Zurich Herald, 1935-10-31, Page 6CANADA
THEY HAVE THE BIG IDEA
There was an item in the news-
pap,ers recently and by actual meas-
ure it received one inch of space.
But it told a good deal. It came from
Amulet, Sask., and said that farmers
of that district were shipping truck-
loads of carrots to less fortunate
farmers in the north. In dried -out
years — and Amulet had its share of
them — farmers there received sup-
plies of vegetables from other sec-
tions. Now they find themselves in a
position to help and they know where
others are who need help, so they
are keeping the thing going,
It is well that those farmers in Sas-
katchewan shipped vegetables to those
in need; it is well that some person
who heard about it had the good sense
to see that it got in the newspapers.
What a world we would have if the
farmers -and -vara ets idea beg4an to
expand! — S'ratford Beacon -Herald.
BEFORE DAYS OF ROUGE
After listening to the usual daen-
aging-comparison between the girls.
of today and the girls of years ago,
pert Miss Teenage , remarked : "Well,
if they were all so darned innocent,
how did they know when to blush?"
—Exchange.
FLYING DOCTORS
In Canada we have no official "fly-
ing doctor" service such as Australia
possesses, but invaluable aid has been
rendered for some considerable time
past by the Canadian Airways Ser-
vice. The ambulance notes of the
company contain scores of records
of flights, varying in length from ten
to several hundred miles, all of
which were 'made in response to ur-
gent appeals for transportation and
which in most cases definitely meant-
the
eantthe saving of life.
In Canada air transport has com-
pletely transformed the service of
government medical offices, as may
be seen from a record of a recent
tour of camps in western Ontario,
when in less than four hours a doc-
tor using a plane weir 'able to visit
four different camps; carrying out
complete inspections ''-'and travelling
102 mlies, in less than'' four hours.
Aeroplane service has also made
medical service possible over terra
i.•areea-,,....hal e.9a,... a.eaane.,..xeses...evere.
covered only by dog teams making
one trip per season. Title is now re-
placed by many trips per season In
comfort over a vastly larger area at
considerably less cost, and without
the grave risks that inevitably at-
tended the dog team tours. — Star,
Montreal.
WILL STRIKE EASILY
Year round exposure of the sun
makes the skin rough and dry, so
the nudists can easily strike their
matches. — Brandon Sun.
PREVENT WAR ANYWHERE
"The best way to keep America
out of war is to do what we can to
prevent there being a war anywhere
into which she can be drawn," says
Newton D. Baker. And he might have
added that in these modern days it
is hardly possible to start a war ahy
place, in which most of the nations
of the world would not be involved.
—Chatham News.
SLEEPLESS, DRINKS TEA
A Toronto mornng newspaper pro-
duced a picture of Mussolini already
familiar — a picture of the fellow
with a terrible scowl on his face,
wearing a steel helmet. Above was
the outline: "Sleepless, Drinks Tea."
One finds it difficult to feel any
quickening of the pulse over Il
Dace's approach to a nervous break-
down. One feels that, had the ner-
vous breakdown been complete and
occurred some ten years ago, the
world would be a happier place, to-
day.
Furthermore, when one learns
that he has been drinking, not Cey-
lon or China tea, but Camomile `tea,
one loses reverence even for the
steel thing on his head.
We have drunk' that stuff. One
drops dried Camomile flowers into
a tea pot and pours hot water on
• ahem. If one desires one adds til-
leul mint and verbena. The re-
suit is not unlike dish water in which
. sea -weed and pepperiment drops
have been steeped.
11 Duce may never be wrong, but
to our way of thinking anyone, who
drinks the surf deserves a break-
down. Sanctions, or, no Sauction$. —
Hamill on Herald.
WEALTH OF THE NORTH
Another gold find is • reported on
the shores of Lake Athabaska. The
riches of the north are great and
even yet are barely tapped. — Ed-
monton Journal.
THE REPORTER'S PICTURC
It, is the 'sane in newspaper
reporting. The whole truth can not
be told. There isn't time to write,
it, There i:e't space enough in the
paper to hold it, and if it could be
all told the reader would grow
weary before he had :waded half.-
way through it. '1"he newspaper,
like the collie, aims to get at the
essential truth. The• reporter selects
THE WORLD
AT LARGE
his details and builds his picture,
tike things that do not matter he
leaves out. He is 'a painter rather
than a photographer. --- Vancouver
Province.
