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ml TU os "Sha " Rd at ow a pois C5 a, - shrinking Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large Se 3 ~ Canada BELIEVE IT OR NOT Here is something that reads like fiction in these days of hard times, } values and uncollected taxes: . ¢ "City Treasurer M, M. Morse, ol Ogdensburg, states that the city end. ed its fiscal] 'year March 381 with a cash surplus of $50,729.76 after set ting up a reserve fund of about $10,- 000 to meet outstanding claims. There was $12,923,37 to the credit of the school fund and $37,729.76 to the general city fund. Cash on hand was $61,696.23 and tax arrears, $1,836.80." --Pembroke Standal-Observer. WHAT MOTORISTS PAY More than 27 per cent. of the total revenues collected by the govern- ments of the different provinces of Canada jis contributed by owners of automobiles in the form of taxes on gasoline aud license fees. The re- port states that the total amount paid by automobile owners to the provincial treasuries in the figcal year 1932-33 was $45,499,458, of which gasoline taxes accounted for $24,948, 280 and $20,651,173 was In license fees, In the Province of Oatario 85.9 per cent. of the total government revenue is paid by motorists; in Que. bec, 32 per cent.; in Nova Scotia, 27.2 per cent; in New Brunswiek, 27.3 per cent.; in Alberta, 24.1 per cent ; in<Prince Edward Island, 22.7 per cent.; in Saskatchewan, 19.8 per cent.; in British Columbia, 17 per cent, and in Manitoba, 15.45 pep cent, -- Prescott Journal. $165,000,000 When figures get up tuto billions, fmag:.nation clogs. But while our the children's pets, The following words of an editor from a nearby town are quite applicable to people of this district who throw poison to dumb animals. deaths especially among cats lately, and no other causes has been assigo- ed except that of poisoning, Some of the. poor brutes have lingered for days in misery before dying. We could understand a man in the fury of the moment of being awakened by unmusical choruses under his window, firing his shotgun=into the noise, but to prepare, deliberately, a mess of poison and leave it where it will mur. der both the offenders and any other wandering creature, is quite beyond us, There is something subnormal aboit the man who will rob a small boy of his pet.--Ingersoll Tribune. KEEP OFF THE GRASS Much damage is being done jawns and boulevards at present by people walking across or riding bicycles on the grass. As the ground is wet and goft on the surface, muddy paths are quickly worn or the ground is chur- ned into a pile of mud that will not produce grass In the coming months, --Lindsay Post. The Empire OPEN SEASON FOR PEDESTRIANS "It's a fine day," says the English- man--and takes out his. car to kill some one. That, at least, has been the recent routine, resulting last year in 7,202 killed and over two hundred thoutand injured. But this Easter precedent had led us to expect, and it may be that road users are really beginning to. realise that a motor is mind blurs aver those new statistics telling that Canadians spend §4,7560, 000,000 a year, have incomes of $4,-. LJ 600,000,000, one figure amidst a maze of others stands out very clear. It is the figure which tells. that we spend on education $165,000,000 a year. That for ten million people.-- Ottawa Journal. > "CHEQUE ARTIST" Ontario communities having publle hospitals are being paid a visit by a "cheque artist." He goes to a flower shop, sayg he wants to send flowers to a friend in-hospital, orders some: thing worth 33 and tenders a cheque for $5. A fictitious name is given of the supposed patient, with the re. quest tha' the flowers be delivered. Receiving $2 In change, the rascal departs, Smallness of his cheque and his aesthetic tastes and human sym- pathy combine to disarm suspicion. It js presumed that the flowers are re claimed. In Renfrew the situation is such that the fraud could at least be attempted.--Renfrew Mercury. ADVERTISING "Tell me not in mournful numbers adverti_ing is a dream, [or the busi pess man who slumbers, has no chance to skim the cream. Life is real! Life is earnest! Competition's sometimes fierce In the business field of battle, collcoddles have no place; be not like dumb driven cdt- tle, be a live one in the race. Lives of great men all remind us we must bring the bacon home, "and, depart ing, ieave behind us tootprints on another's dome. Let us then be vp and doing; - otherwise we may be done; still achieving, still pursuing-- advertise and get the mon,--From Publicity. NEWSPAPERS A preacher came at a newspaper man this way: 'You editors do nol tell the truth. If you did you could not live; your newspaper would be a failure." The editor replied: "You are right, and the minister who wil! at all times and under all circum- stances tell the truth about his mem- bers, alive or dead, will not occupy his pulpit more than one Sunday, and then he will find it necessary to leave town in a hurry. The press and pulpit go hand in hand, with white wash brushes and pleasant words, magnifying little virtues. into big ones. The pulpit, the pen, and the grave stone are the great saint-making trl umvirate." And the editor turned to his work and told of the unsurpassing beauty of the bride, while, in fact, she was as homely as a mud fence.