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Reid Ra SS od EA Sn th Sh Bh hh Sh Sh Sh Oh ghd CANADA = THE COUNTRY DOCTOR Country doctors have led the way more than once. Dr. Koch, the Ger- man who identified and isolated the tuberculosis germ was a country doctor. Dr. Beaumont, a rural phys- jcian in the province of Quebec nearly a century ago, studied the di- gestive processes of a patient through a bit of glass over a period of ten years and then wrote a book that is still regarded as a basic work on the subject. The stories of these country doctors prove that in medi- cine or surgery the man who counts is the man who is not satisfied with what he is told but who makes his whole practice a great laboratory wherein to gain fresh knowledge.-- Idmonton Jurnal. THE HORSE Farmers are replacing gasoline tractors and trucks with "hay burn- ers," for which they can grow the necessary fuel and at the same time cut their fertilizer bills. And in the city streets, nobody has yet built an automobile that will move on to the next house by itself while the milk- man is making his morning deliveries. It takes too much gas to start a car, especially in cold weather, to make it as economical as a horse in any kind of business that calls for fre- quent stops and starts.--Wingham Advance-Times, BEAUTIFYING CEMETERIES Nothing is more gratifying as one motors through rural Ontario than to sce the remarkable improvement that has taken place in the care of the sleeping places of the dead. It is to be hoped that the movement will develop into a veritable religious and patriotic crusade, until through- out the entire province these burial plots will become places of beauty. he citizens of to-day owe this much to the pioncers who founded Ontario. --Bran:ford Expositor, THE KING'S ENGLISH His Majesty may be said to be without an accent, and certainly he with that in- tries to ordain is not handicapped fringement which . that only a certain accent is the at- ribute to polite rociety. By nature and by life's environ- ment he himself happens to be a man of culture, and that is convey- ed without being emphasized in his voice, 'He does not employ it to pro- claim his rank and position. He neither regurgitates his words in what is supposed to be the Oxford accent, nor trims and clips his words as noodles still do in the services, nor on lofty occasins does he intone the. depth of his sorrow or the ap- preciatin of his approval, The King is an" Englishman who may be claimed as the sovereign ex- ponent of the best English. He speaks neither as of Marylebone nor of Mayfair, and because his voice may be imbued with the modulaiidn def rivablg "from the moderation of the climate of his native land, it need not be, and His Majesty would be the last to expect it to be, the ac- cent of refinement prevalent in other countries where climate and other contigencies make good speech and pleasant voices sound different- ly without being less cultured,.-- Winnipeg Free Press. A TEST Try chopping up your winter wood Instead of having it sawn, and then see how you feel about the machine age.--Kitchener Record. DANGEROUS PRACTICE The motorist who drives past stop signals is imperiling the lives of ped- estrians and the lives of other motor- ists as well. He woiild be, if we had proper punishment for the offence in police court, a disappearing men- ace to human life, But he is not a disappearing menace. His tribe is multiplying and it will continue to muldply so long as contempt for the ' SR Se Shh Ja stop signal scarcely provokes a frown in the police court. Some of our people must die, it appears, as those two young people died in To- ronto 'before we recognize defiance of the stop signal as a major offence 1emanding exemplary punishment,-- Winnipeg Tribune, . BLACKMAIL As a result of the convictions that have been made, and the dras- tic punishment imposed, it is to be hoped that the death-blow will be given to all such attempts in the Province fo Ontario. The practice of blackmail is an exceedingly des- picable crime and deserves no mercy. -- Brantford Expositor. KRUPPS PROSPEROUS So well did the famous Krupp works of Essen in Germany do last year, the employes have been grant- ed a bonus, Workers and craftsmen will get from 10 to 40 marks; cler- ical employes will receive from 10 to 256 per cent of their monthly pay. The bonus is a form of profit-shar- ing with the company distributing the cash to all workers. The Krupp organization is the famous arma- ment firm of Germany. Evidently things are looking up in their line. --Border Cities Star, WORSE THAN EARTHQUAKES In . five years motor accidents have taken 11,988 lives in Califor- nia and caused injury to 213,959. The automobile is a far bigger risk to human life in the Golden State than earthquakes.