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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-10-25, Page 6• 1 40 V oweF f the Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA TRAFFIC NOTE For some reason Sunday baffle re- minds us that it has taken Niagara Falls 50,000 years to move seven miles, --Hamilton Spectator. GRANTS TO RURAL FAIRS Certainly the rivalry that is creat- ed by these fall fairs and the educa- tional influence that they exert in stimulating the exhibitors to attain the highest possible degree of excel- Ience more than compensate for any outlay the provincial government may make in the respect.—Brantford Ex- positor. HIGHWAYS AND THE SEA. \ rhataa shock was the loss of one hundred and thirty-four lives in the burning of the Havana -New York liner, Morro Castle, We venture to say that fully as many lives are, lost every month in traffic accidents on our highways, but reading about them has become such a daily habit that they do not register a shock, unless some relative or friends should be a victim,—Aylmer Express. PEOPLE TO COME. It is inevitable that, with Canada's millions of acres of fertile land still uncultivated, there will be, in future years, an influx of new population. That will only come when the un- employment crisis has passed and when agriculture has become more prosperous, Then the opportunities of the country, and the expansion which will be renewed, will absorb in a normal way a considerable flow of immigration, — Winnipeg Free Press. JEST ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT A sedate book reviewer, Theodore Hall, of the Washington Post, and an alert columnist, Frank R. Kent, of the Baltimore Sun, have an excellent jest on President Roosevelt. When Upton Sinclair left Hyde Park after his call with the President he quoted Mr. Roosevelt as saying: "Mr, Sinclair, when I was young my mother used to read `The Jungle' aloud to me at breakfast, and it quite spoiled my pork chops." Mr, Sinclair's book, "The Jungle," was not printed until 1906, when Mr. Roosevelt was 24 years of age, had been out of Harvard two full years and was one year married. Messrs, Hall and Kent doubt if Mrs. James Roosevelt, Sr., was then in the habit of reading to her son at the breakfast table and they kind- ly suggest that the President confus- ed Mr. Sinclair's "The Jungle" with Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Books," which was well suited for reading aloud to children.—St. Thomas Times - Journal. OBVIOUS LESSON, The Township of Scarboro in On- tario, with a population of 20,000, has not had a case of diphtheria for a year. This is the result of a ten- year program of innoculation in the schools and among children of less than school age. Is not the lesson ob'vious?—Saint John Telegraph - Journal. PARDONABLE 'MERRIMENT. 1VIelvin Blanton was sentenced -at Indianapolis yesterday to serve 12 years for holding up a roadside tav- ern—and he laughed. Why not? As a contrast to the chap who drew 12 years and 10 lashes in Supreme Court at Sandwich the other day for a similar crime, Melvin knows the chances are he'll be taken to some nice homey place of confinement and given a cell with futuristic furniture and a Southern exposure, just in time to listen to the World's Series, — Border Cities Star, RECOVERY IS ALL-ROUND The successes of Great Britain in sports the past year or two shows that a new generation has arrived to take the place of the generation of young people wiped out by the World War, and in years to come British athletes will be a challenge to the athletes of any other nation. — St. Thomas Journal. THINK NOISE A VIRTUE. To some, indeed, noise is accepted as a virtue, as a sign that we are up and coming, a bustling, hustling lot who are getting things done, So, year after year, we go on making more noise, forever perfecting and using infernal contrivaces of sound, making tho air, whether it be night or day, hideous with tumult,—Ottawa Journal, CLUES IN CURRENCY. It may be some consolation to the people of the United States to realize that if their country had not gone off the gold standard, the Lind.. burghkidnapping might have remain- ed unsolved. The ransom was paid in gold certificates, called in by the treasury last year, and it was the rar- ity of this currency when presented by the suspected kideapper that brought about his arrest. --Brockville Recorder and Times. , ....0.,4.1.0.1. MIXING MAX WITH R.D.B. One of the best things published in a long time appeared recently in a German Nazi book on anti_Sen►ltic propaganda. It says: "While Lord Beaverbrook calls himself a Canadian, he is a Hungarian Jew, named Ralph D. Blumef!eld," This is almost enough to make the Scots, to say nothing of the people of New Brunswick's North Shore, send out the fiery cross and rise in defence of this , son of the manse."