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ONESCOUTS Gcrmp.n Bcbal 2 tilers Crash Second Time Much Interest lias ben evidenced in have a numher of Interesting souvenirs the new Doy Scout Catalogue of Ofll- from Overseas, including .a beautifu cial Uniforms and Equipment which : Totem Pole, which Ijord Raden Powel has just been issued and a copy of presented to the Canadian Contingent which has been mailed to every Lone j which attended the Jamboree in Kng Scout in this province. It la certainly land In 1929. This totem pole was on an attractive publication, and features ' exhibit at the Scout Booth at the Cana- * largo variety of articles of Interest 'dlan National Exhibition last summer. to Scouts of all ages. Next World Gathering of Boyhood A notable feature is the remarkable Tne (Iates for tne nt -'*t world gather- reduction In the prices of uniforms and , in S ot Boy Scouts have- been an- wc also notice that there are quite a : nounced as August 1 to IS, of next number of new books and other Items ' >'ar. The jamboree will be held in Muted. Lone Scouts will not find any men- tion of the special Lone Scout Ulauve Neckerchief In th^ catalogue as this color has been reserved for the exclu- sive use of Lonles In Canada. When ordering uniform, however, Lone | time, especially if he is not' a member Scouts should be careful to specify j <,f a i^,,,,. patrol, that tlu-y require the "Special Mauve; Patrols can organize \Vinter Hikes Lone Scout Neckerchief. 1 j ski-ing Parties. Snow Fights and Skat- Sir Erneit Shackleton's Scout ing Sports and have a lot of fun, hut It The scientific staff of the Antarctic . lsn>l * interesting to do these things research ship Discoverer II., now i n ' all alone. the far South Seas, Includes J. W. S. We suggest therefore, that all the Marr of Aberdeen, a Scout selected to! k 011 ' 68 . whether members of Patrols accompany Sir Ernest Shackleton on' or nat - hould have a hobby. You wiU his last expedition to the South Pole 1 flnd that almost every successful man In the Quest. Scout Marr also accom- 1 naa a hobby of some sort or another, panled the Algarson expedition to the, wltn w hlch to relax his mind, during Antarctic, and has since qualified for! nls 8Dare momenta. Hungary. It Is expected, that Canada v.-ill be represented by a contingent. Hobbies During the winter months it is often ; hard for a Lone Scout to find much to ! do to amiine himself, during spare several university He ha-s made good. scientific degrees. I In the winter months it is uice t have an Indoor occupation, such as Latest Notes of Science New Supply Sources How Infinitesimal is Measured Many Lone Scouts will envy the op- portunities which have come to Scout | Marr, and wo would remind them that It was only because he worked hard i to qualify himself as a good All-round Sri, lit that ho was selected In the first ' place. A Cenotaph Fljg For New Zealand Fretwork, Wood Carving, Collecting Stamps or Autographs, etc.. making ruga or bead work, straw plaiting, etc., some of which hobbles can be made into very profitable occupations. A suggestion has been already made to you that you enter the Fisher Body Craftsmen's Guild coach building com- petition. A white ensign from the Cenotaph , "Lone K" also has a number of In Whitehall, London, was presented autographs of famous people, and for- to the Scouts of New Zealand by Lord j eign stamps which we would be glad Baden-Powell, and placed for keeping to send to any Lone Scouts who apply Gertzuuy't bobeledderi had their second serious accident on the Olympic slide when the four-man team crashed through a dangerous zig-zag curve. Captain Grau (at wheel) suffered fractures of shoul- der, hip and skull and Albert Brehtne (standing) Injured spine and Colonization in Quebec Le Progres du Saguenay. Chlcoutlmi ilnd.): The first phase of the oolonlza- In Christ Church Cathedral, Auckland, for same, to the I/one Scout Depart- ' National Broadcasting Company A similar flag, presented to Canadian ment. The Hoy Scouts Association. 