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* » - comés largely from Japan, __of merchant shins. Fic 6 THE OAKVILLE RECORD Thursday, October 15, 1931. paargs Times DEFICIT FOR NORWAY Norway had a deficit of about $1,- 600,000 for the first six months of its > budget year. SWEDEN HAS SURPLUS J@ly ended the first half of-Yea” They do not egme and say Sweden’s budget year showing a sur- plus of ‘several million kroner. BRITISH UNEMPLOYED _ The week of September 14th to 2Ist saw an increase of 22,535 in the ranks of the unemployed in Great Britain, bringing the total to 2,811,615 PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE AT WASHINGTON Five hundred delegates represent- ing twenty-one American republics met in Washington on October 5th. The inclusion of Canada is on the agenda for discussion. DRASTIC SALARY CUTS FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS Or October Ist the British covern- ment cut the salary of the Attorney- General from 535,000 toe $10,000 and that of the Solicitor-General from $30,000 to $10,000. SOVIET REPLACES TRANSPORTATION CHIEF The transportation and communi- The Record Nature Club} a By ~ONOWAY : : “They fold their tents like the Arabs and silently steal away.” This would apply just as appropri- a SO ee are seeds. These burs have hooks or} barbs by means of which they stick to! animals and men and so “steal a! ride.” Burdock, bedstraw, beggar’s ‘ately to the birds at this season of the tick are well-known examples. “good-bye” but just silently pick up| Some seeds are scattered by means and go. Some species first begin to! of the edibility of the fruit surround- |congregate in flocks before leaving. | ing them. In the case of the apple, T had a very interesting experience a/ cherry, plum, melon, the fruit is eaten few years ago. I had heard that late ‘ang the seed thrown away. It is in- in the brceezcta warblers of various}teresting to notice how plants pre- species will go about together fora! vent the plucking of the fruit before while before migrating. One morn-'the seed is mature. The plant, lect ing a boy in camp: came running to me say, is concerned not with pro- me and said, “Come quick, the woods! vjaine you with fruit, but in securing is full of birds.” Needless to say the | (ho ripening and scattering of the requested speed was forthcominz- seed. In the caes of the apple vou Sure enough the woods did seem full, wit] have noticed that only when the full of the prettiest little birds. There seeds are ripe is the apple juicy, sweet were several families of birds with anq attractive. . How does the plant y CAR FOR EVERY EIGHT CANADIANS |“2?its column, with one for every 5.9 | |e cars, and also led in the per He illustrated his point with the re- mark that if all the motor vehicles in average daily use in Ontario were rsons in the province. Ontario 28 ee ___| placed end to end they would stretch Ottawa has been doing some cal-|May have the cars, but Saskatchewan culating, and the statisticians have’ has the roads. The Ottawa officials come to the conclusion that if every! giscovered that there were 394,372 automobile in Canada would hold! eight people -then everybody inthe? dominion could ride at once. In other words, there were, motor vehicles registered at the end; of last year,-or one for every eight | third with 52, 270 miles. a distance of 1100 miles. ry WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE miles of highway open for traffic iniIN SPAIN Sites \the Dominion, and that Saskatchéwan; A clause of the new Spanish consti- 1.939 sag led With 154,859 miles. Alberta was tution passed by the Spanish Nation- ‘+. ..« next with 62,426; and Ontario was al Assembly grants women the suf- It is thus frage on the same terms as men. persons, as compared with one for| Ye? noticeable that the province with every 8.2 persons the previous year. jthe greatest number of cars is “far! Ontario led registrations with 564,-, rom having the greatest mileage of} (roads on which to use them. Which} a very uninteresting feature as com- circumstances prompted Hon. Leo-| pared with flowers. However, I hope pold Macaulay, minister of high-| you will have discovered that even, ways for Ontario, to say in a recent seeds have their wonders for the per-' address that the density of traffic in son with the “seeing eye.” | Ontario was becoming rather serious. their young, and