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Voice of CANADA - Ald For Tobacco Growers ~ Tobacco growers in south-west On- tario will be pleased to learn that the disaster which threatened them will be averted, largely if not entirely, through the assistance of the provin- cla Department of Agriculture, The Minister, Col. Kennedy, has devised a _plan for co-operation in the marketing of the flue-cured product. It will be graded, processed and packed in hogs- heads for sale when demand restores prices to a profitable level. In carry- irig out the plan the co-operation of to- bacco warehouses throughout the pro- vince will be sought. The Growers' Association will be strengthened 80 that it may be a more powerful factor * in the marketing of the crop. If neces- sary a special representative may be sent to England to look after the dis- posal of the crop there. The plan does not involve assistance from the Gov- ernment, but its success depends upon the co-operation of all concerned.-- Toronto Mail and Empire. Brighter Outlook King Cotton is resting a little more easily now with Burope back in the cotton market in something like her old form, which means that the European textile industry anticipates greater demand and higher prices for cotton, due to improved business conditions. The cotton states are elat- ed. U.S. cotton shipments the last two month were approximately 60 per cent. greater than the exports for the cor- responding two months of 1931, and Europe made up for a loss of more than 150,000 bales in the Far East demand. --Fredericton Gleaner, The Value of Mixed Farming. Ih, great lesson of the crisis is the utter condemnation of one-crop culti- vatign. If the objection is made that beasts, poultry and dairy products are not fetching a better price than wheat, they do at least contribute in great . measure to balance the farm budget * by reducing the expe: se account, Our farming population must learn to be self-sufficing. The immense progress © aehieved in this direction will be very ' profitable and may avert other crisis * of the kind through which we are now passing.--La Liberte, Winnipeg (Ind.). Unnecessary Deaths. Dr. William J, Mayo believes that mankind is coming appreciably nearer to the day when there will be no "un- necessary" deaths. The death of a small child, so unbelievably hard to bear; the death of a young man who has just begun to show promise of great achievement; the death of one who has just reached the height of his powers and who has a fine work to do; the death of a loved person with whom one has just started to explore the inexpressible richness of human devotion--these are. the tragedies that darken life the most. If we could once know 'that 'death could be made to wait until its season had come, its fin- al arrival would not look so appalling. And it is this fair prospect which Dr. Mayor has held out to do.--Victoria Times. Better Rail Outlook. {«There is a considerable signific ance attached to an official inspec- "tion of the Pere Marquette lines in Canada this week, A year ago the annual visti of the officials was can- celled for financial reasons. As the officials look over the division with the idea of making Improvements _ there was little use in coming last year, "when funds were low and the outlook dim for revenue increases-- St. Thomas Times-Journal, Mother Earth. Agriculture has made our province what it is; it is to agriculture that she owes her greatness; it is in our country districts that we find the fin- est specimens of manhood, and it is here also that the traditions of our race are the best preserved. Many townspeople today seem to forget that it. was in the country that their an- ©estors lived and as soon as they as- sume the superficial polish - of the towns, they do not wish to remember that if they go back one or two gen- they. will find themselves des- "from peasants, the brothers fa ortoss 'whose needs they now seem entirely to ignore.--"La Tera de Chez Nous," St. Jerome, a % - Short Story. 'We always did admire brevity such as this: "A California man had a "quarrel 'with his wife. The bullet lod- 'ged in his Beck. *-Strattond Beacon- Herald, 5 a Good Business. By running cheap excursions to Mon treal and Boston the railways are cer- one over on the auto- ~ Canada, The Empire and The World at Large 3 build shacks by andl tov the unemploy- the Press ed. The paper signs he now uses must be small or they will be taken to help start the kitchen fire.--Canadian Inde- pendent. ad THE EMPIRE. The London Hunger-Marchers. Where do the orders for this cam- paign come from? And whence comes the money by which it is so amply| financed? Not from organized labor in the country; that is certain. At the Trade Union Headquarters there is no sympathy with the attempt to exploit difficulty and distress, especial ly by the way of "hunger marches,"-- London Morning Post (Cons.). The Currency Problem. To raise world prices is an urgent|' need; to put wholesale prices in sterl- ing on a remunerative level is a cruci- al part of that need. While tae former task was beyond the power of the Conference, the latter could be attemp- ted by it, and its decisions have taken this task a long way toward accom- plishment. What remains to be done within the compass of Empire effort can now be readily achieved.