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Zurich Herald, 1932-11-03, Page 3. teeeeF4 r 4 -e -e r.,1-teeTo'e'de-e-e— '•-.e b.4.'"P' )'�S'+P'.t^► 'a.'*-1!".M�!-.o-9N VoicA of the :'. rens Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA The Kingston Outbreak The outbreak at ICiugstan Penitenti- ary came in' the nature ,of a sudden S11017,1: to the people of Canada, We have' been so used, to regarding our " prison administration as beyond re- proach that we have come almost to a pharisaical` .attitude in regard to the prisons over the border which have witnessed not a few shocking out- breaks during the past few years: Now the matter comes nearer Home and theme is a very resolute conviction that this must bee investigated thoroughly and without delay, and that any evils .existing must also be remedied with- out delay.'--=1Vlontreal Daily Star. Conditions Improving Saskatchewan is conquering depres- sion, and by the method of reducing unemployment. What that province has been able to do is an evidence of the unconquerable spirit of the west. Conditions are obviously improving, and already .there is noticeable 'a change in the mentality of the people. They are realizing that conditions wlhieli they have beenresponsible for creating can also be overcome by themselves when they have the coot- age to face the facts. Victoria Colon- ist, Safe Driving One of the sound rules for safe driv- ing is to "watch the other fellow." 1.Vhen we form the habit of doing just that we keep our eyes on the road ahead. When we keep our eyes on the road ahead it's ever so much easier to keep our minds on the all-important job of driving safely. Watching the other Pellow develops a new interest in him, too. It fosters a badly needed highway courtesy. It is a constant re- minder that the road is owned by all, and not by any one driver. It tells us that the other fellow has equal rights with our own, and that it we infringe on these rights we do so at our own peril.—Brandon Sun. Movement of Wheat Although the price of wheat con- tinues at a disappointingly low level, the sale of so much grain even at pre- sent rates means bringing into the country many millions of new money. Transportation interests are enjoying gratifying activity in consequence and general business is reviving steadily.— Calgary Herald. E M P1 R>S 1:3ritain's Trade Agreements Ws are not surprised to learn that European nations are "tumbling over ane iinother" in the desire to conclude new trade agreements with Great Bei- twin. It is doubtful, ]however, whether they will receive treatment quite so generous as that accorded to theDomin- iolxs; a meticulously careful weighing of privilege against privilege is much more likely After all, Great Britain bas had all the disadvantages of inter- national trade and none of its advant- ages for decades past; it is time we square up the account.—hand Daily Mail (Johannesburg). Ottawa Logic "Britain is the keystone ok our Em- pire economic structure, and without a prosperous Britain with a ]high pur- chasing power all our efforts must fail," says Mr. Stanley Bruce. That is a sound point of view, though it is one Which many Australians have failed to appreciate. We cannot sell to advant- age in our best markets unless people there who are anxious -to buy can do so; and they can only do so if their economic circumstances are favour- able. The making of concessions on our part is therefore a form of enlight- ened self-interest. -- Melbourne Aus- traliat. The New India It is often said that Great Britain has gone too far in the surrender of power in India to retreat from what she lies done but it is equally true that India has gone too far ever to get back to the evils of the past. A democratic India, an India devoted in far larger measure to industrialism, an India to which world trade will be an essential, will be au India transformed in her social life The India of the future will not be an India in which millions are damned from birth or in which privi- leges are reserved for the few, irre- spective of their deserving. It will be an India iu which the opportunities will be equal to all. We are witness- ing the slow dying of en epoch. It is for us all to see that it is replaced by something better. — Calcutta States- man. A Good Prospect For Jamaica Not a fortune for a few but a liveli- hood for the many is what we must aim at in producing fruit for the con- sumers o! England and Canada. The masses in England are wage earners with a very small margin for luxuries, The New Empire but when luxuries become cheap they It must not be, forgotten that the' also become necessities, and those Ottawa agreesnonts ?oral but the first parts ot the Empire which can produce steps in the direction. on: of a great and far- 1 food and fruit that will be both lux - reaching adjustment of trade. The uries anti necessaries will benefit Empire has decided to trade more with itself. That means that henceforth it will be more interested in investing in itself and in developing itself. The new order of things should mean •somue- thing far beyond increased trade in this commodity or that. It must mean, if it to he a success, new Empire lines thrown out and around Empire coun- tries—lines of emigration, lines of in- vestment, lines of cultural contact—in short, a more closely -knit, more solid Empire than the past has known.