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VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARCiE of the PRESS CANADA FAULTY BRAKES The man or woman who takes out a driver's license performs a volun- tary act which involves an implied contract with his fellow citizens. Sure- ly one of the terms of that contract is a declaration on the driver's part that he possesses and will exercise that speck of sense which tells him that brakes are life-savers. It is no life-and-death matter if the engine won't turn over, but a car that can't be stopped within a reasonable dis- tance is the equivalent of a mad ele- phant. â€" Winnipeg Tribune. • • « GREATEST SPORT The most popular sport in North America is neither baseball nor foot- ball, golf or tennis. It is, on the con- trary, the age-old sport of swimming. This finding is reached by statisti- cians of the United States National Recreation Association, who report that in .1935 no fewer than 46,500,000 people went to the public beaches, and 18,000,000 to the outdoor swinmiing pools in the continent. This compares with a seasonal participation in base- ball of 10,250,000 and in golf of slightly more than 6,000,000 . . . Swimming is the most informal of all sports, and the cheapest, and ia also the most enjoyable. â€" Vancouver Sun. • « * DRIVING DANGERS A Toronto business man announced to his luncheon companions the other day that he had got too "jittery" to drive downtown to work. He referred in particular to the day's local auto- mobile fatalities, which ran high on the heels of drunken driving, hit-and- run speeders, and otherwise incap- able chauflfeuring. And whether you live in Toronto or Clayville, yon can readily sympathize with this fellow â- who refuses to risk his life driving a car any longer. The moment you hit the open road to-day you're automati- cally exposed to inebriated, uncon- scionable fools a:»J morons â€" all oper- ating under the ineffective control of the hcense tag. â€" Guelph Mercury. • • • AN UNUSUAL CASE Donald Learmouth, a community garden plot worker in Hamilton, was killed by a bolt of lightning, and the circumstances are so unusual that we doubt if another case similar would be reported in a year. While he was at work a thunder- atorm came up quickly and with sev- eral other workers he started to run for shelter. He was going along a cinder path when he was struck. He was struck on the temple and the lightning on its way to the ground ripped off his clothing. He was carrying nothing which would attract lightning and was not near any object which might serve that purpose. He was merely struck down out in the open, and that hap- pens so seldom that the case can be regarded as extremely unusual. â€" Peterboro Examiner. • • • THE USUAL EXPERIENCE A Stratford man who grows huge vegetables tells of obtaining direc- tions from a woman who appeared to him in a vision as he slept. Most of us who do any backyard gardening have been driven to it by a woman who appeared in broad daylight. â€" .Woodstock Sentinel-Review. • * • PETITION SIGNING If anything is worth petitioning ipr, sign it, but don't get the habit of signing every petition submitted to you. Remember your name is, or ought to be, worth something to you. • â€" Chatham News. • * * RIGHT OF WAY Pedestrians generally may find comfort in the ruling of a Chicago judge that in the middle of the street they "must be held" to have the right of way. Many of them, in Montreal at all events, have more than once been painfully reminded that their only right seemed to be to get out of the way. â€" Montreal Gazette. * • « TOO FAST Kaye Don, who once drove an auto- mobile at close to 200 miles an hour, beUeves that fifty miles an hour is too fast for cars on highways, but his reason is one that will strike the ave- rage person as a bit unusual. He con- tends that when a car is travelling at fifty miles an hour it hasn't the extra speed available that may be needed to cope with an emergency. â€" Sault Star. « * • RESTORE THE TREES Undoubtedly, if people wish to see water supplies restored, they must not only cease the unscientific cutting of trees that is now practised, but must return to something approach- ing its natural state a very consider- able acreage in every county of older Ontario, which was never fit for agri- culture and which should never have been divested of its forest grovrth. In addition, they must consent to the restoration of swamps or else to the establishment of similar storage basins by means of dams. â€" Brockville Recorder and Times. « * * THEN AND NOW The bathing girl used to dress like Mother Hubbard, says an exchange, but now she dresses like her cupboard. â€" Halifax Herald. • « • MARRIED LIVE LONGER Statistics have taken tlie point out of the old joke that "married people do not really live longer than single ones; it only seems longer," says the Los Angeles Times. Flnaings of lite insurance companies assure us that married men and women actually reg- ister better in the mortality tables than do bachelors and spinsters and that, from all important causes, their death rates are lower. â€" Brandon Sun. SHARING THE WEALTH J. P. Morgan was quoted as having said that if the U.S. Government con- tinued to spend twice as much as it earned big American fortunes would be dissipated within thirty years. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., asked to comment on the statement, said he thought Mr. Morgan "gave the for- tunes a good long time." Many will say it is a good thing that wealth should be distributed more evenly, that every great fortune represents injustice to the masses. But when we put wealth on the stand in its own defense we find there is much to be said. With few exceptions, if any, the grreat fortunes are used for the public advantage. The wealth of a Morgan or a Rockefeller reaches the point where it is utterly senseless to think of piling millions on scores (jf mil- lions, and its owner looks about for ways of spending a shar. for the gen- eral good. Thus the people have been given g:reat universities splendidly en- dowed, hospitals, public libraries, parks. Life has been lengthened by medical research financed by these fortunes. Is it certain that as much would have been done for the people if the United States, in the past half century, had possessed a law saying no individual might have an income of more, say, than $5,000 a year? One-half the incomes of the larger fortunes Is taken by government as a tax. Wealth is being shared. â€" Ottawa Journal. » » ♦ CANADIAN RECOVERY This business revival in Canada has been contemporary with a general re- vival In the Bhitlsh Commonweaittt of Nations, which began some years ago with the remarkable improvement in the economic condition of the Mother Country, and which has been extended to all parts of the Empire. This is a revival which has been a 'LETS SPEND A QUIET HOLIDAY BY THE SEA" .August Bank Holiday in England uaually suggests a "sniff of tiie oxone" to tens of tliousands. Lon- doners flock to the southern resorts in hundreds of special excursion trains. Some idea of the tremendous rush to the seaside can be gleaned from the picture above, taken at Margate. women are sincere in protestationa »f that sort and their statement! ara accepted at face value without qua*- ion. j A number of factors have contrib- uted to this social revolution. Eman- cipation of women played a proniin-| ent role. Industrial independence and, virtual equality between the sexei in business helped remove the old-maid stigma. The changed economic order which placed millions of women in a better position to support a husband than millions of men are to support a' wife added fuel to the feminist's fira.' Sentimentalists who weep for tha old and decry the new will concede,' at least, that abolition of the bond- age of spinstcrhood was humanitar ian stroke. little better with the peoples of the Empire than with any other great nation, and especially it has been bet- ter than recovery made by the U.nited States In other words â€" for the bene- fit of the croakers â€" it has been bet- ter to be part of the Empire during these latter years than to belong to any other nation of the world. â€" Van- couver Province. INSANE? It is probable that not more than five per cent of the human race desire to engage in war. Yet even today when the world is supposed to be at peace, there is bitter fighting taking place in China, Central Asia, various parts of Africa and Arabia, in Pales tine, and in Spain, while force is be- ing used by more or less tyrannical governments to suppress the suflFering and discontented populace in Japan, China, Siam, the U.S.S.K., parts oil India, Persia, Syria, Bulgaria, Hun- gary, Germany, Poland, Italy, Portu- gal, and a dozen States of Latin Am- erica. And nine qualified observers out of ten predict a new world war within five years. Is the world in- sane? â€" Ottawa Citizen. The Cooking of Fish This is the .reason when city folk are indulging their fishing fancy along Canadian streams and on our lakes and tidal waters. To those who take luck with them the question of cooking th ir catch ii.'