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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-08-29, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE CANADA FAITH IN HUMANITY Chinese .laundryman in Bronxvilie, N.Y., went for a holiday and left a note in the window telling people to get their laundry as the door was not locked, We doubt whether this gen- tleman has been thoroughly civilized and Christianized since coming to this country. — Stratford Beacon - Herald, PAINTING BARNS Atter a lapse of five full years, Canadian farmers are beginning to paint their barns again. There is no general rush, but here and there through. most of the mixed farming areas, examples are readily noted. While important enough in itself in view of the immense area to be cov- ered in familiar red, green or white, the significance of the return of barn paint is that it means the first real indication of a return of permanent- ly better times to Canadian agricul- ture. — Financial Post. GOOD SALESMAN . If the large number of people who have visited the Canada Shop in London since its opening last week is maintained until the date of clos- ing, the promoters should be more than pleased with the publicity given to Canadian food products through this practical advertising medium. On Saturday last the number of visi- tors was checked. No fewer than 2,- 300 ;300 passed along the counters and inspected the food stuffs. The ma- jority of them purchased samples, as a result of which it is reasonable to anticipate enhanced sales by re- tailers in the focality and in such oener localities as were represented by the visitors. — Canada's Weekly, London. FARM PRICES RISING The most satisfactory year for livestock production since 1930, is the report made by a packing com- pany. There are many other evidences of this condition. Prices in all lines of livestock have advanced a long way front. the low point registered about four years ago. The same thing applies to most of the other minor products • of the farm - dairy produce, poultry and eggs, and all the many products from which the well-anaged farm derives much of its revenue. — Winnipeg .Tribune. PITY POOR MOTORIST Hard is indeed is the lot of the drunken motorist who gets caught. Most courts will fine him $10 to e25, occasionally give him ten days in jail, and sometimes actually deprive him of the privilege of driving a car for as such as a few months. And all of this simply because he delib- erately placed a large number of fel- low citizens in danger of instant death or of the loss of limbs or of horrible and painful lacerations. — Toronto Telegram. knee, You may remember that joint. it was much in evidence before the depression. Then, along with stocks and things in general, skirt hems came crashing down. For the past five years it has boon discreetly con- cealed almost everywhere except in the nudist camps. May there not be au outside chance that business and fashions are re- lated in some way or another? Cer- tainly, business is looking up. And now skirts are apparently following suit. Chanel has chopped off three inches at one stroke, an upswing as convincing as anything provided by economists' charts. When the coy patella once more blossoms forthin all its, pristine. perfection we shall perhaps known. the corner has been turned and that we are again to find ourselves knee- deep in prosperity. — Windsor Star. SUN TANNERS BEWARE! Intense sunlight has the same ef- fect on the body as it has on the top of an automobile. It causes de- hydration and premature wrinkling. —Hamilton Herald. LESS RELIEF AT THE SOO There are one-third fewer families on relief in the Sault at the present time than there were a year ago, the figure now being about 400 compar- ed to 600 at the end of July, 1934. That is a welcome improvement in conditions, and contrasted to the figure of over 1,500 families on re- lief in May, 1933, shows a steady gain since that time. This is due to a large measure to the betterment of industrial con- ditions here, resulting from the re. organization of the steel plant and from the general advance in busi- ness and employment throughout Canada. There are indications, too, that things will continue. to improve un- less some untoward event happens to cause the present trend to be upset —Sault Ste. Marie Star. WAS COSTLY LESSON Twenty-one years ago — June 28, to be exact — a Bosnian youth fired a shot into Europe's powder box and set the world on fire. The nightmare that followed resulead-lea the death of 10,000,000 soldiers and 13,000,000 civilians, in 20,000,000 maimed, in dollar losses of 500,000,000,000. Every nation lost, and every nation still is paying for its defeat, says the Pitts- burgh Press. On the surface, the world appears to have forgotten the frightful les- sons of 1914-18. Yet, has it? Viscount Cecil has made public in London the results of a great peace referendum. The English electorate voted 11,000,000 to 335,000 for Brit- ain to remain in the League of Na- tions; 10,000,000 to 800,000 for a gen- eral arms reduction; 10,000,000 to 700,000 for taking the profit out of minas traffic; 10,000,000 to 600,000 to apply economic pressure to attacking nations. Here was a popular vote tor law and peace voice, as Lord Cecil said, in "passionate intensity." When the masses are willing to fight the warmakers as passionately as they have been fighting imagin- ary enemies, the sword -rattling rul- ers of earth will find themselves without armies to fight and without taxpayers to pay for their follies.