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1 -------- a 3 A a a ------------ ee -- > & Bahn a Oo og Voic of Canada, The Empire and The World at Large the Press CANADA. Employment Increasing, One of the encouraging features of the past year has been the increase in 'employment in Canada in general and in the Sault in particular, While the number on relief here is the low- est since August, 1932, it is pointed out, for "instance, by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics that despite a de- cline in employment during the open- ing months of the year, the index uf factory empioyment. on December 1 was 15.4 per cent. above that of Janu- ary 1, 1933, in contrast to declines of 8.4, 2.6 and 2.7 per cent, in the years 1932, 1931 and 1930 respectively.--|- From the Sault Star. British Movies, A few years ago British pictures were of inferior quality and depended on the appeal to patriotism for their sales. Today they depend on their own intrinsic worth, "hich is considerable, --From the Calgary Albertan, Double Fracture, Dr. Margaret Strang Savage denies the report, published in many papers recently; that she set a fracture of her own leg. -She says she didn't even have a fractured leg. Well, that frac- tures a good newspaper story.--I'rom the Goderich Signal. ; Will Need to Be. We have it on the word of a New York scientist that man will be big- ger and brainier 500,000 years from - now, and at the rate problems are being piled up for posterity he will need to be,--I'rom the Hamilton Spec- tator, Angels Fear to Tread. Some of our contemporaries are be- coming reckless in their statements, evidently forgetting that an editor is no more immune from pain than any other man when punched on the nose. In the Belleville Intelligencer, for instance, we find the bald statement: "4Girls are no longer clinging vines,' says an authority: No they are wild rambiers." ; That is a dangerous thing to say. We know from experience because we printed the same thing about four years ago. A young lady working in the office .took us to task for it and, after saying many things, concluded with the statement that thg_.eason . girls are no 'longer clinging vines is "that they have nothing to cling to.-- From the Linizay Post. - ) Effervescing, An infant who has consumed cham- pagne for many months is said to be in perfect health, Bubbling over with it, in fact.--From the Brockville Ree- order. - Would Cause Trouble, We picked up the Sault Ste. Marie 'Star and saw a two-column heading in very black type which said: "Says - Women Can't Have Beautiful Legs Bg. fore 28."- Jim Curran may: get away with that in Algama, but if we tried it here we know thetgirl at the switch- board would be calling up to say: "There's a deputation here. Will you see them now?"--I'rom the Stratford Jeacon-Herald. Making Motorists Courteous. Many citizens, we have .no doubt, _who have beén sprayed by the goo churned up by passing motor cars have felt that there should be recourse to the THIFtE Ti such cases and, the Ham- ilton magistrate making it clear that there is, drivers who swish through roadside puddles in the future may find themselves knee-deep in grief and woe, Those who will ngt be courteous of their own accord must be made 50; and a bespattered citizenry will raise loud. cheers the first time one of these offenders is haled to court.--From the Hamilton Spectator. The Starchless Potato, A few days ago the president of an English potato marketing. organi- zation remarked at a meeting that times had been bad for the potato grower because of the craze for slim- ming by the womenfolks, but he saw a ray of hope for the industry in the belief that the slimming had about run its course and women are going back to curves. Result--they will eat two potatoes where they formerly toy-" ed with vie, : There is another hope, however, in an announcement from Montreal, Two 'professors there have been experi- menting with the lowly potato, and, while they are not yet in a position to cry "Eureka," there is solid ground fox. believing they are on the way to developing a starchless tuber. This is done by giving the-seed potato a shot of a new bacillus. which is ex- tracted from hay. This baccilus con- verts the starchy part of the potato into sugar, That again sounds bad, but it ds not the cloying type of sugar found in syrup or honey, It is