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THE COLBORP«.E^RESt', COLBORNE,;'ONT. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935 CANADA PASSENGER HAZARD That a motorist may. lose everything he owns as a result ot a kindly gesture in giving a lift to a friend Is not an imaginative situation. Such cases have been through the courts. And while the motorist, when he has been at fault, cannot complain If he has to bear the cost of injuries to pedestrians or the occupants of other cars on the highway, he has, it seems, valid ground for complaint if the guest in his own car in accepting a ride accepts no risk, the liability, if any, falling on the motorist as a result of his generous impulse.--Toronto Telegram. FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHT. The remark by a Toronto professor that Edison was not the inventor of electric light may surprise a number of people, but that is quite true. The first electric lamp was produced by .Sir Joseph Swan, who was born at Sunderland, England, in 1823. He was a chemical engineer who first achieved success in improvements in photography. He made a carbon filament lamp as early as 1862, and in 18S0 exhibited the first filament vacuum lam] St. Thomas Times-Journal. FASCISM, NO!--COMMUNISM, NO! In these stressful uncertain til every quack, charlatan and uns pulous mercenary rubs his hand; ghoulish glee, realizing that a w< in travail, suffering countless aj ies, is looking in every direction for quick relief. Prolific in promises and adept at painting wprd pictures of mil urns on earth, these vultures often succeed in stampeding 'great i bers of unthinking morons into the belief that by sacrificing the hard-won liberties their ancestors fought and died to achieve, they will their sufferings and quickly diss the grave problems which have fled the ablest of our statesmen the shrewdest of our business Nearly every adult carries a watch of same sort, and it would appear that the watchmaker could be assured of continuity of employment. But, according to a state-by a delegation of the Cana- diai ,le•' *sl'Pre in rig watchmakers slaughtered mil-people from all y to impose upon ■uthless dictator-soul his own. An Tor and hopeless thought sc e gratified us of Europe me of fascism stampeded intc with shackles The delegation stated that there was not an apprentice in watchmaking in any of the Toronto jewelry stores, and that the association was looking to the technical schools for the watchmakers of the future. The dearth of apprentices in the watchmaking trade is not an isolated exaimple of the change that has taken place in methods in handicrafts although the situation in the jewelry trade may be more surprising in that there does not appear to be any serious falling off in the work ti be done.--Edmonton Jour- GOOD SHOTS. The slingshot was given a great deal of undeserved popularity by the success which David achieved against Goliath with its assistance. At least that is the view of the Sault Public Utilities Commission. And the reason is that in three days last week there were 74 street lights broken by boys in the Moffly subdivision section who have managed to acquire a certain facility in the use of these slingshots. These street lights will cost $111 to replace and naturally the commission is prepared to take drastic action against the culprits. These be circumscribing and restricting times for the small boy, but. perhaps it would not take many $111 items for street lights to make the commission feel that it had to boost the rates. thei Ma- Seek Erosion Relief i r Adams Col • Senator Morris Sheppard, Tex.; Carl Hinton, Senator Edward P. Cost: Col.'; Congressman Jack'Nichols, Okla, and H. B. Bennett, '"rector of ^•nin"jJ£ Agriculture Department, pictured (left to right) after confeiTing with President Roose.elt in regard to $100,000,000 appropriation of soil erosion-relief work in the mid-west and south-west. THE PUBLIC HAS A PART. The public has a direct and active part in the success of a newspaper. The newspaper is a public ser giving an efficient and accurate ning record of what the public thinks, does and wants to do. has, if it is adequately performing its duty, scores, and in some cases hundreds of collaboraters, who in their own wish to build up the community are anxious to see that information reaches the editor and reporters. News-gathering is no magic process by which material is "snatched out of the air" as a conjuror produces a rabbit from a hat. It is a process built up on experience, tact and skill on the part of the newspaperman and good-will and co-operation on the part of the public. -- Kirkland Lake New*. NATURAL ERROR. The latest recruit had celebrated his Saturday leave by returning to barracks with two lovely black eyes and a face like an over-ripe to- The sergeant-major let oft steam in the old-fashioned style. "Report to the guardroom at once, you blithering numskull!" he roared. "And while you're about it, hang your face out of the window as hour later the sergeant-major espied the recruit with his face at the win- be named. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, or Huey Long.--The Toronto Labor Leader. DEARTH OF WATCHMAKERS. you, with a face likie that, eh?" asked the sergeantimajor. "He just said, 'Good morning, sergeant-major,' " replied the recruit.--■ Calgary Herald. THE EMPIRE HIS NIBS. The new Office of Works order restricting the issue of toilet soap to civil servants to one tablet per person every two months recalls a story of Sir W. S. Gilbert's youthful experience in a Government office. His chief, a rigid economist, strictly regulated the issue of stationery. He allowed each clerk 12 pen nibs a month, but on one occasion accidentally gave Gilbert 13. Gilbert went to him at once, determined to make the best of his opportunity, "|If you please, sir," he began. "In regard to my allow; of nibs--." "I cannot disc matter," snapped the chief, rising SEEKING MORE TRAINING The tragedy of the lack of ployment for boys of school-leaving age is reflected in the eagerness with which technical education sought, and in the inability of the existing schools to meet ' the demands made upon them. Boys and parents recognize that in the competition for work the trained boy is the only one who has a chance of recognition among the multitude of applicants. On the reopening of the schools after the Christmas holidays it was found impossible to meet all the demands for enrolment.--The the bait; is i rle i nibs wisdom. I merely wish to report that I have received thirteen nibs, and have hastened to you with the superfluous one in order that it may be returned to store at once." -- Manchester Guardian. ADVICE TO FARMERS Dr. Viljoen strongly urges upon failmers the recognition and adoption af two fundamental points of agricultural practice that have been listently preached by the Sunday Times for years; namely, that the lupply of stockfeed can never be too large for o country like South AM-, and that experience gained as a It of drought and depression ; be applied in practice. Even in s of comparative prosperity, he , ifarmers snould accept the proton that depressions, like droughts, are natural phenomena, and should always bear in mind that the uneconomic burdens with which hey saddle themselves will be so audi more unbearable when the in-vitable stringency occurs." He is onvinced that if farmers proceed along these lines they will have thing to fear for the future--Joh- Princess Louise Patron of Art Queen Victoria's Daughter Studied Sculpture Herself Queen Victoria's daughter Prin-Louise, who was 87 years old 19, still lives .in_4he_part of Palace where her mother was born and where 98 years ago her mother learned that she was a Queen. Princess Louise's statue of Queen Victoria as a young woman Istill regards the children in the Board Walk in Kensington Palace Gardens, and the children, according to Barrie. call it "the penny queen" through associations with the Queen in the Victoria pennies." Princess Louise, who is tin aunt, J»d the reputation 01 the be^t-dressed daughter of Victoria^ and it is said by her at courj. that at; the years go on she is better and better dressed and a model to all elderly women. Her husband, the Duke of Argyll, died in 1914. She still has her estate of Roseheath and goes to Scotland for some months every year. Princess Louise had several artist friends, the chief of them Sir Edgar Boehm, who taught her sculpture, and Sir John Millars. She took her art as she took life, very seriously. She never went to Ascot or Epsom and probably never attended a race meeting, and although she went to Marlborough House to dinner she never attended a dance there and never danced at a court ball, never to receive women whose marriages had been divorced or annulled, and at one time her parties at Kensington Palace were the only ones in royal society where artists could be seen. ■ King"* that Que rough Soviet Prisons Groups From The United States To Study Penal Conditions The problem of crime and punishment in Russia this year is attracting the attention of students of penology and social science. The varying accounts of the Soviet penal system that have come to the United States have prompted organized groups to see what Russia does with her wsong-doers. Joseph Fulling Fishman will lead such a group this summer, sailing July 10. This group will arrive in Leningrad on July 22 and remain in Russia until Aug. 21, making trips to reformatories, jails and juvenile institutions in the interior. The form-iiimmier palace of the Czars at Tsarskoe, Selo, which is now a chil-lren's institution, will provide the first view of the Russian system. Then come Petrozavodsk, capital of the Soviet Karelian Republic, the fishing villages along Lake Onega and Medvezhia Gora, which was the base