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VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE >f the PRESS CANADA Guni Too Easy It is far too easy in this country, as i:i the United States, far a man to get guns. Nobody has any right to possess a revolver at all unless he is a police officer, or is engaged in Home pursuit which requires that he have one ui.der permit, with the police fully aware that he has it. Guns arc no part of the equipment of R peaoeablo, law-ibiding citizen. The law should bo so tightened that the thereabouts of every gun in the country is known. â€" St. Thomas Times-.Toumal. Uses for Bayonets A military writer says in the next war the bayonet will be obsolete. And what will the troops use to make toa.st and broil steaks and chop kindlinp:? â€" Edmonton .Journal. Another Suggestion The Free Press .la^ siigKPsted on several occa.^ions tha. May 24th be made Jlemorial Day. There is no fixed day in Canada for Memorial Day as in the United Stales. It is a moveable feast. Canada should have a penoral Memorif.! Day, when not only the soldiers who died for Canada, but our great statesmen and the builders of Canada could be remembered. .A.s far as this part of Canada is concerned it is an ideal time. The country is at its best; the SprinfT flowers are in all their glory. Then there would be some excuse, Bomo sound reason for continuing in Canada a holiday which in the rest of the Empire ha? long since been forgotten. ---T.oihlui', Free Press. Dr. Dafoe's Poets Dr. A. R. Dafoe. -hero" of the Dionnc quintuplets, has a grievence. It is seemingly the first complaint of any seriousness that he has voiced since he came into fame. It has not to do with the quin- tuplets, with the quintuplets' par- ents, or with the Ontario Govern- ment's suzerainty over the quintu- plets. It has to (io with poets â€" of a sort. Dr. Dafoe has been telling the Ontario Public Health Officers' Assoriation. in an address before it, of "sickly, sentimental poems" he has been receiving since the birth of the Dionnc kiddies, verse inspired, as he says, by the advent of the quintuplets and the medical attention they have received. Said Dr. Dafoe: "It's awful t^tuflf. It comes from all over the country, and why people pick on me I don't know." First thing wc know Dr. Dafoe may be taking to the Callander bush and staying there. liolli ho and the quin- tuplets have had a hard enough struggle without this insidious foe from without. It may be questioned if poetry is poetry where it threatens to drive the object of its outpouring to despair. â€" Regina Leader-Post. Explanation Venioi\, B.C., boy flies over Rockies In a home-made airplane. Now we know why it has been so long since anyone went over Niagara in a bar- rel. â€" Winnipeg Tribniie. The Wealthy Babies The Dionne (|uinluplets now have $.')U0,000. the newspaper reporters tell us. That means their earnings have been at the rate of $50,000 per annum apiece, which is a good in- come and ought to qualify the quints to rank, in the minds of University of Toronto econoniicsts and others who protest against large incomes, as puldic malefactors and exploiters. The Dominion income tax on $50,- 000 a year is $11,7000. If the quints have been paying their taxes regu- larly. Ottawa sliould have received about $11.''>,000 from them already. The new Ontario schedule should Increase the annual payment by $3,200. Hon. David ('roll suys that by the end of VMS the quints will bo worth al)out $880,000. But he does not say â- whether this is after or before in- come tax. This whole iiui»tioii of quintuplets' income tax bothers us. Some day some member of Parliament is going to ask questions in the House. That •will embarrass the young ladies. Someone may even demand a R( yal Cohimi.ssion. -After all the quints arc about the only success- ful business people in Canada who have not been up before a star chamlter inquisition on how they earn their money and what social income they provide in return. â€" Financial Post. Perils of the Water The danger of wading, swimming or diving in water of unknown depth has been tragically emphasized in Alberta during the current hr wave. Four boys are dead becau they did not know Just how dc.p. tho water was. A youth dove off a bridge spanning a branch of the Bow river in Calgary and broke his neck. He had not made sure that the water was deep enough for diving. Three boys in other parts of the province were wading in flooded creeks. Each stepped into dei>p loles they did not know were there and were drowned. Even expert swinnnors do not care to plunge into streams of whose currents and depths they know nolii- ing. Make sure you know what you are going to run into before you step Into a lake or stream, especially if the latter is at high water. â€" Ed- monton .Toumal. Canadian Lawn Bowling Team Sails for England Two Carloads of Paint It would be very interesting to tabulate how much money Kirkland Lake sends outside in a year. We don't refer to money sent by wage- earners to families, or to the mail- order business, but to the returns from the