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Zurich Herald, 1934-02-22, Page 6of• thePresspeeraaaae-ea-e-oeeeeee-0-4ereeeeee-e-e-e-e-aea-e-eeeeeeeeeeleeees-e-e-eleeepeee weep Canada,TheErrl�aireandTheWorldatLarge oic CANADA. Just Making Sounds, A Toronto school teacher tells i,s that he had his class write out the Lord's Prayer and found that many of them didn't know what they were repeating every morning. One of the commonest mistakes was in the Sec- gond .clause, which several wrote as "Harold be Thy Name." Another To- ronto school teacher had been telling a fairy story beginning with the usual "Once upon a time," When she asked for a synopsis, she was surprised to And one girl beginning her story with "Cue pound of line, there was .. Fergus News -Record. No Teacher's Pets. Children of a Winnipeg school held a "pet show," but none of the teach- er's variety were exhibited—Winni- peg Free Press, Beauty and Business. Thanks to the admirable concern of womankind for their personal beauty, Canada has one industry, which has flourished even when every other was going to ruin. The manu- facturers of beauty preparations in Canada had a production of $3,873,540 in 1929. In 1932 it reached $4,771,- 098, 4,771;098, which represents an expansion of 20 per cent. approximately, right in the period of general depression. This industry has a very ultilitarian side to it. It employs many hands,. and distributes a million dollars a year in ealaries.—La Petrie, Montreal. From the Same Place. "Seeing a pretty girl is as good as a tonic," says an enthusiast. And sometimes they are made up at the same druggist's. Regina Leader -Post, "Canada's Place." We are interested to see the sug- gestion in a London evening news- paper that the Westminster City Council, should give to the island site on which Canada House and the fine Sun Life of Canada building stands the name of "Canada Place." Years ago "Canada" suggested that the short length of Cockspur Street might be advantageously changed to "Canada Street," as it contains the offices on the south side of the Can- adian National Railways and the Im- perial Life of Canada and on the north side the great block of the Sun Life of Canada adjoining Canada House. Possibly our contemporary's sugges- tion might be more acceptable to the Westminster authorities, because it would not do away with the old street games, but would merely give a new postal direction to the few buildings en the island side which consists only e the White Star Line, Sun Life of Canada, Canada House, and the Royal College of Physicians. We can warmly commend the suggestion to the West- minster City Council, — "Canada=' (London). Living in the Present. Halifax Harbor has had an excel- lent year, with tonnage considerably larger than 1932 and 1931, The East- ern port now is among the keenest bidders for ocean traffic, and has quit dwelling upon the great days of its building and sailing of wooden ships. ,--Toronto Globe. Cheap Licenses for Old Cars. An innovation by the Provincial Government in issuing cheap Iicenses to aged and more or less decrepit trucks and cars may not prove an un- mixed blessing. Owners of old cars presumably are not affluent. Giving them a ten dollar license will win their approval. But careful inspec- tion of aged vehicles should precede the granting of a permit to operate (them, on the public highway. Unless Government officials are satisfied they aro roadworthy, that they are hiot potential menaces to other traffic, the experiment is apt to result un- happily.—Edmonton Journal. Protect Art Treasures. The fire at Ottawa in which a large (number of valuable classical paintings [were destroyed in a private house, calls attention to the necessity of protection from fire for art treasures of every description, The National Gallery at Ottawa is no exception to this rule and needs attention. There will be sympathy for Mr. John Gleeson.—Hamilton Herald. Changing Times. A recent item of news from Great :Britain drew attention to the fact that o old family had been forced by the pressure of a changing world to give sip an estate on which for 28 gener- ations it had made its home. It was the Gresley family, one of ' the last families to remain in possession of air estate granted in the time of William the Conqueror. Here is a family which has seen. Britain develop from a feudal king- dom to an industrial democracy, has been ruling dynasties come and go; laud it had itself remained unchanged. tut now the end has come. Economic conditions have forced the family to rut the estate up for sale, It has been bought, accordiiag to the news cable, by a real estate firm for "Spec= illative purposes," Changing times and business de- pression have • cut wide swaths in what is familiarly known as Britain's aristocracy, The breaking of the 1 Gresley tie with feudal days is a '1 symbol of the shift which that oris= tocraey is undergoing. -- Viotoi'ia Times. Test of Intelligence. It is either a significant commen- tary •on the standard of intelligence of the American people, or a com- mentary on the intelligence of radio announcers, or both, that when an announcer names "Washington Ave., he adds that the spelling is W A S H- 1 N G T 0 N, spelling it out letter by letter.