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#"% bg One Drink too Many â€"â€"A Montreal judge has ruled that a man can take three or four drinks and stlll remain in complete possesâ€" sion of his faculties at the wheel of an automobile. Such a rule might apply in one instance and be invalid in others. The safest rule for all one on the foreigner who recently tame before him for his naturalizaâ€" tion papers. When asked who was the Premier of Canada, the man ansâ€" wered that it was Bennett. To the question who was Premier of Ontario, the man said Henry. But when askâ€" ed who was the King of Great Britain, the surprising reply was Ferguson.â€" Trenton Courierâ€"Advocate. Speed in Russia â€"Soviet freight trains, it is conâ€" tanded, do not travel at a faster rate of speed than two or three miles an hour due to obsolete rollingâ€"stock and faulty management. At that rate, the justlyâ€"celebrated mixed train from Brockville to Westport is a positive fAyer.â€"Brockville Recorder. â€"His Honor Judge McLean of Picâ€" ton, likes a good joke. He tells the Not in the Curriculum â€"â€"In many quarters there will be agreement with Prof. Stephen Leaâ€" cock‘s statement. before the McGill Society of Toronto to the effffect that if a University cannot get along these days without a famous football team it ought to get cut of the educational field.â€"Toronto Globe. â€"Commodity prices are going up and you don‘t hear even a whimper from the consumer. They all realize that if the country is to be prosperâ€" ous the greatest producer of all â€" the farmer â€" must get a fair price Sor his produce.â€"Chatham News., if she had killed her husband and been acquitted, she would have been offered a fat vaudeville contraâ€"t, but it will be waste of time to watch the electric lights to see the name of Mary from Utah.â€"Niagara Falls Review. â€"The Chinese are given credit for inventing many things centuries beâ€" fore they were discovered in the Ocâ€" cidental world, such, for eample, as chinaware, gunpoyder and printing. But very few people know that the Chinese were the first to use paper money. _ Authorities on Chinese hisâ€" tory believe that paper money was current in China 2+ the beginning of the ninth century A.D.â€"London Free â€"â€"If Canada shut off nickel from all the world, every nation would be on the same footing and the danger of war not lessened, for if history is to be believed, men fought when armed only with the bow and arrow. Much could be said for preserving our nickel resources for Empire use, but this would require joint Empire action.â€" Moneton Transeript. ~â€"ln regard io mothers‘ allowance, the gencra‘ verdict in Ontario will be that they have seen well worth while, that they have resulted in lesser deâ€" manis upon public institutions, and that they make it possible for widows to take care of t.eir children in their ewn homes, a most devided advantage #rom more than one point of view, â€" Pxsorborough Examirer. Making More Jobs Whe: cireumstances eliminate a blacksmith shop it is replaced by a garage or a serviceâ€"station employing more men; the tradition of the crossâ€" rowds carriage shop i continued in the automobile factory, and so on down the roll of industry. Among them the engineer, the inventor, the scienâ€" tist, it appears abundantly proved, have made far more jobs than they have destroyed, and in addition they have added enormously to the comâ€" forts and luxuries available to the masses of the people.â€"Ottawa Jourâ€" nal. Won‘t be Seen â€"Out in Provo, Utah, Mary Mirth Dahlquist has never missed being at Sunday school for eleven years,. Now Time and Monty ~Man arranged the clock to suit Wimsel{. Perhaps some day he will see the same can be Aone with curâ€" rency which, in itself, is neither half so complicated nor nearly so serviceâ€" able as the timeâ€"piece was,. It has been done with time; let us hope for the day when it ‘s done with money. â€"Oitawa Citizen. Canada Will Come Through â€"Canada and the Province of Onâ€" tario have their problems, plenty of them, but our general position is strong and when contrasts are made with many countries that might be named. our country stads out as a rock of towering strength. Never fear, Canada will come through with colours Aying.