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Dime a Day Top Pay for China Workers Rapid Disappearance of Handicrafts Before Advance of Matchine-Made Goods Indicated by Economic I Investigation of Conditions in Peiping Pelping (Peking)â€" Perhaps never Unpaid or unemployed vorkera In the wboJe history of China have the occupations ot her people been so dis- turbed as at present, declares Prof. Li. K. Tao, after an eight-months' study of handicraft workers in Pelping tor the Chlaa Foundation, an Institution established with some of the money returned un-.Hr the American Boxer indemni'y. ' Dr. Tao r.nd his assistants selected 600 representative families, engaged in artificial flower-making, crocheting, making match-boxes, toy-manufacture Unpaid the West. trained for one occupation, kave , turned to others as a last resort, said Dr. Tao. In consequences, he found unpaid policemen working m house ; servants, shop assliitanta who have lost their Jobs becoming Itnrikisha pullers, and workers in some band!- crafts which have been almost de- stroyed turning to others, increasing the competition and lowering the prices. Dr. Tao found that the average total earning of the EOO households was and other occupations which can be j only $157 Mexican, a'little more than done in the homes, or in small fac- \ $75 gold per year for an average of tories. He discovered that In most j more than four persona. Living in cases it is iiupossible for families so | the simplest possible manner, the in- engaged to support themselves, even; vestigators found that the 660 fami- when the small children work. Ot the | lies spent about $1 gold per year on 500 families, 299 are receiving char- food for the family, the remaining ity in some form or other. j J25 gold having to cover everything. This study was undertaken before â-  Of the 5157 Mexican, which repre- the capital was removed from the i sents the yearly earnings of a family. North to Nanking, so that the condi-lonly $0S Mexican (about $35 gold) is tions incidental to removel of the gov- derived from handicrafts, the rest ernment otflces do not affect the sur- ] coming from other work. In the 500 vey. The picture which Dr. Tao draws j families studied, there were 934 handi- Is that of a disappearing group â€" the ; craft workers skilled in some form of These Attractive Girls Should Know England handicraft workers ot China.. Since ' handwork. Their daily earnings the appearance of machine-made I ranged fronn 2V4 to 11 cents gold, the j with Kaye Don. the famous motorist. goods in the Orient, they have fought J highest paid not receiving enough for' - a losing fight. Dr. Tao points out, and ; 10 or 12 hours of work to live on. disturbed political and economic con- 1 ' Dr. Tao believes it will not be long ditions have hastened their defeat in ] before the handicraft worker will en- competition with the machines from i tirely disappear. Woman Doctor on Keeping Young T . Mental "Muscles" Need Ex- "* ercise and Stimulation, She Says So much time and trouble are spent in maintaining a youthful aspect phy- sically that it is sometimes forgotten that the mental make-up la at least as I Impertant, writes a woman doctor in { the London Daily E.xpress. I Victorian women became stout and i elderly at thirty through exercise, I quite often relapsing into a state ot T semi-invalidism which is practically \ unknown in these days. Modem women have not a retinue of servants, but labor-saving devices and smaller households combine to give them a considerable amount ot spare time. Letting Mentality "Sao" It is fatally easy to let mental "muscles" run to fat. They need ex- ercise and stimulation like the rest of the body. Too often the reading done, the plays and films seen, even the concerts attendau are less stimulants ^han narcotics. How mttny ct «* must plead guilty Premier Heads Effort to Pre- serve Majestic Isolation of the Ancieat Monoliths A new and vigorous erfort is being made to preserve the setting and surroundings of Stonehenge, that mys- terious legacy from early British clvl- lizaticn. Prominent Britons, among whom are Premier Stanley Baldwin,^ ex-Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald and Lord Grey, tear l.'St the vicinity of the ring o' huge hanging stones take on the aspects ot a popular holiddv resort and the monoliths lose thiir majestic isolation on the Salisbni^ Plain. To purchase the land surround- ing the stones, a fund ot about i2t5,- 000 is being raised and must be made up before March 31. .