The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

RN Ep < ui A RL Yee, re A pp NR AT IN Fey PA 8 HS i iN 1 vi LAS ie LO 17 va) i, £8 his 570% 3% '/, {i } J SAM A ny » - ie : nr Catt pd ie: AR = RT NE Na 4 Fn RGF 2 * CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD " AT LARGE RELIEF FIGURES INDICATE IMPROVED CONDITIONS Welfare Commissioner A, W. Laver used to report that Toronto had 30,000 families on full relief, He now states that the number of fam- ilies on full relief is decreasing by 500 a week and.that the past year witnessed a decline of 1,800 famil- fes. For the week ending July 6th the Commissioner says, the aggre- gate was 19,177 families, Last year at the same time, the statistics showed 19,636 families, but 1,300 of the families now reported were tak- en over from the House of Indus- try. To the efficiency of the inves tigating staff, Mr. Laver gives cred- it for at least some of the decrease. The fact is that economic condi- tions are decidedly better than they "were two or three years ago, Church and philanthropic societies relief committees find that they have fow- er rent, food and other relief prob- lems to solve than they had some time ago. Demands on the funds for clothing and other necessities of lite are not as frequent or as great as they were. Requests are becom- ing more numerous, though, for fin- ancial assistance to keep the appli- cants for a week or two until they are able to assume the duties of the positions that have been promised them. All these experiences of city relief workers are most reassuring, as regards recovery from the crisis through which we have been passing. -- Toronto Mail and Empire. FISH WEEK , The week starting September 30 has been set aside as Canada's Fish AVeek. The reason 'for announcing the date so far ahead is thatl it takes some folk about that long to cate ono.--Stratford 'Beacon-Her- ald, JAIL THE RED LEADERS. The Communist leaders of the 3,- 000 relief strikers at Regina, Sas-. katchewan, made good their boast that "the street of Regina would be red with blood, if the marchers were interfered with," when the §trikers turned on police troops who . gought to break up their mass meet- # ing and bloodshed followed. One po- liceman was killed and a score of others wounded, while the strikers alsp had numerous casualties, Conditions have certainly reached a serious stage when the streets of a Canadian city become the scene of armed fighting. It is evident that the strikers have been fed the in- sidious ,propaganda of the Reds and that they are prepared for an effort to overthrow constituted authority. The only method of spiking thelr guns is by imprisonment of the lead- ing agitators and it is gratifying to learn that a #score or more are now in jail, including the ringleader, Ar- thur Kvans, the man who 'had the temerity to call Premier Bennett "a liar" during their recent interview at Ottawa, ' ; There should be no reason - for such demonstrations in Canada as the Regina outbreak. It is true there are thousands of men out of work and in an indigent condition, but it is also true that federal and pro- vincial governments and local mu- nlcipal authorities have made every effort to provide work and to ensure that none will be without the neces- sities of life. Hundreds of millions "of dollars from the public treasuries have been poured into the task, with the result that business and indus trial concerns and the average tax payer are bearing a heavy burden to meet the outlay. Meanwhile the firm stand taken by Premier Bennett in dealing with the western strikers must be emu- lated by all those in authority. They will have the complete backing of all substantial citizen. The Commu- nist e'ement has no place in Can- ada and must be stamped out with a relentle's hand.--Simcoe Refor- mer, PAYING THE DOCTOR. The average familyswe~edarding to a statistical item, pays' the doctor $756 a year. Doctors claim the word "pays" is a misprint for "owes" -- Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, H7PBURN'S COSTLY POLICY Premier Hepburn's decision to es- tablish, at once, a chain of some 50 branches of the Government Bav- ings Department all over the prov: ince to offset the refusal of the. fin. ancial houses to tender for the gov- ernment"s $15,000,000 bond issue, Is quite characteristic of him. It looks Iiko a deciion made on a snap judg- ment, on the spur of the moment, * swithout thinking the matter through a logleal conclusion, Soon aftér he became prime min. Aster, Premier Hepburn intimated that the government savings offices ~ awere to bo eliminated, as an econ omy mehsure, and because no fur