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or ; mn ARG nam RA 9 WOR ho a ny Bt pa Pitan rt i 7 oo ---- _--= la Voice of Canada, The Empire an the. Press d The World at Large CANADA J FAR-SIGHTED From Rimbey, Alta. comes a re- port of alocal agent who has sold 18 pianos in the district this Fall. That is a great uplift to the poultry busi- ness too, as 18 piano boxes would mean 18 good chicken coops.--Strat" ford Beacon-Herald. CAR THEFTS IN TORONTO The Ottawa Journal reports 604 motor cars stolen in that city in two years, and all but two of them re- covered. ~The Toronto record is 2,842 in two years, which, in a city with five times ODttawa's population and seven times it motor registration, may be regarded as a fairly comparable fig- ure. In Toronto 61 of the cars were still missing when the chief constable's report was issued in the following year, but some have doubt- less been recovered since that time. In a large city it is much more difficult to trace automobiles when they disappear, and probably a larger percentage are stolen "for keeps" as distinct from those which are merely appropriated for joy ries.--Toronto Star. A NEW SPECIES A dog in Florida climbs trees for oranges and grapefruit, and also eats bananas, apples and cabbages. Ah! A salad-hound.--Woodstock Senti- nel-Review, A DANISH PAPER There is a romance in printing a newspaper--whether it be a metro- politan daily or a small rural week- ly--that captures the imagination of most everybody. And throughout the world there are ventures being liv- ed, even today, in newspaper pub- lishing. i One of these is on a farm near Kentville, Nova Scotia, where an en- te prising Danish-American, Mr. Odin lluntze, prints the bi-montny "Denske Herold," _He has a lino- type machine and a flat--bed press and a few racks of type, and witn this modest equipment, plus a maxi- mum of ingenuity, he issues his nea eight-page publication, full of Can- ada-wide Danish news sent in by a small army of correspondents, and tastefully brightened by illustrations. The subscription list, and this is an excellent-indication of - the value of "Danske Herold," is not only Cana- dian but it also extends to Denmark, where the paper enjoys great popu- larity among the "home folks" whose sons and daughters have settled in a new. land, His readers find it a source of pleasure and instruction, and there is no doubt that the paper makes a genuine contribution to. Danish life in Canada. -- Winnipeg Free Press. ; ' ARMIES AND 'ARMAMENT The building of armaments is ga provocation of war, not because 3 tillery provokes an irresponsible urge in the breasts of peaceful burghers to blow up bridges and knock down church steeples, but be- cause these inanimate things require an army to operate them, and if an army is to be any good you must love it--Hamilton Herald, NE ONOR? Earl Willingdon, lit is reported, is to be made a Knight of the Garter. The fine service rendered by this former Governor Ggneral of Canada as Viceroy of India during an ex- ceedingly difficult period fully en- titles him to this honor.--Brockville Recorder. THE "AIR.MAIL. A London correspondent of The Ottawa Journal has some significant comment on air-mail development in the British Isles. Such {is the growing volume of business mails now being carried by air between London and Glasgow, he writes, that it is merely a question of time be- fore a regular direct service -is in- stituted. The present service, which deliv- ers letters at one end one the even- ing of the same day that they are airmatiled from the other, is not a direct line, but takes a zig-zag route | to serve other cities, but he is told that "our postal experts regard the business between London and Glas- gow, which are after all the first and second cities of the Kingdom, if not of the Empire, as amply justi- fying a direct individual service." And these observations apply with equal force to"this country. The basis 'of commercial aerial develop- ment in Canada must be the air- mail: and as soon as the state of the ; public finances permit, air-mail ser- vices will undoubtedly be established on an extensive scale.--Halifax Her- ald, TOUGH FOR THE FISH We read of a naturalist who has discovered fish that live on land. It 'seems foolhardy, considering that ex- perienced farmers can hardly do it. «Regina Leader-Post, g 'RISING INCOME There is great cause for sat'sfac- 'ty when at work > > > od tion in certain New York figures re- leased recently and having to do with the income of the American people. Leading trade analysts, it is stated, place the 1934 income at around $9,000,000,000 more than last year. In-1929 the national income was es- timated at $86,106,000,000. The depressiion starting late that year, pulled the total down in rapid fash- ion. In 19838 it was believed to have been reduced to approximately $49,660,000,000. -- Border Cities Star, TAX ON PYJAMAS We are reliably informed by one of them that farmers do not wear pyjamas, and along with this news comes