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Durham Review (1897), 23 Aug 1934, p. 6

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WHICH no vou 00? The Trenton Courier.Advocate pub- 'tshed In the middle of its "Fifty Jenn Ago" column a little advertise. for any Itnwborry ttleurs-att tCu".,,',',,',',', half I century old. A ANtIIAL LANGUAGE. (:ahrielo D'Annunzio, the Italian poet has announced that he will in. elude a complete glossary ot the ca- line language in his new book, “Lives of Illustrious Dogs." The book in to be modelled alter Plutarch's "Lives." Other animals whose vocabularies have been recorded are the monkey. the bone. and the cat. An American woman, Illa; Blanch W. Learned. waa responsible for classifying thirty-two terms at the chimpanzee, together with the meaning ot each. The horse la said to aback "six words and three kinds of net'htnga." Cate produce " teen sounds, according to the experts. each with he dlatinct Interpretation. There are twelve “worda” in the tetra vocabulary. From ,all this It aeenu that it is hi3. time that the phrase. Four dumb friends.” went into the Discard. " was always a tibel.-Vie. toria Times. " ALL DEPENDS. A contemporary says " Is unhealthy to suppress 1 laugh: but that depends upon who you are laughing at.--Ctta. tam N“Wl, [Mine m mndomn it. The police are the sou-van” of the law. They must Bot be allowed to become Its adminis- lr-uuu Tlte procedure In that Millet. gur raw in not something for Cum. (him to rom’. hut something tor Can- all-mu m 'aroid,-'roronto Daily Star. Dillinupr ran» the out-era of the low. Humming wf him 'tnally just as they gaunt shoot a mad dog hue and tttso [woole- further outlay tor court pun-mun“. and that "the only don- w'r in this an" or thlng Is that they mizhl have shot the wrong man." Thurs is, of course. a bulc dong" In It which tar transcends that possibil- m the rttrngrr that trial by police IlmnM rapist-c- trinl by the courts. the 'r-Mnmution In the former use being um » man In guilty, whereas in the counts he la presumed Innocent tut-) m M. min is proved. The shooting 1mm of criminnlu or supposed crim- lmu when thaw an be captured olive owl dealt wlth in a court of justlco I2“ 1'0"}an to commend It and every. Who-n aluminum!” truvel at speed! In um..- at " miles an hour more p4-WPr is required to overcome air re. ttintanee than road resistance. More pom" h shun "nun-ed to overcome arr-Mum retqisrttrrreo.-Ctuttham News. A DANGEROUS EXAMPLE " i, nrtrprt'slrtst to read in so usual- ly mum! a newspaper as the Border Cir w Sun- a nuggesllon that In the GETTER TlMIs AHEAD. A than published by the Snnlord Evans statixtlml servlce, In the that issue of the Weekly Market News, brings home how much the purchas- ing power or the West his uttered by tin. ulorllne In the value ot turn) unr- k., tags during the past five yarn. " an” is a rumimler at what a large put ot tite total returns is derived From wheat. Until the ground lost dtas two-n Mount-red In some manure. tho prairie prminros had to In; be.) hlml the real ot Canada In the In. pron-mom that has been manifested during recent months. But. it the [warm crop promise In the" pun- incen is roamed and dollar when I- "arm-ll at Winnipeg. as In freely pre- dH-ML thorn will be I very marked Manx.- in the tutttatiort.--Edmoetton Jnurvul, For acme reason Sunday tulle re. minds us that n has taken Mag-n Falls 30.000 yoars to move novel tnite-Hamilton Bpeetator. Critic. may lay what they like about the Ottawa agreements: the u- ureo are there to weak for then- when. What they prove, beyond any question. Ia that lupin preferences are working. that they are improving Empire trade steadily, and that for Caniaa they have meant everything. Because ao-ebody moat be getting the bettetit of then growing exporta. Our farmers taunt be selling more, and neither can "ll more without ronaitierable gain. A whole lot of people-farmer., working men. busi- ness men, transportation employees- muwt have more money than last year. - Ottawa Journal. than one. In "ported from tho caving in ot be and. A In. lad of twelve In: just lost his m. In Toronto from this canoe. The burrowing lathe! " strong In hon. but it I: too (longer. on. to be "nco-d.-.