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The German Goernment seems to be made particularly uncomfortable when foreign correspondents insist on sending stories to their home newsâ€" papers to the effect that there is seâ€" cret rearming in the country. â€"Sarâ€" nia Canadian Observer FEAR EXPOSURE.â€" President Green, of the American Federation of Labour says that there are still 10,616,000 people out of work across the line. The NRA has unforâ€" tunately not accomplished so much as the more sane methods followed in Great Britain and the rest of the Empire. â€" Brantford Expositor. 3RITISH METHODS sest Over in the United States they are planning a golf course for nudists But what will a nudist do if he slices his balls into a pasture and has to go for it through a barbed wire fence? «â€"â€"Ottawa Journal. NUDIST PROBLEM.â€" MEAN STREAK.â€" It‘s all right to be a good sport, most of the time, but it pays to have just enough meanness about you to keep people treating you wellâ€"The Montreal Star. reported in more than half a dozen oâ€" ther localities. The report of the Bioâ€" logical Board recommended measures to increase the yield of the native va riety, together with the introduction of the Japanese variety in localities not suitable for the native variety.â€" Victoria Times. The most extensive acreage of naâ€" tive ayster beds in British Columbia was found in Boundary Bay on the mainland, and Ladysmith Harbor on Vancouver tsland but small beds are reported in more than half a dozen oâ€" ther localities. The report of the Bioâ€" logical Hoard Yecommenimt maunumeal The Japanese oyster, it was found provided a method of producing suitâ€" able ~ultchâ€"material for collecting oysier spatâ€"for the native variety and its cultivation would thas overâ€" come me of the main difficulties of increased yield of the home product. The japanese oyster itself, though differing from the Rritisa Columâ€" bia and eastern Canada varieties in flavour and appearance is regarded by many as an accentable and nutâ€" rit‘ous sea food. In British Columbia waters experâ€" iments have been carried on with the eastern Canada oyster and the Japâ€" anese jyster, as well as with the natâ€" ive variety. Preliminary investigation by the Biological Board indicated that the Eastern Canads oyster suffered excessive mortality on being transâ€" planted to Pacific waters. PACIFIC OYSTERS Small investors in che United King. dom have something like $12,450,000, 000 tucked away in Post Office Savâ€" ings Bank, Trustee Savings Banks and in national savings certificates. In England these small imvestors are never spoken of collectively as the big interests. â€" St. Catherines Stan dard. IMPRESSIVE TOTAL The Lancet, England‘s leading meâ€" dical publication upholds the Minneaâ€" polis physician recently fined and imâ€" prisoned for not informing the authâ€" vwrities that he had treated John Dilâ€" linger, the bandit. The gist of its arâ€" gument is that as a medical man he had to observe professional secrecy. I mt what about the nrospective vie tims as long as the murdurer is free? â€"Brantford Expositor PROFESSIONAL SECRECY REMOVING A MENACE.â€" The Highways Department was a long time in getting started on the ditchâ€"filling project, but now that the work has been commenced in eliminâ€" ating these death traps, the provinâ€" cial authorities evidently intend mak ing a job of it. Hundreds of men are at work in Central and Western Onâ€" tario removing this menace. And it is worth every cent it will cost. â€" From the Guelph Mercury. This has been the method followed by employee in the town‘s offices maâ€" king a presentation to a friend on the Threshold of Matrimony. The friendâ€" ly spirit that reigns at such court acâ€" tions is the same spirit that links the various town offices and lends such a pleasant atmosphere at all times. â€"Lindsay Post for instance, before Town Clerk W. R Allely became married, when he was charged in all solemnity and legal terâ€" minology with deserting his post with out the consent of the others in the building. FRIENDLY CITY HALL.â€" Many people must have wondered what it was all about when they read in the Post the report of a purported trial when Miss Helen Lyons was senâ€" tenced to a life of happiness by Maâ€" gistrate G. A. Jordan in view of her coming marriage. Such trials have taken place beâ€" fore. There was one a few years ago CANADA Voice of the Press , The Empire and The World at Large EMPIRE PRODUCTION.