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Zurich Herald, 1934-07-26, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada. The Empire and l'he World at Large 11 CANADA CANADA LEADS. -- Figures just released by the statis- tical branch of the League of Nations place Canada at the head of the list in progress toward industrial recovery with the United States second. Can- ada's ratio is 40, the U.S. 30. When we consider the means adopted in the republic we are justified in con- cluding that Canada's recovery is more likely to be lasting, because it is not the result of artificial stimula- tion. --Clinton News -Record. DO GOOD WORK.— On Sunday morning a provincial police constable knocked at the door of a Vineland residence and calmly informed the occupant that his stolen car had been recovered. The man was not even aware that his ear was missing, and yet five young Toronto men were Iocked up at Welland for the theft.—St. Catharines Standard. SAVING THE MUSKOX.-- What Canada did some years ago for the buffalo in saving It from ex- tinction, she is now doing for the muskox. The story of this curious animal whose home is in what are known as the Barren Lands of North- exn Canada and in the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, is told by G. H. Blanchet. Canada has set apart a it may constitute a new problem, or collection of problems—street car, rumble seat, elevator and easy chair, limit --St, Thomas Times -Journal, A poll of books mast frequently recommended by professors of Eng- lish literature in the leading Ameri- can universities, has been taken. The result is rather astonishing, Here it is: "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen, "Return of the Native," by Thomas Hardy. "Henry Esmond," by W. M. Thack- eray. "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. "The Ordeal of Richard Feveral," by George Meredith, "Vanity Fair," by W. M. Thackeray. "Old Wives' Tales" by Arnold Ben- nett. "Adam Bede," by George Eliot. "David Copperfield," by Charles Dickens. "The Mill on the Floss," by George Eliot. —London Free Press. PAGEANTS FIND PROBLEMS.— Women are becoming wider and heavier, a director of pageants has discovered in England, It has been found impossible to fit them into the stomachers, stays, bodices and bus- tles their grandmothers wore, This may not matter much, but if the widening out process continues comparatively inaccessible region east of Great Slave Lake, known as the Thelon Game Sanctuary, as a home tor the muskox. Here it will be safe from both Indians and Eskimos, and will have a chance to increase as the buffalo did in Wainwright Park, -- Fredericton Gleaner. MAKE NO DISTINCTION.-- . Practically all social service clubs will agree with W. G. Smith, of Mani- toba, in his hatred for the word "ille- gitimate" as applied to children born. out of wedlock, The children have nothing to do with it and it is un- fair that they should rest under such a stigma. In Ontario, as in Manitoba, there is no distinction between child- ren born outside and in wedlock, so far as the father's estate is concern- ed, all sharing equally in any pro- ceeds.—Niagara Falls Review, DIRTY LICENSE PLATES.— Dirty license plates defeat one of the purposes of motor car licensing. Plates damaged so that the numbers are illegible also have the same bad effect, License plates are on cars pri- marily for the information of the general publio and its law enforce- ment authorities. They are the means of identifying a car and protecting the public. --Kingston Whig -Standard. BENEFIT OF EDUCATION. -- A Miami University student ate 15 hamburger sandwiches in half an hour. There are still some persons who arbitrarily declare that they can see nothing in a college education. -- Ottawa Citizen. VALUE OF RAIN. -- President Roosevelt is asking for $525,000,000 to give out to the people of the United States as Drought Aid. This will give you some idea of the value of a good rain.—Chatham News PLAGUES AS ALLIES. -- A gnat plague is killing cattle by the hundreds in Arkansas. Grasshop- pers are expected to kill a large part of the wheat crop in the prairie west, on both sides of the international line. The farmer's instinct is to fight such enemies, but now that he is told he must cut down production is he to regard them as natural allies?—Lon- don Advertiser. THEY'RE LEARNING,-- • Why does the chicken cross the road just ahead -of an auto? Farmers report that fowl are cultivating a traf- fic sense and stop, look and listen before entering the highway, One man says he saw a. pheasant look out from a hedge and deliberately wait for cars approaching from both dir- ections to pass and when the road was clear walk across at its leisure.