-Hamntots Her- " WARNING Tr" CHILDIIN Parent. night note that on. ot the things it I. ”county to warn their chlldm of In never to try to dig I mate'- or a robber: one In a and. bank. Sandy I you mm that the death of . child, Ind sometimes more l Canada, The Empire and The World at large ; CANADA "In"! _te]ephoned the new»: THE SPEEDSTERS. QUITE SO. IT WORKS. Galsworthy replied by sending I cheque for the nmount. They return- ed It with I letter saying that tho i The late John Gaisworthy. author and plarwritrht, remembered, after paying his income-tax one time, that be had left out a certain urge sum received, and wrote to the authorit- is: ofterlng the extra amount due. They replied that the accounts were now closed and nothing could be done about it. THE KING IN EDINBURGH. l The royal visit to Edinburgh has been an tutttttallited success and there Is simplicity and compactness about the Palace of Holyroodhouse that gives the Impression that the King and Queen are living more than ordin- arily among their people. The illumi- notions and the Bowers mode a great display. It is almost worth a Journey to the Scottish capital to see thei Castle Boodlit. The enact is to create‘ what seems literally a castle in the air, for with the hill itself dark and invisible the illuminated walls and battlements seem Boating on a sea of blackness. But summer evenings in Scotland are light. " late that It is near midnigh- before the full beauty ot the scene derelops.-The Specta- tor. The boy who cries his newspaper wares at the street corner: may be lhe future Cabinet Minister. just " many a boy who has travelled dellv- pry routes for this and many other Canadian newspapers has climbed high on the ladder of success In his subsequent business or professlonal career, -Broetrrille Recorder. And now it is revealed that the "on. J. Russell Love, who has been appointed Provincial Treasurer ot Al. herta. in the new Reid Ministry. lin- anced part of his expenses while a student at the University of Alberta by selling newspapers, this being one of his earliest experiences in practi-, will Bnttrtcty. l WOULDN'T TAKE HIS MONEY, When tho "on. David Crolt was at; pointed Minister ot Public Welfare ot Ontario. it was recalled that as a boy he had sold newspapers and polished shoes in the streets of Windsor. malt. in use of the profits ot this business to obtain his education. Politicians who gained their earl]. at business experience by selling newspapers are coming into their own. ll YOUTH OF THE WEST. The death oecurred recently of a man who was the first school teacher in what Is now the province ot At, berta. The fact reminds us how young the far West in in the matter of set- tiement by the white min. and how remarkable In. progress has been. This man tad attained the age ot 100 years. but It was only in 1875 he opened his school In Morley, in what is now Alberta. What stories he could have told ot the raw West of 60 years Mo.-Saint John Telegraph- Journal. l OUR EXCLUSIVE EARTH Thus all the lrtdltvatlons would seem to wave that only on this earth are there human joys and sorrows; revo- lutions and t'ounter-reroltrtlons: wed. ding bells and ehristeninrr, auto horns and Jazz: trattie cops and taxes; radlos and Inlanhonos. nnd all thar, other thlnn which an to vhrtrarteriras, what ls kn'lwn as hitntanlty--mtntr, ford Expnsi'nr I ACHIEVED .'...... BY MERIT ........ The Ottawa Journal stands ttrat among 101 Canadian newspapers for the number of quotes from its pages, mainly editorial. It Is a proud posi. tion achieved not by accident but by merit. Incidentally the St. Catharines Standard stands fitteenth in the list. -St. Catharines Standard. l Nobody seems to know Just exact. ly who designs the fashions. but whoever It Is - and It is said that feminine fashions are designed by men-he has a lot to answer for. - Calgary Herald. l The Most cute little cmtions in Jeannine headgear Ire deeigued to be worn with the brim tilted sweetly over one eye and. of course. shut out the View on that side. A motorist the other day mined hitting a Indy who stepped right into his way. She simp- ly did not see him at all. The nicely- tilted little hat shut " all vision on one side. i "E good to be out ot the world " out ot the tubion." sud Colley Club". But it looks " if Iowa or the ladies ot tot!” are likely to not. their exit trom the world due to that very thing, the tabla). In this can It Is the fashion In hats that will tre; Instrumental. I girl telephoned the newspaper and and tor n more epecms eddreu. " she wlehed to 8.91]. It itt and that lone people read only the headings of the ertlclee, but thin one read the centre of it without noticing whet the bending laid at alh--Toronto Star. NEWSBOYS MAKE GOOD, THE