-in the sensational Legislation! ta Provide, Subsi- dies iar Pe-Jlific Mothers “MOSCOW — Sry government has announced a nereasing subsi- dies for the ee contributors to the “bigger, better and more babies” cam- Russion mothers will receive oa yearly subsidy of 2,000 roubles ($1,780) for their 8th, 9th and 10th babies. For the eleventh and each additional child they will receive 5,000 roubles ($4,450) in the first year and 8.008 ronb'es (2,670) cr the next four years. Even in less prolific farsilies, the subsidies will be increased from to 45 roubles per baby. Nursing mothers will be given 10/7 roubles expectant mothers roubles for six days before and after confinement. Working women will get the same pay and easier jobs dur- ing pregnancy The decree also forbids abortion which, it said, was made legal during early post-war years but is now un- justifiable under present economic conditions except to save the mother’s life or health. Violation of the abortion law will be punished by one or two years’ im- prisonment. The penalty will be in- creased to three years or more in cases where abortion was performed under unsanitary conditions or by un- qualified practitioners. The divorce laws also were revised. Alimony will be one-fourth of the man’s income for one child, one-half for wo children and 60 per cent. ae three children or more. Failure to pay alimony is punishable by two years’ iniprisonmen It is expected that the new decree will become law soon. Robertson Gives $1000 to Fund ‘ TORONTO. — Dr. D. E. Robert- son, rescued with Alfred-Scadding from, the Moose River mine, contri- buted $1,000 to the M rescue fund raised to reward the ‘corps of workers who participated delivery of the two men, it was revealed last week with issue of an interim report of the rescue fund committee. The thankoffering of Dr. Robert- son and other donations received since the last list of contributors was made public some weeks ago, brought the total of the fund to $77,- 995, the committee announced in a circular letter signed by Norman Sommerville, E.C., committee chair- man. The letter expressed gratitude to the Canadian Red Cross for acting. ns trustee for the contributions re- ceived, without any deductions being made to cover “disbursements inci- dental to receiving, listing, banking and acknowledging the contribu- tions.” An immediate distribution is to be made of $25,000 of the fund, of which the 167 underground workers * inthe rescue will receive $100 apiece as a first instalment of a larger amount to be determined Jater. Dis- tribution of the rest of the fund will be carried out, the committee has de- ‘cided, when additional information is received ns to the clip Nility of cer- tain persons to share in the award, the length of time worked by various men, the nature of the work done, the risks assumed, and other factors. Approximately 10° per cent. of the total fund will go in varying amounts to the 164 persons who worked in Brother of King of Belgium a Commoner BRUSSELS — = Why wedding ue do not ring for bag 2 ete ar we brother of King Leo- Ii, becomes increasingly a ba of wonderment to the Belgians. The 33-year-old prince, who also has the title of Count of Flanders, is open- ly termed the “mystery prince” as he continues to avoid the marriage altar and romance, In the gossip over coffee cups it is stated the King’s brother, who pre- fers o' to court attire and high speed motorears to royal carriages, is in love with a commoner. rate he steadfastly maintains his non- committal attitude on the numerous rumors which hve linked him matri- monially with princesses and ladies f rank $2) of rank and station. With his love for privacy he has studio to any form of public life. He has been a more frequent visitor to Lacken Castle in Brussels in the past two years since the double tragedy, the death of his father, King A and of Queen Astrid, burst over the royal f. ; Solacing his mother and brother has become one of his chief interests and he is known as a loving son to Dowager Queen Elizabeth. New Trnmoh Seen for Balhe ROME—lItalo Bal Balbo, bearded com- mander of the Italian mass flight to Chicago, celebrated his 40th birthday recently in the Fascist North African colony of Libya. Once considered Italy’s No. 2 hero, Balbo has spent three years as. gover- nor of the African possession. His official position, regarded by many s ‘banishment” from Roman scene, may hold him for another two ars. Balbo's name is mentioned always when conversation turns to possible successors to Premier Mussolini. Three years ago the dynamic little flight commander was one of the most popular Fascists in Italy. He embark- ed on his grea’ nir advgnture on July L 1983, ¥ when he led onvoy of planes to Chicago. Six w later he returned to Rome and was Piven a triumphal welcome as he marched re the Arch of Constantine. is prestige reached a new high mark when Il Duce created a title especially for him and made him air marshal of Italy. Within three months, however, the Italian dictator had displaced him as minister of aviation and consigned him to the comparative obscurity of governor of Libya. Many predicted Ralbo’s career, which had shonc with increasing brilliance since he participated in the Fascist march on Rome, could not survive the African hibernation. He, himself, admitted a certain feeling of bitterness. Now these early judgments are being reversed. albo has demon- strated he is a stern disciplinarian who can bow to discipline himself. He has shown he can apply himself with devotion to an unsung task. His intimates say the experience has sobered and matured him and they expect to see his return in new, if less spectacular, triumph, Parents in Favor Of Two Languages WINDSOR, Ont.