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73 mn pst ah v was firing at a deer. -- VOICE * 7 THE WORLD AT LARGE = of the Ba] CANADA, THE EMPIRE Te PRESS CANADA TO CUT DOWN CAR SPEED When automobile radios first ap- peared, people were afraid they would distract the attention of driv. ers from the traffic and thus increase 'the number of accidents, Unquestion- ably they do tend to distract the drivers' attention; but this may not be all to the bad, When a driver half. consciously listening to the radio, he is less impatient with the traffic he has to get through. : The testimony of the average driv- er with a radio-equipped car is that listening.in while on the road re- duces his speed about 10 miles an hour. And though speed alone may not be the primgry cause of highway accidents, {it certainly aggravates their severity. --Business Week. THE BEST PLACE Judge Millar of Hull is to be com- mended for the stern sentence of five years in the penitetiary imposed on a man caught robbing poor.boxes in a church, That offence was despic- able enough, but the crime was ag- 'gravated by the fact that the thief drew a loaded revolver and 'sought to shoot himself out of capture. Pri. son is the best place for thugs. --Ottawa Journal, "LAST POST" FUNERALS ------At the annual meeting of those administering the "Last Post Fund" of Canada, the Secretary recorded the year 608 funerals had been ar- ranged for ex-service men, the larg- est figures thus far recorded within any single 12 months. Without much doubt the reaction froin war strain 'and wounds is claiming more and more each year as they get o!der and the fact is oné which again empha- sizes the duty of giving these heroes every . possible ~consideraion while they still remain. --Brantford Expositor. RUSSIA'S GOLD Russia went in for gold production in a big way. Russia surpasses now both Canada and the United States. By 1937 she Intends to run ahead of South Africa and become the world's largest producer. The gold Russia has on hand today js exceeded only by the holdings of France and the United States. Russia, with its aid, "18 becoming a great power again, --Moncton Transcript. AN EXAMPLE A large- Amsterdam shoe company refused to fill an order for 500,000 pairs of army boots for Italy, This i8 a concrete example of the effect of economic sanctions against Italy, --Brantford Expositor. MODERATION Following extensive investigations, medicos have reported to the Ameri- can College of Surgeons that smok- ing before breakfast is one of the surest ways of causing stomach ul- ~ cers. Individuals are warned to change their habits. While excessive use of tobacco on an empty stomach between meals is pointed to as-- dangerous, the period before hreakfast is singled out as the most harmful. For the confirmed addict of Mi. lady Nicotine, a great deal of "will power will be necessary to cut down, yet the advice of physicians should not go unheeded. The value of pre- vention is being preached more and more, though many of us are prone to disregard it as long as our health appears sound. . Moderation in all things is still a splendid motto to apply to everyday life. --Windsor Star. A HAPPY THOUGHT "The appointment of John Bucnan now Lord Tweedsmuir, as Governor General of Canada was a happy thought, and it may be regarded as a compliment to the people of this Dominion. We have had someg men .of high mental calibre at Rideau Hall, and several of literary ability," but . none of such outstanding achieve. ment in literature as John Buchan, Canadians--some of them at least --believe we have a distinctive lit- efature in this country, and that the Canadian author can hold his own with any beyond our borders. With the addition of Lord Tweed:muir to the membership of Canadian Authors Association there should surely be no doubt. on that. point. --Stratford 'Beacon.Herald 3 CARELESSNESS | - In new Brunswick a hunter thought he saw a bear moving in the brush, fired, killed his lifelong neighbour. n Quebec a hunter shot and killed member of his party, thinking he Carelessness every year takes a fearful toll of life during the hunting season, just as carelessness costs multitudes of lives D the highways. Ottawa Journal | 8KOODAWABSKOOKSIS An unusual love poem has heen pablistind hn New Brunstick, where there are many quaint names, Pro. fessor 'de Mille decided to introduce some of the unusual names into a poem, two verses of which run as fol. lows: Shdll we seek for communion of "souls, s Where the deep Mississippl mean. ders, Or the distant Saskatchewan rolls? "Ali, no! in New Brunswick we'll find it-- A sweetly sequestered nook-- Where the sweet gliding Skooda- wabskooksis Unites with the Skoodawabskook." THE BIBLE It is hard to believe all that pes. simists say about this. old world when daily sessions in "London re- cently commenorating "Bible Week were attended by thousands of peo- ple, when 15,000 Bostonians present at a similar gathering in that city, when Bible sales in even