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CANADA THE EMPIRE Set For The Winter CANADA THIS MIGHT WORK. "How can I gel my Uusiiaiid to tell mo about his buaiuesa aftiilra?" pluiii.in-ly ln(|u::i-s a curiesii^mluul? Ai-K liiiii for moin-y for u new ilress. ^lia'ilax lU-ralM. BOLIVIAS ADVANTAGE Apiia.enlly disul.u:ii.a of the idea thai lliu lutciniinabie warfare be- Iwffii Uollvia aiid I'arasuay in the Giaii Cliaco JuhkIm can be hailed by uncaus of iiuart-lo-heart chals with tho combalanls. the League ot Na- tions coniiiiittoe tnlrusled with the ta k of BCttlinB the dispute has de- cided to sftUe It by taking sides. The coin came down "heads," so Bolivia will now get all the arms Hhe needs, â- with the blosKlng of the League, â- wiile embargoes on muuilious shlp- nieiiU to Paraguay are strenglhen- ed.â€" Border Clli'^s Star. SEALING WAX. The use ot sealing wax ou letters Is a very ancient custom,' but it by no means follows that it Is entirely suitable to present day uses. The postal employees wax angry at Its present day use on the back of let- ters because of the danger from fly- ing fragnipnts ot hardened wax to the eyes of the employees. The post office aulhorities, however, have rul- ed l>hat "the departr.n>ut knows of no justifiable reason for requesting the public to forego the use of a sealing material which has been In use from time immemorial, and which, as far as the department 1b aware, has no substitute."â€" Moiicton Transcript. CURFEW. Like Port Stanley, Kort Erie has a curfew law that is being enforced to the extent that parents w4io let •'teen'" age children roam the streets are being haled Into court. That's getting at the root ot the trouble. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. . , William Uandolpb Hearst, took (jtlaaiou In a recent national broad- cast to speak the "plain, uncensor- ed truth" about KuKsia. Despite his earlier views gn the great commuiiis- ilc enterprise In that country, Jie is â-  lellnllely critical today. lie describ- ed the Soviet governmental experi- ments as a fearful failure, which was "only to be expected from putting people who could not care for their ,)wn Interests succcs.'ifully In charge of the administration of public uif- fairs. â€" Calgary llerald. FALSE GOSPEL. "War alone brings up to its high- est ten.slon all human energy and puts the stamp at' nobility upon tie peoples who have the courage to meet it.'' So declares Premier Mus- solini, the ruler of Italy. A terrible falsity. Canada proves It so. From the close ot the War ot 1S12-14 with the United States to the outbreak ot the World War of 1911, Canada en- Joyed practically one hundred years of peace. Then came tdio World War of ]!>14. From our small population Six hundred thousand Canadians be- came soldiersâ€" and those who got Into battle proved that there were no better soldiers in the world. Ot- tawa Journal. REMINDER. Let the printed sheets of dates which we call a calendar remind us every day in the year tbat time is passing^ and we must got something yaluable out of each i!ay.- Kingston â- Whig-Standard. PACIFIC COAST SALMON. The Professor ot Biology at Stan- ford UuiA'crsity said in a recent ad- dress betore a scientific association that each tributary of streams flow- ing Into the ocean was shown to have a distinct colony or race of â- alinon. It was further stated by the profes.'for that It t<hese races are destroyed by dams or other man- made devices on the Paciflc rivers they cannot be replaced â€" Halifax Herald. HEARST ON RUSSIA The American newspaper publlsh- GREATEST SEAPORT. When people think of big British seaports they Instantly call to mind Ijivcrpool and Southampton, tiliere- toio, It may surprise them to learn that Ijoadoa Is Britain's busiest sea- port by a long way. During the year ended October 31. the not tonnage using Ivondon was 58,693,242. Liverpool was a poor second wtlh 33.505.050, and South- ampton third with 25,2(;7,8C0. Then came Hull with over 11,000,000, al- though no large liners call tiiicre, being on the east coast, and fifth place waa occupied by Manchostor with over 7,000,000, which is pretty good for a port that is ^5 miles from the sea to which it only has access by a man-made canal. â€" St. IMiomas Times-Journal. i^^'Ji^A/^.M^.»>.