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[voice a THE WORLD AT LARGE of the _== 3 CANADA, THE EMPIRE -' h] PRESS CANADA COURTESY AT THE BORDER Speaking before the Canadian As- sociation of Tourist and Publicity Bureaus, in convention here, Mr. D. Leo Dolan was able to tell that daor- ing the past year one thousand let ters and messages had been receiv: ed from tourists in appreciation of . hospitality and courtesy extended them in Canada. This. is a splendid thing, In co - operation with the Departments of Immigration and National Revenue, the Travel Bureau has been promot- ing the idea of courtesy to visitors, with particular attention to the at- titude of immigration and customs officials on the border. In many respects, it is perhaps the finest work the Travel Bureau is doing.-- Ottawa Journal, } * * * WHY SHE WANTED SIGHT We heard the other day of a wo- man 75 years old whose sight has been failing so that in recent years she has not been able to read. Now she has decided to have an opera- tion on her eyes for the especial purpose of being able to read The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. This is the most remarkable compli- ment to a writer we ever heard of -- J. V, McAree in Toronto Mail and Empire. i f 9 } b 0 a e a § a * &® * DIDN'T IDENTIFY DEBTOR . 'About a year ago the death occur- red in Saskatchewan of Dr. W. D. | Cowan, member of Parliament for Long Lake. Some months after his death Premier Bennett had occasion to refer to him in word: that threw an illuminating sidelight upon his character. "'He did a great deal of work for a great many people," said | Mr. Bennett, "but his account books consisted simply of entries such as: *Man in grey overcoat, $75.' Dr Cowan followed this practice of iden- tification through all his accounts in order that in case of his death' those who took charge of his affairs should not be able to harass people who 'were in debt." > That was probably as unusual an obituary tribute as was ever paid to any Canadian Parliamentarian, or, for that matter, to anyone else."--- Edmonton Journal. LJ * * NEATLY PUT We asked a man who had discus- 'ged the Reciprocity Treaty for hours just what he thought of it all. Here was the answer: "Reading the treaty and discus- sing it with a lot-of people reminds me of a sign I once saw in front of a church. It read: 'The Rev. Joseph Brown will preach here next Sun- day. Subject: Have we learned the lesson of tn -great depression? Mrs, Jones will sing: Search me Oh God'. --W. L. Clark, in Windsor Star, + * %® Ed "I <sToP ! "Stop!" says ite sign. You sce it everywhere at the. junction of side 'streets with main thoroughfares, It does not rican to hesitate or to slow down. + Nor does it mean to sound your horn and barge ahead as though the horn could blow gneeming traf- fic out of your way. And it does not say "Go cn, if you think best." It means. exactly what it -says-- Stop! ' The definition of stop 'ig 'to cease from any motion of action," Too many drivers do not believe in signs, A railroad engineer who drives a locomotive the way most perons drive an automobile would lose his job so quickly he would not know shat hit him. Yet the railroad engineer has a comparatively 'open right of way, whereas the motorist has to meet a hundred different crises which do not confront the en- gineer, When a motorist exercises the right of private judgment regarding stop signs he is endangering the lives of others as well as his own, One of his first lessons should be to learn that the stop sign means stop, and nothing else, : . * =» ROAD JUGGERNAUT A wide acquaintance 1s an seed The newspaper is s0 much more teresting if you know some of the wreck victims, -- Kingston Whig- Standard, ' LJ * NERVE : We think this takes the cake for nerve. A peddler called at our house jesterday selling "No Peddlers" wds, Heo made a sale, too.--Ham- ton Spectator, : bas, RI pe ES ALBERTA'S PIGS surprise to us to read the | at Alberta, with a popu- 0,000 people, has a pig Jatge se Ireland, so large after all, ta's hog population, --Lethbridge Herald, $x person who thinks he is it, when he isn't.--Brandon Sun, xX business man, -tells The London Sun- day Express that the young men who want to make fortunes should zo to Canada. Mr. Watson says, are going to see more economic development in this country than in any other in the world. the, adian young men impressed - with this thought. sider to get the really correct pression and outlook, close to Canadian possibilities that we sometimes fail-tG*recognize them. = blems.--Hamilton Herald. young we recollect that she referred to herself as "Lilibet." We havé not! since a card bearing it was attached Paddy and his ellow countrymen have only about That's about Alber. From this num- ey we are able to sell about 1,000,- 00 commercial hogs yearly, leading 11 Canada. 