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on " See Jom Co oy - TA RR Pa A IRA ; CE ERNE RAE BR et ARRAS AR x --- .-- -- ah' THE" WORLD AT LARGE CANADA THE EMPIRE PRESS] CANADA Three M.P.'s Delegates World Youth Congress A committee of tue League of Na- tions Society of Canadg has selected three members of Parliament to com: plete Canada's delegation to the - World Youth Congress opening Aug- ust 31 at Geneva it is announced. They are T. C. Douglas, Weyburn, Sask.; Maul Martin, Essex [ast, Ont. and Denton Massey, of Toronto. The other two delegates are Reneé MceNicoll Ottawa. and Kenneth Woods- worth, Toronto, who were nominated by the Canadian Youth Congress which met here last month. The World Youth Congress will continue until September 7 with four commissions or committess sharing its swowsk. When Times Disagree The annual time mix-up reaches the ridiculous with Kitehen- er adopting daylight saving and Wat -erloon, its next door neighbor, clinging to stendard time and refusing to de: part from it. } --Brockville sumer tecorder and Times. Negligence Is Not Recklessness In Alberta, as in Ontario, there is a law which exempts motor drivers "from payment of damages when gra- tuitous passengers are injured, Des- pite this 'law, a woman has been awarded damages against her brother by the Alberta courts. It seems, how- ever, that the Alberta statute speci- fies injuries sustained by negligent operation, and the courts held that "negligence" did not, under the sta- tute, cover recklessness. In Ontario, on the other hand, the Act @ays that the owner or driver shall not be li- "able, and makes no reference to either negligence or rocklessness. ' --From the Daily Star, Marked Increase in Employment Employment in Canada, as indicat- ed by Bureau of Statistics returns from 9,690 firms, showed a gain of 23,295 persons on June 1 as compared with May 1, the Bureau reports, In comparison with June, 1935, an in- crease of 47,721 was shown in the number employed. This advance while larger than the gain recorded during the month of May last year was smaller than the average scasonal gain in the period from 1920 to the present. The report showed 963,513 on the payrolls of the co-operating firms. compared with 940,218 at the begin- ning-.of May, and 915,792 on June 1, 1935. The index of employment on June 1 stood at. 102 compared with 99.5 in the preceding month and 97.6 on June 1, 1935, The index is based on the year 1926 as 100 and at 102 stood at the highest figures-for June 1, since 1931. 1) Correction does much, but encour- agement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.-- Goethe. "defences. New Washer for Small - Apartment os A baby electric washing machine, weighing only twenty-eight pounds, has. been specially designed for the small kitchen or flat. It has a steam- tight lid, which prevents steam from escaping, and itsmakers claim that it can be safely used in the draw- ing room. It is twenty-eight inches high. It is extremely economical, and will ruh seven hours on one unit of electricity, A week's heavy wash can be run off in an hour. Sister Dominion Worried About Defence General Jan Smuts warns his Boer) supporters on Afrikander day that South Africa constitutes "an attrac- tive bait for avaricious nations." Doubtless ho had in mind that the Rand is by far the richest gold min- ing area in the world. He added: "We do not possess a sing'e ship to ward oft anti-aireraft carriers, which could land enough planes on cur shores to wipe out ovr large cities within a few hours." As regular as clock work aeroplanes carrying passengers and mail almost' daily fly between Eurepe and Johan- neshurg, the big city in Rand. "All! we can do is to strengthen our de- fences" counsels Smuts, a tried lead- rin war and peace. Australia is anxious also about the aggressive tendencies of Japan in the Pacific, is spending large sums on de- fence. . ( Canada's geopraphical position alongside the United States frees her from anxieties that are worrying the sister Dominions, but it ill becomes us to brag that Canada is a "leader in promoting world peace." In a sim-|. flar situation Canadians would be as | | | 1 agncerned as the South Africans andj the Australians about being "an at- tractive bait for avaricious nations" and more inclined to look to thelr --Ottawa Farm Journal. THE EMPIRE Climbs Volcano at 95 --For sixteen successive years Mr. Alder Fisher, now aged 95, of the Auckland Blind Institute, has made an annual ascent of Rangitoto, the ex- tinct island-volcano in the Waitemata Harbor. Rangitoto is 960 feet high. Mr. Fisher, accompanied by a friend, took a little over an hour on the- pro- sent occasion to make the ascent, and hopes to climb the mountain in his | century year, | Butterfly Pictures New Fad London's