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Zurich Herald, 1935-01-03, Page 3e FM1 • J. E. McCONNELL -.who has been nominated for a directorship of The Bank of Canada. Mr. McConnell is President of Me - Connell & Ferguson Limited, leading . C a n a d i a n national adverti:.ing agency; Vice -President of Gypsum, Lime & Alabastine (Canada) Limit- ed; Director, Brantford Roofing Company Limited; Northern Life ,Assurance Conipany; Canada Trust Company; Fireproof Warehouses Limited; Shipping Containers, Limit- ed. Mr. McConnell is :a well-known Canadian business man whose `organ- ization hag offices in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Lon- don Ontario, and in London, Eng- land. His name has been closely identified with'. the development of many leading Canadian concerns for over a period of thirty years. He was born at Walkerton, Ontario, July 6,. 1878, and is of the fourth generation in a family of pioneer Canadians. IThe advertising agency business, in 'which he is actively engaged, . has 'given Mr. McConnell a very broad insight into all phases of trade and commerce affecting Canada and the. Empire, and has, in' addition, kept him in daily, contact with the needs ;and desires of Canadians in all walks 'of life. It is anticipated that he will receive considerable support from the !shareholders of The Bank of Canada in the election of Directors of that ',institution which is to take place in !Ottawa in January. Have You Heard? Editor—Did you ever 10,.., ky- thing before? Authoress -Oh, yes, I. wrote a confession story once. Editor—Did .the editor send it back? , Authoress—No, he came %a11; the way' from New York to St. Louis to meet me, PtTith a fan' dancer its different -. she would spell it FAN M -A -L -E. Pretty wife (on stand in divorce court) -It was the old, old story, a horse and a jackass can never agree. Husband (roaring, as he shook off the restraining hand of his 'attorney) -See here, don't you call Me a horsey Correct' this sentence: "I got' beg- ging .letters from ten people today," said the rich fellow, "and sent them all checks." The final test of veracity, is the' effort to tell how little you slept last night. CHEER UP! World is full of grieveing—skies get low and black—It's hard some- times believing you're on the win- ning .track. But -all the thunder's rumble, the gloom that haunts the day will fade away and crumble —for hope is on the wayT Masculine Champ—And how are you snaking out in, your race for equality of sexes? Militant Feminist—Oh, nowadays it is neck and neck. When television comes a crooner will at least have to be fairly good looking. Deacon—Brother Jones, can't yo' all donate something to de fund for fencing in the cullud cemetery? Brother Jones—I dunno as I can. Uses ® , 'Train I don't see no use in a fence around the cemetery. You see, dem what's Bob 1•tennison told a story to the in there can't get out, and dem it'smens Club the other evening what's out don't wanta get in. which very happily illustrates the chances and unusual features which A college education doesn't do the sport of angling involves, one much for the majority of men ex - of its most interesting features.,And cept • '.'ieve them : of the inferiority Bob vouches for the - truth of the complex that seems to plague ,those story, which is a guarantee of its who don't go to college. accuracy, He told of an experience he 'had Pearl—You really ought to come'to at' a pool in Root River a short dis-Florida with me this;' winter. I had. tance this side of Hayden. He had a wonderful time there last Jan - been fishing for a long time without' nary. I won a beauty competition. even getting a bite and was geeing Beatrice -No, I think I'd rather, discouraged,. when. the A.C.R. train tj��re's mo e sif.. _ cro h'i he Hefei ` e rse ""tit-1VIing al§Tw ti x i e nesdays and. Fridays :from the north If there is anything a woman ': in the evening, thundered along the dislikes,' it's the sight of another track. "And," said Bob, "before it woman making a fool of a man. 'got out of hearing I had caught seven. fish'!" If you don't want to, pay !,doctor Coming home he told a friend bills it is a good thing to wear oyes- what lied happened and the friend shoes in wet, sloppy weather. Too was all excited about it. He was so many people depend upon their feet keyed up indeed that he did not to absorb the moisture, and that's even wait for Wednesday, but went where the doctor comes in. 1 out on Tuesday, But . there was no train and no fish were caught,Eager Playright—I wish . I could The following day Bob and a cone Eager up a big, strong situation that panion started out to the same spot, would fill the .audience with tears. fsetting out early •in the evening'. Theater Manager — I'm looking I They fished around for a time with- for one that will fill the tiers with out any results. "There are no fish here," said the companion. "Oh audience. yes, there are; all we need is a Money may not bring happiness, train," said. Bob. "Well, we ought' but it makes those lucky enough to to get some soon .then, for there comes the train," replied the other. have it mighty comfortable, "And," reports Mr; Rennison, "in Man—Have your ancestors ever ten minutes we had caught five." been traced? Several times during the season Friend -Yes, but they were so he tried the plan out and always smart they couldn't catch them. "but success, said Bob, then the A C R 'changed its schedule," The explanation, as given by Mr. Ren nison is simple A,t that spot, as at many others, the trout feed just at 'that time in the evening and pay no attention to the lure of the angler. The immediate area, however, is a hit on the muskeg side and when ;the train goes by it is readily shaken,' with the result that the fish are div - 1 erted, from their feeding and take I the hook. So a train is useful to a fisherman as well as for killing wolves,—Sault i Ste. Marie Star. "America doesn't know anything 'about crop control yet."