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Zurich Herald, 1938-07-21, Page 61Coinmentary on the Inigblights of the Week's New THE NEXT SESSION: The r, mouse of eanunons at tltt.tvva le,leal,not afford to remain up for :'long. There's •i new C:inada-Unit- ,'ed State• trade agreement in the Offing, the pt•(*seere of vcolla events is large Goneeet:"ated than ever before, 1'''t will likely revot:ven:: it doesn't, i, should . The next seeeien aetereet help but be intercede:;. the mean- time the Quebec and Ontario io pro- 'vincial governmeate will have shot off a few fireworks, most eta- bart•assing to Ottawa, attcl ruueors of an early ge:.:.ra1 c1 e:ion will have become incroasegiy persist- ent throughout the Ian:;. Who knows 'cut that it may be a momentous se sh'n, too, capable of reshaping the ;iesiny of Can- aria? Maybe so, but we very much 'doubt it. * * w OUT TO BEAT NATURE: The Weer is rating the best crop prospects in eight years, but while locking forward with much joy to a oe::n.ifu; harvest, prairie far- ar:c rs nevertheless are mindful that there is to guarantee that the blight of drought will not strike again next season. They are grateful, then, fer the work that is being acre by the Dominion (. ovel•'_ ere^.- r..s produce a grain that will stand - against a leek of pec.- . e. Tee first Canadian exl'et•iments eeateth cif sit h a wheat are be:` carried on on at Swift Current, Saskatchewan. The scientists at work on the job haven't progressed very far yet, but they believe they are on the right track. Should they suc- ceed in finding a drought -resist - art wheat, they will receive as nlu:h recognition as came to Sir Charles Saunders for discovering Marquis wheat. This famous grain overcame the menace of early freers, but could not withstand the onslaughts of rust and drought. Ns«v, rust -resistant wheat has sup- ers,.k.Ied Marquis on the prairies. Thus only one of the three ma- - jor crop enemies remains to be o:-ercome. Once this objective is achieved, the Canadian West should be unconquerable. * * * ESCAPING THE HEAT: Down here in Ontario we have plenty of reason to complain of the heat these summer days. We pant, puff, perspire from dawn to dark. %Ve would feel less sorry for our- selves, however, if we paused to By Elizabeth Eechy think of what it would be like to live in the Arctic regions, where the sun shins 24 hours a day and night -thug brings no blessed cool - Be thankful for small mercies. �+ * * LIFE -- LINE THREATENED: The London, England, News Chronicle this week makes start- ling disclosure ( f a plan allegedly cooked up by the two partners of the Rome -Berlin axis which aims at the closing of the Mediterran- ean to Great Britain and a cutting off of the 1`;mpire Cape route to the Far East. This doable objec- tive would be achieved by the seizure of Gibraltar (already dominated by German long-range guns) ; by having General Franco tshould he win the Spanish war) turn and seize Portugal (Gibral- tar ennnot be held without Portu- gal), The purpose behind the plan is said to be the crippling of both Britain and France, the latter being cut off from her important army reserve in North America, HOLY LAND'S UNHOLY ROW: The worst troubles in recent Pales- tine history broke out there the beginning of this month with the hanging of a 19 -year-old Jew who had ambushed an Arab bus. Riots have been continuing ever since while casualty lists mount daily. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds wounded. In the midst of this reign of terror British troops are attempt- ing to restore some kind of order. Soldiers are stationed in every village in the zone of violence, but bombings, stabbings keep on happening. For hundreds of years the Arabs and the Jews have been hostile to one another. They each want the Holy Land to • them- selves for religious as well as economic reasons. The partition- ing of Palestine among Jews, Arabs and British as recommended last summer by a British Com- mission has therefore not been found popular. In fact the pres- entation of the report was a sig- nal for the outbreak of new vio- lence. It is difficult to see where it is all going to end. * * THE WEEK'S QUESTION: Who is frequently said to be the most unpopular diplomat in Eur- ope? Answer: Colonel Josef Beck, Poland's Foreign Minister, Educate Indians Tc. Ho?Pze'kee it j Saskatchewan Seeks to Aid In- dian Families in Raising Standard of Living—Women Taught Housecraft. Education of Indian women in household arts, with a view to promoting a higher standard of living among the tribes, has been undertaken by the Saskatchewan Department of Indian Affairs with the co-operation of women's Clubs, states a recent despatch from Winnipeg. "The Indian woman has more influence over her husband than the white woman has over hers," claimed Dr. Thomas Robertson, Inspector of Indian Agencies in Saskatchewan, "In the past not enough attention has been paid them. Money has been spent on nen for farming equipment and