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Van io ' eZ 5 4 als TO 'FHE SEA IN SHIPS Tl wep a ---------------------- WN gn | SW SE-- a ,ric A ---- si M--_ Ee _-- hit a CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD 'AT LARGE CANADA After all, given weather which is not too rough to allow freedom of the decks, an ocean voyage is some- thing in itself. Given a deck chair in the sun, and with the waves, with a fairly good sea breeze as an addition- al consideration. well there is something which pretty much worth while. And at night when darkness closes in and the ship keeps on its path one has opportunity to contemplate up- on the vastness of it all. It is not a situation from which one should de- sire to be removed in a hurry. If one enjoys travel at all the ocean liner is about the last word when it comes to enjoyment and rest. It is difficult to appreciate the state of -mind which would wish to get it over just as quickly as possible and to apply the standard of today's mad craze for speed to that delight- ful experience. -- Stratford Beacon- Herald. is MODEST MARITIME More often than not, when you see a man selected to do a big job in Canada he is a native of the Mari time Provinces. -- Halifax Herald. THE NORTH SHORE The "rocky shore" of Lake Super- jor has vast deposits of iron about to be developed, 100,000,000 tons having been proven up in one hill. Also the fastest developing gold area in Canada at Michipicolen. And a stone picked up on the Agawa trail containing silver. And big chunks of na iva copper wera blown out of a rock cup on the Lake Superior sce- ton of the Trans-Canada road. It gue leks like a vay unusual high-: way. -- Sault Ste. Marie Star. THE GOLDEYE The Winnipeg goldeye is all that a cured fizh should be -- meaty, flav- orsome and delightful to look at Most people try it for the first time when they are on a transcontinental train. But once eaten it is never for- gotten. Vie la goldeye. Ottawa ""drops .into a gopher hole," but in- | parents pay his way. This is the con- ON LOOKING ROUND A fellow townsman stuck his head in at my office door the other day and said "Say, Bill, what does a golf ball do when it stops rolling?" I was sorely tempted to reply stead confessed that I did not know. While he withdrew and closed the door he said "why, it looks round." It made me wonder if we should not adopt the philosophy of the golf ball a little oftener than we do and stop rolling and look 'round to sur- vey the ground ahead of us and at- tempt to select a smoother course than the one we have just bounced over. -- Western Municipal News. OLD FORT WELLINGTON It is gratifying to find that old Fort Wellington at Prescott, one of the "sights" of the upper St. Law- rence region, is becoming increasing- ly popular with visitors, to the ex- tent, indeed, of attracting over a thousand of them already this seas- on. This fortification which one shell of high explosive would today shat- ter to atoms, has been described as one of the best preserved old mili- tary works in Canada, and - certainly its condition and the repairs to which it is subjected year after year form striking tribute to the interest which successive Dominion administrations have taken in its welfare. It is today largely as it was when jt was nam- ed by British garrisons and when its cannon, now so useless, really meant business. -- Brockville Reccrder, WORKING THEIR WAY The young man who works his way through college is apt to be a much better student than the one whose clusion to be drawn from a survey just completed at the University of Southern California by Dr. Frank C. Touton, the university's vice-presi- dent. ' The survey compared the scholars- tic records of students participating in the Federal Government's program Citizen. of part-time jobs for college under- The Week By F. E. In Ottawa OTTAWA -- Any doubt that may have existed as to the Prime Min- ister carrying on as leader of the Conservative party was set at rest last week by a statement by J. Earl Lawson, K.C., M.P,, (West York) Dominion Conservative organizer. At the close of a complimentary banquet to Mr. Bennett by fellow-Consery- ative members and Conservative Senators, the organizer announced that the Prime Minister would .con- tinue as leader. Enthusiasm was the prevalent note at the banquet -- enthusiasm among and for the Con- gservative party. It was unbounded. The Prime Minister has done what he sail he would do when he re- turned from London -- test his strength. Apparently the test has not been a negative one, Business of the House went along at a rapid clip last week, the final standing showing twelve bills having passed and all the main estimates through. Criticism of the manner in which the report of the Price Spreads Commission. has been implemented brought forth a polite but firm reply from the Prime Minister. Criticism has been based principally upon the question of constitutionality., As Mr. Bennett pointed out, the government must do one of two things, it must invite Parliament to pass a statute which it knows is