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Tk an ---- ARDY -- a, I Voice of the Press Raa i Se The World at Large Bh oo 4 -- EMPIRE FRUIT Canada this year has imported 100,000 cases of oranges from South 'Africa -- five times as many as in any previous season. This is a very satisfactory volume of business of benefit to both parties, Lut after all it is only an introuction to the po- tential market in this Dominion for Empire fruits.--Ottawa Journal. THE BRITISH WAY Pride in achievement is a satis- fying reward for most of those in- tangibles which build up the tradi- tions upon which mighty empires have been been founded and upon which a people. iss cemented, The British race, of course has no need to shout from the housetops or to boast as noisier nations of their ac- complishments, They speak for them- selves.--Brandon Sun. IN TIGHT SHOES? If a woman wishes to be really smart this winter she must wear a colored ring on the small toe of her left foot to match the color of the nail varnish she uses on her fingers. --Yorkshire Telegram, WONDERFUL, ISN'T IT? Modern blessings are manifold. Today you can step into your car and go anywhere your wife says, provided your children agree. --Aylmer Express. TEAR DOWN OLD SHACKS Whlie Cornwall is short of houses of the right size and kind, it has some that it would be better with- out. There is quite an assortment of decrepit old shacks scattered 'over the civic landscape--houses in al- most the lash stages of diintegra- tion, apparently oni waitine for tie first 3. od wird to fiation them, ITow they stand up is oa mystery.-- Lornva'l Ctandard. ' REGIELIBERED HIS. ALMA MATER In accoidance with dre tions con tained in his will the technical lib- rary of the late Major J. Mackin- tosh Bell of Almonte has been dis- patched to Kingston where it. wu: be placed in Miller Hall, Queen's University, and will form the nuc- leus of a' library in geology and geo- graphy. for graduate students to be known as the Mackintosh Bell-- Almonte Gazette. « - . GANDHI AGAIN Gandhi, it is said, plans to retire from leadership of the All-India Na- tionalist Congress, but retiremen. means little :n the Mahatmsa's se- dentary, but somewhat exciting life. Time and again he has been "re- tired" by the British authorities for preaching civil disobedience, has gone on fast and furious fasts, but has always bobbed u¥ again, fuil of goat's milk orange juice and the ola vim, vigor and vitali*v.--Boufer Cities Star. ' PUBLIC DEBT A United States journal, writing on-gavernment spendings warns the {people that each dollar of new debt incurred by the government is ag mortgage on the earnings ard pro- perty of every citizen. To-morrow ft will be foreclosed in the form of confiscatory increases in the levies on incomes "an, additional 1mposts on all commerce. Your home, yout means of living, constitute the col- lateral your governiitent offers. Pub- lic debt, mortgages your security and that of your descendants, -- Brandon Sun! MYSTERY OF COLDS There 18 no greater service medi- cal science can do mankind than by discovering the germ or wnarever it is that causes that most prevail- ent human ailments, the cold, yet doctors know less about "the com- mon cold than about any other of man's ills, with the 'possible. excep- tion of cancer. Almost everybody has at least one -ccld a year, witn consequent discomfort and loss of work, It is estimated that. more than half of all the time lost though srek- ness by employes is due to bad colds, ~--=Sarnia Observer, RIVIVAL OF CHIVALRY In a recent issue of the London Times, a report was given of a din- ner of Knights of the Round Table Club, when the principal address had or its theme the need of Chairs of Chivalry at the universities The speaker sald he had a practical pur- Fy in putting jt forward, and the dea was welcomed by the audience. he Professor of Chivalry the spea- ker hopefully anticipated, would be An authority 'on the medieval roman- ger, acquainted with the whole Iitenas- e of chivalry, but his task would be to revive in the unversities, and rough them in the whole country ® lost gpirit of an earlier age,'-- alifax Herald, ' -- .GOOD EXCUSE Dead leaves should be allowed to remain unraked becausg they enrich the soil, according to a garden ex- pert after our own heart,--From the Sudbury, ' SHE" STAY "Greta "Garbo" a