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f [^ 1 r#- •-•-♦V* >>♦ ♦♦ ♦â- â™¦â™¦â™¦â- â™¦-"•-♦^^ •-•'«"•-« Voice of tfie Press Canada, The Empire i.id The World at l-arge ?li CANADA I ' Moral For Motori*(t i,'(' re in a bit of » mora! fi^r all Jio' •..-iU In the story of the Texan JrU'' *aiitPU to iuaiiett (lie sctnio of « latJ iraHlc aocitloiil ili^ otliei- day. (â-  A rar liad gone off Hkj roatl on a iu<J :!.'iiln hlgUwHy, kll'lng it"" driver. IJo •. i» Toxan drove out to see, and ' ;o'. -1 lutere«tod looking at tilings ' Ua- ii» ioat control of liis o»u ma- ' ^i:}- and it, too, weut off the road ' nd '07.n Into a ravirin, killiiiK llie ' Iriv-*: . Tlie moral, of course, Is self- ' (Tioer.i; never get so liUernsted in the ' ilgii'3 around you tiiat you forget to ^atoU where you are diivlng. But ' liat is a fault fatally easy foi' a motor- it to lap'e iu!o. All of u." iiave been iul'.iy of it at one time cr another. T»;.a;Iy we fome tUrougli it all right, ku*. '>e might as well n^meniliur that t V be a horribly costly liMle error. Other People's Opinioni ': Is uot always easy to d'^ ide how tn.-.;.li attention we should j>ay to pll.er peoples opinions . It is a dlffl- pUlt course to steer, sometinK'g, be- fw >«n a slavish bowinp to the opinions ot those around us an<i a wron^ indlf- jfe-rence to such opinion. There is a %! •.â- iesoine middle cour.se to follow; ao'. a middle-of-the-road policy which lis no convictions, but a fearless com- ination of rightful Indttterenro on the _j^ hand and saue sen8Ufvciip-;s on the ^ther. â€" Toronto (ilobe. A Matter of Opinion If you see a woman wearing some- thing nowadays, and the last thing on M.rth It looks like is a woman's hat, jrou can bet your life It is a womaus Ml â€" Ottawa Journal. Newspaper In Every Home The extent to which newspapers are read In Canada has been illustrated Wtr(Mb In figures announced at the toneieenth annual meeting of the As- ^ciation of Canadian Adxjrtiser.H, It »a3 announced that two and a quarter Inilllon copies of newspapers are solH iivery day in Canada. "This means," t was explained, "that evei-y accesa- Die family in the Dominion is receir- ij:; Its dally paper." \ 'ITita Is an Impressive sliowing, and Indicates that even in there present y'^ry trying years people are loath to k'n» up thoir daily paper. On this con- lineat at least the dally now.ipapcr is JUe most widely read of all publlca- lio- .<. It is an indispensable part of Virtually every family's dally life. â€" V.'g na f.^"ader-Po8t. Come Again! \ (.'alironiia u<;wspaper ^ays: "Cana- d'a'. ports are frozen for a good por- • t','. of the winter and wheal cannot leave tbe.se ports." The mor» we see ii! a '.nek of general world information U7-. • -.e part of the United .States people lb-? more respect we have for our own t'i . itronal system. -Halifax Herald. Vwice-Wrltten Works ij'i death of the Jjetroii aullior, .Vil'.fjevlngton Comfort, recalls the fact Ihi: !i9 had to write hi? most success- ^u: !)ook, "Routledge ftide.s Aione," IK. .I He labored at it tor months â-ºâ€¢Ui'.e his family almo.st starved, and wh;a on the nay to the publi.si.ers, ho k)-^' the manuscripts and U was never found. He had no duplicate cupy, and »;t!'ougii physically exhausted, he set Y'.i teetli and wrote the book over ^arai.T. Other authors have performed ^luf.h greater feats. Tiiomas Carlyle. Wuo3e "Fronoli KevoUition" is one of (h9 most stupendous volunicH ever )t>enaed, involving the assemhlinu of an iaimause amount of historical data, al- jio A rote it twice. Ho loaned (he first ro,-y to a friend, and it transpired *on;9 weeks later that a maid liad seen Wi- manuscript on the table, and -not rcsl'.izing what it was. Iiad used the V*i>s every morning to light the flrea l>t 'U» house. Carlyle wrote it all over agaio. "Lawrence of Arabia' is an i>tue:' who had the same e.xpericiK'e. U". '.viote his famous book on the Arab un-palgn, numlierlng :;00,000 words, Vnd one day a thief stole the hag con l|s',u;u2 the complete mauuscript al a Isilway station. So Lawrence re-wrote I' J -.villi!* ixi :« Si ThMiiiaH TiniM- THE EMPIRE A F»lr Deal tor the Kjiimer Willi the proper orguni/.atiuii of and security for the agricultural producers there is room for a million or more of the urban uuemidoyed in the fleUls whicii they or their near relatives Imt recently quilled, I!ul proper organi- sation ami effective sennity are vital, and both these will be liuille.ss unless thij prfKlucer is assured of a fair deal. I.'iiidon Daily Tolejirapli. Retrenchment In the O'onies Wliaiover hardships the .uiure holds !n .store for ofllcers in .