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still sought. a The estimate of $2,000,000 in graft collected from the rum runners by the statement of one of the men that an average month's split of an individual member of the patrol was $1,700, and that approximately 100 men of the patrol are involved, This means pay- ment of $170,000 a month, or $2, The estimate ! vious revelations that $1,600,000 worth a month has coming of liquor been _antmeor $18,000,000 a year. ~ ESTIMATED GRAFT CHARGES <«_ The average tariff charged by thé ms men, it wes whispered, was 5 cents a case beer and $1 a case for liquor. It was said the custoin was to charge - which across Whole the rum runners could im-running operal customs officials. R and being charged X against the governmer. ns » "Static" C; ds Hero's' Welcome : -- Conqueror of Man-Made In- terference Royally Greet- ed by Port Arthur Huge welcomes may have been ex- tended to those heroes who conquered the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on their adventurous flights, but the en- thusiasm per person could hardly have exceeded the welcome extended by a Canadian city to the first government interference car which sailed into its midst in a solo flight to conquer "man- made static." ' Car number 16, the latest addition to the fleet, is at present in northern Ontario, where it is clearing up trouble for northern listeners. This car, which is equipped to eliminate all inductive interference, started out recently from Toronto with one of the government radio engineers who re- cently returned fron the Hudson Straits, as interference engineer. From Toronto north to North Bay, ; and. through the nickel i ai the way. At Sault Ste. Marie dbury to Sault Ste. the car ou aboard a p a welcoming com- e "Mayor the / *| politics and the welfare of its tenants, [it was entirely out of touch with life. | With the middle-classes it had nol contact, and, 'content to allow its $600 a night, jSuring, NZ enter sib e. ed to a fates shooting was done all | laborers a pittance of sixteen shillings rights but its own. CHANCE FOR YOUTH The effect df the war on such a narrow system was dynamie. "It is complained that tolerance has become laxity, and that, with the de- struction. of most social barriers, standards of behaviour are as out of date as manners or morals, I do not agree. \ [© The dignity a re Victorian age were Mo cence Lh btless admir- shie; but hey 'scougfd no better pur- pose than the § sonry of the pre- sent genera 7 of ro 165.50, reason for the exist- ence 0 fed class called eo- clety is d compromise all that is b tradition ny pent as well as it of view of rogress, do is ine who he is i a week, it had no conception of any| = el TURBULENT SEA TAKES ITS TOLL Loe French cargo ship Yser was dashed against tte rocks of Belle Island off the French coast and abandoned hy the crew who jumped to the rocks. rot. Spain's King Talks of the ore oe Poe © hom. [40 Kin in New York porary society were killed. Ldev( ably, m-- 3 their places were taken. by represen- New Telephone Link Cuts tatives-of what is vaguely known as | ' % the middle-class, and these married | Columbus's Message Time into families who before 1914 were! From Months to Minutes New York.--Columbus was more too self-sufficient even to have in-! vited "them to darces! than two months crossing the Atlantic for the Queen of Castile, and his let- into one playground or on 5 WOMEN OF FORTUNE father. 8 of gq" war is eat » but frm 8! all on they surf deal abou? they are purses ang old aris there ji T, etween the! kame peoplg they lag Phat frigid th hibit of that" Which is generallflj combined adequate imagi ion, they spontaneity, {p#fendliness appreciatiogl'of hum Societys a club must be jus? Mall, its placidity invaded by Social- ists, would be to its harrassed fo ers! v ' But to society ab a progressive force, in fact, as a force-at all, the war has done nothing but good. To- day it comprises every intellectual and active element, every shade of political opinion, and every creative (A folk had followed the natural impulse fas put a great many fortunes into the and--not least gq as disagreeable to its original mem-|Y bers as some Tory stronghold in Pall|® It was the middle-class girls who could not marry, becouse their men- (crs and gifts to her from the islands of the Caribbean' were almost as long in reaching her. That was more than 400 years ago. There is a ney compete for the biggest available prizes. Another result of the war was | Pnasty in Spain her changes--a hands of women. x teléphoné that hifigkeached ot.from So many heirs were killed and the New World 4°89) penetrated even their sisters, who would normally to the seat of £1 m that was haye been content with the pit sabella's, and fi40 'hg of Spain has allowed to female children t to e of his own ob rimogeniture, piles away in selves lan oWgners and where they Wed Consequent) : have seen a the infusjoy standards of : J of he New York of Hernand ident of the Telegraph ante Senor , first cousin if Senora Dona treat Alfonso and other, Queen-Gristinayin ace in Madrid. d only a few moments to i%w world and the old world. ing a few ofthe higher officials, the @Very | geean spanning connection was made. it will be King Alfonso and the Infante spoke . | for 82 minutes, while the latter told N ut his reception in this country delight in finding such great tin the United States in things to Spain. Riper One of the most important things jn life is the \jllusion of the import- ance of the things that are not im- portant--Robert Lynd. sbject am myself convinced that most of the evils in thé world spring rather from our bad hearts than from our stupid minds. Socrates consider stupidity the cause of wickedness; | should say rather that wickedness is the cause of stupidity. --Bertrand Russell. @lnfante and Infanta were