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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-11-29, Page 6, 14 Voice of Canada, The Empire the Press and The World at Large CANADA. EMPIRE FRUIT Canada this year has importe 100,000 cases of oranges from Sout Africa — five times as many as f. any previous season, This is a ver satisfactory volume of business o benefit to both parties, but after al it is only an introuction to the po tential market in this Dominion fo Empire fruits.—Ottawa Journal. THE BRITISH WAY Pride in achievement is a satin fying reward for most of those in tangibles which build up the tradi tions upon which mighty empire have been been founded and upon which a people is cemented. Th British race, of course has no nee to shout from the housetops or t boast as noisier nations of their ac complishments. They speak for then selves.—Brandon Sun. ct h n y 1 1 r s n e d 0 IN TIGHT SHOES? If a woman wishes to be really smart this winter she must wear a colored ring on the small toe of her left foot to match the color of the nail varnish she uses on her fingers —Yorkshire Telegram. WONDERFUL, ISN'T IT? Modern blessings are manifold. Today you can step into your car and go anywhere your wife says, provided your children agree. —Aylmer Express. TEAR DOWN OLD SHACKS Whlie Cornwall is short of houses of the right size and kind, it has some that it would be better with- out. There is\quite an assortment of decrepit old shacks scattered over the civic landscape—houses in al- most the last stages of diintegra- tion, apparently only waiting for the first i•::rel wind to flatten them. How they stand up is a mystery.— Cornwall Standard. REMEMBERED HIS ALMA MATER In accordance with directions con tamed in his will the technical lib- rary of the late Major J. Mackin- tosh Bell of Almonte has been dis- patched to Kingston where it wilt be placed in Miller Hall, Queen's University, and will form the nuc- leus of a library in geology and geo- graphy for graduate students to be known as the Mackintosh Be11,— Almonte Gazette. GANDHI AGAIN -Gandhi, it is said, plans to retire front leadership of the All -India Na- tionalist Congress, but retirement means little m the Mahatma's se- dentary, but somewhat exciting lite. Time and again he has been "re- tired" by the British authorities for preaching civil disobedience, has gone on fast and furious fasts, but has always bobbed up again, full of goat's mile orange juice and. the olct vier, vigor and vitali`y.—.So1"Ier Cities Star. PUBLIC DEBT A United States journal, 'writing on government spendings warns the people that each dollar of new debt incurred by the government is a mortgage on the earnings and pro- perty of every citizen,. To -morrow, it will be foreclosed in the form of confiscatory increases in the levies on incomes an additional Imposts on all commerce. Your home, your means of living, constitute the col- lateral your government offers. Pub- lic debt, mortgages your security and that of_yourdescendants. — Branilon Sun. MYSTERY OF COLDS There is no greater service medi- cal science can do mankind than by discovering the germ or wnasever it is that causes that most prevail- ent human ailments, the cold, yet doctors know less about' the con- iron cold than about any other of man's ills, with the possible excep- tion of cancer. Almost everybody has at least one cold a year, warn consequent dis;.onifoit and loss of work. It is estimated that more than half of all the time lost though srcx- ness by employes is due to bad colds. —Sarnia' Observer. RIVIVAL OF CHIVALRY In a recent issue of the London Times, a report was given of a .din - vier of Knights of the Round Table Club, when the principal address had for its theme the. need of Chairs of Chivalry at . the universities The speaker said he had a practical pur- pose in putting it forward, and the idea was welcomed by the audience. `'Tthe Professor of Chivalry the spea- ker hopefully anticipated, would be an authority bit the medieval roman- Bels, acquainted with the whole 11tensi- *Ur, ` chivalry, but his task -would e td4 revive In the unversities, and rough them In the whole country e lost spirit o8 an earlier 'age,"— alifazt ;Eterald. GOOD EXCUSE' Dead leaves should be allowed to irganaln awaked becanse they enrich • soil • aeeordi ng to . a garden ex� pert after our own heart,—From the Sudbury, SHE" STAY "Greta Garbo" a Hollywood des- patch says, "signed a new ,contract with Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer today at a reputed salary of $300,000 a pic- ture, and announced that she would not return to;Sweden." The last part of the despatch looks like a waste of perfectly grood money in tele- graph tolls.—Border Cities Star. THE SPAN OF LIFE The span of life is enlarging and 'that includes the span of physically fit life, The forties are undoubted- ly a time for beginning cautious wing but no man should be turned "own for a job because lie has turn- ed the fourth. decade—St. Thomas Times -Journal. THE BEST Premier Doumergue of France, is proposing changes in the constitu- tion, which will give the cabinet greater power.' The moves are a- long the lines of the I3ritish parlia- mentary system, which the test of time has proven is the best system of government for man by man yet de- vised.