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MPHTHERIA IN TORONTO
la Toronto, diphtheria's ravages
wase reduced from 1,022 cases and
nodeaths at all in 1934.' This was
a record which, under present cir
cumstances,. the city could not ex
pect to duplicate, and in 1935 there
'were, "46 cases and 8. death,s, an in-.
'Significant number when compared
with the record of 1929 and earlier
years, before toxoiding of the city's
cWMren was undertaken.
. Bi is the . toxoiding. of ..children
wHA has wrought the change. Since
1929, 125,000 Have been given this
diphtheria-preventing treatment. It
is not . absolutely certain in every
case7~bu^
that the claim made for it.-r 95 per
cent; efficiency is more than jus
tified. Its success is such that no
parents can . afford to leave their
children unprotected when' such, a
simple treatment is available.
Tt|e regrettable fact is that many
parents have neglected .this simple
precaution. Of 100,000 Toronto chil
dren between '6~lihd~T4, about 35,000
were said recently to be Without im
munization. And of 50,000 pre
school children 30,000 had not been
treated. These 65,000 little folk are
the nucleus of a possibly serious
epidemic.—-Toronto Star.
' sands oT~wofkers"producing materi
als of which automobiles are -made.
T-alk of goirtg i^ack to the horse-*
arid-bug^y days is easy, sometimes
sounds convincing. But how many
days would the manufacturers of
; buggies havo to work or produce be
fore* paying, ^workers $323,ll0,00fli T
And . vrhat wbUld..they bo doing who
are now working on materials with
which automobiles are made; or
working bn machines that make auto-
. mobiles? ■
Isn’t .the answer to much | of this
objection machines this: That
machine* 'create new consumption
(such as automobiles) and that con
sumption creates work and wages?
It is worth thinking about.—Ottawa
Journal.
TOO MUCH SPEED
“The cars crashed: with such force
that a steel roof on . the. American
car was buckled almost, to (a sharp
peak,” reads the .despatch telling , of
the death of [four and injury to two
near London last week. And it is
pertinent io ask what ..ever justifies
such speed on the, highway, speed
which 'dli^nates The slight
of car control. — St. Catharines
Standard.
Belgian machine gun crewjs, part of a division recently called to colors by Belgian General
Staff, engaging in large scale maneuvers near Beeverloo under the watcbfuLeyea' of staff officers. In-/
fantrymen in the rear canHUbe seen creeping forward.
that there is a British race, or, when
we. look at the Norwegian, the Dane,
or the native of Normandy, must we
admit that, the difference between
themandthoBritiahisonlyalan-
guage and 'nationality? — London
Morning Post.
MAYBE TRUTH, AT THAT
We are willing to wager a cookie
thaf a \ certain proofreader got an
earful the day this appeared in the
social columns: “The dinner was at
tended by forty-tight members.” —-
Kitchener, Record. -----
TEN GALLON A SUMMER
- Invention never stops and the lat
est promises great things for every
man who drives a car. To tell any
motorist that he may yet be able to
do a whole Summer’s driving on 10
or 12 gallons of gas would be to be
met>with a quizzincal stare; its ab
surdity seems altogether too obvious?
But Winnipeg replies that this situ-
ation. is"already here and is ready to
bring forward proof.
For 16 years C. N. Pogue of that
city has been working on a new
type of carburetor which can be
affixed to an ordinary car, and at
long last claims to have met with
success. With the 'temperature 10
below zero and a stiff wind blowing;
an 8 cylinder coupe travelled 26.2
miles with this . attachment on one
pint of gasoline. This would repre
sent 209.2 miles to the gallon. At
the same rate the ordinary man
would be able to drive all Summer
on 10 or 12 gallons.
I't seems altogether too good to
b.e true,, but a syndicate is prepar
ing to market the new device and
we will see what we will see. —Hali-
fax Chronicle. , • .
DISCOUNTS “EXAMS”
Dr. L. J. Austin, professor of surg
ery at Queen’s University, is of the
opinion that , scholastic examina
tions are over-stressea on this* con
tinent. He., recalled the. frequency
with which suicide was the answer
made by: disappointed pupils at Un
ited Statesschools whohadfailed
tp^obtain the requisite marks.- In
Canada many people were iricHnedT
to regard examination failures as a
disgrace to the family. This was a
wrong attitude and the tendency
to exaggerate the importance of be
ing successful at examinations was
causing /much unhappiness. Pro
fessor Austin, who voiced these
sentiments regarding . examinations,
was speaking to the. Kent County
branch of the Queen’s Alumni As
sociation and his words will - prob
ably have the effect of lessening the
anxiety of many distressed pupils
and parents, concerning the outcome
of approaching tests at schools and
colleges. — Woodstock Sentinel-Re
view,-.
