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Zurich Herald, 1935-10-10, Page 6�'l� ,r.�y At The End CANADA WHEAT IS BRIGHT The truth is that once more, after several bad years, the wheat mar- ket outlook is bright. If it were not for the Canadian stocks on. ,hand prices would be soaring to heights Canadian farmers have not permitted themselves even to dream of for the the last five years. The Canadian reserve steadies the situation.. It should not be forgotten, however, that these reserves were accumula- ted. in the successful effort to get a much higher price for wheat in 1932, '33 and '34 than the -farmers would otherwise have received. — Winni- peg Tribune. HITCH -HIKER A NUISANCE It is impoisibe to drive anywhere today without encountering a patient droop-sbouldered chap ;who stands by the roadside and continuously jerks his thumb across his chest. He is a hitch -hiker, one of the strangest pro- ducts of the auto age and he is get- ting to be an unmitigated nuisance. He collects a great deal of free transportation, promotes the exis- tence of a vagabond class witch does the country no good and creates a new opening for a lot of old-fashioned highway robbery.—Guelph Mercury. GOOD EXAMPLE A good precedent has been set by Magistrate Tinker, of Toronto, who bas given instructions that, to make sure reckless drivers whose permits have been cancelled, do not drive during the suspension period, such persons must bring their license plates to court. Same men may drive for a considerable time without driv- ing permits, but they will not get very far without license plates. Other magistrates night follow this excellent example. — Niagara Palls Review. FOR GREATER SAFETY Shatter -proof glass will be oblige_ gatory in new ears sold in Ontario next year, which means that there will be far fewer gashes for the doc- tor to sew up. — Brockville Recorder. BOTH NOT FOOLISH There were many careless drivers in the old days, but not as many ac- cidents. The horses had some sense. — Winnipeg Tribune. RADIO` -SP ECHES tens of millions of dollars left in Canada, and this without depleting any resource, without consuming any national wealth. When we export our pulpwood, or our nickel, or our asbestos, we sell !something we cannot replace. Our scenic beauty remains, a permanent asset, a thing which, no matter how much we exploit it or how much money we derive from it, remains with us forever. Last year Canada established a Travel Bureau. It has done excellent work. It has done such good work, has paid for itself so many times, over, let it be hoped that whatever Government is in office next year. will develop and enlarge the Bureau's activities. We in. Canada spend and have been spending large sums of money—mil- lions — to develop other industries. We ought to be prepared to spend more than a few hundred thousand dollars to develop the tourist indus- try — one of our very greatest, — Ottawa Journal. PERRY'S PLUCK An X-ray medical expert of New table in a local hotel recently. Seven were Windsorites; the other was a Detroit visitor. In the groupwere four medical men, one retail mer- chant, one wholesaler and one news- paperman — all of Windsor. "Did you hear so and so's speech en Saturday night?" someone asked. The newspaperman said he had lis- tened to the whole of it. One doctor admitted he had heard part. The rest had not heard one word of it. The newspaperman commented that he had listened all through as a matter of personal professional interest. People who attach so much impor- tance to the radio as a means of getting their messages — business, political or otherwise — to the pub- lic might give some consideration to this informal survey. Here we have a typical group of Canadian citizens, seven of tdiem, and only one of the seven heard the address. Five of them failed to hear a word of it. Yesterday we heard a man remark that some of the biggest wireless programs, some of the finest and most expensive features, were de- lightful for the public but mighty poor business for the large firms making them possible. His explana- tion was that the programs have -worked up .great fame for certain artists, but mighty little for the pro- ducts the artists are supposed to ad- vertise. BY way of illustrating his point, this gentieman said that he had taken the trouble to inquire from several of his friends as to the sponsor- ship of one of the air's most celebra- ted. most costly programs. Of five persons to whom he had spoken, only one was able to name the pro- duct advertised. — Windsor Star. SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT .. we sometimes seem to know ratter too much about the world ter our own good. It has no surprises left for us. Our imaginations do not get enough exercise andthat is bad for us all. — Quebec Chronicle -Tele- graph. 