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nH i 0 ey = : ed La rom £3 VOICE THE WORLD AT LARGE Ee NY | the CANADA, THE EMPIRE PRESS CANADA FIGURING IT IN DOLLARS 'Traffic accidents cost Toronto $8,600,000 in the year 1934. It does not mean that such a vast amount of money was paid out in cash, but there were 70 deaths and 3,129 in. juries, Trafic experts and insur. ance men have their own way of computing such matters and thelr ._ estimate is that a death means an economic loss of $1,000 and an in. jury is reckoned at $2,500. We pre. sume that the $10,000 figure for a death would include -the loss of the individual's earning power. That would be a family loss, -- Peterboro Examiner. OUR WHEAT ABROAD There are two things Canada re- quires to do to promote wheat sales gbroad: First, to familiarize the people with the quality of bread #hiade largely from Canadian flour, and secondly, to remove mental prejudices based on the repeated assertions that Canada has been en- deavoring to gouge the consumer. These are important tasks. - \What the grain trade can do in these di- rections should be done, and the Government should support their ef- forts to the limit. -- Winnipeg Tri- bune. : A BLIND BRIDGE PLAYER Captain Gerald Lowry, veteran of the World War, recently was one of the champion pair at the British Bridge League Congress at Harrogate. His partner was a woman. Not only did they win but they were always the first pair to finish their hands. ; Blindness has is compensations. Nature to some extent redresses the balance by developing other faculties. Captain Lowry fs a remarkable ex- ample of overcoming the handicap and lives a more active and normal lite than most people. He has de- veloped his memory to such an extent that when a friend whispers the designations of his cards to him he remembers _them throughout the game and where he has arranged them. When he has to play dummy, sthe cards named to him' and he re- members them, too. The rest is easy. During the Harrogate tournament he played 32 calls and never forgot a card. Captain Lowry before the war was an ardent golfer and amateur boxer. hit it too, and he never misses, He tees his own ball and drives by in. stinct, His caddie tell him where his ball lies and where he should hit it to, and re never misses. He "alsp learned osteopathy and has built up one of the most lucrative prac- tices in London, -- The St. Thomas Times-Journal, BY NO MEANS ALONE Apparently it {8 not only Canadian and United States railways which re. quire assistance just now, for the British government has agreed to guarantee principal and interest of a £30,000,000 loan with which the railways 'of that country will carry out a variety of large-scale fmprové- ments and purchase new equipment. Canada's railways are by no means alone in experiencing difficultes in regard to profitable operation. -- Brockville Recorder and Times. A GOOD TEAM Mr. Perry J. Griffen, [for some years a member of The Star's ad- vertising staff,«and more recently the business manager of the Edmonton Journal, has - been made general manager of the Peterborough Ex- aminer: which has recently been' ac- quired by Messrs. Harry Muir and Rupert Davies. With Mr. Griffen 'as general manager and Mr. A. R. Ken. nedy of the Stratford Beacon-Herald as editor, the Examiner will be cap- ably administered. Already its' edi- toral page has put on a more-effec- tive typographical garment, and: other improvements may be looked for under the new management. -- To. ronto Star, : WHY THEY STARTED : The famlljar metal grilles and bars "80 common in most banks originated back in the gay nineties, according to an article appearing in the journal of the Oanadan Bankers' Association. And therein lies a story. It seems that it was Christmas eve, and that even in those days clerks had to work overtime. A thief managed to get inside the premises and hurled a brick at the glass partition behind .. 