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Zurich Herald, 1936-04-16, Page 6Vc. ICE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA, • THE EMPIRE of the PRESS CANADA WHAT WORRY DOES There were 39,106 patients on the register in fifty-six mental' hospi- tals in Canada on December, lst 1934. This was an increase o 2,052 over the same date of the previous year. The rapid increase in the number of patients has seriously taxed the capacity of the mental in- stitutions in nearly every province. Normally, it would be expected that an augmentation of patients would correspond with the increase in the population. However, the increase must in some respects at least be traceable to the industrial and fin- ancial depression. It is interesting to note that of a total of 6,403 admissions in 1934, 8,399 were dependent, 2,253 were marginal and 640 were comfortable. These facts should tend to show -wrhat part worry places in the bring- " ing on of mental illness. It is also interesting to note that 4,051 patients were from urban centres, while 2,347 were from rural sections. This would seem to be another indi- cation of the part loss of employ- ment has played in the mental health of Canada.—Oshawa Times. REFORESTATION NEED Some idea of the need for refor- estation may be gained from the :fact that the world uses each year fifty per cent. more wood than is grown.—Chatham News. TO A GOLD MINE OWNER Material evidence that Canada's mining people are not unknown out- side the country is to be seen in a letter recently delivered .at the Montreal office of the Financial Post.. The envelope carried nine German stamps of small denomin- ation, each bearing a reproduction of the late Marshal Hindenburg's pie - -Lure. In the limited space not ac- cupied by the stamps was the fol- lowing wording: Canadian Millionaire and Gold Mine Owner Duncan Macmartin, 'Esquire cjo The Financial Post, Toronto or Montreal, Canada. Kindly Forward No doubt the address on the en- velope intrigued Duncan Macmartin, whose father was closely identified with the founding of Hollinger, but ho crust have been even more im- pressed by the note on the back of the envelope: "I have put on small values (stamps) perhaps you are a celiac- tor."—Financial Post. HUMAN NATURE People would resent newspaper advertising too, if they were forced to read it before reading the com- ies,—Quebee Chronicle -Telegraph. FARM SCIENCE Sixty years ago farmers didn't bother much with the theories of growing farm products. They just planted the seed and waited for the results, whatever they were, and more often than not the results were all that could be expected under any system of farming. The agricultural institutions of learnirst have sort of changed all this. Farming has been elevated to the rank of a science and, weather conditions permitting, they know just what to expect and mostly get it. Agriculture has become as tech- nical a business as mechanics, and because of this fact it is lsecoming a highly specialized professon. Sixty years ago farming et best was a sort of hit and miss affair, and still is in many sections of the country, where its technical issues are either ignored or laughed at. The farmer . wants to know the sort of seed planted, its record of past performances, its origin and devel- opment, just as the stock breeder wants to know that no scrub stock or unworthy pedigreed quality,enters into the composition bf his herds. The farmer is becoming a student in the college of experience as well as of schools of learning, and his application of theories to the busi- ness'` of grain growing or stock breeding is producing results be- yond. expectations. The technician leasa place in the science of farm- ing and is trying hard to get every fernier to reeognize that fact. --- Guelph Mercury, QUEER It's difficult to determine whether "tieing an old bachelor makes hint queer or being queer snakes him an old bachelor. --Kitchener Record. LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? Only terror of death or corporal punishment: could con pel 98 per cent, of 44,000,000 voters to be un- animous about anything under the sun. Which is the explanation, we must believe, of what happened in Germany recently. Germany has a Communist party, a Social Demo eratie party, the once powerful Catholic Centre party. Where were they? The answer is that they are still in Germany, secretly hostile to Hitler, but that terror of Secret Police, concentration c amps and other things, dragooned them to -vote against their consciences. — Ottawa Journal. LAW IS LAW Bad examples are infectious. An- other citizen has expressed a pref- erence for jail rather than pay a fine imposed for driving a motor car with defective lights. There will probably be others who will seek to malce martyrs of themselves, now the fashion has been set. There's always something! A serious in- fraction of the law — for the con- sequences might indeed be very ser- ious in such cases—cannot be con- doned because it happens to be an unwitting infraction; ignorance is no excuse in law, for the effect of accepting a plea of ignorance would be to invalidate the power of legal machinery.