de a ade a new per cere ve been a _ 43 one of many signs {indicating that f . \- _ fy English with any other of the es- tablished"Stocks and stems of human _ fragable evidence that it is a branch 1 “tions, curiously intermingled Sanskrit, ' Chinese, Latin, German, Celtic, Saxon, _ with the ma-ch of eyents and the prob- ABBOTSFORD. SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS English Langue : ~ 170,000,000 People And Is | _ Now Becoming Universal + Feb, 1, 1926. Grading Of Dairy Produce An Act Regulating Produce Intended For Export to Come Into Force An act to regulate the grading of lairy produce will come into effect on | The act as originally Straws show which way the wind Blows, anda recent incident in Vienna the English tongue is destined to: at- tain eventually the status of a univer-! cal language. It appears that. last Year the teaching of English by radio was started in Vienna, with some sue- eess. Possibly as an outcome of ‘this a decree has now been issued by the “ ministry oft eanestOn recommending ish as a y lan~ guage in the higher school grades, ousting in large measure French end Italian. The English vocabulary {s-an enor: ‘mous one. [t contains some half- million words, and fs one of the most heterogeneous that ever existed. In this olla- podrida there are to be found the verbal concoctions of many na- Hebrew, Russian, Greek, Hindustan, Danish, French, Spanish, Italian. It fs sald that on the evidence of words} alone it would be impossible to classi- speech; yet in the few remains of grammar in English there is irre- of the Aryan family. The causes of the heterogeneity of! _the language are to be found in the _history of the race—in the early in- "vasions of Britain, its extensive com- “merce, and iis growth as a world pow- er; while its suitability as a universal “tongue arises largely from ‘the geo}. graphical scattering of the domains of the far- flung empire, one result of which is that the English tongue is ’ already knewn in almost every corner of the globe. Apart from the geo- graphical diffusion of the language, a conservative estimate places. the num- ber of those speaking it at approx!- mately 170,000,000 leaving all ub pean tongues far behind. Viewed in all its aspects, the Lit of Vienna appears to be far-sighted, _well thought out and wholly in line able needs of the future. —Christian Science Monitor. Saskatchewan Clydesdales This Western Province is Famed for Leadership in Celebrated Breed of Horses : _ Saskatchewan is today almost as ‘much the undisputed Clydesdale éoun- try on this side of the Atlantic as ' Scotland is across the ocean, Through a fortunate combination of clreum- stances the Uniyersity of Saskatche- wan came Into possession of some of the finest Clydesdale breeding: stock in the entire world at the same time that individual breeders throughout the province were building up fine studs. The winnings of this province at Toronto and Chicago were not ac- eidental. Belgian nd Percheron breeders in Saskatchewan haye done very well indeed at the national and international shows, but there are so many mere Clydes in Saskatchewan than of either of the other outstand- ing specimens of the great Scottish breed that the leadershiff attained by* the province should be passe Is Saskatchewan Farmer, Where Canadian Flour Goes Is Penetrating the Out of the Way Places of the World) The extént to which Canadian flour Is penetrating to the more ont of the; /onging io return to Canada and I cer- way places of the world is shown by official figures giving exports for the last full crop. In that period Green- land bought 2,691 bbls. of Casadian flour, Brazil 35,659, Austria 1,011, Mor- |; ecco 3,839, New Zealand 287, Palestine | 4,212, Peru 1,637, Portuguese Africa 10,017, Spanish Africa 2,373, che Phil> ippine Islands 3,626, “and Venezuela 110,601, Sixty-eight countries and dependencies figured in, the ast of direct purchasers of C: anadian flour in that crop year. Thig Is Awful He (pleadingly): “But you have looking guys than She: (No answer.) 