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> J wie AEA dred i i i -- -- pre CANADA THE EMPIRE Samm THE WORLD "AT LARGE Voice of the Press -- CANADA WAR BABIES It is almost 21 years since the Great War broke out and almost 17 years since it concluded. Yet it comes as something of a shock to read the news that France 1s now calling its "war babies' to the colors. There has been time for a whole new generation to come to manhood and yet the world is still" suffering from the repercussions of the late war and is lNving in fear of another. --Sault Star, PENALTY FOR SPEEDING A reader sends us a clipping from an Aberdeen new! paper reporting a trafiic case tried by the Reigate mag- istrates. A Sussex motorist was charged before them with dangerous driving. He had travelled, it was sald, all speeds varying from 35 to 70 miles an hour, he took a danger- ous corner at forty miles, It wal brought out that in 1932 he was con- victed of a similar offence, his driv- ing license suspended for a year. The Reigate court thereupon fined * him £100, disqualified him from hol- ding a driving permit for five years. ~--Ottawa Journal, CAUSES OF WAR. Increasing populations, not arma- monts are the most potent cause of wai, in the view of Co'. oe er Hun tr, M.L.A., 'Tcronto. The Colonel had in mind parccuaczly the rapidly grow.ny ponilation of Japan, which §5 Lecomtiorg too great for the narrow condiies of the island cmpire. Thus it would seem that babies, not bul- lets, are a prime cause of war, The Co'onel also takes the view that the L] ~ greatest dangers to peace are econo- mic. "Unemployment," he says, "is clearly not a national but an interna. tional problem a5 is the distribution cf goods and service and unless our numerous conflicting policies can be reconciled we shall inevitably be fizniting each other again." It is the job of an organization such as the League of Nations to reduce these fr. ritations; but the outcome of recent disarmament and economic confer- vneces has not bgen very encouraging. Sault Star, 5 3 DENTAL CAVITIES. The hardy cave-dwell of old never mod medern delicacies like cake, creamed chicken and ice cream, He gnawed his meat o the bone and ate unhulled grain--and, according to gsom~» modern theorists, because of that fact he had heaithy teeth, How- ever, Dr. E. B. Renaud, professor of enthropology at Denver University has been looking at the skulls of an- cient cliff dwellers in Mess Verde National Park, and he finds evidence to the contrary, These old-timers, why lived on .coarse, tough foods all thei lives, had cavities in plenty, gufiered from toothache just as we do, and also' had pyorrhea.--Vancou- ver Sun, : AN OMINOUS WARNING. A complaint comes from the north end of te town of hens over-running the neighbor. gardens, This is par- ticularly annoying at thig time of year, and if the hens are not kept at home something may happen to them.-- Goderich Signal, ' COALS OF: FIRE. I have three cacti, the long strag- gly kind that just will not stand any- where without support and take up} more than thelr share of space. So, early last winter, I carried them all up to the attic to get them out of of the way, and promptly forgot them, never watering them, A few days ago I was searching for something in the attic and took a casual glance at the cactl, Im. agine the prick of my comwscience, I found every one of them loaded with buds in spite of my shameful neglect, We hastened to make amends, and now the cacti are occupying the lar gest window in the house, and re- ceive every attention. Two large red blooms are out in full, with ten more to follow, while the smaller plants have a score of buds just showing color, some white, some plnk.--Let- ter In Woodstock-Sentinel-Review, BROCKVILLE SHOWED WAY The keeper of the archives at a Siberian point solved the problem of accommodating half a million old documents by sellng them for waste paper, a crime almost as heinous as that committed a number of years ago, when old papers from Brock. 'ville's court house, all of them inter- esting and some of them valuable from the standpoint of local and pro- vinclal history, were carted oft to the dufnp for disposal Brockville Recorder, - | the | development of acting TO FIT THE CRIME, It is suggested that there should be a law whereby anyone who ad« dresses a stranger as 'Say Mac," should be put in the stocks.--Regina Leader-Post, USING ALL NAMES, In order to make its court reports accurate and fair as well as more interesting, the Whig-Standard has adopted the policy pursued by most of the prominent British newspap- ers in regard to all court proceedings. The names and addresses of indlvid- uals or firms before the public law courts will be used in all cases with. put regard to the charges preferred, the cause of action or the outcome of the case. The news of the law courts, both civil and criminal, has long been a | matter of public interest, because it is only through the newspaper Te- ports of the courts that the citizens in general are kept informed of the administration of justice in the com- munity. The prevailing practice of using names of individuals In court reports' in come circumstances and omitting them in other circumstances leads, despite the most honest inten- tions and diligence, to inequalities. Using all names and allowing no spe- cial circumstances to alter the prac- tice will be absolutely fair to all con- cerned. Tho:e persons who attempt to influence the newspaper to omit names, lost sight of the fact that newspaper does not make the news, it only prints it, The new policy of the Whig-Stan- dard with regard to court news will apply to all police cours, county judges' courts, division courts, or g.¢ sions of the Supreme Court ol Ontario anywhere in the district ser- ved by this newspaper. With the ad- option of this policy peop'e will, of course, realize that it will be useless to appeal to this paper to have names omitted from court proceed- ings.-- Kingston whig-Standard, A NATIONAL THEATRE. _ Lord Bs sborough in closing the Dominion Drama 'Festival at Ottawa said he hoped the time was not far distant when Canada would have a national theatre, During his term as Governor Gen- eral rapid and consistent progress toward that goal has been made. This has been due in no small part to the sii tained interest-and help Mis Ex- cellency has given the movement. In addition to the discovery and talent, the movement has also encouraged can- adian playwrights, and it is much easier now to envision a distinctive Canadian type of drama than it was five ycars ago.-- Winnipeg Tribune, "SPRING CLEANING. The province possesses numerous antique attractions which are a source of pleasure and interest to visitors from all over the continent, and it behooves hotelkeepers through- out the province who benefit from the passage of these 'tourists, to do all they can to make their stay more agreeable, so that when they return home, they will advise all their friends to visit Quebec. Not only does the necessity of spring cleaning apply to hotelkeep- ers. It applies to everybody in the province, whether they live in city or town, or country, since spotless fiouses and buildings, streets that are clear of rubbish and litter of all kinds, etc., will only serve to en- hance Quebec's reputation, and re- gult in an even larger number of tourists visiting the province in fu- ture years.--Quebec Tourist Bulletin, WHEN HE COMES OUT It a man has been in prison five or ten years he has become a victim of routine, Ie has never had to think about earning a meal or he has never had to worry about where the next meal is coming from. He gets a bath and a change of clothing on a certain .day. He rises when he is supposed to and goes in when that hour comes, "On the day he walks out all this changes, He muw:t again do some- thing on his own initiative, and his initiative has become dulled*by rou- tine, He must work it he is going to live, and work is hard to find, He must face the handicap that he is an ex-convict and that narrows down to a small number the people who will give him a chance, We believe the man who leaves 8 prison has a greater problem on his hand's than the man who is in pris- on.--Stratford Beacon-Herald, THE EMPIRE IN TRINIDAD ALSO. There has hitherto been far too much laxity in regard to the use of pedal cycles by juveniles, Many par. ents seemed to feel that the rules of the road were all very well for motor trafic, but that their children . a cash! peserve fon of debenture principal payments, ¥ »f London, was carried out The annual ceremony of the Easter Sunday inspection of the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of I this year by Lieut.-C)l. W. N. Faviell, Governor and Major of the Tower. Je is shown above as he led the warders to the parade ground for inspection. . who rode bicycles could go as they pleased, If parents and others res. ponsible for the care of the young do not impress upon their charges the importance of observing safety rules, or will not continue this in- struction in a manner to ensure its being effective, the Constabulary will goon be forced to take action against child cyclists in the interects of the safety both of the children them- selves and of other road-houses, -- Trinidad Guardian, DOMESTIC SERVICE. No fewer than 4,000 girls, it was stated recently, have entered Britain from abroad during the past two years in crder to take up posts as dome t'e servants, Since all appli- cations for permission for these girls to enter the country have to be made by their prospective: employers, the invasion goes to emphasize the difti- culty which is experienced by the, housewire -in obtaining domestic help near home. That, in turn, points to continued disinclination on the part of Briti_ h girls to "enter service." Surely, it is time for this ridiculous attitude towards domestice service to cease? It is today, as it.has always been, an honorable calling. In the eves of any reasonable person there can be no stigma attached to thore who follow it.