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| i Many criizens . . may have the view that if handbills have to be» such matter would be more welcome if it came through the mails than communicated to them in the present manner â€" littered all over front steps, verandah or sidewalks, there frequently to become ugily emâ€" bedded in ice or snow in winter time, mixed up with mud or slush in the spring, caught up and blown all over the place by the four winds of heaven in the summer t me, and become mixed up with wet and Slimy leaves in the fall. It is to be feared handbills have not had an alâ€" The terms that used to appear on auction sale bills giving so many months" eredit 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 usâ€" vally "Terms Cash." Numbers of the posters also bear the admonil.ion that nothing is to be taken from the premises "until satisfactorily settled for." It would appear that the fa.mey has gone on the cash and carry basis also.â€"Acton Free Press. REFORESTRATION In New Zealand they set to work with a vigor and an enthusiasm that are now beginning to bear fruit. A hundred years ago, when New Zeaâ€" land was first settled by the Engâ€" lish, it was half forest. Toâ€"day only oneâ€"{enth of the area is forest. This is the result of reckless clearing of trces during the closing period of the nineteenth century. But painful experience taught the New Zealanâ€" deis that much land unsuitable for pasture was excelllent for trocâ€" growing; and they have profited by their experience. â€"â€" Mon‘real Star. THE TITANIC FUND When the Titanic was sunk in 1922 a Mansion House Fund was started for the relief mainly of old people and children bereft of aid by the loss of supporting relatives. ‘The response was £415,212 and it is now announced that 276 persons are still sharing in the disburseâ€" ments of from £15,000 to £20,000 annually. It is rightly regarded as one of the best administered funds ever recorded. â€"â€" Brantford Expoli“‘ tor. fights, he is "buckling on his arâ€" mor."â€"(From the Ottawa Journal.) M LLOYD GEORGE It was a summer afternoon in 1890 when Mr. Gladstone in frock coat and tearose, complimented Mr. Lioyd George, fresh from a byâ€" election in Carnarvon. In the long years since then two reigning Britâ€" ish sovereigns have died, the Britâ€" ish Empire has fought two wars, dynasties and nations have disapâ€" peared, the map of the world has been changed. Yet now we read that this same Lloyd George whose voice has sounded through all this din of four decades of world upheaval and revolution, is to launch a new poâ€" litical movement. In his seventyâ€" first year, veteran of a thousand is much more popular than his arâ€" rival. May it, we trust, be soon,. â€" Winnipeg Free Press. OoUT WHERE COLD 1S "DKY" Burr! We admit the virile qualiâ€" ties of frigid air, and the stimulus induced in sluggish veins by the icy blasts. But Zero is always sufferâ€" rd, never welcomed. His departure CANADA THE EMPIRE \ oct AUCTION SALES HANDBILLS CANADA >« ht There is a minor war in progrees in the newspaper world at the preâ€" sent time. It all started because the Toronto Mail and Empire regâ€" istered a complaint that under proâ€" posed legislation there is under proâ€" sion for an eightâ€"hour day for ediâ€" tors, declaring that "many of them commonly work 12 or 14 hours a day, often seven days a week." This caused The Ottawa Journal to proâ€" nounce _ skepticism _ that â€" editors worked even as long as eight bours * day ‘.â€"*.‘. As a matter of fact it‘s a lucky editor who gets off with an eightâ€" hour day. _ Or is he lucky? â€" One doubts if the Mail and Empire ediâ€" tor would be happy if compelled to restrict his work to a miserable eight hours a day _ And somehow on» can‘t help but be mildly skeptiâ€" cal that a brilliant editorial page like that of The Ottawa Journal can be turned out in four or five hours‘ work, Even by the brilliant TOO MANY IDEAS The trouble is that the world is short of ideas, but that there is no way of plowing under the surplus. tenors," remarks the Ottawa Jourâ€" nal of the report that music is to be made compulsory in the schools. Perhaps it means "tenners."" â€" Sault Ste. Marie Star. OR PERHAPS BOTH "Perhaps what is wrong with the world is that we haven‘t enough of tenors," remarks the Ottawa Jourâ€" CUPID IN ENGLAND Cupid must be working overt‘me in England. Weddings there numâ€" bered 143,248 in 1934, an increase of 13,751 over the previous year.