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. ' i- Prince of Wales Acknowledged Leading Royal Pilot of World - London. The Prince of Wales was . feailed as the leading royal air pilot of the world recently after he had flown' more than 200 miles and handled the CO-HP. is of two machines within three and one-half hours. In addition to piloting the German flying boat DO-X for 10 minutes over Galshot on November 12th, the Prince flew an amphibian plane from Henrton airdrome to Calshot and return. There were eight passengers aboard. The size of the DO-X, largest heav- ier-than-air machine in the world, ob- viously impressed the prince. When he returned to the amphibian after fly- ing in the giant German machine, the Prince looked at the ordinary sized plane and exclaimed: "Good heavens! She's shrunk!" Norway Recognizes Arctic as Canada's Friendly Note Removes Only Ground for Dispute Over Archipelago Ottawa The Goverment of Norway has formally recognized the Canadian title to the Arctic islands commonly known as the Sverdrup group, com- prising Axel Helberg, Ellef Ringnes, Amund Ringnes and King Christian. This friendly action on the part ot the Norwegian Government removes the only possible ground of dispute as to Canadian sovereignty in the whole Arctic sector north of the Canadian mainland. Announcement that Norway has given formal recognition to the Can-] adian title of these Northern islands was made recently by Sir George Per- ley. Acting Prime Minister. The islands in question were- discov- ered and explored In the years 1898- 1902 by Commander Otto Sverdrup, leader of the Norwegian polar expedi- tion, in the Pram. 850 Miles Beyond "Circle" Axel Heiberg, the largest of the four islands, is situated approximate- ly 850 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and is one ot the furthest northern Island in the Canadian archipelago. It is about 250 miles long and 100 miles wide. The other islands are mailer in size. The statement given says: "In the pring of 1900 Commander Sverdrup took possession of the Islands in the name of his Sovereign, but no further act of occupation took place. The Dominion ot Canada has long claimed sovereignty over the entire area north of the mainland. On July 31, 1920, the rights acquired by Great Britain In this area were transferred to Can- ada by Or*er-ln-Council providing that II British territories and possessions In North America and islands adjacent to such territories and possessions which are not already included in the Dominion of Canada, shall, with the exception of Newfoundland and its de- pendencies, be annexed to and form part of the said Dominion.' The title thus based on the geographical contiguity and Britsh discovery and exploration was completed by effec- tive occupation and administration. All Land Claimed "The Canadian Arctic sector has been indicated on official maps and defined in official statements, notably by the Minister of the Interior in the House of Commons in June, 1925. The maps and public statements indicated that Canada claims all the territory north ot the Canadian mainland in the sector lying between meridians and 141. "In view of the conflicting claims in the Sverdrup Islands area, the mat- ter was made the subject of discus- sion between the Norwegian and Can- adiau Governments. A definite set- tlement of the issue has been form- ally expressed an exchange ot notes which was effected in London and Aslo." The administrative activities of the Canadian Government In its Arctic territories are extensive and continu- ous. The territories, the total area of which represents 1.309.682 square miles, are administered under the Minister of the Interior, Hon. Thomas G. Murphy. Grant to Sverdrup Canada liquidated an obligation when, according to an announcement by Hon. Gideon Robertson, Acting Minister of the Interior, the sum of $67,000 ws paid to Commander O. T. Sverdrup, famous Norwegian explor- er, in return for the services rende- ed by him in his explorations and dis- coveries in the Arctic islands. By this sum the Dominion also has pur- chased Sverdrup's original maps, notes, diaries and other docaments relative to his expeditions. In his statement accompanying the announcement of the grant, Senator Robertson says: "The achievements ot Commander Sverdrup in the furtherance ot Arctic exploration, from the time lie accom- panied Dr. Nansen in his voyage across Greenland, to his relief ex- pedition in the Arctic within recent years, and more particularly his ex- ploration in the Axel Helberg area, are familiar to Canadians. His great personality makes him one of the most highly regarded heroic adven- turers whom Norway has sent forth." Huge Eagle Shot Near Milton, Ont. Milton. Ont. Harry Hilson, sr., of Milton Heights, shot a copper head- ed eagle while bun-ting near the Mountain at Speyside, in