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| I MURDOCH MACLEAN, 104. We think a word of felicitation is due Mr,. Murdoch Maclean of the Moosomin â€" district, who recently marked his 104th birthday anniverâ€" sary, Mr. Maoclean is belteved to be Saskatchewan‘s oldest citizen, and he has been here a great many years. _ When ho settled around Moosomin, that town was just â€" a hamlet â€" of tents â€"Regina â€" Leaderâ€" Post. ‘ derful elasticity, To which the fact might be added that it is not only military units whch respond to a cheery note in time of atroag â€" Brantford Expositor. started with this chorus: "You never know you‘re got it till you get it, If you get it don‘t kick up a row. If anybody is ever going to get it, We‘ve got it now." The effect is recorded as electr!â€" cal and they stepped out with wonâ€" The casual passerâ€"by at times ofâ€" teon looks twice or oftener at models in store windows to make sure that they are not real, but in London, Puglind, the shoppers are soon to see mannequins waiking about alâ€" most any time. And in the future most of the windowâ€"shoppers will be gble to do their looking under covâ€" er, which is a real advantage, esâ€" pecia®y when the weather is bad. The shopping centres of London are to be a series of arcades. Manneâ€" quins will emerge from the interior of the stores where they are already continuously on display and appear in the windows in place of the presâ€" ent wax figures, Success lh-oulil immediately attend such an innovaâ€" tion.â€"St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journal. Adol¢© Hitler, the German dictator, has made a fortune out of his book "My Struggle," written while he was a house painter in Munich, Nearâ€" ly two million copies have been sold. It has been translated into fourteen languages â€"Calgary Harala It appears Marie Dressler was not the wealthy woman it was thought, She was wealthy in friends, of course, and that was all that matâ€" tered to the grand old trouper. As for money, her estate is valued at fewer thousands than it was thought to be in hundreds of thousands. And now there‘s a fuss in Hollywood over the cost of her funeral, The underâ€" taker was enthused over the necesâ€" s@ity of her passing out in movie magnifiicence. His bill was $10,000, Her sister, a resident in England, assorts the sum of $2,500 is considâ€"‘ ered a handsome outlay for the obâ€" sequies of Sun. CHURCH ATTENDANCE A nickel isn‘t supposed to be as good as a dollar, but maybe it goes to church more often. â€" Regina Leaderâ€"Post, FORBIDDEN To WOMEN, e women of China are in reâ€" h MARIE DRESsLER‘s MoNEY THE EMPIRE E/\Q“c, \owt t â€" wINDow MmooEeLls ianguages.â€"Calgary Herald HITLER‘S BOOK The pirates pour over the side of the ship on which Princess Marie is escaping to Louisiana from her aged suitor, Don Carlos. The sailors charge at them andtbobgnmdyelh'fifi'ulp&nqnmm cannon booms, blasting the air wi frightful sounds, vukkfivu&ahwagsjgoaq'_ggth“m CANADA British pe NAUGHTY MARIETTA for the obâ€" .â€"â€"Brandon some of them falling with loud PS CmpIT huthafich duivid d A o. 1 he has found employment scarceâ€" even nonâ€"existent. His savings are gone, his house probably mortgaged, and his taxes unpaid, but he is still trying to hang on.â€"Chatham News. FORGOTTEN MEN. The "Forgotten Man" is an . exâ€" pression which has received many definitions, many of which have been appropriate and impressive. He might well be described as the citiâ€" zen wio has been industrious all his life, has earned money and saved a portion of it to purchase his own little home, and provide something for the rainy days, Of recent years es dui Sugaiins 1 T DIPHTHERIA BATTLE. A highly feared and deadly disâ€" ease a few years ago, diphtheria need not now be a cause of death in any community, observes D. 3. G, Fitzgerald, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University _ of Toronto. The Queen City, with a population of 600,000 had no deaths from this source last year. Dr. Fitz gerald gives ‘credit to the use of toxoid, but warns that since diphâ€" theria has not actually been _ conâ€" quered, the preventive method must be "repeate? y« in and year out." â€"â€"Border Cities Star Yesterday, at the meeting of the hospital governors, Dr, Langrill was able to report that in the short time the bronchoscope: has been available at the local institution, it had aided in the savng the lives of two patients, one a child in whose larynx a peanut had become imbedâ€" ed.