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Jw Sir Arthur Currie Asks Improvement In Pension System ance necessitaied a move °o LRC IATGED® room in the House. A senatorial committee was present to watch the proceeding and avoid «uplicate of effort when the bill goes to the Upper House. Col. Lefieche, nead of the Canadian Legion, asked a hearing for Sizr Arthur Currie. Chairâ€" man Power invited the commander of the Canadian Corps in the war to give his views on the legislation. § Sir Arthur expressed his appreciaâ€" tion of his consideration of the preâ€" «ent and past committees on pensions. He regretted that after 11 years there was still an urgency for the further consideration of soldiers‘ problems. The feeling was widespread that the woligaitons of the country toward the returned men had not been fulfilled as they should be. INTERESTED IN VETERAN® Ottawa.â€"With Six Arthur Curme and a large delegation of the Canâ€" adian Legion present at the first busiâ€" ness meeting of the Pension Commitâ€" tee last week, an overcrowded atternd. ance necessitated a move to the largest ed in «question of to fulfil the of the count The retur a« the publi It was n« Arthur said, eases to pro due to war Sir Arthu malingerers ‘Almost Impossible to Prove Disability Due to War Service eases to prove hat his disabilit due to war service. Sir Arthur did not speak fo malingerers in the war, but on the deserving. He did not,app make any destructive criticisn showed a desire to help out th« mittee in its problems. He went on to outline broad British pension system based on It helped their their dependents and a pension w« ability. "We can find no fault with the Canâ€" adian scale of pensiong; it is higher than that of any country I know," deâ€" clared Sir Arthur, who said the Penâ€" sion Board, in applying the act, was a court of law and equity. . Many thought the machinery was not funceâ€" tioning properly and it was for the committee to find out why. One disâ€" satisfaction arose from the fact that the Pension Act is a legal document. Many applying for a pension were not aware of this, while people who were not entitled to it often applied. Jt would be better if, when a pension is be put off by it. The age should be 60 not 65. When a man, with such an allowance died it should be kept up for his widow and children for at least a year. He also expressed the epinion that in the committee adminâ€" istering the allowances there should be one or two experienced men and a representative of the legion. EASIER APPEALS URGED In all cases an appeal to the appea‘ b ard from the Pension Board should be possible. In conclusion, Sir Arthur reiterated that he did not wish to make one a potential pensioner or to m to the purden of taxation. He said that the problem ph the . the drag €c ©pi oug why me rac MANY DISSATISFIED pe NO FAULT WITH SCALE Detier . he app ir morale to kn s would be look would go with : ; Allowance bill, in ms social legislation which be administered by the . If it went there, many led to a pension would it. Tke age should be en a man, with such an 1 it should be kept up v and children for at He also expressed the 0 A ( w eak for any but only for ot,appear to » know that coked after many r was nu but ted d Sir Arthur thought he personnel of the Pension Board ought to be increasâ€" ed and it should be made an itircrant ; body. T 4 r was largely one of act and providing sary machinery. To (Wairman Power, Sir Arthur reâ€" iterated that he did not believe in havâ€" ing the act "wide open" so that everyâ€" ene could be a potential pensioner. He will return for examination after the Legions‘ views have been presented. Col. Lafieche of the Canadian Leâ€" gion stated that for the first time all the soldiers‘ organizitions appeared as one body,. He spoke of the desirâ€" ability of speedy action by Parliament in the final disporition of the case. Regarding the onus of proof, Col. Lafleche stated that without actually putting it in the law and perhaps paving the way to the payment of "two or three billion dollars," the returned men demand "the substance of the benefit of doubt," in all applications for penstons on the ground of their attributability to war service. The committee was also addrossed briefly by Col. Wood, president of The Canadian Army and Navy Vetâ€" erans, and Capt. Rev. Sydney Lambert of the Amputation Association, who both expressed appreciation of the work of the present and previous comâ€" mittees, ‘Chubby" Power, the chairâ€" can, ana Col. Laflecbe, who "knows his business," were praised. Brighionâ€"After a ten year‘s search a Brighton man has found the pretty warâ€"time nurse whose careful and deâ€" voted nursing probably saved his life when he was wounded during the war. The other day he was admitted Into a private nursing home for an operation for appendicitis. The nurse who attended him was the girl who served in the war bhospital, The anâ€" nouncement of their marriage has just been made. Exâ€"Soldier Finds Nurse After Ten Years "One night I reached a crisis and it was touch and go whether 1 would pull through. 1t was only her deâ€" voted nursing that saved my life. "I got better and was removed to another hospital. _ Wa câ€"â€"responded for a time and then I was passed At for duty again and rejoined my reg!