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VOICE THE WORLD "AT LARGE of the CANADA THE EMPIRE "CANADA Better Manners Needed on The Highways The Ontario Department of High- ways, trom knowledge born of its elaborate records, declares that any reduction in the number of "motor- vehicles-pedestrian accidents" rests upon observance of the rules of ordin- ary courtesy." The Department could have made its conclusion more gen- eral. A very large proportion of traffic accidents of all sorts might be avoided by observance of the Ytules of ordinary courtesy. Plain boorish- ness explains vast number of acei- dents. Far too many motorists leave their good manners behind them when they climb under the wheel of a- motor vehicle. They are quite re- gardless not only of pedestrians but of other cars. They ignore rules of the right of way, leave the curb with- out signal, make turns without any warning to following traffic, show to their fellow drivers a rudeness, a lack of that ordinary courtesy, which rep- presents almost a psychological con- dition. Common politeness does not permit of races with trains to level crossings, of cutting perilously ahead of other cars in traffic, of crowding lights and signs, of speeding oh town streets. to the highways our drawing-room manners we should have many lives, and much suffering.--Brampton Con- servator. Story With A Moral Here's a little golfing "story about the Open championship at Baltusrol. Playing the 390-yard fourth hole to- gether, both Denny Shute and Willie Klein were on in two, missed putts for birdie three, took fours. Then each tried his putt over again and sank it. Moral: The time to do any job right is when it counts in the score.--Wind- sor Star. Brief Comment Toronto papers- note that there wasn't a single fatality in the city during the day. Those who drove By KEN EDWARDS Olympic Games The first Olympic games were held at Olympia, Athens, Greece, 776 B.C. Romans did not enter the. games until after- their con- quest of Greece. Tiberius, several years before he became emperor, was the first celebrated Roman to win a victory --a chariot race. Lacrosse Lacrosse originated with the 'American Indians, the game be- ing played purely for amusement and its exercise value. The Indians had as many as a thousand players on each side, each carrying two sticks. The uni- form consisted of a loifi*@oth and dyed horse's tail. Squaws took part by switching .their husbands on with sticks, urg- ing them on to victory. Auto Racing The first auto race in America was on Thanksgiving Day, 18956. The entrants were called moto- cycles, not automobiles. The win- ner, J. F. Duryea, travelled 53% miles in 10 hours, 23 minutes. Henry Ford was very much in- terested in that first American race; he wanted to be present ft eould not borrow the car fare I The world's record of 143 miles per hour was held by Bob Bur- mon for years. - That veteraft speeder of the road. Ralph De Palma, won more than 200 races. Swimming When Julius Caesar was over ~ B0 years old he was shipwrecked. Jumpine overboard. he held his sword hetween his teeth, valuable documents in his left hand; using 'his rieht hand he swam to shore. America sent the first women's swimming team to the Olympics in 1920. oe When she was onlv 16 years o'd Helene Madison of Scattle set six new world records. OUESTION BOX If you have any question re. garding sport personalities or any particular angle to a game, write to Ken Edwards, Room 421, 73 Adelaide West, Toron. to. If a personal veply is desir. ed, enclose a stamped (3c) self. addressed envelopa, If, in a word, we would take {be safely disregarded. over the highways on Sunday and Monday know the reason -- there wasn't a car left in the city,.--Fergus News-Record. That Witching Hour English courts have raled that the expression 12 p.m. is meaningless. A motorist was charged with disobey- ing a sign erected by local authori- ties. This forbade parking in a cer- tain spot "between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m." The defence argued that 12 p.m. is no time at all, means noth- ing and is nowhere mentioned in an act of parliament; that being so, the Jocal authorities had committed an offence-in putting up the notice. The accused was discharged. There cannot be many people who use the term 12 p.m. and still fewer who use 12 a.m.; 12 midnight and 12 noon, or 'simply midnight and noon are generally and correctly employed. To use 12 a.m. for 12 noon is obvi- ously incorrect; it being the exact meridian the time cannot be either before or after the meridian. With respect to 12 midnight it is not. sp clear; that 12 o'clock is the same distance between one meridian and the next. In that sense one person might call midnight 12 a.m. and an- other call it 12 p.m. with equal justi- fication, but with a good chance of confusion. Truly it is the witching hour. Except that we are all so used to our twelve-hour division of time, it makes one long for the days when midnight was called 00.00 hours. and 12.25 a.m. was 00.25 hours, and when one dined--on bully beef again--at 19.30 hours or thereabouts. At any rate, there was then no argument about am. and p.m.