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This week the Lone Scouts of On- tarlo have received a copy of the Special Birthday Number of their own paper 'On Lone Scout Trails" which is published monthly. This number commemorates the fact that the Lone Scout Department in this province has been organized for a period of two years, and has grown from a small group of sixteen boys, united in one Troop, to its present total of four troops comprising some 250 boys. As a special birthday "Good Turn" the Lomnies have been asked t, each recruit a new member into the or- ganization, and thus it is hoped to double the number of Lone Scouts in Ontario. Already quite a large number of new members have been enrolled, and the use of a hut on the main street of that town, which they have made very comfortable and where many] good times are spent. The "Bull dogs" at Portsmouth have a den in a room at the Patrol Leaders home where they meet each Friday night and the "Elks" at Maple also have a hut in that village for their meeting place. Two very unique Patrols are locat- ed at Lakefield and are comprised of boys who attend "The Grove" Pre- paratory School. The leader there is Patrol Leader John Langley, who is a very keen Scout. These Lonies were recently visited at the School by Assistant Provinclal Commis sioner F. C. Irwin who was accom- panied by the Commigsioner for Lone Scouts, and a very enjoyable time was spent renewing old aec- quaintances and greeting new mem- bers, In addition to these Lone Patrols, of course, there are a large number of isolated Lone Scorts who are do- ing sterling work all by themselves . and who are living up to the ideals more applications are coming in to Headquarters every day, The honor of forming * the first Lons Scout Patrol in Ontario belongs to Patrol! Leader Howard Caine of * Vandorf. who organized the Buffalo Patrol in 1923 and he wag closely followed by Patrol Leader Melvin Prine of Paris, whose patrol, the | "Wolves", bocame the nucleus of | what is now a very fine Troop in existence in that town. This® was ' the first group of Lone Scouts to sever their connection with the Lonies in order to form a troop of | their own Since that time regular troops have also been established at Killaloe, Beamsville, Cobalt and Sault | Ste. Marie by the efforts of the Lone Scou's in those centres, There are now twenty Lone Patrols | fa the provinces, and several more are in the process of formation. The | newest one to report itself to Lone Scout Headquarters is at Ridgeway in the Niagara Peninsular. These Scouts call themselves the "Lone Owls" and we understand that they are a very keen bunch of Lonies. These Lone {atrols meet tegether regularly and most of them have somo where they help! sort of a "Den", each other and work out their pro- | grammes, The Patrol at Hensall meet in a barn, where they have rig- ged up a gym ers" firm, and tha "Boav- at Fenelon F alls have procured set by the Knights of Chivalry off olden days. They liva In out of the way places and they learn from our feathered and furry friends who are their companions and who can teach us s0 much if we only have the will to learn. And speaking of birds reminds us that gow is the time to prepares a New Delhi, India, where its The Canadian column is shown veiled on the right foreground at unveiling ceremony was attended by Lord Irwin, viceroy of India, and Lady Irwin recently. welcome for those that will soon' be returning from southern climates. "Yvery Lone Scout should make and erect several bird houses so that he may study the occupants if he is fortunate enough to have his houses tenanted. Remember that birds will only locate in houses that re- semble their natural nesting places, and build accordingly, first making up your mind as to the sort of bird you wish to attract. Vienna Chefs Dance In Imperial Palace Vienna--The Vienna or carnival, hag provided this year one striking example of how the new order has established itself in high places. The chef's ball was held in Palace, the Hofburg, and the master of ceremonies, Herr Spork, was tha former chef de cuisine to the Emper- And so the wonderful game of 4Lone Scouting" goes on! Isn't it | OF Karl, Hall his life was spent in great fun to be a Scout? It you the palace where ha received his guests with fmperial courtesy. Strauss, the old imperial melody mak- er, was replaced by Herr Walter, head waiter at the Hotel Bristol and in private life a composer who haa already attracted attention. Fis are not yet a member of our great brotherhood why not write to Head- quarters and find out more about it? The address Is Lone Scout Depart ment, The Boy Scouts Adsoclation, 320 Bay Street, Toronto. Canada to Participate In Polar Expeditions Toronto---Canada and the Uaiver- sity of Toronto will be repre tod fn the international pola expedi- tions, projected for 193 it pr 8 | ent Hans materialize, it was fenced 1 the 50h anniversary of the pol ¥ 1588 , when 12 nations sont 14 expeditions into the Ar ¢ for a year lo s:udy meteoto- logical conditions, a mora extensive s n. launched by i bir teorological As- n, head of ica otf .Can- | :xpeditions I be sent futo 't Arctic, and, it hoped, the