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Voice of the Press Canada. The Empire and The World at Large Noted Figure Passes CANADA Prepare Yourtelf Down at W'licatlcy thp olhcr day a man rciid(>4 dlT an attempted holdup with a iii'wtipapor he carrying in his hand. Now is the time to subscribe. You ueviT know when a newspaper will come in handy. â€" Godericb Signal. The Bible When mankind ceases to believe In the flRhtlhg power of Blmple words, and the beauty of rhythmic, flowhiR euntenci-H that go strulKht to the heart and tho head, It will perhaps take heed of the myriad critics of the Bible. To countless niillions, seeking the Rlble, turning to it for help, for wis- dom, for its beauty of words and phrase; turning to it because It breathes a message of divine Inspira- tion, badlyiiublished or not, it is heavenly poetry. These millions find no fault with it. The modern publish- ing house inlglit produce a de luxe edition of some modernist's work, with Illustrations by Dore. It is not likely to produce such music, such fundamental truth, snch economy of expression with barren simplicity, as In the sentence: "The Lord is my Shepherd." â€" Vancouver Sun. Unusual Winters After three weeks of sub-zero weath- er AlhertuiiK are heKlniiirig to ((uestluu if the province's famous "opeu win- ters" ever <lld have existence, except in the minds of some uf the old- timers. Certainly i( Is n retlectiou on the local weutlier prophets who were confident thai the Winter of 19X3-34 was to be unusually mild. â€" Calgary Herald. First Toronto Motorist A notable tigure In the life of On- tario passes from the scene in the death of Ur. l\ E. Doollttle. He was the first man in Toronto to own and operate a motor car and his great in- terest in this form of tianuportatiun and it.-^ development, which continued until his death, made his nuinc well- known throughout the province and. Indeed, all over the Dominion. â€" Tor- onto Telegram. ntelllgence Quota A speaker tells a local service club that only Ave per cent, of the total population of the world are thinkers; the majority, he says, are mere imi- tators. However, the .situation isn't »8 had as It might seem, for probably about 95 per cent, cla.ss themselves as belonging to the five. They're satis- fied, anyhow, and personal satisfac- tion, as we know. Is the kind that counts. â€" Border Cities Star. Letters In Mourning The year 11*33 should bear a black mark In the Kuglish literary calendar. So far as can be judged at the mo- ment, it has brought to light no work of outstanding merit, but It has re- moved from the scene several who had established themselves in the field of letters and an unusual number uf those of lesser fame. â€" Vancouver Pro- vince. A Tip Knees for automobiles have been in- vented and that they may be seen to best advantage tlie cars will probably be exhibited with tartan and sporran. â€"Port Arthur Nows-Chronicle. Understandable There Is an old-world tliarni about :he rejoicing uf millions of .lapunese over the birth of a son to the Em- peror Hirohilo and Empress Nagako. Kven in this day of (ottering dynas- ties and populistlc ferment we of the British Empire can understand the Japanese rejoicing, for we have our own deep loyalty to the House of Windsor. In the case of the House of the MIkados, however, there was an especial urgency In the prayers for a male oflsprin^, since under Japanese law a woman may not ascend the throne. In Hrltish history, on the con- trary, some of our most Illustrious sovereigns, such as F^lizabeth and Vic- toria, nave been reigning queens.â€" Montreal Star. Looks Llk« It In Paris a man was arrested near the Courts of Justice clad r)nly in his underwear. Lawyer won his suit"/ â€" Brantford I5xposltor. The late Chief John George Watson, for 25 years head of Hunts- vlUe police, ex-member Irish con- stabulary at Belfast and friend of the lat© Lord Kitchener, whose funeral took place In HunLsvlUe on January lllh. Doctor Is "Mr." The death of Mr. I. II. Cameron re- moves a very remarkable surgeon from the ranks of the great operators of the Dominion. He always insisted on being "called Mr. Cameron, not Dr. He was a surgeon, he said, not a medi- cal man. and chose to niaiiitain the ancient tradition.â€" Hamilton Herald. monstration of gas warfare, but we must he prepared to defend ourselves, whatever be the consequence of attack from the air.