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Zurich Herald, 1932-11-10, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large ' 1 CANADA It is the Only Way Severe penalties for reckless driving are being imposed by magistrates, in the United Kingdom. One 20 -year-old driver of a niotor'vau was disqualified for 25 years from driving any motor vehicle, and fined $15 and costs. EIe had been -driving a motor van which swerved ac'r'oss the road, mounted the sidewalk, knocked down a lamp stand- ard, and killed a pedestrian. His ex- planation was that a "jar" wrenched the steeriug wheel of the van out of his Bands. Another young man, son of a former Secretary of State for the Dominions; was fined for reckless driv- ing and deprived of his license to drive for five years It is the only way to deal with those who so flagrantly abuse the convenience of a modern amenity and turn it into a menace. -- Ottawa Journal. Rioting is Futile The unfortunate incidents in London and Belfast show how useless demon- strationsof this kind are to settle our present difficulties. Baton charges and revolver shots are certainly not going to provide food for the hungry and drink for the thirsty. Everyone knows how the people are suffering. In un- happy days like these they are always inclined to lay the blame on the social order of the day and the detonating action of a few agitators is enough to cause an explosion. Imbued with re- volutionary ideas, the latter take ad- vantage of bad times to excite the pas- sion of the crowd. They egg it on against the authorities and forcible re- pression becomes a necessity. While honest and brave fellows are being killed, they sneak away and' hide in cellars and sheds.—Le Soleil, Quebec, Autumn Weather If the British Isles could be blessed in October with Canada's weather the health and energy of its people would greatly benefit. Who that has ever inhaled the fine keen October air in Canada will deny this! If the tired Pro- fessional or business man could only realize the extraordinary health -cure a month in the Canadian woods can give there would be heavier steamship bookings and increased longevity for the health -seeker. In its wonderful autumn climate Canada has an asset and an attraction of great value. It is vastly appreciated in the United States, as is shown by the great tour- ist traffic but it is not at all sufficiently known in the Mother Country.—Can- ada., London. inalienable Advantages iZecent evidence goes - o show that Canada, despite some discourage- vents in the last few years is certain to retain and enhance her prestige as a wheat exporting country. Export figures issued recently show that Can- ada's output practically dominates the market.—Fort William Times -Journal. Five Real Fathers Five fathers of Reigate, Eng. have been awarded certificates by the town council for their proficiency in know- ing what to do with a fretting infant, how to detect mumps and measles, and other skill in tending their small off- spring. These awards indicate that fathers can be adept in babycraft if they try.—St. Thomas Times -Journal. A Bountiful Crop The prices of farm produce may be low, but the harvest is large. Every- thing that the farmer raises has been produced in abundance this year, Ile way not have much ready money, but to need not go hungry, Nature has been prodigal this year. Taken as a Whole, the principal field crops in Can- ada have seldom attained such total volume as during the present season or been of a higher quality. Yields were generally satisfactory in each of the provinces, despite sectional re- verses' due to weather conditions or other causes.—Ganauoque Reporter. Rest and Change The editor of the National Revenue Review tells a good one about a mem- ber of Parliament for one of the Mont- real constituencies. The member spent a vacation at a fashionable resort this year, r.ad, when he returned, someone asked him if he had enjoyed the change and rest. "I really can't say," replied .the M.P. "The bell boys got most of the change, and the hotel keeper got the rest." •-- Border Cities Star, Vehicles In the Dark Another case is reported from Cadil- lac, where a farmer on the toad with a waggon was run into by a car and one of the horses either killed or badly injured. Cases of this kind are hap- pening all over the province and they 'will continue to happen until lights are carried at night on all vehicles. A few more deaths and easualties will likely have to °coin, before a proper lays is put on the statute books. Going out at night without lights on a busy highway is flirting with disaster.—Re- gina Leader -Post. THE rMPlrtE The Ottawa Agreements The Ottawa agreements are in many reepedts experimental, and we make no iropheefee about them. Only ex- perienee will show their venue. But a certain measure of fairness is required of all who presume to discuss them, --- Leeds Mercury, Modern War Whatever happens, the mood that declares statesmanship to bo helpless and war inevitable must be fought at all points. It was precisely this kind of fatalism which paralyzed the will to peace before the great war, But there is a difference between then and now, The pre-war statesmen had at least the excuse that they did not know what the war was going to be. The only war which the war -makers had in mind was the war of the Schlieffen plan, the short sharp strug- gle which was to lead to victory "be- fore Christmas." Post-war statesmen have no such excuse. They know that modern war is a sentence of doom for victor and vanquished.