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:: © | mtar boarders, Tell them plenty--and Voice of the Press 'Canada, The Empire and The World at Large we - CANADA . Too Much Optimism It anything could hurt the forthcom- fog Imperial Economic Conference it would be the raising of extravagant expectations leading to inevitable dis- appointment and disillusion. The warning hint dropped by Sir Charles Gordon, therefore, is timely and use- ful. Like other authorities, he feels a quiet optimism about the Conference, and at the same time recognizes the danger of inflated expectations. As he points out, the Conferemce will not re- volutionize the whole trade of the Em- pire. Indeed, the violent wrench which comes with trade revolutions, as with other revolutions, would be most unwelcome. Instead, those who are far-sighted will look forward to laying at Ottawa the foundations for a steady and permanent increase in Imperial trade. And there is every promise that this practical ideal will be real ized --Montreal Star. 14 5 All-Canadian Restaurant For London? A Canadian resident in London writes to the newspaper Canada sug- gesting the establishment of a Cana- dian restaurant in the capital of the Empire as a focus point for resident and visiting Canadians. Greeks, Chin- ese, Italians and Russians can all re- pair to centres where they may meet their countrymen and eat and drink nationally. Canadians have no such amenities, and the aspersion on their initiative is no small one. Now the gauntlet has been thrown down by a South African. Mr. Lewis Leuw, a retired Cape Town hotel pro- prietor, has courageously braved the bristling difficulties of the situation and has just opened a South African snack bar and lounge in the Adelaide Street wing of Gatti's Restaurant, A springbok's head faces the entrance; there is a counter laden with snoek, bil'ong, mebos, mealies, crayfish and other typically South African delica- cies; and the selection of Dominion wines does credit to Mr. Leuw's ma- ture judgment and provides, inciden- tally, an unrivalled opportunity of con- verting sceptics of the I'mpire's vini- cultural abilities. The South African community has been quick to take advantage of Mr. Leuw's enterprise, and already, in ad- dition to a regular restaurant clientele, the foundations have been laid of a South African Reunion Club, for which headquarters have been taken in the roomy premises of the first floor. "Lon- don Canadian" feels strongly that some Canadian should go and do like- wise.--Toronto Mail and Empire. Farmers in Northern Ontario may have from the government supplies of red pine and spruce trees for purposes of reforestation. Every advantage should be taken of this offer. Planting treés is not much trouble, and future generations will bless those who do such work to-day.--Toronto Globe. "All For Each; Each For AIL" In Calgary, Alberta, some seventy- five unemployed war veterans have se- cured premises, pooled their slim re- sources, and set out to maintain them- selves. By concerts and other enter- tainments they secure funds. Barbers, cobblers, tailors, and so on, in this little community work for the benefit of all. Commenting on this venture, the Cal- gary Albertan says it is doubtful that other than ex-soldiers could make it succeed, "Organization made the scheme a success. All the good-will in the world would not have placed these men where they are now had they not agreed to sink their individual interests in their common interest, had they not submitted willingly to a cer- tain discipline, and had not spmebody planned and organized.' This enterprise proves two things; the value of discipline, and that neces- sity remains the mother of invention. The undertaking has the advantage of appealing to popular sympathy on patriotic grounds, as it presents a de- finite plan for assisting the returned man; and it is well worthy of a trial in other parts of the country.--Toronto Globe. A There's a silver lining to every cloud, . and the hard times have pro- duced one of the best epigrams in years from Mr. B. P. Alley, of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, who says: "The way out of a depression - 18 not around a corner but up a hill."