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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large Thii Is A Tank, Girl.- SPINACH, AND THE OIONNES Soiiiu folks ir.ay gruw a bit weury of I'L'uding about ttiu Dioiiiio quiiilup- lots. We (lou't We get sort )I tickled every time there is a reiiort which eayii that thu little ladies have added auut'ier ounce cr tialf ounce. Likewise It lo ii.teresling to read of tho chan- ges which a.'i' being made In their diet. Thj last repcM was g.xjd. In addi- tion tc tho human milk which U fed to lh«> five girls each on'i rcceivM 20 drops of tomato Juice per day. That. we I'onuider ai< beliiR .splendid. The reaso'- for mild joy is that the tomiito Juice should tiiivo received prefereucp over epinach. The tomato Is a regula'' nld standby, it goes into kotohup. chow-ohow, pickle.'i. stewed tonialoos. tomato soup, raw tomatoes and all mann-»r of thlnga. and the toniat') ia such a handy thing to fling abou'. wlicn -i little trouble stira in the community. It produces no Injury but is capahU- of the maximum am- ount ol discomfort. It is such an all- round sort of thing. Spinach has been making un at- tempt to ous'. the tomato in popular fan-.-y. Some person started tho re- port that spinach had vitamins. There wcr; some doctors who fell for It. Whpn a patient came in looking a little ttliite atout the gills and not quit'; hitting on all cylinders, the ad- vice was that vitamins were needed and spinach could supply lhe.se BtraMgfc things. People who write things for th»> papers have been talk- ing fpinach. and the folks at home make people eat it under Hie guise that it's good for tliem. We were feariiu that they would be starting to feed those Dlonne sisters, five of them on spinach, and then the thing would get into the papers, and there would be a new spinach campaign un- der Aay. â€" Stratford Heacon-llerald. n WORKS BOTH WAYS .Mar.y girls In bathing suits look mu â- !! more attractive in their street clothes Hut many look more attract- ive in their stieet clothes than lUey do in bathing suits. â€" St. Thomas Tlaus Journal. THE WHISKERS PERIOD The male Mormons of Utah have all grown whiskers In order to fit- tingly celebrate this year the arrival of Brlghara Young and his trail-staln- ed followers at Salt Lako In 1847. Little is to be said about the his- torl -a! aspectii of this group of poly- gamlsis; but the wish will be general that the Idea ol expressing tribute by reviving the tilr.«ut6 decorations of a past period may not become infec- tious. Our own sturdy forbears, who are aiso worthy of all honor, leaned rath'T strongl.v to whiskers at a time when razors were scarce and barbers unknown. Y !' who knows? One of these days tho aiiggestiop might be made and acoopttd that we should abandon the Bhavir.g habit and give a befitting de- nionslratiou of what our ancestors look'fd like with their flowing beards. Ah a l;ol weather thought the thing is agonizing. â€" Hrantfoid Kx posit or. GRANDMOTHERS A Chicago woman a graiulmotber at 32? What of it? The report fails to Impre.ns Mrs. Lela Corn She's a great-grandnioUier at 49. She was a grandmother at 32. Her mother Is a greal-great-grandniother at 75. Her daughter Is a grandmother at 33, and the '.atler"8 child is a mother at 16. All of which recalls the ancient command: "Arise, daughter, and go to yi.'ur daughter, for your daughter's daughter nas bad a datighlcr.â€" Kam- liioiis Sentinel. COURTESY A PLEASANT TREAT Making reference to the death of a notable public man It was said of him 'hat he will be remembered for his unfailing courtesy. That feature was (tressed uiid that Is as it should be. There Is rothing as fine as unfail- ing courtesy, whether It be in man or woman. It smooths tiio pathway of life and makes conlactB with our fel- lows n.iich moK pleasant. II is a plea- sun to do business with a truly cour- IcouH man or woman. No matter what the business may be courtesy Is a irea' factor in bringing It to success. But courtesy must be something In- nata. not forced. The outward ex- jresston of an Inward slate of mind. - Nlipara Kulli- Review. THe TRIUMPH OF THE AUTO Dealing with (iist automobile <lriv- »rs \i not a new thing. In the Ottawa lou-nal It Is riralled that 25 years »go 'here weie complaints that cars prere trnvelling "on WiHIinglon and 3th>'.' streets a.< fast as thirty miles «n h'lur." That was nuaklng the civic by- laws in many small pieces because the Rpeed limit then was ten miles per b&ur and on the Ottawa Improve, men' Comml.sslon's driveway, of whi 'h some sections were In use, sev- en miles ibe utmost speed allowed. In tho same column of fhe Jour- nal it Is related that there was rebel- lion In Spain and King Alfonso was booted In the streets. Thus the speeding autos ami the King of Spain were, matters of con- cern a auarler ol a century ago. The auto) seem to have been possessed of greater powers of resistance. They Itlll rpeed but to use the phrase of Preinitr Hepburn, "Aifonsio Is out." â€"SI rut ford IImsi on- Herald. PUTSCH'S EXACT (MEANING The word 'putsc.h" Is In these days seldom out ol the central Kuropeua newt for long. Hut. according to a Oernian ^choKr. It l.