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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-02-14, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE CANADA NEWSPAPERS BEST: Newspapers provide the best way for clothing merchants to advertise their clothes to the public, This has been agreed by the National Associ- ation of Retail Clothiers assembled in convention in Chicago. They have decided unanimously on an advertis- ing program for the coming year which is scheduled to spend by far the bulk of the total appropriation on newspaper advertising. The clothing men know from long experience that the buying public looks to the newspapers for the an- nouncements of merchants and man- ufacturers. And the people read the advertisements, have a chance to read them a second or third time if they wish and to discuss them. Then they act and buy. That's why the clothiers are making sure they will do the bulk of their advertising in the columns of the newspapers. — Border Cities Star. EIGHTH GIFT OF BUFFALO The Canadian Government has giv- en a gift of four buffalo from the herd at Wainwright Park in Poland. Poland is the eighth country to re- ceive shipments of buffalo from Can- ada as previous shipments have been presented to South Africa, New Zea- land, England, Australia, France and Belgium.—London Free Press. RESPECT. A Scot was walking with a Roman Catholic friend in London. On pass- ing Westminster Cathedral his friend raised his hat, and the Scotsman fol- lowed suit. At this his friend said: "You're getting very pious, raising your hat as you pass the cathedral." "Was that the cathedral?" the Scot replied. "I thought it was the Bank of England."—London Observer. STUDY OF PEACE. Princeton University has just now made a change in its curriculum which is causing wide comment. Hitherto it has been giving cour- ses on the art of war which were given it conjunction with the Re- serve Officers Training Corps. In the place of one of these courses on the operation of an artillery battery, in- atzuction will be given on the agen- 'ci2s. for the promotion' of peace. In- stead of another course on comma sication systems and gun firing will be one on civil and military law. The subject was threshed out by the unI'ersity together with the Re- serve Officers' Training Corps and this action taken as a result. Which, we take it, does not mean that the Training Corps is done away with, but it does mean that the univer- sity is giving serious study to the agencies which make for peace. Which is a step up.—Halifax Chron- icle. PLATINUM PRODUCTION. With continued prosperity in the nickel industry, Canada is capable of supplying the major part of the world demand for platinum and its allied metals, according to the De- partment of Mines, Ottawa. Cost of production in Canada of platinum and related metals is presently well be- low that of most producing countries. —Brandon Sun. ACCIDENTS ARE CAUSED The stubborn fact is that accidents do not happen. If cars are standing still they do no damage. It is when people get in and start to make them go that things happen, and the people in thein are responsible. The safety of the roads and highways is AMMON THE WORLD AT LARGE not being guarded when we find the judiciary voicing the complaint that. juries are freeing men who should not be made free.—Stratford Beacon - Herald. THE FLEA AND THE EMPIRE A flea was the grand -daddy of the British Empire, we are told by Dr. Thomas W. M. Cameron. ` From his institute of parasitology at Macdon- ald College, Quebec, he tells a plaus- ible story. The flea, he says, caus- ed the Black Death in Europe. This ruined English agriculture and shif- ed into sheep growing. This made wool and broadcloth England's staple products and led to the ne- cessity of finding foreign markets. This in turn led to the founding of the overseas empire.—Winnipeg Tri- bune. OBVIOUSLY As the crowded Loudon bus came to a standstill, a stout, middle-aged man descended the stairs, carrying a small girl, obviously his daughter, Tenderly placing his burden on the curb, he ascended the stairs again and shortly returned carrying a tiny dog. Placing the dog beside the child, he returned upstairs and again descended, bearing a second child, which he stood besida the first, Once more he ascended the stairs and again returned, carrying a third youngster. These evolutions were eagerly ob- served by a passenger seated inside the bus, who, as father proceeded to dismount with his third offspring, ex- claimed in a loud stage whisper: "Lumme, 'e must have a nest up there!"—Vancouver Province, EDDIE CANTOR TELLS ENGLAND Eddie Cantor receives, or is said to receive some Z.10,000 for a brief radio broadcast in the United States, and so perhaps it was not unnatural that when he spoke recent- ly over a British Broadcasting sta- tion, he expressed a decided prefer- ence for the system of his own coun- try. His statement started a contro- versy that has been filling the letter columns of the Manchester Guardian, and whioh the Guardian summarizes in these words: "So far there has appeared ..., no sign of envy on the part of British listeners ...... The general feeling ex- pressed on this side is that no swell- ing of revenue would compensate for the inescapable horrors of wireless advertisements." The case for supporting broadcast- ing by the revenues from advertising, as made by Mr. Cantor, is that the competitive basis on which it rests evolves the "talent" that the radio needs—talent such as Mr. Cantor— and that the advertising brings in the money to pay such entertainers on a lavish scale. But British listen- ers would not submit to the invasion of their homes by the commercialism that dominates the wireless in the United States — and of which Can- adian radio is not entirely free. — Ottawa Journal. WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE Ontario has now its first woman J.P. as well as its first woman K.C. while at Ottawa there is one woman M the Commons and one in the Sen- ate. The entry of women into the fields of law and legislation has been singularly small.