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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-11-07, Page 6ICE THE WORLD AT LARGE of th CANADA. VINELAND SCIENTIST MAKES NAME IN AVICULTURE The work of Jack Miner and other naturalists in the preservation of wild life is almost a household world. Few know, however, of the outstand- ing work done in rearing in captivity birds, strange to our continent, by such men as Dr. W E. Huriburt, na- turalist and ornititologit of Vineland. By this excellent contribution to avi- culture, this Vineland physician has qualified for recognition ,by the Avi_ eul.ural Society of America, which offers medals to members in the united States and Canada, who are the first to breed certain species of foreign birds. For the past decade or more Dr. Hurlbut ,has taken an interest in tropical birds until he has .sixty in species in captivity. He has also reared for the first time anywhere in the world in captivity the fox spar- row, native of the far north in North America, and the white throated. finch, native of Brazil, and for the first time probably on this contin- ent, the magpie ntanniken, a native of tropical Africa. Other foreign birds somewhat rare in this country are to be seen among his specimens. Dr. Hurlburt has done real work as a scientist, and is deserving of any re- cognition"that may be bestowed up- on him. — Toronto Mail and Empire. TYPE IS NOT ELASTIC The American police commissioner who does not like the word "fight" and is trying to get the newspapers to use the more polite word "distur- bance" won't get anywhere. There are 11• characters in disturbance and only 4% in light (the letter "i" being only half as wide as the others). Desk men on newspapers, boiling down stories to save space and writing headlines that have to be compkessed in narrow columns, will not use a Iong word when they can use a short one. That is why diplomatic com- munications are "notes"; the enemy is the "foe"; interrogates or cross- examines becomes "quiz", criticize is "hit", and so on. Something of a ntodern classic in headline English is a recent exam- ple from Variety, the amusement 'ate CANADA, THE THE EMPIRE business. The Mayor of iudianapo is says that an 8 per cent increase has noted since the new cars — "fast, silent, handsome and comfortable"— were put into service, "enhancing the prestige of the city." If the cars are the opposite to fast or silent or handsome, it is not reasonable to ex- pect any great improvement in the traffic. — Hamilton Spectator. A BIT TOO MUCH Young man from Stirling appeared in court at Belleville and the charge was that he fired a shot -gun at a charivari• party. Tin pans, old boil- ers, wash tubs and cow bells used to be commonly used, but this restless generation seeking for greater ef- fects with weapons will have to be checked. — Stratford Beacon -Herald. A NOBLE RETREAT Recent news from Italy might lead an old-time reader of nursery rhymes to witness a repetition of the perfor- m to wonder if the world is not about �7�&avR�}�k�� ° �� �� ' !'STICKS NIX HICK PIX" Each of the four words is a slang word and the headline would be in_ admissable in any daily newspaper. What the headline intended to con- vey is simply this: that the movie - ging public in the smaller communi- tes have indicated that they dislike and will not pay their good money to see motion pictures depicting rural lite. — Financial Post. LIVES OF NAPOLEON Ten thousand books, or one every 98 hours for 112 years, have been written on Napoleon's life. This should dampen Mussolini's ambition a bit. — Winnipeg Tribune. JOURNALESE Strange how newspaper lingo changes. A couple of generations ago reporters were in the habit of often calling a church a "sacred edifice," and some of them seemed to prefer "conflagration" to "fire," and "post- prandial" to "after dinner." .A. gen- eration ago the revered Montreal Star was want to refer to even po- lice court doings as "dramatic." .A. few of the newer words now af- fected — definitely, "spot" of tea, "considered" opinion, "blunt" view, and +socialite. — Sault Ste. • Marie Star. GOOD ROADS Good roads bound the old. Roman Empire together, and it is not a vain hope that they may be made a bound which shall in time help to bind to- gether the "United States of Europe." — Halifax Herald. FINE BABIES EVERYWHERE When we look at the photographs of those babies who won prizes at the North Wentworth Agricultural Society Fair, we cannot help think. ing