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hmmm voice of the press canada the empire and the world at large canada british resorts ready the people of the old country con tinue to set the- world an admirable example of cheerfulness under diffi culties they hive evidently resolved to holiday at their seaside resorts this season in greater numbers than ever this much may be gathered from a survey made by the times around the coat of england new concert halls and movie theatres have- been built and new swimming pools prom enades solariums and gardens have been constructed it is notable that though so many of these resorts are on the seashore and have good bathing beaches yet th artificial pool is growing in popular ity at hastings a new bathing pool for high diving and other aquatic sports will be opened next month the scheme which includes terraces a sunparlor and cafes has cost g5- 000 at clacton the swimming pool has been enlarged and 3000 seats have been provided for spectators at international swimming events during july august and september brid lington has in hand a scheme for the demolition of old buildings the con struction of a concert hall bathing pool etc all to cost 150000 black pool the brighton of the north is building new indoor baths at a cost of 10000 with accommodation for sunbathing toro ito mail and em pire sure cure some people recommend brandy for seasickness but the surest cure port regina lcaerpost further proof attributing much of the companys bales gain in 1932 to newspaper ad vertising mr b i graves general sales manager of the asociated oil company of san francisco has an nounced that his firm will spend threequarters of a million dollars for publicity in 1933 when a business is able to show a 10 per cent gain in sales in a year like 1932 other businessmen are nat- arally interested in reasons mr graves has given the answer many a business that went back in 1932 could have turned in the other direction by intelligent use of news paper space it is hard enough to sell goods in the face of- competition in good times without advertising it is next to impossible to dispose of them advantageously in days of de pression unless one has an attractive message to put before the people through the greatest medium of them all the newspapers border cities star it is i a convention of memphis school teachers has resolved that the ex- pression it is me is to be pre ferred to it is i and is good col loquial usage for our part on the grounds of both grammar and eu phony we prefer not to change me into a first personal pronoun the scriptures do not err grammatically and there the expression is assigned to the lord it is i be not afraid victoria colonist advance in british films british films are developing fast hollywoods proud dominance over the screens of the world is not only being rivalled but recent develop ments in the english film industry ap pear likely to threaten the leadership of the united states films within the empire british films are fast taking precedence over the hol lywood product- and perhaps grudg ingly recognition is being extended by united states theatres recently rpme express a picture produced by the gaumontbritish company was played in radio city and acclaimed by the new york critics as being equal to the finest of hollywood films that english financial inter ests regard the prospects of british films in a high light in revealed by the fact that when the gaumont com pany recently issued debentures to talling 55000000 the issue was sub scribed in less than six hours otta wa journal talking aboutbirds a london bird fancier paid 1000 recently for a canary wo heard of a millionaire who once spent 5000 for a lark ottawa journal take this in girls a young girls charm is her fresh ness if she persists in coating her face with powder and in smearing her i lips with gooey that freshness van ishes the country girl prefers to jresomblo a flower rather than a chorus girl or a movie actress and she presents tho deliciously fresh jfloworlie look of the beauties of the- victorian era shcrbrooke record the empire v happy ending really happy endings arc not so fesrfully comnion in the news col- timns that one can afford to ovcr- lobk the case of the two french quar- rymen who wero caught by a land- ido near rouen last saturday hope of rescuing thorn had so far departed that the locaajrthority had shown its sympathy by veiling a sum to cover their funeral expenses but on wed nesday they were dug out and not too badly hurt in fact they left hospital yesterday has the local authority- put the funeral grant back in the municipal coffers not a bit it the credit has been voted said the mayor when he heard of the rescue so we will spend the money on a feast and reception for the two qurr- rymen manchester guardian sticking to his job it is fortunate that the farmer is too busy trying to rehabilitate himself and incidentally the country to have any time for idle babblings while he is engaged in a life-and- death struggle he has little time for talk to carry on at all he must pay low wages and even them his em ployees are usually more prosperous than he is for there are few farms nowadays returning their owners 100 a year but he does carry on ho does export his wheat and he does help the country to meet its obiga tions melbourne