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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE ONT. THURSDAY. MAR. 28, 1935 CANADA THE EMPIRE k» - THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA SALARY IS SECOND There are many categories oi workers, public men, teachers, clergymen and doctors with whom money is a secondary consideration and for whom the challenge of the task is a much more powerful centive to achievement than the most lucrative of bonuses. For which Heaven be praised!--Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. TIMES CHANGE One reason why the rich are getting along without caviar is told by Neal O'Hara in the New York Post as follows: "Half a dozen years ago the Vanderbilt family's holdings New York Central were valued $29,000,000 and yielded an annual income of $1,160,000. Today the same shares have a market value of less than $2,750,000 without returning a cent of income."--St. Thomas Times-Journal. "WOLF" HITLER Now we know what is wrong with Hitler. It all comes from the fact that someone gave him the name "Adolph," which, according to Dr. Karl; Plunieyer, a learned Berlin professor, is "an ancient and valorous name derived from the Edel-wold or Noble Wolf, a victory-and-fortune-promising animal." There ain't any sich animile. The wolf's reputation for nobility is non-existent. And his reputation for ferociousness, so far as the human race is concerned, is fake. Perhaps that is the fact with Herr Hitler, too. Perhaps he is busy howling at the world in the hope that, just as many uninformed folk are afraid of the wolf's howl, the world will be afraid of his howl. On the other hand, perhaps he really is ferocious and is just taking the name Ndble Wolf as a disguise.--Sault Star. TRY SOME DAILY Little drops of humor; Little rays of light, Knock our daily troubles Higher.than a_ kite. -- Aylmer Express WOMEN IN PULPITS Opinion differ throughout Canada as to whether women should occupy church pulpits. Not long ago Manitoba ministers voiced their approval; the Middlesex Presbytery of the United Church of Canada, meeting in London, voted against the ordi ation of women. The decision w very close though, the standing vote being 40 to 38. The narrow margin points to a growing sympathy Many churchmen contend that the fair sex is better fitted for the role of missionary or deaconess. Other say make excellent pulpit orators. Without taking sides, one may say there isn't any doubt but that some would preach first class DEFECTIVE CARS The Law Amendments Committee of the Legislature, hearing the views of the public on traffic control a few days ago, were told by the chairman of the Safety Week Committee of the Board of Trade that 1,346 ears went through safety lane last year, and only 280 were found to *e not defective in some way. And he made the much more significant statement that only the better 'class of car went through the lane at all. The others, the cars that really needed it, never Inspector Street of the Winnipeg police department also told the committee of the results of a short period of inspection of motor cars. Out of a total of 862 cars, 692 had brakes that were not working properly, 78 had horns that were out of order, 204 had defective rearview mirrors or none at all. In the same period, more than 1,000 cars with only one headlight working were stopped on the city streets. -- Winnipeg Free Press. SHARP - SHOD Hats off to the St. Marys man who had the ingenious idea, Monday morning, of attaching a pair of horseshoes to the soles of his boots. Every other expedient had falied to help him walk the icy-icy streets without slipping, but the horseshoes did it. What a boom to the blacksmiths if we would but follow his pioneering example! -- St. Marys Journal-Argus. SEVEN SVAD YEARS Down in South Carolina a woman recently underwent an operation the full story of which moves one almost to tears. It illustrates how thorough in some souls runs the sound old principle of self-reliance, which in this case involved untold penalties. This woman consulted a physician who told her that an operation .was the only thing which would restore her health. She left his office and possibly with her going she passed from his memory. All that was years ago, but seven years after she again appeared in his office, reminded him of his advice, produced a shoe box filled wita pennies and told him she was ready now for the operation. With great pain she had gone back to work, to washing, and scrubbing, and mending, and year after year had set a-side the hardly earned pennies, the little she could save out of her poverty, until she had amassed the required amount, $75, and when this was gathered had returned to submit herself to the necessary operat- Needless to say she was at once hurried to the hospital, her shoe-box was safely .fucked away in the safe to be returned to her when she again emerges from hospital. But what a sad seven years it must have been and how unnecessary! -- Halifax Chronicle. GOPHERS A PEST Huge amounts are spent each year in the purchase of gopher poison. On the other hand, some of the most valuable animals which Nature provided to maintain these and other rodents within bounds are being harried to the point of extinction in some cases. With the natural enemies of the gophers thus rer ed, poison makes little headway stemming the plague, besides being an ever present menace to other forms of wild life and the cause of many tragedies to human beings. Coyotes, weasels, hawks and badgers are invaluable as gopher hunters. It is true that the presence of coyotes around a barnyard may mean the occasional disappearance of sheep or calf in stress of hunger. But with proper supervision and the protection which a good dog affords, these animals can be kept where they belong to make their main diet on gophers and field mice.