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2 a.) ti ES = VOIC = « THE WORLD ; AT LARGE } of the CANADA, THE EMPIRE PRESS CANADA . Lait ed ' Sad Days For Teachers These are sad days for school tea- chers, Over in New York state one of them was recently refused.employ- ment because she weighed too much, and now a Philadelphia educationist contends that there is no reason why 4 school teacher should not be good to look at - Brockville Recorder and Times Ungrateful Dionnes f.ooking after the quintuplots is becoming less of g problem than the dealing with the parents, Elzire, like Father Adam, blames it al! on his wife. But Mme. Dionne gives no sign of breaking down under her matern- al woes, Of the two parents we should say she is the more philosophical and level-headed, We do not think it is she who is importuning Hollywood to supply the answer to the question "Where Ate My Children?" She knows well enough where they are. as does her husband and the whole world. They are being voyally taken care of by a staff of skilled attend- ants, under the personal direction of the famous "country doctor," to "whom they owe their lives. Their material and spiritual needs are be- ing handsomely provided for and the parents and other members will not ba neglected, either. If, in addition to all these benefits, M. et Nme. Dionne feel like making a few extra dollars on the side hy touring the country and going into the pictores, that is poricetly all right with the guardians too. But the latter, the King and a long-suffering public might resaonab- Iv be spared. these -hypoceritical. com- plainings, That's about the least a very. fortunate daddy can do as a mark of gratitude, for, all that has been, is being and will be done for Nim and his family Hamilton Spectator, 'When The Doctor Says So The people of Ontario generally feel - that the Dionnes, pere and mere, are foraunate in having their quintuplets taken off 'their hands and cared for under ideal condition. Pape Dionne himself thanks the Ontario govern- ment for the help it has given and says that all he wants is the return of his children. Dr. Dafoe himself has said that they will be returned at the proper time, - The proper time should be when Dr. Dafoe, who has made niedical his- tory in this case, decides that the rules which have governed the lives of the children and probably saved the lives, in the hospital' built for ~ them, may safely be relaxed, and also when they have passed the period during which all infants and adoles- | cents run special risks from certain maladies. LT RS Under Dr. Dafoe's regime and with the scientific prechutions with which the little ones have been surrounded, they are the only quintuplets known to have survived in all the records that have been preserved. The judge- ment of the physician who is respon- gible for such a-system should be the guide in the future. -- London Ad- vertiser, Roundabout The Dionne's letter to the King was sent by the King's secretary to the Governor-General, who sent jt to the Secretary of State, who sent it to the Provincial Secretary of Ontarfo, who sent it to the Minister of Public Wel: fare ---- who is the quintuplet's chiet guardian. Mr. Dionne would have sav- ed much circumlocution had he writ- ten to Mr. Croll in the first place about hig troubles; but his foreign advisers didr't know that, --- Ottawa Journal, » ha Winning A V. C. Private Peat. well-known in Edmon- ton as a war-time recruiting oratoy, recently told a Detroit audience -that "the Victoria Cross is the highest ho- nou-that can-He given to an English man for services to his Empire." Now private Peat ought to know better than that. The Victoria Cross is awarded only "for valor" on the field of battle in the presence of the enemy, The Or- - der of the British Empire was instit- uted especially to, reward outstanding services to the Empire, - - Edmonton Journal, Life For A Life Many honest huomanitavians, per- haps an increasing number, appear to be tender-hearted toward the de- liberate murderer who takes the life of his victim, in ovder to procure a few dollars, Some of the remarks made in dis: cussions on capital punishment would appear unintelligible to many people who are far from being @¢ither morbid- 1v cruel, or even unphilosophical, in their reluctance to abolish the death penalty for deliberate . murder com: mitted fo either gratify revenga . or . acquire property to which they 'have no claim. . & ' Many good people seem to forget that the motive behind the dictum "a life for au life," is not revenge, but precaution and prevention. The murderer is deprived of his life, but not in a spirit of vengeance, but as a means of saving other peo- ple from being murdered. The execution of the deliberate murderer is justified on the ground that 'others who are contemplating murder may shrink from perpetrating the crime because of the punishment that awaits them if they ave found to be guilty, Guelph Mercury. : A New Worry Kirkland Lake barber endorses the statement of North Bay's tonsorial artist that men ave losing a lot of masculinity, a softening of beards being the evidence agzainst them. =North Bay Nugget. Chinese Merit Praise A simile that