—London Free Press. GOLD AND SILVER The old saying that the yellow races prefer the white metal while the white races prefer the yellow metal holds good. It would be very difficult to wean the Chinese from their affection for silver. The ef- forts which have been made in In- dia with the same end in view failed c :nspicuously,— Hamilton Spectator. A BUSY TOWN Quite recently, one of our busi- iess men was telling us that he had one work for a young man to do, and had a hard time finding such a person who was unemployed, and finally had to get an older man to do the work. Just at the present time, Tavistock's four major indus- ries are working full time, and in fact, one is working 24 hours a day, and another 10 hours a day, with sometimes two and a half hours overtime, two or three times a week. Show us another village of this size where a young man unem- ployed is hard to fiuci.—Tavistock Gazette, COMMON COLDS Two California professors have challenged existing theories, It is said: "They have not been able, they say, to infect one person with the cold of another, Inoculation will not work, and they . doubt very much the theories held almost as leasehold axioms about the disease being highly catching. They think also that germs are a result, not the cause of the disease, Sonie day presumably we shall know. — Saint John Telegraph -Journal, THE EMPIRE THE TOLL OF THE ROADS Official figures show that the ter- rible weekly increase in road deaths ceased some time ago. And now for several weeks a downward tendency has set in. But a really successful crusade against road accidents will have to go much deeper. It will have to tackle the whole road sy- stem. So long as pedestrians and all kinds of traffic are mingled chaoti- cally together on one road surface Traffic will have to be sorted out properly, That will be a long bus- iness of building modern roads with verges and separate tracks for dif- ferent sorts of traffic. The longer the job the quicker it had better be started.—London Daily Herald, THE COMMON COLD The announcement that the execu- tors of the late Sir Henry Royce's es- tate have in terms of his wishes de- cided to devote a tenth part of his es- tate to founding two research fellow- ships for discovering a cure for the common cold and influenza will be universally welcomed. This is an act of real benevolence which we all hope will triumphantly achieve its purpose, for there are few indeed who are proof against what must be regarded as being both the least and the greatest of human ailments. Even if we ignore the serious conse- quences of ,complilations that often follow a cold there renin the loss of time and efficiency with which the milder types of infection are inevit- ably associated,—Glasgow Herald. INVENTIVE WOMEN Nearly all the psychologists agree that the feminine mind is quick and instuitave; but always imitative, never inventive, and now, with the example of Mrs. Richardson of Shep- herds. Bush, before them, ,they can guess again, for she has won the first prize at the International Ex- hibition of Inventions with her de- vice bar finding and identifying radio stations, She may puzzle the psychologists, but ;will surprise no- body Who has seen the improve - Out Of Uniform "Wie Geht's, Leutnant"—Band extended, Chancellor Adolf ler, of Germany eagerly greets an officer of his guard after official reception of foreign diplomats in Berlin. • naents any woman can make vita strir, hairpins, match -sticks . and other simple tools, on the crude man-made gadgets of her own kit- chen. But woman still rocks the cradle by hand. —Manchester Sun- day Chronicle, AWAITING CONQUEST Britain gained the mastery of the. seas not ' by the multitude of her people, but because of the intrepid- ity of her navigators. The air is now. waiting to be conquered. We should see that we master it just as we con- trolled the seas. It is not in war- ships that we have dominated the. oceans, but in commerce and ships of commerce. So also in airships of commerce we must make our ad- vance. — London Express. TIPS The illogicality of the system of tipping and the desirability of ex- tirpating it are emphasized anew in the volume of "The Survey of Lon- don. Life and Daher," published to- day. Nothing would please the pub-, lic more than to be rid of the prac- tice. It operates unfairly as between man and pian, since one person gets tipped and another does not.— Lon- don Daily Mail, BRITISH GUIANA'S PROBLEMS , Houses roofed with gold and. streets lined with diamonds were what the , early explorers confidently expected to find in British Guiana. But the vision faded and, though a quantity of diamonds and gold bas been taken out of the country dur- ing the last 400 yrs., British Guiana today is almost as much awaiting development and settlement as it was in Raleigh's ime, As Sir Ed- ward Denham the former Governor, once declared, if the resources and wealth of British Guiana are to be tapped, it can only be by the advent of men and money on a scale to de- termine the problems of this "un- developed asset of the British Em- pire.' Assyria immigration will not solve a title of British Guiana's pro- lems. It may bring some local ben- efit in the long run, however and niay also serve to direct world-wide attention to the vast .possibilities of this woefullyundeveloped of all Bri- rain's possessions in the neighbour- rood of the Caribbean — Trinidad. luardian, Toronto Surgeons Lengthen Man's Leg Toronto, Ont.