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Zurich Herald, 1932-11-24, Page 3reetehe. leSeastereeeaseee-e-e-aseeiesesee-e , Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA ' British Films Going Strong Most Canadians are pleased to know that British -made 'films improve in quality, ands that the British industry prospers abundantly. We base this statement upon reports brought back • from England by returning Canadians and upon frank admissions published In United States trade journals. Mr. Walter Winger, vice-president of the Columbia Pictures Corporation, inter- viewed by the Film Daily, an influen- tial 'United States trade organ, is quoted as saying: • "It might be well to note that al- though the American industry has made little progress through this period of world depression, enormous profits. have been made in England by producers, distributors and exhibitors, Should this situation make us think? Those in control of production do not seem to realize that there is an entire- ly- new world point of view which has to be met in picture product. This changed viewpoint radically affects the type ;of entertainment that must be furnished, as well as the attitude of the audience. Artistically, the busi- ness must improve." The duality of restraint and whole- someness, observable in many Old Country films, is one that recommends thein to Canadian patrons.—Toronto Mail and Empire. of earth raised is a sort of deposit in the bank which cannot fail, and •on which one can •drawoheques in kind, fol the maintenance of life for a eon- siderabie period. Naturally, one has to work hard, but the earth is. an em- ployer which does not stint bread to its workers.—La Liberte, Winnipeg,. The Plowman The plowman Is the symbol of the countless men and women who have gone before us wrestling from the soil the means of sustained life and 'higher aspiration. He is the embodiment of all that is noble in human labor. Some- how, the hands that have guided a plow through the fresh -smelling earth aro better for having done so.—Ottawa Citizen. Supported by the Law The British policeman is backed up by the law far more effectively than officers in some countries. When he makes an arrest there are not a thous- and loopholes in the criminal law by which an unscrupulous lawyer can free his man. There are not a lot of criminals who go untouched because they have influence. The British po- liceman very truly represents "tlie ma- jesty of the law.' Ile does not, as a usual thing, need to carry a weapon with him. Victoria Times. Something Lacking Here The end of the limit seems to -have been reached when a man in Montreal was sent to jail for 15 days because he begged a cigarette from a more for- tunate individual. Somehow that rubs heavily against the grain of a normal person. This man certainly was more sinned against than sinning and the citizen who "turned him in" apparently- had completely forgotten the Biblical quo- tation, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" while his accoster appar- ently went on the Biblical assumption of "Ask and it shall be given unto you." If this thing is carried too far we know a great number of . office "friends" who will shortly be on the Inside looking out'.—Iiitcltener Daily Record. The Bacon Quota The Ottawa agreements provide for free entry into Britain of 289,000,000 pounds of Canadian bacon "of good quality" "Good quality" means the grade known in Canada as "select." ast year Canada only produced one- fifth of the ntunber of, hogs required THE EMPIRE Idle Money If millions of pounds of money sta, t to drift out of 'circulation—as they have been drifting out—and begin to pile up in the banks, clearly the con- sequences are going to be serious. Fewer goods will be bought became the money to buy them is les: by the amount lying unused on deposit, and unemployment must rise. There is no other way of stimulating output and employment at the present time than by getting this money back into circu- lation.—London Daily Herald, Dangerous Policy The Japanese see China rapidly dis- integrating before their eyes, and they ask themselves whether their best course is not to strive to save some- thing from the ruins, and to mark out and secure at least one area which they can immunize from the surround- ing contagion? It is a desperate policy, but it is intelligible to anybody Russian Jewels Part of Legacy The principal part of the 31,032,348 in personal property left by Edith Rockefeller McCormick consists 'of jewelry. Over 1,700 dia- monds, many -pearls and emeralds are shown 1n these two pieces. Development of the Ontario Is Letter -Writing Out -of -Date. Agricultural College News despatches recently told of tle visit of His Excellency the Gov. 6 ' error -General to Guelph to .dedicate Publication in England of' a new and open formally the magnificent and complete edition of ,Sir Walter new administration and residence ,Scott's letters, which reveal him as building of the Ontario Agricultural one of the most prolific missive writ - College. These reports were exceed ers in the annals of literature, leads ingly interesting. It may be quer- a commentator in The London Morn- tioned, however, if the , public are ing Post to reflect upon the "positive - Plant Surveys Proposed In Fight on Hay Fever' Manhattan, Kan.—Plant .