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5 a 0 ) x 3 MN Voice of Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA MOTOR CAR NO, 1. When you see a motor car hearing License Number 1, you will know it is Premier Hepburn"s, He may be in it or he may not, but it is his car that has the low tag. Down in St, Thomas the car stirred up a lot of interest. ) It did not take as long as that, however, for the new Ontario Pre. mier to discover the magic of Num- ber 1, His second full day in office was July 12, when the Orangemen staged their big parade in Toronto. Premier Hepburn had arranged to meet some colleagues and he stepped in his car to drive to the "appoint. ment. Forgetting all about the par- ade he suddenly discovered he was jammed right into the trafic. There he was stuck fast and could not get out. Few persons recognized him, Finally a policeman saw the magic number, saluted sharply, and then started to make way for the Pre: mier. Even then it was only with some difficulty that he was able to get out of the jam and on his way.-- W. L, Clark, in Border Cities Star. FIRST STEAMSHIPS. The current issue of the Saturday Evening Post contains a picture of "The American steamer Savanuah, the first ocean steamship," The fact about the Savannah is, however, that she carried steam only as an auxil- fary, and on her famous voyage across the Atlantic in 1819 she steamed only a small- part of the way, depending mainly upon her sails. The Canadian-built Royal William was apparently the first steamer to cross the Atlantic between North Am- the erica and Furope steaming all way, the sails in this case being aux- ilinry to the steam equipment, ut Holland seems (0 have a good clhim to "the first ocean steam- ship. for while the Royal William crossed the North Atlantic in 1833, the Dutch steamer Curacoa crossed from the Netherlands to South Am- erica' and veturn in 1927-28-29 ap- pavently under steam all the way, -- Toronto Star. THIS WORD "RUSH" One hardly picks up a newspaper without coming across an accident re- ported in it where the victim is "rushed" to the hospital, [It is re- apectfully suggested that the word is ill.chozen, overworked and wrong. The idea conveyed is that precipi- tate haste has heen used out of all care for the best interests of the patient, A man badly injured or suffering from a ruptured appendix fs hard!v in a fit state to be rushed anywhere. 'The main idea surely is to take him to the hospital with such speed as his critical state will per- mit. . It js presumed, loo, that after an accident, or the discovery of a con- dition that requires prompt surgical attention, there will be no facetious delays, even to the ambulance driver sitting down on the running hoard and eating his lunch, So. if instead of all these reporters and even country oorrespondents rushing to use this word "rush," they take a tip and employ the more apt "convey" they will be conforming to a more appropriate reporting of the actual circumstances. --Kamloops Bentinel, UNCERTAINTIES AHEAD. In brief the business outlook at the present time as far as this coun- try itself is concerned, is undoubt- Have You Heard This One? A fish story that's different is this one related by Dr. Q. M, Stephen-Hassard of San Diego. Tiring of waiting for nibble, he 'donned Soggles and dove after them with lance, coming up with these in few minutes. the Press edly better than at any time In the past four years, But if the gains thus made are to be held and even exceeded In the next five mouths, it is obvious that uncertainties as to the situation in Europe and the United States, if not definitely removed, must at least show evidence of a change for the better, At the moment these external fac- tors are causing much concern fn informed. business and financlal cir- cles and must be reckoned with in any appraisal of the Canadian busi- ness outlook.--Financial Post, IMPRESSIVE TOTAL. Small investors in the United Kingdom have something like §$12,. 450,000,000 tucked away in Post Office Savings Bank, Trustee Savings hanks and in national savings certificates. In England these small investors are never spoken of collectively as the "hig interest,"--St, Catharines Stan- dard. AND GLOVES ON. Women are queer critters -- we see them out walking these days with shorts, bare legs--we mean limbs-- and gloves on. In the name of all that is reasonable, why the gloves? --Wiarton Echo. OLD MASTER FETISH. Over the rdaio recently a violinist who owns a $30,000 Guarnerius vio- lin played a melody upon it, then repeated the melody with an ordinary violin or "fiddle" costing about $100. Then he asked the radio listeners to write in and say which was the $30, 000 instrument and which the $100, Eleven per cent, did not notice any difference, 54 per cent. guessed the $100 violin was -the $30,000 one, and 35 per cent, gave the right answer.