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Voice of the Press Canada. The Empire and Die World at Large »«»««»< CANADA â€" Tax rates, it has many times been pointe.J out, are not always the safest fuide to the actual tax burden a community is caUe<l upon to hear. A more accurate indication of tlie true tax rate is the assess- ment levels. A bulletin iwued la.st year by the Citizens' Itesearch Institute of Can- a<la prive.s as.ses.smcnt figures and net debt figures for 17 Canadian citie.s for the year 1931. Worked out on a per capita basis, these figures are as follows: Assess. Net Debt as ye have done it unto the least of tliese My Brethren, ye have done it unto Me." How It U Done Toronto $1,061 Victoria 1,511 Wind.sor 1,414 Ofawa 1,250 London 1,220 Montreal 1,201 Saint John 1,116 Vancouver 1,094 Winnipeg 1,085 Haiiiilton . Hiilifax ..." Quebec Re"ina r'<!monton S:i kntoon Calgary Chai-lottetown .. 1,002 .089 !)00 872 840 801 789 707 Average $1,085 â€" Winnip3i? Tribune. NO NEVER IN THAT CONDITION One of these days some enterpris- ing py.iama firm is ^oing to turn out suits in which the trousers and coat v.-m be of a different color. i>i<l you ever struggle to try to get your feet through the i.:leeve' Oshawa Times. "DRIVE SLOW" A letter appearing in the Toronto O obe over the signature of Mr. A W Baird, principal of the Renfrew CoUogiate, will be read with con- siderable intere.st in Kingston, not merely because of its subject mat- ter, but because of the fact that A. W. Baird is one of Queen's most bnl'.iant graduates and at the pre- sent time occupies an important position in our educational world. Mr Bajrd takes issue with the liev. C Graham Jones of CampbeKl- VI He who receently wrote to the Globe complaining of such highway fflffns as "School: Drive Slow." Mr Baird points out that slow is quite coiTcct an draws attention to the following on Page 542 of Modem tnghsh Usage, by H. W. Fowler: Slow, adverb. In .spite of the en- croachments of slowly, flow main- tains Itself as at least an i.iiomatic possibiUty under .s-ome oonditions. Of the conditions the chief is that the adverb and not the verb should contain the real point; compare We forged slowly ahead," where •!. """^.""'^ 's =in unessential item. â- With Sing as slow as you can ' where tho .slowness Is all that mat- ter.'!. The.^e highway signs have bother- ed others besides the Rev. Mr. Jones of Campb.Uville, and some of us way even have the temerity to take ksue with Mr. Fowler. However, as Mr Baird points out, it is evident that those responsible for the .^igns have good authority for their We doubt, however aware of this fact.â€" Standard. AN EDITOR ABROAD ... A series of sketches written for the Vancouver Sun by Harold L. Weir, chief editorial writer of that newspaper, on his impressions of the United Kingdom and France as acquired in a short tour of thosa countries, has been published in the form of a 36-page pamphlet. It is a bright and interesting little publication. The .style is light and distinctly "readable," the matter ranges from dinners at sea to tha $138.19 '"'^J'^sty of an England discovered 229.20 ?"'' ^^^ quotation of Shakespeare'i 184.07 about "this sceptred issle . . . Thl» 104 93 *^^'"- ^''''' shows a nice apprecia- 109 43 P'''^'^'o"s stone set in the silver sea.'- tion of Tendon's charm, of the grace 40.31 °^ ^^^ English countryside and the 219.17 f"-'^«'"'y of Scotland, and he is able 75.05 . J?!**^ °" *° ^'^ readers something 120.94 " °"^ '"^''" enjoyment. 154.43 17326 _, PUDDLE-JUMPER 155.11 During the war the tanks came 276.00 "'""s: to the surpri'^e of everybody 191.92 '''a"''''"K across fairly decent sized 152.21 "'""'^"e.s. But now we have an auto- 97.04 ^'" .'" *'^'<='' '^''P'^ the pud.Ile.s. The (-hristian Science Monitor tells of a $142.43 â- '''^'â- ''"'^e looking .stream lined auto- mobile which has been built in Cali- fornia which dnes uncanny things It is built of steel and is lighter â- â- '.n the Usual ear and the centre of Kranty is placed voiy low, so that the car is not easily over turned. Its inventor took it out into rough Kiound and for three hours, before a R-roup of spectators did the appai- intly impossible. He turned hair-pin ' curves at sixty miles an hour with- out the missing of a heart-beat. "At «.) miles an hour he drove his car into a mound of rocks and dirt four feet high, and dived 51 feet before landing on one front wheel The machine righted itself and proceeded calmly acros.s- tlie mesa, without even Mowing a Ore." Soon we will be able to ride up- side down with .safety. â€" Halifax