HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1931-08-06, Page 6eve are pleased that as a result of
the publicity given to Lone. Scouting
through • these , columns many new.
. members have joinda the movement
during the past few weeks. ' This
week applications for membership
have been received from Cobden, Hy- included Bill- Gilbert, of flosox, and
aro, Burkes Falls and Idarriston, and ,Sack Bassett,. of Listowel, arid Harold
at Durham there is every prospect of
a full Patrol befog formed.
we think was exeeediugly good work,
as we have seen quite a few poaches
recently that could very "well benefit
by a similar "Good Turn,"
Lone Scout Visitors to Provincial
Headquarter, iu Toronto recently have
A recent check up of the records of
the Ontario Lone Scout Department
showed that ilince 'its inception two
years ago about 460 boys have been
admitted -to membershipin the move-
ment. Of course quite a dew of these
have been since transferred to re-
gular troops which have been formed.
as a result of Lono Scoat activity.
The Lonies at Feholou 'Palls under
Senior Patrol Leader Doug. Warren'
have had a very busy time just recent-
ly. On July 4th theythad the pleasure
et again meeting their friends of the
51st Toronto Troop, who camped near
the town. The Lonies helped the
Toronto Seethe to make camp, and en-
tered ito their activities with zest,
Later the Lone Scouts were invited
to visit the iedmp el, the •00th Toronto
'Troop •at Sandy Point on Sturgeon
Niclrle of Iiarriston was in Toronto a
short time ago, but he did not pay us
a visit. Lonies who some to Toronto
for any reason are always welcome
visitors to Scout Headquarters, so we
hope you won'trorget;to pay us a
call,
This week's Summer Time Profici-
ency Badge: is the. Angler's Badge. The
requirements are as follows:
1. By the usual angling methods
catch and name seven different ape
cies 'of fish. At least one specimen
must be taken bye -Ay -casting or'troll-
lug and one by bait -carting. In single
handed fly -casting the rod must not
exceed seven ounces in weight; in
doublo'handed fly -casting the rod may
be one ounce weight for each foot In
length; in bait fishing' the rod must
not exceed ten feet in length or
tw' lye ounces in weight.
2. Show proficiency in accurate sin -
Lake. They 'hiked overto the camp 'gee -handed casting with the fly for dis-
on July -8th, and to their surprise met lances of 20, 40 sad 50 feet, or In bale
an -old friend who turned out to be casting for- distance of 40, GO and 70
none other than "Cookie" ("Colonel"
Walton), who was so popular at the
Lone ScoutCamp at Dbor Park lase
summer. The Lonies stayed : over
night with the 90th, and entered into
their programme enthustestically, hav-
ing a great time at rile eioning coun-
cil fire.
We like ipp see this fraternization'be-
tween the Lonies and their city broth-
ers. and we are pleased to state that
quite a few members of the Lone
Scouts have .gone to camp this year
with regular troope,•at the latter's.in-
vitation.
The Fouelon Falls Lone Scouts also
report a rather uuluue "Good Turn"
which. might be copied by other. Secedes
who live along Lhs lake shorn. They
recently assisted the local town auth-
orities to clean tip the beach; which
feet.
3. Make throe artificial flies (either
after three standard patterns or in
imitation of different natural. flies).
Make a neat single gut leader at least
four feet long, or a twisted or braided
leader at least three feet long, Splice
the broken joint of a rod neatly.
4. Give the open season for the
game fishes" in his vicinity, and explain
how and why they are protected b Y
the law.
Applications for membership in. tits
Lone Scouts will be received from boys
between the ages. of 12 and 18 inclu-
sive, -who •cannot •become members of
a .regular'Troop,for reason• -of •locality
or -outer • handicap. .Applications
ahould'be sunt to the Lone Scout -De-
partment, 'The 73oys Scouts Associa-
tion, 330 Bay Street, Toronto, 2.—
"Lone E."
