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WE rd a a I, - Wi et AR hy -~ may demolish the driver, =x Sparks from . . the Press CANADA Their Reward: Girls who are golf sensations get their pictures in the newspapers, but merits of a good pumpkin pie maker get no recognition at all.-- Sault Ste. Marie Sar, Tut. Tut. Doesn't she get her name in the Fall fair prize lists?--Stratford Beacon- © Herald. . Thé Cultural * Ideal Are school studies to be scaled down to the capacity of the listless and incompetent, and is the cultural ideal to be abandoned? The civiliz- ing influences which have trans- formed the world came to birth when Rome, eminently practical and hard-headed as she was, turned to more imaginative Greece, and the intellectual refinements it had to of- fer. What the Academy at Athens stood for---pure culture--must never be allowed to be sacrificed. We still retain: the name "aca- demical" in our educational efforts, but are more turning away from the spirit connoted by the name. Democ- racy must combat such demeaning tendencies, if . hopes to survive the challenge of the times.-- Hamilton Spectator, Shouldn't Be Published There was something in the .paper about 'the driver of a car who ran his machine into a railway engine ~at a level crossing néar Chatham, and the railway engine was disabled "and 'had to be towed in, while the auto" was not seriously damaged. Nor was the driver. k We "doubt much whether such items of news should ever.be print- ed in the papers. Some person is almost bound to come to the con- clusion: "If a man near Chatham can do that, so can I." It is much safer "to have the public glued to the be- Recipe For Education If Lord never did anything more in Canada than to make speeches such as the one he made the other evening before the students and graduates of Victoria University, hi: tenure of office would still be worthwhile. For this speech outlined a purpose and ideal in cducation which we, in this coun- try. are too apt to forget. . Lord Tweedsmuir did not tell Victoria University that the purpose of education was to train young men for success' in life, to make money, The principle of the "living philoso- phy instilled by a university should be "on the one side reverence and godly fear; on the other a cool, sane and clear-sighterd attitude to the world around us" ne "Ir Tam right inmy survey," continued, Lord Tweedsmuir, "then we have! a philosophy philosophy based upon a humble and reasoned optimism, The duty of a university is to transmit to the next generation tie philosophy which we have learned from our fathers, widened and deepened by our own 'experiences." It will be good for our cultural ~development, for the. whole future of education wmong us, if we keep | LIT ST Pweedsimuin these truths in mind.---"The Ottawiu_ Journal. A Rail Problem Siamese {wins presented a prob- lem to the conductor of an Ameri- can railway when only one of the pair had bought a ticket. It seems 1ailvoad troubles of late seldom come singly. . Men Singing in Choirs The Ontario Music Teachers' As- sociation has been in conferences in Toronto, and whenever there is a conference or a convention one may be certain some person will rise up and say scmething quite unusual. Harry tloizate of St. Catharines, claimed '90 is alinost impossible to get even third-rate choruses for our churches today." And Toronto or- ganists and choirymasters started at once saying yes and no, The trouble 'scems to he in getting male volces. The young men find so many other things to do today they have no time for choir practice.--The Petor- borough Examiner, His Method The village blacksmith was a j cockney Englishman with a sense of "humor. One day a customer called Land. asked his price for welding" a i piece of iron, a very small job and went into detail by asking the smith how he arrived at his charges' whether he charged for the time consumed, or had flat rates for the different jobs, ete. The smith replied: "When hi gits me joh done. hi looks hit hover, and charges hall that my conscience will hallow. Then hi shuts me eyes and doublas hit." Exchange. lief that if a car and an engine meet at a level crossing the railway en- gine will deal roughly with the los. ser contender and at the same time There are C--4 ol fe, a drivers doing so many wild things on our roads today that it is not well to encourage the belief that the lesser force can. succeessfully con- borough Examiner, i : Thrill of Death The craving for "thrills' cost the lives of ten young people near Pitts- burgh, Penn,, on Sunday recently. "A thrill or your money back," was the slogan wh induced them to go for a ride in an Sirians A few moments after the plane left the ground it plunged into a woods and caught fire, and then the ten excur- sionists were given the "thrill" -- but it was the thrill of death, It is such incidewts as this, which are kecping a large number of persons from becoming air-minded. The ajr- plane is a wonderful invention, and it is destined to occupy an impor- tant place in the transportation systems of all countries, but it is a mistake to regard airplanes as in- struments for producing "thrills." -- Chatham News. Wrong Setting In Spokane, Wash., a thief was subjected to X-mys and seven dia- monds were discerned in his interior. It was the conclusion of the judge that this was not the right setting.