Esquesing township. The eagle's wings meas- ured seven feet from tip to tip. and its legs were fully as large as a man's wrist, and its claws as long and as thick as a man's fingers. It was capable of carrying a small child or a lanrb between its feet. Three bul- lets from a 22 calibre rifle were re- quired to kill the eagle, which has beea sent to Toronto to be mounted. It Is the largest eagle ever seen i this district. New "Speed Demon" r~ New air-rail speed car which was tried out at Hanover, Germany, re- cently, attaining speed of 100 miles per hour. Airpl ane Beacon Used to Drive Wild Fowl From Fields of Rice Little Rock, Ark. To safeguard the been lent by the General Electric rice crops of Grand Prairie from fu ture damage by the thousands ot wild fowl that arrive each fall while the harvest is under way, the Arkansas Power and Light Company will con- duct experiments with an airplane beacon on the farm of C. C. Cox. south of Stuttgart, it became known recent- ly. It is believed that the beacon will afford prot;cliou from the wild fowl from a distance ot four to five miles in each direction, enabling groups of farmers to band together and install and operate such lights at minimum cost. Both white- and red rays will be tested. The beacon, which has Company for the experiments, Is said to be used successfully in tha West by farmers for protection against coyo'.es. There the animals appear o fear the red light mora than the white. Wild ducks and geese do the great- est damage to the rice crop. Poorly drained fields with large puddles of water near the harvested rice ,;eem to be particularly alluring. Tha fowls attack tlw shocks viciously, pull the cap of the sheaves to pieces and then strip the grain from the long heads of the bundles beneath. Thousands of dollars worth ot grain are destroy- ed in this manner annually. Japanese Leading Dual Existence "Dramatic action has .swept many a man off his feet." Bird-Banding Records The Canadian official records of bird-banding returns, through which the migration of birds are traced and recorded, are kept in the National Parks of Canada Branch. Department of the Interior, Ottawa. STEPPING UP CANADAS Ml R POWER DEVELOPMENT 1910 1929 STILL FORGING AHEAD! In taking stock ut Canada's position during the present period of world- wtdo economic difficulty, one ot the most inspiring features is the fact that the Dominion's Water-power resources furnish a seemingly irrepressible Impi'lus to national progress. In the face of all tha buffets ot business cycles, water-power development continues to forg rapidly ahead. Since 1910 Canada's water-power Installation has risen from les than cue million to nearly six million horse-power. The record ot growth has been a marvel of persistency. During tha past twenty years, water-power development has maintained a sureuese of advance through, all obstacles through the pre-war slump, through the disruption oJ tha war Itself, and through the drastic upi and downs of the last decade. And to-day, in the mi. Nt of world-wide depression, there Is being carried forward the greatest | program of hydro-elactrlo Installation, la the history of the Dominion. This ability of water-power development to hold it* forward course In] Housewives Prefer Western Comfort Grandmothers Clings to Old Tradi- tions Having chilblains Is no fun. And tile fact that you were wearing pic- turesque and romautlo clothes when you caught the indisposition does no- thing to- relieve your discomfort. And, finally, it the picturesque and roman- tic clothes are the cause of the trou- ble, you are likely to adopt less color- ful but warmer garb. It's reasoning such as tha forego- above all things, they detested having chilblains. At home. too. apparently, they were always shiveringly conscious of win- ter cold. To keep warm, they knelt close to the brazier, huddling above a glow that scarcely heated tlnger-tips and gave out, besides, a noxious gas. Nickname for New Princess, Margaret Rose, is Puzzle London. The choice of an affectioa- ate nickname, or abbreviation of her own name, for the latest addition to the royal family, Princess Margaret Rose, is puzzling the British public. When Princess Elizabeth, elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, was christened, she immediate- ly became Princess Betty to the pub- lic, but the trouble in the case, of ber baby sister is that there are so many forms of "Margaret" to choose from. Though Margaret is a Scottish name, it not only has many abbrevia- tions in Scotland and England, but is also to be found all over Europe, in one guise or another. Here are some of them: Margaret, Maggie, Marjory, Mar- jorie, Margery, Marguerite. Margarita, Marguerita, Meg, Mog, Madge. Maisle, Margaretta, Margaritta, Margherita. Marghditta, Peg, Peggie, and Mar- garetchen. from which, it is believed, is derived Gretchen. 