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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-02-07, Page 6..cAKI9sPA Mit'EMPIRE k\Nep CANADA THIS MIGHT WORK. "How can I get niy husband W tell me about his business affairs?" plaintively inquires a correspondent? Ask him for money fora new dress. Halifax Herald. BOLIVIA'S ADVANTAGE .Apparently disabused of the idea that the interminable warfare be- tween Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco jungles can be Halted by ¢Weans of heart-to-heart chats with the combatants, the League of Na- tions committee entrusted with the task of settling the dispute has de- cided to settle it by taking sides. The coin came down "heads," so Bolivia will cow get all the arms she needs, with the blessing of the League, while embargoes on munitions ship- ments to Paraguay are strengthen ed.—Border Cities Star. SEALING WAX. The use of sealing wax on letters is a very ancient custom, but it by no means follows that it is entirely suitable to present day uses. The postal employees wax angry at Its present day use on the back of let- ters because of the danger from fly- ing fragments of hardened wax to the eyes of the employees. The post office authorities, however, have rul- ed that "the department knows of no justifiable reason for requesting the public to forego the use of a sealing material which has been in use from time immemorial, and which, as far as the department is aware, has 110 substitute."—Moncton Transcript. CURFEW. Like Port Stanley, Fort Erie has a curfew law that is being enforced to the extent that parents who let "teen" age children roam the streets are being haled into court. That's getting at the root of the trouble. -- St, Thomas Times -Journal. FALSE GOSPEL. "War alone brings up to its high- _ est, tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it." So declares Premiere Mus- ,solini, the ruler of Italy. A terrible_ falsity. Canada proves it so, From :e t.,ie close at the War of 14244 -with' tee United States to the ostbrreak of the World War of 1914, Canada .en- joyed practically one Hundred years of peace. Then came the World War of 1914. From our small population Six hundred thousand Canadians be- came soldiers—and those who got into battle proved that there were no better soldiers in the worlds—Ot- tawa Journal. REMINDER, Let the printed sheets of dates which we call a calendar remind us every day in the year that time is passing, and we must get something valuable out of each day.—Kingston Whig -Standard, PACIFIC COAST SALMON. The Professor of Biology at Stan- ford University said in a recent ad- dress betore a scientific association that each tributary of streams flow- ing into the ocean was shown to have a distinct colony or race of salmon. It was further stated by the professor that if these races are destroyed by dams or other man- made devices on the Pacific rivers they cannot be replaced—Halifax Herald. HEARST ON RUSSIA The American newspaper publish - THE WORLD AT LARGE e:, William Randolph Hearst, tools occasion in a recent national broad - met to speak the "plainuncensor- ed truth" about Russia. ',Despite his earlier views on the great communis- tic enterprise in that country, he is definitely critical today. Ile describ- ed the Soviet governmental experi- ments as a fearful failure, which was "only to be expected from putting people who could not care for their own interests successfully in charge of the administration of public at- fairs.—Calgary Herald. GREATEST SEAPORT. When people think of big British seaports they instantly call to mind Diverpool and Southampton, there- fore, It may surprise them to learn that London is Britain's busiest sea- port eaport by a long way. During the year ended October 31, the net tonnage using London was 58,693,242. Liverpool was a poor second with 33,505,650, and South- ampton third with 25,267,860. Then came Hull with over 11,000,000, al- though no large liners call there, being on the east coast, and fifth place was occupied by Manchester With over 7,000,000, which is pretty good for a port that is 35 miles from the sea to which it only has access by a man-made canal,—St. Thomas Times -Journal. An Alberta driver the other day just missed beating a train to the crossing, but no doubt he will try it again.—Calgary Herald, PRAIRIE FRIENDLINESS Prairie neighborliness has become a byword throughout Canada. It has been thrown into new and still bright- er relief in these years of economic ordeal. Men. women and children Oil the prairies, and, as well, in the towns and cities that dot them have gone out of their way to do the kind- ly neighborly thing. This personal helpfulness has become an institu- tion In the west,—Regina Leader - Post. WALKING AT NIGHT. People who have to walk along roads at night should, pay heed to Chief Shute's reminder that the safe way is to keep to the left, thus fac- ing oncoming traffic. And to add to one's_ safety under such circum- stances it is advisable to have soli, thine < *kites ;emit Even a W its" handkerchief carried on the 'hand would be seen quickly by' -thee• driver of a motor car. Persons dressed in dark clothes are often almost invis- ible until within the directfocusof the headlights—and then it is usu- ally too late,—Edmonton Journal. THE VACANT CHAIRS. Magistrate Browne, of Toronto, whose profession brings him into daily contact with the problem, made soune striking reference to the auto- mobile death toll in an address the other night. The deplorable waste of life oc- casioned by trams accidents, he de- clared, was "a ghastly indictment upon our •civilization." 