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QNE'SCOUTS S* Strong Wines Damage Akron Good Turn* A New Idei A new opportunity to perform that daily good turn has originated in Bed- fonl, where It has won the praise of the community. The Scouts nf the age 18, lt Kincardine Crow.. Rescued three hoys from drowning In the liar hour Channel at Kincardine. Two of the boys had gone to the rescue of a third, hut were unequal to the task. ' 66th Troop have developed a plan } The alarm reached MacLeod while he whereby they get Into touch with the) was several hundred yards away and local physicians whereby the latter! his timely action undoubtedly prevent- may call upon the services of the ed a tragedy. Scouts as messengers, furnace tend- Gilt Crosses 3 ers, or other service In HIP liom<-< of the sick The boys mil Hit* "SU k- ! Home Service." I/oue Scouts could vrj well do similar work and we suggest you Ret Into touch with ynur local doctor and offer him your serrlcei for this pur- POM. A Strange Birthday Coincidence February 22ml again brought the Tci Scout William Labute. a^o 17. 19th Bonier Cities Troop. Rescued a li'iy who hud cone beyond liis depth lu the Detroit Illver at Walkervllle. T v Scout William Murrall. age 12.' 1st 1'arklamls Troop. Jumped off the hi Akwati-r at the uiouth of the Klohi- coke Illver and rescued a young girl who had fallen in. To Scout John Wodle. age 15, 1st (range coincidence of the common j Hridgeburg Troop. Kan into house birthday of Lord ami I.ady Baden- j where fire had started from a pan of I'owell, World Chief Sc.nit and Chief ' grease, took the burning pan, rushed I through the back kitchen, and got It into the open before much damage had been done. Certificates of Merit 2 To Scout Klnier Sculieverl, an-* li. (Jaletta Troop. Heard sounds as Girl Guide. Liverpool's Lord Mayor on Scouting That there Is too much spoon-feed- lug to-day, and that Scouting "helps i buys to fend for t Mem-selves." was, BiYen as ono of I. Is reasons for sup-' porting the Scout Movement by the ,. If someone, was in difficulty In the Mis- I.oid Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. John II. slssippi Kiver, ran to the shore, saw InskiD. Scouting taus'it boys to bo small child struggling in the water and Independent, and to find their places pulled her out. in life, Instead of drifting, he de- lo Scout \\aldenur Hill, age !>, 1st ! Newhurgh Troop. Ke'cued a girl who Awards For G -* ntry 'had lost her presence of mind when Lone Scout< will b rM-y interested . s h realized she was in deep water) to know that ten a.'.anls were recout- i and was in danger of drownitiu in the; ly made to Scouts of this province for J Nnpineo Klver. gallantry In Ravins life and property j Letters of Commendation In many cases at very great risk. The TO Scout Jack O'Douoliue, ae l.'i. 1--1 highest award for gallantry is a Parklands Troop, and to Assistant brouze cross with a red ribbon. This Scoutmaster Krnest K. Ward, age 18, Is only given where exceptional hero- 1st I'urkland* Troop. Scout O'Oonobue i<m Uas been shown ur extraordinary 8aw a | )() y in difficulties In the river at risks fa**d. Kldorado 1'ark, swam to his assistance Kor gallant deeds v. h-ie tli ilsk U ; ,nd kept the boy's head above- water not so great, a Silver Cios-i with :i blue , n ,ui A.S.M. Ward was able to reach ribbon Is awarded, wlillst those who ; nu scene and take the hoy ashore. do exceptionally well in ca-e O f i-mer- , Camp gency. though without any great risk j ,. u umler con8 ia PraUo n (hat the to themselves, receive a Gilt Cross. In , x)Ile S( ., (Ut i, ppar , ment organize an Passing Through the Panama Canal For those who have experienced a Backed with high-peaked mouuUXu, passage through lip- gigantic locks of the causeways to the locks, shortened the Panama I'.m.ii the following ex- and broadened by perspective, show corpt from Kllnor Mordaunt's "The like the top of an immense Christmas Venture Book" will recall vividly their cake, the tall white concrete pillars own sensation. She writes: with their lights, clusters of five him I We pass into the, lock through an tired wax bulbs under concrete shades, i immense gateway, from which steel like candles set above them. The lit- gates have rolled silently back into the tie engines with their bright crimsoa side of the canal; the gates close, and lamps add a still more fantastic note an amazing process begins. of decoration to the