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_ Is Spring Here? This week we have had evidence in plenty that Spring must be either "Just Around the Corner" or else that it has been "Just fooling us." A Lone Scout of the "Hound" Patrol at Milford, Prince Edward County, has sent in to Lone Scout Headquarters a "pussy-willow" in full bloom, which he picked the other day. Those of you who attended the Lone Scout Camp at Ebor Park in 1930 will remember Mr. Luck, the popular own- er of the park. He tells us that at the | end of December it was much greener there than at the end of July, and he! sent us a dandelion which he picked in the park on December 28th, We: also heard of a gentleman who | saw a pair of starlings teaching a young one to fly in Toronto a few days ago! What About the Birds? All Lone Scouts are friends to the birds, and in spite of all the signs of| Spring, we know that there is still more cold weather to come. How about arranging to feed your feathered friends? I heard of one Scout who A January Suggestion For Lone J Patrols Parties are the usual fashionable functions at this time of the year, and in past years have organized very ful Patrol Banquets, which have proved great fun, and which have been greatly em- joyed. What about having a banquet in your Patrol, and each member in- vite another chap who is not yet a Scout? Don't forget to send an invita tion to "Lone BE," too! International Brotherhood A Boy Scout is a friend to all and a brother to every every other Scout, according to the 4th Scout Law, Thus we note that the members of the 4th Melton (Leicestershire, Eng- land) Troop have sent a gift of Scout Colors to the members of the 8th Jerusalem Troop, Palestine, thus fos- tering this brotherly spirit, Lone Scouts can do a great deal to help in this way by corresponding with other Lonies in this country or with Scouts in foreign countries. Every, member of the Ontario Lone Scout De- several Lone Patrols | made use of his discarded Christmas partment should have at least one tree for this purpose, setting it up out! goout Pen-Friend. Have you ome? It of doors and tylng all sorts of tithits not, write to your Scoutmaster and ask on to it which the birds thoroughly en- nim to get you one, but don't forget doy. to state it you want to write to ane And Incidentally, now is the time to other Canadian Lonie or to a Foreign prepare new bird houses for mnext|gout. year's tenants. Don't forget that Good Turn, Lonles! The Scout Census A TROUP OUTING Lonies of this province will be in- The newly formed Unionville Troop, | terested to know that according to a who were recently members of the | recent census of the Boy Scout Mem- Lone Scout Dpartmnt, paid a visit to bership of Ontario there are 21,793 Toronto on December 29th, for their Scouts iu this province, including, of Christmas Outing. They visited the course, Rovers and Wolf Cubs. Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, Of this number 312 are Lone Scouts, which is the tallest building in 'Toron- and the above figures shows a very to, and inspected it from cellar to roof substantial increase over the figures garden. In the afternoon they all went! returned a year ago. We are growing, ~ to a "Show," and were afterwards on- Lonies! Let us see to it that we grow tertained to supper, followed by games in efficiency as well as in numbers dur and entertainment by the 8rd Toronto ing 1932! Troop. Particulars of the Lone Scouts of Here's a Good Motto For 1932 |Ontario may be obtained from the Always keep your tail wagging, even Lone Scout Department, The Boy if you can only got the tip of it to Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, work! I'Toronto 2--"LONE E." The latest invention from Germany is the "cloud movie" Here we seg Dr. H. Mannheimer of Berlin demonstrating his machine which "projects short films on clouds to a distance of 2,000 meters, Gold Findings In B.C. Grand Forks, B.C.--~Recent uncov- ering of ore running $75 to the ton on the Gold Drop Mines in the Jewel Camp Is said to be the most sensa- tional find in boundary district mining in recent years. Picked samples are sald to have ru nmuch higher, Several samples brought to Grand Forks have large spots of free gold and assays have been running around $30. The ore was found In a high grade shoot containing telluride and free gold and is a parallel vein from which some 17 tons of ore running $30 to the ton was recently shipped. The new find has been inspected by P. B. Freeland, Government min- ing engineer, who states that ore of similar type has been found before in the district. 1 SEACH, SELMAN, Death in the Garage The Montreal Daily Star. -- The death toll from the inhalation of car- bon monoxide gas in automobile gar- ages is steadily mounting. A chauffeur . . Climate and Life In Canadian North The climate of the Canadian North does not adversely affect sea life, according to the records of the Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch of the Department of the In. terior at Ottawa. During the winter much of the surface of the water is covered by approximately five feet of ice, which forms a clearly defined line of demarcation between the Arc- tic conditions maintaining above its surface and those in the water be- neath, the result being that the gen- eral conditions in the Arctic waters are similar to those found in more temperate zones. . These conditions are clearly reflected in the character of sea life found north of the Arctic Circle. The herds of the sea mammals have not only supported the local in- habitants for many generations but have also entered the world markets. The fisheries, while as yet undevel- oped, have long been an important