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Zurich Herald, 1936-02-27, Page 6VOICE CANADA, THE EMPIRE of the ,-- -� THE WORLD AT LARGE PRESS CANADA The Speed Demon The traffic accident statistics for Wash Columbia last year, as just announced by Inspector Hood, of the Provincial Police, show that 90 per- sons were killed and 834 injured by motor vehicles in our streets and our highways, and that this was "the highest total for any year since the beginning of the depression•'' The priaoipal reason for this toll of death on our roads, says Inspector Hoo$, was fast driving. --- Vancouver Pro- vince, A Friendly Act While the Peace Garden on the boundary is a perinattent and visible indication of friendship between the United Stales and Canada, there have been many other evidences of good- will., Among them have been the ben- efactions of wealthy people of the United States which have been offer- ed tu, Canada as well as to their own evuaatry—such as the assistance for higher education from the Rockefel- ler Foundation. The latest instance is a bequest by the American painter, Childe Hassam who died recently. He was an admir- er of Canada and had many Canadian Meads. The will disposing of his es- tate provides that all oil and water color paintings in his possession are to be given to the American Academy of Arts and Letters to be disposed of at private sale. Proceeds of the sale are to go to establish the Hassam Fund for the enoouragenient of painting in the 'Un- ited States and Canada, the income being used to bray works by artists of both countries. The pictures thus ob- tained are to be presented to public art galleries in the United States and Cat:aide, — Winnipeg Free Press, Rabbit's Fatal Rest A. jack rabbit was frozen solid while sitting upright, its ears back and eyes open. The rabbit, perched on its hind legs was fund in a ground depression in Regina cemetery, stiff as a poker, and. nearly covered with snow, a victim of the _old spell. Apparently the rabbit had been rac- ing a. rosy the cemetery. It stopped to rest and froze sitting upright. — Re - glee :Leader_pu,t. Contentment A man who had never been more than a mile from home, who had. ne- ver ridden in a taxi, street car, or a boat, who had never attended a wed- ding, a ball game, a movie or a prize fight has died in Maine, aged 76. And he way probably a good deal happier thee most of the people to whom such titins.; are commonplace. a' We Can Learn TA,,, Ottawa Journal claims any man who repeats half what he hears tali.`, tun notch; but the Toronto Star says the trouble is that some of them repeet twice what they hear. Well maybe so, but we still think our wives ears teach us a thing or two when they .it t.:r,:,ther. Some of the ladies do knew how to multiply by more than twe. airatford deacon -herald. GIRLS FORGET TO THANK YOU Male Student Says Women Often Prone To • Rude'ness With Escorts MONTREAL—Learning what it costs to finance an "evening out" should be part of the education of all women students, is the' 'view ex - They are different now. nxiaus to be understood, eertainly considering pressed in the McGill Daily by r~ it desirable, they have become good reporters, have been turning their once dry -as -dust fivaucial rigmarole into readable human interest stories. We have before us, for example, the addresses at the annual meeting of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Its general manager, Sidney IL Logan, shunning the usual statistics about trade and industry, gave an intensely interestiug exposition of a bank's role ill the field of credit and money. It was not an easy task he set himself, tut he did it efficiently, made the thing clear, we should say for the average intelligent business man. ItIore power to hint. So many peo- ple confuse money with wealth, and so many more talk the idle nonsense about banks creating wealth, which they don't and can't. Had they been told a little more often in the past, with a greater effort at simplification and less propensity for jargon, it would have been better for the banks —and for all the rest of us. —Ottawa Journal. They Still Croon There is talk across the border of abolishing the word "croon" but what is wanted is an effective muzzle on crooners. — Calgary Herald. Timely Warning Not long ago, while the city council of Pendleton, Indiana was in session, an explosion of gas took place and the roof of the city hall was blown off. The fact that the council was in ses- sion is surely an unnecessary detail, Winnipeg alderman should take warn_ ing. — Winnipeg Tribune. It Is Their Trust So far as the press is concerned it is itself in business and profits most when business in general is flourish- ing. Its own business, however, in- volves giving the people the news. in that it seeks to be fair. Otherwise it would certainly have a very limited circulation. The newspaper has regard for the reader, the community, soc- iety and journalism, and most news- papers regard this as a trust. — St. John Telegraph -Journal. Those Empty Front Seats rr b ib;y there will be no answer to^t ..iut•.