130,000 MORE TOURISTS According to J. J. E. Perrault, Minister of Roads, something like 130;000 more tourists came to Que- bec this year than last. The number of United States cars , remaining in the province 24 hours was 130,000 as against 124,000 last year; the num- ber remaining anywhere from two days to two .months 16S,000 as against 139,000 last year. The axirdunt of money spent by 168,000 motorists touring Quebec, most of them for weeks, roust have been enormous, must have run into many millions, Which emphasizes again, we think, the tremendous 'value to Canada of the tourist bust- testi. Here is e. case where we have York reports that Perry, England's great tennis player, who fell heavily in the early portion of his semifinal match with Wilmer Allison for the U.S. championship, was in reality badly hurt. He states that he suffer ed severe rib, abdomen, and spine contusions, in addition to kidney - --• injury and that he will be unable to Ottawa.—Leaving Toronto Sep - play again for eight weeks. His marriage was hastened by his condition as his wife wished to help look after hint Perry must have been in very great pain as he fought as well as he could in the balance of the match and his display was an- other evidence of good old John Bull pluck. — Brantford Expositor. Amid tearful welcoming scenes 204 passengers and 69 members of the crew of 'S.S. Dixie, ar- rived in New York in special train from Florida where they were landed from reef driven vessel. Above is scene as anxiety gave Way to tears and smiles at sight of loved ones. The Week In Ottawa teinber 14, immediately after the last of a series of four radio ad- dresses, Prime Minister R. B. Ben- nett has moved from personal triumph to personal triumph in Western Canada. First he went to Regina. There he was accorded a spontaneous ova- tion by a gathering of 7,500 people "JUNK" ON THE HIGHWAYS in the Armouries that has never. A despatch from Owen Sound about been equalled in the history of` the the adventure of a youth and three Queen City of the West. It was a friends in a 1919 motor car porches- striking tribute to the man who .has ed for $5 lends itself to au appeal brought Canada through five years for the removal of "junk cars" from the public highways. The quartette made the • trip from Owen Sound to Toronto in nine hours. They had all sorts .of trouble on the way, as may be imagined, and when they came to hills they had to push it, the other etne•.top. . No -doubt the youths had a good time—of a kind—tile exploit being fun to them, but we trust this auto- mobile has since been junked' or that the police will put the new law in op- eration and seize it as a menace to the'publfc. There are so many dangers on the highways without the added risk of dilapidated cars, the ersential parts of'whicTh function imperfectly if they function at all, that adventures of this kind should be prohibited. —St. Catharines Standard. THE EMPIRE TIMES HAVE CHANGED Australia must awaken to the tact that in matters of trade and tariff she can no longer have her own Way unrestrained. We have had a long run. We have for more than halt a century maintained high tariffs against Great Britain and have thus sheltered our own industries; and it is not for us either to complain that Britain should impose one duty on one of our products or to repine that we have to duffer from the new Brit- ish policy. After all, a tax on meat is preferable to certain other meas- ures which have been suggested. One of these was the payment of a very large subsidy to the British produc- ers of meat. This would have enabled the British to undersell the Australi- an producer in the British market. Another suggestion was the limita- tion of Australian exports to Great Britain. This would have led to a restriction of the production in Aus- tralia—a policy of domestic despera- tion in. a new country. It seems that the tax will injure us less than would any other measure. — The Aus- tralasian. of economic crisis unequalled in :the history of the country; and to the courage of the Prime Minister . in opening his public speaking cam- paign in the very heart of a district that has felt depression's sting the keenest, made worse by succesv" relight: Mr. Bennett went to Lethbridge from. Regina—cdother -hard hit dis- trict. His reception there was even better. Tile pendulum of enthusiasm was swinging more solidlly toward the Prime Minister. Here and there, at divisional points, he had stepped from his .railway - car to greet and chat with groups of people eager to. hear his message. Nothing in any way formal — just a Westerner talking to Westerners.' Then on *to Calgary, his home town. From the railway station to the hotel where he would stay is less than an . average city block. Yet it took Mr. Bennett an hour and a quarter to make his way through the enthusiastic throng who greeted. him • familiarly and sincerely as "R.B" and sought to shake him by the hand. It was a real .Western welcome — sincere enough to dispel any doubt in his mind as to whether his -titanic labours of the past five years had been in any way futile. Incidentally, there is plenty of meat in the four radio speeches of the Prime Minister to keep thinking minds busy for a day or two. Boiled down, they show Canada's Man of the Hour and Man of .Action has the nation's problems at his finger tips, that h?'i,s a few jumps ahead of the other political leaders in this cam- paign. Here is a summary of the points driven home in the four addresses: FIRST ADDRESS 1. To maintain peace for Canada. 