Zurich Herald, 1939-02-02, Page 6News s
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By Elizabeth Eedy
ESCAPE: It's next to impossible
for a German to get out of Ger-
Many with enough marks in his.
1 ecket to start a new home in an.
Other country. He's allowed to
,gorry abroad just enough money
for a good holiday, no more.
Now comes to our ears the story
mf a clever man who outwitted the
agents of Hitler and escaped from,
Germany forever, taking all his
money with him. How did he do
"t� He sold his properties, pur.
', cased bonds (negotiable in Great
3ritain) with the proceeds, made a
record of the numbers of the bonds,
Then took a holiday trip to England,
In London he contacted a firm of
bond dealers, told them his story.
The firm asked for a duplicate
record of the numbers of the
bonds, sent a lawyer back into Ger-
many with our clever man. The
numbers checked, our friend lit a
match to the bonds in the presence
of the lawyer who later certified
that they had been destroyed
by fire. Over in England again, the
triumphant fugitive was reimbursed
in the total amount of the bonds.
And life began anew.
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GREEN LiGHT: A Canadian
judge recently ruled that a pedes-
trian who starts to cross the street
when the light is green has the
right of way till he gets to the
other side. rezat'dle ss of whether
the light changes to red in the
mea itime or not. That's one to re-
member, motorists. But it pedes-
trians stand too rigidly by their
tights in the matter, they are likely
to run into trouble or be run.
Into,
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FREEDOM'S A GIFT: "I have
taken the veil for democracy" last
-week declared former Czech Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, Jan Mas-
aryk. son of Czechoslovakia's foun-
der. Sad but not bitter at the fate
of his beloved country. be has come
to this continent to do his part in
saving what is eft of democracy in
the world today. Tie is devoting
the rest of his life to servine, the
cense of freedom.
Addressing a Toronto audience
he said: "The only thing that can
save the world now is to make peo-
ple understand that freedom is a
great gift. We must do everything
we can to preserve it."
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FALLEN AMONG THIEVES: We
expressed the opinion last week
that France is certainly in for it.
That stronghold of liberty and
democracy on the continent of
Europe is gradually being encircled
by a ring of thieves and black-
mailers. The day will soon arrive
when her position is intolerable.
At the moment, France is report-
ed to have agreed to do nothing to
prevent a Fascist victory in Spain
—in exchange for a German pro-
mise to dissuade Italy from taking
slices of France's African empire.
What a promise and what a bar-
gaint
Czechoslovakia first. France next
will be sold down the river. But
she will have helped to sell herself.
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THE WEEK'S QUESTION: What
does the Federal Government's new
relief program involve? Answer:
Starting April 1 the Dominion will
pay 40 per cent. of direct relief
payments (instead of 30 per cent).
Each province will be required to
pay at least an equal 40 per cent.,
and the balance will be paid by the
municipalities. Under the proposed
agreements the Dominion Govern-
ment will provide for a sharing of
the cost of aid given to transients
on a 5O-50 basis with the provinces.
On the strength of the program
newly tntnolticcd, Canadian cities
have already started feeding the
jobless single within their gates.
otde?'s New Study
Thirty 'Yards Long
Daring Flyer Returns With Russian Bride
Hack on British soil following a daring flight into Russia to bring home
his wife from whom he had been separated for four years, Brian Grover
is pictured here with Mrs. Grover as they reached London. Grover
made headlines a few weeks ago by making an unauthoized trip to the
Soviet in a dilapidated old plane. He was detained for six weeks and
after paying a fine was allowed to leave the country accompanied by his
wife, born a Russian. Grover met his wife while doing scientific work
for the government of Russia.
Walls Are 32 Feet I-Iigh in the
German Fuehrer's Office —
No Pictures, Few Books
Nine pencils in different colors
lie on Adolf Hiller's leek in his new
Chancellery study, probably the lar-
gest stndy Frain+.aiue(T by any ruler.
There is also a large magnifying
glass, indic:lting intensive study of
maps. There aro no pictures but
the books for Baily use including
Herr Hitler's own "Main Kampf,"
Hans Frank's "Book of German
Law" dirootories of the Reichstag,
,government offices and youth
.groups, and -- topmost --- a volume
on British and German lines in the
World War. The room is 88 by 45
feet and 32 fet high. At one end IS
a round table with chairs and sofa
under a Lenbach portrait of Bis-
marck. The desk is at the other
end. A. bust of the late President
Paul von Hindenburg is in one cor-
ner.
Owls Creep Up
On Their Prey
Once the Bird's Talons Have
Fastened On Its Victim There
Is Small Chance of Escape.
Owls slip up on their prey on
silent wings—the feathers being
fringed with down to render them
noiseless. Once the bird'° strong
talons have secured a grip on an
animal's flesh, the creature sel-
dom escapes.
Birds are able to see at least
100 times as well as can human
beings—yet they cannot see the
color blue.
Half the weight of a bird con-
sists of the muscles that move the
wings.
