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mg sal 5 i... Tight of farmers' daughters shall not| Education and religion are other 'Greetings From Austria. Mr. L, G. O. Sobotka of Vienna, Aus- tris, who is a friend of "Lone E", re- . oently paid a visit to Toronto and expressed his great interest in the Oanadian Boy Scouts, and in particular the "Lonies." Mr, Sobotka travels extensively all over Europe, and frequently visits this side of the Atlantic, and he stated that the people in practically all of the countries that he visits have great faith In the Boy Scout Movement, be- lieving it to be one of the most instru. mental factors which will lead to a better world understanding and a _per- mament peace in the days to come, Mr. Sobotka sent his very best wishes to all Canadian Scouts, this being his first trip to Canada, and expressed the hope that a goodly num- ber of Canadian representatives would visit the Jamboree in Hungary next year. World Scout Jamboree Will Be Held. The statement in a Budapest des- patoh to & Toronto paper that finances will prevent the holding in Hungary of the projected 1933 world gathering of Boy Scouts has been specifically denied by Dr. Vali, Hungarian Inter. national Scout Secretary. are not as bad as painted, and the Jamboree will be held as planned, Dr. Vali declares. Bird Houses For Spring. "Lone E" hopes that the Lone Scouts have been busy during the past months in the making of more bird houses for the convenience of their feathered friends. You know the birds are very loyal, and if you can induce them to build in your vicinity they will come back year after year to the same nesting place. Unfortunately, with the expansion of civilization, the natural haunts and surroundings of the birds have been destroyed, and they fi d it increasing difficul* to find nesting places near to the vicinity of humans. Every Lonie, therefore, should make 4 special point of building three or four Bird Houses to encourage the birds to stay in the vicinity of his home. You still have time for this year's tenants if you get busy at once. Conditions. A Scout Bird Sanctuary. With the consent of the Quebec Gov- ernment, the Minister of the Interior has by proclamation made Mystery Island the permanent Boy Scout camp near Ottawa, a bird sanctuary. There are several such Scout wild life sanc- tuaries in various parts of Canada. "Mystery Island" on the Map. The name "Mystery Island," given the permanent Scout camp being de- | veloped near Ottawa, has been offi- cially confirmed by the Geographical Board of Canada, and the island will be so designated on a new map to be published by the Topographical Sur- vey. Things Lone Scouts Can Do During March and April. For Easter and the Easter Holldays: Arrange an Easter Egg Good Turn. This consists in making a collection of New Lald Eggs from all your friends and neighbors and donating them to your nearest local hospital i for the benefit of the patients there- in. Plan out your 1982 garden. Try to have a continuity of flowers and veg- etables all the season. Spring Clean-up, During the first few weeks in April arrange to clean up around the house and barn. Col lect all that old rubbish which has been lying around all winter and which has been hidden under the snow. Take it to a convenient place and burn it, and have things looking neat and tidy for the commencement of spring oper- ations, Endeavor to earn at least one pro- ficlency badge or make some progress towards higher Scout rank. Boys Training As Firemen. Last year 673 Canadian Scouts re- ceived fire prevention training and qualified for the Scout Fireman's Badge. The training in most cases is given by fire chiefs or firemen, Since the training was started 19,698 boys have qualified as Scout Firemen. If you would like to become a Lone Scout write for particulars to The Boy Scouts' Association, Lone Scout Dept., 1380 Bay Street, Toronto 2. "LONE BE." p-- The Legislature { In Brief . In the first division of the present dession, the Henry Government was sustained by a majority of seventy-six to nineteen In adopting the Speech trom the Throne. The division took place on the amendment of Premier Henry moved to the amendment of W. E. N. Sinclair, Opposition Leader, the Henry amendment pledging the House to adhere to Hydro principles of power at cost, and expressing entire support for the efficiency and integrity of the Hydro Commissioners. Prior to the vote being taken the three leaders, Premier Henry, Mr, Sin- clair and Harry Nixon, Progressive leader, finished the debate on the Throne speech, which has been