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• •»â- < * CANADA Income of Fanners â€" An Item in the New York Times tells of the income tax received from smalt French farmers. 'The Preach peasant, as a rule, keeps no booka," ^fflments the article. That makes the news all the more Interesting, far the government has to rrjy mainly on the word of the taxpayer. "One French farmer confessed last year to a proflt of $17,000 on the year's farm- ing." Others acknowledge making as hlRh as J 10,000 a year. The majority, however, report pro- fits ranging all the way from $100 to $1,000 a year, anything above the lat- ter figure being exceptional. Experi- ence of farmers in this province would appear to be much like their cousins' in Prance, anything above a $1,OQO a year l;e(ng exceptional â€" at least ac- cording to income tax returnsâ€" Ed- monton Journal. Sign It Clearly Next to an anonymous letter in our morning mail, we are most annoyed by communications bearing- signatures which no one could read . . . It is customary for the average stenographer in a business office to type the name of the Big Boss below his scrawl, which is very helpful to the nuzzled reader Sometimes one may guess at the name by checking over the officers designated on the letterhead. Too often the reader is left wholly In the dark. It la certainly a breach of courtesy on the part of any letter writer to so scrawl hia own name that it Is illeg- ible to the recipient of the communi- cation. If those who writo letters are incapable of writing their names clear \y, they should at least be consider- ate enough to have it typewrit' t or printed In block letters. â€" Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. A Woman of Eighty She is a woman of eighty. In her younger days she played the piano well enough to give lessons to others. Today she is still giving lessons, not because she is required to by need of money to sustain her; far from it, for the reason is she Is helping others who have not the means to pay for tuition Two little girls, daughters of a neighbor, were eager to linow how to play the piano, but the depres- sion had loit their par-nts with little better than sufficient to pay for the neci-nsitles of life, and piano lessons were 01 I of range. So the neighbor of ei.'^ltv years comes into the pic- ture- She brings the little girls to her hniiie and give them lesson-s regu- lar y. with the re.iult that the gift to play tlie oluno is not to o lost to these r-'ii'(iren of the depr'^ssiou years. â€" Lpthl-r'i'-p Herald Still To Come There is food (or thought i • the peroiilv accurate contention of a writer In the I'hilade'phia Mes-cuger that the world ha.«) yet to see either • ('hi-'ut-'n countr-- ot a Christian city. A Christian city, he says, would be a city without slum.s, without Jails, without poverty, without unemploy- ment, without Injustice. without drnn'-enncsa. without vice, without jealousy, without hatred, without bit- terness. A Christian country, the same writer ho'ds. would be a country wlt'iout guns, without luxury for the few and hunger for the mnny. without bribery, without gratt. without oppres- sion. â€" Brockville Recorder and Times Is the trouble about censoring the apt word. â€" Vancouver ProTlnce. Men Canny Losers A survey ot department stores, bases, trains and street cars baa de- mcustrated that women lose more ar- ticles than men. As a matter ot fact the male of the species also mislays many things, but he knows enough to do that in the home, and then have every one else in the household hunt for them. â€" Brantford Expositor. Music For The People Music Is no longer a luxury or the almost inaccessible Held of a few gift- ed enthusiasts. It has suddenly be- come part of the stuff of daily life â€" and a very Important part. As Lord Horder said recently: ''I envy musici- ans because they 'doctor' thousands of people at one time when, as a 'Phy- sician, I can only attend to one pati- ent at a time.'' â€" Winnipeg Tribune. A Judge Defends The moving picture industry has re- ceived so many thrusts from magis- trates, judges and social workers that it is refreshing to find no less a per- sonage than Lord Hewart, Chief Jus tice of England, coming to its (.'â- â€¢. tense. He was addressing a dinner if moving picture people and remarked that whijelhere was a fear that films of passion and crime influenced the young people to become killers, i)lack mailers, thieves and to load frivolous lives, he went back to the days of his youth and recalled that while he. and doubtles.s millions o' her Ijoya and young men, enjoyed stories about pi rales, robbers and criminaLs of all kinds, they had nearly all own up normal and decent living people. Many of these stories, he said, had become classics of literature, including, for example, Oliver Twist, wherein ap- pears the greatest burglar of all. Hill Sikes, yet the piety and virtue of the readers had been uudimmed. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. Crown Princa Shows Goering ble of Capri Badly Needed The search for the non-glaring head- light and the 100 per cent, efficient glare-eliminating windshield must go on. The reward for the discovery will be fewer traffic accidents, thou- sands of lives saved annually and faster and more comfortable night driving. â€" Port Arthur News-Chronicle. Carries a Mo;-al A story in the .New Yorlc Times sooms to carry u moral of sonio kind for thoughtless drivers. As the traffic light turned on a busy corner, a frail old woman started to cro38 the street with a crowd. A big car brusquely nosed Its way around the corner. While others scattered out of the way. the old woman stood sll I, seemed incapable of movoraent. Just as the car seemed about to hit her, a silk-hatted man. with a cane, timiHid quickly to her side and swung her out of harm's way. At the sauie moment there was a sharp report, and tho tire of the car went flat. Talking to a nearby policeman, a few minutes later, a reporter learned that a similar incident had been hap- pening nearly every morning, and that the silk-hatted man figured in each of tbeni. Following up the story, the reporter learned that the man was a former diplomat, whoso foot had been crushed by an automobile; and that it was not a cano he carried, but a sword stick. Tho forgotten pedestrian, who has to keep out of tho wiiy of imperious drivers, should bo glad to know ho has ail avenger. â€" Cluclph Mctciiv.\. A Good Season Unless the devastating floods of the mid-section of the United States have an adverse effect on tourist travel, it is confidently expected that North Bay district and other sections of Northern Ontario will enjoy even a greater business in the coming Snm- mer season. Visitors to the Dioune babes will number 750,000. according to an estimate by persons In the know, which means a 30 per cent, gain over the number counted at the hospital last year. â€" North Bay Nug- get. THE EMPIRE Big Ben The most familiar voice in the world today is that ot no mortal ora- tor, whether king. peer, or commoner, but of a robot dictator. The deep- cliested tones of Big Ben, thanks to the B.B.C.. reverberate daily through the length and breadth of the globe. Londoners accept those brazen ac- cents as a matter of course, though many ot them have paid their pence to gaze through the telescope by Boadicea's chariot on Westminster bridge, and watched Big Ben's giant paws visibly counting off eternity on his colossal dial. But. as the U.B.C.'s oversea correspondence testifies, to kinsmen in distant corners of the Em- pire the star performer on the ether is Big Ben. Kipling's banjo may claim to be "Town and all that ever went with evening dress," but Big Bon, for dusky foreloopcrs of tho Empire, is London's roar personified. His voice is that of the Empire's muezzin, daily summoning the scattered kinsmen to thoughts and memories of the Old Country. â€" London cor. Ottawa Jour- nal. General Hermann Goering, sans one of his fancy uniform.-i, and Crown Prince Humberto of Italy stroll on the sands of the Isle of Capri (luring the .\azi leader's recent visit to Italy. Motor Deaths in Canada UOO Year; 1,600 Maimed Dominion Automobile Siifety Con- ference Corsiders the Measures To Reduce Automobile's Tragic TcIL OTTAWA.â€" Self-preservation led to the formation of the Dominion Auto- mobile Safdy Council, T. Taggart Smyth, director of the council, and Montreal banker, told tho National Safety Conference here. The conference, first of its kind held in Canada, was called to promote the Interests of safety on streets and highways. During the past 10 years, said Mr. Smyth, more than 1.200 persons have been killed annually and 1,600 maim- ed. ''Self-preservation explains the why of the council's birth, as we are each and every one of us personally and intimately Interested in the work that the council has set out to do, namely, to make our public highways safe for ourselves and particularly for our women and children." Public Enemies Others who spoke included Senator Emile Viuck, vice-president of the Belgian Senate, Clifford W. Ham, Chi- cago, executive director of the .Vmeri- can Municipal Association, and W. M. Philpott. Toronto magazine editor. Mr. Philpott characterized the man behind tho wheel as "public enemy number one in terms of highway car- nage." Every year, he said, the peo- ple of Canada pay out for autcraobilo accidents the equivalent ot our annu- al investment in new motor cars. "The steering wheel sends history skidding into reverse," he remarked ''Veneer of century-old civilization sloughs off in the twinkling of an eye. Charming Dr. Jerky II becomes barbar- ous Mr. Hyde. Delightful drawin.?- rooin hcstesses become deadly ama- zons intent on 'beating the red light' at all hazards. Meek little men who normally submit to life's minor roles become towering Napoleons of de- struction with the power ot SO horses underfoot." Curb Speed Mr. Smyth summed up the aims of the council as follows: Curbin;; the speed mania at all costs and the enforcement of the laws governing the slowing down on hills and at curves. Reform of the system ot granting drivers' licenses. Obligatory periodical inspection of automobiles. Obligatory carrying of lights by all vehicles using the highways after dark. Further safeguarding of level cross- ings. Simplification and co-ordination of traffic laws and road and drivers' signs. Educational campaign through pul- pit, platform, the radio, the press and the screen, urging respect for the laws of the road and observance of its courtesies. Promotion ot a .system of recogni- tion for careful drivers that would be Dominion wide. Compiling of statistics an<I other data: issuing safety literature and fur- nishing public libraries therewith. Promotion of a Dominion safety week, and acting as a connecting link between all safety bodies in Canada, having tor tlieir object the protection of human life and property on the highways. Probation Study May Help Crime CLEVELAND. â€" For 30 years Mrs. .