— Vancouver Province. BRITISH Money and Employment The first essential to the provision of jobs is looney. Despite the prevail- ing depression, there is no lack of money in this country. Vast stuns are lying idle in the banks. What is need- ed is the release of some of this xnoney, and its flow directed towards -the provision of employment through a plan of National Developmont.—Lou- don Daily Herald. The Crisis of the League We have had the League of Nations only a few years now, and in that. short time it has done much. It has bound up some wounds of the last war, cured some ills of the present, and prevented some evils for the !u- ture. It cannot attempt everything all at once --to give peace in twelve years to a planet which has been distracted by ti'ar for more than double that num- ber of centuries. It can only attempt what a sufficient number of its Sup- porters want it to attempt. The real danger iu this crisis in its affairs is not of too slow progress but of its fall- ing back through lassitude and iguor- ance on the pat of 'Governments and peoples into a state where nobody cares whether it lives or dies. That must not be; the world would have no use for an. apologetic survival linger- ing on like a Holy Roman Empire or a Holy Alliance long after the life had left it. --Manchester Guardian. Fasting Unto Death G•andlai has established what seems to its. . a bad precedent, and we note that he threatens, shouid the occasion arise, to fast agate. We may Have a whole series of questions decided by Tis sort of appeal to a pity which is akin to terror, 'We tlo not say that :here is any fear of the practice spreading to the West, Moreover, we are confident that, even if our Prime !ihiister or the Secretary of State ;Were to sit flown under an oak tree at Chequers, or a plane trey in White - tall, with a glass of soda water beside them, it would make no difference at all to the palloy of Congress in Itldta. --London Evening Post, greatly by preferences giving them first place in the British market. --Jamaica Gleaner. The Danger of Roads Speed iu itself is rarely a danger. Yet the road offence upon which police officers spend most time and ingenuity is the trapliing of motorists who travel at 35 miles an hour, when often the circumstances would render safe au even greater speed. The culpable motorist is the one who imagines that the whole Width of the road is his rightful preserve, that he can stop, turn or swerve without .signal, and that he can swoop into a main road as though he were turning into his own gate.—Cape Argus. AMERICA A Genius Needed Portland, Ind., erects a stone draft memorial to Elwood Ilayhfes as in- ventor of the modern autonhobile. But what a row of shafts a grateful public would be willing to erect to anybody who invented an automobile that would stay modern for more than one France uildi ag 70,000 Ton :Liner Not content with just Iaunching the fastest des troyer in the world, France is now busy building the largest liner. Here we see building operations at Saint Nazaire. She's 1,024 feet long and has a displacement of 70,000 tons. • The rivets used, if pia ced end to encs, would stretch 409 miles—and that's not stringing a liner. Students of McGill To Be X -Rayed for T.B. Montreal—Five hundred first-year students at McGill University will be x-rayed for tuberculosis germs, by the department of physical education dur- ing the next few weeks, McGi11 is the first Canadian university to car- ry out an experiment of this kind. The addition' of X-ray apparatus to the facilities already available in the department of physical education at McGill is made possible through. the co-operation of the university with the Quebec industrial hygiene com- mittee and with the financial support of one of the McGill governors, who preferred to remain unidentified, The X-ray photographs will be care- fully studied and filed away 'in order that a complete history of the health of these 500 students may be kept all through their university course. I11 this way it will be possible to deter- mine how the "white plague"attacks students and what percentage is af- fected. Next session it is hoped to X-ray another 500 iucoming students, both men and women, and thus have a re- cord of some 1,000 undergraduates. It will require about five years to get the first fruits of the investigatioxi, but the, practical value of the X-ray- ing will be immediately available to the students. Gaine Birds Take Toll of Crops in Alberta Irricana, Aita.--Hundreds of ducks and geese are taking heavy toll of the wheat still remaining in the fields of tbis district it was noted last week. Only 40 per cent. of the crop has been harvested due to the delay caused by the early snowfall. The game birds are attacking hun- dreds of acres of wheat, securing rare feeds from the crop. Two farmers of the district complained their 300 -acre crops have been Tufted by the birds, King Reduces Rents London. .Che Ring has teamed by 20 per cent, the rents for allotments of the Sandringham estate. One year ago the Ring took over the adjoining 1200 - acre farm. when no new tenant was forthcoming and it will now be used by GO workingmen, who will hold their allotments by tenancies let by the Ring personally at $4 an acre Non -Permanent Branch Of Air Force Considered Ottawa.