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Voice of ; Canada, The Empire and The World at Large the Press CANADA . Reckless Driving Twenty-nine people were killed in Rutomobile accidents on the highways of the province in March. The num- ber will probably be larger for the month of April. As traffic increases during the summer the fatalities will also increase, judged from the experi- ence of past years. Most of these fatal decidents have been and will be due to reckless and careless driving. In no sphere of human activity is recklessness and carelessness so lightly condoned or visited with such trifiing punishment, despite the great danger to human life | that is involved. Severe penalties and severe punish- ment are the only means of protection for the public against those who re- fuse to obey the laws and drive with caution and consideration. If every careless driver responsible for an acci- dent were made to suffer exemplary punishment in keeping with the seri- ous consequences of his offence there would be a rapid and substantial de- cline in the number of highway acci- dents and fatalities. Suspension of driving licenses for longer periods than are now imposed in the case of recklessness and drunk- enness at the wheel of a car would go a long way toward effective preven- tion. Permanent cancellation would, in fact, not be too drastic or more than the public interest requires in some cases.--Toronto Star. Prescribing For Listeners The amusing feature, however, is the attempt of witnesses at Ottawa to tell the committee the kind of pro- grams the radio listener wants to hear, Does the radio listener really know himself? Isn't it a fact that he is all over the dial in the course of an even- ing, and that one evening his taste dif- fers from another evening? The fan who wants Amos 'n' Anly may also be an appreciative listener of the grand opera programs from New York. He may take on a medley of old-time jigs and a lecture on the gold standard in the same evening and enjoy them both, In the middle of it all he may wish to learn the result of a hockey match at Winnipeg or Regina. We would like to see the Solomon who is able to say with 'certainty what a radio program should be made up of to please every- body. He would be such a wise bird that he should be put to work on the upemployment problem.--Regina Lead- er Post. Back to the Land Where an unemployed man is anxi- ous to get busy on the land, he should be encouraged in all possible ways. Given access to suitable land, a willing man, with some initial help, might easily be placed in a position where he could lift himself by his own produc- tive exertion out of the mire of unem- ployment. Not to give such a man his chance at a time like this is little short of a crime, and it is in this light that the question should now be looked at by the City Council and the other re- sponsible official bodies. Unemploy- ment is striking into a new phase in Whanipeg, and the most strenuous and ntelligent measures will have to be adopted to cope with it, and there should be no delay in getting such measures started. -- Winnipeg Free Press. Fortunes in the Making We have a communication from a well-known New York financial man, who recalls that the world outlook has been much blacker at certain crises in the past than it is to-day. Dealing specially with conditions on this continent, our correspondent says everyone's income has suffered in the past two years, but in nine cases out of ten it has not suffered enough to interfere with food or comfort. Instead of crying about paper losses and mak- ing things worse by continually talk- ing about them, people should be thankful to be alive and well, Untold numbers are out of work, are suffering and desperate, but compared with many parts of the world Canada knows nothing of poverty. "If your business is good, say so. If not, say nothing. The overworked word, psychology, plays a large part to-day in the public attitude, People are waiting now for someone else to make times better, in- stead of working hard and making them better themselves. They com- pare commodity and stock prices to- day with those at the 1929 peak. They rofuse to take advantage of the won- ' derful opportunities afforded by the break in prices. They say they are waiting for business to be good before buying anything, or doing anything constructive themselves, They hesi- tate to buy securities at a fraction of 1929 prices, but with equally good fu- - ture prospects." "| the trouble with Canada to-day is that the Reformation, and last in the early vet made full use of their new oppor- being urged to grow soy beans. But there are too many soys and not enough laughs.--Toronto Star. A safe has been invented which it is laimed to be i ible to open. It evidently embodies the chief features of a taxicab window and a sardine tin, --Ottawa Journal, : Just as the 1932 wheat crop peeps through the Alberta soil Mrance dis- covers the need of more Canadian wheat. Which is an excellent form of balance.--Toronto Globe, THE EMPIRE Britain and Europe We in this country are part of Eur- ope. We may regret that we are part of Europe. We may wish that the At- lantic was narrower and the Straits of Dover wider. But sentiment cannot alter geography. Not all that can be said or done at Ottawa will add one foot to the Straits of Dover.