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---- | Voice of the Press NOE . . NA Canada, I'he Empire and Ihe World at Large edge on my story.--J. R. Hale, in the Rn Canada Orillia Packet-Times. 3) CANADIANS. SECRETS NO LONGER. ai! The disturbance of a year or two Yes, this is a wonderful age, In Wa ago over the question of Canadian fast, few of us realize just how won- as nationality has evidently borne fruit, or " 2 age 'it is. The grouches Ar with thé announcement that children wo elu 4 ag sid ges Only the EE born in Canada can now be desigat- 0 eo W s00n , hay NAS ed on their birth certificates as "Can. | Passed, and the progress of sclence|. 24 adians." The following significant hi ake life so transparent that & paragraph is added to the birth certi: dare hy hot be even a secret -to Xs ficate: "Nationality is defined as the yeu Ree up in one's heart and CA country to wheih the person owes al Ma h ey have invented a way by XN legiance. The term 'Canadian' should Whi Tr poll owhon go. A "be uced as descriptive of every per- + 2° d » UDLE : i a son who has rights of citizenship in pert ge is telling the truth oh 4 ' Canada. Every person born in Can- or Jying. They have the X-ray ma. : ¥ ada should be entered as 'Canadian' SHAS au hosing 3 Hands ah unless he or she has subsequently be- come the citizen of another country. With all our vaunfing of Canada's proud position as an autonomous na- tion in the British Commonwealth of Nations, it has required until 1934 A.D. to remedy the anomalous and preposterous condition which denied Canadians the right to call themselves 'Canadian'.'--Simcoe Reformer. THEY READ EDITORIALS. At noon today a fine, manly, up- standing young chap left the Star office with a copy of the paper in his hand. He went across the street,-- and listen carefully, you editors,--. gat 'down in his car and spread. out the paper. He started to thumb the piges. He passed up the front page without notice, carefully unravelled the paper till he got his eye on pages 2 and 3, immediately wet his thumb again, and unleashed another page. Al, here was what he wanted to see first! The editorial page! And the intelligent youth spread it out and began to enjoy himself. Now why was that remarkable? Because it was the first time this column had ever 'seen anybody. delib- erately- hunting up the editorial page to read its contents before tackling any other part of the paper. It struck us as the outstanding event of the day. , That voung man is a credit to Al- gomua. If he is in business he will' wind up a very rich man. If he is in politics he will likely be premier gome day. But in any case he has knocked on the head one of our fav- orite theories--that nobody ever reads the editorials. We thank him, and anything In reason he can have from thie column even to leaving his name oul of the paper if he ever gets into police court. Ju:t what the event portends is beyond us.--Sault Ste. Mavie Star. Ry BR" x; ee Tra Nara EN a Bo a PILLOWS AND SOAP. 'fhe New York visitor notices pecu- liay evidences of economy. At one famous hotel, which cost millions of dollars, the beds in singlerooms are provided with only one pillow apiece. The aggregate saving in laundry and seivice thus effected in a very large -- Says + hosfelry is considerable. The bath- rooms ave not as plentifully supplied with cakes of soap as they used to be. In the magnificent Grand Cen- tral Station on the 42nd Street the incom ng baggage department has been closed so that incoming. and onteoing haggage are handled by a single staff. Here again a consider ab e¢ saving has been achieved. These are examples of the far-reaching economies that are being practiced <7 south of the international border.-- a 3 : Toronto Mail and Empire. i REMINDERS OF "TAY PAY." ox on The presence of Sir Basil Thomson AEN | in Paris to help solve the Stavisky ANE 4 affair recalls that "Tay Pay". 0'Con- yrds 4 nor once was requested by him, when 3) : ~me.ropolitan police head, to lend an Pits es bf editorial hand to prohibit comic pol- vi icemen on the films. Which, in turn, K7§ recalls, according to Hamilton Fyfe's "Life of T. P.' that Justin McCarthy : once said to O'Connor: "T. Py when ¢ you reach Heaven, it won't be more than an hour before you have a cohort of angels setting type for "T.P.'s Dally Glory'." "T. Ps own : : vision was hardly so flattering. Ot FAL "When | am on my deathbed," he f said, "and the friars are gathering round to shrive me, I will be found with a typewriter on my chest pound- ing out an article to pay the funeral i : expenses."