â€"Windsor Border Ciâ€" ties Star. ress Esszsential to Prosperity Nickel and War Paper Money Worth While debted and whom she should honor and reward, for, whoever invented the spinning, Arkwright certainly had the merit of performing the most difficult part, which was the making it useful. automobilists whilst driving is that one drink would be one too many.â€" Montreal Gazette. â€"In his reference to Arkwright, Watt states : "As to Mr. Arkwright, he is, to say no worse, one of the most selfâ€" sufficient ignorant men I have ever met with. Yet by all I can learn he is certainly a man of merit in his way, and one to whom Britain is much.inâ€" "Some years ago he applied to us at two different times for our advice, which we took the trouble to give him in one or more long letters, which he never had the manners to answer, but followed his own whims till he threw away several thousand pounds and exâ€" posed his ignorance to all the world, and then in disgust gave up the scheme. 1 have heard nothing of him since he returned from Scotland, and shall rest satisfied though I never do." â€"Edinburgh Scotsman, Drifting to the Cities â€"There has been a persistent drift of people from the country to the city, especially since the War. T. Waites, the N.S.W, statistician, has remarked on it from time to time in his "Year Book", and it is reflected in the disâ€" tribution of seats in the House of Representatives. At every rearrangeâ€" ment of electrical boundaries since the Commonwealth was established, the cities have gained seats at the exâ€" pense of the interior, and the size of country electorates has swelled to such an extent that many outback people never see their member from one year‘s end to another. â€" Kalgoorlie, for example, spreads over more than 900,000 square miles. _ Maranoa is three times the area of Victoria. Maâ€" ranoa is to be enlarged. again, and South: Australia is about to ?oce a â€"A letter written by James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, to his fatherâ€"inâ€"law, in the course of which a scathing reference is made to Richâ€" ard Arkwright, the famous textile machine inventor, has been gifted to Glasgow University. The letter is believed not to have been previously published, o â€"â€"A speech delivered by Lord Wilâ€" lingdon in Calcutta put the three neâ€" cessary aims of the government in their right perspective. The task of the administration, said the viceroy, was to insist on law and order, to push on with the constitutional reâ€" forms, and to develop the economic future of India.â€"London Spectator. Every where â€"As jayâ€"walking is one of the gravest faults of the pedestrians in Hong Kong, we are given to underâ€" stand that the police will be striving towards its cessation. Chinese are not the only offenders in this respect, as anyone can see for himself â€" or herâ€" self â€" for the trouble of five minâ€" utes observation at the intersection of Ice House street and Des Voeux road, or at Pedder street, where Big Ben used to be.â€"Hong Kong Press. â€"The Suez Canal is of vital concern to India. Of late the strategical imâ€" portance of the Canal to India, Ausâ€" tralia and New Zealand and the Far East has indeed, in contrast with the apathy of seventy or eighty years ago, been fully realized by Imperial straâ€" tegists and statesmen. Its defence has figured in all the British discusâ€" sions with Egypt since the War, and is now, whatever may be the politiâ€" cal status of Egypt in the future, reâ€" garded as a major British interest. During the Great War Germany deâ€" scribed it as the "jugular vein" of the British Empire.â€"Calcutta Statesâ€" License Cancellation ~ Scottish courts seem to depend to quite an extent on the cancellation of the license to drive, and the knowlâ€" edge that an accident or a charge in court is liable to result in the car being made useless for a term of years undoubtedly has an effect in producing caution in drivers.â€"Stratâ€" ford Beaconâ€"Herald. Books by the Yard â€"Ari‘ficial books for decoration are now sold made t order with any kind of paper "binding" required to match a room, the hangings or carâ€" pets. The books are joined to a strip of cardboard with real titles and auâ€" thors‘ names on the backs, just for swank.