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Five CROOKGD j CHAIRS CORN BORERS ARE LESS THIS YEAR Russia and Rubber PROCRCSS OF SOVIET UNION IN ITS £::arch for SUBSTITUTES By FAREMAN WELLS BYMOFSIS Adam MvrlDton. â-  lutuiera son. kituicO to u Miilicliur, inaKea u bruv* but uiiKucct'saiul Ktlviiipt lu lliwurt lliier (liic\es In H bu|{->»<'>>''>l>>g ruitl The bau hum torn fruni the huiids of a (III wllu cx|ilulliB thut It l-untullia thr day* tukiii^a vi her tathrin vlmp. lie ktlcliictll lu IIUL'H lllr llllisvua HIlii rcavht'ii uii (lid M'urt-tinu»«. Ailain tiULTM the buiiaiiig nhilv th« girl Wulrhes the duur 8u<l<l*-iily h* b«i.tii toiitnieiia Til* niun tunm out to b* Adum i •n>i>l<i>ei â€" Cui villa forklii. Aduiii. ID ma i>ilvui<i iiuura ax perl niciiiH Willi Kliurt-wuva wiriliBa. WiilKiiig buiUKWurtj, Aa.4iii la nearly run tluuf by a luitiu axvlll car. lie culla tin l'rli><-illa Nurvul. Ili-r (ullii'i riTKUiita ilu' hUlury uf flvi> -iiiiKiiie clinii!* hu lln^sl'bsea. Adam Is extri-iiic'ly luizzUd over th« Cuiihi.c-ilon itt Oirslllu IVrkin and ]ll<'iiiad:i who vvaiilx tlif anlhjui: chaii.s. Tli.ii I'rIdrllla la j^pliitid away. The (x-crimlnal whr smokiiig shag »t hig flresldc. Mu lislciU'd patiently to Uiu story of the illsuppuaj-anoe, elitok his head kuov^iiiKly anil tspat •t tiUe Jli-cii!aci\ •'Neat bit of work," bi! rcmniiMiti'd apiiruviiigly a full ini"ule lalo.i* "Hut is If Moiuada, atul whore wciild they take hej?" Hsk»;(l llio dis- lr:tii;;lit Aiiam. lln);ar hluiok his 'head and waited tor his woriK. T<lity canio to bim at laiil. *â-  'Ti.su'l Moutuda this time, ilontada's botllfd iiii." Ho said mllli an air of «xtronu? cortltude. "liotllod up, wlu-re?" "Ah I" said Mr. Hagar cuiiiiiin;ly. The ensuing long Hllencp was very hard to bear, liagar sat gulut, bIow- ly nibbing lo'.iacco bt;L\vi'iii his great e illousKl palms, lii.s yellowish eyes g.aiicing at iiis viuitor and shifting Kcretively back to tho fireplace •Kain. His mouth worked softly as if forming word.s for which he pes- ef:..seij no sound. At last he clear- <!d hi!) throat and again Hpat at the C.atc. TO BE SURE YOU GET Fast Relief Citt (in of IJ t.iblfl^ or 'fonomicil tx>tllo of 24 or irxjat any drutjgist's. DOES NOT HARM THE HEART An Aspirin tablet slarLs disinle- graliiii; as soon as it touches moisture. 'I'hat means that Aspirin starts "taking liold" . . . eases even a b.id headache, neuritis or rheumatic pain nlinosi instantly. And Aspirin is safe. Doctors prescribe it. For Aspirin dots not harm the heart. lie sure to look for the name Bayer in the form of a cross on every Aspirin tablet. Aspirin is made \a Canada and all dnigjjisis have it. Demand and Get ASPIRIN ' NADCMAMK RKOiaTKKrO IN CANADA "Montada mii;lit give l>'iem away," hi' KJiiil abruptly. ''Try (Jrail Street. Cioss tho river. Can't ho Montada's own work this llni<>. Ilugar cuu't ho'p you. Wish 1 could. (Jrateful." After this uim.suaily long spcecli his lipH closed slowly and heavily, like tdiu doors of a safe. Kvidently as as ho was ronceined tho Inter- view was at an end. Atlaiii ll.stessly Klieok his great liand and went out, hardly responding at all to Mrs. llagar'tj utfectionate adieu. Altliough bis inl'iirniant had eeem- ed poBltive b!iat Montada was to be ruled out, his mind cluiii,' to the sug- gestion that Montada iniKht give tho others, whoever they were, away. It was a line on which to go. Uie only way that had presented itself, so lliat when he came to Uayne Street again he once more turned towards I lie narrow Grail Street entrance. It was a chilly April nii-'iht. A river mlfct hung about the ill-lit alley. Bar- red door.s and boxfMl-up windows .•^(.emod to frown je.seiilfuUy through the sliioud of light vapor at hliu as he passed. At Uie bnltom the great blank wall barred his way as inex- orably as ever. The sight of its in- ailoijuate light recalled to him his la.