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to the junk pile an inspected car could be counted en to stay safe for a reasonable pe riod of time an inspected driver may develop unstable qualities half an hour after he passes his examina tions yet the authorities concentrate in inspecting driver and let dang erous old crocks go their way the result driving on a toronto street a few weeks ago with only a begin ners license and at the wheel of a decrepit sixteenyearold car practic- ully without brakes and completely without insurance a motorist struck down and injured a little girl the motorist had been drinking but the worst feature of all perhaps was the fact that he had been allowed to take the road with a car he had been able to buy for 7 considerably less than the price of a pair of license plates the mechanical condition of such a car can be nothing short of menac ing and the sooner the authorities in nil provinces arc empowered to order them off the highways the sooner the traffic toll will decrease tune up your car before you tour a car tuneup before the vacation trip will do more than any other one thing to make the holiday a success the car that seems to work fairly well in daytoday driving may not be just one hundred per cent for work at full power over long periods both safety and pleasure being at stake it is advisable to check care fully before starting out brakes and steering are the chief items in the 6afety category and in most cases simple adjustments will suffice good tires are essential too and alt lights should ha e good bulbs with head light beams properly adjusted a motor tuneup is one of the best precautionary measures battery and generator lubricants radiator and fanbelt are among the other items which should be given attention and it will add a lot to the vacat- icnirls happiness if he has the body south africa grows variety of fruits south africa grows a wide variety of fruits the principal fruits are oranges grapes pears peaches plums grapefruit apples pineapples nectarines tangerines melons apri cots lemons and production is stead ily increasing coupled with the fruitgrowing industry is that of dried fruits and the manufacture of wine for the twelve months ending june 30 1934 south africa export ed 2153000 gallons of wine to make which some 17000 tons of grapes were used to take care of her ex ports in the fruit trade south africa requires annually in excess of 7- 000000 box shooks and the canadian product has bcea well received by growers who are keen on exporting an entirely empire product fruit and box for sale within the empire price however is an important fact or canada also has an interest in cultivating tools such as spades hoes picks sprayers etc and other supplies so strange a thing in plea for peace catherine parmenter commonweal the out of the dark it came in the deepest hour and most desolate like a descendant flame so strange a thing i heard silence was shattered song fell consummate from the throat of a bird the prairie grasses lay harsh to my cheek the prairie stars swung cool and still and far away and out of the listening dark quite unafraid and wholly beauli ful the cry of a lark every city town village nd farm england scotland and wales osmium a very hard metal used largely in making gold penpoints is the heaviest substance in the world it weighs 1404 pounds per cubic foot or 98 per cent more than lead voice of the press canada to the sea ix shus after all given weather which is a mechanical nose perfected by n to rough to allow freedom of professor fair harvard university the decks an ocean voyage is some- deteets a smell 100000 times earlier thin itself given a deck chair in than it can be found by chemical an- th sun and with the waves with a alysis it is designed for research fairl 8od sea breeze as an addition- workers to save their own ncses al consideration well there is from undue fatigue as the organs cf something which is prettv much in his role of commanderinchief president roosevelt inducted 277 graduates of the military academy at west point into the rank of officers in the army he is pictured as he addresses the new officers and gives them a charge to perform their functions in the cause of peace by sriving to promote friendship and dscourage intolerance smell the professor states tire auick- ly realistic stage meals are now the fash worth while and at night when darkness closes in and the ship keeps on its path one noil in mr priestlys labum- j his opportunity to contemplate up- um grove running in london the on thc vastness of it all it is not cast have already consumed 30 lb of 1 a situation from which one should de- ham 30 lb of tongue 30 gallons of sire to d removed in a hurry it most humans are intersexual bo hi tlgiicned the satisfaction of a wellgrqorel car on the en trip is inculcukibe- horse eats choice bits of parked car men have bit of feminine in them baltimore scientist states says crime foes must use science a gint frog which has just ar rived at the london zoo from brazil has golden eyelids and carries a pair of horns one over each eye what is more it can bark bite and fight known as the eseuerzo frog more than half of its anatomy is occupied by its head and jaws which are so elastic that they can be stretched over a goodsized rat joliet 111 because nellie was hungry and thirsty and park police man james barrowmans parked car was handy nellie in the order nam ed drank from a bucket of gasoline on the running board licked part of the paint from the car and munched away part of the upholstery inside policeman barrowman told the joliet park board all about it and because the park board owns nellie and uses her to haul a lawn mower in pilcher park the members voted to setle with barrowman for 5 at the park stables it was reported that nellie was still as good a mare as she ever was ottawa any doubt that may have existed as to the prime min ister carrying on as leader of thc conservative party was set at rest last week by a statement by j earl lawson kc mp west york dominion conservative organizer at thc close of a complimentary banquet to mr bennett by fellowconserv ative members and conservative senators the organizer announced that the prime minister would con