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Eg oi be A> 7a 2 SOVIET EERE Ga SE Sieh eT rh 2 Ai: _ eT CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA IF THEY CARRIED SIGNS. i It would be interesting to know if motoring behaviour on the part of drivers might not be considerably improved if the offender, in addition to .a fine, were required to carry a + #0 on his car for a week, stating ¢ . he had been found guilty of neg- Mgent driving, Very few negligent drivers would like to advertise their own incompe- tence in such fashion.--Calgary Her- ald, ; IN TRANSIT Like most sizeable communities, Kitchener has its quota of stray or homeless pigeons, One of the birds has become a practical hitch-hiker. When tired, he alights atop a motor car, rides a few city blocks,, then goars aloft and rejoins his mates, The less venturesome pigeons consider his action rather "flighty" but it ran- not be said that the creature is dumb in the full sense of the word. Border Cities Star, NEAT AND TIDY. It is difficult enough to keep resi- dential premises neat and tidy with- out the constant trouble of picking up. and disposing of a number of unwanted handbills every day, The greatest objection to the handbill, as we see it, is the method of distribu- tion. If it is mailed in the proper way, then the householder can eith- cr read it or put it in the furnace, as he wishes. 'Birt whip 1) is tdvory pe J his doorway, it usually hlows out on to the lawn and, by the time he gets it, it is just a dirty mess, ingston Whig-Standard. PROMISES. Critics of Prime Minister Bennett's startling economic reform policy are harping much just now upon his 1930 promise to end unemployment in Can- ada and claiming that 'he did not . keep that promise, for which reason " _ recent fatal motor accident, they doubt whether his present pro- mises mean anything. It may be that thoughtless people in 1930 assumed that Mr, Bennett proposed to perform an over-night miracle when he made that promise, It is certain that he had no such idea and certainly no one with a clear understanding of the economic situ- ation as it then was could have en- tertained so,'foolish a notion, As a matter of fact the Prime Min- ister has from the moment he assum- ed office up to the present time lab- ored 'steadily, persistently and in considerable measure successtully to cope with the unemployment situa- tion. True his approach to the pro- blem was not as spectacular as was that of the United States President, but there Is good reason to believe that ultimately hig methods will be productive - of more permanent re- sults than those of the "New Deal." Making the federal authority {in generous measure responsible for maintenance of the unemployed he obtained sanction for cash contrlbu- tions to-that end immediately upon assuming office, Those contributions have continued to this date, Wide- spread distribution of this govern- ment money has certainly prevented the unemployment situation from assuming catastrophic proportions. Another of his moves that also Baved catastrophe was Government #ssumption of the wheat export sit uation at a moment when nothing phort of a move so radical and un- 4isual could have prevented complete ¢ollapse of the economic gtructure bf Western Canada, That move was of as great benefit to urban Canada as it was to the people of the farnis. But the truly sclentific move made by the prime minister to end unemployment was in his successful negotiation of the much discussed Ottawa agreements. It wag evidently clear to Mr, Bennett that only in a revival of trade in export fields could there be any hope of permanent re- Hef fronr unemployment, To depend upon the phsging out of Government cash to. yeHtly 'permanently such a gltuation would have been g3 foolish to hope to he able to lift oneself y one's boot-straps, The Ottawa agreements are mak- ing good. In the past nino months Canada's Empire export trade has in. creased over-27 per cent, That means a decided increase in gainful em- ployment for a considerable number of the ufémployed, <n large meas- ure it explains why it is that Can- ada's peak of 750,000 unemployed has been reduced to about 450,000. Yet there are those who would have us believe that Canada's prime min- ister forgot his promise to 'end un- employment the moment he made it and that he has done nothing -since th, to implement it.