Chromcle. Prince Urges English-Speaking Youth to Further War Amity New York. â€" The Prince of Wales urged the young generation of Eng- lish-speaking democrats to work for international understanding, In a message read at a dinner of the Eng- lisU-apeaking Union of the United States. Ti!ie Prince sent the message aa president of the Engli.sli-speaking Union of the British Empire. Read by the toastmaster at the dinner, John W. I>avi3, former U. 3. Ambas- sador to Great Britain, the message said: "The endeiJvor of the youth of the English-speaking democracies should be directed to promoting not only tiheir mutual Interests but also i» ternatlonal understandings, as UM first step towards tb» economic r* covery on which the malnteQanc* «( peace and understanding throughonl the world will depend." Sir Gerald Campbell, British Coiv sul-General In New York, in addra* sing the dinner suggested that youtfe Is not "getting a squar* deal" from the generation now in control ol world affairs. "We must confess," he said, "tixmi we have made more than an averags bad mess of what was not such f bad world at the tima It was con- fined to our care." Getting the News By "Pony Express' Action! â€" Lights! â€" And the camera swings on its boom right up to the bedroom window for that closeup of Irene Dunne youll ad- mire when you see her latest picture. Down below on the set, Director Mervyn LeRoy (right) supervises the f timing of the scene. The iation clinic' DIVORCE CLINIC not only in the U.S.A., but in other countries, including Australia; and if the controllers of the business don't mend their manners somethng disastrous is certainly going to hap- pen to them.â€" Sydney Bulletin. £85,675 Poster Bought Youth League Backs use. I if they were -Kingston Whig- wife when they begin to quarrel and want to part. Porha-.s. â€"From the I embroke Standard-Ob.server. THE IeMPIRE LONDON. â€" A man walking down - a London street saw a board outside Oklahoma Ministerial Assoc- 1 the Middlesex Hospital announcing IS setting up a "divorce j that they still needed 85,675 pounds 'ney are of the opinion that for their 1,200,000 pound extension ministers can pacify husband and scheme. He walked into the hospital, drew out his cheque book and offered to buy the po.st<;r for the sum required. He was Mr. E. W. Mewerstein. He took his seat on the hospital board, for the first time. THK RIGHT TO WOHK I Pf'nce Arthur of Connaught, wel- The Daily Express believes that '^^'"'"K him, thanked Mr. Meyerstein every citizen whowant.s work should ''"" * ^'^^*^ ^^'^^ "^ 30,000 pounds and set it, and that all citizens should * second gift of 70,000 pounds, have to work. The Dailv Expres., has '^'^^" ^'"^ Meyerstein remarked that no re.spect for The Willing Idle and ''â-  ^"^ ^'^ birthday, and that he nothing but pity for the organized ; '"^"'^'^ to give himself a present, triviality of "Society." Those spong- offered his cheque. It brougBt his ing, lounging loafers eko out a mi.s- '' K'^'" to the fund to 185,675 pound.s. erable existence. The public are nou i The meeting accepted the oifer, and interested in them in any case. j the reconstruction fund became closed. â€" Lontlon Daily Expre.s-s. HOUSING AND TUBERCULOSIS '^^v'^** Seeking St. Thomas' Times-Journal The Times has been recalling events of 100 years ago, when Charles Dickens was a reporter in London. When readers of the Times- Journal realize that news of an im- pontant event on the other side of the ocean is published within a few seconds of happening, with an ex- tended report appearing within half an hour or so, it is intere.sting to learn that the great London daily prided itself on 'the promptitude of its reports before the days of the telegraph, trains, steam printing, typewriters or the telephone. Its reporters art home and abroad relied on a sort of "pony express^' system, being told to spare no e.x- pense either as to the number or quality of the horses. Referring to an important speech by Lord Durham sit Glasgow in 1834, it is recorded the Times sent down to Glasgow two of its best parliamentary reporters; and m oi' der at the same time, to do all that could be done "to get the report of Lord Durham's speech brought as speedily as possible to the Times Australian Culture , office, relays of postmen and horses â€" there being no railways at the time â€" were stationed at conven- ient distances between Glasgow and London. The journey from Glasgow to London â€" 400 miles â€" was per- formed ait the rate of 15 miles an There are, of course, other angles as well from which the fight against tubercuHosis mu.