Zurich Herald, 1937-08-19, Page 7rks from the Press
CANADA
Walnuts From Meach Lake
Interesting news to this district and
to all of, the Canadian West is the in-
formation that the Provincial Gov-
ernment's horticultural experiment
farm at . Brooks has received sonie
small black walnut trees from the
plantation of Ii. H. Blanchet at Meech
Lake, Quebec.
Tho 'Brooks experimental farm,
which has played such an important
role in the development of fruits on
the prairies, will carry forward ef•
forts to cultivate that type of walnut
in Alberta. The efforts will be watch-
ed with interest, for their success
would provide western farmers wftle
a useful and docorative crop. And it
would provide a welcome addition to
Alberta's products.
Similar efforts, with young trees
from the same Quebec plantation, are
being made at the same time in Eng-
Iand, Germany, Italy and Syria.—Cal-
gary
yria,Cal-gary Albertan.
Unpardonable Sirs
A New York Times dispatch, tell-
ing of the arrival in England of some
3,800 children from war -wracked Bil-
bao, contains some fearfully tragic
paragraphs. As, for instance, this one:
"It was not the children's physical
condition, however, that caused most
concern.. The saddest by-product
Of the Spanish civil war is their over-
wrought mental condition, brought
about by the terror of the air raids. -
The war has .left many of them ab-
normally nervous, perhaps for the rest
of their lives. They have spent hour
after hour huddled in "refugios" with
their frightened mothers, while rebel
airplanes droned overhead, dropping
bombs.... Scores have seen brothers,
Sisters or little friends killed or
maimed near their homes."
Can any sensitive person read that
without feeling that the bombing of
an inhabited town—by anyone, in any
?and—is one of the most shocking
crimes of all the ages ?--Guelph Mer-
cury.
Flood Damage
Every drop of Thames water was.
carrying some mud with it. Where
did it come from. The answer is ob-
vious. It cane from some farmer's
field. It was the soil he needed thi's
Year and for generations to come, to
grow his crops. He hasn't a very large
supply of it—a few inches at most
—and it takes years to add au inch
on impoverished grounds. That is the
1os6 that hasn't been counted hi the
newspapers, but ft is the worst: loss
of alt. -Fergus News -Record.
The Lure of the Road
Spring is here and summer is ap-
proaching. The man of the house is '
looking over the old car and figuring
whether it will do for another year.
Some of them will keep on figuring
to long that the season may be over
before any decision is reached, then
the car will again be housed for the
Winter and its owner will conclude
that he has saved a lot of money just
because he has not taken into con-
tideration the cost of upkeep on the
old family automobile.
But what we want to say is that the
lure of the read is urging the long
drive for the week end and the even -
Ings. It's a good idea to give a Little
thought to the new conditions this
year. To apply a little time and
thought to the safeguarding of the
car and those it cor.tains. To make
It a year free from accieeni.—Peter-
boro Examiner.
There Are Teo Many Guns
Our experience is that it is useless
to protest about the number 01 re-
volvers in this province. Noihing has
been clone to decrease the number
. krill we seem quite content that noth-
Ing shall be done.
it is difficult to recall ',v':ere a
householder has been ^ailed upon to
seize a weapun and fl ht it out with
Ss invader. Truth is, ho would be
poorly advised were he to try to do
so because the invader would prob-
:i be a much better shot than the
householder.
There are teeth, in the law now re
garding possession of weapons, but
the trouble is the teeth do not seem
to come together and bite.—Peterboro
Examiner.
it Came True
For several weeks the King of Den-
mark had been trying to find a Silver
Jubilee march. One day the king was
riding in Copenhagen. His horse, up-
set by the traffic, threw him. Chris-
tian Thomsen, a poor composer, was
among those who rushed to help him,
Although in pain, the king mounted
his horse again and rode off, That in-
spired Christian Thomsen. He com-
posed a march, submitted it. As soon
as Ring Christian heard it played he
exclaimed: "That is the very thing!"
He sent for Thomsen and detonated
him. And a poor composer has be-
come famous. A true "fairy tale"
from the Hans Anderson country at
last.—Halifax Herald.
Rivers Under the Earth
A cottager near Goderich, on Lake
Huron, received word the. other day
that a well -driller had got water on
his property.
"How do you know that the water
you . found isn't lake water that has
seeped through the soil?" inquired
the skeptical owner.
"Well, to begin with," explained the
driller, "the land here is about eighty
feet above the level of the lake water,
and I had to drill down nearly twice
that distance before I got water. But
if that doesn't satisfy you, consider
that the water in the well has risen
to within sixty feet of the surface,
although, as I have said, the lake level
is eighty feet below us. In other
'words, the level of the water in the
well is about twenty feet above the
level of the lake. So I must have
struck a different source, a subter-
ranean river under Pressure sufficient
to push the water high up in your
well."
