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EDITORIAL
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Tests for Sportsmen
In several countries applicants
. ..auriaiobiie driving licenses' are
quired to undergo tests ’of skill,
for
re-
........... ........w. . . . and
knowledge varying in their' compre-
•lieasiteness- On the. same principal
Gomany demands that all who apply
for a license to go arter game with-a
gun or rifle shall be tested before the
license is issued. It is by nd means a
bad idea. Driving a raptor vehicle or
carrying ’firearms is safe or danger
ous largely according to the qualifica-
- tions of the driver or sportsman. Ac
cidents aplenty testify, to the damage
._an(l-death-liab:e-tOLr.esult_£r_OjnJ^or^
ant and unskilled handling of inven
tions having a potentially deadly qua
lity,. — Saint John Telegraph-Journal.
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Oh Yes, Wooden Hats
COMMENT FROM
THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
Future of Suez Canal
The year 1968 is already causing
" some worry to the directors of the
Suez Canal. That is the year when,
: according to’The ter^
concession given by the, Egyptian gov
ernment when the canal was built,
-possession reverting back to Egypt.
' .According to ^an article in the current
issue of the Journal of the Canadian
^Bankers’ Association, the Egyptian
• Government in 1910 approved in prin
ciple an extension .of the concession
to 2008, jn. return for a cash payment
of 4,000,000 pounds and in increasing
share pf the net profits after . 1921.
This proposal; however was defeated
in the generar assembly and the con
trol of the canal after 1968 remains
uncertain?— Brandon Sun.
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As In Ontario
Only the other day a man who has
. lived in a nearby town for the past
five years decided hie would move his
' family to Edmonton- Once here, he applied immedfafel^oxT^
had to be given it. The city probably.
* will have to trust 'to$he courts to be
reimbursed!. Before the new regulation
went into effect this applicant would,
have been refused relief in Edmonton
and told to return, to his home town.
What’s more, knowing that this wOuid
. happen, he probably would have hes-
■ itated to leave his home at all. ■— Ed-.
monton Journal.
Nothing Left
In a speech at Ottawa, His Excel
lency the Governor General stressed
the spiritual aspects of the League of
Nat ions. If Mussolini had his way the
only thing he would leave the Gen-,
eva body would be its spiritual as
pects. — Hamilton Spectator.
•’.'*• Would They Heed ?
Raising the speed limit Cor motor
cars is being urged,. But is there.,any
assurance that drivers , will pay any
more atte.htion to a new limit than
they do to the/present one? — Brook
ville Recorder and-Times. •'/ •
The Rehabilitation of The West
The rehabilitation of the West, is;
of course, not a problem for the West
alone. The mistakes in settlement
were not mistakes of the West but Qf
the Dominion, which had control dr
settlement until about five , years ago.
■Amd7a8~Mrr’Paul-Sise-of-Montreal-has
pointed out recently, even the mis
takes which the westerners made for
themselves- were mrtde quite largely
at the instance of eastern business
men- It ill not, however, wholly or
even principally a matter Of assess
ing blame, it is more important to find
a remedy. And the remedy is vital tor-
allCanada.Aa-Slr Edward Beatty.has
put it: “Industrial capital and labour
In this country can never, for. long,
earn profits or wages greatly/out of
proportion to the profits or wages of
agriculture capital or labour." — Van
couver Province. 5 " .
The Way is Hard"
Of course, a good deal of Britain’s
national debt, like our own, has been
built from extravagant follies of past
years and a good deal of the burden
some new taxation also like our own,
is to pay for these. It is Britain’s
morning after, and: the headache is
just as painfuj as ours. But they and
we are learning that it is a via dolor
osa that'leads to the land of balanced
budgets, yet it must be travelled. —i-i
Calgary Albertan.
Order of Merit For Canada
Presumably tfie. present Ottawa Gov
ernment proposes to abolish the grant
ing of.Imperial orders to Canadians..
