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ONFSCOUTS It is surely not too early to begin to think about that popular season to which wo all look forward Christmas. And to think about it from a correct- ly Scouting stand point. For the past two years. In fact ever Ince Lone Scouting has been an or- ganized branch of the Association in this province, the Lonles have "Done Their Bit" towards lightening the task of Santa Claus as Christmas time. It Is not necessary to remind you that in this year of financial and busl- n o-pression. of unemployment and H'jgc Air:h ; p Rtjsts in Hangar to donate to you odd pieces of lumber and cans of paint to repair the toys' with. The Lone Scout Department is mostj anxious that this year all records are beaten in this great Christmas Good Turn scheme, and what better way can you have of living up to your third Scout Law, which nays: "A Scout's duty is to be useful and to help others." Write to your Scoutmaster immedi- ately, and toll him that you wish to help. Have your name enrolled, and hanislu,.. there will he many to whom | ></ _"> w . m , a " y , e _ 1 | il . d . rt '" n , i y " U "f ^. Christmas will bring only memories of better turn--, and the grca'e-; op- portunity yet offered for Scout Service will be brought within your reach. Think of the many children whose lives can be made happy because Santa Clans, through his Lone Scout to take care of. Then get busy ami make up attractive parcels. Head- quarters will send you the names and addro-si's of boys and girls to whom tliey can be sent. Thus your Xmas will be happy, be- cause you have brought Joy to some- Assialaiit, did not forgot, them! There j on <> ari' over :;oo I.onie.< in Ontario, and if each one will look after just one un- fortunate kiddie, what a splendid re- cord that will make! I. .lie Patrols can organize "Scout Toy Shops," and even Isolated Louies <s fortunate than yourself. Lone Scout Question Box Are there Lnne Scouts in any other provinces? (L. G.. Linden). Yes, Manitoba has a I<ouc Scout Troop about 200 strong, and 1} ire Is also a Troop in Prince Kdward Island. The 1,000 Year old Relic. Canada's Trade Clue to Eskimos' Origin WitK Rr Til Washington. An ancient piece of armor, worn by a northland warrior perhaps as much as a thousand years ago, is the latent clue to the mystery of the Eskimo!)' origin. Discovery of a breastplate made of A special ular view of U.S. 3. Akron, world's largest airship in han,ar at Akron, Ohio, all lit up. \ :T?I Animal Puzzles Zoologists A strange little creature, long known it is not uncommon for insulated metal only from fossil remains, has now objects to become so strongly charged l)een reported to the American Society with electricity that they give oft of Mammaloglsts by G. H. H. Tate, of brush discharges, which are visible at "e American Museum of Natural His- and has been familiar (o mankind from antiquity. "During dust - storms and sand- storms In the western I'uited States can (In their sharo. Now is the time to other provinces have I.one Scouts, but | n|gM obMTTWI report herds of cat- tor X- hunt up those broken ami discarded toys, dulls, book.", etc.. and pet busy working Individually under the respec- they are not organized Into Troops, : t|e w , th ., )al|M of flre , Qn Ulelr , 1|)rna _ The caenolestes. about the size of a and the barbs of wire, fences ablaze -mall mouse, is now fairly abundant in electric discharges. During one tne forests of Ecuador. It is one of jse storms, in western Kansas, 'he two animals outside of Australia sparks two or three inches long were tllat "y ttleir undeveloped young In clcauing and repairing them, llemem- tivo Provincial Headquarter! offices. her two broken do!N often make one! What Is the "Si!v->r Wolf?" < Lonle - ' ot tnese s torms good one' How happy will be the lit- ; Simcoe). This Is the highest award In Future Offers Increased Trade Relations _ _ There Is prospect of further 1n- whalebone'ntrong enoug'h to ward off creased trade relations between Can- primitive arrows and spears has been ada and Brazil. Under the existing reported by Moreau B. Chambers, re- arrangements trade between the two presentatlve of the Smithsonian Instl-' countries has Increased in