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¥ ws Come "3 '. N > Twit Trade > During Last Year Rea "+ ~ $201,000,000 Spent in Cana-{ da -- Increase of $7 1,000,000 ~~. YIn season and out, we. have . been urging the importance of the tourist industry ° to Canada, both as regards total trade and our international balance of payments" observes the Montre- al Star. Last year's figures, released by the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics, fully bear out early promises. It is estimated that tourists from 'abroad spent $201,000,000 in Cana- da during 1935 an, increase of $71, 000,000 over the previous year. Dur- ing the same period, Canadians are estimated to have. spent $91,000,000 abroad, "an increase of $30,000,000 over the previous year, Thus we find that the tourist trade netted a clear $110,000,000 for Canada, -- practically the same amount as last year's Canadian gold production and representing an exceedingly import- ant part of our balance of interna- tional payments. = Tourists arriving from the United States by automobile constituted far the most important part of our tour- ist trade. They are estimated to have spent some $131,000,000 in Canada, as against expenditures of $59,000,- 000 spent by those arriving by rail and steamer and $10,000,000 spent by 'tourists from overseas. We see at once the importance of good roads as a tourists attraction, as well as the need for good accommodation at reasonable prices. . Year after year, Boards of Trade and commercial bodies have urged upon our multitude of Governments the. need for co-ordinated action to promote tourist traffic. © Campaigns must be put on early if they are to get real results, Tt is hopeless to wait until the season is in full swing and the tourists have made their plans, ~. There is another element which is _ all too often overlooked. Tourists not only consume food, buy gaso- line and rent accommodation, but are great potential purchasers, particu- larly of luxury goods. As we have remarked before, Canada presents three thousand miles of shop-wind- "ow fronting on the richest country "on earth. We should seize the chance of selling to Americans by offer- ing them such things as high-grade woollens, English leather goods, and Canadian handicraft work at prices lower than they pay at home." New Desions | For Comage With the coronation of King Ed- ward VIII Canada, in common with the rest of the Empire, will issue . a new coinage. Would not the present, while we still have a year or so, be a good opportunity for the Government to call together a body of artists and experts to submit designs for coins that would be a little more represen- tative of Canadian artistic accomp- lishment than the exceedingly unat- tractive ones which, year after year, generation after generation, reign af- ter reign come from the mint with "Buch deadly monotony? Tradition declares that upon each accession the effigy of the new Sover- elgn upon the obverse side of the coin shall be reversed. When we have done that we in Canada are apparently con- tent to allow the funeral wreath of maple leaves o nthe reverse side -- which on a slightly worn coin much more closely resemble sprawFvside more closely resemble those of the cabbage -- and the rather sprawling legend within {t to continue to 'sym- . bolize" Canada. The comparatively new Canadian nickel is one of the ugliest coins in circulation anywhere, © Other countries are paying ine¢reas- -- ing- attention to the attractiveness of their coins from an aesthetic point of view. Some of the newer United States specimens are things of real artistic beauty, indicative of the country's progress in the arts of sculptural eds- ign and Modelling. There are surely competent artists in the Dominion "who would welcome an invitation to ferent values, and out of such compe: tition there might come a coinage of which, from an artistic point of view, Canada could be legTtimately proud. F arm Workers Insured Writes the London--Daily Herald: "At long last, and after many years of -agitation by the Labour Party, the agricultural workers are to be insured against unemployment. The "rates both of benefit and contribut- fon are lower than for other workers, and there are other special conditions held necessary by the Unemployment Statutory Committee to adapt the ; " "scheme to the special circumstances v of agriculture. It brings some cer- tainty and security into an oqccup- ation rendered more uncertain and in- ecure by mechanization, and it will Leip estantish the social independence of the agricultural worker." compete for designs for coins of 'dif-. HAD LUMBAGO FOR SIX YEARS Spent a Lot of Money Seeking Relief For six years this"man suffered with lumbago. ' After spending a great deal of money on various treatments he tried Kruschen Salts. Within three weeks he got welcome relief, He expresses his gratitude in the following letter: -- "For six years I have suffered from lumbago and rheumatism. I have spent a great deal of money on treatments, without avail, I was ad- vised several times to try Kruschen Salts, but only recently did so. Now after three weeks' treatment, I fee a new man, and walk with pleasure instead of pain. I sleep as I haven't slept for years, and am filled with a deep sense of gratitude to the chem- ists who have evolved Kruschen Salts.