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THE WORLD AT LARGE 'Man' The Sails CANADA IF THEY CARRIED SIGNS. It would be luteiusting to know U inoloriiig behaviour on Iho part of drivers iniRbl not be lonsitlorably Improved If the oKt'iider, la addition to a fine, wore required to curry a sign on bin car for a week, stating that lie liad been found guilty of ueg- llgcnt driving. Very few negligent drivers would like to advertise tbeir own incompe- tence in such fashion. â€" Calgary Her- liJiiti) coronur'g jury added a rider to their verdict recommending "that dealers lu second-hand cars be re- quired to get a certiticafe' from the police department that a car sold is in lit mechanical condition to be driv- en on the highway." This suggestion calls attention to the fact that not one province in Canada calls for an e.\ajnination of auKimobiles before licen.ses for the same are issued.â€" I'eierboro Kxam- iner. IN TRANSIT Like most .sizeable communities, Kitchener has its quota of stray or Iiomeless pigeons. One of the birds has become a practical hitch-hiker. When tired, he alights atop a motor car, rides a few city blocks,, then Boars aloft and rejoins his mates. The less venturesome pigeons consider Ills action rather "Highly" but it ran- nol be said that tli£ creature is dumb In the full sense of the word.â€" Border Cities Star. CAN BE CONTROLLED Dii>htherla Is essentially a disease of childhood, and it is most import- ant that all children, especially young children, be Immunized. The records of cases and deaths in Toronto af- ford ample proof of the efficacy of toxoid.â€" Toronto Mail and Empire. NEAT AND TIDY. It is ditlicult enougth to keep resi- dential premises neat and tidy with- out the constant trouble of picking up and disposing of a number of unwanted handbills every day. The greatest objection to the handbill, as we see it, is the method of distribu- tion. It it Is mailed in the proper way, then llio householder can eith- er read It or put it in the furnace, as be wishes. But when it is thrown in his doorway, it usually blows out on to the lawn and, by the lime he gets It, it is just a dirty mess.- Kingston VCiig-Standard. PROfvllSES. Critics of Prime Minister Bennett's etartling economic reform policy are harping much just now upon his 1930 promise to end unemployment in Can- ada and claiming that he did not keep that promise, for which reason they doubt whether his present pro- jnises mean anything. II may be that thoughtless people In I'JSO assumed that Mr. Bennett proposed to perform an over-night miracle when he made that promise. It is certain that he had no such Idea and certainly no one with a clear understanding of the economic situ- ation as it then was could have en- tertained so foolitiii a notion. As a matter of tact the Prime Min- teter has from the moment he as.sum- •d ofllce up to the present time lab- ored steadily, persistently and in considerable measure successfully to cope with the unemployment situa- tion. True his approach to the pro- blem was not as spectacular as was that of the United States President, but tiiere is good reason to bolieve that ultimately his melhocis will be productive of more i)ermanent re- sults than those of the "New Deal." Making the federal authority in generous measure responaiblo for maintenance of the unemployed he obtained sanction for cash contribu- tions to that end immediately upon assuming olllce. Those contributions have continued to this date. Wide- spread distribution of this govern- ment money has certainly prevented the unemployment situation from assuming catastrophic proportions. Another of his moves that also saved catastrophe was Government assumption of the wheat export sit- uation at a moment when nothing short of a move so radical and un- usual could have prevented complete collapse of the economic structure of Western Canada. That move was of as great benefit to urban Canada as It was to the [>eople of the farms. But the truly scientific move made by the prime minister to end unemployment was In his successful negotiation of the much discussed Ottawa agreements. It was evidently clear to Mr. Bennett that only in a revival of trade in export fields could there he any hope of permanent re- lief from unemployment. To depend Upon the parsing out of (iovcrnment cash to remedy permanently such a â- ituation would have been as foolish as to hope to be able to lift oneself by one's boot-strap.s. The Ottawa agreements are mak- ing K"od. In the past nine months Canada's Kmplre export trade has in- crea.