—St. Thomas Times -Journal. THE EMPIRE. War As Race Suicide. Man going to war at the present time is a man fighting with his bare hands against a ten thousand horse- power machine of his own making. He is comparable to an infant attack- ing a steam -roller, Logically speak- ing, he can do it; realistically speak- ing, he can't; it Isbeyond his nature as a human creature, and if he in- sists upon attempting it he can only look forward to the fate that attends a physical impossibility. It is possible to fall six feet without serious dam- age. That is what man did before gunpowder. It is possible to fall 12 feet and to survive. That is what Europe did a hundred years ago. It is possible for a whole family to fall from the roof of their house, and some will live to tell the tale—as in 1914. But it is not possible for hu- man beings to jump over Beachy Head and to resolve anything except the problem of existence by so do- ing. And the fall from Beachy Head to the sands below is what war is to man today. It is an act of race sui- cide.—New English Weekly. Business in Palestine. There was one Bedouin woman who was approached by a kodak-in-hand tourist, while gathering herbs. The strings of coins which covered her face jingled vehemently as she made known her price—two shillings for a pose, There was some haggling. She remained obdurate. The tourist turn- ed away, expecting to be recalled. But the "star" continued phlegmatically to pluck the herbs without a backward glance. Business must be good.— Palestine Post (Jerusalem). An Arctic Journey Miss Hutchinson, a young Scots- woman, who has been collecting flow- ers and plants for Kew Gardens, has just completed a hazardous and •re- markable dog -sledge along 350 miles of the Artic coast. When winter over- took her, Miss Hutchinson was mak- ing aking her way by sea round Point'Bar- row in hopes of catching the last steamer of the season, but failed to do so. When frozen in she secured an Eskimo dog -team and started off for Herschel Island, off the coast. of Yukon, where she is reported to have arrived little the worse for her long journey, during which the tempei;a- ture on several occasions sank to 70 degrees below zero, representing 102 degrees of frost.—Inverness Review. . The League and the Empire The more the situation is examin- ed, the more difficult it becomes to see how the pre-war methods of the balance of power can work, even so long as they did before the war, in the very different conditions that pre- vail today. This consideration is re - intoned if we turn to the Imperial aspect of the matter. As has been revealed at several Imperial confer- ences, and was brought out strongly at the recent unofficial Imperial Con- ference in Toronto, the League of Na- tions is an indispensable basis for re- conciling the desire for independence with the need for a common policy within the British Commonwealth of Nations. If the League Were to dis= appear and the world were to revert to the system of alliances and prepa- rations for war, the problems of neu- trality and self-defence within the Em- pire would become infinitely ',more complex and might become insoluble; —Rt, Hon. Arthur Henderson, in The Nineteenth Century. The Head and. the Heart:: What is known by the head only and not by the heart also, does s not become really •part of our life. Even if great thoughts arise most often in the heart; they must go round • by the head, or if the order is reversed, at any rate both are needed. But we are only top apt to omit such •:super - rational things •as love, laughter, sor- row, anger, courage, reverence,, syna-; pathy, imagination, all elemental parts of human life. So the appeal is for a balanced collaboration of man's faculties, under the guidance of rea- son as the final arbiter. In this way reason, operating on experience, will become a sufficient guide to truth and controller of our destiny, without re- pressing the richness of our .nature and its . potentialities, our emotions and our artsee-Rev, Canon D. S. Guy, in The. Contemporary Review; Danger Threatens England. After the exceptionally dry summer. we have a drought in the midst of an early winter, and in most parts of 'the country the Water:snItply is be. coming, if it is not already, a matter of anxious consideration. London, With storage reserves for over .two months, is free from all such appre- hension; but unless some part of this Two -Day Riots Oust Daladier Government At least twelve people are dead and over a tato overthrew the Daladier government at Paris. Here usand wounded wheat a rabble army of 20,000 rioters is a scene taken of the Boulevard St. Germain. year's missing rainfall is soon mad up there may be worse privatio elsewhere than could be caused b any winter.—Daily Telegraph. THE UNITED STATES, The English Policemen. The average English policeman i not in the least impersonal., H smiles good-humoredly at the chaff of the crowd, which he is restraining He will take care of a lost dog or o an old woman who cannot reniembe the way home. He,, will give a sus pected offender the benefit of the doubt before arresting him., If he is in a tight corner he expects the by stancler to assist him and they seldom fail. The general public feel thaf he is on their side, and that the rules of conduct which guides him arethose of common justice in other words, fair play.