improvements, but the depart- ment now aims at a higher stand- ard of living through women's education. Eager to Learn "Requests of Indian women that meetings sponsored by the department be devoted to work shows the interest they are tak- ing in their work," Dr. Robertson said. "Indian women, young and old, are eager to learn." .At the meetings they are be- ing instructed in sewing, knitting, canning, cooking and other household arts. Dr. Robertson be- lieves craft work has improved 50 per cent. in litany Indian homes in the past two years. Children are learning to spin in schools and are teaching others in homes. Move to Save The Wild Fowl Canadians Are Asked to Co-op- erate. With American Sports- men. NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — Canadians were urged to co-oper- ate with American sportsmen in their fowl: conservation efforts by E. D. I.ussenho t of Winnipeg, as- sistant general manager of "Ducks ;Unlimited, In an address here, He Bald United- States workers could not carry ant their extensive campaign without assistance from Canadians because of the large number of ducks hatched in this Country. Ducks Unlimited "We believe we can multiply ducks to an almost unlimited extent and with your co-operation we are going to put forth our best efforts," Russeuholt said. He cited the ex- perience of the state of Maine which, through 40 years of game conservation, now has an annual revenue of $25,000,000 from fish and game. Gas Meters In Taxis The Japanese are getting anxi- ous about their war against China. They've just decided to ration their petrol supply, In fu- ture, motorists may purchase only one gallon of petrol a day—taxi- drivers may have seven. Taxi fares doubled when this rationing was announced. And as a result of these new "gas" restrictions, all taxi-cags will be fitted with meters, to pre- vent overcharging. Argentina's exports gained nearly 40 per cent. in value last year. Radium M st Be Coaxed From Ore OTTAWA, -- The method by which Canada's sub -Arctic deposits of life-saving radium are ''coaxed" out of the pitch-bleude ore mined on the shore of Great Bear Lake near the Arctic Circle ha\'e been . revealed for "o first time. Marcel Pochon, chief chemist, of the Eldorado Gold Mines, Limited; ani E. J. Vval1i, miue engineer, des- cribed to the American Association for the Advancemeut of Science at its summer meeting the ni.ethods used iu mining, transporting and refining radium. It's Roasted First Radium might be called a "coy element, the Eldorado company spe- cialists declared, since it is very difficult to e tract from the other valuable minerals which occur in combination with it. In early refin- ing operations, silver was consid- ered a nuisance in efforts to pull the radium out of the pitchblende ore, Today, however, these and other difficulties have been largely aver-- eome by new chemical methods em- ployed in a recently completed re- finery at fort IIope, Ont„ and both the radium and silver can be ex- tracted without waste, The ore is first, roasted in fur- naces and washed with large quan- titles of acid to remove the silver and uranium. The ore which re- mains is then treated with tremen- dous quantities or barium and che- mical which physicians introduce into the stomach and intestines as a contrast material in making X- ray photographs. Radium Salt is Left The barium is the "coaxing" mat- erial which pulls radium into af- finity with itself, Pochon explained, . but 7,50C grams of barium mus+ be used to pull one gram of radium out of hiding in the ore, A total of six tons of chemicals must be used to treat one ton of sencentvated ore.' THE WORLD AT LARGE E of the CANADA THE EMPIRE CANADA They Know the Sounds Some women who hear a znan prowling around the house at four a.m. are frightened; others are married to men who fish.—Victoria Times. Doing Double Duty When the haying season is on the eight-hour day gets sadly neglect- ed. It looks more like one eight- hour day before noon and then an- other in the afternoon.—Peterbor- ough Examiner. Summer Brings Its Problems Europe may have its worries over bomb -proof shelters and gas masks but we've our problems too. Once more 10,000,000 Canadians face Summer and no one has invented a true mosquito -proof pair of pyja- mas. ---Ottawa Journal. Breeders of Dictatorship Where dictatorship has come, It has come by reason of the failure of men to govern themselves. It is likely to come—because there is no other probable alternative --wher- ever nations show themselves too tired, careless or uncourageous for the disciplines and exertions of freedom.—Vancouver Province. Rural Viewpoint Wanted Modern transport, press and film are creating in England what Earl Baldwin describes as a "standardiz- ed suburban mechanized mind." We already have too much of that here, Rural people accept all too placidly the urban viewpoint, and whole- some rural independence is becom- ing inarticulate.