YES, WE HAVE CANADIAN
BOOKS
It is the habit of some of our Can-
adian intelligentsia, when they fore,
gather about cocktails or 'effete to
speak with something like .shame of
the shocking state of Canadian lit-
erature It ranks, they would have
us
believe with the literary production
of the Laplanders; it has neither
tradition nor background, little past,
no present to speak of, at best a
mighty uncertain future. Nobody is
writing stuff tont will live—outside,
naturally, the ranks of those then
present—and the outlook is black.
Perhaps all this is true—eve should
not like to get into an argument
about it with this same intelligentsia
—but certainly we are turning out
books, even if they are not literature.
The Toronto Public Library sends us
a booklet of sixty-four pages listing
"Books published in Canada, about
Canada, as -well as those written by
Canadians, with imprint of 1934."
In these pages there are listed, we
should judge, more than 1,100 books.
Forty pages deal with publications
in English, twenty-four pages list the
French works. They cover a vast
range of subjects — philosophy, so-
ciology, commerce, the sciencesand
the arts, biography, history, travel,
poetry, fiction and so on — and any-
one determined to persue all of them
would find himself committed to three
a day over the year.
This is, we submit, a lot of writ-
ing, and we should be surprised if
these eleven hundred books do not
contain a fair amount of what is
called literature. It is hardly prob-
able that so many men andwomen
should aim at the mark and -without
exception miss it. — Ottawa Journal.
THE EMPIRE
STILL ON THE UPGRADE
Slowly, but . surely, Britain is re-
ducing her number of unemployed..
Official figures issued recently
show that at August 26 there were
43,000 more insured persons at 2 work
than a month previously
4,000
euare_than..a.,year,__ago._ _ , u
Thus the upward trend "1So'cice="
able since the beginning of the year
is maintained.
Since January the total number
of registered unemployed has dropped
by over 377,000.
The numbers of unemployed on
the registers on August 26 were 1,-
533,259 wholly unemployed, 334,419
temporarily stopped and 80,236 nor-
mally in casual employment. making
a total of 1,947,964.
This was 24,977 less than the num-
ber on the registers on July 22, and
1S8,614 less than a year before.
The reduction during the month
in the numbers of unemployed occur
red chiefly in the North-Eastern and
Midland divisions, where the im-
provement in coal mining was mainly
felt.
TRINIDAD SHOWS THE WAY
Imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery, and those responsible for
medical reorganisation activity in
Trinidad have reason to be gratified
by the manner in which this move-
ment has spread to other colonies in
the Caribbean. Barbados, the Wind-
ward Islands, British Guiana, Jamai-
ca — all have instituted medical ser-
vice Investigations of a more or less
comprehensive kind which are expec-
ted to lead to important reforms. —
Trinidad Guardian.
PROSPERITY COMES TO CANADA spent!'. rusticating. She has travelled
Prosperity is reachiug Canada, too. anat.,she has enjoyed London at its
The Canadian West always held the best and gayest, though always re-
view that dollar wheat was a paying twining a ,',preference,, for_ ; S'cottish
proposition. Now, once more, they
are bordering on dollar wheat At
the same time the earth of Canada
•
Motivated By The Sport Of It All
Henry Ford and Mrs. Ford pictured in their 'box at Navin Field,
Detroit, as they watched their home team in • opening game of World
Series with the Chicago Cubs. '' The motor magnate proved to be
an enthusiastic fan.
Royal ° Betrothal Thrills Scotland
•
Attractive Brown -Haired Fiancee of Duke of Gloucester Has
Strongly Marked Black Eyebrows Said to Dente Royal
Stuart Stock.,—Of Artistic Tastes and Abilities.
The betrothal of Lady Alice Scott,
daughter „of the Duke and•.Duchess of
Buccleuch, to the' Duke .of Gloucester
has given particular satisfaction to
the whole of Scotland, writes a cor-
respondent of the Glasgow Herald,
but nowhere was the news received
with keener pleasure than in the
Guards, returning to the trenches
after wounds so severe that any-
one else would have continued a
most justifiable convalescence. Event-
ually he was crippled, and after war
was over settled in Kenya.
