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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 1937 VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS This Is Pretty Good Way to Stave Off Hardening of Arteries CANADA Carries a Moral A story in the New York Times seems to carry a moral of some kind for thoughtless drivers. As the traffic light turned on a busy coruer, a frail old woman started to cnm I he street with a crowd. A big car brusquely nosed its way around the corner. While others scattered out ft the way, the old woman stood still, seemed incapable of movement. Just as the car seemed about to hit her, a silk-hatted man, with a cane, limited quickly to her side and swung her out of harm's way. At the same moment there was a sharp report, and the tire of the car went flat. Talking to a nearby policeman, a few minutes later, a reporter learned that a similar incident had been happening nearly every morning, and that the 3ilk-hatted man figured in each of them. Following up the story, the reporter learned that the man was a former diplomat, whose foot had been crushed by an automobile; and that it was not a cane he carried, but a sword stick. The forgotten pedestrian, who to keep out of the way of imperious drivers, should be glad to know he has an avenger.--Guelph Mercury. "Silly" Is Banned Uut it seems rather a pity tlieless that Mr. Speaker should have ruled 'silly" out of order. The amenities and the dignities for ever, of course--but really, the House of Commons ought to be of sterner stuff than to jibe at a little plain speaking in debate. Better, surely, that men's ar-guments should be called silly than that they themselves should be exhibited by Mr. Speaker as sissies in the sight of the nation. Mr. Blackmore says he will not use the word again. "All right, Mr. Speaker," he said, "1 have several others just as good." But he is boasting of course. There is no better word for silliness than "silly." That is the trouble about censoring the apt word.--Vancouver Province. Sign It Clearly Next to an anonymous letter morning mail, we are most annoyed by communications bearing signatures which no one could read It is customary for the average stenographer in a business ofl type the name of the Big Boss his scrawl, which is very helpful to the puzzled read may guess at the name by checking over„ the officers designated on letterhead. Too often the reade: left, wholly in the dark. it is certainly a breach of courtesy on the part of any letter writer to so scrawl his own name that if is illegible to the recipient of the communication. If those who • ito letters are incapable of writing tka i names clearly, they should at lean be considerate enough to have it typewritten or printed in block letters.--Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. A Woman of Eighty Stae is a woman of eighty. In her younger days she ptaftd the piano wail enough to give [•?•;: ors to others. Today she is still givii ■.; lessons, not because she it requhe money to sustain her; the reason is she is who have not the mi tuition. Two little of a neighbor, were how to play the pi mo sion had left their pa bettor than sufficient necessities of life, an of eighty years come? into ture. She brings th.: little her home and give., th v. . lesso larly, with the rts i!t t i I ip play the piano is not to be these children of the i • i ssio --Lqthbridge Herald. Still To Co re There is food lor ctight perfectly accurate contention writer in the P rilr del :i: i t Messenger from it, for ;iing others daughters > with little that the world has a Christian count! y city. A Christian bit] be a city without sl.n without poverty, vv:i meat,- ' .without inj drunkenness, with on', jealousy, without bat terne3s. A Chrisv.ia same writer holds, wc without guns, withou few and hunger for t': bribery, without graft slon--Brockville Rea Christian -hout jails, untry, the e a country ury for the tout oppres-and Times. Income of Farmers tells of the income tax smsdl French farmers peasant, as a rule, kot article. the c the govei s all t t has •k Times eeived from •The French "'hat makes arresting, for J i mainly on layer. "One last year to year's farm- ing." Others acknowledge making as high as $10,000 a year. The majority, however, report profits ranging all the way from $100 to $1,000 a year, anything above the latter figure being exceptional. Experience of farmers in this province would appear to be much like their cousins' in France, anything above a $1,000 a year being exceptional--at least according to income tax returns.--Edmonton Journal. Badly Needed The search for the non-glaring headlight and the 100 per cent, efficient glare-eliminating windshield must go on. The reward for the discovery will be fewer traffic accidents, thousands of lives saved annually and faster and more comfortable night driving.--Port Arthur News-Chronicle. A Good Season Unless tne devastating floods of the mid-section of the United States have an adverse effect on tourist travel, it is confidently expected that North Bay district and other sections of Northern Ontario will enjoy even a greater business in the coming Summer season. Visitors to the Dionne babes will number 750,000, according to an estimate by persons in the know, which means a 30 per cent, gain over the number counted at the hospital last year--North Bay Nug- Men Canny Losers A survey of department stc buses, trains and street cars has demonstrated that women lose more ticles than men. As a matter of fact the male of the species also mislays many things, but he knows enough do that in the home, and then have every one else in the household hunt for them.