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Port Perry Star (1907-), 28 Dec 1933, p. 6

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po ed oa 73 GPSS ae see i sees tees e CANADA. Phases of Life. anere are two phases of life unfa- yvorable to peace and comfort; the one is adversity, the other prosperity it is hard to tell in which & man is more discontented with himself and more offensive to others. When prosperous he patronizes; when trouble falls upon him he whines and is a horrible bore. When he is down his friends wish him up on their own account; when he is high up they sigh for mountains to fall on him and bury him out of sight.--Kingston - Whig- -Standard. Speaking of Poker. Authorities differ as to whether a poker room should be classed as an anteroom or a drawing: -room--Ottawa Journal. Stud poker, of course, would be played in a study. --Toronto Star. And strip poker should be played in a bedroom,--Chatham News. "And when the house Is short of chips, the boys should adjourn to the woodshed.--St. Catharines Standard. Himself to Blame. When .a man commits a crime and his name comes out in the paper, he hasn't the newspaper to blame, but himself. He should take due note of the publicity angle of it before he in- dulges in the misdemeanor.--Regina Leader-Post, Old Gas Mains. A London, Ont. firm boasts about 'having furnished that city with gas since the year 1856. Brockville can beat that. Since 1853 gas has been sent through the mains of this com- munity.--Brockville Recorder. Two Ways of Looking at It. Pessimists will say that 18.7 per cent of Fort Erie population is get ting Wirect relief frof the public trea- sury. Optimists will point out that, de- gpite hard times, 81.3 per cenl. of Fort Erie's population is managing to pay "its way--Fort Erie Times-Review The Home First, Home, school ana church all need to pay their parts in the diflicult task © or rearing decent citizens, and ot these .the home nas the earliest and most constant opportunity, It is a serious duty imposed on parents, and it needs tobe faced seriously with a constant recolhicetion ot the fact that on _home. _inttuences depends the character with which a youngster will ey entually face a world tuil of difficulties and tempta- lelegraph- Journal. tions -- Saint John Self-Reliance. Under (he fledding "More ot This Needed, the Nugget of North Bay teils a fine story of Canadian selt- revance. (n that city is a modest little restaurant rus by a mother and ber two daugnters, polth ot whom ure g0- inz to schooi. The father is a pros- pector, out he has not struck recently. I'he mother is a good cook and proud ot it. So she started the restaur- ant. rhe daughters wait on the break: fast tabie before starting to school. At the noon hour they wait on the dinner table Again after school they help mother. in the evening they attend to their school work for next day. The maiber is happy because she is giving ber children an education. "But the maw point is the spirit behind it all," says the Nugget. "Did they throw up their hands and quit? Not a bit ot it. If more of this real Canadian spirit were gvident through- out this Dominion of ours today, there woud be less moaning and groaning, and more smiles and cheery chirps in the fields and on the pavements." -- Toronto Mail and Empire. The Genteel Way. Impatient Bostonian stabbed a shoe clerk who failed to fit him after try fug on five pairs of shoes, but in less Impetuous centres of civilization the procedure is merely to bring the foot up sharply 'and kick him just under the chin. ~ Border Cities Stad. That Innate Urge. Everyone probably has nursed a pet . longing to perform some foolish ac- tion, like, for instance, sticking his finger into his neighbor's cup of tea at a swell dinner to see if the tea is still warm, The ideas vary from the Insane to the fréakish, but almost everyone is " bothered from time to time with a de- sire to do something -which would bring on him the shocked stares of bystanders. One Lindsay man once'told the writ. er that he discontinued sitting in the gallery of a local church because after the sermon had been going for five -or ten minutes, he had a longing to run down the aisle, put a foot on the rail, and leap over into space in hopes of grabbing the big chandelier that swings. from the celling. The desire to do this had seizéd him so often that he decided it was better to change his goat #0 that he would get some peace of mind and be able to listen to the permon.~Lindsay Post, Ae RE ASAE 'Millions In "Soft Drinks." ~ What are popularly known in Can: ada a8 "soft drinks," offiicially termed on-alcohollc carbonated beverages, ro consumed in substantial quanti the recently issued report on erated Waters' Industry tor 1932 loses, ; here are 308 plants fn the Domin- Lx hy Voice of the Press Cuniada,; Ihe Empire and The World at Large TE Ee tS de 3h a lon engaged in the industry, of which 157 are in Ontarlo; 123 in Quebec; 27 in Nova Scotia; 25 in British Colum: bia; 21 in New Brunswick; 16 In Sas- katchewan; 16 in Alberta; 13 in Mani. toba and two in Prince Edward Island. More than 80 per cent. of the total production of the non-alcoholic car- bonated beverages is made in Ontario and Quebec. The total value of the output of all plants last year was $11, 067,886. Canada HRpOTLy comparatively little mineral or aerated. waters or bever- iiges. The total value of such imports in 1932 was $110,040 and the exports during the year amounted in value to $7,361.