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voice of the press canada the empire and the world at large i canada benefit of laughter there is apparently a standing al ternative between annoyance and amusement over lifes ironical accid ents and he who lives best is he who laughs best for relief from the tears and tension of his own trials it is a childs privilege to laugh because he is tickled but the adult must learn to laugh in the face of misfortune handicap and eveu pain or he becomes the unhappy slave ot his own circum stances such laughter it seems has a definite therapeutic value it has long been said that one may laugh and grow fat but it is more important to the modem man that he learn to laugh his way out of nervous prostra tion miss mary f ferguson super visor ot social service at john hopkins university advocates laughter as an aitidote for all sorts of neuroses and even for social disorders fredericton gleaner show confidence three men who escaped with their lies from the akron are now looking for positions on tho macon a dirigible now ready for its tests they have more confidence in such craft than tho average individual and it may be be cause they know more about them stratford beaconherald safety in the air the enquiry into the akron disaster revives memories o that which was made in the case of the city of liver pool the imperial airways liner which crashed a short time ago though of course there is no comparison between the two the point raised is that of comparative safety of travels in the air either in airplanes or in dirigibles dr eckener has steered his zeppe lin thousands o miles across both north and south atlantic and over europe without a single accident to any passenger the imperial airways was established in 1924 and since then there have been only six accid ents to their liners in which injury to passengers was involved and though during that period they have flown over ten million miles and have carried a quarter ot a million passen gers flying on the regular air routes in europe in fact is regarded as assur ing an even greater safety than travel jfy road this is proved by the fact that the insurance companies ask higher premiums for the latter than jney do for the former it is such a disaster as that which happened to the 01 ty of liverpool which proves the general rule the case ot the akron comes within a different category but the public often fails to differentiate and is apt to lump all aerial disasters together montreal daily star power of the press we are a generation which lives pn newspapers just as caterpillars feed m green leaves winston churchill sensitive world the tact of the matter is the means it communication throughout the world have become so rapid and im proved that what happens and this shay seem paradoxical in china to morrow is actually reported in your svening paper today there is no doubt that things ot a rery similar import happened a cen tury and a half ago had they been known everywhere at the time no doubt the effect would have been the jamo on peoples nerves and imagina tion today we are living in a mighty sensitive world and it may be the worlds salvation in the long run likewise in things economic is the world sensitive in tho last three years there has been no such thing as a lo calized depression st catharines standard pread and butter fanners in the balkans we read are feeding broad to their cows the cows of course furnish their own but ter border cities star advertising did it total sales by r ii maey com pany last year amounted la soo0i- 000 by reaching this amount the new york store justified its claim to being the worlds largest store marshall feld company of chicago which used to claim the title dropped to s7s000000 last year in order to roll up ihc sales total of so000000 marys used clever and extensive advertising and 90 per cent of tho macy advertising was done in the newspapers the medium the worlds largest store has found the best to attract customers st thomas timesjournal a london musician is said to have invented an instrument that is a com bination clarinet and saxophone which is one step in the direction of con verting the saxophone into a musical instrument toronto mall empire safe from quakes the reason for our freedom from earth shocks is apparent from an ex amination of the geological formation underlying this central portion of can ada a largo part ot both ontario and tjuehec has its geological foundation in the laurentlan rocks which scient ists and mining men refer to as tho precambrian shield this underlying stratum of rock is the oldest forma tion which geologists know dating back to the dim past when our earths crust first began to olidify loudon advertiser lucky exeter exeter ontario has accumulated a surplus reduced its debt aud cut its tax rate ten mills a lucky place is exeter but other towns are vexed at her her feat they cannot emulate reduce the debt and cut the rate as folks have done in exeter strathroy agedispatch a wealthy editor there was a banquet in ovangeville one night and many ot the citizens were telling ot the opportunities tho town offered and how well they had done there the editor of one ot the earliest papers got up to give his tes timony when i came here he said i was not worth one cent and now i am worth 75000 seeing the in credulous looks on the faces ot some of his fellowcitizens he eontiiued an authority has estimated that each child is worth at least 5000 i havo 15 children fergus news record the empire survived