'Maggie Is the favorite Scottish ab- breviation, and Madge or Peggie most used in England. It is expected that the baby Princess will be known, as Princess Madge. There is historical, or literary war- rant for all the above alternatives. The name is also well represented on the map, for there are Margaret Bays, or lakes, or mountains as far apart as Canada and Australia and Abys- sinia and Antarctica. The outstanding cases in England are Margaret Rod- ing and Maragarettiug. both in Essex; the first is derived from St. Margaret and the second signifies "Margaret's Meadow." lightest housekeeping of any women | to entertain more, or be more corn- in the civilized world?" j fortable, they simply hide an archi- "It takes the whole day," they pro- tect and build a complete foreign man- sion, send their children abroad to learn the appropriate behavior, or tested. "Our furniture is so low, we must forever be bending and stoop- ing. The woodwork which you like hire tutors to teach them how to ac- because it sem so plain acquires that; quire It on the spot." Reading on: satin sheen only through years ofi Impeccable were such of these daily rubbing with slightly oily bath- water. "The paper walU you admire must be dusted with patters; our houses muat be 'patted' clean every day, for wo can not wash them, aa you do win- dows, at long intervals. The mat- tings to be spotless for stockinged feet must be incessantly scrubbed; before parties we shine every bit of it three times. "And those bed-quilts what an ar- duous labor to be forever rolling them homes as I saw; and their owners appeared wholly at ease in the new environment. One nobleman bad built a great English country place, faithfully reproduced from the Ivy that clambered over stone walls to the velvety lawn, from the baronial hall with its oil-paintings to the Japanese servants who not only wore the livery of English butlers, but had somehow absorbed the exact, suavely bland ex- pression of their British prototypes. Another estate held a French chat- away and hauling them out! Those eau, where in a boudoir of rose, gilt. sliding-doors. They can not be push- ed open, like yours. One must kneel, and with three fingers, just so, press them noiselessly along the grooves. "And the decorations in the domicil! They are never finished, as in West- ern houses, but must be attended to regularly, put up In boxes correctly labeled and tied with brocade cords; the scrolls must be carefully rolled: and not even a great master of flower arrangement can achieve a correct design in a moment. time for social life." We have no and crystal, on brocaded sofas, sat jeunes filles. some in kimono and oth- ers in Paris frocks, discussing th poems of Paul Claudel. Yet another home was German from cellar to pointed roof and, of course, provided with a music-room; while a fourth was a purely American domicil, with low bookcases and wide fireplace, roomy couches, and a sun-parlor look- ing out on a court where vigorous girls were laughing and playing ten- nis. It la in more modest circles, na- "But you all have servants." Misa turally, that the hot debate over the Beard exclaimed, bewildered; "three, new home occurs. Thousands of or four at least, instead of Just one or two as you might in the West." And In reply: "Slow and inefficient!" they wailed, as housewives all over the world have a habit of doing. "They never get through the daily tasks. And besides, so much ot our housekeeping must, according to all tradition, be done by us. \\ are taught to look on it as business and professional men who spend the day in "down town" offices at night return to kimono and cush- ion; tens of thousands of university and high-school boys and girls who were foreign dress to classes, sit on benches or chairs, and practise athle- tics, find kneeling on the floor at home positively painful; multitudes of mothers who want a more modern . a ritual, each act with a flawless form- j hygienic brlnging-up for their chll- ula: we alone can tend the tokonoma, take care of the finest pottery. Children can, make more noise and mischief in a Japanese house, un- questionably, than in any other. They can punch holes in paper walls, reach and upset anything left on the low All vitality, they insisted, went into tables and shelves, and whenever they the effort of fighting chili; and the day-long shrinking toward the fire was not without a cramping effect upon the mind. When I suggested a furnace, know- ing that these particular friends could well afford it, they objected that Jap- anese houses had no cellars; when I mentioned stoves, they answered: "Heat warps delicate wood and lac- quer. It has been tried again and Iijuei. 