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i | Sparks fr Tmust be at the habit of doing the u..expected, "bu his myriad admirers. wil* hope that he may have a braw time on the tou. .--Brdantford Expositor. Danger Hours Annocent fruit to blow human beings ------r i om the Press } CANADA ~ Won't Settle Anything According to League of Nations figures, there are three million more men under arms in the permanent forces of the world today than at the outbreak of the Great War--which was to have ended war. The number of men in armies and navies today is set at 8,200,000 ani does not include the semi-official forces in sc 'e lands, Many of our troubles may be traced "directly to the Great War, which set: tled nothing and seems' to be leading to a new war which will settle noth- ing again except perhaps the fate of civilization,--Niagara Falls Review, And No Motor Cars "A man who can fump six feet on the earth could jump 36 feet on the moon, because the force of gravity on the moon is only one-si th of the pull on this planet." Pedestrians must envy the man in the moon,--Kitchen- er Record. Well to Remen. er Britain was our best customer in October, bought $47,000,000 worth of our goods. It is something to remem. ber.--Ottawa Journal, Only Needs Doing Business prophets usually talk as though good and bad times come and go with the [nevitability of the tide. This doctrine of economic predestina. tion must not be allowed to obsess us into a state of submission to fate. I'he universe may be mechanical, but the affairs of mankind are subject to the will of man. Neither depressions nor booms are inevitable it we make up our minds to avert or control them Booms and depressions are made by man und anything that is man-made can be unmade or made differently by wman.--Stratford Beacon-Herald. Sur Tobucco Croup Twenty live years ago Canada had a record tobacco crop oo 12,000,000 lbs, 'I'lms year it was not a record, but it stood at £3,000,000 pounds. It is progress in" terms ot production. -- St. Catharines Standard. Ard So It Goes P.ckiord is to marry Buddy This wilh "e her third hus Land. the previous two having been Coen Moore and Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairb ks Tas also mar- ried three times: Anna B. Sully, Mary Pickford and Lady Ashley. Owen Moore, Mary Picklord's first husband, later married Kathryn Perry, And so it goes "don. Mary Ro oes. hroughout movie- What a meeting of "ex'." there large Hollywood gather ings. And that' one case where "ex" is not the unknown que-tity.--To- ronto Star. One Makes Average The average mother, according=to a Salt Lake City churchman, should have three children. At the. sanie time, just one child can make some mothers feel pretty darned average.-- Windsor Star, i : Harry Lauder on Tour Sir Harry Lauder, the famous com- edian, has started on a world pleas- ure trip----without seeking to secure any bawbees by entertainments en route. He manifestly = still retains During certain hours of the day, for the next three months, wise automo- bile drivers will be exceptionally cau- tious in picking their way through trafiic, - For, according to statistics, death turks closer to the pedestrian between 6 und 8 o'clock p.m., during October, November. and December than at any other me of the year. During that pariod, the early dusk in: creases the risk of accidents as thou: sands of workers crowd the centre line, cut in and out, and speed -- just to get home a minute or two earlier, If each driver will reflect that his family would sooner have him come home a few minutes late each day than risk his own neck, or that of another, perhaps the danger period mentioned would lose some of its deadly significance.--Vancouver Sun. Apricots in War During the Great War it was sald peach stones provided the basis of some form of protection from poison gas, Now word from Australia says apricots are being grown there prin: cipally for their stones, which have Been found to contain a material use- ful in the manufacture of powerful explosives, Canned, dried and other- wise preserved apricots have been the basis of an extensive and profit: able fndustry which had nothing to do with war, but now sclence comes along and points a way of using this Laman Lo Ce into eternity. Already the Austral fans, according to the dispatch, are disposed to look upon dried apricots and apricot jam as mere by-products cf a new war industry. Apricot stones are what count,--Brandon Sun. D A Reversal The" man who tossed a' gold watch at President Roosevelt now wants it re turned." Time marches back !--Wind: sor Star. 'THE EMPIRE e> Prelude to Peacu The world speaks of peace as if it were to be achieved only by the ces sation of the hostile attitude of civil ized nations towards 'each other. We must not forget, however, that an es sential preliminary to that blessed state of affairs is economic peace. If that can be brought about, thc, manu- facture of arms and munitions may yet be converted to the manufacture of the needs of man, each {n that country best suited economically to its production.