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1 Voice of the Press 'Canada, The Empire and The World at Large Dee CANADA White Collar Morale A noteworthy - experiment has just been successfully concluded in Mont- real. It has been demonstrated that there is a real demand for adult educa- tion and intellectual stimulus amongst the white-collar loyed in this laugh on his critics --London News- 'Chronicle, Indian Disorders Congress is the political organ of orthodox Hinduism. Orthodox Hindu- ism is the heir of 4,000 years of a static social system; we are the ex- city. The Department of Extra-Mural Relations at McGill offered three regu- lar lecture courses of seven weeks' duration without fee to the unemploy- ed. The response was little short of astounding. Those in charge agreed that if as many as forty or fifty attend- ed regularly the experiment would be well justified. Actually an average of one hundred and fifty attended the historical and literary lectures and eighty odd followed the medical course. --Montreal Star, British Speed The flight of Mr. J. A. Mollison, re- markable young Scotsman, from Eng- land to Cape Town, 6,300 miles in the astonishing time of four days 17% hours, surpassing the previous record by 16 hours, has demonstrated again, in the words of the Air Minister's con- gratulory message, "What British air- planes, enginesand pilots can do." He has actually brought the South African city nearer in time to London than was Edinburgh a century ago. An even more notable achievement is in pros- pect.--Mail and Empire (Toronto). Away with the snow shovel and out with the rake.--Toronto Globe. 'Tis a Mad World The United States with nearly all the gold in the world--with fifteen hun- dred million dollars of free gold above the minimum reserve--is so beset with anxieties that there is even talk of her going off the gold standard, although, officially, it is denied as ridiculous, The other extraordinary thing is put into words by the New Statesman and Nation (London) when it says: "At present the Bank of England is hard put to it to stop the £ soaring back to something like parity." When one considers the enormous sacrifices made by the Bank of Eng- land and the British government to hdld the £ at par and cling to the gold standard as if the very life of the na- tion depended on it, the average man must be puzzled to hear that the Bank f England is deserately seeking to save the £ from the disaster of get- ting back to par. A similar puzzle presents itself when one considers the hard and desperate efforts the United States has made to grasp all the gold she could lay her hands on, only to find at present that a surplus of hundreds of millions of it is an embarrassment, and with gold by the ton it may be deemed expedient for the dollar to fall below par. The rest of the world cannot take this gold from the United States, but what if the rest of the world, being de- ficient in gold, should decide to get along without this metal? -- Toronto Star. THE EM]IRE Empire Co-operation Rightly or wrongly, the British peo- pie feel that they have suffered from their generosity towards the rest of the world. Imperial sentiment is strong in Great Britain, and it has been kept well in the foreground, but the driving force which has brought about a radical change of policy has arisen from the grave situation of Bri- tish trade and from the necessity for doing something for millions of unem- ployed men and women. Far-seeing men perceive in the promotion of Im- perial trade a great ideal which will incidentally and inevitably promote the welfare of Great Britain.--Mel- bourne Argus. New Zealand Population However unfavorable present condi- tions may appear, it would be absurd to suppose that, in normal conditions, the Dominion is incapable of sustain- ing a more r-pid growth of population than its own natural increase. The ab- sorption of those now unemployed must precede the renewa! of immigra- tion, and when that phase has been completed, there will be a more rea- sonable attitude toward new settlers from overseas, for the Labour Party has abandoned its former hostility and latterly has been proclaiming the ad- vantages of increasing the population to provide a larger domestic demand for New Zealand products.