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© Recently a very interesting article appeared in the Oshawa Times, writ- 'ten by a Scout Leader in that city who sta that one evening recently, it he was standing in his own gar- , he was startled to hear the whine of a .22 bullet as it passed over his head, followed almost simultaneously by the crack of the rifle. Apparently some boys, and we are glad to record that they were not Scouts, had just shot a robin, and they were seen to pick it up shortly after- wards and throw it into a nearby field, little realizing that their bullet had passed right through their victim and gone speeding on for nearly another block, past numerous people who might haev been seriously injured. "Now apart from the well known fact that "A Scout is a friend to animals" and therefore should not us animals or birds as targets for their rifie prac- tice, there arises the question of who should be permitted to use firearms and who should not. | In my estimation no one should be allowed to carry firearms until he is absolutely conversant with the ordin- ary rules of safety covering their use. As far as the Scouts are concerned, although this organization is non-mili- tary, the use of firearms is not abso- lutely forbidden, and boys are encour- aged to learn to shoot accurately and a badge is awarded for marksmanship. It is, however, very definitely laid down that all instruction for this badge must be carried out under the supervision of a competent [nstructor, and the target practice rules are very in which they handle same, so that it can never be recorded that a Lone Scout was responsible for the Injury to another person through the careless handling of fire-arms. A few simple rules strictly adhered to will help a great deal along these lines and we suggest the following: 'When carrying the rifle keep the muzzle pointedto the ground, or up in the air if on rocky ground. Never point the weapon at any other person, even if you know it is unload- ed. Take care that if your bullet misses its mark that it will not be like- ly to injure anything else. Always un- load your rifle or gun before entering a houss. Do not leave a loaded gun leaning up against a fence, wall, etc.,, where it is liable to be knocked over and dis- charged. Always clean your gun immediately after using. It Lonies follow these rules, accl- dents will not happen. We are glad to hear of an interest ing Church Parade' attended by the Elk Patrol of Mapde recently, at which Scoutmaster Don Hutchinson was pre- sent, and at which the Lonies joined with the Trail Rangers, Girl Guldes, etc. We hear that there is likely to be a Troop at Maple before long, and the Lonies in this district are planning another Church Parade at Richmond Hill and have invited the Patrols at Unionville, Markham, Stouffville, etc., to join with them, Some of the members of the Lion and Bear Patrols of the 3rd Troop, who are located at Lakefield, are plan- stringent. ning to hold a summer camp some- No doubht quite a number of Lone! where near Toronto, which can be Scouts are in possession of .22 rifles, | visited daily by Scoutmaster Vic Shep- and we urge very strongly that they |pard. We hope they have lots of fun. take partic ular care as to the manner --"Lone BE." Good News For the Fate British Women Value Confidence in the restoration of the Uses of Electricity Canadian-British live cattle trade ap- pears to be returning rapidly and with- in a comparatively short time we may | again sée a revival--though perhaps in another form--of the very profitable | business which existed twenty years or so ago, says The Montreal Daily Star in this editorial. Hundreds of fine Western cattle have already gone London' -- The members of the Electrical Association for Women believe that electric development on the domestic side would progress with greater rapidity over the whole country if a large number of train- ed women were employed In connec- tion with home service departments and they passed a resolution to this this year. From Brandon comes the | effect at their recent meeting in news of a gathering of more than one London. hundred stockmen who are unanimous- | Lady Moir, the new chairman, said ly in favor of the organization of a Canada-wide plan for export marketing of livestock and livestock products. They look to the establishment of an -export business of between 400 and 600 cattle a week. The objective of the Western stock- men is a connection with the great Co-operative Wholesale Society of England, one of the biggest buyers of foodstuffs in the world. Already such an agreement exists in a small way, affecting 75 head a week, and the Co- operative is reported to be very favor- ably disposed toward the idea of