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Ty ARE Paha te N EE a ES Jp 4 langiage wiilch fs a buiiied ---- [ cANADA | THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE ¥ "CANADA CROSSING CRASHES In spite of repeated warnings there arg - still many autoists who defy trains. Racing to the crossing has not yet become an unknown sport. It should be remembered. that engin- cers are never killed through a col- lision with an automobile, Chathaan News. GOOD ADVICE A driver was swatting a bee that flew through his window; his car struck a pedestrian, and York Town- ship police decided to lay a ¢harge of reckless driving. The bee can scarcely be prosecuted as an acces- sory before the fact, but the occur- rence offers warning to other motor- ists. If and when a bee creates a nuisance, bring your autp to a hault before taking action to get rid of _ dim, ---Windsor Daily Star, TAKE A CHANCE ----The cars that are annually wrecked in accidents and go-to the junkman in the U. 8. and Canada woud make a solid line up from Toronto to Montreal {f a compilation is correct that about 100,000 cars are yearly involved. The junkman"s sign at a railway crossing: "Gio ahead and take a chance; I'll buy the junk," was justi- fied. No fact is clearer than that our roads are a menace to life. The pe- degtrian suffers most. The -reckless fast drivers--of which youth furnishes an tndue part--cannot be e'iminated by the present regulations, The. ef- foris to make the roads safe hpve re- sulted in a ghastly failure. When the authovities stop palter- ing with the slaughter, dfivers will bozin to realize that cach one of them drives a potential death ma- china, --Sault Star. SPEND MOST ON' CARS ----It takes $50,000,000 more to keep feminine Canada dressed than jt does the men folk of the Dominion. The latest figuring shows that retail sales of women's apparel and children's wear in a year were $107.000,000, whereas the -clothing of men and boys cost only $143,000,- 000. The Canadian people spend more in a year on automobiles than they do on clothing for the bill ran up to $317,000,000 or $17,000,000 more than on apparel. There i8 a curious difference in the practice of buying by men_and women, The women get twice as much of her raiment from the de- partmental stores as she does from the women's ready-to-wear stores, but men patronize the men's clothing and furnishing stores' far more. than they do the departmental stores. Why the man favors the th Q trader who specializes in men's com-' modities and the woman does not is a question for the psyohologist, id --Brandon Sun. USE LICENSE PLATES ------In Yugoslavia motorists' of- " fonces are marked right on the lic- ense plale--not the driver's license where they cannot be seen, but on tho number plate where everyone may note them. Bach plate has a ~ large blank portion on which traffic offences in which that car has figured are: marked with an "X*. When five X's appear on the plate, other motor- ists no doubt steer clear, knowing that there is a driver to be avoided. -- Edmonton Journal, DOWN OWN NECKS Woman from Toronto parked her car in Hamilton, and some careless person tossed a. lighted cigarette butt in the back' seat, causing a fire. If such people had their cigar- otto butts rammed down the back of their own necks for a scason' they night learn something of benefit to themselves and the entire commun. ity. ~--Stratford Beacon-Herald. FIVE.TONGUED TALKIE ~----A Budapest Inventor has de- vised a machine which makes it pos. sible to shoot a talkie scene in four or five languages simultaneously. While the actors. are speaking one language In the studio, four differ. ent languages are automatically syn- ehronized on the sound track on the adge of the film, . The finished film can be project- ed with dialogue in any one of the five languages, this enabling a cin. ama proprietor to run. the film in French at one performance; in Ger. man at another, in English at a third, and Bo on, simply by swilching the sound track from language to lang. uage, But the device is primarily de- vised for use In cosmopolitan centres where the pepulation speaks several languages, THe film wilt be projected inthe most popular, # oar-phiones. will be provided for LRA RT RA up other patrons who, by simply plug- ging in to the language they under- stand, will be enabled to enjoy the talkie to the full. --Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph COSTLY STRIKE ----It cost the Saskatchewan and Dominfon Governments some $40,- 000 to pay for the stay of relief camp strikers In Saskatdhewan. Most of the bills were incurred in Regina, where the riot resulted in one police- man heing beaten to death. The - Federal Government's share was $10,000 to pay for expenses dur- ing the time a delegation went to Ottawa to interview the Government, The rest of the bill was apportioned to Saskatchewan to pay for meals, The cost for transportation alone comes to $20,930. But that is just the monetary cost of the relief ¢amp strike. The value of the lite of the dead policeman cannot be computed in dollars and cents. 