--R.T. Lumbago, like gout and rheuma- tism, is frequently caused by an ex- cess of uric acid in the blood. If you could see how Kruschen dulls those uric acld deposits, then dissolves them away altogether, you would agree that the. Kruschen treatment must bring relief in many cases of lumbago. : ~The Genins "The latest writer 'about Shake- speare the man confesses, in effect, that there is little hope of learning more about him than already has been made known," observes the Ot- tawa Journal. "This is a good thing. It is not the man but the genius whom the world acclaims. Those who think they explain the creator of Lear and Juliet, Touchstone and Falstaff, by citing facts, real or supposed, about the man who was known to others as William Shakespeare are utterly mis- taken. "ro understand Shakespeare, .the creative genius, we must understand the England that made him, even to understand the world that made king: land. It is no wonder that the pry- ing inquisitiveness about men of gen: jus has provoked fo their worst In our times those" who engage in the ghoulish activity of "debunking." When admirers try to make a god of the man who was possessed by gen- jus their errors are so many and 80 absurd that even a half-wit can lead the crowd in ridicule against them. The man of genius, living or "dead, has rights which all others are bound in decency to respect. The genius {8 openly displayed in the works produc- ed whether those works be buildings, poams, laws or systems of thought. It is the right of anyone to examine those works, to appraise them, to ex- plain them; but the life behind the J} work is no more on display than any other. To inquire too deeply into it is not a work of acclaim or admira- tion but of morbid curlosity. It de- feats its own ends. For the' more the biographer deals with the life the far- 'ther he wanders from consideration of the genius which alone makes the lite worthy of his attention. A bio- graphy so plammed and produced may be a monument of devoted labor of ripe scholarship, of great literary skill, but ft obscures rather than re- veals that in which the world is in- terested, the workman whose creative power has enriched and glorified man- kind, It is an error 'of pharisalsm such as that which insisted upon re- garding the gift upon the altar as greater than the altar itself." ~If- you nrewseeking mental improve- ment and efficiency, you should write for particulars of the courses offered at moderate fees by The In stitute of Practical ana Applied Psychology. Read "THE HELPER" -- a new monthly magazine of help for every- body published by The Institute of Practical and Applied Psychology One dollar a year Sample Copy -- Ten Cents Write for your copy TODAY 910 CONFEDERATION BUILDING Montreal -- Queheo "Opalite" Refrigerator Good [as new, suitable for small restaurant or large family. Make offer. Room 421 73 Adelaide Street W. TORONTO : SET ~} course the produgdion in many parts A Growing Business There is no question about the growing demand for fruit, and of of the world is also largely increas- ing. "Fruit could not altogether escape the effects of the world de-] pression but .it is significant that it has not suffered as much as most other primary products. This .in- dustry has, in fact, been one of the few which have continued to enjoy a fair measure of prosperity, both in Empire and foreign countries, and tropical fruits have shared (in the general - movements. For instance, the demand in 1934. for grapefruit and oranges was greater than that of any previous 'year, and exports from, the British West Indies showed a progressive rise, The imports B. W. I fruit into.the United King- dom were heavier than in any pre- vious twelve months. except 1932, and it must be added that those irom South Africa and Palestine constitut- ed new high records. -- Trinidad Guardian. HAVE ~ As wo swing into May, editors and reporters make their annual pilgrims= age to the dictionary to check up on the spelling of "baccalaureate." Nobody's pleasanter to.do business with than the