scene. It is an I In reality, of course, the water appropriate finish to the transit rushing in from culverts rises,. taking through an isthmus in itself fantastic j us with it. But that IH not in the least beyond all wordo, worked to their own what it seems like. Rather, the walls ends by men who, as it seema, could of the lock, the top of which has been scarcely have- realized the magnitude ' on a level with the crow's nest, appear of their own powers. | to sink very slowly down and down, ' Take it all in all, the whole effect drawn under the water by some force of the Canal Zone la theatrical. Th | which leaves us high on a level with islands are not islands at all, but tiio , the top of it. tops of mountains pushing up through | It .seems as though a lifetime had the water; the mountains themselves i passed in this amazing process, while are cut to pattern, placed just so; the i the barometer in the captain's cabin green of the vegetation is more than sinks bunath one's eyes, with a a trifle overdone, as are the exagger- heavler weight of air. And yet, from ated madder and vermilion of the the moment the great steel gates close cliffs. The machinery of the gigantic behind UK, to th moment the second transformation scene left lying about, pair above opens to admit us, Is no with the pathetic remains of the heroic more than thirty minutes in all. Not failure of Lesseps, suggests the Idea the least surprising part of the whole that it has all been L.ought there bjr affair is the fact that no one appears trolleys, small enough because of the to be doing anything whatever, apart primal flatness; that the valleys which from the pilot, who walks up and clow n open between the mountains are mere the topmost bridge, barking out an oc- wings leading to the green-room, with caslonal order. ' nothing whatever at the back of them Night has closed in before we puss We have the feeling that it all must the second of the Miraflores locks, and come to an end when the last of th drop to sea level: a perfectly clear lights go out, and the electrician, for greenish-indigo night with a full moon sakins his engines, goes home to sup- overhead. As I look back over the per and bed, leaving the night watch- length of the ship, the sight is extra- man seated on a little camp-stool in ordinarily fairylike, fantastic, and un- real. the center of this vast stage." Elinor Mordaunt, in "The Venture Book." \Vli-n u guest o: ui:id !>nat tin- su-ru lln of the dirigible Akron to the ground the. other day, two men were painfully Injured, consider- able damage done to the ship and five congressmen passengers got a friffht. other cases deserving of recognition. > (>lhe j. ( . imi( ,, urlng w, tor reR istej-ed I/etters of Commendation are issued. The following is a list of the awards which have recently been made nnd which all Lonles will ngre<3 are de- serving of special mention: Silver Crosses To Scout Her 1 . Hryau, ae 12, L'Hth London Troop. Rescued a small boy who had fallen down a dUn-ed well I/one Scouts under the direction of officials of the Lone Scout Department. Arc you Interested In this? If so, write to headquarters ami register your name as a prospect for camp. You , r . 1 he other is to ill" will have lots of fun. ami learn a lot VIM i- Scouting, too. Membership in the Lone Scouts of Ontario is open to all boys of this pro- Famous Auto Racer To Seek Buried Treasure liaytona l!ea -h. Flu. -Sir Malcolm Campbell, Rritis.h . I i rtsnian, who has '..a veiled fast.-r . other person in Viewing Skaters On a waterlogged margin of the habitable globe, in the early after- roon ':( time, our poor legs and feet, so lung the tools of u mistaken convex- al '>'; tion, discovered their use. It is but history, hope ; to fonvpntion st jM an abstraction of The Legislature In Brief ,.. , time, as they could not in existing con- ditions find a subsistence in agricul- ture or industry. But when times get a convention still, an abstraction of better again, as they must do, Canada Immigration in the Future I,a Patrie Montreal, (Ind.) : Hon. W. A. Gordon, temporary Minister of Colonization and Immigration, has de- molished the impression held by some that ( anada, which, in consequence of the economic crisis, has hermetical!\ sealed her doors to immigration, will j " * ' * .