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Ta Ch ot' St 2 OW Lady SR SAB AP om Pw a A Ei gee fe ar SE SR nd LN a rr i pn rte a nD EN ra a eT . tl fi fr En 5 Ave SST 2 ment." --Banff dire - Journal, 3 Didi didi d Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large > O-0-0-0 > e CANADA "HOW INDEED! dome people think that the blow- ing of factory whistles should be ab- olished. But it there were no factory whistles how would we keep the clocks straight? -- Brockville Recor. © der, 100,000,000 SHEEP Australia in the comparatively near future is expected to carry 50 million more sheep without being overstocked, Recent experiments in districts prepared with new grasses resulted not only in decreasing sheep parasites, but in Increasing the weight of wool per sheep as well, Australia now carries approximately 100 million sheep, eich producing 8 to 9 pounds of wool a year, ----Bran- don Sun. FLOODLIGHTS AT CURVES The suggestion that floodlights be placed at some of the more dangor- ous curves on Western Ontario road- ways has merit. With the majority of main highways in this section of the province gerved by a network of Hydro lines, it has heen pointed out by seul intere ted organizations that the cost of putting up two or three lights at bad curves would not be great, The idea is a good one in that the cost is negligible and it might Le the means of preventing @ great many accidents, -- Guelph Me. cury, HOME ACCIDENTS. The. majority of accidents in the home are preventable, They result from falle, poison, loading guns, cuts, burns, escaping gas and so on, They can be prevenied by such measures a; standing on step.ladders instead of rickety ohairs, clearly labelling bott'es in the medicine chest, avold- ing the use of greirways as the res: 'ng place of paveels and papers, Jom revolvers to roticemen --in other wo ds, by exectkc of simple cemnicn sense. -- Kingston, Whig- Standard, BRAIN. SURGERY. There was ceiebrated in London last week, by the traditional EDg- lish method of a dinner, the jubilee of the first operation for the remove. al of a tumor from the brain, waich wag performed on November 2b, 1884, by Sir John Rickman Godlee, Lord Horder presided, and among those present was Sir James Crich- ton.Biowne, who is the sole surviv- or of these concerned in the opera. tion, nnd who was 94 years of age lat week. sir James told a story of the late Sir I'rederick Treves, who, he sald, operated on an army officer who had been jpiured in the hunting field and removed part of his brain, Several yoars later they met at a party, and the surgeon avolded his former patient. "you don't seem to remember me?' sald the officer, Sir Frederick freaves explained that he did, but in view of the operation was afraid to meet him. "That's nothing." said the officer, "] am now head. of the Intelligence Depart- THOUGHT ON HOCKEY. In a fast game like hockey there are bound to be hard knocks, but when players deliberately go in for this sort of thing, they are just fools, Neighborhood hoodlum tactics, and "deliberate assaults with sticks, should not be tolerated, and the men who perpetrate them on the fce show themselves to be utterly childish in spite of their ability to give it and take it,--St. Thomas Times.Journal. THE DROUGHT AREA, It is true that governments are ppending a lot of money on rellet to western farmers and on transporting animals to regions where fodder and pasturage age more abundant; it is 'true also that private charity 18 showing itself very generous toward the victims of the drouth, distribut- . * ing food clothing and so on. But nothing {s being done to the land it self. And this mist be attended to, or else the desert wilt remain des. ert forever, From this point of view. the que:tion is a truly national one. --The La Presse, Montreal. PREJUDICES ~. Most of us, of course, have quirks and prejudices. Folks are influenced to read the things that feed their prejudices or viewpoints, A man who believes in a new banking gys- tem usually reads everything he can find to support his views, It it is suggested to him that he ought to read something on the other side he refers to it as "propaganda" and passes it up, Quite often this is true of the other type of man who is afraid of a new idea He keeps away from speakers and books that might he upsetting to what he beligves is a sound view of the question.