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| SSS Sa Mail from England Within 24 Hours Is Prediction Made By Postmas- General-- ter. To Vancouver In Day And A Half, ¥ The time when an airmail letter posted in England in the evening will be delivered in Montreal, To. ronto and -Windsor the following "day was visualized by Postmaster. General McLarty in. an address af- ter the departure of the plane in augurating the westbound over Bight trans-Canada airmail service. Beha Jéfter would arrive in time to connect with the west. bound air mail to Vaneouver and would be' delivered in Vancouver after an elapsed time of only one and a half business days, "When the'present plans are car- ried out there will be formed an unbroken chain of air mail trans- port linking Canada with Great Britain, - with South Africa, with India, with Australia, with New Zealand, with Singapore; and. with . Hongkong, Only one more link in the chain musi be forged, that of New Zealand to British Columbla, in order to complete the roundthe- world: -British--air 'mail service. " _Ontario's New Speaker Parliamentary Doings With Ontarion Legislators, pring, 1 BY EEDY With a Premier fresh back from " 'Australia- and a brand ney Con: servative leader all rarin' to go, proceedings in Ontario's Legisla- ture at Queen's.Park got off to a- -to continue -at slightly less .than boiling point throughout the 1939 session, . , First off, when Mitchell .Fred: erick Hepburn twitted George Alex ander Drew about the frequency with which the Ontario Conserva- tive Party has chahged-leaders of late, the latter bristled, made no reply; he was saving his fire for the more dramatic occasion during the Throne Address debate when he hurled tradition overboard , .. by-limiting all- Tory contribution to the debate to his. own speech. . . no more. , . It was an unprecedent- - ed move made (he sald) to ex- pedite the business of the Leglisla- ture and save the taxpayer money Highiights --of the Speech from the Throne: The Government -will introduce legislation to enable On- tario to enter into an unemploy- ment insurance agreement with Ottawa; a new method of equaliz- ing municipal assessments; all elected municipal offielals to. take the oath of allegiance; relief costs to be higher. than '1938's $22,000,- 000 forecast, "unless there is mark- ed industrial improvement"; the Dominion to be asked to repeal the Canada Temperance Act as it ap- plies to Ontario; steps to be taken toward "uniformity and co-ordina- tion in municipal policing"; finan- cial relief to be provided for north. ern_mining municipalities, . . Looks like a new _déal for On- ,. tario's unemployed. . . maybe. . "jt Premier Hepburn carries out his announted intention to co-operate. with the Fedeial Government in in- troducing unemployment insurance ... {We should have sail Ontario's "future - unemployed. those at present out-of-work would not be _aided by the scheme). |. : A host of government bills was introduced the second day- of the * session covering a number of minor questions, such as amendments.to ~ the _Cemétery- Act, the Pharmacy -- Act, the Public Hospitals Act. . . _ but the business of dealing with --~Mygly start March .8,-and are lkely--}- Lakes Much Below "Their Usual Level Water Is Low In The St. Law- rence, Too, According To Dominion Hydrographic Ser- vice, : Level of the St. Lawrence River in Montreal harbor during Febru- ary was 20-3/4 inches lower than - _ January, 7 1/2 inches lower than February, 1938, and 60 3/4 inches lower than the average level. of - February for thie last 79 years, the Hydrographic "Service of, Canada reports, v 7 : 2 Lake. Superior at Port Arthur was two inches lower than Janu- ary, one inch higher .than Febru. ary, 1938; and 5 1/4 fnches higher than the average level of Febru. ary -for- the last 79 years. Below Average For 79 Years Lake Huron at Goderich was _ the same as January, 9 1/4 ins. higher than February, 1938; and 18 inches lower than the average level of February for' the last 79 years. Lake Erie at Port Colborne was 3/4 of an inch higher than Janu- ary, three inches higher than Feb- ruary, 1938, and 9-1/4 inches low- er than the average level of Feb- ruary for the last 79 years, Lake Ontario at Kingston was a "half inch higher than January, five Inches lower than February, 1938; and 13 1/4 inches lower than the average' level-of February for the last 79 years. . : 'Says Emotions + Cause Fatigue Marie Beynon Ray, whose flight from a job rut has led her through - careers as teacher, editor, wile, mother and author, says she has never been tired in her life and that sho can tell other women how to become "inhuman dynamos" of energy and interest. 