ther need of them . existed, Sonie have already been closed, Now- be, cause of a temporary situation, and because the bankers have dared to rub him the wrong way, he makes a complete right-about-face, and pro- poses to establish fifty more savings offices. By doing this the prime minister hopes, tp secure the money needed to finance the province, But it will be a long-drawn out problem to es- tablish these branches and to inter- est the people in putting their money into them. It may be a different pro- cess getting the money at all, and meanwhile, the province must be financed. Further, the cost of es- tablishing these offices, paying their overhead expenses and the necessary salaries, is liable to be rather high, in proportion to the amount of money deposited in them. But more important g¢till is the timate fate of these new oflices. The present situation which has im- pelled the promier to decido to estab- lish them, is a temporary one. It will blow over, and the financing of the province will be restored to nor- mal lines, The need for the chain of savings offices will then cease to exist, but there they will be, a string of white elephants spread over the province of Ontario because of & snap decision made in the heat of the moment. It would be well, in this subject, if Premier Hepburn were to adopt the Asquithian policy of "Wait and See' before plunging into a scheme which before long will prove to- hive "beeh very ill-ad- vised.--Oshawa Times. SOLOMON "KNEW, New York records a great increase in "the number- of young children,; running away from "{he'r homes or involved in juvenile delinquencies. Solomon said something agout spar- ing the rod and spoiling the child and he knew a thing or two about handling a large household.--Brant- ford Expositor. WE ARE MORE POLITE, Oakland, California, woman tells the judge she saw her. husband only four times -- the day they met, the day before they were married, and the day after théy were married. Up here most bridegrooms don't go back to golf until along about the third or fourth week.--Windsor Star. NOISY STREET CARS It local transportation companies wish to commend their street cars to the public, one of the things they will have to do is to reduce the noise of the cars, Tae buses have it on the street cars in this respect. The Ottawa Journal recently com- mended the improvement in the ser- vice of the street railway company of that city, but it said that the cars were very noisy. To which the man- ager of the company replied that the street cars' In Ottawa were less noisy than those in Hull, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and Brantford, ac- cording to tests on a noise-recording contrivance which measures the noise in decibels--whatever they are. We should like to see the contrap- tion for recording noise used in Winnipeg, It should not be neces- sary to suspend conversation while walking along Portage avenue until a street car passes--as it is neces- sary sometimes. : The noise created by a street car depends on the condition of the car and on the condition of the track. it either becomes out of repair, then the ears of' the people are more vigor: ously assaulted. If there is an im- provement in both cars and track, the noise is greatly reduced, City noises are a strain, conscious or unconscious, upon the nerves and health: of the people. The worse the noise the greater the strain. The reduction of the noise of street cars may involve some expense, but the improvement of tracks and cars 18 in the interest of good service gen- erally, and until the noise Is reduced to a minimum jt will remain a prob- lem which the operating company 1s expected to deal with.--\Winnipeg Free" Press, . ' 4 EMPIRE ; THE OLD GROUCH. ; Sir: May 1 ask the railway com- panies to have carriages reserved for men oniy--in the same way as oth- org are labelled for women only? It is intolerable to have to travel on a long (or even a short) journey with a Jot of giggling women and oil dren. Men may ba garrulous, but Avomen ave far worse, --Letter in the London Daily Mall, THE We don't know whether by radio control. stration. fatiguing job of painting the miniature Miss Elsie Hobart is saying boat which Victor Carp "Eureka" or just stretching from the started, stopped and steered entirely The craft, 40 inches long, made a speed of two and a half knots during the demon= LZ - vail and he that loveth and maketh a lle should gain credence. The Brit ish Army has a magnificent record, but the young army of Anzdac can withstand comparison with any Brit ish force of the past. It is difticult to overpraise the troops of Anzac, For it {8 