argus ml everest conquered from air better times for british guiana to say that for british guiana 1932 has been a year of prosperity would be absurd there is the evidence before us of the uninterrupted fall of com modity prices but it canot be denied that during 1932 there appeared cer tain possible indications that the businessmen of british guiana face 1933 with something more than mere pious hope there is generally a quiet confidence strengthened by the knowl edge that at the height of the storm the extra effort needed was not be yond them and that now there are signs of lightening clouds they are in a reasonably satisfactory position to take advantage of the better weather british guiana commercial re view education in china two independent reports have been made recently upon the chinese edu cational system one by a laymans commission from the united states sent to survey all phases of mission ary work and another by a com mission of european educational ex perts appointed by the council of the league of nations in response to u request from the chinese govern ment the american commission con fined its studies largely to missionary schools while the european experts surveyed only chinese schools but both groups agreed that american ization of chinese schools mission ary and public has gone too far as a result schools have been gradually separated from the indigenous life of the people reforms are urged which will connect the schools more closely with the needs of the chinese masses hong kong press modern war the sword the bayonet the rifle tho cannon are all anarchronisms and will soon only survive in a military tattoo the destruction they caused was local and so the sentiments con nected with them are out of date in the war of the future destruction will be universal bacterial bombs as well as poison gas will fall from tho sky the distinction between combatants and noncombatants will disappear women rnd children will be as suit able a target as men and it is not this or that king and country which will go down in the general catastro phe but all kings and all countries war has moved from chivalry to chemicals and unless we can get this into our heads we are doomed kings included e m forster in the spec tator london war debts everything points to the wisdom of a settlement for a capital sum rathe than for an annual payment the ob ligation will then cease to be an obli gation from one government to anoth er and will become an obligation from a government to the private investor not until the debt is removed from the category of political into that of commercial problems can tho world have any security that the shadow of this controversy will not fall across the path of international relations darkening counsel with monotonous perversity by a final capital pay ment great britain will recognize once more the contractual validity of her present obligations and by accept ing such a settlement the united states will save the world from the consequences no less unpleasant to herself than to the debtor of the only alternative default round table london the united states one small letter what this country needs is people to put u in the by- falo courierexpress moro -buf- balto is dead balto leaddog on the famous team that brought antitoxin to nome in 1925 is dead of old age in the next era of debunkagc they will write his biography showing that either he wasnt on the team or else he was the only dog that sulked and nearly ruined the expedition nev york times roosevelt bids nine nations canada levies to parleys on world improvement duty on butter aim is to prepare the ground for conference at london big four included definite american program will be presented tariff cuts probable the marquis of clyesdale one of the british fliers who looked down on tho highest mountain of the world mount everest for tho first time in history an altitude of 35000 feet had to bo attained to make this feat possible with a wind velocity of 60 miles an hour flight lieutenant d f mclntyre suffered from frost but lord clydes dale pictured above was fit and cheerful when ho landed roosevelt decrees gold hoarders be penalized roosevelts drastic decree provides also 10000 fine last day is may 1 washington president franklin roosevelt reached out for the persist ent gold hoarders on friday with a formal order providing penalties after may 1 in the same drastic decree he put the united states gold supply under federal license providing a controlled relaxation in the present embargo for legitimate domestic and foreign trans actions virtually all persons holding more than 100 in gold or gold certificates were directed by the president to turn their supply over to the federal re serve system or face a maximum penalty of 10000 fine or 10 years im prisonment or both the president acted after a conference with william woodin secretary of the treasury and director douglas of the budget he was represented as elated at the expression of confidence by tho public in returning 1200000000 in currency to the banks in the last few weeks but as equally determined to get at those who are still hoarding more than 600000000 of the money returned to the banks was in the form of gold and gold certificates how ever on april 3 there were still out standing 1303989559 in gold certifi cates apparently