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Zurich Herald, 1933-09-21, Page 6Voice of the Free Canada, The Empire and The World at Large N.i.J .. . , • Y R . r-1-m••J-64.•.YiiA 4-4-0.10 CANADA Smiling Service "Service with a smile" may have been overdone as a slogan in some cases, but Ws a nighty good one just the same. The store that is bright and cheerful and whose personnel from president to office boy is frendly, ac- commodating, optimistic, is the one more likely to win out—especially weien general business conditions are not up to the mark and something more than ordinary merchandising is demanded. We have never been able to under- stand, of course, why all businesses shouldn't be run in that way. It's much easier and much more pleasant to be cheerful and friendly than to take the opposite attitude. A smile costs noth- ing and usually' means a lot. A cheer- ful, accommodating atmosphere is in- valuable ht practically every line of business. Why don't more people cul- tivate it?—Border Cities Star. Can't Remember We can't remember a girl of -20 mar- rying a man of 60 at all—rich, poor or _ anything else. In Ontario in 1931 there were 8,020 girls of 20 and under who married, and only four of them mar- ried a pian in the 70-74 class. One boy under 18 married a woman of 38.— Torouto Star. Not Basis of Patronage There was only one passenger killed for every 3,000,000 carried on Canadian railways last year, according to the Dominion Bureau. of Statistics. Ob- viously patronage of the railways is not determined by the attractions of safety.—.Kingston Whig -Standard. Music and Happiness Perhaps nothing so brightens the day as the sound of band music in the streets or the parks. There is at once something stirring and soothing about open air band music, and those who have the public welfare at heart might well take time to consider its benefical effects, especially in times of business worry. Those who come here from other lands miss the fine open air concerts. Even in one-time gay, now sad Vienna, the citizens end their Summer days by listening to lovely music in historic gardens. In defiance of the times, the Germanic peoples appeared to have re- tained a part of their faculty for happy living. Music and pleasant surround- ings can do much to offset a day of stress.—Saskatoon Star -Phoenix. Sign of Civilization Millions of people in India watched in fear and trembling when they saw an eclipse of the sun. Of course they are not civilized like we are, otherwise they would have been around selling a two -cent bit of smoked glass for 15 cents.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. Too Much Interest Of a pedestrian who was struck by a motor car •on Main Street the other day,, it is stated that he was walking diagonally across the intersection, reading a newspaper, This is what comes of making newspapers so in- teresting.—Hamilton Spectator. London and Rural England Fred C. Kelly, a New York journal- ist, has been spending a holiday in Eur- ope, and has this to say about London and rural England: "Only a day in London this trip, and I spend most of the time just walking around taking in the rugged, substan- tial beauty of this grand city. Half the windows are filled with playthings for grown-up boys—saddles, bridles, fishing tackle, hunting outfits, and the best -looking shoes on earth. If I were vulgarly rich, I would come to London at least once a year just to buy shoes, shirts, and tweeds. It is a man's town. During a four-hour train ride from London to Hull, up toward Scotland, I haven't seen a rank weed, not one wire or board loose on a fence, not one fence post leaning out of Hue, and not a single eyesore of any kind. All England is kept like a neat little pri- vate estate."—St. Thomas Times -Jour- nal. Port Arthur Celery A market gardener of this neighbor- hood has been sending celery to Sault Ste. Marie. Celery is another of those things which it was supposed this dis- trict could not grow. The day may come when many centres which ob- tained their supplies from Southern Michigan evil get them from here.— Port Arthur News -Chronicle, The Return of Prosperity Without wishing to indicate an ex- aggerated optimism, without being tempted to mistake wishes for reali- ties, one can and one should recognize that there are many signs that busi- ness is picking up a little bit from day to day, Prosperity is not yet within our walls; but it is doming steadily towards us.--L'Eto#le du Nord, Joliette. Dangerous Kitchens The kitchen doesn't ordinarily seem like a dangerous place—except per- haps, when a truly inexpert cook .con - Coding indigestible dishes is hot and the cook doesn't wish to be disturbed. But there were 28,000 deaths last year from accidents which took place In the homes of the United States and fully 34 per cent. of these occurred in kitchens. Palls and scalds seem to be the most prolific sources of home se- cident% And while it is a bit difficult to see just how a safety code can be devised and enforced for the home, a little care and forethought in the midst of the daily round of activities ought to save a good many lives each year.