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> Rd ress CANADA . ~Tax rates, it has many times been pointed out, are not always the safest guide to the actual tax burden a community is called upon to bear. A more accurate indication of the true tax rate 13 the assess- ment levels, A bulletin issued last year by the Citizens' Research Institute of Can- ada gives assessment figures and net debt figures for 17 "Canadian: cities for the year 1931, Worked out on a per capita basis, these figures are as follows: Net Debt $138.19 229.20, 184.07 104.98 109.48 Assess. Toronto Victoria Windsor Ottawa London Montreal Saint John .. Vancouver Winnipeg Hamilton Halifax Quebec Régina Edmonton Saskatoon Calgary Charlottetown 40.31 219.17 75,06 120.94 164.43 173.26 165.11 276.00 191.92 162.21 97.04 Average : $142.43 -- Winnipeg Tribune. NO NEVER IN THAT CONDITION One of these days some enterpris- ing pyjama firm is going to turn out suits in which the trousers and coat will be of a different color. Did you ever struggle to try to get your feet through the sleeve? -- Oshawa Times. "DRIVE SLOW" A letter appearing in the Toronto Globe over the signature of My, A. W. Baird, principal of the Tenfrew Col! »"ate, will be read will, cone side =ble interest in Kings on, not nee'y beoaure of its subject mat- ter,"but because of the fact that A. W. Baird is one of Queen's most brilliant giaduates and at the pre- -- sent time occupies an important position in our educational world. Mr. Baird takes issue with the Rev. C. Graham Jones of Campbell- ville who receently wrote to the Globe complaining of such highway signs as "School: Drive Slow." Mr. Baird points out that slow is quite correct an draws attention to the following on Page 542 of Modern English Usage, by H. W. Fowler: Slow, adverb. In spite of the en- croachments of slowly, slow main- tains itself as at least an idiomatic possibility under some conditions. Of the conditions the chief is that the adverb and not the verb should contain the real point; compare "We forged slowly ahead," where the slowness is an unessential item, with "Sing as slow as you can where the slowness is all that mat ters. These highway signs have bother- ed others besides the Rev. Mr. Jones of Campbellville, and some of us may even have the temerity to take issue with Mr. Fowler. However, as Mr. Baird points out, it is evident _. that those responsible for the signs "7 "have good. muthority for their use. We doubt, however, if they were aware of this fact.--Kingston Whig- Standard, 5 mg CHANGE IN RULERSHIP In the last 24 years, eight mon- archs of nations containing about 760 million persons have lost their thrones. The monarchs ruled Rus- Bia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, China, Poriugal, Greece, Spain and Turkey. Rulership has passed from monarchy to money power, as it did in France a century ago.--The Citi- gen, Ottawa. THE LABRADOR DOCTOR At 69 Sir Wilfred Grenfell has decided that his active days in the medical missionary field are about over. Sailing for England Grenfell, the man whose name is synonymous with Labrador admit ted that he was "getting too old to drive a dog team" and must hence- Tari Jaks things easy. at does not mean, however that Sir Wilfred will be content to retire and spend his declining years in con'emplating the noble work which brought him knighthood in 1927. Sturdy, ruddy cheeked,-a piec- ture, of health despite his strenuous fife, "the\\ Doctor" will continue to be the driving force behind the In- ternational Grenfell Association. Only those who have been to Lab rador and talked with its hardy peopla can, appreciate the high re- rd in which Sir Wilfred is held. . What he has done over a period of more than forty years\to ameliorate ponditions of life in a\ land where Shere » e few (Leasures and much verty must measured in term of the future, ' If, as Sir Wilfred believes, Labra- or is developed and eventually be gomes one of the important sections of the continent, it will be due in no measure to one who placed a ~ Interpretation on the words twenty centuries ago: "Inasmuch with Lady ~ Canada, The Empire and The World at Large as ye have done it unto the least of these My Brethren, ye have done it unto Me." AN EDITOR ABROAD -...A series of sketches written for the Vancouver Sun by Harold L. Weir, chief editorial writer of that newspaper, on his impressions of the United Kingdom and France as acquired in' a short tour of those countries, has been published in the form of a §@ipage pamphlet, It is a bright and interesting little