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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, CJSORNE ONT. THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1935_ CANADA THE EMPIRE -- -- ^ THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA &.YING BY CHEQUE. » by the amount ot cheque-against individual bank ac-anadians are great cheque -xplicit a result th remitting , total paym during 193 Canada W if Canadian bankina insli-he confidence which Can-9 enjoy has been aug'men-fact that no bank failures the Dominion during the d-wide depression, and as 3 pay-by-cheque method of ayments is used almost Over 90 per cent, of the >nts of accounts in Canada : were made by cheque -- >ek by Week. k HOPE FOR THE FUTURE being realized they have a vital influence on mental capacity, on wheth. er we are tall or short, stout or thin, and in various ways they almost govern our existence. What doctors know today is as nothing compared with what they may know ten or twenty years hence, and it may be that by controlling the glands, extracting the bad juices and by Injecting new ones, a pretty near perfect race will be developed, physically, mentally and morally.--St. Thomas Times- PRISONER ROBBED A lone prisoner in the city hall at Crane, Mo., alarmed the citizens in the middle of the night by dashing into the street and shouting, "A cop! a cop!" It developed that the marshal had not locked the jail door and a thief entered and robbed the inmate of $17. Jail are made to keep offenders in, but the jailers should also see to it that no rogue be permitted to enter unless duly tried and sentenced by court. That is only fair to the legitimate residents--Montreal UNIVERSITY FEES. * While there will naturally be some regret that the Ontario Government has found it necessary to cut the grants to the universities of the province, there can be little criticism of ■ bo decision .,f ^ i\u- ^yuij ..j-sit y,y;iij.y)g-lng the fees. This is a step which might well kave been taken earlier. The cost of university education in Ontario is low es compared with costs in many other countries. It is not reasonable that the taxpayer.-, in general should pay a s much as they have been paying of the cost of such education for the relatively limited proportion of the population which takes advantage of our facilities for university educa- air that the people w t benefit should foot BACK TO THE FARM !5 to 30 sleep. some nights, belief that the ly refuse to go em boast ins of by" without OOKS LIKE SHOWDOWN. Mr. Boone intends to I jrk Legislature's bill v, i gatherings of three o A campaign is like measure rainst i ' Michigan. sought after tonic betimes, but many persons unassociated with the cult will not agree that "one million nudists can't be wrong."--Border Cities Star. EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS A curious fact given in the April issue of the Canadian Geographical Journal is that no authentic portraits have survived of any of the early French explorers of Canada. Of the several pictures thai are supposed to represent the features ot Champlain, not one is accepted today by scholars as undoubtedly a true likeness. There are several pictures and statues of La Verendrye, but they are all imaginary portraits. In his case there is nothing in his his contemporai what manner of cally, though or the i suggest hi gath of his character. It is stilt a question if there is a genuine portrait of La Salle ;and it is certain that there is hone of Marquette, Joliet, Radison, Nicolet, Dul-hut, Allouez, or any of the other early discoverers of Canada. In the March issue of the Journal Major Lanctot showed that not one of six representations of Jacques Cartier can be accepted as genuine.--Toronto Mail and Empire. THE BOOK SURVIVES Another thing that militates against the book is, strange to say, its permanence. The candles, the luxurious meals, are eaten and forgotten. The trip comes to an end, and the expense is forgotten. The cigars and cigarettes are smoked and t.he cost passes into oblivion in the same way. The costly dress wears out. But the flnqk remains on the shelf year after year, a mute witness to supposed extravagance. -- London Adver- Antidotes Are Widely Used Indianapolis Discoveries Do Much To Help In Poisonings Antidotes for strychnine, cyanide and bichloride poisonings have been developed in the last two years by the research department of the Inl dianapolis City Hospital and put into general use in emergency ambulances throughout the United States. The antidotes were developed as part of the planned program of the hospital's research department, Charles W. Myers, superintendent said. The antidotes have proved suc-ssful in recent emergencies. Four persons have been saved after taking cyanide poison. Two others who took strychnine were successfully treated. No cases of persons taking bichloride poison have been reported. All the antidotes are given intravenously, Mr. Myers said, and the effect on the patient is instant and marked. HOUSES 12c A WEEK Houses of the three-bedroom typo, with good fittings, bathroom, electric light and cooking and large gardens, are being built in Welwyn Garden City, and, without any Government subsidy, they will be let at 12s per week. The municipality will put up 80 of these houses, while another 50 of a slightly superior quality, though ot the same general type, are being j a „.,.:,, u , built to let at a few shillings more A8nCultl a week by private enterprise with the aid of loans from the Council.