--Auckland Weekly News. Triumph of Economy Few more remarkable statements can ever have been made than Sir Josiak Stamp's almost sedate account of how he saved the greater part of over four and a half million pounds in the working expenses of the L.M.S. It is evident that some people regard- ed his methods at first with some ir- reverent merriment; they were held to be an example of "statistics run mad," That is really not so very ex- traordinary, It would not have oc- curred to the average man that the . supervision of what Sir Josiah calls . the "vast machine" which we know as a rallway company would naturally in- clude a keen interest in glass-lined anachronism of the Bismarckian Em- ts of a brummagen democracy; and the older civilization distrusts the younger. How deep this,aversion goes few Englishmen can fathom unless they have lived with it. It is far great- er than any racial animosity, any re- ligious odium, in our Western experi- ence. It Is based on the conviction that our democratic practice, if forced upon Inda, would mean an end to the sanctity of the family, the confusion of righteousness with impurity; the overthrow of an ordering of human life which is divine in its origin, If any of us felt equally strongly about a polti- cal creed which is being pressed upon us, the odds are that we should be just as vehement as Congress in re- sisting it.--Lord Meston in the Nine- teenth Century (London). - Germany Struggles to Her Feet Germany's spinal cord is and re- mains her middle class. It was their treason to progressive ideals in the heyday of the country's commercial prosperity which made possible the pire. Since the war their children have suffered for it, with a veng ! For the salent feature of the post-war regime in Germany is the "proletari- anization" of the bulk of her middle class. Economic stress would in any case have meant for them, as in Eng- land and other highly industrialized countries, a very much more modest existence; the lunatic inflation period, together with the chronic crisis, has definitely reduced them to the prole- tarian ranks, It is difficult for Eng- lish people who have not lived in Ger- many during these years to realize the demoralizing effect of guch experi- ences, At the best, the effect must be to destroy any faith in the values which we take as a matter of course. --W. Horsfall Carter in the Fortnight- ly Review (London). OTHER OPINIONS Laughing Stock of World Out of a total of 285 kidnappings within the last three years in these United States, only seventy are-record- ed as achieving any convictions what- soever. California stands third on the list of states with high kidnapping re- cords. In three years California has had twenty-eight kicnapping cases, three of which resulted in murder. But there were only four convictions. By all means increase the penalties, but not until we have increased the vigil ance of the police, the judges and the juries, We have too many impotent penalties now that are a laughing stock of the underworld.--San Fran- cisco Argonaut, Canada's Fur Business Canada kaeps a sharp eye on its In- dustries. Fifteen years ago the muff helped to sustain its fur industry; it passed out of fashion with long skirts and high shoes. Now, in ifs less vol- uminous forms, it shows signs of re- gaining favor. The modern muff is limited to about twenty-two inches around, a serious come down from the pillow muffs of a short time ago. In 1930 Canada made 420 muffs valued at $6,938. Furs must struggle against various other materials nowadays in muff making. In 1930 the Canadian fur-goods industry amounted to $15, 783,768. Women's coats and jackets, stoles, scarves, cuffs and collars ac- counted for $12,516,231 of this sum; men's fur-lined gloves and fur coats brought only $243,497. Robes, gloves, hats and coat shells brought the total up to the recorded figures. The Bri- tish Isles took the major share of the fur exports of Canada in 1930, the pened this trafic. Lambeth Bridge shown here nearing completion will be officially Kew, Putney and Mortlake spans are also well under way, offering mew outlets for London's ever-increasing April "Tis April when The forest beeches burn with redder flame, Before they ope their tips, and then Burst forth In green along the lane! When Spring's much traveled feet, | Return to rest awhile. And in the flelds As carpet from the primrose sweet, Its pleasant fragrance yields! Lby segregation and special treatment When Spring steps forth, all wrapt in silver raia, Then has April come again! | --Hlsie A. Koefoed. « NE ur HTK British Leper Colony Fast Routing Disease London.--The battle modern science is waging against leprosy is achieving results which arouse hope the disease can be exterminated, Sir Leonard Rogers, authority on tropical diseases, reports. Experiments on the Island Nauru, in the Pacific Ocean, have shown that it will be possible to rid the island of lepers within ten years, although 50 per cent. of the islanders were afflict- ed when the work began. It is hoped | now to carry out the same experiment, on a larger scale, in: Zanzibar, Ancient methods are combined with modern ones in treating leprosy. The disease in its early stages can be stop- ped with old Indian chaulmooga vil treatment, Sir Leonard said. Even most of the advanced cases respond to | treatment now. Another vast stride has been made recently with the discovery that it is no longer necessary to segregate iep- ers afflicted with the nerve type of the disease, as distinguished from the iractive skin type. I Father--"I got a number of seal- ed proposals in my office to-day." Daughter--"Oh, pa, were any of them for me?" progress has been made in combatting leprosy within the last fifteen years, Sir Leonard said. The British Empire Leprosy Relief Asso- ciation alone sent out supplies last Er Et CS lS HS LL he Cross-Channel Air Travel Set Record in the Last Year London.