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Voice of Canada, The. Empire and The World at Large the Press CANADA. Benefit of Laughter. There is, apparently a standing al- ferzative between annoyance and amusement over life's ironical accid- ents, and he who lives best is he who laughs best for relief from the tears and tension of his own trials. It is a child's privilege to laugh because he is tickled, but the adult must learn to laugh in the face of misfortune, handicap and even pain or he becomes the unhappy slave of his own circum- stances. Such laughter, it seems, has a definite therapeutic value. It has long been said that one may laugh and grow fat, but it is more important to the modern man that he learn to laugh his way out of nervous prostra- tion, Miss Mary F. Ferguson, super- visor of social service at John Hopkins University, advocates laughter as an antidote for all sorts of neuroses and even for social disorders.--Fredericton Gleaner. Show Confidence. Three men who escaped with their Hes from the Akron are now looking for positions on the Macon, a dirigible now ready for its tests. They have more confidence in such craft than the average individual, and it may be be- cause they know more about them, ~ Btratford Beacon-Herald, Safety in the Air. The enquiry into the Akron disaster revives memories of that which was made in the case of the City of Liver- pool, the Imperial Airways liner, which crashed a short time ago, though of course there is no comparison between the two. The point raised is that of comparative safety of travels in the air, either in airplanes or in dirigibles. Dr. Eckener has steered his Zeppe- lin thousands of miles across both north and south Atlantic and over Europe, without a single accident to any passenger. The Imperial Airways was established in 1924, and since then there have been only six accid- ents te their liners in which injury to passengers was involved, and though during that period they have flown over ten million miles and have carried a quarter of a million passen- gers. Flying on the regular air routes in Europe, in fact, is regarded as assur- ing an even greater safety than travel by road. This 'is proved by the fact that the insurance companies ask higher premiums for the latter than they do for the former. It is such a disaster as that which happened to the City of Liverpool which proves the general rule. The case of the Akron comes within a different category, but the public often falls to differentiate and is apt to lump all aerial disasters _ tggether.--Montreal Daily Star, Power of the Press. "We are a generation which lives on newspapers just as caterpillars feed on green leaves."--Winston Churchill, Sensitive World. The fact of the matter is, the means of communication throughout the world have become so rapid and im- proved that what happens--and this may seem paradoxical--in China to- morrow is actually reported in your evening paper today. There is no doubt that things of a very similar import happened a cen- tury and a half ago. Had they been known everywhere at the time, no doubt the effect would have been the same on people's nerves and imagina- tion. Today we are living in a mighty sensitive world, and it may be the world's salvation in the long run. Likewise in things economic is the world sensitive, In the last three years there has heen no such thing as a lo- calized depression.--St, Catharines Standard. Qread and Butter Farmers in the Balkans, we read, are feeding bread to their cows. The cows, of course, furnish their own but- ter.--Border Cities Star, Advertising Did It. Total sal& by R. H. Macy & Com- pany last year amounted to $80,000, 000. By reaching this amount the New York store justified its claim to being e world's dargest store. Marshall geld & Company of Chicago, which to claim the title, dropped to ,000,000 last year, In order to roll up the sales total if $80,000,000 Macy's used clever and ive advertising. And 90 per ists and mining men refer to as the 'pre-Cambrian shield. This underlying stratum of rock is the oldest forma- tion which geologists know,, dating back to the dim past wher our earth's crust first began to solidify.--London Advertiser, 3 Lucky Exeter. Exeter, Ontario, has accumulated a surplus, reduced its dehg and cut its tax rate ten mills, A lucky place is Exeter, But other towns are vexed at her; Her feat they cannot emulate, Reduce the debt and cut the rate, As folks have done in Exeter. ~--Strathroy Age-Dispatch. A Wealthy Editor. There was a banquet in Orangeville one night, and many of the citizens were telling of the opportunities the town offered, and how well they had done there. The editor of one of the earliest papers got up to give his tes- timony, "When I came here," he said, I am worth $75,000." Seeing the in- credulous looks on the faces of some of his fellow-citizens, he continued: "An authority has estimated that each child is worth at least $5,000, I have 15 children."--Fergus News Record, THE EMPIRE. Survived the Crisis The United States have come to the climax of their malady, while they are still strong enough to cope with it. They will build up from the base. stronger, more stable industry and commerce than the fantastic structure which has toppled from the height of the skyscrapers to the dust.