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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-11-08, Page 6t is of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA EDITOR IS BOTHERED If only there weren't so many people pestering and boring every- body else with a lot of silly opinions about,a lot of silly subjects that no- body really cares two hoots about anyhow—including nine -tenths of the current stale of Europe? Vancouver Profvinee. FOR COMMERCIAL GIRLS The third birthday tea party of the Commercial Girls' Club of Winnipeg marked another anniversary of one of the most remarkable and inspiring public service enterprises which have been launched in this city Three years ago with the greatest possible efficiency and dis- cretion the club was formed, and for- mulated its constitution and by-laws, the object of which was to take care of the girls employed in commercial pursuits who might fall on hard times through the depression—which three years ago was looming over the whole community as an immediate menace. Under highly capable and conscien- tious management, given voluntarily by the successive executive boards of the club, composed of commercial girls themselves, the. club has now an excellent record of most valuable work. Its members have given it loyal support, and initiative and orig- inality have characterized the man- agement.—Winnipeg Free Press. THE MODERN GIRL, The old-fashioned woman who used to boast about the number of glasses of jelly she could get out of a gallon of fruit has a daughter who brags about the number of miles she gets out of a gallon of gas.—Tweed News. TEACHING PEOPLE TO LIVE. How to teach people to live so that they may enjoy health and avoid sick- ness is a problem that has not been solved. Whether it can be done by education is a question. Most people prefer to live their own lives according to their ov)n ideas and are inclined to look with contempt on matters of diet, sleep, fresh air, the avoidance of excesses of every kind and restrictions that would interfere in any way with their personal liberty. Nevertheless it is perfectly true to say that thousands of people have benefited greatly by the information that has been disseminated, with the result that they have been almost to- tally free from sickness of any seri- ous kind for many years,—Brantford Expositor. ed for sectional represen.cation,—Can- ada Lumberman. BACK TO THE LAND Anything that can be done to add to the convenience, comfort, enjoy- ment and profit of the farmer should not be overlooked, because, as we have said, it is desirable to get more people back to the land, thus easing the pressure on towns and cities that were congested before the great un- employment problem cam upon us and that are fairly overflowing with work- less people today—Border Cities Star. NO DAMAGES FOR NEGLIGENCE. In an action tried before a Middle- sex jury the other day, in which dam- ages for injuries were asked, a ver- dict was given that will have a very widespread effect on all cases of com- pensation for injuries suffered. Suit was entered against the Melbourne Agricultural Society by a father on behalf of his son, ten years old, who was injured on the racetrack at the fair. In spite of warnings given to keep off the track through a loud- speaker he persisted in getting into the zone of danger, with the result that he was knocked down by a. race- horse, receiving injuries to his knee. The jury deliberated on the case and found that the boy had suffer- ed on account of his own carelessness d hence was not entitled to dam - OUR LUMBER EXPORTS The lumber export situation is not without its difficulties; the solution appears to be in the appointment of one representative for Canada, char- ged with the duty of promoting im- partially Canadian forest products, re. gardless of the place of origin. By this plan Canada will not divide her propagandist force; on the con- trary, it will give solidarity and uni- formity to every effort to extend the market. There are, of course, ardent advocates of separate Eastern Can- ada representation, who believe that only by such a method can the East obtain an adequate presentation of the qualities and uses of Eastern woods, a larger umber of orders, and new markets. It is suggested, however, that on balance, a Dominion -wide representa- tive is the most logical plan, and that its advantages outweigh those claim - an y Lloyd George Potato Expert i,..y d Leori;.;, war mime Premier of Great B ritain, threw open his farm, Bron -y -de, at (;hurt, England, for a demonstration of the manuring an d spacing of potatoes organized by the Surrey Agri- cultural Committee. Lloyd George also acted as ho st at tea to