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- oe wT A dl Cl . i Ee ST ; AW 2, hs A a A aa te ns en A, : as A nA Brod NE a an Br ot ad b ¢ . five years ago. NSS i - AMO A a SEAT Ta a BR TR A a Ta tel BY RAR RR A ASE ATI fina nds : bY = Ww ha R n Fae) Pot SOR TOLL LEQ RA Mt ORL RA pF Ts hh NAR SR a PLP RR CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA NO OTHER WAY i At a girls' school recently the sen- for scholars were asked to write a short essay on the subject: "What I would like to be when I grow up," and to give their reasons, One up- to-date young woman attacked the matter right away with: "I want very much to become a film star, but as I am not considered beautiful and am lacking in sex appeal, I think I had better become a teacher, -Lon- don Advertiser. MEANEST THIEF. Young man fn London, Ontario, broke into a news and tobacco stand operated by a blind woman and stole $36 worth of goods. He was called the meanest thief and remanded for sentence." Fine, but what about put- ting him to work so the $35 worth of goods can be replaced ?--Stratford Beacon-Herald. TROUBLES, People who read the newspapers daily and observe the wide variety of pleasant and unpleasant things which happen to great numbers of persons should not be inclined to magnify unduly their own troubles and worrles,--Kingston Whig-Stand- ard, NOT ALL GLOOM Perhaps one of our main troubles today is that we talk too ntuch about our losses, "We have made it a fa- shion this lengthy recital of woes. And it stirs the listeners to tell an- other story of suffering. Almost all conversations consist of tales of woe, We are inclined by this gen- eral psalm. of misery to magnify what we have lost--that is in com- parison with the boom days of some It does not ald our recovery nor bring back a normal mental attitude which might help us work toward helping ourselves, It seems to need someone to whom we will listen to tell us to consider what we have left. No man with health, loved ones, mental faculties and op- portunities is without considerable wealth and blessings,--Brandon Sun. ABOLISH ORNAMENTS? The whole question then resolves itself to this: The office and the Government House are to be consid- ered as ornaments, which cost some- thing, as all ornaments do; should } they be altogether abolished because that? f x } ie are many ornaments in this rovince which could be dispensed with. Every home is full of them, Every picture, every fancy cushion, every radlo, every piano, every mu- sical instrument, every piece of bric- a-brac, every piece of lace, every ad- ornment to dress is ornament. Every white collar, every necktie is an ornament. Many homes themselves are ornamental, : There are 'useless ornaments on every motor car, in every shop, in every store and in every public building, There are lots of them in the Parliament Buildings at Toronto, Some of them are in the premier's Office. Every visit a person makes to a motion picture show is useless. Every cigaret and every cigar that is smoked is useless, every drink of pop, coca cola or alcoholic beverage is useless, The spending of a half dollar to see a hockey game or a ball game or any other athletic con- test is useless. If all the ornamental and useless things were absolutely dispensed with people would live in huts; wear skins for clothing and produce noth- ing much more than the food neces. sary to sustain life, There are a gréat many things which the people and the state could get along without and, with respect to. some, perhaps, be better off. The Lieutenant-Governorship may not be one of them. Considering what the office costs the people in relation to what the occupant distributes to maintain {it and the number of people employ- ed, and the undoubted fact that the chlet justice could, as the premier says, attend to all the necessary du- ties, it is scarcely worth bothering about; not worth all the fuss that is being made over it, For each per- son in Ontario it doesn't amount to what it would cost to buy a postcard and send in a protest---Port Arthur News Chronicle, BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS "There is no such thing as the British Commonwealth of Nations." So says the 1935 'catechism' of the Native Sons of Canada, Further, says the "catechism," "The British Commonwealth of Na- tions is {mperfalistic (sic) propagan- da," : There {s always somebody dissatis- fled with something, and the N, S, of C, are free to kick about anything they do not lke, just like the rest of us. Still it is well to know that it was the Imperial Conference of 1926 -- with official representatives of all the autonomous British nations in attendance=--which coined the phrase "British Commonwealth of Nations." The resolution then defined Great as; "Autonomous communities within the British limpire, equal in status; in no way subordinate other in any aspect of thelr domestic or foreign affairs, though united by a common alleglance to the crown, and freely associated as members of the Biitish Commonwealth of Na- tions" There isn't a British constitution or a Santa Claus either, nor in fact many other conceptions that move men mightily. If all these were en- shrined in law books they wouldn't lose a fraction of their hold on man- kind. The British Commonwealth of Na- tions is recognized as a world factor no matter what the Native Sons may think.