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R aT Gg bled of DANES ERTS Id tag i TL ECT ls * RR RAS I ---------- AN Ar er 'Voice of > the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large }- . CANADA HOPES DASHED The voice of a crooner has been heard in an Alberta well, due to some freak reception of radio programs. The incident may have raised the hopes of a good many people, before the circumstances were explained.-- Hamilton Herald. MODEL TAX RATE While New York and other cities are bogged in a morass of financial dickering with bankers and getting a headache trying to devise new taxes to meet relief and routine ex- penditures. Baltimore expects to close the calendar year with a sur- plus of $2,600,000. Mayor Howard W. Jackson is determined to make a cut of at least 11 cents in the 1985 tax rate. This would bring the 1936 rate below $2.35 and make it the lowest since 1919. Members of the Baltimore City Council, even more sanguine than the mayor, are driving for a 1985 tax rate of about $2.15. The present Baltimore tax rate is $2.45.--St. Thomas Times- Journal. FOOTBALL A London_cable tells of England defeating Italy by a score of 3-2 in an "international fore a crowd of 70 It is a striking exam! the strides made by European es in games which, up to a few years ago, were almost exclusively Anglo Saxon. Time was when football, and particularly soccer football, was as English as the language Today it is played in France and Germany, and even in Soviet Russia.--Ottawa Journal, thbury., SALAD HOUND A dog in Florida climbs trees for oranges and grapefruit, and also eats bananas, apples and cabbages. Ah! A salad hound.-- Woodstock Sentinel Review. "" OLD HOME WEEKS Old Home Weeks are not only great jubilees, they soar away be yond fun and frivolity, and yet there are few, very few, members of the human race who do not enjoy a good time, and they alwavs have it at a function of this nature.--Perth Ex positor. STREAMLINING IN ASIA last may be East and West, West, but the distinction is not very evi- dent in the matter of streamlined treins. In benighted Asia, on the Dair- n-Hsinking line of the South Manchuria Railway, a train known as the "Asia" is now in operotion.--Moneten Transcript, HIGH OXFORD HONORS It will be of interest everywhere in Canada, particula-ly in university centres, to learn that a student from +» ope «ofothe Dominions has worked his way to acknowledged leadership aneng the students at Oxford, and kas been raised to the highest elec- tive position in their gift--that of Pre i'ent of the Oxford Debating Union. This honor has fallen to a Rhodes "Scteolar from McGill, David Lewis, graduate of the Fa- culiy of Aris and Science, and at McGill a former prominent campus orat r. i- the man who has been ac- corded the outztendine honor of Ox- ford. At McGill, Mr. Lewis was aldo a member of the Students' Execu- tive Council. Let us hope that Mr, Lewis' suc- ces: will be reached by other Cana- dian .-----Halifax Herald. ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK Senator Huey P. Long is accused of having cursed and threatened to fire the editor of a Louisiana col- Tege paper. Let the youthful jour- nalist buck up--older editors than he have come through safely.--To- ronto Globe. x JUICY BONDS OF EMPIRE Canada, this year, has imported 100,000 cates of oranges from South Africa. There's another juicy text for the advocates of trade within the Empire.--Winnipeg Tribune. . TEACHING LITERATURE In literary .instruction for the young, it should be borne in mind that the object is not to train critics, but to enlarge and enrich the" mind, and to stimulate further reading. It is the food that is important, not the label on the package, No doubt many teachers have this . » Object, steadily in view, but there is no harm in calling attention to the danger of being led into methods of instruction that are likely to fos- ter a distaste rather than a love for literature. Literature is valuable for its in- terpretation of life and its part in developing a philosophy of life. This 1s.the test that should be applied not only to classics that have stood the test of time, but to new books, Do they confirm or modify your own opinions, or enlarge your range of thought? Those matters are much more important than the extent to steamline | RAR So Lan Laan an i which the new book is talked about. --London Advertiser, THEIR BROKEN WORD Not until some way can be found of making the bonds of nations as good as the words of honourable men is the peace of the world likely to be established on a really stable graph. HOUSING PROBLEMS Most housing schemes on this con- tinent have failed in their objective of providing homes for the worst housed because the subsequent charges made rents too high, What are nceded are dwellings which will rent for $156 a month, . . The fact is, however, that under the present policy of taxing improvements pri- vate enterprise cannot construct such homes as the Federal Adminis- tration visions, and make 'them pro- fitable, If private enterprise cannot build them, and the Government should not, it follows that millions of families must forever live in shacks and decrepit structures, There are no two ways about it, and it would be useful if those now engag ed in surveying housing needs in Ottawa today kept this important point in mind.