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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-01-31, Page 6at which the air mail to .Canada must t) 4‘ ------------------'I/' -r...-r;' " -.....' ■•-••'.■■;•■-■• on sheep and the extreme difficulty there is in. shooting or " even , poison- it.—Brandon Sun. . urther in her' tm some Mysterious can it be? Watch £qe rneil't. . proportm, would .have reached -498.' But by last thp toxoid immunization plan? $247,356,942 in 1934 anfi $220/883,742 ±ri_jLa33±land—the—oper-at-ing-4ne.ome- 778 in 1933'; ,i THE WORLD AT LARGE ■CANADA .. jQne of the survivors of the Drixidas trainfWreck, lying , in/ a critical con? • . ditibn in\. hospital,: said; “Well,^ Art. least we’ve taken those ’Dionnes .oft the Iffoht-page.’’ The capacity \ ot, , •huxrian beings to laugh at the very, jnonieht of death, and in the direst- ■ extremity, is-one of the most ad mir- Xblq qualities of thp race—Hamilton Heijald.' //^UJa^WEVE, IT OR NUT* ■?'/ , / Jr.' John A. Cunningham, former '’“pgtTdlmam~"'ori" the "Wakerton-hSncaT-^ dine, highway, thought last week that - the fates were against him when on going to his barn he found a plump Lfeghonf that had ^got soaked in the water-trough lyingrto all appearances frozen stiff on the barn floor, with the. temperature without hovering around the zero /mark. . Believing that life had long since departed, but bent nevertheless on . thawing the bird out. Mr. Cunnfe ham threw it behind the cook Stove 'In the, kitchen, where., a wood, fire ._Jwas. cracking in the grate. i Believe it of, not, as Ripley would sfiy, ‘ but that bird came to, and to Remonstrate that it was no . ingrate, / laid an egg,„ and then cackled vigor- jously for the-boss to come and be Jhold “Business As Usual.” Nothing //that he had lamped on the farm, gave Ihiin more satisfaction than biddy’s, performance on that occasion.—-Wal­ kertori Herald-Times. ’ / ■ / WELL DRESSED. A /current. French idea ot keeping the / wolf away from the door ap- ....pears to/^be to ’ confront him with the /complacency of good clothes, ’ im- IpressedJ /with the spectacle, of a householder in a snappy new suit, the wolf I is expected to let fall his• . tail and/slink away ’in embarrass.-: ";~’7 ':fibfit'";at/ "hfs^ob/viouslyTil-timed ; insr trusiori.This attitude ,is, of course, / based Rn^ the copybook motto that, -^^bthingi""succeeds""like evidence^pf' succe^ fGuelph Mercury. 11 —- , . . „ r^LO’NG^SERVtCE”--- ; A Sudbury man possesses a low- ~ly--collar "button~which“ire""claimsris 80 yeaps old. So proud of it is he ■ who j?et may doubt that toxoid' com. fers i nriynuriitjir.—Ottawa1. Journal. ^..^W/H'feN^THE ,„;R AlN'.FALUS/.:;..^ - The iate Sir Herbert Tree, - the English actor and wlt» once summed, up, somO facts of life dn a classic jingle*Which went,'‘as nearly as I can remember it» ps follows; The s, ratai, it falletii, dovyn < Upon the just .and unjust fella, ; But. chlefiy bn the just,; because The. uhjust hath the, just's um­ brella. MUST NOT BE REPEATED Consciously or unconsciously there is a universal conviction that the have beep altogether too difficult to be endured again, .within "the life­ time' of the present generation, ait least. The people do “not intend, iff they can help it, to?put up with a repetition of that period of declin­ ing incomes, defining Hying stand­ ards, v declining bank accounts and all-rouhd hardships.—Quebec/ Chron­ icle-Telegraph. CASH AT AUCTION SALES- The tjermB that-used -to appear on auQtionsalebillsgiving so -man-­ months’. credit on1 approved joint notes,: arid a. percentage off for cash, are apparently a thing of the , past, hereabouts. A more abbrevi­ ated form is now in common iise and the most of the sales are usually “Terms cash.” Numbers of the pos­ ters also bear the admonition that nothing Is to be/'taken from the pre­ mises “until., satisfactorily • settled. .-It.