--Re- gina Leader.Post. THE TOT OF RUM, The daily grog to naval men afloat dates from the days of "the wooden walls of England." Ships made long voyages and took a long time to make them, having only salls, The crews had to live on "salt junk" and there was no fresh meat or fresh vegetables, The art of canning had not even been thought of, Neither did the medical service know any- thing about vitamins. The result of the lack of fresh food was that sail- ors developed 'scurvy. Then some. body found that scurvy could be thwarted by daily administrations of rum, or by lemon juice. --St. Thomas Times-Journal. WAWA LAKE The original name of Wawa Lake ins Michipicoten was spelled Wawa- gomk or Wawamagonk. The last part of these old names is the adverb of location, and thus signifies that it us a specific name tor the lake -- "cn Lake There" a3 outsiders would cil it. Residents weuld use the ending "ing"-- here, --Sault Ste. Marie Siar, EARLY DAY RELICS The automobile -is so all present' that it is dificult 'for éur children to visualize a time when. all trafilc either v.as on foot, hoseback or be. hind horses. Harlier days and thelr manners and implements almost are forgotten, and probably it would be difficult to gather together a complete set of the implements and the relics of pioneer days. We forget so quick- ly that one can scarcely remember what the first motor cars looked like, Yet the early days should not be forgotten and it would be a good thing if it were possible to provide a place whore such relics of our ear- lier &uistory might be viewed.--NI- agara I'alls Review, FLYING The unusual is news. When an alr. plane accident occurs, the report is flashed throughout the world with all the distressing details; the fact that every day thousands of planes are | performing their routine duties with- out mishap is ignored, while the public imagination fastens -on the new tragedies as confirmation of a false impression that one is playing with death on leaving "terra firma," --Hamilton Spectator. UPS AND 'DOWNS There are seven ex-millionaires on the Los Angeles County poor farm. It used to be that it took three gen- erations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves. But we live in a speedier age, 'It i8 possible now to make the whole tour in one generation. THE EMPIRE STREAMLINED TRAINS FOR BRITAIN? 3 In an experimental journey unde ordinary conditions a steam train covered over 370 miles at an average Frolicking children making merry in th A continuous and heavy rain lasting for several days played havoc with roads England. interfered with travel and trans advantage of the situation. portation, When sun shone again e flooded main street of Isle of Brewster, and seriously these children were quick to take Somerset, id of 721% m.p.h. This is a noteworthy feat, but it does not prove the steam train to be equal or superior to the stream.lined oil-driven type.--London Daily Mail, a : SLEPT THROUGH IT An .extieme case of sleeping dur- ing speeches was that of John Stuart Mill, who came rather late into the Commons after a life in which he had been accustomed to go to bed at 10 o'clock. "And after 10 he could not keep awake in the House, with results which were sometimes rather ludicrous. A Mr, Bouverle got up one night after 10 to deliver a tremen- dous attack on Mill and asked him a number of rhetorical questions, The House between laughter and curios- ity watched Mill as his head jark- ed up and down in sleep, sometimes apparently about to wake and then fading into sleep again, --Manchester Guardian, HIS REASON, A member of Parliament who brings in the same bill session af- ter session is sometimes misunder- stood. There was the old member who, after many vain attempts to have the cleaning of windows from the outside made illegal, at last in- ducd a sympathetic Home Secretary to issue a- departmental order to that effect, and was congratulated on the success -of his persistent effort to make window cleaning safer for the cleaners. 'No, no, safer for my. gelf," said the member, "When walk- ing the streets I used to be afraid that a window cleaner might fall on me.-- Aberdeenshire Mail. NAMES FOR BATTLESHIPS Contrary to the German practice, only four battleships in the British fleet commemorate famous admirals. These are Nelson, Rodney, Barham and Hood. In pre-war days, however two large groups of captal ships bore such names exclusively, Cradock and Arbuthnot were two of the fighting seamen-of the Great War whose names the Navy would like to see bestowed on future slips, The choice of Polyphemus for one of our big cruisers now bullding is criticized in the service as inapt. Al- though the name is not without its traditions, the last vessel to bear it was a torpedo ram .of doubtful utility which saw no active eervice, --London Daily Telegraph. THE ,MAKING OF PACIFISTS Ernst Toller has said that he be. came a pacifist after listening to the piteous