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; what fon familiarly known as Britain's An innovation by the Provincial Government in issuing cheap licenses to aged and more or less decrepit * they are roadworthy, - and it had itself remained unchanged. : 'ulative purposes," "Voice of Canada, The Empire and The World at Large the Press Sa oo re CANADA, { Just Making Sounds, A Toronto school téacher tells us that he had his class write out the Lord's Prayer and found that many 'of them didn't kngw what they were repeating every morning. One of the commonest mistakes was in the sec- ond clause, which several wrqte as "Harold be Thy Name." Another To- ronto school teacher had been telling a fairy story beginning with the usual "Once upon a time." W' mn ghe asked for a synopsis, she was surprised to find one gir] beginning her story with "One pound of line, there was ., ./-- Fergus News-Record, No Teacher's Pets, Children of a Winnipeg school held a "pet show," but none of the teach. er's variety were exhibited.--Winni- peg Free Press. Beauty and Business. 'Thanks to the admirable concern of womankind for: their personal beauty, Canada has one industry which has flourished even when every other was going to ruin. The manu- tacturers of beauty preparations in Canada had a production of $3,873,640 In 1929, In 1932 it reached $4,771; 098, which represents an expansion of 20 per cent. approximately, right in the period of general depression, This industry has a very ultilitarian side to it. It employs many hands, and distributes a million dollars a year in salaries.--La Patrie, Montreal. From the Same Place. | "Seeing -a pretty girl is as good as a tonic," says 'an enthusiast. And sometimes they are made up at the ame druggist's.--Regina Leader-Post, : "Canada's Place." We are interested to see the sug- gestion in a London evening news. 'paper that the Westminster City Council should give to the island site ou which Canada House and the fine Bun [Life of Canada building stands the name of "Canada Place." Years ago "Canada" suggested that the short length of Cockspur Street night be advantageously changed to 'Canada Street," as it .contains the offices on the south side of the Can- wdian National Railways and the Im- perial Life of Canada and on " aporth side the great block of the Sun Life of Canada adjoining Canada House. Possibly our contemporary's sugges. don might be mere acceptable to the Westminster authorities, because it sould not do away with the old street 1ames, but would merely give a new postal direction to the few buildings - mn the island .side which consists only of the White Star Line, Sun Life of Canada, Canada House, and the Royal College of Physicians. We can warmly commend the suggestion to the West- minster City Council. "Canada" (London). ' Living inthe Present. + Halifax "Harbor, has had an excel- lent year, with tonnage considerably larger thau 1932 and 1931. The East- ern port now is among the keenest bidders for ocean traffic, and has quit dwelling upon the great days of its building and sailing of wooden ships. --Torouto Globe. | Cheap Licenses for Old Cars. trucks and cars may ndt prove an un- mixed blessing. Owners of old cars presimably are not affluent. Giving them a ten dollar license will win their approval. But careful inspec- tion of aged vehicles should precede the granting of a permit to Qperate them on the public highway. Unless Government officials are satisfied that they are not potential menaces to other traffic, the experinrent is apt to result un- happily.--Edmonton Journal. Protect Art Treasures. . The fire at Ottawa in which a large number of valuable classical paintings weres destroyed in a private house, calls attention to the necessity of protection from fire for art treasures of every description. The National . Gallery at Ottawa is no exception to this rule and needs attention, There will be sympathy for Mr. John Gleeson.--Hamilton Herald, Changing Times. A recent item of news from Great Britain drew attention to the fact that an old family had been forced by the pressure of a changing world to give up an estate on which for 28 gener- ations it had made its home, It was the Gresley family, one of the last families to remain in possession of an estate granted in the time of William the Conqueror, Here is a family which has - seen Britain develop from a feudal king- dom to an industrial democracy, has geen ruling dynasties come and go; But now the end has come, Economic conditions have forced the family to put the estate up for sale. It has been bought, according to the news cable, by a real estate firm for !'spec- Chan angiag times and business de- have 'cut wide swaths in Ade a oo the | +9 Eo > Gresley tie with' feudal days is a symbol 'of the shift which that aris- tocracy is undergoing. -- Viotoria Times, : Test of Intelligence, It is either a significant commen- tary on the standard of intelligence of the American people, or a com- mentary on the intelligence of radio announcers, or both, that when an announcer names "Washington Ave. he adds that the spelling is W A S H- IN GT ON, spelling it out letter by letter.