--Man- chester Guardian, Nationalism and the World The world collectively condemns tariffs; the nations individually insist on keeping them. The world collec- tively says that reparations and inter- national debts 3 ruinous; the nations individually protest that they cannot abandon their claims. The world col- lectively says that it is being ruined by armaments; the nations individual- ly fight stubbornly to maintain their own armaments, All these things are linked together in the great world con- troversy. We are getting to the point when this quarrel must be composed or the system we call "capitalism" will break down, And yet by a queer para- dox' it is in most countries the capi- talists, or at least the rich and well-to- do, who are most ardent in the defence of nationalist economies and national armaments, If between them they kill the capitalist system, it will be they themselves who will have done it.--J. A. Spender in the London News-Chron- icle (Lib.) Education in England English education is very much alive. There are still dull patches in it, of course, but, go where you will, you are never far from a school which is show- ing strong power of adaptation to the new meeds of the community. Three times before in history English educa- tion has flushed with renewed energy: first under Alfred, next at the time of years of Queen Victoria. But never till now has it been free from the cramping influences of poverty, To-day it is well furnished and free in its choice of methods of work. Thes teachers are at liberty to try new ways of teaching; to get into the open air; to use other tools than the pen. A school needs space, zest and freedom if it is rightly to train those who a few years hence will make or mar the tone and temper of town and village, of factory, shop and farm. Not all the schools have tunities. But England is now dotted over with good examples of the new education--The Master of University College, Oxford, in the Spectator (Lon- don). World Prices While prices of world commodities have been tumbling for the last two years, the British trade unions have nailed their wages and hours to the wall, and refused to lower them an inch. This is called maintaining the standard of living. Other countries fail to recognize the right of the Bri- tish artisan to a higher standard of living than themselves; they lengthen their hours and lower their wages to suit the changed conditions of the world markets, which, consequently, they snatch from under our moses.-- A Truthful Tory in Truth (London). OTHER OPINIONS More British Protection While neither the United States nor any other nation that trades heavily with the United Kingdom can do other than regret that the British are making the entry of foreign products into their country increasingly diffi- cult, the fact stands out that they have definite purposes to achieve. Further- more, they believe that the attainment of those objectives warrants the means to accomplish them. "However unfortunate it may be for the rest of the world, one can hardly disregard the fact that the British are only emu- lating the example given them hy the suffering nations, -- Providence Jour- nal. f Crisis Still to Come If there is no actual starvation any- where -- even Chicago reports that "food is adequate and no one is suf- fering from cold"--there is every- where misery and want. More and more workers have exhausted their savings; available relief funds are run- ning low, Spring and Summer may bring seasonal improvement in indus- Painter and Scientist Montreal.--McGill University will honor a Canadian painter, a Canadian tist, and two prominent citi of the United States at the annual Spring convocation to be held this year on May 26, it was announced at the university. The honor list of those who will receive degree of Doctor of ws now includes Horatio Walker, Isle of Orleans, Quebec, recognized as the dean of Canadian painters; Dr. John 8. Plaskett, director of the Do- minion Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, B.C.; Dr. John H. Finley, associate editor of the New York Times, and Major-General Robert Y. Patterson, a former Canadian and a graduate of McGill University who is now Surgeon-General in the United States army. The convocation address will be given by Dr. Finley who represented United States at the unveiling of the goodwill monument on McGill cam- pus last Spring. In addition to the honorary awards, the degree of Doctor of Science will be conferred on Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch, director of the De- partment of Metabolism and physician in charge of the diabetic clinic at the Montreal General Hospital. BY aE AIL LA Stainless Steel Secret To Be Opened in 1960 Sheffield, England.