--a prophecy all too near- PATHE ly fulfilled. --Winnipeg Tribune. WIDOWS AND PENSIONS. One evening while in Toronto 1 was relating an incident which occurred fn Orillia this winter. On a certain Saturday night a man who has spent practically all his days in Orillia died at a good ,age, and the next morning ___a neighbor's wife came to see the widow. During the conversation the bereaved woman made the remark that it was too bad it was Sunday as "| lined detect any foreign substance there. But the X-ray does not reveal many ailments that are so often both mys- terious and distressing, Now there has been invented, and recently tried at Philadelphia, a small cylinder tube that is a camera, with a tiny electric bulb attached. No one can predict what another fifty years may bring to humanity.--Winchester Press. TRUE. Somehow we feel sure the seeds being sown in our garden will never turn out to be such beautiful vege- tables as those appearing in brilliant color on the packages.= Smiths Falls Record-News. The Empire THE ALTERNATIVE. Auckland Newe--If, as is now open- ly said, neither disarmament nor Aa limitation of armaments is generally acceptable, hut merely a limitation of re-armament, the sooner all the facts are authoritatively known the sooner will peace with security be attainable. The alternative is an unchecked drift into competitive arming, with a ghastly tragedy as its only outcome, -- + r ' SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF. The Empire Review--With the re- opening of the Royal Ontario Museum after being closed for some months for rearrangement and building ad- ditlong, there is & distinct ttep for- ward in Empire culture and learning. "This can best be appreciated by stat- ing that, outside of London, the col- lection in Toronto is more than the equal in a genera] way of any other in the British Empire, and in some branches is the leader in the field. Remembering the recent birth of Can- ada as a nation, and the small popu- lation of the Dominion compared with its vast area, it scemed to me a gi gantic monument raised in venera- tion of the world's hictoric past. THE MUSHROOM SEASON. Johannesburg Times--South Africa has long been famed for her splendid mushrooms--not the edible variety, but the mushroom mining companies that are here today and gone tomor- row. They have been with us ever since gold and diamonds were first unearthed in this country, and probably be with us long after the last diamond and the last grain of gold have been disgorged. In min- ing boom times, tuch as we have ex- perienced during the past twelve ulent, and there can hardly be a bot- tom drawer in the land that is not with beautiful but valueless serip.--We-are a patient yet venture- some community and probably noth- ing will ever prevent us from risking a gamble in what we always hope will prove a second Sub-Nigel--and, especially of late, there have been many stories to encourage us ot long worthless shares suddenly achi- eving considerable value woing to un- expected re-flotations. There is also an encouraging sign in the increasing tendency among shareholders to take a healthy interest in the activities of their chosen companies. WEATHER IN AUSTRALIA. The Australasian--This Marcli has seen the tropics leave their usual habitations north of Capricorn and descend upon_Victoria and South Australia, It is a safe rule to talk about the weather it one has nothing else interesting to say; but talk about weathery conditions in Melbourne and Adelaide lately has not been dictated by the demands of politeness. In Melbourne, of course, pected in weather is always the ex: pected; but the spectacle of autumn leaves falling In a heat-wave 1s a triumph of the incongruous, The only people who can have derived any satisfaction from the hot days are the weather officials, who, at least, have will! months they become particularly vir-| the unex Tiny June R 'She did it with her little hatchet, Fe tits £7 Sai ol edding, 21-year-old girl, who -weights only a mere 90 pounds, beat up three men who tried to abduct her sister and herself. pardon we mean shoes--see them? Workers Increase By 150,000 Total of 847,993 Employed in- Canada on April | as Against 1933. -- Gain is Analyzed : OTTAWA--AnN increase of almost 150,000 was shown in the number of persons employed on April 1, when 8,477 employers reported 847,993 per: sons employed as compared with 7,- .1 975 firms having 698,644 workers on the same date last year, cays a report' issued recently by the Dominion Bur: ean of S'a.istics. Increases were shown in manufac- turing, especially of leather, lumber, textile and fron and steel products. Metallic ore mining, building con- struction, services and trade also showed improvement; the gains In trade were unusually large, having only once been exceeded in the years since 1920. On the other "hand, log- ging camps reported very large sea- sonal reductions, a reaction from