makes the transfer of them to other! Phe otfich of Col. Sosthenes Behn, | areas a difficult undertaking. They esident of} the corporation, receiv-|are so accustomed to being hedged in| hw (10 11es occupled the greater | bonds, the property of the New York o Guaranty Trust Company, which were | stolen last August on the United' States liner Leviathan while in tran- !sit from New York to Paris. { Six of these bonds, each of $1,000 ! value, were presented to a Vienna 'bank which advised the police. Since "then 204 additional bonds were traced to vienna. i MAILS RIFLED LAST JUNE Mails aboard the Leviathan were rifled last June, the amount of the loot being variously estimated from $5600,- 000 to $6,000. New York postal in- spectord at the time said the amount was not more than $10,000. C. H. Clarahan, head of the postal inspection service in New York, said that the theft of the Guaranty Trust Company bonds was nat discovered "until some time after" the Leviathan mail theft in June. | J. L. O'Neill, vice-president of the, Guaranty Trust Company, said that the dispatch from Vienna was a mis-' take and that no bonds belonging to the company had been stolen on tl Leviathan or elsewhere, "We have had no losses of the kind," he said. "I understand that the se- |.curities lost on the Leviathan, though originally reported in the millions, were later found to be worth only $10,000 or $20,000." » . Discuss Plight of . . * . Miners in Britain $a. . . All Political Parties View Un- employment With Ut- most Concern London --The plight of unemployed miners in Britain has reached such a serious stage that all political parties are viewing the matter with the ut- most concern and the Miners' Federa- tion has issued an appeal for assist- ance. Nearly 800,000 mine workers are out of employment, and of these 200,000 to 260,000 constitute a perm- anent unemployed surplus. With their wives and children, this means that over 1,000,000 souls dre faced with a cataclysm comparable to speedily forthcoming. The Miners' Federation, in its ap- peal, says: "The mining population is faced with a catacysm comparable to the destruction wrought. by'some great earthquake or other giant disturbance of nature. Some of the miners have exhausted their unemployed benefit and are being supported bp grants from "the poor law, which naturally are small, and the courts are filled with ries of hungry miners tramp-/ ling the countryside in search of work. | The miners natural reluctance to} leavé the mines is also responsible for { much distress and in the valleys of South Wales their mental attitude | between hills that they regard the out- side world as foreign, and it is even| difficult to get them to allow their] daughters to go to London to work as domestic servants." | Newspaper correspondents report | terrible conditions. Men, women and | children are living on the barest sub- | sistence and thousands of children | are without boots in spite of all char- | itable' efforts. The unemployed are | rapidly sinking into a state of utter hopelessness. impulse on which the nation 'depend NATIONAL RESERVOIR. Before the war society was a pre- serve. Even I can remember being told as a child that a certain eminent peer and landowner was a Liberal and therefofe, of course, outside the pale as repr ted by ty r ition! Today society is a national reser- voir, into which flows all that is most vigorous, whether it be good or bad. Scum always rises to the surface, we are apt to hear too much about fast" or "smart" sets, which are unimportant except in so far lead public opinion. of the war on social life] i TH a STI TTT f Mount Etna Rampage Serious turn to the Coast London.--How the mysterious tele- graph of the African natives, which the white man never has fathomed, spread the news of the King's illness and the race of the Prince of Wales to the coast from his hunting camp was described by Sir Percival Phillips, special correspondent of the Daily Mail, In a dispatch from Dar-Es- Salaam, ' Sir Percival cabled: "The inhabi- tants, both white and black, assem- bled along the route of the Prince's special train, showing sympathy for the Prince of Wales, + News Travels Fast "Nets travels fast in the bush. Natives living In the vicinity of the railroad already knew from® thelr mysterious wireless the purport of the Prince's journey. The women paused afnid their cooking pots. The men were curious but impassive. "A stray European comes to 'my carriage, in his battered helmet, khaki shirt and shorts, eager for a morsel of news denied to him In his life of solitude." Sir Percival then presented a ple- ture of the Prince's arrival at Dar Es-Salaam: "Tropical darkness, damp and oppressive, enveloped Dar-Es- Salaam in {ts suffocating clasp when the Prince's special train entered the station at 8.06 p.m. The Governor, Sir D.C. Cameron, and his chief sec- retary were waiting on the platform. The Prince conversed with them earnestly. " "The Prince descended the steps to the street into the glare of a single electric lamp. He paused and looked in wonderment at the scene. The crowd, which had been ordered to keep clear of the exit, forgot its usual discipline and rushed wildly to obtain a closeup view, but there was dead silence. "The Prince entered his automobile still wearing his safari dress, includ. ing a shirt with half-sleeves and no coat , and a khaki helmet. The watchers then cheered him." Railway Agent Lauds Loyalty of Indian Help Bengal Official Seeks to Keep Personal Touch of Em- ployer and Em- ployed Calcutta.