2 Truly, Alberta' is looking to mix- d farming when wé beat Ontario nd equal Ireland in pig preduction, 50,000 hogs. INSIGNIFICANT Nothing is so insignificant as the * "A BOOSTER FOR CANADA Mr, Thomas J. Watson, American The next 25 years, Canada is the country of future, this United States ob- ervey declares, wii We should like to see more Can- Often it takes an out- im- We are so * Ed * STILL REMAINS The railway crossing menace still emains one of Canada's major pro- ® x * SELLING FOR SANTA Pretty Margaret Mes coger, "ap- ple queen" of Nova -Scotia's Anna-; was quite natural. polis valley, must be the world's out of employment feel that there champion apple saleswoman., She is assisting in making. . Britons conscious, and 'recently she went to Cardiff, Wales, and barrels of choice Canadian for more than $2,000 at a charity luncheon.--Toronto Star apple- auctioned two apples Weekly. * THE EMPIRE THE PRINCESS'S PET NAME When, Princess Elizabeth was very EX » heard much of that name lately, but to her uncle, the Duke of Glouces- ter's wedding present, there can be ter's wedding present, there can no longer be any doubt but that it is as "Lilibet" that the little Princess is known within her home circle, It is a charming variant on a rather imposing name. Hitherto it has been somewhat difficult to find the right short name for Elizabeth, Bessiq and Lizzie are old-fashioned, nor were they at any time very pleasing. Betty ig..being worked to death. Beth is sdfter, prettier, 'but not heard very often, Lilibet has a charm of it own, as well as indivi- duality.--Edinburgh Scotsman. © grad AN INDUSTRY-IN DANGER Nowhere in his despatch has the Secretary of State dealt with what is one of the most seriously dis- quieting aspects- of the present sit- uation 'in the cocoa industry, namely the neglect into which "éstates are being plunged, due to the abandon- ment of cultivation, and the conse- qent ruin of a valuable peasant pro- prietary: This 'constitutesthe prin- cipal need for urgency in the grant- ing of relief, for it is generally ad- mitted that there is a level of care below which cocoa properties cannot be permittéd to fall without well- nigh. irreparable injury, Many es- tates have already dropped below this level, and others are rapidly ap- proaching the dead-line, so that un- to send agricultural labour gangs back-40 work on cocoa lands All over the country, the cocoa industry of Trinidad is likely to be permanently crippled.--Trinidad Guardian, TRAM vs. 'BUS IN AUSTRALIA When the project of electrifying Melbourne's tramway system was in the alr several years ago many ques. tioned the wisdom of perpetuating noisy-and.relatively immobile trams in the city streets, It was thought that motor-'buses were better suited to modern conditions, The trams won the day. Now the whirligig o time has brought in a nild instal- ment of revenge, The Tramways Board is asking permission to re- place the Rathdown street cable trams with a 'bus service running from Fast Brunswick through the eity to West Melbourne,~--Melbourne Argus, 3 52 oF . pa i - r- A man's worth should be reckons ed by what he js, not by what he has.~Beecher, less the money is speedily provided, With Jack Dempsey leading, harmony during party given in honor of Abe Lyn (left to right), Isham Jones, Ted these orchestra leaders tried their an in New York Fio Rito, Abe Lyn City. an, Fred Waring, Jack Denny and Glen Gray. ardon, their wind, at- and the inflationists hand, Jac Depression Viewed As A Blessing A New Zealand librarian declares|- that the "depression" has proved a "blessing to literature." there has been a remarkakle growth in literary output in the past few years. He says If this be so, it is doubtless due to the fact that so many people have been idle. A cynical person might retort that "Satan still finds mischief for idle hands to-do." The Librarian from the antipodes did not specify the kind of books that the depression was responsble for. There has undoubtedly been a glut of books on socialogical and econ-- omic subjects of late years, which People who are is something wrong with a world that cannst offer them a livelihood. The consequence is they eitherwrite letters to the newspapers or they write books propounding theories and schemes by which the world can be put right. The theory of Social Credit was evolved in this way. It was born out of the depression, and if prosperity were to return, it would along with many other quack social mnostrums, fade into oblivion, , But the depression must have been er types of literature. al books. fiction. sess a typewriter. and you can heart's content. But, judging from many Beacon-Herald. . Urge Campaign To Fifty Percent of Majernal Deaths In Canada Pre- ventable, Says Report Canada by the Child Hygiene, partment of health, jual provinces show greater ing pregnancy and stetrical care show decline, "One-third per pre-natal care. quarter Truth does not consist in minute accuracy Tight impression.