recent tution. He found the armor with years, the rise of Canadian exports many other relics of the long-vanished being larger .than that of imports from "golden-age" of Eskimo history, while Brazil. excavating prehistoric village sites on' Trade has been carried on intermit- St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea tently between Canada and Brazil ever this Summer. ' since Confederation. The earliest en- Beautifully carved ornaments, wea- try in Canadian trade returns shows pons and tools, found on the older vil- exports of Canadian products to Brazil lage sites, provide additional evidence to the value of $42,141 In 1868. The that the Eskimos originated in Asia, ' next entry gives Canadian imports says Henry B. Collins, Jr., Smlthson- f rom Brazil of $8,504 in 1870. In the Ian archaeologist. | 80's trade was established on a resit- The Eskimos are known to have i ar basis, Canadian imports from Bra- come to America long after the orig- zil being more than double Canadian inal ancestors of the Indians 'crossed ' exports to that country. In 1882 im- from Asia, probably by way of Bering ports were valued at $1,328,316 and Strait, Collins explained. Where they exports at $192,785. originated, why they stayed in the in- ' At t , mes during the next two de- hospitable north, why the beautiful ( . a(]es Canul ij an exports exceeded im- art of their prehistoric "golden age" ports from Braz i|_ Dut at the time war degenerated much as did that of ^he broke out Cana(lian imports from ancient Greeks, are mysteries scien- Brazi , were tonsit iei-ably greater than lists are seeking to solve. ' exports of Canadian products. After Five village sites on St. Lawrence the war nowever> the Canadian ex- Island, dating back to the oldest port trade lncrease ,i rap jdly, and since known Eskimo culture of from two to 191 ,j exports nav te consistently ex- three thousand years ago, furnish a cceded i mpor t s . In 1930. exports of complete cross section of Eskimo his- , Canadian products to Brazil were tory covering that period of time. valuc(] at $1,292.203, against imports They are considered as valuable to of j 1-C8 7 i 7 7. j n the fiscal year 193!. students of Eskimo history as Pompeii nowever> there wa = a sharp decline in to students of ancient Rome. Eski- ' Mportg to $2,799,507, while imports mos lived there for centuries because fell off s ijj, at ] y to $1,249,124. tie boy who can pull lhat old broken j Scoutitip. It is the Chief Scout's P er -j drawn fri)m a wirB runnin clockwork engine around on a string, sonal recognition of exceptional ser- 1 n)j]| au(] a 1)ra j rie firo it nfi-r yin h.ive taken out the woiks, re- 1 vices, and the number awarded is very j wag ' B t ar ted by sparks at the Ineak of paired the wheels and given It a coat I small Indeed, 't ! SHyer Wolf, SUB- ' of paint! ! ponded around the neck by a green M.ilce up your mind, KICIIT N()\V, ' an;l yellow ribbon. that YOU are going to do your Christ- 1 Lone Scouts an- invited to send a fence wire." to a wind- pouches on the outside of the body, s i bought, luo other being the opossum. But the caenolsstes is much closer to the Aus- tralian marsupials than to ! walrus, seal and whale are plentiful. Preserved in frozen soil for hun- dreds of years as though In cold stor- Chambers found tools made of The Principal Imports chief items in Canadian im- P"s from Brazil are coffee, cocoa, ... :age. its New | n the ends of split sticks. butter and nuts. In the fiscal year (, .iid Turn tins yar. and then get busy! Do little odd join to earn the m iii'-y n s.-ary to pay tho post- ago on your Good Tuin Parcel I.ono Scout Hcudquart'Ts will send you (lie : ddl and ages of children questions to "Lone '," c-'o Lone Scout Department, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2, Quality of Wheat Crop Officially Approved . World cousin How i happened to to- lashings of flexible there was an increase in the imports velop In South America Is one of the _ ^^ wenj of coffee cora p are ,i with the previous unsolved mysteries of zoology. | , year, and compared as well with the Found alive for the first time only a fw years ago, It now can be caught who will endeavour to answer them Winnipeg, Man. It