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WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Two naval airmen were killed
when their plane crashed and sank in
the Pacific ocean during the United
States fleet's war games, naval
officers reported.

The Girl Pat, Grimsby trawler
whose adventures astonished the
world last summer, has returned to
Portsmouth from Georgetown, Bri-
tish Guiana,

William Spears, whose father was
keeper of Flower Pot Island light-
house in the Georgian bay for 25
years, has been named keeper to
succeed him. .

United States Labor Secretary
Frances Perkins said that legislation
to fix “minimum working conditions”
tops the Roosevelt administration's
labor program.

Proclaimed the “most beautiful
milkmaid in the world” at a Sabetha,
Kas., farm fair, Miss Aloha Warner
seeks no greater glory. She declined
a stage offer and a possible oppor-
tunity because she “is too busy de-
livering milk” for her father’s dairy.

A despatch to the New York Times
records the death in Italy of Hugh
de Tenebrokes Glazebrook, 82, noted
portrait painter. He lived in Tor-
onto for a while as a young man,
‘and one of his paintings, “Lady in
Black,” hangs in the national gallery
in Ottawa.

An increase of nearly 10,000 pas-
Senger car licenses sold in the first
four months this year against the
figures for 1936 was believed a sound
indication of rising prosperity in Al-
berta, license department officials
said. Sales totalled 54,300 up till
May 1, 1937.

Colonel Mario Pezzi of Italy bet-
tered the world altitude for planes
by flying to an indicated height of
15,655 metres (51,361 feet). His
mark exceeded the record of Squad-
ron Leader F. R. D. Swain, of the
British Royal Air Force, listed st
15,223 metres (49,944 feet).

The University of Manitoba chem-
ists are working out a preparation
that will kill dandelions without in-
juring grass. They reported dande-
lions on Manitoba’s legislative
grounds lawns may be in for a short
life this spring. The new method of
killing them has not been revealed.

More Like Printing Press

Typewriter Used By Japanese Stenog-

/ rapher Has 3,500 Keys

Typists, whether they use the “hit
and miss” system or are graduates of
ae special “pound the key” course,
often feel that typing is one of the
most strenuous jobs extant. But if
they think they are overworked
they should call on Kathleen Tsuch-
ya at the Japanese Chamber of Com-
merce in San Francisco. Imagine a
typewriter with 3,500 keys. That's
what Kathleen works on when sheis
doing Japanese letters. She “hunts
and pecks” over this number of sep-
arate ideographs of a Japanese type-
writer to produce the string of hier-
oglyphics which make up a Japa-
nese letter. An unnamed Oriental
genius invented the machine and fit-
ted 38,500 pieces of metal type into
Pigeon holes and devised an arm that
lifts each one up and impresses it
upon letter paper. The funny part
about the story is that when it arriv-
ed from Japan, puzzled customs of-
ficers finally classified it as a print-
ing press. There are six Japanese
typists in San Francisco but Call-
fornia-born Miss Tsuchiya is the only
one who writes both English and
Japanese—St. Thomas Times-Jour-
nal.

Romance Of Industry

Business In England Built Up From
Small Start

The erection, at present taking

place on a 4%4-acre site, of a factory

for dry-cleaning, dyeing, carpet beat-

Rights Have Been Maintained
Basques Have Been Described As
Race Within A Race

The world is hearing much to-day
of Spain's Basques. Who are they?
| Living in three northeast provinces
|of Spain, they are a race within a
|race. Mr, Lloyd George sald the|
other day that the Basques were)
blood-brothers of the Welsh, but Mr.
| Lloyd George's forte isn't history,
| and the matter is by no means clear,
| Up to the fifteenth century the
Basques were for all practical pur-
poses an independent people within}
Spain; speaking their own language, |

their own it and)
traditions. When they did come un-)
der Spanish Kings they maintained
certain rights and privileges, and
these, through all political upheavals
since, have been more or less main-
tained.

