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-- --_-- a pa . . 5 » ks from the Press | ro -- > CANADA When Youth Goes Wrong For the year 1920 there were 6,453 convictions (to reformatory or pri- , son) of those known to ba between the ages of 16 and 21, and 920 who were supposed to be within that age "limit, makjng a total'of 7,373. 'Of that number 5,732 were Canadi- an horn, 'Dividing them by residence it was found that 83 percent, came from urban centres and 17 percent, _ from rural districts, and that in itself is a 'rather strong argument in favor of the strength and substance of home life in our faving centres. Going a little deeper into statis- tics it was found that 90 percent, of the major offénces are stealing and receiving stolen property. From 1930 to December 31, 1935, the major in- creases in juvenile delinquencies were found to be in automobile cases, -- Pterborough Examiner. Our Forests "We need," says The Ottawa Jour- nal," "a leeper sense of trusteeship in our natural resources." Ontarlo, if it is to preseerve its heritage, must in the future take greater care than in the past to protect-its forests.--Sault Star. Her Hero She was truly. pretty and ambitious and had studied the matrimonial problem to a nicety. : "Yes, I suppose I shall wed eventu- ally," she said, "but the only kind of masculine nuisance that will suit me must be tall and dark with classical features. He must be brave and gen- tle. He must be stropg--a lion among men, but a knight among women." That evening &« bow-legged, lath- framed, chinless youth, wearing flan- nel bags and smoking a cigarette that smelt worse than a burning boot; rat- tled on the back door and the girl knocked four tumblers and a cut-glass dish off the sideboard in her haste to let him in! --Ottawa Journal. Needs Explaining ------There is one paragraph in the story of the landing of Dick Merrill and Harry Richman in Wales which has not been explained to the satisfac- tion of <he Scots Mrs, Evans, the first person who reached the trans- Atlantic flyers, {s reported-as saying: "As soon as they landed 1 ran across the field, and the first question they asked me was: 'Is this Scotland? 1 told them they were + Wales and they seemed relieved." -- Moncton Transcript, Taking His Bumps Hon. Mr. McQuesten, Highways Minister, is travelling through North- _ern Ontario, on _a tour of road inspec: tion. That he fs not travelling by special railway car, but is taking his bumps over the highways, Is indica- tive that his knowledge of road con- ditions are likely to recister.--Hunts- ville Forester. Our Difficult English ----1If new Canadians grow impati- ent over the-difficulties of our lan- guage let us not be too hasty in con- demning them. . The next time you find yourself laughing at the clumsi. ness of the new immigrant just think of the following composition which was once written by a mischevious schoolboy oi the term-¢sleaper."- A sleeper is ome who sleeps, A sleeper is the car in which the sleeper sleeps. The track on which the sleep- er runs wh.le the sleeper sleeps Is also sometimes called a sleeper. Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper which car - rles the sleeper jumps the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper and there 18 no longer any sleeper sleep: ing in the sleeper on the sleeper.-- Kitchener Record, : All Contributions 01d tooth paste and shaving cream tubes are being collected by the Ger- man Government, Teeth cleaners and shavers are told thatthe tubes are made of metal that is urgently need: ed to save the foreign exchange. Lloyd George is right. Germany is not pre pared for war -- Stretford Beacon: Herald. Poorly Paid Clergy The Church of England is said to be the wealthiest institution in the British Empire. It's chief riches consist in land, of which it holds a quarter of a million acres. Some of the land is over coalfields, which yield huge mining royalties. Other church land is in London and in the large provincial" contres. This," of courge, is worth many thousands of pounds an acre, The capital value of "tlie Church's property is about £32,000,000. This propery and other investments yield an annual réturn in rent, royal ties, and dividends of about £8,000, 000. Contributions of the British churchgoers to the various funds of the Church amount to abopt £9,000, 000 