factor in the domestic economy of 'The Province will carry out its Debt Retirement Policy and will pay up to date and will, during the year 1982, pay up last year's instalment, and whatever deficits have accrued. The Province {is determined to do ficits, In order to make sure that Expenditure, but the Province has placed a tly higher license fee for motor cars and trucks so that this service itself 'will be self-sus- taining. : 5 "The finances of the Province are in sound condition. The taxation in Ontario is less than almost any -other ' Province in Canada. The social services as well as the mate: rial benefits are so outstanding as to place Ontario in & class by: her- self. The public must pay for them, It is no time, however, to id i of any of these, there must be a marking of time, no matter how good a project there must bg no more expenditure until we retrench and catch up. The citizen himself must be - given a chance without fear of any more taxation or disability to go ahead and make progress. Ontario is be- hind her citizens in this, ""A habit has grown up in certain quarters of comparing the finances of Ontario with 'Quebec. People are told that Quebec's debt is much smaller and that they. generally have a surplus. If those who want to this and balance its budget next year. There Will be no more de- we have spent $125,000,000 in Prov-' rose and sank in the water, and its past of we own also say _Hlectric service and Ral- 'road and has not issued bonds for . the purpose of constru such assets. ? "They might go forth and say that § t Hydro incial roads and that Quebec's roads , Ontario roads, they are mot as firm- ly constructed and in most places they are not in any way as good. But no description can give any. idea of the strangeness, splendour, and really the sublimity of the sight. . Its great size--for it must have { been two to three miles in circum-~ ference and several hundred feet im height--its slow motion, as its base | high points nodded against the this would be accomplished, not only cannot be compared with Ontario clouds; the dashing of the waves have we decided to cut our Ordinary roads. They are not as wide as upon it, which, breaking high with | foam, lined its hase with a white © crust; and the thundering sound of the cracking of the mass, and the The financial structure in Canada ; breaking and tumbling down of huge. is sound. Our Banks are evolving pieces, together with its nearness and performing thelr funbtions. and approach, which added a slight True, they must assist in financing element of fear--all combined to Canada and the Provinces, They give to it the character of true sub- must "help to finance our rallways limity. and our big public undertakings. The main body of the mass was, They must stand behind our munici- as I have sald, of an indigo color, palities although there has been its base crusted with frozen foam; over-expenditure. This functfon of and 'as it grew thin and transpar our chartered Banks in Canada is! ent towards the edges and top, its being carried out in a very helpful | color shaded off froma deep blue way. I think probably they went| to the whiteness of snow. It seemed too far, when times were good, in to be drifting slowly towards the advancing money, but they are today north, so that we kept away and standing behind all public bodies in| yyoided it. It was in sight all tha , an attempt to work out a solution afternoon; and when we got to the of our problems. It is idle, there-| leoward of it, the wind died away, , fore, to say that because there are gz, that we lay-to quite wear it for such tremendous deposits in Can- the greater part of thy night, Un ada, the Banks can do every thing. | fortunately, there 'was no moon, but There is always a limit to wat q was a clear night, and we could | credit can be given. The less the! plainly 'mark the long,regular heav- , Banks have"to do in raising money | ing of the Stupendous mass, as its for Governments aud Municipalities edges moved slowly against the | and other bodies the more will they | spars Several times on our watch, (have for the use of business and the | 10d. cracks wee heard, which Experts Waging Parasite War On Corn Borer Kept in Cold Storage in Win- ter for Massed Attack in Summer Washington.--An initial shipment of parasites, part of an army that may number 500,000 bef:re recruiting stops, will soon reach tha United States as the spearhear the 1932 offiensive of the Fedeinl Government against the corn bLorer, one of the most de- structive foes with which American agriculture Las to deal. Gathered by specialists of the Burean of Eatomol- ogy assigned to the laboratory . at Hyeres, on the Mediterranean coast, this army of parasites will be released uext August to meet the corn borer in the principal regions of infestation. During the winter this shipment, with the others that are to follow, will be kept in cold storage. Extended surveys of native parasites showed that they killed less than 1 per cent. of the borers beyond the egg state. So the Bureau of Entomology looked abroad for parasities that would attack the corn borer effective-| ly. Studies began in 1919, not long after the corn borer was found in the United States. About twenty specles | have so far been discovered; these fall into two general classes--the wasp type and the fly type. An examina® tion was made to determine whether these parasites were harmful to plants and whether they could attack one another, The tests showed that they were not harmful to plans, Hyeres was chosen as being a cen- tral point for the collections. The staff of the laboratory includes two Americans and several Europeans; are employed on a parttime