Zurich Herald, 1932-02-25, Page 6LWJTH 1111E
Nr.SCOUTS
Our American Friends. I 99th Trotip were very interested and
The Scouts of the United States asked "Louts E" to give their very
have lust celebrated their twenty- best wishes and. Scouty regards to
second birthday, ande we join with' all the Lone Scouts of Ontario. So
other members of the World Wide here they are, Lollies:
Brotherhood in congratulating them
o the splendid work whioh. they
Birthday Greetings ..
The Lone Scouts of Ontario join
have accomplished during. that time., with all Scouts the World over in
The Boy Scouts of America were' wishing "Many Happy Returns" to
organized in 1910 by the late Wil -1 our Chief Scout, Lord Baden Powell,
liam D. Boyce and the story is toldwho celebrates his 75th birthday on
that he was in London, England, one the 22nd February.
foggy winter day and managed to How Scouting Helps "Goodwill
get lost lu the thick fog for Which to All Men"
London is so famed. Most of you know the diffieulty
He met a boy and asked to be , which is now being experienced in
directed to his hotel, but the boy India, and you have also no doubt
volunteered to take hini there, hay- read of the difficult caste system
ing been brought up in the metropolis which forbids a member of one
and knowing every landmark and Hindu Caste to be in any way inti -
street. mate with one of another taste. You
On arrival at the hotel Mr. Boyce may also have heard that there is
proceeded to hand a "tip" to his no love lost between the Hindus and
guide, who reused it stating that the 'Mohammedans in that country.
he was a Scout aud could not accept Therefore the news that Boy
rewards for his Good Turn, Mr.1 Scouts from the Government High
Canadian Team in the Thick of the Fight
his end of the rink was the liveliest, when Canada conquered
the German puck -chasers 4 to 1. The German lade were clever with
their sticks, but the Canucks proved too mach for them.
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Reminiscences
Some years ago Arnold Bennett and
Boyce was so surprised. to find al School at ICaliror-Pacca, Punjab, In- his wife—a charming Frenchwomen,
boy who would not accept a tip that • die went to the assistance Of a —had their portraits painted separ-
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he started to enquire who theselony of "outcasts" whose huts
ately, by a "modern painter." The day•
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BOY SCOUTS could be . 'When he caught fire is of great interest. Al- came•when the pictures were on view
learned all about our movement, he
-- though they had to carry water in their London house. The event was
was so impressed that he brought
from a well some distance awaY celebrated by Bennett coming home
the idea back to the United States t
, they soon got the fire under con- for tea—tea for two. Quite an event,
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and organized the Boy Scouts otrol, and a small girl was daringly for he rarely had lunch or tea at home
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America in that country. i rescued from one of the flaming at the time.
.A. few years later the same gentle -The Scouts inchided Hindus "I remember having a good tea for
'huts.
man alas responsible for the organise ,e all castes, Mahmumedans and him," recalls Mrs. Bennett (in her
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ation of the Lone Scouts of America, I Sikhs, and the most remarkable, intimate book "My Arnold Bennett"),
, thing of all is that the "outcasts" i
whose activities are similar to those "and I was looking forward to the
1 in India are the lowest. possible! joy
of the Lone Scouts of Canada. of pouring out tea for him,
class in the social scale, who per-;
Lone Scouts of Saskatchewan 1 * * * *
We are very glad indeed to notice form the most degrading menial tasks i "He came and sat in a seat facing
that arrangements have been made and who are looked dome upon by! the mantelpiece. His portrait Was
Indians. But although 1 hanging on the wall by his right side, and sat down.
S t Column to appear I all other
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Speaking 'of stammering recalls a
story told by Ford Madox Ford (m
his reminiscences "Return to Yester-
day"). During the World War, Ford,
returning' home from the front on
leave, got into a railway carriage in
whinh a South African soldier and a
civilian were seated. Suddenly the
it that way. It has to be done, hard
as it is!' He stuck to it."
The book took him exactly eight
mouths to write.
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.Latest NOtes. Of. Scieoce.