--Ottawa Citizen. QUEER CURES AMAZING We in Canada are accustomed to regard the "toe-twisting" treatment for arthritic and other diseases, giv- en by our own Dr, Locke, of Wil- liamsburg, Ont., as being miraculous enough. And there are even scep- methods seriously, although his be- lievers are legion and the results he obtains apparently speak for them- selves. But Coralie Van Passen writing from Paris to a Toronto paper, re- ports alleged cures that are more remarkable, if not more miraculous still, 'The Fkealer is Dr. Armand Gil- let who, like Dr. Locke, is said to be averse to pablicity. And his method is to ticlle the no .trils with a pair of small "stylets,"" or thin metal staves, about six inches long. ~ By this treatment, claimed to re- present the fruits of years of re- search, an emotional effect is ob- tained that has curative power over neuralgia, rheumatism and so forth. He is reputed to have many marvel- lous successes to his credit and the people flock to him as they do to Williamsburg. Wonders will never cease !| -- Quebec Chronicle - Tele graph.. THE MAGIC CARPET No line of steamships and no line of railway can_ever take the place of an international highway -as a tourist attraction. The automobile owner is captain of his own ship and conductor 'of his own trian," Any kind of a vehicle having four wheels, a brake and a gas engine becomes to its owner a Golden Argosy into which he can load his family and start for the Land of Dreams.--Ed- monton Bulletin. THE EMPIRE THE SCOTS NATIONAL ] DICTIONARY The publication today of the voca- bulary from "beefer" to "bitteraks" sees the completion of Volume L of the Scottish National Dictionary, A work of noble scholarship, of vast dimensions, has thus been success- fully inaugurated, and the editor, Dr. William Grant, and the E%ecu- tive Council of the association re- sponsible for the production are de- serving * of congratulations from Scots and scholars the world over.-- Gla~gow Herald. + THE FAITH WITHIN US The outward show of welcome to the Duke of Gloucester which finds expression in crowded streets and a decorated city is the superficial clothing of an emotion which is of fay: deeper significance than the colour of a flag or the waving of a hand. His Royal Highness comes to Australia in a dual role, as an indi vidual and as the personal repre- sentative of His Majesty the King. It is the latter role which kindles the imagination and turns one's thoughts to that powerful symbol of Imperial unity which is the Throne. Kings have had reason in these troubled post-war years to brood, as Shakes- peare did, upon the insecurity of crowns; but the Crown of England has now become the Crown of a Commonwealth of Nations, and the sceptre which English Kings have held for centuries now sways an Em. pire which reaches out from the dark shadow of Europe across the whole world.--Melbourne Argus, THE POPULAR PUSH-BIKE The wonderful display of bicycles and the big crowds at the opening of the Bicycle and Motor Show in Olympia conte "as reminders that the pedal cycle is still the most popu- lar of vehicles, No one who has stood outside a large factory at clos- ing time can have failed to be im- pressed by the almost universal use which has been of such wonderful advantage to thousands, There are foundation.--Quebec Chronicle-Tele- |. tics who are not disposed to take his | of the cycle to go to and from work, ' Viewing Royal Wedding Princess Marina, on view at St. James Palace, rushed to see the magnificent display. t EE -- m-- ee © he - } Presents Wedding presents received by the Duke of Kent and his bride, where the public at the present time some eight mil- lion cycles in service in Great Bri- tain.--London Daily Mail, THE ROYAL WEDDING If anyone doubted the attachment of English people to the -Royal Fam- ily, or their love of domesticity, they. have only to look at the photographs of the crowds that stood to welcome i Prince George's fiancee, Princess | Marina, on her arrival in England... i The delight with which the news of the - Royal marriage was received gives some pleasure of the respect: ful regret felt by the King's subjects that the Prince of Wales has not married. His Royal Highness is forty. If the news of Prince George's marriage is received with enthus- iasm, that of the Prince 'of Wales would be acclaimed with an even deeper joy.