'whch were stacked bags of sovereign. ©". Showing what would normally have been very good judgment he scooped up the ldargest bag: and made his getaway in one' of London's *pea- goupers,"! MN \ * Unfortunately for the enterprising young man one of the clerks had ap- propriated that particular bag with which to carry home his Christmas dinner. It was one instance where the 'thief literally obtained the goose but lost the golden egg. However, the incident impressed officials of the bank with the need for 'more adequate protection, Result ~-- 'oages and bars ~ Brockville Re er, of He TAT a blinded BIRTH OF THE MOVIES In Paris the other day was ob. served with appropriate ceremonies the 40th anniversary of the first mo- tion pictures made in Europe. Louis Lumiere made them, with his brother August, since deceased, and Louis for the anniversary celebration ran off these ancient films. They showed the arrival of a train at a French rall. road station, two men in a rowboat and a comedy on the exploits of a gardener with a water hose. Each film was about three feet in length, They were made in 1894, but they were not shown until March 22, 1895, when they astounded an audi. ence of French scientists gathered in the basement of a Paris hotel. But the Lumieres, it appears, were second to Thomas A. Edison. Edison, according to the Encyclopaedia; "Bri- tannica, began his experiments as early as 1887, and on October 6, 1889, demonstrated his kinetoscope in his laboratory at Orange, New Jersey. He obtained a United States patent jan '91, but it was not until April 14, 1894, that his machine had its first puble showing -- at 1165 Broad- way, New York. That was 11 months before the Paris showing. . Thus 40 years or so encompass the history of the moving film, For a long time after 1894 jt was consider. ed little more than a toy, a device suited to the amusement of children. Few then realized its tremendous po- tentinlities or foresaw its develop ment. -- Ottawa Journal. STINGLESS BEES Beekeeping wou'd perhaps be more popular in this country if it was not for the danger of being stung by these busy insects. It may be of in. terest to those who are afraid of these stingers, and who would like to gather their own honey, to know that a breed of stingless bees has been discovered in South Africa, and that the Zoological Society of England has arranged to have a stock of them shipped for experimental purposes. Thése Manpasi-bees; -however, are only about the size of a large house fly, and it remains to be seen whether they can live in other than their na- tive climate and produce sufficient honey to make it worth while. keep- ing them. In Africa the children seek out the Manpasi nests and gather the honey, for which there fs a ready sale, : ot 4 What we need {in this country, however; is not so much a stingless bee as a stingless mosquito. The bee only uses its sting in self-de- fence, whereas the mosquito "bites" one without , the least provocation. --Stratford Beacon-Herald. THE EMPIRE MARCHING FORWARD Britain still marches forward. Sav. ings per head of the population in England and Wales have gone up from £3 7s 11d-in 1934 to £3 168 7d fn 1035. Retail sales have increased by 8 per cent since 1934 and by 12 per cent since 1933. And look at the 40,000 drop in unemployment announ- ced by Mr. Chamberlain. We are reaping the reward of the confidence that four years of stable government have created. =~ London Sunday Ex- press. BRITISH WHEAT Home-whedt prices are influenced more by competitive imports from the Continent of Europe than by im- ports from Canada, Argentine, or Australia, because this European wheat 18 more strictly comparable in quality. The fact that France's crop this season is put at 18 per cent less than last year's reduces the pos- sible competition that home wheat has to face. This scheme in ald of home-grown wheat, as we pointed out recently, is "the most popular among farmers of all the plans so far tried to relleve the economia: troubles of British agriculture. On paper the scheme looked so compli- cated that many M.P.'s confessed that they could not understand fits intricacies, and not a few believed that it would prove unworkable. Far from these fears being realised, the wheat quota fs the simplest of all devices In {td actual operation, Glasgow Herald. AUSTRALIAN . N. Z, TRADE The citizens of the Dominion are anxious that every facilty for mutual trade between Australia and New Zealand should be established, The experience of the past, however, has been most discouraging. My. Coates and Mr, Masters were in Australia at the'ned of last yesr-on/mwcommer. cial mission, and numbers of oppor