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4, WITH. THE LONESCOUTS Free Tree* For the Aiking! The Lone Scouts of Ontario uavo recently co-operated with the Ontario Forestry Branch of the Provincial Government In posting signs in pro- minent places throughout the province announcing to fanners and other In- terested person how they may secure a largo number of tret- i m charge, for reforestation work, from (he For- estry Branch. The boys arruiiKcii hikr-i, armed with the cards, a hammer and tacks, .<uii posted thc^e announcement* In prominent place*. Kvery year, around May 24th, some J('O Boy Scouts attend a special For- estry Camp at Angus, Ontario, where they are taught the rudiments of For- usiry by Government Ofllcials, and - here they help to lay cut plantations which will be the foundation of a large Fire Prevention content, Class 1, and the Canadian, .Chamber of Commerce Shield. The Scouts systematically In- spected alleys and back streets and re- ported Tire hazards. World Courts and Boy Scouts That Scoutlnp offered a great lesson in nelghborliness, and that he would rather fasten his hopes for world peace on the Scout Movement than on world courts, was the declaration of i the Hon. W. O. Martin, Provincial Minister of Public Welfare, at the an j nual meeting of the Boy Scouts As- ! sociation of Ontario. This Week's Scout Law No. 2 A Scout is loyal to the King, his country, his officers, his parents, his employers and to those under him. Loyalty is one of the foundations of good citizenship. No organization of Prince George AUcnds Hunter S Boy Scout forest Already some of any sort, from a Government down- tho trees, planted several years ago, j wards, can be successfully operated aro growing into large proportions. [ unless it's members are loyal. To be Thin camp is very popular, and only loyal means to adopt certain principles costs the boy his transportation to and to stick to them when you know Angus and it may be that some I.onles would like to attend this year. If so, let Headquarters know as BOOH ;IM pos- sible, BO that arjrangementH can be made to Include you. English Scouts May Visit Canada A project Is afoot among Birmlug- .bam Scouts and Hovers to organize a -: i.il troop and visit Canada this .summer. If the plan materializes the troop will leave Liverpool In July and ipend some fifteen days iu Canada. Lone Scout Summer Camp There lias been quite a lot of in- terest shown in the proposed I.one Scout Camp, and this opportunity for Lonloa to get together and work and p'.ay under the supervision of experi- enced Scout leaders should not be missed. Similar camps were organ- 'Ued very successfully in 1!>29 and 1S30, and If there Is sufficient encour- agement to carry the matter through, the camp will probably be held at Ebor Park, near Hrantford, Ont.. during the first two weeks of July. The cost for the two weeks will probably be ten dollars, and the Soout will havn to pro- vi'I> his own raTix|*>rtat!oi to and from ttiu camp. *Xny Lone Scout interested should communicate at once with Headquart- ers, and start saving lilt nickels now! Boyi Aid Firemen In Dominion Contest Hamilton, Ont , Scouts are credited by Fire Chief .lames with helping nil department win the 1930-31 Dominion they are right. Loyalty is a bulwark thrown up against Life's temptations. Therefore a Scout is Loyal to hit country, that he may help to make It u better place to live in; to the Scout Organization that he may get the best out of ii; to his Parents, who have worked and sacrificed for him, thus obeying the 6th commandment, which says "Honor Thy Father and Mother"; to his employer, that ho may obtain the best results from his labor; and to those over whom he has control, that ' they in turn may honor and be loyal to him. Lone Scout Dog Show In a recent Issue of "On Lone Soout Trails" particulars were Rlveu of a Lone Scout Dog Show." This, in fact. ' Is theoretical, as the boys cannot bring their flogs to any central spot for judg- ing, but they are required to write an essay and send pictures of their dogs, from which the Judging was done. The winning essays will be publish'-'! In this column at a later dale. Membership in the Lone Scouts Is open to boys from 12 to- 18 years of Age, Inclusive, who are not able to join a Regular Hoy