--London Sunday Pic- torial. . . Repays Loan ~~. Of $100,000 Walkerville Wipes Out In- debtedness In Record Time --Five Year Plan. = Windsor--Repayment of a bank loan of $100,000 was completed by the Town of Walkerville recently, wiping out all the town's bank indebtedness on 1934 current account, Mayor Far- row announced. It is the first time in seven year's that the town has been able to accomplish this, Mayor Farrow explained. CURRENT ACCOUNT "Repayment of this $100,000," Mayor Farrow said, "was in keeping with the provisions of our five-year plan, which provided that bank loans on current account should be paid not later than May 1 of the year fol- lowing the year in which they are incurred. Repayment of this loan places Walkerville in a position, with respect to our bankers, which we have not been able to achieve since 1928. Prior to 1928 borrowings at the end of each year to meet current expens- es, were not necessary." The $100,000 loan was contracted by the town in December of 1934 to pay interest on the town's debenture debt. Such borrowings have been necessary each year since 1928. Each year Walkerville has paid back dur- ing the course of the year the bor- rowings made the previous December, but the town has not previously beer. able to make the repayment as early as was accomplished this year, the mayor said. SEPARATE BORROWING These December loans, made each year to pay up the town's debenture principal and interest, are quite apart from the annual borrowings, made early in the year, to tide the town over until the taxes come in. Bor- rowings against the current year's taxes, prior to tax collection dates, have always been repaid during the same years, . Walkerville owes its bank approxi- mately $275,000 on capital account--- money borrowed for construction of the Pere Marquette subway. This in- debtedness will eventually be taken care of as was originally intended, the sale of debentures appears to be good business, In repaying the $100,000 loan as quickly as possible, Mayor Farrow pointed out, Walkerville is living up to the agreenment made with the bond-holders as quickly as possible, to be followed by the building up of ggai=ct "~ resumpt- history; has increased payrolls AUTO WAGES NEVER HIGHER Payrolls Are Huge--Data Is Given Richberg By Alyan Macauley Detroit--The automobile industry during the last 13 months has paid the highest hourly wage rates in its 131 per cent. above 1932, and is paying more to labor, per car produced, than it did in 1929, These statements are made in a letter sent by the Automobile Manu- facturers Association, through its president, Alvan Macauley, to Don- ald R. Richberg, chairman, of the National Industrial Recovery Board. Because of the marked shortening of working hours -resuired by the in dustry's code, however, it has not bean possible to pay weekly and annual wages approaching those of 1929, the letter declares. Average work hours per week under the code have been cut 13 a week from the 1929 average--from 45.6 to 32.6 hours. As a result, des- pite higher rates and higher relative payrolls, the individual's average weekly pay envelope has contained only $24.70 during the 12 months ended in March, instead of $32.74, as in 1929. These figures were compiled 'from reports made by members of. the industry in connection with their code. The code sets 40 hours as the an- nual average permissible weekly hours; with an absolute miximum of 48 hours for any one week. But, Mr. Macauley pointed out, any number of uncontrollable causes, including the impossibility of fully regulating the flow of materials from . parts sup- pliers, makes it impossible for the industry to approach the allowable maximum working time. He asserted that if the workers are to regain the weekly vnage of 1929 they must be allowed to work - more hours per year. Further limitation of hours only will reduce weekly pay, and greater flexibility than now ob- tains is needed. Addressing himself to the proposal of a forty-hour limit which could be exceeded by paying time-and-one-half for overtime, Mr. Macauley said: "The great mass of these automo- bile manufacturers could not avail themselves of the permission to em- ploy their men for longer hours at the higher rate of pay for the simple reason that their financial condition does not permit it. To enable them to pay overtime, it would be neces- sary to raise the prices of the cars to the public. This would certainly bring about a reduction in sales, That in turn would mean smaller volume of employment, and, so, lower earn- ings for the workers." The actual average hourly wage rate paid during the year ended March 31, 1936, was 75.7 cents. In 1929 the average was T1.2 cents, e Light After Darkness Light after darkness, gain after loss, Strength after weakness, crown after cross, Sweet after bitter, hope after fears Home after wandering, praise after tears, Sheaves after sowing, sup after rain, Sight after mystery, peace after pain; Joy after sorrow, calm after blast, Rest after weariness, sweet rest at last. Near -after distant, gleam after gloom, Love after tomb; After long agony, rapture of bliss, Right was the pathway leading to this, loneliness, life after Selected. NEW CURE FOUND FOR SEASICKNESS Involves Holding Paper Bag Over Nose To Raise Acidity Philadelphia.