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V The Papers imMmwrsmi Say EDITORIAL comment from HERB, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. samaasœsrofflmuea* CANADA Reaches Other Places in Time The popular question to ask your neighbor on the streets these days i8';- M Hâve you had the 'flu yet?" If he answers negatively he is one of the lucky ones, as an epidemic of mild influenza has been sweeping over the town. Attendance at the schools has fallen away; the staffs of business houses and stores have been decimated, in some cases to the point; where it is no longer a minor annoyance but a serious problem with which to cope.. Public health nurses are . being kept busy and the physicians, for the last week or ten days, have ' ad little rest. Among the victims of the epidemic is the school attendance officer.--Orillia Packet. Worth Preserving The gift of Henry Ford, a complete set of the famous old McGuffey readers, readers, for so many years in common USB in the schools of the United States, has been presented to the library of the University of Western Ontario. These reprints, published at the expense of the motor magnate, will thus be available to show future generations what and how their ancestors ancestors first learned to read. We hope, that the same thing is being done for the readers which used to he employed in the schools of Ontario, Ontario, Educationists of the future will lose something if they are not familiar with the adventures of Sam and Med at the dam, the visit of May and Ann to the woods where the sap was being . gathered.. and boiled, the sad story of what befell Ren'g pet kid when it was attacked Ned's dog, and the gay ride of Tom and Ann in the gig.--Broekville Recorder, Recorder, . Giving Nature a Chance At the convention of the Ontario Hulntere" Game Protective Association Association in Toronto one enthusiastic delegate delegate said he was to embark shortly upon an experiment to show how a countryside can be made to produce wild life. He stated that his work would centre in King Township, near Tofonto. There are few people in Ontario whp will not. wish him well. The more, of wild life this Province possesses possesses the greater will be the influx of loyrists, some to shoot during the limiting season, more to operate cameras cameras dt other times. Someone has said that tourists are more interested in live deer and rabbits, and partridges partridges and pheasants, than in dead ones, and this being so we should have hi Ontario more of these animais animais and birds, plus the wild duck and the wild goose. See what a. publie publie attraction Jack Miners' sanctuary tot--Renfrew Mercury. A Word For the Strap They restored order in the Guelph Reformatory with the strap. In other words the lads who thought themselves "tough" were given a sound thrashing. Many self-styled humanitarians will protest violently at such brutality. If they had ever seen art angry mob milling round, they wouldn't. Mob violence can only -be met with violence of some sort, and we feel that the reformatory reformatory authorities showed great restraint restraint in handling the situation. In some penal institutions not in Canada, Canada, machine guns Would have been harking, and there would have been quite- a few funerals. The thrashings thrashings may have kno'ked a little sense into the young chaps who .still have » chance to make good after they leave the place.---Northern News. Red Flannel To help "put them Over" (the red sioq dads we mean)---the fancy name of "snuggles" has been coined coined for them. , But red woollies by «ay ofiber name will still be just red woollies. The motive for the throw hack to Victorian days is that girls, and women are taking more to the. outdoor life in Winter, and as: silks and satins are not very warm, the sensible thing is to revert revert to thick, serviceable undies. The new "snuggles" are like the «Id-fashioned bathing suits, too. They ere all of a piece extending from the neck to the ankles and e.r-8. intended to protect the feminine epMers^s from the consequences of » topihîa into the snowbanks when «feting or skating. Silkies would not "4* that,---Stratford Beacon-Herald. Caiman-Fodder A merchant told us the other day of a customer who had just informed informed him that he would not be paying his bill this month because the money was going into oil stock. From another quarter we heard of a lady who had offered to sell some property property for a quarter its real value-- to raise money for a flyer in. the oil market. This, we think, is emphatically emphatically the sort of money that should not be used for speculation. There are people--such as the successful successful oil companies--whose natural business it is to prospect for oil. There are funds-- such as the surplus surplus savings of debt-free and prosperous prosperous citizens--which should quite properly be available to finance such exploration. The tragedy of any boom is that it usually goes oil long after the legitimate speculator has deemed the risk too great for him and got out. The cannon-fodder of the stock market are the little people who are tempted to go on and on for the very human reason that it is so much easier and more exciting to gamble than to save.-- Calgary Herald. Epic of the North An epic of the north marked by remarkable endurance and friendly friendly devotion, and in which the airplane airplane played a part as it does so often in that region, comes from Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba. A man died and his friend determined determined that he should have Christian Christian burial. It was a hundred miles to the nearest . settlement. The friend set out through the wilderness wilderness and 24 days later arrived at his destination, The despatch tells he encountered blizzards and for days at a time had to seek what shelter lie might from the force of the storm. Through forest and over frozen lakes he fought his way and eventually triumphed. . Then an airplane took off and returned returned with the remains of the dead man. As an illustration of stark courage and of devotion to a friend this man's record stands high in the annals of a region where these great virtues are conspicuous.