--There is no sign of the world depression in the cross-Channel air traffic. More passengers were carried between London and Paris by tht British Imperial Airways during the financial year which ended March 31st, than ever before. | The multi-engined airliners whicn this company employs carried 20,315 passengers above the Channel, com- pared to 20,104 for tht previous rec- ord year, 1928-29, Women were among the company's best patrons, and a re- markable feature was the growth of winter air travel, passenger figures during the past winter being mort than double those of the winter of 1930-31, -- The only thing that gives weight to United States running second. -- New | fish story is the scales. York Sun. Effect of British Tariff The Port of Baltimore Bulletin notes that a large chemical company of this city has leased space in Toronto "and will commence production in the Cana- dian factory" to supply export busi- ness, 'especially to British Empire countries." No reference is made to the new British tariff, which has been brought into being largely as a reply to other nations' policies. But it may he safely d that if products of the company could be shipped from Balti- more without paying burdensome im- post duties this would be done.--Balti- more Sun. : Security of *mily Farm America needs the stability and se- curity of an agriculture made up of family farms. In a properly managed economic system corporation farming might perhaps be useful, but until society learns better how to direct jts present complex economic machine there will be little gain in making it more complex. Instead of industrial. izing the United States in the sense of replacing the family farms with large corporation farms, we need 'to find some means to give to the city family some of the stability and security that is the heritage of agriculture.--From The Christian Science Monitor. 3 'Waking Up "The world is not getting worse, but we are 'more sensitive to its ovine Dr. Can Sumner Knopf. | | pearance characterizes the structures y -ar for administering 1,000,000 treat- ments, 3 if mrmem-- Feminine Staff to Run Women's Coast Prison Bakersfield, Calif. -- Women prison- ers in San Quentin and other state in- stitutions wil move to a new industrial farm near here this summer. By July 1 four building of old English and Nor- man architecture wil be ready to re- ceive them. The absence of prison ap-' in a small valley near here, Alicia Mosgrove, of SanFrancisco, the institution's first superintendent, says the program will be rehabilitation of the inmates through farming, gar- dening, stock and poultry raising on the 1,628-acre "farm." The prison, to be run entirely hy women, is known as the California Institute for Women and will be dedicated May 22 by Gov- { U. 5: Imports payment among the Argentine people. But the severe competition, the rapid drop in prices and the gradual restriction of credit in all lines of business have once more led to a gen- eral refusal to receive or handle cheques, not only among the small re- tailers-and the public but also among the larger firms, which had hitherto given signs of welcoming this form of currency, 7 -- 3 1 of Scotch Tweed During 1931 Show Decline Approximately eighty-eight "firms | are engaged in the various branches of the Scotch tweed industry (includ- ing spinning and dyeing) says "U.S. Commerce Reports." Normally the in- dustry employs about 18,700 workers, but the number reported about the end of October, 1931, was only 10,400, In | t0I'S marrying justice of the peace, an- the herd jumped up scramble until the roof crashed, Coffee cups were smashed, but nobody was hurt, not even a goat. ' Didn't Need Divorce - Vancouver, Wash. -- When Walter and Pearl Priddy sought a divorce, they discovered that they never were legally married. They immediately ob- tained a license, married. Too-elderly Ostrich 1s Given Chloroform San Ontonia,-Tex.--Nellie, 22-year- old ostrich at Brackenridge Park Zoo | here, has been chloroformed to end the pains of old age. The hen had lived 12 years beyond the average life span. Zoo officials believe Nellie holds the record among ostriches for length of years in captivity. She was born in the zoo here, and narrowly missed the fate of her mates in the flood of 1921. River waters carried her out of the 200, She was revived and lived an- other decade. 