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Zurich Herald, 1935-02-28, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE CANAA NO OTHER WAY At agirls' school recently the sen- ior scholars were asked to write a short essay on the subject: "What I would like to be when I grow up," and to give their reasons. One up- to-date young woman attacked the matter right away with: "I want very much to become a film star, but as I am not considered beautiful and am lacking in sex appeal, I think I had better become a teacher,"—Lon- don Advertiser. MEANEST THIEF, Young man in London, Ontario, 'broke into a news and tobacco stand operated by a blind woman and stole e35 worth of goods. He was called the meanest thief and remanded for sentence. Fine, but what about put- ting him to work so the $35 worth of goods can be replaced?—Stratford Beacon -Herald. TROUBLES. People whew k y4 the newspapers daily and t:v.sc..c the wide variety of pleasant and unpleasant things which happen to great numbers of persons should not be inclined to magnify unduly their own troubles and worries.—Kingston Whig-Stand- ard. hiaStand- ard. NOT ALL GLOOM Perhaps one of our main troubles today is that we talk too much about our' lossbs. We have made it a fa- shion this lengthy recital of woes. And it stirs the listeners to tell an- other story of suffering. Almost all conversations consist of tales of woe. We are inclined by this gen- eral psalm of misery to magnify what we have lost—that is in com- parison with the boom days of some five years ago. It does not aid our regovery, nor brim back a normal meatal attitude which might help us work toward helping ourselves, It seems to need someone to whom we will listen to tell us to consider what we have left. No man with health, loved . ones, mental faculties and op- portunities is without considerable wealth and blessings.—Brandon Sun. -Tire " whole question then resolves itself to this: The office and the Government House are to be consid- ered. as airnaments, onsid-ered.as,ornaments, which cost some- thing, asall ornaments do; should :they be altogether abolished because •of that? a' There are many`- ornaments in this province which could be dispensed with. Every home is full of them. Every picture, every fancy cushion, every radio, every piano, every mu- sical instrument, every piece of bric- a-brac, every piece of lace, every ad- ornment to dress is ornament. Every white collar, every necktie is an ornament. Many homes themselves are ornamental. There are useless ornaments on every motor car, In every shop, in every store and in every public building. There are lots of them in the Pariiamerit Buildings at Toronto, Some of them are in the premier's office. Every visit a person makes to a motion picture show is useless, Every cigaret and every cigar that 18 smoked is useless, every drink of pop, coca cola or alcoholic beverage is useless. The spending of a halt dollar to see a hockey game or a ball game o "` ,ther athletic con- test ontest is use . -MI A f If all the ornaaftleAtal and useless things were absolutely dispensed with people would live in huts, wear skins for clothing 'and produce noth- ing much more than the food neces- sary to sustain life. THE WORLD AT LARGE many of our customs wlxiclt we rail; "institutions" are either ancient .nits doer -rooted or venerated, A . genera *ion, ago the military band conce11 Was a sanctified custom -- an enter tail neSee fe:i all the family; es ilt radio • au(' "radio orchestras are tai days. " A nimitacltieed soloist on the ooze net took the bows now roserved foo the crawler, Many, people with a fair taste in, music still like military bands, But the majority tune in on the dane band and the crooner. l " A generation Bence the crone will be a sentimental relic of thew There are a great many things times. His audiences will nod a little which the people and the state could and think of their youth. Another get along without and, with respect form of entertainment will have to some, perhaps, be better off. The caught the popular fancy. Lieutenant -Governorship may or And so it goes. Time executes a niay not be one of them. neat revenge an popular Inno- Considering what the office costs vators.—Montreal Herald. the people in relation to what the occupant distributes to maintain it and the number of people employ- ed, and the undoubted fact that the chief justice could, as the premier says, attend to all the necessary du- ties, it is scarcely worth bothering what is due to forests, and why it about; not worth all the fuss that is is due. The simplest villager an be being made over For each Per made to grasp the necessity, when son in Ontario is doesn'tamount to he outs down a tree, of planting aloe what would costto buyy a postcard a one but many as recompense to and send in a protest.—Port rotest.