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F'e'es Opinions, Eire land,- Tbore
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But Haw?
Belgium prophets usually talk as
though good end bac times cone and
go wiL,t tete ',inevitability of the
tide. This .doctrine of eeonotnic pre•'
destivatior most not be allowed to
ob, ess us into a state of submission.
to fate, The uiiiver:e may be mech-
auioal, but the affairs Of mankind are
subject' to the will of man, Neither
doper:101MM no booms are inevitable
if we make up our minds to 'avert
or control them. Booms and depres-
alone are made by man, and anything
that is man-made can be unmade or
made differently by man.-Stratfor
Beacon -Herald.
Horses Lose Tails
All soviet farm horses will loee
their tails as a result of an order
issued by the Conmisariiv of Agri-
culture to State and Collective farms.
The Commissarlat has ordered all
farmers to cut off tails and manes
of horses "to supply our industry
with valuable raw materia]."—Sault
Daily Titer.
Sitting on the Lid
lctiibtidgc has set on the lid of its
strong box for six I. ng years of the
depression. The result is that we
have accumulated sufficient funds to
prey more than 05 cents on the dc: -
lar' of all our bonded indebtedness,
Our financial standing is the best of
any city of its size in Western Can•
att.. To accomplish this we have
paid 'high taxes and have gone with•
out a lot of improvements. We
have no swimming pool, no up -to•
date sport field such as most . other
cities .provide, anti tw'e live in a
olouti of dust during half the year
because' we have letour streets go
urzr,trf,rceel.—Lethbridge florald.
The Cheapest Thing
'rias Quebec Association for the
Preirerition of Industrial Accidents
notes In one of its bulletins that one
of- the strange properties of safety
is that the more it is used the less
it costs in spite of this there are
still some people who believe that
safety 'involves a considerable expel)•
cliture of time and effort, They do
not seem to understand that those
who pay most for safety are precise,
ly those who attempt lo get along
without it. It is false economy to
• attempt to lessen pre't'ntive meas•
ures in a factory because the accid•
ent faotor which exists. when produc•
tion. is high does not diminish when
it' is •reduced, and If there are na
holidays for accidents there should
likewise be none for safety meas-
. tires.—La Tribune. Sherbrooke.
will be regretted among newspaper
nr eel
'file fact that the Adfertisei' has
been struggling againet adverse two-
nomlo circumstances, clueing which
revenues have continued to dwindle
and deficits to mount higher and
higher, is an illuminating comment.
on the high cost of publishing news
paper's, This is a condition that is
regretted among newspaper 'publish•
ers themselves, becauseit sometimes
leads thoughtless people to remark
that newspapers are gaining a mon•
opoly in their various ileitis, whereas
the simple truth is that these, jour-
nals have not been able to survive
because of- the economic eontingene
cies that have arisen.—I31'nntford Ex•
posher.
lilorni' g Field Costly
The London Advertiser has been
published for 73 years and there was
a time when it was in the afternoon
field that it made money and pros
pored. We believe it correct to say
that the late T. H. Purdom, when
owner of the paper, decided to enter
the morning field after a conference
with the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir
Wilfrid feeling the need for a Lib-
eral morning paper in Western On.
tario. And Clam] a business point of
view, that was a poor decision to
matte. f3nt it was made in the days
when newspapers were ready to back
their political affiliations and pay for
the choice. "`The London Advertiser
and the Edmonton Bulletin were, we
believe, the two English speaking
newspapers which stayed with Sir
Wilfrid during the wartime elec-
tion.
Only a few months age it was the
Hamilton herald which announced it
could no longer continue . because
losses amounted to more than the
payroll. And now the London Ad-
vertises goes the same way, leaving
but two cities in Ontario,; Ottawa and
'Toronto, with more than one daily
paper.—Peterborough Examiner.
Still Opportunity
''Go West, young roan," was once
the advice. "fin North" is now the
advice. of Non. T. A. Crever, Minis-
ter of National Resources in the Fed.
oral Cabinet. He cites the case of
a young man who began as a muck•
er with 45 cents an hour for back.
