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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-05-02, Page 6CANADA PASSENGER HAZARD That a motorist may lose every- thing he owns as a result of a kind- ly gesture in giving a Wt to a friend 1.5 not an imaginative situation. Such cases have been through the courts. And while the motorist, when he has been at fault, cannot complain if he has to bear the cost of injur• ies to pedestrians or the occupants of other cars on the highway, he has, it seems, valid ground for coni- plaint if the guest in his own car in accepting a ride accepts no risk, the liability, if any, falling on the mo- torist as a • mesult of ;,his generous impulse.—Toronto Telegram. FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHT. The remark by a Toronto profes- sor that Edison was not the inven-. for of electric light may surprise a number of people, but that is quite true. The first electric lamp was produced by Sir Joseph Swan, who was born at Sunderland, England, in 1828. He was a chemical engineer who first achieved success in im- provements in photograpbv. He made a carbon filament lamp as early as 1862, and in 1880 exhibited the first filament vacuum lamp — St. Thomas Times -Journal. FASCISM, NOI—COMMUNISM, NOI In these stressful uncertain times every quack, charlatan and ` unscru- pulous. nscrupulous mercenary rubs his hands in ghoulish glee, realizing that a world in tr"avaiI, suffering countless agon- ies, is looking in every direction for quick relief. • Prolific in promises and adept at painting word pictures of milleni urns on earth, these vultures often succeed in stampeding (great num- bers of unthinking morons into the belief that by sacrificing the hard- won liberties their ancestors fought and died to achieve, they will ease their sufferings and. quickly dissolve the graver„ problems which have baf- fled affled the ablest' of. our statesmen and the shrewdest of our business men and economists for many years on �n Soviet Russia, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, et al, have slaughtered mil - /ions of intelligent people from all walks of life,.simply to impose upon the remainder a 'ruthless dictator ship, in which no man, woman nor tehiid can call his soul his own. An entire nation has been reduced to a state of abject terror and hopeless slavery. Powerful forces of' espiore age render life a hell on earth for countess millions of suffering• hu- manity. The firing squad working night and day to obliterate the last vestiges of independent thought so that the power lust of a few domin- ant individuals may be gratified without let or hindrance. We find the same forces at work in Germany, Italy and some of the smaller nations of Europe, where under the name of fascism, moronic forces are stampeded into fettering themselves with shackles from which they will not escape for generations to come. Entire races are being regimented tto furnish gun -fodder for ambitions militarists. The working olaases in all these countries are being mercilessly re- pressed, are forced to work long hours for little or no remuneration. l for the ago-cailed glorification of e State. In reality, simply to gra• i ty the vanities of a sina1l coterie if power -loving men. Dictatorship in saw guise means ate negation of freedom, To those ehosle liberties have been tarn away 4t matters little if the slave-driver Nearly every adult carries a watch of some sort, and it would ap- pear that the watchmaker could be assured of continuity of employ- ment. But, according to a state- ment by a delegation of the Cana- dian Jewelers' Association, boys are not learning the watchmakers' art as apprentices. The delegation stated that there was not an apprentice in watch- making in any of the Taronto jew- elry stores, and that the associa- tion was looking to the technical schools for the watchmakers of the future. The dearth of apprentices in the watchmaking trade is not an isolat- ed example of the change that has taken place in methods in handi- crafts although the situation in the jewelry trade may be more surpris- ing in that there does not appear to be any serious falling off In the work to be done.—Edmonton Jour- nal. GOOD SHOTS. The slingshot was given a great Ileal of undeserved popularity by the success which David achieved against Goliath with its assistance. At least that is the view of the Sault Public Utilities Commission. And the reason is that in three days last week there were 74 street lights broken by boys in the Moffly subdivision section who have man- aged to acquire a certain facility in the use of these slingshots. These street lights will cost $111 to replace and naturally the com- mission is prepared to take drastic notion against the culprits. These be circumscribing and re- stricting times for the small boy, but perhaps it would not take many $111 items for street lights to make the cdmmission feel that it had to boost the rates. And vl'1at then?—Sault Ste. Ma- rie Star. THE PUBLIC HAS A PART. The public has a direct and active part in the success of a newspaper. The newspaper is a public servant giving an efficient and accurate run- thinks, unthinks, does and wants to do. It has, if it is adequately performing its duty, scores, and in some cases hundreds -hi collaboraters, who in their own wish to build up the com- munity are anxious to see that in- formation nformation reaches the editor and re- porteer's, News -gathering is no mag- ic process by which material is "snatched out of the air" as a con- juror producea a rabbit from a hat. It is a process built up on experi- ence,..tact and skill on the part of the newspaperman and good -will and co-operation on the part of the public. — Kirkland Lake Neel:. Seel; rosi oirt - Relief ,..eleaer Alva 13. Adams, Co];;Senator Morris Sheppard, Tex.; Cardirector l Hinton, soil Senator Edward UP. Costigan, Col.; Congressman Jack Nichols, Okla, and H. B. Bennett, Agricul�ure Department, pictured (left to right) after conferring with President Roosevelt in regard to $100,000,000 appropriation of soil erosion -relief work in the mid -west and south-west. be named Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, or Huey Long.