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While Prof. Hallsworth dealt par. ard ticularly with the railway situation' in the United Kingdom he said similar situation had arisen in prac- tically every country in the world. He asked whether railways were to be displaced from their position as chief mode of transport, to which the rest are supplementary, and relegated to a position of secondary importance in the transport system of the 20th cen- tury. IMPORTANT QUESTION "It is a question of farweaching importance," Prof. Hallsworth said. "I agree with Sir Josiah Stamp that of the country's domestic problems at the present time none presses more gravely on the nation than the position and future outlook of the railway system. The number of workpeople it employs, the amount of capital invested, the increasing difficulty of providing for an control- ling the traffic on the roads, the vital importance of securing for the com- munity the most cconomic and ef- ficient svstem of transport combine to make it one of the most pressing pro- blems that we have to face." Decrease in railway traffic, the professor went on, was due largely to the competition of the motor-car. Since the war the development of motor transport had been remark able. Though there were some 307,- 000 motor vehicles in use in Great Britain in 1914, the number had fall- en to 189,000 in 1918, owing to the restrictions of the war period. The railway strike of 1919, however, greatly stimulated the use of motor vehicles and by 1920 the number' in use had grown to 551,000. By 1923 it had soared to 1,131,000. In 1928 it was just more than 2,000,000, and it}- reached 2,250,000 in 1933. OTHER COMPETITORS Prof. Hallsworth mentioned competition also of steamship air services and recommended: "Railways should cease to be rve- garded as merely railway companies --_which as a matter of fact they "have long ceased to be. They should come to be regarded as transport companies undertaking a given piece of transport by that means or com- bination of means. which appears to them to be the most economic and, at the same time, most suited to meet the real demand of the traveller or trader." - This combining is the solution of the problem which had been adopted by the Irish Free State, he said. The Transport Act, 1933, of the Irish Free State provided, subject to approval of the Minister of Trans- port, for the compulsory acquisition of all road transport agencies by railway or shipping companies. the and It's a Man's World Says Mrs. Roosevelt NEW YORK -- Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt told the Herald Tribune's fourth annual conference on current problems that "there is still a long way to go before women will really have the seme chance as men to reach important places. "It is still said that there is very little creative ability amongst wo- men, and so far the record would seem to corraborate this theory," said the wife of the United States, President. "It has so long been con- sidered woman's business to devote herself Lo creating a home and hav- ing children that other creative work hasn't been given much of a chance." Woman Makes Lone Study . Of Tribes in Australia Sydney, New South Wales.--Miss Phyllic Kaberry of Manly is investi gating the aborigines of the Forest River distriot in the northwest of Australia, ; As the resall of her sundies in an- thropology, Miss Kaberry has 'been awarded a grant by the Australian , National Research Council. She has made the Forest River Mission Sia: tion her headquarters, whence she will establish contact with the tribes of the district to make friendly con- tact with the women and so gather information concerning triba that could not be gained by men. fife the! Sacks For Clothing Children Leave Shack Rimbey, Alta, -- Barefooted and dressed in flour sacks and gunny sacking, four boys and a girl, ac companied by their mother, came to Rimbey with a tale of hardship and destitution in the bush country 60 Juiles from here. Starvation drove them from their .isolated shack to seek aid. The children, the eldest 10 old, faced with smiling faces the' prospect of going to Edmonton as wards of the neglected children's de- partment. The mother described how they had made their way to Rimbey in a two- wheeled gig, drawn by a single horse. "Bhey took two days to make the jour- ney through rain and snow storms. On arrival here Royal Canadian Mounted Police saw they were pro- perly fed and clothed, All Summer, %he mother said, the children scampered about without clothing, living in a shack without a floor and sustaining on wild fruits and what rabbit meat they could snare. years 1933 Hospital Rate In Canada Show Drop Ottawa----A decrease of 1.4 per cent. was shown in hospital rates for 1933 as compared with the previous year, the Dominion Bureau of Statis- ties reported