‘adopt similar methods.

newspaper in the city for six months.

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A National Failing

Government departments at Ottawa and at the various Provincial capitals
have for many years been engaged in conducting educational campaigns, and
issuing instructive bulletins, pamphlets and posters, designed to encourage
and help people in the conduct of their own particular enterprises and thereby
promote not only individual, but national progress and prosperity. Every-
body is more or less familiar with work along these lines conducted by De-
partments of Agriculture and Health.

The Post Office Department at Ottawa has recently found it necessary to
Not the least interesting and instructive among ex-
hibits at this year’s Summer Fairs in the West were those of the Post Office
Department revealing the astounding carelessness of people in addressing
letters and packing parcels entrusted to the postal service. The mass of in-
complete and incorrectly addressed mail matter, and carelessly packed par-
cels dumped into the post offices every day is almost beyond belief.

People complain of heavy taxation, and clamour to have fostal rates re-
duced to the old pre-war level, and at the same time. by their own gross care-
lessness. compel the Post Office Department to maintain an expensive Dead
Letter Branch to correct their mistakes and protect them from losses they
would otherwise sustain. , The Dead Letter OfficeAn one Western Province
had to deal with-over 100,000 carelessly addressed pieces of mail matter last
year, and this is typical of all the Provinces. When it is realized that one
such incorrectly addressed letter or carelessly packed parcel means far more
work, trouble and expense in handling than a score or even a hundred cor-
rectly addressed letters or properly packed parcels, some idea will be gained
of the expense thus incurred. <

Nor is it in the Post Office Department alone that evidence accumulates
showing the extent of this national failing of carelessness. Canada is notor-
lous as having one of the heaviest fire losses of any country in the world, and
by far the greater percentage of these fires is due to carelessness. It would
be bad enough if the enormous losses thus sustained had be borne wholly
by the people responsible for them, but, unfortunately, the innocent suffer
with the guilty, and people who themselyes take every possible precaution
ugainst fire see their life’s work swept away through the carelessness of
others. Not only so, but all citizens, including those who exercise every care,
are heavily taxed to maintain fire fighting services and through the payment
of unduly high premiums for insurance which the fire insurance companies
are forced to levy on all because of heavy fire losses brought about by the
carelessness of the few.

It would seem that the time has arrived when some drastic measures will
have to be adopted. Perhaps it would!prove effective if, following every fire,

Making Good On Farm

Milwaukee Man Proves Wisdom of
Employing Boys Fram Juvenile
Court

The problem of what shall be done
with the wayward boy has been soly-
ed in part in Wisconsin by D. W. Nor-
ris, Milwaukee philanthropist, who for
several years has absorbed some of
the output of the. juyentle courts of
Milwaukee and placed {t on a 752-acro
farm near Mukwonago, Wis.

At present there are sixty-seven
boys on the Norris farm, varying in
age from 8 to 16 years. Nearly sey-
enty-five per cent. of these come from
“broken” homes, thosa where parents
are divorced or separated, or where
death has occurred among parents.
Not all of the boys are wayward or
the product of the juvenile court,
several being simply homeless lads.

Mr. Norris and his Mother per-
sonally directs the operation of the
farm, although they reside In their
home in Milwauke®. A corps of as-
sistants handles the details.

While all of the boys are given tasks
that educate them in the care of pure-
bred stock, in the raising of fine crops
and the marketing of farm products,
Including 1nilk, butter, cheese, fruit
and vegetables, the general tone of the
place is to carry out the idea of a real
home, getting away entirely from the
idea of a correctional institution,
Which the farm is not, {n the sense
of state supervision. It provides
recreation, discipline, education,
health; home and maintenance, every-
thing to make a normal American boy.
There are school facilities on the prop-
erty. t

Although many of the boys come
from the*juyenile court, and are un*
der little or no restraint, they sel-
dom run away from the farm. A
number of them have been taken
abroad on long trips by the Norris
family.

