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_ i ae "in Chicago, is estimated at $360,000. districts should be made compulsory. ~The saving is marked even if itis an VOICE nu 1. THE EMPIRE of the THE WORLD | P R E S S AT LARGE IN : 'CANADA Start Exporting Those Millions : First we have thé drought and we are told it is goirg to cost the coun- try millions of dollars, Then we have a shower and it 1s described as worta a million dollars --a shower {8 never worth two mil lions nor even half a million, it is al- ways an even million. Then 'we have a rain, and ft 18 worth a million, too, 3 Then there is another dry spell that is to cost millions, which are partially wiped out by another mil lion-dollar rain, What we want to know 1s: What becomes of all these millions, and who. keeps tabs on them ?--Windsor Star. "Easy Go" The estate of the late Arthur W. Cutten, former Guelph boy, who died Considering the fact that at one time, when the late Mr, Cutten was a suc- cessful operator in the stoc kmarket. hoe was reputed to be worth & hun- dred million, the old adage "Come easy--go easy," seems still to express a great truth.--Chatham News. "A Strange Case A strange quirk in the law of Can- ada is revealed in a speeding case dismissed by an Ottawa magistrate, A soldier of the Permanent Force was arrested for driving a truck at an ex- cessive speed. Whe nbrought before the court, the magistrate found that the soldier had been driving too fast and in a manner dangerous to the public, Yet, because the driver was & soldier and because the vehicle was & government truck, the magistrate Jound that he had no jurisdiction. The case was disinissed, That may be sound law, but it is not sound common sense, Supposing a soldier in a government truck killed some- one, it would be of little consoiation to go to the bereaved and tell them it was all right, the victim was killed |- by an army man in an army car. The mourners would get no consblation from that. - Just because a man is in--the Per- manent Force, he should not enjoy unbridled license to Bo careening over the highways to the peril of ev- eryone_ clge.-- Windsor Star. Insulation of Houses The Sault Star argues that use of {nsulation in al lhouses fn northern That might be going a bit too far. But anyone who can possibly. carry the extra initial expense would be foolish not to have a new home insulated, for the saving in fuel would pay for it within a comparatively few years. old house 'that is insulated, --Ed- mgnton Journal: : McGill's Comeback Heartening news comes from Me. Gill University. For the first time in over a decade. during the past financial year McGill met its budget without dipping into capital funds, The annual deficit was cut from $303,000 to $181,000, and this remaining deficit was met by the gov- ernors out of their own private funds. That shows both generosity by the governors and real co-operation be- tween the university staff and the board. For note that the deficit was cut by $122,000, involving- the strict- est economies, in which the staff loy- The Canadian Walt Company, Ltd., of Montreal, one of Canada's oldest exporters of ladies' dresses of all kinds, has introduced a new idea in- to the packing of goods for .export trade. Their new shipping container embodies In a packing case the prin- ciples of the wardrobe trunk, the ar- ticles being hung inside instead of packed, as ia usual, thus eliminating creasing and damage, and landing the goods ready for the show room or window,--Canada's Weekly. Too Much Speech-Making | Telling of the visit of the motor party of English tourists to Ganon- oque and the Thousand Islands, our Ganonoque correspondent writes that some of the guests "stated that they thought future parties from England could re-arrange their visit so that there would be less speech-making and more time to view the scenery of this beautiful country," -- Kingston Whig-Standard. -- Our Language We do not bother to hold conver- sations any longer, but we do make certain animal sounds in our throats which we can interpret and which can communicate simple ideas, while we reserve our better notions for pol itical -speeches, letters to the editor or for sale, By thls means, we have reduced communication of thought to a remarkably brief and compact pro- cess, . Where a man llke Dr. Johnson would require several hours and prob- ably twenty pints of tea and several loaves of bread and a couple of cheese to convey a thought to his companions of the coffee shop, & mod- ern young person can do the whole job in a word or two, fl fl "zat you, baby?" "Yeah," _"How- ya?" "Okay." "Howz ever'thing?" «gwell." "Ugh. "Hunh?" 