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awiththe a lonfscouts tx our weekly scout law 1 a scouts honor ii to be trusted this is the first of the scout laws to which every boy scout throughout the world has subscribed what more can be said of a boy or a man than that he is honorable shakespeare has said that my honor is my life and it is certain that a hoy is not much use without life and it is equally cer tain that without a code of honor lie cannot use his life to very effective purpose for the uplifting of himself or of his fellow men and what does honor mean ac cording to my dictionary a person who is held in honor is one who i3 esteem ed respected and upright and such a person is one who can be trusted so that when he gives his word on any matter there can be no doubt but what he intends to carry out his promise to the letter thus a scout is honorable and may be trusted because having given ui3 promise to obey the scout law of which this is the first clause he will follow through to the very end any task which ho undertakes on his honor and further being a scout and trying all the time to obey the scout law ho will not make statements which are not true scouts at famous english schools i no less than eighty old country public schools now have their boy scout troops the latest additions are epsom mill hill oakham oundle toubridge and westminster cana dian scouts on tour after the great 1929 world jamboree in england were much interested in a scout notice board in the famous quadrangle at liou recording the activities of eton scout patrols prior to the summer holidays j this is another token of the fact that it is generally recognized that the scout programme is beneficial to boys of all ranks and classes and in every station of life it should be recollected that the public schools mentioned here are the old established hoarding schools of england which are attended for the most part by the sons of wealthy par ents who pay high fees for their boys education at these colleges they should not be confused or compared with the public school as we know it in canada i when does vind whistle j how do trees indicate varying wind velocities at what wind velocity does dust rise and swirl and loose paper whirl into the air at what velocity does wind whistle in the tele- j phone wires ask a boy scout who has been studying his 1932 canadian scout diary i scouts for hudson bay co i old country rovers of several years scout experience are being sought by the hudsons bay co for apprentice ship posts in ranada tec or more have been in touch with dominion scout headquarters a recent typical letter from a scottish over tells of two months alou as cook with his factor on an ungava island awaiting the freezeup then visits of eskimos the making of igloos hunting seals and trapping foxes all these young scout adventurers write cheerily re flecting the true scout spirit under conditions that at times must be lone some trying there are two boys away up in the far north of ontario who re working for the hudsons bay company hav ing come out from scotland for that purpose who arc on the roll of tho ontario lone scout department tra velling is so difficult in that country that we do not hear from them very often but they are trying to carry out their scout programme loyally away up in that lonely country an emergency guard of honor an interesting inside story of the role played by a boy scout guard of honour is told by presideut d p cruikshanks of the minto skating club of ottawa the occasion was the last visit of viscount and lady will- ingdon to the annual skating carnival he minto follies accompanied by distinguished members of the diplo matic corps and several provincial lieutenantsgovernors to facilitate the approach of the party to the viceregal box a strip of carpet had been placed upon the ice a few minutes before the arrival of the guests the director on a final tour of inspection stepped upon the carpet it slipped under him immediately came visions of a catas trophe his excellency or her excel lency or the japanese consul general or the us minister possibly even the whole distinguished party in a heap on the ice and even broken bones the director thought rapidly smartly uniformed scouts were scattered about the auditorium on various duties hastily he called them together quickly he explained and placed them at intervals along the carpet each boys toes firmly clamping the carpet edge to the ice their excellencies and guests passed through the erect line of scouts smil ingly appreciative of the youthful guard of honour and reached their box in safety boys who are interested in the lone scouts may obtain full particulars by writing to the lone scout department boy scouts association 330 bay st toronto 2 canadian banker weds in london pd to death in a combined and dwelling at fllnton 50 miles north of here at r oclock sunday morning the victims are mrs almeda beckworth aged s2 mrs marguerite cassibo 32 raymond cassibo 7 rudolph cassibo 5 elmira cassibo 2 only leo cassibo and one of his four children ralph aged 4 of all those asleep when flames engulfed the frame building espaped with their lives from the moment when mrs beck- worth from her tiny bedroom ad- s joining the shop downstairs scream ed fire up the staircase to her tenants the cassibo family only a few minutes elapsed before the en tire building became a huge bonfire and before the choking cries of fivo persons died in the crackle of the llatnes the very act of cassibo in rushing downstairs to the rescue of ms aged landlady sealed the doom of his own wife and children for he left open a door at the top of the staircase through which the flames roaring up the stairs as up a giant flue belched death into the little apartment above i