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Zurich Herald, 1934-08-15, Page 61 Voice of the Press Canada, the Empire and Elle World at Large • CANADA • MOTOR CAR NO. t When you see a motor car bearing License Number 1, you will know it is Premier Hepburn's. He inay be in it or he niay not, but it is his car that has the low tag. Down in St. Thomas the ear steered up a lot of interest. It did not take as long as that, however, for the new Ontario Pre- mier to discover the magic of Num- ber 1. His second full day in office was July 12, when the Orangemen staged their big parade in Toronto. Premier Hepburn had arranged to meet some colleagues and he stepped in his car to drive to the appoint- ment. Forgetting all about the par- ade he suddenly discovered he was jammed right into the traffic. There he was stuck fast and could not get out. Few persons recognized him. Finally a policeman saw the magic number, saluted sharply, and then started to make way for the Pre- mier. Even then it was only with 'some difficulty that he was able to get out of the jam and on his way.— W. L. Clark, in Border Cities Star, FIRST STEAMSHIPS. The current issue of the Saturday Evening Post contains a picture of "The American steamer Savannah, the first ocean steamship." The fact about the Savannah is, however, that she carried steam only as an auxil- iary, and on her famous voyage across the Atlantic in 1819 she steamed only a small part of the way, depending mainly upon her sails, The Canadian -built Royal William was apparently the first steamer to cross the Atlantic between North Am- erica and Europe steaming all the way, the sails in this case being aux- iliary to the steam equipment. But Holland seems to have a good claim to "the first ocean steam- ship,?' for while the Royal William crossed the North Atlantic in 1833, the Dutch steamer Curacoa crossed from the Netherlands to South Am- erica and return in 1927-28-29, ap- parently under steam all the way. — Toronto Star, THiS WORD "RUSH" - One hardly picks up a newspaper without coming across an accident re- ported in it where the victim is "rushed" to the hospital, It is re- spectfully suggested that the word is ill -chosen, overworked and wrong, The idea conveyed is that precipi- tate baste has been used out of all care for the best interests of the patient, A man badly injured or suffering from a ruptured appendix is hardly in a fit state to be rushed anywhere. The main idea surely is to take him to the hospital with such speed as his critical state will per_ It is presumed, too, that after an accident, or the discovery of a con- dition that requires prompt surgical attention, there will be no facetious delays, even to the ambulance driver sitting down on the running board and eating his Iunch. So, if instead of all these reporters and even country oorrespondents rushing to use this word "rush," they take a tip and employ the mere apt "convey" they will be conforming to a 'more appropriate reporting of the actual circumstances. —Kamloops Sentinel. UNCERTAINTIES AHEAD. In brief the business outlook at the present time as far as this coun- try itself is concerned, is undoubt- Have You Heard This One? A f.'iwh story that's different is We one related by Dr, Q. M. Stc,phen-Hassard of San Diego. Tiring of waiting for nibble, iso donned goggles and dove after them with lance, coming up with these' in :Co* minutes. edly better than at any time in the past four years. But if the gains thus made are to be beld and even exceeded in the next five months, it is obvious that uncertainties as to the situation In Europe and the United States, if not definitely removed, must at least show evidence of a change for the better. At the moment these external fac- tors are causing .much concern in informed business and financial Mr - ales and must be reckoned with in any appraisal of the Canadian busi- ness outlook.—Financial Post, IMPRESSIVE TOTAL, Small investors in the United Kingdom have something like $12,- 450,000,000 tucked away in Post Office Savings Bank, Trustee Savings banks and in national savings certificates. In England these small investors are never spoken of collectively as the "big interest."—St. Catharines Stan_ dard. AND GLOVES ON. Women are queer critters — we see them out walking these days with shorts, bare legs—we mean limbs- and gloves on. In the name of all that is reasonable, why the gloves? —Wiarton Echo. OLD MASTER FETISH. Over the rdaio recently a violinist who owns a $30,000 Guarnerius vio- lin played a melody upon it, then repeated the melody with an ordinary violin or "fiddle" costing about $100. Then he asked the radio listeners to write in and say which was the 830,- 000 30;000 instrument and which the $100. Eleven per cent. did not notice any difference, 54 per cent. guessed the $100 violin. was the $30,000 one, and 35 per cent. gave bhe right answer.