practl- cally entirely devoted to argument on Hydro. Premier Henry personally an- swered the major criticism of the Op- position, particularly from Dr. J. A, McQuibban, Liberal Whip, the Premier contending that Dr. McQuibban's state- ments were based on inaccurate infor- mation in discussing power purchases, sales of off-peak power and other Hydro contracts. Referring to the charge of Dr. Mc- Quibban, that there is sufficient ca pacity at Niagara to look after the needs of Ontario, Premier Henry pointed out that even if Ontario was permitted to use all the water she.is entitled to divert, under treaty, it would be far short of the volume re- quired to keep the Niagara plants working to capacity all the time. To keep the plants continuously at ca. pacity would require-a steady conver- sion of forty-two thousand cubic feet per second, but under the treaty only twenty-four thousand five hundred cubic feet was possible. Changes in Municipal Act Sevelql changes were introduced un- der the Municipal Act by Hon. Mr. Flolayson, Minister of Lands and For- ests, chief among them being a tem- porary borrowing by municipalities, . veduction in legal Umit of per diem "fees of the elected representatives of of underone hundred thousand. Another amentthent provides that the new mean that they will be counted in cal- purpose of deciding the represen- of county councils "Authority was also in a bill 7 effectively afford a su ont supply of water for various municipal purposes. Any municipality effected may appoint a commissioner and five or more may petition for incorporation to undertake the investigation deemed necessary by the Government. This area covers twenty-six hundred square miles, effecting the counties of Grey, Dufferin, Wellington, Perth, Waterloo, Halton, Oxford, Brant, Wentworth, Norfolk and Haldimand. Modified Moratorium Royal assent was given providing for a modified moratorium on mort- gages. Hon, William Finlayson, speak- ing to his bill appropriating five mil- lion dollars for Northern development, indicated the Government will intro- duce a very much reduced program for this work during the present year. He also stated that work on the trans. Canada highway is not likely to be completed for many years. Traffic Amendments Hon. Leopold Macaulay introduced amendments to the Highway Trafic Act compelling motor cars to be equip- ped with lights, which on roads outside of towns and cities will {illuminate the roadway for a distance of two hundred feet, Provision is also made to pre- vent trucks travelling on the highways at a distance closer to each other than a hundred feet, and also cutting the length of truck trains from sixty-five 'to fifty feet. A sub-committee on dairying was 'told that the farmers of Ontarip had lost five hundred and fifty-one thous- 'and five hundred and twenty dollars last year through producing second ! grade cream in butter manufacture. HAE --. Africans Developing Own Individuality London.--How native Africans in Kenya Colony are developing an indi- ! viduality unknown among these primi- tive peoples before the advent of the British, was told in an official report issued here recently, "Individuals," the report says, "no longer accept as a matter of course decisions of administrative officers or ; judgments of magistrates, but are only (too ready to appeal against either, { Native councils have developed strong i wills of their own and are not in all {cases easily persuaded to adopt 264 townships, villages, counties and cities courses which appear to their distinct | commissioners to be obviously benefi- cial." flelds in which the African is begin- oulating the population of counties for | ning to think for himself, the report | says, It adds that there is a tendency | | Ito question the value of government | assistance and the wisdom of state atrol, REN WER Joe Clark and Phil Farley, Toronto golfers, 'snapped at Bermuda where they participated in the Belmont Manor championships. Far ley made a-very good showing, but was eliminated. Canada Endorses |3500-yearold-Baths ! Unearthed at Kish Geneva Drug Pact Resolution Restricting Pro- duction Passed at Ottawa Ottawa.