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Canada, The Empire and The World at Large. CANADA Newspapers Lead ~The president of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company announced the 1 other day that his company intends to increas its advertising appropriation during 1933, particularly in the daily newspapers, Many striking demonstrations'have been offered of the fact that there are plenty of buyers in the country it those with something to sell, at the right. price and of the right quality, will give the public their message in th proper form, it has also been demonstrated that ne form of publicity pays as great a dividend as newspaper advertising. Certain sections of the public may read a magazine announcement or many hear an advertising program over the nir, but a newspaper message goes to all the people, --Border Cities Star, Siam's Economy The more the Western World learns about Slam the more firmly it is per- suaded that the Siamese are a re- markable people. Not long ago they changed their system of government without making much of a fuss about it. On that enlightened kingdom a re- volution takes place with-the utmost of restraint and amiability on all sides. Yet that is not the. most wonderful thing about Siam. It has learned to cut budgets and discharge useless pub- lic servants in a way that is astonish- ing to Western minds, -- Fredericton Gleaner. Danger in Turning Corners it would naturally be imagined that one of the first things every motorist learns is how to turn corners correct. lv; that bit of driving technicality surely belongs in the ABC's of the art of handling an automobile. However, recent figures show that during the first six months of 1932 there were in Ontario 123 accidents in making right- band turns with two persons killed and 80 injured, while in the same period 444 accidents occurred in ne- gotiating lefthand turns with five kill- ed and 266 injured. -- Peterborough Examiner, Male Adornment The depressed Canadian dollar is a blessing to Canada's Atlantic ports, the railways which serve them, and the shipping companies" and sailors who convey goods to and from them by sea. Thanks to our depressed dol- ~lar it is now cheaper to ship wheat oversea by way of Halifax or St. John than by way of the United States ports of the Atlantic coast. Canadian freight rates are paid in Canadian money. U.S. rates have to be paid in United States money. The 12 to 14 per cent, exchange makes the U.S. routes too costly to be competitive, Such Canadian grain as is moving eastward is going to the Canadian ports--Edmonton Bulletin. Paper 1,000 Years Old A Chinese newspaper has published continuously for 1,000 years. Fancy having 'Indignant Subscriber" write in "This is not the position you assumed fu 1541.Y--Ottawa Journal, Germany Recovering Through all the gloom that sur- rounds international finance and the budgets of the nations one gleam of light has pierced that is calculated to give encouragement where it is sorely needed. Germany is on the up-grade. Definite proof of this was given the Budgetary Committee of the Reichstag the other day by the German Minister of Koonomics, Professor Hermann Warmold. The Minister presented three factors Indicating both improvement in indus- trial conditions and increase in public confidence. In the first place, he told the committee that industrial produc- tion in Germany had risen to 65, tak- Ing the 1929 level of production as a unit of 100, after a decline to 62 in 1952, At the same time the increase In seasonal unemployment to-day is suly one-third of what it was a year #g0. And in the third place; stock and bond averages have advanced, respec- tively, from 39 to 61 and from 46 to $9. lle ragards these as accurate and ~-.pighificant indicators of business ac- Jivity which should give Germany sound ground for optimsm.--Montreal Daily Star. THE EMPIRE Brighter Year In many British industries 1933 opens with signs of better times. Im. : vement has not yet proceeded far, ut the tone of business in general is '@ppreciably more cheerful than at the h of 1932. At any rate, the lo is now widespread that it is waiting for things to right The strenuous efforts now increase the efficiency industries and to set up fail to have their Britain, 150 years, and at least thirty villages have been submerged. Lower down the coast, at Dunwich, a whole medieval city has disappear- ed, and yearly services are still held at the sea's edge in memory of the cathedral and eight churches which are now below the waves. . Not far away, at Pakefield, it is pos- sible at low tide to swim over and touch streets of ruined and submerged houses --London Daily Pictorial. Physical Culture We made a mistake in entrusting physical-culture to people of inferior education. They ought to be people of high education--as they. are 'in Sweden, for example. They ought to know that the human body {is not merely a machine for digesting food and circulating blood and developing muscle, but a marvellous creative in- strument, a thing that hungers for skillful activity in every nerve and fibre of it, so that even its physical health is not attainable until you have satisfied its hunger for skill by one means or another. Your drill-sergeant, your muscle trainer, your professional gymnast, your football coacl may be good fellows enough for their busi: ness; but as exponents of physical education, may the Lord deliver us from all such!