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" Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA _ 1 Prince of Wales--Agriculturist As demonstrated in the develop- ment of his E. P. Ranch in Western Alberta, the Prince of Wales is an en- thuslastic breefler of live stock. At 'the recent Northampton Show at . Rushden, His Royal Highness beat some of the most formidable breeders of cattle. One of his Shorthorn bulls and a Shorthorn heifer calf captured first prizes. These animals came from his farm at Lenton. At the De- von show in Tavistock he showed some fine animals and made a great «display of farm produce. The Prince pays special attention to the needs of consumers. He has arranged for his tenants to study the provision depart- ment of a London West End store to learn exactly what the public requires of them. Not long ago he visited the store himself to see how they were getting on. His Royal Highness takes a deep interest in every aspect of the nation's life and the life of the Empire. --Mail and Empire (Toronto). Canada's Future We are firmly of the opinion that Canada offers to-day, despite all the difficulties of the time, as many if not more material advantages to honest and intelligent citizens who are will bo ing and ready to work as she did in the past. The important thing is to work, and to face with calm and ener- gv all 'the trials through which we have to pass. Better times are com- ing and Canada will very probably be one of the first countries in the world to overcome the obstacles which are temporarily obstructing our progress. ~--La Tribune, Sherbrooke. Canada and the U.S. The United States Senate re- contly voted virtually embargoes against Canadian lumber and copper. It voted to place a duty of $3 per 1,000 board feet on lumber; to place a duty of four cents a pound on copper. This affects, practically destroys, $28,000, 000 of Canadian trade. All but a erip- pling blow to our lumber industry, and a severe check to our copper exports, this action by the United States Sen- ate may vield good. It may be that it is justi what is required to impress upon all of us the vital importance of not permitting failure in the coming Imperial Economic Conference. For the real meaning of this news from Washington Is that Canada may as well make up her mind that she can- not hope for anything like dependable trade arrangements with the United States. That country, whether it is under a Republican or a Democratic administration, and no matter what the political complexion of Congress, doesn't propose to buy anything from Canada that it can help; and any ar- rangement that it may make with Canada of a contrary character will be a temporary arrangement, subject to withdrawal at Congressional cap- rice. --Ottawa Journal. Wide Open Sjaces Undoubtedly gardening is not only splendid exercise, but a profitable oc- cupation for all who are in a position to take advantage of it. It has been undertaken on a considerable scale this season in Brantford, as a result of the scheme to provide garden plots for those who desired them, Those who have not plots for gardening will do well to engage in whatever suit- able outdoor wecreations they can find convenient. The main thing is to live a life of activity in the open air and sunshine as much as possible: during the spring and summer months while the weather continues favorable. This applies both to children and adults. Medical authorities have never placed as much emphasis on the necessity of living in the fresh air as they are do- ing at present. Happy are those who can devise ways and means to spend at least a portion of their spare hours in the open air--Brantford Expositor, Incredible Change Two years ago a picture of the United States of America as it is to- day could have been placed only in the category of the imaginary and ut- terly incredible. The national trea- sury is faced with a deficit of £500, 000,000, and the richest country in the world will be driven to defy all the recognized canons of sound public finance. by borrowing to balance its budget, President Hoover's sun is setting in a stormier dusk than his worst enemies could have predicted. -- Loadon Spectator. The Farmer's Lot Improves It is difficult to speak for farmers all over the Dominion, but certainly so far as the farmers of Western: a ara concerned -- apart fre drought area of 1931--they are gener- ally speaking getting into better shape now than they have beer at any time in the past three years. Leave he farmer alone--build up no fraudulent hopes by appointing Government boards on this and that--and he will éventually come through in pretty sound condition. ~Winnipeg Tribune. fixed up in some way by February the world would go smash® The old per- verse world didn't fix up war debts or reparations or much of anything élse, and it refused to go smash. Now we have a lot of other experts telling us that unless the coming Lausanne Con- ference does succeed we'll all go bust for sure. Well, our own humble ex- pectation is that Lausanne will settle nothing. and that the world won't col- lapse. The world is extraordinarily tough. Somehow or other it possess- es intangible assets that economists and experts invariably fail to' reckon with; so that just when it seems to be on the verge of ruin something or somebody comes along to save it, or to give it a few more years of grace.