A picturesque, lovable and brave
people, the Basques are famous for)
the apples they grow, for the cider
they make, also .for their wines.
Many of them engage in fishing, and
some in mining, and the country is
fairly rich in iron ores.

The Basques, contrary to a gen-
eral are not C
Almost overwhelmingly they are
Catholics, in many ways the most
Catholic people in Spain. But the
Basques are Nationalists, are clearly
skeptical of the legions of Hitler and
Mussolini and the Moors of Franco
in the guise of “Christian Crusaders.”
—Ottawa Journal.

The Significance Of History

Archbishop Of Canterbury Defends
Use Of Coronation Rites

In an introduction to the order of
service in the official Coronation
program, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury takes to task persons who may
ask, “are not all these ancient rites
and ceremonies quite out of place in
this modern world?”

The question, says the Archbishop,
“surely argues a singular lack of
imagination—of that faculty which
visualizes the significance of his-
tory.

“Tt is no mere paradox to say that
the very merit and meaning of these
rites is precisely that they are in a
sense ‘out of date’. How could this
wonderful stability and continuity of
the national history be more impres-
sively shown? But in another sense
they are most truly—to use the com-
mon phrase—'up to date’.

“Consider the world around us—
ancient empires and van-

| about 400,000,000 acres under wheat,

The World’s Wheat Field
Occupies Only About One Per Cent.
Of The Total Land In
The World

How large is the world's wheat
field? The food research bureau of
Stanford University gives some in-
teresting statistics. The world has

which is about twice the acreage de-
voted to maize or to rice, the grains
that come next in importance,

The world’s wheat field occupies
about one per cent. of the total land
in the world, about six per cent. of
the potential arable and pasture land,
about 11 per cent. of all land suit-
able for wheat cultivation and about
17 per cent. of the arable land now
being utilized.

While wheat is grown both north
and south of the equator, about 90
per cent, of the worlds wheat acre-
age Iles in the northern hemisphere.
Asia alone contains more than a
third of the world’s wheat acreage,
Europe a little less than a third,
North America less than a quarter.

The country with the largest
wheat acreage is Russia, 78,400,000
acres. The British Empire has 72,-
$00,000, Canada’s share being under
80,000,000 acres. The United States
has 65,300,000 acres, China 49,100,000
acres, the French Empire 22,400,000
acres and the Italian Empire 12,000,-
000 acres.

The Average Driver

Certain Minor
When In A Hurry

The average motorist, according to
a spokesman for the Harvard Uni-
versity bureau for street traffic re-

Displays Failings

SOLVE YOUR
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By Anne Adams

Want to look cool and crisp when

search, has good intentions, is fairly
skilful and {s, on the whole, a safe!
driver. Then why are thousands on
this continent dying in traffic acci-|
dents and hundreds of thousands of
others being injured every year?)
The average driver who is, on the!
whole, a safe driver can not be ex-!
empt from responsibility. 1
The Harvard bureau spokesman
places responsibility squarely upon!
that driver. He does get into acci-)
dents. Why? Not because he is un-
skilled or habitually reckless. He!
gets into accidents and becomes in-
volved in slaughter because “he has
certain minor failings which assume
major importance when he is in a
hurry.” It is the duty of the aver-
age driver, therefore, to face his
minor failings squarely and see to it
that they do not become dominant
in emergencies and make him re-
for ‘ry and seri-

ished, new dictatorships created,
everywhere restlessness and uncer-
tainty about the future. In the midst
our King is to be crowned with the
same rites as those with which his

have been d for

ous property damage.—Galt Re-
porter.

Evidently Not On Diet

more than 1,000 yars.”

Britain Means Business

People Willing To Carry Heavy Tax
Load For Rearmament

Anyone who doubts that Britain is
in dead earnest about rearming has
only to look at the tax load the Bri-
tishers are willing to carry these
days.

