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Zurich Herald, 1934-05-03, Page 6Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA .Ater -Darr Accidents Most traffic accidents, outside of the 'centres of population, occur after dark. There are two reasons why this is so. One is that there is a school of drivers which insists on driving as least after dark, when visibility is poor, ins in the daytime when the highway and the objects upon it are clearly etched. The heads of drivers of this type, when bumped together (and this is a dandy game to play), do not ring, `!but, instead, give forth a fiat, cracked mote. The other factor contributing 'oto tragedy is glaring, blinding head- lights, the- problems of which motor 'car manufacturers apparently are un- able to solve.—Hamilton Spectator. Elgar's Great Music With the public at large he will best be remembered for his charming, but 'now over-worked "Salut d'Amour," 'and his magnificent "Pomp and Cir- cumstance" march in D, which he composed for the coronation of King Edward VII. This is one of the most stirring and majestic classic marches ever written, but it. is only one of four or five marches of the same name which he wrote. One section of this march was given words to turn it into a patriotic song, and as such is known throughout the British Empire as "Land of Hope and Glory."—St. Thom- as Times -Journal. ' Road Slaughter in Britain Point was added to a debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday night on road accidents by figures given at question time about the casualties on the roads in Great Bri- tain in the eight years 1926 to 1933. The figures, which were given by Sir John Gilmour, the Home Secretary, were received with expressions of in- dignation. A member asked: "What war was that?" and Mr. Kirkwood ex- claimed: "A great shame, a .scandal." The figures were: Killed, 50,837; in- jured, 1,421,083.—London Express. Growing There are 73,000,000 more people in the world to -day than there were four years ago, according to Sir Charles Close, president of the International Population Union, who apparently keeps close tab on births and deaths. —Kingston Whig -Standard.) Together with the herd which was recently put out on the Chapleau Pre- serve they will make a good start in adding the elk to the game animals of this district. -Sault Ste. Marie Star, Activity at Oldest Port For over 300 years ships have been entering and leaving the port of Que- bec, on the River St. Lawrence, but 1933 was one of the busiest years In the history of the port. The number of vessels docked totaled 1,064 with a net registered tonnage of 5562,717 tons, compared with 800 vessels in 1932 of 5,193,758 tons, an average in 1933 of 263 vessels and 368,959 tong over the previous year.—Canada Week by Week. Heart Disease With so many prominent men dying of heart disease in ,recent months, par- ticular interest is being shown in ex- periments which have been conducted in Vienna by Dr. Hammerschlag. By taking a new preparation made from the hormone of the subsidiary thyroid gland, it has been found that good re- sults have been obtained in the treat- ment of those suffering from heart ail- ments. The doctor explains the hor- mone relieves the cramped conditions of the blood vessels and allows a free passage of the blood through the or- dinary channels. It is claimed the treatment can do no harm, and as it has been proven to do some good, it has drawn much interest from medi- cal practitioners.—Border Cities Star. Superiority Complex It is a very fine thing to have pride in one's country and the citizenship of one's country, but it is not a fine or desirable thing to suppose that people living in one land are superior to peo- ple living in all other lands. This "superiority complex" has lad to a great many disasters in "-is world and has brought untold suffering and misery. -Halifax Herald. "The Woman Pays" Judging by an analysis that has been made of incomes in the United States, she's darn well able to pay. The analysis shows that women re- ceived 38 per cent. of the total of $9,- 000,000,000 of income reported to Washington in 1933. Seventy-seven thousand women had an annual in- come of more than $5,000, the average being $19,129. Of the 18,000,000 stock- h..lders in the country, 7,740,000 were women. And women were beneficiar- ies of 89 per cent, of all the life insur- anceoutstanding—a matter a billions. Nor is that all. Somebody else has discovered that women do 80 per cent. of all the shopping on this continent —80 per cent of the spending.