--The appointment of "per- sonal officers" whose sole duty is to deal with the grievances of workers, was commended by N. Pearce, who | urged that this system should be uni- versally adopted. Mr, Pearce, who fis agent of the Eastern Bengal Railway, was speaking at the twenty-fifth ses- sion of the Indian Railway Conference Association. The problem of tackling portion of the presidential address. Get back as quickly as possible, Mr. Pearce urged, to that personal touch between the employer and the em- ployee that used to characterize rail- way working. It was most esseatial that they should nof lose sight of the important fact that India was still a, ma hap (patriarchial country) and they must avoid the .danger of sub-| stituting for the old direct personal touch between the District Officer and his staff a system whereby the per- sonal interest of the staff was handled by those who had no personal ac- quaintance with his needs. The officer must be imbued with | tremendous enthusiasm for his work. | He must get out of his office and move ahBut all over his "section of the railway, so that not only would | he know practically every. man indi- vidually, but, what was quite as im- portant, he might be known by the staff. This might sound Utopian, but he was convinced that it was worth- while trying, so that there might be an end to the suspicion that often expressed itself in labor unrest. Mr. Meighen Changes His Tune Quebec Soleil (Lib.): (At the con- ference of steel magnates at Bolevia, Miss., Arthur Meighen said that no other nation could hope to profit by the destruction of another. This, says {Who would have sald that fn three 'years time the Hon. Mr, Meighen would wake up one morning almost a Liberal? To adore what formerly he used to condemn, to condemn the idols which he used to adore, to leave his old arguments and to state others which contradict them, to throw in the waste paper basket doctrines _ which once upon a time were dear to | him and to oppose others of them, this is what often pens to men | who have had the time to ediate. Thus we Wi 'Le Solel, is a Liberal sentiment.) Ottawa, Ont.--News of Interest 'o radio fans was contained in the re- cent issue of "Interdependence", the monthly review of the League of Na- tions Society, which explained the babel of tongues that was loosed upon the air last summer from the Dutch station, PCLL, on a short wave length of 184 metres. Short speeches were broadcasted on two or tliree occasions in English, French, Ger man, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Dutch. They were delivered "n a specially equipped studio situated In the Secretariat of the League of Na- tions at Geneva and were relayed over telephone wires through Switz erland, Germany and Holland to the broddcasting stations, In each language a request was made for those hearing the broadcast to notify Geneva, and as a result 93 reports, were received sixty-five per cent. of which stated that good or ex- cellent reception had been obtained. The replies came from the four cor ners of the earth. They were as fol lows, The Mediterranean basin, Northern Africa, Asia Mino: and Arabia, 11 reports; the European cone tinent and the British Isles, 7: South and East Africa and the Southern indian Ocean, 16; British India, 9; the Dutch Indies, 32; Japan and Annam, 2; Australia and New Zea- land, 2; Canada and the United States, 10; Latin America, 3. The object of the broadcast by the Secretariat of the League of Nations was to investigate Into the possibili- ties of keeping the world outside of Europe in touch with Geneva. direct by means of short wave length radio. The success obtained fromi the broad- casts this summer will probably re- sult in further efforts being made, al- though the experiments in future will be made to find out the areas where radio reception is best. According to information received by the League of Nations Society 'in Canada which has its headquarters in Ottawa attempts may shortiy be made to broadcast for the especial benefit of this .continent, and soon radio fans may be listening in to re- layed speeches being delivered in a dozen different tongues in Geneva British Fans Now 'Hear' Radio Photo Programs Pictures Flashed Daily From Daventry Station With the Fultograph System Daventry, England --- Broadcasting "gtill" photographs has been added to the programs of the British Broad- casting Corporation transmitted here from G5XX, starting every at 2 o'clock, London time, graph system is used. afternoon The Fulto- This move is in answer to the plan of the Baird Television Company to broadcast television into England from a 'continental station. Previous- ly it had been announced that the British Broadcast Corporation would demonstrate television, but this fail- ed to materialize. The Baird people then reached an agreement with a French station. A photograph of King George was the first to be publicly broadcast in England. It required nearly four minutes to complete the operation, but at the end of that time it was [taken from the air in London, seven- ty miles away, in fair condition. The Fultograph receiver is In two parts, the smaller of which is the rectifying paney "and" the 'lurger the clockwork-driven machine with syn- chronizing equipment on which fs supported a roller, to which the sen- sitive receiving paper is attached. Captain Otto Fulton, inventor of the system, superintended the recep- tion in London of the King's picture, He used an ordinary portable radio recelver with no outside aerial, his picturé receiver replacing the speak- er, The success of the picture broad- casting and the official backing given his undertaking by the British gov- ernment broadcasting authorities has greatly pleased Captain Fulton. "It is gratifying to earn some measure of success after fourteem years constant experimenting. Soom we shall supply a new and improved transmitter," he sald. "Pictures will then be even clearer than now." enim Leaves on Time The man in a hurry to catch holiday train was worrled by the sta tion clocks. There was twenty min: utes difference between the ome In the ticket office and the one in the -- his 4 PY WYN Fm