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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. THURSDAY, OCT. V7, T93J CANADA THE EMPIRE . ----^ i 1 ^<--■- THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA CANADA ON THE UPGRADE The Bank of Nova Scotia has ii sued a circular comparing business trends in Canada and the United States. The United Statse indices are those of the Fedral Reserv Board; the Canadian indices are based upon data from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Each series has been corrected for seasonal variation. The base of 10 is the monthly average of the period between 1925 and 1929. These figures show that conditions are on the upgrade in both countries, but that Canada is far in the lead towards restoration of conditions bi tween 1925 and 1929. In July of this year the index for employment C?nada was 92.6, while in the United States only 79.9. A year ago the figures for Canada were 87.8, and the Republic 78.9. In other words ■Canada's employment in manufactures is 7.4 points of being norma! as based on the employment of the boom years. Industrial production in Canada almost normal and has reached 96.2 compared with 88.4 in July of a ye ago. The United States figures wc 78.5 in July of this year and 69.4 1934. Revenue, for carloadings i down slightly, but Canada's position is better than the United States. In July the figures were 67.1 in July 1935, as compared with 68 a year ago and the United States 55.6 in July 1934, compared with 58.4 in 1934. --Labor Leader. ROMANCE Leonard Lyons tells the story in the New York Post: Diana Churchill, Winston Churchill's eldest daughter, has just announced her e/.gagement to Duncan Sandys. But there's more to it than a mere matrimonial notice--a story that Hollywood should go for. Sandys ran for office in the last election. Miss Churchill's family opposed his nomination. During the campaign her brother described him as a "political centipede with a foot on every fence." And so they'll be married . . Romance is not dead, despite what English Coats For The Kiddies Hitler Leaves Berlin For Nazi Convention At Nuremberg the pessimistic "realists" tell us. NAMES HAVE CHANGED The St. Mary's Journal-Argus published a picture last week cf a school class of boys and girls of 1870. We read over the names and noted the contrast between then and now. Then there was a predominance of Maggies, two Bellas, one Lizzie, one Jane, one Ruth, one Janet and an Aggie. The very day we read this we read another list of present-day names which were heard called out by a dancing instructress as she addressed her pupils; here they are: Chairmian, Virginia, Lorraine, Juliet, Jennifer, Raine, Celia, Sonia and Caroline. --Wiarton Canadian-Echo. DELICATE QUESTION United States Government will take $6,600,000 of the $12,500,000 estate of the late Edward L. Doheny, soj that a millionaire is not always! ing curve of road acidents has not pleased when the Secretary of the merely been flattened out. It Treasury asks about his health. The been pressed down, despite big minister may have an ulterior motive | creases in the number of licensed and be making up the estimates. vehicles. The Minister of Trans- --Niagara FaSs Review. I port and the Ministry officials - justly - WORK AT HOME Resolution was presented church meeting at Woodstock that should be sent to Rus-e read fhe other day wh l:( took off his coat to save e drowning person and his money was taken; of seven persons in one city accused of fraud against the relief department, and so on. There an few odds and ends which need to attended »d at home before we tackle Russia.--Stratford Beacon-Herald. that the road safety campaign has won a very real initial success, the last 25 weeks the number of juries and deaths respectively w 111,776 and 2,885. In the same p iod ofl934 , injuries totalled 121,052 and deaths 3,474. The steadily NEW TYPES OF PAVEMENT Leeds County is at the present time witnessing the introduction of type of highway surface, formed of mixture of calcium chloride, which, is claimed will, in adition to other advantages, lead to a marked ailment of maintenance costs, a :ideration not to be ignored during this period of necessity for the of the utmost economy in expenditures. Roads of this type have been in succesful use f years in New York state and their practicability in Ontario may be iqually well demonstrated. In Lambton and Simcoe counties roads of yet another new composi-are also being built this year. In these cases, common salt rather than calcium chloride is the ingredi-mixed with gravel and clay. --Brockville Recorder LOOK BEFORE YOU SHOOT It should be the aim of every man who pulls a trigger to take due care to see that so far as he is i ed the hunting season of 1935 will be unmarred by maimings and killings. This requires no extraordinary precaution, and unless this is taken, life is safe for nobody in