--Johannesburg Times. New Zealand Defence "At a time when all the talk Is of national security and defence it may be permissible to say a word or two about the most defenceless country in the world--New Zealand. Like other modern nations, this Dominion relies for protection upon an army, a navy and an air force. The army consists of a permanent force, a ter- ritorfal force, and several corps of school cadets. On May 30th, 1935, the strength of the permanent force stood at 92 officers, 11 staff cadets and 421 other ranks, It Is divided elaborate- ly into regiments and corps, the per- fect skeleton, as it. as bee' called, of an army, But, naturally, you can tramp up, and down the length and breadth of New Zealand and not meet a man In khaki.---Donald Cowie in 'The Fortnightly (London). Wives Should Go Out Alone A Vicar's Idea to Keep. Mar- riage Happy--Too Tying For Modern Girl : LONDON.--Many marriages are marred before ever they are made, according to Rev. Cecil Clark, vicar of St. Gabrials. Wanstead, London, Eng. 'The good times which most girls have while young and unmarried are, he thinks, the cause of trouble dur- ing married life. He suggests that husbands.should allow their wives an occasional "night off" away from husbands, children and household cares. He goes furtherand suggests that husbands should look after the child. ven and the house on these occisions. "Years ago," he says, "girls led a homely and domesticated life from the day they left school. GOOD-TIME GIRLS "They stayed at home and helped their mothers with the "housework. Outings were few and far between. "When they married and had to look after homes of their own there was really no great change. "To-day things arc different. Be- fore marriage girls sce to it that they have a good time. They have almost every evening and weck-end free. They go to parties, dances and cinema shows. ' "When they marry they have to slow down_and there is bound to he a reaction, "Husbands do 'not feel like going out every evening after' a hard day's work. No more parties and dances. "Most women cannot afford maids and are chained to the house. Child: ren arrive and occupy almost every presiding chairman, and Sir Canada;; Jesse B. Ellis, U.S.; Hearing Evidence of The International Joint Co water channel from Montreal to Seated, left to right are John H, mmission is hearing briefs for and New York. This picture of them was Bartlett, U.S.; Hon. Charles Stewart, Canada; A. C. William Hearst, Canada. Standing are (left to right) George W, Kyte, Lawrence J, Burpee, Canada, and Eugene Lorton, U.S, - against the long-discussed deep taken as they sat in Albany. Stanley, U.S,, "Visits to cinemas become rare, and even these mean either compli- cated arrangements with similarly situated neighbors or else the child. ren have to be taken as well, "After a while, the great change and the strain begin to tell. The wife becomes discontented and, perhaps, peevish. The husband-finds that his wife has become a different woman from the girl he married. "He, too, becomes disgruntled, and so the crisis, which wrecks so many homes, draws nearer." . The vicar has formed a "Fellow- ship of Marriage," which, in order to avert the danger of developing into what he calls "a grandmother's meet- ing," has been limited fo women under forty. This fellowship will provide the opportunity for women to have a reg- ular "night off" from their husbands and home. G.B.S. Loses $1,000 Jolin O'Ren writing In the Bally more Sun observes: From a returned traveler in kng land | have the subjoined account ol Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's unhappy ad venture among the peers of London's press, Beaverbrook and Bothermere. It may be a canard, but 1 hope It's true. : \oirpeiotrgs ; According to my informant v-ho got it from what is described as an unim peachable source, Shaw was asked to write a plece for Rothermere's Daily Mail. The paper wanted 1,000 words. for which it contracted to pay him £200, or $1,000. He could pick his own subject. Shaw picked his own sub Ject, but for some reason or other fit pleased him to write it in the form of a letter to the editor. He dashed off the article and posted it, in an unac customed fit of absentmindedness, to the Daily Express. . } It is easy to-Imagine the delight ol the editors of the Express to find in their morning mail a long letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw. free gratis, for nothing, Mr. Shaw, although a 'Soéi- alist, is not entirely unaware of the value of money. He charges the rress for so much as answeriag ques- tions by telephdne. The Express, as they say in London, joyously splashed It all over the front page--and spoll- ed Mr. Shaw's breakfast. Had he written his article as he writes most of them, instead of adopt ing the neat conceit of making his $1,000 in the form of a letter to the editor, he would have had a chance of making Beaverbrook pay .for Roth. ermere's disappointment. But, as It is, G.B.S. can only bite his