those attending the demonstration. This picture shows Lloyd George (right) airing his views on potatoes during the demonstration. ages...... Tho significance of the verdict is that it throws the responsibility on was ready to put some in a tin cup people themselves for exercising rea- for the little folk who watched for sonable caution. If they are careless his daily coming. His tickets were and negligent they cannot expect to made at home, cut out of pasteboard. collect damages from others on the His old wagon rattled along over the ground that the latter are responsible road, but he never hollered at his horse. The animal knew the route as well as the driver. But that is all changed, particular- ly in exclusive places where folk want to stay up until all hours of the night and then sleep in in the morning — Stratford. Beacon -Herald. for their safety. It is possible that if this principle were pressed more en- ergetically there would be fewer acci- dents.—Brantford Expositor. A "DATE" BUREAU. Women students at the University of Toronto are reported to be bitter- ly complaining that, despite their charms, they are experiencing great difficulty in "finding a man." So now they propose to establish a date bur- eau on the campus, where boys and girls can leave their names when they desire a partner to attend a show, dance or some other form of social amusement. Such a move would leave the im- pression that the co-eds have come to the conclusion that the young men are a little backward about getting acquainted. We suggest that the stu- dents of the 1934 crop are just as bold and gallant as in days gone by, but they are handicapped by an em- barrassing shortage of funds. Perhaps there would be no necessity for this clearing house if the daring co-eds would simply advertise the fact that they are prepared to pay their own way. Some one has said that the co-eds are not as sophisticated as they were in more prosperous years, and to some degree have lost their popularity. Maybe there is nothing to it.—Border Cities Star. LIFE GROWS DIFFICULT Things grow complicated and peo- ple are always thinking of more regulations. Getting milk from the brindle cow to the back porch used to be such an easy and a simple pro- cess. The cow was milked and the man started out in his own cart carrying milk in a big can. He had with him a pint and a quart measure and he poured it out into such containers as his customers offered and generally On Trail Of Kidnapper A close watch is being kept at, the home of '.Phomas H. itobine $r,, father of the man hunted as kidnapper of Mrs. Alice Stoll, at. Nashville, Tenn. Harold Nathan, federal agent in charge of opera- tions, is pictured posting his men around the house. QUEER WORLD. Just after being accosted for a nickel to buy a cup of coffee on reads that the Brazilian coffee crop this year will amount to 29,880,000 bags, of which 11,952,000 bags will be de- stroyed to keep down the supply. Isn't it a queer old world? Or is it the people?—Niagara Falls Review. THE EMPIRE ROYAL CHRISTMAS CARDS The greeting cards which the King and Queen have chosen to send to personal friends at Christmas are new. in Process of being engraved. Their Majesties always choose subjects for their cards early in the year in order that they may be ready in good time for dispatch to overseas, The King has selected a reproduc- tion of a fine painting, Bernard Gribbe's "Windsor Castle from the River," and this looks remarkably well on its engraved background. The Queen and the Princess Royal have chosen, as they always do, garden pictures—both are by Edith Andrews —and the Prince of Wales has com- missioned cards on which is repro- duced A. D. McCormIck's painting of "Queen Elizabeth Giving Audience to Shakespeare."—London Daily Tele- graph. SAFETY IN THE AIR. Tho fundamental difficulty in secur- ing air safety at present is the speed at which an airplane has to travel to keep in the air at all. No other form of transport would care to be com- pelled to batter through mist, fog, -'or darkness at a minimum speed of any- thing from sixty miles an hour up- wards. When he is uncertain of his posi- tion or suspects dangers on the route the pilot ought to be able to slow down, if necessary to as low a speed as twenty miles an hour. No commer- cial airplane in the world today can do anything of the kind. But in the interests of safety and of public con- fldence in air transport such an end must be worked for. It is far more desirable than any increase in flying speeds; until avia- tion has fledged its wings a little further our present maximum of round about two hundred miles an hour is quite high enough,—Manches- ter Guardian, THOSE AMPLE BACKS One of the pleasures of autumn thea:negoing is the 'visible acreage of exquisitely sunburnt skin In the stalls.