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This week brings us news from our most northerly Lone Scout, who lives at the Hudson 'Bay Post at Landsdowne House, in Northern On- tario. His name' is Walter Wraight, and Walter is quite an outstanding Scout in other respects besides his' northerly location. | Coming from the_ "Old Country" last year, he brought a very fine re- cord with him, and he is the posses: ' 8or of the coveted "Silver Cross for | Bravery" which was bestowed upon ' bim for saving the life of a dog. The Lone Scout Commissioner has a picture of Waller with the dog, a cocker spaniel, that he saved, On arrival in Canada, he was sent to one of the Hudson Bay Com- pany's Northern Ontarip Posts, and he has been in that part of the coun- try ever since, and tells us that he quite enjoys the life, although it is & little lonely at times, especially in difficult and he has to wait for a long time for his mail. Walter has learned to drive a dog team, but he says that if you talk kindly to the dogs they think that you are a weakling and just lie down on the track and won't budge. It is necessary to use quite strong lang- uage to them, before they will take any notice of you. The last mail which the Post received was brought in by dog team, driven by an Italian Priest, and he was quite embarras- sed by the fact that the dogs would take no uotice of ordinary language, 80 he compromised by swearing at them in Spanish! Walter is a Lone Scout indeed! Lately we have noticed several people busily engaged in their gar- dens, and this reminds us that every Lone Scout will of course have a garden of his very own, which he will lay out and plant to his own Hking, And therefore every Lone Scout the winter time when travelling is |. should qualify for the Gardener's Badge, and now is the time to com- meénce operations to earn this badge. Like quite a few of the other Scout Badges the Gardeners requires ats a little patlence, and cannot be earn- ed overnight, It is necessary to have some knowl- edge of soils, and to actually grow a number of flowers and plants from seed, but all this is very Interesting work which would be enjoyed by every Lorie. Get busy and ask your Scoutmas- ter to send you particulars of the Gardener's Badge, so that you too can qualify for fit. And talking of Gardening reminds as of a very good turn that was per- formed last year by the Lone "Wolf Patrol" of Paris, the founders of the present Paris Troop. > These Lonies looks about them and discovered some old folks who were too feeble to dig and plant their own gardens, so they armed themselves with spades and rakes and all the necessary tools and set to work to plant these old peoples' gardens for them, and then later on they also tended them when necessary. Wasn't that a real good turn? Maybe you can do the same thing| this year. And still talking ct good turns in the Springtime, have you noticed how the bright sunshine shows up that dirty rubbish heap and untidy scrap laying all around the house and which was previously buried un- derneath the snow? How about making this week a Lone Scout "Clean" Up" week, and so put everything ship-shape for the bright weather which is ahead of us? Go to It, Lone Scouts, and then write to your Scoutmaster and tell him what you are doing. LONE E. Man's Sight Extended By Ten Basic Devices New York--Ten basic devices per- iting man to project his feeble sense of sight into hidden scientific won- ders have been gathered together for the first time in a display at the Ex- hibition of the Science and Art of | Color at the Museum of Science and Industry. » The Stroboscope, which slows up the motion of objects moving too swiftly for the eye to see; the oscil- loscope which catches the mevement of objects too vibrant; the micro- scope which reveals the infinitely small; the telescopg to see distant objects; the radiometer, which de- tects the invisible infra-red, or heat, waves; the photo-cell, which ensnares the unseen ultra-violet radiations; the X-ray, which reveals things through opaque, materials; the spectroscope, which sorts out the mixed radiation of white light; the pyrometer, which records things too radiant for the eye to gaze upon, and the spectro- photometer, which performs feats of color analysis beyond the power of the human eye, are the ten machines. Captain Discovers Land In Arctic Byrd Now Positive He Flew Over Pole Washington -- He probably already knew it, but the National Geographic Society has told Rear Admiral Rich- ard E. Boyd when he flew over the south pole. The society's -research committee, reporting on its study of the explor- er's record, agreed that at 1:14 p.m, Greenwich civil time, Nov, 29, 1929, Rear Admiral Byrd was "at the south pole, in so far as an observer in an airplane, using' the most accurate in- struments and methods avallable for determining his position, could ascer- tain. "We, therefore, feel sure that at some point in the course the plane flew within four nautical miles of the south pole, with the probability that +t passed much nearer than this." Be Neglect of Cemeteries Montreal Presse: (A bill has been introduced in the Ontario Parliament providing for the creation of local commissions for the maintenance of graveyards.) This example set by the Government of Ontario deserves to be followed in other provinces, for there are many old cemeteries Oslo, Norw.