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k Ld | cla ity Fare World Jamboree | luoked forward to as a break in the | Pi | Popular Millions of Birds Compete In n-->Special Coaches Built | London. --More than 1,000,000 young eons are being raced in England Britai ! clays Tl let you know. But the point | fs--what about you? I've no right to finger of podgy ask, but how are you fixed?" It has been decided that the next Boy Scout World Jamboree will take for the first time this month. Their steady routing of work. number gives some idea of the growth Scout training must and will tell moment, a rather worried expression but, all the same, looked as though some sudden worry had assailed him. "I want a word with you, Miss "I've just remembered I left something i Walter Barclay announced. "A seri- upstairs I'd better take away with me oi word. © With superficial meekness she obey: © fu her large, grey eyes. . art department, erste ned the Miss Maine I wish to see her-- door marked "Pri-! door opened again, ! retty girl of twenty-three, ir and skin, but with, at the! Sit down," 'ed, and listened tb a livery and unjust criticism of her work in the agency's "Well, there it is," she was told fin- ally. "For all'I know you may be a genius as a highbrow artist, but you're no good on commercial work---not here, anyhow." . "Does that mean you are sacking me, Mr, Barclay?" i "Yep! I never give anyone a fort- night's notice. I give 'em the money instead, and cut the connection sharp. Much the best way. I've rung through to the cashier, so----" Sally Maxine had risen, and, though! she did not know it, she was prettier than ever, because there was added ~color in her cheeks, She might have no great talents, and very little money, but she had courage and a good deal of pride. i» "Thanks!" she said. "Posts are dif- ficult to get nowadays, and'I hadn't pluck enough to resign; but I'm glad you've dismissed me. It's been rather horrible, working for a bad-tempered, fault-finding, vulgar little man, blown up with his own conceit. I'm sorry for hrey Barclay, of Bar-| "You mean about money? About Service, pressed the carrying on, till I land something Five seconds later else?" x } (a business searching for a post can be; and I know what the free-lance 'Barclay, and lit a cigar. game is like, these days." 'through a haze of blue-grey smoke the fully. "I can hang on here till long ising agent looked at an ex-| after the last cow h s come home. But---- What's the matter now?" --now. don't mind waiting here for a second, Will you?" that ash from your cigarette. as you call her, doesn't really balieve "Yes. Y'see, I know what a devil of "I'm quite 0.K.,"" she told him cheer- "It's nothing, really," he answered; I'll hop up and get it, if you "But watch Drop Mother Goose "Ot course," she said. it into that fern-pot. it is good for the carpets." . She was still speaking when Car- ruthers had gone from the room--was still wondering about him when she went up to her bed-ro.m and removed her hat. Then she began to sniff. In the roon|--her own, very private room--! there lingered the smell of cigarette smoke! She never smoked in her bed- room, and, anyway, her infrequent cigarettes were Virginian, Whoever had been in her room smoked Turkish or Egyptian. James Carruthers smoked Turkish, when he could afford any cigarettes nt all! But she had other things to think of than this minor mystery. She had lost her job. She had no one to whom she could turn, Far better artists than she were going to the wall gallantly or otherwise. Worst of all, she had said good-bye to Jim, She knew now that in her heart she had been calling him that I've got a good crib with the best In downpour of rain, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader, arrived in England, aboard channel steamer on his way to London. Here Is Mahatma spinning, as he crossed English channel from Boulogne. "There isn't any joke, my dear. Lis-| Canada Has 391,372 ten, and don't get angry. I love you; = . but I couldn't tell you till now--mnow Miles of Highways Ottawa. ~--There were 394,372 miles prospects. 1 don't care how long I i of highway open for traffic at the end have to wait for you; but, of course--" | of last year, a preliminary report of He did not need to go on. Sally's| highways and motor vehicles in Can- eyes were telling him what he wished | ada issued by the Dominion Bureau to know." of Statistics. shows. "But are you quite--quite sure about | The province of Saskatchewan led yourself?" she asked. "You're not be- | in mileage with 154,859, and was ing just generous and dutiful, are you, ' followed by Alberta with 62,426 and Jim?" : | Ontario with 52,270 miles of road. The From a pocket-book he drew an on- | highways of the two Western Pro- velope addressed to her in his writing. vinces, however, wers mostly an- «This will remove any doubts," he' surfaced. Quebec was fourth with 33,- said. "On the evening when I left the | 040 miles, Manitoba fifth with 