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*nâ€" passing, and we must get something valuable out of each day.â€"Kingston Whigâ€"Standard, PACIFIC COAST sALMON. The Professor of Blology at Stanâ€" ford University said in a recent adâ€" dress betore a scientific association that each tributary of streams flowâ€" ing into the ocean was shown to have a distinct colony or race of salmon. It was further stated by the professor that it these races are destroyed by dams or other manâ€"» made devices on the Pacific rivers they cannot _ be _ replacedâ€"Halifax Herald. REMINDER, Let the printed sheets of dates which we call a calendar remind us every day in the year that time is FALSE GOSPEL. "War alone brings up to its highâ€" est tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it." So declares Premier Musâ€" solini, the ruler of Italy. A terrible falsity. Canada proves it so, From the close of the War of 181214 with the United States to the outbreak of the World War of 1914, Canada enâ€" jJoyed practically one hundred years of peace. Then came the World War of 1914. From our small population Six hundred thousand Canadians beâ€" came soldiersâ€"and those who got into battle proved that there were no better soldiers in the world. â€"Otâ€" tawa Journal. CURFEW. Like Port Stanley, Fort Erie has a curfew law that is being enforced to the extent that parents who let "teen" age children roam the street3 are being haled into court, That‘s getting at the root of the trouble.â€" St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journal. SEALING WAX, The use of sealing wax on letters Is a very ancient custom, but it by no means follows that it is entivrely suitable to preseni day uses, The postal employees wax angry at its present day use on the back of letâ€" ters because of the danger from fiyâ€" ing fragments of hardened wax to the eyes of the employees. The post office authorities, however, have rulâ€" ed that "the department knows of no justifiable reason for requesting the pubsic to forego the use of a sealing material which has been in use from _ time _ immemoria!, _ and which, as far as the department is aware, has Lo substituce."â€"Moncton Transcript. BOLIVIA‘S ADVANTAGE Apparently disabused of the idea that the interminable warfare beâ€" tween Bolivia and Paraguay in. the Gran Chaco jungles can be halted by means of heartâ€"toâ€"heart chats with the combatants, the League of Naâ€" tions committee entrusted with the task of settling the dispute has deâ€" clded to settle it by taking sides. The coin came down "heads," so Bolivia will now get all the arms she needs, with the blessing of the League, whi‘e embargoes on munitions shipâ€" ments to Paraguay are strengthenâ€" ed.â€"Border Cities Star. "How can I get my husband to tell me about his business affairs?" plaintively inquires a correspondent? Ask him for money for a new dress. â€"llalifax Herald. HEARST ON RUSSsiA American newspaper . CANADA THE EMPIRE \ oct THIS MIGHT WORK. David stays to dinner at the Wickfields. Uriah sits at the head of the table, flushed with his own importance. But when Agnes leaves the room he proposes a toast to his hopes of winning her as his wife. Wickfield, enraged, tries to strike him, but when Uriah_ l'piikiv to liifx;:v;;;nâ€"i-&iy:.-h: collapses CANADA DAVID COPPERFIELD publishâ€" ~"« the_:â€"â€"â€" pasit There weren‘t, so the white â€"and native trappers ate roast caribou and wild cranberries for Christmas and HARD TIMES IN THE ARCTIC Turkeys at Aklavik, states a radio dispato? from the tiny _ iceâ€"bound settlement, would have been valued at $1.50 a poundâ€"it there had been any turkeys. The deplorable waste of life ocâ€" casioned by traffic accidents, he deâ€" clared, was "a ghastly â€" indictment upon our civilization." ‘I am often told," says the magisâ€" trate, "that damages will be settled. Yes, but tell me, what insurance company can ever fill a vacant chair?""â€"Peterboro Examiner. ’ THE VACANT CcHAIRS. Magistrate Browne, â€"of Toronto, whose profession brings him into daily contact with the problem, made scme striking reference to the autoâ€" mobile death toll in an address the other night. wou‘d be seen quickly by the driver of a motor car. Persons dressed in dark clothes are often almost invisâ€" ible until within the direct focus of the headlightsâ€"and then it is usuâ€" ally too late.â€"Edmonton Journal. P:airie neighborliness has become a byword throughou: Canada, It has been thrown into new and siil} brightâ€" er relief in those years of cconomic ordcal, _ Men, women and children on the pr iries, and as well, in the towns and cities that dot them, have gone out of their way to do the kindâ€" ly neighborly thing. This personal helpfuiness has become an instituâ€" tion in the west.