— Montreal Herald. Celebrated Flyer and Wife A recent photograph of Sir Charles and Lady leingsfora-Smith, taken at the Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif., where Sir Charles recently made several test flights in the new plane in which he will fly in the race from London to Melbourne, Australia, next October. And curves have just begun to come in. FROM LUTHER'S BEECH TREE. The same director has found that The Prince of Wales has sent 500 men can imitate their ancestors and beech tree seedlings from Windsor women can't. Women are generally Great Park to Canada. We under - more beautiful than before, but their beauty being standardized, is non - adaptable; men are still the same old homely citizens and their beauty, being non-existent, may be adapted to any character they wish to portray. The question here is: Do men wish to remain homely for the purpose of appearing in pageants, or will they acquire beauty and let the pageants go? It is a nice question and not to than 100 years ago. —Empire Re - be answered offhand.—Toronto Tele. view. gram. WHY COMMUNISM GROWS. -- TAKING CHANCES.— Every election demonstrates the So many of the accidents occurring growing strength of the Communists. in these days are unnecessary, if One of them polled over 8,000 votes people would only exercise good rea- in the mayoral election in Brisbane. stand they will be planted by Mem- bers of the "Men of the Trees" move- ment, as an encouragement to Cana- dians to attach even more signifi- cance to the importance of their for- est onest resources. It is interesting to note the Royal trees were raised from seeds gathered underneath an .off- spring of Luther's Beech at Wurtem- berg, and brought to Windsor more PAROLE IS OVERDONE IN NEW YORK.— It is so hard to get a man convicted for murder 'in New York one might think that when a man is convicted and put away for a life sentence, or something approximating it. the auth- orities would not seek to let him out for a great many years -15 or 20 at least. But the hard work of the po- lice is neutralized to a great extent by the operations of a parole board which is exercising its privileges in the most extraordinary fashion. - - Nine men convicted of murder in New York since April, 1933, only a little more than one year ago, have been paroled, and of these, six are again waiting trial for another mur- der apiece. What justification could there have been for admitting to free- dom men of such.. character? ' "1'wo recently paroled inert, iiot previously murders, have been rearrested for killing a patrolman and wounding three children in the doing of it, The rottenness that exists in the legal machinery of the New York criminal system seems to have no soning and common sense. The other day it was reported that two Toronto young men 17 and 18 years of age, lost their lives when the can- oe in which they were seated upset. Particulars of the accident show that they were unfamiliar with the man- agement of a canoe, and neither of them could swim. When they were thrown into the water they clutched madly at each other and disappeared.. It is added that a cumber of other young people were in a row -boat near- by, but they were unable to effect a rescue as none of them could swim. —Chatham News, ONTARIO LEADS DOMINION IN AUTO FATALITIES.— The Province of Ontario last year established a record in the Dominion that should not be the envy of other provinces. It led the entire country in the number of automobile fatali- ties. According to the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics, 954 persons in all were killed by motor cars in 1933, a decrease of 166 from the previous year's figures. This made the death rate from cars per 100,000 popula- tion 8.9 as compared with 10.'7 in 1932, Ontario bad the heaviest death toll in 1933-11.8 per 100,000 popula- tion, British Columbia stood second with a rate of 11.0. Nova Scotia's rate was 8,8, Quebec's 8.6 and Alber- ta's 8.5, In Prince Edward Island two persons were killed by automobiles during 1933. In Alberta the increase in number over the previous years was 15. Further analyzing the statis- tics we find that Toronto decreased its toll from 88 in 1932 to 65 in 1933; Montreal from 121 to 104; Vancouver from 44 to 28. Ottawa had 25 deaths, the same number as In 1932, while Hamilton reported an increase of 2 and London an increase of 8.