--Auck- land Weekly News. Taking the air. crash at the far side, Royal Christmas Cards Each year there is keen interest throughout the Empire in the Christ: Royal famliy. This year the King's card shows Sir Francis Drake explaining to Queen Elizabeth one of his navigation pro- Age and Youth, Among the many problems which With front and rear sadly out of line Girofles, ridden by Bliss Flaccus of New York, sails high over the barrier 1s Flaccus was injured, too. are perplexing the thinking world to- day is the great misunderstanding which exists between Age and Youth, Age and Youth have never understood each other, but, now, iu the year 1982, they seem to be more at daggers drawn than ever. It is very sad, but I think the cause is not very difficult to discover. Age wants to thrust its exp rience unconditionally upon Youth, and Youth will not accept 't. We live in an age of many doubts and misgivings, and we cannot bring ourselves to accept what "Our Elders" have experienced for years without first proving 'hat experience to be true by experiment of our own--humar na- ture is made that way--Mrs. Hew Wardrop in Chamber's Journal (Edin- burgh). Unemployment. Each improvement in the tech- nique of production, each miracle in new machinery, whether on the land or in industry, means a smaller de- mand for labor, Because we have no rational means of distribution, because we regulate production, not according to real demand, but according to the individual capitalist's chance of mak- ing a profit, we release, this labour without supplying its needs. We call these released workmen "unemployed" because they have leisure without the jects, Her Majesty and the Princess Royal chose beautiful garden scenes. On th» Prince of Wales' card is a re- present.tion of London Bridge in 1860, with old St. Paul's in the distance, while the Duke and Ducher: of York will send to their friends a stirring z.a picture cf the old days when full-rig- ged sailing vessels plicd the, ocean routes. These cards are beautifully executed, and reveal the good taste of the Royal family in selecting suitable media for conveying to personal friends tie good wishes of the Yule- tide season.--Toronto Globe. ------ib Canadian Icebreaker Ends Patrol of Hudson Straits Quebec, Que.--The government fce- breaker N, B. McLean, which has been carrying on patrol service and doing convoy duty in Hudson Straits during the summer arrived here last week. The vessel had on board a number of passengers, including some members of the Geological Survey staff who have been working in the Hudson's Bay region, and several wireless operators who have been in the north for the last two years. The McLean rescued the crew of the graln-laden steamer Bright Fan, which sank in Hudson Straits. ----d means of enjoying it. ed who have the means and the edu- cation to find occupations which do not add to the material wealth of the world, we call the leisured class. --New 2 and Tragk| All Set For Thrift Week An insurance man walked into a lunch-room and, taking his place on one of the vacant stools, ordered bread and milk. The fellow sitting on the mext stool asked: Statesman 'and Nation (London). ground of European politics today is the life of Field Marshal President von Hindenburg, He stands like a rock in the no man's land of German politics. National sentiment, pride and prestige centre round the aged president, who was eighty-five on Sunday. He holds back the chaos, anarchy and revolu- Hindenburg. On »' diet? issi Christian "No. Commission." --- Christial The most precious life in the battle- Register. ------ pr -- Makes £30,000 Error London.--They are laughing at a story of a mistake by the Bank of Eng- land. It seems a woman wrote to the Bank wondering how she had sud- denly become credited with some £30- TEs tion which would fall upon the affiic- ted Fatherland. .He is Carlyle's con- ception of a man. Hindenburg is a monarchist who is holding up a totter- ing republic. He is a great military 000, her investments have been a tiny fraction of that sum. Investigation showed that a clerk had copied into her account the serial number at the Thanks! ~ Thanks for all things good and true, True for me and good for you, Recreations of the mind, Which in noble books we find, Sympathetic, kindly frien' Never seeking selfish ends. Thanks for precious leisure time We may use in works sublime, Minutes snatched from rest and play. Helping cripples on their way, Giving from loves store a feast To the humblest and the least. Thanks for the unceasing shower Of experience "~ur by hour, For maturity of soul, Self-eftacement, self-control, For the least desire to be Filled with patient charity. --A. B. C, in Tit-Bits. ------------ Blue Eyes Vanishing Ithaca, N.Y. -- Dark-eyed people "drive out" blue eyed people when hy h Fretz, of Rotterdam, Holland, at the | recent Genetic Conference. True blue eyes are comparatively rare, he said, for most "blue" eyes contain more or less brownish-black or yel- low pigment. 'Brownish eye color dominates over blue or yellow when the two are mingled, and yellow dominates over blue. Thus in countries like Can- ada and the United States where dark and blue-eyed populations are mingling there would be a tendency for the blue eyes to disappear, ac- cording to Dr. Freiz's rule. retell tet emt Somebody Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, *"'Tis sweet to live"; Somebody said, "I'm pleased to give"; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; 'Was that "somebody" you? E > Intimacy One of the charms of an intimacy between two persons of different sexes is that the man loves the woman for qualities he does not envy, and the wo- man appreciates the man for qualities she does not pretend to possess. 