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Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA The "Hike" Grows Popular ° There is more than passing interest in the news that, on the recent holi- day, 150 members of Lake Shore ,Young People's Societies hiked to a meeting place at Port Credit. A generation or so ago the r and pathways about Toronto-<and all other urban centres--were well trodden by pedestrians. 'What better method of locomotion is there for the man who is not in a hurry? Can it be that young people along the lake shore are catching this spirit of their forefathers, who walked all over this new country? In England the week-end "hike" is perhaps more popular than it ever was; and young Canadians cannot do better than fol- low this example -- putting the best foot forward.--Toronto Globe. Edison and Nickel The Edisons have patented a clatm tn the Sudbury district which confirms) what Edison himself told the present writer in 1906. He wag at that time working on a storage battery which required large quantities of nickel. He said he had gone up and prospected In that country himself, and he drew mn oval on a sheet of paper. This, he said, was the crater of an ancient vol- cano, In the southwest tract of the oval, he said, the Copper Cliff mines were situated. Then he indicated a point in the northeast portion of the oval and said: "There is where I found what I want.""--Hamilton Herald. An Austrian Warning Perhaps 'Austria is where the term ¥taxoline" came from. At any rate, taxes on gasoline amounting to 24c a gallon plus other fees, have resulted In 16,500 Austrian automobile owners turning in their license plate in three months, says the Associated Press. This is a clear case of how the gov- Suen! fin kill the goose that coughs ap the sheckels, which should not be overlooked in this country.--St. Thom- as Times-Journal. Gigantic Project The very frugal Dutch are now lift- fg up the bottom of the sea for agri- cultural extension. The dairy indus- try of Holland is a national asset. Six thousand men 'are at work on their great reclamation work of reclaiming submerged lands, which also have served to solve the Dutch unemploy- ment problem this winter. However, another quarter of a century will have to pass and another $375,000,000 be spent before the work of the reclaim- Ing the submerged land of the Zuider Zee can be completed.--Brandon Sun, Commercial Education The time has come when, more than ®ver, commerce should no longer be considered a simple game of chance. It is essential that commercial opera- tions should be subjected to precise rules, so that results may be predict- ed with the least possible risk of er- ror. In other words, commercial en- terpriser should be organized on the basis of a true science. Canada can with advantage systemize her com- mercial activities, seeking out the sys- ten. which best suits her requirements. The co-operation of manufacturers and traders in the Dominion should be ob- tained in teaching in Canadian schools the commercial and industrial system which has been decided on. When othér countries are organizing their tommerce it is not for us to sit back with folded arms. Success is the re- ward offered for serious e:orts to build up an army of specialists in com- merce.--La Presse, « Value of Laughter It is not recorded who first said "A fittle nonsense now and then is re] lished by the best of men." But who- ever it was, he might with equal ac- curacy have observed that a great deal of nonsense is rélished at any time by most men. In business or pleasure, @ laugh is as hungrily sought as any- thing else that may be on the pro- gram. The business of living is in- volved in so many hardships and wor- ries that the most trivial nonsense helps to make life brighter and bet- ter. It has been said that a sense of humor is a saving grace; but no two Joosie seem to have the same sense humor. Perhaps the best is that Which enables one to see enough of the funay side of the experiences of lite; tragic as some of them are, to h through difficulties and perceive the laughable side of the ng when fate drives him through o bring 'patches. -- Moncton Tran- ; Future of Hockey Hockey has built million dollar scoldings for the transgressions of their offspring which it is the fashion, | Just now, to give the 'parent class. Perental discipline may be more lax than in some earlier generations, if 'modern youth can transfer respon- sibility for their faults and failings to their parents, why can not the modern parents plead that they are just as their parents taught them to be, or let them be, and so start a buck-pass- ing sequence extending to the upbring- ing of Adam and Eve? Possibly the loudly proclaimed grievances are to a considerable ex- tent imaginary, Every"now and then there sounds above the chorus of "something must be done about it" a voice or two that suggests the possi- bility that youth and the ways of youth are not particularly new phen- omena--that modern youth is essen- tially the same as were the complain- ing elders of their own youth.