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- -^ .'S-'* ^ "We Are Going To Have Sticky Time," Says Colonial Secretary London â€" Sparse population of Em- pire countries was thrust recently before the British public as a quest- ion involving future preiiomiiunce In the world of British concepts of democracy, individual liberty and ordered international peace. The question was raised by the Colonial Secretary, Malcolm Mac- Donald, son of Ramsay MacDonald. Lord President of the Counc^ and former Prime Minister, in a report of his recent visit to Australia as a delegate of the United Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association. Mr. MacDonald, forecasting that "We are going to have a very •ticky time" with the Dominions dur- ing the next few years, said: "One realizes that British countries on the other side of the world are half empty." The Colonial Secretary held that: "the future authority and power of the British peoples depends on whe- ther we are able to increase steadily on a fairly large scale over a long period the population of the Do- Biinions." He said of the populations that it was "not simply that at present those half-populated countries are weak links in our chain of Imperial defence," but that it was a case of the "fateful clash of ideas proceed- ing in the world â€" one advocating a return to the jungle law of interna- tional afifairs, another advocating class war as a prelude to interna- tional communism, another advocat ing dictatorships. SiEach of these ideas," he said, "is gaining converts daily, and pitted igainst them are British ideas of icmocratic Government, individual liberty and ordered international peace. "If Britain, in the course of years, was surrounded by a group of loyal, >Iso powerful. Dominions whose itatesmen spoke for large popula- •.ions settled throughout- the earth, ;hen the causes for which the British people stood would bid fair not only •,o hold their own but to dominate igain the affairs of the world." Range Of Knowledge (Baltimore Sun) Nothing is to wonderful as the range of human interests, 1 suppose, jnless it is the public expression of those interests. Look through any :omprehensive list of new books â€" even the books of a month â€" and you will understand. I have just looked at such a list. and it includes, indeed, only a \.eck's issue of new books in Eng- land. Yet, along with the usual run of fiction, poetry, books for children, literary essays and works on history and politics, •'here are the following- "Some Agricultural Enterprises in Malaya," "Tales Told in Church Stones: Symbolism and Legend in Mediaeval Architecture and Handicrafts," "A Coptic Dic- tionary," a translation of Celsus' "De Mcdicina,' "Russian Order.s. Decorations and Medals Under the Monarchy," "Practical Applications '! the Punched Card Methods in Colleges and Universities," "The Birds of Midlrflhian," "A Greek Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron, From Dura," "Fine Structure in Line Spectra and Nuclear Spin." 1 can imagine some cue being interested in Russian decorations under the monarchy; I cannot imagine enough persons being in- terested in the subject to warrant the publication of a carefully writ- ten book. But undoubtedly there Morrisburg, Ont., Returns To Navigation Circles Like Leamington, Wallaceburg, Picton, Oshawa and many ocher aggressive smaller Ontario communities where there has been a revival of shipping during the past few seasons, Morrisburg, Ont., now becomes a port in every sense of the word. Throngs of people from all parts of the world still crowd into the district attracted by the reputation of Dr. Locke and now regular daily passenger ser- vice on the Toronto-Rochester-Thousand Islands-Montreal route has been inaugurated by Canada Steamship Lines. Photo shows: A section of the celebration when S. S. Rapids Prince, in command of Capt. Cherry, entered the harbor for the first time. The Mayors of Morrisburg and Waddington, N.Y., delegates from the Chambers of Commerce and other public bodies as well as throngs of citizens, were all on hand for the event. SOMETHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT Just touch a light to "Dixie" Then let your pipe decide â€" For Dixie is a mellow smoke The Best you ever tried 1 LARGE PLUG 20 DIXIE PLUG SMOKING TOBACCO 350 Whales VIOLENT DEATHS It will perhaps come as somewhat of a surprise to the majority of Can- adians to be told that the total num- ber of deaths in Canada during 1934 from violent causes was 6.448. That is an astounding statement, and one that should cause considerable thought. If a town with a population of between six and seven thousand persons were completely wiped out by some sudden catastrophe it would shock the whole