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CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE Strictly Business ^v_ .^'' CANADA TIUKO I>KIVi:)'..S Sometimes there is too much per- sonal liberty. There should he Home means of preventing tired motorists driving into the niglit. Meantime the sensible driver sliould avoid makini; sucli trips as require him to grind out hundreds of miles in a day â€" and nitrht. â€" Hamilton Hirald. TOO MUCH WAITING AHOl T Sludcnls of Canadian hisloiy have been impressed of late by the thuught that many present diffi- culties would disappear if young pe^rdc were prepared to face pioneer conditions and make a way for ..themselves as earlier generations did in this country. There is too great a tendency to wait for gov- ernments or organizations to create favorable opportunities, and too much dependence upon .services and conveniences and environment which exist only because of the toil which others performed ni: hy years ago. â€" Woodstock Sentinel-Review. CALGAKV LOOKING Ul" Reports from Calgary's city tax collector as to payments made on I'J.i,') taxes are particularly gratify- ing. They indicate a distinct change in the atmosphere of business as well as a change in the attitude of the taxpayers. Krom the collections made already this year by the tax collector it is evident the business outlook has improved and that Calgary business ir.en are facing the future with greater assurance and certainty than wa.s pos.sible a year ago. It is also noil worthy that we are not now hearing threats of taxpayers' strik- es.â€" Caigary Herald. « * * SIGHTS 01 ST. THOMAS Girls would be arrested in Port Stanley if they walked about up- town in bathing suits only. .Judg- ing by what we see on Talbot street some girls would be wearing a lot more if they wore bathing suits. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. LIGHT IN THE NORTH The Sarnia Observer says some day there will be a Government in Canada which will adopt daylight .'-.aving for the whole nation. North- ern Alberta certainly will not be in- terested. Ten o'clock in the evening is still almost daylight at this time of year. On Friday night last robins were heard singing just after mid- night for clouds had cleared and the sky in the north was aglow with the light from the sun which was only just below the horizon. It's hard enough to get the youngsters to bed now. The mere thought of daylight saving is enough to make Edmonton mothers turn grey, â€" Ed- ,' nionton .lournai. • « ♦ M A N I TO n \ "S s i: R I • H ' s A surplus of $15U,43.'J for the fiscal year ending April 3, I9S5, has been announced by Hon. E. A. Mcl'her- son, K.C., provincial treasurer. The Province of Manitoba has for some time been operating on a cash basis, and this mc|ins that actual cash re- ceipts of the tieasury for the year wore $ll..'{8;j,8(i2, as against expendi- tures of $M,L"i4,.127. This computation takes no account of the two an<l one-half million spent on relief during the year, al- though it does include carrying charges on all nlief borrowings, as well as $;tU,000 sinking fund on a debenture issue made for relief pur- poses. These results are not spectacular, but they do represent a real turn- ing-point in the fiscal affairs of the province." Winnipeg Tribune. * « « riCMCKKRS Favorite jiicnicking-spots all over the country arc already do- faced by a mass of foul litter- old. dirty paper, empty tin cans, broken bottles, banana and orange peelings â€" tribute to the lilthy habits of peo- ple who have made use of these otherwise pleasant and agreeable picnicking sites. Before the season clcses, the situation surrounding some of these pbices will be simply indescribable. Not one of these careless picnick- ers would dream of conducting him- Bclf in a similar manner on his own property. He would be indeed, ashamed to have any litter seen about his 1 1 iniscs which he is in the habit of keeping as neat as pos- sible. Yet the moment he goes picnick- ing, he abandons all sense of de- cency and strews the grounds with filfiy materials, often when the m ins of disposing of them arc rc-i.dily at hand. â€" Brockville Re- corder. SERVANT GIRLS' UNION Exploitation of servant girls by some Winnipeg housewives has had its natural result. A group of the girls have formed a union in an attempt to establish scinething like a yasonable standard of pay and conditions for this type of employ- ment. A minimum wage of $12 a month for anything more than nurse-maid work can hardly bo called unrea- sonable, and the contention that something less than IG hours should be regarded as a fair day's work is, to say the least, moderate. Some housewives seem to cling with remarkable persistency to the idea that whatever they pay the servant girl is charity. A better name for it is the one Trader Horn gave it â€" "Black philanthropy, madam, plain black philanthropy!" There is a certain entertainment value in the prospect that the girls may picket a residence in which the lady of the house clings to this form of old-fashioned thrift. Wo- man's inhumanity to woman may be given a new twist. â€" Winnipeg Tri- bune. HAD THE RIGHT IDEA George Russell, the Irish poet, who has just died, was a man after our own heart â€" for days like these. He believed that man iihculd tie lazy and do nothing.