--St. John Tele- graph-Journal. : The Chance Came Elon A. Stowater is a Kentucky man, 74 years of age. Recently.the apartment in which he lived caught fire and_he slid down a rope from the fourth floor. As he was walking away a reporter stopped him and ask where he found the rope. "I didn't find ii," replied Stowater. "I had it. I've kept a rope under my 'bed for 30 years hecause I have always been afraid of being trapped in a fire."-- St. Thomas Times-Journal. - They Are Everywhere "There are too many people walk- ing around," notes The Ottawa Journal, "who are not content with wasting their own time." So the Ottawa Editor suffers, too! -- St. Catherines Standard. Last Survivor The -last survivor of "the gallant six hundred" who charged at Bala- klava in 1854 died nine years ago, according to the London Times. It is usually very sure of the correctness of its statements. So claims from time to time that some who were in the light brigade are still living may The Times also gives the information that the last survivor of Trafalgar died in 1884, and of Waterloo in 1894.--Ed- monton Journal. Only Five Above Us This is something for our pride as Canadians: that in total international trade this Dominion last year held sixth place in all the world. The value of our trade, it is computed by the Bureau of Statistics, was exceeded by but five nations--the United King- dom, United States, Germany, France and Japan. The trade of these eleven million Canadians was greater "than the trade of Belgium, the Nether lands, British India, Italy, and all other:countries. In exports we were fifth, being ex- ceeded only by the United States, the United - Kingdom, Germany and I'rance. . We were ninth in imports, the first eight being United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Ja- pan, the Netherlands, Italy "and Belgium. - Back in 1920 Canada stood fourth place for total trade. For the follow- ing decade we were fifth or sixth. With the depression we slumped to seventh in '31 and '82, to ninth in '33. Then the improvement commenced-- we were eight in '34 and, as we have said, sixth in '35, -- Otfawa Farm Journal. Things Are Better The financial pages of the news- paper these days contain a rising number of notices of dividends to be paid by companies; Summaries of dividend payments show substantial tctal increases by representative com- panies. If one turns back the files to pages of two and three years ago the contrast is distinctly marked. Betterment has gone along quietly. and steadily from almost impercept- ible beginnings and is gaining evident sions and National Health; Dr. fare, British Columbia; Dr. Deputy Minister of Health, Here are delegates at the Ottawa conference of Power, Federal Minister of Pension Manitoba; Hon. Mark R. McGuigan, New Brunswick; Hon. C. G. Power, Hon. J. M. Uhrich, Sask. Second Row (le B. ment -of Health, P.E.I.; Dr. P. B. Campbell, Deputy Minister of Health, Manitoba; Lr. John Phair, Director 'Heagerty, Chief executive assistant, Federal Department of Health. . . ¥ and National P.E.l.; Hon. Dr, F, R. Davis, to right) Dr. R, E. W. W.-Warwick, T. McGhie, Deputy Chief Health Officer, of Health, Ontario; rovincial health authorities called by Hon Lo G. ealth., Front (left to right) Hon, I. B. Griffiths, Nova Scotia; Hon, W. F. Roberts, Federal Minister of Health; Hon. James A. Faulkner, Ont.; Wodehouse, Deputy Minister, Pen- Deputy Minister of Health, N.B.; Provincial Officer of Health, British Columbia; Dr. J. A. Leduc Provincial Board of 'Health, Que- bec; Dr. M. R. Bow, Deputy Minister of Health, Alberta; Dr, H, M r. H, k. Young, . Cassidy, Director of Social Wel- Minister of Health, Ontario; Dr. R. O. Davison, Saskatchewan. Third Row (left to right r. P. A. Creelman, Depart- va Scotia; Dr. F. W. Jackson, Dr. John cumulative strength.--Kingston Whig- Standard. Sound Path The League of Nations' civil service should be kept intact, even though, beyond this practical service, the limi- tations are obvious. Canada does well to continue along the sound path of international conciliation as it has been demonstrated for many years between this country and the United States by the International Joint Commission.--Ottawa Citizen, - THE EMPIRE Officially Unknown "Haile Selassie, exiled Emperor of Abyssinia, comes to London. Mr. Baldwin keeps his lips: sealed, and the British Government look the other way and pretend not to notice any- thing. But the cockney crowd roll up, and how they cheer! In Rome- the people hail Marshall Badoglio, victor of Abyssinia. Mussolini can hardly pretend that he does not know about soldier Badoglio, who cleaned up his war for him after Blackshirt de Bono had got it well stuck in the mud. But Mussolini orders "No flags for Ba- doglio!" Whether you win or lose Abyssinia; it seems to be officially unpopular.