'Whatcha doin' t'night?" "Nothing! "How 'bout a show?" "Okay, About 8." "Uh huh." "Okay." "Okay." This is what we call- a conversa 'tion--~B:H. in Victoria Timies, Honey Bees on Strike The peculiar type of weather that has been characteristic in Ontario this. summer has produced quite a tow abnormalities, shortage, bad crops, forest fires and ruined pasturage. From Lindsay comes a report of a strike among the honey bees famed for devotion to industry. and - habits of thrift exem- plary for human beings. have not done any 'honey-gathering for more than a month. They quit owners will have to provide sugar to keep them from starving, The reason seems to be that there which the bees gather honey. in- tense heat and ghortage of moisture has practically obliterated wild and cultivated blooms and consequently the bees are without the raw mater- 1al for their work, The net result will be that thefe will be a considerable shortage of honey during the coming winter for it requires a percentage of the crop to teed the bees,--Sarnia Canadian Observer. «Wake Up, Scotland!" In Scotland, the land of the hea- ther and thistle a new slogan is be- ing heard on every side. It 1s "Wake Up, Scotland!" Such a slogan could fncluding water: "It seems that bees in that district | their activities during that spell of |. terrific heat a month ago and the. is virtually a failure of flowers from | a other places besides Scotland, Scotland, however, has been sul- fering economically as a whole and the Highlands and Western Isles are described by one authority as a "tru: ly distressed area." The population is statutary at approximately 4900,000 persons being threatened at the same time with decline, The new campaign is intended to create a desire to. develop the coun: try's great resources in ceal and iron as well as shipping and agriculture. If the slogan is taken up seriously beneficial results should be pbtained, as 'there iseafothing like getting all classes aroused with thé need of pro- gress,--St. Thomas Times-Journal, THE EMPIRE: Return of Canadians The sight of these men in their crowds in the London streets re- called vividly the war London, with its darkness and rumors, They are middle-aged now and had little of the soldier about them except the medals they all wore--1 saw sev- eral with six-----and the look of men who had come through a lot. One remembered that it was the Canadians who withstood the first gas attack in the war and how their heroism thriled England at the time. Many of them had a puzzled look in their eyes as they went about the new monumental London that haa replaced so much of the homely Lon- don that was in their memories, Some of them were taking their sons. to hotels and restaurants that have long since disappeared, such as the Tavistock Hotel in Covent Garden and the Golden Cross at Charing Cross. They were relieved when they could show their sons St. Paul's and the Cheshire Cheese. Now the Canadians have vanish- ed, too, back to the land whence they had come so manfully and hopefully in 1914. The thing that many of them took back in their minds was that the men here still take off their hats as they pass the _Cenotaph.--Manchester Guardian.' the simplest-of causes, we are told. We heard of one man who was a cookery hook. FOR Chronic indigestion may be due tof LONDON ] TTT, PREPARES FOR THE CORON ------------------------ ~ --~-- Thousands of plaster busts of the King are parts of the Empire in readiness for King Edwards them afterwards sprayed bronze. ATION being made in the City of London, for distribution to all Coronation. The busts are cast in molds and some of This picture shows a workman removing a bust from a mold. "Hopper and Drought An American Scientist Ex- plains a Mystery of the Bible The locusts of the Bible were not locusts at all, Just grasshoppers. They did not hop. They flew, Our grasshoppers_hop." Query: Why don't our grasshoppers fly? And why didn't the biblical grasshoppers hop? Dr. J. R. Parker of the Department of Agriculture thinks he has found the answer. It has a bearing om the drought. : Ask Dr. Parker and he will tell you that hopping grasshoppers can ] be changed into fliers, thereby clear- martyr to dyspepsia for years and all} ing up the biblical mystery. He kept because of a misprint in his wife's| Western grasshoppers in his labor- | atory, juggled temperature, humidi- ty, food, and noted the effect. Heat and hunger changed hoppers into fliers. Wings became longer and finer, bodies slimmer, 'colors brighter. What is the reason? Dr. Parker explains in terms of the survival of the fittest. When there is no food-- the case in hot deserts--hopping and walking are accomplishments of little aid in the struggle for existence. Fly- ing ability counts. So the hoppers develop it. Fifty years ago--in 1880 to be exact--clouds of grasshoppers darkened the European 'and Ameri- can sky. The insects clustered three inches thick on some railroads. Wheels simply slipped. The conditions must be right for the physical transformation that Dr. Parker brought about in his labora- tary. Hence we are not likely to see clouds of grasshoppers. After -all, BEING 1 6S Twit ats i up WISHES THEY'D 60 AWAY Hor MERCY, SHE THINRS HE be advantageously adopted by