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Zurich Herald, 1935-05-30, Page 6CANADA PAYING BY CHEQUE. Judging by the amount of cheques charged against individual bank ac- counts Canadians are great cheque writers, and have explicit faith in soundness of Canadian banking insti. tutions. The confidence which Can- adian banks enjoy has been augmen- ted by the fact that no bank failures occurred in the Dominion during the recent world-wide depression, and as a result the pay -by -cheque method of remitting payments is used almost universally. Over 90 per cent, of the total payments of accounts in Canada during 1934 were made by cheque — Canada Week by Week, A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Glands and gland secretions have in recent years come to attract more attention from research workers and specialists than they used to. It is being realized they have a vital in- fluence on mental capacity, on wheth- er we are tall or short, stout or thin, and in various ways they almost gov- era our existence. What doctors know 'todey is as nothing compared with what they may know ten or twenty years hence, and It may be that by controlling the glands, extrac- ting the bad juices and by injecting new ones, a pretty near perfect race '� `,.:111 be developed, physically, mental- "'and morally.—St. Thomas Times- aurnal . F . b PRISONER 'ROBBED A lone prisoner in the city hall at Crane, Mo., alarmed the citizens in the middle of the night by dashing into the street and shouting, "A cop! a cop!" It developed that the marshal had not locked the jail door and a thief entered and robbed the inmate of $17. Jail are made to keep offen- ders in, but the jailers should also see to it that no rogue be permitted to enter unless duly tried and sen- tenced by court. That is only fair to the legitimate residents.—Montreal Gazette. UNIVERSITY FEES. '+ere ill naturally be some if governments decide on enforcing certain regulations. Mr. Boone intends to test the New York Legislature's bill which prohib- its gatherings of three or more nude persons. A campaign is under way against a like measure in the State of Michigan, The rays of the sun are a much sought after tonic betimes, but many persons unassociated with the cult will not agree that "one million nudists can't be wrong."—Border Cities Star. ti fa alt': necessary ' to cut the grants to the universitiee..of -the giro- vince, there can lie-1lttle criticism the decision of the university autho- rities to meet the situation by =IS - Ing the fees, This is a step which might well Zaire been taken earlier. The cost of university education In Ontario is low as compared with costs in many other Countries. It is not reasonable that the taxpayers in general should, pay as much as they have been pay.. ing of the cost of such education for the relatively limited proportion of the population which takes advantage of our facilities for university educa- tion. It is only fair that the people who • :get the direct benefit should foot a larger part of its cost than they have been asked to do in the past,— Eingston Whig -Standard. EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS A curious fact given in the April issue of the Canadian Geographical Journal is that no authentic portraits have survived of any of the early French explorers of Canada. Of the several pictures that are supposed to represent the features of Champlain, not one is accepted to- day by scholars as undoubtedly a true likeness. There are several pic- tures and statues of La Verendrye. but they are all imaginary portraits. In his case there is nothing in his own narrative or in the records of his contemporaries to even suggest what manner of a man he was physi- cally, though one can gather a quite definite impression of his character. It ins still a question if there is a genuine portrait of La Salle ;and it is certain that there is none of Mar.. quette, Joliet, Radison, Nicolet, Dul- hut, Ailouez, or any of the other early discoverers of Canada. In the March issue of the Journal Major Lanctot showed that not one of six representations of Jacques Cartier can be accepted as genuine. --Tor- onto Mail and Empire. THE BOOK SURVIVES Another thing that militates against the book is, strange to say, its permanence. The candles, the lux- urious meals, are eaten and forgot- ten. The trip comes to an end, and the expense is forgotten. The cigars and • cigarettes are smoked and the cost: passes' into oblivion in the same way. The costly dress wears out. But the book remains on the shelf year ed. extravagance. London Adver- tiser:' dver- tiser _.•..... THE EMPIRE First On New Service The first passengers on the new through service from Australia to England arrived recently at Croydon Airfield, London, on an Imperial Airways liner. Our picture hows Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hep- burn, the first passengers, on their arrival with their 7 -months -old infant. The Hepburns reside in' Scotland. tura which Ceylon may take for her own guidance.