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Zurich Herald, 1932-03-24, Page 8T,THE 610 i. I?SCOUTS%\ l Greetings From Austria, A Scout Bird Sanctuary. Mr. L. G. 0. Sobotica of Vienna, Aus- With the consent of the Quebec Gov- tria, who is a friend of "Lone E", re eminent, the Minister of the Interior Gently paid a visit to Toronto and has by proclamation made Mystery expresser) his great interest in the Island the permanent Boy Scout camp Canadian Boy Scouts, and In particular near Ottawa, a bird sanctuary. There the "Lonies." are several such Scout wild life sanc- tuaries in various parts of Canada. Mr, .Sobotka travels extensively all over Europe, and frequently visits this side of the Atlantic, and he stated that the people in practically all of the countries that he visits have great faith in the Boy Scout Movement, be- lieving it to be one of the most instru- mental factors which will lead to a better world understanding and a per- manent peace, in the days to come. Mr. Sobotka sent his very best wishes to all Canadian Scouts, this being his first trip to Canada, and expressed the hope that a goodly num For Easter and the Easter Holidays: ber of Canadian representatives would visit the Jamboree in Arrange Hungary next Easter Egg Good Turn.This consists in making a collection year. of New Laid Eggs from all your World Scout Jamboree Will Be Held, friends and neighbors and donating The statement in a Budapest des- them to your nearest local hospital ;tor the benefit .of the patients there - patch to a Toronto paper that finances lll will prevent the holding in Hungary . of the projected 1933 world gathering of Boy Scouts has been specifically denied by Dr. Vali, Hungarian Inter- national Scout Secretary, Conditions are not as bad as painted, and the Jamboree will be held a$ planned, Dr. Vali declares. "Mystery Island" on the Map. The name "Mystery Island," given the permanent Scout camp being de- veloped near Ottawa, has been offi- cially confirmed by the Geographioal Board of Canada, and the island will be so designated on a new map to be published by the Topographical Sur- vey. Things Lone Scouts Can Do During March and April, Bird Houses For Spring. "Lone E" hopes that the Loue Scouts have been busy during the past months in the making of more bird houses for the convenience of their feathered friends. You know the birds are very loyal, and if you can induce them to build in your vicinity they will conte back year after year to the same nesting place. Unfortunately, with the expansion of civilization, the natural haunts and surroundings of the birds have been destroyed, and they find it increasing difficult to find nesting places near to the vicinity of humans. have qualified as Scout Firemeu. Every Louie, therefore, should make a special point of building three or If you would like to become a Lone four Bird Houses to encourage the Scout write for particulars to The Boy birds to stay in the vicinity of his Scouts' Association, Lone Scout Dept., home. You still have time for this 1 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2. year's tenants if you get busy at once. "LONE E." Plan out your 1932 garden. Try to have a continuity of flowers and veg- etables all the season. Spring Cleanup. Duriug the first few weeks in April arrange to clean up around the house and barn. Col- lect all that old rubbish which has beeu lying around all winter and which has been hidden under the snow. Take it to a convenient place and burn it, and have things looking neat and tidy for the commencement of spring oper- ations. Endeavor to earn. at least one pro- ficiency badge or make some progress towards Higher Scout rank. Boys Training As Firemen. Last year 673 Canadian Scouts re- ceived fire prevention training and qualified for the Scout Fireman's Badge. The training in most cases is given by fire chiefs or firemen. Since the training was started 19,698 boys The Legislature In Brief In the first division of the present session, the Henry Government was sustained by a majority of seventy-six to nineteen in adopting the Speech from the Throne. The division took place on the amendment of Premier Henry moved to the amendment of W. E. N. Sinclair, Opposition Leader, the Henry amendment pledging the House to adhere to Hydro principles of power at cost, and expressing entire support for the efficiency and integrity of the Hydro Commissioners. Prior to the vote being taken the three leaders, Premier Henry, Mr. Sin- clair and Harry Nixon, Progressive leader, finished the debate on the effectively afford a sufficient supply of water for various municipal purposes. Any municipality effected may appoint a commissioner and five or more may petition for incorporation to undertake the investigation deemed necessary by the Government. This area covers twenty-six hundred square miles, effecting the counties of Grey, Dufferin, Wellington, Perth, Waterloo, Halton, Oxford, Brant, Wentworth, Norfolk and Haldimand. Modified Moratorium Royal assent was given providing for a modified moratorium on mort- gages. Hon. William Finlayson, speak- ing peaking to his bill appropriating five mil- lion dollars for Northern development, indicated the Government will intro- duce a very much reduced program for this work during the present year. He also stated that work on. the trans - Canada highway is not