--London Daily Express, European Quarrels. There is no doubt that the predom- inent feeling in the minds of millions in this country today is that at all costs Britain must refuse to be drag- ged into the quarrels of Europe. By the Locarno Treaty we are pledged to take sides against the aggressor, if trouble breaks out between France and Germany, But if this were to happen now, the man in the street who does not pretend to understand the niceties of diplomacy, would find it vefy hard to say who was most to blame, and there would be a strong demand that we should stand aside.--Sir Walter Layton in The London News-Chronicle (Lib), The Polluted Air. The latest report, published today, by the Department of Sclentific and Industrial Research on the investiga- tion of atmospheric' pollution hardly justifies any optimistic inference that the evil is abating. One should mot, perhaps, be depressed by the report, but one may be astonished that after a century of industrial civilization one of its worst evils shows such little signs of abatement. Since men must live in centres of dense population, it is essential that they should be happy in doing so; yet it seems impossible they should be content when not only houses and streets but the air itself is hardly fit to live in.--Manchester Guardian, Export of Arms. It is of paramount importance, if any form of arms regulation is ever to be established by this or a subse- quent Disarmament Conference, that every Government shall be able abso- lutely and unequivocally to maintain supervision and control of the export don Times. THE UNITED STATES. Wealth In Stumps. Many hundreds of old tree stumps, which have stood desolate in the for- ests northeast of Melbourne since the millers' felling' gangs passed through with their saws and axes years ago, are now proving to have a very high value, The stumps are of mountain ash, a wood which is increasing in demand as a furniture timber in Aus- tralia and overseas. Discovery that the mountain ash stumps were suit- able for furniture converted what was formerly regarded as forest waste into a valuable asset. In favorable circum. stances mountain ash trees grow to 300 feet in height, but their growth is such that for some distance from the ground--from eight to twenty feet --the trunk is irregularly shaped and heavily buttressed. Not long ago an examination of some of the old stumps disclosed that when properly cut the grain of the timber was 'unusually beautiful.--Christian Science Monitor. ' War On Pests. ; Many a United States city is plag- ued by the noise and dirt of starlings "I was not worth one cent, and now: of arms by their national firms.--Lon- |: For the Far East Nine of the fastest and most effi- cient shipboard military aircraft in the world will be included in the complement of the British aircraft carrier Bagle, 'when she steams out of Pithead towards the end of mext month on her way to the China sta- tion. There she will relieve H.M.3. Hermes, the carrier which has been on duty in Chinese waters for many months, and is now due to come home for a long re-fit. The Eagle is the largest British aircraft carrier, displacing 22,600 tons, and with accommodation for up to 40 airplanes, Her complement during her stay with the China squadron will be 21 airplanes, com- prising 15 which will be flown on board from Gosport before she leaves thig country, and six to be taken over from the Hermes. The remaining flight in the Hermes is to be transferred to the Fifth Cruiser Squadron. The airplanes will be launched from catapults mounted on the decks of the warship. "A bulletin of the Society of Brit- ish Aircraft Constructors states that navigation of a naval airplane, volving long flights from a moving base, is the most difficult kind of aerial course-landing, beside which a long ocean flight on a single com- pass bearing is a simple matter. Apart from the intricate problems met in plotting a pre-determined course with constant reference . to the movements of the carrier or other conveying warship, the haze which mot infrequently rises quite suddenly over the sea introduces the factor of bad visibility. That a fleet air arm machine is seldom, if over, lost is sufficient evidence of the skill of the navigators, the trust- worthiness of their engines, and the accuracy of the elaborate" maviga- tional instruments which every British naval plane must carry.-- Toronto Mail and Empire. eel: Research Findings May Eliminate "Heating" of Grain Winnipeg. -- Discoveries ~~ which promise to eleminate "heating" of grain in storage and transit were re- ported by Dr. R. K. Larmour, of the University of Saskatchewan, to the Associate Committee on Grain Re- search meeting hera. Dr. Larmour has discovered that cectain miero- organisms on the wheat appear fo contribute a large propertion of the wheat's respiratory activity. In normal times, the loss on a ear- load of grain that has heated ap- proaches $1,500. Heating can now be prevented. What is not yet known Soviet Converting Coal V*® Into Gas in Mine Veins Moscow.