—Parents of 166 children replied that they wanted bi- lingual instruction for pupils in sep- arate schools in the former Walker- ville and Windsor areas when a total of 1,968 questionnaires was mailed out to parents of 3,900 children, it was stated here recently. The survey different capacities on the surface. only drew about 300 answers. ~ Rumored in Love With | North Tourist Paradise It Only Roads Better McGeer Believes 200 Million a Year Trade Possible in Northern Ontario NORTH BAY, Ont.—Ontario could develop a $200,000,00 a year tourist traffic from the United States into the gold-producing northern areas if a good road were built from the south to the north of the province, G, G. “Gerry” McGeer, Mayor of Vancouver and M. P, for Vancouver Burrard, said on his return from a trip to Kirk- land Lake. Mayor McGeer was a member of the party of members of parliament La who visited the mining district under the leadership of Walter Little, M.-P. for Timiskam “This veritable paradise here, with- in easy driving distance of the heat- ridden cities of the United States near the bord, and with very little effort these people could be brought here in thousands—many of them just to see a gold mine,” he sald. As one suggestion of how to fin- ance the road, Mayor McGeer advo- cated taking the north’s gold produc- tion for one year, giving it to the Bank of Canada and issuing currency on the four for one basis on the plan outlined in the Central Bank legisla- tion Tho fell on May 24th th Myddleton School, eSickeawell usands of schoolchildren of London took part in the celebration of Empire Vay Atihovgh it e children observed it in school on the 22nd. Photo -shows children of the Hugh waving Union Jacks during their celebration fair been a greater factor in social and economic progress than in Can- ada, There were conditions peculiarly Canadian. The gregarious instinct of the early settlers, their unswerving resolve to conquer the innumerable difficulties surrounding them, the ha- zards of travel, and the dense forests preventing the extended contact o! the pioneers with their fellowmen, ail contributed to the moulding of the Canadian character, mainly through the peculiar emphasis devolving on the agricultural fairs of the country. And there were fairs and many of them from the beginning. Before the first Canadian census was taken in 1666, the fun of the fair was relegated mostly to private cele- bration after the barter of ~ pease, hemp, fresh, and dry cod, salted sal- mon, eels, seal and porpoiseppil, clap-, boards and planks, drugget! bolling cloth, cloth made from nettles, serze, leather and furs at Quebec, Three Ri- vers or Movitreal while later as the re- sults of the establishment of agricul- tural societies In both Lower and in Upper Canada, agricultural fairs blos- somed out into full social economic and political institutions. In Upper Canada, the Niagara Pen- insula has always heen intimately as- sociated with the trade and barter of agricultural produce. In 1535 Jacques Cartier observed the practice of mem- bers of tho tribe in the Pontnsula, who were noted traders ‘in tobacco, moving freely among other tribes and at times staging an exhibition that in the present times would be classed as a tobacco fair, However that may be, the first agricultural society, with accompanying fair, fo be reported fn Upper Canada in 1791 on the separa- tion of the province with Lower Can- ada was the Niagara Agricultural So- ciety. Similar societies soon spread to other parts of the province, and In the year 1806 at York (Toronto) an at- tempt was made to form a province- wide society, In 1822 the great fair at Queenston was intended as the [first all-province show, but was not incon- yeniently crowded. Throughout the past 140 years, the various governments, Dominion and Provincial, have regarded fairs with more than a kindly eye as a means of social progress. In 1818 the Legis- lation of Lower Canada passed an Act granting financial aid to district coun- ty agricultural societies, and in 1830 the Provincial Parliament of Upper Canada made an allowance of 100 pounds ($500) to encourage the estab- lishment of agricultural societies. And since that time both Dominion and Provincial Departments of Agrl- culture have continued to give assist- ance to agricultural fairs. Before 1840 when the provinces were re-united, fairs had been held at York, Cobourg, Port Hope, Perth, Ot- tawa, Guelph, Hamilton, Nelson, Wa- terloo, Brantford and had proved of great social rtance paving ~ the way for the desired provine-wide or- 1846. In that year, under the auspices of the Agriculture Association of Up- per Canada, a