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Af Ved i yh i TEN ' i GEG Ux v 7" 4 i B37 A 2 1 ~' { wi Arg ne EN PR HL Cm = wi Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and I'he World at Large CANADA WHERE THE MONEY IS If per capita figures are a true in- dication of the trade spirit of a na- tion then the great traders of. the North American continent are the people of the northern half, They ap- pear to have inherited to the full the commercial instincts of their ances- tors, as the following comparative figures reveal. During the ten years from 1922 to 1933 the per capita domestic exports of Canada were of the average value of $49.79, United States $14.31, United Kingdom $36.- 21; imports by Canada $37.00, Unit- ed States $12.35, United Kingdom $61.76; total trade of Canada $86.79, United States $26.66, United King- dom $97.97.--Braudon Sun. HIGHWAY LIGHTING An experiment 0 highway illumin- ation is to be un ® rtaken by the De-, partment of Public Works on a one- mile stretch of road in the Niagara district. Hydro engineers will co- operate, If the trial meets expecta- tions the area may be extended until I the improved main lines of vehicu- Jar traf inthe pyovince are light- ed. . rr The proposed ki scheme may, of course, be considered somewhat ambitions. Its feasibility must largely depend on the question of cost. In this connection the fact that Ontario has the lowest priced electricity avail- able anywhere on this continent- should have a favorable bearing on the ultimate decision. -- Toronto Telegram. 'MAN'S BEST FRIEND NTpstend of a dog, in many instances I --a major industry, a man claims that his car is his best friend. At least, it is the last article he will part with when in financial straits.----St. Thomas Times-Journal, PROPER USE A German doctor has introduced cod liver oil for healing wounds. Childeen always knew that taking it internally wasa't the vight use for it. --Winnmpeg Tribune. |= > % ANOTHER FIELD In a hundred years or so, all girls will be beautiful, says a Boston pro- fessor/ And then the cosmetic manu- " factdrers will probably start work on the males.--Ottawa Citizen. . PAINTING THE LILY Manufacture of beauty prepara- tions will soon have to be reckoned as The Canadian wo- man is said to spend nearly $7,000,- 000 annually on aids tor pulchritude made in Canada, in addition to im- portations valued in 1932 at 3737,- 271. "this during hard times. There are seventy-one plants in Canada making beauty preparations, Creams were the principal product, closely followed by face powder. If talcum powder were added to the latter, poyider would surpass ereams. The windows and counters of all various stores bear evidence of a lane and flourishing industry. -- Saint John ~ Teleeraph Journal. BEATING THE LAW How the law i< beaten as told by a Kansas paper. A travelling man says he called the attention of a western Karsas hotel man that it was against the law to use roller towels. "I know it,' said the landlord, "but that towel was up before the law passed and the law 4s not ratroactive." The law has been in the books over 20 years.--St. Catharines Standard. CRIME. AND PUNISHMENT Justice in the United States suffers mestly from its, weakness. If it had' more vigor in the punishment of crime, our neighbors would have not to record a continuous inerease din criminality.-- Le Nouvelliste, Three Rivers. NEVER GRADUATE The school of experience is open 24 hours of; the day.--Ottawa Journal. And #7stays open 365 days of the year, but some people never gradu- ate.-- Stratford Herald, NOT SO MUCH DIFFERENCE telieving each other when they be- came tired, a farmer and his hired man at McCrgary, Man., ran an an- gry bear into';exhaustion' and then killed it. Thé occasional use of his brains is the only thing that makes man superior.-- Lindsay Post. PARTIAL KNOWLEDGE 'A statesman is described as one familiar with all public questions. Not n~cessarily, however, with all the answers.