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[3.55 RL SH REL THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA PAYING BY CHEQUE. Judging by the amount of cheques charged against individual bank ac- counts Canadians are great cheque writers, and have explicit faith in soundness of Canadian banking insti. tutions, The confidence which Can- adian banks enjoy has been augmen- ted by the fact that no bank failures occurred in the Dominion during the recent world-wide depression, and as a re.ult the pay-by-cheque method of remitting payments is used almost universally. Over 90 per cent, of the total payments of accounts in Canady during 1924 were made by cheque -- Canada Week by Week, A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Glands and gland secretions have in recent years come to attract more attention from research workers and specialists than they used to. It is being realized they have a vital in- fluence on mental capacity, on wheth. er we are tall or short, stout or thin, and in various ways they almost gov. ern our existence, What doctors know today is as nothing compared with what they may know ten or twenty years: hence, and it may be that by controlling the glands, extrac. ting the bad juices and by injecting new ones, a pretty near perfect race will be developed, physically, mental- ly and morally. St. "Thomas Times- Journal. PRISONER ROBBED A lone prisoner in the city hall at Crane, Mo, atarmed the citizens in the midd e of the nicht by dashing fnio the street and shou ne, vA cop! a ocop!™" Hodevelop od ther the marshal hal no bicked io 0 door and a theo cot d and 10bhbed the inmate of §i7, Jail wre mads to keep offen. ders in, but the jailers should also see to it that no rozue be permitted to enter unless du'y tried and cen- tenced by court. That is only fair to if governments decide on certain regulations, Mr. Boone intends to test the New York Legislature's bill which prohib- its gatherings of three or more nude persons. A campaign is under way against a like mea ure in the State of Michigan. The rays of the sun are a much sought after tonic betimes, but many persons unassociated with the cult will not agree that "one million nudists can't pe wrong."--Border Cities Star, enforcing EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS A curious fact given in the April issue of the Canadian Geographical Journal is that no authentic portraits have survived of any of the early Frencr explorers of Canada. Of the several pictures that are supposed to represent the features ot Champlain, not one is accepted to- day by scholars true likeness. There are several pic. tures and statues of La Verendrye, but they are all imaginary portraits, In his case there is nothing in his own narrative or in the records of his contemporaries to even suggest what manner of a man he was physi. cally, though one can gather a quite definite impression of his character. It is still a question if there is a genuine portrait of La Salle ;and it ig certain that there is none of Mar- quette, Joliet, Radisson, Nicolet, Dul- hut, Allouez, or any of the other cariy discoverers of Canada. In the March issue of the Journal Major Lanctot showed that not one of six representations of Jacques Carter can be accepted as genuine. for ono Mail and Llmpire. THE BOOK SURVIVES Another thing that militates against the book is, strange to say, its permanence. The candles, the lux. urious meals, are ecaten and forgot. ten. The trip comes to an end, and as undoubtedly af Imperial Airways liner. infant. The first passengers on the new through service from Australia to Iingland arrived recently at Croydon Airfield, London, on an Our picture hows Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Hep- burn, the first passengers, on their arrival with their T-months-old The Hepburns reside in Scotland. ture which Ceylon may take for her own guidance.---T'mes of (Ceylon, C'o'omho. A PEACE ACENCY In the opinion of "Ralph Connor." as expressed to an Auckland audi- ence the other evening, the world must either make the League of Na- tions a success or prepare for a more terrible var than ever. It is well that the alternative should be put so em- phatically, and the plain word about the need to make-the--east Harnessing The Thames River LONDON,--For upwards of sixtey miles the tide from the North Sea sweeps up the Thames as far as Ted. dington Lock twice in twenty-four aours, With it go hundreds of laden barges to various riverside wharves, It is now seriously proposed to con. ctruct a barrage or weir near London Brdge, which would effectually. check Antidotes Are Widely Used Indianapolis Discoveries Do Much To Help In Poisonings Antidotes for strychnine, cyanide and bichloride poisonings have been developed in the last two years by the research department of the Inl dianapolis City Hospital and put in- to general use in emergency ambu- lances throughout the United States. The