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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-06-20, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE CANADA THE LEGGINGS. This column doesn't see anything snore entertaining in this paper than Dan McDonald's record of his tribu- lcitions while rambling around Algoma as tip: `+t ar'r, travelling reporter, Mr. McDonald has no particular fancy for being,bitten by farm dogs, and his theory that tin leggings would solve the difficulty --or hoop skirts as an- other member of the family suggests —may have something in it. So it made Dan feel good to strike a Finnish settlement. where they rap their dogs over the knucites after the first growl with the result that Fin- nish innish dogs remain in state cti¢d when a visitor 'heaves in. sight. It is al- ways a. se, ie, Mr, McDonald says, to call..hs anyway because t' their homeslnett are always spotlessly clean, they 'talk good English, and there prevails an air of thrift and hard work. The average farm dog in Algoma doubtless gets that way from chas- ing wolves, and we are sorry he does not make an exception in favor of our travelling reporter. --Sault Ste. Marie Star. THE WORLD AT LARGE Ana then—O, joy, perhaps, or per- haps merely 0, 'boy --You receive not 15,025 letters in which your naive is first on the list, but you receive 15,- 025 remittances of ten cents each, because your name is first on the list. And then you give a party. -- Vancouver Province. WHAT A PARADE' Canada is a "travel wealthy" coun- try, having over 1,100,000 motor ve- hicles --one for every 10 inhabitants. • If the motor vehicles of Canada were mustered out in one monster parade with 100 feet of highway allowed each vehicle they would form a procession over 20,000 miles in length, and with a little crowding, utilizing trucks and buses, the whole population might be carried. Canada has about 400,000 miles of highways, whioh provide a spending place of "travel n ad- dition t her own heavy motor an even greater motorcade of 3,201,848 automobiles from other countries travelled over the Domin- ion'•s highway systems during 1934. —Canada Week by Week. AN EXAMPLE. An Ontario chauffeur has just es- tablished this record, 800,000 miles in an automobile in 18 years without an accident. This should be surely enough to convince anyone that it is still possible, in the year of grace 1935, to venture out on our asphalt and concrete speedways without ex- posing oneself to a crash or a smash. For this record indicates 120 miles ver is in e ofan per day. au obus. Yeti he doesn ti con - eider himself a hero. His system, it he will give it you, will be some- thing like this: "Keep your mind on your job, and don't go hunting after thrills." That is excellent common- sense, but commonsense isn't to be found on all highways, alas! as the siiounting toll of accidents shows.— La Press, Montreal. ALA�S� DOBBIN. a.e utu etas �o'-.Yx 4.�1ar.:M• Y+`ie`s"."ak: ,' =a0.1, pillage, fashionable suburb of Toron- to, oronto, have become unkindly toward one of man's best friends, the horse. A bylaw is to be submitted to council which would make it a criminal of.. Tense to drive a 'horse on the street there after 10 p.m. or before 8 a.m. The sponsor claims dozens or people are being treated for nervous aiiments because they can't get sleep at nights. This sounds like one of the most far-fetched ideas that we have heard for many a long day. One would al- most imagine upon reading the news item that horses are driven about the streets for the specific purpose of rousing householders. Surely there are not so many milk delivery wagons that the residents are actually kept awake. , We submit that motor horns are roueTh more troublesome, even in Smitll*localities, in recent years. There is a sort of rhythm to the tramp of horses' hoofs to which one ought to become accustomed, but the hYthm is sadly lacking in the honk- ing of the average horn.—Border Gtities Star. MOTOR ACCIDENTS. The Ottawa journal comments on an item which appeared in its col- umns on May 10 last, reproduced from 25 years ago. It was to the the screen would cause sudden blind. effect that Ottawa had its first fat- ness and probably a serious smash. The frequent dropping of the slap - bangs from town balconies has now become very much worse than be- fore. We would therefore ask the. police authorities to prohibit the'sale of such things in Egypt, prescribing a strongly deterrent punishment for all vendors and users.