retail bu.nii ess here. Take, for example, just one hard- ware establishment, whose manager the other day mentioned that he had just ordered two carloads ol paint, and one of wall-paper. It would be interesting to find out what Kirkland Lake sends out for other ware for other businesses. And such a tabulation would cer- tainly show that this and other mining communities have a great deal to do with keeping things go- ing ''down below." â€" Northern News (Kirkland Lake). THE EMPIRE The King's Teapots Tea is King Ldward's favorite beverage. As Prince of Wales he often surprised local officials during induEtrial tours by refusing cham- pagne, whiskey and beer which had been obtained specially for him, ask- ing for a cup of tea. "The King drinks tea many times a day. As a young man ho often burnt his fingers on the all metal teapots at Buckingham Palace. He remem- bered this when discussing household arrangements at nuckingham Palace with Queen Mary. Result: Kitty heavy Queen Anne toapots of valu- able Sheffield plate were packed ott to Marlborough House, where the Queen Is to live. They are being re- placed by teapots with wooden handles. British f'avalcrule. Earlier Holidays Krom Raster it is an ua.sy step to anticipations of the suiiimor vacation. The railway companieH and other travel agencies, backed by the sea- side authorities and I)Ik employers ot labour, are again making very sen- sible efforts to induce peoploi to take tlielr holidays earlier. This movement, which Is of such obvious benefit, has made considerable headway in re- cent years. But in spite of It August remains llie supreme holiday month. Tho arrangement of school terms compels many thousands of people to go away in August, but on its merits the month has no more, and in some respects rather less, to commend it than others.â€" London Daily M;iil. Baden-Powell's Head Lord Baden-P<iwell, now in his 80th year, has one claim to fame which most of his Boy Scouts don't know about. He is tbe oniy living Knglishman not of royal blood whose portrait has appeared on a postage stamp. It was during the siege of Mafeking. All the stamps had been used, and no portrait of Queen Vic- toria was available from which new on s could be prepared. So, without consulting "B-P." an emergency issue was made on which his head had been reproduced. â€" Answers, London. Photograph shows the ofticial Canadian team representing the Canadian Lawn Bowling Council and selected from all Canada under th* auspices of the International Bowling Board, sailed on the Empress of Australia. The team will tour one week in England, one week in Wales, on« week in Ireland, three weeks in Scotland, and close with a final week in England between June 6 and July 30. One of the highlight matches will b« a game between this all-Canadian team and the team of the Koyal Household of Windsor Castle, at which there is a possibility that His Majesty King Ldward \ HI will be present. i- j j j n T T Jv^® photograph includes: W. A. Kent Toronto; W. B. Cowan, K.C.. Toronto; Dr. H. McL. Paterson, Rodney; Dr. C. H. Brerton, Toronto R. J. Tretheway, London; Wl. Douglas, OriUia; W U Cleghorn. Kitchener, captain; C. H. Burgess. Port Credit; John Wharram, Toronto; A. A. Pon CrcJlit"' manaBer; 1^- «'ay Vancouver; G. E. MacLean, Toronto; Wm. G. Murray. Vancouver; John M. White, Vancouver; E. S. Munroe. tiru-. .,'fhe ladies include Mr.s Cleghorn, Mrs. Cowan, Mrs. Urereton. Mrs. Burgess. Mrs. Kent, Mrs. Paterson, Mrs. Trethewey, Mrs. Murray. Mrs.' White, Mrs. Pedwell and Mrs. Roddick. ' " Chess - For - Children Plan Aims To Improve the Minds Toronto Experts Believe They Would Obtain Better Grades at School ; Young Players A^ide by Ethics of Game Strictly Hosiery to Match Toeless Footwear NKW YORK - iSonie women who follow a conservative taste in shoes during three seasons of the year, in summer like to take a flier in open- .thank and toe slippeis for street and country wear. The color of one's toeless and heel- less shoes now can be matched by the soles of the stockings worn with them. The thin toe, heel and soles of sev- eral shades of tan stockings have been dyed the exact shade of new summer shoes in white, green, red, blue or carrot. Thus a touoh of color in tho hose peeps over the shoe at the heel and shows through open straps. There are also bags and gloves of these colors, from which as many matching accessories may be selected â- IS one wishes. The gloves come in â-  ' colors, or in white piped w;!li .'lor. TORONTOâ€" High-ifrade pupils would be a.ssured if chess were taught in schools, in the opinion of S. A. LeKiche, vice-president of the Queen City Chess Club and leader in the che.ss-for-cliildren movement begun in Toronto. "The mental imjtrovement would bring results," .said Mr. LeUiche. "The whole thing is mathematical training built around combinations on G4 squares on the clie.ss board." The youthful stimulus the ancient game will receive came through plans laid by Bernard Freedman, treasurer of the Canadian Chess Federation. Through his efforts came the an- nouncement that for the first time