â€" Unfortunately â€" there exists _ no body in the Empire whose duty it is to assemble all the facts and to note all the deelopments which must be taken into consideration if a policy is to be evolved embracing the schemâ€" es for internal reconstruction, both agricultural and industrial the necâ€" essary coâ€"operation with the Domin-i ions and the parallel necessity for exâ€" panding foreign trade. The outstandâ€" [ _° "NHeat acreage down to assist the upward movement of prices, Now with the continuance of tae Great Drought, next years‘s harvest is threatened and the dread of an acute wheat shortage is added to our other economic terrors,â€"London Daily Herâ€" ald. The rapidly developing v is is a supreme illustratic mad folly of the modern restriction. For months pas mers have been encourage their wheat acreage down 3READ We shall convince arms merchants that we do not intend to allow them to sell guns to foreigners to kill the British soldiers and sailors, or to stir up wars in which for their proâ€" fit ‘housands of our fellowâ€"countryâ€" men may perish, by one means only ; and that is by abolishing absolutely the sale of arms for private profit. As a preliminary demonstration this S. American embargo will serve very well. Let the British Government now say promptly and definitely that whatever other countries may do we will forbid absolutely the export of arms from this country to South A-‘ merica. â€" London News Chronicle ‘MERCHANTS OF DEATH." of the British Empire is Kong Press. are those who hold that after midâ€" night ‘"all good people should be in bed," but it must be borne in mind that if we are to cater to holiday maâ€" kersâ€"and those are the people we want toâ€" attract in Hong Kong.â€"we must offer enough entertainment to make them come back again or to re commend Hong Kong as a ‘good place in which to spend a holiday," and the only way to do it is to tell the world what a grand place this little outpost: So far as the general night life in Hong Kong is concerned we must adâ€" mit that it is pretty dull. There is no place that one can go to after midâ€" night though up till that hour there is plenty enough for one to do. There The Prince of Wales did well to emphasize that in all the modern deâ€" velopment of the timber trade long term planning is a condition of sucâ€" cess. The increase of consumption of Canadian timber has thus far been restricted by the incvitable difficul. ties of adjustment to a new market by the need of organiz»tion of proâ€" duction to the cond‘tions and grades required and of the arrangement of economical shipping. Beneath all this lies the fundamental question of long term forestry schemes. No Dominion whatever its primeval wealth of timâ€" ber can any longer neglect planning to conserve and multiply that wealth as an investment for generations. The United States has already discovâ€" ered what the wasteful exploitation fo virgin forests means.â€"London Dailv Telegraph. ‘PRETTY DULL‘ EMPIRE TIMBER RESsOURCES At first glance at the Birthday Hoâ€" nours List you may say ‘Not very exâ€" citing, that list," You look again. You read there that Dr. Frederick Bantâ€" ing of Canada has been made a knight He discovered insulin. He conquered the dread disease diabetes. Young un known, penniless this student at the Western Ontario Medical School was consumed with an idea How to dis sipate that unused sugar in the body which is the cause of diabetes. Day and night, he worked baffled, disapâ€" pointed, mistaken, till on the verge of despair he stumbled on the secret substance in the vital gland which will break up that surplus sugar. Inâ€" sulin is the name we call it now. Banâ€" ting, who found it, is one of the great heroes of man‘s struggles against Death â€" London Daily Express | If it is imperative to reduce the amâ€" ount of general debt, it is a thousand pities that we have not the courage to do so frankly and openly, and leave our dollar intact. But as we look arâ€" ound the world we can see practicalâ€" ly no one who is doing this, We are all fiddling with our currency, _ We are like mrchants who have contractâ€" ed to deliver ten pounds of sugar a year in the future, but find ourselves unable to do