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I _ [! t 1} The mathematical precision of the €drop as more and more children were immunized matches Ottawa‘s descen. ding scale almost exactly. Toronto had 64 deaths from this disease in 1929, 54 in 1930, 36 in 1931, 15 in 1932 and 5 in 1933, That city‘s re cord is another factor for thoss faw Toronto in 1895 reported 147 deaths from dightheria, Allowing for the Increase in population, in the same proportion the death list in 1934 would have reached 498. But by last year the toxoid immunization plan had been in use for a period long enough to make its benefits fully apâ€" parent, there were only 22 cases of diphtheria in the whole city, and no deaths. Ottawa‘s experience with diphtheâ€" Fia is common to that of all cities where a determined effort is being made to immunize the youthful pop. ulation against this â€" disease that once was a deadly plague, probably would be still it preventive measures had not been developed., ‘ The story goes that the button was found by a sailor in a Scottish seaâ€" men‘s inn back around 18§55. Maybe that explains its remarkable long. evity of service.â€"Border Cities Star. A Sudbury man possesses a low. Iy collar button which he claims is 80 years old. So proud of it is he that it only takes part in the reguâ€" lar duty of a collar button on Sun. €ays. His father had used the same accessory for 55 years. A current French idea of keeping the wolf away from the door _ ap. pears to be to confront him with the complacency of good clothes, imâ€" pressed _ with the spectacle of a householder in a snappy new suit, the wolf is expected to let fall his tail and slink away in embarrass. ment at his obviously illâ€"timed in trusion. This attitude is, of course, based on the copybook motto that nothing succeeds like evidence of‘ success.â€"Guelph Merenry, Believe it or not, as Ripley would say, but that bird came to, and to demonstrate that it was no ingrate, laid an egsg, and then cackled vigor. ously for the boss to come and beâ€" hold "Business As Usual." Nothing that he had lamped on the farm gave him more satisfaction than biddy‘s periormance on that occasion. â€"Wal. kerton Heraldâ€"Times. TORONTO‘s FINE sHowinc One of the survivors of the Dundas train wreck, lying in a critical conâ€" dition in hospital, said: "Well, at least we‘ve taken those Dionnes off the front page." The capacity of human beings to laugh at the very moment of death, and in the direst extremity, is one of the most admirâ€" able qualities of the race.â€"Hamilton Herald. David is sent to school at Canterbury. He lives «"ith the Wickfields, and little Agnes is his conâ€" stant companion, while Steerforth is his best friend at school. He also meets Uriah Heep, Wickfield‘s clerk, whom he suspects is a scounâ€" «drel. Busy and happy now, the pleasant years slip by quickly. CANADA THE EMPIRE BELIEVE IT OR NOT DAVID COPPERFIELD \ oct WELL LONG SERVicE ABILITY TO JOKE CANADA DRESSED those few / * â€"+ ie SE Police dogs cannot be imported inâ€" !to Australia. They are a nuisance and menace in most countries, In that Commonwealth they _ endanger the sheep industry, which is a basic business of their agriculture. _ Ausâ€" tralians cannot afford to have any more dangerous dogs running | arâ€" ound huge sheep ranches. As it is now the dingo, or native dog, held by pastoralists to be the most cunâ€" ning animal in existence is of conâ€" siderable trouble owing to its raids 1 wasn‘t always so wise. Among my other varied activities 1 once learned to milk cows. And I cursed the cow heartily because she insisâ€" ted on sloshing me in the eye with ber tail. The lady who taught me to milk looked on and said: "Why don‘t you tie a rock to it?" Anything so simple had never struck me. So I did it. 1 remained unconscious for 15 minutes, I have always lamented that most women have no sense of humor, but when they have it‘s a wow,â€"Vanâ€" couver Province. ‘ PROBLEM OF CoW‘s TAIL. > Word comes that in Los Angeles tiere is a national inventors‘ con. gress and that among 500 other deâ€" vices shown there