EMPIRE DANGEROUS HATS. ito put up his car writes the New {Yorker At tout street the red light fUshed against him and he stopped. Not so a motorist beside him, who cheated and went ncross. Our man drove into his gauge, and there was the other driver, taking some things out of his ear. Almost immediately another car drove into the garage, and out stepped Mayor u Guardia. He walked right up to the light- jumper. took his name and address, and said he would hear about this. Then, without 1 pause, he wheeled around on the gouge attendsnt who had come up, and took his name and address-tor smoking. Rather late on a recent night. a gentleman of undoubted veracity was driving up Fifth avenue. bound for a public garage on East 102nd street Alderman Jeffrey condemned the present economic system "which made it possible in a land of plenty for thousands of people to be doom- ed to In existence of poverty." He looked forward to the day when pros- perity would return and road schem- es would be carried out primarily for the comfort of the traveling public and not with the wretched objective, as at present, of relieving economic) distress. I Stanley, Ene.--Redueing by two miles the snorted route between the densely populated area of Stanley and Newetustle-on-Tyne, a 2100,000 road was recently opened by Alder- man John Jeffrey, Chairman of Dur- ham County Council Works Com-, mittee. The scheme had been carried out by direct labor and the provision of 18 weeks' work for 1106 men, he pointed out, had brought incalculable temporary happiness into many hom. es in the locality, whilst it had also helped the trades people. England Dedicates Road Constructed by Jobless WHERE WATERLOOS ARE WON. And England needs them, these young men and women strong in mind ad vigorous in body, armed with the will to conquest and the trelr-ditreipline that alone makes conquest possible. We want them to win lawn tennis championships, and we want them to keep Britain the great nation our fathers made it. Let there be no pre- tense about it. There is an older gen- eration in power today that preaches softness and defeatism. The proclaim. led ideals ot the political platform are, often tar from being those of the sports ground. It is a fine thing to have young men who can win for England at Wimbledon and Sandwich. hut we want so many ot them that presently we shall have an older gen- eration that will win for England " Westminster or wherever lies the task of keeping the nation's end top.-) don Evening News. Galsworthy. enraged, went on wor- rying the authorities about it for a long time. How was it possible. he mid. that the Poorer classes should not be unduly burdened when the eotnmtratively wealthy like himself could escape. - John 0'l.ondon's Weekly. Lords Commissioners had ordered that the correspondence must now cease. At present more than half way across the Atlantic, T. 0. M. Sopvgith's "Endeavour" crosses the path of the liner Bremen, as she leaves Gosport, England, for the United States to challenge the American representative for the Americas Cup. On The Job to punish mowing automobile driv- ers. It the Speeder was going so miles an hour. he alts In his car before tho public gaze in a speciuny marked square tar 50 minutes. If he Riverton, N J -'T'h8 H pin}; figs; been resurréoted by Riverton police l The main necessity. she continued, in to map out a, political organization which will prove capable of handling changing conditions wisely and of ac. cepting the ideal of unity which in already in potential existence in re- gard to world relations, and class re- lations, and to relations between the sexes. Pillory ls "It man made the problems," she said, “man In qulte capable ot bring- ing order out of the duos he has formed." The duty at women, Mrs. Corbett Ashby suggesied, lies at the moment in offering all possible resistance to what she calls "the spirit ot defeat. ism" end in onsetting the tendency of the older genentlon to complain that the complexity of modern prob- lems " beyond human control. I Since those days. mankind has re- treated from it. immediate post-war position and tor reasons, Mrs. Cor. bett Ashby explained. that while act. entitle experiment and economic ad. vent-es support the general conceptlon of unity between states and between sexes, political understanding still lags behind such a conception and en- tertains fears for the consequences of too sturdy u confidence in the ideal of brotherhood. When political and economic