man who doesn't in- tend to pay. - * No man's opinion is entirely worthless." Adding that even a watch which won't run is right twice a day. A certain man, who we shall call Smith, had occasion to reprimand his wife: Smith--I think, dear, that you fib a little occasionally. . Wifo (indignant)--Well, I its a wife's duty. Smith--Wife's duty? Wife--Yes, to speak well of her husband occasionally. think Nobody has ever understood why the market tipsters bother with the piffirig businesy of selling tips instead of buying stocks for their own ac- count. ' . Poor Little Henpecked Husband (bleating) -- But, my dear,] you've been talking for half an hour and I haven't said a word. Wife (snapping)--No, you haven't said anything, but you've been listen- ing in a most aggravating manner, and I'm not going to stand for it. The decision to make an effort to improve is the most important step fn self-improvement. Timid Woman (who had hired a boatman to ferry her across a river) --Has anybody ever been lost in crossing here? Boatman--No'm. Mah, brotheh was drowned heah last week, but we found him the next day. "Colored Preacher--Am dere any- body in de congregation what desir- es prayer for dere sins? Brother Johnson--Yassah! Ah's a spen' thif! Ah throws mah money 'round reckless! Colored Preacher--We will all join in prayer for Brudder Johnson, jes' after de collection have been passed. Most persons who indulge iri sec- ond-thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first-thought. Out of the Mouths of Babes Teacher (during history lesson: "What are -the races -which have dominated England since the inva- sion of the Romans?" Small Boy: "The Derby and Grand National, miss." the Exhaustless energy will carry one forward despite wrong thinking, but the right and logical way to do a thing will get ono to the point with half the effort and at twice the speed. 3 A Old Lady -- Little man, what are you and your little friend crying about? Boy (tears| streaming down his checks)--We're not crying « we're playing ball with an onion I got from FLgin 3101 our kitchen! $2.50 for 1 year, $1.50 for 6 months, and a sample sheet 100. "The Contester"' A Weekly Bulletin Service for Contestants, Artists and Authors This service consists of International Prize Contests, Markets for Car- toons, Illustrations, Borders. Designs for Magazines, Advertising, Creet- ing Cards and Verses, Articles, Limericks, Poemn, Slogans, and Stories. $1.00 for 3 months, 800 for 1 fend a 80 stamped, other money making ideas, onth ' for addressed envel Giff Baker, 39 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Canada of --- RH mr Farin Problems + Conducted by p PROFESSOR HENRY G. BELL with the co-operation of the various departments of Qntario Agricultural College. 3 becoming more and more dependent upon facts that have been gathered regarding livestock and livestock management, ¢rop - production, * soil management, disease and insect cone trol and business organization of the farming industry, Individual prob- lems involving one or more of these, and many other phases of agricul: ture, engage the attention of Ontario farmers from day to day. Through this column farmers may secure the latest information pertain. ing to their difficulties. To intro. duce this service Professor Bell has prepared the following typical prob- lems to indicate the information which should be given in order that a satisfactory answer can be made. If answer is desired by letter en- close stamped and addressed envelope for reply. . Address all inquiries to Professor Henry G. Bell, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ont. N. V., Algoma Co. (a):--We wish to top dress our hay fields this spring with commercial fertilizer. The soll ig clay, not acid in veaction. The hay is Timothy and Alsike. Which of the three should be used, Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Am- monia or Nitro Chalk? How much per acre, the sand being poor? ANSWER: -- Of the materials you mentioned, I believe you would be safest in top dressing your 'hay flelds with Sulphate of Ammonia. This material applies 20 Ibs. of pure Nitrogen to the 100 Ibs. ot salt. Its only objection is that it produces a slightly acid reaction. If you scatter it evenly on top of . the dry grass at tho rate of 150 The business of farming ls yearly. Ibs. per acre your grass should not suffer from burning, If it is ap. plied when the grass is damp, there fs a danger of the particles stick. ing to the leaves and having a burning effect on the grass. [If you continue to top dress your soil with Sulphate of Ammonia, it wilt be necessary for you to lime your sofls once in three or four years to counteract the acidity, other