tunities have been made for Australi. an Ministers. to discuss trade ques< tons on the spot. Yet the major gues. last geason strictly regulated the {me Commonwealth because that State fis free from Mediterranean fly, and consumers had to pay excessive prices. As to the embargo placed by the Commonwealth on New Zealand | higher ¥than in October, i ners in a married and become partners for Valerie Traxler, 19, cousin of Loretta ;Young, and Buddy Car- ~ penter, 27, got along so well when they were paired as dance part- Hollywood musical film that they have decided to get life. r J ET y i " iif The season of "reading" is with us. , Cold winds, flurries of snow drive us indoors where a comfortable arm- chair beckons. Now is the time to catch up on your reading. And what an array of good books. Look over the following list -- either for your- self--or as a present this Christmas: GILBERT and SULLIVAN by Hes? keth Peaxson (Musson's; Toronto). At one time or another we all have at- tended our first Gilbert and Sullivan opera and enjoyed ourselves immense- ly. It is only seemly that this famous partnership should be presented in such a way that we meet Gilbert and Sullivan. as human beings so that we find an explanation of their famous partnership and their equally famous quarrel, in their strangely dissimilar natures, There are many amusing anecdotes throughout the book and it is with regret that one finjshes this recounter of two truly extraordinary characters, : THE ASIATICS by Frederic Pro- 'kosch (Musson's, Toronto) is a travel novel everyone will want to read who enjoys a tale welbtold in exquisite prose. Here we meet Antoine Samazeuith, a tall powerful fellow, handsome, strong as an ox, free of all conscience, incapable of unhap- piness, born lucky. Zara, a Turkish girl, travelling to- ward an unknown destination. Un- couth, yet possessing great affection- gO 5 DW ~ The Book ate eyes and. hair that shone like Shelf BY MAIR M. MORGAN T | I 20 5 DW water under moonlight. Ahmed, an ingratiating young Per- sian, who longed for the West, but was incurably under the spell of his Eastern shiftiness. Ursule, lovely but disquieting, faithful in her fashion, but capable of surprising gestures-and emotions, All these and many more are woven into an amazing tale, which so en- grosses, the reader that it is difficult to arrive back in everyday surround- ing, when the book is finished. MR. FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY by Victor Canning (Musson's) is another delightful, bizarre adventure from this author's pen. Those who have read "Polycarp's Progress" will need no introduction 'to this author's characters, For those who have not enjoyed the amazing antics of Mr. Canning's heroes, they should not miss a moment, but 'hop out, grab a copy -and accompany Edgar Finchley, eminently respectable, on his supposedly convential three-week holiday at the seashore. Books Received z THE TUNCROWNED KING by Baroness Orczy (author of the Scar- let Pimpernel). _ THE WEDDING by Denis Mackail. THE SHINING CLOUD by Mar- garet Pedler. "SUNSHINE STEALER by Berta Ruck. "THE SUN AND THE SEA by Ruby M. Ayres. ARE THE LAKE LEVELS RISING? (From the Owen Sound Sun-Times) October report of the Hydrographic Service shows that the water levels of the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes, whild lower than in Septe of this year, are from 2 to b% inches 1934. The comparative levels, month by month, for this year, have been higher than last, and a slight average increase over 1933 was reported last year, Are the lakes coming back? : This variation -in lake levels is something no one, so far as we know, has tried to explain, but there seems to-be a fairly even rise and fall over periods of about ten years. Over the last 156 years; however, there has been a steady fall, potatoes, the best that can at pres. tions remain unsolved. New ' Zealand lent bo hoped fs that prohibition may be replaced by equative regulation, port of oranges from South Australia myo situation is a small-scale exem. the only source of supply In the sygeation of the narrow economic nationalism that fs obstructing trade throughout the world, ~~ Auckland News. 1 ) 43 _ The reason for this last is not hard to find, when we consider that there has been a constant campaign of channel-deepening, Dredging has been done and canals enlarged,-with the natural result that more water. has been brought from the head of the lakes, and as. Jake Superior -- the only one, by the way, to show no material drop since 1860, when the, first records were mpade--is virtually dammed by the Sault rapids, more water has been going into the sea than came into the rivers and lakes. The falling levels are easy to ex- plain -- deeper channels, the Chica- go drainage scheme, deforestation; but the rising levels are a different matter, for they do not seem to depend on rain or snowfall, but go on as we said, in cycles. 