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i Voice FhePion 'Canada, The Empire'and The World at Large CANADA. The Christmas Spirit, How often have we heard "It is bet- ter to give than to receive." This saying has passed down through the "ages unchanged and to-day carries a significance greater than ever before. Christmas in all Christian countries has always been a time when great effort is put forth to make the children and those who are unfortunate and in need, happy. This is truly a wonder- ful spirit, and any organization that helps to carry out this idea of good- 'will deserves support.--Wingham Ad- vance-Times. Sales and Ads. Modern life is much different today from what it was a decade ago. Today, a great deal of buying is done over the telephone, This, in turn, means that opportun- ities for purch + advant to the buyers are now almost completely centred in newspaper advertising. The modern housewife knows what she wants, knows by brand name, and orders in that manner--because adver- tising has taught her how she should do it, and why it s profitable for her to do so. Imagine ordering from an unknown grocer: "Some breakfast food," 'some bacon," "some coffee," "some bread," and so on, as in the olden days before national advertising became the pow- erful force it is today.--St. Catharines Standard. Canadian Turkeys for Critain. Determination of Old Country con: sumers to "buy British," the advant- ages established by the Imperial pre- ferences, and the favorable publicity obtained by these poultry shipments, have opened up a new field of oppor- tunty for Western farmers. Now that it has been satisfactorily demonstrat- ed that an adequate export market is accessible, even with the disadvantage of the present disparity between ster- ling and the Canadian dollar, it may be taken for granted that the growth in poultry production will continue un- checked. --Winnipeg Tribune. Pay As You Ring. People who are bothered with too many salesmen at their doors might be inclined to consider an invention, now being used in Holland, It is on® of those pay-as-your-ring affairs attached to the door bell. A coin must be inserted before the bell will ring. The more callers there are in the course of the day, the greater the re- venue from the door bell.--Stratford Beacon-Herald, Intra-Empire Trade Working. Proofs continue to pile up that Brit- ish opinion is solidly behind the poli- cies enunciated at the recent Imperial Conference, and that the British Gov- ernment intends to do all in its power to giye practical effect to them in every possible direction. The Govern- ment yesterday announced in the House of Commons that the office of Public Works will use only Canadian or other Empire lumber after May 28 next--when present contracts expire-- and the announcement was cheerad by the Jouse--Montreal Daily Star. Starting Point. When money is tight oi the farm, it is tight every place else. Goods refuse to move off the shelves of city stores, and this turn causes a slackening in the pace of the wheels of industry. And then the city wage-earner be- comes worse off than his rural cousin --he has no money, nor has he any pigs chickens or turkeys. TLere was no truer werk spoken than that farm. ing is the basic industry of this coun- try. Put money into the pocket of the farmer and he will start the mill wheel turning. --Stratford Beacon-Her- ald. Stupendous Figures, Census figures just made public by the Chinese Government reveal the fact that that sprawling, distressful country has today more than 470,000, 000 inhabitants. That figure, start- ling enough from its sheer size, be- comes deeply significant when you stop to think about it a little, It stands for possibly the largest single homo- genous group of people on earth. No other nation enrolls such numbers; no olher_has such tremendous, overwhel- ming man power.--Halifax Herald. Grey hair, according to a British scientist, is d by an ly acute and active germ. That is a ne name for the monthly budget--Ottawa Journal. EMPIRE. é Radio In Canada. Canad ds 13 Makin g full use of her 2d wireless facilities. In ad- i i them to the normal needs of entertainment and commer- lal expediency, she is applying them "more extensively than any other coun: 7 to otucation wies--Sir Clement | #2 oke in The Empire Review (London), tion is an impossibility and that the at- tempt to effect it is as damaging to creditor as to debtor. The United States is a long way yet from this conclusion, and nothing but patient ar- gument and careful exposition of the facts will bring it nearer.--J. A, Spen- der in The London News-Chronicle (Lib). Ottawa and the Producer. The agreement does not make care and economy in production less neces- sary than before; it is just as import- ant as ever to see that our goods are of the best possible quality and are produced as ically as All that the agreement has dene is to give us an opportunity of competing on more nearly even terms.