— Chatham News. On the Streets Vancouver pedestrians may congrat- ulate themselves upon having had at least one o! their rights confirmed in court. A motorist has been fined for having failed to give a. pedestrian the right of way on a crossing, as required by the traffic by-law.' The by^ltw is quite specific on the question, Where the traffic at an. intersection is not con- trolled by police officers or lights, the pedestrian has the right of way. Where the traffic is controlled, a pedestrian crossing or starting to cross in accord- ance with a signal has the right of way over all vehicles, including those mak- ing turns.=Vancouver Province. THE EMPIRE Kindred Spirits The luncheon to the members of the Canadian Authors' Association will be remembered by the Scottish journal- ists perhaps as agreeably as by the Canadians for the Spirit of comrade- ship that prevailed. 'One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," but there is more than a touch of Scottish blood and sen- timent in the majority of Canadians, who are still inspired by Scottish love of adventure, Scottish grit and Scot- tish history, romance and literature. Dr. Howard Angus Kennedy struck the right note when he said that the story of Scottish explorers and dis- coverers in Canada would fill an Odys- sey, and that of the humble Scottish pioneer settlers would provide an epic greater than the Odyssey and the Iliad combined. Whilst modesty forbade Canadian authors to dilate on the achievements of their intellect, imag- ination, and literature he declared that the quality of their celebrated wheat and apples was no higher than the quality of their best productions in poetry and prose. Nova Scotia also has a link with Glasgow, which, too, has now been strengthened. A hundred years ago some Scottish heather, sent overseas, was planted and flourished wonderful- ly in Nova Scotian soil. Some of that heather was brought back last week to be planted in the Glasgow parks. May it take kindly to the soil of its progenitor!—Weekly Scotsman. Conceited I cannot tell you the best story I have heard this week. It concerns a well-known London actor who is so conceited that he bows whenever he hears a clap of thunder.—Critic in Lon- don New Statesman. Rail and Road It niay be said that the gradual de- flection from the rail to the road has now been arrested Last year passen- gers carried by the buses were slight- ly more numerous than those by rail- way. That "wastage" from the rail to the road is ceasing. There is no likeli- hood, however, that the railways will ever recover much of the lost short - distance traffic. - Long -journey traffic is still the field in which the railway remains supreme. The attack on its supremacy by the newer form of trans- port, aided by novelty, and especially by cheap fares, is now being success - full countered by the new policy of the railways in offering a fare which bears a closer relation to the economic capacity of the potential traveller than the high fares which have prevailed since the War. Had this policy been boldly adopted ten years ago, railway history would have been different in character.—Leeds Yorkshire Post. Britain's Heaviest Cat Peter, a six-year-old black Persian of Weymouth, claims to be the heavi- est cat in Great Britain. I should like to bring my cat, James, to your notice. He is a short -haired ginger cat, seven years old and weighs 22 pounds.—Let- ter to London News -Chronicle., THE UNITED STATES Planting Money Australia, strange as it may seem, is teaching its young people that money grows on trees. Under adult guidance, state school children of Victoria have set out 4,000 acres of saplings that will be worth $3,000,000 on maturity. Pro-, fits from the sale of bark and timber will be used to provide scholarships, libraries, radio and sports materials.— Christian Science Monitor. Labrador Huskies For Antarctic Trip Quebec. --.Norman Vaughan, execu-i tive officer of the second Antarctic expedition of Commander Be E. Byrd, is in Quebec supervising the! shipment from stere of '20 Labrador, huskies, which arrived on bdard the' SS. Sable I from the north shore. It was the second shipment to arrive from the Lower St Lawrence, more than 70 having been brought hero a .fortnight ago. Bridge Collapses Eight Killed Wreckage of the Golden State Limited is shown piled along enbankment of a small stream near Tucumcari, New Mexico, after a bridge gave way under the locomotive during a recent storm. • Eight were killed and many injured. First Woman to Enter Finals in Stiffest Test of Marksmanship Connaught Rifle Ranges, Ottawa.