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Own skill as its driver, but "Voice of CANADA Started the Rush Cigarettes were for sale for years before the manufacturers started spending millions in newspaper adver tising. Now they're being sold. -- Kingston Whig Standard. Modern Bridge "Shall we have a friendly game of cards?" . "No, let's play bridge." This scrap of conversation which we ran across the other day is evi- dence of an unfortunate situation. Time was when folks sat down to & card table for a little bit of relaxation, but nowadays it is serious business. {t is not a matter of playing the cards that you get and trusting to your good sense to coming out with the long end of the score. No. In these times you have to think about informative bids, to remember whether you're vulner- abld or not; to give serious considera- tion to the approach force system and # host of other things, It's no longer relaxation, it's a strenuous mental exercise~--Sault Star. Another on the Scot There is a story going the rounds concerning a Scot who desired to send a telegram telling about an automo- bile accident. The manner in which be selected his words was: "Bruises killed, erased afford, erect- or; analysis hurt too; infectious dead." Beotty. He was charged for ten words. We are not told whether the person who received the wire could read it, but the explanation and the full wording tollows: "Bruce fs killed, he raced a Ford; he wrecked her, and Alice is hurt too, In fact she's dead.""--Scotty.--Strat- ford Beacon-Herald, / Farm Settlement * Ottawa reports that the back to the land movement is meeting with satis- factory results, Up to the end of 1932, 426 families had been successfully placed in Quebec, 380 in Saskatche- wan, 226 in Ontario, 185 in Manitoba, 145 in Nova Scotia and 51 in Alberta. The sum of $600 is provided as a set up in each case and care is taken to see that those helped have some know- ledge of agriculture. -- Brantford Ex- positor, First in War: First in Peace For obvious reasons we in Canada near and read a good deal about United States airplanes, American fifers, their exploits and achievements. Actually no country in the world has approached the intensive study of planes and their possibilities given by the United Kingdom; no country has gone farther--or as far--in developing the factors of speed safety, and gener- al utilization of aircraft; and in no land are there air pilots superior to those of the United Kingdom in experi- ence, capability, and ingenuity. --Otta- wa Journal, Difficult Times For Railways Railways, apparently, are in the same fix the world over. French lines report deficits of $600,000,000 during the past ten years. --St. Thomas Times- 'Journal, Buy Canadian Wherever it is possible to do so, Canadians should give their prefer- ence first of all to national products, especially when these products are of as good quality and as cheap as the foreign article, Some people, when they have to choose between two ar ticles offering the same advantages, pick the foreign article simply because it comes from abroad. A preference of this kind is unjustifiable and, if widely practised, causes great injury to Canadian industry and commerce, which are thus deprived of the patron. Age to which they are rightly en- titled. --La Presse, Montreal. Restore ConfidBnce If it is known and believed that thed United States is prepared at last to concert measures for the restoration of credit and confidence, it will have an immense effect in the world. The depression 8 now more than ever a state of mind. Lift the oppression of fear and uncertainty from the minds of the people of the western nations, and half the battle would be won.-- Vancouver Province. Setting a New Record . Bir Malcolm Campbell's victory over Sime and space established not only Supremacy of his car as the fast: po thing that man has yet got him over the ground and Canada, The Empire and The World at Large the Press ing thing will be to see whether the experts are content to continue refin- ing the present type of erzine inde- finitely or whether they now tura to something as radically different as Parsons did when he abandoned the familiar marine reciprocating steam engine for the turbine and revolution- ized marine engineering thereby. -- Montreal Dally Star. THE EMPIRE Sterling ard Gold It became inevitable when the Em- pire countries made a definite attempt towards economic cooperation that sooner or later 'their various curren- cies should be linked with sterling. We believe that this is the process through which the Canadian dollar is now moving. We are witnessing the establishment of sterling as the stronge t monetary force in the world. The day is coming when gold will play no greater part as a medium of trade than sterling will allow it.