is officially an- j n Ecuador as readily as any other through these columns. siounced that the milling and baiting fairly abundant animal, once a collect- If you are Interested In the Hoy quality of Canada's new wheat crop or has become familiar with its habits, Scouts, and unable to join a regular, is high, and equal if not better than Tate reports. There are two species, will not liavi anv good cheer this J troop, write to the L.OIKJ Scout Depart- that of any year tested by the Do- one inhabiting mountain foothills and year if Lone Scout Santa Clans does ' ment for particulars of how you may minion's Grain Research Laboratory, the other sub-tropical forest. not lal. icm: become a Lone Scout. Hoys between Tho weight per bushel of the samples Frequently the runways, which they If you go about it ill thu right way. , the ages of 12 and IS are eligible. | received to date and examined under use | n common with mice, are found you will find people only too pleas, d | "Lone K." also Ivory knife handles with slate blades, throwing sticks for hurling imports five years earlier. In 192G. darts, wrist guards used when shoot- Owing to a decline in the price cf Ing bows and arrows, ivory-tipped bar- coffee, however, the ^value of thesejiu- poons and many ornaments. Many French Women Win Legion of Honor Paris.- ports was less In 1931 than in either 1930 or 1926. The imports of coft'eo in 1926 were 8,103,749 pounds with a value of $1,816,027. In 1930 the quan- tity was 8,942,680 pounds and the value $1,639,277. while in 1931. ll.S.'o. French women have mad* 304 pounds were imported at a value Strange Types Of Lightning the direction of P. J. Birchard is about to pass up and down the steepest parts ( ]itU progress is obtaining the votu, ' o f 5i.224.58S. Imports of cocoa butter The animals live entirely b ut as indicated by the lists of the f n 1931 amounted to 225.265 pounds Legion of Honor, they are making with a value of $44,031. There were rapid strides in the acquisition of civic ' no imports of this article in 1926, but honors. | there was an import of 71.047 pounds Although only a thousand French i n 1930. Of nuts the imports in 1931 women have received the decoration we re valued at $41.S97. This was a ; tho same, as last year with the yield O f gullies. beon reported from mountainous re- 'of flour comparing favorably. Tho pro- insects. glons in other parts of the world, in- fin content Is much higher while the Eluding tho Alps. Science has, as yet, 'gluten of all grades is exceptionally little to say about this plicnomcirm, i which la still Ignored In most books on Chilean Weather Service ! meteorology." Director Describes Weird JSZtSS^SXER I who observed It over Paris in Phenomena Homes for Children "Quite a number of people apply for 1876. children to board," J. J. Kelso an- NM all kinds of lightning are In the ] Cortaia alleged photographs of such nounced recently, "but what we are Astronomers Spy Comet Near Sun Williams Bay, Wis. Astronomers since the ordr was founded by Na- large increase over both the previous text-books. remarks rhrl.-, IVzhugh lightning. Mr. Talman tells us. have socking is permanent adoptive homes s< / dosel doe9 thls CQmet fo ,, ow r Tinier turned out to be pictures of alternat- for the many flno boys and girls at | )t _ _____ f| ^ t ( __ ,__,.. ,,,, Talman In tho New York Tinier | turned out to be pictures of alternat ing-current electric 1? ps photograph- Some of tho olde-t have not yet even been explained, and romo, p"r!rips. should not be called lightning at all, though they ore doubtless electrical. Mr. Talman begins with an account of an exceptionally weird electrical display reported by Dr. Walter Kii'ichc, for many years director of the w :ii'icr service of C'hilo. Wo read: "Ho was traveling by steamboat down the Illo I'araguay In South America, on October 3, 192. A severe drought had prevailed in tho surround- ing country for months. At 7 o'clock oil with a moving camera. Then* is t doubt, however, that tho "beaded" variety actually occurs. Ho goes on: "Lightning that shoots up from the horizon at tho apparent speed of a. sky- rocket, or occasionally travels hori- present waiting In our Children's Shel- ters." "If all who are