so. Instead of admitting this however we adopt tke far simplâ€" er and more deceptive method of cutâ€" ting a section off the pound weight. â€"Montreal Star. 3IR FREDERICK BANTING DEBTS AND DOLLARS rapidly devrerloping wheat cris supreme illustration of THE EMPIRE ne illustration of the the modern doctrine of encouraged to keep past the far. little outpost is. ~â€" Honge rnommmfrarinuntnmenmeenseraireem St. Louis, â€" Eightâ€"yearâ€"old Norma Aune Simmons of Sedan, Kan., will breathe easier after her operation. For three years the child has been troubled by shortness of breath and a condition similar to asthma. A recent. physical examination showed a large tack, which she recalls having swalâ€" lowed years ago, lodged in her rl:ht‘ lung. It will be removed by surgeons, Will Remove Tack F rom Child‘s Lung nturpion, â€" Bs d 4 dA d 011 W mer. He asked permission to mail a letter, walked out the big gate and started to run. At the tower they are seeing that he does not escape again, but said they may grant his mother‘s applicâ€" attion for a discharge. London, Eng. â€" The 15â€"yearâ€"old brassâ€"buttoned _ drummer boy who who performed the impossible and escaped from the Tower of London is back again. A sergeant and a drumâ€" major who trailed him found him with his mother at her home in Kenâ€" sington and promptly escorted him back to the grim fortress. The young redâ€"coat, Jack Robertâ€" son, whose father was killed in the war, wanted to follow his footsteps, but he tired of learning to be a drumâ€" Drummer Boy‘s _ â€" Liberty is Brief Sss w o o eiged The omission officially to advise the clerg of the change is the more reâ€" miss since in fact canon law will have to be alteredâ€"a cumbrous proceeding |â€"to bring the clerical system into line with the Parliamentary decision. Marriage throughout the centuries was kept to the earlier part of the _day for reasons good in their time. For one in a possibly merrier but a certainly more irresponsible England the danger of the parties so celebratâ€" ing the event in advance as to be in fit state to face the clergyman was no fit state to face the clergyman was that if so important a step were perâ€" mitted after darkness hid fallen the risks of personation might be increasâ€" ed. PS C esmgNt weigh and the extended facility was overdue.â€"Manchester Guardian. out any notice being taken of it by one of the parties chiefly affectcd by its provisions. But th Archbishop of Canterbury pointed out to Convocaâ€" tion the curious fact that the Hours of Marriage Act which became law last month and which extends the hours during which a marriage may be performed from 8 a.m. until 6 gm instead of three p.m. was _ passed through both the Houses of Parlâ€" iament without his knowledge. THE HOURS oF MARRIAGE.â€" It is seldom that an Act of Parliaâ€" ment gets on to the Statute book with ing defect of the Ottawa agreements was that they failed to create any permanent machinery to carry on the work of economic coâ€"operation from Conference to Conference. The sooner this defeat is repaired the sooner it will be possible to construct and to apply a coherent policy for the harmâ€" onious developments of the resources and energies of the whole Empire. Inâ€" formal _ personal discussions, _ for which there will be plenty of opporâ€" tunity this year and noext to set up some kind of economic clearing house for the Empire, and thus help to enâ€" sure full success of the next Imperâ€" ial Conference, whateer date may be chosen for it.â€"London Times. Such considerations _ no Real life finale nearly had for its principal beautifai Editn mera (above)‘ famous French film star, who was found unconscious® in her Paris apartment after an unsuccessful suicide at‘empt. No motâ€" ive could be found for her action. Suicide Attempt Fails longer "If only I could have them back again", Vain ¢ry of many a sad and conâ€" trite soul. Arise! Today‘s own burden take, and. then Strive upwards to a uew ard betâ€" ter goal, Forget the past. Turn back no more _ your eyes, Play well the part that still reâ€" mains to play. Not on the backward trail lies Parâ€" adiseâ€" Today‘s best strength is to be strong today. If only I could have them back again, The things I might have done and did not do, The kindness, the good to fellowâ€"men, How happy I to live those days anew. The gate is closed. I cannot now re.