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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE ONT. THURSDAY, JAN. 10, 1935 Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA HOW INDEED! jeople thin , the bio Some Ing of factory whistles should be abolished. But if there were no factory whistles how would we keep the clocks straight? -- Brockville Recor. der. 100,000,000 SHEEP Australia in the comparatively near future is expected to carry 50 million more sheep without being overstocked. Recent experiments districts prepared with new eras resulted not only in decreasing sheep parasites, but in increasing the wool per sheep as well, low carries approximately i sheep, each producing 8 weight of Australia ) 100 millio > 9 pounds of wool a year, don Sun. FLOODLIGHTS AT CURVES The suggestion that floodlights be placed at some of the more dangerous curves on Western Ontario roadways has merit. With the majority of main highways in this section of the province served by a network of Hydro lines, it has been pointed out by sev,| ial interested organizations that the cost of putting up two or three lights at bad curves would not be great. The idea is a good one in that the cost is negligible and it might be the means of preventing a great many accidents. -- Guelph Mercury. HOME ACCIDENTS. The majority of accidents in the home are preventable. They result from falls, poison, loading guns, cuts, burns, escaping gas and so on. They can be prevented by such measures as standing on step-ladders instead of rickety chairs, 'clearly labelling bottles in the medicine chest, avoiding the use of stairways as the resting place of parcels and papers, leaving revolvers to policemen --in other words, by exercise of simple common sense. -- Kingston Whig-Standard. BRAIN SURGERY. There was celebrated in London last week, by the traditional English method of a dinner, the jubilee of the first operation for the remov. al of a tumor from the brain, which was performed on November 25, 1884, by Sir John Rickman Godlee, Lord Hordet presided, and among > present was Sir James Crieh-' i the sole or of those tion, and who lai^Janies "told a story or the late Sir Frederick Treves, who, he said, operated on an army officer who had been injured in the hunting field and removed part of his brain. Several years later they met at a party, and the surgeon avoided bis former patient. "You don't seem to remember me?" said the officer. Sir Frederick Treaves explained that he did, but in view of the operation was afraid to meet tlm. "That's nothing," said the officer, "I am now head of the Intelligence Department."--Banff.hire Journal, THOUGHT ON HOCKEY. In a fast game like hockey there are bound to be hard knocks, but when players deliberately go in for this sort of thing, they are just fools. Neighborhood hoodlum tactics, and deliberate assaults with sticks, should not be tolerated, and the men who perpetrate them on the ice show themselves to be utterly childish in spite of their ability to give it and take it.--St. Thomas Times-Journal. THE DROUGHT AREA. It is true that governments are spending a lot of money on relief to western farmers and on transporting animals to regions where fodder and pasturage age more abundant; it is true also that private charity is showing itself very generous toward the victims of the drouth, distribut- ing food; clothing and so on. But nothing is being done to the land itself. And this must be attended to, or else the desert will remain desert forever. From this point of view the question is a truly national one. --The La Presse, Montreal. PREJUDICES Most of us, of course, nave quirks and prejudices. Folks are influenced to read the things that feed their prejudices or viewpoints. A man who believes in a new banking system usually reads everything he can And to support his views. If it is suggested to him that he ought read something on the other side he refers to it as "propaganda" and passes it up. Quite often this is of the other type of man who afraid of a new idea He keeps away from speakers and books that might be upsetting to what he beliafves is a sound view of the question.--Re-gina Leader-Post. THE TOT OF RUM. The daily grog to naval men afloat dates from the days of "the wooden walls of England." Ships made long 'oyages and took a long time to make them, having only sails. The s had to live on "salt junk" and there was no fresh meat or fresh vegetables. The art of canning had even been thought of. Neither did the medical service know anything about vitamins. The result of lack of fresh food was that sail-developed scurvy. Then somebody foUnd that scurvy could he thwarted by daily administrations of or by lemon juice--St. Thomas Times-Journal. WAWA LAKE e original name of Wawa Lake in Michlpicoten was spelled Wawa-gomk or Wawamagonk. The last part of these old names is the adverb of location, and thus signifies that it vas a specific name for the lake -- 'Good Lake There," as outsiders would call it. Residents would use the ending "ing"-- here.--Sault Ste. Marie Star. Children Find Cloud's Silver Lining Frolicking interfered with tr advantage of the making merry in the flooded main street of Isle of Brewster, Somerset, ind heavy rain lasting for several days played havoc with roads and seriously 1 transportation. When sun shone again these children were quick to take of 72% m.p.h. This is a notewc feat, but it does not prove the si l to be equal or superior to im.lined oil-driven type.--London SLEPT THROUGH IT xtreme case of sleeping during speeches was that of John Stuart Mil., rather late i . life : ) the Commons after a life in which he had been accustomed to go to bed 10 o'clock. And after 10 he could not keep awake in the House, esults which were sometimes rather ludicrous. A Mr. Bouverie got up one night after 10 to deliver a tremendous attack on Mill and asked him number of rhetorical questions. The House "between laughter and curios--atched Mill as his head jelrk-ed up and do -a in sleep, sometimes apparently about to wake and then fading into sleep again.