the suggestion that city fel- lers should pay a stiff tax for doing 80, This may be meant as another "nuisance" tax on the rich, Ag an Algoma man is behind the idea, this column is for it, or for anything else that wil] irritate the social strata who have forsaken the good old nightshirt which is also an outgrowth of an effort to achieve culture as we gather from the ex- perts Why should anybody effect the modern gewgaws that the sissy magazines flaunt in our faces in a variety of gaudy patterns?? Should any man put on extra style merely to hit the hay? For science tells us (and what science doesn't think it knows can be put in your left eye), that the normal man shifts every few minutes whe, he is asleep, thus revealing that the nocturnal fight with the bed clothes is a sign of a good day's work. Whether a man retires as a squir- rel does, without brushing his teeth or doing his daily half dozen, or sleeps in his clothes like an occa- ional lumberjack, there scems to be no real excuse for pyjama making except as a relief measure, As for the reasonable nexds of the women folks, we refrain' from expressing any view.-- Sault Ste, Marie Star. RECKLESS DRIVERS Men who never lost sight of safe- become careless and reckless when they get behind the whee] of a car. Men who would never think of taking a chance In handling a piece of factory machin- ery will try to save five minutes on the drive home by cutting corners, passing 'on curves and at intersec- tions, or doing one of the many other things which cause our annual atutomobile death toll to increase.-- Chatham News. THE EMPIRE A MUSEUM FOR FAKES The British Museum authorities are understood to be considering the establishment of a museum' of forg- eries. We hope that they may see their way to create such a collection, as it would-be of undoubted interest and value to the public, and would act as a deterrent to the forger, who has in many instances made large suras out of clever impostures.-- London Daily Mail, FIRST AID TO LITERATURE An Advertisement in the London Morning Post. Would any one like to send out Coue thoughts, for the success of a girl who has pst finished. the open- ing chapter of her firet novel 2--Her Mother, .. 178 KILLED IN ONE WEEK The sharp rise in the graph of fatal road accidents in Great Britain is .as puzzling as it is disquieting, During the week ended on Saturday, 178 people were killed or died from their injuries--a total which is only two below that for the first week in July, the worst return since these records were first introduced in March, A relatively heavy death- ra'e in midsummer can be under- stood if it cannot be excused. But what are we to say about equally grim returns at the beginning of November, when a large number of cars have been withdrawn from the roads ?--Glasgow Herald, SAVE THESE MOTHERS In the last ten years science sas advanced at all points, but AK& most important point of all; fl the birth-rate has fallen the toll of mothers' lives has increased. Life- saving in most other fields of human activity has become a national con- cern but mothers have been allowed to die unheeded except by those who mourn them. For a great majority of these deaths sheer neglect alone is responsible--neglect to take advant- age of modern methods, to seek new methods, to dispel ignorance and sup- erstition, to ensure proper pre-natal care, to warn mothers againstt im- proper feeding and other dangers,-- Manchester Sunday. EMPIRE FREE TRADE We are the happiest nation in the world, In this country there is work for many, as the rising figures of employment tell. We require to ad- vance the frovement so that there "tics. | has just been FA © into a hangar. lating C. W. A, Scott and his co-pilot, T. Campbe Macpherson Robertson's left is the Lord Mayor of | D ) Ate man of the centenary celebrations, and standing behind is the Acting Premier of Victoria, Macfarlan. Here are the first pictures to be received of the finish. which two British fliers won with a margin of days over speed the sensational time of less than three days. The 1 icture sh Sir Macpherson Robertson, 3 I a ell Black, on their remarkable achievement Melbourne (Sir Harold Gengouit Smith), chair- I EE RE Finish Of World's Greatest Air Race f of the London to Melbourne air race In fliers from many otper Sounities in th e upper picture the winning plane is seen being run 5, a the donor of the prizes, congratu- On Sir Mr, lan is work for all. We énjoy a peace- ful form of government, There is need for dispersing such elements of disturbance as exist in our poli- When men are busy at work they have no mind for trouble. The rapid development of Empire trade is opening up new prospects of business and employment. We must accelerate that development. It is the only way to prosperity. : DRESSY MAYORS Bulgaria Insists Mayors Be Fashion Plates on 835 to $100 a Month. . Sofia, -- Fron now on Bulgaria is to have only white-collared mayors, One of the chief ideals of the new Government is to find ways