--Canada Week by Week. THE. EMPIRE. First Woman Mayor, The first woman mayor of Brighton, Miss M. Hardy, thinks highly. of Brighton men. "They are superior to any other men," she told me today. "They are simply splendid in the work they do, and [ would rather co-operate with them than with any other men in the world, I am talking of Brighton, not of Hove."--London Evening Stan. dard. A Man's Job. The Press and the Language. On almost every page of the Supple- ment to the Oxford English Dictionary received its introduction to standard English through the pages of a daily newspaper. It is not 'claimed that the press coins-new words. ln one of his essays the late C, E. Montague wrote of the journalist working not at the heart of the Empire of letters, but out on the shady borderlands of its de- mesne. "These are the fields," he sald, "in which to trot a new word up and down like a horse that is for sale." Many an "aspiring idiom" has gather- ed respectability: from its first public appearance in a newspaper to achieve the ultimate beautification of a pl in the Oxford Dictionary. Where Jose idioms come from no man Knows. They float about 'the streets and are caught and entrapped for the use of posterity.--Glasgow_ Herald. Don't judge farmers by the few lucky ones. Most of them work hard, long days in all weathers. Each man has to plan, plant, grow, harvest, store and sell his products, which would be six men's"jobs for most of us.-- -London Daily Express. Australia's Example. In these twenty months progress to- wards recovery has been gained which has made iho world Wonder It 1s not that is still some ie away. But there has been a restoration of con- fidence, which is necessarily prelimin- ary to a restoration of prosperity. In other words, the task is in process of accomplishment, The astonishing fact is that in Australia there has been no substantial development in economic conditions to which the betterment. of Government finances may be attri buted. The improvement has been due entirely to the faith of investors and of the public in the ability and honesty of the administrators. The material gain has: been reduction of taxation. This reduction is, it is true, small, but it is well to pause -and consider what a very great difference there. is be tween a small reduction of taxation and a small increase of taxation,-- Melbourne Australasian, Compulsory Poverty. Mrs. Reitz's recent spirited protest at Johannesburg against the exclusion of married women from the Civil Service gained greatly from her very sensible attitude on the kindred ques- tion of competition between men and women, . . . When married women are employed, they are not employed for fun, but because they have special qualifications. The few exceptions are not worth legislating about; whereas the total exclusion of married women from one particular branch of employ- ment is bound to lead in many cases to gross injustice, as when a woman is separated from a worthless husband and must work for the sake of the children. The old fallaty of the "wage fund" has had many strange manifes- tations, bat surely none stranger or more unortunate than this attempt to, assign a different economic status to married women than to their single 'sisters. Civilization and compulsory poverty for one section go ill together, --Cape Argus, England's Maligned" Climate. For long England has prided itself upon its rain, It pretended to be angry with its rain, or resigned and long- suffering with its rain, but secretly it took a delicious joy in its consistent standard of wetness. But this univer- sal reputation of Englind has been shown up by recent events as the fraud and imposture it really fis, It ifs a bubble which has been pricked by the summer of 1933. At last England has been revealed shamefully as a place which 'can be uo wetter than even Palestine. In England-they ac- tually have a water problem, because of the lack of that rain which was supposed for centuries to be England's monopoly.~Jerusalem Palestine Post. Ba WARMS BLOOD, "Singing warms the blood," declares a doctor in Scotland, . one will find a new word that first]. 1 tisement 'specified, Max Baer, with Primo Carnero, yal by Max's manager, Heavyweight championship: enallenger, moving picture actor, arrives in New York, where a possible match world's heavyweight and of late title:-holder, may be ar- Women Know More About Men's Hats Than Men Do Hat Store Hostesses ~ and Style Advisers New York.