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CANADA THE EMPIRE CANADA NO OTHER WAY At a Rlrls' school recently the Ben- lor 8CboIai't> were a«ked to write a short eBgay on the subject: "What I would like to be wheu I grow up," anil to give their reaauns. One up- to-date young woman attacked the matter right away with: "1 want very much to become a film Btar, but as I am not conuidered beautiful and am lacking Id sex appeal, I tiiink I had bettor become a teacher," â€" Lion- don Advertiser. many of our cutitoms which we call "instltullons" uri' eitlmr ancient or i deep-rooted or veiieralid. A Kouer- atlon ago the iiiilllury band coctert *..•< u sanctilled custom â€" t.n eiiler» ' tlliment fur all the taniily. as the radio and ladio oroiiOstras are to- day. A mustacliloed soloist on the cor- ni't took Ihe bows now reserved (or the crooner. Many people witli a fair taste In music still like military batid». Hut the majority tune in ou the dance liand and the crooner. A gt-nerution hence the crooner will be a hentlmenlal relic of 'life Tliire are a great many things times. His amlleni'es will nod a little which the people and the state could and think o! their youth. Auollier get along without and, with respect form of entertainment will have to some, perhaps, be better off. The caught the popular fancy. Admiring Gallery Of Two Watches Master Putter Limbering Up MEANEST THIEF. Young man in London, Ontario, broke into a news and tobacco stand operated by a blind woman and stole $35 worth of goods. He waa called the meanest thief and remanded for sentence. Fine, but what about put- ting him to work no the |35 worth of goods can be replaced? â€" Stratford Beacon-Herald. TROUBLES. People wi!io read the new.spapers daily and observe the wide variety of i)leasant and unplca.saut things which happen to great numbers of persons should not be inclined to magnify unduly their own troubles and worries. â€" Kingston Whig-Stand- ard. NOT ALL GLOOM Perhai)s one of our main troubles today is that we talk too muct'i about our losses. We have made it a fa- shion this lengthy recital of woes. And it stirs the listeners to tell an- other story of suffering. Almost all conversations consist of tales of woe. We are inclined by this gen- eral psalm of ml.sery to magnify â- what we have lost â€" that is in com- parison with the boom days of some five years ago. it does not aid our recovery nor bring back a normal mental attitude wJiich might help us work toward helping ourselves. It seems to need someone to whom we will listen to tell us to consider what we have left. No man with health, loved ones, mental faculties and op- portunities is without considerable â- wealth and blessings. â€" Brandon Sun. Lieutenant-Governorship may or may not be one of tt'iem. Considering what the oflice costs the ptM)ple In relation to what the occupant distributes to maintain It and the number of i>cople employ- ed, and the undoubted fact that tlie chief justice could, as the preni'er says, attend to all the necessary du- ties, It is scarcely worth bothering about; not worth all the fuss that is being made over it. For each per- son In Ontario It doesn't amount to what it would cost to buy a postcard and send In a protest. â€" Port Arthur News Chronicle. And so it goes. Time execuleK a neat revenge on popular inno- vators. â€"Mont real Herald. THE EMPIRE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS "There Is no such thing as the British Commonwealth of Nations." So says the 1&35 "catechism" of the Native Sons of Canada. Further, says the "catechism," "The British Commonwealth of Na- tions is imperialistic (sic) propagan- da." There is always somebody dissatis- TREE PLANTING IN INDIA We KUi)po80 it is not iinpo.sslble to i^preud some understanding of what la duo to forests, and why it is due. The simple.st villager can be made to grasp the necessity, wheu he cuts down a tree, of planting not ono but many as recompense to a robbed earth, or of sowing seed of those trees tiiat do nut take kindly to transplanting. There is nothing formidable in the simplest elements of silviculture. That would be a useful first step, to persuade villag- ers that in their forests and jun- gles they liave valueablo assets which must be used with a thoug-ht of tlie. future. They are not likely to un- derstand that what they do natur- ally and habitually on a mountain side may afllict dwellers in the plains hundred.s of miles away, nor would Paul Runyan. King of American professional golfers, practicwhis^putting touch on^the |«ens^o^ the Miami Biltmore Country Club at Miami, Fla., while his wife, Mrs, Maureen Orcutt watch. ,. Joan Kunyan (left), and Seeking The Wonder Of Winter Woods fled with something, and the N. S. j their hearts be troubled' if they did of C. are free to kick about anything ! ^now it. But they can grasp Uie ABOLISH ORNAMENTS? The whole question then resolves Itself to this: The office and the Government House are to be consid- ered as ornaments, which cost .some- thing, as all ornaments do; should tliey be altogether abolished because • f that? There are many