might well be coined in these days of increasing paternal- im iS "As scarce as the number of Chinese on relief. Kitchener and Waterloo haven't | any celestials depending on public aid and there are very few cities ani towns, if any, in Eastern Canada that have Chinese on (heir relief lists. And! vet the Chinese are the most or erous of the races of Asiatic origin now residents of Canada, Census re- ports issued hy the Dominion Bureau of Statistics show that move than halt of the latter are Chinese. There are dyer 43,000 males and about 3,600 fe- males. Of these 1,900 are boys and 1,800 ave girls under the age of "1b. More than half, or over 27,000 of the Chinese reside in British Colum- bia, Most of the Chinese children are in the Pacific Coast province. There 'are about 6,400 Chinese cooks and about the same number en- gaged in laundry work, 3,500 cafe and tavern keepers, 125 hairdressers, 15! musicians, 14 clergymen, eight jour nalists, seven actors and four police as well as many in other varied oc- cupations. = | The faet that the Chinese look pret- ty wel after their own countrymen When /they become unemployed is indeed something for which they should be given great credit. -- Kit- chentr News-Record. A New Novelty The craze for novelty conlinues un- abated. Observers report that" people are going in again for home lifé --- The Toronto Saturday Night. THE EMPIRE Through Empire Eyes The rest of the Empire regard Eur- ope as a continent gone crazy, a world of madmen bent upon mutual slaugh- ter and self-destruction. And they marvel that we in this country can- not grasp the fact that the sooner wo leave Europe to settle Ihirope the swifter we shall be able to strength-! en Britain and the Empire by develop- ing our own resources. London Daily Express, That English Climate We may be thankful for our wea- veteran | ther contrasts withont forfeiting our birthright to grumble about them. It is not a very far-fetched idea that to them we owe a good deal of our na-| tional characteristic of refusing to zet into a fuss about things before] they happen, and, when happen they do, of dealing with them in a bluff, practical way which may not owe much to logic or theory but yet dis. | poses of the difficulty with fair suc- cess. It is a useful quality in more | than meteorological emergencies. In far more important things even the wisest and most clear-gsighted of men' cannot tell what is waiting for him | round the next corner. In such a world there is much value in being ! compelled to develop and exercise a | faculty of improvigation and in being, trained to keep an égual mind under severe and sudden changes of condi- | tion. Whatever else we may say ab- out the vagaries of our weather, we! have at least to thank them for the countless opportunities for such pain- ful practice. -- London Times. The Unwanted Jt has been reported that, unlike Trinidad, Haiti has no objection to! French convicts (escaped from penal settlements) settling there, and this no doubt was the motive behind the recent abortive move by private in- terests to have some of those fugi- | tives sent to the island republic from this Colony, If Haiti's attitude has | been corregtly reported, it should cortaifily provide a means whereby' Trinidad could get rid of unwanted vigitors without opening herself to any sugpicion of inhumanity, It must bo admitted. that sending refugees to. sea in a boat, no matter how. well eq-| uippad or heavily provisioned, is an pis Honeyed words weren't in the vocabularies of drivers stopped at busy intersection in Los Angeles when trafiic signal was put out-of commission by swarm of bees attempting to build a hive in it. William Fox, who handles unruly bees, placing a swarm in a special box. inhumane way out of an awkward si- tuation. It has been practised solely because in- the circumstances there seemed to be nothing else we could do, short of permitting the establish- ment in this island of a community of alien undesirables. The Government here should now get in touch with the authorities in Haiti and gscer- tain whether and on what terms they are prepared to permit the entry of fugitives. -- Trinidad Guardian. They Kept Secret 0f The Tanks (By W. Orton Tewson, Author of - es "An Attic Salt.Shaker") which the secret of the Tanks was kept during their building was "one of the most re- markable exhibitions of patriotic restraint during the whole course of the war," says the man who invept- ed them--Major-General Eir Ernest D. Swinton (in "Eyewitness: And the "Origin-of the Tanks.) Although thousands of men knew about them, only two cases of a breach of con- fidence came to his personal know- ledge. Both implicated women. "On one occasion a charming lady, my neighbor at a luncheon party," reminisces General Swinton, "on hearing my name began artlessly to ply me with questions, which showed that some one had been talking un- wisely. I remembered that a certain young officer in the Heavy - Section (Tank) bore_her. name, and made a shrewd guess as to their _relation- ship. hl: "Very seriously, and in a low tone, I told her that there was only one The manner - in 'person from whom she could have. learned what she knew; that if it got out it would not only mean his death, but the death of many others, and possibly the loss of the War; that unless.she promised to maintain silence, except to contradict anything she had already divulged, I" -would order that individual's arrést by telephone and have 'him tried by courtmartial for treachery--the pen- alty for which was death. Greatly upset, the lady vowed that she would carry out my instructions. She had not thought of doing any harm; but like many others, did not realize the danger of chattering. "The other case was similar. We heard that a certain actress at one of the London theatres had got wind of something from an officer and was talking indiscreetly, According- ly I visited her in her dressing-room one night after the play, with much the same result as I have just des- cribed. In this case I am afraid 1 bluffed in threatening her informant with death, for we had no. idea of his identity, but she was sufficiently frightened to promise to do All that I demanded," : "In addition to the ordeal of the war itself, the war generation has had thrown upon it the task of providing sufficient wisdom: to prevent an oc- Presque Isle Harbor, $575,000; Grays the suffering .which it endured." Anthony Eden, : 423 Balance Child's Social Existence ~ On one side of Mary lived Joan, on the other, Annabelle. All were ap- proximately the same age but entire- ly different in temperament. Annabelle was gentle and very babyish for her five years. Joan wag Mary was in between, and although not an "inferior" she had a way of putting her own wishes and personal- ity behind that-of her playmate, The three children were not playmates, because Joan did not like Annabelle and wouldn't play with her. Mary played with both, but not at the same time. Mary's mother preferred the more forceful child. "She thought it was better for her child to absorb. a bit of Joan's force. Beside, Joan was very smart and Mary learned from her. On the other hand, when there had been a session of Annabelle, Mary, cham- _eleon-like, became "infantile and fool- ish. It was so apparent that her fa- ther scolded. rs ' "Stop that lisping and baby talk," he ordered, "You are .to blame, Laura" he said to his wife. "You let her play with that little imbecile next door too much. It's addling her brains." Mary Becomes Unruly of Joan. Annabelle was more and more out of the picture and finally not in it at all. Then one day Mary's mother became aware of the fact that been. Every few minutes there was friction about something. Never had she seen her so contrary. The simp- lest command met with almost in- stant rebellion where before Mary had been the 'most tractable child imag- inable. Moreover she would not eat mentally and characteristically older. | As a result there was a bigger dose' her child was not as good as she had. Piy Anecdotes Danger of Slang : The danger of using slang - when communicating with a foreigner . is amusingly illustrated by an anecdote related by Mrs. Fremont Older in' the biography ~ of "William Randolph Hearst. Some years 'ago Mr. Hearst instructed a French agent, by letter, to bid for some choice pieces of Tan- agra-which were about to be sold at auction in Paris, In his letter, the publisher said: 4 "Of course I don't want any of the darned old things which will run up to fabulous prices." And he set a limit to the price to which the agent could go. The sale took place, and the Tana. gras were sold under the limit that Mr. Hearst set, He 'was in-dismay and cabled his representative. "Why did you not buy gras?" , Back came the explanation of the nPrénch commissionaire, It read: "In your letter of instructions you said, 'I don't want any of the darned old things which will run up to fab- ulous. prices'. 1 did not comprehend the meaning of 'darned', but I looked up the meaning in the dictionary and found that it meant 'repaired." All ot the Tanagras had been repaired or restored. They date from the third century, B.C." the Tana- Not long after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic, William Randolph Hearst wishing to do some- thing substantial for him, arranged for a motion picture story -of Lindy's life. B "The heroic aviator was to receive one-half million dollars-and. a percen- tage Of the profits," says Mrs. Older. "In his New York apariment Hearst amusingly - illustrated by an anecdote signed and sealed, ready. to deliver. Only Lindbergh's signature was want- ing. iE-- BN ; "The aviator read the paper, smil- ed and shook his head and said, '1 wish 1 could if it would please you. 1 can't. 1 said I wouldn't go into the motion pictures.' ", *All right,' answered Hearst, but you. tear up the contract. I haven't the heart to do it. "Hearst watched Lindbergh tear up the half mijllion dollar contract presented Lintibergh with -a contract, great admiration for the aviator's magnificent disregard for money." A very refined but sad-looking Qoc- tor at one of the jails where the Rev. Eustace Jarvis -- well known prison chaplin -- was serving, had under his care a man under his care a man un- der sentence of death, and almost on the eve of execution. The prisoner complained of toothache. relates Mr. Jervis (in "Twenty-flve Years in Six Prisons"), and asked the doctor-if he would take the tooth out for him, The doctor looked at him sadly a moment or-two and_ said: "Do you really think it is worth the "while?" ) geant A. M. Sullivan, noted Irish bar- rister -- he defended Sir Roger Case- ment -- about a young Irish advocate, who was assigned by the court to de- fend a prisoner charged with murder. The lawyer wrote out a most eloquent 'speech which he proposed to deliver to the jury on his client's behalf, and 4 make sure that no point was omit- ed, he brought it down to rehearse to the accused man in the cell, | The declamation of the first pages was somewhat mournfully lis- tened to, but the orator 'was cheered by some semblance of interest on the part of the person most concerned, who eventually interrupted by asking: "Could you tell me, Mister Mac, is hanging a painful death?" as she should and by nightfall was too nervous to sleep. lL iy It puzzled her mother because Joan was an obedient child in her way and contrariness seldom showed itself. Maybe it was not Joan at all but just some of those things developing in Mary herself that might be accounted for by the evolution of character. sewing in the next room and had op- portunity to follow a little drama. What Mary did, it seemed, was al- ways wrong. What she suggested in the way of new amusement was in- stantly voted down. When she want- ed to stop Joan insisted that she was gelfish; in fact, this was the stick the other child chose to-wield. Any idea that crossed her own mind quickly met with this verdict of selfishness. Occasionally she said "babyish." Cowed by Playmate Then many things recurred to this mother, She saw a complete picture of the past few months and she"rea- lized that Mary's trouble was thwart- ed will, which can happén through playmates as well as parents, Mary was unhappy. Joan had cowed het, and brow-beaten her and at the same time shamed her. All in a way 'that few would notice but quietly and per- sistently in the way known only to entirely gelf-centrad children. _ But one' day she happened to be Profit Is Small Report Slows Most: of It Was Needed to Cover \ Federal Tax LETHBRIDGE, ~ Olta., Sugar beet growers of Southern Alberta from the 1935 crop had an average net profit of $40.79, while the govern- ment .tax paid by each grower aver- aged $558.48, according to a state- 'ment issued by-the Alberta Co-opera: tive Beet Growers Association. The : association co-operating with Bastern Canada growers, Is seeking a rebate on the federal tax. In 1935 there were 797 growers in Southern Alberta; 14,109 acres in the vested, There were 44,450,900 pounds of sugar produced on which the fed- Approximately 16,000,000 thunder- eral government collected a cent-a: pound tax, with an additional $600 for collection costs, according to the as- gociation's statement, 1 the Fanos 'but the dangerqus age. "These figures are not so widely dif- Which' recalls a story. told "by Ser-|. few | On Alberta Beet "crop, and 138,809 tons of beets har-|- ---- Ancient Times ES Rate of Violent Deaths Was High Among Greeks and : Romans ¢ ? i fo" Hh a What 'with automobiles to run us air and explosions to blow us up, w might call this not the machine age But the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany has made a study which shows that the lives of the ancients were scarcely less precarious. down and airplanes to fail in mid- : Defence System Outlined Tn Bo ok The Soldiers' File Wd for 1936 "Tells of Growth of Ger- many's Armed Strength = -~ -- 3 Details of an extraordinarily com- plete and extensive system of defensd against air attack in Germany are revealed in a pocket handbook called Out of a representative -sainple of 276 celebrated Greeks and Romans 186 came' to violent ends -- nearly. half. The skeptical vital statistician | approaches the figures cau- tiously. It" is natural that violent _ deaths should attract more attention than. deaths from prosiac disease. So he casts about! and finds a supplementary grouping of 126 the causes of whose ends were not recorded. By adding these to the original 275 he obtains a total of 401. But the violent deaths still amount to 34 per cent. x Perhaps those who died with their boots on were soldiers and adven- turers. If so, the statistics are not to 'be wondered at. So the statist- ician classifies the 401 names into | callings--statesmen, soldiers, philo- sophers; authors. It"turns out that of 180 statesmen 115 came to violent ends--G64 per cent. - Including. those who died from unknown causes the total amounts to -222 and the per- centage to 52. Life is today no more perilous than it was in ancient times. In spite of- all our homicides, suicides and accidents only 9.6 per cent. of the general population diés violently. t ferent from the 12 per cent. which we have noted as characteristic of | persons following peaceful pursuits! in antiquity". 