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Zurich Herald, 1935-10-17, Page 6Hitler Leaves Berlin.' For Nazi Convention At Nuremberg CANADA CANADA ON THE UPGRADE The Bank of Nova Scot�has is- sued a circular comparing business trends in Canada and. the United States. The. United Statse indices are those of the Fedral Reserve Board; the Canadian indices are based upon data from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Each series has been corrected for seasonal variation. The base -of 10 is the monthly average of the period between 1925 and 1929. These figures show that conditions are on the upgrade in both countries, but that Canada is far in the lead towards restoration of conditions be- tween 1925 and 1929. In July of this year the index for employment in Canada was 92.6, while in the United States only 79.9. A year ago the figures for Canada were 87.8, and in the Republic 78.9. In other words .ganada's employment in manufac- tures is 7.4 points of being normal as based on the employment of the boom years. Industrial production in Canada is almost normal and has reached 96.2 compared with 88.4 in July of a year ago. The United States figures were 78.5 in July of this year and 69.4 in 1934. Revenue for carloadings are down slightly, but Canada's position is better than the United States. In July the figures were 67.1 in July 1935, as compared with 68 a year ago and the United States 55.6 in July 1934, compared with 58.4 in 1934. —Labor Leader. ROMANCE Leonard Lyons tells the story in the New York Post: Diana Churchill, Winston Church- ill's eldest daughter, has just an- nounced her etgagement to Duncan Sandys. But there's more to it than a mere matrimonial notice—a story that Hollywood should go for. Sandys ran for office in the last election. Miss Churchill's family opposed his nomination. During -the campaign her brother described hien as a "po- litical centipede with a foot on every fence." And so they'll be married .. Romance is not dead, despite__ what• • English Coats For Kiddies The English influence persists for knockabout coats for children. Herringbones, nubby tweed mix_ tures and neat checks are favour- ites. Today's pattern is sur for the toddlers as well as Tar the brother and sister of school age. The sleeves cut in one with the shoulders. And the rest is easy' enough to put together. Style No. 8044 is designed for :sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 requires % yards of 39 -inch '' material with 11/4 yards of 35 - inch lining. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted, Enclose 15e in stamps or coin (coin prefer- red; wrap it carefully) and ad- dress your order to Wilson Pat- tern Service, 73 West Adelaide • Street, Toronto. the pessimistic "realists" tell us. NAMES HAVE CHANGED The St, Mary's Journal -Argus pub. dished a picture last week of a school class of boys and girls of 1870. We read over the names and noted the contrast between then and now. Then there was a predominance of Mag- gies, two Sellas, one Lizzie, one Jane, one Ruth, one Janet and an Aggie. The very day we read this we read another list of present-day navies which were heard called out by a Reichsfuhrer Adolph Hitler (right) salutes c ommander Garganico on his departure from dancing instructress as she addressed hoff Airdrome in Berlin, Germany, for Nuremberg, where the Nazi congress was in session. her pupils; here they are: Chairmian, Temple - Virginia, Lorraine, Juliet, Jennifer, Raine, Celia, Sonia and Caroline. that the road safety campaign has —Wiarton Canadian -Echo. won a very real initial success. In the last 25 weeks the number of in- juries and deaths respectively were 111,776 and 2,885. In the same per- iod of1934 ,injuries totalled 121,052 and deaths 3,474. The steadily rig- ing curve of road acidents has not merely been flattened out.. It has been pressed down, despite big in- creases in the number of licensed vehicles. The Minister of Trans- port and. the Ministry officials are justly entitled to congratulation. —London Daily Herald. DELICATE QUESTION United States Government will take $6,600,000 of the $12,500,000 estate of the late Edward L. Doheny, so that a millionaire is not always pleased when the Secretary of the Treasury asks about his health. The minister may have an ulterior motive and be making up the estimates. —Niagara Fa1a.s Review. WORK AT HOME Resolution was presented at a church meeting at Woodstock that missionaries should be sent to Rus- sia. We read the other day wh 1_ e a man took off his coat to save a drowning person and his money was taken; of seven persons in one city accused of fraud against the relief department, and so on. There are a few odds and ends which need to be attended : at home before we tackle Russia.