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TET NRE ade Eo Sr Le ~ bh Ess w Nt he Sa A Ea a oy LIER, Ra, ALTA LRA \ NIE DOE Th SH TA RAN INAH A ee ba sg + 2351 AIA SR) Bf BAUS IS TL AAV RT EY SORA Boda ioe RE A A th A EE RE RA FIN ~ Voice of the Press Canada, he Empire and I'he World at Large 2) CANADA FRIENDLY CITY HALL.-- Many people must have wondered what it was all about when they read in the Post the report of a purported trial when Miss Helen Lyons was sen- tenced to a life of happiness by Ma- gistrate G. A. Jordan in view of her coming marriage, Such trials have taken place be- fore. There was one a few years ago for instance, before Town Clerk W. R Allely became married, when he was charged in all solemnity and legal ter- minology with deserting his post with out the consent of the others in the building. This has been the method followed by employee in the town's offices ma- king a presentation to a friend on the Threshold of Matrimony, The friend- ly spirit that reigns at such court ac- tions is the same spirit that links tho various town offices and lends such a pleasant atmosphere at all times. --lindsay Post REMOVING A MENACE.-- - The Highways Department was a long time in getting started on the ditch-filling project, but now that the work has been commenced in elimin- ating these death traps, the provin- cial authorities evidently intend mak: ing a job of it. Hundreds of men are at work in Central and Western On- tario removing this menace. And it is wolth every cent it will cost. -- From the Guelph Mercury. PROFESSIONAL SECRECY.-- The Lancet. Eng'and's leading me- dical publication upholds the Minnea- pelis physic an recently fined and im- pricoped for not informing the auth- orities that he had treated John Dil- linger the bandit. The gist of its ar- gu ert as that as a medical man he hati (5 chsevve professional secrecy. i vaat about the prospective vie tims as long as the murduver is free? --DBrantford Expositor IMPRESSIVE TOTAL. -- Small investors in the Jnited King. dom have something like $12,450,000, 000 tucked away in Post Office Sav- ings Bank, Trustee Savings Banks and in national savings certificates. In England these small vestors are never spoken of. collectively as the big interests. -- St. Catherines Stan dard. PACIFIC OYSTERS. In British Columbia waters exper- iments have been carried on with the eastern Canada oyster and the Jap- anese oyster, as well as with the nat- ive variety. Preliminary investigation by the Biological Board indicated that the Eastern Canada oyster suffered excessive mortality on being trans- planted to Pacific waters. The Japanese oyster, it was found provided a method of producing suit- able cultch--material for collecting oyster. .spat--for the native variety and its cultivation would thus over- come one of the main difficulties of increased yield of the home product. The Jfapanese oyster itself, though differing from the British Colum- bia and eastern, Canada varieties in . flavodr and appearance is regarded by many as an accentable and nut- "ritious sea food. -- : The most extensive acreage of na- tive oyster beds in British Columbia was found in Boundary Bay on the mainland, and Ladysmith Harbor on Vancouver Island but smal] beds are reported in more than half a dozen o- ther localities. The report of the Bio- logical Board recommended measures to increase the yield of the native va riety, together with the introduction of the Japanese variety in localities not suitable for the native variety.-- Victoria Times. MEAN STREAK.-- - It's all right to be a good sport, most of the time, but it pays to have t enough meanness about you to keep\ people treating vou well--The Montneal Star, - PROBLEM.-- er in the United States they are ning a golf course for nudists what will a nudist do if he slices iis balls into a pasture and has to g0 for it through a barbed wire fence? -- Ottawa Journal. BRITISH METHODS BEST.-- President Green, of the American Federation of Labour says that there are still 10,616,000 people out of work across the line. The NRA has unfor- tunately not accomplished so much as the more sane methods followed « in Great Britain and the rest of the Empire. ~~ Brantford Fixpositor, FEAR EXPOSURE.-- : The German Goernment seems to be made particularly uncomfortable When foreign correspondents insist on pending stories to their home news. papers to the effect that there is se- bret rearming in the country, --Sars nin Canadian Observer,. DEBTS AND DOLLARS.-- If it is imperative to reduce the am- ount of general debt, it: is a thousand pities that we have not the couragé to do so frankly and openly, and leave our dollar intact. But as we look ar- ound-the world we can see practical- ly no one who is doing this. We are all fiddling with our currency. We are like mrchants who have contract- ed to deliver ten pounds of sugar u year in the future, but find ourselves unable to do so. Instead of admitting this however we adopt tke far simpl- er and more deceptive method of cut- ting a section off the pound weight. --DMontreal Star, THE EMPIRE 5IR FREDERICK BANTING.