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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-01-10, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at -Large CANADA HOW INDEED Some people think that the blow- ing of factory whistles should be ab- olished. But if there were no factory whistles how 7woullC we keep eC the e Blocks straight? Reece - der. 100,000,000 SHEEP Australia in the comparatively near future is expected to carry 50 million more sheep without being Overstocked; Recent experiments in districts prepared with new grasses resulted not only in decreasing sheep parasites, but in increasing the weight of wool per sheep as well. Australia now carries approximately 100 million sheep, each producing 8 to 9 pounds of wool a year. ^Bran' don Stn. FLOODLIGHTS AT CURVES The suggestion that floodlights be placed at some of the more danger- ous curves on Western Ontario road- ways has merit. With the majority of again highways in this section of the province served by a network of Hydro lines, it has been painted out by several interested organizations that the cost of putting up two or three lights at bad curves would not be great. The idea is a good one in that the cost is negligible and it might be the means of preventing a great many accidents. — Guelph Mercury. HOME ACCIDENTS. The majority of accidents in the home are preventable. They result from falls, poison, loading guns, cuts, burns, escaping gas and so on. They can be prevented by such measures as standing on step_ladders instead of rickety chairs, clearly labelling bottles in the medicine chest, avoid- ing the use of stairways as the resting place of parcels and papers, leaving revolvers to policemen —in other ss^cads, by exercise of simple common sense. — Kingston Whig - Standard. ing food, clothing and SQ on, But nothing is being done to the laud it-. self. And this must be attended to, or else the desert will remain des. ert forever, From this point of view the question is a truly national one. 'Ihe La Presse, Montreal. PREJUDICES Most of us, of course, nave quirks and prejudices. Folks are influenced to read the things that feed their prejudices or viewpoints. A man who believes in a new banking sys- tem usually reads everything he can find to support 1119 views, If it is suggested to him that he ought to read something 'on the other side he refers to it as "propaganda" and passes it up, Quite often this is true of the other type of man who is afraid of a new idea He keeps away from speakers and books that Might be upsetting to what he believes is a sound view of the question.—Re- gina Leader_Post. THE TOT OF RUM. The daily grog to naval men afloat dates •Ilr•om the days of "the wooden walls of England." Ships made long voyages and took a long time to make thein, having only sails. The crews had to live ou "salt junk" and there was no fresh meat or fresh vegetables. The art of canning had not even been thought of. Neither did the medical service know any- thing about vitamins. The result of the lack of freak food was that sail- ors developed scurvy. Then some. body found that scurvy could be thwarted by daily administrations of rum, or by lemon juice,—St. Thomas Tines -Journal. BRAIN SURGERY. There was celebrated in London last week, by . the traditional Eng- lish method of a dinner, the jubilee of the first operation for the remov- al of a tumor from the brain, which was performed on November 25, ;' 1884, by Sir John Rickman Godlee, Lord Herder presided, and among those present was Sir James Crich- ton-Browne, who is the sole surviv- -ercif ;,.tt ose,-conce',•„edin. tlie, opera_, last week. Sir James told a story of the late Sir Frederick Treves, who, he said, operated on an army officer who had been injured in the hunting field and removed part of his brain. Several years later they met at a party, and the surgeon avoided his former patient. "You don't seem to remember me?" said the officer. Sir Frederick Treaves explained that he did, but in view of the operation was afraid to meet him. "That's nothing," said the officer, "I am now Bead of the Intelligence Depart- ment,"—Banfie hire Journal. THOUGHT ON HOCKEY. In a. fast game like hockey there are bound to be hard knocks, but when players deliberately go in for this sort of thing, they are just fools. Neighborhood hoodlum tactics, and deliberate assaults with stick, should not be tolerated, and the men who perpetrate them on the ice show themselves to be utterly childish in spite of their ability to give it and take it.