—The Sphinx, Cairo. "Mr. and Mrs. America";,•;wo life-size doll Jatat1 ill make es a 25,d 000y -mile journe' in the . in terests of good -will between tl i Jnited States a d p , n ew York to the Japanese Governmfi. t represented by theellHon. R. S a ads (ii ht), JapaneseaConsul Gen- eral, and M. Y. Indmata (left) ;Dolls will travel through Japan tore bombs on the pavement, for the simple joy of scaring passers-by. Tin's year saw a very dangerous departure, for there were numeous cases of boys and in some cases young men and, women flinging the missiles at the screens of motor cars. ,A direct bit in the driver's face or a shower ,of the loading stones from the side_ of salty through the agency of the a mobile. Perhaps it would be well for ar communities today if they greatly shocked and concerned when scene one is killed or even badly in- jured as. they were 25 years ago. Safety on the highways will not be assured until drivers of motor ears become impressed with the conscious- ness that they are handling clanger - our machines that require unceasing vigilence and caution. The Depart- ment of Highways in Ontario is do- ing its utmost to promote safety in travel, but it can .only succeed if given co-operation by the public.— Brantford Expositor. A HEN CAN'T BE HAPPY NOW And now it is the National Invent- Gangressewb-leh .rs n•cenYentaou.. has picked on the hen, and there is a new device on exhibition. The hens go on the nests and if they lay eggs'they open a door through which they •can go out and mix with the producers. If no egg is produced there is another door which opens and the hen walks out to be numbered with the non -producers, and in the corner of this room stands the axe. It's not nhuch fun being a hen any more.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. HISTORIC ROCK TO BE BLASTED "Honeynioon Poinl:^" To Tllan,- WEATHER THAT SUiTS• Fifteen thousand Doukhobors plan to leave western Canada to become re-establtshpd_ in Paraguay, the clim- ate of which,.' we presume will be more suited to nude parades than that of the' Prairies.—Beeckville Re- corder. _. • NATURE'S WAY A negro in Chicago, hit in the head by a bullet, flattened it with his skull. Perhaps the people of that city are changing in physique in order to ad- apt themselves to the environment.— Hamilton Herald. THE EMPIRE ��4�eaSI'it NITRA ES IN THE SOVIET Fixation Plants Are Needed For Industry and Farni With the development of agricul- ture in Soviet Russia came the need of fertilizers, which means nitrogen in some fixed form. What has been done in the last five years is re- vealed by Professor P. Cbekin in in Planovye Khoziaystvo (Planned Economics). IIe pictures the "capi- talistic countries" erecting nitrate plants for the manufacture of ex- plosives and onlyeincidentally of fer- tilizers. How different in Russia! Farming needs are the prime consid- eration, according to him. Perhaps. But a stands g army as large as any in, Europe e ssuredly requires pow - dc •Ilee p,; y,.essor estimates that 2,- 600,000 ions,' of nitrogen are taken from .ofSet soil every year by crops. v;;s .,sucit_„pod-bearing plants Niagara Fels, Ont. — ,I3istoric Table Rock, overhanging tae Horse- shoe Falls on the Canadit'in sideof mighty Niagara, wil be. blasted with explosives July 1, the parks continis- sion announced recently. Decision to blow up the 5,500 tons of rock in the 30 -foot overhang was made by the commission as a safety measure, feeling danger to sightseers through erosion and previous rock- falls. The commission to -day set Dominion Day for the "big boom." L. L. Gisborne, works superintend- ent of the parks, described the over- hang as a cave extending back 30 or 40 feet which undermined the guard rail, sidewalk and part of the road- way. The rock, known also as "Honey- moon Point," has been the scene of several falls, dating back more than 100 years. In 1823 there was a fall that carried away a large mass, though the platform was left in front of Table Rock House. Other falls occurred in 1842 and 1850. In De- cember, 1934, more than 200,000 tons of rock "let go." Rushing waters of the Niagara River have gradually worn backthe brink of the falls, from two to four feet a year. Table Rock, overlooking the great cataract, has been subjected to constant lashing of spray from the bottom of the falls, and this has worn away the soft shale lying be- neath the hard dolomitel crust. Engineers estimated that the weight of the overhanging rock would eventually become