\Iaiu>a lUey will follow on the heels of similar sacrilicea whic'j have been borne by olMccrs ia other administration.^ of the Colonial set vice for some time past Morexiver, tliin Colony is one of tlio.-:e where an income tax does not oporutu and, so fur a^< we are permitted to know offi- cial intentions, is not conlompiated. Thi* fict may help Oovertimeut oill- lials iiere to face future 1 uncial sue- rifi'-es with rather greater equanimity liuin might otherwise bu tU> case. It's a hard life, but it might so easily be harder,- Singapore Free Prt',--H, World Problems 'lb- return of pro.ii>erily lo Britain. and all other countries, depends llrsi and foremost ou the acliicvomeut of sauK international agrecmeuts to re- lieve the burden and tlie increase ; .' annaments. to remove the Incubus . Huge Airship To Make Debut in Spring 'I'he uew air giant Macon is paiiy iter sister ship the .\kron. licgiiining to take sliaiie and in liie spring will lie ready lo accoui- Kins are being put In place now. Insurance Officers to Spend $75,000 in Publications Toronto.- -For the third consecutive year in its record 12 years of progress, the Canadian Life Insurance OtTicor.s' .Association votfd to expend ^Tfi.OOO in Canadian pui>!icalioiis durinjf the dejts. to remedy the causes which; forthcoming year. A .scries of advtr- have thrown tlie currencies of halt tlie;iij,e,„p„tg_ c.xpoundinsj the principles wori.i into tlie meltinij p::t. and to cut „f [jf^ insurance as protection for de- the Ixinds which strangle international ti.iil'- l.'ciinomist (Ixmdoiu. Quality and Quantity The Americanizatidu of imlu.-.iiv In Europe has clearly not been a success. i-Iisli tariff protiiction. rati ;iiali/ation. olu-eslablislicd so<:icties of hlKlily and masa-prodnction are of no use to skilled people. They liore r'.iuarkable results in the United .States because o. its vast internal market, its iindevelo|e ed resources, its continuous .supjily of (heap immigi-ant labour, its self-suf- ficiency in raw niati.rlals. Kven in the United States tiie limit of the beneiiis to be obtained from rationalizatjcm and mass-production seems lo liave been reached, and indeed overpas'-eij 'i'liere never were aii.v benefits for i;iji(i|w in turning from < raflsmanship to mass- production; and to crattsnianshiii lliir- ope should rotiirn I'rof. U. H .Mnwal in The Contemporary Revj,.., i Lon- don). |)Ciidents and for old-ajje income, wi! apjH'ar in 73 Knsli.=h at;<i Krcncli newspapers ai.<i IS Kngli.'^h and French farm jiublications from coa-t U» coast in Canada. In 19!ll, in the face of the linancial situation, the as.sociation's members voted to more than double its adver- tifinj; outlay fc^'linf; tliat the neco=- sity of ac(iuiring- life insurai.ce and retaining cNisliMic [Kilicics should b,> stressed dniiii}; period.-: of re»iuce<i in- come. The following year it repeated its decision, volint; $75,000 UKuin. 'i'his year It voted lo niainlain tlie standard set two years ajco. ^ For lli years the as.sociation ha, lieen wideninjj; iUs active spliere until iM tlie past two years it ha.s atlaine.i !i record, it is stated. une(|ualle(l on the North American continent in co- operative institutioi al advertising. Finds Monoxide Gas Can Act in a Minute AMERICAN i Albany. â€" Xiniieroiis deatlis recent- _i , . , I ly from carbon monoxide gas poison- The League and Japan , , , , ,. , , ,â-  ! Ing, have led H. H. Kichards, duec The I-eague of Nations is in a rather tor of State Vublic Health Kdu.atic.n, tight place. It can by no means afford lo order the ,lapaiiese to withdraw th(;ir control from Manchuria, tor llie ,lapanese would simply refuse aiirl the League would have no means of en- foning lis order. No iiati<in or group of nations Is ready lo go t , war with i,i,, tiers, ,la,.an over Mancbiuia at tliis time. -jnn]' u, seo how it works. I tried No nation is willini; to break off dipio- 1 „„ e.tperiment," he said. Leaving mv son to watch (.iitslde our gar- to issue a v,-arning to the pulilie. The Stale Labor liepartment is (lis Iributing a pamphlet containing in- structions for avoiding the gas that ((lines not ctjly from autonioliiU s hut from liidoiir gas heaters and similar nuitic relations with ,l»pun, Kvon the aUririeved (Uiinese liave not done so. â€" I I'liilatlelpliia Ledger. j •>- French Plow Horse Leads To Interesting Discovery ' 'luihiits .Sur-iVIai ne, Kraiiie, .V neo- , lilliic tribal tomb lias just lieou dis- ' age, waiting for a signal from me. t closetTthe garage doors and started the motor cf my car. This, mind yon. was in a tlirOKcar garage. "In just a minute I felt a sort of metallic taste in my mouth. 