�ti,an, but it should be ask - ea! 'Why do people prefer to sit in the hock seats at t•hurch?" As a rule the :'r•ett seats aro empty. Ushers ex- plain that a good many people_ ask to to a seat "not too far up," or sop.• place near the back" That leaves a great wide, space up in trent between the preacher and his people, and that in itself is sufficient to dolt the fire in the heart of any man. The ratan in the pulpit must feel at times as though he would like to come down and stand on a seat in front ,7f the congregation where he could be close to them. He must at times grow weary of the isolation to which the back seat distant has doom- ed him. If ]ie has some fire and brime. stone: in his message then it will have chance to weaken before it reaches the occupied pews, If ti dozen or 20 people in any church went up and sat in the desert, ed front seats we believe the ministtr would at once begin to preach better sertaion:;. -- Teterboro Examiner. group of leen undergraduates. "To -day too mane women take be- ing asked out for granted," one student commented. "They often look bored and are apt to be rude in this respect, even to thepoint of not thanking their escorts for the thoughtfulness and trouble involved in giving them an evening's pleasure. If these same girls were forced to ask the men out for a few months and pay the bills they would 'realize their privileged position." The comment was aroused by the fact that the co-eds have not' been in any hurry to avail themselves of the Leap Year privilege of doing the Man to Fit the Suit From a small town in New York state comes an interesting and though provoking story of local economy. the community was faced with e necessity of naming a new chief of police. The complete uniform of the previous incumbent, purchased at a cost of $200, was available for the use of the next, There were half a dozen applicants for the job. What was the municipal govern- ment to do? Its members decided fiu- ally to combine prudence with law enforcement. They named as chief of police the man who carate nearest to fitting the uniform, thus saving the price of a new one and getting a law enforcement official in a single move. —1iinpston Whig -Standard. Bankers Good Reporters A. sign of the tunes, and among the wholesome ones, is the change in. theannual annum statements of our bankers. gime was when bankers, whether through shyness or modesty or for reasons less admirable, were all tac- iturnity, If they spoke at all it was in 19, Argon which made their Business eeeta a inystery. THE EMPIRE Home From Africa _....,-,�.-.,•.-,—sem. Dr. George W. Crile, noted Cleveland, 0., Crile as they arrived inNew York City on the completing a brief research trip in Central Africa bagged 200 animals for experimental purposes. collection, a 14,040 lb. bull elephant, was shot by scientist, and Mrs, S.S. Majestic after He and his party The prize of the Dr. Crile. • asking, Scotch," and where the negroes ``talk "Coal -Black Celts" like the farmers — all huffy -`huffy." The Kipling character stretched Doan told the gaping Harvey that Cape Cape Breton the truth a point, though, when he Breton Breton was "full" of those negroes. HALIFAX, Canada—Rudyard Kip- ling's leen eye for the bizarre sel- Only a handful of Cape Breton blacks speak the Gaelic. dom spotted a more striking .bit of But they have conquered the da - literary material than they did in cult language as completely as they his discovery of Nova Scotia's might be expected to in small farm - Gaelic -speaking negroes. ing communities such as Whyco- For discovery it was. Few, even in comagh. And they come by it hon - Nova Scotia, knew the province held estly, for their forebears have been "coal -black Celts"—as Kipling called handing it clown to theist for gener- thezn—until he told of them in his ations. "Captains Courageous". And even These early Cape Breton negroes then, the scoffers were many. cane