recently. The greatest decrease was in public wards which declined 1.7 per cent. Private room rates moved down 1.1 per cent. while the semi-private rates declined 1.2 per cent. An average of public ward charges in 1033 of $1.90 as against $2.03 in 1932. The greatest decrease was in the | Manitoba where the rate «receded i from $1.77 to $1.51, Semi-private { room rales dropped from $2.85 to 1 $2.82. Private room rates average' fell from $5.11 to $5.06 and operating room charges from $8.23 to $8.14. Garden Textbook . In Braille Planned | London--Gardening is becoming so | Popuias an occupation among the blind in Britain that the National Institute for the Diind has decided to prepare a Braille texibook on the subject. | The edition is to be illustrated by a large number of plates reproduced in embossed dots so that the blind can "read" them by touch. | University Fees Paid Show West Better Oft Regina --- Indicative perhaps of more money in Saskatchewan--the wheat province--payment of tuition fees at the University of Saskatche- wan shows a $13,000 increase to date as compared with last year. Increas- | ed enrollment is also noted. Pisa Leaning Tower Ordered Repaired PISA, Italy -- Premier Mussolini has ordered the. expenditure of 50, 000 lira (34,330) for repairs to the "Leaning Tower of Pisa," one of the best known pieces of architecture in the world. The tower, a circular campanile or belfry of eight storeys, made of marble and distinguished by its in- numerable narow columns from top to bottom, was completed in 1350 A.D. Apparently because of some fault in the foundation, it sank on one side and leans about 17 feet out of perpendicular. Because of seep- age, constant repairs are necessary to prevent it from leaning too far and -- " Youthful English Aviatrix ERE . Miss Ann Cortenay Edmonds, of Bickley, Kent, England, who is 17 years old, pictured at Barnstaple Airport, England, after her first. solo flight which she made following only nine hours' instruction, Adult Education Group In New York Exhibits Products New York.--More than 1200 ar ticles made in adult cducation cen- ters in" New York State™aré on dis play at New York University follow- ing nthe recent official opening of the first Adult Education LIxhibit under the auspices of the State Iducation Department. The widespread atten tion the showing is getting was evi: denced by the attendance on the for- mal opening day, when about 1,900 persons viewed the display. Among ' the. visitors: were many educators 'who came to study the re- sults of adult education in the public schools, sellements, recreational centers and hospitals, and who are planning to introduce similar courses Supervisors of education from public schools in various parts of the coun- fry will arrive, it was announced, to attend the exhibit and then have a week's training in adult instruction at New York University, Their tra- veling expenses are being paid from government funds. Original musical compositions were played by students of the class- es conducted under the supervision of the Department of Public Welfare at the formal opening. Negro spirit uels were sung by a group from St. Phillip's Parish House in Harlem. The fashion exhibit was arranged to pay special honor to Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, who was to have been the guest but who was prevent- ed from being present because of other engagements here. Among the colors shown in dresses were "Elea- nor blue" and a Burgundy purple, which Mrs, Roosevelt was said to have indorsed. The latter was used in a gown appropriate for three oc- casions--dinner, theater and ball. The "Eleanor blue" was carried out in a charmeuse afternoon dress* with hat of matching color. The hat and all dresses shown. were made, designed and worn by students from the adult classes. collapsing. Camden, N.J.--A mother of six who says her light was turned off when her little girl wag sick is having her revenge--at several dollars per hour. It's costing the Public Service Elec- tric and Gas Company that to keep three shifts of men neat a pole hole in which Mrs, Elsie Banabie dangles her legs. They've taken the old pole out and have a new one to put In, The young_looking mother mnon- chalanfly sat there all night, all day, and through another night, warmed up by a fire built by sympathetic neighbors and nourished by soup and. food cooked hy her 14.year-old daugh_ ter Dina, The ring of spectators doesn't worry Mrs, Barnable, She feels she has a causo and isn't awed by the light company's big truck with a pulley and a new pole. ] ; ; "My little girl was sick when I beg, ged them not to turn the light oft" the mother says, "and they told me to pay. I'm, telling them to pay now." Nearby the company's men are waiting, confident the woman will weaken and anxious to take advant.' age to slip the new pole inthe work {of but a moment, They know a city they've also heen advised agalnst us. ing force against the woman's per, won, 'mark in her "sitting." Smiling, MOTHER GETS REVENGE FOR LIGHT COMPANY'S ACTION A Camden-policeman keeps watch, likewise with orders not to Interfere unless the peace is disturbed. passed the 36-hour she Mrs, Barnable of study in their own communities. | EE Was She Talkative? Manchester, N. H.