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Zurich Herald, 1940-07-18, Page 2Canuck Soldier Off To France Gets Mouth -Organ Lady Astor, American -born member of the British parliament, hands a mouth -organ to a Canadian soldier as he sails for France—one of the first contingent from the new world to join the B.E.F.—he didn't ..togs in France long. These Canadians had barely reached France when news of the armistice forced evacu- atfon of the B.E.F. VOICE O F T H E PRESS NOT MUCH FUN Hints for motorists: Watch the 7fed lights, the intersecting streets, the level crossings, the car in front and the car behind. After Oast they can enjoy the scenery. —Ottawa Journal. —0 -- MAY STILL SNORE At Pontiac, Mich., a court has granted a petition of a minister forbidding members of his con- gregation from rattling papers, whispering or making faces at the weather. .Apparently it will still be in order to sleep, snore or sough. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. THE HARDY PIONEERS Pioneer life in Western Ontario 120 years ago was a continual blitzkrieg against wolves, bears, famine, sickness, or cold. When -we have become as hardy as they were, we shall fear no invader. —London Free Press. —0— 'WORKING FOR EVERYBODY Next time the income tax folks emsle us who we are working for -we shall tell them for the instal- ment men, coal dealer, two banks, en insurance company, an auto- mobile dealer and the rest of the Vane for the groceryman. -Brandon Sun. Says It's Permissible To Split Infinitives School Committeeman Joseph Lee of Boston, Mase., thinks pehool children and teachers in 38oston should be permitted to split infinitives "any damn way they wish." Seek Travel Permits PASSPOR . . FILE A scene outside the passport office in Westminster, London, as *Webers awaited permits for children and relatives seeking to travel to Canada. The government la arranging to evacuate hundreds of children to the dominions. He proposed in a motion at a cornmiitee meeting last week that School Superintendent Arthur L. Gould be instructed to issue an order advising the teachers and pupils that split infinitives are all right. "Too often," he charged, "lan- guage is taught by a set of rules, rather than as a means of con- e -eying thought." The committee, however, de- clined to immediately act on his motion. Quebec Speed. Laws Changed Motorists Must Now Use Own Discretion on Open Roads Quebec motorists are allowed to use their discretion in the matter of speed when travelling on hard - surfaced highways where there are no dwellings or buildings, as the result of an amendment to the Motor Vehicle Act passed by the Legislative Assembly but "an un- reasonable speed," is forbidden. IN BUILT UP AREAS The bill which is now operative, also forbids a speed in excess of 50 miles an hour on hard -surfaced roads to which dwellings or build- ings have access. Motorists may travel at 40 miles per hour on mountain roads or on gravel roads affording good visibil- ity in a straight line, but must also slow down to 20 miles per hour on winding mountain roads, on curves, in commercial districts, in front of a,bools, at intersections and at the level railway crossings. It is forbid- den to pass on a curve or when climbing a steep hill. SIGNALLING REQUIRED Specific rulings will also be en- forced in connection with signals. The bill states: "Every driver of a. vehicle desir- ing to atop, slow down or turn on the road must make the following signals: Left turn: place the arm hori- zontally; right turn: place the fore- srm upwards; stop or lessening of speed place the arm downwards. Every driver must stop at every place where there is a stop sign. No More Coffee For Italian People Coffee is no longer available to Italian civilians, it was report- ed in a broadcast picked up in New York. Only the armed forces and hos- pitals continue to receive supplies of coffee, which are imported. Next to wine, coffee is the basic beverage of the Italian people. SCOUTING... One hundred Scouts and lead- ers representing six different troops of the Parkdale Area of Toronto paid their annual week- end visit to the 16th Troop of Buffalo, N.Y. Part of the pro. gramme was a sight-seeing tour, after which the Canadian boys joined the American Scouts in decorating he graves of Buffalo's war heroes. * * A field day programme for Scouts of the 1st Brant (School for the Blind) Troop of Brant- ford) was