— St, Thomas Times -Journal. BAD MANNERS, The decline of manners has be- come clearly marked during the past few years and is by no means con- fined to the one sex. Ordinary polite- ness and civility have departed from the masses and their excuse is, ap- parently, something to be forgotten rather than promoted. It is now re- garded in many quarters as the smart thing to be impolite and rude, and the influence of the home and the school, which. has fallen down in so many other things, is equally neglibible in this regard. --Brockville Recorder. CONTRIBUTING TO SAFE HIGH- WAYS. A man was asked by Constable Howell to test the brake of leis mo- torcycle. He said he did not know where it was. It was pointed out to him and he said: 'I did not know that was a brake.''—London Star. "POPULAR" The Ottawa Journal is the most popular paper in Canada with the press. According to figures compiled by the Dominion Press Clipping Bur- eau during the first three months of the current year the quotations from The Journal by Canadian papers numbered 1,827. The Toronto Globe came next with 1,753 quotations to its credit. The Stratford Beacon -Her- ald, by far the brightest of all the provincial dailies, had 1,071 quota- tions to its credit.—Allistoh Herald, HELPING JOHN BULL. Again this year the death -duty col- lections will make easier John Bull's task of surplus -building. The estate of the late Viscount Tredegar will contribute nearly $6,000,000. THE BIGGEST THIEF KNOWN. The St. Thomas Times -Journal is of the view that the Humane Society should look into the reported method of killing starlings in this district. It is a moot point, but the starling does not observe any rules in his relations with other members of the feathery kingdom and he is the biggest thief and gormandizer of fruit ever known, There is a real danger that unless res striated, this pest of a bird will make a fruit crop impossible.—St. Cathar- ines Standard. $150,000 FOR A FLOWER, Rarest and costliest of the world's blooms are orchids. They grow in the remotest aand most inaccessible parts; in the mighty forests of Brazil and on the Amazon in Borneo, Cochin, China, Central Africa and the Burm- ese and Indian forests. The orchid 1s-' a parasite and grows on the limbs of trees. Unlike most plants, it seeks the shade rather than ;sunlight, and is found in heavily -timbered and damp places, where, although the sun se1- 1 don penetrates, the heat is so fierce that vapor rises like a mist. Four years ago two Canadians, Geo. i Tayler and Bill Gordon, sailed for the sunny land of Conquistadores, in S. America, in quest of the -world's rar- est orchid the "Tiger Head." They are employed by the Smithson Institute of New York and on a previous search In South America discovered the "Nun's Head," which was bought by a wealthy collector for $150,000, Searching for orchids is even more thrilling aiud dangerous than hunting lions and elephants, for although or - Lord Londonderry, A ,d King's Cup Winner Flight Lieutenant H. M. Schofield., flying W. S. Stephenson's Monospar S. T. 10 -plane, won the IS.ing's Cup air race round Britain, which began an d finished at Hatfield Airdrome in Harts. Thomas Rose was second and L. Lipton, third. Photo shows Mr. Schofield, (right), receiving the King's Cup from the Minister for Air. chills cannot hit back they grow in places abounding with poisonous snakes, insects and deadly plants. THE EMPIRE OVERDOING TAG DAYS. Only 61 days had May and June, but 88 of then were flag days in London. The figures indicate a bit of overlap- ping, but that is not the most seri- ous feature of this Flag Day business. The trouble is that people who go on giving clay after day from mere force of babit or from sheer coward- ice are likely to cut down all their benefactions to a copper or two, in- stead of contributing what they can afford to the causes that appeal to them and leaving the rest alone. And when that is done there is not enough left for Poppy Day and Alexandra Rose Day, the only two official A-1 nation-wide Flag Days in the calen- dar. --Manchester Sunday Chroi ieh' BRITAIN'S MR NEEDS. We hope the announcement that plane have been approved for the con- struction of 000 new British aero- planes does not mean that bhe Cabinet is contenting itself with half -measures in the air. For it is necessary to point out that 600 machines will be very much too few to bring the Air Force up to the' strength which Min- isters have promised. Expert author_ ities consider that the Force should be numbered in thousands not hun- dreds.