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• • >A' V t ♦ i CANADA The Mail and Empiie Passes So tliu Mail and Enipii'o passes un. abrtorbed into a papei tlial is to be known as the Globe anc Mail, and Toronto hencelforth will have but onu morning daily. No doubt a merger was the sen- Bible course, but there always 1- Bomothiug tragic about tlie extinction of a good newspaper with the tradi lions that gathei i^botit It in more than a halt-ceutury of publication. The Mai; was founded in lSi2, took over the Empire in 1S05, later the World. Latterly it has been . • haps the closest approach among major Canadian dailies to the old-fashioned party organ. Its support of the Con servative cause was enthusiastic an, unfailing. But even througli this per- iod it continued to be a Rnt news- paper, edited with intelligeuco and in a keen se.ise of its public respon- si!i!!itics. â€" Ottawa .Tourn.i! Mrs. Kenny's Spare Time A startling diseoverv lias oeeu re- vealed concerning Mrs. Lily Kenny, mother of fourteen children, eleven of whom she hopcs will win for ;r tlie $500,000 Millar baby derby. Mrs. Kenny has spare time! It is remaris able .that a womai can cook and <? w and generally do tor fourteen active offspring and at the end jf the day still have time to devote to statue and model house building; hobbies Yet this is just what is claimed for Madame Ilelly. Perhaps she manages her brood the way the old woman \'bo lived in a sl.oe did hers. And perhaps the object of her bobby is to design houses to accommodate M" Millar':; bigger and better families. At any rate, it is likely many mothers of only two or three children would thauk Mrs. Kenny to let then: in on her secret for finding lei.«in-e hours. - St. Thomas Tii.ii--s-.Ini:rnal. Keep the Windows Oper While it is .-ommonly known lb; t iiiuiiy motorists are suffocatei. l)> ^jjas from motors running in olosed gar ages, it is not generally suspeJteu that gas accumulating in moving curs may be the caut^e of man., hilh erlo une.\plaine'' traitic accidents. With the advent of cooler weather Mild the consequent inclina '.on to drive with the car windows closed attention may well '.e directed to th s fitct. llecent tests show that most auto mobiles after being dr.'vc" for som. distance accumulai ; a sutliciont i|u;i!Uit.v of carbon mono.\ide to af- fect seriously the mental alertne.ss and muscular cone la r ion of the driv (•(• When you feel dull oi drowsy while (Irivi'ig. stop and get a breath of frtsli air. Make sure that carbon monoxide v.ill not be the cause of an accident to the cai you're driv iiig.-- tJ.'^liawa Times. .What a Dam Did Two of AtPiOtiL-as .s'.iiii icsL. wurm- pKt spot.^ aru having their climate ohair:.'.e(! â€" liy the building of a dam. Air pilots Hying ovei North-East- ern I'aliforiiia and Southern Nevada have found that temperatures in those areas ary distinctly 'ooicr since Hie construction of the now famous Iloulder Dam. an inimeiiio structure steniuiing the Colorado Kiver. The dam. a l.uge comrete horseshoe, has created a lake 100 miles long which ia reported to be cooling ;hp air for miles around, I'ilots declare the lake to be a "charging battery' in the cooling process, 'the coolei air spreading like ttn open umbrella jver the country- side. They discoveied it by noting the lower temperatures at which their en- gines ran in the area. The tempera- tures dropped as llii> lake expanded. â€" Montre:il Star. Marriages Ate Up We liavt! tile wo!d or the Domlniou Itvireau of Statistics, which Uno vs whereof it speaks, that Canadian cotiples aru beiug married in greater numbers this year than they have been for a considerable period of time. l''or the month ol September. Indeed, the number ol marriages reg- istered in G7 citie: and towns through out the Dominion Increased to 4,iiSf) from a total uf 3,70:.' in t,.e same mcHith last year. Thi.s was an in- crease of It per ceut. and that for the nine months ended with Sepleni ber amounted to (1.4 per cent. â€" Brock- ville Kcconlor anl Times. Playing With Death A number (^j lilu-otings have taken place in the woods, in the Hants County case, the victim was hit by a bullet the oigin oi which Is un- known and the man who lirsd ;ne shot may be to- this day iguorant of the fact that the bullet he lired found a human target, for it must be re meinbered that the modern rifle car- ries tar, and even i' a shot Is flred in one direction, a richochet rnay di- vert it to a totall.