antidotes were developed as a part of the planned program of the hdspital's research department, Charles W. Myers, superintendent said. The antidotes have proved suc- cessful in recent emergencies. Four persons have been saved after tak- ing cyanide poison. - Two others who took strychnine were successfully treated. No cases of persons tak- ing bichloride poison have been re- ported. All the antidotes are given intra- venously, Mr. Myers said, and the effect on the patient is instant and marked. PUNCTUALITY. AND SOME PROFESSORS (Winnipeg Tribune)' A classic story in local -university circles concerns a certain energetic professor (he is still teaching) who dislikes a lecture under any circum- stances. One late Winter morning he was out taking his usual short cut across the ice-covered Red river | when he fell through, close to the bank. Thoroughly himelf out. his health would have and changed his clothes. The daunt- less professor, however, continued to the university. He Lad time only before the bell rang to" don his gown, Standing behind the desk as he faced his clas, he lectured fox the entire period while the water dipped from his clothes and formed pools on the floor. The story is recalled by a letter in the London Times from a former soaked, he dragged Anyone with a care to gone home Checking Babies New Tests Applied by New York Agency to Provide Better Selection " New York. -- One of He Jr) adoption agencies to use psyschologi- cal yin jd babies was the Child Placing Adoption Committee of the State Charities Aid Association, which began, three years ago, to test each baby to find out the prob- able development so that the child- ren might have a chance 1 get the type of home to which ticir mentuli- ty suited them. This agency, one of the first to use mental tests, has given 336 psychological examinations to babies, testing them with blocks and bells and moving things. Many of hese babies have been given two or tTYee tests to find out tae rate of progress they made under good cLn- ditions of care. In some cases it has Leen found that the retardation in children, as shown by the tes's, was the 1esult of inadequa'e cere, and when the difficulties under which the child was growing were correct- ed, the mental rat'ng was increased. Although the psychologist at ail tims is in general control of the situation, the mental tests consist largely in letting the child under examination do what he wants to 0. - [=% How Much Do We Eat? Observes the St. Thomas Times Journal --- These scientific chaps gets us all tangled up sometimes with their statistical calculations and de- ductions, but we believe we have caught one of them red-handed. Dr. Ralph P. Baker, of the Pennsyl- vania Board of -Osteopathic EKxamin- ers, is credited with the statement that in a life span of 560 years the average person eats more than 60 tons of food. That is one ton of food per annum. Just contemplate that all at once. Picture to yourself your lifetime's supply of food loaded on trucks. Takine 70 as the allotted span, that means 14 trucks arriving at your door with five tons of foodstuffs When Pets For Varied Types thing for England Become Pests In the early days. the Mormon gettlement in Utah 8' Crops were saved from destruction by grasshop. pers through the intervention and kind assistance of great flocks of sea-gulls that appeared in the nick of time and ate up the pests that would otherwise have eaten up the growing grain. To show their thank. fulness, the Utah pioneers erected in the temple square in Salt Lake City a monument venerating the sea- gull as the saviours of the colony, and furthermore they pacsed a law, which has been in force ever since, protecting the noble bird from moles. tation, Under this legal protection gulls have become so numerous in Utah that they are now a. nuisance, and an open season ig proposed in order to thin them out, It is not the first time that publio pets have become public nuisances. Rabbits were introduced into Aus. tralia from England many years ago and were regarded for a long time as dear little things that looked so cute and fitted in so nicely with the antipodean landscape, But in the course of time they multiplied to such an extent that. they became pests, and the Australians wished they had never seen them. Japanese deer which have been pets in parks and large estates in Britain for many years, have latterly out grown their welcome and are now running wild, destroying trees, fruit and seeds. The Canadian mus- krat was taken to England not long ago as both a curiosity and a good to have, and in a comparatvely few years it has made itself such a nuisance that re- strictive measures have already been - found nece:sary, -- Edmonton Jour- nal. . ' These Things Remind Me of You After-glow sweeping, arch of the sky A bronze bell ever so light'y shaken by the wind Cathedral-like woods down the blue stillness of northern aboard cach year for