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Zurich Herald, 1935-08-22, Page 6CANADA THE EMPIRE CANADA CROSSING CRASHES In spite of repeatedwarnings there are still many autoiets who defy trains. Racing to the crossing has not yet become an unknown sport. It should' be remembered that engin- eers are never killed through a co1- lisiou with an automobile. Chatham News. GOOD ADVICE A driver was swatting a bee that flew -through his window; his car struck a pedestrian, and York Town- ship pollee decided to lay a charge elf reckless driving. The bee can scarcely be prosecuted as an acres - eery before the fact, but the occur- rence offers warning to other motor- ists. If and when a bee Crss.tes a nuisance, bring your 'auto to a hault before taking action to get rid of —Windsor Daily Star. TAKE A CHANCE —The cars that are annually wrecked in accidents and go to the junkman in the U. S. and Canada would make a solid line up from Toronto to Montreal if .a compilation is correct that about 100,000 cars are yearly involved. The junkman's sign at a railway crossing: "Go ahead and take a chance; I'll buy the junk," was justi- fied. No fact is clearer than that our roads are a menace to life. The pe- destrian suffers most. The reckless fast drivers—of which youth furnishes an undue part—cannot be eliminated by the, present regulations. The ef- forts to make the roads safe have re- sulted in a ghastly failure. When the authorities stop palter- ing with the slaughter, drivers will begin to realize that each one of them drives a potential death ma- chine. —Sault Star. THE WORLD AT LARGE other patrons who, by simply plug- ging in to the language they under- stand, will be enabled to enjoy the talkie to the full. --Quebec Chronicle-TelegraPil• COSTLY STRIKE —It cost the Saskatchewan. and Dominion Governments same $40,- 000 to pay for the stay of relief camp strikers in Saskatdhewan. Most of the bills were incurred in Regina, where the riot resulted in one police- man being beaten to death. The Federal Government's share was $10,000 to pay for expenses dur- ing the time a delegation went to Ottawa to interview the Government. The rest of the bill was apportioned to Saskatchewan to pay for meals, The cost for transportation alone comes to $20,930. But that is just the monetary cost of the relief tamp strike. The value of the life of the dead policeman cannot be computed in dollars and cents. `Neither can there be placed a valuation on the wounds and in- juries to thousands of Hearts and bodies. Those are things that make impressions on the minds and which cannot be erased by money. --Windsor Star. SPEND MOST ON CARS —It takes $50,000,000 more to keep feminine Canada dressed up than it does the men folk of the Dominion. The latest figuring shows that retail sales of women's apparel and children's wear in a year were $197,000,000, whereas the clothing of men and boys cost only e143,000,- 000. The Canadian people spend more in a year on autofnohilee .,n an they do on clothing for the bill ran up to $3.7.000,000 or $17,000,000 •more than on apparel. There is a curious difference in the practice of buying by men and women. The women get twice as much of her raiment from the de_ partmental stores as she does from the women's ready-to-wear stores, but the men• patronize the men's clothing and furnishing stores far more than they do the departmental stores. Why the pian favors the trader who specializes in men's .com- niodities and the woman does not is a question for the psychologist. —Brandon Sun. USE LICENSE PLATES —In Yugoslavia motorists' of- fences are narked right on the lic- ense plate --not the driver's license whceee they cannot be seen, but on the number plate where everyone may note them, Each plate. las a large blank portion on which traffic offences in which that ear has figured are marked with. an 1 . 'Mien filo X's appear en the plate, outer motor- ists no doubt steer clear, knowing that there le a• driver to be avoided. ---Edmonton Journal. WAR DECLARED — Vancouver Island's public Enemy No. 1 is the earwig. This pestiferous insect took up its resi- dence here about 20 years ago and las left a swarm of descendants which have been playing havoc with every form of vegetation. They have levied tribute upon plants and vege- tables with as little discrimination as a Chicago gangster leader show.. ed in his predacious activities. But just as the depredations of the gang- ster reached a point which forced the law authorities to devise agencies for his destruction, so the earwig has caused the mobilization of defensive measures which in time it is hoped will put an end to its destructive operations. --Victoria Times. International Race Annual Event Irrrrl The International '1 aeehting Trophy, donated for annual competition by the Halifax Herald and The Halifax Mail. This trophy goes for 1935 to the winner of the Portland -to -Halifax race. The race is to be an annual event. But whatever the precise complexion of the next Canadian House of Cam- mons, it will clearly offer little scope; to those who believe that in high tariffs and economic nationalism lie's the way to a new prosperity for the Dominion. CANADIAN PIONEERS Canadians .are reminded that the