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Sr 4k ee Ea ees - = NWR Po nr Ss i i » try ey Sr ro Teil LL e p. ay er na LA Be PA a --~ RT aS oh MN Tag Ne a Ra eS bm eA -- "rl . FRI th PR -= of locomotives. = sort of thing extends to movie actress. "rels of whiskey, while another like 'burden, yet hardly anyone ever at- * producers, was married in New York, a ---------__"e vo nvvones - Re Shei -------- SJ Eh Sh oS Sh Sd Voice of the Press ~ Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Prepare Yourself Down at Wheatley the other day a man fended off an attempted holdup - with a newspaper he carrying in his band. Now is the time to subscribe. You never know. when a newspaper wil come in handy.--Goderich Signal, . The Bible ~~ When mankind ceases to belleve in the fighting power of simple words, and the beauty of rhythmic, flowing | sentences that go straight to the heart and the head, it will perhaps take heed of the myriad critics of the Bible. To countless millions, seeking the Bible, turning to it for help, for wis- dom, for its beauty of words and phrase; turning to it because it breathes a message of divine inspira- tion, badly-published or not, it is heavenly poetry. These millions find no fault with it. The modern publish. "ing house might produce a de luxe edition of some modernist's work, with illustrations by Dore, It is not likely to produce such music, such fundamental truth, such economy of expression with barren simplicity, as in the sentence: "The Lord is my Bhepherd.""--Vancouver Suu. ntelligence Quota A speaker tells a local service club that only five per cent. of the total population of the world are thinkers; the majority, he says, are mere imi- tators. However, the situation isn't as bad as it might seem, for probably about 95 per cent. class themselves as belonging to the five. They're satis. fied, anyhow, and personal satisfac- tion, as we know, is the kind that sounts.--Border Cities Star. : A Tip - Knees for automobiles have been in- vented and that they may be seen to best advantage the cars will probably be exhibited with tartan and sporran. --Port Arthur News-Chronicle, Understandable There is an old-world charm about the rejoicing of millions of Japanese over the birth of a son to the Em- peror Hirohito and Empress Nagako. Even in this day of tottering dynas- ties and populistic ferment we of the British Empire can undervstamd the Japanese rejoicing, for we have our own deep loyalty to the House of Windsor. In the case of the House of the Mikados, however, there was an especial urgency in the prayers for a male offsprinz, since under Japanese law a woman may not ascend the th. one. © ln British history, on the con- tray, some of our most illustrious sovereigns, such as Elizabeth and Vic- toria, have been reigning queens.-- Montreal Star. Sunken Treasure in Great Lakes It dwellers along the Great Lakes were to read. the government reports of disasters on these inland seas, says a writer in the New York Times, they would learn of treasure to the value of $15,000,000 sunk in them since the middle of the nineteenth century, The treasure is not in the form of doub- loons, but some of it is of a nature to yield profit if recovered. The treasure is o: various kinds. . In Lake Erie be- tween Cleveland and the Detoit River Jies the steamer Clarion with a cargo In the middle of the: same lake lies a vessel with--300 bar- cargo Is at the bottom of Lake Michi- gan sear Manitou Island. Beiween Dunkirk, Ohio, and Erie rests a boat with $50,000 worth of pig zinc which divers have failed to get. There are many cargoes, lost on the Great Lakes, "to rotrieve which no serious attempt has been made, There are possibili- ties -of real profit if ocean diving equipment were brought in for this puipose.--Kingston Whig-Standard. The Poor Rich Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who Is shortly to become Miss Mary Pickford again, has given out a moving inter- view in New York all about God and life and Mary Pickford. Among other immortal sentiments uttered therein is the opinion that the best things in life are free and that wealth cannot buy anything worth while. No doubt this is true, but it is a curious fact that hardly anyone finds-it out until after he has made-a lot of money. And while 'wealth is recognized In every child's copy book and in every inter- view with the rich as a curse and. a tempts to escape it after acquiring it, --Victoria Times. Well Earned. Lord Willingdon has heen given four months' leave of absence from India. He has earned it by his combination of firmness, sympathy, tact and In. gight in dealing with India's political problems, The fact that he asks for a long vacation is proof that he fears no turmoil in the near future.