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Fog Dis RAI BUST unl Save a1) EA & OAD NH - LET N: ARE FEIN SN Lg = CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA ABILITY TO JOKE One of the survivors of the Dundas train wreck, lying in a critical con- dition in hospital, said: "Well, at least we've taken those Dionnes oft the front page." The capacity of human beings to laugh at the very moment of death, and in the direst extremfiy, 18 one of the most admlir- able qualities of the race.--Hamilton Herald. BELIEVE IT OR NOT. Mr, John A, Cunningham, former patrolman on the Wakerton-Kincar. dine highway, thought last week that the fates were against him when on going to his barn he found a plump Leghorn that had got soaked In the water-trough lying to all appearances frozen stiff on the barn floor, with the temperature without hovering around the zero mark. Believing that' life had long since departed, but bent nevertheless on thawing the bird out, Mr. Cunning- ham threw it behind the cook stove in the kitchen, where a wood fire was cracking in the grate, "Believe it or not, as Ripley Would say, but that bird came to, and to _ demonstrate that it was no ingrate, laid an egg, and then cackled vigor- ously for the boss to come and be- hold "Business As Usual," Nothing that he had lamped on the farm gave him more satisfaction than biddy's performance on that occasion --Wal- kerton Herald-Times. WELL DRESSED. A current French idea of keeping the wolf away from the door ap- pears to he to confront him with the complacency of good clothes, im- pressed with the spectacle of a householder in a snappy new suit, the wolf is expected to let fall his tail and slink away in embarrass. ment at his obviously fll-timed in. trusion. 'This attitude is, of course, based on the copybook motto that nothing succeeds like evidence of success,--Guelph Mercury, LONG SERVICE A Sudbury man possesses a low- ly collar button which he claims is 80 years old. So proud of it is he that it only takes part in the regu- lar duty of a collar button on Sun. days. His father had used the same accessory for 55 years. : The story goes that the button was found by a sailor in a Scottish sea- men's inn back around 1855. Maybe that explains its remarkable long- evity of service--Border Clties Star. TORONTO'S FINE SHOWING Ottawa's experience with diphthe- ria {8 common to that of all cities where a determined effort is being made to immunize the youthful pop- ulation against this disease that once was a deadly plague, probably would be still if preventive measures dad not been developed, Toronto in 1895 reported 147 deaths from diphtheria, Allowing for the increase in population, in the same proportion the death list in 1934 would have reached 498, But by last year the toxold immunization plan had been in use for a period long -enough to make its henefits fully ap- parent, there were only 22 cases of diphtheria in the whole city, and no deaths. The mathematical precision of the drop as more and more children were immunized matches Ottawa's-descen- ding scale almost exactly, Toronto had 64 deaths from this disease .in 1929, 64 in 1930, 36 in 1931, 15 In 1932 and 6 in 1933. That city's re- cord is another factor for those few who yet may doubt that toxold con. fers immunity.--Ottawa Journal, WHEN THE RAIN FALLS. The late Sir Herbert Tree, the English actor and wit, once summed up some facts of lite in a classic jingle which went, as nearly as I can remember it, as follows: The rain, it falleth down Upon the just and unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The unjust hath the just's um. brella, MUST NOT BE REPEATED Consciously or unconsciously there is a universal conviction that the difficult times of the last four years have been altogether too difficult to be endured again, within the life- time of the present generation, at least. The people do not intend, if they can help it, to put up with a repetition of that period of declin- ing incomes, declining living stand- ards, declining bank accounts and all.round hardships.--Quebec Chron- icle-Telegraph. CASH AT AYCTION SALES The terms that) used to appear on auction sale bills giving 80 many months' credit on approved joint notes, and a percentage off for cash, are apparently a thing of the past, hereabouts, A more abbrevi- ated form is now in common use and the most of the sales are usually "Terms cash," Numbers of the pos- ters also bear the admonition that nothing is to be taken from the pre- mises "until satisfactorily settled It would appear that the farmer has gone on the cash and carry basis also. Can it be that the credit sys- tem is abcut to go from all phases of activity. A few years ago every- one was urged to buy on easy terms. It wotld seem that the terms were s0 easy (hat everyone bought. The paying days are here. They have struck every walk of life, and the sales are apparently just another evidence of the cash basis being es- tabliched.