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in ces to ey of en al al gas. Now word from Australia says apricots are being grown there prinâ€" cipally for their stomes, which have been found to contain a material use t# in the manufacture of powerful explosives. Canned, dried and otherâ€" During the Great War it was said peach stones provided the basis of some form of protection from poison Danger Hours ~ *~ During certain hours of the day, for the next three months, wise automoâ€" bile drivers will be exceptionally cauâ€" tious in picking their way through trafiic. For, according to statistics, death lurks closer to the pedestrian between 5 and 8 o‘clock p.m., during Octo}r, November and December than «t any other .ime of the year. During that pariod, the early dusk inâ€" creases the risk of accidents as thou sands of workers crowd the centre line, cut in and out, and speed â€" just ‘to got bome a minute or two earlier. It each driver will reflect that hbis family would sooner have him come home a few minutes late each w‘ than risk his own neck, or that ot‘ another, perhaps the danger period montioned would lose some of its deadly significance.â€"Vancouver Bll.l Sir edian, ure t any | xoute. #ke ) but 1 t One Makes Average The average mother, according to a Salt Lake City churchman, should have three children. At the same time, just one child can make some mothers feel pretty darned average.â€" Windsor Star. And so it goes .hbroughout movieâ€" dom. What a meeting of "ex‘." there must be at large Hullywood gatherâ€" ings. And that one case where "ex" is not the unaknown quantity.â€"To ronto Star. 0 but is [ the afluirs the will of nor booms up our min Booms an« man and : can be un by man.â€" Ibs Well to Remer‘er Britain was our best customer in October, bought $47,000,000 worth of our goods. It is something to rememâ€" ber.â€"Ottawa Journal. "A man who can jump six feet on the earth could jump 36 feet on the moon, because the force of gravity on the moon is only onesi th of the puil on this planet." Poedestrians must envy the man in the moon.â€"Kitchen er Record. According to League natlou fAigures, there are three million more men under arms in the permanent forces of the world today than at‘the outbreak of the Great Warâ€"which was to have ended war. The number of men in armies and navies today is set at 3$,200,000 ant does not include the semiâ€"official forces in so e lands, Many of our troubles may be traced divectly to the Great War, which setâ€" tled nothing and seems to be leading to a new war which will settle nothâ€" ing again except perhaps the fate of Clvilization.â€"Niagara Falis Review. V OICE Harry Lauder on Tour lHarry Lauder, the famous comâ€" _ has started on a world pleasâ€" rip without seeking to secure awbces by enter‘ ‘nments en lle manifestly still retains abit of doing the u.expected, is myriad admirers will hope ie may bave a braw time on ou Brantford Expositor. Won‘t Settle Anything Jur Tobacco Crop tyâ€"five years ago Canada had d tobacto crop oi 12,000,060 his year it was not a record, itood at ,£3,000,000 pounds. â€"It cess in terms of production.â€"â€" And No Motor Cars Only Needs Do.. , THE WORLD AT LARGE Ansd So It Goes made or made diferently Stratford Beaconâ€"Herold. CANADA to League of Nations are three million more irms in the permanent world today than at‘the the Great Warâ€"which 1d@P having been s Fairbanks. revy Budd so _ mar iv. Mary d‘s first Kathryn of the "After a while, the great change and the strain begin to tell. The wife becomes discontented and, perhaps, péevish. The husband finds that his wife has become a different woman from the girl he married. "He, too, becomes disgruntled, and so the crisis, which wrecks so many homes, draws nearer." The vicar has formed a "Fellowâ€" ship of Marriage," which, in order to avert the danger of developing into what he calls "a grandmother‘s meetâ€" "PEEVISH WIVES" "Visits to cinemas become rare, and even these mean either compliâ€" cated arrangements with similarly situated neighbors or else the childâ€" ren have to be taken as well. "Most women cannot afford maids and are chained to the house. Childâ€" ren arrive and occupy almost every second of their time. "Husbands do not feel like going out every evening after a hard day‘s work. No more parties and dances. "When they marry they have to slow down and there is bound to be a reaction. "Toâ€"day things are different Beâ€" fore marrtjage girls see to it that they have a good time. They have almost every evening and weekâ€"end free. They go to parties, dances and cinema shows. "When they ~married and had to look after homes of their own there was regl]y no great change. GOODâ€" TIME GIRLS "They stayed at home and helped their mothers with the housework. Outings were few and far between. "Years ago," he says, "girls led a homely and domesticated life from the day they left school. He suggests that husbands should allow their wives an occasional "night off" away from husbands, children and household cares. He goes furtherand suggests that husbands should look after the childâ€" ren and the house on these occisions. LONDON.