—Toron- to Mail and Empire. THE EMPIRE At the Hamilton (N,S.W.) by-election another got an even bigger proportion of support, Yet their Australian pro- gramme is so extreme and violent and calls for so complete a surrender• to iron discipline that, in a country tiwitlt such easygoing traditions, it is (UMH,. cult to imagine anybody but a mad- man or a crank supporting it. Many of those who do support it are un- balanced by unemployment and em- bittered by the complacency of un- comprehending politicians—politicians who have become the slaves of profes- sors and whose minds have developed into mere book-keeping machines. Have they, for instance, seen the conditions on the N.S.W. coalfields? Are they aware that on both the nor- thern and southern fields there are literally thousands who have cynical- ly resigned themselves to make the best of the dole and the family en- dowment for the rest of their lives? Have they beard that there are thousands more, youngsters just be- yond the school age, who have al- ready come to believe that if Com- munism cannot do for them what the present system has failed to do it will at least give them sympathy?— Sydney Bulletin, EARTHQUAKES AND SIN.— An urbane but trenchant contro- versy of more than ordinary interest has been taking place between Dr, Rabindranabh Tagore and Mr. Gandhi. Soon after the earthquake the Mahat- ma administered to the sorely tried populace of North East Bihar one of those subsidiary shocks which, we are told, always follow in the wake of the major disturbance, by announcing his conviction that the earthquake was sent by God to punish the Hin- dus for the sin of untouchability. This "unscientific and materialistic view" caused Dr. Rabindranath painful.sur prise and urged him to ''utter a truism in asserting that physical catastro- phes have their inevitable and exclu- sive origin in certain combinations of physical facts. He went on to say CANADA THROUGH BRITISH EYES that unles swe believe in the inexor- The story of the present economic ableness of universal laws in the conditions in Canada is a heartening working of which God Himself never addition to the recent evidence of interferes-- imperilling thereby the improvement In Australia, in Routh integrity of his own creation—we find it impossible to justify Ills ways on occasions like the one which has sorely stricken us in an overwhelm- ing manner and scale.— Calcutta Statesman. IN PRAISE OF USELESS KNOWL- EDGE,---. We all remember Mr, Stephen Lea - cock's account of his visit to Oxford, $12,000,000 in excess of those of April and bis delightful portrayal of Ox- last year. In the reports of the ;ford as the complete and perfect con greater business corporations the 1 servator of useless knowledge; a eirbffts' earned In the past twelve 1 place whore professors never lecture months have been greater by 75 per ibut by request, and then wretchedly, cent. than In the previoue year, The ---Mr, Leacock was told toId that improvement, of which these figures some had not lectured for thirty record the early fruits, began in Feb. years --where tutors seem to do noth- ruary, 1933 and has been steady in ing much but smoke, and students the interval --1. D7,11y Telegraph neem to do little but live in mouldy Africa and in India. The Empire, as a whole, is out of the depths. hi Canada every one of the ordinary tests of well-being shows the Domin- ion making rapid, recovery. Foreign trade in the first four months of the present year is nearly 50 per cent. better than in the corresponding period of 1988. The Customs and ex- cise revenues for April were almost ROCKING OF BABIES FOR HIRE IS ADDED TO ODD PROFESSI T•1hy Rockers Local No. 1 of Har- Iem has not yet received an approved NRA code but Andrew H. Brown, the president, doesn't think it needs one. 'We gits fivecents a half-hour fo' rockin," Mr. Brown explains, "less'n dey is twins, when we gits two cents extra. No cut rates." Members of the local earn their nickels rocking babies,' with or with- out carriages, for shopping mothers It is a great convenience for the mothers who can fight their way un- encumbered into the bargain aisles and know that their offspring are in safe custody at the store entrance. The baby rocking profession is a new addition to the list of odd ways for making ends meet. Some of these unusual businesses are of consider - NS able size. A factory in the metropol itan area produces dolls voices, sell ing then, to doll manufacturers..liu curio hunters, who,mighi" find some thing unique in the pcssession of s voice without a doll could easily ob tain a disembodied "rna-a-a" at slight expense. An uptown establishment is run bi a "packaging expert" whose deft dra• ping and be -ribboning of the plain• est of packages will lend a Fifth A. venue air to a five -and ten gift. An exalted scissors grinder lending hie talent to the arts, will put nothing tc his grindstone but sculptor's tools. Several married couples have turned professional brides and bridegrooms, having been married over and aver' again on dance floors to advertise dance marathon contests. Public Learns Hr ,ary Secrets Of Old Titles English College of Arms Opens for Inspection of Some Ancient Family Re- cords London.