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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-12-19, Page 6Have 'heir " 3iowout' of the CANADA, THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA COURTESY AT THE BORDER Speaking before the Canadian As- sociation of 'Tourist and Publicity Bureaus, in convention here, Mr. D. Leo Dolan was able to tell that dur- in e the past year one 'thousand let• tees and messages had been receiv. ed from tourists in appreciation of hospitality and courtesy extended them in Canada. This is a splendid thing. In co, operation with the Departments of Immigration and National Revenue, the Travel Bureau haa been promot- ing the idea of courtesy to visitors, with particular attention to the at- titude of immigration and customs officials on the border. In many respects, it is perhaps the finest work the Travel Bureau is doing.— Ottawa Journal. * WHY SHE WANTED SIGHT We heard the other day of a wo- man 75 years old whose sight has been failing so that. in recent years she has not been able to read. Now she has decided to have an opera- tion on her eyes for the especial purpose of being able to read The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. This is the most' •entarkable compli- ment to a writer we ever heard of.— J. V. McAree in Toronto Mail and Empire. DIDN'T IDENTIFY DEBTOR About a year ago the death occur- red in Saskatchewan of Dr. W. D. Cowan, member of Parliament for Long Lake. Some months after his death Premier Bennett had occasion to refer to him in words that threw nn illuminating sidelight upon his character, "'He slid a great deal of work for a peat many people," said Mr. Bennett, "hut his account books worsted simply of entries such as: 'Man in grey overcoat, $75.' Dr. Cowan followed this practice of iden- tification through all his accounts in order that in case of his death those who took charge of his affairs should not be able to harass people who were in debt." That was probably as unusual an ebitoaree tribute as was ever paid to g°.iV;tici t aPei l'; •< i Edinon .o t u Journal. NEATLY PUT We neked a man who had discus- sed the Reciprocity Treaty for hours just what he thought of it all. Here was the ane er: "Reading the treaty and discus- sing it with a lot of people reminds me of a sign I once saw in front of a church. It read: 'The Rev. Joseph Brown will preach here next Sun- day. Subject: Have we learned the lesson r" 4;e great depression? Mrs. Jones will sing: Search me Oh God'." —W. L. Clark, in Windsor Star. :h * 0 STOP ! "Stop!" says fhb sign, You see it everywhere at the junction of side streets with main thoroughfares. It does not mean to hesitate or to slow down. Nor does it mean to sound your horn and barge ahead as though the horn could blow oncoming traf- fic out of your way. And it does not say "Go on, if you think best." It means exactly what it says— Stop! The definition of stop is "to cease from any motion of action." Too many drivers do not believe in signs. A railroad engineer who drives a locomotive the way most perons drive an automobile would lose his job so quickly he would not know what hit him, Yet the railroad engineer has a comparatively open right of way, whereas the motorist has to meet a hundred different crises which do not confront the em. gineer, When a motorist exercises the right of private judgment regarding stop signs he is endangering the lives of others as well as his own. • One of his- first lessons should be to learn that the stop sign means stop, , and nothing else. so large after all. Paddy and his fellow countrymen have only about 050,000 hogs. That's about Alber- ta's hog population, From this num- ber we aro able to sell about 1,000,- 000 commercial hogs yearly, leading all Canada. Truly, Alberta is looking to mix- ed farming when we beat Ontario and equal Ireland in pig production. —Lethbridge Herald. INSIGNIFICANT Nothing is so insignificant as the person. who thinks he is it, when he isn't.—Brandon Sun, * * A BOOSTER FOR CANADA Mr, Thomas J. Watson, American business man, tells The London Sun- day Express that the young :net who want to make fortunes should go to Canada. The next 25 years, Mr. Watson says, are going to see more economic development in this country than in any other in the world. Canada is the country of the future, this United States ob- server declares. We should like to •see more Can- adian young men impressed with this thought. Often it takes an out- sider to get the really correct hn- pression and outlook. We are so close to Canadian possibilities that. we sometimes fail to recognize them. * * STILL REMAINS The railway crossing menace still remains one of Canada's major pro- blems.—Hamilton Herald, * ., * SELLING FOR SANTA Pretty Margaret Messenger, "aps ple queen" of Nova Scotia's Anna- polis valley, must be the world's champion apple saleswoman. She is assisting in making Britons apple - conscious, and recently she went to Cardiff, Wales, and auctioned two barrels of choice Canadian apples for more than $2,000 at a charity luncheon.