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" SA hen Cgnference Results 'the Imperial Conference of prime and 717$456,721.--Brandon Sun. . worth upwards of $800,000. especially unusual in this one, But it gil a ih Voice of A Canada, The Empire and The World at Large the Press i CANADA Beyond the actual tariff arrange- ments, three results have come out of vital interest to Canadians: 1, The creation of a tariff Board which, if properly constituted, can and should tend to keep the tariff out of politics and beyond political manipulation. 2, The putting of an entirely new face on the agenda for the coming World Economic Conference, which will be the major testing ground for the whole principle of tariffs. 3, An encourage- ment to the reciprocal tariff element in United States, to come out with proposals for bettering trade relations with Canada. --Vancouver Sun. British Justice When Lord Kylsant was sentenced to one year in jail for publishing & misleading financial startement there were those who believed that he would not serve his time like an ordin- ary prisoner, or that he would serve any considerable part of it. He had been a member of Parliament, was & member of the House of Lords, con- nected with some of the aristocratic houses of England and Wales, a per- sonal friend of every member of the cabinet, and he was--or had been--a milonaire. But the noble lord went to fail, and he has just been released after serving ten months of his twelve, which is the customary remission granted to a prisoner for good conduct. British law is no respector of persons. ~--St. Thomas Times-Journal. Accident Every Forty Minutec According to the records of the Mo- tor Vehicles Branch of the Ontario Department of Hghways, motor vehicle accidents during August last year aver- aged more than 33 per day. Included in this number there were 77 fatalities and 1,025 persons injured. This re- cord, be it understood, is for the Pro- vince of Ontario alone," and not the whole country, as one might imagine from the size of the figures.--Ganan- oque Reporter. Quotations From Shakespeare Even the most illiterate quote Shake: speare every day. Indeed most of us do not know we should use quotations for these current sayings from the Bard of Avon's writings: "Dead. as a doornail; eaten out of house and home: as good luck would have it; mad as a March hare; cake is dough; every dog has his day; fast bind, fast find; every man to his trade; familiar- ity breeds contempt; good wine needs no bush; make hay while the sun shines; past cure, past care; pitchers have ears; poor and proud; sink or swim; speak by the card; the world on fvheels; we burn daylight; woo in haste and wed at leisure; give the devil his due; and what the dickens!" --Brandon Sun, Small Farms in Ontario It is the very general belief that Quebec is preeminently the province of the small farms. But it is not so. Ontario is; The old idea was that the typical French - Canadian farmer divided his lands amongst his sons to keep them around him, so far as pos- sible, in that family contentment and social intercourse so typical of the habitant. But the cold figures of the Dominion Bureau of Statistis tells us otherwise, There are 46,639 farms in Ontario of less than 50 acres, and in Quebec only 23,686. -- St. Thomas Times-Journal. "Made in Germany" During April, May and June of 1932, imports from Germany were valued at $2,576,845, as compared with $3,209,490 in the corresponding period of 1931, The exports to Germany in the last three months totalled $1,210, 119, as against $4,061,681 last year. The falling off in the volume exported is large. Imports from Germany cov- ered a wide range of products, but the chief items were classed under chemi- cals and chemical products, amounting to $778,020 in the last three months; iron and its products, $352,155, non- metallic minerals, including coal, $211, 08G; fibres, $311,629; miscellaneous, Worthless Fortunes The miser is a phenomenon as old as civilization; and from the very be- ginning he has been a great puzzle. There 'died in the middle west the other day an aged recluse who had lived in a tiny apartment on a mean side street. To all appearances he 'was just one notch above actual desti- tution. But when his effects were ex- amined after his death, it was found that he owned cash and securities Cases of this kind are continually coming to light, of course, and there is nothing does make one wonder, anew--"Why?" The money did the man no earthly (At is now being divided among ous and it 1s doubtful if he it on their account. It did him 'good whatever, What can be the makes & man treat his way?