--Brisbane Queenslander, The Causes of War. Not for a moment in any practicable scheme of disarmament can we sep arate the air-weapons, i bl sinister as they are, fro:.. the other fell insiruments of scientific war. If the nations mean peace there 1 "st be sac- rifice all around. Mammoth battle- ships must be given up if submarines are to be suppressed. Tanks must go as well as the heavier guns, both mil- itary and naval. Yet all this by itself is like proposing to mow down the tops of weeds without digging up the roots, Armaments are symptoms, not causes. The vital tzsk is to begin to remove the active reasons for arma- ments and the potential causes of ul- timate war. This is as plain as 8 pikestaff, But to that end not a finger has been 'lifted by responsible states- manship in Europe since the end of the World War at "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day the eleventh month" fourteen years ago.--, L. Gar- vin in The London Observer (Ind.). An Educational Force. A series of Readers prepared in ac- cordance with a definite plan in a well- organized school system can largely remake the people of a country with- in a generation or two. The character of the nation will be the character of its Readers, and the character of the Readers will depend upon the charac- ter of the men who prepare them. Who the makers of our Readers are be- comes, therefore, a matter of great na- tional importance.--W. Sherwood Fox in the Queen's Quarterly. AMERICAN. Safety on the Roads. If we are ever to progress in our use of the automobile beyond the point of manual dexterity in its operation, there must be developed a mutual tol erance between the pedestrian and the motorist and an habitual observance of the fundamental rules of safety by both.--Providence Journal. Following Canada. Canadian towns are noted for their beauty, and tourists passing through Toronto have noticed especially the neat streets and perfect rows of trees that border them, And this is true in many other Ontario towns. They have now made another great forward step in the way of beautifica- tion in the removal of billboards, which are being taken down through- out the province at the rate of 75 to 100 a week, The Ontario law provides that no sign of any kind may be erected on or hang over the highway, barns with- in view of the road can not be painted are not allowed along the highway, ex- cept with special perm b with advertising, and automatic signs [ ) gl 5 8 The Canadian of glory, f Al : The eras of reconstruction and of deprezzlon which spellad fi and chaos for other nations of a less rug- ged morale, merely emphasized the "| vale of Canada's great heritage. Mrs. Ely Culbertson and Oswald Jacoby, noted contract bridge players, are shown as they participated in the Shepard Barclay con: test at New York. Judging from the smile, Mrs. Cu'bertson must have the makings of a grand slam or something. Canada's Mines Yield $5,231,152 In Gold Ottawa.--Canadian gold production in Octob ted to 263,067 valued at $5,231,152, as compared with 260,638 ounces at $5,385,798 in Septem- ber and 239,691 ounces worth $4,954, 853 in October, 1931, During the first ten months of 1932 the Canadian out- put totalled 2,534,899 ounces with a value of $52,194,293; in the correspon. ding period of the previous year 2, 213,805 ounces worth $45,765,270 were produced, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ontario's output increased 1.1 per cent. in October to- 191,869 U. S. News Dealers Total $104,055,733 In Year New York.--The chain newsstands of the country did $104,065,733 in business during 1929. There were 123 chain organizations and they operated 3,207 units, census reports disclose. Newsdealer chains numbered sixty- one, with 882 units having sales of $24,370,266. Newsdealer-restaurant chains numbered seven, having 1,802 units with sales of $36,433,958. The thirty bookstore chains opera 349 stores, with sales of $85,482,077. Hive stationery chains had twenty-nine units and $3,750,616 in sales. Art and from the September total of 189,721 ounces. Quebec produced 29,269 ounces, at 14.4 per cent, decline from the September output of 34,205 ounces, but a 4.56 per cent. increase over the August total of 28,000 ounces. In British Columbia, 17,182 ounces were extracted during the month as com- pared with 16,023 ounces in Septem- ber, Manitoba's output recorded a 22.2 per cent. falling off to 9,819 ounces from the preceding month's total of 12,617 -ounces. Flin Flon, Central Manitoba and San Antonio were the October shippers. Placer gold pro- duction in the Yukon was reported at 4,834 ounces as against 7,554 ounces in September. Nova Scotia shipments to the Royal Canadi Mint t: gift si hains, of which there were thirteen, ran 106 stores and had sales of $8,270,270. Novelty store chains, seven in number, accounted for $811,- 6587 in sales in their thirty-nine stores. Of the sixty-one newsdealer chains fifty are local and eleven sectional or national. The local chains operate 1,662 locations, with sales of $11,727, 900. The other chains operate in 320 locations with sales of $12,579,863. Eight chains in 572 localities do more than two-thirds of the tota: business of all newsdealer chains. Newsdealer restaurant chains oper- ate eighty-seven units in section chains and no units in local chains, Expenses of these chains run about a third of sales. Expenses of bookstore chains amount to $40.56 a $100 or sales and ed to 34 ounces; in the previous month 418 ounces were shipped. The world production of gold is es- timated at 2,033,000 ounces in October and the total for the ten months ending October, 1932 at 19,503,000 ounces. Transvaal's output rose to 974,966 ounces in