convinced that some of tho gold hoarders were waiting for the government to issue a formal order the president acted by his order mr roosevelt obtained absolute command of tho gold supply tho edict authorizes the secretary of the treasury to issue licenses for obtaining gold for industrial require ments exportation of gold for trade purposes and other legitimate needs not involving hoarding the order which is limited to the period of the emergency recently pro claimed by the president directs the return of all unlicensed gold before may 1 to one of the federal reserve banks it was authoritatively stated that tho chief purpose of tho decree is to restore to the countrys reserve gold which has been in hiding national harvester will reduce the rates of interest for payments made on both old and new notes farmers will thus be able to re place old and obsolete machinery with new equipment it is emphasized and while this price guarantee is based on wheat there is no necessity for farm ers to raise wheat for market in order to take advantage of the offer the terms outlined are open to any farmer in the dominion twice every month announcements will be made of the average winnipeg p ice applying to no 1 north wheat if tho average mark for the periods during which payments on machinery are made are lss than the 75cent price farmers will be credited with an adjustment of onehalf of one per cent for each one cent that the price of wheat at winnipeg is below the set figure washington to capitals of nine great nations there sped last week in vitations from president franklin roosevelt for their chiefs of govern ment to join him at the white house in friendly conversations seeking the contributions each nation cau make toward bettering world conditions bidding for the support of the most powerful figures in the foremost na tions in each part of the world the president through the state depart ment added germanys adolf hitler and italys benito mussolni to the list of famous statesmen invited to wash ington to prepare ground for the mo mentous london economic conference this summer as great britain already has agreed to send prime minister ramsay mac- donald april 15 and premier daladier of franco likewise has been asked to j come the presidents latest action in cluded the entire big four among the nations of europe turning to the far east late in the day he despatched similar invitations to japan and china at the same time three neighbors to the south argen tine brazil and chile were handed invitations through their envoys definite american program a definite american program will be laid before the visitors although with an entire readiness to adjust it to their respective views and needs and with no desire to force it upon the rest of the world unwanted key points in this broad program the details of which are only just now taking shape include rpstoration of a stable international money standard checking of the fall iiiprices resump tion of the movement of capital re moval of restrictions on international trade abandonment of excessively high tariff policies and organization of production and trade to prevent the accumulation of great world surpluses meanwhile a bill has been drafted by the state department for a change in present tariff regulations but has not yet been given the approval of the president may be horizontal tariff cut new zealand product laces dumping charge tooit set exchange ottawa a memorandum has goua forward from the department of na- ou capitol hill it was thought by ioua revenue dealing with the new- some that the measure might call for butu i10vv hcif m lt a horizontal cut in american tariffs y- it announce a damp but in authoritative quarters else- i iug duty to counteract exchange will the markets machinery price based on wheat international harvester sets 75 cents a bushel on purchases toronto in the confident belief that better times are coming for the canadian farmer officials of the in ternational harvester company of canada limited last week announced as evidence of their faith in the fu- turo of tho dominion that on pur chases of machinery made after april 11 farmers will be entitled to the benefit of a price of 75 cents per bushel of wheat a second announce ment of importance to wheat growers of the west is the fact that inter- produce prices toronto dealers are buying produce at the following prices eggs prices to farmers and coun try shippers ungraded cases return ed fresh extras 14c fresh firsts 12c seconds 10c cracks 9c graded cases free 16c for xresh extras 15c for fresh firsts 13c for seconds butter no 1 ontario creamery solids 26c no 2 25c churning cream special 23c no 1 22c no 2 19c fob shipping points cheese no 1 large colored paraf- fined and governmnt graded loc twins 10c triplets 10c poultry a grade alive spring chickens over 6 lbs lie over 5 to 6 lbs 10c over 4 to 5 lbs 9c under 4 lbs 7c fatted hens over 5 lbs 10c over 4 to 5 lbs 9c over 3 to 4 lbs 7c old roosters over 5 lbs 6c white ducklings over 5 lbs 10c over 4 to 3 s 7c colored ucklings 2c less domestic rabbits over 4 lbs 5c poultry a grade dressed spring chickens over 6 lbs 13- to 10c over to 6 lbs 12 to 15c over 4 to 5 lbs 11 to 14c under 1 lbs 10 to 13c fatted hens over 5 lbs 12c over 4 to 5 lbs lie over 3 to 4 lbs 9c young turk eys 8 to 12 lbs 17c