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VOICE ' - of the CANADA. THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE PRESS CANADA WHAT WORRY DOES Ikere were 39,106 palicnts on the regrister in fifty-six mental hospi- tals in Canada on December 1st, 1934. This was an increase of 2,0r)2 over the same date of the previous year. The rapid increase in the luiiiiitcr of patients has seriously taxed the capacity of the mental in- atitutions in nearly every province. NomiaUy, It would be expected that an aupmentalion of patients would Correspond with the increase in the population. However, the increase mu.st in some respects at least be traceable to the industrial and fin- ancial depression. It is interesting to note that of a total of 6,403 admissions in 1934, 8,3a'J were dependent, 2,253 were tnarginal and 640 were comfortable. These facts should tend to show vhat part worry places in the bring- ing on of mental illness. It is also interesting to note that 4,051 patients were from urban centres, while 2,347 were from rural sections. Thi.s would seem to be another indi- cation of the part loss of employ- ment hai played in the mental health of ('ari.'\d:i. â€" Oshawa Times. REFORESTATION NEED Some idea of the need for refor- estation may be gained from the fact that the world uses each year j fifty per rent, more wood than is grown. â€" Chatham News. sun. Which is the explanation, we must believe, of what happened in Germany recently. Germany has a Comiiiuiiist party, a Social Uomo- cratic party, the once powerful Catholic Centre party. Where were they ? The answer is that they are still in Germany, secretly hostile to Hitler, but that terror of Secret, Police, concentration camps and other things, dragooned them to vote against their consciences. â€" Ottawa Journal. LAW 15 LAW Bad examples are inft-ctious. An- other citizen has expressed a pref- erence for jail rather than pay a fine imposed for driving a motor car with defective lights. There will probably be others who will seek to make martyrs of themselves, now the fashion has been set. There's always something! A serious in- fraction of the law â€" for the con- sequences might indeed be very ser- ious in such cases â€" cannot be con- doned because it happens to be an unwitting infraction; ignorance is no excuse in law, for the effect of accepting a plea of ignorance would be to invalidate the power of legal machinery.â€" Hamilton Spectator. TO A GOLD MINE OWNER Material evidence that Canada's mining people are not unknown out- side the country is to be seen in a letter recently delivered at the Montreal office of the Financial Post. The envelope carried nine German stamps of small denomin- ation, each bearing a reproduction of the late Marshal Ilindenburg's pic- ture. In the limited space not ac- cupicd by the stamps was the fol- lowing wording: Canadian Millionaire and Gold Mine Owner Duncan Macniartin, Esquire c/o The Financial Post, Toronto or Montreal, Canada. Kindly Forward No doubt the address on the en- velope intriguct'. Duncan Macmartin, whose father was closely identified with the founding of Ilollinger, but ho must have been even more im- pressed by the note on the back of the envelope: "I have put on »mall values (iitamps) perhaps you are a collec- tor." â€" Financial Post. HUMAN NATURE People would resent newspaper advertising too, if they were forced to read it before reading the com- ics. â€" Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. FARM SCIENCE Sixty years ago farmers didn't bother iinuh with the theories of growing farm products. They just planted the seed and waited for the result.'?, whatever they were, and more often than not the results were •II that could bo expected under any iy.stem of farming. The agricultural institutions of learnii:|r have sort of changed all this. Farming has been elevated to the rank of a science and, weather conditions permitting, they know just what to expect and mostly get it. Agriculture has become as tech- nical a business as mechanics, and because of this fact it is becoming a highly specialized profession. Sixty years ago farming Ul best V'a;i n sort of hit and miss affair, and still is in many sections of the country, where its technical issues are either ignored or laughe<l at. The farmer wants to know the sort of seed planted, its record of past performances, its origin and devel- opment, just as the stock breeder wants to know that no scrub stock or 1!! worthy pedigreed <|ualily enters Into t!ie composition of his herd.s. The farmer is becoming a student In til* college of experience as well •I of schools of learning, and his application of theories to the busi- ness of grain growing or stock breeding is producing results be- yond expectations. The technician has a place in the science of farm- ing and is trying hard tf> get every farmer to recognize that fact. â€" Ouelph Mercury. QUEER It's diintull to determine whether being an old bachelor makes him queer or being queer makes him an old l>ai'heIor.