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'may then wear the Lone Scout Uni brother Lonies in different parts of the * esting programme of fun, adventure He has the right to participate In 'As soon as a Lone Scout has passed. 'Tenderfoot Test he receives an at- ve membership certificate, and He also receives, monthly, free of charge, the Lome Scout paper "On Lone Scout Trails," giving news of his | Province, and Scouting news in gener- al, - He has the privilege of earning and eving all ranks, titles, badges and onors as offered to any other Scout on the same basis of a Scout's inter and achievement. He has the opportunity to partici; pate in all local, Provincial or Domini. on events, activities, and programmes on the same basis ds any other Scout. He has the chance, under Scout authority, to select the best man in his community to be his counsellor and friend. This adult friend is respons- ible for the advancement tests for the Lone Scout, / And all these privileges he re- ceives for an annual subscription of only b60c. No boy in Ontario can afford to be without the Scout programme of plea- sure, training and opportunity. Par- ents will want to do their part to make possible their son's participation in this great boys' game of Scouting and To Give Pupils Breakfast Havana.--Beginning Nov. 2, break- fast will be given to 10,000 Havana school children from poverty-stricken homes, it was announced recently by the committee in charge of the pupils' breakfast fund, which now amounts to $300,000 and has been raised by pub- Me subscription. Havana bus com- citizenship. : It is a game any boy will love to play; aug is a "team" game, emphasiz- and fostering the spirit of service and helpfulness to others. If, therefore, you are a boy between the ages of 12 and 18, and live near aJ Troop Headquarters, go and see the Scoutmaster, and link up with the Scouts. But if you live in the country where there is no Scout Troop, be come a Lone Scout, and write for in- formation to "The Lone Scout Depart- ment," Boy Scouts' Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2. "Lone E" hopes that his brother Lonies are hot forgetting to write to him on the subject of the proposed Ontario Lone Scout Winter Camp, and also hopes that all Ontario Lonies are giving their very serious attention to the great Xmas "Good Turn," the Lone 'Scout Toy Shop. Lone Scout Question Box What are the wooden beads on a boot-lace that I see around the necks of some Scoutmasters?--(R. T. Lind- say). These are the insignia of the "Gill well Training Course and signify that the wearer has taken the course of training for Scoutmastership, both practical -and theoretical, and has graduated successfully. The practical part of this course is held annually in Ontario at a Leaders Camp at Ebor Park, near Brantford, and is limited to a clas8 of 32 Teaders, each year. ie "we" in preference to the "I"|- The once mighty Los Angeles is crowded. into the corner as the new air giant Akron sticks her snout into the Lakehurst, N.J., hangar where both dirigibles are now quartered. Census Shows U.S. Indian | Long Distance "Phone Calls s . 4 . 8 . Population Rapidly Growing Fashionable in Paris Washington--The "dying race" of | Paris. -- Long-distance ; telephone American Indians has proved to be ' any have become very fashionable in veherwise, during the last decade. | Paris, where, one might almost say, g 1930 Lo showed the Ih- yoy have become a favorite pastime, dian oan ng by 8,960, a 36 per {accordtng to a recent report issued by cent. galn. With a 16 per cent. galn | yo melephone Administration. There in the population at large, that jump |are daily calls - to every country in in a race pronounced dying was | Europe with the exception of Bulgaria, pronounced impossible. Greece and Russia, where the tele- The experts attributed it to an In- | ree system is defective, Calls to Sdeuuate 1930 consus aud to A Clover Germany are frequent; there were, L. F. Schmeckbler. expert borrowed last year, almost 1,000,000 calls to that ro mn a research institute to super country. Belgium holds the record vise the Indian census, got to digging a aus We Sumber of around in county schedules and dis- ings: th 8432 covered a bumper crop of little In- States is growing: ere were dlans which he pronounced "real last year. For $25 one may talk to New gain" Dr. Schmeckbler sald he had 1 York for three minutes, and one can . 3 be practically certain that the line Moen unable to Jem beter The will not be busy. All that is necessary 3 "LONE E." London Commemorates "Hero of Trafalgar" London.