â€" Hamilton Herald. * • « HOr-WEATIIER DIET Foods play an important part in assuring physical and mental com- fort in hot weather. The scientists say we ought to pay strict atten- tion to our diet during the torrid months, making fruit and vegetabl- es the predominant feature. Of course, every effort should be directed to rendering domiciles as well ventilated as possible. Those who are fortunate enough to have a Summer home either in the open country, in the mountains or beside a body of water have largely solved the problem of house discomfort from heat. Of course the number of such is relatively small. The great mass of the population must battle with the disadvantages of city life when the weather be- comes uncomfortably hot. There the juilicious employment of suit- able food, clothing, baths and a philosophic temperament are great aids to niakuig the trying season endurable. ^ Woodstock Sentinel- Review. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks meet for the first time Meeting was on a strictly bu.sinoss basis at stockholder's meeting in Sam Goldwyn and behind Mary is Charlie Chaplin. From the smiles they are still friends. since his return l:nr;i tl;0 (h lent. Hollywood, Cal. At the left is on their faces it would appear The Week In Ottawa ONTARIO'S OLDEST TWINS THE EMPIRE HISTORY The British got their first lesson in civilization from the Romans. They were then con<iuered by the English, and these in turn were conquered by the Normans. Out of the three re- sulted a nation which later accepted the King of Scotland for its mon- arch. His family was in the same century dethroned by a Dutchman who arrived with a fleet of 500 sail, 14,000 men, and finding the English nobility on his side, was soon in London, resistance in Scotland and Ireland being subdued later. In the face of the facts of history to sug- gest that the British nation has made itself is lamentably like non- sense. To suggest that India is making itself a nation without the co-operation oi the British seems no less inappropriate.â€" Oivlcutta States- man. » • » ICMPIRK AIR ROUTES Air and Empire are closely lined. The most valuable bonds in any empire are its coinnuinications. The R.jnian knew that. Their roads were veins for their empire's life-blood. But the speed of modern transport has made communications ten times more valuable. If Britons and Americans could have used air- planes to exchange their views in 1775, America might never have left the Empire. The more air rout- es we open to keep the Empire to- gether the fewef problems will a- rise to keep it apart.â€" Sunday Ex- press. IN PRAIftE* OF RED-HEADS The allegati/i that no person with red hair has ever obtained a history "first" at Oxford should not upset those w'ji arc so endowed. Re- flection should convince them that if this statement is true, history "firsts" cannot bo a test of real capacity. Many red-headed people of exceptional brilliance stride through actual history. Caesar, Napoleon, Bayard, Sir Philip Sidney are among those who have shown the truth of "Ginger for pluck." The Titian-haired girl, pos#fssing the adornment of some of the world's most alluring women, many find ad- ditional comfort in the fact that the "rc/1-gold cataract" of her hair has become the fashionable tint. â€" Lon- don Dairly Mu.|. OTTAWA â€" T'he government last week took a stop calculated to stop the swing from oheeso protluctlon to butter production among the dairy farmers. The plan Is to bonus tarm- crs sending their milk to cheese fact- oiies, the first payments to be made tho first week in August covering fho July production. In making the announcement, Hon. Robert Weir, Minister of ARriculture, said pay- ments would be based on one and one half cents per pound for tlie cheese produced. Tliey will increase the far- mer's returns from the cliee'^e lact- ories between 20 and L'o per cent. Checks will be made out by the sec- relaries of the factories drawn on money advanced by the government. As long as Canadian butter produc. tion does not exceed the domestic de- mand Canadian prices are somewhat above world prices. Cdeose. however. is always .sold on a world price bai Is. This situation tended to encourage farmers to shift from cheese produc- tion to butter making. The end would have been that butter production would exceed domestic demand and it would drop to world prices. It is regarded as preferable to export milk 111 the form of cheese than but- ter for 8(!vcral reasons. One U Can- adian oheese ranks higher In the United Kingdom market than , does butter from this country. Announcement of the resumption of statutory Increases brought a nolo of good cheer to civil servants eligible for these increases, which will aaiount to from JtiO to iZW per annum. Those affected will get a nice little sum in the lll^^t pay Including tho boost, because tiJe Increase Is being made retroactive to April 1. .Members of the service openly voic- ed their satisfaction at the move c. lUo goverunicnt. Statutory Increases were