\bout ten years ago the Stonehenge circle was presented to the nation bj Sir Cecil Chubb. The land surround- ing the stones, however, is still prt vate property, and there is danger lest the erection ot unsightly build- ings on the Plain spoil the setting. During the war the military authori- ties erected an airdrome on the Plain and rows of huts near the circle, many ot which are still standing, a. cafe has been erected near the stones, and it is feared lest other commercial buildings rise to mar the solitude ol the unique monument. The total area under consideration is l,-i44 acres, all of which might b6 called "the Stonehenge skyline." Op- tions have been obtained on the plots; I • ; two of the three have already been Beneficial" Parasites â€" that is, j n r» 1 „ IM.,-,, M,rfU;oo1 I<=I^,,,^a HavA FUpn ! Purchased, and demolition ot theii those that in- London Paper Declares Many Mythical islands Ha%e tteen p^.^^.^^^^ undertaken. There remain, Chcirted â€" Alleged Land Located I3,UUU IMiles ^U^ piot ot g30 acres to the north ot South of Cape of Good Hope | stonehenge. Unless this, too, is se- THEY HAVE TO TOUR 2,000 MILES FOR NOTHING Misses Xancy and Betty Debennam will make a 2,000-mile tour ot England at a cost ot nothing on a wager The girls will make -their e.xpenses writing and carrying parcels. English Raise Stonehenge Fund Breeding Enemies Island Which Britain Ceded to Norway of Our Insect Foes! Now Reported to Be Only an Iceberg beneficial to man, are fest and kill pests that injure our domestic animals and cultivated trees and plants. Tbese beneficial parasitesi' are now being bred and exported !a| London â€" "X year ago the peace o! : the name ot 'Doubttul Island" because large quantities to points where ' the world was shattered by the news he could not make out whether it was their services are needed to war; that Norway was claiming an island land or an iceberg. It turned out to against local pests. ) 13,000 miles south ot the Cape ot Good be mere ice. These remote linely ".\ laboratory for breeding bene-' Hope which Great Britain maintained southern seas provided navigators fleial parasites, estab'.lshed by the was hers," saya the Daily Telegraph, with many imaginary landfalls. British Empire Marketing Beard has! it continues: "Last November we | "Cose to Bouvet Island itself now been at work for rather more breathed again. With wonted mag- than a year. Consignments ot in- nanimity our Foreign Office waived sects have been sent cut in response . all and any British claim to Bouvet to requests from Canada. New Zea-j island. .A.nd now comes the news that land, Australia, South .A.frica. Kenya, it is not an island at all but" an ice- another has been reported and called by the name ot •Thompson.' Captain Norris. in 1S25. saw a second island to the northeast and a cluster of others. ' But nobody else can find them. Shall cured, the members ot the Stonehenge. I Protection Committee feel their prev- ious work will have been in vain. â-  Co-operating in the proj-ict are repre- : sentatives ot the National Trust, the Wiltshire Archaeological Society and the Society of Antiquaries, acting with the approval ot the Office of Works. ; Many theories have been advanced I regarding the period and purpose ot i the ring ot stones, situated about i seven miles north ot Salisbury in Wiltshire, in a bare field containing the Falkland Islands, and ditferent. berg. The magnanimity of the Fireign ' we believe Bouvet Island a myth or an i ^ ^^^.j^^ ^j prehistoric barrows of the parts ot England. Between 20.000,' office thus appears less than the orig """' ' '' * â- â- " ^~ '"^°'' " In 1S9S a I and 30,000 larvae ot the pine tortrix, ; -nal estimate, though its wisdom CHINA'S FINANCE KING T. V. Soong, minister of finance for China, who has tackled the difficult Job ot balancing a Chinese budget, stabilizing her currency and estab- lishing the nation's credit abroad. "Sherlock Holmes" Fooled for Once to the accusationâ€" recently levelled ^ Conan Doyle, Noted Spiritual- at usâ€" of allowing music to drift past our ears as stream ot sound, without making the slightest effort to under- stand it. Similarly "easy" novels are ist is Victim of Hoax Revelation Nairobi. East Africa.