—Farmer's Advo- cate. World-wide Soil Erosion Great Britain is making an inves- tigation of soil erosion in all parts of the world and will issue a bulle- tin being prepared by the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science and of Herb- age Plants. In it will be disclosed how much damage is being caused the world's food supplies by soil erosion, and different attempts to. fight the menace will be discussed. Reports so far received in London show that the problem affects Af- rica, China, India, Australia, Rus- sia, all round the Mediterranean, the Dutch East Indies and the Brit- ish West Indies as well as the mid- western states of America and the prairie provinces of Canada. Iu,Af- rice it has been caused by over- grazing, in Australia by over-gran- iug and rabbits, and in China and Italy by deforestation.—St. Thomas Times -Journal. Bring It Into The Open Ontario and Quebec are the rich- est of the provinces. They have many natural advantages. As the West sees the situation, they are also the chief beneficiaries of the national fiscal policy, Their pros- perity, as it looks to the rest of Canada, perfectly exemplifies the scriptural saying that "to him that hath -shall be given." It was to be expected that, of all the provinces, they would be the least interested in a study of the federal system which might lead to changes. They are naturally for the status quo. The Prairie and Maritime Provin- ces are just as naturally reformist and, therefore, eager to present ar- guments and statistical statements tending to show a need for change. It has been suggested that the in- quiry has produced or encouraged sectional feeling in Canada. That is clearly not so. The cleavage ex- isted before the Rowell Commission was thought of. And the national interest is obviously better served by an open debate on this differ- ence of opinion than by efforts to hush it up by singing "0 Canada!" Winnipeg Free Press. The .EMPIRE On Retiring Today If a man enjoys his work, and he is physically and mentally equal to doing it efficiently, there are very good reasons why he should go on working. And these reasons are re- inforced in the case of men who are so single-minded that their work is also their hobby. But for the most part; and particularly today when the means of recreation and amuse- ment are so readily available in so many different forms, the average man, one imagines, would be happy to retire at GO if he were able to continue living in modest comfort. The old conception of the dignity of labor has been weakened by the in- troduction into offices and factories of machines that can do as much work in a day as a man can do in three. Work has become in many ways less satisfying to the individ- ual than it,,used to be. Craftsman- ship has decayed, and one cannot expect a workman to take so much pride and pleasure in operating a machine that manufactures a sin- gle unit as his grandfather did in making the whole job himself by hand.—Glasgow Herald. .5#.y., ... . sae-;• , i. Siefr Yiri R G feeoie elrte lie ye74ry E?E NEW 11 ,4.14144ap4;•11.4 11:414.:+ 4.1P:4141.:0:11 .70 1:6 4,4610.10400i14A4 16 P. 4ti4441111,10:410104.0�4' Seem :ett Xele KONRAD HENLEIN North America has its Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy; Europe at the present moment is being treated to a similar exhibi- tion of ventriloquism by two no less prominent figures than Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein. Hitler speaks but the words appear to come from the mouth of Henlein, who as leader of the Sudeten Ger- man party in Czechoslovakia, is calling for union with Geizmany. Henlein is only 40 years old. Nevertheless he fought in the Aus- trian army (like Hitler) during the Great War, was wounded on the Trentino front, captured by the Italians and sent to a little island in the Mediterranean where he mastered the Czech language, became an adept at gymnastics. After the peace treaties, he found his native town was now part of the newly -created Czechoslovakia, and he himself, born of German stock, was one of the minority. Organized Athletic Unions Henlein worked as a bank clerk for a while, became dissatisfied and took up the teaching of gym- nastics at Asch, near the German border, His rise from obscurity was swift. Henlein went from town to town in his capacity of gym - nasties teacher, organizing unions of German-speaking athletes — (Turnvereins) in opposition to the Czech -speaking "sokols" From 1925 on Henlein incorporated a great many of Hitler's ideas in the new organizations and mould- ed his men into veritable "storm troopers." In October of 1933 Henlein formed the Sudeten Deutsche Par - tel when the Czech Gov. dissolved the German Nazi and Nationalist parties. Two years later, his party met with tremendous success in the elections, formed the second largest bloc in the Czech parlia- ment. The Man Unmasked At that time,-Henlein still pre- tended to support democracy but the mask began slipping. He made innumerable visits to Berlin, con- sulting with General Goering