basis, =» American experts at Hyeres quickly pass * upon the advisability of the! parasites gathered in the fleld by the collectors, aand when a sufficient aum- ber are ready they are packed up and placed in cold storage on a stea- 'mer, They are then sent to Arling- ton, Mass, where the burean main- tains a receiving station, From there | they are distributed throughout the oorn-borer-nfested areas, planted in colonles, to assure perma- | vestments valued at £3,500,000,000, Second French Plane To Fly Stratosphere Paris. --A second French project to send an airplane into the stratosphere was disclosed recently. Pierre Guerchals, aeronautical engi- neer, is secretly preparing a plane for a flight some ten miles or more above the earth, where Professor Aug- uste Piccard last summer made the first experiment by balloon, The Guerchais plane will be of 700 horsepower, capable of some 200 miles an hour. It will have a sealed duralu- min cabin. The plane will be larger and more powerful than the Farman craft, which has been prepared for a similar flight, as disclosed last week. The Far- man plane will make the attempt as soon as weather conditions are favors able, but the Guerchais attempt will be delayed until spring. SIR, The Cosy Season The N.Y. Herald-Tribune.--One gift brought only by a Northern winter is the sense and mood of coziness. Where snow never falls, where wind never huffs and puffs agalnst the frosted pane, they don't know what ooziness is. It goes with the delicious greet- ng of warmth and with mellow lamp- light on book and apples. You feel it intensely when, coming home chilled and wet, you climb the last icy steps to bs met by that first breath of the comfortable indoors. Something good is roasting in the oven--something substantial and savory, Already dent- ed by the stretching 'cat, the porty, worn chair is waiting with open arms, The faithful furnace glows reassur- ingly. Dumplings! To get home on such a night is worth a winter. ered Great Britain's Task Cape Argus--Great Britain is still a creditor country with overseas in- and she 1s quite capable of restoring her adverse trade balance and thus stabilizing the pound at a reasonable level, Moreover, she is now the lead- er in an endeavour to secure that co- operation from the gold-hoarding is the latest victim in Montreal. The |the country. The supply of molluscs evidence showed that the windows support many of the larger sea mam- of the automobile were tightly closed, mals, while the smaller varieties of discuss the subject desire to be help of our people in getting our honest about it and give the peo- business structure back to normal" German School Boys as were the windows of the garage itself, while the door of the latter was almost closed. It does seem astonish- ing that so many people who are connected with the operation of automobiles fail to observe the most elementary precautions when hand ling cars in garages. Had the chauffeur in this particular instance taken care to open the garage window and door and the windows of the machine, he would probably be alive and well to- day. ig 1 i I Lik (! { ; wl J | \ AC lille She--""There's a time for sym: pathy." He--"Yes, but when a fellows just missed a two-foot putt is not the time for it." merman, eee fp ree Every man Is occasionally what capital he ought to be perpetually.--Zim:| Which never undergoes wastage or de- sea life maintain the fish and some lot the small mammals. The marine vegetation is plentiful and is drawn upon by all forms of animal life as an aid to their subsistence: ; J A New Treatment Used 'In Lettuce Seed Germination New York.--Germination of lettuce seed although ground temperatures may be high by a new plan of seed treatment has beem worked out by Professor H. A. Borthwick of the bot- any division of the branch of the College of Agriculture of the Univer- sity of California. Professor Borth- wick has recently returned from Im- perial Valley, Cal, 'where he demon- strated the results of his methods to the growers of that district. Lettuce seed, it is explained, require for germination an adequate supply of moisture, good aeration and a low temperature. High percentages of germination are secured over a wide range of temperature from freezing to about 76 degrees Fahrenheit; between 76 and 85 degrees most varieties fall off rapidlly in germination; at 85 de- grees permination is almost entirely stopped in most varieties. ssi Like the Widow's Cruse "A book ds like the widow's cruse of oil; you dip into it again and again, and the contents remain exactly what they were. Investment in hooks is a investment, the capital of terloration."--J. Ramsay MacDonald. -- Tiger "Flying High! a When liberated the parasites arei Will be a recovery of world prices. | Portable countries which is essential to the sal- vation of Europe and of European civilization. If she succeeds there The whole world, including South Africa, will benefit and the gold stand- | ard will soon function again as it did before the war. It she falls there will be a succession of crises, each more severs than its predecessor, un- til finally civilization as we know it . breaks asunder, re tres To : ~ Tour Spain i i Stage "G.B.S." Play Hamburg.--German school children, especially boys, who have attained an .