—From the Christian Science Monitor. • e Toronto Landlords' y i Protective Association Toronto landlords have formed a protective association. Landlords should not be shouldered with the double burden of providing both free s rent and most of the city's. taxes, the e meeting, which otherwise was far frons unanimous, agreed. It -was at • tended by about 200 people and lasted more than three hours. r H. L. Rogers, former alderman, was the principal speaker. "It is unfair," -he declared, "that the landlord should be feced with the ugly alternative of havingsreither to turn a destitute roan out .on: the street or to give him free rent. 'It is dishonest to make you pay for relief through taxes and then to make you pay rent for the poor when . others who own stocks and bonds lra-'ve to pay no more than income. Woman, Marries Three Brothers Each in Turn Hollywood.—Visited daily by the woman who was once his wife` and who is twice his sister-in-law, James De Tarr, first of three brothers to mar- ry the same girl, is dangerously 111 in a; clinic. here. The woman is Harryette Post, daughter..a a prominent Denver,'Colo'-, family, ;She now is the wife of Bever- ley De Tarr. On her visits to James in the clinic, she is accompanied by Beverley and Noble De Tarr, another brother, James and Harryette were wed in 1918, and divorced in 1922. Two years later Harryette married Noble. '' In. 1928 she was divorced fi•om her sec- ond De Tarr, and in 1932 ibis became the wife of Beverley. No ill feling has resulted from the two divorces;"' • The sick man, a writer, is: suffevin from a nervous breakdown, clans said he will recover. Stole From 'Mails Gets Five Years Quebec.=Five years in St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary wa.s the sen- tence imposed by Judge Arthur Fitz- patrick in Court of Sessions upon John Albertson, 36, salesman, of Lake Megantic, who was found guilty on" seven charges of stealing from the mails. Albertson was sentenced to five years on each count, the sen- tences to run concurrently, The amounts involved in each case were small, but accused used a scheme to secure goods mailed c,o,d.. by various large department stores,' without making returns to the post. office. The moon and Mars are the only planets' whose ,solid surface actually can be seen, • 1,500 Drivers Receive Safety League Medals Toronto.—Having driven on On- tario highways for one year without a single accident, 1,500 truck and bus drivers have been awarded a medal by the Ontario Safety League. It is a small bronze pin, beautifully engraved and bears the inscription: "I do niy part. Be careful. Avoid accidents." Lt is 'a one-year award, and annu- ally other awards will be made ex- tending more medals to drivers who maintain their good records. Departmental and Entrance Exam. Dates The Department of ` Education at Tenant° announces the dates of the entrance and departmental exatnina- t=ons for 1934. The departtientals willa start on Monday, June 25, and conclude on Wednesday, July 11, thus taking them into the second week in July, a little later than last year. The entrance eaten -dilations will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, July 3, 4 and 5, :except in the French-speaking sections, where they are a few days earlier. Canada's War Pension Bill $43,141,138 in 1932 Ottawa,—Canada paid $43,141,138 for war pensions during 1933, accord- ing to information given in the House of Commons last' week. The total number of persons in re- spect of which pensions were paid Was 264,840. The number of de- pendant. pensioners - was 18,745, and of disability pensioners 77,967. 329 Families Now Leading British Steamship Lines Agree to Merge Cunard and White Star Com- panies Complete All Plans for Amalga- mation London, --A, final agreement AV merger of the Cunard and White Star steamship lines has been reached with the treasury, the House of Commons was informed last week by Leslie Hore-Belisha, financial secretaly to the treasury. An agreement publish, ed simultaneously revealed the neW company will be called "Cunard• -White Star, Limited." It will acquire from Cunard and the White Star (Oceanic Steamship Navigation Company) their North Atlantic fleets and good, will, including company names and flags when applied to North Atlantic ships. GOVT. PROVIDES $15,000,000. To provide for completion of the giant Cunard liner "534," scheduled to be the world's largest, the treasury agreed to ma a advances not exceed ung £3,000,000 (approximately $150 400,000) , The treasury also agreed to advance Settled in North to the company from time to time sums not exceeding the total of $10 500,000 for working capital. Also included is a provision that legislation to be introduced in Perlia• meat will include authorization for the treasury at its discretion to advance to the merger company funds not tex- ceeding £5,000,000 for the cost of an additional ship or ships. • • WILL REMAIN BRITISH. "It is regarded by all parties here• to/' the agreement states, "as the cardinal principle of the merger corn- pany that it is to be and remain under British control." Transfer of vessels to direction of the new company will be effected at the earliest possible date, the an• nouneentent said. To Send More Families in Open Up Area in Back - to -Land Movement Toronto.