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Voice of the Press Canada. The Empire and Thu World at LarRC CANADA Depend On Newspaper* Radio may carry the noise and the eolor of polUlcal meetings, but the iiev.bpaperH, after all, carry the facts tfte permanent record and most listen- ers, having received a certain fleeting impression of what occurred from passages overheard tti the Intervals of a bridge game or some other domes- tic enterprise, look to the printed pases for news of what really happen- edâ€"Ottawa Journal. These Teacher* Resourceful Unique and highly Interesting is the tale of a vagabond vacation trip taken by two school teachers, one from the Pembroke to the Pacific coast and ro- Pembroke tothe Pacific coast and re- turn within two months vacation period, over 7,000 miles being done In a decrepit automobile, at a cost of but one hundred dollars each. Including expenses for the car, now clothes and necessary food, was the stunt accom- plished by Miss Vera Wagner of Pem- broke, teacher at the school at Ran- kin, and Miss Velma Wingrove, a teacher from Cochrane. â€" Pembroke Standard. Progress Along This Line A total of nearly 00,000 acres of fcushland burned over, and 245 separ- ate fires to fight In the Algoma dls- krlct during the past summer, and not t single log of valuable timber des- troyed. Is the record of the forestry lepartment this year. In the Sudbury fllstrlct, despite a season of unusually severe fire hazard. It Is estimated that less than 100 acres of merchantable timber were burned over. Very few summers have been as dry as the one Just closing, and that the menace of the forest flames has been so success- Cully met is a matter for satisfaction, f ndoubleily the policy of educating camper, fisherman, hunter, prospector and settler to take greater precaution In the bush against the setting of fires Is having its results. This fact, to- gether with the greater facilities in detecting blazes and the efilciency of air patrol and flre-flghting forces, would seem to give assurance that Northern Ontario's losses from forest fires shou'd, with reasonable success, be held down to a minimum. â€" Sud- bury Star. Iron Innports In the decade from 1923 to 1932 there was imported Into Canada 14,- 747,059 tons of iron, of which a portion came from Newfoundland, but of which about 10,000,000 tons came from sources outside this Brltsh Empire. And this va.st importation was carried on despite the fact that Canada has tremendous deposits of iron ore wait- ing to be developed. In Algoma alone there are probably billions of tons ^ ore, there being close to 100,000,000 tons of siderite proved up in the New Helen Mine alone, while In other sec- tions of Ontario, as well as In other provinces, there arc known to be large bodies which have not yet been fully explored. â€" Sault Star. Eugenics Halifax principal says that eugenics lire necessary to create the Ideal boy. Most of us don't know whether eu- genics are fed to a youngster with a spoon or whether we should turn him over our knee to adm'nlater them. - {jindsay Post. â-  Turn of the Tide It is gratifying to learn that the â-  mount of lumber exported from Bri- tish Columbia last month exceeded that of any other month in the history of the province. It exceeded the ship- ments of August, 1929, the totals being 75,4.32,000 feet and 73,077,000 feet, the latter the total for August 1929, the previous high mark. We are told that since the beginning of this year a de- finite uptrend In the lumber industry lor this province has been noted, r 1 that tills has taken place In spite .' the fact that the market iiktlie United States and Japan has declined very considerably in recent months. It is to be hoped that the increase In Can- ada's shipments of lumber to the United Kingdom will bo maintained. â€"Victoria Times. Highway Bully The auto truck, which is the swag- gering and the brutal bully of the high- way, is rapidly wearing out nfllclal patience by Its senseless, hut danger- ously destructive abuses. Thus we â-  re told that the roads department of this province has decided to withdraw the licenses from all trucks that ex- ceed the maximum legal .six^od of 25 miles per hour. Flelylng upon a power, size and weight far superior to those of anything it may meet upon the highway except another of its kind. the auto truck literally acts In far loo many cases as though It "owned the road "â€"Quebec Chronlcle-TeleKiaph. New Population It seems tn us that the Dominion Trades and L<abor Congress Is un- Becessarily alarmed over reports that preliminary steps for a considerable migration from nrltain to Canada are niiw being taken. No immediate flood In Canada's direction Is po.ssible. Rut the time is coming, and It is not so far off, when we shall be needing Bcw population and It is only sensible Lfaat the groundwork (uf It should be laid now. A Canada with twenty or thirty million population would cer- tainly have no greater unemployment problem, proporlionatul.v, than wo have today.