- -Kitchener Record. LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? Only terror of death or corporal punishment eould compel D8 per cent, of 44,000,000 voters to be im- aniinoux about anything under th» STARTING AT ELEVEN Waterford young people are being urged to halt their parties by 11 o'clock in the evening. Unless things are 'lifferent around Waterford than they are elsewhere the young people, in order to carry out this suggest- ion, will have to disregard the ex- ample set by many of their ciders, who just begin to come to life about that time. â€" St. Thomas Times- Journal. CANADA AS A PRODUCER In the production of newsprint paper, nickel, and asbestos, Canada leads the world, according to a re- port of the Canadian Government Cutting Up m Little By KEN EDWARDS Kentucky Bound On May 2, the Fixtysccond run- ning of the Kentucky Derby will be held. We mentioned la.st week in this column that our favourite was Mont Rlanc. Mont Blunc'b sire Is (,'oronach, who lias the distinction of earning $247,- 370 in 10 victories, three seconds and one third in 14 starts. .Mont Ulanc (Ulack Mountain) is owned by His lioyal Ilighneiis the .\go Khan, dean of liiiti.sh turf. In l!t30 the Aga Khan won the Fngli.sh Derby with MIonlieim and la.st year with Hahrain. lialiram won the Derby and tho St. I.eger. This feat has only been accomplished by 10 other horses in the history of racing. Hahram has earned clo.sn to $200,- 000 in his career so fiir. Tho Aga Khan, popular owner of thoroughbreds, has sunk 750,000 pounds â€" almost .^1,000,000 into Knglish Livestock. He knows prob- ably more about horse breeding than almost any living person. Without a doubt Mont Blanc is one of the finest bred horses In the world. Uf. looks and races like a real champion â€" watch him. It will be well to watch Brevity also, they are calling him a second Man O'War. NOTE â€" To-day'» column i» dedi- cated to Ray Dolile, nf Sunderland, Ontario. Addreit your tport lelteri to Ken. Edwardi, C o National Pratt, 57 Bloor St. W., Toronto. Lou Little, football coach, stands in a ma?sive football as he is initiated into the Circus of Saints and Sinners in New York hotel. Lou's tackling the fun with real enjoyment. Department of Trade and Com- merce. Tho Dominion occupies second place in tho production of gold and zinc; third place in the output of copper; nwl fourth place in the pro- duction of wheat, automobiles and lead. THE EMPIRE WRONG MEN AND RIGHT MEN A movement that merely transfer- red the unemployed surplus of (Jreat Britain to Australia would be of little use. People who emigrate simply because their condition is so bad at home that it could not be worse overseas are not the type to make their own way in a new land. Virile, intelligent, willing Britons are needed, and if they are welcomed as an asset instead of being received ungraciously as competitors in the labour market, there need be little apprehension for the future. â€" Mel- bourne Argus. DOCTORS FOR EVERYONE It is shortsighted and impractical to support or condemn in advance any particular form of health in- surance or State-supported medical service. Any satisfactory scheme will almost certainly have to con:bine several different principles. It is not a question of once more supporting the country at the expense of the towns. Urban and rural conditions are so utterly different that entirely different methods are essential to deal with them. The only principle common to both is that medical as- sistance sliould bo brought within tho reach of every citizen, no matter where the chances of life have fixed his domicile. â€" Johannesburg Times. THE BRITISH FARM MARKET Tho feeling against the present British systemâ€" or lack of system â€" is strong in the Dominions and among our farnier.s, who v.'ant to see British agriculture effectively pro- tected. Last year the British pro- ducer of eggs discovered that the Dutch, instead of limiting their ship- ments of these articles to Great Britain, had increased them by 189 per cent., without regard for their promises. As for meat, there is still difficulty with the Argentine, and re- cently in the Ilniise of Commons Mr. Uuncinian was unable to state when negotiation.'! are to be rasumed with that country for the limitation of its meat exports. The Dominions, and New Zealand in particular, cannot understand why Argentina is treated with such complaisanco in view of tho extreme harshness she has shown in her attitude to the British invest- or â€" London Dully Mail. Canada to Exhibit At S. Africa Show OTTAWA. â€" The Canadian Gov- ernment, through tho exhibition commission nf the Department of Trade and Commerce, is organizing a Canadian section at the Empire Kxhibition being held from Septem- ber 15 until January .15, 1937, at Johannesburg, South Africa, it was announced recently. The exhibition I will be restricted to empire products. I The Canadian section will occupy an area of about 12,000 square feet, I in which it is intended to provide about 50 individual stands. 