a year, making a ta Sgn in- come of about £17,000 000 -"\In spite of this, the English clergy are not well paid, The average vicar or rector gets eight pounds a week and the average curate less than half of that, ~The New Outlook. C--4 Guardian, "Canada Calling" The snappy slogan "Canada Call ing" has been adopted for the cam-| paign to be launched. in the United] Kingdom this Fall for the purpose of} advertising Canada. Experts say it] will be the riost concentrated and scl entifically directed campaign ever un- dertaken by a Dominion, The need for such a campaign can hardly be doubt- ed, particularly after hearing what Hon. Vincent Massey, High Commis- sioner to London, had tc say in To-| ronto.s. Over there, he stated, we are still thought of very frequently as a; land of wide open spaces given chielly to agricaltural pursuits.--Winds~ r| Star. Forming Without Earth Farmers who have watched their] farms blown away by the winds in the, mid-west of Canada and. the United States must have more than a casual interest in the new (arming methods reported from the University of Call- fornia. Prof. Gericke raises potatoes] on the campus there at the rate of seventy-five tons to the' acre. His fields are wooden tanks, ten feet long, two and one-half feet wide and ten inches deep. His "good earth" 8 water, diffused with a mixture of eleven chemicals, which combine to produce the hundred diffrent kinds of crops with which he, has experiment. ed, Five California farmers installed tanks last spring and are raising po- tatoes and tomatoes for che market equal to any that are grown on the land. A single ten-foot tank turned out nearly twenty-six bushels of po-| tatoes, or about two thousand six hi dred bushels to the acre! But there is little danger of Mother Earth "being thrown out of work in the near future by the chemical farmers of Califor- nia,--The New Outlook. Our Emigrants The complete record of Canadian emigration to the United States, as disclosed by the Statistical Abstract of the United States makes interest: ing, if not very enjoyable, reading: 1831 to 1870 inc. 268,534 1871 to 1880 inc. 383,640 1881 to 1890 inc. 393,304 1891 te 1900 inc. 3;811) 1901 to 1910 inc. 179,226, 1911 to 1920 inc. 742,185 1921 to 1930 inc. 924,616 (4 years) 1931to 1934 inc. 44.318 Total 2,939,033" With these three inillion people and' their multiple today we would be in| the lap of luxury industrially and pros-: perity individually, ----- Charlottetown' Women in the Cloth No doubt there is a. great deal of excellent work which women can do. 'There are many situations with which they are admirably fitted to deal with problems of. women and girls in- the congregation, but whether they would be able to stand the work of a full pasiprate is something to which a deal 'of doubt appears to be attached. The fact that the suggeition has been hanging fire for a good many years is proof that this doubt exists in the inter councils of the church.--Peter- borough 'Examiner. The EMPIRE Which Is On Trial? ~ It was fashionable a few years ago te speak of democracy as being 'on trial." In many couitries it 18 no longer on trdal, but has been condemn- ed and executed. In this country it is not, and never -was (at any rdte for the past couple of hundred years) on trial; it is part and parcel of our na- tional life, and something which is be- hoves us to regard as no less perman- ent than Herr Hitler's "thousand-year regime." If anything is on trial it is rather dictatorship, for we have still to see what happens to it when the day comes to find the successors of, the men whose personality had laid its stamp upon their creations. No country can depend on a perpetual supply of Hitlers and Mussolinis. In 'their default, wil anybody care to say that dictatorship, relying as it does upon a very flexible principle of personal leadership, is likely to prove any more stable. than deniocracy?-- lL,ondon Morning Post. Era of Steam To Supplant Hydro Fuel Burners Cheaper Than Hydro Process, Engineers A i + LENE NIAGARA FALLS--An era of fuel-burning power plants is coming. This was a widély-expressed view at |- sessions of the meeting of the Am- erican Society of Mechanical Engin: eers here.