REAL COMING TROUBLE
We agreed with that Indiana
judge who ruled that a wooden leg
does not bar a man/from operating
an automobile. It is wooden , heads
that cause most of the trouble. —
Montreal Star.
sers. I think the water mains must
have been broken, since' the water-
would not have been coming from
broken sewers on high ground.
THE EMPIRE
JUVENILE CRIME
PREVENTION
THE DOG PAYS HIS SHARE
These are the dog- days in taxa
tion. Alberta dogs are to pay a
year each for the privilege of living.
If1 they happen to be purebred it’s
going to cost, them $10 annually.
This fs a tax, not a levy. Just a
plain, common garden variety of
tax. •■ ’ .
In prder that the way may be
opened for more and better taxes
..when the Legislature meets next
Winter for its second .session, let us
propose a few which should receive
prayerful consideration In “the in
terim:
A tax ori cats.
A tax on political clubs. ■ ,
A tax * on members
Clubs, ,
A .tax
going to
tax on getting up in the niorri-
i \.
tax on Spring. Summer, Fall
Winter.-' . *
tax op the vvr-a’nerma-n.
A 4ax on
A (a
And a special tftx oh the taxers.
Those are.ju*t by way of a little
vaim-ty. If the , taxing experts at
E'lnunton. want a .few more , ideas
to work on we ,can> supply them
without, working overtime.
Tn the meantime, ■ Alberta dogs
ftre going to help carry the^ load.—-
I.othhri'lge Hera; 1. .
A
ing.
A
and
A
of .political
on waking, an<?^another on
sleep. *
on
weather forecaster^..
political forecasters.’
NO FOOLIN’
; Wh<T. our ba-odvojnA local 'bank
toller, Athol Beatlie, hurried out to
the hospital April 1 and -was. told
he had ' become the proud papa' of
twins -2 girls -he just grinned-,
acct, of knowin’ what day- it
But that's re-all v What happened
The Windstx Sf'-ar.
V * * _____ *
Machines and labor
‘Machines kill employment
In .smne^cdse.^, perhaps. But last
ye a n on e mj>tori£. Fa f m a n u f a <■ t U r i n g
-company tb^C^'icrd .’tato's al'or.c
paid out 3323,000,p00,
'this not--• iiiM^Un''^'• .to tlmu-
, on
Was.j-
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More personal punishment and the
taking of fingerprints are recom
mended for juvenile offenders by the
Chief Constable of Manchester.
Bitching does not help. We commend
to. the Chief Constable the wise words
of the. Home Secretary to justices
when, the Children and Young Per
sons Ac^was passed in 1933. He de
clared that the experience regarding
whipping in most juvenile, courts
over long yeats is such .that they
rarely or never need to exercise it.
London Daily Herald.
“NO MORE WAR!’*
There will be no Waf because,
thtiugh the Germans
Locarno, the French will not treat
th j breach as an act of war. It would
be, an act of war if the Rhineland
occupation was a mobilization for the
purpose ’of attacking France,. or if
it was intended as ' the jumping-pg
.stage for an invasion, of the Powers
al.ied xyitTi. France. ""
Rhipeland occupation
those. So 'settle down . „
fairs and occupations and go about
your business. At present, anyway,
“’There arn’t goin’.to.be no more war”
for anybody.—London ^)ai!y Express;
. ENGLISH, BRITISH, OR
WHAT
The average man. who, to be sure?
takes a good deal for granted, com
monly looks upon himself (with'some
complacency) as belonging to one
race or another. Our newspapers no
longer Mare to speak of the English’
race for fear of'‘offending. the Scot,-
so they freely substitute the British
face, although the ethnologist-mii*ht■
object that'the British were the race,
or races which inhabited these
..islands before the English came-,-
Dare wa speak of* (he Scottish face'
When it is 'obvious that the -.native,
say, of the .Lothians is nearer' akin,
to the Yorkshireman thft’h he is to
the denizen of Argyll or Sutherland,
and (hat there is more difference be
tween the fjast and West of, Scotland
than between1' the North and South
of Gjeat. Britain? Then'can w'e s-rtf'-
have broken
rer
Plainly, ' the
is. neither of
with your af-
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Works'and Worries Over Her
250 Acres But Makes ;
Them Pay
GRENVILLE, Ga.—“A lot of hard
jwork,; planning . .and. mucK. worrying?’^
That's, how Edna Peavy, in two years,
as-“head--inan”— on-a-250-acrefarm,_
says she has managed to pay off a
stack of bills- and put money in the
bank.