in which the village masses may profit from the knowledge and ability of the edu- cated people. And one of these ways is held to be the appointment of uni- versity graduates only to the posts of village mayors, _.3Hitherto the mayor has been a lo- cal celebrity, He, the priest, and the teacher were the ruling triumvirate, In many cases the mayor was neither educated nor 'cultured, He.sometimes ruled as a local despot, The new Government however has set out to regenerate peasant life, It has decreed, also, that the mayors should be lawyers. And in addition to performing their administrative work they are to serve as judges. Their salaries also-haye been fixed. In communitis of Tess than 60 inhabi- tants they will receive $35 a month and in the larger villages $40, City mayors are to receive as high as $100 monthly, The plan is that the mayor is to be a village father, Hg is to be a teacher and missionary. His family is to serve as an example to all, But opponents of the scheme can- not imagine white collared lawyers doing all this for $35 a month! QUEER WORLD A thirty-year old dealer, called to give evidence ,at Barnet (Herts) County Court, told. Judge Tudor Rees that he could not read. A postcard has taken more than twenty years to travel from Ports: mouth to Slough, Bucks, where it delivered with an apology stating that it wag discover- ed in a disused letter-box. It was 'sent by Mr. A. Gallap! f The tooth of an animal believed to "have lived 200,000 years ago "has ! been discovered ' Province of China, "historic animals, the wangsi Bones of pre- stone "axes and utensils used thousands of years ago in have also been found, Mrs. Nellie Smith sént her wash- ing to the laundry at Reading, Mas sachusetts, When the bag was open- ed a cheet jumped out and secamper- ed across the floor, In packing the wash Mrs, Sniith had 'neiuded her cat. HIGH TANKS AND QUAKES The Building of Water Tow- ers a Subject for Research ° When an earthquake rocked Long Beach, Calif, last -year, elevated water tanks were damaged, some 80 badly that they had to be taken down, Parts of the city were dry. Here we have the inspiration for the studies that A. C. Ruge is mak- ing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discover how water tanks should be built, : The first-"thing that Ruge does is to make a scale model. A. 60,000 gallon tank about 'twenty feet in diameter and weighing half a mil- lion pounds becomes a miniature imitation five inches in diameter, weighing five pounds, and holding two and a~ half quarts. The slowest artificial quake that can be pro- duced shakes such a model much too rapidly. Ruge allows for that. The artificial quakes are produced by shaking a table on which the model is mounted. All the motions are magnified and photographed. What do the records show? Water tanks are not built to resist earth- quakes. Paradoxically enough, mod- erate strengthening does more harm than good. 14 AL All that is usually expected of a water tower is resistance to wind pressure and strength _ enough to carry the load of water, This is good enough in regions where earthquak- es are unknown. In shaky regions of the earth another type must be designed. What this is-Ruge has still to discover. 5 NEW CIRCUIT BREAKER Speed and Economy Claimed For Power Line Device Unusual features arp embodied in a new high voltage, large capacity: oil circuit breaker for electric power lines, Radleally different in design, each single:pole unit of the new breaker is shaped like a cross in con- trast to the tank-like construction of conventional equipment, Among the claims offered for the mew equipment, which was developed by the General Electric Company, arg higher break, ing speeds and short arckink times and the use of very little oil, Only ninety-six gallons of oil per poly are stated to be required by a breaker with an® interrupting rating of 1,600,000 kilovolt amperes, at 138 kilovolts, compared with about 1,700 gallons per pole for a conventional breaker of an equivalent interrupting rating, Y - NEW TYPE OF CONTAINERS. Horizontal containers, not much larger than tical central supports which, in ad- | started. conventional bushings, | enclose the interrupting mechanisms: Thesy containers are mounted on ver: dition to serving in an insulating ca-: transfor- pacity, also house current is re- mers. when such equipment quired, The operating mechanism is locat- ed in the base of each single-pole unit and an insulated operating rod passes up through the central sup- port to the container, 3 The interrupting elements consist of several sets of contacts in a line, and the inside of each container fs. so arranged that oll driven by a piston, is positively directed across the arc.path of each of the several arc breaks per pole during circuit interruption, : British Generals Of 1917 Criticized By Lloyd George London--Mr. David Lloyd George, Britain's chief "elder statesman," has followed up recent sharp crit- icisms of his late naval and civil colleagues with an equally