- Mr. Krieg' pointed out in his address that steam at high pressure and using high pressure turbines (this being known as superposition) power can be generated at even Jower cost than very cffisient. hydro "plants. Pref. Otto Schoene, professor at Technical University in Berlin andy official delegate from Germany to the world power conference, told of the tendency in Germany toward SL '| walk across the hall to the license by -gencrating|: high-pressure steam plants, with the pressure at 2,100 pounds a square inch, In that country there now are now 50 plants using pressure of 1,600 pounds a square inch or more, In the United States there is oily one such plant today. The German plants are compelled to burn very low grade fuel---testing 8,000 British | thermal units as against fuel test ing 6,000 B. 1, U. used in American plants--which makes 35 to 45 per cent. ashes as against 12 per cent. ashes in U.'S, plants. = Despite the fuel handicap, the high pressure Ger: man plants are able to obtain mark: ed economy of operation and and in- crease in by-product power, x J. C. Hobbs, Painsville, 0., said: "The - hydro power - development this year has. exceeded the steam in capacity, 'but from now on the trend will be toward fuelburning power plants. For one thing, all the good hydro-electric sites have been: de veloped--and many of the poor ones as government projects, Such hydro sites as remain are too remote and would "mean long, expensive trans mission of power, The expense of developing hydro units is much great- er than the steam plants." Marries 20 Pairs Hourly at Times New York Clerk Thought World's Champion Mar- rier Has Troubles Too; Sometimes Refuses "NEW YORK, -- Philip A. Hines, New York's chief county clerk is probably che world's champioa *'mar- rier" -- he las joined abut 60,000 couples in che last three years. He works fust, sometimes making as many a3 20 knots an nour, but he has learned from experiance to slow down vu hen he reachas the "de you take" phrase. "I'm always very careful in asking this question?" says Hines, a grey-haired littel Ivish- man "for you may not hclieve it but I'have actually received 'No' sev- eral times in reply." Once a man said "No" becasue just before the ceremony he learned that his DLride-to-be had decided to giyé him only $600 instead of the $6,000 she promised if he would marry her. At another time a girl repned in the nega ive because she feit that "the. man has held me under a sort of hypnotic spell" She knew her own mind again, she insisted; wnen she refused to go on. "Those occn- sions are always very cmbarrass- ingy" Hines exclaimed. "You have to be very diplomatic." In such in- stances, the bridegroom can always bureau and get his money back. It saves him a total of $4 -- two each for the flowers and - céremony, ~~ Hines occasionally refuses to mar: ry a couple. He caused quite a fuss when he turned down 'a pair of Sia- mese - twins once. Strictly speaking, he had only turned down one twin, but the sitiation was confusing all around. ai He was pretty nervous-at his first marriage but after a few. thousand it turned into humdrum, In fact, he says, it's so boring at times that it takes a good sense of humor to keep going. Fast as the chubby 1ittle clerk shoots them through, there wasn't room enough in thé Muniei- pal Building quarters for the rec: ord-breaking crowds that have been coming recently -- 'so the city has 'had to open a new marriage. chapel which has a waiting room for 150 persons; of the psychotics ad epileptics or mentally ill. In 1934 a total of 12,068 patients va were treated at a cost of $3,764,- 406.71. By last year the number of . | patients had risen to 12,314 of which '1 consequently 2,174 were mental defectives and 10,140 were mentally ill, - These fig ures do. not include the cases treated privately by clinics and hospitals, and, not reported to the i | Departmet. They do not include the {{ many cases which have been unable to find accontimodation at the several institutions and it is therefore pos- sible. that the - statistics,> accurate though they may be, represent buta '| percentage "of the actyal mental ill- '| ness 'and defectiveness .in this prov ince, ' : The intrease, of course, is not peculiar to Ontario alone, The last Dominion statistics are for 1933, when 87,1856 patients of one class or another were treated .by fifty-nine institutions and 'iospitals. At least "| one hospital concerned with the work Sir George TRomas - Broad- bridge, who has been elected Lord Mayor of the City of Lon- don. He will assume the duties of his office on November 9. He succeeds Sir -Percy Vincent, who Higde an extensive tour of Can- ada. The Problem of Mental Illness ---- Increasing Number of Victims In Canada--Commission Inquiry The decision of the Ontario Gov- ernment to take hold of the problem of mental illness and investigate thoroughly by available institutional accommodation and treatment ,as an- nounced by Premier. M. F, Hepburn .is direct action that has been needed i this Province for some time past. For two years or more competent medigal authorities and public health -officials' have - directed -attention . to the condition 'that exist, and it is a fact that Hon, Dr. J. A. Faulkner, Minister 'of Health, - has . repeatedly stressed the sharp increase in mental illness "victims. ; rt The most superficial survey ofthe statistical data available gives suf- ficient evidence to substantiate a Commission: inquiry of the kind, and offers convincing proof of the need for increased Attention: being given: to .the treatment. of the. sufferers. The latest Provincial statistics ghow that more than $4,000,000. was spent in 19385 to maintain institutions, clinics and hospitals giving aid to mentally afflicted. Yet less than 18 per cent of that. sum was used for the care of the 'insane and feeble-minded, the other 82 per cent. going in treatment .| ities and the technical did _not report for that year. The total cost amounted to $11,315,071, of which $4,678,809, or more than 36 per cent, was paid by Ontario, and ~ | $2,695,979 by the Province of Quebec. | In that same.year 9,818 new. patients were admitted for treatment, as against- the 65,418 that were dis charged. Of the néw patients, 3,911 | were creditéd to Ontario institutions, | which discharged a total of 2,191 dur- i. ; the same period. To speculate upon the course. the investigating committee will adopt or the problems it will meet is, of course, out of the question, but in view of the wide scope of its activ- nature of those 'problems there seems Anerit in the Premier's decision that'Dr. Sam- uel Hamilton, New York expert, will be given a jrom'nent part in the work. The: more impartial such a Commission can be, the greater are the expectations of its achievements, and if the' question of rising public costs, to say nothing of lost and wasted human energy and. earning power, were the only point for con: sideration the subject would require close study. Men's Shoes Go Rounded Toe and Trimmer Sole Are Newest in Style NEW YORK--The important news in men's shoes' for fall is the ten- dency - toward modification of the American custom last, as interpret- @d in the past few seasons in terms sion and pointed toes. The new de- signs, influenced by the "Continent- al" custom last, display a- more rounded toe and a trimmer sole. This. tendency is most apparent in the two leading types of town shoes --the straight-tip shoe with wing-tip and medallion toe, Either is suitable for town. and. business wear, depend- ing on the color of: one's suit. - The dlack shoe goes well with grays, dark; blues: and most browns, while the brown shoe strikes an especial note of harmony 'with the. brown suit and goes. well with bluish grays, ] especially for bad weather, is the thick-soled brown blucher with ea waterproofed "upper that sometimes consists of two thicknesses of leather, 'Brown 'calfskin 'or reverse-calf is generally accepted as the most ppro- priate leather for sports footwear, \ WILLIATTS MOTHER'S VERY TIRED AND THAT t PING A NOTE ON BAC: + DOOR FOR THE ICEMAN 30 BE WONT R/S DotR- BELL : GETTING THE HOUSE QUIET BLUYAS . i EXPLAINS TO JUNIOR THAT SU6eESTS FURTHERMORE . SEfS TELEPHONE REMINDS EFFIE NOT 10 Pay HE PLAY OVER IN SIDE HUSBAND RING NG | IN TT PIANO THING (0 ENSURE . QUIET AND SET(LS) FOR NAP. \ or WANTS To TRKE ANAP AND. TE BEMIS YARD SO THERE, CAN ANSWER If IMMED!