-- Saint John Telegraph-Journal. IT'S A FACT By KEN EDWARDS VPsssgzassjB^ ----~~J Napoleon Lajoie Lajoie is probably the only ball player player who ever signed signed a* contract on the back of an envelope. Ty Cobb, Jr., son of the greatest greatest baseball player player that ever lived Is • the Univers! ty of Georgia's new court coach. Did you know about "toughy" Eddie Shore; at the top of National Hockey League fame for many years .... he led hid own orchestra before his hockey- debut, saxaphoning all the way-, . . look out, maybe Vallee is tough, and we don't know it. It has been my privilege in the past to talk with all kinds of speed demons, holders of records on land and water (including Sir Malcolm Campbell, the man who drives faster than a bullet), but never have I had a tete a tete with a paracuhte jumper, nevertheless, Ï have gathered facts that should be of interest. Parachute jumpers are usually called called members of the "Suicide Squad-' ron," John Tranum, an Englishman, fell 17,500 feet before pulling the ripcord ripcord of Ms parachute. One would probably think a jump like this would mistaken, as I was. Gene Austin, vet- mistakes, as I was. Gene Austin, veteran veteran jumper, stepped off a plane at 20,000 feet, falling lfi,000 feet before doing anything about it and received $50 as per contract. Austin says he travelled 120 miles an hour In this jump. He says after about 1,500 feet you take your first somersault, and reminds us not to pull the rip-cord unless we are horizontal horizontal to thi earth and facing it, otherwise otherwise we will experience a terriifto jolt , . . say, wait a minute, who's doing doing this? . . . thanks just the same, Gene. Happy landing. Violets Bow to. Foe Si-- WjUm 'v, feCfiiisil ' k jflï fifi «J 1 m ilfi 1 xerry Tareow (19), of New York University, pictured high in the air as he snares ball in basketball game with Temple University at Madison Square Garden, New York. Closing rally of Violets failed and Temple took the game by score of 36-83, News In Brief Need Riot Says Mother FORT ERIE.--Treatment accorded her 17-year-old sou OavOU m school here brought Mrs. Morley Spratt before before the Fort Erie board of education with 'he. remark: "What we need is a riot like in Guelph in our high school." If such a riot occurred, she said, there would he an investigation "and cleaning up." She said lier son had to stand in a hallway for 35 minutes one day because because he misbehaved. Principal H. E. 1 hompson said, Spratt's teacher found him shooting paper balls with an elastic band. He \ said the case was being investigated. Fears Mass Suicide FÜENFK1RCHEN, Hungary.--Dark- ness, hunger and danger of death from explosions tailed to shake the determination determination of 275 miners to remain on a "stay town" strike in the coal pits here until tlieir demands for a 20 per cent, wage increase, are met. Batteries in the strikers' lamps have burned out,. Their only supplies were sugar and liquor. PECS. Hungary.--Two demonstrators demonstrators were shot arid killed and six, including including two women, wounded in a clash with police near the mine where 207 coal miners were entrenched on strike. Three hundred men and women engaged in, the demonstration and stoned police as they tried to clear the way to the pithead. The six injured injured were taken to hospital. Mine Director Cchick, who said he thought the demonstrato-s were Communist Communist sympathizers, said the demonstration demonstration occurred after the striking miners returned unopened a letter sent to them by the management. The Government launched an investigation investigation of the troubles. Apologizes for Strapping LONDON, ONT.-- Arthur J. Legg, C.P.R. conductor whose 11-year-old son, Jack, was one of the two pupils strapped before the microphone of Sh. George's Schc- 1 last ■J'* ' ' ' Vrin- Clpwr-^^__ pedaily tïi'Trir*.-, been adversely affected byVnw-w^,,;, ronce. "It has been said that the principal did this to end trouble that the boys had been causing," Mr. Legg said. Relax Restrictions cm Lumber Exports REGINA.--A bill to relax restrictions restrictions on shipments of timber from Saskatchewan for pulp and paper manufacturing was given second reading reading in the Legislature this week. The bill would enable the Province to salvage burned-over timber that Is fast deteriorating. It is designed to bring, to completion negotiations which have been in progress between the Government and certain Wisconsin interests. interests. Existing legislation does not permit export Of timber for pulp and paper manufacture. The bill would restrict shipments to timbers that would deteriorate deteriorate rapidly. Rules Millar Will Valid TORONTO.