--Dr. L. P. Jacks in Lancet, London. England on the Air Who can make a list of the things that are England? The Monarchy; Parliament, the Navy, the Derby, and the Boat Race, Henley Regatta the Trooping of the Colour, Picadilly, Big Ben, the London buses, hunting, foot- ball--these are the sort of raw ma- terial of which England's esteem and affection in the world are composed. Justice, disinterestedness in interna- tional affairs, coolness, fair dealing, a reputation for quality in manufacture --these are among the virtues of her character. Let the Empire Broadcast- ing Station reflect these events and these qualities and it will earn the gratitude of all members of the family; it will render also an out- standing service to the world.--Cape Argus, Modern Pioneering It has to be recognized that under present-day conditions land settlement cannot necessarily be promoted simply by finding the land and men who are prepared to try their fortunes on it. It is not much use quoting examples of ploneer settlers who, taking up land, facing the future with little equip- ment beyond two strong arms and boundless courage and optimism won their way eventually to success. Con- ditions are different now, farming technique has been much elaborated, the occupation has been divided into specialized branches, and overhead costs accumulate far more rapidly.-- Auckland Weekly News. UNITED STATES Mild Class War The London bus strike is over. It simply is not in the British nature to let ordinary strikes pass into crisis and general strikes into revolution. The present stoppage, an outlaw move in au case, was brought to an end when near-zero weather descended up- on England and the head of the oper- ating company appealed to the strikers not to subject the public to serious in- convenience, What was there the London strikers could do? After all, they are of the same blood as the Pirates of Penzance who, with all their faults, lovéd their Queen. If the social revolution ever does come in Britain, it will be only when its leaders have shown their fol lowers how to overturn the existing system without ceasing to be good fel- lows.--New York Times, Tribute to Canada Canada looks back upon 1932 with pride, © The nation retained world leadership in the export of wheat, printing paper, asbestos; was second in gold, platinum, cobalt; was third in wheat flour; fourth in automobiles and wood pulp; fifth in rubber tires. Canada winds up the year with a fav- orable trade balance of $50,000,000, contrasted with an unfavorable bal- ance of $10,000,000 in 1931, There have been troubles, but they are being surmounted. Canada is a huge coun- try, with only about 10,000,000 popu: lation--but the Canadians are an ex- ceedingly hardy handful, -- Christian Science Monitor, ------ ees . TE em "Five-and-Ten" Stores Banned by Berlin Decree Berlin--Es! t of new "one- price store" in Germany has recent- ly been, forbidden by government de cree, This extends the decree issu- ed in March, 1932, which forbade the opening of one-price stores in cities of less than 100,000 inhabitants. : ' The purpose of the move is to pro- tect the small merchants durin a new jungle picture. Another aquatic Tarzan is to the fore in Hollywood. it's Buster Crabbe, Olympic Adonis, who plays opposite this lion in This time Men Dyeing Hair To Look Young Thus Secure Jobs, According to Specialist, Who Predicts New Method Toronto--Men are having their hair ayed. More men in Chicago have had their hair dyed in the last year than during the previous decade, Emil Rohde, famous hair specialist of Chi- cago, told a group of hairdressers at the Toronto Ladies' Hairdressers' As- sociation convention here, "It's the depression," explained Mr. Rohde. Men find jobs are scarce for the man with graying hair, So they come to us to be made young. In the old days, months would pass without a man coming in. Now we dye eight or ten a week. - vv "And that isn't all," said the spe- cialist. "The day is coming when we will never have to dye hair extern- ally. We'll dye hair with a hypo- dermic syringe in the client's arm." A skin specialist in Chicago had stumbled upon a secret, Mr. Rohde said, development of which is being watched with great interest by Chi- cago hairdresseds. A Swede, suffer- ing from a skin disease, had gone to the specialist for treatment. Injec- tions of a fluid in the patient's arm had been accompanied by the blonde hair of the patient turnirg a rich auburn hue. "Wen the injections wer. stopped the man's hair again turned pale blonde," Mr. Rohde said. "This, we believe, is the beginning of a new theory of hair dyeing, and hair spe- cialists are now working on it." It may be, continued Mr. Rohde, tlLat even food may be found to have + effect upon the color of hair, In England canaries were being fed cer- tain Zoods to turn their feathers orange, red, blue and lavender, colors which remained until they moulted. The principle offered a great field for research in hair dyeing, he said, lee Shaw Manuscripts and Books Auctioned New York.