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Zurich Herald, 1935-07-25, Page 6Miniatu !e Motorboat Controlled By Radio • CANADA THE WPM • THE WORLD AT LARGE RELIEF FIGURES INDICATE IMPROVED CONDITIONS Welfare Cammissicner A. W. Laver used to report that Toronto had 30,000 families on full relief. }Ie now states that the number of fam- ilies on full relief is decreasing by 500 a week and that the past year witnessed a decline of 1,800 famil- ies. For the week ending July 6tLh the Commissioner •says, the aggre- gate was 19,177 families. bast year at the same time, the statistics showed 19,636 families, but 1,300 of the families now reported were tak- en over from the House of Indus- try. To the efficiency of the inves- tigating staff, Mr. Laver gives cred- it for at least some of the decrease. The fact is that economic condi- tions are decidedly better than they were two or three years ago. Church "and philanthropic societies relief committees find that they have few- er rent, food and other relief prob- lems to solve than they had some time ago. Demands on the funds for clothing and other necessities of life are not as frequent or as great as they were. Requests are becom- ing more numerous, thong's, for fin- ancial assistance to keep the appli- cants for a week or two until they are able to assume the duties of the positions that have been promised them. All these experiences of city relief workers are most reassuring, as regards recovery from the crisis through which we have been passing. —Toronto Mail and Empire. have already been closed, Now- be, cause of a temporary situation, and because the bankers have dared to rub him the wrong way, he makes a complete right -about-face, and pro- poses to establish fifty more savings offices. By doing this the prime minister hopes to secure the money needed to finance the province. But it wilt be a long -drawn out problem to es- tablish these branches and to inter- est the people in putting their money into them. It may be a different pro- cess getting the money at all, and meanwhile, the province must be financed. Further. the cost of es- tablishing these offices, paying their overhead expenses and the necessary salaries, is liable to be rather high, fn proportion to the amount of m them. s timate fate of these new offices, a die should gain credence. The Itq' itd trR'''s '�> "> avxa We don't know whets er Miss Elsie Hobart is saying "Eureka" or just stretching from the by fatiguing job of painting ft' 0 inches tong, madela speed ofature boat which Victor a Carp and a half stopped nots duringied tl a demon- stration. radio control. The craft', 40 .M� money deposited in Lien• But more important !still is Me vail and he that loveth and mai .,th FISH WEEK The week starting September 30 has been set aside as Canada's Fish Week. The reason for announcing the date so tar ahead is that it takes some folk about that long to catch cants—Stratford Beacon -Her- ald. • JAIL THE RED LEADERS. The Communist leaders of the 3,- 000 relief strikers at Regina, Sas- katchewan, made good their boast that "the street of Regina would be red with blood, if the marchers were interfered Kith," when the strikers turned on police troops who sought to break up their mass meet- 'ins eet ing and bloodshed followed. One po- 1 t ''tua`"on which has im- .ich Army has a magnificent recti pee .r lish them, is a temporary one. It withstand comparison with any Wit_ T re preseii 5: 4, pelled the premier to decide to estab-but the young army of Anzdae Can will blow aver, and the financing of ish force of the past. It is d1ft the province will be restored to nor- to overpraise the troops of Anzac, mal lines. The need for the chain For it is the simple truth to say !tat of savings offices will then cease to in essential qualities no more sett - exist, but there they will be, a string cient army was ever put in the :e1d of white elephants spread over the by any country in the world. The Province of Ontario because of a Australasian. snap decision made in the heat of N LEARNED? the moment. It would be well, in this subject, if Premier Hepburn There has A LESSON N certain sections were to adopt the Asquithian policy of the native press a violent pretest of "Wait and See' before plunging against what is described as a buil- into a :theme which before long ding -up of British influence in .the will prove to have been very ill -ad- affairs of Egypt by an increase in vised.