surprisingly like that of Scouts with all their faculties. Each patron ran a mile, using "Scout's pace" (alternately walk- ing and running so many paces). They erected a flagpole using five Scout staves and only four ropes, deciphered a message in Morse and treated a patient whose injuries were detailed in the mess- age, and finally built a fire and boiled a pint of water. The after- noon's activiteis ended with a campfire and singsong. * * * In formally thanking Ottawa Boy Scouts for services rendered during the recent big Tri -District Conference of International Ro- tary held in the Capital, Confer- ence Secretary Norman G. Fester declared, "we would feel incap- able of handling such a large crowd without the assistance of the Boy Scouts." * * * A composite troop of Kingston, Ont., Scouts joined some 200 Am- erican Scouts of the Jefferson Lewis district for a week -end "Camporee" at Grass Point State Park, N.Y. The Caniporee was one of a series of international Scout get-togethers of the adjac- ent border districts which began Iast year on the oecasion of the visit of Their Majesties. * * Timmins, Ont., Rover Scouts, under the direction of the police, proved so efficient in handling traffie during the recent North- ern Ontario Scholastic Track and Field Meet at Timmins that Chief of Police Gagnon is formulating plans for regular use of the older Scouts in handling the town's traffic problem. This probably will include directing traffic at the city's main intersections on Saturday evenings. World Population Increases Yearly. According to the figures of -the League of Nations, the average annual increase in population in the world is 30,000,000. Other estimates are 20,000,000 a year. Refugee Children Need Adjustment Montreal Mental Hygiene in- stitute Official Warns of The Heavy Strain Child Evacuees Are Under Change of environment under emotional stress subjects refugee children to an unusually heavy strain, in the opinion of Mrs. W. T. 13. Mitchell, director of the educa- tional program. of the Montreal Hy- giene Institute and a member of the executive of the newly -formed Quebec Provincial Council of Home and. School. "The satisfactory adjustment of refugee children to their new en- vironment in Canada demands a careful. correlation of home and. .school with the various ii.stitutions in the community which are inter- ested actively In child welfare," she declared. "However well Intentioned the parents are, good intentions alone cannot take the place of intelligent knowledge and understanding. This is particularly the case with strange children who enter homes under emotional stress such as will be oc- casioned by their removal from Great Britain to this Dominion. PROVIDE SUITABLE ENVIRON AIENT "It should be the duty of parents and particularly foster parents, to take advantage of all organizations M the community whose programs are directed towards providing suit- able environmental conditions and proper child guidance. With intelli- gent guidance, a developing child not only can but will learn to con- sider the rights and privileges of others as of equal importance with his own; he will learn to be social- ly co-operative and contributive; he will develop self -expressive, creat- ive interests and activities; he will learn to tackle the daily problems and difficulties he meets with in- telligent planfulness, efficient skill and perseverance. "Nut" Drivers Found Menace Ousting Urged; 15,000 Lives A Year Could Be Saved in The United States, Is Claim Lives of the 15,000 pesons killed in traffic accidents in the United States each year might be saved if "nut drivers" were eliminated with mental tests, the American Medical Association was told at its conven- tion. Agreeing with popular opinion, Dr. Lowell S. Selling, of Detroit. Mich., reported that mental examin- ations of traffic offenders in the re- corder's court of that city showed that many of them had just about enough sense to turn a steering wheel and step on the accelerator. The tests made on persons haled into court include a physical exam- ination and tests of reaction time, judgment of speed and distance, and color blindness. In addition, the of- fenders are submitted to mental tests, he said, and required to give their entire history in order to ob• Min their intelligence rating. "When intelligence is rated be- low normal a driver is obviously not competent to drive, no matter how well