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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and Fhe World at Large BRITAIN'S ENTRY NEARING COMPLETION Canada BELIEVE IT OR NOT Here is guint'lhinK thut rrada like flc'Uon in tbeso daya of bard times, etiriiikiiig valui'S and uiicullectcd taies: "City TrtaBiirer M. M. Morse, of Ogileiiiiburg, states tbat the city end- ed lis fi^cal year MiircU 31 with a caKb surplua of ^50,729.75 after set- ting u;> a reHcrve fund of about $10,- 000 to meet outstanding claims. There was $12,923.37 to the credit of the school fund and (37,729.76 to the gt-neral city fund. Cash on band was ICl.596.23 and tax arrears, |1,S3G.80." â€" i'embroke Htandanl-Observer. WHAT MOTORISTS PAY More than 27 per cent, of the total revenues collected by the govern- ments of the different provinces of Canada ig contributed by owners of automobiles in the form of taxes on gasoline and license fees. The re- port stales that the total amount paid by automobile owners to the provincial treasuries in the fiscal year 1932-33 was $45,499,458, of which gasoline taxes accounted for |24,948,- 280 and $20,Sul.l73 was In license fees. In the Province of Oortarlo 35.9 per cent, of the total government revenue is paid by motorists; in Que- bec. 32 per cent.; In Nova Scotia, 27.2 per cent.; In New Brunswick, 27.3 per cent.; in .'Vlberta, 24.1 per cent.; In Prince Edward Island, 22.7 per cent.; iu Saskatchewan, 19.8 per cent.; in British Columbia, 17 per cent., and In Manitoba, 15.45 per cent. â€" Prescott Journal. $!65,OOO,t)00 Wticn (iKiiri'S get up Into billions, ImaKination clogs. But while our mind blurs over those new statistics felling that CanadiaiLS spend $4,750,- 000,000 a year, have income.^ of $4,- 600,000,000, one figure amidst a maze of others stands out very clear. It is the tlgure wlUch tells that we spend on education $165,000,000 a year. That for ten million people.â€" Ottawa Journal. "CHEQUE ARTIST" Ontario communities having public hospitals are being paid a visit by a "cheque artist." He goes to a tlower shop, says he wants to send flowers to a friend In hospital, orders some- thing worth $3 and tenders a cheque for $5. A fictitious name Is given of the supposed patient, with the re quest that the flowers be delivered. Receiving $2 in change, the rascal departs. Smallness of his cheque and his aesthetic tastes and human sym- pathy combine to disarm suspicion. It is presumed that the flowers are re- claimed. In Renfrew the situation is such that the fraud could at least be attempted.â€" Renfrew Mercury. ADVERTISING Tell ine not in mournful numbers advertising is a dream, for the busi- ness man who slumbers, has no chance to skim the cream. Life is real! Life is earnest: Competition's sometimes Oerce. In the business field of battle, rollcoddles have no place; be not like dumb driven cat- tle, be a live one in the race. Lives of great men all remind us we must bring the bacon home, and, depart- ing, leave behind us footprints on another's dome. Let us then be up and doing; otherwise we may be done; still achieving, still pursuingâ€" advertise and get the moii.â€" From Publicity. NEWSPAPERS ' A preacher came at a newspaper man tliis way: "You editors do not tell the truth. If you did you could not live; your newspaper would be a failure." The editor replied: "Vou are right, and the minister who will at all times and under all circum- stances tell the truth about bis mem- bers, alive or dead, will not occupy bis pulpit more than one Sunday, and then he will find It necessary to leave town In a hurry. The press and pulpit go han<l in hand, with white- wash brushes and pleasant words, magnifying little virtues Into big ones. The pulpit, the pen, and the grare- Btone are the great saint-making tri- umvirate." And the editor turned to his woik and told of the uiisurpasslng beauty of the bride, while. In fact, she was as homely as a mud fence. â€" North Hastings llevlcw. the cliildren's pels. The followiiis words of an editor from a nearby town are quite applicable to people of this district who throw poison to dumb animals. "There has been an epidemic of deaths especially among cats lately, and no other causes hai> been a.'