— St. Catharines Standard. A DEFENDER OF MODERN GIRLS No hankerer after a period some- times referred to as "the good old times" is, apparently , Mr. Lloyd George who, in spite of years that are occasionally considered rather advanced, is sufficiently youthful in spirit and outlook to refrain from the fault-finding in regard to the rising ,generation of which older people are go often guilty. Far from bemoaning what he finds in modern youth, the former Prime Minieter evidently considers that it is quite all right, at least the fe- Ixninine part of it. He said so the other day when he (a product of the Victorian era) denounced it as "prim and grim" and remarked that he preferred the modern girl and the education which makes her what she is. "The old academies for young ladies—they were not girls in those days," he went on to say, "at best were an expensive joke, and at their worst they were an atrocity." — Brockville Recorder and Times. LEPROSY IN CANADA Leprosy is waning in this country and as Dr. Murray MacLaren said when Minister of Health, the danger of contagion is very much exaggera- ted. But Dr. C. P. Brown, chief ot the division of quarantixie and medical immigration for the Dominion, if he is being properly quoted, goes much .furrier. The idea that a healthy person can get leprosy by touching 9. leper is "mere nonsense," he said. "No doctor or nurse treating lepers has ever been known to fall prey to tete disease." Then he adds the more astonishing statement: "A native Canadian never has been known to contract the disease." --- Moncton Times. KNEE PLUS ULTRA Paris reports that the season's first Winter style showing at Chanel's this week revealed the feminine Spotted As Champion yreckle On Nese Bob Turpin won the .World's Freckle Face Championship by a nose—which is one big freckle—at a recent contest. His smile makes his freckles run together. Val -;e f Advertising Shown By Actual Test With Pr NEW YORK,—Advertising doubles the number of persons familiar with a brand, triples the number who try it and quintuplets the numberof us- ers. These figures are averages' from a study of bond paper made, by Charles C. Stech, research expert in advertising. Actually the scanty ad- vertiser gets a smaller rate of re- turn than his average, while the big one gets an increase much greater. Stetch studied the use of 27 brands of bond paper by printers. He learn- ed the percentage familiar with i each brand, the percentage -who t , ed out each one and the Percentage ho be- came regular users There were three bids know to more than 75, ,per ,the printers. Of, thus; tried out the nee 'ki per cent were regular use At the bottom were sn; of paper, known to 14 pelt" HARDER TO MARRY It is harder for young men to marry now than it was years ago, according to the United States Commissioner of Education, owing to the broader outlook of -women. He holds that marriage is not very attractive to many of these bright modern girls— certainly not so attractive as to their grandmothers. They have the alter- native choice of careers and conse- quent independence. -- Kingston Whig -Standard. duct printers. Six per cent had tried them out and less than half of one per cent of these printers used the seven. When the average of persons know- ing about the brands was raised to 35 per cent, in a different group of bond papers, the trials rose to 15 per cent but the regular customers rose only a tenth of one per cent. But when the papers were reached known to 50 per cent of the printers the users rose to nine per cent. Marriage Makes For Long Life According To Statistics Those Who Are Wed Live Longer Than Those Whose Lot Is Siin.gle Blessedness Above that came the phenomenal jump `., to 20.4 customers in the top- mast ,three kinds of bond paper. e!i'he study showed an unusually Wee' increase in steady customers when. nearly everyone was familiar vi11 the brand. No saturation point -weer ,.eq, evealed. The highest single ,ed was known to 96 per cent of printers, and .apparentlyits reg- eller users were far greater in pro-. aportion than those of any of the les- eie known papers. There are nearly- 6,000 marriages• every week .in England; 857 a day, or nearly thirty-six an hour! A care- ful analysis of the British Registrar- General's latest review shows that, on an average, thirteen out of each 857 marriages will end in the Di- vorce Court. Superstitious people, please take note. That dreaded num- ber thirteen. Consider, though, how small a per.. tentage thirteen in every 857 repre- sents. Immediately someone is divor- ced all the old tales about six-month marriages aro dug out and paraded with much shaking of Meads. It's so unfair. Divorce is not nearly as popu. lar as some people would have us believe. Roughly, about 1% per cent. of our marriages end in divorce. A very small proportion surely? "People can't afford to marry young today—they leave it till later in life." "We are marrying later." How often have you heard those remarks? They have no foundation in fact. PEOPLE MARRY EARLY Let us take you back to the Reg- istrar -General. His accuracy is quite ruthless, his figures unquestionable. And what do we find? Out of 307,000 marriages in 1932 over 5,000 men mar- ried before they were twenty, 13,000 married under twenty-one and an- other 150,000 by the time they were twenty-six. These