—London News - Chronicle. The Australian Loan By increasing taxation, cutting down all public expenditure to the bone, re- ducing internal interest rates, lower- ing wages and salaries all round, and drastically restricting imports, Aus- tralia has managed to meet in full her obligations to her overseas creditors. It is now the business of those credit- ors not only to show their apprecia- tion, but also to help her to carry on the unequal struggle, by co-operating whole-heartedly in her efforts to re- duce the burden of her overseas debt by well -judged conversion operations. By so doing they help not only Aus- tralia but themselves as well, for in these difficult tines a wise cre-itor will make it as easy as possible for his debtors to meet their obligations. —London Times. Peiping or Nanking? As things look in Cliine to -day, the question of the site of the capital would no longer seem to be of any great practical importance. The Kuo- mintang party is losing its influence and power from day to day, and the whole country is breaking up, and will most likely end in some loose federa- tion of independent states. That is to say, for a long time to come there will be numerous sub -capitals but no cen- tral capital at all. Under the present conditions, therefore, the British and other Governments will be very i11 -ad- vised to listen to the advice of those who wish them to move their legations from Peiping—W, Lewisolui in The National Review (London). Arms and the League To -bury one's ]lead hi the sand is not an intelligent policy. On the other hand, to try and recognize the facts as they are courts the danger that a bad tendency may be fortified. and set up- on an irrevocable course. Those wlio before 1914 steadily foretold the Great War did their bit in producing it; for war is the climax of a general state of fear. By the same token faith is proved to be a practical weapon in human affairs. It follows that it is every serious person's duty to culti- vate confidence in peace and to en- courage others to a like confidence. But faith against the light is difficult. When.a man sees that the League of Nations whose essential object is the encouragement of a general belief in peace, has become so enmeshed in the policies of those particular politicians who least believe in peace, as itself to provoke an active sense of fear among large sections of the people of the world, then it seems wise to look facts squarely in the face with a view to mending them.—George Glasgow in The Contemporary Review (London). AMERICA Tit For 'Tat, and Quid Pro Quo "He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword" is hard doctrine for tariff makers. United States ex- porters xporters in textiles, in iron and steel, in glass, in telephone equipments, in automobiles and automobile parts, and in a dozen other lines will lose heavily as Canada puts into effect the Imperial preferences agreed on at 'the Ottawa Conference, minor hitches between Ot- tawa and London having been ironed out, With the British Islands, Can- ada's anada's policy is quid pro quo. With the United States it is tit for tat.—Brook- lyn Eagle, Free Telegrams Increase Use of Telephone London Britain's campaign for more telephone subscribers con- tinues, ontinues, the latest advertising scheme being put into operation recently by the General Postoffice. . Nearly eighteen thousand persons not now subsoribers and whose names were •collected by the district plostofftces have received telegrams as follows: "I cordially invite you to become a telephone subscriber now, so that you may enjoy the advantages and comforts of telephone service during the coming Winter.---Kingsle Wood, Postmaster General," The General Postoffice believes the scheme will bear fruit, Anyway, It is an economical form of advertis- ing, for the Postoffice is able to send telegrams for nothing. The Prince of Wales Inspects Polar Relic The Prince of Wales semis greatly interested in a kerosene stove used by the Swedish polar explorer, S. A. Andree in 1897 on his -fated balloon trip to Spi:zbergen. It was found in perfect condition, 33 years later. For An End to Wars By Henry L. Stimson, N.Y. Secretary of State. We have a right to take courage.. . For ourselves, we believe that even- tually the reign of peace will come. There will be among nations in re ,spect to public war, war between na- tions, the same development that has been seen in individual, communities in respect to private combat between individual Hien. We do not delude our- selves as to the difficulty of the road that lies before us nor as to the ob- stacles and trials which stand in our way We are well aware that it will require the utmost patience and faith. We know that all such developments in human organization are extremely slow. We realize that it took cen- turies to eliminate ordeal by battle in the settlement of the individual quar- rels of individual men. But we are un- shakably confident that the sante pro cess is on its way among the nations and will eventually arrive. • Christmas Tree Cutting Begins Montreal. — The annual cut of Christmas trees for the United States market has commenced in New Brune - wick. Already crews are out in Al- bert County, cutting for Nen- York buyers. Several carloads are expect- ed out of Albert County this season. Most of the trees average from three to five feet in length, with some from twelve to fifteen feet for public de- monstrations. Bars Pistols From Schools Knoxville, Tenn. --The school board of Knox County, Tenn., has barred the carrying of pistols to school. Other published rules include: Use of tobacco and chewing guru in the schoolroom strictly forbidden; no intoxicants shall be permitted on school premises, and novels, papers and periodicals having no connec- tion with the studies are not to be allowed. Metered Taxiplanes Installed Berlin—Airplane taxis equipped; with meters to calculate crow flight distances have been put into ser- vice at the Tempiehof Airport here. They make London in less than five hours. Diseases of Heart Cause Most Deaths Indianapolis, Ind.