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PW ai ' UJ W i ' ... I ^ t: Trader Horn Steps Out of Book { Into3u8tle of American Scene Record Sheep Heads Caught Ready to Drop Role of Rogue Ellephant, Says Alfred Aloysius Smith N«w York. â€" Trader Horn, odd and refresMncly prepofltorous creature of fiction that atartied a bored literary world a year ago, Is appearing here "in peraow." One morning last week a man, Al- fred Alouaius Smith, a long, gray man in a k>ng gray caped coat, strode down the gangplank of a steamer and lo! he and Trader Horn were one, stepping forth from a fictional picture, rimmod about with bri|;ht aluminum pots and pans and toaaters, and gfarlanded in tales of enormous adventuring. "Thcoe many years," he said first, "I've been a rogue elephant." In Africa, whence he come the rogue ele- phant roams independent of the herd, a carefree, insubordinate rascal, care- less of the tradiitions of elephant life, always confittent of finding a better way. "But ni^w," Trader Horn added, perhaps unconsciously supporting the old, inevitable philosophy of the prodi- ffal, man and beast, "I'm glad to be back with the herd" "Trader Horn" was a name worthy the fiction. Back a long way Alfred Aloysius Smith had "always wanted to write." Then, one day he sold a kettle or a toaster â€" perhaps he for- gets which â€" to Mrs. Ethel Reda Jjewis, somewhere on the plains around Johannesburg. And they balked â€" Alfred Aloysius Smith always talks when he sells pots' oovurisnmenfts of poia and kettlea lo be sold. A vacation â€" or at least a changaT A visit to tb« United Statw h« had not seen since 1914. In 1918 he had been into Georgia, "where there ara the finest people, and exceedingly hu- man." It wasn't merely an excursion to spend aome of the money that rolled in. "I've had money before this," Trader Horn announces. "Scads of it. My money was always equipped with legs. When I needed it I could make it Money isn't everything." Cannibals were probably one ofj Trader Horn's reasons for not con- sidering money everything. It isn't j everyone who gets on terms of social ease with cannibals- Trader Horn did. "Fine people. Not what you think." Trader Horn spread hJa hands benignly and then stroked his silver beard, long, affectionate strok-l ings. I By this time the Literary Qulld of Ajnerica was having a "birthday party" for Trader Horn. There was a' gT«at cake, made like a book. They don't have cakes made like booka inj Africa. The cannibals would laugh. I Other fragmentary communications dripped from a tongue which had evi-j dently done a little practicing in glib- ness on the bosit conting out from England. " . • . wrote poems while; I was a peddler too. . . . Painted ani- ONTARIO AND THE CORN BORER Canadian Expefience Proves the Worth of Effective Clean-upl Regulations As Seen By "Michigan Farmer" MAKING PRCXiRESS Two fine examples of the elusive mountain sheep were recently captured by Jim Brewster, of trewsiter Transportaflon Co., la Uie Banff Territory. The heads captured are records for the size, the one on the right being 19 Inches with the other 18 ^, this measurement applies from the bighe»t point on the bom to that on the opposite side. These sheep are often seen from the windows of Canadian Pacific trains which travel through that district and are often a great inducement by their sheer beauty, for tourists to return and hunt these animals. They naturally take arttslc poses, often seen posed on he highest crag of mountains, to be alarmed by a slight rustle and away they go, fast as the wind, jumping here and there from one point to another until they reach a plateau of security. They are game worth hunting and the hunter who secures one Is usually Immensely proud of his prowess with his rifle. It's How One Thinks So One Really Is Bruce Barton States a Basic Truth in Short Article in New Herald-Tribune THE MIND CONTROLS OLD FRIENDS MEET The author Trader Horn and Illta Bell, musical comedy star, are seen here here enjoying exchange of remlnscencea of their meeting in South Africa and kettles, and when he trades in rul)ber and diamonds and ivories