the innocuous. kind found in fruit, such - as apples or berries, So ladies and gentlemen, you who - like your plates piled up with pota- + %o08, there may be a good time coming. ~From the St. Thomas Times-Journal ; 's Sea Harvest, Cateh from Canada's sea fisheries in first eleven months of 1988 was, less than it had been in the like period of 1932, but its landed value showed an increase of over $601,000, Landed value total, as shown - by statistics gathered and compiled by the Domin- ion" Department of Fisheries, but not yet revised, was nearly $11,190,600 as compared with $10,689,285 at No- vember 80th, 1932, although total catch was 6,722,750 hundredweights as against 6,786,650. Betterment in the later months of the 1933 period explains the gain in landed value.-- From the Brandon Sun, Smell and Taste, When one has a cold nothing seems to taste right. The wife may have done her best with the apple pie, the mashed potatoes may be as fluffy and smooth as you desire, but it's a task' to down it, 'There's a simple reason for it. A cold obstructs what scien- tists call the olfactory epithelium, lo- cated in a little niche in the skull just above and behind the nostrils. It's your smeller. The senses of taste and smell are so closely linked it is almost impossible to say, sometimes, which is which, Sugar and salt are excep- tions. We cannot detect them by smelling, as a rule.--From the Sarnia Canadian-Observer, . This Much Is Certain, That fan dancer, marooned for a week on bleak Whisky Jack Island, in Lake Winnipegosis, hasn't told her ex- periences yet, but it can be presumed that she didn't do any rehearsing.-- From the Brantford Expositor. -- THE EMPIRE. |, Secrets Well Guarded, Sir John Simon's tribute to the Foreign Office staff was well deserved. And, indeed, he might have extended it to the whole civil service, "Secret and*tonfidential" documents, -supposed to be seen only by a few high officials and responsible ministers, are, in fact and inevitably, seen by typists and stenographers, clerks and printers. Knowledge that could be sold profit- ably "in the city" -is often in the pos- session of civil service whose pay' is certainly not excessive. Yet "leak- ages" hardly ever occur. The tradi- tion of. trustworthiness is an incalcu- lably valuable nation asset.--I"rom the 'London Daily Herald. - Facing Realities, May it not even be that there is an eternal struggle for survival in which nations, like the rest of Nature, take part, and out of which they cannot contract without peril of destruction? That at least is a working hypothesis which we think it wise to take into account. Our forefathers accepted it cheerfully and courageously and con- trived to survive, and for our part we do not look for any new world which shall superannuate the loyalties and the precautions of the old. The 'Greek democracies could not persuade Pihilip of Macedon to disarm; their only chance lay in the strength to resist his invasions. All democracies, all governments, all societies, now as then, must be prepared to defend themselves or perish, As we look out upon. the world, convulsed in parts with upsurging nationalisms, control- led in other parts by enthronéd tyran- nies, .we reflect that these are apt to be both hostile and rapacious; that we live--as man has always lived--in a dangerous world; that life itself is dangerous; and that nations were probably ordained-as the best means of protecting the otherwise naked and helpless individual. Better to take ac- count. of these things than to behave Morning Post. il " Sadan \ 7 still Jailed for Debt. Although the pathetic story of the debtor who was detained in prison while his two children died is unusual, instances of similar hardship on a less tragic scale must be frequent. The total number -of debtors imprisoned in England annually exceeds 20,000. The creditors have the doubtful satis- faction of legal vengeance, but they do not get their money; hardship is caused to wives and children, and the State is put to considerable expense. There is hope that the Speical Com- mittee's report--which will not be ready for some months yet--wil 'simplify the problem of doing justice to debtor and creditor'in equal mea- sure,--Daily Mail. British Policy and Dominions While it is true that questions which once might have raised long and de- laying discussions are now "more and more matters of mere adjustment," it is also true that the new closeness between Great Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth has led to great- er sensitiveness and independence, The links of Empire have become shorter and perhaps more tenuous. A policy of "British agriculture first," if it is not handled with extraordinary cau- tion, may have serious reactions on the economic and, therefore, also on the political futurs of the Dominions. ~--From the Manchester Guardian, 4 End. BE i --_€.,. Two Ways to Same as if they did not exist.