Chinese tenement houses that those with meters, while paying heavily for their water, were not suf- fering as much as those Who had to obtain their water from a street foun- tain. It will be recalled that at every street fountain, people were lined up in long queues wain- for their turn to draw a supply of the precious fluid. There was no restriction by the auth- orities then as to the amount one was allowed to draw, so long as no indivi- dual drew more than two buckets at a time. However, in those days, a household was lucky if it could ob- tain an average of four buckets a dayl--Hong Kong Weekly Press - THE .HE EMPIRE MORE MONEY. Thera is a great deal more money about. Since the beginning of this year £1,553,172,000 more than in a corresponding period of last year has passed through the London Bankers' Clearing House. Do not mistake that figure for a total; it is an increase. Money is the life blood of industry. The more freely it circulates, the better for everybody.— Manchester Sunday Chronicle. SPARE TIME. Given the conversion of unemploy- ment into leisure, how is leisure to be used? Surely the essence of it is that the spare time which science -and technical improvements provide should be used for the things a man wishes, himself, to do. And the tragedy of it is that man has not yet learned what he really would like to do with his spare time—London, Eng., Herald, AID WAS FORTHCOMING. A 17 -year-old girl was taken to a large city hospital the other day, suf- fering from a rare blood disease. Only a number of blood transfusions could save her life; she did not have the money to pay for them, and the hospital was operating on too limited a budget to buy them for her. So an appeal was made to the pub- lic, announcing that the girl must die unless volunteers came forward to give ood. a few days lmorere thaeirn Within 4 0 people went to the hospital and offered to submit to transfusions.—Chronicle-Telegraph. NICKEL EXPORTS. If Canada's sales of nickel are an index of a. coming war, it will come from unexpected places. For the ex- port of nickel hi March was of the value of $3,663,649, compared With $1,125,876 a year ago. The chief pur- chaser was the United States with $1,763,748, followed by the United Kingdom with $1,262,202, the Nether- lands $298,277 and Germany $102,496. —Brandon Sun. FIGURES THAT TALK. For the first four morels of 1034, production of Canadian -made ears, trucks and busses totalled 48,018, as compared with 21,543, 24.3:16 and 46,- 612 in the corresponding periods of 1933. 1932 and 1931 respectively. Ex- ports in the first four months of 1934 have already reached $5.555,000, con- trasted with $1,054,000 in 1033. These. and other illuminating fig ttr's slicrw what the autorenbite indus- try is doing, how it is iending the way. --.Border Cities Star. CANADA'S PREFERENCE. The favor ill. bevc r ge oT Canadians, natural, stn•,=itittieg the British.: an- cestry ot limey et: then', is tea. A re- port .just issuer[ dhows flit the., im- ports into the Dominion during 1932 totalled", 40,117,747 pounds, of which the tarter part carie from British India, In that yaat t'anadn imported only about. 1,000,00n portsits of cof• fee. ---New Yet k Times U. S. TO BLAME. Britain's attitude it 1u+ war debt: ha,s, of course, never hum any real connection with her ability to meet the hill in the usual t:ommeic•ial way. If the United States would accept British goods instead of dein,tudln : British gold, the debt co=ld be paid and no doubt would be loud. Ilut the 'United States will not a:tr,t•.l,t, goods. .-.4fanCeuver i i'ovinnn. A CHEFS' RIOT. Discontented chefs in an American hotel recently smashed all the furni- ture they could lay hands on. They must have enjoyed making -a hash et the joint,—London Sunday Pictorial, In Seclusion John D. Rockefeller Says He Will Not Grant Any More Interviews. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.— .John D. Rockefeller, Sr., approaching '96"; wants—and has just about attained— complete seclusion from the world at large. - to make this statement," tated the following: - "I Pave had a very pleasant winter, and 1 ani much improved. I am very grateful for the kind treatment of everybody. and I hope to return early in the autumn." He autographed photographs for several newspapermen in appreciation for their courtesies during his stay. Madison elaborated on Mr. Rocke- felier's statement that there would be no interviews. Several attempts were made by a newspaperman during the train trip between Ormond Beach and Jacksonville to see him, Twice his secretary went into the closed draw- ing room with requests for an inter- view, but .as Madison said later, "a rule is a rule," in the Rockefeller household and they are obeyed. He's Not "High Hat" Madison hastened to explain that Mr. Rockefeiler's self-imposed seclu- sion was in no way to be taken that "Mr. R."