ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS

AND MATSQUI NEWS

WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Scotland Yard announced the ban
on political marches in the East End
of London has been extended three
months.

Benches in Berlin parks reserved
for the use of Jews will be painted
yellow, authorities in the western
section of the city, where most of
the Jews lived, announced.

A new type of undersea mine cap-
able of protecting ports effectively
fn time of war has been perfected
by the admiralty, the London Sun-
day Referee said.

Egypt's new ruler, King Farouk,
will be crowned Feb. 11, 1938—his
18th birthday under the occidental
calendar. The young king was in-
vested as ruler on July 29—his 18th
birthday under the Moslem calendar.

While Halifax police delved into
bigger crimes, somebody walked up
to the station and lifted from its
hinges a 300-pound gate connecting
elty hall and the police garage, and
made good his escape.

One hundred and five bushels of
oats to the acre is the record harvest
of N. P. Tracy, a Lethbridge district
grower. He threshed a 14-acre field
of oats. The total yield was 1,470
bushels.

Traffic fatalities among Detroit
children have been cut 75 per cent.
fn recent years by the school safety
patrols, 6,500 boys who protect 2,500
city crossings for an aggregate of
12,000 hours each day.

It is not often that a storm inter-
feres with soccer, but a recent Eng-
lish league fixture between Walsall
and Mansfield Town was abandoned
when heavy clouds made visibility
almost nil.

The Aga Khan, famous sportsman
and delegate from India, was elected
unanimously as president of the
League of Nations assembly. The
prince is head of a sect of Moslems
in India,

More Population

Says Canada Needs More People To
Fulfill Destiny

Two prominent Canadians—one a

senator and the other director of

colonization and agriculture for

ror i told

the C: Chamber of C
convention at Vancouver that Can-
ada’s principal need was more popu-
lation.

Senator J. W. deB, Farris of Van-
couver, said “our machinery, our
boilers and our engines are too big
for the steam we are able to gener-
ate.” He said Canadians had laid
the foundations and erected a super-
structure for three or more times
the present population.

The same thought was expressed
by Dr. W. J. Black of Montreal, who
called for “constructive leadership”
of the immigration problem because
Canada needed more people “if we
are to fulfill in any degree the des-
tiny that nature intended for us.”

“We have in abundance great pub-
lic institutions . . . for a population
three times the size we have,” he
said. “Our railroads have been ex-
tended in all directions at the request
of the people, and are obliged to
serve territory in places which re-
turn them limited revenue because
insufficient people are there.”

Dr. Black suggested Great Britain,
the United States, Scandinavia,
Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Bel-
gium, Holland the Ukraine could
provide Canada with the type of
“good farming families” she needed.

A Family Of Professors

It is pointed out in the obituary
notices of the late Sir David Mas-
gon, of Melbourne, that he was not
only a Professor himself (Chemis-
try), but that he was the son of a
Professor and a Professor’s daugh-
ter, the father of a Professor, the
father-in-law of two Professors, the
brother-in-law of a Professor, and
the cousin of a Professor. On the
occasions of family parties were
there always chairs enough to go
round?—London Observer,

A Peculiar Accident
“Static electricity generated on a

Cannot Do The Impossible

Britain Unable To Protect Both The
Mediterranean And Shanghai

A glance at the map of China re-
veals that Shanghai is a sort of
natural phenomenon. It was bound
to grow up the moment the outside
world began trading with the in-
terlor of China. The mighty Yang-
tze is the chief artery of such trade,
and Shanghai is planted squarely at
the strategic point to control such
trade. It Is a kind of “free port”
where foreign goods can be ware-
housed and Chinese products brought
down to exchange for these import-
ed wares. There will always be a
Shanghai. But if the Japanese can
convince Europe and America that
their tenure at this point is. much
too insecure for profitable invest-
ment in permanent establishments,
it might come to be a Japanese
Shanghai. This would give Japan a
far firmer grip on China than would
even a Japanese Peiping. A

But the cooling thought should al-
Ways be kept in mind that the Bri-
tish Empire cannot do the impos-
sible. Britain may not like to lose
Shanghai. ie may not like to see
her fabulously rich Chinese trade
snatched away from her. She may
be uneasy at the loss of prestige in
Asia which this whole business is
bound to cause.