boys' championships will feature this year's Dominion chess tournament. It will be held at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, .Aug. 29th to Sept. !Jth. Mr. Freedman, considered Can- ada's patron of cliess, pioneered with four other players last >;ovembcr in founding the Queen City Chess Club. Special aim was to encourage chil- dren. Saturday afternoons through- out tbe winter 15 or 20 boys engaged in enthusiastic matches and tourna- ments. On a recent tour of the west Mr. Freedman discovered a boy expert of great promise. Ho is A. Yanofsky, an 11-year-old Winnipet-' youngster des- cribed by Mr. Freedman as "almost a second Ue.shevsky." Yanofsky may possibly attend the Dominion championships and give ex- hibitions of simultaneous matchtif. His visit would prove an incentive to young Toronto exponents, who play a good game but lack unu.sual individual talent. Mr. I.cRiche said the youngsters are sticklers for etiiiuette. Old play- ers, thinking a move unsound, some- times take it back. "But not the.se boys, a move is a move with them." "These kids are keen," he said. "We want to get them playing. It not only keeps them off the street.'^ but assures the growth of chess in Toronto." Efforts are under way to have chess included on public school cur- ricula. Itoyal Canadian Military Col- lege at Kingston is believed the only Canadian school having organized chess. Military colleges in the United States demand che.ss, and it is part of the tiaining at a Milwaukee school. Calls Destruction Second "Industry" ST. JOHN'S, Nlld. ~ "Destruction of forests" was (lUotcd by Captain Jack Turner, chief forestry officer for the department of natural re- sources, as Newfoundland's second largest industry. Pleading or prevention of forest tires, Captain Turner said this "indus- try" ha<l robbed the island of a dol- lar's worth of the national wealth for every dollar tbe fisheries produced. "In some parts of the island wc have done a job ot destruction so thorough that it may be classed as perfect," the chief ranger said. Visiting Card Sandy joined a golf club and was told by the profeslonal that if his name was on his balls and they were lost, they would be returned to him when found. "Good," said the Scot, "put my name on this ball." The pro. did so. / "Would you also put M.D. after it?" the new member asked. "I'm a doctor." / "There's just one more thing," the Scot went on. "Can ye squeeze on 'Hours 10 to 3" as well?" Herkrt Hoover N 1 Candidate Announces He Has No Inter- est Except to Get Critical issues Before People C II I C.'V G p â€" Former President Herbert Hoover announced recently "I am not a candidate" for the United States Republican presidential nomination. Mr. Hoover's declaration of his position was contained in a formal resume of an interview handed to reporters in the former President's hotel suite here. Tho resume said: As to his personal position, Mr Hoover said: •'It should be evident by this time that I am not a candidate. I have .stated many times that I have no in- terest but to get these critical issues before the country. " 'I have rigidly prevented my friends from setting up any organ- ization, and from presenting my name in any primary or to any state convention and not a single delegate from California or any other state is pledged to me.' " Mr. Hoover added: "That should end such discussion. And get one thing straight â€" I am not opposing any of the candidates. My concern is with principles." In another paragraph, he said for- mer Oovcrnor Lowden of Illinois "should be asked to write the agri- cultural plank for the convention," After discussing his own position, Mr. Hoover went on to say: "Tho convention will bo composed of a most unusual and able personnel. "The seriousness of the convention is evidenced by the fact that the large majority of the delegates are being sent by the people of tho states with- out other instructions than to find the right thing to do for the country in the greatest crisis we have met in two generations." Grandma Should Work Right Into Old Age Old l.atiies Should Crusade For More Common Sense in the World Today WASH1N(;T0Nâ€" Carrie Chapman Catt, 77, recently challenged 1,500 countrywomen to be peace crusaders, on into old age. "Once, grandmothers sat in a cor ner by the fire and knitted stockings for their .uraiulchildren," said silver- liaiied Mrs. Catt. "There are new duties, much more thrilling one.';, for old ladies in our time, lie a crusader, and leave the world with more com- mon sense tha it had when you came into it." Mrs. Catt shared bonor.s with Sec- retary of Agriculture Henry Wallace at the third triennial banquet of the Associated Countrymen of the world, filling to capacity a huge hotel ball- iTom. Wallace, addressing' the farm wo- inen. said progress in an attack on the agricultural problem is slow, "but we should not be pessimistic.'' "So far as the United States it ( oncerned," he said, "we are keenly aware that good weather might bring down on us again in serious form the problem of over-produc- tion." British People AreAlr-mlHiled