--Kings- ton Whig-Standard. THE EMPIRE Progress in Britain Thera is substantial reason for sat- isfaction in the continued improve ment of the figures of unemployment. In February there was a fall of 46,000, in March of 80,000, and we now have the returns for April, which show a further decline of 78,000. The fotal has thus been brought below 2,700,000. A reduction of more than 200,000 it three months of such international un- easiness is far greater than we could have expected. We found employment last month for 9,534,000 people, 91,000 more than a year ago.--London Daily Telegraph. New Detectives What we badly need is a new type of detective and a new technique of crime detection to give a fillip to our jaded appetite for crime stories. Quite obviously the one person who can fun- nish it is Lord Trenchard' He is pro- posing to modernize the Force in sev eral drastic ways, and among other things adumbrates a sort of Police Sandhurst. To the Institute of Scien- tific Crime Research, where the C.LD. will take its post-graduate course, we shall look, if it ever materializes, for the new men and the new methods. "The criminal," says Lord Trenchard, "has become more skilful, more mo- bile and more scientific." In a word, he comes daily nearer to the fiction reader's beau-ideal of what a criminal ought to be.--London Evening News, - Tramways Banned In Italy the Minister of Transport has sentenced the tramcar to death. He has done it in the approved man- ner of Fascist Governments--by de- priving it of full rights of citizenship. Henceforth no tramcar may enter a scheduled zone in the heart of the chief Italian cities. It will languish for lack of support, and disappear as quickly ag it chooses on the outskrts. Nobody here cares very much for the tramcar either. It is cumbersome to other traffic and costly in itself. It would have died long ago if it had not been constantly revived with fresh in- Jections of public money from muni- cipal rates. That maney can no more be recovered mow than money spent long ago in doctors' bills to save a hopeless patient.--London Daily Ex- press. Asylum in Britain The likelihood that a certain num- ber of men of distinction unable to live safely in Germany may seek a home in this country, as so many re- fugees from political persecution have done in the past, makes it necessary to scrutinize the Government's policy regarding the admission of aliens rath- er closely. Technically, it would be an abandonment of all the best tra ditions of this country if our doors were to be closed to the men of emin- ence whom Germany is expelling from her borders. Our gain in admitting them would be manifest and it would not be merely a moral gain.--London Spectator. Choice of Goods The purchaser has lost the habit of, and desire for, choice, I say that this mental and spiritual disease is more important than the merely mechani- cal fact of cheap production. Such a statement will sound fantastic in the ears of those who are a as all modern men are, to implied ma- terialism. Yet here, as in every other department, it is the mind that gov- erns and not the material conditions. It is notorious that in certain districts, in certain trades covering great num- bers of people, choice is still exer- cised, and has a great effect. For in- stance, I would quote the demand for Cheshire cheese among the Lanca- shire operatives. They know what they want and they insist upon it; they will not accept, as will men in the south, a substitute or an inferior article~--Hilaire Bellog iw The Eng-| lish Review. ~~ THE UNITED STATES [Esthetic Crime Judgihg from luable painting 3 is reported Here we see a Toronto miss who has taken up the cycling craze with enthusiasm. One of the favorite bicycle routes is High Park Blvd, where this picture was taken, Search City's Sewers for Radium Capsule Albany, N.Y.--A capsule containing $10,000 worth of radium was sought last week in Albary's sewer system. The radium, property of Albany Hos pital, was lost early this morning. A patient who was being treatd for can- cer accidentally allowed it to be wash- ed down a drain. Men equipped with electroscopes promptly began a search of the city sewer traps. The instru- ments readily detect the presence of radium. NI. of Manchoukuo Players Geneva.