« being used very wrongly, when as has come to be a wiuesprend practice, it is made syn- oiiynious with ri volution. It -i correctly upiilieil only to an at. tempted revolution which ends in a flas,", That wns the outcome of llie affair at Munich, in November, 1923, that brought Illtlei- to the fore and led 'ii his arrtst in a beer hall after whi 'I' he sei-i'id n vear in prison. It wasn't in describing this abortive attempt at revclution that the word wa? llrst extensively resorted to in tlie dfspatcoeb But th ; movement that made him Chancellor was cor. talnlj not a putsch In the original sense That l»ur.i--hP(l against Dollfull Wcxlnesday had the term applied to it before there was any assurance ei- ther (,f Its success or failure. â€" Edmon- ton Journal. THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN Let'.' sje. Unless the war debts were cancollod three years ago the wor'J was to sink in chaos. Unless niitniii gave India independence two years ago, the white man was to be driven Into the sea. And this year if the noveniment collected a tax on gnl i. mining woulo be ruined. What's the next croak?â€" Sault Ste Marie Star. lONE SHIELING" RECALLED T'le late Professor Donald Suther- lan1 Mi^Intosh of Dalhousie University hc'ipieathed to his native province, of Nova Scotia, 100 acres of land In Cape rtretoii with the request that on It there would be erected a building sim- ilar In design to the "Clone shieling" made famous in Scottish literature. Pro'i'ably the most quoted stanza In Japanese tank display staged at Tank Corps base in Tokyo brought out many 7"^,^"' ^f'^r ^ /'l^ the pupils of the Tokyo Academy of Music. Uirls showed lively interest in every ^'^^'' JJ* '"^„'"'" casios of modern death-dealing war machines which were demon.strated and are seen grouped about as officers explain ojieration of turret. EASY MONEY DOES IT Why is business Improving in Great Britain? 1. Because foreign countries have confidence' in our ability to man- utactuie and deliver according to con- tract. 2 Because tho banks, by pay- ing vittually, no Interest on deposits, are forcing idle millions into produc- tive channels â€" London Sunday Re- the poem called "The Canadian Boat jg^^^ .Scing." is as follows: "l''iom the lone shieling on the misty island Mour.talns divide us, and the waste „ , .,,. .V I.. J • . „ .v,» 1 t The primary object would be safety But still the blood is strong, the heart] . ' . ..â- '.â- '.... ... VULNERABLE WOOLWICH Tht> War Office is said to have un- der consideration a project for mov- ing Woolwich Arsenal to South W'ales. Is Highland, And we In dreams behold the He. brides." Tbif poem, which first appeared In niaikwood's Magazine in September 1S29. has boen attributed to John Gait. John 0. Lockhart, tho Earl of Kglinton and others. Periodically the discussion of the authorship Is revlv. ed, but it has never been settled def- initely and probably never will be. â€" Toronto Mall and Empire. from air attack, but it would have a gi'eai many other advantages. In the War. London proved to be anything but IP i<leal site for an ordnance fac- tory. Sooner, (it later, and the sooner I tile better, not only the Woolwich Ar- senal but all our aircraft factories, i will have to be moved to places less j accrt.isible to ei.em.v bombers, as a I matre.- of common precaution â€" Lon- I don Sunday Dispatch. With The Gangsters POLITE POLICE A provincial motorcycle officer has, "i am not being boastful," .says Mr. been relieve*! of his duties on the Gordon Fellowes In "They Took Me ground of discourtesy to motorists. I for a Ride" (Allen and Unwin, 6s.), â- I culled for the constable's resig.j -when I say that I am one of the few nail';-," General Williams, chief of^nien who have ever been taken for the Provincial Police, announces. "We a rido by gangsters and lived through inlenJ that oui men shall be court- [the ordeal." It certainly sounds a su- eous, and any constable that isn't preniely uncomfortable exi>erience. lie courteous can get another Job." I was acting as a criminal investigator On the whole we believe Ontario iu st. Louis at the time, and could has a Provincial police system of „ot i,ave been too popular with the which it may well be proud. In all de-| gangsters. So they arranged an ap- paitments it seems to be doing good polntnient with him: â€" work. The motorcycle division is par-| "as I walked up to the main door ticularly smarl and efficient and the of the Pierce Building, four men con- vailous officers with