2 "It is not the work we do but the emotional factors. operating while we work that causes fa- tigue," she said in an interview at New York last week. "Women tire of housework not because their chores are too hard for them "but because they con- sider housework an inferior occu- pation," according to Mrs. Ray. -- "Find Interesting Vocation" -"If. they cannot .escape house: work, the thing for them to do is "to find some other intensely inter. "esting avocation -- perhaps the beaufifying of their homes, politics, sport, volce culture---anything to ~~ First bachelor Suéaker of the On- _ tario legislature in the history of the province, Major - James H. Clark, K.C., was formally elected to his, office as speaker at the op- ening session of the Ontario legis- lature, He succeeds Hon. Norman Hipel, - Many New Pilots - Turned Out Yearly - Canadians Flying Schools Quali- ; these measures cannot begin to compare in interest with the de- "~pate-on-the state of affairs: so fre- quently scen in the House. . . The Budget is likely to be brought down within a week.". . administrative expenses may be pared. , . car licenses may go up '«..and a two-cent jump in the present --six-cent gasoline tax sure to be announced (Ontario towns want to share in the rev- - enue). . Questions: what will this mean to the. tourist trade? .. what will it mean to the average ~ motorist driving 10,000 miles a year who has already contributed .an extra $15 annually since the tax went up from three to six coppers? . +. However, we may be getting ahead of ourself... * The Conse satives want "more is | substitute a healthful, vitalizing emotion for boredom and. depres. soln." = _.. 1 VOICE OF THE PRESS SOMEBODY'S KEPT BUSY. It is estimated that there are © 1,218,000 mileh cows in Ontario. Think of what they mean in terms + of human labor at milking-time,-- Brockville Recorder and Times. 4 --0--; ONION ORCHARD : A' Baltimore magistrate has rul- ed that an onion may be classed Joonsa fruit. What a fine time -Mitth Hepburn will havé next summer in his union orchard. --p "UNITY" A LA CANADA This new trans-Canada air line may do something for Canadian unity. After all, it only takes about twenty hours now to get a complaint from the Pacific coast to Otyawa.--Hamilton Spectator, --0-- WE'RE KICKING PLENTY, TOO. It is said that 37 per cent. of the Nazi forces are flatfooted from too much walking and parading. We're getting that way in this country from keeping the. foot on the gas.--Peterborough Examiner. -- JOBS, TRAINING FOR YOUTH Governments make substantial "grants of which prizes are paid for the improvement of cows, horses, pigs, sheep, chickens and all kinds of livestock, Perhaps it would not be bad policy to spend more ! money providing a training for youth and. opportunities for em- ployment.--Farmer's Advocate. sr NOT A PUPPET . «+ «In short, the Member of Parliament is not intended to be the tool, puppet or rubber stamp of hig constituents and still less of any group among them. But it is his function before everything else to represent them and to promote their legitimate interests by all means in his power.--Quebee Chronicle-Telegraph, ; Re » HOCKEY IN THE OLD DAYS Hockey 'players in some centres are not what they used to be. It is not so many years ago that puck chasers were sixty-minute men and played every game without relief. Recent spow storms have, made motor travel impossible for visit- ing hockey teams and rather than drive by horse and sleigh as their predecessors did many a time, trolia Advertiser-Topic. : | _Offieiats--in--Italy "have reported that the careful selection of seed _and use of chemical fertilizers are greatly inéreasing grain ercps, LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher fied 148 For Private And Commercial 'Positions in 1938 "Representatives of- 11 flying schools operated on a commercial basis have offered .their facilities to the Dominfon Government to aid In setting up a reserve of air pilots Hght" on what the Government proposes to do with the Abitibi Power. and Paper Company, & $125,000,000 property now in. pro- ---cess-of recrganization: a flerce fight is raging around that, . . Mr. Hepburn thir%s Col. Drew is un- duly suspicious. .. and quibblcs tog much. . . in) LG games have been-zancelled.==Pe- | Yule Tree Cutting In Ontario Probed Hon. Peter Heenan, provineial minister of lands and forests, said last week that promiscuous cutting of Christmas trees during the Yuletide season and theft of trees from private property was under- investigation by his department and might lead to legislative ac tion, Either the federal government would be asked to amend the Crim. _ ~inai~Cade to deal with the situa- tion, or the provinte would bring down a bill of its own, he said. A decision will be made in the near future. : /" MORE CIGARETTES FOR YOUR MONEY ST RR TN ol 10° PACKAGE ; pr ---------- also In 25¢ Tine % 1B. TIN 55¢ Cigarelle \_EXTRA MILD ~NABLES 'which Rome ma from Gregory Clark « 'looks at ITALY . ke inter: known to hundreds of -thousands of. readers of The Star sending to The Toronto Daily Star hh = pi 5 material for his flues wander through marble palazzos, in- spect basilicas and campaniles; appraise famous works of art and architecture, and take asquintatItalianindustry. He will tour cities, country and villages: mingle with princes and peasants, blackshirts and officials; ride in -Vene- "tian gondolas, sniff the air of sunny Sicily and sample foods that have made Italian chefs famed. Pp _athisbest. -- Read ( Gregory - Clark 'is nteresting reading. "Greg," as he is best Weekly, hopped-a boat for Italy to see ; the coronation of Pope Pius XII. The papal coronation over, "Greg" is brows- ~~ "ing around the country--sampling "its i delights, ancient and modern. In more than 20 years of newspaper writing, "Greg" has been in many exciting and mteresting places, but