ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS == WORLD HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY TOLD The Free State Department . of Education estimates it will take 20 years to make the Free State bilin- gual to the same extent as Canada. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police training station is to be established in Halifax. About 25 mena month will be graduated at Wellington barracks. The hottest day in two summers was recorded at Buenos Aires, when the temperature reached 101.5 de- grees Fahrenheit on December 31. One case of sunstroke occurred. The ending of Soviet Russia’s first five-year plan and the beginning of the second plan has been acclaimed at Moscow, Russia, by the Soviet press. E The Ontario Government has placed a herd of elk on a 385-acre reserve near Petawawa, with the in- tention of ultimately stocking the forests with them. R Dr. W. W. Yen, head of the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations during the past year, was appointed ambassador to Russia by the Nation- alist government. Another of the problems that both- er blind folk has been solved. The first cheque ever written in “Braille” has been cashed by the Bank of Man- hattan Company at New York, A collection of portraits of mem- bers of all the royal families of Eu- _ rope is to be left to the British Mu- seum. It has been compiled by Mrs. Thomas Brooklehank, now more than 80 years old. A bronze bust of Bliss Carman, the poet, whose ashes lie in Forest Hill cemetery in Fredericton, has arrived from British Columbia and will be placed in the library of the Univers- ity of New Brunswick. Eyes and Nervous Strain Trying To See In Bad Light Causes Waste Of Energy Your whole body wastes energy _ when your eyes are strained by try- ing to see in bad light, reported Doc- tor M. Luckless and Frank Moss at a session of the American Assoc‘a- tion for the advancement of science. Nervous muscular tension of a man reading a book increases or decreas- es in direct proportfon to the amount of light falling on the book. A possible aid to study of cancer, discovery of the organism that ap- parently plays a leading part in pro- ducing cancer in plants was described by Dr. Michael Levine, of Montegiore Hospital, New York. The organism he has isolated seems to be what causes cells of a plant to maultiply rapidly and produce a tu- mor. Human cancer results from a similar abnormally fast growth of cells, but the organism that causes it is not known. Study of how the organism works, said Dr. Levine, may throw some light on the cancer problem in general. Unusual Law Suits Judge In Scotland Puzz'ed Over Case About Bees Because a swarm of bees alighted on the land of Henry Gow, of Dun- fermline, Scotland, Peter Coutts has twice sued Gow. The first time he asked Coutts for the value of the bees. At the end of the honey season he demanded the price of honey which he said he would have had if Gow had sent the buzzers home. Gow claims that in their first season in a new home bees do not produce honey so that he really is out the cost of | feeding them The puzzled judge post- | poned the case to thinks it over. Perfect Book Is Short Opinion Given By Prince George In Address At London THE PRINCE PURCHASES SPEBDIER CRAFT FOR HIS JAUNTS S Our picture shows the Prince of Wales in the usual informal dress in which he makes his flights, while in the background is a photo of the new “Foxmouth” he has purchased for his private use. with a 130 h.p. Gipsy Major engine, has a continuous cruising speed of 110 miles an hour. It is a similar type of machine to that which won the King’s Cup Race around Britain last July. Painted in royal blue and dark red, colours of the Household Brigade, the machine is reported to be the acme of perfection. The machine is fitted Business For Coast Province B.C Likely To Increase Apple and Lumber Exports To Britain British Columbia should reap im- portant benefits from the new trade agreement between Canada and Ger- many. Provincial plants should ob- tain a share of the $1,000,000 in- creased market for wood pulp with Germany and the B.C. apple market should be considerably enlarged. British Columbia may increase her lumber exports to the United King- dom during the coming year to 152,- 000,000 feet. This compares with 87,000,000 feet shipped during the past year, a gain of more than 70 per cent. or treble that shipped in 1931, when 50,000,000 feet created a record. Winnipeg Newspaper Union SCHOOL WEAR THAT IS CHIC AND SO LOVELY WITHOUT A COAT » A lovely sheer woollen in brown tweed mixture because Paris made it so popular, is choze: smart junior for her coat-l'ke dress. The trim is plain orangy-red as are | the buttons and belt buckle. Prince George functioned as a book-critic for a few moments when he addressed the Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights, and Compos- ers at London recently, and formulat- ed his ideal of the perfect book. “I think,” he said, “most people feel that books should be short. Most of us have only odd moments to read, and we want information or ente tainment in a form that we can grip as quickly as possible.” Idea Did Not Work Stewards on the “Empress of Bri- tain” had arranged to get George Bernard Shaw’s signature to sell to! autograph seekers. When one pur-| chases drinks in the Cathay lounge one signs a bill. The stewards intend- ed to pay for the drinks themselves and keep the bill—until they discoy- ered Shaw was a teetotaler. W. N. U. 1976 Besides woollen, firmly woven cot- tons, rayon novelties and linen can be used for this