-<ed over 27 per cent. That means a decided increase in guinrul em- ployment for a considerable number of (he unemployed. In largo meas- ure it explains why it is thai Can- ada's peak of 750,000 unemployed has been reduced to about 450,000. Yet there are those who would tiave us believe that Canada's prime min- ister forgot his promise to end un- employment the moment he made it and that he baa done nothing nlnce then to Implement It.â€" Calgary Her- ald. THE BORSTAL SYSTEM One of the most interesting an- nouncements in the SpeeoJi from the Throne was the statement that the Government was (Hinsidering the ad- option of what is known as the "Borstal System" in connection with youtlifi sentenced to penitentiaries. There has been no previous intima- tion that the Government had under advisement this reform. The Borstal system, so-called, is an effort to segregate youths from 10 to 21 from hardened criminals. It gets its name from the village of Bor.stal, Kent, where the early e.v- perinients on youths were carried out in an old convict prison, prior to the passing of an act in l'J08 carrying into effect the principles of those urging that youths should not ibe sent to penitentiaries with profes- sional and older criminals. The rules and regulations under the act are based on the principle that up to a certain age every of- fender may be regarded as poten- tially a good citizen, that his lapse into crime may be due either to physical dogenieracy or bad social environment, and that it is the duty of the state at least to try to effect a cure, and not to class the offender oHI-hand and without experiment with the adult professional criminal. As a part of the system there have been founded in England Borstal As- sociations to provide for the after care of ail persons discharged from Borstal institutions. This is a vilal part of the system and it is claim- ed in England that two out of three Borstal youths are reclaimed. â€" Lon- don Free Press. APPROVES LATIN AS ENGLISH AID i'rovincial Education Body Officer Sees Ad- vaiitajres IIHl.PS VOCABULARY The Catholic University of Roma is attended by thousands of stud- ents from all over the world, who have no common language but Latin; Japanese, Brazilians and Filipinot exchang:e Weas in Latin; the lectures are delivered in Latin. MAGAZINE PRAISE In the May edition of the Cana- dian School Journal, the official or- gan of the Ontario Education Assoc- iaton, an articles entitled: "Tli« Engagement of Teachers," conUini the following extracts: "There is a high correlation be- tween the study of Latin and teach- er success." "Students who in secondary schools have shown their stamina by passinf? more than two units of Latin and mall.ematics, and have had an interest in teaching from the upper elementary grades through the sec- ondary schools should be given first in training for elemen- NOT FAST RULE In conclusion may I say that ad- vocates of the classics do not seek "Windsor. â€" Champions of the teachin;; of Latin and Greek in the schools have been diggin',' around for material to bolster their case They have discovered a statement written some mon'-hs ai?o by Charles IM. Kwing as president of tlie Class- ical Section of the Ontario Educa- tional Association. He said: COST IS LOWER In the first place, the teaching of, f«f^''^"" .. Latin and Greek is. relatively, not tary schools, costly. It costs less to educate a 'â-  student in the academic hi;,'h school than in the vocational school. More-j '""r"'"""' /. ' ^f,,dv of Latin on over in the ordinary h^.h -hool the , « J.^" ;,^^:„,S the academic teaching of languages and literatuiC: 7^'^ J^ ' , ygj, schools who costs less than the teaching "fj J^^f'^^^J^^nU's after some ^'^"'"'^''' . ^ .u » u <li.nif-ed calling. But is is surely My second po nt s that the teach- 1 ^^;" ^'f^^^^^, ,^ ^,^ ^^at every stud- ing Of the classic, ,s not useless It. no too „ eontemplates en- has been estima'ed that at least eni w.io .c j , forty per cent, of the words in the English language are Latin or:gin, and tweve to fifteen per cent of Greek. In the case of medical and general scientific terms the proportion of classical words is much higher, prob- alily nearly eighty per cent. Anglo- Sa.xon is the only serious rival of the classical languages ; but the An- glo-Saxon literature is of relatively little importance to the ordinary student, while the value of classical literature cannot be over-estimated. moreover, while a very large propoi> tion of our Anglo-Saxon derivatives are smiple words (e.g., as he, there, good, child), Latin ami Greek den- p , ,. o^jj Jq Be Partly vatives are the harder and less ob-j