—The Toronto Labor Leader. DEARTH OF WATCHMAKERS. you, with a face Iilee that, eh?" asked the sergeantanajor. "He just said, 'Good morning, -ser- geant -major,' " replied the recruit.— Calgary Herald. THE EMPIRE HIS NIBS: The new Office of Works order restricting the issue of toilet soap to civil servants to one tablet per per- son every two months recalls a story of Sir W. S, Gilbert's youth- ful experience in a Government of- fice. His chief, a rigid economist, strictly regulated the issue of sta- tionery. He allowed each clerk 12 pen nibs a month, but on one occa- sion accidentally gave Gilbert 13. Gilbert went to him at once, deter portunity, "IIf you please, sir," h began. "In regard to my allowance of nibs—," "I cannot discuss the matter," snapped the chief, rising to the bait; "I consider twelve nibs an ample allowance for any clerk." "Certainly, sir," replied Gilbert. "I have no wish to question your wisdom. I merely wish to report that I have received thirteen nibs, and have hastened to you with the superfluous one in order that it may be returned to store at once," -- Manchester Guardiau, NATURAL ERROR. The latest recruit had celebrated his Saturday leave by returning to barracks with two lovely black eyes and a face like an overripe to- mato, The sergeant -major let off steam In the old-fashioned style. "Report to the guardroom at ponce, you blithering numskull!" he roared. "And while you're about it, hang your faoe out of the window as a warning to your pals as they come in." Passing the guard -room about an hour later the sergeant -major espied the recruit with his face at the win- dow. "Anybody seen you yet?" he bawl- ed out. "Yes, sir," said the recruit, "the colonel has just passed." "And what did he have to say to SEEKING MORE 'TRAINING The tragedy of the lack of em- ployment mployment for boys of school -leaving age is reflected in the eagerness with which technical education is sought, and in the inability of the existing schools to meet the de- mands made upon them. Boys • and :parents recognize that in the com- petition for work the trained boy is the only one who has a chance of recognition among the multitude of al>plicants. On the reopening of the schools after the Christmas holidays it was found impossible to meet all the demands for enrolment.—The Australasian, - Princess Louise Patron of Art ueen Victoria's Daughter Studied Sculpture ,.; Herself: ADVICE TO FAR11ERS Dr. Viljoen strongly urges upon Lamlmers the .recognition and ado - tion of two '.fundamental points of agricultural practice that have been consistently preached by the Sunday Times for years; namely, that the supply of stockfeed can never be too large for o country like South Afri- ca; and that experience gained as a result of drought and depression must be applied in practice. Even in times of comparative prosperity, he says, darrners snould accept the pro position that depressions, like droughts, are natural phenomena, and should always bear in mind that "the uneconomic burdens with which they saddle themselves will be so much more unbearable when the in- evitable stringency occurs." He is: convinced that -if farmers proceed along these lines they in :have nothing to feet -for the future. --Soh._ annesburg Times. steno's =daughter•. • prin- ,Louise, who was 87 years old rob 19, still lives in the part of K n+sington Palace where her Moth- elf othelf was born and where 98 years ago her mother learned tbat she was a Queen. Princess Louise's statue of Queen Victoria as a. young woman (still regards the children in the Board, Walk in Kensington Palace Gardens, and the children, according to Barrie, call it "the penny queen" through associations with the Queen in the Victoria pennies," Princess Louise, who is the King'is aunt, had the reputation of being - the 'best -dressed daughter of Queen Victoria, and it is said by her friends at Court that ea the years go on she is better and better dressed and a model to all elderly women. Her husband, the Duke of Argyll, died in 1914.: She still has her estate of Roseheath" and goes to Scotland for same months every year. Princess Louise had several artist friends,'the chief of them Sir Edgar Boehm, who taught her• sculpture, and Sir John Millaes. • She took her art as she took life, very seriously. She never went to Ascot or Epsom aryd probably never attended a race meeting, and al- thougur she went to Marlborough House to dinner she never attended a dance there and never danced at a count' . It wasballthrough her intercession that Queen Victoria waived her rule "NAUGHTY MARIETTA' 43 never to receive women whose mar- riages • had been divorced or annul- led, and at one time her parties at Kensington Palace were the only ones in royal society where artists could be seen. Soviet Prisons Groups From The United States To Study Penal Conditions The problem of crime and pun- ishment in Russia this year is at- tracting the attention of studensis of penology and social science, The va- rying accounts of the Soviet penal system that have come to the Unit- ed States have prompted organized groups to see what Rusrsia does with her wrong -doers. Joseph Fulling Fishman will lead such a group this summer,' sailing July 10. This group will arrive in Lenin - geed ,on enin-g ed,on July 22 and remain in Rus- sia 'until Aug. 21, making trips . to reformatories, ,jails, and juvenile -•in stitutions in. the interior. The form- er summer palace of the Czars at Tsar'skoe Selo, which is now a chil- dren's institution, will provide the first 'view of the Russian system. Then come Petrozavodsk, capital of the Soviet