--If you get car-sick buy a bag of peanuts, throw the nuts away, and hold the bag over your nose while you breathe. It's a cure, announced recently at the American College' of. Physicians meetings. Try it a!so on seasickness and plane sickness. Any kind of paper bag will do and it should cure-these as well as car sickness under a theory of these ills described today. The treatment was found during a study of "hypervention" of the human system described by Dr. William J. Kerr of San Francisco. Hyperventilation shows itself in the taking" of big breaths and the fami- liar long sighs that follow. They are the body's way of regaining its alkalinity-acidity balance. In studying the ills due to this balance Dr. Kerr found that too much alkalinity may cause convul- sion like those of tetnay, and other troubles, included in this same cycle are the -varying forms of seasick- ness. The remedy for them would be an increase in acidity.. This he obtained for car 'sickness sufferers by increasing their breathing of car- bon-dioxide. As carbon-dioxide is a natural product of the human breath, holding a paper bag over the nose effectively raised the car- bon-dioxide, and acidity. $5,300,000 Paid In Income Tax Ottawa. -- A total of $5,300,000 wag received by the Income Tax Branch of the Department of Na- tional Revenue as the first day's receipts from income tax, This was approximately $2,000,000 © more than the amount received on the first day's returns last year. Millions of dollars in bank drafts are on their way to Ottawa from all parts of Canada to swell the yield from the tax on incomes, It is anticipated by May 15 that no less than $35,000,000 wil be col- lected and the yield for the whole year may be double that amount, Crash Deaths © Up 41 P.C 522 Killed in Ontario For 11 Months Ending With March, 1935 Rh... Toronto. --__ Increase of 44.1 per cent. in the number of [fatalities fram automobile accidents {in On. tario during the 11.month period end- ing March 31, 1936, compared with the previous 11 minths. was noted in a statement {issued by Minister of Highways, T, B. McQuesten. Thera were 6522 persons fatally in. jured by motor cars in the period' ending last March 31, compared: with 362 persons in the previous period. Last March was the '11th succes. sive month in which the death total exceeded corresponding. months of the previous year. . i In March 1035, - 31 deaths were reported, "There were 613 accldents as against 638 In March 1934. The injury total ran to 671 and Op WHEN FROGS HAVE MUSIC IN THEIR SOULS! Calgary Herald" There is happy music these Spring days along the margins, of the sloughs and ponds. In them are the brown and green musicians whom Mother Nature has endowed with tiny bagpipes to make this water side harmony. As merry a tune it is as, any Highlander ever piped among. the glens of his homeland this vernal chorus of the frogs. Piping it is, for the sound is made by inflating their little throats until they look like tiny sacks blown to the point of bursting as their mating song bubbles out in an exurbance of feeling. Particular interest is attached to ry 'the songs of these amphibians, be-, cause as we ascend the scale. of animal life frogs and toads are the first species we discover, which have a voice in the proper sense of the word -- sound produced by the passage of air across the vocal chords. Insects, such as; the cricket and grasshopper, are reputed to "sing", but the term is hardly correct; "fiddling" would more aptly de- scribe it, as their sounds are pro- duced by the rubbing of one sur- face across another, 'But in the frog we find real voice, the begin- ning of the power of expression through the scale of animal articu- lation, which reaches its climax in human speech, 3 Should one approach a pond in the. daytime while such a frog or- chestra is practicing, the music around that particular 'spot will in- stantly cease, although all round the chorus continues. Shift loca- .tion and it starts up again from the very spot one. has just left. But at night it is quite different; will, and with the aid of a. flash- light observe the two song pouches to produce the familiar '"gallump'! It is serious business with the after each straining of his vocal and his mouth for a brief moment of complete self-satisfaction. Love is stirring in his heart, and there is. music in his soul! London's Herb Garden Lying on the Embankment, Lon- don England, but walled from prying eyes, is Chelsea's Garden of Herbs, founded by that famous old' doctor, Hans Sloane. Thousands pass it daily without realizing that here lies a link with every corner of the globe, for in this walled plot grow little-known herbs culled from gleaming coral islands, far-off jungl- es, and the sides of precipitous tropical ranges. Eminent scholars journey to London to study the lore of such plants, and shoots and seeds are packed with care and exported to innumerable medical . centres, Every plant that is tended there has some curative value, » Immediately a new medicinal herb is discovered, a specimen is sent te Chelsea, where it is nurtured. Ex- periments are made with seeds, roots, and bark, and its species is determined and catalogued. \ If your work is distasteful, love it into shape, and keep in your mind a desire for something better and more congenial and make yourself worthy of such work when it comes your way. No matter how uncongenial your task is today, consider blessing that you have employment, and push along to better things, -------- Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, lit- tle silent victories over favorite temptations -- these are the silent threads of gold which, when. woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approv- es.