—For the first time in its nearly 500 years of existence the Col- lege of Arms is to make an exhibition of itself. The staid old institution, so often associated with the burst of • heraldry and the pomp of power, is to show inner secrets to all and sun- dry. Sections •• of the college's rolls, parchments and other historical trea- sures, are to be open for public in- spection. There wilt be on view, for instance, the roll of the Westminster tournament held in February, 1510, which is 60 feet long, with beautiful script and pictures There is also a parchment depleting the descent of the Saxon kings. This pedigree goes back through to Adam and Eve. Many Relics. Among the tragi; relics contained In the College of Aims are the tur- quoise ring and the sword taken from the body of James Ile of Scotland when he lay dead on the Field of Flodden. The building of the College al Arms is on the north side of the city. It is a largo and sedate look- ing structure of ted brick, built on three sides of a square. It almost gives the impression of a country residence of the Queen Anne period somehow dropped nonchalantly into the middle of the banking and fin- ancial centre of London. An Englishman, proud of his • line- age and wishing to put a coat of arms on his letter paper or upon the panel of his automobile, may come to the College of Arms and consult Rouge Dragon, 13luemantle, Portcul- lis or Rouge Croix, or some other of the • august officials of the Hereditary Earl -Marshal of England. Heraldry. Probably he will be directed to one of the heralds. Not unnaturally he may imagine a herald to be a personage arrayed something like the Knave of Hearts, and carrying a long trumpet. But the herald at the pres- ent day is attired in conventional black coat and waistcoat and stripe trousers. At the present day the college is far from being concerned merely with the records of centuries back. New creations in the peerage, baronetage, and knightage aro made every year, which means the granting of so many coats of arms. When one of the many new centres of population which have sprung lip in England in re- cent years is raised to the rank of a borough, it must furnish itself with an appropriate coat of arms, All this work is conducted by one or •other of the quaintly named officials of the red brick building in Queen Victoria street. Music to Soothe mediaeval quarters, eat food cooked in Henry Vlll's kitchen, and sleep in an unwholesome mess of age-old ivy. We recall his sly pretense of puzzle- ment when he compared the ways of Oxford with those of the universities that he was acquainted with on this side of the Atlantic, and finally his reluctant admission that somehow, dead against every conceivable possi. bility, Oxford "gets there" and his dark suspicion that it will continue to get there for many generations to come. No one in America knows the value of useless knowledge better than Mr. Leacock, and his fascinating sketch of Oxford makes it clear that the business of a university is to do what for centuries Oxford has been doing and to turn out the kind of human produce that for centuries Ox- ford has been . turning out,—Albert Jay Nock in The Atlantic Monthly of Boston. Escapes De:. th Four Times Survives Car Accident — Lightning Bolt -- Storm and Rattle Snake. • Atlanta—Death has played four strange tricks on Julian Jones. The latest adventure was when a bolt of lightning fell in Jones' lap— and then rolled off on to the floor of his car. Jones has peen struck by a car—and has landed safely on top of its hood. He has lived through a terrific storm in Bacon County, Ga,. and once he almost touched a diamond back rattlesnake before seeing he was in error. The lightning that chose to light in Jones' Iap tore bark off a nearby tree to a height of 30 feet, Froni the root of the tree the lighning dug a little trench across the road to a rear wheel of Jones' car, leaped to the back window, smashed the glass and fell in his lap. "It seemed to hesitate an instant, then hopped down to the barrel of a shotgun lying at my feet," he said. "I never felt any shock from the lightning nor any heat." His only injury was a gashed cheek, but by the glass of the car window. While walking across a downtown street one day, Jones felt a severe jolt and found himself sitting on top of an automobile hood. He was all right there—but was bruised when the driver stopped suddenly and Jones fell to the strne),. The cyclone adventure came in 1898. The house in which Jones watched the storm was nearly swept away—but it withstood the wind, which went on to demolish several houses. He had the speaking acquaintance with the rattlesnake • in Bacon County also. Jones shot a squirrel and had stooped to pick it up when he noticed the ground seemed to be of an unnatural color. Ile then was standing within eight inches of the squirrel. Jumping back quickly, Jones fired a bullet into the head of the rattlesnake which was coiled be- tween him and the squirrel. The snake