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r * I Bank of Montreal Annual Meeting Canada's Increasing Importance 'Origin of Pipe In the Gold Mart of the World Organ Credited To Chinese Sir Charles Gordon, President, Stresses Inherent Vigor and Soundness of General Economic Structure in Canada Reaction in General Business Due Principally to Depressed Grain and Other Commodity Prices. V. A. Bog and Jackion Dodds, the General Managers, Draw Attention to Maintenance by Bank of Traditionally Strong Liquid Position. The annual general meeting of the Bank of Montreal was marked by a distinct feeling of confidence In the general outlook in Canada. Sir Charles Gordon, the Presi- dent, in reviewing the principal de- velopments of the year, said In part : "I am sure it will be very gratify- ing to the shareholders to learn that we have not suffered any losses from depreciation in the securities which the Bank holds as part of it assets. From this you will un- derstand that great care has beea exercised in our investments. "The year under review has been a most difficult one not only for banks but for practically all classes of business, and this has been re- flected in our profits, but neverthe- less ample provision has been made for all losses and prospective losses. "Examination of the figures of the foreign trade of Canada shows how large a part the item of wheat plays. N'o other single commodity approaches this cereal in volume and value; as a consequence, when crop failure occurs or prices fall below the line of profitable produc- tion, the- whole business of the coun- try is adversely affected. That has happened. The wheat crop of 1S29 was short In quantity; the crop of 1930 faced low prices and a glutted market; and the foreign trade re- turns disciose the results of these unfavorable factors. To short crops and congested markets can be trac- ed much of the reaction in general business, the decline in railway traffic, the diminished earnings of carriers by land and water, unem- ployment of labor and, above all, diminished purchasing power of the agricultural class. "In summing up his conclusions. Sir Charles stated that "in this virile country of Canada with its abounding resources there ean be no permanent depression. My own view is that w'uen the turn comes Canada will be found leading the procession in the return to pros- perity." General Managers' Address The address of \V. A. Bog .ind Jackson Dodrts, the Genera! Man- agers, dealt more particularly :th the report of the Bank for the past fiscal year. The report said in part: "In times like the present it is inevitable that losses suffered through the heavy fall in prices must affect Banks at least indirect- ly. It is a satisfaction to be able to assure you that we have made ample provision for all losses and doubtful debts. "You will note that the tradition- ally strong liquid position of your Bank has been maintained. This was accomplished without curtail- ing the credit requirements of our customers. "A notable increase during the year in the number of small ac- counts in specially gratifying, as we have consistently emphasized the fact that the nnnk of Montreal welcomes small accounts." Owl Laffs Unchanging Its' a New Year greeting, f With a song of cheer. It will seem, on meeting, Like the same old year. Mocgst tt changes fleeting And the speech unfurled. It's a New Year greeting To the same old world. No, 1931 Is not leap year. But we xpect the mortality amor.; bachelors to be just as heavy as it usually is in leap year. If love won't find a way, the girls will. Another little thought for 1931: I.et's quit condemning in others what we practice ourselves. Little Thomas watched a -telephone repairman climb a pole, connect a test set and try to obtain a connection with the switchboard. There ensued ome difficulty. The youngster listen- ed a few minutes, and then rushed Into toe house, exclaiming: Little Thomas "Mamma, come here quick. There's a man up on a tele- phone pole talking to Heave-n." His Mother "What makes you think he's talking to Heaven?' Little Thomas " 'Cause he hollered OUNCES 23.000,000 20,000.000 15.000.000 10,000.000 OUTPUT TREND OF WORLD GOLD PRODUCTION I9O9-I929 ALL OTHER COL \ T R] ES 5.000.000 1905 1910 ISIS 1920 I9ZS I92S WORLD OUTPUT (VALUE) I90S..