the crisis the united states have come lo the climax of their malady while they are still strong enough to cope with it they will build up from the base a stronger more stable industry and commerce than the fantastic structure which lias toppled from the height of the skyscrapers to the dust london daily express european quarrels there is no doubt that the predom- inent feeling in the minds of millions in thi3 country today is that at all costs britain must refuse to be drag ged into the quarrels of europe by the locarno treaty we are pledged to take sides against the aggressor if trouble breaks out between france and germany but if this were to happen now the man in the street who does not pretend to understand the niceties of diplomacy would find it very hard to say who was most to blame and there would be a strong demand that we should stand aside sir walter layton in the london newschronicle lib two champions the polluted air the latest report published today by tho department of scientific and industrial research on the investiga tion of atmospheric pollution hardly justifies any optimistic inference that tho evil is abating one should not perhaps he depressed by the report but one may be astonished that after a century of industrial civilization one of its worst evils shows such little signs of abatement since men must live in centres of dense population it is essential that they should be happy in doing so yet it seems impossible they should he content when not only houses and streets but the air itself is hardly fit to live in manchester guardian the united states wealth in stumps many hundreds of old tree stumps which have stood desolate in the for ests northeast of melbourne since the millers telling gangs passed through with their saws and axes years ago are now proving to havo a very high value the stumps are of mountain ash a wood which is increasing in demand as a furniture timber in aus tralia and overseas discovery that the mountain ash stumps were suit able for furniture converted what was formerly regarded as forest waste into a valuable asset in favorable circum stances mountain ash trees grow to 300 feet in height but their growth is such that for some distance from the ground from eigiit to twenty feet the trunk is irregularly shaped and heavily buttressed not long ago an examination of some of the old stumps disclosed that when properly cut the grain of the timber was unusually beautiful christian science monitor orillia druggist dies after reading letter orillia arthur e patterson 18- yearold druggist of orillia is dead of poisoning taken to hospital on saturday he died a few hours after admission dr c v scott one of three attending physician pronounc ed death as due to poison j patterson had been registered at a hotel here for three days and docl tors rushed there after an orillia resident had received a letter the conj t nts of which caused him 1 fear fori pattersons safety he communicated with the police and three doctors w c gilchrist c v scott and h o smith rushed u the hotel where they found patterson in a dying condition i tho police found that patterson hrd telephoned rarrie where he for- merly operated a drug store on fri day and also wrote several letters the police would not divulge the name of the orillia man who called them nor would tlvy divulge tlu contents of the letter patteron is survived by his widow ml tferot cjjikhen a heavy hat for a heavy hitter jack dempsey presents babe ruth with a mansized hat before the start ot the opening game be tween the yankees and the red sox at the yankee stadium charles mickle killed instantly president of mickle dyment firm hit on highway orillia charles s mickle aged 53 president of mickle dyment and son lumber merchants of graven- hurst and toronto was instantly kill ed near here on saturday night said to have been in or near a parked motor car on tho highway five miles south of orillia mr mickle was found dead after another motor ear had grazed the standing machine coroner dr w e brown has or dered an inquest elmer o prophet 30 of barrie driver of the other car said ho was driving south on the highway when he noticed a car parked sideways with on door open in avoiding a colli sion prophet said his machine struck the open door of the parked car when ho stopped his car farther ocwn the road said prophet and in vestigated ho found he had struck the man prophet called provincial constable robert purvis who found mr mickle dead when he arrived prophet and a girl companion were uninjured he was not held by the police mr mickl was president of the mickledyment firm in succession to his father charles j mickle who died in december 1929 his mother died november 14 last he had lived ail his life here being engaged in the lumbering business founded by his father ho was widely known throughout the entire district of mus- koka eighteen years ago he married miss margaret schramm of ixmdon out who with an only daughter margaret and a sisterinlaw miss d schramm are surviving members of his family he is also survived by two sisters mrs howard cane of nowmaiket and mrs george harper of waterloo alfred mickle aitist of toronto is an uncle the funeral will be held to the mickle memorial cemetery hero on tuesday afternoon under masonic auspices germany no longer secondrate power dominion exports gold to london believe embargo being lifted by canada as metal leaves montreal montreal first intimation of change in regulations affecting expor of gold from canada was given here friday