'Seeks Wife at 79 With a Rule Book Evanston, Ill. -- After 'performing 1,600 wedding ceremonies for others, 79-year-old Samuel Harrison, Evans- himself in the market for a June, 1981, the mills were king at 40 to 45 per cent. of capacity. The output of the industry is said nual value of production to fluctuate between £4,000,000 and £6,000,000. More than 50 per cent. of the produc- tion, it is estimated, is exported' in normal times. The United States, the best foreign outlet for Scotch tweeds, took only $352,000 worth in the first three-quarters of 1981; compared with $745,000 in the full year 1930. i front. =U IN "What do the reports from the Southern training camps indicate?" '"That we will have eight cham- pionship teams" in all of the big leagues." te denen. Women Require Less Food Than Adult Males? London.--Women need less food than men. The question is no longer in doubt. That eight women need the same amount and quality of food as rather more than five and a half men {is one 'of the discoveries made by the Advisory Committee on Nutrition to the Ministry of Health, England. They arrive at this conclusion as a handy method of determining man- value for rationing purposes. At least one member of the committee is a woman, The report in which this discovery is announced--a discovery which will have repercussions at every breakfast table in the land--is a memorandum for the use of medical officers who are asked to criticise and suggest improve- ments in dieting. Its findings involve calculations of the relative values of various foods in terms of proteins, calories, mineral and vitamin content. In the matter of calories it is com- puted that a woman requires .83 of ernor James Rolph, Jr, --_------------------ Where Male Athletes Will Live During Olympics an adult male's needs. to a set of rules which he has worked fo Sousist meipally 2 ak is out in his experience as a justice. at a time. wife of his own. 'He is a widower. His bride, tie said, must subscribe Among them are: " 'The husband must say every day to the wife: "I love you." She must say to him: "How strong you are, and how clever." A Don't put your wife on a pedestal. It's too cold' up there, Give a lot of praise and get to-mean it. Do not open each other's lefters. It the husband snores, comes home too frequently under the weather, talks too much to other women, or if the wife is untidy, serves much canned food or fish, they should fell each other about it two times a year in writing. 282 of 300 Villagers Serve Jail Terms in Groups of Thirty Prague.--Practically the 'entire popu- lation of the village of Hidveg in Slo- vakia were recently condemned to serve sentences of three days' impris- onment, ' Some time ago an airplane came down in the village of Dregely Palan- ka, just across the Hungarian frontier, and 282 of the 300 inhabitants of Hid- veg, who are Hungarians by race, be- lieving that it was the machine of the famous Hungarian pilot Endresz, has- tened across the border regardless of the efforts of the Czech frontier guard to prevent them. On their return all were stopped. For the offence of crossing the frontier without a permit they were sentenced to fines of 50 Czech crowns or three days in jail. As the local jail is too small, they served their sentences in Turnussen prison in batches of thirty -- ee Only 1 Comic Magazine Survives Under Soviet Moscow.--Only one humorous mag- azine remains in Russia, where forn- erly five or six flourished. The chronic shortage of paper explains, in par] this limitation on humor. The serious mood of the country, however, also may have something to do with it. The surviving comic magazine is "Crocodile," issued" weekly, and real comedy is almost the hardest thing to find in it. No joke, or cartoon, is pub- lished for its own sake, but only for the sake of some political moral. The subject matter is thus extremely lim- ited. The jokes are at the expense of foreign capitalists, domestic kulaks, 'official bureaucrats, followers of Trot- sky, etc.; in other words, the same people who come in for serious attacks in the regular non-comic papers. Writers and artists obviously find it hard to keep up the satirical barrage in the same direction week after week, so that the humor is always weaker. '| Several gifted artists, however, con- "| tribute extremely good caricatures, --_-- waters goes back to the early yes of the century when Drs. Elster and of radioactivity. The 'two waters contained so little radium that it could not be detected chemically. Thus they explained the fact that arti- seemingly the exact chemical counter- part of those bottled ut springs did not have the same beneficial effect. There is no