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EE Jos Ss I wr Be sort Wo Sh X Ey rm ny A fA LR os Seah aha yes La -- at a -- i SRNR he ¥ I ---- BP Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA HIGH COST OF JUNK. : A 'suggestive footnote to the auto- mobile age wa sfurnished the other day when a man bought a used car for $6 in a New England town, drove it out on the highway and a few hours Iater got into a traffic accident --typical of its kind--that did $100 worth of damage. This incident emphasizes the need of strist regulation to cover the use of aged and decrepit machines, One can inragine the kind of car that is bought for $5, nor is much thought? needed to convince one that such a car must be inherently un:afe to its driver and to others. Why should not all such wrecks be ruled off the road? Surely the high- ways are dangerous enough even when cars are well-equipped and in perféct condition? To permit $5 cars from the junk.yard to operate in public traflic seems to be sheer folly. --Quebec Chronicle Telegraph. MOTIVE POWER. Kansas City man has invented ad lawn mower with 24 blades. Now, all he needs is a good, husky wife to push it arvound.--Border Cities Star. FRESH AIR. Spring's other annoyances and als: comforts could be put up with grace- fully were it not for thosa common ailments of grip and colds which are most prevalent in spring. People wha get plenty of fresh air, who ventilate their homes thoroughly, who avoid drafts and wet feet, and who are « careful to take a good amount of ex- ercise are the ones least afflicted Fresh ofr is a wonderful! medicine. -- Welland Tribune, CAUSE FOR THANKS. Oly five men have ever driven an automobile faster than 2200 miles an how for which the word fy duly thankiul. Winnineg "Iribune, EMPIRE TRADE, Nea ly three times 4s much ham and bacon was exported to the United Kingdom in March as a year ago in the same month. Empire trade is cer tainly growing in leaps aad bounds. -- Kingston Whig-Standard. WHEN A MAN GOES FISHING. Above all he is looking tor solitude, He wants quietness for his neives, he wants a bit of climbing for his teart and legs, he waats fresh air for his lungs, he requires no japers 0° magazines to try Lis ecye:, He vant: to go somewhere where he can daub himself with fiy dope and no one will have any remark to make about the ¢mell of it ov tc make fun of his appearance, He wants {o go somewhere where he can throw him sell on his cot without having to 'ake off his boots; where noholv hag i ny. thing tp say about whether hls shoes have heen wiped or uot--Trenton Courier-Advocate, : WAR PROPHET. IL G. Wells, the prolific English anilior and self-appointed prophet, says that a general war jv 1940 is a certainty. In reality Wells knows as much about it as a en months' old infant, Brantford Expositor NICKEL EXPORTS. 1{- Canada's sales of nickel are an fndex of a coming war, 1t will come from unexpected places, For the ex- p= ~¢ ickel in March was of the value of 332.663.6149, compared with $1.125,876 a vear ago. The chief pur- chazer was the United States with $1.762.748. followed by the United Kinedom with $1.262.202, the Nether fands 3208277 and Germany $102,496. -- Brandon Sun. FIGURES THAT TALK. For the firct four months of 1034, production of Canadian-made cars, trucks and busses totalled 48,018, as compared with 21,643, 24336 and 46, 612 in the corresponding periods of 1933. 1932 and 1931 respectively, Ex. ports in the first four months of 1934 have already reached $5.6$5,000, con- trasted with $1.654.000 in 1933. These, and other illuminaling fig- ures show what the automobile indus. -- try 1s doing, how it is leading "the way.--Border Cities Star. CANADA'S PREFERENCE. - The favorite beverage of Canadians, natural, considering the British an. cestry of many of them, ig tea, A re port just issued shows that the im- ports into the Dominion during 1932 totalled 40,437,747 pounds, of which the larger sart came from British India. In that sear Canada imported only about 31,000,000 pounds of cof- fee, ~New York Times U. 8. TO 'BLAME. Britain's attitude on the war debts has, of course, never had any real conrection with her ability to meet "the bill in the usual commercial way, o If the United States would accept British goods jnstéad of demanding British gold, the debt could be paid and no doubt would be paid. But the United States will not accept goods. PERTINENT QUESTION. It was reported the other day that cats have hearing many times more acute than man, and that a cat can hear a mouse walking a city block away. If that is true, why do cats talk so loud to one another at night when people want to sleep?