--Calgary Her- ald, 2 Bp ------ DEFECTIVE AUTOMOBILES. Belleving the condition of one. of the cars involved was a factor in a a To- Lite effect the Jepneiplon of these ronto coroner's jury added a rider to their verdict recommending 'that dealers in second-hand cars be re- quired to get a certificate from the police department that a car sold is fn fit mechanical conditlof to be driv- en on the highway! _;_ This suggestion calls attenfion the fact that not one province in Canada calls for an examination of automobiles before licenses for the same are issued,--Peterboro Exam- iner. CAN BE CONTROLLED Diphtheria is essentially a disease of childhood, and it is most import ant that all children, especially young children, be immunized. The records of cases -and deaths in Toronto af- ford ample proof of the efficacy of toxoid.--Toronto Mail and Empire, THE BORSTAL SYSTEM One of the-most interesting an- nouncements in the Speech from the Throne was the statement that the Government was considering the ad- option of what is known as the "Borstal System" in connection with youths sentenced to penitentiaries. There has been no previous intima- tion that the Government had under advisement this reform. The Borstal system, so-called, an effort to segregate youths from 16 to 21 from hardened criminals. It gets its name from the village of Borstal, Kent, where the early ex- periments on ycuths were carried out in an old convict prison, prior to the passing of an act in 1908 carrying is urging that yout abalone be sent to penitentia.ie; with profes sional and older criminals, The rules and regulations under the "act are based on the principle that up to a cerwain age every of- fender may be regarded as poten- tially a good citizen, that his lapse into crime may be due either to physical degeneracy or bad social environment, and that it is the duty of the state at least to try to effect a cure, und not to class the offender off-hand and - without experiment with the adult professional criminal. As a part of the system there have been founded in England Borstal As- soclations to provide for 'the after care of all persons discharged from Borstal institutions. 'This is a vital part of the system and it is claim- ed in England that two out of three Borstal youths are reclaimed.--Lon- don I'ree Press, THE SPEED-CRAZY, Sir Josiah Stamp, British econom- ist, industrialist and president of the executive of the London, Mid- land and, Scottish Railway, utters a word of caution' when -so many people everywhere are paying tribute to the god of speed, . It is refreshing to find a man of Sir Josiah Stamp's éxpert knowledge refusing to pay unqualified homage. As one who is primarily concerned with the economics of the subject, as applied to railways, he said in a recent address that. he would not be excited by any additional accelera- tion until he knew the relative cost of obtaining it--and what sacrifices there might be of other amenities of comfort and safety, : To the ordinary observer the ques- tlon often arises: Why the hurry, anyway ?--Hallfax ' Herald. THE EMPIRE TELEVISION, 'This 'much .d=_ certain, however. One company in Great Britaid and one company in "Germany are now In a position to provide a service of "high-definition television" of real entertainment value. The features and movements of speakers or of one or more artists in a studlo, events of the day or other film subject matter, and certain indoor and out- door events can now be transmit. ted either instantaneosuly or within a few seconds (depending on . the subject matter) for clear and faith- ful reproduction in the home on a i"2vaqn about a foot square, accom- panied by sound on the same re- ceiver.--London Spectator, ART AND INDUSTRY, British industry has been slow to employ designers and artists, Deter- mined and successful efforts have lately been made - to remedy the weakness, of which the Exhibition of British Art in (Jndustry, at the Royal Academy is the latest. The tradition that beauty is just a mat- ter of trimmings and ornamentation is dying. Simplicity and the fash- Ang of articles to,do their job as efficiently as possible are producing things beautiful in thomselvés, and proving to be good business as well, ~--London Dally Herald, DEATH ON THE ROADS, When the death rate from aceld- ents on the roads has risen to the record figure of 187 for a single week tt Pacific Coast championship title ... Rose Pase (front) and Elizabeth Price raising the jib and mainsail of their trim little scooter in which they will defend their during the mid-winter races on the Pacific coast off Los Angeles, Cal. 