HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-07-11, Page 6e•r
CANADA
THE EMPIRE
CANADA
TO THE SEA IN SHIPS
After all, given weather which is
not too rough to allow freedom of
the decks, an ocean voyage is some-
thing in itself. Given a deck chair in
the sun, and with the waves, with a
fairly good sea breeze as an addition-
al consideration well there is
something which is pretty much
worth while.
And at night when darkness closes
in and the ship keeps on its path one
has opportunity to contemplate up-
on the vastness of it all. It is not
a situation from which one should de-
sire to be removed in a hurry. If
one enjoys travel at all the ocean
liner is about the last word when it
cornes to enjoyment and rest.
It is difficult to appreciate the
state of mind which would wish to
get it over just as quickly as possible
and to apply the standard of today's
niad craze for speed to that delight-
ful experience. — Stratford Beacon -
Herald.
MODEST MARITIME
More often than not, when you see
a man selected to do a big job in
Canada he is a native of the Mari-
time Provinces. Halifax Herald.
THE NORTH SHORE
The "rocky shore" of Lake Super-
ior has vast deposits of iron about
to be developed, 100,000,000 tons
having been proven up in one hill.
';Also the fastest developing gold area
in Canada at Michipicoten. And a
stone picked up on the Agawa trail
containing silver. And big chunks of
native copper were blown out of a
rock cup on the Lake Superior sec-
tion of the Trans -Canada road. It
,sure looks. like a vee:y unusual high-
way. — Sault Ste. Marie Star.
THE GOLDEYE
The Winnipeg goldeye is all that a
cured fishshouldbe meaty, flag-
iirsome and delightful to look at
Most people try it for the first time
when they are on a transcontinental
$ oats ten at ;is ;,neverfo ;-;
iia, sow -e eaten a
gee�lic»iwun
Citizen.
THE WORLD
AT LARGE
ON LOOKING ROUND
, A fellow townsman stuck his head
in at my office door the other day and
said "Say, Bili, what does a golf ball
do when it stops rolling?"
I was sorely tempted to reply
"drops into a gopher hole," but ,in-
stead confessed that I did not know,
While he withdrew and closed the
door he said "why, it looks round."
It made me wider if we should
not adopt the philosophy of the golf
ball a little oftener than we do and
stop rolling and look 'round to sur-
vey the ground ahead of us and at-
tempt to select a smoother course
than the one we have just bounced
over. — Western Municipal News.
OLD FORT WELLINGTON
It is gratifying to find that old
Fort Wellington at Prescott, one of
the "sights" of the upper St. Law-
rence region, is becoming increasing-
ly popular with visitors, to the ex-
tent, indeed, of attracting over a
thousand of them already this seas-
on.
This fortification which one shell
of high explosive would today shat-
ter to atoms, has been described as
one of the best preserved old mili-
tary works in Canada, and certainly
its condition and the repairs to 'which
it is subjected year after year form
striking tribute to the interest which
successive Dominion administrations
have taken in its welfare. It is today
largely as it was when it was nam-
ed by British garrisons and when its
cannon, now so useless, really meant
business. — Brockville Recorder.
WORKING THEIR WAY
The young man who works his way
through college is apt to be a much
better student than the one whose
parents pay his way. This is the con-
clusion to be drawn from a survey
just completed at the University of
'Southern California by Dr. Frank C.
Touton, the university's vice-presi-
dent.
The survey compared the, .scholars -
.r of, students participating
,of part-time jobs for college under -
The Week In
By F. E.
OTTAWA — Any doubt that may
have existed as to the Prime Min-
ister carrying on as leader of the
Conservative party was set at rest
last week by a statement by J. Earl
Lawson, K.G., M.P., (West York)
Dominion Conservative organizer. At
the close of a complimentary banquet
to Mr. Bennett by fellow -Conserv-
ative members •and Conservative
Senators, the organizer announced
that the Prime Minister would con-
tinue as leader. Enthusiasm was the
prevalent note at the banquet —
enthusiasm among and for the Con-
servative party. It was unbounded.
