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ee PIN ie Aloe my Voice of Canada, The Empire and The World at Largs the Press CANADA Soon Learns Psychologist says most small women have strong wills. A chap who mar- ries a wisp of a girl soon learns to beware of the will of the wisp.--Otta- wa Journal, Hundred Per Cent. Chauffeurs In presenting ninety-two chauffeurs with bronze medallions in recognition the fact that they drove for twelve months without a single accident, the Province of Quebec Safety League is doing something that may well prove & valuable incentive to others. The driver who can go through a whole year without any kind of accident cer- tainly proves: that he is careful, that he observes the traffic laws, and that he is considerate of pedestrians. It is just as well to remind ourselves that if the chauffeur has a duty towards the pedestrian, the latter has an equal responsibility towards the chauffeur. It is only by both maintaining a strict observance of the traffic laws and keeping in mind constantly their mutual responsibilities that we shall over reduce our unpleasantly high trafic accident record, -- Montreal Daily Star. Few Films For Children J. C. Boylen, the chairman of the Board of Censors of Motion Pictures for Ontario, touches upon an import- ant point in his annual report when he expresses regret that so few film subjects are suitable for young peo- ple. "While 'adult themes' have their place on the screen," he remarks, "the motion picture is the vehicle of enter- tainment for the masses. The screen's great preoccupation, just now, with subjects unsuitable for family enter- tainment threatens not only to de- crease the patronage of the young people but of their parents also. In this connection the Board would re- peat what has been so often pointed out by others, that parents and guard- ians have as much a duty supervising their children's selection of screen en- tertaining as they have in regard to plays and books,"--Brockville Record- er and Times. Lots of Time The St. Lawrence waterway is a pro- foundly important matter, but it is not one about which there need be any lilfe-or-death rush, on behalf of either the United States or Canadian public. Willingdon has not only identified him- self personally with India's nationalist ideals, but has personally contributed to the reality of their early fulfilment, the Legis] es have responded splen- didly alike to that faith and to the ur- gent needs of a great hour in the coun- try's history, They have assumed re- sponsibility for precisely the types of legislation that would have been con- demned a year or two ago as inspired by British imperialism alone or by hos- tility to Indian nationalism, but are now recognized as assets or necessi- ties "demonstrably in the interest of India,"--Calcutta Statesman. The Prudent Man It remains true that the citizen of most value to this country is the man who uses his money wisely to secure pendants, trusting as much as pos- sible on prudence and forethought and as little as possible to chance, and that any who incite him to an opposite course are enemies to the country's welfare.--The Spectator (London), Switzerland The principles that have guided this little country with its few millions of inhabitants may well be studied by the rest of the world, and principally by the Great Powers. In spite of many attractions inviting large-scale produc- tion, Switzerland has remained essen- tially what she always was; a coun- try catering to the needs of the world as they are, not as she might choose to see them; making a living as best she can; refraining from wild specu- lations; adhering to old and sacred principles of conservatism. Savings are still going up in Switzerland, Swiss cheese, with all its world-wide popularity, is still produced in some 3,000 dairies, most of them rather small. Graft and corruption are un- known quantities in Switzerland. It may seem a bit old-fashoined, a bit behind the times. Yet events have borne out her wisdom. This little na- tion, by a remarkable display of politi- cal character through centuries, has laid a foundation upon which many of our hopes rest, Yet we know Swit- zerland mainly from Alpine railroads and the lure of St, Moritz. There is a lesson in all this, and our discovery of it may mean much for our own fu- ture.--~George Gerhard in The North American Review, Training For Leisure It deserves full debate and extended consideration, and if it has to be post- poned to the next session in order to get these, little harm will be done. The one thing that is not wanted is a hasty decision preceded by insufficient discussion. --Woodstock Sentinel Re- view. Canadian Channels It is very gratifying to hear voices from the West speaking in support of the movement of grain and other traf- fic through Maritime ports, That very outspoken man, Mayor Webb, of Win- nipeg, has expressed his views with his customary vigor, and he is all for Canadian trade through Canadian ohannels to the fullest extent that is possible without definite injury to business. Halifax and Saint John have been showing that they can handle grain without the slightest injury to any Canadian interest, and that is the most convincing kind of testimony. The rest of Canada can confer a great boon on the Maritimes by recognizing their ports and building up their trans- portation services. It does not