â€"London Sunday Express. â€"â€""There ara two kinds of liberty â€"the liberty of anarchy, which is death, and true liberty, which alone is worth a wise man‘s caring for, the liberty which is made possible by oâ€" bedience to national authority." The quotation is from Froude‘s "Short Studies." _ Liberty should not be conâ€" fused with license. VOICE OF THE PRESSâ€"CONT A Scathing Letter _ ."The Empire‘s Jugular Vein. The Empire Aims for India Liberty Depression‘s Hardships The demand for Reno divorces is diminishing. In their present finanâ€" cial condition, many gentlemen have been forced to keep the old models for another year or two.â€"New York Heraldâ€"Tribune. . Fair Warning. â€"â€"In â€"one of the dime stores last week a "spieler" wa selling Ameriâ€" can diamonds. He ended his appeal to the prospective buyers with the sentence, "You‘ll have to hurry to get yours. I‘m selling them toâ€"day only. Toâ€"night I‘m leaving town."â€"Topeka, Kas., Capital. * It is added that all hotels and inns in the province should have an appearâ€" ance of tdiness that will be "in keep ing with the beautiful and good roads, so as to give to the Province of Quebec a reputation of neatness in accordance with the numerous attrac tions it offers to tourists and travelâ€" lers." Chippinghurst, England.â€"The Duke of Gloucester, third son of King George, had a nasty spill in the nomiâ€" nation race for the Oxfordshire pointâ€" toâ€"point steeplechase, but was not badâ€" The Bulletin says in part: "A great display of luxury is not suitable in & small hotel, but cleanliness should be found in large and small hotels, beâ€" ing at the base of the good reputaâ€" tion of all establishments, receiving giving shelter and food to travellers. We believe that excessive cleanliness would advantageously take the place of luxury, even in large hotels called ‘palaces‘ in Europe." Canada Week by Week. In its latest issue of "The Tourist Bulletin," issued by the Provincial Government Department of Roads, emphasis is again placed upon the need of a high standard of cleanliâ€" ness in hotels within the province. Alâ€" though a high standard has already beenâ€"attained, it is obvious that presâ€" sure will be continued to raise it even highor. Duke of Gloucester Hurt in Steeplechase country member. It is all an effect qf‘d_oliberatg centralization, which has Clean Hotels taken many forms.â€"The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W. The United States ind Queen Astrid of ladies attired in brief bathing suits, basking in the sun. _ This psrt'loulisr phou;graph was taken at sun set and all congpires to blend intoâ€"a beautiful study. The beach of Del Monte, California, is a popular photographic background generally used by young For Tourists First Photograph Berlin, March 18â€"Wilhelm Meyerâ€" Foerster, author of the world‘s greatâ€" est stage hit, "Alt Heldelberg," known to Canada as "The Student Prince," died toâ€"day after a loug illness. He was 72. » Mr. Rickaby was overseas from 1915 to 1919, in active service with the Princess Patricia‘s Canadian Light Infantry. "Student Prince"‘ Author Is Dead "Alt Heidelberg" claimed the bigâ€" gest stage success of all time. It was a dramatized version of a short story Meyerâ€"Foerster wrote in 1899, called "Karl Heinrich." This attained a sale of $0,000 copies within two years. Its success induced the author to rewrite it as a play. The play has been translated into every modern language, and at present is being proâ€" duced in Tokio in Japanese and in Johaunesburg, Union of South Africa, in English. Mr. Rickaby is an honor graduate in Chemistry and Mineralosy of the University of Toronto in 1922, and also a Master of Arts graduate in 1923. He was Research Assistant in the Department of Mineralogy from 1924 to 192%6, inclusive, and joined the Provincial Mines Department in 1927. While he has been associated with the department in geological studies since 1920 his work since be coming a permanent member of the staff has been principally in Banâ€" uockburn, Sudbury and Swayze areas. Toronto, March 19.