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AiVITHJHE'M ONPSTOUTS Thrift In March Means Camp in July about our friends, the birds, and of our Have you thought of that, Lonles? 1 duty, as Scouts towards them. Have This year we intend to make a big . you ever stopped to think how valu- ffort to have another Lone Scout 'uble an ally man has in the birds? Camp, such as we he4d In 1929 and ' Birds help feed us. Birds help save 1930. Do you remember all the good our money. Birds help make life more times wo had togotherT The hikes beautiful Birds furnish us with spleu- and games, the swimming pool and the did examples of faith, charity and for- camp fire, the treasure hunts and giveness Birds give us pleasure, ports, work and play? I Birds are our friends and "though we Of course you will want to Join In slay them yet do they treat us." this fun all over again! In our wild scramble to become Then remember that NOW is HIP civilized and less like real men we time to commence to sav those have too often ruined the world into nickels to pay your camp fee and to which we were born. We have pol- make it possible for you to be with us. ' luted the fragrant air. thus robbing our Start a camp fund right away! | lungs. We have hacked down our for- No better Illustration of the value ests, slain our wild animals. Vanished of the Scout Movement is needed than are many of our friends through our the Incident which took place recently selfishness or greed or ignorance, lu a small Ontario town. | While this has proceeded, slowly aud An accident occurred when an auto- _ steadily our enemies have crept upon mobile collided with a railway train us in constantly augmented numbers, and a man was seriously hurt On be- These ene-mles are tiny pests which Ing summoned to the scene of the acci- man is ill adapted to fight. Insects are dent the doctor decided that the mail the pests which we have unwittingly must be conveyed by ambulance, at aided and which now destroy our very once, to the honpltal. On enquiring livelihood. The city dweller little ap- from the onlookers where he might predates the ravages of these deslroy- flnd the nearest 'phone, a little chap era, but If ho could realize the loss of spoke up: "I know. sir. I'll go. What fruits, grain, lumber, and the necessary nifc*saKe?" He received instructions increase in prices and decrease In from the doctor and was off. Shortly .quality there are few who would not ''White Christmas" In London This litile I.omio.itr i?ot a bob-sleigh from Santa at Christmas and, the proper atmosphere to go with it. Here she Is being pulled along unlike her Canadian Misters, got by her brother at Finchley. Arctic Wastes Enjoy Britain's Industrial Fair Record Weather Attracting World Buyers Edmonton. Alta. The residents of j I^ndon Prospects for the 1932 Bri- ' Aklmvik on the Arctic coast may well tish Industries Fair would seem to) "pat then.selves on the back" as f'.r , K)illt to evell be . ter buslness than in 1 once in many a long year they ha'! 1931. j the distinction recently of recording, The re have been twice as many la- the second highest >r warmest tern-! quid,,., from overseas prospective buy- perature in the Dominion of Canaia.'ers as at the corresponding date last After having been known as Akia-,rear. and 684 overseas buyers have vik in the frozen Arctic wastes f.,r| announced their intention of attending so long, it was with no small fafneltfca fair, as compared with 354 at this of prid that_the inhabitants could 'stage In 1930. point to a temperature of 4:> degr,"j Out of 300,000 square feet of space above zero the last wsek in November -jat Ulympla, 261,000 have already been f ^ f Only one other point in Canada '.e-jiet. In the textiles section at the he was back, out of breath. "The am- 'help secure some meaus of destroying I c r<ied warmer temperature on that "White City" only 12 stands out of 226 Bot Fly Menace Kill Grubs Now By L. Stevenson Provincial Zoologist 1 vailed bulance will be right over" he said. j injects. Tho doctor turned to reward him for. Spraying and all the artificial means prompt execution of the errand. "Oh of controlling these destroyers are as I no ^Ir, ' ald the lad, "I'm a Boy Scout expensive as Inadequate. Nature's lial- j t v ' and I mustn't take anything!" "But'ance has- been upset and man must South African Capital I must pay for the 'phone call, at help restore that