October from the previous month's total of 961,501 ounces, During the. first ten months of 1932 the Transvaal produced 9,594, 230 ounces, or 6.0 per cent. advance over the output of 9,050,282 ounces during the corresponding period of 1981. The United States production (including the Philippines) in Octo- ber amounted to 255,000 ounces as compared with 246,000 ounces as compared with 246,000 ounces in Sep- tember. This advance, according to the American Bureau of Metal Statis- tics was due largely to increased shipments of bullion from Alaska. ---- Novel Airport is Planned in Britain A movel airport is to be provided for London if plans go through as they divert the driver's attention, and thus constitute a trafic menace, Signs are forbidden at turns in the road for the same reason, rusty and neglected signs already in place must be cleaned or removed, and even signs erected by a person on his own prop- erty must be below a certain size, and are subject to a fee. The roads are | constantly patrolled by four inspectors to enforce the act, and offenders are brought into court. The Ontario regulations are being adopted by other Canadian provinces and might well be considered by com- munities in the United States. --Ports- mouth (N. H.) Herald. ------b a: Prizes For Wheat Given By Mussolini Rome, --Signor Benito Mussolini, the Premier, who has undertaken to make Italy grow its own bread, gave bout $100,000 in prizes and many words of high praise last week to those whom he has led for seven years in his "battle for wheat." pated The proposal contem- plates an elevated table over the yards at Kings Cross and St. Pancras stations, and a bill to obtain the nec- essary Parliamentary permission is expected to be introduced shortly. those of stati y chains are $33.48 a $100 of sales, while expenses of nov- elty store chains averaged $40.09 u $100. -- Radium Worth $35,000 . Bought By Dept. of Health Toronto.--A half gram of radium, worth about $35,000, to be used in the curative and emanation cancer clinics In the province, bas been purchased through the Ontario Department of Health, Hon. Dr. J. M. Robb an- nounces. The radium was produced in the Belgian Congo, and purchased through a New York exchange, most- ly capitalized with British money. Radium manufactured in Canada is also to be received by the cancer clinics, Dr. Robb declared, in speak- ing to the Local Council of Women. It is now in process of manufacture at the Port Hope plant of the Eldor- ado Gold Mines, Ltd., from ore obtain- ed in the Great Bear Lake mineral field. The Government expects to take delivery of radium from the com- pany as fast as it can be produced. a Polite Wayfarer--"I am sorry to trouble you, sir, but do you h to ly vast territory isolated from the rest of the world. The substantial total of 44,620,736 persons crossed the border between Canada and the United States in 1930, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Canada no longer ranks as a minor manufacturing unit in world markets, In 1930 she became second in import. ance as a manufacturing country in the British Empire. During the past twenty ye-rs the gross value of her manufastured. products has increased by the amazing total -of $2,062,000,000. There are 24,020 plants in Canada em- ploying 644,439 persons and represent. 760. The sophisticated Canadian shopper need no longer gratify buying whims in Paris, London, or New York. Cana dian department stores are ranked 'had left in its wake a deathless trail Canada is no longer a geographical ing a capital investment of $5,203,316, | : e are ao ame 1 a Mounted Potioe--the finest tradition serving any of over six billion dollars invested capital. The United Canada's accolade of complete ceptance as a ranking world power was bestowed at the Imperial Econ: omic Conference in Ottawa. Evidence of world-wide interest in the parley 'was indicated in the fact that over three million words in press dispatch- es were telegraphed and.cabled to all parts of the world. Liberty, believing in Canada's pre- sent and future greatness, has become more closely identified with its peo- ple. For six months Liberty has been printed and distributed in Canada by Canadians. Yes, we believe in Canada. Fatalities in Ontario Down in Ten Months Toronto.--Sixty-six fewer people were killed in Ontario motor accidents in the first ten months of 1932 than were fatally injured in the same per- iod of 1831. The percentage of de- crease is 14 and if continued for the rest of the year will mean a saving of over 80 lives. : Motor accident statistics of the On- tario Department of Highways also show a drop in the number of people injured in the ten-month period of from 6,988 to 6,875, with a seven per cent. décrease in property damage, October and August were the great- est accident-producing months of this year. During October, however, the c¢ownward tendency noted throughout most of the year was maintained and the total number of accidents report- ed decreased over 6 per cent. from 1,026 to 963, while the number of fatalities was reduced from 69 to 54. Almost one-quarter (24 per cent.) of October's idents happened on Saturday. About one-third (33 per cent.) occurred between 5 and 8 p.m. "Driving too fast for road and traffic conditions," "driving on wrong side of road" and "failure to give right- of-way" comprised 