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• JED ORCHARDS “
?AU over Ontario there, are apple
orchards that have- been permitted
/ to,/deteriorate, because „their owners...
’did not consider it worth while'to
devote the .speciai'"^ttention to them
“necgssary Lor .tlie'pxod,uetipn„ojfirsfe
■ ' class fruit. '? It is recognized bow.
that this neglect was a mistake, since
th§ market for apples has_> expanded
, Enormously. and this fruit crppis.now^
a mainstay of agriculture#, whpre
, other sources of revenue have failed,
-pSar'nia Canadian-Observdr. .
Empire and The -World at Large'
parking- offences five motorists'
wfere fined one dollar.. There in. a
nutshell is one of the reasons why
Winnipeg has - traffic-i- difficulties,
and why [fatalities and^4 accidents
are . numerous^—Winnipeg Tribune.
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■/ KEER OUT^/' ■ 7
Now and' va^:ain adventurous-, souls
have crossed the frontier into. Can
ada carrying their gangster devices ,
nortli of the boundary Fortunately
they fdund -themselves facing a dif
ferent set of conditions a.n.(i. Ji§.Cpyr;
ered^that Canadiansoil --was -liot-an-
■ exactly healthy, place 4 in . which to
plytheir .^ra;de. 'Long may it cori-
■ ; tinue-, • sor-ARalifsaX Chronicle.
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, MOSQUITO EXTERMINATION
' New York aidermen have learned
•, that a mosquito extenhination .pro
ject in the Bronx is still in progress
’ and. that it has 95' supervisors to 91
' .laborers.' At this time of year, ^ve
suppose, it would take ■ moi?e. men to
lind the mosquitoes than to exter
minate ■ • them.^-Kingstdri\ : Whig-_
~'^St'ari'd'afd'.''’'•; ’ .’■ ■ ■
HYOCR1TES
Many a man won’t join a chprch
because there,.are hypocrites in it; He
remains outside" where .there are
• more hypocrites.j—Niagara Falls Re- ,
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; PRESERVATION OF NIAGARA^
; - . ■/ ■ FALLS ' ' - ■'
Of course, - it; is not suggested
that complete destruction of the Ni
agara . Falls could be accoinplished
even by a, much faster, rate of
erosion than is now . apparent,
Within. several thousand years; En
gineers express the opinion; never
theless, that proteetvie work should
Be undertaken at an -early date in
^otder^to-UrVuid^much’-heayierrexpendW'
•/tures later on. The plan that s.eems_
Tto have the most support is one
j8Ehereby^artificiaJ^weirsT--would^ribe-
X-Jconstfucted ontheriverybed—above
the falls to divert the flow of water
:mpre.evenly.ov,er-the--brink.--—Wood-
stock Sehtinei-Review.,
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" THE SILVER DOLLAR
It is a ’ graceful gesture of Jthe
Mint io strike a silver dollar-to- tomi
;,mpmQrate_ the- 25-th anniversary of
:the .King’s ascension,- although Can
adians need no added inducement to
show their respect and affection for
His; Majest^-ri"Wi.nhipog Free Press.
, ; CAUGHT, NOT TAUGHT
The colored man who said he never
stole; chickens any more because he
liad “got” religion, uttered a truth
without knowing it—-if any colored,
man ever did say such a thing. So
wise a cleric as Dean Inge, recently
retired from St. Paul’s Cathedral,;ut-
tered ^his, pbdtgr;.,^.ictum the other
-eapghtj—not-
taught,—-St. Thomas
had. "L \ •' •: ,.
