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Zurich Herald, 1933-12-21, Page 6..,,..,—,,,,.........„...........„,.....,...,..........—.. ,1 . Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire anal The World at Large CANADA that his birthplace was not In what is Crime News now a thickly populated section of Dr. . Parkes Cadman, noted sec- the province. It was Fort Vermilion turer and preacher, presented an inter- on the lower Peace River, which is esting thought upon the publication of even now some 300 miles from a rail - crime uews in a recent speech. He way line. The northern areas have a said: "It is not the publicity 'which larger share in our very early history should, distress us, but the deeds that than the southern. Mr. Ross had led covet concealment. If their wicked- a very active We and had had a great ness were done in secret, how they variety of experiences. — Edmonton would flourish. Rogues could strut Journal. among us unashamed and thieves and For British Christmas assassins commit their acts with far less fear of detection." Every news- Like Oliver Twist the British people paper can produce ovidenco of the want more—more Canadian turkeys. value of publicity as a deterrent to They tried them last year by the crime by the number of requests thousands for Christmas and liked which are made from time to time to them with the result that the British keep names out of the paper in cou- market asked for generous shipments flection with police court news, show- this year from Canada. The larger per- ing that publicity is a punishment centage went of to Britte ain Canadian re nmturkeye Ps that which is feared —Chatham News. Provinces — Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Turkey raising has in recent years developed into quite a considerable industry in Canada, par- ticularly in the four western provinces where the climatic conditions seem to be particularly suitable to producing a bird of the best flavor. There are more than 2,478,000 turkeys on Cana- dian anadian farms, an increase in ten years of nearly 1,500,000.—Canada Week By Week. With Continued Stories Human teeth 500,000 years old have been dug up in China, so you can imagine the age of the magazines they'll find when they discover the rest of the dentist's office.—Border Cities Star. Startling Loss in Traffic It is announced that T.T.C. traffic has fallen another 10 per ceut. in 1533 and the city system now carries only 146 million passengers per annum where it was carrying 206 million four Tears ago. Where there used to be ten passengers there are only seven to -day, and, if the decline continues, one-third of the boom -time traffic will have disappeared. Traffic is already down to where it was in 5912, when the Toronto railway covered only half the present city and served only 400,000 people.—Toronto Star. Lumbering in New Brunswick The departmental estimate of the cut this winter on both private and Crown lands is placed at 350,000,000 feet, or practically double that of last winter. Sawlogs are expected to con- stitute more than two-thirds of this amount, the balance being pulpwood, poles, shingle blocks and other small- er items. Pulp and paper mills have been working to greater capacity than a year ago, and are thus creating a wider demand for wood. From the standpoint of employment, these con- ditions mean work for more men than are employed in the woods. The rail- waymen, stevedores, and port workers all benefit rom the handling of these products.—Saint John Telegraph -Jour- nal. Modern Kitchen "Cleanliness is the first requisite of a modern kitchen," says a writer. Per- haps, but a can -opener runs it a close • secand.—Ottawa Citizen. Merited Penalty In a London police court a man was fined £5, with the alternative of 21 days in prison, "for causing unneces- sary suffering to two canaries by omit- ting to g:ve them proper care and at- tention." That is the British way. And all bird -lovers will agree that the pun- ishment was not one whit too severe. People who neglect helpless little creatures should not be permitted to keep them at all.—Halifax Herald. Maritime Hogs So far as the Maritimes are con- earned, it is on the records that the breeds of hogs produced here—largely pure bacon hogs—are more acceptable to the British market than are those raised in the West,—Saint-John Tele- graph -Journal. Trade With the North 010 Ontario must learn that there should be a trade reciprocity with the northern part of the province. By fail- ing to recognize us as a source of sup- ply or steel, newsprint and lumber, Old. Ontario is just cutting its own trade throat, as well as ours. Who is to blame for this state of affairs? Our- selves—we don't go out and tell South- ern Ontario about ourselves. We must do this for our own good as well as for Old Ontario's good.—Sault Star. Prime Western Beef There is continual complaint that prices received for beef cattle and other meat animals in Western Can- ada are too low. The fact is that the West produces far less of export quality animals than could be profit- ably exported, and at the same time produces a continual surplus of stuff that is not good enough for export. The result is that the low -quality stuff must be worked off at distress prices on the local market.