â€"Many â€" marriages â€" are marred before ever they are made, according to Rev. Cecil Clark, Ficar of St. Gabrials Wanstead, London, Eng. * The good times which most girls have while young and unmarried are, he thinks, the cause of trouble durâ€" ing married life. io wegr New Zealand Defence At a time when all the talk is of national security and defence it may be permissible to say a word or two about the most defenceless country in the worldâ€"New _ Zealand. Like other modern nations, this Dominion vrelies for protection upon an army, a navy and an air force. The army consists of a permanent force, a terâ€" ritorial force, and several corps of school cadets. On May 30th, 1935, the strength of the permanent force stood at 92 officers, 11 staff cadets and 421 other ranks. It is divided elaborate, ly into regiments and corps, the perâ€" fect skeleton, as it ~as beet called, of an army, But, naturally, you can tramp up and down the length and breadth of New Zealand and not meet a man in khaki.â€"â€"Donald Cowie in The Fortnightly (London). Wives Should Go Out Alone A Vicar‘s Idea to Keep Marâ€" riage Happyâ€"Too Tying For Modern Girl T The world speaks of peace as if it were to be achieved only by the cesâ€" sation of the hostile attitude of civilâ€" ized nations towards each other. We must not forget, however, that an es sential preliminary to that blessed state of affairs is economic peace. If that can be brought about, the manuâ€" facture of arms and munitions may yet be converted to the manufacture of the needs of man, each in that country best suited economically to its production.â€"Johannesburg Times. A Reversal The man who tossed a gold watch at President Roosevelt now wants it reâ€" turned. Time marches back!â€"Windâ€" sor Star. the basis of an extensive and profitâ€" able industry which had nothing to do with war, but now science comes along and points a way of using this innocent fruit to blow human beings into eternity. Already the Austral lans, according to the dispatch, are disposed to look upon dried apricots and apricot jam as mere byâ€"products of a new war industry. Apricot stones are what count.â€"Brandon Sun. PRESS THE EMPIRE Prelude to Peace CANADA THE EMPIRE 19 8 wruge And it is in that ‘connectici that the threat of a new world war takes on its most frightening aspect. The killing and déestruction wouldâ€" in All humanity‘s intelligence and energy are needed for the simple job of making the earth a safe place to live. The day when the Bilack Death killed twoâ€"thirds of the people of Europe is not so far behind us that we can afford to forget about it. But when war or revolution or other upheaval breaks . into that routine, typus can and does appear. And its appearance ought to be warning enough that mankind occupies this planet only on sufferance, after all. It is oobvious, of course, that tyâ€" phus is a plague which can appear only when human civilization has temporarily broken down. It does not go sweeping across peaceful naâ€" tions of Europe, for the simple reaâ€" son that the people in those lands liv: in a way that makes a typus epidemic impossible. The normal procedure of ordinary social life is their protection. It is caused by a virus which is transmitted by the bite of the body louse or the rat flea. Whenever men create one®of those confused and dis ordered situations in which thousand: of people are made subject to the bites of these ting creatures, the door is opened wide and typhus is inâ€" vited to step right in. It seldom turns down such invitation. Typhus is a strange and terrible disease. It almost seems, sometimes, as if it had been devised as a scourge to punish n.an‘s own folly. Typhus fever has seen its opporâ€" tunity once more. It is now appearâ€" ing in Spain, taking advantage of the opening always created by war, hunâ€" gea, and dirt, observes the Kitchener Record. Unless the Spaniards are very fortunate, a considerable numâ€" ber of men, women and children who got through the war unharmed will lay down their lives to the plague. This fellowship will provide the opportunity for women to have a regâ€" ular "night off" from their husbands and home. under forty, ing, A view of Broadway, New York City, after tne first snowfall of the season temporarily outshkone the bright lights. Rise in temperature turned white blanket into slush. ‘THE WORLD AT ITS WORST OW (LLIAMES has been limited to women Natural Foes ARGUMENT OVER POSSESSION OF LOWER BER& 7, CAR 129, _ . ... "iae en i t nol in © . PROMiSES 1 BE A THoroveny UNcomrortame mem. . * TWO TRAVELERS, WHO HAVE JUST HAD A SERIOUS Natural White Cloaks Incandescent Way It is interesting to note that Que bee is credited with the greatest growth for the year in the number of its people, some 34,000. This brings Quebec‘s estimated total up to 3,096,000, as compared with Onâ€" tario‘s 4,690,000, which figure is 17,â€" 000 greater than in the previous year. Thirty years ago, in 1906, Quebec had a population of 1,784. 