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. NEW TYPES OF PAVEMENT Leeds County is at the present time witnessing the introduction of a new type of highway surface, formed of a mixture of calcium chloride, which, it is claimed will, in adition to other advantages, lead to a marked cur- tailment of maintenance costs, a con- sideration not to be ignored during this period of necessity for the exer- cise of the utmost economy in pub- lic expenditures. Roads of this type have been in suecesful use for some years in New York state and their practicability .in Ontario may be. In Lambton and Simcoe counties roads of yet another new composi- tion are also being built this year. In these cases, common salt rather than calcium chloride is the ingredi- ent mixed with gravel and clay. —Brockville Recorder LOOK BEFORE YOU SHOOT It should be the aim of every man who pulls a trigger to take due care to see that so far as he is concern- ed the hunting season of 1935 will be unmarred by maimings and killings. This requires no extraordinary pre- caution, and unless this is taken, life is safe for nobody in the woods and any hunter may find himself to his undoing on the wrong end of the rifle. —Halifax Chronicle. FISH FROZEN IN ACID Fxeezing fish in a film of boric acid solution is proving a boom to Cana- dian shippers of finny foodstuffs. When frozen fish are shipped in an unprotected state, they lose moisture rapidly and the flavor of the fish is impaired. For some time `. has been the practice to seal the fish up in a film of ice in order to keep the nat- ural moisture in the flesh'. This layer of "glaze" is easily broken in hand- ling, so the method has not been en- tirely satisfactory, Now chemists at the Canadian VOICE OF THE PRESS Fisheries Experimental Station at Prince Rupert, B.C., have discovered that a tough "glaze" can be formed over the fish by freezing a solution of boric acid on them. This boric acid ice does not crack easily and a chip may be broken out, of it with- out injuring the surrounding surface. Very little of the acid penetrates into the fish. The acid also serves to keep down the bacteria, which cause reddening of the fish. The method is proving satisfactory. —The Pas Northern Mail. CRANKY STOVE PIPES It's easier to open a tin can than it used to be; they have new devices which take the top out and leave no jagged edge; the eat can stick her head in the tin now with safety. One has no more to use a fork, a knife, and corkscrew to get a bottle of ket- chup Started and the percolator and the drip make it unnecessary to drop an egg in the coffee pot to hold the grounds at the bottom. But the stove. pipes are just as they were. Like the ears on a donkey they have not changed, -Stratford Beacon -Herald. 21 PERMANENT EMPIRE Regarded as a unit, the Empire came through the strain of the War m'agnifioently. As a unit it has come through the strain of the peace beter than the rest of the world. It has been a real League of- Nations. between whom the possibility of. war was genuinely ruled out and all of whom accorded general support to one common, and highly pacific, for- eign policy. But even in foreign pol- icy large changes with disintegrat- ing possibilities have been made. Canada has its own diplomatic repre- sentative in Washington, Ireland in several countries, India has her own trade representative in Germany, and within the Empire her own political representative in South Africa. But above all there has been' no common, economic policy. Ottawa represents the first serious attempt to devise one, and in the attempt has exposed the seriousweaknesses of the whole situation and the urgent need for per- manent machinery. for Empiro' ences, and the pursuit of ,comnielf i aims. —Calcutta Statesman. "MAN PROPOSES AND GOD DISPOSES" The serious and inescapable fact remains that the weather, which can- not be controlled, is a main factor in regulating output. Although. man in pride at his seemingly growing control over the forces of Nature, has forgotten the old saying: it is still true that ''man proposes but God disposes." It is a humbling thought for the scientific planners that they cannot yet reckon without Providence. The Minister of Agri- culture in the U. S. overlooked that factor when fixing his acreages for wheat, maize and cotton. Drought supervened and created shortages in last year's' harvests. Only the sur- pluses from the bounty of Providence in previous seasons saved the United States from the necessity of heavy imports. Even so, she is having to buy butter from abroad. 'Similarly the vaunted Five-year Plan did not exempt millions of Russians from famine. At the present -moment the weather is imposing an involuntary quota on dairy production in several districts of New Zealand. So it must ever be in the equation of product- tion. The- weather remains the un- known factor—drought or flood, heat or cold, rain, frost, hail, fire and wind, which "bloweth where it list- en." The greatest of . modern fal- Iacies is to turn from the horn of plenty, refusing Nature's abundance. Not in that way will market problems be solved.. The riddle to be answered is not production, but distribution, --Auckland News. U. S. Wheat Crop Indicated produc,ion of all wheat in the 'United States in 1935 is 607-, 678,000 bushels. While showing a sharp decline during July, prospective production is still 110,740,000 bushels greater than the short crop of 1934, but 252,892,000 bushes belowthe five. year (1.926-1932) average. The pre.. llminaay estimate of 1935 liroduction of winter wheat is 431,709,000 bushels compared with a production of 4051:. 