—Oshawa Times. British personnel. The argument is offered that the payment of seven SOLOMON KNEW. millions in the way of compensa- New York records a great increase tion for British officials who -were in the number of young chtic ren, dismissed was considered at the time running away from their homes or to be cheap for a good riddance. None involved in juvenile delinquencies- of -the scribes admits that this mea - Solomon said something agent spar- sure was brought about by a dis- ing the rod and spoiling the child graceful scramble for office on the and he knew a thing or two about part of Egyptians 'who considered handling a large household.—Brant- themselves fully qualified to run the ford Expositor. machinery of government. That they were not fit for their jobs was dis- WE ARE MORE POLITE. tastefully demonstrated by the en - Oakland, California, woman tells suing years of chaos. Things have the judge she saw her husband only been getting so bad that level -head - four times -- the day they met, the ed Egyptians themselves have boldly day before they were •married, and demanded that British efficiency, the day after they were married. Up fairness and genius should becalm -e most bridegrooms don't go back t •,. ,.} �it "tj taus -�.F..a....,.,_..mac:.R�c..�Yci�l:ed.;,;sr�d_.ak��,.�,,fiiFt2.-....,.,rl,•k.+�.x.&l�X�^>�d.t.�.l+.vf'M.{��";iea&Ea:�N�• il&F, �:.:-... rrthers wounded, while the strikers or fourth week. --Windsor Star also had numerous casualties. Conditions have certainly reached a serious stage when the streets of a Canadian city become the scene of armed fighting. It is evident that the strikers have been fed the in- sidious propaganda of the Reds and that they are prepared for an effort to overthrow constituted authority. The only method of splitting their guns is by imprisonment o the lead- ing agitators and it is gratifying to learn that a score or more are now in jail, including the ringleader, Ar- thur Evans, the man who had the temerity to call Premier Bennett "a liar" during their recent interview at Ottawa. There should be no reason for such demonstrations in Canada as the Regina outbreak. It is true there are thousands of men oaf of worst and in .an indigent condition, but it is also true that federal and pro- vincial governments and local mu- nicipal authorities have made every effort to provide work and to ensure that none will be without the neces- sities of life. Hundreds of millions of dollars from the public treasuries have' been poured into the task, with the result that business and indus- trial concerns and the average tax- payer are bearing a heavy burden to meet the outlay. Meanwhile the firm stand taken by Premier Bennett in dealing with the western strikers must be emu- lated by all those in authority. They will have the complete backing of all substantial - citizen. The Commu- nist element has no place in Can- ada and must be stamped out with a relentlo-s ,band,---Sintcoe Refor- mer. PAYING THE DOCTOR. The average family, according to a statistical item, paYs the doctor $'75 a year. Doctors claim the word "pays" is a misprint for "owes." — Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. H7PBURN'S COSTLY POLICY Premier Hepburn's decision to es- tablish, at once, a chain of some 50 branches of the Government 'Sav- ings Department all over the prov- ince to offset the refusal of the fin- ancial houses to tender for the gov- ernment's $15,000,000 bond issue, is quite characteristic of him. It looks like a deciicn made on a snap judg- ment, on the spur of the moment, without thinking the mattor through to a logical coilclusfon, Soon after he became prime min- ister, Premier I-Iepburn intimated that the government savings offices were to be eliminated, as tin ocon- •ortiy measure, and because iia fur- ther need of thein 'existed. • Some NOISY STREET CARS If local transportation companies wish to commend their street cars to the -public, one of. the things they will have to do is to reduce the noise of the ears. The buses have it on the street cars in this respect. The Ottawa Journal recently com- mended the improvement in the ser- vice of the street railway company of that city, but it said that the cars were very noisy. To which the man- ager •of the company replied that the street cars in Ottawa were less noisy than those. in Hall, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and Brantford, ac- cording to tests on a noise -recording ke Yeek ! Ottawa --Any doubt that Prime Minister R. B. Bennett would lead the Conservative forces in the coin- ing Dominion election was effective- ly dispelled on Friday last when fol- lowing a party caucus held a few hours prior to prorogation of Parlia- ment, the official