--London Daily Express. A Fitting Memorial The King was a lover of youth, "youth out of doors above all. His faith in the future of the Empire was founded on his belief in the rising generation,, whom he addressed; it will be remembered, in trusting terms in the last of his broadcast messages. It would not be-rash to say thet King George himself would have given swift approval to the nation-wide network of playing-fields, where in time to come British youth will find remembrance of his fame. It would be difficult to imagine any form of memorial which, recalling the past with thankfulness, borrowed so much from the future as well. Those who pass through "King George's Gates" will at once pay tribute to a great and good man and find 'a charter for their own health and happiness.-- Glasgow Herald. Really an Englishman ! . We have read the whole of Plandit Jawaharlial Nehru's presidential ad- dress to the Indian National, Con- gress, and the overwhelming impres- sion left upon us is that this is. not an Indian speaking. In no sense whatever are these the words of an Indian. That the Plandit is an Indian by birth is of course unquestioned. That he.is a British product is equally certain. He might have been one of several kinds of Englishmen, a polo- playing "sportsman, a country gentle- man interested in agricultural de- velopment, a Conservative, an educa- tionist, a philosophic Radical Fate has made him a modern Englishman of the Left; a "revolutionary" Social- ist, a theoretical Communist. But the English Tory, the English Radi- cal, and the English Socialist, all have something in common, which they de- rive from an English environment and which they cannot rid them- selves of. This, too, isthe possession of the present President of the Indian National Congress.--Calcutta States- man, ' : British Spinsters Demand Pensions LONDON---Five thousand spinsters from every part of the country will journey to London for a monster dem- onstration in Hyde Park demanding pensions, Specifically, they seek pen- sions for spinsters at the age of bb under the National Insurance scheme, Spinsters' Associations were start- ed last year by Florence White, well known Bradford business woman. Their membership now totals 35,000. Pithy Anecdotes | _pugilist to write her a few autographs 0f the Famous| There was a time when~ William Butler Yeats, like most poets was pretty hard up. But that was Scarbor- ough (in "England Muddles Through). Then he gave some classic definitions such as "A. gentleman is a man who never bilks his tailor," "A man who dresses for dinner," and "One who prefers caviar to kippers." But the one that tickled my fancy most, because of its Cockney humor, was this: ' '" K's a gentleman; 'e don't blow on 'is tea, 'e fans it with 'ls 'at." These lines appear on the last page of John Masefield"s new book_ of poems, "A Letter from Pontus and Other Verse:"" A Print not my life nor letters; put them by; > When I am dead let memory of me die." Blest be those who in their mercy head This heartfelt prayer of mine to Ad- cm's Seed: 2 Blessed be they, but may a curse pur- -- Bue. : * All who reject this living prayer, and do. - Which recalls Dean Inge's witty parody from Longfellow: J "Lives" o fgreat men oft' remind us As we o'er their pages turn, That we, too, may leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn, The passing of Mary Johnston -- author of that fine novel, "To Have and To Hold" -- recalls a story she used to tell about the days when she was working for woman suffrage. She was -to speak in a little town in Vir- ginia where her grandfather had been born. Invariably, in other places, she had been-introduced as "Mary John- ston, the novelist," and had become as reconciled as possible. This night she was all prepared for the ordeal when the chairman rose and said, quite simply: "Folks," John Alexander's grand) daughter is going to say a few words to us." In the folding shadow of absolute anonymity she gratefully made the best suffrage speech of her career. Recalling the first time she lunch- ed at the home in London, of Alice (Mrs, Wilfred) Meynell; the poet and essayist, Edith Wharton says (in "A Backward Glance") that she was also "struck by the solemnity with which this tall thin, sweet-voiced woman, with melancholy eyes and rather ca- 'afalque-like garb, was treated by her. husband and children. Mr. Meynell, small and brisk, bustled in ahead of her, as though preceding a sovereign; and all through-the - luncheon, Mrs. Meynell"s utterances, murmured with goft deliberation, were received in an attentive silence punctuated by: 'My wife was saying the other day,' 'My wife always thinks' -- as though each syllable from those lips was final. Fish-Balls -- strangest of all the fish stories told by Vic Hurley (in "Men in Sun Helmets") is one about a fish "little Filipino boys use for a tennis ball." "They bounce the fish against the "walls of the bulldings in the equiva- lent of a game of handball," he de clares. "The first time I saw such a thing, I' did not believe it to be true. I saw a Filipino boy, fishing, from the gea-wall, capture a small fish. He laid the fish on thé hot cement and in a moment it swelled as round and symmetrical as a ball. The little boy went gayly down the street, bounc- ing the ball that the sea had provided him." Now it's your turn! 