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Voice of tfic Press Car.arla. The Rltnpire and The World a; Large CAN\OA LtMve 'Jarjye &3oi« Open : ' si'iij of re;>(iit(<i wariiliiKi. (Uatlis , MM ia:'j)n n(0(ic>\ifl«- poisoiiliit; In i.araKC's (OKtiiiuc 'u mount iii). The ''.â- â€¢alli of a yfi'.ii:? Kil<;li<'n«;r ltiiiiiii<"s«- nun. ov( I ;«in;' liy funie» (rcnn ttie nmUir o; t!« sulomiilti'.f. ix tlu' luU'.st â- fnpli- of tlio fylly of rt'mainInK i" a ; 1 ns<! »!>llo llio oilKlne is â- lipmiMg i|> â-  In 'Ills va%M it Is HtuK-d thai the loorof tlK> Kai'SB-' WHS partly op<'m. I'n- l:>r Ihe most urdinary cliciimstariocs in'jtcii'Utj gl.oiiltl lif sure lo hoc that ;;e Ul>0l5 of thi- e«ragt? an- wide open liof'-re at'.oaipi:ii|! to start up tlieir nuitors. After they are Hturtcd iho laU'Jt piaii is ic fiet out as soon as ^•"isllilc niid lei tlie eiiKlne "heat up" IT the op'.'H air. â€"Chatham News. Carrying a Gun Tlio law and thf ix)!lce oukIiI to .na'.vn Kun-totiuf; ao hazardous that ^litninulK will not run the rlHk of hav- .iii; one uhoul tlieir person - Kdnioii- o:: .l3Ui:iaI Canadian Seed Th" nuiiicrouH prizes won hy Cuna- lla'.i grain at the Hay and drain Sliow 11 Chicago 8ugRe!)l that ('anada has !!â-  r'pportiinity, if she will seize it, to «.sial)liKli herself as the seedprodneer par excellence of the world. Tho vigour of uorthern-grown seeds is pro- vi r'dal. I', is all very well lo produce fcraln In largp qiiantitie.'? for the inar- kxti ot the world. Canada will, no doubt, continuo to do this. Hut why j'hoiild .she not take full advantaKe of the rewards offering lu the smaller, inoio sjieciallzod fifld of seed-growinj;. The rewards are worth gathering, â€" Vancouver Proviiic.. Ov;r-production in Canada '.Vo have, in the (last. i)ut practically :;!; our eggs in two different baskets â€" â- wheal iu iho West, wood-pulp in the JOa.-t. There is no more wheat being fcolii, snU newspriiii plants aro partly flcsed up, threc-fourtiis of them being In bankruptcy. In both cases there hps been overproduction, in relation to t!i> possible market. Shall we know fuoiHih to profit by the lesson, when bu^iuoss picks up again? Or are we B'-'ing to repeal the mistakes o? the past?â€" Le Devoir, Moutroal. B^ck to Small Industrie* .V.-i: we to expcvlenco a revival of •;i-> villa;Te industrie.i thai were forced r;iU ot business by the pressure of mass prod iction ct;Mtred in the larger tywiH anil cities of the country? A roport from tho provinca ot Que- bec is thai recent uioiitlis have wlt- iifcssed tho re-openiiig of a number of small tanneries situated in tliat part of rhc Dominion tluu have been closed for from -5 lo 50 years. The farmers, seeking a market for their hides, are, apparently, lindiiiB it la these small Industrial institutions which are in turn contributing tu the domestic pro- duction of footwear. These Quebec farmers are evldontlj flii'llng it profltablo to return to the opening ot Industrial ealablishments Willi a limited cupacit;- lu order to market thoir products and also to fill Ihoir leather ih'CiIs -Hi.v kvIIIo Re- corder. Still Waiting .\uother Christinas, tho I'ourtli of the depression, and tho world is still wait- ing for the sunrise. It"» been a long, tough wait, but al least the .sunrise is three years nearer than It was In 1929. A lot of grief is behind us. Wo look to the future witii i. '.lovved UoiH^H, enhcartened by tho indii'atlons that things are moving at last. The world lias llnally awakened to tho fact that waiting is not '.ood enough, that ;>oslllv6 action is necessary to effect rel'iase from the depression morass. The peoples of (ho world are nt last coming to grips with the real Issues pf the deprossidu, those of money, credit ,war debts, l,\rlffs, la-xation and annunients, and something Is going to r«sr.lt. Next Chrislinaa should b« a pub«tantially brightnr one than this.