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this week comes from Maple, the k and activity couts there, a new Troop bas rmed. ~The -end of June 20-21st saw a yery busy group of Lonies there. On ~~ Baturday evening, June 20th, they held a meeting in charge of Scoutmaster Don Hutchison, of the 2nd Ontario Lone Scout Troop, at which five new members were invested. Then the parents began to gather, and after all were present several pre- sentations took place, these being Ten- derfoot Badges to two Scouts and a One Year Service Star to Lone Scout Bill Taylor. Also an "All Round" prize was presented to Lone Scout Alf. For- rest. After this another recruit was in- vested, just to let the parents see what an Investiture Ceremony is like, and to give them an idea of the obfgations of a Scout. Then the new Scoutmaster, Mr, Bryan, was asked if he was willing to accept the responsibility of the new Troop, which he consented to do, and the Assistant Scoutmaster, Mr. Don Fraser, on being asked to express him- self, stated that he was ready to stand by the Scoutmaster. A Troop Committee was then ap- pointed, and Lone Patrol Leader Bob Manning, who is mostly responsible for the formation of the Troop, was appointed as Troop Leader, and four of the Lonies as Patrol Leaders, Sunday evening saw a Church Par- ade tg Richmond Hill, when fifteen of -the members of the new Troop turned out on parade, and they were met at the church by three Lone Scouts from Unionville. We are sorry to lose the Maple Lonies from our ranks, but we are glad that they are off to such a good start in their new Troop. This week's Summer Time Activity Badge is the Pioneers Badge, which a good many Lone Scouts can easily qualify for, if they like to put their attention to it. Incidentally you can have a lot of fun in working for this Badge, and the experience which you will gain will always be of use to you. Remember, a Pioneer is one who goes in front, away into the unknown wilds, and he must be equipped with knowledge which will be of use to him in living his difficult life, and in overcoming the hardships and obstac- les which face him. Thus the require ments of the Pioneers' Badges are as follows: 1. Fell a six-inch tree, neatly and quickly. 2. Tie eight different knots quickly in the dark, or blindfolded. 3. Lash spars together properly for scaffolding. 4. Build a model bridge or derrick. 5. Make a camp kitchen. 6. Build a hut of boughs or sods, or grasses or similar material, or alter- natively weave a satisfactory mattress of straw, hay or boughs on a camp loom. Do you think that you could do those things? Why not try, and see if you cannot qualify for the rank of a Pion- eer? Lone Scouting is open to any boys between the ages of 12 and 18, who live in the country or in villages where there is no Scout Troop. If you are interested and would like to become a Scout write for further information to "The Lone Scout Department, The | Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay St. | Toronto, Ont.""--'""Lone E.' Death Rate Shows Big Increase "Suicides Number 1,007 for , 1930 While Homicides (= Total 212 Ottawa.--According to a report is- sued by the Dominion Bureau of Sta- tisticg, the number of deaths in Can- ada from external violence during the year 1930 (preliminary figures) was 9,468 as compared with 7,161 in 1929, 6,925 in 1928, 6,268 in 1927, and 5,769 in 1926. The rate per 100,000 popula- tion was 75 in 1930 as against 73 in 1929, 72 in 1928, 66 in 1927 and 63 in 1926. : Suicides in 1930 showed a marked increase over the preceding year, the number being 1,007 against 835 and the rate 10.1 against 8.5. In 1926 the num- ber of suicides was 680 and the rate 7.3. N Homicides numbered 212 giving a rate of 2.1 per 100,000. In 1929 the number of homicides was 182 and the rate 1.9. In 1926 the corres- ponding figures were 126 and 1.3. There were 6,249 accidental deaths in 1930, 6,134 in 1929, 6,024 in 1928, 5,385 in 1927 and 5,063 in 1926. The rate from this cause wag 63 per 100,000 in 1929 and 1930 as compared with 62.5 in 1928, 57 in 1927 and 64 in 1926. Drownings in 1930 numbered 1,057 or 17 per cent. of the total of fatal accidents. Deaths from traffic acci- total. Automobile fatalities, number- ing 1,289, amounted to 21 per cent. of all accidental deaths, Excluding those eases where an automobile was in- volved, there were 371 deaths from railroad accidents and 41 from street- ear accidents. Thirty-three persons were killed during the year in aero- plane and balloon accidents, Peru's Cotton Crop is Hurt - By Drought and Depression Lima, Peru--This year's cotton erop in Peru will be short in quanti- ty and poor in quality because of a shortage of water in the growing season, a marked decrease in the use of fertilizers and the use of old plants, The last two causes are a natural consequence of the prevail ing economic crisis. In Peru the usual yield in a nor- mal year ig in the neighborhood of 1,200,000 quintals. It is expected that this year's harvest will be 40 per cent. less, of which about 65 per cent. has already been sold. ------ Names of Million Women Sought For Arms Reduction Petition Washington.