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--, -------------- Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and I'he World at Large ) CANADA A A Tari RK ta oN eg TIMES ARE GOOD It is high time for the last of the crepe hangers to quit. Business is good. The depression is a thing of the past. By this we do pot 'mean that there is any boom, Not by any means, And that in itself is a good thing for a boom is about the worst thing that could confront an individ ual, community or a nation, } Times are better. These are facts, and facts that must challenga busi ness people to make the most out of present opportunities, Today is a day of opportunity for the go-getters. --Victoria Inverness. ORILLIA GETS INTO LINE Orillia ig the latest municipality to join the ranks of towns and cities having compulsory pasteurization of milk. Orillia deserves commendation for its decision and we hope that in the near future Simcoe will follow its example. Evidence ghows that from 15 to 25 per cent, of tubercul- asis in children is of hovire origin, and that scientific pastearization ab- solutely prevent tubercnlosis of this nature and in addition prevents all milk-borne epidemics. Contrary to a somewhat popular belief pacteuriza- tion does not alter the nutritional value of milky Scientific exneriments "in many parts of the world hav. prov- ed this fact beyond doabt Kven if pasteurization did make a slight dif- | ference, it is fai ontwaighed by the protection afforded to the younger generation. It saves many lives nu merous cripples and much money for the taxpayer each year. [t ig only a matter of few years untii every urban | municipality will have 100 per cent. pasteurization, Therefore, why delay, when the health of. younz boys and girls is at stake? Simcoe Reformer. REPEATING A GOOD THING It has been decided hy the Council of Service Clubs for the county that another survey of the whole county will be held again this year to obtain a complete record of all the crippled] children in order that another---elinic may be held again this year, this time at Almonte. Cavlelon Place Cana dian. DARK THOUGHIS If clergymen only knew what 'some of their parishioners think and say of them when they give voice to long sermons, long prayers and long fun. eral panegyrics they mignt forego the temptation to indulge in them--Brock- ville Recorder GOOD TURNS DONE DAILY A laudable move has been inaugur: ated in Perth within the past few day. whereby several local Boy Scouts under the kindly direction of Chief Constable Chas. Donovan, dai'y sta. tion themselves at the corner of Gore and Foster Streets and Herriot and Drummond" Stree's to acoteet school children trom the danrer ol busy cept all these things as a common. place, They £imply are an ordinary part 'of their world. Will they, in turn, be able to exclaim over as many marvels and miracles in the next 40 or 50 years?--Edmonton Journal, ANNOUNCERS "It will be remembered," writes Mr. A. G. Gardiner in the Lendon Star, "that not long ago the R.B.C, made the experiment of employing a woman announcer, this appointment being given to Mrs, Giles Borrett. The experiment had a very brief run, Af- ter a few weeks Mrs. Borrett vanish. ed- from the microphone, for what reason was not explained, but cer- tainly not because she was inefficient, "Now Miss Sprott lets the cat out of the bag, The only persons who were to blame for the termination of Mrs. Borrett's engagement, she says, were the women of this country. "I'hey wrote to us in such large numbers saving that they did not want a woman announcer till at last we had to remove her. It was nct a personal objection founded on the tone of Mrs. Borrett's voice, or her accent, or her competence. It was a sex objection, They did not want a woman announ- cer at all, They preferred men.' -- Toronto Mail and Empirvé BEAUTIFY THE ROADSIDE In Maine a roadside beautification program ls in progress. ts purpose is to clean up the approaches to towns and cities, plant flowers and | shrubs and make the whole scene more attractive. One - paportant effect will be a greater love of the beantitul for its own sake. Garden "clubs will be formed, service clubs will aid, and boy and girl Scouts will assist, The movement is one that de- serves universal support. [It is not expensive, and will make the road- sides of the state a joy te the visitor, The result will be more impressive because this is an orgarized effort.-- Saint John Telegraph-Journal POLICE PRAISED The Times-Journal has ne hesita- | tion whatever in congratulating the "police--local, county and, provincial, mounted pelice and railway police on the very efficient way in which they handled the search instituted to capture the man who is alleged to have «lain Police Constahla Colin Me.