whom we have | fronted me, and I realized at a glance come in contact left nothing to be de- that I had walked into a trap. One of sir ;d In the way of courtesy. them, a big, blustering man, making W; quite agre§ with General Wil-|„o pretence of concealing the gun in Hams that It is desirable to have the i,ig hand, barred my way. force known everywhere as a 100 perj "F.Mlowes." he said, "we're going cent courteous body. A traffic officer' to take you tor a ride."' can do his duty and still bo courteous. i knew it would be useless to argue, Occasionally one finds a constable,! ,^,„i j |j„ew that In all probability 1 who does not appreciate this fact.;w„^ about to begin my last hour of Sucu a man, 01 course, is unfitted fornfe. i i,ad a curious feeling of ex- the work.â€" Border Cities Star. hilaration PUBLICIZING THE PIG TIIIUD DKGRKK METHODS. It ail oxplRi:ation of the apparent xhei' rushed him acro.ss to a car prer.Mvnce for pork in Canada Is and sat him in the back between sdugb! It ma> perliaps, be found In them. They drove him out to a deso- tho power of advertising. The merits ^late part of the country, and set to of va' ious brands of hams, bacon, sau-i sngi) and other pork products are set; forth consistently in the packing CI]\/|P| C" TTFQT TO 1^1^^^! O^F hnusf advertlalng. but does any one OllVlrLiEj 1 JutJ I l\J L/lOV/LiVfOI- recail ever having read an ndvertise-l men' concerning a tempting roast ofj heel jr a tender Juicy steak. -:=Mono- ton Transcript. i FINGERPRINTS I I'ue files of the U.S. Department of. Justice contain more than 4,400,000 fing"! prints. But any homo with a biib.v tan show that number on Its wall.-, -Wooilsldck Sinlinel-llevlew. : SMOKING FORBIDDEN Ni smoking work. What they really wanted was to find out where he kept his copy of the confession of another gangster who had betrayed his comrades: â€" From seven-thirty till nearly mid. night â€" almost Ave hours â€" I was cross- examined, searched, struck with guns and fists, and subjected to every im- aginable form of mental and physical suffering. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, the car drove along those quiet roads, and In turn each man questioned, threatened, cursed and struck until I was hardly in a state of consciousness. But, in spite of everything, he re- fused to give in. He felt that once they knew where the confession was hidden, "the next dawn would have found my body lying iu a ditch" â€" "bumped off." As it was they let him go. Later he received another warning. He was working with a prominent Senator who was determined to sup- press the gangsters, and he knew that they both were suspected. One night, he says, "I answered the telephone to hear a voice, which I did not recognize, saying in cold, precise tones: "You're on the spot, Fellowes. and this is the last warning you will ever get. Got me?" I certainly had got him. I would have been a fool to have ignored the warning. He went to the Senator and told him that he was going to lie low for a bit. That evening the Senator was murdered In the theatre! POLICE WARNING. According to Mr. Fellowes, many of the police work hand in hand with the criminals. He was shot at one day, and next morning was summoned to the police station to identify a couple of possible assailants. In the ante- room. An ofllcer walked up to me with a smile â€" not a very pleasant smile. "Say, Fellowes," he muttered, "you don't know these guys. Get me?" "Well." I returned, "I should rec- ognize the man who took a shot at me." "You'll do nothing of the sort!" snapped the officer. "You'll keep your mouth shut." Thinking that discretion was the better part of valor, he would not you â€" did you ever see such tweedf' and such a cap? 'Arry in Parry If I' ever saw one." .• (This was in the days when an EagJ lishman always went to the Contineat in a cap.) . "And behold." adds Lucas, "the en4 of the room was all mirror, and 1( was himself and his friends that wer« reflected In it," * « • • A warning to autograph fiends! "My favorite story of that boug«* (Ralph Waldo Emerson's) relates hoir* the Olympians of Concord decided to. have a club," reminisces Clara K. Laughlln ( in "Travelling Through . Life.") "It met on a Monday evening • in B^merson's study. There were Em- ' erson and Hawthorne, and Alcott and . Curtis, and Thoreau, and I can't re- member what others; and they sat* about, stiffly, while conversation* languished because no one could tblnk> of anything sufficiently Olympian to . say. "Presently Hawthorne, willing to be social on a low level If they couldn't * attain a high one, asked Emerson: • 'Do you get a lot of letters asking , for your autograph?' " 'I do indeed,' said Emerson. ' "'What do you do with them?' • " 'Throw them In the wastebasket.' » " 'But they enclose stamps,' said , Hawthorne. , " 'Of course," said the