--A new scheme for sell- ing turned up in the form of a lady who tells a man when his hat looks nice. The system works like this: A man goes into a hat store and finds a good-looking girl who decides when he has picked the right hat. This new trick 'n the headgear business was brought to light when'a chain of men's hat stores advertised for attractive young women, ' "Between 18 and 25," the adver- "to be trained as hostess and style adviser." Almost 300° girls were waiting on the doorstep when the office opened. The icea is that what counts in a man's hat is the feminine reaction; so a woma.a should be there when it's chosen, to gauge the effect." - "In fact, women know more about men's hats than mer know them- selves," a member of the firm said. When the right hat is donned, the girl usually exclaims, "Ah, Mr, Smith, how handsome you look in that fe- dora!" Te re Provinces Advanced Over $130,000, 000 Ottawa.--Since 1930 and up to the end of last week the. provinces have been paid or advanced, roughly; $338; 000,000. The larger proportion, espe- cially on a per capita basis, went to the West. This total took the form of direct relief to unemployment, pub- lic works with a similar object, help in land settlement, and loans. Some of the latter<have been repaid, So Girls Are Being Trained as | a ES Reprieve Arrives Just in Time Hangman Stands Ready with Rope Two Minutes to go Vienna.--A hangiwan stuod beside Tans Breitweiser, ready to slip the noose over his head: The gullows was crowded with wardens, holding stop- watches. Breitweiser had two minutes t« live. That was at 2.68 p.m. At 2.59 p.m., there was r stir in the group of officials, and one of them came forward, waving a telegram. The warden read-it and signalled to the Langman to stop_ his preparations. The telegram was a message from Fresiden: Wilhelm Miklas, commuting Breitweiser's sentence to life impris- onment. tention because it was the first judged by the new 'death penalty court," established 'under the recent martial law act. The court has only two ver- dicts at its discretion--acquittal or conviction with autometic death pen- alty. The sentence must be carried out within three hours of reaching a verdict. The cour: determined Breitweiser's guilt at noon. He was to have been hanged promptly at 3 p.m. His offence servant girl, to prevent his fiancee learning of his love =ffair with the young woman, Miklas forbade the execution on the grounds that it was "contrary to the Christmas spirit." --_------ Persian Ministers Said Held in Plot Moscow, -- The Soviet Telegraph Agency said in- a despatch from Te- 'Leran, capital of Persia, that Jafar Quli Khan Assad, Minister of War of Persia, and three members of the National Assembly were arrested for May Ait fo 'Britain to Fight ight Back. at Ag gressive Interests * London, England.--Declaring that] hard at aggressive countries fighting her shipping," Walter Runciman, pre sident of the board of trade, declares! a subsidy for: tramp ships was being! considered by the government, Not only would it aid industry, hel said in the House of Commons, but it! would be a defense measure in the! event: of | war, Mr, Runciman's statement followed that of Neville Chamberlain, chancel- lor- of the exchequer, that an early! merger of the great Cunard and White! 'Star North Atlantic shipping lines fs! indicated, ) When the merger is completed, Mr, Chamberlain asserted; he will present a program for facilitating completion] of the huge Cunard liner 534, which Women Barred : 'Great Britain should "hit back and hig| more than a year-ago, but is govern. Cunard and White Star Companies. ed," referring to the United States! But if we were to make anything like: Breitweiser's case hed attracted at~ was the killing. of the family of a would be the largest ship afloat. Work on the 534 was suspended| ment assistance is received it is- ex pected to be operated jointly by the Mr. Runciman said the government! also is "taking into account disabili< ties under which British lines labor ban on foreign codstwise shipping. It appears to be, he continued, "a very unjust thing that the United States should regard a trip from: New! York to Honolulu a coastwise traffic, a rejoinder to that we must bear in mind we have a large interest in for< eign trade and would expose a very! broad track for attack." An opposition proposal for 'public ownership of shipping and shipbuild< ing was voted down by the House, 221 to 34. Mr. Runciman sald "the experience of the United States and Australia was sufficient to dispose of this idea td hand the merchant navy over to the government." Hg deplored what he described as the failure of other big countries to support Britain's anti- subsidy policy. = Sir Robert Horne had previously de- clared the United States Government lost nearly $400,000,000 in an attempt to run its shipping, and that Australia, Canada and France Incurred similar -losses. 3 " | ----p Sunday Laws / L ' Bar Haircuts But British Magistrate Wants to Know Why that's So .