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CANADA THE EMPIRE THEr WORLD AT LARGE Canadians In King's Honor List CANADA ABILITY TO JOKE One of tlio survivors of the Diindas trulu wreck, lying In a crlllcal con- dlllon In liospltttl, said: "Well, at least we'vo tukon those DlonntB off the front pane." The capacity of buman belnRS to lauRh at the very moment of d-ath. and In the .llrest extremity, is one of tiio most admir- able qualities of the race.â€" Hamilton Herald. BELIEVE IT OR NOT. Mr Jiihn A. CullIlln^;ham, former patrolman on the Wakerton-Kincar- dine highway, thought last week that the fates were against him when on eoius to hia ham he found a plump Leghorn that had got soaked in the water-trough lying to all appearances frozen stiff on the harn floor, with the temperature without hovering around liie zero mark. lielieving that life had long since departed, hut bent nevertheless on thawing t'>e hird out, Mr. Cunnlng- ham threw it behind the cook stove In the kitchen, where a wood fire wa.s cracking In the grate. nolieve it or not, an Uipley would say, but tivit bird came to, and to demonstrate that it was no ingrate, laid an esg, and then cackled vigor- ously for the boss to come and be- hold '•Business As Usual." Ts'othing that he had lamped on the farm gave him more satisfaction than biddy'a performance on that occasion.â€" Wal- kerton Herald-Times. WELL DRESSED. A. current French idea of keeping too wolf away from the door ap- pears to bo to confront him with the complacency of good clothes, im- pressed with the spectacle of a householder in a snappy new suit, the wolf is expected to let fall hl8 tail and slink away in cmbarrass- ment at his obviously Ill-timed in. trusion. This attitude is, of course, based on the copybook motto that nothing succeeds like evidence o£ eucceas. â€" Guclph Mercury. LONG SERVICE A Sudbury man possesses a low- ly collar button which he claims Is 80 years old. So proud of It is he that it only takes part in the regu- lar duty of a collar button on Sun- days. His father had used the same accessory for 55 year.s. The story goes that tiio button was found by a sailor in a Scottish sea- men's inn liack around 1855. Maybe that explains its ronuirkable long, avity of service. â€" Border Cities Star. TORONTO S FINE SHOWING Ottawa's experience with diiihlho- rla is common to that of all cities where a determined effort is being made to immunize the youthful pop- ulation again.st this disease that once was a deadly plague, probably would be still if preventive measures fcad not been developed. Toronto in ISItS reported 117 deaths from (UiJhtheria. Allowing for the increase in population, In the same proportion the death list in 1934 â- Would have readied •I'.iS. But by last year the toxoid Immunization plan had been in use for a period long enough to make its bonellts fully ap- parent, there were only 22 cases of dli>hthorla in the whole city, and no deaths. The mathematical precision of tho drop as more and more children were Immunized matches Ottawa's descen- ding scale almost exactly. Toronto bad 64 deaths from this disease In 1929, B4 in 1U30, 3fi in 1931, 16 In 1932 and 6 in 1933. That city's re- eord is another factor for those few who yBt may doubt tJiat toxoid con- fers lmmunlty.--()ttawa Journal. WHEN THE RAIN FALLS. The late Sir Herbert Tree, the English actor and wit, once summed up some facts of life In a classic Jingle which went, as nearly as I can remember It, «» follows: The rain. It fallet.li dowti Upon tho Just and unjust fella. But chiefly on the Just, because The unjust hath the just's urn- brella. MUST NOT BE REPEATED Consciously or unconsciously there is a universal conviction that the dilllcuit times of the last four years have been altogether too difhcult to be endured again, within the life- time of the present generation, at least. Tho people do not Intend, if tliey can help It, to put up with a repetition of that period of declin- ing incomes, declining living stand- ards, declining bank accounts und all-round hardship.s.â€" Quebec Chion- icle-Telegraph. CASH AT AUCTION SALES 'i"ho lorms that used to appear on auction sale bills giving so many months' credit on approved joint notes, and a percentage off for cash, are apparently a tiling of the past, hereabouts. A more abbrevl- at(.