-- St, Thomas Times-Journal, BAD MANNERS, The decline of manners has be. come clearly marked during the past few vears amd is by no means con- fined to the one sex, Ordinary polite- ness and civility have departed from the masses and their excuse is, ap- parently, something to he forgotten rather than promoted. [It Is now re- garded in many ° quarters as the smart thing to be impolite and rude, and the influence of the home and the school, which has fallen down in so many other things, is equally neglibible In this regard.--Brockville Recorder. CONTRIBUTING TO SAFE HIGH- WAYS, A man was asked by Constable Howell to test the brake of his mo- torevele, He said he did not know where it was. It was pointed out to him and he said: 'I did not know that was a brake.?"--London Star. "POPULAR" The Ottawa Journal is the most popular paper in Canada with the press. According to figures..compjled by the Dominion Press Clipping Bur- eau during the first three months of the current year the-quotations from The Journal by {anadian papers numbered 1,827. Thy Toronto Globe came next with 1,763 quotations to its credit. The Strétford Beacon-Her- ald, by far the brightest of all 'the provincial dailies, had 1,071 quota. tions to. its credit.--Alliston Herald, HELPING JOHN BULL, Again this year the death-duty col- lections will make easier John Bull's task of surplus-building. The estate of the late Viscount Tredegar will contribute nearly $6,000,000. THE BIGGEST THIEF KNOWN, The St. Thomas Times-Journal is of the view that the Humane Society should look into the reported method of killing starlings in this district. It is a moot point, but the starling does not observe any rules in his relations with other members of the feathery kingdom and he is the biggest thief and gormandizer of fruit ever kmown, There is a real danger that unless re- stricted, this pest of a bird will make a fruit crop impossible, --St. Cathar- ines Standard. $150,000 FOR A FLOWER, Rarest and costliest of the world's blooms are orchids. They grow in the remotest aand most inaccessible parts; in the mighty forests of Brazil and on the Amazon in Borneo, Cochin, China, Central Africa and the Burm- ede and Indian forests, The orchid is a parasite and grows on the limbs of | trees, Unlike most plants, it seeks | the shade rather than sunlight, and is found In heavily-timbered and damp places, where, although the sun sel. dom penetrates, the heat is so fierce that vapor rises like a mist. ' Four years ago two Canadians, Geo, Taylor and Bill Gordon, sailed for the sunny land of Conquistadores, In 8. America, in quest of the world's rar- est orchid the "Tiger Head." They are Lord Londonderry And King's Cup Winner rr SEE from the Minister for Air. Flight Lieutenant H. M. Schofield, flying W. S. Stephenson's Monospar S, T. 10-plane, won the King's Cup air race round Britain, which began and finished at Hatfield Airdrome in Harts. Rose was second and L. Lipton, third. Photo shows Mr. Schofield, (right), receiving the King's Cup Thomas chids cannot hit back they grow in places abounding with snakes, insects and deadly plants. THE EMPIRE OVERDOING TAG DAYS, Only 61 days had May and June, but 88 of them were flag days in London. The figures indicate a bit of overlap- ping, but that is not the most seri- ous feature of this Flag Day business. The trouble is that people who go on giving day after day from mere force of habit or from sheer coward. ice ave likely to cut down all their bhenefactions to a copper or two, In- stead of contributing what they can afford to the causes that appeal to them and leaving the rest alone, And when that is done there is not enough left for Poppy Day and Alexandra Rose Day, the only two official A-1 nation-wide Flag Days in the calen- dar.--Manchester Sunday Chronicle BRITAIN'S AIR NEEDS, We hope the announcement that plans have been approved for the con- struction of 600 new British aero- planes does not mean that the Cabinet is contenting itself with half-measures in the air. For it is necessary to point out that G00 machines will be very much too few to bring the Air Force up to the strength which Min. isters have promised, Expert author. ities consider that the Force should be numbered in thousands not hun- dreds.