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hm voice of the press canada the empire and the world at large canada the landward movement there 13 a landward movoment in all countries it 13 inevitable and the present efforu in manitoba and the other provinces ot canada may draw attention to this and may encourage a wider voluntary movement from the cities to tho rural districts but the success ot the efforts now being made bore- will depend on adherence to the 6trict and almost severe methods that have been followed thus far aud on giving only a minimum of assistance so that the settlers will know that they must mend for themselves and make tho utmost use of their oppor tunity winnipeg free press independence impossible nothing has so far emerged from re publican ireland to give the least pro mise of irish economic independence politically ireland may be as inde pendent as canada but financially ire land is no more independent ot out side money powor than canada is in dependent of new york president de valera may know how to bring about irish independence but it cer tainly never will bo independent so long as the national credit has to be pledged to private sources the pre sent irish administration will be made to toe the line just as surely as eng land had to toe the line last september or as canada australia new zealand and other countries have beon com pelled to submit to the policy of de flation imposed from outside sources ottawa citizen patch of business or the same mea sure of agreement if the delegations had been scattered as they must have been at lausanne or for the mat ter of that in london in a dozen sep arate offices and hotels they owe not a little of their success to the spa cious capacity ot parliament buildings and the chateau laurier but political leaders everywhere are bound to justify themselves in the end to their constituents oppositions are not to be controlled there will be attacks and counterattacks suggestions that too much has been conceded ind too little secured complaints that there has beon no dramatic climax and no immediate decline in unemployment it is quite inevitable that every gov ernment should bo driven to make the best case for its own performance at the conference and there will be no harm in it so long as they observe the one essential condition that the case is not made to the detriment of any other government london times dangerous drivers picked observers ot the american hallway association who made a sur vey of the actions of motorists at grade crossings report that 74 por cent of tin drivers exercised reason able care 14 per cent were reckless and 12 per cent doubtful reasonable care meant reduced speed looking in both directions and obedience to warn ing signals it is pretty safe to say that the 74 per cent class had little or no representation in the accidents that did occur at crossings tho fact that 2g per cent are either reckless or doubtful shows that at this late day there is still need for safety les sons for motorists and for highway police to control tho dangerous ones montreal gazette automobiles on the farm at the present time canada counts one motor car for every 227 farms ontario having the highest percent age with one car for every 153 farm quebec comes last on the list with a syipjog farms which by the way cannot be considered a drawback for though the car may be a great con venience it is still very often an ob ject of great luxury and for young farmers a constant invitation to re laxation and idleness la tribune sherbrooke motorbus and public regulation of motorcoach traffic out ot london is a problem both urgent and difficult when the road traffic act came into force last year the roads were overburdened with super fluous coaches whose owners were not concerned so much to serve the pub lic as to establish their claims to the metropolitan traffic commissioners sanction accordingly the commis sioner faced with the enormous task of bringing order into a vast spon taneouslygenerated chaos did not hesitate to be restrictve the final re port of lord amulrees committee ot inquiry just issued deals with the ap peals against tho commissioners re strictions and in the majority of cases it recommends modification complete or partial of his original decisions the obvious common sense of the situation is that there should be on the road enough motorcoaches to supply the public need and no more and second canadian pilots lead in cleveland races cne report shows canadian apples increased orders have quick sale i president states key exhibi- britain snaps up first cargo tors report business good for 32 in five minutes prices doubled kentville ns the first cargo of for the first time canadian pilots won a major trophy at the cleveland air races with a borrowed plane sydney m nesbitt of montreal ken smith merrill memullen and sydney cleverlev ot the toronto flying club outpointed americas best in the club relay