Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and I he World al Large CANADA TROUBLED PEDESTRIANS" Pi'destriaiio on hi Mtuv'ay aie at a loss to know whothcr to walk on the right or the loft sM» for the greatest safety. Somi? advocate that pedestrians i-hould .•alk on tlie left side so that Ihoy will ."ace .he cars that are >ipp'oachi.;!^ If th'-y walk on the riijhl side .hey may be run <lown by the traffic behind them. An insurance company in the TInitcd States has made a .'â- uivcy of Mi mat- ter and statist!''? oi accidents showed that the tjreatest percentage of fatal- ities occurred an'ont: those who walk- ed facing tr.iffi'.' rather than among those who walk in the same direction with it. What ever side you choo^e you need to keep both cyts peeled for all aul'i.-. â€" Walkerton Herald- Times. GRASSHOPPERS The grasshoppers must have learn- ed of the surplus of wheat. In any case they are preparing to reduce this year's crop. Not only is West- ern Canada worried over a grasshop- per invasion, but in the State of Utah they have a plague of the in- sects. They are said to be so numer- aus and so hungry that they sound like a herd of buffalo in a cornfield. . â€" London Free Pre.-<s. HYDRO FOR THE FARMS The Hydrj .oad for rural sections has increased G8 per cent, during the depression and is now greater than that used by Kingston, Belleville, Kast Windsor, Chatham, Welland, St. Thomas, Woodstock and Owen Sound combined. Sir Adam Beck was laugh- ed at when he foretold all this devel- opment, but it is rapidly coming true. â€" St- Catharines Standard. HITCHING POST BACK One of the most remarkable pieces of news comes from Drum- heller. The city council has voted money to erect a 40-foot hitching rack for hor.ses. It is many years since the old hitching rack disap- peared from Drumheller, but it is said that: "Since more horses are now being used by farmers, the dif- ficulty of hitching them to some solid object has arisen and the re- turn of the hitching rack has been deemed necessary. â€" Staint John' Telegraph-Journal. GETTING INTO RUTS Someone has .said that the only difference between a rut and a grave is that the latter is a little deeper than the former. That there is much wisdom imbedded in the saying will be evident when we give the matter a little thought. Kuts tend to get even deeper, and getting out of them is likely to grow more and more diffi- cult, and keeping in them less and less satisfactory. We ought really to try very hard not to get into ruts. ,But the trouble is that this is al- ways so hard to do. .\nd it is hard for the very good reason that there are so many things which wc learn to do well only as we 'do them according to a fixeil or regular pattern or method anil regularity and routine are very much given to the wearing of ruts somewhere; occasionally even in a man's soul. For most of us it will take real, if not heroic, effort to keep out of ruts, some of them very dangerous ones to get into. â€" Brigh- ton Ensign. AFTER THE FLOOD The spring flood has carried in- numerable fish, including black bass and speckled trout, into small ponds in fields adjoining the river. When the water receded the fish were left. Auburn folk are wading in with long rubber boots and coming out with baskets of fish, caught with the hands.-- K.\ etc r Times -.Advocate. PUBLICITY FOR CANADA That it is worth while going out of our way to bring tourists from all over the world, and especially from the United .States, to Canada, no one will question. An industry which brought us $300,000,000 i"n 1!)30 even admitting that this is a record figure, merits cultivation. .As Theo- dore Morgan well .said before the Senate committee, the money spent on publicity to make Canada known ijutside is one of the best and most profitable of investments:. Let us have no fear, therefore, to appro- priate a(le<|uate sums of money for a vast campaign of publicity to make known the ailvantages of Canada, both for business industrial (â- . tabli.sh- ment.s farming, touring summer and winter sports, etc. We *ill not re- gret it, for it will bring back a thous- andfold r. turn I,a l'r,...se Mon- treal. LOOKING FORWARD Nudi.-t camps, it is predictvd will flourish this year. Who knows but that the ilay will come when the Doukliolior- wil have to put on their clothes to attriict attention? Hamil- ton Spectator. , ONTARIO S GOLD Thirty years ago Ontario.s produc- tion of all mttalsâ€" gold inchuled- was $5,000,000. Last yenr its gold production alone was $(iO,000,000; lud since Ik;m it ha.s been $501,000,- 000. On top of that we aie produc- ing nickel at the rate of $20,000,000 a yi'.nr, copp, r at the ,ate of $:i,000,. 