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* Sparks from the Press . . LJ . CANADA ' Unfair ' "A life insurance authority says that a woman may now expect to live four years: longer than a man, the average "expectancy standing at "Blxty-three dn her case as compared ith fifty-nine for the lord of ¢rea- fon. This hardly seems fair in view f the amount of time wasted by masculines in waiting for members of the fair sex.-- Brantford Exposi- tor, . Air Force Expansion Recruiting in the ranks of the Ter- yitorials in Great Britain may not be as satisfactory as the Governuient desires, but there is no lack of men presenting themselves for enrolment in the Royal Air Force. In the House of Commons on May 22, 1935, Prem- er Baldwin announced that the Gov- rnment intended to increase the R. 'AF. personnel by 22,500, including ,600 more pilots, before March, 1937. The response was immediate and now it is announced that in the interim the force has been increased y 16,000 youths and men, and even oys, all desirous of service either in the air or as groundsmen. Viscount " of Lords the other day stated that the recruiting was eminently satis- factory. -- Montreal Gazette. Still Going Up It is very gratifying to know that, so far as Hamilton is concerned, the street accident record for the first half of the present year is so much better than the corresponding period of 1935, an improvement attributed largely to Chief .Goodman's safe driving campaign. But conditions generally are still far from satis- factory. In reviewing the situation for the whole province, the depart- ment of highways says the '"colli- sion with railway train" type of acci- dent showed the greatest increase. Uu to the end of June there had been 60 such accidents in Ontario, as com- pared with 47 in the first half of last year. In the same period motor accidents from all causes increased by 7.3 per cent, the number of per- sons -injured being 5.4 per cent. hgh: er and the property damage 7.8 per cent. higher than in the correspond- ing months of 1935. There were more cars on the road, it is true, --------but--this --does---net account forthe higher. accident rate. As an indica- tion that speed and carelessness were largely responsible, there was an in- crease of 28.6 per cent. in the num- ber of fatal accidents involving col Tissions between miotor "vehicles. Hamilton Spectator. Life On The Motor Highway Ottawa man riding as &¢ passenger in a neighbor's car was killed. The driver has been convicted in Pem- broke of "criminal negligence." An: other instance of the trust people s0 often misplace when nonchalantly they step into an automobile. The nan responsible for the fatal acci- dent was fined $200 and his driving permit cancelled for six months. A - life on the highway does not seem to carry a high value in the estimate of some courts, -- Ottawa Journal. = Swift And Certain Within eighteen hours of the time they held up and robbed a business establishment in Hamilton, Ontario, two young men were sentenced to ten years in Kingston Penitentiary. It is a fair sample of the swift and certain quality of Canadian justice. ~-Armed robbery is one of the worst of crimes -- and these young men have received sentences adequate to the requirements of the peace and security of the country. And while one has no desire to draw comparisons, one is bound to recognize that if in the great neigh- boring republic justice were as sure and as swift as this, crime in the United States would be far less prev- alent. "-- Halifax Herald, ' , The Growing Caravan - Several touring autdmobile' trail- ers have been seen in this city in the past week. It is' es.imated that there are 300,000 Americans . now living in these travelling homes --- largely people who have retired and upsettled down, --Calgary Herald. > . Peace River Wheat The Peace River District has cut the first wheat. and it averages 35 bushel to th: acre. This has been a common yield in Kent county this year, showing that we are keeping 'abreast of the best wheat growing land: in Canada. --Chatham News. J. W. Dafoe Honored The Institute of Pacific Relations has done John W. Dafoe, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, a high honor in choosing him as its new chairman. No Canadian has made a more intensive study of international affairs. The opinions he has expres- sed in regard to these in the address- es that he has delivered both at home and abroad ana in his news- paper and magazine articles have counted for a great deal. The rocog- nition that he has received from the Institute which has, just concluded its biennial sessions at, Yosemite California, is thoroughly deserved. -- Edmonton Journal. Canadian Art Abroad Canadian art was not mentioned in the Ottawa agreements but works of art do constitute an item of com- merce between Britain and.