^sign- ed except that of poisoning. Some of the poor brutes have llngerad for days In misery before dying. We could understand a man in the fury of the moment of being awakened by unmusical choruses under his window, firing his shotgun Into the noise, but to preiiare, deliberately, a mess of poison and leave It where It will mur- der both the offenders and any other wandering creature. Is quite beyond us. There Is something subnormal about the man who will rob a small boy of his pet.â€" Itigersoll Tribune. HARD UP7 An eighty year-old former bricklay- •r, a bachelor, who waa drawing an old-age pension from the British Col- mmbia aovernramt, certainly had hie nerve about him. He died In Seattle while on a biulness trip and authori- ties not only found nearly $1,900 1« his hotel room, but also discovered tbat he had an estate worth more than $12,000! Rather hard up! â€"The Barric Examln<M-. A CONTEMPTIBLE TRICK One of the nicancHt anil most con temptlhle of men Is he who throws poisoned food out where he knows the neighbor'a cnts or <Iokh will pick 1( up. He may have been annoyed at the yowling of catn on the back fence but that is no reason for cans tag Indiscrlminafe slaughu-r amonK I KEEP OFF THE GRASS Much damage Is being done lawns and boulevards at present by people walking acrosg or riding bicycles on the grass. Aa the ground is wet and soft on the surface, muddy paths are quickly worn or the ground is chur- ned into a pile of mud that will not produce grass In the coming months. â€" Lindsay Post. Workmen are seen here putting the finishing touchci to the deck of the Endeavour II, the British yacht which is to challenge for America's Cup. The Empire OPEN SEASON FOR PEDESTRIANS "It's a fine day." says llie English- man â€" and takes out his car to kill some one. That, at least, has been the recent routine, resulting Ia.st year In 7,202 killed and over two hundred thousand injured. But this Easter has been much less murderous than precedent had led us to expect, and It may be that road users are really beginning to realise that a motor Is a lethal weapon which can only be made compatible with civilized life If used with great skill and caution. It Is from this point of viewâ€" the effect on the psychology of roadusers â€" that the Minister of Transport's new traf- fic legislation should be Judged. . . It Is a case for risking some injustice to individual motorists; notiiing will 30 much hasten the growth of care- ful driving as the fear of a strictly enforced penalty against carelessness. â€" The New Statesman and Nation (London). THE WAY OF NEWS By means ot tliclr correspondence and of the news agencies with which they deal, the feelers of a newspaper reach to every corner of the globe. An assassination may take place in Afghanistan, a political coup in Buk- harest, a discovery in Africa, or a ship may founder off the Azores, yet before twenty-four hours are out the news will be dished out by the news- papers to the residents ot this col- ony, or any other place where they are able to support a press organiza- tion. It Is not necessary to dwell on the specialized process to which the news is subjected on its way to Hong Kong from its Incidence in that far away spot, and in Its final form in the newspaper column. Suffice it to say that the organization which this entails very often escapes the notice of the man In the streetâ€" The Hong Kong I'ress. THE CAMPAIGN FOR TEA In an attempt to raiionali/.e the in- dusiry, the producers of Ceylon, India and the Dutch East Indies have now entered into an agreement whereby wasteful competition will be elimin- ated, and each will have its own fields for development. In this country the producers ot India and Ceylon are to have a free hand to build up the mar- ket for their own teas, for at pres- ent the Dutch East Indies supply 160,- 000,000 out of the 500,000,000 pounds which we drink every year. In Can- ada and South Africa the Ceylon pro- ducers are attempting to popularize their own wares, and in the United States, India, who has already been making Inroads on the cotfee-drlnking habits of the people, la to continue her efforts. The Dutcli are to make a determined drive on the continent of Kurope. But above and beyond all these markets there lies one of almost unlimited potentialities â€" the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, whose tea consumption bus declined bv more than 50 per cent, since the years before its birth. It Is believed that if reasonable credit facilities could be given to the Kusslu Ciov ernmenl. they woul-l be able to lake as much as 100 million pounds a year, an order which would enable an immediate large rodnction to be mad.