sup- plying its 5,000 retail butcher shops : with Canadian beef if both the quality ; and the quantity are kept up. To go into the business on this scale means, of course, the erection of plants both in the East and the West, the finan- | : cing of which will, it appears, be un-, dertaken through the English society, 3 if the biz-scale plan now contemplated A is carried out. Fresh-killed Canadian beef should have a decidedly better market in Britain than 4he chilled meat from the Argentine or Australia, While the livestock export business in its widest scope is and will prob- ably always remain largely a Western interest, there seems no good reason why the Kasfern farmer can not add materially to his income by handling a few head of export cattle each year. E: It was a ready and safe source of in- : come in the East a comparatively few RP gl rah ah that the slow development in the use of electricity in the home was largely attributable to ignorance of its possibilities and potentialities, Mrs. Wintringham, who spoke at the luncheon on the same occasion, sald that the provision of electrical appliances and power would relieve or even abolish much of the drudgery connected with the dally round of the country woman.--The Christian Science Monitor. meri instr Bull Likes Good Music But Jazz Offends Him Geneva, Ind.--Tosca, a Black An- gus bull with a penchant for good music and a bovine way of applaud- ing Its rendition, has been discover- ed on the farm of O. O. Ryan, near here. Tosca's love for operatic scores and his aversion for ragtime has been indulged by Mrs. Ryan, an accom- plished pianist, who has the bull for an audience every afternoon. Snatches from "Rigoletto," "Thals," and other operas never fail to lure Tosca from the barnyard to Mrs. Ryans window, where he stands with his head cocked to one side dur- ing her playing, and upon the con- clusion of each plece bellows and paws the ground to show his appreci- ation, A jazz or a "blue" number, Mrs. Ryan says, invariably causes years ago, when steers were stall-fed and shipped from this port from all over Ontario and Qpuebec ready for the abattoir. With the market se- curity and stability which would be assured through connection with the Co-operative Wholesale Society a re- vival of the cattle trade seems about to be assured. Certainly it will be most heartily welcome, not only on the wide ranges of the West, but on the small dairy farms of the East as well. ee ee ee Tourist Trade Ranks Third In Canadian Industries Ottawa. -- The tourist trade main- tains its position as Canada's third most important industry. Al- though tourists were more economic- al in their expenditures during 1930, their number increased 3,000,000 13 over the previous year. : An estimate made by the Domin- fon Bureau of Statistics places at, $279,238,000 the amount left in Can- ada by tourists last year. This Is below the estimate' of $309,379,000 for 1929, but $4,000,000 above 1928 figures. The 1930 total is divided as follows: From the United States by . automobile $202,409,000; from the same country by railroad and steam- er $63,238,000; from all countries via ocean ports $12,995,000 rere re good conversation, manners and the animal to butt the side of the ! house In annoyance. h-- Half-Finished War Canoes Tell of Ancient Ambush Auckland, N.Z. -- Three ancient Maori war canoes, all well preserved, have"been found in a forest of Totara timber near New Plymouth, North Island of New Zealand. Woodmen, searching for timber, came on a wide glade in which all the trees were younger than those sur- rounding. Hidden by undergrowth were found the three huge canoes, one completed and the other two near- ly completed. It was an ancient native shipbuild- ing yard and scattered tools and a tew skulls suggested that the ship- | wrights had been ambushed at thelr tasks. a tmp eeermen Ambassador Stimulates World Fair Plans Chicago. -- Brig-Gen. Charles G. Dawes, United States Ambassador to Great Britain, banker and a promoter of the Century of Progress Exposition, returned from Washington, D.C, and immediately began to stimulate pre- paratiops for the World's Fair here in 1932. . He will be very busy, he sc!d, as he, is returning to England in two weeks. He sa'd ®ngland is going to send over tion, come from a cpontaneitr. forgets usage: nus makes tha | ~ great.