^ unexpected place A more recent accident is of an en,- tirely different kind. In this case the huiiler had been pursuing his quarry, lost sight ot il (or a little, and then saw a moving object in the bushes, and (lied. L"n liai>pily it struck near two other huu ters who ran immediately for cover. â€" _ i'liey snouted, but the hunter was so lar away their voices did not carry The two hid behind trees, but un- luckily the hand of one was showing and the next moment he had a bullet through it. After that, thi, other fir ed a shot to warn the hunter of what he was doing. He came running over at once and the injured man was im mediately taken away for treatment, his hand being so badly shattered that reports have it amputation may be necessary.â€" Halifa.'? Chronicle. KEEPING UP WITH THE NEW CAPS /. 7Aeip5rCHEVftOLET J Lou b KUCE I Sales Leader in 19^6, Chevrolet Booke au â€" ~_ l^j Q^ PttEVlOUS RECORDS «8 WBU.. Women's Risrhts Leaders Calleudur, Ont., neither a mining nor an industrial centre, as the .Mon- treal Gazette points out. is assuming the proportions of a^ boom town, all on account of five little girl? Vet the franchise has been denied women in Quebec for the twelfth time. If the sister province isn t careful the Dionne girls are likely to run over some day and lay down the law for women's rights. â€" Toronto Globe. New Card .New pa.sseuger automobiles sold In Canada during the first nine months of 193G show an increase of 8.5 per cent, in value over the same period of 1935. Including trucks and buses, the increase is 9.5 per cent, in num- bei and l.M per cent, in value. In these nine months the Canadian pub- lic has investeu practically f95,000,000 in motor vehicles, compare â-  with 5S5,- 000,000 in the comparable part of 1931. By the end of the .eai this will have been increased to at least $11U.- 000,000. Appro-ximately 110,000 new motor vehicles will have necn placed 01. the roads, including about 90,000 passenger cars The addition ot 110.000 cars, trucks and buses to the motor vehicles Jn the roads of Canada, will, of course, be offset to some extent by those withdrawn from use â€" a number ••stimated in 1935 at 6«.00O. If this estimate again holds good, there will If a net increase of approximately K.dOO. which should bring the total registrations up to l.l'12.t)4:;, not in- cluding 'uotorcycles. This would mean a greater number of cars in use than ill any years except 1930, when the 'cgistralions reached a peak ot 1,222,- 73t'. If the figures are approximate!, correct, one car in every eleven on the roads at the end of this year will be a car purchased in 1936.â€" Toronto Daily Star. Keep Canada Canadian .\ot tlie least valuable bit ot advice given by Leo Dolan, of the Canadian Travel Bureau, during his visit here, v.as that the distinctively Canadian and British atmosfhere should be niainlaiiied in appeals to tourists. United States visitors vvho tome here uii vacation want to see some- thing different. They want to see the .Mounted Police and the Union Jack. The;- can find enough ''George Wash- ington" hot dog stands and "Indiana" resti'.iiriints at home and would pre- fer to find here Indian names remin- iscent of Hiawatha or of the local lite. They want tc see liuiiau wigwams, birchbark canoes, lumbermen's shirts and prospector's packs. 'Tliey want a good place to sleep and good meals to cat and so on. But they want also an "atmosphere." So Algoma people who cater to American tourists shouldn't ape Am- erican names and customs. â€" Sank Sto. .Maiie Star. THE EMPIRE The Doomed Whale Whether llio .vhale will notice much difference (from the new inter- national agreement on whaliug) is an- other matter. It is not likely that the peak of 1930-31, whjn 30.000 whales were caught and .(iS().97G bar- rels of oil pioduced from them, will ever be touched again. Big wli^k-s are no longei seen and an abundance 01 small ones does not coiiipensate foi' their absence. Sveiid Koyn's in- vention of the shell-harpoon In 1S68 Onisteel construction joins the floor, cowl. Panels and acof of the chevrolet alu-silent, all-steel body tocsether to form ome integral structlre . New Master DeLuxe Sedan and the more recent introduction of the factory-ship have done their deadly work, and the present restric- tions do little more than (to use an up-to-date simile) apply a poultice to a volcano.