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* a Bly « Ba » ; : 3 £7 a 4 gd p » 2 ' -, 3 < ow, > - . a £8 A VA 4 ; wa 3 A A oa x oa . ee ee CANADA & Empire ir The | baila Empire passes on, "absorbed into.a paper that {s to be known as the Globe and Mall, and Toronto henceforth will have but 'onc morning daily. = Ra) hE No doubt a merger was the sen. sible course, but there alway. Iu something tragic about the extitction of a good newspaper with the tradi, "tions that gather about it in more * party organ, 'unfailing. _only two or than a half-century of ~ publication. The Mai: was foynded in 18i2, took over the Empire in 1895, later the World. Latterly it has been ,« 'haps the closest approach among major Canadian dailies to the old-fashioned Its. support of the Con: servative cause was enthusiastic anc But even through this per: fod it continued to be a fine news paper, edited with! intelligence and in a keen sense of its public respon- sibilities.-- Ottawa Journal Mrs. Kenny's Spare Time ' A startling discoverv has ceen re: vealed concerning Mrs. Lily Kenny, mother "of fourteen children, eleven "of whom she hopes will win for sr the $500,000 Millar" baby derby. Mrs. Kenny has spare time! It i{s remark: able that a womar can cook and s W and generally do for- fourteen active offspring and at the end uf the day .still have time to devote to statue and. model house building hobbies Yet this is just. what is claimed for Madame [lelly. Perhaps she manages her brood the way the old woman who lived in a stove' did hers, And perhaps the object of her hobby is to design houses to accommodate M- Millar's bigger and better families. At any rate, it is likely many mothers of three . children would thank Mrs. Kenny to let them in on - 'her secret for dnding leisure hours, - St, Thomas Tiwes-Journal. Keep the Windows Oper 'While it Is :oramonly known thit many motorists are suffocate. by gas * from' motors running in closed gar: ages, it is not generally suspesteu that gas accumulating in 'moving cars may be the canre of mauy hith: erto unexplained tratfic accidents. With the advent of cooler weather and 'the consequent f{nclina.lon to drive with the car windows closed attention may well he directed to th s fact. : Recent' tests show that inost auto mobiles after being driven for som. distance -accumulaty a sufficient quantity of carbon. monoxide to af- fect seriously the mental alertness and muscular correlation of the driv: er When you feel dull or drowsy while driving, stop and get a breath of fresh air. Make sure that carbon monoxide will not be the cause of stemming the Colorado: River. _dam, a huge concrete horseshoe, has " whereof it speaks, - been for a considerable period an accident to the car you're driv: ing.--Oshawa Times. What & Dam Did Two of America's sunuiest, warm- est spots are. having their -climate .changed--by the building of a dam. _Alr pilots. flying over North-East ern California and Svuthern Nevada have found that temperatures in these areas are distinctly +oo.er since the construction of the now famous Boulder Dam, an {mmense structure The created a lake 100 miles long which is" reported to be cooling the air for miles around. Pilots. declare the Jake to be a "charging battery" --in- the cooling process, "the cooler air spreading like an open umbrella over the country- side. They discdvered it by noting the lower temperatures at which their en. gines ran in the area, The tempera: tures dropped as the lake expanded. .--Montreal Star, . Marriages Are Up We have the word of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, which kno vs that Canadian couples are being married in greater numbers this year than they have © of time. For the month of September, indeed, the number of marriages reg: istered in 67 citie: and towns through. out the Dominion increased to 4,285 from a total of 3,762 in t.e same month lasv year. This was an In crease of 14 per cent. and that for the nine months ended 'with Septem: ber amounted to 6.4 per cent.--Brock- villa Recorder and Times. ' Playing . Witk.' Death A number of shootings have taken place in the woods. County case, the victim was hit by .