- in the resiriclion quota.- Phlllp Jordan In The l<V)rtulghlly Itevlew (lyindon). ,,^ THE STUDENT ON THE LAND UndouMedly a scheme of this character (to place unemployed uni- versity students on the land) assumes a spirit of adventure and enterprise on the part of those who desire to tak«A ftdvanUge of it. To most per- sons accuhtomert to city life and In- ured to the sedentary habits ot the student, outdoor wnrk. involving some fatiKUo and a good deal of manual labor may In its early stages appear repul'sivo. Indian university men ar« known to possess rather ortho- dox notions of personal dignity and a positive distaste for manual labor. Hut if roci'tit lendencles ate a Kuide, the siieiiRth of such prejudi. es Is weakening in the fare of the compel- i> i^ I inumstauies of our time. Nev- I ertheless the cautious attitude of the Committee towards the colonization of the large unoccupied tracts of the United Provinces Is justified, as it is necessary In the first instance to make sure that sutflcient men of tlie type that will make good colonisers would he willing to enter the scheme. Ailments Guards Intestinal Ills Protect You Against Infantile Pa- ralysis Chicago- â€" To minimize your chances of catching infantile par- alysis, stay in a region where stom- ach and intestinal ailments are com- mon â€" that is the prescription drawn from discoveries by Dr. John A. Too- mey, of Cleveland. Dr. Toomey reported new theories about infantile paralysis to the Ameri- can College of Physicians. His re.'-earch showed that apparent- ly there is some connection between infantile paralysis and diseases of the digestive tract, and that people in regions where intestinal troubles are prevalent develop an immunity that protects them from tho infantile para- lysis virus. Dr. Toomey .said that in south east- ern Utiited States, where intestinal troubles are more common tliaii in some other sections, and in China, where they ibound, iiirantilf para- lysis is not prevalent. Presumably, this is because south eastern .-Ameri- cans and the Chinese have more im- munity. Three new condusion.s reganling infantile paralysis were drawn from evidence, disclosed by Dr- Toomey "s experiments. Its most probable cliatinel of entry to the human body is througli tlie mouth, stomach and intestines. It is caused by a combination of a virus â€" an organism too smalt to see under any microscopeâ€" and poisons produced by other kinds of bacteria that live in the intestines of most humans. \ Immunity against it is produced either by immunity against the in- 1 fantile paralysis invirus the body through the digestive tract contra- dicts the former belief of many scien- tists th tail entered through the nose along the olfactoyr nerves, "the sense of smell route." His experiments iiulicate the virus spreads from lite intestinal tract of the human body by way of the fibres of the sympathetic nervous system to the chain of nerves that runs down either side of the spine and from there first to the loins and then up- ward to the neck. $136,000 Is Awarded To Broker Firm Short of "FV and (< K'«' Here is an authentic extract from the first issue of a Western news- paper: We begin the pu\ Moition •..•f the Roccay Mountain ' ydone with soir • phew (liphphiculties 'n the way. The type phounders phroni whom we bought our outphit phor this printing ophice phailed to supply us with any ephs or cays, and it will be phour or phie weeks bephore we can got any. We have ordered the missing letters, and will have to get along without them until they come. We don't lique the loox ov this variety ov spelling any better than our reader, but mis- tax will happen in the best regulated phamilies, and 'ph t'n° 'ph's' and 'o'.