Consume Small Creatures
As many as 3,000 skulls of
mice, rats and gophers have been
found underneath the nests of
barn owls. These birds consume
small creatures in their entirety„
later coughing up the bones and
fur.
Of all living creatures, birds
possess most active respiration and
require the most oxygen. The roe.
son is that the air they inhale is
sent from their lungs into pockets
surrounding their internal or-
gans, and even into the inside of
some of their bones.
Mrs. Sarah Adcock, of Wooton,
blttgiand, 105 years of age, took
her first trip in an airplane a few
Weeks after ber, first ride in an
�t6relobile and her first talk on
i •>elephone.
Three Millions
B1 ing Sp,w. at
Northern Ro .ds
Ottawa Is Paying Half the Cost
Of Work On Northern On-
tario Highways This Winter
—Trans -Canada Links.
Three million dollars is being
spent this winter on Northern On-
tario roads, chiefly on the Trans-
Canada Highway from North Ilay
to Sault Ste. Marie and roads run-
ning north from it, Ontario high-
ways Department officials report.
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THE PRESS
EXCEPT MONEY
A farmer's wife, after looking
over a new recipe book, expresses
the opinion that it is possible to
ntako almost anything out of eggs,
except money.-1Vionctor. Tran-
script.
Completed March 31
Most of the projects are under
way. All must be completed by
March 31 under the terms of two
agreements with the Federal Gov-
ernment covering winter relief
work up to that date.
Clearing and grading, involvingr
the elimination of hills and curves,
constitute the chief works under
the agreements with the Federal
Government. An advantage of do-
. ins this work in the winter is ilia*
cleared 'brush can be burned with-
out danger of causing forest firs.
No permanent surfaces will be laid
in the winter months.
Clearing And Grading
The Highways Department esti-
mated
that upwards of 100 miles .of
the Trans -Canada Highway be-
tween North Bay and the Soo is
ready for permanent surfacing any
time, a first class roadbed having
been laid. No decision has been
made on whether any paving is to
be done this year, it was stated.
You Can Sleep
0 .' Either Side
TRY THE RURAL AREAS
A Toronto woman has written
to Vancouver for a husband. The
situation in Toronto probably is
the same as in Guelph. the dear
lady has found out all the nice
men are already married,—Guelph
Mercury.
AND THE DOUGH'S ALL SPENT
As the public accounts of Ontar-
io are not distributed until the
Legislature meets, and it wi11, as-
semble late this year, the accounts
will be 11 months old before any-
one but members of the Cabinet
see them.—Wodstock Sentinel -Re-
view.
DRIVERS WHO FALL ASLEEP
It may be surprising to learn
that drivers who fall asleep at the
wheel are the cause of more than
70,000 automobile accidents annu-
ally. It pays to have all senses
alert when in charge of a motor
car.—Chatham News.
BETTER LOOKED AFTER
A very potent fact which re-
strains emigrants from leaving
Great Britain to risk ventures in
the Dominions is the social secur-
ity measure in effect over there.
Unemployment insurance and old
age pensions are the main bene-
fits which are not offered in all
British Dominions:—Brandon Sun.
It was long held that right-
handed people generally sleep on
their right side, while left-handed
people go to sleep on the left side.
Careful experiments which have'
been carried out recently show
that this is not really the case.
When 150 right-handed persons
were examined it was found that
there was no great preference for
sleeping on one side or the other,
although in the case of left handed
people the majority preferred the
left side.
When, in the course of experi-
ments, sleepers were asked to go
to re..t so many nights on their
habitual side, it was found that
they got to sleep more easily when
on their normal side than when
they were in the unusual position.
The doctors, therefore, feel that
people, whether they be grown-ups
or boys or girls, should make a
practice of sleeping on the side
which they usually favor.
WONDERLAND OF OZ
SPORT AND CRIME
Juvenile crime in Lethbridge
has diminished perceptibly. This
year there have been only 20 ju-
veniles in court so far as against
58 last year. This, we have no
hesitation in saying is greatly due
to the encouragement given boys
by the facilities provided by com-
munity playgrounds and skating
rinks and the interest taken in ju-
nior Hockey Association, the ex-
ecutive" of which is composed of
adults.—Lethbridge Herald,
Nonagenarians
For 24 years, C. G. Gabb has
been keeping a record of the death
notices published daily in The
London Times. During that per-
iod, reports Gabb, 9,781 persons
passed 90 before dying—and most
of the nonagenarians were mar-
ried women. The year 1938, when
489 persons over 90 died, was
typical of that total: 154 were
men and 335 were women, 213 of
them married.
Garden tib; f Eden
`t< p
ay Grow A pleS
New Hope For Arid Eastern
Land I:, Seen In The Giant
Reservoir Being Build In Iraq
By British Engineers.
Chemical experts assure the
British Government that if the
worst came to the worst the
people could be fed on tablets
which would provide everything
necessary except bread and water.
Deer Leaps Into
Office By Window
Police of London, Ont., were
called at 4.30 one morning last
week to arrest a new kind of
burglar, a 125 -pound deer that
leaped through the office win-
dow of the Leonard Foundry,
when startled by early morning
noises.