-woujd appear that the farmer has gone on the cash and carry basis also. Can it be that the credit sys­ tem is about to go from ail phases of activity., A few years, ago every­ one was’urged to buy bri easy "terms; It would seem that the terms were so easy that .everyone bought; The paying days are here. "They have struck every walk of life, and the -sales; are, apparently - just, another evidence of the cash basis being es­ tablished.—ActonFree Press, v • _—„ ---------„ ----_ — __— - ..... lar duty _of _a_CQnar__buttQn on Sun- .days../'His fatherthad used\the same . • accessory for/55 years../.. . J ; The- story- ^oes.- that the button, was men’s inn/ back around 1855. Maybe' ' that_explains—its remarkable long- —/ ifcvity-bf-sfewTc^.^Bb1ffier Cities~StarF " ; Seventeen.Canadians appeared in the King’s Honor List this year? Here we see left to -right— E.'W. Beatty, ;<K.C.,J£hight of Grace c of the ptder of the Hospital of - St. John of Jerusalem; • Sir'"Albert - Gooderham, Toronto, created, Knight Commander off the Order of St. Michael and St. George; William J. Stewart, ex-Maybjr of, Toronto,\Companion blithe Order||f the,British Empire, . ',/. , SHOW AN ESTIMATED ADVANCE- OF $142/901,600 FOR Y<AR . JUST CLOSED . , * - Ottawa.<“H?anada’-& • field crops • 1934 show an estimated gain of Hl?,- 901,600 in value. T^ls improvement is attributed mainly to better prices-. < f- tfor farm products and some improve- ' ments in ..yields, and may be regard* pd aS a significant, and hopeful step? In the recovery of (janadian agricuK ture. According" tov a cropA report. Issued by. the 'DOmlriW Bureau of/ ’ Statistics, the valpe of the. 1934 field crops- Is estimated at.- $§36,498,600, ► ^cpmpafeSt?Wth Wa 193T valuation $423,597,0007 and reaches the high­ est level-since 1930. .... .- Thb greatest, yalue increasesfira ►irie , extent' - RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM. “I believe in fugged individualism and . the riiggeder and the more in>- dlvidualistc it Is, the mofe ^jjelleve in it,” says President Geprge' B. Cut- ten, of Colgate University, who thinks that there is too much ten­ dency toll suppress the individual for the good of the man. As a matter of fact; he thinks that is quite the wrong way. -to. go about', it and that more good will, be accomplished for the mass if the individual is encour- .aged.—Sault Star. ” • . . |. ?/*■ ■ ■ ■ , ■■.' . ■ ■■■ ..■i/j < ' THE EMPIRE SHORTER SKIRTS. Having lived to see the day when a woman in a short skirt looks posi- tively dowdy, we must prepare our eyes for another shock. Next spring the fashion experts say, skirts will be shorter. . Women, will1 still dress/ In; the height of discretion, but th© height. * of discretion will be raised a few inches;. By this time next year the flowing.'garments/that now look. So smart May be worn .only by aiin- tiqs. When this see-saw process,, lias been. repeated a few times more the whole, human race will be shock- j>roof. And what will the modist.e, do then, poor thing?—Manchester Sun- day Chronicle. - ■?- - ------/- NEXT TO GODLINESS — - ;..Some say the present' clamor for4 bathing facilities arose through a /p‘lffmbin"g?'/ac^ one of the most immaculate of* our Councillors, of his m9^aIng showers. Unable to take,his accustomed bath, he~ first /grew 5Tfidignant arid then sorrowful, as the realization came over him of what it meant to be one of the great unwashed. Dr. E. Prada, the v town. clerk, jxpointed out at the ■Health Authority meeting that there •is no compulsion op house owners to iristal shower baths - on their pre­ mises. : • Should _such laxity continue? 'Should riot the Local Authority be /given power to enforce the.? construe tion of hatha in all dwellings?—Trin­ idad Guardian, Port of Spain. woqld be'rcpmpTe^ City annd Halifax, that cars built for Canada, the United States and .Au- stralia, wjiere -long distances were to be traversed, would always require heavier cars arid more powerful en­ gines than those designed for smaller European countries, and that news­ papers were the' greatest present medium for. moulding the public mind, expressing a wish that they would use their opportunity to fos­ ter world fellowship. Canadian Railway r Earnings Higher Revenues For Ten Months ^247,356,942 Compare • " ■' .With $220,8'83,742 : '. ' ,T ■' ' r-“ ■■ .1 ■ : . ' / Ottawa.