you to stuff yourself with from birth to death. The picture is appalling. But Dr. Baker must be talking: through his hat. Assuming ho means! "short" tons, 2,000 pounds, not tons at for-every F--every IHushed awakenings i Wood-smoke and a Gypsy serenade Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust" Late afternoon sunlight, like yellow wine ' Sleepy song of birds' th teat nats Gazette, resitents=-->omtroat UNIVERSITY FEES. While there will naturally be some recret that the Ontario Government has found it necessary to eut the grens to the universities of the pro- vince, there can be little criticism of the decision of the university autho- ritie: to meet the situation by rals. ing the fees. } This is a step which might well Rave been taken earlier. The cost of university cducation in Ontario is low as compared with costs in many other countries. It is not reasonable. that the taxpayers in general should pay a: much as they have been pay- ing ef tha cost of such education for "Ee relatively limited proportion of the popu'ation which takes advantage of our facilities for university educa- tion. It is only fair that the people who get the direct benefit should foot a Larger part of its cost than they have been asked to do in the past,-- Kingston Whig-Standard. BACK TO THE FARM, Tramps in town appear to he more numerous than ever, 25 to 30 sleep. fng in the Town Hall some nights. We have fone held the belief that tho majority of them would work if given the oppo..iun ty, but that belief has been shaken considerably during the past weeks, «ince more than one far. mer has told us that when approach- ed these men absolutely refuge to gO on a farm, come of them boasting of their abiiity to "get by" without working. According to Government tics, farm workers are in more de- mand than has been the case for many seasons, and wages offered are higher. This, one would think, would induce some of the drifters to become selisupporting and regain their sell-respect, hut this doeg not appear to _be the case, In every centre there must ba men in good health with some knowledge of farm work who are being main- tained out of public funds, while the farmers are sceking helpers. statis- Some way should be found of bringing the two together, --Lindsay Post. LOOKS LIKE SHOWDOWN. Member: of a eult seem to have a fondness for going to the extreme in support of their beliefs, A news espatch indicates that this is true of nudists, about one million of whom are expected to defy proposed restrictive legislation in at least 18 of the United States thig year. The strength of the nudists can. not be underestimated. There are 3,000,000 American 'who support the ad, but all of them do not practice it, according to their leadér, Rev, II. sley Boone, a Baptist minister, The International Nudist Conference has 61 organizations, almost double last year's number. Whigh suggests that tha expense--is forgotten "Phe cigars and cigarettes are smoked and the cost passes into oblivion in the same way. The costly dress wears out. But the book remains on the shelf year after year, 4 mute witne_s to SUppos- ed extravagance, -- London Adver- iiser. --_-- THE EMPIRE HOUSES 12¢ A WEEK Houses of the three-bedroom type, with good fittings, bathroom, electric light and cooking and large gardens, are being built in "Welwyn Garden City, and, without any Government subsidy, they will be let at 123 per week. The municipality wil] put up 80 of these houses, while another 50 of a slightly superior quality, though of the same general type, are being built to let at a few shillings more a week by private enterprise with the aid of loans from the Council. -- Industrial Britain. SOUND AND DISTANCE It was found during the war that the firing on the Western Front could be heard in thig country only in sum. mer, and at like distances in Germ. any, only in winter. This alterna. tion, which was very consistent, was due to the change of the prevailing wind in the upper atmosphere. At a height of 12 miles the wind was generally from the east in summer, and from the west in winter, This reversal wag connected with the great range of the changes of temperature in the course of the year in the up- per atmosphere in Arctic regions, but no satisfactory explanation had yet been given to (he high temperature whlch prevailed in the upper atmos. phere, apparently from pole to pole, and at all seasons. --Iingineering, London, IN EGYPT, TOO The production of two films before the Council included a story calculat. ed to tempt Igyptians to stay in and g0 back to country villages, and to keep apiarfes. We fear that ft will take more than locally produced cin- ema films to lure local Whittingtons from the lights of big towns to the muddy squalor and amoky discomfort of Egypt's village life. The Sphinx, | Cairo. RAISE THE MASSES' STANDARDS "Get the rural masses out of thelr present rut of low standards." That, in effect, wag ong of