Voice of the Press Canada. Fhe Empire and I he World at Large sU CANADA CANADA LEAD8.~ FIkuics Just reloaBed by the Htatls- tical branch of the League of Nations place Canada at the head of the list in progress toward industrial recovery with tiie Ur.lted States second. Cau. ada'g ratio Is 40, the U.S. 30. Wheu we consider the means adopted In the republic we are justified In con- cluding that Canada's recovery is more likely to he lasting, because It !â- not the result of artificial stimula- tion.â€" Clinton News-Record. DO GOOD WORK.â€" On Sunday morning a provincial police constable knocked at the door of a VIneland residence and calmly Informed the occupant that his stolen car had been recovered. The man was not even aware that his car was missing, and yet five young Toronto men were locked up at Welland for the theft. â€" St. Catharines Standard. SAVING THE MUSKOX.â€" What Canada did some years ago for tho buffalo in saving It from ex- tinction, she is now doing for the muskox. The story of this curious animal whose home is in what are known as the Barren Lands of North- ern Canada and in the Islands of the Arctic Archipelago, is told by O. H. Blanchet. Canada has set apart a comparatively inaccessible region east of Great Slave Lake, known as the Thelon Game Sanctuary, as a home for the muskox. Here it will be safe from both Indians and E.skimos, and will have a chance to Increase as the buffalo did in Walnwrlght Park. â€" Frederlcton Gleaner. limit. â€" St, Thomas Times-Journal. MAKE NO DISTINCTION.â€" Practically all social .service clubs will agree with W. G. Smith, of Mani- toba, In his hatred for the word "ille- gitimate" as applied to children born out of wedlock. The children have nothing to do with It and It Is un- fair that they should rest under such a stigma. In Ontario, ns in Manitoba, there Is no distinction between child- ren born out.sldo and In wedlock, so far as the father's estate is concern- ed, all .sharing eriually In any pro- ceeds. â€" Niagara Fails Review. A poll of books most frequently recommended by professors of Kiig- lisih literature in the leading Ameri- can universities, has been taken. The result is rather astonishing. Here it is: "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen. "Return of the Native," by Thomas Hardy. "Henry Esmond," by W. M. Thack- eray. "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. "The Ord«al of Richard Feveral," by George Meredith. "Vanity Fair," by W. M. Thackeray. "Old Wives' Tales" by Arnold Ben. nett. "Adam Dede," by George Eliot. "David Ccpperfteld," by Charles Dickens. "Tihe Mill on the Floss," by George Kliot. â€" London Free Press. Celebrated Flyer and Wife DIRTY LICENSE PLATES.â€" Dirty license plates defeat one of the purposes of motor car licensing. Plates damaged so that the numbers are illegible also have the same bad effect. License plates are on cars pri- marily for the Information of the general public and its law enforce- ment authorities. They are tho means of Identifying a car and protecting the public. â€" Kingston Whig-Standard. BENEFIT OF EDUCATION.â€" A .Miami University student ate 15 hamburger sandwiches In half an hour. There are still some persons who arbitrarily declare that they can Bee nothing in a college education. â€" Ottawa Citizen. PAGEANTS FIND PROBLEMS.â€" Women are becoming wider and heavier, a director of pageants has discovered in England. It has been found Impossible to fit them Into the stomachers, stays, bodices and bus- tles their grandmothers wore. This may not matter much, but If the widening out process continues It may constitute a new problem, or collection of problem.s â€" street car, rumble seat, elevator and easy chair. And curves have Just begun to come in. The same director has found that niftn can imitate their ancestors and women can't. Women are generally more beautiful than before, but their beauty being standardized. Is non- adaptable; men are still the same old homely citizens and their beauty, being non-existent, may be adapted to any character they wish to portray. The question here is: Do men wish to remain homely for Uie purpose of appearing in pageants, or will they acaulie beauty and let tho pageants ! go? It Is a nice question and not to bo answered offhand. â€" Toronto Tele- gram. ROCKING OF BABIES FOR HIRE IS ADDED TO ODD PROFESSIONS ''•iby Rockers Local No. 1 of Har- leiii has not yet received an approved NRA code but Andrew H. Brown, the president, doesn't think it needs one. â- We gits five cents a half-hour fo' rockin, " Mr. Brown explains, "less'.n dey is twins, when we gits two cents extra. No cut rates." Members of the locai earn their nickels rocking babies, with or with- [ out carriages, for shopping mothers j It is a great convenience for the I mothers who can fight their way un. I encumbered