--Calgary Herald. RUNS IN STOCKINGS It says in the New York Sun that the United States Bureau of Standards uses an improved machine for testing hosiery. This leads the New York Sun into a chaste little bit in its editorial columns upon runs in stockings. It seems that this Pay Last Respects mm ~wiry Butler (left), former reporter of decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Attorney General Homer S. Cummings shown leaving the residence of the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington after paying their last homage. machine "shows that laundering, dyeing, ageing, finishing and construction all have a great effect on the . . . durability of the stockings on repeated - distention." Thus, it appears, the researches of the bureau in knitting, "degumming," dyeing, finishing, ageing, laundering, redye-ing, refinishjng, etcetera, are helpful on the great subject of runs in stockings. But the New York Sun thinks that when a woman discovers a run in her stocking she doesn't think of what the bureau is doing. What we feel like saying about all this is that, God bless our souls, how the times do change! The New York Sun could never have had an editorial bit about runs in stockings when it was young. Come to that, we couldn't have had an editorial bit about runs in stockings when .were young. Runs in stockings was a subject that simply didn't arise in those days. The Province wouldn't have known. Who would have known? Stockings were out of sight then,. Stockings were supposed to he out of mind then. We don't even know if they had runs in stockings then. But if they did have runs in stockings then, we'd bet they were out of sight anyhow--Vancouver Prov- ONE FATALITY One of the most satisfying features of the police report is the substantial decline in motor accidents. The number reported last year v\ only 93, with one fatality, as co pared with 268 and two fatalities 1933. It would be a fine thing Kingston could improve still further on last year's figures. -- Kingston Whig-Standard. THE EMPIRE PRINCE AS A SCOT The Prince of Wales has many accomplishments. He told his Scottish Corporation audience recently that he has learned Gaelic and the pipes. He made it clear to all of them that 3 an excellent teller of Scots stories. He acts them to the very life, and a true-blue Scot who sat next to me said his Royal Highness' Scots accent was excellent. The :e looks extraordinarily well in Highland costume. He wore, of urse, Royal Stuart tartan kilt, with tight-fitting tunic.---Autolycus in the London Sunday Times. PHYSICAL FITNESS The British Medical Association has appointed a special committee to prepare plans for improving the physique of the nation. There is no doubt that it can do with improving. But the committee may have a 'little difficulty on hitting on the right scheme--schemes, that is, which the English, with their ancient and well-known dislike of taking exercise "for the sake of their health," will not find too self-cons^.ously virtuous to be tolerable. If the average man or youth were asked what he specially needed to make himself fit, he might possibly reply: "More money, more leisure and more playing fields." He might also possibly he right.--Manchester Guardian. WEDDING GIFTS jus correspondence has a-in the English press out of the fsplay of the wedding presents re sent to the Duke and juchess of Kent. Criticism has been 3 of the number of valuable anti-which were among the gifts, and urged that public bodies like Royal Academy and the City 3 *Tshould have tried rather to benefit present-day artists and designers--Belfast Telegraph. CEYLON'S BLACK OUTLOOK Seldom has sunshine, the traditional harbinger of happiness, so completely meant the reverse of good fortune as has been the recent and present experience in Ceylon. In his statement last week in the State Council Sir Baron Jayatilaka declared that if there was no break in the weather during the next few days a state of famine would be bound to supervene. That :,prophecy of woe seems to be in process of fulfilment. The weather reports continue to record the absence of rain in precisely those parts where rain is most needed to abate the malaria epdiemic and to prevent crop failure. The rainfall to date since the beginning of the year, comparing most unfavourably with the average for the corresponding period during two decades, is disastrously deficient. The far-reaching effect of this second drought, of last year, it is impossible to forecast. The crops on which the bulk of the population depend for their livelihood, badly affected as they have been already, will be in, danger of complete ruin. The parching up of paddy fields and the devastation of chenas will lend a peculiar poignancy to the more prolonged ill-effects on coconut plantations which have had their full share of misfortune in other respects. This unrelieved picture of Unmarried Rich Women Outnumber Wealthy Men New York. -- The wealth female of the species is more numerous than t»he male, a check of blue-blooded heirs discloses. While a survey revealed at least 15 wealthy and unwed women, there are apparently only nine men to match them in affluence and social position. They are: Alfred and George Vanderbilt, brothers and heirs to millions from the Vanderbilt side and from their maternal grandfather, Capt. Isaac Emerson, patent medicine king. James and Woolworth Donohue, who are