•,urveys of. communities as an aid to hay -fever control are urged by Miss Elsa Horn, Kansas State College botanist, who has completed such a project in Man- hattan, a city of 12,000 population. "Only ten of these vitally needed surveys have been made in the Uni- ted States," Miss Hort said, "but botanists must take up this work if hay -fever sufterers are ever to get much . relief." Three varieties of ragweed, hemp and pigweed were identified in Miss Horn's research as Manhattan'sworst offenders among the 250 pos- sible varieties of trees, grasses and 'weeds which may cause hay fever. She found that 571.8 acres, or 22 per cent of the city, was in weeds. A single acre of ragweed, which grows in profusibn in Manhattan, had been found to give off sixty pounds of who will admit.that Japan's interests pollen, the botanist said. in China are more vital to her than the In arguing the importance of weed interests which the Shanghai defence surveys, Miss Hewn pointed out that force was established to protect so 60 per cent of all asthma is hay short a time ago were to England. It is a. dangerous p;Qliaus.0 to supply this quota of ""food quality" Japan, because it tends to revive the 17NLOVED bacon). These figures may give those prestige of the military caste, to not acquainted with the industry some strengthen the waning feudal ideology. Idea of the huge task facing depart- ments of agriculture, packers, breed- ers and farmers if Canada is to take full advantage of this important con- cession. Already an intensive cam- paign towards hog improvement has been undertaken by the departments here and in Toronto. A revolution within the industry will be required. Breeders are faced with low prices for bacon in Britain, the exchange and other major considerations but leaders in the industry claim the bacon quota can be worked out to the advantage of the Canadian farmer if only sufficient co-operation and good will are shown by all concerned. --Ottawa Journal. fever in its advanced stages. Dangerous to civilization, because it creates on more septic focus in a dis- ordered world.—Round Table, London. Radio Licenses A total 02 544,129 radio receiving licenses have been issued by the Cana- dian Government Radio Branch from 'April 1 to September 80, 1932, or ap- proximately one to every eighteen per- sons cof the population of the Do minion.—Acton Free Press. Cohleback For the Horse Tho horse will reappear in great Force as the motive power for urban and, suburban street and road trans- portation, if a certain British organi- zation has its way. That organization, founded to further the interest of the `breeder and user of the horse and bny, is known as the National Horse (association of Great Britain At the request of various bodies commercial- :ty interested in the imaintenance•, of iliorse, traffic, it is conducting an active Propaganda for the encouragement of ho use of horses for transport par- " oses, and Is meeting with support and 0 -operation from firms with large de- verios 'to make.—Welland-Port Col- brne Tribune. Peace With Honour The time for rapprochement be- tween the Government and the Con- gress will come only when civil dis- obedience is definitely called off, and when there aro guarantee which fully satisfy the Government that there will be no attempt to revive it in any shape or form. Even then, past ex- perience cannot but make the Govern- ment cautious in .accepting any over- tares for peace that may come from the other side. India cannot afford to risk a repetition of the disastrous ex- perience that followed the IrwineGan- dhi Pact. —Calcutta Englishman. OTHER OPINIONS Home'Town Advertising Mr, Merchant, the newspapers from the larger cities near your community are 'coming into the homes of your own customers these days with adver- tising columns bursting with an- nouncements of real values. If you will go to your home town newspaper advertising roan he will help you with your advertising prob- lems and make your advertising just as appealing to your customers as: the "big city' advertising is. You, Mr. Merchant, have to keep that lead, Local advertising has the jump on advertising that conies in from the outside, by properly utilizing the home town newspaper columns con- sistently onsistently and with careful attention to the preparing of copy.—Kenton, Ohio, News Republican. Helpful Reading A fondness for good books doesn't lust happen. It must be 'cultivated in lie child, as well as in the adult who Aid not acquire it in its youth or host it in the transition from youth to ma- kurity. Monies with good libraries ;well-read by adult members of the family seldom sae the scene of juve- etilo'revolt against helpful reading.— Sarnia Can tallan-Observer, The World's Banker Elven improvident people are com- pelled to bo thrifty on the land. They \cannot inactual fact get In the e :d. f their resournos, for a hand -le -mouth ete Is impassible for ,them. Tho pro- iaess of fare iu;.l makesthe farmer lace his iovostments in the soil. ivory improvement eluent to hi`' land, every lain of seeti, every furrow, every deet One sorrow only in God's world has birth— To live unloving earth; One joy alone makes life a part of heaven— The joy of happy love received and given. Give_ me the heart that spreads its wings, Like the freed bird, that soars and ' sings; And sees the bright side of all things, Front Behring's Straits to Dover. It is a bank that never breaks, It is a store thief never takes, It is a rock that never shakes, Ali the wide world over. and unloved on No Change The many Americana who are con- stant readers and admirers of Punch had, naturally a moment of dismay when It was announced the other day that Sir Owen Seaman, who has been the editor for the last 26 years, was about to retire But the fears that a new editor might give us a new, twen- tieth-century, wise -cracking Punch, a Punch of studied irreverence and vule garity—in the spirit of some of Ito Contemporaries, notably in Germany and the United Staten ---are happily set at rest. Sir Owen's successor is likely to be E. G. V. Knox, the " blvoe" that has long been signed to some of Punch's most delightful bits of satire and parody hi prose and verse.