Before Neville Chamberlain, chan-
cellor of the exchequer, brought in
his new budget with its higher rates,
the British taxpayer was shelling
2214 per cent. of his income to the
government in a direct ¢ax. Beyond
that he was carrying a load of
“nuisance” taxes whose weight can
be appraised by the size of those
affecting motorists.

British motorists have been paying
taxes of 16 cents on each gallon of
gasoline. They also pay a horse-
power tax on their autos, so set up
that a man who owns a 25-horse-
power car must pay $125 a year for
his license.

When a nation that fs paying taxes
at such rates submits to still heavier
taxes for the sake of rearmament, it
must be admitted that such a nation
is decidedly in earnest about its

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ing and in Woly Pp
England, forms a chapter in a
romance of industry. The great Mid-
land towns of England have long
been famous for their self-made men,
but on this occasion it is a self-made
woman, Mrs. Marshall, who directs

the business. The firm, which began!

sixteen years ago, with one small
shop, now has two factories (apart
from the one being built) and 62
branch shops located in six Midland
counties.
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Water Taken From Air

Water is taken from the air by
huge, dome-shaped “air wells” which
are being built in dry areas of
Europe. The warm outdoor air en-
ters the dome through the openings,
and {s robbed of its moisture by con-
tact with the cold interior.

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News by radio can’t take the place
‘a newspaper. You can't hunt it

up later to settle an argument,

A Healthy Pastime

Talking Builds Up The Lungs States
Leading Specialist

Talking is one of the most health-

giving pastimes. A leading French

lung specialist points out that many

human ills result from weakness or
deterioration of the lungs. Intensive
talking, he declares, strengthens

these delicate organs. As women are
supposed to love gossiping, he sug-
gests that this may explain why
there are many more widows in the|
world than widowers—talking makes/
the women live longer.

The University of Edinburgh was
founded in 1582 through a charter
granted by King James VL. of Scot-
land.

There are 1,024,000 persons by the
name of Johnson in the United
Btates.

Last King Was Served
Heavy Coronation Dinner

The original menu for the corona-

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A Lucky Purchase

Heredity it Intelligence

Investigation Finds That There Is
Very Little Connection

Dr. Donald Snygg, of the Uni-
versity of Toronto, said that there is
apparently little relation between
heredity and intelligence.

Reporting on a study of 312 chil-
dren placed in foster homes by the
Toronto infants’ home and their
mothers, he told the Mid-Western
Psychological Association:

“Results of the study offer little
comfort to those who insist the in-
telligence of a child is unalterably
fixed by its heredity. There is every
indication that the effect of heredity
upon the inteligence quotient is much
less than many have supposed.”

His survey covered the infants’
homes records over a period of about
eight years. Only those children
whose mothers’ intelligence rating
had been established were considered.

Dr. Snygg said the best showing

was by children whose mothers were
in the average intelligence group—
with mental ratings of 10 to 13 years
of age.
The 77 mothers in that category
produced 17 children whose “I.Q.”
was in the superior class, a number
equalling that of both the other
groups.

“While definitely subnormal moth-
ers had a slightly higher percentage
of dull children,” Dr. Snygg said,
“The majority of their children had
normal intelligence and the percent-
age of superior children compared
with that of other mothers.

“There appears to be some correla-

| Gardening — 1

Several sowings of each vegetable
are advised, otherwise all mature at
the same time, and then there will b
|a feast of a famine. After all, wi
such things as radish, spinach, ,
corn or practically adiythtsys else fo
that matter, the time they are reall
worth eating is when they are fresh
that is, just mature.
Those who know all about the a:
of good gardening, advocate ns
good, safe rule covering the seed to