3 He (more pleadingly): “I say, haven't you gone out with some worse looking guys than me?” She: “I heard you the first time. I'm just tryIng to think.” The Newest Thing “Lady: “I want to buy some lard.” Grocer: “Pail?” Lady: “I didn’t know it came in te ehades.” The Turks have such a dread of the Humber 13 that they seldom mention a _ toward the expansion and development x | powers the government-in-council to Forage Seed Cars |make regulations: (a) For the grading of dairy pro- with ‘Be Operated Over C.P.R. Lines | dule intended for export; In Saskatchewan | {b) For the establishment or desig- Arrangements are being made to nation of grading stores; operate forage crop seed cars dypr- (c) Por the issuing of graders’ certt- ing ‘February and March over Can- jficates;. adian Pacific Railway Mnes in the! (d) For the special marking by man- prairie districts (of Saskatchewan. ufacturers of packages of -dairy pro- A start will be made at Moose Jaw duce intended to be graded; early in February, the cars travelling! (e) For the establishment of stand- to the Alberta boundary on the main! ards, definitions and grades for dairy line. The Empress line will then’ produce; be covered and immediately after-' (f) For thé imposition of fees for wards the Outlook, Rosetown and the grading of dairy produce. At the Macklin routes, the cars returning by | last session of parliament an amend- way of W: ilkie, Saskatoon, Colonsay} ment to the act was passed known as and Young to Regina. | (8) for refusing to grade dairy pro- The Canadian Pacific Railway will'| duce and for ence te pene cer- supply and equip the cars and trans- tificates. port them on regular trains without) The governor-in- aneeat ate pre- cost’ to the Saskatchewan Govern- | seribe the particular kinds of dairy ment while the government on the | produce to which the act shall ap- other hand will furnish lecturers and| |ply and the parts of Canada within the. forage seeds which will be of-|which it shall be enforced. Regulations fered for sale along the way. There may be provided for an appeal to the will be a carload of seeds carried at | Dominion dairy and cold storage com- all times and farmer purchasers may | missioner from the decision of a dairy buy and take home what they wish to/ produce grader. Fer violations of secure in the way of sweet clover, al-| regulations to be made under the act, falfa, corn, western rye grass, brome ja fine of not more than $200 or not Jess ee etc. than $50, or imprisonment fdr not it 5 |more than three months, maybe im- - Beef Shipments To Britain Posed: The specific regulations to be made Canadian Live Cattle Trade With Old) by the goyernor-in-council will, in all Country Is Increasing probability, be announced as soon.as Exports of Canadian live cattle to|the act referred to.above cones into Great Britain have increased from | effect. ~ 57,000 head in 1928 to 110,000 head in| 1925, according to a statement. trom | tire department of agriculture. | ¥; Referring to the comparative value | Wide Market is Enjoyed for Canadian of the chilled meat trade as opposed Book and Writing Paper to live shipments, the department! \yhile Canadian newsprint has been bulletin states that Canadian live |invading the world’s paper’ markets, beef can compete with home killed | the higher grades of Canadian paper beef on the British market and secure) haye been more slowly securing a better prices than if the meat was foothold. Canadian book and writing shipped frozen. Canada ‘could not! papers are now being supplied’ to compete with the Argentine on All| Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, China, even price basis for the chilled beet | Japan and other countries in~eyer-in- market on any large scale. j creasing quantities. Selling agencies The current system of live ship-/are being established and connections ments, the report says, “seems to in made in these outside markets, which sure the greatest profit at present and | | bid fair to dey elop into a very con- at the same time to afford a Btimullisy side rable export trade. ——— ee Canada’s Paper ladustry ” Greek Children Grateful 4 |. Plum puddings, ingredients of which Predicts Larger Wheat Crop | were sent by 5,000 members of the — Greek Junior Red Cross were served in that number of American homes on |Christmas. The gifts were to ex- says the | press the gratitude of the Greek Journal, | youngsters for Christmas packages When the United States will cease to|sent them Jast year by members of the be a serious factor in foreign markets | American Junior Red Cross. of the beef cattle industry.” Production Can Be Doubled Ten Years The time fs not far distant, Canadian Milling and Grain in Next passed em-} | rit aR Inspector ‘Must Abolish OE fae Or