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et i EE th . ner 3 ---- BOE, 0, wa Rey bre atl a) < Aa; cae, Se Sy a ~~ Re CR A Fh #1 - CANADA THE EMPIRE orc? THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA ' THIS MIGHT WORK, "How can I get my husband to tell me about his business affairs?" plaintively inquires a correspondent? Ask him for money for a new dress. -- Halifax Herald. BOLIVIA'S ADVANTAGE Apparently disabused of the idea that the interminable warfare be- tween Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco jungles can be halted by means of heart-to-heart chats with the combatants, the League of Na- tions committee entrusted with the {ask of settling the dispute has de- cided to settle it by taking sides. The coin came down "heads," Bo Bolivia will now get all the arms she needs, with the blessing of the League, while embargoes on munitions ship- ments to Paraguay are strengthen- ed, --Border Cities Star. SEALING WAX, The use of sealing wax on letters is a very ancient custom, but it by no means follows that it is entirely suitable to present day uses, The postal employees wax angry at its present day. use on the back of let- ters because of the danger from fly- fng fragments of hardened wax to the eyes of the employees. The post office authorities, however, have rul- ed that "the department knows of no justifiable reason for requesting the public to forego the use of a sealing material which has been in use from time immemorial, and which, as far as the department is aware, has no substitute."--Moncton Transcript. . CURFEW. Like Port Stanley, Fort Erle has a curfew law that is being enforced to the extent that parents who let "teen" age children roam the streets are being haled into court, That's getting at the root of the trouble, -- St. Thomas Times-Journal, FALSE GOSPEL. . "War alone brings up to {ts high- est tension all human energy and "pats tha-otamp of -nobiiit;. npn the peoples who have the courage to meet it." So declares Premier Mus- golinf, the ruler of Italy. A terrible falsity. Canada proves it so, From the close of the War of 1812-14 with the United States to the outbreak of the World War of 1914, Canada en- joyed practically one hundred years of peace. Then came the World War of 1914. From our small population Six hundred thousand Canadians be- camo soldiers--and those who got into battle proved that there were no better soldiers in the world.--Ot- tawa Journal, . REMINDER, on Tet the printed sheets of dates which we call a calendar remind us every day in the year that time is passing, and.we must get something valuable out of each day,--Kingston 'Whig-Standard, PACIFIC COAST SALMON. The Professor of Biology at Stan- ford University said in a recent ad- dress betore a scientific association that each tributary of streams flow- ing into the ocean was shown to have a distinct colony or race of galmon. It was further stated by the professor that if these races are destroyed by dams or other man- made devices on, the Pacific rivers they cannot be replaced--Halifax Herald. - ~ HEARST ON RUSSIA The American newspaper publish- er, Willlam Randolph Hearst, took occasion in a recent national broad- cast to speak the 'plain uncensor- ed truth" about Russia, Despite his earlier views on the great communis. tic enterprise in that country, he is definitely critical today, He describ- ed the Soviet governmental experl ments as a fearful failure, which was "only to be expected from putting people who could not care 'for their own interests successfully in charge of the administration of public af- fairs,--Calgary Herald, GREATEST SEAPORT. When people think of big British seaports they instantly call to mind Liverpool and Southampton, there- fore, it may surprise them to learn that London is Britain's busiest sea- port by a long way. During the year ended October 31, the net tonnage using London was 58,603,242. Liverpool was a poor second with 33,605,650, and South. ampton third with 25,267,860. Then came Hull with over 11,000,000, al- though no large - Jiners call there, being on the east coast, and fifth place was occupied by Manchester with over 7,000,000, which is pretty good for a port that is 36 miles from the sea to which it only has access by a man-made canal,--St. Thomas Times-Journal. An Alberta driver the other day just missed beating a train to the crossing, but no doubt he will try it again.--Calgary Herald. PRAIRIE FRIENDLINESS Prairie neighborliness has become a byword throughout Canada, It has been thrown into new and stlil bright- er relief in these years of economic ordeal, on the prairies, and, as well, in the towns and cities that dot them, have gone out of their way to do the kind- ly neighborly -thing, This personal helpfulness has become an [nstitu- tion in the west.--Regina ILeader- Post. WALKING AT NIGHT. People who have to walk along roads at night should pay heed to | Chief Shute's reminder that the safe way is to keep to the left, thus fac- ing oncoming trafic. And to add to one's safety under such circum- stances it is advisable to have some- thing white visible, Even a white handkerchief carried on the hand would be seen quickly by the driver of a motor car. Persons dressed in dark clothes are often almost invis- ible until within the direct focus of the headlights--and then it is usu- ally too late,--IEdmonton Journal, THE VACANT CHAIRS. Magistrate Browne, of Toronto, whose profession brings him into daily contact with the problem, made scme" Btriking keference to the auto- niobile death toll in an address the other night, The deplorable waste of life oc- casioned by traffic accidents, he de- clared, was "a ghastly indictment upon our civilization." 