--Sault Daily Star, COURTS NEED DISCIPLINE In New. York Rudy Vallee took a poke" at the counsel appearing for his wife, and the judge in charge of the Webb-Vallee case invited one of the other lawyers to "meet him outside," Somewhere, at some time, Ameri- fcan- judicial discipline slackened-- and the appalling results of that pro- CC8S are now apparent, STATES REQUIRE SAFETY GLASS Beginning January 1, 1935, the New York State law. providing for safety glass for all new cars sold In the State became effective, bring- ing the total of States having such requirements to ten. Tho Legislat- ures of at least twenty additional States are scheduled to take some action in this direction" for the in. creased protection of the motoring public and it is not improbable that safety glass will eventually be com- pulsory in all of the 48 States, -- Financial World, THE NEW DAY IN MUSIC An English seaside resort hay dropped its military -band in favor of a dance orchestra--and crooners, Thus another ancient institution bows in defeat before a modern one. Which leads us to wonder how It 3 of mystery crime STRIPS, will a WATCH FOR THEM. The sinister yellow wizard of villainy dominates the creepy stories and exploits of detection. * : By SAX ROHMER These famous stories now told for the first time in PICTURE ear weekly, starting next week, in this paper. may or i Britain and self-governing Dominions! one to an-| many of our customs which we call "institutions" are either _aneient or deep-rooted or venerated, A gener- ation ago the military band concert was a sanctified custom -- &n enters tainment for all the family, as the radio and radio orohestray are to- day, A mustachioed soloist on the cor- net took the bows now reserved for the crooner, ' Many people with a fair taste In music still like military bands, But the majority tune in on the dance band and the crooner, A generation hence the crooner will be a sentimental relic of these times, His audiences will nod a little and think of their youth, Another form of entertainment will have caught the popular fancy. And so it goes. Time executes a neat revenge on popular fnuo- vators.--Montreal Herald. ; THE EMPIRE TREE PLANTING IN INDIA We suppose it is not impossible to spread some understanding of what is due to forests, and why fit is due. The simplest villager can be made to grasp the necessity, when he cuts down a tree, of planting not one but many as recompense to a robbed earth, or of sowing seed of those trees that do not take kindly to transplanting, There is nothing formidable in the simplest elements of silviculture, That would be a useful first step, to persuade viliag- ers that in thelr forests and jun- gles they have valueable assets which must be used with a thought of the future, They are not likelg to un- derstand that what they do natur- ally. and habitually on a mountain side may afflict dwellers in the plains hundreds of miles away, nor would their hearts be troubled if they did know it. But they can grasp the simple truth that 'when the forests and jungles are used up there is no more wood and fodder.--Calcutta Statesman, lL FOR A HEALTHY NATION The Briton has no special cause to worry about being a Briton and is little inclined in consequence to in- dulge in invidious national: compari- sons, When lhe does so he finds the , comparisen in nearly all respects "flattering to himself, There ifs, how- j ever, one large black fly in thls oint- ; ment of racial content. Every time he considers the matter he has to admit that in the matter of physi- cal fitness this country is steadily falling behind its more progressive neighbors. All visitors returning from Germany comment on the mag- nificent physique of the Labor Bat- tallons there, -We never hear now, as once we did, of the foreigner be. ing impressed by the English phys. fque.. Now the Council of the Brit- ish Medical Association is to consid- er, we are told, the appointment of a committee to discuss means of en- couraging the physical and mental development of the nation. We sin- cerely hope that the committee will .