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Port Perry Star (1907-), 14 Nov 1935, p. 2

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/ THE WORLD AT LARGE A VOICE of the SER CANADA, THE EMPIRB + PRESS : CANADA BRITISH LEAD As a result of "a national survey of the attitude toward foreigners" in the United States, it is found that "Germany is the most unpopular na. tion with Americans, with Japan, Italy, Russia and France in close succession." British people, accord. ing to this survey, are the most popu. lar in the country to the south of Canada. And there is just another argument for the closest possible co- operation between the. English-speak. ing peoples of the world in a move. ment for world peace and security, --Halifax Herald. GOOD PUBLICITY The letter of a tourist from/Cam. - bridge, Mass, in yesterday' Tele- graph-Journal serves two rposes. The writer, meeting with ary accident at Prince of Wales, was gssisted by passing motorists, Mounted Police and residents. Acknowledgment of courteous treatment is made in the letter, with thanks expressed and praise given. Thus one purpose is served by the writer. Another is to call attention again to the value of courtesy on the road. The tourist in this case has returned home profoundly impressed by the kindly manner in which all about her at the time of the accident hurried to her assistance, rendering first aid, securing a wrecking car, offering to lend her money to pay for the addi- tional demands on her purse made by the mishap. "That is good publicity for the province. -- Saint John Telagraph- Journal. Tn NEW BELGIUM STAMP "The Be'gian postal authorities have announced that they intend to issue a special stamp in memory of Queen Astrid who was killed in a motor accident at Kuessnacht, near Lucerne, Switzerland, under most tragic circumstances. ; It is announced that it will bear the portrait of the dead Queen and will be sold at a slightly higher price than the ordinary. postage stamps of Belgium. This {is only natural but the human interest in the announcement lies in-the state- 'ment that the money raised by the extra cost of the new stamp will be devoted to a national fund for the country's battle against tuberculosis. --Victoria Times. HE WENT TO SLEEP A little paragraph which appeared in the press the other day must have caused many an orator. Yo smile, It told the stosy of a bh A sin against a speechifier, an act that must frequently have appeared to a spellbinder" as the most insulting in the whole category of gestures. While Hitler was giving an address an official went to sleep. We can picture the thrill of horror © that that discovery must have caus. od throughout the ranks of the Nazis. Without his words of wisdom, Hit- ler's voice shou'd have been enough to keep any one awake. - The offic- . Jal's (oze was a terrible reflection! "It suggested the Reichsfuehrer was a bore. -- Hamilton Spectator. KILLING THE CATS Research workers in London are tryng to perfect a serum to check the epldomic which is killing thous- ands of cats in all parts of Britain. The death rate is rising, The disease appears to be increasing in virulence, and the death is following more ra- pldly upon infection. A cat, one day in perfect condition, may be dying or dead the next. The attack may even prove fatal within 12°hours, and: veterinary surgeons are helpless in the absence of a serum, The discase has been fdentified.as a form of gastro.enteritus due to a virus infection. This virus infection is peculiar to cats and there is mo risk to any other animals or human beings. Theresearch staff of one of the finest scientific laboratories in the world is now co-operating with veterinary surgeons in the search for & serum. -- The Brandon Sun, ~-VALUE OF IMPERIAL PACTS Vancouver newspapers report ship. ments on three days of last week of 61,000 boxes of apples and pears « from the British Columbia port. Since the opening of the export. year in August there Las been exported from ~ Britlsh Columbia, almost entirely to the British market, 101,000 boxes of apples and 15,400 boxes of pears. So .important has the British Columbia apple trade become that special re. frigerator ships are now In service. In 1084 there was exported 171,023 '...... boxes. The total value of the export trade is placed at $4,000,000 b This trade has almost entirely de- veloped under the British Empire 'trade phots, which have given Can- ada a preference in 'the British mar. koa British Columbia has crowded /ashington and Oregon out of the erseas markets, = London Froe re WILD DUCE Hamilton Spectator something like a poker game with one duce wild, -- Woodstock Sentingl.Review. : AS YE ED SEES IT_ Experiments show that the pe- destrlan using unlighted roads at night is safest if he wears a white suit, while dark clothes show up best on well lit thoroughfares, But if he could afford all those suits he would not be -a_ pedestrian, -- Windsor Star. OTTAWA'S\TUMOR CLINIC The world wafts with hope upon who are seeking a cure for cancer. But-even in the absence of the spe. fic that is being sought in hundreds of laboratories it is fair to say that progress s being made in this deadly war. aha progress is being made in this deadly creasingly intelligent use of the wea- pons already proved effective. It is