> with authority. He told this import-| He began by alluding to the more or = .@ 2 features Wore © er sane see i , SUMAS wes a gecwws Ave the Work of Scientists 2 Discover Secrets of Nature bsclence ey gz men} . Not long ago as time ts Rrecikonca, the world was in a f Superstition and ignorance. be exact, our present wealth of 2 entific knowledge had its begin- ming with the discoveries of Galileo, | &nd Newton; and during the intery. ing three hundred and fifty years un-| " Feckonable progress has peen made | Dr, Robert A, Millikan, of the Cali-| fornia Institute of Technology, talk- efl about these things the other night _ to the members of the New York _ State Chamber of Commerce, and Anterested his audience deeply. The New York Times deemed it worth While to give his address in full for! Dr. Millikan, winner of the Nobet| prize for research work fn isolating | the electron, and regarded as the | leading American physicist, speaks | | Ant group of industrialists that pure "science Was the parent of modern in- _ dustry, and he amply proved his case. less universal belief a century ago _ that Bishop Usher's calculation of the date of tion was Tt From C Commercial News, Spanvitte Tilinois, First Paper To Use It P From corn stalks to newspaper in six hours was an epitome of achievement of modern science inj the south e0-| q recent publication of the Danville, "°rthwest,” said the weather sage. Commercial News, A special edition of 100 pag: printed on cornstalk paper, was i ing the first time such paper been used by newspapers. on paper made from stalks grown on | farms surrounding Danville. creating a new market for farm pro- ducts which once were merely waste. | The corn stalk pulp was manufac- tured by a Danville made into paper by a manufacturing company at Kalamazoo, the entire process requiring only six hours ot factual operation. Discovery of the use of corn stalks for paper was made by Dr. Beladorner, of Hungary. ‘was not known, he asserted very positively, that this world of ours has been. in existence for at least a billion years, and, said the speaker, “the human race can probably count m occupying it for a very long time come, say another billion years.” Sin ce the period of time within which iA . ‘ably expected to take place that makes. the outlook so bright with! sn promise : and interest. “There ao the! Almost with the pub. lication of the Commercial News, the Prairie Farmer, national farm maga- zine published at Chicago, printed its 260,000-copy edition on~corn stalk paper with the remark that this is- sue was truly a “from the farm back to the farm" movement. Horse Was Proud livery stables on the instalment plan. A week after the deal had been com- pleted he rode over to see the owner of the stables. “Hyi de,” he began eee Sea, _ Dr h “of learning in the a | _ Dillion years to live at least a mil- “lion. times more wisely than we now pve A glorious prospect indeed. on the satisfied with this animal.” “Oh,” said the owner, wrong?” “She won't hold her head ‘I'm not “what's up,” the er of progress during compara- tively recent years, Dr. Millikan “bs mn red quite conclusively how the| jo and the aeroplsne, for example, }. had been the products of scientific! discoveries made by Galileo and) eNevion and by others since 1580. The | d march to these achievements | been methodical and gradual. | ‘Do you practical men fully realize," | “argued, “that the aeroplane was| ‘only made possibl® by the develop- - ment of the internal combustion en- | _ great captains of industry step in do io possible by the development ot| laws: governing all heat engines, laws governifg dynamics, the use in the preceding d years of the steam engine; was ®nly made possible by only made possible by the dis- ry of the laws of force and mo- tion by Galileo and Newton? That st the relation of pure science to i ” And this was just as true e radio, the fundamental struc- of which has been built in the h laboratories since 1910. In anches of human progress the story holds true. One step has | to another. We are now moving | tt rapidly in the broad field) Sate energy, and in the ap- ion of the scientific knowledge “gathered in the fruitful century just ended with respect to the elements ‘and the constitution of matter. Pure science has laid the foundation for “pplied science, and at that point the e} with their genius for organization end production. If our great-grand- srents could return to us for a day 1ey would feel themselves in a world utterly new to them; yet a century hence the change may be even more/ _ amazing. Men of science are prob-| ing deeper and deeper every day in-) to the secrets of nature. A truth) learned today may tomorrow become, a basis of a great and revolutionary | invention; and as the world of think-| “ing ‘men and women has moved up-| ward in knowledge along material lines, it has at the same time form- | eG new concepts of the philosophy of life. The quest for truth goes on.