hurricane drives freighter on rocky maritimes coast two dead thirtyeiqht saved many deeds of heroism seen contact by rockets battle with wind at 90 miles an hour sydney ns winds of hurricane strength driving rain fog and the sea churned to a cauldron of crashing surf challenged british seamen again sat urday two men died thirtyeight came through 300 yards ot furious water to safety on the swaying thread ot a threeinch rope the collier wat fords crew were drawn gasping to that the economic laws of supply and shore all but two in the chartroom demand will realize that ideal in the long run better than arbitrary legisla tion london morning post better food not tho least ot the human victories ot these latter centuries has been the conquest of new foods of better foods of more varied foods explorers and scientists and inventors have all play ed their parts and the good work still goes on the focd investigation ot the abandoned freighter lay john johnstons body the west indian stoker died of shock and exposure as tho watford struck and first officer william knight second last man to leavo the ship was swept out of the breeches buoy just as he started the hazardous journey 37 men had taken before him com rades ashore wept openly as they saw the officer lose his grasp make a gal lant bid for life as the sea- engulfed him and disappear one ot the many heroic efforts ot the cliff sortly after 10 oclock the first man came ashore it was six hours later before the last man found hard earth under his feet captain penrud was among the last to leave the wreck he argued with first officer knight urging knight to loavo ahead of him the officer al most forced lim into the chair final ly only knight and boatswain daniel murray remained aboard they talked together and finally knight put one leg in the chair he was lifting him self to get the other leg secured when he was swept into the sea the big scottish boatswain lunged to grasp him but the second officer was gone he was seen to snatch at a floating timber before tho sea engulfed him murray made the trip in safety board of the department of scientific and industrial research is a body for pr u gooli afterthe vessel which the public cares little it is struck at cape percv carred far out neither spectacular nor costly but its of her course by northeast ga work amongst other things gives us which ara said to have reac a promise of fresh british fruit all the h6ight of 90 mile3 ve second year round tho time is near when it will be no queerer to have fresh raspberries than fresh beef at christ mastime london daily herald never satisfied it prices are up we are not satis fied if thoy arodown we are still grumbling what then will bring us content the thing that is needed is stability it is not the fact that prices are high or that they are low that mat ters so much as that they refuse to stay anywere when they go up the dollar goes down and peoplo who have dollars find they are worth only 90 or so or 70 per cent of ther former value in goods that is whan prices are down the dollar becomes worth more and the individual who borrowed at a different level finds he has to produce more goods or put in more hours of labor than ho had counted on to pay his debt it is this fluctuation which has given rise to tho demand for the honest dollar that is the dollar that will buy approximately tho same quantity of goods today as tomorrow and next year as last year van couver province saving on health it there should prove truth in tho report that among the oconomic mea sures the provincial government con templates the abandonment of the ser vices ot tho public hoalth nurses as built up since 1916 then the full mea sure ot the risk should bo known six months ngo the staff of 50 nurses was distributed over tho whole province other opinions british redivivus far from being discouraged by world oconomic conditions great bri tain is redoubling its efforts to assure its industrial futuro by great national enterprises one ot the most import ant is a scheme for electrical power distribution known as the grid sys tem expected to be more simple and economical than any other in opera- ton in the world the basis ot this en terprise which is to link up the entire industrial system of britain is in a great electric station the first unit of which recently was opened with na tional ceremony on tho bank of tho lower thamos the site in 1923 was a desolate and remote marshland and to make a foundation for the build- ngs vast superstructure ot piles and cement had to be prepared when completed 40 acres of the 100acro tract will be occupied by the station a jetty has boen built at which ocean going vessels can discharge their car goes of coal at all states ot the tide detroit news officer herbert mann leaped from a lifeboat swaying against the side of tho ship and battled his way to shore with a line the cord was swept away from tho steamer before another could be attached and