out- spoken indictment of British gen- erals, in the latest volume of his lively "War Memoirs." Mr. Lloyd George finds in par- ticular that the whole series of military operations which were con- tinued for a number of months _ in 1917 in the quagmires-of Passchen- daele in France were "one of the blackest horrors in history." He supports this allegation with voluminous extracts from official records. He brings forward also personal evidence so detailed and so well documented as to be caulculated to keep official apologists busy for a generation endeavoring prove his thesis. "It is," Mr. Lloyd George says, "one of the bitterest ironies of war that I who have "been ruthlessly as- sailed in books, in the press and: in speeches for 'interfering. with! the soldiers' should carry with me as my most painful regret the memory that on this issue I did not justify that charge." It is thought in some circles here that nothing. is to be gained by re« calling such grim events as those to which Mr. Lloyd George refers. On 'the other hand the view is also widely held that such' light as he'is now. endeavoring, to. supply: may help |. prevent. the recurrence of such happenings. : Mr, Lloyd George thus has warm supporters ag well as fierce assail- ants in the controvery he has The Zulu-Kafiirs require a man to stand at a distance when he address- es his mother-in-law. He may not ad- dress. her: by name, for such fami- liarity might iniply an authority over her. : : : cigar box. to dis-|. "70 KEEP DANUBE PEN ALL -- Free of Ice to Be Studied GALATZ, Roumania--Efforts are to be made to maintain freight nls fic all winter on the Danube Ri between Vienna and the Black Sea, according to a decision of the Inter- national Danube Committee at its sitting here. ~ Since the realization of this plan requires that a traek be kept free from ice, traffic experts are to be sent to the Soviet Republic to study the methods used by the Russians 'for keeping their navigable ' rivers 'open in the winter, : The movement of freight up and down the Danube is much. cheaper than, shipping it' by train and" mo less than six states profit from this waterway, but for several months each year traffic is stopped by the ice. It is realized that great difficulties have to be faced in undertaking the scheme to keep the river open be- cause usually the river does mot freeze over solidly, but is covered 'with large quantities of loose ice floating. rapidly down stream, It iis riot easy to see how ice breakers can keep a channel open under such. con- ditions and ordinary freight. boat cannot long withstand: the strain of 'this floating ice. : : If this attempt at defying winter here does succeed, it will greatly fa- cilitate trade in southeast Europe. i King John's Treasure May be Buried in Castle Grounds History books telling how King John's treasure was lost in the Wash may soon have to be rewritten. Documents 'have been found . in ancient Rockingham Castle revealing that the: crown and jewels were hid- den at Rockingham Castle, then a royal: residence. It was from: Rockingham Castle that Johh set out on which. took him across. the Wash, The documents, which are in code, have been decphered and point to. the actlal part of the groundsiwhere the treasure lies buried: The Rev. O. R. Plant, rector of Rockingham, told the reporter these facts. With the consent and assis- ance: of Lady: Seymour, mother of Sir Michael Culme<Seymour, owner of the castle, he has for several months been making investigations in the castle. ANCIENT TUNNEL "I had always thought it unlikely that the king would have taken his crown and jewels with him on a: dan- gerous journey," said Mr. Plant. "Besides these doeuments I found the blocked-up entrance to an old tunnel, where, I believe, is hidden a great deal of gold and silver plate and coin which disappeared from the castle. chapel about the same time as the 'treasure. TiN "I could open that tunnel in ten minutes if I had Sir Michael's per- mission. He is now in Canada: "The tunnel appears to lead from inside. the castle right down to the village, " 4] feel sure that besides King John's. treasure will be: found the original Magna Carta . . . It was drafted at Rockingham, and the king had it. with him here." OUTSIDERS BARRED The rector said it was unlikely that further researches: will be made until Sir Michael: Culme-Seymour; who is: geting as. aide.de-camp ta Lord Bessborough returns: to Eng: 'land next June, ; "He will almost certainly wish to 'be. present-when such historical finds take place on his own lands," said Mr, Plant. 