The Prime Minister has done what
he said he would do when he re-
turned from London — test his
strength. Apparently the test has
not been a negative one.
Business of the House went along
at a rapid clip last week, the final
standing showing twelve Bills having
passed and all the main estimates
through. Criticism of the manner in
whieh the report of the Price Spreads
Conl ttission has been implemented
brought forth a polite but firth reply
iironi the Prime Minister. Criticism
has been based principally upon the
4uestion of constitutionality. As Mr.
Bennett pointed out, the government
iimust do one of two things, it must
invite Parliament to pass a statute
which it knows is illegal and which
Will be set aside at the first opport-
s!nity, or it must ensure that there
wily be some amendment to the con-
stitution in order to render consti-
t'utional that which has been declar-
kld unconstitutional. The debate oc-
burred during discussion on the
Trade and Industry Commission bill
and when the vote wAsi'ecorded Mr.
tennett's critic was absent from the
House, However, the bill went
rhrough, with only one dissenting
ote. The present Tariff Board will
Wee care of the administration of
4'he bill when it is given Royal as -
Sent.
Senate amendments to the Weights
And Measti`s Act was concurred in
y the rause. This Aet, which was
Mended
Vol
te
c
o
me
aligns
eon -
aired lieprce spreads,, report,
will pD roteet against short weighting
is all phases of 'business. It was pre-
ssnted to the Muse or consider-
option by Ito i,. B. Hanson, (York.
unbury'), trade atyd Coinmerci;
_.InisterY
Echo of the 91 Co wall Bridge
Company ciie•xtigr, g11I by life
government in 1930, was heard last
week when a bill respecting the
charter was up for second reading.
F. T. Shaver, the member for Stor-
mont, and Angus McGillis, Glengarry
member, provided the main opposi-
tion to the bill in view of the fact
that the company never kept its
promise to build a bridge across the
St. Lawrence to St. Degis Island.
The bill was given a six months'
hoist.
The Canadian Radio Commission
was given a further lease on life —
until March 31, 1936, at least—when
the Commons passed a bill to this
end. The Prime Minister defended
the commission and government con-
trol of radio and also heard, along
with the rest of the House, a report
that stations in Timmins, North Bay
and Kirkland Lake, Ont., were joint-
ly controlled and presented a mono-
poly threat. The government was
asked to do something about it.
A number of amendments to the
Criminal Code, introduced by Min-
ister of Justice Hugh Guthrie, (Wel-
lington South) was passed. One of
these amendments touched on mis-
leading advertising and the govern-
ment had been literally flooded by �
requests from avail order houses that
the amendment do not apply to their
catalogues now in the course of
publication. These requests, Mr.
Guthrie pointed out, were not an
admission of misleading advertising,
as nail order houses guarantee what
they advertise.
Any change in the capital struc-
ture of the Canadian National Rail-
ways was further opposed' by the
Prime Minister. This, in view of the
fact that litigation is now: proceed-
ing before the Privy Council on be-
half of, Grand Trunk shareholders.
Reports of the Canadian National
should always show the investment
Canadian people hold in the enter-
prise, the Premier contended:
With Dr. W. 0. Clark's housing
scheinde:tbrough the .,House,. .it is
anticipated there will be a construct-
ion boom. The scheme also provides
for slum clearance, It incorporates
• Feminine admirers gather round Dr. A. R. Dafoe, who brought the famous Dionne quintuplets
into the world, as Dr. Dafoe was honor guest at a dinner held at Chatham Walk, New York City,
last week. Left to right are: Miss Jane Howard, Regina Wallace, Mrs. George.. Lyon, of Buffalo;
Miss Betty Jane Ferguson, and her mother, Mrs. S. Ferguson, of Huntington, Long Island.
IS TEE CO `_ MON
CNOT SO
COMMON NOW?