--Belle- MARKET GROWS. Another item of interest to the newsprint industry in Canada js the statement that newspaper circulation in the United States averages ten per cent. greater than jt was a year ago. --Port Arthur News-Chronicle, WHAT A LUCKY MAN! A Frenchman had a lottery ticket and died. They buried the ticket with hig. This appears to be a successful method of treating a lottery ticket, Anyway, it won a million francs. Five others had shares in the ticket, and they persuaded the widow to exhume the lucky man and found the ticket in the pocket of his dress suit, What may strike the philosophic mind about this is the various kinds of luck that a man may have.--Hamilton Herald, HANDWRITING. Many educated persons seem to take curious pride in the difficulty of their handwriting. 'They ascribe to personality the twists and twirls which are a fatal barrier to the stranger who seeks to read.--Char- lottetown Guardian. ANOTHER CLAIMANT. The man who writes to a daily pa- per, saying that Orillia is Ontario's most beautiful town, is asked to come up and see us some time~--Fergus News-Record. THE EMPIRE MORE MONEY. There is a great deal moire money about, Since the begiuning of this vear L£1.553,172,000 more than in "a corresponding period of las' year has passed throash the London Bankers' Ciearving House. Do not mistake that figure for a total: it is an increase. Money is thé life blood of industry. The more freely it circulates, the better for ecverybody,-- Manchester Sunday Chronicle. SPARE TIME. Given the converaion- of unemploy- ment into leisure, how is leisure to bo used? Surely the essence of it is that the spare time which science and technical improvements provide should be used for the things a man wishes, himself, to do. And the tragedy of it is that man has not yet learned what he really would like to do with his spare time.--London, Eng., Herald, AID WAS FORTHCOMING. A 17-year-old girl was taken to a large cily hospital the other day, suf- fering from a rare blood disease, Only a number of blood transfusions could save her life; she did not have the money to pay for them, and the hospital was operating on too limited a budget to buy them for her. So an appeal was made to the pub- lic. announcing that the girl must die uniess volunteers came ferward to give her their blood. Within a [few days more than 400 people went to ihe hospital and offered to submit to transfusions.--Chronicle-Telegraph. A CHEFS' RIOT. Discontented chefs in an American hotel recently smashed all the furni- ture they could lay hands on. They must have enjoyed making a hash of the joint.--London Sunday Pictorial, LOOK AT THE TRAIN! It railways ever disappear, in favor of airways, fromthe surface of eayth, wo shall still have to indulge our- selves with exhibitions like the one being Weld in London. , For young people, at least, model cars and airplanes have never re- placed the train--perhaps because vouth loves their larger complica- tions: their tracks, curves, junctions, sidings, signals - and tunnels. A glorious affair to construct and man- ipulate! , ., And the model, like the real thing, is beginning to look picturesque and to remind us of Old England. A Rus- kin of today, instead of denouncing the devastation of beauty by railway enterprise, would work up romanti. cally eloquent paragraphs about the glory of engines that stick to their appointed rails (barring accidents), instead of careering to the public peril all over the roads, - and, soon, all over the space above them.--The London Daily Mail.' SORROWS OF A HONG KONG LANDLORD It would seem that landlords are being made to pay heavily for wast- age of water by their tenants and as the charges amount to something like $40 to $50 for excessive consump- tion each quarter the sympathy of any unbiased person is with the land- lord and there js no doubt that some- thing should be done to make things "éasier for him." But tha discontinu- real technique. statement. ~~ errr If you think this trick is difficult, the young lady does it before warming up to something demanding Anyhow, that's what she says and her instructor, lying on the ground, verifies her : means the hest answer to the prob- lem. During the serious water short: age of 1930, the cry emanated from dwellers of Chinese tenement houses that those with meters, while paying heavily for their water, were not suf- fering as much as those who had to obtain their water from & street foun- tain. It will be recalled that at every street fountain, people were lined up in long queues waliti - for their turn to draw a supply of the precious fluid. There was ng restriction by the auth- orities then as to the amount one was allowed to draw, 8o long as no indivi- dual drew more than two buckets at a time. However, in those days, a household was lucky if it could ob- tain an average of four buckets a day! [long Kong Weekly Press. In Seclidion John D. Rockefeller Says He Will Not Grant Any More Interviews. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-- John D. Rockefeller, Sr, approaching 95, wants--and hag just about attained-- complete seclusion from the world at large. - Health Mended His Leallih mended after nearly four months at his winter estate at Or- mond Beach, 'Mr. Rockefeller sped northward, ostensibly to his Lake- wood, N.J.,, home, behind the drawn blinds of a special compartment car, occupied only by members of his household. The kindly old man who built one of the world's largest financial do- mains from a setting of "turkey eggs --he made his first dollar from a hatching of turkeys--has ceased be- ing interviewed by nuewspapermen and wants to spend his declining years in peace and quietude, sur- rounded only by his family and inti- mate friends. Shortly before he left. the Case- ments, his Florida estate, Mr, Rocke- feller walked downstairs, hitched up a chair near the office of his private secretary, Ward Madison, and said: Dictates Statement "We will be leaving shortly, There will be no interviews, but 1 am happy ' to make this statement," and he dic- tated the following: % 7 "I lave had a very pleasant winter, and 1 ani much improved. I am very grateful for the kind treatment of everybody and I- hope to return early In the autumn," . He autographed - photographs for several newspapermen in apprectation tor their courtesies during his stay. Madison elaborated on Mr. Rocke: feller's statement that there would be no intervigws. Several attempts were made by a newspaperman during the train trip between Ormond Beach and Jacksonville to see him. Twice, his secretary went into the closed draw- ing room with requests for an inter- view, but as: Madison said later, "a rule Is a rule," ' in the Rockefeller household and they are obeyed, He's Not "High Hat" Madison hastened. to explain that Mr. Rockefeller's self-imposed seclu- slon was in no way to:be taken. that "Mr. R."--as he is known to his staffs}. --had lost his interest in what was going on about him, nor does he want people to think he has gone "high hat." Nothing is further from the fact. But 'he man whose benefactions run well into nine figures, will be 95 years old July 8 and therein lies his desire for future tranquility. During the past few years he has been approaching this tranquilization. Gradually he diminished his golf from eight hdles, to six, then to four, then two and last year he practically quit the game which for many years was his chief hobby, This winter he did] not play at all and didn't even go to church nor entertain groups of friends at his home. He left the grounds only for short automobile rides, carefully guarded against the public gaze. Sees Few Friends To all outward _gppearances his health is as good as could be expected tor one of his advanced years. He walked about his gardens,' went up and down stairs: unaided and other- wise enjoyed the - seclusion he de- manded. He saw: very few friends, only his closest ueigliborz and his pastor, the Rev. George I. Owen. During his sojourn in Florida he had a dead-end street at the rear of his estate closed to traffic and a 'arge gata placed at the open end, The orly family residing on the thoroughfare London--A number ot towns and villages in Great Britain are organi. zing ambitious dramatic festivals to attract visitors from home and abroad this summer, In the Chapter House ot Canter- bury Cathedral there i8 to be pre- sented "The Young King," an un. published play by Mr. Laurence Binyon, in the Festival of and Music arranged by the Friends of the Cathedral, June 9-16. Sir Barry Jackson is continuing at Malvern the theatrical festivals which he was held there in recent years, Two plays new lo London are to be presented -- House," by John Drinkwater, and "Mutiny by David Stewart, "You Never Can Tell," by*G, Bernard Shaw, and "The Moon in the Yellow River, by Denis Johnston, are tc be revived in the first week of the festival, be- glhining June 23, an lasting . until Aug. 18. Performances are also to be given