whiskers in futile annoyance. "No. 1 Sweethearts" Writes the Windsor Star: -- Ethel duPont and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. are described as "America's No. 1 sweethearts." By virtue of money and politics, perhaps they are. But Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers look like formidable claimants to the title --and then there's Peggy Hopkins Eggs of Pullet Flock Are Small Not a Normal Nor a Desirable Condition in Birds "The approach of Fall- usually brings an influx of small pullet eggs that are difficult for the poultryman to market advantageously Nature intended the first two or th:ee pul let eggs to be small in order that the egg passage might become grad- ually expanded, and in condition for the larger eggs to follow. Continued production of small eggs is not, however, a normal or desirable con- dition. : : Breeding largely determines the size of egg of any one bird. If small osgs are used for incubation the re- sulting offsoring will have a tenden- cy to produce small: eggs. On the other hand, if only eggs of good size and shane are used for incuba "on, the nnl'ets resulting fron the fateh will lay -but a relatively few ma!l eage nrovided conditions en- ouraging the production of small ong are avoided. "eeding has only an indirect effect nn the size of egg. Hatching out of season or forcing for production at the expense "of normal body weight will decrease the size of th: eggs. A continued perfodiof small egg pro- duction in pullets' that came from narent stock that produced good siz- ed eggs, is usually due to incorrect feeding or-management that has re. sulted in the pullets reaching ma- 'urity without acquiring normal body: weight. A few pullets should be weighed at intervals of a week or 10 days to check up on their gain or loss in weight due to egg 'production. As 'ong -as body weight is maintained or increased production should con- tinue and egg size increase. But if body weight is allowed to decreecse a- drop in production, a reduction in the size of egg and even partial or complete molt is likely to follow. To maintain body weight scratch grain should -be fed plentifully. and the night feeding should be largely of whole corn. Watch the mash con. sumption. and increase the scratch grain and reduce the amount of mash fed if body weight begins to decline. "L. G." On Currie Canadians are naturally interested to learn that Lloyd George, in the final volume of his memoirs, has hig. praise for the late General Sir Arthur Currie and for the Austra- lian, Sir John Monash, He seizes upon the circumstances that both Currie and Monash were "civilian" soldiers who proved brilliant military leaders. ) ; Lloyd George's encomiums are the more interesting since. the veteran Joyce and that physics-Brofessor. second of their time. employed, many living in public insti- tutions at' the expense of the state. The majority could be trained to be at least partially self-supporting in farm colonies and' industrial occupa. will, letting the chips fall where they may. Particularly gratifying are his remarks about the prowess of - the Canadian troops. Whenever the Ger- mins found the Canadians in the line opposite them, he usserts, they vrepared for the worst. There is ~eneral testimony of this observation, among German as well as other sources, The fiery little Welshman was just the man to appreciate the spirit of the Canadian troops in France. New Institutions ~ For Sub-Normals New Brunswick Has 1,500 Who Are Mentally Just Twelve Saint John, N.B.--"We' ha about 1,600 persons in New Brunswick who, because of some hereditary or accid- ental defect, can never get beyond 12 years or age, mentally," Dr. Fletcher Peacock, director of the Saint John Vocational School, sald in a talk here. "Many of them always remain at. five or six years. Should children of these. mentally tender years assume the duties-of citizenship? Can they be expected to- build successful homes? Dc we want them to repro- duce "their. kind, either legitimately ui' otherwise? 5 "Most states have now faced this problem and grappled with it. The modern way is not to throw the de- fective children into the river as Sen: eca advised the oman state to do,. 'cuously, as we do in New Brunswick, but rather to establish -.ir tutions and farm colonies to care for those unfortunates who, through no fault of their own, require protection. "Our progressive minister of "health hag said publicly that he intends to move in the solution of this pressing social problem of New Brunswick, The Mental' Hygience Council of the province, which has the proper care of the feeble-minded as one of 'its obj ctives, is actively Interested and has alroady launched a campaign to ~ubilize public opinion behind . the health minister by rousing. our citi-] zens to.the importance of treating our sub-normali more hiimanely, of pre- venting = them from multiplying, through .egregation, and of remo~' 1 tro soclety the source of much of 'ts misery, slums and vice." Sterilization_was not. the complete answer