--Signatures of 1,000,~ $00 American women will be sought for a petition calling upon the inter- national disarmament conference in Geneva to put into immediate effect tho pledges already made for the re- Lima. --By taxing all sporting events "4m Peru, the National Sports Commit- tee hopes to ralse enough money to wend a team to the Olympic games in Los Angeles, Calif, in 1982, in 1930, | In Toly There is something about these days of July Lies deep and sweet. There is fruit on the apricot tree, { And the dahlia blooms. And other blossoms newly bright Now lift, or hang, their heads, There are glints of gold, and glow of red, | There are little things waiting yet for | their buds, { And still the peaches hang green. There are mornings of gray, and morn- ings of gold | And the scarlet cannas gray, And a pink rose pinker seems When the morning is veiled. splash the When the morning is golden, how strongly the light Embraces the trees, and the teardrops Glisten or grass-stems; their jewels glint, Amber and amethyst, rose. Such jewels 1 have, made new every morn, And taken by alr, crystalline, Form again, to be gathered by none. dlamond and to dissolve, then, How hotly the sun Possesses the land, till the wind hur- ries in From the sea; hear him sing in the trees Now, in mid-afternoon, a whispering dear, A rushing of song, a voicing of things That lie deep in the summer's em- brace. --Margaret T. Campbell, in the @hristian Science Monitor, RRNA (SSE, Chile to Save $18,000,000 Santiago, Chile, -- Economies in the -national administration totaling more than $18,000,000 will be effect ed by the government during the re- mainder of the calendar year, the Ministry of Finance announced. Ap "Astronomy ls a science in which exact truth Is stranger than fiction and about which one could hardly line, but lost race to the Crea II, through handicap. Thriting moment as graceful racing yachts turned first buoy In race sponsored by Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Club, off Halifax, with Biuteaneer heeling into wind. Blue Heron was first to gross finish Air Travel Becoming Safer Report Reveals Ottawa,--Analysis of airplane acci-' ents in Canada, contained in the re-| port on civil aviation and civil Gove} ernment air operations for the year 1930, shows that despite an increase of 15 per cent. in the total flying time | accidents resulting in death of one or more occupants of aircraft remained at 17, the same figure as for 1929. | Accidents causing only injury to occupants decreased from 12 in 1929 to 9 in 1930. Accidents causing death to pilots remained at the same figure 14, but accidents in which passengers met death dropped from 16 to eight. It has been found the cause of the great majority of flying accidents is over confidence or neglect of ordinary precautions, and the report urges in- creasing vigilance and proper flying discipline at all times. HRI OE Another "Four Master" Retires From the Sea Billingham, Durham, Eng.--Grace, Harwar is one of the few four-masted. sailing vessels which still plow the, high seas, and she is the only big saii- ing ship which is the heroine of a full | length film. She was also the heroine of a thrilling book. And now she has retired from her high estate, sailing from here with 2,000 tons of fertilizer ter four-masters, for Mauritius, Like all her ye Grace Harwar sails under the Finnish! flag, but she was built on the Clyde, | A. J: Villiers and his friend G. Walker shipped aboard in Wallaroo in Australia as ordinary seamen for the purpose of making a film of the voy- age of one of the old windjammers be- fore they all disappear from the seas. - { Women's. Hotel Opened In Sweden's Capital The first "bachelor hotel" for wo- men in Stockholm was opened in April; for women without homes looking for work, writes a correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. The pro- ject has been realized through the help given by the City Council, which has granted 20,000 kroner ($5,000) to a society for aiding women. Of the to- tal, 8,000 kroner is donated for the first year, besides 12,000 kroner for equipping the home. The hotel can accommodate about forty guests, at a cost .of about 25 cents each nightly. SHIGE Ice Cream By Plane Los Angeles.