—R. G. Tug - well, College Students Have Great Scheme Rate the Girl Friend's Home - Making Ability by Series Of Questions Cambridge, Mass.—Fair co-eds at Simmons, Wellesley, .Radcliffe and other girl's'" colleges redoubled their studies in an effort to save money for their boy friends at Massachu- setts Institute of technology. 'ate extra diligence resulted from an edict by sponsors of a party, to be held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that , each feminine gretet :would be required to answer "yes" or "no" to a list of 10 pro blesses of household management Should the girl err "in her answers her escort must pay a fine of 10 cents per error in addition to • the regular party fee. And what is:anore, the party spon- sors say," it will be easy td rate the various girl's 'schools ,• on . "home -mak ing.' • after . oosnpetition, of the quest ionnafre statistics as completed. i \rati • ' yQ�aG?� Ala Enjoy a hand -made cigarqUR. • . own:Wit �,iottinq your O GOLDEN VIRGINIA ALSO MADE UP IN PIPE TOBACCO A gala occasion was the annual distribution of prizes to Italian farmers growing most 'heat during Year; Premier Mussolini (above) extolls triumphant toilers in Roman theatre. Machinery a Course No Single Problem of Mod- ern World More Keenly Debated Than The Grow- ing Use of Machinery in Industry. Each New Ma- chine Displaces Human Labour,- and Brings Near- er the Robot World," says Critic. "At three p.m. today an explosion occurred in the X pit. A hundred robot'miners at work there were de- stroyed. The machine-miders were working well beyond the zone of ,the explosion and the fire which imed- iately followed and were able to es- cape injury." You wil one day—much sooner than you imagine, perhaps—be read- ing such reports as this in your newspaper writes Patrick Thompson and London answers. The collier wit then have been . relieved from work which, , in a .'really' scientific upon to perform:" '�'• -` else Be Careful When You Judge! Pray ., don't find fault with the man who limps, Or stunnble� along;'the.iroad. Unless you have worn' . the' shoes he wears Or steuggled beneath his Loads WE ALL MOV' The corning' of stuff, ry ei:isting jobs, but only In due course the grealtit"t achieved, 'the lowes•ing oa •^ costs,' cc e shift -up jrocsses set in ,lotion, com- bine to make more :enc,' ,fetter -paid, sibs.. There is no labour -swing device which has permanently displaced la- bour; there is none which has not ins creased the );,umber .of job available, Robots actuated by an electric cur- rent now • send and receive telegeapin messages. " Yet the number of oper- ators employed is higher to -day than before the robot appeared, Why? Because the robot has allowed the business to expand on a 'fads- .of. cheaper and quicker processes, Where is the expert .mechanic who was replaced by the faster, more ac- curate, and cheaper machine? He has evolved into the master crafts- man „yuho makes tools and other things for the machine. Where Is the master craftsman, so laboriously and highly trained, the labour aristocrat of the -;old world; He and his progeny have been trans- formed into the eengineers and scien- ,tific research:` workers, the highly 'trained technieians of the machine and robot age. TOWARDS THE MACHINE MILLENNIUM abs • ed ; intact the electrical apparatus it linked was undisturbed. But if any- thing passed and broke 'contact, a swatch was thrown, and off went•the alarm system. The myterious guardian, on ninves- tigatio proved to be. a, very simple robot; its basis the selenium cell,.the elebtrical activity of which ''s affect- ed, by light. Heiman beings have limitations. Their_ sense of feel, of balance, of direction, of • sight •cannot always' be trusted. They tire; they need sleep. So robots are gradually replacing them in the performance of certain functions. They count people going through turnstiles by tallying their shadows as they pass; separate, count, and bag masses of coins and piles of banknotes; gauge dimensions in machine hops at lightning speed, and infallibly to the thousandth of an inch. Our traffic -light signals are ro- bots. Aeroplanes are now steered by robots, while the human pilot ta- kes; a rest. As early as 1927,a, robot pi' steered a steamship, the Pulpit P. s * from 'Frisco to Auckland,; N,Z.,. f -twen y one days. 