-d form is now in common use and the most of the sales are usually "Terms cash."' Number,? of the pos- ters .'ilso bear tlio admonition t^iat nothing Is to be taken from the pre- mises "until satisfactorily settled It would appear that the farmer has gone on the c;usli and carry basis also. Can it be that the credit sys- tem is about to go from all phases of activity. A few years ago every- one was urged to buy on easy terms. It would seem that the terms were so easy Uiat everyone bought. The paying days aro here. They have struck every walk of life, and the sales are apparently just another evidence of the cash basis being es- tablished. â€" Acton Free Press. PROBLEM OF COW'S TAIL. Word comes that in Los Angeles tihere is a national inventors' con- gress and that among 500 other de- vices shown there i.s one tor hold- ing a cow's tall during milking. It recalls the man who invented a gadget for striking nuitclies. You put in the match, turned a handle and rushed across the room to catch it before it went out. Wiiat is the mat- ter with tying the tuft of hair at the end of the tail round the cow's leg? I wasn't always so wise. Among my other varied activities 1 once learned to milk cowa. .\nd I cur.sed the cow heartily because she insis- ted on sloshing me in the eye with lior tail. The lady who taught me to milk looked on and said: "Why don't you tie a rock to it?" Anything so simple had never struck me. So I did it. I remaincil uncoiiHcious for 15 minutes. I have always lamented that most women have no sense of humor, but wlien they have it's a wow. â€" Van- couver Province. Field Crops Show Gain Seventeen Canadiana appeared in the King's Honor List this year. Here we see left to right â€" E. W. Beatty, K.C., Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; Sir Albert Gooderham, Toronto, created Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; William J. Stewart, ex-Mayor of Toronto, Companion of the Order of the British Empire. on sheep and the extreme difficulty there Is In shooting or even poison- it. â€" Brandon Sun. RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM. "I believe In rugged individualism and the ruggeder and the more in- dlvldualistc It in, tiha more I believe In It," says President George B. Cut- ten, of Colgate UnlvorsUy, who thinks that there is too much ten- dency to suppress the individual for the good of the man. As a master of fact, lie tiiinks that is quite the wrong way to go about it and that more good will bo acconiiplisJied for the mass if tho individual Is encour- aged. â€" Sault Star. THE EMPIRE SHORTER SKIRTS. Having lived to see tho day when a woman in a short skirt looks posi- tively dowdy, we must prepare our eyes for another shock. Next spring the fashion experts say, skirts will be shorter, \fomen will still dress In tho height of discretion, but the height of discretion will be raised a few inches. By this time next year the flowing garments that now look so smart may be worn only by aun- ties. When this see-saw process has been repeated a few times more the W'hole human race will be shock- proof. And what will the modiste do then, poor thing? â€" Manchester Sun- day Chronicle. POLICE DOGS. I'oiice dogs cannot be imported in- to Australia They are a nuisance and menace in most countries. In that Commonwealth they endanger the sheep industry, which is a basic business of Uieir aKrl<'uIturo. Aus- tralians cannot afford to have any more dangerous dogK running ar- ound huge sheep ranches. As it la now the dingo, or utitive dog, held by pastorallsts to be the must cun- ning animal in existence is of con- siderable trouble owing to its raids AIR MAIL TO CANADA. Since we have now reached a point at which the air mail to Canada must be considered an immediate ques- tion, the seadrome has become a practical prolilem, alliclt an extreme- ly ticklish one. The Americans claim that artificial islands of suitable de- sign tor the use of aircraft can be constructed and employed with suc- cess. We have still to see one. but If tho claim be granted, who i.? to make them and who is to operate them? Aro they to be internation- ally planned and controlled or to be simply a host of little Heligolands of the nations whose flags they fly? Ob- viously the seadrome question and the problem of the freedom of the seas cannot he separated. â€" Glasgow Herald. NEXT TO GODLINESS Some say the present clamor for bathing facilities arose through a plumbing accident, which deprived one of the most immaculate of our Councillors of his morning showers. Unable to take his accustomed bath, he first grew indignant and then sorrowful, as tho realization came over him of what it meant to be one of the great unwashed. Dr. E. Prada, the town clerk, pointed out at the Health Aut.horily meeting tliat there Is no compulsion on house owners to iustal shutter baths on their pre- mises. Should such laxity continue? Should not the Loofll Authority be given power to enforce the construc- tion of baths in all dwellings? â€" Trin- idad Guardian, Port of Spain. UNIVERSAL LAW FOR MOTORISTS THE ART OF AGRICULTURE. It must not be forgotten that ag- riculture is also an art. In its high- est forms It is based on an instinct for tho soil, long years ot experi- ence and observation, above all training to grapple practically with day to day problems as they arise. In