â€"Regina â€" Leaderâ€" Post. An Aiberta driver the other day just missed beating a train to the ercssing but no doubt he will try it again.â€"Calgary Herald. GREATEST SEAPORT. When people think of big British seaports they instantly call to mind I/verpocol and Southkampton, thereâ€" fore, it may surprise them to learn that London is Britain‘s busiest seaâ€" port by a long way. During the year ended October 31, the net tonnage using London was 58,603,242. Liverpool was a poor second with 33,505,650, and Southâ€" ampton third with 25,267,860. Then came Hull with over 11,000,000, alâ€" though no large liners call there, being on the east coast, and fifth place was occupied by Manchester with over 7,000,000, which is pretty good for a port that is 35 miles from the sea to which it only has access by a manâ€"made canal,â€"St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journatl. er, William Randoliph Hearst, took occasion in a recent national broadâ€" cast to speak the "plain uncensorâ€" ed truth" about Russia. Despite his earlier views on the great communisâ€" tic enterprise in that country, he is definitely critical today, He describâ€" ed the Soviet governmental experiâ€" ments as a fearful failure, which was "only to be expected from putting people who could not care for their own interests successfully in charge of the administration of public afâ€" fairs.â€"Calgary Herald. PRAIRIE FRIENDLINESS THE WORLD AT LARGE David and Dora are married and live in a tiny ihe young couple quarrel bitterly and Dora cottage at Highgate. In spite of Dora‘s childisn bursts into a torrent of tears. But later, when helplessness about everything, they are happy their guests have left, they each beg the other‘s together until the night Aunt Betsy and mr. forgiveness and David decides to bring Peggotty Dick come.to dinner. Everything goes wrong. into the house to take care of everything in the The roast is burnt and the oysters are uropened. household so‘ that Dora will: have_no _ further worries, TOURIST ADVERTisiING Ceylon is rapidly fading off the tourists‘ map of the world. There has been in recent months a striking decline of tourist traffic. This is the ciety, In size that fleet easily surpassed in numbers the largest enemy formation to appear over English territory durâ€" ing the war â€" British Aircraft Soâ€" The biggest formation of aircraft that has yet flown over the British Isles consisted in rather more than one hundred _ aircraft â€" under the leadership of the late Air Commoâ€" dore C,. R. Samson. The flight was made over London some 10 years ago, In size that fleat casilt enmmucanAi t } Air ministry officials and Service officers are discussing the arrangeâ€" ments. One suggestion is that the climax of the review should be a grand "fyâ€"over" on a scale never yet attempted in this country, enâ€" gaging 400 airplanes, and a "royal salute" with the squasrons diving in formation before the King. PARADE OF 400 ‘PLANES. One of the high points of the King‘s Jubilee Year will be a royal review on a big scale of the Royal Air Force. I am in the habit of wearing â€" a beret. As this form of headgear fits tightly to the head it is almost imâ€" possible to remove it in time, It is equally difficult to replace, especialâ€" ly if one hand is cccupied with, say, a stick or an umbrella. To bow with the beret on seems scarcely courteâ€" ous; to tou@? the forehead with the right hand has a menial air; to make a Fascist salute is unâ€"English, Can any one tell me what to do?â€"London Times. ‘ APPETIZER, At an ealing competition, a collier aucceeded in disposing of a leg of mutton, a loaf of bread, and a plenâ€" tiful supply of vegetables, finishing up with a substantial plum pudding. He was decided the winner. When going home, he said to some of his admirers, "Now, lads, don‘t yo say nowt about this to my missus, or she won‘t gi‘e me no supper.â€" London Advertiser. New Year‘s dinners.â€"Winnipeg Triâ€" bune. POLITE THOUGH HATLESS Homeless Parisians have formed a society the teachings of the Ancients, they have made t them hanging up weekly wash while other peers THE EMPIRE ONTARIO ARC TORONTO Weekly Serial No manager would ously, I even darke show that 1 have brains.