--Kingston Whig Standard, NOT SO EASY "l always pay my taxes with a smile," says a well known statesman, The tax collector, however, insist that we pay ours with money.--Ot- tawa Citizen. The averaze witness in a traffic 'case i: usele.s. The accidents happen so swidenly that even if he wishes to tell the truth he has often only had time -to--perceive--part--of --the truth, As for testimony concerning speed, it would probably be safe to say that 90 per cent. of witnesses wilfully or otherwise underestimate speed. The only reasonably reliable evidence is to be found in the nature of the damage to the cars, or the resultant personal injuries, CHURCH BUILDINGS The Church of Scotland has for- mulated plans whereby the "barn" type of church will diappear from the land. New buildings will con- form to a definite Gothic style, and if there is not enough money to de- sign a fitting exterior, it will be pat- terned in such a way that the church can be transformed into a beautiful sanctuary as funds permit, Old churches are to be made over when possible, _ In this country there are verv: many churches which can be described 'as depressing.--St. Thom- as Times-Journa, STERN SENTENCES The heavy sentences imposed re. cently on a number of bank robbers have served notice in the plainest possible manner that these gentry are not wanted in Ontario, and that if they value their freedom they will stay away.--Brantford Ixpositor. TRAINS HIS CATTLE The problem of straying cattle on the highways is a serious one in all Canadian territories and no brain trust tries to solve it. Nor is there any enforcement of any laws for the safety of the road traffic. There are some solutions, mainly practical ones, but there are also freak ideas. Thus a West Australia dairyman has educated his herd to divide: on the approach of motor cars and, afterwards, to resume in close for- mation. His extraordinary feat was one of the most discussed events at the recent Perth agricultural show bs a fd | 1} 4B 4 they view race at Santa Anita, Picked Winner ? We couldn't be sure, but that's the expression one usually sees on the faces of the lucky ones at race tracks. Anyway, Al Jolson and Mrs. Jolson, ithe former Ruby Keeler, are happy about something as i attended by the Duke of Gloucester. --DBrantford Sun. THE EMPIRE POLICING THE SAAR British participation in the inter- national force to police the Terri- tory does not imply a reversal of the sound policy of avoiding new com- n.ilments on the Continent. It. is, in fact, « gesture of recognition of "the duties imposed by membarchip of the League, and it is a small be- ginniig in the way of collective ne- tion which has every chance of prov- ing succesful, It clears up a situa tion of dangerous tension,--Glasgow Herald. "A NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS" It is a long time since the phrase about "a nation of shop-keepers" was first heard, for various French- men who are said to have applied it disrespectfully to England may have borrowed it from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," and a Dean of Gloucester with a taste for political economy is said to have used it be- fore Smith. One thing is certain; if it is to be reckoned as a character- istic of this country the cap still fits and even does so more tightly than it did.--Manchester Guardian. HATS British hatters méet today. They complain that a man is too indiffer- ent about his hat, Hats are not. al- ways a matter of indifference. When the straw boater went out it caused great distress in Luton, which makes straw hats, The Turks used to wear fez caps because the Koran forbids sheltering the face from the sun. Kemal abolished the fez as a relic of superstition, and thousands .of hatters were ruined in Central Eur- ope. The idea of a hat is modern, It is seldom mentioned in the classics. The word "hat" occurs only once in the Bible.--London Daily Express, BRITISH FILMS FOR TRINIDAD Not only is more of the British at- mosphere desired on our screens, but there is a growing disgust with the treatment of the subjects presented in many American movies, We are not among those who assert that nothing good can come out of Holly- wood . American studios have given us many fine things, and in some respects United Kingdom producers still have much to learn from them, Hollywood today is probably turning out a larger proportion of relatively first-rate pictures than ever before. But its output has to be appaised on the basis of the average film, and not in terms of masterpieces which are 'pace-setters for the industry but do not represent its general stand- ard.