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Zurich Herald, 1939-01-19, Page 6ews Parale By Elizabeth Eedy DRIVERS CLINIC: To sugges- tions that the 900,000 licensed "drivers of the province undergo a 'strict medical examination before being allowed out on the roads, Ontario's Attorney -General Con- ant answers that the Gocernlnent could not consider Such a program. It would mean, he says, a tremend- ous cost to the taxpayers. Dowel at Montreal, however, 14ILGill University psychologists propose a lees e:.pelhsive but per- haps more effeetive means of in- suring accident prevention— es- tabiishreent of a drivers' clinic, which should have the co-opera- tion Pf safety organizatioIls, uni- versity psychologists, automobile associations, pollee tra ie depart- ments, I uni,.'ipel ad]}linistr'ative oiler-, the Provin ial Government and in:hes:Ty. The clinic, they de- . claro, coeld as.iet drivers to dis- cover their wl'akner`^e.5 (wl:y they have a cidente) through tests of skill, etc.; would suggest; means of overcoming such weakne res. Out in B. C. every motorist has to undergo rigid tests. If he does- n't pass his exams in driving, he is forced to get out and learn all over again before his license can ' be renew•e:L * * * FORGOTTEN MEN: At Mun- ich, the Czechs were forced to surrender the Sutietenland to Ger- many for the sake of "peace". As compensation they were to receive a $150,000,000 guaranteed loan from Great Britain and French; an international pledge which "guaranteed" the new Czecho- Slovakia's territory. Thus far, only part of the loan has been paid over. The odds are that the remainder never will be, since the money would really go to Germany, not Czechoslovakia. And the territorial guarantee by the four powers .. . the maga- zine "Newsweek" points out that plans for it are about to be quiet- ly forgotten. Every indication is that Berlin and Rome will refuse to agree to guarantee the new ' frontier, and that neither London nor Paris intends to do anything more about it. Justice in a modern world! * * * * THE DRIVE EAST: White Russian General Denikir. who ' last week said he would not fight against his country, "white or red", knows something of Adolf ' HitIer's plans for the near future... He knows for the simple reason ' that Hitler wanted him to help him with them. It now becomes apparent that the details of the German push to the east (Ukraine) have long been in the minds of Nazi leaders. Czecho-Slovakia's capitulation pro- vided the machinery for putting it into operation, and Poland'a abrupt ;;wing from a pro -German policy to co-operation with Russia shows that the move is now in high gear, Diplomats expect the Uk- rainian drive to be intensified early in February—when Musso- lini's campaign for more power and territory in the Mediterranean basin is keeping France and Brit- ain occupied—and finally come to a head in March, Hitler's favorite time of year for springing a "sur- prise". THE WEEK'S QUESTION: — How much has Canada been spend- ing per year since 1929 for relief of unemployment? Answer: $100,- 000,000 approximately, on direct aid, works and projects for unem- ployment relief and agricultural distress. Growth of Teeth Depends on Food Vitamin D Is Necessary If The Bones Also Are to Develop Properly Vitamin D is the "guard" father of children in winter because it guards them while the sun is wan and clouds and storms sweep over the nursery. It is most abundant in fish liver oils and egg yolks, particularly so if the hens have had a diet Ugh in Vitamin D. Butter, ,salmon and sardines are good sources, ton, A little, not very much, of this vitamin neces- sary for good bone and teeth de- velopment as well as the preven- tion of rickets, is contained in liv- er, cream, whole milk and oysters, Calcium, Phosphorus, Too No amount of 1 itanhin D can build bones and teeth in a child's body without the help of the ;'(building stone" materials, cal- ' ilium and phosphorous. Plenty of ## s silk is essential to supply these r' iinerals. And a diet well balanced III all respects --plenty of fruit, fresh vegetables and eggs, as well as cereals and meats ---is always a boost toward the desired goal of btioyant health through childhood ilfid on into adult life, A. movement in T('t}gland seeks to .li(arb the "influx of foreign doe - Mr. Chamberlain Walks Abroad In The Park Prime Minister and Mrs. Neville Chamberlain seem to be about the only