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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-04-18, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE CANADA. CHURCH ATTENDANCE A nickel isn't supposed to be as good as a dollar, but maybe it goes to church more often. — Regina Leader -Pest. MARIE DRESSLER'S MONEY It appears Marie Dressler was not the wealthy woman it was thought. She was wealthy in friends, of course, and that was all that mat- tered to the grand old trouper. As for money, her estate is valued at fewer thousands than it was thought. to he in hundreds of thousands. And now there's a fuss in Hollywood over the cost of her funeral. The under- taker was enthused over the neces- sity of her passing out in movie magniilicence. His bill was $10,000. Her sister, a resident in England, asserts the sum of $2,500 is consid- ered a handsome outlay for the ob- se.luies of a British peer.—Brandon Sun, HITLER'S BOOK. Adolf Hitler, the German dictator, has made a fortune out of his book "My Struggle," written while he was a house painter in Munich, Near- ..ly two million copies have been sold. It has been translated into fourteen languages,—Calgary Herald. WINDOW MODELS. The casual passer-by at times of- ten looks twice or oftener at models in store windows to make sure that they are not real, but in London, England, the shoppers are soon to see mannequins walking about al- most any time. And in the future most .of the window-shoppers will be able to do their looking under cov- er, which is a real advantage, es- pecially when the weather is bad. The shopping centres of London are to be a series of arcades. Manne- quins will emerge from the interior of the stores where they are already continuously on display and appear in the windows in place of the pres- ent wax figures. Success should immediately attend such an innova- tion,—St. Thomas Times -Journal. .. T E MUSIGALN.OT M -'-.o.. nt 0` �e Loudon Morning Post points out that instructions recently issued by the British War Council include the teaching of singing by units as "it helps men to march well even when ''fatigued"' The writer says that he recently saw some troops tramping in drenching rain and their spirits Thad fallen to zero when a song was started with this chorus: "You never know you've got it till you get it. If you get it don't kick up a row. If anybody is ever going to get it, We've got it now." The effect is recorded as electri- cal and they stepped out with won- derful elasticity. To which the fact might be added that it is not only lmllitasy units whch respond to a cheery note in time of stress.— Brantford Expositor. • NkURDOCH MACLEAN, 104. aVe think a word of felicitation is due Mr. Murdoch Maclean of the Moosomin district, who recently marked his 104th birthday anniver- sary, Mr. Maclean is believed to be Saskatchewan's oldest citizen, and he has been here a great many ears, When he settled around Moosomin, that town was just a hamlet of tents.—Regina Leader- Post. eaderPost. FORBIDDEN TO WOMEN, The women of China are in re - THE WORLD AT LARGE volt, Not the whole 200,000,000 of them, but a sufficiently important proportion to 'cause considerable trouble to Chiang Kai-Shek, who is something of a dictator in China, And all because someone has un- dertaken ndertaken to set out rules to govern the conduct of the ladies. The lad- ies blame Marshal Chiang and the marshal blames the local mandarins. But whoever may be to blame, it alas stirred up a commotion. And not much wonder when you consider these selections from the things that are forbidden to the women: To take part in mixed bathing. Dance with men. Smoke. Bare their legs. Work as waitresses. Wear sleeveless frocks. Walk on bare feet, Accompany their husbands to a restaurant. Walk level with their husbands on the sidewalk, Use cosmetics. It would be interesting if the Soo Council tried to enforce these here, —Sault Ste. Marie Star, THE "BEST CHANCE" According to the statisticians ministers' sons have the best chance to he mentioned in "Who's Who". The ratios dor several classifica- tions are given as follows: For a minister's son, one in 20; a physi- cian's son, one in 105; a farmer's son, one in 608; a skilled laborer's son one in 1,600, and an unskilled laborer's son, one in 48,000. It looks all right on paper — but how does it work out in practice?— Halifax Herald, TWO: LIVES SAVED. Some time ago at considerable cost a bronchoscope was added to the equipment of Hamilton general hospital. A bronchoscope is an in - genius device with which foreign bodies can be fished by skilled op- eratives from windlpipes and even from the lungs....... Yesterday, at the meeting of the hospital governors, Dr. Langrili was able to report that in the short time (the bronchoscope has been ,aXaila31 ,..1.3..laat tweiaY;,-.s"`i had aided in the savng the lives of two patients, one a child in whose larynx a peanut had becolme imbed- ed.