-- Industrial Britain. The first passengers oi he new through to England arrived recent Imperial Airways Hi buim, the first passengers, infant. The Hepbur ture which Ceyloi Colombo. In the thai. A PEACE AGENCY opinion of "Ralph CoJ,or>" as expressed t0 an Auckland ence the other evening, the must either make the League tions a success or prepare for j u terrible war than ever. It is the alternative should be put pliatically, and the plain the need to make the Leagm cess is as important that between its efficiency and into a war of the first magnlj present generation stands, should be given full wefj| League is the chief a bulwark of peace, yi support of all folk of sure_its-.standin&. these ideas it is from Australia at Croydon Airfield, London, on an picture hows Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hep-their arrival with their n Scotland. lonths-old PUNCTUALITY, AND SOME PROFESSORS A classic story circles concerns profess dislikes stances. Checking Babies For Varied Types "est. Applied by New York kgency to Provide Better Selection York. -- One of the first, adoption agencies to use psychologi-1 cal tests on babies was the Child Placing Adoption Committee of the State Charities Aid Association, which began, three years ago, to test each baby to i-nd out the probable development ren might have a type of home he first to given 335. that the child-chance to get the hieh their mentali- mited them. This agency, oi use mental tests, psychological examinations to babies, testing them with blocks and bells and moving things. Many of these babies have been given two or thiee tests to find otrc the rate of progress they made under good conditions of care. In some cases it has been found that the retardation in children, as shown by the tesfs, was the result of inadequate care, and. when the difficulties under which the child was growing were corrected, the mental rating was increased. Although the psychologist at tims is in general situation, largely Ul cxaminatii do. control of the, _.. ital tests consist' letting the child under do what he wants to How Much Do We Eat? Harnessing The Thames River LONDON,--For miles the tidefr ^ards of sixtey the North Sea , up the Thames as far as Ted-dington Lock twice in twenty-four hours With it g0 hundreds of laden barges to various riverside wharves. It is now seriously proposed to con-a barrage or weir near London which would effectually check tide at that point, and above It *eep the river at a constant, or very slightly varying level. A huge lock, eral locks would be required to barges, tugs, and other craft to dwell. Unless this be rea,ize(i as «>i convincingly true, t>leVe can De nr«-thusiasm for the second .--AWgkl N.Z., Weekly News. SOUND AND DISTANCE It, was found during the war the firing on the Western Front c be heard in this country only in i nier, and at like distances in G vinter. This altf hich was very consistent, the change of the preva n the upper atmosphere it of 12 miles the wind was connected with the great the changes of temperature mrse of, the year in the up- IN EGYPT, TOO Fairs Forced To Drop Bands Society Aide Says $10 Copyright ' Fee Too High Toronto--Small town fairs cannot -tand the imposition of a $10 fee by 1 ! the Canadian Performing Rights Society because the village band plays for three or four hours, J. A. Carroll, provincial superintendent of agricultural and horticultural societies, told Judge Parker recently, during the probe of the society's activities. "We sent out a questionnaire to all societies regarding this society when the inquiry was announced," he explained. "We find that since the Copyright Act was amended in 1931 quite a number of them have been asked to take out licenses, mostly in Central and Southwestern Ontario," "Because of the $10 fee asked of one-day fairs, the Thorold society had to dispense with their band. The Marmora society had eliminated, its entertainment, because they had been "pressed" to take out a license for ; hall. a $10 fee is a serious matter of these agricultural fairs," said Mr. Carroll. "All of them exist only by the aid of public assistance; so if 'any license is imposed on them, the money for it will have to come from the public purse." , as they would be r of the river's ebb and appearance of the river proved by the disappear-nud-banks. Furthermore, [Id be able to lie along-loading and un- Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race would no longer be on the tideway, but thousands of rowing men would find an advantage in the river's constant level_ The barrage, too, would obviate the present risk of another disastrous and