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)ils - Greases i Repairs {ATTERY SERVICE :00! of the Hill” ' R H AM r“ r 00mm Durham w particular wen r9 their '1‘"! OS. Noble IRS .: Agricult v“ h‘l 'nn1-.?ff. u m mechanics available to roubles and On your 01‘ Ontario YOU. I enjoyed your letter and noted your desire to present to your young people with books or recreation that are wholesome. Today I am reviewing a book which I think most girls will enjoy. It has a high ideal of character based on a sure foundation, and also shows a lite that was good but did not admit until near the close of life that the One who should come first had been left out. I hope my choice may interest you. â€"Ruth Raeburn. ODD MADE EVEN by Amy Le Felvre The author makes apology for this book in the preface. So many young peOple who had read “Odd” had asked for another story about Betty and she was afraid this story would be above their heads. But she trusted that older folk who had enjoyed the previous story would follow with interest the older Betty. Dear Susan Sunshine: Once when speaking to a friend of another who was in trouble she expres- sed the desire "to comfort him, to make him pleased and satisfied with life," and the answer she received was in the words of the prophet Isaiah. “1 have seen his ways. and will heal him also, and restore comforts unto him." The Opportunity came to her to pass on this word of comfort in her own way and before the story closes we get a glimpse of the flower of character that bloomed from that little seed. We might add that this is a splendid girl's story whether or not the previous book has been read. It is a clean, wholesome story with a high ideal and gives us glimpses of almost all moods to which every individual is apt to have with life's various adventures. The beautiful portion of this story is the source from which Betty drew strength for every need and how she imparted quite unconsciously, this joy and strength and comfort to others. Then again. we watch the growth of the seeds that are sown through the singing of Betty's favorite hymn “The King of Love my Shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never.” We find then in the heart of the organ blower, the lonely hearts in the almshouses and most of all the beautiful flower in her own character because of her belief in the truth that "1 nothing lack if I am His and He is mine forever.” Then we follow with interest her de- sire for service. her feelings that she was no good. her lack of vision that the corner she was in was where her 381‘- v1ce for God should be. The advice given her by a friend made her do some thinking. "If you are feeling that your life is empty fill it with others’ interests. We are all stewards entrust- ed with gifts to pass on." A real live love story runs through the book and what girl is there who does not delight in tracing up all the events and the ups and downs in the path of love? It is a love story that is worthy of reading and shows how those who aim to follow the Great Example in the dark places as well as in the sunshine find the desire of their Come in Chat Awhile â€"llnt.h Rubnrn. At Home wOmen, their inferiority or superior- ity to men, and their place in the world have been discussed in the papers by a large number of correspondents of both sexes but we doubt if any conclu- sion has been reached. If we were called upon for an opinion on the sub- ject we are inclined to think that we would carefully view the surroundings and decide accordingly. Sir Ellis Hume- Williams, an English lawyer famous for his examinations in divorce court cases, is not so timid and his book of reminscences, “The World, the House and the Bar” is remarkable for the ex- pression of new and unconventional opinions about women in the modern world, as he says, “A barrister has bared to him almost the very souls of men and women,” so that his opinions upon men and women in divorce dif- ficulties carry considerable weight. He writes: “A man with a busy life and the occupations either of business or of Women Less Faithful Than Men Says sport, may possibly live without the at- fection of a woman; but the average woman cannot live a life of even mod- erate happiness without love, aflection, and attention. It is the food of her soul. Those who are starving must find food where they can.” Women’s Intuition More explicitly, he says: “I think strange as it may seem, that women are less faithful than men. There are so many phases of life . . . which at- fect a woman in an altogether greater degree than a man. and which make easier the path of a would-be lover: curiosity, boredom. love of change. love of adventure; even the risk of an illicit liaison with its plotting and planning, its deceptions and its untruths, is sometimes better to a woman than the sameness of uneventful domesticity.” Sir Ellis lends the weight of his opin- ion. too. to the novelist’ s tradition about the power of intuitive knowledge of women. “While no man has really age man is the easiest thing in the world to understand and manage by any woman who thinks it worth her while. My experience is that a woman who is careful to preserve her physical attractions and will take a little trouble to understand and sympathize with her husband’s work or his pleasures, can keep him just as long as she likes.” A Difficult Situation One of Sir Ellis’ most famous cases, the Russell cause celebre, provides him with one of the most piquant of his anecdotes. A co-respondent told him that he had taken Mrs. Russell to a hearts that are worthy will be granted them in time. I have no hesitation in recommend- ing this book as a suitable gift for a girl in her teens and a book that many women who love girls will enjoy read- One Heapâ€"3130 trace the beauty of true friendship in this story and that is an ideal which should be kept before young people. -. ‘_ _ Unconventional minions About the Modern Womenâ€"J. V. Meme Gives Outline in Toronto Md! and Empire. And Her Ideas From Paris Famous KC. dance and that when they returned, she found that she had lost her key. ’80 he took her to his flat, where she slept in his room, while he occupied the sit- ting room. “I said to the young man. ‘But what happened in the morning?’ To which, with complete simplicity, he said, ‘Well, you see, it was rather awk- ward, because the lady had nothing but evening dress and could not very well leave in that a‘ctire.’ ‘Well, what did you do?’ ‘What did I do?’ said the young man in astonishment, ‘Why, of course, I did the obvious thing. I tele- phoned her husband, told him that she was with me. and was still in evening dress, and that he must pack up and bring her day things at once.’ Which, he said, the husband did. As Sir Ellis remarked to the jury, “If the husband did not mind, why on earth should A legal story of a somewhat differâ€" ent kind was culled by Sir Ellis from an American source: “One of our uni- versities had need of a law lecturer, so they advertised for one. There were many answers, but one gentleman, after stating his qualifications, added that his father had been a judge, he had a brother who was then a judge. and his grandfather had been a chief justice. The secretary thanked him for his letter, but pointed out that there seemed to be some misapprehension, as the university wanted him as a law lecturer and not to breed from." Sir Ellis’s reputation as a divorce court pleader gives point to his anecdote of the facetious friend, who, at a din- ner at the House of Commons, intro- duced to him a certain noble lord, saying loudly: “He may be useful to you some day," and then in a roar of laughter, “You never know, do you! Oh. no, you never know!” “I laughed with that sort of infectious gaiety us- ually only exhibited by a doctor with a good bedside manner, and the noble lord saw a friend whom he knew on the other side of the room and left without saying anything. In fact, his wife had been in consultation with me ihe greiter part of the afternoon, choosing the facts upon which she could most easily divorce himâ€"and he knew Lord Canon’s Joke An excitingiy unconventional glimpse of Lord Curzon is given in the account of a dinner at which he told how, in his university days, he had played a trick on Mr. X., a very distinguished member oi the Government who was then present. He had hired at a London store a respectable woman and two children and had introduced them into the room where Mr. X. was pre- siding over a large dinner party. She walked slowly down the table in the midst of an astonished silence, and ar- rived in front of the chairman, turned deliberately towards him and, clutching a child in each hand, said at the top ‘0! her voice: “At last! Children behold |your father:" The story was of course, received with a shout of laughter, but - 'vvâ€" v I wasvlâ€"ookâ€"i'nâ€"g at Lord szoh. and in his eye I suddenly saw the light of an inspiration. He stopped the laughter and then looking Mr. X who was pre- sent, straight in the 999: he ended. “Yes but what do you think the chair- man said? He looked 'at both the children and then simply said: “My God; when did it happen?" When on a mission to the United States, Sir Ellis had painful cause to appreciate the resource