- adhere indefinitely to this policy and | The outstanding event of the Legis- will only count in future for her num-| lature last week was the denunciation bers on the slow natural growth of of M. K. Hepburn, Provincial Liberal her population. Th exclusion of iin- Leader, by Premier George S. Henry, migrants is imperative at the present I "This was caused." the Premier said. h "* " Ul '" "through Mr. Hepburn's attacks on the Ontario Hydro Power Commission and its administration, and the Premiei held that Mr. Hepburn founded his Southern 1'acifi.. 1 ict-an. The desire is on- f l:i- l->"ssioi:.| bn atitoui Jiilc K> a speed of liOU .niY.' per hw. He i> confident both goals will he rc:t.-l ed during his lifetime. But just as important to Sir Ma 1 perfect flat. . . . And if ax action, skating is thus supreme, so is it also a spectacle. | Here are poses no, not that, not the i frozen fixity of the studio, but the free . pose* that arc possible to a body at ' once inflight and at rest. They nre To Scout Douglas C.raatham. use 13. vince who are between 12 and IS years " ; so fixed that the eye can follow and ,. !., .coin as his racing aspirations, u the mnr .* en ., vot u . lt u , sW . , ,! Saw a girl strug- , iuclusivu who are unable to becomft 131U London Troop, aaw n Bin suuv , iuwiu^..o -.i .o ..,.-.= ... "'"""' U reasurc hunt, Hug In the water of the Thames Illver members of a regular troop. It I* de- } ( j j j {e where the current, due to recant ' signed, particularly for Rural hoys. If storms, was very .s 'Aid. \Vcnttoheriyou would like further particular aulnta'nce and in -pile of her strug- write to Lone Scout Department. Hoy on picture*< Jg glea rescued her. To Rover Scout Angm K. MacLeod, .Scouts Association, .1:10 Hay Toronto '1. "Lone K " Lima, hidden by pirates 110 years a"o. The temperament that drives Sir Malcolm seeking new records and new comprehend, yet with a slow play and change. And to enrich this chanpe and play there is the counterpoint of draperies. It echoes the movements, of the limbs, with the repetitions of a canon, or with other freaks of fugal have to take steps to increase her argument upon au auti-pnhlic owner- population. When we are prosperous' ship sheet published in Chicago." once more, the introduction of immi-j Reading from this sheet Mr. Henry grants in sufficient numbers and of n] showed that the Hepburn language coincided directly with the material contained in the Chicago publication, which is termed "For the I'se of Disin- terested Citizens, Taxpayers and Other Organizations believing in the l proficiency of private ownership and empowering opposed to public ownership." suitable kind will be essential to the preservation of our country. # $8,500,00 Bridge Proposed Linking Denmark-Continent Copenhagen. A thrills already has endangered his life vru . iati(>n . It is not now thc perking! i st * r for Traffic, M. Frus Skott.v ' a dor.en time: Soviet Russia Faced Canadian ^ Tr^Je is Benefitted 9. yr .. o l d English Child By Traffic Problem Increase of Vehicles Causes aivd twitching of the stuff, as in walk- ing <>r dancing; it is a lingering wave railway By Embargo Removal Ottawa. Several Australian !ni|x>rt 1 of the lust impulsion, resolving itself Proves Shorthand Prodigy K*ntly >nt*> th next. If artists were \Vi have beeom quite accustomed | ll(> t th prisoners of custom, the edge Congestion in Narrow Streets Moscow. City autli-iriiie* are al- most daily faced with the problem of regulating the capital's cvor-increns- in K street traffic. Although ' prohibitions and surtaxes Imposed la ! to the rarloui child musician marvels ' ot the rink would I* encircled by and mathematical wizard* of lender . cal P tor modelling those forms in iears, hut now wo havn somothlng Hnow.Krom "Confivsioiw of a Kecp- uMed by D. II. Uoss, Canadian ,,,. w IT." by 1). S. MacC'oll. At Hi" ago of nine, May (loodwlu, a little Kimiish girl living in Piitcaux, i Australia's Population suburb of Paris, ha* written a neat and , Canberra, Australia. The l!i"0 will he removed. Detalh of the action by the Australian (lovernment were Ttade Commissioner In Australia, to the Department of Trade and Com- merce This action will Improve con- ditions for export of certain line; of ; nccura t e letter In shorthand to a short- \ tion of Australia on June SO, 1931", was! crossing the briigi-. * Canadian manufacture benefiting '>/ | hand enthusiast. He says It took hU lit- 1 i;,.