—as he is known to his staff —had lost his interest in what was going on about him, nor does he want people to think he his gone "high hat." Nothing is further front the .fact. But the ratan whose benefactions run well into nine figures, will be 95 years old July 8 and therein lies his desire for future tranquility. During the past few years he has been approaching this 'tranquilization. Gradually he diminished his golf from eight holes, to six, then to four, then two and last year he practically quit the game which for many years was his chief hobby. This winter he did not May at all and didn't even go to church nor entertain groups of friends at his home. H,e left'the grounds only for short automobile rides, carefully guarded against the public gaze. Sees Few Friends To all outward appearances his health is as good as could be expected for one of his advanced years. He walked about his gardens, went up and down stairs unaided and other- wise -enjoyed the seclusion he • de- manded. He saw very few friends, only his closest .neighbors and his Better pastor, the Rev. George T Owen. During his sojourn. in Florida he had a dead-end street at the rear of his estate closed to traffic and a i'irge gate placed at the open end, The only family residing on the thoroughfare and he dic- Health Mended His health mended after nearly four months at his winter estate at Or- mond Beach, Mr. Rockefeller sped northward, ostensibly to liis Lake- wood, N,J., home, behind the drawn blinds of a special compartment car, occupied only by members of his household. The kindly old ratan who built one of the world's largest financial do- mains from a setting of turkey eggs —he made his first dollar from a hatching of turkeys—has ceased be- ing interviewed by newspapermen and wants to spend his declining years in peace and quietude, sur- rounded only by his family and int - mate friends. Shortly before he left the Case- ments, his Florida estate, Mr. Rocke- feller walked downstairs, hitched, up a chair near the office of his private secretary, Ward Madison, and said:, Dictates Statement "We will be leaving shortly. There will be no interviews, but I atm -happy LOOK AT THE TRAIN! 1f railways ever disappear, in favor of airways, from the surface of earth, we shall still have to indulge our- selves with exhibitions like the one being held in London. For young people, at least, model cars and airplanes have never- re- placed the train—perhaps because yonth loves their larger complica- tions: their tracks, curves, junctions, sidings, signals and tunnels. A glorious affair to construct and man- ipulate! And the model. like the real thing, is beginning to look picturesque and to remind us of 010. England. A Rus- itin of today, instead ot denouncing the devastation of beauty by railway enterprise, would work up romanti- cally elot{uent, paragraphs about the glory of engines that stick to their appointed rails . [barring accidents), ins teed of careering to the public peril all over the roads, and, soon, all over the ewe above theta. -The t.untiou Daily Mail. SORRC WS OF A HONG KONG LANDLORD it would seem that landlords are heiug made to pay Heavily for wast- age of water by theft tenants and as the charger anemia ;a something like $40 to 00 for excessive ive i:ousu0ip- was given keys to the gate. He want- ed more privacy for his daily strolls about the gardens. Quality in Our Cheese Factories Because Ontario cheese cotntmnde a premium for quality on the Britis1 market of 2c. per pound, cheese face tory patrons in this k'rovince are in pocket by $1,700,000 on the 85 mill. lion pounds of cheese produced; Ninety per cent. of this cheese is 'exp ported to Great Britain, and the red turns to producers here are entirely determined by overseas prices, Reputation for quality, the grcati est asset of the Ontario cheese indus+, try, has been built up by a thorough system of inspection. and instructiori carried out by the Dairy Branch o the Department of Agriculture. Creameries and cheese factories throughout the Province are divided into groups, thirty in Eastern On? tario, four in Western Ontario and, one in the North. Each of thew groups is under the personal super-, vision of a Dairy Branch Inspector; who, by visiting the factories and their patrons, strives to improve the quality of the product. A keen, friendly rivalry has been developed between these groups, and both friendly rivalry has been developed between these groups, and beth; cheese -makers and