4 "If permission is given to dig hes fore Sir Michael returns, we shall 'wait until public interest has died 'down. We shall employ no workmen or outsiders." Only myself; Lady Seymour; and some friends will take in the greatest secrecy." Toll of Preventable Diseases. MIRAI (Brantford Expositor) Every. year thousands of Can. adians. die for diseases which could be. prevented. The Canadian Social Hygiene Council is authority for the statement that on a average one person in three thus dies ahead of his time, and an analysis of Ontario statistics would' indicate that the average for this province is even higher, with 84 per cent. of all deaths 'postponable., Again, it is con- Soviet Plan of Keeping Rivers | é| license: are strict, 'of mere entertainment: value 'over the new the journey|- 'little. fixin"s into. its "corn" tended that from two to three per|. cent. of the population of the popu- lation of Canada is continuously on the sick list and that more than half A midget has committed suicide: at: Waterloo, Iowa, by jumping oft a! of all disabling sickness. could be: prevented. [11 10 Amateurs May Now Apply to Post Office for Their Pers 'mits ; LONDON--Amateur {televisionists in Great Britain have been cheered by the latest regulations issued by the General Post Office for licenses to be issued to transmitters. These are the: first results of experiments with short-wave television which have:been in progress. for some time te : i The wave-band between 10,02 and 10.71 meters (28,005-82,000 Kkilo- cycles) has been reserved for ama. . teur transmitters and = experiments ers, As the wave-band gets lower and the number of kilocycles per meter increases, this means that 444 channels with a separation of 9 kilo- cycles each will'be available, One of the drawbacks to television on the higher wave-lengths has been that there are far fewer channels avail able there to accommodate the vi- sion signals without causing severe interference to the ordinary broad- casting. : his meant that only one half-" hour morning and evening could be spared for a single transmission. No time: was available for amateur to transmit, they would only "look in" and listen. THese enthusiasts will _now- have a broad wave.band di- vided between speech and vision which: will be of more: than double the width of the whole medium wave-band now in use {to accommo- date the 200 European stations, - The conditions for the issue of a No transmission may be: made. Eyperimenters must show that: their apparatus is equal to, or in advance of, existing systems, or that their experiments will be of scientific value. This eliminates ths mere dabbler in television, but re-. fers only to transmitting, "Those with receivers 'able to receive short. 'wave signals will be able to range exclusive television wave-band to see what is - being done, : Ea, Quaint: Grist Mills Keep Primitive Touch In Carolinian Hills RALEIGH, N. C.--While southern Appalachian may have yielded some of! its. beauty to: the woodman's- axe, it has retained much that makes it attractive--and primitive, For example, the traveler _finds scattered throughout cer'~ta moun- tain sections of western North Caro- lina, many quaint mills, where corn meal is manufactured, in the old- fashioned' way. In some instances, these' have been operated by mem- bers. of the same family for, several generations, the "business" having been handed down from father 'to son. : : These board structures, weather- beaten in many cases, often fur- nish gathering places for the peo- ple of surrounding territory. : The miller is the host, and he gathers. news and disperses it. In fact, the mill is often the: community center-- the: "parish" house for the - local church, the meeting place for vari- ous groups concerned with the re- ligious: and civic betterment of the neighborhood. : One of the most famous water mills in this section of North Caro- lina 'is located near Bryson: City. For many years it has furnished the in- 'gredients' for "corn bread" for those in the" 'surrounding country, who have taken their grain there to have it. ground) into meal. - Henry, Jenkins, affectionately known as "Uncle Henry," started. the busi- ness- many years: ago. His grandson is now the miller and maintainz the contacts. his grandfather established. While northerners like their "muftin" bread, "batter" bread and the like all flavored with sugar and eggs, the average southern family puts very bread, which is in an integral part of every vegetable dinner, 'Babies Thrive on part in the work, and it will be: done) - "Depression Food Del Monte, Calif.,--Depression has dropped the infant mortality rate be- cause mothers cannot buy the rich food' they ate in more prosperous days, says Dr. John C. Irwin of Los Angeles, jaz Sneaking to the convention of the Pacific Coast Society of Obstetrics 'and Gynecology he declared it was his. observation there has been a marked de.vease in the mortality of babies traceable to lack of proteins. "Many mothers have beén unable ° to buy the rich fead that they were | accustomed to," he said. "I believe that this is one of the reasons why baby mortality has decreased." Brides can be bought in Cyprus at prices: ranging from £20 to £100. The girls are the daughters of Turkish parents, who sell them to the high. est. bidders, The buyers are mainly Arabs from Palestine, who, attract. 'ed by the fame of the girls' beauty, come to the island to find brides.