doors opened to women immediately after Ithe war, they opened not merely be. ‘cause mankind in general bed rec. ognized the value ot eo-operation be, tween the sexes and wanted to es- tablish it, but because mankind in general was experiencing that wave of comparative desire which Iccount. ed tor the formation ot the League of Nations. for the granting of the political franchise to women and tor other similar happenings. Mrs. Corbett Ashby. president ot the league, uncovered some of the causes or their problems. The tact of the matter is, she said, in addresm ing the conference, that women are experiencing the effects ot general world thinking and are unable to account for it. London.-wormsn of the British Commonwealth are, according to some who live in the various parts of it, wherever possible. being relegated to "the church. the family and the kit. chen" cottfined to certain prescribed activities, denied freedom of choice. happenings were discussed during the meeting of the annual confer.. ence of the British Commonwealth League here recently when women from Australia, Canada. Ceylon, in. dia, New Zealand, South Africa and from some 30 British and interna. tional societies met to examine the common problems which confront: each and every one of them duringl a period of world unrest and change. Women of Britain Urged to Resist Defeatist Stand dnlnz 50 ha .1” Conference Told That Man. Made Problems'Can Be Solved By Man an hour, l The governors of the Foundiing Hospital will concentrate upon intent welfare work as a memorinl to their founder, Thomas Comm. They will Continue the administration of the day nursery and the nursery school. which have been established on the site since 1930. The Appeal Council's ob. Jeet in saving the Foundllng site as an open spore and securing it tor the children of London tor I.“ time hu been successfully achieve]. The long ettort to save the site of the Foundllng Hospital for the chil. dren or central London Is now hap- pily terminated. Open Space Saved For Children of u To relieve parched human throats, Federal agencies are hastening the establishment of I new corporation whose purpose will be to extend funds to dig wells to provide water for farms now nearly nrid. Community wells will be dug, perhaps on farms, perhops on some public property, j SHIP CATTLE AWAY. The lack of water has brought rush orders to mote cattle out ot many counties. The animals are shipped to southern and eastern parts of the country. Six thousand cattle are belng mov- ed out of North Dakota daily. More than 300.00 head of cattle have been shipped in the past two months. Att. proximately 600,000 head have been purchased in the Government‘s plan to reduce the cattle population to 1,000,000 head. “Fifty thousand tarnilies--ioproxt. mately 200,000 Per8otttF-ttre on relief, a situatlon directly traceable to the drought," Willson uld. "Some are on part relief, some total relief. some on only stock relief." A steady Increase in the number of persons on relief rolls is noted by K. A. Willson, State Administrator ot Federal Relief. Helpless, farmers have watched their rich top-soil carried away on ting wings of prairie wind. to fall into and choke miles of highway drainage ditches. MORE ON RELIEF. The movement is definite, forced by continuing drought. Once known as an Important grain state, North Dakota faces a split agriculturally, with the west revert. log to an area ot grazing lands and the east becoming the main farming country. _ expected to seek relief when winter comes. Drifting top-soil has highway system by Inc 000. Two hundred persons In one sec- tion are to be moved to Federal au. thority from untillnble farms. Farms are ture" crops. Virtually otteuhird 1 entire population is on rolls. Bismark. Ni-') North Dakota hard, Drought Hits One-Third of State's Popula- tion on Relief - Move 6,000 Cattle Daily Adduoual [bounds of producing only “mini: Dakota Herd The drought his hit Ins damaged the more than $500,. ot the State's 1 Federal relief persons no not n ground tor w “or; is wandered I Involving emargoncy ed to speed women Between July 1 and M, Tre "ares that the Government ( $244,293,998 more thin It took In detieit tor thu some period lust was $101,360,234. The Trouury view Is that th not a ground for won-1 Th. " Wturhitstrton.- Secretm gemhau, returning utter cation. will fmd that States detieit In grown twice " In: " at this Deficit in US. It $244,293,998 - ‘-_..