The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

- _ CANADA 5g Crumbs In' the Bed. - The mews is printed as a sort of Joke that a man dn Chicago biffed his wife because she would insist on eat- ing cookies in bed. It served her right and I am glad there has arisen a man with so much courage. There is noth- ing worse in the whole realm of do- mestic tragedies than cake crumbs in 'the bed. They get everywhere and there is no known force that will grind them so small that they do not tickle. If © I were on a jury trying a person for "murder I would acquit him if he had been led to that drastic course: by cake crumbs.--Vancouver Province. Middle Age, . Middle age is that period when a man clips items about great men who did their best work after 60.--King- ston Whig Standard. Fewer Services. In proportion to population, there were fewer divorces in Canada during the past decade than during the ten years prior to 1931, In_ten years the number of divorces in Prince Edward Island decreased from 47 to 28, from 427 te 308 in Nova Scotia, from 2,504 to 2,086 in Ontario, and from 1,361 to 150 in the Province of Quebec. There was an increase of 22 in the same period in New Bfunswick, 147 in Man- Itoba, 97 in Saskatchewan, 312 in Al- berta, and 642 in British Columbia. There is some satisfaction for us in the knowledge that, whilst in other countries, particularly in the United States, the bonds of matrimony are recoming more fragile year after year, in the central provinces of Canada, ind generally in the Maritimes, they ire becoming more indissoluble with the passing of time.--La Patrie, Mont: real. Why It Is "SHE" Why is the locomotive called she? A road foreman of locomotives em- ployed on a Canadian system believes he has the answer. He says: "There are many reasons. For instance, they wear jackets with yokes, pins, shields and stays. They have aprons and laps, too. Not only do they have shoes, they sport pumps and even hose, while they drag trains behind them. They also attract attention with puffs and mufflers and sometimes they foam and refuse to work. At such times they need to be switched, They need guil- ding and they require a man to feed them. They all smoke, but most char- acteristic of all is that they are much steadier when they are hooked up."'-- Fredericton Gleaner. Not Afraid of Pirates. "Teddy" Rosevelt faced" the indus- trial pirates of his day as fearlessly as the present Roosevelt seems to be facing the financial pirates of his day. "Teddy" Roosevelt will be known to the generations as the man who broke the idols; he was the one American statesman to stand up against the bullying of the big business of his day. - Franklin D. Roosevelt has al- ready shown himself willing to stand up against the bullying of the big busi- ness of his day.--Calgary Albertan. Hard to Reconcile. Hitler has treméndous power in Ger- many, and yet he is pictured as wear- ing one of those little moustaches, It does not look much larger than a tooth brush. It is hard to reconcile such a mous- tache with a mighty man. We have been accustomed in the past to see- ing mighty men wearing big mous- taches. Hindenburg, for instance, is a big man with a mighty moustache, It helps to make him look mightier. Perhaps we have under-estimated the small moustache. Hitler has one Just like a straight up and down black mark under his nose. We may come to see in it a token of power in time, but it is not going to be easy --Strat- ford Beacon-Herald, Deep Secret. Greta Garbo is on her way back to the States amid great secrecy. Nobody will he permitted to learn of her ar- rival except the newspaper camera- men, reporters and millions of ordin- ary folk.--Halifax Herald. Telephone Records. Berlin business men may be able to 'ask their secretaries to extract last 'week's telephone conversation fiom the files just as readily as they now ask for a copy of a letter or memor- andum, Lifting to his ear a telephone device which is only slightly larger than the standard "French phone," the 'speaker will proceed in the usual man- ner. But through an extra cord lead- ing to an electric recording apparatus, parts of the conversation will be upon . Canada, The Empire and The World at Large. | phonograph rec: | thare urnal, = eans. : A | Trains to the southern lakes dis- not realized what was happening un- til General Hertzog made his spectac- ular response to General Smuts's mov- ing appeal. - Now each can see for tion were left--Cape Argus. New Zealand Exports. The effects of the depression upon New "Zealand have been to some ex- tent modified by the success of ef- forts to counterbalance falling prices by increasing production. other countries have been afflicted by rapid contraction of their export trade, in volume as well as in value, New Zealand has steadily increased the volume of her exports. In 1928 ex- ports were 12 per cent. greater than in 1926; the official estimates for 1931 show an increase of 20 per cent. in five years, and the volume must have been again substantially greater in 1932, for, in spite of a much lower range of prices, the total value was larger than in 