The Duke of Gloucester loves
Kenya for its sporting appeal, .and
Borders, where the future bride and Lady Alice loves it for its, artistic -
her family are so well known and ; appeal, judging by , the excellent
esteemed. landscapes she exhibited at Walker's
The bride-to-be spends most of, Galleries in Bond street last July. So
her time in the South of Scotland, as:a married couple they are quite
and indeed is not widely known out -certain to revisit the colony.
side the Borders, where she hunts, ALREADY WELL ACQUAINTED
sketches, and goes to all the local The Duke of Gloucester has been
functions. One thing we are certain such a regular visitor to the Duke of
of is that Lady Alice will have her Buccleuch's home for: so many years
sister, Lady Angela, in her wedding that he's already well acquainted, as
retinue. we say in the North, with his'future
They have a great look of each in-laws, and they in turn are already
other, with their clear fair com- attached to hint by the affection
plexions, brown hair and unexpect- which comes with friendship, as well
edly black eyebrows, strongly mark- as by mutual interests such as hunt-
ed—brows which are said to denote ing, soldiering, and the simple life.
the royal Stuart stock. Pretty Lady Everyone knows the Duke' to be a
Burghley, tall Lady Sybil Phipps keen soldier,_ a good horseman, an
(always so graceful with her wil- adequate dancer (who is not over-
lowy figure), and indeed all five fond of sophisticated parties pre -
sisters (like the Duchess of York's ferring a Hunt Ball to a night club),
sisters) have a strong "family and a thoroughly good fellow in the
look," making it difficult to say which pleasant sense of the phrase.
Lady Alice. resembles most , Until lately it was not realized.
typical Scott is the 'Verdict hat' he had the same diplomatic gifts
"SCOTT GIRL•S" as the Prince of Wales. He seemed
just the typical British soldier with
Though she has artistic tastes and a taste for sports and a sense of
abilities with which. sone of the duty, but the Jubilee Empire tour
other are not endowed, Lady Alice he cmpleted this spring proved him
is very much one of the family. She a man of many parts. Australians
has always known the joy of having summering at home say that he was
sisters and brothers to share her a genuine success not merely as the
life, a joy which members of large King's soh but as himself—a sim-
families take for granted, sometimes ple, observant, and easily'entertained
grumbling against the little annoy guest, who fulfilled endless public
antes and disappointments of living engagements without sign of bore -
in a crowd, though in their hearts But we must not imagine Lady
realising a crowd's mighty comfort- Alice's fiance is an inhuman "wood-
ing in good times and bad. Being one en soldier." Hasn't he a big circle
of many also "rubs the corners of," of hearty men friends, including his
even if you are a Duke's daughter Or brother -in -law -to -be, Lord William
a King's son; you grow up with a Scott, and hasn't he -finally shown
"community spirit" very useful in, the good sense to fall in love with
every walk of life. a Scots lass'and plight•his troth in
The "Scott girls" are always in' a the bonny Borders? If only they
bunch at point-to-points, meets, and could be married'in Scotland, what
Border races,' their numbers wig- a great day for our country that
mented by the tall and exquisitely would be! The Scotts are- related
beautiful Lady Delamere ' (daughter to so_many Scottish families that
of Lord George Scott, her twin even were the wedding fixed at
sisters (one` a bride of last year), Westminster there would be a tre-
and other young people from their mendous gathering- of the Clans.
sporting group. Simple tweeds, hand- A SAD COINCIDENCE
knit jerseys, a pull -on felt hat, and It is.interesting to recall that the
brogues are: Lady Alice's racing Duke of -Gloucester was at Eton in
uniform. c the same house as the tragically
HER alherBROTHER'S SUPPORTER TER bereaved King of the.Belgians, while
But all her time has net been
Prince Paul of -Serbia, now Regent.
in Jugoslavia (where the Duke and
Duchess of Kent have been staying
with him at Bled), was an Oxford
contemporary of Lorct Dalkeith.
Another of the Prince's generation
Te Lady"Sybil Phipps's husband, an
old Life Guard, while another Scott
much in the public eye. is Lord Her-
bert Scott, who,' as chairman of
Rolls-Royce, brings' the 'family into
contact with "big business."
To, trace the ramifications of the
Montagu Douglas - Scott family in
ootland alone is too long a task to
attempt here,:but it's quite safe to
affirm that one ; and all will give
7,�ady Alice's husband a great wel-
'coirie and feel pride in their kins-
woman's good fortune and interest
in the'new life which opens out to
her as a "Royal highness".
THE SLAVERY -
IN ETHIOPIA
Light is thrown on the question of
slavery in Ethiopia by the latest
Foreign Policy Assoeiation report on
"Imperialist Rivalries in Ethiopia."
Slavery exists in Ethiopia, A eon..
dation of serfdom not easily disting-
uishable from slavery exists in British
Kenya, which adjoins Ethiopia, And
actual' slavery continues to exist in
Italian Libya, as Italy was only re-
cently forced to admit before the
League of Nations Advisory Com-
mittee of experts.