many ally co-operated,--Montreal Star. 1-25 WORSE AND WORSE, aa) AND Now "RIDE A COCK- WELL, 16 CRYING FOR MORE. HORSE? DOESN'T KNOW TiN HIM DOWN, SAYING FULLY , REFLECTING THKT 116 15 WHAT SHE (ALLS WHICH HE MINDS MORE, TAERE'S NO USE. TRYING SOMETIMES FAMILIES ARE | vypsy-DRIGY™ AND IS BEING JIGGLED UP AND 10 CHEER HIM UP, WEY'D PREY SLOW 10 UNDER= | VW TERRIBLE! DOWN, OR HER SINGING ~~ BETTER LEAVE RIF? ALONE sn, JHeT A BABY ANT 600D BRIEF, SHE'S ACU- AND NOT TRY 10 CHEER ELLA HAS PICKED MIM UP ALLY BOUNCING SS INHER LAP. CANYSHESEE HE JUST WANTS 10 BE LEF{ ALONE ~~ HE DOES NT LIKE If A LAS SHE'S PUf- WELL, HE HOPES HE'S CON VEVING THE IDEA THAT SUCKS THUMB CHEER- (Copyright, 1034, by The Beli Byndicate, Inc.) THE WONDERLAND OF OZ -- When Jinjur declared war upon linda bent her prains in deep the spot where It took but a few moments to reach the Gump lay. Glinda Based on the stories by L. Frank Eaum The Gump landed safely, and be- fore Jinjur had time to do more than he Glinda and the newly discovered Princess . Ozma, Giinda gave orders to her soldiers to attack, Immediate ly the army marched upon the Km: erald City with pennants tying and bands playing. But when it cdme to the walls, this brave assemldge made a sudden halt, for Jinjur had closed and barred every gateway, and the walls 6f the famous Emerald City were bullt high and thick with many blocks of green marble. : thought, while the Woggle-Bug sald in his most positive tone: "We must lay slege to the city and starve it into submission, It is the ohly thing we can do," "Not so," answered tho Scarecrow. "We still have the Gump, and the Gump can stil fly," The Sorceress 'turned at this spebch ana smiled. "You have reason' to be proud ot your brains" she exclaimed, 'let is g0 to the Gump at once," and Princess Ozma mounted first, The Scarecrow and his friends climbed aboard and there was still room for v captain and three goldiers, Which tlinda considered a sufficient guard. At a word of command, the Gump flapped its wings and carried the oarty over the palace courtyard, There Bat Jinjur, confident that the walls would protect her frown her enemies, + geream, the captain and three sol. queen a prisonér; This act really end: ed the war for the army of revolt submitted as soon as they knew of Jinjur's capture. The city gates were spened and apidst stirring music the tierald announced the accession of princess Ozma to the throne, at which there was great rejoicing among 'the men of the city, Ad . diers leaped out and made the former rain has been 'reported here and there in the West. And even though there is a drought there is still food enough. - HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO PAY BILLS FOR THIS FAMILY? The Croughs Use a Peck of Potatoes a Meal, and-12 Loaves of Bread Every Day Peterborough, Ont. -- The Miller ugtork derby" is entering the home- stretch in Toronto, with $500,000 go- ing .to the woman having the most children over a 10-year period, ac cording to the terms of the will of Charles V. Millar, but Mr. and Mrs. James Crough of Ennismore Town- ship "are not interested. Sr The Millar contest applies only to Toronto--that is why they are not interested. If they were mot barred by geographical location, they would doubtless be very interested indeed; for with their 18 children, they would be right up among the leaders in the | derby. Sixteen of their children are living. Twins died at birth 13 years ago. The couple were married in Ennis- more Township 18 years ago last June, and the eldest in their large family is 17-year-old Timothy Crough, at present working as a laborer and contributing to the support of his | eight brothers and seven sisters. Next to- Timothy comes 16-year-old Vincent, followed by Carmel, 15; Ur- ban, 14; Patricia, 12; Helen, 11; Peter, 10; Theresa, nine; Doreen, seven; Jack, five; Michael, four; Em- mett, three; Paul, two; and the ba- bies, Colette, 17 months and Shirley, four months. : : |" Ten of the children, including the twins who did not survive, were born at the farm home; the other eight in hospital. : Every day the family consumes 12 large loaves of bread--representing .1100 pounds of flour every ten days. A peck of potatoes is used at each meal, so. a bag and a half of potatoes a week is just right, °* Fortunately, says Mr. Crough, his crop of late potatoes has survived the prolonged drought. Bread and pota- toes are their main diet, he says-- adding the family is of Irish des- cent. : i ~ WE NEED MORE IMMIGRATION FROM THE BRITISH ISLES Toronto. -- The British Empire should immediately face the problem of immigration and dispatch more people from the British Isles to set- tle in the vast spaces of Canada and Australia, Lady Elibank told mem- bers of the English-speaking union here, Speaking at a luncheon meeting, I the wife of the 11th-Baron of Nova Scotia said the immigration subject was a "thorny one," but unless Eng- lish-speaking people tackled the prob- lem for themselves, foreigners would do it for them. Hon. G. Howard Fer- guson, former premier of Ontario, ex- pressed appreciation for Lady Eli- bank's remarks. : "The English-speaking union stands for the binding together in bonds of fellowship of English-speaking pedple of the world," he said. Retention of world peace would be greatly assisted, Lady Elibank stressed, if all English- speaking: people would, continue to work together in close co-operation and friendship. 