the practical fg. sues ralsed by Sir George Schuster, late Finance Minister of the dovern- ment of India, in hig "Birdwood Mo- morial lecture delivered recently be. fore the Royal Soclety of Arts. It is an injunction that may he applied with equal force to Ceylon, where the poor vitality of the people, the direct Heagtte--a--sties cess is as important as the truth that between its efliciency and a drift into a war of the first magnitude the present generation stands. Both ideas should be given full weight: - the League is the chief and indispensable bulwark of peace, yet it needs the support of all folk of goodwiil to en- sure its standing against the influ- ences that acssail it. On the first of these ideas it is worth while to dwell. Unless this be realized as' con, convincingly true, there can be no en- thusiasm for the second. --Auckland, N.Z., Weekly News. fiddle Fairs Forced | To Drop Bands Agricultural © Society Aide Says $10 Copyright Fee Too High Toronto--Small town fairs cannot sland the imposition of a $10 fee by the Canadian Performing Rights Society because the village band plays for three or four hours, J. A. Carroll, provincial superintendent of agricultural and horticultural soci- eties, told Judge Parker recently, during the probe of the society's activities. re "We sent out a questionnaire to all societies regarding this society when the inquiry was announced," he ex- plained. "We find that since the Copyright Act was amended in 1931 quite a number of them have been asked to take out licenses, mostly in Central and Southwestern Ontarjo."" "Because of the $10 fee asked of one-day fairs, the Thorold society had to dispense with their band. The Marmora society had eliminated its entertainment, because they had been "pressed" to take out a license for its hall. . "Even a $10 fee is a serious matter to most of these agricultural fairs," said Mr. Carroll. "All of them exist only by the aid of public assistance; so if any license is imposed on them, the money for it will have to come from the public purse." But This Is England CRAWLEY England,--Sald to have driven between 35 and 70 niles an hour and takes a dagerous bend at 40 miles, a motorist was fined $500 and his license suspended for five years, Wagner's At Covent Garden LONDON,--For upwards of sixty complete cycles this year of Wag- her's "Der Ring der Nibelungen," result of a low standard of lving, has rendered them pecullarly suscep. | tible to the ravages of maleria, Com. paring great things with small, there trouble will om4 With hy summer fs much fn Sir George Schuster's leo- the four.part music drama which every year draws auch enormous audiences to Covent Gardens, | a very high the tide at that point, and above It keep the river at a constant, or very slightly varying level, A huge lock, or several locks would be required to raise barges, tugs, and other craft to the barrage level, The watermen, whose hours of labour are now conditioned by the tide-table, would find their hours standardized, as they would be made independent of the river's ebb and flow, The appearance of the river would be improved by the disappear- ance of mud-banks. Furthermore, barges would be able to lie along- side the wharves for loading and un- loading at any time, The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race would no longer be on the tide- way, hut thousands of rowing men would find an advantage in the riv- er's constant level, The barrage, too, would obviate the present risk of another disastroug and fatal flood ithin the London area, since that danger ariseg only when tide meets a strong Fetream, Colors Without Dyes Lessons for the Chemist Surface Iridescence Birds, butterflies, pearls, the lin- ing of seashells--they owe their irl- descence not to dyes but to their pe- culiarities of surface, Waves of white light fall upon them--waves of many different lengths, The surface re- flects them this way and that, They clash, Sometimes there is total ex tinction indicated by black patterns; sometimes a few colors are blotted out while others remain in fringes. In all this Dr, R, E. Rose, -an in- dustrial chemist of Wilmington, Del., sees a lesson for the chemist of the future, He suggests a new art of coloring based on interference, "We may render some of our dyestuffs obsolete by producing color as na- ture does. It is tp be hoped that this may be 80, because 'thg purity of in. terference of colors is so exquisite that we would be able to enter a new era, Perhaps we can achieve this by a combination of great development in mechanical control and the syn- thesis of speclal plastics." Seen in Proverbs Of All Nations Point the tongue on the anvil of truth.--Greek. Don't throw away your old shoes until you have new ones.--Dutch, Time covers and discovers every- thing.--German. The point of the thorn is small, but he who has felt it does not forget it.--Italian, Things past may be repented, but not recalled.