Antarctic as well, by all tha nations around the polar regions and others futerested. Two major purposes ara eatertain- ed by tha International Commission --the preparation of authoritative | weather maps and new magnetic charis for the polar regions, parti! cularly to aid aerial navigation. Being equipped with instruments and apparatus far improved over that of 50 years ago, when tha form er expeditions were undertaken, the original data collected will te much augmented, but, Mr. Patterson point- el out, it was impossbile to predict! what discoveries would be made | when thera was such concerted ac- tion iu one area Mail Planes To Use Radio Beacon Guide i Toronto. -- Roufe direction radio beacon , enabling an air plane pilot to tell when he is deviat- ing from his course in bad weather | by looking at al or at night merely small instrument on his control panel, are being installed on Can- ada's main air mail and established commercial air routes, it was report- ed recently by Lieut-Col. W. Arthur Steele, of Ottawa, chief of tha radio division of the Canadian Signal Corps. He delivered a paper on the use ot radio on established alr route at a recent session of the aeronautics division and Ontario section of the American Society of Mechanical En- gingers. The session was also addressed by @. H. Burge, of Prospectors' Airways, _1td, Halleybury, who outlined the methods and benefits of mining . prospecting in Canada, and the ex- tent of its development. y elf reeieee : Hard Luck! Kansas City Star: An flinols wo 'man bought some pletures for $500 to use as "nice interior decorations," and: the pictures turned out to be 'Rubenses worth $50,000. Which of | registrar general "est jest figure ever recorded. | tion the Poultry Division of the Do- . | Canadian ~ | Viennese waltz, "Wiener Leckerbis- gen," which was played for the first England and Wales Grow time at the ball and dance by mem- In Population Rapidly London--Figures of the English published here re- vealed the population of England and Wales is increasing faster than aver. | elegance only a few years ago, the Last year had the lowest death |chefs and waiters, parlor maids and rate on record in the two countries | chambermaids of the new Vienna x» the Increase in population by |velled until the small nours. enthusiasm, On the wonderful parquet where emperors, kings and a great feudal aristocracy danced - with restrained | and 'xcess of births over deaths was 194, any moment a stentorian shout a 33. "It was the decrease in the '"Waiter" might have left 90 per cent, rath rate than an increase in the of women without partner, but for- th rate which made for increase | tunately it was never uttered. in population, the birth rata being eam wee a seen the same as in 1929, 16.3 a thousand, . vhich was the lowest ever recorded. Plan to Count Big Tho death rate was 11.4, or two be- Game By Plane; 29 and.2 below 1923.and.1926, which represented the previous low- figures. The infant morality rate was 60 a thousand, also the low- low 1 Winnipeg, Man.--A census of Ameri- can bison by means of photographs is to be taken by a group of five mem- bers of the Royal Canadian Air Force, The fliers will take photographs from the air in the country between the Peace River and Lake Claire, to the west of Lake Athabasca, of the buf- falo herds which are now on the range. The position and habits of the herd during the winter make it possible to take a count by photograph. The ani- mals during this time are feeding on Use Canadian Grown Grains For Poultry To meet the present acute feed situa- minion Experimental Farms have made a study of the suitability of grown grains for poultry I feeding. With the use of suitable sub-| he grasses on the open prairie in the | stitutes in the form of cod llver oll neighborhood of the salt plains. {and green teeds barley is found every : ! bit as good as yellow corn for egg pro- London Abandons { duction. In a special pamphlet (No. | 128--New Series), just off the press, Split Holiday London--Lendon's scheme of split- complete instruction in the use of do- fo grains for poultry feeding is ting the school holidays into two periods did not work out well and given. There is no charge for this { pamphlet, which may be obtained on next years vacations will be given all at one time. application to the Publications Branch of the Department 5 of Ottawa. "Fasching," | the gorgeous halls of the old Imperial' bers of the Opera Ballet, roused great | |Co-Eds of Today Better Than Fifty Years Ago Ashland, O--The co-ed of 1931 is a better girl physically than the co-ed of 50 years ago. She weighs more, is taller, and has a greater lung capacity and chest girth, This was revealed recently by Dr, Edwin KH. Jacobs, president of Ash- land 'College, who during the last 16 cars, has studied the physical meas- urements taken of 6,000 girls in five institutions of higher learning dur- ing the last half century. The ages of the girls measured were approxi- rately 18 or 19 years. Dr. Jacobs' analysis indicated that' the improvement has been steady. He said that the causes for in- creased vigor perhaps, are: "I--College girls may now be com- ing from a different stratum of soc- iety than