is one for holdâ€" ing a cow‘s tail during milking, It recalls the man who invented a gadget for striking matches, You put In the match, turned a dandle and rushed across the room to catch it before it went out. What is the matâ€" ter with tying the tuft of hair at the end of the tail round the cow‘s leg? suies are evidence of pi ying struck §0 CASH AT AUCTION sales The terms that used to appear on auction sale bills giving so many months‘ credit on approved joint notes, and a percentage off for cash, are apparently a thing of the past, hereabouts, A more abbreviâ€" ated form is now in common use and the most of the sales are usually "Terms cash." Numbers of the posâ€" ters also bear the admonition that nothing is to be taken from the preâ€" mises "until satisfactorily settled It would appear that the farmer has gone on the cash and carry ba.flis' also. Can it be that the credit sysâ€" tem is about to go from all phases of activity. A few years ago every. one was urzed to buy on easy terms. It would seem thar tha rarma umuus MmMUST NOT BE REPEATED Consciously or unconsciously there is a universal conviction that the difficult times of the last four years have been altogether too difficult to be endured again, within the lifeâ€" time of the present generation, at least. The people do not intend, if they can help it, to put up with a repetition of that period of declinâ€" ing incomes, declining living standâ€" ards, declining bank accounts and all.round hardships.â€"Quebec Chronâ€" icleâ€"Telegraph, Upon the just and unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The unjust hath the just‘s umâ€" brella, WHEN THE RAIN FALLS. The late Sir Herbert Tree, the English actor and wit, once summed up some facts of life in a classic jingle which went, as nearly as I can remember it, as follows: The rain, it falleth down who yet may doubt that toxoid con. fers immunity.â€"Ottawa Journal. an it be that the credit sysâ€" about to go from all phases ity. A few years ago every. urzed to buy on easy terms. 1 seem that the terms were baat everyone bought. The lays are here. ‘They have every walk of life, and the e apparently just another of the cash basis being esâ€" 1. â€"Acton Free Press: POLICE poss THE WORLD AT LARGE vavid, now a young man, is in London bent on a career as an author. He has left behind him the Wickfields and his old friends, the Micawbers. By a strange coincidence Micawber has been iven a position as assistant to Uriah Heep. In iondon with his friend Steerforth, David meets Dora Spenlow and falls in love with her. Among 1 once cursed insisâ€" MPDVRnntih aniiichietatatst Avadindicintcd.2A 414000 4331 it will neither be overloaded with complicated machinery, nor made too rigid for safety, is of first imporâ€" tance to both the farmer and the community as a whole.â€"Auckland Times. THE ART OF AGRICULTURE. It must not be forgotten that agâ€" riculture is also an art, In its highâ€" est forms it is based on an instinet for the soil, long years of experiâ€" ence and _ observation, above all training to grapple practically with déay to day problems as they arise, In a word, farming cannot be conâ€" ducted by word of command, like the manoeuvers of a body of troops, These are things which should be reâ€" membered when the wholesale planâ€" ning of production from the soil is contemplated. Therefore, to whatâ€" ever degree of control this country must resign itself, an assurance that i4 C wis P 100 ‘ AIR MAIL To canapa. Since we have now reached a point at which the air mail to Canada must be considered an immediate â€" quesâ€" tion, the seadrome has become â€" a practical problem, albeit an extremeâ€" ly ticklish one. The Americans claim that artificial islands of suitable deâ€" sign for the use of aircraft can be constructed and employed with sucâ€" cess. We have still to see one, but if the claim be granted, who is to make them and who is to operate them? Are they to be internationâ€" ally planned and controlled or to be simply a host of little Heligolands of the nations whose flags they fly? Obâ€" viously the seadrome question and the problem of the freedom of the seas cannot be separated.