â€" St. Thomas Times Journal. OLDEST CITIZEN Kingston mourns the loss of her oldest res‘dent, Johnâ€" W. Martin, who died at the great ag of 108 years. To have lived for more than a century and to have been able to follow closely the progre:s of the city and the Dominion down through the years, fell to the lot of Mr. Marâ€" tin, a man always gifted with a keen intellect and one who almost to the very last was in command of his sensos. Kingston Whigâ€"Standard. SPEED LIMIT The special civic committee on traffic and parking has recommendâ€" ed that application be made by the city to the Legislature for power to pass a byâ€"law fixing the speed limit in Winnipeg at 30 miles an hour. Alderman and police are apparently agreed that this measure must be taken to curb the mounting toll of accidents and fa‘alities on city streets. â€"â€" Winnipeg Tribune. NO DOUBT It is possible to read newspapers on the Niagara highway now since the new sodium vapor lamps have been installed. And we suppose some sap will try doing it while driving at 60 m.p.h. While flying oceans and things, Amelia Earhart has to keep her ears on a beam wireless and her eyes on a magnetic compass, an aperioâ€" dic compass, a directional bank and turn indicator, a rate of climb elock, an artificial horizon, altiâ€" meters, an ice warning thermometer and a superâ€"charger pressure gauge. The machine age has gone feminine, too. â€" Border Cities Star. together purifying effect upon the vocabularly of the human race. â€" Regina Leaderâ€"Post. HOURS OF AN EDITOR OCEAN FLYING o. THE WORLD AT LARGE Trenton, N.J.â€"Ruling that mar riage did not constitute "inefliciency, incapacity, or conduct unbecoming a teacher," Dr. Charles H. Elliott, state commissioner of _ education has ordered Wildwood authorities to reinstate four women teachers disâ€" missed last Fall because their husâ€" bands were able to support them. Finds Marriage Not Cause For Teacher‘s Dismi THE SAME, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER , Every person of mature years, regarding the younger generation with an unbiased eye, must have been struck by the disquieting reverâ€" ation that the race is declining. In a world in which all the old values are being scoffed at and all the ancient beliefs questioned, only one postulate stands like stone â€" that the present generation, by which is meant the adult portion of it is the most wonderful and virtuous that the earth ever produced. Apart from this one shining exception, there can be no little doubt that generations are not what they used to be. Humanity is g&ingwto the dogs. â€" Melbourne Argus. _ FIVEâ€"YEAR PLAN FOR ROADS The Minister of Transport has announced a Fiveâ€"Year Plan for the roads. _ There is, happily, more common sense than politics in a new deal of this kind. There is to be no delay. Schemes are to be drawn up at once after collaboration with loâ€" cal authorities, and there is to be a clean break with that "handâ€"toâ€" mouth" policy , which has in the past frustrated so many good intonâ€" tions and efforts. Within five years the Government aims at revolutionâ€" ising, the reads of Britain by clear ing away all obsolescent survivals from a past that conceived transport in terms of those Juggernauts, the mangelâ€"wurzel cart and the milkâ€" float. â€" London Sunday Referee. I ' The recent provision of fiveâ€"barâ€" red gates, which the pedestrian can leap between pavement and island, is a measure of the complication which has overtaken the traffic. It is said that ants are too small to see the foot which treads on them, or to conceive of the be‘ng owing the foot. The London pedestrian is now caught between extremes. _ He can be run over, and even killed, by a car so small that he never saw it coming, or crushed by a coach so large that he thought it was the house at the corner. In his last conscious moments he may be able to register surpris> that only about twentyâ€"five heads appeared at the windows of Leviathan, whilst three or four qu‘te long, thin people emerged from the small â€"car on which ho nearly trod, before it killâ€" ed him. â€" H. Pearl Adam in The Fortnishtly (London). THE DEATH OF A PEDESTRIAN How can the law and the courts help to discourage this tendency? Not by longer sentences, but by more of them. Too many motorists "get away with it" either through inadequacy of enforcement or laxâ€" ity in imposing penaltics. A reasonâ€" able penalty actually imposed is more effective than a drastic penâ€" alty which is not imposed. â€" Winâ€" nipeg Tribune. l Tendency to succumb to the temptation of taking chances should be ruled uot of bonds by every motorist who respects his own life and the lives of others. The majority of accidents occur when drivers persuade themsleves to "take a chance." . Most drivers are to be trusted as long as they obey what they recognize individâ€" ually to be ordinary safety precauâ€" tions. But the fleeting desire to "take a chance" (how often does it "not occur into our driving minds?), is the factor that, if acâ€" cepted, sooner or later ends in misâ€" chance. Journal staff, â€" Sault Ste. Marie Star. THE EMPIRE THEY TAKE A CHANCE Both major networks, N.B.C,. and Columbia, and numbers of local staâ€" tions have indicated their willingness to coâ€"operate with the committee, The networks give a great deal of attention to théir critics; they deal with Bishops, cranks, doctors, lawâ€" Interested organizations are not at all agreed as to what improveâ€" ments should be proposed; all are agreed that by studying the field some change and enrichment can be made in the present situation. Today, however, for theâ€"first time, upward of fifty organizations have officially and unofficially authorized the planâ€" ning of a central agency on radio froâ€" grams