wer — >, BREE 2 9 nese mm me ae Re A 4 ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS WORLD HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY TOLD Believed killed in the battle of Jut- land, John Evans, stoker in the royal navy, turned up recently, He w discharged from the navy in 1919. The grasshopper plague does not | aunt farmers in Missouri, They are} harvesting the pests for winter poul- try feed. The Women’s Road Records Asso- ciation standard figures for London to Portsmouth and back were re-| duced by SS minutes by a woman| cyclist, Mrs. Lillian Dredge. Norman Prior, 46, was bound over] for a year when he appeared in court| at Battersea, Eng, charged with theft of $12.50, his daughter's holi- day money. Personal treasures of royalty from| the earliest times to the present will be shown at the Royal Treasures Ex- hibition next April and May as a special attraction for coronation year. British Columbians spent more than $14,000,000 on beer, wines and hard liquor in the 12 months ending last March 31. The figures were made public by the liquor control board. i A new British gliding record was believed set the other day when Philip Wills, shipping merchant, covered approximately 110 miles in his British-made machine. Previous record was 75 miles. For the first time in many years, British Columbia wheat may be shipped to southern Alberta. Seed wheat may be obtained from a 12,000 acres farm near Creston, B.c., for drouth districts in the south. Discovery of several tar sands de- posits between Lac la Nonne and Lac Ste. Anne and other deposits west of Lacombe, containing enough sands for hard-surfacing “a good many miles” of roads, was announced by Hon. W. A. Fallow, Alberta minister of public works. Honor German War Dead Canadian Olympians Place Wreath On Grave Of Unknown Soldier Canadian Olympians paid tribute to Germany’s war dead, placing a wreath of maple leaves on the grave of the unknown soldier. ‘The ceremony, held in what was once the palace of Frederick the Great, attracted thousands promen- ading Unter Den Linden. It was the first in which an official Canadian party had honored the war dead of Germany since the armistice. Dr. Ross Millar, director of medi- cal services for the department of pensions and national health, repre- sented the Canadian government. Grouped around the memorial with 80 members of the Dominion's Olympic team were representatives of the German foreign office and the British embassy. The Canadian athletes, both men and women, travelled downtown by bus and paraded the last two blocks to the memorial. William “Torchy” Peden, world famous professional bicycle racer from Victoria, and Tom Allison, coach of the Canadian row- ing team, marched at the head of the parade, carrying the wreaths. Money For Television B.B.C. Likely To Need More Funds To Launch Seryice Although all plans for launching television service from London in October have been made by the Bri- tish Broadcasting Corporation, more funds may be needed. Official regu- lar three-hour daily programmes will begin at that time. A television staff) of 100 has been appointed and are working in Alexandra Palace, new home of the project. “Our plans for television are complete,” said a B.B.C. official, “but no one can say what ditures will be n for launching and maintaining the new service. Already the $900,000 granted the Television Committee has been exceeded. Programme ex- penditure must be extra.” essary Putting It Mildly - ; A Remarkable Worn Social Reform Worker In England Dies At 85 One of the most remarkable wo- men of modern times died in London j recently, at the age of 85, just when a great scheme of social reform which she started 30 years ago was coming to triumphant completion. She was Dame Henrietta Barnett, founder of Hampstead Garden Sub- urb, who died at her home there, fn South Square. A friend of Queen Mary—who more than once visited the Garden Suburb to open new buildings—Dame Henrietta was the widow of the late Canon S. A. Barnett, who left a West End parish to work among the poor of Whitechapel. She had a vast range of social activities, and her amazing health ‘and energy up to the time of her breakdown just over 18 months ago she ascribed to five simple rules. They were: Rise at 5:30 a.m. every day. Work very hard; Read newspapers day; Eat yery little; Say your prayers very often. Dame Henrietta threw herself carefully every wholeheartedly into her husband's}; work in the East End. They per- suaded a number of undergraduates, including the late Arnold Toynbee, to spend their holidays with them in Whitechapel, and out of the enthu- siasm for social service thus en- gendered grew the