'lI am often told," says the magis- trate, "that damages will be settled. Yes, but tell me, what insurance company can ever fill a vacant chair?' --Peterboro Examiner, HARD TIMES IN THE ARCTIC Turkeys at Aklavik, states a radio dispatoh from the tiny ice-bound settlement, would have been valued, at $1.60 a pound--it there had been any turkeys. : There weren't, so the white and native trappers ate roast caribou and wild cranberries for Christmas and RT AEP ROE RAR A -- as $0 el Le ed Homeless Parisians have formed a society called the 'Philosophers of the Seine," and following the teachings of the Ancients, they have made the best of their circumstances. them hanging up weekly wash while other peers out of shelter built of odds and ends. Picture shows one of « Interests Editors "There Is But One Leaning Tower of Pisa; One Dionne Family" ---- "The. Sault Ste. Marle Star says editorially: "A woman wrote up the Dlonne household "for the last issue of the '| Canadian Home Journal, and was apparently much perturbed at the modest furnishings. The large 'bare' living room plainly. impressed her, for she lists the stove, table plain chairs and the few other articles It contained. "Fo a northerner who knows. some- 'thing of the modest requirements of its. pioneer households, the Toronto woman's reactlon is interesting. Even where; more elaborate furnish ings could he afforded, simplicity in rural homes in the north is seldom departed from. "That the Dionne family could add something to the living room must be apparent from parlor, "The settler in the north is used to the®imple life, He does not favar cluttering up his home with more furniture than he thinks he needs even when he could afford to do so," EDITORIAL REPLY, . The Stratford Beacon-Herald re- plies editorially to a correspondent, a man, who wants to "get a rest from all the fuss over the Dionne babies." "Well, we remain interested .our- selves," says the editor, "One man who returned from a trip to Florida told us the people at the hotel where New Year's dinners.--Winnipeg Tri: bune. THE EMPIRE APPETIZER, At an eating competition, a collier succeeded in disposing of a leg of mutton a loaf of bread, and a plen- tiful supply of vegetables, finishing up with a substantial plum pudding, He was decided the winner. When going home, he said to some Men, women and children-of his admirers, "Now, lads, don't yo say nowt ebout this to my missus, or she won't gi'e me no supper.-- London Advertiser. v's POLITE THOUGH HATLESS. I am in the habit of wearing a beret. tightly to the head it is almost im- possible to remove it in time, It is equally difficult to replace, especial- ly it one hand is occupied with, say, a stick or an umbrella. To bow with the baret oiiaeems scarcely courte- ous; to touch the foréhval. with the right hand has a menial air; to make a Fascist salute is un-English, Can any one tell me what to do?--London Times, PARADE OF 400 'PLANES. One of the high points of the King's Jubilee Year will be a royal review on a big scale of the Royal Alr Force. Air ministry officials and Service officers are discussing the arrange- ments. One suggestion is that the climax of the review should he a grand "fly-over" on a scale never yet attempted in this country, en- gaging 400 airplanes, and a "royal salute" with the squa<rons diving in formation before the King. The biggest formation of aircraft that has yet flown over the British Isles consisted in rather more than one hundred aircraft under the leadership of the late Air Commo- dore C. R. Samson. The flight was made over London some 10 years ago. In size that fleet easily surpassed in numbers the largest enemy formation to appear over English territory dur- Ing the war -- British Aircraft So- clety, TOURIST ADVERTISING Ceylon. is rapidly fading off the tourists' map of the world, There has been in recent months a striking decline of tourist traffic, This is the As this form of headgear fits" more remarkable because 'the | world," as Mr. M. 8. Milne remark- ed on Sunday at Nuwara Eliya, "has gone cruising mad." Economic re- covery has multiplied tourlsts and is sending them tg the four quarters of the globe, Japan, despite, its draw- backs of distance and language, was expecting to receive an unprecedent- ed number of tourists this year, It was thought that the total would ex- ceed 30,000 visitors as against an average of 17,000 or 18,000. The rea- son for this sudden influx is a les- son which Ceylon may take to heart, The propaganda carried on against Japan's cheap goods is regarded in Japan as the biggest advertisement for the country, Evidently it is bet- ter to become even notorious than remain in respectable obscurity and be ignored.