reason why mineral waters should not be sold and drunk as freely as before. European waters have a record that goes back to Roman times. The virtues of American wat ers were known to the Indians, who periodically traveled hundreds of miles to drink them and bathe in them. ULTRA-VIOLET RADIATION A3 DETECTIVE. : Samuel G. Hibben astonished an audience in New York by showing how ultra-violet rays can reveal cheque forgeries. In this .there is nothing new. Prof. R. W. Wood of Johns Hop- kins University called attention to the damning properties of the rays over twenty years ago. Some of the more enterprising mu- gseums of 'the world have been utiliz- ing ultra-violet rays for the detection of art forgeries. Thus a little statue by 'Rossena, owned by the Met: lie tan Mu:eum of Art, appeared unmis. ultra-violet rays. The ultra-violet rays are: invisible and lie at what may be called the cold end of the solar spectrum. They are generated by a mercury vapor or an iron arc. Objects exposed 'to ultra- violet radiation tend 'in varying de. grees either to fluoresce or to reflect purplish light. It is thus that differ- ences in materials and hence forgeries are detected. Old marble, for example, glows with a different color from new marble, even though both came from the same quarry. Similarly, modern pigments shine differently from old pigments under the rays, and the fig- ures 'of cheques which have been "raised" stand out startlingly from other writing. In the milling of some minerals, the ultra-violet hays have proved of great practical value. Willemite, a silicate of zine, nearly white in color, is usual- ly found intermixed with calcite. It is diffieult to tell the two apart. Constant assay was the old-time check--a slow and none too certain process. After it was found that willemite glows with a weird and beautiful greenish hue when exposed to ultra-violet rays, the prob- lem was solved. At a glance the exact proportion of zine ore to waste can be determined. VITAMIN C ISOLATED. Dr. C. C. King of the University of Pittsburgh announced last week that after some five years of research and experimentation he had isolated vita- min C. Had he lived and made his discovery two centuries ago explora- tion since would have been attended with less risk than it was. For vita- min C is the scurvy preventer. The two things that the older explorers dreaded most were mutiny and scurvy. Mutiny might be quelled, but against scurvy there was no defence. It is not likely that the isolation of vitamin C will make the explorer's life 'any -easier than it was in 'he frozen regions of the earth. As soon as the importance of vitamins was recognized ships' crews knew how ro guard against scurvy. Dr. King's achievement is of more academic than practical interest. Early this year Professor Otto Rygh of Upsala, his wife, Dr. Aagot Rygh and his associate, Dr. Per Laland. dis- covered that the parent substance of vitamin C is narco'in, a mild poison related to opium. Unripe oranges are especially rich in tin. 'Rygh and his associates succeeded in syn- thesizing narcotin and, therefore, vita- min C, Add as little as twenty thou- sands of a milligram of narcotin 'to In Torrid Western Africa Madrid --Spain may have its own "Devils' Island" for political and other convicts if many more prisoners | are sent to Fernando Po. Within six _ | months many offenders have been sen- «| tenced to. exile. in that Spanish pos- session on the west coast of Africa. It! has only three small villages. Its cli- | | mate: is torrid, and there are 20,000 ' | natives, hs -------- Nitrogen To Be Extracted From Air & InManchuria 2: | Eh Washington.--Nitrogen is to be ex- § | tracted from the air by the South Man-' | churian' Railway Company, formal ap- having' been applied for, according to 1e iterprise will involve an outlay ot some s7200000. Th prajens calls for the establish ment of a large sulphate of ammonia plant at Dairen. eT Department of Commerce here, the food of a guinea pig and scurvy is . TOMATO GAS-DETECTORS. A despateh from London states that British submarines and coal mines are to carry tomato plants in the future. 'Spain Develops Devil's Island warded off. | The reason for the abandondment of canaries and white mice, the old stand- bys for detecting noxious gases, is to be fond in some researches that Pro fessor William Crocker conducted | some three years ago in the Boyee a 'Thompson = Institute for plant re- search, * Professor Crocker was primarily concerned with 'the detection of illum- +3 gas in Sh that in leaves poisonous gas is 1 proval from the Tokyo Government Professor canary, as the 00 time Kaempfter in The N.Y. 7 Sefel were making their authoritative' physicists found that most mineral ficial mineral waters which were takably as a modern work under the . F) . -