- der the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Sunday Closing Act, which came. into force in 1931, was" taken in Surrey for the first time, when a barber named Reginald Gould was prosecuted at Chertsey for having cut hair on Sunday, barber was taken under the act which did not allow barbers to cut hair on Sunday the magistrate asked: "Does anybody know why?" . The prosecutor replied: "lI cannot glve the reason, but it is not lawful for any person to. carry on the busi- ness of hairdressing on a Sunday." The defendant sald he was only ob- liging one .or two customers and re- ceived no financial gain, He promised not to offend agaln and the summons was dismissed on payment of tour shil-| lings costs, re fg ren -- "A month or two in New York gives me the 'jumps'.'--Gary Cooper, plotting against the government, t Down (tn. rire, Yo chanie, Fred Ietterman. ° Covet Endurance s Recérd TE nds blow these (wo enterprising ladies 0 the women's refueling endurance record. Left to Right: Jack Loesing, pilot" of thelr refueling ship; Frances Marsalis, co-holder, With Loulss Thaden, of the present record; Viola Gentry, and their me: alr are out to break London, England. --Prosecution un-| When the 'prosecutor informed the | magistrate that the action against the 10 $10,000,000 of her $30,000,000 upon From Dinner| us. Secretary of Laber, Frances Perkine, Only Cab" inet Member Not Invited Washington, = The: gridiron 'boys will be boys, so Mrs. Roosevelt is go- ing to entertain again for the ladies, including Labor Secretary Frances 'Perklus. She issued invitations to high wo- men officials, Cabinet wives, gridiron wives and women of the press, all by their sex barred from the semi-annual stag dinner of the club which the Pre- sident will attend. * The. Gridiron is one of the famous press clubs of the world, {ts members 'being strictly limited and its: member- ship drawn only from the senior male journalists in Washington. It is con- sidered an honor to be invited to these semi-annual functions, ¢ On the last such oceasfon, Miss Per- kins, chatting with other White House guests, laughingly said the club might just as well have invited her along with the rest of the Cabinet, for she'd: have gracefully declined, She's the only Cabinet member ever omitted. But the Gridiron Club already had their rules all fixed to take no chances. That happened after Miss Jeanete Rankin, first woman member of Con- gress, became the first and only wo- man to make the Gridiron" grade, She 'was invited by Jarry J, Brown, and: went to the dinner of 'December 8, 1917. At the next meeting, on Janu- ary 12, 1918, the club passed the re- solution: {'Resolved,\that the charac; ter of the Gridiron Club as regards the presence of women as guests or spec- tators shall not be: changed without yote of the: club." And that stands. Month November, 1933 Coldest on Record The temperature' during November has been the coldest on record at the Central 'Experimental Farm, Qttawa, According to the weather 'records kept by the field husbandry division at the Experimental Farm the mean 'temperature - for November has only been 20.4 degrees Fahrenheit, which .) average. 'The flrst seven days of the month. were somewhat normal but from the end of the first week the month remalned consistently cold, be ing practically 12 degrees below nor- mal for the whole period. In the last two weeks the minimum temperature dropped . four times below zero and twice to exactly zero. This in itself is an ; unusual record. The lowest reached in the past month was nine degrees below zera and 'that occurred on two- different nights, In comparing the past month with 'that of previous years it is noted that November - has been an outstanding cold -month., During the previous 43 years that weather records have been Kept at the Farm the mean tempera- ture has never been lower than 28 de- grees for November. ; During November a total ef 18.256 inches cf snow fell which is appreci- ably in excess of the 40-year average of 7.31 inches. * The month was unusually cloudy | with a total of only 58.1 hours of bright sunshine, while normally 78.7 Liours are recorded, The freeze:ip occurred this year on the 65th of November, which is the earliest date on record at the Farm. BE Doris Duke Begins Work on Father's Endowment Fund Greenville, S8.C.--Doris Duke has shouldered her pa.t of the responsi- bility for administering the huge en- dowment established by -her father, the 'late James B. Duke, tobacco and power magtrate, Frequently smiling, but Keeping). out of the public gaze as much as possible, the young woman who was hailed as America's "richest heiress" recently when. she came into control reaching 21, 'arrived here from New York to participate in a -celebration of the ninth anniversary of-the found- ing of the $40,000,000 Duke endow- ment, She attended a meeting of the| foundation's board of trustees, of '| which she automatically became: a member upon attaining her majority, in compliance with her father's stipu- lation, The endowment was created 'for the benefit of colleges, hospitals and orphanages.in the two Carolinas: i Miss Duke spent nearly an hour visiting youngsters at. the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children, one of the participants in her father's benevolences, As the tall, blonde visi< tor prepared to leave, a score of the youngsters stood up and gave her and the other~Duke trustees a cheer in collegiate fashion, y AY a-- Queer $100 Bills Being Circulated Montreal, -- Counterfeit United | States $100 bills are being circulated banks and stores have been asked to watch fof them. | The spurious banknotes are beliey- ed to have been first passéd bp an American bootlegge: in St. Armgnd, Que., near the United States border. They are stated to be an excellent imitation. Royal Janadian Mounts ed Police are cooperating with pro- Ruling of Us. S. " Profesional. there must be uo more swearing on golf courses. muff your é tub is exactly 12 degrees below the 40 year| in Montreal, according to police, and , Golfers@ auses Amuse- ment in England London.