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Zurich Herald, 1934-08-23, Page 21 i Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA WARNING THE CHILDREN Parents might note that one of the things it is necessary to warn their children of is never to try to dig a pirate's or a robber's cave in a sand- bank, Scarcely a year passes that the death of a child, and sometimes more than one, is reported from the caving in of the sand. A fine lad of twelve has just lost his life in Toronto from this cause, The burrowing instinct is strong in boys, but it is too danger- ous to be encouraged.—Hamilton Her- ald. IT WORKS. Critics may say what they like about the Ottawa agreements; the fig- ures are there to speak for them- selves. What they prove, beyond any question, is that Empire preferences are working, that they are improving Empire trade steadily, and that for Canada they have meant everything. Because somebody must be getting the benefit of these growing exports. Our farmers must be selling more, and neither can sell more without considerable gain. A whole lot of people—farmers, working men, busi- ness men, transportation employees- must have more money than last year. —Ottawa Journal. THE SPEEDSTERS. For some reason Sunday traffic re- minds us that It has taken Niagara Falls 30,000 years to move seven mites.—Hamilton Spectator. , BETTER TIMES AHEAD. A chart published by the Sanford Evans statistical service, in the last issue of the Weekly Market News, brings home how much the purchas- ing power of the West has suffered by the decline in the value of farm mar- ketings during the past five years. It also is a reminder of what a large part • ,et the total returns is derived from wheat. Until the ground lost has been recovered it;i some measure, Le prairie provinces had to lag be- hind the rest of Canada in the im- provement that has been manifested during recent months. But, if the present crop promise in these prov- inces is realized and .dollar wheat is reached at Winnipeg, as is freely pre- dicted, there will be a very marked change in the situation.—Edmonton Journal.. QUITE SO. When automobiles travel at speeds in excess ,of 40 miles an hour more Power. is required to overcome air re- sistance than road resistance. More power is also required to overcome accident resistance.—Chatham News. A. DANGEROUS EXAMPLE It issurprising to read in so usual- ly sound a newspaper as the Border Cities Star a suggestion that in the Dillinger case the offcers of the law, "disposing of him finally just as they would shoot a mad dog, have saved the people further outlay for court proceedings,' and that "the only dan- ger iu this sort of thing is that they might have shot the wrong man." There is, of course, a basic danger in it which. far transcends that possibil- ity—the danger that trial by police should replace trial by the courts, the presumption in the former case being that a man is guilty, whereas in the courts he is presumed innocent un- til ntil his guilt is proved. The shooting down of criminals or supposed crim- inals when they can be captured alive and dealt with in a court of justice bas nothing to commend it and every- thing to condemn it. The police are the servants of the law. They must not be allowed to become its adminis- trators. The procedure in the Dillin- ger case is not something for Cana- dians to copy, but something for Can. adians to avoid.—Toronto Daily Star, IT ALL DEPENDS. A contemporary says it is unhealthy to suppress a laugh; but that depends upon who you are laughing at.—Cha- tam News. ANIMAL LANGUAGE. Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Italian poet, has announced that he will in- clude a complete glossary of the ca. nine language in his new book, "Lives of Illustrious Dogs." The book is to be modelled after Plutarch's "Lives." Other animals whose vocabularies have been recorded are the monkey, the horse, and the cat. An American woman, Miss Blanch W. Learned, was responsible for classifying thirty-two terms of the chimpanzee, together with the meaning of each. The horse is said to speak "six words and three kinds of neighings." Cats produce fif- teen sounds, according to the experts, each with its distinct interpretation. There are twelve "words" In the hen's voeabulary. Front all this it seems that it is high time that the phrase, "our dumb friends/4 went into the discard. It was always a libel,—Vic- toile, Times, WHICH DO YOU DO? The Trenton Courier-Advoeate pub.. lisped in the middle of its "Fifty Years Ago" column a little advertise - tient for fifty' strawberry pickers—an advertisement half it century old. A girl telephoned tete newspaper and asked for a more specifis address, as she wished to apply. It is said that some people read only the headings of the articles, but this one read the centre of it without noticing what the beading said at all.