But she has other more pressing
responsibilities nearer home, It
would be insane for her to waste her
strength and fritter “away her in-
complete new armaments in a con-
flict in distant Asia while the Medi-
terraneah lies under a constant and
growing menace and the peace of
Europe may soon be shattered when
the time is ripe. She can wait at
Singapore for any new develop-
ments in the China Sea, and she
can protect India by keeping the life-
line open from Gibraltar to Aden.
The British Knights of the Table
Round, questing all over the world
for wrongs to right, have gone out
of business long ago, — Montreal
Star.

Prefer Northern Route

Trans-Atlantic Air Promoters Be-
lieve It Is The Best
Canada’s trans-Atlantic air pro-
moters are adhering closely to the
TIreland-Newfoundland route and they
have little confidence either in the
South Atlantic or the North Pole
route favored by the Russians, and
which has apparently resulted in
another tragedy.
Because of this firm faith in the
North Atlantic route, which is evi-
dently shared by the British inter-
ests, and which has won co-opera-
tion from the United States, it is be-
lieved that experimental flights by
Imperial Airways across the North
Atlantic which have been conducted
during the summer will be continued
in the coming winter.
There will be no transfer to the
South Atlantic route via the Azores
and Bermuda, as had been expected.
There is no clear indication to what
extent Pan American Airways will
co-operate in winter exploration of
the North Atlantic route, but Cana-
dian experts are persuaded that the
Ireland-Newfoundland route is com-
mercially practicable even in win-
ter. They assert the southern route
is too slow, its longest hop consum-
ing as much time as the entire trans-
Atlantic crossing by the northern
route.

Health Insurance

Governments Should Go Ahead With
Plan Only On Advice Of Medi-
cal Profession
Governments should go ahead with
state-sponsored health insurance only
after they have taken the advice of
the medical profession as a body,
Dr. T. H. Leggett of Ottawa, presi-
dent of the Canadian Medical Asso-
ciation, said.
Speaking before the 45th annual
convention of the British Columbia
Medical Association, the Ottawa
physician said the scientific side of
medicine and surgery “has made
such tremendous strides in the last
few years that it has left behind the
economic side.”
“Medical men are unable to dis-
tribute benefits of medicine, surgery
to the poorer man,” he declared.

dog’s back was blamed for 8-year-
old Teddy Fogel's badly burned right
band. John Questa, assistant fire
chief, in Reno, Nevada, said the boy|
was petting the dog which was tied|
to the back of an automobile. The|
cap on the car’s gasoline tank had
been removed. There was a flash of
flame and an explosion.

War Will Affect Prices
Higher prices if the Chinese war
lasts can be expected for the follow-
ing articles: fiulk, tungsten, tea,
hides and skins, bristles for hair
brushes, carpet wool, tung oil, tallow,
wax, tin, antimony. China produces

This, he said, had given rise to
talk of government-sponsored health
insurance but such a step should be
taken only after the governments
have taken the advice of the medical
profession.

The day must come, Dr. Leggett
declared, when federation of doctors
throughout Canada will become a
reality. It is needed, he said, to
give united advice to any govern-
ment on the question of health in-
surance.

Beavers do not eat fish although
they spend most of their lives in
water. They are strictly vegetarians.

two-thirds of the world’s t
used in making tool steel and elec-
tric light bulbs.

X-ray motion pictures are being
made in Berlin. 2221

TOTS ADORE A BRIGHT JUMPER
FROCK FOR SCHOOL OR PLAY

By Anne Adams

Come Autumn with its crisp days,
and every clothes-loving tot will
crave such a fetching jumper frock
as Pattern 4493 to see her through
school and everyday wear! Stitched
up in bright wool or cotton plaid,
tweed, or challis, the jumper looks
ever so smart worn with several
dainty blouse versions in contrasting
cotton or linen. Too, every kiddie
will adore the smartly buttoned
front, puffed-up sleeves, and qlassic
Peter Pan collar. Mother will be de-
lighted with the ease with which
this simple frock can be cut, stitch-
ed, and finished up—even by an ins
experienced seamstress! Send for
your pattern to-day!

Pattern 4493 is available in child-
ren’s sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Size 6
jumper takes 1%; yards 36 inch;
blouse 1% yards contrasting. Ilus-
trated step-by-step sewing instruc-
tions included.

