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Cure for Floods
As has been pointed out many
times . by- expert engineers these
floods can be prevented only by car-
rying out extensive schemes of re-
forestration, together with the con-
struction of works that will hold back
flood waters and fill swamps and low
places with water. Schemes of refor-
estration, while these will be valuable
in years to come, provide no immedi-
ate remedy. This can be done only by
the construction of dams and retain
ing basins at strategic points. Tho
need extends over the entire pro-
vince, consequently there must be co-
operation between provincial and
municipal government if these works
are to be carried out economically
and effectively. There must be some
well planned comprehensive seehme.
The recent warning, with its wide-
spread damage, destruction of bridg-
es and other property, together with
much human suffering, should not
pas- unheeded. Without any doubt
these floods will become more des-
tructive from year to year.—Brant-
ford Expositor.
Best Friend
A recent nation-wide pole conduct
ed by the Institute of Public Opin-
ion, marking the twentieth anniver-
sary of the United States entrance
into the World War, indicates that
Great Britin is the most liked Euro
peau nation among the American peo-
ple by a wide margin.
Great Britain heads the poll with
a fifty-five percent vote, with Prance
second and Germany third. The vote
in favour of Great Britain was five
times greater than accorded France
and almost seven times greater than
for Germany. The vote by percent-
ages was as follows:
Britain 55, France 11, Germany 8,
Finland 4, Ireland 4, Italy 3, Switzer-
land 3, Belgium 2, Norway 2, Sweden
2, Denmark 1, Greece 1, Holland 1,
U. S. S. R. (Russia) 1, all others 2. —
Calgary Herald.
No First Aid
eee _ono knew how to ape,
_shop a tourniquet,, ' a.. br y hei e i S.fr.
township, 70 miles from Sudbury bled
to death from an accidental rifle
wound. That incident points forcibly
to its own moral. — Kirkland Lake
Northern News.
96 Years on One Farm
The oldest resident of Tilbury East
Township recently celebrated her
ninety-sixth birthday at the farm
where she has spent practically all
of her life.
In a day when a restless urge im-
pels families and individuals to move
at frequent intervals, a life spent in
the same spot may seem singularly •
lacking in what the majority consid-
er most worth while. It may appear
secluded, uneventful,, dull. But there
is 'another side to the picture.
The old lady of Tilbury has known
no other life than that of the farm.
She has become part and parcel of
her environment. Its interests are
hers. The neighbours are her friends.
The church, the school, the rural ac-
,,tivities, have for nearly a century
claimed her thoughts and her time.
She has made countless friends and
has played an interesting part in the
development of the community. —
Kitchener Record.
Our Funny Clothes
What will some citizen of the fut-
ure—draped perhaps in the long and
free and flowing robes which the
Greeks wore, and sitting in some
chromium -plated hades of a room —
what will he think of us and our
clothes?
Tho women with their funny bits
of pancake perched precariously on
their =melted heads! The men with
their stupid dull suits and their intri-
cate collars!
We tremble to think what the ver -
lint of posterity will be upon some
-f our magazine covers, with those
lop -sided, simpering girls, with their
hips out of joint and their heads lar-
ger than their bodies. That, these
people of the future will imagine,
was ever idea of beauty!
No, the knife cuts both ways. The
only thing to do is to live In the pre-
sone
re-seri, get what pleasure we can out of
looking, at our wonrerl, with their fun-
nY hats, abjure clever younger wri-
ters and struggle through the task of
collecting echoes of the past, with
mental blinkers on. — Hamilton Spec-
tator,
The Return of the Beaver
Of all countries in the world Can-
ada should be interestedin the pro-
servatiolr of the beaver, the little an-
imal which was largely responsible
for the development olr the Canadian
north-west, whose pelts were at one
time common currency in the ter•:rt-
tories ruled by the Hudson's Bay
Company, but which has been deci-
mated by greedy trappers attracted
by the value o2 its fur. — Fort Wil-
liam Times Journal.
Means Business
Anyone who doubts that Britain is
in dead earnest about rearming has
only to look at the tax load the Bri-
tishers are willing to carry these
days.