-Antoinette Cnllaghan has shar- ed the problems of Clevelanders in trouble. Believing she has served longer as a probation officer than any other woman in the United States, she declares increased pro- bation work yould help bring a so- lution to the problem of prison con- gestion. Mrs. Callaghan forsees a court system under which every person convicted of a crime will receive the study of a probation tfficer before .sentence is passed. 'Dy proper probation work in po- lice court we can prevent the break- ing up of a home. By keeping the home together we reduce delin- quency and keep the children out of juvenile court." she said. The nests of balj or golden o.igles weigh from 10 to 12 pounds. "VVa.x" made of wax. used to seal letters i« shellac and contains no The Government of Me.xico is i/uilding sugar mills throughout the country. 44-Day "Sit-Down" Ends Bargaining Begins Tues. Newsprint Takes Forest Wealth At Great Rate C -4 Charles Vining Asserts Industry Not Obtaining Adequate Return TORONTO â€" The newsprint indus- try is using up Canada's wealth of forests 'at a prodigious rate" and get- ting little for it l)(»;ond wages for the industry's workers, Charles Vining, president of the Newsprint Associa- tion of Canada, told the Canadian Club here recently. "We are con.suming our forests at a prodigious rate." said Mr. Vinln"; "A single Sunday issue of the New York Times means some 225 acres of our forest. The tabloid New York News, with its huge circulation, is using GO square miles a year. The Canadian mills, during the last five years of selling newsprint at a loss, have consumed at least 4.000 square miles of forest, equivalent to a strip 12 miles wide stretching from Mont- real to Toronto. Lack Minimum Return "If we sold cur gold as we have been selling our forests, one can al- most say that we would mine the gold, pay the mii.ars and then give the gold away." aaid Mr. V'ining as he quoted liguras to show that news- print companies wore not securing a "minimum economic return." The newsprint industry in 1931! 'had an all-time high in tonnage pro- duction, but an all-time low in price," Mr. Vining said. "Last month's re- turns of .shipments show a gain over last January of 25 per cent., and it seems safe to predict that l!):i7 means a new high record in *oi;::.'.ge produc- tion, although this rate of gain is higher than will be maintained for the Cull year. "In dollars the 1937 performance is abscrdly .sad. Overseas prices are substiinlially improved, but in tho North American continent, which cousuimes .Si) per cent, of production, the 1927 contract price is up only $1.50, nearly $0 a ton lower than the 1920 price. It is no advance at all because ot rising production costs." Mr. Vinin-.; said the newsprint in- dustry "is our largest single Indus- trial Investment with the exception of Investment in Hydro-tllectric power, and accounts for at least iwo-dfths of Canada's total power development. There are sln.gle mills which use more electrical energy each year than is used to light the cities of Toronto and Montreal combined." Benefit to Canada The iniiuslry brought to Canada be tween 1930 and 19:55 "in spite ot Its disrupted condition. $5G",f' 'O.OOU from foreign sources, compared with J475. 000,000 of gold production aud $130, 000,000 of nickel exports. Newsprint income is spent in Canada, for nearly all materials of newsprint production are ot Canadian origin. " he said. Ottawa Increases Publicity Program OTTAW.-\. â€" .Advertising and publicity will play i larger part in the government's program during the next fiscal year, according to estimates tabled in the House of Commons recently. For advertising and publicity in the United Kingdom and Europe the vote is increaseu from $250,000 to $350,000 while the trade and com- merce vote for publicity in Canada and abroad is $65,000, an increase of $10,;i00. The vote of last .vcar for the Canadian Travel Bureau was left unchanged at $250,000. Silk underwear is now compulsory for both sexes in Germany; thi.s aims at releasing the imported cot- ton for other purposes. 1,300 Strikers Quit General Motors Plants After Pact Sisfned â€" Sympathizers Shout Themselves Hoarse. PLI.N'T, MICH.â€" Three General Mo tors plants held by approximatelj 1.300 pit-downers, wore returned to comnany police as workers quit them on the urging of United Automobile Workers of America officials. Last barrier to the resumption of negotiations to end the General Mo- tors strike was broken down when strikeis. in quick success'on. marched out of PIsher Body Corporation Plantr 1 and 2 and Chevrolet No. 4. f.everal thousand svmpatl'izers who marched two miles from the main T'^isher plant to the two located in the zone guarded by State mi"tia. found I!' ! National Guardsmen had been re- called from patrol duty a few mo- ments before. Homer Martin, International Presi- dent of U..