*382.I82,624 1929 MI7.394.88I SOUTH AFRICA ( ) t. ..MOI, 469,216 >2I24 1,874 CANADA ( n ) ...* I4.IS9.IS3 . .. .39.861,663 CONVERTED AT 2Q-67I834 PER OUNCE the worid had fallen by near- First Instrument Used By Chinese Resembled Mod- ern Saxophone The huge modern pipe organs used in churches and theatres probably owe their origin to a small Chinese mouth Instrument in which bamboo tubes were used for pipes, and which some- what resembled in appe.irar.ee the modern saxophone, in the opinion of Dr. Berthold Laufer, curator of an- thropology at Field M'iseum of Na- tural History. Examples of these instruments which first appeared in very ancient times, but are still used to a limited extent i" China, were collected by Dr. Laufer while on an expedition in China, and are now on exhibition si the museum. They are rarely heard nowadays, however, because of a curi- ous superstition that a skilful per- former becomes so wedded to his music that he is forever playing, to the ex- clusion of all other activities. This, the Chinese apparently fear, wouid prove inconvenient for the player anJ Classified Advertising 1 1 . \RRY. REI.l.y m.E UATRIMON. ipfiilship Magazina. MjiTni. ;>ew York. \I T H .\\N SUPPLY ANY bOOJC T puDlisii-il w! tli a 'ni'imium delay. \ Enquiries proniotiy a"iwered. Subscrip- tions placed for J! Canadian. British anJ American publtea'.ions at lowest prloM. World's S'jhs-.-rintl m Agency Reg'. I). 251 Queen SL \V->st. Toronto. Canada. New Air Service Over Continent Passenger Routes Include Flight Between .Montreal and Miami New York. Co-ordination of an ex- tensive network of airways. Including passenger services from Montreal to -Miama and across the continent to Los Angeles, with stops at Dallas. Fort Worth and El Paso, will lx> ef- fected under an agreement between the Eastern Air Transport and two divisions of American Airways, opera- tion unit of Aviation Corporation, it became known here on Dec. 3. I: pro- vides f>r co-ordination of schedules at Atlanta anil Newark. These new schedules will make it possible for passengers to "ravel by air =-*-*" * = cent - in l929 as conii ' asteu rars hi^srs^s Hello! Hello! Hello! Good Lord, what's the matter up there, can't any- ne hear'?" Diary of a College Graduate June 23, 1930 Graduated to-day. June 28, 1930 Looked for a $10.000 Job. Earth Seen Three Billion Birthdays If the average life of a human being be taken ss one secocd of a new time scale the earth ir just passing its first birthday and the human race has been in existence only a part .f one day, but the universe of strsa has been feeing on about as row for at least five thousand years,. So Professor George von Hevesy of the University c-f Freiburg, Germany, concluded in his review of present knowledge of the age of the earth in the opening lee- 1 ture of the Geo:ge Fisher Baker Leo- j tures in Chemistry at Cornell Univer- sity, recently published by the Now York City scientific periodical Science. Following many previous students of earth age. Professor Hevesy has cal- j ^-ulated from the slow disintegration of radioactive chemical elements the time elapsed since individual speci- mens of minerals containing these elements were formed. Some such n.ineral specimens turn out to be weil over a billion years old but the earth as a whole must be older sti'.l, since the planet's cruit must have been in place and solid before these ime- recording minerals could have been deposited in it. Accordingly, Profes- sor hevesy has extended these radi<>- active calculations to the whole ma- terial of the earth, obtaining a figure of about three b.llion years for* the time since the planet existed as a ball of white-hot gas drawn out of the sun. J Enormous as is thu time by human j ada's rising output. It is true that the i (Dominion's production has never i world to-day than that of the supply! with 195. of gold for monetary use. In this sub- j One point of special interest from ' Ject Canada has a double interest j the Canadian standpoint is the (act! her interest as a gold-producing conn 'hat, in the writings of almost all stu- try and also as a trading nation vital- 1 dents of the gold situation, little or no -. ly concerned with anything acd every- [ importance has been attached to Can thing that Is fundamental to world prosperity. While most of the discussion has ' bulked largely in the world's total out- centered upon the need for better dis- tribution and use ot the existing stocks of gold, there has been also a note of real anxiety over the possi- bility of an actual shor'age of gold supplies. This anxiety arises from an anticipated early drop !n South Afri- might become anno.