--The House of Commons have, on resolution moved by the Prime Minister, approved the interna- tional convéntion for limiting the manufacture and regulating the dis- tribution of narcotic drugs. The con- vention was drawn up at Geneva on July 18, 1931, and was signed for Canada by Dr. W. H. Riddell. There were 5 States represented at the conference, Premier Bennett told the House, and of these 38 have already signed the convention. The convention becomes operative 90 days after a total of 26 states have adopted it, providing there is includ- ed in that 25 the leading powers of: the world. Few problems were more important to the people as a whole than the regulation of narcotic traffic, ssid the Prime Minister. Under the existing system Canada had experienced con- siderable success in keeping down the evil, butt had been realized here, in common with the rest of the world, that no efficient control could be main- tained eo long as legislation covered only the distribution--and so long as the manufacturing countries remained tside of the conv The new convention provides that manufacture must be restricted to actual estimated requirements for me- dicinal and scientific purposes. The great task was to bring into the con- vention the countries which manufac. tured drugs on a large scale.. This Was dually being ined, and it was-a great satisfaction for Canada, which was technically a "victim coun- try" manufacturing no habit-forming drugs. A bill will be necessary to amend the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act of 1929, and notice of this bill is now on the order paper, BE a The business man was interviewing appHcants for the post of office boy. He had a boy in front of him and was Ti im all re} g him of q "Now" went on the employer, "I'm looking for someone who must be ex- ceptionally sharp and who must cost me very little." "Well" said the boy, "I reckon you'd better send out for a lemon." bound to have disadvantages well as advantages--~Dublin Weekly | Irish Times. Canada-New Zealand Treaty. The chance of early ratification does not dispose of the contention previously raised that something can be done without waiting even until the session begins. The chief meas- ure of retaliation when the quarrel with Canada developed was the plac- ing of Canadian goods on the foreign tariff schedule. It was dome without consulting Parliament, and was never ratified by the Legislature. = British 'preferential rates can be restored to Canadian goods, as they were taken] from them, by Order-ir-Council. It would be a gesture of goodwill and a stimulous to trade.--Auckland Weekly News. Australia's Prohibitive Tariff. Australian manufacturers, and more particularly their employees, ought to : Violence In Bombay, The Indian Congress has forfeited all claim, in Bombay at least, to be regarded as a non-violent body. 'demonstrations are now simply ex- cuses for outbursts of hool which are a danger not merely to the police but to the lives 'and iproperty of the citizens, People who set fire to buildings, burn public property in the streets and assault the police with stones and roof tiles are a menace to the community and must be treated as such. If any more lives are lost as the result of hooligan excesses the [blame will le at the door of Congress, and more particularly at the door of those who, hiding in the background, encourage Congress to organize law- less di trations. Bombay mer chants and business men who indi rectly incite disorderly elements' to commit outrages must from now on- wards be held responsible for the con- realize that they are having a better in some respects than they are likely to get again for very many years if this one is thrown away. It is not the price of new Australian manufae-| Oxford, England --Swimming pools 3,600 years old have been found in Kish, Iraq, which is believed to be the oldest city in the world. Details regarding the discovery of these pools have been received by Professor Stephen Lengdon, professor of Assyriology of Oxford University, from L. C, Watelin, leader of the Ox- ford-Field Museum expedition which is conducting acheological expeditions in Kish. The pool described by Watelin is forty-five feet long and thirty-six feet wide," said Professor Langdon. "It had a most elaborate water supply with 'a wonderful circul y 8y which supplied the pool with 'constant fresh water just like our modern swim- ming baths, The pool was kept at the required height with a gentle flow of water constantly passing through it." PANINI Ml WE Russians Head List as New Canadians In '31 Montreal--Russia sent the largest group of new citizens to Canada in the fiscal year 1931, according to nat uralization statistics given in a report of the Department of State. Of 21,398 persons naturalized, 4,069 were Rus- slans, 2,628 Poles, 2,330 Americans, 2,067 Italians, 2,048 Austrians, 920 Serbians, 743 Germans and 669 Nor weglians. Most of the nationalities of the world were represented. Cuba, - Af- ghanistan and the State of Mount Le- banon, Syria, each lost a single citl- zen to Canada. 