.t .'rally ari.ses. The Toronto Star has been consider- ing this, and recalls that Stefansson, who lived nearly two years at the time almost wholly on fish, atter ex- perimenting with frying them, grill- ing, baking and boiling, settled down in the end to a daily diet of boiled fish. On his experience the conclus- ion is drawn that boiling is best. This may be all very well fo» the bass or pickerel or 'lunge of Ontario, but it is not good enough for the trout of our British Columbia fresh waters or the grilse or lar-_' t «a'mon ca'jjjht along our coasts. None of the arts of cooking has improved upon the prim- itive method of barbecuing them, split open and suspended flat at the side of a beach-wood fire, or along trenches of mark coals â€" the way it is done in the cooking of salmon by the ton for the thousands at the annual Sooke picnic. In this way all the richness and flavor of the fish is baked, in, re- tained in its natural proportions and unmarred by the grease of the frying pan or drawn out or diluted by boil- ing water. Until our fish thus cooked to brown crispness on the outside is tasted, one knows nothing of their gastronomic possibilities, all the love of Stefansson and the fanciest; chefs of the contrary. â€"Victoria Daily Times. Not Every Woman Is Married But Where Are The Old Maids? Like the Aztecs, Amazons and In- cas, the "old maids" are a vanished race, observes the Kingston Whig- Standard. A literary searching party sent into the field to look for spin- sters by one of the woman's maga- zines found some evidence that they once existed and traced legends that had been handed down from genera- tion to generation. Some day, perhaps, fossilized remains will be found to en- able scientists and historians to com- plete their data. The searching party discovered that there are still unmarried ladies of past marrying age, but they are no longer spoken of as spinsters. Nor are they contemplated sadly, made the brunt of derisive wit, or found to conceal their state as something dis- graceful and unblessed. The "old maid" of the joke boks has simply vanished from the face of the civilized earth. Once upon a time unmarried wom- en over 30 kept very quiet about their "single blessedness". Now such wom- en count their state as a virtue, and have no hesitation in parading it be- fore the world. Of old it was hurt pride that made old maids profess preference for their lonely existence. The world did not believe that any woman could be so benighted as to prefer to live alone. Today many Unjust to Our Guests Toronto Telegram writes the Am- erican tourists coming into Canada for an extended stay are forbidden to' use their motor cars for profit or for other than personal purposes. Tha regulation is designed to prevenif competition by transients with tax- paying b'lsiress establishments. Tha intent is rji-sonable. Several iicidents havi come to light recently, however, which indl-| cate that local authorities are apply- ing a narrow irterpretation. From St Thomas is reported the case of a bob on holiday who hauled a small quan< tity of lumber from a nearby mill to his father's home. He was fined |26 for his kindness. Brockville reporta that a summer resident at Delca Lake was fined $25 because he allowed hU Canadian guide to use his car for securing a supply of cornmeal to pre- serve the catch of a day's fishing. These violations of the laW, if they^ can be classed as such, were puroff technical. Either the statutes or tha magistrates are at fault in inflicting punishment in cases of this kind. Canadians do not want visitor* to! this country to be treated unfairly OT; unjustly. 'Treatment of the sort de- scribed is not only unjust but it It stupid as well. The tourist business will not long flourish if such con- ditions are allowed to prevail. Good Memory Chief: "Your wife reminds me of a girl I used to go with.' Second Ditto: "She's always re- minding me of the same thing." "What Is alimony, Ma?" "Something that Is considered by many women as an improvement on a husband." Aâ€" 4 mffi FAiOLT ALRDM~THE SWACK By GLUYAS WILUAMS. Stt/i HCS HaK6R,V, DOf reiLIWlflESHENCEPfia' BOTHER, Vli.'limiet( HIMSELF A SMACK S(c* Otjf A lOAf 6F BREAP AFfER UiRHE ATltNPft tiRm NOT UERV WaiFtS he'd R«frt£R ^ sCTct m 3£^;erw. KlW^ fo J V/hich HC LIKR m( CrtEESE RE-fORHSTolh&LEWnH CHEESE, 5l)-fltR, A DI&H Of APW-E SAUCE, JELLV AMP SOME COID CrilCKEK VRES&IN6 6E-ft A CLEAK PiSH roWEl to MOP UP THE OfllV HE SPILLED, HO- ficiwe ftwrnooR \f> SFRIUKLED WllH CRACK- ER CRUMBS VtCWt'b friAf SPREAD - INfc CR8CKERS 15 fOO MUCH EFfOR-f AUD EAT^ ABArlAKA IhSfCAD REHiRNS TO UVIN& ROOM, HA?PV im HE DiDN'f SOfHER WirE CWhO WILL 5PEND HALF AW HOW? 6i<- 1lH& KlfCHEN 8ACk fO normaO (Copyright, 1984, by Th« B»n gyndlcate. Inc.) J FU MANCHU By Sax Rohmer I "It was imperaiive for Fu Manchu to hdve a working base in the grounds of Radmoat," taid Nayland Smith at we stood around the Chinaman's strange headquarters. "While Eltham was absent in London they brought the big cask and the cover with a bush afRxed. At night they dug the hole and planted tha cask, as you see. Tks outrage Fu Manchu had planned to mfSct upon Eltham to p.'event him from laaiwig England w« learned from Vemon Byly. For Peaby was not dead!