-Frederickton Daily Gleaner. CANADIANS BETTER OFF. But when hard times come, there is little doubt about the average Canadian being better off than the average American. This important fact is impressed upon us by an an- nouncement just made by Dr. Rob- inson Newcomb of the United. States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce after study of figures taken from a survey made last Spring by "the New York Housing Authority, According to ' this announcement, "New York's typical family consists of mother, father and one child, lik- ing in a four -room apartment costing $33.21 a month in an apartment house built before any of the three was born," Some 20 per cent. of the homes are considered crowded or overcrowded, Conditions in our largest cities are bad enough but we do not believe that the picture of the typical family in any of them, if painted, would be nearly as drab as this. And the fu- ture is with Canadians, gather than with Americans among whom the peak of material development has probably been reached. — Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph, DEFROSTING CHAMBER. .A. most important advance has been made in the handling of Cana- dian chilled and frozen products ' transported by ship and rail, The bogey of water -vapor condensation , has been laid. The Canadian Government has constructed a special vapor -tight chamber of 30,000 cubic feet capacity at the Port of London, England, for handling chilled and frozen meat, The chamber is the result of experiments conducted by the National Research Council of Canada upon she defrost- ing of frozen foodstuffs and is oper- ated by the Port of London Authority. It is designed to prevent the con - 1 densation of water -vapor from the outside atmosphere upon the pro - 1 ducts after removal from the ships' holds. Thus, one of the bugbears in the transportation of frozen and chilled products has been removed,— Canada Week by Week. ROAD IN THE ROCK. Visitors to Jasper Park who have motored along the 34 completed miles of the mountain road that will event- ually connect Jasper and Lake Louise, are agreed that it will prove to be oue of the continent's great scenic highways. It will lie within national parks throughout its entire length and, ac- cording to the engineer in charge, will not present any steep grades, while the roadbed is mostly being hewed out of solid rock.—Edmonton Journal. INVESTMENT IN ROADS, The provincial highway debt of Canada in 1933 was $433,000,000 with annual charges of 28% million dollars. Ontario led with $155,410,000 at 91/e millions of interest on the average provincial rate of five per cent. Que- bec coming next with $57,377,000 at $3,628,000 interest, •Britisa Columbia was third with $40,441,000 and inter- est of almost two millions,—Dominion Bureau of Statistics. THE EMPIRE TRAGEDY OF YOUTH. Thirty-four thousand more wage earners in British homes today than a month ago. That is a good result. A big achievement, Compared with a year ago there are 376,000 more people at work, and earnings wages. It all shows steady progress. If only we could devise means of dealing with the young people who come on the labor market we could make the im- provement far more pronounced. — London Daily Express. FORTUNE TELLER'S PROPHECL. When a fortune teller in Paris in- formed Prince Fuad he would die a king he laughed. He was far from the succession. Besides, Egypt had no king. In 1913 it looked for a mo- ment as if the prophecy might come true. .A. king was wanted for Al. barite, Italy was said to support his candidature. But a German prince was chosen. Then came the war. Ills nephew, the Khedive Abbas Hilmi, was de- throned. Prince Fund's elder brother, Prince Hussein, became Sultan, Two years later he died. Sultan Hussein's son renounced his right. Prince Fuad succeeded. When Britain abolished the Protectorate In 1922 &titan Fund proclaimed himself King, The Paris fortune teller was right after all. — London Daily Telegraph, Queen Of The Seas The greatest liner afloat, the gigantic Queen Mary slides own the ways in launching at Clyde- bank, Scotland, before 250,000 spectators who braved pouring rain to see christening by British Queen. THE ROYAL SUCCESSION. The discussions to which Prince George's engagement have given rise regarding the succession to the throne have not always been based on knowl- edge. So long as the Duke of York's daughters survive they take preced- once over any'son that may be born to Prince George. But if a son should be born to the^ Duke of York he would take precedence over Princess Eliza- beth and her sister. If a daughter should be born to the Prince of Wales she would take pre- cedence over any child, male or fe- male, of any of the Prince's brothers, Finally, if the Prince of Wales had first a daughter and then a son, the son would be the heir-presumptive— a position which Princess Elizabeth holds today.—The Spectator, BACON, EGGS AND MUSIC. Sir Henry Wood invented the name of Paul Klevonsky and published his own work under that name. He found that the music of the foreign Klevon- sky made a far bigger noice in Brit- ain than the music of the plain British Wood. It is a national vice with us to pamper the foreign producer of music. And that goes for beef, bacon and eggs, too,—London Daily Express. Bishop Uses Ax SYDNEY, New South Wales—The Right Rev. Dr. Burgman, newly ap- pointed Anglican Bishop of Goul- burn, New South Wales, recently put his skill with the ax to good use. On a tour of his diocese in a small car he was prevented from crossing a swollen river. A lorry was obtain- ed to take the party and car across. In order to get the car onto the lorry, some trees had to be felled, Dr. Burg - man, it is said, himself "swung the donglas" with the deftness of a royal show woodchopper. Scheme of Study TORONTO—The curriculum should bear a close relationship to the needs, lives and interests of the pupils out- side of school, says Dr. C. C. Goldring, superintendent of Toronto schools, in a report to the Board of Education. In particular he advocates a good finishing type of education for those whose interest does not lie along academic lines. To this end, he sug- gests the development of fifth form classes of various kinds in public schools to provide a complete course of instruction, ending at about the age of 16; establishment of inter- mediate schools, transferring of lower school work from the secondary to the elementary schools, and establish- ment in the collegiate institutes of a general course covering two years' work. Doing Your Best How easy it is to say, "I'm doing the best I can." Some of you young people always say this if a teacher criticizes your work, or an employer finds fault.