balanrp. Birds are least," said the doctor. "Well, I guess ' tho natural enemies of insects. They! date, while from the- Rockies to the are loft, and In Birmingham nearly 90 Atlantic, freezing temperature* pre- ' per cent, of the space has been booked. I Holland, as usual, heads the list of prospective buyers, and other coun- ' j tries to be represented include France, ' Wins City Charter """"> ark ' s P aln - Germany, Switzer-j land and Canada. Inquiries cover that will bo alright," said the little 'are the balance weight against the ' Pret ? rla - So " lh Africa. Hitherto eve , T conceivable product from rail- 1 fellow. I harmful Insects. We must help in- 1 J Cton * has *!* a> ^ ' Pf" re K ard(1(i ' way lines to pins and pianos and. In that Incident Is illustrated th Boy 'crease bird life by conserving their f I ..* '..' , 3 . C '"A * ec .? n , nn ! Bramophones to codfish. The fair Scout Spirit. i homes fix-ding them educating the pub- It Is far from the truth for anyone He and studying their habits to help to state that this movement encour- supply what we have taken away. i .. ^ ages militarism, for Boy Scouts are One of the best ways of protecting j n * taught to perform at least one good j tbo birds Is by building bird houses, turn every day and are trained to be for mau has taken many of (he natural amendable to discipline, to fear God, homes of the birds away. Build them, ij.l.. ' uutioia. i 11 TJ 1 a 1 1 such fetal only from Oct. 14. when jopeu , , K ebruary at Olympla, the a formal charter was granted and a , \ vh ,te City, and In Birmingham proclamation was issued declaring it-, i to honor the King and to love their I put them up and wall. Unlike human native land. beluga, the birds like seasoned homes. They are taught tin? useful art of they dislike bright paint, etc., so per- woodcraft, are gln-ii instruction la j haps you'll have to wait some time. xwlmmliiK and. In short, receive a Give the bird a chance. While there training that fits thorn to he good men and citizens Surely MII h ii mnvomeut deserves the unqualified support of every per- son who realizes that the hoys of to- day are the men of to-morrow and that training such as Boy Scouts receive will make for a flm-r standard of ritizi'n-h!;> Birds In rci ent artk and higher commemoration of the event a . Trans-Canada Road city hall H to be built, costing f'-iiU-l 000. Pretoria was founded in IS.^ j by Andres Pretorius, a leader of the Croat Trek, and nanud after him. later becoming the administrative capital of the Union of South Africa. Nearing Completion Win.iipeg. Man. The Trans-Can- ' ada motor highway will be opened July 1, 193'J. it has been de- Ily that time the work will are Scouts tlie birds should not want for homos. There should always be some bouses for rent. If you would like to ha a 1/oue Scout, write to The Ix>ne Scout Department, :::IO Bay Street, Toronto 2., for par- ticulars. This branch of the Boy Scouts Association is open to boy.i between . , It is now a well-!aid-out and beauti- have '**" COI "I )let *<i n the road con-; f ul city of 70.000 persons. netting Manitoba and Ontario, more .-, - particularly Winnipeg and Kenora, ' Homestead Grant Now I ffiScJStB&t tE'cen". ! Extended to Women tral part of Canada. Kdmonton, Alta. Alberta w.>n,i-n ' It is anticipated that the road will The Bot Fly pest of last summer Is being carried over, to assert itself again during the coming July and Aug- ust. The carry-over condition Is in the form of grubs or larva* 1 located in the stomach of nearly every farm horse. This annoying pest could be gotten rid of entirely, If every horse in the Pro- vince was dosed once each year, with carbon-dlsulphide. January is a good month to go after bots. as the greatest number are found at that time in the stomach of the horse. This treatment. If repeated once a year for three years, would result In a clean up ot this pest to horse*, that causes much annoyance in Its fly stage. The bot grubs are responsible for unthrlft, di- gestive disturbances, colic and some- times death of the horse. .Horses that do not stand up under spring work are usually heavily infested with bots. Carbon disulphide should be adminis- tered in a strong capsule, by a skilled veterinary. It is 100 per cent, efficient against bots and Is also effective against any round worms that may be present. Every bot grub that get* away In the manure, will, if condition* are favorable, convert into a bot fly, to pester horses next summer. Kill the grubs now when they are all lo- cated in the stomach of the horse. No living grubs there can be no flies. 