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r Voice of the Press Canada. The Empire and The World at Large ><••#••••♦»•♦•♦••••••« I i«««»»««««««»«««»«»»»»««»«««»«»' CANADA , After-Dark Accidents Most tiufflc accidents, outside of the centres of population, occur after tiurk. There are two reuBons why this l8 80. One la that there U a school of drIveiK which Infllsls on driving as fant after dark, when visibility 1» poor, U In tli>.< (iaytlmo when the highway and the objects upon It are clearly etched. The heads of drivers of thU type, whf-n bumped together (and this Is a dandy f;ame tu play), do not ring, but, Instead, give forth a ilat, cracked note. The other factor contributing to tragedy is glaring, blinding head- lights, tlip problems of which motor car manufacturers apparently are un- able to --ulve. â€" Hamilton Spectator. Elgar's Great Music with I lie public at large he will boat be remembered for his charming, but now overworked "Salut d'Amour," and his magnificent "Pomp and Cir- cumstance" march In D, which he compoKcd for the coronation of King Edward VII. This is one of the most stirring and majestic classic marches ever written, but It is only one of tour or five marches of the same name â- which he wrote. One section of this march was given words to turn It Into e patriotic song, and as such is known throughout the British Empire as "Land of Hope and Glory." â€" St. Thom- as Time.a-.lournal. Road Slaughter in Britain Point was added to a de^bati; in the House of Commons on Wednesday night on road accidents by figures given at question time about the casualties on the roads in Great Bri- tain In the eight years 1926 to 1933. The figures, which were given by Sir John Gllmour, the Home Secretary, â- were received with expressions of In- dignation. A member asked: "Wha.t â- war was that?" and Mr. Kirk wood ex- claimed: "A great shame, a scandal." The figures were: Killed, 50.837; In- jured, 1,421,083. â€" London Kxpress. Growing There are 73,000,000 more people in the world to-day than there were four years ago, according to Sir Charles Close, president of the International Population Union, who apparently keeps close tab on births and deaths. â€" KIng.ston 'VV'hig-Standard.) Superiority Comple.v It Is a very fine thing to have pride In one's country and the cilizeusUip of one's country, but It is- not a fine or desirable thing to .suppose thai people living in one land are superior to peo- ple living in all other lands. This "superiority complex" has Kd to a great many disasters in '.is world and has brought untold suffering and misery.â€" Halifax Herald. "The Woman Pays" Judging by an analysis that has been made of incomes in the United States, she's darn well able to pay. The analysis shows that women re- ceived 38 per cent, of the total of |9,- 000,000,000 of income reported to Wa.shington in 1933. Seventy-seven thou.sand women had an annual in- come of more than $5,000, the average being J19,129. Of the 18,000,000 stock h Iders in the country, 7,740,000 were â- women. And women were beneficiar- ies of 89 per cent, of all the life insur- anceoutstanding â€" a matter of billions. Nor is that ail. Somebody else has discovered that women do 80 per cent, of all the shopping on this continent â€" 80 per cent of tlie spending.â€" Otta- wa Journal. Free-VVill General Store Wo have just been reading al)out a uui(|iio general store which is conduct- ed in Waller, Texas, by a certain Al- bert U. Purvis â€" possibly of Leeds county ancestry â€" who has carried on a successful business for 19 years In epite of the fact that he is dependent entirely upon the free-will offerings of hU customers. Mr. Purvis' establishment, in ap- pearance not unlike .nany others which stand in rural comnuinitles throughout Ontario, known as "Ood'ii Mercy Store," and the method underlylu;, the business conducted In it lb explained upon a blackboard which reaUb; "All goods In thi.s btore are sold to you at cost â€" nothing has been added as personal guiii or profit. The store Is kept by fi e will offer- ings. Anything you add to your pur- cha-e will bo received with thanks." The cost of the merchandise Is murltt-d upon the lilackboard and the purchaser selects the article that be requires, consults the price list and â- â-  add to It whatever he feels is a fair proilt TiA;is is popularly conaldoied to be rather a hard-boiled part of llie world, and vet we have Mr. Purvis' word thiit notwithstanding the way in whicli he does business, he averages ten per cent, profit during (lie year.â€" Brockville Kecorder. Elk for Algoma The decision of the Game and I'ish- orieH Department to liberate 25 head of f'lk in the Ranger l^ake Game Pre- serve is one that will be generally ap- proved in the district. Tlieso animals should do Just as â- Well in this area as have those which Were set out in former years at Peta- wawa :ind at Hiirwash and sliould in lime prove a valuable addition to the fame resourcea of Algoma. Together with the hord which waa recently put out on the Chaploau Pre- serve they will make a good start In adding the elk to the game animals of this district.