society's latest fad is pic- tures made almost entirely from bhut- terfly wings. "Spaj," the artist has been buying old collections of these wings. He has completed a portrait of Queen Marry in the new medium. The dress consists of 600 butterflies' wings, all taken 'from collections dated as far back as 1865. A striking portrait -of Princess Elizabeth, entire- ly from butterfliés caught in the nine-| teenth century has been bought by the Duchess of York, Subjects that lend themselves particularly to this type of art are ships, angel fish, per fod costumes and coats of arms, Some of the costumes require 1,000 wings. --TFamily Herald-and Weekly Star ao Jeers Greet Plea Will Produce Films In Rome /altef Wanger Says-Musso- lini "Real Movie Fan" v NEW YORK---Announcing plans to produce motion pictures in Rome, Walter Wanger said as he returned from' Europe, that Premier Musso- lini is-a "real movie fan" and has given hearty support to a movement to make Rome a "Continental Holly. woad," The filmi producer said he confer-. red with the premier about his plans to produce pictures in English, per- haps in color, in Rome. "I want to get away from Holly- wood to some extent and find a new background," Wanger said. The two best projection halls in Rome, he said, are in Mussolini's pal- ace and the Vatican. ' At Mussolini's suggestion, he sald, Carlo Roncoroni, an Italian financi- er is building a model cinema city in Rome which "will be the best on the continent." Wild Dogs Slay Farm Livestock I'ORT QU'APPELLE, Sask.--Kill- er dogs have taken a toll of live- stock in this central Saskatchewan community, Farmers have reported finding carcasses of young colts and calves partly eaten, they believe by homeless dogs gone native. ' Leaders of the pack once belonoed to a farmer who left the district some time ago. They are heard at night, barking in the fields and are relieved to have picked up two or three other dogs who prey on young livestock for food. ' ; Briton Plans Luxury Cellar To Dodge Bombs--To Spend $150,000 on Big Under- ground Home LONDON, Eng.--Plans for Britain's first bomb-proof and gas-proof under- ground home, where the owner can sleep without -fear-of air raids have been announced by a firm of British architects. : It is to be bullt for an English mil- lionaire at an estimated cost of $150, 000, under a lonely meadow In Hert- fordshire. Identity of the owner is a secret. It will be a luxury mansion, with more.{han 20 rooms, 211 air-condition- ed. A turn of a switch will flood the rooms with artificial sunlight. Nu- merous such homes are visualized for the future by Alan Daly, architect. "The home now being designed is on luxury lines, but it anticipates the time when the menace of air raids in Europe may impel many home own- ers to build underground," he said. No effort is to be spared, it is ex- plained; to make the Hertfordshire home both comfortable. and safe. The framework will be of steel with rein- forced concrete. Excavations will be to a depth of 12 feet over an area of 200 by 400 feet, Daly states, The roof camouflaged as a tennis court and garden, will be of heavy concrete, capable of resisting both bombs and shells. Entrance will be through a tunnel. Walls of the -bed- rooms and four living rooms are to be of glass, througn which will stream artificial sunlight. Miniature land- scapes will surround the rooms, giv- ing the impression of being above, rather than under ground. Above the home a periscope, dis- guised through a fountain will, per- mit occupants to survey the country- side at will. "To live in such a home," said Daly "will be as healthy as living above ground, perhaps more so, The alr will be clean and precautions will be taken against dampness, while the artificial sunlight will be health giving. "To cope with the peril of air bombing there are two obvious solu- tions in building; namely, blocks of flats at widely-spaced -intervals, or the underground home. With prpoper mass production methdds there is no reason why the latter should not be- come popular." ' In the Paris Office oy : Paris was thrown into a pretty vio- ' hes. 23 ae Accompanied by small retinue, Emperor Haile Selassie is shown lent state of alarm a week or so ago, when all the wires connecting Paris with New York went dead. The W.U. officials suspected all kinds of sabot- age, and some of them were inclined to link it up with the European crisis, It wasn't war, though, as things turned out. It was simply that Sam's Restaurdnt, a little way down.the Rue des Italiens, was changing hands and the <junkman had been sent in to see what he could salvage, He was ~ arriving at Geneva to plead cause before League. Italian journalists . oi ~. hooted and jeered as he pleaded for Ethiopia, still salvaging the nice, thick copper