—Diseases of the heart have passed cancer and tuber- culosis in the mortality tables, and now kill more persons in. North America annually than any other ail- ment, Dr, R. W. Scott, of Cleveland, reported recently to the assembly of the Interstate Post -Graduate Medi- cal Association. Dr. Scott, a professor of the Medi- cal School of Western Reserve Uni- versity, urged early recognition and treatment of heart diseases. He said a majority of children suf- fer damage to the heart between the ages of five and 15 by rheumatic fevers which often are unnoticed or pass as "growing pains", "Ninety per cent. of the persons under 30 years of age who have died or have been invalided by heart dis- eases in this latitude have got their beginnings in these childish rheu- matic pains," he said, Dr. Scott recommended a treatment of prolonged bed rest and quietude. New Service Will Carry Air Mail Across India A company is being formed which will establish a new airway across India, according to the Simla corres- pondent of The London Times. The service will supersede the pres- ent arrangement whereby the Delhi Flying Club has carried air mail be- tween Delhi and Karachi. That ser- vice's contract with Imperial Airways, Ltd., expired at the end of last year, but the club, in conjunction with the Jodhpur Flying Club, which provides a link at Falna Junction with the Bombay mail, has run its service with only one lapse, due to a forced land- ing. The new company's machines will fly by the shortest possible route from Karachi to Moghal Sarai, a short night's journey fro Calcutta, where the mail will be transferred to the railway train for Calcutta. In default of facilities for night flying this arrangement will provide for as early a delivery in Calcutta as would be possible if the mail were carried the whole way by air. The mail for Delhi and other stations now served from there will be dropped at Agra. Wind in the Orchard I have watched hint half the moxa- ing, A.nd 1 can't control my laughter; it is plain be is not getting What he goes so widly after, He blows, now he blows! You would think lied burst his face. Ana the leaves just leap around him WW1 a tanhlizing grace, When they gather close together He's more curious than ever,. No doubt he thinks .a pile of leave inordinately clever. They huddle Ta a muddle; And their faces wrinkle up; Then be strides about among them Like a large, ungainly pup. 'Autumn Problems Of the Motorist While the transition from sunnier to fall is slight, the mote*sir is much more sensitive to it than UN owner often realizes. Apart bone changes in operating conditions, the automobile bad just emerged from its season of hardest use, and It needs i attention on that score, too. So writes William Ullman hi an article issued by his feature service (Wash - it ington). 1Vfinor adjustments are all that are needed for the most part to make ready the car for the period just ahead. To conserve fuel, improve operating efficiency, and make start- ing easier, this aright well begin with the valves. The odds are that sum- mer's high-speed driving on long trips has left valve adjustment quite ragged, It has not shown up In warns -weather starting, but it does when there is a chill in the morn- ing air. The chances are against the aver- age oar's needing to have the car- buretor mixture enriched. A major- ity, service authorities tbink, went trough the hot weather with too rich a mixture, one that will be properly lean for tall. But the choke :•liould receive attention. Many motorists have not used it for months. It should be inspeoted to determine that the valve is opening fully and freely, and the operating mechanism is in working order. Spark -plug gaps that have made no appreciable difference in engine operation when the mercury was continuously high will interfere with both starting and smooth running when the range of temperature be- comes autumnal. If plugs can not be cleaned and reset to produce maximum efficiency — apart from mileage records --they should be re- placed. Proper plugs will help con- siderably now, and a great deal lat- er when the temperature gets really low. Several remnants of summer opera- tion should be removed from all cars at this season. One of them is the scale that has collected in the cooling system. The average car has ranged far afield in the past few months, and its radiator has been filled with water containing a wide variety of impurities. The more 'of them of which the system is rid now by a thorough flushing with sal -soda, the better prepared it will be for the anti -freeze solu- tion which it will carry during ,the cold months. Another product of the season, we are told, may be a general looseness. Long periods of high-speed driving