Scout Troop. It Is particularly designed to give boys who live on Rural Routes, or In small villages, an opportunity to take ad- vantage of the Scout Programme. For full particulars, write to The Lone Soout Department, Boy ScouU Association, 330 Hay Street, Toronto 2. [/one K. Current Events As Viewed By The Press CANADA Prince George recently attended the hunter show at London and presented the King's cup for thoroughbred stallions, .lo.'eph Stalens is shown receiving the award for his horse, liallynahinch. Athletes Keep Trim For the Olympics Busy Season Assures Entrants Will Be In Good Form The sports world !s in the throw of a busy sonson this year. Tho winter Olympics are over. The indoor track season has len illumined by the brilliant perform- ances of Venzkc, Spitz, Ix>rmond, Sex- ton, McCluskey, a'ui their fleet, agile comrades. But more is to c-.nn 1 . Outdoor track moots in plenty will thrill the fans; anil ahead, M a climax, is the prospect of the Olympic traiiM** in I/os Angeles in Au(fi.st. Hut before this, thi- world'* big ports show, there are the numerous cr'" -U. These, in general, will follow th college track season and will !> so distributed over th country as to gi almost all fiwtions a chance to witness Olympic competition. Perhaps the dates of t*une of those events will b of interest. So her* ara some of them, as listed by Law- rence Perry in a Consolidated 1'ress dUpatch: On June '_: 'Jl the track ami field athletes of the, Kant will hold a tryout in Harvard Stadium at Cambridge. Rowing tests for all but eight-oared urews will l> held on the SchuylkiH River at Philadelphia, July 1-4. Chicago will 1> the acene of ih aemi-ftnal Kattern track and field trials on July 8-9. On the HIM- <!IUM the Wettern emi-tinal tryouU will b* held at Long Hach, California. ' incinnatl will see tho final nwim- niing test for men <-n July 14-17. (iymnanta who ar* to represent tin* United Stat* at I/>i Angeles will b* elected in a final r.oet in New York Oity on July 15. (in July 15 the final truck and tryuUi will h* atagwi at Palo Alto. July 15-16 will itoo the holding of tho final boxing trlal-i at Chicago. 1'aclflc Coast yachts v 111 sail trinl rat-r at Ix> An|foli July 1(i-20. And rh<-ro, also, on July 'J:( (ho finals In tumhlii.g, I'.j'i- i-'..i'.il.ii!g, nml Imllnn olubs will be held. I living final* ami final cvi-nU in , wn!i-r |">ln )"0 ! I'RMKI.-II.I, July 18- JR. I nml yachting tryn.it will be- he'.d on tho !<> Angoles course July 'JM '17, and lit this tiim. tin- final roitd-cy cling testx will !M hi-ld ..n the Olympic oonrse. l'''iplii limit iv- 1 . tin KIHI-I nun-lit Tim government mints for the In n< ill or ill'- i>'xi|l " \lf.lf Hill" Mni-i.iy. Forecasts End Of Niagara Falls McGill Scientist Believes Land Tilting May Turn Great Lik'--, Flow Back To- ward Mississippi Montreal. The eventual disappear- ance of Niagara Tails was predicted by Professor T. II. Clark, professor of paleontology at McGlll University, in a recent address here. I'rofi'ssor Clarke's discussion of the Niagara River came iu the course of a general survey of the history of the | Great Lakes, whose discovery he term- ed one of the most absorbing subjects ' to the student of .North American his- j tory" A few of the geologic keya to | the sarrei of time were displayed for the beueflt of his audience. Changeless as tho Cireat li't>'-i in. when looked at through the eyes of the layman, they all show constant change to him, for his theories are framed iu an unlimited time, and with the yardstick of thousands of years Toronto's Bond Triumph Canada, as well as Toronto, has reason for congratulation over the absorption of the city's new $15.299,- 000 loan in less than two hours. The | success of the Dotation indicates a | healthy state of Toronto finance, and it also suggests a degree of returning confidence which should be beneficial to the business community. Since it became impracticable last autumn to enter the New York mar- ket for money, Canada has witnessed the disposal of several important bond issues at home, and, while it has been feared the saturation point might soon V The Western Viewpoint Saskatoon Star- Phoenix (Lib,): The prnirie provinces have a vital 5a- terest in the Empire Economic Con- ference this year at Ottawa. Th* : .ulk of Canadian exports to Br tain have always jecn. from the west: wheat, livestock and farm prsi&cts. It is on the shipments abroad of the?