—Otta- wa Journal. Free -Will General Store We have just been reading about a unique general store which is conduct- ed in Waller, Texas, by a certain Al- bert D. Purvis—possibly of Leeds county ancestry—who has carried on a successful business for 19 years in spite of the fact that he is dependent entirely upon the free-will offerings of his customers. Mr. Purvis' establishment, in ap- pearance not unlike Zhany others which stand in rural communities throughout Ontario, ' known as "God's Mercy Store," and the method underlying; the business conducted in it is explained upon a blackboard which reads: "All goods in this store are sold to you at cost—nothing has been added as personal gain or profit. The store is kept by fe e -will offer- ings. Anything you add to your pur- chase will be received with thanks." The cost of the merchandise is marked upon the blackboard .and the purchaser selects the article that he requires, consults the price list and . add to it whatever he feels is a fair profit. Texas is popularly considered to be. rather a hard-boiled part of the world, and yet we have Mr, -Purvis' word that, notwithstanding the way in which he sloes business,. he averages • ten per cent. profit during the sear.— Brockville Recorder. Canada's Recovery Canada has regained its pcsition as fifth among the great trading nations of the world. In January our foreign trade was 40 per cent. greater than in January, 1933. Furthermore, the bal- ance of trade is favourable—$135,924,- 000 avourable—$135,924;000 more exports than imports in. the elapsed ten months of the fiscal year up to the end of January. This favor- able trade balanceis the greatest single factor in stabilizing the Canadian dol- Iar and supporting the national credit. Winnipeg Tribune. Some Icy Anecdotes John Dodd, shown at the wheel or the fishing smack New Bedford, as it docked in New York harbor, February 26, after a two -weeks trip to the fishing b anks for mackerel, had some vivid experiences to relate, harder we play, the better we work.-- London Sunday Chronicle. The Dole in New Zealand The decision .of the Unemployment Board to grant sustenance without work to elderly men and men of any age unable through physical disability to perform the class of work offering is an evidently sincere effort to meet a need. As such it is worth trying, in the two centres most representative of the need. The increasing difficulty of providing work for men capable of light tasks only, especially men in ad- vancing years, has necessitated a re- view of the position. Circumstances arising from the widespread economic stress have hampered seriously the efforts of these men to find work for themselves and have equally hindered the endeavours of the Unemployment Board to find work on their behalf.•An inevitable effect has been the embar- rassment of the general scheme of re- lief, and the position should become appreciably, defined by removing thus, as far as possible, a number of appli- cants for relief work that is difficult to provide.—Auckland Weekly News. Rush Hour Crowds If it were possible to abolish rush hour periods and avoid the necessity of transporting the population of a good-sized city from the outskirts to the down -town section within an hour and a half in the morning and home again in the same period in the even- ing, the solution would be easy. It might then be possible to realize the ideal both for the passengers and for the T.T.C. of a seat for every passen- ger and every seat comfortably filled. But as long as the sky -scrapers, office buildings, factories and great stores pour out their thousands on to the streets, all within little more than an hour and all demanding instant trans- portation to their destinations, there is bound to be overcrowding. This is true not only of Toronto, but of every Iarge city where there is a similar movement of population. — Toronto Telegram. The Driver is Unsafe The number of cars in use is only slightly higher than it was six years ago. The cars themselves are far safer; they are solider, their brakes are better, they stick to the road bet- ter, they are easier to keep under con- trol, It is the human element, and it alone, which has failed. — Quebec Chronicle Telegraph. THE EMPIRE The Drought in Britain The clanger of a shortage of water this summer is now a serious if not yet an acute one. If there is normal rain in March, the danger will disap- pear; if March follows January and February in their unprecedented dry- ness, then the situation will be really bad, and it will be too late to do much to meet it,—Manchester Guardian. Elk for Algoma The decision of the Game and Fish- eries Department to liberate 25 head of elk hi the Ranger Lake Game Pre- serve is one that will be generally ap- proved in the district. These aninials •should do just as well in this area as have those which were set ant in formes' years at Peta• wawa and at Bu.rwash and sbould in time prove a valuable addition to the pate .resources of Algoma, It Does Not Pay By August of 1934 twenty years will have elapsed since