BASIC CONSERVATISM
Of purse, the Englishman is con
servative. And after reading the fol
lowing adveitisement . from the
London Standard, we would'1 say
from the skin out: A rapidly chang
ing- word regards,js^th basic increas
ing admiration; the wise conserva
tism of the -’Englishman and in- no
sphere- ’is- -this more eloquent!yj ev-_
' pressed-’ 'than ; in hisj underwear.-—
■ St; Catharines-jStandard. ■ •»
’ TRADE WITH FOREIGNERS
More ‘ purchases from foreigners
are urged as a way out of the de
pression, but a friend protests: *“I
get my Vegetables at ' an Italian’s,
myn meals at a Greek’s,, my shoes at
a Russian’s, my shoes are repaired-
by a guy from Czechoslovakia,, my
laundyman is a Chinese, and I for
get the others; so how in the name
qf the League, of Nations am J to
do more business with foreigners ?”
—-Hamilton Spqct^td^ '
APPROVED WARFARE
Mussolini has declared -war o,n the
mosquito—but this is one'form of
warfare which arousfis-onlv^anprov-i-
"al —-Ottawa Journal.
~ ■•'Cpliiin^ia 0am Site
...J ..; The harnessing of the Columbia, turbulent riVer.of the nort.hwest, gets_under w.ay as-woikrnen con’ •. - ''
ors’towfi.pt. the site of the Grand Coulee reclamation dam and pow er project m w a 1 * '
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Times-Jour-
MORE MILLIONAIRES
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General' Johnson says the NBA
1b as dead as a dodo and while
'-■eeems/ tri’W’ ja: jpr^tty." strong^tate^
patt of "the former ad^
jninistrator, some-convineing figures
■ released at Washington would .indir
cate that it hafe_»not_dbne_anuch—ih-
: the way of wider distributioirrof~thri‘
( nation’s. wealth. The figures shpw
that , in 1933 the number of persons
who received incomes of less than
$25,000 dropped below the 1932
yievel, but the number , and total in
come, in the classes from $25,000 up
wards increased. Those receiving in
comes of $1,000,000^ or more in
creased from 20 to’ 46.—Border
Cities Star.
Dr. Dafoe has been ••retcojnBi^n.d-’’
gd ther^ol«L_MedicaL'-^Rrizexin_
recognition of his care of the Dionhe
quintuplets. It is" also rumored; that
the Callander doctor is likely to be-
incl.ud;ed~ in_the -list of recommenda-
tions for the King's New Year’s hon
ors. The Order • of the Bath, no
doubt—Chesley Enterprise.
FIVE-CENT FARE FAILURE ■
yTlfe results of the first week’s ex-
;periment~With' a ,5-cent. car fare are
not particularly encouraging*/ . re
garded a3“so~ much statTsfifes, for
while during^the week which ended
Thursday 8.85 per cent;, more "pas-
sengers were, carried than in i^g cor
responding -week of last yfear the
revenue was 12; 81 per cent, less.—.
THE EMPIRE
ORIGIN OF HANSARD
„• The death is .announced of Miss
Julia Hansad, . aged 96, who was a
great-great-granddaughter of - Luke,
Hansard (1752-1828), .printer from'
'1774 until his. death on the “Jour
nals Of the House of Commons.”
Luke Harisbrd,'s.v^om4^Th.omas;^'JC.ur^
son. Hansard (1776-1833) started'
a press of .his“‘“‘owri'“in Pafe^noster-
rpw, and in 1803 began to. print the
“Parliamentary Debates,” which are
still known .as; “Hansard,” though,
that name, has not now appeared on
the imprint; for '43 ..years.—Erofn -the
London Daily Telegraph.)
EX-dCAlSER’S/TVEALIH/.z^ri
Exiled monarchs have not. always'
fared so badly as the ex-King of
Spain. The three richest arxyreputed
to be”the ex-Kaiser, ex-Kmg'Ferdin
and of“ Bulgaria and the Due de.
Guise, the jFrencli pretender., • The
ex-Kaiser is still the richest land
owner in Gemany. His landed wealth
there represents between 20,000,000
lbs. and 25,000/000 lbs.—From the
London Daily Telegraph.