-a bullet the origin o1 which is un. known and the man who fred the shot may be to this day ignorant of the fact that the bullet he fired found "a human target, for it must be re- membered that the modern rifle car ries far, and even If a shot is fired in one direction, a richochet may di vert it to a totally unexpécted place. A more. recent accident {s of an en- tirely different kind. In this case the hunter had been pursuing his quarry, lost sight of it for a' little, and then saw a moving object fn the bushes; and fired: Un: happily. it struck near two other hun: ters who ran immediately for cover, 73% Sd from | life. vention of the shell-harpoon in 1868 In the Hants] the Press They shouted, but the hunter was so far away their voices did not carry. . The two hid behind trees, but un- luckily the hand of one was showing and the next moment he had a bullet through ft, After that, the other fir ed a shot to' warn the hunter of what he was doing. He came running over at once ang the injured man was im- mediately taken away for treatment, hig hand being so badly shattered that' reports have it amputation may be necessary.--Halifax Chronicle. & Women's Rights Leaders Callendar, Ont,, neither a mining nor an industrial centre, ag the Mon: treal Gazette points out, is assuming the proportions of a boom town, all on account of five little girle Yet the franchise has been denied women the sister province isn't careful the Dionne girls are likely to run over some day and lay down the law for women's' rights.--'l'oronto Globe. New Car New passenger automobiles sold in Canada 'during the first nine months of 1936 show an Increase of 8.6 per cent. in value over the same period of 1935, - Including trucks and buses, the increase is 9.6 per cent. in num- ber*and 1C.4 per cent. in value. In these nine months the Canadian pub: lic has investeu practically $95,000,000 in motor vehicles, compare + with $85. 000,000 in the comparable part of 1934. By the end of the ,ea: this will have been increased to at least $110, 000,000. Approximately 110,000 new motor vehicles will have been placed oL the roads, including about 90,000 passenger cars The addition of 110,000 cars, trucks 4nd buses to the motor véhicles un the roads of Canada, will, of course, be offset to some extent by those withdrawn from use -- a number astimated in 1936 at 66,000. If this estimate again holds good, there will be a nét increase of approximately $7,000, which should bring the total registrations up: to 1,212,642, not fn- cluding motorcycles. This would mean a greater number of cars. in uss than 1 any years except 1930, when the registrations reached a peak of 1,222, 730. If the figures are approximatel, correct, one car in every eleven on the roads at the end of this year will be a car purchased in 1936.--Toronto Daily Star, Keep Canada Canadian Not the least valuable bit of advice given by Leo Dolan, of the Canadian Travel Bureau, during his visit here, was that the distinctively Canadian and British atmosphere should be maintained in appeals to tourists, United States. -visitors who come here 'on vacation want to see some thing different. They want to see the Mounted Police and the Unfon Jack. They can find enough "George Wash: ington" hot dog stands and "Indiana" restaurants at home and would pre fer to find here Indian: names remin. iscent of Hiawatha or. of the local They want to see Indian. wigwams, birchbark canoes, lumbeériien's shirts and prospector's packs. They ftvant a good place to sleep and good meals to eat and so on. But they want also .an "atmosphere." So Algoma people who cater - to American tourists shouldn't ape Am. erican names and customs. -- Sault Ste. Marie Star. THE EMPIRE The Doomed Whale Whether the whale will notice much difference (from the new inter- other matter. It is not likely that the peak of 1930-31, - whun 30,000 whales were caught and .,686,976 bar. rels of oil produced from them, will ever be touched again. Big whules are no longer seen and an abundance of small ones does not compensate for their absence. Svend Foyn's in. in Quebec for the twelfth time. If}. national agreement on whaling) is an. | AND ROOF OF THE TOGETHER TOF > * UNISTEEL CONSTRUCTION JOINS THE FLOOR, COWL, PANELS VROLET ALL: SILENT, ALL-STEEL BODY - ONE INTEGRAL STRUCTURE , .. and the more recent {introduction of the factory-ship - have done thelr deadly work, and the present restric tions do little more than (to use an up-to-date simile) apply a poultice to a volcano,--Cape Argus, Every City's Problem Johannesburg is certainly prosper ous. There is