an exceptionally active season in bush work, and there were important de- clines in railway construction and maintenance; the persons released by the employers furnishing data in these two industries numbered ap- proximately 13,600 from logging and 6,400 from track maintenance. Pro- nounced curtailment of a seasonal nature also 'occurred in coal-mining, and transportation was slacker. i In the Maritime Provinces employ- { ment was in greater volume than at : the beginning of April, 1933. On the hase 1926 equals 100, the index stood iat 95.1 as compared with 78.2 on the | same date last year. I In Quebec manufacturing, metal- lic ore mining, services and retail ! trade afforded more employment, while textile, and iron and steel fac- | tories recorded greater activity. Small pulp and paper and other plants. | Bains were also reported in lumber, { The index on April 1 stood at 85.1, {as compared with 73.1 on April 1, 1933. Manufacturing showed further re- covery in Ontario at the first of April, 1934, notably in iron and 'steel products, while improvement also took place in leather, lumber, non: ferrous metal, rubber and textile factories. In the non-manufacturing groups, mining, steam railway trans. portation, highway construction, ser- vices and retail trade to the comple- tion of seasonal operations, and building and railway construction were also slacker. On April 1 the in. dex was 98.7 as compared with 78.3 on the corresponding date last year. As Is customary in the early Spring employment in the Prairie Provinces declined; the loss, however, was less than the average indicated in the last 13 years, and also involved a much smaller number of workers than that which occurred on April 1, 1933. The index at 78.3, was then five points lower than on the date under review. Most of the decline at the beginning of April in the. present year took place in coal-mining, but highway and railway - construction, logging and lumbering also showed curtailment. On the other hand, re tail and wholesale trade reported im- geen new records established. "Let| provement. The working forces of the SN almost makes me sorry my husband 33 died." SAS) 2 ¥ 1 think my Toronto friend had the -ghe could not go up to see ahout her pension, She had children young enough to claim the allowance. A man who heard me tell the story turned to his wife and said: "Now tell yours." She then related an in. cident she had come across in Tor- onto. A man died and his wife ap- plied for the . allowance. For some reason there were delays and the money was not forthcoming. She. be- gan to weary of the delays, and one day remarked to a friend that "It our seasons be seasonable" is a slo- gan (in this age of slogans) which Victoria may adopt in the future, The old idea of an orderly flow of sea: gons--"If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?"--is discredited. The weather god apparently relies upon the toss of a coin, That may be an easy way of administering the flow {of the seasons; 'but it is very in. considerate! We deem those happy who, from the 'experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being over- come by them.--Juvenal, S ' 1,263 co-operating' employers aggre: , gated 104,186 persons, compared with 104,928 on March 1, : An advance was indicated in Brit ish Columbia, according to returns tabulated by the bureau from 843 firms with 171,371 employes. A rather. large Increase had been {noted on April 1 of a year ago, but employment was then in smaller volume. There were gains on the date under review in manufacturing, especially of lumber products, and in building and railway construction and retall trade, while shipping companies | raleased heln White Most Flatter'g New Evening Gown has Long Sleeves -- Both Crisp and Soft Materials in Vogue for Summer HOLLYWOOD--WHhite, in any ma- terial that is cool, and the modern substitutes for crinoline with their fresh crispness are advised for sum- mer wear by the Hollywood stylists. From the most informal dresces worn in the morning, from beach togs, tennis frocks and street wear gowns to gowns of formal importance, Orry Kelly says white is the most adapt- able and flattering of all colors woman to choose. This theory is gown designed by Kelly Dvorak. It is ¢imply made of white crepe and the skirt is illustrated in a slight fullness at its er line, set in with flesh-toned mar- crystal buttons, which form an an- chorage for a detachable cape wrap that has an exciting military dash. Two interesting touches are the use of long sleeves, even for a sum- mer evening gown, and the draped sash, which ties in front. With printed frocks, in pastel or bright tones, the practical combina- tion of an ensemble jacket of solid white is suggested by