~-- 3 Toronto Mail and Empire. + Not Wanted As Boarders We haye all we can do in Canada now fo look after those who are in ~ mead of assistance without having ship- ments of Doukhobors, thrust on us as ope showed a tendency to Burope 1 8% from banks, despite the implication that money being tucked away was to be made less valuable. Such unreason- ing and contradictory shifts of capital reveal the way fear is demoralizing world finance. They also point to the advantage Canada has held over al- most all other countries during the en- tire period of the depression through the fact that confidence of Canadians in their fiscal system and financial in- stitutions has not been disturbed. -- Toronto Telegram. THE EMPIRE What is "British?" " A point that will have to bs discuss- ed at Ottawa is the definition of a Brj- tish product. Originally, Canada, which led the way in preferential trade fn the Empire, regarded as entitled to preferential treatment any article in which British material and (or) labour represented 25 per cent. of the total value. That definition has been amend- ed and now, not only fu Canada but elsewhere, the British proportion must not be less than 50 per cent., and the danger of importation here on prefer-], ential terms of goods mainly foreign but passing as Empire products is very real. The need for uniform definitions in all parts of the Empire seems obvi- ous.--London Times Trade Supple- ment, India at Ottawa During the week the composition of India's delegation to the Ottawa Con- ference has been announced, but it is impossible to feel any enthusiasm over the names. Sir Atul Chatterjee, the High Commissioner in London, is a highly competent official, but Sir George Rainy and Sir P, P. Ginwalla, two, successive Presidents of the India Tariff Board, have throughout their of- ficial career been exponents of the highest and most Chinese type of Pro- tection. Whatever the report of the delegation--and on that we are not hopeful--India possesses full fiscal autonomy. Action can only be taken on agreement, if any, reached at Ot- tawa through the agency of tariffs, and tariffs can only be passed by the All- India Legislature.--Calcutta English- man. Empire First It the Mother Country and the Do- minions go to Ottawa each expecting to reap immediate material advant- ages, the soreness of disappointment will be a danger to good relations, If each member goes with a spoken or unspoken ry of "For ourselves first; for the Empire second," why should any deserve to gain at all? They must put the Empire first and all these things shall be added unto .them, for they are partners in the Empire; as partners, not rivals, they must discuss their business; and as partners they must claim to share the advantages that come from their discussion. As partners, yes, and partners in a family business, but business relations are the severest test of family affection. This is a caution of which we would re- mind, day in and day out, everyone throughout the Empire whose duty it is to make any of the preparations for Ottawa. If one of the delegates at Ot- tawa, thinking to do his duty by those who sent him, tries to get the better of another delegate, the rift in the family is opened.--Spectator (London). The Bountiful Banana Were is not for the banana we should be in a terrible position to-day. It is almost the one product in the world the producers of which are still receiving, if not prosperity prices, at any rate prices that represent a mar- gin of profit. That is why, in spite of the depression, Jamaica has up to the present been able to carry on as suc- cessfully as she has. If we had sugar representing 60 per cent. of our ex- ports to-day, and bananas only 20 per cent., we should be in a very precarl- ous position indeed with sugar at its present prices --Kingston (Jamaica) Gleaner, OTHER OPINIONS Economic lsolationism The tariffs and quotas and embar- goes that are going up everywhere would be bad enough if they were emergency measures reflecting the operations of a war mentality. But too often they are now being defended not as expedients but as a new economic dispensation. The gospel of the "self- contained" nation is preached with a vehemence which is in the main part, no doubt, the outcome of our distress. But it 1s mischievous, just the same, to read on every hand that every coun- try should fry to forget, to the utmost possible extent, that there 18 a world ouside. Forget exports, forget ship- ping, forget foreign investments, go in for cultivating your own garden, and around it raise as high a wall as you| can make. Canadian Broadcasting Canada's need for wavelengths be- comes obvious when the vast, stretches and the many isolated regions of that | use of tol A Miss Helen Oakley and Miss Stair Lyon, were the first passengers to enter the Canadian Airways plane, in- augurating the service between Toronto, Windsor, Chicago and Win- They were accompanied by Rupert Oakley. nipeg. Toronto debutantes, system, more cleared channels will be needed for Canada. The Mexican side will have to be heard also. The Ma- drid conference, scheduled for this fall, is a logical place to iron out these dif- ficulties. It is obvious that the United States must give up some of its: wave- lengths to Canada and Mexico, which will make the present shortage . of wave-lengths even more acute.