.. Without any training for farm
work, Miss Peavy took charge of the
farm in 1934, after her -father’s
death. She lives there with her8'
mother, and a hired man assists in
the work.
Arising at daWn,;. she milks six
cows before breakfast — then jumps
into her automobile and is off to
town to dispose of a load of milk,
vegetables, butter $nd eggs to re
gular customers. Then she hurries
home to take up” the managerial
reins.
Miss Peavy is a believer in diver
sified farming and last year had 60
acres in cultivation---40 • in cqrn, 10
in peas, nine in cotton and one in
swefet potatoes. She keeps between
50 and 75 hdns and says‘her eggs and
surplus chickens usually bring good
prices,
“In summer the gardens and the
jjpeach, apple and figtrees add to my
income,” she continued. “Some of
the.fni'it and vegetables are sold to
my milk and butter customers.”
In support of her theories the
“lady farmer” points to a bank ac
count sufficient to finance her busi
ness through the harvest season.
He Serves “In” a Ship
Speaking of his new charge,, the
Queen Mary, Captain Sir Edgar Brit
ten, says she4 is “the easiest ship to
handle I have ever served in.”
There speaks the sailor when he
says he serves “in” a ship and not
“on.’’ All landsmen refer to being
“on” a ship. They §hil “on”-the
So-and-So frdm’Montreal, or they
arrived “bn” the Such-and-Such.
You sail “in’ a ship; not “on” it.
If you wear nautical togs and talk .
big about being “on” a ship you give
yourself away at once to a real sail
or.
Thousands Hunger.-—Huddled
Together Without Blankets
Or Covers of Any Kind.
_-ELMIRAr N. —-Fre’d--Newell-,-
editor of the Canton, Pa., Sentinel,
gave the Elmira Advertiser a graphic
description; of flood conditions at
• Williamsport,.. Pa. . ;
Refugees Are Fed
Newell, a Red Cross worker, was
one' of five persons who formed the
first relief unit to get into. Williams
port. He reported 2,500 refugees were
fed in one school, building-sby the Red
Cross, ___'■ ..J.,.''.
“Many people wfere maropried and
without food.” he said, “I talked
~‘‘Nobody knows how many persons,
were cui off in flooded apartments and
houses. Nobody knows how -many
have been drowned; Nobody knows
how many died in their beds as the
water suddenly rose_and trapped them '
■'like rats.'.
“Three bodies that I know of-were
picked up and I know that an
entire family of four were lost.
Man supposes that he directs his
life and governs his actions, when
his existence is irretrievably undei'
the control of destiny.—Goethe.
without food.” he said, “I talked ..
with a man who had not eaten for
over three days; ■ He had just; been
rescued from a downtown apartment.”
Newell continued:
^‘These marooned, people fashioned
hooks and grappled for floating
bananas, oranges and any other food
floating With debris and trash.,
A severe fire added to the tertor..
It was believed to have consumed to
the water line the , block between
Pine and Samuel streets on the south
side of West Second street. ,
Can’t Be Reached
.“The extent of the fire’s- damage
could not be, learned, because boats
could not reach the 'burned section.
“Fire broke out in the transformer
plant of the Pennsylvania Power &
Light Company.. What damage it did
I don’t know.
. “People slept on beds, coats, floors?
tables, anywhere they could find a
place to lie. Some of them were
without blankets or covers of any
kind. | .
“Some refugees did not eve.n have
clothes. The river rose so suddenly
they had to flee In their night cloth
ing. , .
(“The office of the Williamsport Sun
was flooded, and the newspaper open
ed an emergency office four blocks
away and just beyond the flood
waters. They'd id n’t publish a, paper;,!
the newspaper men acted as a rescue
ctew, bringing marooned people tp
safety.
“The Canton Red Cross sent 200
•folding cots and- several thousand
blankets, 50 mattresses, and a l!ot of
clothing into Williamsport by motor.
“I talked to Georga Lamede, chair
man. of thb Williamsport Red Cross,,
•and he asked for blankets, bedding
an ’ underwear. The people needed
thousands and thousands of blankets
immediately, if sickness .was to be
prevented,”, he said.
Water Mains Broken s
“I was not sure about the drink
ing water. As I went along streets
on high ground, I 'noticed that man
hole coders had beeh blown off and
water was spurting up in a small gey-
Children. Are Admonished Too
"MiTch About a Natural
—kusiinct -
V ■ to
A Diplomat’s Preview of “Things to Come”
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Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the United- States,
niece, Lridy Elizabeth Lindsay, shown as they attended pre
fl. G. Wells’ film in Washington, !).('. ■
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■ She - “How do you (k'p'fti'ibc bache
lors?” ’ " «
He—“As men who ..have eontom:
plhtcd .matrimonyI” , ■ •'
i!‘ " ’ ... 1 " si , ■ 1 ■
Mrs. Jones went into a store that
looked suspiciously like an art .mu
seum., -•
, In .glass cases lay exhibits of such
merchandise as was permitted to be
profaned by public gaze. The rest
was reverently hidden in- black com-,
partments that slid into the wall like
coffins in a mausoleum.