â€"Hamilton Spectator. TWO LivESs savEep. Some time ago at considerable cost a bronchoscope was added to the equipment of Hamilton general hospital. _A bronchoscope is an inâ€" genius device with which foreign bodies can be fished by skilled opâ€" cratives from windpipes and even from the lungs...... how does Halifax H The ratios for several classificaâ€" tions are given as follows: For a minister‘s son, one in 20; a physiâ€" cian‘s son, one in 105; a farmer‘s son, one in 608; a skilled laborer‘s son, one in 1,600, and an unskilled laborer‘s son, cne in 48,000, It looks all right on paper but how does it work out in praclice?â€" THE "BEST CHANCE» According to the statisticians ministers‘ sons have the best chance to be mentioned in "Who‘s Who". And not much wonder when you consider these selections from the things that are forbidden » to the women : To take part in mixed bathing,. Dance with men. Smoke, Bare their legs. Work as waitresses, Wear sleeveless frocks. Walk on bare feet, § Accompany their husbands to l‘ restaurant. Walk level with their busbands on the sidewalk, Use cosmetics. It would be interesting if the Soo Council tried to enforce these here, â€"Sault Ste. Marie Star. And all because someone has unâ€" dertaken to set out rules to govern the conduct of the ladies. The ladâ€" ies blame Marshal Chiang and the marshal blames the local mandarins. But whoever may be to blame, it has stirred up‘ a commotion. volt. Not the whole 200,000,000 of them, but a sufficiently important proportion to causo considerable trouble to Chiang Kaiâ€"Shek, who is something of a dictator in China. up on which" ‘Then the battle is over and the pirates have won. na from her Theyfacothegirlswithmockinghughsmdbtmd- irge at them ish their knives at them threateningly. Some of them heard. The mdmdyloofingthonhip.’rheluderloohat itful sounds, l(ui:lfr«dilyi dcclarig.flnt she is his prize. The p th & them. Then they ::bbd:‘fl:.it _ with _ are meager possesâ€" * . y sions including their dowries, _ _ t w rald .e THE WORLD AT LARGE } A MUCHâ€"GOVERNED country _ New Zealand is a country in which governing â€" and controlling â€" bodies flourish greatly, This fact is illusâ€" trated by the numbergof occasions the citizen will be called upon durâ€" ing the coming year to cast a vote, True, there is only one Parliament in New _ Zealand, compared â€" with seven in Australia, But what Now Zealand misses, or escapes, in the Parliamentary field is more â€" than made up by the multiplicity of local bodies.â€"Auckland News. MISLEADING TiTLEs, The peculiarity by which picture producers give misleading names to their pictures, frequently to their own loss, is illustrated by a picture now being shown in a local theatre and known as "Broadway Bill," This is not a New York gangster or high life picture, but an entertaining, gripping store of a man in love with a horse and a girl in love with the man.â€"Port Arthur Newsâ€"Chronicle, "SETTING" AND "SITTING® The Brantford Expositor editor has set himself up as an authority on agricultural phraseology, A â€" realâ€" tor asked: Would you please tell me which is correct, a ‘"setting" den or a "sitting" hen? And the editor answered. On a poultry farm, the farmhand ‘"sets" the hen, but the hen "sits,": therefore, "sitting" hen is correct. To the farmer, the big quiestion will always be: "How many chickens did the gitting hen hatch out of the setting? â€"St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journal. 7 _ #1°n omon (leit), british Foreign Minister, and Capt. Anthony' Eden, Lord Prnvy.Seal, are seen here leaving No. 10 Downing Street, with final instructions for their journey to Berlin to talk over the arms situation with Hitler. Sir John Simon reported on his mission to the House of Commons and stated that wide divergence of views had been encountered. Capt, Eden is now in Mos; cow to continue British Peace efforts. THE EMPIRE yrete Sir Jt‘)hn _S'mep (left), British Foreign_}\_( inister, and Capt. Anthony Hopeful At Leave Taking â€"Meet Dueounmm Thepiratnnowukcthezirhtotheircmgugr the river mouth. They huddle together and stare in panic.at the coarse wrangling of the pirates. But mdduxly.mal.voicumhouddnfiuamhiu song. It is Captain Richard Wminmauzd his Colony troops of mercenariesâ€"the trappéers! The The project launched only seven months ago for the extension to other parts of the Empire of the Fairbridge Farm â€" School scheme, which has so well justified itself in Western Australia, has already borne its first fruit in the acquisition by the Child Emgration Socety of a A FAIRBRIDGE SCHOOL FOR EMBARGO ON SLANG., The protest of Viscount Lea of Fareham against the ousting of Engâ€" lish slang by the American sort is welcome. It is too readily assumed that the American vernacular is more expressive than our own. "Done in" is at least as good an inâ€" vention as "bumped off," and "not half" as eloquent as ‘sure," and "posh" as useful as "swell." The nation that enriched the language with "swank," "gadget," and "gasâ€" per," has no need of foreign imâ€" ports. Budget hint: What about a tariff?