-: Gregor here last week The case was very promptly taken up by Police Chiell Ketchabaw, co-operating with Crown and civic authorities, and assistance from the provincial officers and other officers located in or re- siding in the county came just as promptly and as readily.-- St, Thomas Times-Journal., CONTRAST Discussing crime and 'aw enforce- ment, a United States editor makes this observation: "Scotland Yard would function no better than the Chi: cago police If Scotland Yard were sub. jected to the same kind af. political street trafic at the noon hour The fo, 0,0 004 pauling that confronts the Sconts ave thus adding to their goad "Chicago force." And that is fust about turns done daily.--Perth Courier, © GOOD SIGN Two vears ago everybody was dis cussing wage-cuts. Now noarly every. body seems to be discussing wave- increases. That, in itself is a pretty good sign.--Ottawa Journa' = A TIME OF SUSPENSE Harvest is three and a La'f months away, hut what a lot of drama and tragedy those one humired and five days may include! This iz the most important time of the year for the prairie provinces. Upon what is pro- duced from the soil between now and the first week in August depends to ng eat extent what the welfare of --the-people-will-be for. th 2 aneceeding year. Afler harvest, of nurse, comes the worry of prices and markets, but the main thing now is the oroduction, -- Calgary Herald. MARVELS OF TELEVISION Only 24 years ago the Halifax mu nicipal council made it tega! for auto mobiles to run two days a. week on the county roads; contrast this with the situation today where the motor car goes on its way summer and win. ter. What has happened in this field be expected in television within even a"shorter perlod.--Ialifax Chronicle. WOMEN PREFER MALE TWO CHEAPER THAN ONE A very good friend of ours who recently had occasion to breakfast. on. a railway train found that the one- dollar breakfast consisted of fruit or cereal, ham and two eggs, toast dnd coffee, Being, like ourselves, a man of most abstemious habits {n the ean. ly morning, he ordered this breakfast, but with the qualification that the fiiain dish 'should contain only one egg. He obtained his desire, but the bill was one dollar and: twenty-five cents, Upon requesting an explana. tion he was informed that while ham and two eggs was part of the dollar breakfast, ham and one egg could only be served a la carte, and his atten. tion was drawn to the rule on the items named in the table d'hote the menu card: "No variation from menus is permitted." -- Toronto Saturday Night. WHAT OF. THE NEXT 407 The preseut ganeralion has experi: enced more thrills than any before, probably, Moviés and talkies, the telephone, electric lights and electri. cal equipment of all sorts, 'airplanes and ihe, radio, all have come in our lifetime, The children of today ae- § tho best tribute that conld be paid to law enforcement in the United Kingdom.--Halifax Herald. CHANCES IN REAL ESTATE So with real estate, Wa hzve a won- derful buyers' market today. Prices ave still very low, low oui of all pro- portion to real. values, just as some of thre pre-depression figures were out of all proportion, in the opposite di- rection, to real values. People who have money to invest--anil there are still plenty of them in Canada -- are picking up pieces ol real estate here perience that the prosperity period tollowiffg every depression » always brings Ihits-train;-a worth-while and perfectly reasonable recovery of real etfate values, too. Border Cities Star. THE EMPIRE A POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE Apart altogether from the question. of war, which is remote, Britain has an Empire to police and cbligations greater than those of any other na- tion. By refusing to join in an arma- ments race she has made it plain, by example, what her desires are; it may be necessary now for her to declare herself more pointedly. If the Pcwers cannot be argued into agreement, they may be frightened into agreement. Britain still hag a trumn card con. cealed. There is a poseibility that Britain may illustrate the futility and expensiveness of an armaments race by threatening to participate to the mit of her resources. That would be a dangerous expedient, but {t might be a sound corrective, Britain does not willingly seek this last conrse; but it may be forced upon her. If it is, the other powers must accept the respon: sibility.