-.Canada. More pictures come from Britain to Canada than move 'in the other dir: ection. But there are some Canadian artists whose work is known in the Old Land and valued by diseerning art lovers there. Last week Arthur Heming, of Toronto, received - a cable from one of the old-established Lon- don art dealers asKing that three canvasses be sent at once as there was a likely chance of. disposing of them. This is indeed a red letter event. It is prabably many years since any Canadiar artist received a cabled enquiry for his work from a London "dealer. It is a tribute to th> lure of Hemirg's north country pictorialism. -- Financial "Post. Cats Rout Rats Any assertion that science is un- able to devise an effective substitute for naturé's rat catcher, the cat; pro-- bably would be challenged and might be refuted. Nevertheless, a- New York Times news story lays the bas- is for such a claim. An air condi- tioning plant in New Jersey was overrun by rats this summer. Its engineers and other scientific -experts tried their scientific best to rout the rodent invasion, and failed. Then a practical building superintendent went to the city pound and borrowed its day's catch of stray cats. As guests of the factory, the cats are comfortably housed by day ana at night they are given free range of the factory. Every morning the jan- itors sweep up the slain rats and conduct the hunting cats back to their daytime apartments. At latest report, the Times' story concludes, thc factory's rat population was nearing extinction. St. Thomas Times-Journal. Matter Of Spelling It's all a question of spelling: Cal- lander -- the place. Calendar -- a date-record. Calender -- a. machine for smoothing and glossing cloth or paper. Calendar -- a dervish. Cyl- inder -- par' of a motor. Colander (or cullender) -- a straier. -- To- ronty Star. Tied Up Somehow Na man remains single. If he has no wife, he is married to a factory, - the TVA power web, as he President Roosevelt "waves acknowledgement of the cheers o f crowds in Knoxville, Tenn. heart of passes through city for tour of Great Smoky Mountains National Park v job, a casting rod or something like that, -- Victoria Times. THE EMPIRE . Mining's The Thing Only in mining are "plums" going begging. These, naturally, are not to be picked up by young newcomers. The way to the top, as in any other calling, is long and arduous. The point is that there'is plenty of room there. Probably never before in the history of the mining industry has the demand for good men been great- er or less casy to fill. The training facilities are available--none better. Scholarships are on offer. The chance for the right type of youth is splendid. -- Johannesburg Sunday Times. . Spilt Milk Any fool can break the eggs, but it takes a cook to make the desired omelette out of them." Our frying pan is full of broken eggs, we are in fact confronted "with a first-class mess, the raw material for a feast of omelettes. The world does not stop, and however badly we Lave played our parts, there is always the poss'bility of a fresh beginning. If oul of corruption can come {oth sweetness, then out of the failure of sanctions may come the dawn of sense. The better part for all of us would be to cease recrimination, and to decide for ourselves what is the, future-we-would like to build, and h.w we can each and all of us con- tribute to its building. --- Cautta Statesman. , * : Brave Girl One day last Fébruary,"Clara Katn. ryn Van Horne, eleven years old. saw two younger children on a sled speed- ing down an-icy hill toward a ratlroad track. A train was approaching, the boys on the sled either did not gee the train or could not stop. I'here was only one thing for Clara Kathryn! to do and she did it. She hurled her own small body in front of the sled. When it struck her the awo boys were thrown Into a snowbank. The slea bounced on down the hill and under the wheels of the locomotive. A couple of days ago the 'Legion ot Valor met in Cincinnati. The Legion 1s made up of 1,000 men and women who have been decorated -by the United States government for extraordinary gallantry. Just a military decoration