~' and 'x's' and 'I's' holii jUt we shall ceep (sound the 'c' 'lard) the Cyclone whirling aphter a jiliasbion till the sorts arrive. I; is no joque to us â€" it's a serious aph.)'i:iir. med milk daily for two weeks. They lose six to ten pounds. Then follows a two weeks off diet period, in which they eat, meat, fish eggs and vegetables, but refrain from fats and starches. Then back to the diet again for two weeks losing six to ten pounds more. Some, by follow- ing this alternating system, have lost 50 pounds in a few months. For milder diets the bananas are increased to seven or eight and the milk to four glasses. Dr. Harrop, «u thority of treatment of disease by di et, began the experiment to reduce waistbands but on hearing of deaths from reducing drugs he became will ing to make his findings public. Coffee and tea are allowed, but no cream or sugar. It's considered advis- able to drink large amounts of water New Regulations The Minister ot Kdiicatlo.'i makes the following announcements with re- gard to Second Ye-ir Normal Cour.-^^e, commencing in September, 1934-5: 1- Interim Certificates issued in July 1930 to teachers will be extenclod one yoar If they wi'iii to continue teaeh- ir.g after tha* .'ate, they will be re- quired to return fur the Second Year Course in Septr^mber 1935. 2. Teach- ers who completed the 1st Year Nor- mal School Course in 19'29 and whose Interim Certificates were extended to July 1934, will be obliged to return to N'ormal School in order to take their positions. This Course will be given each of the Normal Schools. Forms of application may be obt'ain- e'l from the Deputy Mirisier of Edu- cation after July 1st. Bombing of Rabbits Successful Plan Liberal, Kan. â€" Southwest Kansas nimrods have conceived the idea of bomb-hunting rabbits from airplanes In a recent rabbit drive near Here- ford, Tex. Doc Henderson and Ovart Pinkerton dropped bombs on scurry ing cottontails from planes and al- though 300 foothunters participated in the drive, the air-hunters account- ed for 2,000 of the 3.000 rabbits ob- tained. Let'j You Eat And Grow Thin Baltimore â€" Dr. (leorge .\. Harrop, Jr., of Johns Hopkins has worked out an eat-and-grow thin diet Bananas and skimmed milk are the answer. Moreover the patients do not go hungry, the doctor says. As tried out at the Metabolism cli- nic of the Johns Hopkins University patients eat four to six bananas and drink three or four glas.-^es of skim- Health in China For centuiies the Chineso have paid their doctors to keep them well rather Ihsii to cure them when they were sick. Many an effort has been made by inquisitive visitors to China to chock up this well-kn fv--n bit of scientific information. The results have been discouraging, however, showing that until recently the Chin- ese have had no doctors worchy of the n:inie to practise preventive medicine, or any other kind. Even though the Chinese doctor story is evidently a myth, it carries a valuable suggest- ion. Positive health, periodic health examination, early diagnobis, prev- ention of disease, make up the mess- age that is begining to prevent much suffering and savt many lives. â€" The Canadian Medical Association Journ- al, November, 1933. WINNING DEBS Halil'ax. The Alonlreal bioUeiage firm of McIJougall and Cowans was awarded $Klfi.0OO by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia recently In its »148.0(»0 suit nuainst T. 0. Olennle. the Nova Scotia liiml>eiman who made and lost a small foiliiiie in the wild stock market of 19211. Glenn ie was sued by the broker- age, company for the amount of his losses on Its books after the li'29 crash. He hud run up a $10,000 stake to more than $500,000 and then had seen his huRe profits turned swiftly Into a deficit. Before a Supreme Court Jury he auccessfully contested his claim that the losses were caused by Inefficient handling of his account by the fiim. But the full benech reversed ftis ver- dict in a majority decision recently. though the judKOa <IIfrerod In opin- ions Bs to the mnount due the firm The comi»i>ny'8 counsel Indicated they would be sallsfied to have the amount reduced by 112.000 to meet the fiiidiiiRv^of Mr. J-sllcc R. H. Gra- ham and an order to this effect was granted. The most beautiful debutante at\d the debutante with tlie mo.