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big recovery across canada economic position of major ity of people much j improved j toronto lifted from the depres sion by their own initiative and im proved conditions abroad the major ity of canadiau3 are no longer in an economic wilderness s h logan of toronto president of tho cana dian hankers association told the organization recently to the associations annual meet ing mr logan in his presidential ad dress brought a picture of general the papers say editorial herb comment from there and everywhere canada but how business prophets usually talk as though good and bad times come and go wim the inevitability of the business so substantially improved tilo r doctrine of economic pre- despile setbacks in certain areas that the economic position ot three- quarters of our opulation has im proved recovery widespread recovery has been much more widespread than at any time since the low point of the depression in 1s33 and had there not been this year a continuation in parts or our estern provinces of what some scien tists regard as the worst series of droughts lu the last 200 years the economic and social gains would have been still more impressive he said mr logan attributed the years record mainly to private enterprise taking advantage of improved mar kets abroad consequent upon in creased industrial production in the major countries he pointed to the largest foreigu trade since 1903 increased produc tion in forest and mining industries those favorable features however along with an unprecedented total value of credit advanced by banks in the form of purchase of securities and various types of loans did not mask the unfavorable ho said out standing among these was a national crop outturn about 20 per cent be low the average destination must not be allowed to obess us into a state of submission to fate the universe may be mech anical but the affairs of mankind are subject to the will of man neither depressions nor booms aro inevitable if we make up our minds to avert or control them booms and depres sions are made by man and anything that is manmade can be unmade or made differently by man stratfor beaconherald horses lose tails all soviet farm horses will lose their alls a3 a result of an order issued by the comml3ariat of agri culture to state and collective farms the commissariat has ordered all farmers to cut off tails and manes of horses to supply our industry with valuable raw material sault dally star famous dancer now sells peanuts london eng lydia famous dan cer and artists model of the 90s whose white pony and barrel organ were a feature of london bohemia 40 years ago earns a living selling peanuts in streets where once she was mobbed for her beauty once she earned 250 a week now she counts herself lucky if she makes 3 weekly she appeared out of the nowhere in the early 90s with a snowwhite pony and a tiny barrelorgan in the west end a natural dancer who turned cartwheels in the street or on the ponys back tempting offers were made her by theatre managers but she preferred the jolly bohemian life londons trilby she was call ed by artists and she posed for those who could not afford models one of them a funny little man only just came from ireland with a tootli out in front aid one shoulder lower than the other and never any real food in him was later to be come tho great painter sir william orpou i felt sorry for him said lydia and i posed for him for years whenever 1 could get away from my dancing lie lived in one room in a hasoment in charlotte street he was a white man one of the best gentle men god ever made just before the war a jealous ad mirer made a savage knife attack on her and ruined her beauty after three months in hospital she knew she could never pose or dance again but the spirit of the girl who was the toast of bohemia is still alive in the old peanutseller ents cable telegraph and telephone communications combined with cost ly equipment in addition to local publication expenses and yet this is presented to readers daily for the meagre sum of a few cents the dis appearance of the london advertiser will be regretted among newspaper men the fact that the advertiser has been struggling against adverse eco nomic circumstances duriug which revenues have continued to dwindle and defifits to mount higher and higher is an illuminating comment on the high cost of publishing news papers this is a condition that is regretted among newspaper publish ers themselves because it sometimes leads thoughtless people to remark that newspapers are gaining a mon opoly in their various fields whereas the simple truth is that these jour nals have not been able to survive because ot the economic contingen cies that have arisen brantford ex positor for beneflcient causes and a world which puts them to foolish and mis chievous uses must suffer the conse quences manchester guardian tables turned sitting on the lid lethbridge has sat on the lid of its strong box for six 1 ng years of the depression tho result is that we have accumulated sufficient funds to law in this respect is broken every dangerous habit unless this practice of riding two aboard a bicycle is stopped there will be an accident one of these fine days in which