â€"Miss Ange beauty Queen, in aln the last Sunday Pict News luis is going to be a much better import year than 1933 was, or, inâ€" deed, any year since 1930, With imâ€" ports so drastically reduced stocks of commodities in this country have become depleted, while the small inâ€" ward flow bas effected employment and contributed to the general slugâ€" gishness of trade, Its revival can be attributed in part to the need to reâ€" plenish supplies of overseas commoâ€" dities, But that need has existed earlier, when trade still remained at a low ebb, It has been started movâ€" ing again by several conditions which can easily be assessed. A belief that the future will be better than the past can be given some of the credit. A more important factor has unâ€" doubtedly been the dissipation of that atmosphere of uncertainty which reâ€" strained importers from operating. The tariff amendments have been made and the exchange policy has been stabilized. Therefore plans can now be formed more confidently than was previously possible.â€"Auckland Ay i. She son which Ceylon may take to heart, The propaganda carried on against Japan‘s cheap goods is regarded in Japan as the biggest advertisement for the country. Evidently it is betâ€" ter to become even notorious than remain in respectable obscurity and be ignored.â€"Times of Ceylon, Colomâ€" ho. more remarkable _ because "the world," as Mr. M. 8. Milne remarkâ€" ed on Sunday at Nuwara Eliya, "has gone cruising mad." Economic reâ€" covery has multiplied tourists and is sending them to the four quarters of the globe, Japan, despite, its drawâ€" backs of distance and language, was expecting to receive an unprecedentâ€" ed number of tourists this year. It was thought that the total would exâ€" ceed 30,000 visitors as against an average of 17,000 or 18,000. The rea-‘ son for this sudden influx is a lesâ€" This is BETTER TIMES IN N.Z nager would take me seriâ€" even darkened my hair to ‘at 1 have character and Miss _ Angela Joyce, _ exâ€" ueen, in an interview _ in Sunday Pictorial. ciety called the "Philosophers of the Seine," and f«¢ ade the best of their circumstances. Picture shows peers out of shelter built of odds and ends. Pretty Desperate Ontario Horticultural Association, Annual Conventionâ€"Thursday and Friday, February 21 and 22, comâ€" mencing at 9 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Vegetable Growers‘ Asâ€" sociationâ€"Annual Meeting on Tuesâ€" day, February 12th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. Convention, Wednesday, February 13th, commencing at 9 am. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Association of Fairs and Exhibitions â€" Annual Convention, Thursday and Friday, February 7th and 8th, commencing at 9.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Field Crop and Seed Growers‘ _ Assoc‘ationâ€"Wednesday February 6th, commencing at 9.30 am. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Ontario Plowmen‘s Associationâ€" Tuesday, February 5th, commmencing at 10.30 a.m. King Edward Hotel, Toronto. Arrangements have been completâ€" ed by the Agricultural Associations concerned to hold their Annual Meetings and Conventions, as anâ€" nounced below: The Canadian visitors spent a day at Pretoria interviewing memâ€" bers of the South African governâ€" ment. Later they visited Durban and returned to spend two or three weeks in this city. They propose goâ€" ing to Rhodesia to talk Canadian trade in Bulawayo and Salisbury. Meetings and Conventions For Month of February "We suggest" he said, "that the two governments should jointly subâ€" sidize one of the shipping lines to run a regular and fast service beâ€" tween the Union and Canada. A direct service will enable Union ex: porters to enjoy some of the preâ€" ferences which our government exâ€" tends. Once goods are shipped via the United Kingdom they lose their identity and come under a different tariff." Johannesburgâ€"Needq for a direct and speedy shipping service between the Union of South Africa and Canâ€" ada was emphasized in an interview by J. H. McDonald of New Westâ€" minster, B.C.. chairman of Canada‘s first trade miss‘on to South Africa. Canadaâ€"South Africa Need Fast Shipping l tthits Ahitge t t cens1 Some months later, Peggotty rushes in and inâ€" terrupts David‘s writing. Em'lg has been found| David quickly seeks out Uncle Dan who tells hirs how Steerforth had cruelly deserted her in Naples. He begs David to go to Ham, who has now zrown'reckless of his life, and tell him the NO@w : W IF 130014 (manak £1009. x . NT VC adh ooveenfPeani sc d c 2s news. wili vavid reach him in time? â€" W for next week‘s concluding installment "Des id â€"Cannerfield." L ," and following Based on {he Novel by one of It is claimed that, early in the season, long before the province‘s strawberries are available, a conâ€" siderable amount of berries are imâ€" ported from the United States and Ontario and are sold at fairly high prices, but that Quebec cold storage berries, which retain their excellent taste and fine quality, could easily and profitably take their place. ‘ 11 . 