--The Manchoukuo Commit- tee of the Leagu: of Nations decided that Manchoukuo tennis players should be barred from Davis Cup play if they tried to enter the competition, Lecause Davis Cup drawings possessed official character. Manchoukuo, now trying unsuccess- fully to gain recognition as an inde- pendent state, formerly was Man- churia, a part of China. H , the i that it would be unable to prevent Manchoukuo athletes from entering the Olympic games in 1936 because the Olympics are privately organized. docided d, a gr , to hide her $700 worth of diamonds is some place where burglars would never find th mpton Oratory were mar- In Insurance Urged New York--The need for better- trained salesmen and buyers of in- surance and the writing of contract forms so that they clearly and compre- hensively cover each specific feed are the fundamentals for satisfactory settlements of claims without con- "There appears to be too general a lack of are high can only be reduced by the prevention of loss." There is a deadlock between the Houses on two major aspects, The Senate voted a § per cent cut on gov- ernment appropriations. The Cham- ber refused to accede to this, The|} Senate rejected a provision for a governmental oil monopoly, and the Chamber then voted the provision back into the bill, The situation led to fears that passage of the budget might be de- layed until next month. was this week by pilots of the American Airways, Each afternoon, Pilots Bart Cox and Co-Pilot M, L, Blackmore of the American Airways, are given an extra paper by one of the afternoon dailies here when they load the news- papers destined for distribution in the Imperial Valley, "We don't know who the men are, but every day at about 6 o'clock we see them standing lutside their cabin waiting for the paper," Mr. Cox said. "I bring the plane down within a few hundred feet of the ground. and Mr, Blackmore tosses the paper out to them. Then they scramble for fit, and wave their thanks as we go on." Rm ------ Lady Wilkins to Cook For Expeditionary Crew Lady Wilkins, wife of Sir Hubert Wilkins, the exploter, is looking for- ward to a job as cook in her hus- band's proposed submarine expedition to the North Pole next year. She has already been "signed on." Lady Wilkins, on her arrival at Southampton with her husband re- cently, said, "I am looking forward eagerly to the experience, for I am sure I shall love it. All my women friends think I am crazy, but with a crew of about ten men on board to feed I shall have enough to do." Before her marriage in 1929, Lady Wilkins was Suzanne Bennett, an Australian actress. ER IR Regina Citize: Willow Leaf Beetles Regina.--Armed with sprayers and arsenate, Regina citizens "mopped up" of Western Willow Leaf ich invaded the city. Mil- little pests swarmed into took possession of bushes Foliage disappeared as if until householders opened wi of the ity and trees. magic ir barrage. ------ New Bivalve Mousetrap Catch Mice in Pai Tacoma, Wash.--An oyster sprung cl the trap on two mice looking for a oyster. The opened shell clamped down on the heads of the mice, appar- ently as they took their first nibble at the bivalve, niversity Leeds.--The Court of Leeds Uni- versity has decided to confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters on Frederick Delius, the blind com- Doser, a mative of Bradford, England, now living in retirement near Paris, Mr, Delius, owing to ill-health, will .| be unable to travel to this country, and the degree absence ~| dian Mounted Police, will be conferred in|og . fama Canal, | and. San Francisco. 2 | lias prevented a International conferences from being and Standing. Committees of the In- . | ternational Council of Women, which has Lady Aberdeen as president, are to be held in Stockholm from June 26- July 6, and will also include a Rural Women's Conference, to which Coun- trywomen's 'Associations from all over the world are sendMg delegates. Beauty Competitions At the meetings cutive many interestng resolutio will be discussed. Dutch women in- tend to protest against the evil of beauty competitions for women and ,| children. They will .also propose an all-round investigation regarding wo- men's and children's. prisons, houses .| of detention, police stations and the way in which women and children who are charged with an offence or a crime are treated in the various countries. Polish women will uge the holding of conferences on the life' and cus- toms of other countries in order to promote a better understanding be- tween peoples. Norwegian, Danish and Swedish women 'will protest against the limitations of women's work, whether married or unmarried. The adoption of an International Aux iliary Language will be proposed by Danish women. Honor to Lady Aberdeen at! French women will propose the in- sertion of the name of the Marchion- ess of Aberdeen and Temair upon the Roll of Honor of Famous Women which was adopted &t the last trien- nial conference at Vienna. In dddition to the business meetings there will be a ceremonial welcome meeting at the Grand Hotel, Stock- holm, which will be graced by the presence of H.R.H. the Crown Princess of Sweden; a cinema evening, when choice Swedish films will be shown and a meeting on employment in rela- tion to youth, when speakers from four countries will deal with a subject that touches upon one of the most serious