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. oice of CANADA Is Damn Profanity? Is damn a swear word? If not, we have only to confess thal we have misused it for many years. Not long ago, Governor Murray of Oklahama announced that the word damn is not profanity, and tha* to call & man a damn liar means no more han that he is a consummate lar. Ahe Raleigh (N.C.) news, owned by the eminent Hon. Josephus Daniels, 'recalls a decision by the Maryland upreme court to the effect that damn 'not a swear word. The Petersburg (Va.) Index also cites a famous case. It seems that a certain Captain Carmichael, then a member of congress, sent a postcard through the mails in which he had pre- 'fixed a reference to the eminent Gen, iliam Malone with the word damn. . Mahone took action, and the case was heard by a federal judge who held @at damn was not profanity --McAree fo Mail and Empire. Toronto Taxi Fares For a city of its size Toronto is years behind others in taxicab trans- portation, Did you ever find a cruis- fog taxicab in Toronfo when you real- Iy wanted it? Maybe they're there, but you'd never recognize them, be- 'cause distinctiveness prevalent fn every other city is lacking. Short trips, especially, are too costly for these depressed times. A ride that costs half a dollar in Toronto can be had in Detroit or Cleveland for fifteen 'or twenty cents.--St. Thomas Times- Journal, Wanted Signs Will Go Up This depression isn't going to last forever; we have seen the lowest levels, it appears, and to-day there is @& pin-point of light at the end of the tunuel. One of these days the "Help Wanted" signs will be dusted off, a new and eager crop of youngsters will ' have their names on the pay-rolis of the nation, and the bad years will be charged up to experience --Ottawa Journal. A Fine Record Ninetcen of twenty-one murders committed within U e precincts of Greater London were solved by the metropolitan police last year, This is a record the authorities of the great British metropolis may well be proud. Politics and slack court procedure are thiuvgs that do not enter into the ques- tion of justice in the Old Country, Hence this notable achievement.-- Guelph Mercury. Canada Keeps Ahead Lvery country saw the figures of its export trade diminish in quantities and values last year, But there are a few, and Canada is one of them, which have succeeded in difficult times In re-stablishing their commerce on a sane basis, that is to say, in selling more than they hought, and importing less than they exported. And we shall see, in a year's time that the agreements we made vith Britain and other countries will have improved the situation even more, -- L'J venement, Quebec. New Braille System The important announement has been made that, owing to negotiations persistently carried on by Canadian representatives, a new and improved universal eystem of Braille has been prranged which will be of great advant- age to blind students. In the past it appears that the sys-) toms used in Britain and the United Btates have differed suficiently to pre- yent the publication of ¢ universal 1ib- rary in the Braille type. By the agree- ment that has been reached the best features in both systems will be adopt- od, and 150,000 blind people of the Dnited States and British countries will be able to enjoy an increased number of books in their own langu- age. Moreover, the new system will be more economical in the printing of books.--Brantford Expositor, Most Beautiful Words Our suggestion for the ten most beautiful words in the English lang- uage is: "Your application for posi- tion accepted. Report for work at ~anee."--Toronto Saturday Night, "An Unpardonable Omission . A Spanish newspaper devoted two ~ columns to the report of a fashionable dding and next day apologized for ving out the names of the bride end groom. The man in the case ex- pects to be overlooked but when fit © tomes to the bride--wwell, it this {sn't _ #ér day of days then human nature must have changed a whole lot.