hauled ashore mann joined the rescuers who lay or knelt on a fiftyfoot cliff and made the rope fast to a giant tree when two more lines were shot ashore by rockets sunday night captain e h penrud and the 37 other survivors wero being cared for iu this city the watford lay on the rocks off cape percy be lieved to bo a total loss bound montreal to sydney the watford was bound from mont real to sidney in ballast having un loaded her coal cargo at the st law rence port off the cape breton coast sho encountered the northeast gales j riding light she was unable to round flat point and make sydney harbor and was swept along 20 miles off her course to capo percy with propel ler riding high out of the water al most constantly the steamor could make no headway against the force ot the onshoro wind from flat point to cape percy wireless operator charles odonnell kept in touch with tho government station at north sydney at 9 oclock atlantic standard time he reported tho ship two miles oft glace bay in no 2 hold an hour later she struck an oldest city in us has 367th birthday st augustine fla st augustine oldest city in the unitef states celebrated its 3g7th anniversary last week and cut a 1000 pound cake the town was founded by early spanish explorers in 1565 and many relics of their occupancy remain including fort marion which was originally called fort marco peasant and soviet the peasant and his wife have no very dangerous position use for soviet notes except as means flooding of purchasing the goods they require bottom and an s 0 s went out and it they cannot obtain these goods other bump brought down her aerial thoy will stay at home and keep their and further wireless communication i vt k i produce for themselves tho sovlet impossible e gftg g ow t th isht 4 r w ot in ti tk 1v i dus organizations for not supplying to tho steamers after hold in an effort sultablo vares and efforts are boing to get her propeller and rudder down made to meet tho deficlercy even tho to give hor stcorago way when she big factories engaged in heavy indus- stranded tho rocks tore a hole in the try have been ordered to utilize their centre ot the hull sho was wedged scrapheaps to make nails buckets tas and was in no immediato danger and other articles for peasant use and to cope with the difficulty from tho other side all tho factories havo been nstructcd to organizo selfsupply sys tems to relievo the governments french woman is official altitude record holder paris mile maryse hllz frances foremost woman flier has now been officially credited with establishing a new altitude record for her sex the international aeronautic fed eration accepted her record of 10- 200 metres the record was held previously by miss ruth nichols of new york who flew s761 metres north sea lashed by 60mile gale many vessels in distress but only one death is reported london a comile wind whipped the north sea and nearby waters into fury sunday harrassing shipping and causing at least one death a french steamer rescued a man from a sinking motorboat near shou- wen while another passenger in the small craft was drowned the steamer couier golfer was driven ashore in the outer hebrides and broke up bat the crew readied safety just off the hook of holland near the entrance to the meuse river the spanish steamer marques del turia sent distress signals while channel shipping was seriously handicapped and slowed up the finnish barque archibald rus sell one of the famous fleet of aus trajjah- grain ships dragged hor an chors off deal and was swept toward the infamous goodwin shoals but managed to clear herself as the wind abated and continued down tho chan nel toward australia lifeboats in the southern english coast area were kept busy throughout the day towing stray craft to port the winds moderated slightly sun day night canadian sault canal toronto in an inverse ratio to the decline in attendance greater busi- nova scotia apples to arrive in tho ness has been done by exhibitors at overseas market this season was sold this years cauadian national exhibi- at liverpool england five minutes tion than in the past two years presi- after it was lauded and brought dent william inglis stated in his clos- prices far in advance of last years ing address saturday night basing quotations his remarks upon statistics of mure j the prices paid were than a score ot key industries the duchess from 23 to 23 shillings exhibition president declared un- a barrel questionable business stimulation hadj early william from 23 to 26 shil- beea encountered in the past two lings weeks last years prices ranged from 9 leading british and canadian com- to 12 shillings for duchess and 12 to mercial organizations represented by 14 for early william exhibits hero have placed themselves when word of the sale reached on record as having experienced a de- here several growers said it was ap- finito and unquestionable business parent from the quick disposal ot tho