while I do not re- seek to protect the seed before it is| member what species, I do recall that ripe? By its colour—the green acne there were at least four or five species’ j. cinjilar to that of the leaves and so} of warblers represented. It wat a" 35 Joss conspicuous; by hardness and | very interesting experience. ‘unpleasant taste—ereen apples All the birds who live in our coun- sour, and who likes the stomach-ache | try do not, however, leave us. Those that often follows eating sracn | which remain will form the basis of apples? But as soon as the seed is several articles in this corner in the ripe the plant sends into the fru‘i’ near future, as we shall consider how! sweet, sugary juices, gives to it at- to feed them in winter, how to attract tractive colour—all of which is in-! them to our homes, etc. j tended to make it inviting. * More about seeds | Some seeds are dispersed also hy: Last week we did not finish our ob-; being eaten. The raspberry, mul- servations about the scattering of | berry, blueberry are exampies. Such seeds. We noticed that-some seeds| seeds are not digested and pass ot are | } cation systems having fallen behind! were thrown out and that others flex |of the” alimentary canal iminjured the five year platy Commissar Mosei Hukhimovich has been deposed and Nicholas Andrew appointed to succeed him. INCREASED TRADE WITH ORIENT Ganada’s exports to Japan have gone up from a total of $6,000,000 to $42,000,000 in the last nine years, while exports “to China have nearly quadrutled in the same period rising from $6,700,000 in 1920 to $24,200,- 000 in 1929. GERMAN COAL MINES AND RAILWAYS HIT The first eight months of 1931 show a decrease of 5,830,000 tons from the 1930 total of 85,630,000 for the same period. During this eight months- of 1931 the German railways have shown % 16% decrease in revenue from the 1930 firures. UNREST IN BRITAIN - The more or less orderly mutiny of the British sailors has been followed by a series of demonstrations in the old country. Glasgow, Bristol, Sal- ford fin the heart of the textile dis- trict) and London have been the chief centres of disturbance. In Glasgow a crowd estimated at 50,000 was broken up by mounted police anid several «were injured. The crewd| wrecked and looted a number of shops, GERMAN-FRENCH ECONOMIC COMMISSION As a result. ofthe conversations between Foréign Minister Curtius of Germany | and Premier Laval and Foreign Min- ister Briand of France it has been agreed to establish a mixed German- French commission ty examine. all economic questions ‘felating to both countries. The present state of trade between the two countries will be investicated and new marfeting pos- sibilities examined. BEAN PRODUCTION AND IMPORTS The average production of beans in Canada during the last five vears was 1,312,870 bushels, or an average yield of 16.9 bushels to the acre. The approximate annual consump- tion of beans in Canada has reached 1,500000 bushels in recent years, and to meet this demand imports ranging from 100000 to 300,000 bushels an- nually are required.. This supply Beigium and the United States. SHIPYARDS CLOSE Under its*policy of reducing the number of shipyards. to actual re- ‘quirements; National Shipbuilders Se- curity Ltd. announces that-§ north- out and away. Now if we recall we! Birds play an important role in this, shall remember that quite a few seeds | connection. Steal a ride Squirrels no doubt are responsible; One thing about these autimn/ for scattering nuts. They hide them | walks is that frequently we are cover-| and no doubt forget a few, | ed with burs of various sorts. The The seeds of plants perhaps seemed AUTUMN REDUCED FARE 91.00 Reduced #eturn fares to Toronto from all points on Gray Coach Lines Routes. Tickets and information at ye GRAY COACH LINES 20lborne Street EXCURSIONS | October 7th to October 25th : TORONTO AND | RETURN | — — i ti lle nll le al Chancellor’ Bruening and | - €ast coast British shipyards are being | purchased for scrapping. These yards | have a total of 39 births, with a maxt- | mum annual capacity of 276,000 tons. They are all equipped for the building | Including fhese vards, a total of 71 berths of an annual canactty af abont | 500,000 tens has been dealt with since the reduction prorram went into on- eration about = wear ten. Provision is made that these yards shall never be used for shipbuilding. |