tinue as leader enthusiasm was the prevalent note at the banquet enthusiasm among and for the con servative party it was unbounded the prime minister has done what he said he would do when he re turned from london test his strength apparently the test has not been a negative one business of the house went along at a rapid clip last week standing showing twelve bill3 having passed and all the main estimates through criticism of the manner in which the report of the price spreads commission has been implemented brought forth a polite but firm reply from the prime minister criticism has been based principally upon thc question of constitutionality as mr bennett pointed out the government must do one of two things it must invite parliament to pass a statute which it knows is illegal and which will be set aside at thc first opport unity or it must ensure that there will be some amendment to the con stitution in order to render consti tutional that which has been declar ed unconstitutional thc debate oc curred during discussion on the trade and industry commission bill and when the vote was recorded mr bennetts critic was abient from the house however the bill went through with only cue dissenting vote the present tariff board will take care of the administration of tho bill when it is given royal as sent senate amendments to the weights and measures act was concurred in by the house this act which was amended upon recommendations con tained in the price spreads report will protect against short weighting in all phases of business it was pre sented to the house for consider ation by hon r b hanson york- sunbury trade and commerce minister echo of tho old cornwall bridge company charter given by thc government in 1930 was heard last week when a bill respecting the charter was up for second reading f t shaver the member for stor- mont and angus mcgillis glengarry member provided the main opposi tion to the bill in view of the fael that the company never kept its promise to build a bridge across the st lawrence to st degis island the bill was given a six months hoist the canadian radio commission was given a further lease on life until march 31 193g at least when the commons passed a bill to this end the prime minister defended the commission and government con trol of radio and also heard along with the rest of the house a report that stations in timmins north bay and kirkland lake out were joint- the filial i controlled and presented a mono poly threat the government was asked to do something about it a number of amendments to the criminal code introduced by min ister of justice hugh guthrie wel lington south was passed one of these amendments touched on mis leading advertising and the govern ment had been literally flooded by requests from mail order houses that the amendment do not apply to their catalogues now in the course of publication these requests mr guthrie pointed out were not an admission of misleading advertising as mail order houses guarantee what they advertise any change in the capital struc ture of thc canadian national rail ways was further opposed by the prime minister this in view of the fact that litigation is now proceed ing before the privy councli on be half of grand trunk shareholders reports of the canadian national should always show the investment canadian people hold in the enter prise the premier contended with dr w c clarks housing scheme through the house it is anticipated there will he a construct ion boom the scheme also provides for slum clearance it incorporates two main proposals provision for 10000000 to lend to individuals or corporations willing to build houses and who can get co per cent of thc appraised value of the property from a mortgage or loan company it is likely the economic council will give some study to the adequacy of ex isting housing schemes in this country u atlantic city biologists are coming to believe there are few hu man beings 100 per cent either masculine or feminine dr emil novak baltimore gynaecologist de clared in a report of an unusual case of tangled sex development presented before members of the american and canadian medical associations recently biological studies of recent years have shown there are many grades of intersexuality dependent on the original makeup of the chromo somes and the influence of the en docrine glands it was believed dr novak explained that every union of germ cells carries in it the possi bility of develoment of both sexes though the characteristics of one sex dominate and those of other were submerged and this delicate balance could not be overturned with sex reversal as a result the grade of intersexuality depends on the time and intensity of this re versal students of the subject now believe disorders of the nerves in the area surrounding the appendix may cause some cases of appendicitis es pecially the kind diagnosed as chronic dr louis c simard of montreal reported to the section on general surgery dr simard made a study of all appendices removed at notre dame hopital montreal between 1927 and 1931 in an earlier study it had been found there was frequently an abnormal cell distribution some times to such a degree that small tumors were formed there are generally considered scar tissue when studied under the microscope but the cells can be demonstrated by a special laboratory tcchnic dr simard divided his collection of appendices into acute chron ic and those that had been remov ed in the course of some other oper ation in the group labelled chron ic the abnormal condition of the nerves was demonstrated in 51 per cent even in thc acute group nine per cent showed them in the other group 30 per cent show ed nerve changes leading the physicians to suggest that these were the cause of symptoms inter preted otherwise sanford bates at montreal parley says united states is backward in field montreal in combatting crime the united states has not yet learn ed the importance of using all the scientific devices available sanford bates director of the bureau of prisons united states department of justice told the delegates to the amean public welfare associa- i tion kt a luncheon meeting here re cently leading a group discussion judge joseph siegler of the juvenile