- New Supply Sources — How Infinitesimal is
Measured
Not long. after he '•wae maeried, in
Pails, Arnold Benneet took his French
bride over to England to visit Ms
relatives in the Five Towns. There
they were much entertained. At one,
big dinner party at Stoke-on-Trent,
Town Hall, Bennett was called on for
a speech. The more he declined, the
n.ore insistent became the demand.
Mts. Bennett was on pins and needles,
for she knew that under stress of emo-
tion her husband stammered. How-
ever, up lie got and, taking a fountain
pen out of his pocket, and showing it
to the company, he said, "Ladies and
Gentleman, I don't speak, I write,"
in the "Saskatoon Star -Phoenix" in others might have left them to cope and mine was placed on the floor
a similar way that this column is with their own troubles, the Boy against the wall on his left side
having tea Arnold was very
Published week by week, to stimuln Scouts forgot all about creeds and
While ate the interest of the Lone Scouts castes and went to their assistance silent and his eyes were looking
who live in the country districts of in a manner of which we are proud.. alternately at the two portraits.' He.
Saskatchewan and who are even , Are You a Scout? .. remained looking in silence while
more scattered than the Ontario at you live in a small town where ; drinking his tea. At the end of: the
Lonies there is no Scout Troop, or on a half-hour he had for his tea, he look -
Greetings to the Lonies 'Rural Route too far away from the ed once more at both portraits; then,
"Lone E" recently was invited to nearest TrooP, Perhaps you would firming his eyes on his, he said, 'I don't South African turned on the civilian
attend the Parents Night of the 99th I still like to be a Scout? l'irby not care what they say, I am a nice man!' and exclaimed:
Toronto Troop. One of the items on! be a Lone Scout? If you are be- , "I am sure that he did not like his "You ought to join up too: a lusty
the programme was an imitation I tween the ages of 12 and 13 in- portrait," adds Mrs. Bennett, naively. young man like you. Why aren't you
* * * * in khaki?"
"Camp Fire Scene". The Scout- elusive, and would like further nerd- ;
daTrihteeyy6sougd exclaimed:niai' rolled* agonized
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master asked "Lone E'' to say a few ' cedars write to the Lone Scout De -1 Arnold Bennett—like Kipling—had
iwords, and he told the boys and pertinent, Boy Scouts Association, faopreashsieoninieotili. pisunctuy. wife—MarieAlyleaairvbitet:
their parents all about the Lollies 330 Bay Street, 'Toronto 2.
and their activities and the splen1 - We .shall be glad to hear from you. ; rite Hebrard, a Parisienne -.—he sur- "Pm a P -P -P -P," grasping at his
did work that they are doing. The "LONns. Iin____' !prised his friends by telling them that throat in the struggle of a hopeless
he was engaged to an Anteriean give, stutterer. ,
f it/ dont care what you are," the
He did not marry her.
1 "She was never on time. 1 conldi South. African shouted. "You may
not stick it," he later explained to , be a Pacifist, or a Papa, or a Potato -
Mrs. Bennett. I grower, but your king and country
"He emphasized to me that it was • need you."
• a good thing for her he had given her The civilian repeated:
ep," says Mrs. Bennett, "for she mai- "I'm a P-PsP-P'"
ried another man far better suited to
The tremor that shook Santiago de
Cuba recently draws attention: to a
region of the earth 'nearly as unstable
as Japan. seiSmological word Sur-.
vey has shown that quakes are nese-
elated with the deeper parts of the.
weans or with land regions that were
once the bottoms of deep seas. What
is known as the West Indian Deep has
been an especially prolific producer of
earthquike and volcanic disturbances.