designer, Kelly. sponsoring the new vogue of crisp- ness. He is desighing gowns for sun mer in such brittle material as organ- die, mousseline de soie, stiff piques and failles, net, tulle, Despite their apparent frailty make themselves suitable- for summer occasion, Conscience Girl's Refusal of Her Championship Won Title at Bridge Olympic Through Connivance -- Culbertson Commends Honesty : they every NEW YORK--The National Bridge Association announced that a con- science-stricken Chicago girl had 're- tased to accept the Illinois champion- Her partner played the hands she should have played through the con- nivance of opponents, The Illinois State title was awarded originally to J. K. Howe, - and his partner, Miss Josephine Marks, of Chicago. i The association announced receipt of a letter from Howe saying that Miss Marks felt she could not accept the trophy; she had taken two les: sons in bidding from Howe before the tournament, but never had played a hand; her conscience told her that. the. victory was u other plhyers. In consequence the state title awarded to Breese Davenport Dr. E. D. Seymour, both of Streator, Howe and Miss Marks were duplicates of the Illinois champion: ghip trophles and Ely Culbertson commended them for honesty. was and BOOKS FROM THE SICK "ROOM tt Books that have been used in the are of little value, or, valvable, they should by thorough airing and sunning and Adaptable of Colors Royer, the Fox sartorial expert, is Causes. | for a light as the proverbial | tor Ann' shoes do not insitt on a silver lining, sheer but all other most delicate shades in intrl-! soft kid line the exclusive shoes now-, cately cut in a moulded line, with a adays or sometimes a lower edge. The kid in shades that most aptly blend bodice has conical slits at the should-| with the outside of the shoe. quisette and garnished with two huge. tinguish the women of fine taste. i and maline.| i ship of last winter's bridge Olympic tion, Detroit, president of the Assoc- | | ] ' Japan Seeki 1940 Olympiad or 2600th Anniversary Fair TOKIO. -- Tokio already is planning the Orient's greatest "World's Fair to be held seven years hence and hoping to bring here at the same time the twelfth Olympic games If the orthodox Japanese histories are accepted literally (which they are not by Western scholars) the Empire of Japan will be 2600 years old in 1040. It was February 11, 660 B. C. to give the exact date fixed by the 'Ancient. Books' that the first Emp-|' orer, Jimmu Tenno, great-great- grandson of the "divine ancestress" of the Japanese people, the sun. god- dess Amatrasu-O-Mi-Kami' took pos- session of the islands of Nippon and established the dynasty which still reigns. Hirohito, the present mikado, is considered to be the 123rd succes- sor of Jimmu Tenno, Thus Japan's World Fair will cel- ebrate history as measured by mil- lenniums as contrasted with the brief centuries of history commemorated by the expositions staged by cities of America, Chicago's 'Century of Pro- gress St. 101is' "Louisiann Purch. ase J xposition" gnd the rest. - Promoters of the fair already are holding committee meetings and have petitioned the government to estab- lish an official exposition association at an early date, The exposition is to be called the Dai Nippon Bankoku Hakurankal, or "Great Japan All- tions to participate will be sent to 53 countries. Sa Present plans call for a sevens month session, 'beginning April 3rd, 1940, since Apr? 8rd is observed in Japan as the anniversary of the death of Jimmu Tenno in 581 B, C. Since 1928 'Japnese. sports leaders have been trying to obtain the agree- ment of the Olympic committee to hold the 1946 Olympiad in Tokio that year having been selected because of Countries Exposition," and invita: sents in Japanese history, or tradition and because plans for the big exposi- tion have been taking form for sever- al years. : . White Canvas Boot _ For the Seashore Look Like Riding Gear -- Protect Satin Slippers From Sand" PARIS--"Beauty and the Beast" has been corrupted to "Boots and the Beach" since Worth showed the new and exciting white canvas boots for the sunny seasides, They resemble riding boots in line, but can be worn on various occasions. They can even be worn--slipped on over delicate evening shoes--when one is going to a beach party and {it Is easier and quicker to reach the destination by way of the beach than the -inlana road. They protect the satin slippers from the sands, Another type of beach shoe is Vera Borea's "Bootee" in white kid This laces across the front of the foot but leaves the toes bare. It gives the bathing ensemble a rather dressy effect, especially when worn with the new linen shorts by Borea. "The true Parisienne shoe," says a shoe stylist here who knows her busl- ness, "has long since aimed to be as cloud, but, believe it or not, shoes are now rival: ing clouds in the question of linings; "Research workers are finding that they must exercise considerable lead: ership in the discovery and selection of problems on which to work," said Mr. Rankin. 