â€" Sault Sto. Marie Star. Activity at Oldest Port For over 300 years ships have been cnterjtig and leaving the port of Que- bec, on the River St. Lawrence, but 1933 was one of the busiest years la the history of the port. The number of vessels docked totaled 1,064 with a net registered tonnage of 5,562,717 tons, compared with 800 vessels In 1932 of 5,193,758 tons, an average In 1933 of 263 vessels and 368,959 tona over the previous year. â€" Canada Week by Week. Heart Disesise With so many prominent men dying of heart disease in recent months, par- ticular interest Is being shown In ex- periments which have been conducted In Vienna by Dr. Hammorschlag, By taking a new preparation made from the hormone of the subsidiary thyroid gland. It has been found that good re- sults have been obtained In the treat- ment of those suffering from heart ail- ments. The doctor explains the hor- mone relieves the cramped conditions of the blood vessels and allows a free passage of the blood through the or- dinary channels. It Is claimed the treatment can do no harm, and as It has been proven to do some good. It has drawn much Interest from medi- cal practitioners. â€" Border Cities Star. Canada's Recovery Canada has regained its pcsition as fifth among the great trading nations of the world. In January our foreign trade ^>•as 40 per cent, greater than In January, 1933. Furthermore, the bal- ance of trade Is favourable â€" 1135,924,- 000 more exports than Imports In the elapsed ten months of the fiscal year up to the end of January. This favor- able trade balancels the greatestsingle factor in stabilizing the Canadian dol- lar and supporting the national credit. â€" Winnipeg Tribune. Rush Hour Crowds If it were possible to abolish rush hour periods and avoid the necessity of transporting the population of a good-sized city from the outskirts to the down-town section within an hour and a half in the morning and home again in the same period In the even, ing, the solution would be easy. It might then be possible to realize the ideal both for the passengers and for the T.T.C. of a seat for every passen- ger and every seat comfortably filled. But as long as the sky-scrapers, office buildings, factories and great stores pour out their thousands on to the streets, all within little more than an hour and all demanding Instant trans- portation to their destinations, there is bound to be overcrowding. This Is true not only of Toronto, but of every large c'ty where there Is a similar movement of population. â€" Toronto Telegram. The Driver is Unsafe The number of cars in uso is only sliglilly higher than it was six years ago. The cars themselves are far safer; they are solider, their brakes are better, they stick to the road bet- ter, they are easier to keep under con- trol. It Is the human element, and it alone, which has failed. â€" Quebec Chronicle Telegrapli. THE EMPIRE The Drought in Britain The danger of a shortage of water this Slimmer Is now a serious if not yet an acute one. If there Is normal rain in March, the danger will disap- pear; if March follows January and February in their unprecedented dry- ness, then the situation will be really bad, and It will be too late to do much to meet it. â€" Manchester (iuardiait. It Does Not Pay By August of 1934 twenty years will have elapsed since the outbreak of the World War. A good deal has passed under ihe bridge since then and many lessons have been taught to those who cared to learn. The supreme lesson which we should have learnt is that war does not pay. The mechanism of the world has grown so delicate and complex that a dislocation in one part seriously affects every section. Victor is hardly better off than vantiuished and certainly not as well off as in the pre war period. In spite of this truth, which most of us have realised. It Is deplorable that Oovernments stiil pre- fer to sacrifice sums of money on armaments and general preparations for conflict which are out of nil pro- portion to the power of the people to defray by taxation. If only a minor part of these wasteful disbursements were diverted Into channels of rap- prochement, if only an lota of the energy consumed were spent In the propagation of friendly relationslijp between nations, a lasting peace might have lieen seemed for manUiud. â€" Hong Kong Prc^s Playing Fields for Eton M. Aiiilre Siegfried, the celeb; iileci French critic, says that our natioi.al fondness for running about, hiltliii;. howlint:, and kicking l)alls. and punch- ing one another's rilis. is a dreadful wavie of lime, lie won<l'>iH how we per aiiv work dune. For answer we can point to the work itself. The Some Icy Anecdotes John Dodd, shown at the wheel of tlia fishing smack N'ew Bedford, as It docked In New Tork harbor, February 26, after a two-weeks trip to the fishing banks for mackerel, had some ylvld experiences to relate harder w^e play, the better we work.