--Bos- ton Christian Science Monitor. ES ls a MIL kdb The Superiority of British Military Aircraft The great reputation of the Royal Air Force and of Britih-built military aircraft is shown by the fact that flying officers and cadets from no fewer than 27 foreign countries have received courses of training at Royal Air Force establishments, or have been attached to them, since the be- ginning of 1928. Included in the list of corntries represented are sev- eral of the Latin-American states: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico; 16 continental countries. Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Latvia, Nor- way, Holland, Portugal, Poland, Ro- umania, Sweden, Spain, and Yugo- slavia; and seven other extra-Euro- pean nations: China, Japan, Siam, Turkey, Egypt, India and Iraq. Al- together 138 officers and cadets from these countries have been attached to British service establishments. -- Toronto Mail and Empire. em Ag Night Flying In Africa Now Made Possible London--A farther speeding-up of Imperial Airways service in South Africa has ben achieved by equipping some of the airdromes for night fly- ing. It is now possible to fly from Salisbury in Rhodesia to Cape Town in 15% flying hours, a journey which takes 68 hours by train. Canada Facing Active Trade Era In Better Condition Than Any Other Country, Says Trade Com- missioner New York--The population are 39.2 persons for every square mile issued recently by ment of Commerce. ' "The department has compiled data for 108 countries on area, population and density of population of the larg- est city, using official statistical pub. lications 'of the individual nations, - The United States, with a land area of 2,973,766 and an estimated i! the U.S. Depart- pa v k on of thef world is about 1,992,500,000, and there | of land on earth, according to figures| declared Canadian institutions were essentially sound and the country in a position to "Canada to-day is absolutely sound" he said, stres r of banks, trust, mortgage and insur- ance companies in the Domini tion of more than 124,000,000, has a density of 41.7 persons a square mile, it is shown. Alaska has the smaliest density of any country listed, with only 59,000 inhabitants for 586,400 square miles of land, the density is 0.1. People are more closely packed to- gether in Hong Kong than in any other listed area, Based on a land area of only 390 square miles and a popula- tion of 853,000 in 1981, the density is 2,1872 a square mile, CHINA MOST POPULOUS. China, the most populous nation, with 474,821,000 inhabitants in 1930, had a density of 110.4 for the 4,300, 000 square miles of land area. Among the major countries having a high density are the United Kingdom with 489.9 persons a square mile, Japan with 347.2, Belgium with 691.6, the Netherlands with 599.4, Germany with 853.8 and Italy with 343.6. Greater London is reported to have 8,208,000 inhabitants as of 1981 and New York 6,930,000. It is pointed out, however, that the figures are not closely comparable, as the area of greater London .is 693 square miles, but that of registration London is only 117 square miles and the popu- lation of the latter area only 4,396,821. In seventy-four instances of 103 the SounGEy's largest city also is the capi- tal. WOMEN OUTNUMBER MEN, London.--The Overseas Trade De- partment recently made public a re-; port from F. W. Field, British Trade Commissioner in Canada and New- foundland, in which he said there was' ground for the opinion the Dominion' was about to embark on another era of active development. Canada, the report said, had resisted the forces of depression in notable manner, and was probably in better general condition than any other coun. try. Should world conditions improve, it added, the Dominion was likely to be one of the first countries to recover. The condition of Canada, Mr. Field | wrote, hag been ascribed largely to the hardy character of the Canadian people, "While that is true," he con- tintied, "the country's industrial and financial fabric received considerable strength during the good years from 1926 to 1928. "If the depression continues much longer Canada may fipd its common daily round task more difficult, As soon as world conditions improve the Dominion ig likely to be one of the first countries to recover. At this time it appears to us an attractive avenue scarcely explored for co-opera- tion between units of the Empire in their mutual interests and for a com- bined attack upon present problems." ARR CEERI His Wife--"It's about time to think about where we shall spend the Sum- mer." Husband--"I wish you'd say "pass" the Summer, Helen, "spend" is go confoundedly suggestive." - | themselves at Mago Females generally outnumber males throughout the world, it is indicatsd on the basis of data for thirty-three nations. In only ten of these is the population more than half male. Ar- gentina is reported to have the greats est percenetage of males with 53.6, and Ceylon is next with 52.9. Fifty- one