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Zurich Herald, 1936-10-08, Page 6w from: the Press W r * $par.lts * v rt * w•+.t e • CANADA More Cars Are Bought In the eight months to the end of .August in this year Canadians have bought 88,975 now motor vehicles, in the same period of 1935 the number was 80,895, so the gale is ten percent, In August the number of vehicles pur- chased ad•anced by 9.9 percent, and. the value 12.3 percent, seeming to show that Canadians are buying more expensive cars. It is interesting at least, and possib- ly significant, to nt to that in every province except Alberta more new cars were sold in August of '36 than in August of '35. Thus Manitoba has showed • gain of 3G percent, Saskat• chewan of 29, British Columbia of 17. Quebec of 23, Ontario of seven, the Maritime Provinces of 11. Alberta sales declined by 13.6 percent. Ot- tawa Farm Journal. Speed In Education All parents wish their children to be smart at sehobl. Some parents push their children ahead as fast as is pos- sible, and even urge t' o teacher to give them special att ,ition, r that they will keep up with - or excel their playmates of the same age. The Ottawa Journal +h,,.' s this is a mis- take, and goes on to make out a sen- sible case against efforts to equal the records of the exceptionally brilliant students. Nothing is gained by passing them through the public schools too quick ly. The training a child receives in the primary grades is the fo'indation upon which it builds future education. The grounding cannot be too thor ough. It is far better to slow down the brilliant 'upil than to rush the aver age child, or, as the Journal express es it "education in eeewer, broader doses mixed with play is likely to be better in the end than ---hen taken in indigestible gulps." - Chatham News. 'Soaking" Fiaem The British Government has collect- ed inheritance taxes amounting to the equivalent of $4,843,770 from he estate of the late Sir Henry Well- come. The total estate amounted to $10,694,795. This is a -izeable sum, even for the British Treasury - and indicates the determination of gov- ernments in these times to make a great estate bear an adequate share of the burden of public financing. - Ha lifax ierald. sure. The desire to have in the back ground the ideaof econumie iudepen deuce and to be prepared to achieve it, it uecessary, is all very wa1., but there b :something oven mere impor• taut, and that is the making of good wives. --• Victor:a Colonist. Cannot Trust A Bull Prank torey, i, fanner near Sea - forth i Hur,:n County, was barfly in- jured when a bull turned on him. We road that Mr. Storey went into the pen where the animal is kept, and with no warning it turned on him, gored him badly and trampled on h.im, I33s cries brought two daughters who attacked the bull with pitchfrrks and rescued their father. The animal ap- peared to have become so enraged that a man was called from Seaforth and he shot it. Men who have been breeders of livestock for years have informed us on a number of occasions that no bill can be trusted or regarded as safe. This case near Seaforth is typical of others. We have no doubt Mr. Storey entered the stall or pen where the bull was kept in order to attend to it. He would do nothing to provoke an attack and probably he had entered that same pen a good many times• be- fore and nothing ever happened. But on this occasion the attack came, and one can never tell just when that will take place. It is that uncertainty which makes the bull such a danger- ous animal. And it is the long period• when a man may work in the pen with a bull and receive no injury which puts him off guard and causes him to forget that the attack -..ray come any time, and with no warning. - Peter- borough Examiner. Strange Indeed Lloyd George was 'e responsible probably than any other man outside of the French statesm n for the harsh and impossible terms of the Versailles Treaty. He would hang the Kaiser are drive Germany into the dust. And much of the tror' les of Europe to- day are due to the attempts that were ' made to humble Germany and reduce her to the status of a second-rate power. LIoye George must ate pt a great deal of the responsibilities for the blunders of 1919. Lloyd George has been visiting Germany and the mercurial Welshman returns an ad- mirer of Hitler, declares that Ger- many is air. 'ig only for defence in her extensive armament plans, de- fends the way she has broker the Pact of Versailles and supports Hit- ler's demands for a return to the German Empire of Memel and Dan- zig. It all sounds ,Fry strange corn - Ing from Lloyd Gee ge, the champion of democracy and Lib- alism. It is no wonder that the Brii'eh people cheer Lloyd George, but refuse to trust him with power in these trying days of peace. - London Free Press. Education For Marriage Preparation for mar. iage is about the last thing thought of in school there aro no courses in home -making and motherhood. 