Zurich Herald, 1934-12-27, Page 2Voir. Press
Canada, The Empire and The World at Large
CANADA
HOPES DASHED
The voice of a crooner has been
heard in an Alberta well, due to some
freak reception of radio programs.
The incident may have raised the
hopes of a good many people, before
the circumstances were explained.—
Hamilton Herald.
MODEL TAX RATE
Whale New York and other cities
are bogged in a morass of financial
dickering with bankers and getting
a headache trying to devise new
taxes to meet relief and routine ex-
penditures. Baltimore expects to
close the calendar year with a sur-
plus of $2,500,000. Mayor Howard
W. Jackson is determined to make
a cut of at least 11 cents in the
1935 tax rate. This would bring the
1935 rate below $2.35 and make it
the lowest since 1919. Members of
the Baltimore City Council, even
more sanguine than the mayor, are
driving for a 1935 tax rate of about
$2.15. The present Baltirnore tax
rate is $2.45.—St. Thomas Times -
Journal.
FOOTBALL
A London cable tells of England
defeating Italy by a score of 3-2 in
an "international soccer classic" be-
fore a crowd of 70,000 at Highbury.
It is a striking example of the strides
made by European races in games
which, up to a few years ago, were
almost exclusively Anglo Saxon. Time
was when football, and particularly
soccer football, was as English as the
language Today it is played in
France and 'Germany, and even in
Soviet Russia.—Ottawa Journal.
SALAD HOUND
A dog in Florida climbs trees for
oranges and grapefruit, and also
eats bananas, apples and cabbages.
Ah ! A salad hound.—Woodstock
Sentinel Review.
OLD HOME WEEKS
Old Home Weeks are not only
great jubilees, they soar away be-
yond fun and frivolity, and yet there
are few, very few, members of the
human race who do not enjoy a good
time, and they always have it at a
function of this nature. Perth Ex
positor.
STREAMLINING IN ASIA
East may be East and West, West,
but the distinction is not very evi-
dent in the matter of streamlined
trains. In benighted Asia, on the
Dairen-Hsinking line of the South
Manchuria Railway, a steamline
train known as the "Asia" is now in
operation. --Moncton Transcript.
which the„ew book is talked about.
—London Advertiser.
HIGH OXFORD HONORS
It will be of interest everywhere
in Canada, particularly in university
centres, to learn that a student from
one of the Dominions has worked
his way to acknowledged leadership
among the students at Oxford, and
has been raised to the highest elec-
tive position in their gift—that of
President of the Oxford Debating
Union.
This honor has fallen to a Rhodes
Scholar from McGill.
David Lewis, graduate of the Fa-
culty of Arts and Science, and at
McGill a former prominent campus
orator, is the man who has been ac-
corded the outstanding honor of Ox-
ford. At McGill, Mr. Lewis was also
a member of the Students' Execu-
tive Council.
Let us hope that Mr. Lewis' suc-
cess will be reached by other Cana-
dians. --Halifax Herald.
THEIR BROKEN WORD
Not until some way can be found
of making the bonds of nations as
good as the words of honourable men
is the peace of the world likely to
be established on a really stable
foundation.—Quebec Chronicle -Tele-
graph.
ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK
Senator Huey P. Long is accused
of having cursed and threatened to
fire the editor of a Louisiana col-
lege paper. Let the youthful jour-
nalist buck up—older editors than
he have come through safely.—To-
ronto Globe.
HOUSING PROBLEMS
Most housing schemes on this con-
tinent have failed in their objective
of providing hones for the worst
housed because the subsequent
charges made rents too high. What
are needed are dwellings which will.
rent for $15 a month. . . The fact
is, however, that under the present
policy of taxing improvements pri-
vate enterprise cannot construct
such homes as the Federal Adminis-
tration visions, and make them pro-
fitable. If private enterprise cannot
build them, and the Government
should not, it follows that millions
of families must forever live in
shacks and decrepit structures. There
are no two ways about it, and it
would be useful if those now engag
ed in surveying housing needs in
Ottawa -today kept this important
point in mind.—Ottawa Citizen.
JUICY .BONDS OF EMPIRE
Canada, this year, has imported
.100,000 cases of oranges from South
Africa. There's another juicy text
for the advocates of trade within the
Empire.—Winnipeg Tribune.
QUEER CURES AMAZING
We in Canada are accustomed to
regard the "toe -twisting" treatment
for arthritic and other diseases, giv-
en by our own Dr. Locke, of Wil-
liamsburg, Ont., as being miraculous i
enough. And there are even scep-
tics who are not disposed to take his
methods seriously, although his be-
Iievers are legion and the results he
obtains apparently speak for them-
selves.
