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Zurich Herald, 1935-03-28, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE CANA JA SALARY IS SECOND There are many categories of workers, public men, teachers, cler- gymen and doctors with whom money is a secondary consideration and for whom the challenge of the task is a much more powerful in- centive to achievement than the most lucrative of bonuses. For which Heaven be praised!—Quebec Chron- icle -Telegraph. TIMES CHANGE One reason why the rich are get- ting along without caviar is told by Neal O'Hara in the New York Post as follows: "Half a dozen years ago the Vanderbilt family's holdings in New York Central were valued at $29,000,000 and yielded an annual income of $1,160,000. Today the same shares have a market value of less than $2,750,000 without returning a cent of income." --St. Thomas Tim- es -Journal. "WOLF" HITLER Now: we know what is wrong with hitless It all comes from the fact that someone gave him the name °'Adolph," which, according to Dr. Karl Plumeyer, a learned Berlin professor, is "an ancient and valor- ous name derived from the Edel- wold or Noble Wolf, a victory-and- ifortunepromising animal!' There ain't any Bich animile., The wolf's re- putation for nobility is non-existent. And his reputation for ferocious- ness, so far as the human race is concerned, is fake. Perhaps that is the fact with Herr Hitler, too. Per- haps he is busy howling at the world in the hope that, just as many uninformed folk are afraid of the wolf's howl, the world will be afraid of his howl. On the other hand, per- haps he really is ferocious and is just taking the name Noble Wolf as a disguise.—Sault Star. TRY SOME DAILY Little drops of humor; Little rays of light, �'ttittrl� da•ilse..tx ,�al,Ac,,.. glier •Mian a .tc to e, --- Aylmer Express WOMEN IN PULPITS Opinion differ throughout Canada as to whether women should occupy sehurch pulpits. Not long ago Mani- toba ministers voiced their approval; the Middlesex Presbytery of the United Church of Canada, meeting in London, voted against the ordin- ation of women. The decision was very close though, the standing vote being 40 to 38. The narrow margin points to a growing sympathy for women preachers. Many churchmen contend that the fair sex is better fitted for the role of missionary or deaconess. Others say certain women would .Make exeellent pulpit orators. With- out taking sides, one may say there isn't any doubt but that some would preach first class sermons, --Border Cities Star. DEFECTIVE CARS • The ,;Law Amendments Committee of $1 e.:�,egislature, hearing the views of the public on traffic control a few #lays ago, were told by the chairman of the Safety Week Committee of the Board of Trade that 1.,346 cars ;pent through safety lane last year, sand only 200 were found to be not .defective in some way, And he made the much more significant statement that only the better class of car went through the lane at all, The others, the cars that really needed it, never tame near, Inspector 'Street of the Winnipeg police department also told the THE WORLD AT LARGE cu,nnn:ttee of the results of a short period of inspection of motor cars. Out of a total of 802 ears, 092 had brakes that were not working prop- erly, 78 had horns that were out -.,f order, 204 had defective rearview mirrors or none at all. In the same period, more than 1,000 cars with only one headlight working were stopped on the city streets. .--- Win- nipeg Free Press. SHARP - SHOD Hats off to the St. Marys man who had the ingenious idea, Monday morning, of, attaching a pair of horseshoes to the soles of his boots. Every other expedient had faked to help him walk the icy -icy streets without slipping, but the horseshoes did it. What a boot. to the black- smiths if we would but follow his pioneering example! --- St. Marys Journal -Argus. SEVEN SVAD YEARS Down in South Carolina a woman recently underwent an operation the full story of which moves one almost to tears. It illustrates how thorough in some souls runs the sound old principle of self-reliance, which in this case involved untold penalties. This woman consulted a physician who told her that an operation was the only thing which would restore her health. She left his office and possibly with her going she passed from his memory. All that was years ago, but seven years after she again appeared in his office, reminded him of his ad- vice, produced a shoe box filled wita pennies and told hien she was ready now for the oaeration. With great pain she had gone back to work, to washing, and