â€" Border Cities Star. Even Plague Has Benefits Such Is the Interaction of business In eur narrowing world that a plague of locusts In Argentina Is proving beneficial to the sheet Iron Industry In Britain. The plague Is being fought by setting up barriers of galvanised Iron sheets across the country affected and then disposed of the piles of cap- tured locusts.â€" Moncton Transcript. Rough On Flapper* I/)3 Angeles writer says fiappers are meri'ly petted, pampered, primping, pouting, posing, painted and powdered puppets. One of them must have told him "Pooh!" or "Pah!" as she got out of the car to walk home. â€" Border Cities Star. Poor Jokes "Wlien friend wife goes through your pockets In tbe dead of night" is the theme of numerous wisecracks In the newspapers. The joke probably has no more basis than the ancient and equally threadbare one about mothers- in-law. Isn't It a fact that friend hus- band borrows from the household al- lowance oftener than the reverse? â€" Hamilton Herald. In Interest of Science Origin of the Dollar Contrary to popular belief, the dol- lar did not originate in America. The first coin that ultimately became the dollar was minted in Bohemia and was known as the Poachlmstaler. This was shortened to "taler" and finally became the dollar. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. THE EMPIRE Co-operative Marketing in Britain The two milk schemes tor England and Wales and for Scotland, and the British pig and bacon marketing schemes, now all technically "in force," herald a new era for our oldest Industry. They are the flr.st steps in a transformation of farming from an individualist to a co-operative basis We can sympathize with the view of the farmer who hesitates, after exer- cising his Individual skill as a pro- ducer, to hand over the i>roduce to the destinies of a mass-marketing board. But It is, nevertheless, clear that the bulk of our Imported food, against the competition of which our farmers kick, comes here graded and packed by organized sales agency, and if our farmers are to meet this challenge ef- fectively they must adopt the best marketing methods. â€" Glasgow Herald. Slums, Asylums and Prisons It is a remarkable society that pro- vides lavishly for lunatics and crimin- als, people whose mental weakness or moral perverseness makes them a menace; while It condemns 3,000,000 fit, vigorous, useful citizens to dwell in hovels not tolerated In either mad- house or prison-house. â€" Ijondon Daily Express. The British Way The British way In times of de- pression has always been to plow on without recourse to revolutions or to economic stunts; to work a little harder and a little more efflciently than the opposition, and turn out a better article; to spend a lltlo loss, save a little more and pay debts. It has been the only sure recipe for in- dustrial recoveries in the past, and humanity is the same now as it always wa.s â€" Sydney Bulletin. Re-Colonization of Britain There Is no man in public life who does not testify to the vital necessity of reversing the present drift from the country to the towns. The nation has realized at last the folly of believ- ing that its prosperity depended on the amount of exports we disposed of to other countries. We never, at the height of our prosperity, sold us much to foreigners In goods as we had to buy from them in food. To-day we have lost a great part of that export market. There is no reason to sit down and moan about that. It only means that we must henceforth grow j at homo the food we used to buy abroad.- -London Daily Express. Modern Egypt One (it the most signiflcaat clmnges in the everyday life of inhabitants of the great cities of the world, in Eng- land, in America and in many parts of Kurope. has been the remarkable exo- dus from the centre of towns to sub- urb.M and even country towns. This has been made possible by the gen- eralization of the use of motor cars and by the Immcn.se imprnveminls in and increased Bimpllcity and rapidity of (ither means of transport. In Kijypt this movement Is to he observed only in a very minor degree. The residen- tial niiarters of Alexandria are grad- ually moving toward Aboukir, but in Cairo, the largest city in the land, re- sidential quarters are moving upwards Instead of outwards, and huge biorks J of flalH. generating lieat and dust, are ; rising with astoni.shiiig rapidity in all, the more popular di.'iliiclH. ftone. or gradually going, are houses with gar- dens, and if the present trend does not change, (ialro, within a few years, will be aininst exrlusively a city of flat- dwellers. That this Is a mistaken Finland Extends Market in Britain Leo Hudgins, one of tlje ten convicts at the Mississippi penitentiary at Parchraan, undergoiug tests to see If the sleeping sickness germ la transmitted by mosquitoes, receiving a bite on his arm from a mosquito which had previously bitten a monkey supposedly tuffering from the disease. policy, especially In a semi-tropical country, cannot be denied. â€" Jerusalem Palestine Post. THE UNITED STATES Hope For the Fat The name of Dr. H.R.C. Rutherford should be known to all women strug- gling for slenderness â€" that Is, to