--Captain Daehll, Nor- wegian Government whaling inspec- tor, who returned recently from visit- ing the herding grounds of tho, north Atlantic, claimed to have discover- ed a hitherto unknown land with lofty peaks in the arctic regions. The land, he said, lay between fongitudes 27 and 72 west, an area which includes most of Greenland, Baffin Bay and the east coast of] Baffin Land already. | Captain Daehli told Tidens Tegn, | Oslo daily, that he had noted the ex- act ition of the territory on maps ! end had taken photographs, but he refused to divulge its exact position. | All details and documents have been handed to the Norwegian Govern- ment. Grain Transplanted Birmingham, - Eng. -- Transplanted ain yields a considerably better crop he crops allowed their normal growth, according to experiments that #choolboys in the Staffordshire village of Kinver have been carrying out. For three seasons in succession the boys have sown wheat in October, and in the following February have trans- planted part of it in another plot. They have treated the two plots of wheat exactly alike, but the transplanted corn has always been much finer, : . Course In Leadership Outlined For Women Syracuse, N.Y. ~--~What is said to be the first course of its kind in the United States, combining practice and theory in leadership for women -stu- dents, will be started at-Syracuse Uni- versity next fall. The objective 1s to prepare women for entrance into per- sonnel work and for positions as ad- yisers and deans of women in high Gives Finer Yield | throughout the country where the de- golation of forgetfulness is manifest in the sad spectacle of abandoned graves, The upkeep of cemeteries is a sacred trust not only for fam- ilies, but for public authorities when families die out, or for other reasons the deserted tombs have become the prey of timo and disordered vegeta- tion. --tfl LondonsAustralia Airway Is Planned London -- Two experimental alr flights under the Air Ministry's aus- pices, in each direction between Lon- don and Australia, were recently an- nounced by Hon, F, Montague, under- Secretary, for Air, in the House of Commons, The first flight from London start- ed on Saturday, April 4th, and Is scheduled to reach Port Darwin, Aus- tralia, on April 19. The second flight from London will start April 25, and will be due in Port Darwin on May 10. The present England-to-Indla alr mail route will be followed as far as Karachi and Delhi. The route will then be to Allahabad, Calcutta, Ran- goon, Victoria Point, Singapore, Batavia, Pourabaya and Port Darwin. ARENA Ir 100,000 Germans Expected To Visit Paris This Summer Paris.--One hundred thousand Ger- mans are expected to visit Parla this Summer for the French Colonial Exposition, and the greater part of them will come by bus, The same buses will run all Sum- mer from Warsaw to Berlin and from Berlin to Paris. These hig cars, containing thirty seats and equipped in every way to assure the comfort of the passengers, will make the trip . , + @chools, normal schools and g Ten outstanding women in educa- tional work will receive graduate as- sistantsiips equivalent to nearly $1000 each yefrl}. from Warsaw to Berlin in twelve hours and in twenty-four from Berlin to Paris. The price from Paris to summer, Wilkins in officiating. Bucketful of cracked ice was used for christening at New York of submarine Nautilus for Sir Hubert Wilkins' trip to North Pole this Jean Jules Verne, grandson of famous writer, alded Lady Britain's Oldest Store Now Closes Doors London --Britain's oldest big store, James Shoolbred & Co., which has car- rled on business in Tottenham Court Road since 1817, has passed into the hands of Harrods Ltd. the largest "shop" in the British Empire. This change, entailing removal of the Shool- bred stock to Knightsbridge, is neces- sitated by the westward movement of London's shopping area. The locality was semirural when James Shoolbred, a Scotsman, opened his small shop as "Dealer in British Lace." In 20 years the business had aborbed 2000 employees. It was the first store to be lighted by electricity in Britain, and also Introduced the first weekly half-holiday. ---- The Canning Industry Montreal, Quebec.--Vegetable can- ning in Canada had an active year in 1930, increasing 64.8 -per cent. over 1929. The pack of tomatoes fncreas- ed by nearly 104 per cent, and peas by almost 165 per cent. The total pack for the Dominion practically ap- ulation. in 1930, compared with 6,182,837 cans in 1929. proximated one can per head of pop- | It "totalled 10,066,614 cans! A Sower Went Forth Under the fecund arrows of the sun A farmer plants his furrow patient ly. Se went the ancient sower of the seed Before the dawn of Karnak's dy- nasty. O long religion of the fruitful sun! O living legend of the quickened fleld! Ere Egypt was--the cycle of the corn: The seed . . . the sun... the full and ripened yield. fire Nazareth, the © wheat: The seed . . . the shower and warm- th . . . the winnowed grain, Pharaohs, priests and peoples change --not these: The sower and the seed, the sun and rain! --Agnes Kendrick Gray, in the New York Times, rhythm - of the oi mi ------ It has been well sald that no man ever sank under the burden of the | It is when tomorrow's burden | is added to the burden of today that | day. the weight 1s more than a man can | bear.