a word, farming cannot be con- ducted by wonl of command, like the manoeuvers of a body of troops. These are things which should be re- membered wlien the wholesale plan- ning of production from the soli is contemplated. Therefore, to what- ever degree of control this country must resign Itself, an assurance that It will neither be overloaded with complicated machinery, nor made too rigid for safety, is of llrst Impor- tance to both the farmer and the community as a whole. â€" Auckland Times. Nations Should Co-operate in Formation of Uniform Safe- ty Code, Speaker Says. Toronto. â€" It is time for the na- tions of the world to co-operate in formation of a world-wide autoitio- bile safety code, in the opinion of Robert C. Graham, executive vice- president of the Graham-Page Com- pany and chairman of the export committee of the Automobile Manu- facturers' .Association of the United States. He has recently completed a tour comprising 1.^ countries and H5 states. England, lie finds, "has made the finest comeback of any country," but declares that the day is past when any nation can pro.'^per regard- less of world conditions. SPIRIT OF RECIPROCITY "I think the big thing to-day," he said, "is to remember that the wealth of tlie world at lar.s:e. We should (leal with other countries in a spirit of reciprocity, arranging our terms by narrow nationalistic policies. We found, in the United States, that our Smoot-Hawley bill had boosted tar- iffs up too hiph â€" and we are gradu- ally repairinp that mistake." In regard to motorin;; needs, he pointed out that automobiles had al- ready been developed more than the supervision of drivers and mainten- ance of liigliways. "We cannot .say our highways are finished," he declared, "so long as one grade crossing remains, and so long as our curves are not so con- structed that drivers can take ad- vantage of the speed and power which modern automobiles possess. UNIFORM SAB'ETY LAWS "There .should be uniform safety laws throughout the world, with the fine ideas of each country welded into a universal, slmiple and sensible program that would demand that only these capable of safe driving be allowed to drive, rigid in.spectlon of tires and braJces." He stated that by June a highway would be complete between Mexico City annd Halifax, that cars built for Canada, the United States and Au- stralia, where long distances were to be traversed, would always require heavier cars and more powerful en- gines than those designed for smaller European countries, and that news- papers were the greatest present mcKilum for moulding the public mind, expressing a wish that they would use their opportunity to fos- ter world fellowship. Canadian Railway Earnings Higher Revenues For Ten Months $247,356,942 Compare With $220,883,742 Ottawa. â€" Canadian railways earn- ed $29,150,832 in October as against $27.2,19,16.'5 in 1933. Tihis was an in- crease of $1.911, 6«S, or seven per cent. Operating espenses were heav- ier by $1,770,840, or nine per cent., and net operating revenues increas- ed from $7,55C,54S to $7,697,376. Less than half ot the increase In operating expenses was for operat. Ing payroll which increased by $552,- 464, or from $12,140,572 in 1933 to $12,699,036. The number of employes rose from 114,630 to 120,877, but was 3,930 less than in September, 1934. For the ten months, January to October, gross revenues amounted to $247,350,942 In 1934 and $220,883,742 in 1933 and the operating income was $27,460,277 in 1934 and $16,737- 778 in 1933. Canadian Boy Scouts Eighty thousand children were supplied with Christmas toys through a chain of 150 toy shops operated across Canada from coast to coast by Canadian Boy Scouts. Since their inception eleven years ago Canadian Boy Scout toy shops have collected, repaired, repainted and distributed nearly two million toys to over half- a-million Canadian children. In many centres scarcity of old toys this past year caused the Scouts to try their hand at making new ones, and wholesale quantities of new wagons, truck, tractors, rac- ers, doll bedroom sets and other toys to delight the childish heart were added to Santa's pack. Thousands of family parcels of toys were sent to settlers rehabili- tated in Ontario and Quebec by Government and municipal back-to- the-land schemes, and to new home- steaders in Northern Saskatchewan. Heavy bulk shipments of toys were made by eastern Scout toy shops to assist their brother Scouts in the West to carry on the good work. In addition. Scouts in the East distribute<i thousands of play- things among the children of their own districts who might otherwise have been overlooked. â€" Canadad Week by Week. SHOW AN ESTIMATED ADVANCE OF $112,901,600 FOR YEAR JUST CLOSED 11 Ottawa.â€" Canada's field crops tor^ 1934 show an estimated gain of $112,- . 