to Nova Scotia originally as They wouldn't believe. that the servants to United Empire Loyalists negro tongue could master the "vol-; fleeing from the United States. Later, leying syllables, the sighing cadent-' they drifted down to Cape Breton, es, the long wash and. roll of the where they took up farming. ,Gaelic," as one Scottish writer des-; Gaelic was an essential in the Scot- cribes the ancient language of the, tish communities of Cape Breton in Celts. And they stirred up a • minor; those days; and the negroes, per - controversy over the point. force, had to pick it up to get along. It was not until years later that: Today, En g 1 i s h is the common ! Kipling heard of it in London. He. language cd' these communities, but had been on this side of tthe Atlantic,, the Gaelic heritage still stays with knocking about the Gloucester we ter-! the few negroes who remain. front for nautical color, when he i A few years after "Captains Cour- heard of the black "Scots".ageous" rune out, a Nova Scotia ed - He brought then into his book i ueationist visited Why eocomagh and in young Harvey Cheyne's meeting met some of the negro Celts. He with the negro cook of the salt found they spoke the language like banker We're Here, fishing out of natives, even then. Gloucester. Dan Troop,. son of the I Meeting Kipling in London later, skipper, tells Harvey the cook comes from "the in'ards of Cape Breton, where the farmers speak homemade Where Humans Fail At one of the recent juvenhle lec- tures at the Royal Society of Arts a great many interesting thi:'gs were said about instinct in animals. Among the illustrations given was the happy case of the young spider. This gifted creature, just out of the egg, can ac- eompiish that miracle of construction —a, spider's web, without teaching or without hesitation. The thought must have occurred to many of the young hearers that the lot of the baby spider is much hap- pier than their own. How simple and easy life would be if only they too had been born fully equipped to cio even the most difficult things. In that tiresome matter of examin- ations, for instance, which has itself been under critical examination late- ly, what a different place the world would be if one knew beforehand the answer to every question that would be asked. Then there would be no need to write to The Times, as one young malcontent is reported to have threatened, because the examiners had been so grossly careless as to catch him out by setting the same questions precisely, two years run_ ning." — London Times. Toronto Maiden Prefers Rancher EDMOIvTON.*Interestecl baehe- lors tnay learn something to their advanta$e if they call on Mayor j., A. Clarke, who has been asked by a Toronto girl to assume Cupid's robe, l The girl, 24, and weighing 1.65 i pounds, wants a "northern rancher or a Mountie" for a husband. 21 A Neat Model .; Paris doesn't mean to drop her beloved black this spring, She compromises by letting a color in- to the scheme. For instance, white crepe accents the flattering neckline and trims the sleeves of this slenderizing black crepe dress patterned for today. Black and acqua is also smart. Printed crepe silk is very at- tractive and wearable for this simple to sew dress. With this have plain trims to match one of the colors of the print. Style No. 2547 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 -inches bust. Size 86 requires 31/4 yards of 39 -inch material with Gi yard of e() -inch contrast- ing. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, plainly, giving number and Size. of pattern wanted. Enclose 15e instamps or coin (coin prefer- red: wrap it carefully and .ad- dress your order to carefully) Pat- tern Service, '73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. he told of the discussion over his negroes. The author's reply was characteristic of Kipling's certainty of the factual material that went into his works. "Fools!" he exclaimed. "Didn't they know I would not put such a thing down if I were not sure of the facts?" Canda's Wheat Kings Wfrelan Wilford of Stavely, Al- berta, was awarded the champion- ship of the world for an exhibit of Reward wheat at the 1935 Interna- tional Grain and Hay Show in Chi- cago. His victory marks the 21st time in 25 years that the title "Wheat King" has been bestowed on a Cana- dian farmer. Following is a list of world "wheat kings" since 1911: 1911 Seager Wheeler, Saskatchewan Henry I3olmes, Alberta Paul Gerlach, Saskatchewan Seager Wheeler, Saskatchewan Seager