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"Sparks from . La w the Press "CANADA New Breed of Sheep The successful crossing of a limit- ed stock of. Russian caracul sheep, from which fashionable furs are ob- tained, with other more common breeds is reported by United States . Agriculture Department éxperts. "As a result, they said, farmers soon may produce considerable broadtail, Per- sian lamb and caracul fur. Impor- tations of the- three' mounted: to about $3,000,000° in ' the last five years,.--Montreal Star. Canada's Gold Hon. T. A. Crerar, minister of mines and 'natural resources, expects that within. five years Canada's gold production will reach at least $200, 000,000 annually and perhaps $225, 000,000. !' Apparently 'good - progress is being made in discovering that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.-- Kitchener Record. - It's a Moot Question Chang has kidnapped * Chiang in China, and it is feared Chang may hang' Chiang if Chiang dg7g, not choose. to join Chang and bang .the Japs. in China. The question is:-- will Chang hang Chiang or will Chiang chip in with Chang and drive the Japs out of China?-- Stratford Beacon-Herald. Colonies Are Expensive Judging from the demands of cer- tain countries for colonies, the im- pression is given that such terri- tories are sources of wealth, but that has not been 'the experience of the great holders of colonies. In- deed, according to figures compiled to the Carnegie Endowment for In- ternational Peace. Germany = and Italy have spent far more than their total colonial trade on their colonie$, instead of showing a profit. Japan also has spent far more on her col: onies than she received. Britain and France also spend more on colonies than they collect. The fact is that more often than not, colonies pro- duce deficit rather than surplusee.-- Niagara" Falls ~ Review, ---------- -- Hendy-Stuff ". Have 'Canada has rounded the corner, and, having set the course, has but to continue, Trade is growing; earnings of the people are-increas- ing and the rich mineral heritage is being revealed as vaster than: the most- optimistic imagined. It is not gold alone. Total: mineral produc- tion will exceed that of last year, when it was valued at $312,000,000. But gold pays bills anywhere," pro- vides "currency - backing, whether we believe 'it or not, and is a handy com- modity to have in the public vaults for future stability." Other nations are increasing their resources. Can- gde manifestly is reaching a position where it will be possible to do the same.--Toronto Globe; and Mail. tty > 2 ier SET Oim Those Headlights! If only one out of three motorists are courteous enough' to dim their headlights when approaching an- other car, it is high time the other two-thirds 'were made to realize the An Edmonton motorist, 'struck by the number of on glaring headlights, 'made four 80- mile trips at night 'over highways He found on one drive that "one-third of the drivers error of their ways. night traffic accidents blamed around this city. he met dimmed their lights volun tarily or in response to a "wig-wag' On the 'other three drives, the proportion of courteous drivers signal was even less.--~Edmonton Journal. Sitting on the Lid Lethbridge 'has sat on the lid o its strong box for six long years o the depression. The result is tha we have accumulated sufficient fund . to pay more than 656 cents on the dollar of all our bonded indebtedness. Our financial standing is the best of any city of its size in Western Can- ada.--Lethbridge Herald. A New ldea Czecho-Slovakian authorities have an idea of their own about promot- ing traffic safety. "Directions for finding the nearest doctor are being added to all permanent traffic signs near dangerous curves and traffic n- tersections" in that country, reports attache an American commercial from Prague.--~Brandon Sun. Hue! The Union of Soviet Republics, or shorter, Russia, is a country of im- size 'and potentialities, ' It stretches from Poland to Behring mense Strait. It occupies a seventh of ence appreciate its great extent once said: "We sitting here in this' yoom today are nearer Moscow than : a Soviet citizen at the other end of | Which t statement ia exactly true as anyone Russia, say Vladivostok." tances in a map.--Halifax Chronicle. declared: he 1and surface of the earth, A sean in Halifax in order to make his audi: may ascertain by 'consulting the dis. It Hits the Spot ; "R 1 'T. Kelly, who is one of the most astute advertising and mer: chandising men in Ontario, in a re- cent 'address before the Midland Chamber of Commerce, urged that local business men should cultivate the surrounding "trading areas. He "Every advertisement, whether of a local or outside firm, is' an invitation to these people to buy there. While a large number of outside newspapers come into a town each day, it is the local newspaper which governs purchasing locally."-- Simcoe Reformer. ---- Youth Youth is proné to protest against restraint, but without zastraint it is certain that society chp long en- dure.