a depth equal to about three times”
the diameter. Now the beginner is
not advised to procure a pair of call-
pers and work out the diameter of
the great variety of seeds he or she
hopes to plant. This Is a rough rule
only. With tiny seed like that of the
Poppy or the onion, seed about the —
size of a grain of sugar, merely
Pressing into the soil will be suffici- —
ent. With large things like gladioli
and dahlia bulbs or tatoes, this —
rule will call for depth of several —
inches. With peas, beans and corn it
will mean about an inch.
Too much stress can hardly be laid
on the necessity of thinning. After
the plants come up, one is urged to
stop and consider just how big these
are going to be in a few weeks. It
may be only six inches, in which case —
the plants should need only to be
spaced a few inches apart. But sup-
pose it is the cosmos or the larger
type of zinnias or marigolds that are
being considered. These will reach
from 18 inches to four feet when
fully grown. Such things require ©
much room on all sides if sym-
metrical and sturdy plants that will
be both beautiful and storm resist-
ing, are to be the result. Crowded
plants will invariably be spindly and
weak in the stem, Experts advise
allowing about half as much space
between as the plant will be high,
whether it be vegetable, flower or

Size 16 takes 344 yards 38) gen,

Adams Pattern Dept., Winnipeg , Germany, whose hydrogen-filled dirig-

Diamonds Worth $15,000 Found In
Auction Room Bureau

The old bureau in the auction room

was rather attractive. A woman at

tion of Kalakaua, the last king of

Hawaii, which has just been eel

ered, indicates he was not on a diet.

The official dinner was in the!
Iolani Palace, now the territorial
governor's office. The menu includ-
ed three soups, six varieties of fish, |
in addition to crabs and lobsters, |

Geelong in Australia thought it

drawers, and peeping in the cup-

To her amazement she

| touched a secret spring, came upon

seven kinds of roasted meat, two 4 niqden drawer, and foung a little

curries, potatoes, peas, corn, spinach, |
seven wines, six desserts fruit, liquor
and beer.

Just A Circular Room
A planetarium is a circular room
over which is a

"| bundle of sheep’s wool.

Inside were
diamonds worth $15,000.

More Polite Sign
In direct contrast to such blunt
signs as “Keep Off the Grass,” a

steel dome serving as a screen upon
which, by means of an intricate pro-
Jector, it is possible to show in a
realistic manner every star or other
object in the sky that {s visible to
the naked eye.

Hiawatha, immortalized in Long-
fellow’s poem, was a real Mohawk
Indian.

psy experiment undertaken
by the park department appeared in
Fort Tyron Park, New York. The
experiment was in the form of a
tastefully designed signpost which
bore the following legend:

Let no one say, and say it to your

shame, /
That all was beauty here, unti
you came.
The Shell-Mex House, London

Daimler is said to have built the
first V-type engine in 1888.

Motion picture films made in
Japan in the last year numbered 496,

office building, contains 1,486 win-
| dows, 365 steel doors, 700 wooden
| doors and more than 20 miles of hot
and cold water pipes. Its elevators
can carry 10,000 persons in an hour.

would look well in one of her rooms,’
and so made a bid for it, buying it] two-fifths cent a cubic foot.
|for $35. When it reached her house
jshe began dusting. it, opening the

‘decrepit village priest to the visiting

shrub.

tion between the intelligence quo-
tient of mothers and of thelr children
who have been reared in foster
homes, but the relationship is so
slight that knowledge of a mother's
intelligence quotient is of very little
value in predicting the intelligence
quotient of her child.”

Mystery Of Stonehenge

Prevailing Theory Is Wrong Accord-
ing To A French Scientist
When Stone Age man and his wife
in Britain went to worship at the
famed place called Stonehenge, they
may have had comfortable seats in-
doors. In other words, the great
stone circle of ruins, now one of Eng-
land’s prize mysteries, may once
have been a covered temple.
Visitors at Stonehenge gaze up at
the sixteen-foot stones that outline a =
great circle. They point out the
inner circle and horseshoe of stones,
and the altar-like arrangement of
stones within. In their minds, they
conjure up a picture of Stone Age
Britons gathering in the open air by
moonlight or at sunrise for strange,
barbaric rites of worship. 3
But that prevailing picture {5
wrong, according to a theory ad-
vanced by Prof. A. Vayson de Prad-
enne of the University of Paris, in
the British archaeological journal
Antiquity. The prehistorie builders
constructed a roof and walls of mas-
sive beams and earthen plaster over
the stonework skeleton, he believes. —
To see what the building was like, ;
we have only to look at a North
American Indian earth lodge, in the
Great Plains region.—Victoria Times.