â€" The Weekly Scotsman. THE EMPIRE High Praise for a Prince And certainly, in closeniting dark overcoat, with a pink carnation â€" pre- sented to him by the little son of R. G. Clissold, chairman of the Edgbas- ton Occupational Centn â€" and his fair hair sleek In the winter sunshine, the Prince looked as handsome and healthy as any film star. â€" Birniing- ham, England, Gazette. Sunken Treasure in Great Lakes If dwellers along the Great Lakes were to read the government reports of disasters on these Inland seas, saya a writer in the New York Times, they would learn of treasure to the value of $I&,000.000 sunk in them since the middle of the nineteenth century. The treasure Is not In the form of doub- loons, but some of It Is of a nature to yield profit If recovered. The treasure Is of various kinds. In Lake Erie be- tween Cleveland and the Detolt Itiver lies the steamer Clarion with a cargo of locomotives. In the middle of the game lake lies a vessel with 300 bar- rels of whiskey, while another like cargo is at the bottom of Lake Michi- gan sear Manltou Island. Between Dunkirk, Ohio, and fJrie rests a boat with 150,000 worth of pig zinc which divers liavo failed to get. There are many cargoes, lost on the Great Lakes, to retrieve which no serious attempt has been made. There are possibili- ties of real profit if ocean diving equipment wore brought In for this purpose. â€" Kingston Whig-Standard. The Poor Rich Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who shortly to'heronie Miss Mary Hlckford again, has given out a moving inter- view in New York all about God and life and Mary Plckford. Among other Immortal sentiments uttered therein ia the opinion that the best things In life are free and that wealth cannot buy anything worth while. No doubt this is true, but it Is a curious fact that hardly anyone finds It out until after he has made a lot of money. And â- while wealth Is recognized In every child's copy book and in every Inter- view with the rich as a curse and a burden, yet liarilly anyone ever at- tempts to escape it after acquiring it, â€"Victoria Times. Selling a Pair of S'ocks Here is a charming â€" and true â€" story of Lady Strathmore, the Duchess of Y'ork's mother. At her bazaar in London the other day there were dozens of pairs of socks and in the midst of selling some of them she looked up at her customer rather anxiously. "Y'ou're a big man â€" wonder if these will be long enough in the foot tor you," she said. "I know from my own boys that they are so uncomfortable if they are short. "I'll tell you what to do. Take them with you and try them on. and | if they are not long enough I'll knit new toes for you." â€" Overseas Daily Mail. The English Blrth-Rate Mor(> marriages, fewer births! In the third quarter of this year the number of persons married was great- er by 15.no3 than the corresponding quarter of 1932 and greater by 35,408 than the number in the June quarter, but the births were 8,101 fewer than in the 1932 quarter and the birth rate dropped to 11. G per thousand. France, fletruiany and Italy are now intent on raising their bhlh-rate. They realize that a nation's greatest a.sset Is Its citize!is. Britain cannot afford a fall- ing birth-rate now. â€" The Sunday Chronicle. The "Royal Scot" Now, it not before this time, the "Royal Scot" is the best known train in the world. To hundreds of thous- ands of "Century of Progress" visitors she is the incarnation of English rail- roading â€" even of England herself. And in every way she has done her country proud. Whoever conceived the idea of sending the "Royal Scot" to Ameri- ca â€" and whoever evolved the plan tor her visit â€" knew his showmanship. The flying tour made by the train before she took her place at the "Century of Progress" was just sufTicient to stimu- late an enormous amount of public in- terest.â€" R. M. Van Sant, in Modern Transport. Risked Her Own Neck .superiiilendont of police A .superiiilendont of police at Ox- ford spoke with conimciuluble, even if unconscious, candor to a cyclist summoned during the past week [or disobeying a trafflc signal. As the lay press missed the whole point of his remark, we cannot let it i)ass without pointing the homily. The cyclist was a young lady who Innocently Imagined, when she found the red light against her, that she could become a "pedestrian" on the spot and walk forward, ahead of the motor trafllc. She went to the un- paralleled length of wheeling her cycle between two motor cars, which We imagine must be a very galling thing for a motorist to experience. In lu|the police court she said she thought that If she walked she came under the "pedestrian category." The much- shocked superintendent retorted: "And risk your neck!" To which the depraved young lady replied: "Well, It Is my own." She was fined a pound. The teniplallon Is to leave the fads without further comment â€" as the superintendent presiimnbiy did. But those who atlll walk should bear in • mind his professional opinion that to] become a pedestrian on the spur of the moment Is to risk your neck. We, propose to leave it to the pedestrians ou the one hand and tin- speedsleis | on the other to argue the point wheth- er a "modern iiedestrlan's" neck is atlll his own! -(i. K.'