cries of a soldier who took three days to die on the barbed wire, Anniversaries such as that of Armis. tice should make pacifists less pain- fully--Trinidad Guardian, IN EGYPT ALSO, The memory Is still fresh of the heroic students who started business with barrows of cooked beans rather than wait for jobs that were invisible, The unemployed army of educated young men is rapidly increasing. The schools are grinding them out like finished articles from a factory, The youngsters are getting ideas of high- er grades of living than the humble environments and habits of their sturdier forefathers. The appeal of the strenuous and simple life is re. ceding with the years, and consequent dissatisfaction with the present is increasing. Egyptians are loth to take their life-battles into other climes, with the result that this al- ready closely packed valley is near bursting-point. There is a remedy, but it has been deferred by three successive Cabinets. -- The Sphinx, Cairo, Plan Extension Of Dole System London, -- Wide extension of the British dole system is contemplated. Seven hundred and - fifty thousand 'land-workers who hitherto have been excluded from unemployment in- surance are expected -- shortly to be brought within its scope. The statutory committee which investigated the whole question has now recommended inclusion of per- sons employed on the land, whether in straight farming or horticulture. Weekly contributions probably will be the equivalent of six cents each for workers..and employers and 12 cents by the government, for workers over 21 it is expected the benefit will be about $3 weekly with an ex- tra B50 cents for wife and child. This proposed extension of the dole system to land workers will require parliamentary approval to make it effective. Italy Will Remain On Gold Standard MILAN, Italy. -- Italy's lira is on the gold standard to stay and per- sons who promote rumors to the con- trary will be punished severely, Pre- mier Benito Mussolini's newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia, assured the na- tion last week. A rumored further per cent cut in government salaries, it said, is untrue because "at the present time costs of living are going up." A rumored tax on coupons for consolidated bonds and other emis- sions is "grotesque, because the bond Srvsesinn last February brought a 30 per cent reduction in the income of bondholders." and will remain so, said Il Duce's organ. "The drastic measure taken at the last Council of Ministers is more eloquent than any discord could be on government policies" is its statement, This referred to the measure making the Government ow erseer and controller of every cent of Italian money invested abroad. The lira is on the gold standard | Deplores To-Day's Trend. : Of Advertising TORONTO -- Modern trends in advertising and descent to terms and phrases that are offensive were. de- plored by John Nelson, president of Rotary International, in a recent ad- dress here at the annual convention of the -Association of Canadian Ad- vertisers. 7 It is an easy step from disbeliev- ing and being repelled by certain ad- vertisements to becoming skeptical of all advertisements, 'he warned. Deprecating thé cleverness that wrenches and twists English to con- trive new words. Mr. Nelson urged tionary has sufficient vehicles of ex- pression to define any meaning desirable for public use. New Halifax Pier in Proof of Rzcovery HALIFAX, N. S. -- The formal opening of Pier B is looked upon as another evidence of the ever-grow- ing importnace of Halifax as an out- standing port, declared E. W. Beatty, president of the Canadian 'Pacific Railway. "To those whose interests are closely connected with sea-borne traffic," said the railway president, "the magnitude of this latest under- taking of the Halifax Harbor Com- mission is particularly impressive. The courage and foresight display- ed in the addition of 2500 feet of deep-water berths to the already ex- cellent facilities possessed by the 'maritime port is constructive op- timism that . should do 'its part in justifying the growing feeling that conditions are improving." Country Fair Below a lop of furrows, widely strewn With shadow. lengths, the clear late. afternoon Is glittering upon the country fair, Now laugh and jiggling .music swim the air-- Where only soil-faced trudging mar- ked the day With plod of heavy limb, like pulse- less clay-- And there are dancers trees are still, With pliant wreathing and a flurried thrill 2 They come and go from in and out of gloom Beside cool pastures gossamered with ~-- bloom, They have forgotten kitchen work and plough For springing night fires burn