--An experiment in com- in | rand, Past the grave of the unknown soldier at Arlington of Lieut-Com, Harold MacLellan, who crashed with the airship. cemetery, an army gun carriage bears the body be since the opera is a school of dancing and the pupils are licensed to give _ | compressed nitrogen gas, BY | aluminum, 500,000 tons of cement, and + London has the first gas-filled high tension underground cable in commer- cial use in the world. It runs between Hackney and Walthamstow. The cable No fewer than 150,000 tons of the finest British steel, 12,000 tons of 200,000 insulators have been used, The states the board, "shows that as technical achievement the na- tional power scheme is one of the out- standing efforts of Great Britain in this century." r mum was 421.66 in the third lap. Alr officers said a new engine would be installed in an attempt to reach: a Agello was a member of the Itallan Schoeider Cup team pn 192, His suc- cessful attempt climaxed a serfes of such efforts at the high speed airport here in which several craft were lost. Last year Lieut. Neri made an unof- ficial 422 miles an hour and a few weeks later he was killed. : The "Red Bullet" has twin engines in tandem developing a maximum of 2,800 horsepower. The two propellors turned in opposite directions on a sleeved shaft in front. The machine was infended for the last Schneider Cup race, but was not eompleted in time. Agello, who is 31, was born in While en route to New York, George Bernard Shaw made a frank confession that he believed he was living beyond his own era. "I really am a Victorian," said the gray-bearded playwright. "I am writing a new lay, but the younger writers are coming to the fore." Shaw, in a chatty mood, discussed at length the Victorians of his own era, / "The relationship between men and women has changed tremendously," he said, reminiscently. "That is, in some respects. "The modern woman's clothes and l.nguage are sometimes shocking -- but they are more decent." : Shaw, with a burst of modesty, put himself about twentieth among the moderns who have done most for the world. re ---- New Zealand May Bar : Imports From Russia . Wellington, New Zealand.--If the British Government puts an embargo on Russian imports the New Zealand Government "will doubtless take simi- lar action." This announcement was made by Prime Minister G. W. Forbes when asked what the Government proposed to do in connection with the threat- ened' cessation of trade between the United Kingdom and the Soviet aris- ing out of the arrests in Moscow of six British electrical engineers on charges of espionage, sabotage and bribery. The Prime Minister declared the Government was watching the posi- tion most closely and was prepared expressed the opinion_it would not * ow legislati speed of 700 kilométres, or 437.5 miles. | Farm Incomes Decline \ can farmer iu Febreary dropped about 27 per cent. from February, 1982, and was 21 per cent. below the. January, 1983, estimate, according a report issued by ihe State Stree! Research and Management Corpora tion in conjunction with the Corn In: dustries Research Foundation, wh base their deduction on estimates of a 71 per cent. sample of the total farm cash income for the current and past months of the calendar year. it is stated, "a comparison based on the larger or smaller amounts of cash, that thé farmer normally expects tx get during the cifferent months show: that February, after the proper sea- sonal slightly better month than December, 000,000 in February, of last year. to follow Great Britain's lead. He rai br . Town Georgia Coleman, Olympic star, might have married Mickey Riley, diving champion, but became Mrs. Gilson, taking up golf. 27 P. C. for February The income taken in by the Ameri The estimates indicate that a new x ow in actual dollars was reached, but, y correction is made, was still a ° 1932, when the seasonally corrected index touched an alltime low. The total cash income to farmers during February was inthe neighborhood of $240,000,000, as compared with about $800,000,000 in January and $330, "It is clear, nevertheless, that cur- rent farm cash income has shown ne real improvement and is still about at the low point. It is also.clear thal g the largest factor affecting farm cask E 1938 will be the operation of Mr Roosevelt's plan for raising price: 3 be necessary to pass g as the Government was already em- powered to restrict imports. te fpr London Bank Adds More Girls to Staff ing engaged by Lloyds Bank.- They are not placed on the perma- nent staff, no do they get bonus or are becoming mechanized. Apart from ledger posting machines, lected as heads of departments." es freee. London.--More young girls are be-| i pension. ; An official said to a correspondent yesterday : 3 "More and moére of our branches the fact that girls are better typists, we also find that they are quicker in handling the new calculating and "Men will be carefully trained and Indians Worship Planes 'Which susp Blas Everest Dinajpur, In.ia--Hillmen of the Himalayas, who believed that the mountain gods would punish English aviators for invading their domain, row are kneeling and worshipping be- fore the airplanes in which the Bri- tons flew over Mount Everest and | this, it | he says quire consider:.ble time to determing what the net effect of such legislation will be on the farmer's income, Broad ly speaking, it would seera probabk ever, the net amount of the tax col lected and passed.on to ti: farmer, ifter deducting administrati There is good ground for saying that this is the earliest Spring in Old Ontario within the memory of living man, With no frost in the ground farmers have been busy on the land for some time, and market gardeners are well forward with Spring planting, A correspondent Who keeps a gar dening diary tells ug that hepatica flower to bloom, by blood root and s would appear,