--Ice cream melts fast in hot weather, and a Los Angeles firm, specializing in unusual forms and flavors, realizing this, has utilized an airplane to make deliveries to nearby suburbs and cities, The ice cream is packed in chemical refrigerants and is shipped in perfect condition. Re- | be prosaic it one tried."--Sir James Jeans. i cently-a delivery was made to Dallas, Texas. -- Eggs of Rare Harris Sparrow Discovered on Hudson Bay ¥ Pittsburgh.--Discovery of the eggs of the Harris sparrow, the Jast North American bird whose eggs had re- mained unknown to science despite searches over more than a century, has been made by Dr. George Sutton, a Pittsburg ornithologist, who return- ed recently from ice-covered wastes on the western shore of Hudson Bay. Dr. Sutton's discovery came at the climax of a race with a group of scientists of the Camadian Ornitholo- gical Society, while both expeditions were camped less than a mile apart. For nearly three weeks the groups raced to be the first to find the last link in the chain of more than 1,200 known birds of this continent. The eggs, smaller than those of rob- ins, pale green with mottled brown marbling, will be presented to the Carnegie Institute. They were found in a Rhodedendron-like bush near the ice, forty miles north of Port Church- ill, Man., on June 16. The expedition, which was financed by John Bonner Semple, of Sewickey, spent two months in the Arctic, col- lecting birds, plants and insects. Its members, besides Messrs. Sutton and Semple, were Bert Lloyd, Saskatche- wan ornithologist, and Olin 8. Pettin- gill, photographer, of Blondin College. Dr. Sutton, formerly curator of birds at Carnegie Museum and one-time State ornithologist, was the loser in a similar race four years ago to dis- cover the eggs and nests of the blue goose. In telling of the find, he said: "1 was so glad I yelled at the top of my voice. We had arranged to fire a revolver signal to let other mémbers of the party know if any of us were successful, but forgot all about that. "The mother bird had fluttered off her nest right in front of me, leaving it quickly in an effort to conceal it. But I located it almost at once, then shot her and went after the eggs. There were five of them, tiny things that never had been seen by a sclen- tist before." Several other nests and eggs of the sparrow were found after Dr. Sutton's discovery. Plant Rice for Wild Ducks Madison, Wis.--Wild duck food in { Wisconsin has disappeared rapidly during the dry weeks, and the Con- servation Commission is planting 540 pounds of wild rice to avoid starving ducks out of Wisconsin. Food in well stocked duck grounds was killed in large quantities by the droughts of 1929 and 1930, the commission said. -------- Roses Line 5-Mile Highway Harrisburg, Pa.-- The stretch along the Lincoln Highway be- tween Lancaster and York has been planted with red and white roses, symbols of the two ancient English families for which the towns are named. ------ 411-Carat Opal Found Canberra, Australia--Discovery of what is believed to be the largest opal in existence at Lightning Ridge was revealed recently. It was said to weigh 711 carats and to be a mass of brilliant colors. ; ---- eee Two Custom Patrol Boats Will Cost $102,000 Each Ottawa.--Two patrol boats being built by the customs excise prevention service will cost $102,000 each, it is stated in a return tabled in the House of Commons by Hon. E, B. Ryckman, Minister of National Revenue. One boat is under construction at Sorel, Que, and the other at Graven- hurst. five-mile | Gospel of Sunshine St. Luke was a physician as well as a painter, and there is somethirg kindred in the spirit of the two occu- patrons. The quick eye, the observant gentleness, hc eppreciation of char- acter, the seizing of "the actual cir- cumstances, the genial spirit, the min ute attentiveness, the sympathising heart, the impressionableness to all that is soft and winning, and lonely and weak and piteous--all these things beleng to the true physician as well as to the true artist. St. Luke's is. a Gospel of sunshine. It throws strong lights into the darkest places, and Joves to use the power it has to do so; and is not this painter-like? He is known, like all artists by his choice of subjects. | HRT d | Prince's New Hobby Is Motorboating London.--The Prince of Wales has taken up a new sport--motorboating. He has ordered two new racing boats which will be delivered to him within a fortnight. The manufacturer of the craft said that the Prince will not compete in open races but prob- ably will organize competition among his flying and motoring friends. i Sei vr EER "Nothing can be taken for grant- ed in business."