--Hamilton Spectator, Old Order Changes In the old days, the Fergus voters' lists used to be full of "Spinsters." They have nearly all disappeared, | having turned into Stenogs, Stu- dents, - Clerks, Teachers, Nurses, Maids, Musicians, Tel. Ops.--Fergus News-Record. 'Submarine Safeguards Italy and France have joined Brit- ain, United States and Japan in humanizing submarine warfare by undertaking that before an enemy merchant ship is sunk, its crew, pas- sengers and papers must be put in a place of safety, and open boats are not to be so regarded unless near a shore or a rescue ship. Unfortunate- ly these arrangements do not seem to stand up under actual 'test.-- The Moncton Transcript. Danish Settlers The Danes apparently seek wide- open spaces where their industrious people may find opportunities not now apparent in their small territory at home. ~~ At least the consul general for Denmark was in Western 'Australia during the first two weeks of Octo- ber examining the possibility of group settlement areas being taken over by Danish immigrants. In Den- mark, he sald, a special: government department concerned with emigra- tion had asked Danish diplomatic and 'consular representatives to study the' immigration position in the countries in which they lived. The farms on the group. settlements, he said, were 'good if worked properly, and would: be satisfactory if the con- ditions offered by the government were: such that they: could be: profit- ably -taken_ over for. dairying by the 'Danes.~Brandon Sun. - : : $I Lr |. THE EMPIRE Empire Migration' It is more thdn 20 years ago since the steady 'and uninterrupted flow of migration from Great Britain to the Dominions and Colonies ceased to be a regular feature of "the Empire's corporate life," It is true that vari: ous specialized « efforts -have been made + in" -the ~meantime-~in- South Association -- Memorial = Settlers' f | the British race will be lost for ever f| both in Britain itself and in the Do- t| minions, Colonies and dependencies Africa, for example; by the 1820 with varying degrees of success, to establish British emigrants in the | Commonwealth overseas. But unless what we have termed "the steady un- interrupted flow of migration" from Great Britain can be resumed and maintdined on the old pre-War level, nothing is more certain than that some of the outstanding qualities of Mrs, James Roosevelt, mother of the President, pictured with Lily Pons, opera and film star, at private preview of Miss Pons' new film in New York City at which Mrs. Roosevelt was guest of honor. World's Arms Trade $43,600,000 In 1935 GENEVA. -- The total known trade-in arns and war - materia's during 1986 amounteC to $43,600, 000, the League of Nations an- nounced recently. Tie League said it world be rash. to accept"the fig- ure as covering world-wide trading in armatnents. - The figures were contained in the 12th edition of the "statistical year book on the trade in arms and ammunition." They include only arms and materials manufactured for war purposes, excluding sport ling arms and ammunition. The highest 'point in the past tén years was reached in 1929, the League declared, when exports were valued at $715200,000. Thé lowest was in 1932 when, in the period of the world conference for reduction of armaments, it was $37,700,000. After the conference disbanded, conflicts in several rections of the world resulted in an increase in ex- ports uf ams and munitions which prevailed through the next three years, "Tables show the general world economic depression that set in in 1929----1936 had a much lesser ef- fect on exports of arms than on com- modities in general," the Yéar Book commented. from 1930. but a decrease in arms exports between 1930 and 1932 In- clusive, was relatively much swuller in-trada as a whole." cited these fighires: Great 'Britain headed all other arms exporters up. to 1933 inclusive, but the British position in 1934 was taken by Czechoslovakia whose ex: ports were 21,1 per cent. of the world's total compared to 20.6 for Great Britain. ~~ Exports from France also de: creased. ~Ta---1935 the French ship- ments were about 14 per cent. of pe otal us against 26 per cent. in Shirts Rented There are 200 people in New York who rent their shirts instead of buy- ing them, observes the New Yorker. Up to.last May there were no facili- ties for people who wished to rent shirts; you had tu own them or do without. Then Mr. Emil Liss launch ,]ed the A Shirt Rental Company (that's its exact name), Mr. Liss is . | manager 'of the Metropolitan Towel 8| Johannesburg Times. Supply Company which is in the per- "The latter fell off considerably while since 1923 there has been an increase which has not been observed --Anatyzing exports, the-Yece Book fectly- orthodox business of renting towels to doctors, dentists and beauty parlors, and bed linen to boarding houses and hotels. - Here's the way- it works: A man signs up, on a yearly basis, to rent three shirts a week, at a weekly charge of 50 cents. Mr. Liss then has seven shirts made up in the man's collar size and sleeve length, with his name, inked on the tail. Shirts are all of white broadcloth, and all of the