â€" ment." When he came out of the Army Mr. Speighton attempted to find the nurse and advertised in several newspapers for news of her. Finally he learned that she had gone abroad in the capaâ€" city of nurse to an invalid. "I had given up all hope of ever finding her again when I was admitâ€" ted into the nursing home at Brighâ€" ton," he said. _ "You can imagine my surprise when the nurse came in and I discovered it was she. "We were not long in making up our minds to get married and as soon as I am fit again we intend to celeâ€" brate the wedding." The Civilian and The Next War expecte most e "Those who expect the civilian to go scotfree in a possible encounter between Great Powers in the future would do well to consider an observaâ€" tion made a year or two ago by & most disinguished British general ofâ€" ficer, in the course of a lecture on modern tendencies in military theory delivered to a group of English underâ€" graduates: "Well, gentlemen, in wars up to the present time the civilian has gone out on the pavement and cheerâ€" ed as the troops marched away, and then he has gone in and broken the top off his egg and read all about it in the newspapers. Well, gentlemen, . . . he‘s never going to do it again." "In the event of the statesmen of the world failing to ~avert another great war, it is probable that that summation of the matter will prove onté "What is your boy learning at cof lege?" "I don‘t know. 1 can only tell you what he is studving." in g Mr Qu bi "interpreting" the it with the necesâ€" C War Secrets Revealed by . Uâ€"Boat King SsIR RONALD LINDSAY PRESENTS LETTERS OF CREDENCE AT WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON The photograph here shows a scene at the White House, Washington, D.C., recently when Sir Ronald Lindsay, new British ambassador to the United States, called to present his letters of credence to President Hoover. _ Left to Right: Capt. Allen Buchanan, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Francis White of the state department. Every German submarine which put to sea in the war years of 191518 owed its equipment and a large part of its fighting efficiency to a greyâ€" haired, broadâ€"shouldered man who sat the other night in the lounge of a Lonâ€" don hotel. 198 German Submarines that Did not Come Backâ€"Yost by Mines, Gunfireâ€"Lost in Nets He was Captain Gustave Luppe, formerly Senior Staff Officer in the Department of Submarine Operations, in charge of personnel and replaceâ€" ments. Captain Luppe is no longer a Gerâ€" man naval officer with a high comâ€" mand; he is now a commercial man engaged in negotiations with a group of English friends, but he carries in his memory more secrets of the intenâ€" sive submarine warfare against Engâ€" land than any other German living. Six Months‘ Training "No one in your countryâ€"or in Germany for that matter,‘ he said to a representative, "has any real idea of the difficulties under which we laâ€" bored to keep our submarine warfare in force. "We lost in all 198 Uâ€"boats. What happened to many of them we never knew. They did not come back, that was all. They were lost by mines, by gunfire, in netsâ€"in a variety of differâ€" ent ways. "And as best we could we built to replace our losses, but from 1916 onâ€" wards we were building with indifferâ€" ALL THE SKILL OF BRITISH BOAT BUILDERS BROUVGHT INTO PLAY Workmen at work on deck and keel of Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Lipton‘s challenge craft for coveted America Oup, at Shipyards at Grosport, Eng. This is noted British sportman‘s fifth attempt to wrest away trophy. Shamrock V Will Make the Fnal Effort of the Sporting Khight New British Ambassâ€"dor Calls On Hoover ent materialâ€"!'naterial which was ofâ€" ten makeshift. As the material fell away from the first class, so did our men. "Thus, altogether at one time we had a total of 300, we never had more than 100 in readiness. "We were short of torpedoes, short of everything. Our requirements in torpedoes at one period were 180 a week. We could pot find that numâ€" ber. I remember I had to go to Ausâ€" tria to try to borrow torpedoes. "The Austrian Navy used only fiftyâ€" seven torpedoes during the whole course of the war, but even so they were never able to provide us with any for our submarines. "Towards the end of the war we were training crews in six monthsâ€" altogether too short a time. Our subâ€" marines then were of such a class that after a month at sea they needed two months for refit and repairs. "Why, when we sent four small subâ€" marines to Poland in sections for the use of the Austrian Navy we had to send our own workmen to put them together! We had to send food from Germany for our Germén workmen in the Austrian dockyards,. _ The Ausâ€" trians would never provide them with rations. Even when the submarines were built, the Austrian Navy never took them out against thae enemy. They lacked the nerve. ® _ o Ew n OF the 3170,000,000 invested in the lumber industry in Canada, $56,000,â€" 000 is in British Columbia, $45,000,000 in Ontario, and $37,000,000 in Quebec. wer _3 ‘ lusects are costly, their control one of the greatest problems with which any country is confronted. Canada‘s Lumber Industry Insect Control Winnipegâ€"Wallace W. Robinson, formerly employed in the local branch of Stobie, Forlong and Matthews, was released on two years suspended senâ€" tence after pleading guilty in police court to theft of several thousand dollars worth of mining stock from the company. Full restitution had been made. Winnipeg â€"â€" Unemployment hbas swelled by oneâ€"third during the past week, according to records at the Unâ€" employment Service of Canada,. About 1,500 men are now registered as seekâ€" Ing work in the city. Return of workers from lumber camps in the north and east is given as reason for the increased idleness, Winnipeg.