to the pro":e' , Dr. Peacock contended. Alone, this c.ld 'leave the: defective unprotected and still a men ce to society. "Such a policy would result in an incrc-se¢ of prosti- tut »n and venereal 1iseases, and give the unthinking public a false sense nf security." Most of the sub-normals were un: Found In Corn -- Research i Finds Cancer Tumors In Indian Corn - (By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE) (Associated Press Science Writer) Philadelphia. -- Tumors in Indian corn seeds, which trace the cancer problem back to the earliest begin: ings yet discovered, were reported to the American 'Philosophical Society by. Dr, Donald F. Jones of the Con- necticut Agricultural Expériment Sta- tion, : : X His investigation was sponsored by funds of the International Foundation for Cancer Research and the Ameri: can Philosophical Society. > The corn tumors, microscopical: in size, were found ir the endosperm, the portion used as {ts first: food by the little seed. Their origin was trac ed directly to the changes in the her- editary units, the chromosomes which by coming together during fertiliza- tion, produced the seed. . Corn tumors are not cancer, but the similarities between development of corn tumors and the malignancies of animal cancers are striking, Dr. Jones pointed . out closely parallel growths have beer found in the bod: : les of fruit flies, arising apparently from similar chromosome changes during fertilization. . Canadian Turnips 'Given Premiums Because of their fine flavor and ap- pearance, Canadian turnips shipped into the United States from the pro- vinces of Prince Edward Island and Ontario have predominated on all major wholesale markets of the East ern United - States without »derate shipping distance of the Dominions. Passing through the usual channels of trade of consumption in hotels, res taurants and homes, these .turtips have "commanded a premium over thoge of domestic origin, 'fhe domes: tic turnips in the- Eastern United States for the most part are sold on local farm. markets or to factories or wholesale centres. Howe. s= they do not exercise a decisive influence on the market prospects for Canadian i Comments made at the opening of the fall assizes in Port Arthur this week by Mr. Justice Jeffrey may be attitude of the public toward te m ace of which he was speaking, - that er, obseryes the Chronicle, 3 to pile up, adding to the number of dead dnd the permanently maimed, therq arises a strong feeling that it must" be stopped in some way. Discussing the subject in the past, The News-Chronicle has pointed out among other things that it should not be left entirely to the police officers and the courts. Citizens should act on their own behalf and take steps to see that those who flagrantly vio. late the rules and regulations are checked up. "Police cannot be every. where, but in most places where there is an frresponsible driver there is al- so some normal citizen to observe him, Citizens, in the interest of safe- ty, perhaps, their own, should report these cases, It appears that this /lewpoint fis finding wider acceptance. The Toron. to Mail and Empirc tells of a wide awake citizen with an inventive and constructive mind: who has . outlined to us a simple plan for lessening the amount of bad driving on, the; public highways, and of thus reducing the number of motor accidents and fatal ities. His Idea is to convert respon. sible motorists into a sort of unofii. cial body of informers against reck- less drivers. According to this scheme the Highways Department will distribute small booklets of post. cerds easily carried in the coat pock- et, among responsible citizens who are public-spirited.-epgugh to .co-oper- ate with the powerstth.t be in a con: - certed attack on one of the worst scourges of the twentieth century, On witnessing a breach of sane driving, the voluntary scrutineer sim. ply fills out one of the cards, identify- ing the offending vehicle rnd the na ture of the offence and drops it in the nearest post box, On receipt by the traffic control'section of the High. ways. Department, it is flled against the. offender's name. If several of t' ese are filed against him they will regarded as indicative of the general of the irresponsible automobile driv. Port Arthur News. 8 "As the list of accidents continies oor-to. let them enter soclety-promis- |... turnips. command the highest prices, New--York,--During the season, extends from September to the usually moderate in October, season approaches, and as a rul | Knows Its Beans Writes the Lethbridge - Hi Boston will have to look to its els, If the staid and sober chusetts: city doesn't watch In the two main consuming centres for Canadian turnips, New York and Boston, Prince Edward Island turnips the Canadian Trade Commissioner in ing April 'or May, opening prices are to a peak In November as the holiday again after the first of the year. Massa- states which ollow- rising e rise erald: laur- out, Lethbridge, Alberta, will annex its title of "bean town" and be proud of it. A For