announcement was made that the Prime Minister would lead his forces into battle. The 'Prime Minister personally told his followers in their final get-together before they scattered to their homes to prepare for the campaign that he was fit and ready for battle and in- dicated to them his plans to the peo- ple. in the appeal Mr. Bennett will take a short holiday, following which he will re- turn to the Capital, announce to the people the revised personnel of his cabinet as well as the date of the election. In contrast to the stormy scenes which have marked some of the ses- sions of the seventeenth Parliament, the sixth and final session was of- ficially prorogued by the Governor- General early last Friday afternoon vitliout incident. Following :this, Atema AGRICOLVIRE IN H• SOHO .'. A good deal of thought has bee been given in past years to the kin of education in .agriculture which ea best be introduced into school cti' riculum" Dr. R, 0, Wallace, Preen, dent, . University of Alberta, told the 15th convention of the Canadian Sod ciety of Technical Agriculturists ass sembled at Edmonton. It must b4 frankly admitted at the outset, said, that relatively little success liars attended the efforts of those who are concerned with school education id the teaching- of agriculture. The for; mal agriculture of Grade IX and X. of the high school had op, the whole not achieved what was expected o it; and the school garden, so enthuse.{ astically proclaimed thirty years ago; cannot be seen in Western Canada toJ day. ' It would take them too far afieldi to discuss all the underlying 01e culties, lack of trained teachers, di s, of schol life during they growing season, and the rest. Thee however, had been learned that eta public and high school it was the" science and not the art of a vocatioia that could Ibe taught successfully, For that reason, said Dr. Waliace,t he was of opinion that successft work in agriculture in the public anti high school will come incidentally to the study of natural science. 1 If the applications of the prrn-' ciples of science were continuously' made in plant and animal processes; in weather lore, and in soil process -1 es, interest in agriculture and in ag- ricultural procedure would grow nal turally out of the underlying seienti+� fie principles which have universe application; and the teacher woul not be placed in the compro asists g pposition of posing, unwillingly, expert in a field where he or she weal not accepted. That would be, he felt) the emphasis for the future. On the other hand, there had been , real success in boys' and girls club work, and in school fairs in which) agricultural projects had played their) part, mainly because the activitie were extra -curricular and conducted in the realistic atmosphere of the farm with the help of trained district agriculturists. In so far as these pro- jects were honestly carried out by the young people themselves, the were the soundest accomplishment which had yet been achieved in the; vocational activity in agriculture 'syn"' school-age boys and girls. tem did not as yet, unfortunately, reach all schools and all school childWW. ren in the rural districts. The bonus will be paid out of a $1;000,000 fund which the House of Commons passed. A national highway programme of considerable importance to Ontario has been agreed on between the pro- vincial and federal governments whereby the sum of $9,512,500 will be expended °`on the Trans -Canada high - wax . The Dominion governnielit will pay 50 per cent. of the cost, or $4,756,250. The sections of the high- way, mileage, total cost and Domin- ion contriTiution follow: Schreiber to Nipigon River; 70-$5,30,000-$265,000; Nipigori River to Port Arthur -65- $76,000-$38,250; Fort William to English River -114-$265,000-$132,500; English River to Dyment-75-$299,- 000-$149,500; Dyment to Vernullion Bay -60-$1,350,000-$675,000; Vernul- lion to Kenora-60-$783,000-$302,500; Kenora to Keewatin -6-$605,000-$203,- 500; Keewatin to Dog Farm -11- $200,000-$100,000; Dog Farm to Manitoba Boundary -11-$50,000-$25,- 000; Penmbroke to, North Bay -126- $185,000-$92;500; Schreiber to White River -115-$4,485,000-$2,242,500; Pem- broke to Hawkesbury, including IYon- nechere Bridge -$648,000-$342,000. Busri ens nonditioris are ?nuch im- ' over the province accord- ing all ing to official indexes. Reports from Brantford indicate that sixteen manu- facturing firms connected with the iron and steel trade are currently employing more than 2,000 persons, the highest since 1930.. In Woodstock a new company will shortly begin the