young geese 10c old roosters over 5 lbs 9c white ducklings over 5 lbs 12c over 4 to 5 lbs 9c colored ducklings 2c less domestic rabbits carcasses lcv grain quotations following are quotations on grain transactions for car lots prices on basis cif bay ports man wheat no 1 hard 57c no 1 northern 55 c no 2 north ern 54e manitoba outs no 2 cw 30c no 3 cw 28 vac man barleyno 3 cw 35c no 1 feed screenings 1275 per ton to arrive opening navigation south african corn 53c ontario grain approximate prices track shipping point wheat 52 to 55c oats 26 to 28c barley 32 to 35c corn 35 to 37c rye 30 to 32c buck wheat 28 to 30c hay and straw prices no 2 tim othy 9 no 3 timothy 750 to 8 wheat straw 6 to 650 wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to retail dealers pork ham 15c shoulders 12c butts 13c loins 15ve picnics 10c lard pure tierces 1014c tub3 11 pails 12c prints 12c shortening tierces 10 to 1014c lulls 9v4c pails 10c prints 10c where it was stated us object would ho ms bu b h be not to lop off the op of the wall j mme blsis as he d is but rather to open doors in united trom kinsdqm u lovi states tariff walls opposite doors in tne dl as united other walls i kingdom goods is the difference b the chief executive shortly will re- twecn a fixed value of the pou11 quest congress to act on the tariff j sterulig at 55 a av2ra measure sending it to capitol hill j acuial exchange rate of sterling oa accompanied by an explanatory spe- j t world market which is in the cial measure neighborhood of 5112 new zealand disarmament also figures heavily in j currency just now is much lower the american governments concep- thau sterling so tho dumping dut lion of methods to be followed put- wili oe correspondingly higher it is ting the world again on a prosperous estimated here it will amount to ap basis war debts will bo treated mere- proximately three and a half cents ly as a part of the general picture a poum this impost will be in at the same time administration of- a to the regular fiv cents a ficials do not shut their eyes to the pqm uutv according to report in fact that more than 111000000 falls ottawa ad0 250 tons of new zea- due on june 15 and that open default blktxr is vancouver is threatened unless the payments are revised or postponed favorably received in london london president roosevelts initiative in arranging economic dis cussions with representatives of the other powers in washington was re ceived favorably here in authoritative j quarters where it was said the pre- snee of envoys from the chief euro pean nations would eliminate any pos sible criticism of angloamerican dom ination of plans for the world econ omic conference prime minister ramsay macdonald begun his preparations for laying bri tains view of world problems before the president s the cabinet is discussing mr mac- donalds mission and tho prime min ister himself is remainng at no 10 downing street instead of going to his country place at chequers he will spend most of this week making ready for the roosevelt conversations it was definitely announced his daughter ishbel will accompany him when he sails on the berengavia on april 15 postage rates increased on all publications increase on newspapers is announced at ottawa prime minister gives notice of measure ottawa april 4 the new rates of postrge on newspapers and periodicals proposed in a resolution to be moved in the house of commons by prime minister r b bennett will increase the rates of the advertising portion by graduated amounts according to the proportion of the whole paper do- voted to advertising the present flat rate on such pub lications is one cent per pourd this will remain in force in cases in which the advertising portion of the paper does not exceed 20 per cent above that portion and up to 30 per cent the rate on the advertising portion of the paper ill be increased to two cents per pound from 30 per cent to 50 per cent three ceits and above 50 per cent four cents per pound thi rate on the nonadvertising portion will remain at one cent per pound under this amendment a shipment of papers in which the advertising is 50 per cent of the total the postage for half the weight would bs one cent per pound and for the other half four cents the resolution is rs follows that it is expedient to anient the postoffice act to provide that the ad vertising portion of newspapers and periodicals transmitted for a greater distance than 40 miles from their place of publication or of which the publication is of greater frequency than once a week shali be subject to postage of two cents a pourd where the space devoted to advertisements exceeds 20 per cent but does not ex ceed 30 per cent of the total space of three cents a pound where such s ace exceeds 30 per cent but does not exceed 50 per cent and of four cents a pound where such space exceeds 50 per cent guest week planned by british resort blackpool eng free entertain ments and cheap accommodation are being offered to early holidaymak ers at blackpool one of englands premier seaside resorts a novel guest week is being organized at a cost of 250000 from julie 19 to june 23 among the provisions of ilia scheme are a 10 per cent reduction on summer tariffs at hotels 25 pet cent reduction at apartment houses free tickets for shows at any two cinemas in the town a free ticket for a pier