^t be directed, such 100-Per Cent Vote MOSCOW,â€" Soviet Russia to-day CHANGE IN RULERSHIP In the^ last 24 year.., eight mon- ?Kn •'' -?, '""'°"' <^ont'""'ng about 750 million persons have lost their throne.s. The monarchs ruled l{us- sia. Germany. Austria-Hungary, China, Portugal, Greece, Spain and iurkey. Rulership has pa.'-sed from monarchy to money power, as it did m France a century agoâ€" The Citi- zen, Ottawa. THE LABRADOR DOCTOR At 69 Sir Wilfre.l Grenfell has decided that his active days in the medical missionary fichl are about over. Sailing for England with Lady GrenfeW, the man whose name is synonymou;.- with Labrador admit- ted that he was "getting too old to dru-e a dog team" and must honce- lorth tak>. things easy. •Thnt doe.s not mean, however, that Sir Wilfred wll be content to reUre and spend his declining years In contemplating the noble work Tno^ '"â- ""Pht him knighthood in 1927. Sturdy, ruddy cheeke.l, a pic- ture of health despite hi.s strenuous Ufe. "the Doctor" will continue to be the driving force behind the In- ternational Grenfell As.sociation. Only tho.se who have been to Lab rador and talked with its hardy people can appreciate the high re- grd in which Sir Wilfred is held. What he has done over a period of more than forty years to ameliorate conditions of life in a land where there ar,. few pleasures and much poverty must he measured in terms •f tha future. If. as Sir Wilfred b.-Iieve.'., Labra- dor is developed and eventually be- •omes one of the important sections •f the continent, it will be ,lue in no •mall measure to one who placed a literal interpretation on tha words »f twenty centuries ago: "Inasmuch nLLllv f 1-M "" """" ""PP'^' «»- I Jn'tiated the Campaign for elections IZ hi • f 7''''?"' so as to elimin- ; to the village Soviets with tha slogan . stens co^n }"^7''°"; ''".^ '^ special "Get out 100 per cent of the eligible step.s could be taken to improve the ! voters " poTcfrcum.^Iln'''''' "/. ''"'"'"''•^ i" I This is the first general election cubsis tCt ! 'K'^ *" ^"'''"- «'"=« f"*"" collectivization became tirdi-;aL.wn^?n'l "^ f'''"'*""^Ndespread «"d spectacular meth- 'd -F^^nbT.rS.r'"'^^ '"'''â- ""- <^» have been adopted to enlis^ > >'• -I'dinourgh ocot.snian »i. * • • / ^ i- • ' the peasants in social construction. Melbourne, Vic. â€" Dedicated to the protection of Australian natural trea- sures and resources â€" notably the Lyre bird and other rare species â€" as well as the preservation of native culture, the League of Youth has been founded. James McRae, direct- j hour. The result was that the speech or of education, presided at the mee- of Lord Durham appeared in the ting when a constitution was adopted Times at full length a day before An appeal made by Ambrose Pratt | it otherwise could have done. The in his book, 'Tho Lore of the Lyre expenses amounted to £200; but the Bird," for the youth of Australia to | unprecedented achievement crearted band together In the Interests of na-|a great sensation throughout the tivo flora and fauna, was Influential \ country. in formation of the league. Among j During a by-election in Devon- tUe aims of the league are the devel- shire Dickens was up against the opment of community service and of , Times' hang the expense service and personal respoasiblllty, the preser- : made several journeys between Exe- vatlon of national monuments, and ter and London, a distance of some the encouragement of local groups to 170 miles. On one occasion when carry on these and similar objectives, 'they were approaching Honiton, and I changed horses together, they had the start two or th><e minutes| I bribed the poatboys tremendou* ly and we came in literally neck and neck â€" the most beautiful sight I ever saw." Charles Dickens was a zealouj and able reporter on the Morning Chronicle, and in one of his writing^ states that probably no other repor ter in England spent so much tims rushing across country in postehaiaei In 1865 he told a newspapermen'! banquet that: "I have often transcribed for the printer, from my shorthand notes, important public speeches in which rthe strictest accuracy was required and a mistake in which would have even, to a young man severely com- promisng,- writing on the palm of my hand, by the light of a dark lan- tern, in a postchaise and four, gal- loping through a wild country, and through the dead of tho night, at tthe then surprising rate of 15 milea an hour." Through all the ages the reporter seems to be destined to be the Man Who is Always in a Hurry. The league Is open to any over the ago of 12 years. youth Orphans' Friend Stops in Eldmonton In the approaching elections there i will be 10,000,000 new voters with 90,000,000, in all, eligible to vote. ^pent about seven and a hMirmmilfn I '^^' '°'''' ^"''''' '^"' "'*'' ''^'"â-  pound.s, indudimr expenditure ^"^^ the THE COST OF THE LEAGUE J'ince Its formation 15 years ago League of Nations gold on technical not only on the .staff, but also buildings and the many nnd .special org-mizntions of the League The In>,.nationPl Labour Office h.n. ,^n,.,.t -â- .