formerly. "2--Previous improved high school training in physical education may have its effect. ral health conditions of re better than formerly. "4--It may also be that the gen- eral physical vigor of this part of , the population is improving. | "5--Or it may be that more vigor- {ous and robust girls are setting out for college rather than the weaker , ones, for there can be no doubt but | that modern college life appeals more and mofo to the vigorous girl." Saami bonito French Motor Bus on Rails Supplants Passenger Trains Paris--Automatrica is the name which French railways have fasten- (ed on their new self-propelled cars. | The automatricg is really a six- cylinder motor bus on rails, It has the appearance of a street car, con- taing thirty-four seals and can aver- age about fifty miles an hour. The railways are using the new conveyances to link up cities and towns on secondary lines, where use of regular trains is not justified by the passenger business. r---- en Ford Gets Old Mail Wagon Bellefontaine, Ohio.--An antiquat- ed mail wagon that was used before the advent of the automobile for rural deliveries has been purchased by Henry Ford from Amos Reed, of North Lewisburg, near here. The | wagon has a high box, set on four i wheels, Aviatrix Now "Adds Speed to Altitude Washington. -- Spurred by official word that she had broken the women's altitude record, Miss Ruth Nichols, society aviatrix, recently added a 200- mile-an-hour, record-equaling flight between New York and Washington to her roster of accomplishments. She took off on a return flight to ing the trip between Jersey City air- New York late in the day, after mak- port and the Anacostia naval air sta- ttion her in 1 hour and 5 minutes. This time varied only a few seconds from the unofficial record held by Capt. Frank M. Hawks. It will be checked by the War Department. She return- ed in 1 hour and 20 minutes. mri Quick Way do rite Write Nanking, China, Chitiess | Invented 3 to simplify the 30,000 ideographs, con- stituting the Chinese written language, has been made in the introduction of | "Liugraphy," a shorthand system based on phonetics. 'The Inventor, Liu Hsueh-ohun, Slate that this new device enables a AR: ging nev "course practically ruined. them, for Lie, Auterior decorations. "gas al is the Maes cara of the I mvst"-- tard Inchcade. Jorn 49 wile 180 characters per ts sald thet anyone know-| mio igi i { within three months, Bill, wellknown Boston Bull mascot of Pentsylvanta American . Legion, has laid aside thoughts of bones and hambur » devoting his attention to ranners-at Oriental: Park, Havana, * He ouoors 3 | ome ula tavoriies with low gromis 4 2 - q Thirty yous 1s Sewaonly vegucdet #8 being the length of one. generation, and it is more than probable that us will some day look back up- industry. It would be almosg to expect that the Dominion, any future generation repeat, or even approach, the growth that has taken place since 1900 in the export of forest products. If the present trade can be mainained, that in itself will be a Teal achievement, During the first ten years of this century Canada's exports of wood, wood products and paper aggregated roundly $431,000,000. The second de- . By SIR THOMAS WHITE in Wall Street Journal Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty got a great fall, All Morgan's money and Henry Ford's men Can't put Humpty Dampty together again. What made Humpty Dumpty fall? '| Nobody knows for certain at all; Some say the cause was the stock market crash, And the call which the brokers sent out for more cash, While others say Humpty had start- ed to fall, Before the crash and before the call, But nobody knows for certain at all. Some think Humpty was with gas, And thus it was that it came to pass, Inflated with credit, high prices and Tent, And call-loan iaterest at twenty per cent, With watered shares, And bull propaganda that frightened the bears, With high-pressura selling through- out the whole mation, stock and no-par : Instalment-plan buying aud goods saturation, Humpty, they say, with all this in- flation Just naturally burst and fell from; the wall, But nobody knows for certain at all. Some say that Humpty had lived far too high, On Good Times cake and Prosperity pie, Had too much to spend and too much to eat, Causing surplus production ot cotton and wheat, Of silver and copper and sugar and meat, Of things to see and hear and e Radios and motor cars--sakes allye! 