author of 'The Over-Soul'; that's where I get all my | postage'." « • • • In case you may think it is a mis- â-  print for "hook," Sir Wilfred offers • some additional evidence of the • breadth of a cod's appetite and â€" dig- • estion. i. "Scissors, oil can3 and old boots have been found In them. One skip- | per who lost his keys overboard In " the North Sea got them In the stom- ' ach of a codfish," he goes on. "Two ^ full-grown ducks, feathers and all, ' were found in another, apparently having been swallowed alive. Candles, ' guillemots (beaks, claws, and all), a ' whole hare, dogfish, turnips " But, . there, that's enough! • • • * Of course, you mustn't expect to ' find such treasure trove in the inter- ' lor of a cod lying In the humble cor- _ ner of a fishmonger's stall. No, sir.. Sir Wilfred is talking about the big fellows. "The Labrador record cod was 108 • pounds in weight and 5 feet 6 Inches long," he says. "The English record . is a' poor second. He was 78 pounds ^ in weight and 5 feet 8 Inches long. The largest cod recorded from the â-  Newfoundland Banks was 136 pounds. . In the international competition the ^ honors go to America with a Bank * cod of 160 pounds. An Aberdeen man . hooked a larger one but unfortunate- ly It broke the line and escaped. When ' the Englishman suggested to him that _ it was a whale, he replied that he was using a whale for bait at the • time." Baby Harp seals are practically all ' born â€" on floating Ice â€" on thf same . night. March the fifth. Thousands of them! They are very beautiful in ' their "white coats." says Sir Wilfred . Grenfell. But listen to this: "To make the rich milk the moth- * ers have to leave their ofiispring both . In fair weather and foul, lying on the ice which has moved In the mean- while, and return to find their one . parparticular baby among all the other thousands. Yet no man could ^ tell two baby seals apart. Moreover, | In maternity hospitals, with only a few dozen human babies at most, each . has to have a little brass tag chained to his arm, lor fear that their moth- ers will not know which Is which." • • • • Speaking of codfish reminds me of identify the menâ€" although he recog- nized one of them perfectly well. And nothing more was heard about the shooting. â-  Mr. Fellowes tells us that he and the Senator "tapped" the telephone line of a high police ofllcial and heard some astonishing conversations. One day a gang leader rang up and de- manded that one of his men, in prison for killing a bank manager, should be released. This was to be done by fixing the murder charge on some body else. ^ Next night they heard this: â€" "Guess I've got the guy you want His name is McG , and he is lo- cated in Detroit waiting for sentence for another rap. I suggest I get the Judge to pass him to us tor the Phelps murder." "Fine! I knew you'd do It for me! How much do you want for the Job?" The police oHicial was undecided about his charge. He said ... he would content himself with asking for an advance of five hundred dollars on account of current expenses. This was agreed upon, and the two men proceeded to elaborate the details of a scheme whereby a high police offi- cial should charge with murder a man who had no connection with the crime In order that the real murdei'er should go free. . . . THE GANGSTERS' INCOME. The profits made by the gangs are enormous if we are to believe Mr. Fellowes. In Chicago, he says. Jack Zuta, a prominent gangster before his assassination, told him that The weekly income of Chicago gangsters and extortioners derived from about 8,000 speak-easles, 2,800 disorderly houses paying protection, 200 of the larger gambling dens, and 2,000 bookmakers, amounted to about 6,000,000 dollars. Mr. Fellowes Is speaking of condi- tions some few years ago. Things may possibly be better now. But _, „ judging from Uie publicity given to a story told by the late Professor John Dillinger and others, America John W. Burgess, of Columbia Unl CANCER PRESENCE FOUND Blood Reaction Indication, Says Polish Scienti.st, Pupil of Prof. J. D. D'Arsonval, Paris â€" .'Xnnounced Academy of Science still has a long way to go. Mr. Fel- lowes has certainly written a most exciting account of his experiences- many of which, we imagine, he would not like to go through again. He now linds it safer to live iu England. Pithy Anecdotes Of the Famous versify (in "Reminiscences of an Am- erican Scholar.") Recalling the days ^ when pedagogues were not paid the princely (!) salaries they now receive,, he tells of the exultation of a fani- ous old Amherst Professor when his* salary was raised to $800. Rushing, home, he burst into the front door of his cottage and cried out to hli good wife: "Martha, Martha, thank Ood we can now have' codfish for breakfast." * Paris. â€" A .simple. Inexpensive lest wlikh doctors anywhere may perform i to determine If a patient has cancer i was announced recently at tho exclu was the notice that give French Academy of Science by gie«ii-a tho hundreds of guests who Prof. Jacques Aresene D'Araonval as liiiiK'i'd at llain House, Lord Uysart's^ the discovery of one of his pupils, Ur, liis'.onc mansioi. a' Uichmond. | Ladislaa Kopaczewskl, a Pole. il vas only ou condition iJiat this Tho test consist of congealing a nntl-t, was hung In various parts of blood sample by incoriwration of 10 tho house and that strict ob.si-rvaiice per cent, ol lactic acid at a tempera, of tl.»