wise, legumes, such as clovers, will die out. Nitrate of Soda Is a neutral salt which carries 16 lbs of nitrogen to the 100 lbs, It is very soluble and readily taken up by the grass and legumes. Its only defect for your land is that It has a puddling effect on clay. QUESTION II (b):--Is it good prae- tice t ospread Wood Ashes over the manure piles -and covered up again, then mixing it. Would it save the chemicals of the ashes or would it harm the manure? This is done for-lack of space, to re- tain ashes under cover till spring, ANSWER: --It is not good practice to spread Wood Ashes over ure pile. "Ashes carry about 6% ~actual potas!: which, of course, would be a good addition to the manure. Hawever, manure carries over 30¢, of active lime (CaQ). This would have the effect of let- ting loose the Ammonia from the manure whereby you would lose nitrogen from = the manure. 1 would advise storing the _ ashes, protected from rainfall and scat- tering it on the ground in the spring when you are getting the seed hed ready. This will give you full advantageous from the ashes. A Plague of Mie Over-running Southern On- tario--Short-Eared Owls Aid Farmers Many parts of Southern Ontario are suffering from a plague of field mice. Young fruit trees and shrubs of many kinds have been murdled, corn left in stooks in the fields over winter has been robbed of all its grain and grassland is honeycombed with the runways and burrows of the mice. Mice have been more abundant than they have been for many years, At the Royal Ontario Muscum of Zoology, there has recently been placed on view an interesting ex- hibit illustrating another phase of the mouse plague. This includes a pile of owl pellets containing the skulls of hundreds of mice eaten by short-eared owls, which roosted during the winter on the grounds of the Bathurst Golf Course just north of Toronto, The bones and hair of mice eaten by owls are not digested but are cast up in the form of com- pact pellets. A half bushel of these pellets were gathered up beneath ornamental evergreen trees which had served as winter roosts for several owls. Examination of 350 of these pellets selected at random from the pile revealed the remains of 536 mice and 4 birds. The mouse whose unusual abun- dance is attracting such wide atten- tion is the meadow or field mouse, sometimes called vole. It is a stout mouse, covered with rather long brown hair. It is distinguished from the house mouse and the deer or white-footed mouse, the other two common species found in Ontario, by its short tail, small ears and tiny eyes. other two are active at night. Several causes have been sug- gested for the present abundance of field mice, including the scarcity of hawks and owls, many of which are known to feed extensively on mice. It is known that mice of several kinds vary in numbers from year to year in much the same way as the snow-shoe rabbit or varying hare does. Over a period-of years, they gradually increase in numbers until unusual abundance is reached, when they begin to decline until they are again scarce, Such fluctuation re- cur with surprising regularity in the populations of many animals, In the case of the rabbit, it is nine or ten years between successive peaks. It is not known definitely what the mouse "period is but it is probably four or five years, The present peak of numbers of the meadow mouse is an unusually high one. -Correspondents can assist the ef- forts being made to understand these fluctuations in, animal numbers by communicating thelr observations on the present mouse plague to the Ro- yal Ontarlo Museum of Zoology, Toronto. Sure To See It Sister-- Where can I put this so I won't forget it when I go out?" Brother (like all brothers) --"Put it on the looking-glass." It is active by day while the Quack Grass Wheat (Toronto Tele zram) 'Quack grass, hated in the United States as a noxious weed, has been hybridized with wheat by a Russian plant breeder, Dr. H. B. Tzitsin, the Tass Agency at Washington has been informed. The new grain grows perennially, like its quack grass parent. This, says Science Service, would presumably give it the -double advantage of not having to be sown every year, and of covering and binding the soil against erosion with a continuous mat of roots. Small-scale experiments with the kEybrid grain indicate that it will yield more flour, bushel for bushel; than "straight" wheat. Bread baked from the hybrid grain flour is said to be of good quality and flavor. Another of Dr. Tzitsin's hybrid wheats combines four wheat varie- ties in its pedigree, and is declared to be a phenomenally heavy ylelder, one stalk producing as many as 400 grains. Still another hybrid wheat