Before Neville Chamberlain, chan-
cellor of the exchequer brought in his
new budget, with its higher rates, the
British taxpayer was shelling 224
per cent of his income to the govern-
ment in a direct tax. Beyond that he
was carrying a load of "nuisance tax-
es whose weight can be appraised by
the size of those affecting motorists.
British motorists have been paying
taxes of 16 cents on each gallon of
gasoline. They also pay a horsepower
tax on their autos, so set up that a
man who owns a 25 -horsepower car
must pay $125 a year for his license.
When a nation that is paying taxes
at such rates submits to still heavier
taxes for the sake of re -armament, it
must be admitted that such a nation
is decidedly in earnest about its pre-
paredness program. — Kitchener Re-
cord.
The King's Birthday
June 9th, instead of his natal day,
December 14, is to be observed in
Canada as wel: as, in the United King-
dom as the birthday of King George
VI.
We out here and many papers in
the East had hoped with The Ottawa
Journal the Government would set
May 24 for official observance of the
Sovereign's birthday. For, May 24th
has the appropriateness of royal as-
sociations, marking the advent of
Summer, coming for Canadiaus as
the first outdoor holiday of the year
and at a season when our countryside
is fresh and lovely —.:Victoria Times.
THE EMPIRE
Handbook for Teachers
Being issued by .the Board of Edu-
eation-ie- u six hundred page hand-
book for teachers.
Points of the Board's new systein
are that good music is an essential of
a child's education, that a girl should
begin by learning household duties,
such as ironing, cleaning silver and
cooking.
Under the new regime, both boys
and girls are to learn gardening,
embarrassing questions about the
child's personal reactions to the sen-
timents of a poem are to be cut out,
are labelled as hypocrisy and senti-
mentality bi,•eeders.
Left out of future history lessons
will be details of Henry VIII's matri-
monial quibble, intricate policies of
modern times. Children are to hear
more of swashbuckling heroes like
Drake and Raleigh.
Relief to the non -mathematical is
that dreaded, long and complex frac-
tions are to disappear. — London
Calvacade.
Englishwoman Goes
To Court Rather
Th. n Tell Her Age
Bases Refusal on Contention
That Plaintiff Would Have to
Prove Her Liability
Miss Leslie Hamer, of the May Fair
Hotel, London, W., was summoned at
Oxford Police Court recently for ne-
glecting to attend a summons under
the seal of the Minister of Agricul-
ture and Fisheries. She pleaded "not
guilty" and conducted her own de-
fence.
It was stated that Miss Tamer had
owned laud in Surrey which was sub-
ject to a quit rent. The Lord of the
Manor had applied to the Minister of
Agriculture to have the quit rent ab-
olished and comeen;at.on paid, for
which, as it way; based on the expect-
ancy of life, it was essential that
Mirs Hamer should give her age. She
had refused to do Fn, end had also re-
fused to attrrd: o, imenry at C :ford
when ehe sr :.u]d !.:;:-;' be- .i :: ..,: a to
give hoe age.
Miss Hanrer,eine + nemee, said
her contention wee t'Y t e ie woe not
liable for qt it s ei on Ibe lend aril
that if she ga. ' lir Nee ince week]
have to prove she war not liable,
whereas, at present, the Lord of tho
Manor had to prove she was liable.
She said she did not attend the in-
quiry at Oxford because the day be-
fore she went to the Ministry of
Health, and saw an official, and as a
result of the conversation she under,
stood that She would try and settle
the matter with the i.,nrd of the Man-
or himself. leeei flamer said she
still refused to give. her 'age,
The sutnmoi.s ras distniseed. Tho
case, it was Mated, was the first of
its kind in England,
Quints Thriving
Gained in height
During Past Month
and Weight
CALLANDER, Ont., — Just
month from their thfrd birthday' the
Dionne quintuplets stepped on the
scales and laugbed up at Dr. Allan
Roy Defoe as he marked 'up their
'weights and measured their height.