--~The Australasian. THE BRITISH RAILWAYS There are still many pecple who, forgetting the history of the past few years, pin their hopes to the ability of the companies to carry passengers upon the roads or in the air. Admit. tedly both forms of traneport are of vital interest to the companies as ad- juncts to transport by rail, ~but more than this they cannot he. The capi. ! tal of the yallwayg---say £1,600,000,000 --consligts of permanent way, of sta-' tions, of signals, of locomntives and drains. It is this investment that must be tirned to account if the rail. ways are to pay dividends. The prob: lem before the companies can be and there, They know from past ex-} 'size of last year's 'crop. Goodlooking Young Clan 4 IR 5 Loretta Young started her screen career because of her resemblance to her older sister, Polly Ann Young, and now little Georgiane Young makes her debut alongside Loretta. stated in simple language; how can they adapt what they have to the changing demands of our time? That the companies will find the answer to this question I have no ¢oubt what- ever,--Asliley Brown in The Nine- teenth Century (London). INDIAN ARMY COSTS We are faced with the fact that the strength of the grmy in India is great. er than is necedsary for defence pur- poses because the army is required for the maintenance of internal neace. It is not an army's proper function to do police work; its task is the defence of frontiers against foreien aggres- sion. But whether the army is kept above purely defence strengzth for po- lice purposes or whether the extra money which it costs Is spent on ad- ditional armed police to be placed un- der the civil authority, the net result to the taxpayer is the same. The mor. al is, therefore, that one of the most important ways of savinz money on the army-- and not pretend'ng to save it by spending more on the police-- is to get rid of all those incitements to disorder which lead Provincial Gov- ernments to protest against the re- moval of troops. The ideal before the people is to concentrate upon making India a united nation, free from the virus of extreme communalism;, -- Times of India. Sheffield Steel ~~ Production High LONDON--The Lord Mayor of Sheffield declared in a speech deliv- ered last week that if the present rate of production of steel is main- tained the year 1934 will be a record one for the city. Monthly returns so far have shown that if the rate is maintained 1,000,000 more tons will be produced this year than have been in any previous year the city's history. of Eye Cancer Growth Cured with Radium LONDON--Surgeons of Cardiff Royal Infirmary, Wales, announce that they have cured a 13-year-old girl of cancer in the eye by the application of radium. The life and the sight of the girl, both of which were endang- ered by the disease, werd saved after 17 days of treatment, in..which ra- diam needles were used, combined with a rubber-backed application to the eye-ball. Tobacco Growers Cut Acreage 90 Per Cent. Sign in Norfolk District, Says Prof. Leitch Sicoe--A "deadline" will be set by members of the tobacco reduction committee, after which growers will be unable to sign agreements restrict- ing their crops by 26 per cent., fit was announced recently, The com- mittee 'plans an all day meeting to hear special cases to be affected by the reduction and to prepare a list of those growers who refused to co- operate in the matter of reducing their acreage. Prof. A. A. Leitch, outstanding. to- bacco authority, before leaving for Ottawa, declared that the campaign had been an unqualified success and said that close to 90 per cent, of the 1933 acreage had been represented in the agreements. "What we want this year is a yield of good tobacco somewhere near the We would not have had difficulty in disposing of last year's tobacco if it had been of good quality," He added that the 1933 yield was of about 28 millions pounds, of which approximately eight millions is still being held for sale pending the outcome of the Ottawa conference, : Sparrows Chased : Off Busy Streets Cincinnatti, O.--After six months of "war" by the city, Cincinnatti's downtown area is practically spar- rowless, but leaders of the ouster movement cannot boast of victory. Anthony Sauer, Workhouse super- ntendent, who headed the attack, ad- mitted the birds retreated merely be- cause the weather had become mild enough for them to "move out" to the parks and suburban homes, Sauer said, "We were just devising come new equipment which would have wiped all trace of them from the earth, but we'll be ready if they come downtown again in the fall." "Toronto and The By R. H. Judd (All rights reserved.) For one hundred years Toronto, Our great Empire's flag has flown. That stately flag The Union Jack. Is the flag she is proud to own. \ Flag" Its three crosses stand for union: The red for pure British blood. The blue stands out for all that's true, : While the white foam rides flood. the Men, let's nail it to the masthead, That flag of a thousand years: The flag that stands for freedom, » And never a foeman fears, It stands for our King and country, It stands for our home fireside; It stands to fight against evil. It stands that the right may abide. Then men of Toronto shield it, No foeman shall trample it down. Symbol of British freedom, It stands for the British crown. It stands for our sons and daughters, And their children yet to come, It guards our rights on every-land, 'That may lie beneath yon sun. Then run it high on the standard, Let no foeman bring it down, For the sons of famed Toronto, Are loyal to the British crown. Estate of Gaiety Idol Is $1,500 Brghton, Eng.