--Acton Free Press, PROBLEM OF COW'S TAIL. Word comes that in Los Angeles there is a national inventors' con. gress and that among 500 other de- vices shown there is one for hold: ing a cow's tall during milking, It recalls the man who invented a gadget for striking matches, You put in the match, turned a handle and rushed across the room to catch it before it went out. What is the mat- ter with tying the tuft of hair at the end of the tail round the cow's leg? : ) - 1 wasn't always so wise. Among my other varied activities 1 once learned to milk cows. And I cursed the cow heartily because she insis- ted on sloshing me in the eye with her tall. The lady who taught me to milk looked on and said: "Why don't you tie a rock to it?" Anything so simple had never struck me. So [ did it. I remained unconscious for 15 minutes, I have always lamented that most women have no sense of humor, but when they have it's a wow,--Van- couver Province, POLICE DOGS. Police dogs cannot be imported in- to Australia. They are . a nuisance and menace in most countries, In that Commonwealth they endanger the sheep industry, which is a basic business of their agriculture. Aus- tralians cannot afford to have any more dangerous dogs running ar- ound huge sheep ranches. now tlie dingo, or native dog, held by pastoralists to be the maqgt cune ning animal in existence is of con- siderable trouble owing to its raids Canadians In et SORA SIR SBR ET AS lead, eR ET SE ETT King's Honor List Seventeen Canad'ans appeared in the King's Honor List this year. Here we see left to right-- E. W, Beatty, K.C,, Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; Sir Albert Gooderham, Toronto, created Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; William J. Stewart, ex-Mayor of Toronto, Companion of the Order of the British Empire, on sheep and the extreme difficulty there is in shooting or even poison- it.--Brandon Sun, RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM. "I believe in rugged individualism and the ruggeder and the more in- dividualistc it is, the more I believe in it," says President George B. Cut- ten, of Colgate University, who thinks that there is too much ten- dency to suppress the individual for the good of the man. As a matter of fact, he thinks that is quite the wrong- way to go about it and that more good will be accomplished for the mass if the individual is encour- aged.--Sault Star, . THE EMPIRE SHORTER SKIRTS. Having lived to see the day when a woman in a short skirt looks posi- tively dowdy, we must prepare our eyes for another shock, Next spring the fashion experts say, skirts will be shorter, Women will still dress in the height of discretion, but the height of discretion will be raised a few inches, By this time next year the flowing garments that now look 80 smart may be worn only by aun- ties, When this see-saw process has been repeated a few times more the whole human race will be shock- proof. And what will the modiste do then; poor thing?-->Manchester Sun- gay Chronicle. AIR MAIL TO CANADA, Since we have now reached a point at which the air mail to Canada must bé considered an immediate ques- tion, the seadrome has become a practical problem, albeit an extreme- ly ticklish one. The Americans claim that artificial islands of suitable de- sign for the use of aircraft can be constructed and employed with suc- cess. We have still to see one, but it the claim be granted, who is to make them and who i8 to operate them? Are they to be internation- ally planned and controlled or to be simply a host of little Heligolands of the nations whose flags they fly? Ob- viously the seadrome question and the problem of the freedom of the seas cannot be separated.--Glasgow Herald, THE ART OF AGRICULTURE, riculture is also an art, In its high- est forms it is based on an instinct for the soil, long years of experi- ence and observation, above all training to grapple practically with day to day problems as they arise, In a word, farming cannot be con- ducted hy word of command, like the manceuvers of a body of troops. These are things which should be re- membered when the wholesale plan- ning of production from the soil is contemplated. Therefore, to what- ever degree of control this country must resign itself, an assurance that it will neither be overloaded with As it i$ | complicated machinery, nor made too rigid for safety, is of first _impor- tance to both the farmer and the community as a whole --Auckland Times. It must not be forgotten that ag- NEXT TO GODLINESS Some say the present clamor for bathing facilities arose through a plumbing accident, which deprived one of the most immaculate of our Councillors of his morning showers. Unable to take his accustomed bath, he first grew indignant and then gorrowful, as the realization came over him of what it meant to be one of the great unwashed. Dr, E, Prada, the town clerk, poipted out at the Health Authority meeting that there is no compulsion on house owners to instal shower baths on their pre- mises, Should such laxity continue? Should not the Local Authority be given power to- enforce the construc- tion of baths in all dwellings ?