--Lon- don Advertiser, : Plenty of Material When Doris Warner, daughter of the president of Warner Bhos,, screen a sound film was made of the proceed- ings and presented to her, If this many of them will soon have enoligh records to afford their friends omplete night's entertalnment.-- Unusual Winters After three weeks of sub-zero weath- er Albertans are beginning to question if the province's famous "open win: ters" ever did have existence, except in the minds of some of the old- timers. Certainly it is a reflection on the local weather prophets who were confident that the Winter of 1933-34 was to be unusually mild,--Calgary Herald. : First Toronto Motorist tario passés from the scene in the death of Dr. P, E. Doolittle. He was the first man in Toronto to own and operate a motor car and his great in- terest in this form of transportation and its development, which continued until his death, made his name well known throughout the province and, indeed, all over the Dominion.--Tor- onto Telegram. Letters in Mourning é The year 1933 should bear a black mark in the English literary calendar. So far as can be judged at the mo- ment, it has brought to light no work of outstanding merit, but it has re- moved from the scene several who had established themselves in the field of letters and an unusual number of those of lesser fame.-~Vancouver Pro- vince. ? Looks Like It : In Paris a man was arrested near the Courts of Justice clad only in his underwear, "Lawyer won his suit?-- Brantford Expositor, Doctor Is "Mr." The death of Mr, I. H, Cameron re- moves a very remarkable surgeon from the ranks of the great operators of the Dominion. He always insisted on being called Mr. Cameron, not Dr. He was a surgeon, he said, not a medi- cal man, and chose to maintain the ancient tradition.--Hamilton Herald, THE EMPIRE High Praise for a Prince And certainly, in close-fitting dark overcoat, with a pink carnation--pre- sented to him by the little son of R. G. Clissold, chairman of the Edgbas- ton Occupational Centre--and his fair hair sleek in the winter sunshine, the Prince looked as handsome and healthy as any film star.--Birming- ham, England, Gazette. : Selling a Pair of Socks Here is a charming--and true-- story of Lady Strathmore, the Duchess of York's mother. At her bazaar in London the other day there were dozens of pairs of socks and in the midst of selling some of them she looked up at her customer rather anxiously. "You're'a big man-- wonder if these will be long enough in the foot for you," she said, "I know from my own boys that they are so'uncomfortable if they are short. ' "I'll tell you what to do. Take them with you and try them on, and if they are not long enough I'll Knit new toes for you.'--Overseas Daily Mail. Risked Her Own Neck -- A superintendent of police at Ox- ford spoke with commendable, even if unconscious, candor to a cyclist summoned during the past week for 'disobeying a traffic signal. As the lay press missed the whole point of his remark, we cannot let it pass without pointing the homily. The cyclist was a young lady who innocently imagined, when she. found the. red, light against her, that she could"etomea_,'pedestrian" on the spot and walk forward, ahead of the motor traffic. She went to the un- paralleled length of wheeling her cycle between two motor cars, which we imagine must be a very galling thing for a motorist to experience. In the police court she gaid she thought that if she walked she came under the "pedestrian category." The much- shocked superintendefit retorted: "And risk your neck!" To which the depraved young lady replied: "Well, it is my own." She was fined a pound, The temptation is to leave the facts without further comment -- as the superintendent presumably did, But those who still walk should bear in mind his professional opinion that to become a pedestrian on the spur of the moment is to risk your neck. We propose to leave it to the pedestrians on the one hand and the speedsters on the other to argue the point wheth- er a "modern pedestrian's'" neck is still his own!