0 top of a folio chief who is keeping the peace. He Be is a statesman amidst an army of politicians. He has won by sheer in- tegrity of character the respect of mil- lions of his one-time enemies. If Hin- denburg drove up Piccadilly he would have a thundering reception. --Every- man, London. AMERICAN. Co-operation Needed. New York banks have refused to lend the city any more money. The tragedy of New York's case is that it could have been prevented. One ad- mires heroic and drastic remedial ac- tion once a crisis of this nature is reached. But one could admire infin- itely more the type of government and the kind of management that never condones practices which produce such crises. It did not require a world depression to reveal New York's short-comings. They have been mani- fest there, as similar conditions have becn manifest elsewhere, to those citi- zens who took time to examine the facts and make suitable protest. But it requires co-operation by the whole body of taxpayers if remedial action is t) be achieved. That the depression is actually forcing the taxpaying pub- | lie to an intelligent, even though tardy, inte in this whole problem of public finance 1s one of its few compensations.--Providence Journal. Also Shirt and Trousers, What Gandhi needs Is a thick nosh, some mashed potatoes and gravy, hot biscults, some baked beans with to- 'Harold Lloyd's Father Weds Again -- ward bound, are handled at Croydon every week. freight on Continental routes velopment of Empire air links has led to' a rapidly increasing volume of goods traffic from London to Egypt, Iraq, India and Africa, and the time- savings of these long-distance airlines | o may be judged from the fact that from ave to twelve days are saved to Egypt, ih as much as a month to Bagdad, while to India the saving is a fort- night and to 'Africa approximately three weeks. Insomnia Routed Noises, rest in these days, physician, Dr. Marloth, gives his fel- low countrymen some advice in Re- 'I clam's Universum (Leipzig), on how to go to sleep. to treat the abnormal, prolonged in- ability to sleep which, in most cases, cal or mental ailment, medical the two types mix, it was shown in { lessness. experimen's described by Dr. G. P.!f>llows: we are trying to fall asleep. to a quitier location is indicated as the remedy. before going to bed frequently causes indigestion and inability to sleep, and ly without being aware of it by read ing exciting stories in the evening, or ments which excite the imagination. This is particularly true of people with delicate nerves. Any such excitement '| tends to drive sleep away. impossible, are the innumerable men- tal causs of wakefulness, such as wor-: Ty, which frequently overcome the ner- vous and turn occasional sleeplessness into a chronic condition. sleeplessness conditions is a whole- some mode of living. exercises, or 8 warm or cold bath, ac- cording to the habits of each indi- vidi so tired that his eyes close, it the book is not of an exciting nature. | by gymnastics in the evening until they are tired enough to go easily and na- turally to sleép. expedient to take narcotics in a hap- hazard manner to calm the nerves, thinking of a waving corn-field with | of the back, rms, and legs-- | will-power, ty to r E gent merchandise, inward or out-| In addon fo th growth of sie 8 ed with surface transport, In the table herewith By German Doctor Immoderate «Eating, Worry, Anger, Etc., All Enemies of Sleep Germany is especially a land of un- and a German Dr. Marloth is not attempting here e says, is the result of either a physi and. requires treatment, but he confines imself to cases of occasional sleep- His points may be listed as 1. Insomnia may be caused by vari- us noises which assail our ears while It the oises can not be overcome, removal 2. Immoderate eating, or drinking hould be avoided. 5 3. Some rouse themselves artificial ven in bed. 4, Some indulge in various amuse- 5. Much harder to remedy perhaps grief, anger, or other troubles, 6. The best general remedy for 7. Other aids are cold rubbing, light 8. One may read in bed until he is 9. Others may exercise themselves 10. In any case, it is absolutely in- 11, The well-known devices of count- ing sheep jumping over a fence, or} the wind blowing over it, usually have little effect because they are too monotonous to crowd out of the mind the various _ thoughts that prevent sleep. 12. A much better method fs to lull oneself to sleep,by means of so-called "auto-suggegtion.' In order to obtain | the desired effect w this pg 'person must pl y in tion of ust lace by sin the quicker, addition to howe: est surface route, , the} postal charge is 2/64 ie saves five clear days. - "The value of air transport lies not ip its speed. A great advantage is e lessened risk of damage in tran. | sit, or of pilferage when a consign- ment is air-borne; and for this reasan insurance rates are cheaper by air than by other forms of transport, | Many valuable pictures and works of art are now consigned by airway." starting with the left thumb, and issue the command: "You must be complete- ly relaxed and languid by the time I ~ actor human being he. needn't worry about i acting./--John Barrymore. "It is not money that fa so8ron; it is confidence in money."