that the Dionne quintuplets may get more publicity, but their ap- pearance is no more a guarantee of a, healthy and good-looking future Canadian generation than that of numerous other children, born and bred without bally-hoo in .our rural districts. -- Hamilton Spectator. OLD STAINS The stain of 1896 has been wiped out. Italians are celebrating the tall of Adowa. Fine! Let's all wipe out our stains. The Scotch might invade England to revenge themselves for Floddon Feld; the British wallop the Russians for tutting up the Light Brigade; France might invade Ger- many to clear up that old trouble of 1870 and Germany might invade France to avenge the defeat of 1918; Italy might walk into France to wipe out the stain of the Napoleonic eon- gliest; Austria might , . but Iwhy go our --- Hamilton Herald. STREET OAR S,E!~ VICE So it would seem that there is stili a demand for street . railway trans- portation, but it is. significant that modernization of the systein is given %much of the credit for the increased A Flying Finish All eight hoofs off the ground, Count Arthur and Judy O'Grady pictured in flying finish in the mile and one-half Manhattan- Handicap at Belmont Park, Z.T. Reigh Count's son won race by half 'a length. mance made famous by the noble Of Journalk Duke of York. The noble Duke, as you may re- member, had a thousand men; and after marching them boldly uphill one day, he 'bout -faced and march- ed them gallantly down again. Since the British navy began con- centrating in the Mediterranean, it has been passible to notice a water- ing -down in the warlike speeches at Rome. Mussolini has declared over and over again that Italy could not withdraw on any account; now, how- ever, there is a faint trace of a more moderate attitude to be heard, just as a suggestion that if it could be done with the right flourish, I1 Duce might be willing to modify his belli- cose plans. Strange, the change that can come over a statesman when he takes a good look down the business end of the guns of a British dreadnaught! —Guelph Mercury. THE EMPIRE BRITAIN AND THE DOMINION They stand, as we in this country stand, for peace and justice and the plighted world. They will not lightly be committed— and never committed in advance or without the full assent of their free peoples — to warlike measures. But they are becoming ...e. -.s .sad••-a:oa-o-wo.+aaein.ua, b3^. •63aa� ..a ,— Delegates from all parts of the country to the annual conference of the Institute of Journalists in Lon. don enjoyed the opportunity to in- spect a panorama of the evolution of the English newspaper from its be- ginning more than three hundrdd years ago to the present day. In the forefront of this fascinating record of three centuries of English Journalism stood a page from Wil- liam Caxton's press at Westminster dated 1480 as an example of the earliest printing in England. Au interval of a century and a quarter led up to a copy of "Mercurius Gal- lobelgicus," dated 1606, a six -monthly compilation of European news done in Latin at Frankfurt and containing the report of a speech delivered in Parliament by James I denouncing the atrocity of the Guy Fawkes Piot. This forerunner of newspapers with letters frfom Continental corre- spondents and the Dutch and Ger- man corantos—the evilest form of neiws.,sheets—provided the imaterial from which the pioneers of English journalism compiled tate first news- papers in this country. Their origin dates....fron.,.I aY,_16.22,,_ and in the • x- hibition was shown a finely pre- served specimen of a year later— "The Continuation of our ,Weekly Newes"—with Its •dedoriati a head- piece, table of contents, end enter- taining account of recent happen- ings in the Thirty Years' War. The Journalism of the Civil War and Commonwealth period, when news pamphlets on the opposing sides poured from the London press- es, was represented oy numerous ex- amples.. "A. Perfect Relation of Su- muarte" is a particularly stylish specimen of front-page lay -out, and the "Faithful Scout" Is singled out gers of the present world, even to their own remote . Dominions, so long as et contains great nations which have no such voice as theirs in the choice between war and peace. It is safe to say that the recent debates in the Dominion Parliaments, and the line taken at Geneva by their repre- sentatives, have revealed an array of unaniinity which would have been incredible not long ago. Lord Tweeds- muir's prediction the other day that what he called the "Fourth Empire" would possess a new cohesion, fol- lowing upon the achievement of na- tional independence, was something more than the dream of an imagine. tive and patriotic mind. Nor is it conceivable that the Dominions, or any class in this country, will dissent from the view that these dangers of the present world, so conspicuously revealed ,demand some revision of our Imperial defences. — London Times. THE BRITISH WHEAT BOUNTY Ask any farmers' leader in either Scotland or England today which scheme of assistance to the industry has yielded the most satisfactory re- sults to producers and he will un- hesitatingly reply, "The wheat quota." Under this plan, no matter what the world price of wheat may be, home growers are guaranteed (subject to a production limit) a standard price for all minable wheat of 45s. per qr. of 504 lb., or 43 cwt. Since the scheme began in the season of 1932-33 ex- perience has shown that the standard price for this home -wheat has been about double that which our growers could have hoped to reap from the open market. — Glasgow Herald. A MIRACLE Man has sought out many inven- tions and afterwards has mostly re- gretted his pains. But now a device has appeared at which not even the most anti -mechanical of Erewlronians could grumble. The machine for giv. ing women the illusion of wearing new clothes, which is to be shown at the forthcoming Exhibition of Inven- tions in London, sounds so utterly beneficial and flattering that it should obviously be the "starred,'. ,item . of the whole affair. The effect Is pro- duced. by magic mirrors and strong lights. Henceforth, apparently a wo man choosing a new frock need only stand in front of the machine's ar- rangement of mirrors with a sample piece of dress material, in her band; she will then see in the mirror a vis- ion of ,Herself wearing the dress pro.. posed. -- Manchester Guardian, England for a graphic account of the "great and bludy engagement" between the English and Dutch fleets off Dunge. ness in November, 1652. From these beginnings the page- ant of the Press was shown in evo- lution through the journalistic ec- centricities of the . Restoration and Revolution to the advent of the tri- weekly morning paper at the close of the seventeenth century and of the daily at the opening of Anne's reign, when literature allied itself with journalism in the brilliant. Steele and Addison group ; of essay sheets, and Defoe's "Robinson Cruso" was running as a serial: through the columns of the "Daily Post." The second half of the eighteenth century was the period when the newspaper reached maturity, and here were shown amidst their con- temporaries the first issue of the "Morning Post" (the only copy known) .dated November 2, 1772; "Tile Ti }es" in its first year (1785), under ifs original title. "The Daily Universp.l Register"; and the Ob- server, the oldest existing of the Sun- day papers of today. Journalism in its more modern phases was represented by the first issues of many of the morning, eve- ning, and Sunday papeirs of Victorian and Edwardian times, and a large sec- tion of the exhibition was devoted to a display of the oldest provincial, Scottish; and Irish newspapers, which emphasized the interesting fact that while journalism in London had a long start compared with the country towns, many of the old towns and cities are still producing with un- broken records of longevity journals that have flourished since long before the birth of the oldest existing Lon- don newspapers. TWEEDSMUIRS SHOULD BE AT HOME IN CANADA OF SCOTTISH NAMES (From Canada's Weekly (London) Lord Tweedsmuir has told us that he looks forward with deep interest to his residence in Canada. We can well believe it. For us ordinary mortals, Canada never fails to pro- vide mental gymanastics in a high degree. Something new is always arising to stir us to fresh effort. It is a land of illimitable possibilities whether we think of the resources of Nature, of the Mind or of Spirit. That is, our common experience. How great, then, must be the exhilaration which Canada brings to leaders !of thought such as our new Governor General. As they come into touch with Canadian life they may sity with the poet: "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken." More than that. Kingship has ,in these latter days gained a new mean- ing for British peoples everywhere. Above all OUT .differences of parties and creeds it implies leadership in the higher art of livi,og. More than