--Regina Leader-Post, FREEDOM'S JAST STAND The women of Athens, Georgia, be- coming suapicious over the frequent absences of their husbands at what the Jatter claimed were lodge meet- ings, appealed to the newspapers of that tervn to publish attendance lists for each lodge, Thus has the last citadel of mas- culire liberty been assailed. In the good old days, if a man was a good Joiner he might expect .to-spend-three or four evenings a week in. mascu- line company instead of staying at home and discussing the price of gro- ceries and children's shoes with his helpmate/~--Winnipeg Tribune. ROCKET WARFARE French newspapers are ~ worried Just now by reports that Germany 18 constcucting a chain of rocket bases along the frontier, ready fo shower a vest numbar of explosive rockets that projectiles capable of travelling 125 miles have 'been developed, and it is estimated-that with a large chain of rocket bases Germany could hurl 50,000 tons of high explosives on French soil in one night. -- Quchec Chronicle-Telegraph, $500 A MINUTE Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, was recently paid $3,000 for a six minute broadcast and ex- pects to receive other payments of $600 a minuute for like orations. She turns all such earnings over to chari- table objects but the rate of her re- muuperation cannot be regarded + as otherwise than an hysterical mani- festation.--Brantford Expositor. A MAN'S AGES Man in Milwaukee gave his age on an insurance paper as 54, as b8 in county relief records, 66 in his mar- riage papers and. 70 in his application for relief. In case you think there has been an error, we state again it was a man who did this.-- Stratford Beacon-Herald. ONE UP ON POP "Now, look here, Dorothy," said her father, sternly, "your mother -tells-me-you've "been haughty all day long. The next .time you throw mud at your sister's clean dress you'll go to bed without supper." "The next time I throw mud at Doris," said the child, "I'll wait till after supper." -- Victoria Times. PUT OUT THE WRONG FIRE The old theme of labor lost has seldom been more dramatically en- acted than it was at South Glaston- bury, Conn. A farmer had laborious- ly -collected a pile of brush. With reasonable safeguards he set fire to it. About the same time there was an accidental farm fire nearby. The fire brigade, responding to a call, put out the wrong fire with remarkable ef- ficiency and despatch. Naturally the effort was wasted, the real five did its work thoroughly, and the farmer had to haul chemical-saturated bru | away to a swamn at come distance, -- Saint John Telearaph-Tournal, FLYING IN CANADA No country -- and least of all a country like our own, with its vast stretches of territory to which the railways and the roads have not vet penetrated--can afford to neglect its air sevrices. If a sufficiently enlight- ened attitude is not displayed by the Canadian authorities, it is inevitable that outsiders, more farsecing, will step in and reap the advantage of the development which is bound to come. Millions of miles annually are flown by these planes, and with the proper encouragement from the government services are capable of great expans- ion.----Hamilton Spectator. BUILDER OF PPAGEANTS Frank Lascelles has died in pov- erty at Brighton, England. He it was who designed and supervised the most wonderful display that Canada has ever seen in the centenary cele- bration at Quebec in 1908. The beauty and wonder of that pageant can. never be forgotten, as it can never 'be surpassed. Mr. Lascelles was a noted sculptor and painter as well as a master of pageantry. His excessive generosity is said to have resulted in his reduced circumstances. --Hamilton Herald. : IS THE PUBLIC JUST? I'he good that men do, lives after them." Seems to us, we recall a say- ing which goes something like that-- at any rate the sentiment of what we have written is true. Unfortunately it is also true that the evil men do, has a habit of lingering in the mem- ory; and often people become known by 'the niistakes they have made, even though, at times, injustice may be created by the inability of the public to forget. For instance, the other day Peter Smith, former provincial treasurer, passed away, and the obituary notices in every newspaper of the country--including ourselves -- con- tained a reference to the one mistake he made in his life, and to the fact that he had served a prison term as a result. Is the hand of scorn never drop- ned when his name is mentioned? Is it right that a man who may ac- tually "turn over a new leaf" should be thus persecuted ?--Chatham News. THE EMPIRE THE KING AND THE AIR Their Majesties' perennial interest in flying is an example of air-mind- edness which should not be lost upon a people whose future lies in the air. Nearly thirty years ago the King, when he was Prince of Wales, pro- jected a balloon ascent in India. In 1914 an exhibition was given before the King and Queen by M. Gustav Hamel, winner of the Daily Mail Derby of the previous year. The King has been a frequent visitor to the an- nual Air Force displays, and in other Pays has kept in close touch withthe rapid development in aviation. The Prince of Wales, that great air tra- veller, is "convinced of the extreme importance of flying as a means of national and Imperial communica- tion." occasion in our history. It seemed that the growing interest in aviation blossomed into a great enthusiasm in the sunshine of Empire Aid Day. The spirit of Imperial air-mindedness all ovr Eredoe. One newspaper says must be encouraged by every means. , there were not, it is better to rejoice bh: ARATE LE (THR SF et LET (LAMBERT WATT BIGGEST FAMILY -- 21 IN ALL fe RT A i ---------- ~ CHICAGO'S : . . 