--North Hastings Review. HARD UP? An eighty-year-old former bricklay: er, a bachelor, who was drawing an old-age pension from the British Col umbia Government, certainly had his nerve about him. He died in Seattle while on a business trip and authori: ties not only found nearly $1,900 in his hotel room, but also discovered that he had an estate worth more than $12,000! Rather hard up!--The Barrie Examiner. A CONTEMPTIBLE TRICK: n the meanest and most con: 16 of men {8 he who throws at' where he knows {or dogs will pick iye been annoyed 1 'Cpts on the back iat fs no 'reason for caus : a lethal weapon which can only be made compatible with civilized life it used with 'great skill and caution. It is from this point of view--the effect on the psychology of roadusers--that the Minister of Transport"s new traf- fic legislation should be judged, . . It fs.a case for visking some injustice to individual motorists; nothing will so much hasten the growth of cave ful driving as the fear of a strictly enforced penalty against carelessness, --The New Statesman and- Nation (London). THE WAY OF NEWS «By means of their correspondence and of the news agencies with which they deal, the feelers of a newspaper reach to every corner of the globe. An assassination may take place in Afghanistan, a political coup in Buk- harest, a discovery in Africa, of "a ship may founder off the Azores, yet before twenty-four hours are out. the news will be dished out by the news- papers to the residents of this col- ony, or any other place where they are able to support a press organiza- tion. - It is not necessary to dwell on the specialized process to which the news is subjected on its way to Hong Kong from its incidence in that far away spot, and in its final form in the newspaper column. Suffice it to say that the organization which this entails very often escapes the notice of the man in the street.--The Hong Kong Press. THE CAMPAIGN FOR TEA In an. attempt to rationalize the in- dustry, the producers of Ceylon, India and the Dutch East Indies have now entered into an agreement whereby wasteful competition will be elimin- ated, and each will have its own fields for development. In this country the producers of India and Ceylon are to have a free hand to build up the mar- ket for their own teas, for at pres- ent the Dutch East Indies supply 160,- 000,000 out of the 500,000,000 pounds which we drink every year, In. Can. ada and South Africa the Ceylon pro- ducers are attempting to popularize their own wares, and in the United States, India, who has already been making inroads on the coffee-drinking habits of the people, is to continue her efforts. The Dutch are to make a determined drive on the continent of Kurope. But above and beyond all these markets there lies one of almost unlimited potentialities -- the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, whose tea consumption has declined by more than 50 per cent, since the years before its birth. It is believed that it reasonable credit facilities could be given to the Russia Gov- ernment, they would be able to take as much as 100 million pounds & year, an order which would enable an immediate large reduction to be made in the restriction quota.--Philip Jordan in The Fortnightly Review (London). "7 eyes THE STUDENT ON THE LAND Undoubtedly a scheme - of this character (to place unemployed uni- versity students on the land) assumes a spirit of adventure and enterprise on the part of those who desire to take advantage of it. . To most per- gong accustomed to city life and in- ured to the sedentary habits of the student, outdoor work, involving some fatigue and a good deal of manual {abor, may in its early stages appear repulsive. Indian university men dox notiong d¥ personal dignity and & - "There has-been an epidemic ot]. has been much less murderous than Workmen are seen here putting the finishing touches to the deck of the which is to challenge for America's Cup. " EE Ne FE Endeavour II, the British yacht ertheless the cautious attitude of the Committee towards the colonization of the large unoccupied tracts of the United Provinces is justified, as it is necessary in the first instance to make sure that sufficient men of the type that will make good colonisers would be willing to enter the scheme. Ailments Guards Intestinal Ills Protect You "Against Infantile Pa- ralysis Chicago. -- To minimize your chances of catching- infantile: par- alysis, stay in a region" where: stom- ach-and intestinal ailmentsare com- mon---that is the prescription drawn from discoveries by Dr, John'A. Too: mey, of Cleveland. Dr. Toomey reported new theories about infantile paralysis to the Ameri- c¢an College of Physicians. His research showed that apparent- ly there is some connection between infantile paralysis and diseases of the digestive tract, and that people in regions where intestinal troubles are prevalent develop an immunity that protects them from the infantile para- lysis virus, Dr. Toomey