child is saved stumbling groping and coughing in the smoky heat of the downstairs rooms cassibo seized mrs beck- worth while his brain fought against suffocation then another cry reached his ears liulo ralph began to cry daddy as his fear mounted in the choking darkness cassibo turned aud grasped the little form in his arms he felt his way to a window smashed it open adding new draft to the spreading fire and dropped the child into the frosty night when he tried to go back for mrs beckworth he was driven back by the heat to the window cassibo tried to dash up the stairs bin was driven back repeatedly john robert lamb canadian banker who is 62 years of age aud his bride mrs violet osberga mackintosh who is not 62 they were photographed in old london after leaving the marylebone re gistry office canadian dollar rising declares us consulgeneral foreign trade balance investment renewals cited as rea sons drop in sterling played part toronto certain tendencies in the restored the flow of private capital in- toronto constable returning fire premier explains of car thieves kills one gold export ban four attempt escape following street chase one is cap tured by officer two others make getaway after being bottled up in trinity square fatal shot hit lung toronto bottled up in trinity pc thornton took his life in hii square after a running gunfight hands time after time- when he pulled through the downtown section a quar- up alongside the speeding car only to tet of youthful car thieves brought be forced on the sidewalk as his swift death to their ringleader when quarry dodging like a jackrabbit they attempted to abandon their lurched around corner after corner in stolen auto under cover of a volley of a frantic effort to shake him oit revolver fire upon motorcycle officer three times round the park- peter thornton g80 who had dog- ing station of albert and bay gedly pursued them in the face of fre- as the chase got dizzier and dizzier quent bullets by a tortuous route from then north on bay east on louisa sharp to the right and through the canadian situation particularly in tho balance of foreign trade and in inter national investment appear to justify tho belief that a definite upward trend in exchange may bo expected in the near future according to the report of emil sauer united states consul-geu- eral in toronto made to washington he finds the recent depreciation of the canadian dollar is not directly att tributable to the state of the foreign trade of canada therefore other fac tors have influenced the recent course of cauadian exchange among them canadian foreign loans and foreign in vestments in this country the sudden drop in canadian ex change several months ago he attri buted to the impact of withdrawals to canada for investment will be in creased particularly when it is felt that a return to par of the canadian dollar would result in added profit to such investment canadian buying abroad the exchange rate was adversely af fected also he said by a demand from canadian interests and individuals for both english and american funds to purchase securities mostly cauadian bonds in those two countries a de mand far outweighing any similar de mand for canadian funds to buy cana dian securities canadians also bought heavily in new york to obtain cauadian securi ties there which were already low owing to a demoralized bond market from cauadian banks by united states and went lower when canada was af- iuterests when great britain went off fected by englands gold standard ac- the gold standard speculative short tion and uneasy americans began to selling of the canadian dollar in now j unload their holdings of canadian york the general confuson occasioned bonds both american and canadian by the european situation and the fact securities were depressed in price by it was known sufficient gold to cover the heavy liquidation of their securi- adverse balances was not available for i ties by american banks that failed and exportation from canada largely ow- by other banks that needed ready cash five perish in flinton fire father forced back by heat leaves doorway open and flames roar up wooden stair way family is trapped mother dies with three children clutched around her nana nee five persons were burn- window and jump after them picking up the whimpering ralph cassibo dashed to the home of the nearest neighbor mrs champagne thrusting ralph inside and shouting an alarm to the champagne family he turned and raced back to his own home once more he cried to his wife to leap with the other children but no voice answered him it is believ ed that the mother and little ones were already unconscious or dead walls crumble the entire building was by this time becoming engulfed in fire and i soon the frame walls began to crum ble in showers of leaping sparks others of the 200 reidents of the little village began to rush to the scene but could only cluster about the frantic husband and father watching the structure collapse slow ly into a great mass of glowing em bers a call to operator james j vogan at northbrook five miles away sent appeals for assistance over the coun tryside and started coroner dr c m stratton speeding from napanee 0 miles away and provincial con- stablo dan wagar from enterprise the local physician dr tlndle was on the scene but the bodies of some of the victims could he seen in the ruins burned almost beyond re cognition and it was known that none of the five could he alive it was hours before the embers had cooled sufficiently to allow the bodies to be recovered they could be identified only by the size of the remains and in the case of mrs beckworth by a scrap of her woollen sweater which lay under the body there had been no stoves light ed in the building for 24 hours it was learned no