no point in tiying to disguise that fact. It is more pros perous -than it has even been before. But that is not to say that every Tom, Dick.and Harry who {s ubable to make a living in his own country, or in-his own part of this country, can make a living here. Far from ft, in tact. There is still a lot of unem- ployment* in Johannesburg, There is more, indeed, than there should be, owing to the fact that jobless men, with little or no qualification to un- dertake any kind of skilled work, have flocked here in large numbers under the stupid impression that the streets are paved with gold 'and that 'jobs hang like ripe fruit on trees waiting to be plucked.--Johannesburg Times, Farmers Back Labor In U.S. Workers Are Told -- Million: Growers Buy Only Union Made Goods TAMPA, Ila.--I. M. Ornburn, sec- retary of the American Federation of Labor -union- label- department, re- ported- recently the co-operation of one million farmers in a movement to buy only unfon-made ;oods. While informal discussion of a Farmer-Labor Party in 1940 was current among delegates, Ornburn told his department's annual meet- ing "we now- estimate -6ver-a-million: farmers have become labor conscious and buy only goods upon which the union label is displayed." -- Meantime, interest among the dele- gates assembling for the federation's general convention centred upon the: scrap between John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers an. leader of the unions favoring or- ganization of all the workers in each big industry into ona hie nnion, and' unions favoring organization by craft. William Green, federation presi- dent and spokesman for the craft unionists, was due to arrive today. "Reporting to the building trades department convention recently, the department's executive council urged a "concerted" drive by all craft unions to combat the Lewis move- ment, ~ . The building trades council furth- er recommended that all local build- with central bodies and state feder- ations of labor "so as to assure con- 'certed action" against Lewis. J. W. Williams, building trades de- partment president, in his report pre- dicted such a revival in building dur- ing the coming year that every idle building trades worker would get a job. Provinces Get $175,867,348 OTTAWA.--Total ordinary rev- enue for all provinces in 1934 was $175,867,348, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported recently. Taxation was the largest single source of revenue, amounting to $78,668,667, included in which were the following principal items: Motor fuel or gasoline $26,812.274, cor- poration $17,643,137, succession duties $11,019,033, income $6,992,- 206, real or personal propertty $5, 5306994 amusement tax $2,1008.- 4817, The licensing of motor vehicles was_ responsible for $20,840,513, liquor or control boards $12,814,120. Other sources of revenue included marriage licenses, fee for registra. tion, law 'stamps, incorporat ons. public health fees for laborities, boards .of health and registration of nurses, sales of text books and king's printer's accounts, intere.t o1 loans and advances to publicly owned utilities. There are royalties, duties and fees from lumber and mining companies. 'Besides the ordinary revenue the provinces have stipulated subsidies dies and allowances under the British North America Act. There Lis some institutional revenue as well as fines and penalties. , Black Dogs Supply New Fashion Note NEW YORK.--Just to give you an idea--smart "women are even leading black dogs. It is no news that there is a fashion in dogs as in everything, but it is a slightly differ- ent angle when it's the color of the dog. So the women in black leads the dog in black. : The word "Edwardian" is more and more in fashion news. We are hearing repeated references to the "Edwardian color scheme of black with bright blue touches." That fashion is generous in her sil- houette offering is not unusual, There are usually two silhouettes, often contradictory. This season is no ex- ception. The one with "Edwardian" back fulness seems to be slightly in the lead, but the flaring one is crowd- ing 't hard. I EE Ss There is also a sophisticated group that likes fullness at the front so, if you want to be on your own in the matter, the only suggestion is that you select the silhoustte which does most for your figure. Keep your waistline slender. If it isn't, make