901,600 In value. ThU Improvument. Is attributed mainly to better prices, for farm products and some ImproTO' ments in yields, and may be regard-* ed as a significant and hopeful step* In the recovery of Canadian agricuU ' ture. According to a crop reoort ' Issued by the Dominion Bureau of â-  Statistics, the value of the 1934 Held > crops is estimated at $536,4'«8,60«, . compared with the 1933 valuation of. $423,597,000, and reaches the high-, est level since 1930. The greatest value increases are shown by the grain and fodder crc/ps, * but these are offset to some extent*, by a sharp decline In potatoes and a lesser decline in sugar beets. Hay and clover accounted for a gain of 37 million dollars In value^ oata were better by 31 million dollars and barley showed a gain in value of 101^ million dollars. The estimated value of the potato crop is placed 9 million dollars lower than in 1933 despite the higher production in 19.14. H.AY PRICES HELP All of the provinces reported in- creases in the value of field crops with the exception of Prince Ed- ward Island, where a very slight re- duction was shown. Both Nova Sco- tia and New Brunswick show ia- creases_ due mainly to the iniprove- ment in hay prices. In Quebec a fairly general betterment la yield and prices caused an increase of 30 million dollars, or 45 per cent, in tho value of field crops. In Ontario, liiijher prices tor grains and fod- der offset the lower production, and the estimated value of field crops is up 17V^ million dollars, or 14 per cent. Manitoba's yields were also down, but with generally higfher prices, the value of field crops is placed at 16 V4 million dollars, or nearly 50 per cent, higher than la 1903. A similar condition prevailed in Saskatcihewan which shows an improvement of 10 million dollars or roughly 20 per cent. Alberta fle.d crop values are estimated to be high- er by about 37 per cent., or 28 U mil- lion dollars. British Columbia shows a slight betterment over 1923 valu- ations. An Illusion Lost There is a certain actress in the movies, whose name I certainly do not propose to divulge, who strilces me as about the most lovely of created things. I have worshipped her from a long distance for a long time. I was content that she should remain a shadow on a screen while I sat in a theatre looking at her â€" a respectable and a convenient re- lationship. It seemed to me she grew lovelier with the passing of the years. Then the other morning the Col- onist, with a callous disregard for nie and all the other lady's admirers, had to go and publish a news picture of her on the deck of a liner with a lot of other people. It was a cruel thing to do. For, alas, my lovelv lady, without her screen make-up, without those long, lustrou.s but false eyelashes, without her seductive gowns and alluring poses, turned out to be a middle-aged person of considerable girth and numerous wrinkles. You can see a hundred girls on the streets of Victoria much better looking any day of the week. My last illusion has been shat- tered. It was cruel of the Culonist and it was a great mistake for the lady to let herself get caught by the photographers without her war paint. If the newspapers continue to do this sort of thing, where is it going to end? Soon there will be nothing left to worship at all. â€" Victoria Times. "The masses are always more eag- er for security than they arc en- amored of liberty."â€" Glen Frank. "Pon't get the notion to travel a lot. There ain't much to see." â€" Will Rogers. DAVID COPPERFIELD Weekly Serial Based on the Novel by CHARLES DICKENS David is sent to school at tanttMoury. He livc.i with the Wickfiolds, and little Agnes is his con- stant companion, while Stcerforth is his best friend at school. He also meets Uriah Heep, (Wickfield's clerk, whom he suspects is a »eo\in- drel. Bu.sy and happy now,* the pleasant years slip by quicidy. David, now a young man, is in London bent on ii career as an author. He has loft behind him the Wickfields and his old friends, the Micawbers. By a strange coincidence Micawbcr has been given a position as n.ssislant to Uriah Heep. In liOndon with his friend Sleerfurth, David nicct.s Dora Spcnlow and falls in love with her. One day, walking on the beach with Steerforth near Dora's home, David chances on the Peggotty tioat-hotise. They pay them a visit and David again meets his dearly beloved nurse, Pepgotty. Hut n few weeks later he is horrified to find that Km'ly, betrothed to Ham, has run away with .Steerforth. Soon, David's first story is published and he visits his Aunt and Agnes to tell them of his approaching manriage. Aunt Betsey disapproves but Agnes hides her broken heart. "Then she tells him that Uriah Heep is now a .lartner in her| father's firm and that he has some mysterious hold over Wickfield. What can it be? Watch £«C uext neek's exciting insial'ment.