had 10 rattles. ,..MORE CANADIAN HARDWOOD.... All increase of 100 per cent. in sales of Canadian hardwood to Great Bri- tain for the first three months of this year has been reported. The figures are Dittoed at 1,806,000 cubic feet this year compared with 004,000 cubic feet during the same period in 1938. Cana- dian hardwood is being used in in- creasing quantities in Great Britain for flooring, furniture, and the manu- facture of automobile bodies. the Tired Juvenile Turns Him From Mischief and Strife to Purposeful Way of Living • Washington, --- The right kind of noise may keep a child out of mis- chief, but the wrong kind is apt to undermine his health -and tire his nsind, Music's Bower to soothe the juv- enile was vouched for (before the National Education Association by L A. Woods, superintendent of public instruction in Texas. "Music turns the individual from mischief and strife to a purposeful cc -operative way of living" he said. The other side of the noise picture was sketched by l,uth M. Van Dev- anter, of Springfield Illinois. She said it was time ;to toss over- board the idea that a noisy environ• tient teaches chil4ren to concentrate. Pupils can get used to needless noise the speaker explained, but continue to waste energy combatting it. Diathermy Use Told D ctors Danger of Being Buried , Alive Eliminated, Speaker Says Los Angeles, -- Medical science has advanced to the point where no one need to have a fear of being bur- ied alive, Dr. Disrael W. Koback, pro- fessor of physical therapy at the Rush Medical College, Chicago said her recently. He addressed a joint meeting of the western section of the American Congress of Physical -Therapy and the Pacific Physical -Therapy Assoc- iation. Diathermy holds, he said, a def- inite test for the determination of death and enables a physician to know when resuscitation is possible. If a living spark exists it can be de- tected by means of electricity. One electrode is placed under the patient's back, be said, the other against his thigh or stomach, then after the current has been on for about 30 minutes, a definite rise of temperature will occur, if the pat- ient is alive. If there is still life the diathermy stimulates the circu- lation and raises the temperature. If there is no life a continuous fall of temperature results. When all other methods of treat- ment have failed, Dr. Koback. said, diathermy or heat-thernly, has been found effective in cases of angina pectoris and coronary thrombosis. He referred to the announcement made by Dr. Albert S. Hyman at the last meeting of 'the American Med- ical Association, that, by means of • diathermy methods, more than 100 hearts which lad 'slopped beating were started going again. Silence That Hurts, Room. of Absolute Quiet is Used To Test Electric Fans If you believe that absolute quiet is just what you need to soothe your ruffled nerves step into a room built by the General Electric engineers at Bridgeport, Conn, and be disabused, Snap your fingrs. It is as if a rifle has been fired. Pat one hand with the other, make any slight noise, and the indicator on the noise -recorder swings violently. -The absolutely quiet room was built in order to test electric fans, which have a fay of whirring even if they are perfectly built because the blades simply must hit the air in order to set up a breeze. For the same reason an airplane propeller can be heard on the ground although it niay he churning up the atmosphere a mile up. By careful designing of blades a fan can be made which is a, good as silent. Noises caused by fau- lty bearings and other defects are in- excusable in a new fan. In the silent room they are.traced to their source and weeded out. The testing engineers do more than iet the fans run in any way that hap• pens to be convenient. The worst possible conditions are reproduced. False walls that vibrate like tight drumheads and dummy ceilings that are almost -as resonant as a bell ex- aggerate the sound. A microphone picks up the hum or rattle, and an- other Instrument, an analyzer indi- cates the pitch and traces it to its source. Kitchen mixers, razor strop- pers and other domestic electrical ap- pliances are tested in the same way. But while all this has .its practi- cal engineering vialue it is a mat- ter of ,to small scientific interest to learn that we • must have a ;little noise just to be comfortable. Total silence would reduce the sanest of • us to nlaaness. It was no easy matter to make a room that would be absolutely quiet. The engineers had to suspend it in space, so that it would not be rigidly connected with the rust of the build- ing The ceiling was hiring from raf- ters and not 'attached to the walls. The floor and the walls were sus- pended on cushions or springs, Thus a room was created to floatfree of the building of which it is a part,