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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large t CANADA Quid Pro Quo Has it struck Canadians yet that, though Britain bus u ,'n per cent, tariff against the rest of the world, her mar- kets to Canada. Australia and the re- mainder of tin- 1 1 -ml n inn- and Colon- ies of the. British Kmplre are froe? Canada maintain* a high tariff against I \I itherland. Britain gives free trade markets tn us, -I..-ihbrldg Her- aid (Lib.) Canadian Tobacco A. I. Phillips, chairman of one of the loading tobacco firms in (ireat Britain, eaiil during the course of his address at the annual meeting of his company: "Canadian tobacco in the opinion of luyself and my associates is equal to the finest raw leaf tobacco in the V "li-i It has all the pleasing char- acteristics of fulled States Virginia tobacco." This new channel of Cana- dian export is clearly marked for great future development. The Brantford Bxposltor. Farmers' Co-operation Co-operative farm movements are tbe salvation of the soil producer. Farmer* must never forget that or- ganization will heal disorganization every tlmo. Vnorganized, the farmer, whether he is farming fruit or wheat or poultry or animal husbandry, Is a prey for every middle man, for every financial and political group that can jet a toe-hold on his work and pro- flucli. Vancouver Sun. King Georg* Twenty-two years ago May Kith King George ascended the throne of Kug- land. TIs reign has witnessed the Inost terrible of all wars, th* worst of all depressions, u complete unheaval of organized forces, aud more national in-"-* than the, previous hundred years together held. Throughout Ihese twenty-two yeais of grave responsi- bility he has won for himself a place in the hearts of his own people and In the high esteem of the civilized world second to none. Ha has set a splendid lample of a constitutional monarch labouring unceasingly for the welfare of bis people, discharging his onerous duties with tact and skill, and exert-U- ing his Influence ever on the side "of peace, progress, prosperity and inter- national goodwill. That ha may be spared for many years yet to continue his invaluable services to Britain aud th Empire was the sincere prayer of all hU loyal subjects. Montreal Star. French Canada The American tourist, who travels through our villages, hardly finds any difference between the country which ha has left and the one which he had hoped find was new and picturesque and had something of Franc* about il. More than this, the people who offer you a "chicken dinner" are doing all they can to adopt the universal and banal forms of internal lonal catering. It Is quite conceivable thai the tourist who has be'-n attracted by the pub- licity given out about "French Quebec" may feel he has been deceived by a hnlel like every other one be lias s>-en on the roads of New York ami nf New Ko-'land. - I .a I'lilrle. Montreal Much Quoted Papen With jiip.ii.iii!- pride, the Stratford Beacon-HeraM points out that it stood eighth iu a list of mi Canadian news i>,ipers "most frequently quoted" dur- ing the three months ending with March last. It is a tribute to the daily papers in smaller centres not only that the Beacon-Herald was right on the beelii of a large city paper and only one removed from the fourth Toronto paper, but that such journals as the Brantford Kxpo u llor, Woodstoi k Sen- tinel-Review. St. Thomas Times- Jour- ual, Brockvllle Recorder and Times, Kitchener Itecord, SI. Catharines Standard, Kingston Whig-Standard, Sault Ste. Marie Star, Chatham News, diH-lph Mercury. Pel 'mro Examiner, yudbury Star. Owen Sound Times, t)sbawu Dally Times and North Bav t^ugget were in the first half of the list. It Is charged frequently that the larger the newspaper the. more point less Us editorials. While this cannot be said In apply as a rtil to Canadian papers (bis rule alway carrying Us pxi-itptioii it is n fait that those in s-cnndary .itl>'-. mid especially in Ibis Province, have become notable for constructive coniribullnn to thnimht on public affair. The compilations of the Dominion Pi ess (lipping Agency shnw how valuable ibis thought is con- sidered by conlempniaries which add til I bell jieivi<r bl pilsxillg il along. - Pay Ai You Go Th" iiiKumeni is ala> made tliul *-. pdslenli will net tin- be.nellt of Im- piMvemem-.. |.,i-ieiity .should help to pay for them. This is iluiie by Issuing long-twin (lebcniiires. Would It not hav- been I lie part of wisdom to pay caah fur ovoryihinx in tin- ciiy :<- it was built? Po-ieiity have their own things to Inn i-n Hi. benefit of the community. A father would novei Mid deliberately leim in him .. I.