--St. Thomas Times-Journal, THE EMPIRE. War As Race Sulcide. Man going to war at the present time is a man fighting with his bare hands against a ten thousand horse- power machine of his own making. He is comparable to an infant attack- ing a steam-roller. Loglcally speak- ing, he can do it; realistically speak- ing, he can't; it is beyond his nature as a human creature, and if he in sists upon attempting it he can only look forward to the fate that attends a physical impossibility, It is possible to fall six feet without serious dam- age. That is what man did before gunpowder, It is possible to fall 12 feet and to survive. That is what Europe did a hundred years ago. It fs possible for a whole family to fall from the roof of their house, and some will live to tell the tale--as in 1914. ut it 1s not possible for hu- man Mdeings to jump over Beachy Head and to resolve anything except the problem of existence by so do- ing. And the fall from Beachy Head to the sands below is what war is to man today. It is an act of race sul- cide.~--~New English Weekly. Business in Palestine. Therp was one Bedouin woman who was approached - by a kodak-in-hand tourist, while gathering herbs, The strings of coins which covered her face jingled vehemently as she made known her price--two shillings for a pose. There was some haggling. She remained obdurate. The tourist turn- ed away, expecting to be recalled, But the "star" continued phlegmatically to pluck the herbs without a backward glance. Business must be good.-- Palestine Post (Jerusalem). An Arctic Journey Miss Hutchinson, a young Scots woman, who has been collecting flow- ers and plants for Kew Gardens, has just completed a hazardous and re- markable dog-sledge along 350 miles of the Artic coast. When winter over- took her, Miss Hutchinsoh was mak- ing her way by sea round Point Bar- row in hopes of catching the last steamer of the season, but failed to do so.. When frozen in she secured an. Eskimo dog-team and started off for Herschel Island, off the coast of Yukon, where she is reported to have arrived little the worse for her long journey, during which the tempera- ture on several occasions sank to 70 degrees below zero, representing 102 degrees of frost.--Inverness Review. The League and the Empire The more the situation is examin- ed, the more difficult it becomes to see how the pre-war methods of the balance of power can work, even 80 long as they did before the war, in the very different conditions that pre- vail today. This consideration is re- inforced if we turn to the Imperial aspect of the matter. As has been revealed at several Imperial ' confer- ences, and was brought out strongly at the recent unofficial Imperial Con- ference in Toronto, the League of Na- conciling the desire for independence with the need for a common policy within the' British Commonwealth of Nations. If the League were to dig. appear and the world werd to revert to the system of alliances and prepa- rations for war, the problems of neu- trality and self-defence within the Em- pire would become infinitely more complex and might become insoluble. --Rt, Hon, Arthur Henderson, in The Nineteenth Century. The Head and the Heart. What is known by the head only and not by the heart also, does not become really part of our life, Even if great thoughts arise most often fn the heart, they must go round by the head, or if the order is reversed, at any rate both are needed. But we are only too apt to omit such super- rational things as love, laughter, sor row, anger, courage, reverernce, sym- pathy, imagination, all elemental parts of human life. So the appeal is for a balanced collaboration of iman's faculties, under the guldance of rea- son as the final arbiter. In this way reason, operating on experience, will become a sufficient guide to truth and controller: of- our destiny, without re- pressing the richness of our nature and its potentialities, our emotions and our arts~--Rev, Canon D. 8. Guy, in The Contemporary Review, Danger Threatens England, After the exceptionally dry summer we have a drought in the midst of an early winter, and in most parts of the country the water supply is be- coming, it it is not already, a matter of. anxious consideration. London, with storage reserves for over two tions is an indispensableAbasis for re-| --_-- ---- year's missing rainfall is soon made up there may be worse privation elsewhere than could bg caused by any winter.--Dalily Telegraph. THE UNITED STATES. } The English Policemen. The average English policeman is not in the least impersonal. He smiles good-humoredly at the chaff of the crowd, which he is restraining He will take care of a lost dog or of 'an old woman who cannot remember the way home. He will give a sus. pected 'offender the henefit "of the doubt before arresting him. If he'is in a'tight corner he expects the by- stander to assist him and they seldom fail. The general public feel that he is on their side, and that the rules of conduct which guides him are those of common justice--in other words, fair play.