in- volve sacrifice, and whatever makes the better times here ensures a larger market for what other provinces have to sell--Maritime Merchant. Speed Not First In the flood of motor car advertis- ing accompanying introduction of the new models for 1933, parteiularly note- worthy is the lack of emphasis on speed. In this respect this year's ad- vertising contrasts strongly with other years. The change is particularly im- pressive when one looks over the ad- vertising pages of the last few years, Throughout them one finds speed and «power as the generally dominant note. ~Brockville Recorder, Better Newspapers ere are fewer papers in Qutario, fewer in New York, fewer in London. Such names as Times-Journal, Beacon- Herald, Sentinel-Review hereabouts, tell their own tale. In New York there is the Herald Tribune, the World-Telegram, London some time before the war had ten morning papers and seven evening. Now there are six morning and three evening. These merges and shut-downs have involved inevitable hardship for a while on employees, but they have re- pulted in better newspapers--more gompetently staffed, better equipped Nillingdon's Hope illingdon is the first Viceroy the courage and the op- that with, that Lord {vicki Baum, \ times, What are we educating boys and girls for, if not for lite? Can we then be right to concentrate exclusively up- on the efficiency of those we educate to do their work while we allow their tastes and interests, by which they will be guided in hours of leisure, to develop haphazard? It so, then it will not be long before the evil effect is seen elsewhere than in their pas- For just as leisure often re- veals a man as he really is, so the use or abuse of it strengthens or weakens, raises or debases him. Those pur- suits which, whether, at school or af- ter, we are apt to consider unrelated to the business of life are little by little shaping or hindering the power not only to carry through life's busi- ness, but to fill the whole of life with meaning and with beauty.--Hugh Lyon in The Spectator (London). UNITED STATES War Debts Mr. Roosevelt went to the heart of the problem in his speech of February 2, 1932, when he called for an early accord regarding future payments. Un- certainty is one of the factors delaying the return of normal economic condi- tions. While the debt question hangs fire, for example, England cannot get a new par for sterling and return to the gold standard. Like many other related matters, this is of much im- portance to American trade, and so to the Budget of the United States Government. -- Colonel House in For- eign Affairs (New York). Good Canadian Practice Ottawa newspapers believe in play- ing down crime, Last week, for the first time in 64 years, a murderer was executed there, and the Journal and Citizen published 200 word stories. They had not mentioned the case from the time the man was convicted until he was hanged.--Bditor and Publisher, New York. eae sini Early Newspaper Osita--Prof. Calga, during his excavations here at the mouth of the Tiber, has brought to light one of the world's earliest newspapers. It is a fragment of the Fast! An- nales, which, in Roman Times, cons stituted a sort of official gazette, written on marble tablets and placed in the forum. The fragment just found relates to public works performed in Rome by the Emperor Trajan and refers to between the years 108 and 112 AD, 3 : Sempron aude i heroes of cowards.--Thomas Guthrie. "Has not misfortune always a better trainer the best life for himself and his de-_ the great feasts and games he gave | Before sailing for England January 81; Sir Ronald Lindsay caught a southbound aeroplane for Warm Springs, Georgia, where he inter- viewed Mr. Roosevelt about the forthcoming big war debt conference. 300 Occupations in U.S. Claimed as Professions Toronto,--There are in round figures some 20,000 professions or occupa- tions, according to a review made by a bureau in Washington, Herbert L. Troyer, secretary of the Canadian Educational Guidance Movement, stated in an address here. Pointing out that the problemi of vochtional choice wag a complex one, how that the plumber of yesterday was the sanitary engineer of today, and that there were 300 occupations in the United States claiming professional level, Mr. Troyer sald that the boy of today was faced with an enormous problem and considered that there ought to be a central bureau in Can- ada to which problems could be re- ferred. Chicago's Population Increased 49,00 in 1932 Chicago.--Chicago's population in- creased 49,000 in 1932, bringing the total number of residents in the na- tion's second largest city to 3,624, 000, it was disclosed by J. BE. Vesley, research director of the Association of Commerce. The increase was under the aver age annual growth of 67,600 of the last decade, Mr. Vesley pointed out, but added that it was comparatively greater than that of other metropoli- tan centers. Mr. Vesley estimated Chicago's unemployed at 656,000 ap- proximately 88 per cent of the city's total workers, France to Curb Export Of Arms and Munitions Paris.