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TRAVEL, ROAD TO IEEA
One of the oustandingactivities of
the automobile owner is the week -end
picnic and camping parties, which pro-
vide healthful recreation for the whole,
family. This not only brings the color-
ful bloom of health into the cheeks of
his wife and children as they enjoy
the out-of-door fin, but it also tends
to keep, the family together as a unit.
The whole family goes on these out-
ings, and thus gets into the habit of
doing things together. This makes
for happiness and contentment in f am-
ily life, which in turn makes for better
health; for happy folks are more apt
to keep well than those who are upset
and under the strain of family ,jars,
Then, too, in touring around the
country there are many things of in-
terest to see, These keep the' mind
busy and are an education to those
who, study such places. If the mind
is kept busy on such worthwhile items
it is less -apt to dwell on personal ail-
ments, which, although largely imag-
inary, do become a menace tohealth if
the mind continuesto concentrate on
them.
In getting out into the open on
camping parties many people are find-
ing out for the first time that they can.
breathe night air without suffering
any serious consequences.
So far as folks with poor appetites
are concerned, the; outdoorlife,that the
auto makes possible stimulates such
desire for food that it is apt to be-
come a• problem to secure enough. The
motorist, after a few miles run, is
likely to find out for the first time in
months that things -to eat taste good,
no matter how poorly cooked or how
much dirt gets mixed with the victuals
before they are served.
The motor takes people out in
healthful and restful clothes. Folks
dress for comfort when they go one an
auto tour. Of course, they ought to
dress for ease always. But they think
thio is impossible when in civilized
communities. However, out in the
wilds they do not care. Here, again,
they get a taste of comfort in dressing
LT:H IN MOTOR CAR,,
that may. have its ,effect ' under more.
formal conditions.
{ Nesamp exERQiSE OPTAI$1ID.
The gwner of a ear gets a good deal
of physical exercise in handling his
machine and caring for it that he
might not get in any other way. After
he has pumped up a few tires and
crawled: around, over and under and
inside his auto he has used a good
many muscles, some of which he prob-
ably never knew he had before,
The automobile is proving a tre-
mendous factor in health in this re-
spect; namely, that it enables a phy-
sician to get to his patient much quick-
er
uick
er than he formerly could with a horse
and buggy. Now he can annihilate
space at a rapid rate when it is neces-
eery to reach a person quickly in
order to save life. Automobile, ambu-
lances have also conte into common
use and greatly facilitate transporting
sick, persons to hospitals, where ex-
pert care can be given them.
But there are certain warnings
!which should be given automobile own-
I ers regarding their health. There are
some activities of a motorist that tend
more against than for it. For instance,
if a 'man is, going on a week -end trip
he had better get an early start, so as
to avoid getting into very heavy traf-
fic. Driving on . roads crowded with
cars puts a nerve strain on a driver
which 1 t doff
their income. The Ontario honey crop
is marketed by the Ontario 'Co-Opera-
tive.Honey Producers Co., Ltd.
In 1923 the Province of Quebec had
7,1,99 beekeepers; which included 1,048
who were registered for the first-time
that year. Their pro:ilii tion was 3,393,-
826 pounds of honey and 41,459 pounds
of wax worth $1,983,061. The annual
average in Quebec for the past seven
years has boon •6,095 beekeepers,' with
68,770 colonies,' accounting for. a pro-
duction of 2,617,992 pounds' of honey
and 29,878 pounds of wax with a value
of $1,405,025.45,
All over Canada there is a very
gratifying increase of interest ex-
hibited in apicplture,_well illustrated
In the remarkable multiplication of
export figures. It is the belief that in
the successful penetration of foreign
markets, and the generally favorable
acceptance of the Canadian product,
this can be expanded to a very great
extent yet. Another item of 'produc-
tion has been added to Canada's
varied list of agricultural products
which promises in the future to occupy
a very much mere important place.
Chinese refugees in the war zone are shown moving their belongings
into safer areas, using sampans as a means of transportation. , The scene is
Shanghai harbor.
`may go a long wa ower -
settingthe- beneficial, health -giving
factorof the outing.