'Twas little wonder he didn't thrive And so got sick and fell from the wall, But nobody knows for certain at all. Can Humpty be put together again? So-far all efforts have been in vain, But everybody is doing his best, President Hoover and all the rest, Captains of industry, financiers, Doctors, lawyers and engineers, Politicians and journalists, Preachers, professors, economists, Efficiency experts and psychologists, To work ihe baffling puzzle out And they'll succeed without a doubt, But when they'll get him back on the wall, Nobody knows for certain at all. sr rmm---------- British Airline Reports Expanding Activities Imperial Airways reports that about 40,000 letters a week are being carried by air between England and India. More air freight is geing carried as the service becomes known. Items range from automobile parts needed in a hurry to theatrical make-up and eggs for hatching. The airways system is following American design practice in the equip- ment 'it asks for the Cape Town ser- + vice. Armstrong Whitworth is build- "ing four-motored, high-wing mono- ' planes witli a cruising speed of 115 miles an hour and a top speed of 145 niles an hour. Armstrong Siddeley rotors wiil be used. A "racegoers' special" for the Grand 'ational operated between London ad Aintree this year. mee A cms Canada and the Soviets New Yerk Evening Post: The Can- wulians have inherited the system of British law in which the rights of 'he individual are paramount and in which the will of the average man 13. the basis of government. Their philosophy of politios has not yet IB been corrupted by the sort of senti- _mentalism that has left Great Britain 'hegitant in the face of flamboyant Soviet aggression. Their Order-in- | Council frankly recognizes that the "Russian Soviet is seeking to. divide the world and to destroy the economic - basis of Western civilization. Be- . cause of this conviction, and not - Canadian have struck the most powertel Blow yet aimed at Russian plang Tor ® communised world. Present Century Canada's Why Did Prosperity Fall? filled up rising to ten years, 192130, it shot up to colossal sum of $2,645,000,000. Taking the whole thirty-year period, of $4,000,000,000. Canada may, right now, have reach- ed the zenith of her career as an ex- porter of forest products. Whether that be so or not, it is amply clear that the Canadian people, of all peoples, cannot permit the appeal for forest conservation--however hackneyed It may sometimes seem--to fall upon deaf ears. For Canada, forest pro- tection is trade protection of the most vital order. Uhiversity to Test Sleep-Inducers Dr. Ronald A. Laird and his as- tory of College University, already well known for thelr investigations of sleep, have asked the help of the medical profession in making an actual test of supposed sleep produc- ers like a warm bath before retiring, a warm drink or a brisk walk in the open air. Physicians are invited to recommend to the Colgate laboratory patients who are not suffering from actual insomnia or any similar dis- order requiring medjcal treatment but who often find themselves rest- less and unable to fall asleep easily. People who drop to sleep the mom- ent that they go to bed and sleep soundly all night would be useless for the experiment. Nothing will keep them awake. Persons with actual insomnia are similarly unsuit- able for test, as the majority of them may be taken as suffering from some mental or bodily disorder. The vast intermediate group of mor- mal, healthy people who find, mever- theless, that they sometimes sleep less soundly than they ought to do are the ones desired for the experi- ment. number of nights when still other nights when they take a before-bedtime wa'k and finally purposes of comparison, of evenings when they these thiags. fe en Diver to Seek Fortune of $4,000,000 Undersea New York--A dive to the lowest ocean depth ever reached by man, with a $4,000,000 cargo of gold, sil- ver and jewels as a rcward, is plan- ned off the Virginia coast in the | spring. H. L. Bowdoin, president of the Sub Ocean Salvage Corporation, ex- pects to leave here May 1 for Cape Charles, Va, to attempt salvage of the cargo of the Merida, which sank 11 years ago en route from Mexico after a collision with the Admiral Farragut. Mr. Bowdoin will use a steel diving suit he has invented and which he claims will permit his de- scent to a depth lower than any ever reached. ne Young Canadians Ardent Admirers of "Mounties" Ottawa--One branci of Canada's public service at least suffers from no lack of recruits, and figures just published showing the number of applicants for enrolment in the Royal Canadian- Mounted Police indicate thi colorful corps maintains its at- traction for the robust and adven- turous youth of the nation. For 156 places vacated through retire- ment and so forth in the Royal Mounted last year, 2,807 young men offered themselves. This was an increase of about 600 aspirants over the numbers seeking enrolment in 1929. re rn en Canadian Hockey Sticks The wood used in the 23 establish- ments specializing in sporting goods in Canada in 1929, according to the Bureau of Statistics, was chiefly sawn softwood lumber amounting to 1,872 thousand feet board measure, valued at $76,576; 756 thousand feet hardwood lumber at $67,609; 341 cords of hardwood bolts at $4,981, and veneer and plywood valued at $3,640. The more important sticks, numbering 632,306 and valued at $207,8527 tennis racquets bering 48,750 and valued at $213,881. Sn re Al on sr New Record Tokio.--A world endurance record is claimed for a Japanese semi-rigid naval dirigible, which remained aloft! sixty hours without refuelling. The previous record was held by the di- rigible Norge, in which Roald Amund-' sen, General -Umberto Nobile and Lincoln Elisworth crossed the Nortle Pole in 1926. Town Builds Road in 5 Days ' Corbesassi, Italy.