--National Review (Lon- don,. Non-Smoking Councilman Loses Support of Woman Hastings, Neb.--Councilman Clar- ence Young's faith in women has been shaken. The Councilman is opposed to sméking. When. the Council moved into the recently completed' Munici- pal Building he urged that smoking be banned for-the sake of visitors and especially on account of the wo- men. '"In fact we have one on the Council," said he. Up through the smoke haze bob- bed the smart green hat of Mrs, A. Brooke, fellow-member, "I don't care anything 'about smoking," said she. "I expect if men like to smoke and have to sit here a long time they really need it. I expect they feel as I do when I want a drink of water. I just go and get it." Dentist: "Which is the bad tooth?" : ' Patient (a cinema attendant): "Balcony, third on left." No Divorce For : Spanish Prince And His Cuban Wife -- New York--"It's all a terrible mis: understanding, we've had no quarrel. The facts were misrepresented. There is going to be no divorce." With vigorous shakes of her head, the beautiful Countess Covadonga, daughter of a wealthy Cuban mer- chant, denied wher she arrived here reports abroad that she was to separ- ate from the eldest son of ex-king Al- fonso, the former Prince of the Astu- rias, who renounced his rights to suc- cession to the Spanish. throne to marry. the commoner, TE ara are Reticent at first, the Countess fin- ally turned aside the appeals of her sister and travelling companion, Mrs. John Argueles, to be silent and dis- cussed the reports. i "Someone spread the report that I went to a dance and my husband told me if I went I needn't come back," she said. "That is not true." "I don't like to datice., We live a quiet life and our entertainment con- sists mostly of the theatre, literature and conversation." : Someone else, she said, spread. an- other rumor that she and the Prince quarrelled over red dresses -- that she wanted some and the prince did- n't want her to buy them. "Red dresses--I hate them," said, The Countess, the former Edelmira Ignacia 'Adrigna Sampredo, plans to return to Paris in two months. Nova Scotia Apples The small province of Nova Scotia remains the greatest apple country in the world, size considered. Ex- ceeding the original estimate by more than 250,000 barrels, her com- mercial apple crop this year will be 1,750,000 barrels, latest survey. This is close to 500,- 000 barrels ahead of the average over a 10-year period.-- (From the she Boston Globe.) according to the' Swansea Home for Brangwyn Panels South Wales has secured especial significance for itself in the eyes of cultivated people throughout the world by the enterprise and good fortune of Swansea in securing the famous "House of Lords" panels--- or "British Empire" panels as they are to be known henceforth, Over and above its many other attractive features South Wales now: possesses one of the world's greatest works of art. ii The panels are housed in the Brangwyn Hall, the largest room in Swansea's new palatial civic centre, that cost 420,000 pounds to build and was opened in October last by the Duke of Kent. A commemorative tablet informs the visitor that: The annual paintings within this Hall are the work of Frank Brangwyn, R.A, Lord Iveagh who commissioned him to exe- cute them died in 1927, and his Trustees presented the Paint- ings to the Corporation of Swansea in 1934, By giving the panels to Swansea .the Iveagh Trustees solved one of the most difficult problems that has ever arisen in the history of Bri- tish Art. There are sixteen of them. measuring in their entirety 8,000 square feet. They cost 20,000 pounds and the artist was for seven years at work on his commission. And when they were at last complet- ed there seemed to be no alternative to rolling them up and stowing them away indefinitely. For the work was commissioned by Lord Iveagh with the intention of making them a memorial to British peers who fell in the War, and they were to hang in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. While the work was still incomplete, however, and after Lord Iveagh had died, some of the panels were set up-in position, only to be summarily rejected by the House of Lords, on the advice of the Royal Fine Art Commission. Despite this formidable setback, the 'artist courageously went on with his work, and in 1932 the completed panels were handed over to the Iveagh Trustees. Applications for the privilege of possessing them were received from many parts' of the world, but, in view of their great size and the fact that they were designed for a speci- fic wall space, the