fair was held in Toron- to which today is of a world-wide re- nown. The ngricultural society of r Catala was something very necessary to the country and, because of the peculiar conditions hecame typically Canadian. The society was the nucleus of social contacts and the semi-annual fair the expansive gesture. The societies met once a month when the members and guests dined together under the dir- ection of stewards who were respon- sible for the details connected with the banquets. Full advantage was ta- . In no country has the agricultural ganization which was established in’ The Agricultural Fair Season in Full Swing —Origin, History and Progress in Canada—The Government's Part in Pro- moting This Activity ken of this social opportunity, but it was at the fair that the inhabitants of the district excelled themselves, The fair usually lasted for four days. On the business side the ques- tion of improvement of stock and the crops came first, then the judging of horses cattle and grain, followed on the following day with the distribu- tion. of prizes. On the third day, the ploughing match to decide the district champlon took place and on the fourth day exciting horse races made a real grande finale, But the business side was not only nor the most important angle. The enlargement of knowledge through vi- sual and social contact and the In- ceredse in the circle of friends were important factors in the early days and remain so at the present time. While the elders talked crops, and de- cided prizes, the wives made mostgp! this rare opportunity for comm gossip and discussion of f What was a la mode in York m be anathema in Perth, but, then, many a young farmer und many a- winsome lass pining to leave the paternal home met their mates at the fair, and lo! another farm would be cleaved out of the bush. There was also the rare chance to show off Jocal talent, and many a yoting swain drove to the fair with a spanking team to call the at- tention of all and sundry to the beau- ty of his affianced. Joyial dinners by day and dancing and sing-songs by night left nothing to be desired. Later with the sdvent of better transportation came “all the fun of the fair” with its brazen calliope and modern contraptions. Today, the pic- tures symphony orchestras, and din- ners at the restaurant, supplant the older order, but the mood and the meaning are the same — An oppor- tunity for social intercourse. While the great national exhibition of Tor- onto stands In a class by itself, there are hundreds of agricultural fairs and exhibitions held throughout the Dom- inion. They afford important lessons on the advance of present-day agricul- ture, besides serving as long looked- forward-to centres of social pleasures. The Dominion and the Provincial Go- vernments help financially and other- wise in fostering these fairs, and it is on account of the great educational yalue of these exhibitions that the Dominion Experimental Farms of the Dominion Department of Agriculture take an active part. The exhibits of the Fatms which are prepared by the Publicity and Extension Branch show the latest developments in agricul- ture. Through these exhibits of prac- tical utility, by printed pamphlets and explanations by word of mouth, from the exh{bition staff, much infor- mation of practical value is imparted. Although Canada has worked ont her own method of enlargibg the edu- cational outlook j nagreinuiture through new things seen and heard, the idea, of the agriculture fair is as old as the hills. Hased on the experience of the previous 1,000 years since the reign of Sumeria in B.C., 3880, the code of the code of Khammurab!I, the Babylon- jan Emporer, B.C.,.2250 lays down the law for the proper conduct of trade at fairs and elsewhere. In China, the Emporer, Fu-hl, in B.S., 2852 issued orders’ regarding agricultural fairs which were comprehensively dealt with by his successor, Shun-nung, the Great Agriculturist, Later came the Greek festival and fair at Delos with its Olympian games, ancient Italy had the vast annual assembly at Voltum- na; India, the great snnual fair at Hurdwar on the Upper Ganges, Russia with Nijnl Novgorod; Germany with Leipzig and Frankfort; and England Throughout the ages there has been no cessation, The agrciultural fair is a perpetual institution, Mod- ern Invention encourages it, The more there is to learn, the bigger the fair otteht to be. And as a matter of fact, the attendances at fairs are bigger than ever In other times a fair could be attended only with loss of time and often under great difficultics. To- day a farmer can go to a fair a sub- stantial distance from his home in his motor car in a comparatively short time. He can spend exactly what time he can afford to and be bome again in quick order. If he desires to pay an- other visit, or fo make a daily visit, he can do-it so ensilyeFilty years ago that would have teen a matter of a great deal of difficulty and {nconven- jence, if not almost Impossible. In- stead of the buggy the young farmer drives his bridé in the latest of the streamlined cars and just as of old the eligible bachelor may meet his desired fate at the agricultural fair. Canadians: Don’t Know How to