--London's newest museum opened recently and flags were flown in the annual commemoration of the great naval victory at Trafalgar. "Nelson Room," in Lloyd's marine panies donated one day's receipts to the fund. Plans are now being made! to continue raising money for the fund. City school teachers started the campaign after they learned that many children were being sent to school without breakfast. The school hours have been reduced to a single morning session. of four and one-half hours for upper grades and three and one-half hours for lower grades. This was done to reduce ex- penses. - "Idle Wealth" Clifford Sharp in Everyman (Lon- don): British resources, as measured by the actual productive capacity of the country, are enormous. We are potentially as wealthy as we need to be. It is absurd to say that we have been living "beyond our means." We have not been living even up to our means. What we have been living be- yond is our capacity to pay for im- ported goods in gold bullion. We pos- sess, in fact, an enormous surplus of unused productive power (l.e., wealth) represented by idle factories and idle men. It is merely the machinery of exchange that has gone wrong and that is very largely the fault of the bankers. Except in terms of gold, We are as solvent and as rich as we have ever been and if gold could be abolished to-morrow we should be very well-to-do indeed. We might be able even to increase the dole!--if that were good policy, which I certainly do mot suggest. . etme en U. S. Navy to Build Sister Ship of Akron Washington--The U.S. Navy has Just recently approved a contract for building the ZRS-5, sister ship of the glant airship Akron, ordered 18 new 'planes and let a contract for begia- ning work on an airship hangar in The new airship is to be Ebulit by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation 'within 15 months of the time the Akron leaves the dock. § 'The navy will accept the ship of- ficially as soon as Licut.Commander 'Charles BH. Rosendahl siarts her for Sanehuiat. There she will be arm- insurance building in Leadenhall St. contains one of the rarest and richest collections of Nelson relics ever as- sembled. The room is paneled in oak like a frigate of Nelson's time, and its walls are bright sith painted flags' flown. on Nelson's ships. At one end signal: "England "expects every man to do his duty." Perhaps the most valuable item is the yellowed logbook of the Euryalus, Nelson's signal frigate at Trafalgar, telling the story of the encounter. There also 1s a large collection of curios, such as tobyjugs with Nelson's head on them, showing how England went hero-mad during the period of naval victories over Napoleon. The gifts showered upon Nelson col- lected in Lloyd's room rival the col lection Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh brought from Paris four years ago. Lloyd's itself gave a magnificent set of the Nile and Copenhagen, and these have the place of honor in the collec. tion. The showcase that drew the big- gest crowds contains the decorations Nelson was wearing on the quarter- deck vhen he was fatally wounded in battle. ------ Heated Sidewalks Madrid--The Madrid City Council is studying a proposal, favored by Mayor Pedro Rico, to heat the city's sidewalks with electricity this win. ter for the benefit of the homeless. . The proposal calla for the laying of heat mains beneath the streets, with the cost to be defrayed by the sale of heat to householders. --- | infant mortality, or to better econ- the flags are arranged i1-the historic' of plate to commemorate the battles, to talk to friends in Morocco or even to Detter health conditions lowering |, \, cing 14 to ask for their number. ¢ But there is no great demand for these two countries, only 209 calls for Moroe- TPOSDOLLY. extinction, he pre- C0 8nd 166 for Indo-China being re phesied, will not lie in a slow racial orded in a year. | death on the reservations, but in the | ail i influx of educated young Indians into} | ' : the cities, with intermarriage and Critish Rail Traffic loss of Indian identity within a few Shows Big Decr omic conditions during the years of | The Times (Conservative) __The overwhels victory ot 'the National Government is already with- in sight. "The result is the more re- markable since among the men bers' returned in the first results in the last Parliament more than 130 were Socialists and 0; es above 5,000. In such constit- uen it might have been said that the prospects of National candidates were least hopeful as they included typical urban aréas all over the coun- try and seats which were held by all the . more prominent leaders of the Socialist party. «With the solitary exception of Sir Stafford Cripps, who is returned by a small majority, all these leaders are defeated:--Henderson, Clynes, Green: wi Alexander, Morrison, Shaw, Miss Bondfield. The country has delivered judgment in no uncertain voice upon the men who ran away and the some fate has befallen their followers, dupes or in- stigators. Moreover, they are' left without the smallest crumb of comfort. 