-nrg to his neig'j- j port starts its daily passenger service " ot-s - ! from Atlanta to New York in eight and Another thin b ' that has caused the a half hours when Eastern Air Traofi- popularity of th : instrument to wane j over that route. Passengers may then, is the fact that because continue north to Bos'on by airplane, laigely by sucking the or after an overnight stop, to Albany ' ' la , jves er than f playfr years D- the Eastern Air Transport opens Its Miami extension on Jan. 1. air traffic trom Boston and Montreal. as well as from Atlanta and the soiUli- put, but !t has grown, and I ing to grow, substantially. oontinu- With goid Laufer states. Tbis is a serious ma:- 1 webtj wii i be co-ordinated with Pan- ter to the Chinese, to whom longev'-y i American Airways' l'1'.OOO-mile a!! air is one -i the fundamental idea!.?. 1 as the Chinese call ; t -onsets of a being produced in larger quantities DOTV . ? . shape<1 ^j V lacquered wo , d either from gold properties from . at . he en(J of a tub(J wjth a moufn _ huge ore bodies, in which gold is M-| piecei ^hich give, i a resemblance t., i sociated with other metals. t may a - ;arge meerschaum ?jpe as weH , ls weil be that Canadian resources are o a , usophone . Seve teen bamboo i system through the West Indies and Central and South America. Simultaneously reports from Miami told o( the inauguration of a new mail and passenger air route from Cuba to Cristobad by way of Kingston, Jamaica by the Pan-American Airways. The new service, which was said to iu- ca's output. As the accompanying dia- destined to play a much niore pro- tuoe3 c f varvinir 'enirth* are ir erttl gram indicates, the burden of main- minent pa,, than ha, yet been fore- K^SStaSSS iSSta ov ^Vafer fl.g" Tte ^tS O r taining the level of world gold produc- seen, iu offsetting the expected de- , the w:rd res<?i . vojr> Thirteen of ?he -ate, nigh tion during the last twenty-flve years pletion of the South African gold- 1 : ubes are fitte j' w ith free reed 6 imil r .... , ,. ,'n .!..,.., -^ fl.M. ami the threatened embarrass- tc lhose use(J in d tod wnger flying boat ni.-h covered elm ib4. mile distance trom Kingston t,. has been borne in ever-increasing de- gree by South Africa. The total gold fields and the threatened embarrass ment of the world's monetary systems. July 20, 1930 Looked for a Job at $100 a week. Aug. 9, 1930 Looked for any kind f a Job. September 2, 1930 Still looking. September 23, 1930 Went to work for my uncle for $75.00 a month. The customer was busy sawing on ; the steak he had ordered, and c* was | having a difficult time. Waiter (solicitously) "Is it tough?" The customer was exhausted. He turned to the waiter with defeat in !s eyes and said: Customer "When I order beet and get horse, I don't care. But next time, take the harness off before you start erving." No matter how brave a man is, there's a woman somewhere he's afraid of. Those who have had experi- ence will testify that a woman may mile, and smile, and be unwilling Will "She didnt' act that way the last time she was engaged." Overheard reii-.i. *. Most any wife gets suspici- ous It she sees her husband aud his pother talking together in whispers, jlhe suspects they are talking about er. Some women can make 86-cent Voffec taste Itke 50-cent coffee and pome women can make 50-cent coffee ste like 25-ent coffoe. You have to your own climbing. Opportunity is ft ladder, not an elevator. standards, it is Jit a moment, he rinds ir : the age of tK. known universe, for astronomical caL\i''!Uiorii indicate thnt the avirage star has txvn in existence for between five thousand billion and ten thoi-snnd billion years. ^ Watch For Early Symptoms Of Cancer Then Act at Each of the tubes has a small ho'o just above the point where it enters! the reservoir. The harmonium, or smali j Cristobal, entirely out of sight of land. in 5 hours and 50 minutes. The entire trip was without difficulty, the reports . said, and there were only slight w.th free reeds but w.thaut pipes w, s vai . laliun>! f , om ., ,., thl!