hag been evolved for growing in the short-summered north; its grain can be matured in as little as 67 days. Car Light Howard Vincent O'Brien in Chic- ago Daily News writes: "The auto- mobile headlight, however, remains at the. horse-and-buggy level. Not a particle of progress seems too have been made in the effort to provide a light which will riot, blind the other fellow. There are various devices on th: market which are supposed to eliminate glare. I have scen no evi- dence that they do. On this trip I have scen a half- dozen large trucks lying overturn- ed in ditches--grewsome spectacles. I cannot say what caused these mis- haps, but I would guess (1 headlight glare, (2) sleepy drivers. Truck driv- ers are sometimes required to work longer hours than the human frame can endure. And a sleepy driver is more dangerous than a drunken driv- er. While on this theme I might men- tion that good driving scems to be on the increase, There is unques- tionably less speed, and infrequent enough to be nowable are instances of such follies as passing on hills and curves. Still at large, however, are numerous examples of the sort of imbecile who goes past parked cars at forty miles an hour and who sticks too close 'to the car in front of him." WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE-- And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go fiver should out two of Iitald bia Into yout bowels If this bile {snot flowing freely, your food 'td It just n the bowels, Gas bloats up yours i] oy A sonetipiad | Resto! poisons y, sour, Lip {phe Danie ag A mere bowel movemen! atthe cause, Youn i Sapa ete the oll, It takes old Se of bie for no calomel LE in oT Sh RP Ld Le , "4 ARE NE a ---- JES TAAL RR ) ATCO VT) 741 [Hy fo]: Yolele, ~ DIXIE bums slowly; and lasts longer. The flavour Is rich and mellow--always| Hurry Cited As Pedestrians, Cyclists and Mo- torists Would All Benefit by Making Haste Slowly. Hurry is certainly one of the im- portant causes of road accidents; hurry on the part of the motorcar driver, the pedestrian, the cyclist and other road users, writes Oliver Stewart in the Londen Morning Post. It is one of the hardest of all causes to deal with, which is perhups why it is so rarely mentioned. ' Most motorists havo... met fairly frequently the pedestrian whe sces his omnibus starting on the other side of the road and who, in his hurry to catch it, darts across in front of on- coming traffic. At such moments the pedestrian fails to note the speed of oncoming vehicles or whether the road is slippery or not. He fails to notice whether it is possible for him to be seen as he makes his sudden dive into the traflicc. The only thing that carries him forward is the hurry to get on the step of that omnibus, The cyclist in a hurry does various things. One of the commonest is to turn a left-hand corner while traflic is passing and, instead of awaiting an opening to get on the correct side of the road, to ride along close to the left-hand curb. This is a danger- ous practice which is extraordinarily prevalent. One sympathises with those who ride delivery bicycles, who are often hard pressed to get through all their orders in the time allotted; but they should be persuaded, no matter how -great the hurry, to re- sist the temptation to ride on the left-hand side of the road. The motorist in a hurry manifests his condition by violent acceleration and braking and by frequent use of the horn. Ie ntakes stabs at every opening to try to get through and jumps away on the amber at the traflic lights. To be drunk in charge of a motor-car is regarded as a serious offence. To be in a desper- ate hurry in charge of a motor-car is more dangerous. Bad Manners I have known drunken drivers who drive in a slow, rather dignified, and essentially safe way; but I have never known a driver who is in a desperate hurry to drive other than in an exceedingly dangerous way. Hurry is one of the prime causes of bad road mgnners, bad driving, and bad accidents. } So far those who make it! their business to invent regulations have not hit on any means of determin- ing a state of hurry, so they have not made it an offence when in charge of a motor-car. Possibly they do not appreciate what a large .part it plays in road accidents." But motor-drivers should recognize the risks which attend it, and should train themselves to resist it. It is dificult, when the traffic refuses to "run" and every clock shows that the chances of catching that train, or being punctual for that important appointment are receding, to refuse to hurry; but such refusal forms an essential part of the training of every safe driver. 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