darling schoo} dress. And it needs no telling how sim- ple it is to fashion it. The small cost is really amazing. | Style No. 989 is designed for sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 re- quires 2% yards of 39-inch material with 14 yard of 35-inch contrasting. Price of pattern 20 cents in stamps or coin (coin is preferred), Wrap coin carefully. How To Order Patterns Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg Pattern NOs. co.» 909 + SIZOr cer ccsceny INAS oho aco seersvesn cons se See stue (Town .....220+++- Uansaedacdav gone a | Recipes For This Week (By Betty Barclay) LEMON MINCEMEAT lemons. apples. pound currants. cup raisins. cup chopped nuts. cup melted butter. cups sugar. teaspoon salt. teaspoon ground cinnamon. teaspoon ground nutmeg. teaspoon ground cloves. teaspoon ground ginger. teaspoon ground allspice. Squeeze juice from lemons and cook peel until soft. Put through meat- ;chopper and then rub through a sieve. Add chopped apples and re- maining ingredients, mix well and store in jars, Use as a filling for turnovers and pies. Hee ee PPR ewe » SHREDDED WHEAT CREOLE shredded wheat biscuits. cups hot meat stock. tablespoons bacon fat. tablespoons minced onion. eggs. Salt and pepper. tablespoons tomato catsup. tablespoons minced green pep- per. Crumble shredded wheat biscuit and cook until thick in boiling meat stock. Mix with bacon fat, onion, pep- NNHNWOA a) whites. Turn into a buttered baking per, beaten egg yolks, seasoning, and | cule’s atoms will fly apart and com- catsup. Fold in stiffly beaten egg) bine again in a different formation, i dish and bake (30 minutes) in a mod-' burns or liquid turns into a gas. Tax Refunds ‘Government Refunds Huge Amounts On Income Tax That very pleasant feeling you get when you find you have been over- charged and get some of your money back has come to thousands of indi- viduals and business houses. The United States government re- funded $80,583,564 last year, all be- cause taxpayers, through some error, paid too much money in that or in previous years. Several refunds amounted to more than $1,000,000. The United Fruit Company of Boston got $2,950,000, the largest. The sum of $2,189,000 Was returned to the Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal Company of Penn- sylvania. Douglas Fairbanks, movie star, had $2,186 returned, and Roman Novarro got back $7,604. US. Measure Nature’s “Jitters” Scientists Learn How Water Makes Steam, Or Coal Heat Measuring old Mother Nature's “jitters,” a trillion times worse than the worst stage fright, is science’s latest way of learning how water makes steam, or coal makes heat. It’s done by measuring the energy in a single “jitter” or vibration of a molecule, which was described be- e dends and the usual appropriations. Strong Annu Total Assets Stand at $765,512 The annual statement just issued | to shareholders of The Royal Bank of Canada supplies further striking | evidence of the satisfactory man- ner in which leading Canadian fin- ancial institutions have passed | through the unsettled conditions of the past year. Every part of the statement reflects the strength of the bank's position. Curtailed in-| dustrial and trading activity is re- | flected in lower commercial loans, | and an increase in liquid assets. | The latter show a marked increase over the previous year, and are now equal to 52.86% of its liabilities to the public. Included in them are cash holdings which alone aggregate over 24% of public liabilities. Sav- ings deposits have been well main- tained, particularly in face of the large Government plans put out dur- ing the year. Earnings, due to lessen- ed business activity throughout the country, show a slight recession, but were amply sufficient to cover divi- Strong Liquid Position The statement, which is for the year ended th, shows total assets of $765,512,920. Of this amount, liquid assets, amount to the large sum of $355,929,915, equal to Taree of au Passa to the ic. Cash ho! , aggregatin; $164,630,724 and gone one of the striking features of the report, repre- sent over 24% of llabilities to the public. Dominion and Provincial Govern- ment securities are $89,448,844, compared with $85,473,058 at the end of the previous year, and Canadian municipal securities and British, for- eign and colonial public al Statement by Royal Bank of C Assets are $355.929,912, : ties to the Public---Included Therein Cash Ho'd of $164,630,724, Being Over 24% of Public Liabilities Savings Deposits Well Maintained. bnada .920--Of This Amount Liquid Equal to 52.86% of Liabil Are Cash Ho'd ngs 400,142 from $37,156,111. Reduced import and export trade account for the reduction in Letters of Credit to $20,092,951 from $28,966,506. Deposits at Satisfactory Level. Deposits have been well mainta‘n- Total deposits at $619,094,143 show a reduction for the year of less than 7%, from $664,795,718, Savings deposits make a very gratify.ng showing, and at $468,391,153 are down less than $8,000,000 In view of the large Government loans floated during the year, the total would indicate a tendency among depositors to keep ample cash balances and to add steadily to their savings. Non-in- terest deposits, which in the main are the working balances of business and farming customers, reflect the curtailment of trade activity and low- er prices, ebbing down to $128,983,165, from $170,913,903. Shareholders will be interested in seeing that the reduction in loan ac- ~ counts has more than offset the re- 3 duction in commercial deposits. At thee . same time, the strong liquid positii 2 means that just as soon as trade