â€"Announcement was made over the weekâ€"end by Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines, that the post of Provincial Geologist,, made vacant by the death of the late Dr. A. G. Burrows, has been filled by the appointment from the Geological staff of Harold Colman Rickaby, senior preâ€"Cambrian geologist with the Mines Department. The appointment was ratified by orderâ€"inâ€"Council of the Henry Cabâ€" inet, on Saturday. He rose unaided after his mount fell at a fence and after resting a tew moments supervised arrangements for removal of the horse, which was badly hurt. Spills are not new to the Duke, who is considered a splenâ€" did horseman. Will Succeed Dr. Burrows in Mines Department Office, ___â€"Member of Staff ly injured, although painfully bruis ed and shaken up. * . Rickaby Given Geologist‘s Post ONTARIO TORONTO ay a result of additions to the Kenâ€" ora hatchery experimentation with the culture of the species in that disâ€" triect, with restricted distribution of advanced fry has followed. It is only during the past two or three years that the Department _ has planted brown trout fingerlings to any extent, and although the results of the plantâ€" ings may be known, it is not in the best interests of conversation to publish the details until the fish become proâ€" perly established. The large distributions of trout in Algoma and Thunder Bay are the reâ€" sult of the establishment of a large troutâ€"rearing station in each district, each capable of distributing annually 1,500,000 fingerlings. From the ecoâ€" pomic and biological standpoints, the Department. has been more than jusâ€" tifled in these committments. % Dist"ibution of Trout Finger lings Throughout Ontario 1,500,000 Annually We in Southern Ontario, are very apt to overlook the reâ€"stocking re quirements of northern â€" districts, where there are innumerable, acces sible and heavily fished waters, so much so that additional protection by closure has been necessary. Does the reader recall that Thunder Bay conâ€" tains certain trout waters of outstanâ€" ding importance on the continent, and as a matter of fact, in the world? At least 80 per cent. of the brook trout eggs distributed later as fry, fingerlings, yearlings, etc., in the waters of Southern Ontario originate from breeders at the Northern Onâ€" tariq troutâ€"rearing stations and the field station on Lake Nipigon. If it were not for these sources of supply, reâ€"stocking in Southern Ontario would be greatly curtailed. Certain streams and lakes in Onâ€" tario have been stocked with brown trout on an experimental basis, and All scientific men are not anglers in any sense of the word, and they (Editor‘s Note:â€"Leters are coming in in batches, in response to the authâ€" or‘s invitation to readers to analyze their writing. Some delay is unavoldâ€" able, as each letter requires careful scrutiny, but replies are being malled as quickly as possible. If you want your handwriting analyzed, see the anâ€" nouncement at the end of this article). A young lady from a small Ontario town ~ends me a letter and encloses a specimen of the writing of her sweetheart. Part of her letter follows: ‘In sending you my own handwriting, and also that of my sweetheart, I would like you to advise me. I am very worried and unhappy. 1 love my sweetheart very dearly, and I bave always thought he reciprocated my affection. But 1 am beginning to wonâ€" der if he really does, and whether he is the right type of man for me. 1 love him very much, but would far rather finish things with him now than to have a lot more trouble and unhappiness later on» We are engaged to be married, but he keeps putting of making a date for th. wedding. And I have been told that he goes out with other girls. He admits this, but begs me to forgive him, and assures me that when we are married, he will have nothing more to do with other girls, At the same time, he puts me off by telling me that his business is much too insecure for us to contem:â€" plate marriage now. _ Please advise Restocking Methods 1 am sorry for my correspondent, but am inclined to believe that she is sensible enough to realize, as she says in her letter, that it is better to effect a cure now, rather than make a great Proving Successful What Does Your Handwriting Show By GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Graphoâ€"Analyst.) All rights reserved. Winnipeg, March 18. â€"Boxing Day, Dec. 26, the day after Christmas, will become a statutory public holiday in Manitoba in futare if the legislature approves a bill to be introduced next Wednesday by ‘Col. Raiph H. Webb, Conservative member for Assiniboia. Manitoba To Observe Boxing Day Holiday Washington.