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Zurich Herald, 1934-02-01, Page 6Voice ofthe Press Canada, The Empire and The World`at Large CANADA Accuracy First Rule, Newspapermen have a lot of abuse heaped on them, But in our half cen- tury of work in newspaper offices, we never knew of any editor who didn't have as his first rule accuracy and fairness. You may not like the way a report is written, but reporters, like yourself, are just human and liable to err. Before making reckless charges why not find out just how hard he tried to do"his best, Matte a note of it: Any newspaper will be glad to have your side of the case. Accurate news reporting is a newspaper's life blood. Any decent newspaper will freely acknowledge its errors or faults. — Sault Ste. Marie Star. That Radio Lecture .A. news item mentions a man who listened -in to a radio lecture just be- fore undergoing a serious operation. Most people, of course, rely on the or- dinary anaesthetic.—Ottawa Journal. Gandhi and Amy McPherson Hear: hear! to the remark of the Chesley Enterprise, "we hope to see less in the dailies in 1934 than in 1933 about Gandhi and Amy McPherson. They are two religious leaders who got altogether too much newspaper space for their importance."—Colling- wood Enterprise -Bulletin. Bus Services In many of the smaller cities in the United States, gasoline buses have been coming extensively into use dur- ing the past two years. Almost every week brings announcements of new bus routes being adopted in American cities, and about a year ago the City of San Antonio, Texas, which, with its suburban districts, has a population of some 300,000, inaugurated a plan for the complete substitution of gasoline buses for street cars. On October 10 of this year, Mr. W. W. Holden, man- ager of the San Antonio Transporta- tion Company, said that since the new plan went into operation "we have not had a single adverse `comment' from the public."—Winnipeg Free Press. Comparatively Good There is glib talk that "things could not be worse." Readers of history wiIl know, of course, that at times in the world's record, to -day's conditions would be regarded as a paradise,— Regina Leader -Post. Dangerous and Expensive Boston and Maine Railway is suing Joseph Donovan because he drove his car into one of their engines and dam- aged it to the extent of $100. It al- ways was dangerous to drive into a railway engine, but now that is being made expensive perhaps car drivers will be inclined to do something about it,—St. Thomas Times -Journal. A Greater Peril .A. game of checkers so excited four Apache Indians that a fight followed which ended in four deaths. The auth- orities had better keep this tribe in ignorance of contract bridge.—Edmon- ton Journal. Puddle Swishers A pedestrian whose very best Sun- day -go -to -meeting clothes were splash- ed by a passing motor car and who, under -the impression he had heard one of the occupants laugh at his plight, threw a stone through the car window and injured a woman, has been convicted in local police court of assault. It is possible to sympathize with him in the jani in which he now finds himself F d at the same time admit that to law on the. point is sound. Magistrate Burbidge, no mat- ter what his personal opinions of the incident may have been, had to regis- ter the conviction, in view of the de- fendant's admission of guilt. The magistrate took occasion to point out, however, that motorists who splash pedestrians are themselves guilty of assault—which is an interesting bit of information.—Hamilton Spectator. Whiskers Needed The age of progress and science and fashion has made sad havoc of old cus- toms. It is now thought unusual to wear even earlaps, though some of us. are improved in appearance by their application. Wristlr' • ere a forgotten memory. Commerce has shifted us to gaudy neck scarfs, gloves that fail, muffs, toe rubbers, etc., and one away with nature's grand old protection against rain and frost—a good hardy set of waterproof whiskers.—Sault Ste. Marie Star. Horse-shoe Record There has been a little controversy going on regarding how many shoes a blacksmith can: put on in a day's work, and the entry list peeps on growing. The latest and the best claim has been made by John Evans, a black- smith now living in Goderich. On De- cember 23, 1917, he put on a total of 82 shoes, and the price paid for the work was $51.25. That was a slippery day and a good many delivery horses were rushed in to have their hoofs at- tended to in a hurry. Nevertheless it was a great day's work. That we grant, although our knowledge of the technique required in rutting on a horse-shoe Is nil. What makes . the . affair more inter - resting is Mr. Evans' declaration that the record was made right here in Stratford,and to tell the truth never 1 before have we heard of such a day's work having boeu done here.—Strat- ford Beacon -Herald. THE EMpiRE "Inviolable Frontier" Gone Even now the public hardly realize the tremendous change which the air army has effected in Great Britain's position. Her insularity has vanished. Her "inviolable frontier" of the sea has gone. Her capital, with its 8,000,- 000 of people can easily be reached from their bases by the military air- craft of at least two Great Powers in two hours or less. — London Daily Mail, Big Fish A giant ray recently landed off the coast of New Jersey is the largest fish ever caught, being 20 feet long and weighing 6,000 lbs. I knew that soon- er or later the Americans would try to make our Loch -Ness monster look small.