—Canadian railways earri- ed $29,150,832 in October as against $27,239,163 in 1933. This was an in-? crease of $1,911,668, or seyen per cen.t< Operating expenses': .were heav­ ier by $1,770,840, or nine ° per cent.," and riet operating revenues increas­ ed from $7,556,5.48. to $7,697,376. Less’ than half of tl^e increase in operating . expenses was for operat­ ing payroll which increased by $552,- 464, or from $12,146,572 in 1933. to $12,699,036; The numb.ei; of employes? rose.frqim 'M4.;630.^ 3,930 less than, in September/. 1934/ For the ten months, January . to shoA^n by the grain and fo< btit "these, are offset -to- at by a sharpdecline ;,in potatoes' and ■ a ^lesser decline in sugar beets. ’ ./' arid ? clover accounted for a' gain of /37 million ' dollars fn,.. valu?e., oats. /' were-better by 31 million, doltats-and \ rbarJey—showed---a?-g^ of—-?—. •10^^ million dollars. The estimated. ' value of the potato crpjf is< placed mlllipn dollars>iowsey. than ini 1933/^/ despite the .higher production in 1934./ HAY PRICES .HELP • All of the provinces reported in- , , .creases.in the value—of. .fieldcrops with the exception, of Prince Ed­ ward Island, where a' very slight rQ* . '1 duction was shown; Bpth, Nova" Sco­ tia and New Brunswick -show' /In-1 ’ "creases due irty|U$'to'the improve? merit in hay In Quebec at fairly? general-betterment in- .yield and lirices caused" ah increase of 30 million . dollars, or 15 per..cent, in ; the value "of field, crops. In Ontario; ’ "liiglier* 'prices, "for" g/rainf/ amT' , 'fo^;" der offset the lower-production, and the estimated value of field crops is up 17% million dollars, or 14 per cent. , Manitoba’s yields were, also. . down, but. with. generally hlglher prices, the. value of .field crops is ■ placed at 16% million, dollars, or nearly 50 per cent; higher than in ‘I 1933. A similar condition prevailed' ., in Saskatchewan which shows . an improvement of 16 million-dollars or ' ' roughly: 20 per cent. Alberta field ’ crop values are-estimated to be high- ’ er by about 37 per cent., or, 28% mil-1 ' lion dollars, British Columbia .shows a slight betterment over 1933 vaiu- /' '■ations. ’ -. UNIVERSAL LAW FORMOTORISTS Nations Should” Co-operate in v Formation.of Uniform Safe- . tv Codefc Speaker Says. /Toronto.—-It is time for the na­ tions of ? the' world to co-operate in formation of a world-wide automo­ bile Safety code, in the. opinion of Robert ..Ci Graham, executive vice- _prertderit;-o± theGraham-Page rOoM-. pany and chairman, of the export committee of the Automobile Manu- ... —faet'UrCrs^—Association-of-tthe-United7- •D-Cfober,r.grbss—re-yenues’-amounted—to- States. He has recently completed .\an<^ ^-0,883,742. ^“states— An Illusion Lost > There is a certain actress in the movies, whose name- I certainly do Jiot^rnppse—to^diyulger™who--strikB3~^-^= me as about the most loyely ‘ of :thii^s^I~-have~"Wbfshrppea; F-1 -her from a long distance for a long ’ time. I was content that she should -remain-a -shadow ■op“a "scre^ I sat in a theatre looking at her—a respectable 1 and a -convenient- re­ lationship.; It seemed to me - she grew lovelier with the passing of the years. ■ Then the mother morning the Col- oriist, with a cailbuS' disregard ‘for; ;&ll_the .other..lady.’.s. adrnirers,_—__- had to go and publish a news picture^ ? of her Qn the jri^ckm.of„aHiner_-w.ith.--H.... lot pf. other , people. It was a cruel thing to do. For, alas, my love’v lady, without her screen make-up, / without; those_ Long, lustrous . — false eyelashes, without her seductive gowns and’ allurirfg poses;• turned t out to be a middle-aged person of considerable girth arid numerous • wrinkles.. You can see a hundred, girls on the. streets, of Victoria milch .better looking any. day of the week. My last .illusiori has been shat? tered; It jwas cruel of the. Colonist and it was a gveat mistake fqr the . | ladjt to let herself get caught by , •the fihotogi'uphers without he,r war paint. If the newspapers continue to do this sort of 'thing, where is going^ to end? Soon there will be nothing left .to worship at all.