BirdsNecessaryhowever, though birds can grow
Birds�$pn big in comparison with insects, they
To Human Welfare are -limited in size in comparison with
other vertebrates. This comes from
the fact of flight; the laws of aero-
JULLAN S. HUXLEY dynamics make it very inconvenient
Eminent English biologist and writer. for a flying bird to weigh over 0')
To watch birds is delightful enough pounds, and quite impossible for it to
in itself; but most people like a back- weigh as much as a horse or even e.
ground against which they ,can act leopard. It is only birds which have
their observations. . given up flying, like tee ostrich or
These feathered creatures, what cassowary, which have even begun to
are they in the economy of Nature? grow big according to mammalian
What is their.history? How do they standards. Tho stock size for birds,
compare with other kinds of living in fact, is from something under an
things? There are no other animals ounce to about 10 or 15 pounds.
huitt in at all the same way as birds. Birds and mammals developed from
How did they come to evolve into two quite distinct reptilian stocks.
their present condition? Birds have kept reptilian -looking'
The first thing that evolutionary scales on their feet, and have stuck to
study teaches -1 is that birds were the reptile s method of reproduction
not always so different from other by large -yoked eggs. In some ways,
creatures as they are today. The fete however, the bird, branch has evolved
fossil birds known from the upper beyond their rivals, the mammals, a:td
Cretaceous age, 70 or 80 million years in these respects must be regarded as
back, all had teeth, like any lizard. at the very tiptop of the tree of life.
When we reach the Jurassic perigd, Birds have the highest temperature,
near twice as lgng ago, the only two
speoil ens of Wide so far found we:'e
so unlike arty ordinary bird in their
construction that, if it were not for
the lucky accident of their having
been embedded in such fine mud that
the imi>rint of their feathers :s still
preserved to us, we should have been
in doubt as to whether they were
birds at all, They might have been
agile reptiles, for they were toothed,
had long jointed tail bones, and big
claws un their fore limbs.
Sunday School
Lesson
August 9.
ed and
o-H-soa•sas+
Lesson VI—Saul Convert
Commissioned—Acts. 9; 1-9
17-19; 1 Timothy. 1: 12-14. Golden
Text—i was not disobedient unto
the heavenly vlslon.—Acts 26: 19.
I. SAUL, PHARISEE A'ND rsasuoupog,
Acts 9: 1, 2; 22: 3.5. ..
IT,
sae. coNvua mo, Acts 9; 3-19a;
e2:' 5-16.
1II. SALM PREACHING, Acts 9: 19b-31;
22: 17-21.
IV. PAUL, LOOKING BACK, G•alatians..11
11117; 1 Timothy 1: 12-17.
I.:SAUL, PHARISEE AND PERSEOu_volt,
Acts 9: 1, 2; 22: 3-5.
(a) The. Pharisee. 'Saul's family,
although living in a Greek city, were
of pure Jewish descent, and Pharisees.
They also enjoyed the privilege of
Roman citizenship, conferred upon
them probably for some service to
the emperor. According to Jewish
custom, the boy was taught a triode,
tent -making, 'Acta 18; 3. In the uni-
versity city of Tarsus he would ac-
quire a knowledge oe. Greek customs,
literature and philosophy. His edu-
cation in Tarsus completed, he was King George V., together with new iq of Hordes Despite Des-
cent oath to Jerusalem to Study structions for the guidance' of thel
undef a famous theological professor conduct of the Governor-General. The perate Offensive
named Gamaliel. ' haat time lettere patent were issued Buffalo, Neb.--Wooden fence poste.