| come into being and produce what cannot but be a valuable report. -- London Sunday Dispatch. A MISTAKEN ATTITUDE, As a result of further discussions between the New Zealand Minister 'for. Finance and Federal Ministers there may yet be a new trade agree- ment between Australia and New Zealand, Such is the latest prog- ress 'report received from the Min- ister for Commerce, The whole busi- ness savors of negotiations between two countries which have been at each other's throats for years, and which in seeking a rapprochement must be very careful not to give away to the enemy more than is extorted in return, Yet to tie 'plain man Australia and New Zealand are sister Dominions of the British Em- pire, exploring in the most friendly fashion the possibilities of increas. ing the trade between themselves, to their mutual benefit, Statesmen ap- parently have a keener perception of the perils which attend the at- tempts of neighboring countries, bound by the strongest ties of kin- ship and common interest, to enter into closer commercial relatfons with each other.--Melbourne Argus, It is the little things that count which is the reason why gum manu- facturers -are wealthy by disposing of their products at one cent per stick and it is also the reason why penny bank deposits in Ontario to- talled over $1,200,000 this year.--St. Thomas Times-Journal, It you feel like sneezing, sneeze-- and don't let considerations of po- liteness or the conventions or any- thing of thhat kind interfere, That is the advice of an English "medical woman," Dr. Octavi Lwein, who, in an address to a group of nurses, of- fered the following comments: Never backfire a sneeze and don't turn your.nose into a popgun when, you blow it if you would be healthy, Even Aristotle 'had a good word for it, she | sald, for the old Greek philosopher | wrote: "Salute the sneeze and honor the brain,"--Sault Star. At a recent boot and shoe exhibi- -- -------- \~ tion ins England, sandals made of fine: ly spun glass were shown for even- Ing use, and it was related that "a really smart woman would wear a colored ring on the small toe of her left foot to match the hue of the nail varnish on her fingers," The extent to whioh civilization is going ahead by leaps and bounds is almost breath-taking.--Brantford Expositor. Maureen Orcutt watch, Admiring Gallery Of Two Watches Master Patter Limbering Up iB i : is puttin Paul Runyan, King of American professional" golfers, practices. his pu the Miami Biltmore "Country Club at; Miami; Fig: while his wife, Mrs, : 14 ¥ & ¢ g touch on the greens of Joan Runyan. (left), and Miss Seeking The There is wonder in the Winter woods, ' "A subtle, all-elusive mystery That haunts -each placid grove where silence broods And woos eadh +whited glen with witohery. R. R, Greenwood Fred H. Byshe in the Ottawa Journal 1 suppose that ever since the moon began to rule thé night and bathe the earth. in ita pale splendor, and the trees of the field began to yield their fruit, there have been Winter nights when the full moon, riding high and free in the deep blue heavens, has amused herself by throwing fantastic tree shadows upon a sheet of virgin snow all over the slumberous landscape, And yet when, but a few years ago, 1 awoke 'to the beauty and fascination of these silenet silhouettes stretched softly on their silver screen, the revelation was to me as stimulating as if I had been the first of all men to enter the 'enchanted land of that experience. I had made a surprise discovery! As David Grayson says, "It had been there before, for long, but I had never seen nor felt it." LJ * > How could I so long have been blind to such beauty? How When, later, I came to browse among the poets to see what they thought of shadows, I found many of them more concerned with the dark, cavernous. depths of the Sum- mer forest, with the mystery, sinis- ter or romantic, that lurks in the unlighted spaces, or with grateful shade from the heat of the sun, And, while the poets seemed to find pleasure in the shadows sweeping majestically across the mountain sides, or nestling comfortably in the valleys and soometimes watched the "tender-pencilled shadows play" {in the wind, I could not see that much enthusiasm had been manifested for these tender-pencilled drawings on a snowy canvas, Of course, I should have con- sulted the artists as well as the poets, A poet might reasonably be 80 absorbed in the glamor of the glorious winter night as to over- look these inponderable pictures athwart his path; while the artist, his eye alert for picture, might be expected to seize upon these studies in drawing as being right in his line, as, in fact, Twachtman and others have done. However, it is just possible that we plain persons may be able to find jn such a Winter night some- thing more than a study in tem- perature. We can, at least, push our heads far enough out of our fur collars to look about us, and may even be able to share the pleasures of both poet and artist, though we cannot compose a sonnet nor paint a picture, LJ - * Come with me, then wood I know, a natural where the tall, symmetrical become cathedral pillars between which. the alabaster aisles of chequered light recede toward und seen altars until they fade into dimness, = The mighty elms and oaks give a roof to our temple as they lift their latticed crowns into the infinite blue; and, sifting to a little temple, trunks through the trees, filling the night with its mellow glow, shines the moonlight, serene and