- -,tei of debt. Why should a city do an> illf ferent? And. as n parting thought, I past council.- had |i,tul ca-li for their purchases, they would have been much more careful lu making expend It urea. Kitchener Hecord. Distinguished Visitors in Canada THE EMPIRE The Future of the Empire The Kmplre has recently emerged from u great war. shaken, but intact. Profound changes have been brought about in our social and imlu-i rial fab- ric, and some faint hearts fear the fu-' ture. Yet the Ktnplre possesses wide spaces which may support many mil- lions of our people, while our agricul- tural and mineral resources are un- matched. Given a bold plan of con- structive organization of Empire re- sources, the future has dazzling possi- bilities. Wolverhampton Kxpress. Every Man His Own Garden Allotment growers in this country are producing at least $10.000,000 worth of vegetables every year. This s the estimate given by the National Allotments Society. Their figures show that every ten-rod plot grows on lie average between 7 and 10 worth of vegetables, which works oul at between 112 aud 150 per acre. Much of this is produced on laud which ormerly lay fallow or derelict. In England and Wales there are to-day- over a million allotments, and allow- ng for large numbers in Scotand and j t h e shack and the log cabin still in Ireland, the 10.000,000 estimate is their blood. New York Herald-Trl- believed to be on the conservative | bune. side. London Kveniug Standard. I.ady Gwpiietli Cavendish, sister of Lord Bessborough, arrives at Montreal on tbe Mont calm. The party from left to right: Hon. Margaret Theslgcr, daughter of the Karl of Chelmaford, K. S. Baring. nephew of the governor-general, and his mother. Lady Cavendish. Optimism in Britain Most favorable feature of the year's revenue figures Is the Increased yield from customs, partly due to the new arlff duties, though most of them have >een iu force for only a month. A new >udget year opens In an atmosphere ----- ... _ ----------- ..... .- ........ of confidence and restrained optimism. < concerns everyone. Hong Kong Press. t will not be an easy year; but thej * back of our financial problem has been' Electrical Ear Warns )roken. Those who. in many cases at! great sacrifice, have paid their taxes >roniptly, and those who have cheer- 1 The Powers and the Far East It Is always a mistake to think that there Is any clash between altruism and "practical affairs." The Powers have not intervened In the Far Kast to uphold this or that petty theory of some dreamer's brain. Peace in the Kar Kast Is a business necessity which Ships at Sea of Fog Peril Tests made recently in New York fully submitted to "cuts," may justly i harbor indicate the possibility of re- ilalm an important share of the credit Placing human ears with electrical ones in listening .or distant fog sig- Jue to a splendid achievement. Lon- Ion Sunday Dispatch. Canada's Examplt The representatives of nals. By means of a microphone State cannot but gain in knowledge rom contact with men who have help- d to build up the Dominion countries, f we were to select examples for con- sideration, the principles on which 'anadu solved her racial problems are worthy of investigation. Some per sons in this country who know noth- ng about Canada may look on it as an overgrown "Knglish" colony. It is and a noise meter, set up on a light- house tender, engineers look read- Ings at distances ranging from a the Free few UUI ,j re j yards to several miles from fog signals on Governor* Island and dobbins,' Keef. The measurements were designed primarily to establish a new method or making the government's regular inspection of the operation of these signals. In addition, say* Popular Mechanics .Magazine, electric (liters eliminating 'Hound frequencies above 500 cycles were tried, since the fog nothing of the sort. Before Kngland j s j KI ,als have a much lower frequency icqulred Canada by the fortunes of a very complicated war. It was a Krench The results Indicated that the fillet can lie so sharpened a* to olony. Tbe French still form tbe c ,,t O ut thu sounds of ships' whistles argest Individual racial section of the, ;il ,d other harbor noises and admit population and they are the most; t(1 t | 1P HPiisltlire noise meter only the signal Itself. This would not!