75 of them had| beaten ! ned in 1929 have gone again. In: a J5ot as 3one ats, Ie 'gardener tend. ahe fa areas and Labor's grip on the indus. [78 30d sometimes strenuous season trial towns has been badly shaken,'®TO08 the flowers, fruits and shrubs, Wherever Conservatives or Liberals Y..h the result that preparations for have arranged a straight fight with ".nteF Which should be made are very Labor, Labor has been decisively often neglected with cubsequent ine bonates » ove cornered ; JUrious results. nH fights the division of. the Government The annual border, after the: first forces is no help to Labor. | ling frost, generally becomes ume 'With a /poll much {ho same as in sightly and should be cleared of all the 1929 in most cases. the solid transter 16Dris to alloy of covering with well of Labor votes went to Conservatives | Otted manure which should be dug in or Liberals standing with Conserva-| *"a iBcorporated with the soil. tive help. Where the Liberal stood . perennial border may require aside almost the whole Liberal vote some refilling of weak or dead plants, has gone to the Conservative, or| Which can be done at this time. The where it went to Labor it was bal | dead tops may be left on to serve as a anced by a withdrawal of Labor votes. How Hob, mulching with prairie hay, Mr. MacDonald has succeeded beyond 3 sae 8, or straw pk eze-up is his wildest hopes. The majority pro- ae 3 a : iy paslaying mises to exceed the historic Liberal freezing and thawing, The vegetable garden should receive majority of 1918. The Liberals are divided into three, ..... similar to that given to the sections. What will be their alignment | annual flower border, the ground being when the critical issue of free trade is | left rough to prevent the too rapid (fRised by the Conservatives, who ate] TUn-Oft of 'show water, and soil drift the predominant partner? How long water 50 5 Their defeat was not due to absten-lwill they forbear exploiting thelr ad: tions for considering the fog the poll | vantage? The election settles noth- was very heavy. At Burnley, where ing except as it confirms Labor in Qp- Mr. Henderson was defeated by 8,000,' position, depriving it of some of its no less than 91 per cent. of the elec-| best men and endowing it with a sense torate voted. National candidates of injustice that lessens its power and made a clean sweep in Manchester. | usefulness in political life. Sheffield, Birmingham, Leicester, Sal- . . . ford and won astonishing victories in Liverpool, Nemcastle and Bristol. Liberal supporters of the Govern- ment in proportion to thelr numbers did as well as the Conservatives, There cannot be the "slightest doubt that the vote which favored both was National and not party The return of Sir Herbert Samuel at Darwen is a case in point The problems facing the new Parliament are many and fre- quent temptations to form groups and cabals must be sternly resisted. They are pledged to the maintenance of our currency and credit and upon their success depends the very continuance Daily Express (Conservative) Who dared to doubt the British peo- ple? The results exceed only in mag- nitude the confidence we had in a triumph of the National Government and disaster for the Socialists, Faint hearts did their best to prevent an election. They screamed for days that the risk was too terrible. election was inevitable they screamed no insistence on tariffs and no men- tion of Empire Free Trade, only a pro- | mise to look into it if they were re- turned to power. Once more the men who believed in When an! that there must be no positive policy, | islands. . . . Daily Telegraph (Conservative) It 'was a wonderful day's work in the interest of sane, honest Govern- ment. The result is a record and as sweeping a verdict as was ever ren- dered by the people voting with the fullest demogratic freedom on an issue such as was never presented to an electorate before, The attempt to ob- scure the issue was carried out with tireless and feverish energy but the appeal to the fundamental good sense, generations. Railroad traffic receipts of the four : mee fine j group companies during the first 38 .U. S. License Plates { weeks of 1931 shows decreases when | Sombre in Color compared with the same period of 1930 and 1929. Philadelphia.--A new mode has Passenger receipisihave- dropped reached the field of automobile plates, $20,000,000 Feil according to the Automobile Club of hOUU,L00 as compared w and Philadelphia. A survey shows that $30:900,000 in 1920. The largest de- tags will be more sombre and stand- | CTéAse 1s recorded ardi in 1932 than ever before. Heed have white on responding period of 1930 and $43 black for their license plates; six 108:000 for 1929. have selected white on blue; four The total decrease reveals a figure states will use tags of black with Of $56,080,000 as compared with 1930 yellow numerals; four have white 20d $90,095,000 with 1929. on green, three: chose black on! A Dumber of railroad anniversaries orange; three black on. yellow; and &re Dow being celebrated in Great Bri- : . tain, three white on maroon. Ths most individugl of all the col-| In Oct, 1849, the Windsor line was ors selected are those of Wyoming, | Opened. During the same month of cream on brown. The survey cov-, 1783 the first sleeping cars were used ers all states except Arkansas, New OD the West Coast route to Scotland. Mexico and Missourd. . Seventeen years later third class was provided on all Great Western passen- M uf ; r A 3 . ger trains. "To Advertise Freely" rT . Bast St. Louis, Nl.--Advertise ex- Will Regulates Widow's Diet tensively and convincingly. That| London.