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Teachers' Salaries Increased TORONTO, â€" Siilar iiu rouses for publit; and lii',^h school teachers In York township wore given final ap- proval by the board of education. The new salaries are retroactive to the first of the year. All pulilic :;chool teachers earning between $900 and $1,,500 were granted a flat increase of $.'iO. High school teachers employed previous to 1D35 were voted straight 8 per cent in- creases; those hired during 1935 will receive $100 extra this year, and it employed this last year they will re- ceive $.iO increases. Collvslato caretakers' salaries, cut three years ae;o, were restored to for- mer li'vels and James Clelland, sup- erintendent of maintenance, .vas also granted an increase of $100. Teachers of auxiliary classes also received in- creases of $130. but the board made no salary adjustments for principals, vice-principals and teachers on the probatioT lists. Seeding Held Up NEWMARKET, â€" Cold rainy wea- ther has held up seeding in York county to an unusually late date, ac- cording to W. M. Cockburn, agricul- tural repr^sentative, who declared that warm sunny weather was the pre3.siii;j; need right now. ''It looks like the latest season for some years, but winter wheat has come through unusually well, killing only an;oiinting to about five per cent,'' -said Mr. Cockburn. With the livestock market in poor shape and little or no grain to sell, farmers are concentra;ing on the future, he de- clared. First Air Stewardess Appointed in Canada NEW VORK, â€" Margaret Radcliffe aged 2.'). and pretty, is ''highly pleas- ed with liT now ass-ignraent" as Can- ada's lirst air stewardess â€" even thought she must live Ir New York instead of Montreal. Miss lladcliffo, native of Chamain- us. n.C, starts work shortly on Amer- ican .\irlincs Montreal-New York run. Stewardesses must not weigh more than 120 pounds, mu.'it be no taller thaa five feet, and must be graduatJ nurses. Miss RudcIifTe fits the speci- fications. She is a graduate of Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. Province To Make New Schoo Tests TORONTO. â€" Possibility that the provincial department of health may embark on a large tuberculosis testing plan throughout Ontario schools was seen l-y Reeve B. J. Wheeler, of Soar- boro towuship. When the township was marking arrangements to go ahead with their newly inaugurated examinations, tliey wore advised by letter that the provincial department wculd take care of the work. Reeve Wheeler said when he intro- Juced the ccheme that ho hoped that )ther mriiicipaMtics would follow. An ippropriation of $.!00 passed council '.o pay costs of doctors, nurses and X- rays. Althousb (lie letter from provincial authoiilies did not say a province- wide plan was contemplated, they in- formed Scarboro township council that tlioy wouW assume the co.st of the c.\aniinations and would have them doao by doctors they app:)int. Has Rare Fowl BRIDOKTOWN. N.S., â€" Postmast- er V. A. Lloyd has received a curious addition to his poultry stock in a gift of two hatchings of eggs of Aiaucania fowl. The araucania are natives of Chile, seldom seen in Canada. The birds weigh from six to seven pounds when lull grown and are good layers. Deer Ditch Car NEW GLASGOW, N.S., â€" You can not r,-el tough with these Nova Scotia deer. Ro" Bishop tried to avoid one with his car, ran into another and Blithered olt into the ditch. The deer walked disdainfully away, but it took Bishop and a friend more than an hour to get the car on the road again. Urges Houses Be Numbered COLLING WOOL), â€" The nowly-or- ganized Collingwood Progress Club continues its rapid growth. More than 100 local business men attended a bantiujt iu the parish hall here. On a suggestion raised by George Bryan, chairman of the membership committee, the club decided to spon- sor a drive to have all Colli;igwood hoi'ses numbered. "Strange as it may seem, Colling- wood la the only town of its size to be without house numbers. I feel that the numbering of houses is only a ne- cessary step iu the advancement of a community," said Mr. Bryan. Ho pointed out that several street names would have to be changed to (suit the system, but in the end the plan would work out greatly to the benefit of tourists, merchants, mall and express delivery, and to citizens generally. Park For Trailers TORONTO, â€" Declaring that Tor- onto merchants wore losing a large amount of business through lack of accommodations for trailers, used by motorists. Alderman Quinn suggested t" the parks committee that sections of harbor front property be set aside for parking. The committee took no action. "Motorists with trailers pass right through here,, and hotels and merch- ants are losing a lot of business," Aid. Quinn