out of every 100 persons in the United States are men. Latvia re- ported the smallest percentage of males, with 46.6, and Prance was next with 47.5. --ts Clemenceau Museum Paris--Paris has added yet one more to its long list of museums. The little fiat on the ground floor of a house in the Rue Franklin, where Clemenceau lived, has just been opened to the public, His bedroom, which was also his workroom, con- tains a bed without a mattress --for the "Tiger" always slept on boards --and a work table with the manu- script of the last page of his book, "Grandeurs et Miseres de la Victoire," kept in place by the:goose quill that he used In the dining room, on a table, there are three large rusty keys which had been given to Clem- enceau. They are the keys of the Bastille. The famous skull cap still hangs on a hook in the tiny hall, and several of Claude Monet's paint- ings adorn the walls of the apart- ment. Behind, in a little garden, a few small rose bushes provide the flowers that Clemerceau loved so well. LN a Small Farms Gain Favor in England Birmingham, Eng. --In Worcester- shire and Warwickshire Counties there has heen a decided increase recently' in the number of small farms of from two to five acres, on which owners have built, or are building, homes. Poultry farming is one of the chief industries on these farms and eggs are sent every day into Birm- ingham and other large towns in the neighborhood. Eggs are cheaper in the Midlands this = spring than they have been for years, fe Eclipse to be Viewed By British Astronomers * London. --According to latest reports three British expeditions will leave for Canada in July to observe the total eclipse of the sun, which will be vis- ible over a large portion of Eastern! Canada. or 3 from Greenwich I bi bridge. astronomers. will 250g, and the Imperial College of Science party wil haye head- quarters at McGill Observatory. MUST BE SERIOUS. other Parent, Que, will receive the party | "To he forthcoming Ottawa Imperial ) rence and to foreign countries in which she is regarded highly, Mr. Mc- Gregor sald, Canada can hope to look successfully for increased trade. Those who imagined the British Empire was a dead issue, he added, would find they had based their belief on mis-informa- tion. "JEmplire-Minded "We of the British family of nations, he 'continued, "have b more Em~ pire-minded than ev® during these past two years, The Empire Econ- omic Conference in Ottawa fo be held this July is an indication that we are now committed to an Empire econ- omic policy. The practical translation of that policy means that the Empire's imports from foreign countries, both through sentiment and by preference, will be increasingly deflected to Bri- tish sources, while there promises Yo be an absolute, apart from a deflective, development of reciprocal trade. "Those who are not of the Empire," Mr, McGregor said, "are unwise to un- der-estimate the commercial potentiali- ties and trading power of the British nations, and may well keep an eye on the Conference. The president of the Canadian cham- ber added, however, that there would be no attempt at the conference to pro- mote lusioni or ic isola- tion for the British Empire, which had been in business too long for that sott of thing. » Empire First "We shall, however, certainly adopt in the job ahead the commercial policy of Empire first," he said, "and, if for- eign nations also want to do business with us on reasonable terms and on a mutually profitable basis then we doubtless will be quite prepared to negotiate with them." Mr. McGregor suggested that United States interests, owning many millions of dollars worth of investments in Can- ada stodd to gain materially from any concrete advantages Canada might se- cure at the conference or from any measures. of Empire-wide preference which might be adopted. He suggest- ed it would be worth while for the United States chamber, and particular- ly its members with interests in Can- ada, to watch closely progress of the conference during the summer. "It looks as'though the development of Empire trade will give Canadd more than ordinary commercial opportuni ties overseas," he said ,"and I venture to think that with American ingenuity and brains working through Canadian factories, these opportunities may also be shared by you." -- Prince Defends Graduates of Public Schools-- Varsities London.