known now that many cancers can be cured if diagnosis is made at an early stage and the treatment: fol. lows promptly along the established lines of X.ray, radium, surgery in operable cases. ign . Early diagnosis is the all-importan factor, and this is being given-wctive encouragement by. such agencies as the tumor clinic of the Ottawa Civic Hospital, which has completed its first year -of existence. In that period 684 persons . presented themselves for examination and 450 of them (an average of 37 each month) were found to have cancer of a maiignant type. The result is that many of these patiénts before the disease had ad- vanced to the stage of absolute hope. lessness secure the benefit of the most advanced treatment -- and it is quite certain that in some cases cures will be effected, in all cases suffering will be relieved, by the ex- nal. PARENT TAKES ACTION " Nothing €an frighten the parent of a school child quite as much as the free and easy way in which motorists sometimes go whizzing past school houses. A parent who catches that spectacle and reflects, on the danger which it involves for the school child. ren is tempted sometimes to rise up in rebellon -- and at last a harassed parent has actually gone and done it. : In Westport, Conn., Mrs. Sheldon Wells , noted that few motorists bothered about the traffic light by the school which her children at- tended. So she has taken to spend- ing some hours on that corner each day, jotting down the license num. bers of all cars which fail to make the required stop and turning them over to the police. AS a result, some. motorists have been fined and others have receiv- ed warnings - from the state motor vehicles commissioner. If there were more parents like Mrs. Wells, fewer school children would he killed by automobiles. Her example is one which mothers in many other towns and cities might profitably copy. -- Chatham News. THE EMPIRE TWEEDSMUIR ON EMPIRE Lord Tweedsmuir was given .a fare- well luncheon by the Royal Empire Soclety in view of 'his departure for Canada to take up the Governor Generalship. He spoke on the vari- ous phases through which the Brit- ish Empire has passed, the present being that of an alliance of indepen. dent sovereign - peoples--a phase which in his opinion is passing, . He believes that it is approach. ing a new phase, one in which the alliance will develop into something more--a working executive partner ship with a common policy for all that concerns the . Empire, the in- spiring spirit with it- being not nationalism, but patriotism In the fullest sense of the term. It is only in proportion as Lord Tweedsmuir's continue to be an League of Nations, Such a wider sense of obligation is fadllitatyd in the case of the Empire by comphunity of ancestry, speech, custom Gd morality, to which must be added the will to unity as evinced by leaders at home and in the Do. minions. The latter is something which may be encouraged and de- veloped. The historic sense -- con. spicious in Lord Tweedsmuir himself --plays no small part in Imperial 'unity, -- London Spectator: WOMEN AS CENSORS It would be difficult to name a more thanklqss task than that of censorship in any form. Neverthe- less, the women of the United Aus. tralia party meeting in Sydney are demanding feminine representation on the New South Wales Film Advis. ory Board." ~ As women are sald to represent" 76 per cent of audiences example to the they have the justice of majorities in olajni fo habiee th the cen- of films, Whether their judg- The Ethiopian trouble appears te : the devoted effdrts of its scientists} istence of this clinic. Ottawa' Jour. ideal fs fulfilled that the Empire can! Nazi banner flying from German owned building in and pro-Ethiopia mob during demonstration. afire. Police armed with rifles guarded building after incident. Flag was ripped from Mexico City aroused wrath of Anti-Fascist Luilding and is shown being set - U.S. Mother Condemns Pearl Buck Novel KANSAS CITY, -- A mother who said Pear! Buck's "The Good-Earth" hood days "you went behind the barn to read," brought about a sweeping investigation of high school reading lists in Kansas City. "Orders have gone out for teach- ers to give closar attention to both optional and required readings" sald City School Superintendent George Melcher. Earligr the board of educa- tion had directed that a committee of English teachers study the option- al reading lists and eliminate all they consider 'not -appropriate". Mrs. E. B. McCann:objectéd to the books as unfit for her 15-year-old son. She said she had "read scarcely more than a third of this volume," but ask- ed: "Why should anyone be required to wade through the filth in order to get some kind of a lesson at the end of the book?" Mrs, McCann expressed - belief that "book reviewers, the so-called intelligentsia and the great Ameri- can reading public, are so ignorant they don't know trash when they see ) pi HO Crowding Them In There was a truck loaded with stock going east through Stratford, and 'a number of people gathered when a short stop was made, ob- serves the Stratford Beacon-Herald. It was necessary for the driver of the truck to get up in the load and use a rope in order to get the head of one young animal up. There had been such crowding that once the head