he may react mechanical- ly," Dr. Selling declared, because his judgment in an emergency Is sure to be faulty. As a result many licenses of drivers are cancelled. Solace Found In Gadening Working With Nature to Create Something of Beauty These are times that try men's souls — and faiths. Ideas and ideals which for centuries have seemed solid as stone dissolve and disap• pear almost overuigbt. The mind is left groping for any realities that will endure; for any fundamentals that remain unshaken, says the New York Times. In. such an emergency contact with the earth, with the cycles of growing things which follow pat- terns that remain unshaken even when capitals are stormed and civ- ilizations are over -turned, assumes a new importance, offers an anebor to sanity. CONTACT WITH 'TIE EARTH It is small wonder then that in such times of stress men and wo- men have always found a healing and stabilizing solace in garden- ing — a sense of security that may be unreasoned but is none the 1t as' effective. 'Such `a solace is not "es- cape," it is the fundamental reas- surance that comes from intimate contact with fundamental things. It goes back farther and roots deeper than the upheavals wrought by all of history's men on horseback. These have come, but they have gone; and the grass roots that a surging tank crushes beneath ;Its tracks remain, and will be growing green again when the steel plates rust and the driver has long lain forgotten. Those who have gardens, wbo have bad personal experience of this soul and nerve mending con- tact with earth and growing plants, need not be told these things. And others, seeking something to turn to for a measure of relief and of reorientation in these dark days, -will discover them, in ever•increas- ing numbers, as time goes by. And working, with nature, to create something of beauty, something of usefulness, Is the oldest and still the surest anodyne in an atmos- phere of well-nigh universal des- truction. Car Industry Will Change Chrysler President Says New Tax Will Alter Type of Out- putin Canada Sohn D. Mansfield, president of the Chrysler Corporation of Can- ada, Limited, said in Windsor last wecIt he believed the automobile industry would be able to adjust itself to conditions arising out of the new taxes on motor cars and maintain the volume of business re- quired. His statement follows: 1 :Li 104 soon to say with arsur- a:r':r w;oat :be fall effect of the new hu' -get wi3I be on the operations of the a:Immobile industry. I have every confidence, h<awever, that the industry will be able to adjust it- self to the new conditions and to maintain the volume of business necessary to efficient operation. "Industrial and commercial mo- tor transportation have been wo- ven 50 thoroughly into 'oar na';$onal economy that it is not reasenabte to believe that they will or :in be reduced below the level of their necessary contribution to na';iona1 efficiency under any eofiditi'?'i . "I would even hazard the :,,lief that the war economy will iu .:lyase rather than reduce the neeeeenity for motor vehicles, although the kinds of motor vehl0tfs re•4itired may be changed. A Tug -of -War To Bring Rain Burmese girls held a war at Mandalay for B dao !—to bring about a storm. Thee he-' lieve that ill -luck befalls any year when no rain falls immediately before the Thingyan, BLit -mese water -throwing festive:. Lock Your Car A. joy ride in a stolen. M 'aereaI automobile ended in dew::: for one of the occupants. This i; an unpleasant reminder, say; the Canadian Police Bulletin, f2.1: the joy -riding season is at has.' and that there are quite a few ;youths who are not abcve seizing any parked auto for the purpo e. One remedy is for motorists :c 'ock their cars when they Ieav_ :hem on the streets. The preLie:Ati.oa may prevent theft and Faye life.. El CI IF after rolling 20, you aro not satisfied that they are smoother and better cigarettes, we will cheerfully refund the purchase price. LIFE'S LIKE THAT Min PIP'S DIARY. , ?7 /- .-.. „,,,,,,,..7.,,,,/ A/ f//,%f By Fred. Ne-il'Ili : < [3 -r OPP stmt., 1l3 , b5 rrtd Nthu) "Just think, dear, no work for two weeks!!” REG'LAR FELLERS—The Art Critic .L'LR. TELL YOU HOW z C7c,T Ir r L SNEAKED INTO THE AUCTION AN' THE MAN SAID... waisimmamarf By GENE BYRNES NOW WHATTAM t OFFERED FOR `fl- t BEEYOOTIFUL, WORK OF ART WORTH ONE 'THOUSAND DOLLARS? 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