* commodities that Canada's prosperty largely rests and the prosperity of Western Canada depends on them al- nrost exclusively. THE EMPIRE True Nobility 7'ecently a Salvation Army reached, there seems no dan-' played beneath th-i windows of jp.d ger on that score as yett The Globe (Toronto). Forest Preservation Havir-,- returned from a three months' tour of the chief European countries Mr. Frank J. I). Barnjum is more than ever Convinced of the serious world shortage of wood. He thinks th!.t the British Empire, not ingham Palace, and subsequent :-i^ : - dents rtvealetl the kindly and ii>ten- ly human character of the Royal -'_ ily. The Queen sent out a request that the musicians play her favorite hymi , "Jesus, Lover of My SOL!,'' while his Majescy requested "Kins of r ings" and "Silver Threads Among the Gold." Then the leader of the bt nd was invited into the palace .... I >'< I1U " flfca UBViVCM MAW I.IITT LJCt-dV^. .AkMl withstanding its immense natura I re- introduced to membf:s of ^ , amVr sources of other kinds, is weak in this respect, an<} he makes the fol- lowing suggestion: "Our governments could not make a wiser or more necessary move than to every acre pire than can be obtained at a reas-n- able figure. The present time :.* the circle. Nothing wonderful about this, may be the comment of the supercilious critic of all such human incide its. But there is. Here nre the hereditary fessor Clark said, there came a strange I occurrence the invasion of the St. 1 Lawrence lowlands, the Ottawa Valley, Lake Cbamplain and Lake Ontario by I the sea, due to the depression of the I crust of the earth. At Montreal the sea was 625 feet above its present level. Hetlltlng of this crust brought a draining off, leaving, however, abund- ant trace of the presence of the sea there. At that time, he said, the lakei asumed their present form and posi- tion. The possibility of a reverse tilling being now in progress was suggested. This would tend to spill the waters of the lakes once more into the Mis- sissippi, where they once found an out- let. purchase and conserve as a *, ru](?rs tf a vMt m ^ askj ^ every acre of forest within the Em- lfor t(je ^^ jn popular ^.^ ^ for the old hymns and a song that ha* been familiar for more than a jK.-ne-a- best and last opportunity that will occur to purchase forest lands it a moderate price. Owing to the depres- sion, land containing mature timber can be purchased in Canada today for a trifling advance over the cos: of planting young seedlings. Contrd i-f a majority of the remaining available wooded areas, with the enormously advancing values which are hound very shortly to occur, would give the tion. The Globe .^Toronto). Ireland and the Empire London Morning Post (Cons.): Ii tre Irish are to be driven out of th-ir Imperial heritage by their country- men in Southern Ire'.ar.d it will be their great loss and misfortune. They cannot well have it both ways. If they are citizens of a Republic, they cannot at the same time be British Empire greater prestige than control subject*. Their loss, we fear, in these of the gold supply, for no amount of gold can replace forests within the life- time of two general i.ns, nor toe few. hard times will be looked upon as gam by many of our native British r.)w >ut of employment. It is altogether thousands of acres of our reluuninqM very complicated and regrettable posi- big- trees in 15 generations." The tion. If the severance comes, bo--h American Air Lines Carry 457,753 Fares New York. American air transport lines experienced the busiest year In their history during 1931, with marked Kalns In passenger, mail and express traffic, according to u report made pub- lic recently by the Aeronautical Cham- ber of Commerce of America. "With 720 airplanes in service, the the lecturer iu.