5 1 Proclaimed to be the biggest family in the United States, of Italian parentage, the Latora family of Chicago numbers 21, They recently were guests of the Century of Progress World's Fair management on a trip through the grounds. They boast of having gone through these troubled times without one cent of charity. them. er mere It took five taxicabs to transport SSP WEErI-- for without it we perish,--Daily Mail, London. MORE HOLIDAYS WANTED The Englishman is said to take his pleasures sadly. That is not true, but he does take his playtime un- scientifically. He can hardly be call- ed a hard worker compared with his Continental neighbours, but he has fewer holidays than they do, and, to that extent, gets less enjoyment out of life. At present we have only four bank holidays a year. Six would be none too many. These fixed holidays should be given over to real holiday- making, to pageants and processions and carnivals -- merry-making such as, of old, Merrie England indulged in on Saint Days and indeed on the slightest provocation. There is plenty to rejoice about today, and even if over small mercies than to fritter hours away in gloom.--Sunday Des- patch, London. JUST AS IN CANADA The overseas market for imported foodstuffs, and especially for fruit, is extremely sensitive. It is swayed to a remarkable degree by habit, fashion and prejudice, buf, as the consumer has a virtually unlimited choice of the worlds best, these likes and dislikes are subject to sudden changes and rapid fluctuations, Thus it is quite possible for one inferior consignment of any particular variety of South African fruit to ruin for a considerable period a demand that it has taken years of painstaking en- deavour to create. To the average overseas consumer a bad South Afri- can peach brands all South African peaches as bad; and" even a good South African peach will not entice him from its rivals unless it is more attractively displayed. For many years that argument seemed to fail entirely to impress a number of South African fruit-growers. . At length, however, it appears to. be sinking in. But it cannot too often or too strongly be emphasised that, with half the world seeking to off- load its surplus fruit on to the other half, only products of the finest 'qual- ity, carefully graded and alluringly packed, stand any chance of success. --Johannesburg Times. ' Collection is Historic Ambherstburg's ' Story From Earliest Days Told In Symbol AMHERSTBURG-- The historical collection that has been assembled in the Public Library Museum at Am- herstburg is a summary in symbols of the evolution of the district from an Indian battlefield and hunting ground to its present-day position, Many Links In Chain Each successive phase of the devel- opment of this frontier territory is portrayed by weapons, tools, trophies, and records of achievement of the men who forged the links in. Am- herstburg's long chain of history. Above the long case that displays the pounding stones, hatchet" heads, skinning stones, scrapers and other mementoes of the wigwam and tepee, hangs a Scottish sword over two hundred years old, worn by its 'High- land owner back in 1715, when the recorded history of the Amherstburg district begins. Beside it are muskets, pistols, carbines, cavalry sword§, and dress swords carried by soldiers who were stationed here when the course of Empire began to take fits. way westward. Documents that are yellow with age attest to the valor of these men. The guns alone reveal much of the lore of the storied past, There are muskets -that were obsolete at the dawn of the last century, each with history of the part it playing in the Yesterday was an important' drama of the early settlement, With them are double barrelled pistols brought across the Atlantic by Brit ish soldiers at the close of the Seven Years War, "An anclent flint-lock pls- tol hangs near the musket carried General Hull surrendered that fortress to the victorious British troops. Pis- tols seized by Tecumseh from Gener- al Winchester at the River Raisin lie beside a musket taken as a trophy by William T. Hunt when he took part in the capture of the Schooner Anne in the Patriots War of 1838. Rifle With Background Not the least interesting of thé ex- hibits is