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Zurich Herald, 1934-12-06, Page 61-4-4 Voice of the 4ress Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA SHOE ON OTHER FOOT With Germany barring automobile Imports from the United States the shoe is on the other foot and the States does not like the way it pin- ches, A clamor of protest has gone up at the arbitrary manner in which Germany has said that only two auto- mobiles of each make will be per- mitted to enter the Reich each year through clearing arrangements with third countries. —Border Cities Star, KINDS OF KISSES. The old-fashioned girl kissed less; but when she did, it was a kiss, in- stead of payment for a good time.— Tweed News. "THOUGHT 1T WAS MARQUIS." This season Dominion Department of Agriculture officials took 14,530 samples of grain from the wagons of farmers at ehavators and 860 samples were secured from seed drills at the time of planting. It was all wheat. These samples are planted and the plots labelled. It has been found that hundreds of western farmers who were certain they were growing good Marquis wheat have been producing a curious mixture of many varieties. Even un- der favorable conditions they could not produce number one grade, and they were about five bushels :short per acre.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. HOW VIEWS CHANGE, An interesting note to the "25 years ago" column of The Ottawa Journal reads: "Katharine Wright, sister of the fliers of that name, said it was 'un- ladylike to fly aand 'simply absurd' that women should think of being aviators." And to that we say, page Amy Johnson, Amelia Emhart or Lady Bailey.—St. Catharines Standard. IMPORTANCE OF TREES Nothing so ages a country as denu- dation of its timberlands. Forests and the virility of a land go hand in hand. The process of depletion of forests is not necessarily a long one, nor are the effects long delayed, Without replacement by the govern- ment and landowners, the United States would suffer the decay of large areas such as are to be found in Asia, where one time flourishing na- tions are now but a name,—Bangor Commercial. MUST SPECIALIZE. Farmers who devote some attention to specialties such as onions celery, tobacco, or fruit appear to have the best chance at profits from the land Welland Tribune. ILLITERACY. What's the matter with our school system? In Ontario there are 156,- I26 people who can neither read nor write. In addition, there are 9,290 who can read only. This includes everybody above five years of age. That is one person in every 20. For the province "with the best school system in the world—that has lav- ished money on its educational insti- lutions continuously throughout the pears, the record seems a depressing one,—Sault Ste. Marie Star. FOR FEWER KILLINGS Fines for speeding in Montreal halve been increased from $5 to $10 to $35 And $40 and within recent week: there has been $11,500 collected it lines, It is difficult to drive it througl the thick heads of some drivers tha a. city means business when it ask: for less speed and fewer killings, — Stratford Be&eon-Herald. A WORD TO HUNTERS. It ought to be the responsiblity ol every individual to whom a gun lic ense is issued to study the regulation; that have been set down for his guidance and to obey them to the best of his ability. More than the\• he has a duty to perform in spread- ing the gospel of conservation, with out which some of the species whiclb now furnish sport will be in source of time as extinct as the Wild pigeon, —Brockville Recorder. MOTHER'S HELP. Daughter still helps. She keeps good numbers on the radio, while mother does the dishes.—Kitchener ,Record. HOW THE NEWS SPREADS Four buffalo from the Wainwright Park will sail fir their new home in a park near Ipa.la, Poland, this month. The arrival of these former monarchs of the Canadian Prairies is expected to create a great sensation, It is said in fact, that word of their coming has already traveled from Pole to Pole, Edmonton Journal, TEN MILES OF GEESE. A phone message was received the other day from Kilda, inviting local sportmen to auto out and try their luck with a flock of 2,000 geese which Were on the grain fields there, The number appears large to the uniniti- ated, but Walter Ituckvale tells of :••eeing a real flock in 1887. It was piles long and a mile and a half wide. The measurements were easily calculated as the geese covered King's Lake at Kipp Coulee, which was ten miles long and stretched up the banks on either side —Medicine Hat News. A MISTAKE An instance of the weird workings of the human mind is the fact that many householders have elegant and expensive locks on their front doors and cheap builders' locks on the rear doors. This is one of the greatest helps to burglars that we know. The properly cautious burglar prefers to work in the darkness at the back of the house anyway,—Hamilton Her- ald, DOUBLE BENEFIT. When Dr. Frederick Banting dis- covered insulin, he also made pos- sible discovery of a cure for another dreaded disease, pernicious anaemia, He made it possible because insulin cured Dr. George Minot, who in turn discovered, through resarch, a cur, for the other disease.