The slavery issue is Always raised
by the Power. which at the moment
hopes to annex part of Ethiopia. The
charge was first brought not by Ttaly,
but by Great Britain.
When France and Italy sponsored
Ethiopia for membership in the
League (the black Empire was admitt-
ed in 1923), Great Britain objected
on the grounds that slavery still ex-
isted in Ethiopia. At that time the
British feared that the Covenant ef
the League might interfere with their
plans for control of the Lake Tsana
region. •
In 1924, in pursurance to pledges
made on admission to the League, the
Emperor of Ethiopia published an
edict providing the death penalty for
slave trading and emancipating all
children born of slaves. Slavery in
Ethiopia will probably be eradicated
in this generation.
The reason for slavery is revealed
in a passage of the Foreign Policy re-
port: "One-half of Somaliland (under
-Italian control) would repay exten-
sive irrigation; but the natives, once
freed from slavery, have been loath to
work."
Fishing, farming and hunting are
still free. So it is not economically
necessary for the natives to work for
a few pennies a day for some great
Italian corporation. Italy, if it con-
quers Ethiopia, will remedy this. The
farm land will be taken away from
the peasants. Prohibitive taxes will be
put on fishing and hunting. Slavery
will no longer be necessary. Ethiop-
ians will have to work or 'starve, and
their masters will be relieved of the
obligation to feed them when there is
no work. •
Just as in civilized Italy.
-,-.,.,rte . , .., ... , _.�. .
Just Like A Woman
•• To Be So Practice:I
Manitowoc; Wis. "Clean up Mir
attic and basement and lessen eine
danger," Mayor Arthur Sehuetz told
ManitoSvoo residents in a broadcast,
When . he arrived home, Mrs.
Sehnetz met hiin with two bushel
baskets and a broom, with a word
that it might be wise if he followed
his own advice.
el guess we all get a little careless"
he said with a grin. "My own place
certainly needed attention."
_Wistfulness
No longer do I feel inspired
Dear God, I'm young and very tired,
The hopes that lived in me lie crush.
ed, •
The song I would have sung is hush-
ed.
Before my high ideals are sold,
Before my tale of life is told—
May I forget all sordid truth
And tread the carefree ways of youth.
May life Jio1d laughter—love, per-
chance
Be colored with some •sweet romance;
Light-heartedness—some Joy supreme
Fufilment of one treasured dream.
May I have happiness to hold
Before I'm `old—before I'm old!
Joan Frances Austen
Autumn Force
Daniel W. Smyth in the New York
Sun:
This is a. frosty drive that sharpens
air, •
So city bells may further clang the
hour. -
Ij tread on brittle glint when every-
where
The felds turn white and panes burst
into flower
The wind has coasted down our thin-
ning elms
Like unseen oceans roaring out of
space,
And sudden earth is one that over-
whelms
With windy beauty springing from
its place!
Hill -pastures, roads and maples for
whose sake
Autumn as worked with all its force
and sound
Lose not this stirring hour but dare
to take
The colorand the wind that wheel
around!
"In The Marriage
Market" — Definition
Of New York Debut
New York, The coming fortnight
looms as a crucial period of preparat-
ion for the 1935 season of giddy
whirls, heartbreak and lack of sleep
for some 300 of Gotham's fortunate
young women, — in short the debu-
tante season,
The first big event of the winter
"deb" season when the beauty and
charm of the deb class is presented
to society is the autumn ball at Tux-
edo Park. From then through next
January, the "debbies" will swirl al-
ong the stag lines at society's func-
tion, dash through round after round
of cocktail parties and teas, serve on
assorted committees, model clothes
and undergo the stress of being•pho-
tographed for the rotogravure pages.
One of New York's -well-informed
society editors defines the debutante
as "a young gal in her late teens (an
average of 18 or 19) whose parents
feels she's of marriageable age and
ought to be meeting some eligible
young men. A debut is fair warning
that Josie or Susie is in the market.
