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VOICE | \ i THE WORLD AT LARGE of the CANADA, THE EMPIRE Zz PRESS CANADA VINELAND SCIENTIST MAKES. NAME IN AVICULTURE The work of Jack Miner and other naturalists in the preservation. of wild life is almost a household world. Few kno, however, of the outstand- ing work done in rearing in captivity birds, strange to our continent, by such men as Dr. WW E, Hurlburt, na- turalist and ornithologi:t of Vineland. By this excellent contribution to av: cu:ture, this Vineland physician has qualified for recognition by the Avi. cul.ural Scclety of America, which offers medals to members "in tHe United Statts and Canada, who are the first to breed certain species of foreign birds. For the past decade or more Dr. Huribut has taken an {interest in "tropical birds until he has sixly in species in captivity, He has also reared for the first time anywhere in the world in captivity the fox spar. row, native of the far north in North America, and the whitésthroated finch, native of "Brazil, and for the first: time probably on this contin- ent, the magpie manniken, a native of tropical Africa. Other foreign birds somewhat rare in this country are to be seeh among his specimens. Dr. Hurlburt has done real work as a scientist, and is deserving of any re- cognition that may be bestowed up- on him. -- Toronto Mail and Empire. TYPE 1S NOT ELASTIC The American police commissioner who docs not like the word "fight" and is trying to get the newspapers to use the more polite word "distur- bance" won't get anywhers. There ere 1114 cha acters in disturbance and only 414 in fight (the letter 'i being only hall 2s wide £8 the others). Desk men on newspapers, boiling down stori-s to save space and writing headlines thot have to be compressed in narrow columns, will not use a lonz word when they can use a short one. That is why diplomati¢ com- munications are "notes"; the enemy is the "foe'; interrogates or cross- examines becomes 'quiz', criticize is "hit", and so on. _ Something of a modern classic in headline English is a recent exam- ple from Variety, the amusement newspaper. The headline reads: * STICKS NIX HICK PIX." Each of the four words is a slang word and the headline would be in- admissable in any daily newspaper. What the headline intended to con- vey is simply this: that the movie- ging public In the smaller communi. tes have indicated that they dislike and will not pay their good money to see motion pictures depicting rural life. -- Financial Post. LIVES OF NAPOLEON Ten thousand books, or one évery 98 hours for 112 years, .have been written on Napoleon's life, This should danfpens I ssoXal's ambition a bit. -- Winnipeg Tribune. JOURNALESE Strange how newspaper lingo changes. A couple of generations ago reporters were in the habit of often calling a church a "sacred edifice," . and some of them seemed to prefer "conflagration" to "fire," and 'post. prandial" to "after dinner." A gen. eration ago the revered Montreal Star was want to refer to even po- lice court doings as "dramatic." A few of the newer words now af. fected definitely, "spot" of tea, "considered" opinfon, "blunt" view, and socialite. -----Sault Ste. Marie Star, GOOD ROADS Good roads bound the old Roman Empire together, and it is not a vain hope that they may be made a bound which shall in time help to bind to- gether the ' United States of Europe." --- Halifax Herald, FINE BABIES EVERYWHERE When we look at the photographs of those babies 'who 'won prizes at the North Wentworth Agricultural Soclety Fair, we cannot help think- ing that the Dionne quintuplets may get more publicity, but their ap- pearance is no more a guarantee of a healthy and good-looking future Canadian generation than that of numerous other children, born and bred without bally-hoo in our rural districts, -- Hamilton Spectator. OLD STAINS The stain of 1896 has been wiped out, Italians are celebrating the fall of Adowa. Fine! Let's all wipe ouf - our stains, The Scotch migat invade England to revenge themselves for Flodden Feld; the British wallop the Russiang for cutting up the Light Brigade; France might invade Ger. : many to clear up that old trouble of | 1870" atid Germany (might invade 'France to avenge the defeat of 1918; Italy might walk into France to wipe , out the stain of the Na apoleonia. con. 3 tria might hay but. {Why amilton erald, Aly EET CAR SERVICE, Bo. it would seem that thers' is still A domand for street rallway trans. Dottation, "but it | t that modernization o business, The Mayor of Indianapolis says that an 8 per cent increase has noted since the new cars 'fast, silent, handsome and. confortable'-- were put into service, "enhancing the prestige of «the city." If the cars .are the opposite to fast or silent or handsome, it {8 not reasonable tg ex- pect any great improvement in the traffic, -- Hamilton Spectator. A BIT TOO MUCH Young man from Stirling appeared in court at Belleville and the charge was that he fired a shot-gun at a charivari party. Tin pans, old boll. ers, wash tubs and cow bells used to be commonly used, but this restle:zs generation seeking for greater ef- fects with: "weapons will have to be checked, -- Stratford Beacon-Herald. A NOBLE RETREAT Recent news from Italy might lead an old-time reader of nursery rhymes to wonder if the world is not about to witness a repetition of the perfor- mapce made famous by the noble Duke of York. The noble Duke, as you may re- member, had a thousand men; and after marching them boldly uphill one day, he 'bout.faced and march- ed them gallantly down again, Since the British navy began con- centrating in the Mediterranean, fit has been possible to notice a witer- ing.down in the warlike speeches at Rome, Mussolini has declared over and over again that Italy could not withdraw on any account; now, how- ever, there is a faint trace of a more moderate attitude to be heard, just as a suggestion that if it could be done with (fe right flovrish, II Duce might be willing to modi"y his belli. cose plans, : Strange, the change that can come over a statesmen when he takes a good look down the business end of the guns of a British dreadnaught! --~Guelph Mercury. THE EMPIRE BRITAIN AND THE DOMINION They stand, as we in this country stand, for peace and justice and the plighted world. They .will not lightly be committed-- and never committed in advance or without the full assent of their free peoples -- to warlike measures, But they are becoming more and more conscious by the dan. gers of the present world, even to their own remote Dominions, so long as iL contains great nations which have no such voice as theirs in the oinice between war and peace. I. is safe to say that the recent: debates in the Dominion Parliaments, and the line taken at Geneva by their repre- sentatives, have revealed an array of unanimi.y which would have been incredible not long ago. Lord Tweeds- muir's prediction the other day that what he called the "Fourth Empire" would possess a new cohesion, t6l- lowing upon the achievement of na- tional independence, was something more than the dream of an imagina- tive-and patriotic mind. Nor is it conceivable that the Dominions, or any class 'in~this-country, will dissent from the vidw that these dangers of the present world, so conspicuously revealed ,demand some revision of our Imperial defencgs. -- London Times. ; : Scot'and or England today scheme of assistance to the industry has yielded the most satisfactory re- sults tp producers and he will un: Under this plan, no matter what the world: price of wheat may be, home growers are guaranteed (subject to a production limit) a standard price for all millable wheat of 455. per qr. of 504 1b., or 414 cwt. Since the scheme began in the season of 1932-33 ex. perience has shown that the standard price for this home.whea! has been about double that which our growers could have hoped to reap from the open market. -- Glasgow Herald. A MIRACLE Man hag sought out many inven. tions and afterwards has mostly re. gretted his pain: But now a device has appeared a: which not even the most anti-mechanical of Erewhonians could grumble. The machine for giv- ing women the 1{lusion of wearing new clothes, which is to be shown at the forthcoming Exhibition of Inven. tions in London, sounds so utterly beneficlal 'and flattering that it should obviously be the "starred" item of |THE BRITISH WHEAT BOUNTY he looks forward with deep.interest Ak any farmers' leader in either (to his residence in Canada. We can which [well believe hesitatingly reply, "The wheat-quota |e these latter days gained a new mean- the mile and one-half Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park, L.I half a length, All eight hoofs off the ground, Count Arthur and Judy O'Grady vietared in flying finish in Reigh. Count's son won 'race by Reviewing® Three Centuries A _a Delegates from all parts of the country to the annual conference of the Institute of Journalists in Lon- don enjoyed the opportunity to in- spect a panorama of the evolution of the English newspaper from its be. ginhing more than three hundred years ago to the present day. In the forefront of this fascinating record of three centuries\pnf English journalism stood a page from Wil- llam Caxton's press at -Westmin:ter dated 1480 as an example of the earliest printing in England. An interval of a-cen'ury and a quarter led up to a' copy of "Mercurius. Gal. lobelgicus," dated 1606, a six-monthly compilation of European news done in Latin at Frankfurt and containing the report of a speech delivered in Parliament by James I denouncing the atrocity of the Guy Fawkes Plot. This forerunner 'of' 'newspapers with letters frfom Continental corre- spondents and the Dutch and Ger- man corantos--the earliest form of nows.sheets--provided the 'material from which the pioneers of English journalism compiled the first news. papars in this country. Their origin dates from May, 1622, and in the ex- hibition was shown a finely pre- gerved specimen of a year la'er-- "The Continuation of our Weekly Newes"--with--its decorative head- .plece, table of contents, and. enter taining account of recent happen. ings in the Thirty Years' War. The Journalism of the Civil War and Commonwealth period, when news pamphlets on the opposing sides poured from the London