said. ''Other towns are provid- ing accommodations." Grain Acreage Is Less OTTAVvA, â€" Of the 702,000 acres of fail wheat sown in Ontario last au- tumn, 5G,000 acres or 8 per cent are estimated to have beev winterkilled leaving G46,000 acres for harvest in 1937, as compared with a harvested area of 509,300 acres in 1936. This is one of the features of the first crop report of the present sea- sou issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. More important perhaps, from the point of view of Canada's economic position is the Bureau's foreqast about conditions n Western Canada, where many thousands of farmers iu the drought area are in a serious plight owing to successive crop fail- ures. A decrease of aalf a million acres in the rea sov.'n to grain in Canad.- iu 1937 is to be expected if the inten- tions of farmers are carried out, the report states. The intended area of spring wheat, upon which t!)o fortune of Western Canada .argely depend, is 21. 3(57, 800 acres, compared with 24,- 779,700 acres sown in 1930, and more than two million acres less than In the peak year of 1932. The principal decrease will occur in Saskatchewan. Drug Stores To Pay For Sideline Sales VANCOUVER, â€" The drug store that "sells everythiug except lawn mowers" long been a problem for the civic authorities lo handle in connoc- j tion with early closing is to bo curb- ( ed by the city Council. Acting on representations of the Retail Merchants' Association, coun- cil has decide that iu granting busi- I ue.ss licenses, drug stores will be re- quired to obtain, iu addition to the necessary permit to sell drugs, "side- line" licenses if tliey are to sell other articles that are sold by stores not In the drug business. These ''secondary lines of business will cost $10 - year. Promise On A Shingle Perfectly 'I Good at Bank i ANNISTON ALA.. â€" Those who I hand out advice against letting some- body give you a wooden nickel aren't so smart after all. They probably would have accepted the choiiue that Jeff JlcCord sawmill operator look from a customer last week. It was written on a wooi!'n shingle. McCord was attemptLig to collect a bill. The billpaycr was short of the regular clieciucs. so he picked up a small shingle and wrote on it. J'cCord endorsed the cheque anu paid Ills electric bill witli it. The power company presented it to tlie bank, and it was cashed and cancel- led. -N Ontario Increases Employees' Pay TOKONTO, â€" Salary increasoa ranging from five to ten per cent will be ordered for the majority of the fi,O0fl employees of the Ontario Civil Service, Premier Hepl)urn announc- ed this week. Increases were approv- ed for several departments at the Cabinet meeting. Other departments will be surveyed and increases decid- ed upon will be retroactive to May 1. Revision concern particularly emplo- ees in the lower salary brackets, the Premier said. Fly Flags Properly Says Scout Officer TORONTO, - •â- ! .ion't believe an:- boy scout groups In Toronto have undertaken to advise citizens who are flying coronation Union Jacks ui)8ide down that they aie unwittingly indi- cating that help is needed,.' Norman H. Saunders secretary of the Toronto Boy Scout association remarked re- cently when Informed that scout ,,a- t-.ols in Halifax were responding to the signals of distress. "Most people take the trouljlo to see that the broad white stripe 'S uppermost," he said. Scheme To Hatch Millions of Ducks MOOSE JAW - Uuck hunters will never be without their full bag if re- cently announced plans of "Ducks Un- limited," an organization that proposes to spend $3,000,000 on duck conserva- tion and hatching, do not go astray. A system of artificial incubator- hatching In Delta, Man., on Lake Manitoba, h'^s met with much success that W. G. Ross one of the organiza- tion's tour directors, announced that . "there is no reason why each of the prairie provinces cannot hatch $1,010- OJO ducks a year." Installation of three large incuba- tors, each with a capacity of 1,000,000 in the three Praiiie Provinces, has been proposed. The incubators would bo filled with the first selling' of the eggs "stolen" from the ne;ii:!.TIie ducks would bo allowed to hatch her second famy, thus doubling the ^Izo of the brood. Let the Duke Alone! Attacks on the Duke of Windsor, denunciations of Mrs. Simpson, are not the less contemptible because they are hound in boards and sold as "history," observes the Ottawa Journal. When the woiki awaited the de- cision that had lo come from Ed- ward VIII it was necessary to be frank, because the i.ssues involved were more important than the con- venience of one or two persons. The cause of truth had to be served. That decision having been taken, the Duko of Windsor became entit- led to the privacy for which he had made a great sacrifice. ! !e