--Charles A. T. Prideaux, a was the gist of the recommendation barrister, left his widow about $165, presented by Mr. Thomas S. Ham-| 000, hedged with curious restrictions. mond, president of the Whiting Cer- i She must never, the will said, eat pate poration, Chicago, before a recent de foi gras, crab, crayfish, lobster, meeting here of the Illinois Manu- prawn, shrimp, eel or "any shell or facturers Association. { other animal or creature" without ab- "l am In favor of color work in solute prof of its humane death be- newspapers and magazine advertis-' fore cooking. ' ing," he sald. "Now. is no time to! > " pate expenses, King Had Good Shooting Mistress (discharging maid)--1| Since the King's return' from Bal- told you I should take short measures, Moral it is learned that his Majesty if 1 caught you kissing the milkman, ®bjoyed a splendid season of shooting n . on the Deeside. He is not only an ex- Maid--Well, ma'am, after I've gone cellent, but a versatile shot, for he is you'll get 'em! as good at grouse as he is at deer. i respect for courage and straight deal- ing was splendidly justified. Nemesis of political folly came swift and deadly to leaders who betrayed | their trust and they have been taught a lesson that will be long remembered. The National Government had a ma- jority far beyond expectations. The in merchandise road is open for the enterprise of set-, with a loss of $27,610,000 for the cor-! ting the country on its feet leading to; PY one-fifth. Everywhere the Liberals a new path of progress and prosperity. . . . \ Daily Herald (Labor) | The:great flight is over and what- ! ever is the result the Lobor movement of the whole country owes a deep debt of gratitude to countless men and wo- men who worked strenuously for the cause . It was never so manifest that the Labor party and the Labor move ment are deeprooted in the hearts of the people. Tory hope that the party would be riven in twain has been falsi- fled. The whole forces of reaction have 'been flung into the attempt to break it and the attempt has failed. There have been casualties but the solid mass of the movement has stood firm, To those recalling the terrible odds they have been up against let us recall earlier days when our forbears fought hopeless odds in constituencies which are now unassailable strongholds of Labor. However the fight may go in a particular time or place the final is- sue and final victory are beyond ques- tion. * » . Morning Post (Conservative) Never in the history has any party met such crushing defeat. What was the largest party in the last Parlia- ment has been swept out of existence in one night, No exegitist, however cunning, can explain away or even the fact that men who ventured to play fast and loose with British credit have been politically extinguished. There has been no mercy for them. East, west, north and south and not least emphatically in the industrial areas, they have been condemned, re- pudiated and dismissed. The British people spoke with a voice which can- not be misunderstood. Its emphasis cannot be ignored. The result is amaz- ing, magnificent and heartening as°*it is important. ' An ex-Cabinet Minister in the Labor Government was rejected while the man against whom he directed his en- gines of wrath--J. H. Thomas--was returned at Derby with a colossal ma- jority of 28,000. The stability of Eng- land is assured. The strength of Eng- land is still something to lean on. . . be . Manchester Guardian (Liberal) The shortest, strangest and . most fraudulent election campaign of our It is over. 'The first results show |. Dl that the new Parliament will abate the tremendous significance of of Parliamentary government in these priain noye triumphed over the wob- blers. Their policy of home and Em- pire tariffs cost them the support of the News-Chronicle, London Star and Manchester Guardian and earned the direct hostility of Mr. Lloyd George. It won the greatest political victory of modern times. Although the House of Commons will not see him again, one man will look at the picture with deep abiding pride--the frail little figure with the heart of a lion, who was Socialist Chancellor of the Ex- chequer. : . . ' | News-Chronicle (Liberal) The result leaves no doubt of the character of the new Parliament. It is a landslide for the National Ghvern- ment won along the line from Liandee to Bristol, from Sheffield to Hast.ngs. They carried all before them. Almost everywhere the Labor poll"has fallen appear to have supported the Conser- vative against the Socialist. One thing is certain. The Labor Opposi- tion is most gravely under-represented !in the new House. It is a moral case of heavy responsibility upon the huge Government majority to be represen- tative of the whole nation, not of any | party interest. . . . Daily Mail (Conservative) You, the People of England, re- sponded nobly at the polls to the call 'of duty. The Empire owes its grati- tude to you. Two forces contributed 'to the signal triumph. The first is , the growing enthusiasm of the elec torate for tariffs and the second is the determination of the British worker to deal a death-blow to predatory Social ism. Let us now go forward and com- plete the task of National revival and reconstruction. . rn Diets and the Wheat Question Professor T. Gregory in the Fort- nightly Review (London): A whole series of complex causes is operating at present on the demand side to make the position of the cereal pro- ducer more dificult--the falling off in the growth of population, the fact that a population composed more largely of older people requires less food per capita, the "slimming" craze, the growth of per capita income which leads: people to prefer a more varied diet, the urbanization of population, which reduces crude food require- ments. These changes are coinciding with technological changes which make it easier to grow a larger vol ume on the same acreage as before; an accentuation of changes which have been going on since the dawn of history. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the wheat farm- er should be depressed. ® Typhus Depletes Canine Population of Prague Prague.--There has been an out- break of dog-typhus here which has reduced the canine population by 90 per cent. The bacillus is present in the ordin- '| ary drinking water in Prague, but has Dogs afflicted become terribly thin and dfe in eight or ten days. A some- what similar outbreak was reported from Berlin earlier in the year. ing. | The fruit plantation should be given 'ample drainage, in the form of fur rows ploughed at intervals with later als connecting all the low areas. The strawberries should receive a mulch of several inches of straw or prairie hay. The raspberry canes, if not pruned should be, and the remainder bent over and held in place with clods (of earth or poles, or even bent over and entirely covered with soil. The fruit trees, particularly apples and | crabs, require protection on the trunk and lower branches, to overcome sun- | scald injury and damage from rabbits (and mice. The younger and smaller | trees should be wrapped with strips of burlap or old sacking or building paper to effectively combat against the sunscald and rabbits; mice, however, are partial to burlap "or nest making purposes, hence this is not so useful if mice are prevalent. Pieces of boards, one foot wide and of suitable lengths, set against the southwest exposure of | the trunks of standard apple trees and held in place with a nail or twine at the top very effectively shade the trunk from the late afternoon sun in early spring. Grapes may be pruned after leaf fall and covered with earth before freeze-up takes place. Currants can be pruned after freeze up and the , brunings left around the bushes to serve as a snow-trap. The rabbit-proof tence around the fruit plantation should be thor uzhly gone over and any gaps in the wire re- paired and thoroughly pegged to the ground. The gates should fit tightly and where feasible all grass and de- bris should be burnt form alon. the fence to prevent the snow from ling up. It these precautions are taken success which should res the fo. ing year should amply repy, in p..t material saved and personal encour agement fostered, the extra effort and expense which may be entailed.--R. M. Wilson, Dominion Experimenial Farm, Indian Head, Sask. ee fp een Empire Coffee London Times: For ths coffee in- dustry, which has been hit like other trades by the prevailing depression, there is some consolation in the fact that but for the high quality of cof- fee grown in the Empire it would have suffered still more seriously than it has. Thanks to the reputa- tion which Empire producers have gained for the general excellence of teir output, London has come to be regarded as the chief market in Europe for the best grades of coffee. Of the gross imports that reach the London market nearly 50 per cent. is re-exported to other countries, most of which goes to Germany. The coffee-drinkers of the United King- dom are mainly those who care only for the finest quality and are com- paratively few. the -- Youth and the Future London Morning Post: The Vice Chancellor pays an exceedingly high tribute to the type of undergraduate now residence at Oxford. Recruit ed from a far wider field than form- erly, the best talent of every class is now being drafted into .the Uni- versity," and "the general level of capacity, of energy and of achieve- ment is probably higher today than at any time within living memory." This is in itself an immeasurable as- set, and an earnest of a rich har vest, however fierce may be the "economic blizzards" in store. Mod- ern youth may well have been awaiting just such a time of test- ing in order to prove its real worth. 'We shall be greatly surprised if the present world ordeal does not cal forth from the Universities a genera- tion which will build up a wiser and more enduring order than any that has ever yet been seen. > Sticking to Father's Motto Farmer Giles came out into the yard and saw his son lounging hy the cowshed. i "Hi, boy," he said, "take the old broom and sweep down those steps, will you?" <8 "But why use the old broom fom 'that?" asked the boy. "We've got a better one I can use haven't we?" "Course we've got a better ome!™ ' replied the old farmer. "Wear out | the old things first is my motto "Well, dad," sald the "op . pose you do the sweeping Tide