Three of the quints have gained in
height during the past month and
four of them put on weight. Yvonne.
had a slight cold for a few days and
dropped half a pound, but she could
well afford it,
Marie, smallestof the quints, pro-,
duced a tooth, a quarter inch of
height and four ounces of weight. ,elle
and Emile lead the teeth parade with
17 each now. The others have 16,
The gain brought Marie's height to
34 inches, the same' as Emilie's. Co.
elle gained half an inch to reach 34%
inches. Annette put on an eighth of
an inch to hit 34 5-8, and Yvonne re-
mained at 3414.
Here are their weights in pounds
and ounces with the gain, from March
28tb:
Yvonne, 30 lbs, 8 ozs. loss 8 ounces.
Anette, 31 pounds, 8 ounces gain 'of
12 ounce:,; Cecile, 31 pounds, gain of
16 ounces; Emilie, 30 pounds, gain of
16 ounces; Marie, 27 pounds, gain of
4 ounces.
News Parade
By Pecer'Randal
1
�es� T LABOR MARCHES
There:was a touch of summer in.
the air. Perky little suits and hats
bobbed along Yonge Street as their
owners attended to the usual Sat-
urday morning shopping. The last
strokes of twelve rolled .heavily from
the City Hall tower and men insnew
uniforms swarmed down University
Avenue. Quiet little knots of peo-
ple linked into a procession, each
recognizing his neighbor by the little
red ribbon of organized. labor. Work-
men, factory hands, shopgirls All.
formed part-. of Toronto's .annual
May Day Parade. There ` Were
speeches in Queen's Park and . the
evening newspapers reported all
quiet on the labor front.
But was all. quiet? There are those
who sense a subtle difference in this
year's labor parade. They say it was
better organized, larger, while many
of the banners carried the letters C.
I.O. Mr. Hepburn is one of those
said to have sensed the differenee, A
conference was *held wren` the -reader
of the Conservative opposition . and
the subject of discussion hinged on
the possible formation of a coalition
government to face this new force in
the land. The Honourable Earl
Rowe is said to have had hurried
conferences with Mr.. Bennett, who
was about to sail for the Corona-
tion, and other members of the Con-
servative campaign division and the
answer, if there was any, was no.
It may well be that the powers
had reason to think seriously. Fed-
eral authorities estimate a C.T.O.
membership in. Canada before the
end of the present year. Organizers
are even now at work in five indus-
tries including the automobile indus-
try, the rubber industry, the mining
industry, the textile industry and the
steel industry. Danger signals have
begun to fly all over the industrial.
map of Eastern Canada. Settlement
of the General Motors strike at Osh-
awa, though not a C.I.O. victory, was
far from a definite defeat and the
readiness with which the auxiliary
divisions of the industry have signed
agreements based oh the terms ofthe
Oshawa peace panus ample evidence
of the new found power of this or-
ganization.
Will labor be satisfied with the
meeting of its industrial demands?
The actions of government leaders
and the opinions of many leading
Canadians seem to foreshadow the
entry of a new and stronger labor
party into politics.
AND THERE
In England they are really kick-
ing
icking about the income tax and with a
far bigger reason than the average,
Canadian Under the new budget
annout ced by Neville. Chamberlain
the prosperous Englishman must pay
the goverirnient one dollar out of ev-
ery four he makes. There were
kicks from without the Conservative
fold but also from within. These
wore the most important as having
a possible bearing on Mr. Chamber-
lain's elevation to the Prime Mims-
tersh'ir on the retirement of Mr.
Baldwin. But Mr. Chamberlain
shrugs his lean shoulders and ex-
plains that his "soak the rich" policy
is only one means of attempting to
raise the price of Britain's rearma-
ment program. $7,500,000,000 is a
lot of money hut ' in these precarious
times, John •Bull thinks it none too
much.
FLOODS AT HOME
But Western Ontario had more to
worry about than mere economic un-
rest in the past week. The forces of
nature rebelled and the strongest
government can do little against riv-
ers which rise twenty-eight feet
above their normal levels in the
course of a single night. A train
was wrecked, :houses were dashes to
pieces, darns and bridges were swept
away. Five' people lost their lives,
ten thousand were driven from their
homes and the repair bill is variously
estimated at from $3,500,000 to $5,-
000,000. Chairman E. V. Buchanan
of the London Public Utilities Com-
mission says it will be a year before
the damage to the city water system
has been repaired, So high has been
the lossthat a plebiscite on a pro-
posed addition to Victoria- Hospital,
long a ;cherished project, has been
dropped. According to insurance
companies, few people carried flood
insurance. For years they have
thought of Ontario as a haven of se-
curity out of which they might peep
at the devastation of flood, famine
and dust storms so characteristic of
the United States of the Middle
'West.' Now it is. a different story.