--The Archibald Hender- son collection of letters manuscripts and books from the pungent pen of George Bernard Shaw brought a total of $7,887 at a recent auction sale here, | The highest price paid for a single' item was $2,400 for a b4-page letter in the Irish playwright's own prim hand. Gabriel Wells, professional rare book collector, was the successful bid- der. This letter, written to Prof. Hender- son in 1905, is virtually an autobiog- raphy and forms the basis of Hender- son's first book about Shaw's life and works, Since then the North Carolina mathematics professor has published seven volumes on the subject. Bidding for the 12,600-word letter, which required Shaw 14 days to write, started at $300 and mounted rapidly to $1,100, where it hung for a moment, Then, at slight nods of the bidders' heads it mounted quickly to $2400. Only once during the two hours of the sale was the monotonous regular. ity of the bidding for Shaw's wit broken by a ripple of laughter. That was when the auctioneer was heard to intone "damn Bernard Shaw and his tedious doing and sayings," and a few non-professionals in the audi- ence failed to realize he was quoting from one of Shaw's own letters. Other items in the collection, which totalled 204 entries and was des- cribed by the American Art Associa- tion Anderson Galleries, where the sale was conducted, as the largest in|' America, brought from three dollars to $950, the second highest price, -~ -* British The completion of the National | Grid Scheme for distributing electric-| 5° ity over England and the reduction of 4 charges for current, will result in in- creased demand, and a desire for erable discussing, the Birmingham Circle of the Association decided that: the time was opportune to make a special effort to show the residents in and around Birmingham domestic side. To this end it was decided to purchase a piece of land, and to erect thereon a modern elec- trically equipped residence, and to ex- hibit it Sati] sch time as interest was, no longer ? The result is that today, people liv-| ing in or near Birmingham can see a fortable, and fitted with cenveniences calculated to.reduce labor dnd costs to a reasonable minimum. ALMOST DUSTLESS. There are no replaces to clean, no ashes to remove, and consequently the house is almost dustless. All rooms dre automatically maintained at the ccrrect temperature, resulting in the prevalence of cheerful warmth througtout, Hot water is available day and'night, a feature that is ac- complished and maintained automat- ically, without fumes or attention. All perishable foods can be stored under perfect conditions. ° which electric tubular heating is in- stalled. On the left is the lounge, with loggia facing the garden, while 'on the right are the dining room, kit- chen, servery, cloakroom and so on. The heating system in the lounge, dining room and first bedroom is from the ceiling by means of the Dulrae method. This is a fine, flexible material, which is applied to the ceiling in a manner similar to heavy wallpaper, and which employs the principle of the distribution, under thermostatic control, of radiant warmth from ex-: tended areas of the ceiling at temper- atures at, or only slightly above, body warmth. In these rooms it 's arrang- ed to maintain the temperature any- where between 50 and 65 degrees, ac- cording to the setting of the thermo- stat, even when it is freezing outside, On the first floor are five bedrooms, bathroom, box room, linen room, la ra- tory and a spacious lsnding. In these bedrooms, as in tha kitchen, the heat- ing is effected hy nwens of tubular heaters fitted with thermostatic con- ------ Bananas Cover English Beach Winchelsea, England, awcke recent- ly to find the foreshore for a distance of five to six miles strewn with thou- sands of green bananas, all tofn from the large centre stems and lying ing along the beach at.the high water marki There were no sighs of wood- work crates. "It was soon after daybreak," said one of the residents of the town, "that we noticed the bananas lying on the foreshore. Some of the inhabitants took quontities home, but the major- ity were left on the shore untouched. "The bananas must have been the deck cargo of a vessel washed over- board during a severe gale." ---- ee OUR WILL ourselves when we help We help others, Advertising Plus! what was possible and likely to obtain on the, , at once pleasiug, com-| The main entrance opens on to a- hall with a barrel vault ceiling, in' "There are bacteria in the soil that ter on the roots of what are known as leguminous or pod-bearing plants, such as the beans a) ; teria convert-the nitregen of the air into organic life. 3 Does a similar process go on in the sea? Dr. C. E. ZoBell of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography describes in Science some interesting experi: ments that he conducted to answer the question. He tried to breed nitrifying bacteria in sea water, under the most favorable conditions. only to find that they died. This does not preclude the possibility of there being such bac- teria, Dr, ZoBell warns. We must first look for varieties different from the soil forms before any conclusion can be drawn. There is undoubtedly something in sea water which does change nitrogen in the form of ammonia into nitrate, and this something seems to be es- pecially active when it is irradiated by ulfra-violet light either in the sun or a mercury arc. Even when the sea water is passed through the finest por- celain filter it still retains this mys- terious nitrifying factor. Heated un- der high presure, it loses its power. Synthetic sea water--that is distilled water in which the right salts hive been dissolved in the right amount-- does not have .jt. Evidently a new fleld for exploration has been opened to the biochemist. Medical Importance of Toads The toad, which