—Formation of a Canadian non -permanent air force on lines sim- ilar to the auxiliary air force in the United Kingdom is under considera- tion by the Department of National Defence an an announcement is ex- pected shortly. The proposed force would consist of three squadrons, located at paints yet be selected. Each squadron would contain about 20 officers and 175 other ranks, with a reserve eb officers. Ap- plicants for conimissitns would be re- quired to obtain pilots' licenses and be acceptable to the other officers. As a branch of the Royal Canadian Air Force the new body wculd be operated along about the same lines as the present non -permanent active militia. Watch Dial ort Egg Shell Leads To Speculation on Hen's Diet Chester, Eng. --An egg laid by a hen at Barton Maipas, Cheshire, had a perfect replica of the face of a watch marked on its shell, The Ro- man numbers are complete and even the minute divisions are perfectly plain. The numerals and divisions are raised above the surface of the shell and there is a deep impression above the number XII, corresponding to the winder of the watch. The egg has aroused great interest in the Chester market and the owner of the hen has been offered large sums of money for it. There is no explana- tion for this freak of nature, but some persons are wondering whether the hen has lately swallowed a watch. Belgium Now Has Phone Service to Leopoldsvil?e in the Congo Brussels. — 'Telephone communica- tion between Belgium. and Leopolds- ville in the Belgian Congo has been inaugurated. The lines will be open. from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 pan. and from 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m, on week days, and from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m on Sundays. A three-minute conversation will cost 300 Belgian francs (about $$11.14), and each extra minute will be charged for at the rate of 130 francs. Persons desiring to converse with somebody in the Congo are advised to arrange for the call some hours in advance—pre- tenably the day before. seasons—The Christian Science Mona 1.000••••••• tor, Judges at Royal Winter Fair The Right Honorable the Earl of Westmoreland a prominent member of that elite group of hunting en- thusiasts nthusiasts and sportsmen who, carry- ing on the long tradition of the Dukes of Beaufort, have made- the little Gloucestershire village of Badminton world famous as the centre of all- round sport, will head the list of judges for hunters and jumpers at the Royal Winter Fair Horse Show next 'month. The Earl has just cabled his accept- ance of the Royal Winter Fair's invi- tation to attend and to judge in the most interestingand numerous classes of the horse shove programme. With him in the 'hunter and Jumper division will be Elliott S. Nichols of Detroit and George B. Elliott of Toronto; The other judges :for the Royal Horse Show arer Harness Horsee and Ponies — Wm. H. Wanamaker, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; Thos. W. Clark, Eclgeniont, Pa: Saddle Horses and Ponies --Frank ,Adair, ,Atlanta, .9a.: Holland B. Judkins, Nev+ Tork, Commercial Classes --Thos. 14. trait Lalnbton Mills, Ont.; Andrew 0, Baine, Hamilton, Ont. Roadsters ---Herbert Collacutt, Port Perry, Ont„ Frank Adair, Atiatita, Ga. Sunday island Sunday Island, in the Paoifto, 10 really the tallest mountaini the world, 1t risme 2,000 feet..ouet ett Ave miles of water, and to thus neatly 30,- 000 feet Name base to sunttzlit. Italy Seeking Speed Record Despite Loss of Pilots, She; Still Keeps After World Record on Lake Garda . Rome—The tragic death of Lieuten- ant Arbosto Neel, Italy's "speed Wiz- ard," has led to a delay in the pre, aerations which are being made at Deseuzano on Lake Garda to wrest from England the world's seaplane) speed record, but the intention of re- gaining this much -sought-after boUoi" has by no means been abandoned. On the contrary, it is stated that a fresh attempt will be made as soon as tem- peratures are steadily cool enougb for racing seaplanes to take off. The Italian machine which is to make the attempt to conquer the world's speed record will be piloted by Warrant Offi- cer Agello, who was formerly No, 2 of the Italian team and has become No. 1 since the death of Lieutenant Neri. Italy has paid a heavy toll of lives to high-speed flying. No less than nine of her very best pilots have lost their lives in the last four years fu practice flights in Desenzano. Never- theless, there is no decrease in the de- termination to conquer the world's speed record. The latest Italian rat ]ng seaplane, which was built for the last Schneider Trophy race, but was not in readiness Home in the North considered time to take part in the contest, is considered to be by far the fastest fly- know lyknow a house beside the sea ing machine in existence in the world Where rocks and gulls call down to me to -day. It has developed, however, a Of other shores more wide and fair mysterious defect, the exact nature of Than those beneath the window there; which the engineers have not yet been With bolder rocks