it appear so by widening your shoulders and hemline, not only for evening but for daytime as well, After examining many representa- tive collections, we beg to report that thé season's silhouette makes a point of contras\s. For example, a redin- gote frock has a very slim founda- tion revealed beneath a full skirt that is often steer and frequently embroidered. A gown from Lanvin in black net treated with sequin bands is aa example of this type of dress. There ~r) also several dresser. es: pecially in evening expression that have definitely full skirts with the fullness rising from a high line, One from Chanel is charming and recom- mended as especially suited to dan- cing--a gown in navy net embroider- ed in sequins, 'Cuntrasting with this silhouette are dresses that have a definitely long and slenderline, with a pepum describing a slanting, flaring line at the 'back, making the skirt below seem even slimmer. The princess line approved in day- 'me fashioss {8 also extinded to ev enir.g gowns," one from Lanvin, for instance, in velvet fa. hioned on prin- cess lines with delicate bead en broid- eries at the low decolletage. Words, Words! A Vocabulary Test is Devised for Medical Students If Dr. Joseph Nash had his way, young men and women who aspire to become physicians would be given what he considers a simple, fair and effective aptitude test. Writing to The Journal of the American Meddi- cal Association, he points out that Garrison's widely read "History of Medicine" contains about al' the words that a practitioner is likely to meet in his: reading or professional conversation. If the meaning of these is known, aptitude is indicated. Let the doctor speak for himself so that he may not be misquoted: Will not every physician. on meeting these familiar terms in his leisure reading feel a glow of self assurance and gain confi- 'dence that, "had aptitude tests been applied in his student days, he would have scaled over them with the greatest of ease? . It is impossible, for lack of space, to reproduce Dr. Nash's complete list -of words. Among the tough ones are "couvade," "bilbo," "apotropaic," "omophagy," "piacular," '"grigris," "periapts," "steatopygous," "progu- menic,"" "marano," "hodegetics," "prebendary," '"carricks," '"'energus men," "reiver," -"bezoar," "apozeme" "panada," -'"corroval,'"". _"achorion," "porrigo," "culicidal,"" "atrepsy," "moxa." : Just what a knowledge of words has to do with aptitude this skeptic fails to see. There are art forgers in Paris and Italy who will produce a fifteenth century Madonna good enough to fool all but the most ex- pert, but who have no knowledge of studio patter. Peasants have com. posed songs that are still a delight, yet they knew -nothing of *"caden- zag" or "adagios" or 'diapasons." So with thee Negro banjo experts of plantation days. Probably Dr. Dafoe wou'd be stumped if he were asked to define many of Dr. Nash's words, But when it comes to bringing quintu- plets into the world with the odds of their living for lack of proper care a thousand to one against him, we'll select Dr. Dafoe in preference to some young obstetrician who can glibly tell "us what "redecraft" or "captocormy" means. Some years ago the late Thomas A. Edison compiled a list of ques. tions that every bright young man should be awle to answér and thus prove he had intelligence enough to hold down a job in a laboratory. Actually IXdison was finding out how ~ much candidates for laboratory hon. ours knew. So with Dr, Nash. He has set up a test of verbal knowledge --not of aptitude. : Dr. Nash says in his letter that others think as he does. Thus Dr, Flack holds that vocabulary tests for aptitude "have gone a long way to- ward solving the problems of select- ing applicants to medical schools," The Tragic North Writes the Calgary Albertan:-- Out of the north come great riches --and great tragedies. All that Robert Service wrote about the cruelty of the land near the Arctic rim has been shown true again-and again, Superstition has grown, fostered by tales such as those from the "cursed" Nahanni River country, where, it is said, there is much gold, but which has ta'ien more than the usual toll of human lives. Recently the news columns told of the be- lieved death by drowning of two more trappers who ventured into | that remote, ill-famed region. he Nahanni River Country fs hated by the Indians; they