Prus- sia have doubled within the = past four years. and when the Scriptures remain, generally /speaking, . the world's best seller. --Brockville Recorder. TEACHERS STAY LONGER ----For some years the average tenure of teachers has. been length. ening in all parts of Canada, In the last five or six years especially, they have been moving less from school to school, as well as staying longer in the. profession. Continuance of the trend toward the more frequent choice of -teach- ing as a life-time occupation is, how- ever, endangered at the present time, by disorganization of the salary sit. uation in some areas, especially in the rural 'parts of some provinces. Maititoba teachers of 1935 have been at their job nearly. nine years .on the average, or tw' e as long as those of the earlier nineteen-twen- ties. Nearly one-fifth have done some teaching outside their own province, usually just a year or two, or long enough to see how things are done in another province, or perhaps in other parts of the Empire. ; In the schools where they are at present engaged each 'teacher has spent 414 years on the average, or about half of her total time teaching. "This is about the length of time that some of the churches normally .choose to leave their ministers in one location Five years ago the teachers averaged only 2 3.4 years 'n one location. --Dominion Bureau of Statistics. THE EMPIRE DESIGN FOR PROSPERITY It is just five years since Australia, one of the first countries to be caught in the hurricane of depression, called in Sir Otto Niemeyer, of the the way to escape from the financial chaos which threatened to engulf her. Sir Otto propsed a series of dra- stic economies in expenditure, both Federal and State, which were only accepted after a violent political con- flict involving the secession of Mr. Lyons, the then Labour Treasurer, to head 'a coalition of the Opposition 'parties. The sacrifices were heavy, but they were borne cheerfully by tho Australian people and have been abundantly justified by their re- sults. --London Morning Post THE CAMPAIGN FOR TEA The. occasional announcement of the tea propaganda authorities. out- lining a publicity campaign to con. vert to tea drinking the 120 millions fn the"U.8.A. or, as in the case of the latest news, the 300 millions of India, always read to a layman a little like one of Grimm's fairy tales. Tackling the millions of varied con. sumers in the U.S.A. seemed a gl- gantic enough task, but this latest one of converting the Indian peasant to the habit of drinking his own ten is even morg stupendous in its .aagnitude, In the case of America the propagandists were, and, incident. ally, still are, dealing with people for the most part educated or at least capable of reading ths widespread advertisements in the American, pap. ers , , . But when the propaganda organization turned its attention to India, as it did in the early months of this year, it found a completely "dif- ferent state of affairs. The newspaper- reading public of India; at a very liberal estimate, totals only 50 mil. fons in 5 population of 800 millions. Actually the circulation of the leading newspapers uged by the. Propaganda Board totalled only a little over 10 millfohr copies, but allowing each one to an average family of five, the grand total of 50 million readers was reached, . ==Colombo Times of Ceylon, 43 ¢Sweet malden of Phssamaquoddy,| _ --Brantford Expositor : were | Bank of England, to advise her as to Their t tribal garments "offering a sharp contrast to bandolfers of ammunition and modern rifles, there Jirciens ul of game tribes ride into Ras Nassibu's camp to join forces. 'were taken under actual war conditions in the Ogo den. These: pictures Angora Rabbits Produce Wool For "Children's Garments . Sixty-five fluffy Angora rabbits are made to produce the equivalent of 260 soft wool sweaters for children a year in an unusual home business operated by Mrs: Netta Creque, of Hayward, Cal. Mrs. Creque raises 'the rabbits in a backyard pen, shears them herself for their wool, spins it into yarn and 'knits the garments, Each animal pro- duces four ounces of wool every three months, enough to make oné child's sweatgr Mrs. Creque\ghears each rabbit carefully with a pair of scissors and uses an old-fashiongd spinning wheel to produce the ydyn from the clip- pings. Besides being soft,\light and com- fortable, the garments wear well and do not shrink, Mrs. Creque clainis. She has made both a hobby and a business of the 'factory," and the rabbits themselves don't seem to mind providing the wool. A Lesson y A------------ From the Halifax Chronicle we take a news story which, we think, deserves to be noticed. It is the story of a 12.year-old boy, Ronald Dornadic evidently the son of immigrant par. ents, who appeared in a Sydney, N.S, court the other day as a witness for the Crown. Called to the stand to be sworn in, the youth was first ques- tioned by Mr. cerning his understanding the mean- ing of an oath. The dialogue