publication. The style is light and distinctly "readable," * the matter ranges from dinners at sea to the majesty of an England discovered and the quotation of Shakespeare's bit about "this sceptred isle... This Mr, Weir shows a nice apprecia- precious stone set in the silver sea." tion of London's charm, of the grace of the English countryside and the austerity of Scotland, and he is able to pass on to his readers something of his own keen enjoyment. PUDDLE-JUMPER During the war the tanks came along to the surprise of everybody waddling across fairly decent sized trenches. But now we have an auto- mobile which leaps the puddles. The Christian Science Monitor tells of a strange looking stream lined auto- mobile which has been built in Cali- fornia which does uncanny things It is built of steel and is lighter 'han' the usual car and the centre of gravity is placed very low, so that the car is not easily over turned. Its inventor took it out into rough ground and for three hours, hefore a group of spectators did the appar ently impossible. He turned hair-pin curves at sixty miles an hour with- out the missing of 5 heart-beat. "At 65 miles an hour he drove his car into a mound of rocks and dirt four feet high, and dived 51 feet before landing on one front wheel. . The machine righted it-elf and proceeded calmly across th» mesa, without even hlowing a tire." _ Soon we will be able to ride up- cide down with safety. -- Halifax Chronicle. DIVORCE CLINIC The Oklahoma Ministerial Assoc- iation is setting up a "divorce clinic." They are of the opinion that ministers can pacify husband wife when they begin to quarrel and want to part. Perhaps. --From the Pembroke Standard-Observer, THE EMPIRE «we. .. THE RIGHT TO WORK The Daily Fxpress believes that every citizen who wants work should get it, and that all citizens should have to work. The Daily Express has no respect, for The Willing Idle and nothing but pity for the organized triviality of "Society." Those spong- ing, lounging loafers eke out a mis- erable existence. The public are nov interested in them in any case. --London Daily Express. HOUSING AND TUBERCULOSIS There are, of course, other angles as well from which the fight against tuberculosis must be directed, such as ensuring a clean milk supply, es- pecially for children, so as to elimin- ate bovine infection: but if special steps could be taken to improve the housing conditions of families in poor circumstances subject to tuber- culosis, the prospects of eradicating the disease would be greatly improv- ed. --Edinburgh Scotsman. THE COST OF THE LEAGUE Since its formation 15 years ago, the League of Nations proper has spent about seven and a half million gold pounds, including expenditure not only on the staff, but also on buildings and the many technical and special organizations of the League. The In'mrnational Labour Office has spent four million nouads n the same period and the fornman- ent Court of 'International Justice £874,000. Adding these up, we got a total of under 12,600,000 pounds. The share that cach of the 57 nation members is called upon to pay fis determined by a somewhat compli cated mathematical formula, in which the factors are population, territorial area, industrial wealth, ete. Great Britain's total contribu- tions under this arrangement have amounted to one and a quarter mil- lion gold pounds over the 15 years. To put this sum in its proper pro- portion, it is sufficient, perhaps, to remark that it does not amount to 1 per cent of the expenditure on British armaments for a single year. --The Cape Argus, Capetown,' THE MOVIES IN AUSTRALIA e real offence of the films is not that their vulgarities and inde- cencies corrupt those who frequent talkies, but that) they outrage the susceptibilitier of" peonle who know little or nothin~ of the talkies but what ig fore d as thom and theirs in the form ¢ ca.siana advertises "ents and publicity stuff. Owing tn these abuse: a formidable body of hostile opinion has been mobilised 10 1 and How It Is Done Action! -- Lights! -- And the camera swings on its boom right up to the bedroom window for that closeup of Irene Dunne you'll ad- . + mire when you see her latest picture. Down below on the set, Director Mervyn LeRoy (right) supervises the filming of the scene. not only in the U.S.A., but in other countries, including Australia; and if the controllers of the business don't mend their manners somethng disastrous is certainly going to hap- pen to them.--Sydney Bulletin, £85,675 Poster Bought ~ LONDON.