got down it could not get it up again. The truck drove off before there was time to take any action about having some of the animals taken out. As the departure was made it was noticed that the ani- mal's head which had been pulled up once more went down because there was no comfort in having the head up. It did not look as though there was an animal -in-that truck which could move if it tried so tight were they wedged in there. There is law against that sort of thing but the trouble is that a truck once under way can keep right .on going and there is small opportunity to witness the manner of the packing and eréowding and therefore no remedial action is taken. Certainly that truck which passed through this city was an example of 1 sthod ed. which should not be tolera Yesterday and To-day (Matilda, Arthur) Whoever I am, whatever my lét Wherever I happen to be Contentment and duty shall hallow the spot : : That Provigence orders for me. No covetous straining or striving to gain One feverish step in advance-- : I know my own place and you tempt me in vain . . To hazard a change or a chance-- He lent me my lot, be it humble or high, He set me my business. here, And whether I live in His service . or die" ; : My heart shall be sphere, va] found® in His ment is equal to, or better than, that of men is a matter too dgplicate on which to generalise. The only clue to the nature of the influence they would exert In this instance lies in their agreement to a motion whioh aimed at eliminating from the screen every | tendency to immorality, drunkenness, {and crime. It is a praiseworthy but , ambitious programme, which, if put into effect, would debar 95 per cent of pletures from: the scraen. -- Mel. bourne Australasian. os I 13 iy was a type of book which in her child-- Education Laws Will Be Altered TORONTO,--More than a dozen amendments to existing legislation governing education in Ontario will be introduced at this forthcoming ses- sion of the Legislature, it was stated officially: at Qireen's Park last week. Chiat: apgong them will be: recom. mendations contained in the rport of the special inquiry committee ap- pointed a short time ago by the Pro- vincial Government under Duncan McArthur, deputy minister of educa- tion, : Yay Probably the most important of the amendmants will be that respect- '| ing school taxation, about whicli the deputy minister will say nothing. There is some possibility that the committee's report wiil not be made public, but: that it will be made in the form of recommendations for amend- such would not-be brought out until the assembly sits. again. 3 Besides new amendments there still: remain some which were left over from the last session and which will be tintroduced in the 'new 'House. Youth of Today Moral conditions in the world are serious. 3 Young people, especially, guidance on moral questions greater extent than at any time in the history of the human race. Nevér before have so many -influ- ences been at work to destroy the very--souls of men. Teachings. of many prominent persons, suggestions in sone mo- tion pictures and articles in certain types of magazines and newspapers, and in books, are giving many young people false standards of morality. The adversary is apparéntly mak- ing every possible effort to lead young people into immorality and unchastity, one of the surest means of lead'ng them into apostasy and condemnation, Young people, as a rule, are anx- jous to do what is right; but with so many influences at work to lead them astray they need counsel and advice. They need warning of the far-reaching effects and serious con- sequences of immorality. President Joseph F: Smith, in an article entitled Unchastity, the Do- minant Evil of the Age, wrote: "No more loathsome cancer disfigures the body and soul of society today. . . It skulks through the land in blasphemous defiance of the laws of God and of man. Whether openly known or partly concealed under the cloak of guilty secrecy, the re- sults are potent in evil influence." The Gospel teaches a definite standard of morality. This 'stand- ard is binding upon all members, old or young, male or female, It is the standard of personal purity and strict chastity. = ; Care is Needed + Storing Dahlias to a -- Valuable varieties of often lost as a result of diseases de- veloping in storage. Experiments conducted by the' Division 2 Botany of the Dominion Experimental Farms Branch show that these losses can be reduced materially by proper at. tention to the lifting and storing of the roots. As soon as the dahlia plant has completed fits full growth, it be- ging storing material in the roots for future ute. This will vary with the seadon, locality -and the variely. When the plant is mature it should be cut down and the roots dug very carefully with a spading fork. I : Drying: 0 a The loosened clump should never be pulled up by the stalk, and the 'nse of an ordinary spade ls to be #3 ai 3 : ments to existing legislation, and 'asi Needs Guiding Hand | need | dahlias are : cause wounds which render the roots very susceptible" to attack by rot producing diseases, The removed clump should be turned upside down to let moisture drain out of the stems and allowed to dry for two or three hours, particularly it the soil 1s. wet. Romoving the soil adhering to the roots is not necessary, particularly if the clump has been thoroughly dried. "The root should be stored in a frost-proof place, but no where it is too warm, to prevent shrivelling. Good resulis were obtained 'when 'the roots were stored at 35 to 40 de- grees: Fahrenheit. Sphagnum moss was found to be the most satisfactory for packing the roots. This moss, when thoroughly air-dried, took care of excessive: moisture from the ro0:s, and at the same time prevented ex. cassive drying. 