â€" Sir Arthur selected. "Something light for the ' Conan Doyle, famous author of the week-end," the librarian is asked tor, i Sherlock Holmes defective stories and someone else is allowed to choose ! and more recently prominent as an our mental diet. I advocate of spiritualism was the vic- It has been suggested that educa- tlâ„¢ ^^^^ o' a ^o^ revelation, tlon be left till minds have matured- Sir Arthur, who Is touring and lee- !hrnil!err°^^''\"T^ VV''^°'""°'^l'"'>.'°''/f»"''''"^^^ I'^^titute in New Zealand the older in order to be able to think ghost pictures which he had accept- ' to any purpose, and once one loses *d as authentic physical manitesta- iceberg? It cannot be German oceanographic expedition 90 per cent, infected with a parasite ' shines brighter than ever. ; landed. They reported it a volcanic that attacks It in its larval stage, 'But we take this Iceberg story ; cone 3.000 feet high, coming down to were recently collected O^''?*'.'^ ^rom ^ with every kind of suspicion, though | the sea in steep cliffs pentagonal In Brandon, in Suffolk) for Ontario. On- even it it would not be unique ot its ! shape and five miles across. How can tario also received 20.000 parsites of! kind. Many mythical islands have i it have become an iceberg? How do ttie greenhouse white fly. which was been put on maps. In the far Ant- ' these tales ot the sea get told?"â€" exported on whole tomato sprigs and arctic Sir James Ross charted one by ! Christian Science Monitor, sent over in cold storage. ~" ".\dult parasites of a scale insect ;„; .\^g woo'.ly aphis ot the rpple. sent} that attacks fruit were sent over ini,o injia and Kenya Colony, and of small sealed test-tub .'s to Vancoucer , ,iie earwig, sent to New Zealand and and provided with raisins for nourish- Canada. Three .Vustralian scientific meat in transit. The wood wasp men from the Commonwealth Depart- Sirex infests most timber-growing, meat ot Entomology are carrying out countries. Its larvae bore their way L^gg^rch at the laboratories under into tree trunks, leaving behind them I thg supe.-intendent. Dr. Thompson, neat circular tunnels in the wood, j^-to is himself a Canadian. One Is The Sirex parasite is another fly-j working on tbe sheep maggot, or btow- Khyssa. with a long ovipositor wtichjgy_ already mentioned; one on a para- site ot the apple-ravaging codling- moth, and one on an Insect that at- it thrusts right through the grain ot the wood until it penetrates the body I ot the wood wasp larva, en which it I lays its egg. Three hundred and fifty : of these Rhyssa larvae have been col- tacks a troublesome weed. Saint- John's-wort. Dr. Myers, ot the Farn- ham Royal staff, has gone to the West lected in Devon and shipped to the 'indies to (".eal with tropical parasites the reins and lets one's intellectual processes drift, it requires a real effort to get the upper hand again. A Stimulating Tonic The brain can be kept in training alert, youthful, open to new Ideas, and attuned to catch the best output from other brains, either by pursuing some special branch with real enthusiasm, filling those spare hours with definite work at a particular object outside one's ordinary concerns, or In main- taining a certain standard ot what can only be called "culture" in all the arts, taking literature, drama, music, in whatever form, as small tonic doses, not as sleeping draughts. Those who complain they are not "brainy " can turn their practical gifts into new channels, developing arts and crafts that will astonish them. The Joy and enthusiasm in finding a new job or hobby, however one re- gards it, and the first glorious flush of success has to be experienced to be appreciated. There can be no doubt as to its rejuvenating effect. tions of spirit existence. One in par- ticular he had pointed out, a dim fig- ure which he asserted was a spirit which had inhabited a local hannted house. He called attention to