he- tween _them was; Judge: "On coming into this court what are you supposed to do, tell the truth or tell lies?" Youth: "The truth, sir." Judge: "Why the truth?" Youth: "This is a court and I have {o tell the truth." Judge: "Dp you know what this is," passing the Bihle. Youth: "Yes, sir, that's a Bible." Judge: "What do you do when you don't tell the truth?" Youth: "I commit a sin." _ - Judge: "What is a sin?" Youth: "A sin is an offense against God." Judge: ' Who is God?" . Youth: "God {is the creator of Heaven and earth," Twelve-year-old Ronald Dornadic went on to give his testimony in a candid, straightforward manner, and as he left the stand Mr. Justice Car. roll said to him: - "I must congratulate you, young man, on the very efficient manner in which you have conducted yourself in this court, and I must congratu. late 'your parents for the sound Christian doctrine they have taught you." - . -The congratulations were merited. For this hoy with a foreign name had given the court and all of us a lesson not merely in. the sacredness of an oath, but in fruth for its own sake, for the sake of what falsity to it involves. Not a home in all this broad land but could take to heart profit. ably. what was back of that young man's understanding. THE BESSBOROUGHS Mr. Bennett, one of the chief ar. chitects of the Ottawa Trade Agree- ment, has pald glowing tribute to Lord Bessborough's value In counsel, Nor will French Canada soon for. get its delight in having for the firat time fn its history a French chate- laine at Rideau Hall, Lady Besahor- ough charmed all hearts, and Canada is especially proud~of the fact that the son borh to the Escellencles in August, 1931, was christened "George St. Lawrence" in honour of his Royal godfather and of the river on the so of which he was born. =+Londef) orsing Post - Justice Carroll con. |; The Modern Blacksmith The smith is not the' hs man he was in Longfellow's day, but in the mass he is but a shadow of his former self. The automobile has almost driven the horse .off the streets in the big cities at any rate, and the profession of blacksmith used to be synonymous with horses. Probably no trades in the world have lost so much to march of time as that of the blacksmith and: the harness "maker, = The trained blacksmith, however is gomething more than a mere shoer of horses. He can fashion ornamen. tal iron gates, fireplaces, door fittings, grilles and other things. Fancy iron- work has always been a feature of the English. hlacksmith's education under a seven yearg' apprenticeship system, and a great-deal has been done in recent years tp put this branch of art before the public. Re- cently the Rural Community Coun. cil of Essex prevented the shutting down of several forges by sending expert workers to instruct the local smiths in the finer aspect of black- smithing. Nearly every English gentleman's home is approached by gates, and there has heen a great revival "of decorative ~gatework of much delicacy and beauty. Devonshire is stiil © the home of many picturesque smithys with thatched roofs, and their presence in a village of thatched houses is 'often only announced to the visitor by the musical rhythm of hammer upon anvil. Recently a rural Dev. onghire blacksmith was invited fo fashion a highly ornate _grille for the Prince of Wales. But all smiths do not sit in thelr forges and await the farmer and his horses. Some 'of them have be- come itinerants, and carrying their equipment on a trailer they motor around the farms and shoe horses, repair plows and other implements in the farmyard. If they are lucky they may be able to find a spread- ing chestnut tree under which tq do the joh. Coughing In Church Cou} ing restlessness in church do not bother Stratford preachers, and they scorned the suggestion by a re- porter that their congregation might be given a spell of relief in the middle of the sermon, In order to "clear their throats and change their position" writes the Stratford Bea- con-Herald in this editorial. A cough during a sermon may be due to a cold, but it may also imply boredom, disagreement with the speaker, or even a bad conscience. Most preach- ersers can readily distinguish be. tween a throatal and .a temperamen. tal affection. As for changing one's position in church; this can be done quite naturally, without stopping the sermon. It can be done in such a Way, as to Indicate impatience, but it may algo Indicate a growing* Interest in -the discourse, In the old days, when preachers would illustrate their secondlys and thirdlys with pointed. storles, the entire congregation would change over their legs and show signs of relaxation and sudden interest. A few coughs during a sermon should "not - disturb' the average preacher, but an explosive sneeze might. No 'preacher likes to feel that his efforts can. be "sneezed at." As for restlessness this 'does not annoy the man in the pulpit so much as the sight of members of he congregation nodding 'or undly asleep under his 