--From thel. In Britain we have tried to end the Walter Young, Montreal, winner of the 12-mile international snowshoe race held at Manchester, N.H,, during the annual conven: tion of Canadian and United States snowshoe clubs. I rr] Budget. If you believe in having a deficit, it is only logical to have a big one. All the same, the.size of Mr. Roosevelt's deficit is staggering. It would be foolish to apply the ordinary standards of comparison to policies such as these. America, in her war on depression, is spending on the war- time scale. Let us hope she avoids the financial aftermath of such extrava- gance.--I'rom the News Chronicle, Britain's Drought Scare, It is not as if there was an in- herent deficiency of water in this coun- try. Wales could supply the whole nation. A number of cities have a great r'rplus, The Government must set up n-Central Water Authority and take the proper steps to ensure that this authority, through regional or- ganizations, efficiently distributes the available water--From the Daily Herald. N The Lesser of Two Evils, Facts are staring Europe in the face. One of them is that in the ab- sence of a disarmament agreement, Germany will re-arin in freedom from any restriction--even though the So- cialist party is "irrevocably opposed" to her doing so. The choice before the nation is that between regulated ani unregulated armaments. The Govern- ment is devoting all its energies and all its prestige to rescuing the world from such a disaster as the second of those alternatives.--From the London Daily Telegraph. ~ THE UNITED STATES. Light-Keepers, ' They were queer chaps, these light- house keepers. One at Bu%zard's Bay réquired an inspector to wear felt slippers over his shoes 'to keep the sairs clean." At Isle Royal "Light- house, on a rock of Lake Superior, a keeper had chained his po by agree- ing to marry, with the rdsult that his wife brought twelve children into the world. Appointments used to go by political favor, until in 1896, Grover Cleveland 'put the lighthouse people Asks Friendship for .ess B. deHueck, who is of the Russian : SLES into the civil service, - A light-keeper ou the Columbia River had only two days off' in twenty-three years, and on one of these days he got married. A hard life, but it developed a sturdy race.--From the New York Times. Collision Involves ; Fifty Automobiles Harwich, England.--During a recent fog, 50 cars participated in a «colli sion on the main Liverpool road. - Which car began the jam 'was not discovered. All each driver could see was that there was a car ahead of him and one behind, Visibility was not more than five yards, Halt the cars that came upon th Jam 'hit the car Iu fromtie---"" "7" There was pandemonium for half an hour. Every horn screeched in a vain effort to get the car in front to move, When at last the jam began to break up most of the cars that had escaped collision in arriving hit an- other car or was 'hit in departing. Nearly every car of the fifty was damaged. J -- lm How to Get Ideas Says the Lindsay Post.--"An 61d de- finition has it that journalists, pre-|° sumably the writers for the biggor papers, come down' to work in the morning and if they have no ideas they go out and play a round of golf; the reporter, or worker for a small newspaper, comes to work in the morn- ing and if he hasn't an idea he goes out on the street and interviews sone- one who has." - < Foreigners in Canada "The poorest fed resident of this city gets a greater food allowance than the 'poor' in Russia," declared Baron- nobility, in an nddress in Toronto. She urged a greater frierdship for the so* called "foreign" Canadians within Canadian borders, © | : Ee --. rt "When crisis by balancing the Bu The President is trying to do the same thing by deliberately unbalancing the page stalled the arooplane atop a