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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-03-07, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE 0 THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA OUT WHERE COLD IS "DRY" Burr! We admit the virile quali- ties of frigid air, and the stimulus induced in sluggish veins by the icy blasts. But Zero is always suffer- rd, never welcomed. His departure is much more popular than his ar- rival. May it, we trust, be soon. — Winnipeg Free Press. LLOYD GEORGE It was a summer afternoon in 1890 when Mr. Gladstone in frock coat and tearose, complimented Mr.' Lloyd George, fresh from a by- election in Carnarvon. In the long years since then two reigning Brit- ish sovereigns have died, the Brit- ish Empire has fought two wars, dynasties and nations have disap- peared, the snap of the world has been changed. Yet now we read that this same Lloyd George whose voice has sounded, through all this din of four decades of world upheaval and revolution., is to launch a new po- litical movement. In his seventy- first year, v„ .an of a thousand fights, . he is .an on his •ar- mor."—(From the Ottawa Journal.) THE TITANIC FUND When the Titanic was sunk in 1922 a Mansion House Fund was started for the relief mainly of old people and children bereft of aid by the loss of supporting relatives. The response was £415,212 and it is now announced that 276 persons are still sharing in the disburse- ments of from £15,000 to £20,000 annually. It is rightly regarded as one of the best administered funds ever recorded. — Brantford Exposi- tor. REFORESTRATION In New Zealand they set to work with a vigor and• an ent:••asiasm that are .now. beginning to bear fruit. A hundred .years ago,. -when Nevi Zea- land. was first settled by the-Eng- lish, herEng-lish, it was half forest. To -day only one-tenth of the area is forest. This is the result of reckless clearing of t e c asi (A nil f� the nine ten h cattily. 'Bu `"par u experience taught the New Zealan- ders that much land unsuitable for. pasture was excelllent for tree - growing; and they have. profited by their experience. — Montreal Star. AUCTION• SAfi S ' Thez'ter'ms that used to appear on auction sale bills giving so many ;months' credit on approved joint notes, and a percentage off for cash, are apparently a thing of the past hereabouts. A more abbrevi- ated form is now in common use and the most of the sales are us- ually "Terms Cash." Numbers of the posters also bear the admonition that nothing is to be taken from the premises "until satisfactorily settled for." It would appear that the farmer has gone on the cash and carry basis also.—Acton Free Press. HANDBILLS Many citizens . . may have the 'view that if handbills have to be* such matter would be more welcome if it came through the mails than Communicated to them in the present manner — littered all over front I teps, verandah or sidewalks, there frequently to become ugily em- bedded in ice or snow ' in winter time, nixed up with mud or slush in the spring, caught up and blown all over the place by the four winds of heaven in the summer time, and become mixed up with wet and *limy leaves in the fall. It is to be feared handbills have not, had an al - together purifying effect upon the vocabularly of the human race. -a. Regina Leader -Post. OCEAN FLYING While flying oceans and things, Amelia Earhart has to keep her ears on a beam wireless and her eyes on a magnetic compass, an aperio- dic compass, a directional bank and turn indicator, a rate of climb clock, an artificial horizon, alti- meters, an ice warning thermometer and a super -charger pressure gauge. The machine age has gone feminine, too..-- Border Cities Star. SPEED LIMIT The special civic committee on. traffic and parking has recommend- ed that application be made by the city to the Legislature for power to pass a by-law fixing the speed limit in Winnipeg at 30 miles an hour. AIderman, and police are apparently agreed that this measure must be taken to curb the mounting toll of accidents and fatalities on city streets. — Winnipeg Tribune. NO DOUBT It is possible to read newspapers on the Niagara highway now since the new sodium vapor damps have been installed. And we suppose some sap will try doing it while driving at 60 m.p.h. OLDEST CITIZEN Kingston mourns the loss of her oldest resident, John W. Martin, who died' at the great age of 108 years. To have lived for more than a century and to have been able to follow closely the progress of the city and the Dominion down through the years, fell to the lot of Mr. Mar- tin, a man always gifted withea keen intellect' ad one who almost to the very last was in command -of his. senses..- Kingston Whig -Standard. CUPID IN ENGLAND Cupid must be working overtime in England. Weddings there num- bered 1.43,248 in 1934, an increase of. 13,751 over the previous year.