--From the Christian Science Monitor. --ee i : Woman Maitics Three Brothers Each in Turn Hollywood. --Visited daily by the woman who was once his wife and who is twice his sister-in-law, James De Tarr, first of three brothers to mar- ry the same-girl, is dangerously nn in a clinic here. The woman Is Harryette 'Post, daughter of a prominent Denver, Colo, family. She now is the wife of Bever- ley De Tarr. On her. visits to James in the clinic, she is accompanied by Beverley and Noble De Tarr, another brother, James and Harryette were wed in '1918, and divorced in 1922, Two years later Harryette married Noble. In 1928 she was divorced from her sec- ond De Tarr, and in 1932 she bécame the wife of Beverley. No ill- feling has resulted from the two divorces. y - The sick man, a writer, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Physi clang said he will recover. --t ee Stole From Mails Gets Five Years Quebec.--Five years in St, Vincent de Paul Penitentiary was the sen: tence imposed by Judge Arthur Fitz- patrick in Court of Sessions upon John Albertson, 36, salesman, of Lake 'Megantic, who was found guilty on seven charges of stealing from the mails. Albertson was sentenced to five years on each count, the sen- tences to run concurrently, The amounts involved in each case were small, but. accused used a scheme to secure goods mailed c.o.d, by various large department stores, without making returns to the post. office. PARKERS "RSA IO The moon and Mars are the only planets whosg solid surface actually can be seen At least twelve people are dead and over a thooverthrew the Daladiger government at Paris, usand wounded when a rabble army of 20,000 rioters is a scene taken of the Boulevard St. Germain, Here Toionts Landlords' Protective Association Toronto landlords have formed a protective association, - Landlords should not be shouldered with the double burdeh of providing both free rent and most of the city's taxes, the meeting, which otherwise was far from unanimous, agreed. It was at- tended by about 200 people and lasted more than three hours, H. L. Rogers, former alderman, was the principal speaker, "It is unfair," he declaved, 'that the landlord should be faced with the ugly alternative of having either to turn a destitute man out on the street or to give him free rent. It is dishonest to make you pay for relief -through taxes and then to make you pay rent for the poor when others who own stocks and bonds have to pay no more than income. ER 1,500 Drivers Receive © Safety League Medals Toronto.--Having driven on On- tario highways for one year without a single accident, 1,500 truck and bus drivers have been awarded a medal by the Ontario Safety League, It is a small bronze pin, beautifully engraved and bears the irscription: "I do my part. Be careful, 'Avoid accidents." It is a one-year award, and annu- ally other awards will be made ex- tending more -medals to drivers who maintain their good. records. ----e Departmental and Entrance Exam. Dates Tho Department of Education at Toronto - announces the dates of the entrance and departmental examina- tions for 1934. The departmentals will 'start on Monday, June :25, and conclude on Wednesday, July 11, thus taking them into the second week. in July, a little later than last year. The entrance examingdtions will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, July 8, 4 and b, except in the French-speaking seétions, where they are a few cays earlier, ' -------- Canada's War Pension : Bill $43,141,138 in 1932 Ottawa,--Canada paid $43,141,138 for war pensions during 1933, accord- ing to information given in the House of Commons last week, The total number of persons in re- spect of which pensions were paid. was 264,840. . The number of de- pendant pensfoners was 18,745, and of disability pensioners 77,967. x, 329 Families Now ~ Settled in North To Send More Families in Open Up Area in Back" to-Land Movement Toronto.--Carving their own homes from the Northern Ontario woods, 329 families are now settled under the province's Relief Land Settlement scheme. The present population of the settlements has reached 1,763 per- sons, according to a report to be sub- mitted to the Legislature by Hon. Wil- lam Finlayson, Minister of Lands and Forests, « William Magladery, secretary of the Relief Land Settlement scheme, giving details of the scheme, declared |* it was planned to send 100 families from Toronto ard another 100 from the head of the lakes back to the land this year. od The plan is as follpws: © A prospective settler who is out of work may apply to be sent to: the land, The Dominion Government, Provincial Government and municipal- ity each contribu ute $600. The money is spent in this way: Transportation, $80; cost of constructing a cabin, $100; contribution to maintenance tha first year, $120; contribution to main- tenance the second year, $100; live stock and equipment, $200. ; 232 SETTLERS. An advisory committee was