—Niagara FalTs Review. UP TO ROOSEVELT. Roosevelt's position, in some ways, is more difficult than before, He is the nation's hope. If he fails; if he cannot find the way out of the slough in which the Republic is plunged; if the New Deal proves to be a delu- sion; it will be a disaster, both per- sonal and public. Not even Wash- ington or Lincoln bad a greater re- sponsibility than rests upon the shoulders of Roosevelt at the present time,—London Free Press. THE EMPIRE NOT TRUE. It used to be said that the rich man's son who was no good in the practical affairs of life was sent into the church; and the poor man's son who was in the same boat went into the army, There was, no doubt, a grain of truth in the chaff of cynic- ism, but only a grain. Such a sweep- ing generalization is not true today, and so far as at least some denomina- tions are concerned, a very special standard is required. The army to- day is no longer the army of old, To gain admission recruits must have both physique and intelligence.—Bel- fast Telegraph. HE DOES NOT LAUREATE The suggestion that the poet laur- eate may write an ode for the wed- ding of Prince George and Princess Marina may be dismissed. A condit- ion of Mr. Macefield's. appointment, as of his predecessor's, was that he should not be expected to perform these "occasional" duties, Tennyson did it as well as anyone could, but he admitted to the Duke of Argyll that it cast a gloom over his life.—London Observer. NEW ZEALAND'S DEFENCE This country with its small outlay per capita on defence and its consid- erable under -spending of the last par- liamentary vote cannot be convicted of bellicose purpose or of exaggerated ;ear; and the Government's propos- :1s suggest neither threat nor panic rliey do suggest, and this is their merit, that in a time of insecurity, .-,fere the Homeland may be compel. .5(1 by circumstances to withstand a :widen onslaught and the highway of .he sea may be as suddenly robbed .f its customary safety, this Domin- ;.n should be better prepared against .ostile invasion, and that the prepar- ,t.ion is a duty for New Zealanders to undertake.—New Zealand Weekly ;ewe. CANADA AND BRITISH COAL Canada last year made the record .iurchase of 1,500,000 tons of British .nthracite. She bought all her an- iiracite in the United States and foo- lsh people said it would always be .o, and nothing could be done about .t. Now the shipment of Welsh an- hracite to Canada is providing ton - lege for the export of Canadian grain 'o Britain. The ships go to and fro cheaply, because in this mutual trade they nc+ver have to sail light. That's the way to run an Empire. It will be a splendid day when the Board. of Trade Journal, which records these facts today, has to enlarge its size to record the growth of mutual trade. —London Daily Express, Cambridgeshire Winner Wychwood Abbot, owned by O. V. Watney and ridden by R. Perryman, being led in after ll.'s victory in the great Fall handicap, His victory, as usual in this event, brought fortunes to many lucky sweep holders. better quality babies are the best auguries of a properly planned life.— London Sunday Referee, UNEMPLOYMENT AND HEALTH A year ago Sir George Newman, the Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health, devoted a part of his an- nual report "on the state of the pub- lic health" to rebutting the suggest- ion that unemployment has had any wide -spread and serious effect upon the nation's physical well-being. His inquiries then led him to conclude that "there is at present no available medical evidence of any general in- crease in physical impairment, in sickness or in mortality," But lie qualified this with a warning_ that physical deterivration may appear at any time, though it has not in any general degree appeared yet."—Man- chester Guardian. Empire Game May Alternate in Future Be- tween British Isles and Canada Toronto — Possibility of the Bri- tish Empire Games. alternating be- tween England and Canada because other countries competing could not decide on the "color" question was revealed recently by M. M. "Bobby" Robinson of Hamilton. Mr. Robinson, chairman of the Canadian British Empire Genies Committee in his report to the 47th annual meeting of the Amateur Ath- letic Association of Canada, said South Africa logical locale for the next games, could not be induced to allow colored athletes to compete. "They are called British Empire Games and must be so in nature, therefore it is impossible to prohibit colored athletes," Mr. Rboinson de- clared. However, all countries which take part were given until 1935 to make a bid for the games, he added, and it could not be decided until then where the games will be held. During discussion of the report, P. J. Mulqueen who recently resign- ed as chairman of the Ontario Ath- letic Commission, and A. E. H. Coo of Winnipeg, both protested against criticism that British Empire and Olympic Games teams were over- staffed with officials IMPERIALISM AND BIRTH RATE Pessimists will see racial decline in the latest population figures of the Registrar -General for they prove that the excess of births over deaths has considerably decreased, For several centuries British population has been in a state of expansion, This was due to the development of industrial econ- omy and the necessity of providing labour to meet the demand of an ever expanding world trade. Now with the decline in world tri ade therecomes a decline In the birth rate. Nations that, aim at Imperialist expansion will al- ways view a decline In the 'Arai rate with alarm, But In our opinion the.' sun of Imperialism is setting and In the dawn of the new world fewer and Austrian Thinks Moon Is Like a Nut Kernel of Which Earth Has Not Seen VIENNA --The man in the moon isn't in the moon at all, nor are all, those cold and lonely looking moun- tains, according to a theory propound- ed by Mr, Joseph Weisberger, Aus- trian