'homiletical admonitions. The Intro. duction of an interval in the middle' of the sermon. might serve the pur. pose of 'waking these sleepers, but we are afrald they would merely use || it as an' SHE to turn, ore 80 to speak A ful eno Canadian Apples First at Cardiff British Columbia Delicious - Takes Highest Award in - 'Dessert Class Ottawg--For the first time since 1929 a Canadian won the highest award in the dessert apple class at the 16th Imperial. fruit show at Car- diff, Wales, returning to the Domin- ion what is considered the blue rib- bon of the world's greatest {ruit ex- hibition, The first prize cabled advices said, went to James Lowe of Oyama, B.C. whose exhibit of Delicious won him the show's major honor and $200 in cash. » For the first few Years after in- auguration of the Imperial fruit show, which brings entries from all parts of the British Commonwealth, Canadians carried away most of the leading awards. 'Since 1929, however, British growérs have won the most coveted prizes in the open classes, beating Canadians by narrow marg- ins, Delicious, originally discovered in] Towa in 1881, is described as mild, acid, aromatic, with a red stripe, ale most red skin 'and creamy, juicy, firm, flesh. It is said to be good for dessert but only a fair costing ap- ple. Water Subrics A Spray Developed in Eng- land To Extinguish : 'Tank 'Blazes No one in his right senses would pour water on burning oil. Yet at the recent annual meeting of the Na- tional Fire Protection Association A. K. Brown advocated throwing pailfuls of water on it, but it does mean that automatic sprinkl- ers. with properly designed nozzles can spray water on burning oil and extinguish flames. The new method of coping with fires of liquids comes from England. There it was developed with such great success by a Manchester firm that American sprinkler manufac- turers and fire underwriters could ng longer ignore it. When'it is more widely introduced carbon dioxide, carbon tetrachloride, foam 'and -chemicals' may be relegated to posi- tions of minor importance. Putting out an oil fire with water becomes a safe and sane proceeding sidered, Oil and other inflammable and .combustihfe liquids do not burn as such, It is the vapor given off that burns. Moreover this vapor must be mixed with oxygen and the liquid must give off vapor steadily. Once, started, the fire heats up the ofl, but the 'vaporiatzion thus brought' about 'soon reaches a max- imum, Cutting. off the oxygen to smother flames is one way of ex- tinguishirig an oil fire. Cooling the oil below the point at which vapora are Be iy oft Nd ond is another. mployed In the Why vie t he spre y is strong enough to reach the face of the oil. KEithér a foam or thus formed. If the drops of water are too small, a mist is produced. which is easily dissipated without doing much good. But if the drops are just bl 'and {Heavy and peel Mh mix pit it at fox butic, fires re fre, 'to be put out. Th ngland, Ireland, France, Germany There 4 Ere one i! : tf Se that varies. > twelve, ish men killed ar disabled in the Burning Oil just that |" procedure. This does not mean that|- an oil fire can be put out just by| when the nature of the blaze is con- | an emulsion of ofl and - water isl i applied som ify natal ire | ca. ih jAmerionan wait EE pleat passe. istribute gms. It hia Jf ro to be i L For extingy fres Vid Re be 'attached ordinary hose withstand a p and to deliver si gall te. The first effect of the water spray | | is to increase the laze. 'But the surface of the liquid having been extinguished with the formation ' of a cloud of vapor, the flames retre further and further from the tank and finally die out. Look at the oil. when all is-over and you see a layer of foam---apparently a collec: tion 'of minute bubbles of oil in Which air and water are prone: Milk a Food Noting Flu wid Quickly | Absorbed By System A. good many people even today still cling to the old idea that milk being a fluid cannot be a' food: or a source of nourishment, says p writer in New Health Magazine, 'They re- gard milk as only for infants, ' Nol doubt the old-fashioned term of re- proach, "milksop," is based on this notion. But though natural enough, all this is bad physiology. For to' be- gin with, all. food, however solid, must be in the first. instance. be re-' duced to the state of solutfon in order to he absorbed and unless and until it is absorbed, 'it is not a food. Eyerything we eat, even 'the most .solid<=hard-boiled : eggs, ham, bis- cuits, hard cheese--are all. brought down to a state of more. or léss 'per-|. fect fluidity before they are {digest ed and then pass into the blood, "Take sugar for instance; unless it-is disselved in water or tea hii 80 become perfectly invisible" its solution it cannot act as the' hs giving food for which we know, it'to]. be, But sugar dissolved 'in water is more of a fluid than is milk, Thus, with milk because © 'some of its con-| stitutents are:in invisible solution, they are none the less energy-giving foods. Is not the solid '¢heese 'de- rived from milk by' clotting, but the cheese is no more - nourishing ~~ than was its non-solid precursor. The fact that a nourishing substance is in solution does not render it any the less nourishing, --_---- Ot. the 1,750,000 childiren of -Brit- Great War, and who came under the charge. of the 'Ministry of Pensions, there are now fewer than 20 ,000. Al. together about £136 ,000,000 has. besn spent on them. Winter's Touch ; : Some.