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During the centuries miles of Briâ€" tain have disappeared into the sea. A strip half a mile wide has beon taken @f the coast of Yorkshire in the last THE EMPIRE Brighter Year In many British industries 1933 opens with signs of better times. Imâ€" provement has not yet proceeded far, but the tone of business in general is @&ppreciably more cheerful than at the beginning of 193%. At any rate, the Attitude is now widespread that it is mo use waiting for things to right thomselves. The strenuous efforts now being made to increase the efficiency of established industries and to set up new ones can hardly fail to have their Fgeward.â€"Industrial Britain. 1932. At the same time the increase in seasonal unemployment today is anly oneâ€"third of what it was a year 1g0, And in the third place, stock and sond averages have advanced, respecâ€" tively, from 39 to 51 and from 46 to 59. He ragards these as accurate and significant indicators of business acâ€" \vity which should give Germany sound ground for optimsm.â€"Montreal Daily Star. Germany Recovering Through all the gloom that surâ€" rounds international finance and the budgets of the nations one gleam of light has piercod that is calculated to give encouragement where it is sorely needed. Germany is on the upâ€"grade. Definite proof of this was given the Budgetary Committee of the Reichstag the other day by the German Minister of Economics, Professor Hermann Warmold. The Minister presented three factors Indicating both improvement in indusâ€" trial conditions and increase in public confidence. In the first place, he told the committee that industrial producâ€" tion in Germany had risen to 65, takâ€" Ing the 1929 level of production as a unit of 100, after a decline to 52 in Paper 1,000 Years Old A Chinese newspaper has published continuously for 1,000 years. Fancy baving ‘Indignant Subscriber" write in "This is not the position you assumed In 1541."â€"Ottawa Journal. Male Adornment The depressed Canadian dollar is a blessing to Canada‘s Atlantic ports, the railways which servo them, and the shipping companies and sailors who convey goods to and from them by sea. Thanks to our depressed dolâ€" lar it is now cheaper to ship wheat oversea by way of Halifax or St. John than by way of the United States ports of the Atlantic coast. Canadian freight rates are paid in Canadian money. U.S. rates have to‘ be paid in United States money. The 12 to 14 per cent. exchange makes the U.S. routes too costly to be competitive, Such Canadian grain as is moving; eastward is going to the Canadian ports.â€"Edmonton Bulletin. ‘ iy; that bit of driving technicality aurely belongs in the ABC‘s of the ar of handling an automobile. However, recent figures show that during the first six months of 1932 there were in Ontario 123 accidents in making rightâ€" hand turns with two persons killed and 80 injured, while in the same period 444 accidents occurred in neâ€" gotiating lefthand turns with five killâ€" od and 265 injured. â€" Peterborough Examiner, Slam‘s Economy The more the Western World learns about Siam the more firmly it is perâ€" suaded that the Siamese are a reâ€" markable people. Not long ago they changed their system of government without making much of a fuss about it. On that enlightendd kingdom a reâ€" volution takes place with the utmost of restraint and amiability on all sides. Yet that is not the most wonderful thing about Siam. It has learned to cut budgoets and discharge useless pubâ€" lic servants in a way that is astonishâ€" ing to Western minds. â€" Fredericton Gleaner. Danger in Turning Corners It would naturally be imagined that me of the first things every motorist learns is how to turn corners correctâ€" It has also been demonstrated that no form of publicity pays as great a dividend as newspaper advertising. Certain sections of the public may read a magazine annourcement or many hear an advertising program over the air, but a newspaper message goos to all the people, â€"Border Cities Star. Many striking demonstrations have been offered of the fact that there are plenty of buyers in the country if those with something to sell, at the right price and of the right quality, will give the public their message in th proper form, * CANADA Newspapers Lead The president of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company announced