This was one of the election pledges,
of iRt. Hon- Mackenzie King. If, this
is ;done then Canada should set up
, some Order of Merit of its-own, like
the Legion«of HpnOr in France.^or the.,
Congressional Medal in the United
’ States. There should be some way by
which Canadian's could recognize out
standing work or heroic deeds. ;
We are moved to makeJliese re
marks by tlte^bravery'of the Nova
. Scotia miners, who risked their lires
to rescue.the two men imprisoned in
the Moose River niine. They perform-
I ed feats of valou'r. which all Canada "I Ians, would like to see recognized of
ficially. It is true a fund is being.now
raised for t'he miners, but there should
also be some-recognition by the Dom
inion as a whob\ -r London Free
Pre’®. ■ ’
In the eighteen years of it exist
ence the National Research Council of
Canada has expended approximately
$8,000,000 of public money, more than
half being for building, and equip:
ment. It may appear to be a substant
ial sum. but Canada’s competitors in
the world trpde markets are spend
ing- much, more lavishly. Japan has
45 government-supported research in
stitutes in which more than 8,500 are
employed, in addition to eldhtro-tech-
nical laboratories employing 1,000.
Russia, which In 1930 had 400 research
institutes has now 840 in which 47,-
900 trained men are at work, the an
nual expenditure being about $500,-
000,000. Governments everywhere are
setting expert men to work. with a
view of finding new uses for natural
products, improved methods of manu-
f act Are and so on. — Toronto Star;'
Evalyn Knapp, Margarlet Sinclair and Elsa Buchanan, noted British actress and si nger; ~ftef tt_
to right) taking the sun on the Lido, Cal., beach. Newest in beach hats, theyJre of woven wood
veneer, top all this charm.
As far as we. are concerned, the
crime of the century took place ,on
Madison avenue, on a warm, sunny-
afternoon’ recently. A young lady
was, window-shopping along, a block
in the upper Fifties, and anv incon
spicuous little man sne ked up be-
hind her, opened the handbag which
was dangling fiom her arm, and.ex
tracted her ' change purse. - - ■
He was halfway • down the block
before she realized what had hap
pened. She rushed after him, over
taking Him wifh ;no apparent diffi
culty, tapped, him on. the shoulder,
and said, “Pardon me, but didn’t
you jpst pick my purse?” He looked,
start!cd ■ for a moment, then- nodded’
in ap abashed way and handed, over
the coin purse,, '/• -.
“Thank you very much,” she said.
“That’s all’ right, madam,’’ the pick
pocket answered,. and, returning to-,
those niceties, which make life on
Madison"avenue so pleasant, he tip- ■
ped his hat and walked off down a
side street. She went 'ipn with her
window-shopping.. None'-pl the people
who saw the Happening dreamed of
-ca-14-i-n g - a- co p.—The- New—Yorker/-------
To The Arbutus
corn- If it is not, it is not an Empire
in the full sense of the term. The
Statute of Westminster notwithstand
ing, the Empire, for its own safety,
must be a unity. Much may be made
of ■theTights’-Ofi'self^governmenfrrbut-
is the Empire not a Commonwealth of
Nations bearing allegiance to one
Crown and depending upon mutual
loyalty to the one Idea? it may re
quire a time of danger to clear defin
itions of all verbiage down to*, the
fundamentals. Perhaps that time has
come.
London’s Flowers
Queen Mary’s Garden in the Reg
ent’s. Park is ,now being planted with
tho finest herbaceous plants that
our gardeners can grow. Each big
firm is sending its specialty. The new
border wiH, especially display delph
iniums, lilies, scabious, lupins, phlox
es and Michaemas vanities. This bor-‘
der is a novelty. The garden is al
ready famous for its roses, ail sup
plied by our commercial rosarians.
—The flowers and plant- committees
of the Ministry of Agriculture hope
as mpch from the' herbaceous border
which is to rival the famous half mile
or so at Soiithport r— one, of 'the
sights of the town — or the border
under the wall at Hampton Court.