of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and "The Marvellous His- tory of St. Bernard" adapted by Sir Barry Jackson from the French of Henri Gheon, ! © Twenty-five niiles ~way from" Mal vern is Stratford-on-Aven, where a 22-week Shakespeare Festival at » Vaucouver Province, ance of the meter gystem is by no the Memorial Theater began Anvil 16. " Dramatic Festivals in Britain : Offer Wide Choice of Plays Drama' | "A Man's} Until a year agp there avas a spring festival at Stratford followed after' an interval by a summer festival, but the demand for seats at the perform- ances is now so great that the fes- tival goes on continuously from April to September, This. year the pro- grams favor the lighter ,side of Shakespeare's genius rather than the tragedies and include "The Tem- pest," "Twelfth Night," "Much Ado About Nothing," . "Love's Labour's Lost," "Julius Caesar," and "Romeo and Juliet." A project for a Scottish summer festival of drama on the lines of the Malvern festival has now reach- ed the stage where only the place remains to be chosen. Strong candi- dates for the location are Dumblane and Bridge of Allan, either of which is within easy reach of the thickly. populated areas of Scotland. The idea of this festival; originated with Dr, Gordon Bottomley, author of some well-known poetic plays. The Welsh Ndtional Theater, which began its operations' in London a few. months ago, recently established itself in the hoe of. the "Ladies of Llangollen," and it is hoped that dur ! was given keys to. the gate. He want. ed more privacy for his daily strolls about the gardens. Better Milk Prices Obtained Over $2,600 a day--nearly a mil- ot the returns to dairy farmers sup- plying the Toronto district with whole- milk, as a result of a twenty- five per cent. increase in winter milk prices comparéd with a year ago. Four thousand farmers who ship milk to Toronto dairies are now getting $1.81 per hundred for their milk; a year ggo the price was $1.46. This striking improvement in' price has followed the reorganization of the Toronto Whole Milk Producers, and the Ontario Whole Milk Produc- ers Association. into strong organiza- tions that can act effectively in. the interest of the producer. An exper- jenced organizer, with special know- ledge of the milk producer's prob- lems, was loaned by the Department, and for nearly a year-devoted his full energies to building up member- ship and: placing the finances of the Whole Milk Producers' Association on a sound basis. As a result 90 per 'cent. of the dairy farmers shipping milk to Toronto are now members of the organization, One of the most effective reforms that the Associa- tion has carried out is the introduc- tion, by agreement with the milk dis- tributors, of the quota system in the marketing of whole riilk. Producers are now advised each month by the | dairies of the quota that they will be expected to deliver, and the unpopu- of the past. Likewise in other Ontario consum- ing centres, milk producers are now receiving improved prices. Without consumers, the financial position of the Ontario dairy farmer has been materially bettered, offering im- pressive evidence of the soundness ot the policy of aiding producers to solve their problems through their own organizations. Better Methods Making An increased return of $100,000 to the cheese factory patrons of On- tario will result, it is estimated, from the general use of a new type of wide curd knife developed by the Dairy Department of the Ontario - Agricul- tural © 'lege at. Guelph. Already over GN factories have adopted these new knives. Investigation has shown that these knives increase the yield of cheese from onc to two pounds for every thousand pounds of milk, also improving the textuie of the cheese. Once thoroughly tested, such de- velopments as the wide curd knife are made public and put into actual practise, y in Cheese Marriage "Marriage Is a taming thing!" sald George Elliott, the famous novelist, "Hasty marriage seldom proveth well!" declared the immortal bard. . "Women who have been happy in a first marriage are tho most apt to venture upon .a second," sald Addi- son. "A light wife doth make a heavy hubsand." Such words of wisdom did Shakespeare put into the mouth of Portia, : "He that would have fine guests let him have a fine wife," Ben Jon- son, who sald this, certainly knew the value, of a good wife, who is also a good hostess, : "Can he that has a wife e'er feel adversity?" urely all married. wo- men must feel 'grateful to "Pope for these