difficulty of find- ing an entirely suitable building seemed insurmountable. Eventually it became apparent- that the only satisfactory way of displaying them was to build a hall for the purpose, and this is virtually what Swansea has done, Bother Men Enough And You'll Get What You Want . Hamilton, Bermuda--Dudley Field Malone's advice to the Bermuda Wo- man Suffrage Society is: "Make 'yourself inconvenient to the man un- til they grant you the vote out of sheer desperation," "Men do not like to be bothered," the New York er said, at a suf- frage tea, 'and if you bother them enough for the vote you will get it sooner than you expect. Don't be passive--militant inconvenience - is your best strategy." Ten members ofthe society have refused to pay taxes on the ground that taxation without representation is tyranny. Their personal property is to be auctioned in tax arrears sales. The first sale, that of property of Mrs. St. George Butterfield, pre- sident of the suffrage group and a wealthy society woman, will be held shortly. : Dx, Murray Fraser of Halfax, N.S, an Guard of Honor for Halifx Doctor and Bride ie a guard of honor made up of nurses and babies after they were wed in the first marriage to be performed in the church of the Routunda M aternity Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, : Miss Audrey Roulston, St. John's, Nfld, passing betwoep ceremony, '| other wrestlers to the Refresher Course Plans Authorized Ottawa--Authorization for a "re- fresher course" 'at the 21 highway first-aid posts established between between Toronto and Montreal was given at a meeting of the ambulance committee of St. John Ambulance Association here. Courses will be given at each post, it was decided. The meeting folowed a luncheon ga- thering of the commandery council of St. John Ambulance Association attended by officers of the asociation from Montreal, Toronto, Saint John and Ottawa. 3 Chinese Women . ty Holding Their Tos Angles--Women have escap- ed the role of chattels in the Orient in the opinion of Mrs, Besie Ochs, Hong Kong businesswoman, ~ Mrs. Ochs, an official of Lalifor- nia-Asia, Ltd., here to attend a meet- ing of the western division of the United States: Chamber of Com- merce, affirmer in an interview that Chinese women: have invaled 'com- mercial fields once open only to men. "Chinese women are holding thelr own in business," she said. Mrs, Ochs pointed out that a Chinese woman is president-manager are recognized as lawyers, dentists, doctors and business executives. Movies Making Another Advance T.ondon--Work on the vexed pro- blem of creating three-dimensional movies is reported to be in full swing under the auspices of the Gaumont British Pictures: Corporation and the Imperial Chemical Industries. Acording to the Daily Herald if experiments now going forward suc- ceed stereoscopic films will be shown to the public in about two years. Cinema audiences will receive from the screen the same sense of solid three-dimensional reality that theatre audiences now. obtain by watching actors moving on the stage. i: Gaumont British, the paper said, has equipped special research labor- tories for sterescopic experiments and "it expects its work there to.yield de- finite results 7 next year, Golds Cut '37 P.C. Among Students Ithica, N. Y..--Reduction of 87 per cent. in the frequency of common colds among male students of Cornell 'University in the last five years is announced by Dr. Dean F." Smiley, professor of hygiene and university medical "advisor. * i The program for the cold suscept- ibled is centred "around two ultra- violet light solaria, in which students take artificial sun baths twice a week from October to May for 10- minute periods. They also get special instructions concerning diet, alkalinization, ventilization and slep. te American Sweet Potatoes Welcomed Into Britain London--Britain 'is now having a chance. to become better acquainted with the American sweet potato, for a campaign hag.been launched here by Mr. Seth Taylor, special 'repre- sentative of Maryland, to popularize this product. The first step was ta- ken recently when the S.8. American Merchant unloaded what is claimed to be the largest individual shipment (100 bushels) of sweet potatoes ever introduced into England. Jimmy and the Philosophe Somehow or other, the rumor has gone abroad that wrestling is a sport suitable only for. Neanderthal men, or, at best, survivors of the Cro- Magnon era of human development. Let it be laid: Champion Jimmy Lon- dos breakfasts on - Socrates, has Spinoza with lunch and takes Kant with his after-dinner coffee. Pinning the shoulder blades of canvas is merely a lucrative avocation for Jim- my, a kind of breather after a hard day with the philosophers, We advise Jimmy, however, to stick to wrestling, because: the fans will never pay good money at the box. office to. see him attempt to place a double-nelson on old Plato.