and whiter sand, able to discover. No less than three And hills behind more green and ; of these machines, while flying at top grand, speed over Lake Garda, have suddenly nose-dived and plunged into the water I never listen, for I know of the lake. The pilot, in each case, was That wheresoever I may go, killed, so that it has been impossible No other place could ever seen to find out to what these accidents More beautiful, no water's gleam were dal' More bright with memory's magicfoamFlier Avoids Crash Than those about my northern home, Lieutenant ?peri himself, in a pras- That, nestlingin its hills apart, tic flight before his death, in which ite is said to have reached a maximum Gathers me ever to its heart, speed somewhere in the neighborhood —Elizabeth Fleming, in the Christian of 470 miles an hour, had his rudder Science Monitor. carried away. Oniy his truly extra- ordinary skill enabled him to land More Tourists Visit Belgium safely on the lake, without injury to According to the Belgian tourist of- himself or his machine. It is thought Ace, the number of foreigners who that perhaps the destruction of the came to Belgium this Summer was other machines was due to a similar greater than last year. Hollanders breakage of the elevators. These, how - came first, in the matter of numbers,, ever have been carefully checked in followed by French and Germans. the remaining machines, without any There were few Americans and Bri- visible defect. Others believe that the defect lies in the two engines revolving hi oppo- site dirctiona with which the new ma tisk. The tourist office directed its advertising efforts toward Holland, Northern France and Central Europe. Much is being done to attract parties chines ,are..f edeeelt of school children, with their teach- live that a great future xs ers, t for machines of this type, as the fact that the two engines revolve in oppc- Rich Copper Deposit site directions eliminates the tarque which is so troublesome to pilots in in Nevada light racing machines. The methane A huge deposit of copper, averaging! ism, however, is extremely compli 4G per cent., now is being developed in i rated, as the two propellers are driven the northern part of Elko County by1 by means of iwo concentric tubular the Rio Tinto Copper Company, It is shafts, revolving in opposite diree said to be the world's richest copper tions, the one inside the other. It is deposit and, according to experts, more than possible that the accidents would bo a money maker even at pre- are due to some slight defect which sent starvation copper prices. develops at high speed in this intricate �.___...._ mechanism.Census In China Reveals — 47.4,787,386 Population' Leprosy Gains in Brazil Shanghai. --The Mini try of the In- Ilio De Janeiro. --- The increase of,, terior in Nanking has completed a een- leprosy in Brazil is alarming sanitary. sus of China which it claim, is the experts who assert that the malady is most nearly accurate ever made, 14 spreading so rapidly especially in the north, that it should receive the im- mediate attention of the government. Unofficial figures indicate that aft fected persons are scattered through out Brazil. Physicians are asking for special legislation to permit the fors, motion of centres where lepers may; s establishes the population at 474,787,- 386. 74,787;886. This includes Manchuria, Mon- goldia, and Tibet, over which China claims sovereignty. Previous estimates of China's popu- :-tion have varied from 850,400,000 to 500,000,000. The Ministry does not explain how it has obtained such pre- be segregated in an effort to prevents, cise census figures in territory over further spread of the disease. which it has no actual control. At present there is only ono official First Gales of Season Sweep English Coast The hnlldayers have departed and the residents of Ciac:on, ]England, are now settling down for the einter. A bit risky to walk along the prom when the waves act this way. , leper hospital in Brazil. That is at Jacarepagua, on the outskirts of Riot de Janeiro, and has accommodations„ for only a small number of patients. England Forces Wealthy To Pay for Schooling Loudon,—New regulations which re", duce free education iu the seconder, schools --corresponding to public high schools here—were announced in the House of Commons last week by Her. wald Ramsbotham, Parliamentary see. rotary of the Board of Education. He estimated the saving to the Govern ment would be 4400,000 a year. The regulations establish x "meat( test" which says down a scale ot in; come above which parents must pap foes. Rumania Seizes Automobile( Bucharest.—Automobilists have beau halted by policemen during the Iasi, few days and ordered to get out. On compliance they have simply been handed a clip` o! paper stating that their cars are requisitioned for the forthcoming mauoeuvres. Thereupon the cars have been driven off by milk. tary chauffeurs and the owners lett t4 fend :for themselves, Motor trucks( have been similarly halted on the high road, forced to unload and driven off, Russia Has Placed Orders For Equipment in Britain. London.—Russian orders for .manna facturers and transport equipment costing 4450,000 (about $2,000.0D0 ai par). have been placed with Retie* firms. VK.