-. THE HOUSE WiLL BE QUIETER WONT BE A LOT OF SHOUT=, ATELY. AND IT WO) IFHEGOES OUf TO PLAY 'ING UNDER AER WINDOW FEELS THAT FOR ONCE i SHZ YA% DONE EVERY- STREET STARTS BLOWING HORM TELS HIM, WHAT 10 SHY IF MRS. DIMMIGK- CALS, 50, | HE WONT HAVE To COME KEEP UP AND. ASK HER, IMMEDIATELY MAN DOWN Tie FOR HI5 WIFE; NEIGHBORROOD DobS IN FULL CRY. PURGLY: A CAT; AND 15° TONS OF COAL. ARE DELIVERED NEKT DOOR. 10=b (Copyrizit, 1534 by The Bell Hyndiscls, Ine.) those who are diagnosed as' being! "Continental" of exaggerated. "spade" sole exten-|. Perhaps the best heavy-duty shoe, Perhaps the jeading shot of this type § fall will be the plaintoe brown uc! 3 GPE we Two models stand out for evening wear--the ~ plain-toe patent leather shoo and the patent leather evening pump with ribbed silk bows. Men's Snap-Brims Little Bit Wider T Crowns Are Somewhat Lower ~~ In New. Fall Headgear --NEW YORK--- "The adding of a fraction of an inch more width to the brim of the [all snap-brim hat and the lowering of t'y: crown to av most as minute an extent is a strik- ing example of what a few tiny but judicious changes can do in 1mprov- ing line in 'men's wear, Further distinction is added by color; the leading shades of brown in which it will be seen are the intermediate ones, such as pecan brown and cocoa brown, instead of the very dark, al- most black, browns that were form- erly the vogue. =~ Another important note is the In- creasing popularity of the welted edge brim, supplanting as leader the silk-bound edge. Supplementing the all-around snap brim are other styles for more aressy occasions. One of these is the classic Homburg, with . slightly tapered crown and curling brim, showing a dip at the front and the rear. This is to be found in steel and pearly grays for daytime wear, while in dark blue and black it-is correct for wear with the' dinner jacket. Some: where between the formality of the Homburg and the dash of the snap brim lies the place of the so-called semi-Homburg or, turned - up - all around hat, | : 2% In hats for country and sportswear there .is a distinct' style trend to felts in rougher finishes. Germany Displays 'Civilian Strength Membership of Air Defence League.Now Exceeds ---- 10,000,000 BERLIN--Germany has displayed the civilian strength she could must-. er for the nation's defense. While- the army, in the greatest. manoeuvres since pre-war days de- monstrated the powers of the reviv- ed air force and its new artillery and tank units. Germahy's. non-mil- itary population showed its readi- ness far action." 8 The Civilian Air' Defense League, it was announced has exceeded the 10,000,000 mark in its membership drive -- PRONE ERA De AC i 1 Citi This 'means there are 10,000,000 men, women and youths in Germany. who. have been - given. individual as- signments and are ready to jump isto action on a minute's notice in case of an air raid." - + Tests . They are organized into first aid groups: fire-fighting forces anti-gas squads: and other units. : ---Approximately - 250,000, bomb- proof cellars--some of them. costly muncipal | projects under crowded traffic centers--have been completed as precautions against an enemy air attack almost anywhere in Germany. - Details for almost instantaneous 'mobilization of 'the -Third ~ Reich's vast : reserves were disclosed. " Mil- lions (of Germans between the ages of 26'and 46 have been issued "or ders to. take part in war". which would 'mean Germany 'in an emer: gency, -could be put on a war foot- ing instantaneously and by a single order. : Handbags Made Of Hat Feltings Gussets and Seams Are All Reinforced With [eather 4 NEW: YORK. -- Handbags made from -hat feltings, to match a line of fall hats, are an innovation this year. The felts have been specially pro- cessed to keep their shape and wear. The gussets and seams are all rein: forced with lenther, so that no strain falls on the felt alone. These bags, which have their counterparts in lea- ther, are designed in the simplest of taste. with plain frames, and not a gewgaw in the lot, so that they have a. quiet distinetion.-- Slide - fasteners are all inside and do not show. The designer, a man, has had cne bag madé very long and shallow, with a separate inside purse for cosmetics next to the money purse. These felt purses come in Scottish: green, cataw- ba red, oporto brown, navy, chaudron, bison brown and black. The latter is by fa¥ the most popular, _ The leather counterparts of these bags come in malacca leathers--an unusual shade that ig slightly darker | than beige, with a flat, sandy tone.' The 'hags are lined in contrasting! [ea thers and fabrics, and have compart: ments for .papers, cosmetics, tickets, keys. money and 80 on, They are made by British sadd¥rs, who do not "go faney,"" but