so great the pre-. cipice would part and the ledge drop THERE TO STAY While (Russia apart) there has been in the last few years no tend- ency towards an increase in the num. ber of women in employment, the apparent stagnation masks great changes. Women are leaving agricul- ture in most countries, a movement that he suggests is sound economic- ally since it is in sort the reflection of advancing mechanisation, and sound socially, for it means that women are leaving work that is often. (especially in the peasant countries) excessively hard and exhausting for work more suited to their physique. In other in- dustries, particularly the light indus- tries, commerce, and non -manual oc- cupations, women's employment has been steadily increasing, The evid- ence of a sex war and of the ousting of men from jobs by women does not, in any general sense, exist, and the attempts to divert women from em- ployment in the supposed interests of men find their ground only in the desperation of the depression. -- Manchester Guardian. BELIEVE IT -OR NOT1 Ripley has. discovered a man in Milwaukee who !sold tobacco for 50 years but never used it. Neither did Sir Willi=Um Macdonald, who made an immense fortune out of the mane facture, of tobacco in Montreal and *swim called the chewing 01 the plugs that he' made "a filthy habit", — Brockville. Retarder. CHAIN -HEADACHES. Bold on to your poor head, dear reacher (unless you were one of the deai"caders wlio sent us one of those chain letters), and let ns try to work it mit together. It's only alittle exercise in the higher mathematics and lot; of flgilres in the nth power, in' etter, yourha 1 , with You scud out �c five- names on it, your own name be - int; the last..You send it out to five different persons. It'ach .one of them sends out a.letter to rive different per- sons, that that 25 different persons receive a Letter on which your name de now 'the fifth on the list. Then 125 persons (five bine. 25) receive a letter in which your liame is fourth itt ihe list. Then 0:35 persons receive a loiter It which yon',name is third in the list. Then 3,125 persons (five times (i25 ---just lo hop you in touch With the cyst++m i PO! "S a hettrr 111 *Moll your mime is .r,ce nd in the 1st, eV t'�tt 7 ".KrfS' t^•�rw•w�u duce ' 1�y 1,21%000 tons; for the bac- teria i'l4 ich brow on the roots of the pool -bearers have the miraculous pow- er of" extracting nitrogen from the air and transferring it in chemically assimilable form to the soil. This leaves a deficit of 1,400,000 tons of nitrogenous fertilizer, which is met by 'the usual plants for the produc- tion of synthetic ammonia, calcium cyanamide, nitric acid and other forms of fixed nitrogen. There are also coke -oven plants that yield ammonia sulphate as a by-product. Peat,, brown coal, natural gas, blast furnace gas every possible source of nitrogen has been studied by theaNit- rogen Institute of Moscow. At present no fertilizers are im- ported. But such are the needs of industry and agriculture that bigger and better nitrogen -fixation plants are necessary. By what process fertilizer is made depends much 'on the region. Near Moscow brown coal is the source of nitrogen. In the Ural district, N'T stern Siberia and the Donbass country. it is the retort coke oven; in Transcaucasia it is the oil in- dustry, and in Central Asia syn- thetic ammonia produced with the aid of hydroelectric energy. Writers Should( Ierpret Life • As It Really Is Note of Reaiisne Often Lacking . Tn 1 action Submitted to Magaeiuc ;, •: Editor Declares Ottawa. -- Canadian fiction writers' lack a note of realism in their stories, Miss Wilma Tait, editor of the Canadian Home Journal, told the seventh triennial convention of the Canadian Women's Press Club re- cently. Authors generally seemed to lack the moral courage to interpret life as it really is. Editors were avid for ' good ma- terial, Norma Philips Muir, well- known fiction writer said, speaking on the subject of marketing. Three years ago the market for stories and articles had fallen to a low level of demand, with a high level of supply. Many who found themselves . rde- prived of their rcl;nlar means of livelihood turned in desperation to writing. Editorial offices had been flooded with drivel. Conditions today were different.. Agents now report they cannot find •sufficient good stories to satisfy the deniaiids editors make on them, said Miss Muir. They stressed quality. Fac1110es. in stories changed and writers must keep in step