^ 11 liR.LS.i laris alls ]ia\e I'linad a society called tlie "Pliilosophers of the Seine," and following the teaciiinga of tlie Ancicnt.s, tliey have made the best of their circumstances. Picture shows one of them hanging up weekly wasli while other peers out of slielter built of odds and ends. An Alberta driver the other day just missed beating a train to the crossing but no doubt he will try It again. â€" Calgary Herald. PRAIRIE FRIENDLINESS Pialrle nelgliborliness has become a byword throughout Canada. It baa been thrown Into new and still bright- er relief In these years of economic ordeal. Men, women and children on tihe prairies, and. as well. In the towns and cities that dot them, have gone out of their way to do the kind- ly neighborly thing. This personal helpfulness has become an institu- tion In the west. â€" Keglna Leader- Post. WALKING AT NIGHT. People who have to walk along roads at nigilit should pay heed to Chief Shute's reminder that the safe way la to keep to the left, thus fac- ing oncoming trafilc. And to add to one's safety under such circum- stances It is advisable to have some- thing white visible. Kven a white handkerchief carried on tihe hand would be seen quickly by the driver of a motor car. I'eisons dressed in dark clothes are often almost invis- ible until within the direct focus ot the headlightsâ€" and then it Is usu- ally too late. â€" Edmonton Journal. THE VACANT CHAIRS. Magistrate Browne, of Toronto, whose profession brings him into daily contact with t.ho problem, made some striking reference to the auto- mobile death toll in an address the other night. The deplorable waste of life oc- casioned by traffic accidents, he de- clared, waa "a ghastly Indictment ujKin our civilization." 'I am often told," says the magis- trate, "Ihat damages will be settled. Yes, but tell me, what insurance company can ever fill a vacant chair?"â€" Peterboro Kxaminer New Year's dinners. â€" Winnipeg Tri- bune. THE ^PIRE APPETIZER. At an ealing competition, a collier succeeded in disposing ot a leg of mutton a loaf of bread^ and a plen- tiful sui«ply ot vegetables, finishing up with a substantial plum pudding. He was decided the winner. When going lumie, he said to some of Ills admirers. "Now, lads, don't yo say nowt about this to my missus, or she wont gl'o me no supper. â€" London .Advertiser. POLITE THOUGH HATLESS. I am in the habit of wearing a beret. As this form of headgear tits tightly to the head It Is almost im- possible to remove It in time. It is equally dilllcult to replace, especial- ly If one hand is occupied with, say, a stick or an uinhrella. To bow with the beret on seems scarcely courte- ous; to toui>!i the forehead with the right hand has a menial air; to make a Fascist salute is un-English. Can any one tell ine what to do? â€" London Times. HARD TIMES IN THE ARCTIC Turkeys at Aklavik, states a radio dispatoJi from the tiny Icebound settlement, would have been valued at $1.50 a poundâ€" It there had been any turkeys. There weren't, so the white and native trappers ate roast caribou and wild cranberries for Christmas and PARADE OF 400 PLANES. One of the high points of the King's Jubilee Year will be a royal review on a big scale of the Royal Air Force. Air ministry oflicials and Service officers are discussing the arrange- ments. One suggestion Is that the climax of tiho review should be a grand "fly-over" on a scale never yet attempted In this country, en- gaging 400 airplanes, and a "royal salute'' with the squa.'rons diving in formalion before the King. The biggest formalion of aircraft that has yet Hown over lae British Lsles consisted in rather more than one hundred aircraft under the leaders-hip ot the late Air Commo- dore 0. H. Samson. The flight was made over London some 10 years ago. In size that fleet easily surpassed In numbers the largest enemy formation to appear (ivor Kngllah territory dur- ing the war â€" British Aircraft So- ciety. more remarkable because "the world." as Mr. M. S. Milne remark- ed on Sunday at Nuwara Eliya, "has gone cruising mad." Economic re- covery has multiplied tourists and is sending them to the four (luarters of the globe. Japan, despite, its draw- backs of distance and language, was expecting to receive an uuprecedent- ed number of tourists this year. It was thought that the total would ex- ceed 30,000 visitors as against an average of 17,000 or 18,000. The rea- son for this sudden Influx is a les- son which Ceylon may take to heart. The propaganda carried on against Japan's dheaip goods is regarded in Japan as the biggest advertisement for the country. Kvidently it Is bet- ter to become even notorious than remain in respectable obscurity and 1)0 ignored.