---Ralph Wald) Emsr- © itg finest wralp for howing at the ex- position. ¥ia awed the Transportation cuf'ding. "c, ¢ MGer >. pleted, and physical inspection, but with aid hay per ih / of ture, states that while Canadians are essentially a mew quantity in that] part of South America the Canadian Exhibit proved the hig attraction of \| the show. Interest in Canada has been stirred as never before and the contacts made may be expected to bring much of benefit to Canada. He gees an interesting future in the de- velopment of exports ef poultry breeding stock, and at times of low prices in Canada ef egg exports for the poultry industry in Canada. Egg grading in Canada gives Dominion exporters a real advantage in respect gated by a c of Science, Sommissio by Ivan Bublis, Digging at one place to the es eighty-seven mnters, the com mn found layers of ore that contained £5 per cont. iron. The average percent- age of iron content in this ore is ~x-' pected to be between 35 and 40. So far, 1,000 meters have been investigat- ed, but within the next two years it is plaw ic to investigate 35,000 meters of a keeper it seems ag easy as feeding a baby. has his keeper worried because he is only consuming two bales of Here is a giant hippo who seems reluctant to open his mouth for of some feed and the strong arms The hippo. probably Business is + Improving Winnipeg.--Travelling salesmen at- tending the Grand Council Conven- tion of the United Commercial Travel- lers, which opened recently in Winni- peg, are proud to agree with needs good salesmen. Depression may come and go but these ambassadors of trade and shock troops of business the fact that members of thelr fra- ternity are working harder than ever to make sales. the job are getting results. It was announced as the sentiment of representatives from all parts ot Canada and the United States that business is improving and that hard | work is reviving prespects general- ly. pm mmm i King's Yacht Wins Royal Thames Race Ryde, England--King George's 38- { year-old yacht Britannia won the Royal Thames Yacht Club race over a 40-mile triangular course in a Te- cent race, It was the Brifannia's first victory since being equipped with a Bermudian rig. Sin Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. was second, Astra third, and Can- dida fourth. rel Canada's Largest Airplane the | Prince of Wales that the world still | revealed Those who are on | AS--------------------------_ France and Germany Glasgow Herald (Cons.): France has yet to realize the absurdity of her plan of keeping ex-enemy states, Ger- many above all, in permanent subjac- tion. A concrete proof of its futility was given recently, when the new i German warship was launched at Kiel. { Limitations imposed on German naval construction have only resulted in that country producing a warship so effi- cient for her size that French stand- ards of security have been overturned. The lesson of the Deutschland and the | lesson of the Customs Union plan are | ultimately the same. It is a vain hops | to keep a great country suppressed by i means of rules and regulations. Soon- er or later it will throw them off, and be all the more dangerous through ro- sentment at their imposition. The only sound policy for European States is to cultivate good will and mutual under- standing. 17-Year Locust Invasion Harmless, Farmers Told Columbus, Ohio. -- No alarm need y be felt over the advent of the seven- | teen-year "locust" breed of 1931, which 1s now making its appearance in Ohio and a portion of Pennsyl- vania and West Virginia, according to experts at Ohio State University. The experts . explained that the seventeen-year locust was really a ci- factured completed by the Canadian Vickers, Ltd, of Montreal. will be used by the government for forest-fira protection equipped with collapsible canoe a special has 300 horsepower, twi accommodation in rapt atention & jr exhibits will be modern wonder. The largest airplane ever manu- recently in Canada was work and wheel beaching gear. The new plane nd n motors and for six passengers. cada, and an almost harmless rela- tive to the harvest fly, although ap- pering formidable because of the noise made by it and the large num- is | bers in which the breed appear. Re- cords available in Ohio ghow that the It | seventeen-year locust: invaded the state in 1829, 1846, 1863, 1897 and 1914. Four-of-a-Kind to dependable quality ly, largely a matter of indifference. ------ New Airport Work To Cost $2,209,674 New York -- The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, announced recently that it had from nearly 100 cities showing that $2,209,674 is be- construction Inc., received reports ing spent for airport work this spring. The chamber's statement sald that were taking advantage of the decline in building the airport operators material prices to improve their pro: pertles. Munipical governments, the report in this said, were doing respect. erm eens-- New World Record the most Flying continuously for more than a Packard- recently nonarefuelling world's and At 6.47 am. May 25 the 225<horsepower plane took off from the beach at Jacksonville, Fla,. three days and