the world-famous institution known as Toynbee Hall. How To Spend A Million Interesting Contest Being Held In Middle-Western U.S. City Fiction abounds with tales of the man who has a million dollars and doesn't know what to do with it, and once in a while it happens in real life. In the current Atlantic Monthly, BLIND VETERANS GIVE AMAZING DISPLAY part in St. Dunstan’s Ex-servyicemen’s Recently several blind oarsmen travelled to Putney, ws England, to take Regatta, and put on an amazing dis- play. Above we see Sir Ian Fraser congratulating some of his blind com- patriots after they had won the London Rowing Cup. known to Canadians for his work in picture, Captain Baker, well- the Dominion, is on the left of the Historic Sites Two More Monuments To Com- memorate Settlement Of The West Erection of two more monuments which will commemorate in stone the saga of the settlement of the west are under consideration by the historic monuments and sites board, Ottawa, Judge F. W. Howay, New there appears the of such @ one. The anonymous gentleman, who is youched for by his bankers, lives in a middle-western city of 100,000. He is getting on and he wishes to leave the community a million dollars. The town has ample educational, library, playground, and recreational facilities. How, then, shall he leave his million so that it will do the most good? He Offers a $1,000 prize to the person giving him the best answer. Here is, undoubtedly, the most in- teresting contest in many moons. The public is eternally invited to de- vise advertising slogans and melting testimonials for various products, but telling a millionaire how to leave his million—that is a real contest. It sounds easy, but lest anyone thinks so, let him try to formulate a sane, workable plan for using a million dollars for the greatest public good. A million dollars to be used in a way which shall benefit all, old and young, the butcher, the baker, the candle- stick maker—it would tax the wis- dom of Solomon or profligacy of Tugwell.—Detroit Saturday Night. Used Crude Instruments Doctor In East India Performed Operation Under Difficulties An eye operation performed on a woman in India with hair pins, crochet hooks and a pair of embrold- ery scissors as makeshift instruments was described to the East India As- sociation recently by Sir Henry Tri-| He had been engag-| stram Holland. ed in medical work in Baluchistan for 36 years, and is devoting his fur- | lough to the raising of funds for re- building the hospital at Quetta. “The woman had a double catar- act,” he said. “She refused to go to hospital, so I decided to operate un- der a juniper tree. “A woman provided me with a fine crochet hook, which acted as an iris hook. From some hair pins we made |a rough and ready eye speculum, and a pair of embroidery scissors served for fris scissors. I had with me some cocaine, a cataract knife and a pair of fixation forceps. I operated on both eyes and the old Pathan woman had an excellent re-| sult in spite of my treatment.” Sir Henry also told of a native| B.C., western member of the board, announced in Winni- peg. One will commemorate the old Dawson road from the head of Lake Superior to Winnipeg. It will prob- ably be erected in the neighborhood of St. Anne des Chenes, 28 miles east of Winnipeg, Judge Howay said, and may take the form of a cairn. Tentative plans indicate it will be built this year, for dedication next year. The second monument will com- memorate the founding of Fort Maurepas at the mouth of the Win- nipeg river by La Verendrye. This monument will, according to Judge Howay, not only commemorate the founding of the fort, but will em- phasize also the general trading im- portance of the spot.—Winnipeg Free Press. Heads Poultry Judges Association The department of agriculture dis- closed that George Robertson, Do- minion poultry husbandman, was elected president of the American Poultry Judges’ Association at its recent Topeka, Kas., meeting. Mr. Robertson is the first Canadian to be given presidency of the associa- tion in its 53 years’ existence. New Zealand's Milk Law Milk restrictions in Britain are not as severe as they are in Auck- land, New Zealand, where it is against the law to choose your own milkman. The Milk Council chooses the milkman for you, and if you sack him you go without milk. Small Thanks For Favors Free Publicity Space In Hon. R. B. Bennett And Mayor McGeer Fraternize At Vancouver One for the political books: Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett was noth- ing less than “fidus Achates—freely translated, “faithful friends'’— of Mayor G. G. McGeer after they had fraternized in opening the Van- couver golden jubilee, The