â€"Glasgow ITawa 14 Herald day Chronicle SHORTER skiRTsS. Having lived to see the day when a woman in a short skirt looks posiâ€" tively dowdy, we must prepare our eyes for another shock. Next spring the fashion experts say, skirts will be shorter. _ Women will still dress in the height of discretion, but the height of discretion will be raised a few inches, By this time next year the flowing garments that now look so smart may be worn only by aunâ€" ties, When this seeâ€"saw process has been repeated a few times _ more the whole human race will be shockâ€" proof. And what will the modiste do then, poor thing?â€"Manchastar G... RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM. "I believe in rugged individualism and the ruggeder and the more inâ€" dividualiste it is, the more I believe in it," says President George B. Cutâ€" ten, of Colgate University, _ who thinks that there is too much tenâ€" dency to suppress the individual for the good of the man. As a matter of fact, he thinks that is quite the wrong way to go about it and that more good will be accomplished for the mass if the individual is encourâ€" aged.â€"Sault Star. on sneep and the extreme difficulty there is in shooting or even poisonâ€" it.â€"Brandon Sun, on sheep and the Seventeen Canad‘ans appeared E. W. Beatty, K.C., Knight of Grace o Gooderham, Toronto, created Knight C J. Stewart, exâ€"Mayor of Toronto, Cor THE EMPIRE ed a few times more uman race will be shockâ€" what will the modiste do thing?â€"Manchester Sunâ€" TORONTO Weekly Serial One day, walking on the beach with Steerforth near Dora‘s home, David chances on the Peggotty boatâ€"house. They p;ly them a visit and David again meets his dearly beloved nurse, Peggotty. But a few weeks later he is horrified to find that Em‘ly, betrothed to Ham, has run away with Steerforth. * S "~ inroughout the world, with the fine ideas of each country welded into a universal, simple and sensible program that would demand that only those capable of safe driving be allowed to drive, rigid inspection of tires and brakes." He stated that by June a hichway "There should__i)-c laws throughout the fine ideas of each ‘"We cannot say our highways are finished," he declared, "so long as one grade crossing remains, and so long as our curves are not so conâ€" structed that drivers can take adâ€" vantage of the speed and power which modern automobiles possess, UNIFORM SaAFETY LAWS less of world conditions. SPIRIT OF RECIPROCITY "I think the big thing toâ€"day," he said, "is to remember that the wealth of the world at large, We should deal with other countries in a spirit of reciprocity, arranging our terms by narrow nationalistic policies, We found, in the United States, that our Smootâ€"Hawley bill had boosted tarâ€" iffs up too highâ€"and We are graduâ€" ally repairing that mistake." In regard to motoring needs, he pointed out that automobiles had alâ€" ready been developed more than the supervision of drivers and maintenâ€" ance of highways, appeared in England, he finds, "has made finest comeback of any count but declares that the day is â€" when any nation can prosper reg less of world conditions ’ Toronto.â€"It is time for the naâ€" tions of the world to coâ€"operate in formation of a worldâ€"wide automoâ€" bile safety code, in the opinion of Robert C. Graham, executive viceâ€" president of the Grahamâ€"Page Comâ€" pany and chairman of the export committee of the Automobile Manuâ€" facturers‘ Association of the United States. He has recently completed a tour comprising 15 countries andl 30 states. Nations Should Coâ€"operate in Formation of Uniform Safeâ€" ty Code, Speaker Says. stadiot t Bsns it incdic tssc MR 24 given power to enforce the construcâ€" tion of baths in all dwellings"â€"Trinâ€" idad Guardian, Port of Spain. UNIVERSAL LAW FOR MOTORISTS NEXT To GODLINESS Some say the present clamor for bathing facilities arose through _ a plumbing accident, which deprived one of the most immaculate of our Councillors of his morning showers. Unable to take his