—Port Arthur robbed earth, or of sowing seed of News Chronicle, those trees that do not take kindly to transplanting. There is nothing BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF formidable in the simplest elements NATIONS of silviculture. That would be a "There is no such thing as the useful first step, to, persuade villag- THE EMPIRE TREE PLANTING IN INDIA We suppose it is not impossible to spread sonic understanding of British Commonwealth of Nations." So says the 1935 "catechism" of the Native Sons of Canada. Further, says the "catechism," "The British Commonwealth of Na- tions is imperialistic (sic) propagan- da?' There is always somebody dissatis- fied with something, and the N. S. of C. are free to kick about anything they do not like, just like the rest of us. Still it is well to know that it was the Imperial Conference of 1926 -- with official representatives of all the autonomous British nations in attendance—which coined the phrase "British Commonwealth of Nations." The resolution then defined Great ers that in their forests and jun- gles they have valueable assets which must be used with a. thought of the future. They are not likely to un- derstand that what they do natur- ally and habitually on a mountain side may afflict dwellers in the plains hundreds of miles away, nor would their hearts be troubled if they did know it. But they can grasp the simple truth that when the, forests and jungles are used up there is no more wood and fodder. -Calcutta Statesman. FOR A HEALTHY NATION The Briton has no special cause to worry about being a Briton and is little inclined in consequence to in - Britain and self-governing Dominions dulge in invidious national compari- as: sons. When he does so he finds the "Autonomous communities within comparison in a nearly all respects flattering to himself. There is, how- ever, one large black fly in this oint- ment of racial content. Every time he considers the matter he has to admit that in the matter of physi- calfitness this country is steadily falling behind its more progressive neighbors. 'All visitors returning There isn't a British constitution from Germany comment on the mag - the British Empire, equal in status; in no way subordinate one to an- other in any aspect of their domestic or foreign affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Na- tions." or a Santa Claus either, nor in fact many other conceptions that move men mightily. If all these were en- shrined in law books they wouldn't lose a fraction of their hold' on 'man- kind. .,-.Thealar tisk n roan eomeat.te... ..eta. tions is recognized as a world factor no matter what the Native Sons may think.—Sault Daily Star., COURTS NEED DISCIPLINE In New York Rudy Vallee took a "poke" at the counsel appearing epr. his wife, and the judge in charge of the Webb -Vallee case invited one of the other lawyers to "meet him outside," Somewhere, at some time, Amer!. lean judicial discipline slackened— and. the appalling results of that pro- cess are now apparent. STATES REQUIRE SAFETY GLASS Beginning January 1, 1935, the New York State law providing for safety glass for all new cars sold in the State became effective, bring- ing the total at States having such requirements to ten. The Legislat- ures of at least twenty additional States are scheduled to take some action in this direction for the in- creased protection of the motoring public and it la not improbable that safety glass will eventually be com- pulsory in all of the 48 States. — Financial World, THE NEW DAY IN MUSIC An English seaside resort has dropped its military band in favor of a dance orchestra—and crooners. Thus another ancient institution bows in defeat before a modern one. Which leads us to wonder how The sinister yellow wizard of villainy doininatas the creepy stories of mystery crime and -exploits of detection, By SAX MER These famous: stories now told for the first time in PICTURE STRIPS, will appear weekly, starting nextweek in this paper. WATCH FOR THEM. 'nificente physique of the Labor Bat- talions attalions there.-, We never hear nos, as once we did, of the foreigner be- ing impressed by the English phye- ique.,,Now the Council `of the Jere ish Medical Association is to cons; a, comMittee to discuss meane oouraging the physical and mental. development of the nation. —We Sin- cerely hope thatthe committee will come into being and produce what cannot. but be a valuable report. — ' 1:,ondod Sunday Dispatch. A MISTAKEN ATTITUDE. As a result of further discussions between the New Zealand Minister for Finance and Federal Ministers there may yet be a new trade agree- ment between Australia and New Zealand. Such is the latest prog- ress report received from the Min- ister for Commerce. The whole busi- ness savors of negotiations between two countries which have been at each other's throats for years, and which in seeking i rapprochement must be very careful not to give away to the enemy more than is extorted in return. Yet to the plain man Australia and New Zealand are sister Dominions of the British Em- pire, exploring in the most friendly fashion the possibilities of increas- ing the trade between themselves, to their mutual benefit. Statesmen ap- parently have a keener perception of the perils which attend the at- tempts of neighboring countries, bound by the strongest ties of kin- ship and common interest, to enter into closer commercial relations with each other.