--About the only thing he didn't say was '"tauto- logical." Chief Justice William H. Sawyer of the New. Hampshire Superior Court, reminiscing about his' years on the bench, told this story to a local luncheon club: An attorney from Nashua was questioning a scholarly looking, eld- erly man who was a witness for the other 'side, and sought to elicit from him the admission that. a woman who figured prominently in the case was talkative, The dialogue, as recalled by Chief Justice Sawyer, followed: " "I asked you if she was talkative. "Well she was more than a trifle garrulous." "But was she talkative?" pleaded the attorney. "It would be no exaggeration to say she was somewhat redundant in speech," admitted the witness. "But man alive," cried the torney, "was she talkative?" "Not a little pleonastic, I'd say," conceded the man on the stand and then the attorney almokt went crazy. "Six times I've asked you if she was talkative," he begged. "Answer me that one question." hs "And six times," retorted the un- flustered witness, "I've told you in plain English that she was." at- Melbourne Pays Well L For Careful Driving Melbourne, Vie.--Ninety-one driv- ers received medallions this year, in the "Freedom From Accident" com- petition conducted by the National Safety Council, and about 200 were presented witli certificates, Most of the medallion recipients were em- ployees of the Postmaster-General's Department, The object of the competition, in- troduced five years ago, is to promote safe driving by drivers of commer- cial vehicles, Government depart. ments, business firms and other em- ployers are invited to enter drivers in the competition, Certificates are issued lo drivers who go through a year without an accident, and drivers who complete five years' service with. More Listings New '| his brother, Becomes Contempt of Miss Perkins Says : : British Dole Best - BOSTON -- Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins recently declared that the British dole is superior to the United States' - present system of relief, A "Qur immense and inadequate dole," she said in an address on labor coniditions, "has cost us far more and given far less security 'than the British unemployment insurance scheme," : Her speech, devoted mainly to ac- cident prevention in factories, did not elucidate further her stand on the dole, ' In Who's Who 31,081 NOTABLES Issue Contains 3,030 More Celebrities -- Chicago.--The new Who's Who in America for 1934-35, all five pounds of it, was issued recently from the Chicago press of A, N, Marquis and Company. t The new Issue contains 31,081 names, It is the eighteenth biennial edition. The last edition contains 30,646 names. Between the two 2,494 names Have been 'omitted because of deaths, loss of official positions -- which reduced the Republican bloc appreciably--and "delitions for other obvious reasons." There are, how- ever, 3,030 new names, many of them of persons brought into prominence or public office by the New Deal, Albert: Nelson Marquis, founder and Gets 10 Days in Jail for Chewing "Gum in Noisy and Offensive Way Court When Printer Refuses 1o Accede to Judge's Request. * tr -- : 7 Chicago.--Gum chewing last week became contempt of court, In the courtroom was Charles B, Kersten, a printer, to explain why he was behind in temporary alimony payments to his wife, Joan, who has a divorce suit pending. While 'attorneys talked he chewed gum, JYyociferously smackingly, Judge Francis B. Allegretti listened to the' ruminative rumble, banged his gavel and frowned, Said the judge: "This is no restaurant, stop that chewing," i : Kersten chewed on, remarking to the judge, "There's gum," The gavel banged again, the judge: ordered Kersten to spend ten days ' in jail for contempt of court and for chewing gum in "a noisy and offensive manner," no law against chewing Fine Arts Division versity + of Toronto, recently an- nounced by President H. J, Cody, has been made possible through the generosity of the Carnegie. Corpora- tion of New York, which it is learn: ed, has undertaken full financial sup- port of the course. The university has appointed Prof. E. J. G. Alford of London, Eng., to head the depart- ment, which will have its' headquarts ers in the Royal Ontario Mué&sum, Professor Alford, taking up' his duties in October, will lecture on fire arts history and interpretation. Air Service Is Discussed editor of the book, pointed out in the preface that the first: volume, for 1899-1900, contained 8,602 biographies, one for every. 