—Toronto-- Star Weekly. * * THE EMPIRE THE PRINCESS'S PET NAME When Princeessss Elizabeth was very alIiise.f'i te'hi 1T1M.7 to here as i et.'' We aveenot heard much of that name lately, but since a card bearing it was attached to her uncle, the Duke of Glouces- ter's wedding present, there can be ter's wedding present, there can no longer be any doubt but that it is as "Lilibet" that the little Princess is known within her home circle. It is a charming variant on a rather imposing name. Hitherto it has been somewhat difficult to find the right short name for Elizabeth, Bessie and Lizzie are old-fashioned, nor were they at any time very pleasing Betty is being worked to death. Beth is softer, prettier, but not heard very often, Lilibet has a i charm of it own, as well as indivi- duality,_Edinburgh Scotsman. * 0 AN I"NDUSTRY IN DANGER Nowhere in his despatch has the Secretary of State dealt with what is one of the most seriously dis- quieting aspects of the present sit- uation in the cocoa industry, namely the neglect into which estates are being plunged, due to the abandon.. ment of cultivation, and the cense- gent ruin of a valuable peasant pro- prietary. This constitutesthe prin- cipal need for urgency in the grant- ing of relief, for it is generally ad-, mitted that there is a level of care below which cocoa properties cannot be permitted to fall without well- nigh irreparable injury. Many es- tates have already dropped below this level, and others are rapidly ap- proaching the dead -line, so that un- less the money is speedily provided, to send agricultural Iabour gangs back to work on cocoa lands all over the country, the cocoa industry of Trinidad is Iikely to be permanently crippled.—Trinidad Guardian. TRAM vs, 'BUS IN AUSTRALIA When the project of electrifying Melbourne's tramway system was in the air several years ago many clues- tioned the wisdom of perpetuating noisy and relatively immobile trams in the city streets. It was thought that motor -'buses were better suited to modern conditions, The trams won the day. Now the whirligig of time has brought in a mild instal- ment of revenge, The Tramways ;oard is asking permission to re- place the Rathdown street cable trams with a 'bus service running from East Brunswick through " the city to 1Vest Melbourne. ---Melbourne Argus. ' • * * " ROAD JUGGERNAUT A wide acquaintance is an asset. The newspaper is so much more in- teresting if you know some of the wreck victims. --. Kingston Whig- Standard. higStandard, * * NERVE Wo think this takes the cake for nerve. A peddlor called at our house yesteeday selling "No Peddlers" Wards, He ma,Ie a sale, toe,"---Ilam.ilton Spectator. * 0 ALBERTA'S PIGS . It was a empriee to us to read the , e other . da •h• � that Alberta, with a popu- lation of 750,000 people, hos a pig ec population us large as hclend. h: And hove we had been thinking ail along that Ire:ai d was the l,rme ,of the pig and )',tato. It E,..:.:•.; Paddy Murlihv's pig does n -t .}•; With Jack Dempsey leading, these orchestra leaders tried their hand, pardon, their wind, at harmony during' party given in honor of Abe Lyman in. New York City, Jack and the inflationists (left to right), Isham Jones, Ted Flo Rito, Abe Lym an, Fred Waring, Jack Denny and Glen Gray. Depression Viewed As A Blessing A New Zealand librarian declares that the "depression" has proved a "blessing to literature." He says there has been a remarkable growth in literary output in the past few years. If this be so, it is doubtless due to the fact that so many people have been idle. A cynical person might retort that "Satan still finds mischief for idle hands to do." The Librarian from the antipodes did not specify the kind of books that the depression was responsbie for. There has undoubtedly been a glut of books on socialogical and econ-- ornic subjects of late years, which was quite natural. People who are out of employment feel that there is something wrong with a world that cannot offer them a livelihood. The consequence is they eitherwrite letters to the newspapers or they write books propounding theories and schemes by which the world can be put right. The theory of Social Credit was evolved in this way. It was born out of the depression, and if prosperity were to return, it would along with many other quack social nostrums. fade into oblivion. retranntaliregritereirirsrite e `bben responsible for the creation of high- er types of literature. Comparat- ively few people in these times are satisfied with political or socialogic- al books. They turn for solace and inspiration to religion, poetry, phil- osophy, science and fiction—mostly "iction, The reelm of literature of - an easy way of escape from the interminable problems of life, and the writing of books is an oc- cupation that is open to everyone. The only tool needed is a pen or pen cis—so much the better if you pos- sess a typewriter. Paper is cheap and you can write away to your heart's content. The chief trouble is in getting the stuff published. But, judging from many of the books on the market, this is a simple matter if you can make an intimate friend of a publisher,—Stratford Beacon -Herald, Urge Campaign To Reduce Mortality Fifty Percent of Maternal Deaths In Canada Pre- ventable, Says Report Ottawa.