-- Brantford Expositor, Fuwre Aviators One thousand students are to be se- lected. from South Africa universities for training in the new Air Force Re- serve. Pilots will be trained at the rate of 200 a year. It may be re- marked that response In Britain to the governments appeal for youths to join, the Royal Air Force has been Immediate." France also is making great efforts to "catch them young." + . ..Canada has a notable record for carrying freight and passengers up in. to- the northern mining sections, Otherwise aviation: development here Ings somewhat. We might take a leaf out. gf our sister Dominion's book and Shit Sil tiie light airplane clubs more.--Montreal Star, Uphold British Traditions With the lifting of depression conditiviis there is evident in differ- ent parts of the Empire realization that the question of migration must be considered. With abundance of definitely, And it 1s a wholesome sign that all discussions stress the wisdom of filling these vacant spaces with settlers who will uphold British traditions,--Toronto Globe. The World's Best Seller The extraordinary demand, all over the world, for-thé -Holy 'Bible is well illustrated by the fact that the Bible Society last year issued over eleven and a half million copies. work printed, old or new, enjoys any- thing like such widespread reading. Part of the demand, no doubt, is for replacements of worn-out copies, and part represents new readers won through the spread of literacy. But, as the London Spectator remarks: "At a time when the decay of inter- est in religion tends to be taken for granted (far too readily and on quite insuflicient grounds) this ceaseless and increasing absorption of copies of the Bible is a fact of some signific- ance."--Montreal Star, : The Empire CT 'Betrayed We usually think "of children when the new war on the civilian front is envisaged. And what do children (and also their parents), when they fit their gas-masks and do their fire drill, think-of the world into which they have been born and that last war which was to make it "safe for democracy" ?--Hong Kong Press. Spoiling Warfare War behind the front, war drops out of the blue into towns and gay doings, war ~ that jolly that tend with the greater.--The Peters room, the bars cannot be kept up in-| No other. C. W. Scott, Melbourne air race winner in 1934, and Giles Guthrie," with thelr "Vega Gull," in which they won the England to Johannesburg $20,000 air race. cial speed prize. The pair, with their plane, received $20,000--the spe- chokes women and children, that shows no respect for important di rectors of important companies, "con- stant readers" of the Daily Miracle, church wardens and deacons, the man who hears the' chimes at midnight, tho man who 'keeps the Stock Ex- change busy and the man who never misses a cup match or a Covent Gar- den ball, no respect at all for all the props of the British Constitution and Britain's greatness--such a war is a new and terror-inspiring idea. A wa. which is not confined to profes: sionals is no longer a genilemaniy war. It has ceased to be glorious and honorable, ar = become insteac bes. tal, a crime against humanity, The devil that lives in the profiteer is definitely frightened, Better he thinks to be cut off from desirable profits than to lose his own life. Profits are still atiractive if they can be made out of honest neutrality, as, f-r instance, by a scrap between Italy and Abyssinia, but this business of being dragged in is quite another mat- ter.--Calcutta Statesman, * / 15-Hour Trip Montreal To © West Coast Main Line Via Armstrong--Feeder Service Later To Lakehea Cities - A fast Trans-Canada air service, handling mail and passengers, will ego into operation July 1 next from Montreal and Toronto to Vancouver, Hon. C.D. Howe, minister of trans- port, announced at the Head of the Lakes recently. . A feeder service will be provided from Armstrong to the Head of the Lakes, although this may not be in operation by July 1, Technical ex- perts of the department still have to determjne whether hydroplanes or Jand planes should be used on the route, the minister said. Hon. Mr. Howe received with evi- dent "satisfaction, news that the city councils of Fort William and Port Arthur had approved the. principle of leasing land for an airport at in- tercity. Daily Service The Trans-Canada service will be daily each way, flying the distance from Montreal to Vancouver in 