country. Because the deaths *are widely scattered all over the Dominion the realization of the calamity is less vivid. Member of a marine family which brings the British Columbia fishing industry a tidy sum every year but is not exploited commercially on Canada's Atlantic coast, an 82-foot whale, with its mouth measuring 30 feet in circumference, was trapped in an ice jam off Richmond county, Nova Scotia, in early May and cast up on the shore. It thrashed and struggled, flailing about with its great tail, but Nature which gave it power ahd given the ice pack more and the big mammal's struggles were unavailing. On the Dominion's Pacific coast the whaling industry is of substan- tial importance, the catch being used in manufacturing whale oil, meal and fertilizer. Last year the British Columbia whaling steamers captured 350 of these big fellows, a total which was above the annual average for the preceding 10 years of Whaling, and the two stations in the Queen Char- lotte Islands where the yearly catch is processed turned out more than 813,700 gallons of oil. That quantity was 304,000 gallons greater than the 1933 output, and it is necessary to dig back to 1918 in the records of the Dominion Department of Fish- eries to find a year when the '34 production figures were exceeded. Half dozen different species of whales are taken off the Queen Charlottes but nowadays much the greater part of the catch is made up of Sperms. Editor Called On To Settle A Bet Refers Inquirer To Genesis 5-5 CHAMPION RURAL REPORTER FETED Missouri Grandmother in New York Says Crime is Not News. "The Frenchman thinks with his head, and with nothing but his head; •te Englishman thinks â€" or rather, as 'he himself says, 'feels somehow' with everything but his head."- â€" Salvador de Madariaga. New York. â€" A self-styled "ridge-runner" from the Ozark hills arrived in .New York to be feted by editors and publishers, and wel- comed later by Mayor LaGuardia. She is Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahn- key, winner of a magazine prize for the best rural newspaper correspon- dence. For 44 years she has written about the doings of Oasis, Mo., (population 27) or her former homes at Korbyville and Mincy, Mo., for the "Forsythe Republican," criculation 725. White-haired and a grandmother. Mr. Mahnkey found New York "tre- mendous, overwhelming almost," but said she wanted to "do it up right because I'll never be back any more." A week each in New York and Washingtn are part of the prize award. Only the pleasant things that hap- pen in Oasis get into Mrs. Mahn- key's column. MONTHLY PRIZE CONTESTS For Artists and Authors TTHERE i< one requi«ile that applies to every lype of contest entry, be it an â- dvertiting statement, limerick laft line, 4«|c>'ip'>ve Utter, or a sketch That Is iSTNCERity. Send • 3c stamped return envelope for full in(oi malion regarding our Monthly Service for Artists and Authors, or send $2.00 for a yearly subscripliog. Sample she«t for tOc. GIFF BAKER, 39 LEE AVENUE, TORONTO, ONT. (From the Stratford Beacon-Herald) It must be the custom of people to bet on anythinsr and everything. Not long ago a young man called this office and explained he lived in a boarding house and there was an argument at the table regarding the size of the family of Adam and Eve. The young man on the phone said he had bet a quarter there were two, Cain and Abel, and Cain had killed Abel. Another boarder in the house had bet there were three sons. but he did not know the name of the third. This office was to settle the dis- pute and say which one should col- lect the money. The other point in dispute was whether the family had lived in the Garden of Eden. When it was suggested to him he might read the first few chapters of Genesis and get the matter straight for himself he replied he had no time for that. When he was told it would hardly do to leave Seth out of the family circle of Adam and Eve, he said he had never heard of Seth, which is, of course, rather hard on poor Seth. Our inquirer asked if it were true the family consisted of three sons. and the answer to that was we did not know how many sons and daughters there were in the family of Adam and Eve. If the man with the inquiring mind cared to do so he could have turned to Genesis 5-5 and found this reference to Adam after the birth of Cain. Abel and Seth ". . . and he begat sons and daughters." The man from the boarding house, it seems, had also included in his bet that Adam and Eve and their family lived in the Garden of Eden. The printed record is all against such a belief. It was after Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden that their children were born. It seems the tendency is to get in- to an argument about something and then