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Zurich Herald, 1936-01-30, Page 6the THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA WORLD SCOUTS The next world jamboree for the Scouts will be held in Holland in 1937, says The London Times, It Will be the fifth gathering of its kind, the idea of bringing together the boys of the world having originated just after the Great War, when it was put forward as a gesture of thanks- giving for peace. The first meeting took place at Olympia in 1020, and it was then de- cided to hold a similar gathering ev- ery four years, The second jamboree was held in Copenhagen in 1024, the third at Arro'ive Park, Birkenhead in 1920, to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of the movement, and the fourth at Godollo, in Hungary, in 1933. An official of the 'Boy Scouts As- sociation at the Imperial IIeadquar-. rtes in London said that the exact location of the Holland jamboree had not yet been indicated, but a tele- gram had been received from Adinir al J. J. Rambonnet, the Chief Scout of Holland, saying he was now as- sured of the support of the Dutch government and other authorities,— Windsor Star. CANADA, THE EMPIRE PRESS • 68; and General Castelnau, 84. The. oldest survivor is a German, General von Maekensen, 86; while von Lu- dendorff is nearly 80, In Britain among the dead are Earl Haig, Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Oxford, Lord Haldane, Lord Curzon, Lord Carson, Admiral Fisher, Lord Jelli- coe, Lord Birkenhead. In Germany, von Tirpitz and I•Iindenburg are pro.. minent casualties. France has 'lost Clemenceau, Poincare, Joffre, Foche Lyautey, Nivelle and Manzin. These are the leaders, many of them generals, and they died, we be- lieve without exception, in bed. But one of things which is often forgot- ten • is that a good general should make a point, if possible, of dying in bed, for he happens to fulfill a more: important function than that of the ordinary soldier and, if he started to dodge shrapnel in the front of his lines, probably his courage would re- sult in thousands of unnecessary deaths through his inefficiency. --- Hamilton Herald - KEEP AN EYE ON THE GOLDEYE .Approaching Winnipeg, there is no more popular item on the dining car menu than smoked goldeye. An order of goldeye for breakfast is one mark of the experienced traveller, They can sometimes be bought, of Bourse in fish shops are far away as Ottawa, but Manitoba is the gold- ey e's native province. It is the trea- sure-trove of Manitoba lakes even more than salmon is of Saint John harbor or cod of Gaspe. It is conse- quently rather disturbing to hear from Professor F. Neave that the commercial supplies of goldeye are being severely depleted. Nature could cope with the modest demands of Indian fishermen who first dis- covered the art of smoking this fish of the prairie lakes, but it may be necessary to come to the aid of na- ture to maintain the supply of gold - eye up to the growing commercial demand, AUTO PERFORMANCE With the new model automobiles now on display in Winnipeg, the re sults of the recent tests in Philadel- phia are timely. Six cars from the law priced field were drive contin- uously for 100,000 miles at an av- erage rate of speed of 40 miles per hour. EXAMINATION NEEDED For some time past, The Mercury has emphasized and re-emphasized the necessity for some greater form of restriction of drivers' licenses for motor vehicles. Under the present system, almost anyone who can shift gears and turn a wheel -can receive a permit. The examination for li- censes is not stiff enough, and there is nothing in the nature of a physical test to determine the fitness of an applicant for a license. -- Guelph Mercury. PATHETIC SEQUEL A statement of the Ontario Motor Vehicles Department the other day revealed 41,983 persons had been in- jured in automobile accidents in On- tario in the last five years and 2,495 dead, These statistics, cold and mat- ter of fact, carry their own moral. But there is more. What about the irreparable grief brought to bereav- ed families, sometimes left without support. At Pakenham three were killed when a car crashed a train. They were survived by eight child- ren. In Ottawa death carne to Oscar Juneau, a prominent craftsman of the Royal Mint, when two cars crash- ed. Nir. Juneau is survived by his wi- dow and ten children. They were only stopped for greas- ing and a change of oil at the pre- scribed intervals, and for gas re- fills, No repairs or adjustments were made nor