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---- oF a a a NT ha hn a a on i (7) 0) ¥ "ty ve - pial Pn -- CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA GOVERNMENTS AND TARIFFS. Rt, Hon, W, L. Mackenzie King wants wider markets as does every one else, but when the United States market was being narrowed by Unit ed States tariffs he was afraid 'to do anything lest it should be thought provocative, 1f the United States is now seeking wider markets in Can- ada it is because Mr, Bennett was not afraid to act. Mr. King cannot be blamed for the loss of markets, but he is blamable for not making up for that loss by conserving our own. He saw foreign markets clos- ed to Canada by hostile tariffs, Yet he allowed those who framed those tariffs to have access to our mark- ets on the same old terms. He held to his preference for wider markets while all other countries were rais- ing barriers, He failed to realize it was a condition, not a theory, that confronted him, - IFearful , lest Mr, Bennett should succeed An making a favorable ar- rangem¢nt for reoiprocal trading, Mr. William Duff, M,P,, during the last Aession and again this session, infoduced a resolution calling for negotiations looking to that end. The resolution was withdrawn after de- bate, on the Finance Minister's rep- resentation that it was not helpful while negotiations are in progress. Better than any parliamentary reso- lution as a prelude to such agreement was the action of the Bennett Gove ernment in raising the Canadian ta- 1:40 to meet, to some extent at least, the vavious advances in tie United States tari wmude wiaile the King Ministry held power.--Toronto Mail awd Empire, KIND WORDS. The Ottawa Journal publishes the records to show that in the last two _years it nas been the most quofed newspaper n Canada, It is a very creditable showing, Situated in the Capital, right near the seat of all our jurisprudence, it is not surpris- ing that the editorials of The Jour- nal are regarded as highly judicial, Our contemporary 3 never known to indulge in hysteria,---St. Cathar ines Standiwed. ROLLING IN WEALTH. Late in Mareh there will be is- sucd thousands of silver dollars in Canadian money. Whed these cart whee's get in circulation we'll be tolling in wealth,-- Stratford Beacon- Hevald, A TRUE EVENT, The Sco can't spend $1 while only co'lecting 74 cents and keep solvent. In the last five years, the city has been siipping behind as - regards its uncollected taxes and the city lots it has had to take over from owners who couldn't pay their taxes, If there is one lesson the Soo should take to heart it is that the city can't spend more money than it collects, The government. urges that all counties "live within their in- come," that is, that they shouldn't spend in any one year more money than they collect, The only safe way for a city or an individual is to not go info debt, Nobody knows what the future _biolds.--Sault Ste. Marie Star, EXCITEMENT FORE AND AFT. There was excitement fore and aft in the office of the Shelbourne Free Press and Economist Thursday af- terncon, At the front, the Wesley United Church annual Sunday school sleigh ride was gathering, At the back a chicken hawk, evidently mis- calculating on a predatory swoop, crashed through a large many-paned window to the intense surprise of the editor's son who was sitting at a linotype at the window, He captured it and released a terrified starling from its claws. The intruder"s wings- spread tip to tip was 34 inches, -- Shelbourne Free Press, PRESS QUOTATIONS, With its well-written and always interesting editorial page, The Ot- tawa Journal again tops the list of quotations from the daily newspapers of Canada as they have been com- piled by the Dominion Press Clip- ping Bureau for the final quarter of the vear 1934. This compilation is made quarterly of extracts from each of the 100 daily newspapers in Can- ada that are reproduced in other pub- lications throughout the country, -- Brockville Recorder. RECORD OF SINCERITY. Sooner or later the Canadian people are going to resent the continuous insinuations on the part of Opposi- tion speakers and writers -that the prime minister's program of reform for security Is nothing more sub- stantial than a pre-election soap bubble, pretty to look at, but ephem- eral as mist on the mountain tops... Anyone professing to be a student of Canadian political history knows that Mr. Bennett throughout his car- ecr has been outspoiefs on hehaif of reform measures, wlienever he con- gidered such reform measures neces- sary, Ie fought his own party in 1914 in opposition to a grant of $45,000,000 to those reckless adven- turers, Mackenzie and Mann, He is an