The gentle and tolerant spirt of Ga- was in 1205 by King Edward' VII. In wagon tongues,• even clothing hung
mallet (A,sts 5: 34), was -not shared general the recent documents bring
by his brilliant pupji- Saul was an out to dry, were quickly devoured by
ardent student of the Law. When re -
accord
office 01 the Governor-General into the gray -yellow ' horde.• Anything
ligion becomes it matter of law and accord with the recommendations of containing vegetable -fibre attracts the
doctrines,, intolerance is the result. So the Imperial Conference of 1926, which hungry grasshoppers.
it was with Saul, were adopted by the Parliaments of•
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ti
Latest in Gas 'Madka
Three eltarnting young ladies ate exhibiting the latest types of
• gas masks at tiro Society of Chemical Industries exhibition held in
Weetminater, England, The exhibition displayed many of the latest
maryeld of fence,
New Letters Patent CS�°assD���'p1�e1 s "'St11D�
For Governor-General Invade Nebraska
Ottawa;—New letters patent con-
stituting the • office of Governor Gen .�
oral of Canada 11aYe been Melted by Country Left Barren in Wake
ievera� on elnr e
In British Air Classic
London:'—Forty-two . competitors,
including seven women,• are ready to
.start in the 1,000 Mile race for the
Ring's cup„ Briti,oh air race classic,•.
The' field includes the first Canadian
in the event, John C. Webster, of Mon-
treal, flying a Canadian machine.
A daughter's challenge to her
father is one of the features of the
race. Capt. The. Zion, Frederick
Guest and his daughter, Miss Diann
Guest wilt fly moth planes; leaving
together 28 minutes and nine seconds
after the first starters.
No one would be surprised if the
trophy remained in feminine hands
for' another year. Miss Winnifred
Brown, who last year was the first
woman to capture the trophy,;ia heave
fly "handicapped, however, leaving an
in fact, are an offshoot from
one kind of very active- reptile, prob•
ably related to some of the smaller
dinosaurs. They became birds through
the evolution of feathers out of scales,
which first, by acting as a heat -re-
taining blanket, allowed their temper-
ature to be kept at a high level, and,
secondly, made Rigst possible.
There have been three other groups
of animals to achieve true flight: one,
the flying insects, arose from a wholly
(efferent stock; two, from the same
back -boned, stock to which the birds
belong—the flying -mammals or bats,
and the flying reptiles or pterodactyls,
the latter all long extinct,
The groat advantage which the
birds had over their ertehrate.cum-
petitore in the alt of flying was that
they, possessing feathers, could snake
a wing of these; while the skinny
fight -membranes of bats and ptero-
dactyls had to be stretched taut and
so de needed attachment to hind •as
well as fore limbs. • Bats cannot run
or hop,"nor could pterodactyls; their,
lags are subordinated to their wings,
But birds kept their legs clear of this
enbeuglement=its the ancestors of man
kept thar. fore limbs clear by'run-
ning; and so birds were free both of
the air. and of the earth, having ons
pair of limbs for each element.
l?nsects, are the equals of birds in
this s^speer; but they are inferior. in
another, They can never grow big.
It would take Aim long to go into the
reason why, but the. act remains; en
insect as big as a swan or even as a
thrush is, luckily for us, unthinkable.
Small size is in itself a disadvantage;
dt brings the further disadvantage in
its train that it prevents an animal
,from haying a constant temperature
higher than its surroundings,. for its
bulk is so small in proportion -to its
• surface that the heat generated by the
chemical combustion en its. muscles)
all leaks away in no btime.
So' insects are not only small, but
• she whole tempo of their lives goes
up and down with the temperature of
the outer world, They cannot Achieve
(the constancy o.° living possible to a
bled or mammal, and are at a great
elisadventage in winter, being put out
}'f action more or less completely by
• %',d cold.
b The Persecutor, When, after the Empire at various dates since that Although farmers said several mil -
(b) lions of the grasshoppers had been:
Stephen's death, the authorities tools year, killed, additional swarms. are expect -
measures against his followers,, Saul Specifically, they remove from the when eggs sow infesting the
threw himself into the work of re- Government of the United Kingdom
pression. Not content with his-effotts the haat vestiges of control exercised ground have incubated. Tires in which
in Jerusalem, he secured authority to bodies of the slain insects were being
go to Damascus, where the eevrislt by that Government over the appoint-, burned .dotted the plains tonight. In -
colony had evidently been influenced meat of a Governor-General to Can- i troduetion of poison as a weapon 're -
by the new faith. ada, malting 11 a direct and- personal
II. ants. coesvoareo, Ads 9: 3-19a; one by His Majesty, acting on the ad -1 suited. in the death of thousands of the
1 'n
1 sects.