of building operations of the Baltic-White Sea canal project, one of Russia's new waterways. The city prison of Leningrad, the People's Commicsariat of Justice at Moscow, the Norvitski prison for women, the Institute ifor Judicial Psychiatry, the Kharkov institute for the protection of workers' health and various communes and model cities which have been built for the children of workers are on the itinerary of the group. This is only one of many groups that will head for Russia during the summer; many will observe operations and others will reimain in one or another of the Rut sian universities to study more intensely the philosophy of the new Russia. "Let us train our young people to Collector of Old Cars Finds The Hobby Profitable When a movie producer or an automobile maker wants a car of ancient vintage the chances are that H. E. Twohy, of Los Angeles can supply it. He collects old automobiles and owns one of the world's largest fleet of antique cars in running order. A suprisingly profitable business has developed from the collection that he started as a hobby, with the purchase of a 1902 Pierce-Arrow. Wherever Twohy drove tbis acquisition crowds gathered. A merchant, seeing the display value of the relic, paid Twohy to place advertisements on It. Then a movie company hired Twohy began buying obsolete cars repainting and reconditioning them, and sending them forth to advertise his enterprise. When his machines found increasing demands for auto shows, parades, motion pictures, and advertising purposes, he offered cash rewards for information as to where cars 20 years or more old could be found. Today his collection numbers 25 such cars including aa 1898 Hayes-Apperson, a 1908 Ford and a 1911 White Steamer. A modern motorist would be at a loss to handle these old-timers and Twohy and his two sons are the only ones who drive them. With the passing of time the cars will become increasingly valuable--a veritable museum on wheels, and a profitable one One large collection of automotive antiquities has been made by another Californian, David Gray, Jr., of Montecito, whose 36 cars, all in perfect running order, include a one-cylinder Cadillac, a one-cylinder Oldsmobile, and a revolutionary two-cylinder Peerless, all of 1902. ....Mr. Gray, whose father was one of the first partners and backers of Henry Ford, insists that each car added to his collection must be ablo to come up to the gates under its own power and that every part of the car must be the maker's original BLOOD TESTS WILL PROVE NON-PATERNITY Blood Groupings To Aid In Deciding Legitimacy Of Children Brooklyn -- The application of blood grouping tests developed at the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, and embodied In legislation just enacted in New York state, is explained by . A. S. Wiener, associate in the di-ion of genetics and bimetrics at the Jewish hospital. They may be used in eases of disputed paternity. The presumption that all children born in lawful wedlock are legitimate may be overcome d Dr. Wiener, by scientific prooil ,t the husband could not be the Child. Thus, if roup "A" mother :'iikl to substance "B" which neither pposed parents has. "The tests," .he added, "ca used to prove non-paternit; sued i of the crimin icene of the cri and found to belong 1 type "M". Latei Is are apprehei iwn thai one of t I the crime. All i "NAUGHTY MARIETTA Based on Musical Adventure Romance bj VICTOR HERBERT Princess Marie, still disguised as her own maid, slips away Joins a marionette show for she is determined not to marry any of the French colonists in New Orleans, even though she has sailed with the other girls to escape her aging suitor Don Carlos. , All day Marie finds happiness in her work and while the puppeteers manipulate the dolls she sings for But that evening while she is at supper with War- While the crowds scurry excitedly about the town, rington the trapper, who V>,s rescued her from Warrington quickly takes her to his boat to help pirates, the town crier rides by, announcing a reward,! her escape. But on the opposite shore they run into for information about Marietta Franini which is trouble. The police are there to meet them. War-Marie's assumed name. Her cruel uncle, the Prince, rington attempts to fight them off but Mane, iear-has learned of her Sight. Although Marie and War- ing for his safety, quietly submits to hercaptors. It rington have just had a lovers' quarrel he protects is then Warrington is stunned her, hiding her behind some burlap bags. French Princess. i learn she i Marie is brought to the Governor's palace, shows her the King's mandate directing that she placed under custody of her uncle who has n arrived with Don Carlos. She is to sail to France be married, immediately after the grand ball t night. And if Warrington attends he will be si Will"lie be there"?~D"on't miss next week's c. iluding installment of "Naughty Marietta."