the outbreak of the World War. A good deal has passed under the bridge since then and many lessons have been taught to those who cared to learn. The supreme lesson which we should have learnt is that war does not pay. The mechanism of the world has grown so delicate and complex that a dislocation in one part seriously affects every section. Victor is hardly better off than vanquished and certainly not as well off as in the pre-war period. In spite of this truth, which most of us have realized, it is deplorable that Governments still pre- fer to sacrifice sums of money on armaments and general preparations for conflict which are ottt of all pro- portion to the power of the people to defray by taxation. If only a minor part of these wasteful disbufsements were diverted into channels of rap- prochement, if only an iota of the energy consumed were spent in the propagation of friendly relationship between nations, a lasting peace height have been seared for mankind, Hong Kong Press. • Playing Fields for Eton Scots and English The Englishman loves to tell humor- ous stories about the Scot, the point of which is usually his (suppositious) lack of humour. And the Scot has a What Does Your Handwriting Show? By GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Grapho-Analyst.) All rights reserved. (Editor's Note: The response to the author's invitation to readers to send it a specimen of their handwriting for a personal reading has been enorm- ous. Readers are referred to the an- nouncement at the foot of this article). "How can Grapho-Analysis help me?"—that is the question that read- ers invariably ask when they read my article on the subject of character analysis from handwriting. And it is a natural question. For in these days, perhaps more than any others, the struggle for existence, for progress, is individualistic. 1 will en- deavour to answer the question by first asking others. Are you happy? — or are you con- tinually frowning at life, with a con- stant chip on your shoulders? Are you progressing in your work? -Or are you dissatisfied; a square peg in a round hole; unable to make any real progress, yet not knowing 'what to do to change the possibilities of your future? If you are married, are you content- ed? -- Or is disquiet creeping In, with perpetual bickering between large store of tales about Englishmen, based perhaps on a wilful misunder- standing of their character, but which disprove his lack of humour and are not devoid of a piercing wit. There is now no real reason why Soots and English should not understand and appreciate each other, We Scots have much for the English to admire in us, if only they will admire the right thing! And many, if not most of us, have an enormous admiration for our Southern neighbors — their great achievements, their bulldog tenacity, their literature. Do we not admire most of all this—that so many Eng- lishmen try to prove that they have some Scottish blood in their veins, or even affect that they are Scots!—.T. A. MacCulloch; in The Spectator (Lon- don). Nem Greater Air Force So it is everywhere. The world is exchanging feet for wings. Britain alone, like a fat goose, waddles along in the old way.—London Daily Mail. • Cockney Pioneers "The best type of setter in the Do- minions comes from the Old Kent Road." This is not idle praise. Cock- ney quickness, adaptability, and obsti- nate, humorous courage supply the stuff of which the finest pioneers are made, and the Cockney is endowed with a resillience, a superb indiffer- ence to misfortune, which makes him able to face difficulties and problems which would utterly defeat the ap- parently sturdier rustic. — London Evening News. Boy Scouts and Chivalry The Scout promise, based on an old- er order of chivalry, is the only true rule of conduct. The Scout Law incul- cates nobility.—London Daily Mail. Is One Regulation He Would Consider Chatham, Ont.—In force for several decades, rules of the Chatham police force have been revised and will be brought up-to-date by the Police Conti - mission. "There is ono regulation that should be considered, and that I don't altogether agree with," remarked Magistrate S. B. Arnold. "I states that a constable must trim his whisk- ers and not let them cover his police badge on his breast." Newspaper Advertising Increases in U.S. Chicago. --Newspapers in 80 cities M. Andre Siegfried, the celebrated of the United States gained approxi - French critic, says that our national mately 10,000,000 lines of advertising fondness for running; about, hittlrig, in January over the same month a bowling, awl kicking bailsand pnticit• year ago, Advertising Age, trade pub- ing one another's rims, is hi: dr•eadinl !;cation, says. The newspapers car - waste to or time:, lis, wrtnrlers Tim we Tied 120,682,000 lines. last Inanth and get any