(Bertrand Russell,. in New
Statesman and Nation,)
The increase in tarnan happiness 1
brought about by the discovery oft
micro-organisms and their action is 1
in all likelihood greater than the
coincident decrease. caused through-
out the same period by political and
economic misgovernment.
My parents and grandparents wexe
unusually intelligent and by no•.
means poor; yet their lives were
made constantly wretched by 111 -
health, serious illness and death.
The common cold, for instance, seems
such a notable evil in our time that
it is difficult to imagine it worse;
but it used to be a much more dread-
ful affliction. Nowadays, if we are
strong, and live in the country, we
inay escape with two or three colds
a year. In 1870 we should certainly,
in the 'same circumstances, have had
at least twelve.
In my Grandfather Russell's
family, colds were so constant that
they became a public joke. In 1873,
when my grandfather ardently sup-
ported Bismarck, in his struggle with
the Pope, Punch had a cartoon rep-
resenting "a very diminutive Lord
Russell, with his handkerchief in his
hand, standing by a colossal Prince
Bismarck, who is wielding
saying,th
tshe
of `No Popery,'
'Go it, Bismarck, pitch into him!
I'd ha' done it myself, only I have
such an awfully bad cold'."
The decline in the virulence of
colds has, of course, much to do
with the decrease in the number of
our mufflers and petticoats; but I
think it is due more to knowledge of
the process of infection. It used to
be. thought a proof ,of nobility for a
woman to continue to visit her
faimly and friends while wsuffering
from a streaming cold; an
she sneezed incalculable numbers of
germs about them, her victims would
murmur, "So unselfish; always
thinking of others before herself."
More serious, infections were more
ten
spread in the same way,
often still by letters. OnOctober 7,
1870, one of my grandmothers
ote
to my mother from the house of an-
other married daughter to say that
the daughter's children had scarlet
fever, and she continued to write
almost daily, until, on October 28th
my brother was taken i11 with the
same 'disease, and no one could
imagine why, grandmother am; My mother wrote to
my
. 1so glad it
'
happened before you came as I
should have thought you brought it.
There is none about here."
My parents both caught the fever
themselves, and I believe that my
father never recovered his former
health. It is horrible to think of
all the mothers of large ,families un-
wittingly spreading misery in this
way. A woman with eight children
had usually about 64 grandchildren,
and if one of these fell ill of an in-
fectious disease, it was almost in-
evitable that the remaining 63
should be infected through.. the
medium of her affectionate letters.
We are still lamentably ignorant,
but we have become "germ -con-.
scions".
graduates with those whose expenses;,
were being met by their parents, and;
it found that the former group rank-
ed higher in class -room marks, dis-
played a greater earnestness of pur-
pose, and, in general, seemed to be
getting more out of college life.
This is not hard to understand.
The lad whose college expenses are
paid for hint can easily fall into the
notion that college is just a pleas-
ant and diverting lark. The one
who is earning his way by the sweat.
of his brow knows what he is in
college for, and does his best to make
it worth the effort it is costing him.
—Victoria Times.
DESTRUCTION OF BEAUT
Woodman spare that-,tree,i
nuding of the forests on the Gatizie
Hills. For a mere pittance, regert-.
table to say, a natural resource and
beautiful scenery are being destroy-
ed, the consequences from which will
be deplorable in the years to come.—
St. Catharines Standard. ,
form, consisting of "plus fours" with
web gaiters, open -necked tunnies,
and "deer -stalker" caps.
This proposed new field -service
dress for infantry was issued to a
platoon of the Queen's Royal Regi-
ment (West Surreys) in January,
1933, and has since been tested on
route marches and field operations.
A committee has had the matter
under consideration for three and
one-half years, and the other day
Mr, Douglas Hacking, financial sec-
retary of the War Office, announced
in the House of Commons that the
committee's report was now under
consideration by the army council.