press- es, was represented py numerous ex- amples. "A Perfect Relation of Su- muarte" is a particularly - stylish specimen of front-page lay-out, and the "Faithful Scout" Is singled out Dn ness in November, 16562. * lution through the 'centricities of allied - itself w the brilliant S.e when literature journalism ~ in 'and Defoe's "Robinson Cruso" running as a columns of the "Daily Post." was. the period when maturity, their issue of .only 2, century newspaper reached here were shown amids: temporaries the first "Morning ' Po:t" (the known) dated November under its original Universal Registers day papers of today. | Journalism in its issues of tion of the exhibition was devoted a display "of the oldest while joyrnalism cies are still don newspapers. Of Journalism in England / . for & graphic account of the 'great and bludy engagement' between the English and Dutch fleets off Dunge- From these beginnings the 'page- ant of the Press was shown in evo- journalistic ee- the Restoration and Revolution to the advent of the tri- waqekly morning paper at the close of the seventeenth century and of the daily at the opening of Anne's:reign, ith ele and Addi:on group of essay shects, was serial thtough the The second half of the eighteenth the and on. copy 1772; "The Times" in its first year (1785), title. "The Daily and the Ob- server, the oldest existing of the Sun. more modern phases was represented by the first any of the morning, eve- ning, and Sunday papers of Victorian and Edwardian times, and a large sec- to provincial, Scottish, and Irish newspapers, which emphasized the interesting fact that in London had a long start compared with the country towns, many - of the old towns and producing with un- broken records of longevity journals that have flourished since long before the birth of the oldest existing Lon- TWEEDSMUIRS SHOULD BE AT HOME (From Canada's Weekly (London) Lord Tweedsmuir has told us that allel up to the sub-Arctic itself. To large numbers of them Jo Buchan will come as it. For us ordinary | friend, for his writings . mortals, Canada never fails to pro- vide mental gymanastics in a high degree. Something "new is always arising to stir us to fresh effort, It is a land of illimitable possibilities whether we think of the resources of Nature, of the Mind or of Spirit. That is our common experience. How great, then, must be the exhilaration which Canada brings to leaders of thought such as our. new Governor General. As-they come into touch with Canadian life they may say with the poet: gd "Then felt I like some watcher in many a Canadian home. will, affections in a land which owes much to the qualities of the Scotti race. They will, by the way, find Buchan in Manitoba, and .a Twe will be glad, no doubt, to make - t Scotia. Readers of John Buel novels will hope that the founder IN CANADA OF SCOTTISH NAMES to Victoria and from the 49th par- hn a { familiar ve opened tlie window of history and romance Every- where he and Lady Tweedsmuir by their presence and person- ality, quicken Scottish memories and S0 sh a ed in" Ontario, and Lady Tweedsmuir he acquaintance of Grosvenor in Nova Buchan's of the hamlet of McNab in Ontario had of the skies 3 . the Christian name of: John, : When a new planet swims into One has heard something of a his ken.' lament that John Buchan the writer . More than that. 5 Kingship has in |siculd be for a period submerged ing for British peoples everywhere. Above all our' differences of parties and creeds it implies leadérship in the higher art of living, More than ever, then, may the representative of the Sovereign in Canada find joy in leadership in realms. where his leadership can be most elptyl, and stimulating, sentative. As Governor General, has been suggested, he cannot ho a literary" career. But may it not that new "and stimulating ground for the further writin that will yet come from the pen the whole affair. The effect is pro- duced 'by magic mirrors. and strong Tight: Henceforth, apparently a wo- man choosing a new frock need only stand in front of the machine's ar- rangement of mirrors with a sample piece of dress material in her hand; | she will then see in the mirror a vis.' fon of herselt wearing the dress pro- posed, ~ Manchester Guardian. 8t. Louls. -- Vanlila ice croam ctill 1s a favorite, ! * 'But chocolate {8 a close godin, Bay feptesentatives of the Interna. tional 'Association of Tce Cream Man: Yoution, ufacturers hers for thelr annual eon. . + lereed in | It has been said in Canada that Lord Tweedsmuir has been chosen for his high office by the express wish of those who can speak for the two main political sections "of the Canadian 'people. His' Majesty, we are told, has fulfilled what we may call a national Canadian desire, In any case, we know that he will be heartily . welcomed - by the whole Canadian community in every corner of the Pomizion We la uy 8 stress on the wor every corner", for it .is the way with Governors to under- take the arduous but also happy task of getting into personal touch with Canadians of every race and our 'ew Governor General? That, any rate, is our hope. Notable Increase tional Railways reported