—Carving their own homes from the Northern Ontario woods, 329 families are now settled under the province's Relief Land Settlement scheme. The present population of the settlements has reached 1,763 per- sons, according to a report to be sub- mitted to the Legislature by Hon. Wil- liam Finlayson, Minister of Lands and Forests, William Magladery, secretary of the Relief Land Settlement scheme, giving details of the scheme, declared it was planned to send 100 families from Toronto and another 100 from the head of the lakes back to the land this year. The plan is as follows: A prospective settler who is out of work niay apply to be sent to the hind. The Dominion Government, Provincial Government and municipal- ity each contribute $600. The money is spent in this way: Transportation, $8.0; cost of constructing a cabin, $100; contribution to maintenance the first year, $120; contribution to main- tenance the second year, $100; live stook and equipment, $200. 232 SETTLERS. An advisory committee was set up to assist the Provincial Government in the 'work. The selection of land and establishment of families was assigned to the province, and super- visors appointed to carry out the work. The prospective settlers were carefully 'chosen. ' They were told what equipment was necessary. They were shown several lots in each local- ity and made their own choice. Many of the families were located on burned over lands about eight miles south of Cochrane. The land is readily clear- ed, since stumps have rotted; ,moss has been burned off and the fertility of the top soil restored by natural. agencies. In 1932 25 Ontario municipalities sent 232 settlers. Last year 21 muni- cipalities sent 151 settlers, or a total of 46 centres which. sent 383 families to the north.- Of this number 54 have returned, leaving 329 still there, It's "Doo-nnayerg" Paris.—Gaston Douinergue, naw Premier of France, pronounces his last name in two syllables: "Doo- mayerg," H: M. S. Nelson Aground While leaving harbor to join the beet's spring cruise, OH,M,S, Nc'.r,on, the flagship of th. e bailie fleet, went dt,went aground at the entrance to Portsmouth harbor. 011 and ammunition ]igtteis are seen alongside bo pull her off, Noble Scottish Houses Will Be United by Marriage Edinburgh.—Two of the noblest Scottish houses will be united by the marriage of Lord Robert Crichton - Stuart, second son of the fourth Mar- quess of Bute, and Lady Janet Mont- omery, daughter of the 16th Earl of Eglinton and Winton. The engagement of the couple was announced recently. Lord Crichton- Stuart richtonStuart is 25 years of age and Lady Janet is 23. The Marquess of Bute is reputed to be the richest peer in the United Kingdom, The title descends from Sir Robert Crichton, created a peer in 1487 and the long roll of family Iineage is inextricably woven with Scotland's history. ' The family of the bride-to-be d"e- scends from the time of William the :Conqueror, Robert Mantgonierie, des - cedant of 'Roger of Mundegumbri 'who acconivanied William, obtained lands in Renfrewshire, in the latter half of the 12th century. He acquired the Barony of Eglinton at this time, Hugh Montgomerie was created first Earl of Eglinton in 1507. The famous family seat of the Butes near Rothesay faces the Ayr- shire coast where the two castles of the 1;glintons stand. eta Makes a Prophecy (P.M.R, in Toronto Saturday Night.) My prophecy i, that Canadian busi- ness will shake great strides during the next several Months and by mid - Sumner the general siltation will be very much brighter. We . are going to see the construc- tion industry spring into activity, the automobile industry enjoying a near boom, the steel plants, both heavy and light, more active. unemployment so sharply reduced that it no longer con- stitutes onstitutes a serious community burden, manufacturers of consumer goods pro- ducing as fast as they can; retailers selling, if iibt as fast as they can, al least a good deal faster than they are now, and' corisuiners happily buying and consuming, All will be confident that happy days are hei'e again and here to stay, The only disturbing feature for the consuming .public will be the sharply risingprices, Geologist's Widow May Get Medal Dr. Finlay Lorimer -I{itcl:in, F.R.S.. tho famous British geologist, died be fore the Lyell Methal, which the Geo logical Society recently awarded it hien—one of the host coveted prizes— had been presented. He was to have received it at the society's annual meeting next month It will. now probably be presented a his widow. ' Dr. Kitchin, who was 63, had beer palaeontologist to the Geological Sue vey of Great Britain since 1905. U.S. Fugitive Capital Starts Returning Home New York.—Some of the fugitive capital, expatriated to Europe whet the United. States went off the gold standard, came Lome last weOr. In a locker deep in the field 4.the linter Bremen rode,;;oldbars with an esti- 'Mated value of $7,500,000 --the first ehipanent to leave Europe since de. valuationof the American dollar.