Then, too, a person who drives a car
may get the ds that by virtue of this.
fact lie is getting sufficient all-around
physical exercise. As a matter of fact,
the exercise that goes with owning and
operating a ear should supplement
regular systematic exercise rather
than take the place of it hi order to
get the best results.
There is not much doubt that, right-
ly used, the automobile is an import -1
ant factor in the health and happiness
of the nation. ' And in thousands of
cases it is helping individuals to build
better bodies,
Canada's narrowest street, Sous le Cap, in Quebec City.
merely as a hobby, or an interesting
side -line desultorily followed, apicul-
ture has;attained to theproportionsMENT N •;
and has the enthusiastic and whole-
APICULTURE hearted following of a main industry.
Organization of Co-operative Pools.
Bee pools or co-operative societies
SIX MILLION POUNDS OFmarketing ' been organ -
1924
honey haveg
1924 HONEY FOR ize•d in Ontario and Quebec, and such;
CANADA'S DEVELOP -
EXPORT.
Dice Followed as Hobby, Api-
cultureHas Now Attained
Proportions of a Main
Industry.
The remarkable development of in-
terest in apiculture and in the pros
duction of honey which has featured '
the past few years in Canada, is very
clearly illustrated in the announce-
ment of the Dominion Apiarist that
Canada will this year have six million
pounds of honey available for export,
figures arrived at after consultations
with the ' leading Beekeepers' Co-
operative Associations of Ontario and
Quebec. The understanding is that
outside market& can be found for this
quantity, and another result that -•pro-
raises much satisfaction among pro-
ducers is that the home market will
be stabilized.
The significance of such a foresha-
dowed export trade may be appreci-
sled from thei, fact' that last year the -
Dominion's Honey exports • amounted
to only • 513,038 pounds, worth $54,561,
in the -previous year to 116,363 pounds,
worth $18,520; and in the year prior to
that to 74,107 pounds, worth $12,840.'
Canadianhoney, ' from its excellent
!quality, has rapidly and favorably es-
4ablished itself on the British and
ur'opelin markets, anal shipments
rerseas $lona Ontario alone, in the
ret six months of the present year,
•*otelled nearly 1,000,000 pounds'.
,Attention has recently been directed
to the remarkable ' interest 'being de-
; voted to, and the 'development of, apt-
Mature
pteulture in the Western provinces,
There has been a similar progress in
the Eastern province, where the indus-
tryhas' been for years established, the
Movement tending here towards a,
stabilization of the industry. From
rtxg regarded by Many followers
is the status of the industry in West,-
ern
estern Canada that the Coast,, nd Prairie
Provinces are expected 'to have simi-
lar organizations in operation before
the end of the season.. The next logi-
cal and expected step in the organi-
zation, and •the keystone of the enter-
prise, will in all probability be a cen-
tral selling organization. With these
arrangements' completed according to
the plans of the authorities it is ex -1
petted that the Canadian honey Indus
Autos Use British Road
Trod by Roman Legions
The announcement that the Prince
of Wales, upon returning- •from. his
Canadian trip, will open the' recon-
structed road between Dartford and
Strood draws attention to 'one of the
oldest and most celebrated) highways
in. Europe. This is told in an As-
sociated Press dispatch from London.
This patch of road is in reality part
of Watling Street,a thoroughfare of
great antiquity which still traverses
the heart of London and, just back of
St. Paul's Cathedral, to this day bears
Its ancient name.
The motorist who to -day comes up
to London from Canterbury traverses
the same road, the famous Watling
Street, which Roman soldiers took
when, on conquest bent, they marched
through England.'
And this old road which the Prince
of Wales will again throw open to the
public in November is to -day what it
has ever been, the most convenient
route between London and the ports
of Franco.
Spoiled the Joke.
A man named Onions had the mis
fortune to fall into a puddle. A friend
who was with him said,."Oh, Onions,
you are in a pickle!"
The joke 'was not lost on Onions,
who determined to let his wife, share
the 'laugh.
"My dear," he said when he arrived
home, "I heard a clever thing to -day.