.- Weekly. Lindbergh's "Services" Worth $250,000 Stock Washington.â€" .\n oflicia! of Traus- oontinental Air lYansport, Inc., re- cently told United States Senate in- vestigators 25,000 shares of the com- pany stock were given to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. D. M. Sheaffer. cliairnian of the air company's executive committee, told of a complicated syslom used for what bo said was "income tax pur- poses" In transferring the stock to the note<l pilot. He said the stock, valued at -250,- 000, was given to Lindbergh in re- turn for "services." Melbourne to Oust 1 Ugly Signs and Noise Melbourne, Vic. â€" Fresh campaigns against city noises, ugly poster adver- tisements and pillar verandahs are be- ing planned by the city council for the cooling municipal year. After tram noises, which the coun- cil cannot stop, the chief causes of noise are regarded as being squeaking car brakes, radio loudspeakers, and "spruikers" outside theatres and shops. The practice of haviivg uni- formed "spruikers" outside shops, an- nouncing bargains in stentorian voices, has grown in recent years. All such noises, the council feels, could be subdued by stricter enforcement of the council's antl-nolse bylaws. Ugly boardings which do not com- ply with the council's regulation will be pulled down. Owners of buildings with pillar verandahs will bo urged to demolish them, or to replace them with verandahs of the cantilever type, within the next five years. The coun- cil's view Is that pillar verandahs, be- sides Interfering with trafllc, mar the appeai'ance of the city streets. Many liave been demolished In recent years, ^. Princess Alice Opens London Bazaar A big London event recently was a church bazaar in aid of Anglo-Cath- olic home and foreign missions, he!d for tw'o days In the Royal Horticul- tural Hall at Westminister. Out of the 50 special stalls, 10 reprcssent Africa, south of the equator, and St. Helena. The bazaar was opened by Princess Alice, Countess of .\thlone. In recognition of her special South .\fiican connection. The Princess, who was attended by Mi.^s Heron-Maxwell, said she was Miss Heron-Maxwell, said she was happy to support tlie work of Eng- lif.h church missions at home and abrpad. "I think those engaged in church work at home," she .said, "of- ten fail to realize what the life of the workers abroad la like My knowledge Is limited to my" South African experiences, but during my .seven years' residence in South Af- rica, I had ample opportunity to see the work done there by missionaries, and I learnt to appreciate the moral, social and physical help thev give to the natives. The work is .so e.xtreme- I.v worth while, but none of it can be carried on without financial support " Chosen Architect Vincent Harris has been chosen from a long list of British archi- tects to design the new govern- ment buildings in Whitehall 14,200 Italian Settlers Flock to Reclaimed Lands Llttoria, Itaiy.-Trainloads of peas- ants arrive here every month and thousands of these hardy farmhands start lift afresh in this citv, which was once the centre of the now re- claimed Pontine marshes. Hare at least there Is no depression. These rugged folk come from the most varied points of the peninsular and their one wish te to till the soil. The vast expanses of the re- claimed Pontine marshes today make their life dream come true. Veteran farmers stand at attention and mechanically click their heels to- gether before uttering a monosyllable. A good many lately have been com- ing from the Friuli region. Property is so subdivided and sciirce there and so thickly populated that lots destined for farm-sharing often meas- ure less than a hectare. Hence they become wanderers in search of work, almost gyp^y-farmers. The Pontine ex- periment is curing the disease. Men are falling In love again with their soil, their plow apd oxen. Famous Woman Spy Happily Married Marthe Cnockaert, wife of Capt. McKenna, Ex- British Soldier Yesterdav I heard the truth about one of the Great War's greatest love romance, writes