552,000 bushels in 1934. Indicated production of all spring wheat is 175,969,000 bushels, compar. ed with a production of 91,377,000 bit - she's in 1934 and the five year aver- age of 242,284,000 bushels. Reports indicate that the quality of the spring ROAD •SAFETY wheat crop will be poor, with, test Ample.evidenee now exists to show weigliis per bushel far below TO weights per bushel running far below. therreal. Brother And Sister Lead Depression -Proof Lives They Have Built Up a Self -Sufficient Home Industry on Their Nivea Scotia Farm Depressions, polities, unemploy- ment, high prices -these mean noth. ing at all to old Alec MacLeod and his elderly sister, Katty, says a story from Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The venerable weaver and his housekeeper -business manager have built up a self-sufficient home indust- ry that's depression -proof. They live in a house by the side of the historic Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island and watch the troubles of the world go by. "The Lord's been good to us," says Alec, who is nearly 80, and mod- est "I would na trade poseetions with any mon." Driving along the highway, you see a sign. on a gatepost; "Huk Rugs and Homespun for Sale Here." Sam- ples of "huk" rugs and home spun quilts and table covers are draped over the railings of the porch. This, says Katty proudly, is a "sort of a'- vertising like they have dune in the big stores in Sydney." But the MacLeod homestead is more than a factory; it is an econo- mic entity. They grow all their own vegetables and fruits, which Katty puts up for the winter months. They have their own cattle for beef and milk; their own chickens and pigs. Fisherman David MacLeod, a neigh-, bor, trades part of his catch to them f+ • „ = ,un clothing. Th'trfarnr-. ;ea.;a>.: oc. r course, to provide the wool that Kat- ty makes into yarn on an old spin- ning wheel inherited from her moth- er. Alec works at the ancient loom in the attic of the house. The loom and the skill to use it came from his father, one of the pioneer Highland Scots to settle on Cape Breton Is- land. Maybe you'd think they'd have to buy dyes for the wool. Not Alec. His flock is divided between white sheep and black slieep, so most of his weav , _Y- , Ing is done in white, black and varia- tions of grey. Now and then some fancy city folks order some goods in color, but then they pay for the dyes. MAKE CLOTHING FOR OTHERS The make clothing for themselves, for the fisherman and the blacksmith, and for a grocer who trades them flour. "A'course there's ale," added Katty, pausing and looking at Alec in a meaningful way. "But there's a man dune Baddeck way—" She paused, then concluded, "Weel, we make sweaters and suck for his chil- dren." Fuel is no problem; plenty of wood. Butter and cheese — Katty makes those. Workmen from the nearby in- dustrial town of Sydney come up oc- casionally to buy the cheap, sturdy and beautiful materials produced by the MacLeods and other Cape Bre- ton weavers. Business is best in sum- mer, naturally, when the tourists are here. Winters, Alec occpies himself making and elling barrels to apple growers. No, he doesn't even buy nails to fasten the hoops; uses green saplings and notches them, and they make a tighter job. So you can see that Alec and Kat- ty do handle some cash. It's used to pay "rates," or taxes. PROOF OF PROSPERITY Alec has heard "a good slug" about .sne"3or. o..r-b.i doesn't'belteve it possible that times ren ly"'cbuin—tre. very bad. "Why, there was an artist mon come last year and paid Alec $6 a day jist to sit out under that oak with a pipe in his mouth -while he painted a picture. Katty and Alec don't even consid- er that their work is hard or long. "Not all year, onnyway. Canna do much in the weentertime. Ah weel, we are getting a bid auld, and never believed in a person working himself to death." Pithy Anecdotes Of The Famous An invitation to lunch with James Russell Lowell (wlibm he had known when Lowell was American minister in London) came to Ernest Rhys, ,the editor- of "Everyman's Library," dur- ing his first visit to Boston. "What delighted me more than any thing," he reminisces On "Everyman Remembers") "was that, sitting by an open fire, Russell Lowell drew out and lit a short clay pipe, the only time I had seen that Implement used in American good society." A curious yarn about T. W. H. Crosland, (whose book "The Un- speakable Scot," caused a furore t`vhen published years ago) is told by Sir Seymour Hicks, newly knighted actor in "Between Ourselves.) Cros- land, who let mnney flow through his "tigers like water, was observed by Sir Seymour one day "making a tri- umphal progress round Leicester Square (London), surrounded by a cheering mob and followed by a doz en empty hansom cabs." "I gathered," says Hicks, "that Crosland, who had been dining suffic- ienty well to, become slightly cantan- kerous had insisted on being driven in a cab with a white horse. There was . such a cab but it was at the very end of the rank. It could not be hired until the others in front of it had found fares. So Crosland hired the whole rank and drove to his des. tination in his white -horsed cab: at, the head of the procession." • James Payn wasnot only a delight.• ful novelist, but a brilliant humorist, says Harry Furniss,..