â€" P. -M. R. In Toronto Saturday Night. llosiiilal olUclals announce that bablea now are |lu to $ao cheaper than tDey ujed to be. And th» quality Is priii.Mcally the same • Woodstock Sen- t(neM{cvlew. THE EMPIRE Th( Canadian Banking Syttem It mils', have rnme as a ahnck to qiany persons In tho United .States to nt.<\ that part of President Hoover's i*i address to Congress In which he ^nted out (hat «lnr« .January, l'J30, Ire have been 4,655 bank failures In United States, wheroaa In Canada, riiers tho situatlou has been In a j»r«o degree Identical with ur own, jji»ro bare been no snbstan'ial bank lllures." This 1* an opon admi.'^Hlon lbs juperlorlty ot the f'anndlan inking system, a confesblon that lb* [uUetl States had somothlng ot a very _^ip><rtant character to learn from a S" rt of Ihs nrltish Empire. - Klni^ston ain:4lca) lileaner. Helping the British Farmer Though the plight of the meal maf- V'-' niiy l)tf, and everyor. • liope.s it will be. i(fmp<jrary, tly| dlip-^'iilon to urge th" claims of tho lirltlsh fnnuir. to plaie them above those of nil oih'r? Is I' •' lik^'y td \>\^A â- â- > .â- ."â- . i>ii, , on Kinpire produce are by no means Im- possible. It Is sigiilticaiil, fur Instance, that in the Ottawa agreements the schfduli- dealing with eggs, butter, cheese and poultry as>uri's free entry to the exports ot the Dominions for thri'O years, but resnrve.s thereafter the rl^lu lo lni|M)se dutl»'s or j|uantitallve restrictions so long as preference over foreign produce Is given. No Do- nilnion is entitled to a word of iirotest against this policy, because, as al- ready suggested, their own practice in- hibits them from objecting to the exer- cise by Hritain of a liberty they have always claimed for themselves -Auck- land Weekly News. The Oual Policy in India In two spheres at the huiii. time the Covernnieiil are trying to carry out wliat is known as the dual policy. The principal aspect of the duality whieU scorns Inherent in the British (Jovern- nient's mentality at tho present junc- ture Is the decision to press on with the new Constitution while firmly striking al all unconstitutional forms of agitation. In a country such us (Ireat Kritain, or most Western coun- tries where the (iovernmenl have an immense backing among the educated as well as among the uneducated por- tion of the community, such a policy iniglit prove workable. It will never prove workable in India, where tho Government lias Utile or no following among the educated Indian comtnuni- tics lo whom it is proposed to liuiid over pf'wer. There are no moderate and friendly parties in Indiu to whom Congratulations showered upon Kugland's lirigadier-Ceneral Hugh Cliolniondeley and wife. Mr. Chdmondeley celebrated his SOlh binh- dav on December 1. On December 4 his wife gave birth to a daughter. 01,334,£62 Is Received ' On Radio Licenses! Ottawa.- -The net cash received by] Great Britain can hand over wlUi sure' the iJeparlnient of Marine for radio- expectations that they will play fair ami deliver tho goods. â€" Calcutta Kng lishniaii. Is on It is Britain's New Start In the heavy industries coal the verge of fresh development well known that hydro-generation and other chemical processes are ready now to give a vigorous impetus lo fur- ther output. Tlie opportniiitii'S for it are immense. Tho coui measures ot the United Kingdom are greater than thosB of Germany, the most highly in- dustrialized State on the Continent. The deposits of bituminous coal in this country are far richer than those of even the United Stales. It remains now for the people of Gieat Britain to make full uso of iLiese unrivalled pos- sibilities by an euerHetlc increase ot the national productliin. â€" London Daily Express. Footing the Bill â- Tuhu Bull is used to payiijg. lie has been paying over since tlie war, and has become hardened to standing treat to the nations. The pleasing convic- tion prevalent abroad that whatever happens John Bull will foot the bill, so sedulously fostered by successive Bri- tish Governments, is as ..trong as ever. Eveu the staggering prospect ot liand- ing over colossal sums lo the U.S.A. while getting not a penny from our own debtors does not appal the Bri- tish taxpayer. Nothing appals him any more. He knows from long ex- perience that he Is "for if In any case.