| and it will be an immeasurable privi-| colonel bitterly. The dealer grinned at his client. “That's only her pride,” he said smoothly. “You just wait till she's *paid for, then sec!” It was described as heralding a new epoch in the paper industry and will be| company and Sir Frederick Stupart Explains Mild Weather Prevailing Winds Have Been From South Instead Of North The whole continent of America} his been having mild weather. Mod- erately mild, at least,” Stupart, director of the weather bu: reau, said in an interview at Toron- to. | season all this fall.” | “It has been a remarkably mild | Sir Francis} “And the reason? Because we have | stead of the north on the | been drawing our winds stead'ly from | “It is due to the distribution of alr} | es} Pressure.” “And tho mildness, by no means, Tt has been much milder in the far north, Yukon, as an example. Back in De- day at Dawson City. The average |temperature for the month was 51 below zero, But this year there hardly has been more thah a day or two when it was below zero. Theiw {has not been a day down to even {the normal December figure and it has been much the same in the northern parts of Canada farther east.” Sir Frederic was not prepared to the whole winter, “It may well be the rest of the winter, in the main,” he said. Daily Newspaper For Falkland Islands Enterprise Of Governor Is rears ble For Its Existence | A recent issue of the London Morning Post says:—“I have before me a copy of a daily newspaper which is published’ farther south than any of its contemporaries. It is the Penguin, printed and published- al Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, and it owes its existence to the enter- prise and assistance of the Govern- or, Sir Arnold Hodson, C.M.G. This remarkable production con- tains 22 foolscap typewritten pages printed on a copying machine, and the cost is only one penny a day, or 2s. a month. It contains the latest wireless news, accounts of the visits of British warships, golf news, as Mauves Newspaper Union Good Taste Diagonal closing of bodice, swath- jed ‘girdle and shirring at one side of} | well as of rifle and minia-| | ture rifle shooting and other sports, a Ladies’ Page,.a Children’s Page, and a long poem on golf by the Gov- ernor himself, which concludes with the excellent advice: “And do not, after every game Recount the way you played the same.” Altogether the Talkland Islands lhave reason to be proud of their new daily, which the advent of wireless has rendered possible, and I am sure my readers will join me in wishing the Penguin every success and the largest Boab cir as Take the | cember, 1917, it was below zero every | make any definite prediction as to} that we will have mild weather for} |sued by the Commercial News, it be-| 8S been confined to the southern | has| part of Canada, This unique edition actually was printed COL. HENRY COCKSHUTT, Director, Canadian Pacifie Railway Colonel Cockshutt, ex-Lieutenant- Governor of Ontario, is a director of the Canadian Pacific Railway, of the Bank of Montreal, and Presfdent of the Cockshutt Plow Company. He was born in Brantford, in 1868, son Owen Sound Man 1 Yions For 1929 Expressing the opinion that his predictions will be eighty per cent. correct, J. B. Bowes, of Owen Sound, Ont., “the Chatsworth Sage,” has forecasts for 1929; January — Decidedly milder and quite calm. February — About the seventh, strong winds, with rain and snow, quite cold. Centre portion of month quite mild; about the nineteenth, cold winds, with rain and snow, and quite cold, March—Will be noted for its fros- ty nights and thawing days. Last few days will be quite cold. April—About the first half of the month will be dryer and milder than average, Then about ten of yery heavy winds, with rain, snow, and very cold, Balance very mild. May—About twelve days will be very mild. About the fourteenth, very strong, cold winds, heavy rains and! of Ignatius Cockshutt, and was educated at Brantford Public and High Schools. He has