'I'hen 1 got dic.zy and drowsy. F rushed to the door just as my son. realizing cotered al Vllleneuvo Saiut-Vistres. w liere the soil (aved in under llie lioofs of a jilow horse, leaving a lioie aiionf a foot wide. The farmer went or. unheeding, but some pas.sing liiinl- ers looked in the Mole and saw linman m! RolH.id, a Villenenve arel.aeolo- ' •''â- ^"''' '',T''f'':\ , , â-  He adds that he can (leleriume wh'.- llier ho can be of assistance to the child hy the behavior of the imither when he \valk.s into the sick room. what bail happened, threw II open," ... Children's Ails Psychic "Fifty per <H'iit, I'l' tlie disturlianci-- of childivn are )>syrliic rather than ' [ physical," slates a piominenl chil- Carbon Monoxids Dangers \ season of danger to motor car o^iiieia Is on, that wherein garage lli>r>rs sod windows are closed against tti» cold and there Is temptation to tiavt the motor under such restricted Vor, nation. Peculiarly there are many Ititrtorists who know nothing of car- Voi-uionoxlde gai, and would be as- t iu:idad to learn that the exhaust h'oiu the niotoi may contain one of lh« most deadly and quick-acting caaes Vi-.wn \\>lland Port Oolborne Trl- Auctrslis Making Headway It Is sprlog time In Austaralla now, ind the winter has bsen a ahsrp oita. Hut the crotis promise to be bountiful, lud it la sntlcipaxd that tb« wool dtp wt.l be larcer ami better than for sot )r#ira past There haa been en sttttBd- Silt raliifsU, with oorrespondlnflf • luudant feed 'the rellet provided bf l^.e land tsi reduction baa be*rtia*4 lite farmers, who are now looklof tat t'l upward trend Id produce prices.*^ 'I utrsal nalljr Star a \lllen(;nve ar gist, informed of the discovery,! bionglil to light a Inirial place sloping down to a Mat stone When tliis was lifted, an underground cliamlior was foniui in which worn several skeletons (in tliK ground resting against the sides !ie-ids or men, women or children. Six (pf file room There were twenty eight tlint lifaded arrows, three fllut knives, three sandstont knives and »a axe- hohler were also found. â€" > - Mexican Gold Supply Consumed Chiefly in U. S. and Britain .Mexii I, City. Cold inodui lion In i'Jli'i totaled T,5.'!0 kilograms, of which Meii(;o during the nrst tlve months of only nInety-sIx kihigiams were extn- sumed ia this country, the rest beias e\p<;rted Ouring the same period. Mexico produced 910,S!tl) kilograms of silver, of whldh only l!>!t,079 kilograms WHre couHumnd in Mexico, the rest be- ing exported. The figures also ii-.tal that Culled Slates and (Ireat Britain are the prin- cipal c()nsumers <if gold. Silver went In largest quantities to thft.se'twii coun- tries and to India. China. Kram i; and (Sermany. Smokers' Eves Better At Seeing Red LighU lioa Ang^elwL Tobacco smoking, it has lAsA AoWo In exp«riment« con- dnoUd at the Unlverbltf of .Si>utiher& OtUfomla, tanda to Increaa* the senai- tlvihr it ayt^lgbt to r«d aod grun ^ckn. TMaatMltiTity, •xperimer.ters PftlM <>U% may ta futur* determine Ancient Chinese Wall Offered for Sale .Siiaiigbai. Tlif .\lay(,r of ihe City of .Meihsieu, in Kwaugtuug Province, lias hit upon the iugenious plan of selling th»» city wall in ten-foot lengths and using the proceed; to ere( I nicdern fortilicalions to pro- tect the clry from the aita k? of Communists or bandits. Several yearn ago the city walls began to disintegrate when bricks were removed to provide culverts for new bus roads. Theu, in 1929, came two attacks by Comniunlsis and the liattlemeuls were hastily repaired. Kecently there has been agitation ill favor of tearing down the wall to make room for shops. The .Mayor liiially decided to divide the wall in- to ten-fool length, eacli selling for a little more than $100. Kach buyer is resiMuisible for tearing down his pcrtion of the wall and he may re- tain the bricks as building material for the constriiction of his shop. Half of the wall has been thus dis- IKiscd of al a total return of about $60,000. This money is being expend- ed on the building of fifteen two- storey towers (•(.niinauding all <if the mads entering .