people in the park as the premier braved a recent London storm to take his daily morning walk in St. James Park. Not How Many B t HowGiod Quality Comes Before Quantity In Livestock Raising — Do Not Overstock Your Farm Many a livestock raiser has learned that quality should come before quantity. When a given line of livestock has demonstrated its usefulness on the farm, the temptation is to increase that line to a point where the profits will show up big. It is very easy, when operating with this idea in mind, to overstock the farm. We mean by that, to gather more livestock about than the farm and its equipment can economically .han- dle. The result, too often, is slow- er lower gains, scant pastures, disease and parasites and, -in consequence, less profits than were formerly .made with half the stock. The best andmost successful farmers and stockmen have been those who operated on a moderate scale, raising only such crops as they could take good and tnnely care of, and keeping only such live- stock around as their feed supply, their pastures and their' barns could safely accommodate. In ex- panding our livestock operations, it is well to keep in mind this fundamental principle and remem- ber that enthusiasm cannot make up for lack of good judgment. Dominion Has Revenue E rop Customs, Excise and Income Tax Down Last Nine Months The National Revenue Depart- ment collected a net total of $353,320,304 for the nine months ending last December 31, through its three divisions of customs, ex- cise and income tax. This compares with 3359,319,- 269 collected during the corres- ponding period for the previous year and is a net decrease of $5,998,965. Collections in detail were: in- come tax, $129,197,426; increase, $21,806,594; customs duties, $61,- 273,765, decrease $11,956,976; ex- cise taxes, $121,493,786, decrease $14,849,895; excise duties, 40,- 812,515, decrease $936,652; sun- dry collections, $542,812, decrease $62,037. Children Reveal Home Training Children young and old have to learn how to live and get the best out of life. This takes guidance, and nearly all children get it. The mother who reminds her children, explains why they should do their best, listens patiently to their problems, and teaches them order- liness and courtesy, is training her children admirably. She really needs no text books with big words. Fun, happiness, gradual training in duty and re- sponsibility; this is the best back- ground - child could have. Con- geniality between parents makes the best basis for all training. The adolescent will reflect in most cases, the home life and experi- ence of his earlier years. New Guinea airplanes are car- rying native passengers by weight, the charge being from 10 to 25 cents a pound, according to the distance travelled. ,r 6 O44 464-4 u'!Y•!•�R.O.1P^O-Os�'v. 4- *-O-r. VOICE OF THE PRESS •Y^04 4 R-0-4.4 a +4 PERMANENTLY? As one wit suggests, the world has been much quieter since Eur- ope swore off the brink habit.— St. Catharines Standard. LIKE MOST OF US Some resident of Lambton county has already reported hav- ing seen the first robin of 1939. Get out—it was a 1938 bird which had not been able to afford a trip south, --Peterborough Examiner. CLOSE SHAVE During the recent blizzard a chimney was hurled through a roof at Ridgetown into a barber shop. Luckily no one was in the bar- ber's chair at the time or he might have had a closer shave than he bargained for. — London Pres Press. TAKE OUR OWN MEDICINE Before we worry too much about what English people know about us we might worry more about how little we know about each other. There is a long way to travel before the Canadian peo- ple think as Canadians and not as provincial isolationists, and any move to remedy that should be a sound investment. — Hamilton Spectator. LET'S NOT BE OSTRICHES Canadian readers will note there is a Canadian Chamber of Com- merce in Shanghai; and that it has joined like organizations rep- resenting seven other countries there in lodging protests with their governments against the plans to make China a closed area to non-Japanese foreign com- merce. Canada is no longer a her- mit nation. The war in the far- off Orient is something of direct and practical concern to us.