The Ministry has indeed advanced
since its days as a mete board? When
its functions Were held to be merely
negative and defensive- The flower
and plants committee have themselves
broken new ground, as behoves peo
ple interested in gardens and their
propaganda. — London Spectator.
Timber For Famous
Bridge Ill-Chosen
Moose River and Maritime Coal
Not even the miners of Nova. Scot.la
would expect* special consideration on
the sole ground that spine of their
number took a heroic part in the.
Moose River, drama. But. no doubt the.
hope is fhat the event wilt draw at
tention id the worthiness of their con
stant appeal and result in steadier
and more remunerative employment
for all those engaged in coal mining.
.—Saint John Telegraph-Journal.'
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Feats of Fasting
Early last week everybody was ask
ing the- question. Ic'w long could the
entombed men at Moose River live
..’ without .sustenance? .The following in-
- tempting item from the “25 years ago”
column of the Ottawa Journal, may
pr .ii.de the answer In part: “A Tor-
-onto man • undertook an 18-day; fas|t
for the good of ■his-health. He was
coming.along splendidly up to the
•.16rh. dav. wh^-n I'd died.'’
Don’t Shoot; Pigeons
Sm-rlai card' should be. taken never
to shrvt a pigeon. Any seen txill be-
Jo*.ic io «.r.p'.e p>--r. < n and some o,f thera
inay bn on ai'v'rr.moht service. The
S.'i.-'mrcmn S'tar-Phoonix ’explained re-.
. .centiy. -that JtfcajEcdcriiL-.Govy.Tnfli.ep.t_
■ has p’geon lof’s many parts of Ca-
r.ada'’and. within re-o r.t yea!?., has
ha 1 T-.ninihg grounds-north of Saska-
't.~'m. A'’ form.-.*an> <m the Hudson
Bay t'ilway. > the Government' has
about*DO birds Of high value which
w<; • trained under thp supervision of
^an 'export pig-y-necn hrojigltt from
Wa1'-**. While tho Federal . Gcwerh-
nvnt miiinfivlno-1 fli-dr aeroplanes for
fni-'-siry service and f.10 frritectfnn In
The Pas district, and in tlm neighbor-
hood <»f the Saskntrhownn border,'pf-
-gent)- wipe rarti‘-'<1 in rvery aeroplane
. that took to th0, ahv Tlicy wore used
to. svn'i, messages back to the base if
, the pilot were'forced down*, or,in case
of any other omeraeney, Shooting a
pigeon ma'y easily cost the life of a
THE EMPIRE
A Going Concern
The keen Interest, that is certain
to be excited throughout the Domin
ions by the announcement that a Bri
tish "Cabinet Minister" wiir make Un
Empire tour this year will provide one
of the best reasons why the tour
should be made. It was once stated
that the Empire was a going con-
LONDON,—Had ' more care been
taken.Jn, selecting the 'wedden piles
which forlljover 100 years supported’
Waterloo Bridge it is possible that
there would haye-been no need to,
rebuild the bridge.
Timber experts recently descend
ed into a coffer dam 30 feet below
high-water level to watch the extrac
tion of/ these piles. . It was found
that the 10,000 tons weight on each
pier was borne by 200 to 300 timber
platforms were built for supporting
the stone structure,. ' . .. ■ i
E. H. B. Boulton, technical di
rector. of the Timber Development
from beautiful cylindrical
19; feet inf length and 20
Association stated. that the piles
vary
moles, , ___ ... . . ___
inches in diameter, to very crooked
stems not mord than 16 feet long
and 8 inches, wide. , . ■
“It , is amazing,*’ he said, “that
the piles should have borne the
weight of the bridge for 120 years.
Considering the character of the
superstructure, it seems to have
been a false policy to economize on
the timber foundations.”