for young people. and a proâ€" posal for national action wil} shortly be made. The united stand was lakâ€" en at a luncheon held late last Noâ€" vember under the joint auspicos of the American Library Association, the Progressive Education _ Associaâ€" tion and the Child Study Association of America, It marked the culminaâ€" tion of your years of work of the American Library Association, with which many other _ organizations have affiliated. FORMULATION OF PRINCIPLES The central committee is now forâ€" mulating principles general enough to be accepted by the Junior League, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Interâ€" national Council of Religious Educa tion, the Girl Scouts and similar orâ€" ganizations, Some advertising agenâ€" cles that have arranged and â€"sold thriller.and baby erooner hours proâ€" phesy failure amd highbrow dullness: others welcome the new organization as the opening ‘wedge for the better standards. it kept Johnny awake at night or gave Susie complexes have protested against the thrillers and soâ€"called crime serials on the air that may or may not have given the children nightmares and indigestion. Along with "hot" movies, fascism and red menaces, children‘s radio hours have been a constant target for committees and aroused commuâ€" nities, writes Ernestine Evans in the N.Y. Times, The same parents who used to want "Little Red Riding Hood" put on the index because it Central Agency Is Now At Work To Reform The Air Programs For The Children Bermuda vacation of Gladys Yule (left), daughter of Lady Yule, of England, and Mrs. Thomas McGuffe, also of England, gives them opportunity to practice their favorite sportâ€"tennis. They are picâ€" tured on the tennis courts of the Castle Harbor after one of their spirited morning matches. Education By the Radio ONTA Bermuda Vacation TORONTO yers, parents and insulted nationalâ€" ists every day. It can be taken for granted, therefore, that any solidly organized phalanx of public opinion bent on setting standards in young people‘s broadcasting will get the atâ€" tention of the business men who conâ€" trol the air waves. y peci 11 Ottawaâ€"The contract for of a new Dominion public at Hamilton has been aws w. H. Yates, of Hamiltor announced here last week. tract price was given as $ The building will be erecte site of the present post nf It is possible that the new Ameriâ€" can committee, also endeavoring to provide â€"fuller programs, will find that children do not need distra» tion and entertainment so much as a steady and rational program â€" of what we call education, dramatized and attractively presented . O(ttawa On New Year‘s Day Mr. Hatoâ€" yama broadcast a talk to young citâ€" izens, the first occasion on which a Cabinet Minister had spoken during "The _ Chai‘dren‘s Hour," _ Another time Dr. Katsube of Miroshima Uniâ€" versity spoke on m @taphysics _ for children, The anniversaries of famâ€" ous distoric batiles are regularly celâ€" ebrated, Short courses on Western singing, and on Japanese dances were given last year, and printed syllabuses disâ€" tributed. Texts were also publisbed“ to accompany twelve lectures _ on the orchestra and its interpretation, for older children, six on the geogâ€" raphy, history and legends of Manâ€" chukuo, thirtyâ€"three on Jl.panesel literature, and â€" fourteen â€" Summeri lectures on the scientific collecting | of plants, flying insects, poisonous plants and insects and so on. ‘ RUSSIAN BROADCASTS In the Soviet Union, a special de-i partment of the Allâ€"Union Radio Committee deals constantly with the | Commissariat of Education. Clnssic‘ and contemporary music and literaâ€" ture are regularly broadcast; as are talks to suggest and encourage creaâ€" tive work. A special institution, "The Central Home of Art Education," is carrying on studies on children‘s caâ€" pacity to listen, and their interest, A "campfire" hour is devised for pioâ€" neers at their country camps â€" and city club rooms. Besides this, the ] study of radio apparatus is now part|. of the regular curriculum | in 20,000 | : schools, man and woman. Twentyâ€"one bf(')adi- casts were used to propagandize the children on the â€" Manchurian situaâ€" tion, The year book of Japanese radio, described the work of two years ago, points with pride to a feature called "The Children‘s Newspaper," broadcast in alternate weeks by a Besides courses on the districts of England and in French, German and music, the 1935 schedule from Lonâ€" don includes a series of talks on "Tracing History Backwards," other talks on English history and a full course in biology. There is also, unâ€" der children‘s hour auspices, a news broadcast, touching on international politics, finance and science, so 1n-! structive that on one occasion tt| least the British Cabinet stopped its discussions to listen. | National interest and tradition are better understood in England than here. Fcr example, if the schools there wish to dramatize England for English children, program makers dave three centuries of county literâ€" ature ready to hand on which to draw. The British, too, have an advanâ€" tage, which