words. "Laught' indispenzahle for the health of sody and soul'---Al. ing the summer a dramatic school mav ha ansned. dana Finviey lion dollars a year--has been added. lar system of '"'hold-backs" is a thing any burdensome increase.in price to: Because Ontario chegse commands a premium for ality on the British market of 2e¢. per pound, cheese fac. tory patrons in this Province are in pocket by $1,700,000 on the 85: mil- lion "pounds. of cheese produced. Ninety. per cent. of this cheese is ex- ported to Great Britain, and the re- turns to producers here are entirely determined by overseas prices. * Reputation for quality, the great- est asset of the Ontario cheese indus- try, has been built up by a thorough "system of inspection and instruction carried out by the Dairy Branch of the Department of Agriculture. Creameries and cheese factories hroughout the Province are divided into groups, thirty. in Eastern On. tario, four in Western Ontario and one in the North. Each of these groups is under the personal super- vision of a Dairy Branch Inspector, who, by visiting the factories and their patrons, strives to improve the quality of the product. A keen, friendly rivalry has been developed between these groups, and both friendly rivalry ~has been developed between these groups, and both cheese-makers and patrons co-operate to maintain Ontarios reputation. The Dairy Branch is in daily receipt of reports on the grading of Ontario cheese.. Cheese not No. 1 quality is reported immediately to the Inspect- or in the distriet where manufactur- ed, and an effort is made at once to locate the tause of the trouble. The effectiveness of this work is: shown by. the fact that Ontario theese is now grading over 96 per cent, first grade where some years ago it was under 80. Its popularity on the British market has been retained in face of energetic action by New Zealand to improve the quality of cheese from that country. It has been the policy of Colonel of Colonel Kennedy not only to aid proving the quality, but at the same time to encourage producers to ors ganize so that their marketing meth- ods can. be modernized to suit pres- ent-day conditions. The whole prob- lem is being thoroughly investigated which will extend export markets and bring a new prosperity to the 25,000 { Ontario farms that are supplying milk for cheese production. : Worth Combines Beige .. and Nasturtium Color We'll be using panne velvet for summer. Worth uses this fabric in a quality so fine and glossy that you can. scarcely tell it from satin. In red, he makes a delightful evening gown. trimmed with one of tlie new fine-sashes of 'a lighter tone of red velvet ribbons. The sash comes down to the waist and then sticks out in Loops that are-very geometric in their angles, . The combination of: beige and cap- ucine -(nasturtium) is one of Worth's best for street wear. He uses light weight wool in the beige for a smart- ly . tailored suit of skirt and hip- length" jacket with straight sleeves and no collar or cuffs. The front of the jacket folds back and a belt holds it in place but there are no fastenings at all otherwise. The front of the belt consists f a wide band of bronze with two buckles at each end, about five inches apart. The rest of the belt is of wool. - The wide scarf, which is an important part of the ensemble, is worn ascot fashion and its bright red-orange (of, the more brilliant nas- turtiums) lends just the right touch of color for conservative -smartness. Hat, gloves, purse and shoes are of beige, matching the suit, > ~ Try Incubator For Woodcock Eggs SAINT: JOHN, N.B.--For the first] time in New Brunswick an attempt is being made to hatch woodcock eggs in an incubator. The nests of woodcocks, camouflage masters, are rarely found, and officials of a hatch- ery liere are watching tbe experi. ment with unusual interest. Four eggs were deserted by a moth: er bird after she had been struck by branches of a tree felled by woods- men at Mispee. They waited three days for the bird to re-appear but she had definitely deserted. The eggs were brought to Saint John in a round nest of mots, Use Typewriters For Social Notes PARIS--The typewriter {is being admitted to society, and mechanical fingers now are permitted to write formal notes for social usage. Sev- eral society typewriters have been or- dered here in mahogany and walnut, with key.rims and metal accessories in gold and silver. They are mono- grammed on the spacer and are equip- ped with ashtrays attached at side, cigarets and a lighter. Sun Bath Nudists Solve