—Glasgow Herald. Dundee Scotch Lord Aberdeen tells a story about a friend of his who thought that a wo- man he heard talking in the train was a Roumanian. She turned out, on inquiry, to be talking "Dundee Scotch."—The Banffshire Journal, State Medicine Advocated As far back as 1912 Mr. Lloyd George laid plans, which came to naught, for a State medical service. Since then the case for the develop- ment of an efficient State system has become overwhelming. The basis of suck a system must be preventive. Once the State adopts the conception that its duty is to keep people fit, the health of the whole nation will improve and countless millions saved by the disappearance of avoidable sicknesses and disease. But this can only come by bringing every branch of medicine under national conte -1 and making it a public service, like the provision of water and the upkeep of clean and decent streets.—London Daily Herald. The True Use of Money How William Craig, an Aberdeen upholsterer, saved £6,000 from his wages of £3 'a week is a problem for mathematicians and economists. Only in Aberdeen, perhaps, are such feats possible. But there can be no two opinions about. the good use he has made of the money. He has left it to found a scholarship. His thrift was inspired by contempt for money and devotion to something nobler. Here was one man who knew what could be done with a modest income and who knew also the true use of money.— London Sunday Chronicle, Declaration Sufficient We cannot take upon ourselves everybody's burdens, and we cannot rely on our voice being listened to at the eleventh hour. But we can, in all probability, stop the drift away from the League by stating firmly that we stand by the League and will look ul- timately to any bilateral arrange- ments being brought within the League; also we stand by our Disarm- ament proposals and will not williugly see them watered down or changed out of recognition. Our position in Europe is still such that a timely inti- mation of this attitude is likely to be a useful corrective to the dangerous thoughts of the restless and ambiti- ous.—London News -Chronicle. Marriage .at Gretna Despite the plea by one of the parties that an "engagement" only was intended, a marriage eve: the an- vil at the blacksmith's shop at Gretna was on Saturday declared valid by the Court of Session at Edinburgh. Lord Pitman was only following the law of Scotland as' expressed in previous de- cisions; there was a similar case in 1931. South of the Border the exact status of these Gretna "ceremonies" in Scots marriage law has often been the subject of confusion. In Scotland there are the two plain forms of marriage, "regular" and "irre- gular," ("Irregular" does not of itself imply "not respectable"; it is merely the legal term). Gretna "smithy" has, of course, no special sanctity whatever as a place for the celebration of such "irregular" marriages. But if the consent is pub- lic, and provided one of the parties has the necessary three weeks' Scot- tish residence, a court of law would be bound to hold a marriage at the "smithy" as valid, as one taking place anywhere else on Scottish soil.—Man- chester Guardian. THE UNITED STATES Guilty of Something A lawyer sends us this: A man charged with theft when arraigned pleaded guilty. Having a smart coun- sel he got a jury verdict of not guilty. Whereupon the judge said to the pris- oner, "You don't leave this court with- out a stain upon your character. By your own confession you are a thief, and by the verdict of the jury you are a liar."—Boston ,Transcript. Dangerous on Country Roads Country roads era the most danger- ous placbs for walking. A study of pedestrian fatalities froin Automobiles Made by the Travellers' Insurance Company, shows that: death as the re- sult of being struck by an automobile is throe and ahalf times as frequent on rural highways as the general rate. —New York. Times. The .Seine Freezes Up r' ct ,•aa�,x,w+:�,r:; .. M..r. �. _ #`#. r ::; A. ��. ., sx,:.KK ea ,� Even "sunny" Prance has suffered from the recent cold wave that has swept across America and Europe. Here we see a French government ice -breaker plowing through the icebound River Seine, leaving a navigable path in its wake. Indians Marr In Mass Ceremony Twenty -Eight Couples Wed in Order to Obtain Re lief in B.C. Vancouver. — Mass movements to- wards matrimony are not confined to Italy. Rev. C. K. K. Prosser, Anglican rector of Alert Bay, B.C., married 28 couples there recently, it is revealed. Indians of the Kwawklewth Reserve came en masse to Albert Bay in order to apply for relief. They sought 're- lief as married couples and it turned out that though they had lived for years as married couples every one of them had dispensed with the formality. of marriage. In the eyes of the• law they were not legally married and were ineligible for relief under the British Columbia law. When they were refused aid they immediately went to Mr. Prosser's rec- tory, and, after the manner' of Mus- solini, he married them all simultan- eously. Each of the 28 brides and bridegrooms made the usual promise to love, honor and cherish the spouse,. when called upon to do so. Mr. Prosser arranged for a great wedding feast iu the- Mission Hall, at which the attendants were the child- ren of the newly -wedded couples. Some of the children are almost grown up. The Indians, all 'happily married, are now able to draw relief: and all have applied successfully for it. `' Damages Awarded in Suit Against Dyers Edmonton.