-- At first glancé at the Birthday Ho- nours List you may say 'Not very ex- citing, that list," You look again. You read there that Dr, Frederick Bant- ing of Canada has been made a knight He discovered insulin. He conquered the dread disease diabetes, Young un- known, penniless this student at the Western Ontario Medical School was consumed with an idea. How to dis- sipate that unused sugar in the body which is the cause of diabetes. Day and night, he worked baffled, disap- pointed, mistaken, till on the verge of despair he stumbled on the secret substance in the vital gland which will break up that surplus sugar, In- sulin is the name we call it now. Ban- ting, who found it, is one of the great heroes of man's struggles against Death. -- London Daily Express EMPIRE TIMBER RESOURCES.-- The Prince of Wales did well to emphasize that in all the modern de- velopment of the timber trade long term planning is.a condition of suec- cess. The increase of consumption of Canadian timber has thus far been restricted by the inevitable difficul- ties of adjustment to a new market by the need of organization of pro- duction to the conditions and grades required and of the arrangement of economical shipping. Beneath all this lies the fundamental question of long term forestry schemes. No Dominion whatever its primeval wealth of tim- ber can any longer neglect planning as an investment for . generations. The United States has already discov- ered what the wasteful exploitation fo virgin - forests means.--London 'PRETTY DULL'.-- So far as the general night life in Hong Kong is concerned we must ad- mit that it is pretty dull. There is no place that one can go to after mid- night though up till thal hour there is plenty enough for one to do. There are those who hold thal after mid- night "all good people should be in bed," but it must be borne in mind that if we are to cater to holiday ma- kers--and those are the people we want to attract in Hong Kong.--we must offer enough entertainment to make them come back again or to re- commend Hong Kong as a 'good place in which to spend a holiday," and the only way to do it is to tell the world what a grand place this little outpost of the British Empire is. -- Hong 'Kong Press. : . N arti 'MERCHANTS OF DEATH.'-- We shall convince arms merchants to conserve and multiply that wealth | ive could be found for her action. ) Real life finale nearly had for its priteipal beautiful Kdith Mera (above) famous French film star, who was found her Paris apartment after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. No mot- unconscious in ing defect of the Ottawa agreements was that they failed to create any permanent machinery to carry on the work of economic co-operation from Conference to Conference. The sooner this defeat is repaired the sooner it will be possible to construct and to apply a coherent policy for the harm- onious developments of the resources and energies of the whole Empire. In- formal personal discussions, for which there will be plenty of oppor- tunity this year and next to set up some kind of economic clearing house for the Liupire, and thus help to en- sure full success of the next Imper- ial Conference, whateer date may be chosen for it.--London Times. THE HOURS OF MARRIAGE.-- It is seldom that an Act of Parlia- ment gets on to the Statute book with out any notice being taken of it by one of the parties chiefly affected by its provisions. But th Archbishop of Canterbury pointed out to Convoca- tion the curious fact that the Hours of Marriage Act which became law last month and which extends the hours during which a marriage may be performed from 8 a.m..until 6 p.m instead of three p.m. was passed through both the Houses of Parl- iament without his knowledge. The omission officially to advise. the clergy of the change is the more re- miss since in fact canon law will have to be altered--a cumbrous proceeding --to bring the clerical system into line with the Parliamentary decision. Marriage throughout the centuries was kept to the earlier part of the day for reasons good in their time. I'or one in a possibly merrier but a certainly 'more irresponsible England the danger of the parties so celebrat- ing the event in advance as to be in fit state to face the clergyman was no fit state to face the clergyman was that if so important a step were per- mitted after darkness had fallen the that we do not intend to allow them to sell guns to foreigners to kill the British soldiers and sailors, or to stir up wars in which for their pro- fit thousands of our fellow-country- men may perish, by one means only; and that is by abolishing absolutely the sale of arms for private profit, As a preliminary demonstration this S. American embargo will serve very well. Let the British Government now say promptly and definitely that whatever other countries may do we will forbid absolutely the export of arms from this country to South A- meriea. -- London News Chronicle 3READ.