tres, ? A Happy Landing thelr aeroplane Was driven fnto a bush {hess filers, Boyles, Ley Coppage and Vernon Mayfield, escaped - Robert | as second to France. :1 8,600 words on each side which may be '| sant, head of the English department " Russia Seco to Sin Jats France Air second strongest in the world, Premier House of Commons in reply to a state- ment to that effeet by Capt. Harold Balfour, France is first, It has been estimated here that the Russians possessed approximately 1,400 planes of first-line strength, al though the total military strength is unknown, 4 The United States is estimated to have 1,050 first-line planes and a total military strength of 2,300, The United States hitherto had been ranked by most military experts Premier MacDonald also admitted Balfour's contention that the Soviet air. force is 60 por: cent. tronger than the British Royal Air Force and: the fact that the Soviet had announced its intention of: attaining first range in the near future, . Champions of British air re-arma- ment were heartened by the admis- sions, believing they indicate liberal air appropriations soon, The military air strength of the leading powers is estimated as fol- ows: First Line Total Strength, France ......... 1,660 3,000 Russia ........, 1,400 = .,.. United States .., 1,060 2.300 Italy ........... 1,060 1,507 Britain ,?....... 850 1,434 Japan .., 800 to 1,000 1,989 rk APA : "Talking Books" to Circulate Across Country for Blind Toronto,--Captair. E. A, Baker, general secretary of the Canadian Na. tional Institute for the blind, told the annual meeting of the institute's wo- men's auxiliary that the organization would begin soon to circulate "talking books" across the country.. : The "books" he explained are long phonograph records, containing" about folded. Each may be played about 100 times before showing wear. The institute was launched a little less than 16 years ago, nei ----p ee en Girl Completes 1200 Gi 5 Mile - Walk Miss Esther James, a: New Zealand girl, has just completed a 1,200 mile wabtk from Melbourne to Brisbane in days. She stopped at a number of places on the way to lecture and ad- mire the scenery. : With her she carried a pedometer which showed that she took four mil- lion steps, and as Miss James's shoes weigh'. one pound, her legs therefore lifted the equivalent of 1,780 tons. Several years ago she walked 1,600 miles through New Zealand in 128 days. : : oy --_-- Honey Production : Up in Quebce| Quebec.--The statistical division: of the Dept. of Agriculture notes a large Increase in production of honey during the past year. The total amount of extracted honey produced was 8,753,- 500 pounds, compared to 2,415 pounds in 1932; comb hongy amounted to 289,- 400 pounds, against 236,000 pounds. a year ago; and there were 53,700 pounds obtainad for wax, compared with 44,600 in 1932. The average pro- duction per hive was 53.2 pounds for extracted honey; 4.1 pounds for comb honey, and .76 pounds for wax, against 26.4, 2.49 and .47 pounds res- pectively in 1932," i {eine Blames Williams For Silly Spelling Professor of 'English Scores the Conqueror and Caxton Washington.--Dr. Dewitt C. Crols- of George Washington University London.~~The Soviet air force is the J. Ramsay MacDonald admitted in the . --- an a : ; Sa Iv Boats ed considerable attention in the later | built, big passenger 'planes. : accommodation in the new "Perth" clasg, flying boats, in the Mediterran-| 0 ean service, has earned many admir- ipg comments. : § Amlidships, for example, is the offi« equipped with, a, hinged pneumatic settee berth on either side which forms' seats by day, or can be folded up to give ample floor space, Each berth is fitt with life-lilnes and cou'd be used as a raft in emergency. Behind the herths.are lockers for kit and canteens for food and crockery. A detachable hanging mahogany table with metal tubular supports 4s slung from the frames overhead when need- ed; when not in use it can be stored away .under the. starboard berth, ' Watertight Bulkhead The wardroom is insulated against excessive noise. Hinged electric fans at the side ports provide ventilation table are stowed away tlie clear space measures seven feet in length and breadth and six feet in height. At the rear of the room {is the engineer's station, equipped with oil and water thermometers, ofl pressure gauges, a watch, and radiator shutter controls, Dividing the wardroom from the men's quarters is a watertight bulk- head, fitted with a swing door, Now Believe End ~~ © Of World is Near Gallup, N.