330 j "While they are waiting for tii< Women's Ability to Meet Change Called "Amazing* Now York. -Women are meeting ( t | V movement ^readedV"the~embry- every economic adjustment demanded of them with a gallantry and under- standing as amazing as it is admirable, Miss Anne Morgan, president of the American Woman's Assaciatlun, said in a radio talk over Station WJZ of the Scouts at the last world Scout Jam- Bay Street. Toronto 2, from which ad- boreo, occupies an honoured place at dress, also, full particulars may be ob- Domlnlon Scout HoadquarterH, Ottawa. [ talned of how to become a Lone Scout. Dominion Headquarters at Ottawa "Lone E" African Farmer Trains Baboons As Farm Hands Capt Town. Rivaling the wildest Jungle "yarns" In strangeness comes the thoroughly authentic news, as told In the Christian Science Monitor, ot three baboons captured by a farmer In the Brits district and put to work weeding his land. Baboons abound in hundred* in the mountain fa ML- < along the Maga- llesbcrg range, and farmers are some- times obliged to set traps to rid them- elves of the prowlers. Mr. Jan Kngle- brecht, of Bokfontein, caught three of the wild creatures at various seasons. The first of these he called Japle. By the exercise of the greatest care and kindness, Japlo was soon taught to lead the oxen on tlio land, and later von was to he seen at the hoad of his team walking down the village street. Homo time after, Mr. Kuglubrocht r.vie,ut two young baboons and those, by the time they reached the age ot 12 months, were proficient wooden of bis farm land. Mr. Englcbrecht asserts positively that Hennle and Kaffcr, as ho has aaiiii-d the two baboons, are each of them equal to throe natives for weed- Ing. It Is a comparatively easy matter to Instill knowledge into their small heads, ho affirms, provided gentleness Memories of Canada From the new opportunities which must come," said Miss Morgan, "they must adapt them- seves to the needs of the moment. So oulc stage has given place to the stage of adolescence and full development. We do not think that we are straying far from the truth when we say that next autumn half of our colonists will l>4 able to live comfortably on the re- veuua of their own lands. Some of them are going to sow 25 40, and 50 bushels of grain; others as much as 75 or 80. Add to this the precious pro- duce of the garden, the farm-yard, the Last week came the news that in "towsagis" the Russians have dis- It must have been a dramatic moment in Pasadena when he turned to Ein- covered a plant which will yield a rub- stein and acknowledged his debt to ber-milk with industrial possibilities, relativity. According to relativity. After years of investigation and mass and energy are different forms of study Edison reached the conclusion the same thing. Mass can be convert- that there are at least 1,500 plants ed into energy. That is what happens that can be milked for rubber with when hydrogen is changed into helium, some hope of commercial success. The conversion Is not quite complete. Probably ten times that number of A little mass Is left over, and all this, plants contain gums of some sort, according to the relativity theory, Considering the fact that the whole must be dissipated as energy. In the world has been combed for trees, vines cosmic rays Millikan sees the excess and shrubs that will yield rubber in energy. commercial quantities and of indus- Probably this question will never b trial quality, it seems highly improb- settled until somebody actually trans- able that towsagis Is a species new to forms hydrogen into helium and ob- botany. ] tains cosmic rays as a by-product * ' Meanwhile, Millikan proposes to gath- Measuring the Infinitesimal ! er more evidence to support his views. Before the annual meeting of the Ia 1922 he sent UD sounding ballooni American Institute of Electrical En- to near 'y ten mlles Kell y *'*'<. gineers, C. W. LaPierre described a Texas ballona laden with sensitive new application of the marvelously instruments that noted the little elec- sensltice photo-electric cell. He has tric shocks experienced when they made it the principal element in an werc exposed to cosmic rays Nillikaa Instrument so sensitive that it can waa able to show tha tne higher hii measure a millionth ot an inch. balloons went the stronger were th And yet Mr. La Pierrle's advice is nr *- Now ' he wants l S<> higher thaa positively coarse compared with the picc a r l climbed in his record-break- ultra-measurer of Professor R. Whid- lns ascent - dington, an English scientist. Imagine