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._• y â- e CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE Miniature Molorboat Controlled By Radio RELIEF FIGURES INDICATE IMPROVED CONDITIONS Welfare Ctimmlssiouer A. W. lAver Used to rejiort that Toroiiio had 30,000 families on full relief. He now states fhat the number of fam- ilies on full relief Is tlecreasliiK by 600 a week and that the past year â- witnessed a daclino of 1,800 famil- ies- For the week ending July <iUi the Commlssloiior .-ays, the agfire. gate was 19,177 families. Last year at the .same time, the statistics showed l!t,C3fi faniilie.s, but 1,300 of the families now reported wern tak- en over from the House of hulua- try. To the elHciency of tlio Inves- tigating slalT, Mr. Laver gives cred- it for at least some of the decrease. TOie fact is that economic condi- tions are docidtdly better than they were two or three year.s ago, Ohurch and philanthropic socf^ctles reliel committees find that thejr have few. or rent, food and other relief prob- lems to solve than they had some time ago. Domaiuls on the fund.s for clothing and other necossillea ot life are not as frequent or a.s great as Ihey were. Uciiuosl-; are becom- ing more nuiiierou.'^, though. lor fin- ancial assistance to keep the appll- cant.s for a wrek or two until they are able to assume the dutie.i ot the po.iilions that have been promi-eil them. All these exiiericnces of City relief workers are mo.st reassuring, a.s regards recovery from the crisis throuKh which we have been pa sing. â€" Toronto Mail an 1 Kniiilre. FISH WEEK . The week sluriiii-^ Si.'pt.TUber 30 has been set a.side as Canada'.s i-'irii Week. The rea.son for announcing the dale so far ahead is that It takes some folk about that long to cat<h oUc. â€" Stratford lieacoij-Her- ald. JAIL THE RED LEADERS. The Comniuiii-l leaders of the S,- 000 relief strikers at Ungina, t)as- katchewan, made good their boast t>hat "the street of Kcglna would be red with blood, if the marchers were Interfered with," when the strikers turned on police troops who sought to break up their mass meet- ing and blood-hed followed. One iri- Ilceman was killed and a score of others wounded, w.!ille the strikers al^o had nism»rous casualties. Conditions have ciTtalnly reached a serious stage when the streets of a Canadian city become the scone of armed fighting. It Is evident that tiho strikeis have been fed tlio In- sidious pmpa>;:iMila of the Kcds and that they are pripared for an elTort to overslirow oonstilule<l aiitliorlty. The only method of spikuiig their guns is by Imprisonment of the lead- ing agitators and It is gratltying to learn thai a score or more are now in jail. Including the ringleader, Ar- tihur Kvans, the man who had the temerity lo call Premier Bennett "a liar'' during their recent luiirvle* at Ottawa. There should be no ii-asou for â- such demonstrations in ('aiia<la as the Regina outbreak. It is true there are Ihcmsands of men out of work and in an indigent condition, but It Is also true that federal and pro- vincial governineiits and local mu- nicipal authorities have made every effort to providf. work and lo ensure that none will he wll.hout the neces- Blties of life. Huiulred.s of millions of dollars from Ihe public treasuries have 'been poured into the tusk, with the result that business and Indus- trial concern, and the average tax- payer are bearing a lieavy burden to meet the outlay. Meanwhile tiiie lirm stand taken by Premier HcnniU, In dealing with tho western sinkers must be emu- lated by all those in authority. They will have tho complete backing of all substantial citizen. The Commu- nist element has no place in Can- ada and must be stamperl out with a relenlles -hand. Simcoe Uefor. mer. PAYING THE DOCTOR. The average family, acconling to a statistical item, pays the doctor $75 a year. Doctors claim the word "pays" is a misprint for "owes." â€" Canadian Statesman, Hownianvllle. H7PBURN'S COSTLY POLICY Premier H( pliiirn'.'f di.'Cislon to es- tabli.