astronomer. Mr. Weiberger has published a book called, "The Riddle of the Double Planet, Eearth and Moonf" in which he puts forward the theory that the moon, like the earth, Is cov- ered with an atmosphere, whose up- per surface reflects the light of the sun int such a way that we can never see the globe it encloses. What they see in moon strato- sphere, he eontends. Mr. Weisberger bases is hypoth- esis on the observation that maps of the moon are exceedingly variable, Lunar georgraphy, he says, is very vague and uncertain, Tomorrow the camera may show a picture of the moor, greatly different from the one it ceught today. What one sees, he says, is an ever changing atmosphere shell about the moon, and it may no more resemble the real object than the prickly hull of a chestunt resembles the smooth brown object inside. Due to the rotation of the moon, the surface of its air cover has as- sumed the form of waves and spirals of varying density and depth, which resemble mountain chains and craters, not entirely unlike the sur- face of a cloud on which one may look down from a high mountain peak. The author of this theory thinks it is substantiated by the character of the shadows in the moon. If the mountains there are really as high as scientists believe, they would cast long and dense shadows, he thinks, which would make the edges of the moon dark and jagged like a saw blade. But just the opposite is the case, he asserts, for the brightest part of the moon is near the cir- cumference. BRING GOOD HUMOR TO SERIOUS WORLD Hungarian Cartoonists Win Applause in London for Tempered Wit London "— Two Hungarian car- toonists have been the cause of an internatibnal congress here which engendered only laughter and hand- shakes. They are Alois Derso and Emeric Kelen, artists who have established themselves informally as "official cartoonists to the League of Na•' tions." Their exhibition in London, arranged by the All People's As- sociation, drew visitors of many na- tions, including some of the fore- most of their "victims." Although Derso and Kelen, who work jointly had depicted the states- men as birds, fish, animals, child- ren, toy soldiers and "barkers" in a fair ground, they all seemed very happy about it. Signor Grande, Italian Ambassa- dor to London, waved aside those who greeted him upon his entrance, saying, "Just a minute, I have not seen the latest ones yet." Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, who officially opened the exhibition, was very complimentary. He declared that Derso and Kelen are adding to international accord. Their cartoons, he said, are not vic- ious distortions but gentle raillery which could be appreciated by all nationalities. Moreover, he declared, Derso and Kelen probably do a lot of good by "the way they conduct their leg-pulls." "Although," Sir John - Simon ad- ded, "I may sometimes fail to recog- nize myself among those cartooned, I never fail to think how perfect all I those others represented are." Visitors to the exhibition seemed rather puzzled as to how two people could produce one cartoon between them, and could develop a style in which it is impossible to detect which of thein has done which fi- gure. The two cartoonists were very modest. They pointed to their draw- ings and smiled. Eventually they allowed themselves to talk. "It is easy," said Kelen. "Yes. Very Good," agreed Derso. "He," continued Kelen pointing to Derso, "draws from memory, al- , ways. I draw ever from life. Then when I have drawn my subject Der - so suggests how to make it bet- ter." "Often we argue," Derso argued. "But always with good humor.°" • "He shows me my weak points. Of course we do not always have the same ideas," Kelen added. "We argue. We hammer, We push it into shape," agreed. Derso. "It is terrible, but always harmon- ious." "It is easy," said Kelen. Potato Bonus Urged For New Brunswick Saint John, N.B.—Both permanent and temporary remedial measures for problems of New Brunswick's hard- hit potato growers have been suggest- ed here by Fred W. Pirie of Grand Falls, N.B., one of Canada's promi- nent shippers of seed potatoes. The permanent solution lies in the production of more seed stock and less table stock, Mr. Pirie said, and in the employment by the Govern- ment of a staff of permanent sales- men who are expert potato growers. These salesmen -growers would visit foreign countries, introduce New Brunswick seed, and demonstrate to the growers the methods of getting the best results. As a temporary solution, Mr. Pirie) suggested that this year—and this year only—Maritime potato growers be given a bonus by the Federal Gov ernment under a scheme similar to --• - that by which western wheat grow- ers were assisted. "I like London very much," re- turned Derso. London Expects Quite Active Market for Heavy Water at Good Fat Price LONDON—Water is shortly to be marketed here at £2 a gram, not as an aftermath of drought but as a result of a new invention. For it will not be ordinary water. It is to be the first commercial pro- duction of the "heavy water" con- taining "heavy hydrogen," recently discovered in the United States. Chemists declare that this new water will open vast fields of re- search, and as the result of many experiments Imperial Chemical In- dustries Ltd. have established a plant which will enable a steady supply to be maintained at the price of £2 a gram. So far little is known of the actual importance of this "heavy water." But with a continuous supply chem- ists are expecting to add discoveries Two -Cent Stainp Aids