--Brantford Expositor. Music For The People Music is no longer a luxury or the almost iuaccessible field of a few gifted enthusiasts. It has suddenly become part of the stuff of daily life-- and a very important part. As Lord Horde; said recently: "I envy musicians because they 'doctor' thousands of people at one time when, as a phj sician, I can only attend to one pat ent at a time."--Winnipeg Tribune. A Judge Defends The moving picture industry has r< ceived so many thrusts from magi: trates. judges and social workers that it is refreshing to find- no less a sonage than Lord Hewart, Chief Justice of England, coming to its do-fense. He was addressing a dinner .f moving picture people and remarked chat while there was a fear that films of passion and crime influenced the young people to become killers, blackmailers, thieves and to lead frivolous lives, he went back to the days of his youth and recalled that while be, and doubtless millions of other boys and young men, enjoyed stories about pirates, robbers and criminals of all kinds, they had nearly all .rown up normal and decent living people. Many of these stories, he said, had become classics of literature, including, for example, Oliver Twist, wherein appears the greatest burglar of all, Bill Sikes. yet the piety and virtue of the readers had 'been undimmed.--St. Thomas Times-Journal. The THE EMPIRE Big Ben famili~- the •Id today is that of i lor, whether king, peer, or commoner, but of a robot dictator. The deep-chested tones of Big Ben. thanks to the B.B.C., reverberate daily through the length and breadth of the globe. Londoners accept those brazen accents as a matter of course, though many of them have paid their pence to gaze through the telescope by Boadicea's chariot on Westminster bridge, and watched Big Ben's giant paws visibly counting off eternity on his colossal dial. But. as the B.B.C.'s oversea correspondence testifies, to kinsmen in distant corners of the Em pire the :-rfo in is Big Ben. Kipling's banjo ma 'own and all that c ; dies Big Ben, dusky foreloopers of the Empi London's roar personified. His voice is that of the Empire's muezzin, daily summoning the scattered kinsmen to thoughts and memories of the Old Country.--London cor. Ottawa Jour- Joe Gaffney, stunt staler, cxtei over widely spaced barrels as he practice of Rig Pines, Cal., Ice Carnival. ds himself to please spectators by flying through the air i for his barrel jumping exhibition, which will be a feature Motor Deaths in Canada 1,200 Year; 1,600 Maimed Dominion Automobile Safety Conference Considers the Measures To Reduce Automobile's Tragic Toll. OTTAWA--Self-preservation led to the formation of the Dominion Automobile Safety Council, T. Taggart Smyth, director of the council, and Montreal banker, told the National Safety Conference here. The conference, first of its kind held in Canada, was called to promote the interests of safety on streets and highways. During the Past 10 years, said Mr. Smyth, more than 1,200 persons have been killed annually and 1,800 maimed. "Self-preservation explains the why of the council's birth, as we are each and every one of us personally and intimately interested in the work that the council has set out to dip, namely, to make our public highways safe for ourselves and particularly ft our women and children." Public Enemies Others who spoke included Senator! Emile Vinck, vice-president of th/' Belgian Senate, Clifford W. Ham, CI, cago, executive director of the American Municipal Association, and W. Philpott, Toronto magazine editor. Mr. Philpott characterized the r behind the wheel as "public ent number one in terms of highway i nage." Every year, he said, the P$o-of Canada pay out for automobile accidents the equivalent of our annual investment in new motor cars. "The steering wheel sends history skidding into reverse," he remarked. "Veneer of century-old civilization sloughs off in the twinkling of an eye. Charming Dr. Jerkyll becomes barbar-dus Mr. Hyde. Delightful drawing-oom hostesses become deadly ama-:ons intent on 'beating the red light' at all hazards. Meek little men who normally submit to life's minor roles become towering Napoleons of destruction with the power of 80 horses underfoot." Curb Speed Mr, Smyth summed up the aims of the council as follows: the speed mania at all costs and the enforcement of the laws governing the slowing down on hills and at curves. Reform of the system of granting avers' licenses. Obligatory periodical inspection of automobiles. Obligatory carrying of lights by all vehicles using the highways after trk. Further safeguarding of level crossings. Simplificati traffic laws signs. Educational campaign through pulpit, platform, the radio, the press and urging respect for the laws of the road and observance of its Promotion of a system of recognition for careful drivers that would be Dominion wide. --e«"«Diline of statistics and. other tiata: issuing safety literature ah* furnishing public libraries therewith. Promotion of a Dominion safety week, and acting as a connecting link between all safety bodies in Canada, having for their object the protection of human life and property on the highways. Up To Province OTTAWA -- Houses at a low rental was urged in the House of Commons by Denton Massey, (Cons., Toronto-Greenwood), but his motion for a national housing plan for slum elimination ran into difficulties in the matter of jurisdiction following upon the recent ruling of the Privy Council. Tourist Travel to Canada Shows Sharp Rise in Year Efiimated That hi Course of a Season Canada is Visited By Numbers Equalling Twice Her Population. MONTREAL.--"Touiist and convention travel from the United States and other countries to Canada during last totalled in numbers approximately twice the population of the Domin-according to a review of Can-tourist traffic for 1936 issued "Last year we enjoyed a con-i the ether tinuation of the increasing number of American tourists visiting Canada and the general view among those directly concerned witli the development of ■ist traffic in thi- country is highly optimistic as to the prospects for 1937. This healthy condition pre |vailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as reports received from various tourist organizations from Nova Scotia to British Columbia all indicate a substantial increase in business over the 1 After the setback resulting economic upheaval of a few year^i ago, I the tourist industry has again • 'menced on the upward climb t( , heights. When official figures first (began to be compiled in 1920, thej tour-jist trade was value at $83,734,000. In 'l929 it had reached a high of $309,-1 379,000, and in 1933, the bottom bf the depression, it dropped to $117,124,000. Since then, each year has shown an increase until it now stands at Li es- le's population is now estimat-slightly more than 1,000,000. , timated value of $275,000,000 for the season of 1936, representing expenditures for transportation, purchases and accommodation. Of this total, it is estimated that $20,000,000 were spent by those attending conventions, another $20,000,000 by fishermen and hunters, and $235,000,000 by tourist vacationists indulging in various other forms of recreational activities.v- In an analysis of the tourist statistics for the past season, it is interesting to note that tourists came to Canada from many countries in addition the United States, although by far the greater proportion came from the latter country. Probably no country in the world is visited by such a large number of tourists as in Canada. It is estimated that in the course of a year Canada is visited by numbers equalling twice her population. "Canada and the United States do not need any 'bon ententes' or peace conferences to provide mutual understanding and good-will. The tourist is seeing to the development of the 'good neighbor' policy quite satisfactorily" said Mr. Howard. Last year Canada played host to approximately 15,000,000 Americans, a number that exceeds the entire population of the Dominion by about 4,000,000. Thep represent, of course', visitors who crossed into Canada by all means of transportation. The balance of trv-o, however, is not entirely lopsided, for it is estimated that more than 3,000,-000 Canadians paid a return call to the United States, and figured on a per capita basis, this represents a pretty fair piece of reciprocity in neighborli- which Mr. Massey raised lay entirely within the Provincial jurisdiction. Said Mr. Dunning--"The Federal authority has been "put in it's place" in respect to its powers recently by a very high authority. He admitted that, until recently there had been little in the act to encourage the building of lower-cost homes. Since the act came into force, the average price of homes built was $4,861. Due to recent changes designed to encourage lower-priced homes, however, this average had dropped to about $2,400 and the scheme was growing. Soviet Likes Ontario Seed TORONTO -- Fifteen thousand bushels of Ontario variegated alfalfa seed, valued at more than $250,000, was purchased by the Soviet Govern-men last year for use in Russia, according to an announcement made during the annual meeting of the Ontario Field Crop and Seed Association, here. Ten years ago two bushels of the Ontario variegated seed were sent to Russia, which also secured United States Grimm and Western Canada Grimm for experimental purposes, a delegate announced. And," he added, "the Russian Go--fli bushels of Ontario variegated alfalfa The purchase was of considerable importance to our business." Rules Kissing Bible Is Not Necessary GODERICH -- When Campbell Grant, solicitor jumped to his feet and protested a witness had not been properly sworn, in that she had not kissed the Bible, Judge T. M. Costello ruled that kissing the Book was not necessary. "Witness, in taking the oath, does not have to actually kiss the Book," his Honor maintained. "In raising the Book in the right hand," he said to the witness, "you have solemnly sworn to tell the truth." Coronation Film By Plane LONDON -- A special transatlantic airplane flight is being planned in order to hasten delivery to North American motion picture theatres of Coronation films. Negotiations are proceeding with Amy Mollison, Beryl Markham and other distinguished pilots to undertake a flight to New York, according to Sir Gordon Craig, General Ma eager of the company which has been granted exclusive rights to film the ceremonies on May 12th (British Movietone News). Copies of the films will also be despatched to North America on the dirigible Hiudenbmg, scheduled to leave Frankfurt, Germany, late on the day of the Coronation. They will he flown to Frankfurt. Mrs. Mollison and Mrs. Markham, both of whom have already conquered the North Atlantic by air, have indicated their willingness to attempt the flight, it was stated. Canada will receive its copies of the