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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE ONT- THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1935 CANADA THE EMPIRE ^\%tQ&* THE WORLD AT LARGE RELIEF FIGURES INDICATE IMPROVED CONDITIONS Welfare Commissioner A. W. leaver u-:ed to report that Toronto lad 30,000 families on full relief. He low states that the number of fain-sing by week ; : the pa; decli For the week ending July 6th e was 19,177 families. Last year 3 of the deci better than ind that they have t'e I and other relief pn e than they had soi i keep the appli :hcse experiences of irs are most reassr recovery from the < have already been closed. Now- be, cause of a temporary situation, i because the bankers have dared rub him the wrong way, he makes a complete right-about-face, and proposes to establish fifty more savings offices. By doing this the prime hopes t0 secure the money needed to finance the province. But it be a long-drawn out problem to tablish these branches and to interest the people in putting their money into them. It may be a different process getting the money at all, and meanwhile, the province must be financed. Further, the cost of establishing these offices, paying their overhead expenses and the salaries, is liable to be rather high n proportio t0 the ! in them timate fate of these of offices. Week. The aid. l for announcing far ahead is that it folk about that long to -Stratford Beacon-Her- JAIL THE RED LEADERS. The Communist leaders of the 3,-000 relief strikers at Regina, Saskatchewan, made good their boast treet of Reg ild be ed Tho 1 has i vounded, while the strikers numerous casualties, ions have certainly reached The on'y method of spiking t guns is by imprisonment of the 1 ing agitators and it is gratifying indue Evai the ogles had i mier Bennett ' liar" during their recent intervie at Ottawa. There should be no reason f ■such demonstrations in Canada ; the Regina outbreak. It is true the are thousands of men out of wo: and in an indigent condition, b it is also true that federal and pr that no its and Le will be without the i sities of life. Hundreds of mi of dollars from the public treas have been poured into the task, by Pre the w< lated b ler Bennett i all those in H7PBURN'S COSTLY POLICY Premier Hepburn's decision to es-tabll.h, at once, a chain of some 50 branches of the Government Savings Department all over the province to offset the refusal of the financial houses to tender for toe government's $15,000,000 bond issue, is quite characteristic of him. It looks like a decision made on a snap judg- without thinking the matter through to a logical conclusion. Soon after he became prime minister, Premier Hepburn intimated that the government savings offices md because no further need of them existed. Some be elin elled the premier to decide to establish them, is a temporary one. it will blow over, and the financing of the province will be restored to normal lines. The need for the chain of savings offices will then ceas. exist, but there they will be, a string of white elephants spread over province of Ontario because of snap decision made in the heat the moment. It would be well, this subject, if Premier Hepburn were to adopt the Asquithian policy of "Wait and See' before plungi] into a scheme which before long will prove to have been very ill-advised.--Oshawa Times. SOLOMON KNEW. New York records a great increase in the number 'of young children, running away from their homes or involved in juvenile delinquencies-Solomon said something agout sparing bhe rod and spoiling the child and he knew a thing or two about handling a large household.--Brant-ford Expositor. WE ARE MORE POLITE. Oakland, California, woman tells the judge she saw her husband only r.;...- tlm*» -- tho a„y tioy met. tho (lay before they were married, and the day after they were married. Up here most bridegrooms don't go back to golf until along about the third or fourth week.--Windsor Star. NOISY STREET CARS If local transportation companies wish to commend their street cars to the public, one of the things they will have to do is to reduce the noise of the cars. The buses have it on the street cars in this respect. The Ottawa Journal recently commended the improvement in the service of the street railway company of that city, but it said that the cars were very noisy. To whioh the man-ager of the company renlied that the noisy than those in Hull, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and Brantford, according to tests on a noise-recording contrivance which measures the noise in decibels--whatever they are. We should like to see the contraption for recording noise used in Winnipeg. It should not be necessary to suspend conversation while walking along Portage avenue until a street car passes--as it is neces- The noise created by a street car depends on the condition ot the car and on the condition of the track. It either becomes out of repair, then the ears of the people are more vigorously assaulted. If there is an improvement in both cars and track, greatly reduced. health of the people- The Miniature Motorboat Controlled By Radio We don't know whether Miss Elsie Hobart is saying "Eureka" or just stretching from the fatiguing job of painting the miniature boat which Victor Carp started stopped and steeled entirely by radio control. The craft, 40 inches long, made a speed of two and a half knots during the demonstration. "SPHf vail and he that loveth and maketn a lie should gain credence. The ish Army has a magnificent record, but the young army of Anzdac withstand comparison with any BriLj ish force of the past. It is difficult t0 overpraise the troops of Anzac. For it is the simple truth to saj in essential qualities no more cient army was ever put in the field by any country in the world. ■ Australasian. A LESSON LEARNED? There has been in certain sections' of the native press a violent protest against what is described as a built, ding-up of British influence in ■ affairs of Egypt by an increase British personnel. The argument offered that the payment millions ,t the payment ot sevef l the way of compensa: tion for British officials who were dismissed was considered at the time to be cheap for a good riddance. None of the scribes admits that this mea-s sure was brought about by a disgraceful scramble for office on the part of Egyptians who considered themselves fully qualified to run th^ machinery of government. That th"^ were not fit for their jobs was || tastefully demonstrated by the »nl suing years of chaos. Things have been getting so bad thatleveljia The Week In Ottawa Ottawa--Any doubt that Prime Minister R. B. Bennett would lead the Conservative forces