--George MacDonald, Men--Look «To men in country, Warsaw will be $12 and from Berlin to Paris $12, Z ~. Arlayne Brown, 14-year-old St. Louis "high school girl, whose phenomenal target shooting has earned her title of one of best marks- She has shot her way to stardom almost over night, Your Laurels "Laughter--A Boon to Mankind" Declares English Professor | Laughter ls a peculiarly human But when, thanks to the perseverance y es Abrah Wolf, | of the ploneers, the novelties succeed Professor of Logle and Sclentific Meth- | in establishing th Ives - as new od at the University of London, in an | habits, then the older habits of the | article in the N.Y. Times Magazi old-f d may be laughed to scorn Some monkeys may grin, but man is | because of their contrast with the the laughing animal par excellence. |newer and more widespread habits, | He is also the most laughed at animal, | Here also it is to be noted that usually the chief butt of the laughter of his !it is only fashions of no very serious fellows. Hence the general human in-' moment (long or short dresses, short' terest of the subject. Indeed, it has Lor long hair, for example) that are' been said with some justice that laugh- | matters of laughter; the reaction is ter is one of three great gifts given. to ! diferent in more serious matters, un- men to enable them to counter the less some genius of a humorist suc- miseries of existence. Forgetfulness ceeds in showing vividly that they is our protection against the haunting have a funny side. stings of the past; hope enables us to! This brings us to the special mis- face the future with all that it may sion of the greatest humorists, It is have in store for us; laughter helps us! probably the special gift of a genius to get over the trials of the immediate like Mr. Shaw that he can deal with present. And the greatest of these is! serious problems in a laughable way. laughter, for present evils always | He usnally scores his laughs in the Seem to be the worst; but "a merry ways already indicated, especially by heart goes all the way." | showing the incongruity either be- Over and above its: general human tween professed theory and actual interest, laughter also appeals to a | practice, or by disclosing the disguises number of specific interests, As aby which ugly ducks masquerade in highly complex group of human ex-!'fine feathers. Of course, no problem, periences it is a subject of scientific | soclal or otherwise, Is solved in that interest, and as such appeals at once | way. But it is a great accomplishment to the biologist. It has also an artistic ' forcibly to direct people's attention to interest, for it is intimately connected | the existence of certain promises and with certain types of literature, music | to prod them to face the problems in- and the pictorial arts. Lastly, it has | toad of pretending that they don't even a commercial interest, for the!'exist--rather like the man who used production of laughter is one of the to burn all his bills and so made light great industries of the world of enter ' of his troubles, tainment, hi Such laughter cannot, from the na- The first and most obvious thing | ture of the case, b > purely Joyous and | about laughter is that it is a physical | & nial laughter. l'ears are ape to or physiological activity which is gen- | mingle with it. There are many forms erally found to be very pleasant and : of laughter which are closely allied to refreshing, The belief that laughter tears. And some of the greatest serves as a tonic is very widespread, | humorists have mingled them freely. Popular philosophy has testified to | oe = this belief in the proverb: Laugh and . . grow fat. This, of course, was intend- | Selling Bait-Latest A od to express the common faith in the | Industry In Georgia | health-giving properties of laughter.' Tifton, Ga.--Down in South Georgia In an age in which slim figures are the | where the crops were not good and rage, the proverb might prove a dan-| where folks have had to work out new | gor to laughter. Perhaps we ought to | plang to earn a living through the substitute it for the motto: A laugh | Summer, a new industry is being built a day keeps the doctor away. The up. The following advertisement has reason why people enjoy laughter as appeared in The Tifton Gazette: such, the pg hy Xx Joaliy ii "Fish balt--The latest thing just out em good; 8 physiologically quite | of tha ground. The very best 1931] clear and well established. It involves | mgdal--fat, juicy and tough--the kind certain processes of the respiratory | yoy have been looking for. Just call muscles, an extra intake of oxygen fy kg at The Gazette office and have he ass, gndiation to the Srey, him put you .p a cup full when you atory system and to the nerves. More-| or ready