will not venture into it, even when accom- panied by white men, They are also said to fear the "Forbidder Valley" where hot springs have fostered the growth of lush vegetation strangely out of place in the northern setting. By stories of such places the mys- teries of the north are publicized; they indicate that it is not a pleas- ant place in which to live: Which is just as well. It is no place for the weakling, and only those who will to face the difficulties, dangers and fears of an inhospitable land are welcome, Yields Down Latest Crop Estimates at Ot- tawa Put Wheat Total Below 1935 OTTAWA -- Lower yields for all the principal grain crops in Canada are shown in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics second estimate of grain vroduction for 1936, issued recently. The wheat crop for all Canada is placed at 233,500,000 bushels, com- year, Yields of other grain crops with figures for 1935 in bracke follow: Oats 276,265,000 (394,348,000) ; bar- ley 72,726,000 (83,975,000); rye, 4,368,000 (9,60,000); peas 1,153,000 (1,616,000); beans 833,400 (1,161,- 400); buckwheat 8,664,000 (7,948,- 000) ; mixed grains 34,381,000 (39,- 534,900) ; flaxseed 1,779,300 (1.471,- 000); corn for husking (7,765,000). The average yields per acre, in bushels, with 19385 averages in brackets: Wheat 9.2 (11.5): oats 21.1 (28.0); barley 16.4 (21.6); rye 13.0 (18.0); buckwheat 21.8 (20.9.); mixed grains 29.3 (34.3); flaxseed 3.8 (6.9); corn for husking 36.1 (46.3). CARROLLTON, Ill. -- Francis E. Davis who said' he* had never tasted fruit, vegetables or meat, claimed re- cently he had lived all his life on a diet of bread, crackers, cereal, cof- fee and sugar. : 'Both his wife and his four-year- old son eat the foods Davis said he abhorred because "the smell makes me sick." The slight 31-year-old man- ager of a bowling alley gave this as his typical day's menu: *M Breakfast, coffee and dry cereal. Lunch and dinner, crustless bread or crackers dipped in sugar. Davis, five feet, nine inches tall 2nd weighing 137 pounds, said he had been examined by a physician who reported him in perfect health. vicious dogs are left uncontrolled. "What looks like a the child, "Why that very sharp and seemed the other, and across othy. "Why, the crack. don't see the hinges." said Dorothy, now rock just facing you," replied Bil- lina, whose little round eyes were i" thing. "It runs up one side and down bottom." "What does?' asked Dor- must be a door of rock, although I observing the crack for the first time. "And fsn't this a keyhole, Billina?" j door?" asked crack in the to see every- the top and So I think it "Oh, yes," key. "Of course. If we only had a key, now, we could unlock it what is thére," replied the yellow hen. "Maybe it's a treasure chamber full of diamonds and rubles or heaps of shining gold, or--.'" "That re- minds "me," 'said Dorothy, "of the ° golden key you discovered on the . shore when we first left the raft. Do you think it would fit, Billina?" "Try it and see," suggested the hen. So Dorothy searched in the pocket of her dress and found the golden and see ® Then she put it into the hole ia the rock and turned it. rather hard, but finally a sudden, sharp snap was heard and then with a solemn creak that made the shivers run up and down the child's back, the face of the rock chamber outward, like a door on hinges, and revealed a small dark chamber just inside: "Good gracious!" cried Dor- othy, shrinking back as far as the narrow path would there within the narrow chamber of rock was the form of a man! It turned fen let her. For on the man's JAt least it scemed like n. man in the dim light: He was only about as tall as Dorothy herself, and his body was round as a ball and made out of burnished copper. Also his head and Hmbs were copper and jointed to his body with metal caps over the joints like the armor worn by the knights of old. He stood per- fectly still, and where struck upon his form it glittered as if made of pure gold. frightened," called Billina, perching these wero the light "Don't bo . head, "It isn't alive." pared with 277,399,000 bushels last' 5,935,000 | 6.9 (13.4); peas 12.5 (17.1); beans' 'lence in a 'First Lady Tells Of Detroit.--Mrs. Franklia Delano Roosevelt, first ledy of the land, took the role of United States' public mother No. 1 here recently and told an 'audience, composed in the mai -of women,.that childien should not be repressed, : "- Speaking on - "The "Problems of Youth," tue president's wife said she .