is not now a public fifjure. Whatever may be his fault", they cannot any long- er affect the course of Empire. .Mrs. Simpson never will lie Queen of Eng- land. History will have much to say about so extraordinary an episode in the story of the British Crown â€" but history will try to be fair. And historical 'airness is impossible to achieve -.t this time. We are still too do .0 to the events. The case for the Duke of Windsor is locked in the minds of a few people. The records and documents are profound secrets. Without the information that .nay ; not be available to the historian for ' generations it is obviously quite im- j possible to arrive at a just va|uation of the Duke of Windsor's life and reign, bet'ause wo cannot measure factors still unknown, circumstances still surrounded with deep mystery. More Nutrition Required By Girls Sleep and Fresh Air Are Two Es- sentials to Growing Girls TORONTO. â€" Lack of proper nu- trition in the years helwoeu school- leaving and marriage is responsible, in the case of many girls, for malad- justments later, stated Miss Marjorlo Bell, Director of the Visiting Ilome- luakers' Association in presenting her report at the annual meeting of that Association "In those years the young woman should develop the buoyant health â€" st( idy nerves which come from such things as sloop and fresh air, evor- cise and adequate suppliers of protein, caic'ium, iron and vitamins," said .Miss Bell. "But as such knowlediio is no more part of her equipment than it ii) of Iior boy friend, her einplnyer or the public, a standard is rat which demands that she spend so much on clothing, hair-dressing and cosmetics that slie cainint affn-d food." What better combination to look for in a man than an open mind and a closed mouth'.' â€" Stewart-Warner- ite . These crooners get more pay than a [.rime minister,, and a prime min- i.ster can't sing a note. â€" Brandon Sun. Mo.st girls are riddles to us but we hate to give them up. â€" Brandon .Sun. Traffic Toll In Ontario Has Appalling Start in '37 Increase in January and February of 40 Fatalities Shown Over the Last Y^ar TORONTO â€" The traffic toll of 1D.37 is away to a death-dealinf? start. Fiprures just released by the De- partment of Highways show that 75 persons died as result of motor vehicle crashes in .January and Feb- ruary this year, as against 35 for those months last year. TTiere were 1,275 non-fatally injured or 375 more than the two-month period in 193C. Property damage amounted to $183,- 759. Pedestrians suffered the most, both in total and in the tragic increase. Twenty were killed during January and February of l'.)3(!, with 47 pedes- trians victims this year. Tlicre were 14 drivers killed; 11 passengers and three bicyclists. Bicyclists suffered severely in the non-fatal class this year, with 105 accidents against ()3 in January and February of 193(). Horse-drawn veh'clcs were the only class to show a reduction in the awful carnage, 21 being injured this year and 21! i'.i the two months last year. .Mways Blame Weather The weather gets blamed for everything. Cold statistics of the de- partn'ent say the open Winter this year caused the exceptional increase in the pedestrian and bicycle classes. Some day someone is going to blame reckles.s driving and careless walking and cycling; put a lot of people in jail â€" and keep them there. Of the 40 fatality increase in the two months 15 were accounted for in the cities; three in towns; 13 on King's liij;hways; three on county roads; and four on township roads. Tragic as it may seem, during the present month of May, with the rate already established mounting, there will be more children killed than in any month in the history of the prov- ince. May is the all-high frr chil- dren's fatalities a three-year survc.v shows. Training children on traffic is emphasized as necessary to cut down accidents, a department bulletin insists. ",\n examjile of what can bo accomplished when safety education is ma:ie a definite part of the study program may be found in Kitchener," a statemimt reads. "Here safety education is included in the health education work and results speak for themselves. In this city of 32,000 population, not one child has been fatally injured as a result of a motor vehicle accident since 1932." The bulletin authorized by the Min- ister, points out, however, that child training must not take the place of the driver's judgment. "It is never r^afe to assume that a young child !u;s seen the car and will remain on the sidewalk. . . . the driver who de- pends on the child to avoid accident . . . is confessing that ho has UKU'e confidence in the judgment of the child than in his own driving " Zinc Slows Down Activity of Insulin But too Early to Speak of Value Says Dr. Banting â€" Sees