and domestic relations court newark nj told delegates to the national probation association also allied with the conference of social work that administration of criminal justice in his state particularly as it is applied in cases of boys be tween 17 and 21 is not abreast of the times sees way to win battle mr bates declared that the bat tle against wrongdoing will be won only by the use of science he stress ed the polygraph or lie detector saying that it is invaluable in com mercial work he listed many crime detection devices he said that the annunci ator as used to spread the alarm in prisons would have been a won derful thing around the lindbergh baby he predicted that eventually every one will have to have their fingerprints registered and that the public will welcome thc idea if only for selfprotection justine miller special assistant united states attorney general praised the unity in criminal law administration in england this he said is the envy of those in the united stales struggling with the conflict of jurisdiction judge siegler declared that the success of probation in dealing with offenders up to 1g in an argu ment for its extension to include all offeituers under 21 if similar con sideration was given to offenders over 1g as that now given to de linquents in the juvenile court the number committed to penitentiaries and reformatories would immediate ly decrease without injury to any concerned he asserted new york drops breach of promise new york sun to persons interested in the his tory of laws and manners the pass ing of breach of promise litigation in new york will serve as a remind er of how human affairs tend to- move in circles for now it will be unlawful to bring an action monetary recompense on this beer go lb of tomatces 120 lettuces 800 bananas and large quantities of milk bread mustard cheese butter tea and sugar at his nail forge in the black country mr c williams turns out in an eighthour day half-a-hundred- weight of giant nails for use in the construction of canal barges he is the last of britains handmade nail makers stonecrushing with water is made possible by a system of highpres sure pumps designed by mr chijikov a russian engineer who intends adapting his invention for icebreak ers to carve a path through the ice by bombarding it with jets of water shot out at enormous speed and force all thc salt in the ocean would cov er the united states with a layer a mile and a half deep when the new motor road is built between cairo and jerusalem at a cost of 2000000 travellers will make in less than forty hours the journey that took moses and the is raelites as many years one enjoys travel at all the ocean liner is about the last word when it comes to enjoyment and rest it is difficult to appreciate the state of mind which would wish to get it over just as quickly as possible and to apply the standard of todays mad craze for speed to that delight ful experience stratford beacon- herald modest maritime more often than not when you see a man selected to do a big job in canada he is a native of the mari time provinces halifax herald count suits now under way can prosecuted as before thus the wheel has come full swing since the days before the protestant reformation when in england marriage ceased to be a matter of spiritual jurisdiction and became regarded as benefit before that one of the oldest recorded propos- for als of marriage in the world has been acl found by members of the german in be stitute of archaeology working in anatolia the message from the widow of the pharaoh tutankhamen to the hittie king shuppiluliumash reads i am very young and beauti ful i do not desire remarriage with a man of my own country swl a temporal me one rf thy sons and after mar- time breach riage with me i shall make him king the north shore the rocky shore of lake super ior has vast deposits of iron about to be developed 100000000 tons having been proven up in one hill also the fastest developing gold area in canada at michipicoten and a stone picked up on the agawa trail containing silver and big chunks of native copper were blown out of a rock cup on the lake superior sec tion of thc transcanada road it sure looks like a very unusual high way sault ste marie star of promise maintained actions could not be of egypt now the fegal statusj a icrum which makes it of marriage is not changed but that aimost j for criminals to of the preliminary contract has been toll j w being claimed the goldeye the winnipeg goldeye is all that a cured fish should be meaty flav- orsome and delightful to look at most people try it for the first time when they are on a transcontinental train but once eaten it is never for gotten vie la goldeye ottawa citizen considerably altered the law has long looked upon marriage as more than a contract since it establishes a peculiar rela tion which the state is careful to defend except in such circuni- on looking round a fellow townsman stuck his hed in at my office door the other day mid said say bill what docs a golf ball stances as are recognized in actions comes umjcl its influence he then questioned is to have been perfected by mr leonard keeler of the crime de- do wn it stops rolling tcction laboratory of northwestj i was sorely tempted to reply university chicago the criminal drops into a gopher hole but in- must submit to severa inoculations stead confessed that i did not know with the truth scrum before he while he withdrew and closed the for divorce but a promise of marriage is simple executory civilian contract one in which something remains to be done as in all other contracts there must be offer and accept ice a meeting of minds as thc lawyers say a valuable considera tion ability to perform neither thc man nor the woman may be under lawful age or other legal disability a contract is completed when one says will you marry me and tho other says yes or words to that effect as such promises are mu tual an exchange of them is held sufficient to constitute lawful con sideration it is proving the contract which causes most of thc difficulty in contested suits for breach of prom ise suitors do not commonly pop the question before an begins to talk freelv- iy- and truthful- no swimming pools denies shes engaged changing