- Well, it isitrue that you can do no more than your best, but the point is that too few of you do that. Some one has said that only ten per cent of the energy stored in coal 18 used when it is burned in the furnace; the rest is wasted, Experts estimate that human energy also, s largely dis- sipated. Not even ten per cent of it is utilized. Some of You young people say "I did my best," In a very meek voice, as though you were apologizing, 'When you can honestly say "I did my best," however, you are making as proud boast as ever .fell irorn human Yips. I. News of the Air By Jack Cooke It was rather odd, the big suc- cess they did make. We mean those tunes from the show "Roberta". You know, the night the show opened in New York, the critics were unanimous in their praise for every- thing but the score. "Jerome Kern didn't do it this time", the wteies said. Well, we leave you to judge as to the possibilities of that condemned music. "Smoke gets in your Eyes" was one of them, and the "Touch of your Hand" was the second. Smart guys on Broadway. Walter Winchell carried an inter- esting item the other day. He says, that when the show Mademoiselle Modiste was in rehearsal, the pro- ducers had plenned as their big number, a burlesque on the type of music popular then. Fritzie Schefi was to clown her way through a song written for the show by Victor Herbert. Opening night though, came her turn to do the bourlesque and instead of riotous laughter from the audience, cheers and encores greeted her number. The producers im- mediately changed the setting about the song and Fritzie Schell has been singing it ever since. You've probab- ly guessed the name of the song by now. Yes, it was "Iiiss Me A gain". At one of our night spots around the town we overheard a young thing in this conversation: She—Have you heard Bob Crosby? He—No, I haven't. She—Well you can't tell his voice from Bing's. He's marvellous. He-Yeh ! She—And they said that he's try- ing so hard to get along on his own name, and that he hopes people will listen to him just for his voice. But you really can't tell him frorz Bing. All of which prompts us to reiterate with more gusto than ever, that the public is always wrong. In the first place, Bob Crosby doesn't sound any more like Bing than Buddy Rogers does. In fact, Bob Crosby's voice does resemble the former "America's Sweetheart", and on top of that, if Bing's young brother attempts to get along solely on the merits of his voice, Franklin D. must needs add another name to his long list of reliefers. :We don't believe that any of you who have heard Jack Dale will think that we are over enthusiastic when we say that he is the finest of the finest of the finest popular singers every produced in Canada. We under- stand he is a young Ukrainian from way out west, who had an op- portunity to study vocalism in Mont- real and, by Gad, if some blind sponsor (for they must all be blind and deaf here or otherwise how could they permit such atrocities of entertainment to represent them on the air) doesn't scoop him quickly, he will be leaving us far a radio field where talent is appreciated, Jack Platter's band isn't half bad' on that C.R.C. programme, but he sadly lacks a decent rhythm section and a first trumpet with some tone. That's about all we can think of to say this week, except that The Continental should be flit No, One This Winter, and so Heigh -Ho, until next week. `Strumming' Upheld As Musicianship Aid By London Composer OXFORD—To strum or not to strum? Dr. Percy Buck, King Ed- ward Professor of Music at London University, discussed this ,uestion when he spoke recently to members of the Oxford Course in Music Training. He decided unhesitatingly in favor of strumming—even at the cost of quite heroic forbearance on the part of those who are forced to listen to it—because, he said, the child who can sit down at a piano and impro- vise a tune has acquired more music- ianship by doing it than he would have acquired by learning that Bach had 22 children. "There is, of course, no great virtue in extemporizing rubbish," said Dr. Buck, "but there is a lot of fun, and when you get fun into music you have gone a long way." Dr. Buck says that boys are bet- ter "strummers" than girls. Daily Transatlantic Air Service Being Planned St. John's, N. F. A projected dai- ly transatlantic air service from the British Isles to Newfoundland has been outlined to the Newfoundland Commission Government by Mr, Chas. Frobisher, representing Atlantic Air-' ways, it was disclosed last week. Mr. Frobisher seeks the right to use St. John's Harbor as a base for flying boats, Mr. Frobisher told the commision- ers the ocean line would link up with the British airways system with Ca- nadian and American systems. For the transatlantic service, planes cap- able of carrying eight to ten passen- gers and with a speed of 230 miles an hour would be used. Heiress Met Her Husband Year Ago Virginia Gates McCafferty's Marriage Culmination of Ro- mance Begun at Dance I Boise, Idaho — Virginia Gates Mc- Cafferty, 