too, and one thing led to another and presently Mrs. Ix>wis had started him putting together things remembered and other Ihinjrs noted in a little tat- tered book. Long hours of scribbling under the smoking golden flame of a keroeene lamp, always against the call of the peddler's road. Sometinu's the call was too strong and insistent and the manuscript would h\«. But it was finished, John Galsworthy helped to pick out the namfe "Trader Horn," and Alfred Aloysi'.iB Smith, who has seen many funny things in his lif<etime, eat back to behold the spectacle of himself re- c«»;^-'n'.' moniey -royalties" someone c»"- 1 the moneyâ€" that just rolled in whether or no. Kvcn in Africa people know that •oor,er or later a lecture tour can, If j a writer will but listen, be as inevit-; alile as chapter headings- After all, •yrhy not? The diamond fields would alway.4 be there, and the rubber plan- tations and tusked elephants and new nials on tin, too, in case a lady didn't want a kettle or a toaster. . . . "Stanley and I explored Africa- Not together. . . ." The long gray eyes twinklied and blinked and a secret smile ruffled the silver board. . . . "Stajuley should not have let tli« Congo go to Leopold. But all that Is past < . . I get four to five thouaand a week royalties. So they aay. That's pretty funny, too. Tha oanndbab wouldn't think It mabbered much. . . . It makea ma laugh. "You can always laugh beAtar, though, if you k.v-'W you can fo back to â€" well, paddlini^ for inatanca, It'a a good bu«ln«a» Meet lota of nioa people. Soma of the finest paopla in the world stand on doorsteps and buy poita and kettles. . . ." Members of tha Literary Guild stood about and murmured words that sounded Uike "significant," "figure of a new literary day," "vital" and "auch a dear." Trader Horn and Alfred Aloysius Smith didrut hear. They were cutting a cake made like a book. Tha cannibals would have laughed. Not long ago the newspapers re- ported a curious case in Kansas City. A defaulting banker, who had ruined his own life and the estates of many others, was locked up in jail. Where- upon he proceeded, in the words of the report, to "think himself to death." He had no organic disease, but, de- liberately casting aside all desire to live and fixing his thoughts upon death, he compelled his own mind to destroy him. The late Thomas R. Marshall in his autobiography hints of some simi- lar tragedies in the career of Senator Ollie James. He says: "The death of James, in the full flush of his man- hood and in the splendor of his intel- lectual attainment!^, was especially distressing, if I am correctly inform- ed, because he suflTered from no actual disease. He really died, as I was told, "rom mental suggestion" Of all the realms of knowledge, that irhlch the mind has explored the least 1a the mind itself. What does cour- ..ga do to our health? How far can lovo lift us out of our limitations? What effect have anger and envy on our arteries How much of the dif- ference between a one-horse-power man and a hundred-horsepower man is faith? Having no scientific training, I can ask these questions without being able to answer them. But I look at folks as I go along, and recently I saw an interesrting contrast. There were two brothers, one rich and tha other a poor physician at- tached to a social settlement. The richbrothcr carried more kinia of in- surance than any man I have known. If care and continuous self-protection ! can extend our years, he should have lived to be ninety at least. But ha died at fifty-three. The poor brother had little enough chance to think of himself. Night and j day he was at the beck and call of every sort of affliction. He got his feet soaking in the winter rains. Hla sleep was broken by calls in the night His meals were snatched on the run. At the age of sixty he grew very tired and w«nt to a sanitarium for a three-weeks' rest. They said to him: "You have the arteries of a man of ninety- You are likely to drop dead at any minute." Whether he ever gave the verdict any thought I do not know. He was a very religious man, and his idea was that he was doing the work of