- rule wa-. enforced that it was ture of one degree centigrade, pos.sib'.e to hold the dubutante's ball, Dr. Kopaczewskl. In an exclusive ej- there for the mansion is insured for | planatlon of his test to the United six r.undred thou.sand pounds. Guests Press, said: 'It will now be possible who wanted to smoke had to do so for any human to undergo teats cheap- outdocra, I ly, as often as he feels It dcsiralile Guests who Inoluded Prince ArUiur'to satisfy himself whether he is suf- of CLunaughi, the King of Greece,' fering from cancer tumor. The blood Priuct-sa Katharine of Greece and the' of a normally healthy man without Prlnrf and Princess Christian of Hes.Vancer should congeal under those so, had the first pine trees to be planUJ conditions with the addition of lactic ed in England floodlit for their bene. | acid In 120 minutes. Blood of persons tit. Other Bights were floodlit for the suffering the worst cancers congeals first lim, and included the gate that almost Instantly. has not boen opened since Stuart "Between those two extreme we tim'M and Ihe ll''x grove. â€" London have charted an Index which allows Daily Telegraph | positive proof of whether or not a person is suffering from cancer and to what extent. Thus far we have been unable to discover a means of pointing out the exact location of tho cancer, but the new method will enable Miy doctor anywhere to ex- amine lib- blood and determine be- forehand whether su»"glcal interven- tion la ntc'ssary. "Tests every six months show the start of cancer, and allow immediate treatmeiit with almost certainty of a cnro if treated sufficiently early in developm.nit ol the malady. Thus far we have made no progress in iso- lating the cause of cancer, but whea we can now prove whether a human has the disease we have made con- siderable progress." Dr. Kopaczewskl lectured in New York hospltplf in 1929. Being iwor and not iiractlclng, he was enabled to carry his experiments to success through tJ e assistance of Professor D'Arsoiival. famed as the father of ulectrlc tberapeutica. who took him In as a pupil and gave him the use of laboratories. Quoting Andrew Laing's little- known lines about the two men who I bought they were looking into mir- rors and were looking at eaoh other ibrough a pane of glass, E. V. Lucas (in "Post-Bag Diversions") tells about un amusing the same lines that once happened to a friend of his "now a legal lumin It was this same professorâ€" "to whom Amherst was the centre of the world and Amherst College the soul of America and of universal culture- â€" who always carried an extraordinary looking umbrella, an old blue cotton experience along' concern tied in the middle by a string ' •! value that umbrella more highly than anything I possess", he told » ary." First, let me give the Laing friend one day lines: fifst president.'' Brown his tie adjusted. And Green arranged his hair. They each exclaimed, disgusted, '1 thoughtâ€" 1 hopedâ€" 1 trusted My face was far more fair!" As Brown his tie adjusted. And Green arranged his hair! 'It belonged to the "Indeed," said the friend, "anyone would value highly an article once used by Washington." "Oh." replied the professor, look- ing a little disconcerted. "1 did not, mean Washington. 1 meant rr«"sident Moore." President Moore was the first Pre-* sldent of Amherst College, and he, ' was, therefore, th© first president to Now for genial E. V. Lucas' story about his friend, the "legal lumln. ary"; , "He and some friends were visit- the professorâ€" Ebenezer S. Snell sslu- _ ing Paris, and one day went out to tatorian to the first class which gra- Versailles' As they were walking duated from .Amherst College, the â- _ along one of the great florid Galler- class of 182'3, and connected with col- ics they saw advancing upon them lego from the day it opened until his from the far end a party similar In death In 1876. number, also bent uiHin tearing the "He was an institution in Amherst secret from the sumpiuousiiess of the College." says Professor Burgess, an Sun-King. old Amherst man himself. '"Look," said my friend, here comes â€" the British tripper with a vengeance. The turning pidnt In a girl's life !• and his compatriots with him. 1 ask when she decides to turn blond.