when nearly 5000000 in spe cie was shipped to the open gold mar ket in london for some months past an embargo on gold exports has been in effect the gold understood to have been produced in canada was shipped to england in the steamship montclare and the freighter beaverburn it was exported in the name of a canadian bank acting as agent while informa tion respecting the shipment was meagre reports in tho montreal finan cial district were that the action of united states in going off the gold standard had made it profitable to market bullion in london ard paris shipments of gold are understood still to require a licence from the min ister of finance before they arc- allow ed out of the country exports had been permitted for exchange purposes but sincethe fall of 1931 canadian producers had been required to send their gold to the mint jt ottawa where they were paid on tho basis of a threeday average of the rate for new york funds in canada since the gold standard was set aside in washington this week tho rate on new york funds no longer provides a basis for the valuation of gold in canada britain and us near accord i society proposes on new world gold ratio world air union hitler in speech at munich demands equality in rank berlin germany can no longer he regarded as a secondrate power but must be recognized as an equal anion tho great powers of the world chan cellor adolf hitler declared in a speech at munich made public here saturday germany needs peace the nazi chancellor declared in addressing party leaders at munich city hall we desire to maintain peace but germany can no longer be treated as a power of second rank she must be recognized as an equal partner the chancellor extolled the partys discipline adding the national revolution will be over when german life inwardly and outwardly has been transformed tho german minister at warsaw protested to the polish government against a sileslnn insurgents organ ization appeal urging niembars to be in readiness to face the german washington april 21 british and american statesmen neared an agree ment sunday uight ou a basis for a new monetary system and even as the negotiations aimed toward world recovery were pointed toward the impostfreighted monetary understanding between prime minister ramsay macdonald and president franklin roosevelt the disarmament problem was injected into the inter national discussion for which premier richard b bennett will arrive today joint statement announcement that the armaments question had been taken up came in a joint statement issued as the britisli premier and american president con cluded a sevenhour cruise down the potomac river the president and the british prime minister heard a report from the econo mic experts who have been working on a new gold standard basis the economic advisers ot the british and american staffs spent tho day in two special sessions and then joined in a conference with mr macdonald and mr roosevelt at the white house that lasted uutil midnight a joint statement issued as the meeting adjourned disclosed that the discussions centred around the unset tled monetary situation a further conference of the experts was arranged for tomorrow in the of fice of secretary codell hull at the stato department and later with the president and mr macdonald at the white house from the two meetings throughout the day of the economc experts there developed the very definite idea that a new world gold ratio between 30 and 40 per cent as a reserve for currency was at least discussed prominently for possible inclusion in tho general scheme there was speculation and rumors that the britsh experts wanted the pound stabilized at 350 while the americans wanted it placed at 4 at the same time there were un official reports of a proposal that the united states dollar in international exchange be put at s5 cents on their return they issued a joint statement today was occupied iu a thorough survey of the business of the disarma ment conference at geneva the joint statement said it was felt by both the president aud the prime minister that the result of the days conversa tions would considerably advance the prospects of success both of the dis armament conference and ot the in ternational economic conference the president will continue the dis cussion of disarmament problems with m herriot a statement indicating that presi dent roosevelt and prime minister ramsay macdonald were seeking a method ot reestablishing the dollar and the pound on a firm basis was is sued at the white house after a three hour conference herriot pledges cooperation meantime tho former french pre mier had arrived he declared on his arrival that he came with a sincere desire to cooperate and that recent financial events made tho world econ omic conference more necessary than ever his government has announced a determination to remain on the gold standard premcr daladier ot france in a speech expressed the hope that great britain and america would fa cilitate a prompt resumption of inter national exchange and avoid a money war despite the introduction ot the dis armament question experts working on the conversations were devoting their undivided attention to economic problems bennett hopeful ottawa confidence that the con versations in washington would re suit in great benefit to canada and the world in general was voiced by rt hon r b bennett as he entrained sunday afternoon for the united states capital to fulfil hi3 engagement with president franklin d roosevelt it is my confident