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CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA FARM LABOR ' Some idea of the effect of machin- ery upon agricultural employment in Canada may be glimpsed from the last four Dominion censuses. In 1901 the number of workers on Canadian farms was 45 per cent, of all those gainfully employed in the whole Do- minion, In 1911 the percentage drop- ved to 38. In 1931, according to the census it was found that agriculture was employing only 28 per cent, of all those gainfully employed.--Winni. peg Tribune. IT'S THE GLANDS, An American physician who makes a special study of human glands an- nounces that if people are clever it is because of the kind of glands they have; it they are "dumb," it is owing to their glands, In short, he says that whatever we are, whether we are good, bad or indifferent, is decided for us by our glands--St._ Thomas Times-Journal, MA'ARM TEACHERS and FISHING Teachers, especially ma-arm teach. ers, have a horror of fishing, They be. lieve, perhaps righly, that fishing and hookey are closely allied, They have been known to despatch sples to known haunts in search of absentees and when this fails they demand sat- isfaction next day. Some ardent fisherboys have tried to mollify teachers by surreptitious- ly leaving on her desk a very dead flatfish or a one-legged crab, after the manner of Teacher's Pet bringing flowers or an apple. The bribe, how- ever, has never worked, except in reverse, There is as yet no known method of convincing teacher that fishing is more important than geography, and there is here a great opportunity for the junior fishermen to conduct a thorough investigation for their ulti- mate benefit,--P, W, Luce, Vancou- ver Province. QUEER WORLD. Remember how pleased we used to be year after year as the western crop grew ever greater; now the possibility and the likelihood of a bumper crop is being viewed with alarm and apprehension. Isn't jt a queer world? Many of us remember the scientists telling us that, about now, the earth would not be able to provide food for her teem- ing millions, The trouble today is that, apparently too much food is be- ing produced, Or js it that the demand is equal to the supply, but that many are un- able to purchase because of lack of work and money and have to be con- tent with less than the escentials of life?--Niagara Falls Review, IT'S A COMPLIMENT. We can forgive the Stratford Bea- con-Herald almost anything, except, however, when it quotes the Standard as the St. Catharines Journal. -- St, Catharines Standard, HINT FOR BALD HEADS, A stenographer for the League of Nations at Geneva, has been given $1,660 compen ation because of the claim that smoke, coming from a chimney into the room whére she worked, caused her to become bald. It a number of men in Brantford and elsewhere could cash in on this basis there would be a severe strain on the nk ol system.--Brantford Expos- or, WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS. Anyone who travels across Canada must realize that one thing this coun. try needs is a good coat of paint, The state of buildings pretty well across the Dominion suggests that a million pounds of paint could be used in Canada with good effect within the next year or so. Perhaps 'it should be a half million pounds, perhaps two millions, At any rate, the country could make use of a tremendous am- ount of paint.--Regina Leader-Post, THE RURAL SCHOOL Time does not permit the rural school" teacher to give muoh atten- tion to the so-called frills of educa- tion, but when ft comes to, the fup- danientals of learning such gs regd- ing, arithmetic, spelling, grammar. otc, the rural pupils of Waterloo County are up to the standard and can give a good account of them- selves when an opportunity presents itself, --Kitchener Record, THE PATHFINDERS, Here 1s a story that comes from the faroff Antipodes. In 1849, aged two years, - John Thoms eet out with hig ploneering barents from the Township of Syd- ney, Australia, {nto the vast unknown plains of. New South Wales, ~ It took them six weeks in a cov. ered bullock wagon to negolate the basses of the barrier mountains and to the place where Narrom:ine, & thriving town, stands today, i Aged 88, John Thoms, a successful contractor, has just returned to Syd- ney--by the first trip of a new plane service, It took him just two hours, And there, in brief words, and the experience of one man, is the whole history of modern progress in trans. portation.