THE DELICATE GIRL

What Mothers Should Do As Their

Daughters Approach Womanhood

If growing girls are to become well-
developed, healthy women, their
health must be. carefully. guarded.

no matter how small, an official investigation was conducted to establish re- ; Mothers should not ignore their un-

sponsibility for the fire, and when that responsibility was established t

as- | Settled moods or the various troubles

‘ 'that tell of approachin yomanhood.
sé: ainst th Ss rsons responsible the full mbatting the P) & womanhood.
sess against the person or persons responsible the full cost of combatting’ jit is an important time of Life. Where

fire and impose damages on them to compensate innocent parties sustaining
loss through their carelessness or negligence.

pallor, headache, backache or other
signs of anaemia are evident you must

Why, too, should the careful, hardworking farmer who industriously, year | provide the sufferer with the surest

after yea
heavy losses because a neighboring landowner is careless and negligent and
allows his land to become infested with weeds which spread in all directions
bringing incalculable loss throughout a wide area? It is time all laws relat-
inig to noxious“veeds were made more stringent and rigorously enforced. _

Railway companies are doing their utmost to protect people at level
crossings, but hardly a day passes but some unayoidable accident is recorded,
the diréct result of carelessness, negligence on the part’of the individual, or
downright foolhardiness. Since the adyent of the automobile many an en-
gineer's hair has been turned grey and his nerves shattered through the rash-
ness of car drivers dashing across tracks in front of an approaching train.
Some people act as though railway crossing signs read: “Don’t stop, don’t
look, don’t listen. This is a railway track. Dash full speed ahead.”

A little careful attention to these things on fhe part of all people would
rosult in enormous sayings to the individual, the Government and the public
generally, would prevent much suffering, and many life-long regrets. Care-
ful people who do their full duty as citizens in these respects should not.be
called upon through heavy taxation to pay for the upkeep of elaborate Sery~
iees rendered necessary because of the carelessness of others. The respon-
sible ones should be made to pay the bills. Until they are so made to pay
they will, apparently, continue in their carelessness, which, let it be repeated,
has become one of our greatest national failings.

| , Alberta Oil

American Judges-Had Good Idea Of | Exploration For Ol! In Northern
Proper Sentence Alberta Is Going Ahead’ Rapidly

A youth arrested for throwing ol exploration in Northern Alberta
stones was sentenced by an American|is pushing ahead. The amalgamation
judge some time ago to throw so many | of Alberta’s, Keystone and Victory Oil
tons of stones, while a policeman look- | Companies in Northern Alberta is
ed on. We forget the exact number,completed and is to advance work
of tons; but it was a goodly number. ution the Victory well where indica-

A judge in Los Angeles goes this|tions are considered very favorable.
sentence one better. A motorist| Canadian Petroleums, which recently
brought before him for speeding was|acquired a tremendous .acreage in
conyicted «nd sentenced to copy out| leases. from the Federal Government,
the traffie accident stories in every|is expected to work further on the
Williams well, upon which $350,000
has been spent to date.

Appropriate Punishment

They have several newspapers in Los
Angeles and a high traffic accident
rate. When this speed fiend has
completed his sentence he will prob-
ably be able to keep his foot off the
§as.—Regina Leader.

Saskatchewan Creamery Butter

Saskatchewan's output of creamery
butter in June amounted to 1,787,056
pounds, as compared with 1,746,000
pounds in June, 1923, an increase of

Postal Workers Get Stung

One of the drewbacks of being a
postal worker is that live bees are
sometimes shipped in insecure pack-
ages and escape to harass the sorters.

This is indicated in regulatfons
published in a supplement to the
Postal Guide, which instructs post-
Masters not to accept bees for
ment until every precaution has been
taken against escape from their pack-
ages.

Says He’s Cave Man
Dave Marsh, 86, a gold prospector,
claims to be the only rea
in the world. For the

man

Cripple Creek. He has his caye—a
chamber 30 feet long and too low to
permit his standing erect—furnished
as elaborately as a fashionable apart-
ment.