scrubbing, and mend- ing, and year after year had set a- side the hardly earned pennies, the little she could save out of her poverty, until she had amassed the required amount, $75, and when this was gathered had returned to sub- mit herself to the necessary operat- ion. Needless to say she was at once hurried to the hospital, her shoe - safe to be returned to her when she again emerges from hospital. But what a sad seven years it must have been and how unnecessary! --• Halifax Chronicle. Pay La, t Respect§ t:l.arles tlenn•y L'utier• (left), former reporter et decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Attorney General Homer S. Cummings shown leaving the residence of the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington after paying their last homage. machine "shows that laundering, dyeing, ageing, finishing and con- struction all have a great effect on the durability of the stockings on repeated distention." Thus, it ap- pears, the researches of the bureau in knitting, • "degumining," dyeing, finishing, ageing, laundering, redye- ing, refinishing, etcetera, are helpful on the great subject of runs in stock- ings. But the New York Sun thinks that when a woman discovers a run in her stocking she doesn't think of what the bureau is doing. What we feel like saying about all this is that, God bless our souls, how the times do change! The New York Sun could never have had• an editorial bit about runs in stockings when it was young. Come to that, we couldn't have had an editorial bit about runs in stockings when we were young. Runs in stockings was a subjebt that simply didn't . arise in tho.-e days. The Province wouldn't . h vxt.?an,.,-;sound la,is .-1" .. Stockings were out of sight Stockings were supposed to be '• lit of mind then. We don't even. know" if they had runs in stockings then. But if they did have runs in stock- ings then, we'd bet they were out of sight anyhow—Vancouver Prov ince. GOPHERS A PEST Huge amounts are spent each year in the purchase of gopher poison, On the other hand, some of the most valuable animals which Nature has provided to maintain these and other rodents within bounds are be- ing harried to the point of extinct- ion in some cases. With the natural enemies of the gophers thus remov- ed, poison makes little headway in stemming the plague, besides being an ever present menace to other forms of wild life and the cause of many tragedies to human beings. Coyotes, weasels, hawks and bad- gers are invaluable as gopher hunters. It is true that the presence of coyotes around a barnyard may mean the occasional disappearance of sheep or calf in stress of hunger.' But with proper supervision and the protection which a good dog affords, these animals can be kept where they belong to make their main diet on gophers and field mice, ---Calgary Herald, RUNS IN STOCKINGS It says in the New York Sun that the United States Bureau of Standards uses an improved machine for testing hosiery. This leads the Now York Sun into a chaste little bit in -its editorial columns upon runs in. stockings. It seems that this FU MANCHU 1,1 ONE FATALITY One of the moat satisfying fea- tures of the police report is the sub- stantial decline -in motor accidents. The number reported Last year was only 93, with one fatality, as com- pared with 268 and two fatalities in 1933. It .would ,be a fine thing if Kingston could improve still further on last year's 'figures. — Kingston Whig -Standard. THE EMPIRE PRINCE AS A SCOT The Prince of Wales has many ac- complishments, He told his Scottish Corporation audience recently that he has learned Gaelic and the pipes. He made it clear to all of them that he is an excellent teller of ,Scots stories. He acts them to the very life, and a true-blue Scot who . sat next to me said his Royal Highness' Scots accent was excellent. The Prince looks extraordinarily well in Highland costume. He wore, of eourse, Royal Stuart tartan kilt, with a tight -fitting tunic.-•-Autolycus an the London Sunday Times, PHYSICAL FITNESS The British Medical Association has appointed a special committee to By SAX ROHMER 11 C. 41" / H prepare plans for improving the physique of the nation. There is no doubt that it can do with improving, But the committee may have a little difficulty on hitting on the right scheme—schemes, that is, which the English, with their ancient and well- known dislike of taking exercise "for the sake of their health," will not find too self-conWously virtuous to be tolerable. If the average anal) or youth were asked what he special- ly needed to make himself fit, he might possibly reply: "More money, more leisure and more playing fields." He might also possibly he right.