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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA No Great Men * George Bernard Shaw says there are no great mem or women in the world. "I-can write plays and you can't, That is all," he remarked. "If I couldn't I should probably be a tramp. As it is, I am so well off that everybody pre- tends I am much more respectable than I really am.""--Hamilton Herald. He Tanned the Hides A prominent Pictou County farmer brought two calf-skins to market, and could only get twenty-five cents for them, He also wanted a few yards of leather belt lacing. He could not get enough for the calf-hides to buy the Aew laces. He was mad clear through. Being a long-headed Scot, he threw the hides back into his wagon and started homeward. "Hang it," he mut- tered to himself, "I'm not going to let these fellows beat me. In the old days they tanned hides; why can't 1?" He did. The process entailed some work. He used the river for a soaking tank. He applied the proper solution to soft- en and toughen the leather, It work- ed, He cut a lacing from the hide, and tried to break it. He couldn't, and came to town to show th» result of his work. He has several dollars worth of good strong lacing for the belts of his machines. But what pleased most was that he beat the machine that was op- posing him,--New Glasgow Chronicle. Out of Place in the City There is little joy for a rollicking big-framed animal running loose in a world of crowded streets. The ner- vous tension of dodging car wheels and being chased from pillar to post because of a succession of wrong-do- ings innocently arising from the sheer Joy of living, is sufficient to arouse ir- ritability in the most companionable beast and eventually bring down coals of fire on his head and that of his own- er. There are few things more touch- ing or more worth while than the loyal company of a big, good-natured rascal who, through his very freedom of though and action can make life seem a much pleasanter business to the har- ried human mind. Like everything else, however, he has his place and, If he is not intended for the kennel or the leash, that place is in the country, or at least, the less cramped portions of the city where he may enjoy the liberty so essential to bringing out the beet that is in him.--Edmonton Jour- nal, A Fallacious Notion Motorists who clamor for the re- moval of speed limits claim that it is not speed in itself but reckless or in- competent driving that is responsible for so many distressing highway ac- cidents. But a member of the staff of the National Safety Council of the United States, Curtis Billings, argues in the Atlantic Magazine for October that the increase in the death rate due to motor accidents coincides with in- creases in the power and speed of motors in that country With the coming of fast cars and broad, paved roads the notion became fixed in the minds of motorists that speed in it- self is not dangerous. "That notion," he says, 'is as fallacious as it is allur- ing." Having reviewed the statisties on the subject, Mr. Billings quotes one engineer as saying: "The faster a vehicle is going the more damage fit can do because its energy increases as the square of its speed. That is to say, if the speed is doubled the force of the impact in case of accident is four times as great. This is a com- mon-sense as well as an engineering view to take of the effects of increased speed. The significance of the argu- ment lies in the fact that it comes from an expert engaged in Safety First work--Toronto Mail and Em- pire, Teo Much Cutting Down All over the province the high schools and collegiate institutes are tryng to cut down expenses. In fact all over the province everybody is try- ing to cut down expenses, even those who have no reason at all for doing 80. People who have their 1928 in- come are pinching like the rest, This reducing of expenses, this refraining from buying anything that can be done without, retards the return of business activity. And yet a force like this operates inevitably and no argument can prevail against it--Toronto Star. Hanging The official hangman in Poland gets $15 per execution, and says he can't make a living at that rate, His ser- vices are not sufficiently in demand and most of the time he is just hang- ing around. --Stratord Beacon-Herald. THE EMPIRE Ottawa and World Trade A revival of trade within the Empire is calculated to increase British pros- perity everywhere, and nothing can ~ prevent that from operating beneficial ly elsewhere in the world. It means much that so great a commercial na- tion should find its feet again. Ot it is well sald, has furnished a outcome must be the benefit of all, and, » immediate result is to simplify the lem, although the first for- to the changed conditions.