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Zurich Herald, 1935-03-21, Page 2CANADA THE EMPIRE 0.1 .444 0\CM,0 kVz* CANADA NEWSPAPERS BEST. Newspapers provide the best way for clothing merchants to advertise their clothes to the public, This has been agreed by the National Associ- ation of Retail Clothiers assembled in convention in Chicago. They have decided unanimously on an advertis- ing program for the coming year which is scheduled to spend by tar the bulk of the total appropriation on newspaper advertising. The clothing men know from long experience that the buying public looks to the newspapers for the an- nouncements of merchants and man- ufacturers. And the people read the advertisements, have a chance to read them a second or third time if they wish and to discuss them. Then they act and buy. That's why the clothiers are making sure they will do the bulk of their advertising in the columns of the newspapers. — Border Cities Star. EIGHTH GIFT OF BUFFALO Tho Canadian Government has giv- en a gift of four buffalo from the herd at Wainwright Park in Poland. Poland is the eighth country to re- ceive shipments of buffalo from Can- ada as previous shipanents have been presented to South Africa, New Zea- land, England, Australia, France and Belgium: London Free Press. RESPECT. A Scot was walking with a Roman Catholic friend in London. On pass- ing Westminster Cathedral his friend raised his hat, and the Scotsman fol- lowed suit. At thia his friend said: "You're getting very pious, raising your hat as you pass the cathedral." "Was that the cathedral?" the Scot replied. "r thought it was the Bank of England."—London Observer. .404 Os ,THE WORLD AT LARGE not being guarded when we find the judiciary voicing the complaint that juries are freeing men who should not be made free.—Stratford Beacon - Herald, STUDY OF PEACE. Princeton University has just now made a change in its curriculum which is causing wide comment.,. Hitherto it has been giving cour- ses on the art of war which were given it conjunction with the Re- serve Officers Training Corps.>_ In the Oil/b tit% of" ail"ar iTai - Te =r struction will be given on the agen- cies for the promotion of peace, In Stead of another course on commu- Idication systems and gun firing will be one on civil and military law. The subject was threshed out by the uni--ersity together with the Re- serve Officers' Training Corps and this action taken as a result. Which, we take it, does not mean that the Training Corps is done away with, lltiit it does mean that the univer- sity is giving serious study tp the agencies which make for peace. Which is a step up.—Halifax Chron- icle. THE FLEA AND THE EMPIRE A flea was the grand -daddy of the British Empire, we are told by Dr. Thomas W. M. Cameron. From his institute of parasitology at Macdon- ald College, Quebec, he tells a plaus- ible story. The flea, he says, caus- ed the Black Death in Europe. This ruined English agriculture and shit- ed hited into sheep gr9}ving. This made wool and br t. • ngland'sa. staple products an he , ne- cessity of finding foreign keti. This in turn led to the founding,of the overseas empire,—Winnipeg Ti•i» bune. OBVIOUSLY As the crowded London bus came to a standstill, a stout, middle-aged span descended the stairs, carrying a small girl, obviously his daughter. Tenderly placing his burden on the curb, he ascended the stairs again and shortly returned carrying a tiny dog. Placing the dog beside the child, he returned upstairs and again descended, bearing a second child, which he stood besida the first. Once more he ascended the stairs and again returned, carrying a third youngster. These evolutions were eagerly ob- served by a passenger seated inside the bus, who, as father proceeded to dismount with his third offspring, ex- claimed in a loud stage whisper: "Lumme, 'e must lis;e a nest up there!!" Vancouver Province. EDDIE CANTOR TELLS ENGLAND Eddie Cantor receives, or is said to receive some 410,000 for a brief radio broadcast in the United States, and so perhaps it was not unnatural that when he spoke recent- ly over a ,;British Broadcasting sta- tion, tation, he expressed a decided prefer- ence for the system of his own coun- try, His statement started a contro- versy that has been filling the letter columns of the Manchester Guardian, and which the Guardian summarizes Defense Attar k o04 Experts Testimony Aithur Boehler, wood a-olmologist, holds Lindbergh kidnap lad- der and board from Hauptriinn's attic which he linked together in his testimony. On table are Iruno's tools. Position of Modern. W marl Due Largely to Typewriter Washington The stenographer's favorite instrument, the typewriter, was described in an official report as an emancipator of women. "The invention and development of the typewriter has opened more jobs to women than any other single machine, said a review by the women's bureau of its first extensive study of feminine white collar work- ers. The pamphlet added that approxi- mately one out of every eight wo- men office workers in the seven cities studied operated a machine having some sort of a key board. "In the seventies and eighties, the amanuensis turned out stilted and formal letters in a Spencerian hand and the word stenographer was al- most unknown," the report said. "In this survey, the stenographic group formed about one-third of all office workers." However, mechanci'al devices which have followed the typewriter were said to have resulted in reducing numbers on certain types of work. The bureau studied some 43,000 of the 2,000,000 women at work in offices—a number larger than those employed in industry, in stores, or in any other occupation except domestic and personal service. sort of Ministry of Transports, were. Regina Leader -Post. COUNTRY DOCTORS Dr. Dafoe has undoubtedly drawn world-wide attention to the fact that the humble rural or small towz prac- titioner hitherto unhonored aid un. - sung, is, after all, one of the -main- stays of the human race and a man of the moment, whether he comes through with quints or prescri;;aes for chickenpox.