â€" Cape Argus. Every City's Problem Johannesburg is certainly prosper- ous. There is no point in trying to disguise that fact. It is mora pros- perous than it has even been before. But that is not to say that every Tom, Dick and Harry wlio is unable to make a living in his own country, or in his own part ot this country, can make a living here. Far f'.om it, m fact. There is still a lot of unem- ployment in Johannesburg. There is more, indeed, than there should be. owing to the fact that jobless men. with little or no qualification to un- dertake any kind of skilled work, have flocked here in large numbers under the stupid impression that the streets are paved with gold and that jobs hang like ripe fruit on trees wailing to be plucked.â€" Johannesburg Times. Farmers Back Labor !n U.S. Workers .Vre Told â€" iVlillioii Growers Buy Only Union- Made Goods TA.MPA, Fla.-I. M. Ornhurn. sec- retary of the .\merican Federation of Labor union label department, re- ported recently the co-operation of one million farmers in a movement to buy only union-made : oods. While informal discussion of a Farmer-Labor Party in 1940 was current among deleiiates, Ornburn told his department's annual meet- ing "we now estimate over a million farmers have become labor conscious and buy only goods upon which the union label is displayed." .Meantime, interest among the (Jele- g:ates assenibliiiw for the federation's general convention centred upon the scrap between John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers an.i leader of the unions favoring or- ganization of all the workers in each big: industry into one bio- "nion, and unions favoring organization by craft. William Green, federation presi- dent and spokesman for the craft unionists, was due to arrive today. Reporting to the building trades department convention recently, the department'.^ executive council urged a "concerted" drive by all craft unions to combat the Lewis move- ment. The building trades council furth- er rpconnnended that all local build- ing tra'.ie.'i uni(uis promptly affiliate with central bodies and state feder- ations of labor "so as to assure con- certed action" against Lewis. J. W. Williams, building trades <ie- partment president, in his report pre- dicted such a revival in building dur- ing the coming year that every idle building trades worker would get a job. Provinces Get $175,867,348 OTTAWA.â€" Total ordinary rev- en'ue for all provinces in VJ'SA was $17.3,8(57,348. the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported recently. Ta.xation was the largest single source of revenue, amounting to â- $73, â- 553,567. included in wliicli wore the following principal items: Motor fuel or gasoline ?:ii).S12.274. ccr- poratioa $17, .543, 1.37, .suc'ession duties §11,010,033. income .?(>,!)y2,- 206, re/il or personal propertty .55,- 530()9!A amusement ta.x .â- ?2,"l003,- 4S7. The licensing of motor vehicles was responsible for .'?20,S40,al3. liiiuor o: control boards $12. S' 4,120. Otiier souices of revenue included marriafTO licen.se.'s, fee /or roRistra- tion, law stamps, incornjrat ons, public health fees for laborities, 'loards of health and registration of nurses, sales of text books and king's printer's accounts, intcre. t oi loans and advances to publicly ownt-d utilities. There are royalties, di.ties and fees from lumber and mining companies. Besides the ordinary revenue the provinces have stipulated subsidies dies and allowances undei the British N'orth .-America .-Vet. There is some institutional revenue a.- well as fines and penalties. , Black Dogs Supply New Fashion Note NEW YORK.â€" Just to give you an idea â€" smart women are even leading black dogs. It is no news that there is a fashion in dogs as in everything, but it is a slightly differ- ent angle when it's the color of the dog. So the women in black leads the dog in black. The word "Edwardian" is more and more in fashion news. We are hearing repeated references to the "Edwardian color scheme of black v.ith bright blue touches." That fashion is generous in her sil- houette offering is not unusual. There are usually two silhouettes, often contradictory. Thi^ season is no ex- ception. The one with "Edwardian" back fulness seeiii.s to be slightly in the lead, but the llaiiiig one is crowd- in;,' it hard. There in also a sophisticated group that likes fullness at the front so, if you want to be on your own