--Auckiand Weekly News. British Capital in Crown Colonies British capital is tremendously need- ed in all the Crown Colonies, and there are bitter complaints from time to time that British investors are shy of investments in them. Yet when it comes to a practical effort by a Bri- tish investor to hegin an enterprise in these colonies, he is met, as often as not, with a cold water douche of sus- picion.--Trinidad Guardian. Anglo-Danish Relations Denmark has been one of the first foreign countries to show readiness to adjust itself to the new trade condi- tions created at Ottawa; and its pe culiarly intimate commercial relations with Great Britain are illustrated by the fact that last year this country took no less tham,67 per cent. of all Danish exports. The Danish people seem determined to overcome the dif- ficulties created for them by the new Ottawa duties; and a new trade treaty will no doubt be negotiated at the earliest opportune moment, In the meantime the British Exhibition will exemplify the enlightened self-interest that draws the two countries economi- cally and culturally together--London Times. "Has Recovery Begun? I believe that the process of recov- ery has begun and is well under way, even though there is little visible evi- dence of it as yet. But convalescence must at the best be slow, owing to the terrible network of constrictive bonds in which the world has contrived to envelop itself in its desperate and fu- tile efforts to escape from the conse- quences of its own economic folly, I have little faith in the powers of a World Economic Conference to pro- duce a formula for the unravelling of the tangle. The.only real hope lies in a steady and unrelenting pressure of business men for the piecemeal re- moval of obstacles to trade, and in the natural ingenuity of the.trader, Every importer or exporter who can find a way (preferably legal) through, round or over a tariff, quota or exchange con- trol deserves well of humanity at the present juncture.--O. R. Hobson in The Spectator, London, The Reds in China The cure for the Red movement in China is peace and prosperity. This is not to say that active and resolute action is unnecessary, but Communism grows from the hot-bed of distress arising from famine, disorder and cor- rupt government. Aeroplanes and local volunteers can disperse a min- ority of bandits and rogues; but a great peril arises when normal and or- derly people are drawn into such a movement Then the revolt grows to the proportion of civil war, with il- limitable possibilities for mischief. -- Hong Kong Press, OTHER OPINIONS Monotony Most of us can draw up our belts an- other hole and cut our lunch allowance in two for a spell of weeks, but there comes a time when, if we are blest with a spark of imagination, we crack under the strain of monotonous exist- ence. A brain-storm sweeps away all our good resolutipns, the self-denying ordinance is overborne, we are almost ready to play ducks and drakes with our insurance premums and payments to the co-operative bank and like Pip- pa, give ourselves a holiday, It is worth all it costs sometimes, to waste the price of a plain nourishing meal on a red necktie or the price of a much needed pair of shoes on a broiled lob- ster with all the fixings. -- Boston Transcript. Obnoxious Billboards There are two counts against the billboard on the highway. It not only mars the landscape and destroys the natural beauty of roadside scenery, but its garishness also distracts the attention of the driver of the car. Im- portant traffic directions posted along the road are often lost in a welter of commereial signs. safety the most conspicuous signs on the highway should be those placed there by the highway department to direct traffic.--St. Paul Ploneer Press. --_---- B. C. Salmon Pack Vancouver.--Canned salmon pack in Bfitish Columbia up to Sept. 29 totalled 949,211 cases, comparad with 645,016 for the corresponding period last year, according to a statement issued by Major J. A. Motherwell, chief of the Provincial Department of Fisheries. rp British Motor Trains Installed in Roumania Bucharest, Roumania.