'Certainly we shall need to turn attention more and more to school support and taxation. We shall need to appraise instructional pro- grams in their whole effect upon the child, not upon the segments of learn- ing. : "Wae shall need to develop more ade- quate procedures for training for the wise use of leisure time. We need re- search to discover what uses of leisure time actually help toward the abun- dant life, toward satisfaction for the individual and the community. For instance we should determine whether a love for literature is best indicated by spending a whole semester with Milton's minor poems or by permitt- ing the students freedom to browse a- mong all the English poets and make their own anthologies." The association has been hearing discussions over the week-end dealing with problems of research in various: branches of education and today is devoting time to new evidence in teaching, and to the Payne Fund studies of the effect of motion pic- tures on youth. March Retail Sales In Britain Higher neat printed A small point, but small points are what dis. New. Type Tests Are Suggested Would Find Out Attitude Of Students Toward World Cleveland, Ohio, Children will be no longer. marked according to their know edge of the capital of New Zea- land or the chief product of Chile if members of the Ametican Education- al Research Association, in session here recently, have their way. : Test based only on the subject mat- ter taught in the schools are not ef- fective methods of measuring learn- ing, the research workers believe, and they are eager to have more use made of the instruments for measuring the attitudes produced by learning For instance in the field of social science they are agreed that it would be better to find out what attitudes the children are building up toward those of different nations or differ- ent economic levels from themselves, and how critical-minded their lessons are making them, Some of the directions in which re- search is apt to turn during the com- ing year were. indicated in an inter- view with Mr. Paul T. Rankin, direc- tor of instruction, Board of Educa- LONDON--Retail sales In Great Britain during March. of this year were 5.7 per cent. in excess of what they were during March of last year, according to an announcement made by the Board of Trade, which adds that the figures are the best since 1930. The total sales in every district were reported larger, some being more than 5.7 per cent. greater and others being less, The sales of foodstuffs and perishables were 4.8 per cent, greater. ¥ Woollen exports have advanced by 12 per cent. during the last three months. . A Baby with a Spade Observes the New York Sun--'Ma- gistrate Harris sentenced a woman to jail for "a day" because she did not obey a policeman's order to stop her two-year-old child from digging holes in park lawns. The "day" was one of those legal fictions; the period of confinement was four hours. 'The woman elected to take her child with her. - Everybody familiar with the manner in which 'children are treat- ed by New York policemen will know that the infant did not suffer physi- aly aet the policeman stuffed too much food: Into it--mentally or morally from the ordeal, However, there Is a to-do over it, and the Magistrate will be lucky if he escapes castigation as a Herod. _ugtatesmen can only respond to what they believe to be the opinion | and desire of the people of the coun-| tries "which they serve."--Newton D. iation. : Baker. . Powerful British Flying Boats Cruise From Malta; Range of 1,500 Knots Cruises in the Egstern and West- ern Mediterranean by a flying boat of the largest type yet commissioned for service with the Royal Air Force precede the substitution at Malta ntair to' of a squadron of these craft for the floatplane unit which has been stat- ioned there, The flying machine engaged is a Blackburn Iris biplane, spanning 97 given! feet and weighing with full load on board more than fifteen tons. Power is derived from three Rolls-Royce Buzzard 825-030 horse-power engines. Three new craft of this class, differ from those in service chiefly in the provision of a hull which is three feet i wider. 