all women. Not that he would give them a prescription for going scrawny. In an address to the British Medical As- sociation he said: "I would emphasize the importance of rest and preach the gospel of fatness." All his women patients will probably leave him, but let them wait for a few months. He is on the side of the Paris fashion arbit- ers, who have fallen eu masse, with the rest of Parisian femininity, for one of our plumper movie stars. The con- siderable curves, the large, dashing hats, the very jewels of this houri are being copied all over Paris. â€" New- York Times. Increased Sales Passenger Cars 3.358 Sold in August. With Value of $3,329,191 Bureau Reports Ottawa. â€" The total number of pas- senger (Vir.s, trucks and buses sold In August was 3,910, with a retail value of $3,844,685 as against 3,205 valued at $3,047,788 in the corres- ponding month last year, according to a report Issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Passenger cars sold totalled 3,358 in August with a value of $3,329,191, while trucks and buses numbered 552, valued at $515, 494_ as against 2,646 passenger cars valued at $2,580,988 and 559 trucks and buses with a value of $4G6,S00 in August, 1932. .> Kitten Survives Fall ProvldBnce_ R.I. â€"A Persian kitten dropped Into an East Side backyard, made a djep dent in the sod, and remained unconscious for several hours, but later recovered in time to eat a hearty aupper. Deaideuts assert that the kitten must have stepped out of an airplane. Miss Mary F. Makepeace, librarian at the Rhode Island College of Educ- atlon_ into whoso yard the kitten dropped, said there were no trees or poles from which it could have fallen. Several planes had circled over the neighborhood during the morning. New-Bom Babe Ties Up Traffic Madeline Froise Comes Into World on Brooklyn Bridge New York. â€" Madeline Froise was boru on Brooklyn bridge and tied up traffic for 15 minutes, which makes her quite a somebody in these parts, for there hasn't been so much excitement on the spider-web span since Steve Brodies parked his itogie on the rail and jumped into the river. Madeline's mother and father were hurrying to a hospital in the family sedan to await the young lady's ar- rival. Then right in the middle of the bridge. Therese Froise â€" she's tbe mammaâ€" turned to Nicholas Froise â€" he's the papa â€" and told him to park the car. And Madeline was born, with the echo of bleating auto horns and hoarse steamboats whistles in her ears. Nicholas wasn't much help. He dash- ed madly along the line of snarling trafllc, begging aid from the women folks. Ho got only scow'.s and blushes. A cop, homeward bound to his own colleens, wormed an escort through the trafllc and hurried the trio to a hospital. There doctors said everything was all right. $500,000 Robbery In U.S. is Solved Freshman Get Advice At Western University Loudon, Ont. â€" In her opening ad- dress to the "treshettes" at Western University 0r. Dorothy Turville_ re- cently appointed dean of women, advised tho newcomers to "live in- tensely," to take advantage of tho close relationship yhich exists be- tween the faculty and student body In a small college such as Western, and to profit by the experience of those who have preceded them In the pur- suit of higher education "Conquer your shyness," she said, "ask questions. Nobody expects a freshman to know anything." She spoko of the clas.sroom "as only one phase of college life in the aim at a development of cultivated taste." In introducing them to new responsibilities and the new dignity required to meet them. Dr. TurviUe concluded by "wishing the 1933 class much satisfaction and much success in the labyrinth of strangeness." Police Arrest Four After Working Year on the Case Denver. â€" United States District Attorney Thomas Morrissey announces a $500,000 mail robbery in Chicago last December is virtually solved with the arrest here of three men and a woman and the suicide lu Chicago of Edgar B. Lebensberger. Those held were: Raymond Holwell, 44, Denver stock Theodore Norell, 27_ Denver. Mrs. Bernice Sullivan, 32, of Chi- cago, who officers said resided at Norell's home with his mother. Francis Sullivan, 43_ of Chicago, husband of Mrs. Sullivan. Morrissey said a fifth person, Rob- ert E. Bartlett, former private detec- tive, is sought here for questioning in connection with the case. Woman Given Judgment Against City of Toronto In awarding Mrs. May Irving judg- ment for $500 and costs in a damage action following her tripping over defective sidewalk, Chief Justice H. E. Rose, in Supreme Court of Tor- onto, said personally, as a ratepay- er in Toronto, he was humiliated that on his behalf the city should set up such a defence. "The city should be ashamed to raise such a petty defence," said the Chief Justice, His Lordship stated that the' In- juries were caused by the failure of the city to perform its statutory duties in respect to highways, and the plaintiff did not show any negli- gence to cause the accident. The de- fence claimed the service of notice had not been made according to statutes