\M.--The end of the world is near, say the Navajo medicine men, because two pairs of twins have been born to Navajo women in two days. Navajo medicine men belleve a'l chil- dren must be born before the end of time, explained Dr, R. H, Pousma, sup- erintendent' of Rehoboth Navajo Mis- sion. Hospital, Twins are rare in tribe, only five pairs, {ncluding these two, having been born in the last six years, : : Finland Buying British 'Planes Helsingfors. -- Orders for 17 new aeroplanes are shortly to be placed by the Finnish War Office, and news-! papers in Helsingfors state that the orders will go to Britain, : The type most suitable for Finland's requirements is stated to be the Bris- tol Bulldog, : { Recently the Finnish War Office ordered 13 aerop'anes from the Fok- ker Works in Holland. These were of the Fokker C.V.E, type equipped with Bristol Pegasus engines, 7 EGE fo eas Elizabeth Arden Gets > - Legal Separation New - York.--The Daily News says that Elizabeth Arden, {international ly known beauty specialist, has ob- tained a legal separation from Thomas J.: Lewis, for 15 years her husband and. for 12 years the wholesale man: ager of her businses, The decree was granted in Manhat'an. Supreme Court early this motith, the paper says. "Elizabeth. Arden": was origina'ly Florence Nightingale Graham, born in Englanq and educated in Canada. Schoals to get Anti-War Book . Toronto.--The Ontario Department' of Education announced recently that it would purchase for distribution in Ontario public schools 5,000 copies of Beverley Nichols' "Cry 'Havoe," a de- nunciation of 'war. The author was educated in England. Premier Henry as Minister of Edu- cation, gave instructions to buy the book. Every public school in On- tario will receive..a. copy. - SS RST ------ Must Return Ring : If Engagement Off and an advocate of simplified spe'ling blames Willlam the Conqueror 'and another William, Caxton, the first English printer, who imported Dutch ' printers, for what he terms "our silly! spelling." : : The Dutchmen put the h in "ghost" and o-ug-h in "through," he sald. ~ He saw no reason why "beauty" is more beautiful than "duty," and in general, he felt that as a result of complexity and confusion English spelling is approaching the Chinese ideographic system---in many schools, | he sald, pupl's 'don't study the alpha: bet and learn words as piotures, ' 3 » t fd vl of {+d \ "Brown reminds me of a donkey sometimes.' : "Yes, he does make an ass of -himself quite often.' -------- Se -------- DIFFICULT : An escaped inmate of a mental home in America '3 thought to have voyage out recently. : Joined a Jazz band. The authorities of ning. ships ordered for the New are faced with the hopeleds task of singling him out in vx death when Cop- [| Aa Jazz band.-- Passing Show. =. - "entirely by the licence fees paid by .~ of meats and dairy produce, ; Chicago.--Young women contem- plating matrimony will -be interested in knowing that a Chicago court has held that an engagement ring is not a sift, and must be returned if the marriage ceremony is not performed. This ruling was made by Municipal Judge Howard Hayes in a7 suit brought by Lewls Howell for recov- ery of a ring given his girl friend, who allegedly broke the engagement. ANTS -- on o tv No Advertising On' London, Bng--Comfort has receiv. Staff. cers' quarters or wardroom. This is, OB when the boat is anchored. There is! Jlenty of room; when. berths andj ing Speaks Before Annual Collegiate Meeting chools Goadrich of the, Yale School of -Nurs- ing says that retgrdation in progress of human thought is probably greater the paxt of women than of men. Speaking before the representatives of 21 colleges and universities gathered for the first annual meeting of the | association of ollegiate schools of - nursing, she said that this condition can "reasonably be ascribed to the re« cent emergence .of women into the life currents as, expressed. in occupational, professional and educational life." "It is our .belief," she: continued, "that when women are as well versed ' as are men in the demands of the busis ness of life we can look for greater advance. The strength of women lies jin their womanhood and they should i have the vision to see how fundamen- ital is its contribution to the race, nor seek to follow in the steps of men." ° Leisure, Dean Goodrich said, is not enough, adding that knowledge and experience are demanded if women are to work with men. "To work through them projects us back to the sheltered life of the Victorian era,"- -- Sunday Orchestrals Banned at Winnipeg Winnipeg.