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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-09-26, Page 6k •• CANADA PLACE OF THE SHINE An employer can judge an appli- cant for a job by noting where the shine is -- on the shoes or the seat of the pants. — Woodstock Sentinel - Review. FiRST MOTOR CARS The first automobile owner in Can. oda was a resident of Hamilton, a native of Malahide. Sir William Mu - lock was the first pioneer of gasoline machines built in Canada. He order- ed six motor tricycles and quadra- cycles for the use of the Post Office Department and "soon the streets of Toronto were frantic with the chuck- ing of these red machines." — St. Thomas Times -Journal. 'TIS A WORTHY PLACE The rise of Stratford in the realm of baseball is one of the phenomena of the age. And to choose a shin- ing mark like St. Thomas showed an audacity that had much to do with our neighbor's success. Next thing we will be hearing that the Classic City has developed a football team. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. CURIOSITY SATISFIED Princess Ottaboni reported to the police at Montreal her purse had been stolen, and it contained $320. Of course, that't too bad, but at the same time it satisfies a certain curiosity we have always possessed to know how much a. princess carriecl in her purse. — Stratford Beacon -Herald, THAT PRETTY TEACHER The superintendent of schools in Rockford, Ill., announces that he will engage nothing but good-looking teachers in future. We used to think there was a pretty teacher on the tenth concession, but there was al- ways a mean look in her eye and a certain frigidity in her voice when she said something about staying in after four. — Stratford Beacon - Herald. THE WORLD AT LARGE to see the attractive qualities that lie in everyone, often under a cove ening of very unattractive scurf. Most people, .however, are suspicious and take longer to get acquainted. They are like the two London finan- cial men in one of the Bab Ballads. Every reader of Gilbert will recall crow these two men, the bitterest of ene- mies, went on an excursion together and were the sole survivors when their ship was wrecked on a desert island. Gilbert describes the trans- formation thus: "They soon became like brothers in community of wrongs. They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs. They told each other anecdotes dii pas aging their wives. On :aeveral occasions, too, they saved each other's lives. — Vancouver Province. THE EMPIRE THE EMPIRE'S OPEN SPACES The point raised frequently in the tour of the Empire delegates is than of the undeveloped Imperial estates. Canada's population is in the neigh- bounhood of 10,000,000; Australia over ' six and a quarter million; South Af- rica, 7,000,000 (1,700,000 whites), and, •_ New Zealand about one and a halt millions (including 66,0000 Maoris),I OTTAWA, -.-Prime Minister Ben- talks with Repair the Canadian gov- ernment reminded that counurY oY the very substantial concessions ac- corded to imports from Japan by re - clueing the exchange compensation duty which made full allowances for the extent to which the competitive advantage arising from the deprecia- tion of Japanese exchange had been offset by the relative increase in the price level in Japan. With election day not so very far away, voters naturally are thinking of the march to the polis. It may be to some advantage to them to know that a number of changes have taken place in the election law. Heretofore; in rural polls, a person who was known to be. eligible as a voter but whose name was not Ona the .list, "could vote by making , ari ;ailida'vit.. This, no longer is possible. J1 lie -is not on the lists he cannot vote on _October 14. Another innovation con- ODD BOOK MARKERS A librarian in Manchester snakes known some of the things which he A Salvage Triumph taaa With the 100 factory- smokestacks. 1919, is pictured as foot high locks used in floating her, clustered on her -bottom like aT group of The. Konig Albert, German battleship de a Flow in she is towedoport afterb engrais from the bottom by Scottish her crew in salvagers. eek In ottwa1 One or two of the Dominions have their own special problems., — that of Australia with its great empty spaces, and that of South Africa with its millions of natives. Probably the case of Australia is the most serious, for at no great distance from the shores of the Commonwealth is mili- tary Japan, with a population call- ing for outlets. The pride of Australia is its white population. It is not be- ing reinforced. Indeed, there has been a standstill in the British Common- wealth which has intensified the un- employment problem in the Old Coun- try. An Australian speaker in Glas- gow put his fieger ou the weak spot in hie. country.. He said that they themselves had 30,000 unemployed and it would be unfair to ask British people to come out and iswella that number. Instead of British people go- ing to the overseas Dominions, many =yr,, utra.thil atenetaerear-caasg % al certainly needed to bring about a real revival in Great Britain — a great (10010p -tient of the British Common - y llh and real stimulus to world trade. — Edinburgh. Evening News. times which ace returned. They in- clude needles, safety pins, pieces of wire, love -letters, pieces of ;j oiscuit and slabs of bacon. What, we wonder, was wrong with ,the pieces of bacon. that they were put to such• use? And what it some swain left a love -letter from a girl and the book was next taken out by a rival? Zowie! — St. Thomas Times - Journal. MONTREAL'S HORSES One of the beautiful sights in the City of Montreal is the horse-drawn vehicle — provided always that it is conducted by a driver who has a re- epect for his horse. The horse goes proudly forward with his ears set to ca: eh the noises that come from in front, because be has no fear of the man with the reins. One of the ugly sight.