For this reason the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey maintains
a seismological station at San Juan,
Porto Rico, one of a string of stations
eseesseeseesnena
forecasting, but also that rain is sore
to follow if a dog or a cat eat e grass,
a snake dies on its back, es: if a
toad or a spider is killed. Heavy fur
on tenimals, thick husks on porn,
ceptionally heavy walls on muskrat
houses—these„ too are supposed to in-
dicate a bard win'ter, Dr. C. C. Ab-
bott of the Smithsonian Institutioa
tasted the muskrat -house theory over
a series of winters and found it sati4y
eventing.
corrEz EXTRACT FOR FA-
TIGUE
Ever since codfish swam in the sea
extending most of the way bore
• mothers have been feeding their ea -
Maine southward.
hies with codliver oil. Why? 'Mod -
Earthquakes are evidence -that
ern science answers in terms of rick -
mountains are still being formed. Just
un -lets and vitamin D. Rickets is warded
what the rocess is, science is still
off by the vitamin. And the codliver
able ta explain with certainty. It was
oil contains the vitamin. • How did the
formerly supposed that as the earth
mothers know it?
cooled and shrank eons ago it pucker-
• There has been a similar supersti-
ed and produced such ranges as the
t on about the flesh cut 'froth various
Andes, Rockies and Himalayas. That
parts of an animal. Ancient warrieni
theorY is now regarded as inadequate.
were convinced that they Maintained
The earth is cool, but Mountain build -
and increased their fighting powers by
ing goes on, . eating kidneys and the meat that lies
The Santiago quake conies at a time
near them. Why? They knew no -
when an international scientific expel
about hormones. Yet their 1e -
for
finds itself in the West Indies ' thing
justified in the light of for the exiiress purpose of studying. lief is now
.cent studies which have been Inside of
re -
the .creation of mountains and hence
the adrenal glands. We still speak
of earthquakes. At the head of the ex- .
of a man of "Icidney"—and with rea-
pedition is Professor Richard H. Field
of Prin &m. Associated with him smh
The adrenals are about as big as a''
are distinguished physicists and geolo-
fifth finger each and lie near the kid -
gists from the universities of Glasgew ;
of all higher animals. From tin
and CaMbridge, scientists from the . neYs
outer skin or cortex hormones are est -
governmental staffs of the United'
tracted called corticin. These have
States and Canada, and Dr. F. A.1
'properties little short of miraculous.
Vening Meinesz of Holland, an expert'
What these properties are has been
on the measurement of gravity.
disclosed by Drs. Hartmann, Swingle
The Santiago disturbance seems to
and others in euring Addison's dis-
have been arranged .aanost to suit the'
ease, usually regarded as fatal.
convenience of these specialists. When
New light is thrown on this cortex
they return they will probably give'
extract by Drs. S. W. Briton and E.
us one of the moat valuable :critical
studies of what happens when the ; L. Cory of the University of Vic -
earth shins her shoulders, as it were,I &la's Medical School. They have ..
and assumes a slightly different pas.shown that corticin niakes mere
chemical fuel available through .he
blood stream.
Cortex extracts speed up the bodily
functions. After havieg received small
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The Legislature
In Brief
With the usual pomp and ceremony
the Ontario Legislature got under way
last week, and the maiit item of busi-
ness was the speech from the Throne
-which was delivered by Sir William
Mulock, Chief Justice of Ontario.
A modified moratorium on mortgages
was one of the main items brought out
in the speech, under which all pro-
posed foreclosures will be heard be-
fore a County Judge who will have all
power to decide whether additional
time is to be allowed on either prin-
cipal or interest payments.
Legislation will also be introduced
for the amending of the Old Age Pen-
sion. Act under which the Federal Gov-
ernment has to pay seventy per cent
of the total, which it is claimed will
mean. an annual saving of one million
four hundred. thousand dollars to the
province and nine hundred thousand
dollars to the municipalities.
Another measure to be introduced is
the proposed amalgamation of the On-
tario Railway and Municipal Board
with the Bureau of Municipal Re-
search, uuder which powers will be
granted the Board to govern nuances
of those municipalities which are in-
solvent or in a 'precarious financial
condition.
it was also pointed out in the speech
from the Throne that while agricul-
tural production was maintained at a
high level the iinancial return was
much below normal. The new Ontario
Marketing Board has organized the
Fruit and 'Vegetable Growers' Markets
Board and is giving special attention
to grading and marketing several im-
portant farm products.
With regard to Hydro, it was point-
ed out that in the rural parts of the
proeince the demand for power called
for the construction of over twelve
hundred Miles of new transmission
lines to supply nearly nine thousand
additional consumers, and that by
utilizing the flow of the Ottawa River
at Chats Falls an important addition,
second ably in extant to the great
Niagara development, has been made
in generating facilities.