—Hamilton Spectator. STARTING AT ELEVEN Waterford young people are being urged to halt their parties by 11 o'clock in the evening. Unless things are different around Waterford than they are elsetvhere the young people, in order to carry out this suggest- ion, will have to disregard the ex- ample set by many of their elders, who just begin to conte to life about that time. — St. Thomas Times - Journal. CANADA AS A PRODUCER In the production of newsprint paper, nickel, and asbestos, Canada lead§ the world, according to a re- port of the Canadian Government By KEN EDWARDS DEAN Or TH'C3R1TtSii TURF__ OWNER i OF 131_f.NHEir 13At-1RAm AND /VONT fiv.ANC . NAS SUNK ALMOST 75o.000 --- 'ALMOST y,000,000. IN t3LOoosTocrs Kentucky Bound On May 2, the sixtysecond run- ning of the Kentucky Derby will be held. We mentioned last week in this column that our favourite was Mont Blanc. Mont Blanc's sire is Ooronach, who has the distinction of earning $247,- '370 in 10 victories, three seconds and one third in 14 starts. Mont Blanc (Black Mountain) is owned by His Royal. Highness the Ago Khan, dean of British turf, In 1930 the Aga Khan won the English Derby with Blenheim and last year with Bahram. Bahrain won the Derby and the St. Leger. This feat has only been accomplished by 10: other horses in the history of racing, Bahram has earned close to $200,- 000 in his career so far, The Aga Khan,,popular owner of thoroughbreds, has sunk 750,000 pounds almost $4,000,000 into English Livestock, Ile knows prob- ably more about horse breeding than almost any living person. Without a doubt Mont Blanc is one of the finest bred horses in the world. E looks and races like a real champion --watch hilts. It will be well to watch Brevity also, they are calling him a second Man O'War. NOTE Today's column is dedi- cated to Ray Doble, of Snaderlan4, Ontario. - Address your sport letters to 'Ken, Edwards, C/o Na tion Prost, 57 Bloor St. W., Toronto. Cutting Up a Little Lou Little, football coach, stands in a massive football as he is initiated into the Circus of Saints and Sinners in New York hotel. Lou's tackling the fun with real' enjoyment. Department of Trade and Com- merce. Tho Dominion occupies second place in the production of gold and zinc; third place in the output of copper; and fourth place in the pro- duction of wheat, automobiles and lead. THE EMPIRE WRONG MEN AND RIGHT MEN A movement that merely transfer- red the unemployed surplus of Great Britain to Australia would be of little use. People who emigrate simply because their condition is so bad at home that it could not he worse overseas are not the type to make their own way in 'a new land. Virile, intelligent, willing Britons are needed, and if they are welcomed as an asset instead of being received ungraciously as competitors in the labour market, there need be little apprehension for the future. — Mel- bourne Argus, DOCTORS FOR EVERYONE It is shortsighted and impractieal to support or condemn in advance, any particular form of health in- surance or State -supported medical service. Any satisfactory scheme will almost certainly have to combine several different principles. It is not a question of once more supporting the country at the expense of the towns. Urban and rural conditions are so utterly different that entirely different methods are essential to deal with them. The only principle common to both is that medical as- sistance s:tould be brought within the reach of every citizen, no matter where the chances of life have fixed his domicile.—Johannesburg Times. THE BRITISH' FARM MARKET The feeling against the . present British system—or lack of system— is strong in the Dominions and among our farmers, who want to see British agriculture effectively pro- tected. Last year the British pro- ducer of eggs discovered that the Dutch, instead of limiting their ship- ments of these articles to Great Britain, had increased them by 189 per cent., without regard for their promises, As for meat, there is still difficulty with the Argentine, and re- cently in the House of Conations Mr. Runciman was tillable to state when negotiations are to be resumed with that country for the limitation of its treat exports. The Dominions, and New Zealand in particular, cannot understand why Argentina is treated with such complaisance in view of the extreme harshness she has shown in her attitude to the British invest- or—London Daily Mail. Canada to Exhibit At S. Africa .Show. OTTAWA. — The Canadian Gov- ernment, through the exhibition commission of the Department of Trade and Comttcerce, is organizing a Canadian section at the Empire Exhibition being held from Septem- ber 15 until January 15, 1937, at Johannesburg, South Africa, it was announced recently. The exhibition will be restricted to empire products. The Canadian section will occupy' an area of about 12,000 square feet, in which it is .intended to provide about 50 individual' stands. 