mystic. All about us on the new fallen j snow are laid the still shadows of the trees. Our little world fs etched in black and white. Yesterday morn- ing, with the sun glowing in an un- clouded sky, the shadows were dls- tinctly blue, warmed occasionally by a touch of mauve, but tonight they are practically black, and the draw- ing 18 arresting in its sharpness and contrast, 11 p ' 10 was it that I had not even read of it?, Wonder Of Winter Woods Someone -has said 'that the pencil is 'the master of all art, Here, then, is: drawing by a.master hand, We have caught nature in = her forest studio with pencil in hand, tracing marvellous patterns on an evanes- cent canvas, Fortunately the air is crystal clear, the moon is full and almost directly overhead. With a low-hung 'moon the shadows range out at' long distances from their source, but as the moon approaches the meridian the trees seem to gather their shadows close about. them as a hen her brood at twilight. Thus compressed, the shadows are darker in color and sharper in outline, and can bé viewed and studied with great- er enjoyment, « % Of course the shadows are flat; thereis no-perspective, nothing to make them stand out upon their snowy canvas; they appear simply as silhouettes, yet they are veritable studies in detail which reveal every branch and twig interposed between the white forest floor and the benign eye of the man in the moon This wealth of detail is due not alone to the brilliant moonlight, but also to the level sheet of unbroken white that' Nature. has. provided. These shadows would be lost on the bare uneven ground of Autumn, You will catch the idea if you should imagine a drawing on crumpled brown paper compared with the same drawing on fine, white bristol board. . Another feaure which the level snow canvas helps to reveal is the fine gradation in tone of the shadow from the base of the trunk to the uttermost twig. The shadow has its greatest density and sharpest defi- nition close to the trunk, and the stouter the trunk, the blacker the shadow, because the wider the shadow the less it is diluted with reflected light; and from the trunk and tie gnarled lower branches, up- wards the shadow loses both in density of color and sharpness of line on a diminishing scale whose gradations no human hand could hope to duplicate, until, when the crown is reached, the shadows have resolved {into something vaguely mysterious, and are sketched in the softest pencilling of {ransparent grey. . You would admire such a drawing it it were confined within a frame and " hung in an art gallery, even though the picture lacked the {l- lumination of the radiant moonlight that here in nature's studio touches every detail to poetry; but such plc- tures cannot be. imprisoned, Human art craves. perpetuity, so the sculp- tor chisels his eternal marble and painter records his impressions in imperishable colors. Don't Be A Fault-Finder Because you ate able to point out real faults and shortcomings in the life of your friend or neighbor; that is no proof that you are profitably or helpfully engaged when you are doing so. It may be, for instance, that he knows as mush about them as you do and is even more concern- ed for elimination or improvement "than two children apiece. The sta than you cau: possibly be; For. ins stance, we have: found that, the; man who spend a great deal of his time criticizing the morals or manners of others, is almost sure: to: neglget: his own to some extent. At best. that.is{, the only explanation we have been able to find for the well known: fact that most strenuous and. persistent fault finders usually have as many. and as serious faults as ordinary people with a few added. We 'have about concluded that to find fault| with other people helpfully, and without "neglecting ourselves or. get- ting into the habit of a fault-find- er, is one of the hardest things for any man to do. Seventy-two Per Cent. Of Junior League Members Married New York.--On the basis of a questionna're answered by about six per cent. of the 27,660 members, ap- proximately 72 per cent, of the Jun- jor League women are married and have an average of = slightly - more: tistics were: presented by Mrs, Char les A. Lindley, editor of the, group's magazine, to the executive board now in session. Miss Elizabeth P. Taylor of Little Rock, Ark., president of the board, reportd that 137 junior leagues had continued their welfare projects dur ing the past year despite economic conditions. Wine and Steel & R. N. Parker, of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., pictured. at hearing before Scnate Munitions Committee. He is reported to have said that "wine and liquors were often, as necessary as steel" during the trial runs of warships, Ottawa--Hon, R. J. Manion, Min- ister of Railways, will head the De- partment of Communications now that it is definitely known that the Department of Railways will be in- cluded and in fact be the main one. A new portfolio will not be