, My ,friend Smith, when I fell in that
puddle, said, `Oh, Onions, yon.. are in
try will be established on a perman-
ent and profitable basis. The quality
of Canadian honey has already won
for it an enviable position in. the Old
Country, , and a demand has, been
created. As soon as the market price
can he' standardized the supply will
be assured, and 'the honeytrade d will,
be an "important factor among the l �,
wealth -producing commodities of the -�
Dominion.
Beekeeping has made rapid strikes i
in the Western provinces, where more
followers are being enlisted every.
year. Last year British Columbia, in
anadverse season, accounted for a
production of more than half a million
pounds of. honey. The production in i
Manitoba, where the growth of tie,
industry has been phenomenal., was
substantially in excess, of 3,000,000'
pounds. 'Saskatchewan in that year
produced 121,600 pounds and Alberta!
is also achieving a worth -while pro-
' duction, The production cf. Western.
Canada ie the more significant since
it is only of Very recent yearsthat any
attention has been devoted to 'a cons
mercial honey production.
Output of Ontario and Quebec
Provinces,
' According to the Deputy Minister of
Agriculture for the Province of On-
tario, the aggregate value of the honey
crop in that province in 1923,. was
slightly less than "$1,000,000, There
are in the province about seven thoi.i,s
and• honey producers', bat alit of these.
only about six hundred 'depend`"i:,iion
the industry for the greater part of
A Century" of Science and
Engineering.
Few of those°who 'o the corn -
forts and conveniencesnenJyof life in 1924
realize how recent are the develop-
ments
eveloP-ments in. science and engineering
which have made them possible. •Yet
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ' of
Troy, New 'York, the oldest'. college
of science and -engineering in any
English-speaking country, celebrated
only the other 'day the hundredth an-
niversary of its foundation.
For Canadians the celebration is 'of
special. interest. As Rensselaer be-
came the pattern of all the colleges of
science and engineering on the con-
tinent, it naturally left its mark on
several universities north of the boun-
dary. Moreover, not a few of the
young men who, .in the early days,
contributed,, to the material develop-
ment of the Dominion, turned to it for
their education. One, John Fiske Bar-
nard ('50),who had constructed a
number of the lines which were merg-
ed in the old Grand Trunk, became
chief engineer after they were con-
solidated. Another, Edward Penne-
:feather •feather Rothwell ('58), of Ingersoll,
betaine the most eminent mining en-
gineer. of his day, founder of the Am-
, erican' Institute of Mining and Metal-
lurgical iEngineers and editor of.. the
"-Engineering and Mining' Journal:"
Two graduates,- still living are
Charles Macdonald •- (i57), •:of-, Ganan-
oque (where he still maintains a Sum-
mer home), who designed and erected,
numerous bridges such as the famous
Poughkeepsie Bridge across the Hod-
son, and John A. L. Waddell ,('75), of
Port Hope, whose career has reached
far beyond the two Americas.
Among Canadian delegates to thee.
centennial were Sir Robert Falconer,
President of the `University of To-
ronto, Dr. R. Bruce. Taylor, Principal
of Queen's University, and Dean H.
M. Mackay, of McGill.Univ-ersity. Mr.
Arthur Suiveyer, President of ,the;
Engineering Institute of Canada,"who
was ono of the principal speakers, was
honored with a doctorate.
Great Britain Gives Books
to Tokio Imperial University
By passing the diplomatic and con -
CONCRETE COTfAGEa'
FOUR WEE
ri French arehibect,paiiied Knapp is
'being blessed by the working people
of France and lies discovered at the
same time, net only the way to•become
Popular in this crountry, but also the
manner in which to become the -_busi-
est architect in France,
He has s'oldved the housing, problem
for the poorer working classes. His
idea is simple but ingenious. 'It is,
besed on the principle that the work-
ing people themselves are• indirectly
responsible for the high east of home
building in,,,France, and he has merely
found the way to redcee enormously
the expense of skilled labor in cottage
building.
He has drawn up plans.for five dif-
ferent types of small houses to be en-
tirely constructed of concrete. He hag
built one of each of, these types of
dwellings in wood. This- wooden house
is in turn lined with wood throughout,
thus rtorming a huge mold for the con-
crete .to be poured into. When the
matrix house is raised with the aid
of a crane the walls of a finished cot-
tage remain standing.
