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r--- THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE ONT. THURSDAY, APR. TT, 193? CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA OLD CARS It is not fair to the people of Ontario, who have spent millions of dollars in the building of highways, or to that section of the public which has invested huge sums of money in dependable cars, to allow irresponsible persons to venture out on the highways with old and dilapidated cars which have been purchased for $15 to $20 in some backyard. The department would have the support of the vast majority of the people if it instituted a more rigorous examination of old and used cars before they are licensed.--Brantford Exposi- A BAD THING TO START A German society woman was beheaded in Berlin for revealing state secrets. If all the women in every country who revealed secrets were executed it would be necessary to set up the guillotine again.--Ches- DON'T TRY IT. Car driven by man from Toronto collided with another car near Brampton. It rolled over three times after which the occupants crawled out unhurt. Don't try it. Only a car driver from Toronto can get away with tricks like that.--Stratford Beacon-Herald. "THE KING'S FOREST." In England the forestry commissioners have obtained His Majesty's permission to name a tract of 6O0 acres that they have acquired for afforestation The King's Forest. Within it they intend to plant a three-mile avenue of beech trees to be named Queen Mary's Avenue. The forestry commissioners have likewise been granted leave to name an area in Wales, hitherto known as Vaugh-an's Forest, Coedy-Brenin which again means King's Forest; and it is announced that they intend to Ject a similar area in Scotland to be named in association with the King. All this is connected with the Jubilee and the idea, enthusiastically received to all appearances, of linking this anniversary with tree-plan-(tiug.---Saint John Telegraph-Journal. MUSTARD FROM PRiJRIES. flu's nrairie Provinces nrowida. . items for the world's menu cards--even mustard. A carload of that commodity was shipped fr berta recently. This was the first consignment of an entirely new venture on the part of two prairie farmers, who had some 41,000 pounds of mustard to sell. It would seem that mustard growing should become a profitable undertaking for the fertile soli of the province yielded an average of 400 pounds to the acre -- Empire Review. OLD SONGS Some of us remember that "Man on the Flying Trapeze" being sung in our childhood days, although it has been mentioned as a new song. Now a copy, printed 70 years ago, has been discovered in London. As a matter of fact, it might be a good thing to go over some of the old songs instead of some of the things which laughingly were called songs with music nowadays--Niagara Falls Review. WHY IS HE POPULAR? One reason the Prince of Wales is 80 popular lies in his sense of fun and in his humorous reaction to the many honors that are thrust upon him by virtue of his position. The other day when addressing the Worshipful Company of Gardeners in London, the Prince said he was a freeman of six city companies. "My only claim to be a member of the musicians' Company," he said, "is that I wrote recently what I do not think a very good slow march for the "I am also master of the Merchant Marine Company. I hold that very high rank of admiral in the navy, but I would never advise anyone to sail in a ship in which I was captain and in charge of the navigation." That is tlio spirit which brings him close to the nation. He is, however, a real enthusiast for gardening, as his activities at his own properties show, and on this occasion he said that "Though only a young and amateur gardener," he found himself at home among gardeners. He hopes one day to carry away a number of prizes at horticultural exhibitions. More power to him!--Sault Ste. Marie Star. WITHOUT A RIVAL. It has been demonstrated,. in hundred and one ways, that newspaper advertising is without a rival, whether one wants to attract tourists or sell a bill of goods. While travel and other literature have their value, they cannot begin to compare, as a medium of publicity, with the newspaper advertisement. As we have pointed out on other occasions, advertising of all kinds attracts some readers, but all readers see newspaper announcements. -- Border Cities Star. BRIGHTER DAYS. The tax rate in St. Catharines may be 41 mills as last year. But there is this much to be said about it, St. Catharines is maintaining itself in a mighty sound condition and if this is done, there is a much brighter day ahead for the taxpayer, because debt in the next five years will be greatly educed.--St. Catharines Standard. HONOR GUEST.. Mr. Welch had been dining out six nights in succession. On the seventh night he turned up at home for the evening meal. When he was seated Mrs. Welch then rose and addressed the other occupants of the table: "Children, we have with us to-heard, even if you do not know him personally. He is a man who has a reputation for good cheer in every club in the city, and this evening we are to have the honor and pleasure of being numbered among the admirers of his entertaining qualities. It is with the greatest pleasure that I present to you--your father! couver Province. GOOD ADVICE. Dr. Wynne, New York's health commissioner, says the golden rule of health is "Keep Your Mouth Shut." But isn't that the golden rule of human intercourse generally?" -- Winnipeg Tribune. A REGINA CENTENARIAN The Leader-Post herewith offers hearty felicitations to Mrs. Annie Morrison, 2070 Garnet Street, Regina, who on Sunday last marked her 100th birthday anniversary. Mrs. Morrison, a native of Inverness, Scotland, and who