the simple truth to say that in essential qualities no more effi- clent army was ever put in the field by any country in the world. -- The Australasian, A LESSON LEARNED? There has been in certain sections of the native press a violent protest against what is described as a bulil- ding-up of British influence in the affairs of Kgypt by an increase in British personnel, The argument is offered that the payment of seven millions in the way of compensa- tion fbr British officials who were dismissed was considered at the time to be cheap for a good riddance, None of the scribes admits that this mea- surg was brought about by a dis- graceful scramble for office on .the part of Egyptians who considered themselves fully qualified to run the machinery of government. That they were not fit for their jobs was dis- tastefully demonstrated by the en- suing years of chaos. Things have been getting so bad that level-head- ed Egyptians themselves have boldly demanded that British eiliciency, fairness and genius should be recall- ed to the direction of affairs. These are the days when sound-minded Egyptians have brought it home to political leaders that the swim to prosperity can only be with the trade current of Great Britain, and not against it, Hence the trade mission that is at present in England. --The Sphinx, Cairo. : Fertilizer Trials With reference to trials of cyana- zers on arable crops, Dr..E. M. Crow- sua of the Empire Journal of Experl- mental Agriculture (No. 10, 1935) the sted and other centres on the effects of calcium cyangmide and ammonium and sugar-beet. These fertilizers gave significant responses to added nitro- four. In five experiments at Rothamsted on Winter cereals there was no clear difference between autumn and spring dressings of nitrogenous tilizers, except that when repeated winter and spring, the was inferior. Doug To Join NEW YORK; MARY MAY GO ALONG Hollywood, Calif.--Douglas union with Lady Sylvia Ashley. Accompanied by five motion ain for England. here, has also arranged to sail, THE GLORY. OF AUSTRALIA. What manner of men were those who stormed' the heights of Anzac? to answer it today, lest we forget what now we cherich---~le:t in an age of sophisters and calculators our pole icy of the polircon should yet pro- . It behiooves to ask this question, and not one of the group, rr -------------- ~ "property ownership is a natural and inalienable right which govern- ment can neither destroy nor deny. "«Jouett Shouse, mide and other nitrogenous gertill- ther of the Rothamsted Experimen- tal Station describes in the latest is- results of 22 field trials at Rotham- sulphate on spring barley, potatoes similar yleld increases in 11 of the 15 experiments in 'which there were gen, and cyanamide was less efilcient than ammonium sulphate in the other fertilizers, or between the-two above named fer- small applications were made during cyanamide Lady Sylvia FAIRBANKS PLANS FLIGHT TO Fafr- banks Sr., planned to leave, here by alr for New York and afi early re- ple: tire as:oclates--one of whom may be his ex-wife, Mary Pickford-Fairbanks was to attend to business in the east |. and board the liner, Empress of Brit- | | Lady Ashleyenow en route to Que- bec from Vancouver, B.C., where she stayed recently while the actor came While the names of Fairbanks' alr companions were kept secret, ; Clar. ence Tricson, his manager, declared ha was "positive" Miss Pickford was | The Week In Ottawa Ottawa--Any doubt that Prime Minister R. B. Bennett would lead the Conservative forces in the com- ing Dominion election was effective- ly dispelled on Friday last when fal- lowing a party caucus held a few hours prior to prorogation of Parlia- ment, the official announcement was made that' the Prime Minister wouid lead his forces into. battle, The Prime Minister personally told his followers in their final get-together before they scattered .to their homes to prepare for the campaign that he was fit and ready for battle and in- dicated to them his plans which will 'culminate in the appeal to the peo- ple. Mr. Bennett will take a short holiday, following which he will re- turn to the Capital, announce to the people the revised personnel of his cabinet as well as the. date of the election, : In contrast to the stormy scenes which have marked some of the ses- sions of the seventeenth Parliament, the sixth and final session was of- ficially prorogued by the Governor- General early last Friday afternoon without incident. ~~ Following this members of the Commons and Senate departed for their homes and pre- pared to engage in the coming elect- ion struggle, the most momentous in Canada