=-Connie Ediss, for- mer Gaiety idol, known in the thea- trical profession as "the woman with a heart of gold,' because of her gen- erosity, died leaving only $1,500, al- though at the height of her fame she had received $1,700 a week. | Four Cold Killed Half of Bees at Stratford Stratford. -- Approximately fifty per cent, of the bees in Stratford and district have been lost due to the severity of the winter, according to local apairists. Some of the keepers suffered even, greater losses, one de- claring that his six hives only one contains beg which survived the win- ter, It was the apairist whoshad made preparations dor a severe winter by properly packing his bees who is able to start the season Successfully, Better Days Ahead - For Children's Library Montreal.--There are better days ahead for the Montreal Children's Li- brary; Miss Violet M. MacEwan, lib- rarian, believes. She has been at its head for four years, Serious lack of funds and of books had handicapped the work lately, and closing down was hinted at. This news caused much consternation a- mong the boys and girls, many of whom came with their gifts of books, and money saved the day, she said. Tourist Number Shown by Garbage Miami, Fla.--If you want to check up on Florida's tourist season, ask the head man out at the city incinerators. He has the figures to prove that this vear Miami had 20 per cent. more cleaning up to do than ever before. Statistics 'compiled by committee of Florida publishers who sponsored the statewide celebration honoring Col. Henry L. Doherty for his work in bringing prosperity to Florida via the tourist route, show that alfogeth- er 21,360 tons of refuse went up in smoke during January, February and March, 1934--3,5666 tons more than for the same period last year, and more than in any. other season since the incinerators were installed. Real Cow Shown To City Children Cev.land.-----Ma:y of the city child's pnyths and illusions concern- ing the origin of milk and what a cow look like, were dispelled here when a réal "bossy, with a calf, mada a 'personal appearance" before school children here, < - A preliminary survey by the Cleve- land District Dairy council had shown: that seven out of ten pupils in one school never had seen a cow at close range. Their descriptions of one had left the dairymen still more horrified, Hence the exhibition. "bovines" - were -on_ display, while the children acted as hosts. The calves' roles were simply deco- rative. While their mothers were milked in the latest approved scien- by. Trips from school to school were by truck. : Rare Malady Claims Life in Trenton Belleville.--Mrs. Melvin Mountney, of Trenton, died here recently in hos- pital from a rare discase that attacks the throat, Dr. G. S. Stobie said the malady, Ludwig Angina, was not con- tagious. The woman was in an ad- vanced gangrenous condition causeil by strangulation from the strange' disease." Which is caused by a germ is in the glands of the throat, said Dr. Stobie. This is followed .by "coloring, of the tongue. The patient suffers horribly until death, Mrs. Mountneys tongue was a dark purple, and swollen so big she could not swallow or speak. Roses F ew Ridgetown. -- Roses, shrubs and peonies are being distributed to mem- bers of the Ridgetown Horticultural Society. Owing to the shortage of rose bushes this spring, the number for each member is being limited to two, according to Claire Geddis, sec- retary and treasurer. Premiums may also be made up of shrubs, peonies and annual plants from the Ridge- town greenhouse, he said. . Blind Golfer Plays Better ! Now That He Cannot See the Bunicers London --Captain Gerald Lowry, : the first British officer to lose his sight in the war has taken up golf. He has been playing only a few months, but already is as good as the average galfer. Hig. latest feat is. a round in seventy-seven, 5 Every morning he goes for half an hour's practfce to the Kensington Country Club. One of the profession- als there, Mr, Russell Kelly, has ta- ken him in hand, and goes with him wherever he plays. 