in the matter, the only suggestion is that you select the silhoujtte which does most for your figure. Keep your waistline slender. If it isn't, make it appear so by widening your shoulders and hemline, not only for evening but for daytime as well. After examining many representa- tive collections, we beg to report that the season's silhouette makes a point of _'ontia;\s. For example, a redin- gotc frock has a very slim founda- tion revealed beneath a full skirt that is often si eer and frequently embroidered. .A gown from Lanvin in black net treated with sequin bands is an e.xamplfc of this type of dress. There ri also several dressei es- pecially in evening express. on that have definitely full skirts with liie fullness rising from a high line. One from Chanel is charming and reciiin- mended as especially suited to dan- cing â€" a gown in navy net erabroider- ed in sequins. C>.ntrasting with this silhouette are dresses that have a definitely long and slonaeriine, with a pepium describing a slanting, flaring line at the back, making the skirt beiow seem even slimmer. The princess line api-roveti in day- :ne fushioss is also extended to ev- enii.g gowns, one from Lanvin, for instance, in velvet fa. hioned on prin- cess lines with delicate bead en broid- eries a I tile low decolletage. nuich candidatoa for laboratory hon- ours knew. So with Dr. Nash. H« has set up a test of verbal knowledg* â€" not of ajititude. Dr. Kash says in his letter that others think as he does. Thus Dr. Flack holds that vocabulary tests for aptitude "have gone a long way to- ward solving the problems of select- ing applicants to medical schools." Words, Words! .\ Wic-.roLil.iry Test is Devised tor .Wediciil Students If Dr. Jose|)h Xash had his way, youn^ men and v.omen who aspire to become physicians would be ,\ivcn what he considers a simple, fair and effective aptitude test. Writing to Tlie Journal of the .-Vmerican Medi- cal .\ssociatioR, he points out that Garrison's widely rend 'History of .Medicine" contains about al' the words that a practitioner is likoiy to meet in his reading or professional conversation. If the meaning of these is known, aptitude is indicated. Let the doctor speak for himself so that he may not be misquoted: Will not every physician on niceting these familiar terirs in his leisure reading feel a glow I 1 self assurance and gain confi- dence that, had aptitude tests I'oen applied in lus student days, he would have scaled over them with the greatest of ease? It is impossible, ('ir lack of space, to reproduce Dr. Nash's complete list of words, .\mong the tough ones are "cuuvade." "bilbo," "apotropaic." "oniopha,e:y," "piacular," "grigris,'* ' periapts," ''steatopygous," "progu- iiieiiic^" "marano." "hodegetics," "prebendary." "c;uricks," "energu- iiien."' "reiver," 'bezoar," "apozcme" "panada." ' corroval," "achorion," "porrigo." "culicidal," 'atrepsy," "nioxa.'' Just what a knowledge of words has to do with aptitude this skeptic tails to see. There are art forgers in Paris and Italy who will produce a fifteenth century .Madonna good enough to fool all but the most ox- pert, but who liave no knowledge of studio patter. Peasants have com- posed songs that are still a delight, yet they knew nothing of "caden- zas"' or "adagios" or "diapasons." So with thee Xegro banjo e^cpcrts of plantation days. Probably Dr. Dafoe would be stumped if he were asked to define many of Dr. Xash's words. But when it comes to bringing quintu- plets into the world with the odds of their living for lack of proper care a thousand to one against him, we'll select Dr. Dafoe in preference to .some young obstetrician who can glibly tell us what 'redecraft" or "captocormy" means. Some years ago the late I'lioiiuis X. Edison compiled a list of ijue-s- tious that every bright young man should be aole to answer and thus prove he had intelligence enough to liofd down a job in a laboratory. .Actuallv Edison was linding out how The Tragic North Writes the Calgary Albertan: â€" Out of the north come great richea â€" and great tragedies. All that Robert Service wrote about the cruelty of the land near tlie -Arctic rim has been shown true again and again. Superstition has grown, fostered by tales such as those from the "cursed" Nahanni River country, where, it :s said, there is much gold, but which has taken more than the usual toll of human lives. Recently the news columns told