ever, then, may fie representative of the Sovereign in Canada find joy in leadership in realms where his leadership can be most helpful end stimulating. It has been said in'Canada that Lord Tweedsmuir has been chosen for his high office by the express wish of those who can speak for the two main political sections of the Canadian people, His Majesty, we are told, has fulfilled what we may call a national Canadian desire, Li any ease, we know that he will be heartily welcomed by the whole Canadian community in every cornier St, Louis, -- Vanilla jos eream still of the Dominion. We lay stress on is a favorite. the words "every corner", for it is Ilut •ehocolato is a close second, the way with 'Governors to under - say representatives of the Interna- take the arduous but also Happy tiensi1 Asseciatiort of Ice Cream Man.' tank of getting- into personal touch uraco ra ors hose (or their azrnuai eorr- with Canadians of ebery race and cirtiori. Creed in every centre from. Ralf ai( Milk Kept Fresh For Months Now Duisberg, Germany—An invention which is expected to revolutionize the dairying industry has been re- vealed by Theodor Hofius, a Duisberg engineer, who states that it has been entered for patent rights in all countries. He claims that he has invented a vessel in which milk and cream can be kept fresh for several months by using an oxygen apparatus. Milk remained fresh in a new vessel for at least two months and its quality was improved, it is claimed. The invention, if successful, will permit milk to be transported for any distance, thus opening new pros- pects for milk -exporting countries, it is claimed. Reading Is Praised As Relaxation Aid Toronto—Doctors and nurses were warned against becoming too absorb- ed in the technical side of their pro- fession, and reading w,as suggested as physical and mental relaxation by C. R. Sanderson of the Toronto Public Libraries. "If you want something funny, read something funny," he said. "If you want to read novels,' read them rather than nothing at all. I don't care what you read so long as you read along general lines. I believe that reading gives one furl, stimulus and something that will stay long after one has forgotten the book it- self.' The futility of trying to live by rules without relaxation was stressed by the speaker. He had no sympathy with those who pleaded that they had no time for reading. It was only the first bite that was difficult. Dr. D. M. Robertson, of the Ot- tawa Civic Hospital, who presided, urged the establishment of more sanatoria in Ontario. In the mean- time, he said, separate wards could be maintained in hospitals for cases of tuberculosis. Grants ought to be made to them by the Government for full term of residence just as war done in regard to sanatoria, he thought. to Victoria and frori the 49th par- allel up to the sub -Arctic itself. To large numbers of them John Buchan will come as a familiar friend, for his writings have opened the window• of history and romance in many a Canadian home. Every- where he and Lady Tweedsmuir will, by their presence and person- ality, quicken Scottish men'iories and affections in a land which owes so much to the qualitie ofethe Scottish race. They will, by . the 'way, find a Buchan in Manitoba, and a Tweed in Ontario, ' and Lady Tweedsmuir will be' glad,no doubt, to make the acquaintance' of Grosvenor in Nova Scotia. Readers of John Buchan's novels will hope that the founder of the hamlet of McNab in 'Ontario had the Christian name of John. One has heard something of a lament that John Buchan the writer should be for a. period submerged in Lord Tweedsmuir the King's repre- sentative.. As Governor General, it has been suggested, he cannot hope to have many moments to himself, and few opportunities of continuing a literary career. But may it not be that 'new and stimulating experi- ences will provide a Canadian. back- ground for the further writings that will yet come from the pen of our new Governor General? That, at any rate, is our hope. Notable Increase In Rail Freights Fort William—The Canadian Na- tional Railways reported here last week that east -to -west package freight handled over the company's looks here averages more than 1,000 tons a month increase this year compared with 1935. 