Zurich Herald, 1934-09-06, Page 6Voice of the Press
Canada, The Empire and The World at Large
WHAT'S IN A NAME? age and a good physique can handle
In annual session at Montreal mem- seven of them,—Victoria Times.
bers of the Canadian Weekly News- THE KING'S ROAD
paper Assoelatiou chose A. L. Sellar An old corduroy road made of split
•as their president, That's a mighty tree -trunks has been foetid under a
good name for the head of this agres. busy Buffalo street. These roads, at
sive organization—Brantford Exposi- one time quite common in Ontario, de -
tor. rived their name from the well known
cloth material, a name which is said
to have been first applied tc a ribbed
silk cloth worn by French kings in
the chase. This corde du roi, or kings'
cord, was never, it is said, so called
in France, the name being an inven-
tion of the English. It appears curious-
ly enough, in ancient French lists, as
"kings' cord," the English translation
of the French name the English bad
invented for it,—Toronto Star.
WORLD'S SMALLEST CAMERA
What is claimed to be the world's
smallest camera has just been put on
the market by a Birmingham firm,
The camera measures only two and
one half inches by one and one quar-
ter by one inch, and can be carried
in the waistcoat pocket or in the
lady's handbag, and yet it takes per-
fect pictures, 18nim, by 13mm, which
are enlarged to the usual size, The
tiny spool of film used in the camera
takes six exposures,
The firm's factory has been enlarg-
ed to manufacture this new camera,
and plans are in hand to produce
them at the rate of 10,000 a day. The
camera will be sold at a price of five
shillings,—Brockville Recorder,
INTERESTING FIGURES
The Northern Miner in its annual
number which contains a wealth of
valuable information cn the mining
industry of this country states that
Canadians today are producing more
metal per capita than the nationals
of any other country, With a popu-
lation of ten million, in the year 1933,
842,992,980 pounds of base metals
were reported. In addition, three oun-
ces of gold, 1,5 ounces of silver, 2,200
pounds of coal, 31 pounds of asbestos, Although the staff of The Pioneer
78 pounds of gypsum per capita were can legitimately take some pride in
produced. — Kitchener Record. having once again "scooped" their
HIGHWAY MANNERS
It sometimes requires only the cour-
age of a magistrate to consolidate the
public opinion against an action that,
however obnoxious, has been suffered
too long in silence. The other day at
Edmonton, a man and wife complain-
ed against a motorist who had dashed
past them through a large pool of
water, Their car was sprayed and
through the open window came a
deluge of water and mud over the
couple, Observing that the practice
must cease, Magistrate Primrose
termed it "discourteous and danger -
our," He fined the culprit $9 and the
court costs. Thus are evolved ordin.
ary highway good manners. The court
in this case was contributing towards
a realization that motorists can be as
courteous as pedestrians,—Kamloops
Sentinel.
HOLIDAY BY AIRPLANE
British holidaymakers have discov-
ered air travel, Every traffic record,
on internal and external routes was
broken in three days the first August
week -end. Regular services were
doubled, trebled and quadrupled. The
Imperial Airways tra:ic officers dealt
with 76 services on one day alone, 44
of them cross -Channel and 32 of them
between London and the Isle of Wight.
Those 76 services carried 571 passen-
gers, a far higher single -day figure
than any previously reached.
From early morning till late at
night the airliners have flown with
full loads, And activity was not con-
fined to the London Terminal Aero-
drome, Croydon, Heston, most popular
of all airports with the private flyer
A GOOD REASu
Feminine leader says the Great War
showed men what women could do.
That's one of the main reasons why
there shouldn't be another Great
War.—North Bay Nugget.
THE WESTERN CROP
The Canadian crop, on the whole,
is not nearly as hard hit as that of
the United States, Latest estimates
there predict a yield of 490,960,000
bushels, the smallest since the nine-
ties,
Another point to be born in mind
about the Canadian crop is that in
some sections of the prairie country
there will he excellent yields. There
are indications of crops running as
high as 30 bushels to the acre or
more in parts of northern Saskatche-
wan, There are good fields in the Re-
gina area. At Lethbridge, in Alberta,
it is apparent that the crop will be
equal to the average for the past ten
years.