implacable foe of those who lohby on behalf of greedy corporate inter ests, He has urged restrictions on msutance compaincs. Again in 1928 he wwindd wgainst stock -specaladon. He ploced Stansell squarciy on record more than a year beio.e the market cra. h, mn hese twenchant sentences, spoken the House of Commons on Juae 9, 1028: "Some people imagine that trading in pieces of paper upon waich taece are engraved words and figures constitutes the creation of new wealth, 3 It is not so, The new waith otf the country is being crea- ted Ly the application of labor and capital: to the natural resources of the country, and this trading in stock certificates, this great era of speculation in this. country and on this continent, is one fraught with possibilities of the gravest danger to Canada," oo Had the government of the day listened to Mr. Bennett in 1914, we would not in 1935 have so grave a railroad problem confronting us, Had the country listened to Mr. Ben- nett in 1928, the bitterly tragic ef- fects of the 1929 debacle would sure- ly not have been so widely spread, To accuse a man of insincerity with so staunch a record behind him. of plain speaking on behalf of reform, simply is not good enough. Not for Cenadians, who have a habit of thinking for themselves, and prefer to develop their thoughts from fac- tual tnesex, --Dunnville Gazette, AN ECONOMIC "GESTURE" The depression is having a disas- trous effect on the once-popular Brit- ish custom of calling a spade a spade. Workers are not "sacked" nowadays; they are "suspended," "released," and so on as far as the art of synonyms will take us, .The Manchester Guardian reports that a London firm recently received an ap- plication for a job from an unemploy- ed man in which the art of "putting it gently" was raised to the nth de- gree. He wrote, "I am temporarily disengaged because of an economic gesture on the part of my previous employer," Rather an ungracious gesture, -- Winnipeg 'I'ribune, THE "SLOW" BRITISH. A despatch to a U.S. paper that American visitors to says London « "post-Belisha never "cease to be amazed at the efficiency of His Majesty's postal ser- vice," Any letter deposited in the city before 6 a.m. is delivered by last post at 9 p.m. and a missive mailed in Brighton, 52 miles away at noon, is delivered the same evening with- out fail. Those "slow British" still continue to show the way.--Brantford Expositor, THE EMPIRE NEW USE FOR BAGPIPES. The -foliowing appears in the "Bulawayo Chronicle" of January 12, gent to that South African journal by the farmer of West Field Ranch, Insiza, by name S, H. MacCallum: Sir: --1Here is something for pipers to think about, The following is a fact: Some little time back the whole country was overrun by huge swarms of locusts; they were passing over the ranch all day, then, towards sun- set they settled on the trees round the homestead. They were so num- erous that the branches of the trees were bent down with their weight, Of course, we knew what would hap- pen if they were allowed to remain there; by the morning there would not be a leat left on any of the trees, So my cousin suggested 1 get out the bagpipes and see if that would shift thewn, 1 treated the suggestion as a joke, By jove! It was no joke, | played the pipes round the house, and will yon believe, they could not stand it. They -cleared away, though it was after sunset, for over 300 yards round the house, What ho! The bagpipes! Turn out the pipers when locusts are about. The tunes were "MacCallum's Lament," "Cock o' the North," aad "Beileve Me, If All Those -....... ", I am, etc. All of which comes with appropri- ateness fiom one who bears the good Highland name of MacCallum,-- Banfishire Journal. -EMPIRE TRADE. During 1934 British import trade increased by upwards of $235,000,000, or 18.5 per cent, over that of 1933, Of that increase, $110,600,00 came from the Iimpire, which is 9 per cent. more than in 1933, while the increase in foreign imports was 82 per cent, British exports to the word increased by something like $140, 000, of which more than 75 per cent, or $110,000,000, went to the limpire, which is an increase of 13.5 per cent, over 1933, while' the increase of ex- ports to foreign. countries was only three per cent,--Current British Board of Trade Figures, EQUINE COMEBACK IN LONDON. An. attempt Is being made to stage a comeback for that -repute- ably noble animal, the horse, as an angent of locomotion. At the Royal Agricultural hall this weeks crowds 'are gathering to admire the tremen- dous flanks, plaited manes and heavy hirsute hocks of the exhibited shires, Brewers, coal distributors, big stores, and the refuse department of the corporation