—District court here was transformed into a cheinical labor- atory for a brief period when Miss J. Campbell sued Expert Dyers and Cleaners, Ltd. Miss Campbell sued for $50 as result of shrinkage of a dress, valued at $54. Judge J. L. Crawford gave pudg- ment for $40 and costs. The defendants had claimed the dress was of artificial silk and not guaranteed against shrinkage. S. Bruce Snaith, counsel for Miss Camp- bell, brought an expert into court who conducted a test with chemicals and then announced the dress was not arti- ficial b -it a combination of rayon and silk. King Approves of Visit of Prince to New Zealand Wellington, N.Z.—Governor-General Lord Bledisloe announces he has been advised that the King approved Prince George visiting New Zealand on his way home from Australia next Fall, Lord Bledisloe forwarded an invite tion asking Prince George to visit the Dominion. Last Vestige of Harem Is Abolished in Turkey Istanbul.—Turkish women are wit- nessing the abolition of the last ves- tige of Turkish harems. The word haxem means simply "a place reserv- ed for women." Until today "harems" continued to exist in all Istanbul trolley cars. The first two seats were reserved for wo- men. A man might sit there if no woman protested, but any woman who wished—and many did --could make a man scuttle to the back of the car. Now the Istanbul city council de- crees that the trolley "harems" must go, that men deserve equal rights with women to sit wherever they can find a seat. Better Times Brantford. — The Massey -Harris Company, implement manufacturer, revealed last week it expected en- ough work at its Brantford plant to maintain the present schedule of operation, with some augmentation of staff, until about mid -summer. Simultaneously the Dominion Radi- ator and Boiler Company issued the statement that its "outlook for the Brantford plant is for a pretty steady run throughout the year 1934." Executives of several ther Brant• ford industries professed to see in- dications that they would "employ more help during' this year than for the last two years, 726 -Carat Diamond Is Sold for £70,000 Johannesburg. — A 726 -carat dia- mond discovered recently at Elands- fontein has been sold to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, chairman of the Anglo- American Corporation of South Africa and of two diamond mining companies, for nearly £75,000 (approximately $350,000). The discoverer, Jacobus Jonkher, plans to return to farming on a large scale—but first he 'will buy a silk hat and a frock coat, he said. A native boy, Johannes, who par- ticipated articipated in the discovery, will be in- stalled on the farm with his family and with liberty to do what he pleases, Toronto Employes Salaries Boosted Toronto.—For the first time since early in 1931, Toronto civic empolyes are to receive salaries and wages at the rates prevailing prior to the down- ward revision of depression days, Mayor W. J. Stewart said recently. The first 1934 cheques will be made out for the amounts provided in the salary' survey report, plus any in- e:.eases employes have received since that time. France Modernizes the Car Exports to U.S: Up 165 Per Cent. Farm Products Sent Across Border Show Big Increase News About Newspapers Ottawa.—An increase of $285,$53 or 165 per cent. was •shown in farm products exported to the United States in December when the value was 464,085 as compared With $178,432 ;n the corresponding month of 1932, says a report issued last week by the DOM - inion Bureau of Statistics. During the second half of 1933 the export was $6,103,000 against $1,763,- 000 in the same period -of the previous year, an increase of 246 per cent. Potatoes, turnips, wool and bran, shorts and middlings 'were the chief export items last month. The value of the potatoes was $185,417, com- pared with $2,670 a year ago. Drivers Forfeit Permits When Non _Responsible Hamilton.—A total of 12,217 per- sons in Ontario lost their permits to drive .a car since the provincial gov- ernment implemented legislation calling for proof of financial responsi- bility in 'case of accidents, according to J, P. Bickell, Ontario registrar of motor vehicles. Mr. Bickell stated that of the num- ber who lost their licenses 5,170 re- gained them by taking the necessary steps to prove their financial res- ponsibility in case of further acci- dents. The new legislation became effec- tive Sept. 1,„1930. Real Mixed Farming When Bull and Steer Team Up With Horses Regina.—Loss of many old horses through lack of proper and adequate feed, and in sone cases because of ill- ness and exposure, has forced farmers in Duval district to use other farm animals to do heavy work. One farm- er plans to use a bull and a steer with two horses as a four -animal outfit to plow next spring. Other farmers will use oxen. "Kit's” Biography Sent to Queen Toronto.