4 Junior--Mother Déar, what is a "gecond-story man"? Mother--Your father is one. If I don't believe his first story, he always 'has another ready. the farm is a period of tragedy and" 5 5% -- L Joys nd Sorrows of Thresh. "ing Time Vividly Pi By Competition Winner « -- " a . New Yotk. ~~ Threshing time on comedy; it is exciting while it lasts and "only too soon do we, country people have to settle 'backinto' our ruts and monotony." So wrote Mrs. Albert Eisele of: Blue Earth, Minn.' in-her weekly column of country ¢ respondence in the Fairmont, Mir & Sentinel. : "Threshing Time" and four otl columns have won Mrs. Eisele a prirze of $200 and a trip to New York and Washington as an award for the best rural correspondence of 1936 in a Sopisst sponsored by a magazine. . Eisele's work was chosen from 3,600 clippings from country papers, and the judges said that it was "Threshing Time" that brought the decision. Here is what she wrote, in part: : "Unless you have taken an actual part in the drama of the threshing season, have been one of the char- acters in this. biggest play of the rural year ,then you have missed one of life's richest episodes. For into the brocaded fabric of this season is woven and embroidered the most lavish and colorful of all the skeins, «Threshers! What a tumult' the very word arouses in the heart of every family in-the run; what a tu- mult even it arouses in every indi- vidual in every family in the run-- grandmother, for a woman gets just from the littlest boy to the oldest as excited over her 50th dinner for threshers as she did her first. vg "It creeps up on you and before you realize it 'The Threshers' are go- ing to be at your place tomorrow! Suddenly 'The Threshers' become a menacing, almost sinister group of men--instead - of being life-long" neighbors and friends, you begin_to think of them as being gypsies or. gangsters. Threshers on the place, indeed! > = "As long ago as last week you had the cellar cleaned out, rafters swept, old odds and ends thrown out, into the pond, your apple pickles, straw- berry jam, pickled beets and canned peag all handy in the front row. Your new- potatoes dug and sorted, carrots and turnips on tap, and all you have to do down there until the last min- ute is get sweet corn, tomatoes and several heads of cabbage--that much less to work about. «But the multitudinous things-that must_be done yet: Get out-the big tablecloth, sort out the silver, buy some extra cups and tumblers, un- earth more bowls and dishes and find plenty of roller towels and dish towels. Look up that cocoanut cookie recipe you misplaced, check up on recipe for burnt sugar cake, be sure and get the vinegar jug filled and don't forget to get salad dressing. "You get feverish and hurried, and decide that the window: -have got to be washed on the outside, all those dead flies and cobwebs; and you have to fix a place on the front porch for the men to wash -- those weeds in the flower bed, they've-got to be pulled. - "And after it is over, you find a casserole of spaghetti and-tomatoes on the back of the stove, which all the cooks forgot to put on the table. Thus does each threshing day unfold its tragedy and its comedy. And thus does each household expose its fam- ily - skeleton; - and so likewise, does the neighborhood take on new inter- est -- exaggerations and fabrications: are in order. An empty turpentine ~ bottle" becomes a whisky bottle and your husband becomes a drunkard and you are in the habit of having wild parties and so it goes. And it is ex- citing while it lasts. Only too soon do we country people have to settle back into ruts of monotony." Home Was Never - Like Dog-House Sturgis, Mich.--Eleven. year old Mildred: Saddison, missing from home for four days, was found living in a dog-house in her own backyard be- cause, she explained, she didn't like housework. Eh Her parents, Mr. and Mrk. Charles Saddison, had enlisted police aid in the search for her. Mildred explained she 'slept in the doz house at night, end leit the neighborhood during the day, Regrets Are Mutual "Sorry I gave you the wrong num- ber," said the polite telephone oper- ator. . "Don't mention it," answered the man, who had made up his mind not to lose his temper. "I'm sure 'the number you gave me was fnuch bet- ter than the number I asked for, only it Just happened I wasn't able to use He: "That is the ugliest man I have ever seen." You She: "Not so loud, darling. | forget yourself." # . & t . A ad Hap Ww