the rifle with which a fugi- tive slain, Jim Hawkins, defied his pursuers and their bloodhounds whén he escaped from slavery in 1847, and made his way to Amherstburg via the underground railway. The advances in the gunsmith's art from clumsy pistols and cumbersome muskets to the modern sharp-shoot- ing rifle are represented by many varieties of guns that Amhertsburg soldiers brought home from the wavs of the last hundred and fifty years. Included in the collection are many mementoes that have an individual Interest of their own apart from his- torical assoclations. Amoug them is the gnarled blackthorn (ane carried by Simon Girty, of [(ndian warfare fame; the mess kit of Mzjor Danlel Doherty who gained distinction in the Crimean War; and a bed-warmer that has been handed down from Elizabethan times, Comprehensive written records of the two centuries of progress have been accumulated. Precious origi documents are under glass, and the walls of the museum are covered with pictures and photostatic copies of maps, sketches, charts, plans aad specifications, military orders, '1eat- ies, and inscriptions that faithfully present Fort Malden's part in preserv- ing this part of (Canada for the Bri- tish Empire in the war of 1812. Be- cause of its strategic position, Am- herstburg was the centre of many stirring events during that struggle, and a wealth of the lore of this per- fod in Canadian history has been as- sembled in the museum. _ Crown Land Grante Conspicuous among the documents are the grants of Crown lands within the town-site to British army war ve- terans as they were retired from ser- vice. An inspection of one uf the floor cases shows that Amherstburg's sol- dier settlers served in all of England's foreign wars forthe last century and a half. There are British army med- als and insignia from the wars with Napoleon, and the Indian Mutiny; from the Scinde-Punjab, Burma, Cri- mea, Afghanistan, Egypt, Ashantee, China, New Zealand and the Trans: vaal. This collection has grown prodigi- ously within a few months, and is still increasing as Major A. W, Mec- Nally, president of the Amherstburg Historical Sites and Museum Associa- tion, and his cohort of workers con- tinue to gather together mementoes of the Burg's historic past. . " Heads Medicos TORONTO--Dr. A. J. McGanity, of Kitchener, was elected president of the Ontario Medical Association at the 64th annual meeting bere. Fort William was chosen as the city for next year's convention,"and Dr. J, C. Gillis of Fort William, was named" president-elect, Other officers are: Chairman of council, Dr. W. K. Colbeck, Welland; hondrary treasurer, Dr. G. Stewart Cameron, Peterborougn; secretary, Dr, T. C. Routley, Toronto. Counsellors elected follow: Dr. J. H. Geddes, London; Dr. F. J. Bor- rows, Seaforth; Dr. T, H. Sneath, Dur- ham; Dr. P. R, Macfarlane, Hamilton; Dr, W. C. Shier, Uxbridge; Dr, George H. Stobie, Belleville; Dr, W. J. Jones, Kingston; Dr, R. K. Paterson, Ott- awa; Dr. A, H. McMurchy, North Bay; Dr. Charles Powell, Port Ar thur; Dr. J. Harris McPhedran, To- ranto. Dr, A. F\ Reyner of Palgrave, Ont,; and Dr. A. 8. Thompson, Strathroy, into Detroit by Francis Caldwell when Women Start War on Vice In San Diego "Committee of 600", Known Only By Numbers, Are Alarming Underworld SAN DIEGO, Calif.--A woman's se- cret "committee of 600" which quick- ly became 1,400 and still is growing, has started an invisible war against vice and lawlessness in San Diego county, locale of many unsolved mur- ders in recent years and its leader says the underworld already has be- gun to show its fear. Inspired by an appes! of Mary Rob- erts Rinehart, noted wriier, to wo- men of the country to fight crime, the commitiee was the outgrowth of a plan evolved by the San Diego Women's Civic Centre, "Under the plan as evolved and carried out by Mrs. A. L. Simpson, chairman of the Civic Centre crime department, ar- rangements were made to have 100 women serving anonymously in each of the six councilmanic districts of the city. They are known only by numbers assigned to them "I live in daily fear of criminal at- tack," Mrs. Simpson said, "but the work of our committee isn't to be checked. I have been offered bribes and told to.take it easy." The committee considers the Fed- eral field the most important, and sends to Washington information workers obtain. This week. two Fed- eral investigators were sent here from Los Angeles in connection -with a matter about which Mrs, Simpson reported. Attains Peak : of Career Winning Writing Award Crowning Achievement Of Simcoe Resident "Simcoe, Ont.