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Voice of the Press Canada. The Empire and The World at Large Looking For a Fight •'•-«"•-•-•-'* >*»»»••â-  CANADA. Phases of Life. There arc two phases of life nnfs- Torable to peace and comfort; the one U adversity, tlio other prosperity. It is hard to tell In which a man is more t/iitcoiuented with hlmsoK and more ononsivo to olhirs. When prosperous ho patronizes; when trouble falls upon Iiim he whines and 1» a horrible bore. WUeti ho is down his friends wish tlm up on thtlr own account; when he is hlKh up thoy slsh for mountains to fall un him and bury him out of sight.â€" Kiugbton WhlB-Slandurd. Speaking of Poker. Authorities diff'T as to whi-ther a poHer room should be classed as an «ntoroom or a drawing-room â€" Ottawa Journal. Stud poker, of course, would be played In a study. â€" Toronto Star. AiUd strip poker should be played In b bedroom.â€" Chatham News. And when the house Is short of chips, the buys sliould adjourn to the woodshed.â€" St. Catharines Standard. Himself to Blame. When a man commits a crime and lilw name comes out In the paper, he hasn't the newspaper to blame, but himself. He should take due note of the publicity angle of It before he In- tlulges in the misdemeanor. â€" Reglna I.ead'jrJ'ost. Old Gas Mains. A London. Out., lirm boasts about having turnisbed lliat city with gas fcince the year 185G. Urockville can beat that. Since 1S53 gas has been Bc-nt through the mains of Ibis com- muiiiiy.â€" Brockville Ilecurder. Two Ways of Looking at It. Pessimists will say that 18.7 per cent, of I'ort Krie population is get- ting direct relief frot the public trea- sury. Optimists will point out that, de- spile hard times, 81.3 per cent, of Fort Kriu's population is managing to pay its wayâ€" Fort Krie Times-Ueview. The Home First. Home, school and church all need to play their parts in the ditllcult task of rearing decent citizens, and oE these t!i6 home has the eariiosl and most constant opportunity. It is a serious duty imposed on parents, and It needs to be faced seriously with a constant rocoUecllon of the tact that on home influences depends the character with which a youngster will eventually face a world full of didlcultles and tempta- tions. â€" Saint John Teiei;raphJournal. Self-Reliance, Under the heading "More of This Needed," the Nugget of North Bay tells a Une story of Canadian self- reliance. In thai city is a modest little resiauraui ruu by a mother and her two daughters, both of whom are go- ing to school. The father Is a pros- pector, but he has not struck recently. The mother is a good cook and proud ot it. So she started the resiaur- aui. The daughters wait on the break- fast table before starling to school. At the noon hour they wait on tlie dinner table. Again after school they help mother. In the pvuuine tney attend to til"'' ""â- 'â- 'ol work tor next day. The uiotUcr is happy because she is giving bir children an education. "Hut the main point is the spirit behind It all," says the Nugget "Did they throw up their hands and quit? Not a bit of It. If more of this real Canadian spirit were evident through- out this Dominion of ours today, there would bo less moaning and groaning, and more smiles and cheery chirps in tlie fli.'lds and on the pavements." â€"Toronto Mall and Empire. The Genteel Way. Impatlont Bostoniun stabbed a shoe cl' rk who fai;ed to fit him after try- ins on live pairs of shoes, but In less InipiHuous centres ot civilization the proi:edure Is merely to bring the foot up sharply and kick him just under the chin.â€" Horder Cities Stad. That Innate Urge. Everyone probably has iiursid a pet longing to perform some foolish ac- tion, like, for instance, sticking his lliigor Into his neighbor's cup of tea at a swell dinner to see If the tea is still warm. The ideas vary from the Insane to the freakish, but almost everyone Is I)utbered from time l<j time with a de- alri- to do something which would bring oQ him the nhocked stares ot bytiaudcrs. One Lindsay man once told the writ- er that be discontinued sitting in the gnllt-ry of a local church because after the Rermon had boon going for five or ton minutes, he had a longing to run down the aisle, put a foot on the rail, aAd leap over Into space In hopes of grabbing the big chandelier that swings from the celling. The desire to dn this nad seizi'd him so often that be (iorided it was better to change his â- eat to that he would get some |>eace «f mind and be able to listen to the •ernion.â€" -Lindsay I'ost. Millions In "Soft Drinki." What are pcVnIarly known In Can- •da at "•otl dr'nks." ofllW lally termed noil slcrholic ?arl>onated beverages, •ri> coMumed In substni.tlal quanti- Mrs. A« the rcc-ntly Issued report on tho .x«!ia*w!d Wf'cr.i' Industry for i;t.t2 -ii-'l |0«*MI. T*>>' i i,ris :i}j pUnla In the Domiu- lon engaged in the industry, of which 157 are Id Ontario; iTi In Quebec: 27 In Nova Scotia; 25 In Itrltish Colum- bia; 21 In Now lirunswlck; 15 in Sas- katchewan; 15 in Alberta; 13 In Mani- toba and two In Prince lidward Island. Mure than 80 per cent, of tho total production ot the non-alcoholic car- bonated beverages is made in Ontario and Quebec. Tho total value of the output of all plants last year was $11 067.SSe, Canada Imports comparatively little mineral or aerated waters or bever- ages. The total value of such imports in 1932 was $110,040 and the exports during the year amountcMl in value to $7.301,- Canada Week by Week. THE EMPIRE. First Woman Mayor. The first woman mayor of Hrlghton, Miss M. Hardy, tliinks highly of iirightoii men. "They are superior to any oilier men," she told me today. "They are simply splendid in tho work they do, and 1 would rather co-operate with them than with any other men in the world. 