--Trin- idad Guardlan, Port of Spain, | UNIVERSAL LAW ~~ FOR MOTORISTS Nations Should Co-operate in Formation of Uniform Safe- ty Code, Speaker Says. Toronto.--It is time for the na- tions of the world to co-operate in formation of a world-wide automo- bile safety code, in the opinion of Robert C. Graham, executive vice- president of the Graham-Page Com- pany and chairman of the export committee of the Automobile Manu- facturers' Association of the United States. He has recently completed a tour comprising 15 countries and 35 states. England, he finds, "has made the finest comeback of any country," but declares that the day is past when any nation can prosper regard- less of world conditions. SPIRIT OF RECIPROCITY "1 think the big thing to-day," he said, "is to remember that the wealth of the world at large. We should deal with other countries in a spirit of reciprocity, arranging our terms by narrow nationalistic policies, We found, in the United States, that our Smoot-Hawley bill had boosted tar- iffs up too high--and we are gradu- ally repairing that mistake." In regard to motoring needs, he pointed out that automobiles had al- ready been developed more than the supervision of drivers and mainten- ance of highways, "We cannot say our highways are finished," he declared, "so long as one grade crossing remains, and so long as our curves are not so con vantage of the speed and power which modern automobiles possess. UNIFORM SAFETY LAWS "There should be uniform safety laws throughout the world, with the fine ideas of each country welded into a universal, simple and sensible program that would demand that only those capable of safe driving be allowed to drive, rigid inspection of tires and brakes." He stated that by June a highway structed that drivers can take ad-. would be complete between Mexico City annd Halifax, that cars built for Canada, the United States and Au- stralia, where long distances were to be traversed, would always require heavier cars and more powerful en- gines than those designed for smaller European countries, and that news- papers were the greatest present medium for moulding the public mind, expressing a wish that they would use their opportunity to fos ter world fellowship. Canadian Railway Earnings Higher Revenues For Ten Months $247,356,942 Compare With $220,883,742 Oltawa.---Canadian railways earn. ed $29,160,832 in October as against $27,239,163 in 1933. This was an in. crease of $1.911,668, or seven per cent, Operating expenses were heav- fer by $1,770,840, or nine per. cent,, and net operating revenues increas. ed from $7,656,648 to $7,697,376. Less than half of the inciease in operating expenses was for operat. ing payroll which increased by $662, 464, or from $12,146,672 in 1933 to $12,699,036. The number of employes rose from 114,630 to 120,877, but was. 3,930 less than in September, 1934. For the ten months, January to October, gross revenues amounted to $247,356,942 in 1934 and $220,883,742 in 1933 and the operating income was $27,460,277 in 1934 and $16,737.- 778 in 1933. Canadian Boy Scouts Eighty thousand children were supplied with Christmas toys through a chain of 150 toy shops operated across Canada from coast to coast by Canadian Boy Scouts. Since their inception eleven years ago Canadian Boy Scout toy shops have collected, repaired, repainted and distributed nearly two million toys to over half- a-million Canadian children. In many centres scarcity of old toys this past year caused the Scouts to try their hand at making new ones, and wholesale quantities of new wagons, truck, tractors, rac- ers, doll bedroom sets and other toys to delight the childish heart were added to Santa's pack. Thousands of family parcels of toys were sent to settlers rehabili- tated in Ontario and Quebec by Government and municipal back-to- the-land schemes, and to new home- steaders in Northern Saskatchewan. Heavy bulk shipments of toys were made by eastern Scout toy shops to assist their brother Scouts in the West to carry on the good work, In addition, Scouts in the East distributed thousands of play- things among the children of their own districts who might otherwise have been overlooked. -- Canadad Week by Week, 11 10 Field Crops Show Gain SHOW AN ESTIMATED ADVANCE OF $112,901,600 FOR YEAR JUST CLOSED Ottawa.