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CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE Voice of the Press CANADA STEEL FR»M THE SOO By i-iiiiii)i)i;ig tlio Siiult sliil plant In tliu last ftjw wveks to manufacture largo slructuiul alet-l shapes, up to 15-inch htanis and thaniieU, anj to manufacture sit-el :.hc'!t piling for duck uuii Canal wiilla, neither ot wliicU proclucs was previously made dn Canada, the Algonia Steel Corpor- ation has put itself In a position to take advantage of tlie revival in the Construction industry which many be- lieve is in the offing. â€" Sault Sle- Marie Star. ^ A FAITHFUL FRIEND. What a grand, yet fitting, tribute X.U.H lilii't paid :.y tlie French lilue Devils of tlie World War to Betty, a three-year-old dog! The troops pre. Bented aim, in a hollow s-juare at Valloire while an officer hung a silver medal about the aninial'a neck. On March 8, in a tempuiature of 22 de- grees below zero, the dog lay for 18 )>ours acro.ss the body ot a student pkler W'hose leg was broken. The inan's life was thus saved. Betty's feet were fruzeu but happily, she (Jurvived after trealment . â€" Border Cities Siar. In the old days the city youngst- ers referred to the farm lads as "hicks." Now It is the boy in the metropolitan area who has much to learn. Many a rural youth can come Into a gieat city and pass by unno- ticed In the crowd, because he knows how to adapt himself to surroundings. How different it is with counties; big city hoys when they visi'. the farm. Some of ihetn still wonder how a cow can chew gum! The educational work undertaken by the New York Parks Department shou!il bring to the â- underprivileged'' cliildren a bettor appreciation Of the men wlio raise livestock and grow crops.- Border Cities Star. CROPS IN ALBERTA While seeding is qviite backward tliij spring, prospects for a crop in Alberta are better this time of the year tlian they have been for several years past. Fairly generous rains have restored su\)soll moisture In Soutliern .Mberta to a considerable extent while in the central and nor- tihern a'cas the rainfall has been co. pious. (Jii the whole prospects for a good crop are excellent .â€" Calgary Herald. Palestine's Cycling Athletes BETTER MOVIES Some of the new and better motion pictures ale proving more valuable IkB box othce attractions than their eexy predecessors ever thought of peing. It has taken a long lime to fijako producers realize that the pub- jBc is even more willing to patronize Clean fllnis than it is to patronize du- bious ones.â€" Brockville Recorder. THE INSECT WAR There are aume (iUU.OOO dilTereiit iluds ot insects in the world whose ays have been studied. In all the rest of the animal kingdom â€" birds, beasti, reptile and fishes â€" there are |aid to be not more than 36,500 spe- Jlcs. And the insects are the most irect and relentless competitors ot jfiian for a place in tiio sun. Hence jivo are at perpetual war with the jnsect world â€" Winnipeg Tribuim. WELL, RATHER Here is a poser. If a parly with- •ut women is a "^tag party, would file world without women bo stagna. tlon '! â€" Ciieliih Mercury . LOCK YOUR CAR Judge McKinley, ( li.iirmau of tlie Ontario I'aiole Board, urges upon molorltits the necessity of locking ihelr parked curs. Many youngsters, |ie says, find the temptation of an Uuloi ked car Irresistible and decide to borrow" it. To counteract this ^he Judge '.suggests thalt insurance companies place a clause lu their contracts to pay only 25 per cent, of claims when a car is left unprotect- •d by lock. It Is a Had commentary on modern conditions when people have to "nail jlown" their properly lu this way in ord<!r to pievent theft. Yet Ju(lJ:e McKlnley's advice ds kood. A universal iocking of parked fars would probably prevent 75 per ^nt. of the auto tliefts or "borrow- ings." Of cour-e, smart thieves can even get away with a locked car, put the chances of their doing so iu-e small, because they are so much more likely to detection. Border Cities Star. THE TRAVEL CAMPAIGN These Canadian Travel Bureau campaigns already have produced re- markable results, far beyond the ex- pectations of those responslljla tor the direction of the new national tourist organization. A particularly striking piece ot Canadian Travel Bureau publicity ap- pears as a rotogravure insert In Out- door Life of New York and is de- scribed by a prominent American publicity