'Where: is the . plodding ::workman who used to fetch and carnly_, for the craftsmen and skilled worlkafe pf the pre -robot epoch, earning thereby barely enough to keep body and soul together? He tends the robots, and so earns a far higher wage than was possible in the days of costly hand labour. Thanks to the robots, mankind is now setting foot upon the broad and shining way which leads to a five- hour day for llabour with higher 'liv- ing standards. " The technicaleebar- riers' to this particular snillennitem— only one further •stage in the upward march of mankind towards the stars —have already been removed by scientists and engineers The gigantic toil of building- and sustaining this newand longed -for world is beyond the power of human hands and backs and brains. It will willing slaves who already do a large be made .andmaintained by the same part of the world's work, and who have blazed the trail for the new era of expansion which waits round the corner of to-morrow—the robots. Hitch -Hikers Twor,_• Girls, From Vienna Made Th' it Way From Austria to Englan d { nes that meld not :be bettered anye ° raven in 'iri:e, ,: ' k how astonisnnadye wN en , the cid lady, still verywferreiend• ly, presented us with a bill for five shillings. That was our only Bash peynlent "° - "When we got back ,1,o Vienne, however, we found a letter froze England, with - ` money order ; en- closed, waiting for us, The old lady wrote that she had just seen " a newspaper that we were net Wo rich, splendid tourists, but just two pool :little girls from Vienna. She expressed her apologies for having asked money from us and and en- closed twice the amount that we paid. That was the best welcome -that we had on our return to Vienna." The ,hiking girls areetaidaunted by theiee experiences., "Next year we shall be off again," declared: Maly "Etneppe has become too small for us, so we shall turn our steps izlthe direction, of—India," Stork Derby Lead Crows Mrs. Kenny Gives Birth to Eleventh Child Since 4926 —To Claim Fortune. Toronto —A. " baby girl who might be worth half a million dollars to her in October, 1936, has been born to Mrs, Mathew Kenny, leading con- tender in the Charles Vance Millar "maternity sweepstakes." • 11 REGISTERED The latest additien to the Kenny family gives Mrs I;,*�,-�'irs}y 11 children registered at thee seer, ;^statistics de- partment since the Millionaire sport- sman -lawyer died: in 1926, leaving the bulk of his wealth ,to the Toron- to mother who . gave -birth to the greatest number of children in the ten Sears after his death, With Mre, Grace Ragtiato, . Den- das street west, anticipating her ninth child since. 1926, Mrs. Kenny's "blessed event" which took place at St. Michael's Hospital, places .the Peter street French-Canadian moth- er: two in the lead for the • Millar gold, now in the hands of trustees. Word from the hospital .reports another and child were "doing well." But Mrs. Kenny was disappointed. She counted on twins. She was cer- tain twits were corning. She had had two or three—how many was rte anv- was.--seels of twins before. and she said she "knew whether it was. twins it only one." The Millar "stork marathon" now has Mrs. Lenny, .Mrs. Banatc and Mrs. Steffar,c Darrigo in the•lea,i- ing res;ticne. Mrs. Darrigo has bed seven chi:i.ren registered a+ the -r- Twe girls from -Vienna have jnbL, tai eee:et:cs department, and 'ais got back, from London, having -hopes of registering another three ",hitchhiked" thesr,,eway h,alf across• children born premetur ly. T '.. :,Newspaper • n ij ,se reels. ' calee... -TESTIED-AT- THE - COAL FACE He will have moved up, become a semi -skilled engineer supervising a robot slove, or a battery . if slaves, whi wil do his heavy work forhim faster and more efficiently than he and half a dozen mates could do it; just as the man at the levers of a steam -shovel controls an obedient slave of herculean strength who digs, carries and dumps more earth and debris than he and a hundred other men could manage in the same space of time. ' Some people would dismiss this as a Wellsian dream. But in fact a ro- bot miner, which cuts the,coal at the face and loads it, is testing now in the Wigan .coalfield—has been test- ing for nearly a year. Experts think it- wil revolutionize the coal -mining industry. Sixmen with the robot miner at their command can carry out the work ; formerly- done by a hundred colliers. CAN THEY BEAT MEN? Robots, invented and built by in- genious engineers, usually on the ba- sis of some scientist's discovery, are now busy all round us. For the most part we remain unaware of them be- cause they are not fashioned in hu- man shape. .Let someone build a talking,,walk- ing, mechanical man, a conventional robot and he will achieve much pub- licity and crowds will achieve much at exhibitions and the like. This is continually happening. But actually these mechanical men are often the least important type of robot. There is nothing they can do better than a flesh -and -blood man,. except, perhaps, attract attentionat a shove. The, robots. of :to -day and tomor- row, the real robots, are improve- ments on the human being—not oh all-round human being, that incredi- bly marvellous creation, but on one of his - limbs, one Of his organs a muscle it brain lobe. They relieve men of special kinds of work and re- lease them for higher tasks. The other day, in a building in a Canadian city, a robber moved steal- thily down a corridor towards a safe. Suddenly uproars' Gongs 'clanged bells rang. ..He..was astounded. He had the place 'taped , and charted. There was no burglar alarm except the.obvious'one which he had discon- nected on entering. He fled, and was captured at the outer door. A robot had been on guard,. in the form of• a slender, invisible ray con - erecting two points between the cor- ridor walls. While