ornaments in this province which could be dispensed â- with. Kvery home is full of them. Every picture, every fancy cushion, «very radio, every piano, every mu- sical instrument, every piece of bric- a-brac, every piece of lace, every ad- ornment to dress is ornament. Every white collar, every necktie is an ornament. Many homes themselves are ornamental. There are useless ornaments on •very motor car, in every shop, In •very store and in every public building. There are lots of them In the Parllameiit Buildings at Toronto, ^ome of them are in the premier's office. Every visit a person makes to a motion picture show Is useless. Every cigaret and every cigar that I* smoked is useless, every drink of pop, coca cola or alcoholic beverage U useless. The spending of a half dollar to see a hockey game or a ball game or any other athletic con- test is useless. If all the ornamental and useless things were absolutely dispensed â- with people would live in huts, wear •kins for clothing and produce noth- ing much more than the food neces- •ary to sustain life. they do not like, just like the rest of us. Still it is well to know that it was the liuperlal Conference of 192G â€" with official representatives of all the autonomous liritish nations in attendance â€" which coined tlie phrase "Hriti.s.!i Commonwealth of Nations." The resolution then delined Great Britain and self-governing Dominions as: "Autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status; in no way subordinate one to an- other in any aspect of their domestic or foreign affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Na- ! tlons." I There isn't a British constitution or a Santa Claus either, nor in fact many other conceptions that move men mightily. If all t^ese were en- shrined in law books they •wouldn't lose a fraction of their hold on man- kind. The British Commonwealth of Na- tions is recognized as a world factor no matter what the Native Sons may think.â€" Sault Daily Star. COURTS NEED DISCIPLINE In New York Rudy 'Vallee took a "poke" at the counsel appearing for his wife, and the judge in charge of the Webb-Vallee case invited one of the other lawyers to "meet him outside." Somewhere, at some time, Amerl- ican judicial discipline slackened â€" and the appalling results of that pro- cess are now apparent. STATES REQUIRE SAFETY GLASS BeglnnlUK January 1, 1935, the New York State law providing lor safety glass for all new cars sold in the State became effective, bring- ing the total of States having such requirements to ten. Th-o Legislat- ures of at le«8t twenty additional States are scheduled to take some action in this direction for the In- creased protection of the motoring public and It U not improbable that safety glass will eventually be com- pulsory In all of the 48 States. â€" Financial World. There is wonder In the Winter woods, A subtle, all-elusive mystery That haunts each placid grove where silence broods And woos eadli "whlted glen with witchery. R. R. Greenwood Fred H. Byshe in the Ottawa Journal I suppose that ever since the FOR A HEALTHY NATION ^qo^ |,pga„ to rule the night and The Briton has no special cause to (j^^^^^ ^^g ^^rlh in its pale splendor simple truth that when the forests and jungles are used up there is no more wood and fodder. â€" Calcutta Statesman worry about being a Briton and is little Inclined in conseqiinnce to in- dulge in invidious national conipari- .sons. When ho does so he finds the comparison in nearly all respects Haltering to himself. There la, how- ever, one large black fly in this oint- ment of racial content. Kvery lime he considers the matter he has to admit that in the matter of physi- cal fitne.ss this country is steadily falling behind its more progressive neighbors. All visitors returning from Germany comment on the mag- nificent p.hyslquo of the Labor Bat- talions there. We never hear now, as ouce we did, of the foreigner be- ing impressed by the English phys- ique. Now the Council of the Brit- ish Medical Asaoclution is to consid- er, We are told, the appointment of a committee to discuss means of en- couraging the physical and mental development of the nation. We sin- cerely hope that the committee will come into being and produce wliat cannot but be a valuable report. â€" I.«ndon Sunday Dlspalch. THE NEW DAY IN MUSIC An English seaside resort has dropped its military baud In favor of a dance orchestra â€" and cronnera. Thus another ancient institution iKiws In defeat before a modern one. Which leads us to wonder how 1 WATCH FOR FuManchu The sinister yellow wuard of villainy domins' .