—Times of Ceylon, Colombo. A PEACE AGENCY In the opinion of "Ralph Connor," as expressed to an Auckland audi- ence the other evening, ' the world must either make, the League of Na- tions a success or prepare for a more terrible war than ever. It is well tliat the alternative should be put so em pbatically, and the plain word about the need to make the League a 'Sue - cess is as important as the , trntli that between its efficiency and a "drift into a war of the first magnitude the present generation stands. Both ia�s a ue is thechiefa' g anis in spensaa ;i bulwark of peace, yet It needs he Harnessing The Thames River Antidotes Are Widely Used Indianapolis Discoveries Do Much To Help 117 Poisonings Antidotes for strychnine, cyanide and bichloride poisonings have been developed in the . last two years by the research department of the Int dianapolis City Hospital and :put in- to general use in emergency ambit lances throughout the United States. The antidotes were developed as a part of the planned progr'ann of the hospital's research department, Charles W. Myers, superintendent said. The antidotes have proved suc- cessful in recent emergencies. Four persons have been saved after tak- ing cyanide poison. Two others who took strychnine were successfully treated. No cases of persons tak- ing bichloride poison have been re- ported. All the antidotes are. given intra- venously, Mr. Myers said, and the effect on the patient is instant and marked, LONDON,—i! or upwards of Sixtey miles the tide from the North Sea sweeps up the Thames as far as Ted- dington Lock twice in twenty-four hours. 'With it go hundreds of laden barges 'to various riverside wharves. It is now seriously proposed to con_ 'street a barrage or weir near London Brdge, which would effectually check the tide at that point, and above it keep the river at a constant, or very slightaVerarying: level. A huge lock, or j'ral locks would be required to r.. xii,d.xatheft to lairagea 'the waterinen,whose hours of labour are now conditioned by the tide -table, would find their hours standardized, as they would be made independent of the river's ebb and flow. The appearance of the river would be improved by the disappear- ance. of riiud-banks. Furthermore, barges would be able to lie along- side the wharves for loading and un- loading at any time, The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race would no longer be on. the tide- way, but thousands of rowing Men would find an advantage in the riv- er's constant level, The barrage, too, would obviate the present risk of another disastrous and fatal flood ithin the London area, since that danger arises only when a very high tide meets a strong stream. support of all folk of goodwill to e u- sgre . its .standing against the l',ifiu- ences that assail it. On the first of these ideas it is worth while to dwell. Unless this be realized as con - HOUSES 12c A WEEK IIouses of the three-bedroom type, I convincingly true, there can be no cit thuslasm for the second.—Auckland with good fittings, bathroom, electric N.Z.,'Weekly News. light and cooking and large gardens, BACK TO THE FARM. •, ,?['ramps in town appear to be more numerous than ever, 25 to 30 sleep- ing. ia leep.ing.in the Town Hall some nights. We .have long held the belief that the tajority of them would work if given the opportunity, but that belief has been shaken considerably during the past weeks, since more than one far. mer has told us that when approach- ed these men absolutely refuse to go 9n a farm, some of them boasting of their ability to "get by" without working. According to Government statis- tics, farm workers are in more de- mand than has been the case for many seasons, and wages offered are higher. This, one would think, would induce some of the drifters to become self-supporting and regain their self-respect, but this does not appear to be the case. In every centre there must be men in good health with some knowledge of farm work who are being main- tained out of public funds, while the farmers are seeking helpers. Some way should be found of bringing the two togetlier.---Lindsay Post. LOOKS LIKE SHOWDOWN. Membens of a cult seem to have fondness for going to the extreme in support of their beliefs. A news despatch indicates that this is true of nudists, about one million of Whom are expected to defy proposed restrictive legislation in at least 18 of the United States this year. The strength of the nudists can- not be underestimated. There are 8,000,000 American who support the fad, but all of them do not practice it, according to their leader, Rev, R- elay Boone, a Baptist minister. The International Nudist Conference has 51 organizations, almost double last year's number. Which suggests that troublewill come with the summer are being built in Welwyn Garden City, and, without any Government subsidy, they will be let at 12s per week. The municipality will put up 80 of these houses, while another 50 of a slightly superior quality, though of the same general type, are being built to let at a few shillings more a week by private enterprise with the aid of loans from the Council,— Industrial Britain. SOUND AND DISTANCE It was found during the war that the firing