No Means On Earth ‘o Be Held Under nae Auspices of the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture | Rural and urban municipal councils are being invited to send their Weed | inspectors to Regina and Saskatoon fto attend a ten-day course for weed inspectors under the auspices of the} provincial department of agriculture.! eS )T | | | | { February 9 to 19, and the Regina | course February 23 to March 6 he Subjects of study will include the! Noxious Weeds Act; identification of weeds and other common plants; methods of controlling annual, Lten-| nial and ~perennial weeds; co-oper-| stock and forage crops in relation to weed control. The inspectors who | attended the 8th day sof this year’s courses. British Columbia Potatoes Exhibit of Tubers from Coast eee ineal To Be Sent to London For the purpose of advertising the quality of seed potatoes grown in Brit- ish Columbia, and placing samples be fore the European buyers, an exhibit of tubers owas selected from the num- erous displays at tho recent provincial | potato show. This display ‘will be} forwarded to ‘the British’ Columbia House, London, England, and efforts will be made to draw attention of all interested in Europe to them with a view to developing international HEE) for provincial seed tubers. eee | Britishers To Investigate Large Party of Manufacturers From Great Britain to Visit Alberta Thirty British manufacturers, who will visit Canada next year, at the !n- stance of the Canadian chamber of commerce {n London, will be invited | to make an extensive tour of Alberta} with a view to getting first-hand know- ledge concerning the province’s Te sources and’ the opportunities it offers to agricultural settlers. Horses Belng Supplanted The extent to which modern ma-| ehinery continues to supplant the| horse on United States farms, Js xe| vealed in government Qgures ‘made | public, showing that the number of horses on farms now ds only 16 per) cent. cf what it was five years ago, a decrease of three and 2 half milion} head. Twins Observed 93rd Christmas The -ninety-third Christmas they | have celebrated tozether was obsery-| ed by Marla Sophia Dowd and Sarah Maria Seymour, twins, at WFairfleld, Conn. January 9 was their niuety- fourth birthday. for wheat and flour.. In Canada, on | the contrary, for the past decade the production of wheat has doubled. Dur- ing the next ten years, with improved varléties of seed, extension .of the northern cultivation limits, adyance- ment of the ripening reriod, backed ‘by increased export facilities in the west, there is no conceivable reason why we should not harvest a crop of | $00, POD, 000 bushels, | = | | Heviakes Canada Son of Head of Large Shipbuilding Firm In England Would Return ; To This Country “My own boy has been working as a farm laborer in the proyince of Q) -bec since he left Eton, three years ago. He is back and lias obtained a good position, but he tells me he is tainly shall not stand in his way.’ Thus spoke Sir Burton Chadwick, head of the firm of Joseph Chadwick and Sons, shipbuilders and owners, Liverpool, in a recent address at the Canadian chamber of commerce, -Lon-} don, England. } | Woman Stops Train A woman’s thoughtlessness held up a southern railway train at Clapham, Eng,, for 10 minutes recently. Ona windy day the woman stood on the station’ platform when a sudden gust biew the umbrella inside out. In disgust the woman threw the uni- brella on the rails, The steel frame- work came in contact with the live rail, causing a short cireuit which stopped all trains in the yicini | New Holy Day Proclaimed By Pope | A.new'holy day, to be Known as ile! Feast of the Kingdom of Christ, was | formally proclaimed in St. Peter’s by | Pope Pius, who celebrated mass at| the high altar. The new festival Will be kept annually on the last Sun- day in October, its object, outlined by Pope Pius in his encyclical, is to re call the refgn of Christ to a world ab- sorbed in temporal and material things, Captain A. J. Hailey, comn Australia, shown above, has be of his humanitarian s 1924. when the vessel was the ports, ] Commander Hailey has recelved a Use the hammer of truth when you t Civil Order of Bene haye occasion to nail lies. i pain. der of the C n honor vice following the Japanese ake in At thetime of the disaster Captain Hailey was Empress of Canada which reached Yokohama two means of carrying hundreds of pain adyising