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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-07-04, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE 1 CANADA FARM LABOR Some idea of the effect of machin- asry upon agricultural employment in Canada may be glimpsed from the last four Dominion censuses. In 1901 the number of workers on Canadian farms was 45 per cent. of all those gainfully employed in the whole Do- minion. In 1911 the percentage drop- ped to 33. In 1931, according to the census it was found that agriculture was employing only 28 per cent. of all those gainfully employed.—Winni- peg Tribune. THE WORLD AT LARGE Aged 88, John Thorns, a successful contractor, has just returned to Syd- ney—by the first trip of a new plane service. It took him just two hours, And there, in brief -words, and the experience of one man, is the whole history of modern progress in trans- portation: Halifax Herald. IT'S THE GLANDS. An American physician who makes a special .study of human glands an- nounces that if people are clever it is because of the kind of glands they have; if they are "dumb," it is owing to their glands. In short, be says that whatever we are, whether we are good, bad or indifferent, is decided• for us by our glands—St. Thomas Times -Journal. KNOW THEIR BANANAS. London, of course, has an enorm- ous appetite. It swallows food of all sorts from all parts of the world in shipload lots, Last month, the docks records ishow how' it took into its maw more than 50,000 bunches of bananas, one big ship's cargo in one day. The Jamaica boat arrived at the West India dock with 51,954 bunches of Bananas, and the ship broke bulk at 8 a.m., the whole cargo being discharged by 8.40 p.m. the same day. During the time shown 23,610 bun- ches were weighed and dispatched in 141 railway wagons to various parts of the country, and 28,344 bun- ches distributed by road vehicles to the London markets. This was a record performance compared with the handling of any previous ship- ment of bananas.—Brandon Sun, MA'ARM TEACHERS and FISHING Teachers, especially ma -arm teach- ers, have a horror of fishing. They be- lieve, perhaps rigbly, that fishing and hookey are closely allied. They have been known to despatch spies to known haunts in search of absentees and when this fails they demand sat- isfaction atisfaction next day. Some ardent fisherboys have tried to mollify teachers by surreptitious- ly leaving on her desk a very dead. flatfish or a one -legged crab, after the manner of Teacher's Pet bringing flowers or an apple. The bribe, how- ever, has never worked, except in reverse. mare is as yet no known method of convincing teacher that fishing is More important than geography, and there is here a great opportunity for the junior fishermen to conduct a thorough investigation for their ulti- mate benefit.—P. W. Luce, Vancou- ver Province. QUEER WORLD. Remember how pleased we used to be year after year as the western crop grew eves greater; now the possibility and the likelihood of VIZI Tpe"' r u761i is" be` it vig'iveii` vifl " alarm and apprehension. Isn't it a queer world? Many of us remember the scientists telling us that, about .now, the earth would not be able to provide food for her teem- ing millions. The trouble today is that, apparently too much food is be- ing produced, Or is it that the demand is equal to the supply, but that many are un- able to purchase because of lack of work and money and have to be con- tent with less than the essentials of lite?—Niagara Falls Review, IT'S A COMPLIMENT. We can forgive the Stratford Bea- con -Herald almost anything, except, however, when it quotes the Standard as the St. Catharines Journal. — St. Catharines Standard. ' HINT FOR BALD HEADS. A stenographer for the League of Nations at Geneva, has been given 81,950 compensation because of the claim that smoke, coming from a chimney into the room where she worked, caused ,her to become bald. If a number of men in Brantford and elsewhere could cash in on this basis there would be a severe strain on the monetary system.