—Manchester Guardian. WEDDING GIFTS A curious correspondence has a- risen 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 anti- ques which were among the gifts, and ;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. CEYLON'S BLACK OUTLOOK Seldom has sunshine, the tradit- ional harbinger of happiness, so completely meant the reverse of good fortune as has been the recent and present experience in. Ceylon. In his statement last week in the State Council Sir Baron Jayatilaka declar- ed that if there was no break in the weather during the next few days a state of fanzine would be bound to supervene. That prophecy of woe seems to be in process of fulfihnent. The weather reports continue to re- cord the absence of rain in precisely those parts where rain is most need- ed to abate the malaria epdiemic and to prevent crop failure. The rain- fall to date since the beginning of the year, comparing most unfavour- ably with the average for the cor- responding period during two decad- es, is disastrously deficient. The far- reaching effect of this second drought, of last year, it is impos- sible to forecast. The crops on which the bulk of the population depend for their livelihood, badly affected as they have been already, will be in danger of complete ruin. The parch- ing up of paddy fields and the de- vastation of ehenas will lend a peculiar poignancy to the more pro- longed ill-effects on coconut plant- ations which have had their full share of misfortune in other re- spects. This unrelieved picture of 11. L3 tarried =* ch Women Outnumber Wealthy Men New York, --- The wealth female of the species is more humorous than tae male, a chock of blue-blooded heirs discloses. While a survey re- vealed at least 15 wealthy and un- wed women, there are apparently only nine men to match them in af- fluence and social position. They are: Alfred and George Vanderbilt, brothers and heirs to millions from the Vanderbilt -side and from their maternal grandfather, Capt, Isaac Emerson, patent medicine king. James and Woolworth Donohue, who are in line for chunks of the in. exhaustible five-and-ten fortune, Michael Phipps, .who will inherit the Pittsburgh steel millions of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Phipps. 141arshall Field, merchant prince, still wealthy despite enormous all. irony paid two ox -wives. William Rhinelander Stewart, mule_ _ ti -millionaire playboy, Harvey Ladaw, who, despite his fortune, lives the life of a country squire in Maryland. Charles Dunlap, heir to the Bur - wind coal millions, Modern Child Likes Mother Wee Bit 'Netter Th New York. — Father rates about 61 per cent. instead of being . "all right" with the modern child, Mother stands higher — 65.5 per cent. These findings- were given to the .American Orthopsychiatic Associa- tion by Dr. H. Meltzer, St. Louis. He said they were based on studies of the attitudes of 150 children of Ole- nsnntary school age. The children were carefully selec- ted, he explained, to represent a cross-section of the city. They were asked for all their pleasant and un-- pleasant n=pleasant reactions, or feelings, about their parents. Pleasant for father, including even "barely pleasant" totalled 61. per cent. On the same basis mother went four and a half points higher. "This however," the report stated, "does not indicate a complete come- down for parents as would appear at first sight, for the definitely un- pleasant reactions add up to only 5.8 per cent for both parents, 4 per cent, n "ather for mother and '1.6 per cent. for father," A principal difference from the child's point of view is that father leans to the mental side, .mother to the emotional. Reported more or less in the chil- dren's own words the typical father is "a person who works and supports you, does things around the house, takes you out places, playes games with you, helps you with homework, participates in outdoor activities, gives you .money, has such qualities as sweetness and kindness, partici- pate in indoor activities, and who trains you to mind." Mother is "a person who does house work, does things for you, works and supports you, h such qualities as sweetness and iindness, take you out places, play •:gaames with you, helps you with liatiework, buys food and clothes for yOu, scolds you when you do wrong.4d gives you things," Increased Demand F r H.Tses A -;d C;.f tt1e In Province Es Reported Toronto. — Brisker and increastd demand for horses and all types of cattle in most sections