-h, at once, a chain of some SO branches of tho (iovernmenl Sav- ings nepartment all over thi! prov- ince to offset the refusal of the liil- ancial houses to tender for t.lie gov- ernment's $15,000,000 bond Issue, Is quite characteriHtlc ot him. It looks like a decl-lon made on a snap judg- ment, on the spur ot tho moment, â- without thinking the matter through to a logical conclusion. Boon after he became prime mln- later, Premier Hepburn Intimated that the government savings olllces were to be eliminated, as an econ- omy measure, and because no fur- ther need of them existed. Some liavo already becu closed. Now- be, cause of a temporary situation, and because the bankers have dared to rub him the wrong way, ho makes a coonplete right-aboul-lace, and pro. poses to establish flfty more savings odlces- By d()U\g thhs ihe prime minlitor hopes to secure the money needed to finance the province. But It will bo a long-drawn out problem to es- tablish these branches and to Inter- est the people In putting their money into them. U may bo a different pro- cess getting the money at all, and meanwihlle, the province must bo financed. I'Hjrther. tho cost of es- tablishing theso offices, paying their overhead expenses and the necessary salaries, is liable to be rather high, in proportion to the amount ot money deposited in Uiem. But more iniimrtanv ..till Is t?ie \ ^^11 and h« that lovelh and makeili timate fate of these new omces.| ^ He should gain credence. Tho Brit- V/e don't know whether Miss Elsie Hobart is saying "Eureka" or just stretchinfr from the fati'vuin^ job of painting the miniature boat which Victor Carp started, stopped and steered entirely by radio control. The craft, 40 inches lonitr, made a speed of two and a half knots during the demon- stration. Tho present siliia' which has Im- isii Army has a magnilicent record. pelled the pruraler to decide to estab- ^^^^ tjjo young army ot Anzdac can lish them, Is a temporary one. U withstand comparison with any Brit- wiU blow over, and tho linancing of | jgj, force of the pa t. It is dilhcult to overpraise the troops of Anzac. For It is the .simple truth to say thai in essential qualitioj no more eftl- clent army was ever put In tho Held by any country in the world. â€" T'lic Australasian. A LESSON LEARNED? Thera has been In ci.Tluln sections of tho native press a violent prote.sl against what is do; crilied as a bail- ding-up of British inlluence ilf the affairs of Kgypt by an Increase in British ])( rsonnel. The argument Is offered that the payment of seven millions in the way of compensa- tion for Brillsh olUciaN who were dismlsseil was cuiisiilered nt tho time to bi; cheap for a good riddance. None ot tho scribes admits that this mea- sure was brought about by a dis- graceful scramble for olUce on tlie part of lOgypiians who considered themselves fully (lualifled to run tihe machinery of government. That they were not lit for their jobs was dis- tastefully demonstrated by the eii- •-ulng years of chaos. Things have I been gelling so bad that lovel-head- I ed Egyptians Lhemselves have boldly demandi'd that BrlJish etflciency, fairness and genius should bo recall- ed to the direction of affairs. These are the days when ,-ound-mlndeil Egyptians have brought it home lo political leaders that Uie swim to prosperity can only be with the trade current of (Jreat Britain, and not against It. Hence the trade mission that Is at present In Kngland. â€" The Sphinx, Cairo. tho province will be restored to nor- mal lines. Tiie need for the chain of savings olllces will then cease to exist, hut there they will be, a siring of white elephants spread over the province of Ontario because of a snap decision mailo In the heat of the moment. It would be well. In this subject. If PremiiT Hepburn were to adopt the Asriuit.hian policy ot "Walt and See' before plunging into a ! chemo which before long will prove to have been very Ill-ad- vised. â€" Oshawa Tlims. SOLOMON KNEW. New York records a great Increase In the number Hif young children, running away from their homes ot* Involved In juvenile delinquencies- Solomon said something agout spar- ing t.he rod and spoiling the child and he knew a thing or two about handling a large household.â€" Brant- ford Expo>itor. WE ARE MORE POLITE. Oakland, Californhi, woman tells the judge she saw her iiusband only four times â€" the day tihey met, the day before they were married, and the day after they were married. Up here most bridegrooms don't go back to golf until along about tho Uilrd Or fourth week. â€" Windsor Star. NOISY STREET CARS If Iniiil f ran.Hiurt.i'ion companies wish to ( oinincnd llieir street cars to Ihe public, one oi the things they will have to do is to reduce the noise of the curs. 