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- the good of ot i Star N HELPING BUILD CANADA ing Young Canadians Right With a Healthy Fouridation is Recognized as of National Importance A SPLENDID EFFORT Government Caps a Notable Year With a Notable ' Publication The Dominion Government has just published "The Canadian Mother's Book," written by Dr. Helen MacMurchy, chief of the Division of Child Welfare of the Department of Health at Ottawa. The foreward--"The greatest gift is a child, and the greatest honor is to be a mother," and the introduction--*"This book has been written for you--a-Canadian mother. The Government of Canada knowing that the nation homes are made by the father one of the Makers of Canada. better than the work of the Mother in her Own Home. is made of homes, and that the and mother, recognizes you as No National Service is greater or The Mother is the First Servant of the State."--These tell the story. ; 'if 8Imply Told | Dr, MacMurchy 1s to be congratulat- ed upon the simplicity and clearness Jot the language with which she tells her story of how to care for young Canadians. Dr, MacMurchy used to be teacher of Literature in the Old Gram- "mar School or Jarvis Collegiate Insti- tute in Toronto and well does the re- viewer remember how colloguialisms and Popular expressions were frowned upon by the Doctor when she en- deavored to teach him the rudiments of the English language. The Doctor, a master of English, has worded her © book in the simplest manner pos- ible and where popular expressions darried her thought most forcefully 'she has used such expressions until the result is absolutely clear, read- able, and understandable by anyone who can read words of two syllables. | To stress the important points Dr. MacMurchy has resoried to repetetion so that any one seriously wanting to benefit by her instruction can- not possibly fail to have her truths driven home, She has written, for the great mass of Canadian women in average circum- stances. Her simple, direct and inti- mate language proves her as great a master of English as of rhyscology. it A New Era { The old time method of "rocking the baby," picking up the darling," "cuddling the little pet' is past and Dr. MacMurchy has stressed the point so often forgotten that the first year of a baby's life {8 made up of sleep, food and bath. The reviewer's personal experience, arrived at through watching and helping his bet- ter half raise a fair sized family fully confirms the -Doctor's methods, Free For The Asking The publishing of the Canadian Mother's Book is without doubt one of the most notable ovents marking Canada's Jubilee Year and every mother, prospective and expectant, should have this most excel lent publication which will be mailed free by simply writing and asking for it: to 'the Department of Health, Ot- tawa, Canada. Advice to Doctors Being a mere newspaper man the reviewer hesitates to offer advice to the medicial profession but as the father of a successfully raised family who has been through the experience he does not hesitate to say that every doctor in city or country should keep a supply of these little books on hand and give one to every wife and mother. We congratulate the gov- ernment on their Chief of the Division of Child Welfare and we congratulate Dr. MacMurchy on such a noteworthy achievement. | Wilson Publishing Company fan, Tao 55 ® Jj 4 rth 1611 A CHIC DAYTIME FROCK. Exceedingly smart is this attractive daytime frock. _The back is in one piece and the box-plaited skirt front is joined to the bodice closing in coat effect and having a notched collar, set-in pocket, long dart-fitted or loose sleeves and a trim belt. No. 1611 is for Ladies and is in sizes 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust. Size 40 re- quires 4 yards 89-inch, or 27% yards 64-inch material. Price 20 cents the pattern. The secret of distinctive dress lies in good taste rather than a lavish expenditure of money. Every woman should want to make her own clothes, and the home dressmaker will find tthe designs illustrated in our new Fashion Book to be practical and simple, yet maintaining the spirit of the mode of the moment. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. i HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- 1y, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number and address your order to Pattern Dept., 'Wilson Publishing Co., 78 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. TE a If you are without sentiment, you are not a success, LE EPP pe Interesting Facts Portugal, like England, Is concerned lest lands settled by her shall do violence to the mother-tongue. Brazil's Academy, making a Brazilian diction- ary, finds that the aborigines and 'Africans imported as slaves have ad- ded respectively 3,000 and 1,000 terms to the vocabulary, besides numerous literary and popular terms unknown in Portugal. * * ® The word dollar has an Interesting history, which is related in the town of Yacliimov, in Czechoslovakia, where representatives of the Little Entente recently met. Some 400 years ago a silver mine was discovered near Yachimov. The German name for the town was Joachimstahl, The Count of Schlitz had silver coins made from the metal and these coins bore the likeness of St. Joachim. The silver money was known as joachimst- halers, This was, in time, abbreviat- ed to thalers. Other changes occur- red sach as daalder, daler and dalar. In the sixteenth century these coins were called dollars 'n England. » LJ LJ] ' Christendom's last monastic repub- lic still holding sovereign power in its territory, that of Mount Athos in one of the Greek peninsulas, is to be deprived by Parliament of its com- mand of the gendarmerie. This sym- bol of the Patriarch's civil sway will be for State reasons transferred to the authority of the Government. »* * LJ] States of the Union that had lynch- ings last year numbered ten, the same as in 1924 and 1925. States that never have had a lynching are Massachu- setts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island. * * LJ] A Bolton watchmaker has entered the perpetual motion class. His in- vention is a wrist-watch, inside which is a small weight or balance that swings with every movement of the wrist and gives a turn to the spring. Half an hour's wear is sald to be suf- ficient to wind it for forty hours of timekeeping. Should the watch run down, all that it is necessary to do is to put it on the wrist, when at once it begins ticking. { Soviet Russia claims a prodigy. He is Nicholas Nazarov who, at 16, is a full-fledged college professor. Nicho- las entered Tashkent University at the age of 10 and in four years com- pletéd the mathematical, historical and scientific courses which other: students required ten years to finish. "* The full force of the Government is to be turned against the corn-borer. All the borers meed do is disguise themselves as bootleggers.--Nashville ; Banner. : i -~ a? 3 a The Criminal Europe Versus U.S. A View of aU.S. Authority | Who Has tudied Crime and Crimaals in Both Comtries We in Canada ride ourselves, and rightly so, on or courts of justice, our law observane and law enforce- ment. We knot that law enforce- ment with our neghbors to the south is not their stron point, so it is with interest we read .n article comparing the U. S. with Evope as to crime and treatment of criminals. The Polyglot population to th¢ south of the line and the resultat unstability of citi- zenship is a factr which enters into politics across th line. Politics cause i legal hair spliting to boost party veeling lawyers. Dr. Louis N. Robin- son describes thesituation as a mem- ber of the Natinal Crime Commis- sion. He says: "Though there is no let-down in Europe in the general attempt to makes punishmeit for wrong-doing swift and certdn, the thing that strikes one's attmtion is the absence of any tendencyto turn to more se- vere penalties or to a barsher prison regime in the dfort to stamp out crime, Everywlere there is manifest a movement to soften the asperities of the penal lawand ao mitigate ' the former harshnesi of prison discipline. The long sentemes recently imposed by certain Amelcan judges are re- garded by Eurojean students as a re- turn to the cruely of the Middle Ages, and a further imrease in the barbari- tiles of our prisins is difficult to ex- plain to those Europeans. "The question will now be asked: On what do Euepean countries rely to keep down crime? Leaving out of account those sdcial ameliorations of which both Eurcpeans and Americans are fully conscicus as tending to les- sen crime, I world say that the main reliance is on the police. In other words, while wa Americans seem to think that crime can be held in check by punishing sererely an insignificant fraction of our criminals, Europeans believe that it is far more effective to impose reasonably mild penalties on a large proportion of those who of- fend. "A short time ago an investigation in two of the leading cities of Mis- sourl revealed the fact that, whereas information had been laid before the police concerning some 14,000 major felonies, arrests had followed in only 8 per cent. of the cases. Worse--it was shown that a total of only 3 per cent. had beexggfoynd, or had pleaded guilty. io "To trust to. the efficacy of punish- ing severely the 3 per cent. while al- lowing the 97 per cent. to escape scot- free would scarcely appeal to a Euro- pean as an example of our boasted ef- ficiency or our hard common sense. They, on the cortrary, have built up non-political police forces that make it decidedly risky for an individual to engage in crime. "The second thing that impresses the visitor to European prisons is the existence, in the care and treatment of prisoners, of a standard of care steadily and faithfully maintained. To throw out the entire staff of a prison from the warden down to the lowest investigated conditions, the American guard simply to make places for the | friends of the incoming administra- tion, and to have this process repeat ed over and over again as has been! done in many of our States, is a thing ! utterly abhorrent to the European's notion of public administration or of proper public protection of society from crime." Richmond Times-Dispatch says in reply: ; "There's nothing wrong with the criminal laws of the States or of the United States; so far as the detection of persons who have committed crimes which fall within the category of malum in se is concerned, there's nothing wrong with the police of the States or of the United States. When the vast expanse of the United States is compared with the densely popu- lated countries in which Dr. Robinson police are as able, and keen as the police of any other country. "What Dr. Robinson has overlooked, apparently, is the difference between the administration of the criminal laws in the United States and in other countries. It isn't the fault of the laws in the United States that offend- ers go unpunished; it isn't the fault of the police; it isn't