set up to assist the Provincial Government in the work. The selection of land and establishment of families was assigned to the province, and super- visors appointed to carry out the work. The 'prospective settlers were carefully chosen. = They were told what equipment was necessary. They were shown several lots in each local- ity and made their own choice. Many of the families were located on burned over lands about eight miles south of Cochrane. The land is readily clear- éd, since stumps have rotted, moss has been burned off and the. fertility of the top soil restored by Lgturel agencies. ay 1982 25 Ontario sunltipalitis sent 282-settlers. Last year 21 muni- cipalities sent 161 settlers, or a total of 46 centres which sent 883 families to the north. Of this number 54 have returned, leaving 329 still there, ls-s:i It's "Doo-mayerg" Paris.--Gaston Doumergue, naw Premier of France, pronounces' his last name in two syllables: 'Doo- mayerg." Bae 'H. M. S. Nelson 'Aground months, is free from all such appre- aristocracy. The breaking of the hension; but unless some part of this to pull her off, 5 While foaviog 'harbor to Join the 1 fleot's spring ¢rulse, H.M.S, Ne'con, the flagship of jie home Toot, - went aground at the entrance to Portsmouth harbor, 3 Oil and ammunition lighters are seen alongside Cunard and White Stal \ panies lete ~ Plans for ag mation i .London.--A- final steamship lines has been reached with the treasury, the House of Commons was informed last week by Leslie Hore-Belisha, financial secretary - to tho treasury, An agreement publish- ed simultaneously revealed the new company will be called "Cunard-White| Star, Limited." It will acquire from Cunard and the White Star (Oceanic Steamship Navigation Company) their North Atlantic fleeta and good- will, including company names and flags 'when applied to North Atlantic ps. GOVT, PROVIDES "$15,000,000. To provide for completion of the giant Cunard liner "534," scheduled '| to be the world's largest, the treasury agreed to mate advances not exceed- ing £8,000,000 (approximately $15, 000,000), The treasury also agreed to advan:e to the company from time to time sums rot exceeding the total of $1, 500,000 for working capital, Also included is a provision that legislution to be introduced in Parlia- ment will include authorization for the treasury at its discretion to advance to the merger company funds not ex- ceeding £5,000,000 for the cost of an aaditional ship or ships WILL REMAIN "BRITISH, "It is regardeq by all parties here- to," the agreement states, "as the cardinal principle.of the merger com- pany that it is to be and remain under British control." Transfer of vessels to direction of the new company will be effected at the earliest possible date, the an- nouncement said, REGEN Y, FSET Noble Scottish Houses Will Be ~~ United by Marriage Edinburgh.--Two of the 1oblest Scottish houses will be united by the marriage of Lord Robert Crichton- Stuart, second son of the fourth Mar- quess of Bute, and Lady Janet Mont- omery, daughter of the 16th Earl of Eglinton and' Winton, The engagement of the couple was announced recently, Lord Crichton- Stuart is 26 years of age and Lady Janet is 283, The Marquess of Bute is. reputed to be the richest peer in the United Kingdom, The title descends from -Sir' Robert 'Crichton, created a peer in 1487 and the long roll of family lineage is irextricably - woven with Scotland's history. The family of the bride-to-be de- scends from the time of William the Conqueror, Robert Montgomerie, des: cendant of Roger of: Mundegumbri who accompanied William, obtained lands in Renfrewshire in the latter half of the 12th century. He acquired the Barony of Eglinton at this time, Hugh Montgomerie was created first Earl of Eglinton in 1507. > The famous family seat of the Butes near Rothesay faces the Ayr- shire coast where the two castles of the 'Hglintons stand. ' = QT Makes a Prophecy (P.M.R. in Toronto Saturday Night.) My prophecy i. that Canadian busi- ¥, ness will make great strides during the next several n.onths-and by mid- summer the general situation will be very much brighter. : We are going -to 808, the construc- tion industry spring into' activity, the automobile industry enjoying a near boom, the steel pants, both heavy and light, more active. unemployment so sharply. reduced that it no longer con- stitutes a serious community burden, manufacturers of consumer goods pro- ducing as fast as they can; retailers selling, if not as fast as they can, at least a good dehl faster than they are now, and consumers happily buying and consuming, <All will be confident that happy days are here again and here to stay. The only disturbing feature for the consuming public will be the sharply rising prices. ARB Bra : Geologist's Widow May Get Medal 'Dr. Finlay Lorimer Kitckin, F.R.S,, tho famous Britivh- geologist, died ber | 0 ; ! s Terease in population, - fore the Lyell Medal, which the Geo- logical Society recently. awarded to him--one of the 10st coveted Jprizes-- had been presanted. He was to have received it at the sociely's annual meeting next month, It will now probably be presented to his widow, . Dr. Kitchin, who was 63, had been palaeontologist to the Geological Sur- vey of Great Britain since 1905, ISIE REED NCAR, U.S. Fugitive Capital : Starts Returning Home New York.