3 â€"_SRUNEN! proves ‘successful, it is expected between 200,000 _ and 300,000 pounds of Quebec _ strawâ€" berries will be similarly â€" marketed in the winter of 1936. Some 30,000 pounds of last year‘s crop of strawberries, which have been kept in cold storage, will be offered for sale on the Montreal market in the near future, and if the experiment proves â€" successful. Quebecâ€"The agricultural districts of the province in general, and the district of Quebec City and the Island of Orleans in particular, are expected to _ derive considerable benefit from a new coâ€"operative exâ€" periment that is being conducted by the Provincial and Dominion deâ€" partments of agriculture with cold storage garden strawberries. | in time? â€" Watech "We admit we are interested in the Dionne sisters. If we could shove one of them about in a cart we‘d glad‘y do so, or perform any other minor or major service. Not being able to do that we print things in the paper now and then about them, put in their pictures so people can see how they are getting along, and we‘ll keep on doing â€" it. _ Much better material we think, than a plethora of stories about bad men, bandits, wars, divorces, depressions and so on. Why, just think of itâ€"five at a time and all living and fat as pups! | Nothing like it in the world." | "Well, we remain interested ourâ€" selves," says the editor, "One man who returned from a trip to Florida told us the people at the hote!l where bhe was staying asked dim about the Dionne children when they found he was from Ontario; there was a Jetter in yesterday‘s mail from Washington and at the bottom was the query ‘How goes it with the quintuplets ? It‘s a fact the news about them has been carried pretty much all over the world for the Dionne sisters are the only quintuplets in the world, ‘ There is but one learning tower of Pisa, just one Gibraltar and just one Dionne family. I "To a northerner who knows someâ€" thing of the modest requirements of its pioneer households, the Toronto woman‘s reaction is interesting. Even where more elaborate furnishâ€" ings could be afforded, simplicity in rural homes in the north is seldom departed from. That the Dionne family could add something to the living room must be apparent from the fact that a piano is listed in the parior, "The settler in the north is used to the simple life, He does not favor cluttering up his home with more furniture than de thinks he needs even when he could afford to do so," EDITORIAL REPLY. | The Stratford Beaconâ€"Herald â€"reâ€" plies editorially to a correspondent, a man, who wants to "get a rest from all the fuss over the Dionne babies." , rying Experiments "A woman wrote up the Dionne household for the last issue of the Canadian Home Journal, .and was apparently much perturbed at the modest furnishings. The large ‘bare‘ living room plainly impressed her, for she lists the stove, table, plain chairs and the few other articles it contained. The Sault Ste. Marie Star says editorially : Quintuplets News Urge Education Interests Editors To Reduce Toll "There Is But One Leaning Tower of Pisa; One Dionne Family" } With Strawberries of 10 tent man to handle public relations and educate motorists and pedestriâ€" ans in proper safety measures. represent a crossâ€"section of the community. It should normally include all such as are affected by traffic accidents and congesâ€" tion." In order to cultivate public supâ€" port for traffic safety enforcement, the committee considered police deâ€" partments should assign a compeâ€" Coâ€"operation of the public is vitalâ€" ly necessary, the committee agreed, if accidents are to be reduced in number, ’ "The addition of a traffic en gineering department is most esâ€" sential to ensure the proper adâ€" _ _ministration of every police de partment," the committee re commended. The committee suggested examinâ€" ation of all new applicants â€" for drivers‘ licenses, periodic examinaâ€" tion of all licensed drivers, and inâ€" spection of all motor vehicles at least once a year, to detect meâ€" chanical defects. C0Oâ€"OPERATION 1s ESSENTIAL Separate traffic courts were veo commended to hear all charges of violation against the traffic laws. Accurate reporting of accidents and subsequent study of the reports. coupled with the use of maps, were urged. the provincei”u;nd"sâ€"r;-e“ciu-lize‘d policc squads to handle traffic duties. Among the steps which the com mittee felt would strengthen th« police effort were ° uniform legis lative standards throughout the Doâ€" minion, standard traflic laws in all a sign