2 If the levels are really on the up- grade it will be good news for shipping, as an inch of depth makes a difference of thousands of dol- lars jn cargo capacity. Good news too, for lakeside summer resorts, some of which have almost been put out of business by recession of the water. All interested will ba hop- ing the periodic rise is under way. GROWTH ; So high as a tree aspires to grow so high will it find an atmosphere suited to it.--Thoreau, «| corn for husking 46.3 (42.2). Ty | bushels comnared with the Eu Buresy' Now. Places It: At 1934. -- 273,971,000 To- al. Rt £1 OTTAWA--The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates Canada's 1935 wheat crop at 273,971,000 bushels, about 2,000,000 bushels less than that of 1034. bee ) Second Estimate | The crop report containing the sec- ond estimate of the wheat yield brought production down from a Sep- tember 11 estimate of 290,641,000 bushels to place it slightly below the 1934 yield while estimate yields of most other cereal crops were higher than those of last year. *y The report said the 1935 season was similar to that of 1934 in that threshing returns did not fully sub- stantiate first estimates of grain pro- duction. : o Oats at 416,369,000 were almost 83,- 000,000 bushels less than in'the Sep- tember 11 estimate but still well above 1934 production of 821,120,000. bushels. : Estimates of other cereal crops in bushels with 1934 figures in brackets: Barley 87,612,000 (63,742,000); rye 10,610,000 (5,428,000); peas 1,681,000 (1,688,000); beans 1,117,000. (813,= 600); buckwheat 7,972,000 = (8,686, 000); mixed grains 89,667,000 (87, 926,000); flaxseed 1,433,000 (910,- 400); corn -for husking: 7,765,000 (6,798,000). 3 * Yields Per Acre Average yield per acre in bushels with"the-averages for 1934 in brack- ets; Wheat 11.4 (11.6); oats 29.6 (23.4); barley 22.6 (17.6); rye 13.8 (7.4); peas, 16.9 (16.7); beans 17.3 (14,3); buckwheat 21,0 (21.2); mixed grains 34.3 (82.7); flaxseed 6.7 (4.0); The report said reduction in this year's estimates was caused- mainly by frost damage in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The bureau: was forced 2,000,000 Bushels Under Express Any Emotion or : Instinct, D clares Con- stance Collier 'Hands are more important to the actress than perhaps anything else she has to depict emotions with. So believes Constance Collier, famous English stage star, who makes her American talking picture debut shortly, "Watch your hands--study what you can do with them," is her principal advice to younger players pssaying screen fame. - ~~ "Eyes may mirror the soul," she says, 'and are very important, es- pecially in pictures, but with the hands one can express any émotion and any instinct. depict fear, nothing can be so ex- pressive as one's hands, properly used, There is a psychological rea- son. In the presence of sudden ter- ror, the first instinct of a human being is to protect one's face. Hence the hands involuntarily travel upward, : ! ' "This does not mean the use of any conventional gestures, which of course should be avoided. Thé idea is simply: to let one's hands do what one's subconscious thoughts direct. Instinct is one of the most valuable assets to actor or actress, yet many try to avoid using it." Molly-Coddling May Down The Children Dr. Emanuel Miller, eminent psy- chologist, said in a recent lecture: "There is a very large percentage of parents today who never gain the confidence of their ohildren. '/Children can be doomed to fall. ure by parents moHycoddling, and others may suffer from nervousness for the rest of their lives as a result of too 'strict parents, A few of-the symptoms of nervous. ness which should be