—London Evening News, A ROYAL SPORTSMAN, I have just come across the record of a "bag" made by the Duke of Sus- sex, -sixth so of George III. The Duke was with a party whose total num- ber of birds in six days was 1,307, His personal slaughter is tabulated as follows: "Billed game, none; wounded in. leg, one footmarker; wounded in face, one groom (severely); shot on head of friend, one hat; wounded in left rump, one horse". It's a good job they didn't have ma- thine -guns in those days.—S, Butter- field, in the Vancouver Province. Here and There British film -goers pay admission to the cinemas of the country at the rate of 18,500,000 a week. * * * While drunkenness and crime are decreasing in London, civil actions in the Law Courts are increasin' . * * * Valued at $1,000,000 an ounce, the world's rarest metal. named Actin- ium, is stated to be much more power- ful than radium and lasts twenty times as long. * * * The numbers of rich men are de- creasing in France as well as in the IJaited States and this country: in the first country there are only about 391 persons with incomes of £12,000 nr over. a decrease of 460 in three years. Using teleprinters,*by means of which messages typed on a machine ui one city can be reproduced in any other office similarly equipped, ex- perts can send up to 100 telegrams an hour. By the Morse system fifty messages was a good hour's work. * * * Poppy Day, 1933, in the United ICingdom, showed an increase of about £30,000 over the previous year, the total being £57:1,853. * * * Fashion favours diamonds just now, smart women even wearing slides set with these stones in their hair. * * * Over crowding is bad in various parts of London, including Finsbury, where more than twenty-five per cent. of the population live more than two in a room. * * * Translations of the Scriptures were made in eleven new languages last year, the total number of Bibles dis- tributed throughout the year being 10,993,203, in 678 languages. * * America holds many towns which have taken their names from English places. There are thirteen Bristols, thirteen Oxfords, nine PIymouths, seven Yorks, seven Baths. and six Cambridges. * * There are no horses, cows, or sheep nn one thousand -acre farm in Nor- folk, where all the work is done by machinery, including one plant which can, using nothing but hot air, dry two tons of wheat in an hour. Wear Your Heart On Your Toes For Style This Winter Chicago,—Feminine feet are going on the gold standard this winter.. Gold kid and gold fabric slippers were described today by heads oP shoe departments as the very newest and smartest footwear for formal wear, with all silver and gold and silver combinations in second place. It was also observed that women will dance with hearts on their toes this winter. One of the very newest models was a sandal with the nar- row straps of satin radiating from a satin heart at the 'base of the in- step. What's 121 Years To This Gay Young Thing Sata Ana, Calif.—Senora Leandra Chairez celebrated her 121st birthday recently by rising at 4 a.m., dancing an intricate, old time Mexican waltz to modern music, and dining on fried chicken. She topped off her special repast at the Orange County Farm with a hand -rolled cigarette fashioned from cigar tobacco rolled into a cigarette paper. "I have been wanting fried chicken for some time," she said, "and the officers of the Orange County Farm promised I should have it." Senora Chairez has been a county ward for several months. Twins Born 48 Hours Apart—Boy and Girl Juneau, Alaska,—Mrs. Alfred Carl- son, wife of a miner, and her twins are "doing well" after an un- usual birth case, in which the infants were born 48 hours apart. A boy was born on the morning of September 22, and a girl the morning of the 24th, Bach weighed 6 3-4 pounds. Oldest Clock in Canada Bears Date 1444 Mustaches Declared Useful Guard Against Serious Infection Boston—An upperlip health risk that may justify the "eyebrow" mustache as a real protector was ex- plained to the American College of Surgeons here recently. Any infection of the upper lip, such as might arise from even a trivial razor scratch or whatever risk there may be in kissing, is much more potentially dangerous than similar infection on the lower Hp. The facial mechanisms involved in this situation and the not infrequent- ly fatal results were explained to a symposium on infections by Frederick A. Collor, M.D., of Ann Arbor, Mich. A person with anything larger than an ordinary pimple on the upper Hp, he said, really ought to be in bed in a hospital because of what might happen,' Broadly