Catch Cancer Early
^..Qne-o^
cer is that .’people have been too;
thoroughly1'persuaded that it is utter
ly ‘.incurable. In that belief and
greatly fearing 'the'’maigdyr.many"of
them fail to seek medicaT treatment
Jih time—and thus their fear; as to
cancer’s ‘ incurability becomes a - fact.,
The Director of the New York
’.Cfty; Cancer Institute is quoted as
having remarked lately that, fully
forty percent, of • the v- ' -be
ing cared for as hopeless, need .npt
have been so if the patients had
^sought^aidr^nom^he^proper—sources-
' early/epotigh. ;• ....... ”J.j__ ..
.HfeaitT are
. convinced "that if both the; public and
the doctors can b,e educated ..to recog-,
znize and (deal with the £ir-s;t danger
signals of cancer,and if the puiblic
can, be safeguarded from quack rem-
...edips,■ the dea,th rate, from this par-;
ticular; cause can be; appreciably re
duced j-j-Queber ' Chronicle-Telegraph. ;
FAT PRICES
Three Swiss stamps dated 1843
have just been sold in England for
$7,000 apiece. When you—figure the
- sfze^jje^y/eie^^thg".c?est^o&-prW
“^diic’tTon: of the- stamps, it1 must be
admitted it is a profitable transac
tion. An Englishman recently made
a nice profit on two^ pictures., He
picked them up for $50 from the
5 estate of two old maids, shortly af
ter their death. Two weeks later he
sdld them for $50,000. Of course
. one doesn’t .find a great master ev
ery day.—Le Soleil, Quebec. .
.„VULGARITY IN BOOKS
Library board's may hesitate to in
clude on their shelves novels dealing-
with certain problems of morality
or se^c where the individual, reader,
of wider taste, is quite ready to read
«uch; presentation. But surely vul
garity is inexcusable in any . book
claiming-literary merit. In the long
run it is doubtful . if. either writers
or publishers will benefit by using
filthy words pr vulgar expressions.
They certainly add nothing to the'
' virility of narrative while 'they aye
..decidedly-offenslv^/to tens of thous?
; hnds o_f__^eadgrs..~Ed monto.n - -J-o,u;r-
nai.
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PERHAPS SO
' The--;passing ^ generation is
called because it' is passing at the-
rate' of about 60 miles an hdhr otr
..wheels, Quebec ChroniqJe-Tele-
gral)h; ' ’ • .... X. . . - . ..—
, LIGHT FINES 0» ... _" ..
Foi’ running through stop signs o.r
red lights, six motorists were dined
, one dollar.■ in city police court -For 0 ‘ *<? ■*> e ' 4 .
THE EMPIRE
—■ -But-^hereriis-mnreriiTrridTe-airyra^^
^fd^^tf^iFWaS^itrst^dKring^-Oiir
Empire our once far-flung Empire/
is_^drawing. ’physically—cloSer'^o^
gether 'every day. Already the air
has made it a far more compact
and ; accessible continent than
. America—was when?-the-cUnion was"
fourided.-—London Sunday Referee.
■/.. . 'LEy^L';CROssiNas:-
Yesterday an engine dashed into
, a lorry at" a level'crossing. Two men
JSvexe-killetL^and^-m any—injur edv -End-
the level crossing. And do- it quick
ly.; It belongs to a’past' age. ' it is
cumbersome. It wastes time, ft wears
out nerves. And it is. not even safe.1
—London Daily Express,
Once a woman has pased the thir-
• ty mark, ■ she must ^pay. special atr-
-Tt-ention -to - hqr- ' ^gure..„ The bld
ounce - of - prevention -T is - Worth
a - pound A of - cure rule -certainly
applies where weight is concerned.