It's a happy medium for putting her
before her public, which Is the stag
line, composed of likely looking young
men in tail coats.
festivities. - Electioneering:' ham,. also
come into her scope on her brother's
account.:
is not yielding wheat only. There is Lord Dalkeith, M.P., alto has the
an immense output of nickel, copper, pink cheeks and: the shyness of a
Silver, and other precious commodi-. schoolgirl in spite of his war record,
ties, to say nothing of the Domin- is a contemporary of the Prince of
ion's forest wealth, which supplies Wales. He was up at Oxford, at
the American market and a large per_ "The House," when the Prince wae.
tion of •the British market also with I at Magdalen. Judging by the nuns-.,
newsprint. The British nations are ber of men—mostly — fellow -mem -
showing the way to prosperity— hers of Buelc's Clubse-who call him
London Daily Express, 1 "Waltei.''e he must be very popular.
AUSTRALIA'S BUDGET SURPLUS Pornopguspeople are seldom referred
Having regard to the serious ef- � to affectionately, Lind one even for-
fects of the depression on Australia's 1 gets that they own Christian names„
economy, the recovery " already So Lord Dalkeith is not really •stiff,
achieved is the subject o1 justifiable —just shy.of limelight, which he
self-congratulation on the part of leaves to his wife, who is a great
those who have seen the country beauty and was Mollie Lascelles,
through its , troubles. In his Budgeti kinswoman of Lord Harewood,
speech Mr, R. G. Casey gave well � Lord Dalkeith was in Grenadier
founded evidence to prove the extent
of the advance towards prosperity
in the material sense, but he rightly
Guards, like his uncle, Lord Fran-
cis 'Scott, who married One of Mary •
Lady Minto's handsome daughters
laid emphasis on the great gain rep- (another connection with the royal
resented by the passing of the de- family, as Lord Minto's mother is
pression mentality., Internal adjust- regularly in attendance on the
ments inherent in the financial rola- Queen), and of all Lady Alice's 'rel -
tions between Stales and Common- atives Francis Scott is most likely
wealth still involve many difficult to capture the admiration 'of her
Problems, but so far as the outside soldier husband -to -be.
world i:l concerned the position of the For Lord Francis is a great war-
tountry as a whole is one of growing riot—to use a grand old word — and
strength. — London Financial Times. did his duty nobly by the Brigade of.
They used to beat the swords into
plowshares. But now they beat the
plow -shares into niblicks.
A checkered career often ends in
a striped suit.
The world contains an over sup-
ply of average men.
Generally the fellow who makes
the most fuss about the way the
elections goes did not vote.
The fool thought requires anst as
much time as that which turns out
to be, a big idea.
Love is the sweetest story ever
told until soniebady pulls the trap 21
dooms, from under; you.
Teeth
Uriele "John came to visit, and be -1
fore he left he gave his nephew a
dollar bill.
"Now, be careful with that money,:
Tommy," he said. "Remember the!
saying, 'a fool and his money ars!
soon parted'." -
"Yes, uncle," replied Tommy, "but
I want to thank you for parting with
it, just the same."
Observes the Milwaukee Journal
"Novelists talk of heroines with
"pearly white" teethbut no human
being ever had teeth, that were white
or anything like white, says the Mil-
waukee Journal. Examine your own
against a background of white paper
and you will see how true this is.,
Moro than that you will make the
odd discovery that your teeth are not
all the same color.
The first artificial teeth were made
white, and dentists were obliged to
stain them; nowadays they have no
trouble of that kind for they have ho
fewer than 30 different shades from
which to choose, and there is no tooth
in the world that cannot be perfectly
matched.
The variety iu shape is equally
wide. In all, the dentist has a choice
of something like 2,000 different
Shapes. •
Artificial teeth are made of a spe-
cial porcelain. Before this was discov-
ered they were sometimes carved out
of solid ivory."
"Regal Couple Will
Live In Surrey
London, --- The Duke of Gloucester
and his bride-to-be, Lady Alice Scott,
will make their first home at Cana
berley, Surrey, 35 miles from Lond-
on,
The Duke is a major In the Hussars
and was nominated to the Staff Col-
lege at Camberley by the War Office
recently; It is expected the Duke will
joint the college next January.
Cuts To Size 50!
Yes! You can make two dresses '
with today's pattern—straight-
line or a tunic dress. See small
viewl
It's smart for the normally
built woman and will have a sten-
derizing effect for the heavier
typBlack satin -back crepe is stun-
aingfor this model with the
shiny surface used for collar and
cuffs.
Style No. 3352 is designed for
sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 46, 48 and
50 -inches bust. • Size 36 requires
4 yards of 30 -inch material with
Vv, yard, of 39 -inch contrasting
and 1.1� yards of lining for skirt.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address
plainly, giving number and site
of pattern wanted. Enclose 15c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred);
wrap it carefully, and address yeti
order to Wilson Pattern Service,
73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto.