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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COL30RNE, ONT., -APRIL 8th, 1937. VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA Small Town Has Advantages Industries are beginning to turn to the towns and small cities of Ontario as the most logical places in which to locate. For instance, the town of Hanover has just secured a branch plant of the Swift Canadian Company, St. Mary's anticipates the coming of a tex:--: plant, and Barrie is looking to the acquisition of an aircraft factory. Nearer home, Delhi and Tillsonburg have both secured large tobacco processing plants, and it is only a few years since Simcoe acquired the American Can Company which has proved such an asset to the ton. In the past the big cities have monopolized most of the new industries, but the thoughtful industrialist today realizes that the smaller community, with low taxation and ample railway and highway facilities, offers the most attractive location. It is time that the smaller places of Ontario made known more generally their many advantages for industrial plants.--Simcoe Reformer. 10,000 Telegrams Over ten thousand telegrams were sent by passengers on British express trains during the first year of an experimenting scheme organized by the railway companies and the post office. The majority of them probably referred to articles overlooked at the last moment.--Brantford Expositor. Must Be Ready Canadians and Americans are much exercised over whether it will be possible for them to keep out of a new European war, if one starts. How much more cause, then, does England have for alarm! She is not separated from Europe by 3,000 miles 'of ocean, but by 30-odd miles of English Channel. The . airplane, as Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin has said, ha3 made the Rhine her real frontier. Like it or not, she has to be ready for trouble.--Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. What's In a Name? Every once in a while one comes acrcS3 a coincidence that is intriguing, fvrwn' in New Brunswick, when Evelyn Frost was struck by a skidding car, it seemed appropriate that she should be driven to hospital by Leo Blizzard. We are not told whether the weather was stormy or not, but we were glad to conclude that persons with cold names can be warm-hearted. -- Windsor Star. School Pupils Fewer Just recently the old stone school house a couple of miles west of Walkerton was destroyed by fire -- that is to say, all the wood in it was burned and only the stone wall remained. When the school was built, sixty-odd years ago, there were 100 pupils on the roll. When the school met death by fire, its roll numbered just 20 pupils. This gives some idea of the depopulation of the rural parts that has gone on during the past half-century -- Oshawa Times. Safety In Industry From an article on safety first principles and safety first appliances as used in modern industry it is learned that in the last twenty-five years 250,000 lives have been saved and 25,000,000 disability accidents prevented; accidents that were sure to happen if the old trends had been followed. The chance of the workman who leaves his home in the morning with !> dinner pail prepared by friend wife arriving home again to tell her how it tasted, is today just twice what it was twenty-five years ago. Too bad highways couldn't be put in the industry class. -- Port Arthur N'ws-Chronicle. THE EMPIRE A Depressing Outlook The birth rate has fallen so low as barely to replace the existing population, and more people are leaving the country than are entering it. The living, swelling ind fertilizing human stream of earlier years is settling in a pool of stagnation. This is impressively shown in the latest official statistics. In the nine months ended September 30, the latest figures available, the estimated increase of pakeha population was only 1,438, or .09 per cent. No impulse toward growth and expansion is discernible here, and. if immigration is put off into an ideal future, then the Dominion's days of progress are done. Mr. Savage (the Prime Minister) 1 opes, however, "to make New Zealand prosperous enough and solid enough to attract immigrants." All will wish that day may speedily come, but meanwhile New Zealand is losins more people than she gains. The latisL-jttfiicial-fisarea shor, 'that, in the gight months ended November 30. permanent departures numbered 2,507 and permanent arrivals 1,696, a loss on balance of 811. In other words, three persons went away for every two that came to stay. The way out of this population dead-end will not be found by waiting for the good time coming. Might not well-planned immigration lessen rather than increase unemployment? -- Auckland News. Genius Likely. To Be Husky Gifted Children Grow Faster Than the Average NEW YORK. -- A genius in the oopular conception, is a hothouse product. Frail, tnin. nervous, he never can be pictured gracefully balancing on skis or at home cn the tennis e public piece. But Professor Harvey W. Zorbaugh, who directs the New York University clinic for social adjustment of the gifted, has come to his rescue. Contrary to the public notion, he says, the individual with leanings toward genius is well-rounded and likely to possess superior physical development. Gifted children, he says, grow faster than average, walk earlier, sit up sooner and are larger than normal. Gifted children, he says, walk on the palms of their hands and soles of their* feet like a bear--at an age when other children are crawling about on hands and knees. Not all "bearwalking" children will be geniuses, nor do all geniuses "bearwalk" in infancy. Surveys made by D-. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington merely show that "bearwalkers" are more likely to have great mental superiority. Gifted children not only display mental aptitude along one line, but rate higher than average in all types of intellectual tests. They play amicably with other children, often stepping into leadership in group games. Radio-Phone For Ships OTTAWA.--To cope with perils of ivigation on the Great Lakes the Government is seeking to have radiotelephone stations installed between the Head of the Lakes and Kingston, Lieut-Commander C. P. Edwards, Chief of Air Services, announced here. Ships which do not feel they can afford a wireless operator to carry on wireless code transmission probably iwould be willing to instal telephone l. quipmont if there were telephone stations easily reached on shore, Mr. Ed-.wards said. A regular operator would 'not be necessary and any member f 'the ship's crew could call for help in time of emergency. News In Review More Kissing Need Of Modern Home Aafe;t-en Between Pai-ert;, and Pas-eats and Children Is Essential For Menial Health. TORONTO. -- 'It is better to have a cold i:i the head than in the heart. We need to get back to the old fash- mtie < iubiii i of-.love ,' fori 3 home where is a great need, of Hamilton, told lol Section of the ress on Mental Dr. H. R. Brilli the Home and O.E.O. in an Health and Parent Education. In charge of aha of the mental health clinics established by the government in an effort to get at the cause of mental disease in the province. Dr. Erillinger stated that close to CO per cent, of all mental illness is believed to originate because of bad mental habits or unhealthy ways of i Mai difficulties and ise the most of re healthy. Oth-Iness under rel- FATAL DOUBT health: child. i that they do lough that their vided for. They t, he stated, con-il effects on the •rels and threats . Security in dis-lended to elimin-tred and defiance. ; youth needs so n active interest in healthy realities. This can best fee stimulated by success and praise. One of the parents' most important functions is to give the child plenty of success and praise and keep him busy, allowing him responsibilities in the family routine and making him feel a necessary part of the home," Dr. Brillinger averred. RESPONSIBILITY IMPORTANT Many parents, he said, hate to see cir children grow, building up strong emotional bonds calculated to keep the child close to them always. There are a host of mental patients in our hospitals today because they ha-e developed habits of over-dependence By all means, parents should encourage their children to take responsibility as soon as they are able, thus developing sel'-assurance, leadership and backbone, and security and mental health. y Describing the modern home as an area covering fifty miles in any direction, Mrs. B. W. Langworthy. President of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers of the United States, spoke on the home as an index to national life at luncheon preceding the afternoon session. Honesty, courtesy, common decency and hospitality were among certain things that, if not learned in early life in the home were never learned the speaker affirmed. Hospitality should not mean entertaining the bridge club twice a year, but a welcome for tl horn food to f there md, saj courteous to children that it is a wonder they ever learn any courtesy. The enly way to teach them in on a fifty-fifty basis." A life insurance company says a married man has a greater life expectancy than a bachelor. This is likely June propaganda. -- Chatham Perhaps you think your wife ta too much about her operation, 1 look at the conversation Adam out of his.--Goderich Signal. "Fire-Bug" SARNIA-- Police are patrolling the St. Clair River front here following a iries of fires" which investigators rm the work of a "fire-bug." Discovery of some oily waste, apparently taken from the journal boxes of railway freight cars near the scene of the outbreaks, prompted Inspector E. L. Jordan and Investigator P. S. D. Harding of the Ontario Fire Marshal's Department to express on opinion the fires were of incendiary origin and the work of one person. The fires broke out at intervals. Three occurred in the yards of the Laidlaw Belton Lumber Company and caused damage estimated at $2,000. Others were in the old Grand Trunk freight shed, in a small frame building owned by Samuel Lampel and i barn. All < rred within tw Last Winter Mail CHURCHILL--The mail ma ed for the Arctic this week. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police dog team left here with a full load of first-class mail for many northern outposts, including the British Canadian Arctic expedition now wintering at Repulse Bay, on the Arctic Circle at the top of Hudson Bay. This will be the last mail delivered to the north from here until a boat sails for northern ports about Aug. 1. Farm Minister Acts Also As Pilot QUEBEC. -- Hon. Bona Dussault, Quebec Minister of Agriculture, has no intention of confining his activities t~ the soil, he declares. The Minister is a steamer pilot by profession and plans to pilot the steamship Manchester Port up the St. Lawrence tc Montreal when she arrives from overseas in a few days. "It will give me a rest," the pilot-legislator said. Honors Vincent Massey ABERDEEN.--Aberdeen University has conferred an honorary degree of (Doctor of Laws and Literature (LL. ID.) upon Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian High Commissioner. Principal tof the university is Dr. W. Hamilton fFyfe, former Principal of Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. Canada's War Memorial OTTAWA. -- The National War Monument will be erected in Ottawa some time this summer, Works Minis-t r Cardin told the House of Commons this week. The monument, the work of the March brothers, has been completed in England for many months. One reason for not bringing it to Ottawa has beet the conflicting views on where it should be erected here. The Minister said the Government "will h„ve to make up its mind pretty quick because it will be erected some time this summer." The monument probably will be - placed in Connaught Square, in the downtown section of the city, which eventually will be a wide plaza. Threaten Strike in May LONDON.--Autobus conductors and drivers theeraten to clog the Coronation machinery by calling a strike for early in May unless their present 8-hour working day is cut to. 7% hours. Ernest Bevin, General Secretary of the Transport Workers' Union, confirmed his organization had given the bus company a month to make up its mind. Employers indicated a willingness to discuss the matter, and it was tbelieved a crisis would be averted. Merits of Latin TORONTO.--Attacking the propositi courses of study for secondary vschools on the grounds that Latin was pot included as a first-year subject, prof. C. B. Sissons of Victoria College charged that the revised courses Wre the greatest propaganda for private schools that had been promoted £pur day. nu^j^acdjj^hejij die clock" if the pi-ograTh went in-•ation in its present" form, maintained, craving the right foi school Principal to be allowed between Latin and French in rst year. •. George F. Rogers, Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools, replied it was likely permission would be granted to substitute Latin for French if a teacher craved it. But he did not think it would be a good thing to do. not trying to kill Latin but to help it. We are trying to keep away from it a lot of pupils who are not congenitally disposed to Latin. A classics man, a principal not far from Toronto, tried out the experiment and found that the pupils in the second year made more progress in Latin because they were a selected group," Dr. Rogers said. The plan is to make French a compulsory subject in the first year; then in the second year, if the pupil has a taste for languages, he may take Latin. 45 Hotels, 12 Clubs Lose Beer License Would Avoid Future Blasts U. S .Authorities -- Whole Nation Follows Quiz in Texas NEW LONDON, Texas. -- The blast which killed 455 school children and teachers here has made the nation explosion-conscious. Governmental and schol authorities throughout the nation have resolved that those deaths shall not be in vain. The military court of inquiry in session 200 feet from the scene of the catastrophe said at the outset of its hearing its purpose was not to fix responsibility on some person or persons, but to determine the cause if possible so a recurrence might be prevented. Henry Wallace, secretary of agriculture, authorized Dr. David J. Price, nationally famed explosion expert with the Bureau of Chemistry, to assist in the investigation. Dr. Price took an active part in the questioning of witnesses. From Chicago came William R. Mecklind, supervising engineer for the board of education there. He said he was sent here to learn all he could about the disaster so he might determine if any corrective tion was needed in the nation's i ond largest city. Marvin Hall, Texas fire insurance commissioner, and several members of his department were listening j the testimony. The State Department of Education sent Fred Home, its superintendent of plant construction, Dr. E. P. iSchoch, gray-haired University of Texas chemistry professor, who has been investigating explosions for 20 years, came at the request of Governor James V. Allred of Texas to assist the military court Home-Made Biscuits Are Still In Favor NEW YOR--The old feminine wile of intriguing a man with homemade hot biscuits, in line with the maxim about "the best way to a man's heart," is back in style in the United States. So say the six women contenders for this year's title of "national cooking champion," at the Women's Rational E»-nosit.ion oi Aits --' ind In- dustri "The "best woman cook nation" will be named after off" by teams of two in a model kitchen. Three of the six finalists who won regional contests for submitting well-balanced "average American menus" are in their twenties. Continued Violation of Rules Despite Warnings Given As tha Reason. Forty-five hotels and twelve club«\ will not be allowed to renew their, beer and wine