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nationality rights for married women london the house of commons recently received a petition signed by leaders of 100 womens organiz ations throughout the empire in cluding canada seeking removal of disabilities of married women in questions of citizenship mrs if 15 tate conservative m p presented the petition with sign atures of women in canada south africa australia new zealand ceylon and bermuda it asks the house to give legal ef fect without further delay to the statement of policy enunciated by the british government at geneva in 1931 that all disabilities of mar ried women in matters of national ity be removed and urges that so far as nationality is concerned a mar ried woman should he in the same position as a man or a single wo man the petition will go before a com mittee of the house relief families produce model king out three miles from this town 2o miles north of toronto there is a settlement of 14 houses there 117 men women and children all from torontos relief ranks live happily and well the project knosvn as the king itidge settlement was founded a year ago by rev father f j mcgoey he began with five fami lies aiid a loan of a 30acre farm each family was given two acres to work and 50 chickens the rest of the land was the communitys two cows and some pigs were put on the project crops were planted three months later they went off relief by fall they had not only enough produce for the winter but were able to sell 9t0 bags of pota toes and carrots st clare parish toronto bought them at 1 a bag which gave each family nearly 200 this spring a 50acre farm was purchased nearby and 17 more fami lies were taken out each of the original families was given a 10- acre plot a cow a hrse and a savenroom home which everyone is helping to build the newcomers are starting as the original five did a year ago its like a training school the first year said father mcgoey iisst winter a disused building was fitted up for a school and a teacher taught 20 pupils during the term this fall 40 will attend in the community there is a workman from every trade except that of a farmer but said father not in competition start of cne swim here we see the huge crowd of spectators and that thrilling moment when the entrants tako the plunge the annual cne swim is on this year there are to be two fivemile swims august 27 for men august 23 for women the week in ottawa before prime mnisier bennett leu for the seaside last week to rest up before getting into the election cam paign ho announced a number of longawaited appointments with the exception however of cabinet ap pointments these he is expected to announce upon his return ten senate vacancies were filled by mr bennett and inc tided in the list was mrs ira campae i fattis or peterborough ontario wiie of a far mer tier appointment makes- tie second woman lo sil in the lied chamber mrs fall s lias worked un tiringly tor the bennett government and the honor bestowed upon tier 13 regarded to be well merited four men were appointed to the judiciary threo to the unemployment and so cial insurance commission and one was named commissioner of patents tew if any of the appointments came as a surprise col the hon g s harrington former nova scotia flcgoey were premier will bead the unemployment with farmers were not here to make money but a living lot of english feminists denounce policy of german gov3rnmenc london leaders of the womans movement were indignant at icfusal by the german embassy here to re ceive a delegation of english women to protest against the antifemin ist policy of the third reich the scheduled protest was to have been made to german ambassador iepold von itoesch but the embassy announced the delegation would not j former member of parliament he received because the reception had been announced before the cm- basy had given its consent insurance commission with tom moore president of the trades and labor congress of canada represen ting the labor element and j r baudot montreal insurance manager representing employers the com- mssion will get down to work almost immediately the senate appointment were nova scotia hon kdgar n rhodes finance minister ottawa col thos cahtley mp pictou f p quinn mp halifax j l q kobichau merchantfarmer maxwellton digby county prince edward island hon j a macdonahl minister without port folio ontario hon donald m suther- the delegates composed of wo men from all classes of life had in tended to denounce the v german govenments action in barring wo men from a number of professions and according to the british femin ists handicap placed in the way of feminine higher education i ingersoll col james arthurs mp parry sound now brunswick hon jones apohaqiii royal quebec hon arthur sauve kustache postmastergeneral bright prospects for tourist trade george p st james tvibmpsun mitchell ottawa at present acting commissioner will be commissioner of patents mr justice patrick kerwin ot itielpli who has been on the ontario supreme court bench for only three years goes to the supreme court ot canada bench to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of mr jus tice frank hughes mr justice lver- wn will be succeeded by oharle3 t mctague kc of windsor hon al fred duianleau minister of marine succeeds mr justice coderre on the quebec superior court bench and d mcicinnon icc of charlottetown is appointed district judge in admir alty prince edward island official approval has been given the governments dairy products mar keting equalization scheme which is designed to assist