Many are suddenly realizing that
these :visitations are not acts of God
but the results of civilized greed. If
Canada has been spared until now,
it is only because our capacity has
not allowed us to keep up with our
Americans contemporaries. Too many
forests have been cut clown. Too
many swamps have been drained.
Some system of water storage must
be devised to take the place of these
natural distributors. Already engin-
eers are studying the possibilities of
controlling the rivers of Western On-
tario and it is to be hoped that the
results will beak fruit in something
More concrete than academic discus-
sion.
BLOCKADE RUNNER
Things are happening so swiftly in
Great Britain that it seems almost
.too much for one government to
:handle. Many think it is too much
,:and that the present government
;:eaves a •good• deal to be desired. For
" instance there is a very indefinite
British foreign policy in regard to
;Spain: For weeks British freighters
were forced to lay with rotting car-
goes in French ports while thousands
-of civilians starved in beleagued Bil-.
bao. It wasn't the British navy that
took the situation into its own hands,
in an attempt to break the blockade
of the insurgent Spanish fleet, but
Captain David (Potato) Jones of the
Severn Seas Spray. With typical bull-
dog 'determination, Potato Jones de-
fied the blockade, helped a little it
;M4ru"st be admitted, by the presence of
a great British battlecruiser which
rolled, as if by accident, into the
Spanish line of fire. Other food ships
have followed ' the example of the
Seven ;Seas Spray and the blockade
is endkee., General Franco is said to
be• pleb' angry about it and back
in Len"ten, Potato Jones is the hero
of the hour.
TAX HEADACHES: HERE
Therewere a great many head-
aches last week and it wasn't only
:the stock market. Income tax returns
had to be filed. To most of us, a
few dollars would look like prosper-
ity but'. one London, Cntario, man
Ontaio Revenues Soar
Over
$2,}iM,OOOtimate,
Jumps to $9,313,000 Actual Surplus Makes Ttlore Certain Rev
duction in Motor License Fees, . Announces
Premier Hepburn
had so much of it that it cost him $4,-
000,000 in government tribute. An
Irishman would say that it almost
pays to be poor.
HUMANITY TAKES A HAND
The storm signals are up at Bilbao
and the pilots of several Eureopean
ships of state are wondering just
what will happen next. Last week,
the insurgents massacred 800 civili-
ans at the ancient Basque capital of
Guernica. The operation was carried
out, it is charged by Loyalists, by
German planes and directed by Ger-
man officers. Great Britain and
France Have determined that such a
death shall not come to the 300,000
civilians, mostly women and children,
now in Bilbao. Ignoring the protests
of General Franco, arrangements
have been completed for their evacu-
ation to places of safety on French
and British soil. On the heels of
this action comes word that Hitler
and Mussolini intend to ignore de-
mands that they withdraw their
troops from Spain,
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
The war in Spain must take a back
seat to the great Coronation pageant
to take place in London next week.
From far off India, fabulous princes
are even now on their way to the
centre of the Empire. But the com-
mon people of India will not be there.
They are protesting against the new
constitution impend upon them by
British diplomacy.or lack of it. From
every Empire country. in ract from
the whole world people continue the
movement toward London. Great
plans have been made for their re-
ception. Hotels are booked to ca-
pacity. Seats along the coronation
route are selling as high as $200.
The parks will be thrown upon the
night before the big event for those
who want to sleep on the ground.
All in all, Great Britain expects to
make approximately $30,000,000 out
of the big show. But behind the
scenes things are not moving as
smoothly as they might. 25,000 bus-
men have seized upon the opportun-
ity to strike for a seven and a half
hour day knowing that their demands
must be met before the Coronation
if traffic is not to becomehopelessly
jammed. The strike is now on and
no settlement in sight.