--Upholding the decision of Mr, Justice Middleton, court of appeal appeal at Osgoode Hall recently ruled the "baby-race" clause of the Charles Vance Millar will valid and held that mothers of illegitimate children are not entitled to share. The clausj leaves the half million dollar residue of the eccentric lawyer's lawyer's estate to the mother giving .firth in Toronto to the most children within within 10 years from Millar's death as shown by registration under the Vital Statistics Act. Appeals of I, F. Hellumtli and Samuel Samuel Factor, on behalf of relatives attacking attacking the validity of the clause on the grounds that, it offended against public policy, and gf John R. Cartwright Cartwright .on behalf of Mrs. Pauline May Clarke, were dismissed. In delivering the judgment of the full court Chief Justice N. W. Rowe!! indicated the findings were unanimous, He pointed out that Mr. Justice Middleton Middleton had held that In the clause under under consideration the word "children" meant legitimate children and did not include illegitimate children. Toxoid Campaign RICHMOND HILL. -- Within the next few weeks it is expected that every school child .and every preschool preschool child in this village will have received the complete course of anti-diphtheria toxoid. - One of. the largest groups to turn out so far was 1 toxoided at the public school Monday and Dr. Rolph L. Langstaff medical officer of health, stated that the village is now in a fair way to cut down the danger of any serious epidemic to a minimum. "The parents parents of the younger children have shown a lively interest in the matter," matter," saide one of the teachers, "and seldom has a movement been promoted promoted showing such an excellent response." Favour Strike TORONTO. -- Following a meeting meeting ni the Labor Temple of members of the International Brotherhood of. Maintenance - of - Way Employees' working on the Canaian National Railways, H. R. Dancy, Chairman of the union, stated there was a pronounced pronounced feeling among the men in favor of ,a strike to secure a restoration restoration of their wage-cuts. The meeting, Dancy stated, had been called to explain the statement statement issued recently along with the ballot sent to all members of the seventeen unions working for the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway-;. Thé ballots must be returned by March 15, he said. "The maintenarice - of - way employees employees are receiving $19.68 for a week of 48 hours. There are other railroad workers earning less. While I cannot say so officially, the worker® worker® are in favor of a strike," said Dancy. Hungry Strikers Refuse Pies LOS ANGELES. -- Ten men went hungry in a pie factoy this week. Conducting a "sit-down" strike for 25 per cent, wage . increases, they have had no food from the outside and now decline to eat the company product. There are dietic as well as moral reasons for this, they said: We won't touch a non-union pie," said Paul Magyar. Safety Move EDMONTON Alta. -- Two-way voice wireless equipment probably will be installed by Royal Canadian Corps of Signals at Chipewyan, Alta., and Goldfields, Sasic., early in the spring in an effort to increase safety and accuracy in northern commercial flying, it was announced here by Major J. Genet. Chipewyan is about 375 miles northeast of Edmonton and Goldfields Goldfields is in the Lake Athabaska region. region. Collins Bay Felons Heard KINGSTON. -- Twenty-six prison- oners of the Collins Bay branch of Portsmouth Penitentiary testified this week before the Fedora Royal Commission probing the penal sys- ■ tern of Canada. Their evidence was submitted to the Commission behind locked doors in Collins Baj Allan Fraser, Secretary Secretary of the Commission, refused to divulge any portion of the testimony. testimony. Duke Windsor VIENNA. -- The Duke of Windsor Windsor talked with his youngest brother, brother, the Duke of Kent last Wednesday Wednesday for the first time since his abdication. abdication. The Royal brothers, hurry-, ing to a hotel from separate trains, were visibly afiected by their meeting. meeting. An adjutant reported they immediately immediately punged into discussion of Edward's plans. The Duke of Windsor Windsor is still surveying the field of many possible castles and villas but, the final decision on his future home, informed sources said, will be made with Mrs. Wallis Simpson's aid. , $20,000,000 ~ ; "or Hquipraent MONTREAL, -- Expenditure of 6?ii ■::<90,000. for equipment) equipment) ncv.' h_y the Canadian ' Facia, ma::. -pba building program LEAdes 59 luao- motives, 30 • passnger arm feXpïbL cars, and 3,600 freight carriers <>£ various types. Contracts already have been let for the equipment and actual work, in some cases has started, the railway railway announced. Famous Editor Passes' NEY YORK. -- Unable to combat pulmonary congestion folio <ng'- a heavy cold, Rollo Ogden, 81, editor of the New York Times since 1922, died here this week. Famous with the profession of journalism, Ogden's name was not well known to the general public because his work was done in the editorial columns of the Times, where writers are anonymous. Throughout hig long service in journalism, journalism, he was associated with only three newspapers -- the Times, the New York Evening Post and, for a time, the Manchester Guardian of England, for which he was New York correspondent. Oliva Dionne Appreciates Act of Government CALLANDER, Ont. -- In two sentences, sentences, Oliva Dionne confirmed an announcement in the Ontaio Legislature Legislature that lie had become "one of the keenest advocates of continued Governmental protection and assistance" assistance" for his quintuplet children. At his home across the road'from Dafoe Nursery, where the quints live apart from the rest of the fam iy, Dionne said: "We appreciate the protection of the Government. We couldn't get along without it." It was the first admission by the slender father that he agreed in any way with Ontario legislation under which all business and personal arrangements arrangements for the quints are in the hands of a board of guardians. A member of the board, Dionne seldom, seldom, if ever, attended a meeting of the board. Cattle King Dead CALGARY. -- Senator Patrick Burns, 81, pioneer and last of the West's great cattle kings, died on Wednesday. Although ill for the past two years, Senator Burns died unexpectedly unexpectedly from the effects of a cold which afflicted him ten days ago. Born in Oshawa, Ont., Senator Burns came West without a penny. He built a fortune in the cattle in- , dustry, owning extensive ranches and establishing the packing company company bearing his name. His nephew, John Burns, now heads the company. company. B-l ~ " ' -