—Border Cities Star. is it CHANGING TIMES •; The once -famous Police Gazette is resuming publication. It went into bankruptcy because it became. effm- inate. Now it is to be edited by. a woman.—St. Thomas Times Journal. OUTSTANDING. ry,' The Ottawa Journal, which has entered upon its fiftieth year of pub- lication, is one of Canada's standin .a ers THE EMIL. PLATINUM PRODUCTION. With continued prosperity in the nickel industry, Canada is capable of supplying the major part of the world demand for platinum and its allied metals, according to the De- partment of Mines, Ottawa. Cost of production in. Canada of platinum and related metals is presently well be- low that of most producing countries. —Brandon Sun. ACCIDENTS ARE CAUSED The stubborn fact is that accidents do not happen. If cars are standing still they do no damage. It is when people get in and start to make them go that things happen, and the people in them are responsible. 'The safety of the roads and highways is sign `of envy on the part of British listeners ..,,. , The general feeling ex- pressed on this side is that no swell - 14 of revenue would compensate for the inescapable horrors of wireless advertisements." The case for supporting broadcast- ing by the revenues from advertising, as made by Mr. Cantor, is that the competitive basis on which it rests evolves the "talent" that the radio needs—talent such as Mr, Cantor— and that the advertising brings in the money to pay such entertainers on a lavish scale. Rut British listen- ers would not submit to the invasion of their homes by the commercialism that dominates the wireless in the United States — and of which Can- adian radio is not entirely free, — Ottawa Journal. WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE Ontario has now its first woman J.P. as well as its first woman K.C. while at Ottawa there is one woman in the Commons and one in the Sen- ate. The entry of women into the fields of law and legislation has been singularly small,—Kingston Whig - Standard. HERE'S A SUGGESTION. A letter In a. woman's paper sug- gests a Government department whose job it would be to create joy and happiness for one and all. A out - seems a little late. There will be accidents on the roads till their us- ers acquire a new mentality. They will not do that till (l.) We re -design our highways as single tracks. (2) We keep our homes well away from them. (3) We re -design our pave- ments to stop people stepping off them. (4) We devise a uniform light- ing system to avoid the present jig- saws of light and blackness. (5) We substitute a national control for the whims of a hundred local authorities. —London Sunday Express. THOMSON OR MACTAVISH The kilt is becoming fashionable among Edinburgh Own councillors, and I'm told not tVi be surprised if the Lord Provost is seen in one be- fore long. As a Thomson, he is en- titled to wear the MacTavish tar- tan. "Thomas" was, as early. as the fifteenth century, written as 'Tomas' of "Tames," and Thomson is a translation of :"MacTomas," which has another rendering in MacTavish, Sir William Thomson is of the nor- thern brancb..;The MacTomases of Argyl are a Sept of the Campbells. —Glasgow Bulletin. LIVING ARTISTS OR DEAD MAS- TERS A curious correspondence has ar- isen in the English Press out of the display of the wedding presents which were sent . to the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Criticism has been made of the number of valuable an- tiques which were among the gifts, and it is urged that public bodies like the Royal Academy and the City Companies should have tried rather to benefit present-day artists and de- signers,—Belfast Telegraph. "DIE WAYS" NOT HIGHWAYS. A big inquiry into the causes of motoring accidents is- promised. It WOMEN IN CRIME. Women criminais in England Wales have increased by 10 per in four years. Last year there were 6,779 convictions. It is by pure coin- cidence that the figures appear at the same time as the announcement that in. Britain 18,500,000 of us go to the pictures every week, which means that one in every three of us and cent This cross-section sampling was done in advertising, banking, insur. -ante, investment,, mail order, pub Hitting, and public utilities offices in New York, Hartford, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Des Moines, and St. Louis, on salary, hours, promo- tion chances, and training required: "More . women were at work as general clerks than at any other job in the offices included in the survey," the report said. "While numerically the largest group, general clerks re- eeived a monthly median salary of only $90—a lower median than ,that received by any other class of em- ployees except file clerks whose median was $81, tabulating or lcey punchers whose median was $89, and a smaller number of messengers whose median was $55. Stenogra- phers, the second largest occupa- tion group, received a higher me- dian salary—$114, "In Chicago, the only city where data on the salaries of men officers were secured women were found for the most part to earn considerably less than the men even for the same jobs. "Negro women office workers in- cluded in the study earned much lower salaries than those of white" women." Lady Ashley and Senior Fairbanks May Be Married Rome. — Douglas Fairbanks and Lady Ashley, arriving in Rome recently smiling and happy, stead- fastly refused to discuss the possi- bility of their marriage. "I have nothing to say on that subjdct," said Fairbanks when asked whether he contemplated be- ing married