An "official .inquiry into suggested
e o nts; in dress and equipment for
servicewas instituted ,. in the
i n 'of " 193ir-arid in January,
1932, the nature of possible changes
was indicated in the report on the
health of the army for 1930, drawn
up by Lieut. General H. B. Fawcus,'
director general of army medical
services. — London Daily Telegraph.
" GIVE HIM A CHANCE
THE TWO PETERBOROUGIIS
While it is true, of course,' that our
city of Peterborough does not owe its
name to the venerable catherdal city
of Peterborough, England, but was
rather called after Peter Robinson,
who was responsible for the first
large immigration into this part of
Ontario, the Examiner is confident
that our citizens generally will ap-
prove of the steps that have been tak-
en to enter into a namesake associa-
tion, through the English-speaking
Union of the British Empire, with
that older Petereborough its the
Mother Country. — Peterboro Ex -
miner.
LINGUISItiC MARVEL
A man after George Barrow's
heart is George E. Hay, who, at the
age of 81, has retired from the posi-
tion of proofreader for a London
firm which specializes in foreign pub-
lication. Mr. Hay is said to have a
working knowledge of about 500 lan
.guages, but he was chiefly engaged.
in Oriental tongues and he •corrected
proofs in Sanskrit, Sinc'l.,i,Pushtu,
Panjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu,
Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu,.
Kanarese, Malayalam, Sinhalese,
Burmese, Siamese, Laos, Tibetan,
Arabic, Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopic
and Ancient Egyptian, also Chinese,
Syrian, Greek and Hebrew.
As a boy he only had an eletnen
tary education, so that all these ac-
complishments were acquired by ev-
ening classes and by reading in mus-
eums and the London School of Or-
iental Languages. Primarily, he ow-
ed his success to a marvellous mem
A `.girl recently travelled 5,000
miles to get married. It was sporting
of her to give him such a substantial
start. — London Opinion.
MILK "BARS"
Britain niay soon be quenching its
thirts at Milk Bars.
The idea comes from the
Marketing Board.
The Board's vice-chairman, Ben
Hinds, told farmers at Pwllheli that
milk bars "would enable the touring
public to obtain for themselves and
their children best nutritious refresh-
ments."
They were contemplating estab-
lishing bars :in many parts of the
country.
Tlready .schools of Britain have
their "bars." Walter Elliot, Minis-
ter of Agriculture, inaugurated the
scheme. Soon he may be "draw-
ing". the
draw-ing"•the. first tankard to quench
Britain's thirst -- and help the Brit-
ish dairy farmer. — London Daily
Mirror.
ory.
Even now that he has retired his
recreation is studying languages. --
St, Thomas Times -Journal.
IN JUN;
And what a time ' it IS, this rich,
soft June of oursl A time or roses
and a myriad of perfumes' every-.:
where. A time when Nature seeine
to pause after the first, exhausting
burst of Spring pro. -th,., ep,, n'o t c
results of its prodigious labors, ati'"
men 'wisely follow Na'ture's example.
e
two main proposals --provision for A timetheblln-
of clean days before
$10,000,000 to lend to individuals or
corporations willing to build houses
and who can get 60 per cent. of the
appraiser( value of the property from
a reer gage or loan company. It is
likely'' the ldoenoinie Council will give
some study to the adequacy of ex-
isting housing schemes ' lit this
country,
hate of the full Summer, og warioa,•.
Mali nights when the scent of bits-„
souls falls all about like rain,-••-.V-c;•
-
toria Times, i.
Milk
An
made
THE EMPIRE
IlltITIMi ARMY tilt i.SS
official decision may soon
on the experimental army
French Railwayman
Henri Chardon, president of
the French': State Railways, here
for a short visit that will include
1 entreal, Toronto, New York and
Washington, is shown as he ar-
rived in the Canadian Pacific
ev ismpress of Britain at Quebec.