--Times of Ceylon, Colcm- bo. BETTER TIMES IN N.2. Tais is going to be a much. heilsr | Import year than 1935 was, or, in- (eed, aily" year since 1930. With im- ports so drastically' reduced stocks of commodities in this country have become depleted, while the small in- ward flow has effected employment and contributed to the general slug- gishness of trade, Its revival can he attributed in part' to the need to re- plenish supplies of overseas commo- dities, But that need has existed earlier, when trade still remained at a low ebb, It has been started mov- ing again by several conditions which can easily be assessed, A belief that the future will be better than the past can be given some of the credit; A more important factor has un. doubtedly been the dissipation of that atmosphere of uncertainty which re- strained importers from operating. The tariff amendments have been made and the exchange . policy has been stabilized. Therefore plans can now be formed more confidently than was previously possible.--Auckland News, : . She Was Pretty Desperate No manager would take me seri- ously, I even darkened my hair to show that I lave character and brains, --Miss Angela Joyce, ex- beauty Queen, in an interview in the last Sunday Pictorial, Canada-South Africa Need Fast Shipping Johannesburg--Need for a direct and spedlly shipping service between the Union of South 'Africa and Can- ada was emphasized in an interview by J. H. McDonald of New. West- minster, B.C.. chairman of Canada's first trade miss'on to South Africa. "We suggest" he said, "that the | tro governments should jointly sub- sidize one of the shipping lines to run a regular and fast service be- tween the Union and Canada. A direct service will enable Union ex: porters to enjoy some of the pre- ferences which our government ex- tends. Once goods are shipped via the United Kingdom they lose their identity and come under a different "tariff." The Canadian visitors. speit a day at. .Bretoria inic..iewing mem- bors of the South African govern- ment. Later they visited Durban and returned to spend two or three weeks in this city. They propose go- ing to Rhodesia to talk = Canadian trade in Bulawayo and Salisbury. Meetings and Conventions For Month of February Arrangements have been complet- ed by the Agricultural Associations concerned to hold their Annual Meetings and Conventions, as an- nounced below: Ontario Plowmen's Association-- Tuesday, February 5th, commencing at 10.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. ' Ontario Field Crop and Seed Growers' Assoc/ation--Wednesday February 6th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Association of Fairs and Exhibitions -- Annual Convention, Thursday and Friday, February 7th and 8th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Vegetable Growers' As- sociation--Annual Meeting on Tues- day, February 12th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. Convention, Wednesday, February 13th, commencing at 9 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Horticultural Association, Annual Convention--Thursday and Friday, February 21 and 22, com- mencing at 9 am, King Edward Hotel, Toronto. ' Dionne children when they found he was from Ontario; there was a letter in yesterday's mall from Washington and at the bottom was the query 'How goes it with the quintuplets?' It's a fact the news about them has been carried pretty muoh all over the world for the Dionne sisters are the only quintuplets in the world. There is but one learning tower of Pisa, just one Gibraltar and just one Dionne family. Ted 3 "We admit we are interested in the Dionne sisters, It we could shove one of them ahout in a cart we'd gladly do so, or perform any other minor or major service. Not being able to do that we print things in the paper now and then about them, put in they are getting along, and we'll keep on doing it... Much... better matarial ws think, than a plethora {of stories about bad men, bandits, wars, divorces, depressions and so on, 'Why, just think of it--five at a time and all living and fat as pups! Nothing 'like it in the world." Trying Experiments ; With Strawberries Quebec--The agricultural districts district of Quebec - City 'and the Island of Orleans in particular, are expected to derive considerable 'benefit from a new co-operative ex periment that is being conducted by the Provincial and Dominion de- partments of agriculture with cold storage garden strawberries, Some 80,000 pounds of last. year's crop of strawberries, - which , have 'been' kept in cold storage,. will be offered for sale on the Montreal market in the near future, and if the experiment proves successful, it- is expected between 200,000 and 800,000 pounds of Quebec straw: berries will be similarly marketed in the winter of 1938. It is claimed that, early in season, long- before the province's strawberries are available, a <con- siderable amount of berries are im- ported from the United States and Ontario and. are sold at fairly high prices, but that Quebec cold storage berries, which retain their excellent taste and fine quality, could easily and profitably take their. place. the 11 David stays tod collapses inner at the Wickfields. Uriah pits at the head of the table, flushed with his own mportance. But when Agnes leaves the room he proposes a toast to his hopes of winning her as ig wife. Wickfield, enraged, tries to strike him, but when ,Urish_speaks to him.warningly, he DAVID COPPERFIELD Week David and Dora are married and live in a tiny cottage at Highgate. In spite of Dora's childisn helplessness a together until the night Aunt Betsy and mr. Dick come, to dinner. Everything goes wrong. The roast is burnt and the oysters are unopened, ut everything, they are happy ly Serial Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS wre he young c¢ bursts inta;a torrent of Years, their guests have left, they eac forgiveness and David into the house to take care of everything household sy that Dora will have. no_ further worries, ouple quarrel bitterly and But later, when terrupts David's h beg the other's David quickly seeks out decides to bring Peggotty how Steerforth had cruelly Jeseriay hi itr and ol 'Dora Some mont ) ater, ¥ the Naples. He begs David "20w. grown reckless of news. Will avid re for next week's "Navid Cannarfield." hl nls Du 'rushes in and i een found 0 te 8 lin her in , Who ha i 1 hiv fo him the im in time? Watch [4 neluding installment of of the province in general, and the. Quintuplets News Urge Education al To Reduce Toll Ottawa Police Chiefs Submit Safety Program In Effort To Check Increase In Ac- cidents. Ottawa--Definite action to enlist public support in a nation-wide ef- fort to reduce the traffic accident toll was urged, together with concrete suggestions, in a report of the traf- fic safety committee of the Chief Constables' Association of Canada, made publi¢ here last week. The committee has been studying the traffic problem and has embodied "its ideas in a lengthy report, signed * the fact that a piano is listed in the- ; traffic advisory boards, he was staying asked him about the one thing of which we must by the members, who are Chief of Police Emile Joliat,- of Ottawa, chairman; Chief D. C. Draper, of Toronto; Deputy Director C. Barnes, of Montreal, and Inspector J. A. Grant, chief of the Ontario provin- cial police motorcycle patrol, To- ronto. : } The committee strongly urged a _ greater degree of education to re' duce accidents, steps to get public co-operation through formation of and closer relations by the police with the public to gain public confidence and good-will. At the outset, the report empha- sized the magnitude of the trafiic problem today and its effect upon the public. "When due consideration is given to everything that has been said and done in the matter of street and highway safety; when all that has been written has bec read and esn- sidered and when the really effective safety work, by whomsoever done, has been give. due wwedit, there is not . lose sight," the report declared. "The one thing is that the problem of traffic accidents affects every muni- cipal organization, every citizen and every business--some - more than others. In cily administration it has placed a greater burden upon the police than upon any other civic de- - partment." In view of the wurgercy of the "problem the committee felt that ac- om, their pictures so people can see how . mittee felt tion towards getting traffic law ob- servance aud enforcement would get the best results and the responsibil ity of working out suitable action devolved upon the police, "The problem shows, from its present severity that it - out- ranks all other commurity pro- blems with which the police come in contact," the report continued. "It should certainly receive move attention . than the problems which constitute a lesser burden upon the community, until its losses are decreased. It should be possible to convince the public that it would be better to spend more money for police protect- ion and. make a greater saving through a reduction ,in accidents. "The traffic preblem "will never grow lesg if left to itself. Mobility is a sign of progress. It will always increase and its potential hazards will always exist. The automobile is an indispensable element in our pres- ent-day civilization, but it is exact- ing a terrible toll from us in life, limb and property. In almost every major trime the automobile is in volved. In a large measure it is now the motor. car whic you must look for if you are to solve the crime pro- blem." : - The committee felt . it was not lack of knowledge that prevented motor accidents, but rather lack of determination to take the necessary steps. Among the steps which the com- would strengthen the police effort were uniform legis lative standards throughout the Do- - minion, standard traffic laws in all the provinces and specialized police squads to handle traffic duties. Separate traffic courts were re- commended to "hear all charges of violation against the traffic laws. Accurate reporting of accidents and subsequent study of the reports, coupled with the use of maps, were urged. ' "The addition of a traffic en ...gineering department is<most es- sential to ensure the proper ad- ministration of every police de- partment," the committee. re- commended. AP The committee suggested examin- ation of all new applicants for drivers' licenses, periodic examina- tion of all licensed drivers, and in- spection of all motor vehicles at least once a year, to detect me- chanical defects. CO-OPERATION IS ESSENTIAL ~ Co-operation of the public is vital- ly necessary, the committee agreed, if 'accidents are to be reduced in number, : "The ustal method of doing this is to establish a 'traffic ad- visory 'board', whose members represent a cross-section of the community. It should normally ~~ include all such as. are affected by traffic accidents and conges- tion." "In order 'to cultivate public sup- port for traffic safety' enforcanient, 'the committee. considered police de- partments should assign. a compe- tent man to handle public relations and educate motorists and pedestri- ang in proper safety measures. ¢ , F 3 kt SES F 3 3 SE I as