of the City of Lon- don favor horsedrawn vehicles, So breeders are producing faster-paced geldings to suit the traffic rate of a age; more horseg are being put on the London streets this year than last, says the Daily Her ald, y On the other hand, whatever Od- hams press may hope for animal transport, -the Beaverbrook press is definitely against it. A leader-writer of the Evening Standard was held up on his way to the office last Tues- day morning. Naturally annoyed to find the cause of obstruction to be nine horse-drawn vehicles, he order- ed out the files, and discovered that horses are the chief villains in traf- fic blocks, that they are disappearing from the London streets, and that it is no kindness to the horse to keep him in London harness, What the horse thinks no one has yet discov- ered,--Time and Trade, Only two so-called unlucky days are listed on the calendar for 1935. They are Friday the 13th of Scn- tember, and the 13th of December. If you would increase the volume of knowledge if a man knew at 25 what he thought he knew at 18, 11 10 i A Military Problem P w® Pp @ P elf a Look at this square. five w 7s "CLIVE of INDIA' Peybh § Can you 'solve this problem, one of the many typical cases from the military life of "Clive of India'? " In it are Clive's headquarters, with a star. Then there are five infantry units, indicated by pennants, and five artillery units, indicated by cannon. tory iy the units divided among five subalterns, so that each of the ill have in command, an area of equal space and identical shape, and each of the five will have one unit of both infantry and artillery. Can you take a pencil or pen and ink and divide the square to fit these requirements? Watch next week's issue for solution. : indicated Clive wants the terri- decorative function in our ting ready. treatments been more picturesque, The .woman who would like orful, lyin, Venetian the hanging. 4 CORNICES ARE POPULAR. the room. entire blinds are colored, liked are oft mirror and plain glass, Some windows in modern classic rooms are framed entirely of mirror glass, sides as well as cornices of of the things they definitely do is add helght to a room, The mirror effect is also being used, by the way, in doors to increase the apparent size of the room, Glass curtains come four Inches below the window sill just to cover the woodwork underncath the sill, Draperies touch the floor, and if there is a carpet to the edge of the floor may even be slightly longer than floor length and lie in folds on the carpet. A decorating authority suggests for an English type living room draperies 'of heavy fabric without much sheen, wool damask, for in- stance, . In - the French living room taffeta is particularly appropriate, and for the French bedroom, satin. Linen is excellent for the Chinese Chippendale room and for the modern room, antique _satin, contradictory as that may sound! ; SATIN AND VELVET DRAPES A prominent actress' exquisite bed- room had draperies of peach satin and white velvet hung on a pole covered with white velvet, The bedspread in this room is also of the Architects predict that the time satin-velvet combination. is not far off when, as a result of air conditioning and simulated day- light, windows may assume a purely houses, The decorators apparently are get- For never have window to freshen up her house might well be- gin with draperies. The newest ones are simple, straight-hanging and col- Heavy, dust-catching velvels are definitely out, crisp taffetas, lust- rous sating and ingeniously decorat- ed cotton materials are just as sure- blinds have almost entirely supplanted the oldfashioned shade and supply a background for If the room is dark, the Venetian blinds are usually. white with tapes fo matoh the predominating color in Sometimes, however, the Cornices are being used in all sorts of rooms this year. The most popu- lar are of wood and the next most clear, blue, rose or even green. One | Decorative Windows Add to Appearance of Rooms If You Want fo Freshen Your House For Spring, Why Not Begin On Your Draperies" simpler bedroom, a cotton satin, A denias, line the shape painted with pgdnted Silvering "a is particularly darkish hallway. a Up-to-date I've quite made up mind, know, To keep up with the time; I've been to see the Auto Show my "And studied all the signs, The brim must now come off my hat; My trousers must fit tight And catoh the breeze's flight. No longer will I swing my arms, But fold them on my chest; : My coat must be (don't be alarmed!) The same length as my vest! And I must also bend way back And gaze up at the sky; My feet must go the beaten track Without help from my eye. My ears taped closely to my head