in Rome. "That is my own business." The American film actor said he was planning a long cruise on a yacht being prepared in the United States. When asked whether Lady Ashley would accompany him on the voy- age, he replied that that, too, was his business. His attention was called to a re- mark by a newspaper correspondent that whenever an important event was about to happen in Faribanks' life, he came to Rome where his tailpr lives and had a dozen suits made. Fairbanks merely lauhed and asked how the weather had been. Lady Ashley, who left the train without a hat,; her blonde hair cas- cading to her shoulders;: and dressed' We: ,th,' r Map Shows Eight Different Kinds of Air --- Will Assist Aviators: New York. — A new kind of weather map, showing eight kinds of air over the United States, was presented to aviation leaders at the annual meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. The eight, discovered largely by airplane, are all kinds fiat exist in North America. They contain, and spill, all the types of weather troubles known, including those on which forecasters go wyong. The map is a Atep in "air -masses" analysis, the n3g. system of fore- casting being inaugurates by the U. S. Weather Bureau. It was de- veloped by Dr. Irving Krick of the California Institute of Techology. No. 1 air is polar -continental. It comes down from Canada; is cold, dry and "stable." It may be chilly but contains few storms. No. 2 is polar -Pacific, cold, fairly moist, sometimes —showery and squally. There is polar -Atlantic, a iatt apt q icy .A irr e9 lightrilir "4air. 41064 told:: those, twin of No; 2, but not cquite as::._' Sn a whole lifetime, much fess once `Osis "ripfrroaLtidu 1101` -,fa aa.-J.,ai—,..- ;nasty'rxia;lisposition: . a week. Every now andthen a' mag- istrate blames the films for crime. He isansually a very' old magistrate who never goes to the pictures. When he was a boy they blamed penny dreadfuls! — Manchester Sunday Chronicle. about the rumored wedding. I never talk to neAspapermen. `: I have nothing to say about that." Both Fairbanks and Lady Ashley kept far apart as they walked along the station platform to •avoid being photographed together. Ultra Short Radio Waves Give Interesting Results in U.S. Test New York — New facts about ultra -short radio waves, showing that they spread like soft twilight in every direction, was reported to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers recently. These short waves were sprayed all over Boston from an antenna 130 feet above the ground. A receiving set on a truck travelled all over the city and a surrounding area of about 55 square miles. Never once did the truck com- pletely lose the little waves. There were deep radio shadows in them in spots, as down behind buildings and under bridges. Some streets were brighter than others with these radio wafts. The Boston experiments strengthen a growing belief that they have powers of reflection that may make them very useful. In Boston seem- ingly the little waves splashed and reflected from all sorts of surfaces. In spots completely hidden from the sending antenna,, the waves seemed to be arriving by reflection from numerous other directions. Over salt water the rays were usu- ally bright and strong. After pass- ing the water they lost this extra strength. Under one bridge, as if under a deep shadow, •,the signal strength feel sharply. It rose again on each side of the bridge. Overhead trolley wires east deep radio shadows, apparently interfer- ing with the short waves in all dir- ections. Four is polar -basin. That is some- thing they have between the Rockies and the Pacific Coast. It's fairly warm and the proaucer of nice weather. Five is tropical -Pacific. This is warm and moist, but surprisingly, is usually "stable," or not stormy, be- cause^ its heat has been cooled by passing over the waters of the Pa- cific. • Six is tropical Gulf and seven tropical -Atlantic. These two are twins in troublemaking. Both are very warm and moist. Eight is tropical -continental — a trouble -maker for flying. It appears• over northern Mexico and the south -4, western tier of American states. It is hot and too dry for rain or clouds but its "instability" fills flying air with "bumps." Women Make Up 55 p.c. Of Truo's Voters Truro, N.S. — About 55 per cent of the voting population of Truro are women, it was disclosed by voters' lists compiled last fall and made public recently. 11 DAVID COPPERFIELD Weekly Serial At Yarmouth that night there is a terrible storm. Outside the pounding breakers a ship -wrecked vessel is tossing, Before David can reach him, Ram is out in the sea in a breeches May, trying to save the lone survivor. But he is drowned when the ship goes down, The passenger, is washed up, dead., it is Steetforthl,', Soon'there is more trouble. The frail Dora dies and David goes abroad to forget, A year later be returns, worried about the Wickfields. Then, with the aid of Micawber, he exposes Beep as a Cheat and a forger, who had cunningly made Wickfield. believe that; he, himself, was. a.thief,This was the_hold.he_had.had on him, In return fpr his unselfish act, David gives Micawber a sum of money so that he and his family can set sail for Australia, ' where they hope to find the good fortune that always seems to be just around the corner. Everyone is at the boat to see them off and, amid loitd_cheers, it slowly eases away from the dock, Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS A That afternoon, Aunt Betsey beckons. toMr. Dick and points out the window to the cliffs where David and Agnes swatch the sunset, then str.-t talking to each other earnestly. Aunt '.'3•etsey is eaten up by curiosity. What are they slyis I It looks like the beginning of e, new life and *law, jiappinessfori}av-idandhis childhood, ; eotheartd