been associat- ed with the Cockshutt Plow Company since 1884, becoming Secretary- Treasurer in 1888, Managing Direc- tor in 1893, and later President. He served as Mayor of Brantford during the term of 1899-1900, was Presi- dent of the Board of Trade in 1895, and President of the Canadian Manu- facturers Association in 1906. He Was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario in 1921, and served at that post until 1927. . Last third of month very mild, calm and dry. June—First few days mild, strong winds, heavy rains, and a very prob- able frost about the ninth. Then a few days quite mild. About the eighteenth very strong, cool winds, heavy rains and probably frost. Last portion of month very warm. July—Very warm and sultry, calm and dry. However, conditions are good for thunder storms. Last few days, strong winds with rain. August—A very calm and $¢dry month, With probable rains about the twenty-fourth. by Granary Is Now Wiltermert Bessarabia Faces Famine When Wheat Crop. Fails For Second Year For two consecutive years Bessa- rabia’s wheat crop has failed and what was once Europe’s granary, is today a desolate wilderness, with famine in its wake. This summer the rich wheat fields were devastated by a scordiing heat and drought. The unusual cold and heavy snowfall has thrown the hard-working population } of Bessarabia into despair. * Bye-witnesses, who have just re turned from the famished districts, report harrowing scenes which oc- cur daily in this remotest and inac- cessible part of Roumania. The mor- tality among the inhabitants hag in- creased alarmingly, because the peas- ants have resorted to the use of roots, herbs and other non-nutritive foods for sustenance. With an almost empty treasury, the new Maniu Peasant Government has undertaken the gigantic task of Very calm and very dry till about the twenty-first, then strong winds and unsettled. 9 October—About ten days of strong) cool winds, with rains and quite heavy frosts. Balance of month calm and dry. 4 month until the last week, then strong winds, heavy rains and frost made public the following weather). November—A very dry and calm| Furnished and North Explorer explora- ily moving t- pases, news e-locked con« in duo measure tere! iag Data Is Rega: rding South Polar Areas By Better Baby Chicks | Inspection Polley Adopted Which May Have Good Results A policy is to be put into operation by the Department of Agriculture, at Ottawa, to protect the interests of the purchasers of baby chicks.. The Baby Chick Association, representing the whole of Canada, has felt tne noed of some oversight of the hatchery in- dustry, and their executive commit- tee Has co-operated with officials of the Live Stock Branch in preparing & workable plan. The policy to be known as “Approved Hatcheries" provides for the inspection of flocks supplying hatchery eggs and the cer- tification of those that measure up te the requirements with respect to Iny- ing performance, health and type. The inspection is to be done under the direction of the Liye Stock Com- missioner by district poultry pro- moters and others duly qualified for the work. The approved hatcheries themselves are to be under super- vision so as to judge of their fitness to do business. Hatcheries wishing to be classed as “Approved” are re- quired first to make application on forms that have been prepared by the Live Stock Commissioner, on which must be recorded, among other things, the breed and variety of the flocks, the daté the birds would be ready for inspection and banding, the size of the flocks, both with respect to pullets and hens, and the name ‘and location and poapaclhy oe the hatchery. With the two oe ats j Hon expeditions stead ards their respective ce their arrival on the {ce tinent will doubtless come course. Meantime, & Mas of preparatory interest a a legacy left behind greatest of Polar trav i ‘Amundsen, the only man potte reached both poles and the iy ee stood on the southern extrem! Bee the earth's axis. This eile sclentist-adventurer Jost his ee generous effort to aid in al ied of rescuing the ill-fated ly sae ty, headed by the Italian pee tt Nobily, and the manner of erety sen’s passing befitted the atte that distinguished his ie b rota career. Only a little while ii He setting out on the airplane ee from which he did not return oe wrote for Nomad, @ bape te b travel and adyenture, an ar a really part of @ narrative he ia planned about his polar explora ae In its current issue, Nomad publi x es the portion Amundsen had cae pleted, making clear the marked phy sical differences between the two Poles. According to the great Norwe} the North Pole is an enormous sea covered with drifting Ice. So far sa Jmown, the depth of this Arctic Ocean is about 15,000 feet. Con- trariwise, the South Pole is an equal- ly enormous continent, with moun- tain peaks rising to a height of 18.