export as "one of the best pieces of advertising literature that has ever appeared In any uational magazine." Other agencies throughout the country are co-operating closely and efTecllvely In this general national travel promotion campaign, among these the great railway systems. â€" Halifax Herald. THE YmPIRE NEW 'PLANE FOR THE PRINCE. FliKht Lieutenant fJdwaid II. Kiel- den, piMsonal pilot to the Prince of Wales, has taken delivery of the Prince's now airplane, a Dragon. Ra- pldo twin e'-.gined biplane capable of a ma.xiniuin speed of more lliaii IfiO miles an hour, and of cruising for long distances at 110 ni.p.h. It Is the fastest craft ho has yet owned. The usual seating accommodallon for eight passengers Is displaced for the Prince's Journeys by six comfort- able annchuirs aud special cab'n fur. niKbiiifis, Including a writing table and a cocktail cablmd. Navigational e(iui|)ineiu includes a powerful radio- tolephonlc sending and receiving ap- paratus, and a complete set of ''blind" Hying instrumonti. Parachutes are available for every occupant. The tanks carry fuel sulllcient for non-stop journeys anywhere within tJio Uritlsli Isles. Like all of hia previous machines, the Prince's new ciaft Is painted In the distinctive red and blue of the Brigade of Guards. â€" Bi itish Aircraft Society. i THE HARDY PEACH CROP A ten year-old note iu a Hamilton paper says: "Niagara fruit crops were badly damaged when the tern. Jeraturo slipped «6 d.grees to 28 do- fTti'ti above zero over night." Mar- Vellous to relate there was a pretty fair crop in that year. One of liie handicaps of late of the growers of real peaches Is that the hoiisewle is scared early in the ieason. Iliu' reason Is: "Well, I see by the paiiers there will be no peach- «li, 8o 1 will certainly do down now iwhat 1 can get ." There Is nolhing which hurls the <i-uit gj-ower more in the Niagara J'eninuula than fake newspaper re- ports, written by space commanding Correspondeiiis In the winter and early spring season. â€" dt. Catharines Standard. HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED Tlie report that a largo truck Is to transport pigs, cows and chickens to various New York playgrounds, so that (housands of children will be able to see them for the first time In Iheir lives, provokes the lliought that today "the shoe Is on the other foot," Hs 11 were. HIGH-SPEED RESEARCH Nino hundred and sovetily-flvu feet a second - 665 iniles an hour â€" Is the spued attained by tliu airflow In the new high speed tunnel which has Just been completed at the National Physical Laboratory and is now be- ing used for the investigalion ot aerodynamical phenomena that occur at apeedis In the nolghborhliod of the velocity of sound.- Hritl.sti Air- craft Society. TWO WILLS l-'ieilerlck Abbott of Norton, Mal- ton, corn dealer, who died on Decern- j ber 18, aij.Ml 85, left estate of the 1 gross value of £.4,275, with net per- sonalty £16,971. Among his be- quests were: A grass field at Hut. tons Ambo to his wife for life with remainder to the local authority ot Norton for a pleasure ground for the Inhabitants of Norton forever; ,CBO for distribution among the siddiors and sailors of Norton who wore dis- <harged frum His Majesty's forces as wounded or luvalljed during the (ireat War; £20 for division among the postmen for Norton and Malton; £20 for division among the cabmen and taxicab drivers in Norton and Malton; £20 for division among tlio Boy Scouts of Norton and Milton: £20 to his trustees for the deserving poor of Norton. Benjamin Batcholor of Rroughty Kerry, farmer, who died on February !t, aged 57, left personal estate In <ireal Britain valued at .CSl,9ul. He loft .tiluo to the 326th Siege Battery, Hoyal riairlson Artillery, the yearly incomi to be used In provldlnt; smokes at the annual (lliinei- of the batiery.- London Times. VALUE OF NICKEL EXPORTS ARE HIGHEh Ottawa. --A tubatantial Increase was shown in the value of nickel exiiorted in April when It amounted to $2,724,in igalnst $2,4-16,(10 a year ago, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported recently. Nickel in mat'e or speiss wa.^ ex- ported as fo'lows: United K;ngdom, ' $73S.54rt; United States, $lD;i.838; > Netherlands. $IG1,.S16; Norway, ?11G,. , 132; nine ulckel, United Slate , $!)S1,. 