on the Western Front could be heard in this country only in sum- mer, and at like distances in Germ- any, only in winter. This alterna- tion, which was very consistent, was due to the change of the prevailing wind in the upper atmosphere. At a height of 12 miles the wind was generally from the east in summer, and from the west in winter. This reversal was connected with the great range of the changes of temperature in the course of the year in the up- per atmosphere in Arctic regions, but no satisfactory explanation had yet been given to the high temperature which prevailed in the upper atmos- phere, apparently from pole to pole, and at all .seasons. --Engineering, London. IN EGYPT, TOO The production of two films before the Council included a story calculat- ed to tempt Egyptians to stay in and go back to country villages, and to keep apiaries. We fear that it will take more than 'locally produced cin- ema films to lure local Whittington from the lights of big towns to the muddy squalor and smoky discomfort of Egypt's village life. --The Sphinx, Cairo. Fairs Forced To Drop Bands Agricultural Society Al de Says $10 Copyright Fee Too High Toronto—Small town fairs cannot stand the imposition of a $10 fee by the Canadian Performing Rights Society because the village band plays for three or four hours, J. A. Carroll, provincial superintendent of. agricultural and horticultural soci- eties, told Judge Parker recently, during the probe of the society's activities. "We sent out a questionnaire to all societies regarding this society ween the inquiry was announced," he plained. "We find that since e Copyright Act was amended in 1 1, quite a number of them have bebn asked to take out licenses, mostly Vin Central. and Southwestern Ontariot' "Because of the $10 fee asked of one -day fairs, the Thorold soci ty had to dispense with their band. ']ie Marmora society had eliminated ;its entertainment, because they had bfien "pressed" to take out a license or its hall. "Even a $10 fee is a serious mater to most of these agricultural fah ," said Mr. Carroll. "All of them e st only by the aid of public assistance; so if any license is imposed on tar. m, the money for it will have to cr ne from the public purse." RAISE THE MASSES, STANDARDS "Get the rural masses out of their present rut of low standards," That, in effect, was one of the practicalis- sues raised by Sir George Schuster, late Finance Minister of the Govern- ment . of India, in his Birdwood Me- morial lecture delivered recently be. fore the Royal Society of Arts, it is an injunction that may be applied with egtial force to Ceylon, where the poor vitality of the people, the direct result of a low standard of living, has rendered tbeih pe.iullarly suseep-. tible to the ravages bf' `fdaleria,. Coma paring great things with small, there is anueb in Sir George Sciiuster's lee. PUNCTUALITY, AND SOME PROFESSORS But This Is England (Winnipeg Tribune) A classic story in local university circles concerns a certain energetic professor (he is still teaching) who dislikes a lecture under any circum- stances. One late Winter morning he was out taking his usual short cut across the ice -covered Red river when he fell through, close to the bank. Thoroughly soaked, he dragged himelf out. Anyone with a care to his health would have gone home and changed his clothes. The daunt- less professor, however, continued to the university. He had time only before the bell rang to don his gown, Standing behind the desk as he faced his clas, he lectured for the entire period while the water dipped from his clothes and formed pools on the floor. The story is recalled by a letter in the London Times from a former Eton College student. It tells of how floods in : November, 1894, made Hugh Macnaghten late, to the great joy of Eton scholars who con- siclered such an event impossible. o �o ;:. a�s. e. f tlie.,,faxK► i�avitaglitell w n. ous masters at the great English school. "It was soon common know ledge," writes the former Etonian, "that, finding some six inches- of water outside the house in Weston's Yard, where he then lived, he had been forced to climb along the leads and beat a passage through Miss Lloyd's bedroom in Savile House. It took some time for her. to evacuate the room and allow hien to come through the window~. "Hugh. Macnaghten disliked un - punctuality; and it may be of in- terest to add that at five o'clock school on the previous evening, when a well-known member of Don- aldson's House arrived sone 10 minutes late, he asked rather testily, why are you so late?' Even Hugh Macnaghten's anger was turn- CRAWLEY England,—Said to 'have' driven between 35 and 70 miles °,an Hour and takes a dagerous bend;at 40 guiles, a motorist was fined $500 and his license suspended for live years, Wagner's At Covent Garden LONDON,—Por upwards of. sixty complete cycles this year of ag tier's "Der Ring der Nibelungen," the four-part musie drama which every year draws such enormous audiences to Covent Gairdens, Checking Babies For Varied Types New Tests Applied Ii.y New York Agency to Provide Better Selection New York. — One of the first