—London Daily Mail. A QUESTION OF ADVANTAGE There is in the last resort only one Justification for India being within the Empire and that is that it shall be clearly to her advantage as well as to that of Britain's, If it is an advan- tage for a sub -continent to be welded into one wbole and made conscious of itself as a nation and to be pre- vented from splitting up into • frag- ments, then the benefit up to date is proved. if, however, in the future India could reach a point where she could cohere without the cement of the British connection, there would inevitably arise a reckoning of advan- tages and disadvantages on a basis more critical than that of the French in Canada or the Dutch In Africa.— Calcntta Statesman. 400,000 Trees Planted By Boy Scouts Canadian Government Bulletin Athong other good deeds, Canadian Boy Scouts have planted close to 400,000 trees during six annual Boy Scout reforestation camps at Angus, Ontario, A thousand trees earth were planted this year by the 89 I3oy Scouts attending the camp. This important work is carried on tinder the auspices of the Ontario Departanent of Lands and Ferrsts, who operate the camp, but the Scouts pay thein' own camp expenses, During another Scout re- forestation drive at Stirling, Ontario, the school children of six townships were invited by the Boy Scouts to join them in planting 1,000 young trees, Boy Scouts in Nova Scotia also en- gage in title useful work. Arbor Day in that province again saw thous- ands of trees planted by Boy Scouts and school children. Fifteen Halifax and Dartmouth Scout troops spent the entire day in the Waverley re- forestation area, their absence from school for this purlloee rarefying the approves of the fepariment of Mince - 1 ion, A slap in the face is a friendly gesture compared with the anony. » mous note. TO MARRY OR NOT TO MARRY The decision of Vassar to allow its students to marry and continue as students raises a good many interest- ing questions. The avowed reason is the number of secret marriages (and possibly of less regular unions) con- tracted as things are. The students, 'loreover, are apparently clamoring .r marriage without the delay in- volved in taking a degree. And where Vassar has led, Smith and Wellesley and Brynmawr and the rest are said to be likely to follow. But not I trust, Girton and Newham, Somerville and Lady Margaret. If the unsettlement due to secret marriages is incompati- ble with systematic study so is the unsettlement—or rather the distract- ion --of orthodox marriage, partic- ularly if, as at Vassar, the women students are still to live in what are there called dormitories and here hostels. To defer marriage till the not inordinately advanced age of, say, 22, is a hardship to no one, and young women who cannot reconcile them- selves to that are hardly likely to be the type to profit most by a degree course at a university. — London Spectator. Waterloo Bridge Now a Memory By P. W. Wilson in ropy York Sunday Tinter). For 30 years. Britain has been fighting the Battle of Waterloo Bridge. The struggle is over. Under the blows of the wreckers this great landmark in London is rapidly crum- bling, and already it is a memory. There are two reasons for- the change. First, the boats along the Thames are said to have been im- paired by the old bridge. Secondly, it is stated that six lanes are needed for traffic across the river instead of four lanes. These considerations have gained the day, and according to a multitude of sorrowful admir- ers of the bridge, the proud sweep of London's curving Embankment will never be the same. The design of the new bridge has been intrusted to an arehitect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in whose genius Britain takes especial pride. It was he who, when barely 21 years of age, beat all competitors by his design of. Liverpool Cathedral, which is regard- ed in England as a triumph of ec- clesiastical majesty. About Waterloo Bridge there was a peculiar dignity that has fascin- ated the world. Canova, the Italian sculptor, said of its nine granite arches . and intervening pillars so perfect in their proportions, that here was the finest bridge in Eur- ope, and many an architect has echo- ed this verdict. It Was John Rennie, a Scottish ,engineer, who, in 1817, completed Waterloo Bridge. Also, be designed the present London Bridge. Side by side with Sir Christopher Wren, he was buried under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. The bridge was named after Well- ington's victory at Waterloo and its opening was a great affair. There were the horseguards in all their glory. There wore the royal barges bearing the Prince Regent, after. ward King George IV, to the scene, Above all there was the Duke of 'Wellington, At the ,toll gate he was granted the honor of paying the. first halfpenny charged to pedese trains who wished to cross the bridge. The halfpenny was care- fully preserved. Over her bridges, London has al- ways been solicitous. It was standing on old Westminster Bridge and gaz- ing at the curving skyine of the city that Wordsworth wrote his