152; Netherlands. ^272,505; United Kingdom. $154,778; .Japan, $47,995; Norway, $29,302; France, $21,521; nickel oxitie. United Kingdom, $3,590; United States. $3.B7I. YOUNG MONTREAL. BORN BESSBOROUGH WANTS TO STAY IN CANADA Twelve Jewish athletes from P«*estino arrived in Montreal aboard the Cunard White Star Liner Aiaunia to bcsin a 16,000 mile motor cycle tour of Canada and United State.s, from Montreal t» Hollywood and back to New York. Cooking Rut Usually At Root Of Family Dislike Of Vegetables A wriman said the other day: "Veg- etables are stiijjld â€" buttered carrots one day, spinach the next and beets the day after. My family hates veg- etables!" Well, and why? Because the housekeeper is in a deep vegetable rut. To her a vegetable meal Is dull and uninteresting. To us it brings visions of infinite well-cooked colorfiij and tlavorsome combinaiion. Think of tender young buttered beets, cali- tlower topped with golden Holland. alse sauce, string beans arranged ar- ound a mound ot fluffy boiled rice. Is that plate stupid and dull? AUCMKNTKD. Remember, that while aU vegetab. ies contain at leas't a trace of pro- tein there isn't enough ot It. Be- sides vegetable protein Is of poorer quality than that found In other sources. Couseiiueiitly nuts, eggs, cheese and milk must be introduced Into vegetable plate* to maintain the proper halMiice. Cheese may be used wiih some ve.t;- elables, if added to the white sauce served with them. Caulitlower, pota. toes and tonuitoes are delicious with cheese sauce. Summer sijuash and eggplant are ^ood witli melted cheese. Toasted chee e sandwiolies may be servoil with any cifmliinaiion of veg- etables. Kggs poiicheil, scrambled or bard cookeil, comliiiie willi any good and all vegetables. j Stuffed vegetables such as toma- j toes, peppers and potatoes may he j the means of taking care of the pro- tein calories if the sifting is chosen i with care. Tomatoes or peppers stuf- I fed with a combination ot rice and peanuts are particularly good for a Humiuer dinner. Peanuts are cheap, very rich in protein and combine well with nearly all vegetables. ANOTHKU COMIUNATION Hero's anothef vegetable plate: New peas, diced carrots, brussels â- sprouts, small white onions and In the centre scrambled eggs and r^ew- ed tomatoes. Hera are contrasl of color, texture and flavor. Hollandaise sauce is pass, ed in a separate sfuce boat for the sprouts. A simple desert of fresh fruit Is always good, with a vegetable dinner when the proper balance has been maintained throughout I lie meal. Gulls Teach Crows Trick On PacKic Coa^t â€" Black Birds .Attempt to Swim in Ocean Victoria.- Antics of crows and sea. gulls have aroused the interest of students of natural history iu this vic- inity. Under the watchful eye of the .sea birds the crows have become pro- ficient in cliim-retrieving and take to the water for swimming les-ons. The unusiia! performance takes place on a log off the Dallas water- front. A nature lover who prefers anonymity is authority for the story. The gulls tiist taught the crows to fly with clams to a height sunicient to break them when dropped on the rocks below. The procedure was not a huge suc- cess, however. The crafty crows soon discovered better results were obtain- ed by waiting on the rocks below while the gulls llew in the air to drop llie clsms. Swimming Ies oils followed. The gulls would spring from the log into tlio water and back on to tbe log. Alter a raucous conversation the crows tried It. They managed to sail on the water for a time, but with very little grace. They tried it repeatedly. One crow hesitated. The ribbing from the rest of the flock was al- most human. Kventualiy he was goaded into trying, made an ungainly jimil). hut toppled head first and went under the water. Its annoyance was legislered In a liarsii cry as it came to the surface and made a straight line for the gull n held to blame for the (Inciting. Fellowships Royal Societv of Canada .