-- The rapidly developing wheat eris- is is a supreme illustration of the mad folly of the modern doctrine of restriction. For months past the far. mers have been encouraged to keep their wheat acreage down to assist the upward movement of prices. Now with the continuance of tne Great Drought, next years's harvest is threatened and the dread of an acute wheat shortage is added to our other economic terrors,--Iondon Daily Her- ald, EMPIRE PRODUCTION.-- : Unfortunately there exists no body in the Empire whose duty it is to assemble all the facts and to note all the deelopments which must be taken into consideration if a policy is to be evolved embracing the schem- es for internal reconstruction, both agricultural and industrial the nec- essary co-operation with the Domin- ions and the parallel necessity for ex- panding foreign trade, The outstand- risks of personation might be increas- ed. . Such considerations no longer weigh and the extended facility was overdue.--Manchester Guardian. Drummer Boy's Liberty is Brief London, Eng. -- The 15-year-old brass-buttoned drummer boy - who who performed the impossible and escaped from the Tower of London is back again. A sergeant and a drum- major who trailed him found him with his mother at her home in Ken. sington and promptly escorted him back to the grim fortress. The young red-coat, Jack Robert- son, whose father was killed in the war, wanted to follow his footsteps, but he tired of learning to be a drum- mer. He asked permission to mail a letter, walked out the big gate and started to run. At the tower they are seeing that he does not escape again, but said they may grant his mother's applic- attion for a discharge. Will Remove Tack From Child's Lung St. Louis, -- Right-year-old Norma Anne Simmons of Sedan, Kan, will breathe easier after her operation, For threo years the child has heen troubled by shortness of breath and a condition similar to asthma. A recent physical examination showed a large tack, which she recalls having Swal- lowed years ago, lodged fn Wer right lung. It will be removed hy surgeons, If Only If only I could have them back again, The misspent Wours, the vain and wasted days, The things that might nave been of thought and pen That bloomed instead in such un- seemly ways-- How happy would I be, and how my heart Would leap to know once more that backward track, To cleanse of folly each unworthy part-- ' If only I could somehow have them back! If only I could have them hack again, The things I might have done and did not do, The kindness, the good to fellow-men, How happy I to live those days anew. 'The gate is closed. I cannot row re- trace The path where once my stumbling feet were set. Backward in shame I turn my stream: tug face, The ghosts of other me yet. Jeuars pursue "It only I could have them back again", Vain cry of many a aad aad con- trite soul. : Arise! Today's own burden take, and then : Strive upwards to a new avd bet- ter goal, Forget the past. Turn back ne more your eyes, Play well the part that still re- mains to play, Not on the backward trall lies Par- adise-- Today's hest strength strong today. is to be Coming True Goldenrod Rubber--U.S, Ex- perimental Farms Take Up Project. FORT MYERS, Fla,--Rubber, har- vester like grain from fields of com- mon goldenrod-- the last brilliant dream of the late Thomas Alva Edi- son--has been accepted by Uncle Sam and experts from the United States division of plant exploration and in- troduction, now are working in close conjunction with the Edison botani- cal research toward this end. That the Government has become actively interested in methods of ex- tracting commercial rubber from gol- denrod was revealed here by Charles Edison, son of the late inventor, who is tarpon-fishing in Lee County wat- ers with other Edison officials. Thomas A. Edison's final ambition towards which he struggled for five years prior to his death and in which he actually produced rubber from the plant known botanically as "Solidago Levanworthii" is now progressing in the hands of Uncle Sam's experts at experimental stations in -Savannah, Ga.; Columbia, S.C. and Miami, Fla, Edison experimented in more than 500,000 tests with each plant, tree, shrub and vine known in the country, finally narrowing his pursuit to the goldenrod. : Other rubber plants require four to seven years for actual production. Edison's experiments reduced this to six months, which would make avail- able an emergency supply of rubber, should the tropical sources be closed suddenly. Discovery that particular plants which the inventor developed from the common goldenrod now test 12 per cent. rubber has spurred the ex- perts. Edlson had declared 6 per cent, would assure success, Edison's miniature goldenrod plan- tation here still is the production centre of. rubber-bearing plants, Five botanical experts under H. G. Ukel- berg continue the work, co-operating with Federal experts. Sport 'Barred TOO MANY KITES MENAJE TO AIR PILOTS IN CHINA SHANGHAI--China, the land where kiteflying is supposed to hava origin- ated many centuries ago, must fly no more kites, according to a_ decree of the Ministry of Communicatiors "But in matters of vital personal mo- ment like