—Ed- monton Bulletin. WHY CANADIANS FLY One guess is as good as another to explain why a Canadian takes "Absent" Again Before leaving their Des Moines, Ia., home, Prbf. Her- man J. Blackhurst and his wife hunted everywhere for his glasses, but couldn't find them. Later in the morning,,w1 id ad- dlessing students at Drake Uni- versity, the professor ran across the glasses in his vest pocket. Interrupting the lec- ture, he absent-mindedly called cut: "Here they are, Mabel." LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "But it's not much of a bargain if they won't last longer than that." to the air like a cluck to water. The reason for supremacy might be traced to the environment of a Canadian town, preferably a small one, where the boys piny hockey to develop quick thinking, easy balance and initiative;; where the winter gives them stamina and the summer the chance to camp out "on their own"; where the ideal is action, not words. At any rate, Canada is the only place in the Empire (outside of Newfoundland) where hockey is a, natural phenomenon, This may explain why Canadians •are better natural flyers than such up-and- coming folk as the Australians or the South Africans. — Winnipeg Tribune. Sixteen Dutch scientists are touring South Africa. ROYAL ,a ,1't Y( " ' , General Statement, 3Oth November, 1936 L.1AaiL,i`tC1 Capital stock paid up .......... $ 35,000,000.00 Reserve fund $ 20,000,000.00 Balance of profits carried forward as per Profit and 2,721,409.82 Loss Account ................... ..........w ..• Dividends unclaimed able 1st Dividend No. 205 (at 8% per annum), pay December, 1938 $ 22,79.82 16,831.66 700,000.00 23,438,241.48 Deposits by and balances due to Dominion Govern- $ 1,446,609.61 meat Deposits by and balances due to Provincial Govern- 9,001,230.56 Govern- ments Deposits by the public not bearing interest 356,526,649.64 Deposits by the public bearing interest, including interest accrued to date of statement 422,500,481,66 Deposits by and balances due to other chartered 278 077.25 banks in Canada Deposits by and balances due to banks and banking correspondents in the United Kingdon and 14,355,706.28 foreign countries Notes of the bank in circulation , Bills payable Acceptances and letters of credit outstanding Liabilities to the public not included under the fore- going heads $ 58,438,241.48 804,108,756.96 26,396,638.74 46,627.40 18,532,001.88 642,445.14 $9h8,054,711.61 ASSETS Gold held in Canada .. $ 12,979.82 Subsidiary coin held in Canada......... ....... 1,314,935.16 Gold held elsewhere 323,479.96 Subsidiary coin held elsewhere ...-....... • . 3,035,810.57 Notes of Bank of Canada ............... 12,093,077.75 Deposits with Bank of Canada 60,949,061.65 Notes of other eharteredebanks 1,273.185.81 Government and bank notes other than Canadian22,994,508.22 $101,997,038.93 Cheques on other banks $ 26,394,958.81 Deposits with and balances due by other chartered 4002 09 banks in Canada Due by banks and banking correspondents elsewhere 71,891,264.92 than in Canada Dominion and Provincial Government direct and guaranteed securities maturing within two years, 106,368,3ii.t+1 not exceeding market value Other Dominion and Provincial Government direct and guaranteed securities, not exceeding market value Canadian municipal securities, not exceeding market value Public securities other than Canadian, not exceeding market value Other bonds, debentures and stocks, not exceeding market value Cali and short (not exceeding 30 days) loans in Canada on bonds, debentures, stocks and other securities of a sufficient marketable value to 12.964 423.50 cover Call and short (not exceeding 30 days) loans else- where than in Canada on bonds debentures, stocks and other securities of a sufficient market- 7,651,625.32 able value to cover 98,290,225.82 153,333,715.19 7,687,405.60 20,924,704.31 34,019,951.18 Current loans and discounts in Canada, not other- wise included, estimated loss provided for, ....... 