A “SilentlarUrm'* a house con
structed of materials that will exclude
noise from without and absorb it from
within is to be built at Bail Blaiicken-
burg in Thuringia, writes they N,
Sun. ’• , . . *r ; ’
It will discourage serenaders. It
will defy the charivari. Callitliumpers
will assail its inmates in vain. The
ardent youth who summons his girl by
tooting his motor horn will hoot from
its curb without' response. The young
ster who shouts “Hey Skinny, come
on out!’’ will waste his breath before
it. The 'bang-bang of the backfiring
engine will ndt scare its occupants
into belief that a battle has coine to
to wn—Those -wliodwell—within^it-Will
not hear the. sirens of the police as
they race through the streets to get
a sandwich.
Flat wheels !— biit there will soon
be no flat wheels so they need not be
mentioned. Within its portals ajl will
be quiet. Tlie ’good,“man’s snores,, the
restless tucnjhgs of the dreaming child
the flapping window shade, the slam
ming shutter ~ all will be suppressed.
The sound of each creakfhg bedspring
the nibbling of the mouse; behind the
wainscoting, will • be absorbed/ dead
ened. abolished,- by the materials ; and
appliances introduced in this struct
ure, and within its wall there will te
that stillness sQ^many persons think
they desire but. which nobody rehlly
wishes. ’. -*-
There is not a deaf person in the
.world, no matter hOw philosophically
the affliction may be borne, who will
not gladly exchange the silence in
which his or her. days are spent for
the clamor that is the penalty of real
sharp ears-. .
There are familiar, homely sounds:
that .comfort and reassure: to be de
prived of. them would be a hardship
indeed. That stair-ttead which always
squeaks is frequently condemned to
repair, but actually .it is a treasured
part ot|(jlaily routine. Who would el
iminate from the dozing ' moments
that are the crepuscle of sleep that
soft sound the bedclothes yield as
they adjust themselves to the relax
ing body?
Much impatience releases itself
against the alflrtn clock,, but wlio
would choose hot to hear that alert
guardian of the day’s, work or pleas
ure? There is something supporting
to the spirit in" the dignified ticking
of an old-fashioned clock; it at least
serves to remind the lazy man that
there is one ancient.and enduring pub-*
lie servitor. Father Time, who takes
no days off.
How many tales that' awaken cur-
.'iosity or stimulate thought - would
have'no point to fl generation reared
in silentiaria? That immortal anec
dote of the man in the hotel room
whose topside neighbour dropped one
shoe on the but why go on? 1 has
served the amiable purposes of gen
erations,. and scores of other yarns
based on good hearing have 'equally
honorable records; they must be pre
served. Withcthem must bo "kept In
unimpaired safety the chain-clanking
of ghosts, the ticks ot uncounted
death watches, enduring testmony to
the respectable antiquity of mankind's
treasured superstitions.
A Suggestion
General Nicholas Kapiistiansky,. a
Ukrainian array officer who visited
-Windsor; -expressed-g-Feat-surprise.-at
the absence.here of military display
and the scarcity of pclicenien. Id
Poland, he remarks, there are 300,-
000 soldiers in the standing army,
and 50,000 police.
I Wouldn’t, it be an excellent idea
for Canada to invite representative
men from all the European countries
to make a visit to this nation ? Their
eyes. would be opened on " the very
points mentioned by General Kapu-
stiansky. They might go back to
their homes and give leadership to
a movement which wbuldvhave a far-
reaching effect on European peace/
Reward for Heroism
Admiral HamleJ. (yight)' presents Midshipman J. M. Cease with
medal for his rescue of John McWilliams (center) last January from
drowning jn the Severn River n**ar the Naval A.crtdemy at Annapolis,
Maryland. J • -
‘'Ever notice what a light 8t*p
that cop has7” '
"Oh, yes,. he wears cjork soled
•hoes.*
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Swdet flower of early Spring! th>
- loveliness •
Follows the woodland pathways,
where’er treads
The gentle creature of the wilder-*
Or trailing, spreads
To sopfie deep brake where eaget
wings bestir;
Entwining1 there the while some an
cient fir , •
That sighs content, '
As if such sweetness brought it hap
piness. .
Its boughs are bent
Tojyard thee, for thy perfumed
breath is sweet;
Sweet||^s if breathing Nature’s joy-
The Spring to greet.
As winter is the night when Nature’s
. weariness 1
js .oyercorne,
Tliy blossoms are the symbols fw.pf
awakening
Of Spring’s fair dawn,
Lingering awhile Till Summer with
Tier grace " •'
Mostly by Fear
Learn More About. Ner- .
A’ous. Breakdowns
MINNEAPOLIS r- ■ Professors of
the University of Minnesota are try
ing to give rats a nerous breakdown.’
They think .that if they are success
ful,they can ascertain the causes and
possibly* a better treatment of simi
lar. breakdowns in human beings. / "
Stuart Cook, assistant professor at
the (university; announced last week
a series of experiments which will
determine just how much it takes, to
make a rat have a nervous break
down. ■ Whether or not he. succeeds,
lifj fbr the next few weeks is going
to very complicat’d for the rod
ents selected for the experiment!?.
First of all the rats will be requir
ed to walk across tho electrically-
charged. plate to" reach their fobd.
The rats can decide whether they
want to take a joit or^go hungry.
Next, the rats will be placed on
one of . two plates with a gap be
tween. When they' get tised1' to that,
they will be given -a shock and per
suaded to jump! to the other plate.
■ As soon as they‘get used to that,
they will be given ^another shock and
be encouraged to .jump back to the
first plate.
After this scries of disconcci-ting
ei.petiments is completed, ’The .rats
will be placed in a compartment.'
There they will learn that a flashing
light always precedes a shock. If
they learn fast enough,, they . soph'
will know that if they jump when the
light flashes,, they can escape the
shock that, is sure to follow a mom-
ent-dater. . r '
Then, when all th? rats le^rn to
jump as soon as the. light flashes,
another light will be turned ori. This
will warn them 'to Stay put. If they
jump, there will be another and
much stronger shock awaiting them.
It will be a case of standing still and
getting one shock, oil jumping and
getting-a nioro terrific' one.
Prof. Clark •‘iholieves ■ that by this
time the rats will be thoroughly be
fuddled. Their, nerves either will be
completely shattered or at ■ least. at.
the stage of (he game a human be
ing breaking point. He he icves that
at fTn<’,would l»e ready for the strait-
jacket. •
'So at .this. P'.lnt' the rats, will be
put badk where they started, in the
food cage. There they can deckle
whether they want, (o ' <rn.-A the
electrified, pla'e arid got sl "-*l:r*d, or
go hungry.
Enfolds tliy beauty in her warm, dm-
brace,
To sleep anon.
Montreal. .—Arundel Phillips.
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Fashion Says Coolies
thjs smart <oi>l;e1 \ oii'i'l love ................. _
"',''7:. ' it bf-idea! for now ’and to
■ wear later in the summer, to sn-y
nothing of being , tremendously
chic and just what Paris, is spon
soring.
It achieves a certain effect of”,
its smartness through its young .
and attractive flared back’, that
gives it a swagger look. Other
chic details about it’ are the
• month fit of the shoulders and
the ' r arrow
• In [ lain ■
weight' wool
cbnipliinenl <
dress.-
, Im.'lying it
whit.j or' in
led, blue or
sftWiding collar. .
wheat colored., liglit-
. aS the original, it
a plain or. a pi,in|ed"
too in darling p'atn
if gay flecked linen-
gijVA-grden.
Il'-; so -jji.ipic sew and so in-
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l!t)\7-ro ORDER PATTERNS
Write your t ame and address
plainly,' giving, num be/ "and .size
of. (lattern wanlpd. Enclose-I Sc in
stAhips or ' coin (coin preferred);
.wrap it IlcarrfuHy, and Address
your, order.,to Wilson . Pattern
Ser*.ire„ 73 West Adelaide Street,
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