some youthful pedal- ler will be killed or injured the pay more than 65 cents on tho dol lar of all our bonded indebtedness our financial standing is tho best of any city of its size in weitern can ada to accomplish this we have paid high taxes and have gone with out a lot of improvements we have no swimming pool no up-to- date sport field such as most other cities provide and we live in a cloud of dust during half the year because we have let our streets go unsurfaced lethbridge herald the cheapest thing the quebec association for the prevention of industrial accidents notes in one of its bulletins that one ot the strange properties of safety is that the more it is used the less it costs in spite of this there are still some people who believe that safety involves a considerable expen diture of time and effort they do not seem to understand that those who pay most for safety are precise ly those who attempt to get along without it it is false economy to attempt to lessen preventive meas ures in a factory because tho accid ent factor which exists when produc tion is high does not diminish when it is reduced and if there are no holidays for accidents there should likewise be none for safety meas ures la tribune sherbrooke eater of birds the new york times writes the annual convention in new york tho national association of audubon societies issued a plea on behalf of tho predatory birds the hawks owls and eagles birdlovers should not regard them as public enemies but should tolerate them as essential factors in tho delicate balance of na ture it was pointed out for they do good works as well as evil work3 the case for the owl has been strongly put by professor arthur a allen in his american bird biogrn- phios from the screech owls story i know we do catch quite a few small birds when we have six hun dred mouths to fill especially if birds are numerous and easier to catch than mice but really they form but a small part of our menu and we do much good by destroying moths and beetles and mice birds constitute about onefifth or our food even during nesting time after nil when we catch one of a pair of birds the survivor gets a new mate so fast that it scarcely makes any differences in his life and he is still able to reproduce his kind that year if none of the small birds was ever killed there soon would be no place for them in this world a single pair of robbins in five years might increase to over 15000 still opportunity go west young man was once he advice go north is now the advice of hon t a crerar minis ter of national resources in the fed eral cabinet ho cites the case of a young man who began as a muck er with 45 cents an hour for back- breaking labor of shovelling shatter ed rock and wheelbarrowing it from the drifts who is now a diamond dril ler at 7 a day there is still the opportunity for young men who are not afraid of hard manual labor lethbridge herald morning field costly the london advertiser has been published for 73 years and there was a time when it was in the afternoon field that it made money and pros pered we believe it correct to say that the late t h purdom when owner of tho paper decided to enter the morning field after a conference with the late sir wilfrid laurier sir wilfrid feeling the need for a lib eral morning paper in western on tario and from a business point of view that was a poor decision to make but it was made in the days when newspapers were ready to back their political affiliations and pay for the choice the london advertiser and the edmonton bulletin were we believe the two english speaking newspapers which stayed with sir wilfrid during tho wartime elec tion only a few months ago it was the hamilton herald which announced ii could no longer continue because losses amounted to more than the payroll and now the london ad- vertisei goes the same way leaving but two cities in ontario ottawa and toronto with more than one dally paper peterborough examiner the british motor industry pro- idos a living for 5000000 persons s there aro newly one and a third tnllllon people employed in it b4 cheapest article in the home twenty years ago in every small city in ontario thero were at least two newspapers and in some in stances three under the pressure of financial stringency many of these have ceased publication or have become merged with their contempor aries until at the present time only one paper is being published people sometimes complain of tho co3t of newspapers but there is no doubt whatever that it is tho cheapest ar- tlclo that comes into tho homo every j l8suo represents tho product of the investment of vast sums of money in i nowsgathcrlng agencies correspond- day and the thing is getting on the nerves ot motorists it is a nerve- wrecking experience to have one of theso doubleloaded cycles dodging through traffic suddenly appear di rectly in front of the car you are driving it may not be generally known but the practise is against the law parents should make a note of this and warn their children against it guelphmereury most quoted newspaper the ottawa journal continues to be the most quoted newspaper in tho dominion according to figures for three months ending september 30 this year the quotations accord ing to the dominion