Hollywood des- patch says, "signed a new coptract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer today at a, reputed salary of $300,000 a pic- ture, and announced that she would not return to Sweden," The last part of the despatch looks like a waste of perfectly good money in tele- graph tolls,--Border Cities Star, THE SPAN OF LIFE The span of life is enlarging and that includes the span of physically fit life. The forties are undoubted- ly, a time for beginning cautious fving but no man should be turned lown for a job becausg he has turn- ed the fourth decade --St, Thomas Times-Journal, THE BEST Premier Doumergue of France, ls proposing changes in the constitu- tion, which will give the cabinet greater power, The moves are a- long the lines of the British parlia- mentary system, which the test of time has proven is the best system of government for man by man yet de- vised.--London Free Press. GOLD AND SILVER The old saying that the yellow races prefer the white metal while the white races prefer the yellow maqtal holds good, It would be very difficult to wean the Chinese from their affection for silver. The ef- fonts which have been made in In- dia with the same end in view failed onspicuously,-- Hamilton Spectator, A BUSY TOWN Quite recently, one of our busi- 1098 men was telling us that he had ome work for a young man to do, end had a hard time finding such a 12rson who was unemployed, and f nally had to get an older man to do the work, Just at the present time, Tavistock's four major indus- ries are working full time, and in {act, one is working 24 hours a day, and another 10 hours a day, with sowetimes two and a half hours overtime, two or three times a week. Show us another village of this size where a young man unem- ployed is hard to find.--Tavistock Cazette, COMMON COLDS * Two California professors have challenged existing theories, It is sald: "They have not been able, they say, to infect one person with the: cold of another, Inoculation. will not work, and they doubt very much the theories held almost as 1ousehold axioms about the dis-ase being highly catching. They think also that germs are a result, not the cause of the disease, Some day presumably we shall know, -- Saint John Telegraph-Journal, THE EMPIRE THE TOLL OF THE ROADS Official figures show that the ter- rible weekly increase in road deaths ceased some time ago. And now for several "weeks a downward tendency has set in. But a really successful crusade against road accidents will have to go much deeper. It will} have to tackle the whole road 8y- cally together on one road surface Traffic will have to be sorted out properly, That wlll he a long bus- fuess of building modern roads with verges and separate tracks for dif- ferent sorts of traffic. The longer the job the quicker it had better be started.--London Daily Herald. THE COMMON COLD The announcement that the execu- tors of the late Sir Henry Royce's es- tate have in terms of his wishes de- Gided to devote a tenth art of his'es- tate to founding two research fellow- ships for discovering a cure for the common cold -and influenza will be universally welcomed, This fs an act of real benevolence which we all hope will triumphantly achieve its burpose, for there are few indeed who are proof against what must be regarded as being both the least and the greatest of human ailments, Even if we ignore the serious conse- quences of complications that often follow a cold there remin the loss of time and efficiency with which the milder types of infection are Inevit- ably assoclated,--Glasgow Herald, INVENTIVE WOMEN Nearly all the psychologists agree that the feminine mind is quick and instuitave, © but. always imitative, never: inventive, and now, with the example of Mrs. Richardson of Shep- herd's Bush, before them, they can guess again, for she has won the first prize at the International Ex- hibition of Inventions with her de- vice for finding and {identifying radio stations, She may puzzle the psychologists, but will surprise: no- body who has seen the improve- 9 : 10 efit in the long run, may also serve to direct world-wide Out Of PR Na E30] Wag Yar BAIS Th / Uniform / "Wie Geht's, Leutnant"--Hand extended, Chancellor Adolf Hit-- ler of Germany eagerly greets an officer of 'his guard after official reception of foreign diplomats in Berlin, ments any woman can