--Trinidad Guardian, Port of Spain. HERE, THERE . AND .- EVERY WHERE Johannesburg, according to recent- ly published statistics, is one of the most dangerous cities in the world in respect to traffic accidents: We doubt whether that is its only unen- _viable distinction. : It is probably al- so one of the noisiest cities in the world of its own--or, for that mat- ter, any other -- size (always, of course, excepting New York), And no real or organised effort has ever been made here to fight the noise nuisance,--Johannesburg Times. i Pioneer Is Now 106 Years -Old Fredericton.--Often referred to as the "Methuselah -of the Nashwaak," Robert Evans, a native of Ireland, although of Welsh ancastry, celebrat- ed here recently what he claims to be the 106th annivesary of his birth. A pioneer of the Nashwaak Val- ley, Mr. Evans is a member of a family noted for its longevity, A brother, Richard Evans, who was popularly known as "Uncle Dick," died in 1933 at the reputed age of 107. : For a ecnjonprian Robert Evans enjoys good health although he pre- fers now to spend cold 'winter days by his fireside. He spent Christmas with Richard Evans, a nephew, of Zionville, York County, enjoyed a hearty meal and chatted with callers who wished him a Merry Christmas --"With many more to come." He comes.to Fredericton occasion- ally and maintains interest in the events of the day. Would Comnel All Cars - To Halt At Crossings Petticodiac, N.B.--A rider recom- mending the passing of a law forc- ing all motorists to bring their cars to a full stop at all railway cross- ings was added to a coroner's verdict here which found no blame attached to anybody in; connection with the automobile-train erash near here in which five persons were killed. King. Edward and Queen Alexandra Danish Princess' "Arrival in New Country Recalled as Recent Royal Bride Reach- es England ; Manchester -- "Marriage of thel' Princess," a short special hroadcast devised by Kenneth Adams, recently brought | much delighted comment. The Manchester Guardian says: "This was a flashback in extracts from diaries and newspapers of the time to the arrival and the wedding of" Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863, (To Prince Edward, after: wards King Edward VII), ? "The program started with fore. casts from the contemporary papers of the coming engagement, and it gee some descriptions of the Prin. cess and her life in Denmark, Then from Queen Victoria's diary came extracts relating to her first meeting with the Princess, All the extracts from the Queen's diaries were de- lightful; the precise vivid phrases sounded most effective. A speech in the House produced with the echo effect and there were rapid reports of fstivities all over England, includ. ing a distribution of sowp at Aber. deen, , "On the arrival of the Princess by' boat one noticed many likenesses to the description of Princess. Marina's arrival; there was Prince Edward standing up on the quay, his Prin. cess standing at the rail of the boat, but there was one marked difference --Princess Alexandra. was dressed all in white with a warm white shawl, . "In fine crescendo - the . program traced the progress through the City and the scene of pageantry at Windsor, where the - wedding took place. In the chapel beforg the cere- mony there was-great surprisq when Lord Palmerston took out a comb and combed = his hoary whiskers. More extracts from the Queen's diary told of her fmpressons and her feelings and the end was on a sub- dued reminiscent note after the bri. day ccuple had gone, "The four speakers wee Kale Cutler, Nesta Sawyer, Ben Webster and Carleton Ilobbs." | of labor into the over-stocked market, Under prevailing economic ~con+ ditions, said Dr. Mallon, the .ex- penditure of a sum which would probably not exceed an extra £1,000, 000 appeals to those who are in touch with the heart of great cities as exceedingly reasonable, Minor Daughter Held Responsible Montreal.--A Superior Court rul- ing to the effect 'a minor -daughter may be held responsible for injuries suffered by her mother in an automo- bilecaccident proven, .to have heen caused by the daughter's negligent driving was in. effect here: recently, Mr. Justice A, Chase Casgrain, in a judgment recently ordered the:pay- ment of $6,097 to Anne Munro Wil- llams, widow of Henry U. 0. Ayl- mer, K.C,, by the woman's daughter, Mary Louise Lobenstine, wifes of Remi Bolssonnas, Paris, France, The judge remarked that he was not aware that any action in damages was ever before instituted by a par- ent against a child based on the 'quasi-offence of such child. Mother and daughter were driving in the latter's car September 