the most expertly orâ€" ganized central agency here could hardly overtake. The BBC is a pubâ€" lidly owned corporation, its emâ€" ployees regard themselves as public servants, and their whole technique has been eased in their approach to whatever talent they wished to comâ€" mand, Once they set themselves to present scientific talks they were free to ask the most noted authoritâ€" ies in England to speak for England‘s children; and to groom and then to reject, if necessary, those foremost authorities who did not have microâ€" phone talent, l the West Coast. UNIFORMITY IN BRITAIN, Also, Great Britain has a much more uniform schcol curriculum; it is possible for a carefully planned broadcasting hour organized a year ahead . to supplement definitely what: the schoolâ€"room _ teacher is supplying, i wa AWIJ‘dO Conm Hamilton Public Building : Dr. Kaisube of Hiroshima Uniâ€" ity spoke on m @taphysics _ for Iren, The anniversaries of famâ€" historic batiles are regularly celâ€" RADIO IN JAPAN contract for erection inion public building s been awarded to of Hamilton, it was last week. The conâ€" Color of eye, height, shape of head, shape of face and blood group. Observance of these qualities woald. he said, avoid a number of endocrine disturbances, bone and denta) d> formities, and mental and nervous disorders . Toronto,â€"Marriage will produce its most felicitous results for both its components and their offspring if the parties concerned possess five similar racial â€" characteristics, â€" Dr. Frank N. Walker, of Toronto, toid the annual meeting of the Eugonics Society of Canada recentiv. Dublin, Irish Free placing the "age of Irish girls at 18, wa cently by Senator Ma brother of the late novelist, A rubber surface on m street, of course, greatly reduces vibration. but does not give the silence that people ‘at first expected. The difference between modern traffic noises and the old ones is that it is the changing of gears, the engine noises, and the horns much more than the sound of wheels. In horse traffie days it was the wheels and the horses‘ feet that made the most noise. The laying down of straw on the streets outside houses where people were ill became of little use in motor days, and was soon given up. * "Age Of Consent‘‘ For Irish Girls To Be 18 A part of New Bridge street, Blackfriars, has been under rubber for some years, but its success has not led to rubbor roadways outside hospitals, as once expected. Lombard street is a short and narrow street, with little heavy motor traffic, and now consists mainly of new â€" bank buildings. It is an ideal street for rubber treatment. (Manchester Guardian) Lombard street bankers have ofâ€" fered to pay half the cost of putting a rubber surface on the street, but the Streets Committee of the City are not ready to recommend the ofâ€" fer for mcceptance. Rubber cosis four times as much as wood or as phalt and it is not proved yet that it will last much longer, so the committee think that their duty to the ratepayers is to let the offer stand. ' Torontoâ€"Ontario highways â€" and roads will undergo a transformation. ‘if a suggestion made by â€"A. K. Hay, engineer of Ottawa suburban roads, that permanent protection for roads be substituted for th: present snow fences, should be genâ€" erally adopted. The suggestion met with general approval at the 21s annual conference of road constructâ€" ion engineers and superintendents at Forester‘s Hall, College stree, here recently. Mr. Hay said the up» keep of temporary snow fences cost approximately $250 per mile. If that sum were capitalized the money spent on hedges and road widenings, the life of roads would be increas ed and the general appearance of righways greatly enhanced. Trade increased in almost all countries where national currencies are depreciated, it was shown. Inâ€" creased value of Canada‘s exports was given as 23 per cent., second only to the United States and Argenâ€" tina, with 28 per cent. each. Permanent Protection Is Urged For Roads The gold value of exports also generally increased. But the Soviet Union showed an 18 per cent. deâ€" crease; China, 15 per cent., Gerâ€" many 14 per cent,, Italy 12 per cent, and Spain nine per cent. The gold value of imports gener ally increased last year in compark son with the preceding year, Excepâ€" tions included China, with a 25 per cent, decrease; France 19 per cent,, and the United States, three per cent, as compared with 1933, according to information supplied recently by the League of Nations secretariat, . In 1982 it had fallen to 74 per cent. of the 1929 figure but it increased slightly in 1933. Geneva.â€"The volume of world trade maintained its level in 1934, 1934 Statistics Supplied By League of Nations Secretariat 1933 Level Held By World Trade MRubber Street Question proposed law would oblige the to wear a "distinctive dress" five characteristics | wore 10 ‘ish Free Stateâ€"A bill "age of consent" for it 18, was presented reâ€" mator Maurice G. Moore, the late George Moore, Its Very Best Tampa, Fla. â€"There will coms d@ay, says Bir Malcolmn . 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