--London Daily Mall, A QUESTION OF ADVANTAGE There is in the last resort only one justification for India being within the Empire and that is that it shall be clearly to her advantage as well as to that of Britain?s, If it is an advan- tage for a sub-continent to be welded irto one whole and made conscious of itself as a nation and to be pre. vented from splitting up into frag. ments, then the benefit up to date is proved. If, however, in the future India could reach a point where she could cohere without the cement of the British connection, thers would inevitably arise a reckoning of advan- tages and disadvantages on a basis more critical than that of the French in Canada or the Dutch in Africa. -- Calcutta Statesman. 400,000 Trees Planted By Boy Scouts Canadian Government Bulletin Among other good deeds, Canadian Boy Scouts have planted close to 400,000 trees during six annual Boy Scout reforestation camps at Angus, Ontario, A thousand trees each were planted this year by the 89 Boy Scouts attending the camp. This important work is carried on under the auspices of the Ontario Department of Lands and Foreets, who operate the camp, but the Scouts pay their own camp expenses, During another Scout re. forestation drive at Stirling, Ontario, the school children of six townships were invited by the Boy Scouts to join thenr in planting 1,000 young trees, : : Boy Scouts in Nova Scotia also en. gage in this useful work. Arbor Day in that province again saw thous. ands of trees planted by Boy Scouts and school children, Fifteen Halifax and Dartmouth Scout troops spent the entire day In the Waverley re. employed by the Smithson Institute ot) New York and on a previous search in South America discovered the "Nun's Head," which was bought by a wealthy collector for $160,000, Searching for orchids is even more, thrilling and dangerous than hunting j lions and elephants, for although or- forestation area, their absence (rom school for this purpose receiving the approvai of the Department of Educa. tion, iit A stap in the face i3 a; friendly gesture compared with the anony. mous note. ' poisonous |- fighting the TO MARRY OR NOT TO MARRY The de¢ision of Vassar to allow its- students to marry and continue as students raises a good many interest- ing questions. The avowed reason is the number of secret marriages (and possibly of less regular unions) con- tracted as things are. The: students, ~oreover, are apparently clamoring r marriage without the delay in- volved in taking a degree. And where Vassar has led, Smith and Wellesley and Brynmawr and the rest are said to be likely to follow. But not I trust, Girton and Newham, Somerville and Lady Margaret. If the unsettlement due to secret marriages is incompati- ble with systematic study so is the unsettlement--or rather the distract- ion--of orthodox marriage, partic- ularly if, as at Vassar, the women students are still to live in what are there called dormitories and here hostels. To.defer marriage till the not inordinately advanced age of, say, 22, is a hardship to no one, and young women who cannot reconcile them- selves to that are hardly likely to be the type to profit most by a degree course at a university. -- London Spectator. Waterloo Bridge Now a Memory By P. W. Wilson in Now York Sunday Times. For 30 years Britain has been Battle of = Waterloo Bridge. The struggle is over. Under the blows of the wreckers this great landmark in London is rapidly crum- bling, and already it is a memory. There are two reasons for the change, First, the. boats along the Thames are said to have been im- paired by the old bridge. Secondly, it is stated that six lanes are needed for traffic across the river instead of four lanes, These considerations have geined the day, and according to a multitude of sorrowful admir- ers of the bridge, the proud sweep of London's 'curving Embankment will never be the same, The design of the mew bridge has been intrusted to an architect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in whose genius Britain takes especial pride. It was he who, when'barely 21 years of age, beat all competitors by his design of "Liverpool Cathedral, which is regard- ed in Englan{l as a triumph of ec- clesiastical majesty. About Waterloo Bridge there was a peculiar dignity that has fascin- ated the world. Canova, the Italian sculptor, said of its nine arches and intervening pillars so perfect in their proportions, that here was the finest bridge in Eur- ope, and many an architect has echo- ed this verdict. It was John Rennie. a Scottish engineer, who, -in 1817, completed Waterloo Bridge. Also, he designed the present London Bridge. Side by side with Sir Christopher Wren, he was buried under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, The bridge was named after Well- ington's victory at Waterloo and its opening was a great affair. There were the horseguards in all their glory. There were the_royal barges bearing the Prince Regent, after: ward King George IV, to the scene. Above all, there