--Sel, 'of detail bub In conveying 8) 4 _ . time of responsible for the creationiof high- Comparat- ively few people in these times are satisfied with political or socialogic- They turn for solace and inspiration to religion, poetry, phil- osophy, science and fiction--mostly The realm of literature of- 3 an easy way of escape from the interminable problems of life, and the writing of books is an oc- cupation that is open to everyone. The only tool needed is a pen or pen cil--so much the better if you pos- Paper is cheap write away to your ~The chief trouble is in getting the stuff published. |: of the books on the market, this is a simple matter if you can make an intimate |. friend © of: a publisher.--Stratford * Reduce * Mortality Ottawa'--Fifty per cent, if not more, of the 1,200 annual maternal deaths in Canada could be prevented beyond a doubt by adequate provis- fon for pre-natal and - obstetrical care, attention to general considera- "tions of health and effective meas- ures against infection, according to a report on Maternal Mortality in Canadian = Welfare Council's Divsion on Maternal and 'This figure represents a rate of 5.3 deaths for 1,000 live births, -a slight reduction from that of 5.7 re- corded in 1926 by the Dominion de- Some individ- im- provement than the Dominion as a whole, Manitoba having cut its rate from 6.8 in 1920 to-3.8 in 1934 and Saskatchewan from 7.1 in:1026 to 4.4 in. 1084, Increased pre-natal care is reported as the chief factor in the reduced - rates, but infection follow- inadequate ob- "no appreciable of the deaths occur in the earlier months of pregnancy ras ther than at the time of normal con- finement, indicating the lack of pro- i, More than one- are due to infection at the _child-bixth, preventable in |! Writer Spills Ink On " And Learns A If there is one article in a hotel bedroom for which I have no use, it is the inkpot of the writing table. It is either dry or contains a fluid that any self-respecting fountain ~ pen would scorn. One of my first moves on enter- ing a hotel room is to put said ink- pot in the remotest corner of = the room, preferably on the floor behind the bureau, whats at least it cannot | upset. I had taken this precaution at the Howard, on my return from Russia, but had reckoned without an unusually thorough chambermaid. In my absence, the second day, she had retrieved the pot. restored it to its place and then thoughtfuly placed the Times over it. ey Coming in late that evening, I sat down to type a few notes before tuining in. All went well for a time when sdddenly a dull thud, and there on the blue and fawn carpet in the nfiddle of an everwidening - pool [of ink lay that thrice-accursed inkpot. Just then Big Ben boomed. midnight, no time to be calling 'either maid or housekeeper, so I mopped up 'the mess as best I could, finished the 'notes and went to. bed too mad to sleep, for. I had prided myself on never having accidents in hotels. Next morning, before rushing to keep an: early appointment, I sum- moned the maid, pointed to the trouble, asked to have the houst~ keeper notified, the mess cleaned up and the bill brought to me. Had visions of having to replace at least a width of that carpet. When I returned late in the after- noon I looked for that stain, It had all but disappeared. Presently the housekeeper arrived and before I even thought of the bill, I said: "How did you do it?" "Ripe toma- By E. Cord Hind In the Winnipeg Free Press able to find the spot." do I owe?" and he sent you these." | great," but, ch, the cigarettes, thou- "tub was furnished with a cigarette Hotel Rug . Use For Tomatoes toes and plenty of thefn," was, the reply. "If 'we could have got it last night you would never have been Housekeepers, pleasé take note, 1 said, "That's ~splendid, How much "The --manager says 'nothing,' and for you not to worry; These were six lovely pink There's: a manager for you, That disposes .ofthe tomatoes and the inkpots. Now comes the. tobacco. ~The housekeeper was not through. She was just wall started. "No good hotel," she said, "was fussy about accidents such as mine, and after all the loss from such was not' so roses. "Take the Sabbath with you thruogh the week and sweeten all the other days.