looked out for in the young child was explained by Dr. Miller, There was the case of the excessively boisterous child who to reduce the barley estimate 'by 7,000,000 bushels 'while flaxseed and rye also came down as threshing re- turns failed to supvort previous com- putations: The fall wheat crop Ontario is estimated at 12,601,000 earlier "figure of 18,267,000, =" = , Prairie Provinces "For the three Prairie Provinces, the second estimate of the yields of the five principal grain crops in bushels follow with the 1934\ figures in brackets: Wheat, 266,000,000 (263,- 800,000); oats, 263,947,000 (172,040,- 000); barley, 66,115,000 (44,742,000); e, 9,347,000 (4,381,000); flaxseed, 1,330,000', (827,000). , ; "By provinces the yoelds are as-fol- lows: Manitoba, wheat, 18,800,000 (87,100,000) ; oats, 32,937,000 (26,752,- 000; barley, 23,633,000 (17,298,000); rye; 1,885,000 (1,184,000); flaxseed, 167,000 (180,000). Saskatchewan, 136,399,000 (64,288,000); rye, 5,218,- 000 (1,320,000); flaxseed, 1,065,000 (642,000). . Alberta, wheat, 105,200, 000 (112,600,000); oats, "94,611,000 (81,000,000); barley, 18,860,000 (15,- 041,000); rye, 2,244,000 (1,927,000); flaxseed, 118,000 (105,000). & Frost is Blamed : "The second estimate of 1935 wheat production in the Prairie Provinces. is 16,000,000 bushels below the first estimate of 272,000,000 bushels made on September 11. Most of the reduct- ion is due to frost damage in north- ern districts of Alberta -and Sask- atchewan that was not apparent two months agé." The report said movement of the 1935 crop to market was considerably first week in September marketings increased perceptibly and by the ninth week of the crop year, starting on August 1, the cumulative total ex- ceeded that of 1934. The cumulative total was still: greater than that of 1934 at November 1. At that time total deliveries and platform loadings were 146,899,210 bushels compared with $14,427,423 in the corresponding period: last year. : How To Spend $5,000 the Editor of The Globe: Re - To With $5,000?" take » out & Government annuity. Why? Help my Government; there. fore help the. people. = 2, Take some of it to help some one _less fortunate, and see that some families in. our neighborhood got a good square meal for New Year's. Why New Year's? Because at Christ- mas they generally get a lot, and on New Year's Day, starting oft another start for 1986. 3. Pay some of my obligations and score out some of the indebted. ness owing me from those who can. not pay at present, or send a receipt. ed bill for Christmas. Lay I think when ones favored with a remember the Creator bering those who are needy, especl. ally the children and the elder folk, : J. A. D~Toronto, ito call 'the necessity "No singer ever can reach the to of | later than last year Lat about the| M. 1. Williams's letter, "What to do 1. I would take $4,600 of it and} year, very little, Give them a good | gift of this kind it behooves one to| 'by remem. | needs careful study. : "As a rule this kind of child is suffering from a feeling of anxiety and fear," he sad. "The restless child is another type which should not be overlooked. 3 ; THE FUTURE Worry not about. the possible trou- bles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticiptating and adding. to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.-- Tryon Edwards. ; " A Young Frock wheat, 132,000,000 (114,200,000)% oats,] ~~ ~~ NN on A RE A NN MOANA AN {72 N PINAFRCENRS SSNPS SO OD ATV RANE = RRR A It's made of black wool jersey, a much favored material this sea- son, It is relieved by a vestes of red jersey, accented by metal but- tons, The tied collar. is very young and flattering and repeats the red jersey. CR Another effective scheme fs black novelty crepe silk with white slipper cover: Copy it exactly at small cost, It's so simple to sew. Style No, 2633 is designed for 'sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 86, 38 and 40-inches bust. Size 16 requires ok rds of 80-inch material with 3% yard of 89-inch' contrast- 0 oe a "HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, 'giving number and size | of pattern wanted. Enclose 16¢ in stamps or coin {eu prefer- red; wrap it careful 2 ! Op if ho lacks that quality which I like 4 For instance, to|* To judge by some of the doleful reports in