no experience of his career has furnished such wealth of : ent pen. He will Co - i the world over. He = CLE will be more Roman than Mussolini. "Greg's" Italian rambles gre already AEE BK SOM) "shaping into the most fascinating trave- logue ever-printed in a Canadian news- 5 paper. It breathes that magic of humor fi and humanism which "Greg" infuses . i into every subject he totiches. Writers _are many, but there is-only one "Greo" Clark, and in his stories fro ree n Italy he 1s and revel in his articles which ap- se -------- Tor Canada, -- rie In interviews with Col. "V. I. Smart, deputy minister of trans- port, and Major-Gen. L, R. La- Fleche, deputy minister of national defense, the flying schools' delega- tion pointed out that many young men 'desired to learn to fly byt were unable to afford it. They sug gested the governmént provid some financial ald for pllots, Consideration was for .the schools' suggesffon- of a student pilot subsidy: forf10 hours' dual [nstruction and the first 60° hours' solo flying. In 1938 the fiying schools turned out 128 private pilots qualified for sportsman flying, 20 commercial pilots licensed to fly aircraft for hire, and six alr engineers-or alr craft and engine maintenance men. The 11 clubs had nearly 800 stu. deiits enrolled, and the 31 aircraft fn use were in the air for 3,516 hours of dual control flight instruc: tion and 5,448 hours of solo fiying. Normal resttictions on 'the re- production of British Royal emb- lems on souvenirs of a permanent nature will be relaxed for the forthcoming visit of the King and Queen to Canada and the United States, and reproductions of the Royal Arms,-the Crown and Royal - Standard nay be made. "7K British chemist comments - that every year there are about 1,600 new books, 40,000 articles and 20,000 patents of chemieal in- ROPER toa --They've-appointed -a-bacholor as Speaker of the House for the fir ¢ time in Ontario's "history. Girls, we give you Major Clark! The Dionne Quintuplets have ac cepted an invitation tox come-see the King and Queen on May 22, Oh, what. a day for Toronto that will bel-, .. Thieves have attempted to break into a vault in'the Treasury De- partment, . .an inquiry by the audit department reveals shortages of money, defalcatigns of funds: in: several branches of the Govern- ment's business. . . there's been dirty work at the crossroads. . . Don't Look Man : Straight In Eye 'Girls, said M. Dono Edmond in an interview. at New York last week, have an unfortunate habit of looking men straight in the eye. "It>1s 'hot alluring," said Ed- - mond, former court beauty advis. ° er to tho late Queen Marie of Ru- 'mania, "It makes a man feel in-- ferior, He feels you're trying to probe his mind." _ "Far 'better jt is fleetingly, and then continued Edmond. "Yes, I believe women should be scmewhat coy," he said, "but _don't mean baby talk, That's ter- rible! It annoys a man's nerves, : ~ "Women should learn how to blush, It can be done by exhaling to look at him look away; "customed." [8 MRS. PIP'S DIARY. (Omppright, 1988 by Fred Boboc) LED NEWER : fp | codldn't find the button, dear, so. 1 sewed up the buttonhole." - > J . THE TORONTO pear_every 3 STAR "on ~ 2 5a T WONDERLAND OF OZ ~~ By L. Frank Baum a little "longer than they are ac- ' ¢ i Ee CTY an BS EME ---- LE p X a Ry J § o- A . > 5 A kd PE TTR i . Pai J i] \ & 8 | Ln AAA x 9, RAT Bes 9 BL Lied ga , UK No Nas i WCE . 3 6.1 = 3 * A EN hE "1 After the clatter, an. intense silence The Jace Which ROJothy held Jas an "T've found It!" cried Uncle Henry, and Dgrofny fitted xn est on Bent nnd the = > : 3 reigned in the town and the visitors, all &xe: Which looked at her pleasantly, he ran to Dorothy-with a-queer shaped far had a little patch of red hair nbove it, of) 23 t terested expression as ff f(t * hile th KpowIng that sEaution Was no 10nKer Ne Wondered What sho mos asian tatdo with plece- with a mouth on It, but when they [WRI tho others were searching for § " CORRATYY uti forward.-to-sée what had. it. Quite hear. by. she- discovered a-nose, tried. to. fit It. 10. the oye and. nose, they. hair. ahd found several o "them, whiob,-§- a happened. They entered the jargest houss. and by matching the two pleges together, found hat the parts would not match. when matched to the other places, formed. : Fis they came to and Jound the door strewn {ound Jhansi thoy werd Bat of a face, "It "This mouth belongs to some other pers, the top of a man's head. She had als ) nw } ALN with pleces of what 16oked mué¢h Jike could find the aout , she sald, "this son," sald Dorothy. "You seo we need found the other eye and ear and by th | Ian; = 3 fragments of wood neatly painted, all of Fuddle might be #ble to talk and tell us - curve hére and a point there to make lime Aunt Em, in a corner, discovered the HY aither nt and. fantastic shapes. 'Why,"" what to 40 next. "Then let us Jind It" itt LY CT £1] i spust be some place,'y. mouth, Whon-the face was thus-complet-- --- S11 ¢rled Dorothy, pieking up one of the -sald the Wizard, and so all got down on Bel red the Wizard, "so If we search fof ed all the parts joined together With a * REN pieces," they te Jig-Saw puzales" their hands and knees. . it long enough we shall certainly find Jt" nicety that was astonishing. . ' N HN : rn by RA