-asiit.Hl off the line of j major American Hues reporting to the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce carrier -457,753 passengers, 9,351.195 ponndii of mall, and SS5.1G1 pounds of the river* ami lakes of eastern Can- ada. Tho ancestry of th prett-m St. Law "Has George ever hinted mar- rluge to you?" "Only once, coming home from the theatre the other night, he laughed and said that anyway two could ride In a taxi as cheap at one." rence was traced to a main stream i-xpress In 1931." (lie report said. "This which started In the present bed of | volume of tratil l,alt Michigan, moving thence via (Jeorgian Bay to I<ake Slmcoe and Lake Ontario, whence it followed much the same course as It does to- ilay. The, river was. however, much loiiKer then, for soundings show the presence of a submerged channel cut- i i.i; through the banks and falling off Into deep water south of Newfound- land, Hiild t.he 1'M-turor. Near Its mouth It received a tributary from the north, whoso only modern evidence Is the Strait of IJelle Isle. j as most of the precipitation occurred There was no Niagara Falls then. In the form of rain, the run-off WM but at the extreme end of I,ake On- above the long term average. In Nova tarlo, through a gap In the Niagara es- Scotia the run off was about SO per 1 can !>- compared with 1185. 910 passengers "il.'!,75 pounds of mall and 'JS6.798 ii..:imls of express In i MOi. the previous peak year " Stream Flow in Maritime Province! Tlie Dominion Water Tower and Hydrometric Bureau of tho Depart- ment of the Interior reports that the month of January was unusually mild In the Maritime Provinces and that. the into the I.uurentlan Hiver. Mail & Empire (Toronto). The Industrialization of Canada .A: Devoir, Montreal (Ind.) : llec official statistics show that the iiuius- countries wil! suffer heavily thereby: but it seems to us that the Irish will , suffer .-.iuch more heavily on balance Devoir. Montreal <Ind.) : Kettntj even than the British, since they will thencefcrth be aliens in a country trialisatioa of our provinces U con- an d Empire which they have long rt- tinuinir Throughout the country pa rded as their home' from : home more U.an M per cert, of our popuia-| The ,. o-f , ne ,.. of p , rj , Manchester Guardian (Lib.t: The . uthorities of Paris are preparing elaborate plans .'or the defence of ' city against aerial bombardment. The French public is never left for lo-ig without some reminder of the "immin- ent" danger of attack from Russia or Italy, or Germany. The real <Vangor, unless provoked by France her?'i, must, in the present state f the world, be extremely slight. It m.iy tion .ives in th* towns. In Ontario- Gl per cer* of 'he population lives | in the urbar centres. In our province the proportion is txJ per cent., as against 56 per cent, in 1321. This means that practically two-thirds of pur ptiple live in towns lil:e Montreal -- -.vrtere more than n third of the population of the province resides (juebec, Verdun, Three Rivers, Iii-11, Saint Hyacine, etc. Practically a third of the population remains on the llllAU ' ' t L 1 ' < t " I ' U1OAIVML 1 (. ! VU i - V | - ' * land. Such a state of affairs from! P* rh P s still b the duty of the War . all points of view is unsatisfactory: ",P art <iwnt. or the new Ministry for National Defence, to envisage it and to guard against it. But this con- stant harping in public on the likeli- hood of Franco's being attacked is not calculated to inereare that feeling cf security which the French Govern- ment professe.. so earnestly to desire. OTHER OPINIONS the movement toward the towns, if it lias declined since the b:ginniii of the economic crisis, is still far from being stopped. Undoubtedly with modern methods of agricultural pro- duction and with the evolution of crops, there is not the same need for laborers on the land a-s there used to be. but here is still a complete world to develop and populate, that of tho new territories and colonizatVi re- pious. Back to the Land I Uroit Ottawa (Ind ) If arpnmnt a tributary stream draining cent, alum- ilu- January mean and was back to thc ' ]and movement has 1I< ' fiS(! " lreB '" f ttk K "" e * "'' '" ' " 5 a S "*** tlie of animal! which we know to-day in a Might Hsar Some Soup wlla ^ ]m)lm|)ly saw , wprk of In a fusulonablft restaurant, a new , nature, but It was prior to any human multl-mtlllnnalra with no knowledge I life on this continent, the lecturer as of French and no desire to expose ' Ignorance, pointed to a line on th menu and said t the waiter: "I'll hav some of that." "I'm sorry, sir," replied the waiter, but tlie band Ii playing that now." The typo* I during the middle