'The Inventor's Path Seldom, Says a German, Does He Profit From His Ideas. : The path of the inventor is straight, stony and beset with ob- stacles, according to Dr. I. Aut- zinger who signs himself Business Managing Chairman of the Interna- tional Union of Inventors, in a gloomy article published in Die Umschu. . He tells us that, of the 700,000 patents granted annually in the world, but & vanishing small number are of any commercial value. Amateurishness on the part of the inventors, inability to ap- praice industrial needs correctly, general insurance of what has been done in the past in similar fields-- what patent attorneys call *'the state of the«art" -- are responsible for this poor showing. Although German chemists as a class are probably the best informed technicians in the world and there- fore less likely to rush in where angels fear to tread, their succes- ses are numerically no more strik- ing than those. of inventors in gen- eral, According to Autzinger, some 7,000 chemical patents are annual- ly applied for in Germany. Of these the German patent office, the most efficient and exacting in the world, grants about 2,000. Not more than thirty or forty are commercially ex- ploited. Suppression Doubted Successful patents in any field by no means disclose the most meri- torious inventions, if Autzinger is to be credited. He charges that some are bought and suppressed because, if "worked," they , would paralyze established industries. How much truth is there in this oft-repeated tale of patents that are bought only to be pigeon-holed? Time and time again bills have been introduced in Congress which, if en- acted in law, would make it com- pulsory to "work"" a patent in a giv- en period. Failing in this the paten- tee would forfeit his rights, The proposal seems sensible en- ough. Yét when our legislators take it is really time to examine critical ly the measures which the respon- sible authority, the Ministry of Trans. port, is taking to deal with this ter- rifying loss of life. The real test of that department's success or failure lies. in whether it can bring about a -drastic reduction of this tragic sacrifice on our highways ..... For. the security of the public it is es- sential that the three kinds of traf- fic--motor, cycle and pedestrian -- should be separated and provided each with its own track, This task should have been taken in hand a decade ago, but its cost will be immense, and there should be no illusions on | that head. It will, however, save j life and place this country abreast (of foreign , Mall. nations, --~London - Dally testimony in committee meetings and learn how inventions are con- ceived and developed, they decide that the case for suppression is none too good. It turns out that a loom, a linotype machine, a printing press, any complicated mechanism can achieve its end if modified in a doz- en different ways. Each is a good invention. About twelve patents are therefore obtained for as many mechanisms. Naturally the inven- tion that meets industrial and commercial requirements most simp- ly and effectively is introudced. "The others are "suppressed." Effect on the Public But is this "suppression" as the term is usually understood? To compel a manufacturer to "work" these less perfect inventions on pain of forfeiture is clearly an in- justice Nor does the public suf- fer. It loses nothing by the intro- duction of the single invention that presents the simplest solution of a technical problem. A patent in the U. S. expires in seventeen years, It is rarely in- deed that the patentee earns royal- ties for the complete term. If he sells his patent as soon as it is granted, years must be, spent in fur- ther development. What the public could acquire in the form of a for- feited 'suppressed' patent would therefore be little enough. Can't Have Haircut Until He Pays Up Alimony Arrears Willard Sanborn, of Chicago, a piano tuner, can't have another haircut until he pays up his alimony arrears. So said Superior Judge Desort, after counsel for Mrs. Nina San- born asserted her husband squander- ed $6 for a haircut with all the trimmings but couldn't pay her $86 in alimony. i Commented the: court: "five dol- lars is too much' for any man to spend in a barber shop at one time. It is worse in the case of a man who owes his wife money. = And it is especially worse in the case of a 'piano tuner, Anyway from the pic- tures I've seen in the funny papers, I thought all piano tuners had long hair," Day And Night -- Day, a «apendthrift, rich in treasure, Spills, with lavish' hand, Golden largess without measure Over all the land, i Night, his thrifty helpmate, grieving. After him doth range, Gathering up his treasure, leaving Oyly sitver change, 3s Brings it to him, softly beaming, Kisses, him with pride, Sends his wanton lordship gleaming On another ride. ~--Ralph Mortimer Jones in the New York Times. 