were valves ground or the carbon removed during the tests, Tires, however, had to be changed. At the end of the 100,000 miles the cars were still as shiny and as new looking as when they had left their factories. They had stood up under the gruelling roadwork with- out noticeable deterioration; or, at least, deterioration that could only be discovered from laboratory exam- ination, This constitutes an undoubted tri- umph for modern motor engineer- ing and mechanical construction. Four times around the earth, or there- abouts; that is what the 100,000 miles stands for! In the casting of metals, in their fabrication into ma- chines, man has become the wizard and magician in actual fact. And the wonders of modern metallurgical science far outshine the feats of the genii of Arabian Nights' Entertain- ment. --- Winnipeg Free Press, The moral is the old moral which cannot be repeated too often in its application to modern traffic—that eternal vigilance is the'price of safe- ty. It is never safe to take chances, to rely on the right of way, to as- sume that the other fellow both knows the rules and will obey them. —Ottawa Journal. EW ZEALAND .AND AVIATRIX AlRl lk`ES IN JNGLAAN fl z E .ray �,.'w`r�``�^, �bF 3fale t y. 41 xF• :t�'� �e2+$.'•y�£ y o c<"��t �� � sw° z+� Jean 13atten, 25 -year-old New 'Zealand avtrwho iayrorc recently fllew the oSo tngltlla tic fr Iter Afriica tai south America, is pictured .a she wrs greeted by the there. aboard the steamer, tsturias, from B.tenrg Aires. Spinsters' Club Gives No Welcome To A Leap Year SAN FRANCISCO. — The spin- sters' club gave leap year the razz last week -- not the glad hand. "Let the men do the proposing, if any," was the consensus of the'elub, an informal social organization, limited to 100 members. "I don't believe in. leap year pro- posals," said one emphatic young woman, "and I don't intend to take `advantage' of women's preogative in 1936." Most of the members could not be reached at home by telephone, the usual reply being, "she is at the of- fice, working." They do marry, ' however, despite any antipathy toward making the advances. Last year 23 new mem- bers were admitted to take the places of those who had marched altarward. Very few of the girls who founded the club in 1929 remain members. They preferred to write "Mrs." in front of new names. The club of which Miss Evelyn Salisbury -is president,. doesn't at- tempt to get along wihout men. .. It sponsors a couple of bachelors. as escorts. WHY CRIME GROWS Crime is increasing at such a fast rate in New York that the immediate appointment is recommended of 2,- 400 more policemen. The main trouble across the line consists of the fact th atso many legal delays are possible after convia'bion and that the vast majority of those who do finally land in jail are speedily paroled. Of convicted murderers only a very small percentage ever reach the extreme penalty and the entire administration of justice has become a ghastly farce with open perjury, securing dismissal after dismissal. The Lindberghs are wise in their de- termination to reside in England, where the law is the law and there is no coddling of criminals. -- The Brantford Expositor . DOG LICENSES It is difficult to see much justifi- cation for the system being suggest_ ed in some places and actually in op- eration of basing the amount of dog license on the weight of the dog. Size is not the most important thing about a dog. Seine small canines are notoriously irritable and will snap and bite on slight provocation, while the larger animals, such as the col_ lies, spaniels, Newfoundlands--ex- cept police dogs—are well known for their amiability and popularity as leets for ebildren. There is no sense tr reason in this dog by the pound Idea. — Niagara Falls Review, THESE WARRIORS DIED IN BED A London newspaper has just made a. list of important personages who figured in the last war, vim still survive, and one of those who do not. There are few 13ritishers left. They are, according to this newspaper, Lord (in war days Bear Admiral Sir David) Beatty, who is 64 years ;f age; General Sir Ian Hamilton, 82 Lord Allenby, 75. In France there is the comparatively young Marshal 'etain, aged 50; and Marshal Fran. c`aet d'Fsprey ''70; General Gouraud, THE EMPIRE DRIVING TESTS Some variation in the relative difficulty of the driving tests in dif- ferent areas was to be expected. The examinations are conducted by a great many different individuals. Each will have his own ideas of driv- ing efficiency. Each will "pass" or "fail," his examinees in the light of them. But it ought to be the steady aim of the Ministry of Transport to secure uniformity as rapidly as pos- sible by examining its examiners. What the driving and the non -driv- ing public would like is some reas- surance by the Ministry that contin4- uous efforts are being made to se-' cure that the local tests approximate' to a national standard. --- London Daily Herald. HONOUR FOR WOMEN The New Year's honours list is more than usually interesting be- cause of its wide recognition of the work of women in varied spheres of activity, In this respect it marks a Siraple Day Dress COLLECTS OLD TYPEWRITERS Milwaukee Alderman 11 a s Found More Than 230 Models • Milwaukee.—An alderman with a desire to commemorate Milwaukee as the birthplace of the typewriter has gathered what he said today is the largest collection of old typewriters. Here's the darling of tho mode —with casual comfortable shirt- waist. lines. It's so universally praeticala and so very becoming to women of all types. Beige crepe, so now and smart, made the original. In black, grey, aquamarine or red, it's also de- lightful. Or make it of light -weight woolen in dark or gray bright shade. Style No. 2990 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 88 and 40 -inches busts. Size 16 requires 4 yards of 39 -Inch material. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted., Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin prefer - COAST TO COAST His collecting hobby has taken Carl P. Dietz from coast to coast within a year and a half. He has ob- tained more than 230 different mod- els of typewriters, most of them in working order. Aside from an exhibit at the Nat- ional Museum on Washington, D.C., and two small ones in Germany, Dietz said the Milwauke public mu- seum collection' to which he contrib- utes is the only one of importance. Since C. Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden invented the typewriter here in 18'73, some 640 different kinds of machines have been marketed. Dietz sais his ambition is to obtain as many of them as possible. "I guess I've arranged for a life's work," he mused. Dietz feels that most of his finds were "lucky." Some were obtained. on tips, others by canvassing second hand stores and typewriter concerns. In San Diego, Calif., he spotted a Columbia bar lock typewriter in a store window. It brought back mem- ories of one just like it he "tried out" for his boss when he worked in a law office at 17. A rare old Pull- man commercial he found in a store near the Tucson, Ariz., railroad sta- tion. MACHINE FOR BEER "When I passed a typewriter shop or second hand store thereafter, I always asked to see their old type- writers," Dietz said. In' a Pittsburgh store basement, below a heap of discarded machines, the alderman found a Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first model manufactured by E, Remington and Sons tit Ilion, N.Y., in 1873. In Tex- as he obtained a Bennett, the small- est made for commercial use, in ex- change for a barrel of Milwaukee beer. An Odell, in which the type bar and platen run sideways, was uncov- ered in Denver. From Grants Pass, Ore., he brought a Yetman transmit ting typewriter, a combination tele- graph and typewriting machine used on the Great Northern Railway um til 1910. In Knoxville, he found an original Corona, the first folding typewriter. Under a stairway of a basement shop in Philadelphia, he came upon the Peoples typewriter, an early in- dicator model machine in which the platen pressed against the letters. a .comparison of recent case statisttee. In 1920 there were 1,032. cases result- ing in 04 deiaths in Toronto, Last year there were but 46 cases and eight' deatebs, These figures, however, show- ed a slight gain over 1934 when only 22 cases with no deaths were record- ed. The increase was In large degree r.'esiponsible for the committee's de- cision to hegin the survey. In other largo centres where tine Social Hygiene Council and its com- mittees have been active similar de- cliues are shown. In Montreal for example, the 1,254 cases and 115 tithe recorded in 1929 have beer reduced to 187 eases and 23 deaths in 1935. In Hamilton, where We diph- theria toxoid has been used as ex- tensively as any piaci in Canada, there has not been a single diphtheria death since 1920. dini the Magician (George Raft), Sir Henry Morgan, and General Sam Houston (Gary Cooper) are on Para - mount's film biography list„ Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, who