this, the average ( hinese is an individualist more likely to be guided by his own inclination than by even the weightiest of government or- ders. % ; The reason for the Ministry's edict is that kites at high altitudes are al- leged to impair visibility for aviators. Pending more formal orders from 'higher authority, as result of repre- sentatlons which the Minisiry has made, a request has been sen' {o the city government of Greater Stanghal asking that Shanghai inhabitants be instructed not to fly their kites, Thus far, kiteflying continues with- out check and it is a trifle difficult to imagine the local gendarmeric scour: ing the broad Yangtse plain for kite- fliers. . The Christian Science Mon'ior cor- respondnt has flown over the Yang- tso areas in several directions af this season and can testify that kites are a prominent feature of the aerial landscape. Whether they are any real menace, however, is more of a ques- tion and none of the American pilots in either commercial or military ser- vice with whom the correspondent has talked are disposed to regard kites as a flying hazard. Kiteflying has increased in popular- Everything's To Kay a Mh es © pers, Attired Wn aiulti-colored holiday costumes even to the tall top- asants of Tokay, Hungary, enjoy the result of their efforts in celebration of a successful season of wine-making, ! keen on kiteflying. per, though the airplanes chizfly take notice in flying over densely peopled | country districts. In such areas, the upper surfaces of the kites or a clear i breeze day will seem almost like a pavement from the viewpoint of the pilot coasting along only a few feét above the higher kite levels, It is difficult to understand how the kites could constitute a real menace, how- ever, for they are clearly visible and however numerous they may be, the pilot can always make out enough below to keep his bearings---iu addi- tion -to which all eommercial fliers operate closely by compass because the landscape of the Yangtse ig too flat and monotonous to provide good land marks, Adults and children are equally In Nanking re- cently kiteflying received the sponsor- ship of various high officials includ- ing Dr. Cho Ming-yi, chief secretary of the Executive Yuan, and prizes were given for altitude Anihor Loses Plagiary Suit Richard Washburn Child As- ked Million From Film Firms : New York -- With the assertion, "it gave me a pain,' Federal Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed a $1,000, 000 plagiarism suit brought by Rich. ard Washburn Child, author and dip- lomat, against James Hagan, play- wright, Lea Peters, Leslie J. Spiller, Paramount. Productions, Inc., and two film distributing companies, Child alleged that in producing "One Sunday Afternoon," as a stage and cinema play, the defendants had plagiarized his story "The Avenger." "I studied: the matter carefully," Judge Woolsey said, "and am satis- fied that there was no: plagiarism, It gave me a pain, The charges are ab- solutely unwarranted." - Judge Woolsey awarded costs to each defendant, and $500 for counsel fees to Hagan and .$250 for slinilar use to each of the other defendants. The matter came before Judge Woo- Isey on a motion to withdraw sub- mitted by Herbert McKeanis, Child's attorney, and on motions to dismiss by Harry Weinberger and Arnold Gross, counsel for the defendants, Loses Life in Theory Test Indiana Boy Wanted to See How Long He Could Hang Self Fort Wayne, Ind, -- His member- ship in a strange juvenile suicide club which flirted with death for weeks in testing the powers of the buman to resist strangulation by han- ging was counted as the Bole force which prompted a 16-year-old high school student to hang himself, Howard Shelley, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Shelley died at ihe end of a rope in his father's basement while apparently trying to establish how long he could strangle himself with out losing consciousness. That was the objective of a secret club to which Howard belonged. E. Nadeau Kalamazoo, Mich, brother-in- law said Howard told him the club se- crets several weeks ago, in some detective mavazire How- ard said one of the boys resisted han- ging 18 times. The "suicide fraternity" was formed to find out exactly how long a person could hang without dy- ing. The boys had read also that by wrapping the throat with a heavy to- wel, one "probably could resist stran- gulation indefinitely," Nadeau said Howard told him. Arctic Calls 'Cap'. Bob' New York--With a cow and sev- lett sailed recently in the two-masted birds and animals for the Philadel phia Academy of Natural Sciences. The cow, a registered Guernsey, is a gift from the president of the in Brigus, Newfoundland. The . goldfish going to the pastor of a church in Brigus. pid Two other persons, Mr. William K. Dupont Carpenter of Wilmington, Philadelphia, are aboard. Two others will join the ship at St. John's Newfoundland. : Summer Ensembles Couturiers have turned to the navy for ideas this summer, with the result that there's a distinctly nautical flavor about some of the town and country costums that smart