--London ally Express. Bank Balances and Business The extent and liquidity - of bank deposits, as displayed in the balance sheets, give clear evidence of ample power to finance a trade revival; but it rests with forces beyond the con- trol of the banks to produce the con- ditions which will lead to a trade re- vival, and, incidentally, once more pro- vide ample and profitable. employment for banking resources.--London Morn. ing Post, Trinidad and Britain There was a time when it was part of Venezuela, another when it was in- habited by Caribs, another when it be- | longed to Spain, another when it vir- tually belonged to France, and an- other, much later in history, when it was rapidly becoming Americanized, Now, happily, it is becoming more Bri- tish every day.--Trinidad Guardian, Restriction and Prosperity Ultimately we think it will be found necessary, in the interests of the world, to regularize the production of all commodities. It is all very fine for economic theorists to say that abund- ance is for the good of the greatest number, They forget that the price of every article to the consumer must include transport and all sorts of ser- vices, so that even if it were produced for nothing it does not follow that some people would not still perish for the want of it. -- Colombo Times of Ceylon. The Manchurian Muddie The Western nations appear to be weary of the whole business. They do not understand the problem of Man- churia or the traditional Far Eastern methods of diplomacy and war. A sud- den suspicion has been awakened that both Powers are angling for what they can get from Europe and America, but that when the answer is an un- equivocal "We can do nothing more," China and Japan will settle down to patch up an agreement, much more satisfactory to themselves than any- thing which the West can suggest. The contempt poured on the efforts of the Lytton Commission has puzzled Europe, and given rise to the idea that the Far East must get itself out of its own muddle in its own way; and that as long as intervention, of any kind, is possible every skirmish will be raised to -the status of a battle and every political manoeuvre to a world crisis,--Honk Kong Press, Revision of Tariffs ;An appeal for some bold stroke of international action has been made by Sir John Aird, one of the leading bank- ers of Canada. He suggests an early reduction of 10 per cent, in every cus- toms tariff. A general cut in tariffs is, however, not the most effective ap: proach to the problem. High tariffs have hampered international trade; the paralyzing obstacles have been such emergency measures as prohibi- tive quota restrictions and embargoes. Neither of these is amenable to such proportional reductions as Sir John Ard suggests. The only method of dealing with them is to abolish them as rapidly as possible. -- Auckland Weekly News, THE| UNITED STATES Trains in the Air Only ten lines long was the item that recorded the successful towing of 'Willy Farner and 110 pounds of mall through the air over the Alps from Zurich to Milan. Yet it may mark an- other stage in the evolution of aerial transportation. > 2 3 Farner, a famous pilot of motorless gliders, was east off by the towing airplane and coasted to the air field at Milan in ten minutes. : Visions a The giant airship Macon, sister ship of the Akron, is nearly ready for the christening ceremony which will be held on March 11. Naval officials plan to give the huge sh ip its first test flight about a week later, New York Farmer Has Mass Britain Raises Duties Egg-Production Scheme| London--Alterations in the cus- Buffalo.--L. A. Hazard, a farmer living near North Evans, claims to have found the secret of intensive egg production. He says that he fre- quently gets two eggs a day from a hen and that he has reduced the cost of operating his plant to about 8 cents a dozen eggs. His method is to confine each hen by itself in a small cage, about 16 inches deep by 12 inches widé. The hen is provided with: ample food and water, but Is never released : All the energy . which the fowl generates is devoted .to egg-laying. The hen is kept from exposure to any of the numerous contagious dis- eases of fowls and from the fatal quarrels common: to hen yards, As no exercise is permitted, the fowl never toughens its muscles, and even as an old hen still provides tender meat for the pot when it no longer is profitable as a layer of eggs. eee es "Back-to-the-Soil" Movement Fills Georgia Farmhouses Valdosta, Ga.