8, 1933, in Montreal, when it left the road and crashed into a pole, Mrs, Ayl- mer suffered multiple injuries. Toronto Reports Low Death Rate Deaths From Diseases 201 Below Last Year's Figure Infant' Mortality Less Toronto -- Revealing the "best death rate in the city's history." Dr. Gordon P. Jackson, medical afficer of health, recently issued the vital statistics for the year definin; the various. causes of mortality, "The general death rate for 1934 is the best in the city's history," he cald, "The infant death rate is away down this year. It ig the best year we evar had." Hak Deaths from natural causes were 6,343--a decrease of 201 under last year. British Educators ~~ | Despite the decline in the total for Seek To Keep Idle ; Longer In School Manchester, Eng.--Although the British Government appears ad- amant against raising - the school leaving age from 14 to 15 or 16 in order to ease unemployment, edu cationists are persistent in their ef- fort to change the. official decision. Members of the Workers' Educa: 'tional Association, in conference here, carried without dissent a reso- lution in which they: -recorded their conviction that school-leaving should, in spite of every official thing that has been said against it, be postponed until the child has reached the age of 15, or even 16, and that adequate maintenance al-. lowances should be provided. Dr. J. J. Mallon, of Toynbee Hall, London, suggested that public con- science had been too readily satisfied by the proposed establishment of more, and possibly better, instruction centers, designed to care for the-increased numbers of young unemployed persons between the ages of 14 and 18 who will, under the new Unemployment Act, be com- pelled to attend them. But, he- said, Juvenile Instruction Centers will never reduce unemploy- ment: and will never take the place of ordinary schooling. Moreover, he pointed out, the establishment of such centers is likely to absorb money which might otherwise go to- ward the lengthening of ordinary school days. i, An unquestioned authority has stated, he said, that the centers may :cost as much as £5,000,000 or even £6,000,000 a year. The cost of extended school-leaving has been estimated at £8,000,000--from which might be deducted the saving to the Unemployment Fund which would be caused by the check on the flow juvenile | the year, 17 of the 80 classified causes of death showed an increase. These were: Diseases -of the heart, cancer. diseases of the arteries, 'ex- ternal causes excluding - suicides, cerebral hemorrhages, appendicitis, hernia, venereal diseases, bronchitis, encephalitis, lethargica, amoebic dysentry, meningitis, typhoid fever, infantile . paralysis, scarlet fever, erysipelas, and whooping cough, Total deaths were 349 fewer in Toronto this year than in 1933, and there were 720 fewer. births, but marriages showed an increase of 315. Fong i ¥ There were 6,835 deaths in = 1934 from all causes as compared with 7,081 in 1933; 11,085 births as against 11,805, and 6.802 'marriages as compared with 5,487, Income Tax Receipts Show Rise Of $209,561 Ottawa--Income © tax collections for the first nine months of the pres- ent fiscal year ended December [381 amounted to $54,720,648, according to a statement issued: recently by the Minister of National Revenue, Hon. R. C. Matthews, This compared with $64,611,087, collected in the same period last year, showing a nst in- crease of $209,561, The Toronto district leads all others both in total collections, which amounted tg. $16,898,168, and in net cresss, which amounted to $1,337, Totals for other districts. showing increases were: - Vancouver, $8,797,- 797, increase $329,610; Charlotte-: town, "$261,684, increase $142,744; Halifax, '$898,182, increase $72,202; Winnipeg, '$1,675.786 increase $217,- 200; Kingston, $169,161, increase $7,012; Edmonton, $838,849, increase $4,069, : F 7 DAVID COPPERFIELD LH Hil Win i eat sta f hy soapy water. with. sndon, David' w rk consists of washin ono of dirty Tie bottles in a tub o Mick Walker, Lone of the i bullies and torments shovi boi over he uh nd splashing hia face and cl 4. A AR Rs A avid is tol im all day, bers. Outside their house, angry bill-collectors are pounding oh the door. Insi Two screaming children on the ce, Wonderingly his small atte room. | Watch for Next Week's Installment he d to seek lodgings with the Micaw- e, all is confusion. floor are fighting. David follows Mrs. Micawber to [ ii fl (in & [2 Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS i) On Increase Dominion's Population Is Be- coming More Canadian-- Due To Depression. PTT Ry § Ottawa.