are expert at doing the clagsic tailored sort of thing. Ello "PEE ng ~_ As a Firefighter ~ (An appeal for support in the fight against fire, issued by J. Grove Smith, Dominion Fire Com- missioner.) In Canada and the United-States the week if potober 4 to 10 was observed -as Fire Prevention Week, The Dominion Fire Prevention Asso- ciation in co-operation with provin- cial firé marshals, local fire chiefs ~ land others are co-operating with civic organizations in the furtner- ance of the aims of fire' prevention. About 350 people are burned to 'death and a. much larger number are: injured by fire year. The recorded loss of property by fire in .Canada during the 15 years, 1921 to = 1935, exceeded $630,000,000 ,In other words, at our present burning rate, approximately one human life is sacrificed and $110,000 worth of property -is des- troyed every day in tne year, Fire is no respecter of persons. Every man has a responsibility to- wards his neighbors and that res- ponsibility should cause every right- thinking person to pause and consid- er what he owes the community in | which he lives. We owe it to our- selves but in a greater degree to our fellow-citizens to permit no condi- tion to exist -upon our premises that will invite a visitation of fire. A great majority of fires are so easy to prevent that it is certainly a mor- al crime to tolerate the things which bring them about,. Hn Cities and towns, like individuals reap what they sow. To permit the erection of fire-traps, to fail to pro- vide an abundant and reliable wa- ter supply and means-of using it or to fail to apply the everyday rules of * fire prevention is to constantly face a menace of heavy fires and sweeping conflagrations. : Why tolerate a condition which not only levies tribute upon life and property but in effect imposes an added cost to the conduct of every feature of business activity and in- creases the burden ofgthe people, in providing the necessities of iife . We cannot afford to go on and be indifferent to it-all. Fire Preven- tion Week is a particular week ses aside to call attention to, the men= ace of fire. Are you doing your part? The' calendar has * brought us around once more -to the season of accidents with guns. We sre re- minded of this fact by 'a news item from Kenora which tells of a youth, hunting from a boat, touching with a toe, the: trigger of his gun, receiv- ing a fatal wound. --~For the next few weeks the papars y will tell of hunters shot by otner hunters who mistook them for deer, of hunters shot by their own guns while climbing fences. while getiing into or out of .cars and boats ,of hunters. who. "didn't know .it was loaded." They add up to & story that .is a melagcholy reflection on manners -and sense. Anybody able to carry and am a sporting gun knows very well how it should be carried and handled. 'The rules of safety are obvious, and the person who disregards. them is in deadly peril. He is also a menace to others, House Cooking: ' (Woodstock Sentinel Review) 'Herein' we make. no distinction between town and country, for (he urban centres of Oxford are one with the countryside in the culinary endowments of their housewives--at any rate those who lend their tal- ents to church suppers, In confirm-.. ation thereof\ we submit tha evi. dence of rural patronage; foiks wouldn't come in from the country to meals that revealed snortcomings. Besides; many of the city 'matrons were brought up oa the farm or' are but 'a generation or two removed from the life of which James Me- Intyre, the "cheese poet". wrote when he recorded in verse 'the 'ro- mance of John Roe and' Jane Tripp: "She helped him in the fields. so reap, And spun the wool from oft sheep, All they required thcy had for botn, Of her own weaving of good: cloth. And she was a good tailoress, =~ Did make his coat and her own Are dress. ; The _g4'den butter that -shes made the | Was of the very finest graae She filled large pot with well knaad dough : And baked fine bread 'mong embers glow." : Refugee of 1870 Way " Dies in Edmonton EDMONTON -- Refugee the I'ranco-German' War of 1870, Mrs, Zelle Fontaine, 88, of Edmon- ton, died her recently, She lived in various parts of the United States before coming here 38 years azo, durirg 'Germany has developed a substi- '| tute for linseed oil. - in Canada every - NG Will You Enlist