speaking this "upper lip" arca includes not only the site of mustaches but much of the face and nose. Infections in these areas if they get beyond mild stages are apt to spread until they reach the facial veins. These veins pass down close to each side of the nose and then flare out across the cheeks somewhat above the mustache lip areas. Ordinarily the blood in them flows downward. But upper Hp infections may block these veins, forcing the blood in them upward. It then flows up toward the eye, passes the region of the inner angle of the eye and empties into the "cavernous Sinus" located on the floor of the skull, Once there the infection can kill quickly. It may produce clots that may carry infection through the blood stream all over the body or result in - meningitis, or both. Dr. Coller warned that in treating an upper lip infection a pimple there should never be squeezed. Once the infection becomes serious, he said, talking should be prohibited in order to rest the lip. X-rays should be used. The germs most likely to cause the serious infections are streptococci and staphylococci. Surgeons discussing the Colter report said the practice of plucking superfluous hair from the inose offers some risk of upper lig infections. Belmont, Ont. — "Sick bedroom clock" believed to be the oldest in Canada, bearing the trade mark Le Roy, Paris, and dated 1444, is owned by Mildred Barrens here. The clock,! brought from England by her grand- father, answers the descriptions of the earliest clocks made by a German Henry De Wyck, in 1379, and erected in Paris for Charles V. Autumn Days Play Havoc With Complexions These brisk autumn days, beautiful though they are and certainly excel.. lent for the spirits, may play havoc with a complexion that has a tend- ency toward dryness. If your skin comes in this category, tell yourself again that an ounce of prevention is; worth a pound of cure, get a jar of tissue cream and plan to do a nightly beauty routine that will eliminate the dry conditions and prevent football' weather from making your skin leath- I ery and unattractive. Choose a tissue or nourishing cream that is rich and of a rather heavy consistency. It is to be used after you've cleaned your face and throat, of course. Wash with soap and water and clean with cleansing cream before applying the richer cream. Smooth the tissue cream from the base of the throat uward to the hair- line. Then, using a patter or your fingertips, pat it into your skin. Don't pat too hard, but don't stop until the cream has melted, Remember to pat upward and outward on the throat chin, checks and forehead—only out- ward from the nose to the ears, When you have finished, wipe off the excess, leaving a little around your eyes and go to bed. If you can't boar to sleep with cream on your skin, wipe off every trace and .-pat with cotton pads that have been soaked in skin tonic. Women No Longer Let Men Do All Ther Inventing Milwaukee, Wis.—Miss Sophia 1311 - Ten, Philadelphia, manager of the Women's Agency of an Insurance company, told the National Associa- tion of Life Insurance Underwriters that women have lost their awe of "finance." Experience of the past five years have taught women, she said, that men are fallible in financial natters with the result that feminine Invest- ors have begun to solve investment mysteries for themselves, "Now that maiiy investments have proved disappointing," she said, "wo- men no longer will let men da all the investing for them," THE QUINTUPLETS IN 30 YEARS Quebec, June 26, 1964. — Today's weight records show a net loss of seven and a half pounds. Mrs. Emilia Lajus, of this city, 184% last week, tips the scales today at 1,82. Froin Cochrane, Ont., comes word that he: sister, Mrs. Annette Bruer, has lost seven pounds, now weighing 193. Tye( other sisters, Mrs. Marie Poder ani Mrs. Cecile Bradford, of North Bay have each gained one pound, being now 178 and 183 pounds respectively The fifth and only unmarried sister Miss Yvonne Dionne, of Corbeil shows no change from her weight el 119 pounds,—New York Times. A sponge as large as a wai:htub fished from the Gulf of Mexico, was found to be accommodating 17,121 lodgers. Among them were shrimps barnacles, worms and a i.(pecies o' crab that dressed itself in bits o sponge to deceive its enemies. For fifteen years James P. Sherr; of Rochester, New York, ha; carries a knife blade in his brain withou knowing it. Suspect ..;.....fi. �.,_ s` found in an apartment with a ('.cad woman, Albert Annan, aloes Al Schaefer (above) was ques- lenerl by Chicago police who in{ t. . tented a phone call from a Iva- ;'n who warned "Al" that "Mrs, all is back," He is held pend- i.ig iit c. Aigation of woman's death. 'k r