â€"Convicted of a serious charge against a girl, Charles Galsky, was given a 10â€"year term in penitent!â€" ary by Mr. Justice Dysart, _A previ ous sentence of 10 years and 10 lashes when Galsky was found gullty last fall had been set aside by the Court of Appeal. Winnipeg.â€"James Grant, president of the Manitoba Association of Unâ€" employed Exâ€"Service Men, has resignâ€" ed from the position. J. Feeney, actâ€" ingâ€"president during Grant‘s absence at Ottawa recently with an unemployâ€" ment delegation, is the new head. Grant was remanded for one week on a charge of converting funds of the orâ€" ganization to his own use. Waterâ€"Fowl Suffer from Drought Owing to drought conditions in Canâ€" ada‘s Prairie Provinces during 1929 many ponds, prairie sloughs, and shalâ€" low lakes used for breeding purposes by waterfowl were dried up. Western Notes ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO A New Menace Australian farmers are asking their government to pay & bounty on the export of wheat, or guarantee the price at five shillings ($1.21%) per bushel, or both. They have already persuaded the government to appoint a Board to market their wheat and to make pooling compulsory. But they are not content. They want to be in the position of the German farmers who have been paid bounties to export wheat to the British market. Australian Growers Are Now Asking for a Bounty on f Export Wheat Ottawa.â€"A new menace to the Canadian wheat grower looms, The Australian farmers will not be exporting much wheat this year, but if they have their way, they may be sending bountyâ€"fed wheat to Britain in competition with Canadian wheat. It would not be the first time Australia paid export bounties with the idea of encouraging primary production. Some years ago it paid bounty on the export of butter. Carada regarded the enâ€" trance of bounty butter into her marâ€" kets as dumping and imposed a counâ€" tervailing duty. The Australian farmers have their claim for an export bounty ofh wheat or a guaranteed price, or both, on the uncertainty of the results from wheat production. Some years, after allowâ€" ing for interest on investment, the reâ€" turns from the wheat crop leave noâ€" thing for the farmer‘s own, or hired labor. The average farmer producing wheat has to rely for oneâ€"third of his Income on side lines, woo!l, lambs, eggs, cream, etc., it is claimed. The average cost of growing wheat, on the basis of the experiments of the Australian Government Demonstration Farm at Turretfield over a period of seven years (19221928 inclusive), is 48. 11d., while the cost of teaming to the elevators is 2.5 pence, The incluâ€" sive cost of growing and delivery to the market as represented by the elevator, is thus bs, 114 d., or $1.24%. The estimate is for a 390 acre farm yielding 19.064 bushels of wheat per acre. . The yield per acre on the Turâ€" retfield Demonstration Farm varied during seven consecutive years from 9.93 bushels per acre to 23.91 bushels per acre, but the average yield was 19.64 bushels per acre, with a range of 21.7 per cent. above and 49.4 per cent, below. Use Of HOVSBS ..ccoucscearrters Use of implements ........ ISOON ssscclercirvetvercen ecururnttvetsers Essential Materials .......... IROICERUAIG : ,:1â€"2â€"s2sissrervarsere Int, on Working Capital . Rent 18 months ................. The cost of production per acre at the Experimental Farm was distribuâ€" ted as follows: TOLRIG ,cmmmrvictquermerigtiorrecrccts s M Divided by 19.64 bushels per acre this makes the cost per bushel on the farm 48. 110. or $1.21%4 cents. On that basis the farmer has to receive a price of over $1.21 to make any net profit, Another division of the average eosts per acre on the Australian Deâ€" monstration Farm over the period 192228 is given as follows: Preparation of fallows to NADOR B 4s:22:00vervesveactasent sevedts Seeding Operations ................ Harvesting Operations............ Incidental Expenses ... Int. in Working Capital .,..... Rent for 18 :months ................ Las{ year‘s production costs, the AAustralian farmers claim were highâ€" er than the average for 192228, and that to meet rising costs greater efâ€" forts must be made to increase the yield per acre. If a crop is badly put in, the chances are that the returns will not cover the cost of production, they say. PORL s â€"ssriprensvterinenerenteeridivint i M NB s 10 Or 4s, 11d, per bushel on a yield of 19.64 bushels per acre. Australia‘s none too satisfactory financial position makes it imperative that her government use every feasâ€" ible means of encouraging increases in exports, A Be rather wise than witty; for much wit hath commonly much froth, and ‘ts bard to jest, and not sometimes Jeer, too; which many times sink deeper that was intended or expected; and that was designed for mirth ends in saness.