the ray illain- er the last six years the level of water is one of Anieriia's biggest reservoirs has been regularly re- ported by :a robot which answers a 'phone call, gives the required infor- mation necessary—but in tone sig- nals), and rings off, returning to its sleepless job of watching the water level. Robots are even invading the home. One of them, on the market now, switches itself on, boils the. water, makes your morning tea, and then, wakes you up with the buzz of. its alarm at the appointer hour. From this to the robot which will put the joint in the oven, cook it, and announce when it is done, ie only a step, and that step will be taken as soon as there i a real demand for the development. Given time and money, engineers to -day can build a robot to perform almost any human function, includ- ing those of the human brain. BEYOND OUR BRAIN POWER Mathematicians and ' technicians have now at their command so-cal- led "thinking machines" -which per- form calculations beyond the power of any human brain. They will work out mathematical problems in an hour or two which a team 'of Inas thematicians would require . months to solve, ions t ey garthered in the various countries by asking for Iifts from likely looking motorists. The two girls are Josefine Reif- Serber and Maly Brot-Froschauer. Josefine ,is only 20, is the daughter of an official and studies medicine and psychology. Maly, who is 29, is a dressmaker, the daughter of a small shopkeeper. They were in London last September, their jour- ney having been from Vienna to London and back. They travelled with 30s between them—and never had to , spend a penny, save once: • "It is only when one travels with little money that one really begins to know the world," declared Maly Brot-Froschaeur. "Above all we learn to know the national charac- teristics of the various motorists of whom we begged lifts. "Bu it was the Englishmen that we loved the best," said Maly with a smile. "To them it was always a gentlemanly act to invite two hiking girls into their cars when we asked fora lift, "In France we did not have to beg for a lift once, but the Frenchmen took us, not out of a sense of duty, but because, for them, it was a pleasant experience. "The Swiss' took us along because they were too lazy to say 'No' to us. "The Italians looked surprised for a moment when we asked for a lift, but then they were so polite that they would snake long detours out of their way for us. One Italian even invited us to travel with him to Rome, but just then we were becom- ing homesick for Vienna and we. had to refuse the invitation, "Sone of our experiences were not so happy. One of the most bitter, which had a `happy -ending' was dur- ing • our "march' through Belgium. An old gentleman' took us as far as Brussels and when we left his car we forgot our ruckhacks. which con- tained ontained our little money and our pass- ports. ".in our despair we went to the police, who arranged our night quarters for us. In the morning our despair turned to joy when the Police Chief of a district in Brussels informed us that our `luggage' was safe. The motorist had handed it over to the police. "Another experience, also with a 'happy ending' was our lot in Eng- land. We stopped a motor car driven by What I think was an officer in the Navy. He invited us to ,go to his mother's house for a day, We were splendidly treated and we had never met such a nice old lady on any of our travels. We had a din The mist imposing, although not the most intricate, of these brain ro- bots is the tide -predicting machine in the, office of the Coant and Geodetic Survey, in Washington. It is eleven feet long and six feet high and two feet wide; and • into that space is packed the equivalent of a thousand high-powered mathematical brains speeded up a hundredfold, Pat it to work, and in, seven hours it will lay before you the time of day of each high and low tide during the next twelve months at each of the eighty-four chief ports of the world, including all such variants as spring tides and neap tides, with the exact rise or fall to be expected, Now, the tide rises and falls 1,400 times in' a year. There are thirty- seven different factors—depending upon the relative positions of ,the sun, moon and earth, the shape 'end size of the harbour,'. etcetera—mak- ing up a tide. These have to be'cal- culated silnultaneousl`y, and the tune element enters into eyery calculation, The people who deplore vobots:'ee- cause they displace hunan labour' see no farther than the hen who wreck- ed'. machines because they feared for thir livelihood. tel s""fi7 4i past several weeks. They havisheade-big promises to the_ .___-_.. mothers for ohoi ographic-a-ud.. story rights in the event rf their wi,iving the half million dollars. Mrs. Kenny eec:ores that elle isn't so keen about winning the 11i1'ar half million as she is to beat Mrs. Bagnato, who, she claims, once told her on Bay street that she "didn't have a chance,' Mrs. Bagnato remains confident that she is in the leading position for the big prize money through this blessed evert seemingly puts Mes. Kenny two i'p on her. The Lesson Of Life Pleasures I anticipate so often turn out badly That I have learned to watch for joy a trifle sadly. "We are very hopeful and optimis- tic about business conditions," — Edsel Ford. 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