—Melbourne Argus. It is the little things that count which is the reason why gum manu- facturers are wealthy by disposing of their products at one cent per stick and it Is also the reason why penny bank deposits in Ontario to- talled over $1,200,000 this year, --St. Thomas Times -Journal, If you feel like sneezing, sneeze- and don't let considerations of po- liteness or the conventions or any- thing of thhat kind interfere. That les the advice of an English "medical' woman," Dr. Octavi Lwein, who, in an address to a group of nurses, of- fered the following comments: Never backfire a sneeze and don't turn your nose into a•popgun when you blow it if you would be healthy, Even :Aristotle had a good word for it, she said, for the old Greek philosopher� utoonlight, serene • and mystic. wrote. "Salute the sneeze and 110401'1 . YA11 -about as on the new 'fallen the .brain,"—Sault Star. now are- .laidthe still shadows of At a recent boot and shoe exliibi-+ the trees. Our little world is etched tion in England, sandals made of fine.' in' black and white. Yesterday morn ly spun glass were shown for even - clouded with the sun glowing in an un die- ing use, and it was related than "a 'clouded slay, the shadows were dts- really smart woman would wear a tinctly bhte; warmed occasionally by colcfeed., ring on the ,small toe, of 1 a tatich of mauve, but tonight they hey ,l©fox; ,foot. to ms-teh ,,the:yhue. of are practically' black, and the dray- the. nail -varnish on her fingers," The Ing Is arresting. in, its sharpness and extent to Which civilization is going contrast, ahead. by, leaps and bounds is almost breath -taking. --Brantford Expositor, 11 S Admiring Gallery Of Two Watches Master Putter Limbering Up saw~\v a_�'�aaxx•.•;�:..e3o?m�.nu•,... ; . _,_ - , Paul Runyan, King of American, professional golfers, practices his putting touch on the greens of the Miami Biltmore Country Club at Miami, Fla., w hile. his wife, Mrs. Joan Runyan (left), and Miss Maureen Orcutt watch. er There is wonder In the Winter woods, A subtle, all -elusive mystery That haunts each placid grove where silence broods And woos web. whited glen with witchery. ter • Someone has said that the pencil is the master of all art. Here, then, is drawing by a master hand, We have caught nature in her forest studio with pencil in hand, tracing marvellous patterns on an evanes- cent canvas. Fortunately the air is crystal clear, the moon is full and almost directly overhead. 'With a low -hung moon the shadows range out at long distances' from their source, but as the moon approaches the meridian therees seem to gather their shadows close about them as a hen her brood at twilight. Thus compressed, the shadows are darker in color and sharp.er iu outline, and can be viewed and studied with great- er reater enjoyment, R. R. Greenwood Fred H. Byshe in the Ottawa Journal I suppose that ever since the moon began to rule the night and bathe the earth in its pale splendor, and the trees of the field began to yield their fruit, there have been Winter nights when the full moon, riding high and free in the deep blue heavens, has amused herself by throwing fantastic tree shadows upon a sheet of virgin snow all over the slum4rous landscape. And yet when, but a few years ago, I awoke to the beauty and fascination of these •sileneta, silhouettes stretched softlyon their silver screen, the revelation was to me as stimulating as if I had been the first of all men to enter the enchanted land of that experience. I had made a surprise discode'x'yi . .As David Grayson says, "It had beeii here before, for long, blit I had never jeer nor felt it :lIow could I so long have- been •blind to such beauty? How was. it that I had not even read of it? When, later, I came to browse among the poets to .see •what they thought of shadows, I found many of them more concerned with the dark, cavernous depths of the Sum- mer forest, with the mystery, sinis- ter or romantic, that lurks in the unlighted spaces, or with grateful shade from the heat of the sun. And, while the poets seemed to find pleasure in the shadows sweeping majestically across the mountain sides, or nestling comfortably in the valleys and soometimes watched the "tender -pencilled shadows play" iin the wind, I could not see that neuch enthusiasm had been manifestep for these tender -pencilled drawings on a snowy canvas. Of course, I should have con- sulted the artists as well as the poets. A poet might reasonably be so absorbed in the glamor of the glorious winter night as to over- look these inponderable . pictures athwart his path; while the artist, his eye alert for picture, might be expected to seize upon these studies in drawing as being right in his line, as, in fact, Twachtmau and others have done, However, It is just possible that we plain persons may be able to find in such a Winter night some- thing more than a study in tent- 1erature. We can, at least, push our heads far enough out of our fur collars to look about us, and may even be able to share the pleasures of both poet and artist, though 'we cannot compose a sonnet