-it visit, and recalled it with the poiguiuicy of de.spair. It was under that lig<!it that they liad first realiz- ed that they were friends. He pushed hard agaiiLi^t the big warehouse gale. This lime It was solidly fixed. Then he recalled that llagar had said he wa.s to cross the river. He understood that to mean that ho must find some means of en- try from the back. So ho carefully counted iiis steps back to the turn- ing and then jflvshed on over Hayne Bridge. Taking the first turn on his left he counted steps again until, at li'ie eajne number he had counted In Grail Street, he IDunil himself oppn- ,•â- 116 a big, welMlgihted building. He strolled past it, not caring to enter since people were leaving It In a '.'ustling group after tlieir day's busi- ness. Instead he strolleil on until lie reached the gate of a .small yard. This was not yet closed, and ho was :lile to wander in and reach a low a all (hat bounded the sullenly flow- iig river. Acros.s Uie black waters hi- could just distinguish, above the wreaUiing mists, the roof of the Crail Street warehouse. There was no sign of life about it, lull he did not expect that. He knew iHl. hidden within its forbidding lOiifint-s tiiere was a small room whose windows might be shrouded with blankets, a rixim that might ^ (lid a prisoner. As he brooded there â- â-  " recalled the time be had stood (111 the opposite bank, not then al- "iie, and he seemed once more In 1 lemory to hear the startled cliick- l.ig of a hen. He glanced round the 3"rd ennuiringly. There was no Ign of anything like a hencooj^ in "le place. It was not the sort of I'lace to keep Tens In. Probably the clucking had been a signal. rerhaps tliis wa« the side from which the furtive users of the Orall .Street premises made tiheir np- liroach. But how? There was no si.gn of any boat, no landing pJace. The puzzle was too much for his mind in it« distress. Determined somehow to find a way across that -'0 feet of swirling Ifoulness ho re- » •:• SCREEN EVERY AND WINDOW O Nj: A R I o LEAGUE The good news lias come from the Priivinrial Kntomologist that in almost every county the b( rers were much scarcer last fnli than at 'tny time since the Corn Horer Act came ; into force; in fact he does not know of a single Tield or plot of corn in the whole province lliat was ruined by tlie insect in I'l.'l-l. This scarcity of borers saved the corn growers last year many thousands of dollars. The ' Entomologist, howc'cr, say.s that it will be a great pity if the farmers have come to believe, as many prob- ably ii>;ve, that the borer has seen its best days and will nut trouble the corn any longer, and that therefore, the Act is now unnecessary. Such a belief is based upon lack of know- ledge of the insect and of the in- fluence of weather conditions upon it. In Europe, where the borer has been for ages, there are sometimes several years when the weather (chiefly very dry weather) is so unfavourable to the insect that it doei almost no damage. Such season, however, are often followed by several successive,' moist, warm seasons so favorable that the borers soon become a verit- ; able scourge ami the government is] o'.iliyed to make it compulsory for! the farmers to clean up their stubble ; and other corn remanants to save the crop. This, for instance, had to be ' (lone in Italy only two or three years ago. When this is true of Europe, | where there are many parasites and j some severe diseases attacking the borer, it is much more likely to be true in Ontario where there are very few parasites and almost no diseases. In fact. Professor Caesar says that his experience has shown him that in a favorable year for the borer the very best we can hope to do by a good clean-up is to prevent it from increasing more than two-fold instead of four or five-fold, as it would if the stubble and refuse were left on the ground. He also states that with- out a fair clean-up it would take only three such successive years to practically destroy the sweet corn, and most of the husking corn in- dustry. This is also the opinion of all those who have carefully studied the insect. Therefore, to drop the Act at a time like this when the codi crop is so essential to the welfare of the Province, would be to disregard the true interests of the farmer. Every corn grower is urged to use good judgmert this spring in dealing with his corn field, «o that he may comply with the Act without any appreciable work. He can do this if he is careful to plow the stubble and other corn remnaiU- under completely and then to u.