the woods and any hunter may find himself to his undoing on the wrong end of thi rifle. ---Halifax Chronicle. PERMANENT EMPIRE Regarded as a unit, the Empi: canje through the strain of the War magnificently. As a unit it has come through the strain of the peace beter than the rest of the world. It has been a real League of Nations between whom the possibility of was genuinely ruled out and all of whom accorded general support to one common, and highly pacific, foreign policy. But even in foreign policy large changes with disintegrating possibilities have been made. Canada has its own diplomatic representative in Washington, Ireland in several countries, India has her own trade representative in Germany, and within the Empire her own political representative in South Afri above all there has been no common economic policy. Ottawa represents the first serious attempt to devise one, and in the attempt has exposed the serious weaknesses of the whole situation and the urgent need for permanent machinery for Empire co ltation, the adjustment of ddff< ces, and the pursuit of coram --Calcutta Statesman. mockabout coats for children, ingbones, nubby tweed mix. and neat checks are fa'vour- brol well a: sr of s ^ for the The sleevi . shoulders. And the rest is easy enough to put together. Style No. 3044 is designed for Sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 requires 2% yards of 39-inch material with 1M yards of 35- HOW TO' ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefullv) and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. FISH FROZEN IN ACID Freezing fish in a film of boric acid solution is proving a boom to Canadian shippers of finny foodstuffs. When frozen fish are shipped in an unprotected state, they lose moisture rapidly and the flavor of the fish is impaired. For some time \.1 has been the practice to seal the fish up in a film of ice in order to keep the natural moisture in the flesh. This layer of "glaze" is easily broken in handling, so the method has not been entirely satisfactory. Now chemists at the Canadian VOICE OF THE PRESS fisheries Experimental Station at 'rince Rupert, B.C., have discovered hat a tough "glaze" can be formed ver the fish by freezing a solution of boric acid on them. This boric acid ice does not crack easily and a chip may be broken out of it without injuring the surrounding surface. Very little of the acid penetrates into the fish. The acid also serves to keep down the bacteria, which cause reddening cf the The rac.hol is proving satisfactory. --The Pas Northern Mail. CRANKY STOVE PIPES It's easier to open a tin can than it used to be; they have new devices which take the top out and leave no jagged edge; the cat can stick her greater than the short crop of 1934, head in the tin now with safety. One but 252,892,000 bushels below the five has no more to use a fork, a knife year (1926-1932) average. The pre-and corkscrew to get a bottle of ket- iiminary estimate of 1935 production chup started and the percolator and of winter wheat is 431,709,000 bushels the drip make it unnecessary to drop compared with a production of 405 -an egg in the coffee pot to hold the 552,000 bushels in 1934. grounds at the bottom. But the stove Indicated production of all spring pipes are just as they were. Like the wheat is 175,969,000 bushels, compar-ears on a donkey they have not ed with a production of 91,377,000 bu-' shels In 1934 and the five year average of 242,384,f?09 bushels. Reports indicate that the quality of the spring 7, heat crop will be poor, with test weigh s per bushel far below TO weights per bushel running far below normal. "MAN PROPOSES AND GOD DISPOSES" The serious and inescapable fact remains that the weather, which cannot be controlled, is a main factor regulating output. Although man pride at his seemingly growing control over the forces of Nature, has forgotten the old saying: it is still true that ,!man proposes but God disposes." It is a humbling thought for the scientific planners that they cannot yet reckon without Providence. The Minister of Agriculture in the U. S. overlooked that factor when fixing his acreages for wheat, maize and cotton. Drought supervened and created shortages in last year's harvests. Only the surpluses from the bounty of Providence in previous seasons saved the United States from the necessity of heavy imports. Even so, she is having to buy butter from abroad. Similarly the vaunted Five-year Plan did not exempt millions of Russians from famine. At the present moment the weather is imposing an involuntary quota on dairy production in several districts of New Zealand. So it must ever be in the equation of production. The weather remains the unknown factor--drought or flood, heat or cold, rain, frost, hail, fire and wind, which "bloweth where it list-eth." The greatest of modern fallacies is to turn from the horn of plenty, refusing Nature's abundance. n