1931--Aukland Weekly News, "The U.S.A. and World Peace. It the United States continues to "co-operate with the other nations of the world as she has done in the past year--and still more if some plan can be devised for immediate consul tation in the event of a breach of the peace--an aggressor will know in ad- vance on which side the passive or even perhaps the active influence of the United States will be thrown. Af- ter the experience of the Great War, no country is likely to underrate this. --Sir Walter Layton in The News- Chronicle. Japan's Welt Politik. It Is impossible to coerce Japan at this moment. ....., The interests and possessions of the other Powers in the Far East are at her mercy. She can occupy Shanghai and capture Hong Kong before an attempt can be made to redress the balance of power in Far Eastern waters. The " Washington treaties make it almost impossible to fight across the ocean. Doubtless, if the Great Powers were to devote all their energies to the task and organ- ize their naval and aerial power with the gole object of overcoming Japan- ese resistance, in time this could be done, But is it impossible to contem- plate Britain and the United States devoting all their energies to such a course with the world in the condi- tion in which it is today? Obviously, at the moment Japan is in a position to carry through her program with. out molestation from outside.~Prof. C. K. Webster in The Contemporary Review (London). THE UNITED STATES Bank Casualties. A New York banker came into court on .a stretcher. It may be ne- cessary to work up something in a twin bed type, with one for the de- positor.--Detroit News, Both Waiting. Possibly the reason Prosperity has remained so long around the corner is because we, also, have been play- ing a 'waiting game. --Christian Sci- ence Monitor, : How Could He Forget? Persons rescued from drowning or other threatening sudden death, some- times have reported that forgotten events of their past life had recurred to them in rapid succession. Some say they reviewed their whole history from boyhood on in the few seconds that preceded unconsciousness, Oth- ers merely experienced flashbacks to incidents long buried in the subcon- scious mind, This phenomenon served Kike Kop- tokel a good turn when he jumped in- to the Ohio River at Pittsburg with the intention: of committing suicide. Mike, like 'many others before him, began to remember as he went down, On of-the things that came to his mind was the fact that he put $68 into a bank five years ago. The recollec- tion altered his resolve to die. He struggled to the surface and swam to shore as fast as he would. Life was again worth living, This story will not seem as strange to bankers as to other people. Bank- ers know that hundreds of people de- posit sums and forget about them. Every time the affairs of a bank are wound up scores of people receive money from accounts they didn't know they had.--Detroit Free Press. ---- Chilean Railroads Profit By Heavy Tourist Traffic Santiago, Chile~Railroad officials estimate that Chile's lines netted $180,000 a morth more this summer than last, due to the extraordinary heavy tourist traffic, : ,000 tourists visited Chile, and, in addition, rable travel by Chil 'every day of the himself how few real bones of conten-|. While, comes. Largest freighter under the American flag, again placed in ser- vice. After being tied up for several months, the Lewis Luckenbach, 14,000 tons, steamed from Seattle with a full cargo of lumber for the east. Race Fans and Bookmakers Protest High Fee to Latter When bookmakers at dog race tracks hear London went on strike re- cently things were all mixed. The race promoters had increased their charg- es to the "bookies." At Catford track the strikers paid: their admission and watched the racing. Some of them made bets on the tote, but they turn- ed a deaf ear to all clients who wish- ed to. do business. The result was that the race fol- lowers tried te make bets on the tote, and the machine was unable to cope withe the sudden rush. Many would- be backers were unable to make bets, and at times a massed crowd surroun- ded the macines. Loud protests were made and many spectators angrily de- manded the return of their entrance money. . They were given tickets to admit them to a future meeting, but even this did not satisfy them, and 'when racing ended they joined the bookmakers in a noisy protest meet- ing. en ebm Celts to Meet in Brest Brest.--This former base of the AEF, will become a little Geneva next Summer, when the Celtic League of Nations assembles in Brest for its organization meeting , which takes place next July. Previous meetings have beén held in Cardiff, Wales; in Dublin, Ireland, and on the Isle of Man, and these three provinces of the "Celtic fatherland" will send delegates to Brest, also Scot- land and Brittany. The aim of the meeting is to or- ganize a. "Celtig International," the purpose being to revive Celtic culture, to resurrect Celtic ceremonies, legends and folklore. The Celts of America, whether they trace their ancestry through Brittany or parts of the Brit- ish Empire, will be invited to attend. The official language will be Breton, which, it is stated, can be understood by persons why ave acquired Gaelic. Men Transported to " Radium Fields by Plane Edmonton; Alta.