. breaking labor of shovelling shatter•
ed rock and wvheelhurrowing it from
the drifts, who is note a diamond dril•
ler at $7 a clay. There is still the
opportunity fee young men who are
not afraid of hard manual labor. —
Letftl:r.'' . Herald.i
Cheapest Article in the Horne
Twenty years ago in every smelt
city in Ontario them e were at least
two newspapers. and in some In-
stances three. lender the pressure
of iiia rciai stringency many of
there hate ceased publication or bave
become merged with their contempor-
aries, until at the present time only
one paper is being published. Peofl]o
sometimes complaiu of the cost of
newspapers, but there is no doubt
whatever that it is the Cheapest ar
title that corner into the home, ls'very
issue represents the product of the
inveetnierit or vrtVt suers of money in
notes -gathering agencies, correspond
ants, cable, 'telegraph and telephone
• communications, combined with cost
ly equipment, 1u addition to 'local
publication expenses. And yet this
is lmroseuted to readers daily for the
meagre sum of a few cents. The dis•
appearance or tete London Advertiser
D-4
Dangerous Habit
Unless this practice of tiding two
aboard a bicycle is stopped there
will be an accident one of these fine
days in which some youthful pedal -
ler will be killed or injured. The
law in this respect is broken every
day and the thing is getting on the
nerves of motorists. It is .a nerve -
wrecking experience to have one of
these double -loaded cycles dodging
through traffic, suddenly appear di-
rectly in front of the car you. are
driving. it may not be generally
known, but the practise is against
the taw. Parents should make a note
of this and warn their children
against it.-Gue]pb-Mercury.
"Most Quoted Newspaper"
The Ottawa Journal continues to
be the most quoted newspaper in
the Dominion, according to figures
for three months ending September
30 this year, the quotations, accord-
ing to the Dominion Press Clipping
Bureau being 2,070 in number.
The Northern News. which, along
with some other semi-weeklies, is
catalogued with the dailies, has a
quota of 130 quotations. Sudbury,
with its Sint' being top for the north
with 169.
While The Jane al has the ad•
vantage of being located in the Do
Minion C'apita'l, one 'cannot bat ag
roe with other knights of the sets•
;urs that its editorials. whether one
accept deem as gospel or not, are
well written and easily r'eat,.—Kirk-
!nnd Lake Northern News. ,
• THE EMPIRE
Sins of the Microphone
The microphone bas been hie tned
for much. Birt nobody has brought
so heavy an ludictnre.nt against it
ns that which Sir Thomas Inskip
etas just presented. lee rinds it an
luiportLuit factor In t he creation of
the wvcmlei's political reatlessnees, He
doubts whether dictatnrchips would
have bean possible, but rot the micro•
phone. which enables one man to
speak to millions of 'people at one
ithe.
Model of San Francisco Fair
\\,orkrrd.out to a scale or a sixteciith.01 an inch to a tue,t, this $10,000 Model, 3o feet long and 18 feet wide,
gives an exact idea of how the 1939 fair in San Fran cisco will appear to the visitors..
People, he said, were being = con-
tinually excited and never got time
to think quietly, All this is rather
hard on the poor microphone. Scien•
tific inventions are neutral as. to poli-
tics and morals, They may be made
to serve any movement good or bad.
They have been used to great effect
by dictators; but they are available
for beneficient causes, and a world
which puts them to foolish and mis•
cbievous uses must suffer the conse-
quences.—Manchester Guardian.
er Capita Tax
High in London
Bonded Indebtedness Lower
Than Other Centres 1rr
Institute Figures -
London, Ont.—Figures compiled by
the Citizens' Research Institute of
Canada shed that London's per cap-
ita, tax in 1935 of $48.50 was the sec-
ond
eaand highest among the five largest
Ontario cities, while the per capita
assessment of $1.107 was lower than
Toronto or Ottawa.
\Vith respect to bonded indebted-
ness, London occupies an enviable
position as compared with other
centres, with outstanding debentures
amounting to $153.85 per capita, Ot-
tawa with $181.50 and Windsor
$250.17. •
Municipal expenditures here last
year amounted, to $54.37 per capita,
ranking also second highest among
the same cities, as indicated by the
per capita tax.
Education required $1.7.02. andY
$31.48 for general purposes in the
city's 1935 tax bill. The table pre-
pared by the institute shows that edu-
cation costs are higher than in Wind-
sor, Ottawa or Hamilton, although
Board of Education officials use a
different form for comparison. •'
They contend that the cost per pu-
pie is lower in London and do not
take into consideration the per ca-
pita basis.
Ayrshire Cow's
On7.i'Le ':i,S Hl v.,.,�1� P. r7pi
est
In Butter Fat Content Be-
' Hewed to Have Set Record
GLASlaOW, = A world record in
milk production by a cow of the Ayr•
shire breed is an,+o,1ncetl from the
herd of Alex.,nder Cochrane, Nebt-
erc•raig, Kilmarnock. •
Daring her Metal ,r, between Ne
•ember ry last and Monday o;. last
\week, she yielded 3,091 gallons of
milk of 3.70 ma cent. butterrnt, anrt
she is the first tow of the Ayrshire
breed to -attain a yield e::coeding
,;allons with i a year.
She was milked thrice daily, and
on one day during tier lactation she
gave 101.1. gallons of milk of 1.4 filer
tent butterfat.