Convinced, the cottager listened to
the driller's claim that he could drill
a well in the lake and get a column
of well water whose level would be
higher than that of the lake itself.
All of which is easy to understand, if
you can understand it.—Stratford
Beacon -Herald.
THE EMPIRE
- Queen Mary's Laugh
Though no Royal lady ever bore
herself with greater dignity when oc-
casion requires, Queen Mary, to whom
the Empire's affectionate greetings
have gone on ..her 70th anniversary,
has no . liking for rigid etiquette in
private life.
There is a story of a housemaid,
just promoted to the upper regions
of Buckingham Palace, being taken
aback on hearing whistling in the cor-
ridor leading to Queen Mary's bed-
room.
She was still more astonished on
discovering that the whistler was the
Queen herself'
As all who come in contact with
her know, the Queen Mother has a
keen sense of humor and a gift of
genuine laughter.
It was Keir Hardie—no flatterer of
Royalty—who once declared that Her
Majesty's was the meet cheerful laugh
he had ever heard. - News of the
World.
Wedding Attire
The Dean of Johannesburg is
gloomy. to looks askance at wedd-
ings to erhich the br'de comes re-
splendent;: and the bridesmaids and
pages appear in bright array, calling
such ceremonies "extravagant and
tawdry.' What then would he have?
Not, surely, the drabness of a register
office? Solemn vows will not be heard
less reverently if those at the altar
are joyously attired for life's most
joyous day. With marriage goes jub-
ilation and feasting; why not wear
happiness in the drer, as well as in
the heart? For a 'soman, especially,
this is the day le which memory turns
back, and her wish is that the recol-
lectio'' should ' be gay and pleasing.
We want no pensiveness at weddings,
and it would be a: incongruous to
muffle the bells as the bride in lime-
spate—Loudon Daily Mail.
'anna' Make .Somethin' Of It?"
Miss Beverly Wheatly and •Bole Olson, both of whom were selected
by the University of. `Miami''ds the "most 'pugnacious freshmen,"
scowl their congratulation's at each other.
OVIIGNANIONIAZIMP
Summary of the News 1.
Fire Losses Drop
OTTAWA. — Fire losses in Cana-
da continued a downward trend dur-
ing 1936 and eclipsed the record es-
tablished in 1935 when losses were
the lowest for any year for 'Which
figures are available, said J. M. Rit-
chie, Toronto Secretary -Treasury . of
the Association of Canadian Fire
Marshals in addressing delegates to
the annual conference of the asso-
ciation here.
The convention, attended by more
than forty-five delegates was under
the chairmanship of 3. Grove Smith,
Dominion Fire Commissioner.
14,655 Bibles Placed
TORONTO. — The Canadian Gide-
ons, it is announced placed 15,655
Bibles in hotels, hospitals and schools
during the past year. This accom-
plishment sets an all-time record for
the organization.
In Toronto alone, it was stated, the
Board of Education had put in a re-
quest that the Gideons give 9,000
Bibles to school children. Of that,
number, Mr. Green said, 8,000 had
already been delivered.
B. C. Orders Coinpulsory
Hospitalization for T.B.
VICTORIA. British Columbiaw:
Government has passed an Order -in
Council providing for "detention" of
persons with severe cases of tuber-
culosis who refuse to be confined to
hospitalization. .
The new regulation reads:
"That any person found with tu-
berculosis in au Infectious or contag-
ious stage, who should refuse to be
confined to .hospital or building pro-
vided for quarantine or isolation pur-
poses, May be apprehended and may
be detained in such an institution."
Hon. G. M. Weir, Provincial Secre-
tary, said all cases coming under the
new regulations would be subject to
examination by the Tuberculosis Con-
trol Board trader Dr. W. H. Hatfield.
'Building Tops '36 Record
WINDSOR. — Business in the On-
' tarso section of the building trade is
40.5 per cent. ahead of 1936 at the
present time, 0: M. Perry, manager
of the Sniiinneor Hydro -Electric Sys -
ter, declared this week.
"As in every other line, conditions
in the electrical contracting field are
improving rapidly," Mr. Perry said.
"Total value of building contracts for
the first five months of 1937 amounts
to $80,006,200, compared to $56,905,100
for the Baine period in 1986." ,
Winnipeg Grants $1,500 For
Mosquito Campaign
WINNIPEG. — The mosquito oam-
paign is going to be renewed in Win-
nipeg. The City Finance Committee
granted the campaign committee $1,-
500 to carry on the fight. Finances fol
the campaign had become depleted.
Tariff Cut for Brazil
OTTAWA. -- Brazil has been ac-
corded most favored nation tariff
treatment by Canada under an Order -
in -Council announced this week.