pavilion performance a freo ticket for a show at the tower circus and one freo admission to the openair bath 58 per cent of countrys forms mortgage xi the bureau of agricultural eco nomics reports 58 per cent of the farms in tho united states are free from mortgage sixty per cent ot tho farms on which mortgages ara held is located in the twelve north central states kew york and new england have a lower percentage of mortgaged farms than any otliei sections of tho country 100 brave mud to apply for job teachers besiege settlement as vacancy occurs colllngwood the teacher of a school at mcmurchys settlement near here resigned a short time ago and the trustees inserted a single small advertisement in a daily news paper asking applications although the school is a small one and the remuneration for teaching a dozen or so pupils not high it has been reported from the settlement that well over a hundred unemploy ed teachers have applied in person for tho job difficulty in reaching the school by motor car on account of the muddy condition of the roads was experl- ened by most of those who wanted the job but nothing daunted they all arrived and the trustees now have the problem of choosing one out ot tho hundred british expedition succeeds in conquest of mount everest headed by lord clydesdale planes sail over worlds largest mountain at an altitude of 35000 feet france ranks third in use of airplane paris france occupies third place in tho worlds mercantile aviation ac cording to figures compiled by the ministry of air since organization of the first regu lar mail ami passenger service in 1919 french civil aviation has grown stead ily along two general lines the net work linking paris with the european capitals and the colonial service the number of passengers taken aloft during 19u2 was 3gs92 the weight of freight and mail carried was 11g21295 kilograms and 172900 kilo grams respectively indians viceroy allowed to impose higher tariffs new delhi india tho govern ment has introduced a bill empower ing the governorgeneral to impose higher tariffs whenever it is found that goods are being imported at abnormally low prices to the de triment of indias industries it was announced sunday the bill would be in operation until march 31 1935 if approved ilderton teller rewarded gets promotion and holiday london ont to reward tho heroism of lloyd denning tho youlh- ful bank telle who shot it out with a pair of bandits in ilderton last week tho bank of montreal has i given him throe weeks holidays with pay and a promise of an imniodialo promotion the pronoliou will take him to his new position when his holiday concludes purnea india last week two air planes sailed across the summit of mount everest and for the first time in history men looked down upon the highest mountain in the world the feat was accomplished by the marquis of clydesdale accompanied by lieutenantcolonel v v stewart blacker and by flight lieutenant d f mclntyre who had with him an ex pert photographer s r bennett com mander p f m fellowes assisted in preparations for the flight tho photographer succeeded in tak ing a number of pictures which it was hoped would provide an authentic re cord of the conquest of the 29h1 foot mountain on the sides of which num erous men have perished attempting by oldfashioned methods to gain the honor being the first to reach the top 60mlle wind the two planes flew to an altitude of 35000 feet in 90 minutes at the peak they found a wind velocity of go miles c hour lieutenant mclntyre apparently suf fered considerably from frost but lord clydesdale was fit and cheerful when he landed after the momentous 25000 enrolled in states journey although exhaustive preparations had been made for the flight over everest the actual carrying out of the feat was in a measure accidental when the two ships went up the pur pose of the flyers was to make a test only but they found conditions so ideal that they turned tho test into the real business the ships took off as soon as the flyers learned that the wind in tho up per atmosphere had lost considerable ot its high velocity this was deter mined by sending up a weather bal loon which reached an altitude of 35- 000 feet where it recorded a velocity of g9 miles when this data had been obtained the flyers left purnes which is about 160 miles from mount everest for forestry schooling washington tho while house an nounces that 25000 men from 18 cities have been enrolled for the re forestation work at 1 a day and board the first step toward the move ment of 250000 unemployed into tlu forests of the nation as proposed bj president roosevelt the war department is to hav transportation of these men and will convey them to nearby camps for in struction in the work famous inn to be razed london a famous coaching inn that was visited by queen elizabeth and georkelv is to be razed and fa- built it is the white hart hotel itcl- and gate which is being demolished in went to lalbalu seven miles to the connection with a 100000 develop- north where their planes were wait- ment scheme the hotel which ra- ing for them loaded with full equip- tains over its entrance the arms ol ment necessary for a flight into the georgo iv was once halfway house thin air thousands of feet above the for stage coaches proceeding from surface of the earth j londn to brighton