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CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA CROSSING CRASHES In spite of repeated warnings t are still many autoists who defy trains. Racing to the crossing has not yet become an unknown sport. It should be remembered that engineers are never killed through a lision with an automobile. Chatham N GOOD ADVICE A driver was swatting a bee that riew through his window; his car struck a pedestrian, and York Township police decided to lay a charge of reckless driving. The bee can .scarcely be prosecuted as an accessory before the fact, but the occurrence offers warning to other motorists. If and when a bee creates a nuisance, bring your aut0 to a hault before taking action to get rid of him. --Windsor Daily Star. TAKE A CHANCE -The cars that are annually wrecked in accidents and go to the junkman in the U. S. and Canada wou'd make a solid line up from Toronto to Montreal if a compilation is correct that about 100,000 cars are The junkman's sign at a railway crossing: "Go ahead and take a chance; I'll buy the junk," was justified. No fact is clearer than that our roads are a menace to lite. The pedestrian suffers most. The reckless fast drivers--of which youth furnishes an indue part--cannot be eliminated .by the present regulations. The efforts to make the roads safe have resulted in a ghastly failure. When the authorities stop paltering with the slaughter, drivers will begin to realize that each one of them drives a potential death ma-chine. --Sault Star. SPEND MOST ON CARS -It takes $50,000,000 more to keep feminine Canada dressed up than it does the men folk of the Dominion. The latest figuring shows that retail sales of women's apparel and children's wear in a year were $197,000,000, whereas the clothing of men and boys cost only $143,000,-000. The Canadian people, spend more in a year on automobiles than they do en clothing for the bill ran up to $347,000,000 or $17,000,000 more Plug- rons who, by simp!; > the language they vill be enabled to enjoy the i the full. --Quebec Chronicle-Telegi tha dili'eiv: in the de- patronize the men's furnishing stores far iy do the departmental favoi s in i USE LICENSE PLATES COSTLY STRIKE ---It cost the Saskatchewan and Dominion Governments some $40,-000 to pay for the stay of relief camp strikers in Saskatchewan. Most of the bills were incurred in Regina, where the riot resulted in one policeman being beaten to death. The Federal Government's share was $10,000 to pay for expenses during the time a delegation went to Ottawa to interview the Government. The rest of the bill was apportioned. Saskatchewan to pay for meals, ! cost for transportation alone ics to $20,930. ut that is just the monetary cost of the relief camp strike. The value of the life of the dead policeman cannot be computed in dollars'and cents. 'Neither can there be placed valuation on the wounds and in-•ies to thousands of hearts and bodies. Those are things that make :>il the minds and which cannot be erased by money. --Windsor Star. WAR DECLARED Vancouver Island's public Enemy No. 1 is the earwig. This pestiferous insect took up its dence here about 20 years ago and has left a swarm of descendants which have been playing havoc with very form of vegetation. They have s-vied tribute upon plants and vege-tables with as little discrimination Chicago gangster leader showed in his predacious activities. But just as the depredations of the gang, ster reached a point which forced the law authorities to devise agencies for his destruction, so the earwig has caused the mobilization of defensive measures which in time it is hoped will put an end to its destructive operations. --Victoria Times. CANADIAN PIONEERS Canadians are reminded that the Hudson's Bay Company has just completed tw0 hundred and sixty-five years of unbroken trading i Dominion by the issue on the part of the company of its first official history since its incorporation 1670. Probably no other comme: organisation in the world has such a record to . show business and imance and history intermingled. For the story of the Dominion. When in 1869, after having contributed more to the upbuilding of the Dominion than any other body, the company yielded some of its charter rights, it had maintained peace throughout the wilderness, established principles of justice and equity, and carried out colossal exploration work. The East India Company alone affords any sort of a parallel in history, and its record was marred by many features which fortunately have not blurred the Hudson's Bay escutcheon. --Montreal Star. "COST OF LIVING" The "Cost of Living" is a vague wide range of definl- [ International Race Annual Event * the c DOWN OWN NECKS But whatever the precise complexion of the next Canadian House of Commons, it will clearly offer little scope to those who believe that in high tariffs and economic nationalism lies the way to a new prosperity for the Dominion. --Manchester Guan THE HORSE IN IRELAND In this country the-fiorse still holds its ground. Between 1924 and 1934 the decrease was only 30,634, or than seven per cent. Motor transport has not developed to the same tent in An Saorstat as across Channel, and, owing to the dissimilarity in economic conditions between the two countries, a big diminution in the number of horses maintained here is improbable. The farmer must always rely on the horse. Holdings are with very few exceptions, too small to bear the expense involved in the purchase and upkeep of tractors. On a co-operative basis farmers may obtain tractors, but it would be extremely difficult to arrange a satisfactory working system as between a multitude, of co-owners. Ireland has established a world-wide reputation for its thoroughbreds and hunters! The .export trade in these animals is a valuable asset. To-meFe-than twenty countries outside the United Kingdom we annually export a considerable number of horses, and not so long ago the value of