â€" riain Dealer in Truth. (TiOU- don.) The Price of Wool .\ustralia ia easily the world's largest producer ot high grade wool; aud its supremacy is nol threatened. No largely Increased quantity of this wool could come qiii;-l:ly from any other country, further, tbo world has been consuming current pjnductton. Of almost ovory other agricultural pro- duct there are largo stocks; of wool there has been prncticiilly no carry- over tor years. Yet tho comniiltee which was appointed to iiiqulro into the wool industry linda that .\u:itralian wool Is costing a great deal more to produce than it Is fetching in the mar- ket This suggests that lliere is some- thing radically wrong somewhere. Un- less competition lu some shnpo or other Is driving us to it, why are we selling at a loss? â€" Sydtiey Bulletin. reccivinjj: set licenses for tlie fir.st eight and a half months of the pres- ent fi.scal year, that is up to the mid- dle of December, amounts to $I,;j;!4,- Oliii, according lo a statemenl i.s-suel recently by Hon. .-Alfred D.ranleau, Minister of Murine. This does not include li'e commissions to those authorized to sell the licenses. This collection would indicate that about (!8.">,C0O radio licenses have been sold .Muce .April 1 la.';t, with 3 1-2 months o/ the fi.sca! year yet to be accounted for. The Minister said Ib.at tho cooper- ation of radio manufacturers, deal- ers and service men, in ensuring: the collection of all license fees, iiad proved v^ry !?alisfactory. Under the regulations no set may be sold or serviced unless the ov.ner, ov prospec- tive owner, possesses a license. It would appear, from bureau of statistics' figures accompanying the Mluister's statement, that ail radio owners liave not paid their license fees. The bureau estimated recently that Canada had a total of 770,430 radio-receiving sets, or 74. HJ sets per 1,(>(>0 of population. Ancient High School At Kmmerich in (iermany U'is fall thfc hiph school will celebrate its I'iOth anniversary. When it was first estab- lished Charles Martel was fighting to il.!ve the Saracens out of Kurope and the so-called Dark Age.'i were just be- ginning. In 159'2 it became so famous a school that it had 2.000 pupils, and during the course of its history it has been controlled by the Jesuits, and the Knights of Malta and in 1811 it was closed by order of Napoleon Bona- parte. JMany \\ell-kiiown statesmen and ecclesiastics have been among its students. Kmnicrich is on the Rhine, an ancient walled town of Rhenish Russia, about 50 mi lea from Uussel- dorf. France Plans Abolition Of AH Grade Crossings Paris. â€" Pending complete abolition of grade c.'ossings, the French Min- istry of Public Works has issued an order prohibiting ground-level rail- road crossing.^ to be constructed in the future. In the national equipment bill a regular allotment of funds in each budget has b'H'ii devoted to suppres- sion of the existing grade crossings. There are nearly 40,000 of thtni and it will be many years bcfori- the work can be finished. From possessing only 100,000 motor vehicles in 1914 France has come to have 1,700,000 automo- biles. .Although there are fewer acci- dents in France thai, in many other C'.untries, the Ministry of Public V.'orks regards grade cros.