--Halitax Herald. KNOW THEIR BANANAS, London, of course, has an enorm- ous appetite, It swallows food of all sorts from all parts of the world in shipload lots, I;ast month, the docks records show how it took into its maw more than 50,000 bunches of bananas, one big ship's cargo in one day, The Jamaica boat arrived at the West India dock with 51,954 bunches of Bananas, and the ship broke bulk at 8 a.m. the whole cargo being discharged by 8.40 p.m, the same day, During the time shown 23,610 bun. ches were weighed and dispatched in 141 railway wagons to various parts of the country, and 28,344 bun- ches distributed by road vehicles to the London markets. This was a record performance compared with the handling of any previous ship- ment of bananas.--Brandon Sun, LARGEST LAKE, A year or so ago the News-Chron- fcle entered into a discussion of the comparative sizes of Lake Superior and Lake Victoria, Nyanza in Africa, Someone, including some school tea- chers, advising their pupils, had de- clared the African lake to be the larger. Using all the information it could obtain from atlases and encycloped- ia, this paper proved, to its own satisfaction at leas', that Superior was the larger and thu; the largest lake ip the world. This was definite it depth were considered, for it ap- pears that large portions of Victoria Nyanza's surface is only a foot or so above the bottom and much of it flll- ed with reeds and gras:es;-- We now find the following parag- raph among those issued by a science service for - use in newspapers as something "Interesting to Know." It is" estimated that Lake Super- ior exceeds In size its nearest fresh water rival, Africa's Lake Victoria Nyanza, by a thousand tsquare miles." --Port Arthur News-Chronicle, THE EMPIRE MADE IT BY ACCIDENT. Charles Frederic Cross (79), F.R. S., the man who gave women arti- ficial silk stockings, has died at his home at Hove, Sussex, The late Lord Melchett once de- clared: "If it had not been for two English chemists, young women would not have. Mad -the svonderful stockings they. wear today." One of the two chemists was Mr. Cross; the other, E. Bevan, died in 1922, Mr, Cross had no idea of the boon to be conferred on women when ne and his colleague invented the cellu- lose process for spinning artificial' silk over 40 years ago, The discovery was made while the twp men were experimenting with bits of wood. A solution was found, which was poured into a container with a hole in the bottom and a cycle pump was used to pull it out through the hole like a thread of cotton, - A company was formed to develop the spinning of artificial silk. In 1916 Mr. Cross was awarded the medal of the Society of Chemical Industry' for "conspicious services to chemical industry,"--London Dally Sketch, REQUEST OF DICKENS, A sight-seeing visitor asked me yesterday why London has no full- sized statue of Charles Dickens, The answer is to be found in this quota- tion from the great novelist"s will: "I conjure my friends on no ac- count to make me the subject of any monument, memorial or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works." . I happen to know, however, that some American admirers, in their zeal, have overridden this stipulation, In the public gdrdens at Philadel phia there is/a fifll-lengt} sculptured memorjal represgnting 2 Hi seat. ed in an armchair, At the base of the pedestal Littls Nell gazes affec- tionately up at her creator.--London Daily Mirror, HOMEWORK. ' A big change in school life may be brought about by the examination now being conducted into the effects of homework, It will be some time be- fore the survey fg complete and the verdict be fssued, But evidence is accumulating that the educational value of homework {s dubious, to put it mildly. Children can he overwork. ed as well as underworked. And in "| der which homework is attempted are the average simple home, with {ts shortage of rooms, the conditions un- PH Gavin 4 "Bye-Bye" Three Canadian Travellers Prove On A Bicycle Built For a iA RETO E, ¥ Mother, dad and the baby 'ta the English countryside on ingenious carryall, many family groups taking part Cobham, England, recently. [AW ke the highroad for un outing in v This was one of the in recent outing of bicyclists at well-nigh impossible.