Wheeler, Saskatchewan Seager Wheeler, Saskatchewan Sant Larcombe, Manitoba Seager Wheeler, Saskatchewan J. 0. Mitchell, Saskatchewan e. C. Mitchell, Saskatchewan G. W. Kraft, Montana R. 1), Wyler, Saskatchewan Major IT. G. L. Strange, Alberti J. C. Mitchell, Saskatchewan L. 1'. Yates, Montana Iierivan Trelle, Alberta C. Edson Smith, Montana Ed Edson Smith, Montana Jos. H. 13. Smith, Albtrta Herman Trelle, Alberta Herman Trelle, Alberta Merman Trelle, Alberta Frank Isaackson, Saskatchewan 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 John B. Allsop, Alberta 1935 W. Frelan Wilford, Alberta It is significant that in the four years in which the wheat crown did not conte to Canada it was awarded to farmers living in a state immed- iately adjoining the Canadian border. King George Was A War Casualty Britain's Youngest M,P, Malcolm Maanliilan, the youngest M.P.--he is 22, and 50 years young. er than the Father of the teepee, Mr, Lloyd .George—has taken a good look at the House since the general election, "I think I shall like it all right," he said cautiously.. He is going to be very busy, for, in addition to• Parliamentary duties, he is studying law, and has yet to `take his arts degree. But Mr. Mac- Millan is not a bit dismayed. He is going to take the arts degree at Edinburgh, and, unless Parliament makes it impossible, continue his law studies, Mr. MacMillan was "on the stump" before he was 20, and has probably done more public talking in two years than some ,members of Parliament have done in twenty. He is a singularly quiet, self-possessed young man, of medium height, fair hair and fresh complexion, with brown eyes. He wears horn -rimmed spectacles. He won for Labor the Western Isles of Scotland — a' constituency which he had to cover by motorboat as well as car,—Overseas Daily Mail, It is somewhat noteworthy that King George V was a war casualty.' When he was in France reviewing the troops in 1915 his horse became startled by the explosion of a shell, retired and fell upon hint crushing him severely so that he had to be ta- ken to the• hospital, It is said that even afterwards he had spasm of pain in his stomach. Then, again, at the Armistice services at the Cenotaph in Piccadilly Square, in 1928, • he stood with bared head among his people on an inclement. day, paying tribute to the fallen heroes of the Empire. IIe contracted an illness that confined him to his bed for many months, during which his life at times •huug in the balance. It was nearly a year before he recovered sufficiently to return from. Windsor to London. The significance of this is that on such occasions the dangerous prac- tice prevails of leen standing with bare heads, thereby exposing them- selves to the menace of severe ill- nesses which frequently prove fatal. It is a useless and senseless custom, and one which should be discarded. Many thoughtful ministers in con- ducting funerals during the winter season set the example of keeping their hats on while the cortege is be- ing borne from the house to the hearse and again during the services at the grave. This is preeminently sensible anis becoming. The notion that people must expose themselves to danger in obedience to an antiquated observance hi ridiculous, and the sooner it is abandoned the better it will be for those who attend such gatherings. The King's sickness should be a warn- ing, to the entire world. — Brantford Expositor. • Corn Judged Southwestern Ontario Show Featured by Big Entry List Chatham --- With 13 open and four special classes, and five sweepstake competitions, judging he the annual Southwestern Ontario Corn and Seed Show continued in the Chatham Mar, ket Building after a long session the other morning, The judges who are W.J.W. Lennox of Teronto, 13,13. Cohoe, of Woodslee and :T. W. MacKay of Ottawa for the cern, and Professor W. 3. Squirrell of Guelph, and S. B. Stothers of Arthur for grain awl seeds were met 'with a large number of entries and will he busy throughout the show. Payment of $8,262,415 To Wheat Pools Asked REGINA, -- Payment of $8,262,- 4:15 to the Canadian Wheat Pools by the Canadian Wheat Board is asked in a resolution to be placed before the Saskatchewan Legislature by Clarence Stork (C.C.F.). That Weasel Word Some way after the Toronto Globe, The Ottawa Journal and the Vic- toria Colonist—"after" ite point of time, and not at all in the quality of its detestation Itis respectable family newspaper desires to support them in their protest against the use of the. word "contacted." .. . It is to be noted that Webster, the lexicographer, admits the verb "to contact" to its pretty -nearly -all -em- bracing pages. Contact: verb transi- tive, says Webster means "to bring into contact" ---"too touch." Liter- ally it means pretty much what is intended to mean in most of the re- cent newspaper usage which evokes the protests here cited, You "contact" some party or other of the second part; you meet him and you have some other deal- ing with him. You question him, you find out what he is up to, you put your cards on the table and ask to see itis—you meet him or "meet up" with him, and you "proposi- tion" him. If. you are going to con- tact a gran, why shouldn't you pro- position hint while you are about it? ---why should you strain at your gnat of elocution when you have so com- fortably swallowed your camel? But mostly, as the word afflicts the sensitive ear in this recent us- age, it means little more than is ex- pressed in the good old Anglo-Saxon "meet."—Vancouver Province. Police Answering Calls Within Two Minutes TORONTO, -- The average elapse of time between a call for police and their arrival at a given spot was two minutes under the new police radio system, Sergeant Richard Poutttney, officer in charge of police eonenunicetions, told a gathering of the Institute of Radio Engineers at the University last week. The meet- ing listened . in on police calls dur- ing the evening while the guest speaker, .Professor B. de F. Bayly de- scribed their benefits. "The indulgence in grief is a blunder."—Beaconsfield. "Grief is a species of idleness "— Johneon. Farrn ; robierns Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell with the co-operation of the various departments of Ontario Agricultural College. 311.t.......110.1001111.1..01nian.nenrGLI•KaaseAosea*.h.tfaailMaiM10164•011101SIONWIIMP......*. .0.1.141.1056.111•01111 The business of farming is yearly becoming more anti More dependent upon facts that have been gathered re- garding livestoc)c and livestock manage- ment, crop production, soil management, disease and insect, control and business organization of the farming industry. Individual problems involving ane or more 01 these, and many other phases of agriculture, engage the attention of Ontario farmers from day to day. Dur- ing the time study fhem if Pt tdhs ttteost acute problems' rat met s may this culnnus secure the latest information pertain- ing to their difficulties. To Introduce this service Professor Dell has prepared the following typical problems to in- dicate the information which should be given in order that a satisfactory an- swer can be made. tf answer is desired by tetter enclose stamped and addressed envelope for reply. Address all inquiries to Pro- fessor Ilenry 0. 1301, Room 421, 73 Adelaide ilt. W., Toronto. Ontario. Question: R. J. Peel ---I want to increase my yields 01 Silage Corn. I have been growing White, Capped Fellow Dent, and manuring pretty heavily but I don't get as good yields as some I have seed, tiTy soil is prets ly heavy. What variety of 'Oats will mix best with O.A.C. 21 Bane ey and ripen about the same time. Answer — The Golden Glow variety of Yellow Dent Corn has given the best results for silage purposes of any varieties of corn which we've tested 'for central and western On.. terio. The Alaska acid 0,A,C. No. 3 vale ietles ripen at the stunt time as O.A.C. No. 21 barley and are the varieties commonly grown in On- tario where barley and oats are grown in mixtures for grain pro- duction. Prof, W. J. Sin .irrell, Dept, of Field Husbandry, O.A.C. Your soil may be running low in some of the plautfood nutrients, as Phosphoric acid, or possibly phos- phoric acid and potash, If you have a good supply of manure on hand, would advise you to supplement it with super phosphate (20 or 16 per cent). in 1935, a test was con- ducted on the farm of Mr. A. Mc- Kinney, Brampton, prominent dairyman, in your county with the following results: Treatment. Rate Yield G'n Ac. 11.4 ton Manure 10 ton 13,2 ton 1.8 ton Mainly 10 ton 20% s, phos. 250 lb 17,0 ton 5.6 ton 26c, s. phos. 250 Iib 14.5 ton 3.1 tion if you do not have a supply of fottilizer for the corn, addition of fertilizer carrying phosphate -pot- ash, such as 0-12-10 tar complete fertilizer, such as 2-12-6 or 2-12-10 used at the rate of 250 lbs. per acre, should give you more and better Ensilage, according to ex- periments that have been conduct- ed in Peel County. Prof, Henry fl. Bell, Dept. di'., t"t ell i strY. 0.11:.C.