--Eight motor | trains from England have been in- galled on a nimber of secondary It 18 helleved that th Eo wil help reduce the large railroad i By will be introduced, : In the interests of Miss V. Horwood, right, and Miss C. Mason, well-known woman athletes of England, as they finished the mile walk in a dead heat during the Duke of York's inter-country championships. Maple Sugar Industry Reports Good Year The maple sugar industry of Can- ada has experienced increased activi ty this year. Lower prices appear to have stimulated sales, and there was an increase in the production of both sugar and syrup over the. re- sults of 1931, In the Maritime Prov- inces and Quebec the season was long and productive, while in On. tario the flow of sap. was much restricted, Production of maple sugar, 'so far as reported for the season of 1932, was 7,217,300 pounds for the whole Dominion, Last year the sugar out- put was 5,484,100 pounds, - Syrup production this year was 1,744,479 gallons compared with 1,314,700 gal- lons in 1931. The highest produc- tion of sugar during the last five years was 13,798,109 pounds in 1928, while the biggest yield of syrup in the same period was 2,185,379 gal- Ions in 1930. The total value of sugar and syrup sold this year was $2,746,757 for the Dominion, a reduc- tion of about $800,000 from the previ- ous year, owing, of course, to the de- cline in. prices. The record of pro- duction value for the five years was $6,118,656 in 1929. Of the value for the current year sugar yielded $692,480 and syrup $2,054, 277. 'The values given for the pres- ent year should be regarded as pre- liminary since the full production has not yet been sold. ---- New Guinea Home of One Hundred Races Sydney, N.S.W.--More than 100 different races are to be found in New Guinea, which is Australian mandated territory, declared Mr. E. W. P. Chinney, government anthro- pologist for the territory, in a recent address before the Advancement of Science Congress here. Probably many more are not known, he said, for part of the territory has not yet been explored. Natives num- bered so far total about 400,000. Mr. Chinney advocates teaching the na- tives trades and agriculture. total |* Combine Formed in Britain To Protect Trust Companies London.--An association of invest- ment- trusts, representing a combina- tion of 250 to 300 of the largest Brit- ish Trust companies, with a total capital of about 300,000,000 pounds sterling, has been formed here, The objects of the organization will be to protect the interests of the invest- ment trusts and their shareholders, especially against default of home and foreign borrowers. The central or- ganization, it is alsc pointed out, would enable the trust companies to speak with one voice in any particular problem of default. The trusts represented include the Investment Trust Corporation, Indus- trial and General Trust, Mercantile Investment and General Trust and the British Investment Trust. It is anticipated that the associa- tion will act in co-operation with continental and American organiza- tions where firms with which they deal have foreign interests. a ---- i ------ an Land Plane Flies 300 Miles An Hour Los Angeles.--A speed of 300 miles an hour, the fastest time ever made by a land plane over a distance course, has been accomplished in an official flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Colonel Roscoe Turner raced his monoplane between the two cities, 370 miles apart, in 1 hour, 14 minutes, an average of a flat 300 miles an hour, The flight lowered by 17 minutes the mark set last year by Jimmie Wed- ell of New Orleans, pilot-designer and builder of Colonel Turner's ship. Colonel Turner, making a non-stop round trip between the cities, flew the distance of 740 miles in 2 hours, 41 minutes, averaging 275.77 miles an hour, The 300-mile average was made on the southward trip with the aid of a tail wind. National Aeronau- tic Association officials timed the flight. Friendly Enemies ¥, We | The briquettes are contained similar to those ained in tins used for canmed will cost from 59 t 10 cents). for years and moved about to any ex- | tent without risk of explosion or fire. After' an initial warni in action by a blow--the briquettes (it is explained) give off for hours, without pressure, an even exhalation of oxy- gen. The gas is so highly concentrated, that it could be contained in one of | the usual steel bottles now used for the purpose only at 1 pressure of 350 atmospheres. : If canned oxygen had been availabls a little earlier all the hundreds of lives lost through the colliery explosions in Germany during the past few years would, it is said, have been saved. Every collier, every member of a 8 bmarine crew, and, during the war, every inhabitant of a town threatened by gas attacks will, it is suggested, in future always have his tinned oxygen briquette handy to save him from' death from asphyxiat'ng fumes. --e. ! Discovery to Effect More Cures of Cancer New Haven, Conn.