26,152, place in 1933 at a place called Godolle, about 15 miles from the city of Buda- pest, in Hungary. This was decided by the Interna- tional Conference of Boy Scout Lead- ers held recently at Vienna, Austria. When the Canadian contingent was chosen for the last Jamboree, which was held in England in 1929, the con- dition was that all' candidates should be First-Class Scouts. Wouldn't it be a fine thing if, at the next 1933 Jamboree, some Ontario Lone Scouts were included in the con- tingent? If you are keen to take the trip to Europe, therefore, you should get busy in order to obtain the neces- sary qualifications well in advance. Parents' View of Scouting The July issue of the "Miami Lonie" contains a short article written by the parents of a Lone Scout in that dis- trict, in which the following state- ments are made: "Scout work is one of the best things for boys. It offers great pos- sibilities for practical education as well as recreaticn, It develops obsoe- vation and alertness, a desire to gain facts and methods of doing things most effectively. exchange of ideas so that the boy may have the benefit of the experience of others.: Also it affords a sensible form of recreation, which is eagerly London Times (Ind.) : The farmers, upon whose prosperity is built the prosperity of the West and, indeed, of the whole of Canada, are feeling the pinch of bad times, and despond- ent voices are heard regretting that the reduced income of the country has been so heavily mortgaged. But that--Ilike the depression--is a tem- It encourages the, The Future of Cains. | upon the general habits, the character and manners { nthe years to come,' Parents are becoming more and ore allve to the yalue of Scout Train. ig to their sons, and we had very practical demonstration of this at the Scout Booth at the Canadian National Exhibition this year, where the grown- ups showed almost as much Interest in the display as the boys themselves. Preparedness "Be Prepared!" Are you prepared, Lone Scout?" What would you do If you were sud- denly called upon to help fight a for- est fire, or a burning haystack? What would you do in case of severe storm, flood, or automobile accident? Would you be able to demonstrate that a Scout fs really "prepared?" See therefore Lonies that you take all the interest you possibly can in your Scout work, so that you can al ways conscientiously say "I am Pre pared." If you are not a Scout, and if you are unable to join an ordinary Scout Troop, perhaps you would like to ve) a Lone Scout. * | If so, write to The Lone Scout De-| partment, Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto, tell them why you want to be a Lone Scout, and ask them for particulars of this movement, They will be glad to hear from you.-- | Lone E. Travel by Plane. Actuarial Society of America finds that aviation is getting safer each year. In 1930, on planes operating on regular commercial schedules, deaths gers carried, Safer Every Year, Belgium is the original home of this The committee on aviation of the sport. averaged one for every 17,000 passen- of long-distance pigeon racing in this country. Although young compared with other sports, it has made a tre mendous appeal. Special trains are now run to earry the binds to the starting the races. For one event a wenty- two specially built coa brought 15,000 birds from the North of Eng- land to the south-coast town of Bournemouth. More than [000,000 pigeons were carried by the English railways in 1930, and there are some- times as many as tweaty of these pigeon trains running in one day. The birds are accompanied by men who take care of them en route and free them when they 'reach their starting point. Recently a member of Parliament, Sir William Edge, traveling by auto mobile and trains from the House of vommons to Coalville, in Leicester won a 115.mile race against shire, homing pigeons belonging to Coalville miners, Sir William attributed his victory largely to the fact that rain had fallen practically the whole of the way. The importance of the weather fac tor in this sport has been strikingly demonstrated in Belgium, There, on 8 bright, clear day several years ago, all the prize winners in a race of 270 miles to Brussels completed the course within three hours and a' quarter. The following year the day of the race was stormy and it was not until after thirty hours that the first bird got home. Long-distance flying was start- od there in 1818, when a 100-mile race took place. In 1823 'Le first London- to-Belgium race was held, and in 1881 | an annual 6500-mile contest from Tou- louse to Brusseis was inaugurated. Of the young pigeons a large per whoever takes my place here. Good- that during the many weeks when she bye!" !had thought to be merely sorry for That was well enough said; - but him. once she was outside the big office,! When she was going to bed that and on her way towards the boarding- night' she said silently: house in Kensington, Sally become "I don't understand, Jim, but