â€" trace The path where once my stumbling feet were set. Backward in shame I turn my streamâ€" mg face, The ghosts of other years pursue me yet. enUPDCZC PB PPR CCI0TCG Moliday costumes even to the tall topâ€" pers, peasants of Tokay, Hungary, enjoy the result of their efforts in celebration of a successful season of wineâ€"making. If only 1 could have them back again, The misspent hours, the vain and wasted days, The things that might nave been of thought and pen That bloomed instead in such unâ€" seemly waysâ€" How happy would I be, and how my heart Would leap to know once more that backward track, To cleanse of folly each nuworthy partâ€" If only I could somehow hnave them back! Attired in multiâ€"colored holiday costumes even i N IAtIVY If Only TORONTO Everything‘s To Kay The Christian Science Mon‘ior corâ€" respondnt has flown over thke Yangâ€" tse areas in several directions at this season and can testify that kites are a prominent feature of the aerial landscape. Whether they are 11y real menace, however, is more of a quesâ€" tion and none of the American pilots in either commercial or military serâ€" vice with whom the correspendent has talked are disposed to regard kites as a fiying hazard. Thus far, kiteflying continues withâ€" out check and it is a trifie difficult to imagine the local gendarmeric scourâ€" ing the broad Yangtse plain for kiteâ€" fllers. The reason for the Mimistry‘s edict is that kites at high altitudes are alâ€" leged to impair visibility for aviators. Pending more formal orders from higher authority, as result of repre sentations which the Minisiry has made, a request has been sen‘ to the city government of Greater Skanghai asking that Shanghai inhabitants be instructed not to fly their kites, i But in matters of vital personal moâ€" ment like this, the average (hinese is an individualist more likely to be guided by his own inclination than by even the weightiest of government orâ€" ders. SHANGHAIâ€"China, the land where kiteflying is supposed to have originâ€" ated many centuries ago, must fly no more kites, according to a decree of the Ministry of Communicatiors TOO MANY KITES MENAcE To AIR PILOTS IN CHIN®. Edison‘s miniature goldenrod planâ€" tation here still is the production centre of rubberâ€"bearing plants, Five botanical experts under H. G. Ukelâ€" berg continue the work, coâ€"operating with Federal experts. Kiteflying has increased in popularâ€" Discovery that particular plants which the inventor developed from the common goldenrod now test 12 per cent. rubber has spurred the exâ€" perts. Edison had declared 6 per cent. would assure success. Other rubber plants require four to seven years for actual production. Edison‘s esperiments reduced this to six months, which would make availâ€" able an emergency supply of rubber, should the tropical sources be closed suddenly. Edison experimented in more than 500,000 tests with each plant, tree, shrub and vine known in the country, finally narrowing his pursuit to the goldenrod. Thomas A. Edison‘s final ambition towards which he struggled for five years prior to his death and in which he actually produced rubber from the plant known botanically as "Solidago Levanworthii" is now progressing in the hands of Uncle Sam‘s experts at experimental stations in Savannah, Ga.; Columbia, S.C. and Miami, Fla. That the Government has become actively interested in methods of exâ€" tracting commercial rubber from golâ€" denrod was revealed here by Charles Edison, son of the late inventor, who is tarponâ€"fishing in Lee County watâ€" ers with other Edison officials. Goldenrod Rubberâ€"U.S. Exâ€" perimental Farms Take Up Project. FORT MYERS, Fla.â€"Rubber, harâ€" vester like grain from fields of comâ€" mon goldenrodâ€" the last brilliant dream of the late Thomas Alva Ediâ€" sonâ€"has been accepted by Uncle Sam and experts from the United States division of plant exploration and inâ€" troduction, now are working in close. conjunction with the Edison botaniâ€" cal research toward this end. ( Sport Barred Coming True color combir mings that officers‘ cap: the rigging have furnis! designs, Couturiers have turned to the navy for ideas this summer, with the result that there‘s a distinctly nautical flavor about some of the town and country costums that smart women are wearâ€" ing. Not only are