But Coralie Van Passen writing
from Paris to a Toronto paper, re-
ports alleged cures that are more
remarkable, if not more miraculous
still. The healer is Dr. Armand Gil-
let who, like Dr. Locke, is said to be
averse to publicity. And his method
is to tickle the nostrils with a pair
of small "stylets," or thin metal
staves, about six inches long.
By this treatment, claimed to re-
present the fruits of years of re-
search, an emotional effect is ob-
tained that has curative power over
neuralgia, rheumatism and so forth.
He is reputed to have many marvel-
lous successes to his credit and the
people flock to him as they do to
Williamsburg. Wonders will never
cease I — Quebec Chronicle - Tele
graph..
THE MAGIC CARPET
No line of steamships and no line
of railway can ever take the place
of an international highway as a
tourist attraction. The automobile
owner is captain of his own ship and
conductor of his own trian. Any
kind of a vehicle having four wheels,
a brake and a gas engine becomes
to its owner a Golden Argosy into
which he can load his family and
start for the Land of Dreams.—Ed-
monton Bulletin.
THE EMPIRE
THE SCOTS NATIONAL
DICTIONARY
The publication today of the voca-
bulary from '`beefer" to "bitteraks"
sees the completion of Volume L of
the Scottish National Dictionary. A
work of noble scholarship, of vast
dimensions, has thus^ been success-
fully inaugurated, and the editor,
Dr. William Grant, and the Execu-
tive Council of the association re-
sponsible for the production are de-
serving of congratulations from
Scots and scholars the world over.—
Glasgow Herald.
THE FAITH WITHIN US
The outward show of welcome to
the Duke of Gloucester which finds
expression in crowded streets and a
decorated city is the superficial
clothing of an emotion which is of
far deeper significance than the
colour of a flag or the waving of a
hand. His Royal Highness cemes to
Australia in a dual role, as an incl
vidual and as the personal repre-
sentative of His Majesty the King.
It is the latter role which kindles the
imagination and turns one's thoughts
to that powerful symbol of Imperial
unity which is the Throne. Kings
have had reason in these troubled
post-war years to brood, as Shakes-
peare did, upon the .insecurity of
crowns; but the Crown of England
has now become the Crown of a
Commonwealth of Nations, and the
sceptre which English Kings have
held for centuries now sways an Em-
pire which reaches out from the
dark shadow of Europe across the
whole world.—Melbourne Argus.
TEACHING LITERATURE
In literary instruction for the
young, it should be borne in mind
that the object is not to train critics,
but to enlarge and enrich the mind,
and to stimulate further reading.
7t is the food that is important, not
the label on the package.
No doubt many teachers have this
object steadily in view, but there is
no harm in calling attention to the'
danger of being led into methods
of instruction that are likely to fos-
ter a distaste rather than a love for
literature.
Literature is valuable for its in-
terpretation, of life and its part in
developing a philosophy of life. This
Is the test that should be applied not
only to classics that have stood the
test of time, but to new books. Do
they confirm: or modify your own
opinions, or enlarge your range of
thought/ Those matters are much.
more important than the extent to
Viewing Royal Wedding Presents
Wedding presents received by the Duke of Kent and his bride,
Princess Marina, on view at St. James Palace, where the public
rushed to see the magnificent display.
at the present time some eight mil-
lion cycles in service in Great Bri-
tain.—London Daily Mail.
THE ROYAL WEDDING,
If anyone doubted the attachment
of English people to the Royal Fam-
ily, or their love of domesticity, they
have only to look at the photographs
of the crowds that stood to welcome
Prince George's fiancee, Princess
Marina, on her arrival in England...
The delight with which the news of
the Royal marriage was received
gives some pleasure of the respect-
ful
espectful regret felt by the King's subjects
that the Prince of Wales has not
married. His Royal Highness is
forty. If the news of Prince George's
marriage is received with enthus-
iasm, that of the Prince of Wales
would be acclaimed with an even
deeper joy.—National Review (Lon-
don,.
Non -Smoking Councilnza
Loses Support of V ►a 'an
Hastings, Neb.—Councilman Clar-
ence Young's faith in women has
been shaken.
The Councilman is opposed to
smoking. When the Council proved
into the recently completed Munici-
pal Building he urged that smoking
be banned for the sake of visitors
and especially on account of the wo-
men. "In fact we have one on the
Council," said he.
Up through the smoke haze bob-
bed the smart green hat of Mrs. A.
Brooke, fellow -member, "I don't care
anything about smoking," said she.
"I expect if men like to smoke and
have to sit here a long time they
really need it. I expect they feel as
I do when I want a drink of water.
I just go and get it."
Dentist: "Which is the bad
tooth?"
Patient (a cinema attendant) :
"Balcony, third on left."