-t char- acter, selected recently at the Blue and White Ball in New York. Miss Betty Kipp, left, was selected as having the most character and Mijis Joan Power, the most beauty. Focus New Hopes In Ireland's Bogs Motor Spirits Distilled From Lowly Turf and Potatoes Dublinâ€" Peat from Ireland's bog lands 13 making a bid to drive the wheels of industry and transport as well as warming cottage firesides and cooking griddle cakes. A scheme for producing indus- trial alcohol from potatoes and turf has been planned by the Fianna Fail; Government. It is intended to mix the home-produced alcohol with im-, ported gasoline in order to reduce, the country's present petrol bill ofl more than £500,000 a year. Five; distilleries and one refinery are i scheduled for erection during 1934. Further indication of the impor- tance turf is expected to play in the future development of the Free State was given at the recent annual meet- ing of the Grand Canal Company here. While regretting a loss of re- venue following the introduction of' tariffs, Mr. John McCann, who pre-| sided, said that the company antici-J pated compensation from a big exten-' tion of turf carrying as a result of i the campaign for increased utilization' of native products. A committee of investigation has already reported favorably here on! peat for motor spirits, and in 1925! Irish turf was successfully tested in' France for this purpose. Fvlrther' work in developing this new use for the Free State's widespread bog lands will be one of the tasks of the In-' dustrial Research Council which is being established by the Government-' In the meantime potatoes are to be used as the raw product in the distilleries. The scheme will at first be experimental rather than a com- mercial proposition with little inter-' ference, it is pointed out. Discussing the project in the Dail,l Mr. Sean F. Lemass, Minister of In-' dustry and Commerce, said that the' distilleries would utilize about 25,0OO' tons of potatoes a year at a price near 35 shillings a ton. The by-' products of the industrial alcohol,' he said, were a valuable cattle food,'* and farmers would be encouraged to' use them. The first year's working, of the distilleries would be taken as an indication of the advisability of developing the project on a big-scala' commercial basis. Referring to the Government'^ plan for wide activities of the Indus-] trial Research Council, Mr. Lemass pointed out that in recent years rapid progress has been made in other countries in the organization of re-' search work. But the time had come, the Min. ister continued, when the Govern- ment must take part in an intelli- gently planned system of research. It was intended to compose the coun- cil of honorary members with special- ized knowledge. They would be on- titled to travelling and incidental ex- penses. In addition there would be a permnaent secretary, and a small staff and library. The annual granb' called for was estimated at £5,500. 1 One of the furctims of the coun-j cil will be to advi.se the Government' on the granting of a3.M.<!fance to in-j ventors whose acUvjties are likely to' have benefiL'i.al national re£ults. 65,000 Words Columbia 'U' Commission Finds Poverty Evils Can Be Cured â€" If New York. â€" The Columbia Univer- sity commission of economic recon- struction reported recently, in 65,000 words, that society could overcome the evils of poverty and unemploy- ment if: 1. It continually utilized to the full the productive capacity which is ac- tually available. 2. It equitably distributed the na- tional income. ' "What happened during the war,", says the report, "when the volume of, goods taking war and peace products together, increased at the very time' when millions of the younger and' more vigorous workers were with-I drawn from productive functions, is an indication, highly peculiar though conditions then were, of the manner in which potential productivity lies utilized in normal times. 3,000,000 Lbs. Of Wool Stolen Denver. -Reports of operations of cattle rustlers and horse thieves are an old story here, but depredations at the expense of sheep men have been rare until recently. Thefts of wool are now being re- ported from all sectlona where sheep are raised. Sometlmea the wool tt pulled from the backs of live sheep/ but more often the animals are killed and the wool pulled from the dea^ carcases a few days later. The wooj Is also removed from animals thai have died from natural causes. Suek "dead" wool is worth about half thi price commanded by this year's cUM It Is estimated that 3,000,000 pountf of wool have been stolen In the laal few mouths In the region from Well Texas to Montana. DROUGHT RKLIEVEO Heavy laiiis are saving crops nasf nueiios .\iro8, Argentine, from tM druufibt.