- [ V a .skipper at ioyal to the Crown. There is an Irish, section, or rather two Irish sections Northern and Southern. There are ivjthin range of a signal. Scottish and Kngllsh sections, there are Teutons and Scandinavians. One ind all, they are Canadian*. Canada Is their country, and they havo gone a ! year as member or the force. Modern Women Modest Declare* Beach Inspector long way to develop it, aud they pro-! Savannah. Ca. Dennis I.ysaiiglit, pose to go a longer way sllll. When 1 the veteran chief of police of Savan WP have done as much, proportionate-' nah Beach has just been elected to ly. to develop the resources of the Free | serve his twenty-second continuous Stale, we shall liav done something of which to be justly proud -Cork K.x- .miner. Crown Colonies and th Empira Whatever tlie political ambitions of n future federated West Indies, thej economic advantages of being welded within Hie British economic union would bn too great to lose. We may aim to increase our stature as Crown Colonists, but Dominion status would Savannah Beach Is the tidewater bathing ceiilre for all this section of Georgia and a purl of South Carolina. During the long time he has been ""inecte.l U1. the de,,arl,m,,, Chief bathing costume develop from a thing of skirls and trousers to the present incidental garb. The Chief approves of the chanse. It has come gradually. be says, hut with each season's abbreviation he lias nut I i ' Hill II S^ttrllJIl ?* tFIti. not pay island colonies, which aclver-- . . . . found corresponding shrinkage 01 1 a A I It , . . ui-ilimu o ;_- IMA t PA nli lit- ' ise themselves as the tropical or- hards and sun-parlours of (Ireat Bri- tain. It may seetn a fur cry from the present increase of preference to Bri tish Colonial Kmplre Free Trade, or to tin economic future such as we have indicatod but we must not lose sight of the fact that the Chamberlain theories of pre-war days pre now un- dergoing transition into technique and that the best economists in the Kmplre are engaged on hammei inn out Hint modesty. loin" is "It's all a matter tf cus. the Chief* conclitsloi. Controlling Sunlight Natural sunlight all da, long in any room of a house, even In rooms that open only on dark wells or airshafts, (s promised by a new device rejtorted from the Institute of Optics of Paris, France, writes I>r. K. K. Free iu this week's Science. This device uses one of the new photo-electric cells nick- named the "electric eye." Mirrors are provided to catch the sunlight on the roof of the house and to direct some of It vertically downward outside each set of windows. Other mirrors then reflect parts of these vertical beams through the windows into the individ- ual rooms. Kxtra large roof mirrors may be used to catch a great deal of the xunlight unit divide this into small- er individual beams. Any dimming of the sunlight due to reflectlou from the mirrors can be counteracted by using lenses or curved mirrors to concen- trate .some excess sunlight in tlie be i;innlng. Where the electric eye enters is to '. -;i tho first mirror always jxilnted directly at the sun as that body moves through tlie heavens. Iu previous mir- ror systems for distributing sunlight this needed movement of the first mir- ror to follow the sun has been done by clocks like those used by astronomers to move their telescopes, a method which Is too expensive for practical use. The new Parisian device works by placing a small aud inexpensive plioto-elctrlc cell in the first beam of reflected sunlight. As tilt" sun moves in the sky so that the beam of reflect- ed sunlight tends to move away from this plioto-electrlc cell, the cell oper- ates a small electric motor and turns the first mirror just enough to bring ilie retlerieil h,-ain back into the pro- per line. When A Broken Leg Straightened Matters It may sound ton optimistic to des- cribe n fractured leg as a lucky break. Vet lh victim In this particular In :taiii'e, |i U hoped, will pventiialU think so. Years ago. be friiclmvd his riahl l^H so badly that when the bones lu-ale.il. ilie limb was an inch or more shinier lliau the other. Recently, te left leg was broken In an automobile accident. In ettins this fracture, a Toronto stir- genii adjusted I UK fragment* lu such a way that when repairs are completed both lens will be the same length, and the patient a wee bit shorter than he "Guiding" Comes of Age ; The Girl Guide .i-ement in Eng- land is celebrating its twenty-first 1 birthday thin month. Really, it Is rnoie than twenty-one years old, because there were Girl Guides before the movement started officially. Liverpool had a contingent' of them hi 190'J, and Manchester in mil). It was the spontaneous spring-: ing up of these little companies of "Girl Scouts," as they had called them- selves, that led to the launching of the | national movement. At first there was a good