stimulus at this years exhibition the first shipment at relatively high cne head declared they havo en- prices that the united kingdom mar- countered customers now in the mar ket for products which they supply who have not beon buyers within tho past two years they have found here concrete evidence of depleted stocks and current disposition to restock coupled with a reborn confidence that is causing them to draw money out of tho bank and pay cash on the table the figures and data on which i base my statements represent the state of affairs in more than a score ot key industries and this outlook is further supported by the spokesmen of kets aro anxious for apples they expressed confidence that a shipment ot 30600 barrels now crossing the atlantic in the holds ot the liner baltic would yield high returns service in hotelkeeping time was in some ontario towns with three or four licensed hotels when local merchants were compel led to go to larger centres some miles distant to buy goods from re presentatives of wholesale houses tiiis was due to the fact that the agricultural interests from all parts innl paid mt or o at- of the dominion who were with us tention to the wants ot the travel ling public the durham chronicle recalls these conditions and proceeds to relate tho editors experience ot a few days ago when he had oc casion to visit another municipality where he was detained after the sup per hour his inquiry of a hotel clerk about six oclock regarding tho location of the washroom elicited tho information that the day was past when hotels furnished free accom modation of this kind which was for tho exclusive use of paying guests the editor politely walked out and dined at another hostelry tho chronicle makes this pertinent com ment hotelkeeping is little dif ferent from any other business now adays you need all you can get j and the only way you can get it is hngland is amkmg uy tre service you render your cus- according to scientists tomers it might be better that a york eng england is sinking dozen nonpatrons ot a hotel used gradually to sea level at the rate of j the washroom privileges for nothing during the past 14 days summed up the volume of trans actions recorded in exhibition city transactions which will register on the operations of british and cana- dan plants during the coming months were entirely out of proportion to the attendance there were specific in stances ot new industries new busi nesses and now business relationships being launched after conferences held at exhibits this exhibition came as tho im mediate supplement to the imperial economic conference and what took place there cannot be interpreted in columns of figures or totalled by arith metic mr inglis commented nine inches every one hundred years capt t e longfield ordnance sur vey expert told the british associa tion of scientists recently the evdience seems conclusive he said that the level of high tide 2000 yeara ago must have been at least 15 feet lower than at present the bank of england is exhibiting disturbing behaviour having sunk than that one patron be turned away through incivility in motoring about the province recently one has seen hotels in some small places that evidently have little appreciation of the value of the tourist trade to which they might cater and from which they could profit toronto mail and empire more than six inches since 1868 and j italys tourist trade up st pauls cathedral is gradually g t foreigners shorten visits mltinnr nvar frnm thft pffents of the i rome despite the crisis the num- tilting over from tho effects of the subsidence he said sees traffic increase french destroyer sets record reaches speed of 4285 knots paris the french destroyer cas- sard established a new world speed record for her class by making 4285 road sault ste marie ont though the canal traffic on the american side is only onethird ot what it was last year freight tonnage passing through the canadian ship canal was 292- 721 tons in excess of the total from tho opening of the navigation season to july 1931 superintendent j w leb ross stated recently the total tonnage up to july 31 this year was 1155738 and for the same per iod last year it was 863017 tons knots in her trial run the official marine commission announces after checking up on the vessels perform ance i the french destroyer gerfaut held the previous record with 42 knots the cassard built under the terms of the washington naval treaty her of foreigners who visited italy in the last year has shown no very not able decrease according to figures which have just been made public 1100000 foreigners entered italy by road during 1931 and 900000 by rail- in all therefore about 2000- english delegates arrive home fr rmmv tho cost the equipment for the wel- faro stations the first aid and the edu catlonal work is all at hand tho only cost is that ot maintaining the nurses in tho field which averages about 2000 per nurse the total amount