1 am talking of rJrighton, not of Hovo." â€" London Evening Stan- dard. A Man's Job. The Press and the Language. On almost every page of the Supple- ment to the Oxford English Dictionary one will llnd a new word that first received its introduction to standard English through the pages of a daily new-spaper. It is not claimed that the press coins new words, lu one ot liis essays the late C. E. Montague wrote of .the journalist working not at the heart of tho Empire of letters, but out on the shady borderlands of Its de- mesne. "These are the fields," he said, "in which to trot a new word up and down like a horse thai is for sale." Many an "aspiring Idiom" has gather- ed respectability from its first public appearance in a newspaper to achieve the ultimate beautilicatiun of a place in the Oxford Dictionary. Wliere tliese idioms come from no man knows. They float about the streets and are caught and entrapped for the use of posterity. â€" Glasgow Herald. Don't judge farmers by the few- lucky ones. Most of them work hard, long days in all -weathers. Each man has to plan, plant, grow, harvest, store and sell his products, which would be six men's jobs for most ot us. â€" London Daily Express. Australia's Example. In these twenty mouths progress to- wards recovery has been gained which has made the world wonder. It is not that prosperity has been restored â€" that is still some distance away. Hut there has been a restoration ot con- fidence, which is necessarily prelimin- ary to a restoration of prosperity, in other words, the task is in process of accomplishment. Tho astonishing fact is that in Australia there has been no substantial development in economic conditions to which the beltermeul of Government finances may be attri- buted. The Improvement lias been due entirely to the faith ot investors and ot the public In the ability and honesty Qt the administrators. Tho material gain has been reduction of taxation. This renluciion is, it is true, small, but it is well to pause and consider wluit a very great differeiue there is bo- Iweeu a small reduction ot taxation and a small increase ot taxation.â€" Melbourne Australasian. Compulsory Poverty. Mrs. Keltz's recent spirited protest at Johannesburg against the exclusion ot married women from the Civil Service gained greatly from her very sensible altitude on the kindred ques- tion of competition between men and women. . . . When married women are employed, they are not employed tor tun, but because they liave spceiai qualiticatiinis. The few exceptions ure not worth legislating about; wl)ercas tho total ex<;lusion of married women from ono particular branch of employ- meiit is bound to lead in many ca.ses to gross injustice, as when a woman is separated from a worthless husband and must work for the sake ot the children. The old fallacy of the "wage fund' has had many strange manif( s- tatlons, but surely none stranger or more unorlunale than this attempt to assign a difteront eeoiiumic status to married women than to their single sisters. CivllizBliou and compulsory poverty for one sectlmi go ill together. â€" Cape ArguB. England's Maligned Climate. For long England has prided ilseit upon its rain. It pretended to he anj;ry with its rain, or resigned and long- suffering with its rain, but secretly it took a delicious joy In its consistent standard of wetness. Hut this univer- sal reputation of England has been shown up by recent events as the fraud aid Imposture U really is. It Is a liiililile which ha.i been pricked by the summer of l'J33. At la.st I::ngiaiid has been revealed slinmofiilly as a place which can be i.o welter thiin even Palestine. In England they ac- tually have a water problem, because ot the lai k ot that rain which was supposed for centuries to be England's n-.onopniy.â€" Jerusalem Palestine I'o^t .Max Baer, heavyweight championsbip challenger, and of .'ate moving picture actor, arrives In New York, where a possible match with I'rimo Carnero, world's heavyweight title-holder, may be ar- ranged by Max's manager. Women Know More About Men's Hats Than Men Do 3o Girls Are Being Trained as Hat Store Hostesses and Style Advisers New York. â€" A new .scheme for sell- ing turned up in the form of a lady who tells a man when his hat looks nice. The system works like this: A man goes into a hat gtore and finds a KOod-lofjkin^ K'rl who decides when he has picked the right hat. This now trick ^n the headgear busines.s; was brought to light when a chain of men's hat stores advertised for attractive young women, "Between 18 and 25," the adver- tisement specified, "'to be trained as hostess and style adviser." Almost 300 girls were waiting on the doorstep when the office opened. . The iiiea is that what counts in a man's hat is the feminine reaction; so a woman should be there when it's chosen, to gauge the effect. "In fact, women know more about men's hats than nier know them- selves," a nicniber of the firm said. When the right hat is donned, the girl usually exclaims, "Ah, Mr. Smith, how handsome you look in that fe- dora!" Reprieve Arrives Just in Time Provinces Advanced Over $130,000,000 Ottawa.