An- other and would be called away from it whenever the work was done. He died at the age of seventy-five. I attended his funeral, and this is the thought that was in my mind: Sup- pose, when the specialists warned him, ho had stopped his work and begun to take care of himself, to "think about himself," wouldn't he probably have died as his brother died before him? Not being a soientist, I cannot tell. But when the laws of the mind are finally discovered and charted I sus- pect that one of them will be this: If you do most of your thinking about other people the chances are that you will have ten more good years of life. WHITEWASH VALUABLE IN FIRE_PREVENnON If Made by Special Formula Has Real Value For Fire Proofing Willie whitewash holds an Important ^sltinn on many farms during spring cleanup of stables and outbuild- ings It Is generally applied for sani- tary reasons and to Improve appear- ances, nut if a Uttla spsclai atten- tion even more Important purpois In aiaklnf wooden •tructures at leaat partially fireproof. Its use wli. prs- Tsnt ipllntsrs and rough surfaces trorn Isnitinc quickly and th« bast rasuMs wU be obtained tf tha mixtura la applied with a pressure spray pump â- Â» tfMt att cracks ara diaroughly filled. Hm (oHowInc formula is reoom- OMOdsd hy ths Ontario Ftrs Marshal: •oak flTO pounds of ossein In about itmr jsBoâ€" of water (preferably hot) •â- tfl tUnoachlr â- oftsoad (aboitt two koam). Dlamlrt thnsa pounds ofj Sanui to alMOl two fiUons of watar IHrf aM tkto to ttw oMaln. sUowlnc Alt MlHara to tlmroiiclilr disoolra. Prspaw a Ahlsk flrsam by tliorouchir mUlac «r kr MrvMltr stoking II j •C falok UaM sad itralatn« â- oagll * IM Mfosn. WbOTJ hoth How aatf oaasto mMams ara ooM i •lowlr «M dM Bocax-aMsta sshitloB, to the lime, stirring constantly and TlgorousJy. Thin to desired coosla- tency. Casein or glue solution muM be cold when mixed with the llnM paste wbtch must aUvo be oold. Do not preipare more than can be used this same day althousfa it may be mlK> ed dry and stoned. A Resolve Not for a myriad little things will I Droop gradually, and at ths proper time Close down my eyes, and breathe with pain, and die; But some day there will be a hill to climb Too steep for cUmblnc; some day while I yet Am atrong and young, I ahall at- tempt a deed Beyond my strength, and in my fail- ure get Oblivion; therefore I pay no heed To all the cautious whispering about ms, But I will follow you up to the day That marks the place where you go on with me. There I will stand, and cast my staff away. â€" Helene MulUns, The American Temptation LondonDally Express (Ind. Cons.): (The new American Immigration BUI | Is being framed to give still greater preference to British subjeots.) This Is a direct challenge to the whole [ movement for promotng emigration within the Empire. Every famtty that leaves Britain tor a non-Brltirti coun- j try Is a definite loss to the Elmpre. ' The Emiplra question Is beyond every- ' tbiing else a population queetlon. But j what Is being done to solve It? . . The Dominions and the Home Oovern- ' ment have been equally to blame for ' not having thought out and solved this central problem long ago. While It remains unsolved our Imperial heri- tage Is simply being muddled away. While Prohibition Is reigning, rum Is pouring. Within a stone's throw of the greeit productive agricultural counties of Michigan, Ilea a laboratoryâ€" In South- western Ontaroâ€" wheiroin the Eur- opean oom borer haji demonstrated la a most convincing manner that It Is capable of Inflicting serious commer- cial damage to the com crop, an<I, in a great many cases, of utterly ruin- ing fields of this basto agrlouHural commodity. But while King Oora lias tottered In his shoes, and bis vassals in untold numbers have forsaken him for other orops, the OnUrlo Clo'v«mim«at has been fully aware of the dagger car- ried by this European post. Prom tha Orst, the Government baa tolled Inoes- santly to acquaint Canadian farmers with the seriousness of the problem, with measures to con>bat the pest, and with the aftermath of what would follow If ho corn borer were allowed to