doesn't get one into the Legion of va- lor. A valorous. deed, beyond the re- gular demands of duty, is required. Among the 200 persons on the floor of the Cincinnati convention were the men who had proved their valor on the battlefields of France and in the Spanish-American War Some were weather-beaten campaigners who had looked into the eyes of death on many put fields. All 200 arose and cheered wild. ly when a small girl in a blue silk dress and with a pink ribbon in her hair was lifted onto a table and intro- duced as their queen of valor. It was all a bit bewildering and em- barrassing to Clara Kathryn, But ft gave her a memory which she prob- ably will treasure through life quite as much as she will the gold medal which was presented to her on her | 12th birthday, September 12th, by Pre- | NEWS SHORTS | Mrs. Beryl Markham, only woman who ever flew the Atlantic Ocean solo, from east to west, urges Can- ada "to make provision now for the over-ocean air traffic that is sure to come." Jn San Francisco, Municipal Judge, Thomas- Foley, -gave John L. Green thirty days on a charge of cruelty to animals.] John, and his pet duck, "Brother Crawford" were found to be intoxicated by a '"souse-meter", __Roger_W. Babson declares busi- ness, after six years of depression, has at last reached normal. Ile said 1936 will be the best since 1929 for automobiles and steel and among lines ecqualing or exceeding 1929 peaks he cited retail trade, pow: er production, cement and electrical appliances. ] ; He predicted a sharp" advance in the price of real estate, commodities and stocks, wages and interest dates, larger farm crops and a rise in rail- road trafTic. He said the only shortage will be in the courage crop and "those fun- damental characteristics of integrity, industry and thrift which have made America." . be 1 Italy informs Great Britain offic- ially that it must insist upon "ad- equate diplomatic preparation" be- fore a Locarno Conference to map European security can be held. J Previously, Italy had accepted an invitation to a five-power Locarno parley to be held this autumn _for the purpose of effecting a new Euro- pean security agreement in the face of - Germany's rearmament of the Rhineland. Flight_Lieut. Sheldon Coleman and Aircraftsman J Fortey, missing in the Northern Canada hinterlands sin- ce Aug. 17, have been located alive on the shores. of Point Lake, 250 miles northwest of this trading post in the Northwest Territories. Fort Reliance is about 700 miles nurth- cast of Edmonton. . Population from an animal stand- point, at the Western Ontario Fair grounds at. London, Ont.,has grown substantially since the opening, Vital statistics includes one Jersey . calf born in the stalls of D. J. Beggs, St. Thomas: two Holsteins, one belong- ing to Hayes and. Company, Calgary; ten little pigs and four pigeons. One rabbit on ehibition is also expect- ing a visit from the stork.» The current epidemic of infantile paralyisis - is assuming a menacing aspect, with the total number of cas- es in Manitoba now 130. I'our new cases in Winnipeg brought the: total to 17 in that City. Vancouver -- Fortune 'waited ona downtown Vancouver street for Or- ville M. Nuemeyer, 24-year old un- employed telegraph operator. Nue- meyer kicked a brown paper envel- ope on the sidewalk then 'picked it up, finding inside 100. crisp New Bank of Canada $5 bills] He took it to a bank whose name appeared on the envelope. A department store, to which the money was consigned, re- warded Nuemeyéer for his honesty. Simple seifvices wl®re held for Ir- "ving Thalberg, 37-year_old film ~pro- ducer, in the 'presence only of: his | family, studio associates and a few. intimate friends. oe Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin conducted the services at B'Nai B'Rith Temple in- Hollywood: -In keeping with- the simplicity of Thalberg's life, his wi- dow, screen star Norma Shoarer, re- quested that there be no pall-bearers. Thousands of messages were re- ceived from all over the world hy Miss Shearer, including a teleglam from President Roosevelt, which was not made public. Home Mishaps Are "More Frequent Than Automobile Mishaps, Safety Council Survey Shows = His toothbrush doesn't hang in the bathroom and we don't pen hfs name on the inside cover of the family Bible, but he squats on every twig of the family tree -- that. Feind that prods us into accidents within the walls of home. He eats with us, sleeps with us, takes his baths with us, gets drunk with