Zurich Herald, 1932-05-19, Page 6Voice .of the. Press
Canada, The Empire and The World at Large
CANADA
Ottawa's New Water Supply
Ottawa's fine new water filtratiou
plant, set in operation officially by His
Excellency the Governor-General, has
more than a local interest. Oa a, table
beside him as he spoke were two glass
pitchers, one felled with the original,
murky Ottawa River water, the other
with the crystal clear variety resulting
from the new filtration process.•It was
the murky water at which visitors to
the capital looked askance for many
years, and which did not enhance the
city's reputation abroad, But as the
old-timers well knew there was little
fault to be found with the original sup-
ply in itself. In fact the "soft" water
of the Ottawa was particularly good
for many household purposes. Unfor-
tunately as the outskirts grew the
river became contaminated with sew-
age, and thirty years or more ago
typhoid began to appear in the city.
Anoutbreak of this disease in 1911.12
resulted in the abnormal death rate of
80 per 100,000 of population, and some-
thing had to be done at once, A sys-
tem of chloramine treatment was in-
stalled and the death rate dropped im-
mediately to 15 in 1913. This improve-
ment continued until last year there
was not a single death from typhoid.'
The disagreeable chemical taste left
by the chloramine treatment will not
be found in the new sand -filtered water
which is as pleasant to the palate as
it is to the eye. The new plant cost
$1,315,000, which will bring the capital
investment of the city in its water-
works system up to $6,875,000. Bat
Ottawa now possesses an ample supply
of fine water.—Toronto 11Cai1 and Em-
pire.
in Memoriam
"Lorne _Mulioy died at Iroquis, On-
tario,
ntario, on February 21st. To a genera-
tion which remembered the South Af-
rican War he was well known as
'Blind Trooper Mulioy.' He lost both
ayes in a skirmish on the Vedt, but
with indomitable pluck set himself to
live down his disablites. There was no
St. Dunstau's in those days to help
blinded men to preserve their inde-
pendence, but when some years later,
he came to Balliol with a Patriotic
Fund Scholarship, Mulioy could fend
for himself to a wonderful extent. He
had barely enough money to cover his
expenses, but he managed somehow,
and at once started that . strenuous
campaign for Imperial Preference
which was the main interest of his life,
.and only interrupted by his work tor
recruiting during the Great War.
"There muni be many old Oxford.
friends up and down the world who re-
member how the questions of Empire
Defence, Empire Solidarity, and Em-
pire Trade crept into his every conver-
sation, no matter ou what other sub-
ject it might have started, and he had
the fluent and persuasive eloquence of
his Irish ancestry.
"He has said his Nunc Dimittis just
when, at long last, there is hope that
the policy for which he worked during
all the lean years may be carried out,
It must have rejoiced his Canadian
heart to know that the next imperial
Conference is to meet at Ottawa."—
L. K. H., in The Iroquis Post.
Members of Great Britain's Parlia-
ment will receive third-class tickets
for their railway transportation in the
future instead of travelling first-class.
Another suggestion for the Railway
Committee at Ottawa to help reduce
expeuses.—The Globe (Toronto),
Use of Canadian Ports
Any argument which is now ad-
vanced for the protection of workers
in the industrial plants of this country
can be just aS soundly applied to the
need of protecting and encouraging
aranadiau railway employees and port
workers, Parliament seems to have
worked itself into a position where it
discriminates between differeut class-
es of Canadian workmen. Let us
again emphasize the fact that all we
ire asking for, iu insisting upon Cana -
>_e. graia being handled through Cana
,an ports, is that the shippers of grain.
lip exactly what railwaymen and port
workers are forced to do—"Buy Caua-
ia n."—St, John 'Telegraph Journal,
Toeing the Line
It is no accident that foreign corres-
pondents in London all conspire to
pipe down on British optimism. They
.ke their tone from official London,
4hich is plainly warning the taxpayer
fat, having heroically balanced the
udget, 'he most see to it that it stays
t alanced. There is no substitute for
i..eveuues, the very vitamin of the body
conamic. While other nations are
making passes at balancing their: bud-
et, John Bull keeps right on. toeing
he path of financial rectitude. Where
ether nations might be tempted to ease
ftp, resting upon last year's .laurels,
rohn Tull keeps on plugging away. If
fhb be "muddling through," then the
nest of the world could. -use a little
rklore muddling.—'aotttreal Star,
Canadian Coal
A.eoording to seemingly inspired re -
ort tlae stipplexnentar' estimates will
sk Par/tattled to ,decide ' ouu ties for
anadiay CPO, title zttarketieg a mil-
1
'iter more tone aNeve Scotia coal in
Onebec and fllasteru Ontario each year,
'By the same process iei', assistanee, it
is added, Alberta coal will be market
ed farther east. Something like 200
000 miners will be given more work.