21 Scotch Protest Over King's Title Reach London Edward Is Second not Eighth to Rule Under That Name Is Scotch Claim LO.NDON. â€" The wail of bag- pil)es over tho border in Scotland mourning the death of King George \'., has become mingled with pro- tests of Scottish patriots who feel their historic rights have been over- looked again. The new king, Edward VIII, they ."lay, is not the eighth at all â€" he is Kdward II. Under the treaty of union where- liy Scotland finally joined the "auld enemy" across the Cheviot Hills, a prime condition of the treaty was that it should be a real union â€" not merely an absorjition of Scotland by Kngland. Thus is was that when James VI of Scotland went to London to be- come sovereign of the United King- dom he became James I of Great Britain. By the same token, it is contend- ed by Scotsmen, when Queen Vic- toria died and the present king's grandfather, Fdwnrd VH, came to the throne, he "should" have been styled Kdward I â€" despite the fact that before the union there had been six previous kin^rs of Kngland nam- ed Kdward. A mighty gathering of Scottish clans, highlander.s and lowlanders alike, took place at Banockburn, to lirotest against the "violation of their country's rights." They maint, lined if Scotland'.s own King Jame.=i VI became King James I when ho became monarch of the newly united countries, then Kng- land's seventh Kdwardâ€" being the first Kdward since the union â€" should similarly bo called King Kdward I. Now the new king, they main- tain, should 1)0 Kdward 11. A Great Editor Dr. John W. Dafoe, editor of The Winnipeg Free Press, celebrated re- j reiitly his 70th birthday. He is the doyen of Canadian journali.sts. He| has had a long and distinguislied newspaper career, starting as a re- porter with The Montreal .Star in 188;!. The man who gave him his first job was Dr. P. D. lirss, ov.ner of Tlio Ott:iwa Journal, who was at that time city editor of The Star. For .'j5 years now Dr. Dafoe has been editor of The Winnipeg Free Picss. He has been tho most power- ful voice of the West during that lonjr period. He has so identified himself with Western movements that I'he Free Press has long been the most induential paper west of, the Great Lakes. i Dr. Dafoe is a Liberal of the old j school. He ha.s made The Free ] Press The Manchester Guardian of Canada. He is an ardent free trad- er and a vigorou.^ individualist. He is a natural crusader and he is at his best when he can campaign for some cause dear to his heart. Tliere are few men in the Dominion better iiiforhied on Canadian history and his two volumes, one on the life of Laurier. and the other on Sir Clif- ford Sifton, with whom as proprietor of The Free Press he was many year.> closely associated, are indis- pensable in any library of Canadian history. While Dr. Dafoe has never held public office, and even turned down recently an offer as Canadian min- ister at Washington, yet he has been a power behind the scenes, .^t the time of the war he was an earnest advocate of Union Government and it was largely due to his influence that tl;e Western Liberals abandoned Laurier and agreed to support Sir Robert Borden in the formation of a coalition ministry. â€" London Free Pre.s.s. Health Facts Medical Contract Scheme Found Successful in Alberta CAUDSTON, AHa. â€" Sponsors of health insurance plan.s can point to Card.ston's four-year-old medical contract scheme for support in their arguments. Pleased doctors and satisfied patients prove the popular- ity of the project as it starts its fifth year. Under the plan a person pays S:>' in advance and in return that per^-on or anyone of his family will receive medical care throughout the year without further cost. The contract provides medical care for from one to 10 per.sons in a family. On an average five persons have been in- sured under each contract. During the last four years 600 persons have signed contracts. Tak- ing an average of five persons under each contract, 3,000 persons have obtained medical service at a mini- mum cost of ?.5 per year. Advance payments which assiured doctors a regular monthly salary from the contract committee has pleased the two doctors. Between January 1, 1936, and March 1 is th« open period when anj'one can join the contract, but after March 1 a person must wait until September l-'i before another opportunity to join is nrosented. "Not one man in a thousand has the luck to get a wife wlio'.s willing or able to take him philosophically, and not argue, oppose or reform him." â€"Paul Whitemau. "When there is so much talk of war, generally it does not happen." â€" Har- vey D. Gibson. *rincess Lines For Little Sister Why Not Window Boxes? Walter Elliot, the British Minister of Agriculture, told a gathering of; gardening enthusiasts that he had window boxes around hia home. To many people that may convey nothing, but it is an almost general feature of life in the Old Country that might be copied here with ad- vantage. .