—Fifty per cent, if not more, of the 1,200 annual maternal deaths in Canada could be prevented i beyond a doubt by adequate provis- ion for pre -natal and obstetrical care, attention to general considera- tions of health and effective • meas- ures against infection, according to a report on Maternal Mortality in Canada by the Canadian Welfare Council's Divsion on Maternal and Child Hygiene. This figure represents a rate of 5,3 deaths for 1,000 live births, a slight reduction from that of 5..7 re- corded in 19201 by the Dominion de- partment of health. Some individ- ival provinces show greater im- provement than the Dominion as a whole, Manitoba having cut its rate from 66,8 in 1929 to 3.8 in 1934 and Saskatchewan from 7.1. in 1926 to 4,4 in 1934. Increased pre -natal care is reported es the chief factor in thhe. reduced rates, hut infection follow- ing pregnancy and inadequate ob- stetrical care show no appreciable decline. One-third of 'the deaths occur i n the earlier rel months o pregnancy -_. f ..._...._._..- pie aanc ra- ther t A man's worth should be reckon_ ;her than n the nme the normal pro- I by what he is, not by 'what he • finemeut, indicating lack of pro - ' pro -natal care. More than one - eq,. Beecher, - l quarter are due to infection at the h docs not ennait in minute time of child -birth, preventable in , ra aey of detail but in, conireying a most eases by the exercise .of great i eipression.•—Sel, 21 u Writer S$ ills Ink # Q } 1 d Learns A Us H tel Rug For T By E. Cord Hind in the Winnipeg Free Press If there is one article in a hotel bedroom for which I have no use, it is the inkpot of the writing table. It is either dry or contains a fluid that any self-respecting fountain pen would scorn. One of my first moves on enter- ing a hotel room is to put said ink - pot in the remotest corner of the room, preferably on the floor behind the bureau, where at least it cannot upset. I had taken this precaution at the Howard, on my return from Russia, but had reckoned without an unusually thorough chambermaid. In my absence, the second day, she had retrieved the pot, restored it to its place and then thoughtfuly placed the Times over it. Coining in late that evening, I sat down to type a few notes before turning in. All went well for a time when suddenly a dull thud, and there on the blue and fawn carpet in the middle of an everwidening pool ;of ink lay that thrice -accursed inkpot. Just then Big Ben boomed midnight, no time to be calling either maid or housekeeper, so I mopped��„„up the -2ne se :se . rre�a e, ` ::.fins heti ' •fie notes and went tea eed too Mad to" sleep, for I had prided myself on never having accidents in hotels. Next morning, before rushing to keep an early appointment, I sum- moned the maid, pointed to the trouble, asked to have the house- keeper notified, the mess cleaned up and the bill brought to me. Had visions of having to replace at least a width of that carpet. When I returned late in the after- noon I looked for that stain. It had ail but disappeared. Presently the housekeeper arrived and before I even thought of the bill, I said: "How did you do it?" "Ripe toma- matoes toes and plenty of them," was the reply. "If we could have got it last night you would never have been able to find the spot." Housekeepers, please take note, I said, "That's splendid, How much do I owe?" "The manager says 'nothing,' and for you not to worry, and he sent you these." These were six lovely pink roses. There's a manager for you. That disposes ofthe tomatoes and the inkpots. Now comes the tobacco. The housekeeper was not through. She was just well started. "No good hotel," she said, "was fussy about accidents such as mine, 'and after all the loss from such was not so great, but, oh, the cigarettes, thou- sands a year could not cover that. We do try our best to prevent losses and fires, but it seems no use, Light- ed cigarette butts are laid down anywhere and everywhere but on the ash trays, and we do try to have them everywhere." I expect 'her sharp eye had seen that I had piled all in the room up on the window edge, so . she was. on safe ,ground "Look," she goal;: "at that window iri 'the Iathon toi As a matter of fact I had looked before. There was the telltale long brown stain, so deep in the good enamel paint it must have been close to a fire. Yet even the bath tub was furnished with a cigarette rest and ash receiver, and large .dressing glass and high shaving mirror were furnished likewise. When the housekeeper paused for breath I asked, "Which do you find the worst, men or women?" "Wo- men," was the quick retort, "I'd like to see some of their homes.. They seen to have no respect for good furniture and decent hangings." er hygienic care on the part of both medical profession and laity. Economic status and conditions have apparently little effect upon maternal mortality. Race is declar- ed a factor of considerable import- ance, as evidenced by the widely differing mortality rates among Ca- nadian women of various races, the rates being comparable ,to those pre- vailing in the countries of their Or- igin. A definite upward seasonal trend during the cold Autumn and early Winter months corresponding with the general increase in respira- tory' infections during that period is noted. The low rates in Scandinavia and other countries of severe cli- mate, however, indicate the possibil- ity of controlling this factor. A general campaign of education and a series of five-year demonstra- tions of adequate maternal care pro- grams in selected areas are urged in the report, in an effort to cut down Canada's high rate of maternal deaths—a rate which, it is pointed out, places her well mown the list among the nations we, ii have done most to safeguard tn,.n ierhoad. ate : Wives Who Can Cook There have been so ninny actions by the Hitler •Government