work done. ' For answer we 110,821,000 in January, 1933. Auto- can point to the work itself, The motive advertising led the list. . yourself and your life partner? Do you make friends, and keep them? — Or are you living the life of an involuntary recluse, unable to en- joy the society and companionship of real friends? The answers to all these questions Can be summed up in a phrase—Know yourself and others. Or, one word may suffice—Understanding. If you go through life without knowing and understanding , yourself—your faults and ' your virtues; your merits and your weaknesses—you will be serious- ly handicapped. Life's•Iilizes go to those who, know- ing their potentialities, capitalize them and strengthen them; who, real- izing their faults, strive to overcome them. Grapho-Analysis helps you to know yourself, and thus enables you to elmImmosiagemann make the most of your capabilities, whilst at the same time, by pointing out your weaknesses, gives you an opportunity to eradicate them. Handwriting is not merely a matter of putting pen to paper. You have to use your brain in order to write. And the brain is the captain of your body. Everything you do emanates first of all. from your brain. Handwriting. is only the physical expression of your brain's instructions. And everything you are anti can be is summed up in your handwriting, as diagnosed by an expert grapho-ana- lyst. I have space for only a few very brief extracts from character readings made recently. R. M.—You are likely to be impul- sive. You do not consider very long before moving. There is a slight strain of procrastination shown—do not let it grow. Your writing shows a distinct cultural trait; you have a de- sire to know things, and to investigate and find out for yourself.. Miss M.—You have a great pride and personal dignity, a retentive mem- ory and are very careful about details. You have -a considerable regard for your own importance, and are prone to pride yourself on your originality and individuality. But I am afraid that this is perhaps more pretension than actual, and is not .entirely sin- cere. I suggest you try to be more your natural self; your friends will like you all the more. Do you want a personal reading of your own writing? The author of this series of articles, a well-known Grapho- Analyst„ will,, send. you.. a .personal analysis, if you will 'send a letter in your normal handwriting, in ink, and enclose 10 cent coin and a stamped (3c) addressed envelope. .You will be surprised at the revelations, and may find the door of opportunity opened for you. Address your letter to: Geof. frey St. Clair, Grapho-Analyst, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. Col, F. H. Deacon The election of Colonel Frederick FIerbert Deacon to the presidency of the Canadian National Exhibition brings to the chair a gentleman who has contributed a very great deal to this great institution and who is eminently fitted to discharge the duties of the very responsible post: tion for which he has been chosen. Colonel Deacon is head of the firm of F, I.T. Deacon and Co., investment bankers, of Toronto and is identified in -various ofli'cial capacities with in- dustrial and iinancial institutors of high repute. •The agricultural inter, este of Canada have a warn ana ac five friend in the new president, His pride is Glenburn , Farms, his final ni- liiceut country place near Unionville, Ontario. JColonel Deacon has been cllairmen of the' cattle committee"of the Exhibition since 1925 and has es tall littthed a reputation as one of the leadse�g shorthorn breeders of the ' United States and Canada, ile bon won premier honors et the Canadian national E,xhibhtio , R yal Civil Service May Have to Recruit Men For Senior Posts Toranto,—Die-hard oppouenta o<( ",petticoat government," beware, 08 the authority of one of the most eminent civil siervanbs, Canada will soonhave to go outside the cavil sea vice for Dien to fill big jobs or else the women will take them, "The time is coming," said Watson Sellar, comptroller of tilte Dol nicio t Treasury in an address to the Board of Trade Club, "when women will hold enough of the key positions on the ladder to the executive positions that either the practice will be adopt- ed of going outside of the civil service to recruit men for the senior adminis- trative posts, or else we sink the prejudice now existing against women being placed in charge of major ac- tivities. As you pay the bills, I leave the decision to "you" He added the percentage of female employes in the Ottawa headquarters staff was 22 per cent in the group of 45 years and over; 38 per cent in the 30-45 years of age group, and said he ignored the younger ages because inin that period staff turnover is rapid "and nowgirls always out - �boyathe " Fair, and leading United States shows