'Well-matured 'roots stood a higher storage temperature than immature ones. . Mature roots survived tempera ures 'ranging from 65 to 770 degrees, but tuffered consid. erably from drying. : Moisture The vigor of 'plants grown from roots stored 'at low temperatures -- 35 to 45 degrees -- was greater than those-stored -at 60 _to 70 degrees. There was less soft. and dry rot in the well.matured roots, whether Regardle:s of what the storage con- ditions are, the roots should be ex- amined from- time to time through. out the Winter. If conditions are too dry some water should be added to the moss. If there is evidence of rot, the roots shouldbe moved to a dryer place. Fancy varieties are, as a general rule, more suscepiible to rot under artificial "storage conditions, for which reason they require- more careful attention, > His Heritage ih My som, you'll soon be leaving, As youngsters often do; Your mother will be grieving, * Your dad will miss you, too. You'll never find a fonder Or better home than here, But youngstérs like to wander ' The springtime of the year. Temptation will surround you To lead you into wrong; ; But, from the way I've found you, I know you'll get along. I know, somehow or other, Because you always had A whole lot of your mother, And a little of your dad. A queer old world awaits you Out there. beyond the hill, A world that loves you, hates you, That 'gives you good and ill, Be humble in your riches, Be glad without a cent; The roses in the ditches Bloom on, and are content. Though other men 'have money (And money helps: a lot), . You've got a fortune, Sonny, Some others haven't got: You've got a wealth, another That ought to make you glad-- A whole lot of your mother, And a little of your dad. There's lots of mother in you-- I've seen it day by day; Temptation will not win you i Nor lead you far astray. In evry tangled byway The mother will arise And help you find the highway-- 1 see it in your eyes, And so I'll never worry, Wherever you may go, * However you may hurry, Whatever you may knows A boy, somehow or othef, Won't turn out very bad, With a whole lot of his mother-- ~ ~--Douglas Malloch. is of our social life in these troubl- ed times."--Albert Einstein. 2 personality Ta only people who have -not got any." -- avoided, because these practices may G. K. Chesterton, ; ; X : A TET aad ARE | year. stored at high or low temperatures. | order, " cloth, And a ge of hisdad. | ji EERE SU SEE le { - "The Bible is dnd must be the basJ| important to] order to Wilson Patt | Bt West Adalatds ioe, To | ipcious ter Than Their Drivers Report Shows, = # 3 ey -- \ ---- -~ Ya § ; 5 Comments the NE et! "The official een 3) automobile fatalities do ally differ from the earlier estimates. | They indicate that 35,768 people were killed in the United States last year as compared with 80,760 the year be- fore. Fy wry . X 3 What is the cause of this shock- ing increase? About 'half of it may be attributed to incréased use of the highway, gasoline consumption having jumped 7.5 per cent, last A small fraction may be blamed on drinking "and drunken drivers, with more money to spend on liquor. Most of the remainder of the added fatalities can safely b charged to increased speed ,as dis- [tinguished from that convenient but overworked scapegoat, reckless driv- Jing. Highway speeds are "definitely higher than they were a few years ago" as the president of the National Safety Council explained: in his address at Louisville. People who used to be content. with 86 miles an hour are now "impatient at 45." Thanks again to better equipment and improved highway surfacing, the ordinary driver. often does not realize how fast he Is go- ing: 50 miles an hour today seems no more than 25 in the old days. Moreover, 'any current model can be driven much faster than the average driver's reflexes will permit handling with any reasonable. degree of safety." He does not stop to figure out that a car going twice as fast takes four times as far to stop. He 'makes' no allowance for the time:it takes him to "make up his mind" to put on the brakes, three-quarters of a second on: the average--a 'signifi- cant and 'sometimes, at High speeds, a fatal interval. At 60 miles an hour, for example, the "reaction distance" i measured at 66 feet, which mus? be added to a "braking distance". of 160 feet, to calculate the total "stop- ping distance" of no less than 226 feet. Bearing these figures in mind, it is _little worider that two-thirds of all fatalities to occupants of = auto- mobiles occur at speeds in excess of 45 miles an hour, * Peasant Jumpers--Sister, Brother a Panto FU 23 : rl The ,umpeis are navy -blue wool. jersey--cosy and smart, to say the least, Kasy to keep in because the separate 'blouses are' washable yellow checked cotton broadcloth with 'W ollar