since Confederation. Thus ended the life of another Parliament, which has sat for five years, making a record of legislative achievement ¢-hich will rank in importance with the most outstanding in the history of Canada. , Chief item passed during the last stages of the session was the Can- ada Grain Board bill, designed to aid the Canadian farnier in the market- ing of his wheat,--the board to act as a selling agency for the Canadian wheat crop. The Senate prior to pro- rogration amended some of the gov- ernment bills, notably that establish- ing the Trade and Industry Com- 'mission, the~amendments being de- signed to put "teeth" into the new act. The Senate also toracked" down on the new "racket" which inveigled people into investing their money from $1 up in the hope of getting $10, an amendment which the Com- mons accepted.. Specile mention of chain' letters was not made though the amendment is designed to take care of all violations of the Crimin- al Code. . In the closing days' of the session Parliament debated the Regina strike, arising out of lawlessness resulting between a clash of police and relief camp. strikers. The Prime Minister was firm and deliberate in his stand, declaring that there would be no surrender on the part of the government to the subversive authority of the strikers, whom he accused of attempt to overthrow con: stituted authority, Liberal leader Mackenzie King, C.C.F. leader J. S. Woodsworth and other opposition members sought to embarrass the government over the affair but made no headway as the Prime Min ister and Minister of Justice Hugh Guthre. indicated beyond doubt. that there would be no surrender. Of great Interest to farmers: in Ontario was the announcement of Minister of Agreulture Robert Weir that the government would pay a bonus of 1% cents a pound to farm: ers who ship milk to cheese factories. during the month of July. This act tion was taken to stabilize the dairy industry and equalize prices and to prevent farmers from switching pro' duction from 'cheese to "butter and forcing down prices on world figures. Mr, Weir announced that 1% was not contemplated to tax producers of "| nid milk or any farmers in the The bonus will be paid out of a $1,000,000 fund which the House of Commons passed. A national highway programme of considerable importance to Ontario has been agreed on between the pro- vincial 'and federal governments whereby the sum of $9,612,500 will be expended on the Trans-Canada high- way. The Dominion government will pay. 50 per cent, of -.the cost, or $4,766,250. The sections of the high- way, mileage, total cost and Domin- ion contribution fallow: Schreiber to Nipigon River,-70-$5,30,000-$265,000; Nipigon River' to Port Arthur-66- $76,000-$38,250; Fort William to English River-114-$265,000-$182,500; English River to - Dyment-75-$299,- 000-$149,500; Dyment to Vernullion Bay-60-$1,350,000-$675,000; Vernul- lion to Kenora-60-$783,000-$302,600; Kenora to Keewatin-6-$605,000-$203,- 500; Keewatin to Dog Farm-11- $200,000-$100,000; Dog Farm to Manitoba Boundary-11-$560,000-$25,- 000; Penmbroke to North Bay-126- $186,000-$92,600; Schreiber to White River-116-$4.485,000-$2,242,600; Pem- broke to Hawkesbury, including Bon- nechere Bridge-$648,000-$342,000. Business conditions are much im- proved all over the province accord- ing to official indexes. Reports from Brantford indicate that sixteen manu- facturing firms: connected with the iron and steel trade are currently employing more than 2,000 persons, the highest since 1930. In Woodstock a new company will shortly begin the manufacture of motor car ac cessories, while at Port Colborne the Canadian Furnace Company Tresum- ed operations afer a shut-down. of some months. Stamps Stand Up As An Investment (New York Herald Tribune) of the stamps of Latin America, Ha- wall and the Philippines one of the world's largest stamp colléctions and the largest single fnvestment, in the Arthur Hind estate was finally dis- persed. Beginning in November, 1933, with his United States and Confederate stamps, auction sales have been held; argt in New York and then in Lon- don, at intervals of a few 'months where group by group collectors have what. has been popularly called a «million-dollar collection. Hind loved his stamps and liked to hear them called the world's great. est collection. © And it came near be- ing so, it considered from the stand- point of diversification, He kept an inventory of its cost over the years it was in the making and annually add- ed 6 per cent, as an investment. . In pre-depression days his = worth was variously estimated. at from 67. 