OUR UNFINISHED
FACE
They May Change More
We Acquire Brain
Power
s
As
Not every one of us comes into
the world with a perfect set of
teeth (third molars to the dentist)
that failed to forcetheir way through
the gums or that were, missing?„
Whether or not wisdom teeth shall
or shall not agpear.has,n9relation
to the jaw (upper or lower) in
whichthey are located. Not so, with
the lateral 'incisors (the front teeth,
that lie next to the eyeteeth)". They
are more likely to be crowded, doubl-
ed, reduced, misshapen or absent in
the upper jaw.
. Why should upper front teeth de-
velop these peculiarities? Like other
authorities on the anatomy of the
mouth, Dr. M. F. Ashly-Montagu of
New York University's College of
Dentistry asked himself the ques-
tion, ransacked the literature, made
studies of his own and finally reach-
ed the conclusion that these dental
changes were necessary if the human
face was to evolve — if sight, the
most intellectual of the senses, was
to be developed at the expense of
hearing and smelling.
TEETH IN VARIOUS RACES
The more primitive the people the,
less likely are we to find malform-
ed upper lateral incisors. The Mel-
anesians, the Australian aboriginals,
the Bantu—their side front teeth
are never reduced or absent. In
American Negroes 3.7 per cent. of
the laterals are degenerate and 1.7
per cent. missing. In the Chinese the
corresponding percentages are 7.7
and 0.3; in American whites, 3.1 and
2.2; in the Japanese, 4.7 and 1.2. The
whiter the Negro the more likely are
his lateral incisors to be affected.
Evidently we are dealing. with
something that goes right back to
the genes the units of life that
make plants, animals and men what
they are. s ,
Thbeing so what would
43
Tune Up Your Car
Before You Tour,
•
A car tune-up before the vacation
trip will do more than any other one
thing to make the holiday a success.
The ear that seems to work fairly
well in day-to-day driving may not.
be just one hundred per cent. for
work at full power over long periods.'
Both safety and pleasure being at'
stake, it is advisable to check care-
fully before starting out. Brakes and
steering are the chief items in the
safety category, and in most cases
simple adjustments will suffice. Good
tires are essential, too, and all lights
should have good bulbs, with head -
we find if'
iwe went back of man —' light beams u
beatnsproperl adjusted.
compared his face with the faces of I motortune p one of thebest
his closest relatives? , precautionary measures. Battery and
generator, lubricants, radiator, and
Dr. Aashly-Montagu began a study fan -belt are among the other items
of the teeth, jaws, palates and faces which should be given attention.
of the anthropoid apes, monkeys And it will add a lot to the vocal-
and lemurs. He scruitinized more ionist's happiness if he has the body
than 10,000 skulls, As he proceeded bolts tightened. The satisfaction of
upward in the scale he saw plainly having a well-groomed car on the
enough how the lemur's snout short- vacation trip is incalculable.
ened until it shrunk into a human
upper jaw which no longer juts out
from the face.
CHANGE IN CANINES
The canines (eye teeth) of the
upper and lower jaw and the lateral
incisors of the upper jaw change. In-
stead of suggesting tusks, the can- Out of the dark it . came,
ines dwindle into. teeth. A space is in the deepest hour and most
left between the latteral incisor and desolate ---
S0 STRANGE A TANG.
Catherine Parmnent,er in the
Commonweal.
the upper eyetooth into which the
lower- eyetooth fits, That space con-
tracts as the eyeteeth dwindle. It.
e
i
need for
should. There is no lou g
sheathing a . saber-like' lower canine
which has become a real tooth.
The plain truth is that as man
developed his sense of sight and his
intellect at the expense of his senses
of hearing and smell his face chang-
ed, It the process he lost a -snout and
remolded his upper' jaw and some of
his teeth.
Like a descendant flame.
So strange a thing I heard: 1
Silence tivas shattered . Song
fell consummate'
From the throat of a bdrdl
The prairie grasses ley"
Harsh to my cheek. The prairie
stare swung cool
Anci still and far away.
And out of the listening dark:
Quito unafraid and wholly beauti-
its t. --
The cry o1 a lark(