the other day that his company intends to increase its advertising appropriation during 1933, particularly in the daily newspapers. Lost English Villages The purpose of the move is to proâ€" tect the small merchants during a period of economic stress from comâ€" petition with larger mercantile organiâ€" zations equipped to undersell them. The decree provents the opening of fire new Woolworth "fiveâ€"andâ€"tenâ€"<ont stores", for which preparations alâ€" ready had been made. ‘ Berlinâ€"Establishment of new "one price store" in Germany has recentâ€" ly been forbidden by government de cree. This extends the decreo issuâ€" ed in March, 1932, which forbade the opening of oneâ€"price stores in cities of less than 100,000 inhabitants. Tribute to Canada Canada looks back upon 1932 with pride. The nation retained world leadership in the export of wheat, printing paper, asbestos; was second in gold, platinum, cobalt; was third in wheat flour; fourth in automobiles and wood pulp; fifth in rubber tires. Canada winds up the year with a fayâ€" orable trade balance of $50,000,000, contrasted with an unfavorable balâ€" ance of $10,000,000 in 1931. There have been troubles, but they are being surmounted. Canada is a huge counâ€" try, with only about 10,000,000 popuâ€" lationâ€"but the Canadians are an oxâ€" ceedingly hardy handful. â€" Christian Science Monitor. ; "Fiveâ€"andâ€"Ten" Stores _ Banned by Berlin Decree What was there the London strikers could do? After all, they are of the same blood as the Pirates of Penzance who, with all their faults, loved their Queen. If the social revolution ever does come in Britain, it will be only when its leaders have shown their folâ€" lowers how to overturn the existing system without ceasing to be good felâ€" lows.â€"New York Times, UNITED STATES Mild Class War The London bus strike is over. It simply is not in the British nature to let ordinary strikes pass into crisis and general strikes into revolution. The present stoppage, an outlaw move in an case, was brought to an end when nearâ€"zero weather descended upâ€" on England and the head of the operâ€" ating company appealed to the strikers not to subject the public to serious inâ€" convenience. Modern Pioneering It has to be recognized that under presentâ€"day conditions land settlement cannot necessarily be promoted simply by finding the land and men who are prepared to try their fortunes on it. It is not much use quoting examples of pioneer settlers who, taking up land, facing the future with little equipâ€" ment beyond two strong arms and boundless courage and optimism won their way eventually to success. Conâ€" ditions are different now, farming technique has been much elaborated, the occupation has been divided into specialized branches, and overhead costs accumulate far more rapidly.â€" Auckland Weekly News. ‘ England on the Air Who can make a list of the things that are England? The Monarchy, Parliament, the Navy, the Derby, and the Boat Race, Henley Regatta the Trooping of the Colour, Picadilly, Big Ben, the London buses, hunting, footâ€" ballâ€"these are the sort of raw maâ€" terial of which England‘s esteem and affection in the world are composed. Justice, disinterestedness in internaâ€" tional affairs, coolness, fair dealing, a reputation for quality in manufacture â€"these are among the virtues of her character. Let the Empire Broadcastâ€" ing Station reflect these events and these qualities and it will earn the gratitude of all members of the family; it will render also an outâ€" standing service to the world.â€"Cape Argus, i Physical Culture We made a mistake in entrusting physical culture to people of inferior education. They ought to be people of high educationâ€"as they are in Sweden, for example. They ought to know that the human body is not merely a machine for digesting food and circulating blood and developing muscle, but a marvellous creative inâ€" strument, a thing that hungers for skillful activity in every nerve and fibre of it, so that even its physical health is not attainable until you have satisfied its hunger for skill by one means or another. Your drillâ€"sergeant, your muscle trainer, your professional gymnast, your football coach may be good fellows enough for their busiâ€" ness; but as exponents of physical education, may the Lord deliver us from all such!