of progress. It will always increase and its potential hazards will always exist. The automobile is an indispensable element in our prosâ€" entâ€"day civilization, but it is exactâ€" ing a terrible toll from us in life, limb and property. In almost every major crime the automobile is in volved. In a large measure it is now the motor car whic you must look for if you are to solve the crime proâ€" blem." The committee felt it was not lack of knowledge that prevented motor accidents, but rather lack of determination to take the nesessary steps. In view of the urgorey of th problem the committee fe‘t ‘hat a~ tion towards getting trafic law ob servance and enforeement would > the best results and the responsibil ity of working out suitable asilo: devolved upon the police. ’ "The problem shows from its | present severity that it _ outâ€" _ ranks all other community proâ€" _ _blems with which the police come _ in contact," the report continued. "It should certainly receive more attention‘ than the ~problems which constitute a lesser burden upon the community, until . its losses are decreased. it should be possible to convince the public that it would be better to spend more money for police protectâ€" ion and make a greater saving through a reduction in accidents. "The traflic problem will never grow les;‘if left to itself, Mobility is _ "When due consideration is given to everything that has been said and done in the matter of street and highway safety; when all that has been written has beca read and eonâ€" sidered and when the really effective safety work,. by whomsoever done, has been give., due wsedit, there is one thing of which we must not lose sight," the report declared. "The one thing is that the problem of traffic accidents affects every muniâ€" cipal organization, every citizen and every â€" businessâ€"some more â€" than others. In ci‘y administration it has placed a greater burden upon the police than upon any othor eivic doâ€" partment." The committee strongly urged a greater degree of education to re~ duce accidents, steps to get public coâ€"operation through formation of traffic advisory boards, and closer relations by the police with the public to gain public confidence and goodâ€"will. At the outset, the report emphaâ€" sized the magnitude of the traffic problem today and its effect upon the public. The committee has been studying the traffic problem and has embodied its ideas in a lengthy report, signed by the members, who are Chief of Police Emile Joliat of Ottawa, chairman; Chief D. C. Draper, of Toronto; Deputy Director C. Barnos, of Montreal, and Inspector J. A. Grant, chief of the Ontario provinâ€" cial police motorcycle patrol, Toâ€" ronto. Ottawaâ€"Definite action to enlist public support in a nationâ€"wide efâ€" fort to reduce the traffic accident toll was urged, together with concrete suggestions, in a report of the trafâ€" fie safety committee of the Chief Constables‘ Association of Canada, made public here last week. he usual method of doing is to establish a ‘traffic adâ€" y board‘, whose members Ottawa Police Chiefs Submit Safety Program In Effort To Check Increase In Acâ€" cidents. 10r eivic do ey of the e"t ‘hbat a~ fie law obâ€" t would got _ an now look proâ€" O1 «eSkyscrapers Father â€" You take accountit mt school, don‘t you, son? Bon â€" Yes, sure, father. ‘ Father â€" Well, how can you m «ount for the brassiere and panti Zou sent home in your last luundr} buildings ed now is a modern Lond: architecture. Antiquated s gulations make it imposs builders in London to ava E of the latest methods construction, hence the ‘s movement foy For TtWo years al mittee has been woji to be embodied in ; the place of the Building Act. This measure which stil elauses that were the 12th century, a Louncil ©f build ing to } rials us striction: inforced London, Eng the height of 1 the present lim 120 to 150 fee of the London : bid to Parliame building law an the ultimate reâ€" metropolis, Th passing of plar is another obje Â¥iew . The dra Parliament made theory <©apien it ov €distril know feeli that tim« 11 lkew &\ pari tite ably Bcotti ing 1 the 4 lee #\ diners number where the de; tips for In Unit lem has b soived, thi by sheer i tips, The quently be some almo soin of th the meal, gome scare the walte: with a nic been hard tips to eke Bervices ers, declar only their formed wit Jdual rewa Dismissal mre the pena of any waite: m ‘cumshaw" Sar from den have been main adaman by passenger them . U In a valiant « perennia) iipping kingâ€"Shanghai : MHangchowâ€"Ningpo tration of China the giving of tip dining cars is st Tips: Those Wh and Those Who 1 Would Ra M Are Plann n 0â€"f¢