- in the city is the horse with bis cars trained back for fear of what may be coming from the man with the reins We occupy a city that is one of the las. strongholds of the horse. We have some charming, happy hors- es, and if we want to keep them, we bad better see that we keep them with their ears expectant for what is in front and fearless of what is be- hind, -- Montreal Star. IN THE SUBLIME A speaker at the American So- • ciety of Sanitation Engineers' con- vention asserted that in time every bedroom everywhere will have its own bathroom. The idea is .in the nature of the sublime and at least is calculated to encourage the plumber, or rasher the sanitary engineers. — 11lontreal Gazette. EASIER You see, it's easier to mortgage the hone to buy a car than to mor- tgage tie mar to buy a home. -- Bran- don un: GOOD IN WORST OF MEN' A group of men, Will Rogers among them, sat through a long evening izt the lobby of a Motel In the Cnbatt eapi;:al, and an the course of the coin vorsation several famous 'Political figure: in Europe and America were mentioned with disparagement by one member or another of the grup. In- variably it turned out that Rogers knew the yuan mentioned and had found something attractive about hint. Finally he aclniLted with a grin: "I just can't seem to dislike anybody I ever met. If I want to hate him, Peagot to stay away Pram him," • Charles Iamb had the same` char- asteristiC. "I)on't you hate that man?" someone asked him on one.occasion,. But Ella shook Itis head."How can 1 fir. he. kers a ^imply. "1 •know hate. hirn . 's hila." '''here are home men, like 'Rogers and Lamb, who have the actuteness . nett last Friday evening the Fe tune Feeder - alfire the first big gun in the al Conservative election campaign. Speaking to a radio audience :over a nation-wide hook-up, Mr. Bennet covered a lot of ground in thirty min- utes, taking a fraction of that tune: to defend his administration's en- deavour to negotiate a satisfactory trade agreement with the United States, and also to drop a hint that a very important announcement con miming that matter would be shortly forthcoming. It coeild be taken from the Premier's address that; realiatiozi of the importance of such ar tt.eaty had not just dawned upon the Con servative party. Since the' United States Congress had vested. tbh presi dent with power to enter inW tratie treaties, the Bennett administration had been dickering with the Republic souh. tom_ the ,.. 1VTr. "3eennett alsomade an` an-' nouncement last week concerning the 50 per cent. ad valorem surtax im- posed by Japan upon certain Canad- ian goods entering that country: Canada is not going to bow to the will of Jana.14 any"means, and if the' surtax is not removed, then Canada' will do the one logical thing—secede from the terms of the Anglo -Japan- ese coinmercial treaty. It that course is finally ,taken then the Dominion' would be free to take such other steps as the national interest may require. The Anglo -Japanese Com- mercial treaty has regulated trade between • Canada and Japan since May, 1913. Tlie Dominion regards the. Japanese surtax as discriminatory action against Canadian goods. How- ever, Canada is earnestly :hopeful that the government of Japan may yet be persuaded of the justness of the position taken by the Canadian government and will take steps to remove the surtax and make it pos- sible to attain a friendly settlement of the present controversy. In its SLANG AND ',AMERICANISMS" Slang is many. things; satisfaction of need, assertion of vigour, defiance of authority, . friendly intimacy — most moods and situations and ex- periences produce some. English must not only borrow—when iu its long history did it refuse to borrow?—but it is becoming a basic duty for the Briton to get on close terns with the racy speech of America's plains and cities, or else how will he understand 0. Henry and others, or follow Hol- lywood's flicks? "The English langu- age," writes Mr. A. Lloyd James in a book we referred to some days ago, "is a very much more widespread language than the world .has yet seen in its history, and the first thing the English-speakng peoples have to learn is that there are many good ways of speaking it." Calcutta Statesman. TRICK CYCLISTS — A TRAFFIC PROBLEM The traffic problem of Hong Kong has always been the subject of much discussion. We refer now to the sec- tion of the community more common- ly known. as "trick cyclists," and it may be said without exaggeration that these cyclists are a constant source of danger to the community in general. It may,not be known that these eyclists are, most of them, merely beginners and the danger of learning how 'to ride a bicycle along roads that are being constantly used by motor traffic may readily be ap- preciated by even those with the dullest imagination. Along crowded places like the Wanchai district, this menace is even more pronounced. The cyclists all have theknack of indulg- ing in their acrobatics in the even- ings when most of the people are out of doors, and especially it the hot