\Ieilisieu. Ten of these forts have already been com- pleted, the towers being of reinforc- ed concrete. .\1cihsien is an iniliortaut center for llie distrlluitioii of goods to the in- terior of Kwangtnug J'rcTin«:e. New State Pictured of Canada's Future Turin. to.~-.\ bright picture of Can- ada ill the futur<: was paintej by Ke?- iiiald H. Dean for the St.. Lamliert Women's Cluti at its recent meeting liere. Mr. I»ean visualivte.l a new world where the "Go<I staiulard" not the gold slaiuiard would prevail, and the teachings of tlie Creal .Master of nineteen hundred years ago would find a definite,' place. Poblcms would be faced from a diflerent angle than that of ten years ag:o: a greater individual res(H>nsibility would be apiiareiit. The siK-'akev pointed to the great resources of Canada an<l its stable in- stitutions. He noted that banking in- stitutions liad st(Ki(l the test of the eiitical timer. France Builds Big Locomotive liiiieu, France The state railroad shops here are putting the finishing touches ou a hicomotive repres.'ut- ed to be the most powerful In the world. It develops i.SOO liors* power, makes seventy-live miles an hour and has an RUfoinatlc stolcer. Wheat Shipments To Grow Stronger Likely to Increase During December â€" Slow Up First of New Year Ottawa. -Willi Itiis. ia out of tli«^ Km- pire market. Canadian wlieat sales ; i Great Britain during Oct .her were it- 204,000 bushels, or nearly four times what they were a year ago, according to oflUcial figures reacting here from Liverpool, This Canadian sale of K,- 204.000 bushels ri.presented 57 per cent, of all the wlieat bought by the UiiifKl Kii;gdom during the month. It made a striking comparison to ;*i« figures, for October, 19:11, when Can- ada, unable to compete with Uu.ssia, sold to Britain only :!.070.000 busliels, or I- per cent, of the tot il Rri'iob f.jr- chases. Grain authorities here have everj exiK?etati()n that the volume of Can- adian "sales to Oreut Hritain will re- main at their present high level until the end of the year. After that they tear that the currency situation, the disparity between the pound and the dollar, may work to Canada's disaif- vantage. Russia, of course, is selling little or no wheat to Britain ( .' any other c-oun- try this Fall. Information is meagre, but most authorities are of the opinion that the granaries of the Soviet step pes hold scarcely enougli grain to sup ply the food-rationed Kussians tliem selves. Tlie Danubian countries, too are practically out of the e.xi>ort mar ket, crop failures having greatly re duced their production. Canada Unchallenged Thus l>nada at llie moment staiid.'- uQcUallenged in the British market, lie cause the tinited States, the only oihei competitor of size at this season, has not yet got its prices down to an ex port basis. As British slocks, accord ing to the latest figures, are at an un precedeiitediy low ebb, it is considerec here that Hritain will he buying at tU« Young Men of Britain Have All- Year Camps London. â€" An orf^anization known as Grith Fyrd Camps has come into ex- istence in response to the iK>pular de- mand. A chain of ])ernian-ent camp coiiimnnities is l/Ciug formed in which .'oung: men of all classes can live a | worth-while life, even if precluded from earning a living. The project was initiated by the Order of Wood- craft Chivalry, a social and education- al organization, which has had tixteen years' experience of year-roun^d camp- ing;. It is more than an uneir.pl-c'Vnient scheme, for it aims at fining 'needs j ''*'« "^ -"'""""" ''"^'"^'" =* '"""'"""'•• which would l)e urgent if there were "'^ November and December. Canada iiounenipkiyment -(1) for the regain- j •?''°"''', ^-^l' '''^ '"'"^ "^ ""'' ^â- ''""'- " ii.g by young men of thai personal '•'' ^«<'''>''"'- experience of primitive adventure -Tanuary. however is normally th.- which was lost in the migration from h'""^" ,.'" 7'"?'" t r^'"-^^""'"" ,"".'' Australia begin shiiipmg out tlieir In these countries, harvesting is just siartiiig now. It is when these two great producers, both of which country to tviwn ; ("21 for the con structive use of readiness to face dan-' ""^P ger an<l difficulty in serving their country; and (3) for education in the purposeful use of the leisure which u -J u „ I 1 ..1. 