It is. much easier to keep from gain
ing surplus pounds. than to lose
vthe
r:T^^atch-^yiu.i^dmLr:^JlQnlt-^^
fanatic on ffie subject, but do try to
“curb your craving for ’sweets and
other^fattening YTems.^ . Ask your
doctor to give you a *" list of foods
■WfFSfe necessary to your general"
health, include them' in your daily
diet arid then eat sparingly; , of
things you like but which aren’t par--
ticularly beneficial or which tend to
make you gain/ . -
incidentally/every, mature. woman^
aiodld-see- a •.physician “once- a . year<
If you .Have minor skin ^rnpiidns,
chronic muddislyness, puffs under, the
eyes or an. unusually tired, drdwn
^lookr-a-doctor^-nndqubtedlyT^cnri^do"
jnore for you than any amount of
creams 'and lotions, applied exter
nally. ’ ■ ‘ ■
To retain the supplfe carriage of
youth, and to. keep your body ■ slen
der and firm,-take plenty of exercise
in the open air. Instead of driving
or taking a bus when you go down
town to shop, walk at least part of
the way. Play tennis," golf or any
.other; game that keeps you physical
ly jfit. y^Bwimming equalizes .the
weight. Riding is excellent for the
legs., thigh's , and waistlin^
Six Years “Solitary” „
Dortumun, Germany-"-;Eighty-two
sentenced to _________
terms i-angtnFfwSTmigW’^^
curb .your
ill.
^^Srgg^E^^feve^-^een sentenced to
*■«*** kJ * ■*•* “o “•"o • w
ta six, years' solitary .confinement
when convicted of plotting against
"the security of the state.
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As annual exodus from .the ifey north gets under wa>\ ’kiritors to
the' sphny southland will find.lovely Mrs. John Jay 0’Brie.n, nee Anita
U?w’.es Y^hnrd of Roanoke; Va-, on hand'to greet arrivals Tn Miami
Bbach. She’s wife of head of Flfeetwood HoteL ’ .
. - vj. AvuauuAV,’ v <*•, vn licluu TO
Bbach. She’s wife of head of Flfeetwood HoteL
significant and hopeful step in the re
covery "of Canadian agTicultuie.. ;
—-riThe-total. increase
•$112,9100,600 over' t»he; T933 .’.valuation
'is largely•accounted' for..by increases
-of $37,0.00,000 'in. .hay ■.and .clp,ve,r, $36./.
5M 000-inwh eat.,; .$.31,0 00,005 ...in... oats,.
■ and'$10,500,000 (n barley.' The estiin-
•ated valu^oi the potato“_crop is-pW
edb at $9,000,0000. lower, than- in 1933,
despite. the 'higher production, .in. 193.4
‘‘The Iqw prices . bf. potatoes .and
turnlips result iri’ithe lowering of. the
estimates, in thej .Maritini.es. Prince
Edward..island, is the only;, province
.showing , ;a reduced value: 'of' field
crops ooimipared vVitlr :last year and
tthe,“r®dtefidif;; ris1very ■lioth”
-Nova ,• Scotia—and ■' New Brnrisw-ick
Show increases clue ' mainly ■. to thejz
improvement In hay prices'. , ■
“In' Quebec, a fairly general bet
ter merit Tn' yields and prices .'causes
an' increase pf over. $30,060,000 or AS
Pei-' cent .in the va|ue?o'f field crops.’
;. Tn” Ontario;’higher prices Tor • grains
and fodder, ^offset the effects of Ahe,
rievere’drought oir production' and”trie;’
estimated value of " field crops . is-u'P
$17,500,000'or 14 per cent'. Alberta
is also about 37 per cent, and amount
to' $28,250,000. Britsli . Columbia also ,
;s,l^)ws,.. a slight; bettfermerit over.. 193.3 .
■valuations.. ..... v- /■■. J;; .J; - ■
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Jack Rabbit -
Rodeo Latest
Kansas vFarmers Round Up
• Thousands, of Them, To ,
Save Pastures. -
' Dodge Cit^,' Kan. — The greatest
outdoor, sport in Western Kansas
these winter days is the jack rabbit
ro’deo. ,'......