- London Sunday Chronicle. The Dole in New Zealand The decision of the Unemployment Board to grant sustenance without work to elderly men and men of any age unable through physical disability to perform the class of work offering Is an evidently sincere effort to meet a need. As such it is worth trying. In the two centres most representative of the need. The increasing difBculty of providing work for men capable of light tasks only, especially men In ad- vancing years, has necessitated a re- view of the position. Circumstances arising from the widespread economic stress have hampered seriously the efforts of these men to find work for themselves and have equally hindered the endeavours of the Unemployment Board to find work on their behalf. An Inevitable effect has been the embar- rassment of the general .scheme of re- lief, and the position should become appreciably defined by removing thus, as far as possible, a number of appli- cants for relief work that is diflicult to provide. â€" Auckland Weekly News. Scots and English The Englishman loves to tell humor- ous stories about the Scot, the point of which is usually his (suppositious) lack of humour. And the Scot has a large store of tales about Englishmen, based perhaps on a wilful misunder- standing of their chariiiter, but which disprove his lack of humour and are not devoid of a piercing wit. There Is now no real reason why Scots and English should not understand and appreciate each other. We Scots have much for the English to admire in us, if only they will admire the right thing! And many. If not mo,!t of us, have an enormous admiration for our Southern neighbors â€" their great achievements, their bulldog tenacity, their literature. Do we not admire most of all this â€" that so many Eng- lishmen try to prove that they have some Scottish blood In their veins, or even affect that they are Scots! â€" J. A. MaeCuUoch, in The Spectator (Lon- don). Needs Greater i\ir Force So it is everywhere. The world is exchanging feet for wings. Britain alone, like a tat goose, waddles along in the old way.â€" London Daily Mall. What Does Your Handwriting Show? By GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Qrapho- Analyst.) All lights reserved. (Editor's Note: The response to the author's Invitation to readers to send In a specimen of their handwriting for a peratonal reading has been enorm- ous. Readers are referred to the an- nouncement at the foot of this article). Cockney Pioneers "The best type of sett er in the Do- minions comes from the Old Kent Road." This Is not Idle praise. Cock- ney quickness, adaptability, and obsti- nate, humorous courage supply the stuff of which the finest pioneers are made, and the Cockney Is endowed with a resilllence, a superb indiffer- ence to misfortune, which mak6.s him able to face difficulties and problems which would utterly defeat the ap- parently sturdier rustic. â€" London Evening News. "How can Grapho-Analysis help me?" â€" that Is the question that read- ers invariably ask when they read my article on the subject of character analysis from handwriting. And It Is a natural question. For In these days, perhaps more than any others, the struggle for existence, for progress. Is Individualistic. 1 will en- deavour to answer the question by first asking others. Are you happy? â€" or are you con- tinually frowning at life, with a con- stant chip on your shoulders'/ Are you progressing in your work? â€" Or are you dissatisfied; a square peg in a round hole; unable to make any real progress, yet not knowing what to do to change the possibilities of your future? If you are married, are you content- ed? â€" Or Is disquiet creeping In, with perpetual bickering between yourself and your life partner? Do you make friends, and keep them? â€" Or are you living the life of an involuntary recluse, unable to en- joy the society and companionship of real friends? The answers to all these questions can be summed up In a phrase â€" Know yourself ,and others. Or, one word may suffice â€" Understandfng. If you go through life without knowing and understanding yourselfâ€" your faults and your virtues; your merits and your weaknesses â€" you will be serious- ly handicapped. Lite's prizes go to those who, know- ing their potentialities, capitalize them and strengthen them; who, real- izing their faults, strive to overcome them. Grapho-Analysis helps you to know yourself, and thus enables you to make the most of your capabilities, whilst at the same time, by pointlDg out 70iir weaknesses, glraa you an opportunity to eradicate them. ^ Handwriting Is not merely a matter of putting pen to paper. You hare to use your brain In order to write. And the brain Is the captain of your body. Everything you do emanates first of all from your brain. Handwriting Is only the physical expression of your brain's Instructions. And everything you are an can be Is summed up In your handwriting, as diagnosed by an expert grapbo-ana- lyst. I have space for only a few very brief extracts from character readings made recently. R. M.