000. In the la.Hl four years $100,- 000,000 worth of gold has been taken from Porcupine and Kirklsf^l Lake. ==7 More than ^ 153,000,000 was paid out in gold dividends. These, truly, are figures for pessimists â€" Ottawa Jour- nal. , A WORD FOR PARENTS Perhaps it is time that someone is- sued an appeal to be kind to dumb parents. Adjuilicators, teachers, au- thors and the public must be aware that by and large they mean well. â€" Winnipeg Free Press. A GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT One of the greatest engineering feats of modern times, the Mersey Tunnel has now been completed ami thousands of people walked through it at the Kaster week-end. The tun- nel is to be formally opened by the King in July. It brings together Liv- erpool and Bootle on the Lancashire and Birkenhead and Wallasey on the CIi(;shire side, four boroughs with a total population of <lose on 1 Vi mil- lion.?. On April 3rd, 1928, the pre- liminary tunnel from Liverpool met from Birkenhead under the middle of the river. So accurate was the sur- vey work that tiie divergence for lino, length and level averaged less than one inch. â€" Brockvillo Recorder and Times. THE EMPIRE SHIPS OR PLANES The simple truth is that the nation has got the money for both more warplanes and more warships. The need for warplanes is paramount and that for warships secondary. It is on warplanes that those responsible for the nation's safety must concentrate. â€" London Evening News. SAFE FROM EARTHQUAKES London is safe from earthquakes. Or, at least, if one did affect the city it would be so serious that the rest of the world would be destroyed. Dr. W. K. Winton, the seismologist, made that statement, and explained it in a lecture at the Horninian Museum. The reason London's city's safety, is that it sits on a "soft cushion of clay." â€" London E.xpress. THE STILL GILBERTIAN ISLAND No more triumphant example of the British genius for compromise can be imagined than the proposal to impo.se a speed limit for just 1!) hours day and only an roads that are lighted by street lamps. As Sir Austen Chamberlain pointed out the other day, our ways are beyond the comprehension of benighted but admiring foreigners. â€" Manhester Sunday Chronicle. AIRWAYS IN INDIA Air development in India has been of disap])ointingly slow growth, and nearly ten years have passed since Sir Samuel Hoare and the late Sir Sefton Branckor used to rouse our hopes with talk of a four-day mail service between London and Delhi, and of feeder services to all points of the compass in India. But in UlS."?, despite the economic depression, new and substantial advance was made and at the beginning of 1934 it is possible to feel that this country has at last begun to have a civil aviation of its own and that development henceforward will be .steady. The weekly Karachi-Honiliay-Madras ser- vice has proved its worth in connec- tion with mails, but the time is ripe for a great increase in pa.ssenger traffic by air.â€" Calcutta Statesman. GOOD TIME* AGAIN The face of Johannesburg changes as rapidly as that of any other city in the world â€" and more rapidly than most. Anyone who visited the IJand twenty, ten, or even five years ago, and had not seen Johannesburg since, would scarcely recognise it to- day. And now that the lull in the buihiing trade caused by the depress- ion is over, expansion is proceeding more rapidly than ever. It is almost impossible to open a Hand newspaper nowadays without coming across a report of some big property deal or an announcement of the impending erection of another large block of flats or business premises. These are news items of public interest and find their way into the Press. In ad- dition, the building of private houses in the outer suburbs is going on a- pace, and Johannesburg is now a city of 12i> townships, covering 82 square miles, and possessing 832 miles of streets and a population of :!» 1,830. THE WORLD ON THE MEND In the last three difficult years .New Zealand has done many things I in an attempt to correct her economic disequilibrium. Vet it was well un- derstood that, althougii she should n'lt neglect suih renrdie;. as .she v'o.r.t apply internally, e.