-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch. SOR Nis Laat Ordinary Federal Revenue : Increases. by $28,000,000 Ottawa--Ordinary revenue -of the Dominion Government for the first eight months of tho present fiscal year ending Nov. 80 was more than $28,000,000 ahead of the same period last year, and for the month of Nov- ember, 1938, by nearly $1,600,000 ac- cording to a statement just isued by the Com of the Treasury. For the first eight months of the year the Dominion treasury has a surplus of $1,604,449 on ordinary ac- count, expenditures totalling $243, 468,001 and receipts $246,062,640, 18 12 "ol «Own In Business| of a Shanghi bank and that others 'Georgia, Spain--A local Don Juan and his three sweethearts in hospital here after a fight. that they were rivals for the affec~ tion of Don Juan Salses, aged 30 they decided to fight it out. But Don Juan got mixed up the the istruggle while trying to separate his 'tigerish lady friends. suffering from wounds inflicted by a horseshoe which on of the women had brought as a weapon. 'Substituting Cabbage For 'Ball, Boy Sets Froward Pass eet. Cortland, N. Y.--A big smile on his face, a four-year-old youngster stood beside a big truck watching men loading cabbage into a freight car. A farmer and his helpers were tos- sing cabbage from truck to car and failed to notice the youngster even when he called, "Hey mister!" The lad called again, a little loud- er, and a farmer peered over the side of the truck, "What's the matter with you?' he asked. "I'm a good football player, try me a forward pass, will-ya?" the tot queried. through the air, and the boy braced himself to receive it. It staggere him, but he hung on and raced for home. A friend saw the running boy and called after him, "Ronny, how many passes is that you've caught, now?" 3 Sixty-five," Ronny replied as he disappeared into his house to place the 65th head with the supply he had 'provided. for his mother, who does not ceries is coming from. - The Cost of American Beauty The (American) Department of Commerce reported that the whole- sale value of cosmetics manufactured in 1929 was more than $200,000,000 --an increase of 16 per cent over 1927. - The retail value of these pre- parations has been estimated at $375,000,000 to which must be added 3 the cost of personal service In $40,000,000. The national outlay for beauty preparations in' 1934 is pro- bably. 'smaller than in 1929, but the slump is estimated to be much less than in many other lines. and increasing numbers of men, too of depression.--Literary Digest. Woman Police Sergeant ; Right on the Job Pittsburg--An irate householder phoned the Dormont police station, chasing 'a cat around my backyard g and I want it stopped." "Okay," came back a feminine voice, "I'll send an officer right out. .... Pi her first day of = duty as Western Pennsylvania's only woman sergeant. % She is the widow: of Patrolman Henry Blume who died last month. Stratford Hits On' + Way Stratford, Ont--Stratford's city Aathers believe they have found a way to save money on issuance of small cheques for unemployment re- lief work: . City council decided to invest 9b cents on a rubber stamp with which to stamp cheques of this type of the value of less than $5. The under- standing here is that such cheques are exempt from the customary three- cent excise stamp, providing that they are stamped "unemployment re- lief--no tax." Council thinks it can save about $5 weekly this way. Prolonged Kiss Gets A Long Sentence Moreira, having kissed a young lady against her will, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Immediately afterward the 'judge and the press were inundated with letters protest- ing against the heavy sentence. One of the writers, a young senor- ita who discreetly concealed her as .an unsentimental creature for in- flicting such -a harsh sentence for such a beautiful thing as a kiss. Germany Honors Mother : Of 53 Children ' Stuttgart, Germany--Villagers of Bonningheim, Wuertteamburg have "mother," in honor of Barbart Schmo-, r, ; : a Village archives A Barbara, who died in 1504, was the mother of 63 children--38 boys and 16 girls, 4 : % When the three women discovered: 4 So all four were taken to hospital A big head of cabbage sailed always know where the cash for gro- beauty shops, amounting to about Women, . have learned the practical value of * looking their best, especially in times.-* - "Sergeant, there's a gang of boys. It was: Mrs. Margaret Blume, on police . ..- To Save $5 San Jose, Costa Rica ----- Melanio identity naively condemned the judge anveiled a tablet "to Germany's best 3 : 1 ¥ 2 . Fz Cl :