--London Daily Herald, ' THE CINEMA VAN, There are tho:e who read in trains, there are those who eat in trains, there are those who sleep in trains, and doubless there are those whose attitude resembles that of the Old Countryman, who, when a:ked how te spent his time now that he was pensioned cff, made answer: "Well, Miss, sometimes I sits and thinks, and <cometimes [ just sits." For those who "just sit" (and who also appen to have a shilling to spare) the Northeastern Railway Company has now provided an additional relax- aton in the shape of a "cinema van," which made its first journey from London to Leeds this week, with a preliminary blessing at King's Cross Station from Mr, J. H, Thomas, The van has a sloping floor, it can accom- modate an audience of 44 and the charge is a shilling for a program that takes an hour. One can therefore be whirled through the Englich countryside while immersed in the studio settings ot Holiywood, or ride to York surroun- ded by the scenery of "Rome Ex- press.""--Manchester Guardian", Policewomen Have Bottles and Guns John W. Harrington in New York Times. , Relatively few New Yorkers have ever seen a city policewoman -- at least to recognize one but now this member of the force can readily be distinguished, for she has a new uniform, and this Summer she will be on duty at tre beaches and other resorts where great crowds gather. A few days ago the policewomen and patroiwomen- held a dress parade in their new tunics, which were evolved afier considmable thought on the part of the Police Department com- mittee on uniforms. The uniform consists essentially of a blue serge skirt and a blouse, or- namented with gilt -butons, bearing the department insigna. The blouse is double-breasted and has a belt which is sewed down _at the back to prevent anyone's grasping it in a personal encounter. What appear to be outside pockets with flaps are merely external ornaments. The real pockets of the blouse are on the inside. fo There are today 140 policewomen and patrolwomen on "the force." One hundred are in the Bureau of Police- women, of which Mrs, Mary A. Sul- livan is the director, and forty are in the Crime Prevention Bureau, of which Inspector Costuma has charge. The function of these two classes are go intermingled that it is hard to dif- ferentiate them. Their rating is the same, The rank of patrolwomen was originated in New York city during the World War, when it was thought: necessary' to have/a feminine force to pdlice parks, /and other public places where large numbers of sol- diers and sailors congregated. These official chaperons were not in uni- form, but carried badges in their bags. Patrolwomen do a good deal of detective work in plain clothes. They are sent to get evidence against illegal practitioners of medicine or to discover social irregularities at dance halls or theatres. Policewomen, who are likely to appear most in uniform, may be seen in police stations and prisons; wheré they look after women de- fedants and care for children, How- ever, they are likely to be assigned to other duties, more or less under cover, Both classes will be seen in within the city limits. There they will keep order, see that bathing at- tire is -reasonably decorous and watch out specially for lost children, Most of the women police officers are married and some have children. Where a policewoman is assigned to a station house, the regulations re- quire her to have available a steril- ized nursing-bottle and know where fy it for the comfort of infants as- tray. She also has a first-aid kit. Contrasted with this,- she has a .32 calibre, six-shot revolver and she re- ports regularly for target practice. All members 'of this branch of the force have entered it through- the Civil Service. They were admitted as physically perfect, or as nearly so as human beings can be. Their vision, hearing and muscular strength have passed muster, Their intelligence quota is exceptionally high. Many of them were school teachers, registered nurses, secre- taries, social workers and the like before they = entered their present calling. A few are college gradu- ates. As far as salary is concerned, pa- trolwomen and policewomen are on the same basis as patrolwomen. They get $2,000 on the first year, $2,250 the second, $2,600 the third, $2,760 the fourth and $3,000 the fifth, These salaries are at present subject to the customary depression cuts. or Don't Push Them That such a being as a naughty child exists is flatly denied by the London Institute of Medical Psycho- 'gy, which is now recognized as an approved clinic by the University of London. From the knowledge gained in training neurotic victims of the war, for which purpose it was orig- inally established in 1920, it has in the last few years banished the de- mons , erslaving thousands of child- ren. Last year its experts treated 264 unhappy children, afflicted with various depressions and mental ill nesses, in each case securing a happy result, restoring to the child its lost health as well