--G. K.'s Weekly. Gas and Destruction We have been told that airplanes with poison gases could wipe out the population of a city in a night, but Lord Mottistone ° (formerly better known as General J, E, B. Seely) de: clares it "a complete and fantastic de: lusion to suggest that Londofi could be paralyzed by one single blow from the air." Poison gases, to be effective, must be light enough not to spread themselves on the ground and heavy enough to resist dissipation in the at- mosphere, There is perhaps as much tendency to overrate the danger from gas ag there was to exaggerate the terrors of Big Bertha, which was able to project shells into Paris from 30 miles away, but for every shell that was fired legs than one person was nttord Expositor, killed, No one desires to have a de: A notable figure in the lite of, on- * The late Chief John George Watson, for 25 years head of Hunts: ville police, ex-member Irish con- stabulary at Belfast and friend of the late Lord Kitchener, whose funeral took place in Huntsville on January 11th, monstration of gas warfare, but we must be prepared to defend ourselves, whatever be the consequence of attack from the air.--The Weekly Scotsman, The English Birth-Rate More marriages, fewer births! In the third quarter of this year the number of persons mufried was great- er by 15,903 than the corresponding quarter of 1932 and greater by 35,408 than the number in the June quarter, but the births were 8,101 fewer than in the 1932 quarter and the birth rate dropped to 14.6 per thousand. France, Getrmany and Italy are now intent on raising their birth-rate. They realize that a nation's greatest asset is its citizens. Diritain 'cannot afford a fall- ing Dbirt.. rate now. -- The Sunday Chronicle. . The "Royal Scot" Now, if not before this time, the "Royal Scot" is the best known train in the world. To hundreds of thous- ands of "Century of Progress" visitors she is the incarnation of English rail- roading--even of England herself. And in every way she has done her country proud... Whoever conceived the Idea of sending the "Royal Scot" to Ameri- ca--and whoever evolved the plan for her visit--knew his showmanship. The flying tour made by the train before.) she took her place at the "Ceiifury of Progress" was just sufficient to stimu- late an enormous amount of public in- terest.--R. M., Van Sant, in Modern Transport. o> Lindbergh's "Services" Worth $250,000 Stock Washington.2-An official of Trans- continental Air Transport, Inc, re- cently told United States Senate in- vestigators 25,000 shares -of the com- pany stock were given to Colonel Charles A, Lindbergh. D. M. Sheaffer, chairman of the air company's . executive committee, told of a complicated system used for what he said was "income tax pur- poges" in transferring the stock to the noted pilot. ~ _ He said the stock, valued at -250, 000, was given to Lindbergh in re. Melbowne' to Oust Ugly Signs and Noise . Melbourne, Vic, -- Fresh campaigns against city noises, ugly poster adver. tisements and pillar verandahs are be: ing planned by the city council for the coming municipal year. After tram noises, which the coun- cil cannot stop, the chief causes of noise are regarded as being squeaking car brakes, radio loudspeakers, and "gpruikers" outside theatres and shops. The practice of having uni- formed "spruikers" outside shops, an- nouncing bargains , in - stentorian voices, has grown in recent years, All such noises, the council feels, could be subdued by stricter enforcement of the council's anti-noise by-laws. Ugly boardings which do not com- ply with the council's regulation will be pulled down. Owners of buildings with pillar verandahs will be urged to demolish them, or to replace them with verandahs of the cantilever type, within the next five years, The coun- cil's view is that pillar verandahs, be- sides interfering with traffic, mar the appearance of the city streets, Many have been demolished in recent years, ----s Princess Alice Opens . London Bazaar A big London event recently was a church bazaar in aid of Anglo-Cath- olic. home and foreign missions, he'd for two days in the Royal Horticul- tural Hall at Westminister, Out of the 60 special stalls, 10 represent .Africa, south of the equator, and St. 'Helena, The bazaar was opened by Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, fn recognition of her special South African connection. = ; The Princess, who wag attended by Miss Heron-Maxwell, sald she was Miss Heron-Maxwell, said ' ghe was happy to support the work of Eng- lish church missions at home and abroad. "I think those engaged in church work at home," she sald, "of- ten. fail to realize what the life of the workers abroad is like, My knowledge fs limited to my South African experiences, but during my seven years' residence in Solith Af- rica, I had ample opportunity to see the work done there by missionaries, and I learnt to appreciate the moral, social and physical help they give to 'the natives, The work {s so extreme- ly worth while, but none of it can be carried on without financial support," --_-- 14,200 Italian Settlers Flock to Reclaimed Lands Littoria, Italy.