illegal and which will be set aside at the first opport- unity, or it must ensure that there will be some amendment to the con- stitution in order to render consti- tutional that which has been declar- ed unconstitutional, The debate oc- curred during discussion on the Trade and Industry Commission bill and when the vote was recorded Mr. Bennett's critic was absent from the House. However, the bill went through, with only one dissenting vote. The present Tariff Board will «take care. of the administration of the bill when it is given Royal as- gent. Senate amendments to the Weights dnd Measures Act was concurred in by the House. This Act, which was amended. pon fecommendations con- tained in the price spreads. report, will protect against short weighting n all phases of business. It was pre- sented to 'the House for consider- ition by Hon, R. B. Hanson, (York: inbury), Trade and Commerce JoMinister,; © oC fo 1 . Echo of the old Cornwall Bridge Uompany. charter, given by the government in 1930, was heard last week when a bill respecting the charter was up for second reading. F. T. Shaver, the member for Stor- mont, and Angus McGillis, Glengarry member, provided the main opposi- tion to the bill in view of the fact that the company never kept its promise to build a bridge across the St. Lawrence to St. Degis Island. The bill was given a six months' hoist. . : : The Canadian Radio Commission was given a further lease on life -- until March 31, 1936, at least--when the Commons passed a bill to this end, The Prime Minister defended the commission and government con- trol -of radio and also heard, along with the rest of the House, a report that stations in Timmins, North Bay and Kirkland Lake, Ont., were joint: ly controlled and presented a mono- poly threat. The government was asked to do something about it, A number of amendments to the Criminal Code, introduced by Min- ister of Justice Hugh Guthrie, (Wel- lington South) 'was passed. One of these amendments touched on mis- leading advertising and the govern- ment had been literally flooded by requests from mail order houses that the amendment do not apply to their catalogues now in the. course of publication. These requests, Mr. Guthrie pointed out, were not an admission of misleading advertising, as mail order houses guarantee what they advertise. Any change in the capital struc- ture of the Canadian National Rail- ways was further opposed by the Primé Minister. This, in view of the fact that litigation is now proceed- ing before the Privy Councli on be- half of Grand Trunk sharcholders. Reports of the 'Canadian National should always show the investment Canadian people hold in the erter- prise, the Premier contended. With Dr, W. C. Clark's housing scheme through the House, it is anticipated there will be a construct jon boom. The scheme also provides for slum clearance, It incorporates two main proposals--provision for $10,000,000 to lend to individuals or corporations willing to "build houses and who can get 60 per cent. of the appraised value of the property from a mortgage or loan company. It is likely the Economic Council will give Grown-up "Quintet" Entertains Dr. Er a aE A UN Dafoe bei ) Feminine admirers gather round Dr. A, R. Dafoe, who b ht t Di i into the world, as Dr. Dafoe was honor guest at a dinner held hog AAR Dione WG last week. Left to right are: Miss Jane Howard, Regina Wallace, Mrs. George Miss Betty Jane Ferguson, and her mother, Mrs. 'S. Ferguson, of Huntington, Long Island. ork City, Lyon, of Buffalo; graduates with: those whose expenses were being met by their parents, and it found that the former group rank- ed higher in class-room marks, dis- played a greater earnestness of pur- pose, and, in general, seemed to be getting more out of college life. This is not hard to understand. The lad whose college expenses are paid for him can easily fall into the notion that college is just a pleas- ant and diverting lark. The one who is earning his way by the sweat of his brow knows what he is in college for, and does his best to make it worth the effort it is costing him. --Victoria Times. ' DESTRUCTION OF BEAUTY Woodman spare that tree," is the ery going up in Ottawa at the de- nuding of the forests on the Gatineau Hills. For a mere pittance, regert- table to say, a natural resource and beautiful scenery are being destroy- ed, the consequences from which will be deplorable in the years to come.