1 u lower than the pouiu sterling, thi humanity has secured bv the elabora- „ ,. . ' . ,. - , , Canadian wheat exporters mav te tion of machines. , . , „ , . i .• , , . ilembers of Clrith Fyrd C'aiups set about the task of learning by first- hand experience how to control them- selves and each other, or, in other words, how to live in communities and yet find life adventurou.s and satisfy- ing. The fist camp has been (...nstructed close to the bank of the Mon at Gods- hill near Fordingbridge, on the north- western edge of the New Forest, twelve miles from .Sot thampton. have currencies depreciated as low or that el the pinch of their relatively hisli- priced doliar. grain men say. As expressed iu terms of dollars the price of Canadian liea' woulc have to come down in order to meet this Australiaii-Argeiiline competition The wheat preference accor'e liy llu Canada-United Kingdom trade agree ment apiilies e(iually to Australia, st that ('aiiada would find no protrcliot there. Moreover it is pr.ibable that currency values nolwithsUmding. tlu •Argentine wheat would be regarded ir ICugland as setting u world price low- er than Canada's price and. conse- quently under the terms of the trade agreement Canada would not (iiuillfy for the preference. Spain's Navy Shrinks -Madrid. .Spain, although a .Medi- terranean and Atlantic ptjwer whose strategic position is well known, rs demonstrating its desire for peace lioth in theory and in tact by allow- iug her navy to dwindle iu iuiport- tauce until it already is inferior to the .\rgeutiue fleet. The navy, as things now stand, is headed by only two dreadnoughts of 15,700 tons, and throe cruisers, two of them of 7,975 tons and one of 4,- 7'-'j. The other craft hrt amall de- .stroyers. submarines, and gunboats. ,;. _ _ . A • • '''''** '""'^-''''J' '" a colony and with re roles Not Artistic cent works on t^entral African colon! Paris. The French do no; consider ! i^at'on and restnirch work, teieiihoiie yoles things of beauty, j The (olonial reference library au( Within the past month, becau.se of a'"'nseuni in Hrussels will pmliahly decri-e pa'^setl by^lie French tio\-ein- nient, 249 telepl.one poles have been Libraries for the Congo Brussels,- There is a movement on foot to provide the larger cities in the Congo with libraries. The project was planned long ago, but in many cases ha.s not be-en put into executi<^n. Had times are reminding those in authority of the nccei'-sity of providing the while populatiou with books of reference ol removed from the vicinity of various hist<nic niouume-nts, ruins i-nd pictur- ese|iie landscapes. Santa Claus Down South serve us a model for tbt^ Conge libraries. .As always in Helgiuni. pic tures and diagrams serve better than books, More value is attachfd. tor in stance, to specimens of cotton or cop per from the Congo, than lo works on minerals in general. Kmincnlly iiraclical. the tSelgiaii is not a reader of newsjiaiwrs or books He prefers practical to thtHirt^tical i.i- struction. but the Colonial (lovern ment is preparing to supply the need i where practical faiulities do luit exist I and where they already exist, wants j to supplement them by book know- ledge. 1,530,890 Peiping Population Is Largest in History of City I'eipiug, China. I'eiping, the aucj ent capital of China, has a popula- tlcn of l,i30,890. according to the latest figures. Of this number, fia.- I 963 are foreigners. <hiefly Japanese ' and Kussians. Peiping now is more populous by ' 70,000 persons than it was e»en dur- ing the first year of the republic. i This Is accounted for by the large Influx (if refugees from Manchuria during t\\(< last year. In having at- tained its largest size in history. Pei- ping fare an acute housing problem which grows more serious aa refugee* continue to arrive from the disturbed ar*«s to the northward. --♦ Disappointed I 8a:i, ' ( -1 liai Indeed gene modern. (|ulre ot Jack and Jill what tlieir wishes - He landed his new plane In San Kranclsro. Isst wei^k. 1 •-. Ill addition he took 'em for a ride. .As the result id' an ojHjralion â-  thirteen-yearold boy, who was born l>lind, has just gained hit* sight at .Adelaide, Australia, and hia first re- mark was, 'I often used to frondai what thitigs could hmk like, but hlo^ It all, when I see them they are ju* about what 1 th; ught they -would b«.'