—Kingston Whig - Standard. HERE'S A SUGGESTION. A letter in a woman's paper sug- gests a Government department whose job it would be to create joy and happiness for one and all. A Defense Attacks Wee Experts Testimony Arthur Koehler, wood technologist, holds Lindbergh kidnap lad- der and board from Hauptniani's attic which he linked together in his testimony.' On table are Bruno's tools. sort of Ministry of Transports, as; 4t were.—Regina Leader -Post. COUNTRY DOCTORS Dr. Dafoe has undoubtedly drawn world-wide attention to the fact that the humble rural or small town prc- titioner hitherto unhonored and sung, is, after all, one of the in stays of the human race and a i of the moment, 'whether he co_� s through with quints or prescribescM chickenpox.—Border. Cities Star. CHANGING TIMES The once -famous Police Gazetted s resuming publication. It went;; p; o bankruptcy because it became eff Mate. Now it is to be edited b ; a woman.—St. Thomas Times-Journj OUTSTANDING. The Ottawa Journal,- winch s entered upon its fiftieth yeas;:. of lication, is one of Canada's standing papers. THOMSON OR MACTAVISH The kilt is becoming fashion,,,le among Edinburgh town' councill'S'rs, and I'm told not to be surprisedif the Lord Provost is seen 3n one, `be- fore long. As a Thomson, he is n - titled to wear the MacTavish > Ea- ten. "Thomas" was, as early as %b e fifteenth century, written as 'Tomas' of "Tames," and Tdiomson hi- a translation •of "MacTomas," which has another rendering in .MacTaviah, Sir William Thomson is. of the um. - them branch. The MacTomases f'of Argyl are .a sept of the Campbells. —.Glasgow Bulletin: LIVING ARTISTS OR. DEAD MiAS. TERS , A curious correspondence has ar- isen in the English Press out of 'the display of the wedding presents. which were sent -to the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Criticism has been made of the number of valuable an- tiques which were among, the gifts, and it is urged that public bodies like the Royal Academy and the City Companies should have tried rather to benefit present-day artists and .de- signers,—Belfast Telegraph:: "DIE WAYS" NOT HIGHWAYS. A big inquiry into the ;causes ,of motoring accidents is promised. It seems a little late. There will be accidents on the roads till their us- ers acquire a new mentality. They will not do that till (1) We re -design our highways as single tracks. (2) We keep our homes well away from them. (3) We re -design our pave- ments to stop people stepping off them. (4) We devise a uniform light- ing system to avoid the present jig- saws of light and blackness. (5) We substitute a national control for the whims of a hundred local authorities. —London Sunday Express. WOMEN IN CRIME. Women criminals in England and Wales have increased by 10 per cent in four -years. Last year there were 6,779 coniictions,_ It is by pure coin- cidenoe-"'that the figures appear at the same time as the announcement that in Britain 18,500,000 of us go to the:Pictures every week, which meaiiisthat one in every three of us is film fan. But only one in sev- erthousands of us lands in gaol r ,ivhoie lifetime, much less once :7"oek 2r v ry now andthen a mag- istrate blames the films for crime. He is usually a very old magistrate who never goes to the pictures. When he was a boy they blamed penny dreadfuls! — Manchester Sunday Chronicle.. Position of Modern Woman Rely ' to Typewriter This cross-section sampling was done in advertising, banking, ixasur -ante, investment, mail order, pub lishing, and public utilities offices in New York, Hartford, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Des Moines, and St. Louis, on salary, hours, promo- tion chances, and training required. "More women were at work as general clerks than at any other job in the offices included in the survey," the report said. "While numerically the largest group, general clerks re- ceived a monthly median salary of only $90—a lower median than that received by any other class of em- ployees mployees except file clerks whose median was $81, tabulating or key punchers whose median was $89, and a smaller number of piessengers, whose -median was $55. Stenogra- phers, the second largest occupa- tion group, received a higher me- dian salary—$114. "In Chicago, the only city where data on the salaries of men officers were secured women were found for the most part to earn considerably less than the men even for the same jobs. "Negro women office workers in- cluded in the study earned much lower salaries than those of white women." ,• Due Lar ., Washington -- The stenographer's favorite instrument, the typewriter, was. described iii 'i4n official report as an einanelpator of women. "The invention and development of the typewriter has opened more jobs to women than any other single machine, said a review by the women's bureau of its first extensive study of feminine white collar work- ers; The pamphlet added that approxi- mately one out of every eight wo- `mien office workers in the seven cities studied' operated a machine having some sort of a key board. "In the seventies and eighties, the amanuensis turned out stilted and formal letters in a Spencerian hand and the word stenographer was al- most unknown," the report said. "In this survey, the stenographic group formed about one-third of all office workers." However, mechancial devices which have followed the typewriter were said to have resulted in reducing numbers on certain types of work. The bureau studied some 43,000 of the 2,400,000 women at work in offices—a number larger than those employed in industry, in stores, or in any other occupation except domestic and personal service. Lady Ashley and Senior Fairbanks May 'Be Married Rome. — Douglas Fairbanks and Lady Ashley, arriving in Rome re- cently smiling and' happy, stead- fastly refused to discuss the possi- bility of their marriage. "I have nothing to say on that subject," said Fairbanks when asked whether he contemplated be- ing married in. Rome. "That is my own business." The American film actor said he was planning a long cruise on a yacht being prepared in the United States. When asked whether Lady Ashley would accompany him on the voy- age, he replied that that, too, was his business. His attention was called to a re- mark by a newspaper correspondent that whenever an important event was about to happen in Faribanks' life, he came to Rome where his tailor lives and had a dozen suits made. Fairbanks merely lathed and asked how the weather had been. 