make wilh strirz, halrpins, match-sticks and other simple tools, on the . crude nian-made gadgets of her own kit- chen, But woman still rocks the cradle by hand. ---Manochester Sun- day . Chronicle, AWAITING CONQUEST Britain gained the mastery of the seas not by the multitude of her people, but because of the intrepid- ity of her navigators, The air is now waiting to be conquered, We should seo that we master it just as we con- It is not in war- trolled the seas. the ships that we have dominated oceans, but in commerce and ships So also in airships of our. ad- of commerce. commerce we must make vance, -- London Express. ? TIPS The illogicality of the system of tipping and the desirability of ex- tirpating it are emphasized anew in the volume of "The Survey of Lon- don Life and Labor," published to- day, Nothing would please the pub- lic more than to be rid of the prac- tice, It operates unfairly as between man and man, since one person gets tipped and another does not-- Lon- don Daily Mall, BRITISH GUIANA'S PROBLEMS Houses roofed with gold and streets lined with diamonds - were what the early explorers "confidently expected to find in British Guiana. But the vision faded and, though a quantity of diamonds and gold has been taken out of the country dur- ing the ics 400 yrs., British Guiana gy today is almost as much awaiting stem. So long as pedestrians and all development and settlement as it kinds of traffic are mingled chaoti-|wags .in Raleigh's ime, As Sir Ed- ward Denham the former Governor, once; declared, if the resouTces and wealth of British Gulana are to be tapped, it can only be by the advent of men and money on a scale to de- terming the problems of thig '"un- developed asset of the British Em- pire" Assyria immigration will not solve a title of British Guiana's pro- lems, It may bring some local ben- however and attention to the vast possibilities of this woefully undeveloped of all Bri- ain's possessions in the neighbour- 100d of the Caribbean -- Trinidad juardian, Toronto Surgeons Lengthen Man's Leg Toronto, Ont.--Orthopedic surge- ons at a hospital here are bringing to fruition a test case in which they seek to make the legs normal of a man born with one shorter than the other. The patient, or clinical subject, is George McKay, 20, whose left leg was threo'. inches. shavter than his right when he entered the hospital several weeks ago. He is being sub- jected to corrective principles evolv- ed eight years ago by a St. Louis orthopedist, in which weights are used. to stretch the abnormal leg. McKay's leg has been stretched two inches in five week, doctors say, It will be normal, i Chior a Although the mineral content of . Hair-Dyer Loses . When Cook Sues Risks, Says English Judge London.--Judge Sir Alfred Tobin gave is views on women's hair dur- ing the hearing of a case against a hairdresser, "We always heard of grey hairs being treated with res- pect," he said, --When counsel commented that wo- men did not seem to llke it the the judge said: "The - most beauti- ful thing a woman can have {8 beautiful white hair" 'Burning Sensation The fiction was brought by Mrs, Blodwon Gullick 40, a cook in a pri- vate house, who claimed $500 dama- ges from a hairdresser or injury to her head by alleged negligent appli- cation of a hair dye, the hairdresser to get her hair dyed because ft was showing streaks of grey. He applied a solution which caused a burning sensation, A doctor sald she was suffering from oedema of the scalp and diffuse erythema-- the one a swelling and the other a rash, ' . * Mrs, Guillick was awarded $250 bin said he thought the case was of general {mportance, He held that it was the hairdresser's duty to warn women of any risks run, Wear Old Clothes Until Threadbare, Germang Advised Berlin--Dr, Karl Gordeler, Herr ililer's new price "dictator," took ac- tion against rising prices today, or- dering Natfonal Socialists to wear their old clothes "down to the last thread" and threatening profiteers with "merciless" treatment. He told Germany "no one - loses one bit of his dignity if he wears threadbare clothes," whilp "he acts against the nation's interests if he hoards clothing," . 