- 000 feet. ‘The interlor of this mas~ sive continent consists of an immense platéau with an average height of 10,000 feet abdve sea level. These two contrasting polar regions have only one thing in common, the fact that — | gian, Famous Cow To Remain In Saskatchewan of being @ record breaker for wind, rain, snow and very secidedly cold. | 1930—January—most of month a record brenker for pees calm | and dry. 4 - February—Quite mild. 1 The strongest winds over the December—Stands a good chance! animoal life abounds in the regions where the open sea meets the edge of the fcc mass, ‘This, Amundsen Purchase for $10,000 of “Canary| remarks is the only similarity, for Korndyke Alcartra,” the Holstein the species of animals dwelling there cow holding the World's record for) that do not exist beyond the ice bar- butter fat production, from Ben H. | rer are quite different. The North ‘Thomson, of Boharm, by the Sas-| Pole has the polar and other bears, was |the walrus, the scal and birds, But Cow, Canary Korndyke Al cartra, Purchased By Provincial Government * Whole earth will be about February 7, March 28, May 14, very persistent. | | June 9 and 18, July 31, October 5, | November 27, December 8 to 25. ee, 43 Nothing Modern In Scientific Ancients Had Scinnts and Automo- bites Opinion Of Henry Ford — A and and, Equipment feeding a half-milli out all other of our of state A relief iF sion which was sent to Bessarabia, age existed in civilizations so ancient that have no record ot has the ploy the male population in the construc- tion of roads. To this mensure the Geleaacal Experts Puzzled Light Bulb Apparently Air Tight Found To Contain Water A scientific phenomenon was one Gov gave its d ap- proval. 5 toumania’s wheat exports this year were the lowest in the history of the country. New Role For Lindbergh of the results of a great hailstorm that swept Johannesburg, South | Africa. All the lights in a city flat} fused, and when order was restored | it was discovered that one of the] electric bulbs contained an eggcupful of water. A minute inspection of} the bulb failed to reveal any point where water could have entered. The lamp was shown to a number electrical experts, but none could of- fer an explanation. Need Good Voices | lege to watch the unfolding of a new] sxirt, are attractive new style fea-| era of kncwledege.—Montreal Gaz-| tures seen in Design No. 980. The) elte. Grazing Leases In 1927 some 9,777 grazing leases were ment covering an area of approxi- aately 6,607,183 acres of public lands fon which over 500,000 head of cattle, sheep and horses were pastured. hese are all in Western Canada. ed by the Dominion Goyern- collar that extends to lower edge ot waist in front affords splendid oppor- tunity for trimming contrast. As in} lustrous crepe satin, it is smart made of the dull side of crepe, which is also used for cuffs and girdle. Flat silk figured sheer yelvet, soft wool- nton-faille crepe sill, eatin, crepe Roma, georgette ‘crepe, silk moire, wool crepe are eae in crepe sinart § 5 16, 18 20 yc s bust measi % yards of 40-inch material yards of 2-inch lace, as , for the 36-inch size. Price | 25c in stamps or coin (coin prefer-| you ordered me to rub with brandy, but I can’t) ——try as I will, T can't get the brandy past my mouth.”"—Lustige Kolner Zeitung, Cologne | = “Doctor, N. U. 1765 WW red). Wrap coin carefully. How To Order Patterns Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg Pattern No.. | China. | + only reclaim 500,000 Some people wonder what the| Mormon wedding ceremony is uke | It's something like this: Preacher (to gréom): “Do you! | take these women to be your law: fully | | wedded wives?” Groom: “TI do.” Preacher (to brides); ‘Do you take | this man to be your lawfully wedded | husband? Brides: “We do,” | Preacher; “Some of you girls there! in the back will have to speak louder if you want to be included in this.” Under No Expense An Englishwoman hired a French | tutor for her little daughter. “How much will you charge legsons ?"" *“Porty francs, Madame.” “That's too di IT couldn't more than twenty.” Ah! But