him that he is entitled to wear the Cross of ) ficence, conferred by jan Pacific Jinep ‘ed by the King of Spal 1g i September, | in command of the} 8 after the earthquake survivors to Chinese | ¢ 2 {i communic on from the Secretary of he First-Clase of | His King Alfongo of | Mafesty Mr. | ass) | letter grades are }faflure. A }ed the following brief note to his poor- ; {ly written paper: HONORED FOR HELP IN DISASTER eee busy bore a short annotation, sor had drawn a musical clef and in-| serted a Youth's Companion. Can Mit: igate Its Horrors Natural Resources Bulletin The Saskatoon course will be given! Farmers Should Endeavor to Store Ice | S02Slly humane; This Winter For Next Suifimer’s Use The natural resources intelligence service of the department of the in-} |terlor at Ottawa says:— Canada has an opportinity at prés-/ ent to harvest a crop at comparatively | ation between rural and urban.mun!-| | trifling cost that will répay the own- {Ein with a desire to spare them; cipalities and the railways and live-|er many times over before the coming | re they required for weeping. summer is past. During a hot spetl, when at-work courses last year are|in the field or around the home, what| ral stoicism. specially invited to attend the 7th and {is more Welcome or more refreshing awares, come the tears, if they come than a cool drink? What are more enticing than the many table delicacies that can be made during the heated period and which are dependent upon an ice sup-! ply? What is more necessary to the suc { cessful dairyman than a sufficient sup’) ply of ice for cooling purposes? If we would! have these advantages | during the coming summer, now is the time for actlon. There are few places in Canada where it {s not easy to ob- jtain all the ice one could use simply for the cutting and storing. A little co-operative effort by groups of farm- ers will make easy the harvesting of an ice supply, and-each will be well | ‘paid in pleasure, comfort and in re- ducing cost of living, the result of be ing able to keep fresh meats, milk, butter, etc. The ice supply, so freely provided by nature, is but another of Canada’s wonderful natural resources, the de-| velopment of which megns much to those on the farms and in the swollen )supply is not available. The equipment for, securing ice in| @ small way is not expensive while al- most any kind of a building will an-' Swer for storage purposes provided there is sufficient insulation of saw- and that drainage is ample to carry off the water from the melting ice. Eyery farmer owes {t to his family} {to provide them with an ice supply for the hot weather, and, with the very ; }low cost of such supply, not many should be without ice next summer. Evolves New Variety of Flowers’ ‘Luther Burbank, the Plant Wizard, Gives the World a New Creation With the completion of one of the | busiest years in this half-century of! work in the laboratory of nature, Luther Burbank has presented to the} world as a New Year gift a beauti-| ful group of new flowers and plan /The plant wizard announced that dur. ing the year just closed he had per \|fected seven major creations and ini- | provements. parts of the world thousands of seeds; which will “bear Today he /sent to all these creations. 26 years. of experimentation, | Burbank has created a new can- a striking blue flower. From rainbow corn, After his Third is a new giant cactus flower- ing zinnia, a traly glant plant develop- ed from a more | Bureau familiar flower, Fox Farming In Norway Becoming a Most Important Industry | In Northern Europe Silver fox~ farming has become a most {mportant industry in some parts of Borge, who is visiting Canada to record his impressions of the Dominion. present time there are between and 160 silver fox farms in the Sond- _|more district of Norway, | tleularly jand | Prince |about 120 silver foxes worth 1,000,000 kroner, from the island to Norway, Norway, ‘according journalist, to Johannes of Bergen, Norway, At the 120 which is par- suitable, being topographically Ye to| Edward Island. Last autumn{ , estimated to be milar were shipped} Something to Practlé. On In a certain mid-western university A, B, C, D and for complete nily append used, the latter standing student rece “Dear Professor: I bad; but I h y leading the campus sings nave had little time for study.” When the paper was returned it The profes know this is | a been