cables that ran through the cellar when they found him. 45% : te ------ a General John J. Pershing, ican to be so honored by this exclusive band of savants and eminent personalities, initiated as a member of the famed "Institut de France," the first Amer- he made a short speech accepting the signal honor conferred, jh -- pictured (right) as Fast Driving New York Times, June 21° --"Accident Facts," 1936 edition, published by the National Safety Council, confirms last year's high re cord of 37,000 motor vehicle fatalij- ties. : The council does not agree with those automobile manufacturers who argue that highway defects are a prime cause of motor accidents; it places them among the "less import- ant" causes. Defective brakes, glaring headlights and similar deficiencies in the car itself may be a factor in( say, 15 percent. of all accident. Pedest- rians are to blame for many of them, especially in the city. But the coun- cil places the chief blame where it belongs, even though most of us are reluctant to admit it--namely, on the ordinary run-of-the-road drivers, who are neither physically defetive nor ignorant of the traflic rules: "They don't really want to have an accident, but neither do they suflici- ently: want not to have .one. They take chances by going too fast; they passc other cars.on hills and curves; they cross railroad tracks without looking;. they do not slow down at intersections; they expect other driv- ers and pedestrians to get out of their way regardless of traffic conditions." While accurate figures regarding speeds at which accidents occur are difficult to obtain, the council con- cludes from the informeition avail able from a number of tstates turn- ing in detailed reports of accidents resulting in fnjuries that at speeds accident in 61 is fatal. In the next higher speed bracket, 20 to 29 miles an hour, one in every 42 is fatal, at 30 to 39, one in 35; at 40 to 49 one 11. a > The influence of speed per se 1s indirectly confirmed in another quar- ter. Since 1927, while "automobile horsepower has steadily expanded, pedestrian fatalities have increased only 29 per cent; it is easy enough to kill_a pedestrian at any speed. Dur- ing the same interval, however, mark- ed everywhere by higher speeds, deaths resulting from collisions be- tween two cars increased 142 per- cent. These figures should dispose once for all of the argument that it is old fashioned" to emphasize speed as the most important factor in the alarming rise in the automobile death rate. Thunder Storms Frighten Many 'Are you scared of lightning? Do these summer thanderstorms make. you hide in the cellar or take refuge in bed? Thunderstorms are unnerving, And they can be dangerous. But actually 'I'the risk is very much smaller than most of us think. It is sald that in Great Britain fewer people are killed by lightning in twelve months than are killed by cars in a single day. Actually in recent years, the average annual number of deaths from 'light- ning in England and Wales has been ten. . That means that the risk is roughly one in 4,000,000. Put it another way, and you might say that thunderstorms are almost as safe as railway trains, Still, in spite of these reassyring' acts, people will go on being fright- ened when lightning flashes across the sky. And as the risk, however small, 'fs yet real, and thunderstorms are more frequent in summer, some "safety first" hints may not come amiss . ' in the first place, the safest place during a thunderstorm seems to be 'ndoors, Of the annual avetage of peo- ole killed, nino: are men and only me a woman, and Dr. G. C, Simpson, the. Director of the Meteorological 13 Office, has suggested that the explana- tion {is that there are "many more men than women out of doors dur- ing thunderstorms." There have, of course, been cases, though comparatively few, of people being injured when a house has been struck by lightning. So the American official "Code for Protection against Lightning" advises staying where it is dry and keeping away from fire- places, stoves; and--other metal ob- jects. - Dr, Innes, Director of the Transvaal Observatory, has added another piece of advice: "Avoid the line between two open windows, two open doors, an open door and window, and a fireplace and window and door," ~~ Keep Away. From Fences But if you're out of doors during a thunderstorm, as may happen to any of us at heliday-time, what should you do? | . Recently oaks have been struck by lightning more frequently than any other kind of -tree,' thus justifying the old country rhyme: "Beware of an oak," It draws the stroke." Elms come next on the danger list, and then pines and firs are bracket- ed together. But some years ago, pop- lars figured on the list immediately atfer oaks, and the ash also has a bad reputation