--Sunday concerts given by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra have been_banned by order of Hon, W. J. Major, K.C,, Attorney-General, it was learned. Eustace Brock, president of the Symphony Orchestra, has received notice the concerts will not be per- .mitted after: Sunday, Feb, 4, No rea son for the order was given in the -notification, but Mr. Major stated to- day the orchestra, in charging admis- sion for the concerts was violating the Lord's Day Act, En "Hindenburg of Kitchen" Dies in Germany I Germany's "Hindenburg of the kit-- chen," died of the infirmities of old age recently. She was 83. Her role in public life was especially unusual in view of-the belief," sponsored by Em- peror Wilhelm, that woman's realm consisted of the three K's, kinder, kirche and kueche (children, church -and kitchen), : She was a pioneer in the movement to provide sanitary and comfortable working conditions for laborers and to teach domestic sicence in German schools, For years her cookbook was a classic, y : When she observed her 80th birth- .day on May 4; 1930, hundreds of mes- sages and editorials paid her tribute, Re H Changes Are to Be Made "in London Tram Lines London.--Trolley buges will take the place of street cars or trams in several London suburbs when the Lon-. don Passenger Transport Board is given powers by Parliament to make. the change, a bill covering the pro- posed change having been drafted for presentation to Parliament. : The board's plan is to replace , gradually the older and least efficient tramway services of outer London by trolley services, while retaining the more efficient trams until they become obsolete. oe Woman Coal Miner : Banned From Pit Cadiz, 0.--Ohio's "Amazon of the pits," the state's only woman coal miner, was ordered back to her kitchen recent'y, foc: \ State authorities told Ida Mae Stull, 34, who has worked in coal mines ever since. she can remember, that she must go back to washing dishes, cooking and sewing, Coal: mining, sald the state, is mo job for a woman. Besides, there's a law, * : Mids Stull didn't agree. - She said 80 in no uncertain terms; SERRE APC IIA Seeks To Control Deadly Gas Peril British Guiana, Britain's only colony in South America, may contribute largely to a reduction in deaths . Australian Radio| Sydney, Ausralia,--Austra'ia's "A" class radio stations do not sell time for advertising, but are supported owners of sets. The system is now well established and neither govern- ment nor people wou'!d tolerate any change, With a population of only, six and a half million, there now are 514,287 licences in force, and in No- vember the new. licences totalled: 12,380, i a : ---- inn New Motor Meat Ship London~--The mniotor-vessel, Port Chalmers, the first ship specially! equipped to carry fresh meat from New Zealand and Australia to the United Kingdom on a commercial scale, 'left King George V, Docks,' Canning Town, FE, on her maiden She fg the first Zealand food trade which will carry fruit' as well as immense quantities ~~ danger, caused Dy carbon monoxide gas, dis. charged from automobile exhausts, Following experiments made by Dr. John Harger at Liverpool University, England, the West India Committee supplied the research department with quantities of bauxite, for which Bri * tish 'Guiana is famous, It i8 proposed to use bauxite to absorb the monpxide by combustion in the exhaust chamber « Se) of automobiles. = eta WS Satins Believe Danger from Kiss Past Memhpis, Tenn---Mrs. C, E. Ross, who gave her husband one last kiss as he lay dying of rabies, is apparent. ly out of danger of: contracting the disease, Aor ¥ 5 Ross, a Government fleet steward - died early in January, A stray dog bit him a month before, . A he 'Béfore his death, Mrs, Ross kigaed him, . Her daughter, Mrs, Hi Lewers, did Hkewige, = Both bave completed a series of treatments to prevent rabies, physicians say that they are out of .. E55 Ld New Haven, Conn.--Dean Annie W. and 0 (5 ~ Berlin--Hedwig Heyl, known as pe : ry af Ye