belief the prime minister said that these pre paratory discussions will make the world economic and monetary con ference a success and bring relief to a depressed world to promote peace i suggests elimination of bomb ing planes police sys tem under league london a series of draft convon- tions designed to consecrate aviaton i for world service has been drawn up by tho new commonwealth- a society founded in london ian year for the promotion ot international law and order tho first of thtse draft convea- tions is concern m with the forma- tion of an international air union to which k is proposed that gov ernments should delegate their policing powers in respect of avia tion and their right to grant con cessions for public air transport ser vices these air transport services would bo controlled by an organization called the international air trans port company to tho international air union would havo tho right to subscribe in equal proportions another convention pledges signa tories to abolish all bombing air craft the last ot tho series gives the council ot tho leaguo ot na- tins the right to form an interna tional air force to be used under prescribed conditions to bring as sistance to a country menaced by external aggression it would havs a permanent staff stationed at geneva and the personnel would ha recruited internationally from vol unteers no nation being allowed to provide more than 20 per cent in drawing up these conventions the new commonwealth proceeded from the premise that tho maiit tenance of peace the application ot international sanctions and tho re pression of acts of aggression are the province ot the leaguo ot nations itself tho plan is aimed at pro viding more effective machinery by which the league may carry out th mission defined in tho covenant among the sponsors of the new commonwealth are lord cecil lor davies m henry de jouvenel and prof ernst jackh business active ottawa reports best hockey players of year named by sports writers montreal eddie shore ot the bos ton bruins power play has been chosen by newspaper writers over the national hockey league circuit as the most useful player to his team in the 193233 season just closed it was an nounced from the league headquarters here last week for tho fifth time in ills career frank boucher clever centre player of the new york rangers has been ad judged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship combined with a high standard of playing ability to defenceinaii shore goes the dr david a hart trophy aud to boucher the lady byng trophy giving players on united states teams a clean sweep of three personal annual awards tiny thompson i goalie of boston bruins has captured the georges vczina memorial trophy j for the best goaling record of the sea son i ottawa resumption of spring ac tivities on a larger scale in some lines of industry and commerce than last year are shown by early government reports says the weekly review of the trade and commerce department ex port figures for march show decided increases in exports of wheat wheat flour furs meats automobiles and parts and in unmanufactured nickel shipments of live cattle to greatj3n tain have nearly reached tho 10000 mark this year to date as compared with only 1399 head last year price quotations on the british market for canadian bacon and hams are consid erably higher than last year stock market prices and sales are showing an upward trend furthermore the dominion bureau of statistics esti mates the exports of wheat of the crop year 193233 will be the greatest since those of 192829 already wheat clearances from aug 1 to april 14 total 16s000000 bushels an increase of 60000000 bushels over the corresponding period last year and the balance of wheat on hand for export during the remainder of the crop year or for carryover is estimated to amount to nearly 45- 000000 bushels more than at the same period last year royal scot landed j at montreal docks montreal her coaches shining brightly under a protective covering i of wax the royal scot britains fast- est express train lias arrived iu can ada aboard tho freighter beaverdale the famous train is on its way to tho chicago century ot progress exhii bitlonaiid will visit various canadian i cities on its way at the docks a giant crane swung the cars alongside the wharf tho coaches were ready for use at once but the famous engine was in two part3 and will have to be assembled before going on exhibition the famous locomotive the original royal scot ot a fleet of 70 used on tho london scottish and midland railway will visit ottawa toronto and hamil ton among other cities before proceed ing to the worlds fair at chicago 20 per cent profit on radio licenses ottawa supervisors to the number ot about 110 are established through out canada for the purpose of oversee ing sales of radio licenses these supervisors are paid a commission of five per cent ot the 2 licenso cost hon alfred duranleau minister of marine told the house of commons friday the douse in committee of tho whole was examining an estimate of 2s0000 for the radio service supervisors paid shi for a book of 10 licenses and resdid them to the vendors for 17 the minister said the latter in turn sold the licenses to radio receiving set owners for 2 each thus making a commission of 15 per cent to hon james malcolm lib north bruce the minister said that last year the cost of collecting ap proximately 1500000 was 9c000 montreal had one supervisor tor onto eight due the minister said to the fact that toronto insstcd