—Brantford Expos_ itor. WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS. Anyone who travels across Canada must realize that one thing this coun- try needs is a good coat of paint, The state of buildings pretty well across the Dominion suggests that a million pounds of paint could be used in Canada with good effect within the next year or so. Perhaps it should be a half million pounds, perhaps two millions, At any rate, the country could make use of a tremendous am- ount of paint. ---Regina Leader -Post. LARGEST LAKE. A year or so ago the News -Chron- icle entered into a discussion of the comparative sizes of Lake Superior and Lake Victoria, Nyanza in Africa, Someone, including some school tea- chers, advising their pupils, had de- clared the African lake to be the larger. Using all the information it could obtain from atlases and encycloped- ia, this paper proved, to its own satisfaction at least, that Superior was the larger and thus the largest lake in the world. This was definite if depth were considered, for it ap- pears that large portions of Victoria Nyanza's surface is only a foot or so above the bottom and much of it fill- ed with reeds and grasses. We now find the following parag- raph among those issued by a science service for use in newspapers as something "Interesting to Know." "It is estimated that Lake Super- ior exceeds in size its nearest fresh water rival, Africa's Lake Victoria Nyanza, by a thousand +square miles." :,,ax THE EMPIRE "Bye.Bye" On A 13;..Y) Built For Three Mother, dad and the baby take the highroad for an outing in the English countryside,.on ingenious carryall. This was .one of the many family groups taking part in recent outing of bicyclists at Cobham, England, recently, der which homework is attempted are well-nigh impossible.—London. Daily Herald. MADE IT BY ACCIDENT. Charles Frederic Cross (79), F.R. S., the man who gave women arti- ficial silk stockings, has died at his home at Hove, Sussex. The late Lord Melchett once de- clared: "If it had not been for two English chemists, young women would not have had the wonderful stockings they wear today." One of the two chemists was Mr. Cross; the other, E. Bevan, died in 1922. Mr. Cross had no idea of the boon to be conferred on women when ne and his colleague invented the cellu- lose process for spinning artificial silk over 40 years ago, The discovery was made while the two men were experimenting with bits of wood. A solution was found, which was poured into a container with a hole in the bottom and a cycle pump was used to pull it out through the hole like a thread of cotton. A company was formed to develop the spinning of artificial silk. In 1916 Mr. Cross was awarded the medal of the Society of Chemical Industry for "conspicious services to chemical industry."—London Daily Sketch. THE CINEMA VAN. There are those who read in trains, there are those who eat in trains, there are those who sleep in trains, and doubless there are those whose. attitude resembles that of the Old Countryman, who, when asked how the spent his time now that he was pensioned off, made answer: "Well, Miss, sometimes I sits and thinks, and ,sometimes I just sits." For those who "just sit" (and who also appen to have a shilling to 'spare) the Northeastern Railway Company has now provided an additional relax- aton in the shape of a "cinema van, which made its first journey from London to Leeds this week, with ,a preliminary blessing at King's Cross Station from Mr. J. H. Thomas. The van has a sloping floor, it can accom- modate an audience of 44 and the. charge is a shilling for a program that takes an hour, teachersregistered nurses, secre- One can therefore be whirled, ,RSA social workers and the like .efore they entered their present calling. A. few are college gradu- ates, As far as salary is concerned, pa- trolwomen and policewomen are T the same basis 000 on as the patrolwomen. t first year, They get $ , $2,250 the second, $2,500 the third, $2,750 the fourth and $3,000 the fifth. These salaries are at present subject to the customary depression cuts. Canadian 1 i.v. rs Prov Berlins On Trains Are Superfluous Montreal " -- Canadians may be clean people:, but they won't take bath, n. trains, To find this out has cog}, the 1, Iti1ways tens of thous of dollars: "Why don's they have baths on these trains?" groruched an Ameri- can one time, after four eti y'"days en the train. "I -Tow can they expect a than to keep clean on these dusty prairies?" an Englishman asked indignantly, as he explained he was going to Aus- tralia via Canada, and lie would not do it again. "I can have my bath on the At. 