'I am often told," says the magis- trate, "that damages will be settled. Yes, but tell me, what insurance company can ever fill a vacant chair?" Peterboro Examiner, HARD TIMES IN THE ARCTIC Turkeys at Aklavik, states a radio dispatch from the tiny ice -bound settlement, would have been valued at $1.50 a pound i1 there had been any turkeys. There 'weren't, so the white and native trappers ate roast caribou and wild cranberries for Christmas and DAVID COPPERFIELD • Homeless Parisians 1>� the teachings of the .Ancien: for}Wed a society called the "Philosophers of the Seine," and following them hanging up weekly we they; have made the best of their circumstances. Picture shows one of €f;while , other peers out of shelter built of odds and ends, Quintuplets News Interests Edit rs New Year's dinners,—Winnipeg bune. THE EMPIRE APPETIZER, At an eating competition, a co'° succeeded in disposing of a le ,;sr mutton a loaf of bread, and a pt tiful supply of vegetables, finis a- up with a substantial plum pudd:g He •was decided the winner. . When going home, he said to of his admirers. "Now, lads, don.' say nowt about this to 'niy m t or she won't gi'e me no sup London Advert more remarkable because "the world," as Mr. M. S. Milne .remark- ed on Sunday at Nuwara Eliya, "has gone cruising mad." Economic re- covery has multiplied tourists and is sending them to the four quarters of the globe. Japan, despite, its draw- backs of distance and language, was expecting to receive an unprecedent- ed number of tourists this year. It was thought that the total would ex- ceed 30,000 visitors as against an average of 17,000 or 18,000. The rea- son for this sudden influx is a les- son 'which Ceylon may take to heart, The propaganda carried on against Advertiser. Japan's cheap goods is regarded in 7h.1 • } open as the biggest advertisement POLITE THOUGH HATLESS,' '' ;� or the country. Evidently it is bet - I am in the habit of wearing ' ter to become even notorious than beret. As this form of headgear 4, remain in respectable obscurity and tightly to the head it is almost r be ignored.—°Times of Cylon;'. Colomi- possible to remove it in trine I - tie. equally difficult to replace, espei AIs , ly if one hand is occupied with, a stick or, an umbrella. To, bow the beret on seems scarcely .ons; to touch the forehead wit ' right hand has a menial air a e ealute: is• Tinier, LII e zvh2` ane' m .•\on 1Nx44 PAA DE OF 4oP d'sa 4� disloc. i One of the high d c King's Jubilee Year will'be e. ro -a1 review on a trig scale of the Ro�baI Air Force. , Air ministry officials and Service officers are discussing the arrange- ments. One suggestion is that the climax of the review should be < a grand "fly -over" on a scale never. yet attempted in this country, en- gaging 400 airplanes, and a "royal salute" with the squaRrons diving, in formation before the King. The biggest formation of aircraft that bas yet flown over the British Isles consisted in rather more than. one hundred aircraft under the leadership of the late Air Commo- dore C. R. Samson. The flight was made over London some 10 years ago. In size that fleet easily surpassed in numbers the largest enemy formation to appear Over English territory dur- ing the war — British Aircraft So- ciety. ociety, BETTER TIMES INN.Z This is going to be a much better impart year .than 1933 was, or, in- 'eyyear since 1930. With im f line red.hkd st4elts� riles dinSTr,u.�• u..i,;,�uxy.:rie. ecome epleted, while the small, in I've; b time: "It eest,hv TOURIST ADVERTISING Ceylon is rapidly fading off the tourists' map of the world, There las been in recent months a striking decline of tourist traffic, This is the b "There Is But One Leaning Tower of Visa; ' One Dionne Family" The Sault Ste. Marie Star nays editorially: "A woman wrote up the Dionne household for the last issue of the Canadian Home .Journal, and was apparently muck perturbed ' at the modest furnishings. The large 'bare' living room plainly impressed her, for she lists the stove, table plain chairs and the few other articles it contained. "To a northerner who knows some- thing of the modest requirements of its pioneer households, the Toronto woman's reaction is interesting. Even where more elaborate furnish- ings urnish ings could be afforded, simplicity la rural homes in the north is seldom departed from. That the Dionne family could add something to the living room must be apparent from the fact that a piano is listed in the parlor. "The settler In the north is used to the simple life. He, does not favor cluttering up his home with more furniture than he thinks he needs even when he could afford to do so." EDITORIAL REPLY. The Stratford Beacon -Herald re- plies editorially to a correspondent, a man, who wants to "get a rest from all the fuss over the Dionne babies." "Well, we remain interested our- selves," says the editor. "One man who returned from a trip to Florida told us the people at the hotel where he was staying asked him about the Dionne children when they found he was from Ontario; there was a letter in yesterday's mail from Washington and at the bottom was the query 'How goes it with the quintuplets?' It's a fact the news about them has been carried pretty much all over the world for the Dionne sisters are the only quintuplets in the world. There is but one learning tower of Pisa, just one Gibraltar and just one Dionne family, "We admit we are interested in the Dionne sisters. If we could shove one of them about in a cart we'd gladly do so, or perform any other minor or major service. Not being able to do that we print things in the paper now and then about them, put in their