press clipping bureau being 2070 in number the northern news which along with some other semiweeklies is catalogued with the dailies has a quota of 130 quotations sudbury with its star being top for the north with 1g9 while the journal has the ad vantage of being located in the do minion capital one cannot but ag ree with other knights of the scis sors that its editorials whether one accept them as gospel or not are well written and easily reau kirk- land lake northern news the empire sins of the microphone the microphone lias been blamed for much hut nobody has brought so heavy an indictment against it as that which sir thomas inskip has just presented he finds it an important factor in the creation of the worlds political restlessness he doubts whether dictatorships would have been possible but for the micro phone which enables one man to speak to millions of people at ono time people he said were being con tinually excited and never got time to think quietly all this is rather hard on the poor microphone scien tific inventions aro neutral as to poll- tics and morals they may be made to serve any movement good or bad they have been used to great effect by dictators but they are available writes the chatham news a topsyturvy marriage has come to light through an application for divorce made recently in los ang eles the husband is suing the wife for the divorce and it the same time demanding alimony and since th man has been doing the work in the heme while the wife has been the wage earner throughout their mar ried life the demand for alimony seems to be as reasonable as it is in other divorce cases where the cir cumstances are reversed for nearly seven years this man has only been employed periodically for the last year and a half failing health has kept him at home his wife meanwhile had a good job teaching school so he became cook bottle washer and housekceper while she acted as breadwinner one of the clauses in his divorce suit complains that she criticized his housekeeping refused to take him to places of amusement and got angry because he failed to darn and mend her clothing all this in our careless conception of humor adds up to a good joke a vaudeville comedian could have a good deal of fun with it but underneath the surface it is anything but funny and it reflects the kind of tragedy that must have been all too common in the depres sion years there is an oldfashioned idea that womans place is in the home we have strayed far from that ideal in these modern times and now the womans right to be the wage earner is generally recogcized and it has been a fortunate thing for many families during the past few years when the husband has been deprived of work while the wife has been able to become a provider through her ability to fill positions open to her but the system is all wrong at least as far as the husbands are con cerned women may displace men in business circles but men will never displace women as managers of the home nor should they be required to try it this is merely an other instance to show how economic collapse destroys human happiness supplied by bone meal limestone and common salt a mineral mixture that has given good results with hogs is composed of 45 pounds feeding bone meal 25 pounds pulverized limestone and 30 pounds common salt this may be fed through a self- i feeder or it may be mixed witl the kentville ns if max at- feed using one pound of the mineral wells search for a mail order mixture with 100 pounds of feed bride is going to bring results he price too high girls refuse to pay s3500 for a better half supply green feed such as mangels and turnipj or well cured clover or alfalfa hay friday thirteenth to start vacation it has never been proven that any thing unfortunate really happened to anybody simply because friday was dated up with the 13th but su perstition by any other name be it legend tradition or usage neeaa no factual precedent to make folks wary- friday the loth made his jittery appearance in november for tho second time this year with no more significance to the old worlds for tunes than he achieved 1900 yeras ago when some humorist of the period discovered the gregonat cal endar would present this combina tion 10 times every five years till the end of time or the calendar origin of the idea 13 as an un lucky number is variously credited astrologers of ancient babylon so declared it mythologists of old scandinavia gavo the number the curse of sages because baldere their sungod had to die when 13 were found in the circle of valhalla some who would have it the idea originated with the christian era point out there were 13 at the last supper including judas iscariot who next day traditionally a friday betrayed jesus christ for crucifix ion now friday the v 13th takes a long solstice he will not appear again till august of 1937 and only the once that year in 1938 his only date with the weary world is in may but in 1939 he resumes twiceyearly appearances january and october with return visits in september and december 1940 merits of cheese disease among pigs in lick or mineral matter their feed in no domestic animal so quickly shows the results of mineral defici ency as does the pig the develop ment of the market pig is exceeding ly rapid