11 is true that domes- tio economy is taught but where is the teaching +•elating to household economy, to home decoration, dress, hygiene, nursing and + tusic, all mat- ters which have a bearing on home making? Marriag is :''e most po -r career of womanhood, and the train- ing for it is neglected in a large mea - D -4 Drivers Do It The papers report the case of an Illinois woman who has lived five years with only half a brain. Nothing remarkable about that. Some car dri- ers get by with none at all. - Strat- ford Beacon -Herald. Day's Walk We get tired recording statistics of globe -girdling ships in sea and in the air, of long-distance stunts all var- ieties of athletic speedsters. Here are some facts and figures about walking in the ordinary course of your day and mine. We do not vouch for their abso- lute accuracy, but they were given as follows in a paper read b •fore the "tional Association of Chiropodists. and quoted in the New York Times: "It Is said that a housewife Walks something like nine miles a day about her wore.. \ business man walks nine to twelve miles a day in office hours, A farmer at the r - walks twenty- five wentyfive miles a day. A woman shopper walks sight miles. The ploughman is a little hard to accept. The bargain counter sl-ve r :ems about right. But the housewife and the siness r an simply cannot be visualized. Say a Hitchen is twenty feet ong. To walk nine miles a day, or about fifty thou sand feet, `means walking two taous• and "'ve hundred times the length of the kitchen, or its egrivalent in up•• stairs, don stairs and in my lady's chamber, cellar, 1-arn and attic. if the business man who -illus ten miles a day presidis over an establishment with a four -hundred -foot frontage, he would have to traverse that floor space ono hundred and wenty-five times a de:y. If he really does it he is lot a very good business man. Bet it the experts had calculated tr t a bus iness man in the course of a year de velops six inches of shin callosity in pressing buttons. It would sound more like it." -The New Outlook. Mapping Plans For. Another Atlantic Flight Captain James A, fvioliispih, the Flying. Scot, uses a reporter's pen- cil and pad to expli.in how he intends to fly back"to England, as he arrives in New York on the liner Paris for the purpose of buying an American plane for his fourth Atlantic crossing by air. pire there was no necessity for - ant if there had been necessity there was no possibility of thinly populated portions of the Empire providing ex elusively for their defence. Present, circumstances resuire that each Do minion shall play its part, and the manufacturers of Australia may be relied upon to contribute to national solidity. -Melbourne Argus. WHY THE U. S. WENT TO WAR Mr. Newton D. Baker, in .his arti much adherence to our neutral rights that got us into the war a$ the fact that Germany regarded us as such an impotent and ineffective combatant that she did not hesitate to risk incurring our enmity. Who can doubt, for example, that if the United States bad possessed in 1915 and 1916 a navy as strong as she now has, Germany woele have refrained from provocative acts? It was not so muco• our neu- trality as our unreadiness to d':tenii that neutrality effectively that got us into war. This is the great les• son of the epoch - and this is the lesson. which modern cr,ties of net. ele in the October "Foreign Affairs/' has poured a refreshing wave of sanity over the discussion of why America went to war in 1917 observes the New York Herald -Tribune. Speak- ing from intimate knowledge as Mr. Wilson's Secretary of War, and viewing events in retrospect after much mature reflection, he rejects unequivocally the suggestion that either the munitions rakers or the "international bankers" forced, Ameri ca into the war. He•.even minimizes the effect of British propaganda, pointing out, quite 'correctly, that American sympathies from the very first da; of the war were pro -Ally - long before the Allied propaganda machine began to function Two Races The world struggle seems to be nar rowing down to two races. the human race and the arma:ent race. - The Toronto Saturday Night, Why, then did America join the Allies? One thing alone was respon- sible -according to Mr. . Baker Germany's submarine campaign, and all that it implied in the way of ruthless disregard of the lives of non-combatants. He reminds us how the policy of neutrality was gem erally accepted at the outbreak of the war. No one other than; M.r, Bryan questioned the right of Ani•" ericans to travel on belligerent v -es:: sels not carrying munitions of war. Every one resented the British in• terterence with American. trade and the disregard of property `rights. But this resentment was never. as keen as the hatred of Germany when' the submarine campaign led to the sinking of merebantment and the killing of neutrals, Mr. Wilson's forbearance seemed to many persons so extreme as to be a wedkness. But it served at least to unite all