'antic, and my bath on the Pacific, but for four full days I have to go without it on the train," he wail- ed. Railway officials got their heads together, and in' 1929, the Canadian Pacific put out their "River" ser ies of solarium cars. The glass - to other duties, more or less under cover. Both classes will be seen in within the city limits. There they will keep order, see that bathing at- tire is reasonably decorous and watch out specially for lost children. Most of the women police officers are married and some have children. Where a policewoman is assigned to a station house, the regulations re- quire her to have available a steril- ized nursing -bottle and know where she can get milk and suitably modi- fy it for the comfort of infants as- tray. She also has a first-aid kit. Contrasted with this, she has a .32 calibre, six -shot revolver and she re- ports regularly for target practice. All members of this branch of the force have entered it through the Civil Service. They were admitted as physically perfect, or as nearly so as human beings can be. Their vision, hearing . and muscular strength have passed muster. Their intelligence quota is exceptionally high: Many of them were school ended River Rouge, River .Moira, and other "Rivers" soon were familiar sights et the end of the Trans -Can- ada L rans-Can-,adaLimiteds, The most important thing, the most -advertised item about them, was their baths, tub and shower. The Canadian National then in- troduced their bath tub ears, and they too ran from coast to coast. There was only one trouble. No- body ever bathed in them! After costly experiments, the rail- ways pulled their bath cars off that road. They have been idle in the shops for about three years now. Just the other day the Canadian' National took the baths out of them, converted the space into a lounge, and sent them back out in service. The Canadian Pacific are said to be thinking of doing the same thing, and converting the forgotten bath rooms into useful space. Ready Soon The bus conductor had had a haras- sing day. First of all, it was raining. Troublesome old ladies, irritating old men, and other bus pests had all com- bined to do their worst, It was get- ting late in the afternoon when an American tourist boarded the bus. "Say, conductor," he exclaimed, "I want your Saint Paul's Cathedral." "Oh, all right," replied the con- ductor, somewhat shortly. "I say," repeated the American in a louder tone. "I want your Saint Paul's Ca- thedral — and I want it quick." "Don't worry, guv-nor," retorted the now thoroughly fed -up conduc- tor; "I'm gettin' it wrapped up for you," ti 2ougxr tare-English',eottartrysir2o-`w immersed in the studio settings of Hollywood, or ride to York surroun- ded by the scenery of "Rome Ex- press."—Manchester Guardian". THE RURAL SCHOOL Time does not permit the rural school teacher to give much atten- tion to the so-called frills of educa- tion, but when it comes to the fun- damentals of learning such as read- ing, arithmetic, spelling, grammar. etc.. the rural pupils of Waterloo County are tip to the standard and can give a good account of 'them- selves when an opportunity presents itself.—l<itchener Record. THE PATHFINDERS. Ilero is a story that comes from the faroff Antipodes. ' In 1849, aged two years, John Them.; ::et out with -111s pioneering parenta from the Township of Syd- ney, A.tistralia, into the vast unknown plain; of New South Walesa It took them six weeks in a cov- ered bullock wagon to negoiate th,,, pa.ases of the barrier mountains and to rear.:, .the place where Narrom°ne, a thriving town, stands today. o1icewomeil ;.ave Bottles and Guns John W. Harrington in New York Times. Relatively few New Yorkers have ever seen a city policewoman -- at least to recognize one — but now this member of the force can readily be distinguished, for she has a new uniform, and this Sumner she will be on duty at the beaches and other resorts where great, crowds gather. A few days ago the policewomen and patrolwomen held a dress parade in their new tunics, which were evolved after consider able thought ' on the part of the Poli••e Department com- mittee on uniforms. The uniform consists essentially of a blue serge skirt and a blouse, or- namented with gilt butons, bearing the department insigne. The blouse is double-breasted and has a belt which is sewed down at the back to prevent anyone's grasping it in • a personal encounter. What appear to be outside pockets with flaps .are merely external ornaments. The real pockets of the blouse are on the inside. There are today 140 policewomen and patrolwomen on "the force" One hundred are in the Bureau of Police- women, of which Mrs. Mary A. Sul- livan is the director, and forty area in the Crime Prevention Bureau, of which Inspector Costume has charge. The function of these two classes are so intermingled that it is hard to dif- ferentiate them. Their rating is the same. The rank of patrolwomen was originated in New York city during the World War, when it was thought necessary to have a feminine force. to, police parks and other public places where large numbers of