—Copies of "Kit" the mem- orial biography -issued by the Hamil- ton branch, Canadian Women's Press Club, have been sent to Queen Mary. The subject of the book is Kathleen Blake Coleman who founded the wo- man's section of the Toronto Mail and Empire. Copies of the biography also were sent to the Countess of Bessborough, wife of Canada's Gov- ernor-General. Everywhere •we ere seeingthe.. letest, iii d.eslgies In the automotive world and France,..'by 'the ... al)poarance of this model which arriVed recently .in New York City, has'jumped east and offers this. ah, d A bit of a nightmare' at first but the human raceis always adaptable. J3ritan Places Duty on Oats WM Aid Canada --Germany and United States to Lose Market Ottawa,—Tho United Kingdom har levied a new duty en oata and oat pro, ducts, the department of trade and commerce has beeh advised from ran - don. The duty will be three shillings a 112 lbs. on oats and seven shillings sixpence en oats products per 112 lbs, The former duty was 20 per cent: ad valorem for both oats and oats pro- ducts. It is assumed here that the duty does not apply to empire Boum tries since by article one of the Great Britain -Canada agreement signed dun ing the Imperial Economic Conference in 1932, the United Kingdom guaran teed to admit free any empire pro duced goods already having free ao cess, into its markets. Oats and oati products were in this class. Peterborough. — The United King dom's now duties on oats and oat pro ducts will practically leave the man ket for these products in Great Britain to Canada alone, milling authorities here declare. Both Canadian millers and oat growers stand to benefit greatly through the new tariffs, it is stated, Germany and the United States were the Domin'ion's heaviest competitor), in this field in the past, but due to the poor crop in -the United States thiel year Canada was able to claim almost the entire normal U.S. market. To Serve Five Years For Manslaughter Hall, Que.—Lawrence Kelly was sentenced to five years in St. Vincent de Paul peniteptiary when he appear. ed before Justice Louis Cousineau on a charge of manslaughter, arising from the death c ; Alex Mondou, lum- berjack. Four men were acquitted of a charge of murder in connection with Mondou's death. Two other sentences were meted out. Emile Desormeaux received sever_ years for an offence against a young girl and Andre Riopel, Lusk- ville, Que., farmer, one year for man- slaughter in connection with the death of an infant, the child of an unmar- ried girl with whom he had beer living. Canadian Film Trade Grows Victoria, B.C.—Canada's first full- length feature motion' picture has been completed in Victoria by a local company and is now being distributed all over America. Promters of the enterprise, backed by wealthy Cana- dians, are hopeful that this will prove the foundation of a successful Cana- dian picture industry, which will take advantage of British Empire film quotas to sell itk-products. Techni' clans and actors and actresses from Hollywood were employed to make the picture, which is the first of a series to be produced here. Work on the second film is now under way. Teeth Straightening Costs Hamilton $2,000 Hamilton, Ont. — Mayor Herbert Wilton of Hamilton considers "ortho• dontia" — straightening of teeth — a luxury. He told the board of health recently that until relief departments came into the life of the commun, ity, only children of the wealthy were treated for orthodontia. He though4 the $2,000 appropriation for such work by the board should be eliminated. Capital Punishment Resumed in Austria Graz, Austria.—Peter Strauss, a peasant, was sentenced to death by a special court for setting fire to a hay- stack, and was hanged the same day. ' Strauss was executed just three hours after being sentenced. It was the first execution in Austria since the War. Another man, Hans Breitweis' er, was sentenced to death on Decem- ber 15 last, but received a commuta- tion ommute.tion two minutes before.the execution was to have -taken place. £10,000 Bequest for Loyalty Loudon,—Director of various ship- ping companies and marine underwrit- ing associations, Mr. George Edward Kite, of Great St. Helens, E.C., and Queen's Avenue, Muswell Hill, N., whose Will was published the other clay, left £78,637, with net personality £ 77,234. He bequeathed £10,000 "to Reginald Thomas Slinn, his co-director in the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co., Ltd;, in recognition of- his great personality, loyalty' to, 'and co-opera- tion with him for so many years." Marriage Hours Extended London.—A, bill to extend until 4 p.m. the hours during which mar riages may be solemnized in. England is shortly to be introduced by Mr, C. E. R. Brocklebank, At present a Christian wedding can • take place only between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. ,except •by special license. The bill is designed to help poorer people who cannot afford, to take a Whole day off, even for their wedding: Uniform Hair Cut Rate Toronto., --A uniform rate for halt cuts throughout Ontario will be sought by the.,- Master Barbers' and Hafr dressers' Association at the forthcoim ing••session of the Legislature, it i! learned here. '