No Divorce For
Spanish Prince And
His Cuban Wife
New York—"It's all. a terrible mis-
understanding, we've had no quarrel.
The facts were misrepresented. There
is going to be no divorce."
With vigorous shakes of her head,
the beautiful Countess Covadonga,
daughter of a wealthy Cuban mer-
chant, denied when she arrived here
reports abroad that she was to separ-
ate from the eldest son of ex -king Al-
fonso, the former Prince of the Astu-
rias, who renounced his rights to suc-
cession to the Spanish throne to
marry the commoner.
Reticent at first, the Countess fin-
ally turned aside the appeals of her
sister and travelling companion, Mrs.
John Argueles, to be silent and dis-
cussed the reports.
"Someone spread the report that
I went to a dance and my husband
told me if I wentI needn't come
back," she said. "That is not true."
"I don't like to dance. We live a
quiet life and our entertainment con-
sists mostly of the theatre, literature
and conversation."
Someone else, she said, spread an-
other rumor that she and the Prince
quarrelled over red dresses — that
she wanted some and the prince did-
n't want her to buy them.
"Red dresses—I hate them," she
said.
The Countess, the former Edehnira
Ignacia Adriana Sampredo, plans to
return to Paris in two months.
Nova Scotia Apples
The small province of Nova Scotia
remains the greatest apple country
in the world, size considered. Ex-
ceeding the original estimate by
more than 250,000 •barrels, her com-
mercial apple crop this year will be
1,750,000 barrels, according to the
latest survey. This is close to 500,-
000 barrels ahead of the average
over a 10 -year period.—(From the
Boston Globe.)
Swansea Home 14?Y'
rangwyn Panels
South Wales has secured especial
significance for itself in the eyes of
cultivated people throughout the
world by the enterprise and good
fortune of Swansea in scouring the
famous ".]:louse of Lords" panels --
or "British Empire" panels as they
are to . be known henceforth. Over
and above its many other attractive
features. South Wales now possesses
one of the world's greatest works of
art.
The panels are housed in the
Brangwyn Hall, the largest room in
Swansea's new palatial civic centre,
that cost 420;000 pounds to build
and was opened in October last by
the Duke of Kent. A commemorative
tablet informs the visitor that:
The annual paintings within
this Hall are the, work of Frank
Brangw,yn, R.A., L ircl Iveagh
who commissioned him to 'exe-
cote them died in 1927, and his
Trustees presented the Paint-
ings to the Corporation of
Swansea in 1934.
By giving the panels to Swansea
the .Iveagh Trustees solved one erf
the most difficult_ problems that has
ever arisen in 'the history of Bri-
tish Art. There are sixteen of them.
measuring in their entirety 3,000
square feet. They cost 20,000
pounds and the artist was for seven
years at work an his. conunission.
And when they were at last complet-
ed there seemed to be no alternative
to rolling them up and stowing them
away indefinitely.
For the work was commissioned by
Lord Iveagh' with the intention of
making then a memorial to British
peers who fell in the War, and they
were to hang in the Royal Gallery of
the House of. Lords. While the
work was still incomplete, however,
and after Lord Iveagh had died, some
of the panels were set up in position,
only to be summarily rejected by the
House of Lords, on, the advice of the
Royal Fine Art Commission.
Despite this formidable setback,
the artist courageously went on with
his work, and in 1932 the completed
panels were handed over to the
Iveagh Trustees.
Applications for the privilege of
possessing them were received from
many parts of the world, but, in
view of their great size and the -fact
that they were designed for a speci-
fic wall space, the difficulty of find-
ing an entirely suitable building
seemed insurmountable. Eventually
it became apparent that the only
satisfactory way of displaying them
was to build a hall for the purpose,
and this is virtually what Swansea
has done.
Bother. Men •Enough.
And You'll Get
What You Want
Hamilton, Bermuda—Dudley Field
Maione's advice to the Bermuda Wo-
man Suffrage Society is: "Make
yourself inconvenient to the pian un-
til they grant you the vote out of
sheer desperation."
"Men do not like to be bothered,"
the New York lawyer said, at a suf-
frage tea, "and if you bother them
enough for the vote you will get.it
sooner than you expect. Don't be
passive—militant inconvenience is
your best .strategy."
Ten members of the society havd
refused to pay taxes on the ground
that taxation without representation
is tyranny. Their personal property
is to be auctioned in tax arrears
sales. The first sale, that of property
of Mrs. St. George Butterfield, pre-
sident of the suffrage group and a
wealthy society woman, will be held
shortly.