films from New York by fast service. To Trap Burglars NEWMARKET -- Mayor S. J. Boyd last week enthusiastically endorsed a scheme submitted by a resident whereby any householder could give a burglar alarm to its one police constable during the night. "For years we have sought a communication system and here's one that beats the cost objection," said Mayor Boyd. "If a burglar enters your house, you telephone the waterworks department and a man working there all night presses a button which then makes the face of the town clock at the Post Office go dark. The policeman, looking to see what time it is, sees no clock and realizes that something is wrong. He telephones the waterworks department and hurries to the home entered by the burglar. The scheme is beautiful in its simplicity." Cut Unlikely OTTAWA -- The Postoffice ill have the largest since 1920, but there is not much possibility of a reduction in postage The reason is that the financial position of the Postoffice Department is so much a part of the national financial system, and, although Federal revenues have shown an increase of $58,000,000 for the first ten months of the fiscal year, there will still be a deficit of $75,000,000 when the Budget is brought down. Country Without Prisons LONDON -- If the trend of the past thirty years is maintained, Britain in another fifteen years may boast of the ideal state of being a country without prisons. Since introduction of the Probation Offenders Act in 1907 by Sir Herbert Samuel, then Parliamentary Under-1 Secretary for the Home Office the' number of committals to prison in,' Britain has fallen from more than 180,000 to fewer than 60,000. Discussing the probation system. Sir Herbert declared more than half of the country's prisons had been closed for lack of tenants. 'The saving of cost to the nation has been immense, but more impor-the saving of souls," he New Spray WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba Horticultural Association were informed of 100 per cent satisfactory method of killing dandelions developed by Dr. McRostie, now of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph, a solution of copper nitrate and water is sprayed. William H. Silversides, University of Manitoba student, told of the discovery. He collaborated with Dr. McRostie, who recently left the Manitoba University. years' experiments were behind the discovery, Silversides said. The solution is made of 1% pounds of nitrate to 7Vz gallons of water, ( quantity sufficient for 1,000 square feet of lawn space, he said. Two sprays during the summer, one: about mid-July the other in mid-August, were recommended. Both need' to be done on a warm bright afternoon, when there is no wind, he said. The two applications, the agronomy student continued, end the operation. Both turn the grass to sickly, yellowish green within 48 hours, but after about two weeks the grass will return to its natural colour. The next year, tests showed, it willl come back greener and heavier than before and free of dandelions. The spray must hit leaves of the To Serve Another Year FORT ERIE -- A. B. Damude, M.P., for Welland County, announced here the Federal Government had granted to Fort Erie's Collector of Customs and Excise, Frank T. Pattison, an additional year's extension of service. Mr. Pattison is approaching retire-expressed a desire position vcax.il ma? i Mr. Damude said. $20,000,000 Loans WASHINGTON -- The Senate has passed and sent to the House a bill creating a $20,000,000 disaster loan corporation for flood area rehabilita- The bill would permit loans to individuals on liberal terms. Security would not necessarily be required, but grants could not be made. Winners ! NEW YORK -- Canadian dog fanciers earned off three blue ribbons and, a reserve award in the competition among the Scottish terriers and cocker spaniels at the Westminster Dog" Show in Madison Square Garden. ; H. E. and W. Batt, of Guelph, won, the majority of the prizes with their, Scotty puppy, Haldon Emblem, judg-; ed the best of the puppies between, nine and twelve months of age. He' went to the front in the class for no-, vice dogs and then ranked second; only to the more experienced Gold; Finder's Starman, owned by William' Quade, of Gardner, Mass., in the class for best of the dogs. Among the cockers William H. Bar-; rett's Gardens Desirable Lady, of, Cooksville, Ont, was judged the best' of the novice bitches of solid color. Ideal Weather, undefeated four-year-old owned by Leonard Collins, of' Toronto, paraded to the top of the' sheep dogs for his 10th straight vie-' Fix March 22 To Vote OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced a writ for the; by-election in Bonaventure, Quebec' has been issued, fixing March 22 as' polling day. The seat was vacated by| the death of Hon. Charles Marcil, Li-! beral who represented it for 37 yrs.' A by-election in Hamilton West, oc-; casioned by the death of H. E. Wilton, Conservative, will be held the same clay. Ottawa Increases Publicity Program OTTAWA. -- Advertising and publicity will play a larger part in the government's program during the next fiscal year, according to estimates tabled in the House of Commons recently. For advertising and publicity in the United Kingdom and Europe the vote is increased from $250,000 to $350,000 while the trade and commerce vote for publicitj in Canada I and abroad is $65,000, an increase De-' of $10,900. The vote of last year Canadian Travel Bureau s this fiscal year that it has had was left unchanged at $250,000.