that have called forth worldwide disapproval, not to say, anger, that it is refresh, ing to turn to brie which is very like ly to evoke the very opposite senti- meat observes the Montreal Star in this editoiizl, Germany's Minister of ,ducatioat, Bernhard End, has ,just issued ed a decree that e e�. Grimer :g i]s who do not know how to cook will not be admitted to eolleges.or unives-. Ries. Atter the spring of 1037 sit.. teen -year old girl students must' pass an examination in the funds. mental duties of housewives before being accepted --•-and their mothers ust teach. them, 1� That sounds to us like sound com-. monsense. It has never been quite clear why so :many girls regard alit ity to administer a house as derogat- ing from their dignity as college or varsity students, and hold that it is belittling to the possession of a Un- iversity degree to possess also a sound knowledge of cooking: If girls only realized that the young men who are looking around for wives infinitely prefer a good meal cooked at home to a full course din- ner in a restaurant, and have more respect for the girl who helps hey mother with the housework than for the girl who affects to consider do ing so a humiliation. The young housewife who knows how to cook also knows how to shop and is by training economical, And that is one of the most invaluable virtues any young housewife can possess, nowadays. Young men, not being entirely blind even where their choice of wives is concerned, have a habit of appreciation such qualities even more than the ability to wear a pretty dress gracefully or to dance and stay up till three and keep good-tempered all the time. At too Age. of 70, which he de- scribed as the prune of life, W. S. Gilbert was guest of honor at a din- ner given by the 0. P. Club. Many old Savoyards were present and Gil- bert got the biggest laugh of the evening, says Mr, reax&m, when in the ebiirse of his speech he pl'aint- ively confessed: "Everybody :aye I'm such a dis- agreeable man, and t can't think why!" There are no better 'canso., z s than those who have need to be consoled, —501. The hardest experience of all is to wear the yoke of our own wrong do. ting,--•George Eliot. oiling Eggs _Having talked about eggs and ehikens and •the great improve- ment in the size of both of them within the last fifty years we are re- minded of the observation of a for- eign visitor to England who went home and wrote a book in which he said that there was a significant dif- fereoce in the way in which a boiled egg' was treated at Oxford and at Cambridge writes the Toronto Star. The Oxford manner was to cut the Op off the egg, while at Cambridge it tvas tapped and chipped with the bottom of the spoon until the upper part of the shell could be flaked off in fragments, exposing the upper part of the undamaged egg. It may be that some solemn Englishman at either Oxford or Cambridge had been spoofing this literary foreigner. Either way of opening a boiled egg serves the purpose, but perhaps the chipping of the egg is dainter. It gives breakfast, to a man just risen, a bit of artistic effect. There is, of course, another `way of dealing with boiled eggs and in England it is called the Yankee way. You break, or the waiter does, two boiled eggs, underdone, into a tum- bler, throw in some butter, pepper and salt, stir it vigorously with a spoon. It becomes a sort of egg soup, It tastes well and is paid to be more beneficial to convalescents than eggs in the shell. This method releases a certain gas which the cook ed egg contains, Then, as regards boiled eggs, there is what Gulliver has to tell tis about the Lilliputians. Among them there was a religious sect who made it a matter of faith to break their eggs at the big end. Those who h:olio - w--- them at the small end were consider-. ed heretics and were called Little - enders. The orthodox called them- selves Bigendians and, conscious of their superiority, walked erect among their inferiors. There is, certainly, more in this egg -subject than we supposed when we started in on it. Take the Sabbath with you thruogh the week and sweeten all the other days.—Longfellow. The man who thinks his present work beneath hint will never rise above it.—MacGregor. The fireside, the pulpit, the school and the shop, must be linked and leagued together,—Vincent. Your manhood, your personality, your character, your real selfhood, is a thing to be won as you win a hats • +1rd d.eddenM .,....* rx ._ . Let's Go Military ! Make it yourself! It's so utter. ly simple to cut it out and pull• it together. It's so gay. and smart in rieh bottle green wool-like silk novelty -crepe. Black braid frogs parade right down the front of the bodice with epaulet suggestion in the shoulder treatment. Note the lit. tle standing collar opened at the front. Another attractive ' scheme is black volyctoen with wide flame suede belt, Wool jersey rabbit's wpol, crepe silk, velvet, etc., am other popular materials to fashion it. Style No. 2947 is designed for sizes 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 years, Size 1.5 requires S% yards of 29 -inch material. EoW TO UIZD1;1 `a„",r'"C?%%1, Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern Wanted,. Enclose ide in stamus or eain (coin prefers red; wrap it cnrefnlIt , and ad. rjt ess rout^ order to Wilson Pat- tern Ferviee, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto,