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A AAT GE SRA RE 3 ER A pS SRT FEL Sy Gist & t R 3 oe = : = = ER or Bridging VOC CANADA, "TR TOE THE EMPIRE | | ======of the | THE WORLD : PRE S S AT LARGE nN CANADA People Forget -It is unfortunate that the work of mosquito control must be undertaken some weeks in advance of the normal arrival of 'these ubiquitous: pests. If the annual - anti-mosquito tag - day could be deferred until June there is Jittle doubt but that the fun would be over-subscribed in a very short time, People forget-past miseries very eas- fly. In April few of us are thinking about mosquitoes; but in June we all have cause to say with Prospero, "How sharp the point of-this remem- brance is!" (Note: Winnipeg is holding a tag day to raise funds for fighting mosqui- toes). -- Winnipeg Triljune, First It Must Grow The president of the Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Agsociation has been telling the Gyro-Club that timber is a harvest that must be cut. He might have told them also that timber is a crop that must be conserved and re- planted, or there will be no succes- gion of harvests. -- Vancouver Prov- ce. The Life of the Party Luncheon hostesses in London, Eng- land have found a way to ease the strain of lagging conversations. When a worried woman puts on a party, she pays someone to attend and lead the guests to excited discussions of this and that. Whenever the women seem té6 be petered out on one topic, the vivacious one starts them on some- $hing, else and keeps them going ai full steam ahead. Many a luncheon has been changed from boredom to enjoyment by the strategy of the paid guest, who ap- pears to be just one of those present. But, she is usually the last to leave, the hostess not wishing to hand out the fee in front of the others, They pay as much as $25 per lun- cheon for a good conversation pilot. ---Windsor Star, a National Income U.S. national income is estimated at $60,000,000,000 yearly. In 1929 it was ~§86,000.000,000 and dropped to $49,500,000,000 in 1933. Montreal Star, Victoria Cross The first Vietoria Cross to be won in 14 years was pwarded posthumous- ly a short time ago to Captain God- frey Mevnell, who won it in fighting on the northwest frontier of India last September. The incident calls atten- tion to the fact that some kind of fighting is going on most of the time on some frontier of the Empire, -- To- ronto Mail and Empire, What Interests a Queen Canada's first participation in the Utrecht Fair was marked by a visit from Queen Wilhelmina who, accom- panied by a considerablé retinue, had spent some little time in the Canad- ian section, where she showed a live- Jy interest in the goods Canada is now selling with considerable success in the Netherlands. Canada's Weekly, published in Lon- don, Eng, states 'that Her Majesty confessed that she had fallen into the common error of regarding Canada principally as an agricultural country and expressed her amazement at the excellence and variety of manufactur- ed goods on display. She was, how- ever familiar with Canadian rubber thigh boots, which are known to fi- shermen and sportsmen from one end of Holland to the other. Her particular interest was drawn to Canadian washing machines which have been comparatively recently in- troduced into Holland, and have met with good reception. -- Toronto Mail and Empire. Signatures However there are still a few tasks reserved for the pen. Signing one's name, for instance. And how many men are there who write a legible sig- nature? If by the scrawls and tlour- ishes which go many of us put at the end of our letters, our business and professional acumen were to be judg- ed, then who stands secure? Many of the great, wise and emin- ent allow fhemselves a very crypto- gram of a sign manual which suggests that they are ashamed of their own identity. Many lesser persons, on the other hand, -appear to think that by Ingcribing it in an equally mysterious manner an insignificant name aequires dignity and importance. -- Winnipeg Tribune. p Golf Grows in Britain "Only the very aged, the lame, . the Balt and tlie blind do not play games of some kind in Britain, where prob- ably more people take part in sport for sport's sake than in any other country. It fs surprising to learn, how qver, that the game which has more players than any other is lawn tennis, Golf has gradually pulled up until in second place, Over one million abe e Dioy gold. Thisly years age thé game was just beginning to invade England from the 'north, Now there are about 1,600 golf clubs in England, of which 200° are in London, but a great numberof players are unatfach- ed: == St. Thomas Times-Journal, Gaelic in Nova Scotia When Premier Ramsay MacDonald landed at Halifax on his health-holi- day last year he was met by the Pre- mier of the province who greeted Lim in a language the Scottish-born lead- er did not understand. It was Gaelic It is surprising to learn that Gaelic is taught in the schools of the prov- ince. Teaching was authorized 15 years ago and apparently is popular enough to continue. it js an optional subject, and a teacher who is capable of imparting the 'Gaelic" is entitled to a special grant from the provincial department. - Gaelic is more of a "dead" language than Latin or Greek, so far as utility is concerned, but it will please Scots to know that there is a Canadian pro- vince Interested in preserving the ancient speech of the race. -- St. Thomas Times--Journal. All Else is Unstable It's a sad reflection on mankind that the only thing that shows any sign of permanence in the world is taxa- tion. -- Toronto Saturday Night. Two Best Novels The Univelsity of Ohjo judges the two best novels to be Tolstoi's "War and Peace" and Thackeray's "Henry Esmond. The choice of "Henry Es. mond" will surprice tha many who thought Thackeray was. no longer read. It {8 a beautiful story of the 18th century, .and perhaps its happy end. ing in Virginia specially commends it to American readers. Its sequel is "The Virginians," which has an Am- erican setting, yet "The Virginians" never attained, even in the United States, in the days when everyone read Thackeray, . the popularity of "Henry Esmond," "Vanity Fair" and "Pendennis." -- London Advertiser. Expensive Kiss Beatrice Lillie has been-notified that Over the Ropes . The "Mormon Flash" Dean Detton is a wrestler you are go- ing to hear from in the very near future. "Dangerous Dean" as he was called in New Zealand and Aus- tralia, is the latest sensation fin _ the wrestling world. Dean began his mat career in 1927 as a welterweight, while at- tending the University of Utah. In 1929 he-won all his bouts in the heavyweight class and in 1931 wrestled his first profession- al match. Xo. Dean is 27 years old, weighs 215 pounds, stands 6 feet and has been in the "grunt and groan" game for 9 years. His favourite holds are the "toe-hold" and the '"'aeroplane-spin." <r Ed "Strangler" Lewis, five times world's champion, was de- _ feated recently by this clever bone-buster. ' Joe Detton, Dean's father, held the light weight title for the Pa- cifie Coast, Fp. . Dean has recently thrown Jim Browning, Sandor Szabo, Hans Steinke, Hank Basher, Fd "Strangler" Lewis and others. . To-day's.column is dedicated to "Pat" Cameron of Beaverton, Ontario, 3 ~~ 40 LN cards. So that beach loungers at Santa Monica, Cal., can watch lectures on bridge without erowd- ing around table, Frances Flinton, (at board) bridge authority, has invented magnetic board for as a result of her Toronto appearance she must pay Dominion income tax. Now she's wondering if a kiss from Mayor McBride is worth that much. ~--Peterboro Examiner. THE EMPIRE Britain's Food Supply Grow Food, Store Food! If war does come here the enemy airplanes will follow the line of the rivers, pointing like arrowheads to the heart of the great seaports. The bombers will also smash the docks, blow down the brid- ges, and cripple our overseas food supply. It war comes elsewhere, the cost of that huge dislocation of trade in the markets of the world will drive up prices in this cotntry to near fa- mine level. And if this fear passes, as all good men and women pray and la- bour that it will, then if our land is fertile and our barns are .filled we can, give of our abundance, in humble Ptianksgiving to those that sorely need it. Grow Food! Store Food! -- London Daily Express. ' - Vancouver's Jubilee Today the world traveller can have no more memorable experience than the journey which takes him, perhaps in the still snowbound spring, across lifts him thousands of feet through the the climate of the south coast of Eng- land, with a background of mouiitain scenery that has no equal in Europe. At present, even in a time of world depression, some 15,000 ships with a total tonnage of over ten millions use the port of Vancouver each year. The construction of the Panama Canal gave it an added value, for it is found cheaper to Ifaul the grain of the wes- tern provinces over the Rockies and ship it to Europe by the canal from an ice-free port than to train it east- wards. There are few places of which progress can be more confidently pre- dicted in a normal world than this fifty-year-old port with the North Am- erican continent at its back and its face turned to China, Japan, and Aus- tralia, -- Manchester Guardian. Motion Pictuhes Aid in Education TORONTO, -- Motion pictures were a vital force in elementary and adult education and in moulding citizenship, Mrs. Mary B. Lowthian, only woman member of the Niagara Falls Board. of Education, asserted in an address to the urban Trustees' section of the Ontario Educational Association. = "Publicly denouncing' objection- able pictures usually packs the the= atre with irresponsible. people," she declared. The Dominion 'shouta nave & non-dramatic educhtional film bureau supported, or aided by a government grant, Mrs. Lowthian state. i "We all agree,' I am "sure," she said, "that it is vastly more import- ant for a child to know the pro- cesses by which he receives a letter By. which the salmon he likes to eat is caught, prepared and deliv- ered to his grocer, or by.which the book he reads is made ready for use than it is to know how many people were killed at the Battle of Hastings, the names and auws of the victories wen by the Black Prince or the number of ships in the Spanish Armada," : The fat man and his wife were returning to their seats in, the theatro after the interval. "Did I tread on your toes as I went cut?" he asked a man at the end of a row. : "You did," replied the other grim- ly, expecting at least an apology. The fat man turned to his wife. "All right, Mary," he saic, "this is our Yow." ! v the white expanse of the prairies, and" Kicking Horse Pass, and drops him |- gently into a bustling-city that enjoys Lord Tweedmulr's Son rr a Hon. John Buchan, eldest son of His Excellency, Lord Tweeds- muir, has arrived at Ottawa for his first visit to Canada. He had been: in Government service in Africa. : ) So They Say! "You cannot get peace by run- ning -away from war any. more than you can get it simply by join- ing peace societies or carrying peace banners." --Lady Astor. "All -book publishers worthy of the name are somewhat literary themselves, and- hence more or less insane.' --Bruce Barton. "New industries and wider use- fulness of established industries are beckoning." ' /--David Sarnoff, "If this civilization -of ours is going to endure 'we've just got to start learning to mind our own business or the day may come when there won't be any business to mind." --Irvin S. Cobb. "Most of our troubles today are the result 'of defective distriution ~--I mean distribution of ideas and people as well as goods." F , --John Erskine. "We are apt to look too far away for the accomplishment of re- forms. Improvement is generally a personal and local matter." --Charles E. Hughes. "I think and. think, for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false, the hundredth time I am right." --Albert Einstein. "We would not dream of treat- ing a strain of race horses the way we do ourselves," --Herbert Hoover. "The trouble with modern civiliza- tion is that we dre cafeteria- conscious." x ~Hendrik 'Willem Van Leon. "A sense of higmor is in unerring |tall and prepossessing, travels {ern Ontario and Quebec, into New- Unusual Job Thils Leonore Chapman She Travels Into Far North Selling Lubricating Grease - and Oil : OTTAWA--More than 7560 mining engineers and metallurgists and their wives attended the recent annual con= vention in~ Ottawa, but only one wo- man came on business--grease and lubrication, \ Miss Leonore Chapman, young, into the north by dog team, by" plane and even tractor to help mining en- gineers solve thé problems of keep- ing engines running smoothly in unusual temperatures above and be- low ground. She has travelled through North- foundland iron mines, across coun- try to the pulp and paper mills, vis- ited plants at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and has been up to Moosonee at the James Bay terminus of the Teni- iskaming and - Northern Railway. watched a rapid change in frontier towns and remarks: "There are no hardships left and when you 'come to where you found the jumping-oft place last time, you notice that the edge of civilization has extended until once again it lies just the other side of the horizon. * "Some people might find such life dull, there are none of the usual diversions, but I am thrilled to be in contact with men who bring dreams into- reality. G. K. Chesterton wrote some time ago that he always found interest. in." out-of-the-way