-,e v.as for ti.e greater part dependent upon re- ,• ..cry oversi-a-. I'll. it was r.atuial and. inevitable in a country that re- lied on -('ling a large pirporiirn of III r prili'c'^on in the world's mar- Mary Gete Parting Gift President William Lang of the Toronto Anglers' Association presented Mary with a trayful of beautiful .speckled trout caught the same morning at Caledon Mountain club. The trout were uncooked, beautifully garnished with colored butter and parsley, and Mary had them cooked in the aeroplane that carried her across from St. Louis to Hollywood. President Lang and T. W. Jul! got up at 4 a.m., caught twenty trout weighing 16 pounds an d were back in Toronto before office hours. Women Members of British Legion Under Criticism edged stocks is the new life in indu.s- trials, a ri.se justified by an increase in profits last year of 79 per cent. Religious Leaders Wage War on War New York â€" Believing that the> fir- ed "a shot which will be beard around the world' religious leaders closed a two day conference on war and economic justice here recei'tly. Other conferences are to be held througliout the United States and Rabbi Edward L. Israel, of Baltimore, urged that in addition a group of men be organized "other than the pious good-will group, who -vould stand together in opposition tc war and in any economic controversy and as a groiif) to disiept the com- miinity on that issue it need be." The Rev. Kdiniuu! B. Chaffee of the Labor Temple stated that such a group exists in (lie ministers' union of 8000 members, of which he is, pre- sident. Dr. Allen Kninlil Chalmers, summing up tlio conference sahi that tho wliole emphasis has sliowii that these ministers ail; thioiish wit'i war. Cider in Wrong Place Ciodericli â€" Because he did not know the fine lolnts of the law, Thomas lla.v, Howick township farmer, hid his supply of cider in bis l.arn. Police found it under six feet of .'-traw. This cost Day $28 in county magistrate's court. Tipsy people emerging from the liain gave police their clue. How- ever, had Day kept his cider in his residence he would have been with- in tlie law, the court exiilained. Plan to End 'Reckless Waste of Lives' in State of New York NEW YORKâ€" The use of public funds to pay the cost of childbearing to end a "reckless waste of lives" was advocated recently by Dr. Thos. Parran Jr., New York State Commis- sioner of Health. He told the Maleniity Centre As- sociation that there occur In New Y'ork State each year more than 17.- 000 deaths as a result of "our mis. management of the clilldbearlng function." His plans would piiivide state money to pay the entire meilical, hospital and nursing costs of chitd- bearing for every woman unable to provide "the best of care" for her- self. There would be no pauper's oath or similar buniilialini; condi- tions, he said. HOLLYWOOD TAKES ACTION TO PREVENT KIDNAPPINGS Hollywood, Cal. â€" The ('.'eaded kid- napper finds many barriers raised against him in the movie colony. The fate of William F. Gettlc, oil millionaire who was abducted from his summer home iu Arcadia, Cal., never has Ijefalleu a movie ac*er or a<-tress, but the possibility of it has put most of them on the alei*. In the homes of the film folks, many of whom are neighbors of the Gettle family, are guards, elaborate alarm systems, vicious dogs, stocked =irsen- als heavily bolted doors and rein- forced window locks. No more far-reaching iirecaiitions have been taken in Hollywoo'i than those employed by Harold Lloyd, who once was threatened by kidnnppers. His great estate is incolsed by an un- iially high wall. At the only eutranee a guard, heavily armed, is on duty i;4 hours a day. A number of Great Dane dogs roam the grounds. The home of Marlene Dieiriib is filled with alarm systems and the windows are barred for the protection of her daughter. Guards ;»re about the estate 24 hours a da.v. Similar precautions have beer tak- en by Bing Crosby. Mae Wfist hts had triple-bolted doors installed in her home, and keeps two special guards from the District Attorney's office, and one personal guard ever oc hand with a sawed-off shotgun. p]dward G. Robinson, vhose gang characters were foremost in the cycle of crime pictures, has barred the en- tire wing of his home in whi'h his sou sleeps and plays and surrmnded it witli guards. Likewise has Ann Harding protect- ed the safety of her daughter. Gloria Swanson refuses to allow her children to live in the United States and keeps them in Switzerland. Warner Baxter has an ingenious system of protection. The foumiation of it is a photo electric cell and only those who know ihe combination, and â„¢ they're few, can enter his home suc- cessfully without getting off