— OR PERHAPS BOTH "Perhaps what is 'wrong with the world .is that we haven't enough of tenors," 'remarks the Ottawa Jour- nal of the report that music is to be made .compulsory in the schools. Perhaps e.# means "tenners," -- Sault Sault Ste. Marie Star. TOO MANY IDEAS " The trouble is that the world is short of ideas, but that there is no way of plowing under the surplus. HOURS OF AN EDITOR There is a minor war in progrees in the newspaper world at the pre- sent time. It all started because the Toronto Mail and Empire reg- istered a complaint that under pro- posed legislation there is under ero- sion for an eight-hour day for edi- tors, declaring that "many of them commonly work 12 or 14 hours a day, often seven days a week." This caused The Ottawa Journal to pro- nounce skepticism that editors worked even as long as eight hours a day . . As a matter of fact it's a lucky editor who gets off with an eight- hour ighthour day. Or is he lucky? One doubts if the Mail and Empire edi- tor would be happy if compelled to restrict his work to a miserable eight hours a day And somehow one can't help but be mildly skepti- cal that a brilliant editorial page like that of The Ottawa Journal can be turned out in four or five hours' work, Even by the brilliant Journal .staff, State'y,; ;Saul Ste. Mare THEY WOE A CHANCE The majority of accidents occur. when drivers persuade then-osleves to "take a chance." Most drivers are to 'be trusted as long as they obey what they recognize individ- ually to be odina}yv^safety precai- tions. mitt the fleeting desire ie "take a .chance" (bow often dries 't not occur ; :into our drivieg minds?), is the factor that, if ¢c- cepted, sooner or later ends in tits- chance. Tendency to succumb to tee temptation of taking chances should be ruled not of bonds by evhry motorist •who respects his own life and the lives of others. How can the law and the cur its help to discourage' this tendeiy? Not by longer sentences, butiby more of them. Too many motorsts "get away with it" either thro}ieh inadequacy of enforcement or lax- ity in imposing penalties. A reaspn- able penalty actually imposed Ifs more effective than a drastic *- airy which is not imposed. 'Win- nipeg Tribune. THE EMPIRE THE DEATH OF A PEDESTRIAN The recent provision of 'five -bar- red gates, which the pedestrian eau leap between pavement and isle??, is a measure of the complication which has overtaken the traffic,. It is said that ants are too small to see the foot which treads on them, or to conceive of the being owing ";the foot. The London pedestrian. is now caught between extremes. He '4an be run over, and even killed, by a car so small that he never saw` it coining, or crushed by a coach:' so large that he thought it was .the house at the corner. In his :last conscious moments he may be able to register surprise that only about twenty-five heads appeared at the windows of Leviathan, whilst three or four quite long, thin peeple emerged from the small car which he nearly trod, before it kill- ed him. — H. Pearl Adam in The Fortnightly (London). 1? FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR RO • ;S The Minister of Transport i, as announced a Five -Year Plan for the. roads. There is, happily, more common sense than politics in a r ter deal of this kind. There is to be: 'no .delay, Schemes are to be dra lap at once after collaboration with! o- cal' authorities, and there is t a clean break with that "han mouth" policy which has past frustrated so many goo etione •an,W,. effofitu,M.�: the Government auns at'"r& ising, the reads of Britain by ing away all obsolescent sure from a past that conceived trans ort in terms of those Juggernauts, ': the mangel-wurzel cart and the '' k - float. London Sunday Referee.' Bermuda . 'Vacation Bermuda vacation of Gladys Yule (left), daughter of Lady Yu e, of England, and Mrs. Thomas McGuffe, also of England, gives them opportunity to practice their favorite sport—tennis. They are pic- tured an the tennis courts of the., Castle Harbor after one of their spirited morning matches: tion y th Central Agency' Is Now At Work To Reforin -The Programs For The Children Along with "hot" movies, fascism and red menaces, children's radio hours have been a constant target for committees and aroused „commu- nities, writes Ernestine Evans in the N.Y: Tunes; The same • parents who used to want "Little Red Riding Hood" put on the index because it it kept Johnny awake at night or gave Susie complexes have protested against the thrillers and so-called crime serials on the air that may or may not have given . the children °ghtmares and indigestion. tefested organizations are at all malted. " as to what improve- ments should be proposed; all are agreed that by studying the field.) some change and enrichment can be made In the present situation. Today, however, for • the first time, upward of fifty organizations have officially and unofficially authorized the plan- ning of a central agency on radio ,fro - grams for young people, and,. a pro- posal for .national action will shortly be made. ' "711ie united stand was tak- en aten at a luncheon held late last No- vember under the joint auspices of the American Library Association, the Progressive Education Associ7a.