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fr ] Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large aa CANADA The Kingston Outbreak The outbreak at Kingston Penitenti- ary came in the nature of a sudden shock to the people of Canada. We have been so used to regarding our prison administration as beyond re- proach that we have come almost to a pharisaical attitude in regard to the prisons over the border which have witnessed not a few shocking out- breaks during the past few years. Now the matter comes nearer home and there is a very resolute conviction that this must bee investigated thoroughly and without delay, and that any evils existing must also be remedied with- out delay. --Montreal Daily Star. Conditions Improving Saskatchewan is conquering depres- sion, and by the method of reducing unemployment. What that province has been able to do is an evidence of the unconquerable spirit of the west. Conditions are obviously improving, and already there is noticeable a change in the mentality of the people. They are realizing that conditions which they have been responsible for creating can also be overcome by themselves when they have the cour- age to face the facts.--Victoria Colon- ist. Safe Driving One of the sound rules for safe driv- ing is to "watch the other fellow." When we form the habit of doing just that we keep our eyes on the road ahead. When we keep our eyes on the road ahead it's ever so much easier to keep our minds on the all-important job of driving safely. Watching the other fellow develops a new interest in him, too. It fosters a badly needed highway courtesy. It is a constant re- minder that the road is owned by all, and not by any one driver, It tells us that the other fellow has equal rights with our own, and that if we infringe on these rights we do so at our own pevil--Brandon Sun, Movement of Wheat Although the pricé of wheat con- tinued at a disappointingly low level, tha sale of so much grain even at pre- sent rates means bringing into the country many millions of new money. Transportation interests are énjoying gratifying activity in consequence and ral business is reviving steadily, -- ary Herald. The New Empire It must not be forgotten that the Ottawa agreements form but the first steps in the direction of a great and far. reaching adjustment of trade. The Empire has decided to trade more with itself. That means that henceforth it will be more interested in investing in itself and in developing itself. The new order of things should mean some- thing far beyond increased trade in this coramodity or that. It must mean, if it is to be a success, new Empire lines thrown out and around Empire coun- tries--lines of emigration, lines of in- vestment, lines of cultural contact--in short, a more closely-knit, more solid Empire than the past has known.-- Vancouver Province. BRITISH Money and Employment The first essential to the provision of jobs is money. Despite the prevail ing depression, there is no lack of money in this country. Vast sums are lying idle in the banks. What is need- ed is the release of some of this money, and its flow directed towards the provision of employment through a plan of National Development.--Lon- don Daily Herald. The Crisis of the League We have had the League of Nations only a few years now, and in that short time it has done much. It has bound up some wounds of the last war, cured some ills of the present, and prevented some evils for the fu- ture. It cannot attempt everything all at once--to give peace in twelve years to a planet which has been distracted by war for more than double that num- ber of centuries. It can only attempt what a sufficient number of its sup- porters want it to attempt. The real danger in this crisis in its affairs is not of too slow progress but of its fall- "ing back through lassitude and ignor- ance on the part of Governments and peoples into a state where nobody cares whether it lives or dies. That must not be; the world would have no use for an apologetic survival linger- ing on like a Holy Roman Empire or a Holy Alliance long after the life had left it--Manchester Guardian. Fasting Unto Death Gandhi has established what seems us a bad precedent, and we note t he threatens, should the occasion ise, to fast again. We may have a hole series of questipns decided by, is sort of appeal to a pity which is to terror. We do not say that ere is any fear of the practice reading to the West. Moreover, we ki confident that, even if our Prime i nister or the Secretary of State ere to sit down under an oak tree at equers, or a plane tree in White- , with a glass of soda water beside it would make no difference at 1 to the policy of Congress in India. EMPIRE Britain's Trade Agreements European nations are "tumbling over one another" in the desire to conclude new trade agreements with Great Bri- tain. It is doubtful, however, whether they will receive treatment quite so generous as that accorded to the Domin- fons; a meticulously careful weighing of privilege against privilege is much more likely After all, Great Britain has had all the disadvantages of inter- national trade and none of its advant- ages for decades past; it is time we square up the account.--Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg). Ottawa Logic "Britain is the keystone of our Em- pire economic structure, and without a prosperous Britain with a high pur- chasing power all our efforts must fail," says Mr. Stanley Bruce. That is a sound point of view, though it is one which many Australians have failed to appreciate. We cannot sell to advant- age in our best markets unless people there who are anxious to buy can do 80; and they can only do so if their economic circumstances are favour- able. The making of concessions on our part is therefore a form of enlight- ened self-interest = Melbourne Aus- tralian, The New India We are not surprised to learn that |: France largest lifer. displacement of 70,000 tons. not stringing a liner. Not content with just launching the fas'est des {royer in the world, Here we see building operations at Saint Nazaire, The rive's used, if placed end to end, would stretch 400 miles--and that's France is now busysbuilding the She's 1,024 feet long and las a - Students of McGill To Be X-Rayed for T.B. It is often said that Great Britain has gone too far in the surrender of power in India to retreat from what | she has done but it is equally true that India has gone too far ever to get back | to the evils of the past. A democratic | India, an India devoted in far larger measure to industrialism, an India to! which world trade will be an essential, will be an India transformed in her social life The India of the future will not be an India in which millions are Montreal--Five hundred first-year students at McGill University will be x-rayed for tuberculosis germs, by the department of physical education dur- ing the next few weeks. McGill is the first Canadian university to car. ry out an experiment of this kind. The addition of X-ray apparatus to the facilities already available in the department of physical education at McGill is made possible through the co-operation of the university with damned from birth or in which privi-| the Quebec industrial hygiene com- leges are reserved for the few, irre-| mittee and with the financial support spective of their deserving. It will be of one of the McGill governors, who an India in which the opportunities! preferred to remain unidentified. will be equal to all. We are witness- | The X-ray photographs will be care- ing the slow dying of an epoch, It is fully s'udied and filed away in order for us all to see that it is replaced by | that a complete history of the health something better. -- Calcutta States- of these 500 students may be kept all man. | through their university course. In -- | this way jt will be possible to deter. A Good Prospect For Jamaica | mine how the "white plague"attacks Not a fortune for a few but a liveli- students and what percentage is af- hood for the many is what we must fected. aim at in producing fruit for the con-| Next session it is hoped to X-ray sumers of England and Canada. The another 500 incoming siudents, both masses in England are wage earners men and women, and thus have a re. with a very small margin for luxuries, | cord of some 1,000 undergraduates. but when luxuries become cheap they It will require about five years to get also become necessities, and those the first fruits of the investigation, parts of the Empire which can produce but the practical value of the X-ray- food and fruit that will be both lux- | ing will be immediately available to uries and necessaries. will benefit greatly by preferences giving them | first place in the British market. ' --Jamaica Gleaner. the students. cnr Game Birds Take Toll ee of Crops in Alberta The Danger of Roads Irricana, Alta.--Hundreds of ducks Speed in itself is rarely a danger. and geese are taking heavy toll of the Yet the road offence upon which police! wheat still remaining in the fields of officers spend most time and ingenuity | this district it was noted last week. is the trapping of motorists who travel : Only 40 per cent. of the crop has been at 35 miles an hour, when often the harvested due to the delay caused by circumstances would render safe an' the early snowfall. even' greater speed. The culpable! qpe game birds are attacking hun- motorist is the one who imagines that dreds of acres of wheat, securing are the whole width of the road is his! feeds from. the crop. Two farmers of rightful preserve, that he can 5top, | the district complained their 300-acre turn or swerve without signal, and | crops have been ruined by the birds. that he can swoop into a main road as 2 though he were turning into his own gate.--Cape Argus. King Reduces Rents London.