nor paint a picture, * * * Come with me, then to a little wood. I know, a natural temple, where the tall, symmetrical trunks become cathedral pillars between which the alabaster aisles of chequered light recede toward un- seen altars until they fade into dimness. The mighty elms and oaks give a roof to our temple as they Iift their latticed crowns into the ,: infinite blue; and, sifting through the trees, filling the night with its mellow glow, shines the than you can possibly be. For in- stance, we have found that the elan who spend a great deal of his time criticizing the morals or manners of others, is almost sure to neglect his own to some extent. At best that is the only explanation we have been able to find for the well known fact that most strenuous and persistent fault finders us" `^"v have as many . and as seuou , s as ordinary people with. a fere added. We have about concluded that to find fault with other people helpfully, and without neglecting ourselves or get- ting into the habit of a. -fault-find- er, fault-finder, is one of the hardest things fo- any man to do. * * Of course the shadows are fiat; there is no perspective, nothing to make them stand out upon their sn8 y canvas; they appear simply as silhouettes, yet they are veritable studies in detail which reveal every branch. and twig interposed between the white forest labor and the benign,,eye of the ratan in the moon This 'wealth of detail is due not alone` to the brilliant moonlight, but also to the level sheet of unbroken white .gatuna has nxovided. These shadows would be lost on the bare uneven grox nd oe Autumn. You will. catch the idea if you should imagine a drawinng' on crumpled brown paper compared with the same drawing on, fine, white bristol Board. mother feaure• which the level snow canvas h'elps to reveal is the fine gradation in tone of the, shadow from the base of the trunk to the uttermost twig. The shadow has its greatest density and sharpest defi- nition close to the trunk, and the stouter the trunks , the blacker the shadow, because ' the wider the 'shadow the less it id diluted with reflected light; and from the trunk and the gnarled lower branches, up- wards 'the shadow loses both in density of color and sharpness of , line on a diminishing scale whose gradations no human hand could hope to duplicate, until, when the crown is reached, the shadows have resolved into something vaguely' mysterious, and are sketched In the softest pencilling of transparent grey. You would admire such a drawing it it were confined within a frame and hung in an a: t gallery, even though the picture lacked the il- lumination of the radiant moonlight that here in nature's studio touches every .detail to poetry; but such pic- tures cannot be imprisoned. Human art craves perpetuity, so the sculp- tor chisels his eternal' marble and painter reoords his impressions , in imperishable colors. Don't Be A Fault -Finder Because you are able to point out real faults and shortcomings in the life of your friend or neighbor, that is no proof 'that you are 'profitably or helpfully .engaged when you are doing so. It may be, for instance, that he knows as mush about them as you do and is even more concern- ed for elimination -or improvement Seventy-two Per Cent. Of 'Junior League Members R/Iarriec# New York. --On the basis of a questionnaire answered by about six per cent. of the 27,650 members, ap- proximately 72 per cent. of the Jun- ior League women are married and have an average of slightly more than two children apiece. The sta- tistics were presented by Mrs. Cham les A. Lindley, editor of the group's. magazine, to the executive board now in session. Miss Elizabeth P. Taylor of Little . Beek, Ark., president of the board, reportd that 137 junior leagues had continued their welfare projects dur- ing the "past year despite economic conditions. Wine and Steel R. N. Parker, of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., pictured at hearing before Senate Munitions Committee. He is reported to have said that "wine and liquors were often as necessary as steel" during the trial 'marls of warships. New Communications Office Will Be Headed by Dr. R. J. Manion Ottawa—Hon. R. J. Manion, Min- ister of Railways, will head the De- partment of Communications now that. it is definitely known that the Department of Railways will. be in- eluded and in fact be the ''Main one. A new portfolio will not be created. The work of the Department of Railways has been modified greatly since the operation of the Canadian National was divorced from it. The railway finances which concern the Government coma mainly through the Department of Finance. The hew branch to which power to add will be taken from Parliament will have to do with Government radio, -tele- graph, telephone, cables, though one wireless branch, dealing with ship. ping will remain in the Department of Marine, • The Department of Com- munications will have nothing to do with raises, which come under the Railway Commission. The consolid- ation will place the Radio Commis- sion under a different minister but it is not designed to abolish it.