but a handful of pacifists behind the doc- trine that 'America had no choice than to go to war with Germany. Modern critics, as Mr. Balser points out, seem unable to asasy the emo• tional forces involved. Because they cannot understand these emotions, they seek for ulterior motives so' powerful and so skillfully mobilized, that . the entire nation could be hoodwinked into war. Mr. Baker unquestionably is right. Had it not been for the re- sumption of the submarine campaign in its extreme form, as announced for January 81, 1917, the, United States would probably never have gone to war. But in one respect Mr. Baker's admirable analysis is incom- plete. He disposes effectively of many of 'the arguments of the modern school of neutrality critics. But he fails to mention the most powerful factor of all -that it was not so THE EMPIRE Manufactures As Defence No 0o. ntry can regard itself no,v as being adequately defended if its manufacturing industries be not firm ly established. When Great Britain commanded t' seas and the Domin ions were merely part of a great Em 'Sir Lionel has signeclPhislownode0 warrant„! Petrie, by renewing•6iisinterestin f"sorsiiriaed- Wayland Smith. "That he has 'reackodxP landii velie a;hopeful sign," isuggested. Strlir�ls' 0 k liisl'tsad: ; • trality refuse to heed. They talk of elnliergoes, prohibitions, absten tions. But these are for the most part self-denying ordinances. So long as :we continue to build up our navy no nation, in the event of a new world war, will risk involving us as an .enemy. MARKET QUOTATIONS 'PRODUCE PRit res United ha. mors' Co-oper..tive Co are paying the following price. for produce: EGGS - Prices to producers. casee returned basis, delivered Toronto: "A"• large 29c "A" medium Pullets, "A" „B„ 27c 22c 21c ,'C" 18c BUTTER - No. 1 Ontario solids. 24c; No. 2. 23c. POULTRY - (Quotations in cents.) Dressed Live Dressed Milkfeu EIENS "A" "A" Over 5 lbs. 12 4to5lbs. 11 3% to 4 lbs... 10 3,,to 3% lbs. ,,• 9 Spring Broilers 13/4 2' lbs11 Spring Chickens Binder 4% lbs 10 008. 4% to 5 lbs. 11 5 to 6 lbs13 •. Over 6 lbs, 14 Old roosters WHOLESALE PROVISION PRICES Wholesal provision dealer;, are quoting the following prices to the Toront retail trr de, Pork - Hams, 21c; shoulders, 141/et butts, 17c; loin. 21.; picnics, 14c. Lard - Pure tierces, 130, lilt 13%e; pails, 14c; prints, 13'%ac. 0.9 Shortening TiOrcoeh, 1034e; Lwths 10%c Bail:, 1114O; prints, 113/ie,•Tax to be added to 11 sihorteeiug prices. GliA',l QUO HtIONS Following are quotations on grain transactions for car lots, prices on basis c.i.f. bay '• . tsl Manitoba Wheat - No. 1 Northi. ;11.11 3-8; N4, 2 Northern, $1.09 7-8; No. 3 Northern, $1.00 7-8; No. 4 Nor thorn, $1.03 7-8; No, 5 Northern, $1.01 7.8; Deed \Vile"L,,, 88 '(-8e, Weston Oat;, -- No. 2 C.W,, 49%,c; No. 3, C.W., 463,4o; No 1 feed oats, 47%e; No, 1 food, 14%e. Manitoba bailey No. 3 C.W,. 65%/ae; No. 1 "e,:d screenings, $26.50 er ton. Ontario grain, approximate prices 11'ack sh' ,ping point -- Wheat, $1,U,' to $1,05; oats 40e to 41c; barley 60c to 62c; corp 800 to 82e; rye, 05 to Gee 'tile'; bleier, "Sc to 51,01; niilliag oats, 42 to 44c. LIVESTOCK PRIGS Steers, up to 1,050 lbs, good • n..0 .' 5,25 Do., med'um 4.25 4.75 Do:; c'mmon .. ... 3,50 4.2:, Steers, over 1.050 lbs., choice 5,75 6.00 Do., good 5.25 5,7e Do., medium 4.50 5.25 Do., common , 4.00 4.5e Heifers, good and -choice 5,00 5.Gb Do., medium ,,, 4.50 4.75 Do., common r 50 4.25 teed calves good and choice 7.50 8.00 Do., good 6.50 7.25 Do., medium 5,50 6.25 Cows, good 3.25 3.50 medium 3.00 3.25' Do., common 2.50 Mb Canners and cutters 1.25 2.20 Bulls. good 3.00 3.25 Do., common 2.50 2.75 Stocker and feeder 'eel's, r<totl 3.75 Do, co- imp••• 3.25 Milkers and springers 35.00 Calves, good and choice veal 8.00 Do, col mon to med5.00 Grassers 2.50 [-logs, f.o.b. 7.50 Do., off trucks 7.85 8.00 Do, off :ars 8.25 (good ewe and wether lambs 7.75 Do.. r .edium 7.25 Bucks '3.75 Do., nulls , 6.00. Sheep, good lig! 3.50 Do., heavies 2.50 Do.. cuffs 1.50 4,2'r 3.5•.i 60.00 S.ou 7.50 3.50 8.00 7.50 7.00 6.75 4.00 3.50 2.00 Lord Thankerton Finds Prairies Not Monotonous Member of Judicial Commit- tee of Privy Council Here To Addddress the Canadian Club. OTTAWA -"The sense of space" is the great impression of Canada Rt. Son.• Lord Thankerton, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, took back to the Old Country with him. "It all seems so vast," said Elis Lordship when in- terviewed on the private car on which he arrived in Ottawa, to be guest at "Earnscliffe" of sir Francis Floud, Eligh Commissioner for Great Britain and Northern 'Ireland in Canada. Lord Thankerton was ac- •companied by Lady Thankerton. "Some people speak of the prairies as monotonous. .I found them far from that, particularly at thi., time of year," said Lord Thankerton. MOST PLEASANT EXPERIENCES The distinguished jurist regretted that it had been "a hurried trip" through to Victoria, 13.C,, and back. 