—Toronto Star. DANGEROUS HATS. "As good good to be out of the world as out of the fashion," said Colley Libber, But it looks as if some of the ladies of today are likely to make their exit from the world due to that very thing, the fashion, In this case it is the fashion in hats that will be instrumental. The latest cute little creations in femiuine headgear are designed to be worn with the brim tilted sweetly over one eye and, of course, shut out the view on that. side. A motorist the other day missed .hitting a lady who stepped right into'his way. She simp- ly did not see him at all. The nicely - tilted little hat shut• off all vision on one side. Nobody seems to know just exact_ ly wtho designs the fashions, but whoever it is — and it is said that feminine fashions are designed by men—he has a lot to answer for. — Calgary Herald. ACHIEVED BY MERIT The Ottawa Journal stands first among 101 Canadian newspapers for the number of quotes from its pages, mainly editorial. It is a proud posi- tion achieved not by accident but by merit. Incidentally the St, Catharines Standard stands fifteenth in the list. —St. Catharines. Standard, OUR EXCLUSIVE EARTH Thus all the indications would seem to prove that only on this earth are there human joys and sorrows; revo- lutions and counter-revolutions; wed- ding bells and christenings; auto horns and jazz; traffic cops and taxes; radios and telephones, and all the other things which go to characterize what is known .as humanity—Brant- ford Expositor. YOUTH OF THE WEST. The death occurred recently of a man who was the first school teacher in what is now the province of Al- berta. The fact reminds us how young the far West is in the matter of set- tlement by the white man, and how remarkable its progress has been. This man had attained the age of 100 years, but it was only in 18751 he opened his school in Morley, in what is now Alberta. What stories he could have told of the raw West of 60 years ago. --Saint John TeIegraph- Journal, NEWSBOYS MAKE GOOD. Politicians who gained their earli- est business experience by selling newspapers are coming into their own. 1 When the Hon. David Croll was ap- pointed Minister of Public Welfare of Ontario, it was recalled that as a boy he had sold newspapers and polished shoes In the streets of 'Windsor, mak- ing use of the profits of this business to obtain his education. And now it is revealed that the Hon. J. Russell. Love, who has been ajtpointed Provincial Treasurer of Al- berta, in the new Reid Ministry, fin- anced part of his expenses while a student at the University of Alberta by selling newspapers, this being one of his earliest experiences in practi- cal, finance. The boy who cries his newspaper wares at the street corners may be the future Cabinet Minister, just as many a boy who has travelled deliv- ery routes for this and many other Canadian newspapers has climbed high on the ladder of success in his subsequent business or professional career,—Brockville Recorder. THE EMPIRE THE KING IN EDINBURGH. The royal visit to Edinburgh has been an unqualified success and there is simplicity and compactness about the Palace of liolyroodhouse that gives the impression that the King and Queen are living more than ordin- arily among their people. The illumi- nations and the flowers made a great display, It is almost worth a journey to the Scottish capital to see the Castle floodlit. The effect Is to create what seems literally a castle in the air, for with the hill itself dark and invisible the illuminated walls and battlements seem floating on a sea of blackness. But summer evenings in Scotland are light so late that it is near midnight before the full beauty of the scene develops.—'.Che Specta- tor. WOULDN'T TAKE HIS MONEY. The late John Galsworthy, author and playwright, remembered, after Paying his income-tax one time, that :le hail left out a certain large sum revolved, end wrote to the authorit- ies offering the extra amount due. They replied that the aceounls were now clwTtl ',nrl nothing could be done nhout it. Galsworthy replied by sending a cheque for the amount, They return- ed it with a letter saying that the Off To The Wars At present more than half way across the A. tlantic, T, O..1VI. Sopwith's "Endeavour" crosses the path of the liner Bremen,' as she leaves Gdspo3•t, E riglancl, for ' the Uriii;ed . States to challenge the American representative for the Americas 'Cup. •". Lords Commissioners had ordered that the correspondence must now cease. Galsworthy, enraged, went on wor- rying the authorities about it for a long time. How was it possible, he said, that the poorer classes should not be unduly burdened When' the comparatively wealthy like himself could escape. — John O'London's Weekly. WHERE WATERLOOS ARE WON. And England needs them, these young men and women strong in. mind ad vigorous in body, armed with the will to conquest and the self-discipline that alone makes conquest possible. We want them to win lawn tennis championships, and we want tbem to keep Britain the great nation our fathers made it. Let there be no pre- tense about It. There is an older gen- eration in power today that fries softness and defeatism. The proclaim- ed ideals of the political platform are often far from being those of the sports ground. It is a fine thing to have young men who can win for England at Wimbledon and Sandwich, but we want so many of them that presently we shall have an older gen- eration that will win for England at Westminster or wherever lies the task of keeping the nation's end up.—Lon- don p: Lon- don Evening News. England Dedicates Road Constructed by Jobless Stanley, Eng.