the "hard, wicked face" of the apparition and suggested that it perhaps vas the spirit ot a clergyman "earth-bound be- cause of his Bins." At this point Spencer Halmer, a ';The. sheep blow-fly. a big greecbot- tle, lays its eggs in dirty and matted wool on living sheep, and the mag- gots that hatch out eat their way into the animal's body. There is, however. a parasite which in turn lays its eggs in the blow-fly ptaggot and eventually flunilreds ot thousands ot and he will organize shipments ot bene- ficial insects between the various is-i lands and British Guiana." Canada's Mining Industry The variety ot Canada's mineral de- kills It. -- thesp maggots, with their appropriate iP^^its, the large scale on which opera- parasites, are being bred at the labcra- "on^ are conducted, and the great ex- torles, and some have alreadv been '^nt ot Its mining lands, make it evi- .exported in the chrysalis stage to ^^^n' "'=»'"'« dominion Is a country dentist well-known hereabouts, arose: .^u<!tralia South Africa, and tbe Falk-I^' ^^eat mineral possibilities, that it and announced: "That's me!" He ex- 1 1^^ J Islands, where the blow-flv!!* undergoing rapid development, and plained that the plcturA was taken 15 \ ^^^^^^ enormous loss ct sheep lite.l">at it offers an attractive field for ex- years ago at Nottingham, Bngland, 100 ; qj^^^ recent exports include parasites P'oratlon and development companies, miles northwest ot London. After he ' ! Bronze Age. Nennius believed that they were built to commemorate the â-  treacherous slaying ot -iOO nobles by , Hengest in 4Ti. The stones have been . thought also to be the remains ot a I Roman temple. Wealth bards had a ' legend that Stonehenge was erected ; by the successor ot Vortigern, aided ' by the Magician, Merlin, who moved the huge stones from Ireland, whithei they had been brought from Africa by giants. Other stories relate that StoB» henge was a temple of the Druids and a place where human sacrifices were made; that it was a temple to the sun; that it was a temple of the Bronze Age 1300-1000 B.C. Stonehenge is composed of a serie* of circles ot large hanging stones, many ot which have long since top- pled from their places. They art located within a circular earthwori .ibout 300 feet in diameter. The out- side circle ot stones is about 100 fee( in diameter, and originally contained, it is believed, thirty great mouolithS; The circle within consisted ot ap« proximately forty stones. The other circles, ot ten and nineteen stones respectively, completed the monu; ment. The circles were open at one ned, makiug a great horseshoe, the open part facing the sunrise at the sum- mer solstice. Salisbury Plain is considered one of most important archaeological I sites. Here is also Old Sarum, fort-, „ ress of the early Britons, where Ce-, I do not like to get into a discus ' '^"*^' '*'^^ founded the West SaxoU| sion about -Mussolini.â€" Senator Claude ' ^'"sJom in the si\th century, estab-, LONG I3ISTANCE PHOTO Mars only about 35,000.000 miles away when this photo was made through a very high powered tele- scope at the Yerkes Obser\-atory. Note the alleged mountains and val- ' the leys. A. Swanson of Virginia. Relief Work for Unemployed Spectator (Londoni: Germany In the days of her profoundest depres- sion gave the whole world an examjjle by .•;ettlng her ^ouse in order. She freely scrapped old Industrial plant, and set up modern industrial plant against the day when her trade should revive. What are the unemployed but a standing warning that we now have the same opportunity? Trade seems to be slowly reviving, and there may never again be such a sur- plus ot labor that could be turned on to put our house In order. Poison Gm London Dally Chronicle (Lib.) : The authorities dare not count upon an enemy refraining from the use ot this deadly weapon for slarrgWerlng civil- ians In their homes. We are inclined to agree with Lord Halsbury, who has said that It tuere Is to be panic about b«ror« the «rtat and friends had unsuccessfully watch- ed all night at a haunted house for signs of a ghost, he said he had dressed In a night shirt and a friend had made the photograph. .ji Alaskans Explore Yukon Searching for Mastodon Eagle, Alaska,â€" Seeking