--Longfellow. , sands a year could not cover that. We do try our best to prevent losses and fires, but it seems no use. Light- ed cigarette butts 'are laid down anywhere and: everywhere * but 'on the ash trays, and we do try to have them everywhere." I expect her sharp eye had seen that I had piled all in the room up on the window edge, so. she was on safe ground ."Look," she - said, "at that window in the bathroom." As a matter of fact I had looked before. There was the telltale long brown stain, so deep in the 'good enamel paint it must have been close to a fire. Yet even the. - bath rest and ash receiver, and large dressing glass and high shaving mirror were furnished likewise. When the housekeeper: paused for breath I askéd, "Which do you find the worst; men or women?" - "Wo- men," was the quick retort. "I'd like to see some of 'their homes. They seem to have mo respect for good furniture and decent hangings." er hygienic care on the part of both medical profession and laity. Economic status and conditions have apparently little effect upon maternal mortality, Race is declar- ed a factor of considerable import- ance, as evidenced by the widely differing mortality rates among Ca- nadian women of various races, the rates being comparable to those pre: vailing in the countries of their or- |igin. A definite upward seaspnal trend during the cold Autumn and early Winter months corresponding with the general increase in respira- tory infections during that period is noted. The low rates in Scandinavia and other countries of severe cliz mate, however, indicate the possibil- ity of controlling this factor. 'A general campaign of education and a series of five-year demonstra- tions of adequate maternal care pro- grams in selected areas are urged in the report, in an effort to cut down Canada's high rate of maternal deaths--a rate which, it is pointed out, places her well down . the lis among the nations whichi have done most to safeguard mothekhood. Wanted: Wives 'Who Can Cook There have: been so many actions by the Hitler Government that have called forth worldwide disapproval, not to say anger, that it is refresh- ing to turn to one which is very like ly to evoke the very opposite senti- ment observes the M. : this editoial. Germany's Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust, has just not be admitted to college jties. After the spring of § or unives: 7 six. 7 " most cases by the exercise of great- ontreal Star in| issued a decree that German girls} who do not know how to cook will] That sounds to us like sound com- monsense. It has never been quite clear why so many girls regard abjl- ity to administer a house as derogat- ing from their dignity as college or varsity students, and hold that it is belittling to the possession of a Un- iversity degree to possess also a sound knowledge of cooking. If girls only realized that the young men who are looking around for wives infinitely prefer a goed meal cooked at home 'to a full course din- ner in a restaurant, and have more respect for the girl who helps her mother with the housework than for the girl who affects to consider do- ing so a-humiliation, : The young housewife who knows how to cook also knows how to shop and is by training economical. And virtues 'any young housewife can possess, nowadays. Young men, not being entirely blind even where their choice of wives is concerned, have a habit of appreciation such qualities éven more than the ability to wear a pretty dress gracefully or to dance and stay up till three and keep good-tempered all the time, At the Age of 70, which he de- Gilbert was guest of honor at a din. bert got the biggest laugh of the evening, says Mr, Pearson, when in the course of his ively confessed: agreeable man, and I can't ment in the size of both within the last fifty years we minded of the observation feign visitor | | home and wrote & book in w said that there was a significa ference in the way in which a egg was treated at O Cambridge writes the Tc The Oxford manner top off the egg, while at Can it was tapped and chipped with [bottom of the spoon until the upper ication. He points part of the shell could be flaked off the far-reaching eff in fragments, exposing the wupper tion may have; work beneath him: will that is one of the most invaluable|.- seribed as the prime of life, W. 8. ner given by the O, P. Club, Many} ¢ old Savoyards were present and Gil- "speech he plaint- "hiverybody says I'm 'such dm to England 0 te ford and at ron : wbridge 8 part of the undamaged egg, It may been spoofing this literary foreigner, | Either way of opening a boiled egg -| serves the purpose, but perhaps the chipping of the egg is dainter, It! gives breakfast, to a man just risen, a bit of artistic effect. "There is, of course, another way of dealing with boiled s and in England it is called the. Yankee way, ¢ You break, or the, waiter dces, two boiled. eggs, underdone, into a tum- bler, throw in some butter, pepper and salt, stir, it vigorously with a spoon. It becomes a sort of egg soup. It tastes well and is tald to be more beneficial to' convalescents than eggs in the shell. This method releases a certain gas which the cook ed egg contains, = > ; Then, as regards boiled eggs, there is what 'Gulliver. has to tell us about the Lilliputians.. Among them there was a religious sect who made {t a matter of faith to break their eggs at the big end. Those' who broke them at the small end were consider- ed heretics and were called Little- enders. The orthodox: called them- their superiority, walked erect among their inferiors. iy There is, certainly, more in this egg-subject than 'we supposed when we started in on it. a The man who thinks his present : never . rise above it.