of the be- lieved deati) by drowning of two more trappers who ventured into that remote, ill-famed region. The N'ahanni River Country is hated by the Indians; they will not venture into it, even when accom- panied by white men. They are also -said to fear the "Forbidder Valley" where hot springs have fostered tha growth of lush vegetation strangely out of place in the northern setting. By stories of such places the mys- teries of the north are publicized; they indicate that it is not a pleas- ant place in which to live. Which is' just as well. It is no place for tha, weakling, and only those who will ' to face the difficulties, dangers and fears of an inhospitable land are welcome. Yields Down Laiest Crop Hstiinates dt Ot- t.i-AM Put Wheat Tot;i! Below 1035 OTTAW.Vâ€" Lower yields for all the principal grain crops m Canada are shown in the F.^minion Bureau ot Statistics second estimate oi grain vroduction for l;)3(j, issued recently. The wheat crop for ;ill Canad:i is placed at. 233.500,000 bushels, com- pared with 277.3!t'.».000 bushels Last year. Yields of other grain crops with figures for i;i;!5 in bracke follow: Oats 27(!.2G5.000 (SO 1,348,000) ; bar- ley 72.72<;.000 (f>3,y 75.000); rye, 4,3G8,000 (!),(!0,000); peas 1.153.000 ( 1.610,000 »; beans f;33,400 (1,1G1,- lOOl; buckwheat S,i;ti4.000 (7,048,- 000): mixed grains 34.3$I,000 (3'.),- 534,:'00k flaxseed 1,779,300 (1.471,- 000): corn for husi;ing 5,!i3o,000 (7.71)5,000). The a'.oiav;e yields per acre, in bushels, with r.»35 aveniges in brackets: Wheat :>.2 (11.5): oats 21.1 (28.01; barley 16.4 (21. G); rye G.!) (13.4): peas 12.5 (17,1); beans 13.0 (IS.O); buckwheat 21.8 (20.i>.); mixed grains 29.3 (31.3); fla.xseed 3..S (G.o^; corn for husking 3G.1 ( 1G.3I. CAUKOLLTON. III. -- Francis E. Davis who said he had never tasted fiuit. vegetables or moat, calmed re- cently ho had lived all his life on a diet of bread, crackers, cereal, cof- fee and sugar. Both his wife an.i hi,-; four year- old son eat the foods Davis said ho abhorred because "the smell makes mo sick." The slight 31-year-old man- ager of a bowling alley gave this aa his typical day's menu: Breakfast, coffee and dry cereal. Lunch and dinner, crustless bread or crackeis di|)ped in sugar. Davis, five feet, nine inches tall and weighing 137 pounds, said he had been exa)iiinod by a physician who reporteil him in perfect health. Postmen of England have been ordered not to deliver mail where vicious dogs are left uncontrolled. "i.lv.t looiis 11 ,e a door'.'' asl.e I t.ie child.' ''Why that crack in the rock just facing you," replied Bil- lina, whose little round eyes were very sharp and seemed to see every- thing. "It runs up one side and down the other, and acro.ss the top and bottom." "What does'.'" asked Dor- othy. "Why, the crack. So I think it must be a door of rock, although 1 don't see the hinges." "Oh, yes," said Dorothy, now ob.serving the crack for the first time. ".-Vnd isn't this a keyhole, Billina?" "Or course. If we only had a key, now, we could unlock it and see what is there," replied the yellow hen. ".Maybe it's a treasure chamber full of diamonds and rubies or heap.s of shining gold, orâ€"." "That re- minds me," said Dorothy, "of the golden key you discoveied on the shore when we first left the raft. Do you think it would fit, Billina." "Try it and see," suggested the hen. So Dorothy searc'ned in the pocket of licr dress and found the golden Then she put it into the hole Uj the rock and turne<l it. It turned rather hard, but finally a sudden, sharp snap was heard and then with a solemn creak that made the shivers run up and down the child's bat>., the f.ico of the rock chamber fell outward, like a door on hinges, nnrt revealed a small dark chamber just inside. "Cood gracious!" cried Dor- othy, shrinking back as far as the narrow path would let her. For there within the narrow chamber oJ lock was the form of a man 1 .\t least it seemed like n man in the dim light. He was only abou: as tall as Dorothy herself, and his fx-dy was round as a ball and made out of burnished copper. .\Iso his head and limbs were copper and these were jointed to his body with metal caps over the joints like the armor worn by the knights of old. He stood per- fectly still, and where the liK>t struck upon his form it glittered as if made of pure gold. "Don't nc frightened," called Billina, perching on the man's head. "It isn't alive."