000 ang Ontario 2,299,000. The perâ€" centage of increaie for Quebec in the three decades is 80, to Ontario‘s 65 per cent. In the matter of growtn for the twetvemonth British Columâ€" bia was third with 15,000, making the total 750.000. Perhaps the most significant feaâ€" ture of the estimates for the year is the increase in the three Maritime Provinces. Nova Scotia having made the biggest jump for a long time, 10,000, while New Brunswick added 6,000 people to its total and Prince Edward Island 3,000. It is the first time for many years that the Island Province has experienced an â€" tnâ€" crease, the total aqow being 92,000. This is 4,000 short of the total in This increase is the smallest in reâ€" cent years, the drought and other conditions on the prairies â€" having kept the population of the West from expanding in the ordinary way. Migration has been reversed to a certain extent, people from the West now being {ound in Eastern ventres. No doubt this is but a temâ€" porary development, to be changed by a few god crop years. If world markets are correspondingly favorâ€" able the grain provinces are likely to experience recovery in population to a very considerable extent. Dominion Bureau of Statistics esâ€" timates place the population of Canâ€" ada at 11,028,000, an increase of 93,000 over the estimate: of 1935, notes the Montreal Gazette. Population Set At 11,028,000 themselves be bad enough, heaven knows; yet the chief danger would be the fact that the fabric of modern civilization itseliâ€"â€"the intricate wel that staves off guch ageâ€"old threats as famine and pestilenceâ€"would be torn apart. (Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO 1 had been reading this when 1 pickâ€" ed up my farm magazine to read the results of the International ploughing match at Cornwall. Stupidity and igâ€" norance 1 thought duo not draw a crowd of ninety thousand people of all classes. What a change has come over the "common ploughman" in the _ The farmer is no man‘s fool, though he often has to pay dearly for his e perience, writes Irish Ccbbler in Port Arthur Newsâ€"Chronicle. The best way to combat the mary difficulties we are up against is by coâ€"operating. Many heads are better than one, and in the multitude of counsel there is wisdom. _ Adam Smith, writing (n 1804. said: "Not only the art of the farmer, the gereral direction of the operations of husbandry, but many inferior branches of labor require much more skill and experience than the greater part of mechanic trades. The man who works upon brass or iron works with instruments and upâ€" on materials of which the temper is always the same, or very nearly the same. But the man who ploughs the ground with a team of horses or oxen works with instruments of which the health, strength and temper are very different upon different occasions, The: common ploughman, though generalâ€" ly regarded as the pattern of stupidâ€" ity and ignorance, is seldom detective( in his judgment and discretion." By GLUYAS WILLIAMS a growing appreciation of the fact that business should be encouraged in the general interest, and that is one of the promising signs. For t ta upon industry that the, mass of the people depend for a living, and as it is helped to progress, employment will increase. Considering the troubled indusâ€" rial period through which the Doâ€" minion has passed, the population increase as noted may be considered satisfactory. Recent improvement has been marked in many quarters of the country, and as confidence seemes to have been almost fully reâ€" stored continued expansion may be looked for. Of late there has tbeen The Farmer 1906, but if the present rate of growth keeps up, Prince Edward Isâ€" land may anticipate a record before many years. He Is No Fool Joyce and that physics Mr'."