Latin phrase is Mr, Bennett's but he quall- fled it with, “for a week.” Acknowledging a copy of a photo- graph taken at Port Moody, July 3, showing Mr. Bennett and the mayor and the engineer and conductor of the first transcontinental train to arrive there 50 years ago, Mr. Ben- nett wrote to Mr. McGeer: “The photograph is historic. I fancy it is seldom in the history of transportation that an engineer and conductor who opened a service have been able, 50 years afterwards, to taken a train over the same route, “There is one thing certain, they little dreamed then they would be photographed with the mayor of Vancouver and his fidus Achates for a week.” Some brushing up of rusty Latin revealed that Achates was the staunch friend of Aeneas. The phrase has become synonymous with “faith- ful friend,’ and Mayor McGeer was very pleased. Becomes Advisory Editor Allan Dafoe Joins Staff Of Parents’ Magazine Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, physician to the Dionne quintuplets, has be- come an advisory editor of the Par- Dr. Seldom Acknowledged We have often reflected upon the slowness of people to thank editors for the favors which do ents’ it In a this position, this physician, who has al- ready written several articles on child health for the magazine, joins -} Two-Storey Machine Just Designed Upper Berths In Plane & Will Carry 66 Passengers We are not quite sure if you ¢ go up to bed in the Zeppelins bu you may soon do so in a two-sto; sleeper plane. From Holland, for example, comes word that Anthon Fokker has designed a “two-storey” passenger plane which will carry 66 passengers with adequate sleepin accommodations, dressing rooms and — the like. Nats? This new “F-56" {s described as merely an “enlargement” of thi Fokker “F-36", now in service the “London, Amsterdam and Ber! route.” The latter carries 32 pa sengers comfortably. The new “F-56', equipped with most of th ; modern conveniences, {s not con- sidered an experiment since its de sign on smaller scale has met all the tests of regular commercial service. Its maximum speed is figured at 225 miles an hour and its “cruising speed” at 200 miles in high altitudes and 185 miles at 6,600 feet. Its “absolute ceiling” is reached, we are told at 26,000 feet, while the “ser- 3 vice ceiling’ is 24,700 feet. ae The famous Dutch designer parently foresees an era of extreme “high-flying’ air liners’ that will make their long-distance flights at — altitudes around 20,000 feet. Not ing is said about the cruising rang of his hotel-type cruiser, but pi sumably his design will adopt it to transoceanic service and provide fuel storage sufficient for the long flight oversea routes where refueling sta tions: must be few and far between, —Brandon Sun. Sy a & 4 j Germany Buying Back Steel Scrap Metal From Scapa Floy for them. Individuals and organiza- tions are constantly asking for pub- licity to assist them in promoting various kinds of worthy causes. Space is the only commodity aside from circulation which publishers have to sell, and this is a fact which too many seem to forget. Some are even critical of the favorable notices which we give them and their pro- jects. A still greater number forget to make any acknowledgment of the courtesy extended to them. We have in mind a biblical instance of in- gratitude in which only one in ten was thoughtful enough to return face—Toronto Mail and Empire. Factory Nearing Ci with thanks on his lips and in his the jpany of other advisory editors, Katharine Lenroot, chief of the United States Children’s Bureau; Angelo Patri, authority on child edu- cation, and Mrs, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, of the American Association for Adult Education. The Fortress Of Aden Is Important Point On Britain's Route To Far East It will be news to most Canadians, says the Toronto Mail and Empire, that Aden, the important British post at the southern end of the Red Sea, is a part of British India. This information comes to us in an an- nouncement from London that when including Miss|" Being Re-Smelted _ i The German battleships surrender- ed after the war at Scapa Flow a going back to Germany as part of their modern navy. Y [ ‘Their steel plates and guns are cu! into suitable lengths of scrap meta Germany is the biggest buyer of this, and her demands have lately become intense. ra, The scrap metal is taken to the German steel works and there smelted into ships’ plates for war- ships. : Incidentally, many of the steel plates of the liner Queen Mary w ere forged from the resmelted steel the German battleships, and some steel on board her also came fi the Mauretania. 