--The French government has decided to establish a committee to study means of regulating the manu-| facture and sale of war materials,' following President Hoover's initia- tive in recommending siricter con- trol of the arms traffic. The committee will draft a plan for international control of commerce in arms, powder and muhitions, to be presented to the World Disarmament Conference. It will also study means of controlling the activities of French armament industries, which have sup- plied arms and munitions to nations at war in_the Far East and South America. The committee will be. supervised by the General War Council, and sev- eral generals will be included in its membership. te ms Rubber Plates Check Dish Washing Hazard Akron, Ohio.--Pale plastic crepe rubber, sald to be odorless and taste- less, is being used to make plates and tumblers here. The new '"un- breakables" are being made in bril- liant and artistic colors, and they are expected to displace the old blue porcelain, the decorated china and the glass and paper utensils for gen- eral use. Research laboratories of one of the great Akron rubber factories de- veloped the new material for food containers. The rubber can be col ored with any desired pigment. than fortune?'--| Wisconsin Whizz sion, but Sir William enumerated a suf- ficient number of inspiring facts to warrant us in believing that the United States financier was right, : The fact is that during the years] prior to the world depression the Bri- tish people made at least some of the necessary adjustments which were later faced by other nations. This partly explains why the shock of the 1929 slump has fallen on her with a less severe impact than upon some of per industrial rivals. The number of nemployed in Britian has not grown as it has in other countries. Indeed, the absolute volume of ment ets, and by the universal depres-|.c Kingdom was 60 per cent. greater in 1932 than in 1931, Other trades, | vhich are showing similar progress, are hosiery, heavy chemicals and tin plates. THe tariff has brought a num- Old Country.. These are progressing rapidly and increasing the number of their employees, The steel industry is still hampered, but a new enterprise for the production of domestic Besse- mer. steel in Northamptonshire is be. ing fi d by the Bankers' Industrial in Germany and the United States is undoubtedly much greater than in the British Isles, and it bears a much higher proportion togthe total indus- trial population than in Great Britain. The United Kingdom has also been helped by the adoption of a protective tariff and by the Ottawa trade agree- ments, although the benefit of these agreements has not yet, for want of time, begun to be fully felt. During 1932 'Great Britain largely maintained the volume of her export trade at a time when the foreign trade of the United States, Germany and France was collapsing. The exports of the United Kingdom fell by less than seven-per cent. as compared with 1931, while those of the United States detlined 33 per cent.; those of Ger- many 41 per cent, and those of Development Company under the aus- pices of the Baik of England. The | Lancashire Steel industry is being ra- tionalized and even the railways are looking up. The Southern Railway is electrifying some of its main lines. Sir William attributes these moder- ate constructive developments in the Mother Country to the fact 'that the British people 'never permit them- selves to be optimists. Their habit is to face the facts with the determina- tion of struggling through to better times. The achievements thus re- corded. in the face of adverse world conditions are, in large measure, trace- able to the sterling qualities of a race, which has never yet permitted itself to be wholly beaten, and which over and over again in the pages of history has emerged triumphant over scem- Plan to Recover Treasures From Sunken French Vessels Paris.--Under the direction of the Minister of National Educalion an attempt is being organized to recover from the bed of the River Rhone a large quantity of art objects and antiquities from the City of Arles lost in two shipwrecks in past ages. One ship which sank in 1564 con- tained eight porphyry columns from the choir of the Church of Notre Dame la Major, numerous tombs and marble bas-reliefs which had been ordered transported to Paris by Catherine de Medici. The other ship contained Roman statuary and relics collected in Arles by Napoleon and ordered brought to enrich the mus- eums of Paris. rr on Fewer Marriages and Births, More Divorces, Reported Paris.--Decreases in marriages and births and an increase in the num- ber of divorces shown in statistics for France in 1931 are: attributed by French writers to the effects of the economic depression. Marriages declined by 6 per cent, only 326,358 being recorded as com- pared with 342,698 in 1930, Divorces on the other hand increased from 20;- 409 in 1930 to 21,212 in 1981, 680,710, but births still maintained a margin of 49,539 for the year 1931. The number of births that year was 18,000 less than the previous year, the figures showing 748,911 in 1030 and 730,249 in 1931, emai pts . &) * Caution Vital in Removing Cap from Boiling Radiator One of the first signs of a frozen radiator is escaping steam. Ice has clogged the circulating system ana when the cooling fluid is stationary it rapidly comes to a boil. When this happens, get the radiator cap oft as quickly as possible to relieve the pressure, but in doing so cover the cap with a large cloth or several being sprayed by the boiling water. Under no circumstances remove the radiator cap Without taking the ut- most precautions. If no protection stops 'bolling. ; hi ot na