Karelian Republic, .the fishing villagers, along Lake Onega and Medvezhia Gora, which 'was the base of building operations of the Baltic -White Sea canal project, one of Russia's new waterways. The city prison of Leningrad, the People's Commissariat of Justice at Moscow, the Norvitski prison for wo- men, the Institute tor Judicial PsY- chiatry, the Kharkov institute for the protection of workers' health and various communes and model cities -which have been built for the children of workers are on the itin- erary of the group. This ds only one of many groups that will head for Russia during the summer; many will observe opera- tions and others will relmain in one or another .of the Rul Asian universit- ies niversities to study more intensely the phil- osophy of the new Russia.. "Let us train be heroes and Andre Maurois. our young people to not bookworms." -- "I am not yet class of dotard old days appear Wright, a candidate for that to whom only the good." --Harold Bell Collector of Old Cars Finds The Hobby Profitable Wren a .movie producer or an au tomobile maker wants a car of anc- ient vintage the chances are that IL 13, Twohy, of Los Angeles can supply it, He collects old automobiles and owns one of the world's largest fleet of antique cars in running order. A suprisingly . profitable business has developed from the collection that he' started as a hobby, with the pur- abase of a 1902 Pierce -Arrow. Wherever Twohy drove this acqui- sition crowds gathered. A merchant, seeing the display value of the relic, paid Twahy to place advertisements on it. Then a movie company hired it, Twohy began buying obsolete cars repainting and reconditioning them,. and sending them forth to advertise his enterprise: When his machines found increasing demands for auto shows, parades, motion pictures, and advertising purposes, he offered cash rewards for information as to where cars 20 years or more old could be found. Today his collection numbers 25 .such cars including an 1898 Hayes-Apperson, a 1908 Ford and a 1911 White Steamer. A modern motorist would be at a loss to handle these old-timers and Twohy and his two sons are lite only ones who drive them. With the pas- sing of time the cars will become in- creasingly valuable—a veritable mu- seum on wheels, and a profitable one One large collection of automotive antiquities has been made by anoth- er Californian, David Gray, Jr., of Montecito, whose 36 cars, all in per- fect running order, include a one - cylinder Cadillac, a one -cylinder Oldsmobile, and a revolutionary two. cylinder Peerless, all of 1902. ....Mr. Gray, whose father -was one of the first partners and backers of Henry Ford, insists that each car added to his collection must be able to come up to the gates under its own power and that every part of the car must be the maker's original part. BLOOD TESTS WILL PROVE NON -PATERNITY Blood Groupings `To Aid In Deciding Legitimacy Of Children Brooklyn ' - The a plication' of blood' .grouping ' tests. developed 'at the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, and embodied in legislation just enacted in New York state, Is explained by Dr. A. S. Wiener, associate in the di- vision of genetics and bimetrics, at the lowish hospital. They may be used in cases of dis- puted paternity. The presumption that all children born in lawful wed- lock are legitimate may be overcome said Dr. Wiener, by scientific proof that the husband could not be the father of the child, Thus, if the mother belongs to group "A" the and to group "B," and the husband to group "A," the husband could not be the father of the child, since the guild possesses a substance "B" which neither of the supposed parents has. "The tests," he added, "can only be used to prove non -paternity, and not to prove paternity. In criminal cases, Dr. Wiener said, the blood .grouping tests are valuable for purposes of identification. He cited as an example the case of a criminal who escaped after being pursued and wounded by police. Some of the criminal's, blood left at the scene of the crime is grouped and found to belong to Group "B" and type "M". Later, several individ- uals ndividuals are apprehended, and it is known that one of these has commit- ted the creme. Ali individuals except those belonging to geoup "B" type "M," can be eliminated immediately, Based on Musical Adventure Romance by VICTOR HERBERT Princess MVlarie, still disguised as her own maid, slips away *14 joins a marionette show for she is deter- ' mined not to marry any of the 'French colonists in New °rlean9, even though she has sailed with the other girls to escape her aging suitor Don Carlos. All day Marie finds happiness in her work and while the puppeteer* mlanipulate_ the dolls she sings fat titers.~ ' But that evening while she is at supper with War.' rington the trapper, who 'vas rescued her from pirates, the town crier rides by, announcing a reward. for information about Marietta Pranini which is Marie's assumed name. Her cruel uncle, the Prince, has learned of her flight, Although Marie and War• rit'tgton have just had a lovers' quarrel he Motectsi. her, titling' her behind some burlap bags." Whl le the crowds scurry excitedly about the town; Warrington quickly takes her to hit boat to help her escape. But on the opposite shore they run into trouble. The police are there to meet them War» rington attempts to fight them off but Marie, fear- ing for his safety, quietly subrnits to her captors. It la then Warrington is stunned to learn she is a French Princess., Marie is brought to the Governor's palace, He shows her the ring's mandate directing that she he placed under custody of her uncle who has now arrived with Dort Carlos. She is to sail to France to ' be married, immediately after the grated ball that night. And if Warrington attends he will be .'jot Will he be there? Don't miss next week's con* eluding installment .o , "Nauglxty TVJartari,p."