22: 5-16. vice .of H.M. Government in Canaan. i At some points the bodies of the
Saul's conversion -as the most mo- Formerly in defining the powers and I grasshoppers were piled high on the
mentons occurrence of apostolic his • authority of the Governor-General, the rails, impeding trains. At others they
tory. letters patent directed Hie ExcelleacyI made the ground slippery beneath the
(a) The Preparation. On the Lonely to carry out such instructions "as may, tires of automobiles.,
road to Damascus, six or eight days'from time to time be given him under Some of the farmers, their crops
journey from Jerusalem, Saul would. ear sign manual and signet, or.byor-{
have time for reflection. 'Bythis time, der in'Pxi7y Council, or -by us through -destroyed, Braised money by packing
he was discoveriug that the Law -was one• of our principal *secretnrioa• of the .dead -grasshoppers in - preserve -
not an adequate .religion, "Romans' state.''. In -the new issue, the last fives and selling= •themeto': fishermen
chapter 7. hailing in. hie guest dor II_
for -baitat20 cents.a^pound.
God, he was steadily sinking tato references aro:elimivat•'ed. 1 The insect invaseos.hes•devastated
pessimism. The 'memory was always 'The .same deletion occurs ninA the gardens, craps and fruit trees, and
haunting him of Stephen dying with document containing the King's behind their advance stretches r. sere
the face of an angel—and n ith a structibns, t swath. 'Damage already is in the
prayer of forgiveness on his lips. The An archaism is removed Prom these
joyful courage of the men 'whom he instructions having reference to the millions of dollars.
was persecuting, their lives for each grant of pardons, etc„ by the Govern -1 Entymologists said the grasshop-
other, the calm confidence. which told' or-Gsneral. Previously Ise Excellency .Pers soon wouldsprout wings and in -
of an inner peace -must have been had lite authority to prescribe banish-' crease the area of their damage. Une
undermining his old assurance. His t less checked soon, they will be in• con-
triubled mind was working up to the merit -for pOlitiaalti offenders. That trol of the entire tier of Northern Ne-
crosis which he was soon to were
encs. •
(b) The Crisis. As Saul and his
men were approaching the city a
blinding light suddenly buret upon
them, the shock of which threw them
to the ground, Chap. 9: 3. Saul heard
a vole saying, "Saul, Saul, wily per-
secutest thou me?" Was it, then,
really true that in harrying the be-
lievers he had been persecuting the
Lord himself? "Who art thou, Si'?"r
he asked. Ile did not recognize the
voice. The Authorized Version with
"Lord" suggests that he did. The
answer brought to Saul the trans-
forming conviction that Jesus1 ea tr e
his followers had claimed,
revelation of God.
(c) The Result. Saul immediately
placed. Christ in complete control of
his life, 9: 6. Brought to a believer's
house in Damascus, he remained there
three days, blind physically and spirit -
and therefore tbo greater c speed of his pant life and dat'tc as to telmed as the he futu e.
of
vital chemistry, of any creatures. Ananias, divinely prompted, found him
The have the greatest activity, the and showed him that all that had hap•
greatest emotional variety; they show paned was God calling him to his set'-
the highest extremes of beauty in
color and pattern, they have the mist
striking and highly developed court-
ship of any group of animals, and
their songs are 1 y far the most beau-
tiful and elaborate music that the
worn knew before the coming of man.
The are the most mobile of creatures,
and so are at a great advantage over
every other kind of animal in high
altitudes; for they can breed there
and take advantage of the riches of
the Arctic lands and still more of
the Arctic seas during the summer,
and then migrate to temperate flint.
ales,
What part do birds play in the
elaborate system of exchanges which
constitutes the balance of Nature?