France 37 per cent. What is more, [ingly insuperable obstacles. Deaths increased from 649,126 to} thicknesses of newspaper to avoid fs available walt until 'the water) SE | Victor will travel by motor car, Francs Seek'ng to End Peril of Level Crossings Special atiention has been paid of late by officials at the Ministry of Public Works to ways and means of reducing the number of dangerous level crossings in France. The res- ponsible Minister, M. Daladier, has issued an interesting communique on the subject, writes the Paris corres- pondent of The London Daily Tele- graph, He states that the number of motor vehicles in France has increased from" 100,000 in 1914 to 1,700,000 in 1982. It has therefore become a matter of urgency to remove such obstructions as level crossings from the national highways. In spite of nll the efforts made, only thirty were removed dur- ing the period 1918-31. Yet there are more than 40,000 of these obstacles in France. Some 20, 000 are on main lines, 16,200 on local lines and 3,800 on purely goods lines. A list of 200 on which work might be started immediately has been drawn up, but it is calculated that the undertaking would cost the state near- ly. $16,000,000.* There is small hope, it is confessed, of finding that sum. : -- re ; in Allowance Not only has the King of Italy re- fused to accept an increase in his an- nual allowance, necessitated by his losses in the stock market--he even proposes to-make drastic cuts in his expenses, Personal possessions hitherto con- sidered indispensable - to the mons] arch are to be done away with. 'While he is not discharging any of the royal employees, he has ordered salary reductions for all earning more than 500 lire (about $28) a month. The royal stables have been re- duced to a mere dozen horses, for use only when the royal carriage must be drawn on some diplomatic fon. The inder of what was once a magnificent stable has been given away. f ; The king has also ordered his aldes to reduce their expenditure. In future the royal railway carriage 'will be dispensed with, and King | When Signor Mussolini was in- formed of the King's financial plight Toronto Registers a 18 New offered to e the present royal salary of about $45,000 a year ut | declined, and declared he pr ed to trim his per "88 an example of pur | cistern, fl ber of industrial undertakings to the| - In Howard Beach, Queens, N.Y. George Hoffman, 3, prize baby if Rockaway baby parades, pulled the trigger of a shotgun, instantly kill ing his uncle, Frank O. 'Hoffman. . A Leak In Sheldon, Mo., Mrs. 'Marvin Gar rett drew 1,000 gal. of gasoline from her water well, found that it had leaked from a filling station tank down the street. PEE Hunter In Benson," N.Y. Walter D. Cars fleld, 80, saw a deer, intently aimed, fired, fell dead as his bullet sped neatly into and killed the deer.' Fashionable : In Ionia, Mich., Robert Patterson, sentenced . to eight months in the Detroit House of Correc.ion for serv- ing liquor in his restaurant, left a sign on the front door, "Gone to Win- ter Quarters." Bachelor Peril = In Burwell, Neb., Clarence Wilson 40, bachelor farmer, fell off a wind: mill, broke both legs, inched .back to his house, lay without food or water for eight days, on the ninth day crawled inlo the yard, yelled for help until neighbors came. 3 Not Guilty In West Point, Ga., charged with the murder of Charlene Johnson by stabbing ler in the leg artery w. a penknife, Negro Joe Beasley was freed when he showed Judge Nova- tus L. Barker a broken fingernail Playing the piano at a dance, Joe Beasley had broken the nail, taken out the penknife beiween dances to pare it. Pushed in the crowd, Char- lene. Johnson had bumped into the knife, stabbed herself. Gun Work In Yarmouth, Minn, walling through the woods, Keith Grey, farmer, blew his nose. A melghbor mistook the sound for a deer's snort, shot Farmer Grey in the neck. They're Together In Lakewood, N.J., walking down & dark road arm in arm, talking and laughing because they had just met again after 40 years, Hermann Sch- naar-and Hugo Nerp were run down and killed by an automobile contain ing two Polish girls from Brooklyn Shakespeare In Budapest, Camillo Felleghy and his- troupe of four strolling players hopefully mangled Shakespeare's "King Lear" before an impressed peasant audience who ended by call- ing for "Author! Author!" Felleghy responded wearing a false beard hooked over his ears, bowing his thanks.--Time Magazine. ee pe" Bridge Game Origin 'Claimed for Istanbul Istanbul.--Istanbul claims--on the authority of the French expert, Plerre Bellanger--to be the birth- place of bridge. The 'game, says the French author ity, was evolved here in 1883 by a group of society leaders, diplomats: and high officials of the Sultan's court. It was elaborated out of the existing card games of English whist, "Fontainebleau," Boston, and a Turkish game called "khedive." ET * Trousers for Women Fad Not Popular New Nork.--The trousers for wo men fad have now reached the de partment stores. , Much interest was reported but few sales, .7 Mannequins strutted around im tweed users, doubled ted vests and boiled collars. The trousers were ankle length, ending-well above, the mannish looking oxfords. ° ; ens of women triéd on the suits none of the early shoppers bought any. Bach suit had a skirt to match in case the possessor lost her nerve after making purchase.