'Neither can there be placed a valuation on the wounds and in- juries to thousands of hearts and bodies. Those are things that make impre-sions on the minds and which cannot be erased by money. } --Windsor Star. 3 WAR DECLARED Vancouver Island's public Enemy No. 1 is the earwig. This pestiferous insect took up its resi. 1 EE -- has left a swarm of descendants which have been playing havoc with every form of vegetation. They have levied tribute upon plants and vege- tables with as little discrimination] as a Chicago gangster leader show- ed in his predacicus activities. But 3 as the depredations of the gang- ster reached a point which forced the law authorities to devise agencies for his destruction, so the earwig has caused the mobiijzation of defensive measures which in time it is hoped will put an end to its destructive operations. --YVictoria Times. ' CANADIAN PIONEERS Canadians are reminded that the Hudson's Bay Company has just com- pleted two hundred and sixty-five years of unbroken trading ijn this Dominion 'by the issue on the part of the company of its first offlcial history since its incorporation In 1670. Probably no other commercial organisation in the world has such a record to show business and ro- mance and history intermingled. For the story of the Dominion. When in 1869, after having contributed more to the upbuilding of the Dominion than any other body, the company ylelded some of its charter rights, it had maintained peace throughout the wilderness. established principles of justice and equity, and carried out colossal exploration work. The East India Company alone affords any sort of a parallel in history, and its record was marred by manysteatures which fortunately have not blurred the Hudson's Bay escutcheon. ~ --Montreal Star. "COST OF LIVING" The "Cost of Living" is a vague term with a wide range of defini- tions. To most of us the cost of liv- ing equals the amount of our pay cheques, in spite of the firmest re- solutions to budget and put someé- thing by for a rainy day. --St. Catharines Standard - THE EMPIRE THE T. B. SCOURGE A speaker at the 'Royal Sanitary Health Institute Congress, at Bourne- mouth, recently pointed out that five times as many people die of tuber- culosis as are killed on the roads. dence here about 20 years ago and | International Race Annual Event -- i Ly The International Yachting Trophy, donated for annual competition b goes for 1935 to the winner of the Portland-to-Halifax race, The race isto, an annual event. {he Halifax Herald and The Halifax Mail. This trophy But whatever the precise complexion of the next, Canadian House of Com- mons, it will clearly offer little scope to those who believe that in high tariffs and economic nationalism lies the way to a new prosperity for the Dominion, --Manchester- Guardian, THE HORSE IN IRELAND In this country the horse still holds its ground. Between 1924 and 1934 the decrease was only 30,634, or less than seven per cent. Motor transport has not developed tp the same ex- fent in An Saorstat as across the Channel, and, owing to the dissimil- arity in economic conditions between the two countries, a hig diminution in the number of horses maintained here is improbable. The farmer must always rely on the horse. Holdings are with very few exceptions, too small to bear the expense involved in the purchase and upkeep of trac- tors. On a co-operative basis farm- ers may obtain tractors, but it would be extremely difficult to arrange a satisfactory working system as be- tween a multitude of co-owners. Ire- land has established a world-wide reputation for its thoroughbreds and hunters. The export trade in these animals is a valuable asset. To more than 'twenty countries outside the United Kingdom we annually export a considerable number of horses, and not so long ago the value of these ex- ports exceeded = £2,000,000 .per an- num. There should be room for ex- pansion In this trade. The successes achieved in contests abroad by the National Army ought to serve as a splendid advertisement for horses bred in this country. --Irish Independent, Dublin. Underfed Children and Overfed Adults In Great Britain London.--"The Wayfarer", the woman's editor of Overseas, publish- ed by the Overseas League, says it is estimated that one per cent of the children in Great Britain are underfed. : "This does not sound a high per- centage; it is not, but no children should be underfed in a 'dountry such as ours," the writer says. "I should like to know what the per- centage of wrongly fed people is? I probably about 90 per cent.. There are still too many underfed child- ren, far too many. overfed grown- ups and, worse still, far too many That is true, and it is a reproach to the nation, A concerted attack on tuberculosis would practically wipe erty, of malnutrition, of overcrowd- ing, of unclean milk. Give everybody decent homes, adequate nourishment and open-air activities and the dis- ease would soon become as rare as leprosy. --London Dally Herald. CANADA AND ECONOMIC NATION. ALISM Too much cannot be deduced from these provincial elections about the result of the Federal general election in September, for into that there en- ter wider Issues and a greater com- plexity of parties. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, with {ts Socialist platform, has already tak- en the field and hopes to improve upon the fifteen members it secured in the last Parliament. The Recon- structionists, led by Mr, Bennett's former Minister of Trade, Mr. Stev: ens, area new and incalculabla fact. or, fightng a campaign for reform in the methods of conducting big busi.' ness that seems likely: to draw ad- hérents both, from discontented Gonservatives and from Liberals. it out. It is largely, a disease of pov! children wrongly grown-ups who are being wrongly fed altogether. . "We are making headway but I grow more and more puzzled at the inertia and lack of intelligence" in my own sex. Why is it, that on the whole, the British are such poor housewives. There is no greater slur on us as a people than that our housekeeping should be a by-word among foreigners. We hring up our children well, sensibly, scientificaily and . affectionately, but- we are neither economical nor instructed in matters pertaining to food and houses. Why? No doubt there are various reasons, but none ot them are, I am afraid, greatly to our credit. . ; A Swedish friend tells me that in Sweden even if the boys are taught to cook. That is as it should be. Cooking, if not a highly skilled pro- fession, can at least be a fascinating recreation. 4 "If fruit is good for us, and who can deny its health value, then we must be a 'healthier people in 1936 than we were in 1918, for we eat double the "quantity of oranges; grape fruit, bananas and other fruit than we did then." a hazard the suggestion that it is]. Hair Styles There are so many different ways of dealing with the hair question just now that it is not easy to be definite about the most usual trend. The parting may be down the centre front, and sometimes down the centre back as well, on the right, on the left, or at an angle across one side of the top of the head. When a parting is low on one side, the hair is often carried very smooth- ly across the top of the head, per- mitting no curls or waves till the sides and back, though there may be a fringe on one side of the fore- head. 1. 1 On the whole, the tendency is to dress the front of the head simply, to draw the hair towards the back, and to burst into curls or deep wave high up across the back. Nearly "every woman shows at least part of her ears. Everyone whose hair grows naturally in a widow's peak is encouraged by knowledgeable hair-dressers to em- phasize it. And, whether the part- ing is in the centre, front or at the side, whether there are or are not masses of curls at the back or a fringe in front, the hair line is made clear and definite at one point or another, The last detail is probably conse- quent on the back-from-the-face hat and all its sisters and cousins which show a good deal of the brow. Car. Accidents 176 Fatalities In Ontario During The First Six Months Of 1935 Toronto.--An 11.2 per cent. in- 'crease in the number of motor ve- hicle accidents during the first six months of 1935 compared with the corresponding period in the preced- ing year, is reported in a bulletin issued by the motor vehicles branch of the Ontario Department of High- ways, There were 4,083 accidents during that period in 1935 and 3,671 in 1934. For June, accidents for 1936 mounted to 896, a 156.3 per cent. in- crease over June, 1934. During the same period there were 43. deaths, ing month of 1934, . : : There were 176 fatal accidents during the six months, with 156 in 1934, 138 in 1983, and 177 in 1932. Slipping : Paris. -- Paris dressmakers have turned their attention to the trouble- some problem of waistlines. : The waistlines of winter garments slipped a notch lower.' One design- er dropped belts about 'an inch be- low. normal on day attire. Others displayed frocks designed. without front belts and with lowered side incrustations' an inch above the hip bones. They gave the effect of in- definite waistlines,. ~~ : Some clung stubbornly to the na- tural, line but Vera Borea went in the other direction, pulling waist lines up one to two Inchey above normal by means of wide belts. he Appé pf trousered afternoon dresses set buyers talking and pushed the problem of skirt lengths into a back seat, although 16 trousered skirts had a slender top skirt slit to the waist, disclosing the trousers beneath and some of them let several inches of trouser leg ap- peat. below the skirt" hem, | a 43 TAMA CHA TRY { Up 11.2 Percent compared with 42 in the correspond-' designers showed skirts as high as inches from the floor, The| Light Traps Beetles A New Device Used To Kill Off A Baneful Asiatic Insect "Killing the brown Asiatic beetle is like trying to drown a fish," says a Westinghouse engineer, Samuel G. Hibben.. The reason is that the beetle digs into the ground in day- time and comes out at night to de- vour foliage. The beetle, no bigger than a cof- fee bean, probably came to 'this country in the roots of the Japa- nese iris or, of some similar. plant. Poisons have thus far proved in- effective in