same cut. On the first delivery, four of the shirts are left at the client's door. Client wears three of ghese, presum- ably each for two days, and has the fourth and 'last on his back on the seventh day, when the truck calls again leaving three fresh shirts and picking up the three sciled ones. The second week the patron wedrs one shirt three days, putting him down all square with the delivery system for the third week. And so on to the end of the year. Meticulous folk can contact, at-a higher price, for the delivery of four, five or even six shirts weekly. There's a Detec- tive Fox in Brooklyn who takes six; 'fhe has the further distinction of taking the biggest shirts on the Liss roster--19% collar and 33 s'eeve. The Last-Ships Writes the Montreal Gazette. --The last vessels of the 1936 season in the Port of Montreal are now out in the Atlantic or in the Gulf of St. Lawr ence, and the port authoritics are looking back with satisfaction on one and freighters was 'the <i in pliss eight years. The increase {n the uuu! ber of lake and' coastal and' river steamers accounted for 'the record grand total of ship movements. Car goes were heavy all through the sea: son, and on one single day liners car ried 5,000 passengers, - Starting well, the business inthe port increased ar the season advanced, and there was a veritable rush onthe wharves al' through November. = On - some days the goods could hardly be hand- led and ships had to be held over in order to complete their cargoes: , Tramp tonnage. was greatly in ex- cess of last year and cattle exports totalled 30,000,' recalling the great cattle shipments of former days. Nu- merous new shipsarrived and many countries were represented. unusual flags being those of Spain, Jugoslavia and Sarawak, The big Polish liner Pllsudski was an important visitor. I addition to the merchant ships, British, "rench, German<and Cana. d'an warships entered the port for short visits. = The rush towards the end of the 'both in Canada and abroad, the heavy 1937 will also be a big year in the Port of Montreal, and already there are heavy passenger booking for the coronation in May. As the ocean, laké and coastal shipping reflects the progress of trade and continued movement all through the season just closed may be re garded as actual proof of Industrial |' recovery, A ix (BEFPOR TA HOT SHOTS By KEN. EDWARDS Mr. Sportsman!' Do you thrill to the tug of a fighting fish on the line? A small, warrior the size af a bass or something 'as large as a cow? If 80, let us talk it over a bit. Down in Nova Scotia the big-game fish is the Tuna. There, every year they harpoon them weighing as high as three-quarters of a ton. No other sea fish possesses more spunk and fighting spirit than this living thun- derbolt of stream-lined fighting fish. The capture of a 792-pound Tuna 'n 62 hours of continuous struggle in 1934 was the longest battle known. The files tell us that Michael Lei- ner, of New York, holds the record for quick kills in Nova Scotia waters. He caught 21 tuna fish for eight days in 1935, the largest, a 450-pounder, wag boated in 46 minutes and the smallest, 9F lbs, in 8% minutes. You all know of thé famous novel ist, Zane Grey, maybe so, but, did you know too, that in 1924 he caught a 768 pound Tuna, that remained u world record for rod and line angl- ing until 1933 when Michell Henry captured one 857 pounds? It was Thomas Howell, of Chicago, who captured the largest Tuna ever taken on rod and line. The giant fish tip- ped the scales at 956 pounds. The heart of the Tuna is consider- ed a very great delicacy, and is said to be nearly as big as a basket-ball. Look us ip next week, Mr. Sports- man, we're going swordfishing . . . . happy angling! -- [listory of King Names Set Forth Latest King Albert Died In 860 A.D.--Origin . "George" If the Duke of York had not pre. ferred to inherit his father's prestige as CQeorge VI. instead of becoming Albert I, he would have been--the New York Herald-Tribune points out --sthe first King- Albert to reizn in England since 860 A.D. SOME WILL - OBJECT To this statement some persons who are familiar with the line . of England's early kings are not unlike ly to object that there has never been an English King Albert at any J was 21,747 Of these 10,922 were up- any but an ancient Teutonic name, redolent of heathen aspirations, Al- fred means the wisdom or counsel of |. the elves, the spirit of light. Ethel red is noble-wisdom,' or more likely divine wisdom, Edward means guard ian of wealth, or as it sebms to have jmplied in' rougher-times, guardian lot. Harold i§ Norse, the Anglo faxon equivalent' being Hereweald, meaning the power of the army, or, at un earlier time, of the raiding part, "Walter (Wealdhere) 1s the same | ed end for end. Willlam, or Wilhelm, which some translate pompously, 'the helm of resolution,' {s fh reference to ancient myths of a magic 'wishing; helmet,' the 'wishing cap' of later fairy stories. ONE OF OLDEST "Henry is one of the oldest of &ll being one of the appe'lations of-Tiu (Zeus), most ancient and obscure of the Indo-Germanic gods, meaning probably ruler