Just as v 'sible light consists of a a steel rod one-half an Inch in diame- Bamut ri >lng from violet to red. so ter and twelve Inches long. Imagine tuere are C03mi c rays of different this rod held horizontally, with one of ' colors." Some of these cosmic ray Its ends In a vise and a fly on the op- "colors" cannot penetrate our atmos- posite end. The weight of the fly will phere - B - v sending up balloons to bend the rod and Whiddington's elec- heights of fifteen or twenty miles it tlcal instrument can meausre the m ** be POMWta to discover them, amount of the bending, provided that The ' w " l! hrow light on the origin of It is as much as one five-hundred mil- tae ra >' 3 - lontu of an inch. In automobile building it is an or matters stand. Millikan has mad* ' out a case for his theory. It It can b we have an actress and a home ecotio- SI) j nniuK w i, ee | and the loom, and you mlcs export selling books, an art will have to admlt that tnese people, director acting as rompa nlon. a concert suddenly becoming little kings In their ' v-w Voa - tearhlu K/ rn.iu-h and Spanish OWQ ,i olna | n3 . wou i d re ga r d It as an in- card sent to ,d translating manuscript, for a pub-' ull to accept a of our imelnp i oy . >lta in the Dominion by lining house. Accountants are serv- ' Tweedle. Headmistress of j n g as hostesses in tea rooms. Edinburgh Ladles' Collegt, one of money Are they not bet- " M " n7 *"""" | , cff tllan the ma]ority of farm . UI> or, and practically all of our Industrial the tweve H K ,h Hod , or, an praccay a o our nusra t ha twelve British Headmistresses f rom stenographers and secretaries to workers i <-, one denv that the who toured Canada last surmner. . sorts of execlItivB and r(> , 1H)nsll ,,e' "' We've wandered -here in Europe. In Norway and in 1-Yance In Germany, and Italy The lands of old romance; But we never met the vigor Nor the eager spirit found That wrapped up round so gaily On the fair Canadian ground; The HiioW'peakod hills and pralrioa, The mighty waters' roar of The land of orchard And far Vancouver's shore, The tall, upstanding forests And the talos of men of yore, Fill our hearts with dreams beauty And our miiuU with nature's lore; And (lie people are our kinsmen, Showing us a kinsmen's love Which we render In full measure To that land whore still we'd rove. responsible g CU eme ha* been a great success and positions are returning for the time llas proV ed a very practical way of being to the typewriter. One member 9olvlac> amoug O ther prob'em*. the has devoted herself with sudi energy ,,.,,,, , ,,,, of lin ,.inpl jyinent? to her hiiMiy that she has equipped herself in the past year to make it her primary profqsslon." Women aro making those adjust ments for two reasons, aroint i it i; t<> Edinburgh. Mary Twocdle. MI9I Morgan, first, bocuusi; they need th mouey. and second, because they know that they must keep themselves active and Interested, so that whoa tlm opportunity comes to return to work for which they are fitted, they will go back with the same alertness, energy and Helf-nvpi'it which prcvimisly made them capable of carrying respon- sibility. How Bright Is the Sun? Our notions of the relative bright- dinary performance to caliper the ten ' substantiated by still stronger evl- thousandth part of an inch. In a few dence - jt wl11 be necessary to rewrite machine shops, where scientific instru- a11 tn <? books on physics that have ments are made. Milllonths of an inch been Printed in the last twenty years, are measured. The Bureau ot Stand- Should it turn out that matter Is in the ards has a balance so delicate that the Dr cess of creation as electrons and man who weighs with It must stand at P rot n* coalesce in outer space, all our a distance lest the heat of his body heautiful theories of the evolution of vitiate the readings. The late Profess- th * star ' an d th e universe must be or Rowland's machine for ruling nun- cast asld for totally new ones, dreds of thousands ot lines on a square Inch of surface to make what is called a diffraction grating Is so delicate that it must be locked up when it starts ness of sun. moon and stars are quail- working. The bolometer invented by.tatlve rather than quantitative. We Professor Langley to explore the In- know that to us the sun Is brighter visible