11 uaa ufr- i iricu iigiLin mid again, always disastrously. Furnl- tim face of recession In almost every other major 11*14 to one of the most fortunate and favorable factor* affeotln* OUKl#% oonomlo position *nd progrest. % eruization ot Japan, we judge as we read Miriam Beard's new volume on "Realism in Romantic Japan" (Mac- millanK "Why do you do it?" Miss Beard used to ask her Nipponese friends sadly as she saw them discarding kimouoa and sashes and houses of painted screens in favor of Occidental tweeds, serges, and thick, solid walls. And they would always reply that al- though the old-time Japanese gar- ments and houses are pretty to look at, they were not the most convenient things to live in. The arguments would go on In this manner, with Orientals upholding Western ways, and an Occidental up- holding Eastern ways. Miss Beard would say: "Why do you want to give up your Japanese houses? They must be so easy to take care of and so Informal to live \n. Why do you wish to change the kimono T Nothing looks more comfortable." And then I would find myself con- fronted by a wholesale Indictment of native domesticity, to which each wo- man contributed her favorite argu- ment. t'rom my window I had perhaps seen these women, approaching down the rainy street, and thought with pleasure how like the prints were their slim, swaying figure, in the dis- tance. As they hurried along, drag- sing their wooden sandals, their soak- ed skirts clung and flapped, and their long sieves unscrolled in the wind. They clutched at tha scarfs about their necks, and trted to shelter their Iniue heads behind big paper um- brellas. To an outlander, the pic- ture was gratifying. With plaints, however, they entered our quarters. Their wet feet were cold. The wind had sought all the loose edges of sleeves and chilled them. The drenched skirts of their robes would be hours adrying. And, before I could reassure them that, anyway, they had looked like the dream of an artist, they declared em- ' phathlcally and unpoetlcally ture unglues, cups chip, beams split, paper rolls up, family treasures wrinkle and crack." Winter, I murmured, would soon be over, and what could be Jollier than a light Japanese dwelling in warm weather? "Ah," they sighed; "when the walls are open, flying insects dash In. beat- i Ing against the papw-screena and lanterns. Reading at night Is al- most impossible, and even sitting up la no pleasure." My enthusiasm for the picnic- character of the home was not wholly dampened "surely, they had the dren can not without sacrifice and struggle pay for much improvement. Some solve their difficulty by mov- ing to the new suburban "garden cities" and renting a concrete "for- eign-style" house. A few semi- Japanese apartments have heen re- cently erected in Tokyo with provi- sion for community laundry and cook- Ing. Many persona add various arti- cles to their residences, regardless ot esthetic principles: they hide a tele- phone behind a screen, put a lantern around the electric bulbs, conceal a phonograph near the tokonoma. spread quire more quiet and privacy than! a rug over the chilly matting, or bold- their ancestors. The official, the, ly install a wicker chair or two and writer, or the business man, who! a desk, in spite of the fact that they brings home his papers for evening do look like mastodons In the low- shriek it can be heard through thin partitions by the neighborhood. Watching them is an engrossing oc- cupation; women have acquired the habit of wearing tha batoies on their backs, even indoors, to hush them. Contemporary men and women re- work. Is distracted by countless noises and interruptions. Through flimsy walls is transmitted every cough. ceilinged room. "The foreign-style parlor." a room attached to the Japanese abode lika every flap of the duster, closing of a a trailer to a motor-car, is the solu- shutter cry of a tradesman, or patter ot wooden shoes on stepping-stones. The babies bounce in. and tlnd It very easy to clamber over a crouching father, and spill the Ink on the foot-J high desk. Of such Incidents are modern Japanese stage comedies made. Among the less affluent members ot Japanese society there are difficul- ties in the way ot adopting the more convenient Western Idea?. But among the rich, of course, there 1s no such trouble. If the rich "wish tion preferred by many. Business men may entertain customers here; daugh- ter may practise on the piano and learn foreign etiquette in the right surroundings; son may sit at a desk for his studies. Sometimes the whole family prefers this wing, while only grandmother remains faithful to the former apartments. Thus a very strange dual life is led. Before long, I decided that to live with one culture alone was distinctly monotonous. Tho jack of all trader is the dollar- Soccer on Horseback N-nv form of soccer was Introduced for the first time at the recent Berlin, Germany, horee show. ..o-soccer and the feet of the riders are used to propel the ball along to the goal. It la I