â€"Manchester Sunday Chronâ€" icle, PUBLIC "PUBLIC" sCcHOOLS ’ More wellâ€"toâ€"do people in Britain send their children to the elementâ€" _ary schools in praference to the priâ€" vate schools, A healthy tendency, There is no room in this changing, busy,. modern Britain for caste priâ€" vilege and the caste school, All chilâ€" dren have the right to start level, with the same opportunities of betâ€" terment and the promise to all that talent goes to the top. A rich man: is a fool if he denies his boy the best education of all, contact with children from homes â€" where the breadwinner is a millworker or an agricultural laborer or a clerk, â€" London Daily Express, are forced to remain still as the sound of the TORONTO +f ed by flowers. The effort should meet with the most enthusiastic supâ€" port of the general public. The beautifying of unsightly areas has a social value even beyond the merely aesthetic, We should like to see the Minister of Health taking a leaf out of the Society‘s book, and ensuring provision for window boxes and roof gardens in the flats that are to be built to relieve overcrowding, â€" London Daily Herald. ip near Bntlla:iculzuahrniumch.Bnndxm' ing it, m ‘Bot | the mesenins Sond ooiie ooet *os ta l hexr s. But e song. desâ€" irching pgttdytfiutompgth.fintcwbohmmq‘ nrhi- ning afiter her in pursuit. He aims his knife, viciousâ€" s! The &vlfremriu to throw it at her defenseless h~~k. of the Will he stop her? Don‘t miss the next thrilling + ‘r.~>~installment of "Naughty Marietta," It is an excellent idea of the Lonâ€" don Gardens Society to carry out a survey of all London to find out what waste spaces can be brightenâ€" ish Columbia Governments in the present undertaking carries the asâ€" surance that in Canada, as in Ausâ€" tralia, the Fairbridge child will reâ€" ceive a welcome which can hardly be given his elder brother or sister just yet.â€"London Times. }site for a second school in British Columbia, Three new schools in all are planned, and it is a happy augâ€" ury for the final sucoess of the proâ€" ject that the response to the appeal for funds, to which the Prince of Wales last year gave the lead, should so soon have made the first stage possible, The original Farm School, which owes its existence to the pracâ€" tical idealism of the Rhodes Scholâ€" ar, Kingsley Fairbridge, dAas been long recognized as providing _ the most thoroughly satisfactory of the many means of immigration which have been tried in Australia. The I concurrence of the Ottawa and Britâ€" FLOWERS FOR LONDON. Based on Musical Adventure Romance by 43 Coins New Name For Ottawa, â€" Plusfours have been given many names, but F. H, Picke! (Cons, Bromeâ€"Mississquo!) added a new one in the House of Commons last week. The Quebec Conservative called them "kneeâ€"high pajamas ," After May 27 no New Yorker n be sued for breach of promise or ienation of affections, "It is a reflection in a way on huâ€" man nature, That it should be necâ€" essary for legislators to pass bills to protect men from their own weakâ€" nesses," Dr. Laird said, "it naturally raises the question: Which is the weaker sex anyway." Looking on man and hbis antics witi the same dispassionate eye that looks at sleep charts and white rats Dr, Laird stopped for a moment to consider N.Y. State‘s new ban â€" on breach of promise and alienation of affections suits, A. Laird, of Col;nte_â€"(;;iverslty'l my: chology laboratory, Hamilton, N.Y. â€" New York‘s new antiâ€"heart balm law looks like a conâ€" fession of man‘s weakness to Dr. D. Meantime the export of canned fruits in 1984 totalled 24,577,000 pounds compared with 16,484,000 in 1933. Pears in both years were the chief item, The export of canned vegetables was 20,708.0%2 pounds as against 17,410,000 in 1933, tomatoes being the chiet item..