us, smokes-with us, quarrels with us; but he is the sort of gent who says, "You fight him, I'll hold your coat." He mocks our humor ana ag- gravates our sorrow, leers at us through every window and translates our private life in the public print. Se >| home accidents that sent trickery is Htedong. Often he takes his first grinning glee in the lmpish- ness of his pranks literally before we are "dry behind the ears." How 'strange are the things we do to his prompting are disclosed by the Na tional Safety Council," which, with the aid of the Works Progress Administra. tion, recently cornered the knave' and choked from him 'a report on Lwo years of his monkey-business in Cook County (Chicago), Illinois. The official record is a survey' of-all ent bed-patients to the Cbok County Hospital during 1933 and 1934, and it tells a story of: tragic, humorous, curious and ordin- ary events; The Survey was the first of its kind ever conducted in the Unit- ed States. It composes a domestic drama that .tears away the window shades and turns the walls of our homes to glass through which the glare of public scrutiny fixes on the emotions and circumstances that sent 4,602 patients to the institution during the two years--injured in accidents in their homes, - Accidents in_American-homes have made a "piker" of the automobile c- cident problem that :currently," and justly, has worked the couhntry into a lather. In 1935 there were only (the belittling is for comparison only) 1, 322,000 automobile traffic accidents against 4,031,500 accidents in our homes, Only in the "fatal" column did au- tic mishaps--37,000 dead against 31, 6500. Motor accidents (disabled per- manently 105,000 persons in 1935, while the home accident total was 140,- 000. Motor accidents inflicted tem- porary 'disability on 1,180,000--home accidents, 4,460,000, These figures scoff at those who talk of "within the safety of our homes." The certain cost of home ac- cidents~in 1936--lost wages, medical expense and the overhead cost of in- /| surance--was $590,000,000. Home ac- cidents ; were responsible for more deaths than any other general class of accident causes, motor vehicle traffic excepted. Children' Camp Gets Kindergarten Memorial to Fousder of First Private One in "Toronto __ x _TORONTO--Kindergarten equip- ment for the training of the younger campers who are given holidays at | Bolton Camp each summer by the Neighborhood . Workers' Association of Toronto will be housed in a self- contained kindergarten. The build- ing, recently presented to the camp by the Toronto Kindergarten Asso- ciation, is a memorial to the late Mrs. J. L. Hughes, founder of the first private kindergarten in _this city and leader in the movement which resulted in the incorporation of kin- dergartens in the public school sys- tem. Interest in this 'unit, the first kindergarten unit in a summer camp on the continent has been aroused both here and abroad. ~~ No regular kindergarten curricu- lung will be used at Bolton, it was explained, as it is at present on a semi-experimental basis, The pro- gram of activity 'will be adapted to the requitements of children at.sum- mer. camps, ' stressing 'open-air rec- reation and play, nature study, fam- iliarity : with country life and-similar subjects. There is accommodation for 80 children in the building. . The first kindergarten was estab- lished in Toronto by Mrs. Hughes in .187&, and in 1881 she took charge of the first public school kindergarten, later becoming supervisor of kinder- gartens for the entire system. Forestry in Great Britain provic work for 3,000. persons in summer, 4,000 in winter. : Table tennis is the rage in Great Britain where there are more than 2,500 clubs and 30,000 registered players. Our association with his nefarious \ ton A 'Q1321 By Bax Rohmer and Tho Dell Aysdfeata Toc. "FU MANCHU By Sax Rohmer ; "Smith stood up and began to' pace the room rostessly, | |: = * stuffing tobacco into his briar, _ - , Patrie, but for Fu Manchu," he commont en gi EN d for Elsie sake, x is is another vich "| am RA NE har = roses " \" SN nh ~ pin ago we had placed Si at ee) . % ~ a - A, on, and =a \\ amy SC 2 CLs Val ye 7 whose lives stood in the way of the great Yellow plot. Sir Lionel was a fearless traveler who had penetrated nf evento forbidden Lha a y "Ha ay ied today from Egypt" Smith went as seen things in-the East} which Fu Manchu must keep secret." / . : LN "I have just seen Sir Lionel Barton," Smith said suddenly. | , "And he laughed at mo in