—Hamilton Spectator. DIPHTHERIA BATTLE. A highly cleared and deadly dis- ease a few years ago, diphtheria need not now be a cause of death in any community, observes Dr. J. G, Fitzgerald, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. The Queen City, with a population of 600,000 had no deaths from this source last year. Dr. Fitz- gerald gives credit to the use of toxoid., but warns that since diph- theria has not actually been con- quered, the preventive method must be "repeated year in and year out" —Border Cities ,Star. FORGOTTEN MEN. The"Forgotten Man" is an ex- pression which has received many definitions, many of which have been appropriate and impressive. He might well be described as the citi- zen who has been industrious all his l31fe, has earned money and saved a portion of it to purchase his own little home, and provide something for the rainy days, Of recent years he has found employment scarce— even non-existent. His savings are gone, his house probably mortgaged, and his taxes unpaid, but he is still trying to hang on.—Chatham News. Hopeful At Leave Taking — Meet Discouragement "��Si+Na�s>'3Y' Sir John Simon (left), British Foreign M are seen here leaving No. 10 Downing Street, with talk over the arms situation with Hitler. Sir John Commons and stated that wide divergence of views cow to continue British Peace, efforts. inister, and Capt. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, final instructions for their journey to Berlin to Simon reported on his mission to the House of had been encountered. Capt. Eden is now in Mos- t "SETTING" AND "SITTING" The Brantford Expositor editor has set himself up as an authority on agricultural phraseology. A real.,` tor asked: Would you please tell xn (which is correct, a "'setting" den. oa_.._.."sittiri !' _bent ...__.a.�,.a, the L'f A answered, On a poultry farm, 1e' farmhand "sets" the hen, but th1i ''►sits," therefore, "sitting" hen is correct. To the farmer, the big' qutestion will always be: "How many, chickens did the sitting hen hatch out of the setting? —St. Thomas Times -Journal. PUBLIC "PUBLIC" SCHOOLS More well-to-do people in Britain send their children to the element- , ary schools in preference to the pri- r vate schools. A healthy tendency. 'There is no room in this changing, Igy; modern Britain for caste pri- lege and the caste school, 'All cbii= Arun have the right to start level, with the same opportunities of bet- terment and the promise to all that talent goes to the top. A rich man is a fool if he denies his boy the best education of all, contact with children from homes where the breadwinner is a millworker or an agricultural laborer or a clerk. — London Daily Express, MISLEADING TITLES. The peculiarity by which picture producers give misleading navies to their pictures, frequently to their own loss, is illustrated by a picture now being shown in a local theatre and known as "Broadway Bill," This is not a New York gangster or high life picture, but an entertaining, gripping store of a man in love with ,a horse and a girlin love with the man.—Port Arthur News -Chronicle. THE EMPIRE A MUCH -GOVERNED COUNTRY New Zealand is a country in which governing and controlling bodies flourish greatly, This fact is illus- trated by the number of occasions the citizen will be called upon dur- ing the coming year to cast a vete, True, there is only ohe Parliament in New Zealand, compared with seven in Australia, But what New Zealand misses, or escapes, in the Parliamentary field is more than made up by the multiplicity of local bodies.—Auckland News. EMBARGO ON SLANG. The protest of VIscount Lee of Fareham against the ousting of Eng- lish slang by the American sort is welcome. It is too readily assumed that the American vernacular is more expressive than our own. "Done in" is at least as good an in- vention as "bumped off," and "not half" as eloquent as 'sure," and "posh" as useful as "swell." The nation that enriched the language with "swank," "gadget," and "gas- per," has no need of foreign im- ports. Budget hint: What about a tariff?—Manchester Sunday Chron- icle, A FAIRBRIDGE SCHOOL FOR B.C. The project launched only seven melitis ago for the extension t3 other parts of the Empire of the Fairbridge Farm School scheme, which has so well Distilled itself in. Western Australia, has. already borne its first fruit in the acquisition by `'the Child Emgration Socety of a site for a second school in British Columbia. Three new schools in all are planned, and it is a happy aug- ury for the final sucoess of the pro- ject that the response to the appeal for funds, to which the Prince of Wales last year gave the lead, should so soon have made tate first stage possible. The original Farm School, which owes its existence to the prac- tical idealism of the Rhodes Schol- ar, Kingsley Fairbridge, leas been long s1ecognized as providing the most thoroughly satisfactory of the many means of immigration 'which have been tried in Australia. The concurrence of the Ottawa and Brit- ish Columbia Governments in the present