-e a disc instead of a toothed cultivator in tilling the soil and a disc drill in- stead of the other types when sow- ing (lie see<l. If the stubble has heaved this spring it should be roll- ed with a heavy roller before disc- ing. This will firm it so that very little will bo dragged up by the disc or the drill. By doing their share voluntarily, farmers can shorten the time re- quired for inspection and thereby make the cost of enforcement of the Act very light, less than 25c each. This includes cost to the Department as well as the county cost. The Corn Borer Act is for the farmers, not against them, and is worthy of everyone's hearty cupport. The careful man who cuts his corn short and plows the stubble under thoroughly with a wide furrow plow will have no complaints to make •gainst the Act, When the Soviet I'liion prumulga^ (ed Its first Ave year plan llio world beard much of itussiaii attempts to solve the problem of rubber. Latex had always been Imported. Hence- forth, It wa.s decided, the Union muct either discover witlilu Its own bor- ders plants that yield something like rubber or develop Its own processes j for the -synthetic production of Uie material. Tho Union haii done both. It has plantations covering 79,000 acres on which rubber-liko plants grow, and It ha.i factories In wbicb rubber Is made out of alcohols and acetylene. The plantations are the vWlble er* idenco of a successful search for plants of the right species. Year af- ter year European Kussla and Sib- eria were combed for roots, shrubs, tree.s and bushes that yielded what might be a tell-tale milk. At last tau-sngiz was discovered In Central Asia. That was in 1929. Moscow loet no time in spreading the glad news throughout the world. Probably the discovery received as much publicity as Edison's effort to produce a rub- ber substitute from golden rod. Tau-saglz Is a shrub. Its roots contain a gum coagulated In fibers. Krom 15 to 30 per cent, of the dried weight of the roots consists of thle gum. A survey made in 1933 re- vealed that 15,000,000 tau-saglz shrubs grow wild in Soviet territory. Twenty niilliou more â- were cultivat- ed on plantations a year ago. Besidai tau-saglz there are two other gum-bearing plants. One, kokp sagiz, was found In Kazakistan In 1931; the second, crlm-saglz, In the! Crimea a year later. Both are weeda ! mucji like dandelion; both flourish In the damp, salty earth of moun- talnout; country. I The production of synthetic rub- ber follows American lines. Like other chemists through the world, those of tbe Soviet Union recognized at once the Importance of chlorop- rene, discovered by Father NIeuw- land of Notre Dame and developed by Dr. Carrother.s of the du Pont la- boratories. In America the rubber- like product derived from chloro- prene is called duprene; in Russia, soyprene. Probably more synthetic rubber Is utilized In Russia than In any otter country. But the Soviet engineers and chemists are not pleased with most orf the tires made from their sovprene. The fault lies, not with the raw material, but with tiie me- thod of manufacture. BROWN LABEL - 33< V2 lb. ORANGE PEKOE - 40< V2 lb. High Cost of Weddings Cut Marriage, Studies Said Not to Mix "No one has any business Kolnir to tbe theatre and sitting Uke a lump of suet."- name Sybil Thorn- dike. "We can secure all tbe advantages of eolltUide if, when beset by people we remenUir.r bow wonderful soli- tude can he."â€" .\bbe Ernest Dlmnet. titrned to tbe street, and this time h* entered tho white-washed hallway of tbe building. The place was evld- untly let out aii otficei£< and store- roonu, and there ^'<U» a big boojd on tliu wPil! displaying the names uf tbe tenants. He htood hefoie this for a wlillo as if seeking au address, and as he stood there h« heard eorae- ono pass behind him. Some iiiBtlnet warned bim not to look romid un- til the ped-Bon bad bugun to go up t<ie stone stair.i and beyond. Then he glanced that wa> and was rewni ded by a gUnviisH of the uninlstak- aWe straight back of Mr. CorvlUc Perkln. He "watched him hurry up the •talrt like a man who has urgent bufilnesn. ami liheii followed hlui (luielly I Til be Conlinned.) Mth ^J^^ LotHn, SkkShh Boston â€" Get a college education first, then get married (if you want to), but don't mix the two. That is the advice of former Justice Robert J. Peaslec of the New' Hampshire Supreme Court, now a lecturer at the Boston University School of Law on domestic relations. I "Students who marry while they are in college are handicapping their chances for happines.