12 'ical Section of the Ontario Educa- - 1 of as complete and accurate a know- APPROVES LATIN | AS ENGLISH AID Body Provincial Education Officer Sees Ad- 'vantages HELPS VOCABULARY Windsor, -- Champions of the teaching' of Latin and Greek in the schools. have been digging around for material to bolster their case, They have discovered a statement, written some months ago by Charles: M. Ewing as president of the Class- tional Association, He said: CQST IS LOWER In the first place, the teaching of Latin and Greek is, relatively, not costly. It costs less to educate a student in the academic high school than in the vocational schogl. More- over, in the ordinary high school the teaching of languages and literature costs less than the teaching of science. : My second point is that the teach- ing of the classics is not useless, It has been estimated that at least forty per cent. of the words in the English language are Latin origin, and tweve to fifteen per cent. of Greek. : ; } 'In the case of medical and general scientific terms the proportion of classical words is much higher, prob- ably nearly eighty per cent. Anglo Saxon is the only serious rival of the classical languages; but the An- glo-Saxon literature is of relatively little importance to the ordinary student, while the value of classical literature cannot be over-estimated. Moreover, while a very large propor tion of our Anglo-Saxon derivatives are smiple words (e.g., as he, there, good, child), Latin and Greek deri- vatives are the harder and less ob- vious words in general use. REALLY PRACTICAL Does it ever occur to my severely practical friends that the acquiring ledge of the English language as pos- sible is esscn'ially-practical. It is just as practical to give our stua- ents a mastery of words as of ham- mer and saw, typewriter or dynamo. Do we realize that the tools we most frequently use, in fact are al- ways using, are words? Words are the vehicles by which thought is conveyed from one mind to another. 1f such vehicles are few and unskill- fully handled, we shall have but a poor chance of influencing others by our thoughts. ae) The person who has studied Latin has obtained a mastery of the En- lish language which few, with no such linguistic training, ever achieve. Surely none will be better qualified to take his place among intelligent men and women than he who has acquired a rich store of words, and uses them with accuracy and dis- crimination. . very properly conducted Latin class is a laboratory in which many English words are examined, dis- sected and their significance under- stood: Why then should it be con- sidered more in keeping with modern educational requirements to analyze chemicals or dissect botanical or zoological specimens? HEARING WORDS <One often hears it said that the study of Latin and Greek is value- less because few pursue it in after years, As a matter of fact, an in- telligent teacher makes Latin useful to his students from the very pegin: ning. For example, in the first few weeks the student becomes acquaint ed with such words as: hiberna a winter camp, pugno I fight, gladius a sword, specto I look. With _de- lighted surprise he awakens to the fact that here is the origin of such English words as: hibernate, pugnac- jous, gladiator, spectacles. Properly taught, he becomes an explorer in the romantic realm of words; words become familiar friends. Before they were dead like trees in winter, now they come to life like trees in full leaf. A good classical teacher can add almost daily to the students' lng: lish vocabulary. In the course of a few days one teacher taught the following Latin words: integer whole, renovo I renew, relinquo 1 abandon, iter a journey, corpus a body; then from these he enriched their English vocabulary with such words as integrity, renovate, relin: quish, itinerary, corporal. NOT DEAD LANGUAGE Again, there are many English words of classical origin just on the fringe of the students' conscience. In the ordinary wasteful course of nature many of these slip away and are forgotten, But if they are link- 'ed up with their 'classi¢al "ances- tors" in time, they are pinned down | and' the student ever after uses them with confidence and. certainty. - He may never read Latin after he leaves high school, but he has laid up a treasure