created. The work of the Department of Railways has been modified greatly since the operation of the Canadian National was divorced' from it. The railway finances which concern the Government come mainly through the Department of Finance, The now New Communications Office Will Be Headed by Dr. R. J. Manion "goes on: PITHY ANECDOTES OF Tuk. FAMOUS SEA YARNS AMONG THE YARNS spun by Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U, 8, Navy, (retired) -- in "True An. cedotes. of an Admiral" -- is one about 'a ship's captain with a" very suspicious nature, whose pet phrase. was "I smell a rat." A member of the crew who had been punished several times, decided that the cape tain should have a chance. to: really smell a rat. So he caught one, killed it, and a. few: evenings «later slipped down to the Captain's cabin and:placed the rat--in a prime con- dition, for smelling -- near the cap- tain's berth. ex = WHEN the captain turned in, this peculiar dead rat odor; offended his nostrils (chuckles, the: Admiral) 'and a seaich revealed, the 1at with a card: tied to its neck om which was printed, "I smell a rat!" After that, every time he thought for using this expression at the mast, the picture of a dead rat came to; hia; mind,; The,.crew never heard it. again. «wm THEN THERE is the story of a farmer boy, turned sailor, who, dur- ing. a heavy fog off the, coast of 'Maine, sang out from the crow's net, where he was doing lookout duty. "I smell hay!" At first the captain -on- the. bridge did not un- derstand him 'and = called to him, "Repeat your statement lookout." The. lookout again yelled, "I smell hay!" A * The captain turned to the officer of the deck and said "Take a sound- ing and anchor the ship- at once." Thsi. was promptly done. When - the fog lifted afew hours later the ship was very near the beach, and there about:one-hundred-yards-from the water's edge, was a huge-hay- stack. The lookout was a Maine farmer boy and he knew that if he could smell hay the ship must be close to shore, ' Mirages at Sea. "The worst mirages I have ever seen at sea, were in the Philip pines," yarns. Admiral Coontz, He . "During the early days of the in- surrection in 1898,:1899, the natives were still in control of the Islands: The U.S.S. 'Charleston' was on her way south from. Apari. I was. to re. lieve: the. officer of ' the deck one morning at: four: o'clock and when I went on the bridge it looked. to me ag if land were in sight and not very, far ahead, The captain had authorized us never to take .the deck if we believed the ship to be in imminent danger, The responsibility rested on the officer who was on watch. * % ® "AT THIS particular time, Lieut. Slocum was in charge. I called his attention to what appeared to be land ahead and he replied that it had looked just that way for the past two hours but that he had de- cided it was simply a mirage. I had the choice of taking or refusing the deck until I could convince myself whether or not it was really land that we saw. I decided to refuse. Imagine my surprise and relief when, about five o'clock, the sun rose, dissipating the black fog, and . I. saw nothing but water ahead!" upen Tips Earl TIIE Quaint circumstances under which the late Earl of Warwick once received a tip from an Am- erican tourist, are related by Lady Warwick in her memoirs. Her husband, she says, was out early one morning at Warwick Castle examining some favorite flowers, when the American approached him, saying that he wished to cross the river Avon, "Just work the there's a good stranger. Lord Warwick was amused, and not wanting to embarrass the man, said nothing, and did as he was asked. - In_about half an hour, the Am- erican again hailed him, this time from the opposite bank. "Look sharp," he cried, "I want to get back." _ After Lord Warwick had brought the ferry back, the man thanked him and said: "It's a fine place. Been here long?" Afraid that his voice would be- tray him, Lord Warwick mumbled that he had been there for some years, : "Well," said the straner, "you're for you," and pressing half a sov- a civil chap, so here's something ferry: for me, fellow," said the branch to which power to add will sereign into the peer's hand, he de- be taken from Parliament will have to do with Government radio, tele- graph, telephone, cables, though one wireless branch, dealing with ship: ping will remain in the Department' of Marine. The Department of Com- | munications. will have nothing to do with rates, which come under the Railway Commission; The consolid- ation will place the Radio Commis: sion under a different minister but it is not designed to abolish it, bo parted, : "Lord Warwick used to wear tha coin on his watch-chain," adds Lady Warwick, "and often declared that he had never earned money so easily." ; . When oilcloth is to be fastened to the wall above the kitch:n sink, glue it to the wall. This is a much better and more permanent method than tacking it. i t 1 : ¢ To] 3 & AE 4 wa ? 2) | ZR