likely to be completed for many years. Traffic Amendments Throne speech, which has been practi- Hon. Leopold Macaulay introduced cally entirely devoted to argument on amendments to the Highway Traffic Hydro. Premier Henry personally an- Act compelling motor cars to be equip- swered the major criticism of the Op- ped with lights, which on roads outside position, particularly from Dr. J. A. of towns and cities will illuminate the McQuibban, Liberal Whip, the Premier roadway for a distance of two hundred contending that Dr. McQuibban's state- feet. Provision is also made to pre- ments were based an inaccurate infer- vent trucks travelling on the highways mation in. discussing power purchases, at a distance closer to each other than sales of off-peak power and other a hundred feet, and also cutting the Hydro contracts. 'length of truck trains from sixty-five Referring to the charge of Dr. Mc- to fifty feet. Quibban, that there is sufficient ca- pacity at Niagara to look after the told that the farmers of Ontario had needs of Ontario- Premier Henry five hundred and fifty-one thous - pointed out that even if Ontario was and live hundred and twenty dollars permitted to use all. the water she is last year through producing second grade cream in butter manufacture. Africans Developing Own Individuality pacity would require a steady couver- Loriclon.—How native Africans in sion of forty-two thousand cubic feet Kenya Colony are developiug an indi- per second, but under the treaty only viduality unknown among these primi- twenty-four thousand ilve hundred tive peoples before the advent of the cubic feet was possible. British, was told in an affieial report issued here recently. Ghanges in Municipal Act "Individuals," the report says, "no entitled to divert, under treaty, it would be far short of the volume re- quired to keep the Niagara plants working to capacity all the time. To keep the plants continuously at ca - Several changes were introduced un- longer accept a.s a matter of course der the 112uuicipal Act by Hon. Mr. decisions of administrative officers or Finlayson, Minister of Lands and For- judgments.of magistrates, but are only ests, chief among them being a tem- too ready to appeal against either. porary borrowing by municipalities, reduction in legal limit of per diem fees of the elected representatives of townships, villages, counties and cities of under one hundred thousand.Another amentment provides that the new right of farmers' daughters shall not mean that they will be counted in cal- cufating the population of counties for the purpose of deciding the represen- tation of county councils Authority was also asked, in a bill introduced by the Hon, Mr. Finlayson, to establish a commission to be known as the Grand River Conservation Com- mission, for the purpose of investigat- should not write about science unless ing and reporting upon the carrying they know what they are writing out' of works whereby the Grand River, about, and we think the same thing and its tributaries, may be controlled ought to go for scientists, ton.- �a:xln• In time ea flood artd conserved to more vine (Tome) Banner. 1 Joe Clark and Phil Parley, Toronto golfers, sae ;Tel at .11:. muds where they participated is the Belmont Manor championships. Far- ley made a very good showing, but was eliminated. 6nada Endorses 3500 -year -old -Baths 1 Jnear Geneva Drug T'a'ct' Resolution Restricting duction Passed at Ottawa shed at Kish Oxford, England.—Swimming pools :3,5500 years old have been found in Pro- ; Kish, Iraq, which is believed to be the oldest city iu the world. Details regarding the discovery of these pools have been received by Professor Stephen Lengdon, professor of Assyriology of Oxford University, from L. C. Watelin, leader of the Ox- ford -Field Museum expedition which is conducting acheological expeditions in Kish. The pool described by Watelin is forty-five feet long and thirty-six feet wide," said Professor Langdon. "It had a most elaborate water supply with a wonderful circulatory system which supplied the pool with constant told the House, and of these 33 have fresh water just like our modern swim- ming baths. The pool was kept at the already signed the convention. The required height with a gentle flow of water constantly passing through it." Ottawa.—The House of Commons have, on resolution moved by the Prime ?llinis•ter, approved the interna- tional convention for limiting the manufacture and regulating the dis- tribution of narcotic drugs. The con- vention was drawn up at Geneva on July 13, 1931, and was signed for Canada by Dr. W. H. Riddell. There were 5 States represented at the confereuce, Premier Bennett convention becomes operative 90 days after a total of 25 states have adopted it, providing there is includ- ed in that 25 the leading powers of Russians Head List as the world. New Canadians In '31 Few problems were more important to the people as a whole than the niontreal.