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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE ONT. THURSDAY, MAR. 7, 3 CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA OUT WHERE COLD IS "DRY" Burr! We admit the virile quali ties of frigid air, and the stimulus induced in sluggish veins by the icy blasts. But Zero is always suffer-rd, never welcomed. His departure is much more popular than his arrival- May it, we trust, be soon. -- Winnipeg Free Press. LLOYD GEORGE It was a summer afternoon in 1890 when Mr. Gladstone in frock coat and tearose, complimented Mr. Lloyd George, fresh from a by-election in Carnarvon. In the long years since then two reigning British sovereigns have died, the British Empire has fought two wars, dynasties and nations have disappeared, the map of the world has been changed. Yet now we read that this same Lloyd George whose voice has sounded through all this din of four decades of world upheaval and revolution, is to launch a new political movement. In his seventy-first year, veteran of a thousand fights, he is "buckling on his armor."--(From the Ottawa Journal.) THE TITANIC FUND When the Titanic was sunk in 1922 a Mansion House Fund was started for the relief mainly of old people .and children bereft of aid by the loss of supporting relatives. The response was £415,212 and it is now announced that 276 persons are still sharing in the disbur: ments of from £15,000 to £20,000 annually. It is rightly regarded as one of the best administered funds ever recorded. -- Brantford Exposi- together purifying effect upon the vocabularly of the human rac Kegina Leader-Post. OCEAN FLYING While flying oceans and things, Amelia Earhart has to keep her ears on a beam wireless and her eyes on a magnetic compass, an aperiodic compass, a directional bank and turn indicator, a rate of climb clock, an artificial horizon, meters, an ice warning thermometer and a super-charger pressure gauge. The machine age has gone feminine, too. -- Border Cities Star. SPEED LIMIT The special civic committee on traffic and parking has recommended that application be made by the city to the Legislature for power to pass a by-law fixing the speed limit in Winnipeg at 30 miles an hour. Alderman and police are apparently agreed that this measure must be taken to curb the mounting toll of accidents and fatalities on city streets. -- Winnipeg Tribune. NO DOUBT It is possible to read newspapers on the Niagara highway now since the new sodium vapor lamps have been installed. And we suppose some sap will try doing it while driving at 60 m.p.h. Journal staff. -- Sault Ste. Marie Star. THEY TAKE A CHANCE The majority of accidents occur when drivers persuade themsleves to "take a chance." Most drivers are to be trusted as long as they obey what they recognize individually to be ordinary safety precautions. But the fleeting desire to "take a chance" (how often does it not occur into our driving minds?), is the factor that, if accepted, sooner or later ends in mischance. Tendency to succumb to the temptation of taking chances should be ruled uot of bonds by every motorist who respects his own life and the lives of others. How can the law and the courts help to discourage this tendency? Not by longer sentences, but by more of them. Too many motorists "get away with it" either through inadequacy of enforcement or ity in imposing penalties. A rea; able penalty actually imposed effective than a drastic penalty which is not imposed. -- 1 nipeg Tribune. THE EMPIRE - tor. REFORESTRATION In New Zealand they set to work with a vigor and an enthusiasm that are now beginning to bear fruit. A hundred years ago, when New Zealand was first settled by the English, it was half forest. To-day only one-tenth of the area is forest. This is the result of reckless clearing of trees durina- the closing period of the nineteenth century. Bur painful experience taught the New Zealan-ders that much land unsuitable for pastuee was excelllent for tree-growing; and they have profited by their experience. -- Montreal Star. AUCTION SALES The terms that used auction sale bills giving so many months' credit on approved joint notes, and a percentage off for cash, are apparently a thing of thi past hereabouts. A more abbreviated form ii and the most of the sah ually "Terms Cash." Numbers of the posters also bear the admonUi that nothing is to be taken from i premises "until satisfactorily settled for." It would^ appear that thi farmer has gone on the cash and carry basis also.--Acton Free Press. HANDBILLS Many citizens . . may have the view that if handbills have to be> such matter would be more welcome if it came through the mails than Communicated to them in the present manner -- littered all over front Steps, verandah or sidewalks, there frequently to become ugily embedded in ice or snow in winter time, mixed up with mud or slush in the spring, caught up and blown all over the place by the four winds of heaven in the summer time, and become mixed up with wet and elimy leaves in the fall. It is to be feared handbills have not had an al- OLDEST CITIZEN Kingston mourns the loss of her oldest resident, John W. Martin, who died at the great agj of 108 years. To have lived for more than a century and to have been able to follow closely the progress of the city and the Dominion down through the years, fell to the lot of Mr. Martin, a man always gifted with a keen intellect and one who almost to the-very last was in command of his senses. -- Kingston Whig-Standard. CUPID IN ENGLAND Cupid must be working overtime in England. Weddings there numbered 143,248 in 1934, an increase of 13,751 over the previous year.