fatal flood ithin the London area, since that danger arises only when a very high tide meets a strong (Winnipeg Tribune) a local universit: „ certain energetii still teaching) who lecture under any circum-One late Winter morning he was out taking his usual short cut across the ice-covered Red river when he fell through, close to the ^Thoroughly soaked, he dragged himelf out. Anyone with a care to his health would have gone home and changed his clothes. The dauntless professor, however, continued " ersity. He had time oi before the bell rang to don gown. Standing behind the desk he faced his clas, he lectured for entire period while the water dipped from his clothes and formed pools on the floor. The story is recalled by a letter in the London Times from a former Eton College student. It tells of how floods in November, 1894 made Hugh Macnaghten late, to thi great joy of Eton scholars who considered such an event impossible. Macnaghten was one of the famous masters at the great English school. was soon common know-"that, '"finding ^me*" six*"' inches iaof water outside the house in Weston's Yard, where he then lived, he had been forced to climb along the leads and beat a passage through Observes the St. Thomas Times Journal -- These scientific chaps gets us all tangled up sometimes with their statistical calculations and deductions, but we believe „ red-handed. > Dr Ralph P. Baker, of the Pennsyl-ania Board of Osteopathic Examines is credited with the statement; that in a life span of 50 years tMi ____age person eats tons of food. That is P Just contemplate that all at oncej Picture to yourself your lifetimes supply of food loaded on trucks Taking 70 as the allotted span, that means 14 trucks arriving at yourj door with five tons of foodstuff^ aboard each year for you J yourself with from 1 ^BufDrBakef'must be talking through his hat. Assuming he mean* "short" tons, 2,000 POunds'„not..t^ than 50] ton of food i stuffi "birth to death.1 jf 2,240, that i ; that for every Colors Without Dyes Lessons for the Chemist Seen in Surface Iridescence Birds, butterflies, pearls, the lining of seashells--they owe their iridescence not to dyes but to their peculiarities of surface. Waves of white light fall upon them--waves of many different lengths. The surface reflects them this way and that. They clash. Sometimes there is total extinction indicated by black patterns; .sometimes a few colors are blotted out while others remain in fringes. In all this Dr. R. E. Rose, an industrial chemist of Wilmington, Del., sees a lesson for the chemist of the future. He suggests a new art of coloring- based on interference. "We may render some of our dye,tuffs obsolete by producing color as nature does. It is to be hoped that this may be so, because the purity of Interference of colors is so exquisite that we would be able to enter a new era. Perhaps we can achieve this by a combination of great development in mechanical control and the synthesis of special plastics." Proverbs Of All Nations Po: the tongue on h.--Greek. on't throw away yoi 1 you have new out old shoes --Dutch. The point of the thorn is small, but he who has felt it does not forget it.--Italian. ■ Things past may be repented; but •ailed, " The s West Afrii i the • of torches.-- friends.--Greek. replenished understai Miss Lloyd's bedroom in Savili House. It took some time for her to evacuate the room and allow him to come through the windoww. "Hugh Macnaghten disliked un-punctuality; and it may be of interest to add that at five o'clock school on the p when a well-known member of Donaldson's House arrived minutes late, he asked rather testily, '----, why are you so lateV Even Hugh Macnaghten's anger was turned aside by the soft answer, 'I' sorry, sr. 1 missed the last punt.' Joyous, rollicking stories these, in retrospect. But such is the desire of some persons for punctuality and unblemished record. Being on time is a habit that many others besides traditionally absent-professor might well cultivati > bed. We lo that; t to de day of his life a man consumes more than six pounds of food That * wo ponds weight at each meal with , bit over before going ^ Jefy any human being consistently- We defy a it once a day, even if he went to chicken supper where he could have ... ^.,ould eat>r a quarter, are not authorities on masuby but we believe that Pennsylvania man is at least 50 percent, too high in his calculations. But we agree with him when he says the average human being eats more than is necessary and more than is good for him. Any doctor will say that half the cases that come under his notice are due, in the final analysis, to overeating, mild or serious, and he prescribes a "diet" for the sufferer. As a matter of fact, a live stock breeder takes far more care of the -- -f hut feeding and the " i the iverage i i doe* "The constitution of the United States is one of those documents fbj which everybody is always ready tt die, but very few take the troubM to read while they are still count« among the living.'--Hendrik Willial II Duce's Fist Punctuates A Fiery Speech