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nature. % they so to matics and literature deal ven in the Jnoring; ; the actual practice rough discussion of the real problems the next morning. Russia, with a [2 Population of 168,000,000, considers. herself at war with the . Because this is so there is absolute contr ol of moving p pictures, the radio, and the press. The Russian people are told just what their rulers decide shall be told. Because. are told these things constantly and because eir minds are fertile soil without political prejudice, the Russian 'people gradually becoming convinced that the Five Year Plan is dard ot Tin. that some day Russia will have a very high stan- ng. At present they have not. to the standing of religion in Rus ve. But pe Nis does nothing hing er up a con heavy. oa and the clergy have no 'authority gh = g in the community. ia has one of the finest armies in the work. young; en- yi well equipped. But it is an army of defence, not hs sion. gsm leaders have ng told the Russians i t wars of aggression are Sapiralitie in their nature, and to- day this idea is so firmly ingrained in the army, that the govern- ment may some day be seriously y this state of the army mind. Certainly ideas of world revolution. +. At present the great: industrial down, and the production of consumpti up: A more diplomatic. method is being adopted in oe : ded to commun} ze the peasant farmer. "methods were very * drastic, much as thirty per cent. 'of the farmers' crop would be taken a taxes, with the result that' production was reduced toa minimum, cattle were killed snd Russia was menaced with a "very serious 8 of large cen 8 lains | 'the attempt A ed cattle. yes op © At times thousands of peasants would trek to the cities. There they would see the 'lights, eat the white bread, and 'enjoy the dg re they remained and the state had to feed A time there were a million of these transients in Moscow. : problem became so great that it was 'decided to demand passports from these people, who, if unem- ployed, were returned to their homes. Sometimes these homes were so neglected that it was impossible to re-establish. In such cases whole villages have been moved to new districts and left ~ to build up an entirely. new: organization. - Every enco encouragement is given to the peasant farmer to do! collective work and some S000 « collective farms have been estab- lished, some wth an area of 60,000 acres, These farms are run upon scientific lin es and the 'most up-to-date machinery is being Referring to JRassian competition in the wheat market, Prof. said that this "had been exaggerated, ap- in Jmetican 'markets to con- tion of R sia) 80 vast, and the! great, | will be from thirt; ; AE of the wastnoss of ; pointed out th that i ithe "church can supply somethi an pol the State]. the church will y 'S embarrassed b, it a not accord with Leon Trotsky's| il progam bas bec been owed . = if the be done if it can ra but when over sixty students in one form, some ve to be undertaken to avoid heavy ex- ] el Bo Plan is is a bridge that will be crossed when the Board comes Another matter of interest in connection with the Public Schl 1s well expressed in the following letter from the Depart- Department of Education, Toronto. W. A. Christy, Secretary, Board of Education, Port Perry. I am directed by the Minister of Education to state thats the Inspector of Agricultural has reported that in the Department of Agriculture in the Port Iw High School there are seven boys in the first year and four boys in the second year. The Inspector has suggested that if all the students of ihe first ws were Bo take e the work of the De- partments E 2 Ericultuve and Farm in 'Sechaniea; and also ouse ce is suggestion is appro y the-In- spector of Household Science), a much greater benefit would be derived by all and especially by those students who drop out after 9 pear 9 so in high School : n the circumstances, the time given to French, British Agri Geography, Baglish and Spelling (combined) and : ture I, might be reduced to four periods per week. Phe periods would thes be free to add to the present four free ng nine periods per week to be given to practical Rariaiirs and Farm Mechanics and Household Science. This scheme would not cause any hardship to those pupils who continue in the academic work, and it might poss ibly be carried out in the second year as well, Very little extra ex- "pense would be involved. For a number of years the Department of Education has been paying high grants to your Agriculture and Household Science Departments, and the Minister feels that in order to Justify | these grants a larger number of pupils should be 1 have the honour to be, your obedient servant, A. 'H. COLQUHOUN, Deputy Minister of Education. In accordance with the suggestion from the Department the Board at its meeting on Tuesday evening passed a resolution re- quiring that in future students of the First Form of High School for the boys, and Household Science for the girls. the Board will help to solve the problems of the time table; and will give one and two year students a more practical course of educa- take the Department of Agriculture Course and Farm Mechanics | This action of | A helpin' hand he'll always lend, There appeared this week in One tario papers a brief notice of the death of an old citizen of Western Ontario. He was, although the no- tice did not say so, a member of a ories. He was, or had been for many years of his life, the 'country cor- respondent" of at least one news- paper. From the little place where he lived, he kept sending in budgets | of news which, in his years of ser- vice must have amounted to thous-' ands of columns. Most of the