of American newspaper men. They wanted his photograph, but Sir Ellis was in bed. They were in a hurry, he- agreed to clothe the upper half of himself in outdoor garb, leaving his legs in pyjamas. It was to be only halt-length. Sir Ellis assumed a grave and statesmanlike airâ€"which looked extremely funny in the paper next morning above two legs clad in pyjamas, naked feet and a pair of car- pet slippers! ‘ _ A remarkable story of a dog belong- ing to the late M. Clemenceau, which used to hire cabs, has been told in Paris. This animalâ€"a fox terrierâ€" as independent as its master, used to go for long rambles about Paris. When the dog tired it would jump into a sta- tionary cab and sit down. As often as the driver turned it out it returned until the driver became sufficiently in- terested to examine its collarâ€"which bore the name of its famous master. The driver, anticipating a liberal. tip, invariably drove it home. BRITIAN’S ECONOMIC LEADER RE'rURNs 'HOME Lord Kirkley, the leader of the British Economic Mission to South Africa, is here seen on his arrival in London from Cape Town. According to reports, the Mission was a great success. CLEMENCEAU’S WISE DOG it!" THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Premier Bennett has abandoned the idea of a brief holiday overseas and is hurrying home to throw himself into the task of finding either a palliative or remedy for the very serious econom- ic conditions confronting agriculture. As has been pointed out in these letters the Government, ever since it took office. has been prosecuting a vig- orous inquiry into farm economics. The first expression of the fruits of that inquiry was the recent program laid down by Hon. Robert Weir, Minister of Agriculture. That program was a con- structive effort but its favorable re- sults cannot be fully operative except in succeeding years. It does not meet the very real and immediate crisis which wheat around sixty cents per bushel creates. It is more particularly with the crisis that Mr. Bennett will deal. Mr. Weir, Sir George Perley, Hon. Dr. Manion and other ministers are assembling data for him. The general facts have gone to him by cable each night. When he does reach Ottawa the prairie prem- iers and heads of the grain selling or- ganizations, pool and private, will pro- bably be called here. Leading bankers will be consulted and the whole situa- tion reduced to the most useful form of action that can be devised. Until Mr. Bennett has canvassed the situation at first hand there will be no statement of his policy. It is, however, very generally agreed here that any cash bonus which would be acceptable to the farmer would impose an im- possible burden upon the country. Conclusion of the Imperial Confer- ence has been followed by a mass of editorial Opinion as to the negative or positive results achieved. Even Labor spokesmen are agreed that useful prog- ress was made. Since the Conference Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas has declared the Labor Government as favorable to Empire preferences. The fear of. putt- ing them into Operation seems to lie in the difficulty of making a start and the fear of even implying any tax on panamg m {sum and am there is gemme hopefulness that the conterence to be held in Ottawa next yea will Evidenoe accumulates that public in- terest in Empire trade is steadily ex_- make concrete progress towards the goal of increased interempire economic co-operation. Politically minded people of the Do- minion are following developments in the province of Quebec with deep in- terest. The landslide towards the Bennett prty in Quebec last July was a severe shock to the long-entrenched Liberals. It was almost as much of a surprise to the Conservatives, albeit a more pleasant one. By-elections since July have indicated that the slide was not limited to Federal politics. Mr. Taschereau enjoyk a commanding majority in the lqggslature but Qgegec has a habit of violent turns and the Government finds itself threatened by the unrest which inevitably associates itself against a party long in office and, particularly, in periods of economic de- pression. An election is scheduled in the prov- ince for 1931 and then for the first time in twenty years federal and provincial Conservatives will be united in their test of strength. The recent death of Hon. J. L. Perron has deprived Mr. Taschereau of his outstanding lieutenant both as an ad- ministrator and strategist but it also removed the spear-head against whom practically all opposition attacks on the Government were launched. The perennial story of Premier Ferguson leaving