in line for chunks of the in. exhaustible five-and-ten fortune. Michael Phipps, who will inherit the Pittsburgh steel millions of hig parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Phipps. . Marshall Field, merchant prince, still wealthy despite enormous all-mony paid two ex-wives. William Rhinelander Stewart, multi-millionaire playboy. Harvey Ladow, who, despite hit fortune, lives the life of a country squire in Maryland. Charles Dunlap, heir to the Bup wind coal millions. Modern Child Likes Mother Wee Bit Better Than Father New "York. -- Father rates about 61 per cent, instead of being "all right" with the modern child. Mother stands higher -- 65.5 per cent. These findings were given to the American Orthopsychiatic Association by Dr. H. Meltzer, St. Louis. He said they were based on studies of the attitudes of 150 children of elementary school age. The children were carefully selected, he explained, to represent a cross-section of the city. They were asked for all their pleasant and unpleasant reactions, or feelings, about their parents. Pleasant for father, including even "barely pleasant" totalled 61 per cent. On the same basis mother went four and a half points higher. "This however," the report stated, "does not indicate a complete comedown for parents as would appear at first sight, for the definitely unpleasant reactions add up to only 5.8 per cent for both parents, 4 per cent. for motber and 7.6 per cent, for father." A principal difference from th« child's point of view is that father leans to the mental side, mother to! the emotional. ' Reported more or less in the chU< dren's own words the typical father is "a person who works and support*1 you, does things around the house, takes you out places, playes games with you, helps you with homework,' participates in outdoor activities, gives you money, has such qualities as sweetness and kindness, participate in indoor activities, and who trains you to mind." Mother is "a person who does house work, does things for you, works and supports you, has such qualities as sweetness and kindness, take you out places, plays games with you, helps you with homework, buys food and clothes for you, scolds you wihen you do wrong and gives you things." Increased Demand For Horses And Cattle In Province Is Reported Toronto. -- Brisker and increastd demand for horses and all types of cattle in most sections of the province was the bright spot in the weekly crop report issued by the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Reports from Ontario county said farm sales are bringing the best prices in more than tihree years and there is a keen demand for horses at about $25 average for good farm horses. Ordinary grade cows brought $35 to $48 with bred sows selling around $30. Peterborough county reported active demand tor. good quality purebred Shorthorn bulls of serviceable age witih^.sales ranging from $60 to $100 depending "on type and age. Milk cows -are sought in Glengarry. An order-'was received from the United States for 115 good Holstein i at prices varying up to $65. Cattle buying is fairly active in ~ -ince Edward county. In Huron county there is a brisk demand for horses and good prices are being realized. Farmers are in a more hopeful frame of mind regarding cattle prices, the report said. A recent sale in Grey county brought,?40-$45 for grade cows and more than $100 for horses. Although shortage of hay still faces Ontario farmers, cattle hava come through the winter season Ut good condition and creamery production is holding up reasonably well considering the shortage. Dufferin county reported a large percentage of livestock is being carried along in fair flesh and will be turned on grass in good condition but there are some "very thin" cattle. Even with favorable grass condition, the report said, it will take these cattle well on to fall to make up and be in reasonable coit dition for market, Haldimand country creamerymea reported production is holding up well but some found quality of product lower and in Lincoln county there is a "very heavy" demand for hay at present with dairymen an$ others looking; for outside sources ol Livestock in Middlesex county are * being carried along In fair condition and by careful conservation of feed supplies most farmers will have sufficient hay and rough feed to carry them through to spring. 10 misery is evidence that Ceylt tale of suffering has by no me been exaggerated, but that, on contrary, there is a worse ha than has been wrought by mala for which tho Government and people must be prepared.--Times of Ceylon, Colombo. First Aid Depots Along Highways First aid stations will be established along Western Ontario highways as son as the necessary financial arrangements between three societies interested in the venture are worked out. The cost of setting up the system along No. 2 highway, Toronto to Windsor, would be about $3,000, it is said.. The subject was up for discussion at the Ontario Motor League annual meeting this week and members of The' scheme is un ly by the St. John Ambulance Association, the Canadian Red Cross and the Motor League. It has been in operation for more than a year on No. 2 Highway from Toronto to Montreal, and reports de-! clare it has been of great assistance; : in saving lives and alleviating suf-' fering following motor accidents. There is nothing definite as fa» when it will be instituted in this' part of the province. It may b« this year, and it may not, depending on circumstances. . Nature is an Aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are th«' re-echo of higher strings within us."' --Novalis.