=iings as a princiiial cause of accidents. Five hundred ground-level cross- ings have been marked for early re- placement by viaducts or tunnels. .J Barcelona's Police Gayly Clad Barcelona. -Barcelona's {wlice offer th» only anachronist note in this new "pocket State" which prides itself on its modernity. Although they throw the plain khaki-clad army officers into th â-  background when it comes to the reception of admiring female glances, their scarlet coats, blue trousers and tall white helmets are regarded as i.kin to comic opera uniforms by cer- tain more sober citizens of the Gen- eralidad. Recent Quakes in Europe | Laid to Zjyder Zee Filling Beiiin. â€" ill a ro^cn t issue of the "Nicuwe RolterJamschc tourant" a' seismologist pre.scnts his opinion of the p obable fause of the recurring c rth tremor* in the Rhine Valley . nd in Holland. Arording to him these tremors were nol of a vo'.ctxnic r.at'jre, but wre the direct result of the filling uo of Ihv Zuydcr Zee. It will be recalled that the Dutch are at present con- ducting tlii.« gigantic work of pump- ing out the Wi.ters of this deep in- land Lay in order to recover an en- lire province. The article in the Rotterdam news- paper recalls that even in 1929, be- fore til.' filling up of tho Zuyder Zee had been under way long, an Ameri- sari seismologisk predicted essential terrestrial movvnients as the proba- ble result of the carrying out of this P'-oject. He said that by pumping out tho waters of the lay the pres- sure on the sub-strata would be con- siderably lessened, which in turn would find expression in tremors. It appears that these predictio-.i5 have been born., out by recent events. Records of seismographic observator- ies, both in Holland and western Germany, agree that the ep'Cc-nter at the latest tremors in the Rhine Val- ley was to be sought in Holland. .> Brazil to Return Visit Of the Prince of Wales Rio De Janeiro. â€" Brazil, like M- gentiua, will send a mission to Eng- land to repay the visit made litre by the Priuce of Wales two years ago, the newspaper "\ Noiie" reports. The mission, according to the news- paper, will be headed by Oswaldo Aranha. Minister ot Finance, and will leave for London early jn Janu- ary. Argentina's special mission will leave Buenos .\yers for Ijondoti shortly. President .Aguston Justo or .Argen- tina will confer with Provisional President Getuilo Vargas here tn January regarding economic and dip- lomatic matters, "A Xoito" also re- ixirted. Pluck and Ferfi'ifence it was nice ofi^Aray Johoson to time her arrival la England from Cape Town Just when Britaiu aeeila4 jomot'.'.ing to cheer ber upa bit aff*r digging do'.va for that J95,0fi'i,0<.'0 sas owed-^-aiid paid. Nothing seems ta shake the Britisher's bulldog tenacity in ' seeing things through" evaa when the way is as foggy as it ap- peared to H. G. Wells' elderly and perplexed wartime hero. Mr. Britling. Miss Johnson and her country botb did their s.uut iu upholding ih« na- tional reputation. The Sahara behaved quite uupic<xw* Bntlj' and ungallantly, for it staged a particularly gusty saudstorm; "\ southwest Africa a tornado tried VBry hard al! one night ,*.o catch up with the little winged clipper, aud heavy snow made visibility difflcult when K.pping ihe Atlas Mountains, but It takes more ihan that to stojv Miss Johnson. "A 'plucky' woman maun hae her way." to paraphrase an anci- ent Scottish law. Back of the pluck with whirti th« ycung aviatrii is so largely endo>wed stands another admirable Quality â€" persistence. Probably more thaa one stenographer has dreamed of being an air pilot. Amy Johastos wcve her dream Into actuality. She did it by getting up at 5 o'clock In the morning to take flying lessons at a minor airport. She did it by re- fusiiig to listen to the limitatioa that aviation was the sport or avocatiOH of the rich. She prepared herself to ccpe with mechanical difficulties on her solo epic gcross-the-world flights by the prosaic method of working for and winning a ground engineer's license. Incidentally, the