3 In an address explaining his func- tions as commissar for control of prices, Herr Gordeler criticized the tendency to alarm and spoke reas- suringly about situation, A He said prices and wages would be maintained at the' same level and 'every unjustifiable price rise will be mercilessly dealt with," Declaring his chief duty would be to prevent the rise of prices of ne- cessities he warned manufacturers that they must be content with small 1rotits and instructed merchants to 1efusg to sell unusual quantities of eny commodity. The surplus of imports over ex- jorts was. reduced to 62,000,000 marks (approximately $20,800,000) €3 compared with 161,000,000 marks ! during the second quarter, When Experience : Didn't Count A motor car had just knocked down a man, fortunately without injuring lim, The young woman driver (aced him de erminedly. "I am sorry it happened," she sald. | Yeu should take more care when honey is very small {t Is worth not: you are walking. I have been driving ing, says the Dominion Apiarist, that a car or séven years, » such @&lements as lime and Iron 'ne- cesary to the well-being of the hum- not a novice myself. I. have been wal-'his precocious brother was still cry- an hole ara nrasant "Well," replied the victim, "I am king mvaeall far fiftv.cavan vaara tia 112 (91); She went to damages with costs, and Judge To-|~ the raw materials be: Car Accident Toll Mounts in Ontario Toronto.--Automobile accidents in Ontario or the first nine months of 1934 were 9.2 per cent above the same period last year, with the death toll at 360, Hon, T, B, McQue- sten, Minister of Highways announc- ed recently, The minister declared the figures "clearly indicate that stricter measures must be adopted." These stricter measures be continu. ed would mean increased fines and jail penalties, Increases in the sus- pension period for licenses of drivers convicted of offence also will ap- 'pear, ' There were many more cars on the road this year than last," the minister said. "Potato Harvest of 1934 'According to thé preliminary esti mate recently issued by the Dominfon Bureau of Statistics, the total pro- duction of potatoes in Canada in the year 1934, will be 47,241,000 cwt from 668,800 acres or 83 cwt, per acre, as compared with a revised estimate of 42,746,000 cwt, from 627,700 acres or 81 cwt, per acre in 1933, and 46,017. 000 cwt, from 564,000 acres or 82 cwt, per acre, the average for the five years 1028-1932, By provinces the ylelds in cwt per acre are, in order as follows, with last year's figures within brackets: New Brunswick 128 (115); Prince Edward Island 120 (100 British Columbia 113 (96); Nova Sco- Quebec 97.7 (101.0); Ontario 69.6 (64.2) Manitoba 60 (63); Alberta 63 (58) and Saskatchewan 31.4 (60.0), There {8 an increase of 7,8 per cent in the 1934 potato acreage over that of 1933, In addition the yield per acre in Canada was 2.6 per cent high- er in 1934 than in 1933, so that the total production {is placed at 105 per cent above the 1933 level, Mary Looks Ahead Mary Pickford Interviewed by the Kansas City Times ~--I had some interesting talks with Marconi," she said, "and he tells me television js much nearer than we think, It's going to be a I think they will survive it, It seems certain to bring back the legitimate theatre but for a time at least, there will be a tendency to have all mech- anical entertainment played direct to the home, r "I believe there will be perhaps three producing organizations, one of the type of hokum that {8 just plain moron fodder, one for popular entertainment of a fairly high level and one for things of real artistic worth, I believe each unit will be ample to place recelving sets in your home and that these sets may have meters. You will pay for. your .en- tertainment as you pay for long dis- tance telephone bills, "Probably each unit will have broadcasting stations in the main di- visions of the country, be a promising thing for the talent of the country," Heat From Cold Coal Russian farmers. have discovered a way to speed up the ripening of their cotton crops by a month or more. They use coal to warm the cot- ton plants without burning the coal. This seeming paradox is heing performed at Kazakstan. Obtaining heat from coal without burning is the application of a simple fact of physics that dark colors absorb the heat in the sun's rays better than light colors. : ; The Kazakstan farmers simply spread coal dust lightly over their fields; about one hundred. pounds to an acre. The darkened surface of the land is a better absorber of heat during the day and reradiates more of it as warmth during the night. The higher average temperature of the land during 'the growing sea- son, therefore, shortens the time necessary for the crop to mature by over a month.