000,000 to $10,000,000 in textiles, rail roads, real estate and stamps' -- the latter representing about $1,130,000 of the total. When the. e:tate was in: ventoried last year, it had shrunk to $1,316,453, of 'which $680,000 had been received from the sale of stamps == $245,000 by direct sale of the United States and Confederate stamps to the syndicate in a lump sum for the bal ance of the collection. The syndicate sa'es which were held In London to- talled $630,000, making the. price pald 'or the collection by the public. $8765, 000, or something bettter than 77 per cent. of their cost, as against an 80 With the sale in London last week | pald $876,000 for the stamps from |' public and: $435,000 from an: English per. cent. average shrinkage for the i "A good deal of thought has been been given in past years to the kind of education in agriculture which can best be introduced into school cur- riculum" Dr, R. C. Wallace, Presi- dent, University of Alberta, told the 16th convention of the Canadian So- ciety of Technical Agriculturists as sembled at Edmonton. It must be frankly admitted at the outset. he said, that relatively little success had attended the efforts of those who are concerned with school education in the teaching 'of agriculture. The for- mal agriculture of Grade IX and X of the high school had on the whole not achieved what. was expected of it; and the school garden, so enthusi« astically pxgclaimed thirty years ago, cannot be seen in Western Canada to- day. ; : It would take them too far afield to discuss al the underlying diffi- culties, lack of trained teachers, dis- continuity of schol life during the growing season, and the rest. This, however, had been learned that in public and high school it was the science and not the art of a vocation that could (be taught successfully. For that reason, said Dr. Wallace, he was of opinion that successful work in agriculture in the public and high school will come incidentally to the 'study of natural science, If the applications of the prin- ciples of science were continuously made in plant and animal processes, in weather lore, and. in soil process- es, interest in agriculture®and in-ag- ricultural procedure would grow na- turally out: of the underlying scienti- fic principles which have universal application; and the teacher would not be placed in the compromising position of pbsing, unwillingly, as an expert in a field where he or she was not accepted. That would be, he felt, 'the emphasis for the future. On the other hand, there had been real Buccess in boys' and girls' club work, and in school fairs in which 'agricultural projects had played their part, mainly because the activities were extra-curricular and conducted in the realistic -atmosphere of the farm with the help of trained district agriculturists. In so far as these pro- jects were honestly carried out by the young people themselves, they were the soundest accomplishment which had yet: been achieved in the vocational activity in agriculture of school-age boys and girls. The sys- tem did not as yet, unfortunately; reach all schools and all school child- ren in the rural districts. 5 -- CAannoa"s JUNIOR . i Miss Canada Honorable mention goes 'to Miss Eleanor Young of Vancouver, B.C, Canala's' junior tennis champion, Miss Young was sent to England by the Canadian Lawn Tennis As- sociatfon along with 'Miss Caroline Deacon, the senior champion of Can- ada. hea JE EAs "After securing a bye In the firat round of the allEngland ohampfon- ship matches, Mis Young was 'de- teated by Mme. de Meulem-Eester of Belgium 6-1, 6-4. : L Since this was Miss Young's: first appearance oft 'the' famous Wimble- don courts, and due to a nervous strain on this account she could not play her best, However, our youthful Canadian champion lost much of her nervousness after her first set im- | proving greatly in the second. Never- theless she was np match for the Belgian star Mme, de Meulem-Eester, better known as Mlle Sigart. = 'Caroline Deacon, Miss Young's teammate was defeated by Miss Rid: entire estate, : SE h 3 Wao wonder just where an investor would find a solider . property which to put 2's cavings. E SAR 4h Fd ----------y 5 "Thought is the most - vital Sawerful thing in tha entire dairy industry to make up the bonus. verse. Mary Pickford. into as uni- i Rat VI This Year's whether the beetle ada or not, traps were set at various points along the International Boun- dary. In view of the fact that in dis- tributing and visiting the traps it is necessary for the. inspectors to enter private and other property," the co- operation of the public was request- ' feeds on the roots other plants. The