The principality of Monaco fs the
smallest country in the world, its
ere ‘being only eight square miles,

tht eset coat Betas fo e's ‘

ship- |

41,056 pounds or 2.4 per cent. From
January to June, 1924, Saskatchewan
has produced 5,109,090 -pounds of but-
ter as against 4,423,016 pounds in the
same period in 1923, an increase of
| 868,074 pounds, or 15.5 per cent.

| British Firms Supply Jap Arms
Japan WW&s ordered 140,000 machine
guns from the British Vickers Com-
pany, which is working on~the order
day and night, according to the West-
minster Gazette. The paper adds
that another firm, the tton Com-
pany, is executing a large Japanese
type of tractor

order for a special

| ee
| After a man has proved in seyen-

/teen different that he is wo-
!man’s intellectual superior she is
| perfectly satisfied in her own mind
| that he is not.
| aes
Japan has a population of
60,000,000,
sit *.

nearly

\, | A;
strives to keep his land free from weeds, be compelled to sustain | ™@aas of making new blood.

Remember, pale, bloodless girls need
plenty of nourishment, plenty of
sleep, and regular open-air exercise.
But to save the bloodléss sufferer she
must have new blood—and nothing
meets the case so well as Dr. Wil-
liams’ Pink Piils. These pills in-
crease the supply of new, red blood;
they stimulate the appetite and re-
lieve the weary back and limbs; thus
they restore health and charm, and
ring to anaemic girls the rosy cheeks
and bright eyes of strong, happy girl-
hood. 5

You can get these pills through any
dealer in medicine, or by mail at 50
cents a box from The Dr. Williams’
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.

Strawberries In Novthers Alberta

Grown Successfully Three Hundred
Miles North of International
Boundary
Successful strawberry culture three
hundred miles worth of the inter-
national boundary, has been proven by
R. A. Gordop, of Edmonton. One
hundred plants brought out from On-
tario wintered well, blossomed heavily
and produced prolifically a well form-
ed, colored fruit of fine flavor and
firmness. Mr. Gordon has likewise
had much success with fruit trees,
cherry, wild plums and crab apples.
‘

Swet and palatable, Mother Graves’
Worm Exterminator is acceptable to
children, and it does its work surely
and promptly.

Moving Pictures On Mt. Robson

The first motion pictures ever ob-
tained on Mount Robson, the highest
peak In the Canadian Rockies, have
been taken by Mrs. Audry F. Ship-
pam, one of a party who made the as-
cent and descent of the mountains in
the fastest time recorded. Although
the pase of the mountain was envel-
oped in a thick fog for four thousand
feet, and the party could not see for
more than fifty feet ahead, the record
time of fourteen hours was made for
the climb.

Many Birds Stronger Than Eagle

Although man has used the eagle
as the symbol of strength, there are
Many species of seabirds that can
play with a temozst that would drive
the eagle to earth, Vultures in
height and swallows in endurance ex-
ceed the eagle, and comparing bulk
for bulk, the humming bird Is a
much more wonderful flyer.

There may be other corn removers,
but you wili not be completely satis-
fied until you. haye used Holloway’s
Corn Remover.

Eyen a woman who is not deceit-
ful tries to walk In a way that will not
suggest corns.

As for mending a widow's broken
here is no doubt that it can

Reading By Sound —

Recently Patented German Device
May Ald the Blind

The blind may yet “hear” the print-
ed page by means of a recently patent-
ed German deylce for making printers’
Ink and other pigments conduct eleo-
tricity.

This might seem a comparatively
simple matter. One need only pul-
verlze a conducting metal and mix the
powder with a suitable binder. But
the lack of close contact between the
particles of the metal obstructs the
flow of the current, and the obstruc-
tion is increased by the oxidation of
the surface of each particle. yen if
the current succeeds in overcoming
the resistance, the conductor {is un-
duly heated—a fatal fault in the case
of a-paint. Since there are various
reasons why it is desirable for indus-
trial purposes to have a paint that
will conduct electricity without melt-
ing, the problem has engaged the at-
tention of many investigators.