8,824 of the nation's population ot 75.9943, The ratio this year is one name in Wlo' Who for every 3,960 of the Nation's 122, 775,046 population. ' Ot the names included in the original volume, 1,023 are still being reprinted, headed by John D, Rocke- feller, Another with the same distinc. 95. The Rev. Augustus Iield Beard of Norwalk, Conn. Congregational clergyman, now in his 102nd year, Marquis sald, is believed to be the oldest member of Who's Who's family, Outstanding among the omissions noted are those of Samuel Insull and Martin Insull,* of Chi- cago, Their utilities empire crashed' two years ago, and they are due to be tried soon in state and federal courts. Marriage At 90 Wealthy Widow Will Wed Man of 24 to Cheat Tax Collectors. I#sbon.--Life to Antonja Moreira has consisted of one tax collector af: ter another and now at the ripe old age of 90 she is going to strike back: She's going to marry a man of 24. Court permission has been given for the marriage. Senhora Moriera acldly told the court that-she knew she would die very shortly and that it would be a sin if+I died and all my belongings should pass over to the State's Treasury, which 'did: nothing all through my life but collect taxes." In marrying a young man, she sald, she was sure that her posses- sions would mean a good chance in lite for him who, strong and young, might then be happier in lite, despite the high taxes, The woman, who lives in the vil lagé of Andrlosa, is quite an ima portant landowners, William Ashby of Cheltenham, Eng, was playing golf with his wife, both being novices at the game, and was driving from, the first tee when him club accidentally struck Mrs, Ashby on the head, Seven - stitches sald she wasn't sleepy and didn't out accident are presented with a were. required iit: £1 d att t sle ' t, silver medallion, . red in the wound after she know when shed qui ; regained consciousness, Realistic Manoeuvres. : £5 5 W 3 } gi ER 3 4 Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching again in France, and these alike appearance as they filed through fields in realistic manoeuvres near BRE r oilus certainly had a aldahon, tion is John Torrey Morse Jr. author and historian, of Needham, Mass., now : U.S. Dirigibles Might Co-' operate With Gremany and Holland Washington, A proposal that the federal governmen' construct two giant dirigibles for regularly sched- uled round-the-world passenger serv- ice rested before the federal aviation commission for its consideration, Word of the proposal came out just as Secretary Swanson intiniated that the navy general board had taken a stand against lighter-than-air craft and would not recommend replacing the huge Akron, destroyed in a fatal plunge into the Atlantic In 1933. Ewing Y. Mitchell, assistant secre- tary of commerce in charge of aero- nautics, submitted the round-the- world proposal to the aviation com- niission with strong endorsement, | Under the plan, the government would build the dirigibles and lease them to the Goodyear-Zeppelin Com- pany, their builders, for $1 a year.' The = Goodyear-Zeppelin organization would operate the service in conjuuc- tion: with Dutch and German interests. { The Dutch group, flying their own craft, would operate between Amster- dam, Holland and Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. : . The American company would link Batavia with = the eastern coast of the 'United. States' while the Germans - yould fly their ships from this coun-! try to Amsterdam; ~The proposal designed primarily for the development: of lighter-than-ar | craft, calls for an expenditure of $17, 000,000" for construction of two dirigi- bles of the Zeppeline type, one all- metal ~dirigible and an air terminal to be locatéd on the eastern seaboard.' The all-metal ship would be used in South Anferica service, Pioneers of Vancouver Brought Apple Seeds The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Tair Aksociation is' asking resid ents of Vancouver to dig up relics of the past from" the barn and attic. How about some apples from the 96- year-old. trees of -Jimes Robertson? some one asks, There are apple trees at Fort Langley grown from seed saved by the wives of Royal Engineer officers, who, hearing on their way out of the newness of the country, determined that there should be apples. This is a new version of the story above Eve and the apples. Australian University Gets Carnegie Music -------------- - Perth, W, Aust.--As a result of the visit of Prof, R. G. Cameron, professor of education in the West- ern Australian University, the, Car- negie Corporation of New York is making a gift to the univérsity of a college music set costing £600. The set includes an electric Capehart! phonograph of special design and full! musical range, 824 gramophone rec- ords, 251 scores, and 129 books, with the necessary cabinets. ! A 'limited number of these sets, according to Dr. F. P, Keppel of the' Carnegie Corporation; is being dis-' tributed « to 'universities and colldges 'of the United States and Great Britain, SER ! 