hVOlUtlOn neiu lu u^ j Rose Pase (front) f.nd Elizabeth Price raising the jib and main.sail of their trim little scooter in which they will defend their Pacific Coast championship title during the mid-winter races on the Pacific coast off Los Angeles, Cal. tering one of the learned Profess- ions, or proceeding to the B.A. de- gree, should have some knowledge of •I language which is so intimately hound up with our own language and literature. Lest any of my remarks be misr understood by my vocational, ma- thematical and scientific friends m the professions, may I say that nothing is farther from my thoughts than to underestimate the value ol the work done in their departments. MANlSUNSfABLE The Inventor's Path Seliloin, Says a German, Does He Profit From His Ideas. THE SPEED-CRAZY. Sir Josiah Stamp, British econom- ist, industrialist and president of the executive of the Loudon, Mid- land and Scottish Uuilway, utters a word of caution when so many people everywhere are paying tribute to the god of speed. It is refreshing to lind a man of Sir Josiah Stamp's expert knowledge refusing to pay unciualified homage. As one who is primarily concerned with bhe economics of the subject, as applied to railways, he said in a recent address that he would not be excited by any additional accelera- tion until be kuew the relallvc cost of obtaining It â€" and what sacrifices there might bo of other amenities of comfort and safety. To the ordinary observer the (lues- tlou often arises: Why the hurry, anyway? â€" Halifax Herald. THE EMPIRE TELEVISION. This much is certain, however. One company In Great Britain and one company In (Jermauy are now In a position to provide a service of "hlgh-dednitlon television" of real outertainmeut value. The features and movements of speakers or of one or more artists in a studio, events of the day or other film subject matter, and certain Indoor and out- door events can now be transmit- ted either instantanoosuly or within a few seconds (depending on the subject matter) for clear and faith- ful reproduction in tjie home on a screen about a foot s(iuaro, accom- panied by sound on the same re- ceiver. â€" London Spo<tator. The path of the inventor is straight, stony and beset with ob- stacles, according to Dr. L. Aut- zinger who signs himself Business Managing Chairman of the Interna- tional Union of Inventors, in a gloomy article published in Die Umschu. He tells us that, of the 700,000 patents granted annually in the world, but h vanishing small number are of any commercial value. Amateurishness on the part of the inventors, inability to ap- praise industrial needs con-ectlf, general insurance of what has been done in the past in similar fields â€" what patent attorneys call "the state of the art" â€" are responsible for this poor showing- Although German diemists as a class are probably tlie best informed technicians in the world and there- fore less likely to rush in where angels fear to tread, their succes- ses are numerically no more strik- ing than those of inventors in gen- eral. According to Autzinger, some 7,000 chemical patents are annual- ly applied for in Germany. Of these the German patent office, the most efficient and exacting in the world, grants about 2,000. Not more than thirty or forty are commercially ex- ploited. Suppreuion Doubted Successful patents in any field by no means disclose the most meri- torious inventions, if Autzinger is to be credited. He charges that some are bought and suppressed because, if "worked," they would paralyze established industries. How much truth is there in this oft-repeated tale of patents that are bought only to be pigeon-holed? Time and time again bills have been introduced in Congress which, if en- acted in law, would make it com- pulsory to "work" a patent in a giv- en period. Failing in this the paten- tee would forfeit his rights. The proposal seems sensible en- ough. Yet when our legislators take testimony in committee meetings and learn how inventions are con- ceived and developed, they decide that the case for suppression is none too good. It turns out that a loom, a linotype machine, a printing press, any complicated mechanism can achieve its end if modified in a doz- en different ways- Each is a good invention. About twelve patents are therefore obtained for as many mechanisms. Naturally the inven- tion that meets industrial and commercial requirements most simp- ly and effectively is introudced. The others are "suppressed." Effect on the Public But is this "suppression" as the term is usually understood'^ To compel a manufacturer to "work" these