--Trainloads of peas- ants arrive here every month and thousands of these hardy farmhands start lift afresh in this city, which was once the centre of the now re. claimed Pontine marshes, Here at least there is no depression. These rugged folk come from the most varied points. of the peninsular and their one wish is to "till the soil. The vast expanses of the re- claimed Pontine marshes today make sthejr life dream come true. F¥<¥'¢reran, farmers stand at attention and mechanically click their heels to- gether before uttering a monosyllable, A good many lately have been com- ing from the Friuli region. Property is 80 subdivided and scarce there and so thickly populated that lots destined for farm-sharing often meas- ure dss than a hectare. Hence they become wanderers in search of work, almost gypsy-farmers. The Pontine ex- periment is curing the disease. Men are falling in love again with their soil, their plow and oxen. Spends 50 Millions = = Fens In Purchasing Gold Washington.--The United States reconstruction finance corporation has made known it had purch: more than $50,000,000. of foreign gold in the administration's effort to boost com- turn for "services." modity prices, ; Chicago Scene of Milk Battle . Vincent Harrlg has been chosen trol a long list of British archi. tects to design the new govern- 'ment buildings in Whitehall, Famous Woman Spy Happily Married Marthe Cnockaert, wife of Capt. McKenna, Ex- British Soldier Yesterday I heard the truth about one of the Great Way's greatest love romance, writes 4 woman correspond- ent of a London daily newspaper. It was the love story of a famous spy, who is now in Britain, told by her husband, Captain McKenna, ex-soldier, *."Qut of the desolation of mud, rain, graves and erostes came thg great- est 'happiness which we two had ever known," he sald. . The other person of the "we" is Marthe Cnockaert, though I am breaking: a promise in describing her in "this manner, _ "Captain McKenna {is tha husband of Madame McKénna, please, and I am the wife of a great so'dier, The rest we are trying to forget." That 'is Madame McKenna's emphatic wish, She is a wife now. "Her husband is her hero. And like all good Belgian women, shag left all the talking to him, i . Cemetery. Meeting "We met on a bleak November morning just a week or so after the war, A friend and I werg visiting the cemetery at Westrosebeke, look- ing for graves of some of my friends who were buried there," he said. "We plodded over the field, and saw a woman standing a little way in front of us, looking over the field of crosses , . . That wag Martha "My friend spoke to her, He ask- ed her if she knew the place. = He spoke to her first. It wag her home town, and she was coming back to it to find nothing but the: ryin of all her memories, i "I like Marthe -dmmediate'y, and it was some time later that I learned of her work. I felt even happier when I realized her bravery ... But very humble. For she had done great work!" ~~ i: Wonderfully Happy Marthe had listened to us.till then, but she here interrupted, "He did, too. He was a great sol- dier. = The whole war he fought. Very near tome ... And they gave him the Military Cross and bar and the French Croix de Guerre." "But Marthe, , . i" i And to avoid any argument I in- tervened. 4 = "You both served your country." They:are charming people. Won- derfully happy and very simple in their living. "I wag a spy," said Marthe, -"I can- "I not regret it; I would be a spy again." "And I am a spy's husband, and as Marthe {5 the spy I cannot regret that for one moment either" sald Captain McKenna, : i. I left them together, ong of -the Darien: married couples I have ever met, SELENA by Coffin A - Mourner. is Killed: Is Hit Metz, France.--Victim of -a falling | coffin, a French aviator pilot, Sergt. Giardin, is dead at Boulay, near Metz. He was riding uphill in a hearse | with the corpse of an old man. The hearse hit a tree, the rear door flew {open and thie coffin fell out, landing] on the flyer, Vp o---- -. ' Sydney Steel Plant : Gets Large Order Farm pickets dumping milk from truck near Chicago city limits The milk strike has reached such proportions practically any milk getting Into city. fs for hospitals and emergency milk for children | Sydney, N:S--Sir Newton Moore, president of the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation, has announced the corporation had closed a contract for an order of 6,000 