because of mild- er penalties in Europe than are pro- vided in America that criminals are punished in Great Britain and on the Continent who would go free in America. As a matter of fact, the English criminal laws from which our own are derived are quite as severe as ours. "The difference is that the criminal laws are more laxly administered in the United States than in any other civilized country in the world. Our whole system of criminal jurisprud- ence is maintained in such a manner as to throw every safeguard around the criminal to protect him from so- ciety, rather than to throw every safe- guard around soclety to prtect it from the criminal. Our: Legislatures enact adequate laws; our police execute them; then our system Of criminal trials, with its sentimentality and its mush and its play-acting by lawyers and its demurrers and its halr-split- ting and its expert evidence and its coined phrases of excuse and pallia- tion, casts the offenders loose." $3338333%% "You know there's nothing like them mountains to get rid of the old surplus." "I'll say there's not! I've gotten rid of about one thousand in the past two weeks myself." Oe. This is one of the worst years on record for mosquitoes, but they never had such opportunities before.--Port- land Oregonian. MAKING CANADA'S So great was the interest evidenced In the Scottish Musical Festival or- ganized as part of the Highland Gath- ering for Banff, early in September, that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company arranged with the Alberta Government Telephones to instal the amplifiers of the public address sys- tem that were used at the Dominion Jubilee broadcast, so that the evening concerts were heard not only ,in the ballroom of the Banff Springs Hotel, where the Festival was staged, but also in the lounges and on the ter- race. The Festival was the second out- standing musical event of an unusual nature that has taken place in Can- enjoys. MUSICAL HISTORY ada. The first was the Canadian Folk | Song and Handicraft Festival staged at the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, in May, which was regarded as unique in the annals of Canadian music. Re- _viving old-time songs and homey cus- toms of the earlier settlers of this | country has caught the public fancy. 'Scots played an important part in 'building up the Dominion and the 'names of many sturdy settlers who came here in the early days are fore- 'most in the list of noted explorers, fur 'traders and participants in many dar- ing projects that ultimately have help- red in no small way to help the Domin- i t Quickrelieffrom painful [( corns, tender toes and I pressure of tight shoes. <b} [> Dr Scholl's Sn Zino-pa OWL-LAFFS ond shoe storey: Error. They flned him fifty dollars, Because he tried to kiss The stenog in his office, Who was a lovely miss. The moral as I get it, And which I here impart-- Is that it's wise to finish Whatever things you start. "Ma, Crandall Van Puyster wants to know what branch of the family we spring from." "My boy, tell Crandall the Murphys spring from nobody; they spring at 'em!"" Women are supposed to have more curiosity than men, but so far none of them has tried to see the North Pole. The Bookbinder--"Will you have it bound in Turkey or Morocco?" The Patriot-- Neither, sir! it bound right here in Canada." ® We admire pure grit and all that, but we're darned if we like it in our spinach. Have Notwithstanding the life of a paper dollar is only seven or eight months, we have never had one die on our hands. rR "My father's in the coal business." "Oh. What branch? "He collects the ashes." Visitor-- "Won't you be very, very happy when your sentence is over?" : Prisoner--"I dun'no, ma'am. I dun' no." Visitor--"You don't know? And why not" Prisoner--""I'm in for life." A shining example of old-fashioned simplicity 18 an unpowdered nose. Holds Air 5s Safer Than Auto Miss Elder, Who Plans Atlantic Hop, Says There Is More Room Up There Wheeling, W. Va.--It is safer in oe alr than in an automobile because the airplane has unlimited space in which' to manoeuvre, in the opinion of Miss Ruth Elder, 22, of Lakeland, Fla., who is preparing for a non-stop flight from New York to Paris. The young WOs man, who is backed by Wheeling busi-, ness men, will be accompanied by George W. Haldeman as navigator, They plan to hop off late next month,' "It wasn't hard to learn flylng a plane," she said. "I never have felt afraid. It is really far safer up there in the air than it is riding in an auto- mobile. There is lots mere room." Confident that she will reach her goal on the other side of the Atlantic, Miss Elder's only worry is competis tion, for, as she says, "It would break my heart if some other woman gobi there before I did" Miss Elder becamo interested in fly. ing while visiting in South America two years ago. When her family mov- ed from Anniston, Ala., her birthplace, to Lakeland, she decided to try her hand at operating an alrplane and soon she qualified as a pilot. "Of course I am very anxious to make the flight to Paris," she sald just hefore leaving Wheeling for De-, troit tv make trial flights in her Stin-. son-Detroiter monoplane. "I feel very cenfident that I shall be able to do it,' We expect to take the ship route when we cross, and we certainly intend to await favorable weather conditions," ' a If a foreign foe should invade this country we might try turning thd ion towards the prosperity she now EY sea > Mississippl on them. --Portland (Mse.) Express. -- a A x