beetle in appear- : garding the = : { Trappin : Op- erations At The ars BE "si Active public interest along the International Boundary is once more being stimulated in the work of the Entomological Boundary is once more being stimulated in the work of the Entomological Branch of the Domin- jon Department of Agriculture for the prevention of the entry of the Japanese beetle into Canada. = Thighs destructive pest has damage to field and fruit crops in the United States and the interception of its spread into the Dominion has been the cause of much activity on the part of both the Canadian and United States authorities. Similar ac- tivities to last year's are now in op- eration, caused much" Last year, in A ascertain ad 'entered Can- ed. The response was highly grati- fying, a fact much appreciated by the Department. Up to the present there is no appearance of the beetle having invaded Canada. No beetles were caught in any of the traps. This year, traps are again being et at various points in the Niagara District, the Toronto District, the _ Montreal District, the Saint John District and the Yarmouth District. As formerly, the greatest care is be- ing taken to place the traps with as little inconvenience as possible to the occupants of private or other prop- erty. On the other hand the co-op- eration and assistance of the public are requested in reporting to the lo- cal inspectors, whose names are giv- en below, any suspicious insect re- sembling the Japanese beetle, and at the same time not . to disturb the traps by dropping insects and other material into the jars: The traps contain a sure Jure for the beetles. Some years ago ento- mologists of the United States De- partment of Agriculture discovered that the Japanese beetle is strongly attracted by the odorus of 'geraniol and eugenol, two essential oils used in perfumery, and. these are used in the traps. The beetle originated in Japan, hence the name, and since its introduction into the United States has created havoc with tree foliage, rowers, border plants, truck crops, and different kinds of fruit, such as raspberries, grapes, apples, cherries, plums, peaches and quinces. - larval stage of the beetle, the grub of grasses and ance is beautiful and highly coloured and is about one-half inch in length, It is a brilliant metalic green ex- cept for the greater part of the wing covers which are coppery brown. Five white spots on either side, and two near the top of the ab- domen furnish distinct characteris- tics for identification. The local inspectors are:-- Halifax, N.S. A. K. Gibson, Plant' Inspection Office Room '605, Dennis Building, Grenville Street. clo Collector of Customs, Yarmouth. St. John, N.B. Arthur Finna- - more, Plant Inspection Office, Cus- toms Bldg. Montreal, Que. -- Inspection Office, 379 Toronto, Ont. -- W. Ryan, Plant Common, Street. -- W. A. Fowler, 'Niagara Falls -- R. W. Sheppard, Plant Inspection Office, Federal Bldg, St. Clair and Queen Sts. scription given 'above observed by ~ local residents should be collected, and either mailed or given to the lo- cal inspector, together with definite information as to where the capture was made. Detailed information re- Japanese beetle, or any phase of the work, may be obtained by communicating with the Divis- jon of Toreign Pests Supprassica, BEntomological ~~ Branch, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. » « [i Street Car Reading In Z Causes Eyestrain ee. said to A Doctor writes: "K business. ~~ Nowadays I find that I do not care to do so'. Nature has a way of these things out for herself. Read- ing on a train, street car or hus is a threwn across our book or Owing to the vibration of the vehicle the "reading material frequently changes its distance from the eyes, and we must focus and refocus our 'eyes to meet the change, The external muscles, of the eye are thus strained del of England by (he same score as Mis Young, Mids Deacon fis the Canadian senior champion, Both girls were defeated, however, . AFC H A S08 3 : : Aire : 43 ' . in addition to the sight str in. Youth {1s the period of adaptability and the: pactid of reading while tracings then does little harm. Older trav 1 i ey the experience should be a great help lors' fe wise to fest ther eyes ona. : ; SE, journey especially if they lave a day "of eyestrain befcre' thom, Yarmouth, N.S. -- R. M. Rowter, & Customs Bldg., Front and Yonge St. me in the train the other day, 'I al-, ways used to read on the way to " workin? strain on the eyes. = The lightingi is' seldom satisfactory and shado fe 4 y [ oe] ? 4 Rd In the ¢ + i) Any beetles resembling the de- ¢ di By 0S BR, ats A egad