these exports exceeded £2,000,000 per annum. There should be room for ex-ln this trade. The successes in contests abroad by the National Army ought to serve as a splendid advertisement for horses bred in this country. --Irish Independent, Dublin. achioi Hair Styles Light Traps Beetles There are so many different ways of dealing with the hair question just now that it is not easy to be definite about the most usual trend. The parting may be down the centre front,!; and sometimes down the centre back as well, on the right, on the left, or at an angle across one side of the top of the head. When a parting is low on one side, the hair is often carried very smoothly across the top of the head, permitting no curls or waves till the sides and back, though there may be a fringe on one side of the forehead. On the whole, the tendency is to dress the front of the head simply, to draw the hair towards the back, and to burst into curls or deep wave high up across the back. Nearly every woman shows at least part of her ears. Everyone whose hair grows naturally in a widow's peak is encouraged by knowledgeable hair-dressers to emphasize it. And, whether the parting is in the centre, front or at the sidC whether there are or are not masjjg of curls at the back < jg^^^front, the hair line is made "^^r«fe7inite at one poin The last detail is probably c< quent on the back-from-the-face hat and all its sisters and cousins which f a good deal of the brow. Underfed Children and Overfed Adults In Great Britain UED TALKIE in English at a third, iply by switching the Din language to lang- tions. To r ing equals the i cheques, in spite of the firmest resolutions to budget and put something by for a rainy day. --St. Catharines Standard THE EMPIRE THE T. B. SCOURGE A speaker at the Royal Sanitary Health Institute Congress, at Bournemouth, recently pointed out that five times as many people die of tuberculosis as are killed on the roads. I ups and) That is true, and it is a reproach to I children ' the nation. A concerted attack on tuberculosis would practically wipe it out. It is largely, a disease of poverty, of ■malnutrition, of overcrowding, of unclean milk. Give everybody decent homes, adequate nourishment and open-air activities and the disease would soon become as rare as leprosy. --London Daily Herald. CANADA AND ECONOMIC NATION. ALISM Too much cannot be deduced from Uies. pro result of the Federal general ele< in September, for into that then ter wider issues and a greater plexity of parties. The Co-oper Commonwealth Federation, witl Socialist platform, has already en the field and hopes fifteen member London.--"The Wayfarer", Oman's editor of Overseas, published by the Overseas League, says estimated that one per cent c children in Great Britain ai underfed. does not sound a high pet centage; it is not, but no childre should be underfed in a country such as ours," the writer says, should like to know what the centage of wrongly fed people i hazard the suggestion that i probably about 90 per cent. T are still too many underfed child-) many overfed gr< n-se still, far too many •ngly grown-ups who being wrongly fed altogether. "We are making headway but I grow more and more puzzled at the inertia and lack of intelligence my own sex. Why is it, that on | whole, the British are such poor I housewives. There is no greater slur en us as a people than that housekeeping should be a by-word among foreigners. We bring up .children well, sensibly, scientificaily I and affectionately, but we i neither economical nor instructed matters pertaining to food s houses. Why? No doubt there ; various reasons, but none ot them i are, I am afraid, greatly to our I credit. | A Swedish friend tells me that in | Sweden even if the boys are taught I to cook. That is as it should be. Cooking, if not a highly skilled pro-at least be a fascinating , and who the last Parliament. The Recon- fessjon ructionists, led by Mr. Bennett's 1 recreation, rmcr Minister of Trade, Mr. Stev- j «If fruit ;s „.00(, f( is, are a new and incalculable fact- can deny jts heaIth va]ue> then w , fightng a campaign for reform in 1 must be a healthier peopl* jn 103 e methods of conducting big busi-' than we were in li)13> fj,.-we ea ;ss that seems likely to draw ad- double the quantitv of, 0,.an„, srents both from discontented „rape fruit) bananas and 0i]h.,. frui rmservatives and from Liberals. than we di(, then Car Accidents Up 11.2 Percent 176 Fatalities In Ontario ' During The First Six Months Of 1935 Toronto.--An 11.2 per cent, increase in the number of motor vehicle accidents during the first ah months of 1935 compared with the corresponding period in the preceding year, is, reported in a bulletin issued by the motor vehicles branch of the Ontario Department of Highways. There were 4,083 accidents during that period in 1035 and 3.G71 in 1934. For June, accidents for 1935 mounted to 896, a 15.3 per cent, crease over June, 1934. During the same period there were 43 deaths, compared with 42 in the corresponding month of 1934. There were 176 fatal accidents during the six months, with 156 in 1934, 138 in 1033, and 177 in 1932. Slipping Paris. -- Paris dressmakers have turned their attention to the troublesome problem of waistlines. The waistlines of winter garments slipped a notch lower. One design-dropped belts about an inch below normal on day attire. Others displayed frocks designed without front belts and with lowered incrustations an inch above the hip bones. They gave the effect of indefinite waistlines. Some clung stubbornly to the natural line but Vera Borea went in other direction, pulling waistlines up one to two inches above normal by means of wide belts. The appearance of trousered afternoon dresses set buyers talking and. pushed the problem of skirt lengths into a back seat, although designers showed skirts as high as inches from the floor. The lsered* skirts had a slender top ■t slit to the waist, disclosing the lsers beneath