--Silent but remarkable changes are taking place in the po- pulation: of Canada, As it increases year by year it is becoming more and more a Canadian-born popula- tion. This is one of the direct re- sults of the years of depression which ordinarily escapes the noticé' of Canadians engrossed in the more personal or immediate eomsequences, GIVEN MUCH STUDY /I¢ has not escaped the attention of studious statisticians and econo- mists of the Dominion Government, many of whom are beginning to ask themselves what it will mean in the future in terms of standards of living, wage and salary levels and types of industrial development about which economists usually trouble themselves long before they come to the average citizen. ) As the year 1935 begins it finds Canada with a population of some 10,835,000 according to the Domin- ion Bureau of Statistics just 185,000 more than a year ago. This is so despite the barriers which have been steadily maintained against immigra- tion during the last four years, The significance of the figures is that the population of Canada is in- creasing just as fast now as in the years when thousands of immigrants from the United Kingdom and Eur- ope were permitted or persuaded to come here. CANADIANS REMAIN Prior to 1930 when Canada's doors were open to immigrants from over. seas, the doors of the United States were open -to Canadians. As im- migrants moved in Canadans moved out. Now immigranis stay out and Canadians stay in. The natural in- crease in population balances the gain formerly made by the excess of immigrants over the number of Gana- dians leaving Canada. The year 1930 is the pivotal year for it was then that increasing un- employment led the. Dominion Gov- ernment to close the doors to n:w- comers except the few who intended to and were equipped with the capi- 'and weet seeds bulletin issued tg Suddenly, a strange It is the smiling, beaming Mr. Micawber, enter- ing through the skylight to evade the bill collectors. The happy-go-lucky Micawbers take David to their bosoms and he soon feels almost like a member of the family. : : noise is heard from above. One day, at the closing bell in the warehouse, David ee Clickett, the Micawbers' servant girl, in the doorway. She has bad news, Micawber has been sent to debtors' prison} Mrs. Micawber and the children have moved in with him. David' heart is heavy. What will happen tq him now 1 tal and experience to make succe:s- ful farmers. In the 19 years from 1911 to 1930 B the number of people in Canada ro:e 2 from 17,207,000 to 10,206,000," an average yearly increase of 157,000. In the four years from 1930 to the present when the immigration bars were up the population has increas- ed from 10,206,000 to 10,835,000, an f= average annual increase of 157,000, approximately the same, Further the increase from 1938 to 1934 of 185,- 000 is the largest in a single year 4 since 1928, 3 : ; Prickly Lettuce 'Weed Causes Much Trouble The annual or occasionally winter annual weed, prickly lettuce, is also » known as the compass plant. It is widely distributed in waste places from Nova Scotia to the prairie provinces, and has been reported from places in British Columbia as * giving trouble inthe: fields. Coarse, tall-stemmed; with oblong, lance- shaped, prickly-edged lcaves, the plant grows on 'an: average 'from three to five feet in height, and from the peculiarity 10f! the leaves being twisted at the base so thatithey s and vertically. to the sun.instead of, hori- zontally. as is the case with most plants. It has.been called the com- pass plant According to the weeds the Dominion department of agn- culture, 'the seed is about one- eighth of.an inch long, dark-greeni:h 'grey qin' color, sand broadly lonce- shaped similar: to the seed (of the black-seeded varieties of garden: le'- tuce. The most effective method of eradiction consists in cleaning the waste places and seeding to grass, followed by close cutting of the weed. MUSIC WILL END MONOTONY AT WORK. ) Lo Pittsburg-- Winding armatures to the tune of a.dance band is one company's idea of keeping the work- ing girls happy, ; Announcing loudspeakers for broadcasting music have been instal- led in its east Pittsburgh plant, an official of the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company said, "Some types of work are necessar. ily monotonous, It we can make it less so, by the installation of phono. graphs, .we'll do ft, and we'll pur chase the records - the girls them- selves select," os 'Husbands Have : Heavy Hans Springfield, Mo, -- Women over- estimate the size of their husbands' chests and under-estimate the size of their hands, it was disclosed as post-Christmas exchanging bpgan briskly. Clerks were supplying men with smaller shirts and bigger gloves,