--The story of the discovery of stainless steel, a secret for several years, is not to be told for another three :decades. Harry Brearley, discovered of the pany" of Sheffield a sealed envelope, admonishing the society not to open it until the cutlers' feast of 1960. The envelope contains his story of the discovery. > me -- Irak Government Banishes Chairs For Visitors Bagdad, Irak--The Minister of Fi- nance has issued instructions to all departments under his control, that in the future there must be only one chair in the rooms of heads of departments. All other chairs are to be taken away. It is understood that this order was framed to prevent the waste of offi- cials' time by visitors whose visits to Government offices are apt to be prolonged far beyond the time neces- gary for the transaction of their business. BE 5,000 Paris Flats Empty Paris.--Official housing records in- dicate that empty apartment space is now available for 500 families. The apartments range from two to five principal rooms, with central heating and elevators, and at an an- nual rental of from $186 to $217. process, has given the "cutlers' com- | After a long winter nap, the Leviathan has had a spring rub-down and is ready for service again. We see her leaving the Boston drydock, bound for Hirope once-more. : ebisklc andiietleninntisiiunied Suikiabostandion slr] McGill University to Honor | Earl of Willingdon Escorted] Hygiene By Agridi Tribesmen | Continuance In a special despatch from India to the New York Times we read that our. former Governor-General, the' Earl of Willingdon, recently paid an! official visit to the Khyber Pass, on the north-western Indian frontier. Four hundred Afridi tribai elders were there to meet His Excellency and to assure him of a general tribal loy- alty to the Rajah and the British Crown. Such unpleasantnesses as have occurred on the frontier in the 'last two years have been the work of five per cent. of the younger tribes- Council Urges of Health Units Toronto -- Making an urgent plea that, under present conditions, every effort shduld be put forward to main- tain at full strength and efficiency the health departments and commun- ity agencies concerned with health of safeguards, the boards of the Canadian Social Hygiene Council p q © ly a resolution to that effect and decided to bring the general question to the attention of governments, other national i 4 ERE Devotion to Canaries =. Cause of Divorce St. Louis, Mo.--Mrs. Leona Stern- fels sought a divorce from her physi- 'cian husband and, although her suit 'did not specifically so state, 150 can- 'ary bizds could have been named as | co-respondents in the case. Her petition stated that Dr. Arthur F. Sternfels passes most of his leis- 'ure hours with his canaries, that he frequently spent as much as $75 for a single bird and had invested at least $5,000 in his hobby. Dr. Sternfels denied such excessive expgnditures and insisted that every professional man is entitled to » di- verting hobby. Non-Poisonous Reptiles Swallows Deadly Loser ~Boston.--The milk snake may be a n-poi tively harm- tions and the public generally. Reports from many sections of the men, led astray by Russian ries. The tribal leaders pdayed the Govern- ment "to pity the poor people and show its pleasure" by restoring to them the right to join the army and the police force. As the Viceroy drove through the Khyber Pass the way was guarded throughout, not by British troops, but by local levies drown from the tribes as a mark of confidence--- a mark of confidence immensely appre- ciated by the tribal elders and the Afridis in general. The military roads in this district were originally built for defence purposes, but they now fulfill a most useful function as roads of peace, which make possible the freest intercourse between the tribesmen and the bazaars of Pesha- war. Thousands of Canadians will be interested in this bit of news from a remote point on the Empire's far-flung frontiers. ------} + Coal Gas As Motor Fuel Proves Success in Test Santiago, Chile.--Experiments were conducted recently in utilizing coal gas with a special carburetor as fuel for automotive vehicles as increased prices for imported gasoline appeared inevitable, despite lengthy f Domini the resolution states, in dicated apprehension lest the neces- sary efforts towards reduction in gov- ernmental costs might lead to mate- rial curtailments in health services. That health is the first wealth of the people is stressed in the Council's statement which notes that, despite unfavorable economic conditions, the national health has been maintained at a high level. Up to the present time, this level has been raised year after year. It is further pointed out that expenditures for the protection and promotion of public health have been very small compared with out- lays for other public services of in- trinsic merit and that they do -not, for this reason, lend themselves to deflation. That maintenance of the public health, in the face of disturbed econ- omic conditions, becomes even more vital than in normal times and that any relaxing of vigilance such as re- duced health services would cause, would be fraught with dander, are given as reasons which prompted the Council's action. At the ses- sion over which Hon. Mr. Justice! Riddell presided, with J. P. Bickell, chairman of the finance committee, ences between government officials and the two oil companies operating in Chile. q An experimental automobile was Tun satisfactorily for five kilometers (about three miles) on one cubic meter of gas in one trial. : gy Debts of Edgar Wallage Greatly Exceed Assets London.