which not even the most treacherous memory can dissipate, Very frequently we hear the petition over hundre question asked: 'What is the use f teaching a dead language like atin?' As a matter of fact Latin still has marvellous vitality, In modern forms it is in constant use over more than half the surface of "Pie Catholic University of Rome is attended by thousands of stud- ents from all over the world, who have no common language but Latin; Japanese, Brazilians and Filipinos exchange ideas in Latin; the lectures are delivered in Latin. MAGAZINE PRAISE In the May edition of the Cana- dian School Journal, the official or- gan of the Ontario Education Assoc- | § "The iaton, an articles entitled: Engagement of Teachers," contains the following extracts: "There is a high correlation be- tween the study of Latin and teach er success," J "Students who in secondary schools have shown their stamina by passing more than two units of Latin and mathematics, and have had an interest in teaching from the upper elementary grades through the sec ondary schools should be given first preference in training for elemen- tary schools." NOT FAST RULE In conclusion may I say that ad- vocates of the classics do not seek to impose the study of Latin on every pupil entering the academic department of our high schools who has a vague hankering after some dignified calling. But is is surely not too much to ask that every stud- ent who seriously contemplates en- tering one of the learned profess- ions, or proceeding to the B.A. de- gree, should have some knowledge of a language which is so intimately bound up with our own language and literature. Lest any of my remarks be mis understood by my vocational, ma- thematical and scientific friends in the professions, may .I say that nothing is farther from my thoughts than to underestimate the value of the work done in their departments. MAN IS UNSTABLE Evolution Held To Be Partly The Result Of Crisis: Probably no biologist doubts the valid'ty of evolution. On' the.other hand natural selection and the sur vival of the fittest, the very core of "Darwin's theory, are no longer, accepted as the sole agencies at work in the creation of new species and varieties. Since the days of Mendel it has become apparent that the 'mechaniem of heredi'y is both delica and. complex. Moreover, ther ars he endocrine glans, with their tremendous potentialities . for modifying the organism. Lastly, the relation of that organism to-its en vironment is not nearly so direct and simple as Darwin assumed. How the more imaginative biologists think about evolution and especially the problem of man's descent is well exemplified by "The Coming of Man," a recently published book in which Dr. R. Broom, an English authority on amphibians, sets forth his own hypothesis. It is generally agreed that life first developed in tne sea. How, then, did the first amphibian evolve? What was the bold animal that first ventured on land and adapted itself wholly or partially to life under en- tirely new cigcumstances? When we ask such questions it is apparent that natural selection and the sur vival of the fittest do not meet the case. . Dr. Brown holds that physical structure, courage, pugnacity, effi- ciency were not solely responsible for the transition. There was some: thing unstable about the first ad- venturer that came out of the sea. He was like an unstable chemical compound that changes into some- thing: else--something out of which a reptile could evolve, sométhing that was the result of a crisis. "Examine all the other animais, and the transition from an old to a new- er form seems always to be the re- sult of critical instability. Despite the convincing array of fossils that shows plainly enough how the one- toed horse of today evolved from an ancient five-toed equine animal not much bigger than a St." Bernard dog, the jumps are marked. Between five toes and four toes -there is no gradual transition, nothing like a digital diminuendo. id Crisis, everywhere crisis, whether it be fish or amphibian, reptile or mammal. --oné Ot the ost unstable creatures ever evolved. | In a state of some- thing like ferthentation, he has al- ways been in a\critical turmoil. Un- like the ant or\the bee, he is not highly specialize If he ever .does settle down, his hlgotry will=be like that of most social| creatures--a re- of millions of years of the same biological events and facts, He will cease to evolve. King Replies to Woman's Letter of Good Wishes Dean Lake, Ont. ~~ Mrs. R. Maitland has placed away for safe keeping, a letter just received from the King along with one she got from Queen Alexandra many years ago. , 1 Mrs. Maitland listened to the King's Christmas Day message over a telephone from a neighbor's home, and wrote a letter to Their Majes- ties wishing them a Happy New Year. The prized letter is the reply. 