-Bos- ipt Sransct, , tun • Nevi=r increase discontent by care - loss iecl. thoroughly conversant with the splen- did p1 m—did work for agvicul:ure being done at that institution, now presided over by Dr. G, I, Christie, The year 1873 ly appalling number of all letters which have been preserved in print, "I have heard a famous historian, after his third glass of mellow old saw its inception and on May 1, 1874, port in a collegecommon-room, utter the Ontario School of Agricctture was a fervent wish that the celebrities of declared open, thirty-one students be- the past had made it a point of honor ing admitted, Under but four presi- to burn all one another's letters," he dents the College has develeeed, until says. "Seeing that his domain was in all 85,855 Studeres have unrolled, modern history, even a literarycritic there being an enrollment of 568 stu- could excuse the outburst, Dr. John -1 dents in the agricultural courses for son wrote 300 letters to Mrs. Thrale,' the season of 1931-32. Since the in and Disraeli 800 to Lady Bradford, ception of the O.A.C., degree courses. whip there are in existence more than have been established and the study 1,000 of Edward Fitzgerald's. of hone economics and short courses "A prodigious mass of correspon- have been added, dence has to be examined by experts The Macdonald Institute, the gift of on this or -that phase of eighteenth - Sir Willi:1n Macdonald, was opened century history one of whom has as - in 1903, as a part of the Collage for sured me that he had read more than training in home economics. The Col- a ton of handwriting, much of which ege has also been of inestimable aid o as crabbed and crossed and very to farmers in the selection of test difficult to decipher. And a 'whole seeds, in fact, a new variety of barley morning's work, he added, spent in named "nobarb" originated there. The thus spoiling his eyesight sometimes O.A.C. looks also after the registra- failed to provide hint with a signifi- tion of beekeepers in the province, cant sentence," about 660 apiaries, with approximate- Hpwever, the author of the article ly 162;000 colonies, being registered. has his doubts as to whether the Much help was given by the College young swains of today are keeping in the corn -borer battle, while in the up the old, gracious custom of writing Canadian School of Baking the Trent love letters. Institute conducts commercial baking "They seem to prefer the tele - courses and does research and demon- phone," he observes, "because, as one. Motors Replace Horses tration work. Poultry research, soil young and adequately ardent devotee. Of Royal Mounted Police survey, animal husbandry, fruit grow- tells me, 'I'd sooner hear her voice than have to chaff her about mistakes in spelling.' There is something in that, and when television is perfected+, and the lover can hee him beloved as well as hear her, the walls of space and time will be down between the two neighbors, "Another swain insists that the writing of 'the old-fashioned love let-' ter' is really a dangerous practice. 'Two people don't see one another for a long time,' he explained, 'and write scores of letters cracking one another up in the most absurd way. And when they meet again neither conies up to the other's specifications, and the en- gagement is called off.'" •Winnipeg.—For forty years famed throughout • the English-speaking world as the Scarlet Coated Riders of the plains, the Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police at last have discarded their horses and taken to the motor car. Before there were dirt roads across the prairies, before the era of the railways, the old Northwest Mounted carried law enforcement, the Crown's justice, into every nook and cranny of the Western prairies. They did so with the aid of horses and their prow- ess as horsemen. Their ability to travel weeks and months living off the country, cut off completely from supply depots, earned for them the reputation of the greatest mounted police force in the world. New meth- ods of crime, new problems of law enforcement have changed all this. The photographs and paintings of the old scarlet -coated riders, astride their horses, is now only a relic of a North- west which is gone. ing, cold storage, grading of milk, killing of weeds and other features of the work of the school show the importance of C.A.C. to agriculture in this country, To the Guelph Mer- cury, which published an attractive special edition to mark :;lis Excel- lency's visit, we are indebted for many facts concerning this admirable insti- tution.—Toronto Mail & Empire. view Regime in Turkey Introduces "Family -111ames. Istanbul, Turkey.