--The' Prince of Wales re- cently deprecated the opinion that public school and university gradu- ates became inefficient business men. Addressing a sales managers' con- ference, the* Prince said: "I have heard it contended some employers "| will not engage public school and university graduates because they are unaccustomed to hard and sustained work, If this were true it would in- deed bé a heavy indictment inst go ahead as soon 4s the! économic horizon | ni Sa PR ing the strong position) t | claims that Indis has n n 000,000 of gold hidden away--literally ~~ . {ost of bol 4s Sous gold standa nd the outflow of the yellow | oe pi here is stated this dre more than £600,- buried treasure. % This hidden reserve of £600,000,000 worth of gold has been absorbed in Villagers and others have acquired the metal either in English sovereigns or as ornaments. In the crude manner customary in the country, the gold is hidden under the earthen floors of the mud huts, or cached in some odd spot of the desert or jungle. In some ine stances the metal was turned into ornamental jewelry and worn by the 'women--as anklets, bangles, earrings or for nose decorations. In recent weeks the value of this metal has en- couraged the villagers to dig up their supplies, and some curious pieces of gold are finding their way into the Lanks of the Chadni Chauk--the Street of Silver--in Delhi. Chunks of gold ac large as saucers, roughly melt ed down, are passing the bank count ers every day. . And experts state that in most cases the quality is first rate, virtually 90 per cent. of pure gold being a common quality in that now being sold. . THE INDIAN KHANSAMA. The Indian Khaasama is a master of his craft. The term Khansams literally means "master of the house- hold gear," which in 'India means "butler" or "house steward." In up- per 'India it is the title given to the chief table servant and provider of the family's food, and he is always a Moslem. In northern India and Kash- nir he is the cook; in Madras and southern India the title is less often | used and the Khansama is seldom a | Moslem. = The Khansama should be added to the world's wonders. He is a character who turns out a meal for a traveler with an art that is more akin to a conjurer than a cook. The stranger arriving at a late hour at a remote post frequently wonders where a meal may come from in so desolate, uninhabited a spot. But if there is a Khansama around, there is every chan® of a six-course dinner being turned out in half an hour, chickens and ggs constituting the main ingredients. As a rule the cook- ing is first rate and the service excal- lent. A glimpse of the kitchen makes the result the more remarkable. The | siX-course dinner not infrequently emerges from a solitary pan at a fire that could almost be stowed in the pan itself. A VICE-REGAL BALL. It may be that the old-fashioned ball is a mid-Victorian survival, but at Viceroy"s House, New Delhi, the spectacle is one that probably is uu~ paralleled elsewhere in the world, The scene at this magnificent palace om the occasion of the Viveregal ball is one tha: calls for the brush of an artist, so colorful is the sight, so splendid the picture. The ballroom is of white marble, faintly streaked with gray, into which mirrors of black glass are sunk. Against this black- and-white background stand out the picturesque uniforms of the army officers and the dresses of English women. Added to it is the lovely sari of the Indian women, one of the most our public schools and universiti beautiful cost affected by women. "While it may have been true of some, and still true of a few, I do not believe it is generally true." During the Greaf War, the Prince said, the country turned to her pub- dic' school boys for officers, He could not remember an instance of a public school man shirking duty and guing it might be. While the urge to serve their country mizhi be partial explanations of ine ra'or of | public school men, the Prince belisv- ed an important part in fitting them for national emergency. . At the present time an English. man's duty wag less heroic, but none the less vital. Today's calf, the Prince stated, is for national service | through courageous conduct of com- merce, Ad tic touch is given to the pic- ture by the stately Sikh soldiers, who constitute the Viceroy's personal 1.dy- guard These men are 'among the tallest in India. are bearded, and wear spectacular uniforms of crimson and gold, STATUES OF BRITISH HEROES. hardship, however arduous and fati-! Indians, especially women' and young 'men, icke a curious pleasure in Bae contests Brio eres; Witold aie lo pe seen in all the larger c.ties of India," The visitor in Delhi olson, the General in charge of Drit- ish troops in the neighborhood of Del~ hi during the Indian Mutiny of 1357, without seeing a group of Indians standing before the reproduction of the bearded British leader. Hand in hand they walk all round the statue, irg face which this particular mo- morial portrays. What they know of the man can only be conjectured-- possibly few know anything at all about him. - But their interest is ob- viously intense. Queen Victoria's tue is undoubtedly popular the country during the last century. i ed sound education and training play- rarely passes the statue of Jchn Nich- but mostly they gaze up into ihe strik- 20