--A man walking down |'a Tondon street saw a board outside the Middlesex Hospital announcing that they still needed 85,6756 pounds for their 1,200,000 pound extension scheme. He walked into the hospital, drew out his cheque book and offered to buy the poster for the sum required. He was Mr. E, W. Mewerstein, He took his seat on the hospital board for the first time. Prince Arthur of Connaught, wel- coming him, thanked Mr. Meyerstein for a first gift of 30,000 pounds and a second gift of 70,000 pounds. Then Mr. Meyerstein remarked that it was his birthday, and that he wanted to give himself a present, offered his cheque. It brought his gifts to the fund to 185,675 pounds. The meeting accepted the offer, and the reconstruction fund became closed. Soviets Seeking 100-Per Cent Vote MOSCOW,--Soviet Russia to-day initiated the Campaign for elections to the village Soviets with the slogan. "Get out 100 per cent of the eligible voters." : This is the first general election since. farm. coilectivization became widespread and spectacular meth- ods have been adopted to enlist the peasants in social construction. In the approaching elections there will be 10,000,000 new voters with 90,000,000, in all, eligible to. vote. The local Soviets will elect dele- gates to the district Soviets, which in turn will elect representatives to the Provincial Soviets and these Soviets will elect provincial con- gresses which will name 1986 dele- gates to the All-Union Soviet Con- gress, the Soviet Russia. This congress will meet Jan. 14 for the first time in three years. Any 13-Year-Old Can Learn Gramimar Princeton, N.J--Gertrude Stein, modernist poet and author made her speaking debut before a college aud- fence befuddling 6500 Princeton un- dergraduates and faculty members with extracts from her works, "I was tremendously concerned In finding out what was myself Inside of me," she said among other things, "I think that's general of college stu- dents, "The only way you can live wilth- out being bored," she said, "Is to feel that every individual has a history that is worth investigating," Her remarks--"Why make a fuss about grammar when any 13-year-old can learn ft'"--drew laughter and ap+ plause, . » ©4he appeared in a rough brown skirt, a brown and yellow sweater, 'low- heeled shoes and hatless, When at the conclusion of her lecture, she asked if there were any questions, her dazed audience made no reply. She grinned and walked oft 'he plat- form, supreme authority -of | Youth League Backs Prince Youth to F eR New York, -- The Prince of Wales urged the young generation of Eng- lish-speaking democrats to: work for international understanding, in a message read at a dinner of the Eng- lish-speaking Union of the . United States, : 3 The Prince sent the message as president of the English-speaking Union of the British Empire, Read by the toastmaster at the dinner, John W, Davis, former U, 8, Ambas- sador to Great Britain, the message sald: "The endedvor of the youth of the English-speaking democracies should be directed to promoting "not only Urges English-S 3 ? As : » ' L Led Triumph of Truth : About rr ---- rther War Amity their mutual interests but also in- ternational © understandings, as the first step towards the econolnic re- covery on which the maintenance of peace and understanding throughout the world will depend." Sir Gerald Campbell, British Con- sul-General in New York, in addres-: sing the dinner suggested that youth - is not "getting a squire deal" from the generation now in control of world affairs, i "We must confess," he said, "that we have .made more than an average bad mess of what was not such a bad world at the timg it was con- STRATFORD BEACON-HERALD It was within recent days that this paper made comment upon the existence or temporary presence of cockroaches in .a house at East- view, a suburb of Ottawa. The Ot- tawa Journal commented on the illuminating manner in which the Beacon-Herald wrote on the cock- roach, and remarked also that no matter what subject might be.men- tioned 'some editor would go bound-. ing toward the typewriter, the light of knowledge or surmise in the eye, and thus were editorial pages filled. A correspondéiit in Ottawa has taken exception. He writes to The fined 'to our care," °° i y Journal in high dudgeon and says: Getting the News = By "Pony Express' St. Thomas Times-Journal The Times has been recalling events of 100 years ago, when Charles Dickens was a reporter in London. When readers of the Times- Journal realize that news of an im- portant event on the other side of the ocean is published within a few seconds' of happening, with