into the bargain aisles ! and know that their off.'pring are in j safe custody at the store entrance. The baby rocking profession is a new addition to the list of odd ways for making ends meet. Some of these unusual businesses are of consider- able size A factory in the metropol itan area produces dolls voices, sell ing theni to doll manufacturers. Bu curio hunters, who might find soma thing unique in the pcisession of i voice wi'.hout a doll could easily ob lain a disembodied "raa-a-a" at t slight expense. An uptown establishment is run bj a "packaging expert" whose deft dra ping and be-ribboning of the plain- est of packages will lend a Fifth A venue air to a five.and ten gift. An exalted scissors grinder lending hii talent to the arts, will put nothing tc his grindstone but sculptor's tools. Several married couples have turned professional brides and bridegrooms, having been married over and over again on dance floors to advertise dance marathon contests. A recent photograph of Sir Charle.s ami Lady Kingsfon, -Smith, taken at the Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif., where Sir Charles recently made several test flights in the new plane in which he will fly in the race from London to Melbourne, Australia, next October. VALUE OF RAIN.â€" Pi'Kiiient Kooaevelt is asking for |5i5,000.000 to give out to tho people of tho United States as Drought Aid. This will give you some idea of the value of a good rain. â€" Chatham News PLAGUES AS ALLIES.â€" A gnat plague is killing cattle by the hundreds In Arkansas. Grasshop- pers are expected to kill a largo part of the wheat crop In the prairie west, on both sides of the international line. Tho farmer's instinct Is to fight such enemies, but now that he is told he must cut down production Is he to regard them as natural allies? â€" Lon- don Advertiser. TAKING CHANCES.â€" So many of the accidents occurring in these days are unnecessary. If people would only exercise good rea- soning and common sense. The other day it was reported that two Toronto young men 17 and 18 years of age, lost their lives when the can- oe In which they were seated upset. Particulars of Wio accident show that they were unfamiliar with the man- agement of a canoe, and neither of them could swim. When they were thrown into the water they clutched madly at each other and disappeared. It Is added that a number of other young people were In a row-boat near- by, but tbey were unable to effect a rescue as none of them could swim. â€"Chatham News. THEY'RE LEARNING.- Why does the chicken cross the road just ahead of an auto? Farmers report that fowl are cultivating a traf- fic sense and stop, look and listen before entering the highway. One man says ho saw a pheasant look out from a hedge and deliberately wait for cars approaching from both d!r. ectlons to pass and when the road was clear walk across at Its leisure. â€" Montreal Herald. PAROLE IS OVERDONE IN NEW YORK.â€" It Is so hard to get a man convicted for murder In New York one might think that when a man Is convicted and put away for a life sentence, or soniotliing approximating It. the autji- orltles would not seek to let him out for a great many years â€" 15 or 20 at least. Hut the hard work of the po- lice Is neutralized to a great extent by the operations of a parole board which is exercising Its privileges in the most ectraordlnary fashion. Nine men convicted of murder In New York since April, 1933, only a little more than one year ago, have been paroled, and of these, six are again walling trial for another mur- der apiece. Wbat Justification could there have been for admitting to free- dom men of such character? Two recently paroled men, not previously murders, have been rearrested for killing a patrolman and wounding three children In the doing of It. The rottenness that exists In the legal machinery of the New York crimlual srstem aeems to have no ONTARIO LEADS DOMINION IN AUTO FATALITIES.â€" The Province of Ontario last year established a record In the Dominion that should not be the envy of other provinces. It led the entire country in the number of automobile fatali- ties. According to the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics, 954 persons in all were killed by motor cars In 1933. a decrease of 1G6 from the previous year's figures. This made t/!ie death rate from cars per 100,000 popula- tion 8.9 as compared with 10.7 in 1932. Ontario had the heaviest death toll In 1933â€"11.8 per 100,000 popula- tion. British Columbia stood second with a rate of 11.0. Nova Scotia's rate was 8.8, Quebec's 8.6 and Alber- ta's 8.5. In Prince Edward Island two persons were killed by automobiles during 1933. In Alberta tho lncrea.se In number over the previous years was 15. Further analyzing the statis- tics we find that Toronto decreased Its toll from 88 In 1932 to 65 In 1933; Montreal from 121 to 104; Vancouver from 44 to 28. Ottawa had 25 deaths, lAe same number as In 1932. while Hamilton reported an Increase of 2 and London an Increase of 8.