Two hundred miles have been added
to the Ontario Highway system, while
payments have been made by the Pro-
vince to the Municipalities for road
mimeses of nearly seven million don
her than he himself was,"
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Like the wife of Joseph Conrad who
rescued many of her husband's ofig-
inal manuscripts from the waste bas-
iiowdy, old man: Have you re ket where he had thrown them as
eovered from your accident?" valueless—they were afterwards sold
"No, not fully."
d for a goodly sum—lidrs. Arnold Ben -
"Why, you look as well as ever.
nett retrieved from l
a similar rece i
tacle "the manuscripts of erticle:
"Yes, but I owe the doctor fifteen ,
dollars yet."even of a book just published,"
writ-
ten -
by her husband. She admired his
handwriting and was interested in his
Barn owls, long-eared owls, red- hobby of classic caligraphy. DiSCOV-
shouldered owls, hawks, red-headed ering this, Bennett arranegd ,a. sur -
hawks, sparrow hawks and screech
Pri.Isteistfohrefhoerle. he began his best known
owls destroy rats and mice and should
be ncouraged and protected.
story, "The Old Wives' Tale," he told
e
her he had decided to write it in
printed chaeacters, so that she might as a consequence, but bark to this
have it. confession by Ford Madox Ford:
Mary Pickford announces her inten-
I could searcely believe it possible," ' "1 was going through my morning
tion to have as leading man in her
ISI::s. Bennett says. "But what he said lettets half asleep in bed," he says
next picture some young actor who is
he would do he did. He had the tre-
experienced but unknown. It is her
mendoui patience, energy and cepa-
hope that the one selected can go on,
by virtue of this opportunity, to star- city to carry it through the whole
dom. There's no doubt that her own
star will twinkle a little brighter for
this happy and generous thought.—
The Christian Science Monitor,
ture.
THE GROUNDHOG AND HIS
SHADOW
When Fb. 2 came the old ground- doses young rats become mature in
hog superstition received its annual one-third the usual time. If the re -
,,need of attention. That the creature, sults obtained apply to human beings;
otherwise known as the wood chuck, children of 5 would be able to become
should look for its shadow on Candle- fathers and mothers.
mas (Feb. 2) and, if it sees it, return Cortex extract is a restorative.
to its hole, convinced that there will Britton and Corey found that doge
be six more weeks of Winter, is a he- that tire after an heue's exercise en
lief hoary with age. ; a treadmill will run two and three
Students of folklore trace the times as long after a dose of the ex -
groundhog proverb back to Germany,! tract.
where any hibernating animal, pre -1 There is every reason to believe that
ferably the badger or the bear; looks . the extract will ultimately be pre -
for his shadow in Candlemas. Since: scribed by physicians in cases of ex -
Candlemas was feast clay with the , cessive muscular fatigue, depressiou
Romans long before the Christian era,' arid possibly overwork.
* * * * we see how hard it is to uproot :do! Before man can be thus converted
They continued like that until e. beliefs. 1 into a superman the organic chemise,
stop at which the South African got Some two years ago J. 0. Frank of I must devises a cheap, effective way 3f
out. the Wisconsin State Teachers' College' extracting hormones from the adrenal
* ,s * * . made a study of -weather superstitions! cortex or of producing them syn -
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"The other turned to me," chucklee among school children in the Fox thetically. At present it takes a for's-
Ford, "and, with all the signs of
agony and an explosion of P's like the
unsidenced exhaust of a motor bicycle,
at last brought out:
a Peruvian!'
"It appeared that, being a neutral,
he had come to England to take a
course in modern English Literature
at London University.
Most of us have opened. letter
that did not belong to us and have
suffered more or lees embarrassment
Thn only charm tlenle 1,1011 NS-
CISS Is a It aZ, lied 1,4 their svatottc'baiu.
"when I became aware that I was
reading something of singular deli-
cacy and was—when I came to look
at the envelope—addressed by a lady
book, which is very long, nearly seven I knew well to a man who had just
hundred pages. been stopping with me. .