—St. Thomas Times_Journal. THE DROUGHT AREA. It is true that governments are spending a lot of money on relief to western farmers and on transporting animals to regions where fodder and pasturage age more abundant; it is true also that private charity is showing itself very generous toward the victims of the droutb, distr'ibut- WAWA LAKE The original name of Wawa Lake in Miohipicoten was spelled Wawa gomk or Wawamagonk. The last part of these old names is the adverb of location, and thus signifies' that it was a specific name for the lake — "Good Lake There," as outsiders would call it. Residents would use the ending "ing"— here.—Sault Ste. Marie Star. EARLY DAY RELICS The automobile is so all present that it is difficult for our children to visualize a time when all traffic either was i. foot, hoseback or be_ hind horses. .1t'trlier days and their mutters and" implements almost are forgotten, and probably it would be difficult to gather together a complete set of the implements and the relics 'deem, daYs:.We forget so quick- what uickwhat the first motor. cars —looked like. Yet the early days should not be forgotten and it would be a good thing if it 74ere possible to provide a place where, such relics of our ear- lier e'histary might be viewed.—Ni- agara Falls Review. • FLYING The unusual is news. When an air_ plane accident occurs, the report is flashed throughout the world with all the distressing details; the fact that every day thousands of planes are performing their routine duties with- out mishap is ignored, while the public imagination fastens on the new tragedies as confirmation of a false impression that one is playing with death on leaving "terra firma." —Hamilton Spectator. UPS AND DOWNS There are seven ex -millionaires on the Los Angeles County poor farm. It used to be that it took three gen- erations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves. But we live in a speedier age. It is possible now to snake the whole tour in one genea'ation. THE EMPIRE STREAMLINED TRAINS FOR BRITAIN? In. an experimental journey under ordinary conditions a steam train covered over 370 miles at an average rr. Children Find Cloud's Silver Lining Frolicking children making merry in the floodedseveral days street havoc f with roads Brewster, Somerset, England. A con-kinuous and heavy rain lasting for y , played to take sly interfered with'•Vravel and transportation. When sun shone again these children were quick advantage of the: situation. • of 721/z in.p.h. Thin' is a noteworthy. feat but it does not:.prove the steam train to be equal or superior to the streamlined oil -driven type.—London Daily Mail. SLEPT THROUGH IT An extreme case of sleeping dur- ing speeches was that of John Stuart Mill, who came rather late into the Commons after a life in which he had been accustomed.. to go to bed at 10 o'clock. And after 10 he could not keep awake in the House, with results which were sometimes rather ludicrous. A Mr. Bouverie got up one night after 1.0 to deliver a tremen- dous attack on Mill and asked hint a number of rhetorical questions. The House between laughter and curios- ity watched Mill as his head jerk- ed up and down in sleep, sometimes apparently about to wake and then fading into sleep again,—Manchester Guardian. HIS REASON. A member of Parliament who brings in the same bill session af- ter session is sometimes misunder- stood. There was the old member who, after many vain attempts to have the cleaning of windows from the outside made illegal, at last in - clued a sympathetic Home Secretary to issue a departmental order to that effect, and was congratulated on the success of his' persistent effort to make window cleaning safer for the cleaners. `No, no, safer for my:. self," said the member. "When walke that a window cleaner might fall 0 me.—Aberdeenshire Mail. NAMES FOR BATTLESHIPS Contrary to the German practice, only four battleships in the British fleet commemorate famous admirals. These are Nelson, Rodney, Barham and Hood. In pre-war days, however two large groups of captal ships bore such names excltu.ively, Cradock and Arbuthnot were two of the fighting seamen of the Great Was whose names the Navy would like to see bestowed ou future ships, The choice of Polyphemus for one of our big cruisers uow building is criticized in the service as inapt, Al- though the name is not without its traditions, the last vessel to bear it was a torpedo ram of doubtful utility which saw no act:rve service. —London Daily Telegraph, THE MAKING OF PACIFISTS Ernst Tolley has said that he be. came a pacifist after listening to the piteous Dries of a soldier who' took three days to die on the barbed wire. Anniversaries such as that of Armis- tice should make pacifists less pain- fully—Trinidad Guardian. IN EGYPT ALSO. Tire memory is still . fresh of the heroic students who started business with barrows of cooked beans rather than wait for jobs that were invisible, DAVID c M' PPERFIEL 'The unemployed army of educated young men Is rapidly increasing. The schools are grinding them out like finished articles from a factory. The youngsters are getting ideas of high- er grades of living than the humble environments and habits of their sturdier'forefathers. The appeal of the strenuous and simple life is re. ceding with the years, and consequent dissatisfaction with ,the present is increasing. Egyptians are • loth to take their life -battles into other climes, with the result that this al- ready closely packed valley is near, bursting -point. There is. a remedy, but it has been deferred by three successive Cabinets. — The Sphinx, Cairo. Plan Extension Of Dole System London, — Wide extension of the British dole system is contemplated. Seven hundred and fifty thousand land -workers who hitherto have been excluded from unemployment in- surance are expected shortly to be brought within its scope. The statutory committee which investigated the whole . question has now recommended inclusion of per- sons employed on the lands whether in straight farming or horticulture. Weekly contributions probably will be the equivalent of six cents each for workers and employers and 12. cents by the government, for workers over 21itis expected the benefit tra 50 cents for wife and child.- This. hild.`•This. proposed extension of the dole system to land workers will require parliamentary approval to make it effective. Deplores To -Day's Trend Of Advertising TORONTO — Modern trends in advertising and descent to terms and phrases that are offensive were de- plored by John Nelson, president of Rotary International, in a recent ad- dress here at the annual convention of the Association: of Canadian Ad- • vertisers. • It is an easy step from disbeliev- ing and being repelled by certain ad- vertisements to becoming skeptical of all advertisements, he warned. Deprecating the cleverness that wrenches and twists Fenglish to con- trive new words. Mr. Nelson urged his listeners to realize that the dic- tionary has sufficient vehicles of ex- pression to define any meaning desirable for public use. Italy Will Remain On Gold Standard MILAN, Italy. — Italy's lira is on the gold standard to stay and per- sons who promote rumors to the con- trary ontrary will be punished severely, Pre- mier Benito Mussolini's newspaper, Ii Popolo d'Italia, assured the na- tion last week. A rumored further per cent cut in government salaries, it said, is untrue because "at the present time costs of living are going up." • A rumored tax on coupons for consolidated bonds and other emis- sions is "grotesque, because the bond conversion last February brought a 30 per cent reduction in the income of bondholders." The lira is on the gold standard and will remain so, said Il Duce's organ. "The drastic measure taken at the last Council of Ministers is more eloquent than any discord could be on government policies" is its statement. This referred to the measure making the Government ov- erseer and controller of every cent of Italian money invested abroad. Weekly Seri nri Count on Shakespeare To Prove Best SeIto LONDON—Shakespeare is now to be a better than best seller, A print of 50,000 editions have been placed in the hands of booksel- lers here. The edition has 1280 pages, The type was chosen by Mr. Bernard Newdigate, one of Britain'a foremost typegraphists. 'There i9 woodcut fnontpiece and a series of heraldic designs, drawn by two well, 'known illustrators, And the price at which the book is being sold is 6s. Originally the publishers intended to sell the edition at 1 guinea. It Was thought that this was the least that could be charge& for such a de luxe edition. But later it was de- cided to use the full resources of the press, in the belief that Shakcs• peare will again prove his pops,. laxity, Married Women Workers Are The Happiest New York,—Married women who have outside jobs and -"still' do all their household duties lake the hap- pier wives, if they are "able to be judged by statistics gathered at Co. lumbia University and made public last week. Of ;632 women represent- ing 36 cities, whose opinion was asked most 'said that outside work gave them an outlet for energy and self. expression and brought pleasant out- side contacts. Half the women also believed that their jobs made them more stimulating companions for their husbands. Working wives, the survey dis- closed, also have an effect on hus- bands, some of whom were spurred to greater