that incrodible study of his." Long ¢ Lionel's.name among those ssa and Mecca. yl: CT NP VE il --- rane SR - Chart Upper ~ tomobile traffic accidents best domes. Atlantic airway '4 fF . Contributed to The Journal by the British Aircraft Society. ; "LONDON + Air pilots, meteor- ologist "and = observation stations' have been working in Newfoundland ulating data for one 'of the most ecom- - emes ever devised. It will be used for the morth Atlantic air services and the investigations have been un- dertaken on behalf of the'British "Air Ministry- and the Canadian and New- foundland authorities. They include charting of the up- per air and an examination of the prevalence of fog in the Newfound- land zone and over the mouth of the St. Lawrence. A number of fog. ro- porting stations have been set up - round the coast. and inland, and n'l- the-year-round observations indicate that while difficult flying ecnditions are apt to persist in areas round St. John's there is a central clear zone in Newfoundlard. 1! The object of the ground organi-. zation will be to keep pilots on the informed of the movements of fog and to lead them through clear channels. Charting of the upper air will provide data tpon which, it is hoped, a high degree of accuracy in forecasting will be based. A good deal of flying by Imper- al "Airways pilots has becn involved in obtaining the necessary observa- tions, SH Results of this meteorological work are likely to influence the selection of sites for Newfoundland's airport. The present proposal is to construct a landing ground out of virgin for- ; est at Hatties Camp and to equip it with an® artificial runway capable of allowing all siz¢s and types ot landplane to take off and land. Con- sultations, to take place during Sep- tember, have been arranged" with an Air Ministry expert, - whose advice '| will be a chief factor in the, ultimate decision, : _ In the Atlantic service the princi- ple of radio control is to be extended even further thau in the Continental .services. Pilots will be instructed as to course and as to landing places by radio in 'accordance with the weather information available on-the ground. The British authorities -have be- lieved from the first that tha trust- worthiness obtained in meddrn flying boats is sufficient to allow then. to operate in safety over lonjz stretch- may be certain of finding .a land'ng place free from fog at thé end of . their flight. Nevertreless, they ave not neglecting the possibilities and experimental transatlantic fr, ats will be made within the next foy batross four-engined landnlane hie is expected to reach: a speed of som 2 250 miles an hour. Smiles and Tears Beauty Contestants Find Bs. ing a -Belle Isn't All ~ Cakes and Ale the "Miss -America '1936 beauty and talent pageant" is a matter of smiles and sali-water taffy, with a few tears thrown in. "You have to sit on a stiff board at night and smile" all the time--- kind of 'tiring, but a lot of fun' several contestants summed it up Io: week as they took off. their shoes ani wriggled their toes in a free 1.i0- | ment. A day spent with the. | eauties engaged in the current struggle for City's board walk resulted in these, findings: 1. Walking around looking pretiy causes girls to lose weight. "Miss Maryiand" has lost four pounds since the festivities started, and "Miss Bluegrass," who inherited her beauty from her, mother, one-time winner of a baby contest, has lost five, and now tips the scales at 95. : (However--this may disprove the theory--Miss Virginia has gained five,) . ot --- 2. Some comments are made which come under the heading, "catty re marks," although mest of th» crowd is wildly enthusiastic, and gall ) to the ballroom to sce the beauties paradec--~-----= Tt One skeptic said, "this is_)ike an amateur night with no gong," and .a few. relatives of beauties said of other beauties, "pretty--but such a large nogei" . Most of the girls in the come petition have won all manner of. beauty contests, and hold such titles as "Miss Sixth District," "Miss Chicago Parks," "Miss Peach Lake," and "Miss North Side." Eight or nine mothers are on hand to see their dapghters perform, und give helpful advice between events: © "Watch your hat, baby. © Don't squint, don't smile too big." prehensive weather forecasting sch-~ ATLANTIC CITY, NJ.--Life at since the autumn of 1934 on accums months by the new de Havilland AT" the Miss America" title al Atlant'e © -}-es-of --ocean--provided-only that they > Ls » = = 3 a vy &