-- Ottawa Journal, The B. C. Loan A British Columbia loan of £1,500, 000 is being underwritten by London financial houses at 6 per cent. inter- est and selling at 99. The feature of the loan is that it should be the first launched on behalf of this Province in London for the last eighteen years. It indicates .a return to a process of Imperial financing for Empire needs, That the loan should be underwritten in London is an excellent evidence of faith there in the future-of this Pro- vince. What British Columbia has been able to accomplish may mark the beginning of a rejuvenated inter- est among English investors in Cana- dian development. The present hap- pening comes at an appropriate time when so much attention is being cen- tred on the forthcoming Imperial .Con- ference at Ottawa.--Victoria Colonist, Eastern Coal in Ontario A few days ago the first cargo of coal from Nova Scotia under the new system of bonusing by the Dominion Government was unloaded in Toronto Harbor. 'It was a practical illustra- tion of what can be done by Govern- ment assistance for the extension of markets. Nova Scotia was able to penetrate further inte Central Canada than was possible under ordinary economic laws. Coal produced in the United States had found a new com-! petitor in coal mines in the extreme eastern portion of Canada.--Mail and Empire (Toronto). The Hudson Bay Route It is perfectly clear that something more must be done before the West will get full advantage of the Bay route. The $50,000,000 was not spent on the Hudson Bay Railway and the port and aids to navigation merely to enable grain and other exports to be shipped at a total transportation cost just a shade lower than the cost by way of Montreal. There would have, been no justification for spending such | a large sum for that purpose. It was spent to give the West the benefit of materially lower rates than by the St. Lawrence route. It was spent to give the West the benefit of its geographi- cal advantage--~Winnipeg Free Press. THE EMPIRE British Agriculture, However much its fortunes have de- clined, British farming is still one of the most important industries in the Empire, with an annual output enor- mous in quantity and still more enor- mous in value, owing to the quality of its products. In different parts of the Empire statistics are compiled in dif- ferent ways and exact comparisons are therefore impossible; but all the available figures go to show that the annual value of the agricultural pro- duction of Great Britain is very little, it any, less than that of Canada and greatly exceeds that of any other of the Dominions.--London Times. The Toll of the Roads Sir Herbert Samuel suggests the remedy of kindliness and friendliness for the slaughter of the roads). This is a serious question which has to be settled one way or the other. In any view, and I speak as one who has con- trolled the police, it must be settled on the penal side. I do not believe that the 2,000,000 motorists, including the commercial drivers, are going to drive in such a kind and friendly man- ner as to prevent any accidents on the public roads. . . , There really is no answer, and having regard to the years during which we have tried to deal with the question - by courtesy and friendliness, and by seeking to make the motorist and the pedestrian more cognizant of one andther's rights falled--I have come to the quite de- finite conclusion that the State should intervene, that it is its duty to inter- vene, and that such steps should be taken as may prevent the holocaust of death and injury on our roads. The population is an asset of the State. Not only are men and women entitled to their personal safety, but the State is entitled to see that its people are preserved from danger in order hat the great asset of human life and human activity may be preserved for the good of the State as a whole.-- Lord Brentford in the Spectator (Lon- don). x " OTHER OPINIONS --a method which has completely] United States should solve her own domestic problems, and, by solving them, provide the stimulus 'and the example to other countries. But ob- serving from a distance--a nearer view of the prospect might modify my pessimism. I am unable.to imagine a course of events which could restore health to American industry in the near future. I even fancy that, so far from the United States giving the ex- ample, she will herself have to walt for stimulus from outside. I, there- fore, dare to hope, howeyer improb- able it may seem in the light of recent experience, that relief may come first of 'all to Great Britain and the group of overseas countries which look to her for financial leadership. It is a dim hope, I confess. But I discern less light elsewhere.--J. M. Keyes in (the Atlantic Monthly (Boston). The Lindbergh Tragedy The knowledge that there exists somewhere in America a man or wo- man capable of snatching a baby from his crib and doing him to death has been the occasion for nation-wide re- vulsion and horror. But what shall be sald of the fact, revealed since the an- nouncement of the baby's death, that more than one hundred demands for ransom were received from persons anxjous to capitalize this outrage? What shall be said of the whBle regi- ment of those who have thrust them- selves in front of cameras, invented stories of "contacts," carried on petty battles for prestige and generally be- mired the trail and made mock of a family's grief and a, nation's shame and indignation.