Use Their Education CHARLOTTETOWN — Adult Edu- cation, a movement in its infancy in Prince Edward Island, is the key to the present situation of the Canadian people who “are not able to wrestle with the problems that confront them,” in the opinion of John A. Mac- Donald of Cardigan, P.E.I., 1936 Alumni prize essayist at St. Dunstan’s University. The trouble today, he suggests in his essay on Adult Education, is the lack of education of the adult popula- tion. Canadians are not illiterate but they do not know how to use their education, he believes. In the island province the newborn adult education movement is being seized enthusiastically and with the help of the provincial library chain, the student says it is “nssured of stendy-prowth-” “Stagnation, eintacencs nnd un- sound dogmatism must be overcome” before the movement makes any real progress, he thinks, and the task has only begun He hopes Islanders will be far- sighted, because although practical results may be seen * our lifetime, the full harvest of our efforts will be eae only by succeeding genera- tions Cenadian Again Heads Country Women of World WASHINGTON — A Canadian wo- man, Mrs. Alfred Watt, was re-elect- ed president of the Associated Coun- trywomen of the World at the closing session of the triennial conference = 2 re. Mrs, Watt formerly lived at Col- lingwood, Ont., and later at Victoria, B.C., but now makes her home in Lon- don, Fingland. In 1910 Mrs. Watt first began or- ganized work among country women in British Columbia and was apnointed tosthe women's board of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. She went to England in 1916 and continued the organization of country women to the point that 5,000 branches | now exist in that country. Mrs. Watt was first elected president In 1933 at Stockholm. Miss Grace E. Frysinger of the United States Department of Agri- culture, was elected vice-president for North America at the closing session here. Delegates left Washington to visit farms in Virginia and Maryland, pro- ceeding later to Cornei University, "thaca, N.Y. Many delegates Iater will visit Onter’o A rricultural Col- lege at Guelph. with Stow, Barnet and Nottingham. IL To Take Tests Veterinarians Will Qualify to Examine Cattle for Export OTTAWA. — An examination tq qualify veterinarians to conduct tu. berculosis tests of cattle: for to the United States and participate in certain other such work will take place July 8 at 12 centres in Canada the department of Agriculture an- nounced recently. The examination, open to accre- dited veterinarinns registered to practice in the province where they are located, will be held at Moncton, N.B., Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, Winnipeg, Brandon, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. _ Names of tlie successful candidates will be added to the list of veter- inarians authorized to make initial tests for addition to herd's receiving attention under tuberculosis po of the department and to collect blood for the bang test from cattle for export to the United States. | Successful candidates will not be on the salary list of the department! but make remuneration arrange-! ments with the livestock owner or shipper who employs Remedy Is Told Longer Lunch Hour Cures Morbid Feeling, Meeting Learns GENEVA—If you have that mor- bid feeling, try taking a full hour for lunch instead of half. That is, if) you. can. That is one conclusion of a long-! awnited report on “Workers’ nutri-| tion and social policy” which has’ been prepared by the*economic ad-| viser of the International Labor, Bureau. A half-hour's pause for lunch re- acts against the worker's capacity to produce, the report finds. It causes bad indigestion, exposes workers to nervous fatigue and increased mor- bidity. Also stressed in the report is the need of better nourishment. Large sections of the world population outside western Europe and America are still subject to the devastating effects of periodic famines and of chronic starvation, and the report emphasizes that there are also countries in Europe and on the American continents which suffer from a chronic state of tndernourish- ment. OF = RUNNING OF. THE KING'S PLATE "= @ Ana go, on the 77th running of the King’s Plate, a new sensation was disedvered in Morsweep. who won the historic event. This was the first Plate victory for Mr. Hatch. Monsweep was ridden by Jockey D. Brammer, a newcomer to this country id you vides that the ling’s Plate is the o'dest fixture ruh con- tinuously on this continent? It whs the custom thet the reigning monare!: donate a prize. This gift was originally made by Queen Victoria, and in 1860 the first race was run and known as the meted s Plate. In it was arranced that the ee be run in Toronte, and it has been ever since. The royal donation was contin- ued. His Majesty Xing Edward the Seventh and His Majesty King George V, and since 1902 the race has been known as the King’s “Inte. QUESTION BOX ie you have any question garding sport ny Se es OF any particular angle to a game; write to Ken Edwards, Room 421, 73 Adetside West, Toron- to. If a personal reply is desir- ed, enclose a stanyped (3c) self- sddressed envelop-.