--This community a this S£ure mors than dost Lady $967,000,000, and fn the | sociates in the psychological labora- | | Rideau Hall Again Golden Age of Opportunity, ToBe Scene of Bith Dufferin, Wife of Sec- ond Governor-General, Had Daughter Ottawa.--Only once has a baby been 1901-30, the value of Canada's exports born o the wife of a Governor-General of wood, wood products and paper ox-; while he was resident in Canada, and ceeded the almost unbelievable sum that was 58 years ago, according to information available here. This fact 1s of particular interest in view of the fact that a child is expected to be born to Lord and Lady Bessborough after their arrival to take up vice-regal posl- tion. It was on Saturday, May 17, 1873, that Lady Dufferin, the wife of Lord Dufferin, the second Governor-General of Canada, gave birth to a daughter, Victoria Alexandria, and although it is not recorded that the birth took place in Government House, it is assumed it did. dian Journal," the event is briefly re corded under the obave date. It states: "A littls gir. was born this day, and the Queen has telegraphed that she will be her godmother." ' Not since that day has there been a birth to a wife of a Governor-General in Canada, Lady Dufferin's journal gives de- tails of the christening, It was ap- parently .. healthy baby, for on June 10, the following record is given: "We left Ottawa this morning very early, going by rail to Prescott with our whole family, the new baby included." The next day they were in. Quebec, and oa June 16 the following entry was made: "The little baby's christen: ing day. A large bouquet has beem sent me in the morning, and beautiful flowers for the font. The cathedral was full of people. I had my whole six children with me, and they made a very good show. Lady Victoria Alex- andrine Muriel May behaved admir- ably and slept soundly the whole time, in spite of the deluge of Jordan water." etl een. Report Shows Forestry Research as World-Wide Stockhoim--Aeccording te a report A selected number of these | the International persons referred to the laboratery by Research Organizations, the interma- their physicians will be asked to keep tioal regular sleep records on a definite braces the world. on a serias three personal members. do none of national exchange items among ' nontn. _| the principa! products were hockey | published by the Central Bureau eof Union of Forest forestry researci now em. This bureau was they bathe established in Stockholm last year before going to bed, on other nights on the occasion of the Internatiomal when they drink a warm drink, on Forestry Congress. The union now comprises 54 institu- for tions in 25 different ccuntries besides The inter- of forest - seeds has been strongly developed so that seeds of different tree species and belonging to different altitudes with data as to provnance and germinat- ing capacity from 15 different institu- tions are now placed at the disposal of the members. Real Prices "for Barley The farmer and feeder are always interested in figures which indicate the cash values of feed and grain crops. With barley at the present time both a problem and an oppor- tunity its acre value as a crop when fed to hogs should be useful. As sup~ plied by an eminent Canadian author- ity, based on an average yield of 40 bushels to the acre, when fed to hogs at the rates indicated this crop has the following acre values: When the amount of barley to pro- duce 100 Ibs. of hog is-- With Hogs at 500 1bs. 400 lbs. 450 Ibs. 375 lbs, $10 $28.40 $48.00 $42.70 $51.20 9 34.50 3.20 28.40 46.00 8 30.70 38.40 34.10 41.00 7 26.85 33.60 29.80 35.80 6 23.00 28.80 25.60 20.70 --Dominlon Department of Agricul ture. ams Feed to a Finish Farmers who are feeding cattle for beef should note carefully the follow- ing excerpt from the Live Stock Mar- ket Report of the Dominion Depart. ment of Agriculture: "Shippers are bringing in considerable numbers of half-fat cattle. The market has en- ough depressing factors to contend with, and shippers are requested, in their own interest, not to sacrifice half-finished stock and thereby ad- versely affect the market as a whole." Feed your beef cattle to a finish and get all the market has to offer. pty Repys Relics to bz Auctionad London.--Foreign bidders will be among those seeking relics of Samuel Pepys to be auctioned here next The items include a game ing table given to Pepys by King | James II, a silver porringer and a DUM- { salver, hallmarked 1671. Private let- ters between 1679 and 1703 also re to be sold. 2 Eggs Taken 2s Postage M'Pherson, Kan. -- A dozen eggs | were used to pay postage of six let | ters here. The eggs were found by (a rural mail carrier on his route: with a request that the eggs be used te pay for the postage on the letters. , The mail carrier brought the eggs te | town and stamped the letters, realiz- ps no profit, . ---- Young Husband: In Lady Dufferin"s "My Cana- built a mountain road fa five days I got home my wife had my chali without touching the town treasury. drawn up before the fre, my slippers Landowners donated the right of way ready for me to put on, my pipe filled. and 200 mountaineers turned out and--" Cynic.' "How di you Mke with picks, shovels and teams. her new hat?" - "Last night 'wher Ty