\.W.A.. drove ft-om Detroit with members of his "R< :ird of Strat- egy" to lead the evacuations. Whistles blew, horns we"e .sounded, strikers aud :ympiithlzers shouted themselves hoarse Beiin Bargaining Tuesday DETROIT.â€" General Motors Corpor ation and the United AutnmobUe Workojs have signed a three-page Doacfe treaty ruder whicli they will begin bargainiut; Tiie.sday on wages hour.s aud working conditlonj. Just before the formal ending of the across the countiy. (}eueral Motors billion-dollar corporatiou'.s plant acros sthe country. General .Motors granted a voluntary wa.ge increase. All workers will receive u raise of five cents an hour, effective Feb. 13. On the issues raised by the strike there was a compromise. For six months John L. Lewis's union â€" the United Automobile Workers â€" will have sole bargaining rights in twenty Diants where strikes occurred. !n re- turn, it will remove all sit-uown strikers, and allow General Motors to resume the production of automob'les as ''oon as possible. Shutdown Believed Avoided OSHAWA. â€" .News of the signing ot the agreement ''etween General Mo- tors and the strike organization in the United States was received with de- light at Oshawa and. according to Harry J. Carmichael, Vice-President and General Manager of General Mo- tors of Canada, probably means that the Canadian plant will avoid a shut- down. He believes that the flow of material can be resumed before pres- ent supplies here are exhaustd. Duke .Planning To Buy Estate Move to Hungai'v â€" Eld ward Seeks Place W:th Hunting, Golf Facilities VIKNN.V.â€" The Duke ot Windsor has indicated a desire to purchase an â- jstate in Hungary into which he can move during May, a Vienna real es- tate agent said last week. (Authoritative reports recently said the former Urilish monarch was con- sidering marrying .Mrs. WalHs Simp- son In Hungary because the Hungar- ian altitude toward divorce and re- marria«e is more liberal than in Aus- tria. .Mrs. Simpson has been divorced twice. (Previous reports .said tlie marriage date likely would bo April 27 â€" the ox- act day Mrs. Simpson's divorce from ISruest Aldrich Simpson probably will become tinal.) The Duke, seeking a permanent home, showed interest in estates near the Austrian bonier, the agent de- clared. He .said Kdward wanted a place with hunlini; and goUing facilities. The Veniis flytrap plant will go to sleep under the influence of chloroform, and an overdose will kill the plant. "Silly" h Banned Uul it seems rather a pity, never- tholcRS Utat Mr. Speaker should have ruled "silly" out of order. The amen- ltlo.1 and tho dignities for ever, ot courseâ€" but really, tho House of Com- mons ought to be ot sterner stuff than to Jibo at a little plain speaking in debate. Better, surely, that men's ar- Ruments should be called silly than that they themselves should be exhib- ited by Mr. Speaker as sissies in the tight ot the nation. Mr. niackmore says he will not use the word again. ".411 right, Mr. Speaker," ho said, "I have several others Ju8t as good."' Rut he Is boast- lag ot course. There Is no better word for silliness than "silly." That V J" ^^^ fr^ b#t ^W c f M'^ MJm^ i^CK Irff f^^^//\ ^â- B^BTo^ t^6 W^^tP^ ^gTr^ :> '*^».^"' â- >. ^yiTjT^-rr^ It took our friends some time to reach the entrance to the palace grounds, and this, Dorothy and Bil- lina spent in admiring the pretty things they saw on every side. Finally, however, they reached the palace gates and started up the path towards the palace itself, Tiktok still keeping tight hold of the cap- tured Wheeler. Together they mounted the steps and came to an Ibrujyt halt before the large front oor upoBk which was tacked an enor- mous ilcn. "Now," said Tiktok to his prtson- cr, when Dorothy had read the sign aloud, "you must show us the way to the left wing." "Very well." agreed the Wheeler, who seemed anxious to get away. "It is around here at the right." "How can the left wing be at the right'.'" asked Dorothy, who feared the Wheeler wa3 fooling them. "Because there were three wings," replied their guide, "and two of them were torn down, so the one at the right is the only one left." That's a trick of the I'riiicess l.angwidere to prevent people an- noying her," said the Wheeler as he led the party around to the other door- Tiktok pressed the bell and the Wheeler said: "Please, may I go now?" "What's your hurry?" ask- ed Tiktok, ringing the bell for the second time. "Youll find out," was llie creature',-! reply. "If the Prin- cess Langwidere is angry." Then he wrenched himself from Tiktok's ,E;rasp and in a flash was whirling rapidly away. "Civai-iou.-, ' said Uoioliiy, "what can he have meant by that''" But before any one could reply to this (lueation, the door in front of them was opened and they were greeted by a pretty little maid who bowed respectfully and asked: "What do you wish, good people?" "Are you the Princess Langwidere?" Dorothy asked. ''No, Miss, I am her ser- vant," was the reply. "May I see the Princess, please?" "Step in and take a scat in the drawing-room, please.