--According to the Daily | Mail an affidavit of Edgar Wallace's estate, presented for probate showed debts of about £81,000 (currently $340,200) and assets of £18,000 (cur- rently $75,600) while the personal es- tate of the late author, who died in California on Feb. 10, was nil. The affidavit, however was sub- ject to correction, the newspaper said, as it was incomplete regarding his earnings in Hollywood. The Mail quoted his widow as having sald the debt were due to heavy racing losses, extravagances and excessive generosity, trial conditions in some localties, as in Detroit, but no one expects it to the workers the ' _A 'native Indian couple, India, have through a second ceremony, given notice in London, England, certificate would help them in applying for passports. and. 5 busi and fi {al leaders as well as public health officials, were pres- ent and expressed themselves as strongly in support of the sentiments expressed. : ------ ces: Soviet Industries Plan Order for German Iron Berlin, -- Recent reports from Essen sald Soviet industries had placed new orders for 300,000 tons of iron bars and sheets and that pos- sibly 200,000 additional tons would be ordered later. Russian orders in the Ruhr indus- tries so far this year were estimated at between 300,000,000 and 400,000- 000 reichsmarks. Terms of financ- ing are still being considered. RTHASAREED | SIE Platinum Deposit Found 20 Miles From Pembroke Pembroke.--Finding of a platinum deposit in' the Township of Fraser, 20 miles from here, was reported in Pembroke Tecently. More than 40 claims are reported to have heen staked, and prospectors from North. ern Ontario are reported preparing to flock into the district. It is un- derstood the discovery was made some time ago by John Roberts, mining engineer, for a Beachburg syndicate, which is preparing to develop a rich feldspar deposit. i; SR Se UA, 8000 Canadians Addicts f 4 {J P yely less member of the snake family, but when he is aroused it would seem that he is sure death to the venomous cop- perhead, according to a description of a thrilling battle between a sopper- head and a milk snake as related in the Boston Society of Natural History bulletir. Lewis H. Babbitt came upon the snakes in Simsbury, Conn. He de- scribes the battle thus: "For 16 minutes I watched this fight in the tain side. The snak Second may now be sonsidered. To | prove how fallible is a human being holding a stop-watch when compared with automatic timing, Dr. Dodd made a series of striking comparisons. An unmeasured distance was covered by a runner in 3.9 seconds according to the stop-watch; the actual time was 5.025 Seconds as recorded by the Dodd- Harper invention. On another trial over a different distance the stop- watch credited the runner with 10 seconds flat; the electric timer show- ed that it was too generous by 0.10 second. "Human timing, in general, may be from 0.04 to 0.12 second in er- ror. In the Dodd-Harper system a copper wire stretched across the muzzle of the firing pistol is broken wien the cartridge is fired--the usual practice. Thus an electric circuit is broken and a high-speed printing clock or chrono-- graph started which registers to the thousandth of a second. At the finishing tape a beam of light shines across the track and falls upon a photo-electric cell. The momentary blocking of the beam by the runner as he crosses the finishing line causes an- other signal to be sent to the chrono. graph. Hence there dre two printed marks, the one indicating the starting and the other the finishing instant. Slight corrections must be made for the lag of the electric current in print- ing the time when the pistol is fired and the finishing line crossed. These corrections are almost negligible. Dr. Dodd points out that it is be- were twisted into an apparently inex- tricable knot, with the milk snake ing the copperhead harder and harder, maintaining all the while a secure grip with its jaws clamped near the copperhead's tail while the latter sank its fangs into the neck of its ant ist. The contestants wers balanced on a small stone but ;n their struggles fell off, and rolled some two feet down the slope, bringing up 'against a boulder." Punctuality of Employe Saves Himself and Wife St. Catharines.--The fact that ne was a faithful and always punctual empluye saved tke life of Harry Lowe and his wife when they were ovarcome by gas at their home. Lowe was noted for his promptness in arriving at weak, and when he failed to appear ver despatched a hg to ascertain the reason. The messen- ger failed to receive any answer to his knocks at the Lowe home, and he be- came alarmed. The police were sum- moned, but bsfore they arrived the constant knocking had aroused Mrs, Lowe from a stupor and she stumbled to the door. Her husband was found ir. another room completely overcome by fumes escaping from a gas heater. Both responded to madical attention. Spread of Automats Cuts Waiters' Tips Brussels.