Against this fair crop in certain sec-
tions and the higher price of wheat
{ must be balanced the terrific burden
to be placed on the province as whole
by the plgiht of the drought -stricken
area—the large territory where there
is practically nothing. The people of
Saskatchewan who have something
must be prepared to stand by those
who are in distress.—Regina Leader -
Post,
DO YOU REMEMBER
If he remembers the bicycle racks
outside the drug stores, he looks a lot
younger with his hat on.—Brandon
Sun.
THE DAILY NEWSPAPER
Where else we ask them, our rea-
ders, could they buy so much for so
little as they can get, for three cents
a clay, in the newspaper shop? What
else can they buy, anywhere, that is
half as much value for the money.
Oh, yes, we know well enough --
who should know better?—how many
things might be better than they are
in this commodity of ours. But that
is not the present point. With all their
imperfections on their heads—and not
because any great credit is coming to
us newspaper people for it, for we are
mainly people doing our day's work,
to get our day's pay—the newspapers
do really supply one of the great es-
sential services of our civilization,
and they do it for an absurdly -reason-
able fee.
.And because this is one thing at
least that the newspapers very sel-
dom say for themselves, we think any-
how it should be said once in a while.
—Vancouver Province.
A BANKER'S PASSPORT
All passports bear a photograph of
the holder, but there is one properly
authorized and issued to a Canadian
without his photograph —it carries
an engraved portrait clipped from a
$10 Bank of Montreal bill. The hold-
er's name is Sir Frederick William -
Taylor, a director and formerly gen-
eral manager of the Bank of Mont-
real.
The circumstances under which Sir
Frederick clipped the bill and attach-
ed the engraving to his passport ap-
plication are not known, but this well-
known Canadian exercised the usual
caution attributed to bankers by re-
taining the serial number in order
that the bill might be replaced by a
new note,—Financial Post.
POVERTY AMID PLENTY
"An apt utterance" is the way the
Toronto Globe characterizes a rem-
ark which it attributes to Hon Dun-
can Marshall, Ontario's new Minister
of Agriculture. The remark was:
"The paradox of poverty amid plen-
ty will not be solved by attempting to
abolish the plenty."
It s an apt utterance one which has
lost none of its point slime Ogden L,
Mills, former United States Secretary
of the Treasury, said last Spring;
"We shall never solve the paradox
of want in the midst of plenty simply
by doing away with the plenty."—Fin-
ancial Post.
SEVEN TO ONE
The muscle men of the underworld
have things their own way because
they are so tough that people fear to
oppose them. Once in a while, how-
ever, some two-fisted citizen comes
along to demonstrate that the under-
world plug-ugly is pretty much a hol-
low shell.
It was so with a Chicagoan recent-
ly. A man named Richard Johnson,
one night surprised four young hood-
lums robbing the store which is under
his apartment. But Johnson is not
afraid of a fight, so he waded in and
rounded up the four single handed,
and turned them Over to the police.
Next day a mysterious stranger
warned him not to testify against
them in court or he Would be taken
for a ride. Johnson laughed at him.
A couple of nights later three men.
jumped on him near his home, to put
the threat into action, Johnson Start-
ed his :Fists swinging—and pretty
loon these three were in the police
.sells along with the other four,
These city gangsters evidently are
'pt quite so tough after all—if one
Ant .citizen equipped only with emir.
Mr, Norman Actually Power
Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, whose
evasive tactics have given newspapermen some strenuous times in the
past few years almost gave the photographer heart failure when this
picture was shot. As he walked, up the gangway of the liner Duchess
of Bedford the banking authority spied the lurking cameraman.
"Wait a minute until I get my hat on straight," he called out. Then,
instead of a fugitive snap, the posed picture above resulted.
of the Prince of Wales last month. Of
the 100,000 pounds asked for 26,000
bas already been collecte' and a
school on the Fairbridge plan is about
to be created in Western Canada:. —
Glasgow Herald.
"SCOOPS" BY AIR '
competitors over the publication of
the High School results, they would
be the first to admit that the bulk of
the credit belongs to Major Vetch, of
the U.P. Flying Club who, by beating
the telegraph actually demonstrated
the value of the aeroplane to the mo -
deur newspaper, In Europe it has long
since been realised and some of the
most daring flights of pilots like Cap-
tain Barnard and Captain. Hope have
been made in order that newspaper
readers should have 3the latest photo-
graphs on their breakfast -tables, In
India the carriage of news by air is
still something of a novelty, but it is
likely to become more and more a
matter of course as the advantagds7 o1
the aeroplane are appreciated.—Lucke
now Pioneer.