6. The million-dollar sugar factory being erected at Picture Butte, Alta., is rapidly nearing completion and should be ready for operation ahead tion contract, 15. handle a Sept. territory. Method Seems To Work garian duelists, never hit. He still hearty. son. When the kettle boils, | letters before you get them.’ Make This Newest Notion in Knits upon whom he operated when the! man fell from a palm tree. Immedi-| ately after the operation he was) hoisted on to a camel and taken 70 miles to the nearest railway station to be sent to hospital. The man| made a perfect recovery. When the umpire was leaving the grounds after a game between two rival baseball teams, he ap- proached by an irate fan. “Where is your dog?” demanded the fan. “Dog?” ejaculated the umpire. “I haven't any dog.” “You're the only blind man I ever saw who didn't have a dog’ was No Pure White Color The color of perfect white does not exist on earth. Closest to it are| new fallen snow and purest chalk. 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He has fought 68 duels, many of which were fast and furious, but was is hale and Father—Now I want to put a little scientific question to you, my why does steam come out of the spout?” | Son—‘So mother can open your g goes into in British India on April 1 next, Aden will be separated from India and be- come a British colony under a goy- ernor and commander-in-chief, Aden is, of course, an important fortress on Britain’s route to the Far East and Australia. Alpine Club A. S. Sibbald Of Saskatoon Re- Elected President At Annual Meeting A. S. Sibbald of Saskatoon, was re-elected president of the Alpine Club of Canada at the organization's annual meeting in the Fryatt valley camp near Jasper, Alta. Ferris Neave of Winnipeg was elected eastern vice-president, and G. G. Wates, Edmonton, western vice-president. Other officers included: Secretary, S. H. Mitchell, Victoria; secretary- treasurer, Major W. R. Tweedy, Van- couver. Royal Air Force Creation Of A Volunteer Reserve Open To Civilians Viscount Swinton, secretary for air, announced in the house of lords the creation of a volunteer reserve for the Royal Air Force. He said it was designed to provide an adequate reserve of pilots for the expanded alr force and was open only to civilians. Eight hundred pilots are required annually, compared with 60 before the expansion. Age limit for the entry of the volunteer pilots will be between 18 and 25. They will receive an annual retaining fee of $25. Had His Objections An old fellow, crossing the At- lantic, was leaning over the rail when the information fiend tapped him on the shoulder. “Sir,” he said, with a wave of his hand, “do you know that if the earth were flattened out the sea would be miles deep all over the world?” The old fellow looked impressed. “Well,” he replied, “if you catch shoot him on the spot. I can’t swim!” The education committee will Manchester, England, establish special classes in schools at for children ‘& Staging Unique Race Ai Nova Scotia Ox-Teams Will Sho wv ‘Their Speed ‘ Nova Scotia’s ox-teams, “slow= mobiles” of coastal villages, going to get a chance to show what they can do. = nc ae Officials of the Halifax distri trades and labor council announce 1 the “race of the century” for ox- teams Sept. 1, Labor day. They hayen’t decided the length of th course yet, nor the time Jimibo “oases Already one entry is in. The co! ed people of Preston, near Halifax entered “Gee-Haw,” the racing pride of the village. ~ r “Gee-Haw” and the others, if any others enter, will pull the regular ox-cart. It’s a go-as-you-please event —walk, run, trot, gallop or pace. 4 Bluenose Fitted With Engines Champion Fishing Schooner Make Trial Spin Under Power = Not quite so rakish with her top-— masts and bowsprit removed, but not so dependent on the whims of wind © after installation of new engines, th international champion 4 schooner Bluenose made her first. trial spin under power recently. Me With 300 passengers aboard, th schooner drove out to the Cros {sland buoy and returned, Captain Angus Walters said the change made “ little difference in the working a 3 manoeuvring of his ship. She made nine miles per hour un- der power, he said, and would 4 better after the engines had bee broken in. Bluenose will not be out of any future fishing schooner races. Ata moment's notice her two new engin can be removed and the old bow- sprit and topmast returned to thei proper places. : Madge—If we are going to married, you must give up smoking drinking, and your clubs. Now isn’t there something you should give of your own accord? Ted—Yes, all {dea of ma you. in Braille type by the National | stitute for the Blind, is publishe¢ 75,000 blind of the United Kingdé