â€"Brandon Sun.! Which Is Weaker Sex, Asks Doctor Of Psychology ‘ We Buy And Sell It may surprise most Canadians that we import canned tomatoes. It ought to be a hint to those who‘ have soil waiting to produce food and values. Canada‘s imports of canned vegetables in 1934 toulled" 2479,000 pounds compared _ with‘ 2,076,000 in 1933. Tomatoes, followed | by mushrooms, predominated. The imporis of canned fruits in 1934 totalled _ 20,095,000 _ pounds as| against 21,8327,000 in 1933. Pine-‘ apples â€" were the largest item,‘ amounting last year to 16,853,000 | pounds compared with 18,354,000| in 1933. | and clean Sees in the work an artist‘s joy Not mere existence, bare and lean. Maybe that old untroubled eye That drives the furrow | straight green P No still and sombre picture his. Forever changing, free and bold, What painter claims a gift like this? brown The plowman starts his picture then. His mirhty canvas is the field, His share a pencil true, Nature his palette. Sun and rain His paint and brushes too. Framed in its hedge of hawthorn Mildred Weston in the New York Sun. assort With artist‘s brush or graver‘q pen, Yet when he turns the furrow «R. B. in The Countryman. His gnarled brown hand would i!l Being kin To those who ask To postpone The pending task All my sympathies Are with My too dilatory Kith! I‘or one Who can leave a chore Undone. He who hurries To embrace Work that stares him In the face Has no sympathy Procrastination Y# But one dusk he appeared, all gaunt and weak, â€", Mis lame, tired feet worn to the ._:_ very bone; ‘His tail wagged joy, his sunk eyes seemed to speak And plead that he no more be left alone. Bhall blameâ€"for,.one, and praise for L. one be spared, . y all who ever have for dumb brytes cared? C When there at iength a year the twain had spent, The home call came and Gip was left behind. That he might follow where the master wentâ€" l This never dawned upon the keepâ€" er‘s mind. Master and Gip, his dog, found a new home: Twel_vo land leagues and wide waters y hetweer â€" _ . It and the old, so they had far to The deep, complacent wisdom â€"of the soilâ€" Heedless that death will solve with artless hands Problems that vex a hundred thousand lands. And so he blunders down his misâ€" spent days, Burdened with greed and mystiâ€" fying toil, Unmindful that no question can He spends his days with intricate designs, Weaving his growing pattern of despair; With dynamo and compass he aligns The calm benignities of earth and air And sea into a lewd, gigantic scheme. With swift and stolid industry he rears The plan and superplan upon . the Anderson M. Scruggs in the New York Sun. If e‘er again the old haunts would I start with a song in the morning Or ever my toilet is made, And, laying my head on my soft feather bed. I murmur a short serenade. The ancient and timeâ€"honoured proâ€" verb I‘ve ventured in short, to transâ€" mute, For a warble a day keeps the docâ€" tor away To ban any fear of infection A similar plan I employ; When I want to be firm with bacil lus and germ I tell them about "Sonny Boy." Or give them a verse of "Kil‘arney" In a series of musical_ yells. Till they recognize it as an order to And go and bite somebody e‘se. dream, S k . . l l Speeding the laggard hours with wheels and gears. pillâ€" I know a more sensible plan I realize fully that singing Is great as a curative wheeze. And the people next door hear me render "Asthore" In a couple of varying keys. Whenever I feel a bit seedy I don‘t seek a medical man And run up a bill for concoction and The King is expected to speak at the end of the radio review of his reign. And Lawrence Gilliam, the young proâ€" ducer who was responsible for the Empire broadeast on Christmas day, is looking after the production side of the studio broadcast. Professor Harold Temperley, the Cambridge professor who was reâ€" sponsible for compiling the material for the Twenty Years After" broadâ€" cast last August 4, is now working on an historical survey for the Jubiâ€" lee broadcast. ! 1t is now definitely fixed that | the King will broadcast on the even» ing of May 6, the twentyâ€"fifth anâ€" , niversary of his ascent to the Throne. iThm are the broadcasts so far setâ€" tled for May 6: The address of loyalty and devoâ€" tion by the Houses of Lords and Commons in Westminster Hall later in the day. A studioâ€"dramatized review of the King‘s reign in the evening. _ The National Thanksgiving Serâ€" vice from St. Paul‘s Cathedral in the morning. h Roml 18 % fruit The Dog, Gip Immunity Singing very much cheaper than M A N Theta, in "Humorist Keep For er Louis Fraser no question can n wour, Under the n« ntctive the retur ilf’lng the colle Mides of his case, v pay duty only on t! #ould not be regard Enforced repairs « enable the tourist : :nvfll not be du & Empire. ©wners, trainers cipants in } llege has n« ude nonâ€"resic amateur and pr his, baseball, 1« #ther kindred s; :;ici‘nl and m 1 profession. In extending *ourist traffic go mnd â€" difficulties #ourist abroad h Booked. 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