"We received a call from the
night watchman about 4 o'clock,
and he said, 'You may not be-
lieve it, but a deer just jumped
through the window of the of-
fice,'" stated Sergeant Percy
Last. P.C.'s W. Clipperton
and Charles Shipley were des-
patched with the black maria
to remove the frightened deer
from its new found sanctuary.
It required four men to capture
it and place it in the police
transport, in which it was taken
to Pond Mills and released.
The owl -man's round eyes blink-
ed fiercely upon the intruder. "'What
aro you doing here?" he demanded,
shaking his club, "I've come to see
the First and Foremost Phantasm
of Phentantico," replied the General.
F.e did not like the way this crea-
ture looked at him, but Atli was not
afraid. "Ah, you shn.1l see him," the
Mau said with a sneering Ian 11.
"The First and Foremost shall "w
o ,e. upon the best way to punis.
nx.+�
"Ito will not punish mo," retnrne,l
Cluph, calmly"'for 1: have come here
to do him and his poopio a sere fav-
or., Lead on and take me ,dlrectlY
to your master, The owl -matt rais-
ed his club 'with a threatening ges-
ture. "It you try to escape," h
"beware"--, 'bit here the Go..ot'al
Interrupted him.; "Store Yonr
threats," he said, "and do not he
impertinent. x. will have You sev
er1''dly punished. Leaden and lcoop
silent,'
Women and men may pick ap-
ples once more in the Garden of
Eden when water flows into the
arid country from a giant reservoir
built by British engineers.
The Kut Dam irrigation project,
designed to bring under cultivation
a great tract of land between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers, tradi-
tional site of the land from which
Adam and Eve were expelled, was
completed New Year's eve.
Dam Across Tigris
A 1,500 -foot dam across the Tigris
will send water down a 23 mile
canal into the Shatt-el-Gharraf riv-
er at all seasons of the year. In
addition locks will permit vessels
to voyage along the Tigris between
Baghdad and Basrah.
Work on the project was started
in December, 1934, with construc-
tion of workers' camps and actual
building of the dam and reservoir
begun in June, 1935. As many as
2,500 Arabs and Kurds labored day
and night removing 1,600,000 cubic
yards of soil from the reservoir
and placing more than 250,000 cu-
bic yards of concrete in the giant
forms that shaped the dam.
In 1936 the highest flood ever
known in the Tigris delayed work.
Laborers worked under conditions
varying from freezing in winter to
125 degrees in the shade in mid-
summer.
Hundreds in Berlin wore waste-
paper baskets over their heads on
"Pedestrians' Day" to draw atten-
tion to the carelessness that often
leads to fatal accidents.
Nazis Inspired
�►�'CF'slambs
Propaganda Minister Goebbels,
itt an exposition of German aild
Italian contributions to world e#O.
gress this . week reminded 'ifs'
away living observers who insult
and criticize authoritarian states"
that "America was discovered by
an Italian." •
Goebbels spoke before a concert
inaugurating closer radio co-opera-
tion with Fascist Italy—the "Roine-
Berlin radio axis" as he put it.
Goebbels said "the worid'of today
is not imaginable" without German.-
Italfttn aeeomplishments.
"Not imaginable" Without Thern
` "Books and newspapers can be
printed because Gutenberg invent-
ed the ari cit The wire-
less for all time is connected with
the name of the Italian, Maroons.
The first combustion motors were
made by the Germans, Benz and
Daimler," he summarized..
"Tho old and new world have
taken possession of these accomp-
lishments and benefit therefrom."
Sets World Record
With Model Plane
John T. Dilly Galt, model
aeroplane designer and builder,
has been advised he broke a
world's record for model planes.
At the Canadian champion-
ships in Toronto last Septem-
ber his outdoor stick model
stayed aloft four minutes and
twenty-two seconds. He lop-
ped sixteen seconds off the
world's mark. The Federation
Aeronautique International of
Paris has now recognized this
as an official world's record.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
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By Fred Neher
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"Why Mn w —_... rdont'cha take the striped one . , . It'll make you look tailor.'
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By L. Frank Bawl')
"Chis Guph was really a clever ras-
cal, and It seems a pity he was so
bad, for In good cause he might have
accomplished much. Ire realized
that he had put himself into a dan-
gerous position by coming to this
if hepshomwedaifea5 but he wast lost, so
host adopted
e, The Wisdom . oer rs this
plan molts soon evident for the
Phantasm 'With the owl's head turn-
ed ,and led the way, up the moun-
'Coni.
At the very top of the path with
a level platin upon whish were heaps
of rook that at first glanve seemed
solid, but on looking closer (Iuph
riscoverad that these rock heaps
wero dwellings, for tarn had an op-
ening. Not a person was to be seen
011lel& the melt Ruta M1 was sit -
ant. The otvl-man led the waY
among the dwellings to one stand.
ing in the ventre. Ouiskle thew arra
tth
that Ie ]taliicd gave
eco-t7w hwall