'I- ic buses have it on Ihe street car., in tliis respect. Inn Ottawa Journal recently com- mended tho linprovrment In the ser- vice of tho street railway company ot that city, but it said that the cars were very noisy. To whio'i the man- ager of tho company replied that the street cars In Ottawa were less noisy than those in Hull, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and Brant ford, ac- cording to tests on a noise-recording contrivance which measures the noise in decibels- -wthatevcr Ibey are. We should like to si-e the contrap- tion for recording noise used in Winnipeg. It should not be neces- sary to suspend ciuivi'rsatlon while walking along Portage avenue until a street car passes- a, It is neces- sary sometimes. The noise created by a street car di'pends on the condition of the car :u!d on the condition of the track. If either Imc-omes out of repair, then tilie ears of the people are more vigor- ously assaulted. If there Is an tm- provomeiit In both cars and track, the noise la greatly reduced. City noises are a train, conscious or unconscious, upon tho nerves and luallh of the people. The worse tfte noi-e the greater the strain. The reduction of the noise of street cars may involve some expense, but tho improvement of tracks and cars Is in the Interest of good service gen- (irally, and until the noise is reduced to a miniinuni it will lemaiTi a prob- lem wi'iuh tli(> iiperating company i^ exiiectcd to deal with- â€" Winnipeg Free Press. TlIF, EMPIRE THE OLD GROUCH. Sir: May I ask the railway com- panies lo have carriages reserved tor men oniy^ln the same way as oth- ers are labelled tor women only? It ' and board t.'io liner Kmpress of Hrll- is intolerable lo have lo travel on ain for Knglaisd. a long (or even a short) journey with | i,ady Ashley, now en route to Que- a lot of giggling wonion mid ohil- boc from Vancouver, Bt;., wiiiere she dren. Men may be garrulous, but I stayed recently while the actor came women are far worse. Letter in the here, has also arranged to sail. London Daily Mall. Whilo the names of Fairbanks' air â€" â€" compaidons were kept secret, Clar- • THE GLORY OF AUSTRALIA- enco Kiicson. his manager, declared What manner of men were those be was "positive" Miss PIckford was who stormed the heights of Amac'l net one of the group. It behooves to ask this (luestlon, and i to answer |t today, lest we forget j "Property ownership is a natural what now we cherif-.'j -le^t In an age and inalienal.lo right which icnvern- of sophisters ami calculators our pol- Fertilizer Trials With reference to trials of cyaiia- mide an<l other nitrogenous gertili- zers on arable crojis, Dr. E. M. Crow- ther of the Uolhamsted Kxperlnieii- tal Station describes in the latest Is- sue of tliH Kmpire Journal of Experi- mental Agriculture (No. 10, l!).!,")) t.lie refills of 2a field trials at Rotham- stod anil idher centres on the etfects ot calcium cyanamlde and ammonium sulphate or. spring barley, potatoes and sugar-beet. These fertilizers gave similar yield increases in 11 of the 15 experiment.; In which there were signillcanl responses to added nitro- gen, and cyann<nilde was leas etllcient lihan ammonium sulphate In the other four. In five experiments at Uollianislcd on Winter cereals there was no clear diff(!rence between autumn and spring dressings of nitrogenous fertilizers, or between the two above named fer- tilizers, except that when repealed small applications were made during winter and spring, the cyanamide was infi'rior. Doug To Join Lady Sylvia FAIRBANKS PLANS FLIGHT TO NEW YORK; MARY MAY GO ALONG Hollywdod. Calif. â€"Douglas Fair- banks Sr.. jilanned to leave hero by air for New York and an early re- union with Lady Sylvia Ashley. Accoini)anie(l by livo motion pic- ture <s oclatesâ€" one ot whom may bo Ills cx wife, Mary I'lckford-Falrbanka was to atleml to business in the east The Week In Ottawa icy of the poltroon should yet pre. j ment can neither destroy nor deny. ouctt Shouse. Ottawaâ€" Any doubt that Prime Minister K. B. Bentiett would lead the Conservative forces in the com- ing Dominion election was effective- ly dispelled on Friday last when fol- lowing a party caucus held a few hours prior to prorogation of Parlia- ment, tho official announcement was made that the Prime Minister would lead his forces into battle. The Prime Minister personally told his followers in their final get-together before they scattered to their homes to prepare for the campaign that he was fit and ready for battle and in- dicated to them his plans which will culminate in the appeal to the peo- ple. Mr. Bennett will take a short holiday, following which he will re- turn to the Capital, announce to the people the revised personnel of his cabinet as well as the date of the election. In contrast to the stormy scenes which have marked some of the ses- sions of the seventeenth Parliament, the sixth and final session was of- ficially prorogued by the Governor- (Jeneral early last Friday afternoon without incident. Following this members of the Commons and Senate departed for their