infra-red portiorvof the spec- than any other celestial body but not trum is able to detect the heat of a how much brighter. In the new edition andle a mile away. , of its Meteorological Tables just is- Probably the record for minute mea- sued by the Smithsonian Institution, surcment is held by Professor Arthur Dr. Herbert II. Kimball of the Weath- H. Compton. He has determined the er Bureau gives the information we length of waves in X-rays to tne five ( want la terms ot foot-candles th hundredth part of the diameter of a amount of illumination received from single atom. This means the hundred j a standard candle a foot away, thousandth part of the millionth of an It is not very impressive to learn Inch. A double X-ray spectrometer Is that the noonday sun has an Intensity te measuring instrument he uses. - Again the Cosmic Rays Before an audience of a hundred scientists, among whom was Dr. Eln- of 9,600 foot-candles at the surface of the earth, that the illumination from the full moon at its zenith Is only two- hundredth^ of a foot-candle, and that starlight amounts to only eight hun- Teachers Seek World Amity "I'm forty five yeari you this Brazil Hopes to Restore Democratic Rule in Fall Haili i old." Customer "How old were when you began to give me hair-cut?" Rio I>e Janeiro. After fourteen o ((, er coun trips, especially Hispanic and patloncu are employed, "in teach-! months ot a dictatorial government I nal j olu> One W H] De ^ com b a t teacV Mexico City. The National Lca^uo of Schoolmasters has organized an affiliated association called Fraterni-l dad Internaoiomil to cultivate closer , The goat's not my favorite mammal, relations with the schoolmasters of Mr. Candhl dotes on it I know; Ing them to weed, they were taken to tbo Molds and a particular weed was pulled up and showed to them. They would sit with solemn faces watching the actions of their teachers. Then the weed would bo taken into their two small bands. It was first carefully examined, then Hmellod, and Immediately the willing wocdors set to work to clear the land of that particu- lar plant. Their speed and thoroughness are aid to bo marvelous. If perchance they were sotto work to uproot a particu- larly stubborn patch of grass they would pitch In with a will and refuse to stop until the last vestige of a root was removed. Mr. Englcbrccht'a lonely farm Is of- 1 ten visited by nature scientist! and! other Inquiring folk anxious to sne and j ipeak for themselves to thl.1 strange phenomenon. * The Use of Words The propor force of words lies not In tlio words themselves, but In their appll'.iil'in. A word may be a fine- eoiiiidlng word, of an unusual length, mil very Im !><>> Int; iUrm Its learning and novelty, and yet In the connec- tion In whlrh It Is Introduced may under Provisional President (ietulla ' ' It's milk is nutritious And doubtless delicious, Fossilized Apples Unearthed in Alberta Olds, Alta. While fossilized palm leaves figs and iu- leave* have been uncovered In southern Alliorta, at lie quite pofotleil and Irrelevant, proof Unit around 70,000,000 years ngo It is not pomp or pretension, but the this part of the West was a tropical adaptation of the expression to the land where the dinosaurs roamed, yot Idea that < Undies a writer's mean- ^u was no t until last month that pi-tri- liu us It Is not tlio Blze or glossl- n,,,i apples have been unearthed. ness of (ho matnrlaU, but lit >lr be- This discovery was mado by a farm- Looks a Winner , ing of history in such a form as to Hut I don't like the critter's II. O. Vargas. Bruiliani are hoping to re- j cu i tivate international animosity. I W. P. in the lioston Transcript turn to a constitutional regime be- fore the end of 1932. It appears likely that tlio now en- rollment of voters and the constitu- tional convention will have passed In time for the country to return to * Democratic government on October 24, 1932, two years to a day from the overthrow of President Wash- ington Luis Porelra de Souza. The provisional government it credited with being both IdoallstJe and practical. Many economies In administration have been made. Like other one-crop countries, Itr.x/ll Has suffered greatly through the drop In the world price ot coffee, the greater part of whUfc is ted to the United States. This price drop