The rival dairy tweed of British
Friesians has several '1000-"gnllan
ers" to its credit, but in t espect c. C
its butterfat cotttont this 1y:rcl1•re
record probably excels anything yet.
achieved.
Mr. Cochrane's record -breaker is
named Janet, was home-bred, ant le
rising seven years old. She is de-
scended from Hobsland Lucky Boy
and Hobsland Jean 5th, which were
twa of the most outstanding animals
of, the Ayrshire breed.
Though Janet is not entered for
the -event, the news of her aehie.e•
nient will hearten Ayrshire breeders
on the eve of the London Dairy
Show, where Ayrshires will defend
their title as champions of all dairy
breeds which they won last year for
the sixth •time.
Gold Production
All -Time Record
September Totals 330,820
Ounces — Worth $ 11,-
575,392.
Ottawa.—The Dominion Bureau of
Statistics recently reported Canada's
gold production in September set all-
time monthly record for the second
month in succession. The September
figure, 380,830 ounces, compared with
a figure for August of 326,697 ounces,
the previous high\ mark, and a Sep-
tember, 1935, level of 281,533.
Valued at the average London price
during September of $34.99 an
ounce, the nation's September pro-
dduction of the yellow metal was
Worth $11,575,392. The average price
of M5...an :ounce, gave the August pro-
duction- a value -of $11,504,395.
The output for the first nine
months of the year was given as 2,-
746,531, an increase of 15.2 per cent.
over that of tete first three-quarters
of 1935.
Ontario led the provinces with an
output of 194,060 ounces, more than
5,000 below the August figure. Que-
bec's. was 167 greater than in
August.
The British Columbia o..tput show-
ed an increase in the month of 10.8
per cent., 47,100 ounces, compared
with 42,524.
Manitoba and Saskatchewan pro-
duced 16,S64 ounces, compared with
an August output of 16,011, while the
Yukon's total of 9,703 ounces was
1,295 gi eater than that of August,
Nova Scotia operators reported
shipments totalling 1,482 ounces, but
tete production included hnl]ion ship.
0
Alter of Bi
The Ncw York Times writes: —
'1'he annual convention in New York
the. National Asenciatior, of Audubon
"ocieties issued a Mea on behalf of
iho prcdntory birds—the lames. owls
and eagles. bird -lovers should not
:e:lane -them as public enemies, but
;,irould :tolerate then: as essential
fee -tore in the delicate balance of ua-
tt:rc, it w ae pointed out, for they do
';ood works as v:ell as evil worts
The case for The Owl has, been
strongly put by Professor Arthur A.
:Allen in his ".Aimeucon Bird I_iiegra-
niuth breeding stock to: market was
blamed by the government spokes-
men for the expected trends,
"Tho reduction will be most pro-
nounced in pork and in the better
grades of beef,,, the survey said..
Another report made public by
the agri,;ulture department predict-
ed "some rise in det'y prices in 1037,
phies." From the Screech Owl's
Story:
"I know we do catch quite a few
small birds when we have six hun-
dred mouths to fill, especially if
birds are numerous and easier to
catch than mice, but really they foam
but a small part of our menu, and
we do much good by destroying
moths and beetles and mice, Birds
constitute • about one-fifth of our
food, even daring nesting time. After
all, when we catch one of a pair of
birds the survivor gets a new mate
so fast that it scarcely makes any
differences in his life, and he is still
able to reproduce his kind that year.
If none of the small birds was ever
killed, there soon would be no place
for them in this world. A single
pair of robbins in five years might
increase to over 15,000."
Friday, Thirteenth
To Start Vacation
It has never been proven that any-
thing unfortunate really happened
to anybody simply because Friday
was dated up with the 13th, but su-
perstition by any other name, be It
legend, tradition, or usage, peens
no factual precedent to make folks
wary.
Disease Among
Pigs in. Wind, r
Lack of- Mineral Matter In
Their Feed
No domestic animal so quickly
shows the results of mineral defiei-
ency as does the pig. The develop-
ment of the market pig is exceeding-
ly rapid, comparatively, attaining a
finished weight of around 200 pounds
in six or seven months. Naturally
there is a heavy call on the bone -
building constituents, calcium and
Phosphate in particular. The fact
that the market pig is frequently
closely housed or pen -lied during
.summer and winter, and that during
the latter season, in any event, ac-
cess to the earth is denied him,
means that every care should be
given to the matter of mineral sup-
plement to the ration. It is advis-
able, every fall, to put up a supply
of sods for winter -fed sows and mar-
ket pigs. Even a pile of earth kept
unfrozen is excellent for young pigs.
Charcoal such as is often found in
wood ashes is excellent.