12 and 18 years of ag* who are unable ID Joiu a regular Scout Troop. lufor- AM liavo talked niation will he gladly sent. Louo K. Canada's Gigantic Water Power Would Permit a Total Tur- bine Installation of 43,000.000 HP. Canada is one of the lending coun- tries of the world in the production of low-cost hydroelectric energy, ac- cording to a recent bulletin issued by are steadily taking advantage of the in condition to allow traffic to or these fret- lands were made by w..- power ordinarily available continu- ously for six months of the year. "The estimated total resources of thu Dominion under ordinary ,nini- mum flow is about ^0,000,000 horse power and the six months' figure is placed at nearly 34.000,000 horse- power. An analysis of the existing tion is developing on the Clyde-side at power developments shows thut in present. A number of orders have actual practice the turbine instalia- been received by the various ship- lion is in excess of the six months' new provincial ruling that women may I tr "vel over it several weeks prior .o now file on homesteads ' | th official opening date. A report issued by the Lands I)e- v ' partment recently showed that in Or-' Bulgarian King tober 01. t of a total of :ii!8 homesteads' Pit/ TV. . filed upon in Alberta. 174 application,! ' re<58 l Sofia, Bulgaria- In honor of the forthcoming celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of George Washington'* birthday. King Boris of Bulgaria has presented to 1'resldent Outlook Improves In Clyde Shipyards Glasgow. A more lupoful .situa Hoover, through the American MInl- 1 t"r here, two young pine trees of an 1 especially beautiful and hardy varie- ty. One of them wa* planted in the in fact th ratio found for the development which has already occur- red, applied to the whole resources, the Hi- jit. of the Interior. Ottawa. Sr.e Indicates that these would permit a holds this enviable position mainly he- cause of the fact that she is bounti- fully supply by water powers which are widely and conveniently placed in relation to the centres of industry and population. In fact practically every- where in the Dominion ample elec- trical power produced from water total turbine installation of about I'l.- 000,000 horsepower." : Four Men Tend Huge Plant Berlin. In Hennigsdorf, on the outskirts of Berlin, the Maorkische Klektrizitaetswerk has erected what is claimed to be the largest Diesel plant in Europe and technically as well a* architecturally a hitherto unapproach- building concerns, the laU>rs lining, me- yanl <>f tlie American Legation and for a cargo steamer of 0,000 tons for lhe otller " tne cam P" s of the Kaye, Son & Co Ltd American College near Sofia The The order has boon placed with Ohriitton Srlpncc Monitor. Messrs. I.ithgow, Port-Glasgow. Some fix>li put on morn airs thau a wis man c-oiild grind out of a hand- ' er skatos us power is available at a cost whi-h , (t(I m<xkl _ It shoW3 the machine renders it widely applicable- The value uf this power to the Dominion is enhanced by the fact that her fuel resources though very great, uro not most entirely emancipated from hu- man administration, for, though iU two motors develop -2, ()(><) horsepowir, they are tended by only four merhnn- ncarly as widely distributed and are '" Involutions can bo s|KM>dd up U inconveniently located to serve the 215 a minute, as agnnst nmcty-four vast central area where tho major revolutions maximum attained by the portion of jx>pulati<>n and industry is located giant Diesol in Hamburg. The con- struction costa are said to have been The collection of data in Canada! * r>6 P t>r kilowatt - The plant will gen- on the available water jxmer resource '' ate Hupplemcntary current ami help of the Dominion is the responsibility of the Dept- of Interior, which through its Dominion Water Power and Hydromctric Bureau eo-openr.cs with several provincial authorities in the measurement and recording of stream flow in all the important rivers of Canada," says tho bulletin. "Thu work, initiated vcr twenty years ap>, has provided records for many rivers, carry peak loads on the company's riower linos. .;, Indian Gold Pours Into Great Britain Plymouth, Kng. An additional 4, 000,000 pounds sterling of