--MacGregor. : The fireside, the pulpit, the school ; and the shop,. must be linked and leagued together.--Vincent. Your manhood, your personality, your character, your real selfhood, is a thing to be won as you win a bat- tle--Gladden, 1 SE 'Go Military ! Let's I Make it yourself! It's so utter. . ly simple to cut it out and put it © together, ; It's so gay and smart in .rich bottle green woo . Black braid fro rade oi ht. town the front of the Bodice th epaulet suggestion' in 'the shoulder treatment, Note the lit tle standing 'collay-opened at the SPORE. 7h or I Another attractive scheme is black velveteen with wide flame suede belt. i Wool jersey = rabbit's Ee arta po 3 o fashio Poe Hors des ed for wool, Eh SST ow To ORDER PATTERNS Write ye : [newspaper selves Bigendians: and, conscious of' l-like silk novelty - | mission of duty or love but H | n, Engl ch newspaper. artic 'in sound is described by G.A. er in the Era a out, as follows ects the inven. Sort of Gramophone be that some solemn Englishman at «if you can imagine that you . n i hat you cou either Oxford or Cambridge had tear out of your newspaper a page which you" could then'wrap round a roller in a kind of gramophone and proceed to listen to Mr. Baldwin or Major Attlee making an election address--supposing that you want to listen to either of them--you have an idea of the special quality of es, demonstrations of which are now being given in London by Geor ges A, Rubissow. Bil | "Fernando Crudo, a South Amer- fcan. engineer; is generally respon- sible for this invention, consisting of, a compact and quite gheaply- produced apparatus, which enables speech and music to be recorded on ordinary: newsprint, "played back" in a few minutes, if that should be desired, and printed expeditiodsly in thousands, &fter the manner of a © Records are Cheap : "These paper records could be sold with handsome profits at two- pence a sheet, and the reproducing machine could probably be sold for £6 or less. aR "Prices depend on the demand, of course, but here is something "that appears to give a staggering blow _ to the existing gramophone industry, - "There are no overtones, under- tones, or other: extraneous 'noises with these paper records. The tneedle" 'is & thin pencil of light, so there is nothing to wear out or "serateh," except the paper itself. 7,000 Frequencies AREA doesn't seem to make any differen- ce to the quality of the record, and records of more permanent charac- ter can be printed, of course, cn stronger paper. The inventor claims . up to 7,000 frequengies, and prom- ijes more: * "There is clearly a revolutionary principle in the '"Fotoliptofono," a- part from its polysyllabic name, "A hundred gramophone records may weigh fifty pounds; but a hun- dred paper records weight nothing worth mentioning. NS "There can now be produced cn paper, and filed for referéice, all sheet-music, books, advertisement, school text-books, and lectures, affi- davits, counsels' speeches, legal ad- dresses, judgments, office corres- | pondence and telephone communi cations, : _ Make Own Programs "mhe fireside listener who 'cares to go tothe expense of a record- ing machine, more costly than the other, can make records of all his favorite programs for future repe- tition, though_I don't suppose he will, "Doctors can record ahd file the heart-beats and breathings of their patients, or post them {o special consultants. This has been done in, the Argentine. : to technicalities here and there, but fundamerzally he has a vay big. thing, -- : : "Life gets more complicated every day!" X ; ¥ Oxford "Generous" To Wonien 4 rules affecting women at Oxford University have been relaxed. Hitherto an undergraduate could not have a woman. undergraduate in his room without a chaperon, 'but women are now no longer forbidden to go' to undergraduates' rooms, whether in college or lodgings, dur- ing the afternoon. Pr The notice adds: "They may go to the men's rooms up to 7:16. p.m. without there being a second woman with them." 'a HEE A woman undergraduate said: "I think the notice announcing the con- cession might very well have been issued without the. reminder that guch permission is intended to cover: occasional visits only. ; _ "It ds" a step in 'the right direc-. tion, however, and we are looking: forward to the time when the ridic- ulous rule that a woman may not go out with an undeigraduate in his car without permission, and then only when a second woman is pre- | sent, will also be a thing of the past," E : XH : # © Christ never sends anyone on a "Folding the paper, by the way, "Phe inventor needs. to get closer OXFORD, England. -- Chaperon ~ asp tkinson, writ: local theatrical pub. | My the "Fotoliptofono," 'of Buenos Air- od Af R -! Students AFL --