-,(Ki,.')S(;, excluding full-blooded abor- ,.." tariff Deferences under the trade ' tl , ( i auK i ltl . r ( .jht month., to learn to' iginals. according to Prof. I.. F. Gib- 1 agreement concluded last year bo- ' rite ,,,,, way ,, ( | llrlns ,,, u tlm , , in> t . mmonwe lth statistician. The 'KC * pliar . fii-ni.M Cull fi nmt Anst r:llln .1 I .- * _ i_i:-~ *._ AL_ , the figures for other large empittU. , ween ,. Hlia(Ja and Australia. more andrr.oie automobiles and trucksj T(i( . Alls , ,..,]! honking and hooting their way through the narrow streets of the .So- viet capital; and the congestion aii'l confusion at crowded corners where automobiles, trucks, buses, street cars, horsedrawn cabs and wooden peasant oarU all dispute the right of wa> ith ach other and with pedestrians arc sometimes very jf real - Semaphores have now bwn installed at many of the main crossings and the went in- to force on April 4, 1!I!0, with a view to specially restricting nun-essential nniKirtt. Thin Import prohibition Is en iy. now repealed on agricultural Imple- ments, electrical cooking and heating appliances, electric smoothing Irons, confectionery, dry batteries nnd cells, barbed wire, and "S other items of minor importance. Canada's exports of agricultural Im- plements to Australia during the fiscal she did not Interrupt her school work increase of population for the year In any wy. j was iil.:-:;8. K,.r the decade 1921- : the building of a railway and vehicu- j Premier Henry pointed out. as n lar traffic bridge across the Stcr- ; glaring instance of misleading state- strom, between Sealand and Falstar. ! ments. that the pamphlet referred to has been brought forward by the Mia- had said that the cost of the Chippewa t*r for Traffic, M. Frus Skotto. i development was one hundred and This bridge will dispense with the fifty million. "Government figures railway ferry service across this [show." said Mr. Henry, 'that the cosl waterway on Denmark's main route to was only seventy-six million." the continent. It will be U.270 inet'.'ri j Premier Henry moved an amend long ,ind wiil be, it is claimed, the, ment to that Introduced by W. K. N. Icngesl in Euro;*. The cost is calcu- Sinclair, Opposition Leader, which lated at 88,600,000 kroner or 58,- j placed the Liberals in a position of aOO.OOO. j voting 'for" or "against" Hydro. It During I ie last two years l.i.OOO pledges the Legislature anew to Hydro motorcars have been transported and to the principle of service at cost, across by the railway ferries. Motor- also pledges support to the efficient cars will be taxed moderately for service rendered by the Commission. Ten speakers took part iii the de bate on the Speech from the Throne, adding to the discussion on Hydro. They were: Wilfrid Heighlngton, Tor- onto-St. David's; Austin Smith. Essex; W. W. Staples. South Victoria; Fred Chinese Boycott Excludes Books from Japan Tokyo. Despite the boycott on Ja[. 1931 there had been an increase of | ancse K 00 ' 1 * in China, Japanese trans- .1. MacArthur. Northumberland; J. V. The inn: of Heaven m;ikes >mu !ie:iv- 1.0*11,802, an average annual gain of I slightly urxlrr - per cent. Forerunner of Spring Muscovite police (or militiamen, M year OM ,I O ,| March SI, 19:!0, totalled they are called) are endeavoring to, ? , )i; ,, ,,. .,, ,| llrln(; the yfnr fol . perfect themselves in the art of di- recting traffic. The < ity Soviet t one Urn* issued a druconic order to the effect that all citizens had to walk only on the right-hand side of '.he street and could crose only at speci- fied places, on pain of summary fined. While this ruling was allowed to fall into disuse because of the sheer im- possibility of enforcing it, there is still a vigorous educational campaign bo dissuade Soviet citizens from walk- ing on the street pavements or from executing perilous zigzag crossings which involve the dodging of half a doeen dinVrunt vehicle. At ths same time reckless chauf- feurs who drive in the crowded streets of Moscow a., if they were on country road* are being called to account, and iK>me who were found guilty of caus- ing serious mishaps l.ave been depriv- ed of their licenses and sentenced to t*rins of itnp.'iv Before Summer .'orwaid to the sprlnx One puts up with anything On thtl February day Though winds Map iluwu HIH HI real Wintry Hi-ourgltiKt seem but play, K.I these Inter shafts of Hlcel Sharper pointed than the first Aud thfie later 'imni (lie worst Are t* a half tianspuient blind Itlditlod by ray* from sun behind. Thomas Hurdy. I'oenn. lowing, when the prohibitions were in force, these exports dropped to JS10,-| 291. The farm Implement!! under pr.i hlbilion were cultivators, harrows, scarifiers, stump-Jump plows, drills, reaper threshers and harvesters, and horse-drawn hay rnkea. Canadian exports of electrical cook- ing and healing appliances to A us tralla were $17L',251 In the year Junl previous to the Imposition of prohibi- tion, and trado fell to $$0,6!