--Canada's field crops for 1934 show an estimated gain of $112, 901,600 in value. This improvement is attributed mainly to better prices for farm products and some Improve- ments in ylelds, and may be regard: ed as a significant and hopeful step in the recovery of Canadian agricule ture. According to a crop report issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the value of the 1934 field crops Is estimated at $536,498,600, compared with the 1933 valuation of $423,697,000, and reaches the high- est level since 1930, The greatest value increases are and clover accounted for a gain of 37 million dollars in value, barley showed a gain in value of 101%, million dollars, The estimated value of the potato crop is placed 9 million dollars lower than in 1933 despite the higher production in 1934. HAY PRICES HELP All of the provinces reported in- creases in the value of field crops with the exception of Prince Ed- ward Island, where a very slight re duction was shown, Both Nova Sco- tia and New Brunswick show in. creases due mainly to the improve- ment in hay prices. In Quebec a fairly general betterment in yield and prices caused an increase of. 380 million dollars, or 45 per cent, In the value of field crops, In Ontarlo, higher prices for grains and fod- der offset the lower production, and the estimated value of field crops is up 17% million dollars, or 14 per cent Manitoba's yields were also down, but with generally higher prices, the value of field crops is placed at 161 million dollars, or nearly 50 per cent, higher than in 1933. A similar-.condition prevailel in Saskatchewan which shows an improvement of 16 million dollars or rough'y 20. per cent. Alberta fled crop values cre estimated to be high- er by about 37 per cent., or 2814 mil. Hon dollars. B.itish Columbia shows a slight betterment over 1933 valu- ations, An Illusion Lost There is a certain actress in the movies, whose name I certainly do not propose to divulge, who strikes me as about the most lovely of created things, I have. worshipped her from a long distance for a long time. I was content that she should remain a shadow on a screen while I sat in a theatre looking at her--a respectable and a 'convenient re- lationship. It seemed to me she grew lovelier with the passing-of the years. Then the other morning the Col- onist, with a callous disregard for me and. all the other lady's admirers, had to go and publish a news picture of her on the deck of a liner with a lot of other people. It was a cruel thing to do. For, alas, my lovely lady, without her screen make-up, without those long, lustrous but false eyelashes, without her seductive gowns and alluring poses, turned out to be a middle-aged person of considerable girth and numerous wrinkles, You can see a hundred girls on the streets of Victoria much better looking any day of the week. tered. - It was cruel of the Colonist and it was a great mistake for the lady to let herself get caught by the photographers without her war paint. If the newspapers continue to do this sort of thing, where is it going to end? Soon there will be nothing left to worship at all. -- Victoria Times. "The masses are always more eag- er for security than they are en- amored of liberty."--Glen Frank. "Don't get the notion to travel a lot. There ain't much to see." -- Will Rogers. DAVID COP David is on fo schoo! at Canterby is his con- career as'an author. He ignes is his con- f ! | prin Bid While Steerforth is his best Wickfields and his old friends, the Micawbers. boat-house. friend at school.f He also meets Uriah Heep, Wickfields clerk, whom he suspects is a scoun- y and happy now,' the pleasant years, stant companion, "drel Ls slip by quickly. "" \ Fy ~ Jf ry. He lives David, now a young nan, Js in London bent on Dora Spenlow and falls in love with her. Serial Based on the Novel by ° a One day, walking on the beach with Steerforth as left behind him the near Dora's home, David chances on the Pe They pa t incidence Micawber has been again meets his dearly beloved nurse, Peggotty. glen a ho Ron a assistant to Uriah Heep. In But a few weeks later he is horrified to fin | that ndon, with his friend Steerforth, David meets Em'ly, betrothed to Ham, has run away with Steerforth, them a visit and \/ 6) A 1 ott avi approaching marsia Agnes hides her. hi that Orin 'Heép father's firm an CHARLES DICKENS 'Soon, David's first story is published and he visits his. Aunt and Agnes.to tell them of his . Aunt Betsey disapproves roken heart. : is now a partner in her, that he has some mysterious hen she tells hold over Wickfield. What can it be? Watch for nest week's exciting installment. . WILL shown by the grain and fodder crops, but these are offset to some extent | by a sharp decline in potatoes. and a lesser decline in sugar beets, Hay ' oats | were better by 31 million dollars and | social activities to the general pub- - Association, My last illusion has been shat- | JOBLESS RELIEF Miss Frieda Held--Promoted Aide In Welfare : Work a Toronto.