^," Judge Peas- lee said in an interview. "Married life, in order to be suc- cessful, should be centred about a home and family, not around classes and study. Home life more than any- thing is important to a happy mar- riage." Judge Peaslee maintained that the good eifectg of co-operation and mutual interest that come with mar- riage are lessened by the fact that students are likely to live in a board- ing house or a similarly unfavorable environment." 22,000 Requests For Jobs In Civil Service VAiSSIl.Xi OTTAWA, --Last year there were 22,000 applications for positions in the civil service, according to the re- port of the civil commission tabled in the House of Commons recently. A total of 12,400 were examined. Of the appointments made 4'2 were permanent and 2,333 temporary. For- ty males, of whom 23 were ex-.'--ervice men, were placed in permanent po.ii- tions, while the 1,879 given tempor- ary employment, fi09 were veterans, the report says. RELIEVE PERIODIC PAIN [F you suffer peri- ^ odic pain and discomfort, try LL)diaE.Pinkhtm't I Tablets. In most cases they bring welcome relief. As Mrs. Caroline New- man says, "They ease the pain". Mrs. Raymond Chaput, Route 4, Tilbury,Ont. says,"i suffered some- thing terrible. Had such backaches •nd neadachct I w«s worn ouL Your Tablets helped mc". Let them help you, too. AsJk four drusgift. The Chinese G'overament recenti- ly delivered a telling blow at the I high cost oif weddings, when 67 ' couples marched to the altar togeth- er and were married In a simple ceremony, with General Wu Teh- Chen, Mayor of Shanghai, offlclat- ing. I Aimed at Betting an example of economy to the nation In accordance with Qenerallissimo Chiang Kai- Shek's "New Life" Movement, the ceremony was devoid of all the frills and extravagance characteristic of the traditional Chinese wedding. I To the labored strains of Mendel- ssohn's Wedding March, played by a Cblneije brass band, the marriage candidates paraded down the crim- son-carpeted aisle, while a crawd of 1,200 persons, largely relatives look- ed on. j The couples ascended the platform in groups of four, bowed three times before the statue of Sun Yat-Son. I "Father of the Republic," bowed twice before each other and once to ' the Mayor, [ They tien received brilliantly de- corated certificates which made them man and wife. Each marriage was completed In two minutes. The government charged each couple the equivalent of $7 for the ceremony, tiie price Including the certificate and a gift to the bride. This was in startling contrast to the customary Chinese wedding which fiomctiraoj throws the young couple into debt for life. "The secret of being miserable li to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." â€" George Bernard Shaw. Pipe Smokers! fill up with GOLDEN VIRGINIA* and enjoy a really good smoke! .ISO MADE UP IN CtCARETTE TOBACCO 1 J British Writers Are Criticized New York â€" A Briton recently praised the "gusto" of American novelists and said British readers are turning more and more to American novels for qualities of ex- citing entertainment. Norman Collins, partner in a Lon- don publishing firm, said: "When I read an American novel I think of a good dogfight, with something hap- pening all the time. "In England they are mostly on lea.ihes and arc not likely to start a flglit. "Or you can think of it as a nice canter, with the author mentally pouring tea for himself en route, as against a steeplechase, with a lot of horses falling, but action, excitement and gusto every minute. "That is why American books are being read in England, rather than the writings of our frightfully clever young men, who are ashamed of their emotions and have successfully di- vested themselves of intellectual curiosity." Are You Sluggish ? To Throw Off Energy-Stealing Impurities, enjoy a glass or two each week of Energizing, Eflfervescent ANDREWS LlVEItls^im In TINSâ€" 35e and 60e EXTRA LARGE BOTTLE, 75« ""J I/VE Yeast Ends I Indigestion "1 have been been takine Phil- lips Pure LIVE Yeast rrfularly for the last three weeks, and I have at last cot rid of a nasty form of iiidlsestion." â€" Extract from original letter. 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