a woman correspond- ent of a London daily newspaper. It was the love story of a famous spy, who is now in Britain, told by her husband. Captain McKenna, ex-soldier. "Out of the desolation of mud, rain, graves and crosses came the great- est happiness which '.ve two had ever known," he said. The other person of the "we" is Marthe Cnockaert, though I am breaking a promise in describing her in this manner. "Captain McKenna is Iho husband of Madame McKenna, please, and I am the wife of a great so'dler. The rest we are trying to forget." That is Madame McKenna's emphatic wish. She is a wife now. Her husband is her hero. And like all good Belgian women, sho left all the talking to him. Cemetery Meeting "We met ou a bleak November morning just a week or so after the war. A friend and I were visiting Hospitable Calgary ' Welcomes Visitors. Showers Them With Gifts and. the "Glad Hand" Calgary. â€" Westewn hogpitajitj* means somerhlng In Calgary, not justi a handshake and 'welcome to out city." A "welc^ome wagon" awaits the new- ' comer and his family. It is covered * but not drawn, like the pioneer ouea, * by plodding oxeu or flery steeds. It,' Oias an up'toilbe^nllnute iraotor and" at the wheel sits a genial driver- hostess. The "welcome wagon" ii, loaded with gifts from local mer-; chants for the newcomers and letters of welcome. First there Is a letter from Mayor' Andy Davison inviting them to "com^ up and teo nie sometime." And then an invitation to dine free at a ooz> downtown tea room, followed by « comp'lmentary ticket to a movie an< a free taxi ride home. But that Is not all. The "welcome lady" greets the new Calgary house^ wife with two baskets laden will foodstuffsâ€" a quart of milk; a loaf oi' bread; butter; a tin at meat; severa packages of biscuits; a bag of floui and a host of other household sap* plies. , There Is also a bouquet of roses; i complimentary library card and thi • man-of-the-house is not forgotten He may have his hat cleaned an<*' blocked free and his car washed an<» oiled,, also without charge. , And then for good measure there Ii^ a nice, irtiiny yardstick, hut yol * don't need one to gauge western hos . pitallty in Calgary. {. Millions in Check But Borrows Tajci Fare * Waslilngtor.â€" A |43,30<\000 tl.ieck • in his pocket and not enough money to pay a taxlcab bill was the predica- ment in which Mr. Lloyd Landau found himself. ' Mr. Landau is a solicitor for the Public Works Administration. _ The taxicab bill was 40 cents and he was in Chicago. After displaying the federal clieck to the doubtful driver and a consid- • erable debate as to his identity, th« driver allowed him to enter the Union League Club to borrow 5fl cents from the desk clerk. The check was drawn in connec tton with a government transfer ol funds in Chicago. New Nationality Law Helps Women in Britain London.â€" By the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, w-hich recently received the royal assent the lot of British women who marry foreigners is somewhat mitigated The act, which was originally intro duced into Parliament as the Xa tionality of Married Women bil'. en ablea a British woman who parries the cemetery at Westrosebeke. look-i*" *''^" '° retain her own nationality ing tor graves of some of my friends "°-e«s s'le acquires his. Spends 50 Millions In Purchasing Gold Washington.â€" The United States reconstruction finance corporation has made known it had purchased more than $50,000,000 of foreign gold in the adniini.stration's efTort to boost com- mo<lity prices. Chicago Scene of Milk Battle Well Earned I/Ord WlUlngdon has been given four months' leave of absence from India. H» has oar.iod It by his combination of flrmni'MH, sympathy, tnrt and in- olKht in dealing with India's political priiblemH. The fact that he asks for a long vacatliui Is proof that he fears no turmoil In the iienr future â€" Lon- don Advertlfcr Plenty tof Material When Doris Warner, ilaiighter of the president of Warner Hhos.. Hcreeii producerB, was married in New York, a sound fllm was nitide of the proceed- ings and presented to her. If this son of thing extends to movie arlrens- «« many of them 'vlll hoou have enough rpoords in afford their friends a 1 ompleto mxht's entertainment. â€" Branttwrd KxpoHllor. Gat and Deitruction We have been told that nirplaiies with poison gases could wipe out the population of a city In a night, but Lord Mottlstone (formerly better known as (ienerul .1. K. H, Seelyi do dares It "a complete and fantastic de- lusion to suggest that London could he paralyzed by one single