items | were no doubt trivial in their nature. But they were of great interest to, 'the people of that and neighbouring s. They were the sort of thing 'that people talk about in the {which is seldom more nowadays) and wherever E folks gather together to converse. this service, In Kings, ft Xt is impossible large but-seldom mentioned class, a, ¢lass which is not enumerated in the, decennial census or listed in direct-] tion for the time dey spend at the school. S Writers of Rural News are Praised people. Often he is a man of con- siderable ability (the present Lord Greenwood was the country corres- pondent of an Ontario paper while he was teaching school in this province), but even if his literary talents are small, his record of events is eagerly Scammed by a section of the country- to be amused when they read these humble chronicles. They think it is of little interest to anybody that So- and-So "Sundayed" on a nearby- adjoining farm or visited relatives in some seldom-heard-of hamlet. They cannot understand why a newspaper should chronicle the painting of some- body's barn or the purchase by some- one of a new motor car. Yet if they will only stop to consider, this is ex- actly the sort of thing that they talk of themselves--the comings and go- ings of people, the purchase of this one and the facts that So-andSo burnt herself with the curling iron. This, in large cities as in small villages, constitutes the bulk of conversation. Even the great talk thus. There are clogest| several good stories told about the City people are sometimes inclined ways, Can never be a saint. True penitence and heart-felt For sinfulness that's past, will bring the troubled soul re- lief, And joy in héaven at last. Who only says "I do believe," But never proves his faith By any works one can perceive, 'Must still abide in death. As,by its leaves and fruit, a tree Displays the life within, So by his faithful service, he Is known by what is seen. Tis not enough to only say "I love the Lord," and then Neglect to care in any way For sinful fellow-men. For he that's surely saved by blood . ' And, by the gospel plan, Is filled with holy love to God, Will show most love for man. --Oswego, Ill, Xmas, 1808 ------ L OUT FISHIN' ¥ A feller isn't mean Out fishin'; His thoughts are mostly clean Out fishin'; He doesn't knock his fellow-men, Or harbour any grudges then; A fellow's at his finest, when Out fishin'. The rich are comrades to the poor, Out fishin'; All brothers of a common lure, Out fishin'; The urchin with the pin an' string Can chum with millionaire an' king, And happy as a lark, they sing, Out fishin'. A feller's glad to have a friend, Out fishin'; Out fishin'; The Brotherhood of rod an' line An' sky and stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design Out fishin', _ A feller isn't plottin' schemes Out fishin'; He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin'; His livery's a coat of tan; His creed: To do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man, Out fishin', et lA Ae CANADIAN DAHLIAS PROVE " NOVELTY-HERE (The following appeared in the St. Petersburg Times of March 28th.) Dahlias growing in Florida soil is an unfamiliar sight unless seen in hot houses but S. Jeffrey, winter visitor from Port Perry, Ont., has a bed of beautiful lavender and red blossoms at his residence here, 1912 Fourth Avenue north. The secret of his success may be that the bulbs are products of Can- ada soil, for he brought a dozen bulbs with him when he came south this winter. He planted them Christmas day and now, three months later, his dahlias are large luxuriant plants with many blooms and more to come. The size of the blooms range from six to nine inches, the largest flower so far being a huge Chinese red one, known as the "Jersey Beacon." His lavender bloom is the "Mrs, Eva Wil- 'liams" variety. - Next year Mr. Jeffrey plans to ex- more with his dahlias and will bring several dozen bulbs with x him when he comes south. There was a speech in the Canadian House of Commons the other day which every man and woman, young and old, ought to read and deliberate upon. It is not pleasant reading--in- deed, the speaker declared that he made it to pel people to "shudder". It has to"do with the gaseous horrors to be expected in future warfare, and was calculatingly delivered to squelch any latent spark of war enthusiasm which may be existent today. General Alexander E. Ross, soldier- physician-parliamentarian, now repre- senting Kingston City in the House of Commons, a man highly regarded for his likable personality and also for his record with the Canadian Medical Corps in wartime, raised the warning voice. His capabilities to do so are unquestioned for he is qualified on every score to analyze and interpret chemical warfare possibilities for the layman. General Ross was urging continued development of aviation in Canada. He cited the immense increase in avia- tion strength of foreign Powers and the greatly enhanced efficiency, and cruising and carrying power of their modern aeroplane. Then he review- ed the development of gas warfare in the late conflict--from chlorine to phosgene--fifteen times stronger than chlorine--and then "mustard gas". And he proceeded: In addition to those two gases there had been produced, for use in war, chloropicrin. It is now ready for use, and if I could do only one thing, make people shudder at the horrors of the next war so that they will do all they can to help prevent future wars, it will be time well spent. Another gas, diphenylchlorarsine--three drops will kill--cause oedema of the lungs, dropsy of the lungs, oedema of the spleen, necrotic changes in the vas- cular walls, particularly in the aorta. It also