the daily papers, no re- serch Is boing made Tn the bese 0 gy of the "common cold," and no preventative, far less cure, is in sight, says a writer in New Health Magazine, This is by no means a fair statement of the stage of our knowledge at the present time. A good deal is known about the types of bacteria found in the dis- agreeable and, at first, local infec. tion, the common cold or nasal catarrh, - ; J One of the that of cultivating the virus under artificial conditions, but indeed the sxprsgsion the virus is hardly appli- cable seeing that from any one per- = son suffering from a cold one may obtain as many as a dozen different types of bacteria. A cold is a "mix ed infection"; in one person one kind of a germ predominates, in an- other, another. Vaccines prepared from one's own micro-organisms have been found in some cases use- ful, in others useless. But to sup- pose that no research has been or is being -done on the prevention of nasal catarrh is quite a mistake. Any day we may hear of a prepara- tion the injection of which may ward off this familiar but none the less tiresome form of infection. The plain fact is that some of our most competent bacteriologists are at this moment engaged in an intensive in- vestigation into the problem of the "common cold." The "Fine Art" Of ating Ice Cream Miami, Fla--Prof. H. F. Judkins, who makes his living "tasting "ice cream, says "people' are not educat- ed to the fine art" of eating that food. ¢ Bic = : "Perhaps only 10 per cent. of the public really have a discriminating taste," he declared. i Judkins, official taster for a New York concern, is here for a conven- tion of southern ice cream manufac- turers; SR } 5: "The secret of eating ice cream lies in not eating it too hastily," he said, "but in letting it melt a little" before you ubegin, then holding the cream in your mouth until the taste buds gain the, full flavor." Author Must Have : An "Awareness" Says Nellie McClung Mrs. Nellie McClung, addressing a gathering in Edmonton, stressed ro- mance in the early days of the de= velopment of this country. "There: are stories that are told and retold," she said. She lauded the work that the Women's Canadian clubs in both Winnipeg and Victoria are doing in collecting 'true stories about the pioneer women in this country. "The pioneer stories are the back- ground of Canadian literature," said Mrs. McClung who also stressed the wealth of romance and material for . | books that could be found in the work of: the Canadian missions, Outlining the requisites for suc- cessful writing, Mrs. McClung stated that in addition to having a "news sense" the would-be author must avoid being too near to a subject to realize the possibilities of interest in it. "You must have an awareness," she said. $35 The Right Touch LONDON--Campbell Dixon, dram- atic critic of The Telegraph, des- cribes the amount of labor which went into a single film scene show- ing: Berengaria (Loretta Young) | walking pensively and alone across a lawn. : sad "To portray a solitary young wo- man on the stage takes just one young woman, On the pictures = anyway in a.De Mille picture -- thing are done differently. "A camera man on a truck man- - ned by fcur-other men; went before her. A sound-recording gang, .dangl- ing a microphone over her head to - catch her sights, moved backward simultaneously, Mr. De Mille also walked backwards, accompanied by his thoughts, two stenographers and three assistants, - 2 "There were thrce men with rakes to freshen the trodden grass as Miss ° Young rehearsed her solitary prom- enade. Also a script girl to see that she walked according to the instruct- ions in the book, and d continuity girl to see that she wore the same costume as in the preceding scene--possibl to be taken weeks later. w "Harold Lamb, author of a boo on the Crusades, was there to see were four men-yith whistles, 'and' difficulties has been® ¥ ¥ es Zany AT LS Eee | that no anachronism crept in, There + two, out of sight, with red flags, to see that everybody else kept away. . "Practically nobody else was pre- sent except a 'sound mixer' in- a booth, a makenp expert, two ward: robo people with needles' and thread handy in case of accidents, i RIE, + dress Jour, order to When. ri fn Sco rd Von Adee | oo Juggl ; nds hh gilvered and a i