3 : Warfare today is not much more terrible than it wag in ancient times. Among the French ghe proportion of deaths in 'battle and from wounds in the World War was 41.8 per cent. in the entire' male population of military age over the period of the war; among the Germans, 42,4 per | cent.; among the British, 33.8 per cent.,, and among the Italians, 22.1 per cent. The figures are a [ttle lower, though not much, for the soldiers and statesmen of antiquity used as a sample for hens wind We must not forget that the World War was a transitory coridition. The figures for the ancients cover- the general records of history. "Surely the ancients did live dangerously." Easy and Quick. 2 Here's a smart little washing frock to do add your summer joys. And not a lot of pleats to keep in order and repress after tubbing! = Cotton is a favored medium, and there are many fascinating new weaves, The original in violet lin- en-like weave cotton was individ. ualized by brief sleeves of plain purple. The buttons repeat the purple, ee : Again linens, tub silks, ete.s are nice mediums. Youwll* want to make several for next summer, It's so smart, inexpensive and quickly made. Style No. 2938 is designed for sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and ~.42-inches bust. Size 36 requires 3 yvards--of 35-inch 'material with 85 yard of 35-inch contrasting: ----_ . -| fields." : The Soldier's Friend for 1936, a copy of which has reached - this country. ; The book, which contains a fore- ward by War Minister Werner * von Blomberg, a complete statement of the Nazie philosophy and of the rise of the Hitler government, and full color illustrations of all uniforms and insignia of German army, navy and air-force personnel, is the six- teerith annual edition and is publish- ed by Joseph Bercker of Berlin. Included is -a table purporting to show the military strength of all the principal nations, except Ger- many, at the beginning of 1936, which puts France in the forefront with 6,000 airplanes and Russia second with 4,136. £ A chapter on the Reich Air De- fense League shows the rapid, growth to gigantic. proportions. of this" or- ganization. The membership is put at 6,000,000, "divided into 20,000 branch- es, with 28,000 officers, 1,000,000 trained air defense wardens, 2,200 air - defense training schools with more than 100,000 teachers in all 2,500,000 trained individuals." ~Marxianism Is Blamed . Long before the National Socialist party came into power, this chapter says, far-seeing men tried - to con- vince the German people of the nec- essity of defense and-to prepare the civilian' population in individuai air defense. This effort met with little success, the book says, "because of the division into too many political parties and because of Marxian pro- paganda, which made clear-cut and co-operative undertakings, so neces- sary in raid defense, impossible." The book .explains that progress was made immediately after Chan- cellor Adolf Hitler's inauguration, with: General Hermann Goering, the present Air Minister, as a leading spjrit. In the first year membership, it is declared, reached the 1,000,000 mark, taking the lead among large organizations in Germany. Says Lowly Turnip Won The Battle Professor Claims They Helped Britain Finance Napol- eonic Wars LONDON + Children, where the books says "The Battle of Waterloo a was won on the playing fields. of Eton," please change it to "turnip History, at long last, was put right on this point by Professor Eileen Power, at a meeting -of the. Historical Association; in a discus- sion on the need for teaching history, not only in light of political but of economic events, 7 One of the lighter arguments was as to which was more important. -- King Charles' head or the introduc- tion about the same time of the turnip from Holland. Professor Hearnshaw had = argued that the fall of King Charles' head was the most significant: vent of the 17th century. Professor Power supported the turnip. °° She instanced the defeat of poleon. y . Britain was able to fight 'the Na- poleonic wars, financially assist her allies, and conduct an industrial re- volution at the same time, because she was self-supporting, thanks to _ her agricultural = policy ~~ and the turnips. . : ; _ "Therefore," she. "argued, "the battle- of -Waterloo-was not-won-on the playing-fields of Eton, but in the turnip-fields." The majority of the meeting were agreed that history books needed to be rewritten, because the .pres- ent generation viewed the-events in an entirly different light, and asked questions never answered in the text books. GE ' : The turning of history into poli- tical propaganda and the perversion of history by, "historical" films are causing the association great anxiety. What chance has the poor teacher ° against the glamor of such super- productions, . Na-- HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS > ; Write your name- and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted, 'Enclose 15¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred); "wrap it carefully, and address storms take place a 1ally, or 44,000 daily, : rk oe your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronte, : ; y With a piece of chalk and a black- { board he has to try to present an Iron Duke who is not George Arliss and convince. his pupils that Charles Laughton was not really Henry VIIL | - So they are asking that steps should be taken "to assist teachers to estimate the historical accuracy of - such films," = | 7 3