that way will market problems ved. The riddle to be answered production, but distribution. --Auckland News. Brother And Sister Lead Depression-Proof Lives They Have Built Up a Self-Sufficient Home Industry on Their Nova Scotia Farm memploy- nient, high prices--these mean noth. ing at all to old Alec MacLeod and ■his elderly sister, Katty, says a story from; Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The venerable weaver and housekeeper-business manager have built up a self-sufficient home industry that's depression-proof. They live in a house by the side of the histor Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island and watch the troubles of the worlc by. "The Lord's been good to us,' says Alec who is nearly 80, and mod. 'I would na trade poseetions witt any mon." Driving along the highway, you e a sign on a gatepost; "Huk Rugs and Homespun for Sale Here." ! pies of "huk" rugs and home spun quilts and table covers are draped over the railings of the porch. Thi says Katty proudly, is a "sort of i tising like they have dune in the big stores in Sydney." But the MacLeod homestead is ore than a factory; it is an economic entity. They grow all their own vegetables and fruits, which Katty puts up for the winter months. They have their own cattle for beef and milk; their own chickens and pigs. Fisherman David MacLeod, a neighbor, trades part of his catoh to them ipun clothing. n- foi\^>me !-=-["" f^l'ill j„ io provide the wool that Katty makes into yarn on an old spinning wheel irnherited from her moth-Alec works at the ancient loom he attic of the hous°. The loom and the skill to use it came from his father, one of the pioneer Highland t0 settle on Cape Breton Is- Maybe you'd think they'd have to buy dyes for the wool. Not Alec. His flock is divided between white sheep and black sheep, so most of his weav- ing is done in white, black and tions of grey. Now and then some fancy city folks order some goods in color; but then they pay for the dyes. MAKE CLOTHING FOR OTHERS The make clothing for themselves, for the fisherman and the blacksmith, and for a grocer who trades them flour. "A'course there's ale," added Katty, pausing and looking at Alec in a meaningful way. "But there's a man dune Baddeck way----" She paused, then concluded, "Weel, we make sweaters and such for his children." Fuel is no problem; plenty of wood. Butter and cheese -- Katty makes those. Workmen from the nearby industrial town of Sydney come up occasionally to buy the cheap, sturdy and beautiful materials produced by the MacLeods and other Cape Breton weavers. Business is best in summer, naturally, when the tourists are here. Winters Alec occpies himself making and selling barrels to apple growers. No, he doesn't even buy nails to fasten the hoops; uses green saplings and notches them, and they make a tighter job. So you can see that Alec and Katty do handle some cash. It's used to iy "rates," or taxes. PROOF OF PROSPERITY Alec has heard "a good slug" about the depression, but doesn't believe it possible that times really could be very bad. "Why, there was an artist mon come last year and paid Alec $5 a day jlst to sit out under that oak with a pipe in his mouth while he painted a picture. Katty and Alec don't even consider that their work is hard or long. "Not all year, onnyway. Canna do much in the weentertime. Ah weel, we are getting a bid auld, and neve"r believed in a person working himself to death." Graded on Rail System In Selling Hogs Meets! With Approval The experiment of selling all hogs on their dressed percentage and1 grade on the rail which was started a few weeks ago in Prince Edward Island is now to become official. J. A. Gillis, secretary of the live stock marketing board of Prince Edward Island reports that good results have been obtained by rail grading of hogs and marketing on a dressed weight basis. The method is optional but it is anticipated that it will be universally adopted by farmers producing fair to top quality hogs. The first week's results were sufficient to convince that the change made in marketing was a wise one, d the follow-up experiences thoroughly confirmed earlier convictions. During a typical week of the experiment with over 230 hogs offered the dressed price was $11.80 per cwt., which worked out at an average live price of $8.69, whereas the off-truck price alive for the same week was only $8.50 per cwt. The Brataharis Calcutta Statesman: -- A few years ago dancing was, we believe, generally thought of in India as an eccentricity of Europeans, young and elderly, slim and rotund, or a not entirely reputable item in the celebrations attending weddings and evening parties. Now all is changed owing to the recent discoveries and enthusiasms about them. Old dances Hindu, Moslem, aboriginal, have been found persisting in remote villages; they have been studied with and cleared of damaging accretions; and now they are in