â€" You are likely to be Impul- sive. You do not consider very long before moving. There is a slight strain of procrastination shown â€" do not let It grow. Your writing shows a distinct cultural trait; you have a de- sire to know things, and to investigate and find out for yourself. Miss M. â€" You have a great pride and personal dignity, a retentive mem- ory and are very careful about details. You have a considerable regard for your own Importance, and are prone to -pride yourself on your originality and individuality. But I am afraid that this Is perhaps more pretension than actual, and is not entirely sin- cere. I suggest you try to be more your natural self; your friends will like you all the more. Do you want a personal reading of /our own writing? The author of this series of articles, a well-known Grapho- Analyst,. will., send. you., a .personal analysis, if you will send a letter in your normal handwriting, in ink, and enclose 10 cent coin and a stamped (3c) addressed envelope. .You will be surprised at the revelations, and may find the do'or of opportunity opened for you. Address your letter to: Geof- frey St. Clair, Grapho-Analyst, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. Boy Scouts and Chivalry The Scout promise, ba.sed on an old- er order of chivalry, is the only true rule of conduct. The Scout Law incul- cates nobility. â€" London Daily Mali. Is One Regulation He Would Consider Chatham, Ont. â€" In force for several ()ecades, rules of the Chatham police force have t>ecn revised and will be broug'ht up-to-date by I lie Police Com- mission. "There is one regulation that sihouUI l>e considered, am! that I don't altogether agree with," ren>arke<l Magistrate S. B. Arnold. "I state,s that a constable niutit trim his whi.'ik- ers and not let tl em .-over his police badgv on his brea.s*." ♦ Newspaper Advertising Increases in U.S. OhicHKO.â€" Xewspapt rs^in 80 cities of the rnited States jraine*! approxi- nwtely 10,000,OtM) lines of advertisin.c in January over the same month a year ago. .â- Vdverti^inij .Age, trade pub- lication, says. The new.spaiters car- ried ISO.firfJ.HOO line.* last month and 110,8Jl.(i(X. ill January. I!m3. Auto- nwtive advertising led Uw list. Col. F. H. Deacon The election of Colonel Frederick Herbert Deacon to the presidency of the Canadian .National Exhibition brings to the chair a gentleman who has contributed a very great deal to this great instl;'uion and who Is eminently fitted to discliar-e the duties of the very responsible posi- tion for which he ha>, been chosen. Colonel Deacon is head of the firm of F. U. Deacon and Co.. Investment bankers, of Toronto and is Identilled In various official capacitie- with in- dustrial and financial institntons of high repute. The agricultural inter- ests of Canada have a warm ani. ac- tive friend in the new president. His pride Is Olenburn Fanns. hl.i magni- ftcent country place near I'nionville. Ontiirlo. Colonel Deacon has bsen cbalrnian of the cattle co-.n'i\lttco of the Kxhibition since 1825 and h.TS es- tabll'lied a leputatlon as one of the lending shorthorn breeders of the United Slates and Canada. lie lias won premier liot«»r3 ft the Canadian National Exhibition. Royal Winter Fair, and leading United States shows including the International Live Stock Show at Chicago. President Deacon has been a tire- less worker in behalf of junior farm- er and farmerette mo\'©ment3 and In all live stock and agricultural de- partments of the Exhibition. This, together with his wide financial and industrial experience make him a most -valuable head of the highly diversified "Show Window of the Nations" Civil Service May Have to Recruit Men For Senior Posts Toronto.â€" Dl&-hard opponents cl "petticoat government," beware. Oa th« autborlty of one of the most eminent civil tterrantB, Canada wiU soon have to go outside the civil ser- vice for men to fill big Jobs or else the women will take them "The time to coming," said Watson Sellar, comptroller of tihe Dominion Treasury In an address to the Board of Trade Club, "when women will hold enough of the key positious oo the ladder to the executive positions that either the practi-ce will be adopt- ed of going otitside of the civil service to recruit men for the senior adminia tratlvo posts, or else we sink th# prejudice now existing against women being placed In charge of major ac- tivities. As you pay the bills, I leave the decision to you" He added the percentage of female employes in the Ottawa headquarters staff was 22 per cent In the group of 45 years and over; 38 per cent in the 30-45 years of age group, and said he Ignored the younger ages because in that period staff turnover Is rapid "and nowadays the girls always out- number the boyai." Contagious Diseases Scarce in Toronto A surprising statement made at the annual meeting of tIhe Registered Nursjea' Association of Ontario, was that there was not enough whooping caugh, measles or diphtheria to g« around In Toronto.