--Latin. The sun is the king of torches.-- West African, Success has many friends.--Greek. The replenished understand not 21 \ the pain of the starving.--Turkish, Eton College student. It tells of how floods in November, 1894, made Hugh Macnaghten late, to the great joy of Eton scholars who con- sidered such an event impossible. Macnaghten was one of the fam- ous masters at the great English school. "It was soon common know- ledge," writes the former Itonian, "that, finding some six inches of water outside the house in Weston's Yard, where he then lived, he had been forced to climb along leads and beat a passage through Miss Lloyd's bedroom in Savile House. It took some time for her to evacuate the room and allow him to come through the windoww. "Hugh Macnaghten disliked un- punctuality; and it may be of in- terest to add that at five o'clock school on the previous evening, when a well-known member of Don- aldson's House arrived some 10 minutes late, he asked rather testily, fe , why are you so late?" Even Hugh Macnaghten's anger was turn- ed aside by the soft answer, 'I'm sorry, sr. I missed the last punt." Joyous, rollicking stories these, in retrospect. But such is the de- sire of some persons for punctual- ity and unblemished record. Being on time is a habit that many others besides traditionally absent-minded professor might well cultivate. the bp his calculations. of 2,240; that--means that day of his life a man consumes more than six pounds of food. That is two ponds weight at cach meal with a bit over before going to bed. We defy any huipan being to do that consistently. We defy a man to do chicken supper where he could have all he could cat for a quarter. = We are not authorities on the subject, but we believe that Pennsylvania man is at least 50 percent. too high But we agree with him when he says the average human being eats more than is necessary and more than is good for him. Any doctor will say that half the cases that come under his notice are due, in the final analysis, to overeating, mild or serious, and he prescribes a "diet" for the sufferer. As a malter of fact, a live stock breeder takes far more care of the feeding and the exercising of his animals than the average man does of himself. \ "The constitution of the United States is one of those documents for which everybody is always ready to die, but very few take the trouble to read while they are still counted among the living. --Hendrik William Van Loon, Il Duce's Fist Punctuates A Fiery Speech This unusual r address to mass of Fascists in square below at ceremonies marking icture shows Premier Mussolini delivering a fiery the anniversary of the founding of Rome. Rural night and Tittle towns, somno- lent, peaceful, Ravel's riythmic "Bolero" A garden after the rain Forest pools, fascinatingly lovely Nostalgic beauty of the song 'Home' it once a day, even if he went to a| Lake Rosseau at sunset and a whip- poorwill calling Sea-green tone-poem- field of corn swaying in the wind Loveliness of unspoken words Long walks in the rain of April ~ Muted violins playing Kreisler's "Caprice Viennois." Blue quiet of Winter twilights Lost ecstasy of spent dreams The words "Solitude" and "Loneli- ness" . Someset Maugham's descriptions of the south seas Eddie Duchin playing Chopin's "Nocturne" Wheatfield rippling in the wind Fragrant, raln.sweet country lanes The high, poignantly lonely call of wild geese in autumn Elgar's "Sault 4' Amour" Organ music, sonorous, compellingly beautiful: Sunlit breakers, a white sail, silver of sand The crying of gulls and .the tender "hush4iush" of water on the shore The word "Driftwood" "Sylvia" and red, red roses Don Byrne's "Destiny Bay" Candlelight, and the word "Faith" Adolescent moons, and the soft ca- dence of whispering trees An open fireplace and smoke-dreams St. Marys, Barrie, and a slim, young acolyte kneeling in prayer. -- Francis Smith, Horse Laugh London, Ont. -- "Now that the au- tomobile has taken the place of the horse"--famous words of an after- dinner speaker, But look at this excerpt from one of the surveys recently made by W. H. Wood, manager of the London Chamber of Commerce, .- "The passing of the stage coach and the coming of the automotive ve. hicle has not by any means meant the passing out of the horse, for there are today in Western Ontario over 82,5000 more horses than auto- motive vehicles." There are 243,000 horses valued at more than $21,478,700. "The value of the autor:otive ve. hicleg over the horses Is in favor of the first mentioned by more than $138,970,000." HA8 PRAISE FOR PUPILS Edmonton, -- Pupils who "scrape through" merit praise, too, thinks Mayor J. A, Clarke. During graduss tion exercises here he said: "I do not wish to praise only medal and prize-winners, I want to congratu. late those who just scraped through, because 1 was In thelr class whem I went to school." 3 iia so) ® Sh a Ti ----, » v m---- a 1 { i i i |