of the pro- vince was the bright spot in the weekly crop report issued by the On- tario Department of Agriculture. Reports from Ontario county said farm sales are bringing the best prices in more than three years and there is a keen demand for horses at about $95 average for good farm horses, Ordinary grade cows brought $35 to $48 with bred sows selling around $30. Peterborough county reported ac- tive demand for good quality pure- bred .. Shorthorn bulls of serviceable age with sales ranging from $60 to $100 depending on type and age. Milk cows are sought in Glengarry. An. order was received from the United States for 115 good Holstein cows at prices' varying up to M. Cattle buying is fairly active in Prince Edward county. In Huron county there is a brisk demand for horses and good prices are being realized. Farmers are in a more hopeful frame of mind re= garding cattle prices, the report said. A recent sale in Grey county brought :$40-$45 for grade cows and more than $100 for horses. Although shortage of hay • still faces Ontario farmers, cattle have conte through the wieeer season in good condition and 'creamery pro- duction is holding up reasonably well considering the shortage, Dufferin county reported a large percentage of livestock is being carried along in fair flesh and will be turned on grass in good condi- tion but there are some "very thin" cattle. Even with favorable grass condition, the report said, it will take these cattle well on to fall to snake up • and be -in reasonable con- dition for market. Haldimand country ereamerymen reported production is • holding up well but some found quality of pro- duct lower and in Lincoln county there is a "very heavy" demand for hay at present with. dairymen and. others looking for outside sources of supply, Livestock in Middlesex county are being carried along in fair condition and by careful conservation of feed supplies most farmer5,wiil have suf- ficient urficient hay and rough feed to 'carry them through to spring. misery is evidence that Ceylon's tale of suffering has by no means been exaggerated, but that, on the contrary, there is a worse havoc than has been wrought by malaria for which the Government and the people must be prepared.—Times of Ceylon, Colombo. First Aid Depots Along Highways First aid stations will be estab- lished along Western Ontario high- ways as son as the necessary finan- cial arrangements between three societies interested in the venture are worked out.., The cost of setting up the sys- tem along No. 2 highway, Toronto to Windsor, would be about $3,000, it is said. The subject was up for discussion at the Ontario Motor League annual meeting this week and members of that Association are enthusiastic about it. The scheme is undertaken joint- ly by the St. John Ambulance As- sociation, the Canadian Red Cross and the Motor League. It has been in operation for more than a year on No. 2 Highway from Toronto to Montreal, and eeports :de- clare it has been of great sssistance 111 saving lives and alleviating suf- fering foIiowing motor accidents. . There is nothing definite as is when it will be instituted in this part of the province. It may b` this year, and it may not, depending on circumstances, Nature is an Aeolian harp, a mus ical instrument whose tones are th re-echo of higher strings within us.' —Novalis. At we entered The l% brary, Dr. Cleeve straight- ened ap from the touch whore lay the bodyof 51r Crichton Davey, his is 11 mast mysterious case," he said. "Frankly,! tlo not care to venture any opinion now regarding the immediate cause of death. 1 fear that only a •ost. fi,'1.r !h, f fs-' $ir Crichton features were oddly puffy, as wore his clenched hands. lis had been addicted to drugs, es Dr, Cleave had fold us, end as 1 pushed bask tilt sleeve, on his left arm, 1 saw the marks of the noodle. Mechanically 1 looked et the right arm, which was unscarred, But on the bei of the hand was a faint rad mark, not uniiko the Impress y .. . ,.., ,• �MRi�'M a Lg1,1e,UstRai . ryw �RlF' 'Nayl'and Smith questioned 1, Burboyne, Sir Crichton`: sac• rotary, the young man said he was wetting in the library that evening and his master was in the study, which was according to their ssuai custom. At ten twenty-five a die - filet messenger brought a note for Sirriehton, which 11ur• boyno placed beside him on the study table. Except for that t "Suddoniy"Bur- beynsi recounted drasryaticaily, "Sir Crichton b u r s t open the door and ,threw himself with a scream into the library, 1 ran le him but he waved the back. Hit eyes were glaring horribly, .,