|age at which literature can be appre- ciated, are proverbially fond of the German classics; according to a cor- respondent of The Christian Science Monitor. They are well read in Eng- lish classic and dramatic literature al- 80. It is no uncommon thing for them Shakespearian play at breaking up or on a similar fete day and do it admir- ably, A new departure was recently primaner, as they are termed here-- of the Hamburg Herder School. They nard Shaw's "St. Joan" in the trans. latlon by Siegfried Terbitsch. The boys in thelr enthusiasm made no cuts hours. No one in the audience, which overflowing, appeared bored, however, but on the contrary, The services of a talented young actress, Barbara name part, but otherwise all roles were given, and g'ven admirably, by were highly comendabie. It was a performance that might have delight: ed "G, B, 8. himself, rm seen es Modern Toys Traced Detroit--The first mechanical toys were invented by the Persians 700 years ago, Sir H, Denison Ross, pro- fessor of Persian art and literature at the Unlversity of London, stated in a recent lecture here. Ross sald the Perslans devised intricate toys early in the thirteenth century. Elaborate i y | i drawings of their devices are includ- ed fn books illustrated by Persian art- ists, he sald, smn fl er - Indo-Chino Theatres Prefer French Talkies The first talking picture theatre was opened in Saigon, French Indo?China, in the fall of 1930 and showed Amer}: ; can films. This venture was at first a success, but alth large crowds vi came to see the to act the whole or a large part of a undertaken by the sixth-form boys-- ventured on a performance of G. Ber- and presented a play lasting over four filled the large hall of the school to Schuchard, had been obtained for the the boys. Scenery and effects and in- cidental music by the school orchestra To Persia . * Interesting Facts . | . On Bird Life Humming birds, swifts, swallows and martins cannot walk or hop on a horizontal surface, Of these the humming birds are the most help- less on the ground. Swifts, swallows and marting have small, weak feet, which are adapted only to perching and to clinging to perpendicular surfaces. These birds spend much of their time on the wing and it has been' suggested that some of the swifts may spend the entire night on the wing at great heights. / They seldom if ever alight on the ground and they capture insects for food, Scoop water from: ponds and lakes for drink, and plyck twigs from trees and gather ofher material their nests, all while on the wing. When some species of swifts are placed on the ground they can arise only by means of clumsy efforts. What {8 even more remarkable, ac- cording to the U.S. Biological Sur- Vey, "both the chimney swift and the white-throated swift pair while in fight" although some naturaHsts doubt that any species of bird actual- ly mates in mid-air. LA EE I The song of an English nightingale was broadcast to the world when Beatrice Harrison, English musiclan, lured one of tho feathered song: sters to a microphone concealed in a thicket on her estate in Surrey, The bird was "stimulated ¢o enter the thicket and sing when the musl- clan played a cello and sang softly. Many unsuccessful efforts had been made previously and when thy bird began to sing in front of the micro- phone it was switched on the air and all other programs interrupted. The nightingale's song was plcked np distinetly in the United States and Australia--"Animal Life." Bountiful Fruit Harvest In Southern Germany The fruit harvest in south Germany this year was large, according to a correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, port and purchase of fruit ha oer 'The 'shores on the ke Constance are an es fruit region. tor | sounded as though they must have run through the whole length of the iceberg, and several pieces fell down with a thundering crash, plunging heavily into the sea. Towards morn- ing, a strong breeze sprang up, and we filled away, and left it asterm, and at daylight it was out of sight. --Richard Henry Dan.., in "The Lure of the Sea." Edited by F. H. Lee. ial mien Radium Air Radium in the air of the former country of Bohemia, now a part of Czecho-Slovakia and noted for gener- ations for the health of its inhabitants and the benefits to strangers from {brief residence at its springs and "health resorts, is to be studied by the Czecho-Slovakian government to see whether radio-activity of the air may be related to the healthfulness of the country, Measurements made by the Radiological Institute of the Univer sity of Prague already have indicated that the electrical conductivity of the air near the famous radium mines in the Joachim Valley is more than twice 'as great as in Prague itself or in other {normal localities. Some increase im the "electric conductivity of the alr also has been found in the. neighbor hood of the famous health resort at Karlsbad and elsewhere. One of the materials given off continuallly from minerals which contaln radium or other radioactive elements is a gas { Which mixes with the atmosphere and | continues to be radioactive for several 'days. Tt i3 rays from this gas which (are believed to be responsible for the greater electrical conductivity of the alr near the radium mines and it ls not unlikely, the Czecho-Slovakian Solentists believe, that even tiny extra quantities of this radioactive gas fa the air may act as a bodily stimu- lant on visitors to Karlsbad and simi lar resorts and may be the chief rea son for the benefits reported. gy al . Red Flannel nd : : " Rheumatism The Hartford (Conn.) Courier, -- Forty years ago, when rheumatism was a deservedly unpopular malady, the use of red flannel was well nigh universal among men, regardless of Ee Chiop 10ms for tao {out in October, and was adhered to {he fathers disappeared? "ivive old memories. It would cer tainly cause us to - Theuma whether they were clerks, farmers or mechanics. The red flannel came - until 'it also began to adhere, which 2 might be late in April. E When was 1t that this custom of It has of red flanne line, and th of one would re- 'fo speculate as to tism,