--Baltimore Sun. ------ in To Mark Polar Year Amsterdam.--The Netherlands will establish a magnetic station at Ang- magalik on the east coast of Green- land, as part of its contribution to the "Polar year" experiments in 1932, A first "polar year" took place in 1882-83, with the practical result that the magnetic conditions around the north pole were ascertained, while magnetic charts for the use of shipping in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocena were drafted. ' ---- Bookie's clerk: "'Ere, you can't lay them prices--there's only three run- ners." Bookie: "You watch me, lad- die--and you'll see four!" With grooms holding traditional crowns over the bridal couple®s heads, Mrs. Waveney Trew of London, England, became the wife of Vladimir Provotaroff at the Russian church. U. S. Machinery Export To Canada Decreases Washington.--The decline in ex- ports of metal-working machinery to Canada from $5,410,000 in 1930 to $3,400,000 in 1931 is noted in a re- port issued by @he Department of Commerce on the United States ex- ports of this commodity during 1931. "The curtailment ' of industrial ae- tivity, in Canada and France during 1931," says the report, "was bound to have an unfavorable effect on the demand for high-production tools and equipment, The outstanding items of shipment to Canada were rolling mill machinery, sheet and plate metal working machines and foundry and molding equipment." The report points out that exports of these products practically main- tained their level of value in 1931 as compared with 1930 and 1929. The totals for those three years were respectively $40,000,000, $42,000,000 and $40,800,000. The reason for this wag the largely increased export to Russia, which jumped from $2,600, 000 in 1929 to $14,200,000 in 1930 and $22,000,000 in 1931. ----a"e"™" Back-to-Farm Move Noted By U.S. Bank Springfield, Mass.--Applications for loans and loans granted at the Federal Land Bank of Springfield continue to run well ahead of last year, Since Jan. 1, applications have been made for a total of more than $3,000, 000" and loans granted have totalled $1,449,000. Those seeking loans in- clude many owning their property, in- dicating a scarcity of local credit. While farm product prices are termed ruinously low, payments are being kept up at the bank to a gratifying extent. Among those at the bank in the last few days was a foreign-born unemploy- ed resident, having $75,000 saved and previous farm experience, and anxious to get back to the land. Another with $35,000 had walked through the Con- necticut Valley, looking for a farming job without success, and had decided to purchase, and still another stood ready to pay as high as $15,000 for a dairy property. ee Aen. Life Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mould and chisel and complete a character.--Goethe. RE Governor Gardiner 'of' Mai, The Empire in the Lead ~_Nolhing could be of a greater ad: 1oniase to tha world than (hat the while Lady, his favorite mount, plete a home-product, his sister will card, spin. and into a sul. * Maine's Farmer-Governor © Wisconsin what is wrong with this machine world of 'ours, now 'that it has fallen upon lean days. Hg sug. gests, moreover, 'that the engineer can help us by attack problems which manifestly cry out for solution. Economists may npt agree with Mr. Ferrfs's contentions, but there is no denying that he stim- ulates the imagination with some of 'his proposals, rd Xie "We need a better and cheaper house for the average man," Ferris maintains; "one that can be made in a factory to take advantage .of factory economies." It must be sold for at least one-third what it now . costs for a structure of equal size and satisfy the most exacting taste, * Farmers must be. brought closer to one another and urban workers must be spread apart by "new patterns of community arrangement." We need city engineering both for structures and trafic control. We need new fuels and sources of power. "Perhaps we must find them in some unstable atoms; per- haps in the tides or in the cemtre of the earth or in cosmic rays." Flying is not safe enough. Alr- planes should be invented which are inherently so stable and so easily managed that the pilot need not pos- sess extraordinary skill. * Tt takes too much effort now to prepare food. Mr. Ferris, there- fore, thinks there are possibilities in synthetic foods. "We need food so cheap and easy to obtain that it will take its place besides air and water as necessaries of life that are almost free, available to all, and thus re- moved from the list of things for which' men 'must strive. The et- fects of such a change in our at- titude toward food and shelter would revolutionize life and would elimin- ate much of the drive behind econ- omic strife, warfare and cruelties of all kinda. It would leave us freer to strive after real pleasures and real accomplishments," Any number of new materials are needed. according to Mr. Ferris, "such as ductile and workable glass, synthetic leather (to make unneces- sary the slaughter of animalg which will soon be no longer needed for food), synthetic rubber, cheaper ma- terials for clothing, ete." Our wood should be used to better advantage. Reforestation is still crude and hap- hazard. 