you must s born in Paris.” That's just it. It didn’t cost you anything to learn F; for | | pay| remember 1 ie Proposed drainage of the | Zee in Holland is expected Zulder } to not | acres it ce the ver but also to prevent salting of the fresh continu water channels. A recent ait shows that 38 out of ey 100 farmers in western Canada own a motor car and 18 oui of every 100 farms have gasoline tractors. Automobile services are expected to take the place of coolie pacting, along the highway now under con- struction in the Amoy district of She; “They tell me she that dress by instalments.” He: “Which one is she wearing ?” bought | tinued: cow @ tablespoon of Little Alice aged 3, after she had been tucked into bed was afraid of the dark. “There's Someone who always takes care of little children, dear,’’| her mother assured her. But Alice! | looked puzzled and her mother con- : “Don't you remember. Someone up in the sky?” Alice smiled back. “Oh, course I do now—Lindbergh.” yes, What.Were Her Thoughts The bumptious young man trying to create an impression arty. “Oh, yes,” he said to a lady guest, joy am something of a thought read- er, I can tell just what a person is thinking.” “Really 2" queried the lady. “Then I beg your pardon, I had no intention of aaa your feelings.” was ata Will Buy “World 's Champion Cow Hon. C. M. Hamilton, minister of }agriculture, announces that Sas- peal cew en will purchase the world’s | champion Holstein cow from Een H. | Thompson, of Boharm, Sask., he’ | present owner, for $10,000, to prevent the loss of his gulendia animal to the | province. London's Automatic Lights One street in Barnes, London, S.W., for the last twelve months. street-lamp is fitted with a silenium cell, which is affected by either twi- light or fog, and turns on the light. Each Vateriney Surgeon: “Give this the mixture three times a day." Gile ‘Our cows don't bave table- spoons.” Meggendorfer Blaetter, Munich. them, Henry ‘Ford is quoted as say- ing, in an interview with Ralph Wal- do Trine, published in the January number of McClure’s magazine. The Detroit manufacturer. accord-| ing to the article, said a highly de- veloped moral sense was the only attribute of modern man that was not possessed by ancient peoples, _ He believes, Trine writes, that the moral sense was developed through re-incarnatron. “This globe has been inhabited by intelligent people millions of times,” | Ford is quoted as saying. ‘Very ancient. people, I believe, were highly developed in the arts and sciences. "I believe they had all or most of the things we think are the creations of modern progress. I am sure they had the automobile, the radio and the aeroplane. *T believe the time will come when man will even know what is going on in the other planets, perhaps be able to visit them. The mind is travelling faster than it did. The distribution and reception of new |ideas has been increased greatly.” Should Use Local Paper Chambers of Commerce are fre- quently blamed for not getting out more boost literature to be sent abroad. Those who raise these com- | plaints could do a grett deal them- selves by sending out the literature | that comes into their own hands in | | the form of their local newspaper's, Rest assured there is no business) | individual in a town more interested jin the growth of his community than is the editor or publisher, for as the town grows he grows. | has been lighted by automatic lamps_| Sandy’s Love Letter “Darlin' Maggie, I worship the ground you walk on. I like to ses you walk—it shows ye’re thrifty an’ vin’. The last time ye dyed her) dress it looked smarter than ever— next year it would look fine turned ootside in. Yer hat’s a picter—it's pretty enough to last a lifetime. ed by Hon. °C. M. Hamilton, minister| the South Pole has no polar bear and — of agriculture. |no walrus, its seals differ from those Mr. Hamilton stated that arrange-| lot the north, and it possesses sea ments had been made to leave the lions and birds,—mostly the penguin. vow in the care of Mr. Thomson at! Amundsen describes the penguin as “Braeburn” “farm at Boharm, six| the most characteristic creature of miles from Moose Jaw. “ Having de-| South Polar latitudes, walking like yeloped this animal as well as as a/a human being and a wonderfu! ‘number of: others with outstanding swimmers high records. Mr. ‘ Thomson is proba-| Yet another difference between the bly in a better position than anyone | North and South Polar regions is the else for