-V window box is a box along the outside v.-indow ledge fill- ed with flowers, and it is not uncom- mon to see a working man's home with a box in front of every window in the house, probably half a dozen of them. Whole streets thus present a vista of flower-decorated homes, a mass of color that not only brightens the exteriors but charms the eye. They are particularly valuable where it is not possible to have gardens or front lawns. This is a matter in which "The Flower City could show an example. ---St. Thomas Times-Journal. Personality Is To Be Developed Director of "Personality t-'ac- lory Claims Anyone Can Re Charminc;. HOLLYWOOD, â€" Anyone can be cluirinlng, says Oliver Illnsdcli, dir- ector of the "personality factory," at a major studio here. His business Is to correct unuttracliveness in new film talent. The elcuK'tits of a pleasing person- ality, he said recently, are poise, gra- clmisness, taste in dress, neatness, alertness and a good voice. A few of his definitions: Poise â€" Tho ability to move grace- fully, sit quietly and act calmly. "It Is acquired by spending some time alono eacli day. In calm, dispassionate meditation." Graclousness â€" It is the ability to set someone utterly at ease. "Put yourself in his place, and you become gracious." Taste In dress â€"- "Good clothes rto not call attention to themselves." /828-B The utter simplicity but Irre- si.stible charm of princess frocks accounts for their undiminished popularity and appeal for those who .sew, and this one will make an instant hit to the mothers of growing daughters as well as to the daughters them.selvcs. Slightly fitted at the waist to accent the niihl flare of the skirt, the frock goes together like a charm, the re- sult of a brief hour or so at your machine. Puff sleeves, a contrast- ing peter pan collar and a row of small briglit buttons all down the front complete the ])icture and Kuarantee success. Daughter will look stunning in printed percale, printed muslin, challis, or sheer woollen. Send for Barbara Bell Pattern Vo. 1828-B available in sizes 4, fi, 8 and 10 years. Size G requires 2 yards of 89-inch fabric plus 'i yard of 3o-inch contrast. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and addresi plainly, giving number and aize of pattern wanted. Enclose 20c in •tampt or coin (coin preferred), wrap it carefully and addreat your order to Barbara Bell, Room 230, 7,1 We.t Adelaide Street, Tcron- lo. Drive Carefully Wall Sensibly Thus .Admonishes the Ottawa Journal in This Editorial The Ontario Minister of Highways admits frankly that law alone is quite unable to solve the problem of assuring highway safety. Improper use of .the roads, he points out, is not limited to "the wild, drunken or reck!es.s drivers" â€" accidents are caused also by "the negligent, in- difTerent, thoughtless and discourt- eous actions of the normally law- abiding majority." In other words there are few drivers who are bad drivers all the time, and there are many good drivers who have their moments of bad and dangerous (iriv- ing. The law, therefore, largely is help- les.s, as Mr. McQuesten says, viola- tions of the rules "are more fre- quently against the laws of courtesy and common sense than against traf- fic provisions," which is just what The Journal has said many times. The Jlini.ster adds: "If improvement is to come, and safety demand.s that it must be brought about, it must come because of a public realization of the es- sential facts of the situation and be- cause public opinion demands of motorists and pedestrians on the streets, the same degree of courtesy and consideration for others as is normally displayed in business and social contacts. The Government can contribute to the formation of this public opinion through educational campaigns, and steps have been tak- en in the past and will be continued throughout the coming year to make such education effective! But public opinion must sujiport these ef^rts I or they are doomed to failure." The •Vlini.ster gives a slogan for ! greater safety: Drive Carefully. i Walk Sensibly. Be Courteous. Sta- tistics give point to his words. Last year in Ontario the operation of motor vehicles brought death to r.60 persons-. more than ten each vcek. It was the highest total for any year except 1<)31, was 48 higher than 11)34. In the past five years 2,648 persons have been killed on Ontario streets and roads, 1,091 of them coming within the cla.ssiflcation of "Collision with Pedestrian." « all makes a fiightful record, especially when it is realized that in the vast majority of cases the fault was in the human factor. Chemists have found that licoric« yields a liquid of extraordinary foam- ing power which can be used as a lira extingui.sher.