ambition, partly through the example set by the wives ' and partly through the natural desire of husbands to take entirely upon themselves the task of supporting their families. The majority of the married women with jobs agreed that they -would advise other women to marry even if they could note get along without continuing their employ- ment. New Halifax Pier Proof of Recovery HALIFAX, N. S. — 'The formal opening of Pier B is looked upon as another evidence of the ever-grow- ing importnace of Halifax as an out- standing utstanding port, declared E. W. Beatty, president of the Canadian - Pacific Railway. "To those whose interests are closely connected with sea -borne traffic," said the railway president, "the magnitude of this latest under- taking of the Halifax Harbor Com anission is particularly impressive. The., o; rage ancLjoresight. _display- ed In a addition of2500 "feet" ot" deep-waterberths to the already 'ex- cellent 'facilities possessed by the marit fine port is constructive op- timism that should do its part in justifying the growing feeling that conditions are improving." Country Fair . Below a lop of furrows, widely strewn With shadow lengths, the clear late_ afternoon Is glittering upon the country fair. Now laugh and jiggling music swim the air— Where only soil -faced trudging mar- ked the day With plod of heavy limb, like pulse- less clay— And there are dancers while the trees are still. With pliant wreatbring and a flurried thrill They come and go from in and out of gloom Beside pool pastures gossamered with bloom• They have forgotten kitchen work and plough, For springing night fires burn within them now To forge from out two hearts • a glowing shield, While sundown giants tramp the westering field! —Alan Creighton in "Poetry World" Woman Told Methods Of Ending Handicaps London—Proposals for overcomng prejudices against yeomen in the la- bor abor market have been given here by Miss V. Sackville West well-known novelist, at a lecture atBedford Co1., lege for Women. To begin with, the lecturer said, women must trust themsel es a td roust rely upon that trust rather"";. ..ii upon an external 'self-asserl?iveness, which they do not really mean. They must cultivate an objective view of lije,�. stop being ,personal kstop won • tiring, whether• they ire •etting a' fair deal; stop being unduly con scions of the fact that they are worn: en.. Chinaman Gyps Sonar'' Philadelphia Lawyers PHILADELPHIA. — Lee Kum evidently hadn't heard of the pros;' verbial sagacity of4he "Phiiadclp"f' lawyer." The sauve gentleman swindl.';' least 10 of that profession o s • $50 each, Detective -Sergeant Jaei::z Gomborrow ..aid, by telling them be4-' needed an "ads ance" to tide him ov- er until a $200,000 draft arrived from his father, supposed rich finer chant in the Orient They'll Make Good Wives For Somebody `Vheeling, W. Va,—When the boys in Wheeling High School go home to mother they may say: "Well, this evening we can have a nice fluffy omelet, some Devil's Food cake, creamed peas and—Oh, yes, spinach." Eighteen of the boys have banded together and organized their own do. mestic science ciao in competition with the girls, 15 Based on the Novel by CHARLES :w ICKENS Y. %a +.. v44!si1. M• v i co erfield lives ria vii , �Erght-year-oTd�.Da, pp ' leasant, vine -covered cottage.at, Blunderstone, with- is, beautiful young mother. His n land . h 'fatherevenin •as David reads from is de�id, One l;, i dis Crocodile book to Peggotty, his nurse, the oor -opens and 'his mother 'conies in with Mr. IMur'dstane,`whomDavid secretly calls ` Che Black Panther" Distrusting hili, David, is rude wild , phismother is -displeased., The next a Pegg, takes David her brother's boathouse at Yarmouth • for. a -short visit. There he meets Uneie•Dan, Ham and Little Em'ly. He loves the Tittle fishing village with the proud :Ailing vesselsin the harbor, but ie'is soon glad to be journeying home again to his mother. The door of his home opens to disclose a strange woman servant _with a hard, forbidding fare. nr t finds,tohis horror a id enters the co to e and ro Dv that Mr. Murdstorie is now his stefather. A new existence begins for him. "The Black Panther" and his sister Jane are cruel and merciless Mr. 5e Mrs.e •field and -.,its r stone is harsh toCo . i Mu d David for the slightest reason., -A. eat later David's ,mother dies., The Murdstones disriliss " Peggotty and David tearfully bids her farewell, sore he will never see her again. Then Mr. Murdstone, threatening David with the cane, tells him he is a wiek: r boy and is being sent to London to -work Hew will ? littleDavid fare in thegreat city?" a t ii a 1