„.. -„,„,„„ „^„^^,^ I the same period and the .".nimn- cnt four' ,f l:..on tio";.l Jii.tice £871.000. Addin.^ th,.,..> r ,. we get n total of under 12/)00.000 pound.s. The share that ea.h of the 57 nation members is called unon to pay Is determined by a somewhat compli- cated mp.thpmptica! formula, in which the factors are population, territorial nre.-i. industrial wealth, etc. Great Britain's total contribu- tions under this ariangcment have amounted to one and a quarier mil- lion gold pounds over the 15 ycai.«. To put this sum in its proper pro- portion, it is sufficient, perhaps, to remark that it does not amount to 1 per cent of the expenditure on ririti.ih armament'! for n siiielf year. The Cape Anrus, Capetown. to the district Soviets, which in turn will elect representatives to the Provincial Soviets and these Soviets will elect provincial con- gresses which will name 1986 dele- gates to the All-Union Soviet Con- gress, the supreme authority of Soviet Russia. This congress will meet Jan. 14 for the first time in three years. Any 13-Year.Old Can Learn Grammar THE MOVIES IN AUSTRALIA The real offence of the films is not that their vulgarities and inde- cencies corrupt those who frequent talkie.^, but that they outrage the susrcptihilitie^ of nennle who know little or lotl.;â€" of fl,p talkip.s but what is fo-- â-  .. .,, „nrt theirs '" '^^ f- - â- â- â-  advertl.,e- ^nt .nnd publioity stuff. Owine- f- tho e abu?e :• -,m d.iMe hidv of ho.sti!? opinion has been mobilised U Princeton, N.J. â€" Gertrude Stein, modernist poet and author made tier speaking debut hefore a college aud- ience befuddling 500 Princeton un- dergraduates and faculty members wl;h extracts from her works. "I was tremendously concerned in finding out what was myself Inside of me," she said among otjier things. "I think that'.<i general of college stu- dents. ' "The only way you can live wl, fa- out being bored," she said, "Is to feel that every individual has a history that Is worth Investigating." Her remarks â€" "Why make a fuss about grammar when any 13-year-old can learn ll"--drew laughter and ap- plause. S'lo appeared In a rough blown skirt, a brown and yellow sweater, low- heeled shoes and hatleas. When at the conclusion of her lecture, she asked if (here were any questions, her dazed audience made no reply. She grinned and walked off the plat- form. Millionaire "orphans' friend" J. D. O'Connell, recently visited Edmonton during his annual 50,000-mile tour of all America. He inspected the orphans' institution which bears his name and, as well, looked into some of his financial interests, including real estate and wheat lands. Mr. O'Connell would not give any- thing to Homes for the Aged, he an- nounced. He himself is a septu- agenarian. "Well, they've had their opportunities, and their lives, and ap- parently wasted them. Oh, I have nothing against the old folks â€" I'm just a lot more interested in orphans: the boys and girls who, if given a chance today, will be the grown people who run this world next year. They've got to have their chance. "That's my life work â€" -that and fighting the booze traffic. You can't make that too strong; the language, I mean. That's the one thing that I'm more interested in than I am even in providing funds for orphans.' about 16 miles on the way, Denison of the Times, who was more fami- liar than Dickens with the country and the way of innkeepers, told his postboy to run into the Golden Lion yard by the back way, knowing that a pair of horses would be ready harnessed in the yard, with the post- boy waiting for a job. Denison reckoned that thus he would get possession of the horses before his colleague alighted and came in at the front door. So it proved; Denison got the horses and took the lead. During this same by-election Dic- kens was more fortunate against his rival on another trip for he chronicles thait: "At the second stage the Times | This At Least is Certain In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass whatever else is doubtful this at least la certain: "If there be no God and no future s:ate, yet, even then â€" "It is better to be grenerous thar selfis.:i. "Better to be chaste than licent- ious. "Better to be true than false. "Better to be bi-ave than to be a coward. "Blessed beyond all earthly bles- sedness is the man who In the temp- estuous darkness of hds soul has dar- ed to hold fast to these venerable landmarks." â€" P. W. Robertson. Wealthy Not Allowed To Be Movie Extras Hollywood, Cal.