red, white and blue color combinations popular, but trimâ€" mings that go on sailors‘ middies, officers‘ caps and sieeves and some of the rigging on the boats themselves have furnished inspiration for smart The cow, a registered Guernsey, is a gift from the president of the academy to Captain Bartlett‘s mother in Brigus, Newfoundland. Two other persons, Mr. William K. Dupont Carpenter of Wilmington, Del., and Mr. Harry J. Lance, Jr., of Philadelphia, are aboard. Two others will join the ship _ at St. John‘s Newfoundland. The goldfish "Captain Bob" is going to the pastor of a church in Brigus. New Yorkâ€"With a cow and sevâ€" eral golffish aboard, Capt. Bob Bartâ€" lett sailed recently in the twoâ€"masted schooner Morrissey for a threeâ€" month‘s trp along the west coast of Greenland to obtain specimens â€" of birds and animals for the Philadel phia Academy of Natural Sciences. Arctic Calls ‘Cap‘. The boys had read also that by wrapping the throat with a heavy toâ€" wel, one "probably could resist stranâ€" gulation indefinitely,"" Nadeau said Howard told him. in some «detective mavazire l‘.ow-; yeuo in 1 oronto ard said one of the boys resisted hanâ€"â€" ging 18 times. The "suicide fraternity" Toronto â€" Boston is and M-suc.hw was formed to find out exactly how §¢ttSs are among 57 other United long a person could hang without dyâ€" States cities and 8 states representâ€" ing. ed in the American contribution to The boys had read also that by | the list of more than sixscore new in. wrapping the throat with a heavy toâ€" dustries established here during the wel, one "probably could resist stranâ€" period of the recent depression, it gulation indefinitely,*" Nadeau said was revealed recently by the Toronto Howard told him. / Industrial Commission. That was the objective of a secret club te which Hovard belonged. E. Nadeau Kalamazoo, Mich, brotherâ€"inâ€" law said Howard told him the club seâ€" crets several weeks ago. e Howard Shelley, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Shelley died at the end of a rope in his father‘s basement while apparently trying to establhsh how long he could strangle himself with out losing consciousness. Indiana Boy Wanted to See How Long He Could Hang Self Fort Waybe, Ind., â€" His memberâ€" ship in a strange juvenile suicide club which flirted with desth for weeks in testing the powers of the buman to resist strangulation by hanâ€" ging was counted as the sole force which prompted a 16â€"yearâ€"old high school student to hang himself, ! The matter came before Judge Wooâ€" Isey on a motion to withdraw subâ€" mitted by Herbert M«Keanis, Child‘s attorney, and on motions to dismiss by Harry Weinberger and _ Arnold Gross, counsel for the defendants. Summer Ensembles Loses Life in Judge Woolsey awarded costs to each defendant, and $500 for counsel fees to Magan and $250 for similar use to each of the other defendants. "I studied the matter carefully," Judge Woolsey said, "and am satisâ€" fied that there was no plagiarism, It gave me a pain. The charges are abâ€" solutely unwarranted." Richard Wash>urn Chi‘d Asâ€" _ ked Million From Film _ Firms New York â€" With the assertion, "it gave me a pain," Federal Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed a $1,000,â€" 000 plagiarism suit brought by Richâ€" ard Washburn Child, author and dipâ€" lomat, against James Hagan, playâ€" wright, Leo Peters, Leslie J. Spiller, Paramount Productions, Inc., and two | film distributing companies. Child alleged that in producing "One Sunday Afternoon," as a stage and cinema play, the defendants had plagiarized his story "The Avenger." : ity throughout China during â€" recent years, particularly in Shangrai proâ€" _ per, though the airplanes chi@"ly take _ notice in fiying over densely peopled | country districts. In such areas, the _ _upper surfaces of the kites or a clear breeze day will seem almost like a pavement from the viewpoint of the 'pllot coasting along only a few feet | above the higher kite levels, It is | difficult to understand how the kites { could constitute a real menare, howâ€" ‘ ever, for they are clearly visible and ! however numerous they may be, the ‘ pilot can always make out enough below to keep his bearingsâ€"in nddl-" | tion to which all commercial | fllers ,operate closely by compass because Ithe landscape of the Yangtse is too flat