figures of course, concern bachelor bride -grooms. Thus, more marriages in England take place at or under the age of twenty- six than at any other time. Why tell U3 then, that men have ceased to marry young? Twenty-six is barely a bath -chair age. With spinster brides it is the same: 47,000 married before they were over twenty, 49,000 under twen- ty-one and 161,000 before they were more than twenty-six. The average age of the bridegroom today is twenty-seven, and of the bride twenty -flue. Youthful enough. Incidentally, there has been little variation in this average for the last thirty years. Between 1901 and 1905 the actual average was 25.37 for spinster brides, and 26.90 for bache- lor bridegrooms. Extremely youthful marriages still occur. In 1932 sixteen men were married at the age of sixteen, and over 6,000 before they were twenty. With women no fewer than 758 were married at sixteen, and 28.000 before they were twenty. ABUNDANCE OF CROPS Nature has been good to Canada this year. Right across the Dominion from Nova Scotia to British Colum- bia there are bountiful crops. Jt is doubtful if Ontario, and particular- ly Western Ontario, ever had such abundance of crops. Hay, wheat, oats, corn, vegetables, fruit, everything grown in. this fertile peninsula will have yields above the average, — London Free Press. To Get Inside Story' Of Asylum Reporter Patient Seven Days "SEVEN DAYS IN THE ' :MAD- HOUSE" THE EMPIRE It was revealed last week that the donor of the Anonymous Education Fund for the children of officers at the Royal Air Force, which, since 1928, has expended nearly 4;4,000, was the late Mr. 'r. E. Shaw •-- Col.. onol Lawrence of Arabia, The fund was iinauced by the money received The above banner liue appeared recently on the Chicago Daily . Times. front page, referring to the experience of Frank Smith, Daily Times report- er, who spent seven days and nights in an asylum. The sensational story was the result of Smith being "com- mitted" to the Kankakee, I11 State Hospital. For the occasion Willis O'Roarlre, another Daily Times roprorter, be- came Smith's "brother," and tom- imitted his to the state insane hos- pital, following the receipt. of num- erous complaints by the Daily Times that conditions were particularly bad at the Kankakee institution. To as- certain conditions, Smith a Aoriner college football player and life guard, who tips the scales at 200 pounds, was asked to do a series of articles. In addition to interviewing officials and other persons, he undertook to spend a week as an inmate in the hospital, His story of brutal treatment, be. ing subjected to unsanitary condi- tions, including 15 hours hi 'a tub of dirty flowing rive- water to cure Benevolent Fund over which Lord Wakefield presided. In a letter to the Press Lord Wakefield said: "Mr. T. E. Shaw allowed him- self no share in the financial >su0- cess of his book, 'Revolt in the Desert,' and £15,000 reeelved from this source was invested, $o as to establish an educational fund Por the iieneft of the chil- dren of officers of the ]loyal Air Force, "The Anonynioues Education Fund, as it has always been known in deference to his wish- es, bas since 1928 expended !tear- ly £4,000; during 1934 alone it was able to provide 0795 towards the education of 42 chilidron, tite majority of whom are. father- less." In future, Lord Wakefield said, from the publication of Lawrence s the fund will be known as "The Arabia ]Educational on Times. book, "Revolt in th.e Desert." Lawrence of The decision to make this fact Fund." -- Lon known was readied at a meeting of the council of the Royal Air Force 21 his 'feigned violence, is appearing in a` series of articles this week. The Daily Times' circulation jumped nearly 10,000 yesterday, as a result of the story, according to Louis Rup- pel, managing editor. All marks of identification were re- moved from Smith's. clothing before he and O'Rourke set out for Kanka- kee. In relating his struggle with hos- pital attendants preparatory to being subjected to the "water treatment," Smith states: "With something like pardonable shame I have to admit here and now that if I could have made myself heard, I would have given up uncon- .ditionally. I'd have confessed to ev- erything. To hell with the investiga- tion. To dell with the job." After being released from the hy- drotherapy ward, Smith participated in the routine of a patient, subjected to the common drinking cup, vile food and general over -crowded condi- tions. He said in his story lie par- tictilarly criticized over -crowded con- diti-ns. World Weary Lay me down in the arms of Sleep, in the comfort of her breast, For I am weary of all but Iyer and fain would be at res£. Hide me close from the cares that haunt the futile, waking hours, And round and over me shed the scent of unrenietnbered flow- 'rs. Bid the darkness to fold me, the stars to veil their light, And mute the pulse . of eternal life -the music of the night. Hush the murmur of waters' flow, and let there be no song, But only an untouched silence in a night deep and long. Send me nought but oblivion: no thought, no dream, no pain; Whisper not through the darkness that I must wake again, But lay me down in the arms of Sleep, over and ever blest, For 1 am weary of all but her, and fain would be at rest. Angela X. Dawes. It is vain to gather virtues with- out humility; for the Spirit of God dcligliteth to dwell in the hearts of the