â€"Dr. L. P. Jacks in Lancet, London. | Not far away, at Pakefield, it is posâ€" sible at low tide to swim over and touch streets of ruined and submerged houses.â€"London Daily Pictorial. Lower down the coast, at Dunwich, a wholse medieval city has disappearâ€" ed, and yearly setvices are still held at the sea‘s edge in memory of the cathedral and eight churches which are now below the waves. 150 years, and at least thirty village® have been submerged. "W‘.en the injections werâ€" stopped the man‘s hair again turned pale blonde," Mr. Rohde said. "This, we believe, is the beginning of a new theory of hair dyeing, and hair speâ€" cialists are now working on it." It may be, continued Mr. Rohde, tLat even food may be found to have : effect upon the color of hair. In "And that isn‘t all," said the speâ€" cialist, "The day is coming when we will never have to dye hair externâ€" ally, We‘ll dye hair with a hypoâ€" dermic syringe in the client‘s arm." A skin specialist in Chicago had stumbled upon a secret, Mr. Rohde said, development of which is being watched with great interest by Chiâ€" cago hairdresseds. A Swede, sufferâ€" ing from a skin disease, had gone to the specialist for treatment. Injec: tions of a fluid in the patient‘s arm had been accompanied by the blonds hair of the patient turning a rich auburn hue. "It‘s the depression," explained Mr. Rohde. "Men find jobs are scarce for the man with graying hair. So they come to us to be made young. In the old days, months would pass without a man coming in. Now we dye eight or ten a week. Torontoâ€"Men are having their hair ayed. More men in Chicago have had their hair dyed in the last year than during the previous decade, Emil Rohde, famous hair specialist of Chiâ€" cago, told a group of hairdressers at the Toronto Ladies‘ Hairdressers‘ Asâ€" sociation convention here. Thus Secure Jobs, According to Specialist Who Predicts New Method Men Dyeing Hair To Look Young tecture, Somehow Portland, Oregon, with it‘s narrow m speaks more of Hollywood. However, the enterprising proprietor be feet wide, 52 feet long and 25 feet high. Mickey Mouse undoubtedly Another aquatic Tarzan is to the fore in Hollywood. This time it‘s Buster Crabbe, Olympic Adonis, who plays opposite this lion in a new jungle picture. Hollywood Favors Swimmers Other items in the collection, which totalled 204 entries and was desâ€" cribed by the American Art Associaâ€" tion Anderson Galleries, where the sale was conducted, as the largest in America, brought from three dollars to $950, the second highest price, Only once during the two hours of the sale was the monotonous regularâ€" ity of the bidding for Shaw‘s wit broken by a ripple of laughter. That was when the auctioneer was heard to intone "damn Bernard Shaw and his tedious doing and sayings," and a few nonâ€"professionals in the audiâ€" ence failed to realize he was quoting from one of Sbaw‘s own letters. Bidding for the 12,500â€"word letter, which required Shaw 14 days to write, started at $300 and mounted rapidly to $1,100, where it hung for a moment. Then, at slight nods of the bidders‘ heads it mounted quickly to $2400. England canaries were being fed cerâ€" tain fZoods to turn their feathers orange, red, blue and lavender, colors which remained until they moulted. The principle offered a great field for research in hair dyeing, he said. The highest price paid for a single item was $2,400 for a 54â€"page letter in the Irish playwright‘s own prim hand. Gabriel Wells, professional rare book collector, was the successful bidâ€" der. This letter, written to Prof. Henderâ€" son in 1905, is virtually an autobiogâ€" raphy and forms the basis of Henderâ€" son‘s first book about Shaw‘s life and works. Since then the North Carolina mathematics professor has published seven volumes on the subject. New York.