-- St. Catharines Standard. THE TWO PETERBOROUGHS While it is true, of course, that our city of Peterborough does not owe its name to the venerable catherdal city of Peterborough, England, but was rather called after Peter Robinson, who was responsible for the first large immigration into this part of Ontario, the Examiner is confident that our citizens generally will ap- prove of the steps that have been tak- en to enter into a namesake associa- tion, through the English-speaking Union of the British Empire, with that older Petercborough in the Mother Country. -- Peterboro Ex- aminer. . . { ag Cue gn ' LINGUISTAC MARVEL A man after George Barrow's heart is George E. Hay, who, at the tion of proofreader for a London firm which specializes in foreign pub- lication. Mr. Hay is said to have a working knowledge of about 500 lan- guages, but he was chiefly engaged in Oriental tongues and he corrected proofs in - Sanskrit, Sinz, Pushtuy, Panjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kanarese, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Burmese, ~ Siamese, Laos, Tibetan, Arabic, Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopic and Ancient Egyptian, also Chinese, Syrian, Greek and Hebrew, As a boy he only had an elemen- tary education, so that all these ac- complishments were acquired by ev- ening classes and by reading in mus- eums and the London School of Or- jental Languages. Primarily, he ow- ed his success to a marvellous mem- ory. Even now that he has retired his recreation is studying languages. -- IN JUNE : And what a' time it is, this rich, soft June of ours! A time of roses and a myriad of perfumes every- where. A time when Nature seems to pause after the first, exhausting burst of Spring growth, to enjoy the rosults of its prodigious labors, and men wisely follow Nature's example. A time of clear days before the blue haze of the full Summer, of warm, rich nights when the scent of blos- goms falls all about like rain.--Vic- toria Times, THE EMPIRE some study to the adequacy of ex- isting. housing schemes in this country. BRITISH ARMY DRESS * An official decision may soon be | made on the experimental army uni- age of 81, has retired from the posi-| form, consisting of "plus fours" with web gaiters, open-necked tunnics, and "deer-stalker" caps. This proposed new field-service dress for infantry was issued to a platoon of the Queen's Royal Regi- ment (West Surreys) in January, 1933, and has since been tested on route marches and field operations. A committee has had the matter under consideration for three and one-half years, and the other day Mr. Douglas Hacking, financial sec- retary of the War Office, announced in the House -of Commons that the committee's report was now under consideration by the army council." . An official inquiry into suggested reforms in dress and equipment for active 'service was. instituted in the Autumn of 1931, and in January, 1932, the nature of possible changes was indicated in the report on the health of the army for 1930, drawn up by Lieut. General H. B. Fawcus, director general "of army medical services. -- London Daily Telegraph. GIVE HIM A CHANCE A girl recently travelled 5,000 miles to get married. It was sporting of her to give him such a substantial start. -- London Opinion. . a MILK "BARS" Britain may soon-be-quenching its thirts at Milk Bars. The idea comes the Milk Marketing Board. The Board's vice-chairman, Ben Hinds, told farmers at Pwllheli that milk bars "would enable the touring public to obtain for themselves and their children best nutritious refresh- ments." from They were contemplating estab- lishing bars in many: parts of the country. Tiready schools -of Britain have their "bars." Walter Elliot, Minis- ter of Agriculture, inaugurated the scheme. Soon he may be "draw- ing" the first tankard to querich Britain's thirst -- and help the Brit- ish dairy farmer, -- London Daily Mirror. - French Railwayman Henri Chardon, president of the French /State Railways, here for a short visit that will include Montreal, Toronto, New York and Washington, is shown as he ar- rived in the Canadian Pacific lin- er Empress of Britain at Quebec. 21 OUR UNFINISHED FACES They May Change More As We Acquire Brain Power Not every one of us comes into the world with a perfect set of teeth (third molars to the dentist) that failed to force their way through the gums or that were missing? Whether or not wisdom teeth shall or shall not appear has no relatiom to the jaw (upper or lower) in which they are located. Not so with the lateral incisors (the front teeth that lié next to the eyeteeth). They are more likely to be crowded, doubl- ed, reduced, misshapen or absent] in the upper jaw. i Why should upper front teeth de- velop these peculiarities? Like other authorities on the anatomy of the mouth, Dr. M. F. Ashly-Montagu of New York University's College of Dentistry asked himself the ques- tion, ransacked the literature, made studies of his own and finally reach- ed the conclusion that these dental changes were necessary if the human face was to evolve --=if ~sight,~the most intellectual of the senses, was to be developed at the expense of hearing and smelling. TEETH IN VARIOUS RACES The more primitive the people the less likely are we to find malform- ed upper lateral incisors. The Mel- anesians, the Australian aboriginals,| the Bantu--their side front teeth are never reduced or absent. In American Negroes 3.7 per cent, of the laterals are degenerate and 1.7 per cent. missing. In the Chinese the corresponding percentages are 1 and 0.3; in American whites, 3.1 and 2.2; in the Japanese, 4.7 and 1.2, The whiter the Negro the nore likely are his lateral incisors to be affected. Evidently