deal of pre-, judice against the Guides people ! thought the training would turn out I "tomboys." That fear has now van- ished, and the coming-of-age will be celebrated by services In many im- portant churches of various denomina- tions. The twenty-first year of the ', Guides will also be marked, in the autumn, by a week of tree-planting along public roads. There are to-day over l.rtOO.OOO Girl Guides throughout the world. A fea- ture of the movement is the work that the Guides have done to lighten the lot of the blind, deaf, and crippled. Ans- wers. Excavation in Balkans Reveal Metal Pieces Most European countries have valu- able metal articles in their churches and monasteries, a heritage from tbe .Middle Ages. The Baltic states. however, wrlteg th Riga correspon- dent of "The Christian Science Moni- tor," have suffered so severely from wars that these articles come to light :>nly during excavations. One of the most valuable 01 these excavated articles is the Emperor Otto cup, which is to be ?een in the I "i'n Museum in Riga. This cup was found scores of years ago in the north of I.:, land (now Estonia) in a Held in the neighborhood of Fellln Castle, which was built by medieval knights. The cup, which has a diameter of thirteen inches and is made of dark bronze, more than 900 years ago was used as a patena chrUmalls, a vessel In which the consecrated oil was kept during church services. It is an ex. ceedlugly valuable relic, as the only other specimen known was found In the neighborhood of Madgeburp. Germany. The cup derives its name from the portrait of Otto the Great (936-973K which is to be seen on five medal- lions at the extremities and in the center of a flat cross covering the bottom. Court Makes Patient Live Up to Gratitude Toulon, France. Happy over his re- covery from an illness, M. Bespalov, a ] Russian resident, wrote a grateful let- ter to his physician in which he said: "If ever, doctor, misfortune should strike you. I will give you 100,000 Cranes ($4,000 > and this not as a gift. but bec.aus* you have well earned it." Recently the dootc had to undergo the amputation of both legs and. find- ing himself in need, suggested that his former patient make good his promise. Bespalov could not see it that way and the doctor went to court. The tribunal order*! payment, hold- ing that the written promise was fur-' 'ii. il nnd UMiiliin;. Stream Flow in the Maritimes Stream-flow In the Maritime Pro- vinces during March, as reported by the Dominion Water Power and Hydro- metric Bureau of the Department of I be Inferior, was considerably below normal. In southern New Brunswick Uie mean run-off was only 17 per cent., in northern New Brunswick and west- ern Nova Scotia It was less than 60 per cent and in eastern Nova Scotia about 7:'. per cent, of the March aver- age. The reason for this subnormal flow was the conliuuanse of the cold GENERAL TRAVISS dry weather in the Maritime Provinces which had p.-tsisted tin uugliout Febr- iii ry. How Birds View Man's Invasion The airplane, as might be expected, is viewed with suspicion by the birds, writes T, J. C. Martyn In The New York Times. Occasionally they have aided their feathered friends, as when they swiftly moved stranded swallows south from Austria and Switzerland, thus assisting in a winter migration. But more usually the larger ones have cocked a hostile eye on the air- plane. He proceeds: "There are several authenticated cases of condors attacking airplanes in the Andes. Eagles, too, resent air- planes. They usually prefer the front- al attack, but a German eagle, who thought he knew better, decided on a flank attack from a frontal angle. This was a grave error. He was picked up sometime later with a broken neck. "In these days when pigs, dogs, lob- sters, and even a camel have been transported by air, queer things will out. A hen took to the air once with great and evident pleasure. To show her gratitude she laid an egg. "Often .he mere presence of an air- plane is enough to cow the smaller birds. It seems that they take them for large eagles. Thus, in a war on some marauding crows, the presence of an airplane flying low overhead was enough to keep the chattering bluck birds in the trees, while the farmers massacred them with shotguns. "Airplanes w<*re used for hunting Hone in Africa, until a government de- cree halted them. Hers of horses out West have at times been much alarmed by the passage of airplanes. But there have been times when the animals have scored. Once a horse found an airplane in a field. He approached it stealthily, gave one lick at the fabric, and found It rather tasty. In