Ontario :0 accep? the post of Canadian High Commissioner at London is revived. With it this time is the rumor that the honorarium at- taching to the office to be materially increased. The plea is put forward on the ground that the present salary puts the position beyond reach of any one who is not quite wealthy: efl'everage of close to $100,000 a. year from their private fortunes to uphold 0m Ottawa Letter mmmotmm- p.l"er¢unon.itisn|d. buy no mm. weuthy. Hemmunwdtsome mhiscomincmflmggq trom_ politics. It ls overd gluon really want: so lsmorethmllkelyhewlllcetthejob. It is not likely, however, tlut my mu- terlnl more“: in may will Tlmes are too hard an budget will have to be very skllfully Durinstheiesthundredyeersmm- kindhumede greater advances in knowledge and in turning neturai forces tohisownusetiunintheeourseot any other period in the world's history, and there is no question that the com- ingoenturywillseeestillmoreaston- ishing‘ forward movement, writes R. W. INVENTOBS OF TODAY HAVE GREAT OPPORTUNITY mg century will ice as still more aston- ,ciassed as big. unny more 6: this' kind lshlng forward movement, writes R. W. could be mentioned, but they are not Hallows in Tit-Blts. 'the only ones for which the world is We seem to be on the verge of solv- Wflflnz. There are much needed in- lng problems that have hauled human- ventlons which. though they may seem lty through the agesâ€" and yet the ‘relatlvely unimportant. would have an solutions elude us. enormous eflect upon human health. Perhaps the most needed of all dis-l Here are a few of the lesser inven- ooverles ale cures for the many appall- tions the world badly needs. The great in; diseases that still aflllct the human ; majority of deaths due to traffic ac- raoe. Cancer still baflles medical i oldentsâ€" and these run into thousands science, though any day its cause 5:15.111 Britain alone in a yearâ€"are caused the means of curing it may be known. 'by skidding. A road surface upon We have discovered how to deal with l which. wet or dry. wheels cannot slip is much in Tit-Bits. Weaeemtobeontheverzeot solv- ing problems that hnve healed human- ity through the agesâ€" and yet the solutions elude us. Means of communication between one part of the would and almost any other are marvels of today. A hundred years ago it took six months to send a message to Australia; now it can be done in a fraction of a second. But our communications. marvellous as they are, are not perfect. Magnetic storms may completely upset the working of cables for hours or even days upon end, whilst atmospherics may render the re- ception of messages by wireless impos- sible. One of the greatest needs of the day is for a certain and absolutely re- liable means oi communication. Another invention for which the world is waiting is that of some satis- factory means ot disposing of refuse. the means of curing it may be known. We have discovered how to deal with typhus, typhoid, smallpox, plague. and other dreadful scourges of the past. but doctors are stlll baffled by influenza and the common cold. Though refuse of all kinds contains Our business is to create printing that makes sales. Typography, choice of stock â€"every element that makes for more attractive mailing- pieces and handbills is pro- duced here with the care that spells success. Exact estimates of costs are offer- ed on each job regardless of The Chronicle Printing House hmstauotenutysndmmquu- mum.wedonotknowmtto do with it. We turn our rivers Into beworthntieutmmomeyeerf Power for driving mochinery is one of the greenest needs of civilization. In the tides ot,the set. which rise or full twice a day. elmoct unlimited power is eveileble it we could and 1 means of Some mews must be found of turn- tshtng heat and power without burning substances such cs cool. on. or wood. These are wasteful methods and for more important. the smoke thst they product seriously meets men's heslth sud comfort. changes in the weather result in enor- mous losses not only to farmers, but also to innumerable kinds of business. We still have no certain method of forecasting these. Fog completely dis- Never before in history have there been such opportunities for inventors. arid air and we have found no means of penetrating it. The productlon of salt in Canada for 1929 was 330,264 tons, having a value of $1,578,086 as compared wlth the previous year's production of 299M!) tons valued at $1,495,971. Salt. either in natural brine or in beds of rock salt. is found mercml' pioductton is confined to On- tario and Nova Booth. So far, we lave discussed invenuons THE PRODUCTION OF SALT PAGE 3.