The country, we imagine, will scarcely
object. For years there has been taik
about making Canada independent of
the 'United States for its.fuei, of de-
veloping our coal resources, The 'only
way in which we can do this—apart
from a prohibitive tariff on American
coal—is by some such subsidy as is
now proposed.—Ottawa Journal.
Motorists' Liability
The new law which has just conte in-
to effect in Nova Scotia provides that
the drivers of motor vehicles, once
they have beau found responsible fox
an accident, shall leave to establish
their financial responsibility before
they can drive again. In other words,
the motorist who has, through his neg-
ligence, caused anybody to suffer per-
sonal or property damage, shall be in
a position to pay those damages,
whether be- insurauce or not, other-
wise he shall not have his licence re-
turned to him. This law, severe though
it may seem, should teach motorists to
drive with more caution,—La Tribune,
Sherbrooke.
Gardens For the Unemployed
Frain the material, as well as the
moral viewpoint, the cultivation of kit-
chen gardens in the courts and ou the
vacant lots is as much to be recom-
mended
ecommended and would be as beneficial
now as in the days of the Great War;
it won 1 bring the comforts of the
table to hundreds, nay to thousands of
citizens, that it would moreover pro-
tect against the deadening anxieties
which usually haunt the homes where
misfortune has sat 'not. —La Presse,
Montreal.
THE EMPIRE
Free State and Empire
The Irish problem becomesthe inti-
mate concern of all the Dominions.
Without their consent there can be no
general change—and, after all, why
should Canada,. Australia, New Zea-
land and Africa be asked to alter their
constitution iu order to placate a hand-
ful of Irishmen who are, perhaps, real-
ly
eally irreconcilable? Would it not be far
better to let the Irish taste that inde-
pendence for which they hanker? if
they don't want British citizenship,
British markets, imperial Preference,
the services of British armies and
!fleets, the privileges of British citzen-
ship in the Commonwealth and abroad,
let them gol—Glasgow Citizen.
Anglo-American Entente
In spite of surface autagonisres the
people of Great Britain and the United
States of America re nearer to each
other in spirit than are other Great
Powers. They have a common. humani-
tarianism. They else have a common
detachment from Europe, a common
interest in the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, and a common destiny in the
Far East.—London Daily Express,
The New Civilization
Ia the niueteenth century we tried
to build up a civilization on the plau
of making everything depend on the
possession of money. The Industrial
Revolution in. its early stages seemed
to reflecting minds to be chiefly int -
portant for the opportunity it provided,
an opportunity much richer than ever
before in history, for poor men to be-
come rich men, The most striking die=
faience between. England to -day and
that Euglaud, is that to -day the poor-
est man can hear good music, see good
pictures, read good literature, We are
trying to build up a civilization on a
principle different from that which
characterized the civilization of the
Industrial Revolution: we are trying to
build tip a civilization in which the
want of money shall not cut people oft
from the pleasures and interests that
make the difference between a civil-
ized and barbarous society. instead of
dividing the world between a civilized
class and a barbarous mass, aud con-
gratulating ourselves on providing op-
portunities for industrious and excep-
tional uteri to pass from one to the
other, we are trying to create a 'world
in which civilized pleasure is brought
within
reaclt ot the cotntnuuity.—J. L.
Hammond in the Spectator (London).
A Lesson From the :Danube
The French proposals to help the
Danubian States have aroused the
same suspicious and the same hostility
in Germany as were aroused in France.
by the German. project of a few mouthd
ago by for a Customs Union with Aus-
tria. And in France the opposition of
Germany to the scheme has excited
the same indignation as was felt in
Germany over the French opposition
to the Anschluss and is ascribed to
similar motives, '.I'he lesson is plain.