'R. F. Dibble -- in his biography ot John L. Sullivan -- records that once a dainty little miss asked the famous so that she could sell them at a fair held by the church,. } "Oh what're you giving me?" said John L. in a graciously traglc-way: 'I ain't no good at writing, but I'll have my manager write as many of my -- what d'you call 'em, as you want." The damsel told him that this would hardly _do.> So pens, ink and paper were ordered, and after many labor. jous efforts, in which he spoiled more than a dozen pens and ruined a quan- tity of stationery, Sullivan - finally succeeded in scratching down about 20 badly blotched but fairly legible signatures. "I always like to do what I. can for religion," he assured her as, grasp- ing her hand and most of her fore- arm, between his ink-stained fingers, he bade her a courteous good-by. One of Pett Ridge's favorite stories concerned a young couple with one child, who decided to move from a house to an-apartment, The husband, as a labor-saving device, went off for golf while the work was being 'done.- At the first dinner given in 'the new apartment He spoke to the guests with complacency of the ease with which the transfer had been effected. "No. anxiety," he declared, "and 'absolutely no worry of any descript- J ol ion. Isn't that true, my dear?" "Quite true," she agreed. "No more than there was when our' little Gladys arrived!" N Statistics Show In 1935 automobile accidents ac- counted for 1,224 deaths in Canada, an increase .of 109 over. 1934, Let those who think the Safety cam- paigns are being overworked ponder 'this Bureau of Statistics. statement. The vital statistics of 1935 are in many ways encouraging. But des- pite 'widespread education and the progress of Medicine and Science it} is clear we have not made such start- ling progress in our defence against the ravages of disease and the toll of negligence. The following statistics are for the whole of 1935, with those of 1934 in brackets: Live births 221,036 (221,303); birth rate 20.2 (20.6); illegitimate births 8,318 (8,070; per cent. of total live births 3.8 (3.6); deaths 105,451 (101,- 582); death rate 9.6 (9.4); marriages 76,869 (73,092); marriage rate 7.0 (6.8); maternal deaths 1,093 (1,167); rate per 1,000 live births 4.9 (6.3). The deaths from dertain causes: Typhoid and- paratyphoid fever 272 (293 ; smallpox 6 (3); measles 489 (188); scarlet fever 242 (226); diph- theria 262 (232); influenza 3,387 (2,004); infantile_paralysis 63 (84); tuberculcsis 6,684 (67431); cancer 11,-] 140 (10,681); suicide 902 (927); homi- cide 153 (142); automobile accidents 1,224 (1,115); other violence 4,606 (4/285). Sotto Voce Writes the New Yorker--There was a full-blown, formal, rehearsed-to-the- last-lily-of-the-valley church wedding last week, at which one of the ushers took to cutting up. As he escorted the guests down the aisle he followed convention, asking the guests whether they were friends of the bride or the groom and seating them accord- ingly. He varied from ritual only slightly, | in fact. To the bride's friends, as he bowed them to their seats, he whis- pered, "Isn't it awful about the groom 2" and to the Yrroom's friends. "Ian't it terrible about the bride?" There was the devil to pay. color and fragrance of a day' gone by. --Alexander Woolcott, While Rome does is to show them up. suspect people. It's' better to be de~ human, after all, than te be suspidi- +} ous, which-is- common," "Second" class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, be- ing Americans, are equal and it would satisfied, ing can change it: the higher the pay "in enjoyment the worker gets out of Opinions [Use of Toold ~~ Nod Arest ~~ Scarlet Fever ~~ . . VANCOUVER -- Considerable pro- - gress would be made in arresting scarlet fever in Canada and the United States if toxoid were used. on pre-school and school children, Dr. J. G. Fitzgerald, head of: the Connaught laboratories of the University of To- ronto, told delegates to the state and provincial health authorities of North Nothing can so poignantly evoke the flavor of the receding past as some remembeged tune,.some melody that has caught up and woven into its own unconscious fabric the very Burns, 4 It is not marriage that fails; it is people -that fail. All that marriage Fosdick. "Never --Henry Emerson My father used to say: ceived or mistaken, which is only --Stark Young, Feliclana.