sol- diers and sailors congregated. These official chaperons were not in uni- form, but carried badges in their bags, Patrolwomen do a good dein'] of detective work in plain clothe', They are sent to get *evidence agatn,e illegal practitioners of medicine or ,; s discover social irregularities at dant;^ halls or theatres. Policewanten, 'who are likely tri appear most in uniform, may l;c REQUEST OF DICKENS. A. sight-seeing visitor asked me yesterday why London has no full- sized statue of Charles Dickens. The answer is to be found in this quota- tion from the great novelist's will: "I conjure my friends on no ac- count to make me the subject of any monument, memorial or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works." I happen to know, however, that some American admirers, in isheir zeal, have overridden this stipulation, In the public gardens at Philadel- phia there is a full-length +sculptured memorial representing Dickons seat- ed in an armchair, At the base of the pedestal Little Nell gazes affec- tionately bp at her creator. London Daily Mirror, HOMEWORK. A big change in school life may be brought about by the examination now being conducted into the effects of homework. It will be some time be- fore the survey is Complete and the verdict be issued. But evidence is Don't Push Them Down River F. L. Montgomery in the New"' York Times It was at evening: From the river's breast A seagull rose on wings of pearl white, Flashed upward through the gathering shades of night And circling once, twice, thrice, as if in quest Of points directional. or thus might test His strength, swung swiftly ward on his flight And in the deepening lost to sight, Leaving me wondering bring him rest. dusk sea- was Sea-FoodGoitre In seeking a larger inland market I for sea -food from the Maritimes the' particular value of this food in pre- venting the disease called goitre may well be stressed in advertising. Goi- tre is a term used to indicate various diseases of the thyroid gland, and we are told iodine is an essential to thy- roid activity. Land plants and anim- als contain relatively little iodine,' while sea -food has a high content, and therefore is of special value. We know that goitre is much more prevalent in the inland country, and therefore a particular health reason for getting food that stimulates thy- roid activity. That is seafood. Aside therefore, from the fact that fish is so palatable, it is a healthy diet most necessary in parts of the country re- mote from the sea. It is also to be noted that fish are rich in vitamines, When, therefore, it is urged that mare fish should be consumed it is not only in the inter- ests of fisherman but of the gener- al public. would dawn I.would such wings were mine that I might rise Up from the earth and, flying follow him Out where the sun sets and the day- light dies, Until the surges' solemn ns requiem Was hushed along the re- ceding shore And I was one with silence ever- more. That such a being as a naughty child exists is flatly denied by the London Institute of Medical Psycho- legy, which is now recognized as an approved clinic by the University of London. From the knowledge gained in training neurotic victims of the war, for which purpose it was orig- inally established in 1920,.it has in thelast few years banished the de- mons enslaving thousands of child- ren. Last year its experts treated 264 unhappy children, afflicted with various depressions • and mental ill- nesses, in each case securing ihats ppy y result, restoring to ost health as well as happiness. Sympathetic understanding is the basis of every cure. The psychiatrist has first to win the child's confidence, often accomplished by aobbent attempt ts he to solve a jig -saw puzzle, can diagnose the cause of its suffer- ing. Patents who• punish what seem to be unnaturally rebellious or wan- ton children, are guilty of a cardinal sin; they should consult a clinic. accumulating that the educational seen in police stations and prasor;, value of homework is dubious, to put where they look after .women d ?, it mildly. Children can be overwork- fedants and care for children, Holt- ed as well as unaerworked. And in ever, they are likely to be assigned the average glmtile Home, with its shortage of rooms, the conditions un• qpt 9 Oa' Official Estimates Given Of Fall Wheat, Rye, Hay and Clover Meadows The 1934 winter killing of fall wheat, fall rye, and of hay and clover meadows is officially estimat- ed as follows: Fall Wheat -Of the 663,000 acres seeded to fall wheat in Ontario in a the autumn of 1934, 126,000 square acres, or 19 per cent. are