a blare of alarms. LONDON' â€" The deportment of wo- men members of the British I..esion when they take part in parades pro- voked a lively discussion at the con- ference of the women's section in London. Mrs. F. Hilton Moore moved a reso. lution suggesting that a certain amount of drilling beforehand would improve matters. She said that for some years she had been unhappy about the impres- sion parading women must make upoo the ordinary man In the street, who had neither the imagination nor tha opportunity of realizing the wonder- ful work done by the women's sec- tion, "in my own branch," said Mrs. Hilton Moore, "a member of the ex. ecutive, a sergeant-major, has kindly taken us in hand, and in a .simpld manner has taught us the right ways of dealing with the standard on all occasions, and, at any rate, how to keep iu step while marching." Ex-Service Woman Mrs. MacGregor Whyte said that she was an ex-service woman, and as such had had a ccnain amount of drilling during the war. "I went a short while ago to a dedication cere- mony with my legion branch," she said. "A number of women mem- bers were invited, and we were given the honor of leading ofl!. Believe me,- we lookd pathetic We were suppos- ed to march four in column, but wo- men have not the remotest idea of' forming fours, and instead we march. ed in threes and fives. We are ask-i ed through the courtesy of the le-j gion to join in their parades, and we have no right to make those parades' look ridiculous. Why, I even saw one^ procession in which a woman was; wheeling a perambulator." j Mrs. Davis said, when they had wo- men of 60 and over, as they had la her branch, it was too late to begin drilling them. "We have a certain number of women who have kept In good form by touching their toes, and they could march, but we have in our ranks the mothers of lads who went to the war, and it Is only fair to re- member that these older women can- not step out like the younger people. ".\fter a woman has reached the middle-aged spread drilling U possible for her." The resolution was lost. not Resumes Canters Park London, Kng.-For ths' first time since 19S2 King Geor'ge has resumed his early morning canters in Hyde Park. .^stride his afvorite horse His Maj- esty rode about the bridle paths of Hyde Park almost unnoticed The King is believed to be training liimself for the more arduous task of a big military review planned 'er his birthday, June 4lh. Restrict Hoboes Diet .â- Annapolis Royal, N.S.â€" Nine hoboes lay In the town Jail, restricted to a diet of bread and water by older of the Town Council "as ai> example to others of their kind who may think they can blow into Annapolis Hoyal and take possession of the phi'-e." Canada Leading Buyer in Brtiain London â€" Purchases iu Britain, ac- cording to the latest returns of the Board of Trade, show steadily grow- ing increases, with Canada leading all the Dominions. The purchases of (Canada made" here in the first quar- ter of 19"4 amounted to £444.000 as compared with Jo 200,000 V.v the first quarter of tfl3;!. Ontario Girl, 14, Dies From Lockjaw Loiidiin. Ont. â€" Lockjaw infection following minor hand injuries, suf- fered recently in a schoolyard mis- hap, proved fatal to 14-year-old Ruby Veale, of Mount Brydges. Ruby fell and another pupil stepped On her hand. She suffered cuts and the dis- location of one finger. Pulpwood Cutters Given Pay Increase Kurt Williamâ€" Timber operators of the lakehead district have granted an increase of 40 cents a cord for cutting and peeling pulpwood during the summer, and workers In return have pledged that no strike will be called in district timber camps be- tween May 1 and Sept 1. according to D. A. ciark. President of the Lake- head Timbermen's .^ssoclation. More than LOOO men aie affected by the rate ribe. King George Hears Sophie Tucker Sing LONDON, Eng.â€" Sophie Tucker gave King George V. the low down re- cently on how she, as the original "red hot mama" singer, put over tho old-time "blues" tunes of 15 and 20 years ago. She appeared as a ourprise num- her at a command performance in the Palladium Theatre. Her appear- ance was kept secret until the last inute, when Miss Tucker romped on the stage in old-style manner and went into her song and, in a way, dance. Howlers Britain's Imports And Exports Rise The objective of "he" is "she." A plagarist is a writer of plays. A compliment is when you say something to another that he and you know is not true. Chivalry is the attitude of a man to a strange woman. . A deacon is a mass of inflammable | material placed in a prominent posi- tion to warn the people. ^ What happens when there is an. eclipse of the sun? A great many people come out to look at it. ' The animal which shows the great- est attachment for man is woman. .