3 BLINDFOLDED. All Mr, Kelly does is to place the club behind the ball. Captain Lowry does the rest, and does it astonish- ingly well. A : Hu drove a ball recently to within three yards of the hole in one shot. To learn how to teach a blind man. to play, Mr. Kelly Elindfolded him- self. He found just how each club needed to be placed. ~ The driver, for instance, is placed about three inches inside the ball, For a tee shot he 'puts Captain Lowry in the right position and tells him the distance from the hole. "I'm playing Better golf now than I player. before I was blind," said Captain. Lowry. Fras "In some ways I have the. advant- frightened by bunkers and obstacles because I don't know they're there, "It takes me no longer to go round a course than it does any one else. "I enjoy myself tremendously, In fact, golf has opened up a new life or me. "I box, and run and swim, but you get too old for those things, - "Golf is a social game. It brings '4 man into touch with lots of freinds which is so necessary for a blind | man," p ' Will Builda tific manners, they lolled contentedly | First appearance of the malady, : age of the seeing golfer, I am not |. - i New Highway Brantford - Hamilton Radial Right of Way Will Be Bought BRANTFORD--The Brantford Ham- ilton Radial Railway right of way. be. tween the city limits-and where the railway reaches Highway No. 2° will be purchased by the Ontario Depart- ment of Highways, .It will be made into a highway to join Brantford with Highway No. 2. ¥ Brantford requested such a step be taken some time ago, and recently Hon. W. G. Martin, - member in the Legislature for Brantford and minis- ter of public welfare, announced the purchase of the right of way, He stated the government would handle the building of its section of the highway." 2 British Shorts k One of three hens produce as ex- hibits in a court case at Leicester laid an egg while the magistrates were considering their verdict. Air post stamps fact grow i value, A 3-cent brown Newfoundland' stamp of the first trans-Atlantic post by Hawker in 1919 fetched £210. Mrs. Urania Boswell, of Farbor- ough, the gypsy "queen," who as 'Gypsy Lee' has told "thousands of people's fortunes, left over £5,000. From a livestock emporium in Manchester, thieves stole 150 gold- fish, five rabbits, five doves, and the watch-dog guarding the premises. A Mansfield J.P, Maltby, a lay preacher, claims to have delivered 4,000 sermons in 60 years. London's rateable value increased by over £500,000 last year, and now [ totals well above £600,000. Fourteen pedigree cows, worth £450, were electrocuted in a Dur- ham byre. Five others were unharm- ed. \ -- (After the heart of a 65-year-old-man had stopped for five minutes, it was set going again by massage and he lived for 25 hours. Every person sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the United King- dom costs more than $350 a year to maintain, Y Every night, in the rhubarb season a train bedring sixty tons travels from Yorkshire to London, : British insurance companies have, at present, no fewer than 85,000,000 industrial assurance policies in force. There are now 30,200 more persons employed in the making of men's clothing than there were ten years ago. h Mud that Costs Millions In a quarter of a century more than 12,000,000 * 1bs, sterling has . been spent in dredging. the navigable reaches of the River Thames, National Savings. Certificates to the 'total value of £480,000,00C or over £10 per head. of the population, have been. issued. ; : Among the items in the annual food bill for the London Zoo are six and a half tons of monkey-nuts, 184,000 ban. | anas; and 19,800 eggs. ] «Only {wo ditricts in London, sh. ney and. Bethnal Green, show a drop | in rateable value, in every other case the value shows an increase. The Port of London Authority con- trols a special police force 800 strong, whose work lies entirely ashore, The river itself is policed by a division of the Metropolitan Police, All the - meat produced in Great Britain and Ireland and available for London is only sufficient to supply the metropolis' 8,000,000 people with 3.2 ozs. of beef, 2.9 ozs. of mutton and lamb, and 2.6,0z8, of pork a week. Ring Lardner Estate' © Valued at $192,927" 1 East Hampton, N.¥.--Ring Lard- ner, 'author and humorist, who died' September 26th last, left"a net es- tate of $192,927 a transfer tax ap- praisal filed recently showed. : ~The gross estate was appraised at $247,088. The bulk of the estate was left to the widow, Mrs, Ellis A, Lard- ner, who also received insurance a- mounting to $169,169. , Flowers Fresh Longer In Copper Containers New York--If you want to keep. cut flowers for a long time, try keep- ing them in copper containers, John 'Ratsek, floriculturist, on the staff of the New York State College of Ag. 'riculture, placed snapdragons, stocks, 'roses, primroses and other flowers in such containers and by so doing he found that their life span was increa- sed by one to three days, He explain- ed that the copper kills bacteria that would decay' the flowers, Gives oskenn hs Free Holiday - Germany Sends Tours By Special Train and Plane to Resorts of Wealthy. Berlin.