--I. W. Farrar, . CHEERFUL IF SERIOUS A patient in hospital who was seri- ously ill requested & nurse to write to his wife for him, but did not seem to know exactly what he wanted to say. "Shall: I start with wife?" asked the nurse, " Yes," replied the man, "you can put that down--it'll make. her laugh Lanyway." GEMS OF THOUGHT If you cannot master the whole, yet do not forsake the whole. If you are so unhappy as to have a foolish friend, be yourself wise. The worst kind of men are those who do not care when men see them doing, Wrong. What a man puts into his head is 'My dear property damage was estimated at $53,870. In March 1934 there were nine less persons killed, 109 fewer injured and property damage was less by $10,020, ! safer than what he puts into stocks and real estate, 1 ETERNAL MENACE "OF THE HOUSE FLY Householders Warned To Destroy Garbage and Man- ure Heaps Different times, different manners! "In medieval days when the black death, typhus, smallpox, and other | virulent plagues were taken as a mat- ter of course, the phrase, "he would not kill a fly" was invented as a very - high: compliment to personal goods ! ness. Today, the person who would not kill a fly is looked upon merely "as ignorant. The house fly is world. ! wide 'in distribution and is notorious for the part it plays in the disemin. ation of such dangerous diseases as typhoid, infantile diarrhoea, tubercul- osis, cholera, dysentery, and others. It ! breeds in filth of the most objection- able kind, and yet it is tolerated in many homes, and public eating plac- I es, The fly is a menace to publie health owing to its habit of passing directly, from putrid food to human other organisms and particles of de- composing organic matter on its hairy body, legs, sticky feet, and mouth parts Undersirable: organisms: may also be conveyed.to food in its ex- creta and: regurgitated saliva (fly specks). Several generations of house flies develop 'during the warm months of the year, says the Dominion En- tomologiat, the number varying with the character. of the season. The flies are most numerous in summer and early autumn but diminish rapidly with the advent of cold weather. The most effective and desirable method of controlling house flies undoubtedly consists. in eliminating or reducing one can approach as closely as he! frog. He may cut rather a laugh-' measures able figure as- with distended throat' breeding places should be organized he sits in the chilly water. But! on-a community basis, supported by chords he closes his jewel-like eyes' it aj: their breeding places to a minimum by properly treating or disposing of | such materials as manure and gar- bage. Fresh horse manure is a pro- lific source of house fly production and this. material is probably respon- gible for the majority of flies in | rural. sections. In the cities, where horses -have been largely replaced in on either side of their throat dilate favour of mechanical transport, gar- bage 'isan important factor in fly production, To be effective, control directed against their a public well-informed on the menace cf the house fly to health and the means by which it may be ¢ombatted. One neglected manure heap or gar- bage dump is often sufficient to --in- fest a whole neighborhood, and it is necessary therefore to enlist the active co-operation of the whole com- munity. The "Secret" Of Boy Scouting (Bowmanville Statesman) "Boys," a wise:man once observed, "are like: a bicycle--stable only when. going somewhere." Sir Robert Baden- Powell sensed the truth of that when a quarter century ago he gave to England and to the world the Boy Scout movement. Youngsters of the teen age are not philosophers; to their elders they seem to think through hands, elbows and feet as much as through their heads. They are bundles of exploding energy. The open secret for the suc- cess of Scouting is that it provides the expression they crave--but in directed channels. "Scouting has extended - to almost every country taking on local color but «always holding to- those funda- mentals., Many individuals and or- ganizations have given. it support, for they believe in it and approve the way it attacks the "boy problem." They hope that the success .it has had in the past quarter of a century will increase in at least geometrical progression -in the next. Of Interest To Farmers Exports of frozen poultry to Great Britain during the two weeks ended April 6, 1935, amounted to 2,864 box- es, making in all 83,766 boxes, about 1,678,800 pounds, exported to the Brl- tish Isles since January 1, 1935. The total quantity of flaxseed In Canada on. March 1, 1935, was 5680,- 839 bushels; 408,853 bushels being in elevators; 166,300. bushels on farms, and. 5,688 bushels in transit. On the corresponding date in 1934, the sup- ply on hand was 663,668 bushels. Popcorn seed imported from July 1, 1934, to March 1, 1935; amounted to two pounds: only. During the paat winter: local grows. at Magrath, Al. berta; marketed over 1,000 pounds of shelled popcorn. : Bot fly and warble fly campaigns in Ontario in 1934 were the most con- structive ever carried out in the prov- ince. This year, 1935, wider areas than ever will be covered. Under the auspices of the Dominion Department of Agriculture and the National Research Council of Canad a very successful demonstration o the wax plucking of poultry was given recently at the Chateau Fron- tenac, Quebec, in the presence of members of the Quebec Provincial Government, Another demonstration was given .at Perth, Ontario, when 180 'birds were plucked and shipped 21 to Montreal where their superior ap- . pearance was compared with other h lots prepared in the ordinary manner, food, carrying, with it bacteria. and ° + 3 hls