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CANADA
Censored News
Foreign newspaper correspondents
.returning from Germany complain
that it is becoming increasingly dif-
ficult to squeeze real news of the
day out of Nazi Germany.
One American correspondent who
had to travel to Copenhagen, Den-
mark, to file his dispatch, remarks
that "newspapermen. are feeling
more and more the Clutch of the
kid glove of terror,"
He reveals that 12 members of
the Association of Foreign Corre-
spondents, and many others who
were not members, have been expell-
ed from Germany, on the ground that
their articles "were misleading and
poisoned the international atmo-
sphere."
It is a stranglehold, strong-arm
eystem possible only under a dieter-
hip.—Victoria ,Time.
Explained
After seeing the Ottawa Technical
sehnol hockey team perform in- Lone
don, one can understand how the
Capital is the mother of hockey
piayers. It was the smartest sec-
ondary school team ever seen in this
dietrict.—London Free Press.
A Ton of Haggis
The Scottish Canadian will learn
with awe, and the Sassenach with
:remise perhaps, that on one even-
ig last year two thousand pounds of
heggis crossed the Tweed in order to
appear at the St. Andrew's festivities
in London.
How many Scotsmen were needed to
censume a full ton of this "great
chieftain o' the puddin' race" one does
tot dare speculate, but the quantity
confirms certain rumors that are cur-
rent respecting the number of Scots-
men who have succeeded in making
their escape from Scotland. But a ton
of haggisshould at least be "worthy o'
a grace as lang's my arm," and it is
to be hoped London Scots found it to
be a "glotious, sight, -warmareeking
rich" as any that Burns ever ate. —
Winnipeg Tribune. •
New York Corrected
• In the New York Times there is an
advertisement of the New York Tele-
phone Company, which sounds like a
Giibertian joke. It commences, "Alex-
ander Graham Bell, inventor of the
telephone, went to Boston from Nova
Scotia to found a .school to help the
deaf. His experiments ledtothe tele-
phone." As Bell went from Brantford
to Boston, after his early experiments
here, and as he did not go to Nova
Scotia until he had acquired a Summer
reeldence there in later life, the
misinformation in this particular ad-
vertisement cannot be described as
otherwise than colossal. — Brantford
Expositor.
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How About It?
A farmer member of the Canadian
Parliament — one who isn't convinced
that we need many "isms" for making
a go of life, rose in his place the
other day to inform the nation and the
world that he has gotten along with-
out a bathtul so far in life and isn't
likely to lose any sleep if he never
has one. . .
It is difficult to be dogma:de about
these things. Many a good man has
washed his neck at the rain barrel.
Many a good man has wound up his
clock o' nights and booted the cat
into the shed before hieing himself
off to bed. Many a good man has
taken his wife's scissors to his own
whiskers, snorting at the idea of a
barber doing it.
But it is nice to have furnaces,
bathtubs and radios. No doubt the
sturdy gentleman from Brant county
would enjoy them—Regina Leader -
Post.
"Goofy"
A young wife in California is
petitioning for divorce because her
husband spanked her with a clothes
brush, she having been forgetful
enough to ha-ve omitted to say "Yes,
sir," Preparatory to the spanking he
had the ill-mannered creature re-
peat "Yes, sir," 600 times. Had she
had the grace to have said "No, sir,"
at an earlier stage in the proceedings
she might have saved herself a lot
of trouble. Since she didn't, why not
learn a little patience now while her
lord and •master endeavors to teach
her decorum and respect?
We don't know exactly what the
word "goofy' means, but whatever
it does mean it 'fits the pair.—Halifax
Chronicle,
They Must Be Bachelors
An American firm of doll manu-
facturers staged a display in store
windows showing one of their dons
immersed it water, perfectly firm
and fresh looking, and another doll,
made by another firm also immersed
in water but soggy and misshapen
and the eel()); washed out.
The firm was ordered by an ad-
vertising board to stop these displays
on the ground that dolls were not
subjected to immersion in water and
the advertising was, therefore, mis-
leading.