awfully | and} Beneath | this! single note—E flat. t he had written, “s | “M"—the beginning natrimony jand the'end of freedom Burbank has pto-| j duced the- rainbow teosinte, a marvei- |lous plant that grows eight feet tall | jand bears from § “to 14 éars to each! Stalk. j exports were 341 elimatically | a | the ‘polls in | “War Js hell; let's make it 50,” was {the famous dictum of a soldier per H and he Was as good jas his word. “Leave them nothing but their eyes to weep with.” For 'tunately or, luckless, according as you read it, are those whose eyes under modern cenditiogs afe not amongst the first senses to go. Alr warfare and the new. poison gases do not be nor The | cruelty of modern conflict means u * jfate past tears and instils an unna- Long after, and un- at all, with that “memory of what has \been and never-more may be,” which {has been known to bring grieving to jee hardest of hearts. If you want to abolish the submar- \ine you must abolish war altogether. |The greater includes the Jess. ‘The +idea’ of war on limited Hability is the most pathetic of human delusions. If you are to have it at all you must ‘have it at its worst, and cannot have it otherwise. The submarine, though {it happens to be particularly incon- yentent to ourselyes, is only one symp- {tom of the eyil nature of the thing and far from being the most virulent. As the machines, the forces, \ agents, the brains of the eclentific age |become more terrible in perversion, ee we oall armed confilet, if resum- ed by an ill-fated world, must become |relentless, unsparing, vntil clyilization | perishes” from 4 misuse of the powers |that might have raised modern life to {a new grandeur and happiness and- fheatty, When war breaks out you cannot |municipalities where a community fee | limit its instruments nor mitigate it jin any respect by land or sea or-alr. lyou might as well ask the conflagra- tion to be mild or the hurricane to be gentle; or the colliery explosion not jto stifle, burn and entomb allve; or jthe blind waters of the broken dam | dust, fine shayings or similar material | jnot to tear habitations from its path jand engulf the dwellers. | Unless we abollsh war itself, by no |means on earth can we lessen its in- | struments or mitigat elits horrors. ; Often a dreadful necessity in the ab- sence of a system of international jus- jtee, its object was always dJarge mut |der, aud is now the murder of civilians in the mass,-menu, women and children | together, Its means necessarily ii- jclude every deylce which ean inflict laughter, mutilation, torture and des- truction. More than eyer it is deyil- ish by nature, and none of its weap- ;Ons is more deyilish than another. | Heay vy artillery and machine guns are |really-not merciful. To He on the’ |ground with your limbs shattered, or drilled through your vitals with ma- {chine gun bullets, may be a little | worse than belug sunk in a churry at } sea, War is as bad now as once | when, cannibalism was the end of it, jor when hands and feet were ent off jand eyes put out and bables spitted. | We can do no more good by trying to lop the branches. We must bend our minds and souls without deviation to hew {t down by the root and extirpate !the last fibre, that feeds it from thé darkness below.—J. lL, Garvin, in. The Observer, London. _» Wheat and Flour Exports of Statistics Shows That Considerable Improvement in Exports Shown ) Considerable improvement in Can- ada's wheat and flour exports Is noled for the month of November last, cording to a report of the bureau of Statistics. During that ports of wheat amounted to worth 6,867,7: 264 bushels last y yalue of $41,1 ae period, November fiou barrels at $7, 695 5,836 barre} $5, 96, O a year ago. Western Homesteads From January 1 to October 31, and 437 were taken up in Western Cana 060 3,144 homesteads soldier 7 a, rep: acre During pGSTREP Oy nding pérfod of jast year homesteads 488 T Sanne approximately cording to official figures and soldier ken up, 8, or 9,160 more thar for the ten months of the current year Population of Greater Vancouver Greater Vancouver can uow claln the position of third great metro: Car according to W. J Payne, board of trade now has placing Gr secre Vancouyer Greater Vanco a population of 230,000, Winnipeg with Mr ater a pop ulation of 000, Payne said, There are more thy 100,000 per- sons employed in tho pearl fishertes of the world. the ~~