of the clan or patrl- arch (if the German Heinrich should be Heimreich). It Invokes upon a child the care of the old heathen god. Richard appears to mean simply firm ruler. Least pretentious of all 1s Charles, o~ Carl, since cerol in Anglo Saxon meant man, or man-at-arms, then servant, and finally churl." At New Peak 88,000,000 Total --Amherstburg Has Record Navigation Season AMHERSTBURG. -- Eighty-e'ght million cons of freight, with a valua of nesily $1,300,00€.000, a uew high, passed the port of Amherst burg during the 1936 navigation season i The nuiuber of vessels to pass Am- herstburg this year exclusive of pas- senger steamers aad pleasure raft bound na 1¢,8256 dewn bound. The | vessel passages An 1935 were 18.179. The principal fhrgoes carrie! were coal ore, autgfobiles and grain, | Prior to thf opening of the new ingstona channel early ber, beth uy, and down bound vessels used the new channel efter its com- pletion igation, many upbound vessels used the n:w channel because the lights along the Amherstbuix waterway had been stored in winter quarters and ice floes were forming in the east- ern channel: : i ° Cream to Russia Writes the Baltimore Sun -- It is customary, according to the State Department, for diplomats to take with them supplies of delicacies tnat tries to which they are assigned. Thus Russian emissaries often bring caviar and vodka to Washington, and Mrs. Joseph E. Lavies wife of the new ohn, no King of England from Al | fred's time to the present has had of the 'spoils, meaning the leader of| '| a raiding party who distributed the' are not easily obtainable in the coun- LONDON, -- Mrs, Wallis Simpson 'has now entered the "hall of fame" { works and ediately turned a cyn- "ical smile ire the Archbishop ye Canterbury. outa e Gowned in scarlet and heavily laden with jewels, the figure of the . woman for whom King Edward gave up his throne fixed her gaze full up on the venerable Archbishop 100 feet away, King Edward -- he's still Mons name with the same meaning, turn. arch at the waxworks -- was around a corner, out of Mrs. impson"s sight, but he also stared at the Archbishop op who has publicly berated Edward for his '"'unchristian"" determination to marry the American woman, OPINIONS DIFFER A clubby little woman standing before Mrs. Simpson's' wax - figure said: "Isn't she lovely?" A gentleman with a bristling mili- tary moustache grumbled: 'She ought to be in the chamber of hore rors." An attendant of Madame Tus. saud's was shocked at the sugges- tion that Mrs. Simpson and Edward" ought to be posed together, "Oh, no," he said, "not until they are married." Unveiling of Mrs, Simpson's fig- ure a-week after work was started on her wax likeness established a Tussaud record. The waxworks ex- perts, using measurements obtained from Worth, the Paris dressmaker of Mrs. Simpson, and hundreds of pho- tographs, had four modellers work seven nine-hour days. The head was modelled by Ber- nard Tussaud ,great-grandson of the founder of the museum, and the man responsible for its restoration after a million dollar five in 1925, CLOTHED IN EVENING GOWN Mrs. Simpson's figure is clothed in an evening gown of scarlet satin, made especially by her Parig dress- house. The gown is high-necked, sleeveless and backless. The figure of Edward will be strip- ped of its uniform in a few days and in Septem- dressed in street clothes, Officials of the waxworks, recall- ing that the day aftei Adolf Hitler's During the lasi week of nav- figure was put on view, some fanatie doused it with red ink, stationed an 'attendant near the iikeness of the {American woman. : Girls Demanding Lots of Homework | CHATHAM. = Most secondary school children have a deep-rooted aversion to homework in any shape or form, bu. grils of Chatham Vo- home a novel form of home study now included in the household science course, according to Principal Harry Ms. Simpson is Now In Wax At Tussaud's at Madame Tussaud"s famous wax. = cational School actually fight to take _ time in the past, But they will be to Moscow, of the best seasons on record. More vessels entered inward than ever be- fore, and-the number of ocean. ~¥§ overlooking the fact that Albert, like Elbert, is simply short for Ethelbert. (which appears in the Anglo-Saxon "LOraAethelbryht), and that Alfred the wilia 1194 an-elder prother who ruled Chronicle as Aethelbriht, Aethelberht- American Ambassador' will take along 2,000 pints &f frozen cream and 25 electric refrigerators presumably to keew it frozen. - Mrs, Davies may be different from other people but it does not seem al- Collins The study i weaving, and girl students enjoy taking home the 15 miniature looms used in the course to do a little extra work r.aking heir favorite fabrics. The looms years ago. elbert {8s commonly but alogies to Wuotan (Od tion of good fortune gods, for a prospective King, fs certainly more appr fro this connection that, season may be taken as a sign that Georges, the Jameses, England for five fia Fp died 1,076 Sa "The fuller form of the name tactorily translated 'noble-bright.' In the early Anglo-Saxon days (and the name is a very old one) the "title 'agtheling' was glven to none sclons of the several royal or he oic nes that a.» traced in the old gene to his divine forebears. therefore, seems to have meant divine stock' rauiher than simply noble. So in an age when the bestowal of a name upon a child was an invoca- call him Ethelbert would® be much like saying: 'May he shine like the This {8s not a mean ambition offic» than George, which is derived the Greek for 'peasant.' TEUTONIC NAMES "It may be interesting to note in A Em car not too satis but in), and even 'Athe'ing.' 