said that in south east- ern United States, where intestinal troubles are more common than in some other sections, and in China, where they abound, infantile para- lysis is not prevalent. Presumably, this is because south eastern Ameri- cans and-the Chinese have more im- munity. ) ' Three new conclusions regarding infantile paralysis were drawn from evidence, disclosed by Dr. Toomey's experiments. Its most probable channel of entry to the human body is through the mouth, stomach and intestines, -1t is caused by a combination of a virus--an organism too small to see under any microscope--and poisons produced by other kinds of bacteria that live in the intestines of most humans. : J Immunity against it is produced either by immunity against the .in- fantile paralysis invirus the body through the digestive tract contra- dicts the former belief of many scien- tists th tait entered through the nose along the olfactoyr nerves, "the sense of smell route." Pa His experiments indicate the virus spreads from hte intestinal tract of the human body by way of the fibres of the sympathetic nervous system to the chain of nerves that runs down either side of the spine and from there first to the loins and then up- ward to the neck. : ; $136,000 Is Awarded -------- Halifax.--The Montreal hrokerage firm of McDougall and Cowans was awarded $136,000 by the Supreme $148,000 suit against ,T. C. Glennie, and lost a small fortune in the wild stock market of 1929. Glennie was sued by the broker- age company for the amount of his losses on {ts books: after the 1929 crash, He had run up a $10,000 stake to more than $600,000 and' then had seen his huge profits turned swiftly into a deficit. Fe : Before a Supremé Court jury he 'successfully contested his claim that the losses were caused by inefficient handling of his account by the firm. But the full benech reversed this ver: dict In a majority .decislon recently. though the judges differed in opin- fons as to the amount due the firm. . The company's counsel indicated are known % possess rather ortho- e dittaste for manual labor, Rute fecent tendencies are a guide,' the. trength of such prejudices Is weakening in the face of thé compel they would be satisfied to have the y amount reduced by. $12,000 to meet the finding of 'Mr, J stice RH. Gra-| ham and an order to this effect was To Broker Firm | | Court of Nova Scotia recently in its} the Nova Scotia lumberman who made. Short of "F's' ; and "K's' Here is an authentic extract from the first issue of a Western news- paper: 3 We begin the publication uf the Roccay Mountain (:yclone with som: phew diphphiculties in the way. The type phounders phrom whom we ephs or cays, and it will be phout or phie weeks bephore we can get any, We haye ordered the missing letters, and will have to gef-along without them until they come, We don't lique any better than our reader, but mis- tax will happen in the best regulated phamilies, and ph the 'ph's" and 'c's' 'and x's': and 'q's' 'holi out we shall 'ceep (sound the 'c' hard) the Cyclone whirling. aphter a phashion till 'the sorts arrive. I: i3 no joque to us---it's a serious aphahwir, \ New Regulations The Minister of Kducetion makes the following announcements with re- gard to Second' Year Normal Course, commencing in September, 1934-5: 1. Interim Certificates -issued in "July 1980 to teachers will be extended one year. If they wish to continue teack.- ing after tha* date, they will be re- quired to return for the Second Year Conrse in'Septomber 1936. 2. Teach- ers who completed the 1st Year Nor- mal School Course in 1929 and whose Interim Certificates were extended to July 1984, will be obliged to return. to Normal School in order to take their positions, This Course will be given each of the Normal Schools. Forms of application may be obtajn- ed from the Deputy 'Mirister of Edu- cation aftey July 1st, Let's You Eat. _And Grow Thin Baltimore--Dr. George .A. Harrop, Jr., of Johns Hopkins has worked out an eat-and-grow thin diet ; Bananas and skimmed milk are the answer. Moreover: the. patients do not go hungry, the doctor says: As tried out at the Metabolism cli- nic of the Johns Hopkins drink three or'four glasses of skim- bought our outphit phor this printing | ophice phailed to supply us with any! the loox ov this variety ov spelling | med milk daily for two weeks. They lose six to ten pounds, Then follows a. two weeks off diet period, in which they eat, meat, fish eggs and vegetables, but refrain from fats and starches, Then back to the diet again for two weeks losing six to ten pounds more. Some, by follow- ing this alternating system, have lost 50 pounds in a few months. For milder diets the bananas are increased to 'seven or eight and 'the milk to four glasses. Dr. Harrop, au- thority of treatment of disease by di- et, began thé experiment to reduce waistbands but on hearing of deaths from reducing drugs he became will- 'ing to make his findings public. % Coffee and tea are allowed, but no cream 'or sugar. It's considered advis- able to drink large amounts of water Bombing of Rabbits Successful Plan Liberal, Kan.