weather, when joy-riders are more freely indulged In, the trick cyclists make themselves public nuisances of the highest order. Hong Kong Daily Press. THE QUALITY OF MERCY Thne and time again scene .private merset. He's the man. Person stens forward to mitigateI the'Honestly, I almost believe that;; if mechanical injustices —of a perhaps , the clock were put back fifty years, too complicatedsystem of justice. Consider the action of Lady Wei- the humanity of a gracing lady;; it gal who wired £10to securethe to might have sta ie1 this family into lease from prison of a Birmingham , destitution, We plead guilty to send - labourer. who had been leominittedi meat; in the matter. Wo hold the because iris eldest son had 'broken tender heart is not the least asset of bail. A wife and eight children de-' civilised society. Lone Suritiay pearled on this 10401, but. officialdom Tteteree, takes no account of. such matters. Ha iron heel stamps blindly, But 'for '21 ~Sista in pro vi0rofr"nor ansentetevoteee.- Fishermen, lumbermen, sailors and miners who. are on the list for a certain constituency but away from it on election day can go to a polling booth where they are, fill .out a bal- lot and• have it sent to their own home to be counted. This is possible only within a province. An Ontario man, absent in Quebec for instance, could riot have his ballot sent home. Another new provision is that every voter --urban or rural—is to be not'e fied by the returning officer as to the precise location' of the poll at which he is to vote. Heretofore the parties have done it. Ontario tobacco growers, through a local scheme approved by the Do- minion Marketing Board, may expect to see stabilization of prices in the very near future. The scheme applies to 'Burley tobacco, and is another of the many that have helped producers of other commodities ir. the past. BY negotiations between producers and buyers, the tobaccoeats 1y will ,no doubt benefit to a g' WEDDING G PRESENTS EARNED BY CONDUCT (London Times.) . i Keen business men have been' known to complain that marriage has tended to .distract their minds from business and even to divide their attention. This may not matter' so much when the marriage is hap- py, but unhappy marriages also take up the attention, even when little is actually thrown. So there may well be congratula- tions for the Moslem couple whose married life has just come to an! end. It was. not happy, but neither Was it long, being, in fact, under rather than over the hour. The quarrel began as soon as. the knot was tied, because it was the bride's Odea to gp shopping straight away, and the bridegroom had apparently said things before marriage, imply- ing that his first and gayest actions in -the married state would be to; buy his bride all manner of delight- • ful and valuable presents. He had not really meant this, and high words followed, ending, Lt a dress -1 maker's, in a return to the registrar and a; request for a swift cancelia-, tion of, the marriage. squire !himself when brought back from the hunting' field on a hurdle or when port wine bad laid him out. with the gout. • All these were the doetor's family —he was a bachelor—and with the roses, the "Morning Post," "Punch," his pipe, a book and an occasional rubber of whist at the rectory, they pretty well made up his life. A life undisturbed by sound of telephone bell or hoot ofeenotor horn. Wore A Top Hat He nearly always wore a top hat— think of that, ye medical spectres n motor gogles on motorcycles, o think nothing ofa fifty mule journey before lunch—and he wore it on his rounds, or sometimes even in his surgery as he stood with it tilted bao1c, his pipe in bis mouth, unpack- ing bottles from a crate or marking items in. a drug list. It was the sym- bol of his relationship with his Wide- spread family and so' regarded by them. Without it I think he would have lost half his power to heal; despite the power of his drugs—and such drugs! Real old Victoria knights in armor led by ,Brigadier -General Prussic. Acid,- ably followed; under the b , annet ofl'ie'ol'd"pharmacopoeia, by those doughty warriors,' Strych-, It nay,: be the wisdom of the West' that. attaches such importance to a bride's trousseau, so that not till well after the honeymoon will the dressmaker's shop be able to loom, large. It is explained that relatives and friends desire to give the near- at; riage time to take root, and it is undoubtedly true that people who give wedding presents like mar- riages to last a reasonable time, at any rate until the presents are broken or pawned. I'D LIKE TO BE A COUNTRY DOCTOR Famous Writer Chooses Pro fession That Would Appel Most To Him If The. Clock• Could Be Put Back Fifty Years. I have seen a good many men in my time, writes H. de Vere Stacpoole in the London Morning Post, includ- ing emperors and kings (at a dis- tance), world-famous, artists, poets, philosophers and politicians, and looking back on the lot, . trying to determine which of them was most really 'successful in the only alit worth considering as an absolute as- set to its practitioner—the are of being happy—I find myself at fault. I turn them over till I come to the doctors, and the doctors ti1l. I come on a funny old figure in a ter) hat for whom I have been, perhaps, subconsciously hunting. It is Docetor John Townsend of Penfield in Zum- nine; Tartar Emetic, I"raudanurna Aconite, Hyoscyamus, Salicylate of Soda, Calomel and Jalapa No finick- ing coaltar products, no pilules,, Pilis