Hudson's Bay Company has just com- pleted two hundred and sixty-five years of unbroken trading in this Dominion by the issue on the part of the company of its first official histoxy since its incorporation. in 1670. Probably no "other commercial - organisation in the world has such. a record to show business and ro- mance and history intermingled. For the story of the Dominion. When in 1669, after having contributed more to the upbuilding of the Dominion than any other body, the company yielded some of its charter rights, It had maintained peace throughout the wilderness. established principles of justice and equity, and carried out colossal exploration work. The East India Company alone affords any sort of a parallel in history, and its record was marred by many features which fortunately have not blurred the Hudson's Bay e..eutcheon. --Montreal Star. "COST OF LIVING" The "Cost of Living" is a vague terns with a wide range of defini- tions. To most of us the cost of liv- ing equals the amount of our pay cheques, in spite of the firmest re- solutions to budget and put some- thing by for a rainy day. -St. Catharines Standard DOWN OWN NECKS 'Woman Teem Toronto parked her car in Hamilton, and :orale careless person tossed a lighted cigarette butt in the back seat, causing a lire. If such pe ple had their cigar- ette butts ranleneri down the back of their own necks for a season they might learn scanething of benefit to themselves and tete entire conmlun- ity. •--Stratford Beacon -Herald. F1V1_-TONGUED TALKIE --:a Budapest inventor has de - v wised a machine which mattes it pos- ,sib].e to shoot a. talkie scene in four or five languages simultaneously. While the, _actors are speaking one language in the studio, four differ- ent languages are automatically syn. . elil'onized 'on the ettund track on the edge of tlio flat. . The. finished film can be project, - ed. with dialogue in any one of the five languages, this enabling a. cin- ema proprietor to ruts the filen in Drench at one performance, in Ger- man at another, In English at a third, and so on, simply by switching the sound tr:er'lt from language to lang- uage, But the device i.a primarily de- vised for tee in cosmopolitan centres es 'Where the lulpiel%ilieul speaks st er:el languages. The iilnl will be pie j'ctcd In 1lie language w21ic11 is most p In while ear -phones will bo Prov...• .. ,.. THE EMPIRE THE T. B. SCOURGE A speaker at the Royal Santtary health Institute Congte,s, at Bourne- mouth, recently pointed out that live times as many people die of tuber- culosis as are killed on the roads. That is true, and it is a reproach to the nation. A concerted attack on tuberculosis would practically wipe it out. It is largely, a disease of pov- erty, of ,malnutrition, of overcrowd- ing, of unclean milk. Give everybody decent homes adequate nourishment and open-air activities and the dis- c e e would soon become as rare as leprosy. —London Daily Herald. CANADA AND ECONOMIC NATION. ALISM Tot) much gannet 10. et ilei( ti tr•en1 (hevo provincial eh r .,1, i,'• • result, of the Federal general election in September, for into that these ter wider issuee tu0 t greats. CDnt- ple•xity of parties. The Cooperative Commonwealth Pccleration, with its Socialist platform, has already .talt- en the field and hopes to improve upon the fifteen members it secured in the last Parliament. The Recon- structionists, led by Mr. Bennett's former Minister of Trade, Mr. Stev- ens, are a new and incalculable fact- r,i', fightng a campaign for reform in the methods of conducting big bust - Viet seems likely to draw ad - i brith from discontented t -.realises unci from I.ihe2:'tis —Manchester Guardian. THE HORSE IN IRELAND In this country the Morse still holds its ground. Between 1924 and 1934 the decrease was only 30,634, or less than ,,,even per cent. Motor transport has not developed to the same ex. tent in An Saorstat as across the Channel, and, owing to the dissimii. arity in economic conditions between the two countries, a big diminution in the number of horses maintained here is improbable. The farmer must always rely on the horse. Holdings are with very few exceptions, too small to bear the expense involved in the purchase and upkeep of trac- tors. On a co-operative basis farm- ers may obtain tractors, but it would be extremely diffectilt to arrange a satisfactory working system as be- tween a multitude of co-owners. Ire- land has established a world-wide reputation for its thoroughbreds and beenters, The export trade in thane animals is a valuable asset. To nriole than -Went"- countries outside; 6."6 United Ringdoin we annually export a considerable number of horses, and not so long ago the value of these ex- ports exceeded £2,000,000 per an- num. There should be room for ex- pansion in this trade. The successes achieved in contests abroad by the National Army ought to serve as a splendid advertisement for horses bred in this country. —Irish Independent, Dublin. Underfed Childr 1-'n and Overfed In Gn'e;.`. ;z rc l g n Hair Styles There are so many different ways of dealing with the hair question just now that it is not easy to be definite about the most usual trend. 