--Some. of the fugitive capital, expatriated to Europe when the United States went off the gold standard, came Lome last week. In a locker deep in ths hold of the liner Bremen rode zold bars with an esti- «| mated value of $7,600,000--the first shipment to leave Europe since de- valuation of the American doliér, Agree | Me. agreement for merger of the Cunard and White Star y at & ceremony in the Dres ole Authority headquarters in Ne Incidentally, she took a fling at Ta machine age, its boasted ef ciencies, when tho thread in her oy tric sewing machine snapped as was starting - her 'sewing. MN = batfery of cameras ground out pit tures, half a dozen expert operatoy rushed up to try te help her get th. machine running, She waved thei aside: calmly, re-threaded the need! as if jt was all part of her accustome daily routine, ard continued sewip amidst applause, "I wonder in this age cf 'machi ery," she sail, when she finishel "whether it oceurred to you. that th averege woman could have sewed ths label on five tines as fast as the ma chine did." "This label," she said, 'inaugui ates a new systém of labor in th dress industry, under which the Gov ernment, the eviployer and the work ers become partners, It symbolizes [1 86-hour week, a minimum wage Jo skilled and unskilled labor, a bar ¢ child labor, and also to the manufae ture of dresses in basements, insani tary factories and places of great fin hazard, It marks the end of the cut throat competition of the sweat-shor era," 0 PLEASES Ma Des Number of Dogs Die From Distempe There is. an epidemic of distempet among dogs. in Timmins at presen and a number of dogs have died as 3 - result of the disease, observes Th. Timmins Advance. Dr. L. H, Durkin veterinary surgeon, says that the dis ease is a very rare form of distemper and is highly contageous, He recom mends inoculation as a preventivi .| against the disease: All 'dog owners are advised to have their dogs inocu lated so as to prevent the chance of losing valuable (r prized dogs. The inoculation will prevent the dog i inocu. lated from getting the disease, and it will 'also help retard the spreading of the disease, After a dog gets the dis- ease its chances are not so. good, though there is a serum treatmén that has many cufes to its credit. I the veterinary is called in early enough in until the disease has such a grip that recovery was doubtful, Ba a -- Send Record Shipment: Of Canadian Newsprint Halifax.--H ralding "appreach of much néw business in paper export," the 'greatest consignment of news- print ever to leave Canada," will be lvaded at Halifax this month for ship- 'ment to:England, according to Louis Coutre, of Quebec, representing the 'Anglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper Com- pany, Limited. : Following completion of - satisfac- the Halifax Hurbor A Commission, Coutre said 5,600 tons eof paper would be shipped on 200 railway cars from Quebec to this port where it will be: loaded on the freighter: Geraldine Mary. -- The previrus record shipment, Coutre said, vas 5,660 tons, made from Quebec on the S.S. Glenworth in 1928, "If this proyes satisfactory, " he ed, "it will r.eah the approach of new business in paper export not only for my company but for others," ) : ERIN 2 PE Junior Leagues of America Hold Meeting New York.--Directors of the As- sociation of Junior Leagues of America held a' three<day meeting 'here. Plans were laid for the am- nual meeting' in May, at Toronto. Regional directors present includ- ed Mise Margaret Mitchell, of Moné Tea Re A a --_-- a Marriages and Births : There were 180 marriages each day in Canada in 1932, or 65,691 in all There were 887 divorces in 1932 as compared wih nineteen in 1901, But of these marriages 47 were declared bigamous, which is about the yeardy average, Births.for the year were 240,473, with 83,606 in Quebec and 62,209 in Ontarlo. Births at the rate less 104,617 deaths, an 'average of 286 a day, TAY Young Chuichbreakers Sentenced to Attend {= Church, Sunday School Seatl'e o.--Remarking "you seem to like churches," Justice Guy B. Knott sentenced John CO. Corey and Al W. Hayer, youths who broke in the Seventh Church of Christ, to attend church and Sunday schoo! every Sun day for the next two months. 8 TRELLIS R Oe] | Gorman Unemployment Is Showing Decrease Berlin. --The. Labor Office said res 'cently that unémployment in Germany hal declined by 285,000 persons du ing January because of the absenos of frost during the month, The office now lists 8,774,000 unemployed--2,- 190k . 239,000 less than on Januaty 31, i the serum: treatment is likely to pro- ° 'vide a cure, but the trouble has been ° that the. veterinary has not been called tory arrangements with officials of = __ f 658 each day make the natural in- 2 7