--Guelph Mercury. obligations to American investors in American funds. The less we pur- chase In the Republic, the greater witl be the value of our dollar across the line; our expense of meeting the pre- mium charge on American money will go down proportonately. Inasmuch as coal is one of our chief imports from the United States--running into a sum estimated anywhere up to a hundred million dollars annually--it is certainly desirable, from a national point of view, to cut such imports down to the lowest possible" figure. Heavier buying of Welsh coal willl help. The individual may pay a little more, but the general effect will be good. --Border Cities Star. THE EMPIRE Epidemics of Crime In every country except the United States, where the disease seems en- dmic, epidemics of criminal violence break out with a certain regularity. The automatic pistol and the motor car have made these appeals to force more sensational and more difficult to deal with, yet a glance at the past sug- gests that they are seasonal and al most a matter of fashion. This coun. try has just passed through one of these periods, and it is noticeable that it coincides with a time of hot weather. Experts in France, where such waves of violent crime are com- mon, have always connected them with the Dog Days--Saturday Re- view (London). The New World Society There can be no doubt whatever that Mr, Wells' support of a world- dictatorship based upon complete and centralized financial control will make a strong appeal to the cosmopolitan group of financial "Samurai" now in- triguing for the world's throne; but if, as we believe in common with ordin- ary humanity, nationality is as natural a fact as individuality and one of the essential characteristics of the species Man, then not all the efforts of all the would-be dictators of the world will be able to eradicate it, or even sus- pend its action for more than very brief and bloody periods. We are not so chauvinist ag to deny the attraction of the idea of a World Society of Na- tions, even if it be possible, of a World Commonwealth of Nations. The emergence, hesitating and amorphous asit 1s of a British Commonwealth from the shell of a British Emipre, is per- haps a shadow of a possible future. But the difference between a world of nations in intelligent and voluntary co-operation and a world of functional groupings subservient to a super-State composed of self-selected, all-powerful neurotics, is exactly the difference be- tween a harmonious society based on English Weekly (London). The New Welland Canal The West Indies, which regularly bear witness to the efficiency and eour- age of Canadian National enterprise ag interpreted by her magnificent steamship service, will applaud the Welland effort as further evidence of what, the Canadian spirit can contri- bute, not only to the growth of Can- ada, but to the development of the world. --Trinidal Guardian, ----el Reindeer For Hungry Eskimos Three years ago, the Lomen Broth- ers, Alaska's "reindeer kings," con- tracted with the Canadian Govern- 'Government to deliver 8,000 reindeer to the mouth of the Maskenzie River in British Columbia, 4,000 miles away, to provide food and clothing for starving Eskimos there. The contract calls for the payment of 195,000 on delivery of the rein- deer. The herd was started in the fall of 1929 in charge of Andrew Bahr, old r:indeer herder, assisted by four Lap- landers and six Eskimos. Bahr has just been heard from the first time in seven months. The lerd now num- bers 3,400. they have never stopped travelling, even during 70 degrees be- low zero temperature. Bahr hopes to reach the Mackenzie River on his strange trek by the time winter sets in again, then cross the river on the ice and deliver his ter.--Wall Street Journal. ------ pe Grasshopper Diet Kills Turkeys Dodge City, Kan.--Ed. Robbins has a flock of 9,000 turkeys at his ranch near Belvidere. This is one of the largest turkey crops in Kansas and, according to Robbins, the most per- plexing. His turkeys have indiges- tion. There are so many grasshop- pers this year that the turkeys have been overeating and many have died. Robbins's worries have abated some- what since he fenced in the turkeys with a grass-hopper-tight fence, He said it cost a lot of money but it is 'the only way to keep the turkeys from foundering on grasshoppers, ----in ie slavery and sanctioned by force.--New | reindeer herd some time next win- demonstration of his fitness. Altitude Records In the Empire New Records Set by Two "British Aviators in Bri- tain and Australia London.--British pilots flying at op- posite ends of the Empire, have ad- vanced claims to two new aviation alti- tude records. Captain Cyril Unwin. claimed a new record for land. planes with a flight to 45,000 feet at Bris'ol Friday. (The official record is 43,154.9 feet held hy Lieut. Apollo Soucek, United States Navy). , At Port Darwin, Australia, an am- phibian attached to the British navy's ship, Albatross, wac reported as claiming a new altitude record for that type of ship with a flight to 28,000 feet. It was also claimed that a balloon released from the" Albatross (without passengers) reached a height of 70, 000 feet, or more than 13 miles. This was set up as a record. There are no official records for passengerless bal. loons. Professor Auguste Piccard rose nearly 11 miles over Italy in his latest stratospheric ascensiun. Captain Unwins used a specially designed 500 horsepower plane. The cold wa: so intense he 'had to resort t. a special oxygen pumping appar- atus. 