—Winnipeg Tri- bune. Liindberghs Cross South Atlantic r S y "2 V•''n .yrEZ''c i 2 y,'.' a.�. srz z y•.. wt .,<q:iv.,�.. .p . f,fi.zY^FC'k.tt.i"` The flying sweethearts hop across the pond to Brazil. Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindberg • seen just prior to their flight from Bathurst, West Africa to Natal, Brazil, where they were greeted by an enthusiastic populace. Distance covered during course of flight 1,870 miles." A Thrifty State Australians living in the state of 'Victoria seem to have a record for thrift in the British.Empire. Most every hank depositor has a savings account averaging $315. Moreover, there are 1,810,000 people in Victoria and 1,272,000 of them have accounts in the Government State Savings Bank. There is also a Commonwealth Government Savings Bank, so that the proportion of savers May be still larger. The amount at credit of de- positors in the State Savings Banks of Victoria at June 30, 1933, was $301,- 130,355, or $8,223,340. more than the depositors' balance in June, 1932.— Brandon Sun. Oddities of English Consider our English tongue, If stuff is sent by ship, it's a cargo. If it comes by car, It's a shipment.—Re- gina Leader -Post. Diphtheria Immunization Children from one to six years of age were taken to the clinics in Three Rivers last week to be immunized against diphtheria. Immunization of school children of from six to ten years is being carried out on a regular schedule. Immunization against diph- theria is not obligatory, but it is atrongiy recommended by the medical profession and has already proved very rich iu results. Big towns .like .Ottawa and Montreal—and New York first of all—have practised it and found it entirely satisfactory. — Le Nouvelliste, Three Rivers. To -morrow's Trains It is estimated that. It costs at least one dollar a,mile to operate a passen- ger train of the cheapest kind, without Pullman cars, Nov;, they're starting to build streamline trains of Iight ma- terial. that can be run for about 55 cents a miles --Woodstock Sentinel. Review— . First White Man Born in Alberta Many must have been astonished to learn that John Ross, whose death was announced recently, was the first .white pian born in what Is now Alberta, Nor had he reached a very old age; being only 09. A vivid re- minder is thus afforded of how recent has been the development of this part Of the west. it should also be noted aerial armament has at last been crossed. This flying -boat is the first service airplane to carry a heavy gun firing high explosive aliens.—Man- chester Guardian. Overstocked Professions We ,have the advantage over the countries of Europe of living in a country whose development has only just commenced. It will be enough if we start a real back -to -the -land move- ment and if we expand our little indus- tries, for flourishing centres to spring up in the Province, where lawyers, doctors and notaries can live comfort- tbly, provided they can escape the 11- lusory attractions of the big towns, where too many of then are at pre- sent dying of hunger. The crisis in the liberal professions is closely con- nected with the abnormal distribution of the population between the town and the country, and the day a just balance has been struck between them the professional classes will only have to make a judicious choice of their subjects and turn their steps to the little centres, for the troubles to dis- appear which are now vexing the world.—L'Illustration, Montreal. THE UNITED STATES Canada's Army Canadian army is limited to 20,801. The one is to guard the international boundary line between the United States and Canada,—Omaba World - Herald. "Empty Emblems of Defeat" Go to 21 Nations Stratford, Ont.—Fifteen years after their victory in the war which Was to end war, 21 members of the Strat-• ford branch of the Canadian Legion recently surrendered their victory medals with a request that they be sent to the finance ministers of 21 nationals—allied and enemy alike -to be melted down into metal "and swal- lowed with all other rewards of armed conflict in payment of the war costs of the world." The medals will be sent to the tin- ut ee ministers of Canada, Great Bri- tain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Russia, Italy, Ger- many, Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria. Roumania, United States of America, Japan, Portugal, Spain Belgium, Greece, Serbia and India. The following message in' Eaglis r German and French will accompany each medal: "Fifteen years ago we laid dowe our arms, victorious over the forces of greed, nationalism, armament end W. Our victory was rewarded with these victory medals. Today, nation- alien flourishes, breed is rampart, armaments menace our hones and war impends, The fruits of our vic- tory have vanished. There remains to us who fought, nothing but our memories and. :meals, and the wee.. debts. "The memories, we bhali ever cher- ish. The victory medals, now empty emblems in defeat, we surrender, one to each combatant nation, to be melt• ed down into metal, and .swaliowed with all other rewards of armed con- flict in payment of the war costs of the world. THE EMPIRE Train Tours The awakening of the railway com- panies to the possibility of hitherto untried methods of putting their tracks and their 'carriages to good use has not been without results this year. Touring trains, which serve at the same time as means of transport and hotels, have taken excursionists on short and long trips to Scotland, Wales, Cumberland and other dis- tricts.