16 hours. Connection will be made for Toronto at Scotia Junction, north of Toronto. . .When airports have been completed, a service will be operated also from Montreal to Halifax. Five planes, two flying and three standbys, will be requireé¢ for the through service. At first it is likely that Lockheed Electra planes, with capacity for ten passengers, will be used. Later the 23-passenger Doug- las planes may be used, the smaller planes being put on the feeder lines. The service will not be operated directly by the government, but probably will be let by contract "to a company close to th2 government," the minister said. .The railways may be connected élosely with the oper- ating company, he intimated. Hostesses for Planes . It is likely that hostesses, which are used on all the long distance air lines in 'the United States, will be part of the crews in Canada. On a 15-hour flight there must be some provision for serving meals, and other services, and hostesses do much to inspire public confidence in| the service, the. minister "said. The new cervice would bring back to Canada mail and passenger busi- ness now going to air lines in the United States, Hon." Mr. Howe -de- clared. It would not mean any loss in business for the railways, but on the contrary the airway feeder lines would bring business to the rail- ways, he said. ° : Already about $7,000,000 has been invested by the Dominion in the air- fields, most of it being spent for re- lief work. An expenditure of a fur- ther. $1,000,000 would be required on airports, beacons, and equipment, Personnel of the service had not been chosen yet, the minister said. In fact, he said, the personnel pre- sented a difficult problem, particu- larly in the ground service which was very technical. The develop- ment of air service would open a new field for young men, with much op- portunity. Flying services now em- ploy about ten men on the ground for every one in the air, he said. Just back from inspection of the major United States air routes, the minister said that he was impressed particularly by the sleeper planes used on the transcontinental service. He spent a very comfortable night in one of the planes, he said. Dur- ing his inspection he flew in almost every type of equipment in use on the passenger lines, and endeavored to determine the successful features of the American airways, he said. Fall Bulbs Need Plenty of Food Bosemeal Is Excellent Food; Avoid Fresh Manure An inmipression is often held that -bulbs which are newly pianted in the Fall do not require, plant food: It is 'true that mature bulhs have stored up food in themselves which largely spuplies the energy for early spring growin, and which~ may be sufficient to ,produce a flower. But this is only part of thé story. At the time the flower is boing produced a large number of roots are being formed, These roots: seek | in the soil for plant food and water which "they: supply 'to the grow plant. If there is. a deficiency plant food in the soil, the growth of the plant is greatly hampered. Th production of a vigorous, perfec | flower of normal size and color re- quires this additional nourishment taken from the soi; without which the flower will certainly suff.r, and may fall entirely, : Fully as important as fower pro- duction is- the developrient of well matured bulbs for the following year's flowering. Bulb plants that are neglected soon become worthless. Since bulbs start to grow so carly in the Spring, it is difficult to work plant food into the soil so as to get it down to the bulbs before growth starts, It "is therefore advisable to mix 'a complete plant. food thorough- ly in the bottom of a trench at the rate of two pounds per 50 feet of row before planting the bulbs, Also give a' light feeding in the early spring. Sprinkle the plant food around the plant shortly after it comes through the ground. Practical Marvel ty A magnet that keeps a cord of light. straight is one of the inter- esting and practical marvels recently produced by a famous electrical firm, "Osira" discharge tubes, which are well known in the lighting of many of our streets, have been adapted to floodlighting, and large numbers have been installed - for spectacular colored lighting effects. These discharge lamps have no filament, but consist of a sausage- like glass tube containing two elec trodes immersed in mercury vau ur, The electric current passes frum one electrode to the other, forming a cord of intensely luminous vapsur about the thickness snd length ¢f an or- dinary pencil, and giving a light ot nearly 2,600 candle power. . When used in a horizontal posi- tion, it was found that the cord of Tight bent itself upwards at the risk of damaging the glass, but scientists discovered that if a suit- able electro-magnet_ were placed _be- neath the lamp the cord of light could be held centrally within the glass tube. In floodlighting