innocently treated Lincoln's assassin and was imprisoned for it, is the hero of Twentieth- Century -Fox's "Prisoner of Shark Island," with Warner Baxter. Spanish-American war heroes appear in "A Message to Garcia." Norma Shearer as Marie Antoin- ette will be produced by Metro - Goldwyn -Mayer.. The "Great Zieg- field" (William Powell) is nearly completed. Katharine Hepburn's next hero- ine is Mary, Queen of Scots. precedent. Conspicuous among those red; wrap it carefully) )dhonored are Miss Christabel Parkedress your order to'Wilson Pat - hunt, for public and social work, and tern Service, 73 West Adelaide Miss Myra Ifess, the pianist, for her, Street, Toronto. services to music, --•- London Daily 6 21 Mail. Dominion - Wide Health League Canada Holds Upward Swing 8 Per Cent. Gain Does Better Than Most Other Nations OTTAWA. -- The mercury crept • higher in • Canada's business baro- meters through 1935. The inclustrial weather didn't achieve the sparkling clarity hoped for last New Year; but the profit sun was brighter. Reducing the trend to figures, the accepted records show a gain fon 1935 of about eight per cent. in gen- eral conditions. This compares with a 1934 improvement of 18 per cent, over 1933.- Comparing his affair* with those of other countries, Jack Canuck observes he did better than most of them; that in fact. only seven nations reported larger pick— up in industrial production than Canada and in these preparations for war comprised the chief stimu- lant in the distribution of credit and ~)'ages. Canada's domestic and foreign trade has been making satisfactory progress, having expanded in both exports and imports and brought in about $150,000,000 more than was paid out in the 11 months for which figures are available. Field crops were not so valuable ana wheat sales abroad in the first seven months of the current fiscal year were down about $2,500,000 and about 46 per cent. comparing the last two crop years.. But Canada produced and sold more lumber, newsprint, motor cars, base and fine metals, fish and live stock than in 1934. In satisfying the hone de- mand the clothing, shoe, textile and furniture factories and steel allied plants were busier than in the prey Plans teethe formation o.t a Health League of Canada, the inaugural luncheon to be held in Montreal, on January 31st, were announced by Dr. Gordon Bates, General Director of the Canadian Social Hygiene Coun- cil, in Toronto this • week. The new Health League, to be Dominion -wide in its activities, • is being sponsored by. the Canadian Social Hygiene Council. One of the first actions of the new organization will.be the absorption of the Toronto Diphtheria Committee, which, has already passed a resolution favoring. this transfer of its activities from the Toronto Social Hygiene Council. Under the new arraugement the Diphtheria Committee will he able to greatly expand its activities. The move will not interfere with the tlommittee's present plans for acity- wide survey to locate all the pre- school children not immunized to diphtheria. It has been estimated that there are some 40,000 to 50,000 such children in Toronto and every effort will be made to have them protected against the disease. Some idea of the work already ac- complished by the Committee in eli- minating diphtheria., is to be had from Film Biographies Planned for 1936 ious year. "Jack 1 wish you would put that Fifth Nocturne on the machine." "Eight in the morning is a trifle early for music, my dear." "I know, but the length of time it takes to play It is just right for boiling an egg." HOLLYWOOD, — A year of "big names" for movie goers was pro- mised for 1936. As 1935 closed, the lives of great hien—and women ---were reminding producers of potential profits in screening them. At least 21 movie biographies will be placed en produc- tion this year. At Warner Brothers studios, Kay Francis will create Nurse Florence Nightingale; and Miss Francis, Jean Muir, and Josephine Hutchinson will star in a filni based on the lives of Emily, Jane and Charlotte Lronte, Maul Muni will portray Goethals or Gorges in "Panama Canal." A life of Madame Curie is set for Jo- sephine Hutchinson. Lafitte the pirate awaits a swashbuckling actor, possibly Errol Flynn. Buffalo Bill, Victor Herbert, llou- Keeping At The Top .. Before 18,000 fans in Madison S naris Cardens, N.Y., Dong Island l University won 19tir straight game by boating Duquesne, 36.34. Dweller (»), Duquesne, and gran'v t2 1, 14.1., Lighting for ball,