the size of pistol bullets and boluses the size of bombs—nearly. With this horse, foot and artillery he fought the Great War—I mean the Great Influenza Epidemic of the year—when was it? — and many a lesser war with voctories forgotten and unrecorded on his tombstone, which stands a bit crooked and a bit weathered in the pleasant little churchyard of Penfield. Battles with the 'Guardians over extra relief for paupers, battles with the Believing Officer over the same sort of thing; battles with Stupidity as when one of his sheep -faced flock would swal- low a liniment instead of a mixture, or a whole box of pills on the prin- ciple that thirty would do thirty tim- es as much good as one; all these minor engagements if they did not add a zest to life, at any rate served as vents for a none too perfecck t temper that, however, gratitude—hi the form of unpaid bills left undisturbed. 'You, see, he was a shepherd, not a sheepshearer, and if pot blind to values was sometimes blind to value, as when, for instance, a scraggy old goose would be brought to hint at Christmas time and accepted,. instead of the settlement of an unpaid bill. Income tax a shilling in the pound, tobacco fourpence an ounce; hedged and bird -haunted highways and by- ways instead of tar -macadamised shambles, no petrol pumps, more • a far away and unfearful picture — these and many other attractions would induce one to take a long holi- day in the far away land of old Dr. Townsend. "Bat, you will.: say, "to be him, to lead his life; surely you don't ,mean— Well, maybe I don't, maybe I do. Anyhow, the thing would be next to impossible for you and me, for It would imply the art of doing pretty much the same thing day after ` day without tiring of the job, of ,leading ii full and busy life without fussing over it, of doing good without desire it or hope of 'r'eward. A complex , even rarer today than the altnest lost' art of thatching. Which reininds me that there was, another doctor practising in the Pen- i field district, Johii Fry, 'the thatcher.{ He only attended roofs, Seventy years of age when' knew him, h had brought into the world 'all the lovely old thatched roofs of Penfield and was attending themintheir last illnesses. The place ie slated now, I hoar, with council houses coming' into being--' ttined more effectively than Pompeii. Yet it cannot be pretended that there would be gratitude for the wise and helpful giver who an- nounced that his presents would mature year by year, and that he for his part was not in favor of prizes in advance. The presents trade at any rate will be quick to deny the parsimonious logic which says presents must be given either now or in the future, and will de- mand that "and" be read instead of "dither . . . or:" Unless exception be made for Dunmow flitches and a few similar bequests involving public competi- tion, tharepowerful lever of the pres- ent is not used 'until 25 years have passed.. Cotton and wood•weddings, 'which come much earlier, have some- how never caught• on, and Lancashire and the timbered Empire should turn their.:attention .to the nnefing �w that exists for a �k;lug campaign. . the curtain rung down and the Great Dramatist should say to me, "I am re -casting this play, what will you be? Here's the lot—emperors, poets, politicians and dustmen, take your ehoice;" if I were to say, "I just want to be This," he would reply, "And maybe you are right." The Old Fashioned Kind Townsend—the name is fictitious— was the typical old-fashioned country doctor. He had no saloon car; cars were coming in just as he was going out; anyhow he would not have used a saloon—he liked weather. Two horses and an old gig served him for his work, and the radius of his prac- tice, compared with the radius of the country practices of today, was very limited: His house, with its rose garden, is, I imagine, no longer used by a doc- tor. That is one of the melancholy changes the motorcar has brought about; for the country practitioner now generally lives in a town and swoops on bis prey; regardless of dis'- tante, ;at the call of the telephone and with the speed of a hawk. Yet what a pleasant house it was, espe- cially when seen in summer with the roses in bloom and the apples ripen- ing in the little orchard. The roses were amongst his pa- tieets, for he was a keen gardener, and be visited them every nlornin:g. . e Starr- ingsummer and aiYtun inteTorpatients, not off. to visit other p< , roses --no, not roses by any means -- humans, and very human at that; mostly eottagers and small far.niere, it as y with a sprinkling of tradesmen; the parson and his faintly; the squire's servants and retainers, and the Satin Is In ! Black and white — lot of it is what Paris does for every hour. if the day, too! T:_ This simple smart dress was arginally in black and white. It was of satin with ' a velveteen bow posed at the shoulder. Wool-like silk, woolen novel- ties, satin -back silk, etc., would also be good to carry out this simple to sew model. Style No. 3349 is designed for sites 16, 18 years,36, BS.. and 40 - inches bust. Size 16 requires ,3% yards of 85 -inch material with /s yard of 35 -inch contrasting'" and Vs yard of 35 -inch lining for sleeve. , J,RNS. 1 T04VTOUI1,DDR ATr . l Write your name and address plainly,- giving number and size of pattern wanted, Enclose 15a in stamps or coin (chin preferred): wrap it carefully, and adcir ess your order to ;Wilson, Pattern Service,; , /6- West Adelaide Street, Toronto,