as happiness. = Sympathetic understanding is the basis of every cure. The psychiatrist has first to win the child's confidence, often accomplished by a joint attempt to solve a jig-saw puzzle, before he can diagnose the cause of its suffer- ing. Parents who punish what seem to be unnaturally rebellious or wan- ton thiliren, are guilty of a cardinal sin; they rhould consult a clinic. LOVE WALKS THE DREAM TRAIL "If we could turn back Time tonight, My Dear... For one-last walk together, you and I, It we could watch the new-born stars at twilight, (Sharing this secret thrill, as in the nights gong by,) 3 I wonder, would sight of red leaves hung on twisted: branches, Or shadows merging just beyond the blue; LEAN Or lonely Autumn winds that mourn of patting, ; \ us Mean 'more than "Just another Fall" to you? . \ Haunted by the' ghosts of joyous, far.oft laughter, . Would memory 'break" you , + « make you understand? It would not matter much , , , what followed after . , . If you and I were walking hand in hand." ~--Francls Smith, Toronto. "Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad | an Englishman asked indignantly, as | ies of solarium cars, she can get milk and suitably modi-| "And circling once, 'twice, thrice, as ERE MBA BR success?" Shakespeare. Baths On Trains Are Superfluous Montreal. -- Canadians may be clean people, but they won't take baths on trains. To find this out has cost the two Railways tens of thous- of dollars. "Why don't they have baths on these trains?" grouched an Ameri- can one time, after four sticky days or the train, "How can they expect a man to keep clean on these dusty prairies?" he explained he was going to Aus- tralia via Canada, and he would not do it again, : "I can have my bath on the At- lantic, and my bath on the-Pacific, but for four full days I have to go without "it on the train," he wail- ed. Railway officials got their heads together, and in 1929, the Canadian Pacific put out their "River" ser- The glass- - ended River Rouge, River Moira, and other "Rivers" soon were familiar sights at the end of the Trans-Can- ada Limiteds. The most important thing, the most-advertised item about them, was their baths, tub and shower, © : 2 The Canadian National then in- troduced their bath tub cars, and they too ran from coast to coast, There was only one trouble. No- body ever bathed in them! After costly experiments, the rail ways pulled their bath cars off the road. They have been idle in the shops for about three years now. Just the other: day the Canadian National took the baths out of them, converted the space into a lounge, and sent them back out in service. The Canadian Pacific are said to be thinking of doing the same thing, and converting the forgotten bath rooms into useful space. Ready Soon The bus conductor had had a haras- sing day. First of all, it was raining. Troublesome old ladies, irritating old men, and other bus pests had all com- bined to do their worst. It was get- ting late in the afternoon when an American tourist boarded the bus. "Say, conductor," he exclaimed, "I want your Saint Paul's Cathedral." "Oh, all right," . replied the. con- ductor, somewhat shortly. "I say," repeated the American in a louder tone. "I want your Saint Paul's Ca- thedral -- and I want it quick." "Don't worry, guv-nor," retorted the now thoroughly fed-up conduc- tor; "I'm gettin' it wrapped up for ' . you.' Down River F. L. Montgomery in the New York Times It was at evening: From the river's breast A seagull rose on wings of pearl white, ; Plashed upward through gathering shades of night . the if in quest ; Of points directional, or thus might test : His strength, swung swiftly sea- ward on his flight And in the deepening dusk was lost to sight, 3 Leaving me wondering bring him rest. would dawn I would such wings were mine. that I might rise Up from the earth and, flying follow him Out where the sun sets and the day- light dies, ' Until the surges' solemn requiem Was hushed along the world's re- ceding shore And I was one more, with = silence ever- - Dangerous Practice Seaforth Expositor: Persons walk- ing on the highways at. night-rnever seem to know or care, for that mat-: ter, that when they are between the lights of two approaching cars they are practically invisible until the cars are actually upon them. Highway fatalities have become altogether too common, but the blame does not al- ways lie with the motorists. of course, the pedestrian has rights on the highway the same as the motor- ist, but asserting those rights in the face of a fast moving car at night usually meets with the same