and cuffs. : . Several blouses could be made to wear with the woolen 'jump- . ers, One in blue cotton broad- and perhaps another of red and white stripea percale. They will give a complete change of costume at little extra cost. Style No. 3461 includes both models. It is Jesighed in sizes 2, '4 and 6 years, Size 4 requires 1% yards of 86-inch material for jumper and % 30 of 86-inch mates] with x ig 86-inch ~ col or blouse. "HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. . Write your name and address ~ plainly, giving number and kize "of pattern wanted. Enclose 160 in imps. or Soli (coin prstonred); it ca | a } ou Pattern dervie High-Powered Machines Bet-| w | nell, whl "| cratic government," osity of all who read nell of Barra. The N. Grt Nec AER bo habs ony 1. leader of tho Clan MAG forty-fifth leader of the Clan Mac. : ch settled the Isle of Barre fn Castle Bay, fifty miles off the west coast of Scotland, in the year 406. He is the lineal descendant of Rery the Turbulent, firBt leader of the Clan Macneil, and as such is regarded by and the United States as thelr undis. puted chieftain. . If the Macneil wished to return to Barra, he could live there as ruler of the clan under the supervision of the King of 'England, What honour that position means can be gathered from the tale of Rory, who, it is sald, would send a trumpeter every night to the ramparts of Kisimul Castle, ancient seat of the clan, to announce - to the world: "Hear ye, ye people! The Macneil of Barra has eaten his meal, Now the princes of the earth may eat theirs!" ia Instead, the present Macneil of Barra has devoted his time' to Gov. ernment service, an army career and & successful period in' business as head of a company in New York City which recently patented a device that has discovered the presence of ves. sols two miles off in a thick fog at sea, The Macneil was christened" Rob. 'ert by his: father, Roderick Macnell, the artist, shortly after his birth on a farm in Michigin., He was edu- cated in Paris at the Ateller Chiffot and Lambert Ecole des Beaux Arts. He practised architecture after gradu. ation; the Cuban Embassy in Wash. ington is one of his designs. Before America entered the World War: he was adviser to the American Board of Trade. He later saw service in France with the Canadian Engineers. TThe Macneil inherited his title at the 'age of 256 when his father died. He was réadily approved by the mem. bers of the clan. He makes fairly frequent trips to Baira, where there is a celebration waiting for him on each arrival. Ha {8 eminently respec. ted and loved by all Macneils. On one ocedsion, ~ when he visited all the Macneil families in Nova Scotia, his progress resembled that of the Pled Piper, for he picked up followers as he went along, and by the 'time he gof we!l inland there were 30 cars, loaded down with enthusiastic Mac- nells, trailing his own, The Macneil naturally {is proud of his heritage and ot the distinglsh- ed members of his clan. Roderick the Resolute, one of the Macnells of spRexy died with General Wolfe in the Amine, so ~lng of Abraham be- Q x SA English at Bunker? Eddy, founder. of Chrh wag a member of the clan through her grandmother. So was James Mac. neil Whistler. 2 The Macneil fe known as Robert it with the 'only to his most intimate friends. His mail comes to him addressed to the Macneil of Barra and that is the way he signs his cheques. He. is the author of a history of the Macneils, which - has been placed in every 1ib- rary in the British 'Empire. _ He has lived in Great Neck for: the would be known in: Scotland as The Lady of Barra; his two daughters (The Maids of Barra), and. his son, | Tan Roderick, whose title is The Halr of Barra. Better Personnel In Public Service Better personnel in public service is one of the most challenging needs of the times, the National Leakue of Women - Voters has decided. And the league therefore. appointed a com- mittee to hammer that fact home to the public in = every possible. way. Mrs, George Gellhorn, of St. Louis, Mo., is chairman of.this committee "The spoils system must go," de- «clares Mrs. Gellhorn. "In this patron- age trend lies the danger to demo- she states. "Heretofore America has been rich enough to afford waste and inefficl- ency in government, but from now on government will cost enough, even though every dollar is wisely spent. "The times call for a new -and most patriotic attitude on the part of the ruling politicians toward 'the public service. We capnot afford to pay for inefficient: and indifferent government workers, We can have efficient government only by provid- ing permanent, trained, capable em- ployes." ghar. " Mrs. Gellhorn is regarded as one of St. Louis' outstanding women, Her dctiities in the league she calls her "profession," but het™in- terests extend to many public pro- jects in her. home as well as those of national-seope, In the days before suffrage was granted to women she was a director of the National Ameri- can Woman Suffrage Association. 'Mrs. Gellhorn is a Bryn Mawr graduate, Saad tai dant o ig * "The world of the fature wil not ides 0 | live in houses, but .in 'the s air-conditioned hills, -b r °o, NE + Go Wells, i ra all true Macneils in Scotland, Canada _¢ € Be;

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