in the coming Dominion election was effective-fly dispelled on Friday last when following a party caucus held a few 'hours prior, to prorogation of Parlia-lent, the official announcement was ade that the Prime Minister would fead his forces into battle. The Minister personally told his followers in their final get-together in| before they scattered to their homes demanded that British efficien. fairness and genius should be ed to the direction of affairs are the days when sound-Egyptians have brought political leaders that the swim prosperity can only be with the t current of Great Britain, and against it. Hence the ti that is at present in England. --1 Sphinx, Cairo. to prepare for the campaign that h< fit and ready for battle and indicated to them his plans which will lminate in the appeal to the peo-e. Mr. Bennett will take a short holiday, following which he will return to the Capital, announce to the people the revised personnel of his cabinet as well as the date of the election. / In contrast to the stormy scenes Which have marked some of the ses-of the seventeenth Parliament, id fin; The bonus will be paid out of a $1,000,000 fund which the House of Commons passed. A national highway programme of considerable importance to Ontario has been agreed on between the provincial and federal governments whereby the sum of $9,512,500 will be expended on the Trans-Canada highway. The Dominion government will pay 50 per cent, of the cost, or $4,756,250. The sections of the highway, mileage, total cost and Dominion contribution follow: Schreiber to Nipigon River,-70-$5,30,000-$265,000; Nipigon River to Port Arthur-65-$76,000-$38,250; Fort William to English River-114-$265,000-$132,500; English River to Dyment-75-$299,-000-$149,500; Dyment to Vernullion Bay-60-f 1,350,000-$675,000; Vernullion to Kenora-60-$783,000-$302,500; Kenora to Keewatin-6-$G05,000-$203,-500; Keewatin to Dog Farm-ll-$200,000-$100,000; Dog Farm to Manitoba Boundary-ll-$50,000-$25,-000; Penmbroke to North Bay-126-?185,000-$92,500; Schreiber to White AGRICULTURE IN THE SCHOOLS "A good deal of thought has been been given in past years to the kind) of education in agriculture which cah best be introduced into school curriculum" Dr. R. C. Wallace, President, University of Alberta, told the' 15th convention of the Canadian So-j ciety of Technical Agriculturists as-; sembled at Edmonton. It must bei frankly admitted at the outset, he said, that relatively little success had1 attended the efforts of those who are] concerned with school education in' the teaching of agriculture. The for-! mal agriculture of Grade IX and X of. the high school had on the whole; not achieved what was expected of. it; and the school garden, so enthusi-0 astically proclaimed thirty years ago,> cannot be seen in Western Canada today. It would take them too far afield* to discuss all the underlying diffi-j culties, lack of trained teachers, discontinuity of schol life during the growing season, and the rest. This,1 however, had been learned that iri] public and high school it was the' science and not the art of a vocation; that could (be taught successfully.1 For that reason, said Dr. Wallace,, he was of opinion that successful] work in agriculture in the public arid! high school will come incidentally to the study of natural science. If the applications of the prin-, ciples of science were continuously^ made in plant and animal processes, in weather lore, and in soil processes, interest in agriculture and in ag~-j ricultural procedure would grow na-| turally out of the underlying scientific principles which have universal] application; and the teacher would; not be placed in the compromising, position of posing, unwillingly, as an> expert in a field where, he or she was not accepted. That would be, he felt, the emphasis for the future. I On the other hand, there had been real success in boys' and girls' club, work, and in school fairs in which' agricultural projects had played their( part, mainly because the activities were extra-curricular and conducted in the realistic atmosphere of the, farm with the help of trained district; agriculturists. In so far as these proj jects were honestly carried out by. the young people themselves, th%f were the soundest accomplishment! which had yet been achieved in tn> vocational activity in agriculture O* school-age boys and girls. The sy#» tern did not as yet, unfortunately/ reach all schools and all school child-' .n the rural districts. City i the j I the the strai 3 Of St Tilt Fertilizer Trials With reference to trials of <vya mide and other nitrogenous ger: zers on arable crops, Dr. E. M. Cr ther of the Rothamsted Experim tal Station describes in the latest sue of the Empire Journal of Exp mental Agriculture (No. 10, 1935) results of 22 field trials at Roth sted and other centres on the eif< of calcium cyanamide and sulphate on spring barley, potai and sugar-beet. These fertilizers g similar yield increases in 11 of 15 experiments in which there v Ignificant responses to added n! en, and cyanamide was less effic than ammonium sulphate in the o' four. In five experiments at Rotham: l Winter cereals there was no iL difference between autumn and ;sp jssings of nitrogenous between the two above named zers, except that when repe small applications were made df> winter and spring, the cyana was inferior. -THE EMPIRE THE OLD GROUCH. Sir: May I ask the railway companies to have carriages reserved for men only--in the same way as others are labelled for women only? It is intolerable to have to travel on a long (or even a short) journey with a lot of giggling women and children. Men may be garrulous, but women are far worse.--Letter in the London Daily Mail. THE GLORY OF AUSTRALIA- What manner of men were those who stormed the heights of Anzac? It behooves to ask this question, and raswer it today, lest we forget, what now we cherish--lest in an age of sophisters and calculators our p61-icy of the poltroon should yet pre- Doug To Join Lady Syl FAIRBANKS PLANS FLIG NEW YORK; MARY MAY]j GO ALONG c Hollywood, Calif.--Douglas l banks Sr., planned to leave her{ air for New York and an earlj union with Lady Sylvia Ashley^ Accompanied by five motion , ture associates--one of whom ma his. ex-wife, Mary Pickford-Fairbi was to attend to business in the. and board the liner Empress of ain for England. [ Lady Ashley, now bee from Vancouver, B.C., where" stayed recently while the actor here, has also arranged to sail. While the names of Fairbank f companions were kept -- ence Ericson, his manager, de* £5 he was "positive" Miss Piekfoi| ^ not one of the group. "Property ownership is a r and inalienable right which - g ment can neither desfroy nor --Jouett Shouse.