75 per cent. of the violations of the motorists involv- ed during October. eee nt London's Theatres Feature Children's Plays London. --This Christmas some of London's biggest and most famous theatres will be given over to the en: tertainment of children. The Lyceum, the scene of Sir Henry Irving's great historic triumphs, will house a panto- mime on the story of "The Sleeping Beauty." Daly's Theatre, celebrated at the beginning of the century for its mu- sical comedies, will have another pan- tomime, "Mother Goose." At the Hip d in Lei Square, there have seen a policcman in the neigh- borhood?" Hiker--"No, I can't say I have." "Then handover your watch and wallet." Re ---- The Wheat King at Home will be "Dick Whittington," and at the Little Theatre a compound version of "Allce in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking-Glass", Ancient Village Found in Mexico Pre-Aztec House . Uncovered Found to Contain Bathroom Mexico City.--The ancient peoples who inhabited Mexico immediately be- fore the Aztecs, had bath rooms in their dwelling houses, it appears from a discovery made in Calixtlahuaca, north of Taluca, in the State of Mex- ico. 5) Ancient peoples rarely used durable materials for building their homes and for that reason the finding of a resi dence is rare, The house was unear- thed by Senor Jose Garcia Rayon, and has walls of stone and earth two feet thick, with floors of plaster. The roof has gone and the walls are crumbled, there is evidence that the house was of two storeys, with eight rooms, It had a bathroom with a '"tamancal" or steam room, such as Aztecs and other Indian tribes are known to have used. The house is more than 75 feet long, and it lies at the foot of hills crown: ed with pyramids and other public buildings. Calixtiahuaca is the most recent archaeological city to be discov- ered, but it is one of the largest. It has the only known round Aztec "pyra- mid" on the Mexican mainland. This pyramid was the superstructive of a temple to the Wind God. Excavations at Calixthlahuaca are being sponsored by the State of Mexico. At the foot of the ancient city lies the modern Indian village of the same name, This village is unique in being the only Aztec settlement in a region where all the villages are Otomi or Mazalma. : Ancient Calixtlahuaca is superficial ly Aztec in structure, but pottery and other remains indicate that several en- tirely distinct and probably non-Aztec, cultures underlie it. Archaelol hope to identify the predecessors to the Aztecs. -------- Canadians Talk Less Over Phone During '31 Ottawa. --Telephone conversations to the number of 2,565,641,000 were carried on in Canada during 1981; but despite their vast number the con- versations were fewer than they were in 1930, ding to the Domini law-enforcement agency | Canada--believes in her to the extent |! Mclntyre-Porcupine has realized a profit of over $180,000 per month sa far this year. % : King's County municipality and the town of Sussex, N.B, has no bonded debt, no bank overdraft, practically no tax arrears, and an excess of assets over liabilities of almost $100,000. ------ rei New Traffic Light ig Tested in London London, Eng. -- An experiment in trafic signal lights was carried out in Oxford street recently which E torists and omnibus drivers alike consider dangerous; 3 OF The amber light, meaning a "warp Ing," was not used, and only the red {ight "stop" and the green light "go" were used. : It "was thought that the change would speed up traffic. - 5 A number of motorists expressed the opinion that thé abolition of the amber light would be dangerous. "I wowld suggest," one motorist said, 'that'the amber light could be disposed of only if a difference of, say, five seconds was made between the red and green signals on the cross roads." beeen House Shortage Cured By Adding Extra A housing shortage in Moscow. sia, has been relieved by altering houses to provide accommodations for extra families, In a number of ine stances an extra floor or two floors were built on top of buildings which were considered substantial enough to carry the burden. No regard was paid whether or not the architecture of the additional floor corresponded with the original structure, with the '| result that there are many architect ural monstrosities in the famous old Russian city. ia The report says that the problem has been solved sufficient additional housing being provided, but at a ter rible price to the appearance of res dential sections of the city. Soviet rule eliminated objections to alters tions and building changes which were carried out with so little regard for the comforts of neighbors or those im the building that the prot.st that is sued finally reached the ears of the authorities and the procedure was changed and the newest informatiom is that the reconstruction I small re sidential property has been stopped because the situation has been solved. Salamanca, N.Y--The migration of the wild things of the woods: back toward their old haunts, despite the Bureau of Statistics. For the first P of man, contin the least cautious of the poor crem- tures into contact with new perils of, civilization. A fine yong buck, sco ing evident:y from the tains, was found recently ly in a helpless drunken slumber a pile of mash which had been ed from some nameless source