I sup- for her, unnaturally grave of mood. pose everything will come all right 'While it was true that she was glad" some day. I hope you get the job with to have seen the last of Barclay the that beast, Barclay. If you do--well, tlepiece in your bed-room. Then, back to you." ing in my room," said Sally. boarding-house, I put this on the man-| British Columbia sixth with 22,036 when ' and Nova Scotia seventh with 14,681 it seemed there was a chance of my | miles of highway. getting the job you'd lost, I skipped up Northern Ontario, which is listed in and took the letter away. It tells you the report separately, came next with all about my love, and explains that it 13,662 miles, New Brunswick ninith and when the tide turned I'd come with 11,825 miles and Prince Edward "So it was you who had been smok-, "Give highway in the Dominion, and On- porary phenomenon. The Western Provinces will recover from their pre- sent setback, and may well be the more prosperous in the end for the lessons learned during their time of adversity. Few coun'ries have a more assured or a brighter future than the Dominion, which, with its ten million population, already holds so high a The district of ! Island last with 3,650 miles of road. There were 80,497 miles of surfaced Noticeably enough, the . hazard centage do not return to their homes. among "pleasure flyers' was 'much "For English racing pigeons, at any greater. During the whole of last year rate, have a queer way of "breaking only 24 passengers were killed in| their journeys" en route. One of them scheduled commercial flying--and 136 that was supposed to be hustling from lost their lives in pleasure flying. Rid-'a town in the southern part of Eng- ing with a pilot who has less than 400 land to one in the north suddenly de- hours experience seems to be quite de-' cided, the other da , to stop off in Lon- finitely dangerous. | don, aug, to the surprise of the editor The improvement in the commercial of The Morning Post, suddenly flew there" ~ ing, Mr. Carruthers. Barclay's must Bully, as she had christened him some it's 'single men only." six months previously, other things 'were equally true. J For instance, she hadn't enough cash to keep her for more than a few weeks, Her only relatives were some uninteresting and perpetually hard-up cousins down in Devonshire, to whom she could not possibly apply for help, , even should help be necessary, and she had but few friends in London. "There were a good many aoquaint- ances, of course; but they are differ- ent. She smiled somewhat ruefully on ~zealizing that she was now in the same position as her fellow-artist and board- er; James 'Carruthers, an out-of-work. She liked Carruthers very much, and it was a shame, so she told herself, that -he should have so long a spell of +dll-fortune. He had' sald little about " himself, and had never complained, 'but Sally guessed that of late he must have been knowing something pretty near distress. Within 'a few seconds of reaching the boardinghouse; she met him in the * little hall, and had the odd fancy that he flushed on seeing her; he seemed to be suddenly and "nusually ill at - ease. . "Hallo, Miss Maine!" he started. "I've never known you get back so early as this before. I--T'll be able to say a good-bye to you, after all." As he spoke, Sally noticed a trunk and suitcase which stood near the hat- stand. $ : "Good-bye?" she repeated. "But-- 'what does it mean? You aren't leav- ing--not definitely?" . He nodded, and now the flush was fading, though the uneasiness remain- ed 'Afraid so," he returned. "I de- cided this morning, and I've squared things up with Mother Goose, I'm going to move into cheaper quarters. 'Then, if nothing tures up in a fort- "might or so, I'll clear out of London. There's a farm I know where I might get a job, hoeing turnips, or something of that sort. Nobody wants to buy my masterpieces, and I've raked every , agency and newspaper for a job. Not a hope for me in your office, I sup- pose?" . He put the question lightly, but ft | . «inspired Sally. : "I think there very well might be," .~ she answered. "Let's go into the sit- *tingroom and talk. There's no-one A minute rather long spéech thus: + "So, you see, it's certainly worth try- have someone in my place, so why not you? The only thing is, you're far too d for' them, and I doubt yourmore than LR ) or 86 later 'sho ended a| it they'd | 5 pounds . . . When Sally was near despair, and down to her last ten-shilling note, she received this letter from Carruthers: "Dear Miss Maine,--Some weeks ago I wrote you to the effect that I'd got a job with Barclay's. My blessings went to you for the chance. Now I have left the 'Bully,' as you called him; and am in charge of the art-room me the letter, Jim. I'm going to keep | tario led with 34,379 miles of this, it for always. And when we get mar-| while Quebec was second with 13,302 ried, we'll send a wire, with our bless- miles. Some 20,000 miles of highway ings, to Humphrey Barclay. If he was constructed or improved during hadn't sacked me, all this might never | 1930, over 4,000 miles of this being have happened." . in Saskatchewan and over 3,500 in A messenger came into the room New Brunswick. then, which was perhaps as well, Af- Capital expenditures for provincial ter all, an office is not the ideal place | and provincially subsidized roads in for an exchange of kisses.