There are Many mineral mixtures
on the market, but the feeder can
make his own mixture to very good
advantage.. The minerals in which
swine rations are likely to be defi-
cient are calcium, phosphorus, so -'t
dium, chlorine and iodine. All of
these elements, except iodine, are
supplied by bone meal, limestone and
common salt. A mineral mixture
that has given good results with hogs
is composed of 45 pounds feeding
bone meal, 25 pounds pulverized
limestone, and 30 pounds common
salt. This may be fed through a self -
feeder, or it may be mixed witl the
feed, using one pound of the mineral
mixture with 100 pounds of feed.
Supply green feed, such as mangels
and turnips, or well cured clover or
alfalfa hay.
Friday, the 13th, made his jittery
appearance in :November for the
second time this year, with no more
significance to the old world's for-
tunes than he achieved 1900 yeras
ago when some humorist of the
period discovered the Gregorian cat -
ender would present this combina-
tion 10 times en'ery five years till
the end of time—or the calendar.
Origin of the idea 13 as an un-
lucky number is variously credited.
Astrologer's of ancient Babylon so
declared it. Mythologists of 010
Scandinavia gave the number the
curse of sages because Daldere. their
sun-god, had to die when 13 were
found in the circle of Valhalla.
Same who would have it the idea
originated with the Christian era
point out there were 13 at the Last
Supper, including Judas Iscariot,
who next day, traditionally, a Friday,
betrayed Jesus Christ for crucifix-
ion.
Now Friday the lath takes a
long solstice. lie will not appear
again till August of 1037 and only
the once that year.
In 1938 his only date with the
weary world is 10 May, but in 1939
he renames twice -yearly appearances,
January and O, toyer, with return
visits in Septenr:rer and Decemi,er,
11110.
U.S. N.T.oats to tie Dear:'.`
WASHINGTON. — Folks who rel-
ish i;orkchops, ham or juicy beef
steaks at the agriculture depart-
ment filet these meats will cost more
and be scarce next year.
"The .mealiest supply of meats in
more. then fifteen1:al's,," was frac-
cast officially in a 1 eport on "meat
nnimals and meat. in 1937."
Drought which re';uced feed sup-
piic's for meat animals and fareed
"Ess ,s e. et ";r l.' '.' c ncunced Neyland Smith,
poini,;i, to +;le doco rr.,a :.,,aic;as the Sarco; Tagus. "This
is Sirozza, the secretaryl"
"What]" shouted the Inspector,
FU MANCHU
"Where is the other —the Chinamen?"
Neyland Smith asked the Inspector.
"1 have had him left where ho was found, on
the conservatory steps," rapiicd Woy nen h
Smith cot up and strode
quickly to ;he curtained door-
way.
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By Sax Rohmer
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Saks in Canada
Are $277,035,000
Washington Reports U.S.
Balance of Trade is
Favorable
WASHINGTON — United States
trade with Canada increased sharply
during the first nine months of 1936
compared with the corresponding
period of 1935, official figures issued
by the commerce department showed
recently.
For the period ended September
30, exports to Canada totalled $277,-
035,000 compared with $243,546,-
000. Imports from Canada were
$250,98.1,000 against 3203,396,000.
The imports were far greater than
the United States took from any
other country, the United Kingdom
being second with $139,1668,000. Of
United States exports the United
Kingdom took the greatest amount
$205,078,000, with Canada. second.
The department also issued Sep-
tember figures she whips, that the
United States took from Canada
:34,99S.000 worth of goods during
the month, compared with $25,972,-
000 in September 1935. E::ports to
Canada wore $ 1,If1S.000 against
.:;27,302,000.
Repotting on trade in genera: the
department showed an increase in
trade with Europe as a whole during'
September hut a further drop in
transactions with -war-ridden Spain.
Septeutoer exports to Europe were
li.:ted at $98,927,000 comp'rred with
;197,.17111011 for the same month a
year ar,, \' :llc imports from Europe
totalled .1+;.291,090 and :'50,015.000
for the ieemecti:'e min:the.
Total i;•:ae inr•reaed with num-
rnus cuunteie , in, 1uding Germany,
Trance, Jamin and Breit.
It is c,,timated that there are ap-
proximately
p-
proxim tc1 • 150,000 inmates of
.imcr'ieun prisons and penitentiltr ca
01531 r. '+..s r...tl er and Tt
• N
Holding back the
curtain to permit more
lig ht to penetrate,
Smith bent forward to
see the crumpled figure
lying on the steps. The
inspector and 1 watch-
ed where my friend,
grim -faced, leaned
above the Chinaman.
We waited :. .
Suddeny Nay -
r land 'Smith turned
and faced us in ex-
treme excitement.
"ft isl" he cried.
"1t is Sir Lionel's
servant, Kweel"
it
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