World Free of Infectious Diseases PITTSBURGH. â€" Sir Frederick Banting of the University of Toron- to, discoverer of insulin as a specific for diabetes recently told scientists here for dedication of Mellon Insti- tute's new building, that zinc is being added to insulin to slow down its ac- tion. Sir Frederick exijlaincd that pui'C insulin i.s too iiuickly absorbed by the body necessitating, in some oases, several <li)ses daily. The zinc treatment, lie said, .slows the action, but adde] : "It is too early to speak of the clinical value of this form of in- sulin." , .Asked if lie cnuld vision a world free of disease, Sir Fi'cdorick replied: "Free of infectious disease, yes. But as we con(iuer then new dis- eases of an organic nature come to light. Heart trouble, for instance, any many others brought on by our complex civilization." The biggest task (.•onfionting the medical profession, he said, is "to find young men of high quality, to train them thoroughly in the langu- ages and the sciences, to turn them loose with research facilities at their disposal, and to lot them woi-k, work, work.'' Car Accidents Up TORONTO.â€" Motor vehicle acci- dents in the first two months of this year increased 2.5 per cent, over last year. There were 75 fatalities, -10 more than in Januarv and February, 1931). Accidents totalled l,j(il and prop- erty damage $183,759. The number of persons suffering injuries, says the Department of Highways report, was 1,275 or 375 more than in the same two months last year. Royalty Looks On Crown Pi'incc Baudoin, aged G, and his si.^tor, r:i;r<?s J.)-C!);jino Charlotte, 9, children of King Leopold of tile Bol^iar.s ;,nii the lato Queen Astrid, watt'hing their father preside at ship launching. NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS -. By Peter Randal CORONATION COMMENTARY Before you read this paragraph, the ink will have dried on thousauds of other similar paragraphs In every country and every lauKuago In the world. Never, within the history of recorded time, has a pageant such as the crowning of Goorgo and Elizabeth been marked with such significance. Standing as his i:athers did before him within the walls of the nation's shrine, a young man pledged his life as a priest might concentrate hinL-Jelt to a sacred service. His witnesses were not only the brilliant assembly of tho world's great within Westmin- ijter Abbey, not only his subjects in tho far corners of the world, but all peoples. With pcmp and circumstance, George VI became one of the few sur- vivors of the kingly ideal. Yet, tlie true significance was not in surviv<il but in the now interpretation of a king's consecration as the living sym- bol of tho nation's unity. Here is no autocrat of old. Here is a priest-king dedicated beyond his own hopes and desires lo iho preservation of demo- cracy. Power \ iihout honour means fear and not freedom. That is why, in the other lands, wliero a house painter or a retired army sei'goaut hold sway, there is no democracy. These lands have deserted tho ancient form of kingship without substituting some- thing better in its place. We who do hold to the old forms have learned from our forefathers that freedom comes, not from the letter but from tho spirit. Deep within these ancient rites, we have implanted a new con- coptiuu of our destiny as a nation. ''God Save the Kinf.'," is more than a wish for the man, it is our prayer tor the pr<'S('rvation and advaucemeiit of an ideal in government. Economic Co-operation Canada's great moment is to coma' after the Coronation at tho forthcom«' ing Imperial Conference. Prime Mln-' ister Mackenzie King will nropose a three way economic treaty between' (Canada, the United States and GreatI Britain. Should the proposed agree*! mcnt be favourably received, there U a possibility that it will be extended' to include all Empire countries, thui cementing in jomnion economlo' bonds, the interests of the entire En-' glish speaking world. The plan la' said to have originated with Presl-' dent Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. While its implications; are economic, students of world af-' fairs feel that it may be the real key to continued world peace. Death of a Nation's Pride While one nation rejoices at the crowning of a new sovereign, another mourns a great iisaster. Pamphlets and posters, still on display in trave agency windows carry the raaglo words, "Cioss ilio .\tlantic by Air" .At Lakehurst, N'.J., :i blackened twisted mass of girders marks the wreck of Germany's pride. The Hin- denhiirg, iiueen of the .