came to Regina from the Wapella district, where she settled with her late husband In 1883, observed her century of life with children, grandchildren and great grandchildren about her. ...... .It is well to reflect upon some of the formulas of longevity that per- Trucks Dumped In Toledo Drivers' Strike A "pick-up" crew is righting an overturned truck during a lull in milk drivers strike Toledo, O. Deliveries to all but infants and the infirm were prevented in determined fight for unii recognition. ^ of such advanced years as Mrs. Annie Morrison offer in response to inquiries Among the suggestions offered by this centenarian daughter of the Scottish highlands, is hard work and regular and adequate slee hours. Sleep eight hours a day, she : suggests. In this age at turmoil and rush, it is to be feared this good habit is neglected by many. -- Regina Leader-Post. REAL HEADLINERS Papa and Ma|ma Dionne make brave efforts to keep in the headlines but when all is said and done there is more excitement over the first tooth in a quintuplet's gum than in all the doing of their parents.--Edmonton Journal. THE EMPIRE IN COLD CASH. The loss of India would be even more serious than the loss of the Great War would have been. In one way or another it would deprive this country of something between £40,-000,000 and £60,000,000 yearly, which "represents the profits of Great Britain's association with India. It is only with the aid of such income that we are able to meet our over-seas bill for food.--London Daily Mail. sity was 1.15 persons a room, 93 died. Who will defend this?--London Daily Herald. PREPARING FOR THE JUBILEE. And the news which was published last week from Yorkshire helped to show the progress that is being made with the scheme for the chains of beacons to be lit by the Boy Scouts on high land all over the British Isles half an hour after sunset on Jubilee Day. Once and for all, Mac-aulay has sung of the beacons springing from end to end of the country. They will spring again next May as they sprang on that summer night in 1588; but the cause will not be wrath and fear, it will be joy and good will. All true expressions of that joy and good will are to be welcomed; but all will be incomplete without the best, which is the least spectacular of all; and that is a contribution to the well-being of the King's people --by choice through the National Jubilee Thankoffering.--London Times TOPSOIL CAN BE RESTORED Slow Process--Air, Sunshine, Fishworms Are Factors in the Estimates for- fence Services it can nied that millionairea are uoc.i Death duties alone last year yielq* £75,488,476--more than enough to pay the country's education bill. Of this sum nearly £13,000,000 from the £26,000,000 estate of the late Sir John Ellertnan. However, much wealth a man or a family may amass, most of it comes back to the public funds in two or three generations--Manchester Sunday Chronicle. HOUSING AND HEALTH. A couple of documents are just published which are worth the attention of good citizens. The first is the annual report on the Army. It reveals that only about a third of the applicants for the Army were accepted. Bad health was the main reason for rejection. The second is the third volume of the Registrar-General's Statistical Review for 1932. It shows that bad health is directly related to economic position, and that the inequality which disfigures the community extends even into the chance each individual has of keeping alive and fit. Of every 1,000 children born in areas where the density was 0.7 persons per room, 58 died before their first birthday. Where the den- This means literally that just plain air and sunshine turn into dirt-- converted by the action of plants. The process is slow but can be seen and measured in a human lifetime. Some studies proving this have been made in the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. Prof. S. 0. Heiberg has samples of soil showing the whole process, both destruction and replacement, as it took place in New York State. The most dramatic exhibit shows the work of the "Builder-Upper," the o.v.nribution of air and sunshine. This is soil from the oldest plantation in New York State, the Wood-gate Place, at White Lake. The soil from that place is laid out in a panel, cross-sectioned, to a depth of about two feet. Various layers show what happened to that soil for more than a century. For the last 60 years it has been forest. In that period the topsoil has built up by depths of one to two inches. This build-up is plant decay. The decay is not primarily the nutrients already in the soil which were drawn up through the plant roots. Ten per cent, of the new soil is that kind. Ninety per cent, of the new top-soil is actually air and sunshine converted into loam. This 90 per cent, is carbon extracted from the air by plants in breathing carbon dioxide. Under the influence of light, the plants change the carbon dioxide chemically into starches and sugars. They also use a little of the other elements from the air. The light's energy passes into the sugars and starches, and remains there. Professor Heiberg's studies show that fishworms may be the most important factor in restoring fertility to a denuded soil, provided nature's other agencies are given an opportunity to replenish the lost organic and other soil materials. Fishworms churn and mix the soil better than steam shovels. They may turn over annually something like 15 tons of soil an acre, where conditions are right for their work. HARNESS WINDS Tests Made With Windmills In Northern Russia the tundra seems particularly un promising for wind power becaus< of the severe conditions that mus be faced. Moving parts, except th« vanes, must be protected; the driv ing mechanism must be stout enougj