â€"The Archibald Henderâ€" son collection of letters manuscripts and books from the pungent pen of George Bernard Shaw brought a total of $7,887 at a recent auction sale here, Shaw Manuscripts and Books Auctioned narrow streets, hardly seems the place for the above which Advertising Plus! beliered in his trado, It would be pleased with this archiâ€" OoUR WILL We help ourselves when weo help others. OF "The bananas must have been the deck cargo of a vessel washed overâ€" board during a severe gale." "It was soon after daybreak," said one of the residents of the town, "that we noticed the bananas lyiny; on the foreshore. Some of the inhabitants took quantities home, but the majorâ€" ity were left on the shore untouched. Bananas Cover English Beach Winchelsea, England, awoke recentâ€" ly to find the foreshore for a distance of five to six miles strewn with thouâ€" sands of green bananas, all torn from the large centre stems and lying ing along the beach at the high water mark. There were no signs of woodâ€" work crates. On the first floor are five bedrosms, bathroom, box room, linen room, la ‘aâ€" tory and a spacious larding. In these bedrooms, as in the kitchen, the heatâ€" ing is effected by meens of tubular heaters fitted with thermostatic conâ€" trol. ed to maintair the temperature anyâ€" where between 50 and 65 degrees acâ€" cording to the setting of the thermoâ€" stat, even when it is freezing outside. This is a fine, flexible materia!, which is applied to the ceiling in a manner similar to heavy wallpaper, and which employs the principle of the distribution, under thermostatic control, of radiant waurmth from cxâ€" tended areas of the ceiling at temperâ€" atures at, or only slightly above, body warmth. In these rooms it ‘s arrany>â€" The main entrance opens on to a hall with a barrel vault ceiling, in which electric tubular heating is inâ€" stalled. On the left is the lounge, with loggia facing the garden, while on the right are the dining room, kitâ€" chen, servery, cloakroom and so on. The heating system in the lounge, dining room and first bedroom is from the ceiling by means of the Dulrae method. * The result is that today, people livâ€" ing in or near Birmingham can see a British home, at once pleasing, comâ€" fortable, and fitted with conveniences calculated to reduce labor and costs to a reasonable minimum. ALMOST DUSTLESS. There are no replaces to clean, no ashes to remove, and consequently the house is almost dustless. All rooms are automatically maintained at the ccrrect temperature, resulting in the prevalence of â€" cheerful _ warmth througkout. Hot water is available day and night, a feature that is acâ€" complished and maintained automatâ€" ically, without fumes or attention. All perishable foods can be stored under perfect conditions. i g1 Electric House _ |This Week‘s Shown in England Sciene ONTA TORONTO zled out, A much better plan is .t-o‘A charm so past compare! work away cheerfully at the job in But, O Manhattan! Glowing now hand, do it well, try to put heart| Against the sombre night and enthusiasm into it, to do it in u’ Thine opulence and squalor hid original way, to look at its most from sight, h cheerful side, to find out the romance Never was aught more beautiful which lies hidden in most things it than thou we will only look for it. Dost in thy calm appearâ€" ‘Then, some day, in trying to like So glorifed and so transfigured thmlc'ohnbb,nm‘ here. . . .0 _ s R Munhnbo-um.m â€"Florence Earle Coates. Pooml’. the thing wo like best of allâ€"EH.A. | wore glad. off alpha particles, and thus reducing themselves to something else. It may be that we shall have to revive a view that was current at the opening of the centuryâ€"that all the elements are radioactive and that they are the end products of activity that began eons ago when exploding atoms, like those of uranium, were commoner than they are now.â€"Waldemar Kaempffert in The N.Y. Times, LOST OPPORTuUNITIES ~‘There is much time spentâ€"nay, rather, wastedâ€"thinking and worry> ing about lost opportunities, tides that have been missed, dreams that have never shown any inclinaion to come true, schemes which have frizâ€" What distinguishes samarium is the fact that it shoots alpha particles, meaning that it is unstable. It folâ€" lows that instability is not confined to the heavy elements, such as uranium and radium., Samarium is what is known as & rare earth. Next to it in the table, occupying the sixtyâ€"first place, is "ilâ€" linium." Possibly the rare earths are rare because they have been shooting After radioactivity was discovered there was a feverish hunt for ele ments that send forth rays spontanâ€" eously. All the heavy elements beâ€" yond No. 82 (lead) proved to be radioâ€" active. Thereupon it was concluded that everything lighter than lead must be inactive, When it was discovered that potassium, which is No. 19 in the list, and rubidium (No. 37) are slightly radioactive â€" both emit electrons â€" physicists were puzzled, fied, atomic physics may be ready for another