adoption agencies to use psychologi- cal tests on babies was the Child Placing Adoption Committee of the State Charities Aid Association, which began, three years ago, to test each baby to find out the prob.. able development so that the child- ren might have a chance to get the type of home to which their mentali- ty suited them. , This agency, one of the first to use mental tests, has . given ' 885 psychological examinations to babies, testing them with blocks and bells and moving things. Many of these babies have been given two or three tests to find out the rate of progress they made under good con- ditions of care. In some cases it has keen found that the retardation in children, as shown by the tests, was the result of inadequate care, and When the difficulties under which the child was growing were correct- ed, the mental rating was inerease$ at Although the psychologist l tiros is in general control of the situation, the mental tests consist largely in letting the' child under examination do what he wants to do, How Much Do We Eat? Observes the St. Thomas Times Journal — These scientific cha;Qs.. gets us all tangled up sometimes their statistical calculations enc ductions, but we believe we have+ caught one of them red ha'nd'ed.. Dr. Ralph P. Baker, of the Petuiddti vania Board of Osteopathic Examin- ers, is credited with the statement that in a life span of 50 years.,:the average person eats more Than''; b0' " tons of food. That is one ton:of food Colors Without Dyes Lessons for the Chemist Sean in Surface Iridescence Birds, butterflies, pearls, the lin- ing of seashells—they owe their iri- descence not to dyes but to their pe- culiarities of surface. 'Waves. of white light fall upon them—waves of many different lengths. The surface re- flects them tills way and that. They clash. Sometimes there is total ex. tinction indicated by black patterns; sometimes a few colors are blotted out while others remain in fringes. In all this Dr. R,;' E. Rose, an in- dustrial chemist, pf ,.Wijniington, Del., sees a lesson for .the 'chemist of the future, He suggests a new art of coloring based on interference. "We may render some of our ,dyestuffs obsolete by produeing color as na- ture does, It is to be hoped that this may be so, because the purity of in. terference of colors is so e1tquisite that we would be able to enter a new era. Peilhaps we can achieve this by a combination of great development in mechanical control mist the syn- thesis of special plastics." Proverbs Of All Nations per annum. Just contemplate that all at once. Picture to yourself your lifetime's supply of food loaded on trucks. Taking 70 as the allotted span, that means 14 trucks arriving at your door with five tons of foodstuffs aboard each year for you to stuff yourself with from birth to death. The picture is appalling. But Dr. Baker must be talking through his hat. Assuming he means "short" tons, 2,000 pounds, not tons of 2,240, that means that for every day of his life a pian consumes more than six pounds of food. That is two ponds weight at each meal with. a bit over before going to bed We defy any human,. ~:being to do 4hat ,e r iiia. -consist n y e defy' , . ; r,,. it.:'oiie'ef,a dal, ` even if he 'went` to a L thicken ;stijipeiir'"p*ilere li'ceaeoulclaia't .., all he could eat for a quarter.a. are not authorities on the subject,' but we believe that Pennsylvania man is at least 50 percent. too high in his calculations. But we agree with hire when he says the average human being eats more than is necessary and more than is good for him. Any doctor will say that half the cases that. come under his notice are due, in the final analysis, to overeating, mild or serious, and he prescribes a "diet" for the sufferer. As a inatter of fact, a live stock breeder takes far more care of the feeding and the exercising of his animals than the average roan does of himself. • ed aside by the soft answer, •`I'm sorry, sr. I missed the .last punt.' " Joyous, rollicking stories these, in retrospect. But such is the de- sire of some persons for punctual- ity and unblemished record. Being on time is a habit that many others besides traditionally absent-minded professor might well cultivate. Point the tongue on the anvil of truth,—Greek. Don't thtow away your old shoes until you have new ones. --Dutch: Tinie covers and discovers every- thing.—German. The point of the thorn is small, but he who has felt it does not forget it, -Italian, Things past may be repented, but not recalled. --•-Latin. The sun is the king of torches.— West African. Suecess has many fraieds.-Greek. The replenished understand not ,the pain of the starv+ing;--Turkish., "The constitution of the tlhited States is one of those documeutti for which everybody is always steady, te die, but very few take the ,trouble to read while they are still counted among the living.' -••-1 endrile Wi1W',r, s .. Van Loon. Il Duce's Fist , Punctuates A Fiery Speech a....l i..... 'tree l'.unde; 'A:ea::.iini da'aver:ne 't i civ add.. .: to 1 .asp Cr Vasei-L, iii s,rare bi'o•,v at ceremoirie$ marking the a 11thc•ca'sar:yr of the .founding oJ; Roine.