'We need "a technique of harvesting lumber as a crop that our" forests may be restored." Management needs reform. A tech- nique ought to be discovered "which will preserve the merits of the pres- ent absolute authority of manage- ment as far as technical efficiency goes and yet modify absolutism in order to allow a far greater amount of self-expression for the individual worker." a A Psychological Change By Jules Sauerwein Foreign Editor Paris-Soir, in an In- terview in New York. A new and distressing happening in the last three years is that the people no longer seem to have the psychological resistance they had dur- ing the war. They had it on the bat- ticfields and in the crisis after the war. But now it seems their mental resources are almost exhausted. At least in Europe it is so. The result is, on one side, fear, and on the other, despair. - The people on the Continent are off alance--no more equilibrium, I ink it is equally foolish to think of Germany - starting a war and of France fearing an immediate war. 1 am almost tempted to say the misfor- tunes threatening Europe are worse than war. By this I mean that with the so-called elite, the leading people, having failed to determine real ways out, this crisis might be taken in the hands of the mob. . If the financial leaders fail, then the most brutal ele- ment, the mob--and I don't say it con- temptuously--will take the case. | ERE Italy Plans Farm Colony Rome.--Now that Italy, after many years of almost incessant guerrilla warfare with the predatory desert tribes of the hinterland, has at last succeeded in quenching the last sparks of revolt in the colony of Cyrenaica, the problem presents itself of how to populate it, so that it may become an utlet for Italy's surplus population. ~ Speaking in the amber on the | man who had Shy corfespondiug period in 1931, Hon. Leopold Macaulay = announced | recently. - * oar 30, 1932, the figure was 104 million "gallons, while in the preceding year | it was 98 millions, despite an 8 per Ceal. decrease mofor vehicles this year. In an analytical survey of the motor vehicles situation in Ontarlo, the ministe} deali with the respec- tive rights of passenger and Com- mercial vehicles, indicating future selection and operations, of thei drivers. - Registration Drops Commercial vehicles were about 12 per cent. of the total registrations, Mr. Macaulay pointed out. This year's figures, up to May 28, reveal- ed total registrations of private pas- sengers cars as 409,876, compared with 444,399 for the similar period in 1931, a decrease of about eight per cent, which was much slighter than that obtaining in the United States. Commercial vehicle regis- trations showed a decrease of only 3.5 per cent, wth 53,286 this year to date, against 55,236 last year. However, Mr. Macaulay wag confid- ent that this year's total of com- mercial vehicles would be greatef than in 1931, since trucks were only being registered as there were jobs for them. Continuing his analysis, the min- ister stated that while truck regis- trations were down only 35 per cent, car loadings were decreased 20 per cent, which he considered a fair indication of the relative de- crease in railway and truck freight business. ' "It is a" debatable point how far trucks should contribute to the up- keep of the highways," he continu- ed. "The highways were first built at the demand of passenger car own- ers. In addition to the fact that trucks constitute only 12 per cent. of the total, there is the question of weight," and he referred to an ex- perience of his own, of standing un- derneath a steel bridge while a 12- ton truck passed over it at about 60 miles an hour. "We must realize that the roads are here primarily for the motorist. Don't forget that. There are 409,- 000 cars, and 600,000 licensed oper- ators to consider first." & Not Easily Discouraged A tale is being told in Johannes- burg in illustration of the South African wool-producers' difficulties. A native brought a bale of wool for sale, but refused the offer of a penny per pound. He preferred to accept the suggestion that he send it to the coast for sale at the weekly auc- tion, although he realized that this wag a risk. The storekeeper through whom ha did this eventually got the account, which, after deducting rail charges, commission, and other expenses, showed a deficiency of one shilling and sevempence, It took the native a loug time to grasp this curious transaction and its arithmetic, Finally he said he had no money. After some discussion, the store: Keeper agreed to take a chicken for the money. In due course the native brought two chickens. The storekeeper pointed out that he only asked for one. - "Ah, yes, I know," returned the native, "but I have another bale of wool I am bringing round."--Christ- ian Register. al Chile Lifts Duty On Wheat Imports Ottawa.