—Orthopedic surge- ons at a hospital here are bringing to fruition a test case in which they. seek to make the legs normal of a manborn with one shorter than the other: The patient, or clinical subject, is George McKay, 20, whose left leg was three inches shorter' than his right when he entered the hospital several weeks ago. He is being sub- jected to corrective principles evolv- ed eight years ago by a St. Louis orthopedist, in which weights are used to stretch the abnormal leg. lltcKay's leg has been stretched two inches in five week, doctors say, It will be normal. Although the mineral content of honey is very small It is worth net - says the Dominion Apiarist, that such elements as lime and iron, ne- cesary to the well-being of the Mini• 10 an body arsy.. present;... ,,. .t:,.•:y Hair -Dyer Loses When Cook Sues Risks, Says English Judge London.—Judge Sir Alfred 'Tobin gave his views on women's hair dur- ing the hearing of a case against a hairdresser. " «re always heard of grey hairs being treated with res- pect," he said. When counsel commented that wo- men did not seem to like it the the judge said: "The most beauti- ful thing a woman can have is beautiful white hair." "Burning Sensation The action was brought by Mrs. Blodwon Gullick 40, a cook in a pri- vate house, who claimed $500 dama- .ges from a hairdresser or injury to her head by ,alleged negligent appli- cation of a hair dye. She went to the hairdresser to get her hair dyed because it was showing streaks of grey. He applied a solution• which caused a burning sensation. A doctor said, she was suffering from oedema of the scalp and diffuse erythema— the one a swelling and the other a rash. Mrs. Gu.i"lick was. awarded $250 damages with costs, and Judge To,- bin said he thought the case was of general importance. He held that it was „the hairdresser's duty to warn women of any risks run. Wear Old Clothes Until Threadbare, Germans Advised Berlin—Dr. Karl Gordeler, Herr. ditler's new price "dictator," took ac- tion' against rising prices today, or- dering National Socialists to wear their old clothes "down to the last thread" and threatening profiteers with "merciless" treatment. He told Germany "no one loses one • bit of his dignity if he wears threadbare clothes," while "he acts against the• nation's interests 1f be hoards clothing." In an address explaining his func- tions as commissar for control of prices, Herr Gordeler criticized the tendency to alarm and spoke rea.s,- siiringly about the raw materials situation. He said prices and wages would be maintained at the same level and 'every unjustifiable price rise will be mercilessly dealt with." Declaring his chief duty would be to prevent the rise of prices of ne- cessities he warned manufacturers that they must be content with small profits and instructed meriitiants to refuse to sell unusual' tnIantities of any commodity. The surplus of imports over ex- ports was reduced to 52,000,000 marks (approximately $20,800,000) ar i compared with 161,000,000 marks daring the second quarter. When Experience Didn't Count A motor ear had just knocked down a pian, fortunately without injuring lint. The young woman driver faced hien determinedly, "I am sorry it happened," she said. ,You should take more care when you are walking. I have been driving a car Or seven years. "Well," replied the victim, "I am not it novice myself 1 stave.been wal- king myself for fifty-seVen wears," Car Accident Toll MGunts in Ontario Torouto.—Automobile accidents in Ontario •or the first nine months of 1934 were 9,2 per cent above the same period last year, with the. death loll at 300, Hon,, T. 13, McQue- sten, Minister of Highways announc- ed recently. Tele minister declared the figures "clearly indicate that stricter measures must be adopted." These stricter mea'sures be continu- ed would mean increased fines and jail penalties, Increases in the sus- pension period for licenses of drivers convicted of offence also will ap- pear. ',There were many more cars on the road this year than last," the minister said. Potato Harvest of 1934. According to the preliminary esti- mate recently issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the total pro- duction of potatoes in Canada in the year 1934, will be 47,241,000 cwt from 568,800 acres or 83 cwt, per acre, as compared with a revised estimate of 42,745,000 cwt. from 527,700 acres or 81 cwt, per acre in 1933, and 46,017,- 000 cwt. from 564',000 acres or 82 cwt. per acre, the aver age for the five years 1928-1932. By provinces the yields in cwt. per acre are, in order as follows, with last year's figures within brackets: New Brunswick 128 (115) ; Prince Edward Island 120 (100 Bri:ash Columbia 113 (96); Nova Sco- tia 112 (91); Quebec 97.7 (101.0); Ontario 69,6 (64.2) Manitoba 50 (63); Alberta 53 (58) and Saskatchewan 31.4'(50.0), There is an increase of 7,8 per cent in the 1934 potato acreage over that of 1933. In addition the yield per acre in Canada was 2.5 per cent high- er in 1934 than in 1933, so that the total production is placed at 10,5 per cent above the 1933 level. Mary Looks Ahead Mary Pickford Interviewed by the Kansas City Times —I had some interesting talks with Marconi," she said, "and he tells me television is ,much. nearer than we think. It's going to