to back one's opinion with a wager. In most cases it would be much better to have some knowl- edge in the first place with which to back the belief. HIGHWAY SAFETY Additional Constables Detail- ed to Traffic Patrol â€" Car Inspection and Advertising Campaign. Toronto. â€" To cope with the rising tide of deaths from automobile ac- cidents in Ontario, Hon. T. B. Mc- Questen, Minister of Highways and acting Attorny-General, has an- nounced 12 constables had been ad- ded to the provincial force, most of them detailed to the highway traf- fic patrol. CANADA LEADS IN PLATINUM OUTPUT Over 200,000 Ounces Pro- duction For Last Year â€" 55,755 Ounces in 1933 Provision for additional traffic police marked the latest step in Mr. | °^ Canada. M„n,,„ot„„'. .,„„,«„.„„ *„ i„ I "We believ Toronto, Ont â€" Canada has emerged within the last few months as the world's leading producer in platinum, following a remarkable and steady increase in the Domin- ion's output of this precious metal till, in 1934, the world consumption and Canadian production were al- most the same. Figures on Canadian production were discussed last week by John C. Nichollg, assistant to the presi- dent. International Nickel Company Was First Cauiadian Soldier To Set Foot In France In 1914 McQuesten's campaign to promote! "We believe from a comparison highway safety. Possession of a!"* «" ^^^^ ^"""''^ production figures driver's license has been made the I ^'^'"'la^'e, that Canada is now de- basis for enforcing the traffic laws, ; finitely in first place," Jfr. Xicholls said the minister, and he listed two said. "Hitherto, Russia, with mines other features of his safetv cam- 1'" 'he ^'""al mountains, has been paignâ€" police inspection of' motor '''« chief source of platinum. Re- vehicles and equipment and an ad- '''»'^''-' figures on Russian production The Antics Of Lightning Hamilton. â€" William -Alderson, of Carlisle, was one of several persons in this district, who will remember the recent display of lightning which played a series of strange pranks. A bolt struck the .-Vlderson home, entering by the chimney and sh.^t- tering a brick wall, then circled the home after ripping a hole several feet wide. The eaves and walls were scorched. Inside, as Mr. .-Vlderson was sitting with his wife, the bolt ripped the plaster from the wall be- tween them in the dinin.^-room and romped away across the lawn to no one knows where. In Dundas, Ernest Dring, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Dring, dropped his shovel while working in the gar- den as the lightning descended split- ting the shovel in two and wrench- ing a pick from his hand. It burned his right leg, blackening his right foot and threw him to the ground with a severe jolt. A hole was burned in the examin- ation paper which Sain and John McGrath were looking at when light- ning leaped between them. Across the street, Leo Sullivan, of Hamilton was shocked while fixing • wire on a clothes line. vertising campaign. Departmental records showed 202 persons had been killed in automo- bile accidents during the first six months of this year, compared with 104 in the corresponding period of 1934. The June death toll was 44, an incrca.se of 12 above the May total. "-â- V small fine does not quite meet the situation," said Mr. McQuesten. We will get more attention to the last year cannot be secured but a study of all data on production and consumption which is to be secured, indicates that Canada has definitely taken the lead." In 1934, Mr. .Nicholls said, Cana- da produced slightly over 200.000 ounces of he metals of the platin- um gioup. He thought that 1935 production would also be high. "Platinum is a by-product of nickel production." he explained. law if we exercise freely the can- "There is approximately one ounce collation of tiie driver's license for a term." K-n. act passed by the last session of the Legislature gave police power to order into a garage for inspection any motor vehicle they believed a menace to highway safety, tlie min- ister recalled. Necessity for such inspection was stressed in a circular Mr. McQuesten and Attorney-General Roebuck sent Ontario police heads several weeks ago. This was followed by a circu- lar to magistrates and Crown at- torneys urging suspensin of drivers' \ •cciisei; wi;ore such a course was be- , lieved necessary. | In the first six months of this year troy of platinum in each 20 tons of copper-nickel ore from the Frood mine and the efficiency of modern milling and refining methods now makes practical the collection of the minute particles of platinum pres- ent in each ton of platinum-bearing ore." Though platinum has been fou.id in the nine provinces and was ob- served as long ago as 18(52, there are no official statistics