insurance was car ried as far as could be ascertained tho loss is set at 1000 so satisfied was coroner stratton of the accidental nature of the blaze which he was inclined to attribute to rats chewing matches that he finally he was forced by the spread- decided there would be no inquest in flames to leap through tbe win- he said he would however submit dow after calling to his wife to a full report to the attorney-gen- throw the children out the upper a department ing to restrictive regulations balance to increase with reference to the trade balance of canada mr sauer says it is ex pected this favorable balance will con tinue to increase particularly as a re sult of the recent canadian protective tariff and of the probable effects of the adverse foreign exchange rate for canadian funds upon imports if the favorable trade balance during 1032 should amount to more than 200000- canadian securities along with us of- 000 it might bo expected that thero ei aul a consc demand for will be sufficient balance to meet the canadian funds thus lowering the dis- obligations on the canadian debt held c0lmt rat0 on tile canadian dollar the buying back of canadian bonds by canadians aud taking by canadians of the bulk of the 50000000 offering of the cnr in new york in septem ber meant a heavy demand for new york money by canadians without any demand for canadian funds to balance the drain renewal of interest now that bond prices were hotter mr sauer said thero was a renewal of interest by american investors in college and st george streets sun day night one of the officers bullets pierce the left shoulder of albert hwari age 17 of g18a shaw street pc thornton with another of the gang handcuffed to his wrist phoned for tho police ambulance and pending its arrival did what he could to staunch the bleeding from the unconscious boy3 wound howard died at s10 fivo minutes after reaching st mich aels hospital from hemmorrhage of the left lung one is captured all four of the lads had been in mates of the working boys home church and gould streets tho other three were arthur thurston age 17 an orphan thomas sheppard ge 18 and harold schlunsky age 19 of kit chener thurston was- captured by pc thornton and was charged with auto theft the other two were still at large despite an intensive police search this pair was involved in a car theft several months ago accord ing to t hope morgan superintend ent of the working boys home the auto in which the quartet at tempted to elude the constable was stolen from the curb on bond street a stones throw from the home where it had been parked by its owner ed ward lawranson of 108 waverley rd mr lawranson was at the christian convention service in massey hal afterwards when the auto was miss ing he reported the theft it was not locked he stated pc thornton had the license number on his list when he started on his regular nightly rounds at 7 oclock narrowly miss officer officer thornton picked up the scent on college street it st george where just as he was about to cross the intersection with a great signal the quartet in their car careened down upon him from the north missed him narrowly as he wheeled his motor cycle sharply to the left and tore across into beverley street against a red light taking chase immediately as a mat ter of principle pc thornton soon perceived by the lumber that the auto was one of the nights regular grist of thefts he overhauled them as rapidly as possible and shouted at them to stop that was at about 733 pm archway into trinity square then a grinding stop with a shriek of brakes as the car came to the fence at the top end of the lane where the turn was too narrow and too sharp to make more shots whined past thorntons ears as he pulled his motorcycle up short firing into the air again and then in the direction of the car as its occupants threw open the doors to make a dash on foot thornton hopped off his machine ran up and grappled with the last of the quartet to get out of the sedan the captive was quickly overpowered and handcuffed to the constable it was then thornton noticed the victim of his last bullet lying between ono wheel of the car aud the f eree where he had dropped apparently just as he was about to jump over to safe ty he was unconscious and bleeding at the shoulder forgetting the other two thornton turned his attention to the wounded heward two others sought up to a late hour last night no trace had been found of the two youths who escaped thoma3 sheppard and thomas schlumsky police were told by thurston the arrested youth that sheppard was driving the car aud schlumsky was beside him on the front seat according to the police all four of the youths had juvenile court records and both shepherd and schlumsky had been sent for varying periods to the victoria industrial school at mini- ico since their last release from the school the two have been living with thurston at the working boys home on gould st a splendid boy albert heward the youth who met his death was a splendid boy t hope morgan superintendent of the working boys home 63 gould st the youth had stayed there for a year prior to the time of his departure about seven months ago hewards body was identified at the morgue by his mother mrs lydia skene of g18a shaw st and a sister lillian aged 20 of the same address motorcycle officer thornton is 37 years of age he was born in can ada and joined the toronto police force in 1921 after returning from overseas where he served for four and a half years he is married and lives at 227 silverbirch avenue canadians reserves serious ly threatened by us speculators ottawa- ivby the government passed the orderincouncil prolii- biting the export of gold was told la pan receutly by way of an interjec tion in the house of commons by premier r b