three years in succession now Lethbridge "district. has won grand championship -honors in beans at the Toronto Royal. "And. to make our position in the bean world even more secure, we have invaded the windy city and taken top honors: in -fleld beans at 'the Chicago International. We doubt if Boston ever took a prize for a raw bean in its life. Bos- ton, we will admit, put the baked bean on the map, but when it comes to the raw bean which is the basic bers. count against him in the event of an accident or persecution, If he fails to mend his ways after'warning, and the complaints still come in, he will be asked for a satisfactory explanation, If such is not forthcoming (and it would be difficult to furnish), his car or truck license plates will 'be with- drawn until 'such time as he can fur nish satisfactory guarantees that he, has ceased to be a menace to the lives and limbs of others. : It is quite possible the tests would reveal his driving = de- fects. The old story over again -- pound of cure--and the dangerous drivers would quickly become known. This would be locking the stable door before the horse is stolen. The source of the Information would be a closely guarded secret of the department, the public-spirited citizens who ' fur- nished it being known only by num: Statistics show that 85 per cnt. of the accidents are caused by 16 per cent. of the drivers, The extent of the menace is shown by the statistics. In Ontario during 1935 a total of 660 people were kill ed, 1,700 :permanently injured and 10,000 otherwise injured. So The. principle of every citizen a '~ace officer .i8 good in law. : It should be equally good when conyverteq to every driver a traffic officer. > DeSjlve. = an -ounce*of "prevention fs worth a ~~ beans and beans a la mode, we the palm to no one. You can't the nude, as it were, and wh them to be we can furnish B with the championship, blue r de luxe brand. winning the grand championsh diplomatic relations between B War Minister lays about him with a tions, Dr. Peacock asserted, and Lethbridge are in order. ingredient of baked beans, pork and Boston baked without the bean in comes to beans as Nature intended As long. as Lethbridge is to go on beans, we would suggest that closer yield have en it oston ibbon ip in oston ---------- x "I see it isn't alive," said Doro- thy,. drawing a long breah, "It is only made out of copper, like the old kettle in the barnyard at home," said 'the hen, turning her head first to one side and then to the other 80 that both of her little round eyes could examine the object.' "Once," said Dorothy, "I knew a man made = WALT eyes, out of tin, who was a woodman her w foathers named Nick Chopper.' But he was Then os, as alive as we are." al to got & back not alive at all, and 1 won- der what it was made for and Why it was locked up in this queer place." "That fs a mystery," remarked the hen, twisting her head 40 stepped around behind -- "Oh," sald the hen with a sniff, as if she did not believe the story. "But this copper man," continued Dorothy, looking at it with big printed card tha a small copper ais neck. Doroth hey aloud of the man, clare!" gage The first thing she saw was a "shoulders, it being: suspended from around where the light would fail » it and began to read the print. ing. "What does it say?" asked the hens, gutloualy fio 'Dorothy read the loud, spelling out the big words with some. Hide AA de - ° t hung between his is a ve g in the back of wisted this card what. he'l sald: L} yellow hen. he w Se "If the copper, man of the hings -" do half tinued the hen, '/but 1 suppose it is a humbug." "We might wind him up," sug ested Dorothy, "and see do" "Where is the key ; n he Slosicwork 1 gl anging on the peg where * found the card *' was the reply. "Then," n, "let us try and see if asked Billina, . Colds and Chills (Lucio, in the Manchester Guardian) When Winter reasserts its law, One point | always note with awe; That folk of eminence and worth Are not like those of common earth, Because, by custom firm and old, They ever catch the common. cold Oh, no--when notables are ill It seems they suffer from "a chill", Such is the bulletin sent forth When. winds blow shrewdly: from the north; - .|The eminent are kept indoors Not by the "cold" that swamps and floors : The baser sort and lays them low; Theirs is a "chill", they'd have you know. Such flights, of course, are far yond My humbler regions of despond; When I am fairly stumped 'and bowled 5 i 2 The trouble's just a beastly cold; The more distinguished chill, you see, Is not for perishers like me. be- "What's in a name?" 1 ask with pride; The test is in the thing supplied, And when it comes to sneeze and snivel oe is supposed to do he I count their claims as merest wonderful machine," con- drivel, : I said sc once, I say so still; For feeling downright limp and ill, I'd back my cold igainst their chill, / Soap cakes moulded to represens : figures in national costume are to 8 gifts for children in Germany, be, eatured as Christma PO LJ I} | « ¥ é& X 3 << »