Their. Problem solved the problem of how to prac- tise their cult in Kansas; where some sections offer few trees for protec- tion from the public eye. D They are taking sun baths on plat. as a preliminary to developing plans' the i WINFIELD, Kan,--Nudists | Irritability and bad temper Nebraska Farmers Face: Ruin: Forbid Corn Crops Lincoln, Neb. -- Nebraska farm- ers, facing their second consecutive year of heavy drodght damage to their - crops, are looking to federal | bounties paid under the agricultural adjustment programs as the one sure | source of ready cash. ! | Their pockets" bulging with more | than $5,000,000 in wheat benefit payments and nearly $25,000,000 in ; federal loans on warehoused corn sealed in farm-yard cribs, Nebraska producers were preparing this month | for a flood of more than $40,000,000 in federal money in the form of benefits for adjustment of corn-hog production. 'Bountiful as such totals may ap- pear on the surface, however, many farmers are finding that all is mot , ideal under the federal programs for adjustment of production to levels | commensurate with domestic con- ! sumption, : | Farmers in the great wheat-raiss ing belt, their winter wheat crop de« vastated by the driest spring in a ! quarter, century, record-breaking spring heat and swirling dust storms, found themselves in a position where 'they cannot readily "abandon their wheat fields for another cash crop. Préparing to abandon their "drought ridden wheat fields and | plant them in corn, producers found themselves boupd by the federal i plans whose bounties they have pock- i eted not to plant the fields in cereal grains. : This - application of the federal i rile has placed many of the produc- ers in a precarious predicament, Un- able to.produce a wheat crop of any proportions, they - can plant their abandoned fields only in foliage and sorghum crops for use in feeding producers and factory owners in im-: cattle, / : ° What Do You Think Why doesn't some shrewd board- inghoute keeper suddenly acquire a fortune advertising her place as a home. for the cure of obesity? "Bacon should never be served half- cooked." It simply isn't dene. A irickster is often merely a man who gets the best of a deal with you. The woman of the hour is the-one who promises to be ready in a second, Some men awake from' thelr dreams when they hear the alarm clock. Others when they hear 'the wedding bells, 2 When a man goes away from home for a change he usually comes hack with less change than he had when he started. - A noted lecturer announces his retirement from the platform due to his recent marriage. He will be the audience now. : 5 Beware 'of the man who never did anything wrong. There's a first time for everything, : ' "That's a nasty knock," said the householder as the impatient landlord hammered on the door, 4 Perhaps a man is dubbed a bad egg because it is disagreeable to encoun- ter him when he is broke. 5 It men had the gift of second sight there would he fewer cases of love at first sight. Cheapest and Best Form of Publicity The Border Cities Star reports one of the most exhaustive surveys of huyers' complex and wishes ever made in the city of Los Angeles and the tol- lowing are the conclusions reached: That seventy-seven per cent, paid no attention to advertising matter thrown {nto their yards. 'That elghty-six per cent. of all wo- men and seven per cent. of the men watch for newspaper advertisements of special sales, = : That illustrated advertising was Cy preferred nine to one, Both men and women picked news- papers first when asked what adver- tising medium they preferred. The newspaper continues to be the cheapest and best form ef publicity of all lines of business, Nothing be. gins to approach it in rar ching ALL the public and no other medium is as fnexpensive. Being a Christian A busy housewife, after years of ov- erdoing announced that she had dis- covered that she could not wash, fron nd be a Chrjstidn all in one day. Some young people have found out, that they cannot do their school work go to a party that lasts to the small hours, and be a Christian next day. ae iuc- countable for more unhappiness than almost any other thing; and a -disre gard of hygieni¢ Jaws, takes the form of overeating or vod sleeping, is very likely te culm aa forms at the top of idle oil derricks, Such spots, they say, are even more geclnded than svivan elades. in bad temper. A Christian shonld 'work hard, hut not overwo lt for that wealrae ft hav 4e Wa Ww (hiv a ing . ed Wheat Crops, Bonuses « ~ NS whether it i