nights, Diesel-powered - Bellanca set a new endurance record of 84 hours 33 minutes. with a grosg load of 6,715 pounds, in: cluding 481 gallons of fuel oil. When the wheels again touched the sands at 7.20 p.m. May 28 the record estab lished by the Frenchmen Bossoutrot and Rossi, in a specially constructed plane powered by a 600-horsepower motor, had been exceeded by 9 hours and 10 minutes. en Boy Scouts Prove To Be Good Hands at Foresting Scout troops have been active co-operators with the Forest Service of the United States Dept. of Agriculture in plant- Washington, D.C. -- Boy ing young trees on vacant lands. In 1929, the former ranger of Ump qua National Forest, Ore, twenty-eight Cottage Grove natural Ef Increasing Yields The application of a definite scheme of crop rotation is being found an feed costs. The chief advantages of such a practice are: (1) Maintaining and improving soil fertility, thus increas- ing ylelds; (2) Assisting in weed con- (3) Assisting in the coatrol of insect and crop diseases by having important factor in reducing trol; various crops on fresh soil each year; and it makes a more even distribu- tion of labor throughout the year pos- sible. Increasing the yield per acre ig one of the best ways of reducing cost of production, and in this re- spect crop rotation plays a real part. --Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. \, Sour of s Jul WERIVETS Hau hand to You ant tou: Fe ured i whore aro cquly us had to better. They ave Suatsusipe aa the proverbial peas in the pod. They are tha. sisters of Los Angelos, Patsy, Adak, Catherine 81d Mini. They were born om August 10, 191%. in a market where quality as yet is, to put it mild- took Boy Scouts to an old cut-over area where reproduction was sparse, There they planted 8,000 Douglas fir | Beginning with the Michaelmas 1 Earl of Airlie watching Tommy Armour. win British open golf championship at Carnoustie. este Spoil-Sports You will find them wherever you BO. There is no escaping them. They rejoice in their unpleasantness. They cannot enjoy what is going on, and they won't let anyone else have any enjoyment if they can help It. What is one to do with such im- possible people? Sending them to Coventry is a very good way, but these unpleasant .| Individuals have a knack of being impervious to snubs and cold shoul ders. Turn your back upon them, .| and round they come on the other side. I am inclined to think that tha best method is to ignore them. If you keep it up long enough, and pre- vent these spoil-sports getting thelr way, they give in eventualy. In the long run, they cannot stand it. And they turn elsewhere to work off their little nuisances." It is a pity these people cannot see how objectionable they are.--G.H.G. --_-------- Number of Airplanes . Trebles in Five Years Washington.--The number of active licensed airplanes in the United States has more than trebled since: 1926, when the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce assumed the duty of regula"ng aircraft. At the end of 1930, there were 7,354 licensed airplanes, a department bulletin states, compared with 1,908 in 1927. Unlicensed aircraft increased from 832 to 2,464 in the same period. Statistics on the development of the Federal airways show that at the end of 1930 there were 1,782 airports, 15, 258 miles of lighted airways and e«- tensive government communications systems. sendmail ian What Liverpool Likes The Dominion Fruit Branch has just received a copy of the Empire Marketing Board report of its survey of the apple market in Liverpool, Eng- land. It finds that the Liverpool mar- ket prefers the variety Virginia York Imperial best, then in sequence the more familiar Jonathan, Newton- Pippin and Winesap. In boxed apples preference is for Spitzbergen, Deli- cious and McIntosh Red. Barrelled apples in general demand are: Bald- wins, Kings, Greenings, Blenheims, Cranberry Pippins; while in addition Stark and Fallawater are generally stocked by the retailers. Over 200 re- tailers were interviewed during the survey, and the Liverpool market com- prises a population of about 1,300,000. \--Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. AR rete amie Archaeologists Enter Land of Afghanistan Washington -- The ~ National Geo- graphic Society learned recently that the Trans-Asia expedition led by { Georges Marie-Haardt, and operat- ing with the society's co-operation, has entered Asia and i$ encamped out- side the old walls of Herat. Through radio messages received from the expedition's mobile station by amateur operator Eppa Darne here, the soclety was Informed that the party had crossed the borders of Afghanistan. In seven large trac- tor, cars, the expedition is making its way across Asia over a route made tamous