It is not that Great Britain should dis-
interest herself in the affairs of Eur-
ope or slacken her efforts to bring
T'rauce and Germany together in a
conttuou endeavour to get the wheels
of international trade moving again.
it is rather that, itlhile coatinuiug
those efforts, she should paste on more
energetically than ever 'with the task
of securing 00 -operation witin the Em-
pire t that increase otprosperity
t
which 0 + closet .
oo-operdt ' n� !I '��d'�t, ttg�lt
Young Italy . Right There
A three-year-old youngster, dressed iu full Fascist regalia, salutes
Italy's premier after he addressed a gathering of over 100,000 junior
members on the 2,885th birthday of Rome.
Machines As Man -Haters
"Men. may be satisfied with their
own superiority but machines are not.
Thep prefer girls." Thus spoke Sir
Herbert Austin to a Loudou audience
recently in the course of an address
wherein it was lightly suggested that
the ultimate division of labour might.
present the spectacle of more and.
more men making machines while
more and more women were engaged.
to work them. In some ways it sug-
gests an arrangement as convenient as
the one mentioned in the nursery
rhyme—Jack Sprat can make tile ma-
chines while Mrs. Jack Sprat works
and watches them, and between them
the industrial platter wilt be • Dept;
clean and polished. But there is a
more unfortuuate side to reflections of
this kind as applied to the modern
world—wbat sort of labour will be left
for man when he has made all the ma-
ohines which are required for woman
to work. --Manchester Guardian. •
•
OTHER OPINION
(es what he undertakes, and for him to
make an objective of a plan promising
so much for stabilization of life for so
large an element of the population is
good grouud for optimism; Detroit
Free Press,
•
Exploding a Myth
From the point of view of human
reactions, the current depression sig-
nalizes a 'breakdown of the most re-
spected cliches of American thought.
Big Business, the last of the American
idols to expose its clay feet, has been
unmasked as a fraud -and a delusion.
Men who •ha_ve never questioned the
belief that hard work, honesty, and
the investment of one's savings in
"sound" stocks and bonds would even-
tually guarantee a comfortable secur-
Iity,.are wearily pounding the streets
1 to search of a job. Others who have
retained their jobs have developed a
panicky slave -morality toward their
employers. And to cap the climax, the
luxuries and comforts of American liv-
ing,
iving, which have become au almost uni-
versal tradition, have completely col-
lapsed. The never -before -questioned
rightness of unrestrained competitive
individualism has proved itself a fatal
boomerang. The great Amet'can myth
has been exploded. - W. D. Wolfe,
M.D., fa the Forum (nTew York).
Factory and Farm
The idea of combining factory and
farm, of course, is not original with
Mr. Ford. Switzerland. Sweden and
Germany already are exemplifying the
desirability ot building manufacturing
plants away from large centres of
population and distributing the homes
of industrial workers in such a way as
to give them access to tillable land.
That the plan in this country appeals
to a man of the capacity, genius and
resourcefulness of Mr. Ford gives
strong assurance that it will be given
a fair trial. It is a generally accepted
proposition that Mt'. Ford accomplish-
y -
DREAMS.
How many are the dreams that
might 'have become happy realities,
how many are the plans that might
..have been brought to golden success,
had it not been for that terrible lit-
tle sentence, "Too much trouble"
Russia's Feminine Army
q,lt
e young Amazons take their .lace't Vol :with the
melt'
They are undeegving mixed military tra'Utink tie> rf I pseow 'erhere
theft oftl•eirts eve afteu yrtuug w.nneu, tilsb,
Branch Plants
In Ontario
The .establishment of branch pleato,
by British and foreign firms continues
to be an interesting feature of the
Canadian industrial situation, A wide
x'anige of products is handled by these
new industries, including vegetable
products, animal products, textiles,
wood and paper pr. 'nets, . iron and
iron products,, tion -ferrous metals, non.
metallic minerals, and chemicals and
allied products.
The preponderance of United States
over British branch plants is, natural,
ly strongly marked, and it is expected
that this will continue to be the case
for some time to come. United States
industrial firms are keenly alive to the
value of the Canadian branch plants as
a means of access to outside markets.