humble, ---Erasmus. Simple Type — First Fall Days 2864 • Here's one of those simple day frocks that finds an important place in every wardrobe. It's fashioned of wooly -!coking crepe silk with satin -back in rusty brown. The easy -to -sew sleeves that cut in one with the should- ers, trade of the reverse si le of the crepe, provides smart 'on- trasting effect. • Style No, 2864 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40 -inch bust. Size 16 requires 2% yards of 30 -inch material with 1% yards of 30 -inch con- trasting. �- HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of such patterns es you want. Enclose 20e in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it care- fully) for each number, and ad- dress your order to Wilson Pat- tern Service, 73 West Adelaide 8t., Toronto. At the other extreme 1,811 mel and 694 women married between thf ages of sixty-$ive and sixty-nine. Ti cap even that --• elghty-six men ale ten women married when they wen past eighty. Which is the most dangerous yea of wedlock? People talk learnedly from experience, of the seventt with its entire lack of glamour and romance, its dreaded monotony. 0 perhaps they will warn you agains the first. Examined in the cold light ot fact/ and figures, both' seem wrong. Mori marriages are wrecked in the tend year than at any other time. Unions to the number of 1,041 which had lasted between five ant ten years were dissolved in 1932, ant 1,442 of between ten and twentl years' duration. Only ninety -flu( sought separation after less than two years, and under 450 after moil than twenty years. So scrap your fears about the notorious number thirteen' and beware of matrimonial bickeriugs in the tenth year of mar. riage. Doctors often advise their patients to get married. "It is man't natural state." they say, "and the one in which he is likely to be most ,healthy." Very true. Statistics whole- heartedly support that view. A comparison of length -of -life and marriage statistics reveals the fact that married people live longer, on the whole, than unmarried. BRIDEGROOM'S AGE — 88 ! Wo hear much talk of second mar- riages these days. Certainly they are becoming more popular. It is argued, very reasonably, that people who have married and failed once are not likely to make the same mistakes it' they marry a second time. In 1932 some 14,50 widows married again, 6,800 to bachelors and 7,700 to wid-' owers. In the same year approxima- tely 23,000 widowers remarried, 15,-' 500 to spinsters and 7,500 to widows. From this it appears that widowers are twice as likely to remarry as widows, while widowers are far more fascinating to spinsters than to widows. Actually, in the year 1932, one of of every sixteen people mar- ried was married a second time. Both the widow and wldawer are becoming far more cautious of mar_ rying again. Widowers, in particu- lar, leave it until late in life. Thua the greatest number of widowers re- married in 1932 between the ages of fifty and fifty-four. Over 2,000 left it until sixty — sixty-four. One Peter Pan suddenly got the spring mad- ness in his veins at the age of ninety! The greatest number of widoess' , re- married 'between thirty-Sve—ti.tirty- nine. Nevertheless, 516 waited until sixty-five—sixty-nine, and one even developed a soul -storm at eighty- eight. The average age of widower bridegrooms is forty-nine, and of widow brides forty-four. When bachelors marry widows they usually choose one about their. own age, but when widowers marry spinsters the widower is, on an av- , erage, ten years older than his bride. Dark Thought For 1936 While we naturally admire tho horticultural or biological expert with a taste for research who by combining the best qualities of dif• fering fruits gives us a new and bet- ter fruit, or by careful selection and breeding furnishes us with thicker and tenderer beefsteaks, we may not sufficiently reflect upon what might happen if Nature turned her• hand toward the production of bigger and better pests. Yet something of the kind is happening in the insect world if we are to believe Winnipeg des patches. A mosquito has made its! appearance there which has so fart!! improved upon the ordinary mosquito bite—from the mosquito point of, view—that it can remove a small segment of the human form divine with every nip. Evidently, here is something new, a grafting of the black -fly bite technique upon that blight of the ' Canadian verandah, the ordinary hoose mosquito, that ventures where the black -fly dare not show its head. The next step is manifestly to improve the mobility of this new type pest. Our good old- fashioned mosquito is a bit slow on the wing and even slower a-foot,— its most serious handicap is the work of rendering human life mis- erable. Armed with a black -fly bite and the house-by's nimbleness and speed of wing, and perhaps slightly streamlined, next year's model ofthe mosquito ought to be somethingtha t will lift Canada out of the depres- sion,—or anything else it may be sit- ting in. If man can produce the tiat- talo and the ugli, why should Nature not come back with a patent mos- quito?x--Montreal wily Star. bre hundred and two years Ago,r Surto 13th, 1803, John: Wilson; and Robert Lyon, two young students -at - law at Perth, fought a duel in North Eimsley near the Tay River on the outs'.:irts of the town, the latter be, ing shot dead. Wilson afterward$ became a Justice of the Suprenu Court of On'strio,-•-Courier.