and the fall lu the value ot the mllreta, from nine to sixteen to the dollar, list affected adversely the income not only f the ooffon growers but also of the fodoral government. * stein. Dr. Millikan at Pasadena an- | dred thousandths of a foot-candle. We nounced his Intention of ronewini; the , are more reconciled to the figures If cosmic ray studies that he began ten we express them In a different way. years ago. Apparently this iuvestiga-| Tne slm seems to shine more brightly that it gives 465.000 light as the full moon wide In Us scope. overhead and that it Is 120,000,000 Millikan. It will bo remembered, be- " mes brighter than all the stars on a lieves that the cosmic rays result from j flne u| R u t. W. K. iu "The N.T. the creation of matter In outer space. Times." years ago. Apparently this iuvestUa-j l ?en tlon Is to be conducted Independently wh en we say of Dr. Compton's. which is to be world- tlmes as much Planning Safety Week; ' Coffee Beans Transformed Has Fewer Accidental Deaths Into Coke in Brazil London Safety Week will be cele-J Rio De Janiero. The Brazilian Gov- brated in London this year from ernment, after having dumped several May 2 to 8. The National Safety million sacks of inferior grade coffee Congress will meet hero at the same the Atlantic Ocean, both here and lug fitted cadh. to IU place, that Clves strength to the arch; or a the or digging a well In the Olds district, who unearthed petrified apples on a petrified branch of (he (indent tree.' and nails art) ;> m-rcv:ary to the -support of tlio building as the j The Calgary museum lias bi-i'n notified larger timbers, und "i<>H l*o than the ,,f the dHrovory and the well luu been time. | at Santos now believes it has found a During the first nine months of medium of use for the bean. 19 31 there were 43S fower deaths' Although experiments with coffee In the corresponding period of 1930. pressed Into briquettes and used as caused by accidents recorded than [ fuel In locomotives of the national the total number reported being railways were not successful. It has 3.6JI against 4,069. The reducing . now been learned that the same bri- In the number of deaths was 10 per quettes can be made into fairly corn- cent., while the decrease in the ' bustiblo coke. Tests made so far with amount of truffle on the road was the coke have been entirely satlsfac- only 2< por cen. King George to Have Dial Phones London -King George has followed the Prince of Wales as a user of the dial telephone. St. James's Palace, where the Prince lives, has already recently been changed over and from now on Iturklngham Palace will also have dial telephone*. Dur- ing the absence of the Court from Ixmdon, postofflce engineers have been at Buckingham Palace effecting transformation from the old Victoria niohanga to the new automat V Whitehall oxclmice. tory, although further experiments will be made before coffee-coke pro- duction mi a to:-c.-> T*}* will be tr'.ed. Canada's Northern Population In Its more northerly areas of Can- ada the white population is, as yet, small, but It Is ever luiTousng. Ac- cording to Iho Department of the Inter "That picture Is one 1 painted to :>< !> the wolt from the door." "Indeed! Then why don't you iiaiig It on the knob where the wolf i an see it?" incnts.- -From './ William flllOWy, UMSIl!>BtllUlll ..in i "On Familiar Style," ;' 'Hi:..! \\ith earth to await further ox cavat luu work by experts It thti branch of research. I Mrs. Kva Seeloy and bor load dog Orlnp, who are participating !ti the New England sled dog races at New Hampshire. If she wins, he will take >hr dojpi to Lake Placid for the Olympic races. P.ussia Leads World . In Sheep Production Soviet Russia leads tlio countries of lor lu the iirons north of the timber 'he world lu the number ot Its sheep. line are several hand* of \orth Amerl- There are aboi't UM.000,000 sheep In can Indians, while iho Islands and Huasia. Australia, with 105,000,000 northern coast lines are the home of rnnk* fecund; Vniio I states, with 46, the Canadian Kskimo. Within the "00.000. third, and Argentina, with 40, Northwest Territories the latent ceil- 000.000, fourth. sits shows the population to be rounhly .> 1,000 whites, 4.500 Indian*, and 7.000 A nan som 'm makes money last V KsklmoB. |,|g father made It first. * ^