within them now To forge from out two hearts a glowing shield, ) While sundown. giants tramp westering field! --Alan Creighton in "Poetry World" while the the fa re Shon nd his mother is I a ES Eris . ight-year-old , David Copperfield Ibleasant vine-coveréd'cottage at Blunderstone, boathouse at ngland with his beautiful young mother, His or is dedd. Oné evening, as David reads from loves the little fish to Peggotty, his nurse, the tailing vessels in the harbor, mother 'comes in with Mr. to bo | secretly call PERFIELD ( u lives ina The nextda y Peggotty take ourneying home again to his mother. y calls "The Black door of his home opens to fm, David_is rude and woman servant with a hard, forbidding face, * David rother's Yarmouth for a short visit. Thera he meets Uncle Dan, Ham and Little Em'ly, He ng village with the proud : he is soon gid e disclose a strange alls » sr" : | J Y : David enters the cottage an that Mr. Mutdstone is n existence begins for him. (The and his sister Jane are eruel and Murdstone is harsh David David's mother dies, , finds, to his horror, Th "als urdstone is now his stepfather, A new tonetul datas dls lack Panther" merciless. Mr, Mrs. Copperfield his listeners to realize that the dic-|- Count on Shakespeare To Prove Best Seller LONDON---Shakespeare is now to be a better than best seller, A print of 50,000 editions have been placed in the hands of booksel- lers here. The edition has 1280 pages, The type was chosen by Mr. Bernard Newdigate, one of Britain's foremost typegraphists, There is a heraldic designs, drawn by two well- known illustrators. ; And the price at which the, book is 'being sold is 6s. "Originally the publishers intended to sell the edition at 1 guinea. - It was, thought that this;was the least that could be charged for such a de luxe edition. But later it was de- cided to use the full resources of the press, in the belief that Shakes- pearé will again prove his popu- larity. . Married Women Workers Are The Happiest New York,--Married women who have outside -jobs and still do all their household duties make the hap- pier wives, if they are able to be judged by statistics gathered at Co- lumbia University and made public last week. Of 632 women represent- ing 36 cities, whose opinion was asked most said that outside work gave them an outlet for energy and self- expression and brought pleasant out- side contacts. Half the women also believed that their jobs made them more stimulating companions for their husbands. 5h Working wives; the survey dis- closed; also have an effect on hus- bands, some of whom were spurred to greater ambition, partly through the example set by the wives and partly through the natural desire of husbands - to take entirely upon themselves the task of supporting their families. - The - majority of the married women with jobs agreed that they would advise other women: to marry even if they could not get along without continuing: their ~employ- ment, . Woman Told Methods. Of Ending Handicaps London--Proposals. for overcomng prejudices against women: in the la- bor market have héen given here by Miss V. Sackville West well-known novelist, at a lecture at Bedford Col lege for Women. . To begin with, the lecturer sald, vpon an external self.assertiveness, which they do not really mean, They must cultivate an objective view .of life; stop being personal; stop .won- dering whether they are getting a fair deal; stop = being unduly con- scious of the fact that they are wom-~ en, : Chinaman Gyps Smart ~ Philadelphia Lawyers PHILADELPHIA. --- Lee Kum evidently hadn't heard of the pro- verbial sagacity of the "Philadelphia lawyer." : ; ---The sauve genfleman swindled at least 10 of that profession out of $60 each, Detective-Sergeant Jacob Gomborrow raid; by telling them he needed an "advance" to tide him ov- er until a $200,000 draft arrived from his father, supposed rich mer- chant in the Orient They'll Make Good. Wives For Somebody Wheeling, W, Va.--When the boys in Wheeling High 'School go home to mother they may' say: "Well, this evening we can have a nice fluffy omelet, some Devil's Food cake, creamed peas and--Oh, yes, spinach." 5 Eighteen of the. boys have banded together and organized their own do. mestic science class in competition with the girls. 