But according to an observer closely
in touch. with British industry and
with conditions in Canada, British in-
terest in the Canadian industrial field
may be expected to become an in-
creasingly important factor in the
situation during the next decade. Ac-
cording to this authority, more British
Arnie will investgate Canada with a
view to branch plant establishment
during the next two years than ever
before, and more British plants will
actually be established during the
next decade than has been the case
heretofore.
Among branch plants established in
Ontario during the last two years are
the following:
Great Britain
Heild Bros., Kingston—Textiles.
C. H. Hirst & Co., Carleton Place—
Textiles.
Lancashire Felt Co., Ltd., Guelph—
Felts.
Beacon. Windows, Ltd,, Toronto—Iron
and its products.
Colade Ontario, Ltd., Brantford—Non-
Metallic Minerals.
John Mackintosh & Sons, Ltd., Toron-
to—Confectionery.
United States
Vegetable Products and Foodstuffs
Campbell Soup Co., Ltd., New Toronto
Fine Foods of Canada, Ltd., Windsor.
Hill Nut co., Ltd., Toronto,
Liberty Cherry Co. of Canada, Ltd.,
Toronto.
Newton Products, Toronto.
Richard Hellman Ltd., Toronto.
Animal Products (Except Textiles)
Cantilever Shoe Co, of Canada, Ltd.,
Toronto.
Griffith Laboratories, Ltd„ Toronto.
Lackawanna Leather Co. of Canada,
Ltd., Toronto.
Schwegiet's Hatchery, Bridgeburg. •
Textiles
B. Edmond Davis Silk Mills of Canada
Ltd.., Hawkesbury.
Dominion Webbing Co., Ltd., leiugston,,
Herbert Hosiery Mills; Ltd., Toronto.
Schlegel Company of Canada, Ltd.,
Toronto.
Westminster Hosiery, Ltd., •Mount
Dennis.
Wood and Paper Products
Brown & Bigelow, Ltd., Toronto.
E. L. Bruce Co. of Canada, Ltd.. Tor-
onto.
Dixon Pencil Co., Newmarket.
McFadden Magasines of Canada, Ltd.,
Toronto.
Rochester Paper Co„ Ltd., Toronto.
Schaeffer Ross Co. of Canada, Ltd„
Toronto.
Stanley Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tor-
onto.
Venus Pencil Go. of Canada, Ltd„ Tor-
onto.
Wood Mosaic Co. (Canada), Ltd„
Woodstock.
Buzza Kraftacres, Toronto.
Iron and its Products
Josiah'Austice Co., Ltd., Toronto.
Belleville Sargent & Go., Ltd., Belle-
ville.
Burr, Patterson & Auld Co., Wa.lker-
yille.
Dominion Body Co., Ltd., Waikervil e,
Domiaion Motors, Ltd., Toroato.
Garduer-Denver Co., Canedo, Ltd., Tor-
onto.
Heaters of Canada, Oakville.
Hupp Motor•Car Corporation, Windsor.
Hudson -Essex of Canada, Ltd., Tilbury
trop Fireman Manufacturing Co., Tor-
onto,
Lynn Canadian Products, Ltd.. Brock-
ville.
Maytag Co., Ltd., 'Toroato.
Metal Textile Corporation, Hamilton,
Packard Motor Car Co. of Canada,
LK, 'Windsor.
Pierce Arrow Co. of Canada, Ltd., Wan-
kerville.
Radiator Specialty Co. of Canada, Tor-
onto.
Reo Motor Co. of Canada, Toronto:
L. C. •Smith & Corona Typewriters of
Canada, Ltd., Toroato.
Stewart Truck Corporation ot Canada, ••
Fort Erie.
Taco :Heater of Canada, LI:d., 'i'orottto.
D. D. Terrill Saw Co., Ltd., Pembroke.
Walter Motor Truck Co., Ltd„ Toronto.
Norge Corporation, Toronto.
Kellogg Mau nfact Ting Co„ Tomtit.
Le Plant Choat, Inc., Hamilton.
Nen-ferrous Metals Manufactures
Arrow -Hart & Inegeman, Canada, Ltd.,
Toronto.
Baidor Electric Co., Ltd., Toronto.
L. S. Brach of Canada, Ltd., Toronto.
Canadian Controllers, Ltd., Toronto,
Continental Carbon C"o., Toronto.