22, nee Virginia Gates, Phil- adelphia heiress, who hitch -hiked her way into romance and marriage with Dan McCafferty, erstwhile boxer, and wrestler, mechanic and vegetable field worker, is "California bound" witlr her husband fortified with funds supplied by her wealthy father, The young couple left Boise "by train" using moey telegraphed to them by Thomas Gates the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and a former member of he firm of J. P. Morgan and Company. Along with this revelation of their immediate plans came an assertion.' from the newlyweds that their marri- l age was the culmination of a't'omance that began with a meeting a year ago, The blonde blue-eyed bride and her dark curly-haired husband previously had said they met by accident in = Boise and had hitch -hiked to Moscow, the seat of the state university, where; they were married by the Rev. J. Ed- gar Puroy, pastor of the Moscow Me- thodist Episcopal Church. 'Just say that we met at a rodeo dance in Pinedale, last year," Mrs. ' McCafferty told newspapermen, ]Vers. McCafferty, then Miss Gates had liv- ed on a dude ranch near Piedale Wyo. for 14 months prior to her disappear- ance from there a month ago. A search in which Federal department of justice agents participated was started after the girl left the ranch and failed to return to her parents' home, • Alberta Families Start Trek To North For Fertile Farmr EDMONTON. Alta.—A start hat been made in the exodus of hundredl of families from the drought -ridded areas in southern Alberta to more fertile districts and farm lands it the northern sections of the Prow ince. Already 45 certificates have been issued to families ready to move by the agricultural department, an4 upwards of 400 families are prepay. ing to trek either this winter or early in the spring. Some difficulty is being experienced in finding suitable Iocations for se many families. A list of available places in the north and near north has been prepared by the Govern-, enent, and has been given to appli- cants to facilitate them in making a choice. In some cases intending set-. tiers are making personal land -seek- ing inspection trips into the areas where farms are to be had, Mr. F. S. Grisdale, Minister of Agriculture, explains that the re- settlement is being made only in areas already settled and only on improved farms that have become vacant. -There' are buildings on all of the farms listed by the depart- ment. The free-moving services, cost of which are born by the Federal and Provincial Governments, are making it possible for many farmers with, their families to seek new locations with renewed hope of success. Dry areas where soil drifting has ruined the farmers will be taken over by the Government and the soil built up. A scheme to plant wide belts of trees across the country is included in the plans for restoring the arid districts. Daily Lectures Aid Art Gallery Visitors BIRMINGHAM, Eng.—Daily lec- tures by uniformed guides are help- ing to popularize the art collection of the Municipal Art Gallery here. So far, these lectures by specially qualified guides have proved success- ful. The guides, five of whom are al- ready qualified lecturers, are enter- ing into training for this new section of their work with great enthusiasm and are each finding out by experi- ment which part of the gallery they can deal with most effectively. Visitors to the municipal gallery are asked to co-operate by giving con- structive criticism and comment upon the lectures and by suggesting par- ticular aspects of painting and sculpture which they would like ex- plained xplained in lectures delivered in front of the original works. Camera Qualifies As 'Maid of All Work' LONLON—Pips revealed in "pip - less' oranges, archaeological problems solved, old Egyptian manuscripts de- ciphered, forgery detected — these were among the illustrations of the handiwork of the modern "maid of all work," the camera, shown at the recent London Exhibition of Modern Industrial Photography. The motto of the exhibition was "Photography Serves the Nation." Little known illustrations of the camera's usefulness were given, such as the reminder that every week low power photomicrographs provide a record of the quality of the water in London's reservoirs, and that the Building Research Department uses the camera to measure distribution of sunlight in rooms. One of the exhibits showed a pho- tograph of fungi on the inside of the walls of a house, proving:_ defective building, which had actually been used as legal evidence Another prov- ed how useful photographs are in ascertaining the suitability of a par- ticular cloth for a . particular pur- pose. s They Say "It is one of the defects of the modern world that it provides more for pleasures than for needs."— Bertrand Russell. "We can have our choice between progress by educartion and progress by revolutionary violence."—Harry Elmer Barnes, "I think the time is coming when our economic order will be re' adjueted along lines that will not permit gain for the few."—Dame Sybil Thorndike. "This is perhaps a world where everyone is wanted, but no one is wanted very much."—Dean Inge. "In America by the time a criminal comes to trial half the witnesses against him have disappeared and be- fore he gots into jail the rest are dy- ing of old age."—Henry L. Mencken. "Capitalism is not dead; but it was dirty. It needed 'a good washing."— Roger W. I3abson. "The future belongs to the vase ,'lass of the skilled and the special - 12 ;zed."—.Havelock Etlis, Leer