'But I have seen something of Can- ada from Halifax to Victoria " he said. His experiences had been "most pleasant" and the Canadian 'people "most interesting, and kind." Asked if he cotild give an ap- proximate idea as to the likely period at which' the decisions would be pub- lished of the Imperial Privy Council on the special legislation passed by the Bennett Government, Lord Thankerton said he could not say. As he would [ic sitting in the House of Lords, hearing other appeals, he would not be a member of the tribu- nal which would rule on this legis- lation which has been forwarded to London, following the rulings here of the .Supreme Court of .Canada, The matter of appeals b), the Do, minions to the :Imperial Privy Goun' cif was "for the Dominions to decide," said ills Lordship when the most important thing about this right of appeal is that it is a link with the Crown, perhaps the most solid link so far as the empire is concerned.!! , FORMER LORD ADVOCATE Educated at Cambridge 'Univer- sity, Lord Thankerton later repre- sented South Lancashire from 1913 to 1918, and Carliele from 1924 to 1929 in . the British House of Com MODS, Cie was Solicitor -General for ,Scotland in 1922, and Lord Advocate for Scotland from 1922 to 1929, Ifo came to Canada as a guest of the Canadian I3ar. Association w'iich re- eently held its annual meeting it Halifax, Men's Evening Attire Is Gayer New Silhouette for Tailcoats; Lapels Are Mader NEW YORK -With the expansion of night life in this country, the generally gayer mood is reflected in• the new styles for men's formal and semiformal evening wear. Besides the recent incursion of midnight blue into the whole field of evening wear, there are changes apparent in the lines of fashionable evening apparel that set it off quite definitely from, the modes of previous . seasons. There is an entirely new silhouette in tailcoats. Lapels are broader, waistlines are higher and the chest is fuller. Add to this the lengthen- ing of the tails on the tailcoat to a point slightly below the knee, and it at once becomes apparent that the lines of this new fall evening coat: are more flattering, more in keeping with the classic military tradition of. formal wear than was the style of earlier years, with its low waistline, narrow lapels and short, stubby tails. In dinner jackets the double- breasted, peaked -lapel model is the leader, the lapel rolling to the lower of two buttons. A smart note in dinner jackets is the notched-:lawi collar, in which, except for a small slit on either side, the line of collar and lapel describes the regular, graceful curve of the shawl collar. 't'he regular shawl -collar model, with e my silk facing instead of the more lsual ribbed silk, is another leading n:edel. It is cut either double, or single breasted. The single-breasted, peaked lapel model. retains the pref- erence of a great riany well-dressed men The white tie for' the formal en- semble, as well as the black to go' with the dinner jacket, is. preferred this season, with a bold knot and broad, long ends; while the wl+ite collar has bold wings, and is high in the back. The starched bosom of the evening dress shirt is short ani.' narrow to prevent buckling. Figures of Children Warn Motorists LYNN, Mass. -Figures 68 running children, four feet high, stencilled on the streets near cross -walks in the vcinity of schools and playgrounds have been adopted by Lynn and Chelsea in an effort to cut •down child mortality from automobile accicents. So successful has this new' safety system proved that it may be adopted by other cities. Capt. John F. • Healey, in charge at Lynn traffic police, believes he is the originator of the system, which pas been used there for two summers, lie said the stencils have cut down acci- dents to children greatly. Patrolmen report that motorists exercise more care when they approach an inter- section where the tIg7 res are dis played. The figures of the two running boys are stencilled in white and un• derneath painted in large letters are the words "Danger -Children." In Chelsea some of the stencilled figures show a girl and boy runeeng with the words "Dangerous -Go Slow," paint- ed underneath. As the figures and lettering are dimmed by traffic they are renewed with fresh paint, FU MANCHU By Sax Rohmer i,� "Chinese!" I exclaimed. �. "Yes, I saw him -a squinting Can- tonese whom Sir Lionel calls Qv,ee. 1 don't like himl" l 41,;te,oy "nglancd at present is the web, 'end you may lee sure Ilse spicier, Fu.lv9anchu, will be waiting," Smith staled."Petrie, I sometimes l;;'•' desf,ai,. Why is retribution against this, Yellow mo iter delayed., , . A "And Sir Lionel is a perfectly impossible man to protect. You "f ought to see his house ---e low, squat place, com- pletely hemmed in by trees. I.t smells like a swamp. Everything is topsy-turvy. He seems to be surrounded by all sorts of strange people. He has an Arab groom, a Chinese body -servant, A. 01931 119 Snz 19091 r and ''ei,o noii Syndicntc, roc,