--Awarded the Lorne Pierce medal for outstanding contri- bution to Canadian literature during the year 1933, Frederick Philip Grove, utithor; lecitfier and teacher, has brought no small honor to Simcoe and Norfolk County. MENTIONED THRICE Mr. Grove published on one book, "Fruits of the Earth," in 1933, but twice before his name has been pro- posed for the honor, and it was also mentioned by Mr. Pierce himself when he established the fund to pro- vide for the annual award. The re- cipient of the Pierce gold medal must be the unanimous selection of the judging committee of the Royal Society of Canada. Formal presenta- tion of the medal was to have been made at the convention of the Royal Society in Quebec, but illness prevent- ed Mr. Grove's attendance. Describing himself as a dairy far- mer, Mr. Grove has during lis 2% years residence in the Simcoe district established a reputation as a breeder of pure-bred jersey cattle. Neverthe- less he spends five or six hours every day at his désk working on a new novel, which has been bought sight unseen by an English publishing house, On the shelves of Mr. Groves library are the completed manu- scripts for 19 novels, 11. of them ready for press, more than 100 short stories and volumes of essays. BORN IN SWEDEN The most successful of My. Grove's publications was "In Search of Am- erica," written in 1894 but not pub- lished until 1927, Second in popular- Jty ranked "Our Daily Bread." His books have been even more popular in Australia and New Zealand than in Canada, i Born at Malmoe, Sweden, in 1872 Mr. Grove soon went to Englan where most of his childhood was received at Paris, Rome and Munich as a student of classical archaeology. He came to Canada in 1892 at the tgé of 20. The greater par't'of his time he lived in the west. ; He 'taught school for a period in Manitoba, being principal of schools at Virden, Gladstone. and Rapid City. He declined an offer from a Winnipeg school because he would not have the time required for his writing at the age of 50 he graduat- ed from the University of Manitoba with an honors degree. HANDICAPPED In 1931 Mr. Grove purchased a farm a few miles from Simcoe and took up dairy farming. Owing to a fractured spine which® he suffered while in Western Canada, Mr. Grove has to hire all the labor for farm tasks. His farming venture has nevertheless succeeded and he now possesses a splendid herd of pure-bred jerseys. : / While living in the west Mr. Grove met and married Miss Catherine Wiens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wiens, Swift Current, Sask. They have one son, Arthur Leonard, aged three and one-half. Mr. Grove at 62 looks on a career of achievement. Surmounting obsta- cles in the form of business reverses and ill health, he has crowded an in- teresting life with the capture of the Pierce medal. Nk An other distinction he enjoys is that of having addressed more Can- adian. club meetings than any other man. He has spoken before 100 such gatherings. in a two years period. Chosen to represent Canada at the congress of English speaking nations in 1929, illness intervened. Milk to Replace Pop and Candy Hot Dog Question Looked Into -- Frankfurters Must Conform to High Standard in New York. NEW YORK--The children won't approve, but the parents will, said James -V, Mulholland, director of re- creation of New York's parks depart- ment, in announcing that milk will replace soda 'pop, ice cream = and candy at 100 public playgrounds. Sale of anything but milk, which will be dispensed at cost, will be prohibited. . In addition, the parks department looked into the hot dog question and decided that all frankfurters must conform to a special high standard. Lord Baden-Powell's. Daughter to Marry Engaged to Officer in High- land Light Infantry The engagement was recently an- nounced in, London of the Hon. Heath- er Baden-Powell,. elder daughter of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, to Mr. G. E. Lennox-Boyd, Highland Light Infantry, brother of Mr. Alan Lennox- Boyd, British M.P, for Mid-Beds. With Hair the color of burnished copper and amber eyes, Miss Baden. Powell," who is 19, brought the at. mosphere of the fresh countryside to town when, she made her debut last year, : Her manner is gay and unaffected. She has freckles, and uses no make- up. "We dare not announce any date for the wedding yet," Miss Baden- Powell, who spends niost of her time at Bentley, the Chief Scout's 'Hamp- 'shire home, said. "Mr. Lennox-Boyd is in England at present, but he might be moved to India at any time and that would Ont,, were elected life members. spent. His university education was high; A Book Plate | of One's Cwn Modern Book-lovers Revive Victorian