â€"G. Trenchil. Artistâ€"*"Then keep on travelling to the Never Never Land." Novelistâ€"‘"I‘m looking for &n honâ€" est lawyer." To Canadian WIT AND WISDOM Wheat Farmer 12. 16. 16. 17. 0 11. 10 16. 11 To Encourage Creat Need is to Increase Conâ€" sumption of Fish in Upper Canada Oitawa.â€"Seeing that the Maritime Provinces are only able to sell oneâ€" tenth of their fish catch, in point of quantity, probably less in point of value, in the other provinces of Canâ€" ada, would it not be a good plan for the Dominion Department of Fisheries to use the proceeds of the tax it is now levying on the fish catches landed by steam trawlers in an endeavor, by publicity work, to for fish in Canada? There is no good reason why that tax should be turned into the national treasury. The tax is an anomaly, In no other industry does the Governâ€" ment impose a tax intended to disâ€" courage the use of th most upâ€"toâ€"date machines. Being exceptional, the proâ€" ceeds of a tax intended to limit proâ€" duction, should be expended to enâ€" courage consumption. The oneâ€"tenth of their quantity production which the Maritimes are able to market in the rest of Canada consists largely of haddock. That is recognized as the most popular of Atlantic food fishes, because of the fineness of the flosh structure. But other sea fish have an equally iodine content, a food reâ€" quirement of importance to people far from the sea coast. Most of the mutâ€" ton raised near the Atlantic coast is sold to hotels in the U.S., largely beâ€" cause it answers the jodine requireâ€" ments, including the matter of taste, The Maritimes, in view of the fact that they are required by the Dominâ€" on tariff to buy manufactured proâ€" ducts of Canada, orâ€"to cite motor cars as an instanceâ€"pay 25 per cent. more for imported catches, have reaâ€" son to expect a bigger market for their fish in Canada. An oyster industry in Prince Edâ€" ward Island yielding $1,000,000 a year is a possibility, according to the exâ€" perts of the Dominion Fisheries Deâ€" partments, At present the oyster inâ€" dustry of P.EI. is insignificant. To encourage production in this, as in other branches of the fishing inâ€" dustry, the great need is to increase consumption in the Canadian market, which will become a stable market. Girl Marriages Stir the West Conditions in Saskatchewan are Almost as Bad as Regina, Sask.â€"Canadianborn gin‘% in Saskatchewan wed at too early an age, Statistics just made public indicate that Canadian girls, under 16, outâ€" number brides of other nationalities in recent weddings. Figures available here show that foreignâ€"born girls are far more apt to marry at the "sensible age." D. M. Ristich a Conservative party leader in Saskatchewan, drew up a reâ€" port to answer charges made at Toâ€" ronto that "child marriages" among foreignâ€"born people in the West were increasing in alarming proportions. Miss Nellie Forman, settlement worker in Regina for many yeare, told Toronto people that foreign girl# of 14 and 15 years of age were being forced into marriages with men they scarcely knew, Miss Fqgrman was quoted as saying foreignâ€"born citizens of Saskatchewan used their children as chattels, comâ€" eplling the girls to marry while they were still children. R These statements caused muéh con» sternation in Regina, where Miss Forâ€" man enjoys a great deal of support. Statistics covering a period of three years show that out of twenty marâ€" riages in 1926, of girls under the age of 16, seventeen of the girls were In the following year there iverc twentyâ€"eight marriages o% girls unâ€" der 16. Canadian, one was French and two were born in the United States. Out of this number twentyfour of the girls were Canadian, one was from the British Isles, one from Finâ€" land, one from Poland and one from the United States. _ In 1928, the last year recorded in statistics, only twentyâ€"one marriages of brides of minor age occurred in the province. " Out of this number fifteen were Canâ€" adian girls, two ‘were Russian, and four Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian and Amercan, respectively, Did you ever see a schoolnoy tumble on the ice without stooping +mmediâ€" ately to reâ€"buckle the strap of his skates? And would not Ignotus have painted a masterpiece if heâ€"eould have found good brushes and a proper can» vas? Life‘s shortcomings would be bitter indeed it we could not find exâ€" cuses for them outside of ourselves, And as for life‘s successesâ€"well, it is certainly wholesome to remember how many of them are due to a fortunate position and the proper tools.â€"Henry Van Dyke. Our anger and impatience often prove much more mischievous than the things about which we are augry or impatient. » LIFE‘S SHORTCOMINGS ;o_ri; 't; expand the market Nova Scotia ANGER For United Memories of On Big Five OM Yard Has Nothi From For Fil te loses you Th Sac