Previously goods from the big
South American Republic entered
Canada at the intermediate tariff
rates. They will now enter at the
lowest tariff' rate abcorded any for-
eign country by treaty. Brazil will
thus receive the rates prescribed in
the trade agreements with France,
the United States and Poland.
No charge has been made in the
tariff rates applicable to Canadian
goods entering Brazil. For some time
Brazil has accorded Canada most fa-
vored nation treatment in exchange
for the Canadian intermediate tariff
rates. But with four other South
American countries, Uruguay, Argen-
tina, Venezuela and Colombia already
on the most favored nation treatment
the Canadian government considered
it desirable to place Brazil on the
same basis.
Tho balance of trade between. the
two countries is heavily in favor of
Canada. Canalian exports -Co Brazil
aro about four times Brazilian ex-
ports to Canada. In 1936 Canada
shipped $3,711,000 worth 'of products
to Brazil, and bought from that coun-
try $900,000 worth. In 1935 the figures
were, $2,769,000 and $835.346.
May Trade $99,497,353
OTTAWA. — Canada's export
trade mounted rapidly during May
when the . total value of Canadian pro-
duce sent •,abroad was $99,497,353, an
increase of $15,677,602 over May,
1936.
Wheat and cheese exports fell off
as ecompared with May, 19'6, but all
other principal commodities showed
increases. For the first two months
of the current fiscal year, April and
May, exports were $165,014;014, an in-
crease of $2',770,433 over the same
months in 1936.
Wheat exports in May were 8,026,-
507 bushels valued at $10,529,311, ';as
compared with 27,316,983 bushels in
May, 1936, valued at $21,674,113:;
Wheat flour exports amounted to 348,-
666 bushels, valued at $2,180,325,,-
orepared with 448,653 bushels in
Mays, 1936, valued at $1,791,174.
Newsprint, meats, planks and
oards, copper and nickel all showed
marked increase in quality and
rice. Newsprint exports increased
n value from $8,907,000 to $10,773,-
00 and unnnanufactured nickel from
3,191,000 to $5,354,000.
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The 1936 estimated value of dairy
production in Canada is the highest
recorded since 1930, namely $208,-
238,128, an increase of $15,827,-
'705, or 8.2 per cent., o'n 1935.
Ambrose Pare, proclaimed the
greatest surgeon of his time, had the
courage to write his book on the
treatment of .wounds not in Latin,
but in .everyday and "vulgar"
French, much to the horror of the
surgeons of the long robe.
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Commentary on true
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS
Ey Peter Randa'
Seventy three day of the most ter-
rible siege in modern history ended
this week as the insurgent columns
of General Devila began the task of
"mopping up" the ancient Basque
capital of Bilbao. Fighting from
house to house, the defenders still
hang on grimly while refugees have
moved down in thousands as they at-
tempted to flee the city ,under the
murderous fire of the Italian "Black
Arrow" column. An indication that
the siege . was actually over and that
hope of starving off the advancing
mercenaries was over, was the depar-
ture of the British consul from the'
city. He was rescued by British sail-
ors from awaiting ship just outside
the death swept harbor. Latest re-
ports say that General Franco is
transferring his hordes in thousands
to the Madrid front where another
terrific push is forecast by the orders
of the Loyalist commander who has
requested all civilians to leave the
city.
Financial Courage
After ten, months of comparative
stale mate, the Fascists seem to be
geting somewhere in their attempts
to subdue the will of the Spanish
people. Just prior to the fall of Bil-
bao, new hope was injected into their
councils by the announcement of a
new loan obtained abroad for $1,500,-
000. The announcement was made by
a former tobacco smuggler, illiterate
Juan March, chief civilian backer of
the revolution. No one seems to know
where it is to come from but there
are many close guesses.
Germany and Italy are in the po-
sition of having to throw good money
after bad. So far, the campaign has
not been .much of a success but fur-
ther expenditure may turn the day.
The fall of Bilbao seems to bear out
this statement.
Beauty in Distress
And in Germany, all is not well,
Chancellor Hitler's close personal
friend and the Director German State
Motion Pictures, Leni Riefenstahl has
been accused of having "non -Aryan"
grandparents. In least countries, such
a fault would not be of any particu-
lar importance but in Germany where
the Nazis are engaged in stamping
out their Jewish in,,telOetta,1-,,,cl:.ss,
the accusation is the next.. thing to'
rain. The 'charge was made by Propa-
ganda Minister Goebbels at a social
gathering. It has since been denied as
"pure invention". The interesting part
for conjecture is just what Chancellor
Hitler thinks about it all and ; just
what action he would take if he charge
proved to be true. It is well known
that all of the women he may have'
known, which is not many, the beau.;
tiful actress is the favourite.