become established in this great agricultural empire. In fact, Ontario agrlonlturail lead- ers did everything In their power to get their farmers to aVY>ld the same experiences whioh state and federal agencies are now trying to help farm^ ers In the United States to escape. On the other hand, Ontario farmers assumed a passive attitude, until sev- ere losses were suffered in the great oorn-gi'owlng areas of Easex and Kent counties. The situation finally culminated In the passagie of the Ontario Com Borer Act In 1926. In an effort to avoid the Canadian experience, a similar law has been passed In Michigan and other states. The operaton of the law In On-tarlo should prove of Inter- est to Michigan farmers. The act was put Into effect In eight counties In the Provlno© of Onfarlo. Ths law Is very similar to the one pofsod by Michigan, Ohio, and otheor states. The clean-up regulations are virtually the same In that all corn de- bris must be disposed of prior to the time when the corn borer moths are expected to emerge. Compulsory clean-up may be dona and i»sessed as taxes against tha property when this operation Is nec- cessar.v. In addition, however, per- sons who fall to comply with the ro- gU'latlons may be fined a minlnvum amount of ten dollars and not mora than fifty dollars for each offense. Offenders may be brought Into court repeatedly and fined until they do comply with the regulations. The administration of the corn- borer act Is performed by the Ontario Department of Agrlcultune, which eorresiponds to our State Department of Agriculture. The work Is In the charge of Professor Lawson Caesar, provincial entomolog^ist, with bead- quarters at Guelph. The provincial entomologist Is empowered to appoint one or more supervisors In each coun- ty to carry out the provisions of the act Clean-up work In cities, however, is done by the cltlee them^lves, as cities, or "separated towns," do not come under the county council, or governing body. Upon notice from the provincial entomologist such local- ities are required to appoint an in- spector, and, as a result, the enforce- mrent of control measuTea n munld- iwlitlea Is usually done by the polloai. The county com borer supervisor oommenoes work about S«ipteml>ar 1 and conUnues until fall plowing oeasea. This period I* spent in ob- tanlng an estimate of the oom acre- age to be cleaned up and explaining ths regulations to farmers and advla Ing them how to mreet ths regulations. The Inspector resumos his work in the spring as soon as field operations commence and works through until about June 10. It is his duty to soe that the act Is compiled with by everybody and that the clean-ap Is aocompltshod In aooordanoe wltb tha law. Clean-Up Law Effective The com borer population was re- duced In five of thoelglit counties In the 1927 compulsoay olean-up area of Ontario, according to a curvey mads by Prof. Lttwifon Caeaar, proYinclal sutomoloigiet. Tbeas eigbt oountleak with the ex> oeptioo of Prince Edward aad part* of NorfoJk and OxSord, w«ro so heavUy infested in 1921, the repoit states, 'Hhat had the borer multlipUfltf as rapidly as it did tn Well»n<d and several other counties not under ths Act, alnuMt all of the oomfleldt* would have bean ruined." Due to the clean-up last spring, to Kent and IBmn Counties, the numr ber of borstw was reduoed ftillry fifty per cent, in spits of a fifty per cent reduction in the oom acreage. In BK gtn County, there was a reduction fak the average Ifeatatloo from forty-seven and seven-tenths per cent In 1928 ts approximately thirty-eight per cent. In 1927. Similar decreases in borer population were noted In Norfolk and Oxford Counties. Lambton, Middlesex, and Priinoe E)^ ward Counties bad a sillgbt increase In the number of borers laet year, FV>r various reasons. It wa* very dlfll- cult to get a sfttlafatitary clean-up la these counties. In Prinos Bdward County, one of the dlfflcultlee wae ths common practice of ustng narrow inr 'stead of wide plows. I "A narrow plaw will not cover stul*- ble and debris satlsfaotorlly and this gives an opportunity for many bor- ers to survive," states Professor