with the changes. H. Napier Moore, of MacLeari's Magazine devoted ,half as hour to answering questions. Editor' had a natural predilection for "big names," but good material b3 writers not widely known was, he said, more general. Mr. Moore ad• vised his hearers to get the trend the day to work into their stories. An editor studies the crowds. Ie was his job to gauge as far as pos. Bible the type of story `which would have the widest appeal 'Marie manuscripts submitted by Canadian writers were badly 'written,'., .Mr Moore said. The convention decided to estab. lisp for the next three years, a comp petition whose prize would be valued annually at $25, with a suitabll medal, to be known as the Members' Memorial Award. presented Miss Winifred Stokes p'' the report of the Kit Memorial Fund, established in memory of the latch Kathleen Blake Coleman. Since its! inception $650 had been raised and this would be used to establish a scholarship in literature or journal- ism for women at McMaster Univere sity, Hamilton. BLUENOSE CROSSES ATLANTIC SAFELY Nova Scotia Schooner Look- ' ing For Races Along The English Coast Plymouth, England. — The barn- storming Bluenose, Nova Scotian fishing schooner has completed the 20 -day crossing of the Atlantic and looks forward to a Summer season of racing in English waters. Her skipper, Captain Angus Wal- ters who took her out of Halifax harbor on May 9, said the crossing was "uneventful." Bluenose is expec- ted to engage in a series of races at ports aroung the English coast until September. Originally it was planned to have the mistress of the North Atlantic fishing fleets race across the Atlan- tic with a Gloucester fishing schoon- er, but this project fell through. Cap- tain Walters hoped, however, to pit his ship against the Gertrude L. WEALTH. A woman has said in court that with 60,000 pounds to her name she would not call herself ride. In an- other court a baukrnpt said that he did not feel wealthy on 6,000 pounds r a year and sometimes was very hard up. An actress who had more; than 0,000 pounds a year has told how she had spent. 10,000 pounds. These pedple have missed a lot of fun. A man who feels rich because he has a pound in his pocket is 50 times as well off as any of them .--••Haut edhester Sunday Chronicle, latches off Gloucester this fall for the fishermen's trophy now held by the Lunenberg schooner. Aboard the Bluenose as she slid into the harbor here were Marion Young, 17 -year-old Halifax telephone operator; F. W. "Casey" Baldwin, aviation pioneer Walters' two sons, Robert 21, and Pat, 13, and Captain Harry Buke, veteran Lunenberg skipper. nearly 200 feet into the gorge. Greatest Census Of Traffic Will Be' Taken In Britain London. Ten thousand enumera- tors will be engaged on the greatest traffic census ever taken in Great Britain. They will keep watch from be- tween 5,000 and 6,000 specially se- lected points. Forthe first time pe- destrians will be counted at difficult street crossings. With the exception of steam rollers, every type of road vehicle will be included, from ex- press has to market cart. This census announced 'recently by Leslie Horebelisha, minister of trade - pat, in the House of Commons, will be caFried out during the week qo1 August 12. Its principal object i$ :o "SLAP BANGS" 1N EGYPT. provide adequate data for road ian- Shorn Esl Nessien brought with it provement on a scientific basis, ''' last Monday a far greater sale ito 1 .. . �1 Nevous explos vo We exagerate misfortune a d •hildi rn of that mischievous < " Time alike. We are never esti toy known as the "slap -bang. r happiness a o wit when the youth of the country ( so wretched or so happy a 'we t'ere content to throw these minis• we aro, — Belem, 200 Year - Old Coin Is Found Spanish Design — Leamington Man Digs It Out Of Garden Leamington. — -• A coin dating back to 1774 is in the possession of W. Richards, who dug it up in his gar- den here., The coin of silver and slightly thinner and larger than a 25 cent piece is considerably worn+ but as nearly as can be made out is of Spanish origin, How it arrived .in Mr. Richards' back yard, is a mys- tery. On the face, the coin bears very plainly, the date, and the inscription "vtra qui vnum," together with the letters "out" one above the other at one side of the date. 