° lava-“1' “I the home she created; enough of i typewriting to aid her husband in his studies, enough of foreign languages to read much in three of them and to converse a: needed in two." l Mrs. Johnson does most of her writ- ing on the typewriter, and on cross-j country trips with her husband she‘ tnkes his geologic“ notes from dicta-l tion either by longhnnd " typing them direct as they drive dong. Hen travels have taken her into every con-f tinent except South America end the Antarctic. t mg to preside alone in her kitchen, enough of the art of sewing to make much of her own trouueau, enough of the art of music to participate in public recitals and bring pleasure to, OLA L-__, . ed New York-The remarkable clarity with which blind persons sometimes 'see" the beauties of nature is shown in a collection of verse entitled "Foe Phantoms," the work of Alice Adkins Johnson, partly blind since childhood and totally blind since she was 18. She is the wife of Professor Douglas Johnson, geoligist and geographer ofl Columbia University. with whom she; has traveled extensively, seizing every; opportunity to explore the world be- yond her doors. I Blind Woman "Sees" Beauties of Nature; Travels With Geologist Husband (i; most of the ulna occurred in the toad. lumber and pulp and - groups. Mining (except ot coal). com. tnurtieatioms, snrvicea. trade, transpor- tation, logging and construction also indicated substantial advancel. The greatest expansion was in highway construction, in which some 25,000 additional workers were reported, partly engaged in unemployment re- lief undertakmgs. Excluding Inch road workers, however, the general increase in :no numbers on the re.‘ ported pas-rolls exceeded the average' gain noted in the years since IMO.", "The second quarter' of the you ls normully a. period of ltttettMtied Industrial no'lvlty, but the moral Increase in the last three month. bu considenbly exceeded the Home In the years sinve 1920, EXCEEDS AVERAGE GAIN "Employment in manufncturlng showed further improvement, contruy to the usual seasonal trend on July, “This Improvement compare: “an. mommy with the aggregate “In ot turproxitnatelr 79.000, 11,000 Ind 38.- 000 reported in the "me three month- of 1933, 1932 and 1931, respectively. _ "The mutton generally to: bet. ter than on the an. "tet or I!!! and 1982," utd Mr. Steven, In con. menus; on the report, WORK FOR 91,700. "The ("arable movement noted In the past three months [In provided work for our]; 91,700 porno“, be. lides Increasing the working hours of others previously employed. 1 ottawa.-A marked Improvement In employment mu-uc- I“ ehown In the report issued recently by mm.l H. H. Stevens, Khmer of Trade and Commerce. Employer: reporting to the Dominion Bureau ot Btatitttits bed 941.165 person- at work on July. 1. u compared with 890,151 on June, 91,700 Jobleu Return to Work Hon. H. H. Stevens' Report. Marked Improvement - Exceeds Average G a i n Since 1920. Writes Poetry Secretary Henry Mor, that the (tilted Crt"ritte more than It this time a y." law is that this In worry. The “qu. . temponry one. ' Outlay. dent"- I mon ttth 1.. ‘. Tron-vary toettt I The Blythehrae Jersey herd owned ".by Monroe Landon. Simone, Ontario. , bouts ot two splendid producing Jer- Ber cows. " The Britt is Rower's Meadow Bold I, bred by Joshua Lawrence. Woodstock. ”IOntario, and purchued us a young 'zheiter try Mr. Landon. Gold has made l three recorde. She started ott as I sell- ior yearling and her second record was mad. at 6 years of age and the third et 7 yetra. Her three records avenge " Ibe. of tat and 10,106 lbs. of milk. with an average test ot " per cent. The other great producer is a laughter at Rower’s Meadow Gold and she haa tour recorda made at t, t, d ’and d years or Me. The average ol these tour records is 9.988 lbs. ot milk end 610 lbs. or fat, or over one ion at butter tat in her "tst tour lac. mud: periodl. This young cow in SIMON-a. Golden Lady and is sired by the former herd sire at Blythe. hrae. Netinn's Interment, that has a long list of qtmtitliett daughters. i our time it We ”On-lav. ume Is given us that we can for eternity; and ete not be tot long to regret! . ,fl -.. we wanna early in the morning, while they are still covered with dew. Only when the sun shines on the wet 3nd sulphur-dust- ed leaf in the acid formed which kills the fungus without injury to the leaf. London Cows Make Good Records Over Test Period An other eontia itaiUii is powdered sulphur on the plum -e ..