--The migration of city people to the soil has been in such numbers that not a habitable farm- house in the Valdosta area is vacant. Every building fit. for dwelling shelters a family, Many have no means of financing a crop or even feeding themselves until harvest, but they express confidence of eking out a better living than in the cities. In numerous moved into vacant even troubling to find out who owned them. Once domiciled, they set about to drive a bargain with the landlord. instances migrators houses without Te Te Te em er cs toms tariff made by a recent Treasury order include import duties of four shillings and sixpence a square yard on hand-made, carpets, rugs and mats; and ninepence a square yard or 20 per cent. ad valorem, whichever is the greater, on machine-made rugs and mats, A duty of ten shillings and sixpence a hundredweight will be levied on dried apples, pears, peaches and nec- tarines, and a 10 per cent. ad valorem duty will be laid against dates. A 83 1-8 per cent. ad valorem duty on iron and steel wire; a £3 a ton or 20 per cent. ad valorem, whichever is the greater, on iron, steel, wire and nails; £8 a ton on galvanized hexagonal wire netting and 381-3 per cent. ad val- orem on other kinds is also included. The new schedule will operate Feb. 28. The Treasury order exempts from customs duty chargeable under the Import Duties Act bismuth metal. eee ems. French Coal Production Drops Paris--Coal production in France in 1932 dropped from 51,060,792 me- tric tons the previous year to 47, 267,676 metric tons, according to sta- t'stics just issued. The number of workers employed by the coal indus- try dropped correspondingly from 275,356 in Deceml :, 1981, to 264,688 in December, 1932, The production of metallurgical cake was liewise re- duced from 4,625,131 tons to 8,325, 881 tons, On the other hand, the pro- duction of briquettes was 5,442,632 tons in 1932 compared to 5,008,147 tons the year before. pumpkin or two put away for winter use, . But while we are not favoured with | a very long growing season, it ia true, we have compensition in hotter sun- shine and longer hours of daylight, which permit us to grow many things that Britain, for instance, must im- port, and it we take full advantage of the long lists of vegetables we can grow, our calendar might be extended almost the year round. In the winter, besides enjoying our own cabbage, po~ tatoes, turnips and similar hardy things from the cellar, we may have fresh rhubarb and mushrooms growing in the same place. ' If we possess a hot bed or bit of greenhouse we may have lettuce, cress and radish ready for the table in March. Asparagus, rhubarb, peren- nial onions and parsnips come along the first thing in the spring and these are followed by lettuce, radish, spin- ach and similar things which are ready for use from three to six weeks after planting. Fifty days after sow- ing, the earliest peas are ready and by using an early, medium and late Peo, or successional plantings, we may continue using them for weeks. The first thinming of beets make excellent greens and are taken out six weeks af- ter sowing. Baby carrots are delicious and are ready about the same time, By making several sowings and using early, as well as late, types, we spread the supply of fresh vegetables over the entire growing season. Late white corn will remain fn perfect con- dition for several weeks after frost if we cut stalks and all and store, and tomatoes will continue to ripen until Christmas if vines are pulled and hung up in the cellar, By handling the well-known vegetables in this fas- hion, 'and by gradually extending our list of new things until we have tried everything offered in the seed cata- logue, we can develop our vegetable garden to its full possibilities. General Lay-outs Though we exercise our ingenuity or architectural skill and our pocket books to the utmost, a house without growing things aout it is but half com- plete. Something is needed to soften the harsh lines and to tie the whole affair down to Mother Earth. To do this the gardener uses a variety of material, grass, flower beds, vines, shrubbery and trees. 'The general theory is the same in all cases, but the effects are individual. If the pro- perty is our own we will use perman- ent things in the way of creepers and shrubbery, but if we simply are a ten- ant and expect to move In the near future, we may "depend upon annuals entirely and make a fairly good job of it, because under this heading we _--_-- --ee-------- Doing Nicely After Assassin's Attack i Inst the house one can use any of the clinging vines, semi-clinging Dutchman's Pipe and narrow California Cedars close to the walls are effective. 2a ? Ee In this city has gone off the gold standard, and the businets of giving birth to children bids fair to go back in the economics of Toledo's birth rate last week was brought forcibly received two dozen eggs in payment for his services in assisting at the birth of a child. The physician's experience in that instance is typical of many others recorded by professional men here. Proverbially the last to be paid for their , many physicians and dentists, are treating more patients flow than they did three years ago. But they find when they send out their statements that the cash cus- tomers are even slower to meet bills today than in prosperous time, eee x Says 2-Cents Tablet Will Make Gallon of Perfect Motor Fuel Paris.