--Southwest Kansas nimrods have conceived the' idea of bomb-hunting rabbits from airplanes In a recent rabbit drive near Here- ford, Tex. Doc Henderson and Ovart Pinkerton dropped bombs on scurry- ing cottontails from planes .and al- though 300 foothunters participated in the drive, the air-hunters acéount- ed- for 2,000 of the 3,000 rabbits ob tained. Health in China For centuries 'he Chinesz have vaid their doctors to keep them well rather then to cure them when they were, sick: Many an effort has Leen 'made by 'inquisitive visitora to China to cheek tp this well-kniywn bit of scientific * information. The results have - been discouraging, however, showing that until recently the Chin- ese have had no doctors worihy of the nyme to practise preventive medicine, or any other kind. Even though the Chinese doctor story is evidently aj. Motor Spirits Distilled From Lowly Turf and Dublin--Peat from Ireland's bog lands is making a bid to drive the wheels of industry and transport as well as warming cottage firesides and cooking griddle cakes. SAE A scheme for "producing ~ indus- trial alcohol from potatoes and turf has been planned Hy the Fianna Fail Government, It is intended to mix the; homle-prodused alcohol with im- ported gasoline in order to reduce the country's present petrol bill of more than £500,000 a year, Five distilleries 'and one refinery are scheduled for erection during 1934. Eurther indication of the impor- tance turf is expected to play in the future development of the Free State was given at the recent annual meet- ing of the Grand Canal Company here, While regretting a loss of re- venue following the introduction of tariffs, Mr. John McCann, who pre- sided, said that the company antici- pated compensation from a big exten- tion of turf carrying as a result of the campaign for increased utilization of native products. : -A committee of investigation has already reported favorably here on peat for motor spirits, and in 1926 Irish turf was successfully tested in France for this purpose. Further work in developing this new use for the Free State's widespread bog lands will be one of the tasks of' the In- dustrial 'Research Council which 'is being established by the Government. _In_ the meantime potatoes are to be used as the raw product in the distilleries. The scheme will at first be experimental rather than a com- mercial proposition with little inter- ference, it is pointed out. Discussing the project in the Dail, 'Mr, Sean F, Lemass, Minister of In- dustry and Commerce, said that the distilleries would utilize about 25,000 'tons of potatoes a year. at a price near 35 shillings-a ton. The by- products of the industrial - alcohol, he said, were a valuable cattle food; use: them. ~The first' vear's working of the distilleries would 'be taken as an 'indication of 'the advisability of developing the project ona big-scale commetcial basis, Tey i "Referring to the Government's plan: for wide activities of the Indus- trial Research Council, Mr, Lemass pointed out that in recent years rapid progress has been made in other countries in the organization of re- search work, > : But the time had come, the Min- ister continued, when "the Govern- gently planned system of research. It was intended to compose the coun- cil '6f honorary members with special- ized knowledge. They would be en- titled to travelling and .inc'dental ex- penses. In addition there would be a permnaent 'secretary, and a small staff and library. The unrual grant called for was estimated at £5,500, ; One of the functirns of the coun- cil will be to advise the Government on the graniing of assistance to in- ventors whose aclivities are likely to have benefiial national results, 65,000 Words Columbia 'U' Commission Finds Poverty Evils Can Be Cured -- If myth, it carries a valuable suggest- jon. * Positive 'health, periodic heaith examination, early diagnosis; prey- ention of disease, make up the mess age that is.begining to prevent' much University | guffering and save many lives.--The patients eat four to six bananas and 'Canadian Medical Association Journ al, November, 1933. The most beautiful debutante and mina slaughter among ling circumstances of our time, Nev: granted. WINNING DEBS the debutante with the most char acter, selected recently at the Blue and White 'Ball in New York. Miss Betty Kipp, left, was selected as having the most character and ' Miss Joan Power, the most beauty, 3 : | are raised, Sometimes the wool fis i New York.--The Columbia Univer- , 8ity commission of economic recon- i struction reported recently, in 65,000 | words, that society could overcome the evils of poverty and unemploy- ment if: : . 1, It continually utilized to the full the productive capacity which is ac- tually available. : ' ; 2. It equitably distributed the na- tional income. a "What happened during the war," says the report, "when the volume of goods taking war and peace products together, increased at the very tinte when millions of the. younger and more vigorous workers were with drawn from productive functions, is an indication, highly peculiar though conditions then were, of the manner in which potential productivity: lies utilized in normal times. 