tons of steel rods, to be rolled at the Sydney plant. He did not disclose the name of the firm purchasing the rods. ; |Showers Them With Gifts and the "Glad Hand" | Calgary. --- Western hospitality means something in Calgary, not just a handshake and "welcome to our city." : A "welcome wagon" awaits the new- comer and his family, It is-covered but not drawn, like the pioneer ones, by plodding oxen or fiery steeds. It thas an uptotheiminute motor and at the wheel sits a genial driver- hostecs. © The "welcome wagon' is loaded with gifts from local mer: chants for thé newcomers and letters of welcome, : Andy Davison inviting them to "come up and see me sometime." And then an invitation to dine-free at a oo0zy downtown tea room, followed by a comp'imentary ticket to a movie and a free taxi ride home, : But that is not all. The "welcome lady" greets the mew Calgary lhouse- wife with two baskets laden with foodstuffs--a quart of milk; a loaf of bread; butter; a tin of meat; several and a host of other household sup- plies. © There is also a bouquet of roses; a complimentary library: card and the man-of-the-house is not forgotten. He may have his hat cleaned and blocked free and his car washed and oiled, also without charge. And then for good measure there is a nice, shiny yardstick, but you don't need one to gauge western hos- pitality in Calgary, -------- Millions in Check : But Borrows Taxi Fare Washington. --A $43,300,000 «lheck in hig pocket and not enough money First there is a letter from Mayor. packages of biscuits; a bag of flour, * J. M. Johnston, M.D., Backs Up Advice With Actual Facts Many years ago Dr, Steffanson, the great northern explorer, sald, "D¢ (not put snow on a frost-bite; you will only add to the injury and drive it deeper." When lie was {n Toronto, 1 went to hear him and he repeated this statement, writes J. M. Johnston, M.D,<4in this article, I met him and at my suggestion he gave the aud ence a chance to ask "questions, 1. asked him about snow as a cure for frostbite, He told the audience the [same as he had told me. exclaimed, ¢'put your 'whole hand in snow, it will freeze solid and rot oft if you leave it long enough." w, I was one of thé audience who lis tened to Dr. Nanson in Maccey Hall, Toronto, some years ago. He sald 'm fact, the same thing as Dr. Stef fanson. "He condemned snow and re. I commended heat for froct-bites. ° Dillon Wallace in his book, "The Long Labrador Trail," says of the Eskimo noses, "They're very flat. I often wished mine more resembled them," By the way, he adds, "It you ever get your nose frozén, don't rub snow: on it. You will only rub :the skin off and have a very sore i member to nurse for a long while afterwards, Hold i{tsjn the bare hand. = This {s the Eskimo way and he knows. I speak from. experience." One bitterly 'cold Winter night 1 wag in a' tenant's apartment, His son, came In, skates in hand. = "Oh, I heard the mother exclaim. I went into the kitchen and asked for a pail of warm water. "Warm water!" exclaimed: the mother fn amazement, "the doctor told us last Winter to rub them with snow."; "Yes," said I, "and last Winter your son lay in to pay a taxicab bill was the predica- ment in which Mr. Lloyd Landau found himse'f. Public Works Administration, The taxicab bill was 40 cents and he wag in Chicago. to the doubtful driver and a consid: erable debate as to his identity, the driver allowed him to - enter the Union League Club to borrow 50 cents from the desk clerk. : The check was drawn in connec- tion with a government transfer of fundg in Chicago. : oi New Nationality Law London, --By the British Nationality and Status of Allens: Act, which recently received the royal ' assent, the lot of British women who marry foreigners is somewhat mitigated. The act, which was originally intro- duced into Parliament as the Na-! tionality of Married Women bill, en ables a British woman who marries' an alien to retain her own nationality ! un!ess she acquires his. In the case of a husband who re- linquiches his British - nationality after marriage; the wife may retain her British nationality, On the oth- er hand, an allen woman, marrying a British subject, wi'l only become of an enemy country will have the right to return to British nationality. ------ St; - Budapest Has Milk Row Budapest.