prehistoric animal remains Orin Wicks and Abe Miller have started down the Yukon Siver Ice watching Intensity along the shores for signs where the action of frost may have uncovered tusks or other evidences of buried mammoths. There Is a fortune awaiting the find- ,ers ot a mastodon frozen solid In the ago-old Ice, for up to $50,000 has been offered by several eastern museums. The last well preserved carcass was found near Dawson In 1904. It is now mounted In the National Museum. Each spring remains ot the ancient monsters are found along the Yukon especially where avalanches from clay bluffs expose old glacl&I stimts. Marrufe and Diforce Dean Inge In the London Evening Standard (tnd. Cons.) When a man and woman have pledged their tows of life-long fidelity to eaeh other "In the sight of Ood and thle «Migrega- tlon" they hare made the moat solemn covenant which they will tSgt In the whole conrae ot their Ueec To break this tow Is. In ny optaln. one ot the moet disgraceful seU ot lAlch a human bolac can be tnUty, and The Scope of Canada's Mineral Field coAi. eoto copvtiiMCiui leAD siLvtR asnoresiinc aimAS wwiotciy ciMfin' SKUOVtM. »MriM4lS Among the evidence of Canadian One Is to be found In the sheer progress In 1928. none Is more gratify- 1 variety of minerals that enter into our Ing than that which again reveals. In annual output. In financial circles stronger light than erer, the real the wisdom of "diversity of^nvest- worth of the Dominion as a Held for menf is a byword, and It may well mineral Industry. The preUmlnary be said that Canada's strength as a figures for the Talue ot the country's mineral output, recently issued by the Dominion Bureau of SUtlstics. reach a peak well above any previous leveL There are two phyeicaJ facts that _ _-- ,. carry a broad and special interest lit Is to this wide range ot resources those who kavo brokeo It !»â-¼â€¢ noj'^ J^^^lton with the steady ascent [that the Cinadlan mining Industry owes hnth Us enjoyment ot present prosperity and Its assurance mining field likewise lies largely in 'diversity'â€" In the fundamental fact that Nature has invested the Dominion with mineral assets which. In variety, are matched by few. If any, countries. lisheil his headquarters. Alarm is widely felt lest the Plain lose any ot its historical value, and contribu- tons to aid the effort to preserve its setting may he sent to the Stonehenge Trotection Committee, 7 Buckingham Palace Gardens. S.W., London. The Barriers of Class Viscount Knebworth in the Satur- day Review (Londonl: It is an indis- putable truth that the real interests ot the worker are bound up with the interests of the concern for which he works. It is equally a truth that this fact has so far been concealed from him. Any policy which tends towards lifting the curtain and enabling the worker to see in wha. direction his real Interests lie must strike at the very heart of organized class. The New Art Willison's Monthly. When new ideas are invented, it usually happens that they strike the public mind, first. as being silly, and next, as being dangerous. So it was with the new art. .\t first the paintings seemed to be the crade productions ot childish minds, and then they seemed to be gas stiacks, l»t ut have tbe panic right to oSfMl to be roMlTt^ IM» the! <>' <^"*'*'* Blhrral production in late I mainly â- ocl«t| ot itpooflew jy«*n. of stable, well-sustained growth. A second physical tact of no less importance exhibits Itself In the breadth of territory afforded by the | menace.i to all that was sacred In the Domtulon as a fair ground for more | orderly tradition of painting. Fin-, intensive prospecting. A major por-j^''^ "|f-» becarte recognized and nowj tlon ot Canada has so far been sub even the stuidest museums and gaH lerles are paying high prices tor Cezannes and Van Gogfas. Jected only to cursory study, but even so, ample information has been galn-j ed as to the potential mineral wealth » â-  of the less known regions of the coun-j What the poets refer to as fh^ try to confirm the Canadian mining touches of spring aren't a marker to Industry In Us title to an ample field the touches ot the Christmas season. tor further development > â€" Chicago Post.