--' Answers" | 1930 was $64,265,000 for the Domin- with Alex. Morrison & Co. There's a small job for you here, if you wish one. 3 ! "Anyway, will you call and have a chat? You promised to let me know it you left Mother Goose, so I take it you are still with her. I'couldn't stay, with Barclay any longer, for I am to be married soon, so his "single men only' \ rule made it imperative for me to seek pastures new. "Do give me a call, or at least ring me, 1 "Yours sincerely, | "James Carruthers." -. . At her most dignified, Sally went to gee James Carruthers in his new of- fice. She wag poor, but did her' best to look prosperous; was harassed, but strove to appear as though harassment had never touched ber. To work in the same office as the man whom she many ways, but he would not be allow- ed to sense that awkwardness. "1t was awfully good of you to write '| me," she said, after some moments. "Dd you really mean you can fix me up with a job here?" Carruthers, who was opening and shutting his cigarette-case nervously, nodded, and when he spoke, did so as a shy boy might have done. "Yes, if you care to have it," he said. "But there's another post going, and I'd very much rather you took that. I told you in my note I was going to be married. Well, I'm not sure whether that's true or not. It all'depends on She stared at him in complete amazement, 4 ga "On me?" she asked, "What--what's the joke, Mr. Carruthers?" loved would be awkward for her in| the girl--on you, Sally." 1 _ Tailless Craft London. ion. $34,502,000 of this was spent on main provincial highways, $10,338,000 in secondary provincial highways, $10,338,000 on county and market roads and the remainder on township and local roads, bridges constructed during the year in Canada cost $5, : 718,000, making a grand total of $60, 1 998,000 spent on highway work. | Maintenance of all these roads and bridges cost $23,102,000. -- ere " War Debt Readjustment Providence Journal: Nothing is to be gained--indeed much is to be iost --from a continuance of an attitude which refuses to acknowledge the cold, hard fact that the moratorium is but the beginning . f an inescapable task in securing common sacrifices from the creditor nations. Theoretically, Gérmany should pay and pay and pay. Practically, she can not pay and pay and pay* unless the creditor nations are prepared indefinitely to retard the recovery of the world's economic equilibrium for the seke of collecting an excessive political debt levied when the collectors were still dominated by the unreasoning passions of war. The sooner definite information comes from the creditor nations that a com- plete readjustment will be made when the moratorium expires, the better it will be for creditors and debtors alike. -- Ancient Highway Reveals Secrets Shrewsbury, Eug.--The great Ro- man Highway, known as Watling Street, continues to give up its secrets, as a result of archaeological enter- prise, actording to a correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor. The latest of these is a section of the colon- nade of the Forum in the City of Uri- conium at Wroxeter, near Shrews- bury, Eng. which has recently been disclosed through the initiative of Sir Charles Marston, president of the Shropshire Archaeological Society. The base of the columns are many feet below the level of the surround- ing land, showing. the accumulation of vegetation during the 1600 years which have elapsed since the destruc- tion of this Roman city. The colonnade is claimed to be the most imposing found in Britain. The ancient market place covered 2% acres; was completely roofed, and was the shopping centre of the city. Our inféFoourse with tho dead is bet: - 'Iter than our intercourse with the liv- THR makes the heart grow fonder?" "Oh, sure, since George returned to the city I have learned to love Fred ever so much more." ee ememlin "The Root of All Evil" I New York Journal of Commerce: The question of the future of gold |is one that needs to be called forcibly to the attention of a public that is apt to think that such technical matters should be left for economic and finan- ' cial cxperts to debate and settle. Un- ' fortunately, the experts disagree violently among themselves concern- ing the value and permanence of the | gold standard, while the present sys- tem of international payments based upon that standard is becoming pro- gressively demoralized as gold accum- ulates in the United States and | France. : x . ¥ § place among the nations. aad} omit Turtle Mountain Top field is especially marked when one contrasts last year's record with