including the International Live Stock Show at Chicago. President Deacon has been a tire- less worker in behalf of junior farm- er and farmerette movements and in all live stock and agricultural de- partments of the Exhibition. This, together with his wide financial and industrial experience make him a most valuable head of the highly diversified "Show Window of the Nati ons." Contagious Diseases Scarce in Toronto A surprising statement made at the annual meeting of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, was that there was not enough whooping oaugh, measles' or diphtheria to go around in Toronto. But it turned out to mean that with the drop in these diseases, it was be-- coming increasingly difficult fol nursesdn-training to obtain adequate experience in communicable diseases' care. It was Miss Elvira Manning, ichairman of the Public Health Sec• tion, who pointed this out in hey presentation of the findings of hex committee from answers to a quer 8ionnaire sent to public health nurses all over the district --but she did say, "There are not enough of them to gc round either in Toronto or Hamilton." She also stated that the answers to the queries -had noted insufficient training in pediatrics for the student nurse who is to do public health wore • after graduation. Needy Families Find Fortune on Beach San Francisco.—A half-dozen needy families may divide as much as $100; 000 as a result of an analysis which Examiner says proves that a sub stance picked up an the beach at Bolinas Bay, north of here, is amber- gris. Residents, of the area have gatiher- ed between 200 and 300 pounds of the substance, worth approximately $27 an ounce at present market prices. School was closed one day so that children Mould join their parents in combing the beach for the material, Expelled from the stomachs of siclt whales, ambergris?, when purified, is used in the manufacture of rare per. fumes, and because of its rarity is extremely valuable. C.P.R. Jan. Net Gains 174 p.c: Net earnings of the Canadian Pa cific Railway for the month of Janu. ary totalled $888,989 as compared with $323,372 in the same month of last year, an increase of $565,616, on 174 per cent. Gross earnings for the month to - tailed $8,970,335 as compared with $7,675,660 in January of last year, a gain of $1,294,674. Operating ex- penses increased $729,057 to $8,081,- 346. Included in January expenses were pensions amounting to $149,548, Figures for January, this year, as compared wiith January, 1933, com- pare as follows: Gross earn. 1934 $8,970,335 Oper. exp. x$8,081,346 British Fair Shows Progress London.—The great British Indus- tries' Fair, opensi recently, again bea•t•its own record in the space taken for exhibition. A': the Olympia and the White City, London, and in the heavy .crades sectli,n at Birmingham' the total indoor frontage alone am- ounted to 32 miles, with nearly 3,000 exhibitors. Canada has taken a fair amount of space, some 40 firms being represented in addition to govern- mental and railways exhibits. Considerable Variation Shown on Weather Montreal.: --The difference between the Australian, New Zealand, Cana - cion ancl. initis!! point of, view in re- garre- gardto the weather of the res•pee-1 tive countries was slimmed up in the following way by the Rev, Milli)Milli)Carrington, dead of Bishop's College, 1 Lennoxville, whenwhenaddressing the American Women's Club here. "You say to en Australian that it 1.! hot and 1>e replies, 'a nice dry day.' You tell a Cauadiutt it is cold in Can- ada and he answers, 'not so cold as all that.' You mention eartbquakes to a New Zealander and he r'e'plies, 'not at rill, 00 eartlbqualces,' But ask an Ta.'ng�isli1nau what .,sort of ell:hath he has in England, and he answer;; n o Winter. 'rotten;' " 1933 Increase $7,675,660 $1,294,679 $7,352,288 $ 729,051 Net earn $888,989 $ 23,372 $ 565,616 Note: (x) Includes pensions of $149,548. Baden-Powell's Visit Postponed Ottawa.—The visit of Lord and. Lady Baden-Powell to Canada this fall has been postponed till April, 1935, it was announced recently by John A. Stiles, chief executive cam- missioner of the Boy Scouts Associa- tion for Canada. The announcement stated thatthey would attend a Scout janhborce in Australia in December in connection with the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Mel- bourne, and will coins home by way of Vancouver. They will visit various centres throughou'. Canada on their way back to England. Prize Black -Bye Story of Them All New York,—Jacob Bernsweig, 31, tells the prize black -eye story of them all. He was picking up firewood along the beach at Rockaway, he reported, when he noticed 'a seagull overhead in :.one kitld of difficulty. Suddenly the I dropped a large claim with which i lin 1 ben struggling, and the clani hit hirer right in the eye.