—Millions of Turks are racking their brains to choose family names fox' themselves while the Minister of Interior prepares a law to enforce this latest 'western reform. Any names may be chosen as long as they are consistent with Turkish customs. Heretofore family names have been non-existent in Turkey, thousands of women being_ simply "Fatimas' and thousands of men "Muetaphas" or "Husseins," Sometimes men have added names indicating they are the sons of a six -fingered man or a fish- moaner—just for distinction. Names must be chosen within six months after promulgation of the new laev. German Warship at Philadelphia For the first time prior to the world war, a German warship visit- ed Philadelphia, Seaman Herbert Batslaft of the Cruiser T(arlsrulie evidently enjoys the change of scene. Low -Cost Rations for Cows Economical cow rations that New Jersey dairymen can feed as one step toward making readjustments to meet reductions in milk prices are listed in a recent statement by E. J. Perry, extension -service dairyman at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Since the cost of roughage and grain constitutes from 50 to 60 per Cent. of the entire annual expense of keeping dairy cows, feed is the major expense which the owner can probably reduce with the least diffi- culty, Mr. Perry points out. For the dairy farmer who has such home- grown grains as corn, oats, barley or -aheatfi and plenty of • choice .alfalfa, soybean or "clover Tray -�^Mr ' earl "•'se` commends the following ration as one teat is economical and capable of stimulating high production: 1,000 pounds of a 20 per cent. ready -mixed feed and 1,000 pounds of corn meal, corn and cob meal, ground barley, ground wheat or a combination of some or all of these. This mixture contains 14 to 16 per cent. total pro- tein,'and, fed with goad legumes, is a balanced ration. Matches 100 Years Old Lighted at Centenary Dogliani, Italy.—Matches 100 years old were used to light candles and cig- arettes at a celebration here in honor of Domenico Ghigliano, their manu- f acturer. Dogliani credits Ghigliano, a native sen, with being the inventor of the. sulphur match. Similar -,claims have been made by others, but Dogliani is 'ice -convinced that it -bas erected .a monument to its townsman. The mayor produced the ancient box at a ceremony marking the hun- dredth anniversary of the invention. The first match broke into flame at the second stroke. Other honor guests were allowed to strike the remaining ones, all of which were good. Ghigliano was a poor chemist when he produced his first match. There- after he manufactured then in boxes. South Favors Soy Beans Raleigh, N.C.—North Carolina's greatest agricultural accomplishment in the last 25 years has been to in- crease the acreage planted to soy beans, in the opinion of Mr. C. R. Hudson, who has just rounded out his twenty-fifth year in farm demonstra- tion work in this State. Mr. Hudson believes that the introduction of the soy bean into eastern North Carolina and its use over the entire State has been of tremendous importance to agricultural development. When Mr. Hudson came to North Carolina in 1907 his first work was launched in a few, counties around Statesville, in the piedmont. From that limited beginning, the county agent system has grown to the point where there are now' 80 counties hav- ing farm agents. Leads in Farm Tree Planting Harrisburg, Pa.—Pennsylvania led the nation in 1931 in farm. forest planting, according to the State De- partment of Forests. Of the 25,500,- 000 trees planted on farm forests during 1931 in the United States, Pennsylvania planted 600,000 trees, New York was second with 4,800,000, Ohio third with 1,743;000. Fine Imposed For Posters London.—Fines were imposed in 'two cases recently in courts in Ox- fordshire and Montgomeryshire against individuals who had disfigur- ed the country side by the use of posters along the highways. In both cases court action was taken in this field of lawbreaking for the first time, Mexican National Railways Ban Foreign Employees Mexico City.—Indications that the National Lines of Mexico strictly will hold to the letter of the law requiring that only Mexican nationals be em- ployed except in technical and direc- tive posts, were seen in the decision on the appeal of a foreign worker. William Barlow, who was employed in the Jalapa, Fera Cruz, shops, ap- pealed his discharge after an accident: and asked for indemnity. The Fed- eral Council of Arbitration and Con- ciliation ruled against him, citing in the decision the argument that undet the labor law his post should have been given to a Mexican citizen. Airplane Device Is Tested Milan, Italy. — Successful test flights have been made here -with an airplane embodying pi-inciples those of the wind tunnel. • Air -is forced by a tractor propeller through' 'a hollow compartment in the fuselage narrowing toward the centre and wid- ening again at•the rear. The eltec: is to add to the driving force of th•. propeller. Population of China Peiping.—The Ministry of the In- terior has announced China'_ total population as 414,787,886, of whom 25,000,000 are under Japanese control in Manchuria, Iiangsu, with =34,- 120,000, is the most densely populated province; Ninghsia, with 1,4.10,0(0, is the smallest. May Sell Cigarettes Singly Rome.—Slot machines to sell single cigarettes to persons who do not wish to or cannot buy a whole package are being considered by the government tobacco monopoly. "I hear your wife insists on going to Monte Carlo? "Yes, site's niad os it. But I put my foot down absolute- ly." "So she's not going after *1l?e' "Well, not with inv consent.'* "What is meant by a squat gambler?"J One wtlto never tries to cheat 't1 police out of thltr rake-off,"