Surely the board consists of bache-
lors, else they might have known
that one of the joys of having a
doll is to bath her every. day,. no
mere cat's wash or a wipe with a
dtmp towel, but a real soaking ab-
lution—Stratford Beacon-Hmald.
Sons of Scotland
Scotland, with a list ef famous
sons to commemorate this year, will
play host to more than the usual
number of visitors. Jellies Watt,
John L. Macadam, George "Brunton,
James Mill, author of "Analysis of
the Mind," and John Grieve, the
Dunfermline poet, are among those
whose achievements will be honored.
Of particular interest to all coun-
tries where eoad-building has reach-
ed high development is the career of
John Macadam, whose early experi-
ments lecrto modern system of maca-
damizing. While Macadam .dice a
century ago, the methods he evolved
are still considered sound. Watt was
another Scot who built for posterity,
He not only developed the steam
engine but his name is perpetuated
in the word "watt"—the unit of
electrical power.
Aberdeen will honor the 400th an-
niversary of the death of Hector;
Boece, whose seventeen -volume of
Scottish history, though partly!
drawn from legendary sources, was.
notably complete for he times.
Boece,, whose seventeen -volume part
of his life in Aberdeen, where he
was the first principal of King's Col-
lege.
Clubs Turn Women
Frorn Knitting To
Economic Problems
Parliamentary Library Finds In.
creasing FeminineII..)eniand for
"Weighty" Tomes
OTTAWA 7 Parliamentary it-
brariats are finding that the weight.
iest tomes are now in demand, not
only by economiste, .esevernment
bureaus, and learned members, but
also by women for use as reference
for club debates and speeches.
Recently an elderly woman asked
to see a treatise on "Economic Rela-
tions Within the British Empire."
Another woman asked for several
lengthy volumes on Russian et/RI/re
and conditions.
The library, recognized as contain -
mg one of the most complete sections
on the continent on economic and
financial affairs, is restricted to use
of Senators and members of the
House of Commons, but is open as a
reference library to those in .search
of information on abstruse problems.
The librarians have commented
they found women becoming more
keen on matters of public import and
said the number of reading clubs and
study clubs has increased in such a
way that women readers are re-
questing the most learned books.
Though inquiries by mail are not
always welcomed, occasionally a de-
bating society in another part of the
country is hard-pressed for ipforma-
tion and turns to his library,
A letter was received from a wo-
man in the United States who wished
to know the data relating the transi-
tion of the House of Guelph into the
House of Windsor.
"They don't seem to have as much
time for knitting as they usea to,"
one librarian remarked sadly, as he
I took leather-bound volumes down
from a high shelf.
Oatmeal Saw Him Through
Letter to the Toronto Globe.
—Sim --On February 2 John Mar-
shall Bennett, trapping with Henry
Graham on the Still river, in the
township of Brown, left 'hero for
their" camp alone. Instead of taking
their old trail to.camp, he to...k a new
one by way of Long Lake, and dur-
ing a storm he became lost, and had
been wandering in she bush for 11
days before his partne and Howard
Thompson, with Gordon Brooks,
found him in a hunter's camp on
Island Lake, about eight miles from
here.
When they found Mr. Bennett he
Lad his toes, nose and fingers frozen,
and was just about exhausted, the
only food he had with him for 11
days being a small package of oat-
meal and a small quantity of con-
densed milk. When you take into
consideration that Mr. Bennett is
past 70 years of age, and started on
a 1G -mile snowshoe tramp through a
strange section of the country, it is
a great wonder that he lived to tell of
it.
E. H. KELCEY, Loring, Ont.,
THE EMPIRE
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Television On the Way,
It is remarkable how many people
express surprise that television is so
slow in maturing. This frame of
mind, where scientific miracles are
concerned, is typical of the age. Peo-
ple are so used to everything happen-
ing with a rush in these days, that
they have no patience to wait on
painstaking pioneer research.