—London Spectator, Less Excuse For Accidents The driver will have lees excuse than ever for dangerous driving. The less attention a driver has to give to the mechanism of his vehicle, the more attention slioild he be able to pay to events an the roa1; and the more responsive his car is to breaking and acceleration, the easier should it bo for him to maintain a wide margin between himself and the risk of acci- dent: The modern motor oar is a fine Piece of work, a mechanical thorough- bred; if all motorists wero Worthy of their ears there would be very few accidents. --Leeds Yorkshire Post. A Flying Battleship On Tuesday a flying -boat was launch- ed at Brough, Yorkshire, which may well revolutionize the conditions of air warfare. For years journalists in search of the grandiose havelo;yed to use some such phrase as "battleship of the air"; usually the naive was more impressive 'tlran the delicate contrail- Coes of wire and canvas to which It was optimistically applied. But in this new Blackburn '•'Yertb"• 11 does 'seem as ,though one great dividipir line in True grace is natural, not artificial, because however strenuously you strive to gain it, when' it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.—F. D. Hunte it gton. "Transplanted" Bison Toronto Council of Thriving in Alaska Women Tries to Aid . Fairbanks, Alaska. -- The snort of Unemployed Girls the buffalo is heard to -day on the stamping grounds where his ances tars perished many thousands of years ago, because Uncle Sans is a good "transplanter.". The last buffalo in the Territory was exterminated in the Pleistocene Age by great glaciers from the North, scientists say, but in 1928 the Alaska Game Commission and the Federal Bureau of Biological Survey brought a few bison from Montana to the Jar- vic Creek fiats, southeast of here. The Department of Agriculture re- ported to -day that the animals have increased until they number sixty. The nearest wild buffalo to the herd here new live in the region of Great Slave Lake, in the Mackenzie Valley of Central Canada, 1,000 miles to the southeast. Ride in Plane Cure For Common Cold? Chicago. --An airplane ride ie now foreseen as a possible cure for the so-called "common cold". • Dr. Haider Carlson said: "Pilots and stewardesses and Other persons who have must to do with airplanes !have always believed that a high night would cure a cold and .nutner- uos airplane officials have asked me • about this belief. We n'iade sone further observations among passeng- ers, and we have revealed some 50 of thein who have left Chicago with colds in various stages, from the .sniffles' on, arrived at Newark, N.J., airport with their colds entirely gone." British Novelist • Passes in China London.—Stella Benson, a1, tl!e British novelist, was reported in pri- vate message received in Loudon to have died from pneumonia in Hougah, Tongki.n, China, where ahe had been living for some trove past with her husband, J. C. O'Goimar. Anderson of the Chinese customs eervice. Her "Tait Transplanted," published in 1931, won the Femina VI Henrense prize award of 1032. She was born Jan. 6, 1892, in Shropshire, England. We ar-e told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! --J. Ptit-Senn. H.Mo d Dundee ........ ... . To Veit Peru Will Pass Up Amazon River Early Next Year Montreal, --se romantic and adven- turous voyage up the alligator-in- feste,d 'waters of the Amazon river will be made early next year by Hiss Meiesty's ship Dundee, a s]oop or the America and. West Indies squad., mon, it was learlesd When. i.he visited this port recently, One of the most recent additions to the Royal Navy, the Dundee will steam seine 2,300 miles up the Amason totiie town of Iquitos, capital of the Peru vi.en etate of Bajo Andazonaa, were ,she meet a flotiifa of the Peeuv a'u Ni vy. Situated a short distauce r:-ai.t the borders of Eere dor and Colom 'In. the ttl',vn of lqult0s .bas a population of 'sheet 20,000 and thrives on the ex- port of rtrbher, cotton, limber, nuts a.nd ivory. H.M.S.. Dundee is armed with one ' four -inch awn, one four•inrh anti- aircraft gun and four three pounders and is commaded by Capt. W. 11. G. Pallowfleld. Giving its statement the title of "Bread Before Christmas Gifts," the Toronto council of women, puts its case in behalf of the unemployed girl in this manner. "In view of the great distress among single, unemployed business girls we appeal to the girl with a good home who does Christmas work an- nually for pocket money to consider the unemployed, and often hungry and cold, girls. We also ask the mer- chants in engaging help for the Christmas trade to give the prefer- ence to those who are in need of em- ployment, rather than those Who work to add to their spending money." The statement