cancelled in 1932 but since that year conditions have been showing a general betterment and the govern- ment has been able to sec Us way clear to resume the increaves. T'he Prime Minister was expected to get away last weekend for a much needed rest by the seaside. Work of tho Cabinet, especially the dick- erings with Japan for a trade treaty, has delayed the departure of the Prime Minister. It is anticipated, however, that a satisfactory arrange, meiit will be arrived at between Can- ada and the Japanese government. So murti of Mr. Bennett's time has been taken up with Cabinet meetings that tho expected Cabinet re organ- ization announcement, along with appointment! to the Senate, also were delayed. Mr. Denton Massey, Ontario pro- vincial campaign director, gave In- spiration to the youth of the province last week in two speeches made in Toronto and broadcast over a radio hook-up. He pointed oul particularly (ho groat leadors>hip Mr. Bennett has given this country In her lean years and the stubborn fight ne has made to get Canada back on her feet. The government has had little or no trouble witih the unemployed trek- kers, hundreds of whom have estab-- lished themtelves In the Capital. Mr. Dennett, although baited by Premier Hepburn of Ontario, is saying noth- ing, wlillc on the otiher hand Mr. Hep. burn had a change of heart or mind after announcing he would not inter. fere with the marchers. He stopped them at Kenora. SCIENCE AND THE QUINTUPLETS Dioiine Babies Arc Being Stiiiiic'J by Biologists, Be- haviorists, P s y chologists, Sociologists and Astrolo- gers, Each With a Theory To Prove. 'Already scientists are training their lenses on the Ave Dionne babies, writes Olive Roberts Barton. Biologists, beliaviorists, psycholog- ists, sociologists and astrologers, each with a theory to prove, have never before had access to five babies all born at once of tho same parents to provide comparative data. Their experiences will be similar, if not identical. And this fact in itself adds price to the data scient- ists will adduce. Those wlio believe heredity is dominant will win if Marie develops great-graiuima's aversion to red, or Einelie shows unmistakable signs of granddaddy'a obsession for diving, atavistic or latent through two gen- erationsâ€"or if Cecile is peculiarly nervous about certain sounds, just ns grandma was. Annette, perhaps, has a miracle memory like great-uncle Pierre or Gaston and Yvcmne a pen- chant for strawberries and pop like her parents and Grandpa Olivier. Most exponents of environment claim that each new baby is a blank sheet of paper on which only experi- ence c«n Write its words; that each one of us is a pure result of our owil lives and what has filled the years. Here "conditioning" is a big word. The child is unconsciously in- fluenced by its elders. "What is mistaken for heredity," so say the extremists, "is actually some other force at work, « force even unsus- pecteil by parents themselves at times. Already Marie has developed curiosity and courage. She seems hound and determined to investigate the world, even at the expense of her sisters. She crawls over Erne- lie's tummy, plants a foot in An- nette's eye and uses Y'vonne as tackle. Does this mean that her reaction to life is aggressive? That she fits into the "extrovert" type of humans'.' That she will be a rough-and-ready go-getter, will have no time to feel sorry for herself ever, and will be less sensitive than the others? Little Yvonne is Quiot but merry. As far as one can judge at present she will be the wistful or appealing type, placing her personality behind others, becoming more sensitive and emotional as time passes and class- ing herself with the "introverts" who usually have a hard time of it. Things may be reversed. Marie and Yvonne may belie these early observations ours. It is merely hypothesis. All the little girls may be either one extreme or the other, or, most possibly, a happy normal between the two. As their environment and handling has been identical and will continue to be so for a time, this individual growth will be of interest to the enemies of heredity who maintain that every one adopts his social at- titude AFTER birth. If the Dionne babies develop similar natures it helps to prove their i)oint. If, on the other hand, they show inherent dif- ferences of temperament and a wide range in mental power, it will help to refute their contention that here- dity is nonsense. The world is watching. Science is waiting. The five-pointed star of Callander is a miracle that seemed to wait for the present living hour, potential with every device for weighing God's work against man's, of nature against the human labora- tory. 21 One day 85 years ago twin girls were ushered into the world in a then heavily wooded section of On- tario at Green River in the Town- ship of Pickering. They went to school togotiier, lived close together and got married about the same time, and are still living in the same town of Stouffville. The twins are Mrs. Henry Hodgson and Mrs. Geo. Bowers. They joined the church at Whitevale when 17 yeai-s old, and remember playing tricks on the boys. They used to switch "fellows" going and coming from church and the boys never knew, the twins were so much alike. Their dispositions are alike too, and they never re- member having a <|uarrel but once. ]dish miracles that people in many other lands cannot believe exist until they see them with their own eyes. "I like housekeeping when I'm met by a daily challenge to my imagina- tion and resourcefulness. The curious thing was, before I came to this side to keep house, I imagined that women in Canada and the United States spent their entire lives mak- ing something out of nothing. I got that from your magazines. I read about the girl who saved her mother ten dollars by building all the fur- niture in the house out of old boxes and spools and a little paint, but 1 haven't been able to find the girl! KNOWLEDGE HELPS Mrs. Davidson finds that what she discovered about housekeeping in various lands is a great help to her. In China and Singapore, for instance, she learned to make a little of any- thing â€" meat, vegetables or fruit â€" go a long way by the addition of rice. Slie has found that a fine help in hard times. In India and Borneo she learned how to battle heat by eating pungent, higiily-seasoned foods and keeping the hot air away from the body bj mt:ans of cotton clothes, which wer« changed entirely twice a day. Our men especially need to discover how much more comfortable they could be in our hottest weather by follow- ing the tropical rule, Mrs. Davidson thinks. It was England, where she lived during the war years, that taught Mrs. Davidson the advantage of the personal, intimate touch in the home, whether it "goes with" the rest of the furniture or not. LAMENTS I.AIPERSONAL H0ME3 "It is awful to contemplate soma homes," she says with a sigh. "Thero is no more individuality to them than there is to the showroom of a store. If people can afford it, they turn their liomes over to decorators. If they can't afford decorators, they^ force themselves into the same im-, personal attitude. In England, home- makers feel it important to have' around them thinks they have loved,' that have meant a great deal in their family life. They believe a honw'. should look as if some special persoa' owned it!" ^ In the West Indies, Mrs. Davidson found the most considerate women' employers she had ever seen and discovered, incidentally, that they, got the best service from their ser- vants. It was in Singapore, where sacred! bulls with the humps on their backs wander around more or less at wiU,i that it was not unusual, according to Mrs. Davidson, to find one of them sitting in her own bathroom. She learned several dialects in India. where there are perhaps 375 ways to' say egg; grew to like living on top of the equator in Singapore, and when she cleaned up a plantation ia the West Indies decided that you can beautify any place for little or no cost, provided you put a great deal' of yourself into it. It was when they were papering the kitchen in the parental home. It wouldn't go on right, and the girls blamed each other. Mrs. Hodgson has been a widow for 12 years, but Mr. and Mrs. Bowers will celebrate their diamond wedding this fall. Toronto was only a town when their father first took them there long years ago from their settlement home in the country, once or twice a year. Home-Makers Here Don^t Have to be Ingenious Kvervthing's So Convenient It's Dull, Says Woman Whose Kept House in Seven Countries. Montreal â€" "Housekeeping is too easy on this continent," says Mrs. Miria B. Davjdson. "Everything is so carefully planned for the home-mak- er's convenience that it becomes un- interesting." .\nd Mrs. Davidson speaks wi'h authority, for she has kept houoi; in seven countries during the past forty years, moving from place to place as required by the business of her husband. Married twice, both times she -became the wife of a man eriployed as foreign agent for large corporations. "Keeping house on this continent is dull because you don't have to use your ingenuity," explained Mrs. Davidson, who, with her bright brown eyes, dark hair almost un- touched by grey, and tireless energy, looks about forty, but is really sixty- three. "Everything you could pos- sibly want ia right at hand. Elec- tricity, gas and plumbing accom- MsisisMi HDT 5HDT5 EY KEN. EDWARDS Mol Thomas is one ot the young' lads that "Ike" Boone has taken Uft- der his wing this season. This youngster is only twenty-one years old. Ho comes from Manhat- tan University, where his fellow col- legians hailed him as their sUr of the diamond and gridiron. This season, before the post-sea- sou games our friend Thomas Ulled la with the Toronto Leafs, at tha timo when Bill Regan acted up, and turned in a real showing. However, as fato would have it^ at the Tampa training oamp Mel in- jured his thumb badly and was r». placed by Lee Ilandley o" third basa. It was very unfortunate and only Tor that injury Handley might not have been able to crowd Ttoomas out. However ,this sprlgtly youugstei Is now down in Wilmington wheri he la brushing up on his baseballâ€"' this boy has lots ot time to mak4 good, he's got sometihing, so watol him go to town next year with w best ot thom.