Such a house can be oceupied within
four weeks' after buildign is coni-
:neared. Knalup's' plans' provide for ,
DUTCH .EDITO4 Sr
VISIT TO, CANADA
two rooms., each of which etre ten feet
wide and twelve feet in length, and a
kitchen, hall and cellar. The cost is
6000 francs (about $360), of which the
owner -of the house has. to pay but 1200
f•anes in cash, the remainder being
'advanced. 'for him by 'the French Gov
eminent, *filch lends., him, this' money
for one to "thirty year,* at 'a 'very low
rate of interest, under what is known
as the "Loi Ribot" (the Ribot law).
Eight days is the actual, time re-
quired to build, these houses; the
prices of which include the services of
twenty workmen 'required to set up
the woden •mold and the use of the
mold itself. Three weeks is' required
to; purge the new building of damp-
ness..
Twenty such houses' have been suc
cessfully ereoted at Troyes. Each of
them, it is said, would cost no' less
than 25,000 francs if 'built according
to the methods generally 'used at pre-
sent 'in France in constructing con
trete 'buildings
Sun -Spots Will Increase
for' a Number of -Years
Old Soya getting 'the "measles"
again.
-Between
. February and Augustof
last year the sun had a minimum of
"spots., `Professor' George -lir Peters •of
the United States Naval Observatory, •
has observed. The' number of spots
•now Is increasing and , will increase
for a.number of' years.' "The' sun -spot
cycle. occurs, every eleven and one-
tenth years, says Professor Peters;
and 'has Just passed the minimum in I
propect for 1984.
For e number of days during the
middle of 1923 no spots were seen on
the un's disk. :'Just whore the zero
point for sun spots is gives rise to a
difference of opinion.
During the period of sun -spot maxima
the intensity of the northern lights in
the lower latitudes gives` evidence of
Iintense magnetic conditions. Some
spots do riot --produce marked northern ,
lights, while others do. ' Just which
solar vote the House of. C'ommons.
sanctioned the gift by the British gov-,
ernment of $125,000 for the purchase
of books in Great Britain for the Tokio
Imperial University.
The library of :the university was
destroyed in the earthquake of last
year, and this gift is in restitution.
Cypress Seeds.
Though cypress trees. commonly
grow in swamps their seeds cannot.
germinate under water..
F• is ' :/.... .; ::',4fiSL, `l*:-''r'b T
The nc} Iy corisft'ucte•d Zeppelin ZR -3,, which recently arrived, in the
United °Sfates, is' sten in its recent trial Bight over I3crlin.
Canada was visited recently, by a
delegation of Dutch editors, H. Q. JO A,
Baron. yen I,anisweerde of "De ,l,i'd,'
T. Cnoseen of "De Stendaar•d," M, J.
Brusee Niewe' Or, the' "Rotterdamche
Courant," and XL J. 13111aSe, who mad0.
an extensive tour of the Dominipn..
They had one broad purpose solely in
view, 'namely' a cicee investigation in-
to', the success• of Dutch settlers al-
ready in Canada, and a study 'of Cana-
dian conditions, with a view to return-
ing and encouraging a Dutch migra-
tion of some volume to Western Can
a.da,
The situation: In the Netherlands as:
presented by 'them is this. The entire
arable area of Holland is settled and
under' cultivation. Farris Kaye been
'subdivided by farniera amongst their
song until this can goo on no longer.
Many satins of agriculturalists 'have ab-
solutely no prospect of being ablate
secure farms in their homeland, and'ii
addition there develops a supply of ag,'
ricuitural labor which is in excess ,of
tris demand.'This has, for years, re-
sulted in a 'migration_of,•somepwolume.
{ The' Netherlands own• colonies
climatically, ton unsuited to the pur-
suit of' the agricultural 'activities to
which' :these Dutch •farmers have been
accustomed,. and hitherto this flow hass
gone=in the ma n
to. the United •Staten,
The Iast United States quota law re-
duced the Netherlands immigrant
quota by some three quarters', permit
ting only 1,637 to enter in the year, A
new bourn had to be sought, and the
Holland League for Emigration gave
it as its opinion that Canada was the
most desirable -and suitable land for
Dutch settlers. This. delegation of
editors spent their time in exhaustively
studying the conditions of the country
spots cause probable' increase is a"
working .on now.