accustomed bath, he first grew indignant and then sorrowful, as the realization came over him of what it meant to be one of the great unwashed. Dr, E. Prada, the town clerk, pointed out at the Health Authority meeting that there is no compulsion on house owners to instal shower baths on their preâ€" mises, Should such laxity continue? Should not the Local Authority be Canadians In King‘s Honor Liâ€" d in the King‘s Honor List this of the Order of the Hospital of Commander of the Order of St ompanion of the Order of the should be unifo_l:r;l' safety Li cduns P ' any country," he day is past prosper regardâ€" a highway nfhaÂ¥ 2e "ous «o4. 992C See F€LL the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; he Order of St. Michael and St. Georg Order of the British Empire, the 11 hP ib dnfi dsc c dn d d c d ’ Heavy bulk shipments of toys were made by eastern Scout toy shops to assist their brother Scouts in the West to carry on the good work. In addition, Scouts in the East distributed thousands of playâ€" things among the children of their own districts who might otherwise have been overlooked. â€" Canadad Week by Week,. Thousands of family toys were sent to settle tated in Ontario and Government and municij theâ€"land schemes, and to steaders in Northern Sa t Eighty thousand children _ were supplied with Christmas toys through a chain of 150 toy shops operated across Canada from ‘coast to coast by Canadian Bov Sennts @iV _ 11 cas F Mess coets 5 2o AOTO . 9 0 3,930 less than in September, 1934, For the ten months, January to October, gross revenues amounted to $217,356,942 in 1934 and $220,883,742 in 1933 and the operating income was $27,460,277 in 1934 and $16,737,. 778 in 1933. n se l2 _ o0 O C ce us Tev@nues: inc:egas. ed from $7,556543 to $7,607,276, _ _ Less than hait of the increase in operating expenses was for operat. ing payroll which increased by $552,â€" 464, or from $12,146,572 in 1933 to $12,699,036. The number of employes rose from 114,630 to 120,877, but was 3,080 less than in Sebntamhar +ins, Otta wa.â€"Canadian railways earn. led $29,150,83# in October as against $27,239,163 in 193%, is was an in. crease of Sl.flll.liii.\’. or seven .. per cent. Operating expenses were heav. ier by $1,770,840, or nine per cent,, and net operatin« revenuyes; inc: eas. ed <from $1,556548 in &T ¢u~ 4a year. Here we Canadian Railway Earnings Higher Revenues For ;l‘en Mon $247,356,942 Compare With $220,883,74 > _N0,, O °ne United States and Auâ€" stralia, where long distances were to be traversed, would always require heavier cars and more powerful enâ€" gines than those designed for smaller European countries, and that newsâ€" papers were the greatest present medium _ for moulding â€" the public mind, expressing a wish that they would use their opportunity to fos-‘ ter world fallawehki. would be complete between Mexico City annd Halifax, that cars built for Canada, the United States and Auâ€" stralia, where long distances were to be traversed, would always require heavier cars and mora nouawine «u. Canadian Boy world !ellowsh;;.)â€". ) ; , "LBnrCf eS fer broken heart. Then she tells him that Uriah Heep is now a partner in her father‘s firm and that he has some mysterious hold over Wickfield. What can it be? Watch forp next week‘s exciting instaUmant s hiz . AAZCL _ _ s C220 ® â€" °9 pPuUURqHCE :4 visits his Aunt and Agnes to tell them approaching marriage. Aunt Betsey disar but Agnes hides her broken heart. Then s him that Uriah Heep is now a partner father‘s firm and that he has some mys Soon, David‘s first Snss cepeii onl 220007 PRARE m next week‘s exciting insta‘lment, mes, and to new homeâ€" Northern Saskatchewan. k shipments of toys to settlers rehabiliâ€" family parcels of and _ Quebec by municipal backâ€"toâ€" see left : left to rightâ€" ilem; Sir Albert reorge; William Based on the Novel by Ten Months Scouts s‘tory is published and he snes to teil them of his Aunt Betsey disapproves their 10 _zÂ¥on‘t get the notion to travel lot. There ain‘t much to see," Will Rogers, er for securityâ€"than amored of liberty."