--Twelve months ago there were practicallp no automatic buffets or quick-lunch bars in Belgium. To- day there is one at almost every street corner, and they are having a quite unexpected effect. In the automat icople serve themselves and pay no tips. The smaller cafe,*feeling the effect of the competition, is putting out bills, "No tipping allowed here." Waiters, with newly acquired dig- nity, after the war, proclaimed that they want no more tips, but expected 10 per cent. of the bill for service. This they got, but insolence took the place of the former obsequiousness, and none of the small services usually rendered for the tip were given unless more largesse was forthcoming. This, combined with the blue laws, has been ruining the licensed vietual- ers' trade, Now that tipping in the smaller place at any rate, is to he To Drugs, Report Shows Ottawa.--Every effort had been] made in Canada to restrict drug trafic, yet it was 'estimated there were 8,000 drug addicts in this coun- try, Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen told. tha. Senate recently, The interna- tional convention for limiting the manufacture and distribution of nar-, cotic drugs at Geneva was approved. Senat Meigh explained the' purposes: of the convention. -- Issues a Warning 'Hands Off Manchuria" Tokio.--A warning to the League of Nations and to Soviet Russia to keep "hands off Manchuria" was issued by General Sadao Araki, Japanese War Minister, in a speech to the Koku- honsha, a patriotic society at Osaka. The society is the nucleus of the! present country-wide nationalist moye- ment in Japan, Japan abolished, better times may be coming, ey Medicinal Plants Brussels.--The Minister of Agricul- ture has decided to promote the culti- vation of aromatic and medicinal plants in this country. Land has been selected for the experiments, and lec- tures with slides will be given at Les- sines and other centres. Herbs are largely used in Belgian medicine, and serious complaints are treated with such simple remedie. as cherry stalks or blackberry leaves, which curiously enough are quite successful. -- an More Americans Visit Manitoba Manitoba had more American visi- tors in 1981 than in 1980, according io the président of the Winnipeg and 'Manitoba Tourist and Convention Bur- eau. Automobiles entering Manitoba { Province from the United States in 1931 totaled 47,745--4,500 more than in 1930.--U, 8, "Commerce Reports. pai > more and more difficult to break sprinting records because stop- watch accuracy has its limits, if one can speak of accuracy at all. Intro- duce a timing system which makes it possible to record thousandths of a second without human aid and new possibilities -are at once opened. "I beat Clarkson by two-thousandths of a second when I broke the hundred- yard record in 1940," may yet be the proud boast of some future collegs athlete. = Reading Machine for the Blind Robert E, Naumburg of Cambridge, Mass, has improved his invention, the visagraph, for enabling the blind to read books, periodicals and news- papers. Both the old and the mew machine first read the printed matter and then proceed to emboss it letter by letter upon a sheet of aluminum foil. The blind reader passes his fin gers over the foil and feels the letters exactly as he does in the case of raised Braille print. In both the old and new models a minute spot of light is focused on the printed page. It is absorbed where it strikes black ink and is reflected to a photo-electric cell where it strikes white paper. The current in the photo- electric cell generated by the reflected light is amplified several million times to operate electro-magnetic embossing mechanism. Hence the blind reader is not forced to wait until a Braille edi- tion of a book is available. The ma- chine does the embossing for him when he wants it and thus makes it possible for him to read not only the latest books but also current periodi- cals and newspapers and even to study diagrams, line drawings, typewriting and handwriting. In the old model the position of the book in the machine had to be correct within a few thousandths of an inch at both ends of a line. With the new model such accurate adjustments are unnecessary. With the old visagraph the blind reader had to space the reading mat- ter line by line. Spacing is now car- ried out automatically. The blind reader puts the book in the new mas chine, touches a button, and the mag- nified raised letters appear automati- cally. When the page is completed the machine stops automatically, Morphin Substitute The chemistry department of the University of Virginia is now. linked in the world-wide search for better non-habit-forming narcotics, Twelve research chemists are now working at that institution to derive a preparation of drugs that may serve in place of morphine and its derivatves in their usual therapeutic properties and thus decrease the spread of morphine ad diction and the availability of the | 'The hope of the chemists working in this field comes because morphine de- rivatives differ widely in their tens ; dency to cause addiction, from the dane gerous heroin to the relatively harm. less codine. - It seems possible, there- fore, to prepare substances of the harmless codine type to replace mor- phine.--Waldemar Kaempffert in The N.Y. Times, g --