--Five thousand liters of milk: were poured out in the streets of Budapest a few days ago as a demonstration of Hungarian milk sell ers against a 'decree of the govern: ment, } el aT The Ministry of Agriculture recent- ly issued a deoree forbidding the direct supply of milk to the consum- ers in the capital and forcing the pro- ducers to deliver their goods to the Budapest Dairymen's Association. - A number of "milk mothers" (as house are called in Hungary) refused to obey this summons and either 'de- livered no milk at all to the capital or tried to force their way through the police cordons at the octroifron- tier. During the encounters a number of the angry women opened their cans and poured out the milk, 4 TIS, Soviet Buys Canadian Wheat for Siberians Saskatoon.--The Soviet Governmént. has bought 16,000. bushels of Western Canada wheat for distribution in dis- tricts of Siberia needing early wheat, according to information received by Nell Stewart of Dunblane, Sask., pre- sident of the Saskatchewan Register- led Seed Growers Association. The grain, now stored in-a Moose Jaw ele- vator, will go for February delivery at New York. - ------ irman at Edmonton = Gets Rude Surprise Edmonton.--Heat actually forced utes after he took off-from the city Murray. ) Ze With a ground temperature of 45 'the air and bumped into an air cur- rent of 60 degrees at 1,000 feet, With his machine regulated for frigid win- ter flying, the motor started to over- heat and he hurried to the ground. > , Tod TY Helps Women 'in Britain | doctor could get the milk sellers going from house to} heal." « worse, Es ; ih The late Dr. Rankin, superintendent After disp'aying the federal check of Methodist Missions, told me this sad, sad story: At one of his lectures in the west, a young man was car- . 'ried in, hands and feet off. He had been brought from a hospital to hear Dr. Rankin, . That young man on returning from a Jdrive found hie hands too numb to unhitch his horse and asked someone to. go and put it away. His kinq.friends (poor. sou's; they knew mot what they did) put his hands and feet in snow until the there, On the doctor's arrival, he had the young man removed to the hospital where hands and feet had.to be amputated. Blood .poisoning set in ang ended his suffering, 1 ; have used warm water for more than ha'f a century and have always been delighted with the happy re: sults. I think I am in good company, Dr. Steftanson, Dr. Nanson dnd D'll~n Wallace, New Official Appointed At Experimental Farm M. B. Davis, B.S.A,, M.Sc., has been appointed Dominion horticulturist in British at her own request, while athe Dominion Experiméntal Farms British woman married to a citizen ' Pranch, Dominion Department of Ag- riculture. This position recently be- came vacant on account of the passing of Dr. W, T. Macoun, Mr: Davis has the years of service, training and experience which admir- ably fit him for this responsible posi- tion. He was born in Yarmouth, N.S. and received his early education in the public and: high schools of his native town, and graduated from Mac- donald College (McGill) with the de- gree of B.S.A. in 1912. ; Mr, Davis was appointed assistant to the Dominion horticulturist in 1914. He served overseas with the first Mec- cember, 1918, He was appointed chief assistant in the division of horticul- ture in 1919 on his return from over- seas, : 7 : Two Infants Have: Much in Common ; Denmark, N.Y.--Pwo infants of this village have much in common, Their mothers are sisters who mar- ried brothers, Both infants are boys. They were born the same day, in the by only a quarter-pound, born to Robert and Winhifred Cronk Twitchwell, while Rodney William, 7% pounds, was born to William and Margaret Cronk Twitchwell, The births occurred Dec. 19, 1933, at the home of Mr. and Mrs, John Cronk, parents of the two mothers. Kingsford-Smith Hired as Exper Sydney, Australia, -- Vacuum Oil Captain 'Walter - Gilbert, Ginadion] Company subsidiary of a great Am: Airways pilot, to land here a few miin-| erican Company, has ke : Air ! Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford airport on a projected flight to Me-' Smith to act in wn advisory capacity : jon all aviation matters, He will be associated with the company's re- degrees, Captain Gilbert glided into: search chemists and engineers, [I'he engagement will not interfere with his participation in the world's greatest air race, from England to Australia, in connection with the Victorian Cen- terary celebrations. ¥ . Re PorFostBite: "Why, he have you got your feet frozen again?" bed for three months lelting his feet The warm water was brought - 3 | and inte. it the boy put his feet. The Mr. Landay is a solicitor for the. next morning he walked to Eaton's where he worked, his feet none the ' Gill Battery from May, 1916, to De- 'same house, and their weights differed George Robert, eight pounds, was -