estimated as winter -killed, leaving an area,, of 637,000 acres to be harvested in 1935, as compared with a harvested area of 425,600 acres in 1934. Fall Rye—In all Canada, where 631,000 acres were seeded to fall rye last autumn, 27,000 acres, or 4 per cent., are estimated as winter -kill- ed, leaving an area of 604,000 acres to be harvested in 1935, as compar- ed with 587,100 acres harvested in 1934. In Ontario 70,000 acres were sown; 6,000 acres, or 9 per cent., estimated as winter -killed and 64,- 000 acres left for the 1935 harvest. In Manitoba 77,.000 acres are esti- mated for harvest out of 79,0001 acres sown, with 2,000 acres, or 3 per cent., 'winter -killed. In Sas- katchewan, 311,000 acres were sown, 12,000 acres or 4 per cent. estimat- ed as winter -killed, and 299,000 acres remain to be harvested. In Alberta 171,000 acres were sown to fall rye, 7,000 acres, or 4 per cent. winter -killed, and 164,000 acres left for harvest. Hay and Clover—During the win- ter of 1934-35, the following per- centages of hay and clover are es- timated to have been winter -killed, with the corresponding3gfigures for the, previous year (1933-34) within brackets: For all Canada 8 per cent, (12) ; Prince Edward Island 3 (4)1 Nova Scotia 5 (4) ; New Brunswick 3 (1); Quebec 2 (5); Saskatchewan 3 (10) ; Alberta 2 (3).; British Columbia 3 (1). Dangerous Practice Seaforth Expositor: Persons walk- ing on the highways at night never seem to know or care, for that mat- ter, that when they are aching wcaeen the lights of two app y are practically invisible until the cars are actually upon them. Highway fatalities have become altogether too common, but the blame does not al- ways lie with the motorists. Of course, the pedestrian has rights on the highway the same as the motor- ist, but asserting those rights in. the face of a fast moving car at night usually meets with the same fate that befalls the car driver that at- tempts to beat an express train over a level crossing. If one must walk on the highways at night, would it not be wiser and safer to stay on d makee e right side of would road, not be wise, doubly sure, too, to carry a lantern or light of some kind as well? • "This England" New a St tesm- and Nation (London) Cheering, singing shouting and LOVE WALKS THE DREAM TRAIL crying. "If we could turn back Time tonight, And then the Ding! A pale radiance, a slender -whited My Dear shadow — the Queen behind ,him . • For one last walk together,you and 1, I The Queen then dirt a .strap g , a an If we could watch the new-born -born stars unusual thing• at twilight, She. outstretched her arms, so that (Sharing this secret thrill, as in the all might see that she was real and nights gone by,)sig human.—Daily Express. 1. wonder, would sight of red leaves ,,, 4. r hung •on twisted branches, t ( We see that between flies, Years Or shadows merging just beyond the . i the male population '.decreased by blue; mourn over 100,000, while the -females in- Or lonely1a Autumn winds that m creased by ,some 800,0x0. Thus near - Meanparting, " Fall" ly a million spinsters were &rtiii-. Mean more than Just another dally created during these seven to: you? years . . Of course it would wrong to imagine that this is case Haunted by the ghosts of joins, entirely by the war. , ' far-off laughter, Would tneti cry "break" you make you understand? It would not matter mticlt . , what followed after in If you and I were walking hand ' b hand.'' .---Francis Smith,- TorontO. dation he of phe s halt use long lace Army, Navy, and Air Force 'Gazette, * * Testator gave the use of a house in Arbour Street, Southport, to his brother. Thomas and his wife, to - ether with 2416 a year. "On con - curtains "in the front 'windows, and- } "Didst thou never heat they use curtains of any other des - That things 111 got had ever bad cripttnit the .axiu ity Telegraph.s to clueed staccassry" --Shakespeare. to km, Deily , COLD FEET Sufferers Told Coffers Makes 'rheln.Colder Atlantic City, N.J.---Persons with cold feet should never drink coffee. That advice, used last winter on, New York street cleaners who dug Manhattan out of its• blizzards, was extended recently by Dr. William Bierman of New York in exhibiting to the American and Canadian Medical Associations results of hii research on slain temperatures. On the other hand he found that 'Inctiand whisky are excellent media cines in treating some diseases of the blood vessels by causing then to expand and thus aid circulation of blood. ,{Snr..cer does not consi .t. In never n o'..in g bluisdors, but in nes'er mak- ing the same one the second time" II, W, Shaw.