The great majority of them are eaters
of other animals. For this they have
stuck to the ancestral predilections of
vertebrates, which were all in origin
flesh eaters.
The birds as a whole stuck to a
meat diet; but their average size de-
termined the average size of their
prey.' The great majority of them
ate so moderate in bulk that they can
oily eat small creatures, though they
will include worms and snails and
spiders, will for the most part be in-
sects. Some of the larger birds eat
creatures up to the scale of frogs and
mice, or are carrion feeders, or prey
on smaller birds or on fish. But if we
could take statistics on the food of
all birds, we should find that insects
ed the list
vice. Saul, now healed in body an
admittt ed to 9 t the fellowas wship of the and Ius
le.
lievers.
III. SAUL PI/GAMING, Acts 9: 195-31;
22: 17-21.
After some days spent with the
disciples, in Damascus, Saul retired
"into Arabia' (Gal, 1: 17), probably
some quiet village near Dantas0us
where, in seclusion, he could ponder
the meaning of his great experience
and determine .his future course of
action. Not only the words of Anan-
ias' vision (22: 14, 15), but his even
nature made action of some kind in-
evitable. He returnee to Damascus
and began to preach controversially,
9: 22. Not yet, refined through suf-
fering, mellowed and enriched by love,
could he utter 1 Cor, chap. 13. A -plot
against his bf0 forced him to leave
the city. lee went to Jerusal..: t, where
he endeavored to make the acquain-
tance of the apostles. They, however,
were afraid of him and, had it not
been for Barnebas, his Visit would
probably have been unsuccessful. His
(bold preaching aroused antagonism.
he "brethren,' fearing persecution,
brought him down to °resarea and sent
him"home to Tarsus,
obsolete form of punishment is done
away with by merely deleting the sen-
tence which conveyed that power.
heed .
"MAT insects aro in the great ma-
jority vegetable feeders. So that in
regard to what we may call biological
trade -the compiidafed circulation of
matter through lifeless forma in
earth, water, and ^ir, through -green
plants, animal bodies, and microscopic
scavengers like motels and bacteria,
and back into lifeless fornix again --
the net effect of birds is to be a check
upon insects in their consumption' of
green plants and their products. In
this way they aro allies of man.
So birds have a Place in civilization
While we . are n Shanizing lifo, we
should see that a place is kept for
them,' for our delectation and that of
our posterity.
Gain Recorded. in Population
The population of Stockholm has
increased in muchthatthe city now
glias more than 500,000 inhabitants, The
censue of the various districts was
finished in March and shows thatthe
total population at the beginning of
1931 was 502,203 porsoas,
IV. rAUL L001CINC mete, Galatians 1:
11117; 1 Timothy 1: 12-17.
His Testimony. Looking back aver
the ears of his Christian life, he grate-
fully testifies that the Power which
saved him at Damascus has' always
sustained him. The arrogance of the
Pharisees has become the humility of
the chief of sinners, 1 Tim. 1: 15.
Edison Forced To'
Cease Active Work
West Orange,' N.J.—Thomas A,
Edison, inventor, has been forcei to
coast: active work at the age of 61.
Overwork during experiments . to
producing rubber {rem the imides red
plant, on which' the aged inventor
worked steadily •all winter at Fort
Myers, Fla., have made it necessary
for Edison to take a vacation from
the laboratory, according to his
brother-in-law, John V. li iller—a va-
cation that may presage retirement.
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Saskatchewan -Britain
Cattle Trade Growing
Regir.a.—Saeltatchewan is shipp g
150 head of cattle per week to Great
Britain as a result of contracts enter-
ed into by the British Co -Operative
Wholesale Society,
During the visit of officials of this
society to .Regina during the spring
it was suggested approximately 100
head be shipped weelcly. Officials of
the Government and the Soskatcltew•
an Live Stock Pool did not feel that
the province was in a position to
handle this order, and suggested start-
ing with a small shipment and in-
creasing it as the pool became sup-
plied.
