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the Frew r, | The appointment of a Leader to the! trol has not yet been made, | welled vi ed in by automobile to encourage: these Lonies. _ Scoutmaster Don Hutchinson of the 2nd Ontario Lone Scout Troop also attended, and brought with him the Lone Scout Flag, and he was accom. panied by Commissioner John Fur- minger and Lone Scout Bruce John- gon from Toronto. The service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Robinson, father of the Patrol Leader of the Silver Foxes, and the sermon was preached by Mr. Terett, Scoutmaster of the 5th Oshawa Troop, whose remarks centred on the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed: nego, whom he likened to the first Lone Scout Patrol in history, with Daniel as their Patrol Leader, After the service the Scouts were enetrtained at the Rectory, and all Yoted the occasion a great success . and a most enjoyable and instructive time. ; Lone Scout Ronald Sage of Ingersol is very keen indeed. Recently he at- big of the but. ; : Troop from Oshawa, under | looking: forward to big things from command of Captain Rigg, and by, Lakefleld under this new reorganiza-' $ f the i Oahiawa Troon, | S03, Doug. passed on the leadership of Bear Patrol to 'Lone Scout John v whose hands we know that Patrol will' continue to progress. "expected shortly, and we are Lone Scout W. Brown of Sunderland letter, in which he says that he has been out in this country from England for eighteen months, and he he been working on a farm, which life he very much enjoys. His chief ambition at the moment is to be a King's Scout, We sure wish him lots of good luck and good scouting too. : Don't forget about that Christmas Good Turn Scheme which we men- tioned last week! Lone Scout Question Box Are there any Lone Rovers in Can- ada?--(B.T., Oil City.) There is no organization which caters to Lone Rovers, such as the Lone Scout Department does to the Lone Scouts, We do not think, how- ever, that there is any objection to a Rover Scout who is isolated from others, working as a Lone Rover, Full information on this subject can be obtained from the Commissioner for Rover Scouts, Boy Scouts Associ- tended a banquet given by the mem- bers of the Ingersol Troop, where he met other Scouts from Embro, Wood- stock, Tillsonburg and London. He tells us that the 1st London Troop turned out in full force to visit their friends 'at Ingersoll, ar' they had a great time, which Roa fully enjoyed. We are sorry to !ear that Patrol Leader Douglas Macdonald of the' Bear Patrol at Lakefield has .been' forced to relinquish thy leadership of his Patrol, an dthus both the Patrols at "The Grove" School have lost their old Leaders. However, before leav- French Monks in Exile Build Palatial Monastery Paris,--The monks that were ex- pelled from Franve in 1901 have sct- tled in Luxemburg and installed at the Abbey of Clairvaux a monastery described as the last word in archi- ture and equipment. ve . The rule of their order is that the monks must provide themselves with everything for which they might pos- sibly have a present or future need, and the modern disciples have fol- flowed both the spirit and the letter of the law. Among the contents of the mon- astery a modern library, three storeys high, containing 60,000. volumes; a printing shop, a bookbinding work- shop, an electrically equipped dairy farm, kitchens, where cooking is done in hermetically sealed apparatus so Rhat there is no smoke or smell; ele-' vators, an electric bakery, artificially 'heated cellars, in which summer vege- tables are grown in the winter 3 light railways, which distribute goods throughout the monastery; a moun- tain railway more than 300 yards long which connects the monastery with the railway station, to bring in sup- Flies and 'export™ surplus goods pro- 'duced in the monastery; electrically 'operated pumps for watering the gar- dens and an electric power station,' driven by oil-fired boilers to supply Power throughout the monastery. ---------- eee The Dominion First Montreal Presse (Ind.): (During the year 1930 more than 67,000,000 bushels of Canadian grain were shipped vit U.S. Atlantic ports, prac- tically 37 per cent. of the total ex- ort, while only 47,337,940 bushels, or 26.4 per cent, went via Canadian ports on the Atlantic and the St. Lawrence.) These figures set one thinking, The construction of 'the railway across Canada, at the cost of $330,000,000, was approved precisely in order to obtain an export route for Canadian merchandise which should cross Canadian territory and leave from a Canadfan port. This 'obligation still exists, and those who ' - Food Grown at a Loss Quebec Soleil: It fs dificult to un-| derstand why provisions, & necessity | British for everybody, have fallen in price ed ation, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2. Lone Scouts and others are invited to send in questions on scouting sub- jects, which "Lone E" will endeavor to answer week by week in these columns, 3 Full information concerning the Lone Scout Movement may bes obtain- ed from the Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts Association, at the ad- dress given above. All boys between 12 and 18 years of age who cannot join a regular Scout Troop are eligible to become Lone Scouts. "LONE E." Animals In Zoo as motion-picture stars. In fact, beasts kept. in a 200 on the modern terraces, with a ditch too wide to throw across between them and the public, take on a proud and supercilious attitude, en- tirely ing the fact that they are expected to work for a living by providing entertainment, according to reports made for the Antwerp Zoo, which s considering the advisability of giving its inmates at least the illu- sion of roaming at large. Animals, it appears, are entertain- ing only when in frirly close con-| tact with human beings, and left to themselves lions and tigers go about their private affairs, careless whether the public ever hears a roar or even a growl. They seem unaware that the economic is one of the most: pressing aspects f modern life. The Antwerp z00 makes money from visitors, con- certs in the gardens and the sale of hard for a living, begging for sous or carrying children on their hacks. Nearly every cage has an occupant earning its keep in one way or another, and the establishment pays good dividends. to its shareholders, If the animals are secluded, perhaps they will forget all their parlor tricks when there is no hope. of tid-bits to encour- age them. La Fleche, Sask.--In La Fleche, lo- cated in the midst of the wind-blown; drought-stricken district of Southern Saskatchéwan, early this month, Mrs. A. A. Beamish picked more than three quarts of strawberries from her pato] been planted in 1929 on a plot of ground about twenty feet square. This is an unusual, if not record- breaking yield for this district in the month of October. 1 It was only duriag the past few weeks since rains have been falling in this district that the berries had made, any headway this season, as they had been seriously affected by the hot | winds and drought. 7 Pl a . . Exhibiton Ship Will Call at 30 Ports. Portot-Spaln, Trinldad--The Brit- ish exhibition ship; Exhibitor, R.R. 1 has written us a very cheerful and he is working hard to this end.|- Appreciate Audience Brussels.--Brown bears are as sus- it was estimated by Ben Mobley, head ceptible" as opera singers, and the of the Oklahoma game and fish de- smaller apes as sensitive to slights' partment. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby, infant ernor-general of Canada and Coun his christening. | Huge Development Noted In Southampton, Eng. Southampton, Eng.--This port, where ! many visitors get their first glimpse of England, is developing so rapidly that it will soon be in the forefront of {British towns, a survey just com- i pleted here indicates, The survey was carried out by volunteer workers un- der auspices of the local Civic Society to provide a basis for a comprehensive scheme ot town planning. Its publication draws attention to the fact that to the west of the docks 'where Atlantic liners are berthed, 400 acres of mud land is being reclaimed. At the same time a new quay 7000 feet long is being constructed, and a graving dock sufficiently large to ac- commodate a 70,000-ton ship is being built here. : The present ocean dock was opened in 1912 and can accommodate four of | the largest liners at one time. The new dock will be 12,000 feet long, will contain about 260 tons of water, and will be the largest Jpraving dock ever built. | dati}. Smeaton a Fowls Escape Hunter's Guns Oklahoma City.--Despite the army of hunters that swarmed the fields this fall" to shoot prairie chickens,' , more than 50,000 of the fowls escaped,' 'Montreal--A rare opportunity for Canadians to view from a convenient point a total eclipse of the sun, and one which will not be repeated for 22 years, will be provided on August 31 next year, : The "zone of totality" is roughly 100 miles wide but for scientific pur- poses it is desirable to be located as | closely as possible to the central line. In the 1932 eclipse this line will cross the Canadian National Railway be- tween stations adjacent to the town of Parent, Quebec: Originating in the Arctic regions, the shadow will sweep down across Hudson Bay, skirt the eastern shore of James Bay and cross Gold cup presented by King to his godson, Hon. , Monthly Magazine (New York): The The prairies chicken is an elusive target, much harder to hit than quail, ' steadily getting shorter, the rhythm For this reason faster, by a process over which we | have no control. hunters maintain. London trafic has bee rance to study. many of the birds survived. An open season wag declared on prairie chickens in six western Okla- homa counties and hundreds of hunt-' ers joined the hunt, but most of them returned without their bag limit. J item ---- Now For British Films Sunday Dispatch Cons.): The British film gdustry has now an unprecedented opportunity for | forging ahead and showing that it can produce pictures in no way inferior to the work of its foreign competitors. Holly wood, owing to the fall of sterl- ing, 1s faced with a much less profit-| able British. market. The new pound | combined with the quota system and enterprise at Elstree should trans-| form every cinema threatre in Great animals bred there. This year it has! Britain, two « baby elephants, born there, som inl and the other elephants work Noise Abatement Move (Ind.' Planned by Oxford Oxford, Eng.