- tibn and the Child Study Association of America. It marked the -culmina- tion of your years of work of the American Library Association, with which .many other organizations have affiliated. FORMULATION OF PRINCIPLES The central committee is now for- mulating principles general enough to be accepted by the Junior League, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Inter- rtational Council of Religious, Educa- tion, the Girl Scouts and similar or- ganizations. Some advertising agent cies that have arranged and sold thriller and baby crooner hours pro. phesy failure and highbrow dullness; others welcome the new organization as the opening wedge for the better standards. . Both major networks, N.B.O. and; Columbia, and numbers of local sta- tions have indicated their willingness to co-operate with the. committee. The networks give a great deal of attention, to their critics; they deal with Bishops, cranks, doctors, law - THE SAME, THE WHOLE WORLD OVE12,4 Every person of mature years, re,earding the younger generation with an unbiased eye, must hive been struck by the disquieting revel- ation that the race is declining. In a world in which all the old values are being scoffed at and all the ancient beliefs questioned, only one postulate stands like stone — that the present generation, by which is meant the adult portion of it is the most wonderful and virtuous that the earth ever produced. Apart from this one shining exception,. there can be no little doubt that generations are not what they used to be. .Humanity is going to the dogs. — Melbourne Argus. Finds Marriage Not Cause For Teacher's Dismissal Trenton, N.J.—Ruling that mar- riage did not constitute "inefficiency, incapacity, or conduct unbecoming a teacher," Dr. Charles H. Elliott,. state commissioner of education has ordered' W iidwood authorities to reinstate four women teachers dis- missed last Fall because their hus- bands were able to support them. Air yers, parents and insulted national- ists every day. It can be taken for granted, therefore, that any solidly organized phalanx of public opinion bent on setting standards in young people's broadcasting will get' the at- tention of the business hien Who-con- trol hocon- troI the air. waves. - The new central agency expects to get backing for a two or three years' program of research on for- eign and domestic broadcasts, and in making, trials of programs here. Nobody kno4vs whether a roadcast gfilatrtrifairftli e:" :, Very few story tellers, whose .voices en- chant in the school room and library or on the stage are the same over the air. The voice may change, the personality fade, and success wig the little audience may be depea6 ent on gesture or the inspiring pres- ence of spellbound or wiggling' youngsters. • BROADCAST/NG ELSEWHERE It is worth while to study what other nations have made of broad- casting especially those countries where radio is considered a politi- cal and educational instrument of prime importance in creating and controlling a public. The radio audi- ence is important pecause it is the largest and the most representative. If the Cenral agency studies what the British Broadcasting Corporation has done, a rise in interest in edu- 'cational hours may be expected. It is now eleven years since the Cen- tral Council for School Broadcasting was formed in England, and the present system has been worked out so slowly and carefully that no one can quite recall the date on which it became plain that really fine educational broadcasts were as certain to get fan mail as the enter- tainment hours. The Ohio School of the Air and the American School of the Air in this country, in putting on national programs, labor under handicaps, which the BBC has never had to meet. National programs here always have to deal with a vast • country,' so that every broadcast tries to get on different hours de- pending on where the program is the 'West Coast, UNIFORMITY IN ('BRITAIN. Also, Great Britain 'has a muels. more uniform school curriculum; it is possible for acarefully planned broadcasting hour organized .a year ahead to supplement.. definitely what . the sdhool-r cora to seber o supplying, The British, too, have an advan• tags, which the most expertly ose ganized central agency here could hardly overtake. The BBC as a pub- lidly owned, corporation, Oita, enal ployees regard themselves as public servants, and their whole technique has been eased in their approach to whatever talent they wished to cora mand. Once they set themselves to present scientific talks they wero free