gold arriv- ed recently from India, continuing th movement by which India, as It did and these, together with information '" the ^Ireat War, ha* boon coming to ai to fall and other relevant particu- lar*, compiled from every available source, having made it possible U> make a fair estimate of the to' a! the rescue of Britain. The gold hoard of India, accumu- lated through the centuries, is esti- mated nt more than 500,000,000 water power resources of tho Domin-! I' ound ' Approximately $2,500,000,000 j on jut par). Hot ween late September and "The water power available at any <'hristmas, more than 25,000,000 nite is proportional to the product of j "* sUsrlln of K ld had arrived ' tho flow of wiiicr and tho fall, or head, obtainable. The latter, whether due to a natural drop or whether MI Roller Skating Limited Waycross, Ga. The Influx of roll- Christmas gifts has caused the banning of skating In the j * : liiisliiuss itistrict and the limiting of, When a fireman works tlia hose It It to sld-walks In the nwldentlal dli- 1 I only in play. ' irict. 'A Family Aff?ir" to bo refined and sold to countries still on tho gold standard. India went off the gold with Britain, leaving tha rupee |>eg-' cured partly or tirely by dams, is re- latively constant, but the flow un.l<r natural condition is variable. This variability renders it necessary to adopt certain uniform bases in calcu- lating tho total power resources. For, , Canada two bases have been adopted J ^ P urm ? into India bank, for The first of these (rives the power ""'P"* and sale^in London- under conditions of "ordinary nvni- c_i..i . r'^. II C tliCfWt mum flow" which is the amount wh'eh ;>alule ^ l U ' 3 - JlJMWW will be ordinarily continuously n\ nil- ' Artillery salutes cost th Unltod able, and the- second indicates the ged to sterling. A premium of ap- proximately 80 per cent for gold in Ixmdon was automatically established by their suspensions- Consequently gold articles of every description hat| $nir,.000 annually Suns :uid daimhti-r-. of II A. I', mon In the east pttOtoCrftPbvd after > < mharklng from steamship Otranto at Tilbury, rooontly. They had fm-mod a jolly ship'* company, for there won 1S6 uhihlren. all under nl no, on board. "It Is always customary to ask i guest to call a;:i". iMi't it?" "Of course, ii > i> -'dally if he Is a bill collet i Last London Watch House to Be Razed Ix>ndon. The last of London'* watch-houses overlooking church cem- eteries, built to stop the practice of "body snatching," will be pulled down sometime this month It is in Waterloo Road and over- looks the cemetery of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, one of the four London churches erected in 1828 in commemoration of the Battle of Waterloo. For the last ten years the building, retaining the sign of ''Th- V/atch House," has been used as an ( ating house, but n >w its walls are shored up ami the premises vacant. The old watch-ho.ise was actually u police station. It served the whole neighborhood as well as overlooking vhe cemetery, and prisoners were taken there before being sent to the debtors' prison and the house of cor- rection. Britain and War Debts Ixmdon Times (Ind.) : So far j this country U concerned there is cer- tainly a widespread belief that a ger- eral cancellation of reparations and i war debts would facilitate economic recovery and, therefore, bo generally j beneficial; but the British taxpayer i would not lightly entertain the idea of cancelling reparations while retain- ing the burden imposed by war debts. Soviet Oil Output Gains Moscow, U.S.S.U. The production >f oil In the Soviet Republic In 1931 amounted to 22,300,000 tons, 16 per i-cnt abort of the program for tho year, but alnnost 4,000000 toru In rxceM ot 1930 figures. Belgium to Protect Forests from Axes RruaseU. Belgium. Belgium's woods and forests are in future to lx> protected against excessive tree felling by a law recently voted by tho Belgian Senate. Vothln* oan kill self -respect . rvorytfatag wounds It. De Segur. to <ho oldeat and moat In- ot all crtttcu. H, Roiisse Economic Warfare In Progress To-day Decisive Steps of Interna^ tional Character Are Needed in 1932 Toronto. Under the title 193:'-? Wood, Gundy and Company sum- marize in their current Review and Bond List, some important factors affecting the financial out- look for 1932. "Nineteen Thirty two enters under auspices which offer hope for