blow from the air." Poison gases, to be effective, must be light enough not to spread themselves on tho ground and heavy enough to resist dissipiillon In the at- mosphere. There Is perhaps as much tendency to overrate the danger from gas as there was to exnggernte the terrors of Hlg Hertha, which was able to project shells into Paris from .'10 miles away, but for every shell Ibnl was fired less than one person whs killed. No one d»"^irev (,, bave a de- who were burled there," he said "We plodded over the field, and saw a woman standing a little way in front of us, looking over the field of crosses . . . That was Martha 'My friend spoke to her. He ask- ed her if she knew the place. H« spoke to her first. It was her home town, and she was coming back to it to find nothing but the ruin of all her memories. "'I like Marthe Immediate^, and it was some time later that I learned of her work. I felt even happier when I realized her bravery . . . But very humble. For she had done great work." Wonderfully Happy Marthe had listened to us till then, but she here Interrupted. "He did, too. He was a great sol- dier. The whole war he fought. Very near to me . . . And they gave him tho Military Ci-oss and bar and the French Croix de Guerre." "But Marthe . . ." And to avoid any tervened. "You both served your countrv." Thev are charming people. Won- In the case of a husband who re Unquiihes his Britiiih nationalit] after marriage, the wife may retair her British nationality. On the oth er hand, an alien woman, marryinj a British subject, will only becomt British at her own request, while a British woman married to a citizen of an enemy country will have the right to return to British nationality. " â€" â€" •J* â€" â€" ^-__ Budapest Has Milk Row ' Budapest.â€" Five thousand liters of milk were poured out In the streets of Budapest a few days ago as a demonstration of Hungarian milk sell- ers against a decree of the govern- ment. The Ministry of Agriculture recent- ly issued a decree 'forbidding the direct supply of milk to the consum- ers In the capital and forcing the pro- ducers to deliver their goods to the Budapest Dairymen's Association. A number of 'milk mothers" (as the milk sellers going from house to house are called in Hungary) refused to obey this summons and either de- livered no milk at all to the capital derfully happy ahd verv" simple In ^l ^'''u '° 'T^ '"eir way through I their living ' "^ * '"the police cordons at the octroi-fron- I -I was a spy." said Marthe "I cali-r'r„,°"""^ '"^ encounters a number not regret it; I would be a spv aga^' °' '^^ Z"*''^ 7""""' "'^""'* »"""• I "And I an. a spyrhusbanrl^d T""' ""' "^"""^ T ''" """"^ j as Marthe is the spy I cannot regret c • » d y-.*" j? I that for one mimieiU either " said -jOViet DUys Canadian I Captain McKenna. ,1 Wheat fof Siberians I I left them together, one of the' Saskatoon.- -The Soviet Governuunt ; hapiiiest married couples I have ever has bought Iti.OOO bushels of Wesicrn '^ â-  Canada wheat for distribution iu dis- tricts of Siberia needing early wheat, according to information received by . ^ ' Nell Stewart of Dunblane, Sask.. pre- Mourner is Killed sident ot the Saskatchewan RegiiUer- Metz, France.â€" Victim of a falling ^^ ^'"*^ Growers Association. The ; coffin, a French aviator pilot Sargt '''""'"• ""*' "'""â- ^'l '" « Moose Jaw ele- ! Giardin, is dead at Boulay. near Met>!. x-"'"'"-^*!.!! *" ''*'" f*''"»""y delivery at I Fie was riding uphill in a hearse argument I in- U Hit by Coffin with tho corpse of an old man. The I hearse hit a tree, the rear door flew J open and the coffin lell out, landing on the (Iver. Sydney Steel Plant Gets Large Order Sydney, N.S.- Sir Newton Moore, president of tho Dominion Steel aitd New York. ♦ . Airman at Edmonton Gets Rude Surprise Edmonton.- -Heat actually forcei CapUin Waiter Gilbert, Canadian Airways pilot, to land hert- a few min- utes after ho t*>ok off from the city airi>ort on a projeoted flight to Mc- Murray. With a ground temperature of ii Farm picket dumplii!; milk from truck near Chicago city llinils. The milk strike has re.i(hed such proportions practically any mlk gptlint! iiiii) cllj Ii for hospital'^ and emergency milk for children. Coal Corporation, has announced the degrees. Captain Gilbert eU<l«l intc , cor,H,r«t.on had dosed « contract for the air and bun.ped into an air cur u^tn 1 V7 'r, "' T' "^'' """* "'f '-' "''•''«•' »' 1.000 LYwii did not disclo.so the nan.e of the firm ter flying, the tuotor started to over- v:. purchasing the rods. heat and he hurri««H to th* irrmtnit