-- Thomas Times Journal. OR PERHAPS BOTH 'Perhaps what is wrong with the world is that we haven't enough of tenors," remarks the Ottawa Jour-1 nal of the report that music is to be made compulsory in the schools. Perhaps it means "tenners." -- Sault Ste. Marie Star. THE DEATH OF A PEDESTRIAN The recent provision of five-barred gates, which the pedestrian can leap between pavement and island, is a measure of the complication which has overtaken the traffic. It is said that ant3 are. too small to the foot which treads on them, oi conceive of the being owing the foot. The London pedestrian is now caught between extremes. He can be run over, and even killed, by a car so small that he never saw it coming, or crushed by a coach so large that he thought it was the house at the corner. In his last conscious moments he may be able to register surprise' that only about I twenty-five heads appeared at the windows of Leviathan, whilst three or four quite long, thin people emerged from the small car or which he nearly trod, before it killed him. -- H. Pearl Adam in The Fortnightly (London). Bermuda vacation of Gladys Yule (left), daughter of Lady Yule, of England, and Mrs. Thomas McGuffe, also of England, gives them opportunity to practice their favorite sport--tennis. They are pictured on the tennis courts of the Castle Harbor after one of their spirited morning matches. TOO MANY IDEAS The trouble is that the world short of ideas, but that there is way of plowing under the surplus. HOURS OF AN EDITOR There is a minor war in progrees in the newspaper world at the present time. It all started because the Toronto Mail and Empire registered a complaint that under proposed legislation there is under pro-sion for an eight-hour day for editors, declaring that "many of them commonly work 12 or 14 hoi day, often seven days a week." This caused The Ottawa Journal to pronounce skepticism that editors worked even as long as eight hours As a matter of fact it's a lucky editor wh0 gets off with an eight-hour day. Or is he lucky? One doubts if the Mail and Empire editor would be happy if compelled strict his work to a miserable eight hours a day And somehow help but be mildly skeptical that a brilliant editorial page like that of The Ottawa Journal be turned out FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR ROADS The Minister of Transport has announced a Five-Year Plan for the roads. There is, happily, more common sense than politics in a new deal of this kind. There is to be no delay. Schemes are to be drawn up at once after collaboration with local authorities, and there is to be a clean break with that "hand-to-mouth" policy which has in the past frustrated so many good intentions and efforts. Within five years the Government aims at revolutioi " ising, the reads of Britain by cl< ing away all obsolescent survivals from a past that conceived transport in terms of those Juggernauts, the mangel-wurzel cart ' and the mill float- -- London Sunday Referee. Education By the Radio Central Agency Is Now At Work To Reform The Air Programs For The Children THE SAME, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER Every person of mature y« regarding the younger generation with an unbiased eye, must have been struck by the disquieting revelation that the race is declining. In a world in which all the old values are being scoffed at and all the ancient beliefs questioned, only ^one postulate stands like stone -- that the present generation, by which is meant the adult portion of it is the most wonderful and virtuous that the earth ever produced. Apart from this one shining exception, there can be no little doubt that generations are not what they used to be. Humanity is going to the dogs. -- Melbourne Argus. Finds Marriage Not Cause For Teacher's Dismissal Trenton, N.J.--Ruling that marriage did not constitute "inefficiency, incapacity, or conduct unbecoming teacher," Dr. Charles H. Elliott, state commissioner of education has ordered Wildwood authorities to reinstate four women teachers dis-four or five | missed last Fall because their hus- rork. Even by the brilliant bands ! able to support ther Along with "hot" movies, fascism and red menaces, children's radio hours have been a constant target for committees and aroused c nities. writes Ernestine Evans N.Y. Times. The same parents who want "Little Red Riding Hood" put on the index because it it kept Johnny awake at night or gave Susie complexes have protested against the thrillers and so-cal crime serials on the air that may have given the childi tmares and indigestion. srested organizations j are i all .agreed as to what improve-its should be proposed; ajgreed that by studying the field spme change and enrichment riiade in the present situation. Today, however, for the first time, upward of fifty organizations have officially and unofficially authorized the pi ning of a central agency on radio fro-grams for young people, and a proposal for national action will shortly be made. The united stand en at a luncheon held late last November under the joint auspicps of the American Library Association, the Progressive Education Association and the Child Study Association of America. It marked the culmination of your years of work of the American Library Association, with which many other organizations have affiliated. FORMULATION OF PRINCIPLES The central committee is now for mulating principles general enough to accepted by the Junior League, the Jewish Welfare Board, the International Council of Religious Education, the Girl Scouts and similar organizations. Some advertising agencies that have arranged and sold thriller and baby crooner hours prophesy failure and highbrow dullness; others welcome the new organization as the opening wedge for the better standards. Both major networks, N.B.C. and Columbia, and numbers of local stations have indicated their willingness to co-operate with the committee. The networks give a great deal of attention to their critics; they deal with Bishops, cranks, doctors, law-J yers, parents and insulted nationalists every day. It can be taken for granted, therefore, that any solidly organized phalanx of public opinion bent on setting standards in young people's broadcasting will get the attention of the business men who control the air waves. The new central agency expects to get backing for a two or three years' program of research on