saved it tho whole service is wipod out is estimated at 100000 and tho whole structuro ot years which has yielded blessing far and wide will go into tho discard winnipeg free press the empire reasons for conference success they the delegates at tho imperial conference havo worked as they have novcr workcd before and let it novcr ba forgotten that it wa3 tho initiative tho resources and tho organization of tho canadian government whoso cir cumstances havo tended to make them tho atormcentro of criticism that pro- vldod tho oppoitunlty for this intense concentration on a singlo task thero could sjvvor have baon tho sams dls- of breaking up lifeboat plan fails a lifeboat was lowered but plans to try to mako land in boats wero aban doned as the sea grow even more task of finding food by cstablshing pig- menacing then it was that mann sties and poultry farms and to mako throw oft his outer clothing grabbed their own bargains with tho peasants a lino and hit out for shore mlnuto for tho supply of produco from the by mlnuto ho edged closer to the country to mako tho outlook still beach and reached thero only to find moro depressing tho reports of tho hls hue swept away condition of crops grow steadily more i meanwhle royal canadian mount discouraging london times ed police fishermen and other volun teers had started to make tho three- milo walk along a rugged beach to the scono of tho wreck they found that prince of wales to open anglodanish exposition miners from dominion no 6 with copenhagen it was officially an- mann had already made a rope from nounccd sunday that tho prlnco of tho steamer fast to a tree wales would open the anglodanish so great was tho winds forco that exposition on sept 24 tho rescuers had to ho flat on tho face 000 tourists visited the country dur ing that year while tho volume of the tourist trade has been holding its own a considerable decrease has been no- i ticed in the average length of the stay which now is only about two would be classified a7adestroyer j a ays the decrease is leader in the british or united states attributed principally to the moro navy she really is a small cruiser j rapid means of communication that of 2480 displacement are available as compared to previ ous years rita wood chosen as name for new dahlia windsor horticulturists aro in terested in a new dahlia which has just been givin a name it is to be known as rita wood that being tho name of the new miss western ontario chosen at the windsor fire mens field day the dahlia was propagated by s e penny of windsor and the blooms in color miss rita wood after whom the flower is now named is a native of amherstbiirg and was chosen from some 43 con testants for tho place of honor as miss western ontario 89440 miles flown by canadian air travel ottawa out canadas air mail service is carrying on out of a total ot 704 trips scheduled during tho throe months ending juno 30 1932 only 24 were cancelled accord ing to the quarterly report ot tho civil aviation branch just issued the total mileage scheduled dur ing the period was 94374 and of rollowcd closely by neville chamberlain and others ot tho dele gates from the british isles stanley and mrs baldwin aro shown waving a greeting to the folks of southampton upon their return from the ottawa conferenco are pnmrose this s9440 was actually flown the mail planes carried a total of 82711 pounds of mail during the period light airplane clubs are flourishing i thero are 23 in actual operation in canada with a total ot 2585 mem- hers and 62 aircraft in use 90yrold son seeks death when mother dies swims hour at 93 jersey city nj ninetyyearold i paris mine cuvelierdcspretz of john meyer becamo hysterical andjroubaix 93 years old undoubtedly is threatened to kill himself when ho- the doyen ot women swimmers in found his mother mrs dora meyer i france and perhaps in tho wholo dead of a heart attack she was in i world her 117th year deputy police chief i those in charge ot the municipal daniel casey had tho aged son re- baths in tho neighboring town ot moved to tho psychopathic ward ot tourcoing were surprised when sho tho jersey city medical centre tor purchased an admission ticket and observation i thoy as well as tho other bathers were greatly astonished to witness o ruii a1j the masterly exhibition of her pow- prussian children asked ers hifl water to aid scientists sho remained in tho pool for an munch tho bavarian state de- hour and did not seem exhausted on partment of biology is investigating leaving tho water the pigment on tho wlngs ot butter- j flies particularly tho white buttor- woman grammatically speaking is flics belonging to tho socalled cab- not a part ot speech alios tho wholo bagc group it has requested the oration government of prussia whoro tho species is most plentiful to assist tho tho wllllngnoss of a new offlco bor investigation by supplying- 200000 u often moro annoying than tho un- specimens j willingness of an old ono