--According to a news dis- patch last week - from Santiago, Chile, the duty on foreign wheat has been removed due to shortage of the local crop and high prices. While no official comment was made here it was stated that any circumstance that broadened the market for wheat wag significant to Canada. This, country has 'enjoyed very little export trade In wheat with Chile, the total amount sent to that country in 1931 being valued at less than $1,000. In 1920 it was nll. Chile usually raises enough wheat to satisfy the demands of that country, and when imported wheat is requir ed the nearest source is Argentina. --_------ By Appointment The business man had died and gone to--well, not to heaven. But hardly had he settled down for a nice long > a hearty hand slapped him on the back, and into his ear the voice of a persistent sales- pestered him much on "Well, Mr. Smith," chortled the salesman, "I'm here for an appoint- ne I pe i "What appointment?" "Why, don't you remember?" the For ths six months ended April {in registrations of regulation of trucking rates and the, happy things that the sadness and the | and make us believe. the world. We remem how glad- ly we welcomed the first one that visited us this spring. On a sno morning, a few weeks ago, it had join. table and we had rushed from the win- must be on the way 4s the first robin in spite of the cold weather! Birds are such incurable optimists% that neither cold, hunger nor the dull mon- otony of a cage ¢an crush their spirits, Shakespeare.wrote of the "brave daf- ! dares and take the winds of March with beauty," but in this country the swallows and the daffodils are not here earlier than the robin. 2 As we looked at the dying bird we thought. of 'the value of robins in des- troying harmful insects, and of the efforts of naturalists who realize that to preserve the wild life of the world is greatly to the advantage of all. A lovely and useful creature has' been cruelly destroyed by ignorance, indif- ference, a primitive instinct to kil, and lack of imagination, those four evils {Which Humane Societies have to fight. jis natural enemy, the cat, would at j least have done the deed more quickly and mercifully. --Mary D, Graesser, in Animal Life, -- "London Calling!" Many years ago a poetic Briton, wandering in _a - foreign land and yearning for .his home, described old London as "the heart of all creation, where the veins of com- merce meet." Still the great me- | tropotis deserves that tribute: 'and | the poet of .today might be further | inspired by the fact that London j has become what may be described as the "talking cenire" of the world, the heart of the telephone system that now touches every land. For instance, no one on the Con- | tinent of Europe can call America except through London. All calla from, the Continent for the United | States, Australia or Canada must | pass through the foreign section of |'the London Telephone Exchange. Writing in Chambers's Journal, Mr, Walter T. Roberts gives interesting illustrations of how this is done: For example, say 'A', living Berlin, desired to speak to 'B', living in Montreal; here is how such a call would be dealt with. The Ber- lin operator would pass particulars of the call on to the Paris Ex- change, where an operator would pass them on to an operator in Lon- don, who, in her turn, would pass them on by wireless to Montreal The Montreal operator, when she had got the required number, would connect it up with London; the operator in London would connect up with Paris, and the operafor in Parls would connect up with Ber- lin; and 'A' in Berlin would them be in speaking communication with 'B' in Montreal. A telephone exchange anywhera is a busy place; but what must ba this vast Central in London vhich the world must call beg interna. tional conversations -can /be carried on? The question of languages at once arises, But the exchange la prepared for this. In the case cited above the German operator . would put the call through to Paris, speak- ing in French. The French oper- ator would speak in English to Lon- don, and London would be ready to in the world was required. Mr, Roberts says New Year's Eve is a very busy night in the London Telephone Exchange. ~All over the world people are eager to express to sea-dlvided friends the season's 800d wishes; and whether or not may depends on an office and an ef. ficient sta in London. It is a re- | markable tribute (to the world's metropolis that it continues to be regarded as the heart of things in general; a meeting place for trav- ellers from all lands; the centre of commerce, of financé; and now the Central telephone exchanga for 'tha in whatever speech continents. --Toronto Mail and BEm- pire. ' ET ee pee. a Paris Policeman Taught © Paris. --Policemen are being taught languages by a new method. M., Con- fida, their professor, bec'ieves that im every language there are eighty words which enter into the const tion of all the simpler phrases, and he teaches these words and phrases by sight as well as sound. For ex- ample, M. Confida gives a French phrase such as "J'ai un rendez-vous," and, as he presses a button which 'makes the English t tion of 'these words, 3 have a appear on a blackboa slides and electric Ho our office you told me hep? Tr THT went. on, "Every 'time I learning E 80 Italian, and 100 S dow to announce that spring really" fodils that come before the swallow. ed a party of sparrows at the feeding had arrived, How cheerful it seemed - - speak to Montreal or anywhere else- f - 4 Bs - Th