--All available air- craft in this part'of the Dominion is in operation transporting prospectors and mining parties to the Great Bear Lake radium fields in the Northwest Terri- tories many hundreds of miles beyond the railway, in preparation for the year's work. Fifteen laden airplanes equipped for landing on the ice and snow have left Edmonton recently and this extraordinary activity is neces- sary to transport all miners and min- ing supplies into the mineal field he- hire the spring break-up, During the winter months the -air planes are equipped wth skiis to alight on the ice of Great' Bear Lake and from now until the middle of June when the ice leaves the smaller bays allowing the planes equipped with pon- toons to alight on the open water, the ice traffic is suspended. It is expected that 1500 men will be working the rich radium and silver veins "before the season is very far advanced. -------- be. Three Major Powers New York.--United States suspen- sion of the gold standard leaves but three major world. powérs ard four of lesser im ortarce,"as gauged by foreign trade, remaining on .n un- a ited gold basis. prohibits export of d except by Governmental license. 9 France, Germany and Ital; are the larger countries which have stayed on th gold standard, although Germany for a time took action similar to Can- ada in restricting gold exports, Along- side the three major powers . the gold besis stand Belgium, Poland, Switzer- lend and the Netherlands, -------- HAVANA ELECTRIFYING CAPITAL The Cuban government is electrity- ing the dome of the Capital at Hav- ana to keep off buzzards.--The Path- finder. - Wet and Dry Years - in the West A study of the meteorological rec- ords for 48 years at Medicine Hat, which is the central point of the short grass plains, or so-called dry area, indicates that the driest year on rec- ord was 1886, and 1927 the wettest, Dry years occurred previous to 1900 and have happened periodically ever Information already obtained by the Dominion Range Experimental Manyberris, Alberta, 'On' Gold Standard, s structure of steel, or an all-metal building of any kind. One is tolerably safe also at or near the bottom of a deep narrow ravine or canyon. Prop- erly installed lightaing rods make a hofise fairly safe during electrical storms and, as ¢ rule, one is safer in a house even if it has no rods at all, than one is likely to be outdoors. It keep away from is best indoors to stoves, fireplaces, and walls," th tn since, Station at 1 where ivestigations have been planned to study the effect of climatic changes from year to year, shows the absolute necessity of making provision for dry years by controlled grazing and the development of a pernianent water supply. - 1, Teele pends Seed Buyers' Protection Farmers who buy seed from their neighbors should protect themselves by asking to be shown the grade cer- tificate issued on the seed by the in- spector of the Dominion Seed Branch. If the certificate is marked "Rejected" the sale is illegal and the use of the seed full of dangerous possibilities. The Seeds Act of Canada was enacted to check the menace of dirty seed and it applies to, everybody without ex- ception who sells seed. SD tA 2s Doors from Russia London, Eng. -- Ready-made doors were imported from Russid, from August, 1932, to January, '1933, a prices averaging approximately from 2.48 to 3.58 each, stated Mr, Runciman in Parliament recently. He added that he was not in a posi- tion to make any statement as to the possibility of obtaining powers to pre- vent competition of this kind similar to the powers conferred the Ottawa agreement. le Scots Firm Aids Needy as a result of Dundee, Scot.--With a view to re- Leving the poor of this city a coal merchant offered to supply 80 fam- ilies with 2% cwts, of coal free during an sbno.mally severe spell of weather. es } President's Plan May Employ 250, would be beneficial. eee ,000 Men Balbo to signal "Contact," 'man and ' be he | est condition. | ps es : _ The fiyers are protected here what one Italian writer called a penetrate the wall to see them. They. tion. Officers say that if any aviator experiences any mental distraction be; fore the flight beging he will"be lef! behind. The pilots of the Atlantic squad- ron are all, at least officially, bache- lors. One of them, it so happened re- cently, had a wife who presented her- self at thé airport and asked to speak with him, Receiving a refusal, she telephoned the chief of staff of the Air Ministry in Rome. The chief of staff replied: "All the pilots of the »| Atlantic squadron are bachelors." The indignant wife next presented herself to Air Minister Balbo himself with all | documents proving the legitimacy of | her marriage. | , The aviators eat at*a training table similar to that of a college football team. Their regime is prevalently ve- getarian. The program of the long-distance flying school here is complex. The] pilots, in