-_..m‘ any sung- us disease, for it kills the tterminnt. ine spores which the wind deposits on the plant. As the spores being to germinate, they give " certain secretions which dissolve the copper oxhiydrste of the sprsy. And " the spores continue to grow. they sbsorh the dissolved copper and ere killed. An other control ..-- t, A , ' Time is Rose mildew will cover the surface of the leaves to such an extent that they appear to have been dusted with flour. At trtrmr, the twigs are also at. tacked. Young shoots are endanger- ed by this fungus, since the leaves and buds are prevented from growing for some time. Flowering buds can be completely destroyed by this mildew. Sprays tor Bordeaux mixture are good preventatives against any tune- They do sting, but aid that all bee pun kept in little screened Postmaster General Furley's bee evpert: hastened to assure passengers on mil planes that queen bees, being Indies. don't sting people. They said, though, that when a queen bee is sent through the mail, " or I dozen "work- er" bees have to be lent along to take cure of her. Wautt'neton--A stinging decree cums recently from the post oftiee do- pnrtment. It announced that queen be" may travel by " mil. Although there has been little in- terest in literature as a study, the domnnd for books bl! incl-cued pro. digiously in the put five yenrs. the need being met by wheeled libraries ahieh go to every country school Ind cross-rad centre in the state. Lady, Worker Bees To Travel Airmail ' from music to poultry-ruining. Tho I movement is sponsored by the Parent- ' MOI AssteUtion, when once-u A marked interest in an: and cnfu u npplied to decoration. personal or household utility, is evident among the students. Discussions of public "nies, con- ducted by well informed leaders st- trut Inge audiences of men sud wo- men who are - to get accurate information on complicated outstand- ing nation-l snd international pro- blems. The purpose and possible "hievementa under the "New Deal" sre smong the popular topics at such gatherings. There are 4,600 men and women in country district: who on taking " rons in music, roe-[ling the old- fuhionod singing uhools where vil- lagers practiced their "do-re..mi'ts" before the phonograph 1nd the radio supplanted borne talent with "eaut. ned" entertainment. reg-rd the phenomenal growth of the utivity In due to the support of dwellers in mull communities who appreciate the “unmet of con- tutu with broader spheres of in- “Belt. Three Subjects Favored by Adults Singing. PM? Affairs and t ‘ Arts Are Most Popular The adult education movement in Below-re. which started with a slen- der enrollment at 86 students eight years up. now [no a router of 6,800 men and women who in studying cul- tural or practical subject: ranging Wilmington. Dei-tringing public Jain and cm and erUta top the list of subjects in which ndult educ- ation CIMIQI ure interested in this state. t all bee" mung"; tiii.; little screened boxes. “I (III! We may tRke w, and eternity will to regret the In“ of have mi-ttt it. - Itttt any fune- the Cerminnt. wind deposits re is to dust plants early icy are still the Willa Mildew WIMQ of (be nun who h Omaha, Neb ”Moo Chief 1 k getirittg tt om. pence noun he‘s thr, may have re lifted to the a " attorney. of wu lint. Beck tr, Ihich 1 off. Fla silver 1 daily w thrive! come “tent they I if . access" - yea: bu Mtotudera I their as“. them tor 1 cause she "I know Mrs. “an c ot can: on her t yarn. N long. 1 people w which she h During tl the beat c and new!" three emu" considered INK-buns, out ot her It" I good h -tttutg, .7 strong to: change ll them u t diluent. She Ira year t cord. Don't Neel, the In: cum ted the had l Acton, 0mm Coot-"He. E the has been Ion and will perfect tor a I no thet Judge , In, “It the bu I h cooking Am I yarn. on blood her tow anon; in the I It all. I reman been u tor a m: - our the. I to Me ttmt two ot her an! an. (in! "ht National cum she bu Me everything In “I have 3 wore" In. I In A bedspread ”he, It's vi: and applique while with r taken prizes "i put twenty-“j tea-cloths. din Mrs. In. "due I berries. and -o In her blue pm od tho shining urn. Beside “and henna the day helm color the Eu Judge In puma er-nee ot " tam, vegetable an and bind in not done you Menu-0 , on. to do." In. Judge and III. was ty lent-nod to co: “Firm' to do than t " III. I. brought up . Ink. butter no In Acton? "tter." my nee " h .re.t's& like Life tr St otT'ty W

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