interested in child- ren," ayn Mr. Kels <>, "would only en- ter more/ fully into loving relationship with children who ar- public charges now avenutM of servli-e might result. have caught Kyves Comet wlthia i| j^ 7Q9 of them &re Hying today.' year and 1920. In 1931 these three the range of the great telescope of j The Couritess dc Noa ir.es, poatess, is articles accounted for 94 per cent, ol \erkes Observatory, Rettm* a photo- 1 the only wo ,,, an to aLtain th , grade of Canada's imports from Brazil, while raph of this elusive wanderer of the C0mm3nder> but thcre are numerous 1 in i 926 they accounted for 99 per cent. officers now on the feminine roll ot'j The chief exports from Canada to those decorated for exceptional ser- Brazil in the fiscal year 1931 were vices. ' the total exports in that year. Exports The achievement of women thus rubber manufactures, sewing machines honored are not confined to pursuits and fish. These three articles account- that have lecn recojnu/.cd as in the ed for approximately 71 per cent, of feminine province. The list contains of Canadian products to Brazil de- the names of seventeen women farm- clined sharply in 1931, as already In- ers, two directors of business admin- ' dlcated. The chief causes of the istrations, six ownt"S of business decline were tho falling-off In the ex- the sun that the astronomers had to wait until just before dawn to take their- picture. Intricate cal- culations, made after the photo- graphic plates had been developed, showed that the comet was just where, it was supposed to be. The comet, named after its lis . , i uu luiiliri, iiiuuru tuni us UIB* zontally from the else of a cloud at the That so many all radiv,, boys and girls Mr p _, RvyeB a nrit | sh , sa.ne deliberate pace, has been report- are left unsought In our shelters is a a ' ; ,_,__ j,_ s ,' ,_ ad been | houses, two aviatnxes, three explor- port9 o f automobiles, aluminum and ed several times during tho last two reflection on our pbilantlirophy and ( ' , t-rs, one hotel propnttcss f.nd one mo- electric apparatus, while there was centuries, but It remains one of the groat rarities. A case was observed on August 18, 1927. from the, Ilritish steamship Inkiim, In the lialiamas. Christianity. in tlie wning though no rain fell a I Similar lightning was seen near Cal- 0& 1U bUQ * MJO V* , t two month, and the i tlon > m> ur pr r -. Astronomers were elated' The first woman ' for tremendous electrical storm began. 'It did not approach,' writes Dr. cutta ono ovenlng In July, 1903. "Some of tho most bizarre manifes- Knocho in the Metfirologlscho Zelt- ) tatlons of lightning are (hose that , 'but was instantly there- and , flash In the column of .smoke and va For Study of Plant Diseases A controlled weather plant with four compartments which will be used for pathological studies of diseases of wheat, flax, potatoes, fruits and vege- tables la being installed at the North the sun Yorkes with their successful observation. German Women's Health Due also a considerable reduction in tho be decorated export of sewing machines. Between with the Legion if Honor was a sol- j 1926 and 1931 there was a heavy dc- dier. She was Mmo. Marie Schallinck, cllne in the shipments of wheat flour. who served throughout Napoleon's These exports irr l!)2ti were 134,513 , campaigns, attained '.he rank of 'ieu- barrels, while in 1931 trade was lim- To Proper Dress, Doctor Says tenant, and was wounded at Austr- 1 Hed to 39,218 barrels. Che exports of Horlin. An anaemic woman has be- come a rarity in Germany because, "~J " ..i .( timiit j \i- t II .. , h raa * nL-jivt * n Arncoirt ff ennui hi V reach, to north, ?outh, wust, and east, | cano. Tho marvelous electrical dls- peratures In tho compartments will nian has taken to dressing sensibly, range from zero Fahrenheit to 60 de- and overhead. It would have been |m- j plays that attended the eruption of possible to count even approximately I'elee. In 1902, aro described In C.eorge K tho number of the, lightning flashes.' | Keenan's dramatic story of that out- Many of tlieso were in the form of .break. Tho streaks of lightning tor- streak lightning, but were reddish or j inlnati-d In starliko outbursts, and. Winter air service