patrons co-operatei to maintain Ontarios reputation. The; Dairy Branch is in daily receipt of reports on the grading of Ontario cheese. Cheese not No. 1 quality is', reported immediately to the Inspect -I, or in the district where manufactur ed, and an effort is made at once to locate the cause of the trouble. The effectiveness of this work is shown by the fact that Ontario cheese is now grading over 96 per cent. first grade where some years ago it was undo* S0. Its popularity on the British market has been retained in face of energetic action by New Zealand td improve the quality of cheese from, that country-. It has been the policy of Colonel of Colonel Kennedy not only to aid producers and factory owners itt int{ proving the quality, but at the sarrui time to encourage producers to orl ganize so that marketing meth/ ods can be modernized to suit press ent-day conditions. The whole probe lem is being thoroughly investigate4 as a preliminary to developing plan which will extend export markets an bring a new prosperity to the 25,0 Ontario farms that are supplyin milk for cheese production. Better Milk Prices 'Obtained Over $2,500 a day—nearly a mil- lion dollars a year—has been added ot the returns to dairy farmers sup- plying the Toronto district with whole mills, as a result of a twenty- five per cent. increase in winter milk prices compared with a year ago. Four thousand farmers who ship milk to Toronto dairies are now getting $1.81. per hundred for their milk; a year ago the price was $1.45. This striking improvement in price has followed the reorganization of the Toronto 'Whole Milk Producers, and the Ontario Whole Milk Produc- ers Association. into strong organiza- tions that can act effectively in the interest of the producer. An exper- ienced organizer, with special know- ledge of the milk producer's prob- lems, was loaned by the Department, and for nearly a year devoted his full energies to building up member- ship and placing the finances of the Whole Milk Producers' Association on a sound basis. As a result 90 per cent. of the dairy farmers shipping Worth Combines Beige .. and Nasturtium Col®, 'We'll be ming panne velvet fol summer. Worth uses this fabric i4 a quality so fine and glossy that Yoe can scarcely tell it from satin. Ii1 red, he makes a delightful evening gown trimmed with one of the nevi fine -sashes of a lighter tone of red velvet ribbons. The sash comes down to the waist and then sticks out in loops that are very geometric in their angles. The combination of beige: and cap - milk to Toronto are now members ucine (nasturtium) is one of Worth's of the organization. One of the -most best for street wear. He uses light effective reforms that the Associa- weight wool in the it eige for a smart- tion marttion has carried out is the introcluc- ly tailored suit of skirt and hip, tion, by agreement with the milk des- length jacket with straight sleeves tributors, of the quota system in the and no collar or cuffs. The front of marketing of whole r'llk. Producers are now advised each month by the dairies of the quota that they will be expected to deliver, and the unpopu- lar system of "hold -backs" is a thing of the past. Likewise in other Ontario consum- ing centres, milk producers are now receiving unproved prices. Without any burdensome increase in price to consumers, the financial position of the Ontario dairy farmer has been materially bettered, offering im- pressive evidence of the soundness ot the policy of aiding producers to solve their problems through their own organizations• Dramatic Festivals in Britain Offer Wide Choice of Plays London—A number u, towns and Until a year ago there was a spring villages in Great Britain are organ- festival at Stratford 'followed after zing ambitious dramatic festivals to aft interval by a summer !'estival, but attract visitors from home and abroad the demand for seats at the perform - this summer. :. - ances is now so great that the fes - In the Chapter House of Canter- tival goes on continuously front April bury Cathedral there is to be pre- to September, This year the pro- sented "The Young King, an un- grams favor the lighter side of published play by Mr. Laurence Shakespeare's genius rather than Binyon,. itt the Festival of Drama the tragedies and include "The Tem. and Music arranged by this Friends pest," "Twelfth Night," "Much Ado of the Cathedral, June 9-16, About Nothing," "Love's Labour's Sir Barry Jackson is - continuing Lost,' "Julius Caesar," and "Romeo at Malvern the theatrical festivals and Juliet." which he was held there in recent years. Two plays new t0 .London are to be presented — "A' Man's Nouse," by John 'Drinkwatet',- and "Mutiny" by David Stewart, ""You Never Can Tell," by G, Bernard Shaw, and "The Moon in theyellow River," by Denis Johnston, are to be revived in the first week of the festival, be- ginning June 23, and lasting - until Aug. 18. Performances are also to be given of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus," and "'l'he Marvelous His- tory of St, Bernard" adapted by Sir ilen e aeh q=0t101' titHt sympathy of Barry Jackson from the 'French of any imblased pe,•: art is with the land- Henri Ghoon. i1"' and 1tte;c i tic, ritnt5 that s:ottie- Tweet y•five miles sway from kcal- thititr -1'rthld 1tt: unite in make things veru is Stratford-on-Aven, where a t.iar for him. nut ilia tlit(toniinu- 22 -week Shakespeare kestival at "e1"1 :tun t11elYl sysk'n+ is by ti0 the.Memorial ']'heater begat Atoll 16, A ;project for a Scottish summer festival of drama on the lines of the Malvern festival has now reach- ed the stage where only the place remains to be chosen. Strong candi- dates for the location are Dumblane and Bridge of Allan, either of which is within easy reach of the thickly- populated areas of Scotland, The idea. of this festival originated with Dr, Gordon Bottomley. author of some well-known pestle plays, The Welsh National Theater, which began its operations in Irondon a few months ago, recently established itself in the home of the "Ladles of Llangollen," and It is hoped that dur- ing the gummier h dramatic school may be opened. Methods in Cheese Making An increased return of $100,000 to the cheese factory patrons of On- tario will result, it is estimated, from the general use of a new type of wide curd knife developed by the Dairy Department of the Ontario Agricul- tural College at Guelph. Already over 60 factories have adopted these new knives. Investigation has shown that these knives increase the yield of cheese from one to two pounds for every thousand pounds of milk, also improving the texture of the cheese. Once thoroughly tested, such de- velopments as the wide curd knife are made public and put into actual practise. Marriage the jacket folds back and a belt holds it in place but there are no fastenings at all otherwise. The front of the belt consists f a wide band of bronze with two buckles at each end, about five inches apart. The rest of the belt is of wool. The wide scarf, which ie an important part of the ensemble, is worn ascot fashion ,end its bright red -orange (of the more brilliant nas• turtiuns) lends just the right touch of color for conservative smartuesse Hat, gloves, purse and shoes are of beige, matching the suit, "Marriage is a taming thing!" said George Elliott, the famous novelist. "Hasty marriage seldom proveth well!" declared the immortal bard. "Women who have been happy in a first marriage are the most apt to venture upon a second," said Addi- son. "A light wife doth make a heavy hubsand." Such words of wisdom did Shakespeare - put into the mouth of Portia. "Ne that would have fine guests let him have' a fine wife," Ben Jon- son, who said this, certainly knew the value of a good wife, who le also 'a good hostess. "Can he that has at wife e'er feel tise their cult in Kansas, where smelt adversity?" Surely all married tfor cectiotis offer few trees, for protea men must feel grateful to Pope for beet from the public eye. them., vrords• They are taking sun baths on platetri n is l... -o" -ti e ' , , fou inc at the top of idle oil derrlek9. "Laughter !s indirspon�ttt.t_. t t the ant �t,�i1•"--.,t;l- wrath spOLS, they say, are even mor(dolic 12titi dne n : the bodsleY. :,c•cItided titan sylvan glade,, Try Incubator For - Woodcock Eggs SAINT JOHN, N.B.--I+or the firsi time in New Brunswick an attempj is being made to hatch woodcocU eggs itt an incubator. The nests o woodcocks, camouflage master., art rarely found, and officials of a tratcht ery here are watching the expert. ment with unusual interest. Four eggs were deserted by a Wroth, er bird atter she had been struck by branches of a tree felled by wood men, at Mispee. They waited thre days for the bird to re -appear but sill had definitely deserted. The eggs werti brought to Saint John in a round ties i of moss. Use Typewriters For Social Motes PARIS—The typewriter is beiu admitted to society, and mecltanica fingers now are perntittod to writ formal notes for social usage. Sevv eral society typewriters .have been ori dered here in mahogany and walnu with key -rims . and metal accessories in gold and silver. They are mottos grammed on the spacer and are equip -i pod with asbtrays attached at the{ side, cigarets and a lighter. Sun Bath Nudists Solve Their Problem WINFIELD, Kan.—Nudists haw solved the yroblom of how to . pra