Aviator Win Prize New York—A two -cent stamp was John Abiuso's slim margin of victory, in a novelty plane race by which treasure hunters took to the air. The stamp meant $250 in prize money to' Mr. Abiuso. Sixty-eight planes roared away from Holmes Airport to participate. in the hunt, which led the pilots to, other designated airports within a' $O -mile radius. At the start, Clarence Chamberlin, who organized the hunt, handed sealed instructions to each pilot. These were opened in the air, and the pilots skimmed to their de- signated airports. Then began the search for desig- nated treasure: pieces of airplane fabric,newspapers, stamps, auto- graphs and pictures. After finding his first treasure, each pilot was 'given additional scaled instructions, which he again opened in the air and sped to another port. Head Officers Ford S. Kumpf, president and nianagint directorOf the Domin- ' ;ion Life Assurance Company, who .'was elected president of theCana- dian Life Officers Assoc'ation' at the association's annual meeting held in Toronto. of first rate importance to their present' negative knowledge that cer- tain seeds and organisms will not grow in it, An official of Imperial Chemical Industries declared that the discov- ery of heavy hydrogen, as well as bringing about a revolutionary change in beliefs in the constancy of the constitution of water, might well bring about a big change in the teaching of chemistry. "Not only," he declared, "may it have an all-important influence on the growth of plants, but the dis- covery of heavy hydrogen means that there can be many varieties of each formula in which normal hydrogen plays a part. It may well mean that eventually, even in only three years time, no one will be able to learn plain chemistry. All students will have to bo specialists." Britain to Move Arsenal To Less Pregnable Place London — The Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, the government's huge munition facory and armament store on the south bank of the Thames, which is directly in the line of flight of continental aircraft is to be re- mclved to the west coast, according to Tho Daily Herald. The final decision that paper says has been taken by the Committee on Imperial Defense and the Cabinet, which dispatched a commission of war experts including Lieut. Gen. Sir Hugh J. Elies, Master General of Ord- nance to find a site safe from aerial invasion. Areas in Wales, Cumber- land and Ayrshire it is said, were visited. "This removal of the Royal Arsen- al," The Daily Herald says, "is part of a general reorganization and redis- tribution of the nation's munition and aircraft factories being carried out in consequence of the development of bombing aircraft," Placer Season Closed On Peace River Sands Edmonton, Alta. —Placer mining on the Peace River has closed for the season, the river having risen six feet and washed off the surface sand from which the miners were getting the best results. Men working along the sand bars of the river have been making as much as $45 a day for three workers, and the returns since the high waters came have dropped to $12 and $10 a day. Idle Get New Deal By Relief Activities Richmond, Va. —Virginia is be- ing dotted with a new type of semi - industrial and manufacturing ac- tivity with the goal of providing a New Deal in the necessities of life to "forgotten" men, women and child- ren now on the relief rolls. They include a meat -packing plant six mattress workshops, a tomato and a vegetable canning plant and 55 sewing rooms with plans for a fish -salting plant also under consi- deration. They are all operated by the Virginia Emergency Relief Ad- ministration, and are on a rather small scale, as compared with most privately operated enterprises. Relief officials aver that all the projects are of an emergency nature and not operated in competition with private industry, since only relief labor is used and the products distri- buted free to needy families only. Medal Won by Work In Air Con&tioning New York, Willis H. Carrier of Ne- wark, N. J. was recently awarded the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers' medal for 1934, "in recogni- tion of his research and development work in air conditioning." Chairman of the board• of several engineering firms bearing his name Mr. Carrier is a native of Angola N.Y,, and a graduate of Cornell Uni- versity, He 1s author of many tech- nical and scientific papers one of which written in 1912, presented the theory now generally accepted as to evaporation of moisture in connect- ion with air conditioning. Other awards by the society in- clude; The Worcester Reed Warner Gold Medal to Ralph E. Flanders of Springfield, lift., for "his oontribu- tions to a better understanding of the relationship of the engineer to econ- omic problems and social trends." The society's junior award to. John I, Yelliott Jr,., instructor in mechan- ical engineering at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y, Straw Pulp Duty. Lifted by Britain LONDON, -- On recommendation of the Import Duties Advisory Commit tee, the Treasury has ordered thal bleached straw pulp be added to till free list. The committet says that bleached straw pulp is used as an ad- mixture in certain types of papei and cardboard and is not at present produced in the country. It is believed that placing it on the free list should improve the competi- tive position . in the home market of manufacturers of British strawboard and also give them an advantage in the export trade in certain types of special miilboard.