the records of former years. In 1929 the probability of death for a passenger Border Peace Garden Asbury Park, N.J--A tract of land on Turtle Mountain at the North Da- kota-Manitoba (Can.) border, was ap- proved recently by the National As* sociation of Gardeners' convention as the site for the international peace garden, Final decision on the adoption of this gite will be made next spring at a joint meeting of the international peace garden commission and execu- tive committees of the Canadian As- sociation of Florists and Gardeners and the National Association of Gar- deners. meso mim Schneider Cup Winner _ Flight-Lieut. J. N. Boothman - being carried ashore after specta- cular flight in Schneider Cup races. He achieved new world speed mark of 340 miles per hour. ing. There are only "Cotton yarn production is increasing in Japan. {on a scheduled flight wag one in 10, 000; in 1928 it was one in 4,000. SEN | Youth Pays Tuition With Farm Produce Barroursville, W. V.,--A youth who came off a farm to Morris-Harvey ; College and who brought a two-year- | old steer, five bushels of potatoes | and 30 bushels of apples along with | him to pay his school expenses was enrolled ag full-fledged student, The steer was butchered and the potatoes and apples were in the ool- lege storage bins for use in the cafe- teria, Mr. Leonard Riggleman, president, | recently announced farm products would be\ accepted for student ex- penses because of economic condi- tions. i A Corner In Gold? Boston Christian Science Monitor: The gold holdings of the United States have passed the $5,000,000,000 mark. This is over 45 per cent. of the ws total monetary stocks. Such a record, instead of being hailed with pride, is being cegarded doubtfully. Is the United States unconsciously cornering the metal on which the world's money is based? How can the United States trade with the world on even terms if it absorbs so much of the world's medium of ex- change? Clearly a world on a gold standard must keep the metal fairly evenly distributed. ah EAA Many Seek Citizenship Ottawa.--The depression is credited with a striking increase in the num- ber of applications for Canadian citi- | zenship by naturalization. The idea | that in employment and unemploy- | ment relief a Canadiun citizen will be given preference is considered a large | factor in inducing over 17,000 to ap- ply for naturalization in seven months i _, compared with 14,500 in the preced- ing 12 mcnths. | i - a ah Dryden--"Still at it? Why don't you join with us and put down the demon alcohol" ~ Wetmore--"Brother, I put down all I can get hold ot." into his sanctum. Others have been known to alight on Atlantic liners, on ! Nelson's Column, on 3t. Paul's Cathe- dral and on factory chimneys. Some of these loiterers reappear within & | few months; others may not arrive for a year or more. 'Code of Manners Outlined for Campers San Francisco.--You may be reason- ably "wild and woolly" when you are camping In the national forests of | California, but you must not leave | your good manners at home, writes a | correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor. You need them as much on | your vacation as when you are at home. This is the warning which prefixes a booklet "Forest Rangers' Catech- ism," just published b.' the Govern- ment for the California Region, United States Forest 8 'vice The rules for good manners are easy to learn, it declares. They are the ones followed by all good sportsmen good campers, and good tourists: Obtain a camp-fire permit. Carry a shovel and an ax. Drown your fire out with water. Leave a clean and sanitary camp. Observe the state fish and game laws, Co-operate with the forest rangers and state fire wardens in reporting and suppressing fires. Practice these "ues and them, too. iia Maple Sugar Industry Toronto.--The production of maple sugar in Canada this spring was 5,484, 100 pounds, valued at $930,000, The pro- duction of maple syrup was 1,314,700 gallons, with a value of $2,606,900. The total value of both syrup and sugar is $3,537,700. This figure was the lowest for some years. It is estimated that the industry is carried on by 50,000 growers. The number of trees tapped annually ap- proximates 8,000,000. The total stand of sugar maple is approximately 60, 000,000 trees. The chief export mar- ket for Canadian maple products is the United States. In the calendar year 1930, out of 116,705 gallons of sytup exported, 114,202 gallons went to the United States, while of exports of maple sugar totaling 5,997,436 pounds, all but 40,000 pounds went to the same market. ' preach i oe Celtic Objects Found i! Budapest.--Valuable Celtic finds have been made in the neighborhood of Pecs, where graves at least 2,400 | years old have been opened. They con= tained forty-three objects, mostly swords and lances of iron, bronze bracelets and clay vessels. Gold coins were found depicting Celts riding bareback. : We hardly Sud any. persons of goa sense save those agree ER hm er