an ex- tended report appearing within half an hour or so, it is interesting to learn that the great London daily prided itself on the promptituds of its reports before the days of the telegraph, trains, steam printing, typewriters or the telephone. Its reporters at home and abroad relied on a sort of "pony express{' system, being told to spare no ex- pense either as to the number or quality of the horses. Referring to an important speech by Lord Durham gt Glasgow in 1884, it is recorded the Times sent down to Glasgow two of its best parliamentary reporters; and mm or der at the same time, to do all that could be done to get the report of Lord Durham's speech brought as speedily: as possible to the Times Australian Culture office, relays of postmen and horses Melbourne, Vic,--Dedicated to the protection of Australian natural trea-| sures and resources--notably the Lyre bird and other rare specles--as well as the preservation of native culture, the League of Youth has been founded, James McRae, direct- or of education, presided at the mee- ting when a constitution was adopted An appeal made by Ambrose Pratt in' his book, 'The Lore of the Lyre Bird," for the youth of Australia to band together in the interests of na- tive flora and fauna, was influential in formation of the league, Among the aims of-the league are the devel- opment of community service and of personal responsibility, the preser- vation of national monuments, and the encouragement of local groups to carry on these and similar objectives, The league is open to any youth over the age of 12 years, Orphans' Friend Stops in Edmonton Millionaire "orphans' friend" J. D. 0'Connell, recently visited Edmonton during his annual 50,000-mile tour of all America. He inspected the orphans' institution which bears his name and, as well, looked into some of his financial interests, including real estate and wheat lands. Mr. O'Connell would not give any: thing to Homes for the Aged, he an- nounded. "He 'himséif is a septu- agenarian. opportunities, and their lives, and ap- parently wasted them. Oh, I have nothing against the old folks--I'm just a lof more interested in orphans: the boys and girls who, if given a chance today, will be ths -grown people who run this world next year. They've got to have their chance. "That's my life work--that and fighting the booze traffic. You can't make that too strong; the language, I mean. That's the one thing that 'I'm more interested in than I am even in providing funds for orphans." "Don't Fight the Censors Frederick T. Birchall European correspondent of the New York Times speaking last week to the stu- dents of the Columbia school of jour- nalism stated that it is impossible to suppress news and therefore any cen- gorship is foolish, "In my 40 years of experience," he said, "I found out that news will leak out through the roof or through any crevice, "It {8 stubborn for any correspon- dent to fight a censor, Any corres pondent expelled from a country is as foolish as the war correspondent who goes into the iront line to be shot, He is no good any more to his newspaper," . He stressed the honesty truthful- ness and inherent friendliness of Am- erican correspondents: in Germany and added that no dispatch is ever stopped by the government it the contents ata true, He sald .that not one of his dispatches some of which were highly critical, was ever stopp- ed by the Germans, ' ---------- idl THE OPULENT ICE MAN Oh, envy not the lee man. \'/ho gets so much a pound. It may be he ls drifting Whenes Ice does not abound. 'they were "Well, they've had their)! --there being no railways at the time -- were stationed at conven- jent distances between Glasgow and London, The journey from Glasgow to London -- 400 miles -- was per- formed at the rate of 15 miles au hour. The result" was that the speech -of Lord Durham appeared inthe Times at full length a day before it otherwise could have done. The expenses amounted to «£200; but the unprecedented achievement created a great sensation throughout the country. : So : During a by-election in Devon- shire Dickens was up against the .Times' hang the expense service and made several journeys between Exe- ter and London, a distance of some 170 miles. On one occasion when approaching Honiton, about 16 miles on the way, Denison of the Times, who was more fami- liar than Dickens with the country and the way of innkeepers, told his postboy to run into the Golden Lion yard by the back way, knowing that a pair of horses would be ready harnessed in the yard, with the post boy waiting