Weekly Press Has
Great Influence
NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION HIS-
TORY GIVEN AT ANNUAL
CONVENTION
Montreal.—The influence that the
weekly Canadian press wields in its
respective field, the improved stand-
ard of its editorial comment, and the
potential power that it possesses in
shaping public opinion throughout the
Dominion, were the points emphasiz-
ed at the session of the Canadian
Weekly Newspaper Association, who
held their 15th annual convention here
recently At the same time was cele-
brated the 5th anniversary of the for -
was extremely busy dealing with oration of the Canadian Press Associ-
especially chartered taxiplanes and ation, out of which in 1920 sprang the
air liners. three separate organizations that now
The London -isle of Wight service exist—the Canadian Daily Press As -
employed five monoplanes, each with sociation, the Canadian Weekly News -
capacity for six passengers, Through- paper Association and the Canadian.
out the week end these machnes flew National Newspaper and Press Asso-
steadily back and forth. Machines ply dation, and in honor of this event the
ing between England and the Chan- weekly newspaper editors heard a
nel Isles were filled to capacity.—Brit- glowing tribute to the men of three
Leh Aircraft Society, quarters of a century ago whose pow -
A CANDID CANADIAN er with the pen made them notable.
So many visitors from abroad pour it was mentioned by David Williams,
soft soap over our wonderful police- of Collingwood, that the nest presi
rnen, our pretty girls, and c'tr impec-,dent was W. Gillespie of the Ham-
cable sportsmanship, that it is refresh- Ilton Spectator, and the first secre-
ing to meet a candid friend like Mr, fary was Thomas Sellar, then of the
Napier Moore, the .famous Colonial, Montreal Echo, an uncle of Adam L.
who points out our faults. It appears Sellar, of the Huntingdon Gleaner,
to Mr, Moore that we are Iess honest at present vice-president of the C.
than we used to be, and have taken to W.N.A. and who succeeded to the
rooking our guests. It may do certain I presidency of the association,
types of shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and
welters good to know that their rack-
eteering tactics are observed—1flan-.
Chester Sunday Chronicle '
BY AIR TO CANADA
We publish the striking news that
vention. Naturally, Mr. Wfiliums in
tenders have been invited for flying his address was reminiscent, he spoke
boats capable of conducting a service of establishment of Canada's first
between Britain and Canada, Thus 31 raper, establishment
Halifax Herald, in 1752,
this year, which will see acconialished ! of the .jubilee of the association, and
the last stage of the regular air Sour. 1
of the men who had directed its des-
ney from Britain to the Antipodes, tinles to 1920, when the re.organiza-
has also seen the ifrst business -like tion took place. He recalled oondis
attack on the difficulties of the transtions of type setting and printing
Atlantic Plight.—London Daily Tele- presses of decades past, and admitted
Cgraph, that while there were better sustain -
WhatEMIGRATIONb1'O EMPIRE ed advertising rates now, it was a
What has been done at Fairbridge question whether there were better
to the great good of the children of editorials than there were half a een-
Australia and of this country can cer- tury ago. He acl:ntitted that there
tainly be done elsewhere, In this eon- had been a lapse in editorial stand.
viction the Society decided to launch ards about 20 years ago, but believed
the appeal for funds for the extension that with the passing of the 'boiler
of the work to Canada and other parts plate' era, editorials were once again
of the Empire, which had the blessing reaching a high standard,
OLDEST MEMBERS,
Mr. Williams joined the association
in 1886, and with COL A. G. F, Mac-
donald of Alexandria, were the two
oldest members present at the con
•
Mayor Camillien aloud°, who olfi
cially welcomed the weekly editors
to Montreal, had nothing but praise
for them and their works, He told
them they had an influential role to
play in the future of the Dominion,
for while most people read the daily
press, the latter did not always speak
its mind—except about him—while
the weekly press had the time to
study matters, and was in closer
touch with its people who were in-
fluenced by its editorial comments
and considered articles.
Editors of the daily press, declared
Mr. Houde, had not the time to look
into all the reading matter that went
into his paper, but the weekly press
editors and • their collaborators had
more time to get into contact with
the population and know their needs.
IMPORTANT FUNCTION.