we are dealing with something that goes right back to the genes -- the units of life - that make plants, animals and men what they are. This being so, what would we find if we went back of man -- compared his face with the faces of his closest relatives? Dr. Aashly-Montagu began a study of the teeth, jaws, palates and faces of the anthropoid apes, monkeys and lemurs. He scruitinized more than 10,000 skulls. As he proceeded upward in the scale he saw plainly enough how the lemur's snout short- ened until it shrunk into a human upper jaw which no longer juts out from the face. + = CHANGE IN CANINES "The canines (eye teeth) of the upper and lower jaw and the lateral incisors of the upper jaw change. In- stead of suggesting tusks, the can- ines dwindle into teeth. A space is left between the latteral incisor and the upper eyetooth into which the lower 'ey8tooth fits. That space con- tracts as the eyeteeth dwindle. It should. There is no longer need for sheathing a saber-like lower canine which has become a real tooth, The plain truth is that - as "man developed his sense of sight and his intellect at the expense of his senses of hearing and smell his face chang: ed. In the process he lost a snout and remolded his upper jaw and some of' '| micro-organisms and their action is .| often still by letters. COLD NOT 50 COMMON NOW? . (Bertrand Russell, in New Statesman and Nation.) 1S THE COMMON _ J \ brought about by the- discovery of in all likelihood greater 'than the coincident decrease caused through- out the same period by political and economic misgovernment. ! My parents and grandparents were unusually intelligent and by no | means poor; yet their lives were made constantly wretched by ill- health, serious illness and death. The common 'cold, for instance, seems such a notable evil in our time that it is dificult to imagine it worse; but it used to be a much more dread- ful affliction. Nowadays, if we are strong, and live in the country, we may escape with two or 'three colds a year. In 1870 we should certainly, in the same circumstances, have had at least twelve, : In my Grandfather Russell's family, colds were so constant that they became a public joke, In 1873, when my grandfather ardently sup- ported Bismarck in his struggle with the Pope, Punch had a cartoon rep- resenting "a very diminutive Lord Russell, with his handkerchief in his hand, standing by a colossal Prince Bismarck, who is wielding the sword of 'No Popery, and saying, 'Go it, Bismarck, pitch into him! I'd ha' done it myself, only I have such an awfully bad cold." "The decline in the virulence bof colds has, of course, much to do with the decrease in the number of our mufflers and petticoats; but I think it is due more to knowledge of the process of infection. It used to be thought a proof of nobility for a woman to continue to visit her faimly and friends while suffering from a streaming cold; and while she sneezed incalculable numbers "of germs about them, her victims would murmur, 'So unselfish; always thinking of others before herself." More serious infections were often spread in the 'same way, and 'more On October 7, 1870, one of my grandmothers wrote to my mother from the house of an- other married daughter to say that the daughter's children had scarlet fever, and- she continued to write almost daily, until, on October 28th my brother was taken ill with the game disease, and mo one could imagine why. My mother wrote to my grandmother: "I am so glad it happened before you came as should have thought you brought- it. There is none about here." My parents both caught the fever themselves, and I believe that my father never recovered his former health. It is horrible to think of all the mothers of large families un- wittingly spreading misery in this way. A woman with eight children had usually about 64 grandchildren, and if one of these fell ill of an in- fectious disease, it was almost 'in- evitable that. the remaining 63 should be infected through the medium of her affectionate letters. We are still lamentably ignorant, but we have become "germ-con- scious". ; ; Tune Up Your Car Before You Tour A car tunc-up before the vacation t¥ip will do more than any other one thing to make the holiday a success. The car that seems to work fairly well in day-to-day driving may not be justtone hundred per cent. for work at full power over long periods. Both safety and pleasure being at stake, it is advisable to check care- fully before starting out. Brakes and steering are the chief items in the safety category, and in most cases simple adjustments will suffice. Good tires are essential, too, and all'lights should have good bulbs, with head- light beams properly adjusted. A motor tune-up is one of . the best precautionary measures. Battery and generator, lubricants, radiator, an fan-belt are among the other items which should be given attention. And it will add a lot to the vacat- jonist's happiness if he has the body bolts tightened. The satisfaction of having a well-groomed car - on the vacation trip is incalculable. S0 