to withstand blizzards; repairs ar» sometimes impossible to make »* Winter. Six years ago an engineering ex pedition set up an experimental windmill in Novaya Zembla. Th« mechanism had two vanes, each 3.2? meters (10.76 ft.) in diameter Enough electric energy was gener ated and stored for a radio station and for electric illumination. Tw< years ago the biological station on the Murmansk coast was supplied with a windmill eight meters (26.24 feet) in diameter. It is said that the energy generated was fed directly into a transmission line, although it is not revealed how voltages were maintained and interruptions of service avoided in periods of calm. With these successes to its credil the Central Institute proceeded to design a still larger windmill--one with three vanes twelve meters (39.36 feet) in diameter. With this plant 580 kilowatt-hours are tf be supplied in June and 875 in December. The cost of the energy is said to be about 7 cents a kilowatt-hour. While this seems comparabl< with the household rate charged bj highly efficient central station com. panies in large American cities, M must not be taken too seriously, Cost accounting in Soviet Russia il not what it is in capitalistic coun- Po.sibiIit.es of the Plan High runs the hope that galea will develop the resources of the North. Fishing smacks with electric motors and lights are to charge their batteries at shore stations. Ther« are plans for a factory at Kildinsk to extract iodine from sea-weed. Wind-electric sawmills are to b« erected in the forests south of the tundra. After having demonstrated expert-mentally that strawberries, onions, cucumbers and other scurvy-pre< venting fruits and vegetables can be grown under ultra-violet light, Professor N. A. Artemyev of the Moscow Agricultural Academy indulges in visions of electrically operated truck farms in a northern wilderness where only tough lichens nowl flourish. The crowning touch is a! picture of electrically illuminated, igloos so fascinating to nomadic] tribes that they will settle down and) enjoy the blessings of stable govern-1 ment. ----......._ the dreary tundra ^* Geologists have reported that beneath that waste, covered only with lichens, are rich stores of coal and peat- But mining seemed a hopeless undertaking. How are coal and peat to be transported in the ab-nce of a railroad? Soviet engineers of the Central Institute for Wind Energy at Mos-have reached the conclusion that the windmill may solve the problems thus presented. At Moscow the average velocity of the wind is only four meters (13.12 feet) a second, but north of Latitude 62 degrees it is twice as high. Moreover, the tundra are fairly constant and particularly strong during the long, cold Arctic night, precisely the period when the sparse population of the tundra takes to its huts and cowers there in the gloom. So the experiment of developing the tundra with windmills is to be made. Experiment With Windmills Fortunes have been lost in vain attempts to couple windmills to electric generators in the hope of charging storage batteries and thus tapping an inexhaustible source of energy at low co?t. The outlook in Fashion and Potatoes The slump of the potato market is blamed by some as the direct result of dieting by women on a large scale. They have read that potatoes1 .9mmmtjt//t rjow potatoes areTESnned from the diet of man who is making a slave of her-' self for Dame Fashion. Life among certain groups of people is just one long controversy over'i balanced ration, proteins and carbo-hydrates, and this will go on and on1 while Fashion dictates the type of figure that is in style. And Dame' Fashion, if we can believe the designers who pretend to be on the inside, insists that there is but one type of figure--the one you see ia] women's magazines. And the worst] of it is that many women, old enough! to know better, prefer to believe iti] with the result that they diet and drug themselves in an effort td; change the dimensions Mother Nature ordained for them. PRETTY SMOOTH Fergus News-Record The palm for this week's basis, simile goes to Art Wesley, of tJiC Walkerton Herald-Times, who d«j scribes a burglar entering a local hotel beverage room "noiselessly afc an eel slipping through a barrel of oil." *NAI!£"TY MARIETTA' The Princess Marie runs away from her cruel Uncle,~ the Prince, and her aged suitor, Don Carlos. Dis-I guised as her own maid, Marietta, she is going to sail to Louisiana with the Casquette girls who are to marry the French colonists. But on her way to the boat she is frightened on seeing a poster announcing a large reward for any information concerning her whereabouts. Marie reaches t£e boat and mingles with the other' girls. But before they sail the police board the ship.' They are looking for the Princess. Quaking inwardly she allows them to examine her passport and credentials. They glance around suspiciously. To seem more convincing, Marie asks another girl for some bread, then stuffs it in her mouth and eats it in a course ill-bred manner. The police leave and the ship gets under way with sails full-spread, while everyone aboard sings a rousing embarkation song. The days pass pleasantly as the boat sails over the white-capped waves and Marie makes friends with all the girls. At night she sings to them and they listen for hours, entranced. Soon the day arrives when their destination is in sight One night as they sail along the Louisiana coast, a mile from shore, a shrill cry rends the air. It is the Lookout For, paddling furiously toward them HI the path of the moonlight, are a number of sailing skiffs-iS//e<f with pirates. What will they do? Has Marie escaped from one danger to fall into another?, Don't miss tomorrow's exciting installment of ' Naughty Marietta."