manufacture of motor car ac- cessories, while at Port Colborne the Canadian Furnace Company resum- ed operations afer a shut -down of some months, ed- to the direction of offeree ., , hess r s i "-- e • of the Commons and Senate e`1 rrt7>i--� s h : it one to d rted� iii f11 Egyptians have'brought r h political leaders that the s\Yim to prosperity can only be with the trade current of Great Britain, and not against it. Hence the trade mission that is at present in England. —The Sphinx, Cairo. Fertilizer Trials -aro comin elect- ion to engage in the'coming ion struggle, the most -riiomentotts in Canada since Confederation. Thus ended the life of another Parliament, which has sat for five years, making a record of legislative achievement hich will rank in importance with the most outstanding in the 'history of Canada. With reference to trials of cyana- mide and other nitrogenous gertili- zers on arable crops, Dr. E. M. Crow- ther of the Rothamsted Experimen- tal Station describes in the latest is- sue of the Empire Journal of Experi- mental Agriculture (No. 10, 1935) the results of 22 field trials at Rotham- contrivance which measures the noise sted and other centres on the effects iC n decibels—whatever they are. of calcium cyanamide and ammonium We should like to see the contrail- sulphate on spring barley, potatoes and sugar -beet. These fertilizers gave similar yield increases in 11 of the 15 experiments in which there were significant responses to added nitro- gen, and cyanamide was less efficient than ammonium sulphate in the other four. In five experiments at Rothamsted. on Winter cereals there was no clear difference between autumn and ;spring dressings of nitrogenous fertilizers, or between the two above milled fer- tilizers, except that when repeated small applications were mndd during winter and spring, the cylenamide was inferior. ¢; tion for recording noise used in Winnipeg. It should not be neces- sary to suspend conversation while walking along Portage avenue until a street car passes—as it is neces- sary sometimes. The noise created by a street car depends on the condition of the car and on the condition of the track. 11 either becomes out of repair, then the ears of the people are more vigor- ously assaulted. If there is an .501 provenent in both cars and track, the noise is greatly reduced. City noises are a t,train, conscious or unconscious, 'upon the nerves and health of the people. The worse the noi:>e the greater the strain. The reduction of the noise of street ears II-, To Join Lady Sylvan FAIRBANKS PLANS FLIGHT TO NEW YORK; MARY MAY GO ALONG Hollywood, Calif. --Douglas Fair- banks Sr., planned to leave here by air for New 'York and an early re- union with Lady Sylvia Ashley Accompanied by live motion plc - Sir: May I asst the railway coni- tore as.:ociates—one of who4, may be panies to have carriages reserved for i his ex-wife, Mary Pickford-II'airbanks men otriy---in the same way as oth- • was to attend to business int4 the east ers are labelled for women only? It i and board the liner Empress of Brit- tolerable to have to travel on ain for England. td the a *omen are i'ar worse.—Letter in the h hasalsoarranged to pari London Daily Mail, Brit - is intolerable a long (or even a short) may involve some expense, but the improvement of tracks and cars is in the interest of good service gen- erally, and until the noise is reduced to a minimum it will remain a prob- lem which the operating company is expected to deal with.—Winnipeg Free Press. —THE EMPIRE THE OLD GROUCH - 1 Chief item passed during the last stages of the session was the Can- ada Grain Board bill, designed to aid the Canadian farmerhiinbthe market- ing ing of his wheat,— t as a selling agency for the Canadian wheat crop. The Senate prior to pro - rogration amended some of the gov- ernment bills, notably that establish- ingom- the Trade and Industry Com- mission, the amendments being de- signed to .put "teeth" into the new act. The Senate also "cracked" down on the new "racket" which inveigled people into investing their money p in the hope of getting from $1 up $10, an amendmenta which mention Com- mons accepted. Sp "chain' letters was not made though the amendment is designed to take care of all violations of the Crimin- al Code. - In the closing days of the session Parliament debated t h e Regina. strike, arising out of lawlessness resulting between a clash of police and relief camp strikers. The Prime Minister was firm and deliberate in his stand, declaring that there would be no surrender on the part of the government to the subversive