â€" Times ot Ceylon, Colom- bo. TOURIST ADVERTISING Ceylon Is rapidly fading off the tourists' map ot the world. There has been In recent monUis a strlkhig decline of tourist traffic. This Is the BETTER TIMES IN N.Z. Tiliis is going to bo a much better import year than 1933 was or in- deed, any year since 1930. With im- ports so drastically reduced stocks of commodities In this country have become depleted, while the small in- ward flow has effected employment and contributed to the general slug- Klshness of trade. Its revival can be attributed in part to the need to re- plenish supplies of ovei-seas commo- dities. Hut that need has existed earlier, when trade still remained at a low ebb. It has been started mov- ing again by several conditions which can easily be assessed. A belief that the future will be better than the past can bo given some of the credit. .A. more important factor has un- doubtedly been the dissipation of that atmosphere of uncertainty which re- strained importers from operating. The tariff aniondmenls have been made and the exchange policy has been stabilized. Therefore plans can now be formed more confidently than was previously possible.â€" Auckland News. Ceuiada-South Africa Need Fast Shipping Johannesburg â€" Need for a direct and speedy shipping service between the Union of South Africa and Can- ada was emphasized in an interview by J. H. McDonald of New West- minster, B.C.. chairman of Canada's first trade mission to South Africa. "We sug'gest" he said, "that the two governments should jointly sub- sidize one of the shipping lines to run a regular and fast service be- tween the Union and Canada. A direct service will enable Union ex- porters to enjoy some of the pre- ferences which our government ex- lends. Once goods arc shipped via the United Kingdom they lose their identity and come under a different tariff." The Canadian visitors spent a day at Pretoria interviewing mem- bers of the South African govern- ment. Later they visited Durban and returned to spend two or three weeks in this city. They propose go- ing to Khodesia to talk Canadian trade in Bulawayo and. Salisbury. She Was Pretty Desperate No manager would take me seri- ously. I even darkened my hair to show that I have character and brains.â€" Miss Angela Joyce, ex- beauty Queen, In an inlervlew In the last Sunday Pictorial Meetings and Conventions For Month of February Arrangements have been complet- ed by the ."Vgricultural Associations concerned to hold their Annual Meetings and Conventions, as an- nounced below: Ontario Plowmen's Association â€" Tuesday, February 5th, commencing at 10.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Field Crop and Seed Growers' Assoc'ation â€" Wednesday February 6th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario .Association of Fairs and K.xhibitions â€" Annual Convention, Thursday and Friday, February 7th and 8th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Vegetable Growers' As- sociation â€" Annual Meeting on Tues- day, February 12th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. Conven'.ion, Wednesday, February 13th, commencing at 9 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Horticultural Association, .-\nnual Convention â€" Thursday and Friday, February 21 and 22, com- mencing at 9 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Quintuplets News Interests Editors 'There Is But One Leaning Tower of Pisa; One Dionne Family" The Sault Ste. Marie Star says editorially: "A woman wrote up the Dlonn* household for the last Issue of th« Canadian Home Journal, and waa apparently much perturbed at the modest furnishings. Tbe large 'bare' living room plainly Impressed her, for she lists the stove, table plain chairs and tiho few other art/clcs It contained. ''To a northerner who knows some- thing ot the modest requirements of its pioneer