'His goggles, gloves and clothing were electrically heated. The amphibiar. at Port Darwin was a special type named the "Sea Gull," attached to the Albatross, which is a s2aplane carrier. Conditions ware de: scribed as perfect for both the Port Darwin ascensions. One Geyser Spouts in New Zealand Citizens 'of Ohinemutu, country town in the thermal district, received a shock when a geyser suddenly spout- ed in the main street. Mud, stone and steam spouted skyward to over 100 feet, and somb of the shots resembled the famed Pohuto geyser, greatest of all New Zealand's' blowholes. A second geyser broke through later. The larger one measured 26 by 20 feet.-- "San Francisco Chronicle." pr erees Canadians Eat Much Butter Canadians are the champion butter eaters of the world, says the Canadian National Railways. From 1928 to 1931 the per capita butter consumption in Canada increased from 28.54 to 30.24 pounds, 3wiss to Electrify all Trains Swiss federal railways already electrl- fled, it is announced that the last coal-burning locomotive will be re- tired from service in 1940, _ Berne --With 85 per cent of the & | Sit By The University of Washington should be up among the lcaders with Tony Burke on the tackle end. Here we see him giving & Paralysis Causes 50 P.C. of Deaths Quebec's Infantile Mortality Rate Double that of Ontario Quebec--Nearly 50 per cent of In- fantile deaths in the Dominion of Canada last year occurred in this province, Quebec's figure being 9,443 and that of the Dominion 20,- 363, preliminary figures for the coun- try show, ! Quebec's total was double that of Ontario, which had 4,830, and was more than the other seven provinces combined, with diarrhoea and en- teritis accounting for 2,626 deaths, or over 25 per cent of the provincial total, Montreal contributed slightly over one-quarter of the total for 'he pro- vince, figures for the Metropolis be- ing deaths, Shawinigan Talls 72, Westmount 39, Lachina 44, Outremont two, Three Rivers 229, Verdun 95 and Levis 41. Of the children who died during the year 56,417 were boys, who out. numbered girls by 1,309, the statistics show. Quebec's figures show that 24 chil. dren under one year of age died from measles, 10 from scarlet fever, 220 from whooping cough, 26 from diphtheria, 320 from influenza, 23 from erysipelas, 88 from tuberculosis, 113 from syphilis, 116 from mening- itis, 62 from convulsions, 40 from bronchitis, 876 from pneumonia, 76 from diseases of the stomach, 2,625 from diahbroea and enteritis, 13 from hernia or Intestinal obstruc- tion, 405 from congenital malforma- tion, 1,110 from congenital debility, 1,474 from premature birth, 636 from injury at birth, 768 from other dis- eases peculiar to early infancy, 502 from other specified causes, and 17 from unspecified or ill-defined causes. The report also shows that three were 2,450 {llegitimate births in the province last year, out of a Domin. ion total of 8,342, while though Que- bec led the province in infantile mortality, it also was the leading pro- vince in births, i French Schools Insure Pupils Paris--French educational auther- ities now offer accident insurance for children at 20 cents a year cov. ering injuries received on the way to school. Payments up to $2,500 are made, even when traffic accl- dents are the fault of the youngsters. New Heavyweight Threat x gly Ag hese . figured = were re- leased recent! $47,308,079, Si A marked upswing in the expory of several groups of commodities was registered last month, the most sub.' stantial being wheat, Canada export- | ed $10,642,471 worth of wheat in August, 1932, as against $6,620,677, for August, last year, or an increase of slightly ower $4,000,000, Furs, meats, cheese and automo- biles and their parts were also on the upgrade last month in compar- ison with the figures a year ago. Fur exports rose from $765,572 to $877, 835; meats Increased from $289,996 to $739,439; cheese from $1,528,135 to $1,668,838, and automobiles 'and their parts from $377,930 to 0752,420. Export of other commodities de- clined: as follows--Wheat flour, from "$17195,417 to $1,094,460; fish, from $2,133,396 to $1,869,316; planks and boards, from $1,931,176 to $970,571; wood pulp, from $2,502,372 to $1,486, 689; newsprint, from $8,416,977 to $7,261,752; copper, partially manufac- tured, from $1,174,941 to $468,447, and nickel, from $910,892 to $252,439. Customs Revenues Drop Canada's customs and excise reven- ue in August decreased by $1,807, 830 from the figures for August, 1931. In the first 'five months of the cur! 531,886 compared with the same per- | fod a year ago, During the month of August last, customs duties declined .from- $8,219, 1 802 to $5,663,981. This drop was not quite offset by the increase in excise taxes, from $5,888,860 ot $7,595,281. | | Excise