Each clear day of the year at noon
Professor Peters photographs Elie -sun,
A. photo -heliograph,, with iiye inches,
erture and f rt feet local length is
used. The image of the sun is taken
on a plate four an a half inches in
diameter. The light Is thrown into
the camera from the surface of an un -
silvered mirror.
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Equal Rights In Chile.
In Chile all the universities are open
to women on equal derma; with men,
and nearly all professions are open to
them. Chilean Women' have already
'distinguiah'ed thems•elvea considerably
in, medicine, in' dentistry and' in liters- ,
'Lure.
"Standing room on the earth will'
be full up by'the year 3000,"said
Professor' Gregory at a meeting of the
British Association., The `world popu-
lation 'will be 700,000,000;000;"
H.M.S. Hood, the flagship of the special service squadron which recently
visited Canada is, `shown steaming into the harbor of Plymouth, after com-
pleting a world voyage.
Natural Resources Bulletin.
The Natural 'Resources Intelligence
Service' of the Dept. of the Interior
at Ottawa says: '.
While Canada has a large area of
land, amounting to approximately 3,-
, square miles, and it would
seem that there should be plenty for
everybody, at ;reasonable prices, the
settlement of certain portions and its
use for business purposes has greatly
increased its value. In business
centres, particularly, prices have
reached-sucha height that the neces-
sity for accurate surveys shows the
importance of this work, ar.d ' while,
to the unthinking, the matter of a dif-
ference of a foot more or less need
hardly be considered, a few years—a
comparatively brief space in,the- life
of a nation—may mean the establish-
ment of a community that will rapid-
ly" become a metropolis, and a conse-
c,ucnt enhancement of values, to un-
believable heights. •
It is but 131 years•, ,since,,Governor
S'lmcoe, the first governor' of Upper
Canada, _ret ieved'.the seat of 'governs
ment, from Niagara across the lake
to a tent pitchedon a site just east' of,
the present, 'city of ' Toronto. Land' in
the:.new provincial il' ould no
doubt have
' been obtainedcapattathatctini6
very' cheaply, • and 'property on• -what
are !tow the downtown streets : was
forth land: .A foot frontage more or
less would'hardly lie considered in re-
gard to values, but the surveyor of
those days, as• at present, required aC-
curacy, Time has justified, this need
for accuracy, as is evidenced by a <re-
cent report .of the assessment commis••
sionee of Termite, which shows that
tu•opf i ty located on the, wiener of King
end 'Tonga Streeie is now .assessed at
$13,000 per foot-fi.-ontage or $1,500
per inch- • Who could have foreseer,
that the i)t'igf'nal 'tent ' of Governor
r
Sii lcce hi 1(93 be a city5f
would
700,000 e to in 1024?
pop
the opening up of new areas, what is
farm 'land to -day may early become
a city, and what in western Caned i
may to -day be bare prairie in a com-
paratively few' years may be 'another
Winnipeg.
Canada's greatest natural reseerce
is her lands, and on the surveyor must
she depend for the accurate ,subdi-
vision of that land, that future cit!.'
siene may not have causes for disputes
over measurement.
Surveyors Brave Perils _
in Wilds of Far North
G. H. Bianehet, government director
'of surreys, 'is back in _Winnipeg from
the Barren Lands, after a lengthy trip
by canoe through a country which is,
"terra incognita" to moat white' men.
Completing, first the survey of Great
Slave Lake, begun in 1921, Mr. Bion
•chat and lila party,•fifteen in all, head-
ed north and east Into tare Barren
Lands to survey the area contiguous
to the big chain of lakes , from which
the 'Cbppermitte 'Back's', ; Yellowknife,,
Thelon and other northern rivers
drain the area lying from Great Slave
north to the Arctic and • northeast' to
the shores of •Hudson Bay.