- the creepy stories "f mystery crime and exploits of detection. By SAX ROHMER These famous .stories now told for the first time in PICTURK STRIPS, will appear weekly, startinir next week, in this paper. WATCH FOR THKM. and the trees of the field began to yield their fruit, there have been Winter nights when the full moon, riding high and free in the deep blue heavens, has amused herself by throwing fantastic tree shadows upon a sheet of virgin snow all over the slumberous iandscai>e. And yet when, but a few years ago, I awoke to the beauty and fascination of these silenet silhouettes stretched softly on their silver screen, the revelation was to me tis stimulating as if I had been the first of all men to enter the enchanted land of that experience. I had made a surprise di.icovery! As David Grayson says, "It had been there before, for long, but I had never seen nor felt it." • • • How could I so long have been blind to such beauty? How was it fhat 1 had not even read of it? When, later, 1 came to browse among the poets to see what they thought of shadows, I found many of tihem more concerned with the dark, cavernous depths of the Sum- mer forest, with the mystery, sinis- ter or romantic, that lurks in the between the New Zealand Minister I uuUghted spaces, or with grateful for Finance and Federal Ministers shade from the heat of tlie sun. there may yet be a new trade agree- 1 a,i^_ while the poets seemed to find ment between Australia and New | pleasure in the shadows sweeping Zealand. Such is the latest prog- ^ majestically across the mountain ress report received from tiie Mln- j aides, or nestling comfortably in the Ister for Commerce. The whole bus!- valleys and soometimes watched the A MISTAKEN ATTITUDE. As a re.sult of further discussion.^ ncss savors of negotiations between two countries which have been at lender-pencilled shadows play" iin the w^lnd, I could not see that ^luch each other's throats for years, and enthusiasm had been manifested for which In seeking a rapprochement these tender-pencilled drawings on must bo very careful not to give | ^ snowy canvas. away to the enemy more than is extorted in return. Yet to tb» plain man Australia and New Zealand are sister Dominions of the British Em- pire, exploring in the most friendly fashion the possibilities of Increas- ing the trade between themselves, to their mutual benefit. Statesmen ap- parently have a keener perception of the perils which attend the at- tempts of nelfvhboring countries, bound by the strongest ties of kin- ship and common interest, to enter Into closer commercial relations ! with each other. â€" Melbourne Argus. ! Of course, 1 should have con- sulted the artists as well as the poets. A poet might reasonably be so absorbed in the glamor of the It Is the little things that count which Is the reason why gum manu- facturers are wealthy by disposing of their products at one cent per stick and it is also tihe reason â- why penny bank deposit.s in Ontario to- talled over $1,200,000 this year.â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. It you feel like sneezing, sneeze â€" and don't let considerations of po- liteness or the conventions or any- thing of thhat kind Interfere. That Is the advice of an English "medical woman," Dr. Octavl Lweln. who. In glorious winter night as to over- look these inponderable pictures athwart his path; while tOie artist, his eye alert for picture, might be expected to seize upon these studies in drawing as being right in his line, as, in fact, Twachtman and others have done. However, it is just po.ssible that Wo plain persons may be able to Bud In suoh a Winter night some- thing more than a study in tem- perature. We can, at least, push our heads far enough out of our fur collars to look about us, and may even be able to sliare the pleasures of both poet and artist, though we cannot compose a sonnet nor paint a picture. • • • Come with me, then to a little wood I know, a natural temple, where Uie tall, symmetrical trunks become cathedral pillars between which the alabaster aisles of chequered light recede toward un- seen altars until they fade into Someone has said that the pencil is the master of all art. Here, then, is drawing by a master hand. We have caugiht nature in her forest studio with pencil in hand, tracing marvellous patterns on an evanes- cent canvas. Fortunately the air is crystal clear, the moon is full and almost directly overhead. With a low-hung moon the shadows range out at long distances from their source, but as the moon approaches the meridian the trees seem to gather I their shadows close about them as a lien her brood at twiliglit. Thus compressed, the shadows arc darker in color and sharper in outline, and can bo viewed and studied with great- er enjoyment. • • • Of course the shadows are flat; tiliere is no perspective, nothing to make them stand out upon their snowy canvas; they appear simply as silhouettes, yet they are veritable studies in detail which reveal every branch and twig interposed between the white forest floor and the benign eye of the man in the moon Tliis wealth of detail is due not alone to the brilliant moonlight, but also to the level sheet of unbroken white that Nature has provided. These shadows would be lost on the bare uneven ground of Autumn. You will catch the idea if you should imagine a drawing on criunpled brown paper compared with the same drawing on fine, white bristol board. Another feaure which the level snow canvas helps to reveal is the flno gradation in tone of the shadow from the base of the trunk to Uie uttermost twig. The shadow has its greatest density and sharpest