21 Scotch Protest Over KI' s Title Rech idn Edward Is Second not Eighth to Rule Under That Name Is Scotch Claim LONDON. — The wail of bag- pipes over • the border in Scotland mourning the death of King George V., has become mingled with pro- tests of Scottish patriots who feel their historic rights have been over- looked again.. The new king, Edward VIII, they say, is not the eighth at all—be is Edward II. Under the treaty of union where- by Scotland finally joined the "auld enemy" across the Cheviot Hills, a prime condition of the treaty was that it should be a real union—not merely an absorption of Scotland by England. Thus is was that when James VI of Scotland went to London to be- come sovereign of the United King- dom ingdom he became James I of Great Britain. By the same token, it is contend- ed by Scotsmen, when Queen Vic- toria died and the present king's grandfather, Edward VII, carne to the throne, he "should" have been styled Edward I—despite the fact that before the union there had been six previous kings of England nam- ed Edward. A mighty gathering of Scottish clans, highlanders and lowlanders alike, took place at Banockburn, to protest against the "violation of their country's rights." They maintained if Scotland's own King James VI became King James I when he became monarch of the newly united countries, then Eng- land's seventh :Edward --being the first Edward since the union—should similarly bo called King Edward I. - Now the new king, they main- tain, should be Edward II. Personality Is To Be Developed Director of "Personality l4ac- tory Claims Anyone Can Be Charming: HOLLYWOOD, -- Anyone can be charming, says. Oliver Hinsdell, dir- ector of the"personality factory," at a major studio Dere. Itis business is to correct unattractiveness in, now film talent. The elements of a pleasing person- ality, he said recently, are poise, gra- ciousness, taste in dress, neatness, alertness and a good voice. A few of his definitions: Poise -- The ability to move grace- fully, sit quietly and act calmly. "it is acquired .by spending some tirne alone each doe-, in calm,, dispassionate meditation." Graciousness -- It is the ability to set someone utterly at ease. "Tut yourself in his place, and you become gra cioe S." Taste its dress --- "Good clothes do not call ,attention to thensrlves," A Great_E&tor Dir, John W. Dafoe, editor of The Winnipeg Free Press, celebrated re- ceetly bis 70th birthday. He is the doyen of. Canadian .journalists. He lULs had a long and distinguished newspaper career, starting as a re- porter with The Montreal Star in 1883. The man who gave, hint his first job was i)r. P. D. Ross, owner of Tito Ottawa Journal, who was at that time city editor of The Star, I+'or 3G years now Dr. Dafoe has been editor of The Winnipeg Free Press. He has been the most power- ful voice of the West during that long period. He has so identified himself with Western movements that The Free Press has long been the most influential paper west of the Great Lakes. Dr. Dafoe is a Liberal of thu old school. He has made The Free Press The Manchester Guardian of Canada. He is an ardent free trad- er and a vigorous individualist. He is a natural crusader and' he is at his best when he can campaign for some cause dear to his heart. There are few men in the Dominion better informed on Canadian history and his two volumes, one on the life of Laurier; and the other on Sir Clif- ford Sifton, with whom as proprietor of The Free Press he was many years closely associated, are indis- pensable in any library of Canadian history. While Dr. Dafoe has never held public office, and even turned down" recently an offer as Canadian min- ister at Washington, yet he has been a power behind the scenes. At the time of the war he was an earnest advocate of Union Government and it was largely due to his influence that the Western Liberals abandoned Laurier and agreed to support Sir Robert Borden in the formation of a coalition ministry. —London Free Press. 'Not one man in a thousand has the luck to get a wire who's willing or able to take him philosophically, and not argue, oppose or reform him." —Paul Whiteman. "When there is so much talk of war, generally it does not happen." — Har- vey D. Gibson, Princess Lines For Little Sister 1828-B The utter simplicity but irree sistible charm of princess frocks, accounts for their undiminished popularity and appeal for 'those who sew, and this one will retake an instant hit to the mothers of growing daughters as well as to the daughters themselves. Slightly fitted at' the waist to accent the Mild flare of the skirt, the frock goes together like a charm, the re- sult of a brief hour or so at 'your machine, puff' sleeves, a contrast- jug peter pan collar and a row of small bright buttons all down the front complete the picture and. guarantee success. Daughter will look stunning in printed percale:, printed muslin, challis, or sheer woollen. Send for .Barbara Bell Pattern Vo. 18284I available in sizes 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. Size 6 requires 2 yards of 39 -inch fabric plus xis yard of 85 -inch contrast. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. Enclose 20c in stamps er coin (coin preferred), wrap it carefully and address your 1 order to Barbara Belli Room 230, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toren, to. llealth_Pacts Medical Contract Scheme Found Successful in Alberta CARDSTON, Alta, .- Sponsors of health insttrance piens can point to Cardston's four-year old medical contract scheme for support in their arguments, Pleased doctors and satisfied Patients prove the popular- ity of the. project as -11 starts its fifth year. Under the plan a person pays $"' in advance and in return that person or anyone of his fancily will receive medical care throughout the year without further cost. The contract provides medical care for from one to 10 persons in a family. On an average five persons have been in- sured under each contract. During the last four years 600 Persons have signed contracts.. Tak- ing an average of five persons under each contract, 3,000 persons have obtained medical service at a mini- mum cost of $5 per year. Advance payments which assured doctors a regular monthly salary from the contract committee has j pleased the two doctors. Between . January 1, 1936, and March 1 is the open period when anyone can joint i the contract, but after March 1 ee person must wait until September 15 before another opportunity to join is presented. Why Not Window Boxes? Walter Elliot, the British Minister , of Agriculture, told a gathering of' gardening enthusiasts that he had window boxes around his home. To many people that may convey • nothing, but it is an almost general feature of life in the Old Country that might be copied here with ad- vantage. A window box is a box along the outside window ledge fill- ed with flowers, and it is not uncom- mon to see a working man's home with a box in front of every window in the house, probably half a dozen of them. Whole streets thus present a vista of flower -decorated homes, a mass of color that not only brightens the exteriors but charms the eye. They are particularly valuable where it is not possible to have gardens or front lawns. This is a matter in which "The Flower City could show an example. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. Drive Cuddly Sensibly Thus Admonishes the Ottawa. Journal in This Editorial The Ontario Minister of Highways admits frankly that law alone is quite tillable to solve the problem of assuring highway safety. Improper use of the roads, he points out, is not limited to "the wild, drunken or reckless drivers" — accidents are caused also by "the negligent, in- different, thoughtless and discourt- eous actions of the normally law- abiding awabiding majority." In other words there are few drivers who are bad drivers alI the time, and there are many good drivers who have their moments of bad and dangerous drie/ ing. The law, therefore, largely is help- less, as Mr. McQuesten says, viola- tions of the rules "are more fre- quently against the laws of courtesy and common sense than against traf- fie provisions," which is just what The Journal has said many times. The Minister adds: "If improvement is to come, and safety demands that it must be brought about, it must come because of a public realization of the es- sential facts of the situation and be- cause public opinion' demands of motorists 'tend pedestrians on the streets, the sane degree of courtesy and. consideration for others as is normally displayed in business and social contacts. The Government can contribute to the formation of this public opinion through educational cancpaigns, and steps have been tak- en hi the past and will be -continued throughout the corning year to make such education effective. But public opinion mist support these efforts or they are doomed to failure." The Minister gives a slogan for greater safety: Drive Carefully, Walk Sensibly. Be Courteous. Sta- tisties give point to his words. Last year in Ontario the operation of motor vehicles brought death to 560 persons --snore than ten each eek.. It was the highest total for any year except 1981, was 48 higher than 1984. In the past frve years 2;548 persons have been killed on Ontario streets and roads, 1,091 of thein coming within the classification of "Collision with Pedestrian," er ati makes a frightful record, especially when it is realized that in the vast majority. of cases the fault was in the helium factor, Chemists have foundthat licorice yields it liquid' of extraordinary foam - big power which ran be used as a sire extinguisher.