*noted. artist (in his Memoirs). He was a splendid companion anti a great favorite am - nag literary men at the Reform Club. where his terribly hearty laught was so fretifently heard.;. Apropos :of this,. someone inacle' the remark: "That man laughs like a cannibal." "Yee, that may be," ejaculated Payn, "but sir I have never been able to swallow you." An amusing story about Will Rog- ers is told by Eddie Cantor (in his reminiscences, "My Lite Is In Your Hands") It !seems that during Will's third season with the Ziegfeld Fol- lies—he was then earning $350 per week—he went to Ziegfeld saying: "When I left Oklahoma I promised my wife and children that some day I would make $400 a week, and if ever I could make that the dream of my life would be fulfilled." Ziegfeld promptly fulfilled his dream. Next year, Rogers asked for six hundred. "Whets the idea!" said Ziegfeld. "1 thought your wife and children were perfectly satisfied with four hundred a week?" "They • are," replied Will, "But since then I've gotten another child and he's kicking." Years ago Eddie Cantor and Will Rogers were members of a troupe of performing young stars. Will being several years older than the others sort of fathered them. For- instance, when making railroad jumps, he took charge of the tickets. For the purpose of travel, be It stated, the boys all put on short pants. On one occasion Will Rogers, after giving the conductor half -fare was presently approached by that official, I fuming -and angry. "Whits the idea," growled the con- ductor. "Those fellows half fare?" "What's the matter, conductor " said Will. • • I "Why," he cried, "they're in the smoking car with big black ci i'''a in I their faces and by the language they are using, they are all, older than 1 ami" "Boys will be b ys!" murmured Rogers with a smile.,,, "It. is untrue that; Or a boy learns in a modern, college is to smoke, and cirink,to swear and gamble. He learns all those t,.iinge in prep. school .Ring Lamdner' Jr. Graded on Rail System In Selling Hogs Meets' Wi'lh Approval The experimentof selling all hags on their dressed percentage and grade on the rail which was started a few weeks ago in Prince Edward Island is now to become official. 3. A. Gillis, secretary of the live stock marketing board of Prince Edward Island reports that good re- sults have been obtained by rail grading of hogs and marketing on a dressed weight basis. The method is optional but it is anticipated that it will be universally adopted . by farmers producing fair to top quali- ty hogs. The first week's results were suf- ficient to convince that the change made in marketing was a wise one, and the follow-up experiences thor- meghly confirmed earlier ,convictions. During a typical week of the ex- periment with . over 230 hogs offered the dressed price was $11.80 per cwt., which worked out at an aver- age live price of $8.69, whereas the off -truck price alive for the sante week was only $8.50 per cwt. The Brataharis Calcutta Statesman: — A few years ago dancing was, we believe, generally thought of in India as an eccentricity of Europeans, young and elderly, slim and rotund, or a not entirely reputable item in the cele- brations attending weddings and evening parties. Now all is changed owing to the recent discoveries and enthusiasms about them. Old dances Hindu, Moslem, aboriginal, have been found persisting in remote vil- lages; they have been studied with care and cleared of damaging ac- cretions; and now they are in great favour as a form of exercise and part of a training of the whole man for the service of the country. In Bengal this development is more pronounced than anywhere else, owing to the enthusiasm of an Indian Civilan who has' made the. study of these things much more than a hobby, has shown how they can be used to enrich the life of the people, and has infected with his enthusiasm all kinds of people, from light-hearted schoolboys and village urchins to anxious-browed collectors,' and even commissioners, All over Bengal this new interest has spread. The Bratachari movement, as it is called, is a force to be taken into account in any survey of the condi- tion and activities of the people of the province. Be KEN EDWARDS f /ARVEy ACKSUN. %*ED LEAGUE •IN SCORING IN v 1931-Z2 GENERAL — WAY— OCT. 3rd HOT SHOTS "HOT SHOT" JACKSON Maybe it': kind of early to be talk- ing hockey, nevertheless it seems to be in the wind. Rare is Harvey "Busher" Jackson of the Leafs, one of the mos' valuable and most spectacular members of that club Tor the past four or five years. "Busher" was born'in Toronto, Ont. 23 years ago. He is five deet, eleven inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. In my opinion Jackson is one of the greatest left wingers in the game to- day`�,� . 110 16.37. played for Toronto Marl- boros along with Joe Prineau and Chuck Conacher in 1927-28, signing With Toronto in 1929. In 1931-32 Jack- son led the l.eaghe in scoring with 53 point s. Note: Maybe you fans would like to a:A some sport questions, or may.. be you would like me to cartoon your sport idol in this column, some might even have suggestions or comments about "Sport Hot tib:s." If so, I would be very pleased to hoar from you sport fans. Just aci- cires I your letters to Ken Edwards. Wilson Iluilding, 73 Adelaide Street', West, Toronto,