--Invention of a tablet which dicsolved In water will produce a per- fect tdiel for internal-combustion mo- tors, replacing gasoline, is claimed by a Russian inventor, Professor Jdarloff, formerly of the Imperial College of Sciences, Petrograd. Professor Jdardloff states that this doughnut-shaped tablet, composed entirely of vegetable matter, costs less than 2 cents and is sufficient to turn one gallon of water into a practi- cal carburant. He claims the new fuel possesses the same qualities 'as high-test gasoline. Professor Jdarloff lives- in two rooms adj 8 his laboratory in a suburb of Paris, where a motor was seen running with his fuel. He states he'ls not seeking financial ald, a8 his product is being investigated by the French Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of. War, France Leads World - In Air Strength : Britain is Fifth Washington.--The United States is ranked second to France in military air strength, in figures supplied the House Appropriations Committee by the navy, «-~ The planes listed by the July 1, 1982, were: France, 3244; United States, 3014; Japan, 2822; Italy, 2688, and Great Britain, 1900, : Because most of the air strength of Great Britain, France and Italy is pooled under a separate air force, comparisons between army plane numbers and navy plase numbers were not available for the five pow- ors: g navy as of London.--Professor E. 8. Water- house of London University, speaking at Christ .Church, divided married people into four quarters, with the following reactions: * he. "One quarter is ideally happy; a second quarter is more happy than unhappy; a third quarter is more un- happy than happy; and the fourth quarter is absolutely miserable," those who wanted to ve cave men; those who wanted to be chum men, and those who wanted to be cradle on a barter basis. This development things like the Rambling | ington, Yonkers," New York, are likely to be interested, is to be form- ed. The estimated cost of the plant is placed at $125,000. Ottawa--The Dominion Horticultur. ~ ist at the Canadian Government Cen- tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, re- ports a marked increase in correspon. dence relating to ornamental horti- culture, indicating an increasing-de- to the attention of one physician who! sire on the part of the public to make their home surroundings attractive Experience gained with collections ol plants under test and methods of growing. them, form the basis of re. plies sent to these correspondents. Winnipeg, Man.--The [Industrial Development Board of *Manitobs draws attention to the increasing pre duction of yarn made on hand spin ning wheels by fettlers in the inter. lake district. This has given rise te a new irdustry, the manufacture ol spiniing wheels, which, aré being turned out in large numbers by a firm at Winnipegosis. Regina, Sask.--It is reported that a British industries exhibit "will be staged in the Confederation Building of the Regina Exhibition Association | ut the time of the World's Grain Ex-= * Men he divided into three types: | hibition and Conference, July 24 'tu August 5, 1933. The city of Regina is the centre of the Canadian West, and the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference is likely to be visited by thousands of people, not only from Western Canada, but from many diff- erent parts of the world. Edronton, Alta.--A prominent fea- ture of some of the Canadian fairs this year will be exhibits of British and Empire products, and Edmonton will be no exception. Tt is officially a d that the Edmonton E (hibi- tion and Fair, to be held from July 17 to July 22 this summer, will have a special display of British goods. Vancouver, B.C.--Gold mining in British Columbia appears to be on the eve of an important expansion in view of the many promising develop- ments taking place in the various mining districts. Activity has been marked in both placer and lode gold mining, and recent developments, especially in the latter, indicate that gold production in the- Pacific coast province may soon reach an all-time record. Gold producing properties with their own milling equipment now include seven major projects, while six others appear to be near the poin* of production. * Mild Winter and Gulf Stream If the Gulf Stream were to hug the Atlantic coast noth of the Carolinas, ousting the Labfador current, there would be no more cold weather in Winter for the North Atlantic states. An -impression that the mildness of the last two seasons has been due to a swerving of the ctre.m many miles west is dissipated again by a naval officer, this time a lieutenant on a British-destroyer which has been mak- ing a survey letween Halifax and Bermuda. He states that the Golf Stream has not changed its course at all with relation to the Atlantic coast, and that its limits south of Nova Scotia as outlined in the Admiralty charts printed in 1911 "check perféct- LSE ly with its present positio . 0 Sih . » "rr .