Recalls Old Mystery

Widow Of First Mate On Phantom
Ship Is Dead

Mrs. Frances N. Richardson, 91,
widow of the first mate on “the phan-
tom ship” the Marie Celeste, whose
crew vanished on the high seas in
1873, died recently in New York—
the mystery of her husband's fate
still unsolved.

As a bride, Mrs. Richardson stood
down on the dock and waved good-
bye to her husband, Albert, and the 7
crew as the Marie Celeste sailed for
Genoa from New York harbor with —
a cargo of alcohol in casks. "3

She never saw her husband again.
The British bark, Del Gratia, found
the Marie Celeste floating on the
ocean off the Azores Dec. 4, 1873,

If it were not for the sun's attrac-| nearly a month after she sailed—no
tions, Jupiter would, because of its) man aboard.
size, kidnap the other planetsand add) The cargo was undisturbed, there
them to the flock of nine moons! were no signs of disorder, and food
which already circle about it. had been prepared for the next meal.

Tee ae | The gold watch of the skipper, Capt.

Helium Gas

Most Of The World's Supply Is
Refined In Texas

Most of the world’s helium supply
is refined from natural gases at a
United States government plant
seven and one-half miles west of
Amarillo, Texas.

Only slightly heavier than hydro-
lightest of all chemical ele-
ments, helium penetrates gas bags
far less rapidly than hydrogen. This,
and the fact that it is non-explosive,
makes it a prize sought after by
many foreign governments, especially

ible Hindenburg crashed in flames,

Helium was first discovered in
1868 when scientists noted it as a
pale yellow band in the spectrum of
the sun after a 27-year search.
Helium was Isolated from Texas
gases, and to-day the Amarillo plant
has a capacity of 20,000,000 cubic
feet a year.

Iri 1918 the gas cost $2,500 per
cubic foot. Now it is being made for

Other deposits of helium are found
in Canada, which produces about
5,000,000 cubic feet annually, and in
Kansas.

An Unusual Record

Italian Town Has No Births Or
Deaths For Three Years

For three years there have been no
deaths among the 400 people of San
Gottardo, Italy, and several of the
men and women are over 100 years
old, I have almost forgotten how to
recite the funeral service,” said the

bishop. There also have been no
births in San Gottardo in the three
years.

There are 7,407 miles of raflways
within the boundaries of Rumania.

B. S. Briggs, hung on its chain be-
side his empty berth.

‘The above sketch is from the pen of Dr. Vernier Rondeau, dental surgeon of Rouleau, Sask. It depicts a rural
2203! scene common in the province of Quebec where the doctor spent his childhood.

RURAL QUEBEC

Sound Travels Far

Dynamite Blast In Arctic Was Heard
2,000 Miles Away é
City dwellers may think the
world’s biggest noise is the daily
arrival of the milkman around sun-
rise, but it is recorded that the vol-
canic eruption of the Island of Kra-
| katoa in 1883 was heard 1,400 miles
| away, in Bangkok, Siam, A dynamite
| blast set off in the Arctic in 1933
| was heard 2,000 miles distant, in Ber-
lin. A peculiarity of the long-dis-
tance sound waves which carry such
| detonations is that closer to the ex-
| plosions there are zones of silence
in which the noise {s not heard.—
Christian Science Monitor.

‘Tuberculosis of the spine has been
noted in human skeletons more than
10,000 years old.

Some parrots have been known to
live for 60 years. »