— Mrs. J. Neal Dow of Saint John, clear-eyed and petite isharpshooter, won the distinction of being the first woman to get into the final stage of the Governor -General's match in the Dominion of Canada Rifle Associa- tion's great annual meeting. Her husband one of the. best shots in Canada, didn't place in the finals. But Mr, and Mrs. Dow don't argue about that. Mrs. Dow, whose trim, five-foot six build of femininity is the anti -thesis of the veteran marksmen who clam- ber to the ranges loaded with guns, telee,copes, and heavily padded uni- forms, scored 99 out of a possible 105 in the qualifying stage. In the final stage Mrs. Dow wound up about half way, with a -core of 151 out of a possible 175, getting $5 • Lieut, J. Neal Dow shoots a mean i bull's eye but he is very much con- cerned these days about the youths he is coaching in the Cadet Corps In Saint John's. One of them, Donald McLeod, won the grand aggregate, which is very nearly. the stiffest test of marksman- ship that there is in Canada bar none. Small Island Near Australia Has Treasury Surplus Canberra, Australia. — Nauru a little Pacific island, •can afford to laugh at the depression. Its financial state, as described in an official re- port, shows: Public debt, none; revenue (at par), $98,342; expendi- tures, $75,014; accumulated funds of administration, $124746. Nauru has an area of 8.43 square miles and a population of 2,316. Phos- phate exportation is the only impor= tent local industry. Germans to Set Own Styles for Clothes Berlin.—The all-pervading nature of the activities of Germany's Gov- ernment overnment is illustrated by the creation of a German fashions office to en. deavor to substitute home for for- eign leadership in connection - with clothes for both men and women. This organization is to be pre- sided over in an honorary capacity by Frau Joseph Goebbels, wife of the Propaganda Minister. Board Rumored To Study Report St. John's Nfld.—Premier F. C. Alderice may •call a special session of the Legislature early in October to consider the report of the Royal Commission making an economic sur- vey of Newfoundland, according to unconfirmed reports in the capital. The commission, headed by Lord Amulree, is expected to have its re- port ready for presentation before the end of September. It was ap- pointed last winter after Great Britain and Canada assisted the islanded Dominion in meeting interest pay- ments on Newfoundland bonds. Madame Curie Refuses Interviews Madame Curie, the co -discoverer with her husband of radium, is the most inaccessible notability ever to attend League of Nations meetings at Geneva. During all the 11 years she has been attending the meetings of the League Commission on International Co-operation she has never once been. interviewed. She refuses even to chat with newspaper representa- tives. Althaiugh diligent • in attending the meetings of the ' Commission, and taking an active part, she rarely makes a speech, Canadian Co -al Chosen, to Heat Oshawa Schools Oshawa, Ont.—For the first time, Canadian coal will heat Oshawa s.dhools during the winter months. The special fuel commission appoint- ed by the Board of Education has let a contract for 1,150 toes of Nova Scotia coal at $5.85 a ton. The low- est tender for American coal was $6.1.0 a ton; The contract is divided among four local dealers. Married in Hospital Philadelphia.— Society note: the bride was attired in a tea -rose night- gown with lace -cuffed ,sleeves and had a bouquet of tea roses pinned over her -shoulder. Undaunted by an appendicitis operation, Miss - Margaret Laux, of Westfield, N.J., was married at the time she had set before she was stricken. Grill Williams of Cran- ford, N.J., was the bridegroom who stood beside her cot in a hospital and nearby was her bridal party. Cabbagetown Was Early Toronto's Name Cabbagetownens—three generations of descendants of original Torontoni- ans made a grand trecic to Hanlian's Point one day recently, for the first time ever to gather en masse for a picnic. The limits of Cabbagetown of the sixties were from the east side of Sherbourne street over to the west bank of the Don River and from the Lake front to the south side of Carlton ;..reet. This area lay northwards and east from the business section of the day, and east of the residential Jarvis- Sherbourne district. There seems to be unanimity of opinion that its title was conferred by virtue of the grow- ing of cabbages and other vegetables for domestic consumption. • Despite its vegetarian cognomen, Cabbagetown was most of early To- ronto, when Toronto was inhabited by Lwer than 40,000 persona. Canadian Exports to U.S. on Increase Ottawa. — Reported industrial re- coveries in the United States appear to have influenced Canadian exports to that country. -The July export, valued at $17,343,000, was the highest since December, 1931. It was $12,481,- 000 'in July, 1932, so that the increase is 43 per cent. Exports to the United States reach- ed their lowest point in April, when the total was $8,382,000. This was followed by $13,857,000 in May and $14,847,000 in June. The increase in the export of elec- tiic energy was from $166,000 to $266,- 000, but the gains were along almost the whole line of Canada's exports. The largest were in wood, woodpulp, shingles, planks and boards, . nickel, asbestos, raw hides, grains, fish, furs, raw wool, and acids. Eleven, Families Plan Co-operative Community Oalgary.