homes and pre- pared to engage in the coming elect- ion strugffle, the most momentous in Canada since Confederation. Thus ended the life of another Parliament, which has sat for five years, making a record of legislative achievement >â-  hich will rank in importance with the most outstanding in the history of Canada. Chief item passed during the last stages of the session was the Can- ada drain Board bill, designed to aid the Canadian farmer in the market- ing of his wheat, â€" the board to act as a selling agency for the Canadian wheat crop. The Senate prior to pro- rogration amended some of the gov- ernment bills, notably that establish- ing the Trade and Industry Com- mission, the amendments being de- signed to put "teeth" into the new act. The Senate also "cracked" down on the new "racket" which inveigled people into investing their money from tjl up in the hope of getting ?10, an amendment which the Com- mons accepted. Specilc mention of "chain' letters was not made though the amendment is designed to tak? care of all violations of the Crimin- al Code. In the closing days of the session Parliament debated the Regina strike, arising out of lawlessnes,-" resulting between a clash ot police and relief camp strikers. The Prime Minister was firm and deliberate in his stand, declaring that there would be no snri'cndor on the part of the government to the subversive authority of the strikers, whom he accused ot attempt to overthrow con- stituted authority. Liberal leader Mackenzie King, C.C.F. leader J. S. Woodsworth and other opposition members sought to embarrass the government over the affair but made no headway as the Prime Min- ister and Minister of Justice Hugh fltilhre indicated beyond doubt thai there would be no surrender. Of great Interest to farmers In Ontario was the announcement of Minister ot Agrculture Robert Weir that the government would pay a bonus of 1 Vi! rents a pound to farm- ers who ship milk to caeese factories, during tiie month of July. This act- lion was taken to stabili-.<e the dairy industry and equalizo prices and to prevent farmers from switching pro- duction fnmi cheese to butter and forcing down prices on wor'.d figures. Mr. Weir announced that i*- was not contemplated to tax i)rodiicer3 i * The bonus will be paid out of a ?LOUO,000 fund which the House of Commons passed. A national highway programme of considerable importance to Ontario has been agreed on between the pro- vincial and federal governments whereby the sum of $9,512,.500 will be expended on the Trans-Canada high- way . The Dominion government will pay 50 per cent, of the cost, or $4,756,250. The sections of the high- way, mileage, total cost and Domin- ion contrimition follow: Schreiber to Nipigon River,-70-$5,30,000-$265,000; Nipigon River to Port Arthur-65- $7G,OOu-?38,250; Fort William to English River-114-$265,000-$132,500; English River to Dyment-75-$299,- 000-$ 149,500; Dyment to VemuUion Bay-60-$1,350,000-$G75,000; Vernul- lion to Kenora-G0-$783,000-$302,500; Kcnora to Keewatin-6-$605,000-|203,- 500; Keewatin to Dog Farm-ll- $200,000-$100,000; Dog Farm to Manitoba Boundary-ll-$50,000-?25.- 000; Penmbroke to North Bay-126- $185,000.$92,500; Schreiber to White River-115-$4.485,000-$2,242,500; Pem- broke to Hawkesbury, including ffon- nechere Bridge-$G48,000-$342,000. Business conditions are much im- proved all over the province accord- ing to official indexes. Reports from Brantford indicate that sixteen manu- facturing firms connected with the iron and steel trade are currently employing more than 2,000 persons, the highest since 1930. In Woodstock a new company will shortly begin the manufacture of motor car ac- cessories, while at Port Colborne the Canadian Furnace Company resum- ed operations afer a shut-down of some months. IN THE SCHOOIi "A good deal of thought has be been given in past years to the ki of education in agriculture which cai best be introduced into school cxM riculum" Dr. R. C. Wallace, PreaU dent, University of Alberta, told th« 15th convention of the Canadian So* ciety of Technical Agriculturists tut sembled at Edmonton. It must frankly admitted at the outset said, that relatively little success attended the efforts of those who concerned with school education id the teaching of agriculture. The for« mal agriculture of Grade IX and X ol the high school had on the whoM not achieved what was expected otf it; and the school garden, so enthusU^ astically proclaimed thirty years ago, cannot be seen in Western Canada to-' day. It would take them too far afieldl to discuss all the underlying diffl-j culties, lack of