among country folk. The safest rule is to avoid all iso- lated trees. Where remaining out of doors fs unavoidable, however, the }- American : Code recommends taking shelter in dense woods or in a grove of trees, cave or depression in the ground is also a good refuge, and the foot of a steep or overhanging cliff should be reasonably safe, Some authorities belive that there is little danger of a man being struck by light ning while moving over open ground. | Others, however, say that just as a 'trees standing alone will attract the flash, so a man, if he's the tallest object in an expanse of country, may do so. The American experts brack- et hilltops and wide open spaces as to be avoided. It is certainly safer to lle down if you are caught in.a thunderstorm on an,open common or golf -course. And if you are carrying 'golf clubs. don't keep them beside you, Iie down some distance away from theni., Experience suggests that you are safe in a car, if you keep mov- ing slowly. But don't go quickly, even if by doing so you may hope to get somewhere safer. The current of air which is set up by a fast-moving car has been known to act as a con- ductor, for lightning. There is another warning in the American code that is woftth bearing in mind. Tt is against taking refuge in a small shed or shelter in an ex- posed situation. This may be danger-' ous. South Africans wiuld probably echo that advice. There was a case in Cape -Colony a few months ago in which sixty natives, who had crowded to- gether into a hut, were killed "by a single lightning flash. But the most dangerous place of all 'in a thunderstorm -- one which mbst be avoided at all costs--is near a metal fence, especially a wire fence. If a wire is struck by lightning at any point it becomes dangerous through. out the whole of its length; so .that a man touching a wire fence might he killed" by a "flash a 'mile away, There have been cases wherd a num- ber of cattle, huddled against a fence of this kind, have all been destroyed by the one lightning discharge. On the other hand, ft {s a curious fact that slate seems to have the ef- fect of repelling electrical storms, It wag noticed that during one very-bad storm recently the Festiniog slate area, in Wales, was absolutely un- touched, although a good deal of dam- age was done in place all round 'it. And people who live in or near slate districts say that thig fs not in any way unusual, but that the slate seems to give a real protection, It may pay to investigate this a little more closely. If lightning passes over a slate district, may it not pass over house. with slate roofs: in the same way? It would be interesting if there were records to show what is the proportion of houses struck by lightning which. have had slate roofs, and which have had roofs of -¥ other types. ) But perhaps there is no type of pro- tection which is absolutely reliable. There are cases on record in which buildings hava been struck although they were supposed to be protected by lightning conductors. As we have learned more about lightning and its behaviour, however, and as the con- ductors have been improved, these cases have tended to bcome less fre- quent. Finally, lightning is freakish in its hehaviour, an deven when a person is struck by it, he may escape un- harmed. There was a case at East bourne; just a year ago. when a man was struck by a flash which set fire to his jacket. \ Another man who was passing ran to his assistance, and the burning jacket was removed beore any real damage was done, 'Where Was the Comb? The flash had apparently struck the outer breast pocket, which contained a safety razor and a celluloid comb. The comb was destroyed so complete- ly that no trace of it was left. But was untouched, and the man himself was unharmed, though the shock rendered him speechless for a time. One reason given for this seeming- ly miraculous escape was the fact that the man's unedrclothing-was dry. had been in the rain long enough to be soaked through, the result might}' have been tragic. Play Ensemble Yio, wn 3210 A decidedly feching note of this cool play ensemble is the cun- ning perky sleeve' frills of the rincess dress, She'll adore it, too, ecause she can put it on herself, "It's fun with the buttons right down the front. Even though she is so proud of her new princess dress, it's. dis- carded for play. She romps about - to her heart's content in her' cool and comfy French pantie sun- suit. She especially likes the sus-' pender straps, that don't slip off the shoulders, - Particularly dainty are the pale blues, pinks, yellows, lilacs in sturdy. cottons as chambray, ging- ham checks, percales, broadctoth, pique, ete. ' Style No. 3210 is designed for wizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 years, Size 4 requires 