•\11 brutes are imperfect animals. Man alone is a perfect beast. ! Henry Ford was the inventor of perpetual motion. ' A ruminant is an animal that chews its cub- i Heredity is a bad thing and it ought to be prevented. The stomach is a bowl-shaped xav-^ ity containing the organs of indi- gestion. To be healthy, don't eat any kind of food- One of the main causes of dust is janitors. The liver of one of the infernal or- gans of the body. A Scout obeys all to whom obedi- ence is due and respects all duly con- $320,000 ADDED TO FORTUNE FOR MOTHER OF MOST BABIES Toronto- The estate ol Cl'arles Vance Millar, tjie bulk of whicli was henueaihed • llie Toronto :nolher giviiis birth to the most childien in the 10 year period rolliiwin^: his kets, a.id jurticularly in the Hritish j tipatli, has been increased by a cash market Such being tho cia", Nov , payment of |320,000 by the Brewing /•â- aland ibii fairly and confidcnU> expert to share in tlie iipw ii-f move- ment recorded in many r.-,,oit>' from overseas, and espcclal'y from (irent Uritain. The firme« ton. is 'mt in ally Corporation of ^"aiuida. ri p.ni pay- ment for Ihe Millar est ite holdint-s in O'Kecfe's Itrewery which have been purchased by the Corpo-ation It was learned the full prii c ac- mo.st .-peedily nvJ-t.red on that no. t repted for the Millar holding.- was tnercuri.il of ull baniiirders. the stock ' »1OO,O0ii and the remain'iKT *>0 000 . x(dinnge, nut it has also spii-ad must be p.t'd in lasli w!ih::i six through the niarkits, avein.ge prices . months. toilny being higher than tho.<e of! When Mr. Millar died su.ldenly. iiiiO. Miv,e eiicoiiraginir and .'ii.anifi- j to'-ms ol his will aroused wide inter- cntlt than the -tendy climb of gilt- est. Sliaies .lockey Club stuck were i'-lt to prom inent Ontario clergymen, while the I'amotis "baby clause" has also been the subject of much discussion. Two years ago the Ontario Gov- ernment tried to estreat the w: ! and turn the money over to University of Toronto. A bill to that effe t was withdrawn in the legish^Mirc olldw ing protests. Mrs. Grace Uagnato, wife of a liolice court interpreter, i? n iw be- lieved to be leading claimant 'o the estate. She has given birth '<â- six children in the past 10 y« ara i-i To- runto. and already had i larce riinily. The estate ia t*> be turned nve,-, bar ring unforeseen eircumstnTic^' in Df brewtry uid Ontario lf<"8. I,ondoii -The Heard o' Trade has] „n,„„:(„ announced that impots into ,he 1 ^tipated authority. Ciiited Kingdom uiiriiii.; Apiil increas- . . , . -, ed bv tS.lO.riTH or 10 1 per cent.] !" ^^e summer and not quit^ over those of April of last. year. In '"J,""^' wi"'-'''- the same month expo,... increased! The thcorv of exchange, as Ihe value of .CX.TOl.l.i? or 14 per ' •ffi'S'tand it, is not very well under A person should take a bath once .-o often I un- by cent., while ic e.\i>i vis showed an in- crease of $1.4Sl.t?«'> or 41.S per cent. Of the imports SO t.er cent, were raw material while 70 per cent, of the expov! were iiiaiairiic'iii ' i articles. THE CHINCH BUG ! stood. In .Milton's time Kngland would have been a much holier place if everybody hail belonged to the .<ame sex. Write all you know about N'ero: "Tho le s said about Nero the bet- ter." Zero is (lie king of Rome who play- ed the fiddle- .-V demagogue is a vessel conta'n- in spirituou.^ liiiuor. Newspapers ure useful for report-; ing ralaniitits such as deaths and The .hiiicii bug has b en known in North America since 1783. During the years ISoO to liH.^, it has caused losses in the I'nited States amount- ing to the enoimous tuin of $350,- 000,000. Fortunately the chinch bug mjirriagcs has not developed to anythiiig lik^ the j i,ast year .nany lives were same extent in Canada, chiefly by accident*-, through llie efforts of tht- ?;ntomo- logical I'.ranch of the Dominion De- partment of -Agriculture, but during . omc yi^ars the bug has b. en respons- ible for important injury lo meadow gras.^es, wheat, com and cats in \h? province of Ontario. JUSi.'J The po tniaster-get.iral is ;' m-'«ter's hirr-d girl. Businesses are said to be ''in "i* ivd" when they trade with Russia. "Bargains'- produced at the ex- ^'â- n .' of h-uni:in misery are nothing â- •' '. • 1 .vohrs in sheep's clothing. V