here week: that east-to-west packa tons a month tompared with 1935," ' 5 In Rail F reights in Lord Tweedsmuir the King's repre- it pe to have many moments to himself, and few opportunities of continuing be experi- ences will provide a Canadian back- gs of at Fort William--The Canadian. Na- last ge freight handled over the company's docks here averages more than 1,000 Ancrease this "year every sentry from Halifax | for luncheon: Joseph Conrad Milk Kept Fresh "For Months Now Duisberg, Germany--An invention whichis 'expected to revolutionize the dairying industry has vealed by Theodor Hofius, a engineer, who states that it has been entered - for patent rights in all countries. He claims that he has nvented a vessel in which milk apfl cream can be kept fresh for sevefal months by using an oxygen apparatus, Milk remained fresh' in a new vessel for at least two months and its 'quality 'was improved, it is claimed. ; The invention, if successful; will permit milk to be transported for any distance, thus opening new pros- pects for milk-exporting countries, it is claimed, - Reading Is Praised Toronto--Doctors and nurses were warned against becoming too absorb- 'ed in the technical side of their pro- fession, and reading was suggested as physical and mental relaxation by C. R. Sanderson of the Toronto Public Libraries. : "If you want something funny, read- something funny," he said. "If you want to read novels, read thent) rather than nothing at all. TI don't care what you read so long as you read along general lines. I believe that reading gives one fun, stimulus and something that will stay long after one has. forgotten the book it- self." The futility of trying to live by rules without relaxation was stressed by the speaker. He had no sympathy with those who pleaded that they the first bite that was difficult. Dr. D. M. Robertson, of the Ot- tawa Civic Hospital, who presided, urged the establishment of more sanatoria in Ontario. In the mean- time, he said, separaté wards could be maintained in hospitals' for cases of tuberculosis. Grants ought to be made to them by. the Government for full term of residence just as war done in regard to sanatoria, he thought. Woman Plans Lamps™ For Coal Miners London--Among the women who came to London for the 18th annuai conference of women engineers was a Sheffield girl of 26 who is am ex- pert on ming illumination. She is Miss Monica Maurice. As manager of a large lamp- making company she has for four years heen responsible for the plan- ing and operation: of lamps at. col- ieries in every large coalfield in the country, She does much of her work in the mines, One of her aims is to bring about an international standard for mine lighting. To this end she has read many papers at international meet- ings of mining and illuminating en- gineers in France and Germany, her first when she was 21. She spoke the native tongue in each case, and took part in thes highly technical discussions, she works, afd is an expert rider, swimmer and dancer.' Her Favorite | recreation is what she calls "week- end aexobatins', Then there was the time when H, G. Wells, bringing George Bernard Shaw, arrived at the Conrad. home| loved good food and, being & most hospi- table man, you may be sure the meal | was worthy of tHe occasion, But! -- Wells arrived with a terrible head-| ache and would eat nothing but a slice of dry bread washed down by a glass of quinine and water, whil Shaw made a meal oft cocoa. and - a dry biscuit. a "That Cxnsperated" 'my "husband As Relaxation Aid: had no time for reading. It was only |. She plays as hard as]... undertook through the hin of Australia, in search of material for a biography of Sir. Sidney Kidman. "His journey tok him through |P ; the- north of. South Australia; as far as the Northern Territory and Queensland borders into = Central Queensland through' southwest ueensland to the northwest corner of New South Wales; back to Ade- laide, and thence through central Australia and round the Lake Eyre country. His main aim was to get into tough. with every type of elder- ly bushman in that vast tract of country, and to obtain from drovers, station hands, and others ~ intimate memories of Sir Sidney Kidman ba ack in the days when he worked for" a few shillings a week. Mr, Idriess says that Sir Sidney Kidman today either owns or controls, or has a large interest in, more than' 100 stations; and owns and leases more land in the British Empire than any other man within its-borders. Mr, Idriess draws a drab picture of much of the country through which he passed, consequent upon the then lack of rain and as a result also of duststorms: and drifting sand. He says that over a large area going to- wards the Lake Eyre basin there had been about an inch of rain, but, with the ravages of duststorms, the young 'blades of grass which had sprung up had disappeared; "One. journeyed for hundreds miles," he adds, 'practically' with- out'a sign of any living thing, Where there had been young grass there was a desolate picture of sand, 'For hundreds of miles thére is this creeping, very fine sand, drifting all the time towards "the good, lands--towards