duties fell from $4,641,316 to" $3,708,200, while there was also a small decline in sundry collections. For the five-month period the de. | crease in customs duties amounted to $16,074,803, the figures for 1931 being $47,792,720 as against $31,717, 917 for this year. Excise taxes, however, rose from proper upkeep of municipally-owned' scr, Ontario, ace $18,105,033 to $32,939,905, an increase of $14,834,872, The decrease in excise duties for the five months was $4,242,313, the figures being $22,238,196 for 1931 and. $17,995,883 for the current year. Sundry collections dropped from $435,686 to $385,943. Total revenue for the five months was $83,039,649 as against $88,571, 536 for 1931, For August the total revenue was $17,009,176, compared with $18,817,- 007 for the same month last year. ---------- Voice From Air Directs Motorists Through Traffic Stratford, Conn. -- Motorists pass- ing through this city were surprised recently to hear, from an apparently invisible source, such crisp instruc- tions as "Move over to the right side of the road, Connecticult registration J-01" and "Your left rear tire is flat, 0. 3568." Investigation revealed a th at the road's edge, occupied by a poli who ad ished traffic through a radio-controlled amplifier, The booth was constructed in the centre of the town on the order of Chief of Police William B. Nichols, who hopes by this method to relieve police motorcycle service on the con- gested thoroughfare, Every slip-up on the part of a motorist -was noticed and corrected by the watchful sen- tinel in the booth, From time to time he intoned through his loud speaker. "This is a erowded city. Be careful." oo Z er eee Travel by Plane Gains 100 Per Cent. in Gt. Britain London. -- Rapid growth of air travel is shown by the fact that 18 years ago only 20 passengers left Croydon in an average week, now 2,- 000 leave that airport weekly, . This 100-fold' increase promises to be rapidly exceeded, for in the first six months of this year Imperial Air- ways carried 30,000 passengers from Croydon alone, as many as the total carried during the whole of last year. 2 y dt is now possible to book by air from Croydon for 130 continental centres apart from Empire services. Soviet Peasants ge Fi 7 ; Must Ren it Horses Moscow. Tha Sov 18 as promising Jack's also an accordion | tly by the Department In es {ot National Revenue. the | Stratford. there were few railways, no. paved | products in" exports of automobiles and woodpulp, and fifth "place in exports of rubber tires, Ex- ports of these staple products make up 55 'per cent. of the Dominion's total exports of home products. Can- ada also ranks high in the world's ex- ports of many other staple products; such as lumber and timber, fish, cop- per, barley, cheese, raw furs, whiskey, meats, farm impléments, pulpwood, cattle, raw gold, silver, rye, oats, rub- ber footwear, leather and hides. The growth of the automobile in- dustry, in Canada as elsewhere, is one "of the most remarkable industrial de- velopments of the twentieth century. Canada's export of automobiles for the fiscal year 106, the earliest date for which figures are available, amounted to 67 cars only, with a value of $63, 329. The record of the export trade in automobiles was reached in the calendar year 1929 at 64,863 passenger cars and 36,848 motor trucks; while, under the influence of world-wide de- pression, exports in the calendar year | 1931 fell to 9,282 assenger cars and 4,631 trucks. In the last calendar year the United States led with an ex- port of 82457 passenger cars and 48, 248 trucks compared with 339,613 pas- senger cars and 196,768 trucks in 1929, Other countries which rank above United Kingdom and France, the dif- ference being observable chiefly in passenger cars, ae MN it mit Cultivate Tourist Traffic By Beautifying Highways. Beautification of highways urged in an address Squire, of Toronto, past president of the Canadian Good Roads Association at the convention in Dighy, N.S. Woell- kept farm residences, buildings and fences, the removal of dead trees and the trimmizg of live foliage, the was public works, attractive parks, lawns | and gardens in large and small com- munities were mentioned by Mr. Squire as tending not only to make touring more pleasurable, but as raising property values everywhere. The subject was brought to our at- tention a few days ago by an old sub- scriber who was born and brought up on a farm near the present City of In his boyhood days highways, no motors, no means of rapid communication, Bach com- munity was more self-contained, and | farmers and village residents vied with each other in beautifying thelr properties. He said that the com- munity in which he lived was like a long drawn-out garden, But recent- ly he made a tour through Perth and adjoining counties and was greatly disappointed at the change for the worse. The properties along the roads did not appear to be as well kept, and there was not the pride of possession which prevailed when he was a youth. He blamed the auto- bile for two effects. It threw clouds of dust over roadside flowers, and the local owners of cars had no time from joy-riding to beautify their places. » It may be that our old subscriber was biased in his recollections. Dis. tance in time may have made the early scenes more cnchanting than they really were. The subject is worth investigating, for, as Mr. Squires said, 'incoming. motor tour- ists spend some $300,000,000 yearly in Canada, and this profitable trade Is worth cultivating. This, altogether aside from the importance of culti- vating in our own people a love of the beautiful.