THE POPULAR PUSH-BIKE
The wonderful display of bicycles
and the big crowds at the opening
of the Bicycle and Motor Show in
Olympia carne as reminders that
the pedal cycle is still the most popu-
lar of vehicles. No one who has
stood outside a large factory at dos-
ing time can have failed to be inn- ,
pressed by the almost universal use
of the cycle to go to and from work,
which has been of such wonderful
advantage to thousands. There are
Guard of Honor for Halifx Doctor and Bride
Da Murray Fraser of Halfan, N.S., and Miss Audrey Roulston, St, ,John's, Nfld., passing between
a guard of honor made u 3±
p 'of nurses and babies after they were wed the first marriage ceremony
to be performed in the &meth of the Routunda M aternity Hospital in Dublin.. Ireland.
Highway First Md
,Refresher Course
Plans Authorized
Ottawa --Authorization for a "re-
fresher course" at the 21 highway
first-aid posts established between
between Toronto and Montreal was
given at a meeting of the ambulance
committee of St. John Ambulance
Association here. Courses• will be
'given at eaeh post, it was decided.
The meeting folowed a luncheon ga-
thering of the commandery council
of St. Joh?,, Ambulance Association
attended by officers of the asociation
from Montreal, Toronto, Saint John
and Ottawa.
Chinese Women
Holding Their
Own In Business
Los Angles—Women have escap-
ed the role of chatte,le ,in the Orient
in the opinion of Mrs. . Besie Oche,
Hong Kong.,husinesswoman.
Mrs. Ochs, an official of Califon='
nia-Asia, Ltd., here to attend a meet-
ing of the western division of the
United States Chamber of Com-
merce, aflirnner in an interview that
Chinese women have invaled com-
mercial fields once open only to men.
"Chinese women` are holding their
own in business," she said.
Mrs. Ochs pointed out that a
Chinese woni•an is president -manager
of a Shanghi bank and that others
are recognized as lawyers, dentists,
doctors and business executives.
Movies Making
Another Advance
London—Work on the pro-
blem
blem of creating three-dimensional
movies is reported to be in full swing
under the auspices of the Gaumont
British Pictures Corporation and the
Imperial Chemical Industries.
Acording to the Daily Herald if
experiments now going forward sue-
ceed stereoscopic films will be shown
to the public in about two years.
Cinema audiences will receive from
the screen the same sense of solid
three-dimensional reality that theatre
audiences now obtain by watching
actors moving on the stage.
Gaumont British, the parer said,
has equipped special research labor-
tories for sterescopic experiments and
it expects its work there to yield de-
finite results early next year.
Golds Cut 37 P.C.
Among Students
Ithica, N. Y.—Reduction of 87 per
cent. in the frequency . of common
colds among male students of Cornell
University in the last five ;,-ears, is
announced by Dr. Dean F.. Smiley,
professor of hygiene and university
medical advisor.
The program for the cold suscept-
ibles is centred around two ultra-
violet light solaria, in which students
take artificial sun baths twice a
week from October to May for 10 -
minute periods. They also get
special instructions concerning diet,
alkalinization, verijilization and
step.
Arnerican Sweet Potatoes
Welcomed Into Britain
London—Britain is now having a
chance to become better acquainted
with the American sweet potato, for
a campaign has been launched here
by Mr. Seth Taylor, special repre-
sentative of Maryland, to popularize
this product. The first step was ta-
ken recently when the S.S. American
Merchant unloaded what is claimed
to be the largest individual shipment
(100 bushels) of sweet potatoes ever
introduced into England.
Jimmy and the Philosopher
Somehow or other, the rumor has
goaxe abroad that wrestling is a sport
suitable only for . Neanderthal men,
or, at best, survivors of the Cro-
Magnon era of human development,
Let it be laid. Champion Jimmy Lon
dos breakfasts on Socrates, has
Spinoza with lunch and takes Kant
with his after-dinner coffee.
Pinning the shoulder blades or
other wrestlers to the canvas is
merely a' lucrative avocation for Jim-
my, a kind of breather after a hard
day with the philosophers.
We advise Jimmy, .,however, to
stick to wrestling, because the fans
will never pay goo, money at the
box office to see him attempt
te
place a double nelson on old Plato.- -
St. Louis Post-Dispateh.
Ordinary, Federal Raven �e
Increases by $28,000,000
Ottawa Ordinary revenue of the
Dominion Government for the first
eight months of the present fiscal
year ending Nov. 30 was more than
$28,000,000 ahed.d of the same period
last year, and for the month of Nov-
ember, 1933, by nearly $1,500,000 se.
cording to a statement just isued by
the Comptroller of the Treasury.
For the first eight months of the
year the Dominion treasury has a
surplus of .$1,G04,449' on ordinary ac-
count, . expenditures totalling $2/13,-
458,091 and receipts $245,002,540.
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