trying her out for mature) absence of human inhabitants from record,” stated Mr. Hamilton. |the Antarctic continent whose aver- Shortly after Canary". beat the age temperature is about ten degrees previous world’s record, Mr. Thomson' lower than the Arctic. Yet the low- received an offer from the manager of) est temperature Amundsen struck one of the wealthy corporations opes~ there was 75 degrees below zero, ating a large Holstein herd in the, whereas he encountered 80 degrees United States. Mr. Hamilton saia ' below in the Arctic. The North Pole that since this became known he had be remarks, is drifting ice and very been flooded with requests from the} uncertain, but the South Pole can be dairy organizations of the province, | located as exactly as is possible with as well as from individual dairymen. travelling astronomical instruments. ‘and dairy manifacturers, that the|The latter region is an immense government should take action to plateau, with no cliff or anything to preyent the cow.going out of the| mark the Pole, a desert of unbroken province. lice, and presenting a remarkabie —_— {contrast to the North Pole desert Origin Of “Hansard” ss its broken and drifting ice masses. < Family Of That Name First Issued Reports Of Doings In Parliament “Hansard” is still spoken of in| connection witr official reports of} , Must Curt: Sretchoe Alberta Adopting Regulations Tried By House Of Commons New house rules are to be applied the Hansard rainy ceased long ago) during the forthcoming Session of to have anything to do with them.|the Alberta legislature. They are But for more than a cehtury “that modelled on the regulations adopted family did issue them, and it is a in the House of Commons, which litle over a hundred years ago sinch) Were given a thorough testing in the the founder of it died, He was a/ last federal Session. The object in brisk youth, He left his Norwich| both cases is to speed up the worl: home with no more than a guinea in of the session by curtailment of or his purse, got employment as a com-| atory and insistence on the presenta. positor with a London. firm, and inj tion of private measures before a a few years, before he was 23, be-| certain date. came head of the business which/to forty minutes, except in the case was worth $750,000 before he died. Is| Of ministers, Sroup leaders, and it lack of chances or lack of enter-) mémbers when introducing a paver’ prise and industry which account for| ment motion. our so seldom hearing of such rapid! advancement today? Speeches are limited What Puzzled Hin = Talkative Lady: Do yo | uu know, b Giant Planes Possible |fessor_I think you are reiute Aeroplanes may become as com- wonderful. Has anything sa mon ten years from noy as automo-! zled you ? IS ever puz- | | biles were ten years ago, Henry Ford, billionaire automobile manu-) facturer, predicted in a press state- ment at Washington. “There is no limit as to the size an aeroplane may | be built,” Ford said. “There are no drawbacks from the mechanical | viewpoint of increasing their size. | A Valuable Newspaper Schamson, of the Columbus News There's nacthing I wadna dae for) you, darlin’, If it wasna for the ex-| pense of the funeral, I'd lay me down and die for ye—‘Sandy.” | Gold Dredging At Medicine Hat A company formed in Medicine Hat with 90 miles of river front for gold-dredging in the river is expect-| ed to start work as soon us its) equipment arrives. This follows a two weeks’ visit of inspection here by G. L. Holmes, a California dredg- ing engineer. Reports appear to promise well. The Aztecs believed in special gods, who brought diseases and in other |soas who knew the healing secrets. Company, Columbus, Ohio, has re. fused an offer of $800 for a copy of the New York Herald of April 15, | 1865—the paper with the story of | Abraham Lincoln's Assassination. The paper originally sold for three cents. English Guide (showing places of interest): “It was in this very room, sir, that Nelson received his first commission.” American Touris much did he get,” ‘That so? How “You were miwWays a fault-find- er!” growled his wife. “Yes, dear,”| responded the husband, “I found| you.” — Professor (hored): One thing has. Talkative L' Ady: Ch, do tell me. Prof r: If flesh how is it th haye d Yes, “madam, And t is that, , exercise ‘ercisé — reduceg t so many women ouble chins | On rounds of the ladder | of fame. Applause “Did you have | Seaside 27" “No, unfori Moustique, Sunbaths at the tunately, Charleroi,