--Science. Scientifically Raised Twins Not At All Judging by the experiences of Johnny and Jimmy, twins who are growing up in a scientific playroom in New York, the right age to take up roller skating is about seven months, Johnny was a good roller . skater about the time he was celebrating his first birthday, Jimmy. conlin- ed him=<elf to more natural courses concerning ~oller skates, such = as old. Then: he tried to use the skates or getting around, but. his efforts cost him a great series of ingenious spills, and' two months" of "appla- tion brought little progress, know {is wheher the highly trained Johnny had any real advantage over Jimmy, who just grew .up like Top- sy while his little brother was learning a serie, of astounding feats, Johnny sedths no brighter at solving problems the pair are made to work out in their play, and when they started even at riding the tri- cycle. Jimmy learned to pedal like a champion of the gix-day meets while ine far hia akafaa staggering blow to the movies, but | This should | Alike in Foot Tricks! biting them, until' hg was 2 months | What scientific observers want. to]. $26,000,000 E ' Revenue Gain Canadas Earnings For Seven Months Soar; More Also Spent Ottawa--Recovery of business is reflected in the Dominion revenue statement for the first seven months of the fiscal year. Total ordinary re- venue shows an increase of $26,000, 000 for the period April to October, inclusive. The big producer was the sales tax, which, with éxcise taxes, yielded $63,863,000 since April 1, or $8,000, 000 more than the corresponding period last year. ! Customs revenue, totalling, $40, 000,000 was $9,000,000 ahead of lask year, excise duties -totalling $26,000,- 000 were $5,000,000 up, income tax. ation yielded $49,404,000 and $1, 000,000 better than last year, while the gold tax thus far has brought in $3,878,146. Ordinary\expenditure for the first seven months of the fiscal year was $11,000,000 more than fin the like period of 1933, $5,000,000 of which was accounted for by increased in- terest on the public debt and $2,600, 000 for old age pensions, ; Loans: and advances to provincial governments so far this year have totalled $28,862,668. Unemployment relief for the seven months under review totalled nearly $28,000,000, or nearly $6,000,000 more than in the corresponding period of last year. No Plane Allowed Airplanes Are Not Heraldic, Say Noted Authorities London--"Airplanes are unknown in heraldry." That is the official rea- son why the Duke of Bedford cannot honor his wife, the "Flying Duchess," lin a mew coat-of-arms. The duke had prepared a new armorial shield. One of the quar- terings showed an airplane. But the Herald's College, final authority in such matters, said 'No." Never since the days of chivalry had any coat-of-arms borne a flying machine, So airplanes are barred. "I wonder what today's knights and dames of the air will think of that," says the duke. He has hung the shield he had prepared for the duchess among all the other coats-of-arms among all duchesses which blazon the walls of Woburn Abbey. - The present duchess was the only one who did not bring a coat-of-arms to the .Duchy of Bedford when she married. daughter of Archdeacon Tribe of Lahore. But since she became world fa- mous by reason of her flying ex- ploits in all parts of the globe, the duke--in true 'line with the spirit of chivalry -- determined to com- memorate her deeds for their de- scendants by a coat-of-arms. He has failed. 