the northwest corner of New South Wales; down south towards the coastal lands botder,,. and between the South Aus- tralian and New South Wales bord- ers, even. acrcss to Victoria. The cust from central Australia has even colored the snow on' some of the Victorian alpk a dirty pink in places. Mr, Idriess says yb, in the south- west of Queensland, along=the ter- ritory border, and north of-South Australia, one sces the merest:-rem- nants of native tribes at a distance of about every 40 miles, where' there used to be tribes of from 300 to 400 many years ago. "Some tribes," he adds, "have entirely disappeared, f $This is due in a large measure to colds which the natives contract, and which rapidly develop into, penu- monia, It is well known that germs, which the white breathes in every day, are. fatal to natives, who cannot fight against them. . Two Ways To Make It yd Today's 4 dress of black: crepe' is * designed along very simple but: distinctive lines, Jeweled buttons 'accent ~ the interseting pointed . shoulder yoke. oy The small view sho Hitbther possibility in two-piece suggestion © with Beplom. Note the convert- ible neckline forms tiny revers. It's especially "nice: in rabbit's Wo oglen. No, 2663 fs hr 4d Jor for dizes 14,716, 18 years, 38 © 40-inches bust. 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In the sense that ghe needs more room, Italy is in somewhat "the same position as Japan which not long ago embarked upon a conquest of Manchuria similar to : that in, which Italy is engaged but which' brought no such action from the League of Nations as now proposed against Italy. Also, incidentally, Japan is offering sharp condemnat- jon of Italy in her present move. There is a hint that Japan is her- gelf interested in Ethiopia. But, returning to the original sub- ject, Italy's need for room; the population of that country\has been growing at the rate of 600,000 per year. Mussolini has been urging that it be made to grow even faster than that. And Italy, so far as territory goes, is a comparatively 'small country. The growing popu- lation encroaches steadily upon and ) reduces the available agricultural territory while at the same time increasing the demand. The: Fascist government has in- creased the domestic food supply through land reclamation" and 'in- tensive farming - but it is not enough, Supplies must still be im- ported. . Coupled: with this unfavorable : situation, Italy has a large adverse trade. balance. The possession of further territory. in Africa would enhance Italy's standing as a first class power, would 'ease the problem of food supply and provide a place where surplus: population might. be cared for. 'Mussolini, 'whatever may "be said about his present adventure, has ° done much for Ttaly. He saved it from chaos. He reorganized a totter. ing administration, © 're-established industry and reduced unemployment. Reduction in. unemployment was, however, brought about largely by recruiting for the militia, these 'who 4 refused to enlist being cut off relief: 4 So it may be seen' that necessity Sas as well as ambition is: a force. be- ind" the present effort to add Ethi- opia to Italian possessions. Whether the ordinary Italian citi- zen, prompted to leave his homeland, would prefer Ethiopia to America is. another matter, although not one of : choice for on the one hand, Musso- cov lini will no doubt Seek to direct him i to the new possession, if procured, while on the other there are the bars against immigration of any kind to America. 7 On The Streets Of New York Horses seem to have a strange fascination for New Yorkers, writes Paul Harrison in the Gaze.te,, Haya érhill, Mass. You never see a police- man's mount or even a dray horse receive pats and friendly scratches, and now and then a hunk of apple. Patting a horse probably means, to some city folk, a slight satisfaction from his Fifth Avenue club and ap- proach 'a standing team with "a handful of sugar cubes. The near man turned away, to be halted by a roar - from the truckman "Hey, mister, that other horse ain't no stepchild!" So he went back to his club, got another handful of sugar, and' 'fod the other horse. Every morning for years a milk" 'wagon on {ts 'drawing rounds has 'stopped at ap all-night restaurant on Ninth 'Avenue, The horse stops, that is, and tosses. an expectant glance over: his shoulder, The driver goes into the restaurant and, at this time of year, buys a strawberry ice cream cone. Takes it out and feeds it to his horse. On cold winter mornings he buys the horse a ham- burger, With plenty of onion! October On Mount Royal O royal meunt, with Tegal glories crowned, With robes resplendent' sind too rich for praise, tumn days : By fairy fingers shutting without sound, ; The shadows of thy splendors strain this ground, > And al ats air. 1s radiant with the' Of ho reflected front the gorgeous 72 dy 'blaze, / thee rotund, : p 0 beauty all too beautiful ay brlet; % | A royal robes of glory and of grief; Splendors that flame an fade and hes kiss the yi Even: ) e wind's Tighto#t 5 'breath, behold, What leafy. showers of 'scarlet and a of gold Fall bling down to death and dull decay.