In Iceland Will be j^^. yellowish. Almost equally numerous, each Hush was accompanied "X _! inaugurated by tho Icelandic Air ', ,...;.. iU 5 woro the flashes of dazzling whito booming detonation. Probably Iceland to Keep Wings her clothing admitting both air and light, says Dr. Engelen. Men's clothing, he declares, is much too heavy and dense, restricting lib- erty of movement, impeding free the body shut awny from the air, and, even more import- litz. She was decorated by the Em- peror himself. It is notable that the French Gov- ernment has bix-n more lavish in dis- sewing machines declined from $1,731,- 517 in 1930 to $746,356 In 1931. Ex- ports of automobiles, aluminum and electric apparatus were small In 1931, tributi K high honors to foreign wo- but In 1930 amounted to $245,269 for men than to women of its own na- automobiles, $247,958 for aluminum tion. Among the detonation. Probably the ( Tralls , )or t Company, which has P"r- , ant f rom the bencfic nt liirht rays -- headed 1 lightning a phenomenon re- truo explanation Is that lh.. dis.-liarnes , ias( , d ltg thiru junkers airplane.,' ' _ ; . r n _J ' 1 1 flu :,i,\iiir'[i i > i ilia ' v . l ' l . i * i ! n . . sembling a string of glowing pearls In passed through and volatilised il>mg Tlle company operates a mail and pas- refus-il to encase tho sky. Such lightning is, so far as j chunks of rock In tho midst of the sctl g Or 8(!rvlro ,, t WO e Reykjavik^iml , jj,jg Slightly ^r "stuffs ? Hi* anybody knows, extremely rare, and smoko cloud. the Vestmanna Islands, Isufjord, Siglu- ' 10WS ' ' "'" i experiment! with loosely woven wool- the occurrence of tnoro than one ori "N O piuMiomuium is more suggestive fjord and Akuivyri and a flying ambu- ( ^ ^ ^ satisfactory results two examples of It In a slnglo storm ' ( fairy talus than the one that science' lance service and usei planes to Is almost unheard of. ; has called 'hall lightning' for nearly a search for herring. "Dr. Knoehe tells also of gorgeous' century. If the term 'lightning' cnn be glows of tilled lightning along the bor-! stretched far enough to include this. lt bers are five Queens who are wearers of the Grand Cross, an honor never accorded to a French woman. Ten foreign women hold the rank of offi- women mem- and $205,024 for electric apparatus. Faster Trains Planned London.- Kxports of rubber manufactures In 1931 were valued at $1,128,961. of which the greater part consisted of rubber Urea. Exports of fish In 1931 were valued at $184, SG3, but In the previous year totalled $192,644. Fish exports were composed almost en- tirely of the dried, salted, esraoked and pickled product, the largest con- Plans for faster journeys . T i . , v ,. trlbution being made by dried cod-fish in through cars trom London to Euro- even with the handicap of lining and pean centrog _., , )e .j iscusseil at tna s ' European time table and through car- Edmonton, Alea.-It is reported Qne-fifth of the total population of ders of tho clouds and of various phon- ought also to Includo St. Elmo's lire, | that efforts of the Alberta Depart- j KllR |. iml am , \Vales lives in Creator omena that can not readily be classl- to which bull lightning is perhaps fled, Including curious, rapidly moving, closely related. London. ment of Agriculture to raise game birds for stockii.g tho countryside are orange colored dlschargos, which ho | "The appearance of luminous balls meeting with success on provincial j ,. rell( _., on leavos out p t a y ( K ayn resembled cylindrical masses of traveling through the air or moving farms. At Oliver 700 pheasants arc- leavoa out ona of tho most | ml , ortan t glowing gas; flashes '.hat revolved like over tho surface of terrestrial objects . plnwhecls! and, at one period of the during thundery we<ither lias been re- the supply. storm, hundreds of luminous arcs ( corded for ages, and though this phen- crowded together near the zonlth, so omcnon Is certainly not common. It dazzling that he had to close his oyos. I ,. an hardly bo described as excessively "Perhaps tho strangest feature of rare. this exhibition was that it wont on tori "The mysterious halls vary con- hours without thunder. Thunder be- sldoruhly In slzo, color, rate of move- gan abruptly