and pointed out that a let- ter had been written by plaintiff's husband, setting forth the details of the accident, which ended "awaiting your reply." This, he held, was sufffclent notice. King Grants Right To Title "Honorable" Montreal. â€" On recommendation of tho Governor-General, King Georg" has granted to Charles Archer, retired puisne judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, permission to retain the title of "honorable" throughout his life- time. Mr. Archer retired last month. Former Justice Francis Brooke Greg- ory of British Columbia has been simi- l<"-rly honored. Tear Gas Disperses Strikers New Treaty Insures Part in Lumber and Butter Trade of U.K. London. â€" Important mutual concea sions are contained In the new trad* agreement between tl^a United King dom and Finland, tbe lateist of i series of new trade ajrreements ne Kotiated by the United Kingdom and made public last week. Finland agrees to buy 75 per cen of her total coal requirements fron Britain. The United Kingdom aU( gets substantial reductions in varj ous tariffs^ notably for certain llne« of cotton textile. In turn the United Kingdom agreei not to make any Increase in the e» l&tlng 10 per cent duty on Finnisl blrchwood and plywood, and reduced the duty on sewing'-cotton reeU from 20 to 15 per cent. Finnish news- print, wooden pit-props and wood pulp. Important Flnnisli exports. wl8 henceforth enjoy the same treat ment as Is accorded to Sweden. Finns Get Butter Quota So far as agricultural products an concerned the United Kingdom guar- antees' to grant Finland an equitabU share In any quota limit that might be Imposed on imports, while in th« case of butter the Finnish share ot Britain's imports will not be reduced below 189,000 hundredweights, oi 22,176,000 pounds, yearly. '^ Women's Arts and Industries Elxposition Includes Beauty Bootli New York.â€" For the first time in the 12 years of exhibiting things ol interest to women in New York the annual exposition of women's arts and industries, will devote a complete and serious exhibit to cosmetics. Mayb« it's an art,'- or maybe it's an industry. Miss Florence Wall, Chairman of this particular show, had this to say: Mysteries and Secrets. "Modern women are tired of mys- teries and secrets that have surroun- ded beauty aids. They want to know what cosmetics are made of, what the jars they buy actually contain and why a particular cream may be good or bad for them. And, of course, how to obtain the best results." Miss Wall, a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, majored in chemistry at college and during the war did analytical and research work in soaps, dyes, airplane dopes a^J.d essential oils. ,,n..-,. onml,--. v...:n^ .,:.,. u „ __ ^. d P-« Kcl« ,u AmonU^e. fa.. v.li-n striker, .ought to prevent worker, from «'nte.in? a sttcl p^ant. When striker!. Ignored sheriff's cumiuand to disperse, the ritizens charged. The haze in the photo Is tear gas. Argentina Opposes Cuts In Government Salaries Buenos Aires, Arg. â€" Argentina's 1934 budget, estimating revenues at $311,703,369 and expenditures at slightly less than that figure, has b» come law with final approval by th« Senate. Senor Federico Pinedo, Fi- nance Minister, anaounced that i( was "inadvisable" to reduce sa'ariei of government workers, but declared that the Administration intend mak- ing all it possibly could. The Senate also passed the tariff accord with Great Britain, the new rates now becoming a law. A meas- ure exempting National Mortgage Bank bonds from the Income ta« was also passed and sent to the President tor his signature. <, Farmers Advised ^To Plant Trees Farmer's Advocate: A farmer with light land, not too profitable for tarm use, should pause and think what It would be worth to his son 20 or 30 years from now If set with pine. One aim in the lite of almost every man Is to build up an estate. Trees will grow into wealth on light soil which might otherwise remain a worth- less legacy. Dates of Manitoba Regional Festival Dominion Drama Competi- tion for Bessborough Trophy to Take Place in February, 1934 Fob. 15, 16 and 17, 1934. were an nounced as the dates of the Mant toba regional festival in the Dominios drama competition for the Bessbop ough Troph.v, by Lady Tupper. chair i man of the Winnipeg committee. j To place the festival on a mor« J self-sustaining basis financially. Lad? : Tupper said, the central committe« , had urged local bodies to prepar* , themselves to meet more of the bur- . den which in in33 was carried by the festival sponsors. With this end in view, it had been decided to piacs the travelling grant given la.si yeai on a different basis. Competing groups from Ontario and Quebec would be asked to meet their owi • expenses, while the rest of the coun- try would be divided Into zones. Ik* more distant of which would recelvl larger grants. The proposed grant for the Manitoba region was $200. In addition. It had been asked thai each competing group should pay at entrance fee of $20 to the centra" committee to meet the expenditure* of an adjtuliralor who would lour thl country.