Vogue =~ Hand- Engraved Copper, M.d- ern Woodcuts Among Popular Dea 'Many young people are reviving the book plate to give distinction to their choice. of reading, writes E. Marion Barton in the London Daily Telegraph. Books are co.lected with care and much discretion in these days of restrictea space and many holidays, and a book plate is an artistic badge of ownership, be- stowing a sense of individuality, and is also a guard against forgetful book bérrowers, anathema to every book lover. . Interesting variations of the an- tique hand-engraved copper book plate have been evolved for use now- adays. Chief among these is the modern wood-cut, which can be al- most as costly as a copper-plate en- graving. Many of these wood-cuts in strong black and white, are strik- ing and effective examples of the newer movements in art. Sometimes this process can be very successful when the work is carried out in color line cuts. Line Blocks _ Simple line or half-tone blocks printed in black and white are the least expensive for reproduction as book plates, and here the novice has an excellent opportunity to .express | her personality should she have a gift for drawing, for she may design her own plate. The drawing should be in clear, well-defined form. The subject may be after her own heart. A study of contemporary book plates will yield a host of ideas as to style, symbolical or pictorial. When a book plate of this description is chosen, even if the original sketch has to be redrawn by an artist, the whole cost, including the artists's work, block and print:, is only a mat- ter of a very few dollars. = It ig a different proposition when the' de- sign has to be hand engraved, which is a more costly process. 1 18th Century There is a wealth of inspiration for these modern book plates, from i the beautiful Francesco Bartolozzie | Cypriano specimen plates of the eighe . teenth century which were, it is sur- , mised, also used as pictorial visiting ; cards -- a vogue of the day.-- to amusing amateur anastatic drawings which may take the form of a rebus, a play upon thé name of. the owner of the volume, : : The chosen design can also be an extremely modern drt interpretation orite form of the old-fa:hioned book plate. Or it may be in the posses- sive instince, illustrated, in the shape of a warning to borrowers and a de- licate hint for the return of the book. In the main, however, the present- day book plate pictures a charming reflection of the book-lover's .pur- suits or interests. Study, garden- ing, motoring, travel, a favourite room or view of the home, name" flowers, or perhaps a picture of some inspiring beauty spot. oh Topical Plates , When there are special subjects i for reading the book plate schemes At Playgrounds! might be elaborated to denote these topical sections of the library, This, of course, means that a small series of specialized designs and blocks or plates will be needed. Even in a "badges" prove a help towards class- ification on the book shelves. eek Advice For thos¢ who are embarking on the choice ®f their book plate the 'best way is to seek the advice of a good book-seller, Then designs will be submitted or redrawn, and the estimated. It will be found that most of the designs are of thé em- blematic and armorial ordor: Chip- pendale, Jacobean, with its wreaths and cherubs, landscape and portrait subjects all have their place. In all instances the owner's name is incorporated in the design in de- corative lettering. The very early designs go back to the middle ages, when the use of emblematic badges and heraldic devices stated the name scripts of those days. There are interesting examples by eminent Viec- torian and Edwardian painters who have played with this fascinating theme of art, Whatever the style chosen or the method of making employed, there is a distinct charm in possessing a book plate of one's own. A word of advice.as to their placing -- avoid gum backs. Pasting in is a much surer and a more efficient way of placing these attractive badges of book ownership. Place 200,000 Trout In Waterloo Streams ' Kitchener.----The heaviest restock- ing program to be carried out in this country will 'be inaugurated by the North Waterloo Angling and Casting Association. It was announced: ap- proximately 200,000 speckled 'trout have been ordered from the Ontario Depariinent of Game and Fisheries to postpone the cBremony indefinitely, e placed in county streams 'they are printed in two colors, and of the book-lovers' interests, a fav-. small book collection these topical 2 ® Fi pm cost of. the plate or block and prints of the owner of illuminated manu- _ + ee --e SL 2