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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1935 CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE A Pointed Problem CANADA BETTER TIMES. The demand for automobiles in the west has shown a tremendous inn-ease. That is a good indication of letter times all over Canada-- Osh-iwa Time:. KILTS IN SCOTLAND. But things are changing. mmg c in Edinburgh and other centres and larger sales of tartan goods than for many yean, past are reported. "The change," says the Stratford paper "is believed due to the popularity of hiking. Kilts are found to be ideal attire for walking and business men and office workers are taking the ancient garb of the country when out on recreation."--Sault Star. OPTIMISM AMONG BUILDERS. There is a growing opinion that it tradeu have the biggest revival in many years, and by the cireumstan- ing the demand, it will be no hash N'.rhing can help the country more than to have construction well on the way. In this respect the pro- tawa is being eagerly anticipated. tlook.--St. Catharines Standard. SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES. ; up in a remarkable way. Toron-reports that during the past seven mths 3,500 families have voluhtar-dropped off relief registers, while 40 families were stricken off. Car-idings have made an extraordinary :overy after a fortnight slump. . bare ; the i for "MENTALLY t in the pro-A. Faulkner, of Health, shall be de- that dim period in which individuals suffering from mental illness were Considered to be in such a hopeless State that they were confined in virtual prisons and set apart from the world for the remainder of their days.--Brockville Recorder. STEADY PROGRESS. Steady progress is being made in ^Cingctou toward the goal of one hun- Kome way to go toward that objective. The indifference of parents appears a.s one of the chief obstacles to its attainment. Let them take to heart the lesson of the first death in Toronto from diphtheria in fifteen month . Kingston Whig-Standard. IT'S WHAT'S IN 'EM! Our experience is that the public doe? not care very much who writes the editorials. The- people who read newspaper comment upon the issues of the day judge of what is written. t, of t cely t vrite The} with a i ju ? to approve Every editor knows who the writer is, that counts.--Ham- WORD OF CAUTION. If the people of Edmonton are wi. e they will limit new capital expenditures during the next five years to absolute essentials, even if a building boom or other industrial expansion brings a high level of prosperity to the citizens and the cities. It is always difficult to resist spending money freely in good time?. Yet it is that spending that has to be paid for in lean as well as fat years. --Edmonton Journal. > new school day begins at 8.40 ;m of holding i leather gloves as she arrives from Euro shipped from France for medical expert iree ' iods before lunch and two afterward, the day: ending at 4.20 p.m. With the lunch hour shortened the total elapsed time of the school day is lengthened 50 minutes. The claim is made that the pupils make quite as rapid progress as if required to do night work at home, and there ii more uniformity. Failures, it is said, have almost disappeared from the records. The children are studying contentedly, even happily, because they always understand thoroughly the assignments and know exactly what they are expected to learn. The dread and fear of home work at night is gone. Parents are relieved from the worry of getting the children to do uently help- --Port ,1-tliii s-Chn OUR NEW SONG BIRD. lly knothis : bird, the seen alone or. in pairs most people mistake them for blackbirds, and do not go to the trouble of perceiving that they are not purple grackles. being too small. They are isimilar in size to robins, but shorter, less stout of body, have smaller heads and longer bills and whiter. Most of us never observe the starling until in the Autumn when these birds gather in their thousands, and tens o£ thousands at. eve, do marvellous convolutions in the air, twisting and turnings, manoeuvrings, aerial drills and quadrilles. Even the worst deed*, of these birds seem to a watcher largely atoned for by the astonishing and gladsome air performances which they put on. There is something else about this bird. It in a new song bird in Canada. At this time of yeaj' the starling is not a clan bird but an individual. A pair goes tale • femal will ter brought home with him a police (German shepherd) puppy. The black dog never liked the pup and kept aloof from him. This spring however when the ice was breaking up on the river nearby the black dog enticed the pup down to the water and returned some time later without him. When Mr. Eaterbrook went to look for his pup, he found him drowned. What happened is mere conjecture, but the circumstantial evidence against the black dog is most damaging. -- Trenton Com ier-Advo- ETHEREAL ECCENTRICITY. The receiving set evidently Is not the only apparatus that catches sound from the air wave,;; a despatch asserts that when a baker at Courtenay, B.C., turned on his cake-mixer, music came from the mixer and entertained him while he worked. Which suggests that lie had currents as well as currants.