by Marco Polo. Herat is about 2,200 years old. Alexander the. Great Is credited with building the walls there during his conquest of the East, Genghis Khan razed it with a horde of Mon- gols and left only halt a hundred of {ts citizens alive, rere lpr Oxford .to Curb Student Motors Oxford, Eng. -- Regulations con- corning the use of automobiles by undergraduates will be put into ef- fect this fall at Oxford University. term in October, students will be per- mitted to drive machines only be- and to install two mines. . stated that on the basis of several years of investigations he estimated the total reserve of iron ore in the region of the "Kursk anomaly" at about 200,000,000,000 tons, "which is as much as the total world reserve outside of the U.S.S.R., according to the est.mates of Professor Otto Kuhn, made in 1926. Even if we were to of the Kursk ore at 35 per cent., the iron reserve of the Kursk region would be 70,000,000,000 tons." «| A commission to investigate the Kursk anomaly, which had been or- ganized by the initiative of Professor Gubkin and by direct order of Lenin, had its work terminated by order of the Supreme Council of National Econoiny mora than six years ago, in srite of the fact that it reported in- teresting resulls. mip -- Big Russian Invasion Carrot Pest Spreads Same curiously interesting facts are associated with the-work of the Ento- mological Branch of the Dominion De- partment of Agriculture and amorg these is included the steady spread to the West and South of the carrot ruse fly (Psila rosae Fab.). This insect is of European origin, having bzen first described many years ago from Bessarabia in southwestern Russia. It hag been a serious vegetable pest in Northern Europe for a long period, and has been known in Eastern Can ada for nearly half a century, It is spreading slowly west and south and in Canada has reached the Lake Su- perior region. It is one of the most difficult of soil-inhabitang insects to control and has been the subject ot study on two continents for years. There are two generations of these flies each year and injury to the carrot crop is caused by the maggots from the eggs laid by these flies, which bore irto the young carrot early in June and again into the nore mature root early in October. Two methods of control are found useful. First the cultural method of late planting so that seed- lings do not appear above ground be. fore June 10, and of early harvesting, before September 15. The second me- thod of control is the application of corrosive sublimate as an insecticide applied at the time ¢f egg laying in the life cycle of the fly. The solution used is one ounce to ten gallons of water. This mixture is used to thor- oughly saturate the soil around the young seedlings, ---------- A Big Year's Work During the fiscal year ended March 31, 1931, the Publications Branch of the Department of Agriculture at Ot- tawa sent out a total of 5,207,108 bulletins, pamphlets, circulars, mar. ket reports and similar material to farmers throughout Canada. Of this huge total 2,117,026 items were copies of bulleting and pamphlets mailed from Ottawa in response to direct res quests from farmers. In four scpa rate issues 2,134,275 copies of "Sea- sonable Hints" were mailed; while a ports, issued by the various Branches of the Department were sent out, This represents an increase of near ly 25 per cent. in this phase of the work of the Branch. It is in this way that the results of the research and experimental work of the several Branches of the Department are pass- ell along to Canadian farmers. ee Germans Like Family Life - Berlin--Figures made public at a convention of the Women's League at Stuttgart indicate that the German preference for family life has in. creased rather than decreased since the war. Ninety-five per cent. of Germans live with their families and only M..per cent. live alone. Of 11,000,000 mature German wo men, 9,000,000 devote their entire time to family life with 4,700,000 both in the family and wage-earning spheres and 6,800,000 sited as pri marily wage earners. An address at the opening of the convention gave a warning of the uselessness of any effort to make the old ideal of womanhood appeal to the modern German girl, who Is de- termined to have a more indepen. dent position and a more intellectual type of influence. ms meeps A New Pield for the Alpinist The great attraction of Jasper Na. tional Parkin Bfterta isipisie gine ers is no doubt the opportunity it af- fords for first aseents. There are many important peaks still uncor- tween 1 pm. and 9 pm. quered and even unnamed 'and whole regions. waiting to be explored. In an interview Professor Gubkin total of 1,063,724 copies of market re- estimate the average iron content of