deli- ultion close to the trunk, and the stouter the trunk, the blacker the shadow, because the wider Uhe shadow the less it is diluted with reflected light; and from the trunk and the gnarled lower branches, up- wards the shadow loses both in density of color and sharpness of line on a diminit-ihing scale whose gradations no human hand could hope to duplicate, until, when the crown Is reached, the shadows have resolved into something vaguely mysterious, and are sketched in the softest pencilling of transparent grey. You would admire such a drawing if It were cnnflned wlt^hin a frame and hung in an at gallery, even though the picture lacked the il- lumination of the radiant moonlight that here in nature's studio touches every detail to poetry; but such pic- tures cannot be imprisoned. Human art craves perpetuity, so the sculp- tor chisels his eternal marble and painter records his impressions In imperishable colors. than you can possibly be. For in- . stance, we have found that the man • who spend a great deal of his time . criticizing the morals or manners of . others, is almost sure to neglect his . own to some extent. At best that i« . the only explanation we have beea ^ able to find for the well known fact ^ that most strenuous and persistent fault finders usually have as many '_ and as serious faults as ordinary people with a few added. We have ^ about concluded that to find fault with other people helpfully, and without neglecting ourselves or get- ting into the habit of a fault-find- • er, is one of the hardest things fo' • any man to do. Seventy-two Per Cent. Of Junior League Members Married New York.â€" On the basis of a questionnaire answered by about six per cent, of the 27,650 members, ap- proximately 72 per cent, of the Jun- ior League women are married and have an average of slightly more than two children apiece. The sta- tistics were presented by Mrs. Char- les A. Lindley, editor of the group's magazine, to the executive board now in session. Miss Elizabeth P. Taylor of Little Rock, Ark., president of the board, reportd that 137 junior leagues had continued their welfare projects dur- ing the past year despite economic conditions. Wine and Steel Don't Be A Fault-Finder an address fo a group of nurses, of- 1 dimness. The mighty elms and fered the following comments: Wever i ..aks give a roof to our temple as backfire a sneeze and don't turn | they lift their latticed crowns Into your nose Into a popgun when you i the Infinite blue; and. sifting blow It If you would be healthy. Even j t,hrongh the trees, filling the night Aristotle had a good word for It, Bhe|«itj, Its mellow glow, shines the said, for the old Greek Philosopher | n,„oniigi„_ jgrene and nivslic. wrote: "Salute the sneeze and honor | ^11 about us on the new fallen the brain."- Sault Star. , ^now are laid the atill shadows of At a recent boot and shoe exiiibi- "'« ""''es- Our "tHe world is etched Hon In England, sandals made of fine-;'" *^^»'^^ "«"l "hite. Yesterday morn- iy spun glass were shown for evpn-''"8. w*'h Ihe sun glowing in an un- Ing use, and It was related that "a ''""de.l sky, the siiadows were dis- really smart woman would wear a """'>• blue, warmed occasionally by colored ring on the small toe of » '""'"h of mauve, but tonight they her left foot to match Ihe hue of »'"e practically black, and the d-aw- the nail varnish on her fingers." The '"B '» arresting in Its sharpne.-is and extent to whii* civilization Is going contrast. ahead by leaps and bounds is almost ~ breathtaking. â€" Brantfurd Expositor. " Because you are able to point out real faults and shortcomings in the life of your friend or neighbor, that is no proof that you arc profitably or helpfully engaged when you are doing so. It may be, for instance, that he knows as mush about them as you do and is even more concern- ed for elimination or improvement R. N. Parker, of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., pictured at hearing before Stnate Munitions ^'ommittcc. He is reported to have said that "wine and litjuors were often as neccwaiy as steel" during the trial runs of warships. New Communications Office WiD Be Headed by Dr. R. J. Manion Ott*wa-^-Hon. R. J. Manion, Min- ister of Railway.*, will head the De- partment of Comnuiiiications now that it is definitely known that the De{)artment of Railways will 1* in- cluded and in fact be the main one. A new portfolio will not be ci-eated. The work of the Pcpartnient of Railways has been modified greatly since the operation of the Canadian National was divorced from it. The railway finances which concern the (iovernment come mainly through the Department of Finance. The new branch to which power to add will be taken from Parliament will have to do with Government radio, tele- graph, telephone, cables, though one wireless branch, dealing with ship- ping will remain in the Department of Marine. The Department of Com- munications will have nothing to do with rates, which come under the Railway Commission. The consolid- ation will place the Radio Commis- sion under a different minister but it is not designed to abolish it.