| had 'never believed in repressions of any kind and "we should let things come out in the opens Fics "It Is the habit.in our family," she sald. 'to discuss all sorts of ques: tions arounc the dinner table, We become a little violent at times. "It is sometimes « Vit'lg surprising | for strangers to come 'ute the- home of the president of tne United States end find a youngster saying. 'Pa, you don't know anything about that, und to have 'Pa' take it quite calmly and proceed o try and prove his point. "I think that's very good, not only for young people, but also for the Referring to a letter she had re- ceived from a mother who felt she had the '"'respect' of her children be- cause they never smoked or drank in front of her, Mrs. Roosevelt sald she did not want that kind o: respec. "I would much rather they did what they are going to do, in front of me," 'she said. : Warning that many young people went to war merely because thelr lives were dull und lacked adventure, Mrs. Roosevelt urged the older gen- eration to make lviny as much of an adventure as dying. She advocated dangerous living. "Parents," she said, 'try to guard their children too much, Life has to be lived with courage. You cannot be afraid of everything every minute of the day. You might as well for- get there are risks, lit you want to do a thing go ahead and do it," she concluded LU. S. Obstetrician Advises Women to Have Babies at Hcme CHICAGO--Most women would be better off if they "had" their babies at home instead of in hospitals, Dr. Joseph B. De Lee, world-famous obstetrician sajd recently. Dr. De Lee. founder of the Chi- cago lying-in hospital, which has one of the lowest maternity death rates-in the world, observed his 67th [birthday with a sharp criticism of methods which interfere with normal birth processes. Nearly 95 per cent of births in In these cases, women do not require hospitalization. "A survey a few years ago in two {eastern cities showed midwives had | fewer deaths than doctors and hos- pitals," he said. "The midwives did not interfere with normal birth and mothers were not exposed to: the fevers and communicable diseases of a general hospital." Dr. De Lee pointed out that in the remaining five per cent of cases, only doctors with years of experi- metropolitan maternity centre can handle complications in a proper manner. Most medical schoo's graduate doctors with insufficient ob- stetrical experience, he said. The grey-haired doctor stroked his neatly- clipped Van Dyke beard and ob- served: "Obstetricians are too sloppy in their methods. They interfere too much with the normal. processes and they don't know enough about their business. . "A woman has a better chance for life and health having her baby de- livered at home than in most hos- pitals up and down the land. taking them by and large." Dr. De Lec said if hospitals wou'd lower the maternity death rate, they must separate maternity wards from --_-- Postmen of England have been | ordered not to deliver mail where | general hospitals. - He entered active practice in 1855, when, after exclusive European schooling, -ke opened the Maxwell Street dispensary in a dilapidated tenement basement. He helped scrub and "delouse" the first home of the institut'on which later became the Chicago maternity centre. In Chicago's most congested for- eign neighborhood, where death from childbirth was expected rather than exceptional, Dr. "De lee spent H0 years helping place the obstetrical profession in an honored place in medical worl, The Centre last year administere!l to 2,582 women, of whom on'y four died. Many Pov Tebute To awepapar Vorman CHILLIWACK, B.C. -- Tribute to an outstanding Canad'an newsparer woman was paid recently at the fun. eral of Mrs, Mary A. Barber. w.fe of Charles A. Barber, publisher of the Chilliwack Progress, who ded at Vancouver. She was British Colum- bia director of the Canad an Women's Press Club and represented that or- ganization at the Imperial Presa Conferchee in South Africa last year. Rev. Dr. James. Endicott, Toronto, former Moderator of the United Church of Canada, is an uncle of Mrs. Barber. Family Talks president," she added, amid laughter. the United States are normal, he said. (AES Jy Cail Jor a fd ~ oo i a) Ar oT rr ee 7 / 7 Ti