â€" Toron- to Mall and Empire. THE EMPIRE CANADA THROUGH BRITISH EYES FROM LUTHER'S BEECH TREE. The I'rinco of Wales has sent 500 beech tree seedlings from Windsor Great Park to Canada We under- stand they will be planted by mem- bers of the "Men of the Trees" move- ment, as an encouragement to Cana- dians to attach even more signifi- cance to the importance of their for- est resources. It is interesting to note the Royal trees were raised from seeds gathered underneath an off- spring of Luther's Beech at Wurtem- berg, and brought to Windsor more than 100 years ago. â€"Empire Re- view. WHY COMMUNISM GROWS.â€" Every election demonstrates the growing strength of the Communists. One of them polled over 8,000 votes In the mayoral election In Bri.-ibane. At the Hamilton (N.S.W.) by-electlon another got an even bigger proportion of support. Yet their Australian pro- gramme is 80 extreme and violent and culls for so complete a surrender to Iron discipline that, In a country with such easygoing traditions, it Is dilll- cult to imagine anybody but a mad- man or a crank supporting it Many of those who do support it are un- balanced by unemployment and em- bittered by the complacency of un- comprehending politicians â€" politicians who have become the slaves of profes- sors and whose minds have developed Into more book-keeping machines. Have they, for instance, seen the conditions on the N.S.W. coalfields? Are they aware that on both t^iie nor- thern anr_ southern fields there are literally thousands who have cynical- ly resigned themselves to make the best of the dole and the family en- dowment for the rest of their lives? Have t*>ey heard that there are thousands more, youngsters just be- yond tho school age, who have al- ready come to believe that If Com- munism cannot do for them what the present system has (ailed to do it will at least give them sympathy? â€" Sydney Hulletln. EARTHQUAKES AND SIN.â€" An urbane but trenchant contro- versy of more than ordinary interest haa been taking place between Dr. Rabindranatih Tagore and Mr. Gandhi. Soon after the earthquake the Mahat- ma administered to the sorely tried populace of North East Bihar one of those subsidiary shocks which, we are told, always follow In the wake of the major disturbance, by announcing his conviction that the earthquake was sent by God to punish the Hin- dus for the sin of untouchablllty. This "unscientific and materialistic view" caused Dr. Rahindranath painful sur- prise and urged him to "utter a truism In asserting that physical catastro- phes have their Inevitable and exclu- sive origin in certain combinations of physical facts. He went on to say tJiat unles swe believe in the Inexor- medlaeval quarters, eat food cooked In Henry VIII's kitchen, and sleep In \ dry. Public Learns Hoary Secrets Of Old Titles English College of Arms Opens for Inspection of Some Ancient Family Re- cords London.â€" For the first time In its nearly 500 years of existence the Col- lege of Arms is to make an exhibition of Itself. The staid old institution, so often associated with the burst of heraldry and the pomp of power, is to show Inner secrets to all and sun- an unwholesome mess of age-old Ivy. We recall his sly pretense of puzzle- 1 ment when he compared the ways of j Oxford with those of the universities ' that he was acquainted with on this Hide of the Atlantic, and finally his reluctant admission that somehow, (lead against every conceivable possi- bility, Oxford "gets there" and his dark suspicion that It will continue to get there for many generations to come. No one in America knows the value of useless knowledge better than Mr. Leacock, and his fascinating sketch of Oxford makes It clear that the business of a university is to do what tor centuries Oxford has been doing and to turn out the kind of human produce that for centuries Ox- ford has been turning out. â€" Albert .lay Nock in The Atlantic Monthly of Boston. Escapes Death Four Times Survives Car Accident â€" Lightning Bolt â€" Storm and Rattle Snake. four Atlanta â€" Death has played .strange tricks on Julian Jones. The latest adventure was when a bolt of lightning fell in Jones' lap â€" and then rolled off on to the floor of his car. Jones has been struck by a car â€" and has landed safely on top of its hood. He has" lived through a terrific storm in Bacon County, Ga,. and once he almost touched a diamond back rattlesnake before seeing he was in error. The lightning that chose to light in Jones' lap tore bark off a nearby tree to a height of 30 feet. From the root of the tree the lighning dug a little trench across the road to a ' far from being