in the maintenance of the cheese branch of the dairy industry the scheme also aims to stabilize the price of milk entering into the manufacture of cheese at a somewhat higher level than can be realized from toe proceeds of the sale of cheese a fund lias been provided by parliament out of which it is in tended that payments on the basis ot the quantity of cheese manufactured will bo made fanners who dasire such payments must apply to the dairy and cold storage commission er department ot agriculture ot tawa payments received by factories from too dairy products equalization tund must be apportioned among milk suppliers in the same manner as proceeds from the sale of cheese fn a very short time the govern ment will announce the lisjt or ap proved loaning companies to which borrowers may apply for benefits un der the 10000000 government scheme to build new bouses this will be the first concrete step to wards bringing the plan into opera tion possibly by the end of august canada chief source flour united kingdom canada is the chief source of sup ply for flour of the united kingdom followed by australia and france canada supplied 447 per cent of the our imports into the united king dom during 1934 poisoned atmosphere gives peers headache london the house of lords had a headache recently peers lodged pleas for air condi tioning like they have in toe us senate and asked the government to have a chemist investigate the poison saturated atmosphere in their chamber it is a scandal that tooh- lord ships must suffer severe headaches because they are so public spirited they leave the fresh air of their country homes for duty in toe house of lords whose atmosphere is sat urated with poison marquis linlith gow said company to process soya bean crop mill to open at stratford farmers in fifteen counties sign stral ford soya mills limited of toronto recently purchased the mc- leod mill here for the sum of 5- 000 the new company headed by t d bell of toronto as president and general manager plans to mill hour from soya beans and feed meal and oil as well as other byproducts the mill will be equipped and ready for operations around the middle ot october toe president report associated with mr bell is r 1 t trickcy who is rated as one of tho foremost authorities in canada on soya beans mr boil was head of the milling department of can adian atlis chalmers co who in stalled tho first soya bean mill in china fortysix years ago farmers in fifteen counties in ontario have contracted their crops with the company states mr bell seed was provided where previously none was available the company expects to import enough beans it ontarios crop does not prove large onough to operate the mill for 240 days continuous operation it is ei- timated when the mill is operating it will require approximately twenty employees 5afe flying after two hours flying foreseen in us memorial planned for t e lawrence london a memorial to t e lawrence lawrence of arabia is to be placed in st pauls cathedral near the tombs 0 lord nelson and other great british heroes the dean and the chapter ot st pauls offered space for the mwniarial it will be a bronze head modelled from ute by eric kennington only the words lawrence of arabia will be cut in the stone of the wall underneath it an appeal for funds for the mem orial was issued last week canada gets sponges from the bahamas n i kue the prospects for the tourist trade this year arc very bright judging from the number of enquiri es received by the hotels and re sorts there should also be an in crease in the number of anglers and big game hunters visiting canada steamship officials are expecting a better season than last through the port of montreal which is an in dication of the improvement which lias taken place in trade particularly within the empire clive brook plans to make home in england southampton eng clive brook the british movie actor arrived here recently and said he was giv ing up his home in hollywood and would henceforth make england his headquarters she should madison wis- mrs henry hal- vorson 10 lay on a hospital bed re covering from her 17th childbirth in 23 years she discussed birth con trol t i dont know much bout it she said but i figure i should look in to it dont you think so rltty furnsssl ha knitkd mom than so svvatfk 6 drtvvfv during the pa9t too var robert young iia 2 b80w3uv 2sctmt0w4 tos 2 dtl f wv birth twk tow 4 he p1ay0 in 40 stage moductkm 1m 4 ysar he tlved at llll tow 4 chicago t wnwflltstjignsdwmi mgm now in his 4tjvah with mgm j canada gets a considerable portion ot her sponges a la nature from the bahamas british west indies and also during the winter season large quantities of fresh tomatoes canada ill fact is the best custom er of toe bahamas the islands sell ing more goods to canada than the united kingdom or the united states their next best customers the bahamas have a wide variety of ex ports which include in addition to raw tomatoes and sponges such com modities as lumber fresh fish salt hemp cascarilla bark marine curios hides and skine conch shells and tortoise shell canada secured 1s5 per cent of the bahamas imports for the year 1931 the united states got 3u7 per cent and toe united kingdom 25 per cent other coun tries got 198 per cent new textile material from flax and cotton the discovery of a new textile ma terial a mixture of flax fibre and raw cotton in england is expected to have an important effect on th lin en and cotton trades tho resulting material is known as merlin and the process is being developed by a larg manchester cotton firm