ei-stenographer was the first wo- man iu Great Britain to get one. .Amy Johnson's accomplishments in the air have stirred the world. Her persistency gives it inspiration. â€" The Cbrislian Science Monitor. -*- Eminent Radiologist Is Martyr to Science Paris. -Dr. Georges Haret, emin- ent French radiologist aud head ot the radiology department at Larl- boisiere Hospital, died here last week as a result ot X-Ray burns incur- red in a scleutic career beginning with treatment of wounded soldiers during the war. He was 5S years old. Previously the fingers of his right baud and then his right arm had been amputated. For The Nearly Blind AMERICA Distress in the United States It Is easily possible tor the total economic situation to be worse even though the employment statistics are bett.?r. It Is worse. And that for at least iwo reasons. The men w'uo ara goinx back to work are going back at lower wagea; and Ihoso who still hava jobs or biislnessus of their own have lower Incomes and depleted reserve* no that It la with more dlfllculty that they can extend aid to (ho unemploy- ed . Careful estimates from every quarter are absolutely unanlmniis in their agreement that tho needs for re- lief will be greater this winter than over before in the history of this Re- public. • â€" Christian Century (.New York). C Italy Educates Libyan Nomads Rome,- The efforts made by ths Italian Government lo abolish nomad life In the Libyan colony and to trans- form the wandering tril>e« into agfri- cuUurista ia U^inning to bear fruit. Evidenc* of this Is afforded by tht increasing numl>er of children lielong- ins to tribes who atteml the Italian schools at the oasis of Hainada el IFoi'.ibrw The nomad children wili re- ,1'H'n at the oasis during the scho^i tfiin a«»: ivill he house.-., clothed and «â-  I y the Italian Goveriunant "Escape Proof" Block Is Proved Elscapable Ossining, N.V. â€" Two convicts es- caped from Sing Sing's new "escape proof" cell block recently. They sawed out of individual cells, slippi'd past three guards, and used the pris- on's own ladders to get over the wall. They were lohn Egan, ;lo, serving ten years for assault, and William Sutton, 30, serving 30 years for rob- bery. The convicts used a length of rope kept by the guards to pull up water and food to slide down the outside of the wall. An hour after the escape, the men were seen walking along a highway toward -Albany. They were still in prison uniform. Madrid Plans to Ellectrify Roads Madrid. â€" A commission has been appointed to study the electrifica- tion ot all railroad liuee. within a radius of forty or fifty miles of Ma- drid and the construction of an un- derground station iu the centre oJ the capital. The project is to make commuters ot the people living at Aranjuez, Toledo, Avila, Segovia, Alcala de Henares and other near- by cities It is also planned to bring the Sierra Guadarrama mountains, with their Wluter sports, within a few minutes of Madrid. Cigarettes 1 Cent Each McCtellanviUe, S.C. â€" Many mer- chants in this .section obligingly break open a package of cigarettes and sell them at one cent each to custoiiiers who find it necessary to buy their s-'iokes in small quan'-ities. One day recently a customer came into a local store and asked for one cigarette. The merchant took one from - package an-d laid it on the counter. The cus^ toiiH-r then carefully removed an egg from his pocket, laid it on the counter, picked up the cigarette and walked away. These new telescopic glasses designed by Or. Felnbloom of New Tork are hailed as a God-send for the nearly blind. Pers'-ns only two per cent, nurnml may have their vlsinn rest>>red. Son is Punished For Disrespect to Father Romeâ€" -The iiewsp pers giv,- prom- inence to the action of one of the pro- vincial Fascist chiefs who has sus- pended a member of the Fascist jiarty for two months on the ground that he "acted tlisrespect fully toward his fa- ther." This, it is pointed out, is en- tirely in line with Uon^an traditions, !