The television experts are fairly
certain, however, that we shall see
a practical boom in television next
year, and I am told that manufac-
turers are already making their
plans accordingly. We cannot have
private television in operation, how-
ever until next summer at earliest,
by which time the Southern broad-
casts on private sete from the Alex-
andra Palace.
Before next Christmas, on the
other hand, we shall probably have
television pictures brsadcast to West
End cinema screens. It would be a
reasonably safe bet, I am sure, that
we may see next year's t Derby, if
not the Grand National, that way.
Private sets will not be -cheap at
first.—London Cor. Ottawa Journal.
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Loyal Toast
"My Lords, Ladleand Gentlemen:
The toast is: 'The Kirg. Queen Mary,
the Duke and Duchess of York and
the other members of the Royal
Family,'"
Thus, in fature, toastmasters at
official functions.
His Majesty signed the order,
authorizing the new loyal toast, last
weela—British News Review.
"Making a motion picture is an
exciting co-operation of all the arts
and rrafts, with aneladrarna in every
step. It is tremendously interest-,
ing."—ifugb Walpole.
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h, Perfici Driver
Surveys Record
(From the St. Thomas
Times - Journal)
Joseph S. Cortelyou, of Haworth,
N.J., has driven automobiles of vari-
ous forms and sizes ior 38 years, dur-
ing which time he has never been
charged with exceding a speed
never Lumped into anybody Or any-
thing; in short his driving recordis
perfect. On receiving,' his 193 license
plates the motor vehicle commission-
er of. New Jersey sent him a letter
of commend tion.
Mr. Cortelyou beg..n his motoring
in italy with a three -wheeled affair
in 1898. It had one cylinder of two
horse -power, and was air-cooled.
Unciar good road conditions it could
do 12 miles an hour and could run
for 15 minutes before requiring re-
pairs. When he began motoring .in
the States in 1901 he had a car
which had two forward speeds, but
if he wanted to reverse ho put one
foot on the ground and pressed
backwards. There were then no
garages and no service- stations. It
took him a week to put the car in
shape for his Sunday drive of five
miles. "I looked at the car before
starting," he said, "studied it, crawl-
ed ander it, get in and trusted to
God for the rest."
This pioneer admits th.:t he had
his troubles withthe police, but not
exactly in connection with his driv-
ing, Ile made the startling innova-
tion of equipping his cars with
doors, and so irritated the police.
that they forbade him to take pass -
engem with him. They explained
that the doors prevented one from.
getting out fast enough in an emerg-
ency. se also had trouble when he
installei3 electric lights, ani he had
to take a police captain for a trial
spin to demonstrate just why he
did not have to get out at dusk and
light the lamps.
The only car that really troubled
him, however, was one built in a
shipyaial It had a marine engine
and was equipped with a rudder in-
stead of a steeling wheel. Being a
landlubber, Mr. Cortelyou will tell
you that'his ehief difficult: was that
when he worked the rudder the car
usually went the other way from
what he intended.
Mr. Cortelyou has only on sug-
gestion to make and it seems a per-
fectly sensible. ane. That is that,
driver, with clean records should
have a sticker or plaque affixed to
their cars and that holders of such
awardsshould get lower insurance
rates.
Face Powder Now Made
From Shark Brains
For some years the shark has been
commercially exploited for its skin,
which Makes strong and decorative
handbags and shoes, for its fins
which make a Chinese soup delicacy,
and for its oil which more more than
rivals cod liver oil. Now Australia ,
has evolved an excellent face powder
from ' dried shark brains. '
The industry of shark catching or
oineshing" is being fostered by the
New Bouth Wales Government along
stretches of. coast where the nail are
found. At excellent market for
eharlt leather and oil already eXists.
Wheeled To Trial
Tommy 'fouhy, Chicago gangster, shown in a wheelchair as he
was taken to Federal court in Minneapolis, Minn., by U.S. Marshals
to be arraigned on charges of participating in mail robbery at a
Minneapolis railroad station in 103. The disease weakened gangster
was wheeled to the court room after being brought from St. Paul jail.
Superintendent of Penitenti-
aries Recommends Segre-
gation of Convicts Between
iG and 2 1.