on produc- tion before 1920 and during the next 12 years, the total for the platinum group was oniy 419,000 ounces or slightly more than double the production during the last 12 months. For 1033, it was 55,755 1,753 drivers had their licenses "sus- ' o"ncos but the remarkable increase pended, compared with 1.271 sus- '" ^'"PPer nickel ore mined in the pensions in the same period in 1933. Of this year's total, reckless driving accounted for 783 cancellations. In- toxication brought 204 suspensions, and drivers were barred from the roads without a license. The first Canadian soldier to land in Prance in the Great War was • visitor in Stratford recently. He if Capt H. E. Law, director of physi<t» al education in Verdun High Schook Capt. Law enlisted in the medical corps at Kingston, and was a seiV geant-major in No. 2 Canadian S' tionary Hospital Unit, which sailej from Southampton on November 1914, while the members of First Canadian Contingent we: still floundering in the mud Salisbury Plains, and wondering whj^ would have the distinction of being the first to land in France. The depature of the hospital un^ was carried out with great secrecft and the Canadians landed at I^ Havre on the morning of November 9. About 11 o'clock that morninfc Sergt.-Major Law of Kingston, Oi^ tario, was marching down the ganj^ plank. He was the first Canadiap soldier exclusive of reservists wh had been living in Canada and ri called to their units, to land I. France. He was closely followed by Staff Sergeant McDonald of Sarnia, who was the second man ashore. Although reluctant to discuss hia war service. Capt Law recalled th* events of that morning when inteif- viewed today. "I recall the thing that impressed me most as we landed," he remift- isced. "The kits of British officers who had been killed were piled in heaps in the shed, to be sent back to England. Most of them had blood- stains on them. That reminded vy^ forcibly that we were going to war. The first order which he read m camp, he recalled, was that of a member of a Wiltshire regiment had been court-martialed, and order- ed shot on a charge of attempted desertion. "The order was duly carried out at seven o'clock this morning," he recalled reading to the Canadian unit â€" further reminder of the grina business of war. There was no welcome and no ceremonv in connection with the landing "of the first Canadian unit. The troops were met by a British R.T.O. and escorted to camp. The Canadians were under the command of Col. A. T. Shillington of Ottawa. Ocean Passenger Traffic From Canada Increasing Quebec. â€" From the opening of navigation in the St Lawrence river -â- Vpril 20 until June 30 a total of 7,745 passengers left Montreal and Quebec for Europe, it was announc- ed recently. In the same time, 7,- 627 passengers aii-ived from Eur- opean points. Both figures showed a slight increase over last year. Navigation opened a week earlier this year. "What our better self is we can easily know if we will spare two minutes every night to ask ourselves what made us really happy, and not purely amu.'sed, in the course of the day." â€" Abbe Ernest Dimnet "Wars are never won, but they J can be lost." â€" Bernard M. Daruch. Sudbury basin brought the total ov er 200,000 ounces for last year. "Canada is now producing on a commercial scale, five of the six precious metals in the platinum group." Mr. Nicholls says. "These are platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium and ruthenium. K\\ are found in the nickel-copper ores of the Sudbury basin and Canada is also the world's chief source of palladium. Osmium is the remain- ing metal not produced in this country. "In addition to its use in jewelery and as a setting for gems and pre- cious stones, platinum is widely used in industry. It also acts as a variety of chemical ringmaster, causing other elements to react while being unaffected itself." Classified Advertising AVIATION D O YUU W.VNT TU C.l'.T .-^TAin-KD In aviation'? \Vt. will help yojl. Write lor liilonniition and J_oln ine Cuninlian OtUarlo. .Wiation Clvib, Kitchener, BSCOMS A DETECTIVE pXl'EHlENCIi U.NNKCESS.VUY. PAR- •- ticulars l-'KEK. Write Maurice Jtilleii. IMawer 'l\>. Hiaiich T. Mnitieal. "Education in the capacity for un- derstanding oneself and others, and for making oneself understood by others, is all-fmportant." â€" J. S. Haldene. "I have no formula for peace an. I must confess that I distrust tho judgment of those who sny they possess one." â€" Sir Austen Chamber- lain. HORSES WORK BETTER when freed from Saddle Boils, Cut*, Sprainn. Distemper, Colic, etc. by i Minard's Liniment. Keeping a bottio al Minard'a in the ulable u well u .] In the house 6ave« Vet's and Doctor "m j bilU. 90 ^ Issue No. 31 â€" '35 ID *â- * â€"