licences, it was announced April 1st by Chairman B..' G. Odette of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Continued violation of rulings of the board, despite numerous request^' and warnings that regulations b« strictly regarded, causes the cancel-) lation of the authorities of most at the hotels, Mr. Odette stated. Decision of the board, after careful study, that the clubs were being' operated, "for purely pecuniary gain" caused cancellation of club authorities, he said. In the case of a "very few" of the hotels, applications for renewals will be considered if structural changes of the premises are made. The hotels are scattered over a wide area, ranging from Timmlns and Sault Ste. Marie to Eastview and Thorold. The complete list, as released by Mr. Odette, follows, listed alphabetically under their municipal- HOTELS: -- Alfred, Tierney Hotel; Belleville, Crystal Hotel; Bridgeport, Lancaster Hotel; Drayton, Royal Hotel; East-view, Beech wood Hotel; Hamilton, Star Hotel; Markdale, Revere House; Niagara Falls, New Arlington Hotel, Victoria Hotel; North Bay, Royal Royal Hotel; Ottawa, Capital Hotel Gilmour Hotel, Ritz Hotel, York Hotel; Sandwich West, Elmwood Hotel; Sault Ste. Marie, American Hotel, International Hotel, Lock City Hotel, New Ontario Hotel, Victoria Hotel, New Toronto Hotel; South Woodslee. Elm Inn; Thorold, Ormond Hotel, Summit Hotel; Timmins, Floria KoteL Kingston Hotel; Toronto, Baltimore Hotel, Commerce Hotel, Froiitenac Anns Hotel, Savoy Hotel, Shamrock Hotel, Tudor Hotel; Welland. Roma Hotel; Windsor, Bodega Hotel, College Avenue Inn, Dixie Hotel, Grand Hotel, Highway Hotel, Hollywood Hotel, Imperial Hotel, Killarney Castle Hotel. Ontario Hotel, Shamrock Hotel, Verdi Hotel. CLUBS:-- Amherstburg. Young Rangers Club; Ottawa, Preston Athletic and Social Club; Sault Ste Marie, Old Stone House Social Club, Troubadour Club; Toronto, Arlington Club, Elm Grove Athletic Club, Irish-Canadian Club, Italian ,: icial Club, Macedonian Social Club, Recess Club, St. Andrew's Bridge Club; Welland, Hungarian Canada Will Enter Show At Glasgow OTTAWA--Canada will be represented in the British Empire Exhibition to be held in Glasgow in 1938, the Department of Agriculture disclosed recently. The Canadian pavilion was one of the outstanding features to be seen at the last great show held at Wembley in 1924-25, it said. Huge crowds are expected to witness the Glasgow show, for, with better facilities in transportation the 1901 record at Glasgow of 11,000,000 visitors will be greatly surpassed, said the department. Time Out From War For Hockey V/i ional situation ominous, cn 1 V.:'.: » in the -ou.h Atlantic i towards the Spanish coasts Jack Tar must have his far.. The ordinary war vessel is poorly adapted for usual deck games, but here's one that offers extraordinary opportunities for play. This is the landing deck of the aircraft carrier Courageous, and the sailors are intent on a fast game of field ho-key. Water Supplies Should Be Tested In the Spring-- Especially In Rural Districts TORONTO. -- With the coming of Spring, attention should be given to school water supplies. There are 631 rural and 319 urban public schools in Ontario. The Separate schools number 588 of which 478 are rural. Thus there are in all, 6101 rural schools in the Province. In most of the rural schools the water supply comes from a well in the school grounds. There may be ample opportunity for pollution of the well water. The startling history of illness and death in a family in the vicinity of the little town of Madoc, where a farmer and his four children died presumably of arsenical poisoning as a result of the use of water front the farm well; where the farmer's wife and later the deceased's brother suffered from prolonged illness, due to the same cause, is detailed in current issue of the Canadian Health Journal, by Prof. Wyllie. In the case referred to , the source of arsenic resided in the porous rocks througk which the ground water filtered to reach the well. The water was bright, clear and sparkling. It had no visible impurities. Examination disclosed the presence of arsenic in considerable quantities. Occurrences of this particular kind are said to be extremely rare. Unfortunately there is not a similar^ rarity in the occurrence of disease,' such as typhoid fever, carried by well water. All that are needed to start a conflagration are a local' source of infection, the spring sluicing and the well water is polluted. There are ample facilities in On-, tario for the examination of school water supplies. There are public' health laboratories in all quarters' of the Province whose business' comprises the examination, without' expense, of public water supplies. It* is the job of the local health of-) ficer to protect the children of the community he serves. The health officer should obtain a supply of con-' tainers from the nearest publia' health laboratory carefully take' samples of the well water of every school in his municipality and send the samples to the laboratory for1 examination. If, after all this warning, the health officer fails to do his duty in this respect, it is time that another health officer should succeed the delinquent one. Old-timers can recall when you were lucky if the horse drew yon. -- Toronto Telegram.