--Border Cities Star. THE EMPIRE BRITISH NATIONAL PHYSIQUE If the physical condition of men of-feriug themselves as recruits for the Regular Army were a fair test of the physique of the working classes as a whole, the statement made by Mr. Hacking would be highly reassuring. On the one hand the standard for acceptance had become higher -- it was higher than would be required by any insurance compj first-class life, the number of rejects had gone dovin 60 per cent, in 1931 to 45 in the present year. But it should be remembered that, thanks to unemployment pay, there are fewer men of the class near destitution which at one time supplied so many recruits to the army; and also that a soldier's life is more attractive in itself and a better avenue of approach than it used to be to subse-But the percen- vith I i of i till ; fact the itbird. till : - pla< and imitate several birdi3 sion. At times it will sing and while doing so it will champ its beak as an accompaniment to its isong. This bird does vaudeville. This bird is an artist and if you will stand and watch anri listen to it, it will go on indefinitely, letting you ^hear what it can do. it appreciates* your inter-.< t. The starling only shows its art in the mating season, but, as a bird expert tells us, that is true of nearly all the birds--Toronto Star. : LOOKS SUSPICIOUS. j Mr. Easterbiook, C.P.R. operator at Robindale, has a large black dog that is a fixture around his master's premises. Mr. Easterbrook this win- PUBLIC CONSCIENCE. There is something wrong when crime takes place in frequented streets and eye-witnesses have nothing to tell about it. It 4s a natural impulse to avoid being "mixed up" jrdid ( , but i ■- the social duty to support the law by assisting the police in every possible way. For we are all "mixed up" in the fate of ordered society, which requires every man's protection on every necessary occasion. --Glasgow Herald. WHEAT WORRIES IN S. A. The nerves of the whole (wheat) industry are justifiably on edge. The situation prophesied by The Argus several years ago is now in sight. When the.Minister shut out imports and told the farmers not to sell below 22s. 6d. a bag he created a farming Utopia which every farmer in the Union wanted to enter. We claim no particular credit for foreseeing that the result would be to drive wheat-farming to the same level as maize-growing by creating a surplus which, exported at a fearful loss, would drag down the net return to all growers. But the motto of all parties was "Sufficient unto the day' --.To tide over one crisis the seed: were sown of another, much mori serious one. And how the crop ic about to be reaped. ' But if the look for the grower is gloomy, the outlook for the taxpayer is even less attractive. So far he has merely been requested to pay more than twice the price at which wheat could be 1 : Will 1 on hai svery isidie I the- irph.i- will be obliged to rind ways means of disposing of it. and its natural* course l£f5*o do what it has done before and what other governments are doing. It is typical of the topsy-turvy state of affairs in world that Australia, one of the great, wheat-exporting countries distributing £4,000,000 I its this the form of a bounty of 3d. a bushel, payment of 3s. an acre and a half million as special compensation fo who have (sustained cro .^-Cape Argus. SOME FACTS ABOUT BRITISH RAILWAYS Banffshire Journal The acute competition offered to railways by road traffic has obliged the former to embark on'• a variety of forms of publicity and" one littie book in particular provides information on quite a number off subjects that are associated with the railway We railways form for i : the largest pri- vate undertaking, the capital ed in them amounting to the huge sum of £1,092 million. They are also the world's largest dock owners and the world's largest hotel owners. Britain's railways also have the world's highest authentic rail speeds by steam--102.3 m.p.h. by the Plymouth Ocean Mail Express, on 9th May, 1904, and 100 m.p.h. Flying Scotsman test train, on 30th November, 1934. Coming too late to be included in the book is the record of 108 m.p.h. reached a fortnight ago on the L.N.E. railway in course of an experimental run from Newcastle to King's Cross. The world's fastest regular steam ;rain is the Cheltei m average s'.art-t ri.3 m.p.h. The wo: the of the Southern Rail- lai ;st imple Meads, Bristol; and the world's largest group of sorting sidings is at White-moor in Cambridgeshire. Great Britains largest passenger station is Waterloo (24»/2 acres); Britain's longest station platform is at Manchester (2,101 feet); and Britain's longest tunnel is the Severn (four miles, The 31 British daily scheduled for part of their journeys at start-to-stop speeds of 60 m.p.h. or over, and 53 at 58 m.p.h. or over. Of the 60 m.p.h. trains the G.W.R. have 16, the L.M.S. eight, and the L.N.E.R. seven. There are 570 express freight trains which run daily and nightly between great centres such as London, Gl gow, Newcastle, Manchester, Liv pool, Exeter, Plymouth, Cardiff, i Every day the railways bring rr from Salisbury to London ( miles) for less than a farthing pint, and prime Scotch beef fr Aberdeen to London (532 miles) for less than a halfpenny a pound; eggs from Bristol to London (117 miles) for less than a halfpenny dozen; and flour from Cardiff to Leicester for one-eighth of a penny Fourpence-halfpenny per weels would more than pay for the transport of the average household's bacon, milk, tea and coffee, from a point 100 miles away. In the year 1934, every £ of revenue paid 10s lid for salaries and wages, 3s, 1 for materials, lOd for rates, taxes and insurance, and 8d for sundry items, leaving 3s 8d available for interest and dividends. Annual purchases by British railways include Coal .................... (tons) 13,900,000 Timber .......... (cub. ft.) 12, Ballast ........ (cub. yds.) 1,481,000 Rails ±................. (tons) Number of sleepers .... 4,635,000 Number of bricks ........ 