--) "Bernard M Baruch. ' "Seventy-five per cent. of thoes who go to concerts and listen to muse don't understand wusie,--Jascha Hel feiz. and sonality are. for me, ; synonymous terms." -- Mahatma Gan. dhi. "The only time love is any fun for "have counted up to three." Then count a man is when the conditions have in a determined, slow tempo: "One been made very diffienit for him."'-- «5% two... three." Next, back to the index finger, and so on, to the tenth. the beginning. One must invent for each finger a different phrase for re. laxation so as to finally fall asleep of weariness. Fatiguing mental activity will crowd out all brooding thoughts. The eyelids become heavy simultan-' enously. and the body completely re- laxes. ' Sleep has come. A French physician comes forward with the theory that people suffering from insomnia will sleep hetter and be in a much better condition the, next day, if they sleep with the head to the north and the feet to the south. Mag-' netic currents, he maintains, flow from the north i» the south, and will thus pass easily and freely through the bod, and produce quiet and rest. they pass across the body he believes | they will .ause nervousness and irri-; tation, prevent .sleep, and produce a feeling of restlessness and lassitude the following day. A United Press dispatch from Paris says that as a result of this doctor's statement, "Paris hotels have been be- sieged with requests for the change of position of their hotel beds to run in a north-south direction, and guests have expressed themselves as having been greatly benefitted in their glesp thropsh the new position." rd Activities of Russian Emigres Theme of New Moscow Films Moscow.--Anti-Soviet activities of FRussian emigres in Parls, Prague and other foreign centers provide the theme for two new films here, one already under production and the other in preparation. . Under the title "Gorguloft Affairs" --the late Paul Gorguloff, assassin of the French President Doumer be- ing used as wn type of white Russian emigre--ong film company will re- lease a sensational picture of the plots, intrigues and crimes of the Soviet Union's Russian enemies abroad, The other picture, not yet titled, will be made from a scenarlo being written by Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian novelist, recently returned here after years of foreign residence. pe New Haves Commuters \ Get Breakfast Car va Conti New York rail- 'way has added a breakfast car on to| | | io] | i New York. oe tipping. In the evening, the If necessary, start again from. vonets abuses the most precious | last science has solved the: problem, its morning train to New Youk. The car was designed by a commuter who was forced to go without his breakfast one morning and. became 'hungrier and hungrier on the ride to. The car will have the appearance of a swanky cafeteria and will carry | a variety of breakfast foods to satisfy the-desires of even the most finicky | commuter. Eachrider will Serve him- from the counters and there yn i} fo mtn 3 tain fo Now 3, Yi, SUSY Tn od Peter Arno. "A government that is based upon possession that nation has."--Adolf | Hitler. "The command of nature has been put into mans hands before he knows how to command himself,"--Sir Al- fred Ewing. : "Some of us have begun to fesl that the shriek of the young is at least as monotonous as the groan of the old." " --@. K. Chesterton. "In statesmanship an ounce of fore- sight is better than a pound of hind- _sight.'--Franklin D. Roosevelt. "The sharing of an Jdeal is the "rst condition of international peace.'--, dous IL. xley. "No doubt many of the rich spend more on the acquisition of material possessions than they would if they pursued happiness wisely."--Bertrand Russell, "Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back."--Stanley Baldwin. {| ----pn m-- Creaseless Neckties A favorite necktie will not have to | be thrown away so soon if it is made from a new fabric which withstands tying as readily as wool. Says the New York Times: "All textiles wrinkle to so .e extent, linen being the most crushable, and , wool the least. Cotton and artificial silk have been put through experi- ments for years in the attempt to make them comparatively creaseless. A report from a textile firm of Man- chester, England, announces that at \ and so cheaply that fabrics are now being made and sold. Neckties, being a stiff test for wrinkles by their use and nature, were the first articles of commerce in the new material. "Like: so many inventions .made with a purpose, this one is discovered to carry additional and unexpected virtues. Intended merely to make the cloth as elastic as wool, .it alse strengthens the fabric. This should make it especially valuable to mann- facturers of artificial silks, which Lave been strong enough when dry, but greatly weakened by water. The actual process is the last one in manu- facture, following bleaching, dyeing and printing. It consists of 'putting a synthetic condensation product in- side the filaments of cotton or silk'." ol a . Wedding-Rings Records show 'that the ancient. Egyptians used wedding rings; in hieroglphics a circle represents eter- rity, the ring being therefore a sym* bol of the enduring nature of the marriage ties, and the intention of both the man and woman to keep their vows. The early Romans used a plain iron 5 and an elaborate ring was. used in Hebrew marriage 'ceremonies. The Anglo-Saxon bride- TEE LS }