and some of them several inches of trouser leg appear below the" skirt hem. A New Device Used To Kill Off A Baneful Asiatic Insect "Killing the brown Asiatic beetle is like trying to drown a fish," says a Westinghouse engineer, Samuel G. Hibben. The reason is that the beetle digs into the ground in daytime and comes out at night to devour foliage. The beetle, no bigger than a coffee bean, probably came to this country in the roots of the Japanese iris or of some similar plant. Poisons have thus far proved ineffective in stopping its depredations. So the Westinghouse engineers and the entomologists of the Department of Agriculture decided to lure it with light into traps. Research showed that the best kind of light was the purplish glow that comes from a special mercury vapor lamp. It is rich in ultraviolet rays, which seem to be especially alluring to the insects. On the grounds of a country club near Springfield, N.J., as many as 36,000 beetles were thus trapped in a night. The bugs are attracted by the glow, fly around it, collide witl baffle plates and fall, stunned, through a funnel into a jar. Such is the rain of beetles that the trapped cannot fly out against it. Besides, the mouth of the jar is small and the beetle is none too intelligent, judged by human stand- What the late Professor jacques Loeb called heliotropism is involved. Light does not actually attract moths and other insects, he showed. It acts on the motor nerves, paralyzes them peculiarly and thus makes flight impossible only in the line of the rays. Many insects are affected in this manner. The real problem is therefore to develop a glow which will cripple the harmful rather than the beneficial insects. Apparently that problem has been solved satisfactorily for the destruction of the Japanese beetle. Sauerkraut: for high biood pres- Tomatoes: for bile, rheumatism,' and liver troubles. Unpolished rice: for body build-1 Vermicelli: for gaining weight Watercress: for skin troubles. X Y and Z for health, spend a daf once a month in bed. ABC of Health Hie Medicinal Value Of Certain Foods Certain foods possess the natural organic chemicals necessary for the prevention and treatment of dis-and may be included in the everyday diet. The following is a lift of such foods with their medi-inal value: Apples: for indigestion and constipation. trouble. Carrots: for nerves and purifying the blood. Dates: for under-nourishment. Eggs: for bone and muscle build- Rice and Japan's Economic Life In view of the prolonged negoia-tions between Canada and Japan, the following extract Ion the Japanese, economic conditions of agriculture from the 1933-34 report of the InterJ national Institute of Agriculture may be of interest. It is needless to repeat here, says the report, that the whole of Japanese agriculture rests in quite a particular way on two products only: rice and silk. Although there has been evidence in Japan in recent years of a certain tendency to emerge from the "rice-growing economy" characteristic of its economic structure hitherto, it is unquestionable that rice remains, nevertheless, the most important product of the whole economic life of Japan. It must be added, in order to see the problem more clearly, that when we speak of rice, we mean Japanese rice, that is to say, rice produced in Japan properly so-called. The Japanese people find that foreign rice has not the taste of the home-grown article, and this explains why the production at lower cost of Indo-Chinese or Siamese rice can in no way supplant home-grown rice nor compete with it. Only in famine years, when the price of rice is too high, are the poorer classes of the population constrained to replace home-grown rice by imported rice which, because or its lower price, is within their power to purchase. In recent years the Japanese colonists have succeeded in improving the quality of the rice produced in Korea and Formosa and the pressure of colonial rice production has already begun to be felt on the domestic market. Canadain Ploughs Vs. Ploughs in Cuba The factors which govern the kind of farm implements employed in Cuba differ in many ways from those incountered in Canada. Consequently, n the manufacture of Canadian implements for Cuba, allowance must with respect I for fevers and bladde ing. Figs: for constipation and catarrh. Grapefruit: for liver troubles and cleansing the stomach. Honey: for catarrh and cleansing ;tomach and bowels. Ice Cream: for relieving sore a nflamed throat. Jam: for its fruit value. Kale: for purifying the blood. Lemons: for headaches and red: ng weight. Milk: for gaining weight and m ■le building. Nuts: for body building and as ubstitute for meat. Onions: for colds, nerves, a sleeplessness. Pineapple: for sore throat. Quaissia bark: as a general ton Raisins: for constipation, kidne; and purifying the blood. for slight variations from what are considered standard types the Dominion. The animals used for draught purposes are oxen and a paratively small number ot Cuban can-land throughout a large area, says the Canadian Government Trade Commissioner in Cuba, is equalled in toughness to a very limited degree only in Southern Saskatchewan. In Cuba where the soil is hard-baked by the sun, it can be broken more readily by oxen with their slow but steady and continuous haul. Irrigation is necessary in many parts of the island, especially where potatoes, rice, and tobacco are grown. The distance between furrows and between plants in each furrow and the depth of ploughing differ from Canadian practice. Weeds and other undesirable vegetation in Cuba are vary, heavy and ploughs have to be designed, but a Canadian disc plough re< cently imported, especially built for sugar-cane work, is proving very satisfactory as it has these high-clearance features. It is heavily construct, ed to stand the resistance of deep ploughing in hard cane soil and to withstand the additional rough usaga resulting from contact with tree trunks and roots.