\tlantic sea way has gone to join so many of her forbears in tho Valhalla of ill fated ships. '''liirty five people lost their lives, among them one of the great- est authorities on lighter than air craft, Captain Ernest Lohmann. Others lie in hospitals, still unaware of the tciiihio fate that may have come to l!ieir families. Iu spite of dis- aster, German faith lemains true lo tho great zepplins. Ceneial Goering has announced that coubtruction will be rushed on four great ships and this time, with tho co-operation of the .\morican Government, they will be lilled with non inflanimahio helium. Dispute Rank of Mrs. Warfield Government Opposes Duke of Windsor's Claim That His Bride Be Granted Style of "Royal Highness" LONDONâ€" The Duke of Windsor wishes that Mrs. Wallis Warfield should bo recognized as "her Royai Highness the Duchess of Windsor," after their marriage, authoritative sources (I'sclosed this week. Tho Duke, it was learned, will not be content to have Mi-s. Warfield be- come just the Duchess of Windsor without the Royal style. The Ca'uinet reviewed the question. .A. source close to the Government disclosed 1-hat uegotiatiuns have boon going cm for some time in an effort to reach a compromise. Hut the Duke, they said, is insistent his bride l)u styled: "her Royal Highness"; the Government that she not be so titled Representatives of the Govern- ment, tliese sources said, have argued •â- uid pleaded with the Duke, but have lieen unalde to convince him that hi? alone is ctitilled to the distinction of lieing a "Itoyal Highness" because of his Iloyai blood. Mrs. Warfield, they are said to have contended, has no such claim, because she is a commoner and has not the faintest hope for succession to the Throne either directly for her- self or through any children she might bear. Helii^m Gas Is Hoarded By U.S. This Is One Reeison Why Hydro- gen Used on the Hindenburg NEW YORKâ€" Almost every think- able inecaution had been taken against fire hazards by tho designers of tho Hinde.iburg. Hydrogen was used for two reasons, because it has greater lifting power than helium, thus making the Hindonburg's opera- tionmore profitable, and because the United States owns all the pracitcal supplies of helium in tho world and while not using it themselves, is not apparently dispcsed to let anyone else use it. But the hydrogen which lifted the Hintlenburg was stored in 10 huge colls, and those were surrounded by empty shells. Tho intervening space would have been filled by helium, had it been readily available. The Germans, it was recently re- ported, were experimenting with a secret compound, some other gases which, when added to hydrogen render it noninflanimable. To prevent risk from smoking aboard, a series of doors guarded by stewards led to tho smoking room. No matches were allowed in the pos- session of pn.ssengeis. Kven flint lighters had to be surrendered on go- ing aboard. Passengers and crew wore rubbcr-cioled shoe.", to prevent static electricity igniting any cscap- 'n'? h.vdi'ogen. The fuel was crude oil, difficult to ignite. V >5 I - THE . I I MARKETS I â-ºZ<t*»»»I>»>»'''Z' >I'»»»I*J POULTRY Prices paid to country shippers: Dre.-sed. Milk .Sel. A. Sol. H. Fed A. Spring Broilers â€" 1 to I'l; Ills 1(1 11 18 1'- to 2 ills j.s k; 20 2 to li'i. lbs !:• 17 21 2''- to â- '. lbs '-'(I IS 22 Dressed. fc'il. A. Sel. B, Fatted Hens â€" Over :> lbs. 1.", 13 â- 1 to 5 lbs 11 12 .'J'^j to l lbs 12 11 3 to :{'â- - lbs 11 10 Old Roosters â€" Over .'"> lbs. 12 10 ( Red and iilack feath- ered birds 2e per Hi. less thiin ai)0\o jjrieos.- Olher Fowl â€" Guinea Fnw per pair 75 00 Uom. rabliit.s, per lb. 12 00 Note: C grade iiouitry ^v below 13 grades. POULTRY AND EGGS Buying prices: Dealers are (|Uoting producers for ungraded eggs, delivered, cases re- luriic.l: Eggs â€" Grade .\ largo 17 to 18 Gj-ado .A medium .... 1.") to 16 Grade H 14 to 15 Grade C 11 to 00 Dealers are (|Uoted on grr.ded eggs cases free : Grade .A. largo 20 to 20% Grade .-V medium .... IS to 19 Pullets 17 to 00 Grade R 1(1 to 00 Grade C IG to 00 HAY AND STRAW No. 2 timothy, i}10 to SU per ton; No. 3 timothy, .$8 to .$11; oat and wheat straw, .$7 to .$8. Above prices f.o.b. Toronto. Knowledge of Shooting Beats College Stuff SASKATOO.N. â€" Academic educa- tion is fine, but knowing how to shoot straight was sometimes the most useful accomplishment, Howard' IJigolov,', medical missionary in the Belgian Congo, .sai<l in an address here. Duiing his cadet training in Sas- katoon he won tho gold medal for marksmanship five times and in Af- rica he v.a.; able to shoot enough elcphant.s to buy wives for his native teachers. Ho wa.s stationed in the land of the Pygmies and suggested lack of sunlight and uncertain diet had something to ilo with t'leir sn^all stature. Ho said ho had noticed Pygmies livin;: v.-ith acii'Iiboring tribes un.ier diflffcrcnt eriditio.is of diet and surroundiiifrs v.cre nearly a.i fall as other natives. Sleeping sickness waf! one disrasa for which a remedv had been found.