a few minutes he had demolished the entire tail, eschewing the wood and chewing only the doped fabric. "One of the most curious of queer happenings in the air occurred in the war. One day, about noon, a British 2C was sighted gliding down toward its airport. But instead of circling to land it kept steadily on and passed over the field. Instant suspicion crept into every man's mind that the Ger- mans were landing a spy In a captured machine. A truck was manned and a half dozen stalwarts, armed with revol- vers, made off in the direction in which the airplane disappeared. In a few minutes the machine was discover- ed, standing still In a large field, its prop' turning over slowly. From am- ple cover some one called out. There was no answer, though two men could be seen sitting In their cockpits. "Finally, some intrepid soul stealth- ily approached, only to find that both airmen were dead. The machine bad actually flown them home and landed them safely, without any damage to its structure. "There is the story of a pilot who went looking for trouble. Up lu front of him loomed a giant thunderhead He thought to himself. ' I should like to see what Is inside.' As soon as th pilot got Into the cloud he felt hli heart sinking Into his shoes, as if hi were being shot upward in an elevator He was elevated at tlie alarming raw of 1,400 feet a minute. He pushed tlu (ontrol stick forward as far as it would go. It made no difference: he was still being carried upward ami to nmke matters worse sideways at a speed of some seventy-miles an hour. Eventually his experience came to an end; for lie suddenly shot out of the cloud in a dive, yet several thousand feet higher than when lie had entered it." chniqiK Trinidad Ciianlinii i OTHER OPINIONS Log Cabin Survives Our national architecture was u few felled lengths of forest crudely built up wilh I In- hide and hair still on it. The log cabin was mythically, if not actimll) :i^ ill Lincoln's case, the in- ubalor <>i nni great men. And we are mill likely to think of it as peculiarly an American fealiuf-. nllhoiigh It ap-i PIMM, liiimnii gi'ogriiphi-rs say, where- ever tin- same wooilliinil cin uinstlanoHfc Itrevail, or prevailed f;iiily recently, as In-day lu parts of KIIMMII. Sweden. Kin- land, am! i-vi-n in Sw il /.'! l.inil .mil iu Northern Italy. The C!<>rinuni< luive just pen i - led ;i portable copper house that can be erected by .six men in 24 hours. Vim can take it to the sea- shore or to Hie mount :ii us with you al- most as li.tudily us if it were a lent. II Imasl , ;IM mi"i|u:illeil "nil lonalizal ion" in hn'i-iiiu Bui who could ie< upeniie from Hie i-uii hlneage in cuch a coiitiap-' tinn'.' Not Hie run of American*, cer- tainly, who came out of the wnniN only day before yesterday and have Afler hiiiinii a hump. Sir Henry Hirkln. famous British racing driver. Is seen shooting through tlie ith wheels off the s''f""id, during a practice for the British Ktnpire trophy at Brooklauds, KngJ;ind. Highway Menace It would lie interesting to know how many motorists, reading the warning slven by Hon. Leopold Macaulny. Min- ister of Highways, about the import- ance of headlights, have bothered to check up on this particular equipment of their own cars. Kvery driver, out on the highway after nightfall, knows that the headlights of the majority of approaching cars are a menace to his safety . . but in all probability he hasn't taken the trouble to ascer- tain whether or not bis own beams of illumination are as annoying to others. There were 250 accidents iu Ontario last year directly attributable to faulty headlights, the Minister of Highways declares. Twelve of these had fatal termination, Hamilton Spectator. Traveling in 'Good Old Days' Traveling in the- olden days was a dangerous and sometimes amusing experience, according to P. J. Pybus. Minister of Transport., who quoted history during an address in London riTontly. He said that Edward I took the coach by degrees, and "tried it on the dog." for when lie went to Scotland he himself was carried In a horse litter, while the ladU-s of I lie court traveled in couches. In tho reiv.ii ol' Oovj-e IB. Sidney Smith n HIM- <| that in his coach journey fiMin Tamilon to Bath he . received from 10,000 to 12.000 contu- sions. "This," said Pybus, "work- | ed out at one for every eight yards ' Possibly on that painful journey Sid- ney Smith allowed his miud to dwell longingly on the comfortable swing- ing of the horse liiii-r in Uu> good old ilays." HAPPINESS. Our happiness does not depend t>< circumstance or place or liuie; it is something that lies within us, here and now.