less perfect inventions on pain of forfeiture is clearly an in- justice Nor does the public suf- fer. It loses nothing by the intro- duction of the single invention that presents the simplest solution of a technical problem. A patent in the U. S. expires in seventeen years. It is rarely in- deed that the patentee earns royal- ties for the complete term. If he sells his patent as soon as it is granted, years must be spent in fur- ther development. What the public could acquire in the form of a for- feited "suppressed" patent would therefore be little enough. vious words in general use. REALLY PRACTICAL Does it ever occur to my severely practical friends that the acquiring of as complete and accurate a know- ledge of the English language as pos- sible is essentially practical. It is just as practical to give our stua- ents a mastery of words as of ham- mer and saw, typewriter or dynamo. Do we realize that the tools we most frequently use, in fact are al- ways using, are words? Words are the vehicles by which thought is conveyed from one mind to another. If such vehicles are few and unskill- fully handled, we shall have but i. poor chance of influencing others bv our thoughts. ' The person who has studied Latin has obtained a mastery of the En- lish language which few, with no such linguistic training, ever achieve. Surely none will be better qualified to take his place amon Tiie Result Crisis Of DEFECTIVE AUTOMOBILES Believing the condition of one of tlie cars Involved was a factor In a recent fatal motor accident, a To- ART AND INDUSTRY. Biilish iiiilustry h.is been t<low to employ doalgners and artists. Deter- mined and successful eltort.s have lately been made to remedy the weakness, of whUli the Kxhibltion of British Art in Industry, at the Uoyal Academy is the latest. The tradition that beauty Is just a mat- ter of trimmings and ornamentation Is dying. Simplicity and the fash- ioning of articles to do their Job as efficiently a« p<issible are producing things beautiful in thomsolves, and proving to be good business a.s well. â€"London Dally Herald. Can't Have Haircut Until He Pays Up Alimony Arrears Wiilard Sanborn, of Chicago, a piano tuner, can't have another haircut until he pays up his alimony arrears. So said Superior Judge Desort, after counsel for Mrs. Nina San- born asserted her husband squander- ed $5 for a haircut with all the trimmings but couldn't pay her $85 in alimony. Commented the court: "five dol- lars is too much for any man to spend in a barber shop at one time. It is worse in the case of a man who owes his wife money. And it is especially worse in the case of a piano tuner. Anyway from the pic- tures I've seen in the funny papers, I thought all piano tuners had long hair." DEATH ON THE ROADS. When the death rale from accid- ents on the roads has risen to the record flgur« ot 187 for a single wMk It Is really time to examine critical- ly the measures wOilcli the respon- sible authority, the Ministry of Trans- port. Is taking to deal with this ter- rifying loss of life. The real test of that department's success or failure lies In whether it can bring about a drastic reduction of this tragic sacrifice on our highways Por the security ot the public it Is es- sential that the three kinds of traf- ficâ€"motor, cycle and pedestrian â€" should bo separated and provided each with its own track. This task should haTO been taken In hand a decade ago, but Us cost will bo Immense, and there sHould be no illusions on tihat head. It will, however, save life and place this country abreast of foreign nations.â€" London Dally Mall. Day And Night Day, a spendthrift, rich in trea-sure. Spills, with lavish hand, Golden largess without measure Over all the land. N'lght. his thrifty helpmate, grieving. After him dot* range. Gathering up his treasure, leaving Only silver change. Brings It If) him, softly beaming, Kisses him with pride, Sends his wanton lordship gleaming On another ride. - Ralph Mortimer Jones in the New York Times. IS Probably no biologist doubts the validity of evolution. On the other hand natural selection and the sur- vival' of the fittest, the very core of Darwin's theory, are no longer accepted as the sole agencies at work in the creation of new species and varieties. Since the days of Mendel it has become apparent that the mechanism of heredity is both (lelicate and complex. Moreover, j there are the endocrine glan;:s, with I their tremendous potentialities for ! modifying the organism. Lastly, the relation of that organism to its en 1 vironment is not nearly so direct ' and simple as Darwin assumed. How the more imaginative biologists think about evolution and especially the problem of man's descent is ter qualineu. J exemplified by "The Coming '? '"'tT of Man." a recently . .