It has recently been solved in Ger-
Many and patented by the firm of
Mertens, who plan to usé it in the
printing industry. An important fea-
ture of the process is that by modify-
ing it, paints and inks can be prepar-
ed which conduct electricity in vary-
ing degrees. It is proposed there-
fore, to prepare strips of paper print-
ed in Symbols corresponding, for ex-
ample, to the Morse dot-and-dash sys-
em.

Such printed slips can then be used
by means of electrical apparatus to
make and break contacts so as to
sound a bell or a buzzer so that a blind
person familiar with telegraphy could
literally hear the printers’ ink talking

to him.
Says Color Problem
Constitutes Menace

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Estrangement In India

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Serious Says Sir Valentine“Chirol

The solution of the color question
threatens to become the acid test ot
Occidental civilization, said Sir Val-
entine Chirol, former director of the
foreign news department of The
London Times, in the second of his
lectures at the Institute of Politics
at Williamstown, Mass. }

He reviewed racial and economic
forces at work in India and added:

“It Is not by the sword that Eng-
land can hope torule India. What
is to be feared at present is not rebel-
lion against English rule, but a steady
estrangement of the best elements of
India itself, without whose co-opera-
tion the whole scheme of reform may
languish and perhaps perish, and the
whole welght of Mmdia be thrown into
the scales in favor of a final breach
with Occidental civilization.

“It will be an evil day for the Occl-
dent if all the other political, social
and economic problems with which it Is
faced in the Orient come to be merg-
ed into one compreliensive color prob-
lem which must irresistably unite
against the west all the different races
and oreeds of the otherwise disunited
Orient.”

World’s Strongest Boy Married

Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Claims To Be
Britain’s Strongest

Saxon Brown, known as “the strong-
est boy on earth,” was married recent-
ly at Lewisham to Dorothy Dawes,
who fs claimed to be Britain’s strong-
est girl.

The bride, who is only 16 years of
age, and for, five months has been a
pupil of Tehyy fay who is now 19.

After the ceremony the young couple
went to a hospital fair at Catford to
give their first show in a week's en-
gagement.

By way of a prellminary, Brown
tackled a motor van, and, gripping
two of the spokes of the rear wheel,
lifted it nine inches from the ground,
and held it there for some minutes.

Feats performed later included
crushjng an apple to pulp in one
hand, bending a bar of iron into the
shape of a horseshoe, raising a five
hundredwelght anvil on his chest,
breaking an {ron chain with his teeth
and lifting four men on a board.
~ The bride performed feats with a 56-
pound dumbbell and supported two
men on a board.

‘

One of World's Oldest Women

Apparently authentic records indi-
cate that “Indian Lucy,” a:squaw liy-
ing in the Yosemite Valley, is 120
years old. She is believed to be one
of the oldest women in the world.

Lucy lives in a typical Indian tee
pee not far from Camp Curry, but
keeps out of sight of the tourlsts.
She has -difficulty in walking, but
otherwise retains full possession of
her faculties. She can remember
clearly the events of 100 years ago.
She was living, in the valley when the
first white men made their entrance
and finds pleasure {0 relating the de-
talls of their occupation.

Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Is so
named from a monastery dedicated to
the Holy Rood, or Cross, which
originally oceuplcd the site.

More Education Needed\

Chicago Speaker Draws Attentlon To
Increasing Illiteracy In U.S. =m
Within fifty years American clvyili-
zation will be a thing of thepast un-
less speedy measures are taken to
educate illiterates and aliens in this
country.
This was the statement of Frank

'|E. Hand, vice-chief of a fraternal so-

ciety, in an address at Chicago.

“The civilization of the Mayflower
and the ideals of Washington and
Lincoln,” safd Mr. Hand, “are be-
ing inundated by a flood of Ignorance
and anti-American agitation.

“There are 10,000,000 persons in this

country who are classed ‘as _diliterate |

or near-illiterate. There are 14,000,-
000 foreign-born people in the United
States, most of whom are allen in
thought, speech and idealism. They
are receiving the vote rapidly and
should be taught the English language
and the findaniestals on which this
country was founded.

“Education of the foreign-born in
the duties of citizenship should be
an obligation of native Americans.”