â€"Two additional loans to railroads totalling $2,366,531 for new equipment and maintenance were announced recently by Harold Ickes, United States Public Works Adminisâ€" trator. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Pau! and Pacific was loaned $1,966,531 for building 75 new passenger cars, air conditioning of 22 diners and lounge cars and installation of 300 loading devices on automobile cars. The New York Central was lraned $400,000 to pay track men in laying 37,000 tons of rails and fastenings. But she does not use cosmetics herself. So good, indeed that the TZIK (Central Executive Comumittee of the Soviet Union) has awarded her the Order of Lenin for "carrying out the production plan and improving the quality." Moscow. â€" Pauline Czemshuzlina, wife of M. Molotov, Director of the Soviet Cosmetics Trust, makes very good lipstick and soap. Overcome, he collapsed and died in the corridor of the hospital. Docâ€" tors are withholding the news from Mrs. Ward. Practically one hundred per cent. of the maskinonge distributed from hatcheries on this continent are fry. Experimental work on the culture of maskinonge fingerlings has been unâ€" dertaken, but the results accomplishâ€" ed to date are insignificant; in fact, practically nothing is definitely known of the actual requirements to rear this species successfully. It is well known that it is better to plant fingerâ€" lings and larger fish, and comparing the pond space devoted to bass culâ€" ture in Ontario with that elsewhere, it will be found that the quantity of bass fingerlings distributed by the Deâ€" partment in recent years is creditable. Pond culture is only one phase of the subject; sane creel limits, sultâ€" able closed seasous, and bass sanctuâ€" aries are to be considered also. 4 The planting of rainbow trout in the French River seems a step in the right direction, Rainbows or steelâ€"heads run into a number of streams tributary to the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron as a result of former plants in the St. Mary‘s River and in streams adjacent to the Great Lakes. Dies as He Hears He‘s Father of Son Wheeling, W. Va.â€"Physicians told John F. Ward, 32, a barber, that he was the father of a son. Soviet Lipstick Expert Won‘t Use It Herself deal more trouble and unbappiness for Do you want your hardwriting analyzed? Do you wish to know the character that is shown in it? . Send a letter in your own handwriting, with 10c coin and a stamped (3¢c) addressed envelope to: Geoffrey St. Clair, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Ont. Leters are confide itial. * »=p often resort, "under permit," to speedâ€" ier methods of capturing fish. The investigator, â€"if questioned, would probably admit that in his attempt to obtain specimens of brown trout from Big Clear Lake, he did not try the finer methods of angling usually emâ€" ployed by the followers of Isaac Walâ€" ton. herself later on. Her own hbhandwriting shows a warm, ardent nature that simply must have the affection of others. She is honest and trustworthy, and has a good deal of natural pride. Her writâ€" ing shows that she would like to own a bhome of her own, and that family life would be her metier. #8, On the other bhand, the writing of her friend is not so good. Ii shows unreliability and a predilection for deâ€" ceit. He is of a cooler type than my correspondent, not naturally affection. ate in the kindly sense. HMe is of a rather "physica!" type. M And, speaking o0° the practical, she is not getting an; younger, She is losing her opportunities of making the acquaintance of a man who may be come fon4 of hber, and make her a good husband. My advice to the young lady is that the young man is not the one best suited for her. If she marries him, be will deceive her just as be is deceivâ€" ing ber now, because it is his nature to do so. And there is a streak of dishonesty in him. This, coupled with the very definite indications of deceit, tells me that she will only be unbapry if she continues to go with him. wo U.S. Railroads Loaned $2,366,531 once, G. T. RoW"rtson, manager, anâ€" mountes.. The inc=as» will add @tout $25,000 ‘annually to the company‘s payroll, Chicago, March 18,â€"Bond of $75. 