addition to theoretical in- struction in mathematics, physics, aerodynamics and mechanics, have to make themselves masters, through de- velopments of flying, sueh as taking oft and landing with heavy loads and in Various conditions of sea and air, night flying, navigation on the radio nese wall" It is extremely difficult to | « are kept away from every pre-occuipa-| beam and blind flying." {ep da New Zealand Trede Showing Improvement A report on the finance, trade and Industries of New Zealand during 1932, for which we are indebted to Mr. J. W. Collins, New Zealahd trade and tourist commissioner in Canada; shows substantially = favorable balance of trade. Hconomic relationships within the country are still to some extent unbalanced and the readjustments that hive taken place have not been sfifficient in all cases. But, says the report, "the energies of the people of New Zealand and their productive ca- pacity have not been destroyed by the depression, and their wants have not diminished. Production, indeed, in several directions has shown a steady increase throughout the period of the depression." . That is the kind of talk ¢| ve like to hear! The distant South. ern Dominion is sound at heart, and we expect it to ride on the top of the wave when the business of the world reyives.~Toronto Mail and Em- pire, ' ---- 4 Brazil to Spend 54 Million t Modernizing Her Defense Rio De Janeiro.--An arms n odern- ization program for Brazil, 'gased 'upon a five-year sche army and 4' twelve-year plan for the navy, has been started by the pro- visional government. The wrmy is to spend $21,000,000 and the navy $33, 7 cold | 500,000. The Dundee Public Assist- ance Committee furnished the names of 80 families to whom the donation The navy's progran. got under way when Admiral Protogenes Guimaraes, Minister of Marine, signed a contract with a British' firm for construction of a school ship and broke ground for a new ministry building. All told, twenty-four small vessels, with a total tonnage. of 85,000 are to be built. Brazil, once the orld's fourth naval puwer, now ranks below Argentina and Chile in South America. Its pres- The principal cost of the army plan will be for new artillery : aru : h Speed Planes Tested For Berlin'London Run Berlin --The Luft-Hansa, Germah air transport operators, have placed in preliminary test service a small | Heinkel high-speed 'commecial plane a favorable banking position and at and in this disguise he ordered all the le for the ent fleet averages twenty years age a i vessel, ; and in motor- : [BULANCE WAITING. "He was able to do 30, after several dangerous attempts which sent the aerodrome ambulance and fire engine scampering after him, 2 Croydon pilot went up him by example what to do. the machine at last come to stead of to grief, as everyone ed, Levine stepped out with a What seemed to tickle all was the fact that he ambuiance and fire-brigade took him back to London ir my car, STEALING A HOUSE. Mr. Cannell tells of a house which was n--and a ship, The house, a detached one in London, was fi while its owner was away on holiday, and the thieves, exper. housebr in more senses th: interfered; police and neighbors as: sumed they were acting under the owmer's instructions. When he re turned he found a waste piece of land i where his house had been, and thought p> the cabman had brought him to the » wrong street! Sy 4 TL ae The ship was a pleasu: steamer bah lying up at Greenock which a gang y acquired on a deposit. Off the coast of Portugal they arranged a fake wreck," disguised the boat, and pro- ceeded to South America, where they ufidertook to carry cargoes, at low rates, which never reached their des- nation but were disposed of else here. One of the gang, who was a forger, saw that the ship always car ried her necessary papers. - WORKING WITH A MURDERER. Journalistic resource is exemplified 2 in a colleague of Mr. Cannell"s whe a contrived to enter a tunmel where 3 there had been a rail smash by put- ii ting on an inspector's cap aid coat he -B 7 und lying about Euston Statiom; LH « hi d 1 rival reporters out of the tunnel! This i from Wandsworth Prison containing detectives and Podmore, who murder- ed a Southampton garage proprietor, when it broke down; and he and Pod: more, whose handcuffs were removed for the purpose, put the trouble right. Concerning the King's recent ill " ness, Mr. Cannell says; It is not generally known that a dark-skinned man walked around the Queen Victoria Memorial hundireds of times each night, holding a card upon' which the Lord's Prayer wat printed. The man said he was certain that so long as he did that, the King' condition would not get worse, He quotes a Court official as say: ing that the Prince of Wales regards mafriage as C7 vg Tae ie "a sacred thin; which should be abot jf 'policy' or high polities" . , . the sub- ject of his matrimonial futuze and outlook is ons of his most sensitive spots where others 'are concerned Even his best friends would not Li the wedding was given as May 5th or 6th, 1934, and the initials of the b y | with a top speed of 225 miles'an hour. | Cruising at 200 miles an