--Henry Ford. BARR Ear (EARANIR "Money means little to most of the big men I've known,'--Charles M. Schwab. Here 1s view of power house of the Beauharnols Power. It is belng built to house ten 50, power in the world which can be World's Largest Power House Under Construction a ® , Thif unexpected result is the out- come of experiments at Pennsylvania Btate College, reported in the New York Herald Tribune. Smokers need not chuckle, for the effect of tobacco smoke taken into the throat and bronchial tubes is not the same as that of the unconsumed leaf taken into the stomach. Says the Herald Tribune: "Tobacco -fed to baby chickens is making them into bigger and better broilers at Pennsylvania State College. "This same diet in the fully grown fowl makes healthier hens and roost- ers--and emancipates their owners from keeping close watch for fear of a parasitic infection that chickens may pick up when economically for- aging for their own food. "A high percentage of nicotin is the secret of the effectiveness of the Penn State tobacco diet. Suspecting that the harm may come from other tobac- co ingredients that micotin, Drs. J. B. Hunter and D. E. Haley, of the depart- ment of agricultural and biological chemistry, have been feeding tobacco rich in nicotin, a diet with less tobac- co, but with a greater kick. Between the low and high nicotin types they are now seeking the 'level' of nicotin content at which the best results may be obtained. A wider range in effec- tive plants may mean increased mar- kets for tobacco farmers. "The reason for the greater growth of baby chicks is not wholly clear. It is not necessarily ascribed to nicotin. If the cause is nicotin, then this is something new in such effects, Dr. Hayel says: - Better health may come from the killing by nicotin of round worm, a type of fowl parasite, Farmers have been forced to raise their chickens on ground free from this organism. "There is na parallel between smok- ing and feeding tobacco to chickens. "In smoking nicotin's stimulus works through the blood and the nerves. In the chicken's diet it is only a disin- fectant passing through the body, but not necessarily being absorbed into the system, and not affecting the flav- or of the meat and eggs." ER I Increased Production Ottawa.--The Dominion Bureau of Statistics' mineral report for April shows an increased production of gold, copper, lead, zinc, natural gas, feld- spar, petroleum and cement, as com- pared with April, 1930. Gold set up a new monthly record with® 223,082 ounces produced. The output of cop- per was 27,845,741 pounds; lead 32, 1239,191 pounds; . zinc, 22,707,451 pounds;" natural gas, 2,454,063,000 cubic feet; feldspar, 707 tons; petro- leum 153,705 barrels and cement 827, 264 barrels. Ottawa.--Employment at the begin- ning of June showed further improve- ment, according to data tabulated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics from 7,865 firms throughout Canada, whose payrolls aggregated 940,875 per- sons, as compared with 927,437 on May 1. This increase of 13,438 per- sons, or 1.4 p.c. brought the index number to 103.8 as compared with 102.2 in the preceding month and 116.5, 122.2, 113.8, 107.2, 102.2, 95.6, 96.4, 90.3 and 87.7 on June 1, 1930, 1929, 1928, 1927, 1926, 1925, 1924, 1923, 1922 and 1921, respectively. PY Ottawa. -- Notwithstanding lower prices, production of beet sugar in Canada in 1930 exceeded that of the previous year in value by $1,197,629. The acreage increased 1,976 acres, and the yield increased 162,111 tons, Bes France and Germany | Ottawa Droit (Ind.): There is no cause for astonishment in the fact tl at France has attached conditions to her promise of financial assistance, that she wishes to have guarantees that Germany will set aside the sums which she paid out for her creditors for purely economic needs and admin- istrative measures destines to extri- cate her out of the present mess. But what is the value of assurances given by a country which for the last twelve years has been plotting to escape the consequences of its defeat and a large part of whose population will not be satisfied until they have had their re- venge eo, 3 FER pa A Simple Arrangement ion of a treaty with Australia is one of the least complicated things of "his kind, seeing that Australia, situated in the Antipodes and under a climate totally different from our own, pro- duces during our dead seasons and manufactures or cultivates a host of things that we do not see up here. It will be a very different matter when i J on p: same and enjoying economic conditions com- | 'parable with our own. j ¥ a Wes Forest od, ; a £ last week as about 800 ho Jast Of Tobacco Diet Hallmark of Chic ~~ OverElaboration Should Not Fashion Expert =. : Winter 'styles are being planned is. the workrooms of