produces changes in the blood, and the hoemoglobin becomes meth- aemoglobin. It is a gas against which our masks would be no protection whatever. The gas will penetrate the mask and cause its removal, making available the use of more deadly gas with which it may be mixed. One part of this gas combined with ten million parts of air will put a man out of action in one minute. In 1918 this gas was used on a herd of goats and it killed all but four, which were in such agony that they smashed their skulls against a fence. This gas can be used in five-pound generators, six hundred forming a load for a com- mercial aeroplane. One thousand of these generators can gas an area of sixty kilometres. Two planes could carry forty tons, sufficient to destroy the population of London. The next-is cacodyl isocyanide. One breath of this gas is absolutely fatal to human beings. The next is lead tetraethyl. It is a bromine. It cost the lives of thirty- eight workmen at the time it was being manufactured in the factory in New Jersey. . There is another gas, called diethyl telluride, which will penetrate the skin without injuring it. This gas is one hundred times greater in its effects than strychnine. Then there is a homb, the electric incendiary bomb, which, dropped from an aeroplane, will set free a sub- stance known as thermite. It de- velops a heat up to three thousand degrees, which will pierce through iron, steel and earth to gas mains, which would be set on fire, adding to destruction. Two pounds of this gas in bombs would be sufficient to de- stroy the whole City of Ottawa. Water has no éffect on this substance except to intensify its action. General Ross, in truth, made Par- liamentarians "shudder" with his recital, and unquestionably Cana- dians persuing his utterance as it appears above from Hansard must experience a tremor of horror. Yet, the presentation of the situation as viewed by an expert was both timely and advisable--timely in view of the recurrence of war rumors. And Canadians will appreciate his injunc- tions to maintain a proper attitude of mind with respect to armed con- flict. UST KING OF THE GOALIES (Border Cities Star) John Ross Roach, dapper and diminutive goalkeeper of the Detroit Falcons. looms up to-day as the most outstanding goalie in the National Hockey League. Maybe, when the average 'and other figures are summed up at the close of the the palm will be pre- sented to someone else, but to many fans the Port Perry product will re- main the best. Shunted out of New York by the Rangers, Roach made a valiant come- back to play an important part in the Falcon's rise to the head of the Am- erican group this year, His work in the nets has bolstered a defence that was rather wobbly. He played over his head many times in stopping rival thrusts that had pene- trated the defence line before him, all of which enabled the team to go through an 18-game period with but two defeats. Always Roach has been regarded as one of the best. During his days with the Maple Leafs and Rangers, experts never could decide between him and Roy Worters of the New York Americans. Chuck Gardiner of the Chicago Black Hawks, who won the honors as the best goalie last year, has been hard pressed this season in defence of his honours by both Thompson and Roach. Mythical titles don't worry Roach. He satisfied himself earlier this year when he shut out the Rangers, his old team-mates, to break their streak of going (77 games without being blanked. The Fable of the Ambitious Frog One day a young frog saw a cow, and, on returning to the family Tesidence tried to deseribe the tremendous ani- mal. Father frog attempted to blow himself up to a size like that o the cow; but the young frog kept saying: -- "Bigger than that!" $ Bigger than that!" Finally the old frog burst. Moral--Ambition without ability is dangerous. This is the hardest lesson that nations and big business med fave to learn to-day. Why the Akron? or the R 1017 or the R 100? or the R 103? tll AMPs CHEMISTS' DISCOVERIES TO END WORLD FEUDS, SAYS SCIENTIST. Washington, Mar. 27.--A future in which the test tube of the chemist will hold the key to world power and the problems of international rela- tions, with additions to human knowl- edge now undreamed of, was pictured to-day at the opening session of the American Chemical Society. "The difficulties which arise in world politics from distribution of mineral, and, quite generally natural resources," said Professor Hugh 8S. Taylor of Princeton University, "may be intensified because progress in scientific, and, most often, chemical achievement may profoundly modify the extent of power accruing from the possession of a raw material." Before 1914, Chile, for example, had almost a monopoly of nitrates, es- sential both for agriculture and manu- facture of explggives. To-day chem- ists have enabled all great nations to draw large supplies of nitrates from the air. "All monopolies of raw materials," Professor Taylor went on, "may be exposed to similar threats from tech- nical-chemical progress." The efforts of Germany and Great Britain to de- rive synthetic oil fuels from coal, to offset the advantages of the United States with her production of 71% of the world's petroleum, was a further illustration of the impact of technical achievement. A municipality in Saskatchewan not} .] only col no taxes this year, but rebated two mills to every taxpayer in the place. And at that, probably, there were some critics who claim the el) estwood | rebate should have 'been four mills. ~ Niagara: Two high judicial a] announced and Toronto Both of hem. The powers oat ee tos Sac OF mea terial which exists out- are wyers get be the Falls Review, side, of one or two favored