and monotonous to provide good ‘land marks. | Adults and children are equally keen on kiteflying. In Nanzing reâ€" cently kiteflying received the <«ponsorâ€" ship of various high officials includâ€" ing Dr. Cho Mingâ€"yi, chief secretary of the Executive Yuan, and prizes were given for altitude Author Loses Theory Test Plagiary Suit Toronte, â€" Orland Mareacci, 14, caddie at the Mississauga golf course has a cat that is nurs‘sg a young racâ€" coon. Orland captured the infant racâ€" coon on the golf course and gave it to his cat, whose kittens had been "disposed uf" _ The ~»+ adcpted it with apparent Joy. It is stated that advantages to be gained by manufacturing in Canada for export, particularly to various other British Empire countries, are responsible in large measure for the influx of American industries which has resulted here in the investment of millions in plant equipment and the employment _of hun:l;«ris'of (‘:n adian workers. Of 19 manufacturing concerns in the New England States which have established branch factories here dur ing that period, six are Massachusetts companies, including four in Boston. One is in Rhode Island and three are in Connecticut. | Mr. Cook, under whom Bellwood j had worked for nearly a year, paid high tribute to the young man‘s abilâ€" ity as a housekeeper, He declared without hesitation that he had never seen the equal even among the woâ€" men he had employed over a long experience as a hotelkeeper, Knew of Hoax He was an old friend of the family and knew from the start of Bellwood‘s hoax declaring, however, that the young man kept entirely to himself | and had made no friends since his arrival in Simcoe last July. Cat Mothers Raccoon Beliwood was originally charged with vagrancy and with failing to give a proper account of himself, the charge being amended to one ‘under another section. Sixscore Industries Settle in Toronto _ Bellwood said that he was born in New Zealand and had attended school and university there, later going to South Africa and subsequently to London, Eng., where he worked for a time as a salesman and was married. Four years ago he saw an advertiseâ€" ment stating that there were a "milâ€" lion jobs for young men" in Canada and came out to this country. In 1932 his wife left him and the clothes which he wore as a disguise were those "which she left behind." The garments are now in the provincial police officer‘s office here and consist of dresses, silken lingerie and corsets. ' Interviewed at Norfolk County jail, Bellwood, a good looking young man lo( medium height and obviously well educated, said that he had come to Simcoe nearly a year ago to act as housekeeper for W, H. Cook, proâ€" prietor of the Deluxe Cafe. "It was just a bit of foolishness," he said. "I was living in Toronto and used to look through the advertisements for a position. The only thing open seemed to be in the field of domestic employment. 1 have always like doâ€" ing women‘s work and got the idea that if given a proper chance, 1 could hold such a position. Wager With Uncle He then told of a wager with his uncle that if given a job as a domesâ€" tic employe, he could hold it for a year. The uncle arranged with Mr. Cook for Bellwood to come to Simâ€" coe and work in the cafe, His apprehension occurred when a provincial police officer went into the Deluxe Cafe here for a minor purâ€" chase. An employe, ostensibly a girl served him but her manner aroused his suspicion, so much so that he returned with another officer and after questioning discovered _ that "Doris King" was in reality Arthur Bellwood. Remanded Week Bellwood was arraigned in court here following his arrest, and was granted a week‘s remand while police investigate his past. He was not asked to plead. SIMCOEâ€"Driven by unemployment to seek work as a female domestic, Arthur Bellwood, 27â€"yearâ€"old New Zealander, is in a cell in the Norfolk County jail faciag a charge of "masâ€" querading by night â€" without law{ul excuse." Awards Medal: Man Lived as Woman Nearly Year in Simzoe â€" W orked The gathering of bark lrees for use in leather an important industry i lains of North Carolina, At the opening of th business, Mr. Slossor r results of his recent tri ton, where he brought problems of the associa *horities dealing with the NRA code. 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