'of English cigarettes. upon him. to they see ©F electric we hesitate to predict, and the name opriate to the | will be goggle-eyed. apart from Stephen © and overhuzardyus to predict, that, though she is starting for Russia de- Fern dta Larry the essentialg=x of Raitt at Th ant ly inv sant America 'with hor, shu A fade a The tiny weavirg m : 5 full-sized ones in everything - . . UH) Pi Heo IA duced:=A larger one will bepacs @ with a huge consignment of caviar, j equal to bos Russian hors d'oeuvres, sturgeon and | except recipes for Slavic pastries. That, at any rate, is what usually ed fro.> which more full-sized looms™ happens. People go to London in a can be'made, Principal Collins indi- be panic for fear they won't be able to cated. : get enpugh ice. They come home de- manding kippers for breakfast and complaining that there is a duty on Something like that niay happen to Mrs. Davies. But what will happen to the Russians as refrigerators parading into the American Fmbassy They may take it as a real education in the p- onomy 'of abundance." Anyway, they "The church may be behind the age --yes, behind the sins of the age. She is always behind in that way." --Cardinal Hayes. - "What's gone?" cavern where they up Tiktok's voice, could. sured Dorothy that "The key that winds him!" replied Dorothy. Then she ran back to the Tiktok and there discovered the key to his machinery. At once she wound give the key as many turns as she She found this quite a task, as you may imagine if you ever tried to wind a clock, but Tiktok, as- run for at least twenty-four hours. asked Billina. "You did not 3 i first," he calmly had discovered work, and 'then taking care to he would now low hen, you that long sto-ry about King Eve ol-do ,s0 it is no wonder I ran down," She next rewound the action clock- to carry the key to Tiktok pocket, so it would again. "And now," when all this had been accomplish- ed, "tell me what you were going to say about the Wheelers, when you ran down." "Yes, do," said the yei- wind me much at said, " and I told Billina advised her in her not get lost said Dorothy, either," girth "Why they frightened of," said "They try to make people think they are terrible, but they are harmless to any-one who dares fight them, If 1 had a club they would away." "Haven't you a club?" asked Dorothy, opening which she carried. "No," answered the copper man. find such a thing among these rocks, declared the yellow hen, "Then what shall we do?" asked the are nothing to ve the machine. ard 1 will said Tiktok thought ma goon . run the dinner pail "And you won't there were "Wind up uy Line oo A could and while he was thinking she began to eat her dinner. The cover of the dinner pail contained a small tank of very good lemonade. key, some bread, salad and a slice of custard pie, When she finished, she turned to Tiktok, but he was siloat. try to think oi a pan," . So Dorothy wound his chinery as tightly as she h Also three slices of cold: tur- &7 are about a foot square and were made by the \owational School wood- Pan department. machines are. quantity of THe. m= Realize War's Costs Now The Toronto Globe and Mail (em- ments:-- It is after wars are over that the cost must be counted. [he trouble does not ené with victory. There ure the bills to be paid; but more important than these is the con- tinued tol! on human life that is levied during the years of peace. From Vienna comes a dispatch dis- 'cussing this subject, bused on figures said to nave been voliected from of. ficial sources Thess statistics indle cate what Las been going on through out the world in hospitals and homes. where men are gradually succmiabing to war injuries. It i= stated that, among all" na- tion combsutants in the great war, 8,638,000 men were killed ov died of wounds during the campaigns; also that of 19,000,000 wounded who were treated. after the Armistice more than 15,000,000 have passed away as a consequence of war ser- vice, and that there still ate living 4,237,000 'men carrying through the years wounds received in action, Thus more men died of wounds after the war was over than were killed in action. As the years pass and these. wounded veterans are weakened by age, the peacetime cass ualties become more numerous. These figures illustrate the staggering price: humanity must pay for military oper- World countries appears to be "still for war." - Britain ilone of these nations realizes martial conflict, and, thats. reason why she continues ap -yinfluence in efforts to peace. ¥ ations, © Yet the voice of 'many Old the meaning of