Send twenty cents (20c) in coin or
stamps (coin preferred) for this
Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly
Size, Name, Address and Style Num-
ber, and send order to the Anne
Adams Pattern Dept., Winnipeg
Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot
Ave. E., Winnipeg.

There are more than 6,000 kinds of
hibiscus in Hawaii—all developed
from three original varieties.

The Family Doctor

Old-Time Family Physician Has Not
Disappeared, Says Speaker

Prevalent belief the “old-time fam-
fly doctor’ has disappeared from
modern practice is “rather amusing,”
Dr. J. S. McEachern of Calgary
said In an address at the closing ses-
sion of the annual convention of the
Alberfa branch, Canadian Medical
Association.

Individuals who express such be-
liefs are showing “abysmal ignor-
ance,” and probably are thinking of
a bewhiskered individual who makes
his calls from house to house in a
t heeled gig, Dr. hi

stated.

-The speaker, chairman of the pro-
vincial cancer committee, empha-
sized importance of co-operation
from the “family doctor’ in stamp-
ing out the dread disease.

Work of education which the can-
cer committee was attempting to
further could be helped immensely
by co-operation of staffs in hospitals
if they would appoint committees to
study case histories, and by the
efforts of the “family doctor’ in

THE CANADIAN ADVENTURE
TRIP OF BOB SIM, AN
ONTARIO FARM BOY

No. 14 of a Series of 16 Letters

Bob compares Eastern Canada with
the West—Enjoys his visit to Van-
couver and Victoria, then into the
United States and a dash for home.
Discovers there is no Canadian Race
—there is a Nationality,

On board S.S. Quilcene between
British Columbia and Washington
State. (Special Despatch by Bob
Sim).— Sometime, somewhere this
afternoon on board the Quilcene we
crossed the International boundary
line at a point many miles below
the 49th parallel. At the moment of
the crossing our Trans-Canada trip
comes officially to a close. The rest
is anti-climax, a three-thousand mile
dash across our sister nation back
to Ontario. At the Immigration

ffice’ we had to give our race.
said Canadian. There is no such
thing as a Canadian race, I was told,
there is a Canadian nationality, but
no race. What extraction are your
parents, I was asked. I said Irish
and Scotch, so he wrote down Eng-
lish. Neither point was worth an
latter possibly did

allaying fears of patients and ex-|argument, the
cancer P in the| vi to the rest of my ancestors.
ity, Dr. sald. ae former about recognition of a

Air Conditioning
Has Now Developed Rapidly Along
Industrial Lines

Air conditioning, aithough first ap-
proached from the standpoint of
achieving personal comfort, has de-
veloped rapidly along industrial lines
as well, and it now plays an import-
ant part in many industries where
temperature and humidity affect the
products. This is especially true in
the textile and food fields, where
already notable results have been
reported.

The prospects are that the next
five years will see rapid advances
taking place in the utilization of this
process, and it is not unlikely that
its general effect upon industrial con-
ditions and modes of living will be
as striking as that resulting from
the development of the telephone,
the motorcar and the radio.—Saint
John Telegraph-Journal.

os
Had Opposite Effect
It is said that the first mission-
aries who went to Alaska and tried
to frighten the Esquimaux by ser-
mons on hell, found that their ser-
mons had the opposite effect. The
told the i ies
that they were glad there would be
a place for them in the hereafter
where they could keep warm, and
not be obliged to labor hauling
wood.

With

WHY NOT DO IT NOW?

By EBER BRADLEY (The Brandon Bard)

I like to read about Jack Miner
As each author sings his song;

But Jack is getting older now
And can’t stay with us long.

I, too, have packed that deadly gun,
As Jack did in days of yore;
But I got “Kingsville religion”
And don’t do it any more.

We love to sing of good ole Miner
And the birds about his home;
But the lesson that he taught us—
Haye you got that through your dome?

Do you still pack that old shotgun,
And spin your hunting lies?

Are you still a brainless game hog,
Shooting everything that flies? \

And what about that boy of yours,

that dangerous twenty-two?

Haye you taught him game protection,
As each father ought to do?

Jack Miner had to make that pond
For those wild geese and ducks;
And it cost him days of labor
And several hundred “bucks”.

Yet, we have hundreds of Canadians
‘Who own a pond or farm,
Where they could prevent all shooting’
And protect our game from harm.
So, you who read this rhyme of mine,
If you own a farm or pond, /
In honor of Jack, make it a game preserve,
Ere he heads for the great beyond.