for a job. . Denison reckoned that thus. he would get possession of the horses before his colleague alighted and came in at the front door. So # proved; Denison got the horses and took. the lead. During. this ;same by-election Dic- kens was more fortunate against his rival on another trip for he chronicles thet: ik "At the second stage the Times . of Sir:--Your editorial, "The Things and I changed horses together, they . Editors Know," should be headed, had the start two or thae minutes; | "The Things Editors Do Not: Know." 1 bribed the postboys tremendous- First, the cockroach ig an insect; ly and we came in literally neck second, the cockroach is not a beetle; and" neck -- the most beautiful thirdly; if it were a beetle it would sight I ever saw." still be an insect, as beetles are most Charles Dickens was a zealous gouidely insects. I suppose our friend and able reporter .on the Morning ;.."}oione confused with people . Chronicle, and in one of his writings {pi king the insects' cousins, the spi- states that probably no other repor | jors 'are insects which, of course, ter in England sperst so much time rushing across country in postchalses ! In '1865 he told a newspapermen's' banquet that: © "I have often transcribed for 'the printer, from my shorthand notes, important public speeches in which ithe strictest accuracy was. required and a mistake in which would have | even, to'a young man severely ome | promisng, writing on the - palm of: my hand, by the light of a dark lan- tern, in a' postchaise and four, gal- loping through a wild country, and through the dead of the night, at whe then surprising rate of 16 miles an hour." : : Through all the ages the reporter seems to be destined to be the Man Who is Always in a Hurry. This At Least is Certain In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass whatever else' is doubtful this at least is certain: | "If there be no God and no future s ate, vet, even tiien-- "It is better to be generous than gelficr:, "Better to be chaste ious, "Better to be.true than false, __ "Better to be bittve than to be a coward, "Blessed beyond all earthly bles- sedness {8 the man who in the temp-, estuous darkness of his soul has dar- od to hold fast to these venerable than licent- | landmarks,"--F, W, Robertson, Wealthy Not Allowed To Be Movie Extras Hollywood, Cal.--The moving plc- ture indusiry is one jump ahead of the New York mannequins who ob-, ject to society girls who take away their bread and butter by acting as models, For Hollywood already has set its foot down hard on anyone with -in~" dependent means becoming a movie 'extra' just for a lark, , "Any time we find society people trying to get: movie jobs just for the fun of it, we cut them off our lists," Campbell MacCullough new general manager of Central Casting Bureau said: today, * Before the present motion picture NRA code was crystallized a number, of girls of social prominence took mi- nor roles"in the films as a diversion, Some showed enough promise to win' contracts, Jurywomen Are Too Sentimental Says Manchester Court Chairman Their Recommendations for Mercy are Strongly Ciriticized-- Former Cabinet Minister Defends Fair Sex. in Legal Manchester, Eng.--Women jurors came {in for some scathing criticism by the chairman, H, St. John Raikes, K.C,, at the trial of Willlam Whittle, 60-year-old laborer, charged with stealing coal, He was found guilty and sentenced to six months' hard labor, When the foreman of the jury in- timated the woman members desired to recommend him to mercy, the chairman asked them to give a rea- son, and when none was forthcoming said: "Year by year, since women have been serving a certain amount of sickly sentimentality has been shown, and unless there is some strong reason they should be chary of making recommendations, It is rather- a slight on the court, Those whose duty it is to award punishment have more experience than' the jur- fes and are able to size up the ques- tion," . 