River Valley, Wis. Although this is n night and the adrenals of about 300'
the twentieth century and there is an cows to make a teaspoonful of extract.
active Weather Bureau, Mn Frank I A dose is therefore worth some thou -
found that country people still believe sands of dellars.—Waldemar Kaempfe
not only in the groundhog's powers of Pert N.Y. Times.
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done but know what I did. I went. Britain To Buy
half an hour later by train up to Lon-
don"—Ford was living at Winchelsea, Canadian Timber
some sixty miles front London. "I got
some envelopes to match the one t
had opened. Then, at one of my clubs London.—A.ccording to The Ship -
I imitated the address of that letter ping World, a situation has developed
last a fair likeness. Then I posted
•at favoring a profitable deal with Canada
on those envelopes. 1 managed
the letter to my own house in that whereby ,Great Britain- would ex -
envelope. I had thus the London change British coal for Canadiaa
wood.
postmark. Then I returned to Win-
chelsea, and, as soon as the letter
arrived, I forwarded it to the ad-
dressee."
The trade publication says: "A -tim-
ber merchants' group in London which
has been buying soft wood from Rus-
' sia has decided in the interests a
Frank Harris gives an amusing nes year's contract for 450,000 standards -
Imperial preference to abandon this
"It is therefore necessary to aleg."0.
tiate the purchase of this large quan-
tity of timbee from some other source.
says was given to him by Shaw him-
self. The maeriage took place at the It is understood it is intended to place
West Strand (London) Registrar's the order in Canada.
"It is hoped an kgreement may be
crutches—recovering
1898. Shaw was on I made to the advantage of the British
office on June 1,
dent—and "wearing a jacket which he
from an acci- coal industry as well as of the ship -
swears his crutches had worn to rags owners. Large expaesion of British
in the armpits. Graham Wallas and coal exports to Canada is possible and
as British coal -owners, assisted by de -
Henry Salt acted as witnesses."
es I preciation of the pound sterling, can
now successfully compete with United
Jerusalem. Census Segregates States in price, there is no reason why
Different Race of Population this exchange gf commodities should
jerusalena—The provisional list of not be effected to the advantage ei
totals of 'the urban population of pea, both countries,
estine, published- by the Superintend- ! "As far as this year's trade is con -
eat of Census, shows the Jews to be corned," says the publication, "con:
in the majority in Jeeusalem, where tracts cannot wait for the Imperial
they number 51,416 out of a total of Conference to be held at Ottawa in
9-0;407. The Christians have yielded Juln. Prompt action is necessary,"
second place, which they held in the!
10.22 census, to the Moslems of Jeru- ' e,
saiem, who now number 19,785 as '.hattleSlatekta StOke
th, P,Othlehem, Share Numerous tTheirstsinFclitollialteLetlIllagtth:o
compaved, with 19480 Christiane. Six
towns—Nazare
Amr, Beit, Jala, Tel Aviv and Ram- , snake ever strikes a greater distance
ailah—have . mere Christians than than abed three-fourths of its length.
Moslerne. With theee• 'exceptions, all No snake can leap eompletely off the
towns in the, country show a clear ground from its mill position.
Moslem majority, in most cases morel
"He would say, at times, 'I wish to ; count of Bernard Shaw's wedding to
the deuce I had never started. doing "I don't know what I ought to have Miss Charlotte Payne TovvisSead—in
hisbiography of G. Irk S.—which he
Indian Troops Join "Scrap" in China
111011$4 o*iv, present at the Shaeghal scrap are pletureemin members of
British India, A nietachment was hurried front Hon g Kong' When things got hot in
ere, ethling to the internationelisin at the internation settlement.
Si I< h
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native Nieves 1 tent
t'litna and here :toss,
than the combined members of the two •
other f hi ths, - , 1 Kerry cattle have existed to Ireland
from remote tinea. The Kerriee 'are
I 'God sleeps in the stone, dreams le a distinct breed, all 'that are left ot the
the animal, and wakes• in the man.— early native enttle. The others have
A German Thinket I been eradicated by imported cattle,
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