(1 at inr , tne tm.t occidental development from this instrument, says Dr. Laufer. Tho j princip.e of the free reed became wide- Arctic's Prize Beauty !y known in Europe through 'he in- T* -\-\f c* \ D I 1 J f :ugn This is One ot a \veekly Series of Health Articles r repared troduction of the Chinese reed By the Canadian Social Hygiene Council Our last article told you something t treatment given within a month or about cancer. To-day I propose to tell! two the probabilities ot a cure are al you how this disease can be fought. If every individual in Canada could receive and follow tbe> simple, advice which Is contained in this article the number ot cancer deaths would be re- duced by many thousands. In the flrst place let us frankly admit that doctors have not yet learned bow to prevent cancer ii the way they have learned how to prevent smallpox and typhoid and diphtheria. Thar, how- ever, should not be too discouraging for they have learued how to treat early eases of cancer and how to treat conditions that look like cancer so that the former are cured and the <?nn- cerous condition prevented. There- most perfect. In this connection rag- ged teeth and unclean mouths are at the ;mJ of the eighteenth century. Prof. C. G. Kratzenslein invented the harmonium after examining a sheng t to his native city. The first in- strument of this type was the Pan's pipes of the ancient Greeks. whL-h known to frequently produce cancer, j consisted of a set of pipes of d'fferent Keep your mouth clean and go to 'he dentist frequently. bound together and made to ound by the player's breath. About iV'haH'been'suid that beautiful wo-!'- centuries B.C. a device was in- men rarely have cancer of the sk:n!? e " ted fcr f rein* .ir into the pipes because thev keep their skins clean' ? ***** P*. * keys were added "1 of Cancer of the -items kills many wo- M? open and c!ose the pt P e9 ' lhe ! \ y ' It would kill fewer if women draj -' c or * an was mmon among the would learn to visit their physicians Greeks and Roman.'. Centuries later Rewarded With Mirror Winnipeg. Kuoosiak. 24-yeuv-old brunette, is the reigning beauty of the Arctic. Andrew Brown, the big face> and flgure man of the north, selected this brown-eyed, brown-skinned Eski- mo girl from an entry of two dozen in the flrst beauty contest evgr held Inside the Arctic Cir-'c. From Baker Lake, ,'irtle trading post ou Chesterfield Inlet, just a t'lous- and miles uorth of Winnipeg. came> word of Enoosiak's triumph. "Shinin< name, mer..'!. and proudly, for the flrst time In her life, she can survey ner prize-winniug features. A immediately upon noticing any femin- ine irregularities. Cancer of the breast is not terribly dangerous if It, is treated early. As soon as a little j h f : st ^^L'^f^J 1 ^ lump is noticed the physician should the belkws came into use, instead of I mirror was her rew.in!, tue first he jjj e | water power, to furnish air. An organ I had evu- owned, built in the tenth eenturv for beilow that 70 men were be made aware of it. If this !, done ' *,fcd to pump it In the organs or, wear mask,. You have probably noticed in paying certain bills that ail Jobbers do not early enough the possibilities of today the power that pumps the be!- 1 rii 13 ruuuitu ,ii^ i>vr?iuiji bivii v* i . r . rt\t fore the moral connected with this ar- , - DJne f tfin even | -cws would be equal to 50 jr jven 100 | tide Is this: Watch for early symp- shouiu ^ , ump prove . Q ^ & ffia , lg . loins of cancer and act at once upon nau . fom Q , can ,. er> , n canc( , r ot tne ] ! the> slightest suspicion of having found, j any. I First, in external cancer there is al- ways a warning to be seen with the ' eye or felt with the finger. These flrst signs are moles or warts, little areas covered with a scab, R little lump or nodule beneath the skin or deeper, an unhealed wound. As a rule these things do not hurt, but -.hat does not make It less dangerous, only a breast every week's delay reduces the of the keyboard t.iat thei of a finger is all that is re- J Artist: Well, what do you think the idea? Friend. It's not half as bad as it's painted. Inhale Minard's Linimct-t for Asthma. Chance of recovery. After one receives an injury to bone it should be ic rayed if the swell ing and discomfort do not disappear in a few weeks. It is most difficult to recognize the signs of internal can- cer but persistent indigestion or a fee ling of discomfort or a "new' 1 feel- ing inside should be viewed with sus- picion and the doctor consulted. One . quired to open the pipe-valves. The ' greatest changes are due to the use j ' of electricity. So much of the machin- ery is now operated by electricity that the inside of the organ "ooks like a TAXIDERMIST AND FURRIER SUPPLIES OLIVER SPANNER A CO., LTD., Dept. S 26 Elm St., Toronto. Our now Catalogue showing artificial eyes, furrier*' MipPllM trappers' sup- 11U'S, n>tv ready. Sfii'l for fre oopy. telephone exchange. The American In Winter physician can state- whether a wartorj f ), e Des t ways of protecting your- little lump is cancerous. bei f aga inst cancer and the fear of In connection with cancer ot the lip j cancer is to visit the family physician and tongue there is always first on the , ouce a year for a thorough physical lower lip or tongue some abnormal de- 1 <rxamii)a'ion, whether one is sick or feet. It this warning is heeded *n<i wei:. Cheee Port f met her in the gardeu, The- night was still as death. f knew she knew her onions, I could smell them on her breath. First Salesman "I'm broke, Cou't *>! my book." Second Salesman "What's VMlIedT" First 8ate*man "The Art of Sales- it Infamous Infinities of To-dy "Painless Dentists." "Easy Pay- 'ments.' Customer "But you guaranteed (that this watch would last me a life- time." "Jer-eler "I know but you didn't Utook very healthy the day that you It." Flightless Planes To Usurp Small Golf ' Chicago. In the States, amusement ! park owners, now that miniature golf j is launched, are now planning to fea- ture flightless airplanes. When summer comes again the j 'wouid-be aviator mny be able to taste i the thrills o! taking the stick and put- i Mnit himself through a few barrel rolls ; j and i:oe dives, all without leaving tli,> : gronmi. , One of the models looks for all tho ! world exactly like a real airplane, j ' with propeller, wings, rudder, landing I gear, and evidently the only thing that j keeps it from soaring into the sky Is the pneumatic pedestal on which It Is supported. "But get into the cockpit," an at- tendant urges. "Flip a quarter Into i the coin release- box. Get the rush of i air from the whirling propeller, elec- trically driven. Grasp the stick. In- stantly the plane zooms, banks, turns or dive, all as you handle the stick." Chief among them, however, is the Flight Tutor, which looks less like an ; airplane, but acts more like one, as It , has more freedom of movement, actua- !y alloTclug a barrel roll. According to Its makers, the Flight Tutor has been tested and adopted by the i United States Army Air Corps as standard equipme-nt for student pilots, ' aud has been Installed at government i training fields and at Curtiss airports. Outdoor work aril play ofteu give rise to sprains and frost bite. Keep a bottle of Mlnard'i b you o rub on the affacteO parts. READ OF A CASE LIKE HER OWN Decided to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Hands of Invisible spirits touch the ! strings of that mysterious instrument, Odd-looking sleds piled high with halls of Dutch cheese ready for shipment at Alkmaar, Holland, to all parts of world. Twenty million pound's of cheese are sold each year at Allkmaar, one of most famous markets for cheese In world. '.be sou), and play the prelude of our fa'e. Henry W. Longfellow. M "arc's Liniment for all Pain. Monoton. New Brunswick "Before my last baby was born I wad very weak, nervous and dis- conraged. I saw an advertisement in the paper about ;t woman who had been like me so I bought a bottle of Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound. I took three bottles and it carried me safe- ly through that critical time. I have three children to care for and I feel well and strong. 1 have told two other women about your medicine." MRS. Grs ARSBNACLT, S2 AlbcrtSlreet, Moncton, New Brunswick. 1SSLE No. 51 '30