- But It turned out to mean that with the drop In these diseases. It -was be- coming increasingly difficult foi nurs€8-ln-tralning to obtain adequat< experience in communicable diseasea" care. It was Mlsa EUrlra Manning, chairman of the Public Health Sec- tion, who pointed this out in hei presentation of the findings of hei committee from answers to a quea Dionnalre sent to public health nurses all over the district â€" but she did say, "There are not enough of them to go round either In Toronto or Hamilton." She also stated that the answer* to the queries had noted InsutficienC training In pediatrics for the student nursa who Is to do public health worl after graduation. -♦- Needy Families Find Fortune on Beach San Francisco. â€" ^A half-dozen needj families may divide as much as |100,< 000 as a result of an analysis whicli th« Examiner says proves that a sub- stance picked up on the beach at Bollnas Bay, north of here, is amber grU. Residents of the area have gatSior- Bd between 200 and 300 pounds of th« Buibstance, worth approximately $21 an ounce at present market prices. School was closed one day so tha< children could Join their parents in combing the beach for the material. Expelled from the stomachs of slcli whales, ambergris, when purified, li used in the manufacture of rare per- fumes, and because of Its rarity ii extremely valuable. British Fair Shows Progress lx>n<ion. â€" The jrreat British Indus- ti ies' Fair, openil recently, again bent its awn record in the space taken f'.>r exhibition. A the Olynipia arvd tli<; White City, 1/ondon, and in the heavy trades section at Birniiiijg'haTO the total indoor frontage alone am- ounted to 3'2 miles, with nearly 3,000 exhibitors. Canada has taken a fair amount of space, .some 40 firnui being repre9ei\te<l in addition to go%-ern- iViciiLal and railways exhibits. Considerable Variation Shown on Weather .Mcjiilreiilâ€" The dilTercnce between ilie Australian. New Zealaiul, Cana- dian and British |>o;nt of view In re- gard to the weather of the respec- tive countries wa.-j sumniwl up In the following way by the Hev. Philip Carrington. dead of Bisliop's College, Lennoxville. when addressing the .\nierican Women's Club here. "You say to an .-Vustralian that it i.i hot and he replies, 'a nice dry day." You tell a Canadian it is cold In Can- ada and he answers, 'not sj cold as all tl'.at.' You mention eariliquakes to a New Zealander and l.i; replies. not at all. no eartbq-.:;iKe.-; H-.it ask iiii Fngiishman w-hat .son of climate he lias in England, and he answers â- rotten.' " C.P.R. Jan. Net Gains 174 p.c. Net earnings of the Canadian Pa cific Railway for the month of Janu- ary totalled $888,989 as compared with $323,372 in the same month od last year, an increase of $565,616, oi 174 per cent. Gross earnings for the month to- talled $8,970,335 as compared with $7,675,660 in January of last year, s g-ain of $1,294,674. Operating ex- penees increased $729,057 to $8,081,- 346. Included in January expenses were iiensions amounting to $149,548, Figures for Jan lary, this year, u compared with Janijary, 1933, com- pare as follows: Gross earn. 1934 1933 Increase ?8,970,o35 $7,675,660 $1,294,674 Oper. exp. x$8.081,346 $7,352,288 $ 729,061 Net earn $888,989 $ 23.372 ? 565,614 Note: (x) Includes pensions ol $149,548. Baden-Powell's Visit Postponed Ottawa.â€" The visit of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell to Canada this fall has been postponed till April, 1935, it was announced recently by John A. Stiles, chief executive com- missioner of the Boy Scouts Associa- tion for Caniida. The announcement stated that they would attend a Scout jambo.-ee in Australia in December in connection with the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Mel- bourne, and will come home by way of Vancouver. They will visit various centres throughou. Canada on their way back to "Oiigland. Prize Black-Eye Story of Them All New York. â€" Jacob Bernsweig, 31| tells the prize black-eye story of them i.li. He was picking up firewood alone the beach at RiK-kaway, he reported, >x hen he noticed a seagull overhead ia :. ir.e kind of difficulty. Suddenly the livil (ii-opped a larjre clam with whicit hi! I>...M stiui>:<<:llng, and the ctai% hit !'iui right iu tbe ey«. r I