2. To maintain higher standard of living by (a) Returning to Agricul- ture add industry to normal activ- ity; (b) Decreasing Canada's bur- den of debt; (c) Restoring the labour market to a sound condition; (d) Removing unjust and unnatural inequalities; (e) Better utilization of our natural resources; (f) Bet- ter distribution of the products of agriculture a n d industry; (g) Strengthening the Confederation of Canadian provinces and so increas- ing our power to work together and achieve these purposes; 4. No sur- render in trade fight with Japan; 5. Minimum wheat price of 871/2 cents, basis No. I northern at Fort William, SECOND ADDRESS . Reconstruction of the debt struc- ture by (a) Application of the twine)._ plc' of the Farmers' Creditors Ar- rangement Act to xang.eme tcity Y honieo n r iv e s, (b) Debt conversion at lower filter.. est rates; (c) No more tax -tree bonds to .be offered by the Dominion Gov_ ernmpnt; (d) Co-operation with prov- inces and with municipalities in re- funding operations; (0) Establish- „)• mast of loan council; 2. Increasedre- FINANCING AT HOME One of the first du:ies of a Coloni- al Government (as we presume it is of its first desires also) is to benefit both directly and indirectly the coun- try whose affairs it administers. it knows that to ob:ain a loan in Eng - lead and to pay interest there is of advantage to the English investors; and undoubtedly it is right to pre- fer, as-4ndeed it must, the English investor to any other except the Col- onial investor. But the local investor should come first in a colony as he does in England; and when both the Colonial 'and English investor can share the benefit of interest on a loan, each should be well satisfied and should feel that there has been a fair adjustment of financial advan- tages -- The Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica. venues by direct taxation; 3. Increas- ed trade with the U.S., by reciprocal arrangement; 4. End "Unemployment; 5. Retirement of workers on pension at age of 60 or 65 years to make room for younger men; '6. Ask Parliament for money for technical training of boys and girls whose parents through unemployment are not in a position. so to train them. • 1. Continuation of reform program; 2. Controlled inflation; 3. Easier cre- dit; 4. Lower interest rates, mort- gage rates; 5. Pledges of 1930 liter- ally fulfilled. »„ 1, Investigation' Canadian problem, including highway, air, and Water, as well as rail, by new Eco- nomic Council; 2. If railway amal- gamation recommended by this body, people to ,be asked for mandate be- fore action - taken; 3. Reduction of Costa- of production; 4. Full in,yj,ry ries; 5. Take steps to relieve 'trea- sury from debt burden; 6. Increase support for civil aviation; 7. Improve- ment of national radio broadcasting; 8. Complete trans -Canada Highway, Grace, Dignity That Is Ottawa Callaway Marston Writing iii the Ottawa Journal Gives a Picture of the Domin- 'ion's Capital that Every tl Canadian Should Read. Remarks Mr, Marston:—Ottawa is still - Canada's Capital. The re- minder isn't necessarily a waste of words. Of course it is a fact cos- mopolitan visitors remember when carrying away pleasant recollections of its buildings, its beauty, its charm and its famed hospitality. In Europe its importance is recognized and not unheard of in Asia. That is the for- eign situation. But among the native born there seem to be many with a School Child's Lunch. Should be Varied The School child's lunch packet should be varied from day to day, says a writer in New health magaz- ine. Nothing kills the appetite more surely than the terrible unvarying monotony of sandwiches and bread - and -cheese, though bothofthese are a convenient and well-balanced way of giving the child the three neces- sary elements of food -carbohydrate, food and fat. But they need not be given every day. The bread may be given as toast, with butter and a tiny pot for potted meat, or a hard- boiled egg, or even the humble sausage wrapped in a leaf of lettuce, and followed by a few- biscuits and a piece of cheese. When sandwiches are taken they should be made of wholewheat bread, cut thinly, and it is a good plan not to make them all of one kind. One half might be of grated cheese, and the other of tomato, or one half of cold ham and the other of hard-boiled egg and cress. All sandwiches are much improved, from the point of view of their vitamin; content, if a leaf of lettuce is placed' on each side of whatever filling is chosen. The variety of fillings should be as great as possible, the greater the variety the greater their value as appetisers. The lunch should invariably in- clude some raw fruit, and with a glass of milk there is no need to worry about the health -giving quality of such a meal. The busy mother may think she has no time to prepare such "fal- lals" of meals, but she will find that it does not after all take up much time and thought if she keeps a', small stock of the necessary packing materials, and she will be repaid a thousandfold by the improvement in, her child's health and well-being. today. These things combine to make a bit of modern history fuller of act- ion, daring and deviltry than any weaver of wild west romance would presume to put before his readers. Wonderful tales there are of pione- ers, of lumbermen and soldiers who had vision—who built