3 3,000,000 Lbs, Of Wool Stolen Denver.---Reports of operations of cattle rustlers and horse thieves are an old story here, but depredations' at the expense of sheep men have been-rare until recently. Thefts .of wool are now being re ported from all sections where sheep pulled from. the backs of live sheep, but more often the animals are killed and" the wool pulled from the dead carcases a few days later, The wool is also removed from animals that have died from:-natural causes. Such "dead" wool is worth about half the price commanded by this year's clip. It is estimated that 3,000,000 pounds of wool have been stolen in the last few months ih: the region from West Texas to Montana, . le 7 ~4 and' farmers would be encouraged, to 80H [-existing in the troubled world." -- ment must take part in an intelli-| DROUGHT RELIEVED Heavy rains are saving crops near Buenos Aires, Argentine, from the drought." : ; Ee "Youth stands with this axiom, nothing in the world is impossiyle" - ~Benito Mussolini, "All the problems that arise iF the changing kaleidoscope of social dev- elopment have only one answer--edu- cation,"--Newton D, Baker, Sid "Trying experiences are the best character builders."--Irene Rich. --Q CLEAR Fi: "Self-sacrificing charity is by far the most important and the : most beautiful thing we can accomplish." --Albert Einstein, 7 a ' "During the néxt year the natlon will. see a veritable cyclone of bubl ness,"--Samuel M. Vauclain. : nh BARE at ps i : "Instead of people thinking of mis- chief and politics, I say, why not let them sing?'--Mme. Schumann. Heiunk, g : 5 mr Qee "The blame for the danger to world peace lles not in the world population, but in the political lead- ers of that population."-- Nicholas Murray Butler. ---- x "In the eyes of the poet, who rep- = ° resents God' on earth, the meanest human destiny Ts as important and touching as the greatest'--Emil Lud: wig. ; --0-- "Cats have reduced comfort to a fine art. They are the world's great- est' spongers." ~-- Albert Payson Terhune. : ¥ a --0-- 3 "There has been a growing appre- ciation of public needs and of the" necessity of finding ground for a rational compromise between © in- dividual rights and public welfare >-- Charles E. Hughes, ! --0-- "An industrial recovery, like an industrial depression, is, in a prac. tical sense of the wordd, an irresist- ible force."--Alfred P. Sloan Jr. ---- "The enormous cost of war in. the {ncreasing world-poverty is the most solid 'guarantee for the peace still Guglielmo Ferrero, : & --0-- : "All our citizens are entitled to XT + 3 - AS équal consideration, and that means . 'that each must accommodate himsell to the rights of others." -- Fiorello LaGuardia. : \ wp L! "I am just 'as optimistic about America as I ever was,"-- Charles M, Schwab. --0-- ~ ~~uphere's no such thing as an. im: moral man; "We were moral long be fore we had religion." -- Henry IL Mencken, > er van "Ot all the numerous enemies that man is doomed to carry about with him, the worst is probably fear.'-- Aldous Huxley, : --0-- "I-am sure that there is no country in. Burope that would not shrink from 'war."--David Lloyd George. © --0-- "Unemployment, gweat-shop hours and wages and child labor were by- products of the so-called - prosperity era"'--Nathan Straus, Jr. JAR] --_0-- "Purchasing power 'is the dynamo of business enterprise. under capital. ism, and any plang for recovery and assured future prosperity must build upon this as their cornerstone.'-- Harry Elmer.Barnes. : --0-- "Public education is the soul of the 'American dream, the very core of its central idea."--John Dewey, Ns e--0-- x "Silence 18 a virtue which endears man to man."--Dean Inge. : . : go : "Happiness really is a state of mind. "It is 'intangible."--Edna Fer ber. : ATR OTT "After.dinner spouting is form of acting.'--Irving Cobh. Egg Production Two factors that have most to do with the revenue from eggs are the prices received and the rate of pro-- duction... Unfortunately, the price paid for the product is not always subject to the will of the poultryman, but' the rate of production is in his hands and his alone. A much higher yield is within reach of any breeder who will give some care to his flock. A good male has been known to pay for itself many times oves: At one of the- Dominion Experimental Branch farms a careful selection of 'breeders has resulted in an everage increase over five years of 73 eggs per hen, the production being raised from 120 to 178. The average produc- Contests also have demonstated. what is possible to be done in good farm flocks. Since the contests started in 1919 the average yield has increased rom 120 to 178, The average produc- tion-in the 1981-32 contests 'was 176 eggs, and as this average was taken from a total of 4,370 breeders in the minion the average may be taken as fatr for the better classes of breeders |in Canada. Farther, the hatchety, ap- proval and cockerel department pol- icies of the Dominion Department of Agriculture are at the disposal of those hnildine np poultry flocks Ve 5 a low Pa L I BR Ret A sare Ras Ede? Oe fie 13 contests throughout the whole Do 2