--The King hag reduced by 20 per cent. the rents for allotments of the Sandringham estate. One year ago Portland, Ind., 8rects a stone shaft the King took over the adjoining 1200- memorial to Elwood Haynes as In-'oore farm when no new tenant was ventor of the modern automobile. But forthcoming and it will now be used what a row of shafts a grateful public by 60 workingmen, who will hold their would be willing to erect to anybody allotments by 'tenancies let by the who invented an automobile that King personally at $4 an acre would stay modern for more than ofle AMERICA A Geniys Needed ' Non-Permanent Branch Of Air Force Considered . Ottawa.--Formatior. of a Canadian . non-permanent air force on lines sim- | ilar to the auxiliary air force in the | United Kingdom is under considera- tion by the Department of National ! Defence an an announcement is ex- pected shortly. The proposed force would consist of three squadrons, located at pcints yet + be selected. Each squadron would contain about 20 officers and 175 other ranks, with a reserve of officers. Ap- plicants for commissicns would be re- quired to obtain pilots' licenses and be acceptable to the other officers. As a branch of the Royal Canadian Air Force the new body weld be operated along about the same: lines as the present non-permanent active militia. ia Watch Dial on Egg Shell Leads To Speculation on Hen's Diet Chester, Eng--An egg laid by a hen at Barton Malpas, Cheshire, had a perfect replica of the face of a watch marked on its shell. The Ro- man numbers are complete and even the minute divisions are perfectly plain. The numerals and divisions are raised above the surface of the shell and there is a deep impression above the number XII, corresponding to the winder of the watch. The egg has aroused great interest in the Chester market and the owner of the hen has been offered large sums of money for it. There is no explana- tion for this freak of nature, but some persons are wondering whether the hen has lately swallowed a watch. -- ee. Belgium Now Has Phone Service to Leopoldsville in the Congo Brussels. -- Telephone communica- tion between Belgium and Leopolds- ville in the Belgian Cqngo has been inaugurated. The lines will be open from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m, dnd from 2.30 pm. to 5.30 p.m. on week days, and from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m on Sundays. { A three-minute conversation will cost 390 Belgian francs (about $11.14), and each extra minute will be charged for at the rate of 130 francs. Persons desiring to converse with somebody in the Congo are advised to arrange for the call some hours in advance--pre- ferably the day before. Home in the North I know a house beside the sea Where rocks and gulls call down to me Of other shores more wide and fair Than those beneath the window there; With "bolder rocks and whiter sand, And hills behind more green and * grand. I never listen, for I know That wheresoever I may go, No other place could ever seem More beautiful, no water's gleam More bright with memory's magic '|racing seaplanes to take off. EE et ert Dut ' 're- When the Berlin Athletic Club L EEL SR a mi ov ie i Ae Sor has by no means been abandoned. On fests, the large SIN 1 curious 2 the contrary, it is stated that a fresh ators a tag sd DY SYSuE yap wu attempt will be made as soon as tem- ibid y i Soi en peratures are steadily cool enough for ming a Po Ee hand-sp ngs, but The : to see them do all this a great: deal Italian machine which is to make the hotter n the majority bt the : attempt to a worlg spect tators themselves could have done it. cer Agello, who was formerly No, 2 of The care of the blind sud the meth. the Italian team and has become No. 248 of teaching them to beco Bev 1 since the death of Lieutenant Neri: pandent have eh str Ios Italy has paid a heavy toll of lives Since w # i. ain 8 to high-speed flying. No less than them physically through athletics is - nine of her very best pilots have lost the latest development. Paul Rosen- their lives in the last four years in Daum, a quiet and benevolent blind 4 '| practice flights in Desenzano. Never- brush maker in the Municipal Institute for the Blind, conceived the idea that theless, there is no decrease in the de- ' termination to conquer the world's With large libraries for the blind on l speed record. : iand=-the world's largest is here in The latest Italian racing seaplane, Berlin vail a iss L which was built for the last Schneider 14 of Vad uve eal 1% . baile Trophy race, but was not in readiness from the fa a persons in time to take part in the contest, is 'little opportunity for walks an' physi considered to be by far the fastest-fly- cal exercise, he felt that athletic train- ing machine in existence in the world in8 would teach them better than any- to-day, It has developed, however, a thing else to control their bodies des- mysterious defect, the exact