was the Duke of Wellington. = At the toll gate he was granted. the honor of paying the first halfpenny charged to pedes. trains who." wished to cross 'the granite | bridge. The halfpenny was care- fully preserved, Over her bridges, London has al- ways been solicitous. It was standing on old Westminster Bridge and gaz- ing at the curving skyine of the city that Wordsworth wrote his incom. parable sonnet beginning, "Earth has not anything to show more fair," and continuing: This city now doth like a gar- ment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, -bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is ly- ing still! Of Waterloo Bridge, another poet,, Thomas Hood, wrote what __is per- haps the most pathetic of all poems in the language. It was entitled, "The Bridge of Sighs," and tells of a girl, who, in despair, had thrown herself into the water below: Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care, Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair. "Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! Oh, it was pitiful Near a whole city full, Home she 'had none¢t+ By the dark shadows of Waterloo Bridge at night, the luxuriant im- agination of Charles Dickens was no less stirred. It was to him, as to Hood, e place where, in days before electric light, tragedy was possible. The labor leader, John Burns, was once showing a party of Americans over the Houses of Parliament. They stood on the terrace and looking at the river. "You have a Mississippi in America," he said, "and a St. Law- rence and they are bigger than this little stream. But let me tell you-- the Thames is not a river. It is liquid | history." Of all the bridges in London that span the "liquid history," the most venerable is still called London he 'picnic-bound. '| course with a 66 Bridge. Wooden piles, tilés and coins indicate that it was first built by the Romans. For centuries it has been built and rebuilt, * Under this bridge Anne. Boleyn passed in her barge to the Tower of London and the block, Her daughter, Elizabeth, also made that journey and narrowly escaped the same fate. James II fled under the bridge into exile and, hoping to bring the Gov-| ernment to a standstill, dropped his Great Seal of the. Realm into. the river, where it has remained to this day. : i Here rose those medieval houses on the bridge itself that made it, like the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, | not only a bridge, but a street. There: were fortified gates at the bridge and above them rose spikes of iron on which the heads .of decapitated traitors were duly impaled---an in- spiring sight for the watermen who filled the river with traffic. It was to "a broken arch of London Bridge" that Macaulay issued. his famous invitation to "some traveller from New Zealand." There, in days to come, let him "take his stand," and "in the midst of a vast solici- tude" let him 'sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Macaulay did not realize that in 1984 there would be buily the Tower Bridge with twin bascules to admit ships carrying visitors from New Zealand, or that, in order to preserve the ruins of St. Paul's, Dean Inge would raise a subscription to which New Zealanders of artistic temper- ament were cordially invited to con- tribute, Picnics and the People This is the time of year when peo- ple say: "It's so warm today. Let's fix up a lunch basket and go for /a picnic." Picnics are an enjoyable pastime. It is pleasant to find some shady spot and lunch or dine there away from the heat and formality of town or city. But there are too many peo- ple who are inconsiderate enough to turn these ideal spots into miniature replicas of a garbage dump and spoil the pleasure of other people who are Most of the people who leave picnic places in such a condition are very particular abcut the neatness of their homes. They do not stop to think that the beauties of nature are com- mon property and that all should be careful to preserve them, Keeping Up With Jones Bobby Jones, when in his golfing prime, seemed to have made a habit of winning British championships. Yet though he won the British open three times, he captured the ama- teur prize only once. Husky young W. Lawson Little, of California, who won from a hardy Scotch opponent at Prestwick, became the third native-born American to fetch home that much-coveted prize. And, while it is doubtful if Little's record on the links will ever equal Bobby's his performance at Prestwick stands unparalleled. Cutting three strokes off the record for the difficult in the morning round, he ended the match at the 23rd hole--14 up and 13 to go. No other player ever won a major champion- ship so impressively. When his oppon- ent scored a birdie, Little responded with an eagle. You can't beat a fel- low going like that. Books might be written on the question of superiority between Bri- tish and American golfers. If they are, the achievement of young Mr. Little must have a place beside the best that was done by Bobby Jones.