its first bridges, laid out its streets, engineer- ed the canal that so adds to is picturesqueness. It is not a story of long ago. A century and a half covers the span from "forest prime - Val" impressiveness to the present. Compared with cities that date back to the days when New France was young Ottawa is as a modern novel to an old fashioned "three -decker." In spite of its marvellous setting Ottawa - must have been ugly in in- fancy. Undoubtedly it was touched by the commonplace. Today it can easily hold its own. It varies marked- ly as two towns do,, and bits of the immediate past mingle with newer developments. Though it lacks an- cient monuments it is building those that will endure. Though modern it is already mellow. Even in its com- parative youth it seems mature. Escaping . the curse of blatant new - its -background, It has long lost the pioneer brand, and in its place achieved a sort of patina usually as- sociated with age. Ottawa's charm is elusive. Its environs suggest the quiet poise of some old university town. It repays' study in all its. aspects. Standing at the country's cross roads many paths meet before it—a junction where the life and interests of a nation blend. There is little use try- ing to describe the city. Tourist agencies say it with adjectives, and guide books praise it with many words. But a thumbnail sketch can- not do it justice, or convey an idea of its resources. To read what Ot- tawa is will arouse interest, but to know it awakens enthusiasm. Those to whom it is little more than a name —the coast 'to coast con -Minter, and travellers whose tickets call for less mileage—should use up all stop- over privileges and see for them- selves. Canadians should study their Capital and all for which it stands. Adult and child should know the poignant significance of i'as Peace Tower, the dignity of the buildings on the Hill, and learn at first hand of their country in its making. wrong slant towads their country's Capital. To some it is unknown and unvisited, heard of but unsung. There are those to whom Paris is a familiar playground, • London a dream fulfilled, -and Ottawa merely a place back home. Canadians 'should become Ottawa conscious. 'The.- Capital is not just a landmark where Federal laws are made on .Parliament Hill,= an over- grown town masquerading as a -met- ropolis. Quite apart from its national importance it is a city of grace and dignity set in a garden spot of the world. In incalculable ways it is linked with a dountry stretching 'from ocean to ocean, reaching far to the North, and with a Southern boundary that needs no armed pro- tection. What Ottawa will become no man may foretell but its foundato.ns are strong and its ever increasing importance seems assured. To those who know it Ottawa needs, no selling. Still in a transi- tion stage it must be visited at in- tervals to keep abreast- of its many changes. ,It has gone far since a cynic dubbed' it"City of sawdust and civil service." For all its peace, its a1 00 i to air a kn fness, dignity, its Ottawa has a colorful bacluground' quite unsuspected by those content with the obvious, It is breath taking, that story of the selection of what is no its site, the development of its tliirroundings, the personalities of those who made possible what it is This is Adding Insult To Injury The linen industry of the United Kingdom is almost entirely confined to Scotland and Northern Ireland. In the opinion of members of the Scottish linen trade who have a knowledge of Canadian flax, the lat- ter is especially suitable for the dry spun yarn produced and woven in' Scotland. * * * 'All classes of agricultural workers in England and Wales, numbering in all 672,100, showed a decrease of 15,900, or 2.3 per cent., in 1934 com- pared with 1934. The latter year com- pared with 1933 also showed a de- crease of 27,600 workers, ,,or 3.9 per cent. Ladysmith — A jilted native beauty's revenge upon her former ldver, a subject of Chief Walter Kumalo, has led to an appeal in the Native Commissioner's Court against the Chief's decision that the woman pay damages Rosaline Kunene, the woman, ad- mitted that she had entered the kra- al of her lover, taken a clay pot to obtain water, and after having a bath, had • deliberately smashed the pot. But she pleaded native custom 11 justification having been jilted by the graal owner's son Skimbane. The. chief 'hell that she had "de- filed"' the kraal, which was forbid- den ground to one of her age and re- lationship. She had, he said tres passed on the kraal iptd polluted it by throwing nater which had been in contact with her body on it and had committed specific damage by breaking the; clay pot. He awarded $5 damages. When Mr. T. Sissons was - epairing a ,pillar -box at Hutton Cranswick,. Yorkshire, he found a postcard h:s son hall sent fifteen years ago to a sister in a neighbouring village, Dainty and Practical A ,. This is the season of' the year when one feels the need of new undies, for foundation garments, should be considered first in fall ;vardrob e, Here's just the ensemble you're looking for to mold_ the silhouette along fashionable and youthful :fines. It's dainty as well as prat- tical. 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