â€" ;}:.’l&;e-n i sweethearts." By virtue of I;:(;ne; I‘d back my cold «gainst their chill. and politics, perhaps they are. But' it T Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers look‘ Sozp cakes moulded to represens like formidable claimants to the title figures in national costume mre to â€"â€"and then there‘s Peggy Hopkins be featured as Christmes gifts ror Inwae ant in arsuzes si2 mz 0_ wai i 7 Writes the Windsor Star: â€" Ethel duPont and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. are described as "America‘s No. 1 Had be written his article as he writes most of them, instead of adoptâ€" ing the neat conceit of making his $1,000 in the form of a letter to the editor, he would bhave had a chance of making Beaverbrook pay for Rothâ€" ermere‘s disappointment. But, as it is, G.B.S. can only bite his whiskers in futile annoyance. It is easy to imagine the delight of the editors of the Express to find in their morning mail a long letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw free gratis, for nothing, Mr. Shaw, although a Soci alist, is not entirely unaware of the value of money. He charges the press for so much as answeriag quesâ€" tions by telephone. The Express, as they say in London, joyously splashed it all over the front pageâ€"and spoilâ€" ed Mr. Shaw‘s breakfast. According to my informant vho got] i Artaons pepignntinnt amind it from what is described as an unimâ€" y ar peachable source, Shaw was asked to| (Lucio, in the Manchester Guardian) write a piece for Rothermere‘s Daily| When Winter reasserts its law, Mail. The paper wanted 1,000 words, Une point 1 always note with awe, for which it €ontracted to pay him That folk of eminence and worlth £200, or $1,000. He could pick his own Are not like those of common earth, subject. Shaw picked his own sub. Because, by custom firm and old, ject, but for some reason or other it They never catch the common cold pleased him to wr.te it in the form of :Oh. noâ€"when notables are ill a letter to the editor. He dashed ou|lt seems they suffer from "a chill". the article and posted it, in an unac Such is the bulletin sent forith customed fit of absentmindedness, to When winds blow shrewdly from the the Daily Express. north ; It is easy to imagine the delight ot| The eminent are kept indoors the editors of the Express to find in\ Not by the "cold" that swamps and John O‘Ren writing in the Baitiâ€" more Sun observes: From a returned traveler in Engâ€" land 1 have the subjoined account ot Mr. G. Bernard Shaw‘s unhappy adâ€" venture among the peers of London‘s press, Beaverbrook and Bothermere. It may be a canard, but 1 hope it‘s true. G.B.S. Loses $1,000 Dr. Bewley thinks that modern‘ greenhouses can provide Britons a . good deal of opportunity to 'buyl British" in their lettuceandtomato shopping. Construction is chenp«r.i heating more efficient, and arunmu; lighting can offset the gloom ot win | ter skies to a very considerable etâ€" | !l’ect. Plant disease and insect pests j that used to cause no end of trouble: and losses in glassâ€"houses have been successfully combatted by methods worked out at Cheshunt, Dr. Bewley| said. ‘The methods used ranged all the way from the culture of useful‘ insect parasites that kill off the larg-! er parasites, to steamâ€"sterilization of soil to rid it of fungi and undesirable forms of small animal tife. There is even a nationalâ€"detense angle to glassâ€"house vegetable grow ing, Dr. Bewley points out. A genâ€" eral continental war, even were Brit afn not involved, would probably cut off most of the present Mediterranean sources of fresh vegetables. Modern dietary science has shown conclusive ly that man must not live by bread alone; he gets nerve troubles, eye difliculties, bone diseases, and all manner of other unpleasantness it he is deprived of an adequate supply of | the "accessory" foods So it is imâ€"| portant to think of the possibility of | selfâ€"sufliciency, if emergency arises, l Britain‘s cloudy, rainy winter, and the long nights resultant from the country‘s high latitude, pose special problems. The average Briton needs more, fresh vegetables in winter, yet the climate makes it hard to raise them at home at the right seasons Britain has no Gulf Coast, no Southâ€" ern California, to draw on, and at present much of her winter supply of "greens" must be imported from other countries like France, that control the European and North African equivalâ€" ents of Southern United States truckâ€" raising regions,. Britain should raise more of her own winter vegetables unde glass, contends Dr. W F. Bewley, director of the Experimental Station at Ches hunt, England. Dr. Bewley‘s views are set forth at some length in the British science weekly, Nature, and summarized by Science Service. Farm Glassâ€"House Urged on Britons I said the farmer is no fool. Let me illustrate by an anecdote told of Lord Kaimes. a great Scottish landbolder, who did much to put Scotland in the forefront as an agricultural country, "My good friend," he said one day to a tenant farmer, "such are the wonâ€" derful discoveries of science that 1 should not be surprised if, at