Caesar. CIsan-Up Area Enlaiged Outside of the el^t oountleis which were placed under the oom borer aot last year, tbie peat has multiplied ra- pidly, thus emphasizing the need ci clean-up measures wherever the peat Is known to be present In miost dis- tricts there were appairendly twice as many borers as lasit year and four times a9 many in aome looalll^lesL Due to 'the large inoraase tn borer popuilatlon In t/hoee oountea where tbs Oom Borer Act was not In force, elghteiein additional counties have been added to tha clean-up area for 198. This action places all of Southwest- ern Ontario south of a line from Goderlch to a point about eight miles north of Toronto under tihe Act, and aileo an area about six miles wide along Lake Ontario from Toronto to the e<bst boundoiry of Hastings Coun- :ty. As IndJcated by the report of the j provincial entoraologlat to the Minis- ter of Agirculure, the largje increases In borer population in Onitarlo during 192T took place In those sections of the province where the Ontario Com Borer Act was not in effect and where compuilsory clean-up regulations were not prearoribed. To repeat as Professor Caesar has stated, had the borer ^ multiplied as rapldily as It did In WeUand and ser eral otbler oountlee not under the Act, almosit aJI of the oomflelda would have been ruined, if clean-up meas- ures had not been resorted to In the Canadian Corn Belt last sununer. The experlece of Canadian farm- ers with the com borer has been cosit- ly. It has taken serious oonun/wctal damage and ruined oomflelde to awaken the Canadian fanners to the eoonomlo danger of tbto oom borer. But now control measures and clean- up regulatious have became etftabllah- ed farm practices in Ootiarlov and farmers are aotld1/y behind this pro- gram. Michigan farmers miigbt well proBt from, the experience of their Cnnadtaa nelgbboni and avoid the embryo stags by co-openbtng one hundred per cent. with .the stats and federal gororm- meats in their program to control Cbto alarminc crop peat â€" the Etaropean oom borer. An excellent stairt was made Vwat spring. « â-  Who Said Pie? -♦- Piccadilly May Exclude Famous Statue of Eros liOndon. â€" Ths exigencies of Lon- don't traffic may result in the per- petual banishment from Piccadilly Circus of tha famous statue of Eros which used to occupy a sits in ths centre of the open space there. When â- oms months ago the construction of a new subway station under Picca- dilly Circus was decided upon Eros was removed from hia pedestal and given • temporary location in ths Eidbankment Gardens- Sino« than ths traffic congestion in Pleeadill/ Clreu hM tMrsaasd to such an sxten that flis aattwritlsa â- !« now conaldsrlnc whsthsr ths ffraeafol statue with its fountain psdsstiu (about which a Bombtr of wonMB flowsr ssllsra wort always to bs found) doss not oeoupy too muoli spacs to bs rstonsd to such a busy neighborhood. « nilinc atallons and roadsMs stands maks sTsn the bywoys buywayt^ ' • THIS ONE WOULD FEED MORE THAN FOUR World's largest pie in the making: Huge pastry, 30 feet In circumference and nearly 3 feet thick, pro> psrsd on a mammoth outdoor oven in Los Angsles. Insoad of tour and twenty blackbirds ths chsf* filled ths pis with thousands of yrunsa. About Butter Butter served in restaurants or hotels often Is kept in Ice water to prevent Its melting, and it always acquires a white appearance. This pale color* is caused by the fact that the coloring matter dissolves In plain water. A dairy Inspector for tha CaU- fornia Department of Agriculture has discovered that the addition of a small amount of salt to the water will not only preserve the color but also add to the flavor, as the salt used In se» soning the butter also has a tendency to dissolve when clear water Is used. Salted water will also keep the butter In firmer condition. Right 1st Birdâ€" 'TU bs gUd spring will be hsrs soon, so wo can get soma worms." Ind Birdâ€" "So wUI ths flsherwsnl'' ♦ Wuxttry Speshull "Oh, Mother, our Young People's Confsroucs was so sxcitlng! Ws voted to abolish war' "ChlnoBS are ItchlBg for H^har Tariffs." But wUl Uuy ooms tv the â- crat^T y Jb