2 Winter Sport FEN i N On the trail of health aw sport, two skiers invade the winter sanc- tuary of the Riffelberg above Zermatt, Switzerland, Looming in On Coat-of-Arms She was Mary du Caurroy Tribe,]|- : me Death at'the Whee Ontario is not alone in voicing alm over the rising toll of road fatalities, The following selection of editorial opinions on dangerous driv- ing and traffic problems is taken from recent issues of American newspapers published in nearby citles of the Atlantic seaboard.) THE AMERICAN TOLL New York Journal: Before 1984 as ended, about 86,000 persons will has en killed fn the United States in automobile accidents, as the Na- tional Safety Council believes," re- sults from: Relaxed law enforce- ment; use of old vehicles rendered unsafe by wear or neglect; greater speed of new cars; increased use of liquor by motorists. . Every auto. mobile driver should keep these four facts in mind, if he cares to live. RECKLESS DRIVING (Baltimore) Baltimore Sun: The statement of Judge Robert F, Stanton that, in deal- ing with cases of motor-vehicle dri- vers convicted of manslaughter = in accidents, he will not yleld to pres- sure for probation, should serve as 'further warning to reckless drivers of the possible consequences of thelr in- difference to human life, ... When the heavy week-end toll of casualties In this city and vicinity is noted, Judge Stanton's atfitude needs neither ex- planation nor apology, It Is not pos- sible to persuade the public that the heavy toll of death on the highways is not due in large part to reckless driving. And there is much reason to believe that if fatal accidents could be 'closely followed up--as' they : are likely to be some time in the future --more motorists would find them- selves brought up on charges of man- slaughter which our courts and juries are treating with increasing severity, $$ * The most despicable of all motor- {sts -is the hit-and-run driver, He leaves the victim of his accident ly- fng in the highway, not knowing whether the person is alive or dead, not knowing whether life could be saved by prompt attention, No effort should be spared in hunting down siich miscreants, IN PHILADELPHIA, : Philadelphia Inquirer: Highways outside the business district have be- come speedways where reckless. driv- ers rush past red lights with impun- ity. Badly synchronized signal lights and no signal lights at all at inter- sections; absence of painted trafiic lines to direct he course of {yavel on wide highways and one-way streets; scrambled parking rules: that only add to the general congestion and confusion, all. play a part in hopelessly deadening traffic control in this city, Street accidents con- tinue to take their daily toll; the menace of drunken driving is on the increase, IN RHODE ISLAND, Providence Journal: During the first ten months of this year an in- crease of forty-six per cent, over the corresponding period of 1933 has been recorded in the number of auto- mobile accident fatalities occurring on Rhode Island highways, The ten months' total for this year is great- er than the twelve months' total for last year. November and December fatalities ,may push-the 1934 fatality list to the- highest point reached in several - years.- -The situation which now exists makes evident the neces- sity for a fresh, thorough study 'of the accident problem with a view either to the revision of strategy or to the stimulation of fresh efforts dlong established lines, ACCIDENTS AND REPEAL . Washington (D,C.) Post: The in- crease in the number of fatalities, happily cut down in October, is still disturbing, All factors contributing thereto must be examined and so far ag possible eliminated. ... The the- sls that repeal is responsible for a striking increase in local automobile fatalities is somewhat undermined by publication of the October figures, There were eleven trafic deaths Jast month as compared with fifteen In October, 1933, Stanley Park Damaged If storms like that of Sunday were frequent it would be necessary to provide dugouts for visitors to Stanley Park to take refuge 'in, But then, if such storms came often, we should soon have no Stanley Park. Sunday's storm, it is estimated, blew down 2,600 trees, great -and. little, in the Park's 900 acres, It will be a big job to clear up the debris and the tangle, And it will be al- most as big a job to repair the dam- age by reforesting., The chairman of the Board of Patk Commissioners has expressea the opinion that it will take a hundred men throughout the Winter to p*\ the park back in- to proper condition, The park is in an exposed position and its great trees, »# decades ago and subjected during half a century now to. the corroding influences of civilization, are growing more and more vulnerable, It is becoming ap- parent that we shall hot be able to" keep them always: Whether. we like it or not, Stanley Park will have to the rear are the famed twin peaks, Cactar and Pallny he made over.--Vancouver Province. ----<S eS