concerned merely with rear wheel of Jones' car, leaped to i the records of centuries back. New the back window, smashed the glass creations In the peerage baronetage. Sections of the college's rolls, parchments and othor historical trea- sures, are to be open for public in- spection. There will be on view, for instance, the roll of the Westminster tournament held in February, 1510, which Is 60 feet long, with beautiful script and pictures There is also a parchment depicting the descent of the Saxon kings. This pedigree goes back through to Adam and Eve. Many Relics. Among the ;ragi,-> relics contained In the College of Aims are tiie tur- quoise ring and the sword taken from the body of James IV of Scotland when he lay dead on the Field of Flodden. The building of the College of Arms is on the north side of the city. It Is a large and sedate look- ing structure of led brick, built on three sides of a square. It almost gives the impression of a country residence of the Queen Anne period somehow dropped nonchalantly Into the middle of the banking and fin- ancial centre of London. An Englishman, proud of his line- age and wishing to put a coat of arms on his letter paper or upon the panel of his autoitiobile, may come to the College of Arms and consult Rouge Dragon, Bluemantle, Portcul- lis or Rouge Croix, or some other of the august ofllcials of the Hereditary Earl-Marshal of England. Heraldry. Probably he wM be directed to one of the heralds. Not unnaturally he may imagine a herald to be a personage arrayed sometliing like the Knave of Hearts, and carrying a long trumpet. But the herald at the pres- ent day Is attired In conventional black coat and waistcoat and stripe trousers. At the present day the college Is Diathermy Use Told Doctors Danger of Being Buried Alive Eliminated, Speaker Says Los Angeles, â€" Medical science has advanced to the point where no one need to have a fear of being bur- ied alive. Dr. Disrael W. Koback, pro- fessor of physical therapy at the Rush Medical College, Chicago said her recently. He addressed a joint meeting of the western section of the American Congress of Physical -Therapy and the Pacific Physical-Therapy Assoc- iation. Diathermy holds, ha said, a def- inite test for the determination of death and enables a physician to know when resuscitation is possible. If a living spark exists it can be de- tected by means of electricity. j One electrode is placed under the patient's back, fce said, the other against his thigh or stomach, then after the current has been on for about 30 minutes, a definite rise of temperature will occur, if the pat- ient is alive. If there is still life the diathermy stimulates the circu- lation and raises the temperature. If there is no life a continuous fall of temperature results. When all other methods of treat- ment have failed. Dr. Koback said, diathermy or heat-therniy, has been found effective in eases of angina pectoris and coronary thrombosis. He referred to the announcement made by Dr. Albert S. Hyman at the last meeting of the American Med- ical Association, that, by means of diathermy methods, more than 100 hearts which hiad atopped beating v/ere started going again. Silence That Hurts, The atnry of the present economic : ablcness of universal laws In the conditions In Canada Is a heartening I working of which God Himself never addition to the recent evidence of Improvement in Australia, In South Africa and In India. The Empire, as a whole. Is out of the depths. In Canada every one of the ordinary tests of well-being shows the Domin- ion making rapid recovery. Foreign trade In the first four months of tHe present year Is nearly 50 per cent, better Mian in the corresponding period of 1933. The Customs and er- Interferea â€" Imperilling thereby the Integrity of his own creation â€" we find It Impossible to Justify Ills ways on occasions like the one which has sorely stricken us Ing manner und Statesman. In an overwhelm- scnle. â€" Calcutta IN PRAISE OF USELESS KNOWL- EDGE.â€" We all remember Mr. Stephen Lea- clse revenues for April were almost cock's account of his visit to Oxford $12,000,000 In excess of those of April and his delightful portrayal of Ox- last year. In the reports of the ford as the complete and perfect con greater business corporations the servator of useless knowledge; a profits earned In the past twelve place where professors never lecture month.'