>:i during' thfl first 12 month!! thnt the prohlbl- : lion was In forco. Kxports of Cana- ilUin confectionery to Australia for Hies. periods dropped from $16,558 to |1,47, Surtaxes ot 50 per cent, of the duty oiherwisrt Inviabln wore Imposed as ! from June 'JO, 1930. Thin surtax, the Trado Commissioner reports, 1ms heeni removed from various Items of In-! terest to Canada, Including wrapping! paper, paper bags, atrnwhoard, furni- ture, uiispc-cllied wood inaiuifacliires, plunos, cordage, Iwlnnn, and nine Items of less impm-l.iiu -<v f- v "(!ood gracious, Junior, I forgot to sliiike the bottle befure a gave you that medicine." "Don't worry, inunimy, I'll turn n few handspring \ Cliicago! News. ^-., Bg "I gut a rani kick out of kit- ing Jen* last night." Gog "Anjr more tlmn usual?" Bog~-"Ye, the old man caught m." Witt. I T. A. Murray, R. A. Baiter. .. . lations of standard oociderttal works Sangster, Glengarry- still find a great sale in the Chinese Renfrew North; and market. The written language of south Oxford Japan is so similar to that of China The Mortgage Relief Measure was- that most educated Chinese can read advanced to the Committee stage and it with no difficulty, and these Chinese it l hoped that the act will be en- look to Tokyo for nearly all the trans- force d within the next two weeks and lations they get of foreign books. ' w m probably date back to February The Japanese are indefatigable 2nd. translators and American and Kuro- Arthur Kills, South Ottawa, Intro pean books are translated by the thou- duced an amendment to the Railway sands yearly. Municipal Act which would vest iu the Ontario Municipal Board all powers to control and direct motor trai ' s P ort aoi systems la the pro Forty-seven U.S. Periodicals Now Published in Canada Ottawa. Korly-seven fiction publics- vmc<f - Th9 meas r <to<>s not Inter- lions formerly printed in the United fera wlth mu n^'pal authority within States ure now being printed, for their Canadian distribution, In Canada, ac- i-ordlng to a statement made by C. H. Cahan, Secretary of State, In the House ot Commons, last week. The estimated gain In revenue from September. 1931, to December, 1931. la- ; luslve. |. $17,500 on these notion pub. , h . Cutlers c fflf sheffl ^ hcatlons. The Import duties on United Document on Stainless Steel is Locked up for Thirty Years London. A document ot unusual la t crest has come Into the possession of States publications entering Canada Horn Sept 1, 19:11. to Jan. Ill, |20,8M.71. W, was India's Vast Population Shows a Big Increase The iKipulation of India has ju- i roused about 10 ruT cent, since 1921 the stipulation (hat It is not to be read for nearly thirty years. It Is au account ot the discovery ot stainless steel, and has boon given l> Harry Brearley, the discoverer of that material. It is In a sealed envelop,- which is not to be opened until the Culler's feast of 1900. Mi-. Harclay has also presented to l!ic :ind Is now ;:.">:'. !>SG,ST6, nearly three '"' 1| "atiy the first table knife blade of stainless steel. Turkish Air Lines To Link Main Cities . Turk. ---The Turkish Cov It's sure sign of spring when baseball uniforms come out ot the in ( i. Sails. Members ot the New York Giants are shown sle.ctln.u ouiflls tor i 1 ''.^ at their I.oi Angles tralnloc quartera. :imes thnt of the XInited Suites, ac- r.ndlng to preliminary returns of a re- i cut census. Of this number, 181,921.- I'll are males and 171.0til.ilt;-.' females. The Hindus number :i;!8,;!:!0,;U2, or 7;> per cent, of (he total, (he Mosl.-ins 77,- 71:1.928, the Silkhs 4."M,[ U, and the l> fieiit has signed a contract with Christians ri,9lil,7!>-l. "' Curtiss-\Vi igln interests for estnh M- lishment of conuueivial air lines con Teach self denial, and make, its prac- nectlng principal Anatolian cities. lien pleasurable, and you will create A national society will ho establish for the world n destiny more sublime ?d for the purpose. American eiperti ilian over Issued from thu grain of the have arrived In Turkey to drw wildest dreamer Sir Waller Scott. plans.