bennett i am not going to go over the whole ground again mr bennett said during his remarks but have the members of this house realized that unless by adequate and appro priate legislation we could deal with that situation the gold reserves of this country would have fallen to ten million dollars and then probably to nothing let me give you au illustration a group perhaps 1 should hardly say group i will say men in seattle and in new york i will take only these two points conceived the happy idea of gathering up large quanti ties of canadian bills at a discount they come in here with american funds and buy our canadian bills at a discount so far as they are con cerned then they go to the receiver- generals office and ask for legal ten der which means the promise to pay of the dominion of canada and under the law the receivergeneral had to buy them in or else we de fault one or the other as a mat ter of fact when they are presented at tbe receivergenerals office under the law they have to be paid in gold or w default had to redeem 50000 in one instance 50000 was pre sented by a gentleman and the de partment had no opinion that was the very start of things the gold had to bo found hon gentlemen probably saw the figures as to gold running down a few days later this gentleman tried a million dollars fortunately the long distance telephone made it possible for people who had some in fluence with him to stop him then i was confronted for i was then at the finance department with this problem how can i stop this the law said that when our metallic coverage dropped below a certain point i had to go into the open mar ket in this country or outside any where where i could buy the gold at any price in order to keep up our reserves the provisions of the finance act provide for making a proclamation as they do in the case of an insurrection or war but as a matter of fact all we had to do was to frame an orincouncil pro hibiting exportation under the pro vision respecting peace order and good government then as the gold could not be exported there was no point in cashing the bills aud having gold that you could not do anything with except redeposit it and the situation became normal abroad this would tend to relieve i pressure on the rate for canadian ex change noting a decrease of foreign invest- men in canada during 1931 the con- sulgeneral continues tho trend j i must be reversed and a substantial in- crease in such investments effected be- fore it may be expected that canadian foreign exchange will rise to par the i statistics recently compiled by the the improvement already effected in the exchange situation from cana das viewpoint was all the moro en couraging he thought when it was noted that canadas favorable balance of trade in december last was about 13000000 and dropped to slightly over 1000000 in january and febr uary another favorable trend he added was that heavy absorption of canadian canadian investment houses appear to bond flotations by canadian interests indicate that american buying of had used up a largo proporton of loan- j canadian securities is again on the in- ablo captal in canada and pointed to crease it nay he expected that a lessening of investment by cana- when stability in tho securities iharjdians abroad with the consequent de- i kets and in the foreign exchanges is mand for foreign funds i itti the legislature i in brief the ontario budget was carried in tho legislature with another big gov ernment majority the hon e a dunlop provincial treasuror in tab ling his budget showed it to be a bal anced one for the year 1932 togethor with an estimated surplus of three hundred and slxtyflvo thousand dol lars increased taxation amounting to four million three hundred and ten thousand dollars coupled with gov ernmental economics and expenditure cuts of four million six hundred and seventyfive thousand dollars arc also diown in the budget increased taxation the increases in taxation include asing tho gasoline tax by one cent to six cents a gallon a tax of ten cents a bottlo on all imported liquors and wines and a tax of twentyfive cents a gallon on domestic wlno ex tension of the amusement tax to in clude tickets as low as twontyflvo cents and abolition of all exemptions except religious charitable patriotic and philanthropic bodies increased taxes under the corporation tax act and increased charges for law stamps i these new taxes are expected to net tho following corporation tax two million dollars amusement tax two hundred thousand gas tax one mil lion three hundred and fifty thousand liquor taxes five hundred thousand wlno tax sixty thousand and law stamps a hundred thousand cut in expenditures the hon mr dunlop announced a cut in governmental expenditures by j four million five hundred thousand dol- lars referring to the new gasoline j tax he pointed out that automobile i fees in ontario are lower than any j other province in the dominion and that the present motor vehicle and gasoline tax together are fifteen per cent short of road maintenance in terest and debt retirement the balance sheot shows the assets of the province exceeding liabilities by thirtyone million dollars while tho existing taxation is less than thirty- four per cent of the total revenue thero is also to be included two million five hundred thousand dollars for direct relief for unemployment in tho expenditures and if the expend- ture undor direct relief last year had been eliminated ontario would have had a surplus of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars having to include j the necessary amount for direct relief j i this year and to secure a balanced budj get it meant that additional revenue to the extent of four million dollars j had to be raised j liquor board not robbed from the liquor