5 sick room should be burned if they Iris if they are more the be disinfected Mediterranean) is 131 miles per hr. and anhiected tn formaldehyde vapors flights on one final lnad Maximum speed attainable by the V boat ,to which gz machine gow cruising in the and it is capable of making non-stop of 19200 sen miles. The new craft, styled the Iris VI, have more carrying capacity in the larger hull and are expected to fly in still air distances non-stop of up to 1,600 sea miles, or approxi- mately 1,726 land miles. Five men make up the normal crew of an Iris boat, which is equipped to Make Surve For Government to Decide If London in Need Of Federal Centre LONDON, Ont.--A survey of build- ing requirements of 'government de- partment has been carried on locally ' in mind federal structure here. Local Dominion ° Government offi. clals have declined to comment but it is understood that the project is be- ing studied to the point of deter mining the size of structure required. It has been proposed to move head- quarters staff of M. I. No. 1 from its office on Piccadilly street as the lease on the present quarters expires this year. This department, with all other Dominion Government offices could be centralized in 'the structure, it is pointed out. iModern Girl Is Match for Aphrodite American Sculptor Praises Beauty of His Countrywomen --New. Queen of Belgians And Diana Wynyard Examples of Europ- ean Loveliness NEW YORK--The modern Ameri- can girl, says Bryant Baker, the scul- ptor, is "a little plumper than Psyche and a little slimmer than Venus'-- and Is more beautiful than any Wwo- man in 2,800 years. "The sculpture of the ages proves it." Baker said as he moved around (lis workroom overlooking Central Park. ; «Miss America hasn't been equalled since the times of the very early Greeks. She Is five feet six inches tall and is a match for aphrodite, "Helen Wills is a perfectly beaut: fu] American woman. So is--" He 'paused and shook his head. "I'd be foolith to draw up a list. Every woman I know and left out "would be my sworn enemy for the | rest of time." | Baker, who won $100,000 for his "pioneer woman" statue now in that he would not include Katharine Hepburn or Mae = West in - the group." "Miss Hepburn's face is too peaked he said. "The American girl 'doesn't really want curves--she likes an ate tractive, athletic thinneis." Although he believes the American girl possesses more grace than her average European sisters, he named two European women whom he con giders "perfectly beautiful'--Diana Wynyard, the English actress, and Astrid, the new Queen of the Bel- gians, «CENSURED" FOR SKIRT London, Eng.--It is recalled that Miss Mabel Bryant, who has been made a life member of the All-Eng: land Women's (Field) Hockey Asso- ciation, was "cénsured" in 1904 by the association for daring to stand op Carlisle platform in her hockey skirt, the lower part of which. was eight inches from the ground. / Engagements Are Bad Business So Says Managing Director of Biitish Company who Re- cently Married Private Secretary A romance of big business, belong- ing to the reams of fiction than to : the cold facts of real life, was reveal- ed when it was learned that Mr Gra- ham Cunningham, managing director of the British Triplex Safety Glass Company Ltd, had married his priv- ate secretary : But the big business was present as well as the romance. First, last and all the time, Mr. Cunningham is a business man He even combines business with his honeymoon . The honeynioon lasted five, weeks --but it was largely a business trip of vital importance. ! Incidentally, also, it was probably the fastest honeymoon on record. During the five weeks Mr. i rate of more than a thousand miles ! eek. NOT SUPERSTITIOUS "I married my wife on a Friday, We set sail on the thirteenth of the month," said Mr. Cunningham, "So. ou can see I am not superstitious, by Ottawa engineers with the object of ascertaining the need of a : Ponca City, Okla, added, however, and Miss West has too many curves" and | Mrs, Cunningham traveled at the keep the seas away from the base for \ long periods at a 'time. Within the Thete is Bo room for superstition in roomy hull is a navigator's compart, «J told her it would be essentially ment, farnished with a chart table,' , yy qiness trip. and all the necessary instruments, a; «jf was!' . ; radio room whith" also forms the of- NEVER ENGAGED ficers' sleeping quarters, a separate «we packed and unpacked twelve sleeping compartment for other ranks times, I had only two free days dur- and an engineer's station. Cooking jrg the hole time." oo stoves, beds, and water storage tanks Nobody knew that Mr. Cunnirigham provide creature comforts. Full moor- proposed taking his wife to America. ing and towing equipment, sea anch- Nobody even kriew he was going to ors, life-belts bitze pumps and much be married. © ; other gear are carried, Defensive ar- "We were never engaged," said Mr. rsament constsis in machine gun em- Cunningham. "Engagements are bad nlacemants, ' husiness:" : HN