under the new process the fibre is extract ed from the llax by machinery with out the necessity of soaking or wet ting it is understood linseed fibre herotoforo allowed to go to waste can also bo utilized tho new fab ric looks like linen and is less li able to crease there is a possibility ot the process being introduced in to canada if it proves successful what is needed to put tho theatre back where it belongs is now young blood xn george m cohan j its true that robert young and his brother joseph young appear together on the screen for the first time in calm your self says artist wiley padan also its true that hale hamilton celebrated his 35th anniversary as an actor during ho nroduction of this filmlv the soldier of war in the past may in tho very same spirit becomo toe soldier of peace today havclock ellis plays dealing with abnormality always find their chief customers among women george jean nathan a few holidays for our wives under the caption a few holi days for our wives the huntingdon cleaner makes some apt remarks which are well worth reproducing the gleaner comments as follows the world has always leaned to ward a dramatization of its problems humanity likes to set up lay figures to represents some class or section to which its attention has been drawn so we have the man with fie hoe the man in the street the unknown soldier and more lately the torgotteii man all of these figures have paraded across the stage of pubiic notice- on occasion sometimes in an attempt to arouse public sentiment to draw no tice to existing inequalities as the man with the hoe was used to call attention to the great mass of inar- ticulato labor so in the last presi dential campaign we had the forgot ten man to mypify the multitude ot bumble suiterers who bore the heav- let burdens and suffered the sharp est pangs in the war against depres sion it has remained tor sweden to call attention to a group that is wider tian any yet covered by a lay fig ure a group that stands behind all the four mentioned above that has suffered the stress of all these classes without any of the publicity they have been accorded there has been a word of tribute now and then but tor the most part a wide and deep silence the general swedish electric co on the occasion ot its fiftieth anni versary announces that it has set aside a fund ot 100000 to provide vacations for the wives of small sal aried employees of the company in taking this step the swedish concern decided that those vtoo work behind the scenes benefitting the company indirectly by looking alter the men were most in need ot con sideration it was found that wives seldom had time tor a complete rest someone should outline a figure to represent the woman behind the factory whistle whose work begins long before tho workers take thelr places at machines or bench and continues long auer splindle and latho are sent whose work year runs info 3g5 days owh is toe first ono to feel the pinch when work fams and tho last ono to benefit by a pickup should such a figure be drawn in its proper scale perhaps make pygmies of already fashioned detroit airplanes that may be flown safely by novices after two hours instruction and practically land themselves can be built to sell for 700 eugene vidal federal director of air commerce said re cently here to attend the all- american aircraft show at de troit municipal airport vital told of the progress being made toward low cost fool proof plane a project in which the department of com merce is greatly interested at least three of our projects are very promising he said the ships can be flown safely by novice pilots they do not spin they land themselves hands off or with the stick all the way back from 200 feet one of the ships that meets the requirements of the department of commerce is a tailless high wingjj j monoplane vidal said it has a twopiece cabin and a 95 horsepower pusher engine we are ready to give this ma chine an approved type certificate and it is ready to be flown east by a novice pilot we tried for two weeks to spin it and couldnt voice of the press canada name your man name badgers ar now planed on employees of dominion stores and botb customers and employees seeiu to like it customers find they can remember an employees name bel ter is they actually see it employ ees are pleased because they preer to bo referred to by name rather than as that tolu red faced man etc financial post couldnt eat farmers produce he sold it to them too cheap it would the four women take duties more seriously than men do montreal summer residents of lake louisa laurentian- resort 08 miles from here joined in a com plaint about the prices charged for his produce by a montreal office man turned farmer the complaint was that he was not charging enough for the butter eggs mutton and vegetables he sup plies to the cottagers around the lake he was informed that he could not possibly make a profit at the prices he was charging and was urged to raise them the man who took up farming this year when a breakdown of health drove him from the city promptly obliged and the cottagers are now eating with a free con science reciprocity among tourists the holiday exodus on the great american national day july 4th in terms of motoring tourists entering canada this year created a record and moreover exceeded the returns in 1929 hitherto a peak year this is most gratifying news to tooso canadians who think of canadas prosperity in terms of mounting tourist figures three days previous great american holiday trek to canada the dominion herself cel ebrated a national day it would bo interesting to know tho figures ot canadian motorists crossing the in ternational border on july 1st but the comparison 14011111 have to bo worked out on a percentage basis of total population ottawa citizen taxes coming on the first six months of this year has seen 5so000 more paid in kd- monton taxes than did the first six months of last year heres hop ing the increase will keep on in creasing edmonton journal south african parents oppose coeducation parents in riversdale s africa do not believe in coeducation for their children and by a sweeping majority they turned down a pro posal to amalgamate the boys and girls high schools fmspqrt jmlihl ev ken edwards keep your stubs it will undoubtedly come as a shock to most persons in ontario that under the amusement tax reg ulations now in force failure on the part of a patron at any place ot amusement to retain his stub of toe amusement tax ticket is punishable by a fine ot from 10 to 200 under tho primary convictions act tho actual requirement in tho reg ulations is that the person admitted must produce his portion of the tax ticket on demand of any inspector ot the amusaments revenue branch or police officer and lack ot such tax receipt is regarded as prima facia evidence that the act had been evad ed if there are any illusions that these drastic rules are not lo be en forced they can be d smlssed leter- boro examiner earned income the edmonton journal brings out the astonishing fact that it a citizen ot alberta had an income of one million dollars all earned ho would be able to keep only 79292 for himself federal and provin cial income taxes alone would take 920708 ottawa journal in the first place can anyone really earn a million dollars a year in the second place is there anyone who cannot manage to strug gle along on 79292 per year it is more than most men earn in a lifetime toronto star st andrews nbnaturaliy l think it will be much better to have another woman in the senate sen ator carine wilson said at her sum mer homo here regarding the ap pointment of mrs howard t falus peterborough out to the rod chamber after all she remarked with a smile women take these things more seriously than men adding that she had grown quite accustom ed to being canadas only woman senator senator wilson said was unacquainted with the member and looked forward to meet ing her senator wilson received her ap pointment in february 1931 sho now thanksgiving day october 14th 1935 ottawa a proclamation was is sued recently naming october the 14th as thanksgiving day since remembrance day is commemorat ed in november it lias become the custom during the last few years to hold thanksgiving day on the sec ond monday of november king of swat george babe herman ruth that phenomenal homerun hitter was the most majestic figure in modernday major league baseball ruto was horn in baltimore in 1s91 and started out on his career by joining tho baltimore club in 1913 at 100 a month being sold the same year to the boston red sox tor 2900 the babo was a pitilier at tho be ginning of his career but his hitting prowess camo quickly to too fore the popular slugger who for 1931 and 1932 had a contract for 1c0000 is never too busy to autograph a scoro card for the dirtyfaced kids all of whom arc ruths pals in 1927 he slammed go drives out or the parks in the american league an alltime mark threo times dur ing ills career he hit 3 home runs in ono game 2 being in world series contests in 192g and 1928 the babe led the american league j in homeruns for 12 seasons four times he hit over go homers ho hit 40 homers 11 times he has received more bases on balls and struck out more times than any player listed in the records duo to the tremendous crowds tho yankees drow from 1920 to the 1930 i the yankee stadium was popularly i called the house that ruth built a ship rebuilt congratulations to the halifax shipyards on a big job ot work well and ably done what has just been accomplished on and with the silverview was no ordinary repair job but the biggest and perhaps the most dilllcult con tract ot its kind ever attempted in canadian yards and today the sil verview is going back into commis sion as good as hew transform ed from a badlymangled almost doomed ship to a newlypainted well repaired steaming unit halifax herald march of silence a law has been passed at essex falls new jersey making it illegal for a duck to quack a rooster to crow and a dog to bark between the hoars ot 10 pm and g am owners whose animals or fowl disturb the peace may be fined from 5 to 25 while complaint had only been mado about a canine prowler the roosters and ducks were included just in case you cango and live in essex falls nj it you want to but not for us we want to keep our dog and wo want him to be happy windsor star room for confidence in the very upset of things there is ground tor confidence and optim ism the worldwide restlessness ot toe age is proof positive of the worlds dissatisfaction with things as they are history proves that mans dissatisfaction has always been the first step towards improvement and advance it explains the progress from the cave via tho hut to the modern jiome from the horse via the coach to the automobile and tho airplane difficulties perils and serious set- hacks are inevitable but not in- vincible tho forward look plus the courageous heart is the guaran tee of victory halifax herald peace is tho outcome of justlco justice is tho outcome of law and law is tho outcome of political or ganization hamilton holt to bo always complaining is not tho way to be pitied