--A society abatement of noise caused by motor' formed here, and is the first of its kind in Britain. This noise and its accompanying | reverberation are said to be a men- ace to the safety of colleges and historic buildings, and a serious hind- Already more than for the | of the ever-bearing vines that had| leave England next! _-- AT 100 subscriptions = for the society' whe s have been received from the occup- Stra my Vines ants of houses in two roads alone. Yield Late Crop|it is thought that many other towns will hasten to follow the example set by this new Oxford movement. Ergine Built in Rear George St. son of their excellencies, the gov- tess Bessborough on occasion of Famous White Herd Listed as a Luxury London--Whether present financial conditions will cause the dispersal of the famous Northumberland wild white cattle herd, the only pure descendants of the original British wild ox is discussed by the Earl of Tankerville, the herd's owner, in the current-issue of The Field. "The wild cattle, now about 44 in number, have been in Chilling- ham Park for some 700 years," the Earl writes. "They have been left entirely to themselves, beyond be- ing given certain extra hay in win- ter, and no extraneous blood has ever been introduced. "Now a crisis is looming up, for although the herd is maintained at a cost of about $35 or $40 per head annually entirely for the sake of na- tional and scientific interest, it is regarded by the inland revenue au- thorities as a personal luxury, and no reduction of taxation whatever is allowed in respect of its upkeep." He expresses the hope that some organization will volunteer to as- sume maintenance of the herd and states his willingness to turn It over to the nation. agp an Out of Control James Truslow Adams inh Harper's "wave lengths" of our life has been Scientific discov- ery, whether cause or effect of the latest acceleration in tempo, cannot be halted without a complete coly| lapse of our civilization which is based upon it. We must now go on, seeking new inventions, new sources of power, or crash--a civilization in a nose dive. If we are to become adjusted, it is evident that in some way we have got to order our lives differently. We have got to bring back, in the new, quickened tempo, some 'sense of leisure and secure for ourselv gs a respite from the hail storm of sensation and need for con: stant adjustment, some new habit patterns, that will enable us to con- trol ourselves nervously, to rise above the plane of sensation, and to concentrate on the things of the spirit. Only thus can we regain control of our individuality and our | lives in the whirling flux into which we shall otherwise dissolve. ------ Flowers that Bloom in Spring Blossom in Fall in Indiana Bedford, Ind. -- The flowers that bloom in the spring seem to have their dates mixed in parts of Indiana, An apple tree is blooming here, In Marion honeysuckle is in bloom, while from Warsaw came a report that the cherry tree in the Rev. D, V. Wil liams' Back yard, which failed to have any blossoms last spring, is covered with them now. the St. Lawrence near Maskinonge and Pierreville, some 50 miles east of Montreal. Six Billion Estimate of Canada's Wealth Ottawa.--It "fs estimated by the Domini Bureau of Statistics that the total capital invested in Canada is §17,600,000,000, of which 65 per cent, is owned in. the Dominion, 20 per cent, in the United States, 13 per cent, in great Britain and 2 per cent. in other countries. This total includes the bonded indebtedness of Dominion, provincial and municipal governments and all other investments with the ex- ception of private capital in domestic enterprises such as homes and farms. The total national wealth is estimated at $6,000,000,000, and on that basis less than 20 per cent. is in the hands of British and foreign investors. Cana- dians have approximately $1,750,000, 000 invested in other countries. The bureau finds that there are 1,260 branch, subsidiary and affiliated establishments of TI -itish and foreign connection in Canada with a combined capital of $1,746,220,000, of which 17 per cent, is owned in the Dominion. The United States owns 1,071 of these branch plants with 68 per cent. of the capital; Great Britain has 14 per cent., distributed among 172 plants, and other countries account for less than 1 per cent. Branch plants, it is explained, are considered to be any companies in- corporated in Canada which are sub- sidiary to or affiliated with foreign capital; similar companies licensed to do business here, but not incorpor- ated; assembly plants and agencies of foreign firms, and Canadian firms re- lated to outside companies by the use of patents and trademarks. 