—Russia sent the largest ism and Japanese industrial necessity. group of new citizens to Canada in —Hong Kong Press. regulation of narcotic traffic, said the Prime Minister. Under the existing --the fiscal year 1931, according to nat- system Canada had experienced con- siderable success in keeping down the evil, but it had been realized here, in common with the rest of the world, that no efficient control could be main- tained so long as legislation covered only the distribution—and so long as the manufacturing countries remained outside of the convention. The new convention provides that manufacture must be restricted to actual estimated requirements for me- dicinal and scientific purposes. The great task was to bring into the con- country." vention the countries which manufac- tured drugs on a large scale. This was gradually being attained, and it was a great satisfaction for Canada, which was technically a "victim coun- try" manufacturing no habit-forming drugs. A hill will be necessary to amend the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act of 1929, and notice of this bill is now on the order paper. The business pian was interviewin„ applicants for the post of office boy. He had a boy in .rout of him and was asking him all manner of questions. "Now" event on the employer, "I'm looking for someone who must be ex- ceptionally sharp and who must cost me very little." "Well" said the boy, "I reckon you'd better send out for a lemon." CurrentEvents As Viewed By The Press Tariffs. A system of tariffs is not an twill - Mee blessing. To a country in Brit- ain's position it offers certain general advantages; but various sections of the community must suffer according- ly 'as the general welfare is increased. Any tariff proposals, said Mr. Walter Runciman in the House of Conimous, are bound to have disadvantages as well as advantages,—Dublin 'Weekly Irish Times. Canada -New Zealand Treaty. The chance of early ratificatiou does not disl?ose of the contention previously raised that something can be done without waiting even until the session begins, The chief meas- ure of retaliation when the quarrel houses with the prospect that barely 10 per cent, can be disposed of and thee) at prices for combing wool 50 Per cent. lower than in the 1913.14 season. Thus events as forecasted hir the Government and its experts do not in any way correspond with events as actually experienced by a very impor- tant section of the exporters of this country.—Cape Argus. Violence In Bombay, The Indian Congress has forfeited all claim, in Bombay at .least, to be regarded as a non-violent body, Its demonstrations are now simply ea- cuses for outbursts of hooliganism which are a danger not merely to the police but to the lives and property of the citizens. People who set fire with Canada developed was the plat- to buildings, burn public property in ing of Canadian. goods on the foreign the streets and assault the police with stones and roof tiles are a menace to the community and must be treated as such. If any more lives are lost at the result of hooligan excesses tat blame will lie at the door of Congress• and more particularly at the door al those who,• hiding in the background, encourage Congress to organize law- less demonstrations. Bombay mer- chants and business men who hide rectly incite disorderly elements to commit outrages must from now on- wards be held responsible for the con sequences.—Bombay Times of India. tariff schedule. It was done without consulting Parliament, and was never ratified by the Legislature. British preferential rates can be restored to Canadian goods, as they were taken from them, by Order-ir-Council. It would be a gesture of goodwill and a stimulous to trarle.— Auckland Weekly News. Australia's Prohibitive Tariff. Australian manufacturers, and more particularly their employees, ought to realize that they are having a chance better in some respects than they are likely to get again for very many years if this one is thrown away. It is not the price of new Australian manufac- tures so much as their quality of which primary producers complain. We are losing jobs today because some of the work we have turned out has been disgracefully uneven, and our customers have been driven to go to the foreigner—and, incidentally, curse the high tariff which has protected the bad workmanship and made the price of the good a burden. --Sydney Bulletin. China and Japan. The Chinese have an extraordinary toughness and obstinacy. The loss of Shanghai and the new capital would not be likely to assuage the wrath of the ordinary Chinese citizen. It would be all the more likely to make him break his Japanese torch and burn his cotton singlet. The process of occupying big Chinee cities, such as Peiping and the coast ports, could go on without procuring a single order from the up -country districts. The real China is not its coast and river ports, but its myriad to enships and villages. It is a terrible impasse, this clash between Chinese national- Native councils have developed strong wills of their own and are not in all cases easily persuaded to . adopt courses which appear to their distinct commissioners to be obviously benefi- cial." Education and religion are other fields in which the African is begin- ning to think for himself, the report says. It.adds that there is a tendency to question the value of government assistance and the wisdom of state control. - Professor Einstein says reporters ur'alization statistics given in a report Empire Bargaining. of the Department of State. Of 21,392 We cannot view this proposed sys- persons naturalized, 4,069 were Rus- tem of Empire bargaining without slams, 2,522 Poles, 2,339 Americans, grave misgivings. 