women are wear- ing. Not only are red, white and blue color combinations popular, but trim- mings that go on sailors' middies, officers' caps and siéeves and some of the rigging on the boats themselves have furnished inspiration for smart designs, schooner Morrissey for a three- | month's trp along the west coast of | gained by manufacturing in Canada Greenland. to obtain specimens of | for export, particularly to' various a= : ) Fai : i bina durin tM: Suicide Attempt Fails Edison Dream vars, partiewarly im Shangeat oro. VIa8queraded As Domestic Man Lived as Woman Nearly Year in Simcoe -- Worked as-Maid., ] SIMCOE--Driven by unemployment 'Arthur Bellwood, 27-year-old New ' Zealander, is in a cell in the Norfolk County jail facing a charge of '"mas- querading by night without lawful "no excuse. Te pian Remanded Week Bellwood was. arraigned in court here following his arrest, and was granted a week's remand while police investigate his past. He was not asked to plead.' : . His apprehension occurred when a provincial police 6fficer went into the Deluxe Cafe here for a minor pur- chase. An employe, ostensibly a girl served him but her manner aroused his suspicion, so much so that he returned with another officer and after questioning discovered that "Doris King" was in reality Arthur Bellwood. r . Interviewed -at Norfolk County jail, Bellwood, a good looking young man of medium height and obviously well educated, said that he had come to Simcoe nearly a year ago to act as housekeeper for W, H. Codk, pro- prietor of the Deluxe Cafe, "It was just a bit of foolishness," he said. "lI was- living in Toronto and used to look through the advertisements for a position, The only thing open seemed to be In the field of domestic employment. I have always like do- ing women's work and got the idea that if given a proper chance, I could hold such a position. Wager With Uncle © He then told of a wager with his uncle that if given a job as a domes- 'tic employe, he could hbld it for a year. The uncle arranged with Mr Cook for Bellwood to come to Sim: coe and work in the cafe, So, Bellwood said that he was born .in New Zealand and dad attended school and university there, later going to South Africa and subsequently to London, Eng., where he worked for a time as a salesman and was married. Four years ago he saw an advertise- ment stating that there were a "mil- lion johs for young men" in.Canada .and came out to this country. In 1932 his wife left him and the clothes which he wore as a disguise were those "which she left behind." garments are now in the provincial police officer's office here ang. consist of dresges, silken lingerie and corsets. Mr. Cook, under whom Bellwood had worked for nearly a year, paid high tribute to the young man's abil- ity as a housekeeper, He declared without hesitation that he had never seen the equal even among the wo- men he had employed over a long experience as a hotelkeeper, | Knew of Hoax He was an old friend of the family and knew from the start of Bellwood's hoax declaring, however, that the young man kept entirely to himself | and had made no friends since his "arrival in Simcoe last July. Bellwood was originally charged with vagrancy and with failing to give a proper account of himself, the charge being amended to one under another section. } Sixscore' Industries : Settle in Toronto Toronto -- Boston and Massachu- setts are among 67 other United | States cities and 8 states represent- jed in the American contribution to i the list of more than sixscore new in. i dustries established here during the i period of the recent depression, it was revealed recently by the Toronto i Industrial Commission. Of 19 manufacturing concerns in "the New England States which have established branch factories here dur ing that period, six are Massachusetts ! companies, including four in Boston. eral golffish aboard, Capt. Bob Bart- One is in Rhode Island and three are i in Connecticut. It is stated that advantages to be other British Empire countries, are responsible in large measure for the , influx of 'American industries which has resulted here in the investment academy to Captain Bartlett's mother | o¢ millions in plant equipment and the employment of hundreds of Can- "Captain Bob" ~ is adian workers. sanzirereie mem, i Awards M edals Toronto--Mayor William J. Stew- Del, and Mr. Harry J. Lance, Jr, of art has presented Thomas Rennie, re-. | Presenting Canadian curlers, with Centennial medals which Rennie will forward to the Canadian, Ontario and Toronto championship rinks. Teams receiving Toronto's medals 'are Winnipeg Strathconas, winners of the Macdonald Brier trophy and the "Ontario champions, and Toronto High Parks, local titlists, Cat Mothers Raccoon caddié at the Mississauga golf course i has a cat that is nursihg a young rac- coon, Orland captured the infant rac- coon on the golf course and gave it to his' cat, whose kittens had been "disposed of." = The cot adepted it ' with apoarent joy. gt to seek work as a female domestic, . The - . Toronto, -- Orland Mareuacel, 14, i g | AI TITINSi co AMT 4 IG ----