-- ; Brantford Expositor, THE EMPIRE Weathering the Storm 87.2, 35.7, and 31.1 per m respectively as com- 6.9 in our own case, it is are weathering the < the Press Carads, The Empire and The World a Large been infinitely worse. -- Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman. Ceylon and Empire Preference The most potent argument for Cey- lon's acceptance of Imperial Prefer ence is provided by the Secretary of State's analysis of Ceylon's trade posi- tion in relation to Empire countries and foreign countries. On the 1931 figures two-thirds of Ceylon's export trade goes to Einpire territories, the figures being Rs. 144 million to the Empire and Rs. 71 million to foreign countries, out of a total of Rs. 215 mil- lion. The import trade is proportioned in almost exactly the same ratio, Rs. 71 million out of a total of Rs. 218 million coming from foreign countries, Economically, it fellows that Ceylon must stand with the Empire or face al- most {nevtable disaster. -- Colombo Times of Ceylon. Standards of Life in Australia The Australian worker has no in- alienable right to any particular stand- ard of living, or to a better standard than the worker of any other country. The present standard is 'meagre" only fn comparison with the standard en- joyed a few years ago. That standard was sustained by borrowed money, by abnormally high prices for Australia's primary exports, and by mortgaging the future by means of the time-pay- ment system. It is a quaint idea that the Australian worker has an inde- feasible right -- whence obtained no one knows--to a regimen which in- cludes the hest of food and clothing as well as such luxuries as moving pic- tures, liquor, bettin, gramophones, player-planos, and wireless sets, and that he is being cheated of his due when his reduced wages can no longer support such a standard.--Melbourne Argus. THE UNITED STATES Persian Oil Dispute In accepting for consideration and set- tlement the controversy between Great Britain and Persia over Persia's cancellation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company's concession, the Council of the League of Nations has seized an opportunity to redeem somewhat its failure in handling the China-Japanese controversy. The two conflicts are in no way analogous; they cannot be compared in their effect upon world politics. At the same time, if the League can bring this controversy to a peaceful conclusion, it will prove that its usefulness as a1. international arbiter has by no means been irre trievably impaired and its prestige will be greatly enlianced. It is the first time in which a country so well able to defend its interest as Great Britain has put them entirely into the hands of the League when the issue is of such importance as the protection of its naval oil supplies. -- New York Evening Post, Horse Sense A horse in Cleveland, Ohio, it is re- ported, went through town without a driver, keeping to its own side of the street, stopping for red lights and. pro- ceeding when they flashed green, and did not break a single traffic ordin- ance. A similar display of horse sense on the part of many motorists would make the streets and highways much safer. --Christian Science Monitor. Wise Spider When Mark Twain edited a news- paper in Missouri one of his subscribers wrote him that he had found a spider in his paper and wished to know whether it meant good luck or bad. Twain replied: "Finding a spider in your paper is neither good luc' nor bad, The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant was not advertising, so that he could go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of undisturbed peace ever afterward."--Walter Win- chell, ------p ns Television Principle . Not New to Science Montreal. --Many of the principles embodied in television today are from 15 to 40 years old insofar as science is concerned, H. J. Vennes, engineer 0. the Northern Electric Company told the Progress Club recent.y. In the course of an illustrated lec- ture on television, Mr. Vennes de- how a picture is trancmitted from one point to another, Ha said that radio television is being carried on by some half dozen stations in the United States at the present time, "While we have not reached the stage w we are commanding the same public attention as radio," he declared, "progress is in the main," Mr, Vennes envisaged a day when television on a large scale would be common' to every householder, ~~ Installment Plan Ausland, New Zealand.--These are boom days in the br eo market that Sari-| When the wind blows in California this is the result. A recent "Santa Ana" or dust-laden gale wrecked shipping in Los Angeles har- bor, drowned one man and piled oil derricks into a twisted mass of scrap. Functions of Modern _ Hospital Described Montreal.