to ask the most noted authorit- ies in England to speak for England's children; and to groom and then to reject, if necessary, those foremost authorities who did not have micro- phone talent. National interest and tradition are better understood in England than here. For example, if the schools: there wish to dramatize England for English children, program makers have three centuries of county liter- ature ready to hand ou which to draw, Besides courses .on the districts of England and in French, German and music, the 1935 schedule from Lon- don includes a series of talks on "Tracing History Backwards," other talks on English history and a full course in biology. There is also, un- der children's hour auspices, a news broadcast, touching on international politics, finance and science, so in- structive that on one occasion at least the British Cabinet stopped its discussions to listen. RADIO IN JAPAN, The year book of Japanese radio, described the work of two years ago, points with pride to a feature called "The Children's Newspaper," broadcast in alternate weeks by a man and woman. Twenty-one broad- casts were used to propagandize the children on the Manchurian situa- tion. On New Year's Day Mr. Hato - yen= broadcast a talk to young cit- izens, the first occasion on which a Cabinet Minister had spoken during "The Children's Hour." Another time Dr. Katsube of Hiroshima Uni- versity spoke on metaphysics for children. The anniversaries of fam- ous historic battles are regulariy'cel- ebrated. Short, courses on 'Western singing, and on Japanese dances Were given last year, and printed syllabuses dis- tribueed. Texts were also published to accompany twelve lectures on elle orchestra and its interpretation, for older children, six on the geog- raphy, history and legends of Man- chukuo, thirty' -three on "'Japanese literature, and fourteen Summer lectures on theare . e' ' L collecting y nts+_so-Roisenne& --- — -: plants and ynser16 r, ,and o on. RUSSIAN BROADCASTS In the Soviet Union, a special de- partment of the A7.1-Uniosi ,Radio Committee deals constantly 't4th the Commis ia;t of. Education: ;<Ciassit; -aid, contemporary music and 'litera tare ' are regularly broadcast; as are talks':to suggest and encourage crea- t.ly e 'ryork. A special institution, "The Central Home of Art Education," is carrying on -studies on children's ca- pacity to listen, and their interest. A "campfire" hour is devised for pio- neers at their country camps and city club rooms, Besides this, the study of radio apparatus is now part of the regular curriculum in 20,000 schools, It is possible that the new Ameri- can committee, also endeavoring to r provide fuller programs, will find that children do not need distran- tion and entertainment "so much as a steady and rational program of what we call education, dramatized and attractively presented, Ottawa Awards Contract Hamilton Public Building Ottawa—The contract for erection of a new Dominion public building at Hamilton has been awarded to W. H. Yates, of Hamilton, it was announced here last week. The con- tract price was given as $1,600,000. The building will be erected on the site of the present post office. received—East, Middle .:Vest Or on 11 FU MANCHU By SAX ROHMER A ttrnagine a man, tail, loan and cat -do, with' Seng, sfrango, t'magnetie,,eyos, the brow of Shakespeare and the face of saran . s'C•tnves+him with the cruel cunning of an entire Gast: ern rata, wiflr all +ha resources of science, and vast wadi+h -lmeeir a that awful being, and you have 611. Hi MAN, :CIV, 460 Yellow Peril ineernate ivl o 'ama. Installment 1 THE ZYAT KISS—Archangel of Evil Suddenly iiy aid mand Neyland Smith put out +ba 1 mp, He had been explaining' the mission. that brought h ':,,surprisinglyto 1►g my leaden whenIs . u orad hi "i Vote quarters, pp in Burmo- His fanned, square -awed face was taut WO grave, 'A servant of +he British Govornrhent,'Petrie,' he said,. I appear as a defer. five, bearing credentials frorretho highest; sources, because I learned of the evil •' etivi of r� .0 -f .,, . t4o ilou'ot you will 'think me mad," 5tn,fh remarked, and I could sae him of the window" peering intently into the street. oot. , iar before you ere many hours older you will know 1 have good reason to be cautious . . Ah, nothing'suspiciousl" He relighted the lornp. You aro the only man I can trust. 1 must have someone with me, Petrifi all the time, Can you su spare .as few days to �ho strangest business Thai aver wes recorded in fact or fic+ion?"o roar` rear Ra •Merenp'?h °,eu wvpatmln:10"*' "You're a dor tor, Smith said, "Look at +his!" He stripped off his coat. Ileo- ing back his left shirt -sleeve ho revealed a wicked -looking wound, "An arrow steeped in+hO venom ':of a hamadryedwent in there." 'A shudder 1 couldinat repress ran through me of h1 itifig„ .11l-l-Alitil g s rnen- i t' o t, aacily p4 011 the roptii�s of thac+ot