1 5-8 yards of 86-inch material for dress with one yard of 85:inch- material for sun-suit, HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. Enclose 15¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred); wrap it carefully, and address your-- order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. wad I~ The -- Writes the Peterboro Examiner-- Somehow we feared this would happen. Hollywood is planning a screen affair which will be called the "Baby Derby," the story being based on the will of the late Chgrles Vance Millar, Toronto lawyer who died in 1926, leaving $500,000 to the Toronto mother who had the most children in the '10 years following his death. That period--thank - goodness---ends in October of this year. ! Possibly there is nothing this pro. vince can do to stop the picture. Tha nastiness of the situation can be far" spread, and the-idea of the human race being brought to the. level of livestock breeding can be exploited for the purpose of gain, f The man who has the final word at Hollywood should be told that On- tario would prefer to be left alone in the baby race picture business. Unique Alibi For Automobile Accident Brightness, England -- High-heeled shoes were blamed for an accident in which a car carrying Mrs. Olive Lum- ley Cannon, her husband, and two children crashed into an electric feeder pillar, resulting in the car engine catching fire. The woman was fined $15 and $5 costs for driv- ing without care. { It was stated Mrs, Cannon drove her car diagonally across the street with the engine racing. It struck a bicycle, then had gone along the pavement and' struck the electric feeder pillar. Mrs. Canncpy said her foot was jammed on the accelerator. "I thir my foot jammed because I had rather high-heeled shoes," she said. rr Brief Comment ; It takes .a dentist to drill a raw recruit.--Detroit News. A man should never tell his wife to hurry up when she is coming downstairs.--Detroit News. y wenl® 3a fae WwuiL 15 Wu | oT ELING Nag Oy 132 af die average aie or oa years. If we can hold on we'll de- feat the one at our door.--Brandon Sun. __ Only two things cause people to keep their mouth shut, discretion and bum teeth. -- Quebec Chronicle-Tele- graph. : "The average child," says a psy- chologist, "can be one of two things." I've got it a boy or a girl.--London Sunday Pictorial. : . Conservation and conversation are; much alike but often there isn't. enough of the former in the latter. --Oshawa Times, ~~ =o It's a 'good plan ta let the children think for themselves--and be ready to spank them after they've done it. --Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. Television sets. "when perfected will ccst about $50 each. This will be all right, provided the installment collector keens off the air.--H. L. Phillips, in New York Sun. } tide' has definitely turned. Banker Morgan, who laid up a yacht when the. going--was rough, has just come into a $45 prize for a better sweet pea.--Detroit News, . Can Do It Any Time There is a practical as well as a sentimental value in the blue riband of the Atlantic, so long held by the Mauretania, and to most Englishmen it seems almost contrary to nature that it should not belong to a British ship. : ; There was, among the general pub- lic, a little disappointment that she Queen Mary had not made, what she was evidently not trying to make, the fastest crossing on record. This, however, she can do in. any ordinary weather whenever it is required of her. What was asked of her on her maiden voyage was to show that she 1is capable of maintaining under any conditions an average speed over the whole journey which will enable her with one sister ship to keep up the regular weekly 'service which it is planned to inaugurate. And this she has done with.an ease' and a completeness upon which all are to bo congratulated who have had any part in the achievement.--Lon- don Times. ~The Beauty of England There is a beauty of Switzerland, and it is repeated in glaciers and snowy ranges in many parts of the earth; there is' a beauty of the fjord, and jt is repeated in New Zealand and Alaska; there is a beau ty in Hawaii, and it is repeated in the thousand islands of the Southern Seas; there is a beauty of the prairie and the plain, and it is repeated here and there in the earth. Each is. perfect in its way, yet holds no monopoly of its beauty . . . But the beauty that is England's is alone--it has no duplicate, it is made up of very simple details--just grass and trees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and ; houses and vines, and churches, and castles, and here and there a ruin-- and over it all a mellow dream-haze of history, Its beauty is incomparable, and all its own.--~Mark Twain. 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