stopping its depreda- tions. So the Westinghouse = engi- neers. and the. entomologists of the Department : of Agriculture. decided to lure it with light into traps. - Research showed that the best kind 'of light was the purplish glow that comes from a special mercury vapor lamp. It is rich in ultra- violet rays, which seem to be' espe- cially alluring to the insects. On the grounds of a country club near Springfield, N.J., as many as 36,000 beetles were thus trapped in a night. The bugs are attracted by the glow, fly around it, collide with baffle plates and fall, stunned, through a funnel into a jar. Such is. the rain of beetles that the trapped cannot fly out against it. Besides, the mouth of the jar is small and the beetle is none too in- telligent, judged by human stand- ards. What the late Professor Jacques Loeb called heliotropism is involv- ed. Light does not actually attract moths and other insects, he showed. It acts on the motor nerves, para- lyzes them peculiarly and thus makes flight impossible only in the line of the rays, Many insects are affected in this manner, The real problem is therefore to develop a glow which will cripple the harmful rather than the beneficial insects. Apparently that problem has been solved satisfactorily for the destruc- tion of the Japanese beetle. ABC of Health The Medicinal" Value Of Certain Foods "Certain foods possess the natural organic 'chemicals 'necessary for the prevention and treatment of dis- ease, and may be: included in the everyday diet.. The following is a lift of such foods with their medi- cinal value: Apples: stipation, Barley: trouble." . : 'Carrots: for nerves and purifying the blood. ; Dates: for under-nourishment, Eggs: for bone and muscle build- ing, ig Fins for constipation and catarrh. Grapefruit: for liver troubles and for indigestion and con- 'cleansing. the, stomach. ' Honey: for catarrh and cleansing stomach and bowels, . = Tce Cream: for relieving sore and inflamed throat. AE < Jam: for its fruit value. /Kale: for purifying the blood. '. Lemons: for headaches and reduc- ing eight. ny Milk: for gaining weight and mus- cle building, : 5 Nuts: for 'body building and as a substitute for meat. 2% Onions: for. colds, merves, and sleeplessness, = SE : "Pineapple: for.sore throat. 'Quaissia bark: as a general tonic. 'Raisins: for constipation, kidneys, and purifying the blood. "for fevers and bladder | Sauerkraut: for high blood pres- sure. - Tomatoes: for bile, rheumatism, and liver troubles. : Unpolished rice: for body, build- ing. &ermicelli: for gaining weight. Watercress: for skin. troubles. XY and 2 for health, spend a day once a month in bed. Rice and Japan's Economic Life In view of the prolonged negola- tions between Canada and Japan, the Jollowing extract on the Japanese economic conditions of agriculture fromthe 1933-34 report of the Inter- national Institute of Agriculture may be of interest. It i3 needlgss to re- peat here, says the report, that the whole of Japanese agriculture rests in quite a particular way on two pro- ducts only: rice and silk. Although there _has been evidence in Japan in recent years of a certain tendency to emerge from the "rice-growing economy" characteristic of its econ- omic structure hitherto, it is unques- tionable that rice remains, neverthe- less, the most important product of | the whole economic life of Japan. It must be added, in order to see the problem more clearly, that when we speak of rice, we mean Japanese rice, that is to say, rice produced in Japan properly so-called. The Japan. ese people find that foreign rice has not the taste of the home-grown ar- ticle, and this explains why the pro- duction at lower cost of Indo-Chinese or Siamese rice can {n no way sup- plant home-grown rice nor compete with it. Only in famine years, when the price of rice is too high, are the poorer classes of the population con- strained to replace home-grown.rice by imported rice which, because of its lower price, {8 within their power to purchase. In recent years the Jap: anese colonists have succeeded in improving the quality of the rice pro- duced in Korea aiid Formosa and the pressure of colonial rice production has already begun to be felt on the domestic market. Canadain Ploughs Vs. Ploughs in Cuba The factors which govern the kind of farm ~ implements employed in Cuba differ in many ways from those encountered in Canada. Consequently, in the manufacture of Canadian im- plements for Cuba, allowance must be made with respect to some ma- chines for slight varlations from what are considered standard types in the Dominion. The animals used for draught purposes are oxen and a comparatively small number of mules. ; Cuban can-land throughout a large area, says the Canadian Government Trade Commissioner {in Cuba, Is equalled in toughness to a very limit. od degree only in Southern Saskat- chewan. In Cuba where the soll 18 hard-baked by the sun, it can be broken: more readily by oxen with their slow but steady and continuous haul. Irrigation is necessary in many parta-of the island, especially where 'potatoes, rice, and tobacco are grown, The distance between furrows and be- 'tween plants In each furrow and. the depth of ploughing difter from' Can- adian practice. Weeds and other un. desirable vegetation in Cuba are vary heavy and ploughs have to be design. od, 'but a Canadian: disc plough re. cently, imported, egpdclally built for sugar-cane work, {a proving very sat. isfactory as it' has these high-clear- ance features. It 1s heavily construct. ed to stand the resistance of deep ploughing in hard cane soil and to withstand the additional rough usage resulting from contact with tree trunks and roots, / ~~ School Clothes Mother and Daughter Can "Both Wark at Them New York.