------ Victoria Times. ’ The masses are always...more eag­ er for .security than they are en­ amored of liberty.”—Glen Frank. ' ■ nMtofl- to travel h '«here ain,t much to see. :Will Rogers. AIR MAIL TO CANADA. Since we have now reached a point be considered an imme^lXte /qi'ies- tion, the seadrome has * become a practical -problem, albeit an extreme- iy ticklish one. The Americans claim that artificial islands of suitable de- constructed 'and'“employed with suc­ cess.' We have still to see one, but if the cliaim be granted,, who is to /them? Are they, to be internation­ ally planned and controlled or to be' simply ahostof little Heligolands of the nations whoseJBLags_thay—fly^Qb— -viously the seadrome question and the . problem -of ’the-freedom of the seas cannot be separated.?—Glasgow Herald. ; ‘ " . THE ART OF AGRICULTURE. It must not” be forgotten’ that agf: riculture is also» an art. In its high­ est forms it . is based on an instinct for .‘the soil, long years of experi­ ence and . -observation, above all training to grapple practically with day to day problems as they aris.e. In a word, farming cannot be con­ ducted by word of command, like .the manoeuvers of a body of troops. These are things" which should be re- membered when the wholesale plan- nlng of production from the soil is dontemplateS. Therefore, to what­ ever degree of control this country -must resign itself, an assurance that. it. will. neither be overloaded" -with complicated machinery, nor made too ri^id for safety, is of firs^ impor­ tance to both the fariner and the community as > whole—Auckland PROBLEM OF COW’S .TAIL. -Word-coones that in Los Angeles there'is-a-nationalinventors’=con^ gress and that among 500 other de^ ^vices—shown—there!—is—:one—f or—hold-- ing a cow’a- tall during, milking. ■ It -■^aJls_th&-n>»j.-_3ai<i...■4mteiitea-_a/USi!_S?*°T.1 S-°°s. °?. 3U.!1?? x ’ TORONTO’S FINE SHOWING; Ottawa's experience, with diphthe­ ria “ is- common to” that of al|l~ cities- where a determined effort is being . made to immunize the youthful pop­ ulation against this disease that once was/ a deadly plague, probably would be still if preventive measures ‘ bad’ not been developed. Toronto in ”f895 reported 147 deaths from diphtheria, Allowing for the increas^ in population, in the same proportion the death list in 1934 would .have reached -498.' But by last year thp toxoid immunization plan had been in use for a period long , enough to make its benefits fully ap­ parent, there w er e, only 22-cases of ^diphtheria: in the whole city; and no deaths.' . • / The mathematical' precision of the / drop, as more'and more children lwere immunized matches Ottawa's descen­ ding scale almost, exactly. Toronto had <64 deaths^frpm this disease in 1929, 54 in 1930, ^in 1931, 15 in 1932. and 5/in 1933. " city’s re-‘ ©Ord is another factor, for tlfoj * ■DAVID gadget for striking matches. You put, iri the match, turned a handle and rushed across the room toa catch it ..before.if .went out. What is the inat*. the end of-‘the tail roiinfi the - cow’s™ -degfU^.' .- I -wash^WalWays—sp™ wise. Among .my_:..,other---varied~ activities—I once- learned ip jnilk cbwgi. And I cursed the pow heartily because~'she insis­ ted on sloshing me in. the eye• with? her tail. The lady whq taught me to milk looked on arid said: “Why don’t you tie a. rock-to it?” Anything so simple had never struck me. So I did it. I Remained unconscious for 15 minutes./ ’ ‘ \ T have always lamented that most)) women have no sense of humor, but when they have it’s a wow.