._ w X There is a certain actress in the ‘! an , | movies, whose name I certainly do’ fe | not propose to divulge, who strikes! 1 | me As about the most lovely of | created things. I have worshipped,),. | her from a long distance for a long : S, time. I was content that she should , of remain a shadow on a screen while‘ th I sat in.a theatre looking at herâ€"a | ty respectable arid a convenient | reâ€" cu lationship, It seemed to me she grew | wa lovelier with the Passing of the years. Then the other morning the Colâ€" Si onist, with a callous disregard for| me and all the other lady‘s ndmirers.’ had to go and publish a news picture | of her on the deck of a liner with a| 1 lot of other people. It was a cruel | you thing to do. For, alas, my lovely | der lady, without her screen makeâ€"up, | for without those long, _ lustrous but | 7 false eyelashes, without her seductive} of gowns and alluring poses, turned‘ to . out to be a middleâ€"aged person of | 193 considerable girth â€" and numerou:‘be ' wrinkles. You can see a hundred | ove girls on the streets of Victoria much | be better looking any day of the week. hou: My last illusion has been shat. E tered. It was cruel of the Colonist wor and it was a great mistake for the utes lady to let herself get caught by | five the photographers without her war | on t paint. _ If the newspapers continue utes to do this sort of thing, where is | it a it going to end? Soon there will be nothing left to worship at all, â€" Victoria Times, “Dgfl't get "The ation _7 ‘*A"C of neid crops, In Ontario, higher prices for grains and fodâ€" der offset the lower production, and the estimated value of field crops is up 17% million dollars, or 14 per cent. _ Manitoba‘s yields were also down, but with generally higher ’prices, the value of field crops | is placed at 16% million dollars, or . nearly 50 per cent, higher than in 1933%. A similar condition prevalled in Saskatcrewan which shows _ an | improvement of 16 million dollars or rough y 20 pep cent. Alberta _ fied Cron valuse ara se WWy _ t }a lesser decline in sugar beets, Hay and clover accounted for a gain of 37 million dollars in value, _ oats were better by 31 million dollars and barley showed a gain in value of 101 million dollars, The estimated va‘lue of the potato crop is placed 9 million dollars lower than in 1933 despite the higher production in 194 n The greatest value increases are shown by the grain and fodder crops, but these are offset to some extent by a sharp decline in potatoes and _ Ottawa.â€"Canada‘s field crops for 1934 show an estimated gain of $112,â€" 901,600 in value. This improvement is attributed mainly to better prices for farm products and some Improveâ€" ments in yields, and may be regardâ€" ed as a significant and hopeful step in the recovery of Canadian agriculâ€" ture. According to a crop report issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the value of the 1934 feld crops is estimated at $536,498,600, compared with the 1933 valuation of $423,597,000, and reaches the highâ€" est level since 1930. | SHOW AN ESTIMATED ADVANCE OF $112,901,600 FOR YEAR JUST CLOSED Field Crops masses are 1 _ °S °C 190king at herâ€"a ble arid a convenient | reâ€" ip. It seemed to me she grew with the Passing of the years. the other morning the Colâ€" EKE 3 sult I An Illusion Lost ° per cent, higher than in _ similar condition prevalled atcrewan which shows _ an nent of 16 million dollars or 20 per cent. Alberta _ fied i€s rPre esiima.ed to be highâ€" out 37 per cont., or 28!, mil @ars. B.itish Columbia shows §2â€"us 13. Blish betterment always more ¢ in they are â€"Glen Frank, Show Gain cagâ€" enâ€" While they were puzzling â€" ovey this riddle they encountered an old medicine man, To him they ex plained the situation, _ Hp Istened attentively, Then he put his arms around them and whispered in their earsâ€"just two words, When they heard those words their f.eel brightened and they palâ€" loped happily away to the starting point, What were those two words? Well, to save myself from answer ing letters, I‘]j put the two words at the bottom of this article, NOTE: The two magic words were "change hare»» starting 1 quandary, il'l second there be a To solve the problem Indians to take their â€" distant point on the 1 from there race to him that he would buy the came in second, The Indians rode slo starting point. Thav choice ictl s COmrmed â€" %Q The news reached two of whom haq a horse sell. They took their buyer. He examingd and agreed that both so good that he could ifits t nds 2 s 22 L115 c C â€"_" "" ~®wsâ€"Here is an intelligence test on which I scoreqd zero, Maybe you will do better, It takes the form of a story. as follows : Writes H. D.