some future time one might be able to carâ€" ry the manure of an acre of iand to the field in our coat pocket." "Very possible," replied the farme , "but in that case I suspect you would be able to bring back the crc, in you waist coat pocket." judgment and discretion are just as Gescernible today, but the ploughman, what a change has come over him. Intelligent, keen and up to the minute on his ploughing, why cannot he get going in the other direction of marâ€" keting the results of that wonderful ploughing. ‘There is no need to be| downhearted. Farming is the most, conservative of industries. Co-opera«| tive marketing will come. States .truck-| On witnessing a breach of save driving, the voluntary serutineer simâ€" hat modern ply fills out one of the cards, identify» : Britons 4/ ing the offending vehicle rnd tae na ty to "bu)'; ture of the offence and drops it in eâ€"andâ€"tomato . the nearest pust pox, Un receipt by is chelper.! the trafiic control section of the Hizhâ€" nd ‘""-m"“l‘i ways Department, it is fhed against om of win | the offender‘s name. If severai â€" of iderable efâ€"| t‘ ese are filed against him they will insect pests)count against him in the event of an 99 spivel I count their claims as merest drivel. I said s once, 1 say so still; For feeling downright limp and il, I‘d back my cold «gainst their ehill. "What‘s in a name?" 1 ask with pride; The test is in the thing supplied, And when it comes to sneeze and bowled The trouble‘s just a beastly co‘d; The more distinguished chill, you Is not for poerishers like me. Such flights, of course, are far beâ€" yond My humbier regions of despond When 1 am fairly stumped and floors The baser sort and lays them low; Theirs is a "chill", they‘d have you know. The extent of the menace is shown by the statistics in Jutario during 1935 a total uf 560 people were kid ed, 1,700 permanentily injured and 10,000 otherwise injured. The principle of every citizen a ‘»ace officer is good in law. It should be equally good when converted to every driver a trafiic officer. y lives and limbs ol others. It is quite possible the 1 tesis would revem tis urivin fects. The old story over i. an ounte of preveniion is w pound of cureâ€"â€"and the uan drivers would yuickly becouime i This would be lockiug the siab! before the horse is stoien. The of the information would be a « guarded secret of the . depa the publicâ€"spirited citizens who nished it being known ouly by bers. Statistics show that 85 cnt. of the accidents are caus 15 per cent. of the drivers, accident or persecution, If he fails i€ mend hbis ways after warning, and ta« complaint» still come in, he will i¢ asked for a satisiactory esplanatic« If such is not forthcoming «tang i would be difiicult to furmsi), tis c or truck dicense plates will be with drawn until such time as be can i1 nish satisfactory guaramices that i has ceased to be a menace to t to us a simple plan for lessening the amount of bad driving on the public highways, and of thus reducing the number of motor accidents and fatal ities. His idea is to convert responâ€" sible motorists into a sort of unofiâ€" cial body of informers against reckâ€" less _ drivers. According to this scheme the Highways Department will distribute small booklets of postâ€" cirds easily carried in the coat pock» et, among responsible citizens who are publicâ€"spirited enough to coâ€"operâ€" ate with the powers th.« be in a conâ€" certed attack on one of the _ worst scourges of the twentieth ceutu y, It appears that this siewpoin. is finding wider acceptance. The Toronâ€" to Mail and Empir; tells of a wideâ€" awake citizen with an inventive and constructive mind who has outlined is an irresponsible driver there is alâ€" so some normal citizen to observe him. Citizens, in the interest of safeâ€" ty, perhaps, their own, should report these cases. Discussing the subject in the past, The Newsâ€"Chronicle has pointed out among other things that it shovld not be left entirely to the police officers and the courts. Citizens should act on their own behaif and take steps to see that those who flagrantly vioâ€" late the rules and regulations are checked up. Police cannot be everyâ€" where, but in most places where there As the list of accidents continues to pile up, adding to the number of dead and the permanently maimed, there arises a strong feeling that it must be stopped in some way. Comments made at the opening of the fall assizes in Port Artbhur this week by Mr. Justice Jeffrey may be regarded as indicative of the general attitude of the public toward t>e menâ€" ace of which he was speaking, that of tha frresponsible automobile drivâ€" er, observes the Port Arthur Newsâ€" Chronicle. Every Driver A Traffic Officer Colds and Chilils in Germany, used 07 i 4A