\n- noimces Karnes at Hamilton Hamilton. â€" Fellow-hips were aw- arded recently by the Royal Society of Canada when the annual meeting opened at McMasier University. The following were honored: F. J. Sichel, graduate ot McCill University; 11. D. MacDonald, of Queen's aud McOill, chemistry; John H. Creigihton. Uni- versfty of Toronto, English literat- ure; John K. Thomas, Trinity Col- lege, Toronto, philosophy; James A. Gibson. University of British Colum- bia, history; Andrew McKellar, Unl. ver ity of British Columbia, physics; Miss May Annets. University of To- ronto, physics: Reginald Salt. Unl- j versify of Alberta, zoology; Dr. V. J. Okulitch and George Langlois, de- I mography. Fellowships are for the purpose of i enabling students to continue research work at unlver ities In Great Britain, the United States and Kurope. O-tawa. â€" Because he likes "tlie winter Liere best,'' Hon. George St. l^iwrence Neuflize Ponsonby. (our- . year-old son of the Governor.Gonerai and Lady Bes.sborough, does not want to leave his native Canada. His mother, who related the story at the Joan of Arc in titute, recently, had to!d him they v.ere leaving the Dominion. List Of Best Books Blame Buffalo Old Trampiti,!; Tluuight to Have Distrifnited HicliTdpsoil Warm Water Boon to Fish To Study Peat iri-sli Will Send (iroiip To Watch Processes in Soviet Lliiion Speckled Tiout Thrive in It Hxperiinents at Hatchery Magog, Quo.â€" Experlmeiils cond- ucted at the Dominion government (Ish hatchery here have Increaaod by 25 times tho growth of fish from the time they liatnh to the llngerling BlagB. r..aBt October some 100,001) i>ggs were obtained from speckled trout and placed In the hatchery here. Juno 1 next 50,000 Mngerllngs, 25 times the weight they would ordinarily have attained, will be distributed in wat. erg of Quobec province. The weight Increase was obtained by keeping the spawn in a constantly (lowing stream of water, maintaining a temperature of 60 degrees. Auth- orities discovorod fish grow more iiulckjy in water warmer than it would normally be during winter months. Usually the young trout start to feed towards the t-nd ot May and distribu- tion takes place In October. Under the now method feeding starts around the first of .lanuary, t.bu» allowing over four months of additional growth. 43 Dublin â€" The government has de- cided to send a commvsion to Kus- siii and Germany to â- â- tud.- utilization of peat resources in thost countries following a lecture in Publi.-i by Al- lan MonkhousH. former chief engineer of VIckers Limited in the Soviet Union. Mr. Monkhouse, welcomed to Dub- lin by the mini.sters of finance and industry and commeice, described the Soviets' imellioils of using peat as a fuel tor generating stations. At pres. ent, the Free Slate is obliged to im- port coal to lun tilie generators which supplement the Shannon hydro-elec- Iriflcatlon sidieme. The Free Slate is among the coun- tries of the world possessing the lar- gest peat resources and these are practically undeveloped. .\u cITort Is now being made to popularize turf Kirled peat) in.^toad of coal. Free State deposits of which are practi- cally useless. Saskatoon.- I.,arge areas of laud across the three Prairie Provinces are reported lost to productivity and the linger of suspicion points to the buffalo. Over-pasturing and tramp- ling by the monarcOi of the plains John O'Ren in the Baltimore Sun writes: "Students of New York Uni- versity have made a list of the "sixty best" novels publisiied in the United States and Kugland in the last 3:j years. There is not much that one can say about such selec- tions except that "one regret " to see the omission of tuiis book or the inclu-ion ot that other one. But I cannot find any real or revelant fault with the choice that the N.Y.U. stu- dents have made. Both lists seem well balanced and representative. "Best" novels however, is a mis- leading discription. It seems to me t'hat what have been chosen are to be regarded as "imiwrtant" novels, in the sense of establishing fashions j and expressing the moods of a period. Certainly, only on this as- sumption can one explain tho rhu-icfc of "Mr. Britling Sees It' Through" instead ot "Tono.Buugay" or "The New Machlavelli"; tihe in- clusion of Floyd Dells "'Moon Cilf" and the naming of "Manhattan Trans- fer" rather than "11.119". But I was ahiefly intaresdod -to " notice how many women writers were found in the two lists. Out of the 60 names, 17 were ot women novelist-. Fight were Ameri- cans - Pearl Buck. Willa Calier, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Kathleen Norris, Anne Parrish, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Edith Wharton. Nino were English women â€" Clem- enco Dane. Storm Jameson, Sheila Kaye-Smith, itose MacCaulay, Edna have been the primary cause ot '. Phillpotts. Dorothy Richardson. E:';iel â- burn-outs" common over a large area | Sedgewick, .May Sinclair and Virginia in ^oulhern Saskatchewan, Dr. J. | Woolf." Mitchell, Universiiy of Saskatchewan soils department, suggests. The immediate cause was not flre, lie believes, but wind, which carried away t^e friable, easily pulverized surface soil down to the tough, com- pact sub-oil which is (juite infertile. The sod was destroyed and the soil began to blow. The trek of the Royal Northwest .VIounted Police to Alberta, in 1874, recalled reports which described "tihe r(dling plains everywhere Own Airplane Miner Pilots Self in to Goldtields With Hquipment and was men. tlon. rutted by thf, buffalo.' plenty of buffalo meal but the horses faced Regina.