A KING—RETIRED
In a sleepy little courtroom at Ips-
wich, a job lot of divorces were made
final this week. Workmen were ham-
mering on Coronation decorations
outside as the famous divorce case
of Simpson was finally closed. It was
distinguished from many others of
its kind only by a different cypher.
A young Than in St. Wolfgang, Aus-
tria hastily packed his bags and be-
gan a dash across Europe. It was
soon ended at the Chateau de Cande
in France. They say Edward smiled
for the -first trine in months. Wed-
ding plans are in the air and the Em-
pire awaiting the crowning of his
brother can but wish him the happi-
nes which he gave,, so much to ob-
tain.
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North Bay' Plans Licences
For All Tourist Homes
• NORTH BAY, — Steps to license
homes catering to summer tourists
were taken by the North Bay City
Council last week. Second reading
was given to a by-law providing for
zoning the city for this purpose, with
foes ranging from $10 to $20:
Alderman C. Tremblay was out-
spoken in his objection. "The rates,"
he declared, "were unreasonable in
fact, the 'by-law is uncalled for."
TORONTO.—This week, Premier
Hepburn forecast an actual surplus
of $9,313,000 in Ontario Government
revenues, instead of $7,343,0,00 as
estimated in his March budget
speech.
He attributed the increase from
succession duties and stated further
that the Lands. and forests Depart-
ment would make "a little more cer-
tain" the reduction of license fees
for passenger motor vehicles.
In his Budget speech the Premier
hinted strongly that the reduction
granted commercial vehicle users
might be extended to include owners
of passenger cars if finances war-
ranted such action. No other cuts
in taxation are planned for the:im-
mediate future, The savings passed.,
on to the taxpayers already total
$9,600,000, it was revealed:
Soaring revenues in various Gov-
ernment departments had been re•
sponsible for the two -million dollar
addition to the surplus, the Premier
declared, revealing also that his Gov-
ernment had been able to keep with-
in his forecast of a reduction of $33,-
000,000 in gross provincial debt.
Rumors of an impending election
were groundless, Mr. Hepburn stat
ed. He did not believe, he said, that
there was any public demand for an
election.
North Gets Places
SAULT STE MARIE, ONT., –
Tlre Ontario Air Service will have
twenty-four airplanes for forest fire
supp:'ession and detection work this
summer, Director George Ponsford
has announced. Two new planes are
being manufactured at the hangar
here.
One of the new planes ordered will
be placed at Port Arthur and the
other at Sioux Lookout. Both are of
the semi -transport type, making them
available for both suppression and de-
tection flying. They aro equipped
with two -way -voice radio.
Two aircraft were built in the
hangars here last year. The engine is
now in a third, while the fourth will
not be ready until June.
Canada — Haiti Pact
OTTAWA, — A commercial agree-
ment between Canada and Haiti giv-
ing
iving most -favoured nation treat-
ment in tariff matter has been signed
Hon. W. E. Euler, Minister of Trade
and Commerce announced this week.
The pact was signed on April 23rd on
behalf of Canada by the British Min-
iseter of Port-au-Prince, Haita,
The agreement provides for the es=
tension of most -favoured -nation treat-
ment in tariff matters by each coun-
try to the products of the other for
a period of one year, but will remain
in force thereafter until denounced
on six months' notice before being
given by either party.
The new commercial agreement as-
sures that Canadian goods imported
into Haiti will be granted the bene-
fit of the minimum tariff of that
country, in place of the maximum
tariff, which is double the minimum
tariff, .
The chief products exported from
Haiti -Canada to Haiti are flour, salt-
ed end smoked fish and rubber tires,
wh'.le imports consist chiefly of sisal,
istle and tampico fibre.
D. C. Newspaper Classed
Among 11 Best Weeklies
VERNON, B.C., — The Vernon
News, published by W. S. Harris, In
this twon 200 miles west of Vancou-
ver, has been included in the "all-star
11" of American weekly newspapers,
chosen by Professor John Casey, the
head of the School of Journalism, the
University of Oklahoma.
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