-- Chicago Daily News. ) : Nobody 'earns now to invest except | by investing and the early experi. ence is always costly--very costly. Max Loses Decision Froving he can step into his big brother's shoes any time, Buddy Baer demonstrates his long reach in New York. heavier than Max, | ieties of whales are likely to British Briefs Of every steer weighing 1,000 1b, {875 1b. 1s used commercially, . » * | It is estimated that the average | American visitor will spend £100 in : this country, * * = : Our number of employed people-- ; 10,187,000--is the highest figure since December, 1929, ; - w 0% £ Motoring offences averaged 1,000 "a day last year; fines to the total of £266,178 17s. 11d. were administer- ed, : 23 ¥ * Oar "foreign tourist" - trade is booming; this year, it is anticipated, over 250,000 overseas visitors will conie to this country. CELAETIR e While every part of the Empire is buying more goods from us, one part --New Zealand--shows a decrease in its exports to Britain. * & % Among the diseases which British scientists are making less deadly are tuberculosis, whooping cough, scarlet fever, typhoid, and diphtheria. * * * 'Air pilots are not always highly paid; in some cases men in charge of machines worth more than £8,000 apiece receive only £4 a week as wages. . * * * Among animals to be found on our roads, dogs supply the greatest num- ber of "jay-walkers," even sheep having acquired the knack of evading motor-traffic. - " * = * London's famous fortress, the Tower, has a regular resident popu- lation of 700 persons, men, women, and children, including the - detach- ment .of Guards on duty. * LAN The "no-stocking" fashion has hit the hosiery makers so hard that they are now turning out specially fine seamless stockings that are almost invisible in wear. * *® * The only producing oil-well in this country is situated or the Duke of Devonshire's estate, near Chester- field, Since it was sunk, in 1919, it has supplied over 2,600 tons. * * * When our new great Cunarder, the No. 534 now being built on the Clyde, is in full commission, there will be 18,000 meals, including odd tea meals and morning soup, to be served every day. : . * x - It now cost £1 0s. 9d. ad day to hire a policeman in London, with 1s. a day extra for plain clothes "or 7s. Gd. extra for morning or evening dress. The fees go to the Metropolitan Police Fund. * * * Two Diesel engines driving air screws provide the motive power for a novel boat made by a young Soviet engineer. It is made of pulped paper moulded under great pressure, and is said to be strong enough to carry one hundred passengers. * * * Our efficiency may be at its peak any time between ten in the morn- ing and midnight--it depends on the individual. But, according to a scientist's calculations, it is no high- er first thing in the morning 'than it is at bedtime. : 3 * * * It is now illegal to sell sixty-seven different types of British birds, cluding blackbirds, cuckoos, jackdaws, larks, magpies, ravens, robins, spar- rows, starling, swallows, and thrush- es, save in cases where birds have been born in captivity. * * * Coalfields all over the country showed a good return for the first three months of this year The most profitable of all, in South Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Warwickshire, re- gistered a gain of over 2s. 6d. a ton. Durham was lowest, with a profit of one-tenth of 'a penny per ton. The biggest output came from Yorkshire. * * * Only two of the thirty or so var- sur- vive the modern 'methods of whale- hunting. The Greenland or white whale is now protected throughout the world, and the lesser. Rorqual, which seldom exceeds thirty-two feet in length, is too small to be worth killing. First Baseball Played 1- - Back in Year 1839 Who originated America's national sport of baseball? And where? The answer, according to George H. Carley, writing in the current Ro. tarian magazine, is Gen. Abner Doubleday; the place is Coopers- town, N.Y,, also famons as the home of James Fenimore Cooper, whose "Leatherstocking Tales" still thrill young folk, He's ta]ler and AJ W Doubleday was a student in .a seml- military school back in 1839 when 'he got his inspiration for the game, Dur. ing the Civil War he "promoted" it as recreation for Union soldiers. The original dlamond, once a cow pasture, is now a public park and, playing fleld, in- $ 14 a Ho 3 em a "<x R | i ' nr dz J 38 | | Mend