—Eleven families with 15 children will form a co-operative com- munity if the Alberta Government will grant them some land. Heads of the families have been out of 'work for some time. The families ask for relief grants for a year, their rent allowances to be applied to the purchase of lumber and building materials. Tidal Wave Follows Revolution It it is not one thing it's another, down in Havana. Cuba. They just get over a revolution and then tidal wave threatens the city. Photo shows the streets flooded by seawater that swept through the :•Ity after the tropical hurricane that took a tali of six lives and injured sixty prone, 'Canadian' Becomes New Langt age Linguists Offered New Field to Conquer New Course Introduced London.—,Linguists searching for new .hosts to conquer now can turn their talents to learning "Canadian", For the laughter ' of a Canadian University has caused a London coin - puny which teaches languages by Phonograph to give its official rep cognition to this new "language." The company, the Linguapeone In. stitute, has had to withdraw its-. special spoken course in English, with which it was presumed to teach French Canadians how to speak the English language, and supplant it by a new course on which the accent is firmly American. The original course, in which two of the most popular English broad- casters participated, represeeting all that was best in the language of the educated Englishman, was greet- ed with roars of laughter when play- ed to a large class in a Montreal un- versity, It was firmly pointed out to the company's secretary that Canadiaub in Montreal and visitors from abroad, had no wish to be taught English with an Oxford accent. They want. ed to learn Canadian English In Central Europe too there is an increasing demand for the teaching of English with the American accent by the numberless people with busi- ness relations in America, as well as by those who are about to go across • the Atlantic. To meet these demands the new course has been made, In place of the alleged "haw haw" of the English voices has been substituted the strong flavor of America in the per sons of Mr. Cesar Saerchinger, Eur. opean • manager of the Columbia Broadcasting System and Mr, Clad stone Murray, a Canadian radia speaker now in England. British Industry G•:y.inIlngGro nd 57,000 More Workers Secure Jobs August Figures Reveal London,—With improved business conditions "felt by more than half a dozen key industries 650,000 British unemployed have found work during the past year, according to statistics just made known. During the month ending August 21, unemployment figures have shown a drop of 31,038, with the total num, ber of employed having increased 57,000. Unemployed in England now total 2,511,137. - Improved conditions have been en perienced chiefly by iron, steel, gen, eraI engineering, shipbuilding and re pairing, .shipping, electrical apparatus wool and textile, coal mining ant'' building industries. Hotels and boarding houses are also reporting a pick-up in business. Woman Trusty "Brings Saws Into Jail" Hugo, Okla.—A woman "trusty" ie a paradox, not to say anathema, in the eyes of the Hugo jailer. Martha Wright, the "trusty," wall sent to town on an errand, which she performed, and returned to the jai; all right. But, in addition to he; "trusty" self, she brought six hack saw blades. Her fellow prisoners declined to tell where the saws were hidden and now are on a bread and waiter diet. Offi cers said, however, they had found five of then. Thresher Catches Hand Two Fingers Taken Off Belleville, Ont. — Charles Stewart of Rawdon Township, was assisting about a threshing machine when his right hand was caught in. a gear, Two fingers were so badly crushed as to cause amputation. James Horrigan, 10, son of James Horrigan, of Marlbank, while visiting William Rush, near Tweed, was severely injured when he fell from a wagon, a wheel of which passed oven his head. His skull was fractured. Has 200,000,000 Jobless Peiping.—Half the population of China, some 200,000,000 persons, ars unemployed, a survey reveals. The ministries of finance and industry are in conference to consider relief Is the regionsstrickenby the recent Sino-Japanese warfare. Twins Play One Film Role Hollywood.—In order to comply with the California law which. limits the working time of a baby to two hours a day, twins have been hired by the Fax studio to play the •Same role fit a picture now under produc- tion. Inventor of Vaseline Passes at Age 'ot 9 Spring Lake, :N.J.---Robert Augus- tus Chesobrough, the man who invent- ed vaseline, is dead at the ago of 06, Ile •st,ceumbed after a short illness, Icor 50 years he had manufactured the product he invented.