comparatively attaining a finished weight of around 200 pounds in six or seven months naturally there is a heavy call on the bone- building constituents calcium and phosphate in particular tho fact that the market pig is frequently closely housed or penfed during summer and winter and that during the latter season in any event ac cess to the earth is denied him means that every care should be given to the matter of mineral sup plement to the ration it is advis able every fall to put up a supply of sods for winterfed sows and mar ket pigs even a pile of earth kept unfrozen is excellent for young pigs charcoal such as is often found in wood ashe3 is excellent there are many mineral mixtures on the market but the feeder can make his own mixture to very good advantage tho minerals in which swine rations are likely to bo defi cient are calcium phosphorus so- 1 dium chlorine and iodine all of j food rich in protein and fat much has been and still could be said extolling the merits of cheese tho milk utilization service dairy branch dominion department of agriculture summarizes the most im portant facts about cheese for the interest and benefit of everyone in canada cheese is a canadian dairy pro duct cheese supplies the highest quality of body building material protein for the growth and repair of the tissues may have to lower his price two weeks ago he advertised himself for sale to any woman who would take 3000 to the altar with him he wanted the money to pay off the mortgage en his farm since then he had had many takers but most of them have found the price too high there have been letters from the three maritime provinces and from quebec some of these were very nice others were insulting the 25-year- old kings county farmer said some have given advice others were love letters and still more ap parently were written in a joking mood most of the letters were from girls ranging from 17 to 23 and only one came from a woman of more than 30 a few applicants said they had some money but not the stip ulated 3500 and asked if he would be willing to reduce the amount one went so far as to make a definite cash offer of several hundred dollars a young girl assured max we can make a go of it while another said she had 3500 and was willing to in vest it in a good man and a good home but she wanted further par ticulars all the writers wanted to see the farmer and talk the proposition over sales in canada are 277035000 washington reports us balance of trade is favorable the toronto saturday night com ments the oratorical style of sig- nor mussolini is strikingly similar to that of the first napoleon a cir cumstance which may be due to con scious study or the fact that great minds of a similar order of great ness not only think alike but ex press themselves in the same man ner it is probably not altogether a coincidence that the best examples of napoleons oratorical style were also directed against great britain whose attitude towards european af fairs has always and naturally been annoying to continental dictators he went on making speeches even in st helena a characteristic of both styles is an air of extreme frankness and cyn ical realism mingled with denuncia tions of all expressions of idealism as belonging to the realm of cant and hypocrisy but there seems to be such a thing as a hypocrisy of antihypocrisy signor mussolini washington united states trade with canada increased sharply during the first nine months of 193c compared with the corresponding period of 1935 official figures issued by the commerce department showed recently for the period ended september 30 exports to canada totallc 277- 035000 compared with 2-13510- 000 imports from canada were 259931000 against 203390000 the imports wore far greater than the united states took from any other country the united kingdom being second with 139108000 of united states exports the united kingdom took the greatest amount 295978000 with canada second the department also issued sep tember figures showing that tho united states took from canada 3l99s000 worth of goods during the month compared with 25972- 000 in september 1935 exports to canada were 31498000 against 27302000 keporting on trade in general the department showed an increase in trade with europe as a whole during september but a further drop in transactions with warridden spain september exports to europe were listed at 98937000 compircd with 997471000 for the same month a year ago while imports from europe totalled 00291000 and 50015000 for the respective months total trade increased with num erous countries including germany france japan and brail misquoted how often when problems or dif ferences arise between the peoples of the orient and the occident someone seeking to clinch an argu ment will remark with an air of uttering the last word we must remember as kipling said east is east and west is west ana never the twain shall meet comments the halifax herald it is interesting therefore to note that kipling never made any such statement at all it is anotner case of misquotation just as the psalm ist is often quoted as saying all men are liars when what he actual ly said was i said in my haste all men are liars a vastly different observation kipling as one writer points