a ships gender the controversy in france the gender of the new giant ina claire stage and screen actress smilingly denied rumored engagement to prince frcdinand lichtcnstoin as she arrived in new york after a visit to vienna over liner normaiidie is but another instance of the difficulties encountered by people speaking other languages in mastering the intricacies of french genders in english all ships are regarded as of feminine gender perhaps for the oftalleged reason that they require men to manage them in french all ships are masculine but this ship is named for o french province or district which by the rules of french grammar is of feminine gender the minister of marine accord ingly has issued a circular correct ing the general practice of refer ring to thc ship in the masculine gender as le normandic and dc daring the name is la normandic boston transcript the silent prisoner sometimes a putative bridegroom after thinking things over will wish to withdraw from his engagement he may deny that he made an of fer which was accepted that is when love letters and similar docu ments come in handy for the fair creature who has been wounded by his inconstancy frequent visits devoted and ex clusive attentions arc not suf ficient reasons for inferring a promise even letters however ardent must be more or less speci fic on the critical point to constitute proof it is of help to a plantiff of course if she can prove that the defendant openly acknowledged an engagement to collect money a plaintiff must not only prove the contract and its breach but also the damage caused by the breach on the subject of damages however considerable lati- j walk to myself then an ancient tude is left to thc jury elements entering into consideration are loss of reputation dealth social position opportunity to contract other en gagements and the like in recent years actions of breach have conic into increasing suspicion as being too often a form of legal ized blackmail that is mainly the i reason why they arc now outlawed in new york pin this in your hat the great sikorski builder of giant planes during a quarter of a century told a group of writers in new york recently that within three to five years we will be constructing planes weighing 50 tons which will carry up to 125 passengers in all of the comforts afforded by the modern transatlantic liner including show er baths and dance floors but ex clusive of swimming pools to reach europe in 24 hours and asia and the antipodes in a couple of days for comfort and pleasure of audience i passengers he said they will not sail in the stratosphere twentyfive years ago sikorski was building little planes which were thought wonderful when they jumped three feet off the ground editor and publisher doctor of divinity- ln the old days a prisoner who stood mute of malice was liable to have heavy weights placed on his chest until was know and doubtless deserved thc descript ion nowadays in such cases thc judge orders a plea of not guilty to be entered on the prisoners be half queer world an uncut sapphire worth 50 has been found by a farmer in the crop of a turkey he was dressing in a recent test of thowoaring quality of various textiles it was found that for every 100 days of wear il he broke silence this r by cotton lines gave forty- n as peine dure et forte j thrco days wool twentythree silk ays 1 four and rayon two our largest ordnance survey map contains 51500 sections and shows every house building fence lamp- 1 post fireplug and isolated tree in rev dr robert j craig clerk of kingston presbytery modera tor of thc synod of toronto and kingston and sole surviving min ister of the general assembly of 1875 who was honored at a spec ial convocation in the presbyter ian theological college with thc degree of doctor of divinity hon oris causa door he said why it looks round it made me wonder if we should not adopt the philosophy of the golf ball a little cftener than we do and stop rolling and look round to sur vey the ground ahead of us and at tempt to select a smoother coarse than the one we have just bounced over western municipal news old fort wellington it is gratifying to find that old fort wellington at prescott one of the sights of the upper st law rence region is becoming increasing ly popular with visitors to the ex tent indeed of attracting over a thousand of them already this seas on this fortification which on shell of high explosive would today shat ter to atoms has been described as one of the best preserved old mili tary werks in canada and certainly its condition and the repairs to which it is subjected year after year form striking tribute to the interest which successive dominion administrations have taken in its welfare it is tod iy largely as it was when it was nam ed by british garrisons and when its cannon now so useless really meant business brockville roccrderl working ill hi l way the young mar who works his way through college is apt to be a much better student than thy one whose parents pay his way this is the con clusion to be drawn from a survey just completed at thc university of southern california by dr frank c touton the universitys vicepresi dent the survey compared the scholars- tie records of students participating in the federal governments program of parttime jobs for college under graduates with those whose expenses were being met by their parents and it found that the former group rank ed higher in classroom marks dis played a greater earnestness of pur pose and in general seemed to be getting more out of college life this is not hard to understand tho lad whose college expenses are paid for him can easily fall into the notion that college is just a pleas ant and diverting lark the one who is earning his way by thc sweat of his brow knows what he is in college for and does his best to make it worth the effort it is costing him victoria times destruction of beauty woodman spare that tree is the cry going up in ottawa at the de nuding of the forests on thc gatincau hills for a mere pittance regert- table to say a natural resource and beautiful scenery arc being destroy ed the consequences from which will be deplorable in the years to coma st 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