--Professor Wil- liam P. Graves of the Harvard School of Medicine, to the Clinical Congress being held at Yale University, has an- nounced the discovery by Dr. Walter Schiller, of Vienna, of a method of detecting cancer of the cervix uteri in its early stages, when cures can be effected in a high percentage of cases. At that period of its development, Professor Graves pointed out, such cancer was not apparent to the eye or the touch. The cancer, he said, had its origin in irritation of an indifferent cell in the epithelium, which produced a virus stimulaling surrounding cells to abnormal,growth and spreading la- terally. Dr. Schiller, he saic, discovered that normal cells of the epithelial layer contained" an appreciable amount of glycogen, a form of sugar, and he de- vised a method of staining part of the layer with an iodine solution, which caused glycogen particles in the nor- mal cells to appear almost black under the microscope. The cancerous cells, containing ho glycogen, appeared white or pink. Professor Graves said that Dr. Schiller's test had been subjected to intensive investigation in the Harvard laboratories and was believed to be of "inestimable value," being simple ard apparently reliable. He advocat- ed its general use in the campaign against cervical cancer. Ontario 'Ranks Third in Highway Mileage Ottawa, -- SaBkatchewan leads all the provinces of the Dominion in high- way mileage, with 155,609 miles open for traffic on Dec. 31, 1931, according to a report issued recently by the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics. Alberta came néxt with 62,426 miles, and On- tario with 52,119 was in third position. Other provinces with their mileages were: Quebec, 35,763; British Colum- bia, 22,459; Nova Scotia, 14,719; New Brunswick, 11,825; "Manitoba, 5,230, and Prince Edward Island, 3,650 miles, The total highway mileage in Canada is 378,094. -------- Birth Rate In Britain Shows Upward Tendency London--After 11 years oi declines in the birthrate of England and Wales, the Registrar-General report announces a slight increase, amount- ing to 2 per cent, per thousand, for the June quarter of 1932, the first such gain in that period for the 11 years, , There were 165,456 births, of whom 1,061 were boys to each 1,000 girls, Infantile mortality also showed some little improvement, deaths among infants "one year old and under being but 7 'per 1,000. triacetin' Whole Family . Celebrates Weddings Budapest--The poasant family of Brandhuber in the village of Csobank indulged fu orgy « matrimony re- cently, grandfather, Joseph | It has been claimed that as a gen- eral rule there is a direct relation between the duration of life and the time required to develop fully; but * i to this there are manifest exceptions.' {The cat is mature before it is a year, | old; yet it may attain the age of twenty years. Size also seems to have a certain relation to longevity, the elephant and the whale being generally held to be the longest.lived of mammals: but here again enters the excaption, since the little beaver lives more than twice as long as the rhinoceros. The average age of other animals is estimated as follows: ass, thirty years; bear, twenty years; beaver, fifty years; camel, seventy-five years; cat, fifteen years; chamois, twenty- five years; ox, twenty-five years; deer, twenty years; dog, fourteen years; fox, fourteen years; goat, twelve years; guinea pig, four years; hare, eight years; hippopotamus, twenty years; horse, twenty-five years; hyena, twenty-five years; jag- uar, twenty-five years; - leopard, twenty.five years; lion, forty years; monkey, seventeen years; moose, fifty years; mouse, six years; pigs, fifteen years; rabbit, seven years; rat, seven years; rhinoceros, twenty years; sheep, ten years; squirrel, eight years; stag, five years; tiger, twenty-five years; wolf, twenty years. While the average age of the whale is somewhere between one hundred and two hundred years, Cuvier as- serted that It is probable that some whales attain the age of one thous- and years, 'Mule Dons Snowshoes An educated mule that walked on snowshoes was the latest addition last winter to the transportation facilities of Northern Manitobe. : Natives of this northern trapping end mining centre were becoming somewhat bored by the frequent ar- rivals of roaring airplanes, screaming lecomotives and barking dog teams when Bill Klonwick walked in from hig trap lines with his: snowshoeing thule quietly pulling a toboggan to give them a new thrill. The mule's name is Lizzie and her snowshoes were about 18 inches in dia- nieter. Klonwick taught her how to use them while working on his trap lines 600 miles north of Sherridon, Mun, and now she refuses "0 walk in the snow without therm. She makes good speed over the high drifts. ee Amr "Extinct" Australian Animal Revives One of Australia's rare marsupials, which had been lost for nearly 100 years, has beer rediscovered, follow- ing the bountiful rains that recently reawakened plant and animal life in the centre of the continent. This is the rat kagaroo (caloprymnus campes- tris), which was found by Mr. Harry Finlayson, of the Adelaide University staff, on a recent trip in Central Aus- tralia, The little animal, which stands about a foot high, was believed to be 'extinct, It is said that the only three specimens of it in the world are in the British Museum, ------ The Ascent of Man Robert Briffault in Scribner's Magazine (New York): Human na- dure is no less capable of good than of evil, It has at times appeared vile, that is because vileness has been thrust upon it by a social anarchy that has made internecine strife its law and fostered the basest impulses. The pall of that agelong pessimism is lifting. A new faith in humanity is possible. We know that the way to amend human nature is not to pro- - fess high sentiments, but to amend the social and cultural factors that mould and fashion it. aed i sin Tyrol May Bar Autos Vienna.