Bo COA d

onet point compulsion.”

Photo shows “Uncle”

study migration routes.

“UNCLE” JACK MINER BANDING MOURNING DOVES

1% r ‘ ;

Jack Miner, the Canadian naturalist, say:
ment of this world is more love, the right kind of education, and less bay-
He says “If you can get a child to build a bird
house that child at once becomes a conservationist, because he will not only
protect the birds himself, but will not allow others to harm or destroy them.”
Jack with a group of underprivileged children, who
were taken to his home and bird sanctuary for a picnic by members of the
Kingsville Lions' Club. The children are banding young mourning doves to

“The hope for the better-| tal.

race, is a p to which
ety generation must soon address it-
self.

Since last week we have covered
less than one hundred miles. We
spent eight days in Vancouver with
our little tent on the Spanish Banks
for headquarters. We finally sailed
from there to Vancouver Island with
Floradora, and all our possessions.
Landing at Nanaimo we drove leis-
urely southward to Canada’s western-
most provincial capital, Victoria. To-
day we left Victoria and Canada, our
next letter will come from Holstein,

and loyal races a vote. Unless we
exact a full measure of loyalty in
return.

Among Those Not Mentioned
The difficulty in writing these let- —
ters is not to find material to write
about, but to decide what to leave
out. So we must leave unmentioned
the fishing fleet, the canning factory,
our fish dinners, that bowl of clam
chowder, an enjoyable day at the
Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm
School where British children are
brought from the slums to
trained for Canadian farm life, and
I haven't a line for salt water bath-
ing, or mountain climbing, or how
we washed Manitoba mud off Flora.
Flora being the Ford, it was her
first bath, and she looked beautiful.
My next letter will be written
from Holstein, but it may not appear
in the next issue. Between then
and now we are citizens of Canada,
without race, in transit in the United
States of America.

Built In Regular Docks

Ships Columbus Used
Larger than sailing ships which
Columbus used for his voyage to
America in 1492, the six flying
boats under construction for trans-
Atlantic service will accommodate
50 persons each on a 24-hour sched-
ule between the United States and
Europe, Pan American Airways’
officials sald in describing plans for
the new equipment.

Two thousand aircraftmen, scat-
tered through 20 divisions of the
Boeing Aircraft Company's Seattle
plant, are moving rapidly toward
completion of the fleet, which will
be placed in use following prelimi-
nary surveys now on by the Ameri-
can i with

while it will take less
than a fortnight’s furious driving
for us to pilot Flora the Ford back
to the home garage. This letter,
posted by air mail at Seattle tonight,
will arrive in Toronto within fifteen
hours, at a cost of six cents. Prior
to 1885 there was no railway to our
coast, and the journey we can make
nonchalantly in fifteen hours to-da;
was a feat accomplished by none but
the most hardy.

In a decade Canada, the great
sprawling waste of land and water,
will have been drawn by air service
into an area Serene England

in ti 1

they said.

Fully loaded, the trans-Atlantic
flying boats will weigh 42.5 tons, and
will have a cruising range with 50
passengers of 3,200 miles. Seventy-
five passengers may be carried on

¥ | shorter flights.

The flying boats will carry a crew
of 10, for whom complete living
quarters are provided on the flight
deck. They are powered by four
1,500. p Wright “Cyclone”

of 1885 if je
What this will mean to the realiza-
tion of Canadian unity no on@ can
say.
A Right Little, Tight Little Island
A Canadian may step off his coun-
try to the right at Cape Breton, to
the left on Vancouver Island in order
to contemplate the Dominion objec-
tively. Writing from Baddeck, Cape
Breton, about eight weeks ago, you
recall my description of that island,
its insularity, its feeling of aloof-
ness from us poor land-locked Cana-
dians. Vancouver Island has the
same aloofness, the same insularity;
it too has “lumber, minerals, fish;
rather than Cape Breton Gaelic you
find here a peculiar type of English-
man, The type who leaves home to
escape income tax, and British
weather, he comes here to spend as
little as possible, to live as long as
possible, but ultimately to die. It is,
a young man told me, an English-
man's graveyard. Victoria, he said,
has the highest death rate in the
world, Which you may believe if you
wish.