—Van­ couver Province. POLICE POGS. . Police dbgs cannot De imported in- to.Australia. They are a nuisance: and- menace in most countries.. In that Commonwealth they endanger- the. sheep industry, which is a. basic business' of their agriculture, tralians cannot afford to' have morp, dangerous dogs running bund huge sheep ranches. .As now the dingo, or native dog, by pastoralists to be the ’ most ning animal in existence is of con­ siderable trouble owing to its. raids Aus- ariy ar- it is held cun- Times. England, he*finds,-“has made the "Hnesir^comeback™of“"any~'wcountryi;M" but declares that the day is past -prosper ^regard- /less ofJ world conditions. , SPIRIT OF RECIPROCITY^ / .... ./; /.^•'/tliiJak'/the.' .Mg--thing tdiday/’ rhi^; ‘said, “is to-remember that the-v/ealth of /the world at large. We- should - deal with other countries in /a spirit -of—recipropityr™arranging"ourterm3" by narrow nationalistic .policies. We . found, in the United States/that our Smoot^Hawley bill had b.oosted tar­ iffs up too high—and we are gradu- l- ally repairing that mistake.” . « I In regard to motpring needs, he pointed out Jthat automobiles had - al­ ready been developed more than the supervision of drivers and mainten­ ance pf- highways. . : ’ ; ' * . “We' cannot say our highways are finished,” he declared, “so long as one grade' crossing remains, and so long as 'our Curves are nbt sb. con­ structed that drivers can take ad­ vantage. of .the speed and power which modem automobiles possess. UNIFORM SAFETY LAWS / “There should be uniform safety laws throughout thb' world, with the fine ideas of each country , welded into a-uniym-sal, simple and sensible' program that would demand that ’ only thbse * capable of safe driving be allowed todrive, rigid inspection of tires, and brakes.” He stated^a^brjf/fune a highway Canadian Boy Scouts Eighty' thousand children were supplied with1 Christmas toys through ,a. chain . of. 150. 'toy.-shops "across Canada' from" coast to'coast7 byCanadian-Boy Scouts; -Since their- inception eleven years .ago.- Canadian Bpy Scout' toy shops have collected, "repaired, repainted and distributed nearly-two million . toys to over half- -a-millrdn Canadian children. Iff many centres .scarcity of eld -toys this past year caused, the Scouts to .try their hand , at making new ones,, and- wholesale quantities of new wagons; truck, tractors, rac­ ers, doll bedroom ‘sets and-other toys t.0 delight .the -childish heart were "added to Sarita’s pack. ___ , : Thousands; of family parcels" ’ of toys were . sent to -settlers rehabili­ tated in Ontario arid Quebec by Government ’and municipal- back-Jto-, the-land schemes, and to. nev/ home-, steaders in Northern.Saskatchewan. ■ Heavy bulk -shipment's of toys were made by eastern Scout toy shops to assist their brother Scouts .in the $Vest to car,ry on the good -Work. ; Fri addition, Scouts in the East distributed thousands of .play­ things ambng the children of their own'districts who Plight Otherwise have been • overlooked. — Canadad Week by Week., . Weekly Serial Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS tfevid is sefit to school at Cafitctbdry.'H^lives David, new a young man-, is in London.bent on.a One day, walking on the beach with Stebrforth' -4frith the Wickfields, arid little Agries is. his con- cafher as fin author. He has, left behind' him. the . near Dora’s home, David chances o'n the Peggotty ktafitHjbriipafiidfi, white Steerforth is his best Wickfields a'nd his old frie-rids, the M.teawbers. boat-house. They pay themVa visit and^DaVid —^r-terid--fit^-schboU4Ie~.^ Uriah. .He,ep,.-By a,..jstrang,e....coincidejnce Mteav<bgr has .been .. again meets his dearly beloyed rijurse,'Peggotty. jWicfcfield’s clerk*- whom he suspects,is a scoun- given a position as assistant to Ur.iak^Hee'p. In But a few weeks lat§r he is horrified to .find^'at jdrel. Busy and happy now/the plehsant years ..Lbndbri with hiS"friend Steerforth, David meets x. . . .... klip by’quickly* _■ ■ Qora Spenlow and falls,itii-ldvb with her. ■« Em’ly^ betrothed to Ham, has run away with Steerforth. ' Soon. David s first stoFv fo published and he visits'his Aunt and. Agntes to tell them of his approaching marriage: Aunt Betsey disapproves- .Uit A.gnps hirW-her broken heart. Then she tells .pim that Uriah'Heep ift now a 'father’s firm and that'he hold over Wickfield. What week's cxciUhg <(ns a