'One person natural- ized was recorded as having "no country." ty | SIE Snow After Rain. If only for an hour, the snow's white magie, Touching the landscape with its cold caress, Restores that era, beautiful and tra- gic, When all this coast was still a wil- derness. Bushes now squat like crystal-feather- ed heath-fowl; . Trees, in the immobility of fear, Frozen at some strange, fierce, metal- lic wolf-howl, Are graceful troops of silver-antler- ed deer, --Keanneth W. Porter in the New York Times. 2 tures so much as their quality of which primary producers complain. 'We are losing jobs today because some of the work we have turned out has ! been disgracefully uneven, and our customers have been driven to go to the foreigner--and, incidentally, curse the high tariff which has protected the bad workmanship and made the price of the good a burden.--Sydney Bulletin. . China and Japan. The Chinese have an extraordinary toughness and obstinacy.- The loss of Shanghai and the new capital would not be likely to assuage the wrath of the ordinary Chinese citizen. It would be all the more likely to make him break his Japanese torch and burn his cotton singlet. The process jot occupving big Chine e cities, such as Pelping and the coast ports, could | 80 on without procuring a single order from the up-country districts. The real China is not its coast and river ports, but its myriad tc /nships and villages. It is a terrible impasse, this clash between Chinese national: ism and Japanese industrial necessity. --Hong Kong Press, Empire Bargaining. We cannot view this proposed sys- tem of Empire bargaining without grave misgivings. Whither will it lead? Is it not likely to be provocative of discord rather than of satisfaction? To what extent can Great Britain af- ford to penalize the produce of for- eign countries in order to grant sub- stantial advantages to the Dominions? To what extent will the Dominions consent to admit British manufactures to compete on easier terms with their protected industries? Will the sacrifice of fiscal freedom on c"ther side be in the long rum a unifying or a dissever- ing influence? The projected policy bristles with difficulties and dangers, which must become apparent when the Ottawa Conference gets down to de- tails.--Melbourne Australian. 8. Africa and the Gold Standard. The difficultis of South Africa only show how impossible the whole mone- tary system of the world is becoming. By means of artificial restrictions on exchange and the use of the gold out- put we have been able so far to main- tain our hold on the gold standard. But the price is very heavy. Aecord- ,ing to the chairman of the South Afri. | can Wool and Mohair 'Assoaiation, only a very small portion of the South African slip has been sold, and there are some 2,000 bales at the coast ware- HE un eftort to escape th ashoré from a barge. v To Escape British Tariff --------ne q Qs, bay Times of India. Low Rates for Loans. Loans recently raised by the Muni- cipalities of Toronto and Montreal, and by the Province of New Bruns- wick, all of them sound and progres- Its} V8 clustering abouts its im-spi! ' church, in its shallow vale by the ' © iter's edge, or lifted in more emi- nent picturesqueness upon some gentle height. The banks, nowhere lofty or abrupt, are such as in a southern' land tween, wide, slumbrous, open to all the heaven and the long day, till the very set of sun, But no starry palm, glasses its crest in the clear cold green from these low brinks; the pale birch, slender and delicately fair, mirrors hers the wintry whiteness of its boughs. Gradually, as the day wore on, the. hills which had shrunk almost out of sight on one hand, and on the .other were dark purple in the distance, drew néar the shore, and at one point on the northern side rose almost from | the water's edge. The river expanded linto a lake before them, and in their the hillside, among the stunted pines, a much-galleried hotel proclaimed a resort of fashion in the heart of of what seemed otherwise a wilderness, Indian huts sheathed in birch-bark nestled at the foot of the rocks, which sive parts of the Dominion of Canada, were rich in orange and scarlet stains; have been borrowed at a fixed rate of, Out of the tops of the huts curled 5% per cent, 5% per cent. and 6 per' the blue smoke, and at the door of cent. Canadian securities are on sale t' there are people he:. who wonder obtain loans at a lower rate of inter est than is obtainable in Canada; but it the Government can get the money it can, It can borrow at § per cent.