--German workers are get- ting a taste of things they once thought were reserved only for the wealthy, and are having a wonderful time at it. ; : They are touring far and wide to points of scenic or historic interest. They are riding in airplanes. They are aquaplaning and beach loungirg. _. It is part of the program of "Pow- er Through Joy," the Germany equivalent of Italy's Doppolavoro, to show the working millions how to have a good time, and to bring it within their means to do so. Excursions in small groups and in thousands have been arranged. The participants lug their suitcase through the city streets in formation, climb aboard special trains, and chug off for a week or ten days of new ex- periences, after which they wait hope- fully 'for the next chance. The next chance .is often long in coming, for there are 18,000,000 members of the Labor Front to be taken care of. But jn between there are cut-price productions of notable plays, lectures of all kinds, and home: vocational courses with increasing en- rolments, ° Bo The high point to date was des: . cent of 6,000 workers from all parts of Germany on Garmisch, the Bavar- ian winter sport headquarters, where they were equipped with the proper paraphernalia and spent the _rest of the week sliding, or tumbling. down the surrounding slopes, according to respective good fortune, : Almost 2,000 Berliners celebrated Easier at Templehof airdrome" as guests of the Lufthansa, which had donated free trips in a fleet of its transport planes stationed at the field. They. included only ten min- utes or so over Rerlin, but they were a great thrill. Stunt flying by the famous Ernst Udet and others: was thrown into the bargain. Motor buses in Venezuela are a dorned with scenes from the Bible be. cause the natives believe these wil' help to ward off accidents, !Canada and the U.S. (New York Herald Tribune.) To the average 'American accus- tomed to look on Canadians not as foreigners, and Canada not as a foreign country, it comes as a sur- prise to learn that little attention has been paid in the past to a thorough study-of Canadian-American - relat- ions, ; We know dimly that the Cana- dians were resentful of our tariff law of 1930. We have heard that 'they dislike American newspapers and magazines, Bui it is hard for us to understand this, as we cannot look upon them as people different from ourselves, with different loyalties and traditions. This makes it all the more im- portant that a complete survey of the '| economic, social and political relat- ions of Canada and the United States, such as iz proposed by the Carnegie Endowment . for Interna---. tional Peace, be carried out. The project calls for extensive 'investi- - gation on both sides of the line con- cerning such intritate subjects as tariff policies the. movement of " "ic . 8) capital, the effect of --'""Americaniza- tion" through the press and radio. the problems of transportation and tions. from one country to another, and many other kindred' subjects, which, for the most part, till = now have been' dealt with piecemeal or inadequateiy. In the foreward .to the project, Prof. james .T. Shotwell stresses the fuct that sentimentalism has too" of- ten prevented clear and objective analysis, and that people have gen- eralized from the century of com- mon endeavor, moving toward like goals on the sams. continent : This is unquestionably = true" and makes the gathering of factual ma- terial particularly desirable. But, as Prof. Shotwell points out, it ig not enough to amass this factual ma- terial. It must be weighed in the ine of practical political possibili- ties. ; Herein, it would seem to the cas- ual observer lies the key to the ultimate effectiveness of the ma- terial which is to be gathered. In Canadian-American relations preju- dice and tradition are of vital im-- portance. So long as Americans fail to be sensitive to the Canadians' keen pride in their own nationalism there can be no fundamentally better re- lations between our two countries. If Canadians and Americans can-- not live in close friendship there would seem little hope for the cause of world peace. And yet in recent years the two peoples have been drift- ing slowly, it imperceotibly part. i Misunderstandings have been partly responsible for this. Also the selfish- ness and stupidity of narrow political views. America and Canada both pro- spered more in' the days when trade was easy and unobstructed than in recent years when ostensibly for sel- fish reasons, tariffs have been raised -- and taxes made prohibitive. The earl- | fer unselfishhess was in reality. mors profitable. % nm on