control board the government had received ten million i dollars but the profits of the board j had been 1509316 less than this figure the difference being realized 1 from the surplus profits in the hands of the board any statement how- ever said mr dunlop that the gov- eminent had robbed the board is en tirely erroneous power to declare a moratorium in t he case of a municipality in default of payment of its bonds is provided for in the newlycreated ontario municipal j board under provisions of a bill in troduced to the legislature by attor- neygeneral price the bill merges the ontario railway and municipal board and the bureau of municipal at- i fairs into one board this board is commissioned to render upon any municipal matter and is empowered to scrutinize the debenture of any muni cipality and declare a moratorium when a municipality is in default and thus prevent suits against the muni- cipality the board may inquire into the affairs upon the request of the municipality itself or of twenty per nt of its creditors moratorium act explained the moratorium act where is es- pecially applies to farmers was ex- i plained by a member of the govern ment in the following way if a farmer has a farm which is valued at fifteen thousand dollars but today only shows a valuation of ten thousand dollars then this act will i be in operation until such time as the farm realizes its proper valuation the method of procedure is very simple said this member if a farm er requires to use the moratorium on mortgages the act provides that he will apply personally to a judge in chambers and will give all tho facts relative to his position and tho judge j will decide the merits of his caso this guarantees absolute privacy of the farmers personal business and at the same time prohibits the illegal uso of iho moratorium safeguards taken it will bo ealizcd he said that every safeguard has been taken against the misuse of this act be cause anyone wishing to take advant age of the new act cannot do so un less it has been passed upon by a local judge there was strenuous opposition to the passing of the budget by the lib eral and progressive members but the vote was a straight party one the con- servatives lining up solidly behind the measure while the liberals and pro gressives voted for the amendment which resulted in a big majority for the government portable plant developed by german engineer berlin a miniature electric power plant which one can carry about like a portable typewriter has just been constructed by a berlin engi neer herr ceorg muller it can be used for illuminating a weekend bungalow room or for recharging a radio battery the most interesting part is the small twocycle engine which produces onetenth of a horse power since the smallest magneto on the market would weigh about as much as the whole engine and would probably consume its entire power and since battery ignition proved too expensive the engine was fitted with selfignition it is said to be the first time that this system has been used in so small an engine the fuel consumption amounts to only thirty grams of benzine au hour spaniard invents plane on autogyro principle but minus wings london juan de la cierva spanish inventor of the autogyro was reported on sunday to have perfected a ma chine much like the autogyro except that it is without wings and to have made several flights in it the flying machine which is now at hamble airdrome i one of the first of the heavierthanair type without wings jt was described as capable of bulletlike velocity getting up and lighting in a remarkable short landing space and descending safely and gent ly like a parachute the attacks on insurance companies the attacks upon two canadian in surance companies which gave rise to a recent debate in parliament have been deprecated not only by leading members of the houso of commons but since the debate took place by i dozens of influential newspapers i throughout the dominion seldom has the press spoken with so unanimous a voice one of the companies the north i american life has its head office in i toronto the attacks upon it had to i do with its recent mutualization under i mr thomas bradshaw mr bradshaw land mr j h gundy who at one time i jointly controlled the company were denounced in certain quarters as men who had profited unduly from the mutualizing transaction but as hon charles stewart pointed out in the house on monday the price which these gentlemen received for their shares was the price which they had paid they did not make a profit the sum of 1275000 which retired the stock to the shareholders and en abled the north american to function as a mutual company was secured from funds in which the policyholders bad no interest or equity chiefly from tho surplus in the company s nonpar ticipating fund the participating fund out of which dividends are paid to policyholders was not only left ab solutely intact but becomes entitled to all future surplus earnings of the nonparticipating fund which under the old system would have gone to shareholders during the debate in the commons a number of influential members na tribute to mr bradshaws part in the transaction many of you know said mr bennett that he was city treasurer of toronto for several years and he enjoys i believe a reputation for probity for honor and for iiegrity second to that of no man n ths conn- try mr mitchell hepburn said f believe he is an honorable capable gentleman and i think he showed his unselfish spirit whe he mutuallzei the company for the benefit of the policyholders mr cameron r mc intosh north battlefordt said i be lieve mr bradshaw ought to be com mended for taking a lead in the mutualization of that company it was not to his private benefit that the company should be niiituaizrj