7 5 versed in approximately 33 minutes, It | will cross the St. Lawrence at 3.24 p.m, E.8.T, and the International boundary at 327 p.m. The last eclipse of the sun to be ob- served as total in Canada occurred on January 24, 1925, when the path of totality swept across western Ontario over the Niagura River and southeast to the Atlantic at New Haven, Conn. After the 1932 eclipse it will not be un- til 1854 that the next will be visible in Canada. TE ---------------- Paris Managers Reduces Salarie sof Actors Paris.--Paris theatrical managers have taken a stand against paying extremely high salaries to actors, writes a correspondent of The Chris. tian Science Monitor. A consider able number of the producers have agreed not to pay more than 500 francs ($20) a day to any performer, Exception is made of a very few Popular "stars" whose drawing power is recognized at all box offices, and who, it is admitted, may justly be paid a certain proportion of the re- ceipts. Paris producers find it very difficult to compete with the "movie" companies and feei they must take a united stand against paying such fabulous salaries as are reported from Hollywood. The new ruling, after all, will not affect many performers, It is said that there are not at present more than fifty actors in Paris who receive more than 600 francs a per- formance, and probably not more than twenty who earn 1,000 francs daily. Even these favored few do not ap- pear every day, and they have heavy wardrobe expenses. Paul Reboux, writ- ing in Paris-Midi, proposes that a just arrangement would be to add what is saved on "stars'" salaries to those of less prominent members of the caste, who in many cases are poorly paid. A number of Paris theatre have re- duced their price of admission. Some favor doing away with the cut-price ticket system, under which some tick- ets are sold through agents at prices much below those charged at the theatre box office. Sibzrian Chinese Now Homing Pigeon Leaves Brussels. -- Even homing pigeons sometimes have a roving disposition and a longing to see something of the world, it would seem. One of the birds belonging to an amateur of Dottignies, a little village near the Franco-Belgian frontier, was released by its owner at a contest held in Arras, early in August. Contrary to the rules of the game, it failed to Nearly two months later, its owner received a letter by air mail saying that the pigeon had heen found at Saigon, in Indo-China, and identified by an inscription under its wing. It had travelled over 6,000 miles from its starting point, mt meri Britain's Unemployed Reduced by 33,252 London.-~The first decrease since July 6 in the number of unemployed in Britain was announced recently. | The total registered at employment exchanges Oct. 5 stood at 2,791,520, a | reduction of 33,262, compared with the previous week. The decline is due to an increase in the number of men and women | at work, not to stricter. regulations | for registration, The seasonal in-, crease in unemployment expected at this time of year has been respon- sible for adding only 28,000 to the total. The total reduction in unemploy- ment I$ dve in turn to the hiring of mor€é than 632,000 who had heen tem-! porarily unemployed, #ainly in the cotton, coal and wool industries and the motor trade. EE France and Germany Hamilton Spectator (Ind. Cons.): France and the United States between them dominate the economic situa- tion, and in some quarters there is a fear lest the diplomatic conversa- tions will fall short of expectations. The arrangements entered into be-| tween Germany and France, while | they are hailed as a welcome advance on the road to International under- standing and co-operation, may b viewed in an aspect which is not en- couraging to other European. nations, What has happened is that France agrees to provide the money and Germany the. technical skill and equipment essential to a great indus- trial revival in those two countries. They are turning to the Germans to do what they might have done for themselves. . n ------ The Toronto Daily Star:--The Bell On World Tour return to its home nest. | Have New Alphabet Vladivostok. -- Latinized Chinese written language is to be introduced | in the schools of this Far Eastern | Soviet. The decision came after twenty- . eight illiterate coolies had mastered the twenty-eight letters substituted | for the 50,000 ideographs of their language and learned to read and write in six weeks. The new alphabet will be used fn Chinese primary and secondary schools, the Eastern faculty of the | Far Bast State University and in several Russian high schools, meres Dirigible to Dwarf Akron Hinted in Latest Plans Lakehurst, N.J.--Reports indicating that an airship nearly twice the size of the Akron may be built in the United States caused considerable comment here as the Navy Depart- ment opened bids for the construc- tion of the great dirigible hangar .at Sunnyside, Calif, "The hangar will house an airship of 11,000,000 cubic feet," read an of- ficial statement, The Akron has a capacity of 6,400,000 cubic feet. The new hangar, which will serve the] Pacific coast airship base, will be 1,-! 