â€" The moving pic- ture industry Is one Jump ahead of the New York mannequins who ob- ject to society girls who .take away t^ielr bread and butter by acting as models. For Hollywood already has set its foot down hard on anyone with in- dependent means becoming a movie 'extra" just for a lark. "Any time we find society people trying to get movie Jobs just tor the I'ua of it, we out them oft our lists." Campbell MacCuUough new general manager of Central Casting Bureau said today. Before the present motion picture NBA code was crystallized a number of girls of social prominence took mi- nor roles in the films as a diversion. Sonne showed enough promise to win contracts. Jury women Are Too Sentimental Says Manchester Court Chairman Their Recomniendations for Mercy are Strongly Criticizedâ€" Former Cabinet Minister Defends Fair Sex in Legal Controversy Don't Fight the Censors Frederick T. Blrohall European correspondent of the New York Times speaking last week to the stu- dents of the Columbia school of Jour- Manchester, Eng.â€" Women Jurors came In for some scathing criticism by the chairman, H. St. John Ualkes, K.C., at the trial of William Whittle, 60-year-old laborer, charged with stealing coal. He was found guilty and sentenced to six months' hard labor. Wiien the foreman of the jury In- nallsm stated that It Is impossible to timated the woman members desired suppress newa and therefore any cen- [ 'o recommend him to mercy, the sorship Is foolish. chairman asked them to give a rea- "In my 40 years of experience." he son, and when none was forthcoming said, "I found out that news will leak said: "Year by year, since women out through the roof or througi'i any ''ave been serving a certain amount crevice. "It Is stubborn for any correspon- ilent to fight a censor. Any corres- pondent expelled from a country la as foolish as the war correspondent who goes Into the .'ront line to be .'hot. He Is no good any more to his newspaper." He stressed the honesty truthful ness and In^srent friendliness of Am- erican correspondents In Germany and added that no dispatch Is ever stopped by the government If the contents are true. He said that not one of his dispatches some of which were highly critical, wag ever stopp- ed by the Germans. TKE OPULENT ICE MAN Oh. envy not the let mm Who gtts to much a pound. It may be he it drifting Whence Ice deat not abound. of sickly sentimentality has been shown, and unless there la some strong reason they should be chary of making recommendations. U is ratiher a slight on the court. Those whose duty it is to award puniahmont have more experience than the jur- ies and are able to size up the quea- tlon." U PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS On hearing that there were 11 pre- vious convictions against Whittle tor stealing coal, the chairman observed: "And then we get this recommenda- tion by people who knew nothing about it. It Is a shocking thing In a way." Pro ests from various quarters fol- lowed the remarks of Mr. Ralkes. "Women are no more sentimental than men," declared J. R. Clynes, for- mer Caibinet member. "Lectures on seutimentality to the. jury who recom- mended mercy ai'e unheard ot and out of place," he said. "1 have never seen any reason to diflereiitlate between women jurors and men," said Comyns Carr, K.C. A STEIN SONQ Discussing the sculptor Epstein (Whose work he does not like) A. Ed- ward Newton quotas (In "Derby Day and other Adventurers"') this 'Very clever limerick" that appeared in tha "Atlantic Monthly" a year or so ago. "There's a notable family named Stein; There's Gert, and there's Ep and tihere's Ein; Gert's poems are punk Ep's statutes are junk â€" Cant make head nor tall out of EIn." Speaking of stelnt; Mr. Newton tells a story about an English temp- erance lecturer who onca said In a public speech. "I have lived in this town all my life. There are fifty pubs (aaloons) te It. and I have never been in one o' them." From the back of the room a heck- ler Inquired. "Which one have you missed?" "I have learned by years of exper- ience. " adds Mr. Newton, "never to attempt to match wlU with a cock- ney." I • « ♦ » 1