trained teachers, dl»J continuity of schol life during tM growi' jj season, and the rest. Thiu hovvver, had been leai-ned that iu puolic and high school it wa« th« science and not the art of a vocation that could 'be taught suecessfuUyJ For that reason, said Dr. Wallaca^ he was of opinion that successful work in agriculture in the public atial high school will come incidentally' to the study of natural science. If the applications of the prin-' ciples of science were continuously made in plant and animal processes, in weather lore, and in soil process-] es, interest in agriculture and in ag-j ricultural procedure would grow naJ turally out of the underlying scientW fie principles which have universal application; and the teacher would not be placed in the compromisijig position of posing, unwillingly, as ari expert in a field where he or she wa» not accepted. That would be. he felt, the emphasis for the future. j On the other hand, there had been.' real success in boys' and girls' club work, and in school fairs in whleffl agricultural projects had played theitj part, mainly because the activitieij were extra-curricular and conductedj in the realistic atmosphere of th»j farm with the help of trained district agriculturists. In so far as these pro-, jects were honestly carried out byj the young people themselves, theyj were the soundest accomplishmentj which had yet been achieved in thW vocational activity in agriculture of school-age boys and girls. The sy»- tem did not as yet, unfortunately, reach all schools and all school child- ren in the rural districts. Stamps Stand Up A» An Investment (New York Herald Tribune) VVIbh tho sale in London last week of the stamps of Latin America, Ha- waii and the Philippines one ot the world's largest staimp collections and the largest single investment In the Arthur Hind estate was tlnally dis- persed. Beginning in November, 10X3, with his United States and Confederate stamps, auction sales .have been held, rrst la Now York and then In Lon- don, at Intervals of a few mouths where group by group collectors have paid $875,000 for the stamps Trom what has been popularly called a "million-dollar collection.' liind loved his stamps and liked to hear ti'iom called tho world's great- est collection. And It came near be- ing so. If considered trom the '.stand- point of diversi Ileal Ion. He kept an inventory of Its cost over the years It was in the making and annually add- ed 6 per cent., as an Investnient- In i>re-(lepresslon days his worth was variously estimated at from 67,- 000,000 to $10,000,000 in textiles, rail- roads, real estate and stamps â€" the latter representing about :j;1, 130,000 of llie total. V»hen the e tale was In- ventoried last year, it had shrunk to $l,;Ufi,453, ot which $680,000 had been received from the aalo of stamps â€" J:il5,000 by direct sale ot the United States and Confederate stamps to tihe iniblk; and $13.i,0U0 from an English syndicate in a luihp sum for the bal- ance of tho collection. The syndicate sales which were held iu London to- talled $630,000. making the price paid m the collection by fihe public $S7!),- 000, or something bettter than 77 per cent- ot their cost, as against an 80 per cent, average shrinkage for the entire estate. Wo wonder Just where an Investor would find a solider property Into which to put ihis .savings. Hsisl^ HDT 5HDT5 BY KEN. EDWARDS Canada's Junior temnis cai^MPiotM • / â- -OWAW pl Thought is the most vital an 1 rerful thing lairy industry to make up the bonus. • verse.'" â€" Mary Pickforc Miss Canada Honorable meniiou goes lo Miss Kleanor Young ot Vancouver, B.C., C'anala's junior teuuis champion. Miss Young was sent to Kngland by the Canadian Lawn Tenuis As. sociation along with Miss Carolina Deacon, the senior champion of Can- ada. After securing a bye in the Hrat round of the all-Kngland oUampiou- ship matches. Ml s Young wa.s de- feated by JImc. de Meulem-Eester ot Helgium 61, 6-4. Sineo this was M ss Young's flrat appearance on the famous Wimble, don courts and due to a nervous strain on thi.i account she could not play her best. However, our youthful Canadian champion lost much ot her nervousness after her first set im- proving greatly in the second. Never- theless she was no match for tho Belgian star Mme. de Meulem-Kester, better known an Mile Slgart. Caroline Deacon, Miss Young's teammato was defeated by Miss Rid- del of Kngland by the same score as Mi s Young. Miss Deacon is the Canadian senior champ. on. Both girls were defeated, however, Ihe experience should be a great help fluid milk or any farmers in the! powerful thing entire uni-