incom- parable sonnet beginning, "Earth has' not anything to show more fair," and continuing: This city now doth like ment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is ly- ing still! Of Waterloo Bridge, another poet„ Thomas Hood, wrote what is per- haps the most pathetic of all poems in ' the language. It was entitled, "The Bridge of Sighs," and tells of a girl, who, in despair, had thrown herself into the water below: Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care, Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair. a gar - Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! Oh, it was pitiful Near a whole city full, Horne she had none! By the dark shadows of Waterloo Bridge at night, the luxuriant im- agination of Charles Dickens was no less stirred. It was to him, as to Hood, a place where, in days • before electric light, tragedy was possible. The labor leader, John Burns, was once showing a party of Americans over the Houses of Parliament. They stood on the terrace and looking at the river. "You have a Mississippi in America," be said, "and a St. Law- rence and they are bigger than this little stream, But let me tell you— the Thames is not a river, It is Iiquid history." Of all the bridges in London that span the "liquid history," the most venerable is still called London Bridge. Wooden piles, tiles ands coins indicate that it was first built by the Romans. For centuries it has, been built and rebuilt. Under this bridge Anne Boleyn' passed in her barge to the Tower of' London and the block. Her daughter, Elizabeth, also made that journey .and• narrowly escaped the same fate. ,lames It fled under the bridge into exile and, hoping to bring the Gov- ernment to a standstill, dropped his Great Seal of the Realm into the river, where it has remained to this day. Here rose those medieval houses on the bridge itself that made it, like the Ponta Vecchio in Florence, not only a bridge, but a street, There were fortified gates at the bridge and above them rose spikes of iron on which the heads of decapitated traitors were duly impaled—an in- spiring nspiring sight for the watermen who filled the river with traffic. It was to "a broken arch of London Bridge" that Macaulay issued his famous invitation to "some traveller from New Zealand." There, in days to come, let him "take his stand," and "in the midst of a vast solici- tude" let him "sketch the ruins of St. Paul's," Macaulay did not realize that in 1984 there would be built the Tower Bridge with twin bascules to admit ships carrying visitors from New Zealand, or that, in order to preserve the ruins of St. Paul's, Dean Inge would raise a subscription to which New Zealanders of artistic temper- ament were cordially invited to con- tribute, Picnics and the People This is the time of year when peo- ple say: "It's so warm today. Let's fix up a lunch basket and go for a picnic." Picnics are an enjoyable pastime. It is pleasant to find some shady spot and lunch or dine there away from the heat and formality of town or city. But there are too many peo- ple who are inconsiderate enough to turn these ideal spots into miniature replicas of a garbage dump and spoil the pleasure of other people who are picnic -bound. Most of the people who leave picnic places in such a condition are very particular about the neatness of their homes. They do not stop to think that the beauties of nature are com- mon property and that all should be careful to preserve them. Keeping Up With Jones Bobby Jones, when in his golfing prime, seemed to have made a habit of winning British championships. Yet though he won the British open three times, he captured the ama- teur prize only once. Husky young W. Lawson Little, of California, who won from a hardy Scotch opponent at Prestwick, became the third native-born American to fetch home that much -coveted prize. And, while it is doubtful if Little's record on the links will ever equal Bobby's his performance at Prestwick. stands unparalleled. Cutting three strokes off the record for the difficult course with a 66 in the morning round, he ended the match at the 23rd hole -14 up and 13 to go. No other player ever won a major champion- ship so impressively. When his oppon- ent scored a birdie, Little responded with an eagle. You Can't beat a fel- . low going like that. Books might be written on the question of superiority between Bri- tish and American golfers. If they are, the achievement of young Mr, Little must have a place beside the best that was done by Bobby Jones.— Chicago Daily News. Nobody learns now to invest except by investing, and the early expert. ence is always costly—very costly. Max Loses Decision essess s ,0..ne aCwS. es In miter he can st. h into his biz~ brother's shoes any time, Buddy Baer demonstrates his long reach in New York. He's taller and heavier than Max.