"That is important in these crucial
times," declared the Mayor, "for we
have to find a new formula and study
means for a better distribution of
things. There has been too much ca-
pitalization and over -production in
every line, we have been trying to
industrialize the country and still
keep people on the farm and we are
between two stools and are getting
nowhere. You people have the time
to study the situation, and see it you
don't think that instead of picking
parties it would be best for the coun-
try if the best men were picked in-
stead of the best party. We are com-
ing to that point where we have to
unite the best brains, and the fault
under the party system is that the
one that is in power does not make
use of the best brains in the other,
Canada with its 10,000,000 people, no
immigration and $10,000,000,000 debt
cannot afford the luxury of not util-
izing the best brains she has if they
are ready to help everyone must put
his shoulder to the wheel after de-
ciding in what direction they should
go. And if we do not play our role
in the next few years somebody else
will play it for us."
POWERFUL INFLUENCE.
. The president, Charles Clark, of
High River, Alberta, in his presiden-
tial address, recalled the time when
people bought papers for news and
editorials and the advertisers came
in to help along a local enterprise,
and. compared this with present day
conditions, Weekly papers had .been
through hard times, but they stood
higher than ever today in the public
estimation and wielded powerful in-
fluence because of the spirit of ittde-
penclence that they bad maintained.
He was confident they would continue
to fight furiously for tite peaceful wel-
fare of their people.
An animated discussion arose over
tite proposal to make all past presi-
dents Of the association ex -officio di-
rectors. Hugh Savage, of Duncan, B.C.,
maintained that this would keep them
offt the elective board and allow youn-
ger men to control the destinies of
the association, but Sam Dornan,
Alameda, Sask., and Adam L. Sel-
la?, Huntingdon, maintained it would
.make the directorate top heavy with
one director for every eight members.
On a vote the recotnmen,latton. of
the directors to increase the board"
was defeated by en overwhelming ma-
jority.
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INDIAN HAS TIME OF LIFE
ON JOURNEY TO JAIL IN B.C.
Aged Horse Thief-Greatl
y ;pressed by Wonders of
Modern Civilization
Vancottve.r,-'-A Wrinkled old _Iu-
cliem who had eeveir been. out of„leis
familiar haunts in Chilcotin district,
a wild, little inhabited area in the
Cariboo territory of northern British
Columbia, went to jail, but had the
time of his life doing it.
Police say it all happened because
Gilpin–'be claims only one name —
tlroughtlessly helped himself to some
1.0 or 20 horses, then tried to sell
then back to the owner, He was sen-
tenced to three months in Oakalla
Jail 'here.
MARVELS AT STEAMER.
Gilpin's first initiation to the won-
ders of civilization came when he
boarded a boat at Squamish, He had
never seen a steamer in all his 73
years, and when he arrived in Van-
couver his astonishment increased.
Many -storied buildings, street cars,
shopping crowds. alt were a source
of wonder to biro, as she was whisked
through the streets in .a police car,
•his eyes goggling and his • • mouth
agape, Street cars particularly in.
trigued him.
"What make him go?” be asked his
escort, pointing at a passing street
car,' and the officer pointed to the
overhead •trolley and attempted to
explain as simply as possible the mar-
vel of electricity, he tnuttet'ed to
himself; "Little wheel go round, make,
big wheels go around, car go along;
Horne—Plenty funny,"
The traffic crowds were "Post like
plenty mosquito," and a group of
children splashing in a park pool
brought forth a chuckle and a "Hal
Hai Papoose all same ducks."
As the car turned off the highway
at the edge of the city for the run
to Oakalla, Gilpin shook Iris head and
muttered, "Hi -Yui Big City. Houses
go mebbe five, six miles, eh?"
Canadian Women
In Parliament
Hon. Mary Irene Parbly Plans
to Retire in Next General
Election—Three Other Wo-
men Hold Seats—Senator
Wilson, Miss MacPhail and
Mrs. Stevens.
Although Canadian women have
been active in politics since they
were granted the franchise towards
. the end of the war, few have actually
gained election to Parliament or the
Legislatures.
At present four women hold seats
either at Ottawa or provincial capi-
tals, and one of this number has
signified her intention to retire in the
next general elections. She is Hon.
Mary Irene Pariby, member of the
Alberta Legislature for Lacombe and
minister without' portfolio for several
years. She will not seek re-election.