undertaking carries the as- surance that in Canada, as in Aus- tralia, the Fairbridge child will re- ceive a welcome which can hardly be given his elder brother or sister just yet,—London Times. FLOWERS FOR LONDON. It isan excellent idea of the Lon- don Gardens Society to carry out a survey o!f all London to find out what waste spaces can be brighten- ed by flowers. The effort should meet with the most enthusiastic sup- port of the general public. The beautifying of unsightly areas has a social value even beyond the merely aesthetic, We should like to see the Minister of Hefatih taking a leaf out of the Society's book, and ensuring provision for window boxes and roof gardens in the flats that are to be built to relieve overcrowding, — London Daily Herald. 43 The Artist R. B. in The Countryman, His gnarled brown hand would 1 assort With artist's brush or graver'o p0{{ yet when he turns the furrol brown The 'plowman starts his pietul then. His mighty canvas is the field, His share a pencil true, Nature his palette. Sun and rad His paint and brushes too. Framed in its hedge of hawthos green No still and sombre picture his. Forever changing, free and bold, What painter claims a gift like thisi Maybe that old untroubled eye That drives the furrow straigh and clean Sees in the work an artist's joy Not mere existence, bare and lean. Procrastination Mildred Weston in the New York Sun. He who hurries To embrace Work that stares hue . In the face Has no sympathy For one Who can leave a chore Undone. Being kin To those who ask To postpone The pending task All my sympathies Are with My too dilatory Kith! We Buy And Sell It may surprise most Canadian that we import canned tomatoes. 3 ought to be a hint to those w1 have soil waiting to produce fool and values. Canada's imports eel canned vegetables in 1934 totallet 2,479,000 pounds compared witi 2,076,000 in 1933. Tomatoes, follower by mushrooms, predominated. Thi imports of canned fruits in 1934 totalled. 20,095,000 pounds at against 21,327,000 in 1933. Pine. apples were the largest item .amounting last year to 16,853,001 pounds compared -with 18,354,001 in 1933. Meantime the export of canned fruits in 1934 totalled 24,577,001 pounds compared with 16,484,000 in 1933, Pears in both years were tha chief item. The export of canned vegetables was 20,708,000 pounds at against 17,410,000 in 1933, tomatoell being the chief item: Brandon Sunt Which Is Weaker Sex, Asks Doctor �3 f ''sychology Hamilton, N.Y. — New 'York's new anti•heart balm law Looks like a con- fession of man's weakness to Dr. D A. Laird, of Colgate University's psy-1 cbology laboratory. Looking on man and his antics with the same dispassionate eye that looks at sleep charts and white rats Dr. Laird. stopped for a moment to consider N.Y. State's new ban on breach of promise and alienation of affections suits. "It is a reflection in a way on hie man nature. That it should be neo. essary for legislators to pass bills to protect men from their own weak- nesses," eaknesses," Dr. Laird said, "it naturally raises the question: Which is the weaker sex anyway." After May 27 no New Yorker may be sued for breach of promise or ab ienation of affections, Coins New Name For Plus -Fours Ottawa, — Plus -fours have bees given many names, but P. H, ickt1 (Cons. Brome-Mississquoi) added a new one in the House of Commons last week. The Quebec 0onservative called them "knee-high pajamas," Based on Musical Adventure Romance by MT:Y; ; ; HER; ERT The pirates pour over the side of the ship on which Princess Marie is escaping to Louisiana from her, aged suitor, Don Carlos. The sailors charge at them and the cries and yells of the men ere heard. The cannon boonts, blasting the air with frightful sounds,' while knives flash on all sides. Over the deck the pirates swarm," some of diem!: felling i'with loud, Then tho battle' is over and, the pirates have won. They face the girls with mocking laughs and brand- ish their Nivea at thein threateningly. Some of them are already Rooting the slip, The :leader looks at Marie greedily declaring that she is his prise. The girls all cower back as the pirates boldlynufro thein. Then they are robbed of their meaer posses. .*ions iaeladsg.theiIP dovrrield., The pirates now take the girls to their camp near' the river mouth. They huddle together and stare in panic. at the coarse wrangling of the pirates. But suddenly, male voices ate heard. singing a marchingsong. It is Captain Richard Warrington and his Colony troops of mercenaries -the trappers! The girls are forted to remain still as the sound of the foci dl cps diminish" • But Marie seizes•a burning torch. Brandishing it; she runs up the hill from where: she can still heal the marching song. Calling loudly for help she des perately tries to escape the pirate whet isnow rune ning after her in pursuit. He aims his knife, vicious» J, t,eire arij1g to throw it at her deferiselets..C+"a%.' Will e stop her? pont miss the next thrilling Installment of " Na-ughty Marietta."