fate that befalls the car driver that at- tempts to beat an express train over a level crossing. If one must walk on the highways at night, would it not be wiser and safer to stay on the right side of the road, and to make doubly sure; would it not be wise, too, to carry a lantern or light of some kind as well? "This. England" New Statesman and Natlon (London). Cheering, singing shouting and crying, , " : And then the King! | A pale radiance, a slender-whited hadow -- the Queen behind him , . The Queen then did a strange, an | unusual thing. A She outstretched her arms, So that all might see that she was real and human,--Daily Express, LJ LJ LJ We see that between these years the male population decreased by over 100,000, while the females in. creased by some 800,000, Thus near- ly a million spinsters were artifl- clally created during these seven years ,.\ , Of course it would be wrong to'imagine that this is caused entirely by the war. , . = The Army, Navy, and Alr Force Gazette, LJ LJ LJ . Testator gave the use of a house in Arbour Street, Southport, to his brother Thomas and his wife, to- gether with £416 a year. "On con: dition he or she shall use long lace curtains in the front windows, and they use curtains of any other des: cription the annuity {s to be reduced to £312" -- Dally Telegraph, . Sea-Food -- Goitre In seeking a larger inland market for sea-food from the Maritimes the particular value of this food in pre- venting the .disease called: goitre may well be stressed in advertising, Gol- tre is a term used to indicate various diseases of the thyroid gland, and we aro told iodine 18 an essential to thy- roid activity, Land plants and anim- als contain relatively little iodine, while sea-food bas a high content, and therefore is of speclal value. ; We know that goitre is much more prevalent in the inland country, and. therefore a particular health reason for getting food that stimulates thy- roid activity, That is sea-food. Aside therefore, from the fact that fish is so palatable, it is a healthy diet most necessary in parts of the country re- mote from the sea. It is also to be noted that fish are rich in vitamines, When, therefore, it is urged that more fish should be consumed {it is not only in the inter- ests of fisherman but of the gener- al public, 36 Winter's Toll Official Estimates Given Of 'Fall Wheat, Rye, Hay and Clover Meadows Tha 1934 winter killing of fall wheat, fall rye, and of hay and clover meadows is officially estimat- ed as follows: . Fall Wheat--Of the 663,000 acres seeded to fall wheat in Ontario in the autumn of 1934, 126,000 square acres, or 19 per cent. are estimated as winter-killed, leaving an area of 637,000 acres to 'be harvested in 1936, as compared with a harvested area of 425,600 acres in 1934. Fall Rye--In all Canada, where 631,000 acres were seeded to fall rye last autumn, 27,000 acres, or 4 per cent., are estimated as winter-kill- ed, leaving an area of 604,000 acres to be harvested in 1935, as compar- ed with 587,100 acres harvested in 1934. In Ontario 70,000 acres were sown; 6,000 acres, or 9 per cent; estimated as winter-killed and 64,- 000 acres left for the 1935 harvest. In Manitoba 77,000 acres are esti- mated for harvest out of 79,000 acres sown, with 2,000 acres, or 3 per cent., winter-killed. In Sas- katchewan, 311,000 acres were sown, 12,000 acres or 4 per cent, estimat- ed as winter-killed, "and 299,000 acres remain to be harvested. In Alberta 171,000 acres were sown to fall rye, 7,000 acres, or 4 per cent. winter-killed, and 164,000 acres left for harvest. ~ Hay and Clover--During the win- ter of 1934-35, the following per- centages of hay and clover are es- timated to have been winter-killed, with the corresponding figures for the previous year (1933-84) within brackets: For all Canada 8 per cent, (12); Prince Edward Island 8 (4); Nova Scotia 5 (4); New Brunswick 8 (1); Quebec 2 (5); Saskatchewan 3 (10); Alberta 2 (8); British Columbia 8 (1). COLD FEET Suiferers Told Cofters Makes Them Colder Atlantic City, N.J.