--America has decided that -u Foozle your: approach, , but only a genteel L myst companion it, i © idea comes from the Profession. al Golfers' Association in solemn cou: . ference at Chicago. A certain nicety about the 'associa 'tion helps them to add, "At least nol within the hearing of Spectators. ; Professional golfers are meek swear: ers. Archie Compston has been known to blast. a trifle, and Abe Mitchell says kind words on occasion. George Gadd has been known to say, "Oh, beauty!" The finest swearee was the last Ryder Cup, when mountainous Olin Dutra got into a bunker. Dutra's ex pletives were the poetry ot expletive, The Hagen Touch The secretary of a famous golt club was interviewed. He was told about the American ban, and was asked how . it would affect English golf. - \ "Real golfers always swear," sald the secretary. "The whole business is a matter of temperament, not a board of control, It is typically American that rules should be framed to. tell a player when he may say 'Blast'! % If American golf professionals use the forbidden words to express just what they feel, their assoclation will prevent them from taking¢ part in any 'tournament under its control. One who has heard Walter Hagen remark, "If the----crowd would only get out of the ---- way' [ might get a ---- chance of getting out of this -- bunker," maintains the rule is a trifie harsh. + Mr. Leo Munro, the Daly Hxpress golt correspondent, is personally too bored to swear, but maintains exple- tives are essential on the golf course. Lives there a golter with vocabulary so dead who never to himsels hath sald -- Revival Wave Hits City of Glasgow Evangelist Was Born in Aus tralian Bush--Has Fol- lowed Host of Callings Remarkable scenes of religious re vival are taking place 'nightiy iil «he Govan district of Glasgow. 1 "There, sometimes in the open air, sometimes. in St, Mary's Church, oc 'casionally even in a cinema---couveis are coming forward daily and Highly in scores. As many as 60 or 70 people have repented their sins at a single serv. ice; in a week the numbers converted have run into several hundreds. The converts are drawn from. all classes and types -- and are of all ages. - = Many of them take the decision 'before a crowded gathering with tears streaming from their eyes and emo tional excitement surging through the entire audience. The evangelist responsible for thie revival remjniscent. of the Moody and" Sankey days is the Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher, who combines with the old . fire 'of evangelical fervor a message Ycouched in modern. terms, Romantic Career, the character of the man and pic turesque attraction of his preaching probably owe something to his ro mantic career. -For he was born Ih the Australian bush, and has followed a host ol callings in his time, from sheep far pulpit. Mr. Fletcher is now carrying the "war" into the heart of the city, and has arranged to hold mid-day meet: ings for business men in St. George's Church, in the very hub of commer- cial 'Glasgow. ~ntianunirn ly so eta memnt Sleep Off Sums Owing by Hotel _ Chicago.--Creditors , may have ft steep off their accoiats due from the La Salle Ilotel. Th» receiver, Thur. ww G. Hssington, or. posed to allow merchandise creditors whose claims wtal $70,000 to sleep in the hotel free urtil the 'claims are wiped out in' equivalent room rent. Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson took the idea. u.der advisement. ---- oo -- ee Red For the Evening Bright red mouselline de sole even: ing gowns, with trains and ong scarves, are in one mid-season Paris, collection. luring, supported by a stiff black vel vet jackef with enormous leg o' mut ton sleeves and a basque rising up over the hips. A deep dark shaded red chenille velvet jacket is charm- ing, though less picturesque, perhaps on another bright red gown. ; i - 25 Elk Liberated In Chapleau Paik Sault Ste, Marie, Ont.--Twenty-five elk have been liberated in the Chap- lean Game Reserve by Gume and Fish- aries Superintendent W. a. Lyness who returned here cecently, 'The elk were liberated with ie assistance of ~ vinclal and.Montreal police fn an et- fort to trace their otlgin, \s | six game wardens and experts from 'Wainwright 'National Park. - Mr, Fletcher adds a mggnetic per .. . _| sonality to his religious appeal; -an¢ mer to sailor, before taking to the'. The color looks most al, Lm ¥ +n 47 4 " .

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