; Heretofore ‘-the rangy longeared
jacks, . have loped ; Over -the ■ . prairies -
riVithriUt-any. ,i)i,u'6h tp worry -about;- ex/
cept farm dogs, a few 'Shunters and
speeding motorists/ But now a. whole
army i’s after them. . 'r.
■■---The’_f armers-'f igiire'iv i^“gbbll“' ljuBK
Hess to; reduce the rabbit population,
es^gPl^Y^wheh' itW"estimated Fhat
"^5 jacks eat as much pasture as one
cow-, . i- ’ ■
Conservative estimates place" the
rabbit population in each county at
about .100,000, . /
The round-up starts with men and
iboys of a community taking places
about a "square several miles in area
and moving, toward the; centre of "this
square the hunters' drive the jacks
before th epi into a' wire mesih en
closure. Then everyone joins in. the
kill uedrig clubs. • ' / - ‘
Anmals fit for eating sire, shipped
to relief agencies. "•. •
The kill-at each round-up ranges
from several hundred to as high as.
.. $536,498,600
Value to Canada Best
Since 1930
round-up.
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r».hi Institutes
-tn—LondoH-Marfc
Grx>wttitol84
Adult' ■'"■ - "ETJcMtdn....
’ • During 21 Years of. “
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•London; Tlvening institutes, whiel.
.'hiave liwugh t after-schooh--adilcatio.lL.
within, the reach of the great major
ity of Londoners ...recently celebrated
. their “coining of age' at a Pageant ol
. ^p^g-ressrim-tke^Rnya-.l' Albert 'Hall.. ■; 7
- The London County. ConciL_n.ow_.
, runs.184 institutes scattered/over the
city. Only 2f yeai;s ’ago. London knew
little better in the way of adult edu
cation than trie night schools: and
’ the.''night, schools khew little better
I han ' it he tea chi ng-:. of-.- 'reading ■ and
wpt.i.rig to. those artisans and factory
, wprkej“s., vyhey’attended • theini; - - ■' ■r--
... j.Ntrion.eriba'd.ueali^ rib—
iliti'es >are- not—liberated;. - in^bbard’'
schools'by the/light'of nature, “mute
iinglo,rious Miltons".are apt to remain,
muite and inglorious unless somebody
’ of pioneer ininsiincts digs t.he;in. but.
■ To launch1'-the .present, system of.
.organized courses in evening- instit
ute, in polytechnic,-in set'tiemen'tiand.'
in college, .was no/light task, since
strenuous opposition was offered in
the early days .and official' opinion
was slow . .to rec'ognize._..that._co.urses..-
run on uniform lines and compelling
rihese"''wha’’To^r“thbfn to, attend reg "
ukrlyjwere^r.e£ei-u.bleriorihe,oldvhap--L
riazard-fchooling.wvhroirwas’ indulged
•in only.now and again “according to
JjwJtaationJL.--------;-------— ----- --------r—
But the task was undertaken and
held up, with the result that the en
rollment of students in'a recent year
reached-a tot'll of "negfly'25070007.......
;;'RsD’. Source of '
Vitamins Arid of
Mineral Salts
Importance of this Food in Children’s
Diets——Roe Nourishes Nervous
Systems
lie
Tyneside Recovery
Gains40 Per-Cent
During Eight Mbnth
■ ' ' ' '• Newcasitle-ornTyne, ; Eng. - Signs
I of improved trad are evident ih Tyrie-
| side, one of Britain's derelict areas.. ■
Ottawa,h— The*,value, of Canada’s I por f,]ie firs( eight months of 1934
.field cf-ops for 1924 was" estimated by. there is'a 40 per cent improvement
the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in over the corresponding period of 1933
a crop report issued' at $536,498,600. 1 said oRfcfcy ’figures submitted to .the
.This is $11^0.1,600 over.the 19?3' va^ River Tyne Commission: '
luatibns. It; is ths largest value since 1, An increase .Til'coal exports of
«1930. . . ... 1,000,006- tons.