Disaster Echoes
Strange how echoes of distant.thun-i
der come close to home. Two weeks'
ago, financial circles were met- with,
the announcement by Canadian paper,
producers that prices for fine papers
and boards were going up from $7;
to $10 per ton. Among the reasons
given by manufacturers for this rise
(amounting to 8% over last year)`
was the scarcity of sulphite. Sul -
'Otte is the bleaching agent in the,
making of chemical wood pulp. Sul-,
phite is also a prime ingredient of
explosives. Apparently, the manufac-
ture of explosives is of more impor-;
tance in this unsettled world of to-
day than the manufacture of fine pa
per.
Crisis Averted
And in France, a mild little roan
has won. an amazing victory and prov-
ed
rowed the strength of his government.
Faced by a financial crisis occasion-
ed by a steady drain of gold because
of unequal trade balances. Premier
Leon Blum has just won a vote of
confidence. Votes of confidence are a
feature of the French governmental
system and supporters of govern-'
ments more often than not turn
against their former colleagues on the
slightest pretext. Such was the case
when Premier Blum's Communists
deputies ganged up against him only.
to be met with surprising opposition
from other section of the Chamber.
The Government is now empowered`
with extraordinary financial powers to
support the franc by regulation of the'
discount rate and a crisis which -
might have been of world importance
in view of the delicate state of af-
fairs has been averted, at least for
the time.
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$7,700,000 Being Spent on Con-
struction in Dominion
TORONTO. — Expenditures by gov-
ernment, municipal and private bodies -
on steel, concrete and wooden bridges
will be among the major items of new
construction contracts in Canada this
year. If expansion in bridge building
continues at its current late the to-
tal will be substantially in excess of
the 1936 volume of $7.700.000, says
The Financial Post.
Factors pointing to a larger pro-
gram of bridge construction, from
which steel companies, cement pro-
ducers, metal fabricating industries
and timber dealers will benefit, in-
clude damage to bridges caused by
spring floods in Ontario, the Mari-
times and other areas. In addition, a
number of existing structures require
long overdue repair and maintenance
work.
New highways, embodying safety
features and two or three -lane traffic
channels, must also be equipped with
bridges of greater width than former-
ly, and in the highest cost brackets
are projected bridge spans at several
points between Canada and the United
States, contemplated or under con-
struction in anticipation of heavier
traffic across the international boun-
dary.
Milk used for making butter, both
creamery and dairy, in Canada in
1936 showed an increase of 169,819,-
900 pounds, or 2,1 per cent,, on 1935
when the amount used tees 8,143,-
583,100 pounds.
SPORT REPORTER
Did you know
that "Twenty
Grand and "War
Admiral" carried
Charlie Kurt -
singer past the
finish post at the
Kentucky Derby,
slaking the two
fastest Derby
rides.
Nowadays every-
one seems to be
out for records,
new and entirely different. Dave
Yack, the boxer, has one—He man-
aged to be the only boxer in many
a day to win the "daily double."
The Kentucky Derby has been won
three times by Earl Sande and Isaac
Murphy.
This year they are cutting down
the C.N.E. swim some more. The
race is to be outside the sea-wall, the
men going 10 mules, and the women
three, with $6,000 for the total prize
money for both.
In a few years they will probably.
be holding it at the Y.M.C..A., with a
cup for the first prize, just to make
it more exclusive.
Larry Gains, the colored Canadian
boxer, made between 1932 and 1934
nearly $50,000 in fights in England.
They say his biggest purse was•
around $13,000. He made this when
lie defeated Camera.
Gains, who has beaten most of the
heavyweights overseas, worked his
passage to England on a cattle boat
14 years ago.
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The slave girl watched herself from my grasp ant! I
heard her leap info the punt. "How little you understand
me, Cr. Petrie," she called. "Until the clock strikes, r^-
member!" I could near the creak of file treed., the drip cf
water from the polo. Painter grew t a sounds, a'.d
Ifainter . , b mai ay Mull rower told Ino Bell sr . -t., . ,
"What is her secret?"
muttered N e y l a n d
Smith beside ma.
"Why does she ding to
that monster, Fu Man-
chu?" I could not an-
swer. A thousand limes
I had tried fo reason out
iiia tie Mel boned her
ire the awful ?allow Man
The distant sounds
from th' u,,t d i a d
aw,,y entirely,
A clock began to strike
—if was the half-hour. In
an instant my handker-
chief was off, and so was
Smith's. We stood upon a towing -path along
the Thames. Away to the left the moon shone
upon the towers and battlements of an ancient
fortress. ". . It was Windsor Castle. ".
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"Half past tent" cried
Smith. He seized my
arm and set off ata run,
dragging me after him.'
In a daze over all that
had happened, the mission upon which we had
set out that evening had gone completely out
of my head.
"We have two hours to save Graham
Guthrie!" Smith panted.