projectors. this magnet is arranged to swing 'so that whatever the position: 'of the projector the magnet is always di- rectly beneath the lamp, Boy Overcomes St. Mary's Lad Lacks Use of Limbs, Takes Honors in ~* Examinations STRATFORD -- Little boys who don't like school and who grumble when mother asks them to run to the store should know Myron Angus, 10- year-old St. Mary's boy. Myron has never known what it is to have the use of his arms and legs, and he never will. He cannot walk and run and play like other children, but probably he is as happy as any other lad of his age. Cer- tainly ke gets a thrill out of liv- ing. Myron is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Angus and he is a pupil in the third book at Central Public His tandions He stood third in his class last year and took honors in all his subjects, This year his aim is to stand right up. : Myron writes and draws with his mouth, He holds the pencil or pen or brush or whatever it is between his teeth, His writing is excellent and some of his art work would do credit to students in the collegiate: watercolors and shows remarkable ability with the brush. ~~ . " Myron is not a care, as one might things for himself, even to mashing his own potatoes, He merely puts the fork in his. mouth and mashes them that way. Chums pull him to school each day in a wagon and in the win- ter tinge he is pulled back and forth on a sleigh. ' List of Unemployed Again Shows Drop Old Land Has 7th Straight Reduction in Unemploy- ment LONDON, Eng.--Yet another re- duction in unemployment figures-- this time of 88,132---is shown in the returns for August. . This brings the total 'down to 1,613,940 and represents the 'sev- enth consecutive decrease this-year, The big increase recorded in em- ployment in the -coal mines . was described by an official at the min. healthy industrial demand. : A contributory factor, he auded, was probably, wet weather in Juiy, when domestic fires were renewed. The month's drop in the workless total would have been much. greater he said, but for the exceptionally large batch of school-leavers--niore than 19,000--who had come. on the register at the end of the summer term, 4 More Acreage - Is Advocated Government Officer Makes Appeal to Farmers In Nova Scotia ville Cumming, statistician of the provincial department of agricul- Halifax County Exhibition here. Nova Scotia farm holdings -of 50 acres or less occupied by fishermen School. Angus is not just an average ' student. He has done several landscapes in' suppose, to his parents, He does most |. istry of labor as being due. to a Also Mechanic Household Science Dean At Toronto 'U' is Fond Of ""Tinkering A ---- TORONTO-- Miss Jessie Brodie may be the new dean of house hold science at. the University: of Toronto, but she doesn't confine her - activities to strictly feminine arts, : Despite the austerity. of her. posis tion, the master's degree and Ph.D, she won in Columbia' University, - Miss Brodie makes no secret of the fact that she loves dabbling with suto engines, changing tires, fixing electrical gadgets, or just tinkering at a work bench, ~~ - | - "If I do say it myself, the world lost a good mechanic if me," she laughed when interviewed recently. It was her first day at her new job of teaching 200 girls, but by no means her first appearance in a classroom, She has a_ brilliant record of . research work in teaching in New Liskeard, Western Canada and in the States: " Miss Brodie, born- near Toronto, smiled when asked why her teach- ing activities had taken her to high schools in such distant places. "I always wanted to get .as far away as possible and see new placea. and that was the only way I could do it," she said. . : Life On Farm Lauded By Speaker Laments Cities' Siren Call That Robbed Good Green Acres of Manpower e WINDSOR-- That there is ample room for a wide agricultural] settle- ment and development 1n' Canada under government supervision, was explained to members of the Wind- sor Optimist Club recently by S. E. McGorman, president of the Cham- Allowing for about 'one-third of my own family, ber of Commerce. i Idea Wrong Mr. McGorman declared that the - contention that land cannot be settled any more because of tne mechanization of industry which has rendered - farmers unnecessary was wrong "I say that tne mechaniza- tion of industry has nothing to do MIDDLE MUSQUODOBOIT, N.S. |with the drift towards cities," he --Nova Scotia farmers were urged said. ; to cultivate more land by Dr. Mel. !farmers who moved to the city did : 'so for the same reason thax my family did--because they thought ture, when he opened the annual they could make more money with ; | less work in the city. "About 99.9 per cent of the Again, like most of them were wrong." } Mr, McGorman_ blamed the high _- or others who are not seriously in-|Wages .in automobile factories for tent on farming, Nova Scotia rarm- |the desertion of the farm, which he ers grow about five acres of grain Edward Island farmers' 16 acres and 256 acres per farm in Ontario, he said, } Nova Scotia farmers grow about YCAars. 