used to play an im- portant part in the practice of medi- cine, may be restored to pharmaceuti- cal honor if the discovery of two Chinese and an American, IX, K. Chen, A. L. Chen and H. Jensen, fulfills the promise that it holds out.. The scien- tists in question have found that wart- like excrescences on the heads of five different species of toads secrete the hormone ephinephrine, like the sup- rarnal glands, It takes hundreds of suprarenal glands of cattle to provide enough ephinephrine for human beings who need it. We have, therefore, a vision of toad-farms supplying warts to phar- maceutical laboratories. The pros- pect is all the more certain when it is considered that the same scientists have found that toad glands produce cholesterol and ergosterol, which are potent cures of rickets because they contain vitamin D, Add to this a group of bufagins--which are found in toad venom and which have an effect on the heart similar to that of digi talis--and the economic case for the toad is complete. Another Radioactive Element? The announcement is made by Pro- fessor G. von Hevesy of the University of Freiburg that samarium, which is No. 62 in the table of elements, is radioactive. If this discovery is veri- fied, atomic physics may be ready for another upheaval. ! After radioactivity was discovered there was a feverish hunt for ele ments that send forth rays spontan- eously, All the heavy elements be- yond No. 82 (lead) proved to be radio- active, © Thereupon it was concluded that everything lighter than lead must be inactive. When it was discovered that potassium, which is No, 19 in the list, and rubidium (No. 37) aré slightly radioactive -- both emit electrons -- physicists were puzzled, 'What distinguishes samarium is the fact that it shoots alpha particles, meaning that it is unstable. It fol- lows that instability is not confined to the heavy elements, such as uranium and radium. Samarium is what is known as a rare earth. Next to it in the table, occupying the sixty-first place, is "il- linium." Possibly the rare earths are rare because they have been shooting oft alpha particles, and thus reducing themselves to something else, It may be that we shall have to revive a view that was current at the opening of the century--that all the elements are radioactive and that they are the end products of activity that began eons ago when exploding atoms, like those of uranium, were commoner than they are now--Waldemar Kaempffert in The N.Y. Times. have the property of thys "fixing" " nitrogen For the most part they clus- 'vetches. These bac-| can be tion, which will be of type, will be given some time in ruary, sounding being carried out the meantime. The central be 106 feet above water at hi Tororto, Ont.--According %« a port of the Provincial Dept. of Mi three new mines were added to the gold producers of Ontario during No~ vember, bringing the present total to 20. Total gold and silver production in the province in that month was $2,934,183, which was an increase of about $26,000 over that in the pre- vious month. The figures for the first 11 months of 1932 were $42,- 637,618 against $38,833,574 for the corresponding period of 1931, ! "Winnipeg, Man.--The Manitoba In- dustrial Development Board reports that filter sand from Black Island, Lake Winnipeg, is finding consider- able use in the provi.ce. Another re~ port states that Manitoba *ulibee fish are finding a ready market in British West Africa. Saskatoon, Sask. -- Saskatcon's Winter Fair, according to an »o-- rouncentent by the management, wil be held during the week commencing March 27. Dates for all Class A fairs in Western Canada were arranged at a meeting held recently in Regina, as follows: Brandon, March 13; Regina, Mareh 20; Calgary, week beginning March 2;; Edmonton, April 3. Edmonton, Alta.--A summary of seven years' breeding tests with ba- con breeds, Yorkshires, Berkshires and Tamworths, at the Dominion Ex- perimental Station, Lacombe, was made recently. Some 267 litters and 8,788 young pigs were included in the tests. In size of litter farrowed per sow, Yorkshires 'ranked first with 11.5 pigs per litter, Berkshires sec- ond with 9.3 and Tamworths third with 8.6. The average number of pigs weaned per sow was 7.8 in the case of Yorkshires, 6.7 for Berkshires and 6.0 for Tamworths. Vancouver, B.C.--The 1,000,000 bushel extension to the United Grain Growers' elevatcr on Burrard Inlet, Vancouver has' been. completed, and the enlarged plant was officially «pened and inspected recently by Mr, R. 8. Law, president of the company. The newly completed addition brings the elevator capacity to 2,650,000 bushels, and constitutes the second enlargement made to the plant since the No. 3 elevator was first leased from the Harbor Board in 1925, an extension of equal size awving been made in 1927. New York (A Nocturne) Down-gazing, I behold, 'Miraculous by night, A city all of gold. Here, there, and everywhere, In myriad fashion fair, A mystery untold Ot light! Not royal Babylon, ' Nor Tyre, nor Rome the great-- In the all-powerful state Her wisdom and her armed legions won-- ' 'Was so illuminate Ag this strange world which, awed, I look upon. With it compared, the ancient glories' fail, And, in the glow it doth irradiate, The planets of the firmament grow, pale! ,... Oh, I have looked the moon Silyered each dark lagoon, And have in dreams beheld her Clothed "in resplendent pride, 5 5% Fic $3 oe on Venice when