The estimated value for. the four
years previous follo^T 1936, $662,640,
900; 1931, $435,966,400; .1932, $4.52,, . ............................... . r
526,900.; 1933, $423,59,7,000s ; J decrease from' 122,-to 83 iii 1.I1A
g-tW-est—v-aluo-'inereases-dhis ^ idle in the. ri-
T’ear as compared with Iasjt year were Ver. . . ~ ’ • ■
shown for the grains and fodder, off- | 4. A rise of 1600 in the nnmiber of
Set t0 some extent by a sharp decline
in .potatbes and a. lesser decline in
sugar beets/ '■ ( , ' V
The greatest value increases jthiis
year as compared with’ last ye,ar were
sipwn for the graips and fodder, off
set to soriie extent by a-sharp .decline,
in potatoes and a lesser declne in”su
gar beets.- ,
prevailing prices are main-'
taified through the balance -of the
marketing season, the estimated Va-;
luo' of field.crops grown.in i934 Will
be the high.est. since is a
'■ ", 'The,value. of Canada's I
1. An increase 3d’coal exports of
2. An increase o£_-517-,000 tons ri.n
imports of .-raw1 materials and gem
eral'merchandise. '. ... '■ ri.
workmen carried aero-sig the ferry be
tween1. North and. South Shields.
Even. in, shi^iffijIdling—one of the
,worst sufferers . from slack trade
launchings'oh tire Tyne faring that
period-numbered 12 against. I during
the whole of 1.933. Tn Tyneside engin
eering industries (here -have, been
succe^jive/reductions ih uie.' .nnom-
'ployment figures in every quartei*
since the- end of 1,932. In .marine en<
ghibering there’ are more men work
ing on-the Tyne that’at any tinuj in
the pact four years. ’ " / .
Fifth is usually classitied for diet
etic purposes according to whether
the fat js distributed trnwfibuTThe~
fles.h.;or is stored in-the-liver of the
ffeh, writes .S'ir W. Arbuthnot ligrre-
m Ne^ Health agazine. In the flestli
of white Tfeh SUcVi as haddock, wliiL '
mg, sole and cod, ithe,ne ig very little
fat; and what faUhere is being stor- ■
eu in the liver; In contrast, a consid-
■macke’a. sardines hnd halibut.,It is
to be. noted from the-dietetic pqint of
view that the-presence of fat between
he nuiScI fibres adds considerably
h-, ''•> “?*?**' v“h'<! ’?•»» Ash but.
i Tv -,. s dimibriShlts. dtgi-tib.
dity Thus white all healthy people
- 9^ be abie to ulgeit «.
that at v H T ’I I£ "ot ~»*»«bWe •
Valids- '■ 7 f S 1 !',honld he given t0 in-
wl^hX>ar<? twn 'olhe'’ Sood, reasons
„,/.y /!■'? tlre' of high value .from, the
• tand'pomt of human, nuitritaon. First
'',5 of certam
»insl and secondly they are a good
ot mineral sa|ta. The febT,!
"•bat,Or In the ne„, pr' The t{“
beinvIhA - 3 f'bsence or'deficiency
CleariV t'^7efIla(« cause of rickets,
chm nf/ J 7 a'Te hnlications for in-
the dietaries, of chllX'7
Finh roe, which is’ahnnJv ihl
productive olemetg'■<« . 1 ® re-
vitamin A -n 1 ’ 13 aI'80 ri<!h in
tarn-in n' som° CXW In Bi-
combined phosnimtL a n 0Wically
provide tl," i J 3 ^J^ids which
■the n'lYii’iHA ■ (r-materiaT fof
i'rilA f t< (Ieairy >3 ar valuable part