-onien than he who nas i .^ y^.^â- ^^.\â- ^ pr R. Broom, an English rich store of words, and ] ^y^,^j,j.ity ,,„ amphibians, sets forth •""â- ^ '''" i his own hypothesis. r t It is generally agreed that life ' first developed in tne sea. How, then, did the first amphibian evolve? What was the bold animal that first ventured on land and adapted itself wholly or partially to life under en- tirely new circumstances? When w« ask such (luestions it is apparent that natural selection and the sur vival of the fittest do not meet the case. Dr. Brown holds that physical structure, courage, pugnacity, effi- ciency were not solely responsible for the transition. There was some- thing unstable about the first ad- venturer that came out of the sea. He was like an unstable chemical compound that changes into some- thing else â€" something out of which a reptile could evolve, something that was the result of a crisis. | Examine all the other antmais, and | the transition from an old to a new-| er form seems always to be the re- ^ suit of critical instability. Despite ; the convincing array of fossils that shows plainly enough how the one- falJiiliar 'oed horse of today evolved from ' an ancient five-toed equine animal not much bigger than a St. Bernard dog, the jumps are marked. Between five toes and four toes there is no gradual transition, nothing like a digital diminuendo. Crisis, everywhere crisis, whether it be fish or' amphibian, reptile or mammal. With man it is the same â€" one of the most unstable creatures ever evolved. In a state of some- thing like fermentation, he has al- ways been in a critical turmoil. Un- â€" _ - like the ant or the bee, he is not quish, itinerary, corporal. j h ghly specialized. If he ever does NOT DEAD LANGUAGE ! ^^^^^^ ^j^^.^ ^.^ ^.^^^^^ ^.j,, ^e like Again, there are many »•-"«'»*" t,,at of most social creature*â€" a re- , words of das-sical origin just on me , .^^^^^ ^^.^.j. hundreds of millions of | fringe of the student-s /â- Â°"«'^'''"*=;; j vears of the same biological events l„t iv"? .L'i'S I-T-nl; -' '«••• »^^;«^j^ '" -""â- ' •J r-"-.^"' ".:£.'""".'â- â- ; King Replle, .o Wom.^. tors" in time, they arc pinned ilown Letter of ttOOd Wisnes and the student ever after uses them high school, but he has laid up a keeninu'. a letter just received from g imeinKeui.1 ^ ^^^^„ ^ ^.^^.g^tiy published book men and women than he who nasi._ _^. , acquired a uses them with accuracy crimination. Every properly conducted class is a laboratory in which many English words are examined, dis- sected and their significance under- stood. Why then should it be con- sidered more in keeping with modern educational requirements to analyze chemicals or dissect botanical or zoological specimens? HE.A.R1NG WORDb One often hears it said that the study of Latin and Greek is value- less because few pursue it in after years. As a matter of fact, an in- telligent teacher makes Latin useful to his students from the very Degtn- ""por example, in the first few weeks the student becomes acquaint- ed with such words as: hiberna a winter camp, pugno I W sladius a sword, specto I look. With de- lighted surprise he awakens to the fact that here is the origin of such English words as: hibernate, pugnac- ious, gladiator, spectacles. Properly taught, he becomes an explorer in the romantic realm of words; words become fafiV*^ friends. Before they were dead HKe i trees in winter, now they come to, life like trees in full leaf. I A good classical teacher can add almost daily to the students' Eng lish vocabulary. In the course of a few days one teacher taught the following Latin words: integer whole, renovo 1 renew, relmquo 1 abandon, iter a journey, corpus a body; then from these he enriched their English vocabulary w.th such words as integrity, renovate, relin- laid up a treasure which not even th- most treacherous memory can dissipate. | Very frequently we hear the question asked; "What is the use of teaching a dead language like Latin?" -^9 a matter of fact Latin still has marvellous vitality. In modern forms it is in constant use over mor» than half the surface of keeping, a letter just received from the King along with one she got from Queen Alexandra many years ago. Mrs. Maitland listened to the King's Christmas Day message over a telephone from a neighbor's home, and wrote a letter to Their Majes- ties wishing them a Happy New Year. The prized letter is the reply.