Curtin Lighting C'.. or Canada, Ltd.,
Termite.
t)ictograplt Co. of Canada, Ltd., Tor-
onto,
1 Uasterp Power Devices, Ltd, Toronto.
l�lr'ie lstOr of Canada, Ltd„ Toronto
Hain r . of Canada Ltd, 'L' ,ort
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The eminent British dramatist,
George Bernard Shaw, was on.
hand at Stratford -on -Avon, when
the Prince of Wales opened the
Shakespeare Memorial theatre.
Leland Electric of Canada, Ltd., Tor-
onto.
Trupar Electric Manufacturing Go.
(Mayflower Co. of Canada), Hamlin
ton.
Noma Electric Co. of Canada, Toronto.
Packard Cable Co. of Canada, Ltd.,
Toronto.
Polymet Manufaeturing Corporation,
Hamilton.
J. P. Seeburg Corporation, Toronto_
Silver Marshall of Canada, Ltd., Tor-
onto.
Simms Motor Units of Canada, Ltd„
Toronto.
Wheeler Reflector Co., Toronto.
Wilson Illuminating Go., Ltd., Toronto„
Wiremouid Co. of Canada, Ltd., Tor-
onto,
John C. Virden Co., Ltd, Toronyto.
Non -Metallic Minerals' Mdnufaotureas
Bundy Incubator Co. of Ciel.Ada, Ltd.,
Toronto.
Masters Builders, Ltd., Toronto.
Tremco Manufacturing Co. (Canada),
Ltd., Leaside.
Jam'Vernon CWaytUe.
Cheesmicals ando;, AlliedlkerProducts
Everett & Barron of Canada, Ltd., Torr
onto.
F. W. Fitch Co., Ltd., Toronto.
Fyr-Fyter Co. of Canada, Ltd., Handl;,
ton.
General Printing Ink Corporation o4
Canada, 'Toronto.
Huntingdon Laboratories of .Canada,
Ltd., Toronto.
Mum :Manufacturing Co. Inc., Windsor.
Nestle -Le Mur Co. of Canada, Ltd„
Toronto.
Noxzeina Chemical Co. of Canada, Tor.
onto.
Sheffield Bronze Powder Go„ Ltd.,
Toronto.
Talcum Puff Co., Ltd., Toronto.
Mining and Metallurgical
Sinirall Refining Corporation of Caw
ado, Ltd., Aznherstburg.
Miscellaneous
.e.ero Corporation of Canada, Kiteli
ever.
Automatic Industries of Canada, Ltd..
Toronto.
Film Laboratories of Canada, Ltd.,
Toronto.
Mack Miller Candle Co., Niagara Falls,
Mimeograph Co., Ltd., Toronto.
South Bend Bait Co, of Canada, Ltd.,
Coburg•.
Wilcox Canadian, Ltd., Toronto,
Gloversville Welt Co., Kingston,
Sunneu Products Co., Chatham,
Ohio Truss Co., Wiudsor,
Long Manufacturing Co., Windsor.
Sparks With.ingtou Co. (Sparton of
Canada, Ltd.), Loudon.
Gilbert & Barker Mfg, Co., Toronto.
Regarding British industrial expan-
sion in the Dominion, it should be re-
membered that branch establsitzttents
overseas, thousauds of Welles,•eriain'the
parent plant. is a step requiring the
most.• •thorough investigation and con-
sideration. According to authoritative
opinion, it is intpossble to generalize
as to what classes of British industry
can beueet by establishing in Canada.
Each. firm considering this Stell re-
quires to study the matter with the
utmost care from its owa iudividuai
standpoint, weighing its requirements
in the matters ot labor, tra.nsportatfou,
raw materials, and its opportunities ie.
the way of markets. No British Siena
can; of course, afford to eater Itastile.
upon such an. undertaking, but this
consideration only stresses rho desira-
bility of vigorous and efficient ittvesti..
gation,
A LOAD.
Poverty is the load of some, and '
wealth is the load of others, perhaps
the greater load of the two. It ma'
weigh them to perdition. Bear the
load of .thy eeighbor':e poverty, andl
let butt bear with thee the load of
thy wealth. • Thou lightened thy
load by lightening itis, --.- St Aage
true