Asa result it was learn from un-
official sources shipments had grown
to 150 head per week under the con-
tract,
Harvesting la West
Early this Year
Winnipeg. —Wheat cutting' som-
mo""need in the St, Adolphe district
of Manitoba 'on July 25th, the earl-
iest, it isbelieved, such operations
have-occuered be Manitoba.
Dee "farmer,' resident in Manitoba,
for 36 yeans, declared it Was !'the
eearliest date for wheat mating "Bunny" Austin, p]ngland's raniFing Davis Cup tennis player, re -
my
is tures a fest one during a het which he won from Sydney Wood of
I
I my oaperionce.„ St, Adolphe p.he two Miles south of Winnipeg, i New Koi+k '
braska counties.
Fields, green today, may be.
splotched tomorrow with barren
stretches. Another day, and the fere
tile Platte Valley may be barren.
7ity and town dwellers also are
witnessing the march of the greed,-
hoppers.
rasshoppers. Gardens and trees' are left
leafless. Hungry grasshoppers swarm
solidly on the houses, gather in clus-
ters and fall to the ground from trees
and telephone ,ales.
Purning of the insects was decided
upon when farmers feared their cattle
would die after eating the bodies of
grasshoppers which had been killed
by poison.
hour, 17 minutes and five second after
the first machines,
Lady Bailey, famous for long
distance flights, is most heavily handl
capped 61 the women entrants,Jieing
scheduled to start an hour, 62 minutes
and 27 „seconds after the first ma -
chino which take off from Heston
airdrome at G a.m. Miss 3', J. Grose-
ley, daughter of a motor car inane-
facturor, in a plane piloted by flying
officer II, 5. Deaeh, a member of the
Royal AR Force speed flight, takes off
with the. Best group.
The scratch competitor .is Plight -
Lieut, 0.• 13. Winchott, whose plane
is capable of a speed of 159 miles en
hour. Ile starts two hours, 33 min-
utee and 13' seconds behind the first
planes. -,
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Water Replaces
Stearn in New,
British E ngirine
Tradition of 300 Years Upset
by Invention Using
Liquid . Working
Substance
London.—A new kind or engine that
uses liquid water instead of steam,_
discards: boilers and condensers, de-
velops more power in less space than
ordinary steam and gas engines, with
freedom fromexplosion hazards and
heat wastes, will shortly be offered for
experimental commercial use here.
It is the invention of J. F. J. Malone,
engineer, of Newcastle -on -Tyne, who
has experimented with the novel
water engine for several years. The
details of its opera.' -t have just been
revealed.
Since steam and other engines have
been worked always by the expansion
of gases of one kind or another for
some 300 years, this new klrod of prime
mover that is operated by expansion
of liquid instead of expansion of gases
hue created much interred in engineer-
ing, olrclea.
Water Stays Liquid
Former Cannibals
Demand Classics
London•—Civilization and education
have wteright such a change :n the
head-hunting and one-time cannibal
tribes of Nov Guinea that an urgent
request came from that country for
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" in the
Tubotube Iangaage, This is one of
the tongues of a Papuan tribe, and is
the 123rd language into which the
Religious Tract Society has translat-
ed the famous classic.
This edition has eight colored ilius-
trations, and some thousands of vol-
umes have already been dispatched.
On arrival they are made up into
suitable -sized packages to go up coun-
try on the heads of the native bearers.
.Both the .new water engine and on.
-vontional.'steam engines use water, .tiop in which the: invisible bacteria
.but i nthe cane of the steam engine the now may be isolated, His .experiments
water must be changed to steam be-
fore any work can be done. In the
Malone engine the water stays liquid
even under pressures of boas per
square inch created within the engine.
Rapid heating a :d cooling of the
liquid water are necessary ,in order
that the water engine will operate.
This was accomplished by Mr. Malone
through the development of a novel
form of heat transfer within ono of
the aylinders of the water engine.