'Lady Ashley, who left the train without a hat, her blond hair cas- cadinkto her shoulders, and dressed in a luxurious fur coat, told those who approached her with questions about the _rumored _wedding:....I never talk to newspapermen. T have nothing to say about that." Both Fairbanks and Lady Ashley kept far apart as they walked along the station platform to avoid being photographed together. Ultra Short Radio Waves Give Interesting Results in U.S. Test New York — New facts about ultra -short radio waves, showing that they spread like soft twilight in every direction, was reported to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers recently. These short waves were sprayed all over Boston from an antenna 130 feet above the ground. A receiving set on a truck travelled all over the city and a surrounding area of about 55 square miles. Never once did the truck -com- pletely lose the little waves. There were deep radio shadows in them in spots, as down behind buildings and under bridges. Some streets were brighter than others with these radio wa-ees. The Boston experiments strengthen a growing belief that they have powers of reflection that may make them very useful. In Boston seem- ingly the little waves splashed and reflected from all sorts of surfaces. In spots completely hidden from the sending antenna, the waves seemed to be arriving by reflection from numerous other directions. Over salt water the rays were usu- ally bright and strong. After pass- ing the water they lost this extra strength. Under one bridge, as if under a deep shadow, the signal strength feel sharply. It rose again on each side of the bridge. Overhead trolley wires cast deep radio shadows, apparently interfer- ing with the short waves in all dir- ections. Weath. -'r Map Shows Eight Different Kinds of Air — Will Assist Aviators. New York. — A new kind of weather map, showing eight kinds of air over the United States, was presented to aviation leaders at the annual meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. The eight, discovered largely by airplane, are all kinds .hat exist in North America. They contain, and spill, all the types of weather troubles known, including those on which forecasters •go wrong. The map is a step in "air -masses" analysis, the new system of fore- casting beifig inauguratea by the 15. S. Weather Bureau. It was de- veloped by Dr. Irving -Krick of the California Institute of Techology. No. 1 air is polar -continental. It. comes down from Canada; is cold, dry and "stable." It may be chilly but contains few storms. No. 2 is polar -Pacific, cold, fairly moist, sometimes showery and squally. There is polar -Atlantic, a twin of No. 2, but not quite as nasty in disposition.. - Four is polar -basin. That is some- thing they have between the Roches and the Pacific Coast. It's, a f•>.y warm and the producer of nice weather. Five is tropical -Pacific. This is warm and moist, but surprisingly, is usually "stable," cr not stormy, be- cause its beat has been cooled by passing over the waters of the :Pa- cific Six is tropical Gulf and seven tropical -Atlantic. These two are twins in troublemaking. Both are very warm and moist. Eight is tropical -continental — a trouble -maker for flying. It appears over northern Mexico and the south- western tier of American states. It is hot and too dry, for rain or clouds but its "instability" fills flying air with "bumps." Women Make Up 55 p.c. Of Truo's Voter Truro, N.S. — About 55 per.ceni of the voting population of Truro are women, it was disclosed by voters' lists compiled last fall and made public recently. 11 DAVID COPPERFIELD 045, jg Weekly Serial IMUVAN ,AUSTRALIA EMMRIG N€Vb.� Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS At Yarmouth that night there is a terrible storm. ,Outside the pounding breakersa ship -wrecked vessel is tossin , Before David can reach trim, Bain is out in the sea in a breeches buoy, trying to save the lone survivor. But be is drowned when the ship goes down, The passenger is washed up, dead, It. is Steerfort ,'- Soon there is more'trouble. The frail Dora dies and David goes abroad to forget. A.year later.he returns, worried about the Wickfields. Then, with: the aid of Micawber, he exposes Heel) as a cleat and a forger, who had cunningly' made Wickfield believe that .he, himself, was a.thief; This:was the hold he had.had on him, In return fpr his' unselfish act, 'David gives Micawber a sunt of money so that he and his fancily can set sail for Australia, where they hope to field the good fortune that always seems tobe just around the corner. Everyone is at the boat to see them off and, amid loud._cheers, it slowly' eases away front the doel ,24� Nom: That afternoon, Aunt Betsey beckons.to Ur. Dick and' points out the window to the cliffs where' David and ,A.gnes,'Watch the. sunset, then st.., talking' t� each other earnestly. Aunt '3etsey ,eaten up by curiosity. What are they s :yirse !i It looks like the beginning of anew life and iieW ,j alspiness for, ay dancl childliood_:.r ektheart