- Since liluO and up to the end of last week the provinces have been paid or advanced, roughly, $130,- 000,000. The larger proportion, espe- cially on n per capita basis, went to the West. This total took the form of direct relief to unemployment, pub- lic works with a similar oliject, help in land seltleinent, and loans. Some of the latter have been repaid. Hangman Stands Ready with Rope Two Minutes to go Vienna. â€" A hangiiian stt-od beside Hans Breitweiser, ready to slip the nooix; over his head. The gallows was crowdeff'wilh wardens, holding -stop- V, ntches. Breitweiser had two minutes ,t(' live. That was at 2.58 p.m. At 2.59 p.m., there was ;â-  stir in tho group of officials, and one of them came forward, waving a telegram. The warden read it and signalled to the hangman to stop his preparations. The telegram was a message from Frcsiden: Wilhelm Miklas, commuting Breitwoiser's sentence to life impris- onment. Breitweiser's case hud attracte<l at- tention because it was the first judged by the new "death penalty court," established under the recent martial- IfiW act. The court has only two ver- dicts at its discretion â€" acquittal or conviction with automt.tic death pen- alty. The sentence must be caiTied out within three hours of reaching a verdict. The court determined Breitweiser's gi.ilt at noon. He was to have been hanged proniptly at 'i p.m. His offence was the killing of the family of a servant girl, to prevent his fiancee learning of his love affair with the young woman. Miklas forbade the execution on the grounds that it was "contrary to the Christinas spirit." Persian Ministers Said Held in Plot Moscow. â€" The Soviet Telegraph Agency said in a despatch from Te- heran, capital of .Versia, that J afar Quli Khan Assad, Minister of War of Persia, and three meml)ers of the National Assembly were arrested for plotting against the government. May Assist Tramp Ships Britain to Fight Back at Ag" gressive Interests London, England.â€" Declaring that Great Britain should "hit back and hit bard at aggressive countries fighting her shipping," Walter Runclman, pre- sident ot the board of trade, declares a subsidy for tramp ships was being considered by the government. Not only would it aid industry, be said in the House of Commons, but it wouid be a defense measure In the event of war. Mr. liunclman's statement followed that of Neville Chamberlain, chancel- lor of the exchequer, that an early merger ot the great Cunard and White Star North Atlantic shipping lines is indicated. When the merger Is completed, Mr. Chamberlain asserted, he will present a program for taclUtailng completion ot the huge Cunard liner 534. which would be the largest ship afloat. Work on the 534 was suspended more than a year ago, but is govern- ment assistance is received it is ex- pected tp be operated jointly by the Cunard and White Star Companies. Mr. Runciman said the government also is "taking into account disabili- ties under which British lines labor- ed," referring to the United States ban on foreign coastwise shipping. It appears to be, he continued, "a very unjust thing that the United States should regard a trip from New York to Honolulu a coastwise traffic. But if we were to make anything like a rejoinder to that we must bear In mind we have a large interest in for- eign trade and would expose a very broad track for attack." An opposition proposal for public ownership of shipping and shipbuild- ing was voted down by the House, 221 to 34. Mr. Runciman said "the e.vperience ot the United States and Australia was sulllcient to dispose of this idea to hand the merchant navy over to the government." He deplored what he described as the failure ot other big countries to support Britain's anti- subsidy policy. Sir Robert Home had previously de- clared the United States Government lost nearly ?400, 000,000 in an attempt to run its shipping, and that Australia, Canada and France incurred similar losses. Sunday Laws Bar Haircuts But British Magistrate Wants to Know Why that's So • London, England. â€" Prosecution un- der the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Sunday Closing Act, which came into force in 1931, was taken in Surrey for the first time, when a barber named Reginald Gould was prosecuted at Chertsey for having cut hair on Sunday. When the prosecutor informed the magistrate that the action against the barber was taken under the act which did not allow barbers to cut hair on Sunday the magistrate asked: "Does anybody know why?" The prosecutor replied: "1 cannot give tho reason, but it is not lawful for any person to carry on the busi- ness of hairdrossiug on a Sunday." The defendant said he was only ob- liKing one or two customers and re- ceived no financial gain. Ho promised not to offend again and the summons was dismissed on payment of four shil- lings costs. Women Barred From Dinner U.S. Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, Only Cab" inet Member Not Invited Washington. â€" The gridiron boy» will be boys, so Mrs. Roosevelt is go> ing to entertain again for the ladies, including Labor Secretary Krancea Perkins. She issued invitations to high wo- men ofllcials. Cabinet wives, gridiron wives and women ot the press, all by their sex barred from the semi-annual stag dinner ot the club which the Pr» sident will attend. The Gridiron is one ot the famouf press clubs ot the world. Its member! being strictly limited and its membei^ ship drawn only from the senior maU journalists in Washington. It is con- sidered an honor to be invited to tbes< -semi-annual functions. On the last such occasion. Miss Pep kins, chatting with other While Housi guests, laughingly said the club mighl just as well have invited her alonj with the rest ot the Cabinet, tor she'd have gracefully declined. She's th« only Cabinet member ever omitted. But the Gridiron Club already bad their rules all fixed to take no chancea. That happened after Miss Jeanetl Rankin, lirst woman member of Coo- gress, became the first and only wo man to make the Gridiron grade. She was invited by Jarry J. Brown, and went to the dinner ot Decembet 8, 1917. At the next meeting, on Janu- ary 12, 1918, the club passed the r» solution: "Resolved, that the charac- ter of the Gridiron Club as regards tha presence of women as guests or spec- tators shall not be changed without vole of the club." And that stands. • 1 » t i .1 'A month or two in New York gives me the ji.mps'." â€" Gary Cooper. Covet Endurance Record WARMS BLOOD. "Sill^lnc wuinis ibc blood,' deelniis a Uui'tor ill Scoilaud. | li'»ii III Miami where the soft winds blow these two enterprising ladies of the air are out to break •'' 11 !i-! refuel )g cmlurume rceoul. Left t" Right: Jack Loesing. pilot of their refueling ship; Fiiiii.^ Mai.nii-, colio dvr. widi I/'ni p Thaden, of the pr?yent record: Viola Gentry, and their me- chanic, Kred rettermao. I p : 1 / /â- ? Month November, 1933 Coldest on Recorc The temperature during Novembei has been the coldest on record at th< Central E.xperimental Farm, Ottawa. According to the weather recordi kept by the field husbandry division at the E.xperimental Farm the mean' te-mperature for November has only been 20.4 degrees Fahrenheit, which is exactly 12 degrees below the 40 year average. The first seven days ot the month were somewhat normal but from the end of the first week the month remained consistently cold, b* ing practically 12 degrees below nop mal tor the whole period. In the last two weeks the minimum temperature dropped four times below zero and twice to exactly zero. This in itsell is an unusual record. The lowest reached in the past month was nine degrees below zera and that occurred on two different nights. In comparing the past month with that ot previous years it is noted that November has been an outstanding cold month. During the previous 41 < years that weather records have been kept at the Farm the mean tempera lure has never been lower than 28 da grees for November. During November a total ot 18.26 inches ot snow fell which is appreci- ably in excess of the 40-year averagi of 7.31 inches. The month was unusually doudj with a total ot only 58.1 hours ot bright sunshine, while normally 78.1 hours are recorded. The freeze-up occurred this year o« the 5th of November, which is thi earliest date on record at the Farm. Doris Diike Begins Work on Father's Endowment Fund Greenville, S.Câ€" Doris Duke hai shouldered her pait of the responsi- bility for administering the huge en- dowment established by her father, the late James B. Duke, tobacco anc power magnate. Frequently smiling, but keeping out of the public gaze as much at possible, the young woman who wai hailed as America's "richest heiress* recently when she came into contra o $10,000,000 of her $30,000,000 upo« reaching 21, arrived here from NeM York to participate in a celebratioi of the ninth anniversary of the found- ing, of the $-10,000,000 Duke endow- ment. She attended a meeting of th< foundation's board of trustees, rt which she automatically became i member upon attaining her majority ill compliance with her father's stipa lation. The endowment was creatw for the benefit of colleges, hospitaL and orphanages in the two Carolinas Miss Duke spent nearly an hoai visiting youngsters at the Shriner'i Hospital lor Crippled Children, om of the participants in her father'i benevolences. As the tall, blonde visi- tor prepared to leave, a score of tht youngsters stood up and gave her an< the other Duke trustees a cheer ii collegiate fashion. <• Queer $100 Bills Being Circulated Montreal. â€" Couaterfeit United «tates $100 bils are being circulated in Montreal, according to police. an4 banks and stores have been asked to watch tor them. The sp:'rious banivnotes are believ- ed to have been first passed by an American bootlegge In St. Armand, Que., near the United States border. They are s'atjd to be an excellent imitation. Royal ^.:anadian iWounb- ed Police are coopfiaiing with pro- vincial and Moiiheal police In an •<- fort to trace their origin. V* '. i '