'have more money on the average {than those who went to the citics. one-third acre of roots, P.E.I._farm- ers double this amount and Ontario farmers devote six times as much land -to 'hoed crops, Dr. Cumming added. 'In this province. 73 per cent of the cultivated land was "devoted to hay, Prince Edward Island had 56 per cent and New Brunswick 62 per cent. on "And yet," he said, "Nova Scotia suffers most from shortage of hay in drought years. siderations clearly indicate that no matter what 'else may be done, the improvement of Nova Scotia agri- culture depends largely on cultivat- ing more land annually." BEN European war means a world war," a » --Sir Walter Citrine, "The two most precious things in this world are liberty and justice; Neither can exist apart from the other." ' --Nicholas Murray Butler. {infested All these con-! Iwho has stue "Thard "What did I tell you?" cried the hen, with a cackle of triumph, "Can I tell metal when I bump into it,"or is the thing a rock?" "It's metal, sure enough," answered the child, gazing thoughtfully at the curious key she had found, "I think. it is pure gold, and it must have lain hidden in the sand a long time. How do you suppose it can, here, Billina? And what do you suppose it un- locks?" "I can't say," replied the hen. . Copyrighted 1932, Reflly & Lee Co. Dorothy glanced around. There was no sign of any house in that - part. of the country, and she reason- ed every key must fit a lock and every lock must have a purpose. Perhaps the key had been lost by someone who: lived. far away, but had wandered on this very shore, Musing on these things she put the key in her pocket, and said, "I believe I'll have a look around and see if I can find some breakfast." So she and the hen set out, water's edge, 4 - bank of white sand which seemed to "Oh! 'I've never been to school, you know." Walking a little way back from the Dorothy came to a have queer markings upon is sur- face. "What does it say?' she 'asked the yellow hen, who trotted along beside her in a dignified fashion, "How should I know?" re- plied the hen, "I cannot read!" Can't you?' (Certainly not; Then, as they drew closer, Dorothy read the sign aloud. "What's a Wheeler?" asked Bil- lina, curiously, I guess,' replied Dorothy. "Perhaps they're automobiles," suggested the hen. "Several of my friends have "been run over by automobiles, Whera are you going now?' "To find something to eat," replied the girl. When they reached the-grove Doro- thy was disappointed for thcyvs were no fruit trees. Then Billina spoke: "Look," she said, "I never saw a tree like that before!" "People who wheel, "claimed attracted farmers who could per farm, compared with Prince see only prosperity-in cities. "The Township of Tallsticks, north of London," he continued, "has been with my people for 100 Those who are still there They have conie through the depres- sion and,. if they haven't made any - money, they haven't lost' any, They can start right now and gos through - 110 more depressions, and if -there is no political turmoil in which they | will get shot up, they will lose no 'money. { doubt if any of our big industries can show the steadiness of earning power of the Kssex or Harrow Co-operatives. Every man to his guns on a real farm has made a living and saved the equivalent of one factory oper- ative's job in a city and has con- tributed substantially to some man without a job in the city. Balance Needed "lt does not matter how many men we have on farms--one million or 50 million. All: that matters is a reasonable , balance in numbers and earning power 'of people on farms and people in cities. Before 1880 the Township of Tallsticks was about once in three years taking up collections, through churches mostly, to help people who were in. circumstances" in Toronto. Now, of course, it is a taxation matter "and takes an appreciable percentage of their income. Not once in 50 years have the people of Tallsticks asked or needed help from anybody." : The speaker explained that one whole district in Manitoba had been depopulated by people ceming to work in 'the automobile factories in Windsor, -- ' Settlement schemes until now, he declared; had been a failure because the men put on fars's were either men who had failed in. some other Job, or who lacked the benefits of organization, or who was lacking in necessary equipment, oh whb nad a small clearing in" the bush, subject to summer frosts, 4 He proposed that the government should take a considerable district _|and should have it thoroughly sur- veyed. On that land should be set:loc young men with their lives ahead of them, ---- "The Mediterranean is ona of the vital highways of the British Empire." ~8ir Samuel Hoare, : X