338 feet long and 310 feet wide. Its height will be about that of an eight- een-story building. Total cost of the basa project as authorized by Congress is set at $5, 000,000. The Akron is making a ser- les of trial flights, and semi-official reports indicated that the giant air liner probably will be at Lakehurst Naval Air Station early in November. -- $30,000,000 Liner Under Way in France Paris--The super-lle-de France, of the French Line, which is to be the largest, fastest and most luxurious liner afloat, may be named Jeanne d'Are. The glant craft is rapidly be- ing constructed at the Penhoet ship- yards at Saint Nazaire. Costing more than $30,000,000, the new boat will measure 1,020 feet in length--two feet longer than any other liner ever constructed--and will displace 70,000 tons. There will be accommodations for 2,132 passengers and a garage for 100 auto- mobiles. Actual streets, forming a little Paris, with cafes, stores, chapel, swimming pool, gymnasium and park, will line the inside of the hulk. fm sin Clip Unemployed Free Broken Bow, Neb.--Inability to pay eed not deprive anyone in this town ] Earlier it was believed that e vidual in those day: made tools and potte.y. Age industrial centres have specialists, active both as manufac- turers and trades Some ti "kmen in Soder- manland came a number of light old. Since flint of that sort does not occur in Sodermanland, but in the couth of Sweden, it is evident that a oeddler had carried them a long way, to barter his wares for furs. He had hidden his axes in the soil. The Bronze Age foundry at Enkop- ing yielded bronze tools, fragments of weapons and other implements weigh- ing about five kilograms and showing that the master founder was an able artisan not only in manufacturing practical things but also in ornament- ing them with beautiful designs, ratte Forced Off Gold Hartley Withers in the Spectator (London): Foreign creditors, by making this panicstricken run on us, because we had refused to join in the s.upid run on Germany, have oblig- ed us to do what distinguished economists have long urged us tc- do ~--namely, let the pound go to a low er exchange value. If we had done it deliberately, we might have beem debt to those who had left money on deposit with us. Acting under this compulsion, we are free of this charge. And so our foreign credi- tors have not only obliged us te balance our budget but also to re- value the pound; and both of (hese measures will assist our return to financial strength, if we make the right use of them, and keep our heads, as we have shown every im- tention of doing. -- > U.S.A. and China Ottawa Droit: The United States is involved in China to the tune of very great sums, invested with the object of creating new outlets for its commerce. For this reason it Is favourable to energetic action on the part of the League of Nations. It is significant to see the neighboring Republic renounce its policy of isol- ation and ask the League of Nations for its support in preventing Japam from destroying the work of Ameri- can financiers in China. In the same connection it is easy to um derstand the protests of Japan against American intervention. mn es A im enn Canada's Future Toronto Mail and Empire: Canadas is a young and vigorous nation. It has an enormously rich halt com- tinent, possessed by only ten million people. We have suffered less than other peoples from the depression. We are averse to rash political and economic experiments. Signs of better things already begin to ap- pear. It we all continue to work hard and to do good team work there is no reason in the w rld why Can- ada should not lead all other nations on the road toward renewed pros. perity. Poultry Calendar Another aid to the farmer has been made by the New York State College of Agriculture through its new Cor- nell poultry calendar, a bulletin for the henhouse rather than for the home living room. This bulletin tells how many eggs a hen or a pullet should lay, and has a place for recording, each day, the number of eggs laid, the birds sent to the market or to the table because they do not lay, and the money taken in, and the cash spent for feed and supplies. It also has a page of poultry hints for each month, meant .» tell the poultryman how te give his flock the best of care, so the birds will more than pay for their keep. The pamphlet is written by IL. M. Hurd, extension specialist in poultry at the New York State Cob ege of Agriculture. Air-Minded Pollens Plant pollens are really air-minded, and some of them are high flyers, says O. C. Durham in The Pathfind- er. Taking his microscope, glass slides and other equipment he went up in an airplane. At various heights he exposed his prepared slides to the air for some five minutes. Upon ex amination they were found to contalm a number of pollen granules. At 100 feet his slides collected 345 granules over land and 176 over water. er altitudes until at 4,000 feet they showed twepty-four over land twenty-onés over water. Still lately of both Stone Age and fou, clear that even those periods had their : gray flint axes of exquisite shape and workmanship, more than 4,500 years accused of repudiating part of our' number gradually decreased at great.