out was too great an artist ever to sug- i gest anything so stupid as an eternal schism between east and west the rebuking the league of nations for passage so generally misquoted its failure to examine with a cool comes of course from his ballad of eye the lessons of history is an in teresting spectacle but the history to which he refers cannot be very cheese like milk ranks first recent history anybody examining among foods as a source of tooth and that with a cool eye can hardly fail bonebuilding material calcium cheese contains fat in a highly concentrated form for heat and en ergy cheese is an abundant source of health promoting vitamin a cheese dishes are an excellent means of providing the protein in the meal cheese is an economical food high in food value low in cost cheese can be used to advantage as a substitute for more expensive protein foods cheese adds flavor when used with bland foods such as rice spaghetti and potatoes cheese a highly concentrated food should be served with bulky foods such as cereals fruits and green leafy vegetables cheese is a highly nutritive food these elements except iodine are not a condiment eat more of it honoring the heroic dead v i-yiv- fnis to note that italy was for many years a member of the league of nations both before and after the advent of signor mussolini to power that italy as much as any other member in those days confided its destiny to uncertain hands of other peoples by accepting and volun tarily accepting the covenant that italy induced ethiopia somewhat against the will of some other mem bers to confide its own destiny to the uncertain hands of other peo ples including especially italy the sponsor of ethiopian membership that having thus induced ethiopia to accept this position and to rely on the collective security which italy now proclaims to be and has in deed caused to be a delusion she turned around and violated every item of her engagements as one league member towards anoiner league member and finally that having violated all her own engage ments towards ethiopia she has made it her chief grievance that the other nations in the league en deavoured for some time to live up to theirs until it became evident that no good end could be attained by so doing it requires n very cool eye indeed to see anything but a very large measure of hypocrisy in this amazing succession of actions and attitudes east and west and the mistake arises from the fact that most read ers fail to carry the quotation to the first period or end of the com plete sentence bead in its com pleteness the reader will see that kipling emphatically asserted that for strong men of vision and good will east and west did meet oh east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet till earth and sky stand pres ently at gods great judgment seat but there is neither east nor west border nor breed nor birth when two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth to read the entire stanza noting the punctuation makes the meaning perfectly clear another instance of a widely popu lar misquotation is the saying money is tho root of all evil which some people quote with the authority of the new testament supposedly be hind it the passage actually reads the love of money is tho root of all evil us meats to be dearer general john j pershing placing presidential wreath at the foot of the unknown soldiers tomb in arlington national cemetery during solemn armistice day ccromonies as president roosevelt extreme left stands uncovered in tribute to world war dead washington folks who rel ish porkchops ham or juicy beef steaks at tho agriculture depart ment that these meats will cost more and be scarce next year the smallest supply of moats in more than fifteen years was fore cast officially in a leport on meat animals and meats in 1937 drought which reduced feed sup plies for meat animals and forced much breeding stock to market was dont depend on cats here is another agelong reputa tion gone to smash cats cant be depended on to get rid of rats in many other places besides in detroit rat extermination has be come a public health problem scien tific authorities have been making studies of rat control cornell uni versity has issued a bulletin about it and in this is found the warning not tc put faith in cats i says all too frequently cats actually hinder effective rat con trol owners of cats make little ef fort to destroy rafs wrongly assum- in that their tabbies cand do the job the average cat doesnt want to meet a rat and he is apt to consider well before atackng one and tho blamed by the government spokes- j i lomcnt is the worst cotvnrd por men for the expected trends beeause ho ha3 had morp cx the reduction will be most pro- perience nounced in pork and in the better e rats ar more than a nuance grades of beef the survey said they are a real health me ace another report made public by they shoui not be invit tj t the agrvulture department predict- neik by careless cd some rise in dary prices in 1937 d of garbage the n cffcct j ive ways of exterminating then cm- every month 5000 now savings ploy poison gas the gases emitted i accounts arc opened for children in from the exhaust of automobiles can i great britain be used effectively detroit news 1