The other three holding seats are
Senator Cairine Wilson, of Ottawa,
Miss Agnes Macphail, member of
tele House of Commons for Grey
Southeast, and Mrs. Dbrothy Steeves,
member of the British Columbia -leg-
islature for Vancouver North.
Mrs. Steeves is the latest woman
to win a seat, having been elected on
the Co-operative Commonwealth Fed-
eration ticket at a by-election. She is
not the first woman to sit in the
British Columbia legislature, how-
ever, as the late Mrs, Mary Ellen
Smith sat for a Vancouver seat a
few years ago and enjoyed the hon-
or of being the first woman cabinet
minister in the British Empire. She
was a Liberal and became minister
without portfolio.
INTERESTING CAREER
Many elements combine to make
Miss Macphail's political career one
of the most interesting in all the
annals of Canadian politics. .As a
country school teacher she sprang
into prominence as a champion of
farmers' rights. Her election by a
constituency of hard-lieaded Ontario
farmers was a keen tribute to Miss
Macphail's personality and ability.
Miss Macphail went to Ottawa in
1921 on the crest of the great wave
of farmer political consciousness
which sent a large United Farmer
or Progressive group to the House
of Commons and gave the United
Farmers of Ontario control of the
government of the province. When
this movement receded Miss Macphail
held on. She is not only the only wo-
man in the House of Commons but
the only member adhering to the
original straight farmer party.
Miss Macphail's public services are
not confined to parliament. She be-
came a leader in the movement for
world peace and took a prominent
part in the work, of the League of
Nations Society and went to Geneva
as a member of the Canadian dele-
WHAT THEY MISS
Pyromaniac motorists who scatter:
burning cigarette stubs along country
highway might enjoy their pleasure
trips more if they stopped to watch
the prairie and forest fires they
start.—(Prom the Chicago Daily
News.)
gation to the assembly of the League
of Nations.
The only woman member of tfiel
Senate, Mrs. Cairine Wilson is a
Liberal and comes of a family long
prominent in polities. Senator Wil-
son's appointment was received with
widespread approval and followed
the succer".ul prosecution of a court
action initiated by a number of pro-
minent women to determine the legal
right of women to sit in the upper
house. She has no election worries al-
though she frequently goes on the
stump to aid her party.
Like Miss Macphail, Mrs. Parlby
has represented Canada at the Lea-
gue of Nations Assembly, She enter-
ed the political arena as president of
the United Farm Women of Alberta
and subsequently was elected to the
legislature. She became a member ot
the cabinet without portfolio in the
United Farmer Government which
still holds office in that province.
Sulphur Industry Now
Relines to Louisiana
New Orleans, La.—An important in.
dustry—the production of sulphur—.
which back in 1905 was a paramount
Importance to Louisiana and then
faded when the desposits of sulphur
ran out, is once again returning to
this State.
After an enforced inactivity of near.
fy a decade, Louisiana last year re.
entered into sulphur production when
an oil prospecting company located
a rich sulphur deposit in southwest
Louisiana,
The success of this company led
other companies, including severe'
large oil firms, to search for the
mineral. As a result of this increase(
activity domes have been located f;
various- sections of the State. On13
one other deposit, however, some' 45
miles due south of New Orleans, htis
been opened up for production on a
commercial scale.
In 1933, the first year commercia:
production began again, Louisiana
produced 321,000 long tons. Thik
amount, coupled with the 1,083,445
tons turned out by Texas, represents
practically the entire production o:
the United States,
The added importance of the re.
juvenation of a work which had been
considered lost can be gathered from
the fact that the world production
of sulphur is only approximately 3,-
000,000
,000,000 tons. Italy, „Spain, Chile and
Japan are the other producers,
ITALIAN PEOPLE ARE
MUCH TOO GENEROUS
Rome—An official communique ask-
ed the adoring Italian people tot tc
shower gifts on the infant expecte
by Crown Prince Umberto and his
wife, the Princess Marie Jose.
Citizens with an impulse to equie
bassinets were asked to "make thee
contributions to the national ,mothers
and infants protective association.
The birth of the royal infant is ex.
pected by mid -autumn.
Lovely Little Lynda
The pretty little mermaid pictured here is Lynda Adams, of Van-
couvor, a point winner for Canada in the Empire diving events. The
coast girl was the youngest competitor on the Canadian team and
performed splendidly against older and more experienced rivals at
the Games. She was an instant favorite with the liritiishers,