households, the Toronto woman's reaction is Interesting. Even where more elaborate furnish- ings could be afforded, simplicity In rural homes In the north is seldom departed from. That tiie DIonna family could add something to tb* living room must be apparent from the fact that a piano Is listed in the parlor. "The settler In the north is used to the simple life. He does not favor cluttering up his home with more furniture than iie thinks he needa even when he could afford to do so." EDITORIAL REPLY. The Stratford Beacon-Herald re- plies editorially to a correspondent, a man, who wants to "get a rest from, all the fuss over the Dionne babies." "Well, we remain Interested our- selves." say.s the editor. "One man who returned from a trip to Florida told us the people at the hotel where he was slaying asked him about the Dionne children when they found he was from Ontario; there was a letter in yesterday's mail from Washington and at the bottom was the query 'How goes It with the quintuplets?' It's a fact the news about them has been carried pretty much all over the world for the Dionne sisters are the only quintuplets In the world. Tliere Is but one learning lower ot Pisa, Just one Gibraltar and just one Dionne family. "We admit we are Interested in the Dionne sisters. If we could shove one of them about in a cart we'd gladly do so, or perform any other minor or major service. Not being able to do that we print things in the paper now and then about them, put In t>heir pictures so people can see how they are getting along, and we'll keep on doing it. Much better material_ we think, than a plethora of stories about bad men, bandits, wars, divorces, depressions and so on. Why, just think ot Itâ€" five at a time and all living and fat as pups! Nothing like it in the world." Trying Experiments With Strawberries Quebecâ€" The agricultural districts of the province in general, and the district of Quebec City and the Island of Orleans in particular, are expected to derive considerable benefit from a new co-operative ex- periment that is being conducted by the Provincial and Dominion de- partments of agriculture with cold storage garden strawberries. Some 30,000 pounds of last year's crop of strawberries, which have been kept in cold storage, will be offered for sale on the Montreal market in the near future, and if the experiment proves successful, it is expected between 200.000 and 300,000 pounds of Quebec straw- berries will be similarly marketed in the winter of 193G. It is claimed that, early in the season, long before the province's strawberries are available, a con- siderable amount of berries are im- ported from the United States and Ontario and are sold at fairly high prices, but that Quebec cold storage berries, which retain their excellent taste and fine quality, could easily and profitably take their place. 11 DAVID COPPERFIELD Weekly Serial Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS Pavid stays to dinner at the Wickfields. Uriah eils at the head of the table, flushed with his own Importance. But when Agnes leaves the room he proposes a toast to his hopes of winning her as his wife. Wickfield, enraged, trios to strike him, put when..Uriah. speaks- to hiinAwari)ingiy,»hQ Cfiila^scs. David and Dora are married and live in a tin^ cottage at Ilighgate. In spite of Dora's childisn helplessness about everything, they are happy together until the night Aunt Ucisy and ivir. Dick come. to djnner. Everything goes wrong. .The i°QAiil.i«.burnt and the oy8Urii.«raaino£cned. The young couple quarrel bitterly and Dora bursts into a torrent of tears. But later, when their guests have left, f hey each beg the other's forgiveness and David decides to bring I'cggotty into the hon-^e to take care of everything in the household 8« that Uoia jvULhave no further worries. ._ â€" -^ Some months later, Peggotty rushes in and im terrupts Davld'.s writing. Em'ly has been found Daviii quickly seek* out Unc'e Dan who tells hire how Sieerforth had cruelly deserted her i^ Naples. He begs David to go to Ham, who hal now grown reckless of his life, and tell him th< lie. . *. ii 1... .1 i,,.i., ,,,,.1 III -.ime.' Watch for ne.\t w> ek's concludinji iiibUllinent ol "David Coppcrfleld." ♦«•>*<•<• :.«.<.<^««>8-M"M^"5-**''*^'"'"' • • â-  '