Other advantages claimed for the
engine are:
Only a small amount of water is
needed and this reduces the size of the
engine and allows it to be used whore
water ie scarce,
It runs and changes speed more
noiselessly than conventional engines.
It loses less heat thea other engines
and its outside shell is cool to the
touch.
Its mechanism is simpler and the
working parts need be opened for in-
spection Duly onto In four years.
There is no incessant bolter clean-
ing, no water gauges, no risk of short-
ness or foulness of water.
The control system is simpler titan
in the steam engine.
It has no exhaust, as the water Is
used over and over.
Alt hearings wittlin the engine are
cold aid lubricated by the water it-
self.
New Gards Invented
Scientist Explains
New Discovery
New Gerin Isolation Process
May Aid in Devising
Cures -
Chicago.—A mild-mannered little
man; described for fellow scientists
here recently ;his• disease . germ discos• '
ery, expected to have as far-reaching,
effect on the treatment of human ills
as the processes evolved by the fa-
mous Louis Pasteur.
The man is Dr, Arnold I. 'Kendall,
profeseor of bacteriology at the
Northwestern University Medical
School for the last 20'odd years. His
discovery. consists -of a. process of
making visible under the .microscope
bacteria so tiny that research work-
ers heretofore have been unable to
identify it,
i "Thu discovery, is as startling the
the scientific world as the dis0overiea
of Pasteur,” said Dean Irving Cutter,
1 of the Medical School.
' "Dr. Kendalls -.accomplishment
means' that we _now stand on the
threshold of a great discovery,': added
Dr. Edward C. Rosenow, eminent bac-'
teriologist.
..ler. Ism -Mall. has ,developed what be
calls the 'Ile Medium," a soupy seta -
Births, Deaths, Marriages
According to a bulletin issued be the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics, births
registered in Juno in 52 cities oe Can-
ada numbered 7,457, deaths 3,369 and
marriages 3,706, as compared with
7,268 births, 3,644 deaths and 4,300
marriages registered in June last year,
giving au increase of 21 per cent, in
births, and decreases of 71/2 per cone.
and 14 per cent, in deaths and mar-
riages respectively.
For the six months January -Juno
births showed a decease of 2 per
cont., deaths an increase of VA per
cent. and marriages a decrease of 101/2
per cent. from the corresponding six
months of 1930.
Many Instruments Tested
During the year 1930 the Physical
Testing Laboratory of. the Topo-
graphical Survey, Dept. of the Inter-
ior, subjected to test for the Dept. of
National Revenue . nearly four hun-
dred hydrometers. These instruments
are used by the latter department for
the purpose of determining 'the gravi-
ties of spirits,oils,, and. other .liquids
in connection with the collection of
customs and excise duties.
British . Star
are not over despite his years of re-
search, he said, and practical use of
his discovery is yet to come. Ile now
is hare at work on a paper desc.rib'
ing his "K Medium'in detail, so that
it may be manufactured in laborator-t
ies other than his own.
A small intestine if a rabbit, dog,
swine or man, chemically treated, is
the essential ingredient of the sole.
tion, he said. He asserted that his'
experiments in Chicago hospitals ver
a pored of years indicated that ill
could and would isolate the bacteria
of a majority- 51 ISa malignant dis-
eases,
Isolation of the infinitesimal germs
means that such diseases as sleeping
sickness, paralysis, influenza, cancer
and rheumatism -n-ty be traced 5,
their primary causes and that -physi-
cians hereafter may he able to devise
specific cures or teem.
Vote or !: e Arrested
Aim of Bill in France
Paris.—A. law compelling all French
citizens to vote, under peualty of
fines, has been proposed by a group of
conservative members of Parliament.
Voting, they declare in ttte bill they
have laid before the Chamber of De-
puties, is a duty and not a mere pri-
vilege.