OTTAWA—Canada has only two
girls under the age of 21 imprisoned
in penitentiaries, as against 260
young men under that age, according
to Brigadier Daniel M. Ormond,
Superintendent of Penitentiaries,
whose report on the Borstal system
recommends the definite segregation
of young convicts between the ages
of 16 and 21.
"The great majority of young
Two Variations
A most attractive shirt blouse
is today's simple to sew pattern.
It has a new and charming neck
and buttoned yoke effect. An-
other chic detail is the soft :ful-
ness at the baelc.
You'll wear it to town with
your suit or with a separate skirt
for sports. Wear is overblouse
or tuck -in.
Style No. 2692 is designed for
sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and
40 -inches bust. Size 16 require.%
2 yards of 39 -inch material for
the short sleeved blouse.
HOW TO ORDER. PATTERNS
Write your name and address
plainly, giving number and size
of pattern wanted. Enclose 15c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred);
wrap it carefully, and address
your order to Wilson Pattern
Setviee, 73 West Adelaide Street,
Toronto.
convicts find themselves in peniten-
tiaries due to a weakness of inhibition
arising from inappropriaete early
training, their greatest defect being
lack of se7.f control," reports General
Ormond. "The majority of these
youths have been guilty of crimes
of acquisitiveness, theft, burglars',
housebreaking and embezzlement.
"A relatively large number have
been implicated in imes in which
lethal weapons played a part. Ap-
proximately 75 per cent. of these
youths had convictions recorded
against them prior to being sentenc-
ed to a penitentiary. Over 50 per
cent. have served terms in industrial
schools, ref ormatori es or jails.
Twenty-five per cent. have committed
offences of so heinous a character
that the public sense of decency de-
manded they .be sentenced to a peni-
tentiary to ensure their control for
a long period."
The IL Vincent de Paul Peniten-
tiary- has 77 convicts under 21;
Kingston, 37;' Dorchester, 36; Man-
itoba, 29; B.C., 14; Saskatchewan,
21; Collin's Bay, 7.
.The east corridor of the south
wing of Kingston Penitentiary is be-
ing remodelled f Or the accoinmod-
ation of Class D convicts and the
east cell block then made available
for the young convicts. The building
has 114 cells, the largest in any Ca-
nadian penitentiary; the cells on
three floors, with 19 cells to a range
and a wide corridor in front of the
cells, This enables classification of
the young convicts into groups, each
group having its own corridor for
training purposes.
The seven young convicts in Col-
lin's Bay are near the expiration of
their sentences so the new system
is not being applied to them.
The youngsters confined under the
Borstal system in England, General
Ormond reports, are 99 per cent.
British stock, and foreign -born lads
are not confined in Borstals.
"The consensus of Borstal officers
who have a knowledge of the con-
dition in Canada was to the effect
that 'the"' Canadian youth is more
precocious and more sophisticated
than the lad of the same years in
England,'" says the report.
The routine under the new system
in Canada has been set as follows:
6 a.m., opening bell. Exercises;
815, work; 11.15, return to cell block;
11.30 dinner; 12.45, work; 5, return
to cell block; 5.30, supper; 6, silence
period for study and meditation; 7,
assembly for sollective study and rec-
reation; 0, retire to cells, rooms or
dormitories; 9.30, retiring bell.
During the first six to nine months
in the institution all young convicts
will be called upon to perform ardu-
ous labor under skilled instructors.
From 6 to 9 months selected young
-convicts will be placed in shops or
at skilled labor. It is intended to in-
Culcate habits of Indust*, 'regularity
and application to hard work over a
period of not less than 8 hours a day.
A distinctive dress will be devised
for the young convicts.
Al the outset the educational
siendards will be ascertained and
those found illiterate will be requir-
ed to Attend schols. One supervising
officer is appointed for each 30 young
convicts,
All these plans deal with young
male convicts, the report stating that
in addition to the fact that there
were only two young female con-
victs, the treatment. of :young women
IS entirely different .froni that pro-
vided for stung men amid lA a much
more intriente matter. It is also
stated that very satIefeerorY treet-
ment is in pract:ce in the pr:ssn for
W01110i1, and no change is recommend-
ed.
rs, Roosevelt •
lows Her WO.