--Persons with cold feet should never drink coffee. That advice, used last winter on| New York street cleaners who dug Manhattan out of its blizzards, was extended recently by Dr. William Bierman of New York in exhibiting to the American and Canadian Medical Associations results of his research on skin temperatures. On the other hand he found that wine and whisky are excellent medi- cines in treating some diseases of the blood vessels by causing them to expand and thus aid circulation "Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never mak. wo Til | 240-Acre Farm Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, -- Dash ! through the countryside in your nw car, or ancient bus have you ever thought of the lives of he. people who live on the farms you whizz by? Craig in the. Sault asks Florence Daily Star. ~~ 5 Algoma . farmers, like others, are faced with problems, have | EF little excitements and good times'¥nd the same worry of where their next dollar is coming from. : . Loss .of Horse Serious Take a certain farmer with.:-whom this reporter talked. His horse had died suddenly, and the man was worrying what he would do for work. "A lot of work I could have had pn the farms around here is lost, just because my horse _died. Now I 'don't 'know where I will find the money to get another one," he said.- "Come on in and sit awhile," is the .general invitation wherever one goes, for the Algoma farmer is hospitable. He is glad to see a visitor and loath to let him go. "Won't you have a glass of buttermilk?" one farm wo- man asked, taking 'a trip 'down into the cool depths of the basement 'to bring up a pitcher of refreshing but- termilk. i A « Epics could be written of the pion- eer spirit: of some of those who are struggling to build up farms, The are the two women who are left wit a 240-acre farm of rich rolling land which they work themgelves. "It doesn't give us time for anything else. But there's a depression and we could not sell the farm now," the daughter said. Seeding, which means extra work, and a busy time. for.all, is the only fime they have employed outside help this year, RAE 44 Back to the Land Ly Then there is the man" who has gone "back to the land." = Former- ly a worker in the Sault. the depression left him without work, Finally, with his wife and children he settled out in the country, where he is. able to raise his own foodstuffs. "It's a living, but I hope I'll soon.be there?" he wanted to know. E: Young lambs, calves and tiny pup- pies they are all out every day gam- bolling in the warm sun. One lamb five weeks old and answering to the name of Nancy is a household, pet. Nancy craves' human company and she shows little interest in the: do- ings of other lambs, preferring to wander around close to the farm- house. door or trot at the heels of anyone walking around the yard. Ottawa Hospital an Ends 25th Year 3 Ottawa. -- Twenty-five years of service and progress 'in- combatting tuberculosis, during. which the death. rate per 100,000 of population has, decreased from 140 to 35, was cele- brated here recently, on the occas- jon of the silver jubilee of the open- ing of Lady Grey Hospital, first unit" of the present Royal Ottawa Sani- torium, La 'Sir George Perley, who collecte donations of original contributors that made the first building possible, was among those .who attended. It was a happy coincidence that the silver jubilee of the institution, Sir George said, was in the same year as the silver jubilee of King George V. There is nothing 'closer ~ to the hearts of Their Majesties than such work as the sanitorium is do- ing, he said. Harals Car Fare Experiments Writes the Baltimore Sun: Re- duction of fares: on a number. of railroads has resulted in large in- crease in passenger traffic, showing that the cost of transportation has much to do with the extent to which the public will patronize the roads. In the street-car field experiments have shown that similar results fol- low the sale of passes which permit a certain number of rides at less cost than the one-fare ticket though the financial results have not always been satisfactory. its As a depression measure, for. ex- ample the street-car of Kansus City, Mo, issued passes good for a we for $1. It was calculated that's pass would be used 22 or 28 times," making the fare approximately five cents. But-use of passes has grown so rapidly that they are being pres- ing 'the company a little less than three cents per passenger trip. - With operating costs rising, the company's plan proved financially unprofitable. It has become so popu- lar, however, that the "experiment will be continued. ' AE xnt 28 Civil Servants Under 44 Retired Twenty-eight 'Civil Ser- Ottawa. 1980, according to a return tabled in 'ed totalled 78, of whom 62 were in ing the same one the second time." of 5 (RENT A H, W. Shaw. the Department of Interior. ented from 84 to 87 times, return- .. vants under the age of 44 years have ~ been retited on superannuation be- cause of ill health since August 1, ° the House recently. Those retired because their positions were abolish- . back in the Sault. How are conditions .__ [4 Va ~~ V . N 1 x AY