—Reducing by two miles the 'nortest route between the densely populated area of Stanley and Newcastle -on -Tyne, a £100,000 road was recently opened by Alder- man John Jeffrey, Chairman of 'Dur- ham County Council Works Com- mittee, The scheme had been carried out by direct labor and the provision of 18 weeks' work for 1106 men, he pointed out, had brought incalculable temporary happiness into many hom- es in the locality, whilst it had also helped the trades people. Alderman Jeffrey condemned the present economic system "which made it possible in a land of plenty for thousands of people to be doom- ed to an existence of poverty." He looked forward to the day when pros- perity would return and road schem- es vould chemeswould be carried out primarily for the comfort of the traveling public and not with the wretched objective, as at present, of relieving economic distress. On The Job Rather late on a recent night, a gentleman of undoubted veracity was driving up Fifth avenue, bound for a public garage on East 102nd street to rut up his car writes the New Yorker. At 101st street the ted llgh+ flashed against him and he stopped. Not so a motorist beside him; • who cheated and went aeross, Our mazy drove into his garage, and there was the other driver, taking some things out of his ear. Almost immediately ;mother car drove into the garage, n+ -d out stepped Mayor La Guardia. fife walked right up to the fight- iitt""pcer. 'took his name and address, and said he would 'hear about this. Then, without a pause, he wheeled around on the garage attendant who had cone up, and took his name and address—for smoking, Women of Britain Urged to Resist Defeatist Stand Conference .'Told That Man - Made Problems Can Be Solved By Man London.—Women of the British Commonwealth are, according to sdme who live in the various parts ,of. its wherever-po§•sidle, being relegated to "the church, the family and the kit- chen" confined to certain prescribed activities, cleated freedom oP.choice. happenings were .discussed . during the meeting of the annual confer- ence o' the British Commonwealth League Stere recently, when women from Australia, Canada, Ceylon,".In dia, New Zealand, South Africa and from some 30 British and interna- tional societies met to examine the common problems which confront each and every one of them during a period of world unrest and change, Mrs, Corbett Ashby, president of • the league, uncovered some of the causes of their probl•ems.. The fact of the matter is, she said, in address- ing the conference, that women are experiencing the effects of general world thinking and are unable to - account for o-.accountfor it, When political and economic doors opened to women immediately after the war, they opened not merely be- cause mankind in general hed rec- ognized the value 02 co-operation be- tween the sexes and wanted to es- tablish it, but because mankind in general was experiencing that wave of co-operative desire which account_ ed for the formation of the League of Nations, for the granting of the political franchise to women and tor other similar happenings. Since those days, mankind has re- treated from its immediate post-war position and for reasons, Mrs. Cor- bett Ashby explained, that while sci- entitle experiment and economic ad- vances support the general conception of unity between states and between sexes, political understanding still lags behind such a conception and en- tertains fears for the consequences of too sturdy a confidence in the ideal of brotherhood, The duty of women, Mrs. Corbett Ashby suggested, lies at the moment in offering all possible resistance to what she calls "the spirit of defeat_ ism" and in offsetting the tendency of the older generation to complain that the complexity of 'modern prob- lems is beyond human control. "IP man made the problems," she said, "man is quite capable of bring- ing order out of the chaos he has formed," The main necessity, she continued, is to map out a, political organization which will prove capable of handling ehangieg conditions wisely and of ac_ tenting the ideal of unity which Is already in ,potential existence in re- gard to world relations and class re- lations, and to relations between the sexes. Pillory Is Used Punish Stneeders P1verton, N J —The pillory has been resurreeted by Riverton police to punis;b speeding automobile driv- ers. If the speeder was going 50, miles an hoar, he sits In his ear before the publie gage in a speniaily marked c`urs'e Por 50 tnfnntee, if he .,.,,., rI c w "'r,lt Drought Hits Dakota Herd One -Third of State's Popula- tion on Relief -- Move 6,000 Cattle Daily Bismark, N.D.—The drought has hit North Dakota hard. Virtually one-third of the State's entire population is on Federal relief rolls. Farms are producing only "minia- ture" crops. •Two hundred persons in one sec- tion are to be moved to Federal au- thority from untlllable farms. Drifting top -soil has damaged the highway system by more than $500,- 000. . Addtional thousands of persons are expected to seek relief when winter comes. Once known as an important grain state, North Dakota faces a split agriculturally, with the west revert- ing to an area of grazing lands and the east becoming the main farming country, MORE ON RELIEF. The movement is definite, forced by continuing drought, Helpless, farmers have watched their rich top -soil carried away on the wings of prairie wind, to fall into and choke miles of highway drainage ditches. A steady increase in the number of persons on relief rolls is noted by E. A. Willson, State Administrator of Federal Relief. "Fifty thousand families—approxi- mately 200,000 persons—are on relief, a situation directly traceable to the drought," Willson said, "Some are on part relief, some total relief, some on only stock relief." Six thousand cattle are being mov- ed owed out of North Dakota daily. More • than 300,09 head of cattle have been shipped in the past two months. Ap- proximately 600,000 head have been purchased in tete Government's plan to reduce the cattle population to 1,000,000 head. SHIP CATTLE AWAY. The lack of water has brought rush orders to move cattle out of many counties. The animals are shipped to southern and eastern parts of the country, • To relieve • parched human throats, Federal agencies are hastening the establishment of a new corporation whose purpose will be to extend funds to dig wells to provide water for farms now nearly arid. Community 1 wells will be dug, perhaps on farms, perhaps on some public property. 