to go fishing. --dtf." over, hearty laughter is generally ac- Now that country folks have begun! companied by a diffuse activity of the | ajjine angle worms that used to he! arms and body, conducted perhaps | j free for the digging, it would not be with the play impulse. s rprising if some farmer charges a Taken in moderate doses, then, neighbor for a "mess o' greens" or a | laughter is joy-giving. One curious| half-dozen "roastin' ears" for dinner but interesting result of this is that; hefore the Summer is gone. The whole! since we feel glad when we laugh, we | -orld seems to he getting commercial- | tend to laugh when we are glad. And | ized so laughter has become an expression | as well as a source of joy. The kind | of association, or mental alchemy, by | NENEIIENN SEI Earthquake Precautions | loud laughter {s ons of them, rot : a | This may be at a minimum in merely | { i which this sort of thing happens is familiar to psychologists who have studied the expredsion of the tions, Auckland Weekly News: No amount j of argument about New Zealand's com- emo- | parative freedom from serious earth- quakes can dispose of the necessity of taking the risk of them into ac- count. As the details of the Hawke's Bay disaster become more fully known it is pitifully evident that the terrible | For various reasons laughter has | been largely displaced "by the mere | smile, which serves as a kind of gen-| teel and refined substitute for it. One! of the chief causes of this fact is the (loss of lifs would not have occurred general tendency for cultured people had the principles of earthquakepront to become quieter in thair manners! construction been observed in build and habits of life. Professional peo- ings of comparatively recent erection. "ple inevitably pass much of their time With eyes upon the future of Napier in lonely occupations, and so acquire and adjacent towns in the region so o habit of quietne Habit ma- ully overtaken by disaster, it must times becomes a cult. [o "loudness" be sald that the promised body of | of every kind is regarded as rather vul- | buil Bg reg tions is absolutely nos gar. We are consequently not sur-; 5¢ , not tor application there only, prised to find that the genteel Lord but throughout the Dominion. ¢ Lia- Chesterfield claimed it as a merit that | bility to thquake varies locally, no since he had come to the full use of doubt, when the whole Dominion Is red, but the simplest and should be taken by compulsory If action of the sort he v, the outstanding lesson will. be lost his reason he had nev sur- to laugh. He does not came to the full use of his reas Sooner or later we all reach an when we drop physical exercises aw theen heard say when he y to safety 1 ra everywhere, ind making the regulations not taken of this. cal N EAT, NRLOERN Although laughter is a physical ac tivity, it is more than that, It is usual ly associated with mental experiences. Report Shows Wages Drop Nine Billions in States boisterous laughter, such as often ac-{ Washington.--The incomes of wage companies sheer ragging and rough earners in the United States are -esti-| horseplay. But with the growth of mated as having been $9,000,000 lower | i1 1930 than in 1929, in a report pre- pased by its Geneva Research Commit- te, the League of Nations Association nounced here recently, Thig éstimate was $1,000,000,000 un- der that of the American Federation of Labor, mada public, but both or- maturity and culture the laughter that fs mainly physical tends to be re placed by what is mainly a laughter of the mind. What {8 meant by '"laughter of the mind" is perhaps | most obvious when, exhausted with physical laughter, we go on listening to funny stories and see their point, | 8anizations figured the decline at 20 oa) | but cannot laugh at them. Merely | ber cent. > boisterous laughter, of course, has a r- of» Soren as rtrong hold on most people. And so! Moose Jaw, Sask.--A new industry | sheer fooling, smacking, beating and [3 to be added to Moose Jaw in the | ragging generally, constitute a large form of a grist and flour mill, to be | part of the stock in trade of the circus | erected carly this summer at a cost ¢ id the pantomime. But such laugh-| of about $25,000. ter is at best short-lived among Intelli- al gent people. It soon palls on them.| Moose Jaw, Sask--The first factory And even those who shun anything in the Province of Saskatchewan for "high brow" in the way of entertain- | the manufacture of neckties, was ment still look for something more opened in Moose Jaw recently by the intellectual than the fun of the old| Indestructable Neckwear Manufac- typo of circus clown or pantomime buf- | turers Ltd. The factory is turning foon, out around 100 dozen ties per week, There can be no doubt that laugh-| Put 18 behind in filling its orders, ter is an important social weapon, It which have been larger than expect o> never having fired a gun until two years ago, is employed to discourge both the new- ed. fangled and the old-fashioned, and so gnes | helps to promote steady progress in Saskatoon, Sask.