in the early morning, and ment, and other characteristics. They thon became a continuous roll. Tha occur indoors as well as In the open torm ended, or the steamer passed j a ( r ; somn Innvo no trnco of thoir pass- out of It about 8 o'clock, having last- ag0i while others are very destructive, ed thirteen hours. some disappear silently, others with a "The same meteorologist has pub- dunfoiiliiR explosion." llshod accounts of equally marvelous | in a con.tlderalilo number ol" report- electrical exhibition* in another part ,i ca sos of ball liKlHiiing, Mr. Talinun ili thriving and i. is proposed to increase ( aspccta o , iiUman life." Harry Emer- , 30n p sdick. Cancer Study Continues of South America tho spectacular glowb nnd beams seen on summer evenings along the crest of tho Andes thinks that tho object desc-rilied as a (lory ball was actually a brush dis- charge of electricity from somn par- as viewed from Santiago and places I tide of matter falling or floating In long the west coast, as well as f rom ' the air or from the fixed surface on vessels on tha 1'acilic. | which Uic supposed ball was vccn. lie "The mountains neom to act as gi- e-xplulns: gnntlc lightning rods, giving rise to! "The natural brush dlschai-K<- is b"i-l more or loss continuous* diffused dls- | known as a small tuft of light issuing charges between themselves nnd the from tho tip of Home elevated object, rlage conference hero. This ence Is held annually In a different place and It has been twenty-four years sinco it met last in London. Moro than 200 delegates, represent- ing about ernment S" -<"- , py. , , o ! confer- j Discovery II Sails countries and 100 gov- departments, railway and shipping administrations, will meet at I ,, , cal conditions boarlng on , ha tha f!rnt fViitral lintel near Marvle- the Great Central Hotel near Maryle- bone station. It Is hoped that speedier transcontinental transport will result from these discussions. It Is now possible to get a through car from a Channel port to almost any city In Europe, except In Russia and Spain, I the only two countries without stand- ! ard gaugo rails. whaling industry, cover the entire Poultry Shipment Increase To Japan clouds, with Intermittent outbursts Imulatlng tha beams of a groat search-light. "Displays of similar character have such as a hhlp's mast, a clmivh spire. or a llgliliiing-roil. In its simpler niant- fostntlons, the iihnnoinen Is usually calloU St. Elmo's Uio, ur Si-i-iu- in In! .,.;: >ry of Hairu'Miann lu-spital, riillndelphia, v'." . utisls are engaged in buttle ngainat cancor. These technici.u, n black rolma and hoods uru examining cuncorous tissues. Into Northern Regions London. The research ship Dis- covery II has sailed on her second long voyage to the Antarctic to under- take investigations for the Falkland Islands Government of physical and The operations will Antarctic circle, a voyage made on few previous occa- sions and never with a vessel so well equipped for biological and hydrologl- cal survey. After widespread investigations In the region of the Falkland Islands tho Discovery party will investigate the wide zono of waters bounded on the south by the polar Ice. later the vessel will join another research ship, the William Scorosby, now exploring Vancouver, B.C. Japanese poultry- the possibilities of a commercial fish- men in Vancouver aro shortly expect- ery in tho Antarctic, tho two working ed to double their usual orders for j together for a while. The scientific Hritlsh Columbia hens nnd eggs. Un- work will bo done by four scientists dor a 10-year plan laid down five years under tho direction of Dilwyn John. ago In Japan, a consistent effort is i ^ being put forth to Improve Japanese' poultry, and each year Japanese buy- Gypsies Must Register ers tako shipment of I!00 egg hens or the progeny of 300 egg hens. They Praguo.-Gypsles In Czechoslovakia also buy hatching eggs from :!00 egg lll ' ow required to register In theii lions. The last shipment of chicks home communities, and according tc rom one of tlieso Ur: ish Columbia th lates t statistics more than 2C.30C champion hens reached Its destination have compiled with the law. Then in perfect condition. are 60 - 000 gypsies in the country.