--Tyrol is threatened with a total prohibition of motoring, the local press was informed recently by the rvads department of the Tyrol Gov- ernment, as many areas complain that they have no funds to pay for the | upkeep of the roads. The local auth- orities demand the right to levy tolls on passing cars, as was done up to two years ago, in order to be able to keep the roads in repair, -- Hevable, but there he was in the. flesh; standing smiling, breathing, like ordinary human beings. . , , It wag only a momentary vie the 'train started, and |] ished, to resume his place in the car next to ours, where he had been, had' I known it, ever since we left Port. land. , .. : I never knew how it happened; I had no plan, no preparation, no in- tention, certainly no provocation; but invisible ropes pulled me out of I planted myself breathlessly and timorously down, sn unbidden guest, in the seat of honor. I had a mo. ment to recover my equanimity, for Dickens was looking out of the win- dow, but he turned suddenly, and said with justifiable surprise: "God bless my soul, child, where did you come from?" My heart was in my mouth, but there was still room to exercise my tongue, which was generally the case. I was frightensd, but not so com- pletely frightened as if I had been meeting a stranger. You see I knew -| going to him, even if he did not know me; so I became immediately aftobiographi- cal, ... I had to tell him I thought, where I came from, who I was, where I was going, or how could I account for myself and.my presence | beside him in Mr, Osgood's seat? So 1 began, stammeringly, to answer his question. "I came from Hollis, Maine, and I'm Charlestown to visit my uncle. My mother and her cousin went to your reading last night, but of course three couldn't go from the same family, it was so expensive, so | I stayed at home. Nora, that's my little sister, is left behind in Hollis. | She's too small to go on a journey, | but she wanted to go to the reading I dreadfully, Thore was a lady there | Who had never heard of Betsy Trot. wood, and had read only two of your books!" "Well, upon my word!" he said; {you do' not mean to say that you haye read them!" | "Of course!" I replied; "every one | of them but the two that we are ing to buy in Boston, and some them six times." "Bless my soul!" he ejaculated again. "Those long thick books, and you such a slip of a ching." "Of course," I explained conscien- tiously, "I do skip some of the very dull parts omce in a while; not the short dull parts, but the long cnes." He laughed heartily, "Now that is somoathing that I hear very little about," he said. "I distinctly want to learn more about those very long dull parts." We were now fast approaching our destination the station in Bos- ton--and the passengers began to collect their wraps and bundles, Mr. Osgood had two or three times made his appearance, but had been waved away with a smilie by Dickens--a smile that seemed to say, "You will excuse me, I know, but this child has the right of way." "You are not traveling alone?' he asked, a§ he arose to put on his overcoat, > "Oh! my goodness!" I said, com- ing down to earth for the first time since I had taken my seat beside him--*"certainly not; I had a mother, but I forgot all about her." .Where- upon he said. "You are pastmistress of the art of flattery!"--From "My Garden of Memory, an Autoblo- graphy," by Kate Douglas- Wiggin. em nl AN ey British Bells are Best If any country wants first-rate bells it has to come to England to b the. There are some famous bel in the churches and public buildings of foreign countries, but the best of tlese were made in England. Bell- founding is one of the oldest of our trades and it is still-a very flourish- ing one. : The other day ringers belonging to nearly five hundred British churches gathered at a Croydon foundry to see the second biggest bell in the world. It has been made, along with seventy- one others, for the chapel of Chicago University. The seventy-two hung as a carizlon. full octaves of notes and semi-tones and will be able to play almost any music. i } The big bell weighs seventeen tons, and the total weight of the seventy- "tons. Electricity Dickens van- ® my seat, and, speeding up the aisle. 19 A