on hav ing a supervisor in each federal con stituency all other cities had only the one the markets 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 13c fresh firsts lie seconds 9c cracks 9c graded cases free 15c for fresh extras 14c for fresh firsts 12c for seconds butter no 1 ontario creamery solids 23c no 2 22c churning cream special 24c no 1 23c no 2 20c fob shipping points cheese no 1 large colored paraf fined and government graded 9c twins 10c triplets 10 poultry buying prices a grade alive young chickeie over 5 lbs lie over 4 to 5 lbs 10c fatted fowl over 5 lbs lie over 4 to 5 lbs 10c over 3 to 4 lbs 8c young turkeys 8 to 13 lbs 15c other weights 13c old turkeys 8c spring broilers li to 2 lbs 18c do wi to li lbs 16c old ducks 10c rabbits 3c poultry buying prices a grade dressed young chickens over 5 lb 15c over 4 to 5 lbs 14c fatted fowl over 5 lbs 13c over 4 to 5 lbs 12c over 3 to 4 lbs lie young turkeys 8 to 13 lbs 20c other weights 17c old turkeys 12c spring broilers 19i to 2 lbs 25c do ix to 1 lbs 23e rabbits 6c wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to retail dealers pork ham 13c shoulders 10c butts 12c pork loins 13vbe picnics 9c lard pure tierces lomic tubs llvac pails 12c prints 12c shortening tierces 10 to 10mc tubs oic pails 10c prints 10c hay and straw prices toronto dealers are paying for hay and straw baled car lots delivered per ton no 2 timothy 9 no 3 timothy 750 lo s wheat straw 0 to g50 oat straw g mrs harold f ritchie will head companies torcito mrs harold f ritchie widow of the founder of tho world- wide merchandising bearing his name will take over the presidency of the harold f ritchie company toronto mrs ritchie was once a nurse her ran- before her marriage to ritchie in 1908 was alice albert brydon she lias already entered upon her duties mr ritchie died several weeks ago fouowinsr an operetfistn world economics at a glance premier bennett entrains for wash ington expressing confidence meet ings will result in great benefit to can ada and the world in general president roosevelt and prime min ister macdonald announce that pros pects for success ot disarmament con ference and international economic conference have been advanced in sunday conversations president roosevelt prepares to meet former premier herriot of france as premier daladier intimates willingness of france to join with bri tain and united states in an effort to boost commodity prices necessity for political action to pave the way for economic reconstruction and adjustments of international pay ments stressed as main italian points as gullo jung italys delegate leaves for washington over 2sosoo000 added to quoted value of 20 leading stocks on toronto exchange during past week in tho most farreaching hull movement of the depression wheat soars nearly four cents a l bushel at winnipeg all other cqjjv msiilaa iiaafij height of forehead not a mental tesl philadelphia the height of a mans brow has nothing to do with the kind ot brain behind it dr ales hrdlieka noted anthropologist of the smithson ian institute said in an address before tho american philosophical society dr hrdlieka observed that if men tal power depended on brow height the alaskan eskimo would rate as tin worlds most intelligent man he compared four types ot amxjt can foreheads includng those of illiter ate mountaineers national academic ans scientists and old american stock he found no measurable differ ence he said concluding that high brows are literally speaking no mori intelligent than lowbrows north china is scene new independent state shanghai establishment ot an in dependent state in the coastal area pi north china seized by japanese and manchukan troops was reported last week the new domain is the triangu lar area between the great wall ol china and the lwan river witli its bas extending about co miles along the yellow sea and its apex at the point where the river and wall meet nearly 100 miles inland king will review territorials this summer london it is probable the king will hold a review of the territorial forces in london iu hyde park dur ing the summer in order to give prac tical encouragement to this movement only about eight royal reviews on such a scale have been held since the establishment in england of volunteer military forces in 1s00 queen victoria reviewed 1s000 volunteers in hyde park and in 1sg7 king edward as prince of wales held a similar review on wimbledon common the king has twice previously held a review in hyde park the first in july 1013 and the second in july 1922 canadian apples prove popular in argentina mr r g c smith assistant trade commissioner at buencs aires writes that beyond a doubt the last apple season has done much to increase the prestige and popularity of canadian apples in argentii i he says that the main if not only criticism made against canadian shipments for ihe past year is that tho sizing was not a generous as in united states tots for example it is gerer y agreed that the canadin no 80 was equival ent to no c8 pack in the united states and that the difference for all counts would bo in the same propor tion there would sem to be some justification in this caim az compar- ing equal counts of apples from both countries revealed the bulge in the united states box to be considerably greater than in the canadian other valuable hints to canadian apple ship pers are contained in mr smiths let ter of february 21 publish xl in th cmmrcial lntelligcree journal is sued by the department of trade and pjjwa toronto mau 3