Taken as a whole the island is dif-
ferent. Rich in natural resources,
rich mines, fertile soil, giant trees,
waters teeming with fish. Most of
its goods ‘are exported; it imports
most of its foodstuffs, with the ex-
ception of truck. Its streets are
narrow, the English accent is pre-
dominant, the people are settled with
no desire for change. One youth said
he had never been off the island, and
never hoped to be. The world’s best
little island. What a contrast to the
Mainland of British Columbia! and
the Prairies! There the streets are
wide; non Anglo-Saxons predomi-
nate, fifty per cent. in Manitoba; the
people are not deeply rooted, they
will move in a day if something bet-
ter shows up. As we saw at Sas-
katchewan, where the people are
being so tragically expatriated.

But do not mistake the Island for
some dreamy Valhalla peopled by de-
ceased Englishmen. We went inland
to see the logging operations where
giant trees are felled and carried to
the sea in trucks carrying over
10,000 feet in a load with logs over
100 feet long. We rode into seem-
ing impenetrable jungles on 100
horsepower caterpillars to drag the
logs out to the open. At the sea
the logs were loaded on ships bound
for New Zealand and Japan.

Here The Twain Shall Meet

Kipling was wrong, the East and
West must meet, they are meeting.
The British Columbia coast stirs a
man’s soul. Land of opportunity,
gateway to the Farther West. Here
the ships of two score nations ply
our waters. We have a market in
the millions of the Orient. Here is a
future for Canada: to develop trade
in Asia, to cultivate friendship
among potential enemies.

In Vancouver there ts a great
Oriental population, Chinese and
Japanese. They have their own
daily papers, churches, fraternal
societies. On occasions when their
native lands were at war there has
been trouble. Finally their leaders
met and decided to live agreeably
together in Canada. It is the genius of
Canada to finda place for every race
within it. First with the Indians,
then the French, then with the Con-
tinental Europeans, Now the Orien-

We attended a Japanese Corona-
tion celebration in Vancouver. In
their native costumes, they danced
and sang as did their fathers in

engines which, according to the com-
pany, have been in the course of
secret development during the last
two years. ‘

Top speed of the flying boats is
estimated at 200 miles an hour, but
only about 150 miles an hour will
be flown at the normal cruising
range, it was said. Besides its pas-
sengers, each of the new airplanes —
will carry 2.5 tons of cargo.

Besides sound-proofing,
tioned interiors are provided for
private cabins, staterooms, dining
rooms and lounges.

Aeronautical engineers said the
“flying clipper sips” were so big
they had to be erected according to
ship-building methods in enormous
“docks” within factory walls, after
which they are to be towed outside
and assembled in “dry docks.” When
completed, the “clippers” will slide
down the ways of an inclined ramp
leading to the water, just as any big
ocean liner would have to do.

His Electric Fence

Ontario Farmer Used Hydro Power
To Make It Efficient

A farmer in Brant, Ontario, found
@ new use for the hydro which he re-
cently installed. :

He had seen “electric fences” ad-
vertised so he ran a wire around the
top of the fences of one field and
connected it up with the hydro sys-
tem.

Shortly after, a valuable horse
put its head over the fence and he
found out how his scheme worked.

It was a hundred per cent. success-
ful in keeping livestock from break-
ing out of the field.

While the farmer skinned what
was left of the horse, he tried to re-
member how lucky-it was that he
had not leaned ‘against that fence or
some of the kids had not climbed
over it before the horse became in-
quisitive,

Must Be Disappointed

Old Employee At Windsor Castle
Has Seen No Ghosts

The retiring Superintendent of
Works at Windsor Castle, John
Lamb, states that he has “seen no
ghosts during his 27 years in office.
He entered the Castle service, how-
ever, too late for the last recorded
appearance of the Black Lady. Re-
puted to be the shade of Queen Eliza-
| beth, the Black Lady is supposed to
give warning of impending deaths in
the Royal Family. She was last re-
ported to have been seen in one of
the corridors of the Castle a few
days before the death of Queen Vic-
toria.

Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is said to
be the deepest fresh water lake in
the world.

Japan. But it was a d ion
of loyalty to Canada, their chosen
count:

England has 1,200,000 horses, com-

Yet we refuse these industrious

pared with 1,900,000 in 1924.

in

pany

Imperial Airways of Great Britain,
Si

place a trust in them, how can we

New Flying Boats Larger Than ©

air-condi-