Will be another sign I'm up-to-date,--or say, instead, I follow the streamline, --A. M, Hodgson, Western Canada shipped 118,081 cattle; 7,716 calves; 199,333 hogs, and..73,842 sheep to Eastern Canada during the 52 weeks of 1934, For a material' with eyelet work and a banding of satin has one cuctain half width and the other side a width and a half. The scantier one hangs straight, but the fuller one is looped up with long tie-back of the material piped with Draperies for a Chinese Chippen- dale-modern room are of black back- ground linen with small white gar- The wooden cornice is cov- ered with red satin trimmed to out- of the cornice with narrow black moss fringe. The glass curtains are of transparent net, criss-crossed, Doors as well as windows are coming In for special treatinent from the modern ~remodeller, Those "thut are usually kept closed have panels in colors contrasting with the rest of the surface, or decorated or appliqued designs, door sometimes proves effective and a colorful painted one recommended for a you |' Below the knee--they must not flap Is The Motor Horn Doomed? horns in the night time. completely prohibiting the use -of such horns day and night. The original idea was to permit tired citizens to get.somé sleep, un- inconsiderate horn-sounders. the authorities believe that the dis- use of horns promotes more careful driving, on the theory that the 'man who knows he can't sound a. warn- ing signal at all, will use his brakes a great deal sooner than he would otherwise. wi The idea has possibilities, and it is well worth a trial to get reckless motorists to rely on their brakes rathtr than on their horns, to keep from hitting people. And above all it would take care of the humorist who starts sounding his horn con- tinuously as soon as a driver two blocks ahead stalls his engine or is held up by a street car, - Most-Quoted Newspapers The list prepared quarterly by the Dominion Press Clippings Bureau, of Toronto, showing the standing of Canadian newspapers in the matter of quotations by other newspapers, restores The Ottawa Journal to first place for the period of three months to the end of December last. With the exception of the third quarter of last year, when it was a close sec- ond, The Journal has held first place for two years. The first ten in the final, quarter are: Ottawa Journal Toronto Star Toronto Globe Toronto Mail and Empire ........ 1,214 St. Thomas Times-Journal ...... 1,204 Stratford Beacon-Herald ........ 1,048 Brantford Expositor ................ 845 Brockville Recorder and Times 836 Toronto Te'ezram .................. 701 Wirnipez I'ree Fress ............. 686 mm leaders of The Journal may be interested in the f'gures for the first ten in the complete year 1934, the totals being made from the Clip- ping Bureau reports: Ottawa Journal ....2... .... 7,467 Toronto Globe .............. 6.236 Toronto Mail and Empire ........ 5,442 Toronto Star ............... 5,409 St. Thomas Times-Journal ...... 4,671 Stratford Beacon-Herald ,....... 4,400 Border Cities Star ....... rae . 4,235 Toronto Telegram ............. ieee 3,789 Brantford Expositor ................ 3,619 Hawmi!ton- Spectator ................. 3,147 Canada won first prize for the best exhibit of IZmpire bacon at the recent dairy show in the Royal Ag- ricultural Hall in London, England, Putouts To Handouts 'Joe Judge, former star. first aseman of Washington Senators, pictured in his restaurant in Washington, D.C. "There's noth- ing like a good trade," says Joe. +1 MANCHU venom for that Nayland Smith, success of my mi "Fi Manchu extracted the oisoned arrow from the glands of the snake. He caused mo fo be heb * ; "now in London and | am on his tracks. | honestly believe that the interests of the entire white race depend upon the mion.", Thea x1). : "Sir Crichton Davey--of the India--" 'By SAX ROHMER ued ond Is Fa "I am wasting precious time," a ho rapped out. "Wa start now." dl "What, tonight?" ' "Tonight! | have scarcely slopt in {3rly sight hours, but there is pne move that has to be made immediately, | must warn Sir on Davey." - ' THE ZYAT KISS--A Life At Stake. We ran down the stairs.' "Davey is a : doomed man, Petrie," Smith told me as we hur. ried for a taxicab, "Un. lass ho follows my instruc. tions without «question-- before Heaven, nothing can save him! I do not know when the blow will fall, how, nor from whence, but I know that my fiest duty is to warn him." @ 193) By Sev Rohmer and The Rell §, 40 ate, Inc "What's this?" muh tered my friend hoarse. th or, Smite sprang brasthlessly of a policeman, ly, as we Scfrsechd Sir Crichton Davey's " h A group of idlers hung about apy Without waifing for the cab to L] ouh, 'What