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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1933
Page
2
The author argues against reducing global production, noting that population growth and demand outpace any supposed need to curb output. Nature already regulates supply through weather, pests, and disasters, while human-made restraints entangle economies in a dangerous web.
A London despatch in the New York Times says Newfoundland could temporarily shed self governing colony status if the British government accepts Lord Amulree's commission findings on the island's financial distress. The report was recently sent for inquiry.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports total taxable real estate in Canada at 8 222 260 000 for 1932 with 1 500 000 000 exempted mainly from government and charitable institutions. Ontario leads exemptions at 536 536 000 and Ontario also tops taxable valuations at 3 183 152 000 while Quebec follows at 2 223 479 000.
In Seattle a unique, unplanned cold aquarium grew into a world famous site. Fishermen donated strange deep water fish and the collection expanded to feature ice encased rarities. As many as 1,500 visitors per day brave ten degrees below freezing to tour the icy corridors.
An elderly Swansea traveler who lost her money greeted a Cardiff Station girl and lent her 10s. The amount was later returned by post. Days ago Miss Jean Dawes, now a Pontypridd hairdresser's assistant living in Senghenydd, received a solicitor letter stating the old woman had died and left her 3000 pounds.
In St Louis Montana a survey by advertising students shows 1380 of 1545 interviewees read newspaper ads before shopping and 1322 say ads created a shopping urge even without prior plans.
A device to eject passengers from a disabled cabin and lower them by parachute was shown at Roosevelt Field New York before airline officials and aviators. Eight dummies were dropped from 150 feet, then two parachute jumpers from 1500 feet, confirming the system's operation.
London police, already skilled in first aid driving swimming and life saving, will receive fire brigade training to be capable of rescuing people from burning buildings.
William Kondrat swam from the American side toward the Canadian shore of the Niagara River below the falls. He was swept into the whirlpool and forced to swim out to safety in a feat never before accomplished.
The Ottawa Journal reports Commander Walter Hose chief of the naval staff is slated to retire with Commander Percy Walker Nelles set to succeed him. Hose, 58, has 22 years in the Royal Canadian Navy and a distinguished career including Halifax dockyard command and service dating to 1911. He became a commodore in 1932 and was mentioned in despatches during the Great War.
Rugby head P H B Lyon announced at Speech Day that the school will end traditional academics for some pupils and introduce a finishing course. For the first time a serious plan will bridge the final year between school and the world of industry or commerce with curriculum changes next year.
Sir Ernest Monson, ex Lord Mayor of Manchester, at a conference of the Association of Technical Institutions, voiced a prophecy that slums could disappear through a synthetic building material produced by an idealistic Liverpool chemist. Also noted: the Dnieper River becoming navigable to its falls and a high cost of gold in American dental work. Desert mice with porcupine like spines are reported.
Columbia seeks to organize a subsidized company to establish a national merchant marine fleet. The move involves government support and strategic development for maritime commerce and national logistics.
Dr. William Oliver of Edinburgh University denounces modern education as clogging the mind with dead matter. He argues it fosters a class of young people who evade work, distrust educators and industry, and seek easier lives, while severely critiquing clerical-dominated schooling and office-driven management.
Dominion statistics show Canada produced 2 283 130 tons of ground wood pulp using 2 241 296 cords of pulpwood and 1 076 804 tons of chemical fibre from 2 168 886 cords. Average output was 2037 pounds per cord for groundwood and 993 pounds per cord for chemical fibre.
The Nascopic carries Mounties to Canadian polar stations for two years to search for sandy beaches beneath ice. Vilhjalmur Stefansson wires RCMP Commissioner T H MacBrien asking cooperation in seeking such beaches, noting he has never seen one.
Ben Hurst of Kansas City Montana owner of the largest pawn shop west of the Mississippi said he would loan on any item of tangible value. Williard Herman of Oregon Missouri wrote for 250 dollars offering a plane as security. Hurst considered renting a hangar and mailed Herman to pick up the money.
For the first time in Dominion Bureau of Statistics records no Canadian wheat moved overseas from a United States port in the week ended July 14. In the corresponding week of 1932, 405000 bushels were cleared through U S ports.
The inch has been redefined to 25.4 millimetres reducing its former length by two millionths. The change, aimed at aligning American and British measurements for precision manufacturing, makes gauges accurate to within one millionth of an inch and will be certified by US and English standards bodies.
Buckminster Fuller tests the three wheeled Dymaxion car at Seaside Park Bridgeport. The streamlining vehicle reaches 70 mph on a one third mile cement road before a crowd of 3000 spectators. A playful exchange with a female observer follows the run. A physician’s tongue examination joke closes the item.
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