of the month. In New Hi mi-, \\ i,-k the run-off was about 15 per cent, above the January moan sorted. Thiin camo the (ilaclnl nge, when tills country resembled modern Greenland, which Is still In the threes of an Ice purlod. with low flow during the first four or live days of the month followed by Hows as tho weather turned mild and rainy. The I.epreau river In south- ern \ow Urunsnick was swept clear of I Ico on JanuMi-y 7 and remained free for AccompanyluK the closing suites of j ten days an unusual circumstance at ice occupancy of the lake region, Pro-ithU season. Dominions Secretary Enjoys Motor Show r ini iiinnihi 1 , ,1,.,-m I,H--,,I !! J. H. Tuoma-i, now Dominions Sorrel nry In the National Koyerumoiit, fur uul unused himself with th* miniature model* at Crystal I'tUfto* In <>a I many times proposed as a remedy for unemployment, it goes without say- ing that the opening of new land* and the clearing of them, with the establishment of farmers or the sons of farmers in new countries, would be no less efficacious. This i-* the work that follows on colonization. Joint Effort Windsor Border Cities Star (Ind.): Mr. Charles Forester, division super- intendent of the Canadian National Uailays, addressing & meeting of the Ontario Onion Growers' Go-Operative Society at Ijeumington, says th-it the outstanding success which has attend- ed this sale of tho Western Ontario onion etc]> through co-operative effort Ihould induce growers to apply the ante method to the disposal of corn, tomatoes, fruits, vegetables and other products of tho farm. Mr. Forester is right, of course. The agricultural industry is never coming into its own, it will never extract the full and le- gitimate benefit of its labor and in- vestment, until such time as the men on the land learn the lesson that there is much more to farming than the actual growing of the goods. One may produce the best jotatooa or to- bacco in the world, but if ho'lncks ade- quate marketing facilities ho can never hope to make any money. The Imperial Conference Toronto Star (Iiul. Mb.) : It is to be lmpd tlmt some, workable plan of trade co-o|vr:itiin between I'nn.ula nml (iivat Britain may am- h* The Prince's Popularity Brooklyn Eagle: But what th Prince of Wales calls his u abt" to the press is due to the press of tin whole world. Does his horse throw him, as any man's horse might? Sym- pathy is stilled by newspaper storie* from Melbourne '.o Paris. Does he plan to teach his nephews the manlv art of solf-defence? South Africa and Canada and the United States get all the details. Does he issue a fervent -ppealto British patriotism? The ap- peal, textually prin.-ed. reaches all readers of the English langua-.-e. Commonly he shows rare conn sense in what he says and what doe*. Publicity never hurts him. The Silver Lining Boston Christian Science Monitor: The ten-year deflation of agriculture has resulted in losses running into the billions. Some estimates run as h'srh as $,10,000.000.000. On the face of it, one would assume that recovery mu< be painfully slow. That does not rec- ejsarily follow. A great industrial concern which had its capital deplete,! to that extent would have to face the task of replacing a large part of thv depleted capital out of future earn- ings. Agriculture, although a great industry, is an industry of small own- ers, aiul to a considerable extent of changing owr-.ors. The greater part of the billions lost in tho agricultural deflation has been charged off. It i* tho loss of the saving* of the older of holders of farm 'tgages. Th^e ioS^will nol have u be romped before agriculture tan recover. Most of them ar>M and iie-ver will be replaced. more completely liquidated thsn other industry, and, with the of better times, its recovery ivrrosp. udingly rapid. any* coming will t* from the oontVvence at Ottawa during the foining lummer, but no mattor \\lmt the ci-i-.u>rci\ce may do- ciil* UIXMI ono may feel nssunsl Can- ada vrill Mtitinue to i-xon-i-so ,oi\tt\l if her own tiscal policy :>nd will con ^ , tinu to advance n* she can as an in-| "The basis of our Kuropean-Amerl- dustrial nation- uttlininjt her own can clvllliatlon Is critically raw materials s much as possible. I Albort Klnstolu. "U ia as easy for the mind to thluk In stars as | a cobblestone K.-Ilor. . A