has happened?" he demanded disturbed by the raucous honking of | Now and I want the name of the firm at the top of every advertisement. al. It is undignified. I want you put in a technical description of my machine, You might quote from the patent. could he say? He said nothing. sent out ments. director said: doesn't pay. I tried it out and I lost $3,000. -- Efficiency Magazine, Few Women Really the feminine air conqueror of two , oceans said here as if in partial ex- planation of her determination keep on flying as long as she lives. aviator. I may give it a try one of these days. Such a flight will be "a refuelling one. And it will be done in" the sub-stratosphere. Wiley Post is pioneering in that very field. ) v T How Not To Advertise The managing director of a fac- + Several months ago English au- | tory decided to spend $3,000 on ad- thorities made, the experiment of 'yartising. So he engaged a very ef- outlawing the use of automobile ficient advertising agency to draw The thing yp a dozen advertisements. has worked so well that they are | now considering the advisability of | ent appeared in the office of the ma- naging director with the advertise- ments. A week later, the advertising ag- The managing director looked them over with eyes of disapproval. I do not like these advertisements at all he said. ; "I don't like these catchy headlines - wr "These photographs of people us- ing my machines--I don't like them ¥ at all, You must put in every adver- tisement a wash-drawing of the fac- tory. The copy too, is too conversation: to - "This offer of a pretty booklet at the end of each advertisement--I do not like it either. I'd have to take on . an extra girl in the office to send the 1] booklets out. Better say: "Call at the nearest dealer's." "Now just make these corrections and get on with the job. : The poor advertising agent--what He the murdered advertise- the managing sir advertising Two months later, 'No To Cook Says & ~ Amelia Earhart Love Kansas City--Time may someday clip the wings of daring Amelia Ear- hart. Housekeeping never will. "Few women really love to.cook," to She is convinced too many women "with the education and the desire-to » ¢ do big things" are restricted by the call of their brooms and their kettles. "But," she insisted "It needn't be so. Housekeeping need require only-a few hours of our present day." k Still, she enjoys designing dresses ° and she finds pleasure in supervis- ing the her publisher husband, George Pal mer Putnam-- when 'she's in that vi- cinity. That is about half the time. Rye N.Y. home of herself and What _next?--Now that she's flown both the Atlantic and Pacifeci. "Well, sometime maybe a non- stop flight around the world. "It's the ultimate dream of -every PS worthwhile British M.P. Who Said Women Couldn't © Cook 1s*Engaged London--The engagement has been announced of Robert Boothby, M.P. who conce said women aidn't knew how to cook--and Diana Cavendish, daughter of Lord Richard and Lady .. Moyra Cavendish and a niece of the Duke of Devonshire, former Go7ar n.r-General of Canada: © Mr. Boothby -who is 85 years of age and has been a Conservative member of Parliament since he was 24, once told a political meeting: our women don't know how to cook and they won't bother to learn." He ad- ded. "Don't marry a girl until she knows how to.cook." That brought the rising young 1 commoner 500 letters from angry women, some of whom offered to marry him and disprove his asser- tion. |, His fiance is 25, the third of the daughters of Lord and Lady €aven- dish to marry members of the House of Commons. Hot Water Bottles. For Travellers On x - English Railway Middle-aged people will revive some old memories of winter rail way travel when they read that two English railways have announc- ed that hot-water bottles will be available free of charge to passen- gers travelling by first-class sleep- ing-cars on the principal night ex- presses between London and the North. Here is a curious example of the turning of the wheel, for, if hot- water bottles now spell the apex of railway luxury travel, hot-water tins or "foot warmers" were among the moderators of the rigors of winter travel which were provided to the passenger of the not very distant but much more Spartan past. People used to eagerly look for the arrival of the heavy trolley laden with the ~ "foot. warmers," though 3 there were different views about : their value. Their effect generally was to burn the soles of their feet during the comparatively short period when they were really hot, y 'leaving the rest of the body cold. Most people used them, but many held, probably with truth, that they engendered chilblains, p. ~~ . ¥ ----