15 Se 14 oH] i : - A WG i oil Alf JIL Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS AN. \ ON RR SONNNRRRR rs ' ee her avid wi ly bids her farewell, : is Tee gare: el , sure he will neve miss" Peggo "and Bavid| tone, threatening] thecane, tells him he is a wickadboyl aud Seats and ds being sent to. : BE te Fuh. Tone. Io DRL om th BEES -~ | Personal woodout frontpiece and a series of | women must trust themselves, and n ; must rely upon that trust rather than | 2° oll or coal or gas stations, or even Upsets A Home We Should Make A Choice For Our Way Of Life And Thin Stick To It Without Grieving Conflicts wear us out. They wear children out, writes Olive Roberts Barton. The everlasting war between what we want and what we . have, choosing between two duties having | another--all these fights with oursel to wear down an urge to be one thing while lifé points a relentless . finger at another--all these fights with ourselves are ruinous. We say we won't go back to the farms our grandparents lived on or the slavish work they endured, We women wouldn't go through the dally routine that bent shoulders, twisted hands and. streaked hair with gray long before its day, Butt I had a lot of country relatives and as I look-back on those old days, ome thing registers in memory; The calmness of their features the quiet peace of their eyes and thelr good humour. And I remember tatting and knitting too, balls of sewed rags for rugs, and neighbors driving in for calls. Life And Work Sufficed No, it was not all potato peeling and churning and feeding thrashers. There was time for relaxing in spite of all opinion to the contrary, Time for reading too. It's too bad that our young mothers today could not have had a peep into one of the old-fashioned farm homes. Not that the modern farm is not quiet and peaceful, but the point is that those *people of long ago had little but 1life and work itself, no way to travel, to absorb, to be eter- sorts of bright magazines, or mail- order service to make shopping easy, Yet they were contént. One should not say "yet." It was becausg of it all they were content, I think, And they did not deteviorate or become sodden and ccarse. When I want a lesson in real refinuinent, | think of my great-grandmother at eighty in a lonely brick farmhouse miles f.om anywheye, dressed each day after lunch, regu'arly, in slate gray silk, black lace cap and lace ap. ron, Hor daughters drecsed too, 1 have the woven toverlet still, a beau- ty, made by her as a young mother in which 4s woven "Salina Gille'ard --Peace and Plenty--1846.," Conflict Was Lackng Peace and Plenty. It was a hundred.acre farm with a dairy herd, Just a farm, The child- ren grew up with the most wonderful dispositions, There were no conflicts to wear them out. Today there 8 too much -to con- tend with, Today's chi'dren are worn out, particularly the city children. Two truths, I think, vhould be borne in in the parents of little fami. lies that seem to me to be funda- mental to redl happiness. One is a quiet household. The other regular routine in which each ong knowy each day just about what the hour will bring, time for duty and time for play, Not too much cut- side world intyrfering. Not too many Pioies to maze, or wants to be fil- ed. 'way of life anll then stick to it with. out grieving. There are always vome ahead of us--ihere always will b.. Jealousy and hatred quickly ruin: ai. disposition, Cunflict undermines' th: felines and patience. ome should be a peaceful piac.: and the: famly until supreme, a -- Ceylon's First : Woman Lawyer Colombo, -- A lady barrister will practise in the Ceylon courts of law early next year. She is Mise Ezlynn Obeyesckere. only daughter of the Hon. Mr. F. A. Obeyesekere, Deputy. speaker of the her Bar final examination and was called on November 17th, : Miss Obeyesckere hag had a unique and brilliant career... She went to School. when: she was twelve, to Hill- wood, Kandy, and three years later, in 1923, came down to St. Bridget's convent, Colombo, In 1925 she passed her Junior Cam- bridge and the following year her Senior, 'at which examination she gained distinction in Latin although she had not been taught that subject in either school. Proceeding to Oxford, she was elected President of the only unled- graduate association of its kind, the Geldart Soiiety (Law), In June, 1933, she passed her Hon- ours Jurisprudence examination and year she passed her Criminal Law and Procedure examination: , She is a member of the Inner Tem- ple. and will be he first Ceylonese lady to be called to the English Bar. HYSTERICAL MEN It was a belief that only women were -hysterical, but hyixeria was a Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser, in an address delivered in Bournemouth, England. Some men in, the grip of an anxiety health neurosis, she sald, were "fiends of selfishness." tained through the air to get all We should ake: a choice: for our State Council, She has just passed took her B.A, degree. In June this nervous allment of either sex, sald