“y Ne‘vs_ test on whic you will do ; __, 00 CCndnions i young store Clerks are ensured ; ’der the Shops Act which came if force with the New Year, | _ The act limits the working ti» of boys anq girls under 18 in sho to 52 hours a week unti] Decemb 1936, after which the hours are be 48 a week, Twentyâ€"fou» hou; overtime in six weeks a year m; be worked, but no more than hours in any one week, Employeu must allow theip your workers a break of at least 20 mi, utes after q continuous stretch . five hours‘ work. If a meal is tal:e on the premiszes a period of 45 mi, utes at least mMust be allowed, ar if away, one hour, School of of Toronto the social ture staff cducted spe work. Shortem London § Miss Held has given particularly valuable service through interpreting social activities to the general pubâ€" lic and through training volunteor workers so that their efforts might be of the utmost value. This service was recognized in 1983 with her elecâ€" , tion as president of the social welâ€" | fare conference of Toronto and by | her appointment in 1930 as lecturer at the University of Toronto. man wanted to Miss Frieda Heldâ€"Promoted Aide In Welfare Work Toronto.â€"After 15 years of steadâ€" ily increasing responsibility in the social field, Miss Frieda Held, of Toâ€" ronto, has been appointed as superâ€" visor in the unemployment relief branch of the Ontario Government, In announcing this new move in his departmental â€" reorganization, . Hon, Dave Croll, minister of welfare, re marked that "the service will be enâ€" riched by the sincere devotion to the public good and by the organizing abilities which are apparent at every point in Miss Held‘s career, We again follow our policy of appointâ€" ing only proven persons to vacancies in the department." staff and d special WILL SUPERVISE JOBLESS RELIEF wo Mlgic Words MÂ¥ mss 0. CV d a horse he wante ook their horses to examined the anj th.t bou, WOra wan If the nursing of thev Un: . She is als, a mer sC1ence depa continuous stretch o k. If a meal is tale, $ a period of 45 min mMust be allowed, an Hours For : 7 tme provincial 4 has been active al If of unmarried mo t cha‘rman of the ill(‘gitimacy worke problem, he told the _their horses to a n the prairie, â€" and rode slowly to the They were in a he horse that came to win, how could Lasier O'Brien in ‘ve depaitment frequently pa. COUrSes on vai could not him. _ He said the horse which 20 CCS4 â€" young at least 20 min. conditions f,, are ensured un. which came into â€"Year, e working time Shop Cla is the animals were good â€" buy a horse »ln'dinns, e;i-); °_ "~VIR 10 the Univer on volun wanted to 8 in shops December, s are to our hours* year may make a Chicay ent‘s l« }‘8§ €0 Moeg the n Kindness and cruelty a; relative terms, and wholl ent on habit, One hears no »n the part of Chinese v gause their husbands n them. Doubtless they wou‘l« ‘ their husbands did. Si n, the famous Englis mnd traveller, relates tha met a dusky maiden, in :« expeditions, who bewailed ter sobs the loss of her love. He wished to know thought it was lost, Well, i x long time since her } given her a beating. wkilful of ow letter n } need In< mother crame | on this Jw« When a marriage 1 know if he ber parents they are a w l Mot Baddy the d kills winu € €( n n metho to b He He He He B Kt is doing the things w« "Phe favors that trust in 1 #wlckâ€"un enly of J« Jeast 18 Hubby t is doing thing That will not Al uld S c W Kindness and Cruelty M Heard? t n THE COLORS ¢ K W 1 H bt R e