1 hts Of the Famous : He-awatha One ev ning, when Edward Howard 'Griggs, well-known educator and author, was a guest at the Cambridge home of Alice Longfellow--daughter of 'the poet--her sister, Mrs. R., H. Dana (the former Edith Longfellow), who was present, remarked: "I was at the publishers' this morning; and they say schoolteachers are writing in from 'all 'over the country, asking how father .pronounc- ed Hiawatha, I told them that he al- ways called it He-awatha." "What you did?" exclaimed sister Alice. "Why, I thought he alway. called it Hi-awatha." So, teachers, take your choice chuckles Dr. Griggs (in "The Stor) of an Itinerant Teacher.") LONGFELLOW Speaking of Longfellow remind: me of a story told by Mrs, Winthrop Chanler--sister of IY, Marion Craw- fcrd, the novelist and niece of Julia Ward Howe--in her memoirs, "Ro- man Spring." It was towards the end Pithy Sidelig Provided tor Toronto. of his life that Mrs. Chanler was , | dining with the old poet at Cam- TORONTO-- Establishment of a bridge. department of fine arts at the Uni-| 'He had great fame and many honors in his day, and accepted their decline with philosophic detachment, even amusement," she reminisces. "He told me of a couple of: English globetrotters, who brought no: letter of introduction, and who had excus- ed 'themselves for calling on him by saying that as there were no ruins te see in this country they had thought it would be a good idea to visit Mr. "ongfellow." : A WITTY JUDGE A famous wit was Johnny Mor: arty, a giant of the Irish bar, aftor- ward Mr. Justice Moriarty. In a will case being tried before Justice John: son (universally known as "Wooden- headed Billy"), Moriarty sought to have the will set aside on the ground that the testator was fceble-minded when he signad it. Sergeant Sullivan (who tells the story in "The Rem iniscences of an Irish K. C.""--Kings Counsel and, don't forget, he was the man who defended Sir Roger Case- ment) was for the will. It was given in evidence thyt the testator, when aroused on' the arrival of his lawyer, and old friend, bringing the will to be signed, had indignantly inquired: "Who ave you, sir, who are you, sir?" : In his Charge to the jury, Justice Johnson remarked, warmly: "When roused from slumber, the most brilliant and erudite intellects - may be momentarily confused. I my- self remember on one occasion being suddenly awakened and, turning to the good lady beside me, I exclaimed: " Who are you, madam, who are you?" "You did," said' Johnny Moriarty, "and who was she?" On another occasion, Justice John- son came into court with his hand bandaged. "My dear Johnson," exclaimed a brother judge. "What has happened to you? Nothing serious, I hope?' "Oh, no, thank you," replied Wooder-headed Billy. "Very painful, but not serious. Merely a splinter under my finger nail," "He's been scratching his ' head," audibly observed Moriarty. A DYING DUCK As a boy 1 often used to hear the expression--applied to some Dismal Jimmy--*"You look like a 'dying duck in a thunderstorm'." Now, after all these years, I have discovered the rea- son for the simile." It seems that ducks often become extremely rest- less just before a thunderstorm. "Their skulls are very thin and they are consequently extremely sensitive to sudden changes in. the atmosphere," declares E. C. Boul enger, director of the London Zoo (in "Animal Mysteries"). "Hence a, 'dying duck in a thunderstorm' is asphenomenon 'by no means rare." Law Recommended MONTREAL--The American Fish- Water Pollution eries Society at the close of its sixty: fourth annual convention authorized the establishment of a new standing committee on pollution of waters, one of the principal problems studied during the convention. The president of the committee is Mr. Harry R. Hawes, of Washington, D.C. It was recommended that different: states of the Union should take uniform: action in providing. against sueh pollution. Heretofore, when one state'made laws 'punishing polluters, they were Yoo apt to. move. into - a neighboring state where regulations were nct so strict, the result being that the country as a whole did not benefit. Mr. H. C. White, of 'the Biological Board of Canada, informed his hear- ers that in the streams of Quebec and the Maritime Provinces a struggle for: existence. goes on between early and the late spawning: species of brook trout, Early spawnérs have the advantage of early developed off- spring, but many. of their eggs. ave eaten by those that spawn later. The spawning period, he noted, is directs ly related to the temperature of the water in which the trout live. the .. =] wl