places and that ditchwater placed under a microscope could .prove very enter- taining, I have found the same thing. Grease and oil may not ap- ate me, they can accomplish such wonders and are such-an interesting study. "Then, too, the north is now a hive of industry and one of the few places where there is little time for discouragement or defeat." On her rounds of mining machin- high boots, a windbreaker and beret, sitk underwear and silk stockings. "It may be just vanity, but I really believe they keep me warmer." When she is in a town, no matter how small, she is just another at- tractive girl. : "Up in the north we take planes as you might take taxis, they have few accidents as the pilots are scru- pulously careful of 'their machines. We have our' fiansportation prob- lems, our food problems and that is about all. There is lots of work and lots of fun if you look at it that way." > : i : : [Hurons Record (The Sault Ste. Marie Star) Talking about Huron County, it has produced a quintea of political leaders in relent year: Hon. James Garfield Gardiner, born at Exeter, November 80, 1808. Hon, Thomas Alexander Crerar, Minister of Interior, Mines, Immi- gration, ete, horn at Molesworth, in Huron County, six years earlier. Hon. Robert Weir, former Minis- ter of Agriculture born at Wingham, December bth, 1892. (Huron County has thus produc- ed three of the four most recent federal Ministers of Agriculture.) Hon. William Aberhart, premier of Alberta, born at Seaforth, Dec- ember 30th, 1878, : : Robert John Deachman, Liberal economist and tariff expert, born in faense of | roportien," -- Emily Pest. | Need Pointers | Marriage." Ontario | In the last five years she has}. that some called dull as ditchwater | peal to everybody, but they fascin-J.- ery, Miss Chapman wears breeches, } Y.W.CA. Gives Course In Subject Dealing With" ~ Matrimony + TORONTO=-The * enthusiastic : at- tendance of the senior members of the Young Women's Christian As- sociatien at the six-week course of discussion groups on 'Ideal Mar- riage," has confirmed the opinion of leaders 'who felt that there was need for instruction on this subject among older girls, ©. : Mrs, Dongld McCullagh, B.A, a recent . graduate from the depart- ment of social science at the Uni- versity of Toronto, led the group and was able, to elear up many superstitious ideas and prejudices by giving scientific sex information, Many of the girls expressed the wish that everyone might have the opportunity of attending such groups, The discussions centred around such subjects as "Choosing a Husband," and "The Purpose of Other efforts of special interest in the education department of the Y.W.C.A. which have helped to- ward development of personality, charm' and good speech are the classes conducted by Mrs. Dora Ma- vor Moore in "The Art of Conver- sation," and "Social Demeanor." The girls in these classes know that to be a conversationalist one must learn proper breathing, cor- rect -posture and mouth expression, discrimination in the "selection of reading matter, the constant need to refér to the dictionary and to familiarize themselves each day with new words. : ~ To "acquire good speech the girls were taught to 'turn their attention to the best in radio broadcasts, to listen whenever ~ possible to good speakers and ta' avoid certain top- ies" of 'conversation when talking with strangers and the necessity of finding common interests such as the weather, 'current events or the theatre as the starting-off point. If the proposed "fixed" calendar is: adopted by the world, Good Fri- day would fall on April 7, Easter Sunday on April 9 and Whit Sunday on May 28 of every year. : Modified Shirtwaist 1822-B For those-of-you who havé been waiting for something a little different in shirtwaist styling, something with softer lines and a more pleasing contour, this charmingly simple. all-occasion day- time frock will ring the bell -- and that's no gong. Featuring an extended) yoke across-the shoul- ders to form a novel and engag- ing. effect, there are just a few simple pieces to the pattern. The. waist is gathered to the yoke, the rounded collar ends in a graceful bow, and the pockéts are tabbed to match the cuffs. You'll set the style pace by using sports silk, novelty weaves, acetate, and printed cottons. _.. This Barbara Bell Pattern, No. 1 1822-B, is available in sizes 82, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44, Size 34 requirés 414 yards of 35-inch fab- Tie plus 3 yard, cut crosswise, for t - HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address of pattern wanted. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred); wrap it cavefully and s your 'order to Patbara Bell, Room 230, 73 Adelaide resporndence Honan Writer Very Fond of 'lizabel Pride of Wilhelmina Stitch in Grandchild Makes Inti- mate Touch TORONTO-In 'her busy life Wil- helmina Stitch, Mrs, Ruth (Cohen) Collie, of London, Eng., did not have much time to keep up Canadian ecor- before her untimely death ended her career as poet and lecturer and preacher, But a friend of hers in this city received just be- fore Christmas a letter containing the news she had a grandchild, Eliza- beth. She put it into one of her famous "Stitches" in The Daily Herald and called it "Rival Gran- nies". She tells of how she wrote to a friend--""the purple ink was my proud breath --to tell her of {he wee baby in Singapore and her joy in being the "Grannie of this sweet". And the friend writes back at once to say that she, too, is in. the proud state of Grannie-dom because she had acquired a small baby "Paul". "Your news, you thought, would make a stir. But I'm a Grannie too, you see!" -- "Ah yes," 1 smiled, "there's Paul for her -- but there's" Elizabeth for me!" k Mrs. Collie, who lived in Hove, Sussex, was ill from April to Oc- tober last year with a heart afflic- ation. Her northern trip, lecturing, was cancelled -- "the first time," she wrote, "I have not been--lecturing night after night for seven years. But I did give three sermons yes- terday (December) in three different churches in Leicester. "Last summer, lying on my back, with a nurse in attendance, I wrote a book called 'Women of the Bible', published by Methuen's. I had such nice letters about it from ministers and laymen. : "My life is mostly work, writing verse or lecturing. I have never had much rest since I left my dear home in Mortimer Place, in St. John's (Winnipeg)." Yet she was very happy in knowing she had given comfort and hope to thousands by her "fragrant minutes." : " The hWyse she refers to she watch: ed in the building, and she designed all the decoration, the result being indeed a charming and restful house. ~ Mrs. -Ciie devoted much of her life to the upbringing and: education of her son -Ralph. He won a search scholarship and is row liv- ing in Singapore. Her mether lives in Milwaukee. Mrs. Collie had a real poetic tal- .ent, and hér poems are in some Can- adian anthologies. She translated many of the stanzas of the Hebrew poet "Yahuda Halevi". iy Women of Rome Sought to Control ' City Government Professor in Lecture Saskatoon Says "There's Nothing New" © SASKATOON = Modern social trends had their counterpart in early history, said Prof. W. G. Sulivan, of the University of Sask.tchewan, in an address here. In the fifth century B.C, he said, the Greeks_ developed a socialistic scheme very similar to the present movenient. ~ In one play the Athenians started a' suffragette movement which caus- 'ed women to seek control of the city's government, : Even the Romans had*their relief problems, he stated. Julius Caesar aroused resentment by cutting the number of relief recipients from 325,000 to 150,000. A" great fire in 390 B.C. destroyed the "éity which then had a population of 1,000,000. "But a night club would not have been a success in Rome," the speaker said. "Human nature was much the same as today, but clima- tic conditions and poor artificial lighting caused the "early to bed and early to rise" maxim to be strictly observed. SE Medicine and surgery reached -an advanced stage in Rome during this' period. Free clinics and dispensa- ries were available and many amaz- ing operations were performed. Beauty parlors for women were establishe¢ throughout the city. Chariot racing was a favorite form of amisement, and. some pro- -| fessiorial charioteers received huge salaries. In some years 135 days were public hclidays, Slaves did all the work. : The little fellow's mother was entertaining friends to tea. On. his return from a walk, the boy came into the drawing room to say "How- d'you-do." He stopped in front of one" of the women and said politely, "Would you mind drinking for me?" "Yes, "dear, I will," she replied. "But why do you like me to?" "I want to see how you do it," said the youngster, "because my daddy says you drink lite a fish." "Italian Fascism is less concerned with the happiness of living icalians than with the gallant effort vo make ancient Romans of them ain' - Howick Township, December 15th, 1878. ra . W., Toronto. ~Dorothy Thompson. - re-- Ye v Cn a a,