Around Kitchen
Newspaper Women Visiting the
White House Give Imitation of
U.S. President's Wife.-- To
Her Amusement
WASHINGTON. — Your corres-
pondent has been out among the'
ladies and thus has picked up cer-
tain items which eould hardly have
come to him and had he been play.
ing around poolrooms and other
haunts of the male, writes Rodney'
Dutcher.
One of the most exciting of these
bits of news is the fact hat Mrs,
Franklin D. Roosevelt can find her
way around her. own kitchen.
Some of the girls who attend Mrs.
Roosevelt's press conferences give
their sworn word that she showed
them through the new ,White House
kitchen. and demonstrated an aston-
ishing familiarity with all gadgets,
fixtures, and employees,
There are DO end of cupboards and
closets in the new presidential kit-
chens and the First Lady of the
United States could tell just what
each was tieod for, without peeking
in to see.
Nor did she mind showing whole.
shelves of canned vegetables to A.
group of young women who had
automatically supposed all such stuff
in the White House would be bought
fresh. ;
Incidentally, Mrs, Roosevelt spoke
to all the servants and all the ser-
vants spoke to Mrs, Roosevelt in a
way which showed very plainly that
they had met one another before.
Another thing on which your,,cor-
respondent has certain information,
was the Gridiron Widows party' at
the White House, given for news-
PolT)ehsee;rolanleln
.had a good time when
Mrs, Jay Hayden impersonated Mrs.
Rooeevelt, voice and all. When a
lady acting as stooge asked her,
said; does Your Majesty think of
the latest fashions for women?" Mrs.
Hayden grabbed a microphone and
id
"Whether the beret should be
worn on formal occasions is a /nat-
ter of taste. 1 hope that during the
coming summer each little family
will get into its motor and inspect
the gveat natural beauties of our
land.
"Then when the winter comes you
can sit happily by your own fireside
and remember the pleasant times you
had among the birds and the flowers
and the bees. And, besides, the
peaceands. of the world lies in women's
"On the picnic we had cold chicken
salad, pineapple, and cheese. But
the children had hard-boilded eggs.
sometimes think'there is better char-
acter and more kindliness among
people in the high income tax scale
than there is among people in the
low income tax scale.
"On Thursday I am riding a bi-
cycle down to Windsor for break-
fast. And on Saturday morning, I
have an engagement with the Lord
Mayor of Dover to swim the Channel
to Calais for lunch.
'The World Court must have the
support of its friends. In a few
minutes this interview will be ter-
minated, as I have an engagement
to open a gold mine on the air. I
shall proceed immediately thereafter
to pilot the China Clipper."
One is assured that Mrs. F. D.
laughed very heartily' at this take-
off of her press conferences.
Confiscate Copies
Police Destroy Supplement
Containing "Hitler's
Love -Life"
PARIS.—The newspaper Le Jour-
ral charged recently that police had
raided its office and seized its 13
fi'e-copies o2 the banned Sun,lay sari-
plement carrying what was represent-
ed to be an expose of the "love -life"
of Chancellor Hitler.
Charges of the raid, which follow-
ed confiscation of newsstano copies
of the edition, were made as repres-
entatives of the papeo prepared to
appear in court to. answer 0„ suit;
brought by the German Government
against Le Journal for publicatirn of
the article.
The action was brought in ri
French court under the law of 1R88
dealing with the publication of in-
sults to foreign chhifs of ,skate.
The action cf the Government in
issueauppi'essing the41011:Te :lo
1:cl.eailuna
clierifit
aroused a sio'ent storm ot protest
in the entire Feench pre: s.
The National Federation of French
Newseaeors isseed a steiteinent
eheraing the anthrrities with an on.
werrem! en-roe:111;1mA cn the free
dom of the press.
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