91,700 Jobless Return to Work During June Hon. H. H. Stevens Reports Marked Improvement — Exceeds Average Cain .Since 1920. Ottawa.—A marked improvement in employment statistics was shown in the report issued recently by Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce. Employers reporting to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics had 941,165 persons at work on July 1, as compared with 899,751 on June 1. "The situation generally was bet- ter than on the same date of 1933 and 1932," said Mr. Stevens, in com- menting on the report. WORK FOR 9f,700. "The favorable movement noted In the past three months has provided work for nearly 91,700 persons, be- sides increasing the working hours of others previously employed. "This improvement compares satis- factorily with the aggregate gains of approximately 79,000, 11,000 and 38,, 000 reported in the same three months of 1933, 1932 and 1931, respectively. "The second quarter of the year is normally a period of intensified industrial activity, but the general increase in the last three months has, considerably -exceeded the average in the- years since 1920, "'". EXCEEDS AVERAGE GAIN "Employment in manufacturing showed further improvement, contrary to the usual seasonal trend on• July 1; most of the gains occurred in the food, lumber and pulp and paper groups. Mining (except of coal), con_ munications, services, trade, transpor- tation, logging and construction also indicated substantial advances. The „• greatest greatest expansion was in highway construction, in which some 25,000 additional workers were reported partly engaged in unemployment re- lief undertakings. Excluding sterna;''' road workers, however, the general increase in the numbers on the re- ported payrolls exceeded the average gain noted in the years since 1920." Blind Woman Writes Poetry "Sees" Beauties of Nature; Travels With Geologist Husband New York—The remarkable clarity with which blind persons sometimes 'see" the beauties of nature is shown in a collection of verse entitled "Fog Phantoms,"•the work of Alice Adkins Johnson, partly blind since childhood and totally blind since she was 18. She is the wife of Professor Douglas Johnson, geoligist and geographer of Columbia University, with whom she has traveled extensively, seizing every opportunity to explore the world be- yond her doors. In a foreward to his wife's book, just published, Professor Johnson pays tribute to her happy philosophy of life. He writes: "When as a child she was deprived of the sense of sight, her valiant soul set for a handicapped body the task of doing all things others do as nearly as pos- sible the way they do them. Without aid of staff or companion she learn- ed to traverse with swift and certain steps the streets of her home town, enjoying the stately elms, the green lawns, the picturesque houses as fully as could any other. "In joyous anticipation of making a new home for one she loved, she conquered enough of the art of cook- ing to preside alone in her kitchen, enough of the art of sewing to make much of her own trousseau, enough of the art of music to participate in public recitals and bring pleasure to the home she created; enough of typewriting to aid her husband in his studies, enough of foreign languages to read much in three of them and to converse as needed in two." Mrs. Johnson does most of her writ- ing on the typewriter, and on cross- ! country trips with her husband she takes his geological notes from dicta- tion either by longhand or typing them direct as they drive along. Her . travels have taken her into every con- tinent except South America and the Antarctic. Open Space Saved For Children of London She long effort to save the site of the Foundling Hospital for the chil- dren of central London is now hap- pily terminated. The governors of the Foundling Hospital will concentrate niton infant welfare work as a memorial to their founder. Thomas Coram, They will continue the adminis<treline of 1lie flay nursery and the nursery school, whirls have been established on the site since 1930• The Appeal t"nnnfil':; nh- joot in saving the Foundling site es an open space and securing it for this children of London for ail time has been successfully achieved. cp Deficit in U.S. Is $244,293,998 Washington,... Secretary 1rleury Mor- i;enlhaii, returning after a month's va- rut.ioll, will rind that the United States deficit is growing more than twice as fast as at this time a year ago, Bel weep July 1 and 25, Treasury Iignres show the Government spent $214,293,998 more than it took In. The deficit for the `tanto period last Year was $1.01,160,234, The `t'rottsnry view is that this is not tt, ground for worry. Tho situa- 11o11 fa come:demi a temporary one, ittvnlving ern'rgnncy outlays design- ed to speed t'r'eOvery.