Paris designers, but during the last week of June at the. races, at Bagatelle, at private p at the opera, dress was to be see its latest and best, and at its wo since, however unlovely fashions 1 be, there are always well-dressed men to be found who will make t look unlovely, writes a fashion ex] It is clear from the fashions worn now in Paris that the well-dressed wo- man is the one Who puts neatness and that indescribable thing finish, before all else. She it is who has worn sim. ple clothes everywhere. At the races she wore a dress in a plain material, black, blue, white, green, with a semi fitting short coat, or a long coat im another material. She put with it ona of the new shapes in hats, already be coming too popular to endure. There were hundreds of these little Second Empire hats at Auteuil, some trimmed with quills, some with wings, some with sweeping ostrich feathers. They were worn with but little discrimina- tion, and though attractive in thems selves lost all charm when worn by women they do not suit. Perched on the head, dipping over one eye, they show the hair on one side, and if the bair is not very neatly and firmly waved and set, the result {s an untidy head. In white trimmed with black, in block trimmed with white or emer ald-green trimmed with black, these small hats with rolled brims were worn with black dresses, white dress es, green dresses, black shirts with white coats. Figured chiffons and light summer silks of more solid substance were worn with wide-brimmed picture hats. They look insipid beside the trim lit: Quebec Soleil (Lib.): The prepara-; [ score of fronts in Montana | tle tailored summer suits. They have untidy lines and look fussy. The Pan~ ama hat with a ribbon to trim it, worn with a plain jacket. ensemble, looks right and is youthful in style. Bright, colored materials look best when tail- ored or made in the style called sport but which is correct in town. In yel- low, bright blue, pale green, dress and coat ensembles worn with plain Pan- ama hats are charming. Lace dresses with picture hats were worn by man- nequing and elderly ladies. Lingerie dresses with plain picture bats are permissable for the very young. ® The modern young woman {s an all too-rapid mover for the long-skirted be-ribboned draperies of the past. In the days when the skirt was gently lifted to reveal its lace petticoat, there was of course no such hurry as now. Social life was an elegant and more leisurely affair. Flowers and furbe lows seem to belong essentially to a past era, when moods, modes and man- ners were totally different. Long skirts, flowing draperies and an in- flux of frills and flounces cannot real ly appeal to the vigorous women of to~ day. / --dy Sphinx Has Face Lifted New Outlook, Toronto.--In this age of beauty-parlors for both sexes and all ages the operation known as face lifting has become a commonplace. And now comes the story from Egypt that the Sphinx has fallen into line and called for a treatment. That mys- terious figure on fhe sands at Giza-- with a human head and the body of a lion, carved from the solid rock and standing as high as a five-storey build- ing--had been showing signs of ap- proaching age. And no wonder! It has stood there perhaps five thousand years or more, buffeted by the blown gand of the desert and the depreda- tions of drifting human tribes. A few years ago, a party of tourists were startled by a loud noise of splitting rock and saw a great chunk of the headdress tumble to the ground. When an inspection followed, other serious cracks were found. Erosion had cut deep wrinkles in the neck and face. So the Government beauty-specialists. received an order for a treatment, and the world-famous figure has had its face lifted and all neck wrinkles re- moved or filled. And yet, who can be certain that the strange inscrutable face was surprised by this modern operation? Have not those who delve 4nto the story of ancient days been telling us lately that there is little known in the beauty-parlors of Holly- wood that was not known in Egypt and Syria some thousands of years ago? . ei ---- s------ River, Brooklyn The River glares with green and crime son eyes, And. like the monster-haunted Ama ; zon, s i Bellows and groans from alligator throat. : 4 Night passes. And Manhattan's mountains rise pi the pearl-white dawn--chaste, calm, remote. = Pale dl ------ |The 1urid, blatant beast with dark has FOREST FIRES SPREAD IN WEST 4 gol wu ~--Rdward Thompson, in The Observer, {men e control them. Re to be a furole and 3.80)! "Nowadays a show hes % ! Irvin Cobb. | une ficult is talent; doing what 18 impos. {bie tor talent is genius. --Heur ¥: hg pu ----i easily what others find dif, Be Stressed Writes Paris ©