5198,202.903.27 Loans to Provincial Governments 1,159,796.12 Loans to cifaes, towns, municipalities arid school districts Current loans and discounts elsewhere than in Canada not otherwise included, estiated loss provided for m 101,629,915.30 Non -Current loans, estimated loss provided for....... 2,704,226.83 Bank premises, at not more than cost, less amounts written off..... Real estate other than bank premises Mortgages on real estate sold by the bank Liabilities of customers under acceptances and letters of credit as 18,532,001 83 per contra Shares of and loans to controlled companies 3,787,881.34 Deposit with the Minister of Finance for the security of note circula- tion 1 475,400.00 Other assets not included under the foregoing heads, . -., 506,461.16 18,848,355,65 $543,237,400.88 322,545,200.17 14,756,029.06 2,473,530.44 751,206.68 $'108,064,711.61 NOTE:—The Royal Bank of Canada (Frame)) has been incorporated under the lawn of France to conduct the business of the Bank In Paris, and the assets and liabilities of The Royal Bank of Canada (France) are included in the above (general Statement. M. W. WILSON, S. G. DOBSON, President and Managing Director. General Manager. AUDITORS' REPORT To TH9 SHAREHOLDERS, THE ROYAT. BA.NlC or CANADA: We have examined the above Statement of Liabilities and Assets as at 30th November. 1938, with the books and accounts of The Royal Bank of Canada at Head Office end with the certified returns from the branches, We have chocked the cash and the securitim representing the Bank's investments held at the Bead Ounce et the close of the fiscal year, and At various dates during the year have also checked the cash and Investment securities at several of the important branches. We have obtained all the information and explanations that we have required, and SD our opinion the transactions of the Bank, which have come under our notice, have been within the powers of the Bank. The above statement is in our opinion properly drawn up so as to dleclose the true condition of the Bank as at 30th November, 1938, and it Is as shown by the books al the Bank. 31. OGDEN. HASKELL, C.A., 1 of Haskell. Elderkin & Company l Auditors. 3AS. G. ROSS, C.A., J( of P. S. Ross B; Sons Montreal. Canada, 1recember 20, 1938. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT Balance of Profit and Loss Account, 30th November,4 1937 $ 2,325,176.14 Profits for the year ended 30th November,( 1938, after providing for Dominion and Provincial Govern- ment taxes amounting to $1,201,768.36 and after making appropriations to Contingency Reserves out of which Reserves provision for all bad and doubtful debts has been made 3,696,233.68 3 6,031,409.82.1 APPROPRIATED AS FOLLOWS: Dividend No. 202 at 8°% per annum . , .... ., $ Dividend No. 203 at 8°f per annum Dividend No. 204 at 8� per annum. , . .... Dividend No. 205 at 8 ° per annum, , .. . «..., , Contribution to the Pension Fund Society... ..... Appropriation for Bank Premises........ ....... Balance of Profit and Loss carried forward....,««... M. W. WILSON, President and Managing Director. Montreal, December 20, 1938. 700,000.00 700,000.00 700,000.00 700,000.00 2,800,000.00 300,000.00 200,000.00 2,721.409.82 $ 6,021.,409,82 S. G. DOBSO N�� General Manager. WONDERLAND OF OZ No one can say that Uuph was not brave, for he had determined to vis- it those dangerous creatures, the Phanfa.9ma who resided upon the very top of the dreaded mountai'n of Ph:edntastico, The Phanfasms were herbs so dreaded by mortals end by immortals alike. that no one had been near their mountain home for several thousand years, yet General Guph hoped to induce them t . i 1 t pllix',Ipili}nk pagaihst the good and ('rllph 1.I(enV' very well Ih111 lite l'hanf,tattla were almost as (longer - 011s 1" (110 gnomes as they Wt'It. In the (mites, but he thought ItimFc•11 so clever that he believed he ,miid manage 1liese 'strange creatures 50(1 matte them obey bin}, and there 5 no doubt al all tTlat 11 hr' a nnitl • MO. the servire aw of the. 1'hatlfn-a:. their tremendous Power. nitilr•rl to the strength of the (lrnr•lr•ytv',us and the cunning of the W1.(tn-i+w, would doors} the Land r.1 r1z to hits°. tole destruction, By L. Frank Baum So the old genome trudged along the wild paths until ht came to the big gailey that encircled the (noun- thin of Phantastico. This galley was filledto the brim with red hat mol- ten lava, in which swam fiery ser - penis and poisonous salamanders, The hent and the p0lsonou0 smell nhir'h arose from this were both so unbearable that even birds hesitat- ed t0 fly over the gullet', but circled away from the living • kept Now (Gunn Iwri 1 .rued ,lu1 long lire line many inial; e dreaded I'haril•n,.fts au he bud i enI d of these barriers or i melted lava. Ile had also been laid that there was at narrow bridge extended across Oft molten lava In one 1t1 l'e, by which bore 000rd cross over to the mountain so he walked along the edge until he found the bridge. It was a single arch of grey stone and lying flat upon this bridge wus, n se'.n1)01 alligator, seemingly (fist asleep.