--Mothers and daugh- ters who enjoy sewing together are putting some of their late summer leisure to good advantage just now 'lin making the first supply of school- going clothes, "In families where it is the regular custom to do such sew- be entirely estimated in the saving of mere dollars and cents, as there is so much practical information now being disseminated for the benefit of- the home dressmaker, that the actual work involved is de- creasing, while pleasurable interest in home sewing is noticeably on the increase... One of the many good re- sults in this home work is that children are unconsciously trained in the selection of clothes appro- priate for whatever the occasion may be, and are more keenly observant of the simple, well made garments in the children's departments of the shops specializing at 'this season in "Back-to-School" outfits. The first important' item on the late summer sewing list is likely to include separate blouses, skirts and such sccessories as are easily adjust- able and suitable for school wear. This does not mean that a blouse cannot have its matching skirt, giv- ing the effect of a one-piece shirt waist dress, but the thrifty home dressmaker realizes the economy of separate units that can be worn in- terchangeably, and is usually glad to 'undertake the extra work that this two-piece dress involves, both' in the 'cutting and making, a com- pared with a one-piece frock, uns- seamed at waistline, and which fis likely to shift itself to whatever placement of belt its wearer hoppens to choose. Made in two parts, the waist may be worn as a tuck-in or an overblouse, and, by having an extra peplum that slips under the belt when the blouse is used as a tuck-in, a still further variation is possible. This detachable peplum is often made with curved, cutaway fronts in jacket outline, somewhat longer in the back, and worn with a wide patent leather. belt. A mother with two daughters be- tween the ages of nine and 14 ad- vises at least three blouses to each skirt for autumn school wear, the skirts being of any of the favorite cotton fabrics suited to this pur- pose such a. broadcloth, poplin and the like, as well as one or two of the novelty weaves such as honey. color combinations sure to attract the young girl. One blouse matches the skirt and is suited to cool days, with contrasting collar, belt and but- tons as the only trimming. Another, for warmer days, is a thinner cot- ton of light background with an all- over design matching the color of the skirt, which in this case, is a monotone. A third blouse, for wear with a vari-colored cotton skirt, matches the lightest shade in the skirt, with yoke, sleeves and loosely folded ascot neckscarf of the skirt fabric. This mother claims that her girls are of an age when they should take 'an active interest in clothes, give necessary time to put- ting' them on carefully, and have a pardonable pride in appearing. neat- ly: and' becomingly dressed. at all 'times. ct Science Would Aid Housewives Special Committee of British Women Experts Reports London, Eng.--Panels of house- wives to deal with questions arising in their work was suggested at the Scientific Management Congress in London. . The domestic section was discus- sing a report on scientific manage- ment in the home prepared by a special committee of British women comprising experts in various branches of housekeeping. "Students should be taught that housekeeping is an art--but an art based on a number of underlying sciences--and that its problems must be approached in a scientific spirit," the report stated. of 'Housework must come to be re- try. The aim must: he the maximum welfare in the home with the maxi- mum of necessary effort by the housewife," 3 There must be. throughout the country a sufficient number of in= telligent housewives who were in- terested in finding out the best equipment and methods for their work and who would be glad to co- operate. both in providing informa. tion about existing methods, and in testing suggested improvements, the report contended. - It was hoped that in time panels ! conditions might be found.. These would: be particularly. useful for dealing with such questions as the planning of the weekly budget of expenditure and the week's work. : {. SK ing at home, its advantages cannot comb and hopsacking which come in : their - garded as a most important. indus~_ of Housewives working in different WE a ' x m= - a 8 Sy >» - >. Xx =z af a 3 Hs «<a Jay iat TE &4 » 8