14,160,000 Paint and varnish (tons) 6,000 Cloth for uniforms, yds. 2,600,000 HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGEDIN TURKEY Woman's Suffrage Alliance Meets In Old-Time Harem Istanbul, Turkey--Women from 42 countries convened here recently in what was once the world's largest harem, to demand equivocal recognition of their equality with men. They were delegates to the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, meeting in 12th annual congress. Turkey, the most recent country to open its doors to women suffrage, permitted the women to gather in ancient Yaldiz Palace, formerly the luxurious sumer home of the Ottoman sultan's wives, always kept under lock and key. Turkish women, triumphant over their newly-won freedom, acted as hosts A number of their recently-elected women deputies in the Turkish National Assembly addressed the conference. The British contingent included Lady Astor, American-born member of Parliament. The conference aimed to attain equal voting rights and equal status legally, socially and in business, for women throughout the world. Paris.--War for the present is impossible, said David Lloyd George, Britain's war-time Premier, in a signed article appearing recently in the French weekly Voila. Lloyd George declared Germany was no match for any of her big neighbors. "Certain politicians havfe been trying to sow panic," he said, "by declaring that France has only 350,000 men to oppose Germany's incalculable horde of Nazis. "Truth is different, for France in case of war can put into the field ah army of 1,500,000 men. Behind that army is a reserve of 2,000,000 men who can be sent immediately to the front. "Moreover, France has the strongest artillery in the world. Nobody can rival her tanks, excepting perhaps Russia." He declared France always had hidden her "gigantic reserve" and that other nations also had preserved silence. "Hitler," he wrote, "is well aware ^_of that. In the course of his con-**=t&5kSrsatioM; in Berlin he appears to have revealed their existence to a stupefied and probably incredulous There is now only one silent pic .ire house in the British Isles, ii Manchester. Woman Ordained Minister In England In view of the vote being taken in the presbyteries of the United Church of Canada regarding the ordination of women to the ministry, it is interesting to note that Miss Edna Victoria Rowlingson, a former teacher who graduated with a B.A. honors degree at London University was ordained recently at the Cowper Congregational Church, East Dereham, Eng. She is the only woman minister in Norfolk and one of 17 in the Congregational Union. She became pastor of the large church which is a memorial to William Cowper, the poet, when she received an invitation after preaching there as a supply teacher. Dr. A. E. Garvie, an ex-president of the Congregational Union and a^ noted theologian, in an address after Miss Rowlingson's ordination, de clared: "Read the Bible, but read your newspaper also and know where you are. It is no use denouncing the sins of the eighth century B.C. because the prophet of those times condemned them." Declares War Is Impossible Women Not Better Jurors Than Men But Just As Good If any one had any remaining doubts of the soundness of having women serve as jurors, the good, calm sense with which Miss Doris Byrne supported her bill in the New York Assembly ought to end them, says the Herald-Tribune editorially. "The young Assemblywoman from the Bronx made no extravagant claims for the bill. Women were not by nature better jurors than men, But they were as good," the paper says, "and it was possible to secura a higher grade of intelligence from women jurors by reason of their readier availability of service. Sucb was her argument, and such hai been the experience wherever worn en have been usetd. "Miss Byrne urged her bill not as granting a privilege to women but ait imposing a duty. This is beyond question the fundamental reason foi the change. When wc>nen secure* the ballot and entered upon an activt public service as citizens they madi entrance into the field at jury iser vice right and inevitable.. The state in truth, needs their service in thii vital and often evaded field of pub lie duty." akes 257,000 ti NAUGHTY MARIETTA VICTOR mmEHT 5"' The Governor's palace in New Orleans is brilliantly ablaze for the ball is in honor of the French Princess Marie who has escaped from her aged suitor Don Carlos and her cruel uncle, the Prince, only to be found i. Tears spring to her eyes for when she sails^that night ^she will be leaving Warrington, her lover, there is a lagnificent forever But in response to the assembled throng she mounts the grand staircase and sings her song, Ah Sweet Mystery of Life." Her breath catches as she sees Warrington at the door for she knows there is a price on his head. But as her glorious voice goes bravely on, ringing baritone joins her. Together they sing after him in pursuit. t their love. But at the last n In her room Marie is overcome by despair when suddenly she sees Warrington at the balcony window. He says he has come to take her away. Half-laughing and crying, she descends the balcony trellis with him while the Prince and Don Carlos pound angrily on her door. But on the grounds the eloping lovers are stopped by some French soldiers who Quickly surround them. For a moment Marie is terrified, then joy surges over her as she sees that the "soldiers" are Warrington's men in disguise, come to lead them safely away. And as the men's voices rise in the "Tramp, tramp, tramp" of their marching song, Marie and Warrington, secure in their happiness, move at the head of the band, across the vast wilderness and into the Golden West.