and other Nazi officials. In October, 1937, he openly asked for auton- omy for the German minority in Czechoslovakia. Secure in the knowledge that he i:, backed by Hitler, the once unknown gymnastics teacher has gone on from threat to threat. The two demands he now makes are: autonomy for the German minority in Czechoslovakia; a change in the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia which would in- clude abandonment of its alliances with France and Soviet Russia. No Martyr, He In June, 1938, Henlein was charged with treason, but the ac- cusation was almost immediately withdrawn since the Czech govern- ment has no desire to make a martyr of him. The picture at the head of the column shows Henlein, medium- sized, short-sighted, athletic, leav- ing his hotel in London, England in May when he called on certain British diplomats seeking their sympathy and support. Remarkable Dog Good Policeman Mongrel Stops Other Canines Chasing Autos Few dogs have the intelligence of Major, a mongrel owned by Bob- by McConnell of Lanigan, Sask., 76 miles east of Saskatoon. Adept at the usual begging, roll- ing and shaking paw tricks, Major has also learned to prevent other dogs from running after automo- biles. Early in his life Major was rep- rimanded by Master Bobby for chasing cars and he learned his lesson well. Now he acts as con- stable to the other dogs by should- ering them from the road when au- tos pass. Warns of Fire On one occasion the dog spotted a fire. His antics aroused work- men and the building was saved. Every morning and noon Major escorts the neighborhood children to school, often carrying their books. Major has learned to carry wood into the house but insists on a re- ward for his efforts. Once the ex- pected reward was not forthcoming so IVlajor calmly picked up the wood and took it out of the house. Poverty Common In Newfoundland ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. — Newfound- land's employment problem gener- ally has failed to improve during the last six months despite high hopes held at the beginning o®f the year 1938. Of a total population of about 29Q000, 50,000 persons are on able-bodied relief and many others are very near it. More than 12,000 fishermen are without supplies or any other means of support. In some cases discontent at their lot — poverty, hardship, the dole has driven people to open protest against conditions. Reasons for Hard Times The four are: Suspension of the Candor development because of changes in plans of the English newsprint company, Bowater -Lloyd, Limited, fathers of the proposals; delay in conclusion of general sea - foods agreement with the commis- sion of government; setback in the herring -reduction operations of the Santa Cruz Oil Company owing to lack of herring in Placentia Bay; and curtailment of forestry opera- tions. On Mistress Alice - Oliver Here sleeps, past earth's awaken- ing, A woman, true as pretty; Who was herself in every thing;, And wise no less than witty. Her lightest turn of foot—hand— head Was way of wind with water; So with her thoughts and all she said— It was her heart had taught her. 0 thou most dear and loving soul, Think not I shall forget thee; Nor take amiss what here is writ For those who never met thee! —Walter de -la Mare, in The Lyric. Manufacturers of Britain in- creased production $64,000,000 last year. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ What do you mean, allies?" asked. the King. "I'll explain," said Guph, "You're going to attack a Mighty country, They haven't much of an army in Oz„ but Oznra has a fairy wand and your magic belt, and in the south of the 1!im- erald City lives a Soreerees named Glleda. Also there le a wizard who is very good and It will be no easy thing to overoonli'e all this magic." "We have fifty thousand sold ers!" cried the King, proudly, "Yes, but they are m,mes," remarked Guph, knocking the ashes out of his pipe on the King's chest. "(Moines are Imutortais, but: they are not very strong on magic. Whom you lost your magic belt, most of your magic power was taken, Agahisl Oznia you and your gnomes would have no show at all." The king's eyes Seabed angrily. "'Tee away you go to the slicing machine!" he cried. "Not yet," said the general, filling his pipe from the King's tobacco pouch. "What will you do?" asked the Monarch, "1 propose to obtain the Powi'•r we need," answered Guph. "There are many evil creatures who hitve sufiteieiit power to con- (quer anti destroy the Land of OZ. We will get then; on our side and then take Ozina and her people by surprise." The Kingwas delighted with this idea for he realized how clever It was. "Truly, Guph, you are tits greatest general I have ever had!" he exclaimed, his' eyes sparkling with joy. "You go at once and make arrangements with the evil powers to assist us and meantime 191 begin to dig 'the tunnel," "I thought you'd agree with me, King," replied the gnome. "1'11 start this very afternoon to vise{ the chief of the Whimsies."