000 will be required of Martin Insull when he is returned to Chicago, the state‘s attorney office annnunsed to Lieut. Frank Johnson, of the state‘s attormey police, was to leave Chicago tonight to bring the former utility ofâ€" fcial back to the city. The bon: was set by a grand jury which has indicted Insull â€" younger brother of Samuelâ€"on three charges: larceny, larceny by bailee, and emâ€" bezzlement. _ The jury charged him with taking more than $50,000 from the utility funds ton plant of the Swift Canadian Comâ€" pany, Ltd., have received a wage inâ€" crease of 10 per cent., effective at once, G. T. RoW"rtson, manager, anâ€" Edmonton, March 18, â€" Some 32 hourlyâ€"paid employes of the Edmon Swift‘s at Edmonton Raise Wages 10 p.c Bond for Martin Insull Set at $75,000 ~ Extra Trains. The bauling of the lumber to ocean ports will create much more activity for freightâ€"handlers on the railways. Already, through th. Musquodoboit Valley, that branch #f the Canadian Nationa) system has inaugurated erâ€" tra train services to meet the demand of the lumbermen a~d industry close ly allied with it. For the first time in the history of Canada, apples from the Okanawana Valley have been shipped acsoss Canâ€" ada in the dead of winter, in temperaâ€" tureâ€"controlled cars; and silk trains so long off the route because of variâ€" ous conditions, aie reappearing. in the Alaunia, sailing last week from Halifax, the freight was so heavy that her holds were filled and staterooms were used to carry the overflow cargo. Truro imports Brakemen. Truro, N.S.â€"*"Happy days are here again," at least for the railway men of this section of the Canadian Naâ€" tional system. Freight movements have about doubled in Capacity durâ€" ing the past two weeks and now there is an average of about fifteen trains a day clearing from this staâ€" tion, as, compared with an average of about eight for the last few years. Every available railway man is emâ€" ployed. And it was found necessary to import brakemen from other secâ€" tions of the line to handle the freight trains. . Raliroawu men, some of them out of work for a year or on part time, are happy and contented They feel that the ba : days are over, that the steadâ€" ily increasing rise in freight is not merely a temporary matter; that even with the easing off «f .e shipments of eoal, which have been heavy, due to the cold winter and the high tar iff on American bituminous coal, the future is more assured. The first arrival of Canadian waterâ€" freighted grain made history, The $.8. Steelville, with 215,000 bushels, the Brown Beaver with 97.000 and the ‘Grelhead awith 274,000, arrived the same day, There has been a vast increase in the waterâ€"shipped grain tonnage, which has, incidentally, also helped the railroad, for while some wheat had. been coming by water, other. products have been coming by rail. un f Mopefou! of Future. The ‘Great Lakes saw the start of seven sailings in 1929, with 6,511 tons of cargo. In 1933 there were 94 sail ings with 87,555 tons handled in Haliâ€" fax. In January, 1934, Halitax water front employees received $206,000 for their labors, in February, $226,000. In 1931, in order to look after the grain business, Halifax added a $100,â€" 000 tower or le:ht.o its grain handling equipment and the following year 209,â€" 885 . bushels of grain were handled at the pqn."'nm was the first Canâ€" adian grain ever received over an allâ€" watér route from Ahe Greas Lakes, The following year, if Halifax had sufficlent elevator space, 10,000,000 bushels of grain could bave been routed here. For the first time in history the total volume of cargo tonnage in the port in any one month exceeded 200,â€" 000 tons. This record was made in October, 19338, when a total of 206,891 tons were handled. This record was broken in December, when 214,440 tons came in, and again in February, 1934, when the total reached 210.184 tons. Halifax.â€"The greatest volume of freight which the Maritime ports has known has been steaming into this city, bringing a new era of prosperity to railroad employees and waterfront men, auguring well for the future of the oldest province. ‘Tonnage Ahead. As an indication of the progress of the port the total tonnage carried by vessels in and out of the ‘harbor in 1932 was 1,458,083 tons. In 1933 it was 1,751,826, and the figures for the first two months of 1934 were 382,0994,. 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