21. WHERE NOTHING SEEMS TO a Mr. Ion L. Idriess, the Australian author, has returned to Sydney with'. a graphic story of a journey of more than 8,000 miles which he recently undertook through the heart of Australia, in search of material for a biography of Sir Sidney Kidman. His journey tok him through, the north of South Australia; as far as the Northern Territory and Queensland borders into central Queensland; through southwest Queensland to the northwest corner of New South Wales; back to Ade- laide, and thence through central Australia and round the Lake Eyre country. His main aim was to get into touch with every type of elder- ly bushman in that vast tract of country, and to obtain from drovers, station hands, and others intimate memories of Sir Sidney Kidman back in the days when he worked for a few shillings a week. Mr. Idriess says that Sir Sidney Kidman today either owns or controls, or has a large interest in, more than 100 stations; and owns and leases more land in the British Empire than any other man within its borders, Mr. Idriess draws a drab picture of much of the country through which he passed, consequent upon the then lack of rain and as a result also of duststorms and drifting sand. He says that over a large area going to- wards the Lake Eyre basin there had been about an inch of rain, but, with the ravages of duststorms, the young blades of grass which had sprung up had disappeared. "One journeyed 'for hundreds of utiles," he adds, "practically with- out a sign of any living thing. Where there had been young grass there was a desolate picture of sand. For hundreds of miles there is this creeping, very fine sand, drifting all the time towards the good lands—towards the northwest corner of New South Wales; down south towards the coastal lands) border, and between the South Aus- tralian and New South Wales bord- ers, even across to 'Victoria. The dust from central Australia has even' colored the snow on ;came of the Victorian alps a dirty link in places. Mr. Idriess says that, in the south- west of Queensland, along the, ter- ritory border, and north of South Australia, one sees the merest rem- nants of native tribes at a distance of about every 40 miles, where there used to be tribes of from 300 to 400 many years ago. "Some tribes," he adds, "have entirely disappeared. This is due in a large measure to colds which the natives .contract, and which rapidly develop into pend monia. It is well known that germs, which the white breathes in every day, are fatal to natives, who cannot fight against them. Woman Plans Lamps For Coal Miners London—Among the women who cams to London for the' 13th• annual conference of women engineers was a Sheffield girl of 26 who is an ex- pert on mine illumination. She is Miss Monica Maurice. As manager of a large lamp - making company she has for four years been responsible for the plan - Bing and operation of lamps at col- lieries in- every large coalfield in the country. She does much of her work in the mines. One of her aims is to bring about an international standard for mine lighting. To this end she has read many papers at international meet- ings of mining and illuminating en- gineers in France and Germany, her first when she was 21. She spoke the native tongue in each case, and took part in the highly technical discussions. She plays as hard a3 she works, and is an expert rider, swimmer and dancer. Her favorite recreation is what she • calls "week- end aerobatics". Then there was the time when E. G. Wells, bringing George Bernard Shaw, arrived at the Conrad home for luncheon. Joseph Conrad loved good food and, being a most hospi- table man, you may be Jure the meal was worthy of the occasion. Butt — Wells arrived With a terrible head- ache and would eat nothing but a slice of dry bread washed down by a glass,,of quinine and water, while Shaw Made 'Et Meal off Cocoa and a dry biscuit, "That. ,.e*sperated my liusband very much,' says Mrs, 'Conrad—and woxderl,_ Shaw, of .coarse, has 4tiwaye 'been. > vegetarian. Two Ways To Make It ��1 25.53 Today's dress of black crepe 3s designed along very simple but distinctive lines. Jeweled buttons accent the interseting pointed shoulder yoke. The small view shows another possibility in two-piece suggestion with peplum. Note the convert- ible neckline Porins tiny revert. Xt's especially nice in rabbit s woolen. Style No. 2558 is designed for '. sizes 14,. 16, 18 years, 86, 38 and x 40 -inches bust. Size 16 requires 3% yards of 39 -inch material foie long sleeve dress. I -TOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address • plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. 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