The Chamber of Deputies and the
departmental and communal elective
bodies aro, they maintain, composed
To Aid Bridge Players too Largely of the representatives of
7uriCit,—A now laud of playing minorities because the other feliowe1
shirked their duty at the polls.
cards, according to The N.Y. Times, In France, as In most countries, the
Will soon lie adopted by bridge players well-to•do citizens are inclined to fore
all over Europe and America, accord- go their right to vote. It is with the
ing to Dr. Paul Herrmann of Zurich,
an authority on the game.
The cartes, made in Austria, lessen
the- chances of a revoke at contract
bridge, a game rapidly becoming morn
complicated, Hearts are real, dia-
monds pink, spades brach and clubs
dark green; the cards themselves are
longer and narrower than those at
Present used and are made to fit the
present-day duplicate contract boards;
Dr. Herrmann thinks that bidding
by players themselves, ,in duplicate
contract, will rapidly be superseded by
the employment of an announcer, thug
eliminating all likelihood of informa-
tion being wrongly transmitted by in-
flexion of the voice when calling.
Efforta'are being made to adopt a
more uniform system, both in - the
forma In which contract bridge is now
played and in rho methods of sooting,
1n order that international compete•
tions may be arranged between lead-
ing bridge clubs. Toronto.—A freshman has been ad -
milted to Queen's University, Icings•
toe, for the summer classes, who is
70 years old, la an ex -mayor and also
an ex -member of the Canadian parlia-
ment, Mr. I, E. gedtow of Renfrew,
Ont., Is Canada's oldest "freshman."
Mr, Pedlow's college days will be
followed with great interest, for he
has carved out as honorable and use•
fill career for,himself,'and is now tak-
ing bis. studies; which 'usually come
first, last,
Purpose of getting out this portion of
the veto that the backers of the bill,
led by Louts Marin, have moved for
the reform.
Argentine Grain
Output Grows
Buenos Aires. — Argentine wheat,
corn, linseed and oats shipments thin
year show a considerable increase, pri-
vate statistics of cereal exports revere.
A total of 1,928,762 tons of wheat was
shipped from January 1 to May 22, as
compared with 1,2914104 tons for the
corresponding period a year ago; 2,•
480,795 tons of corn, against 1,2265,482
tons; 961,045 tons of linseed, against
,5113,378 tons, and 301,963 tons of oats
against 162,457 tons a year ago.
70 -Year -Old Man
Enters University
High Heels Replace
Lancashire Clogs
Loudon.—Lancashire flaws have
taken' so largely to high -heeled shoes
and silk stockings that a .moving pec-
tnre company .which has been visiting
that %amons British 'county to make
films of mill workers, has had to send
to the south of England for a' supply
of stout wooden -soled clogs for defiers
modelsto appear
Tito' clog is the traditional footwear
of the Laueashirr" ludustrlai workers,
but even .the much-telked-of trade de-
pressiou has not brought them back
to popularity. Depression or no de-
preselon the' mill lasses or Lancashire
wear high heels and silk. '
1
Russia's Population
Gains 35 Per Ce liL.
Moscow—Tho consul of urban popu-
lation taken this vote slows that Mos-
cow lsas lecroased 355 per cent. slum
1926, resetting e total of 2,745,600. .
Tho population of Sverdlovsk, for
Inatome, hoe 'grown glace 1026 from
"Reckless Walking"
A charge of "reokless walking" was
recently brought in a Paris cpurt, for
the first time, it was said, in French
legal history, Damages of $2,000 were
demanded by the plaintiff, a woman
worker in u. dreasmaking establish.
moot, who was hurrying across the
Rue. de Rivoli when she collided with
the defendant, a' banker. The plain-
tiff maintained that her wrist was
spreteed whale she was thrown down
by the collision,.
The Modern Wolf
Have you ,heard of tete unemployed
134,000 to 334,000, or 19 per cont. ; The gta.n who put a alga on his gate read
population of i Ivattpvo Voznesensk ing: "Agents, solicitors, etc„ etc., Beep
roacheel 162,100 agafast,109,700. en in- Out, Beware Of the Wolf on the
crease of 49per cent, Por'ciil"
n