pictures so people can see how they arce getting along, and we'll keep on doing it. Much better material, we think, than a plethora of storis about bad men, bandits, wars, divorces, depressions and so on. Why, just think of it—five at a time and all living and fat as pups! Nothing like it in the world." Canada -South Africa Need Fast Shipping Johannesburg—Need for a direct and speedy shipping service between the Union of South Africa and Can- ada was emphasized in an interview by J. H. McDonald of New West- minster, B.C., chairman of Canada's first trade mission to South Africa. "We suggest" he said, "that the two governments should jointly sub- sidize one of the shipping lines to run a regular and fast service be- tween the Union and Canada. A direct service will enable Union ex- porters to enjoy some of the pre- ferences which our government ex- tends. Once goods are shipped via the United Kingdom they lose their identity and come under a different tariff." The Canadian visitors spent a day at Pretoria interviewing . mem- bers of the South African govern- ment Later they visited Durban ward flow has effected employment and contributed to the general -slug- gishness of trade. Its;;revival can be attributed in part to the need to re- plenish supplies of overseas commo- dities, But that need has existed earlier, when trade still -,remained at a low ebb. It has been started mov- ing again by several conditions which can easily be assessed. A belief that the .future will"be better than the past can be given some of the credit, A more important factor has un- doubtedly beeu the dissipation of that atmosphere of uncertainty which re- strained importers from operating. The tariff amendments have been made and the exchange policy has been stabilized. Therefore plans can now be formed more confidently than was. previously possible.—Auckland News. She Was Pretty Desperate No manager would take me seri- ously. I even darkened my hair to show that I have character and brains,—Miss Angela Joyce, ex-. beauty Queen, in an interview in the last Sunday Pictorial, and returned to spend two or three weeks in this city. They propose °,� ci' ingttpp Rhodesia to talk. Canadian : t - • ry n lExpera>i en .- - ��, a and Salisbury. ..,.. �: With �. is Meetings and Conventions For Month of February Arrangements, have been complet- ed by the Agricultural Associations concerned to hold their Annual Meetings and Conventions, as an- nounced below: Ontario Plowmen's Association— Tuesday, February 5th, commencing at 10.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Field Crop and Seed Growers' Association—Wednesday February 6th, commencing at 9.80 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Association of Fairs and Exhibitions — Annual Convention, Thursday and Friday, February 7th and Sth, commencing at 9.80 am. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Vegetable Growers' As- sociation—Annual Meeting on Tues- day, February 12th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. Convention, Wednesday, February 13th, commencing at 9 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Horticultural Association, Annual Convention Thursday and Friday, February 21 and 22, com- mencing at 9 a.m, King Edward Hotel, Toronto. uebea:_ The a ric`�� "�" ` - Q g � ++tKa�+*+� � �2r�tS of the province in general, and the district of Quebec City and the Island of Orleans in particular, are expected to derive considerable benefit from a new co-operative ex- periment that is being conducted by the Provincial and Dominion de- partments of agriculture with cold storage garden strawberries. Some 30,000 pounds of last year's crop of strawberries, which have been kept in cold storage, will be offered for sale on the Montreal. market in the near future, and if the experiment proves successful, it is expected between 200,000 and 300,000 pounds of Quebec straw- berries will be similarly marketed in the winter of 1936. It is claimed that, early ,in the season, long before the province's strawberries are available, a con- siderable amount of berries are im- ported from the United States and Ontario and are sold at fairly high prices, but that Quebec cold storage berries, which retain their excellent taste and fine quality, could easily and profitably take their place. 11. Weekly Serial llhligp�( Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS pavid stays to dinner at the Wickfields. Uriab. its at the head of the table, flushed with his own mportance, Hut when Agnes leaves the room he roposes a toast to his hopes of winning her as is wife. Wickfield, enraged, tries to strike him, ut when.Uriah,speaks,.to ,l iii warr►inglytphe l .apses, David and Dora are married and live in a tiIa cottage at Highgate. In spite of Dora's childish helplessness about everything, they are happy together until the night Aunt .Betsy and ivir. Dick come.to dinner. Everything goes wrong. tx6e.viaglialaurnt..and the oysters,arexfopeled, he young couple quarrel bitterly and Dora bursts into a torrent of tears. But later, when their guests have left, they each beg the other's forgiveness and David decides to bring Peggotty into the house to take care of everything in the households that Dona .will ve no,.,further worxieso Soine months. later, Peggotty rushes in and in tempts David's writing. lym'ly has been found David quickly week:! out Uncle Ilan who tells hie- how Steerforth had cruelly deserted her it Naples. He begs David to go to Hain, who hat tow grown reckless of his life, and tell him the .it ,. ,1 z Caen 111).11 in time? Watch for next week's concluding installment of "David Cropperfield." •