'The parting may be down the centre front, and sometimes down the centre back as well, on the right, on the left, or at an angle- across one side of the top of the head. When a parting is low on one side, the hair is often carried very smooth- ly across the top of the head, per- mitting no curls or waves till the sides and back, though there may be a fringe on one side of the fore- head. On the whole, the tendency is to dress the front of the head simply, to draw the hair towards the back, and to burst into curls or deep wave high up across the back. Nearly every woman shows at least part of her ears. Everyone whose hair grows naturally in a widow's peak is encouraged by knowledgeable hair -dressers to em- phasize it. And, whether the part- ing is in the centre, front or at the side, whether there are or are not masses of curls at the back or a fringe in front, the hair line is glade clear and ,dei'.inite at •one point or another.' The last detail is probably conse- quent on the back -from -the -face hat and all its sisters and cousins which show a good deal of the brow. London. --"The Wayfarer", the woman's editor of Overseas, publish- ed by the Overseas League, says it is estimated that one per cent of the children in Great Britain are underfed. "This does not sound a high per- centage; it is not, but no children should be underfed in a country such as ours," the writer says. "I should like to know what the per- centage of wrongly fed people is? 1 hazard the suggestion that it is probably about 1)0 per cent. There are still too many underfed ehild- ren, far too many overfed grown- ups and, worse still, far too many children wrongly grown-ups who axe being wrongly fed altogether, "We are making headway but I grow more and more puzzled at the inertia and lack of intelligence in my own sex. Why is it, that on the l whole, the British are such poor housewives. There is no greater slur on us as a people than that our housekeeping should be a by -word among foreigners. We bring up our children well, sensibly, scientifically and affectionately, but we %ke neither economical nor instrncted(`if matters pertaining to food and ::ouses. Why? No doubt there 'ate various reasons, but none of diem are, I am afraid, greatly to our credit.. A Swedish :friend tells nee that in Sweden even if the boys are tanght to cook. That is as it should .be. Cooking, if not a highly skilled re- fession, can at least,be a fascinating recreation. "If fruit is good for us, and Who can deny its health value, then we.: must be a healthier people in 1,i0:tfiLi than we were in 1013, 'for whOat double the (tuantity oi'.. oranges, grape fruit, bananas and other :nit • then w+, 1ttA thn.. ►r Car Accidents Up 112 Percent 1 76 Fatalities In Ontario During The First Six Months Of 1935 Toronto. --An 11.2 per cent. .crease in the number of motor hide accidents during the first six months of 1935 compared with the corresponding period in the preced- ing year, is f'eported in a bulletin issued by the motor vehicles branch of the Ontario Department of High- ways. There were 4,083 accidents during that period in 1935 and 3,671 in 1934. For June, accidents for 1935 mounted to 896, a 15.3 per cent. in- crease over June, 1934. During the same period there were 43 deaths, compared with 42 in the correspond- ing month of 1934. There were 176 fatal accidents during the six months, with 156 in 1934, 138 in 1933, and 177 in 1932. in- ve- Slipping Light Traps Beetles A New Device Used To Kill Off A Baneful Asiatic Insect "Killing the brown Asiatic beetle is like trying to drown a fish," says a Westinghouse engineer, Samuel G. Hibben. The reason is that the beetle digs into the ground in day- time and comes out at night to de- vour foliage. The beetle, no bigger than a cof- fee bean, probably cane to this country in the roots of the • Japa- nese iris or of some similar plant. Poisons have thus far proved in- effective in stopping its depreda- tions. So the Westinghouse engi- neers and the entomologists of the Department of Agriculture decided to lure it with light into traps. Research showed that the best kind of light was the purplish glow that comes from a special mercury vapor lamp. It is rich in ultra- violet rays, which seem to be espe- cially alluring to `the insects. On the grounds of a country club near Springfield, N.J., as many as 36,000 beetles were thus trapped in a night. The bugs are attracted by the glow, fly around it, collide with affle plates and fall, stunned, through a funnel into a jar. Such is the rain of beetles that the trapped cannot fly out against it. Besides, the mouth of the jar is small and the beetle is none too in- telligent, judged by human stand- ards. What the late Professor Jacques Loeb called heliotropism is involv- ed. Light does not actually attract moths and other insects, he showed. It acts on the motor nerves, para- lyzes them peculiarly and thus makes flight impossible only in the line of the rays. Many insects are affected in this planner. The real problem is therefore to develop a glow which will cripple the harmful rather than the beneficial insects. Apparently that problem has . been solved satisfactorily for the destruc- tion of the Japanese beetle. Paris. — Paris dressmakers have turned their attention to the