with vibration and jolting can hard- ly havefailed to have their effect. Body bolts, Mr. Ullman advises, should be taken up not only to elim- inate noises but to prevent frame strains that inevitably occur when the body is allowed to weave. He continues: Tightening sprieg clips also will serve a double purpose—that of re- ducing the chance of spring break- age and increasing riding comfort. Engine -bolts in many cars also will be found to have worked fx'ee. • Other points where the car own- er may spend a profitable few min- utes with screw -driver andwrench are the bolts, nuts,. and, screws hold- ing fenders, running -boards, and run- ning -board aprons; the bolts which hold the radiator to the frame, and brace -rod running from the radiator to the dash; and the screws by which the door -hinges are attached. Wet and leaf strewn streets, au tumn's specialty in the way of driv, ing hazards, are less dangerous the ear steers as it should. Thie involves lining up the front wheel-- tightening front -wheel bearings, tale ing up any looseness in. the steerinb dray -pule, and thoroughly lubricat- ing the entire mechanism. Another factor in seasonal safety is brake condition. Without going in for an exceptionally close adjust- ment, which leaves too lit5tie pedal - play for gently application, the car - owner should make certain that the brakes are equalized. Finless he Is possessed of more than average me- chanical skill, the task of equalizing and adjusting brakes is one that should be left to a mechanic with the ability and the equipment to make a good job of it. The fact is that brakes have been violently used in the periodof high- speed driving now coming to an end, and that 'character of use' is bound to have had its effect. One prewinter form of condition- ing that the car -owner can allow to go . over - until later is that of drain- ing, flushing, and refilling the trans= mission and differential. It is stili too early to supplant the healer lubricants used in these parts and, pending the need to change them, the car will operate well enough with nothing more than a repleuish- ing of the present filling. Because fall brings rain and damp- ness, and they in turn cause rust, the car -owner should bo certain toe' cover up 'with a brushing lacquer or enamel any chipped or marred snots on the body of fenders. If the sea, son should reveal any lattice around the top molding, the motorist will. find several plastic fillers on the nial'ket with. which these 'crevices may be treated. When you are an anvil have pati. duce; when yott are to. harmer beat straight, He is totally= defeated, For although he stops their chatter, He has not divined their secret. He bas merely made them scatter. They scurry, In a hurry, ' .. With a low, delicious sound Like the mirth of many thousand Merry leaves upon the ground. —P. P. Strachan, Football Chains Lead In Trinidad's Sports Port of Spain: Football, which has gained steadily in interest in recent years, has become the outstanding sporting event of Trinidad Island and near by mainland points in Venezuela this year, attracting prominent per- sonages along with the mass of sports foll avers. In a recent ,ur of Trinidad by a team representing the Club Sportativo, of Caracas, Venezuela, the Governor attended every contest. Football heroes have conte more and more to monopolize space in local newspapers. Western Australia Has Heavy Wheat Yield Perth, W. Aus.—A "bumper" har- vest is anticipated in Western Aus- tralia. Acres and acres of splendid wheat crops supplied at the right tie a with plentiful rains are coming to fruition. The Director y Agriculture Mr. G. L. Sutton, believes the average yield will be 15 bushels to the acre, and if he is right 50,000,000 bushels of wheat will result. The people are encouraged and there is a hopeful feeling every- where. Locusts Invade Mexico Mexico City.—Scientific study of the origin of locust invasions, three of which have occurred in Southern Mexico this year, is to be undertaken soon ,ter,terthe Department of Agricul- ture. Dr. Alfonso Dampf, chief entomolo- gist, stationed at the Federal Agricul- tural Defence office in Chiapas state, has gone to the Guatemalan border to organize the fight on the third inva- sion, which began about October 10. Memorial Honors 500 Miners Trento, Italy.—A monument to 500 miners from the nearby region of Brez who died while working in mines of North and South America has been erected in Brez village, centre of a district where men are noted for their skill underground. Preserve Royal Viking Tombs Oslo—Nine great tombs of Viking rulers of Norway have been inclosed at Borre, Vestfold, and the area made into a national park. The tombs are huge mounds under which were buried the kings with their ships, chariots and horses. 1,600 -Yr. -Old Treasure Found Chalon -Sur -Saone, France—Fleeing, perhaps, from invading Huns, some old Roman buried his treasure on the banks of the River Saone. After 1,600 years workmen, deepening the river, came upon it. So far 150 bronze coins have been found. Lay Insanity to Bad Teeth Birmingham, England.—Two cases of insanity caused by bad teeth have been reported by'the chief medical of- ficer of the mental hospitals here. Raring Demon Flirts With Death Tommy Newton,. track speed 'demon, skidded f.;c,.:a, like this fifteen times' without a rnishap, araund n.nii - around Jeffries` track at Burbank, Its, defiance of all the laws of balance—we'd say. ,,: f