'Whither will it 2,067 Italians, 2,0'IS Austrians, 929 lead? Is it not likely to be provocative Serbians, 743 Germans and 669 Nor- of discord rather than of satisfaction? wegiaus. To what extent can Great Britain af- Most of the nationalities of the ford to penalize the produce of for - world were represented. Cuba, Af- eign countries in order to grant sub- ghanistan and the State of Mount Le- stautial advantages to the Dominious? banon, Syria, each lost a single citi- To what extent will the Dominions zen to Canada. One person natural- consent to admit British manufactures izecl was recorded as having "no to compete on easier terms with their protected industries? Will the sacrifice of fiscal freedom on r:ther side be in the long run a unifying or a dissever- ing influence? The projected policy bristles with difficulties and dangers, which must become apparent when the Ottawa Conference gets down to de - Snow After Rain. I+ only for an hour, the snow's white magic, Touching the landscape with its cold caress, tails.—Melbourne Australian. Restores that era, beautiful and tra- gic, S. Africa and the Gold Standard. Wheel all this coast was still a soil- The difficulties of South Africa only .derness. show how impossible the whole mone- tary system of the world is becoming. Bushes now squat like crystal -feather- By means of artificial restrictions on exchange and the use of the gold out- put we have been able so far to main- tarn our hold on the gold. standard. But the price is very heavy, Accord- ed heath -fowl; • Trees, in the immobility of fear, Frozen at some strange, fierce, metal- lic wolf -howl, Are graceful troops of silver-autler- ing to the chairman of the South Afri- ed deer. can Wool and Mohair Association, only a very small portion of the South —Kenneth W. Porter in the New York African slip has been sold, and there Times, are some 2,000 bales at the coast ware - To Escape British Tariff �+ s r ee felled all day Sunday, February 28, undo ading foreign merchandise .at the London docks in an eaort to escape the new duty imposed by rho National govermnent, Tinned milk is being hurried ashore from a barge. Low Rates for Loans. Loans recently raised by the Muni- cipalities of Toronto and Montreal, and by the Province of New Bruns- wick, all of them sound and progres- sive parts of the Dominion of Canada, have been borrowed at a fixed rate of 5% per cent., 5% per cent. and 6 per cent. Canadian securities are on sale in Jamaica, and securities of Canadian cities and provinces .vile and do find a market here. Jamaica is not in a stronger financial position than the places we have mentioned; consequen- t' there are people hea. who wonder why our Government should expect to obtain loans at a lower rate of inter- est than is obtainable in Canada; but if the Government can get the money it needs at such lower rate of interest it is justified in trying to do so. And it can. It can borrow at '5 per cent.— Kingston (Jamaica) Gleaner. Canada's Export Trade. Canada is fifth in export trade, the only countries to exceed her being Fritain, the United States, France and Germany, in the order named. Canada seems to be more than hold- ing her own, in spite of the hard times cry of the pessimists.—Durharn Chronicle. Toronto's Lawmakers. Members of Toronto City Council, by a vote of 26 to 3, voted down a motion for a salary cut. So far we have not heard of any member of that :ot.ncil that has censured the Board of Education for advocating a reduction of the salaries of Toronto teachers.—Chesley Enterprise. A Wise Measure. Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice, is introducing in House of Commons a measure making it an offence under the "false pretences" section of the criminal code for issuing of a cheque disbou- ored by the bank for lack of funds, and given for goods obtained. This will effectively stop "rubber cheque- ing,"—Amlierstburg Echo. John Bull Leads. Although the agreement did not call for any payment until Aug. 28 the British Government will at once liquidate $150,000,000 of $200,000,000 loaned by 110 United States banks. John Bull still maintains the speed leadership in the air, in the auto, in the locomotive, in the motor boat and in the liquidation of his debts.— Brantford Expositor. Britain Again Leads And' here is Britain cutting her army, navy and air estimates. No matter what the Disarmament Con- ference onference does, Britain will be on the side of reduced armaments anyway, If all other cations had the sane practical desire for peace, there would be no need for disarmament confer- ences.—Ottawa Journal. Disregard Facts. • Hon; George N. Gordon, wile charged that the honeymoon expen ' ses of Premier Bennett's brother -in law : were paid out of the public treasury, made the excuse during the course of his evidence, "1 was trying to entertain an audience:' Far too many speakers have the habit of do- ing this without the slightest regard for facts. --Brantford Expositor. Growth of Canada. During the last 10 years Canada jumped her population from 8,788; 000 to 10,3'71,000, an increase of 18.01 per cent. For purposes of eotnparisoi it is interesting to note that the growth of the United States from 1921 to 1930 was 16.1 per cent.—St. Catha rues Standard. ,A Suggestion. It might be news if Tolnnny Church, ex-M.P., would say a good word foe any man still rnlive.----Woodstock Sea tin el Iiovlew.