• The runts .taken' was;y •wa •'Of Ar=,
,till'ery Lake past the.site of old%Fort
Reliance, through the Clinton, Golden
and Aylmer lakes to' Lake Mackay, It
was an, adventurous -trip through terri-
tory•scarcely visited by .whites, in the
last two hundred years since. Herne
dls•oovered it.
A Prize Baby.
Satisfaction and encouragement
come to us from many,dircctions. This
morning's mail brings a Ietter stating
that the baby oi' one of our 'former
wai;•ds has taken a prize at the -count
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i�elso •clef r yy
fair.—J. 3.s a Lhrl-
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• n Shelter, Toronto.
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with a`view to bearing this out and en
couraging a move in `this direction
thrqugh the influence of the press.
, ' Movement Purely Agricultural.
Uniformly they stress the fact that
the constituent of such a movement
would be almost purely °agricultural,
The emigration. from Holland, which
has always' been in progress, shows
every .tendency of increasing, and it
is net intended in any way to ,encour-
age the 'departure of industrialists or
urban re'sitleuts," Dutchfarmers are
particulaly successful in mixed. farm-
ing and dairying, and the editorial
delegation is looking more especially
into sectors of the Dominion suitable
for such pursuits, and above all where
Dutch settlers have already located.
Canada has 'already a not insignifi-
cant Dutcli population. located for the
amain part in the Province of Ontario.
In all, Canada has 117,5'06 citizens' : of
Dutch birth. There are 50,51,2 in On-
tario -A. 20,728' in Manitoba; 16,639 in
Saskatchewan; •11,506 in Nova Scotia; l .
9,490 in Alberta; 3,638 in New Bruns-
wick; 3;306 in British Columbia; 1,413
in Quebec; 239 in Prince .Edward Is-
land! 34 in the Yukon Territory; .grid
1 in the North West Territories.
Most Successful Farmers.
The Dutch are- successful farmers
both in their native land and wheel.
transplanted to the 'North America
continent. In Holland large flocks of
sheep and cattle -are sept, and wheat,
oats', barley and rye.:raised, ' ' "whilst
Dutch. flax and dairy products are
world-renowned. Sugar -beets, tobac-
co, and hemp are also grown e`eten- .
sively, whilst market gardening antra
fruit culture are very profitable and
have large followings. 'Wall experi-
ence in these diversified ii los of
•
farth-
ing they naturally make good in Can
-
ada
as •mixed farmers.
Canada has not been very well
known in Holland up to recent years.
Of late, however,' ,there has been a'
gratifying interest ,exhibited on the
part of the Netherlands Government
en the possibilities of; ,the. Doihinion
for the settlement of the surplus popu-
lation of the country. N•ot ,long age
the Dutch Settlers' Union issued a.
pamphlet giving information: about ag-
ricultural' 'opportunities
g-ricultural''opportunities . in the Do-
minion. This;.is' followed up by the
visit of four of the foremost editors of
the press' of ,the country, end. Canada
can hardly fail to benefit extensively .'
from the dissemination of their views
upon their return.
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Plan
Prince, ��:e slat of Japan
New ` Biological Laboratory
The Prince Regent of Japan is spon-
sor, for"a new biological labera•tory
which 'will be erected i ethe compound
of the Akasalta=Impe%isl Palace. The
plans for the' laboratory 'are being
drawn by the Prince himself,
Since he •was' 'a boy the Prince 'Re-
gent has bieen
Re genthas'teen much interested -iii the
study of biology: He began collIecting
specimens while='he "was in the prim-
`ary grade o Ptie "'Peel's a rch
o01 and
amassed an important, collection as lie,
grew, alder. It was destroyed by fire
-.in the Tairanawa palace after the groat`
earthquake.
He is Said to know the name of
every insect and every Alpine plant
in Japan. ,
Ancient Gold Coins Found
nd
on Banks of Retf'River
Gold Coins, some of them ofancient
vintage, and jewelled ornaineuts, the
Whole probably worth $2,000, were un-
earthed froma cache on the banks of
the Rod- River, near Winnipeg, by
boys playing on this 3,471i, Thein
With the extension of iailways, art!ownership is unknown,