She wanted to spend ten dollars,
on exactly what she wanted. But she
wasn’t sure just what — she needed
so many thihgs.
Drawing up to a counter eventu
ally she asked for stockings.- But
would she please tell the color and
kind, also size, and about' what
price?
“Goodness,” gasped—Jlrs.— Jones,
helplessly. “I want to see some
stockings — a lot of them.- I like
things to be out on the cqunter so I
can lay a hand on them.”
Revels in Handling Goods
At the, third counter she got tired
of this pig-in-the-poke business —
ahd said so. “Why don’t you try
the basement?” suggested the clerk.
Mrs, Jones smiled happily as she
stepped out of the. elevator. All the
marts of the world seemed to have
emptied, themselves, here,, and were
either hung, stacked or spread before
her gaze. Here she could dig Under
c mountains of curtains and. yank out
what ’she liked. Here she could get
hold of the ]end of a remnant and
pull. She was blissfully ha'ppy, be
cause she shopped by
as by sight.
Next day. she took
store. •
Peggy’s nose just
couniters. Only the edges of bright
merchandise appeared to tantalize
‘her.’- '
Up went her hands to touch little
boxes, and ribbons and dishes within
reach. Once she lifted a doJly and
proceeded on her way.
“Peggy Jane, I told you not to
touch anything. You have • the
busiest hands I’ve ever seen.” Her
mother took the doll back and apolo
gized.
Sauce for the Goose
But Peggy Jane continued to
“touch.” And aj; last got her hands,
slapped. •
At home her mother said, “I’m
not-going- to take you to a store
again. You Won’t let things alone.”
h Isn’t the urge , to “touch” strong
in most of us? Isn’t the' instinct to
lay hands bn something we admire
often .stronger thaiV mbre vision?
Why blame children too much for
an impulse that is after all so na
tural and human. .
Not only, in stores, but everywhere,
else in .the World they face the warn
ing signs “Dp not touch”. ' They,
must' loam to respect propevtyg and
learn to keep themselves sUtc; but
this^ v.orld-for-gvow.nups .must often
Seem as hampering to them as the
rarified Store-air was to Mrs. Jones.
• Poor, votings tors; It Is a Hands-
at, best - for them.
Comments the Moat real Star, “The
different broiidcastiiig B.t«M*
throughout would probably like to
put more good music on the .air but
they are handicapped by-public taste.
The pobr music often heard must bo
listeners. The trained musicians m*I
be in despair at some .of the programs
especially from* the. United State®.
But the weHrknow* English musician
and composer, Sir Walford ; Davins,
is able to extract raps of hope from
even the worst. 7 '
Spe-iklng before the Royal Society
of Arts in London ‘he said that long
distance listening w.as bound to speed
up musical interest and discernment
beyond all previous experience/ With
in 10 years things might become ciear
Which, otherwise would have taken
a century to dawn on the mind of
man. For they could now scan by
means of a good wireless set jhe
*v?We musical firmament, evening by
evening, provided they had learnt
howtofocustliisnewkindoftele’
scope to their ears, as they focused
the other kind to their eyes; arid pro
vided. also' that the B.B.C.’s choice of
music and listeners* powers of dis
crimination were adequate.
Comparing the situation today with
that of a decade ago, Sir Walford mb
mitted that there was prevalent at
this momentwritich depressing broad-
‘cast. ey}dehce^.n£.-a-debased--taate—for
senseless music Sensationally rend
ered ; there was also a strikingly
healthy and rising tide of musical, un
derstanding and taste for the art it
self, as apart from its associated uses.
They might safely imagine millions
listening nightly; among them tens of
thousands were doubtless listening
with ever.-increasing critical discern
ment; and’among* them, again, , hun
dreds of young people of outstanding
musical sensitivity (including, per
haps, a genius pr two), were listening
creatively, feasting on good jhihgs,
but mentally vowing “never, when
their chance came, to afflict the world
with the banalities that were still sa
frequently heard.” ,,
■ ^'Children are really having an aw
ful time with parents these days”. —
Adela Rogers. St. Johns.-
A Dressy Pyjama Set
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Size Iff requires ya,rds of 39-
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