11 PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS On hearing that there were 11 pre- vious convictions against Whittlg for stealing coal, the chairman observed: "And then we get this recommenda- tion by people who knew nothing about it, It is a shocking thing in a way," : Protests from various quarters. fol- lowed the remarks of Mr, Raikes, "Women are no more sentimental than men," declared J, R. Clynes, for mer Cebinet member, "Lectures on Controversy sentimentality to the jury who recom- mended mercy are unheard of and out of place," he sald, "I heive never seen any. reason to differentiate between women jurors and men," sald Comyns Carr, KC, A STEIN SONG : \ Discussing the sculptor Epstein (whose work he does not like) A, Ed- ward Newton quotes (in "Derby Day and Other Adventurers') this "fvery clever-limerick' that appeared in the "Atlantic- Monthly" a year or 50 ago: "Therg's: a notable family named |: Stein; There's. Gert, and there's: Ep and there's Ein; A Gert's poems are punk Ep's statiites are junk-- {57 Can't make head nor tail out of Ein." Speakihg 'of steins;: Mr.' Nowton |: tells: a story about"an Haglish temps erance lecturer who once sald in = =» 'public. speech... ERS TIONS "I have lived: in this town all. my lite, There are, fifty pubs: (saloons): ing, 4t, and I have never heen . in. ong.of. them." i : From the back. of the room a héck- let inquired: ] J : "Which one have you missed?" . | "I have learned by yéars of exper- fence," adds Mr, Newton, "never to attempt to match wits with a cock. ney." | 'nocturnal visitation they are not. However, he is right on one point, which deserves to be emphasized, namely that: powdered borax would send them elsewhere. . . . Thanking. you for the pleasure of for once in my life setting an editor. right, I am. NOT AN ENTOMOLOGIST. Years ago we adopted a few ar ticles of faith, the chiefest of which was that error, though printed, should not prevail, Truth must triumph and stubborness must stand. aside while fact rides through. The cockroach is not%a beetle; it is an insect. Having given open admission to entomological blundering of major magnitude, we urge, not. as defence but as extenu- ating circumstance, that the egregi- ousness 'of the offence may have been due to impressions received in early years upon the tenth concession -and to subsequent lodging places where was made to pantries and such places where victuals were suspected of being cached. Departing for the moment from that attitude, and seeking a place at the feet of modern Gamaliel we turned. to the Concise Oxford Dic- "tionary, and that--good- book says the cockroach is "a nocturnal vora- cious dark-brown beetle-like in- sect." The second lesson: of: the same series took. us toward Harms- worth's' Encyclopedid, and from that excellent well of truth we found «The domestic species known as the black beetle is not a beetle at ali and its color is reddish brown." The color thereof we knew, but: to find that the black beetle was mot a beetle and was not black was the cause of puzzlement. : Harmsworth takes us deeper into this engrossing study. The cock- roach emits an unpleasant odor, but a place is found for it in the cate- gory of usefulness for we read it will devour even the more objection: * able bed-bug. , We .can. see that this thesis upon the. cockroach is going to. turn to something of benefit. If your house bothered . with bed-bugs worry more... Make no inquiries re- garding the process of riddance: lest ; neighbors hear and loss of sociai prestige should resuit. Encourage the cockroach to live on your pre- mises; entice. the cockroach to your slumber chamber and the bed-bugs will vanish, = A iy "Now. we feel that this discussion with The Ottawa Journal and its correspondent has not been in vain. Research work has supplanted: super- ficial observation. The cockroach will go scampering. about destroying. the bed-bug. Thus does knowledge grow and the world become wiser than it was a few moments ago. -- Seeing, Ourselves A young man jus: startifig in busi- ness, looked suspiciously at a figure he saw approaching him as he enter- ed a city department store, The fig- ure was So shabby so slouching that tre 'half expected it would stop him to beg a penny: To his. amazement then he realized that he had seen only his own reflection in a long morror. His friends had remonstrated with him because of his carelessness in re- gard to his personal appearance, but not until he: caught a glimpse of him- self," did. he perceive the necessity of dressing better, Unfortunately there is no way for u$ to come face to face with the re- ection of our spiritual selves, If we: could 'see our bad tempers our pet~ tiness just as they are we should need no other incentive to an.immed- {ate reform, Happiness fa the gift of seeing the good things of life in such high re- lef: that the: rest is unimportant, Cow Eats $150. A farmer of St, Jules Que, owns a cow .that 1s worth at least $150 to him, The other day the man dropped a wallet containing $150 In bills, Ha scoured the fields and succeeded in' finding the scraps of the bills, much chewed and torn, The cow immediate: ly went up fn price, :