--Organization of a mod- ern hospital, the inter-relation of the various units, and the frnctiuns of the different departments and their offi- cers, were explained in an address at a meeting here by Dr. H. R. Dunstan Gray. Dr. Gray made reference to the n:w hospital now being built, in which would be provided important departments not possible in the pres- ent premises, There would be an out- door department, also provision for social service, which had been found such a useful adjunct of the modern hospital. Dr, Gray included in his lecture interesting items in regard to the ca e of the sick in ancient times. Ancient Grece had its institutions built on the mou tains, with southern exposture, and having verandahs on the style of modern sanatoria. Hydro- therapy was organized in connection with hot springs. Rome followed the example of Greece in providing care for the sick, although the ordinary slave was not given treatment. .An Egyptian papyrus described one of the first cases on record, that of a wo- man zuffering from "the unswallow- able ball," a hysterical affection. antniammmimtipocstpnis Rare Shell Able To Turn Two Ways Adelaide, S. Aust.--A fres: -water shell, which, unlike other shells, can turn both to 'the right and to the left, has been found in South Austra- lian waters by Mr. Ernest H. Ising, presilent of the field naturalists' sec- ticn of the Royal Society. It has been named after him--Planorbis Isingi. The shell is about a quarter of an inch in diameter and the new species is fairly common along the River Mur- ray. Natural scientists state that all shells turn either to the left or to the right. Britishers Shown as Great Tea-Drinkers London.--Oz:ars of tea, rivers of coffee, trickling brooks of cocoa-- that's & comparative picture of old England's taste. "Statistics how," said Douglas Woodruff, official of the Empirg Mar- keti- g Board, "that we in England drink five cups of tea per head pet day, one cup of coffee a dey and one cup of cocoa a week." N 5 French Plan to Reduce High Cost of Living Paris.--Forty milion Frenchmen a:+ preoccupied this winter with one big problem--how to reduce the cost of living. The people of France, almost alone in escaping the economic Jepression, Lave discovered they still are paying predepression prices for . Imost every- thing. Prices in France are higher than in ary other European country except Sv itzerland. Research by government experts has revealed widespread profiteering in the retail food trade, especially among butchers. Veal roast in Paris ~sis 45 to 55 cents a pound, beef roast 65 cents, rumpsteak ("bifteck") 60 cents, fresh roast pork 85 cents, An ertire lamb can be"bought for $2 on a "arm, but a leg of lamb weighing a little over four pounds costs $2.15 here. . Brea costs about 4 cents a pound, butter over 50 ccrts, eggs 64 cents a cozen, milk cents a quart, and beer to 20 cents a quart. Ordinary table wine is sold for 12 to 25 cents a quart. Apples and pears, of the domestic veriety cost 18 cents a pound, cranges 15 cents. Spinach is 6 cents pound, carrots © cents, tomatoes 10 cents, bzans 14 cents, Flour sells for 6 cents a pound, Sugar 7 certs, salt 8 cents, 'coffee 65 cents. Rents here have come down consid- erably, A three-room furnished apart- ment can be had for $65 to $90 a month, The same apartm~nf, unfur- 1 ished, would rent for $500 to $600. nn ii. Piccard Says Trips To Planets Possible Washington.--Crof. Auguste Pic- card said last week that study of the cosmic rays, for which he made his two balloon flights into the strato- sphere may help unlock trer.endous erergy in atoms which might over- come the difficulties of sending rocket penes on "round trips" to other planets. There is no limit vc the heights which rocket planes may reach above the earth, Professor Piccard said, but predicted balloons and airplanes will not rise much further chan the 10-mile height he reached last summer, owing to practical difficulties of construction.' sat a od Employment in France, {is increas- ing. Traitiing in Chicago" est man on-earth," says William: M matter, since as fine printer of MacDonald; Hitler and Gabriele D' nunio to the title of "greatest." Among all the galaxy of writers whose books he prints--Rudyard Kipling, the Walpole late Thomas Hardy, Hugh and Mazo de la Roche, to name only the more important--Mr. Maxwell pre fers Shaw. : Great in Mathematics "There is a greater man in mathe- matics," Mr. Maxwell rdmits, "there is one in physics. But taken by and 'large there is no greater than Shaw." The Irish author takes as