authority of the strikers, whom he accused of attempt to overthrow con- stituted authority. Liberal leader Mackenzie King, C.C.F. leader o 3'. . Woodsworth and other opp members sought to embarrass the government over the affair but made no 'headway as the Prime Min• inter, and Minister of Justice Hugh Guthre indicated beyond doubt that there would be no surrender. journey with I Lady Ashley, now oil rot to tl,ue lot of giggling women and c�iiii bee from •Vancouver, B.C., here she a o gga dren. Men may be garrulous, but s stayed recently while aitor came ere, y,; 'While the names of Fairbanks' air companions were kept secret, Ciar- THE GLORY OF AUSTRALIA. mice 'Ericson, his manager declared What manner of men were those he was "positive" Miss Pioiford was, who stormed the heights of Anzac? not 0110 of the group. It behooves to ask this question, and to answer it today, lest we forget; "Property ownership is a natural what now we oheria'i-•-lo t in an age and inalienable right which. govern - of soplilaters and calculators our pot- anent can neither destroy tlor• deny," icy or the poltroon should yet pre-—Jouett Shouse. Stamps Stand Up As An Investment (New York Herald Tribune) With the sale in London last week of the stamps of Latin A.merica, Ha- waii and the Philippines one of tee world's largest stamp collections and the largest single investment in the Arthur Hind estate was finally dis- persed. Beginning in November, 1933, with his United States and Confederate stamps, auction sales have been held, fast in New Yorlt and then in Lon- don, at intervals of a few months where group by group collectors have paid $875,000 for the stamps from what has been popularly called , a "million -dollar collection.' Hind loved his stamps and liked to hear them called the world's great- est collection. And it came near be- ing so, if considered from the stand- point of diversification. He kept an inventory of its cost over the years it was in the making and annually add- ed 6 per cent., as an investment. In pre -depression days his worth was variously estimated at from 57,- 000,000 to $10,000,009 in textiles, rail- il- roads, real estate and stamps t Of great interest to farmers in. Ontario was the announcement of Minister of Agrculture Rbert Weir r that the government wouldpay bonus of 114 cents a pound to farm- ers who ship milk to cheese faetories, during the month of July. This act - tion was taken to stabilize the dairy industry and equalize prices and to prevent farmers from switching pro- duction from cheese to butter and forcing down prices on world figures. IYIr. Weir announced that it was not contemplated to tax producers of fluid milk or any farmers in the dairy industry to snake up the bonus. latter representing about $1,130,000 0 Young was the total. • When the 1111(1 e rank in- ship to , feated matches, desMeulen Eesterdo ventorie<l last year, it had sl ,6-4. $1,316,453, of which $630,000 had been. Belgium this, was Miss Young's Sr&1 received from the sale of stamps , Sappearance on the famous Wimbles don courts and due to a nervous strain on this account she could not play her best, However, our youthfut Canadian champion, lost much of her nervousness after her first set im- proving greatly in the second, Never- ' By' KEN. EDWARDS CANADA'S ,JUNIOR 'TENNIS CHAMPION • KE4� & WARD 1 Miss Canada Honorable mention goes to Miss Eleanor Young of Vancouver, B.C., Canala's junior tennis champion. Miss Young was sent to England by the Canadian Lawn Tennis As- sociation along with Miss Caroline Deacon, the senior champion of Cau- ada. After securing a bye in the first round of the all -England champion - $245,000 by direct sale of the Unit( States and Confederate stamps to Vie Public and $435,000 from an English syndicate in a lump sum for the bal- ance of the collection. The ;syndicate sales which were held in London to - tailed $630,000, malting the price paid tlieless she was no mattsh for the 'or the collection by 'the public $1315,- 000, or something bettter than 77 Per Belgian tarnMia, de cent. of •their cost, as against an 80 better ,Das Mil e SfMga Young's per cent. average shrinkage for the Carolino teammate was defeated by Wes Itid entire estate. - del of England by the same score. W o -wonder a just whore air investor as Mi. s Young, beacon Is the' would find 0 solider property into Canadian Yousenng, Miss I:on. which to put ails seavfrigs: � Both girls were defeated, however,' is the most vital and the experience should be a great help "Thought powerful thing in the (ratite tmi- verse.";-•--Mary Pickford.