--Manchester iua'rdian. HIS REASON. A member cf Parliament who rings in the same bill session after session is sometimes misunderstood. There was the old member , who, after many vain attempts to that it is difficult for our children to 'have the cleaning of windows from the outside made illegal, at last indued a sympathetic Home Secretary to issue a departmental order to that effect, and was congratulated on the success of his persistent effort to make window cleaning -safer for the cleaners. 'No, no, safer for my. self," said the member. "When walk, ing the streets I used to be afraid <>"" " window ,,r .night f?,.l] me.--Aberdeenshire Mail. i forgotter visualize a time when all traffic either was on foot, hoseback or be. hind horses. Earlier days and their manners and implements forgotten, and probably it would be difficult to gather together a complete set of the implements and the relics of pioneer days. We forget so quick-" that one can scarcely remember should not it would be a good thing if it were possible to provide a place where such relics of our earlier history might be viewed.--Niagara Falls Review, FLYING The unusual is news. When an air. plane accident occurs, the report is flashed throughout the world with all the distressing detarils; the fact that every day thousands of planes are performing their routine duties without mishap is ignored, while the public imagination fastens on the new tragedies as confirmation of a false imipression that one is playing with death on leaving "terra firma." -Hamilton Spectator. UPS AND DOWNS There are seven ex-millionaires on ie Los Angeles County poor farm. It used to be that it took three gen-irations from shirt sleeves to shirt leeves. But we live in a speedier ige. It is possible now to make the whole tour in one generation. THE "EMPIRE The unemployed army of educated young men is rapidly increasing. The schools are grinding them out like finished articles from a factory. The youngsters are getting ideas of higher grades of living than the humble environments and habits of their sturdier forefathers. The appeal of the strenuous and simple life is re. ceding with the years, and consequent dissatisfaction with the present is increasing. Egyptians are loth to take their life-battles into other climes, with the result that this already closely packed valley is near bursting-point. There is a remedy, but it has been deferred by three successive Cabinets. -- The Sphinx, Cairo. NAMES FOR BATTLESHIPS Contrary to the German practice, only four battleships in the British fleet commemorate famous admirals. These are Nelson, Rodney, Barham and Hood. In pre-war days> however two large groups of captal ships bore such names exclusively. Cradock and Arbuthnot were two of the fighting seamen of thg Great War whose names the Navy would like to see >stowed on future ships. The choice of Polyphemus for one our big cruisers now building is criticized in the service as inapt. Although the name is not without its traditions, the last vessel to bear it torpedo ram of doubtful utility which saw no actilVe service. •London Daily Telegraph. THE MAKING OF PACIFISTS Ernst Toller has said that he be. me a pacifist after listening to the teous cries of a soldier who took ree days to die on the barbed wire. Anniversaries such as that of Armis- IN EGYPT ALSO. The memory is still fresh of the i experimental journey under I heroic students who started business 7 conditions a steam train with barrows of cooked beans rather over 370 miles at an average than waft for jobs that were invisible. Plan Extension Of Dole System London, -- Wide extension of the British dole system is contemplated. Seven hundred and fifty thousand land-workers who hitherto have been excluded from unemployment insurance are expected shortly to be brought within its scope. The statutory committee which investigated the whole question has now recommended inclusion of perns employed on the land, whether straight farming or horticulture. Weekly contributions probably will be the equivalent of six cents each for workers and employers and 12 cents by the government, for workers ixpected the benefit ikly with an ex- ofYhe dole ten us Dy me goven over 21 it is ext wU$ be about$3 u This proposed ext Deplores To-Day's Trend Of Advertising TORONTO -- Modern trends in advertising and descent to terms and phrases that are offensive were deplored by John Nelson, president of Rotary International, in a recent address here at the annual convention of the Association of Canadian Advertisers. It is an easy step from disbelieving and being repelled by certain advertisements to becoming skeptical of all advertisements, he warned. Deprecating the cleverness that wrenches and twists English to trive new words. Mr. Nelson urged his listeners to realize that the dictionary has sufficient vehicles of expression to define any mea desirable for public use. Count on Shakespeare To Prove Best Seller LONDON--Shakespeare is now tol be a better than best seller. A print of 50,000 editions have1 been placed in the hands of booksellers here. The edition has 1280 pages. Th# type was chosen by Mr Bernard Newdigate, one of Britain' foremost typegraphists. There is a woodout frontpiece and a series of' heraldic designs, drawn by two well-known illustrators. And the price at which the book is being sold is 6s. Originally the publishers intended to sell the edition at 1 guinea. It was thought that this was the least that could be charged for such a de luxe edition. But later it was de-j cided to use the full resources of the press, in the belief that Shakes-: peare will again prove his popu-! larity. New Halifax Pier Proof of Recovery proposed extension system to land workers will require parliamentary approval to make effective. Italy Will Remain