much in- terest in the manufacture of books as in thelr writing, 'Shaw likes the game of manufacturing books," Mr, Maxwell continued. "He employs us to print them. Then they go down to his pub- lisher who has only the work of sell ing them and keeping accounts, Shaw's Wit "Shaw does all his writing in short hand. He then passes it on to his secretary who types the material in triple spacing. He then works over these sheets making corrctions and these form the actual manuscript from which we set the bcoks. The writing is the clearest imaginable.' Mr, Maxwell has a valuable collec: tion of first editions and examples of fine printing. Among ther things he he a complete set of prompt copies of Shaw's plays, and these are in- scribed in the following terms: "This may be added to William Maxwell's collection of shop-soiled literary curi- osities." te Sir Malcolm Campbell To Have Wider Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla.--Nature has provided the fastest beach course ever fue Bir Malcolm. Campbe.l' proposed attempt to speed five miles a minute in his giant car Blue Bird II. _The highest tide in modern Florida history tore grcat chunks out of the s -oreline sand dunes last fall. The dunes were washed down upon the beach and the constant pounding of breakers between now and February 10-20--the period set for the attempt --is expected to offer a wider speed- i than has cver before been util- zed. With the hazard of a narrow course eliminated, Sir Malcolm may achieve Lis ambition of reaching 800 miles an hour. He holds the present record of 263 M.P.H., established last year on the beach, v7 prem eens Balkans Now "Invaded" b By Technocracy Belgrade, Yugoslavia. -- ie cracy finally has reached th. Balkans, The Politica, Yugoslavia's biggest newspaper, recently carried an article attempting to explain it to the .na- tion's egrarian population. 'This is rather difficalt, for whereas 8 century ago it took the Serbian peasant 1,000 hours to do a certain Jiece of far work, it now takes him ours, his tools bein, i unchanged, ¥ puta Tha paper does not indulg. is e torial appraisal. . - well, who has some authority in the rimental! brought attention Moatreal, Que.--Accordir.: to 906,000 respectively. service establishments $44,382,200. responding period 1981; "now completed. the development of soil types by sys- tems of farming to which they were Lest adapted. A soil map of tie west- e. . part of the province has been completed showing the many soil 'types, and field work of the present season brings almost to comp'etion the reconnaissance soil survey of the more settled part of Saskatche n. Letnlridge, Alta.--For a more liberal use of commercial fer, sugar content was about 17 per cent. excellént condition, old coke ovens of the Internationa Coal and Coke Company at Coleman for the Columbia. construction work. New. Westminster, British Columbia grown plant. Sng Titled English Woman i painted the name "E. A. Reid." This is prosaic enoigh in itself. The house- wife buying her cod and haddock never suspects that its smiling, tactful owner is one of two titled women in England to go into the fishmcngers' business, She is Lady Reid, widow of Sir G. Archibald O'Brien Reid, who, before doctor, and an authority on alcoholism and the effects of heredity. Her companion in originality and enterprise is Lady Rachel Byng, who has a similar shop at Ascot. Looking at life from the other side of the counter has developed in Lady Reid a sympathy and understanding which makes her the most enthusi- astic of tradeswomen, 'When it was suggested that she should open a gown shop like so many plied: "Yes, and have crelit accounts running for months and months!" Then an acquaintance who had been in the-fish business before the war suggested that she might do well if she tried this business, Gu This appealed to her adventurous spirit, although she 'knew nothing about either business or Billingsgate | (the famous old fish market of Lon- don). September saw her with Jo ulate refrigerator orator, ~ : pre- liminary figures for 1930 issued by the Dominion Statistician, on thé .Island of Montreal and Jesus Island there were 13,680 retail stores and 4,296 service establishments, with business turnovers of $422,093,400 and $46, In Montreal proper retail stores transacted busi- ness aggregating $387,807,700 and the Ottawa. -- Exports. of Canadian poultry to the British Isles from April 1 to September 30, 1932, totalled 224, 822 pounds, or more than four times the export of 48,822 pounds in the cor- Regina, Sask.--According t~ an an- nouncement by officials of the Univer- sity of Saskatchewan, after 11 years of work, involving 120,000 miles of .'ravel, Saskatchewan's soil survey 's In 1920 members of a better farming conferen e held at Swift Current propos.d a survey of the soil. of the province in order to classify and map them so as to assist at Washington, ! to these | permanent decorations for home yi € udy the cherry bloom at | goasons of public visit, they found many veteran trees in ancient settle- ments trees which were propped up on stilts, supportd by sticks, or preserved in a state of decay which would be severely criticised by tree surgeons, but honored and revered for the an- nual display and pink and white blooms eagerly awaited by the thous- ands of citizens who did not come to see an architecturally perfect tree, but a petal-dropping, color-bursting speci- men. Japanese Landscape in May One who has seen an orchard like group of trees dispensing fragrance and color about May 10 from-the vel lowish-green masses of the variety Ukon or luteo-virens; the pink rose- like atmosphere of = Amanoawa, or erect; the rosy cloud-effect of Shidare- gakura or rosea; or the early burst of white bloom from the big tree Yohino; or the weeping grace of the Higan za- kura or pendula, which is the first one of them all to bloom, has had an ex- perience which will always be remem bered. Most of the flowering cherries come from the species Prunus serrulata. This species and its varieties bl .m before the leaves unfold, which is ut a time when the petals have just civ- ered the ground with a itwer carp: t. The rosebud cherry and the weeping the first 'time in history the 1932 crop of sugar beets in southern Alberta aver- aged ov r 10 tons to the acre. In- creased efficiency of the growers and tilizer are given as the two main rea- sons for this exceptional result. The and the beets came from the silo in Calgary, Alta.--From 60 to 70 men have been employed in preparing the Alberta, to fill a contract during 19383 Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail, Britisn Fine weather during the early part of the winter helped rapid B.C.--McKe:- cher's, Limited, is a complete tobacco manufacturing plant located at New Westminster, British Columbia, This factory has just commenced manufac- turing and packing "Totem" brand pipe and cigarette tobaccos from the : Opens a Fish Shop Over a fishmonger's shop in the rain street of Letchworth, Eng, is rosebud cherry come from the species subhirella. They bloom first, immedi ately followed by Yoshino, the white flowered single variety so prominent in the Washington display. This va- riety, which makes a favorite avenue tree, is from the species yedoenis. The main group blooms next, and the many named varieties are from the species serrulata. There are three blooming sasons, thus extending the time one may enjoy the flowers. Japanese Cherry Easily Grown The Japanese cherry presents no great difficulties in the way of cuiti- 2 | vation, except for avoiding all wounds of a mechanical nature, for the imme- diate cleansing of all scale infections and for the preserving of the long, healthy flowering shoots in the best condition possible. Thé bases of all Japanese cherry trees are tender spots which are susceptible to wounds from lawn mowers, rabbits, mice and the ends of garden rakes. The West In. dian peach scale may be foun: infest- ing the Japanese cherries. The coat of gray scale may be removed in mild weather of spring or fall dormant sea son by a spray of lime sulphur. The relation of the weather to the blooming of cherries {1 not so import. ant to the flower lover, because trees in the vicinity of New York are unin- jured in bud by late frosts. Occasion. ally the petals, which are prepared in 1 his. death in 1929, was an eminent] hundreds have done before, she re-| bud in fall and are well protected over winter, may be slightly browned at the ends, but most of our seaso ng are fa vorable to a perféct flower opening. Strong winds blow off the petals too soon and shorten the blooming season, my brain." Author--*"This, sir, is' {hia child of Editor--"You ought to be glad that the stork doesn't visit your brain any oftener." 'Driven from the mountains by hunger, deer are and imperilling night autoists in parts of Scotland. devouring crops esd ; d . = Bl bt