issued by the coun- cil was precipitated by the announce- ment of a council member that her daughter had made the statement that she was going down town to look for a job. Her mother in discussing the matter with her found that several young women in similar positions of comfort had the same idea of making a little extra pocket money. Her own, daughter was shown her duty in the matter, and being foresighted the par- ent decided to invite the co-operation of the council in gaining -the co-opera- tion of the public in general and the merchant's in particular in this effort to give the nemployed girl an oppor- tunity. Resolutions also were passecl de- claring that the Toronto Local Coun- cil of women "(1) Deplores the exist- ing deficient situation in children's Aid Work in the province of Ontario; the absence of properly qualified stasis for such important work, and the evi- dent non -enforcement of the Child Welfare legislation. • "(2) Requests the Ontario Council of Women to give prominence to this very urgent matter at the annual meeting, affecting as it does the pres- ent and future welfare of countless unfortunate children. "(8) Requests the Ontario Council of Women to ask the Provincial Gov- ernment overnnment to carry out, without further delay, the recommendations of the Royal Commission of the province on Child Welfare." All cheese was made on farms be Canada until the year 1564, when the first cheese factory was started in Ox- ford County, Ontario. British Threat • United States' many t.uccessfel detentes of America's cup may come to an end when T. 0, M, Sop. rritlr"5 new all -metal clrallc.tt:,d r, g r •' the i'lrndeavole crosses the Atlantic next year. Here's the 06 -ton keel being cast at Gosport, Eilee id. Pennsylvania Takes Oxford Holsteins One of the largest consignments of Holstein tattle taken from Canada recently for export to the United States was made by C. S. Erb mixt Co., Middletown, Pa. The following Oxford breeders contributed to the slhipment: Ono from G. F. Cuthbert; Ingersoll; one from R. J. Mitchell, Mt. Elgin; eight from Abel W. Siple, Norwich; five from F. H. Harris, Embro; one from Staunton Bros., Woodstock; one from W. W. Nanceki- vell, Ingersoll; two from M. H. Haley and Son, Springford; three from W. F. Fletcher, Norwich;"one from G. R. _Row, Curries Crossing; one from Jas. Crawford, Embro; eight from Floyd W. Smith, Springford; two from An. drew Dunn, Ingersoll; one from Thos. Pearce, Tillsonburg; one from Mrs. Dorothy Fairbanks, Ingci; all; one from Daniel Barratt, Ingersoll; two from William Jones, Mt. Elgin; two from H. G. Joliffe, Mt. Elgin; one fr:oni Arthur Thomas, Salford; two from Fred W. Lee and Son, Spring - ford; one from George Ruckle, Inger- soll; two from H. M. Bent, Thames - ford; three from W. I•. 1rogg:, Thames - ford. Toronto, McGill Lead Universities Montreal.—University of Toronto has the largest number of students of .any Canadian university and McGill'University ranks second in this res-} accordin fi ares compiled p i`to g P by, the National Federation of Univer-1 sity Students and:made rublic recent-! ly by McGill authorities. The figures are: University of To- ronto, 5,681 students; McGill (net in- cluding affiliated colleges), 2,635; Queen's, 1,590; 'University of Mani- toba (including affiliated colleges), 2,421. Code is Deciphered By Postal Officials Halifax.—Letter sorters in the post office dun't invite people to ad- dress letters in code, but they made it known they could understand _eeme of them. One envelope arrived with a series of numbers but not a letter written on it. This tock a little thought for the boys who toss around lettere like a "hustler" does handbills. But the letter finally was delivered to a sol- dier in Wellington barracks. Each figure represented the corres-' pending numerical position in the al- phabet, they discovered. Countess Roselyn Dead, Leaving Descendants of Four Generations Dondon.—The Dowager Countess Rosslyn, described as the "most hand- some great -great-grandmother in Bri- tain," recently died at the age of 94. She was once a great beauty of the Victorian era in the last century, and a close friend of Queen Victoria, Glad stone and Disraeli. The countess was mourned by 74, descendants of four generations. Increase in Demand For Canadian Wood Seen) Truro, N.S.—Reflecting the i..icreae-` ing demand in United Kingdom mar- kets, 7,000,000 feet of lumber will be cut this season by the Canadian Lum-; ber Company, of Stewiacke,its presi-i dent, Rufus E. Dickie, has announced.) The new cht will represent the most; extensive operations of the company; in the last three years, and 50 per. cent. greater than that of last .year,", Mr. Dickie said. Bulk of the eat, the president said, will be absorbed in UnitedKingdom and British West' Indian markets. Flat Feet Held Cause For Suicide of Gi tt Montreal. --- A serio-eonifc note waw', struck at the inquest into the death of Rose Lutterinan, 24, when her brother,c Joseph Luttermah, testified she wail despondent because she had flat feet, The brother said fallen arches in, her . feet had caused her embarrassi.i gent and preyed on her mind. A. vor.; dict of suicide Was returned.