and urgent problems of our trae. od Open Door International From July 24-28," at the Senate House, Prague, the Open Door Inter- national will plead for the economic. emancipation of the woman worker in all "civilized countries. The growing attack on the right of the woman, par- ticularly the 'married 'woman, to earn her living as freely as others, will pro- vide much interesting discussion at ths forthcoming Conference, in which Miss Chrystal Macmillan, the well known Scottish feminist lawyer, is ex- pected ta play a leading part. In its "Call" to the conference, the Open Door International reminds dele- gates of the various measures militat- ing against women's right to work which have been recently passed in many countries--Australian legislation deprivifig 600 women teachers of their work; a German law which permits the State to dismiss its women em- ployees on marriage; recent British' measures by which women are being turned out of local Government em- ployment, and are having their em- ployment and sickness insurance rates cut down; American legislation which forbids night work to women; and attempts in a number of European countries to deprive married women of employment, This wide-spreading retrogression will be animatedly dis- cussed at the Prague Conference. mr ------ Vessel Sets Record For Cruise to Coast Ottawa. -- Establishing something like a record in voyages of the pre- ventive service of the Royal Cana- the customs cruiser. Adversus clipped 16 days off r trip from Halifax to Vancouver, ter of the Adversus, reported to his chief last week, bt The cruiser left Halifax on April 12, Her schedule called for arrival at the Pacific Coast station on May "The ship touched at Kingston, Jamaica, passed through the Pan- 5 of the LC.W. Exe-| ™ v solutions according to headquarters of that]. corps here, Capt, J. W, Bonnar, mas. more than anything else. into fame by walking 500 m days. Then he stopped selling and set out to make a living travelling against time or any petitor who thought he was fast his feet. Whether it was a six-day grind or a ten-mile * sprint, in his palmy days knew nothing He was a young man vhier the heel-and-toe experts were in the spotlight, if there was such a thing in those days. After vanquishing all rivals in the United gi Haws Dan tries, where all his contests ended in easy victories, and he became the ac- knowledged champion pedestrian of the world. Togs msi Such a man could not stop. walkij and until a few weeks before he proached the end of the road he could average six miles and hour for two or three hours, It was c yi His health and spirit were phetiomen- al and it was one of his boasts that he would live well beyond the century traveller along the road of life, vam. quished 'Dan 'O'Leary as he entered the ranks of the nonagenarians. He was a man of happy nature, and had a characteristic explanation for his wonderful vitality, even as an old man, "I never stay in one place long enough to get stale," he said. "Life is always fresh for me. That is my secret." In this buoyant spirit it might be said 'grand old Dan O'Leary literally walk: ed away into the valley of the shadow of death.--Toronto Globe. Manch Approves $75,000 for Jehol Relief Chinchow, Manchuria.~To relieve the serious shortage of food in-Jehol Province, which followed the conquest of that area by the Japanese army, the Manchukuo government has appro priated $75,000 gold for the purchase of provisions. { Several American-made trucks, car: rying the first supplies, have arrived in Chi h (Jehol City), the capital, The f. will be distributed at cost to those who can pay and will be sup: plied free to the penniless. Some of the population appear to be glad the Japanese have come, say- ing they were exploited und over- taxed by former regimes. As a re lief measure, the Japanese have ord ered taxesireduced and have lowered the revenue tax.on opium, one of the chief products of the province, nearly one-half, lL Proceeds Sale of Stamps ¥ For London Hospital London, Eng,--King George, who is a great stamp collector, sent 156 stamps to a London sale on behalf of the Royal Ear Hospital, London. Seven of the stamps were issued in Trinidad to commemorate a visit the King, when Duke of York, to island in 1891, Only four sets were printed. One was sold on behalf the British Red Cross Society during the war, and the two other sets are stamp, and a St. Helena pen- ny "all red" King Edward, prepared but not issued. The King's stamps brought in a total of $1,065. Fishermen at Visby, Sweden, have found in a cave a collection of gold, silver, and bronze ornaments, which Viking, ¥ i. | 6, and arrived at Vancouver on. May ; $0 and called at San Diego Dan O'Leary never refused a challenge, aig at a time when O'Leary appearéd in the older coun had walked more than 300,000 miles. mark. But Father Time, the tireless it is believed belonged to some ancient.