Reduced by Asthma. The constant
strain of asthma brings the patient to
a dreadful state of hopeless exhaus-
tion. Early use should by all means
be made of the famous Dr. J. D. Kel-
logg’s Asthma Remedy, which more
than any other acts quickly and surely
on the air passages and brings bless-
ed help and comfort. No home where
asthma is present In the least degree
should be without this gréat remedy.

Less Wheat This Year™

Northern Hemisphere Will Produce
Less Wheat According to Estimate
Of U.S. Department of
Agriculture
From 10 to 13 per cent. less wheat
than last year will be produced this
year in countries of the northern hem-
isphere, the United States Department
4f Agriculture announced on the basis
of telegraphic reports and other infor-
mation confirming early” estimates to
that effect. The production this year
in fifteen important producing coun-
tries, Including the United States and
Canada, and exclusive of Russia and
China, fs estifMated at 2,092,976,000
bushels, compared with 2,272,901,000

bushels last year.

“The cereal crop in Europe Is less
than Jast year with important reduc-
tions In countries coisuming large
quantities of hard wheats similar to
our durum varieties,” the department
of agriculture stated. “The absence
of an exportable surplus in North
Africa further strengthens the mar-
ket positions of these wheats and the
outlook from the point of ylew of
United States producers 1s more fay-
orable than }ast year.”

In a bedroom built of glass In a
London hospital, patients have been
kept hermetically sealed up for five
days in an atmosphere containing
double the usual quantity of oxygen.

Any man who really understands
women {fs too wise to boast to them
of his wisdom. .

Milk taken’ from the cow in the

Minard’s Liniment for Rheumatism

1 the morntng. a :

evening is better than milk taken

Coal Shipments To East

Experiment Will Not Be Made This
Year Owing to Lack of Time
Coal shipments from Alberta to On-
tarlo on the experimental basis pro-
posed under a vove of Federal Govern-
ment assistance will not be undertak-
en this year, after all.. For lack of
time in which to make the necessary _
arrangements, the scheme will now
have to walt ovcr until another sea-
son. That fs the decision reached as
an outcome of a conference by Pre-
mier Greenfield hh Hon. Charles
Stewart and Sir Henry Thornton when
the whole situation was taken under
review.
The Premier pointed out that the
local Government has no informa-
tion of any arrangement haying been
made at Ottawa to put into effect the
plan of federal aid which was! contem-
plated {n the passing of an appropria-"
tion of $200,000 among the supple-
mentary estimates, and that until the
Dominion authorities had taken action
along that line nothing could be done
at this end to set the Coal in motion.
Assistance from the Dominion Goy-
ernment, such as that provided for in
the vote passed by Parllament would
be conditional, said Mr. Stewart, upon
the operators reducing their prices on -
the coal going éast, the view at Ot-
tawa being that the producers in Al-
berta must do something by way of
co-operating in the case and must be
willing to cut the price at the time if
the Government Is to help pay the cost
of transportation. 4

Stirring Up Trouble ;
Rudyard Kipling in naming the
door to the steak and chop house at
the British Empire Exhibition in Lol
don “Leathern Gate,” seems to have
stirred up in miniature the same kind
of a row that he caused when he gave
Canada the too suggestive name, “Our
Lady of the Snows.”—-New York Eyen-
ing Post,

* Cool?—Yes ais

Joe—Was your trother cool when —
he met the bear? ‘ Se
Jim.—Cooll Why he was so cool
that his teeth chattered. &

ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER
A GUARANTEED RELIEF

“I have arranged with all druggists
here, as well as in all other towns of
Canada, that every sufferer from Asth-
ma, Hay Fever, Bronchial Asthma ‘
difficult breathing in this city»can tr.
my treatment entirely at my risk,’

R. Schiffmann announces. He says:
“Buy a package of my Asthmador, try
it, and {f it dces not afford you immed- —
jate relief, or if you do not find it the
best remedy you have ever used,
it back to your druggist and h
return your money. cheerfully ani

had been given up In ag
I am 80 sure