upheaval. * ‘It takes hundreds of suprarenal glands of cattle to provide enough ephinephrine for human beings who need it. We have, therefore, a vision of toadâ€"farms supplying warts to pharâ€" ‘maceutical laboratories. The prosâ€" pect is all the more certain when it is considered that the same scientists have found that toad glands produce cholesterol and ergosterol, which are potent cures of rickets because they contain vitamin D. Add to this a group of bufaginsâ€"which are found in toad venom and which have an effect on the heart similar to that of digiâ€" talisâ€"and the economic case for the toad is complete, Another Radioactive Element? The announcement is made by Proâ€" fessor G. yon Hevesy of the University of Freiburg that samarium, which is No. 62 in the table of elements, is radioactive. If this discovery is veriâ€" in the form of ammonia into nitrate, and this something seems to be esâ€" pecially active when it is irradiated by ultraâ€"violet light either in the sun or a mercury arc. Even when the sea water is passed through the finest porâ€" celain filter it still retains this mysâ€" terious nitrifying factor. Heated unâ€" der high presure, it loses its power. Synthetic sea waterâ€"that is distilled water in which the right salts have been dissolved in the right amountâ€" does not have it, Evidently a new field for exploration has been opened to the biochemist. Medical Importance of Toads The toad, which used to play an imâ€" portant part in the practice of medi« cine, may be restored to pharmaceutiâ€" cal honor if the discovery of two Chinese and an American, K. K. Chen, A. L. Chen and H. Jensen, fulfilis the: promise that it holds out.. The scienâ€" tists in question have found that wartâ€" like excrescences on the heads of five different species of toads secrete the; hormone ephinephrine, like the supâ€" rarnal glands, ‘ The whole problem of food, perhaps of life itself, is summed up in the sinâ€" gle word nitrogen. Not the gas that constitutes about 80 per gent, of the air we breathe is meant, but nitrogen that is "fixed" or chemically combined to form a compound which can be used ; by plants and animals in building tisâ€" ; sues. ' â€"There are bacteria in the soil that have the property of thus "fAixing" , nitrogen For the most part they clusâ€" 1, ter on the roots of what are known as leguminous or podâ€"bearing plants, cuchl as the beans and vetches. These bacâ€" teria convert the nitrogen of the air into organic life. Does a similar process go On in the sea? Dr. C. E. ZoBell of the Scripps | Institution of Oceanography describes in Science some interesting experiâ€" ments that he conducted to answer the question. He tried to breed nitrifying | bacteria in sea water, under the most favorable conditions. only to find that they died. This does not preclude the possibility of there being such bac» teria, Dr, ZoBell warns. We must first | look for varieties different from the soil forms before any conclusion can be drawn. ' “Tihere is undoubtedly something in sea water which does change nitrogen world excelled herâ€" 5i% Nay, marvelled, as at close of day I gazed across her opalescent bay And saw Vesuvius burn on high Against the soft Italian sky, That anything on earth could woar A charm so past compare! But, O Manhattan! Glowing now Against the gsombre night, _ Thine opulence and squalor hid from sight, Never was aught more beautiful And have in dreams beheld hor Clothed in resplendent pride, The Adriatic‘s bride! Naples I, too, have seenâ€" An even lovelier queenâ€" And thought that nothing in the Downâ€"gazing, I behold, Miraculous by night, A city all of gold. Here, there, and everywhere, In myriad fashion fair, A mystery untold Of light! Â¥s Not royal Babylon, Nor Tyre, nor Rome the greatâ€" In the allâ€"powerful state Her wisdom and her armed legions wonâ€" Was so illuminate 4* As this strange world which, awed, I look upon. , With it compared, the ancient glories fail, And, in the glow it doth irradiat: The planets of the firmament grow Oh, I have looked on Venice whes Silvered Vancouver, B.C.