trouble- some problem of waistlines. The waistlines of winter garments slipped a notch lower. One design- er dropped belts about an inch be- low normal on day attire. Others displayed frocks designed without front belts and with lowered side incrustations an inch above the hip bones, They gave the effect of in- definite waistlines. Some clung stubbornly to the na- tural line but Vera Borea went in the other direction, pulling waist- lines up one to two' inches above normal by means of wide belts. The appearance of trouscred afternoon dresses set buyers talking and pushed the problem of skirt lengths into a back seat, although designers showed skirts as high as 15 inches from the floor. The trousered skirts had a slender top skirt slit to the waist, disclosing the trousers beneath and some of them let several inches of trouser leg ap- pear below the skirt hem. ABC of eaIth The Medicinal Value Of Certain Foods Certain foods possess the natural organic chemicals necessary for the prevention and treatment of dis- ease, and may be included in the everyday diet. The following is a lift of such foods with their medi- cinal value: Apples: for stipation. Barley: trouble. Carrots: for the blood, Dates: for under -nourishment. Eggs: for bone and muscle build- ing. Figs: for constipation and catarrh. Grapefruit: for liver troubles and cleansing the stomach. Honey: • for catarrh and cleansing- stomach leansingstomach and bowels. Ice Cream: for relieving sore and inflamed throat. Jam: for its fruit value. Kale: for purifying the blood. Lemons: for headaches and reduc- ing weight. Milk: for gaining weight and mus- cle building. Nuts: for body building and as a substitute for treat. Onions: for colds, nerves, and sleeplessness. Pineapple: for sore throat. Quaissia hark: as a general tonic. Raisins: for constipation, 1,idne.ys indigestion and con - for fevers nerves and bladder Sauerkraut: for high blood pres' sure. Tomatoes: for bile, rheumatism and liver troubles. Unpolished rice: for body build ing. Vermicelli: for gaining weight. Watercress: for skin troubles. X Y and Z for health, spend a dal, once a month in bed. and purifying Ice a1., d. Japan's Economic Life In view of the prolonged negate. Gone between Canada and Japan, the :following extract ion the Japanese economic conditions of agriculture from the 1933-34 report of the Inter. national Institute of Agriculture may be of interest. It is needless to re; peat here, says the report, that the whole of Japanese agriculture rests in quite a particular way on two pro- ducts only: rice and silk. Although there has been evidence in Japan In recent years of a certain tendency to emerge from the "rice -growing economy" characteristic of its ecce. otnic structure hitherto, it is unques. tionable that rice remains, neverthe- less, the most important product of the whole economic life of Japan. It must be added, in order to see the problem more clearly, that when we speak of rice, we mean Japanese rice,'bbat is to say, rice produced in Japan properly so-called. The Japan- ese people find that foreign rice has not the taste of the homeagr'own ar- ticle, and this explains 'tvhy the pro- duction at lower cost of Indo-Chinese or Siamese rice can in no way sup- plant home-grown rice nor compete with it. Only in famine years, when the price of rice is too high, are the poorer classes of the population con- strained to replace home-grown rice by imported rice which, because of its lower price, is within their power to purchase. In recent years the Jap- anese colonists have succeeded in improving the quality of the rice pro- duced in Korea and Formosa and the pressure of colonial rice production ha:; already begun to be felt on the domestic market. Canadain P1 sighs Vs. Ploughs in Cuba The factors which govern the .kind. of farm implements employed in Cuba differ in many ways from those encountered in Canada. Consequently, in the manufacture of Canadian ime plenents for Cuba, allowance must be made with respect to s•onle ma- chines for slight variations frons what are considered standard types in the Dominion. The animals used for draught purposes are oxen and a comparatively small number lei mules. Cuban tail -land throughout a large area, says the Canadian Government Trade Commissioner in Cuba; is equalled in toughness to a very limit- ed degree only ill Southern Saskat- chewan. In Cuba where the soil is hard -baked by the sun, it can be broken more readily by oxen with their slow brit steady and continuous haul. Irrigation is Necessary in many parts of the island, especially evhere potatoes, rice, and tobacco are grown. The distance between furrows and be- tween plants in each furrow and the. depth of ploughing :differ from Can.' adieu practice. Weeds and other eine desirable vegetation in Cuba are vary heavy and ploughs have to be design- ed, but a Canadian disc pt.oughre cantly imported, especially built for sugar -cane work, is proving very sat- isfactory as it has these hig'i-clear- anco .features. It is heavily construct- ed to stand the resistance of dee ploughing in bard cane soil and tib withs'and the additional rough usaggo r'sn11 ing from contact with tree nnrd nr,nif+e„ rem ilio lelnn,l `1';:1ki and roots.