great favour as a form of exercise and part of a training of the whole man for the service of the country. In Bengal this development is more pronounced than anywhere' else, owing to the enthusiasm of an! Indian Civilan who has made the itudy of these things much more than a hobby, has shown how they; used to enrich the life of the people, and has infected with his enthusiasm all kinds of people, from light-hearted schoolboys and village urchins to anxious-browed collectors, and even commissioners. All over \ Bengal this new interest has spread. The Bratachari movement, as it is called, is a force to be taken into account in any survey of the condition and activities of the people of the province. Pithy Anecdotes Of The Famous U.S. Wheat Crop ! in 1935 i Indicated product in the United State: G78.000 bushels. V =harp decline during July, prospective production is still 110,740,000 bushels --Stratford Beacon-Herald. ROAD SAFETY Ample evidence now exists to s vitation to lunch with James Russell Lowell (whom he had known when Lowell was American minister London) came to Ernest Rhys, the editor of "Everyman's Library," during his first visit to Boston. What delighted me more than any thing," he reminisces (in "Everyman Remembers") "was that, sitting by open fire Russell Lowell drew out and lit a short clay pipe, the only time I had seen that implement used n American good society." A curious yarn about T. Crosland, (whose book "The Unspeakable Scot," caused a furore-when published years ago) is told by Sir Seymour Hicks, newly knighted actor in "Between Ourselves.) Cros-land, who let mrney flow through his "ngers like water, was observed by Sir Seymour cue day "making umphai progress round Leicester Square (London), surrounded by cheering mob and followed by a c en empty hansom cab.-." "I gathered," says Hicks, "t Crosland, who had been dining sui ienty well to become slightly cant kerous had insisted on being drr in a cab with a white horse. There was* such a cab but it was a very end of the rank. It could .hired until the others in front of it had found fares. So Crosland hired the whole rank and drove to his destination in his white-horsed cab at the head of the procession." James Payn was not only a delightful novelist^ but a brilliant humorist, says Harry Furniss, noted artist (in Memoirs). He was a splendid companion and a great favorite among literary men at the Reform Club where his terribly hearty laught was so frequently heard. Apropos of this, someone made the remark: "That man laughs like a cannibal." "Yes, that may be," ejaculated Hands") It third seaso week--he v VWhen I , "My Life Is In Your ;ems that during Will's with the Ziegfeld Fol-then earning $350 per it to Ziegfeld saying: left Oklahoma I promised my wife and children that some day I would make $400 a week, and if ever I could make that the dream of my life would be fulfilled." Ziegfeld promptly fulfilled his Next year, Rogers asked for six hundred. "Whats the idea!" said Ziegfeld. "I thought your wife and children were perfectly satisfied with four hundred "They are," and he's kicking." Years ago Eddie Cantor and Will Rogers were members of a troupe of performing young stars. Will being several years older than the others sort of fathered them. For instance) when making railroad jumps, he took charge of the tickets. For the purpose of travel, be it stated, the boys all put on short pants. On one occasion Will Rogers, after giving the conductor half-fare was presently approached by that official, fuming and angry. "Whats the idea," growled the conductor. "Those fellows half fare?" "Wha,t,'s the matter, conductor " said Will. "Why," he cried, "they're in the smoking car with big black cigars in their faces and by the language they are using, they are all older than I "Boys will be boys!" murmured HOT SHOTS "HOT SHOT" JACKSON Maybe it's kind of early to be talking hockey, nevertheless it seems to be in the wind. Here is Harvey "Busher" Jackson of the Leafs, one of the most valuable and most spectacular members ol that club for the past four or five! "Busher" was born in Toronto, Ont. 23 years ago. He is five feet, eleven1 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. In; my opinion Jackson is one of the greatest left wingers in the game to- Harvey played for Toronto Marl-boros along with Joe Primeau and Chuck Conacher in 1927-28, signing with Toronto in 1929. In 1931-32 Jack-' son led the league in scoring with 53 points. Note: Maybe you fans would like to ask some sport questions, or may. be you would like me to cartoon your, sport idol In this column, some might even have suggestions or comments about "Sport Hot Shots." If so, I would be very pleased to hear from you sport fans. Just ad-drink, t0 swear and gamble. He dress your letters to Ken Edwards arns all those things in prep, school Wilson Building, 73 Adelaide Street' Ring Lardner Jr. i West, Toronto.