â€"The 1,000,000â€" bushel extension to the United Grain Growers‘ elevater on Burrard Inlet, Vancouver has been completed, and the enlarged plant was officially «pened and inspected recently by Mr, R. S. Law, president of the company, The newly completed addition brings the elevator capacity to 2,650,000 bushels, and constitutes the second enlargement made to the plant since the No. 8 elevator was first leased from the Harbor Board in 1925, an extension of equal size a_ving been made in 1927. perimental Station, Lacombe, was made recently. Some 267 litters and 8,788 young pigs were included in the tests. In size of litter farrowed per sow, Yorkshires ranked first with 11.5 pigs per litter, Berkshires seeâ€" ond with 9.3 and Tamworths third with 8.6. The average number of pigs weaned per sow was 7.3 in the case of Yorkshires, 6.7 for Berkshires and 6.0 for Tamworths. Edmonton, Alta â€"A summary of seven years‘ breeding tests vith baâ€" con breeds, Yorkshires, Berkshires and Tamworths, at the Don.inion Exâ€" ! mate, harbor and transportat on offiâ€" 'c;h at Saint John estimate that with present facilities the port can handle 25,000,000 bushels of grain during {the present season. With the new Ldoeh and elevators available next year, upwards of 60,000,000 bushels can be handled. Quebec, Que.â€"Two years before the time set, the firm of Adelard Lesâ€" sflmn. Sask.~â€" Saskatcon‘s Winter <Fair, according to an 2 â€" rouncement by the management, wi.l be held during the week commencing March 27. Dates for all Class A fairs in Western Canada were arranged at a moeting held recently in Regina, as follows: Brandon, March 13; Regina, March 20; Calgary, week beginning March 2;; Edmonton, April 3. Lake Winnipeg, is finding considerâ€" able use in the proviice. Another reâ€" port states that Manitoba +tulibee fish are finding a ready market in British West Africa. ruary, sounding being carried out in the meantime. The central span will be 106 feet above water at high tidgg Tororto, Ont.â€"According t« a reâ€" port of the Provincial Dept. of Mines, three new mines were added to the gold producers of Ontario during No vember, bringing the present total to 20. Total gold and silver production in the province in that month was $2,034,183, which was an increase of about $26,000 over that in the preâ€" vious month. The figures for the first 11 months of 1932 were $42,â€" 637,618 against $38,833,574 for the corresponding period of 1931. Winnipeg, Man.â€"The Manitobs Inâ€" dustrial Development Board reports that filter sand from Black Island, of the whole structure. . The ta lencfllislboutmmflenndsfifu\, and the contract for the central seeâ€" tion, which will be of the suspended typce, will be given some time in Febâ€" lauriers has sompleted the construc»â€" tion of the north and sout‘. sections of the new Island of Orleans bridge, which repnesents nearly twoâ€"thirds Ch.rlottetown, P.2JI.â€"The silver fox farming industry is now firmly established, having passed through all phases of prosperity and depression without any serious disturbance, ac»â€" cording to Hon. G. Shelton Sharp, Provincial Minister of Agriculture, The industry, h* says, can qow be reâ€" garded as a safe investment. Saint John, N.B.â€"Giving what they state to be a conservative estiâ€" the (A Nocturne) New York In these da» stantly being s traffic congosto pleasure to know the ponies which N their homelan Bomeone ho of Jceland are h« ly on the backs . body travels in t which are raisc cause that is th weyance. For hu been the only m« man and child o there is a long « tra ponies are t those being rido primitive mode « to farm is into eounts, and mu: an automobile w tracks and the s; more than from M Discovery Ponies of 1 Exvery Man, Won Expert Riders For many years | h d in Iceland â€" mi comparatively speak is to be found there C. Hastings in "Our Its life. which cont markable ponies, is tive. Iceland has a ours where traycls place is dependent a ponies, although aut Ing in number as ro ‘This island, lantic, some southeast of G treme morth j Circle, is comt the time becan which flows uj porthward alon stream . does 1 the polar curr climate. bour, These lcelandi and very sure{o fast over the stor stumbling, even their way over boulders which round in certain Ing in single fil sides of rocks hi the air. Bridge: rarely to be foun streams, which . foot, people rely who keep their f stones and swift Icelanders show for their ponies, ways well fed and live by grazing in winter on small a plemented by the The chief don sountry, besides and sheep, Gra: many valleys, ar months it is moy quantity of hay 1 asumber of sheep which each farn long winter. 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