STRANGE A THING ----i Catherine Parmenter in the Commonweal. Out of the dark it came, Tn the deepest. hour and most - desolate-- ; ; Like a Jerendanbinre So strange a thing I heard: Silence was shattered .» + ~ fell consummate : From the throat of a bird! The prairie grasses lay 'Harsh to. my cheek, stars swung cool And still and far away. And out of the listening dark: Song The prairie The increase in human happiness|- ih POPULATIONS A Soviet Studies Rearrangement Of People And Industries. ~~ 0 Eight years ago the Soviet Usion established in Moscow -what it calls a Centrographical Laboratory. Ob. ject: To survey natura I resources, industry and population and then shift industries and populations as the findings may indicate. = = ° Every government has made simi- lar studies, but the Centrographical Laboratory declares that it will eclipse anything of the kind thus' far even considered. The. Soviet's inspiration came from Lenin, In 1918 he insisted -that industry can- not be allowed to brow haphazard. It must be properly integrated with transportation, sources of raw ma- terial and labor, consumers. First of all the Centrographical Laboratory undertook a study of the migrations of population that occurred between 1856 and 1928. It discovered that the geographical centre of Kuropean Russia was separated by 2,600 kilometers' (1,662 miles) from the centre of popula- tion, and that the centre of popula- tion was in turn separated from the centre of natural resources of energy (coal) by a distance of 1,600 kilo- meters (931 miles). Industry was located to the west of the centre of population and agriculture to the east. Coal, peat, wood were found chiefly in the northeast. How the Soviet Government is likely to go about the difficult busi- ness of rearranging industry, 'agri- culture and population was indicated in 1931 at the Congress of Planning Scientific Work and in 1932 at the Congress for Geographic Distribution of Industry. Both congresses were held to aid in formulating and carry- ing out the second Five-Year plan. Take the lumber industry of the Mariinkaya watershed. In 1927 _the region was surveyed. The distances over which lumber had to be car- ried "by water to consuming induse' tries were determined. Now it looks shifted nearer the forests and saw- mills. And it is certain "that more effective use will be made of fine streams in transporting wood to the industries that must remain where they are. : The Komi region furnishes an- other example. The inhabitants are Ziryauns, Mongolian nomads. How will they take it when they are or- dered to settle down and work in factories which the Centrographical 1| Laboratory thinks should be built "in their territory? SURVEYS IN UKRAINE So-in the Ukraine surveys of its agriculture, its six most important animal species, its spgar industry, indicate the need of a change. It looks as if farming will become less important there than it is now. The region is served by the great Dnie- perstroy power plant--reason enough for thinking that its agricultural character must change. : The Centrographical is no respecter of political bound- aries. It re-establishes them if necessary. As an example, the self-- governing German - Russian terri. tory of the Volga may be cited: The centres of German and Russian population were located and new boundaries laid out. All these centres of population, industry and agriculture are theo- retical. They are no more real than is the average man of the statisti- cians. The centre of population of the United States, for 'example, is located in the Middle West, far from any large city. But each = census shows how it has shifted, and the shift indicates how the population is moving. In .Soviet Russia it is the same. The shifts are important. In a rationally organized State, centres of population, industry and agriculture cannot be allowéd to move in dife ferent directions, each at its own sweet will, i E | In The Looking Glass In the backwoods there was a mam with a family of twenty-one. boys. He and his wife drove to town twice. a year for supplies, but the other meme bers of the family had never seem a shop. Tbe eldest hoy, who was twenty-four, had never had -a halry cut or shave in his lite, and had never looked .in a mirror. : On the annual trip to town the Laboratory '| old man bought a mirror and: stuck it inside a crate, with: the remar "It's time the young 'uns saw theme selves." - 3 vs Ey _ When he arrived home the fama: ily rushed. out tothe wagon, There was a burst of laughter from the eldest boy, who wag staring in the crate at the looking-glass, demanded one ofthe others. . a wolf," stood "mute of malice" was liable to have heavy weights placed on his chest until he broke: silence; this was known as "peine-dure et forte," and doubtless deserved the deseript- jon, Nowadays, in Buch cases, - the judge orders a plea of "Not guilty" Quite unafraid and wholly beauti- ful : his teeth, The cry of a lark! J to be entered on the prisoner's bee . "Charlie, what are laughing at?" In the old days a prisoner "who J ¥ 2 yu 2 ----