2 a Rs a Lo CAT-HATER | : : Leaves Presents To Other Feline Haters In Will "* Chicago.--Queen Marie of Ru: mania has her gum drops, Mrs. Cal- vin Coolidge has her bob-bons and 107 other prominent persons have eaten or disposed of approximately $8 worth of candy each, so Rockwell Sayre can rest comfortably in his grave--provided no cat trespasses. Rockwell Sayre was the world's most assidious cat hater, He hated cats as a cat hates mice. He spend 85 years actively hating cats and before a demented son killed him in 1981 he incorporated his hate in rude poetry in a 85 page will. Queen - Marie and Mrs, Coolidge were among 109 persons he wished to honor because he had heard they, "also, hated ca"s. He dedicated $1, 000 of his $10,000 estate to sending them posthumous gifts of candy as tokens of his esteem. Of Mrs. Coolidge he wrote: "It was Mrs. Coolidge who killed the Whi'e House cat for us to save Cool- idge and the children from cat d's ease and save the mama song birds." He directed that boxes of candy e-- the Anti-Cigaret League, County Judge Edmund K. jareck and several Chicago civic leaders. So Probate Judge John P. O'C'on- nell riffled the bulky pages of Sayre's will on his bench recently, looked over h's spectacles at a group of attorneys before him, and asked: "Has the Queen 1c:eived her gum drops?" 4 "Yes, Your Honor," chorused the lawyers. "Did Mrs. Cocl'dze. get her bon bons?" "Yes, Your Henor." "And have the other bequests becn satisfied?" : "Yes, Your Honor." They had registered mail receipts to prave it, they- said. Z : "Then we will close this es'ate," remarked the judve. "And [I ne-er saw one better closed." Sayre's an inathy to eats gained publ'rity 856 yeas a7» first when Le advertised in newspapers a nlnt to "wipe every eat out of «xi ene by 1926." He bid ten certs for every dead cat delivered to his hme ion cat killer. "Any record of result has been lost in" the mists of time. His will bequeathed "m'llew and death damp to any one who would keep a cat to kill mice when a dozen clean snap traps can be bought for a few cents." . Exercise Presents : New Beauty Twist You've all heard of health and re- ducing exercises and you probably do.a few waking-up routines when, you get out of bed in the morning. It you really want smooth, clear skin, however, you might as well re- alize the importance of a special kind of health exercise that encourages a sluggish liver to function and makes the digestive organs do their work properly. An exercise expert, who is as sin: reducing, gives us another routine that keeps the muscles supple and really is extremely good for your gen- eral health. Drink two glasses of warm water when you: get up and then do the exercise, Stand erect with heels together and hands at your side. Now, flexing the right knee and stretching the left arm upward, twist your body, bend forward and touch your left foot with your right hand. Hold the position a few seconds and then stand corect again, Reverse the procedure, bending the left knee, stretching the right arm upward and forcing your left hand to touch your right foot, Repeat ten times. If you do this exercise correctly you'll feel the muscles above your hips, your chest stretch and pull, Keep on doing it each morning for a month and see if you aren't more energetic. The texture of your skin will im- prove, too. Voices Of The Spruce When Vinland harbored first *. Norseman"s prow, The broadening spruce each hill did glorify: YA They. whispered in their yearning to the sky And shadowed heathen Christian vow, 3 With wisdom would the trees the dance and all men endow--- They heeded -not! Straightway the ringing cry Of greedy axe barked out. A crash! A sigh! : In vain had been the song of toss ing bough, Centuries passed. ancient night! BIH The spruces fell, thelr message fast- Iy sealed, . : Til stones which grind exceeding fine New day -- and + revealed : ; The pulp that holds the fibre of the Light. : i Thus paper came--the forest to ap pease, ? : And liberate the Voices of the Trees! ---Philip Hooper Moore, and a prize of $500 for the chamn-, / be sent to the University of Chicazo, La) «Y ¢ .£}2 cerely concernéd with health as with ~ in your stomach and across ETN - + % cay A 0d a Sg : RE