--; Kingston (Jamaica) 'Gleaner. Canada's Export Trade. Canada is fifth in export trade, the only countries to exceed her being Tritain, the United States, France and Germany, in the order named. Canada seems to be more than hold- 'ing her own, in spite of the hard times cry of the pessimists.--Durham Chronicle. Toronto's Lawmakers, Members of Toronto City Council, by a vote of 26 to 3, voted down a it needs at such lower rate of interest' it is justified in trying to do so. And gihls identical in all classes of wma- one stood a squaw in a flame-red petti- in Jamaica, and securities of Canadian ' COAL; others in bright shawls squat. cities and provinces «ill and do find ted abont on the rocks, each with a a market here, . Jamaica is not in a] circle of dogs and papooses.--From "A stronger financial position than the| Chance Acquaintance," by. W. D. places we have mentioned; consequen-| HOWells. re mea ff mm why our Government should expect to! Empire Standardization Object of Great Britain Melbourne, Vie.--Co-ordination of standards in Britain and the Domin- ions to make them as nearly as pos- terials was the purpose of the recent tour of Mr. C. E. le Maistre, director of the British Engineering Standards Association in Amtrali Mr. le Maistre said the aim of the association was to bring producer and together ona basis. Standard specifications in industry were of great value to purchasers, and provided a common basis for the com- parison of competitive tenders. Gen: eral A $3 of +. dized a 1 eliminated a great deal of waste. It wus only through standard speci- fications, he declared, that some indus- tries had been enabled to continue sounefl that has censured the Board of Edttation for advocating a reduction of the salaries of Toronto teachers.----Chesley Enterprise. A Wise Measure. Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice, is introducing in House of Commons & measure making it an offence under the "false pretences" section of the criminal code for issuing of a cheque dishon- ored by the bank for lack of funds, and given for goods obtained. This will effectively stop "rubber cheque- ing."--Amherstburg Echo. John Bull Leads. Although the agreement did not call for any payment until Aug. 28 the British Government will at once lguidate $160,000,000 of $200,000,000 loaned by 110 United States banks, John Bull still maintains the speed leadership in the air, in the auto, in the locomotive, in the motor boat and in the liguidation of his debts. --~ Brantford Expositor. Britain Again Leads And here is Britain cutting her army, navy and air estimates. No matter what the Disarmament Con- motion for a salary'cut. So far we nats M profitably. By eliminating the enor- Live not heard. of 'any 9f| mous number of designs which existed rily, y had been achieved in many branches of engin- eering and other industries. The Standards Association of Aus- tralia is patterned broadly on the Brit- ish Association. Mr. le Maistre aas also received en invitation from the New Zealand Gov- ernment to help it establish a national standa_dizing body on the same 'ines as the British Association, NS arr "Reforesting" of Paris Paris enjoys a world-wide reputation as a beautiful city, and one of the features, which contributes most to this is the abundance of trees, There are trees everywhere, planted around the "Places," lining the ave- nues and providing cool shade in pub- lic squares and gardens. These trees, however, are proving to be an expen- sive luxury, as only certain kinds will live in the «city atmosphere, and even these have to be supplanted occasion: ally, Chestnuts and paulownias have had to be completely eliminated and their places have been taken by plane trees. The clty council plans to spend 1,660,000 francs--$620,000---on the "re- foresting" of Paris this year ference does, Britain will be on the side of reduced armaments anyway. It all other nations had the same practical desire for peace, there would be no need for disarmament confer- ences.--Ottawa Journal. | Disregard Facts. Hon. George N. Gordon, who charged that the honeymoon expen-; ses of Premier Bennett's brother-in-. Iaw were paid out of tha public, treasury, made the excuse during the course of his evidence, "I was trying to entertain an audience" Far too g . "Do you see that strong. hsalthy- looking man over there?" "I was just admiring his , physique." En de Rs £ "The doctors gave him up twe YORE Ago." Lin io 8 "You surprise me." "Yes, they found that they could - not get anything out of him." -- iiss. some majestic river might flow be- - ' lap some 7 cottages, and half-way up