>ich are based on the principle of "patria potiestas." It is also complete- ly in accordance with Fa.scist prin- ciples, which have .r.ade of the fanftily unit the foundation of the State. Women OutTaUced In British Commons tiondon. â€" One spot wher^* uomea do not out-talk men. is Parliament. The record for a year, just compiled, shows that lady legislators were buried, so to speak, under a m.oun- tain of male oratory. The biggest talker iu the last ses- sion was Sir Stafford Cripp's. a Labor Opposition leader. .According to the Parliamentary Gazette from Novem- ber S, 1931, to November 17. 1932, Sir Stafford spoke enough to fill $74 columnt. Women tared comparatively badly. The highest was the DucUess ot .Atholl. who l.ad 68 columns. Second rank to Sir Staffcrd was taken by George Lausbury. leader ot the Labor party, with 348 columns. The Pri-Jie Minister. Ramsay Mac- Donald, had 83 columns. In the House of Lords. Aisconnt Hailsham headed the list wiiU 26S columns. 60 Kinds of Taxes Raise Food Peiping Prices Peipiug â€" Sixty different kinds of taxes are collected in Peiping, ac- cording to the returns of the Muni- cipal Finance Bureau. .^U business operations are heavily taxed whlls even the small property owner baa been made "land poor" because of the levies imposed by the authorities. Food prices have mounted rapid- ly as a result of the taxation burden. Social workers have estimated that taxes on meat amount to 30 per cent. From the lime an animal enters the city until it is delivered to the cou- sumer it is tawed ten times. This figure does not include levies im- posed as it enters the city gates. Plans British Airship Line London. â€" Dr. Hugo Kckener. the Graf Zeppelin's commander, is plan- ning a weekly airship service between Kugland aud South America next spring, according to The Sunday Dls- l>atch. He is said to have won the consent ot the British Air Ministry to make the English base at Cardiugtoti, whence the ill-fated RlOl started her last voyage two years ago. "The immediate plans are tor ser- vice between England and the con- tinent and South America," the Dis- patch says. 'But it will not be long before a similar service is organized between Kugland and North .America." Capt. MoUison Planning One-Stop Flight to Brazil lyondon. â€" Capt. James .V. MoUison, only man to succeed in flying west- ward crossing ot the Atlantic alone, is planning a one-stop flight from Ireland to Kio de Janeiro in Febru- ary, it was learned this week. Mollisor, husband of Amy Johnson Molli.'H^n, will use his small biplane "Heart's Content," in which he flew non-stop to New York. He intend.<i to refuel at Dakar be- fore starting across the couth .At- lantic, it is understood. Albertans See Distant Capital Reflected in Skf Ledue, .Alia.â€" .\ number of residents hero have reported eeeing in the sky a mirage ot the city ot Edmonton, «»-| pital of the Province ot Alberta. City streets ot Edmouton, witnesses said, appeared clearly ia the mirag«L with the Legislature Buildings ana other familiar structures standing out In the sky. Edmonton Is about twenty miles north ot this hamlet. <. Dogs Bite 8,000 a Year Trenton, N.J. â€" More than j;.00« persons iu New Jersey were bitten bf dogs during the first year of the en- forcemeut ot a law makiug compoL sory tho reiwrling of accidents ot thll character, a report by the State Dw part me nt ot Health shows. This 11^ uro emphasizes, accordltig to Dr. J{ l.ytin Miiliaffey, director ot the depart nient, the necessity ot the annual li oculatiou ot dogs against rabies. The report shows further that ot 9]/ dogs examined 535 were found to h( suffering from rabies. There i^ always a leader coniH'>.li«H ^«Vw>oa th» engine and Ike tra^ s