be a staggering blow to the movies, but I think they will survive it. It seems certain to bring back the legitimate theatre but for a time at least, there will be a tendency to have all mech- anical entertainment played direct to the home, "I believe there will be perhaps three producing •organization.s, one of the typo of hokum that is just plain moron fodder, one for popular entertainment of a. fairly high level and one for things of real artistic worth, I believe each unit will be ample to place receiving sets in yoar home and that these sets many have meters. You will pay for your en- tertainment as you pay for long dis- tance telephone bills. "Probably each unit will have broadcasting stations in the main di- visions of the country. This should be a promising thing for the talent of the country." Heat From Cold Coal Russian farmers have discovered, a way to speed up the ripening of their cotton crops by a month or more. They use coal to warm the cot-, ton plants without burning the coal. This seeming paradox is being performed at Kazakstan. Obtaining heat front coal without burning is the application of a simple fact of physics. that dark colors absorb the heat in the sun's rays better than light colors. The kazakstan farmers simply spread coal dust lightly over their fields; about one hundred -pounds to an acre. The darkened surface of the land is a better absorber of heat during the day and reradiates more of it as warmth during the night. The higher average temperature of the land during the growing sea- son, therefore, shortens the time necessary for the crop to mature by over a month.—Science. Scientifically Raised Twins Not At All Alike in Foot Tricks Judging by the experiences of Johnny and Jimmy, twins 'who are,, growing' up in a scientific playroom In New York, the right age to take nip roller skating is about - seven months, Johnny was a good roller skater about the time he was celebrating his first birthday. Jimmy confin- ed himself to more natural courses concerning ,roller skates, such as biting them, until he was 2 months old.. Then he tried to use the skates or getting around, but his efforts cost him a great series of ingenious spills, and two months of applica- tion brought little progress, What scientific observers want ;o know is wheher 'the highly trained ,Johnny had any real advantage over ,Jimmy, who just grew up like Top- sy while his little brother was learning a series of astounding feats. Johnny seems no brigoliter at solving problems the pair are made to work out in their play, and when they 'started even at riding the tri cycle. Jimmy learned to pedal like a champion et the six-day meets while his predodiotrs "brothels was still cry- ing for his skates,. esaiINS,, iw $20,000,000 Revenue Gain Canada's Earnings For Seven Months Soar; More Also Spent Ottawa—Recovery .of business is reflected in the Dominion revenue statement for the first seven months of the fiscal year. Total ordinary re- venue shows an increase of $26,000, 000 for the period April to October, inclusive. The big producer was the sales tax, which, with excise taxes, yielded $63,863,000 since April 1, or $8,000,- 000 more than the corresponding period last year. Customs revenue, 'totalling $45,- 000,000 was $9,000,000 ahead of last year, excise duties totalling $26,000,- 000 were $5,000,000 up, income tax- ation yielded $49,404,000 and $1,- 000;000 better than last year, while the gold tax thus far has brought in $3,873,145. Ordinary expenditure for the first seven months of the fiscal year was $11,000,000 more than in the like period of 1933, $5,000,000 of which was accounted for by increased in- terest on the public debt and $2,500,- 000 for old • age pensions. Loans and advances to provincial governments so far this year have totalled $23,862,558. Unemployment relief for the seven months under. review totalled nearly $23,000,000, or nearly $6,000,000 more than in the corresponding period of last year. No 'Plane Allowed Coat -of -Arms Airplanes Are Not Heraldic; Say Noted Authorities London—"Airplanes are unknown in heraldry." That is the official rea- son why the Duke of Bedford cannot honor his wife, the "FIying Duchess," in a new coat -of -arms. • The duke had prepared a new armorial shield. One of the quar- tering's showed an airplane. But the Herald's College, final authority in such matters, said "No." Never since the days of chivalry had any coat -of -arms borne a flying machine. So airplanes are barred. "I Wonder what today's knights and dames of the air will think of that," says the duke. He has hung the shield he had prepared for the duchess among all the other coats -of -arms among all duchesses which blazon the walls of Woburn Abbey. The present duchess was the only one who did not bring a coat -of -arms to the Duchy of Bedford when she married. She was Mary du Caurroy Tribe, daughter of Archdeacon Tribe of Lahore. But since she became world fa- mous by reason of her flying ex- ploits in all parts of the globe, the duke—in true line with the 'spirit of chivalry — determined to com- memorate her deeds for their de- scendants by a coat-offarms. He has failed. Winter Sport On the trail of health and sport, two skiers invade the winter sane- tuary of the itiffelberg above Zermatt, Switzerland, Looming in the rear are the famed twin peaxo, Castor and :Pollux, .