| p. Fitzgerald traced .the history of -the disease through the present century, and stressed.the difficulties that sometimes face the medical pro- fession. Fight Disease Same Way "We do our utmost to conform to the standards of Canada and the United States in the fighting of the disease, but they sometimes-do not conform with one another," he said. The convention sent a message to His Majesty King Endward VIII, thanking him for his support in the work that is being done by. the vari- ous health bodies of both countries. At the Canadian Tuberculosis Association convention, also being . held here. Dr. R. C. Matson, chest ~~ surgeon from Portland, Ore. ex- plained latest developments in' sur- gical technique used in treatment of advanced tuberéular cases. : "Daily contact with patients and _ specialized surgical experience makes sanitorium surgeons better qualified to - perform chest operations than greater surgeons not resident at the hospital, Dr. E. L. Ross, of Ninnette, Mzn,, said. ; - Operate on Tubercular "Operations are now performed on tubercular patients to prevent serious conditions arising in the fu- ture," he said. "Formerly they were performed only to overcome an exist- ing situation." Dr, P. W. Hardy, of the Hamilton Sanatorium _ in Ontario, spoke on vocational training routines for tuber- In the United States, "First" and be "un-American." But paint "Pull- man" on a car, and everybody is The law of work does seem utter- ly unfair--but there it is, and noth- it, the higher shall be his pay in money also. --Mark Twain, Con- necticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, bg Sol What is all wisdom save a collect- jon of platitudes? Take 50 of our current proverbial sayings--they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. Nonetheless, they. embody the con- centrated experierice of the race, and the. man who orders) his life accord- ing to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! But has anyone ever done-so? Never»Has any man ever attained inner _ har- mony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world be- gan. He must pass through the fire. --Norman Douglas, South Wind. Whoever - produces anything by weary labor, does not need' a revla- tion from heaven to teach him that he has a right to the thing produced. --Ingersoll. cular patient. prior to their discharge from institutions. i North America's leading physicians and surgeons discussed in two British Columbia cities the methods of ex- tending and improving the science to which their lives are devoted. ir "In Vancouver, the annual conven- tion of the Canadian Tuberculosis Association was held. Here, too, met delegates to the annual convention of [North American state and provincial health authorities. ; Balsam Woolly Aphidin Canada From the Dominion Parasite Lab- oratory at Belleville, Ont. the new buildings of. which * were officially opened on 24th June, predatory in- sects have been dispatched to the Maritime Provinces to prey on the Balsam woolly aphid which is Caus- ing damage' to the balsam fire trees. The balsam fir is one of the most important supplies of pulp. It is more than 40 years ago since the Balsam woolly aphid was introduced into North America, and ten years ago it '| became destructive to. fir trees in Can- ada, throughout Nova Scotia; as well as in southern New Brunswick. The pest seems to be working westward. In addition -to the parasites as a means_of control, oil sprays, applied in the early spring before develop- ment commences, have been shown to be effective. and.will be particularly useful after a severe winter has re- duced the infestation to the bases of the trees which are covered with snow, According to R. E. Balch of the Dominion Entomological Labor- atory at Frederjcton, New Bruns- wick, there are two types of injury likely to attract attention. One is the heavy attack on the stem, which more or..less results in covering the bark with a white wool-like secretion from the insect. Trees thus affected dié and turn a bright Tusty-red 'Which can be seen clearly in the distance. At first the trees affected are in small groups; later, these groups enlarge and may involve most of the stand. _ The other type of injury results from the feedifig of the insects on the twigs. This causes thé buds and nodes to 'swell and the branches to have a gnarled appearance.- Often the crowns of the trees are most noticeably affected and many trees have dead tops, or flat tops, and tap- er rapidly to the stems, Only the true fir trees are attacked. What is known' as "gout" of the trees is the result of the injury caused during the- feeding of the insects. Some sub- stance injected into the bark causes abnormal growth. Infested buds often fail to grow and become surrounded by knob:like: swellings: The new shoots are short, twisted, and droop- ing, and the twigs usually are swol- len and distorted, particularly' at | the nodes. This "gout" causes the Tailored Model Here's a useful dress for sum- mer in town or in the country. The buttoned shoulder accents the flattering neckline. 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