nature of Pite the Tack of sim ee ich © 4S Supinegss have ot Yai been With eeveral blind friends he found- of these machines, while flying at top oie bles, gu Lr the Blind. speed over Lake Garda, have suddenly | Th ny men en ri y Women te nose-dived and plunged into the water Mem re ox t = eet wice 3.wee s of the lake. The pilot, in each case, was 3 nig! oa Poe. the ays work, a killed, so that it has been imposgible 12r8e 2 By e northern past of dor. to find out to what these accidents !0: They have a trainer who is the were due only person among them who can see. Flie Avolds Crash The public contests were a great r 3 wd foam, Than those about my northern home, That, nestling in its hills apart, Gathers me ever to its heart. --Elizabeth Fleming, in the Christian Science Monitor. tice flight before his death, in which speed somewhere in the neighborhecod of 470 miles an hour, had his rudder carried away. Only his truly ex ra- ato lordinary skill enabled him to land Mcre Tourists Visit Belgium sately on the lake. without injury to According to the Belgian tourist of- himself or his machine. It is thought fice, the number of foreigners who that perfiaps the destruction of the came to Belgium this Summer was other machines was due to a similar, greater than last year. Hollanders breakage of the elevators. These, how- came first, in the matter of numbers, ! ever. have been: carefully checked in followed by French and Germans. the remaining machines, Without any There were few Amecicans and Bri-, visible defect. tish. The tourist office directed its| Others believe that the defect lies advertising efforts toward Holland, in the two engines revolving in oppo- Lieutenant Neri himself, in a prae- | he is sald to have reached a maximum "press day for these blind athletics and they had lookel forward "5 it not without some fear lest they might fail to im- the spectators or possibly be ridiculed. But the onlookers did not laugh. The trainer George Breitkopf, who explained that a 100 meter dash required infinite courage and concen- tration on the part of a blind person was surprised at the performance of his pupils, They sprinted two and two with nothing to guide them except the yells and cheers of friends and the trainer, who indicated the direction of them before starting Two young men tied for the 100-meter world championship for the blind, in slightly. more than 13 Northern France and Central Europe. | site dirctions with which the new ma- seconds. \ chines are fitted, Much is being done to attract parties Italian engineers be- | of school children, with their teach- lieve (hat a great future is in store for machines of this type, as the fact that the two engines revolve in oppo- site directions eliminales the tarque ers. nh Rich Copper Deposit The best shotput was 35 feet; the best high jump was 5 feet. The cham- Dion in the wide-jump contest went over 16 feet. For the wide jump the contestants were permitted to jump in Nevada' A huge deposit of copper, Sveraging | 46 per cent, now is being developed in | the northern part of Elko County by the Rio Tinto Copper Company. It is said to be the world's richest copper ! deposit and, according to experts, ! would be a money maker even at pre- sent starvation copper prices. r-- Census In China Reveals * 474,787,386 Population Shanghai.--The Mini try of the In-| terior in Nanking has completed a cen- sus of China which it claim. is the most nearly accurate ever made. It establishes the population at 474,787,- 386. This includes Manchuria, Mon- goldia, and Tibet, over which China claims sovereignty. a Previous estimates of China's popu- -~tion have varied from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000. The Ministry does not explain how it has obtained such pre- cise census figures in territory over which it has no actual control. season!--The Christian Science Moni- tor, ------ Judges at Royal Winter Fair The Right Honorable the Earl of Westmoreland a prominent membar of that elite group of hunting en- thusiasts and sportsmen who, carry- ing on the long tradition of the Dukes of Beaufort, have made the little Gloucestershire village of Badminton world famous as the centre of all- round sport, will head the list of judges for hunters and jumpers at the Royal Winter Fair Horse Show next month. The Earl has just cabled his accept ance of the Royal Winter Fair's invi- tation to attend and to, judge in the most interesting and numerous classes of the horse show programme, With him in the hunter and jumper division will be Elliott S. Nichols of Detroit and George B. Elliott of Toronto, The other judges for the Royal Horse Show are: Harness Horses and Ponies -- Wm, H. Wanamaker, Jr, Philadelphia, Pa,; Thos. W. Clark, Edgemont, Pa. Saddle Horses and Ponies--Frank Adair, Atlanta, Ga.; Holland B. Judkins, New York, N.Y. Commercial Classes--Thos. H. Irwin, Lambton Mills, Ont.; Andrew