â€" The modern prospector travels the air trails into newly oiien. trenched 1 ed gold fields in Canada's northland ' There for the starva- Praises Gaelic r.H.I. Minister in Favor of Re- tention for Value to Cultiiie C>'iarlottelown.- -"The Gaelic lang- uage should liH preserved for Its cul- tural value-it Is a priceless herltivge embodying tho true spirit of tho Gael." declared Rev. D. M. Sinclair, ouo of tho keenest students of the language in Canada. Tho tall, youthful, inn.isler. educa- tionist in his mile chui'ch at Valley- field, P.E.I., conducts a service once a montih in the Highland tongue. And t'oitiiightly he |)ei putuate^ tjie jang. iiage by gaTherliiSS called "Ceiliiih'' when vlllageis n" â-  t to sing and read and exchaiiKo r. .i In Gaelic. "Gaelic posse r,us a. rich and varied llleratiire in poeiry and prose, ai\d that, despite Dr. Samuel Johnsons assertion that 'l.'iere was not In tho world an Else manuscript lou years old'", Mr. Sl'''l\iir declared In an address here. Self -Studies Saint John, .V B. A valuable col- lection of selfiioitiaits of 60 promin- ent American artists Is on exhibition at Saint John vocational school. The property of Elmer Adler, priv- ate New York art collector, the group includes etchings, lithographs, wood- cuts, water color and oil sketches, and was obtained by the Saint John school through t.lie College .'Vrt As- sociation. Among the artists whose self-stud- ies are exliibiled are: George Fel- lows, Childe Hassan. Roi,kwell Kent, Robert S. Austin, Foujita. Eric GUI, Augustus John. Marie l.aurenein, An- dre Zorn and Diego Rlviua. Dentistry Not A Good Career For Women To Adopt TORONTO, Ontario has about IB women dentists and even among the 15 the opinion is general Uiat the brofi^sslon is for men. A half-dozen women attended the Ontario Dental Assoclaticm convention here recent- ly. One w o man ^''^'^te explained the lack of heT "seiCs interest in dentist-! ry as boing mainly because of the ! great iwniounl of mechanical work in- ' volved. Women, she said, don't make good mechanics. : "ll/s a long and dilllcult course â€" long hours and lots of studying, and it's not n career upon which to em- bark If OIK'S ambition Is to marry and have a home,' said another. One of these Is John C. Russ. pilot- prospector, who deserted Northern Ontario and Quebec hushlands to try his luck along the western shore* of Lake Atihabaska. News of a new find, 460 miles north of Prince Albert, sent him fly- ing north last fall. He spent the â- winter at the lake, staked claims at Cracking Point and returned by air- plane to hia home at Port Crtsllt, In Ontario, flying 3,000 miles In three days. He has returned, an Independent flying prospector. His plane carried everything the modern miner needs, from drill to condensed milk. "Id be lost wii.'iout it," he said as he laid plans to open up his claims. The Camerons Were Tough Observes the St. Thomas Times- Journal: There are many Camerons' in this district, and they may have been stirred by the famous song "The Camerons of old Soolland were hardy and they were doughty fighters as all the clansmen were. Here is an in- teresting story about Sir Ewen Cam- eron, one of the greatest chieftains, who lived in the 17th century, whicK we cull from "Scotland's Road of Romanco," by Augustus Muir: "One night he was stormbound among the hills, and he ordered his followers to He down beside him and sleep in the s"now. ,\s he was wrapping himself in his pTaid, he saw that one jjf his young 'relatives \sm "rolled \ snow-ball to rest his head on. Leaping to his feet, Sir B'wen kicked the snow-ball aside. 'What'! ho cried, roused to fury at such degrading effeminacy. 'Can't a Cameron sleep without a pillow?';' We are somewhat afraid the 1935 race of Camerons would want not only pillowij but downy bed*.