foreign and domestic broadcasts, and in making trials of programs here. Nobody knows whether a broadcast is good until It has been tried. Very few story tellers, whose voices enchant in the school room and library ie stage are the same over The voice may ohange, the personality fade, and success with the little audience may be depend-gesture or the inspiring presence of spellbound or wiggling youngsters. BROADCASTING ELSEWHERE It is worth while to study what other nations have made of broadcasting especially those countries here radio is considered a political and educational instrument of importance in creati controlling a public. The radio audits important pecause it is t largest and the most representatii If the cenral agency studies what the British Broadcasting Corporation has done, a rise in interest in educational hours may be expected. It is now eleven years since the Central Council for School Broadcasting was_ formed in England, and present system has been wor out so slowly and carefully that one can quite recall the date which it became plain that really fine educational broadcasts i certain to get fan mail as th____ tainment hours. The Ohio School of the Air and the American School of the Air in this country, in putting on national programs, labor under handicaps, which the BBC has never had to meet. National programs here always have to deal with a vast so that every broadcast tries to get on different hours depending on where the program is received--East, Middle West or on the West Coast. UNIFORMITY IN BRITAIN. Also, Great Britain has a much more uniform school curriculum; it is possible for a carefully planned broadcasting hour organized a yeai ahead to supplement definitelj what the scrhool-room teacher U supplying. The British, too, have an advan tage, which the most expertly or ganized central agency here coult hardly overtake. The BBC is a pub lidly owned corporation, its em ployees regard themselves as publii servants, and their whole teohniqut has been eased in their approach t< whatever talent they wished to com mand. Once they set themselves b present scientific talks they wen free to ask the most noted authorit ies in England to speak for England'i children; and to groom and then ti reject, if necessary, those foremos' authorities who did not have micro phone talent. National interest and tradition art better understood in England thai here. For example, if the school! there wish to dramatize England foi English children, program maker) have three centuries of county liter ature ready to hand on which t< Besides courses on the districts « England and in French, German an* music, the 1935 schedule from Lon don includes a series of talks ou "Tracing History Backwards," othei talks on English history and a full course in biology. There is also, un der children's hour auspices, a news broadcast, touching on international politics, finance and science, so instructive that on one occasion at least the British Cabinet stopped it« discussions to listen. RADIO IN JAPAN. The year book of Japanese radio, described the work of two yean ago, points with pride to a featura called "The Children's Newspaper," broadcast in alternate weeks by a man and woman. Twenty-one broadcasts were used to propagandize the children on the Manchurian situation. On New Year's Day Mr. Hato-yama broadcast a talk to young citizens, the first occasion on which a Cabinet Minister had spoken during "The Children's Hour." Another time Dr. Katsube of Hiroshima University spoke on metaphysics for children. The anniversaries of famous historic battles are regularly eel--ebrated. Short courses on Western singing,' and on Japanese dances were given last year, and printed syllabuses distributed. Texts were also published to accompany twelve lectures on (he orchestra and its interpretation for older children, six on the geography, history and legends of Man-chukuo, thirty-three on Japanese literature, and fourteen Summer lectures on the scientific collecting of Plants, flying insects, poisonous plants and insects and so on RUSSIAN BROADCASTS In the Soviet Union, a special department of the Ail-Union Radio Committee deals constantly with the Commissariat of Education. Classic and contemporary music and literature are regularly broadcast; as are talks to suggest and encourage creative work. A special institution "The Central Home of Art Education," is carrying on studies on children's capacity to listen, and their interest A "campfire" hour is devised for pioneers at their country camps and city club rooms. Besides this the study of radio apparatus is now part of the regular cu schools. in 20,01 it. i sible that the new American committee, also endeavoring to provide fuller programs, will find that children do not need distra' Hon and entertainment so much as a steady and rational program of -- call education, dramatized ctively presented. FU MANCHU Ottawa Awards Contract Hamilton Public Building Ottawa--The contract for erection i a new Dominion public building t Hamilton has been awarded to H. Yates, of Hamilton, it was announced here last week. The con-T^CtKP1',',Ce WaS given as ?1.600,000. ihe building will be erected on the site of the present post office. il By SAX ROHMER Installment 1 ssfl&'JL2» m...... ^"No cfcubf yeu: will fhink me r^^d^^^T mad," Smith remarked, and 1 could s%e him at the wmdow" peering intently into tho street. "Eut before you are many hours older you will know 1 have good reason to be cautious ... Ah, nothing suspiclousl" He relighted the lamp. "You are the only man 1 can trust. 1 must have someone with me, Petrie, all the time. Can you spare a few days to the strangest business that ever was recorded Suddenly my old friend ^? Nayland Smith put out the^mp. He had been explaining quarters, when 1 supposed hi.n to be in L:\rma. His tanned, square-jawed face was laut cr.j crave. "A servant of the tive, bearing credentials from tho highest sources, because 1 learned of ihe evil acilviiy of FU MANCHU. THE ZYAT KISS-Archangel of Evil