Attendance at Empire Air Day Meet Sets New Record LONDONâ€" Empire Air Day, which was celebrated May 23 at civil and military airdromes all over Great I!ri- tain, set new record. Returns to the Air Min'stry show the total attend- ance, of visitors was approximately 200,000, as against 140,000 last year, and net "gate receipts" aggregated $37,500. This was the third successive year in which Empire Day had be- i cele- brated, and tho program arr;- ^d by the various squadrons inclr.d; '. many ingenious novelties. Royal Air Force officers and men entered into the spirit of the thing and devised flying and "static'' exhi- bitions which were widely appreciated. Dive-bombing, mock aerial combats, aerobatics, individually and in forma- tion, squadron drill air "raids," army co-operation work, radio telephony, parachuting, air firing and flying in- struction were included. Anti-aircraft guns, searchlights and sound locators figured among the static exhibits and members of the public were not only able to examine ".ll these things at close range but to try for themselves such instruments as the latest forms of sound locator, and to watch parachutes being folded and gas drill performed. At some stations the gas chamber was shown and visitors watched air- craftsmen wearing gas masks enter the chamber when it was full of tear gas. Some visitors were permitted to don gas masks and enter the chamber themselves. Freddie Stays With His Aunt Bartholomews Settle Rift Over Child-Actor LOS ANGELES, â€" A peace pact In the IJarthoomew family dispute, leaving 12yearold Freddie in the custody of his aunt who made him a $1,000 a-week star, was set in legal phrases last week for final ap- proval. Under an oral agreement announc- ed by attorneys after a long confer- ence the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil L. Ilartholomew, would share In their son's earnings and live here while the aunt. Miss MylUcent Bartholomew remained In control ot his film car- eer. Issac I'acht, counsel toj the parents said the written form would be ready to submit to the principals and then to Superior Judge Harry Archibald for final approval. "The father and mother would have tree opportunity to visit the boy and would establish a home here tor them- selves and their other two children and resume a normal family life with the boy," I'acht said. "This does not mean that the pro- ceeding In any sense Is an adoption by the aunt. The parents would con- tinue to be in relationship of parents and child. "Freddie's earnings would be utiliz- ed, first, for the establishment ot a trust fund for the boy, second, for the support and maintenance of the mother and father and tlie other two children, and third for the support and maintenance of the boy and his aunt." Pacht said details of the trust fund remained to be worked out â€" when Freddie would receive the principal and what would be done with the In- terest and income. The controversy arose almost two months ago when Mrs. Hartholomew came here for the announced purposa of breaking the guardianship awarded her sister-in-law six months before. > The mother's fir.«t petition to seti aside the guardianship was rejected.' Later the court indicated that aha mi,!;lit he entitled to his custody, since her fitness had not been questioned. Tho case was postponed, the father' arrived as "peacemaker" and thia- night's conference resulted. Since curly-headed Freddie was & mere baby of three, hf.^ aunt has had' a hand in developing his dramatic ab- ility, relatives said. She brought him to Hollywood in 1934, after negotiat- ing with his parents, and the excur-' sion into American films resulted in almost instant success for the lad. Miss Bartholomew has been credit-l ed Willi training Freddie in his pr«-' else Oxonian manner of speech and the almo.it-raature dignity that helped make him a star in hla first Holly- wood role, "David Copperr^ld." Simple to Sew Here's a youthful jsun - back dress with cape that calls for the minimum of material. It is made at a surprisngly small cost. You'll find it so simple to sow you'll want to make two or maybe three. As pictured in sail-blue with white button trim, it answers many needs. Without the cape, you'll wear it for active sporta and for sun-tanning For specta- tor sports, wrap the cape about your shoulders and button it on at the front. White tub silk with contr.isting Kelly green cape and belt, is a dasning scheme for important oc- casions. Use the pattern again and again for the sun-back dress without the cape for beach or porch. Choose pique, chalis print, flower-splasherf linen, cotton crash print, glazed chintz, linen, etc. Style No. 3162 is designed foi sizes 14, 16, 18 years. 36, 38 an^ lO-inch busts. Size 16 requirM 3^8 yards of 35-inch material tot dress and cape. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and addraM plainly, giving number and >iz* ol pattern wanted. Encloie 13c (• stamps or coin (coin preferred^i wrap it carefully, and addrau yo«:r order to Wilton Pattern Ser- vice, 73 Wett Adelaide St.. Totw onto. â- r « w^^ •* *%'* H^-j \^