--After 15 years of stéad- ily increasing responsibility in the social field, Miss Frieda Held, of Tos ronto, has been appointed as super- visor in the unemployment relisf branch of the Ontario Government. In announcing this new move in his departmental reorganization, Hon, Dave Croll, minister of welfare, re marked that "the service will be ene riched by the sincere devotion to the public good and by the organizing abilities which are apparent at every point in Miss Held's career. We again follow our policy of appoint- ing only proven persons to vacancies in the department." Miss Held has given particularly valuable service through interpreting lic and through training volunteer workers so that theirhefforts might be of the utmost value. This service was recognized in 1933 with her elec- tion as president of the social wel- fare conference of Toronto and by her appointment in 1930 as lecturer at the University of Toronto. On graduation from the social science department of the University of Toronto, Miss Held joined the Neighborhood Workers Association in 1920. As assistant organizer of the fresh air department and Christ- mas exchange, she received her first major assignment to organize, at a moment's notice, a camp of 300 people at Niagara Falls, In 1922 she became first superintendent of the | Neighborhood Workers camp at Bol- ton--still one of the most impor. ant fresh air centres in the Toronto dic- trict. Besides these endeavors she served as district secretary for social work in two. of the most difficult areas in Toronto and organized a legal aid bureau through which p:o- minent lawyers gave thei se: vices freely to poor families. he In 1924 M'ss-Held became super- vicor of four-of the nine Toronto d Eo tricts and also of the Home Le .ice the family welfare agency for colored people .Thesa two offices she has held un jl her ap- pointment to the provincial dzpa t- nient. She has been active al o in work on behalf of unmarried mothers and was first cha'rman of the con- one of Negitimaty workers in For the last five years Mi:s Held has lectured on "sveial work to the School "of nursing be" the University of Toronto. She is also a member of the social science depa:tment's le-- lure staff and frequently A 2 has con- uucted special courses on volunteer work, Shortens Hours For Shop Clerks London -- Rasjer conditions for young store clerks aye ensured un- der the Shops Act which came into force with the New Year. The act limits the working time of boys and girls under 18 in shops to. 52 hours a week until December 1986, after which the hours are to be 48 a week. Twenty-four hours' overtime in six weeks a year may be worked, but no more than 12 hours in any one week. Employers. must allow their young workers a break of atleast 20 'min- utes after a continuous stretch of five hours' work. If a meal is taken on the premises a period of 45 min- utes at least must be allowed, and if away. one hour. Two Magic Words Writes "H. V. O'Brien in Chicago Daily News--Here is an intelligence test on 'which I scored zero, Maybe you-will do better. It takes the form of a story, follows: : A man wanted to buy a horse. The news reached two Indians, each of .whom had a horse he wanted to sell. They took their horses to the buyer. He examirvd the animals and agreed that both were good -- so good that he could not make a choice. = To solve the problem, he told the Indians to take their horses to a distant point on the prairie, and from there race to him, He sa'd that he would buy the horse which as | came in second, The Indians rode slowly to starting point. quandary. If the horse that came In second was to win, how. could there be a race? While they were puzzling over this riddle they encountered an old the medicine man, To. him they ex- plained the situation, He 1'ztened attentively, Then he put his arms around them and whispared in their ears--just two words, When they heard thos» worlds their faces brightened and they gal- loped happily away to the-s'arting point, : What were those two words? Well, to gave mysa!f fiom arawer- ing letters, I'll nat tha "wo words at the hottom of this ariiels, NOTE: Tha two magic worus were "change hareas ; - \ They were in a ' Ce We