--Toronto Mail and Em. pire, ey New Process Enables Factory To Slice Wood Paper-Thin Wood can'be sliced in paper-thin- sheets ready for printing with type or engravings under a new process. Green softwoods such as spruce, Douglas fir, hemlock and cedar, are cut into blocks and placed on a ma- ment at high speed. The product is a 'sheet one-hundredth inch thick, shav- ed iii "books" ed leaving a half-inch 'portion of the block solid at the edge. 'The sheets can be torn off as by Mr. S, L.! | To have a true ides lite, one must hav y| the brink of e an excellent cne. According to the Intest count there aro 5,150 orchards things--a fine reputation, a result of | the high qualit of apples exported ' during the past two years. Toronto, Ontario. During the first tario, according to the Ontario De- partment of Mines, produced gold valued at $23,181,554 and 215,408 ounces of silver valued at $61,138, a total for bullion of $23,242,692. These figures compare with 984,693 ounces ot gold valued at $20,853,353, and 180,939 ounces of siler valued at $48,737, total valuation of $20,402: 090, in the first six months of 1931, Exchange compensation for the first half of 1932 was $3,283,425 and in the first six months of last year $2, 986. Adding the exchange to the foregoing value of production, the actral value of the output in the firat half of this year was $26,476,117. Toronto, Ontario. More harbour land was leased to industrial con cerns in 1931, and more ships sailed ir. and out of Toronto harbour carry- irg greater tonnage than in either 1929 of 1930, acording to the annual report of the Toronto Harbour Com- missioners. In the report General J, rent fiscal year, the drop was $5,-' Canada in automobile export are the G. Langton, general manager, states that 42 acres of harbour lands were leased to coal and oil companies, an increase of more than 20 acres over lands sold or leased during 1930. Ia | addition, numerous industries ime proved their properties or built new plants, conspicuous among them be- ing the Dominion Tar and Chemical Company, "which erected a vew plart at a cost of $250,000. Windsor, Ontario. The Wel-Ever , Piston Ring Company, Toledo, Ohig, U.S.A, manuZacturers of pisten rings, will open a Canadian plant at Wind- o~ding fo an an. announcement by Mr. Justice Miller, managing secretary of the Borde. Chamber of Commerce. Premises," is stated, have already been leased, and arrangements are now being made to bring in machinery. Opera- tions at the plant are expected to start shortly. Mr, L. N. Bardall, vice-president of the parent United States concern, will be in charge of ihe Canadian branch. 1 Winnipeg, Manitoba. The publica- tions branch of the Manitoba De- partment of Agriculture has made a new departure in the matter of peri- odical market information by issaing a report, for the first time in August, v. the number of animals in tha p-ovince destined for the market or for local killing this year up to Nov. 30. Cattle; thus marketed off, num- ber 111,000, sheep 67,000 and swine 142,000. The estimated number of livestock on the Manitoba farms are: cattle, 734,500; sheep, 199,000; and swine, 837,900. Regina, Saska'ckouan. [he ouj ut of creamery butter in Saskatchewan for the first sevan months cL the year - amounted to 11,577,704 pounds, com- r.red with 11,437,871 pounds for the corresponding period of last year. TLere was, therefore an increase of 1.2 per cent. in favor of the present year. The quality of the butter this year is distinctly higher than that of last year, the percentage of "Table" b_tter being 46.2, compared with 39.1. last year, and "Special" 13.3, com- pared with 10.2, Edmonton, Alberta, Homestead en of which the Edmonton land office. handled 292, Peace River 112 and Grande Praire 70. Of the total en- tries for the month 112 were by wo- men. ; creased by half of this yea.. Placer mining Is active with 5,000 men in Search of gold. Production of all materials in British Columbia in the first 836,080. Doumer Stamp to be Issued Paris--A new stamp bearing the effigy of the late President Doumer Jill on May 6, 1933, first -- ull of half of 1932 the gold mines of On- bullion con*aining 1,120,407 ounces cf £4.08 tries in Alberta for July totalled 474, ° Vancouver, British Columbia, Gold production in British Columbia in- 25 per cent. in the first months of 1932 was valued at $14,- yak