the solution of many of tic- difficulties which clouded 1931 an:.' which have caused the current busi- ness depression to run to undue lengths." The world outlook is still complicit- ed but, regardless of results, the rapidity with which steps have been taken during recent months to face and surmount these difficulties has been gratifying. Such measures as the Moratorium of last June the British elections in October the Hoover Banking Consortium of the same month the Basle Conference in December and Premier Ramsay Mc- Donald's promptitude in endemvcor.ng .0 arrange a further world conference at Lausanne for January 18th indi- cate a desire, l*ss apparent in pre- vious months, to deal promptly with problem* which must, of necessity, be determined at a comparatively early date." ''On* factor not generally reali/ed is this that the world today (al- though involuntarily) is economically at war to as great an extent as in the period from 1914 to 1918, with the | further disadvantage that the align- ment of allies and associates is not sc clearly defined as in those four years." ''The principal creditor nation (Un- ited States), through tariffs, has effec- tively declined to accept payment in the form of commodities, even though debtor countries continued to settle ad- verse balances in gold until over 40 per cent- of the world's monetary sup- ply had fallen into the hands of t*t coun :ry." ''Obviously, further substantial gold payments are impossible unless Unit- ed States and France, which now hold more than two thirds of the world's monetary gold, are willing to distri- bute it so that it may again perform its important function of settling in- ternational balances. Logically, re- distribution should take place through purchasing in other countries to an extent that would permit a substan- tial excess of imports over export?, but, through high tariffs, increased foreign purchases have been rendered virtually impossible." "While there have been many con- tributory causes of the existing credit situation, one outstanding factor, in our opinion, is that upon the conclu- sion of a devastating war. when econ- omy and hardships might reasonably have prevailed, expenditure, through borrowing, took place to an abnormal extent. This was mad possible by the elaborate machinery for credit expansion set up during the war per- iod." "Notwithstanding the troubled con- dition of the world at large, Canada's position is fortunate, in that she is a producer of raw materials which are in \vo*Jd demand and which can be produced in Canada at low costs. Pro- vided finances are capably administer- ed, Canada should be able to meet all of her obligations, at home and abroad In our opinion, the Canadian problem is largely an internal one, namely, of bringing about strict econ- omy in expenditures, both public and private. We believe that public opin- ion has become so focussed upon and is so sympathetic with the necessity for economy on the part of govern- ments, municipalities and private cor- poration* that substantial economies are already being effected voluntar- ily " > . British Imports Up, Trade Report Shows London. liffects of Great Britain's anti-dumping duties for the flrst four months of operations were shown IB figures issued by the Board of Trade recently. In December imports totaled 77.- 027..-503, a reduction of 6.204,140 from the previous month and 1 2,630,2 U from December, 1930. In the game month exports were 32.077,425, an Increase of 213.978 over November, but a decrease of 6,381,071 from De- cember. 1530. For the nscal year 1931 imports totaled 862.174.709. an In crease of 181,800,552 over 19SO. Ex ports decreased by 181.591,599 to i total of 389.163,817. New Rye-Wheat Seed To Be Tested in Northwesl Spokaue, Wash. Dr. E. F. Galnes of Washington State College, who attend- I'd the International Soil Science Con :n>-j* in Moscow, brought back a new ly-uiioat hybrid seed developed by th-> Uusslans which he Is now endeav- or ng to blend with northwest wheat. ' The new seed contains all the food > .iracterlstlcs of wheat and rye," Dr. lialnes says, "it makes better bread thaa rye and in more hardy and more drought resistant than either wheat or rye." Has Tomb With Phonograph A Washington broker has hnd a ti>mb constructed for himself with an automatic phonograph In the tower which plays at tho visitor's wish. This family "pyramid" cost $365,000. j :