On Gold Standard MILAN, Italy. -- Italy's lira is on the gold standard to stay and persons who promote rumors to the contrary will be punished severely, Premier Benito Mussolini's newspaper, II Popolo d'ltalia, assured the nation last week. A rumored further per cent cut in government salaries, it said, is untrue because "at the present time costs of living are going up." A rumored tax on coupons for consolidated bonds and other emissions is "grotesque, because the bond conversion last February brought a 30 per cent reduction in the income of bondholders." The lira is on the gold standard and will remain so, said II Duce's organ. "The drastic measure taken at the last Council of Ministers is more eloquent than any discord could be on government policies" is its statement. This referred to the measure making the Government overseer and controller of every cent of Italian money invested abroad. HALIFAX, N. S. -- The formal opening of Pier B is looked upon as another evidence of the ever-growing importnace of Halifax as an outstanding port, declared E. W. Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. "To those whose interests closely connected with sea-borne traffic," said the railway president, "the magnitude of this latest undertaking of the Halifax Harbor Corn-particularly impressive. The courage and foresight displi in_±hp 1 v deep-water cellent facilities possessed by the I scious~of'thTfactThat maritime port is constructive op-timism that should do its part in justifying the growing feeling that conditions are improving." Married Women Workers Are The Happiest New York,--Married women who' have outside jobs and still do all) their household duties make the hap-; pier wives, if they are able to bej judged by statistics gathered at Co-j lumbia University and made public last week. Of 632 women represent- j 36 cities, whose opinion was asked j ; said that outside work gave' l an outlet for energy and self- : expression and brought pleasant outside contacts. Half the women also believed that their jobs made them more stimulating companions for their husbands. Working wives, the survey disclosed, also have an effect on husbands, some of whom were spurred to greater ambition, partly through the example set by the wives and partly through the natural desire of j husbands to take entirely upon' themselves the task of supporting' their families. The majority of the married; women with jobs agreed that they j would advise other women to marry; even if they could not get along! without continuing their employ-} Woman Told Methods Of Ending Handicaps London--Proposals for overcomng prejudices against women in the la-: bor market have been given here by Miss V. 'Sackville West well-known novelist, at a lecture at Bedford College for Women. To begin with, the lecturer said, women must trust themselves, and tnust rely upon that trust rather than upon an external self.assertiveness, which they do not really mean. They cultivate an obieri^ won- Country Fair Below a lop of furrows, widely strewn With shadow lengths, the clear late-afternoon Is glittering upon the country fair. Now laugh and jiggling music swim the air-- Where only soil-faced trudging marked the day With plod of heavy limb, like pulseless clay -- And there are dancers while the trees are still. With pliant wreathing and a flurried thrill They come and go from in and out of gloom Beside cool pastures gossamered with bloom. They have forgotten kitchen work and plough For springing night fires burn within To forge from out tglowing shield, While sundown giants westering field! --Alan Creighton in "Poetry World" hearts Chinaman Gyps Smart Philadelphia Lawyeri PHILADELPHIA. -- Lee Kum evidently hadn't heard of the proverbial sagacity of the "Philadelphia lawyer." The sauve gentleman swindled al least 10 of that profession out of $50 each, Detective-Sergeant Jacob Gomborrow said, by telling them he needed an "advance" to tide him over until a $200,000 draft arrived from his father, supposed rich merchant in the Orient They'll Make Good Wives For Somebody Wheeling, W. Va.--When the boys in Wheeling High School go home to mother they may say: 'Well, this evening we can have a 2e fluffy omelet, some Devil's Food' cake, creamed peas and--Oh, yes, spinach." Eighteen of the boys have banded together and organized their own do. mestic science clabs in competition with the girls. 15 DAVID COPPERFIELD Weekly Serial Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS Eight-year-old _ David Copperfield, lives i Murdstone3 dismiss Peggotty and David' .nj,a The next day Peggotty takes David to her brother's David enters the cottage and finds, to his horrc pleasant vine-covered cottage at. Blunderstone, boathouse at .Yarmouth for a short visit. There that Mr. Murdstoiie is now his stepfather. A new tearfullV"«-dThpr^7™Air "SfwTiL ,»,;n „ I Fn^lan-d beaU^iful yo««e. ™other.« His he meets Uncle Dan. Ham and Little Em'ly. He existence begins for him./'The BlackPamher" see her Late Then Mr ; father is dead. One evening, as David reads from loves.tbe little fishing village with the croud and his sister Jane are cruel and mp,,iK, Mr sDavid reads from loves,the little fishmg village with the proud and his sister Jane are cruel and merciless Mr. David with the cane "teYlshim he is a wickM h™' 3 Crocodile book to Peggotty, his mrse/tiie tailing vessels m the harbor, but he is soon glad Murdstone isi harsh to Mrs. Copperfield and beats and is being sent to Lo^ , door opens and his mother'comes in with.Mr" to be journeying home again to his mother. The David for the-slightest reason. A year h»t«- n«*Ef /»"^ ..W.?JK: ^^^^ Murdstone, whom David secretly calls^TheBlack do'or*of. his, home opens to disclose a strange David's mother dies., ' " Panther." Distrusting him, David, is rude «ad woman servant with a hard, forbidding face. his_mother, is_displeased„ little David fare in the great citv? / --------------J ^