G. Bain, Hamilton, Ont. Roadsters--Herbert Collacutt, Port Perry, Ont.; Frank Adalr, Atlanta, Ga. i -- Sunday Island Sunday Island, in the Pacifis, 1s really the tallest mountain in the world. It rises 2,000 feet out of five miles of water, and is thus nearly 30, 5 000 feet from base to summit. | winter, ¥ 3 The holldayers: have departed and the A bit risky to walk along the prom when First Gales of Season Sweep English Coast EE ---- x % residents of Clacton, England, are now settling down for the the waves act this wey. which is so troublesome to pilots in' "| var), have been EN light racing machines, The mechan- ism, however, is extremely compli: cated, as the two propellers are driven by means of two concentric tubular shafts, revolving in opposite direc. tions, the one inside the other. It is {more than posBible that the accidents are due to some slight defect which develops at high speed in this intricate mechanism. Leprosy Gains in Brazil Rio De Janeiro. -- The increase of leprosy in Brazil is alarming sanitary experts who assert that the malady is spreading so rapidly especially in the! north, that it should receive the im- mediate attention of the government. Unofficial figures indicate that af- fected persons are scattered through- out Brazil. Physicians are asking for special legislation to permit the for- mation of centres where lepers may be segregated in an effort to prevent further spread of the disease, At presént'there is only one official leper hospital in Brazil. Jacarepagua, on the outskirts of Rio That is at! oft where they liked and the spot was marked in order to measure the dis- tance. ! After this initial success, the train er plans to take his pupils over long distances of 1,500 and 3,000 meters, He will then train them for cross- country runs. The women will be (taught folk dances, which Herr Breit kopf hopes to show when they have their next public meet ? Control of Motion-Pictures In European Countries Most, Europea... countries have some ; sort of film institute whose function it is to study the influence of the moving picture upon national life and to en- courage the production and exhibition of better pictures. ' As the Manchester Guardian points out: "Germany has an institute" whose object it is to improve the taste of the nation by 2 selection of the best | films produced at home and abroad. "France has a permanent commis- | sion under her Ministry of Fine Arts. which iders 'the whole of the na- ------ de Janeiro, and has a dations for only a small number of patients, ef England Forces Wealthy * To Pay for Schooling London.--New regulations which re- duce free education in the secondary schools--corresponding to public high' schools here--were announced in the House of Commons last week by Her- wald Ramshotham, Parliamentary sec- retary of the Board of Education. He estimated the saving to the Govern- ment would be £400,000 a year. The regulations establish a "means test" which lays down a scale of in come above which parents must pay fees. : Ya 2 ---- Rumania Seizes Automobiles Bucharest.--Automobilists have been | halted by policemen during the last few days and ordered to get out. On compliance they have simply been handed a slip of paper stating that their cars are requisitioned for the forthcoming manoeuvres. Thereupon the cars have been driven off by mili- tary chauffeurs and the owners left to fend for themselves. Motor tru have been similarly halted on the high road, forced to unload and driven off. ---- a. Russia Has Placed Orders oks | wiser use of it to tional interests involved in cinema, and particularly the conservation of national customs and traditions.' . "In Italy a government department produces films illuctrating 'the great- ress and destiny of the country." "In the Far East the Japanese Gov- ernment keeps a wary eye or. the as- scult of 'the Western film on Japanése y.uth, and compiles a national film library showing the history, traditions and social life of her people; while i Russia, supreme in the art of her cin- ema, has bent it wholly to propagan- dist purposes for the Soviet State." Taking the cue from her neighbors, Great Britain is i have a similar institute. It is proposed, we read, that 5 per cent. of the profits derived from Sunday movie exhibitions, which usu- ally have been devoted to chaxity, be set aside for the formation of a Na- tional Film Institute through the ivy Council Office. This institute, it is planned, will be ¢losely associated i independent of it. ( will be the spread of the film ag means of education, the improvement of it as a means of entertainment, the i show at home and abroad the best in British civilization, and the preservation of it as an aid to history. For Equipment In Britain London.--Russian orders for manu: ! facturers and transport equipment costing £450,000 (about $2,000,000 at placed with British 'with the movinp-picture trade, but be 4 its Ee revenues Denm; 5 on