'There is no p, i dis- cernable is ce le figure. iab On the back is a shield which the best local knowledge interpreted to be the lions and castles of the Span- ish pa -ish kinge. Around the border eve the abreviations, "KITS. V, D. G. HISP, LT. IND. R." Whether the coin is of any par- ticular value is not known. It is more cliffieuht, and calls :for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr that to die one. --•• Horace Mann. er Value Of Mines Production Up Toronto. — The value of metalli- ferous production from Ontario mines, smelters and refineries in the first quarter of 1935, totaled $29,- 517,953 in Canadian funds, compared with $27,864,933 in the corresponding quarter of 1934, an increase of 5.9 per cent. The increase was in nickel and copper, gold, silver and cobalt showing smaller declines. In the last quarter 500,299 ounces of fine gold were produced, compared with 506,962 ounces in the first quar- ter of the previous year. Silver pro- duction fell off from 1,375,474 oun- ces to 1,111,407, while copper in blis- ter and ores increased from 39,351,- 411 pounds in the first three months 1;000 Auto Drivers Lose Their Permits f s Tells O Minister of Highway. M • Action in Four Months Toronto. — Hon. T. B. McQuestion, Minister of Highways, revealed re- cently that approximately 1,000 mo- tor vehicle drivers in the province had had their driving licenses sus- pended during the first four months of this year, as a result of the drive to check the alarming increase in auto accidents and fatalities by im- posing more severe penalties .for vio- lations of traffic rules. "Since September, 1930, more than 15,000 suspensions have been imposed and 5,000 of these are still in force," he added. "I cite the figures to show that the threat of loss of driving privileges is no idle one. Those who persist in breaking the law,.willy o' lating the rules of safety, ei .driven from our highways." e The minister's statement regarded with concern the continued increast in auto accidents, injuries and deaths, and asked for "increased co-operation. of law enforcementaboutgenciesbetter bser of to bring vane of traffic regulations. Accom- panying the statement were accident statistics for April, showing an in. - crease of 16 per cent in the number of accidents in comparison with the of 1934, to 56,632,053 pounds in the samenonth a year ago, and an in first quarter of this year, and nickel crease of 7 per eeitt .pi the total fot from 26,964,806 pounds to 29,021,486the first four months :of the year, Ontario department of mines fig - pounds. The April figures also slitiwed double the number .o:f deaths (front 19 to uses show that 32 gold mines milled 38), .from auto accidents and an 19 9.2 per 'cent. more ore in thefirst the per cent increase in the number of three months of this ear than persons injured. 20 mines operating in the first quar- ter of 1934 milled, but the value of the bullion marketed was 1.7 per cent. lower ie. the 1084 .period. Influenza Is 1.31am' ed To Get Results, Study Household Appliances How many could mend a fuse or give the correct voltage of t err For Child Deafness ectric current and the cost of light - iing their homes : per hour? Every Toronto. --- Possibility that the housewife ougli.t..to know about do - sharp rise in deafness among Child -! 1 tnestic electrical facilities as a man ren noted recently by medical 'nen,' has to know about the cost of AS articularly in the United States, goods he sells in the labor market, p influenza fluenza a i- I • heis concerned with a shop, may be traced to the ni p � whether demic of 1918 and use of thugs in, en insurancea hospital, Company, , treating this disease, was suggested clinic, or an artists studio, by Dr. Gordon Wilson, ear, eye, inose I and throat specialist, of Chicago, at •I Every t Y woman an should ss trive to u n, logical Society here recently, 1eetice nsher work, duty adcodetestand the business of life asi the conventionof the American Otoe., A.nong children •r'egistered hn, fort .of her family. Tile lOPBew ilei schools for the deaf in Seutheriii has a duty to provide a health s , 6 were environment for husbatld an4 •, States, said Dr, Wilson,. happy Dorn in the second half of I918. The nhilclren, To this end she must study 1 average of children born. in corres-' 53 the ways and means of running the le ponding ninths was 200c i house on modern lines with nioc eaa te "It is sugested," said the special 'methods. • ist;' "that an endeavor be made to f In ac�Y' find out if this sharp rise has any The happiness of is in ,y 'elation to drugs given during the tion; its test it«•�- a'at one is willini( epicleinic.r, to do for others. Lew Wallace.