--The- Saskatch- accordance with the old adage, "Hasl-| ewan Power Commisslon is consider en slowly," New fashions in dress,| ing an addition of machinery to the bearing, mode of speech, or manners | Saskatoon plant, to cost in the nelgh- are nearly always laughed at.to begin | borhood of $400,000. No additional with, And the laughter often has the | buildings, however, will be required. effect of killing mere affectations and | Construction of additional transmis- mannerisms, Such laughter is mostly | gion lines throughout the Saskatoon provoked by mcongruity or contrast istrict necessitated the enlargement with established customs and habits. of the plant. 'Says | would | catastropha, Mankind May British Scientist Declares Age May Overwhelm Civilization The interest shown in Sir James Jean's recent forecast that the world would end in an Ice Age many million years hence is proof of the increasing sense of responsibility amongst men. A few centuries ago, people were in- terested in the end of the world, not from the scientific, but from the pure- ly religious point of view, writes Pro- fessor A. M. Low, in this article in Pearson's Weekly. Now the attitude is rather: "If there is to be a catastrophe which will sweep the human race from the world, cannot we postpone or avoid it, so that man can progress further towards the ideal of perfection?" Wo cannot interfere with the whole action of Nature. But we can localize it. We cannot, for instance, prevent rain falling, but by building houses, or by using modern methods of weath- er control, such as electrified sand, we - can to a degree make the rain fall where we want fit, The same applies to the end of the world. The time {3s so far ahead that it is impossible to speak with cer tainty. It is improbable that the scien: tists of billions of years hence will be able to prevent a large ecale naural catastrophe, But they may be able to avoid the results as far asx the human race is concerned. Emigration to Another Planet? It the end of the world {s to come through cold, there ary four comfort- ing ideas, First, there w more than a possibility that new knowledge will show we are wrong in supposing the end will come through cold. Secondly, it may take a few billion more years than we belleve at present, Third, during the intervening 'years the human race may be able to pre- pare itself for the catastrophe. And finally, when people speak of the end of thé world coming through cold, they do-not refer to the end of the human race, which might easily « aigrate to another pla' et, or even universe, and continue to live happily, The greatest mistake made by pro- phoets who are extremely learned in one branch of science is to overlook the development of the human race. Those who say that the world will die of starvation and cold when our coal and oil supplies run out, for instance, overlook the possibility of the dis. covery of new sources of heat and power " The man of two centuries ago prob ably looked at his patch of forest and hig growing family and said, "In tem years all this wood will have been burned and my children will die of cold! If you utilized all the energy in our coal and oil instead of a small frae- tion of it, our supplies would last al- most indefin There can be no doubt that long before the first signs of what we believe will be the last graat t appear, mankind will be in YOSHE n of sources ®t energy be- vond our present belief, To st, for instanc:, that the en- gineers will harness the encroaching nd rn its power into heat may wd fan But remember we tking of billions of years hen I'h imparatiy puny rs of to-day wwe harn ed the energy of la What ill the man of the r future be able to do? He may de rive er ym the rotation of the earth, from t irs, dr from many " very exist a of 1 we t ) nt 1 im 1 Thought Will Survive woall, life has adapted itzell to he bot he « ins and to the wp of high mountains, It exists in the in wa of the trapi and in the of po x no pt itself to any new an Ice Age? It of years for the change to take pi when wae speak of the end o a few milliof yegrs ape bere nor thera Emigration to oth planets is an- other possibility. It may bc true that man, as we know him, wounldenot live under the conditions existing in the ~ loon or Mars. But as 1 have pointed it is ab- surd to suppose that man will remain always as he is to-day. In a few mil lon years, scientist may foreee the n 'coming of the End, and start breeding a special race to live with far less oxygen than that required by modern man. In a fow more miilion years these men might be ready to start emigras ting «0 another world. Thousands would die on the way, just as thous- ands of birds die during the summer migration, but the race would survive, It is quite false to take up the attl- tude that the world must end, and that therefore any attempt to improve the human race is wasted effort. Even supposing that the world does end, and that the human race ceases to exist, thought cannot. be destroyed, and survive the greatest natural ------ A ies There are at least sixty stars to every man, woman, and child on the earth. rar------ All haill yo small sweet courtesies of life, how much smo¢ther do ye make the road of it.--Horace Wal pole. Perish of Cold an GEILE, ow 2S a Fi,