__indeed que 0 of niiber: --of lovely new dresses have' lit- tle touches of velveteen. And such; additions. can be 50. ¢charm- oday's dress of dark 'blue wool like silk, delights its 'Wine- red yetee trim, Simple ming ine makes it Nei figures, Style No S401 8 Jesigned tor anid 14, 16, 18 'years, 86, 88, 40 an inches bust. Size 36 re. yards of Spinel ma- an mde ot opi: nen Eh hd plainly, Io! edd eli of pattern wanted. Enclose 16¢ in PS OF chal heads Fa Hix, fy r } West HA iv, 2 oronto, y in the| erry verdes : strong. bras to| *| duction. speak English without Sd ay fact about the eat) ho ws language -- which many "English aceent"--any more than there is a French accent in French. Australians, and some West Indians, seem to have a pronounced Cockney accent, inherited of course, and all accents are "local," "In Harvard," gibe our cousins across the border, "the tomato is a tomahto." Most of the differences in: accent, come from differences: in voice pro- A public speaker ought to know how to produce 'his voice, and he ought to use the whole word when he speaks; Many political speakers have got so used™to certain long 'words, that they only pronounce the first syllable 'or so, and leave the od (detracts a great deal from his message, for the listener, very often: unconsciously, classes him at once as.a "spell-binder." . Withal it is not difficult to pro- néunce English = properly, nor to irritating one's hearers. One may study differ- ent' methods of voice production 'without improving much; the. great thing is the formation of words, Let the 'would-be speaker practise the lines following, until he can say them rapidly and Clearly, without, fault: There was an old woman who' was a thistle-sifter, "She had a sieve of sifted thistles and a sieve of unsifted this- itles, °° She poureds the sieve of sifted thistles into the sieve of un- sifted thistles. Beacause she was a thistle. sitter. - Those who 'hear: him. practise will find it very amusing at first, but when he gets to pronounce the lines without hesitation 'and '"sideslips" he will begin to discover how pleas- ant it is to spesk Jcorrently.. ; Woot can be dened as "flow, in relation to accents." Just as one naturally watches the flow of a river with one eye on the landmarks it passes, so one listens to the flow of 'words, with particular, if uncon- scious, note of the stresses. Uncon- sciously, whether we, have muscial knowledge or no, we all try to fit. | our sentences into measures. "This fact. exposes another horror of radio--the singer. who has no sense of rhythm. This person gen- J| erally has a high note, and hangs on to it, and has no hesitation in sacrificing the sense and rhythm of 2 song. to "tone" Tone is a very great thing in music, but: rhythm 'I'and" melody matter more. It is mod- ern to state that rhythm is out of date except for jazz, but music without pronounced rhythm--will not. last. Ravel's Bolero, for instance, insists on a rhythm whose form is reiter- ated almost to tedium, . * * There . is another point that 'should 'be considered by those who present radio programs, That is that a very 'small proportion 'of radio' listeners seem n ignore--is that there is no .thythm -- and definitely efijoy speech over the air at all; and. - like it least in the evening. The evenings of the average household are deyoted to reading or bridge or dancing, with which speech does not mix well, One may on occasion drop one's book or one's cards, 'minute or two, to listen to some good comedy, but most people want their radio programs to' be unob- trusive in the evening--music that is not 'nerve-shattering, for the most part. The listener will remember, with gratitude, the sponsor of - a 'program that dol not worry him-- 41; and an announcer who does . not use too much language. 4 er What do Jadies Tike, arontd noon? 'Music and rec pes, good speeches J and really educational stuff. Sketch- es do not seem. to appeal to them to any great extent. =. But--who cares? Radio statio nor broadcasting oe .companies, Seem to make programs. Turns are shov- ? elled into the microphone without apparent respect to their accepta- bility, just as coal is shovelled down a chute, . --G. D. in the Ottawa Journal, Leisure What is this life o if, £ full of care, We have not time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as lo ong as sheep: and cows. No. time to see, in broad daylight, Streams fall of for a stars, like stars. at su 5 No time to. bain at Beauty's glance, ~ And 'watch her feot, how the