! have been greater by 75 per but by request, and then wretchedly, cent, than In the previous year. The ' â€"Mr. Leacock was told told that Improvement, of which these flgnres record the early fnilts. began In Feb- ruary, 1933. and has been steady In the Interval â€" l/v\<''>c Pjlly Tei<v«:raDh some had not lectured for tiilrty years -where tutors seem to do noth. ing much hut smoke, and students seem to do little but live In mouldy and fell in his lap "It seemed to he.sitate an instant, then hopped down to the barrel of a shotgun lying at my feet," he .said. "I never felt any shock from the lightning nor any heat." His only injury was a gashed cheek, but by the gla.ss of the car window. Whila walking across a downtown street one day, Jones felt a severe jolt and found himself sitting on top of an automobile hood. He was all right there â€" but was bruised when the driver stopped suddenly and Jones fell to the strec.. The cyclone adventure came in 18!)8. The house in which Jones watched the storm was nearly swept away â€" hut it withstood the wind, which went on to demolish several house-i. He had the speaking acquaintance with the r-^ttlesnake in Bacon County also. Jones shot a squirrel and had stooped to pick it up when he noticed the ground seemed to be of an unnatural color. He then was standing within eight inches of the squirrel. Jumping back quickly, Jones fired a bullet into the head of the rattlesnake which was coiled he- ! tween him and the squirrel. The | snake had 19 rattles. and knightage are made every year, which means the granting of so many coats of arms. VVhen one of the many new centres of population which have sprung up In England In re- cent years is raised to the rank of a borough. It must furnish Itself with an appropriate coat of arms. All this work Is conducted by one or other of the qualutly named officials of the red brick building In Queen Victoria street MORE CANADIAN HARDWOOD.. Music to Soothe the Tired Juvenile Turns Him From Mischief and Strife to Purposeful Way of Living Washington, â€" The right kind of noise may keep a child out of mis- chief, but the wrong kind is apt to undermine his health and tire his mind. Music's ijower to soothe the juv- onile was vouched for (before the National Education Association by L A. Woods, superintendent of public instruction in Texas. "Music turns the individual from An increase of 100 per cent In sales ""^^•"''f .«"d »«"fe to a purposeful Of Canadian hardwood to Great ^1^"^'".^ *â- ? "^, '':'"«" "^"^ '"*'<*• tain for the first three months of this ' , other side of the noi.se picture year has been reported. The figures *"^ sketched by Ruth M. Van Dev- are placed at 1.206,000 cubic feet this ""**'"• °'. Springfield Illinois, year compared with 604.000 cubic feet ' ^'^^ *"'*'. '' *'** '""^^ *« to^s over- durlng fhe same period tn 1933. Cana- ^"^^^ the idea that a noisy eirviron (Man hardwood Is being used tn In- creasing quantities In Great Britain for flooring, furniture, and the manu- facture of aulnmoblle bodies. ment teaches children to concentrate. Pupils can get used to needle.ss noise the speaker exulaint^d. but continue to waste energy combaMing it. Room of Absolute Quiet is Used To Test Electric Fans If you believe that absolute quiet is just what you need to soothe your ruffled nerves step into a room built by the General Electric engineers at Bridgeport. Conn, and be disabused. Snap your fingrs. It is as if a rifle has been fired. Pat one hand with the other, make any slight noise, and the indicator on the noise-recordei swings violently. The absolutely quiei room was built in order to test electric fans which have a fay of whirring even If they are perfectly built because the blades simply must hit the air in order to set up a breeze. For th« same reason an airplane propeller can be heard on the ground although It may be churning up the atmosphere a mile up. By careful designing of blades a fan can be made which is a« good as silent. Noises caused by fau- lty bearings and other defects are in- excusable in a new fan. In the silent room they are traced to their source and weeded out. The tesUng engineers do more than let the fans run in any way that hap pens to be convenient, The worst possible conditions are reproduced. False walls that vibrate like tight Jrumheads and dummy ceilings that are almost as resonant as a bell ex- aggerate the sound. A microphone picks up the hum or rattle, and an- other -nstrument, an analyzer indi- cates the pitch and traces it to iu source. Kitchen mixers, razor strop- pers and other domestic electrical ap- pliances are tested in the same way. But while all this has its practi- cal engineering value it is a mat- ter of .10 small scientific interest to learn that we must have a little noise just to be comfortable. Total silence would reduce the sanest of us to madness. It was no easy matter to make a room that would be absolutely quioL The engineers had to suspend it in â- pace, so that it would not be rigidly connected with the rest of tho build- ing The ceiling was hung from raf- ters and not attached to the walls. The floor and the walls were sus- pended on cushions or springs. Thus a room was created to float free of the building of which it is • part.